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“ Wisdom, JhM.net, 'Moderation.»
VOL. I.
ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, JUNE 25,1845.
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larging stream, til! they cover the shores which may have marked the stot w
of the Pacific. Even then the ocean will sleeps tlieir honored dust. But they still
not terminate tlieir progress, but rathef live. Tltcy live in the immortal principles
open out n passage to the shores of Eastern which they tntight—in the endunng msti-
Asia, till both the old nnd new world are ! unions which they established. They live
united, nnd flourish beneath the same arts in the remembrance of a grateful posterity;
and the same religion. We have already 1 nnd they will live on through all lime, in
referred to what America is doing to pour j the gratitude of unborn generatisns, who
llie clear full stream of her living Christi-,in long succession, shall 'rise unand call
10. Gentle exercise should be taken reg-: trades are liable* to produce, attend to the
ularly two Irwin a day nt least; nnd it j following hints:
must never be forgotten that cheerfulness. Keep, if possible, regular hours. Never
MISCELLA Y.
The Glory of America.
flic following eloquent article is from
the London Christian Examiner. Our
readers will find themselves richly repaid
fur its perusal:
Oa America, in her present position, we
ink with inicsc interest. Her whole his
tory is interwoven with the fate of Europe,
f.n’i there is not a State iu the wide spread
comment of the Old Wyjld, which is not
destined to feci nnd to be affected by her
influence. No force can crush the sympa
thy that already exists nnd is continually
augmenting, between Europe and the New
Vi’iirlil The eyes of the oppressed are
turning wistfully to the land of fiecdom,
and die kings of the continent already re
gard with awe ami disquiliidc the new
Rome rising in the West, the foreshadows
cf whose greatness yet to be, arc exiend-
ing, dark and heavy over the dominions
and obscuring the lustre of their thrones!
Since these enlightened utterances W'cre
given forth, America has doubled her pop-
n;..i!(.ii, end such arc her national resources
that Iter influence is confined by no shore.
During the last quarter of a century she
lias made astonishing progress, and ere long
w ill challenge the older Slates of Europe
to divide with them the honor of taking liic
lead in the idvanccmcnt of society. Her
canvass is now sprehd to every breeze and
i overs every sea. Ilcr flag is acknowledg
ed and honored on every shore? She is a
country of during enterprise, nnd is not on
ly cnmimuiicatiiigto those who occupy her
consecrated soil “a freer life and a fresher
v it re,’’ hut she is spreading civilization,
knowledge and religion among the most
distant nations of the earth. America is a
commercial nation, and it is on her com
merce and bet religion that she must de
pend for her influence among the nations,
li was commerce which gave to Tyre and
lhbylon, ami tier rival Ntnevali, and oilier
ancient empires, their proud and lofty dis
tinction. tint it was commerce which had
no connection with the religious and true.
It was therefore but tcm|iorary. Their
greatness lias passed away. Thu waves ol
the sea now roll wlierc once stood ilie vusl
and magnificent palaces of wealth and
luxury. The monuments of tlieir com
mercial enterprise and prosperity arc now
crumbled into ashes.
Uritain and America arc now taught (hat
if the sun ol ilicir prosperity is yet to as
cend and shine forth full orbed, not only
must both nations enjoy a free and unlet
tered commerce, but that commerce must
be sanctified. “ Righteousness exalte-lb a
nation,” and this righteousness, the great
principles of justice and truth, must per
vade its commerce, its science, its enter
prise. In this is the stability, as well as
die strength and power of Stales. In ibis,
America holds no common place. Doth
he.- navy and her merchant services are
greatly under a religious influence—and
this influence affects tier commerce, which
now extends to every coast and claims the
confidence of every people.
