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Vermont Observer.
It would be useless to engage in a contro
versy with the editor of this paper, on the
subjects on which he lias animadverted in
connexion with the C. Index. We could
not admit into our paper his long winded
at tides, nor do we believe that lie would
lx- willing to admit ours into his. We may,
possibly, make some remarks on the sub
ject to which we refer, but not in a contro
versial way.
Bnplist Preacher.
The nutnbei lor Fein nary has been re
ceived, two or three weeks since, bat has
not been heretofore noticed. It contains a
sermon by Rev. Win. South wood and some
valuable notes by the editor. We will glad
ly receive orders lor it. The third volume
commenced with January. Each volume
contains 12 numbers, and each number one
long sermon, or two or more short ones,
with occasional notes by the editor. Price
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The Messenger of Ulml Tidings.
Tire associate editor of this Universalis!
publication contends, that the term “ doc
trines,” in Mat 15. 9. is not used ina good,
but in a ba.l sense. This evinces either a
want of critical acumen, or of that moral
honesty which is necessary to lend a man
to acknowledge the errors into which he
may inadvertently fall. Now we ate un
willing to engage in a controversy with any
one, who manifests a deficiency in either of
these respects. We therefore decline the
challenge of friend Shehane. Had he con
tended that his proposition was true in gen
eral, but that the passage to which we re
ferred should be viewed only as an excep
tion, it would have evinced something of
honesty, and. given us confidence in him as !
an honorable disputant. As it is, we lack !
that confidence which should ever be re
posed in those with whom we engage in a j
controversy. Observe that we do not |
charge Mr. S. with dishonesty, but merely j
affirm, that he evinces a want of its oppo
site. We charge him not with a posit!v,:l
evil, but with appearing to be deficient in a
positt ve good. We’would not willingly do \
injustice even to him whose agent we j
fear Mr. S. unwittingly is.
...
For the Christian Index.
Ordination.
On the 27th of January, 1844, brother
Jesse M. Jackson, ofSardis church, Wilkes
county, was set apart, by ordination, to the
administration of the Gospel. Brother J.
Q. West preached the Sermon, and made
the Ordination Prayer, brother W. Jackson
also .joined in prayer, E. Callaway read,
and made some remarks in reference to the
qualifications of a bishop, J. Carter exam
ined the candidate, J. N. Bolton gave the
charge and right hand of Fellowship,
The above should have appeared earlier
but was mislaid. —Editor.
At the request of the Church at Free- i
man’s Creek. Clarke county, a presbytery
met consisting of Noah H. Hill, Church-1
hill, and B. M. Sanders for the Ordination
of Bro. Joseph J. Loudcnnilk. Bro. San
ders preached the Sermon—Bro. Sandejs
and Hill conducted the examination—bro.
Churchhill made the Ordination Prayer.—
Bro. Sanders gave the charge and bro. Hill
gave the right hand ol Fellowship. Bene
diction by bro. Loudertnilk.
Feb. 10th, 1844.
A new Orthodox Congregational Church j
to be called “The Church of the Pilgrims,” j
is to be organized in Brooklyn -
The Triennial Convensiou.
This body meets in Philadelphia on the
last Wednesday in April. Our Anti-slavery
brethren are rallying their forces and beat
ing up for recruits. They are determined,
t! possible, to oppose the South with a for
midable phalanx, and to drive every slave
holder hot only out of the Board, hut out of
the Convention. This is evident from the
following extracts, which are made from a
circular sent out by the provisional commit
tee of the Anti-slavery Missionary Society,
tormed, it w 11 be remembered, iii opposi
tion to the Convention.
“ The Foreign Board, at its annual meet
ling at Albany in 1843, passed such art so-,
’ Union as, in the judgment of many, to re
. move the official stain which the doings at
Baltimore had fastened upon that body.—
. This, though encouraging, -however, did
| but change the controversy from the Board
| to the Convention, and as the Convention
| at its next meeting wilt have the power to
! remove the grievance, and as no direct ef
fort had been made to bring the Convention
I to remove the svil, it was felt that such es
• fort should be made, and such opportunity
j given them to assume such a position hire-’
| lation to slavery as Christianity demands,
| before the final step ol separation should be
j taken. With these views, ,‘he Provisional
Committee was confined, to ‘fake care of
i the matters entrusted to its hands, until the
I meeting at Philadelphia in May next, when
it is hoped that the definite course of action
will he indicated, which it is our duty to
pursue.
