long before they came through the coppice, and I PiT' told me of the fearful- devastation which Satan I had made in the village and masse by the per- ! - Mission of nil-righteous God. My child had. ~..gathered.togetber a few books,which she brought l _ • ' t i PITTBB U R 0 H. ---- with her, above all, ilicie and a Greek Si - TICHRODAY -MOR- ______ ti, Ft NING, MARCH 27. 1821• ble;- And after she Mut told me that the carper- 1 tertwould not have done till next day, and we bad T the Whigs of Pennsylvania- Istiseed the,erniings of hunger, I made her read ; -- ~---- A ATE CONVENTION sill be held' no the MY t 3 me again, fur the greater strengthening of my :of Lan Ls TUESDAY. Jun. gtin. Isp , ,,tg . tb: , l.uri faith, the Loins abort the blessed raven from the . if:." rr, I ciseir --did..--,f....y2-,17,-' 00 l i , ~,,,. 'Greek of Luke, at.the 12th chapter:. also, the Co .rA urt. ‘ .' '''‘."-. IMitY 4 - 1. AALER, Chohusa. I .Sarauel MeMenau, ; beautiful Ion?, puruYtellm, Matt. vi. After which i.... 7, „..,ni,„Fn`,.' l °. 1 c. Th0m...n.)011.4, • the maid said the evening blessing, nod we all , s we,. ft Slinalutt Eatou..l B. TAM.. . -John ti. Den.n. went into the cave, to rest for the night: When I &Woke next morning, just as the blessed sou ; ' ';', A ; m 7i 7J " . l. Ftc l i i in im ... " ll.. -' I C A) e T . lll ` r ' ' '''' '' '' ' ''' ' wn.: rose out the sea and peeped over the mountain, I : IP', V, r-.r. , i' ;`,...° ~. 1 1 a n l : n 3 .., , :::. i ~,, Al .s i . 1 ( 4.. . . . beard my poor hungry child already standing , 1 , . 1 int... , I ' h. ''' . " 'ii i. i.beli... • Cha U. &adman. s ha m an , _.... entaide the cave, reciting the beautfal verses , • ,,,,,.., 0 .,,,, ta.rin t.. : WU . :shoat the joys of paradise which St. Augustine, P. A Yinn,-, f I John Ahlynn. i wrote and I had taught ber.f She sobbed for J,.h e j Lyn.run, i ( 11 . e'XiI M .ArCturr , . grief as she spoke the words: . Vi.nyjEvana. . led, Jordan, j " h ", 3' '' '' 'U ' . R. IIbiDLE 1!..111111. i..erren.7. 1 Enn pa Oyu. I-I,es ntri....pe partrhr • Av!.ll si e rra rer rh•n1,110.1 been! &Ad...rant ....• ..t. r...cora t G...tolii. n.pie 1... es crudr.l ...,.-,_ ri. - -- vvariety, see the different tomstivs ~ c 1...r.: .roar. ....Arhus iMilant VW: - IF Or our USU. .- 110 , rwrirtill. noaruto 1,. :toll perp.tonm. • VII, nt pmts....l-mutt...a, rirl meth. lunutant pages. l'untentoru ln rph•al oth.rl..,nor et aeon...turn. _ .. • Yendrnt soma llori,lnnno 11::n 11:Wura nem:lrmo EvEllsots's LEcrear.s. —This distinguished gen- N.,.tx olt..nut tun. ri....,., poi vet tin True .ydretun Anllll4. fehd, urb. lam, tuo,blutita.'T, tleman lectured to a large and very attentive au . At these words toy own heart was melted: dience on Tuesday night. Each evening h. „ and when she ceased: from speaking, I asked, 1 hrotigh with an increased number of our eit '•What art • thou doing, my child ':- Whereupon Lens to , bear him, and see doubt not such will be She answered, -Father. lam eating. - Thereat my tears now indeed began to flow. and I prais-. the case this evenin g,, when he lectures spur ed her for feeding her soul, so 01w had' no meat •• Econerny. - I for her body .. I had not, however, spoken lung,. lkefere 'she cried to me to some and look at the wondergrittt that had risen out of the sea, and already appeared over the cave. For behold a cloud, in shape, just like a cross, came over us, and Ict great heavy drops, as big or bigger than large peas, full on our heads, atter winch it sank behind the coppice. I presently arose, and MU op the mountain with my daughter to look after it. It Hoisted on town.! "the Achter water,r where ft spread itself dot into o long blue streak, whereon the sun shone so bright ly that it seemed like a golden bridge, on which, .as my child said, the blessed angels danced. I fill on my knees with her, and thanked the Lord ' that our cross had passed away frets. us;•but, alas Four cross was yet to come, or will he told hereafter. rghl* I. an nnor. Tin filluriug rot., n. writt”n by tins Caplan) Bilhupottlnia Poser DAniurras id. 2:41,a, 10721, star