PI 4111)e. itcoplc's atuoiatc. 4 1 TELILlSitip EVERT TRURSDAT MORNING, ET DOW & BOYD. (Office on the west side of the Public Avenue.) 4 ---- , t TERNIS.-4D. NE DOLLAR a year in tubrance. One Doll. . Fifty Cents if not paid within three mo nths, and' delay-L4 until after the czpiratiou of the rear e;v4ollan; will be exacted. Descontinutinces optional with the Publishe , Wl less arrearago; are paid. . Letters to 9te Publisher; on business with h'ef tke IntisT be )(.It-paid to insure attention. . - poctru. Thonind Girt's Lamest. It is 4t that I loot ace Thif liinis and owers of spring, 'Tis nut that beauty scents 10 Inc A t+aniy, unknown thing: It tt. tlatt I cannot mark The Poe and sparklitti sky, Nor miles loam, tier nimmusin's peak, Thate er I weep or sigh. Thad- ill me that the birds, whole nottis atad sweet and full— ttlo.se I listen to and love, Are hot all b.•ai ti,id ! They 101 me that the gayest llovvers liqh sunshine ever brings, Are n 4 the ones I know so well, • But ,trange and scentless thiogs! My lit4e brother leads me forth To ilwre the violets grow : His gattle, light, vet c areful step, Anitp.in,y hand I know. My n4ther's voice is soft and sweet music on my ear:_ q - atmosphere seems love, Wheat these to me an• near. Div 41er twines hi, arms around, Atattlrtws toe to Iris breast, To kis; the hoot. Mind, helpless girl lie 'iptys hest°.rs the best. Tis t 6 n 1 ponder unknown things, Lt flit tot --4% eep or. sigh, And t6ilik how glorious it must be To titeet ASTeelittu's ryr ! Dfrge for the Beautiful. Softly, 4acefully, lay her tweest : l'hee thel,turf lightly on her breast— (.ently, s*lenmly, bend o'er the bed, t here yi hare pillowed thus early her head Plant a Along willow close by-the grave; 1,1 its Lang branches soothingly wave , 'I wine a'Oweet rose-tree acr the tomb, 14esh buds there—brainy mid bloom Let the Wright fountain. limped and clear, Murmur through n tear— Scatter it diwends ‘s - liere the loved lies, Boilliant ri'd sutrry, like Anger:. eye! , . Thin' bill& the bright birlt_on golden wings, Lingviii4ever, murmuring Thi•ti .1,4) the i.iift brre•7. pensively sigh, l'.earitr , Ad' fragrance anti-nit-lolly by. Lav the Ami lizlnlv over her beast. ' Calm bei s lier .lainla•rs. peaceful her rest. Renntifuii lovely, :.he NV aN bait given, A lair 14 to earth, to Illossom i❑ heaven UMIM f From the New York Obsery cr. A VISIT TO vim DESERT AND -THE DEAD SEA. US" PROFESSOR ADOLPHUS LEWIS KOEPPEN From tl(e height above Bir-Mousa we fur the first; time had a distant view of the Dead Sea dnd the towering mountain ridge beyond it in el-Belka, the ancient Moab. Beneath isa level table-land extended east ward, `sinkft down toward the steep, pre cipitate cliffs, skirting the western shore o the lake, t 1 highest of which is the promi nent Ras eFcsbkah. The sky had been elouVd in the morning, but now t began suddenly tb clear up and the warm and glowing c4ouritig diffused a marvellous splendor titer the dusky rocks around usr while the dtep mirror of the Dead Sea lay: glittering i the East. On the - Northern hills toward Jericho we distinguished thel white cup A la of-the Veli Neby-Mousa or sepulchral (chapel of the, prophet Moses, where according to a curious Moslem tradi-: non Moset is supposed to be buried. Not far off on the East a heap of ruins Was visi-i ble on a cOtical hill, but we bad noltinte tol divert froni!our course for their examination.li Front the Ipwer terrace of thcosirearf table land, we nOw descended to tli pass of Ku- reiterah. his defile winds along a-mile or two, eileopassed by high chalky partly coved with arid grass. and stunted' bushes, hating a-deep glen on the left of the' path and lens upon the plains ofthe ,Jor dan. All st once the mountains recede and' the most biautiful view presents itself upon the norther:h coast of the Dead:Sea,lltinded by the hie/ mountains of Moab, upon the broad Gitilr or valley of the Jordan and the . river, whiet at this distance is discernible by the green itripe of thickets and groves, overJ growing itt banks down to its discharge inj the lake. The pilrin-road runs North along the western mountains toward Jericho and the Jordan ; • W•,.e therefore dispatched the mule-1 1 teers with i; the baggage accompanied by some Turtish troopers directly for the fa mous lot/1101.in of Elisha, where we intended; to encampZ: for the night, while the whale; mounted p4rty, ladies and gentlemen, turn ed thVit ldiries beads in a south-easterly. direethsi and gayly spurred away • for tote' Dead Sea.tl, eseending from the pass along' the bioad oope along the shore, the huge wild cragsf the precipitous Ras al-Fesh kali rose ritore - than a thousand feet above the lake, aid though the