The influence of commerce on the im
provement and the destiny of the world is
secondary only to the all powcrlul, all su
perior economy of grace. In her commer
cial position America is great: but her true
strength lies in her religion—in her free,
pure Christianity. America has the most
ample resources to spread the knowledge ol
the truth over different countries, and which
iu its rapidly increasing greatness, will find
aids and supplies larger than have been
possessed by any empire for benefiting man
kind. They arc descended from ancestors
who, like the Father of the faithful, for
the sake of truth, went to a land which
they knew not; and, like the children of
Abraham, as they have the truth in their
keeping, we trusi that they will carry it
wide, even to tlie ends of the earth. _
They have no need of a disposition to
spread them abroad among the nations;
fur even now, in the infancy of their origin,
their vessels touch upon every court, their
inhabitants sojourn in every country, and
religion grows up with their growth, and
strengthens with their strength. Thcv
carry their altars with them into the wil
derness, and through them civilization nnd
Christianity will Sow oa with an ever cn-
living .....
nnity into those channels which an all-wise
Providence hns laid open both at home nnd
abroad. Her benevolence unntiaily ex
ceeding the sum of five millions sterling,
for education and religion, is graduated on
a noble scale—her first talents nnd most
hopeful energies are devoted to the spread
of religion—her churches nnd her mission
aries nre to bo found whithersoever her
commerce has been enrried, nnd her mor
al influence is ns wide as the world. This,
in union and co-operation with that of Bri
tain, is changing the whole aspect of so
ciety.
The children of both countries arc
spreading over the globe, carrying with
them the rlements of universal regenera
tion. Already all things arc becoming
new. The superstitions and errors of ages
arc melting away; human systems arc be
ing shaken lo tlieir foundation; earthly
creeds are crumbling into fragments; mind
is bursting its fetters, nnd all rreation is
sighing for redemption. The day of re
demption draieelh nigh l Borne on the cha
riot of inspiration through ages of time,
we arc set down in the midst of scenes of
surpassing loveliness and glory, when this
earth shall be as chaste in principle ns it is
now impure, nnd when a brighter tight than
that which invested the rising world of wa
ters which Omnipotence called out of chons
and darkness, shall clothe the whole moral
creation, its mere limn sun-like brightness
reflects the glorv nnd happiness of heaven.
In the belief and anticipation of such a
period, wo arc ready lo exclaim with the
poet, though with far higher and purer feel
ings, nnd looking for what never entered
into Ins heart to conceive—
‘ Ad.pico convrxe mutnrtem pondcre mundiim:
Terrasqiie; trartusque man's, railumquo profit ndum
Allspice venture lactentur nt amnia seeclo!’
Entering the temple of truth-:—conduct
ed into the holiest of all, and standing I y
the lamp of projihccv, ns it casts iis clem
and steady light on ihc future, we look for
an age in which this will lie more than re
alized. Christianity will spread and tri
umph over every other system, nnd in its
propagation, America will have no com
mon part. She and Britain will advance
with equal step till tlieir civilization shall
be co-cxtcnsivc with the globe. The dis
tance which we have gamed is lost. A-
tncrica has made so rapidly upon us, that
she is now ns much in the advance ns our
selves, in the race of Christian benevolence
and enterprise.
Nor from the ground which she note occu
pies tc ! ll she recede ! Each successive gen
eration of her children will rise up im
bued with the same spirit. The lessons of
freedom, religion and enterprise which are
now being taught, will.be perpetuated till
latest posterity. They arc trained nnd dis
ciplined as becomes h nation pledged lo
great deeds. Her schools nre for the edu
cation of the intellect—the development
of mind with all its powers and capacities;
her pulpit is for the sound nnd vigorous ex
position of the Christian virtues—bringing
them home to every man’s bosom and busi
ness ; her press is for the support and de
fence—the maintenance and diffusion of
truth and virtue. In moral power nnd re
sources, America not only rivals, hut far
exceeds the European States, England
alone excepted. She has engcriv pressed
forward to tier present point of advance.
In Iter future progress, she is destined, in
common with Britain, to carry along with
her the destiny of the species. Tlie world
is not only to receive a new language—a
new philosophy—a new religion; but to
take its entire* type and impression from
these two nations.* And should Britain de
cline—should her lamp, now so full of light
glimmer and expire—America, possessed
of her language, her literature, her religion,
will stnnd out as the great regenerator of
the race, and within herself will find re-
sources equal to any enterprise—any re
sult.