The special object of this circular is to
ask'your views in relation to the course to
be pursued on that occasion. What shall
be demanded of the Triennial Convention,
in order that abolitionists may continue in
.connection with it ! -Our own decided ito-v
I pression is, that all connection with slave-’
j holders, which implies fellowship with
j them, is incompatible with our fidelity to
i God and man. Such fellowship is surely
indicated when they are elevated to the
j Board ; nay, in all our co-operation w ith
them iu conducting the great religious en
terprise of the denomination, we recognize
them as brethren in good stanrh'iTg. Is this
“to rebuke a brother, and not to suffer sin
upon him.?” or, is it “to become partakers
of other men’s sins ?” It is in .vain to say,
“ He do not regard the sitting with them iu
Convention as necessarily implying our fel
lowship with them,” for we know that they
so regard it; and we are therefore solemn
ly bound to break a deceptive-'silence, a si
lence which has been loudly saying “ God
speed” to our erring brethren. Events
which occurred at Baltimore, and previous
ly, prove beyond all doubt, that Southern
Baptists, will not co-operate with those of
die North, except on the ground of their
being recognized as brethren in good stand
ing !
There are three ways in which our feel
mgs can be satisfied. Either. I. By the
slaveholders retiring from the Convention ;
nr, 2. By a mutual separation and a divist
ion of funds and missionaries, allowing the
South to lake all those who may prefer their
patronage or, 3. By a change in the con
stitution of the Convention, which shall
make freedom from the sin of oppression
one of the essential qualifications for mem
bership. To prevent the necessity of a sol
emn protest” by abolitionists, and of their
consequent union in a Northern missionary
organization, one of these three results
seems to us absolutely requisite.
We will make a few remarks ou the
\ “ three ways” in .which these Abolitionists
propose—to do what? To labor for the
glory of God ? No. To insure that their
i “feelings” shall “he satisfied.” .0 what
j a lasting cause of regret is it, dial men will
be governed by their feelings instead of by i
the word of God.
As to the first way, they will find that
hedged up by southern slaveholders. Their
feelings, grossly outraged by the proceed
ings of Abolitionists, would suggest to them
to retire front the Convention ; but their
principles will not allow them, voluntarily,
to let go the rope which they have thrown
out to their drowning fellow-men. As to
the second, we believe the friends of mis
sions in the Southern; pretty generally de
termined, that tile sin of-dividing a house
against itself, if committed, shall not rest on
them, but on their Northern brethren. In
their third proposed way, they will find too
many of our Northern brethren, who are
disposed to attend to their own business
and lei other people’s alone, to allow them
a free passage to the goal at which they
aim : so, we rather guess, they will be left,
with tlieir “ feelings” ungratified, to pass!
their “solemn protests” and to magnify
their own- righteousness, as .did the boast
ing pharisee, mentioned in Lu. 18. 11. and,
perhaps, to command fire to come down
from heaven and consume us of the South
contrary to Eu. 9. 51—5 G
. give the above not with the view of
exciting feelings of hostility, even against
es may feel the importance of sending up a
full delegation to the convention, and that j
ottr delegates may be apprized, before hand,
of the-intbntion of some, iu divert their at
tention from the gjeat object of sending the
gospel abroad to—tests of church -te low
ship—and that they may be prepared to re
sist the machinations of the common ene
my. Virginia will send a large delegation.
Our Convention appointed only three. Our
executive Committee, however, has the .
right to appoint others , but not the right to
appropriate money for defraying their'ex-’
penses. Any of our brethren, who may-be
able and willing to attend, at their own cost,
may obtain an appointment front the Exec
utive Committee. The Commilte, and the
churches generally, wc arc persuaded,
would be thankful to such for their services.
One word more. The propriety of hold
ing the meeting of the Convention annual
ly, instead of once in three years, has been ;
suggested. To this we ate decidedly op-!
posed. We believe it to be one of the!
schemes of Abolitionists to eject slavehold
ers from the Convention,, should they fail]
at the approaching meeting. They well
know, that delegates from the South and j
Southwest cannot-attend annually, and if j
they can only secure a meeting of that body,
at which there shall be • but .few, if any j
southern men, they would, probably, be
able so to modify the Constitution, as whol
ly to exclude slaveholders, and thus have
their “feelings satisfied.”