ele of the wander erl does iiio discern. any.habitation nor any human bei*g withiniitsiken, still the plaire, now aisunits a kiss wild and dreary appear-1 inlet. W passed through thickets of aces-` Sias, tainailsks, and a low tufted tree, with; fruit like the sorb apple of Italy and erreece,l which ofroided a momentary refreshMent to; the fatigu4 travellers, who . had now been; inure than''lve hours on horseback awalmost _ urning sun. In those gitiVes we; ~' remarked (,lie beautiful fruit of the /Ai/taut/at; sanctum, l'ilhich-by the Swedish natdralist,l Mr. Berggien, and others, is suppospl, to be, the apples 43f Sodom,: about which Jositpbusli the historitO, in . his poetical and eslggera-; ted descriplion, says: " that resembling 'eata ble fruits in colour, on being gathered with the hands they are dissolved iritasmioke and ashes." this fruit resembles a small round apple : it lias a delicate lemon-colouied peeli and is filled with small black kernels. - - - , ; . t :. • . - , , .. , ••„ ,• ! . ._ • p ..• . : 1 . ..: i , . I / '• , i , • i . .. .. l' Terra 6E A ye ~. . vertiseutemtscn yl, , al r t es of Fili# CZICTS pu' 11 4 2. It Earr-FiviCvlb far EMIIC, ‘T.E, ~ f,. , ins Ili . 4 vertisementi4 I tril 4 , tht . " . , 5 . . , . _ • . •I ' • • z.• ..i ' t riots, ncit M exceed ____,.._. 7 0. : in : e o sil lit e nio u , , i t ; - ___ ~.... , • i• Catania, with the liver, pm I - " EVERY DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS NOT A DIFFERENCE OF PRINCIPLE."--JFAInsoN - : 1 f Column' do t ' . • ; ' 1, ; •da r i i iIIONTROSE,- PA. THURSDAY OCT. 8,'1846.1 •i•-- NO 1 40. . - • : outer advertisements Inserted la , I I . , , diresOserts sboidd bi marki , 4 • • - ' i l• . be of insertions ref aired: ' ; ~ VOL. The part .of the plain through which we were riding,: is often mentioned in Scripture and termed " the wilderness of Judah t " which extended along the western shore pf the Dead Sea, the plain of Jordan and the mountains of Judah toward Jerusalem and Jericho. During the rebellion of Absalom, David on his flight from Jerusalem crossed the Kidroni and withdrew to the bankii of the Jordan, :and said " I will tarry in the plain of the wilderness;" hut not Whig secure there he passed over Jordan to gather his army in IGilead.t. From the description of Joseplin4 it appears, that this region be tween Jericho and the Asphaltic lake was en as stony and 'barren, as it is now. At oat, o'clock, P. M., we arrived at the Northern shbre of the lake, one hour's ride West of thenouth of Jordan, and we plain ly recogniztid the long, low tongue of land, that runs oft into the Sea .011 - the western side of its,ipubrochure. All along the eas tern coast rises an uninterrupted table-land, lie mountain-ridge termed Pisgah in the Scriptures. This as seen here from the sea shore does pot present any detached peak, projecting from the nearly level line of the highland, that might be considered Its "Mount \cbo, the top of P isgah over against Jericho," where Moses died. The general colouring of the landscape was a ruddy brown or violet, relieved by dark blue streaks, the refle' ctiOn of the azure sky, indicating the deep dels or - chasms, overgrown with a rich and exuberant vegetatiOn running down to the : simile. The height of this eastern chain of uMuntaius exceeds two thousand feet. Quitd.difrerent and much wilder and sterner is the character of the western cliffs from a height of 1500 feet overhanging or sinking preOpitously down into the sea and running out into far projecting capes. • The nearest of The promontories is the above mentioned Ras el-Feshkah. More distant appear Ra - i el-Mersed, behind which .is situ ted Ain-Ji4. Southward the unbounded level of the sea lay expanded .before us, as the southern coast is very low and the more distant mountains, receding toward the Idu &limn desert, could 'not be seen from our point uf view, being hid by the promontory of el-Nerseil. The shores arc sandy .and strewn over iviat Pebbles and gravel. Every where are seen blackeited trunks and branches of trees, which the Jordan has carried down into the tea and. dui waves washed up on the sands. Along the strand extends a thicker of risks, willows and high cane-brake, forming dense hedges. around the fountains, which take rise near the coast. The dark-green lake, the distant -violet moutitains, and the clear, deep blue sky, combined thgether in a mint romantic and highly coloured picture, and it was but-the heavy dash, of the sluggish waves on the beach and file disagreeably bitter saltness of the water, that reminded us of our gazing . on the Sea pf Malediction and of Death, From the times of remote antiquity dgwn through the middle ages, so ninny