Augustine. horn. E=i=il== "In SILO fir:and the citionsitil slime., nue hetad. Athl keep desire and hun no!, athtintch :a fa Iners Lis!: Veterderesi be salter), unreel:lsl itv Itur,c-c ekrifi, Tin herShe/breathe is irsurittlini:tru, nevi .quit slat :if.. t. .Aratilsl Ottani brig!, with exhilets iwrfetua: routs • biters: Kenn belocis ri.tefu II y etude 111111,Am , her: um. ctheasnr. and Haw , sOutit, hirw ilassthis in the cult Sirens meadows ylclit them haver- drum. sod 'streams with hotter rim I:4lbrelon crony the laden , houstit, with hear,- fru:lace SOO -Of incense nod of Wort. sinto,t/in air is nsitilcnt: Atli neither Fll. udat worm..ttispect..3. their ebsne..ful lialth • Eat the leualt's eternal ginrynnatt•the happy cats blight IA weak formed by thc Itiver Peelle in the neighbor Geol. Cool or RAISING rtAx.—On a recent occa sion wn invited some of our agricultural friends to favor us with a statement of the cost of raising flax and of the quantity obtained from an acre. and we Lace now to acknowledge the attention of one of our friends in sending us a number of an excellent agricultural and family journal, enti tled Moore's Rural New Yorker, containing the information desired. in a letter from one of its mirrespondents, from which we take the follow ing. extract: "In 1847 I raised sixteen acres of flax, pro dociug a •litt;o over $BOO as gross receipts,— Pram my botik of that year I copy...the following results of one acre I surveyed, or - about the av erage of the field: Weight of flax and teed be fore threshing, 3,84 S lbs.; weight of flax after the seed was oft', 2,804 lbs.; weight of flax after it was .dew-rotted, 2.009 lbs.; weight of ant when dressed, 34b lbs.; quantity of clean seed. thirteen bushels one pint, and one and a quarter bushels of yellow seed. Flax Rticl fur 10 eta. per lb $34 E 0 13 busbek 1 pt. seed, lOs per bllsliet 16 27 lf bushels yellow seed, 7o per bushel 70 "Expenses of seed, interests on land, at "S.'io per acre, and every expense attending the lax, $l4 75. This, however, is less than ordinary. ..tte I own n mill for dressing the lux. Thi+ sea 'son one acre • of flax has produced 10 hush. of seed and 518 lbs. of atix." The average , here obtained is, we believe, con siderably more than the average yield of cot ton lands, and the advantage resulting from the fact; that flaxseed is of 'great value fur crushing, anti feeding purposes,:is very great. The co,st "pen acre is set down nt $l4 7.;, but that includes rent' nt three dollars per acre, and the expense of palling by_hand. At a late messing of the New Toni; Agricultural Socis.tr, it teas stated by Ellsworth; late Commissioner of Irateno.„,,., that it could he raised in great abundance. upon the cheap lands of the West, and that it could be harvested at very small cost by aid of the reaping machine, now so extensively used in some of the Western States. We observe that improvements have been made in the preparation of hemp, similar to those which are said to have been effected in regard to flax, and, as the subject is one of much inter est to eiery portion of the Cnion, we shell he obliged if any of our' agricultural renders will furnish us with a statement similar to the above in regard to the cost of robing it and the amount of product —Rsoubtic. Mormonism," ears the Dlitor of the Chris lain Wrechman and Refro.or, (Boston,) "grew up amid scenes familiar to our boyhood. The ele vation on which the golden plates are said to • have been found was well known to us before it received its present name of Bible Hill. The *taro in which we performed at short clerkship used to be occasionally swept the father of the Prophet, for a glass of grog, or such articles as would sustain his needy family, who were mere vagrants, making shift to live as theyenuld and spending much of their time -ill nocturnal money-digging. The men whose testirnoney and aEviavits concerning the family are contain- edit, the bookalluded . to, which is an expose of the - fraud, were several of them our familiar ac. gallant:mem We know that what they say of `Atte money-digging, sight-seeing, fortune-telling, lying