Revivals.
We have seen cliacring accounts of re-]
r ivals at the North, -(though not as many as
during the same season last year) and sev
eral times timed some of these for insertion
in our paper; but they were crowded out for
the time, and afterwards overlooked. We’
“rejoice to he able to lay before cur readers
a brief notice of a work of grace within our
own State, in the ileal and nourishing.town
ol Hawkiusviiie, The following is an ex
tract’ froir\ :l letter received, from our broth
er, Rev. C. I). Mallary
Raines’ Store, Twiggs c 0.,?
Fub. 24, 184-1. 3
Dear lira. Baker, —A general revival of
religion increases a thirst for .religious in
telligence. • I have just returned from a pro
tracted meeting at Hawkiusviiie, where the ‘
Lord is carrying forward his work in a very
pleasing manner. When 1 left, 8 had been
‘baptized, and five or six others received, 1
and in readiness for the ordinance. Some
very interesting and hopeful members have
been added to the church, backsliders have
been reclaimed; and the cause of Christ is i
evidently advancing in that community.—
The meeting will continue till to-in,arrow
night (lilt Sabbath,) when it will be sus
pended till next thiusdav, then lu .bo resum
ed and continued’ as long as Circumstances
may render it desirable. lir. Jonathan Da
vis, A. T. Holmes and others have labored
usefully at the meeting. Now, for ait il
: lustration of the first sentence of my letter,
—1 send you 8 new subscribers for the In
dex, front Hawkiusviiie and the vicinity.”
(irorgia Associntioii Ihtok Drpasilory.
1 acknowledge the receipt of s2l 25 ets,
Irom the BrctliVn at Bethesda; and at
Beards $22 ; from Bro. Elisha Garrald at
Plains, $10; and from Bro. M. Barry, I’en
| field, 1 50 lor the depository of religious
j books for the Georgia Association.
n. .vi. oAtViznivs.
For the Christian Index.
Mims’ Buck-load.
lira. Baker, —The following anecdote,
which I have never known published, is
too good to be lost—it was communicated
to me by a beloved servant of the Lord.
There was in'♦lie State of-?—, a gen
tleman, who in former life delighted in
i spprting, and was famous as a marksman,
hut by the grace of God was changed and
created anew in Christ Jesus. He had a
neighbor, who had laid a wager upon shoot
ing at a maik with another, upon the con
dition that Mims should- shoot for him—
, they therefore waited on him to know if he
t would shoot for them—lie readily replied,
he would shoot if they would Buffer him to
use his own gun. They told him they
wished him to use no other, when he took
up 4; is Bible and read to them the tenth verse
of the thirteenth chapter of the Acts of the
Apostles. The result was that one of the
applicants received the load into his heart,
infixing a dcatli wound to sin, which end
ed in sound conversion. The circumstance
was so roijtarkahle, that that verse, to a
considerable extent, was afterwards known
as Mims’ Btfck-load.
Yours,' &y. .
SPECIAL PtIAVI. lt FOR OUR PERSECUTED
BRETHREN IN DENMARK.
The committee of the Society of Par
ticular Baptists holding strict communion.''’
at its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Dec.
19, resolved that “on aaccount of the revi
val of the persecution of our beloved breth
ren in Denmark, the churches in London,
and throughout the country, he earnestly
solicited to set apart their (second week-day
prayermeeting in January, for special sup
plication on their behalf-” The deep in.
lerest which is felt in the state of our breth
ren in Denmark will be sufficient, we feel
assured, apart from other considerations, to
lead to an extensive concurrenci't in this
proposal. We shall look to our friends,
and especially to the teachers of Sabbath
! schools, to give us some brief intelligence
of these services. “Remember them that
are in bonds as bound with them:” lleb.
xiii. 3.
The Brice of Merc Worldly Enjoy
ment.—A Grecian soldier, for breaking out
of the ranks, in reaching after a bunch of
grapes, was by martial law condemned to
die. As lie went to execution, he fell to
eating his grapes; upon which some of his
fellow soldiers were surprised, and said,
that at such a time he should mind some
thing else; to whom he said, “Sirs, do not
envy me my grapes, they have .cost me
dear—you would he sorry to have them at
the rate I pay for them.” Oh! saints, do
not envv the men of the world because of
their riches, their honors, their pleasures,
for you would he. sotry to have them at the
rate at which they pay for thern.