The pilgrim spirit has not fled. It still
survives. It animates the children. It
will live through generations yet to come,
It is the genius which presides over the
destinies of the land. One of the living
descendants of the fathers thus writes
« No other lorm of religion was known in
this land of the Pilgrims, until the great
principles of tlie American System were
developed and established there by our Pu
ritan forefathers. The truth is they lived
for no ordinary purpose. They were the
most remarkable men which the world ever
produced. They lived for a nobler end, for
a higher destiny than any that hns ever
lived. These are the men to whom New
England owes her religion, with all the
blessings, social, civil, nnd literary, that
follow in its train. These arc the venem-
g sttcccssion, shall 'rise up and call
them blessed. And shall we, Who keep
the graves, and liear the names, and boast
(he blood of these men,’ disovn their
Church, or cast out ns evil, and rerile their
religion 1 No—by the memory of those
noble men, bv their holy lives, by tlieir hea
venly principles, tlieir sacred institutions—
by the sustaining strength which they
themselves arc still giving 'o our fiecdom,
nnd lo the great cause of civil and religious
liberty throughout the earth—let us not
give up the religion of our forefathers.—
No—never, never.” i •
Such arc the lofty princiflcs and senti
ments which possess tlie bosuns of the de
pendants of the Pilgrims. In these we
have at once the promise anc-thc pledge of
American greatness nnd cnttrprisc. Amer
ica is now strong in moral lower, and so
long ns slic breathes the sprit of the reli
gion of the Pilgrims, we lope well, not
only for the. United States, hit for Christen
dom and the world. In the great conflict
which is now opening on the Church of
God, she will take the froni of the battle
in the effort to compass and subjugate the
world to the Cross, she will press into every
field of action. Her eagle stands with un
folded pinions, ready to take her flight lo
the ends of the earth*, and, in their upward,
onward passage to scatter blessings richer
and more precious than dreps from the
wings of. llie morning. May those pinions
never be folded till the whole world, reno
vated and purified, shall repose beneath the
shadow of eternal love, waiting for the
glorious liberty of the children of God!
We have finished this imperfect sketch
of the Pilgrim Fathers. Our hearts exult
in. the fact that these honored and now
sainted men, the Pilgrim Fathers, arc still
represented on the earth. May their spirit
in seven-fold energy descend and rest on
the whole Church, nnd at no distant tiny
mnv the Church embrace the universal
family of men!
From Sears' Familv Magazine.
■lints Tor rresming Health.
1. Habitual cheerfulness and composure
of tnind, arising from peace of conscience,
constant reliance on the goodness of God,
nnd the exercise of kindly feelings toward
men. Peace of miiul is as essential to
health as it is to happiness.
2. Strict control over the appetites and
passions, with a fixed abhorrence of all ex
cess, and all unlawful gratifications what
soever. He that would enjoy good health
must be “temperate in all tilings, 3 nnd
habitually exercise the most rigid self-gov
ernment ; for every sort of vicious indul
gence is highly injurious to health ; first,
directly, in its immediate effects on the bo-
t'j ; and next, indirectly, in the perpetual
dissatisfaction and anxiety of mind which
it invariably occasions.
3. Early rising; and in order to this, take
no supper, or if any, a very slight one, nnd
go early to bed. ’The hour before bed-time
should be spent in agreeable relaxation, or
in such exercises only as tend to compose
the mind nnd promote inward peace and
cheerfulness.
4. Simplicity, moderation,and regularity,
with respect to diet. A judicious selection
of the articles of food, tlie careful avoiding
of unwholesome dainties, and whatever has
proved hurtful to the constitution. The
quantify of food should be in proportion to
the amount of exercise n person undergoes.
Sedentary people should be rather abste
mious ; tlieir food should be nulricious, ea
sy of digestion, nnd moderate in quantity.