and drunkenness of the family is reliable. Marlin Harris, whose farm was mortgaged to print the Golden Bible, and some of the printers themselves, use names familiar to oar youth. Those acquainted with the'enterprise in Ito • in ception, smiled at the clumsy cheat as a thing too contemptible for a thought, and that must , die Ira its birth." •To us, therefore, its subsequent history is one of the most unaccountable things of this mum- • ,ortistable'age. To see 'Joe Smith hailed as a " ; ,;prophet of the Lord by seventy-live or a hundred thousand people; to trace his footsteps through I ' Ohio, 'Missouri and Illinois; to -re his followers threading their tray amid privations inconcei,,a ble across the great Westein Desem, and plant ing-theinsolves in the rich vales of 1.7ta1l and on , the borders of . lhe Great Salt Lake; to know that gorgeous tempies have risen under, their hands in Ohio and IDiaoie, aud that another, the largest structuro in the world, is projected at their new home; to observe their missionaries traversing ', this gauntry, Great Britain, and making their way even taPalestine, multiplying their pronely ' tes by hundreds, and shipping them to their pro mised land in the West saggests the mien that some powerful spirrfroin the offer world must preisilo over the movement, like theilevils whom 'Milton represents as dividing themselves among the gods and religions of the ancient heathen tm .tiona. We are happy to hear, in letters from Berlin, tint mar new minister; to that court, Hon. Lk D. Barnard, is enjoying the confidence of the Prus sian authorities, and increasing the:respect en tertained for' our nation among the German pow ers. His gentlemanly character and knowledge of whatis due in courtesy to Americans abroad, have endeargd him .mach to all our countrymen that are majournetain Berlin, and they all feel, in the information which he is rapidly acquiring of Herman politice, that he will be a useful min ister and a credit to cur country. They speak, too, in the highest terms, of the attention to the intermits of our nation which the secretary of le gation, Theodore S. May, displays. Be is inti rnately acquainted with the German Iminitage and with German politics, and has no uncom mon tact and shrewdness iu the mtutagement of busineliS. His long residence abroad, while it has inCe 4- Cased his knowledge of our foreign re lations, has not diminished, in the lettat, his at tachment to our democratic principlcis,/ktet- • • SOUTHAs sociation of thin StategenerUPfr-es we learn from the .Ifereury, have nioulevselections gates for the Convention proposed to be held in Charleston in May next. The iissociation for the Charleston parishes will meet on the Una. Monday in April, when it will uncut its delega tes to the proposed Convention. At this meet ing thin various committees will report, and it is expected titat Judge limier, Mr. ithett, and Mr. Chores will be present. . . The Mercury cootainsa Icing letter frein Cei.' Isaac IV. Boyne, in reply to An article which appeared in the first number of the new Greer, vilk . ptper, in regard to the alleged apathy 44 thopeople of South Carolina in the election of .members of the Oh:mention. It in a vrel I-written latter, nnd, saving one or two intemperate and 'vffensive expressions, it is nuohjectimmble in its manner,_ though we of course cannot commend its doctrines.,—Rquidie, Market Street - Store for Rent. OR RENT The !Store, 11S Market pr , • Ad:vet, the mead doer ti am the comer of Market Libertystreet.s. iteenet,Glng.n= /a of tioril nest jinutrof DAVID tam. =biz 100 Penn et SBURGH GAZETTE. I ==IMnB3CHI Con adjourned, 1 ,, ess having adjourn, reliering our col umns f m a considerable pressure, we shall be able for some time to come, to give our readers a great T• amount of literary matter than usual , . and we ommence the publication to day of a small book of remarkable interest, which, thoigh it Las been published for some time, is not gen erally known. Probahly_not one tenth of Our renders have ever seen or heard of the work,and those Nirt) have