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The Lark and the Christian,
How sweet is the song of lhe lark when she springs
To welcome the morning with joy on her wings!
The higher she rises the sweeter she sings,
And she sings when we hear her no more :
When storms and dark clouds veil the sun from
our sight,
She has mounted above them, she shines in the
light;
Thus,far from the scenes that disturb and affright,
She loves her gay music to pour.
’Tisthus with the Christian; his willing sou! flies
To welcome the day-spring that streams from the
skies;
lie is drawn by its glorious effulgence to rise
To the region from whence it is given :
He sings on his way from this cloud-covered spot;
The quicker his progress, the sweeter his note;
When we hear him no longer, the song ceases not;
It blends with the chorus ofheaven.
Thoughts in Old Age,
- gT t r.ronr.r, -m gr.a.
Days of my yodth T yd Five glided nwfty;
Hairs of my youth ! ye are frosted nml gray;
Kyes of my youth ! your keen sight is no more;
Cheeks of my youth! ye are furrowed nil o’er;
Strength of my youth ! all your vigor is gone;
Thoughts of my youth! your gay visions arc
flown.
Pays of my youth ! I wish not your recall;
Hairs of my youth ! l’in content you should fall;
Kyes of my youth! ye much evil have seen;
Cheeks of my youth! bathed in tears have ye been;
Thoughts of my youth ! ye have led me astray;
Strength of my youth ! why lament your decay?
Days of my age ! ye will shortly be past;
Pains of my age ! but a while can ve last;
Joys of my age ! in true wisdom delight;
Eyes of my age ! he religion your light;
Thoughts of my age ! dread not the cold sod;
Hopes of my age ! he fixed on your God.
THE ONLY SON.
Soon after the Rev. Pliny Fisk and Rev.
Levi Parsons left their mountain homes in
W cstern Massachusetts, near the close of
1819,nslhe first American missionaries Jo
Palestine, their young friend, John King,
from the same neighborhood, was elected
professor in Amherst college, and proceeded
to Paris to pursue the study of Arabic with
the celebrated I)e Sacy. lie there became
familiar with an American gentleman, then
at the head of one of the. first couimerai{U
bourses in PafTs, to whose care his corres
pondence was addressed.
In February, 1822, the lamented Par
sons died, and Rev. Mr. Fisk withoutdelay
addressed a letter to Mr. King, requesting
that he would meet him at Malta, and in
the place of Parsons, accompany him as a
missionary to Palestine; and fearing delay
by waitingthc action of the American Hoard
of Missions, lie in the same enclosure re
quested Mr. King’s mercantile friend not
only to second his invitation, but if possible
tojraise the sum of 0$ 1,500 his
ill 11 ' 1 ’ 1 ’ ftrawr T’
Mr. King, on receiving the letter in the
merchant’s eounting-room exclaimed, “This
is front my friend Fisk; I beg leave to retire
to your private office and read it.” Op
pressed with the weight of the proposition
it contained, he spent an hour in prayer for
divine direction; and hoping to gain fin titer
light as to the path of duty from the indi
cations of Providence, sought the mer
chant’s advice. Ho returned to the connt
ing-roorn, and asked with deep solicitude,
“What shall Ido ?” Said his friend, “Go.”
‘Mbit,” said he, “what will become ofmy
aged and infirm parents fir Ametica ?”. “I
will be a son to them in your stead,” repli
ed itis Iriend. “ I hen,” said Mr. King, “I
go tip to Jerusalem, ‘imt knowing the tilings
that shall befall me there.’ ”
“Now,” said the merchant, “sit down at
this desk, and write to my friends Thomas
Waddington, of St. Remey, France ; Louis
JMertens, of Brussels; Claude (Tomlin, of
Amsterdam, and John Venning, of St. Pe
tersburgh: state to them the circumstances,
and that you are willing to go; tell them I
will give one-fifty of the 5i,500, and leave
it to their decision whether they will join
me in filling up the amount.’’ By the re
turn of the mails it appeared that God had
put it into the hearts of these gentlemen
cheerfully to respond to the appeal by en
closing each S3OO, making the sum requir
ed; and Mr. King lost no time in preparing
for his departure.