Seldom cat any thing between meals.
5. To abstain from the use of wine and
othcrstimiilants. They may sometimes be
employed to advantage in cases of extreme
dibilitv or extraordinary labor ; but, nnrler
any circumstances, if too freely or too fre
quently indulged in, they will most certain
ly impair your health and shorten your life
•6. Eat very slowly, with a view to the
thorough mastication of your iood: rather
forego a meal, or lake - half the needful
quantity, than cat too fast
7. Refrain from both mental and bodily
exertion for a short time after the principal
meal. If immediate exertion be required
only a slight repast should be taken insteai
of the usual meal. Never eat a full meal
when the body is heated or much fatigued
with exercise. Wait till you arc somewhat
refreshed by a short interval of repose.
8. Occasional abstinence. Whenever
the system is feeble or disordered, diminish
the quantity of your food, and allow your
self more tunc for exercise. In cases of
slight indisposition, a partial or a total fast
will often be found the best restorative.
g. Take no physic unless it be absolute
ly necessary. Learn, if possible how to
keep well Without it. In case of real in
is an essential ingredient in all beneficial
exercise. Mental relaxation in agreeable
society, too, should be sought as often as
due attention to business and other impor
tant affairs will permit.
Providence.
A firm persuasion of the superintendence
of providence over all our concerns is abso
lutely necessary to our happiness. With
out it, we cannot be said to believe in the
Scripture, or practise anything like resigna
tion- to his will. If I ant convinced that no
affliction can befall me without the per
mission of God, I am convinced likewise
that he sees and knows that I am afflicted;
believing this, 1 must in the same degree
believe that, if I pray to him for deliver
ance, ha hears me; I must needs know “ a 2f Gazette.
likewise with equal assurance, that if lie
hears, he will also deliver me, if that will
upontltc whole be most conducive to my
happiness ; nnd if he docs not deliver me,
I may be well assured that he has none hut
the most benevolent intention in declining
it. .He made us, not because wc could add
to his happiness, which was always perfect,
but that we might be made happy our
selves , nnd will lie not in all his dispensa
tions toward us, even in the minutest, con
sult that end for which he made us ? To
suppose the contrary, is (which wc arc not
always aware of) affronting every one of
his attributes; and at the same time the
certain consequence of disbelieving his
core for us is, that we renounce utterly
our dependence upon him. In this view it
will appear plainly that the line of duty is
not stretched loo tight, when wc are told
that wrought to accept every thing at his
hands as a blessing, and lobe thankful even
while we smart under the rod of iron with
which he sometimes rules us. Without
this persuasion, every blessing, however
we may think ourselves happy in it, loses
its greatest recommendation, and every af
fliction is intolerable. Death itself must
he welcome to him who hns this faith, nnd
lie who has it not must aim at it, if he is
not a madman.—Sears' Fam. Mag.
Never Fail.
The great secret of success in life is nc-
cr to give up. If wc were to leave a le
gacy lo our children, and had nothing bet
ter, we should bequeath to them as tlieir
motto “ persevere.” More is lost than peo
ple suppose by want of well directed ener
gy—wc do not mean that energy which
comes by fits and starts, but a ceaseless,
untircing tenacity of purpose, assisted by
sound common sense in the affairs of life.
Your weak-minded men, who give up at
the first rebuff, are good for nothing.—
Great souls onl, achieve immortality by
dint of untiling perseverance. Look at
Columbus—he was seventeen years in pro
curing the little fleet which discovered a
world. Sec how Washington toiled, year
after year, otnid constantly recurring dis
appointment, laboring, too, under the want
if money and the suspicions of Congress.
but he persevered, and our independence
was achieved. John Jacob Astor says it
was more difficult to earn his first thousand
dollars than to amass all the rest of his
twcnty-four-millions. He means really
•hat the habits of enterprise, activity and
perseverance, which he found necessary to
earn his first thousand dollars, remained
afterwards with him as a habit, and, assist
ed by capital, easily achieved his enormous
fortune. Most of our other rich men have
once been poor like him. Do not despair,
therefore. Let your watchword be “ never
fail.” Rise superior to your fortunes, and
you will yet bo great and rich.
suppose you have done extra work when
you sit up till midnight, and not rise until
eight or nine in the morning.
