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Tbe Sabbatli Bell.
low sweetly through the lengtliened dell,
When wintry airs are mild and clear,
lioats chiming up the Sabbath bell,
In softened echoes to the ear!
"Come, gentle neighbours, come away, M
S o doth the welcome summons say;
"Come, friends and kindred, 'tis the tune, "
So seems to peal the Sabbath chime.
one are the week's debasing cares,
And worldly ways, and worldly will;
Jnd earth itself an aspect wears
Like heaven, so bright, so calm and still!
Hark, how, by turns, each mellow note;
Now low, now louder, seems to float,
And falling, with the wind's decay,
Like softest music, dies away!
"ind now," it says, "where Heaven resorts,
2ome, with a meek and quiet mind;
0, worship in these earthly courts,
:Jut leave your earth born thoughts behind."
Dome, neighbours, while the sabbath bell
ieals slowly up the winding dell,
Come, friends and kindred let us share
The pure and holy rapture there!
The celebrated German dancer, Fanny Els
scr, arrived at Charleston on the 14th ultimo;
hr engagement there, is lo perform four nights
it each week for four weeks, at $1000 per
niht. This is something better than 'going it'
fo eels.
Pleasaixt. Very! The Michigan Whigs,
Ming front Lenawee Co. in that State, says:
Te snow is already above the tops of the houses!
hxcy on us, what a time! landlords getting
rh, and printers starving to death! Oh! dear,
ware just gone!"
igh Life.' A fashionable lady ob color,
dvn East, wh gave a party the other evening,
neived the following reply from one of the
gitleman, to a note of invitation:
Dinah owing to the woolferoxis oder, which
d circumstance is likely to creato, you will
dcuse any extendance ob dis nigger!"
Pretty Fair. An Ohio editor, in recording
tj career of a mad dog, says "We are
geved to say that the rabid animal, before it
culd be killed, seriously bit Dr. Haag and sev
cil other dogs.
Marriage tottery.
' A bachelor in Norfolk, Virginia, who has
:ot the courage to propose himself to the la
dies, publishes in the Beacon the following
scheme. It is an old Freuch method of rais
ng the wind:
Brilliant Scheme! I propose myself as a
prize in a lottery to be called the " Old Domin
ion Marriage Lottery," to be drawn in the usual
way. The tickets to be of various prices, iti
.the following order: Young ladies of 18 to
pay the smallest price, those of 20 higher, wid
ow ladies much higher than young ladies of 25,
and "old maids" I must here make a diyres
sion by old maids I mean those young ladies
who have felt the glow of fifty summers they
will have to pay much higher than the wid
ows.
When $50,000 are raised, the lottery will be
drawn, and the lucky holder of the lucky ticket
is to marry rny own lucky salf, the prizs! if,
after seeing me, she should be unwilling to en
ter the hymeniai state, she can annul the con
tract, by dividing th sum between us.
f Is not this a glorious scheme! what can be
nore rational ladies? Can any objection bo
niscd against it? None whatever. I trust
lien you will all, ladies enter into this " Bril
hni Scheme" without delay v
All communications will be thankfully at
tnded to, left at the Post Office, and directed
ti
!irour sincere friend and humblo servant,
SlNCEKITAS;
ftrfolk,.Dec.,17th, 1840;,.,. .
Historical Notes.
( Continued from our last.)
In tho course of the difficulties which pro
vailed between the red and white men, about
tho occupation of the lands in the "Forks," it
appears by a petition presented to the Assem
bly from a man named Henry Webb, that
"without any provocation by him given, he
had lately been very much abused and wounded
by the Indians, whereby he has suffered great
ly, and by tho expense of his illness and loss
ol time, is reduced to extreme poverty." Ten
pounds were granted for his relief. At this
treaty, in reply to a demand matte by Governor
Thomas for satisfaction Canassaiego said, "that
the Six Nations had made diligent inquiry into
the all air, aud had found nut the Indian, who
broke Webb's jawbone. Ho lived near Esopus,
aud had been examined, and severely reproved
and they hoped, as Webb had recovered, the
Governor would not press for any further pun
ishment." The provincial authorities having
oeen so successitu in obtaining their ends, m
regard to tho disputed lands did not persist in
their demands, but let the matter drop.