A few months previous to this, Mr. King
had established the monthly concert of
prayer in his own hired upper chamber in
Paris. At the first and second meetings
only three were present; at the third, the
number was increased to ten; at the fourth,
to thirty; and soon after his departure it
rose to 300. and this concert is still continu
ed with interest in that city. A large con
course assembled in the church of tiie Ora
toire to listen to Mr. King’s farewell ad
dress unu join in commending mm to tnc
God of all grace; and he was cheered in a
similar manner, on his way, by Christian
assemblies at Lyons, Nismes, Montpelier,
and Marseilles, where he embarked for
Malta, whence he proceeded with Mr. Fisk
to Jerusalem; and he is now the well
known, persecuted, but laborious and suc
cessful missionary at Athens.
Ilis friend the merchant, from time to
time, wrote to the solitary parents, enclosing
some tokens of regard “from their aflection
ate son;” the next year lie returned to
America; and early lathe spring of 1524
he was at Northampton, about twenty-five
miles from the parents, meditating a visit to
their bumble abode. He applied to the
landlord, who furnished him a wagon, with
his little son for a driver; and freighted
with a bag of groceries which extended the
whole length of the wagon, they set off
early in the morning; and after encounter
ing snow-drifts and other obstacles by the
way, arrived at the cottage about 2 1\ M.
leaving the lad with the wagon in the
street, the gentleman knocked, saying as
he entered, “It is a chill, uncomfortable day
friends; would you be so kind as to allow
astrauger to warm himself a little by your
fire?” He was welcomed and seated be
tween the aged couple, in whom life dis
tinctly rccogrfized*the features of Jonas, and
who in their turn fixed on him a serntiniz
ingeyc. After a short pause he said de
liberately,
“I once had a friend, who said to me,
‘What shall I do?’ Said I,‘Go.’ ‘Hut what
said he,‘will become ofmy aged and infirm
parents in America?’ I replied,‘l will be
a son to them in your stead.’ ‘Then,‘said
he, ‘I go up to Jerusalem,‘not knowing the
things that shall befall me there.’ ”
Instantly the aged couple sprang to him,
exclaiming, “This is Mr. W ,” and al
most overwhelmed him with their tears and
caresses. “Let us pray.” said the Father;
and they unburdened their hearts at the
throne of mercy.
Scarcely were they again seated, when the
mother took from the shelf anew quarto
Bible, saying, she hoped her friend would
not blame her for paying ten dollars for it
out of the fifty he had sent her a few months
previous. “Our old eyes,” she said, “could
not well read the small print of the other
Bible. I told Mr. King I did not believe
| ■**•*-• < .xjtLl Mvnlm am.- hettcjc use .of the mon-
I ey, or should ever be (lie poorer for buy
ing a Bible that we could read; and it is a
i great comfort to us.” Their friend ex
pressed his approbation of jhe purchase,
admired the Bible, and, before lie returned
it to the shelf,slipped into it unperceived a
ten dollar hill; which she afterwards wrote
him had been found on the lloor when they
were reading the Bible, and which she rec
ognized as from the hand of God, having
no knowledge by what means the exact
amount expended had thus come again into
their hands.
After a brief interchange of confidence
and affection, she said to her esteemed
guest, “I presume, sir, you have not dined
and must be in need of refreshment. 1
am very sorry we have not a cup of tea to
offer to you, but wc have some nice ham
and fresh eggs, which I will immediately
prepare- Her friend remarked, “There is a
bag in the wagon, containing several arti
cles from ‘your son,’ and perhaps there may
be tea among them.”
The bag, with not a little effort, was
transferred from the wagon to the cottage,
floor, and the mother addressed herself
to the task of taking out its contents.—
Among packages of flour, rice loaf sugar
coll'ee, chocolate, raisins, and other articles,
each of which she held up with new ex
pressions of delight, as received from one
she so much loved, she at length came to
a package of four pounds of hyson tea,
when she held it out to the father with
streaming eyes, saying, “Look here, papa
Jonas is the same dear good boy that he al
ways was; lie knew we were out of tea
sometimes; he don’t forget his poor lather
and mother.” Then opening a package of
Turkey figs, “And is this nls<s” said she,
“from Jerusalem? Papa, was’ there ever
such jx son’ as TbriCs?” By tins time all
hearts were Overflowing. “Let us pray,”
said the father, and the expiring of the
treasures was suspended,-wiMflu they ugaii*
united in thanksgiving to ?