will be rejoiced to see it agifin. It bears unmistakable marks ‘ of classicality, and c:m be - a again and again. , . London Quarterly Neview says that it fraluable work iu the" original, and has , Ilieen adopted...by Acclamation in the Ea theory." Our readers will find it of en- Interest as it Advances. Was areadyl gash Liz c •ssive NOLOOT —By reference to our advertising it will be seen that Mr. 0. S. Fowler hi city, and will commence a course. - of a this evening. Mr. Fowles is the lender hrenologists in this country, and troll who p ith in what J. Q. Adams irreverently e "mapping off of the head," can have tural characters dissected by one is an land the result set down in black end is in tu' lecture of the have t i called their n ty, Pittsburgh is becoming n home fcr all lot philosophy! We have lectures on 'the fl philosophyof life, experiments in the phi -1 of spiritual manifestations, feminine lee ] female 'rights, wrongs and destiny,' !cu lt Phrenology and all the questions connect. I, it, besides clairvoyance, mesmerism, bc., .1 .5 of Pittsburgh being merely a plodding. dollar loving city, it is becoming a t lyceum; and all its citizens will soon! be , hers. As each one of the schools tow : fed among us differs essentially frominll , it is to be presumed that the seed .of tru fireside debate is already sown. Al. there must be a great deal of error tel . th, there can be little danger that the lat to triumph. There is nothing like dis c o bring up new :facts and set common a their proper light. turns o el wit]) tastes busines a great" phileKo Since the above was written, Mr. C.S. l as called and requested us to antiounee trill, in a day or two, commence a c — iree mos to the people of Pittsburgh, with ex.- .to in pathetism, to illustrate the laWs duce somnambulism, trance, ghost see rroynoce, somnipatly, knockings, C s 'C' teeth extracted without pain or en- The cry is still they come! spirits have a fair right to a hearing emocratic country, we most willingly oom, to day, for a communication An ence, if it really can be proven that t ier between the dead . and thi , living has ',ken, we will be; very happy to acknotil i fact, notwithstanding our present 11141 k I every inquirer after hidden knowledge adly disappoint.,d if the spirits fail ,to ore important revelations than have iet reined if these knockers are spirits. Ino wiser than beings in the flesh. In me who were known to be strong minded lust have Jost their intellectual power since t the fleshy tabernacle. Moreover, they charged with humbug. They pretend 1 something important, yet when their as are spelled out we are no wiser than If they have nothing new to reveal, it ibly not their faulclut why not corlie'sa it As th 1 Is this alke their 1:. is bar rage th 4 ;lel but 1, .11 be make n 1 ieert they ar Met, men, . I they Ic ecy be w tell 1-e elu before. ;3 prob:, . camel 'y can du nothing better than bore ni .mmonplaces; we had betteenvoid theth, eis alas ! a great deal of living and • athing =rapidity around as which we bored with whether or no. If thl •rith c for the And 1, must [coincidence we End in a history of the on lying before us, a fuc simile of a part cr written by Cotton Mather, concerning } l a gs of evil spirits. Here it is e I won preaching at a private fast (ketit Issessecl young woman)—on Mark 9: 2s, • devil in ye damsel flew upon me & tore , as it is now torn, over against ye texhi p, 1692.. By Kerala. f a let. , tite doi. , 11 . 1 for a p iPaf, or. COTTON MATHER. .ow nearly a hundred and silty years letter was written, and although the made wonderful advances, we know about the spirit world time Cotton 'MS , and not the smallest fraction of what ,ht he knew. if the disembodied spiriis .ove faster the world will soon grow inf. It in since t world to no mo titer di he thou; k not .! indent handsonie ph of a gold cup, of 'a large and massy e in the form of a vase, which contain flowing inscription upon its side: timoni n 1 of the high regard entertained AYES COLLIER, CUllector of Upper Cid : - , y the Officers of Customs of the Port of .cisco, Jan. 