Abstain from ardent spirits, cordials and
malt liquors. Let your drink be like that
of Franklin when he was a printer—pure
water.
Never use tobacco in any form. By
chewing, smoking or snuffing, you spend
money which would help to clothe you, or
enable you, if single, to make a useful pres
ent lo an aged mother or dependent sister;
if married, to buy a dress for your wife, or
gel books fot your children. You also, by
any of these filthy practices, injure your
health, bring on headache, gnawing at the
stomach, low spirits, trembling of the limbs,
nnd at times sleeplessness.—JV*taTs Salur-
From the New Orleans Picayune.
Peter Plotvden, the Anti-Hum-
bug.
About 11 o’clock last night, the watchman station
ed in St Charles street, opposite Lafayette Square,
found an individual “coudiaht” on the pine-block
pavement in that neighborhood. Having an insur
mountable objection to any thing stationary—an ob
jection so great that he keeps his accounts on a
notched stick to avoid nsing pens and paper—h->
bade him “move on.” This language, which wav
spoken in the potential cither than in tbs imperative
mood—which was more a request than a command-
war. allowed to pass unnoticed by the recumbent
gentleman; on seeing which, the watchman applied
a persuader, in the shape of bis baton, to his side.
‘•Hallow!” said he whose lodging was on the cold
ground, “hallow, there! what’s that t If yon want
to become drum-beoter to an auctioneer, yon ha 1
better find something else than my ribs to practice
hie men whose blood still flows in our veins, disposition, consult a competent medical
and into whose inheritance we have enter-1 adviser without delay, and implicitly at-
ed. Peace to their silent shades 1 Frajf-: tend to his directions,* so far as you think
rant as the breath of morning bo their he is fully acquainted with your constitu-
memory! The winds of two centuries tion, nnd with the best means of treating
have swept over their graves I your disorder. Never risk your health and
“The effacing hand of time has well 1 life either by neglecting serious illness or
nigh worn away tho perishable monuments, by tampering with quack remedies.
Worth makes the Han.
Worth makes the man 1 not wealth !
not dress I not parade. You will find more
real manliness, .more sound sense, more
loveliness of character, in the humble
walks of life, than was ever dreamed of in
the circles of fashion, of pride, of wealth,
of Chcsterfieldian rules of politeness.
When a man of sense—no matter how hum
ble his origin, or lowly his occupation, may
appear in the eyes of the vain and foppish
—is treated with contempt, he will soon
forget it; but will put forth all the ener
gies of his mind to rise above those who
Utus look down in scorn upon him. By
shunning the mechanic, we exert an in
fluence derogatory to honest labor and
make it unfashionable for young men to
learn trades, or labor for a support. Did
our young women realize that for all their
parents possess, for nit they have they are
indebted to the raechanices it would be
their desire to elevate him and eiicourage
his visits to their society, while they would
treat with scorn the lazy, the spounger
and the well dressed pauper. On looking
back a few years, our most fastidious la
dies can trace their geneaology_from hum
ble mechanics, who, perhaps, in their day
w’ere sneered at by the proud and foolish
while their grandmothers gladly received
them to their bosoms.
“Get un,” paid Charley, “and keep movin’; yo^
are already behind tlie age; if yon lie in tbs public
street you will not only be passed by bat run over.
What* your name?”
“Peter Plowdcn,” said-that gentleman rising np,
“but 1 should like to know what business tint is ct*
yours ?”
“Peter,” said the watchman, “I knows yon—and
I knows you to be a humbug.”