It was not long before the little company
were seated at a well-furnished table, re
freshed by the gifts of the kind “son,” ming
ling their sympathies, and recounting all
the way in which they had been led.—
While thus conversing, the merchant affec
tionately asked, “Bo you never regret the
sacrifice you have made in giving up your
only son to he a missionary ?” The aged
tatlier replied,
“‘God so loved the world, that he gave
his only begotten Son. that whosoever l>e
lieveth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life;’ and shall I withhold my
only son from obeying the command of our
ascended Saviour, ‘Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature?’ ”
All present were deeply affected, a tear
standing in the eye even of the young dri
ver ; they again bowed in prayer: both the
father and the merchant led in turn, com
mending the little company, the absent son.
and a sin-ruined world to the God of mis
sions.
The interview was an hour bright with
the beams of the Sun of righteousness, amid
the dark pilgrimage of life, an oasis in the
desert, a season never to be forgotten by
any one of ilia four persons who thus met
for the first and the last time on earth.
That young driver, as lie afterwards dis
tinctly stated, here first had his mind im
pressed with the sacredness of the work of
foreign missions. He gave his heart to
Christ; pursued a thorough course of edu
cation ; went forth to the heathen, and was
no other than Henry Lyman, the noble
martyr who fell by the side of Munson, in
1834, among tlte bloody Bnttns of Sumatra.
The aged father, in itis will, bequeathed
to the merchant, lor the purchase of a book
in token of his love, the sum of five dollars,
which at his death was paid to the widow
for tile old smaH-prinf Bible. which is still
possessed as a precious memento. The
widow has entered into rest; and the stran
ger passing a rural graveyard in South
Hawley, where the scenery opens in mag
nificence and beauty, reads on the tomb
stone ot the lather Ins reply just quoted to
the question, whether he ever regretted the
gift to missions ot his only Son.— American
Messenger.
WHERE ARE YOU BOUND?
M hen two vessels meet on the ocean,
and come within speaking distance, one
question asked is, “Where are you hound ?”
Sometimes the answer proves a very impor
tant one to those who hear it not only, but
to those who give it. Let it be so with you,
reader. “Where are you bound? It is al
ways well, before starting on a journey or
voyage, to make up your mind where you
are going. The decision may save you
much time, trouble and expense. It is also
well to have some reference to preparation
for the journey—lor much may depend upon
this—in securing you comfort and success.
Many do mark out the whole road—make
all such provisions as they think necessary,
and start with a fair promise of a pleasant
journey, and safe arrival at the desired ha
ven—and yet, after all, fail of their object.
But that is no reason why you should omit
the proper arrangements for yourself: in-
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
deed, I -think it ought to stimulate you to
greater diligence.
Reader, where are you bound ? To Hea
vf.n or Hei.l? That is a solemn, serious,
startling question, is it not ?
In the great voyage of life, there are but
two stopping places. To one of these you
must be bound. Have you made up your
mind? And have you made due prepara
tion? Have you, by deep and true repent
ance, and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.as
your only Saviour, made up your mind to
meet an offended but merciful God, who, for
His Son’s sake, will pardon your sins and
admit you to his glory? or have you, by
rejecting the Saviour, and turning
to the calls of the gospel, prepared to meet
an angry God, and lie down under His
eternal wrath in the fire that is not quench
ed ? Reader, where are you bound? — N.
Y. Observer.
From tiie Zion’s Advocate.
SUGGESTIONS TO FEEBLE CHURCHES.
When you obtain a pastor, be faithful in
I the nuncs you owe t> him, s vvell*A| in
those you owe yourself. If possibles be
punctual and regular in attending on the
Sabbath. Calculate to attend meeting as
much as to take care of your crops. This
is perhaps more important in a small than
in a large church, as when all are present
there is hut a few, and the congregation
generally will be small. You may’ perhaps
think it not important that you should be
present, but there is considerable impor
tance attached to your presence. Whom
has a minister a riirbt to expect to see at liis
meetings, if not the members of the church?
One makes one, especially a Christian, and
adds to a small congregation. By your at
tending, others may he induced to attend.—
Not long since nearly a dozen persons were
induced to attend on a Subbatli with a
small church, by a female, and she was not
a member of that church. II you are irreg
ular in your attendance without good rea
son, and your reason you may conceal from
some but not from others, it will be known,
and they will incline to lie irregular in their
attendance. Jl church members are irreg
ular at meeting, their children and others
will consider it of small importance for
them to attend, so that before you are
aware of it you may be the moving cause
of keeping quite a number from meeting
Sabbath after Sabbath. Besides, a minister
leelsawkward logo into the pulpit and see
tills, that, tind the other brother's pews
empty, to see only a few irethren
present. It is ddlioult hjn to preach
and pray. A mighty inroad®fs vnode upon
his bettrr'Teelings, courage and strength.—
.Vo man can preach to empty pews, even if
liis sermon is written and committed to
memory, as he can when they are crowded
with men, women and children hungering
for the bread of lile.