wonders have been fnbled about the wild, inanimate scenery of this lake, about its uninhabitable i shores, its dangerous exhalations, and the sulphurous vapours, wherein this infernal , pool was supposed to be eternally enveloped,. that the traveller might well be willing to imagine it. be situated in the profound crater of at, immense volcano, surrounded by all the terrors of nature. He will there fare feel a pleasant disappointment, when from the ttimarisk grove on the northern shore he contemplates a magnificent lake, the scener y' of which, as to the variety of its colours and. the grandeur of its' outlines, Ipresebt oneOf the finest views he ever saw. . At the tithe of our visit no exact adiithas urements of the sea had been published, though it appears, that English engineers in I 1841, had taken a military sorry of all Pa-1 Ilestine. Tile length of the sea is generally given approximately at forty miles, _and its breadth froth ten to twelve miles, which it 1 retains for the greater part of its length. On the North West it is somewhat harrowed by the projecting promontory el-Feshkah ; and on the South East the chalky mountains of Moab form a lalrge peninsula having twelve miles in length and eight in breadth. This peninsula and the -southern coast, the salt plain, is inhabited by an Arab tribe, which has other, settlements on the eastern coast and, in the; valley of the Jordan on the North. o& i the precipitous western shore, was situatecii in ancient times the city of En Gaddi, mentioned by St. Jerome as a large i borough in his days, and the Arabs stillpos- sess gardens and cultivated fields around the. copiouS fountain Ain-Jidi, (the goat spring,) which bursts forth beneath the pic turesque anil historically interesting defile of Zl4. Farther north are several fountains surrounded by a luxuriant 'Vegetation. The banks of .the Jordan are covered with tliiek ets of trees ,';and reeds, nor do the glepS of the bloabite mountains on the East appOar to be less Verdant, though the shores pre almost uuknotin. These facts plainlY de- Monstrate, bat the coasts of the Dead Sea are inhabited and not devoid of all vegeta ble life. Fielies do not live in it; snails,l muscles and other shell-fish arc brought down by the Jordan, and the great distance at which they are found from the edge of the water, denotes the extraordinary vebe mence of theistorms that convulse the Sea' during the Winter season. Numerous flights of birds lodge in the crags, near the spriags and' in the tamarisk grove on the nort4rn Coast, and 'fly across the lake; swarms of locusts froOthe plain attempt it in vain and find . their *death in the waves. -The few insects we saw appeared languid and crept feAtly al6noAniong the jungles. The two . mountain-chains that on the East and two. encompass the Dead KOal are of a calcareous formation. On the Ba zar before the-church of the Resurrectiohat Jerusalem, Amenian merchant shoired :me among jother _curiosities from the.'Sea, some pretty- goblets of a black basalt, which During Wl:middle ages the Salt-Sea was teritied mare - m aleit i cam and mare diaboli. The irobs'inill call it Bali'r OLut : the boa of Lot. . t-11. Sam. 0, 23. 16, 4. 17, 16; gr 2, be said came from the rocks of En-Gaddi, hut this . was perhaps' an invention, in order t attach,higher importmoce to his merchan dize, no modern traveller . having yet found basaltic stones•in the environs of the lake. 4t many places is seen an ash-colored lime, infixed with salt and nitre, stones covered With a white salt -crust, and large heaps of stones with layers of bitumen, chalk and dint, covered over with crystalized salt ; near these grow patches of salt-plants ' such as iialsola and solicornia. At the Tank of 4braham (Birket-el-Khulil) on a shallow hay, beneath the western precipices the brine from the lake evaporates and deposites a solid surface of salt, which the Arabs col lect, load on their camels, and transport to die tribes of the desert. On the southern 4ttlt-plain rises the interesting mountain ridge of Uzdom, with beautiful precipices of tiure ehrystalized fossil salt. Large lumps of sulphur are found along the coast, par ticularly in the neighborhood of the foun tains. On the eastern bank, north of the Peninsula, the ancient hot sulphur-springs af Killiarhoe are still used by the Arabs, Om call them the baths of Moses, David and Solomon. Bitumen (asphaltum) from the sub-marine slime-pits, rises in huge mas- Ors, on the surface of the southern parts of the lake, particularly after earthquakes, and is cut up mid sold by the Bedouins at the ports of the Mediterranean,t In the valley of the Jordan, and on the shores of the Dead Sea, a tropical climate