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ilars, which have reached us through correspondent, it .appears that the elebrated Mr. Irving (who has been or some weeks back in’the active ex- ircise of hia ministry through differ ing parts of Scotland) was announced Jo preach at Kirk.tidy on the days of Saturday and Sunday, which naturally attracted numerous' congregations.—- On the evening ofthe latter, the Chap el was crowded at an early hour to hear (wc believe) his farewell sermon. Service had not commenced when the fears of the congregation were ex cited by a sudden cracking of tlie beams which supported one of the gal leries. The alarm of danger was in stantly succeeded by its reality. The gallery gave way, and was precipitat ed with the whole of its occupants in to the body of the church. The re sults were terrific, and the sacrifice of life awfully great. The rush to the doors was tremendous: and in the struggle for life and death, 29 persons are stated to have died from pressure and suffocation. Three were crush ed to death by the falling beams, and numbers have received severe contu sions. The consternation in the town and neighborhood, when our corres pondent’s letter came, off, was great beyond example. Anxious solicitude was in every face, and inquiry in eve ry mouth, while the grief of the rela tives and friends of the sufferers (a- mong whom was a mother, whose three daughters perished on the occasion) added considerably to the melancholy and heart rending features of the scene.—Gore’s Liverpool Mv. they had four stations in Greenland, ) occupied by twenty-one missionaries, including females; in Labrador, three stations and twenty-six missionaries; in Canada .and the United States, three stations and ten missionaries; in the Danish West India Islands, seven sta tions and thirty-four missionaries; in the Danish We^t India Islands, seven stations and thirty-four missionaries; in the British West-Indies, fifteen sta tions and forty-seven missionaries; in Surinam, one station and ten mission aries; in South Africa; five stations and thirty-nine missionaries. Total, thirty-eight stations, and one hundred and eighty-seven missionaries, includ ing females. This is an increase of two stations and nine missionaries, a- bove the returns for the close of 1825. Saratoga, July 29. The arrivals of strangers for the last 4 or 5 days have been very nu merous—averaging more than 100 per day. Some of our hoarding es tablishments are full—others are near ly so—and there is a fair prospect that the vacant rooms will all be oc cupied the present week. The num ber of visitants now in the village is estimated at from 7 to 800—among whom are Mr. Stevenson, the Spea- of-the House of Representatives, Gov. Cole, of Illinoise, Mr. Sanford United States Senator, and several other gentlemen of distinction. From the Quarterly Journal. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE RE LIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. Presbyterian Church. Synods 16. Presbyteries 90. Ministers 1,214. Licentiates 218. Candidates 229.— Churches 1,880. Churches vacant 679. Communicants 136,479 Con- gregcUionalists. Associations 62.— Ministers 720. Churches 960.— Churches vacant 240. In addition there are from 100 to 150 Unitarian Churches. Baptists, Associations 190.; Churches 3,723. Ministers 2,577. Baptisms 238,654. Protes tant Episcopal. Clergymen 486.— Churches 598. * Communicants 24,- 075. Methodist Episcopal. Districts 83. Circuits 89*0. Preachers 1,465, besides a large number of Local Preachers. dumber of members 381,997. Free Will Baptists. Min isters 242. Churches 335. Licen tiates 30. Communicants 12,000.— German Reformed.* Churches 400. Ministers 90. Communicants 30,000. Reformed Dutch. Synods 2. Class es 16. Churches 150. Ministers a- boutthe same. Communicants 14,- 000 Evangelical Lutheran. Minis ters 200. Congregations 800. Ro man Catholics, 600,000. Quakers or Friends. Whole population 750,000. Universalislsi Societies 250. Min isters 140. Swedenborgians. Socie ties 12. Ministers 50. Whole pop ulation 100,000. Shakers. Societies 16. Preachers 40. Population 5,- 400.-Cumberland Presbyterians.-Con gregations 60. Ministers 60. Chris tians. Ministers 250.—Churches 250. Communicants 20,000. Seventh Day Baptists. Churches 18. Ministers 29. Communicants 2,862. Six Prin cipal Baptists. Churches 15. Min isters 20. Communicants 2,500.— Tunkers. Churches 33. Ministers 30. Communicants 3,000. Mennon- ites. Churches 235. Ministers 200. Communicants, 20,000. Free Com munion Baptists. Churches 32.— Ministers 23. Communicants 1,284. Several small sects of Methodists not. in cluded in the preceding List. Minis ters 255. Members i 1,214. . Whole No. of Denominations men- - tioned 22. Whole No. of Ministers in 20 Denominations (exclusive of Ro man Catholics, Quakers, and Local Methodist Preachers) 8,196. Note.—Entire accuracy in our Statisti cal Tables is not pretended, and is indeed impossible. The Statistical Documents published by the respective Denominations ^re in most cases extremely imperfect.— We shall pursue this subject in the course of a few months, and shall endeavour to tnake our statements as full and as accurate ,asmaybe. The Documents from which tve have derived most of o&r facts, in rc r gard to the Religious Denominations, were published in 1926—a smalt part in 1828.