It is now nearly a century, since the Dela-
wares abandoned their rights to tho country,
rom wnicn mey wore compelled to remove by
the arbitrary commands of power, though many
amine sun remained on portions ol tracts un
settled or unsurveyed others would occasion
ally come from their new homes, to revisit the
scenes of their youth, and observe with melan
choly interest the changes which were occur
ring in the land of their lathers this practice
was continued until tho revolutionary war and
within the recollection of several persons still
iving in this vicinity there exist but few re
mains of the aborigines at this day the most
distinct is probably a burial ground on the high
and directly opposite tho lower part of "Shaw
nee Island" it is now covered with trees of
a vigorous growth, though tho mounds and cav-
UGB may still be traced 1 he site of the pres
ent town of Easton was occupied for several
years by Indians alter tho treaty of 142, pro
bably owing to the circumstance, that the land
n its vicinity was not immediately offered for
iiale by ihe Penns, who were well aware of
its eligible situation for a town, and thought, it
more acantageous to their interests, to have
tbe coantrv around settled, before bringing it
into tho market. It was hore, that tho cele
brated missionary David Braiuerd look up his
abode, for the purpose of preaching the gospel
among the heathen. A beautiful account of his
self-devotion, his religious zeal, his untiring pa
tience under difficulties arising from his wretch
ed health, and the slight success, which at
tended his first efforts, in converting the Indi
ans to Christianity, may be gathered from his
published "journal of the rise and progress of
a remarkable work of grace among a uumber of
Indians in Pennsylvania."
He was in tho 26th year of his age, when
he set out on horseback from his native place
Haddam, Connecticut, to tho then savage wilds
of the " Forks." The first Sabbath of his jour
ney was spent among somo German and Irish
people, about 12 miles from his placo of des
tination. He was for somo time almost dis
couraged at the prospect, of conversion, and
says, that "midnight itself was not so dark." I
give an extract from his journal, from which
we may see, the temper of the people, to whom
he hoped to bo a messenger of salvation, and
the mode of reasoning employed by them, to
reject his labours.
May 10tht 1744. "I met with a number of
Indians at Minisinks I spent some timo with
them, and first addressed their chief in a friend
ly manner, expressing my desire to instruct
them in Chrisiianity-'-at which he laughed,
turned his back upon mo, and went away af
tor some time I followed him into a house and
renewed my discourse--but ho declined talk
ing and left the affair to another, who appeared
to bo a rational man. He began and talked
vry warmly for a quarter of an hour, and en
quired, why I desired the Indians to' be chris
liana seeing, the Christians were so much
worse than the Indians in their present state
tho Christians would both lio, and steal and
drink worso than the Indians. It was they,
first taught the Indians to drink and they stole
from one another to that degree, that their ru
lers were obliged to hang them for it: that was
not sufficient to deter them from the practice
but the Indians he added were none of them
ever hanged for stealing, and yet they did not
steal half so much, and ho supposed if the In
dians should become Christians, they would
men ne aDout as oau as these and thereupon
he said, they would live as their fathers lived,
and go where their fathers were, when ihev
died. I then joined with them, in condemning
tho ill conduct of some who are called Chris
tians, told him, they were not Christians in
heart, that I hated such wicked practices, and
did not desire the Indiana to become such as
these and when he appeared calmer, I asked
him if ho was willing I should come and see
them again he replied, ho should be willing to
seo me "again as a friend, if I would not desire
thorn to become ChristiansI then bade them
farewell and prosecuted my journey to Sauk
hauwotung (within the Forks of Delaware.)"
Ho mentions frequently, that most of the In
dians who formerly lived here are dispersed,
and have removed to places further back in jhc
country at .Kauksesauking 30 miles west of
the "Forks," ho was suspected by some, of in
tending mischief to lhem as they asserted the
whites had abused aud defrauded them of their
lands. Among the greatest difficulties in his
way, was tho slavish fear in which the Indians,
held their Powows, who kept them in subjec
tion, by mfeans of their wild and barbarous su
perstitions. Brainerd openly defied these men.
leiung them to do their worst to injure him
then he showed the Indians, that though he
had challenged and provoked these great Sor
cerer, they had not nower to harm a hair of
his head but their credulity was not to be
overcome Heckewelder tells us, he saw a
public experiment made upon a friend, who in
like manner defied their enchanters, after try
ing all kinds of incantations to work upon his
fears, but without success, the Powows de
clared, that their charms had not the usual ef
fect upon him because he eat so much salt with
his meat and tho implicit faith of tho tribe was
not shakon.