Prevails, which during the heat of summer ij very unhealthy, and - causes frequent fe vers ; in consequence of which the Arabs inhabiting the environs of the .lake, look pale and sickly. • The deep depression of the lake, walled up by high, parched cliffs, in so torrid a climate, must necessarily occa iion an extraordinary ebullition and exha lation of vapours ; still we find a great deal 6f exaggeration in the marvellous reports of . the ancient pilgrims and crusaders about the pestiferous evaporations of the sea. From the mount of Olives I have often beheld the tea enveloped in mists, particularly dense during the morning, and the Greek monks (a the convent of St. Sabas likewise decla ied the light clotids that hung over the val ley on the morning of our visit, as rising from the salt sea, adding at the same time, that these morning mists, though frequent through spring and summer, do not carry star pernicious vapors along with them, and therefore, in the abstract, do not exercise any detrimental influence ou the atmosphere of these regions. The traveller, in his descent of seven hours, from the height of Jerusalem, to the bores of die Dead Sea, is astonished at the ' iteep declivity of the mountains, and the sudden change of the temperature in the plain. It has therefore long been admitted, that the Valley of the Jordan and the Sea lay deeply depressed between the two moon- tain ridges, emerging from Mount Hermon an the Anti-Lebanon ; but it was not until the year 1537, that English and German aaturalists, by repeated thermometrical and barometrical observations made the discovery of the deep depression of this region beneath the levet- of the Mediterranean. This was .confirmed the following year by the Aus trian geologist Russegg,e - r, rho found the depression of the Dead Sea to be 1300 Pa.; fisian feet, and by the exact trigonometrical measurement of the English engineer, Lieu tenant Symonds, ia--154:2, the. depression of the Dead Sea has been fixed at 1337, and that of the lake of Tiberias at 54 feet below the level of the Mediterranean. The great difference of 17253 feet here Stated; which, as it appears, has been ascer tained by actual admeasurement of the rela tive levels of the lake of Tiberias and the Dead Sea, and consequently the extraordi narily rapid descent of the Jordan in the Short distance of one degree, or about 70 *les, without exhibiting any cataract or fall, is beyond belief, and requires farther elucidation. The attempts which travellers, during the Tate years, have made by navigating the bead Sea, scientifically to investighe its ;hays, depth, and the, almost unknown east ern coast, have not hitherto been crowned with , any happy result.: The disastrous ex -siedition of the Irish traveller, Costigan, who : from the Lake of Tiberias brought a boat .down into the Dead Sea, is well known. ',ln the year 1837, Dr. Schubert, the Baya tian, had the agreeable surprise of behold ing a nice sail-boat, with the British flag ,hoisted, at anchor in a bay on the lake. It 'belonged to the English travellers 'Beke and 'Moore, who likewise, by unexpected cir cumstances, were deterred from the success ful execution of their arduous undertaking. t See the interesting particulars in licy. Dr. Rob inson's Biblical Researches, vol. ii. pag. 233 et seq. Rev. Dr. Bl'lrlekar's Address To the California Regiment. UNDER favor of your Colonel's permission I address myself to you—Officers, non ;Commissioned and Privates of the California Kee went-and never before, I confess, have addressed myself to my fellow man with so deep a sense of my inability to say what be fits the occasion and thesudieuce. It isnot your numbers that daunt me—l have ad "dressed assemblies as numerous—nor is it . your military array, and that I a man of (peace am called to counsel soldiers—with pat too my official duty lull modems farad ar—nor yet that I speak to men presently i ilaound for the battle field,--even with such Solemn partings, recent events have made )me alas but too conversant; but never before Ijiave I been called to address an organized body of armed citizens who go forth alike to ;conquer and to colonize, and who bid adieu to their country and their homes, with the ;professed understanding that they return not, but are to find alike their dwellingsandtheir graves in a far distant land. 