‘ABSTRACT OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.
EAT. N. 33° 38'30”—EON. W. 83° 10'30".
Thermometer.’ Barometer.
I— TBV ” V
Dev. i’ Sunrise Noon Sunset. Sunrise. ,\oon j Sun A'CZ.II
ll] 37. 54.7 51.5 29.633 29.02- i 29.54 IjCloudy—Fair,
2 ] -10. 69.5 64. 29.495] 29.52 ! 29.48 Variable.
,3] 55. 56, 49. ] 29.485 29.43 j 29.39 (Cloudy —Fog—Rain.
I 41.2 43. 4i. 29.31 29.2851 29.255] Mist —Rain.
5 37. 42. 42.5 29.2 29.19 u 29.18 Mist —Fine Ruin.
0 41. 50.7 50. 29.2 29.25 j 29.21 Cloudy—Fair.
7j| 40.7 49. 47.8 29.19 29.21 |j 29.18 Clotidv—Fair.
8 26.5 41. 34. 29.315 29.39 I 29.36 Fair—Hazy.
923. 39, 36. 29.365 29.41 ], 29.41 Fair.
101 19. 39. 40.. 29.55 29.645] 29.6 Fair,
11 23. 50. 45.5 29.57 29.6 29.595 j Fair.
12] 34.5 57-. 50.5 29.56 29.07- I] 29.66 Fair.
13| 35.5 56. 52. 29.7 j 29.73 1 29.67 Cloudy—Fair—Hazy.
14] ‘36. 64. 56.5 ‘ • 29,6051 29.65 j 29.57 I Fair—Smoky.
15] -41.7 07. 01.5 29.49 29.43 I 29135 j] Fair—Smoky.
10] 40. 59. 52. 29.35 29,38 29.36 j Fair—Smoky.
17; 37.5 66. 50. 29.33 29.41 | 29.385 Fair—Smoky.
18; 32.5 54. 49.3 29.51 29.035 i 29.0 ] Fair—Smoky.
l.Qi| ‘ 31.5 62. 53. 29.64 29.71 29.02 [ Fair—Smoky.
20 j 33.5 Os, 57. 29.50 29.6 29.51 j Fair—Smokv.
21 j 40. 70. I GO. 38.49 29.5 4 29.485] Dull—Smoky.
221 49. 08.2 1 59. 29,405 29,5 j 29.4 1 ]jl)ttll—Smoky.
23 j 40.5 71. I 01.5 29.29 29.28 j| “29.13 |]Fair— Smoky.
24 I 45.5 66. I 55. 29.13 29.2G5b 29.303 Jl’air—Smoky.
25] 31.5 59. 53.5 29.52 29.595]i 20.55 ‘ Fair—Smokv.
261 36 8 64. 55. ‘ • 29.635 29.69 j: 29.59 Fair—Smokv.
27i 42.5 72. ‘• 06. ) 29.53 29.5-4 •! 29,46. Fair—Smokv.
,28* 45. 02. I 54.5 | 29.58 29.05 I] 29.6 ,iFair.
?9j 35. j 05. j 58.5 29.59 29.05 i] 29.59 j j Fair-—Smoky.
Mean |j 37.1 | 57.9 | 52.2 II 29,458 29.001 | 29,447 !
Meait Temperature 49°05—Prevailing Winds, S. W. and N. E.—Quantify ol
Ruin 0.4-44 inches.
POSTSCRIPT . j
A Distressing; Calaatity.