— In reference to the smaller sects, we are in debted to “Benedicts View of All Re gions,” a valuable work published in 1824. From the N. Y. Observer, MISSIONS OP THE UNITED BRETHREN. It appears from the last number of the United Brethren’s Missionary In telligencer, that at the close of 1827, ‘ From the Savannah Georgian. NOTICE. LITERARY PREMIUM. “The lands in question belong to Georgia, she must and she will have them.”—Report in State Senate Dec. 5, 1828. Convinced that the claim advanced on behalf of this State to the country inhabited by the Cherokee Indians, has no foundation in justice—Strongly im pressed with the opinion that the com pletion of the views ot those politicians who advance it, will justly entail up on Georgia the odious charges of be ing Faithless—Covetous—Ungrateful and Inhuman— (Faithless—Because we have trea ties with the Cherokees defining the present boundary; up to which bound ary we have full and undisputed pos session— Covetous—Because our present ter ritory, nearly fifty thousand square miles, is out of all proportion large for our population—so that for centuries to come it will not be properly cul tivated— Ungrateful—Because upon a late emergency, a number of the warriors of that Nation drew their swords in our behalf with conspicuous service Inhuman—I ought to say Barbarous —Because in modern times—in civil ized countries—there is no instance of expelling the members of a whole na tion from their homes—of driving an entire population from its native coun try. The notoriously disgraceful par tition of Poland involved no such stig ma of cruelty.) Convinced, also, that if the territo ry could now be received with honor, it would be impolitic to receive it— Our true policy being to hold the Uni ted States bound to us for the equiva lent of its value at a distant period— Believing likewise that the people of this State, if made properly ac quainted with the subject, are too re ligious, too honest, too honorable to sanction claims so irreligious, so dis honest, so dishonorable—and which, if enforced will result in such deep dis grace to themselves—such enduring shame to their posterity—Under these convictions, and in this belief, I intend to offer a Memorial to the next Gener al Assembly; and desiring that this Memorial may illustrate and enforce these views with ability and energy, I hereby offer A Premium or One Hundred Dollars, for that produc tion, which, in respectful language, shall, in my opinion, most perfectly accomplish that purpose. The manuscript, written in a legi ble hand, to be left at my counting room, or forwarded to rae.here, free of expense, before the 10th dty of November next. R. CAMPBELL. Savannah, August 13, 1828. They believe that the soul returns to the body where it is entombed. It the man has led an evil life, the angels ol the grave, Monkia and Guanequir, tor ment him until the day of j idgement. If his life has been virtuous, his abode in the grave is one of pleasure and coi^entment. The Turks recognize .the ten commandments of Moses, and enforce them with five others added by Mahomet. These are, 1 st, To be lieve in and worship one only God; 2d, To fast, during the Rliainadan; 3d, To pray at certain hours; 4th, To give the fortieth part of their income, to the poor; 6th, to go on a pilgrimage to j Mecca once in their life. In the ob- ' servance of the first, they are very scrupulous and reverential; they never undertake any thing of importance without invoking the blessing ot Heaven. The second commandment is kept during the liliamadan, the month in which the Koran came down from Heaven. This fast begins as soon as the crescent of the new moon ean be seen through the highest hills. When the “Rhamadan’sdast son hath set,” the festival of the Bairman begins, during which they do their utmost to reconcile estranged friends, and to banish enemies and ill feelings. The Turkish mosques are flanked by minarets, which are surrounded by balconies. When the hour of prayer arrives, the Mucsim cries from lie minaret; “Allah Aicbar, &c. Got is great; bear witness there is but <ne God and Mahomet is his prophet; come and present yourselves tothe mercy of God, and ask forgiveness of your sins—God is great.” This try, addressed successively to the Sotth, East, North, and West. They jiray five times a day—at day break, njon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and night— During the time of prayer they are grave, attentive, and reverential, on their knees, and repeating the words of the Iman (Priest) in a low toie. After prayers an anthem is chanted. Three days in the week the Iman' de livers a sermon explanatory of sone points in the Koran. The Iman al ways concludes with prayer for the Sultan, and the success of his armies, to which all the people say Amen! signs of wishing to return to that God wl)wij lie had so often blasphemed.— He called for the priest; his danger increasing, he wrote, entreating the Abbe GatPlier to visit him. He af terward made a declaration, in which he, in fact, renounced infidelity, sign ed by himself and two witnesses.— D'Alembert, Elderot, and about twenty others, who had beset his a- partment, he would often curse and exclaim, “Retire; it is you that have brought me to my present state.