15, 1851." • • A Cur Col ifornin F.m F This • and Bro troll Bred do Iplendid cup was manufactured by Joel's her, of San Francisco, from California its weight is 30 ounces--cost fifteen hemi- coful tribute to the worth of Col. Col; kg by those best acquainted with his elity and merits, es a gentleman and beer, is a sufficient answer to those whti encored to asperse his character, and future usefulness. This her, ru limes fi public of hare en. From the Iferrielmrc Teleraeph. • INZEBIST LID IIIEOTSY LEWIi : Sowing table, exhibiting the /ego/ ratO t hallo different States, and the penal ? bed to irsi!r,.;lol.l be interesting to thir enders: llr„ Legal rives. Penirlty far Ersury 6 . forfeit interest & usury, G " °forfeit usury. Mt 6 " forfeit whole debt. 6 " forfeit whole debt. 8 " forfeit interest it usury: 8 " forfeit 8 times us'y,[duO 6 " }forfeit 3 times us'y Sr. in 6 " forfeit double the usury: 7 •• jforfeit 3 times the us'y: 6 " forfeit usury and cost 4 " iennt'etes'ting us'y,voiri , 1 - 6 - li contract " "-, 6 " forfeit entire debt. retts - 6 - forfeit 3 times the us'y. - " forfeit us'y Sr i the debt, " °forfeit usury and cost: " "forfeit usury and int. i k 7 " forfeit entire debt. • paliire G' - cortzit 3 times usury. ey 6 " forfeit entire debt. Olins 6 - forfeit double usury. ii " contracts void. k anis G " forfeit entire debt. '- r land 6 " forfeit usury and interest F. rebus 7 " forfeit usury int. & cost: 17 " contracts void. 10 " contracts void. 6 " recur. inaction with costs 6 " forfeit double the usury k n ~,_ ''7 .• 'Ft ----, i rrom 9 " contracts void. , .41 tOlll24Ct .1t high as - 10 per cent. . allowed cent armed on Tobacco contracts • ntracts as high as 10 per cent. - " " 10 .• rata agreed upon by the puttee-. ITLYAMTRADI LAD: ERIE 145.1111 DAD. I who think that the whole thing is jugglery emit c orr e,tondeseeof the eitoaessiiiii Gana.. impos.nre, and who go, net for the purpose of ; Entc,'Marell 21, 16.51. inquiring, hot to expose the trick—who think Enema or Gast:me—Dear Str :—ln your pa- that it cannot possibly he true, _but must neces per of the 17th inst , you state that if the editor : earthy he false, has a tendency to disturb the of the Erie Gazette will inform you what are the • medium, and to prevent the communication. But "embarrassing impediments" in the way of the , admitting that this sloes constitute a difficulty, is early commencement and speedy contra lion of it eno.tgb to overthrow the thousands of facts in the Pittsburgh rod Erie Railroad, referred to in I favor of the spiritual origin of these tappings or a former number of his paper, volt will a id i n sounds, which cannot be contradicted! Those their removal- I infer from this, that you are not ' who have consulted the columns of the New York advised of the existence of entailsr charter, by Tribune must hr ye noticed many statementsfrom virtue of which a Rhilroad extension from this men of unquestionable veracity, whosecharacters place to the Ohio State Hue is contemplated—are vouched for by Mr. Greeley ; also statements that of the Franklin canal Company, greatest due- I by Mr. Greeley himself, which put forever at ing the session of the Legislature of '49, fsr'tlie I rest the charge of collusion and imposture as purpose prvontia!ror ovtrosibiy of building n ; competent to explain all the phenonems develop road from the town of Franklin, in Venango ed in the ease. As gentlemen arc so fond of County, along the old Franklin Canal bns, to Lake showing that runic things cannot be about which Erie. This charter is in the hands of a respec- . they know nothing, and are too self-confident table fellow citizen, who has evinced extraortli• . even to inquire. I would like them to try and nary enery mid perseverance in endeavoring to • explain dorm numerous facts on some other hy convert it to the use above specifimi=i. e. form. ; pothesis than that of spiritual agency. Again, ing a connection from this city with Ohio—and ' if the cracking of the knee-pans are sufficient to adopted all necessary preliminaries for under- demonstrate that the rappings are not true, it taking the enterprise. This project, with per- will not dispose of the many physical tridnifesta haps some oppressive restrictiens and iruposi- tits!s produced by invisible power, and which Lions contained in Mr. Hones Bill, which has .