'This thought, I confess, overcomes me, and when all the !deep and varied responsibilities involved in such an expedition arise before me, I feel be 4ildered as well as overpowered, and, can only throw myself as a man and brother on 'your own sensibilities on this occlusion to give any• weight to the few feeble parting words I have now to utter. But it is to the ulterior objects of your eat pedition*e I shalt speak. As a military artname ook not at it and speak nut of The duties end responsibilities of that are •in other and higher hands—nor is it a sub ject that befits my peaceful mission to you this day. From the dark fields of bloody Strife, if such await you (which God fore fend)l turn gladly to the brighter scenes which greet the prophetic eye when peace has converted your "swords 'into plough shares and your spears into pruning hooks," and the transplanted germ of American free dom shall begin to strike its roots deep ()tithe _shores of the bread Pacific. Looked at in this light, what scenes of du - - ty and high responsibility arise before the thoughtful mind. 'Tis then that I see in your array a mission not of war but of peace and love—like unto some armed convoy of high benevolence• freighted with precious gifts--from the wealthy East unto thei. for ests of the West—a royal donation front the boistererous Atlantic unto her quiet • ocean sister. In your departure ocean speaks unto o cean and says, "Receive at my hand', the gift of civilization. That lamp of Science, Law and Religion which I myself received from the far East I, now, in turn, hand over to the distant West. Freely I have received—freely I giVe. Take the boon and hold it worthily." But to speak without figure, who but must see in this transfer of American citizens from ocean to ocean, a • forward step taken (whether man intend it or not) in that great Providential movement which from the;ear liest times has sent the tide •of civilization westward. Thus Idoked at, you, my follow , citizens, constituting the California Regi ' anent, are the living scion cut off from the Parent Americati - Stock, destined to engraft the Institutions of the East on the wild Aims Of-the West—you are our chosen carriers to introduce into less favored lands a -higher and purer thristian civilization. And now Ilet no man scorn this as au ideal picture, for if your armament in its more peaceful objects will not bear this interpretation; and if, in its fulfilment it shall not reasonably carry them out, God's blessing, be well as sured, does not and cannot rest upon it, for such is his blessed and unchanging wiif ) that even- thus shall knowledge and virtue and fair Religion circumnavigate the Garth, through men who go forth as you do bearink in your hant4 the seeds,of a better c„ititliza- Lion- ,Whatever else your vocation, fiat is ymit primary chic, as God's children. Nor can man's neglect or abuse wholly def6t it —even out of evil God still educes good, the sword of conquest is made to open Hisiway, and the deep laden barques of self-interest that rush in, are still made to bear Hid gifts to destitute or savage lands—peace and the arts of life, order and law, science and its teachers, the Missionary andjhe Gespel. Such is ever the circuit of God's footsteps on the earth. Such, therefore, must ever be the tracks - of man's deity in following it_ Enlightened and Christian man is ev( to be the pioneer of a better civilization. And now among the Carriers of this Netter seed, what race stands so prominent on ;earth as that of which we Americans are on this Western Continent the Representativ.e.s—a race that in the tide of time, since first call ed forth on the theatre of the world's hiitory, has never yet turned back, whose daurse has ever been onward and upward, and over whose destined Empire there would seem to hang no other, cloud than that which may arise from their own possible unworthiness, should they be found tottii-ti into base gain or lust of dominion, a trust of power coin mittiNo their hands for the, Civilizing and Christianizing of the earth. Then do I truly believe that the abused talent all be taken from them and 4iven to otherS more worthy, and when the spiritual light is quenched, that the candlestick of )iower will be removed ; fOr what right have we to claim exemption from that righteouS fate which has withdrawn the gift of doMinion from other chosen races, should w like them prove unfaithful to the mission on which we are sent. Let us then, as Ameri cans, " not be high-minded but fear- r -let us " be watchful and strengthen the things that remain." To make void that curse of unworthiness is a responsibility that rests in its due degree on all of Anglo-Saxon blood ; but in spe cial degree, permit me to say, does' : it rest on each member, high or low of this Cali fornia Regiment. Ncier belitre has it, in nirpoor judgment, so rested on ant' equal number of American citizens, for never be fore have we as a nation thus colonized, and in the fate of the . civilized World pia the stamp of our name and government and land, on a