“Well, sir,” said Peter, speaking in a tons as if
his diameter had been traduced and as if his action *
were about to be misconstrued," well, sir and if I an
what of it ? Is not humbug the all-pervading nrir-
ciplc of tlie times ? like the oxygen in the atmosphere,
does it not infuse itself into every department of life
—every ramification of society ? Is not humbug the
fulcrum l y which your running men move tho mar-
m s—tho lever by which the selfish ascend to place
and power. The—”
“ Oh, that’s oil very well,” ntorted tho watch
man, “ but it aint no defence for laying in the
streets.”
“ Certainly not,” rejoined Plowdcn, “because hum
bug, and not the principles of law and justice, wi.l
decide my cose. Talk of talent, patriotism and ge-
nious—it’s humbnr.all sheer humbug, sir. Talent
was never known to do more than servo as stilts for
humbug; and patriotism, whenever it has taken the
field, lias fallen a sacrifice to humbug or left it laur-
eliess; and genious has been but the tail of the kiti
that guidca the Sight of humbug. Why, sir, let
cither talent, patriotism or genious start oa a race
with humbug, and if it would not jostle them altc-
I jether off the track, it would distance them long be-
ore they ccukl get within sight of the winning post
—using the refined idiom of the times, ‘ they couldn’t
come it.’ No, my friend, (here he assumed a pat
ronising air towsnl. the watchmanj if you have
children, and would have them to succeed in tho
world, teach them—though I doubt if you know how
—but atoll events have them taught the science—
or at least tho first principles of hnrnbog; ail the rest
—including the living and the dead languages—they
will learn themselves; beside—”
“Besides,” said the watchman, “I reckons yon's
beside yourself,”
“ Yes,” said Peter Plovrden, “ and Pm before tho
humbugged and behind the humbugs. They mov.i
along on the electro-magnetkal speed principle. Iu
tact, sir, as I believe I have already remarked, al
though without principle themselves theirs is an
ail-pervading principle. Humbug mixes our physic,
mokes our lows and administers our justice. It
founds new systems of philosophy and enlarges tho
limits of philanthropy. It tonus societies lor tho
irerervation of our bodies and institutes associations
or the safety of our souls. In short, Charley,” said
Mr. Plowdcn, familiarly addressing the functionary
who had awoke him. “humbug is the great motive
power of mankind, as the world is now constituted;
and unless I can contrive to get an a little more of
its steam than I have heretofore done, my locomotive
on the railroad of prosperity will, 1 four, be slow in
deed.”
The watchman said there was “ sum’at" in what
be said, but still he felt bound to take him to the
watch-house.
Hints to mechanics.
Dr Alcott gives tlie following hints to
mechanics, which wc think have a general
application, ns well to those of the profess-
ions os those of tho trades: »
If you would avoid too diseases your
IMMENSE NATURAL BEEHIVE,
In a cavern on the right bank of the Colorado c-
boutV miles above Austin, there is an immense hive
of wild bees, which is one of the most interesting
natural curosities in that section. The entrance ot
this cavern is situated in a ledge of lime-stone form
ing a high cliff which rises almost perpendicularly
from the river bank to the bright of about one hun
dred feet from the waters edge. This cliff bents
partly on a M"»n stream named Bali creek. The
mouth of this cavern is about ten feet below the top
of the cliff In a warm day a dark stream of bees
may be constantly sera winding oat from the cavern,
like a long dark wreath of smoke. This stream of
ten appears one or two feet in diameter near the clifij
and gradually spreads out like a fen growing thinner
sod thinner at a distance bom the cavern until it
disappears. The number of bees in this cavern must
be incalculably great, prebabiygreaterthsn the num
ber in a thousand ordinary hives. The oldest set
tiers say that the hive was there when they first ar
rived in the country, and it is quite prshobie that it
existed in the same state many yean previous to the
settlement of the country. The bees it is said have
never swarmed, and it is not improbable, that the
hive has continued, fer more than a century, to in
crease year after year in the same ratio that other
swarms increas'd-^ Tim «■*» appears to extend
bach many rods Into the ledge, and probably has
many lateral chambers. : The bees doubtless occupy
many of these lateral clamber*, and it is not improb
able that new swarms annually find new chambers