If you expect the labors of your pastor to
bo valuable to yourself, to the church and to
the people generally, and pleasant to him
self, exert yourself to be constant at meet
ing. Take your family with you as you
are able. Be not satisfied with tins, but in
vite, even urge at times your neighbors, if
need be, and others, to go with you, jf they
go not to any other meeting. By so (doing,
the word of life eternal may find its way to
their hearts, and multitudes of sins may be
hid. A maiden sister, a few years since,
hired two pews, and usuallvffilled them on
the Sabbath with those who 4 had no seats,
and Imt for her would probably-•a ve been
at borne, or strolling on God’s holy day.—
Let die members of our churches go and do
likewise as they lire able, and our houses of
worship would be crowded, the feeble with
the blessing of God would become strong,
the small would increase, many a disconso
late pastor would renew his youth, be filled
with lile and greatly increase liis usefulness.
Many who now visit the sanctuary only on
funeral occasions, or never, would become
regular attendants, and ultimately be cloth
ed with white robes and palms in their
hands. Rev. 7:9-10.
THE JEWS IN EUROPE.
Few persons in our country are aware of
the influence exerted by the outcast sons of
Abraham in the revolutionary movements
of Europe. They forma common brother
hood, arc animated by a common purpose,
and maintaining constant communication
with each other in all the great centres of
influence, they move in perfect harmony.
The simultaneous risings of the people
throughout Europe on the reception of the
revolutionary movements in Paris, were no
doubt occasioned in a large measure by
concerted action among the Jews, and es
pecially the Polish Jews, whose name is
legion, and whose home is every where.
The following extract, from an article pre
pared by Rev. Mr. Smith of Scotland, will
give some idea of their incessant activity.
“A large majority of the democratic so
cieties have Jews for their leaders and chief
speakers. If smaller in point of numbers,
they have generally in these unions the
ascendency in talent, tact, and, what is of
equal importance in such times—daring.
The two levers of greatest power at pres
ent in the political world are money and
the press. In respect to the the former, the
Jews have long had the supremacy. They
rule the exchange in the greater part of
Europe. Even governments have been
known to tremble in the ante-diamber of a
Jew. But the press of Continental Europe
is no less in Jewish hands; every depart
ment of periodical literature, more especial
ly, swarms with Jewish laborers. In the
majority of cases, the newspaper press is
conducted by Jews, as editors, sub-editors,
and occasional contributors. The corres
pondence is almost entirely managed by
them. These men are , without doubt, the
leaders of public opinion on the Continent,
and are covertly or more openly, as it suits
the circumstances of tl;e moment, under
mining at once the national institutions and
the national faith.”
The London Quarterly Review presents
also interesting data respecting their move
ments, from which we clip the following
paragraph:
“Nor shall we omit to mention another
influential body who have played a distin
guished part in all the revolutions of Ger
many—we mean the Jews. At least one
third, if not one-half of the public journals
in Germany, have for a long time been
conducted by Jewish editors. In Austria,
the most forward among the extreme dem
ocrats have been Jews. Dr. Jellinck, for
instance, who was executed with Dr. Bek
ker on the 23d November of last year, at
Vienna, and whose journal had been an
organ of the red party since the month of
March last, appears to have been a Jew,
born on the frontier of Maravia and Hun
gary. The names of Borne and Heine,
both of whom died refugees in Paris, both
occupying a prominent position in the most
advanced section of revolutionary writers,
are doubtless familiar to our readers. Both
of these daring adventurers were Jews.
In Austria, the Jews have of late played so
prominent a part in revolutionary politics,
that out of ten leading men, six or eight
will be found to belong to that nation. In
Prussia, likewise, the most violent journals
arc in the hands oithe Jews, whose leader
in the Chamber at Berlin is Jacobi, a mem
ber of the extreme left.”
THE LACE MERCHANT’S DOG.