Brainerd made several journies to the Sus
quehanna, encamping at night in the woods and
suffering tho groatesl hardships. Notwithstand
ing his zeal and perseverance, nearly a year
elapsed, before any indication appeared, lhat
success would attend his efforts. I give some
oxtracts from his "journal."
July 14th 1745. Lords Day Discoursed
to the Indians here several of whom appeared
concerned, so that they wept much of tho whole
time of dinner service afterwards discoursed
to a number of the white people then present.
"July 2Jat. Preached to the Indians first,
then to a number of white people present, and
in the afternoon to the Indians again. Divine
truth seemed to make very considerable impres
sion upon several of them, and caused their
tears to flow freely--afterwards I baptized my
interpreter and his wife, who were the first 1
baptized among the Indians when I first em
ployed him in the beginning of the summer of
'44, he was well fitted for hi3 work in rcard
of his acquaintance with the Delaware and
English language, as well as with tho manners
of both nations, but seemed to have little or no
impression of religion upon bis mind, and in
that respect, was very unfit. Ho indeed he-j
haved soberly after I employed him (although!
iitrnuu, iiu uuii ueen a naru anniior.j wis
name is Moses f Taiamy, is about 50 years of
age, and I trust will, yet be a blessing lo tho
other Indians."
"February 18th 1746. I preached to an
assembly op! Irish people, near 15 miles dis
tant from my residence. February 20th
Preached to a small assembly of High Dutch,
who had seldom heard the Gospel preached,
ano were (.some ot them at least) very ignorant.
They requested mo to tarry with them or to
como again to preach to thorn. Feb. 29th-
Preached lo a number of people, many of them,
Low Dutch several of the before-mentioned
Germans attended the service though 8 or 10
miles distant from their houses.
He found it extremely difficult to brino- tho
Indians to any right understanding of the doc
trines ho endeavored to teach; they had their
own religious ideas, believing in the Great
Spirit, and a future state of rewards and pun
ishments beyond their rude conceptions of
those things they could hardly bo made to go.
It was next to impossible to bring them to any
rational conviction, that they wero sinners by
nature, and that their hearts were corrupt aud
sinful: they could not conceive of being a sin
ner, without having done wrong. It was ex
tremely difficult to give them any just notion of
the undertaking of Christ in behall of sinners
of hi sufferm? and rlvinf in their room ntwl
stead, in order to atone for their sins, and of
0 -m. 0 .
their being justified by his righloousness im
parted to them, they could not conceive, why
God might not forgive, nor if all deserved to
suffer, what justice there was in one suffering
lor the whole many other questions were pro
posed to him, to which he found it hard to
mako any satisfactory reply Such for example
as this. How tho Indians came to be dark
colored, if they descended, from the same pa
rents with the white men and how it hap
pened, that supposing all to have come from
one place, tho Indians only should have re
moved lo this country, and all the white men
remained behind. The manners of the Indians
also presented a serious obstacle to a mission
ary educated in ihe refinements of civilized
life. To go and talk with them, in thoir hou
ses filled as they were with smoke aud cinders,
and disgusting with all manner of filth, gave
him sick head- aches and other disordora. The
children would cry at pleasure when ho was
speaking, and their mothers would lake no
pains to quiet them. Some would bo playing
with their dogs, others attending to some house
hold business, Avithout the least regard to him;
Now Snucon township.
TTat's Gun on the lllu Mount sin derives its nni fmm Mn.
fcs Tntamy, who in iho buutuig ecaion, occupied n cabin on
the south Fjdn. f
JTho Irish settlomont now Allen township.
and this not out of disrespect, but only because
they had never been trained to better manners.
These things often oppressed him so much, that
he gave over in despair, believing that it would
not be possible for him, ever to address the In
dians again. Such were a few of the difficul
ties he had to encounter, and these were in
creased a thousand fold by the agency of while
mcn nol only by the infamy which their frauds
and extortions associated with the name of
Christians in the minds of the Indians, but by
the direct resistance which they offered to ele
vating a race, whom they considered as their
prey. So it has always been, on the frontiers,
with the vhites all that is vile in them, is
brought out in bold relief, aud they are apt to
be strangers to common humanity and shame.