Wc :frc indebted to the “ Southern Mis
cellany” for the particulars of the death of
Hon. Abel P. Upslter, Secretary of War;
lion. Titos. W. Gilmer, Secretary- of the
Navy ; Commodore Kcnnon, lion. Virgil
MaXcy, and Hull- Mr. Gardner, occasioned
bv all explosion of one of Stockstou’s guns,
on hoard the Prince ton..’ These gentlemen,
with the President of the United States,
and other distinguished persons, with their
families, about 100 in number, had accept
ed the polite invitation of Capt. Stockton,
commander of the Princeton, to spend tlie
d’ay ou board Ins fine ship, and were re
turning oil Wednesday of last week, when
this awful calamity shrouded a joyous com
pany in sudden gloom. We have not
space for comments, nor are comments
needed. The event itself speaks <■ limpet
tongued to the heait and conscience. at
Savannah Bicer Birales. —Thu recent
Temperance movement among’the seamen
! in the port of Savannah, has exasperated
lliL* SilJlOl JantllVM\lr>, cintl tiii'i'u, w,-*
] their living by stupifying the sailors with
] liquor, llardly a night passss, we are told,
! without some act of aggression. On many
] occasions, the city guard has been, called
! upon to protect ships front the attacks ol
] these marauders, Several captains are a
] Iraid to leave their shijrs at night without
I arms and an escort, as tlieir lives have been
repeatedly threatened. There is a regular
hand of cut-throats and scoundrels in this
city, who shrink from the light of day, but
i prowl about.(luting the night, to do their ne
farious work. Tire sailors are finally de
! termined to profeet themselves, to perse
vere in the good cause of temperance and
now when they go to the Temperance
meetings, they arm themselves with clubs
and pistols of defence. Things have gone
so far, that tiro crows of two or three ships
lying abreast at the wharves have associa.
tod themselves together, under tlieir cap
tains, for the purpose of mutual defence.—
Savannah Republican Feb. 17.
Navy. — Who is to he Secretary of the
Navy? whoever he is, wo shall he glad to
see litm at his post. The following order
itt relation to Chaplain’s Uniform, smells
of the days of Oliver Oiomwall:— Weekly
Sun.
We think that it smells a little more
strongly of a living “Episcopacy establish
ed by law” than it does of a dead Oliver.,
Ed. Index,
Chaplain’s Uniform—Chaplains s hall
wear a black coat-, with black velvet collar,
and the Navy buttons now in use. They,
need not, however, provide themselves with
new coats until those they now have, are
worn out. While performing religious ser
vices oil the Sabbath or on any other occa
sions ou board vessels .of War; or tit Yards
and Shore Stations, they shall wear the
black silk gown usually worn by Clergy
men.
A New London paper has got up a story
about some “cute” fellow of Connecticut
attempting to drive- a speculation with
“false butter,” being rolls of tallow, slight
ly covered with the real Goshen.
Mexico contains about 7.900,000 inhab
itants. Os these, only 1,000,000 are whiles
—4,000,000 are Indians—the rest negroes,
Mestizos, &c. Out |6f these. 7,000,000
only 687,748 of all classes can read and
write.
Professor Eockc, of Cincinnati, has in
vented and made a magnet which lifts elev
en handled pounds. The’ magnet weighs
only 17 1-2 pounds, and is probably the
most powerful magnet of the size known.
Judge, fluston's Bast Words, —The
Raleigh’ Clarion thus beautifully and im
pressively sketches she death-bed scene of
the great and good man:—
His last words “were in admirable keep. -
ing with the purity and piety of his long
life. Surrounded by a few of his chosen
friends,’ who . were at his bedside on the
first intimation of a danger to which he
was insensible, he was relating with great
playfulness, the particulars of a convivial
party at Washington City, many years ago,
ami spoke of one who on that occasion a
vowed himself a ‘Free thinker’ in religion, j
‘Front that day,’ .said Judge Gaston, - 1 id-j
ways looked on tlral man with distrust.— !
1 do not say that a Free-thinker may notj
be air honorable'mail, that he may not |
from high motives, scorn to do a mean act;!
hut I ilare not trust him. A belief in an !
over-ruling Divinity, who shapes our ends,!
whose eye is upon ns, and who will reward
us according to our deeds, is necessary.— [
We must believe and feel that there is a
God —. ill ivise —and’—raising himself and !
seeming to swell with the thought—‘At.--
mighty!’ There Was a sudden rush of
blood to the brain. He stink in the-srms ;
of his friends—and in five minutes; his
spirit was gone! Not t stauggle betokened .
its Highi. Not a groati pained the ear of]
his agonised TVtends, llts body has gene
to the dost; his spirit we cannot doubt,
now rests in the bosom of that Clod Al
mighty, whose name was last oil his lips,
•and to whom he had long given the hom
age of a pure and devout heart.
(foreign Items.
From fl timer §• Smith's European
Times, of Feb. 4th,
The steam plough has been introduced
in Scotland for ploughing in morasses aitd
1 • fs*Sy ~r> lionao? anuinvt oam
ployed.