Who would have imagined that a dog
had been made serviceable as a clerk, and
bad thus made for his master upwards of a
hundred thousand crowns? And yet an
incident like this happened upwards of
thirty years since. One ofthose industrious
beings who know how to make a chaldron
of coals out of a ballot of wood, determined,
in extreme poverty, to engage in trade.—
He preferred that of merchandize which
occupied the least space, and was calcu
lated to yield the greatest profit He bor
rowed a small sum of money from a friend,
and repairing to Flanders, lie there bought
pieces of lace, which, without any danger
he smuggled into France in the following
manner:
Ho trained an active spaniel to hts pur-
He caused hint to be shaved, and
procured for him the skin of another dog,
of the same hair and same shape. He then
rolled the lace round the body of his dog,
and put over the garment of the stranger
so adroitly, that it was impossible to dis
cover the trick. The lace being thus ar
ranged in his pedestrian bandbox, he would
say to his docile messenger. “Forward,
my friend.” At these words the dog would
start, and pass boldly through the gates of
Muimcs of Valenciennes, in the face of the
v gilent officers placed there to prevent
smuggling. Having passed the bounds,
lie would wait for Ins master at a little dis
tance in the open country. There they
mutually caressed and leasted, and the mer
chant placed Ins packages in a place of se
curity, renewing his occupation as necessi
ty required. Such was the success of the
smuggler, in less than five or six years he
amassed a handsome fortune and kept Ins
coach. Envy pursues the prosperous: a
mischievous neighbour betrayed the lace
merchant, and notwithstanding his efforts
to disguise the dog,he wassuspected. watch- ’
ed, and discovered.
flow far does the cunning of some ani
mals extend ? Did the spies of the custom
house expect him at one gate, he saw them
at a distance, and instantly went towards
the other. Were the gates shut against
him, he overcame every obstacle—some
times he leaped over the wall, at others
passing secretly behind a carriage, or run
ning between the legs of travellers,^he
would thus aotomplish his aim. Qufcdayf
however, while swimming a stream near
Malines, lie was shot, and died in the wa
ter. There was then about him live thou
sand crowns worth of lace—the loss of
which did not afflict his master, but he was
inconsolable for the loss of his faithful do;?.
THE TRUE OBJECT OF LIFE.
BV ItEV. DR. BETHUNE.
Commerce or any pursuit which is usually
called business, is unworthy of being considered
the proper occupation of life. It is only necessa
ry to provide or to procure the means of living.
The time devoted toil should be considered as
a tax upon our immortal being, laid upon us by
the necessities of that curse which sin brought
with us into the world. If so the leisure which
the necessities of business allow, becomes in
calculably more precious, as being the only sea
son when we can devote ourselves mainly arid ex
clusively to tim great end of our being. For
though there is no honest pursuit of life in which
wc may not serve God and our fellow men, no
man is fitted lor the practice ot virtue merely by
practice: he must, in hours of rest, study its theo
ry, contemplate its ends, and wisely gird himself
for the toil.
If there be one here, (though 1 am sure there
is not,) who has no higher ambition than to be a
mere man of business, a mere slave of men’s bo
dily necessities, a mere idolater of his own purse;
to have his life but a thing of cotton bags and to
bacco hogsheads, druggist and dowlases, madder
and fustic, town lots, bank stocks, and exchanges,
his mind like the advertising side of a daily ga
zette, or the weekly prices current; me sum of
his lile, the balance sheet of Ins ledger; and who
estimates his worth by the dollars and cents
which remuiti to his credit, who would choose
for Ins immortality one eternal Wall street, and
give up a crown ot glory to be called the best man
upon “change”—if there be such an one, lie
may despise those moments of leisure, which
business spares, waste them in sinful sleep,
o[unge them away in vuped amusements, dawdle
over ephemeral magazines, or newspaper reports
ol police cuses and shocking accidents, squabble
in the low arena of parly polices, exhaust his
breath in blowing up every bubbleof popular ex
citement, lisp idle gallantries in ladies’ ears,
who in their souls despise such emptiness, and
but tolerate the fool as they do a pet dog, or a
parrot, for want of belter company; or perhaps
do worse in vulgar debaucheries.