—Be gone; I could have done without you all, hut yon could not exist without me; and wlmt a wretched glory have you procured me!”—They could hear him, the prey of anguish and dread, alternately supplicating and blasphem ing that God whom lie had conspired agiinst; and in plaintive accents would he cry out, “Oh Christ! Oh Jesus Chtist!” and then complain that lie was abandoned of God and man.—His phykician, Mr. Tronchin, calling in to adiriinister relief, thunderstruck, Something Mew.—Fly-blows are pe„ culiar in character and remarkably fatal this season. The slightest scratch on any animal, or even a tick JmIo, is sutficieut to induce the fly f 0 ■ mpusite her eggs, which turn to rri ;i o-- gots in the space of an hour, ofthe most hardy kind we ever heard of.— Wherever these Hies attack, death to the animal is the certain conse quence, unless the greatest pains is taken. Much stock lias been destroy ed by them, and one negro woman.— A negro man was saved with the ut most dfficulty. He was subject to . a bleeding of the nose, and failing a- sleep with a speck ol blood on his up per lip, the Hy made her deposite, which crept into his head. No mat ter where the worm is laid, it will in stantly penetrate the skin,, with two prongs or pinchers that it possesses, and makes a sore for it so If. It wor kg to a great depth, passing through a very small hole for about halfan inch, when it enlarges it into a kind of cell, tired, declaring the death of the im- j and does not stop, we believe, until it Tuvkisli Ceremonies.—The Turks pray for their dead, and invoke their Saints to intercede for them. Every Musselman has his own guardiau angel. From a Providence Paper. Lightning.—We never remember to have heard in one season of a tenth part so many accidents as have hap pened this year by lightning. The number of deaths would make quite a catalogue. Lightning and thunder are the result of natural causes, and are within the controul of a Power with out whose notice a sparrow cannot fall to the ground. Timidity with some, is constitutional, but with most the ef fect of exaggerated apprehensions, a- rising from stories of the destructive consequences that have attended the electric discharge. Generally the e lectric fluid passes from one cloud to another, in which case there can rare ly be an injurious result. It must pass from the cloud to the earth, or the reverse, to become destructive. Most people shrink more at the thunder than at the flash which precedes it.— He who hears the former, may' be sure he cannot be injured by the lat ter. Sound passes about a mile in 6 healthful pulsations. In this way it is easy, by counting the pulsations be tween the flash and the report, to as certain the distance at which’the dis charge is made, and the probable ap prehension of danger. There is scarcely any thing created for man’s use or benefit, that may not also work his destruction, and by which more or less of the human race are destroy- “ J So of lightning, and the injuries pious man to be terrible indeed; the Marshal de Richelieu Hies from the lied side, declaring it to be a sight too terrible to be sustained: and Mr. Tronchin, that the furies of Orestes could give but a faint idea of those of Voltaire. He said, Doctor, I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months life;” the doctor answered, “Sir, you can not live six weeks;” Voltaire replied l “Then I shall go to hell, and you will go with me,” and soon after expired. Tom Paine, on his death-bed, du lling his paroxysms of distress, cried (jut without intermission, ‘ - Oh Lord, help me! God, helj^me! Jesus Christ help me! Oh Lor™ help me!” re peating the same expression, without the least variation, in a tone that would alarm the house. From the New York Observer. HOT COFFEE vs. RUM. Last winter, one ofthe Fire Com panies in Brooklyn passed a resolu tion, prohibiting the use of spiritous liquor as a refreshment in cases of fire. It was doubted, by some of its mem bers, whether the measure could he carried into effect, in consequence of the erroneous impression which pre vailed, that men could not work at an engine any length oClime unless assist ed by what is considered a modeiate supply of spirituous liquor. At the time spirituous liquor was abandoned by this Company, they pro vided an apparatus at their engine- house for making coffee. The late great fire in Brooklyn afforded an ex cellent opportunity to test the experi ment. While other Companies were with their usual refreshment, No.— drank their hot coffee. Every mem ber was satisfied that they were more refreshed by this, than they ever had been by the use of liquor on similar occasion; andHvhat was highly grati fying, several members of other Com panies left their brandy, rum, &e. to take a cup of coffee with this Compa ny, who had thus taken the lead on the side of temperance The members of several other Com panies are endeavoring to 'get similar resolutions passed; and I have no doubt the force of example will be sufficient ly strong to drive the use, or rather a- buse, of spirituous liquors, at times of fire, out of all the Fire Companies in Brooklyn, and substitute in the place of poison, wholesome H ot Coffee. ed. it causes are vastly less frequent than those that spring from fire and water, two of the most useful materials in na ture. Would it not be extrem'e fol ly to tremble at the fire and water? and is it less to be timidly overcome at the flash and the report of electric discharges? Our sermon, like many from the pulpit, ends with an applica tion wholly unwarranted by the text. In Upton Massachusetts, on the 19th ult. a new house, nearly finished, be longing to Col. E. Stodard was struck by lightning and entirely consumed. The same day and in the same place the house of Mr. Rufus Johilson wbs - struck but no person in the family was injured.