new, distant and dubioni settle ment. We have at least in this giveina gage to the civilized world Which we are bound to redeem on peril of our - honor. It behoves us all to remember that it is itideeda most high and solemn act, one which thci Chris tian world looks at in. doubt or fear, one, therefore, "that shall hereafter, take 08 place in the world's history. The living 'germ of a new State and a new' Empire is alion this day to be solemnly planted by Arnerican hands—a living fountain titi on this day to be opened in the wilderness, whence noming generations shall drink either sweet waters or bitter. Which that i shall be—on you, I -repeat it, mainly depends—on'you, its fowl: ders, legislators, citizens, rulers --on mon offi cers and men of this california Regiment. It is a responsibility that so rests upon you that you cannot shake It ntr. Shall then your country permit you to,de part laden with such respunsibilities,,bearing forth as you do in' the face Of the whale civi lized world, her name, and fame, the credit of- herinstitutions, her moral training and . her Religious faith without one parting word of kindness:or of cati'oni No, my friends ! Though it be but front lips feeble as mine, yet as an anxious mother will your ;country this day lay her hand on the head and her parting charge en the' heart' and conscience of every sou liet-e present; who goes forth net . toeeturn. Even ivhile -I thus ,Spea kdo I she her, the venerable Genius ot, our An gle:Saxon land,l the com Mon mother of us 'all. t see her rise up, front this.her watery throne: where she sits .embosomedhunid the peaceful fleets o an unbounded cdmmerce, 0 to hicilyou, her armed sons, forma. I see I her followed iti ditri proCession,bit* a long ' .train cif patriott, and heroes and phristi n n men. w Men whn not only ;here bug ; in older lands ,have toiled and ifet.tght and“ l ed, not lbr conquest \ bet for • right ; not f4r license t but fol . law, and that they might huild up h for posterity that - which :.we lierel,enjoy, a fair and (I truan enduring fabrio of con- fi stitutienal freed nl.- In that long !line may s I mot Inky I recognize conspicuous the verse- 'I rated form of Washington, the Father of our ti country. He Who built up ourlibeety on the u foundhtion of virtue and !religion,l and has h left an impress* every Americanibeart the ft faires4ortraiture the world ever spw of the b Christian soldier—the hero, without stain u and without reproach. But higher vet do, I g recogOize the Genius of. our Atiglo"-Saxon a land. :! I see het form, I hear her w!ords, and b mine ,believe ide, are their'faithfulecho. it “Go forth,” 'she says, "my 1411 armed o sons-4the sworin your bands, bud peace in 0 your hearts an djustice in your dneds. Go I forth 'es Apostlis from this my fevered land g to tench and tothiess those to which you go. d Iteindmber dint:yowl:tear a Widel* honored a name; It has ever been: a ligagh orfaith a and , Virtue, of icouraire mud nentleness of d •e peacci of order! and of religion. .1 ucli has I it beet, in the eld world, such in the heroic I `timest!ef the new. Let not its fair fame be c tarnished or itsi Institutions defamed by un- r filial bands, or !unworthy. tongues.!, As you bear your country's ensign, So reme mber, do t '' honor; .!, you, your coun ry s Let notnne name - •4 of American Citizen ever recei4 a blot I ( through you. Let it not! be saidithat with I AmeOcans, Might was the measure of right, 1 or that gold outweighed justice, o r that the . 1 soldier's swordl made heavy the scale of a ; vanqdished enemy's ransom. Rather let 1 that tame bel known as one- of blessing I 'wherever it is heard even as that of a Teaqh er appoiuted of Heavenip instruht the tra tionsg the earth—to exhibit to the world the hying proof how Liberty - may dwell uni ted *Rh law, bow individual frecidom may swat linked together with public. Order, and Christian faith! in the nation walk hand in hand ith an Unfettered Private chnscience. • Gal. forth theii, - my Children, ant) not only as-citizens buil as men, :remembhriug, that you leave at home those ivhontliyou will make* to hold ep or to hang their bleeds when in fulOre daysiyour names and: pareer are mentioned—the Father, whose name you bear.