He may despise leisure and so waste it, but
lie must take the consequences in this world
and the next. A mere merchant, a mere man
of business! Who would be content with such
a designation? whut respect can one feel for such
a character? All begets from the world is the
credit ot being worth so much dross, a little
fawning servility Iroin those who wish to borrow
of him or owe him already', or the wondering
calculation of how much his heirs will divide
among them when'he leaves bis wealth behind
him with his rotting body: Were I such man,
I would wish my name to die with me, and would
ask neither marble nor granite, nor the venal
| page to preserve the memory of my sordid sel
j fishness. Let it perish, like the thistle cut down
| by the mower’s scythe, or the dry mulleu that
; decays on the barren hill side,
j But there is a true grandeur, which, though
| we cannot reach, we must admire and may em-
I ulate, in him who devotes the energies of a well
stored mind to the pursuit of commerce, that the
fruits of noble enterprise may enable him to fol
low tiie bent of his disposition in the spread of
knowledge, and the liberalities of a wider phi
lanthropy; who can snake off the the meaner
of jealousies of trade with the dust ot his ware
house; who leaves behind him the idolatries of
covetousness, well pleased to enter the populous
I solitude of his library and hold communion with
the mighty dead, to join the social circle and
i brighten the glow of cheerful but rational con-
I verse by the warmth of his own intelligence, or
i to mingle with the evening crowd, who meet
j to devise and prosecute new plans of doing good
j to his countrymen, and the the world; whose
walls are adorned with works of native art, ac
j quired by a price which has cheered the child
-of genius in his lone enthusiasm; at whose table
j and hearth-stone the scholar and the man of sci
j. enee is a welcome and delighted guest, and
, whom religion claims as Iter consistent arid bo.
! neficient follower. Like a noble tree, whose
i roots are struck deep in the fruitful earth, he
j stands in a gigantic strength, his higher arms
! aspiring to heaven, while the poor, the sorrow.
I ful, ami the friendless, find shelter and food be
j neath the shadow of Ins wide branches.
j TKf JOB OPFICeT
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Executed with neatness and despatch.
A share of public patronage is respectfully solicit
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D” All orders thankfully received and promptly
attended to. Jan. 3, 1850.
PENFIELD FEMALE SEMINARY^
rpillS Institution will open, the ensuing year, cn-
JL dor the charge of Rev. P. S. Whitman and hts
wife. The Spring Session will commence on the Ist
day of February, and end on the Inst Wednesday in
July. The Fall Session wiil continue from the last
Wednesday in August to the loth of December.
’ PRICE OF TUITION.
In Reading, Spelling, First Les- ) SpringT’m,.sl2
sons in Geography &. Arithmetic. (Fill Term,.. 8
In Geography, Arithmetic. Bui. 1 g , Term,.sl3
lion p Practical Lections in > T V',? T , ,
GramV, & Spencpr’a L’n Lessons, ) e in,. .
In all higher branches of latera- ( Rp’g Term,. s2l
ry, Scientific &.Cla?sical E'lucil'n, ) Fill Term,. 16
Music (Piano,) Spring Term, $24, Full Term, $lO.
For French, no extra charge, when preceded by
lotfin. Any person may phtce in tins School a pupil of
indigent, circumstances, by the payment of half the
regular tuition.
Board, (washing, &c., included,) at private houses,
($lO per month.
■I A few pupils can have -board-in the family of the
■rincipal, if early application to him is made. To
fsucli, the highest annual expense of board and tui
, tion. inu-ic included, will be SIOB.
05“ The Principal cun be tuldresseJ at Penfield.
Pei.fi-ld, Ga., Nov. 1. 1849.
IiIIAIS.Ni SCHOOL.
r IAHE Trustees of Hearn School take this ocea-
J. sum lo inform the public that they have obtain
ed the services of Mr. J. S. Ingraham, of Macon, for
the ensuing year.
Mr. Ingraham is a graduate of Brown University,
and has had twelve years experience as .a teacher in
Georgia, the last eight of which have been spent in
Macon, with the largest male school in Bibb county.
from distinguished KiilivnJuirts—his pa
trons —can be given, in testimony of his eminent abili
ty to give instruction in all the branches of a liberal
education; but this is unnecessary, since his past
success constitut s Irs best recommendation. The
Academy, and beautiful grounds adjac lit, are under
going thorough improvement, and it is des'gned to at
tach a teacher’s residence to the budding, thus placing
the premises under the constant supervision of the
principal. The Board intend ihattho Institution shall
present inducements equal, if not superior, to any in
the country.
The scholastic year is divided into twn sessions: the
first, commencing the Ist Monday in February and
ending, with an examination, the Ist of July: the
second, beginning the 3rd Monday in July and end
ing, with an examination, Friday before the 3rd Mott
duy in December.
rates of tuition per session.