He gives a minute account of his difficulties
and discouragements which it is necessary to
know, in order to do justice to his strength of
heart. The Indians were a spiritless and va
cant race, except when under the influence of
some strong excitement, at such times, they
thought and acted with energy and decision,
while at others-, they were wholly destitute of
animation. In addition to his preaching, which
did little more than call their attention to the
subject, he was obliged to catechise and con
verso with them day after dav. He was ex
pected to arrange all their difficulties, to pro
vide for iheir wants and to attend to their af
fairs of every description. It may easily be
conceived, that while he was compelled to
bear this burden, and at the same time to ride
4000 miles a year, for the necessary purpose
of his mission, his duties were quite as exien-
sivo as one man can be expected to do. His
declining health compelled him in April 1747,
to leave the Forks of Delaware and return to
New England, where he died October 9th of
tho same year. The principal building of La
Fayette College at Easton is called " Brainerd
Hall," after this devoted servant of God.
A C2;aper cr IcToussg I-Suslbasadg.
Walking the other day with a valued friend
who had been confined a week or two by sick
ness to his room, he remarked that a husband
might learn a good lesson by b
c i
3emg confined
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having in this
occasionally to his house, by ha
o 0
way an opportunity of witnessing the cares and
never ending toils of his wife, whose burthen,
and 'duties and patient endurance he might
never otherwise have understood. There is a
great deal in this thought perhaps enough for
an "editorial." Men, especially young men,
are called by their business during the day
mostly away from home, returning only at the
hours for meals; and as ihey then see nearly
the same routine of duty, they begin to think it
is their own lot to perform all the drudgery, and
to be exercised with all the weight and care
of responsibility. But such a man has got a
very wrong view of the case; he needs an op
portunity for more extended observation, and it
is perhaps for this very reason that a kind Prov
idence arrests him by sickness, that he may1
I learn in pain what he would fail to observe i'n
health. We have seen recently a rrood many
things said in- the papers to wives, especially
to young wives, exposing their faults, perhaps
magnifying them, and expounding to them in
ono of the kindest terms, their duty and the
offices pertaining lo a woman's sphere. Now,
wo believe lhat wives, as a whole, arc really
better than they are generally admitted lo be.
We doubt if there can be found a large number
of wives who are disncreeablv and neslicent.
without some palpable coldness or short com
ing on the part of their husbands. So far as
we have had an opportunity for observation, j
tney arc lar more devoted and laithtut than
those who style themselves thoir lords, and
who, by the customs of society, have other and
generally more pleasant and varied duties to
perform. We protest, then against these lec
tures so often, and so obtrusively addressed to
the ladies, aud insist upon it that they must
most of them have been written by some fus
ty bachelors who knew no better, or by some
inconsiderate husbands who deserve to have
been old bachelors to the end of their lives.
But is there nothing to be said on the other
side? Are husbands so generally the perfect,
amiable, injured beings, they are so often rtp
resented? Men sometimes decktro that their
wives' extravagances have picked their pockets;
that their never ceasing toncues have robbed
them of their peace, and their general disagree
ableness has driven them to the tavorn and gam
ing table; but this is generally the wicked ex
cuso for a most wicked life on their own part.
The fact is, men often lose their interest in their
homes by their own neglect to make their homes
interesting and pleasant. It should never be
forgotten that the wife has her rights as sa
cred after marriage as before and a good hus
band's devotion to the wife after marriage will
concede to her quilo as much attention as his
gallantry did whilo a lover. If it is otherwise,
he most generally is at fault.
lake a few examples. Before marriago a
young man would feel sonje delicacy abott ac
cepting an invitation to spend an evening in
company whoro his lady love had not been in
vited. After marriage is ho always as particu
lar? Durincr his days of courtship his callantrv
would demand that he should make himself
agreeable to her; after marriage it often happens
thst he thinks more of being agreeable to him
self. How ofien it happens that married men,
after having been away from home the livelong
day, during which the wife has toiled at her du
lies, go at evening again to someplace of amuse
ment, and leave her to toil on alone, unchcere d
and unhappy. How often it happens that her
kindest offices pass unobserved and unreward
ed even by a smile and her best efforts' are
condemned by the fault-finding husband. How
often it happens, oven when the evening is spsnt
at home, that it is employed in silent reading,
or some other way lhat does not recognize the
wife's right to share in the enjoyments even of
the fireside.