•are as clearly proven as any fact can be4oichaS gone through the Senate, and is now before the I the moving off tables and chairs—throwing ea- House, constitute, in great part, the “emberrass- riotus articles about the room—and even islaying ing impediments," spoken of in the article of the upon musical instrumersts. Can any sate man Erie Gazette. read the statement of the Res. Dr. ,PIMIps. of I think you do the motives and intentions of • Stratford, Conn., on this subject, a Presbyterian the Pittsburgh and Erie Board of Directors great clergyman of high standing. and welliknown by injustice, in attributing to them, by even inuendo, ninny persons in this city, and not believe, or at. a design to evade the full requisitions of their i least be mortal to make a brief examination of charter. lam entirely persuaded of the honesty the facts before forming an opinion. Those con of their declared purpose, to build the whole elusions which are jumped at cannot he sworn road within the shortest practicable period—to ! by. do it in good faith, from a conviction not only of I The mast of men are divided into two classes personal duty, but of its great public import- I very clearly distinguished from each other—the once and practical utility: In common with the Progressive and the Conservative. The Progres people of Erie and Erie County ggperally, they sive is often let too far—the Conservative lags deim it as possessing a lora( value far trans- I behind the truth until he is lashed into it. Ito eroding any similar improvement hereabouts ' tween the two, the troth in generally found. It projected—and the hcipe is now indulged that iis a fundamental position that theories should the citizens of Pittsburgh, in view of the Linter- conform to facts. and not that facts should bends eats involved, personal to themselves, will not !to theories. Inquire first—make up your spin. regard it with perfect indifference. The inhabi- I ions afterwards. Most men have a form of be tants of the counties of Mercer, Beaver, and [ lief and every thing is tried by it non touchstone. Lawrence look to it as a grand means of fully de. I Thus have the reientille rovelatiens of Newton, veloping undoubted abundant resources, and , and of all tine great dirm,verers of new truths, opening to them easy and convenient market kern tried and rejected, until the light which they communications; and manifest a willingness m struck out of nature became so intense as to blind contribute liberally, to its speedy construction. tl•eir opposers. It does not disturb me, when a It can scarce be doubted that a cordial union of I conservative rails me a foul fer believing io time% the available energies and means of the different I manifestations, for I recollect very well that the localities proposed to lie affected, would be found same man rolled roe a fool for believing in Mire competent to the building of the entire Road. nologY..Animol Magnetism , and Clairvoyance, within four or five years. But be this as it May, which are now demonstrated truths. There is I feel confident that, in the absence of , any re- I something very strange in the self importance of strictims and impositions of an absolutely crush. a conservative. If it should he proven nine ing nature, an extent at the Southern, and equal hundred and ninety-nine times that he was Mi.,- to the extent overlord at the Northern end. can ! taken, when the one thousandth question arises, be immediately made. he will still think that he is very wise. and call You seem to consider the tax feature in Mr. the Progressive a visionary with as much cont lingo's bill a very trifling matter. Not so, in stenoe, sod with as triumphant an air, as if he view of its practical effect. As here coutemph, had never been deceived in his life. No experi ted, it, more than any other provision of the