; Orthography, Reading, Writ’g & Arithmetic, .$ C 00
i English Grammar, Geography. U. S. (lis'orv,
Introduction lo Natural Pmlosopliy and
Chemistry, 12 IWi
! Latin, Gr’k’& nil the higher Eng’h branch’s,. 16 00
Tuition must be paid in advance, or a note be giv
en.—Students cha'ged from the time of entrance till
the close of the sea-ton. ;\u reduction made tor lost
j time, except by sickness, and not then for less Ilian
j one week. Board in good families, including wash
ing and lodging, near the place, at about S”,UO per
mmith.
05“ Young men over 16, applying f r admission,
must give satisfactory testimonials (either verbal or
written) of good moral character.
C. W. SPARKS, President.
A. Richardson. Secretary.
Cave Spring, Ua., Oct. 28, 1619. 1 5t Jan 3
HARDW3CK & COOKE,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
The undersigned have asso
viated themselves under the
C y '• ibove style, in the business
Iwth— ‘..TU'Pr* ,l bovp specified. Mr. Haidw iek
1 is a Planter of Hancock county, and, of course,
identified in feelingand interest with his brother I’lant-
I ers. Mr. Cooke Is a citizen of Savannah, and thor
| oughlv acquainted with all the branches of the
Commission Business.
i We arc prepared to make liberal advances on pro
duce in store, and will till orders for Plantation and
! Family supplies with scrupulous care.
We’ are mutually bound not to speculate in Cot
| ton or any other article of merchandize.
We respectfully solicit patronage, and pledge our
j selves to deserve it by faithful attention to the btisi
* ness entrustedto us. R. S. HARDWICK,
Jan 3 ts 1 J. G. COOKE.
RABIN & FULTON,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
WILL give strict attention to the sale of Cotton,
and other produce consigned to them, and
promptly fill orders for goods, at the lowest prices.
Jan. 3.6 m 1
FOR ONE DOLLAR!
rpwo COPIES OF NOEL ON BAPTISM, with
JL an Introduction by Dowling, and a Portrait,
will be sent bv mail, in paper covers. Address, (post
paid,) EDWARD H. FLETCHER, Publisher,
I 141 Nassau street. New York.
Jan. 10, It
[February 14, 1850.
SCHOOL FOR YOlNti LADIES.
Cave Spring, Jan. 9th, 1850.
First session of this Institution for the pre-
A sent year will commence on Monday, the 4th
day of February, and end from the Ist to the 4th of
July, with an examination.
The subscriber is prepared to board twenty or thir
ty young ladies, besidesthose already engaged, and he
is determined to spare no reasonable pains nor expense
tor the comfort, as well as the intellectual and moral
advancement of his pupils. He requests the co-opeja
tioo of his patrons in discountenancing extravagance,
! gaddtng, gossiping, snuff-rubbing and novel-reading ;
i and he suggests the propriety of their enjoining on
i their children and wards a limited and select corres
i pondence.
Terms per session, irir. cash or note at the close:
Fortlie primary studies $ 6 00
For the nuddle'studir s, 10 00
For the higher English studies, the sciences.
Mathematics ana (when requested,) Lan
guages 15 00
Music and use of Piano, perquar., $U', per
session 15 00
j Crewel embroidery, perquar. $4, p’rses. 6 00
Wax lessons, (13 lessons and materials,).... 10 00
j Board per month with lodging, 6 00
Washing per month, according to amount,
Lorn $1 to 2.
A small extra charge to such a* may use, regularly,
i accommodations furnished in the way of Library and
| Appiratn*. \V. D. COW DRY.
Jin. 17, 1850. n3
WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE
SOUTH’N BAP. PHD. SOCIETY.
rjNHE WAY OF SALVATION, by Robert B. C.
A Dowel!, D. D ., Pastor of the Frr-i Bipt. church,
| Nuiiville. 1 cnn.. of 316 pages. Price 874 cts.
RBSIRICPED COM.MUNiON, or B-ntism an es
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THE ADVANTAGES OF SABBATH SCHOOL
INSTRUCTION, by Rev. C. D. Mallary, of Ga.,
18mo. Price cts.
BIBLE CARDS FOR SABBATH SCHOOLS, by
Jas. Juppcr, S4 C ards lo the sett, each card con
taining, on an average, three verses of Scripture,
with a suitable hytnn on the back, arranged so as
to comprize in the series a systematic course of in
struction in the doctrines and duties of religion.