-the Mother who !nursed i - P,,i,u at her bosom—the Siiiter with whom in early life you Olayed and -who now dasheo from-her eye 4 parting tear, in , her biased confi dence: that yeti, a brother and ci! son can nercr.." - i forget those whont you ealy loved. In than sacred .olifidericc of limn affection [. do I too trust, that nothing unwclliy, noth ing base, will ever be permitted to stain your 4 - mtne or that of yinir country. I read it in your look'l see it in yo 4 eye --in that !eve whit i even ! now glisthns when ' Hoine' is m tioned and which , in a far i---. distatit clime,' Will daily turn to the picture of goine ; ' asi to a charm to guard alike your heart anddife—to fill the olidiwitli pure and 'generous thoughts, the other!: with yir tuou4 and noble deeds. • i , And that yon may perform well all your ,partA whether as soldiers or Colonists, as Citizins, or as private• men, go forth as Chris tians) and take the ,Bleised B#k I now proffl?r to you,; the gift of your l!C, hristian ' Country as the sum and substage of her fare4ell. Tape it as the bestrter you can draft of your public liberties! lie surest ( ir safegtiard you can have of privat4,irtne and the Only enduring basis on which your So cial tustitution+Cangrow up. Beheve me—, beliqe the voice of : history, thin - Society! without Religien is a rope of sand, and gov einnient withotit the fear of Godliis but ty ranni under the name of-law. Think not then 4 i g htly of !this gift _of a Bat, even us. hornet' Legislaters r for as'no State i can stand but Upon Religion, so no Christian State can stand but Upon the • Bible)lt $i its LIFE; and losing /halt, even Empircesink into ruin, they the and rot like the things ofehrth. Take this blessed bohk in your handi, lit contains the cip' ly Religion that can strll; inquiry, bincli-it to your! hearts and lives end Social Institutions the greater will be !tour new State as the More enduring its Trosperity. It will prove!a!safe-guard amid tbe perils of the wilderness i far beyond whaqi,man can give,' Without its aid vain w4l_. be your arms; when physicalstrength will be irr the governed ; vain your laws,lbrii What will theythe without reverence for thellawgiver ? vain ;your freedom withotit virtue, to secure it, and very vain all attempts tcOmild up a peop)e's -virtue on any 1 otherilbundanon than_ftliat of the Religion! of the3,!Bible, 'on revecnce for that great unseen;i , Lawgiver, whole hand auks not the aid oflosman pow er, aird whose ,secret justice keeps an llC coura with man's conscience Ihether on the Ames of .theill'acificier of the Atlantic sea. 1 To that-inestimable gift I ai3d another, riextlin my ItO and as I think (iiewed as a Ptaelical embediment of Bible touching) in vidui, the Liturgy of the Chur C h of that land is the' home; Of our Aiiglo-Saxon 'race/ the home where our libertiqg were era- !lied; and out', pore Religion Uprsed, and tihettee-ourliational blood has *inky 'low a. ~.,, Go forth then," I say +in, 4 , 'my vfrellgarmed SOns," confiding natiSto much in theurms you ',hear, as in the Godiyou. serve,. the faith you !profess and the , 'J i irtues you ptaitice. Lo('k up in trust to tinlp great and, holy Being 'rho had. ,bithertol:guided '44ur i;ice-;, and nation as by a " pillar of cliptid Und fire;l' and wbO . will lend you, tliiir Song, as. Ile led your Sires c if you prove worthy of "414, to peaceful homes,-over I ' a stormy **On and through trucklesi fo, t ; Ai. Only felldw as becomes your lineuge'p i he Anglo- Sax‘ei footsteps, take God's wOrd for your t . guide and build up all your, institutions in L His faith 'nod fear. Ltd the banner of Christ i. be planted, wheresoever you place your foot - place tod, God's house ;in the wilderness- -1, T tis, even as a mother's j dying word I A . c 'arge upon your filial. obedience. Build e ly a temple to God's honor, dedicate it , t a Savior's worship, nd,from the the rude t io lo Church let daily ; rayers ascend (ram consec rated , lips to . , ring down ti' daily ' Ii - . blessing on the still ruier log cabin.' • , Such words! of pa,. ing caution, fellow - I- - 40mM; seem II to ha ve heard from thelips 3 our common mothe „and as such have I, 'I. . 11 wever feebly, rehearsed them, unto you. 1- grant i tless. , throughthat true the ft tr h r i ti e o s e s m s a o y f to i t m prove - , aks theni. One thing gives me hope.— Vis day will be remembered by You in - dis- I' o t lands not so much for what is said as i I d vbat is given. When,' oceans shall roll -be ween mi, and the words of the speaker be o -gotten, and the ineark that prompted them i; love long ceased to be it, still shall this vol 7 !: HOC speak, and this say, when they were l' Oen, be by you freshly remembered. It !! nay be on the battle-field, in one hurried !; i t true thought of Gl' Id and your ; Saviour ; t nay be on the bed sickness, in 'the hour if penitence and pray t ;,I trust it .will of, , t t d you will say to,tb dear ones clustering and i you : " Yeli, remember well the -r. ti y when this blessedf,volunie was put into I ' 1. a bands—l thank God for - the gift. It has ; -%' en my guide and 4ounsel, my stay and . 