—Prov. Am. ' DEATH-BEDS OF VOLTAIRE AND PAINE. * * r In spite of all the infidel ’philoso phers who flocked around Voltaire in the first days of hia illness, he gave reaches the entrails, unless obstiuct- ed by the hone. We heard of one of * these cells that held half pint. The usual remedies to destroy it, such as calomel, spirits of turpentine, &e. are very seldom successful. A gentle man has requested us to state, that lie has succeeded by cutting open tbe boles pouring in a solution of harts horn; or aqua ammonic, and then keep ing the place covered. We had a dog afflicted with these tkorms, which we destroyed in the following manner. We cut open the place to the depth of an inch, (but then did not reach them) ' and, after scraping out all the honey comb-looking substance, poured the hole full of a very strong decoction' from elder leaves and tobacco, boiled ‘ together. In about an hour they en deavoured to crawl out, but died in (he attempt. The dog appeared to be entirely insensible to the operation. Mississippi Correspondent. In a sporting excursion on Grand Island, in the Niagara River, a young eagle was shot at by several of the party, when the mother of the young one, with a white head dress, made her appearance, and not relishing the Ion, nor the guns that the hunters were poking at her fledged protege,, she poised herself a few moments, and shot down like a thunderbolt upon the, person of one who was pointing his. wicked gun at her favourite. The young man saw the yellow flashing of her eye, and soon felt the strength of her talons, in the dilapidation of one of his outer garments. The sudden ness ot the stroke threw him upon the ground, but lie escaped other damage. “«(? Bachelor can change his mind too!"—It is said that the Editor ofthe Bachelor’s Journal, in Boston, has for saken his principles and taken a wife. This is precisely what Major Noah, a few days since, predicted would take ' place within (we believe) six months. Appointment by the Post Master Gen eral.—Mrs. Margaret Walters, to be Post-Master [Mistress] in Lewistown, Mifflin county, Pa. in the room of Ja cob Walters, deceased.— Western Re corder. FAMILIES, LOOK AT THIS. “Johny, take the bottle and go to Mr. ’s store, and buy a quart of rum; and take a plate, and go to your aunt ’s, and borrow a piece of but ter for breakfast.” It is a fact, that a stout, excellent workman at a prof itable trade, sent his son, about 12 years of age,. oil the aforementioned errands, a few mornings since. It is, perhaps, no more than the general custom with that man, and too many others, who, like him, are apparently on the high road to ruin and death, by intemperance. In their houses may be found abundance to gratify the mon ster that is preying on their vitals; while of the comforts and necessaries of life a very scanty proportion indeed is there. Money will always be fur nished with avidity to buy rum; but when food is wanted, no cash is at command; “the times are terribly bad, never saw such bad times; can’t get any money to buy corn with; don’t know what I shall do;” and so they go on, buying rum, instead of discon tinuing their impoverishing vices, and borrowing something to eat of a more provident aunt or grandmother. POCKET BOOK LOST. A BOUT the middle of July last was stolen out of my Pocket at my house, a large Washed Leather Pocket-Book, containing one note on the State Bank of Georgia for $'10, one note of hand on Eli jah Hicks for $85, payable sometime in . October next; a receipt of Henry Megyrof. the State of New York, for t\v‘o notes' on : John Byers of the said State, and some other papers not recollected. To any per son getting &. delivering said Book, papers and money to me; I will give ten dollars, and five for the apprehension of the rogue, I do hereby forwarn all persons from tra ding for said note of Elijah Hicks. And I also forwarn Elijah Hicks from paying said note to anyperson excepting mvself. GEORGE HARLIN Coocewaytee Cherokee Nation, August 13. 1828.—24-tf. noticeT I N accordance with the resolution of the National Committee and Council, pass ed October 24th, 1827, requiring the Treas urer of the Cherokee Nation to call in all the money loaned out under the provisions of a previous act, on or before the first Mon day of October next, I hereby give- notice :. to all such as are indebted tothe Treasury, to come and redeem their bonds by paying principal and interest, on the day that they become due, as such bonds cannot be re newed alter the fust Monday of October next. No indulgence will be given, and those who do not comply with tbe above re quisition must expect to find their bonds in tbe hands of Officers. JOHN MARTIN. Treas. ofthe Ch. Nat. New Echota, July 23, 1823.