1 hey are designed to take the place of catechisms
ami question books. Price 25 els. per sett.
Tne above Books, together with a general assort
ment of religious works, arc for sale at the Deposi
tory of the Southern Baptist Publication Society, No.
41) Broad Street, Charleston, S. C.
OPINIONS OF THE TRESS
Each of the above works have been favorably no
ticed by the press. We subjoin a specimen of their
opinions on The Way of Salvation.
Chr.siian Chronicle , Philadelphia. —Dr. Howell
has already won for himself an honorable name in
religious literature. Trie work before us wiil add lo
Ins reputation and usefulness. It is a clear, full and
earnest exhibition of the way of salvation for a lost
sinner. It is eminently scriptural in language and
sprit, and logical in its plea and discussiou. The
AUfcle wjninly apd attractive, rising at times into elo
quence . Trit wfericvwdl he aji instructive
companion for the earne-t inquirer, and for tho
thoughtful Christian, and may do much to enlarge
the knowledge of our church members.
The typographical execution of the volume is high
ly creditable lo the Southern Publication Society. If
this be a sample of their issues, they will win a high
place among the publishing houses of our country.
Southern Baptist, Charleston, S. C.— ln every
respect, it is worthy of its distinguished author. Its
perspicuity, simplicity and comprehensiveness of
style, its complete and systematic arrangement, its
correct theology and solid instruction, must cause
this book at once to take rank with the fiist and best
religious publications of the day'. Orders addressed
*° 1+ J. WALKER, Depot Apent,
Southern Bap. Pub. Society.
Jan. 3. 1
PROSPECTUS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION
A COMPENDIUM OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
\7'OL. 1, which is now nearly ready for the press,
begins with the Christian era, and brings down
the history of Christianity to the Reformation in the
16lh century, and also given a brief description of the
opening scenes of that important period.
The remaining vol., yet to be prepared, will give a
condensed >JtlL* t A — -*—** | l>rpt ’ omongatj’
pfotPisuTg’ all countries and of all church
es. sects and parties, from the time of Luther and
Calvin, aud their coadjutors and associates, to the
pre.-ent time.
Vol. 1 embraces a period of upwards of fifteen
centuries ; vol. 2 will be confined to a little over three.
Some of the principal features, objects and aims of
the vol., now to bo published, are exhibited in the
Circular, which is prefixed to this Prospectus.
CONDITIONS.
1. This work will be published in an octavo vol
ume of about 660 pages. The price will vary ac
cordin'? to the binding; in cloth, $2 00—in leather,
2 25—in gilt leather, 2 50: in no form will it be
higher.
2. Every sixth copy will be gratis to those who
obtain good subscriber?.
3. A liberal allowance will be made to those who
make special etiorls to dispose ol the work.
Jan 3. I
MINTTES OF ASSOCIATIONS
WANTED.
lAM -desirous of obtaining tho Minutes of the fol
io v mg Associations for 1819 :
Apalachee, Bethel, Columbus, Coosa, Ebcnezer,
Flint River, Georgia, Ilepfizibah, Hightower, Pied
mont. Rock Mountain, Snrepta, Gunhury, Tallapoosa,
Washington, Western, Chattahoochee, Che ’"tee, El
l'j iy, Middle, Middle Cncrokee, Mountain, Muckalee,
T’ugalo, Union, Notley River, Slate Line.
Will the Clerks of Associations, Moderators, or
other brethren, who miy h .ve a copy of any of the
above Minutes to spare, and who may sec this notice,
forward ono to me, at Macon, and oblige, respectful
ly, &c., ELI BALL.
January 10, 1549.
TO A*;EATS AND EDITORS.
4 GENTS arc wanted in every part of the United
States, for the sale of li e following new and
highly interesting work, entitled
HISTORY OF DENOMINATIONS,
Second, Improved, and Portrait Edition, just published
! and ready for delivery.
This splendid and highly interesting work contain*
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; practice, locniities and statistics of Fifty-Two Rdi-
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; by as many eminent and distinguished men, belonging
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In addition to this, it contains an introduction, giv
ing short accounts of 6ome smaller sects and panics,
not regularly organized, and therefore not noticed in,
the body of the work. On the whole, it is considered l
a full and complete History of all the Sects and
Religious Denominations now existing in the United
States. Price, $2 50 per copy.
A liberal discount will be made to traveling Agents,
who buy for cash, and canvass thoroughly.
The work is published and lor sale by
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