1 nsolation in many aidark hour in the wil- '; I mess." il I, Such. men and Bre thren, fellow-soldiers ( t e i y i ini g b ea e irnnad ; l io n t 0; the nthist hi when peacefuloisLout, br,ooyaonko , t; 1 the home iysshallebbeauteous bring a o mu f tye t oh back Brother, c h s e ka scene, nh p e y i s . l t:i: ilO fellow-citizens, b,it a bove all, fellow i, tristions, such is the .' parting farewell,. of 1! n e whose prayers w . I follow you, where ' 1 f words can no loner reach you, and i di iv to preys ,now, that t e God and Saviour, 4 iv nose he is, and wholo he serves, Father, i Sn, and Holy Ghost, *ill be your guide and 1 and Wherever you eke, will bless, preserve i' o d keep-yon, now, and forever. Amen. DISTRIBUTION. t i To each - non-com 'issionedefficer . and i ' Idieri of the Regim k, do I now present, i, it the name of the Ne, - York Bible Socie- t, by whose libemlit it is furnished, a -- co- , „ T v prof that Sacred. Vol me, together with an I d affectionate prayer, t at it may prove to i li I : each one of you, the ords of; Eternal ' Life. ';' each lit carefully, it faithfully, - and ; ay GAZII blessing with you in the daily rauttl °tit. - . 1 lam also comm is loped, Ito present to each soldier desiring i,as a Manual of de- ;.. vbtion,i both of public find private use, a co- py of the Book of Common Prayer; on the :. piut of the Bible and °Limon Prayer. Book ' S i ocietY of New York the Bishop White i Prayer Book Society of Philadelphia and i' ,!. veral' private- contrib tors. I ern also enabled t present to the 'Regi- nient,.bn part of many donors, (a list of whom is herewith amt:Fxed,) three small li- i-, , braries, apportioned tp the three ships of. , (: the command, with a lietv to their re-union. i 14 your future settlemnt, as the foundation 1 of a Colonial library: However small the collection, it will sere at least to strengthen the ties of home, and tp remind you, that i your country still hold t you in affectionate r ,!,. remembance. r , - ~ , 7`o kieut. Col. Henry S Burton and Ma :Or James A. Hardy:—To you, Gentlemen, 1 us vested with distint Command in your respective vessels, I hlve the honor to pre sent, on the part of th same Societies a ice py of Bible and Prays t Book, inscribed With - . ypur mimics and officitil rank, with a view to facilitate the SerVicis of Public Worship, ob ship board. Receive them, .as a part ing gift of a friend, who is well assured that you can value themight, and m 111.8017, them as to make the m e blessing to y 7 , selves4lnd those unyour Coltman& Col J. I To' Po D. Stev on:—To ,%oti; sir , and as the ; ol- of the R „ ment, Leader of `the Expedition and probable: ruler of the new Colony, I have the-Itor to present an len &awed Bible, on part f the New York Bi, ble Society, and on art the New York Bible and Common yer Book Society, i l l al Book of Common P yer, similarly inscri bed, With yoUr name and rank. Receive diem in expression o the deep. sympathy flt by this Christian rid, in the religious 1 elftut of yourself an Command, and of teir equally deep co eviction that you will - I tied in them the sure.aid to ,dilicipline, as ell aS the wisest gu once to • those .who , tt i im era. It is die. clong prayer of one who yields - to no man here present, in the , deep intercht hefeels, that is Expedition, shall L e one of honorablessue-z-the prayer of one, Who is alike you friend and servent, it is his prayer that y ur path of duty may, ever be open - and you. course in it ever blest, as hick it doubtless I be, as long as:guid ii -dd by he precepts an principles thtlsei' rot; Imes teach, of juste and piety, purity , and the name offitir Com m!, bid to you, and, nand, an affectionate :LL. •=3:21 I(snlthe part, and on Country, do I n hose iinder your coat I d respectful FARE' Il ItiS the infirmity ,en with every ap , 1 4 ith 'every thing th:: 1 indil have but Litt] lot feW things.appe: It happens to men corn ; they shoot igh,while they are ad Swelled Swelled with . , d drosio. . - -A dimwit Irish ] *d o addre.ssin. f rialrder s "You - Hope it-will be a h .sefiessnd plaits lidvantsie erni which wiA au I.i ore, readily. II h II 1 1:#0 1 11* '1 • hksted at the forthusu e.lbst, and each sUbsequent priilege 0- q II II II r ' per year, 113 00 do 8 00 do 15 00 do. 3,00 at reaaaaalile ed with the . ncuar little minds to be .ta unlace., and - dueled ; sparldes ;• bat great admiration, beemeiri new . to:thern:':. leivaimg, ae'to.eare sod- raise their bee& empty.; but when full; 'm, they begin to , flag dge isreportedn?lave prisoner convicted • to be: hanged; . ineto Yon." ' ire (11110 D to p . repa_se •Preffer+higonll finit nghoiling , mite over the, 511 . 14 tO cane pti
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