The King of Bavaria lias commissioned
Dr, Pauli to proceed to England and Ireland,
for the purpose of personally inspecting the
atmospheric railroad, and report his obser
vations.
M- Michel Chevalier, who fills tiie polit
ical-economy chair of the College de France,
is delivering a course of lectures oil credit,
in which llie repudiating States of America
are severely handled. *
Jt is stated that the almospeiic principle
is likely to be adapted on many short lines
of railroad, and that the Blaekwail and
Greenwich companies project its applica
tion.
Eon! John Manners and other Puseyites
are about to establish a Protestant mouaste
ty at Much Wen lock, inShopsfiire, where
there are the ruins of an abbey capable of
restoration,
A great curiosity has lately been discov
ered in tiie library of Emanuel College,
Cambridge—a plav, on the subject of Rich
ard Hi., written in Latin, an antecedant to
Shakspere. It has liberally been lent to
the Shakspere Society, with permission to
transcribe it.
A company has just been formed, in
shares, with a capital of 500,000 fiancs,
for the destruction of rats and mice through
out France! There is abundant scope for
the operations of the society, particularly
in Paris, some quarters of which are al
most uninhabitable froip the vast numbers
of rats which infest them; but the means
by which the company proposes to clear
away this annoyance are not revealed.
A letter from Berlin states that Prussia
is about to conclude a treaty with the Uni
ted States of North America, for-the extra
dition of some classes of criminals. It
seems that a civil suit respecting the sale of
a large tract of land Eottisana, the’ documents
concerning which sale have been sent from
E'ouisana to the American Ambassador at
Berlin, has given him occasion to v.-k for
legal measures against a German family
formerly residing in Eottisana, but now set
tled in Berlin. The request of the Am.
hassadot has been accorded to on condition
of teciprocity. It is to be hoped that the
treaty will “extend to all the ■ States of the
Union.
The late Marquis of Wellesley has be
queathed-.!'1,000 and all his manuscripts
to Alfred Montgomery, his private secre
tary,’ and gives the following directions,
which are verbatim: —“Aitd I desire him
to publish such of my papers as shall tend
to illustrate my two administrations in Ire-
Icnd, and to. protect my honor against the
slander of Melbourne and his pillar of
slate, O’ Connell.” To Lord Brougham
he leaves “-Homer,” in four vols,, and earn
estly desires hint’ to assist itr publishing his j
MSS., saying, “I leave my memory in his!
charge, Confiding in his justice and honor.
Ji Flaw in the Indictment. —The Liv
erpool Journal of yesterday—a paper of
great authority ’upon Irish all'airs —gives
the following:—
“We have to stafe a fact, which must
take away the little Interest that may vet
attach to the Slate Trials: and we slate this
fact on authority which we regard as all
but official. Os its truth wc have no botibt.
There is a flaw in the indictment. Al
though convicted and btought (up for judg
ment, the traversers will be discharged on
the legal defect being made known. The
flaw was first discovered by the English
law officers of the crown, and the discove
ry has been communicated to rhe Irish At,
tnmey-Generai. lie perseveres, however
because his purpose will be attained by.a
verdict. Some people may think that a
wilful error was admitted, the escape of
O’Connell being loss embattassihg to min
isters than his imprisonment, Feargus
O’Connor’s case is in point:”
One Drum has been committed to Omagh
Gaol for sedition. -He has said that “The
Queen ought to be shot, and O’Connell put
in her place.”
An operative in the Rite des V idles, An
drieitcs, has invented a machine to make
shoes, by means of which any pci son pos
sessing sufficient strength to turn a wheel,
can, in'the course of a day. finish 50 pair
of excellent shoes of every size.
Mr. Everett is now in correspondence
with Lord Stanley, the Colonial Secretary,
upon the Oregon territory question. The
American minister lias Intel several inter
views with his Lordship at the Colonial
office -
In a recent case, in which the testimony
of a little girl was material, the following
shocking evidence of neglect was elicited:
—She gave her name Sarah Ann dagger,
and her father (whosm dress betokened a
situation lat above tmft of a common work
ingman) said she was within a few weeks
of eight years of age. She said .she did
not know who God was, nor what no was;
nor had site ever heard there was one! She
never went to church or chapel, or Sunday
school, nor her ‘parents either. They nev
er taught her tit say hcv praVers, nor did
she know what it was to pray. ‘Did not
know the nature of an oath. Had never
been told not to tell a Hit. Verily the mis
sionaries.had better look at home before
endeavouring to enlighten the blacks.