Look, ye husbands, a moment, and remem
ber what your wife was when you took her,
not from compulsion but from your own choice;
a choice based, probably, on what you then
consider her superiority to all others. She was
young perhaps the idol of a happy home; she
was gay and blithe as a lark, and the brothers
and shters at her father's fireside cherished
her as an object of endearment. 5Tet she left
all to join her destiny with yours; to make your
home happy, and to do all that woman's love
could prompt, and woman's ingenuity could de
vise to meet your wishes and lighten the bur
dens which might press upon you in your pil
grimage. Sh, of course, had her expectations
too. She could not rntertain feelings which
promised so much, without forming some idea
of reciprocation on your part, and she did ex
pect you would after marrtaue perform those
kind ofhce.-s of which you were so lavish in ths
j days of betrothment. She became your wife!
1 left her own home for yours burst aunder, as
it were, the bands of love which had bound her
to her father's firride, and sought no other
boon than your affections; left, it may tie, the
ease and delicacy of a home of indulgence
and now, what must be her feelings if aha
gradually awakes to the consciousness that
you love her less than before; that your eve
nings are spent abroad, that you only cuine
home at all to satisfy the demands of your hun
1 2er, and to find a resting place for vonr head
I , ' ,- "Jut
; when weary, or a nurse lor your sick chamber
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1 iv ion HiCf;iPf
when diseased!
Why did she leave the bright hearth of her
youthful days? Why did you ask her to givo
up the enjoyment of a happy home? was it sim
ply to darn your stockings, mend your clothes,
take care of your children, and watch over your
sick bed? was it simply to conduce to your own
comfort? Or was there some understanding
that she was to be made happy in her connec
tion with the man she had dared to love.
Nor is it a sufficient answer that you reply
that you give her a home; that you feed and
clothe her. You do this for your help; you
woulddo it for an indifferent housekeeper. She
is your wife, and unless you attend to her wants,
and in some way answer the reasonable expec
tations you raised by your attentions before mar-
I riaf t yS " -T -W m r ffr
' !,nrt hpr honrl viinL liitn iner.aimlifv hit! if !lii
be so, think well who is the cause of it. Wo
repeat it, very few women make indifferent
wives, whose feelings have not met with somo
outward shock by the indifference or thought
lessness of their husbands. It is our candid
opinion that in a large majority of the instances
of domestic misery the man is the aggressor.
N. Y. Mirror.
Si.vgular Remedy. We find in a French
Journal the account of the cure of a case of
i
Hydrophobia by a large quantity ot vinegar
ministered to the patient by mistake. Count
Lcosian, a physician of Padue, hearing of the
case, exhibited the same remedy in a very vio
lent case, and Micceeded in effecting a per
fect cure.
Rather Severe. A young buck of the soap
lock order, who wore an unshaven face, be
cause, as he said it looked 'foreign,' lately ac
costed a Yankee at one of our hotels, as fol
lows: I say, fellow, some individuals .think I
am a Frenchman, and some take me for an
Elalyene; now, what do you think that I ain?'
'I think you are a darned fool, replied Jona
than. An English paper says that in the reign-of
Charles I., the Mayor of Norwich actually sent
a man to prison for saying that the Prince of
Wales was born without a shirt to his ba,ek;,
Tight Lacing. We onco saw a lady lacW!
so tight that, while stooping to pick up a pi.n
her stays gave way and she turned threo sqt
erscts in consequence.
Small Bills. A, man in New Jersey' nanwtl
Bills, has been presented by his wife with threw
littlo Bills. -
A Distinction. A friend overtaking Shu
ter one day in the street, said to him, Why,
Ned, arc you .not ashamed to walk the streats
with twenty holes in your stockings ? why
dont you get them mended?" "I am abovo
it," replied Ned, M for a hole is tho qccidenttf
tli4 day but a dam is premeditated poverty "
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