WEEKLY RECEIPT’S.
( Credits regulated by the books of our
■ office —Errors promptly corrected.)
P M Cusseta. paid for N'oalt Calloway
] and Sami Pearson each $2 50 to mar 45 ;
; P M Whitcsyille, for j T Thornton 2 50
j juiy 45 ; P M Travellers’ Rest, for David
i Snell 2 sfi mat 15 ; 1, Gieen $5 out 44 ;
I P M Cocktail's X Roads $lO J Wilson; 1*
: M Springville, Ala., W D Bradford $2 jan
43; Rev II Mercer, .I I Dews 2 50 sept
111; Rodl’ord Reynolds 2 50 mar 41; Dt
Dickinson self 2 50 juiy 44, and Win Slade
] 2 50 sept 41 ; Rev J S Lunsford for R A
; Beil, E Bell and Win C Smith each 2 50
] (to when and where ? Please answer.) 1*
] M Centerville, 11 C Jackson 2 50 mar 15;
;P M SatidetsviHc, Rev A Duggan, J II
Duggan and Kobt tJumiiiing eucli'2 oUjnn
•45’; I’ AI Palmyra, Col Jno Mercer ssjan
15; Jno E Weir $3 sept 44; P M Shef
| field Jas M White 2 50 may 45; Rev C
i I) Mallary for N W Collier, Jno J Andcr
| son, Jas Polhill, P E Love, Jno V Mitcli
-1 ell, Joseph Corruthers, each 2 50 to mar
1'45, and lor Jas Philips 250 to April ’4s:’
! and Mrs P Haggles 2 50 may 45 ; Receiv
ied by out agent Rev E B Barnes—from J
j T Alford $5 jan 15; Rev S Thigpen $5
jan 15; Rev N R Cranberry $2 50 jan 45;
llobt Moseley 2 50 juno 12 ; W Bonev
2 50 jail 11, Hngiv Anderson. S Tilman,
M Bankston, and Jas Specd'each 2 50 fan
15, Jno Morgan, J A Farrar. Mrs C P
Shearer and Win Pack ouch 2 50 (to when?)
A. E. Whitten paid for S. Durham, $5 to
May ’43; May 2 50 toj——-? arid Dr.
R. Cross $2 50 to Oct. ’4l.
BIBLE AGENCY.
The Executive Coirimittee of the Bap
tist Convention ol the State of Georgia have
engaged flic services of Rev. S. E. Gardi
ner as Bible Agent under the patronage of
the Convention', The Committee Itopo
that all the friends of the Bible cause in the
circle of his ‘Agency, will give him their aid
in forming, societies atii! collecting funds
first, for the wants of their own county, and
afterwards of the destitute in other counties
in the State, The Committee have already
ordered and received a supply of Bibles and
Testaments Irani the American and Foreign
Bible Society, which will he furnished to
societies and agents, onhj for cash, at cost.
I). M. SANDERS,
Ch. Ex. Com. Geo. Bap. Con.
PREMIUM TREATISE.—*IOO.
Tick American Protestant Society
offers Slot) for the best original Treatisetm
the “ Influence, bearing and effects nf lio
in an is in on the eieit and religious liberties
of our eountn/ t” to consist o‘s not less than
one hundred pages, 181110, to he furnished
by the first of .May next; the Society to
have the liberty of using, at a fair compen
sation, those Treatises worthy of publica
tion. that may not receive the premium.
The Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D., Rev.
Thomas De Witt, D. J)., and Rev. Thom
as E. Bond, will award the premium, to
whom the manuscripts, with a sealed en
velop of the author’s name, may he address
ed at this office.
Human Norton,
Cor. Sec. of the A. P. Society. ‘
1 12 Nassau street.
New York, Feh. 18, 1811.
NEW CATECIIIXtf.
“An Improved Chatechism: intended to
assist in the Religious Instruction of Chil
dren, in families and Sabbath Schools.
Examined and approved by a committee
ol the Baptist Conventin of the Slate of
Georgia.”—For sale at this office.
BORDERS A BRUCE, ,
Attorneys at Law.
Hamilton; Harris Cos,, ila.
a. r.. noKDKits,
FVb. It!, 1811. w. w. rißtu'f:; ’