Georgia Historic Newspapers

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THE FEDERAL UNION.
JOHN G. POLHIH'J
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EDITOR.
MIL.EEDGEVIL.EtB, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1830.
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VOLUME 1, NUMBER 4.
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TBS FEDERAL UNTOJKT
Is nuWished every Saturday al A URke dollars per an-
iwoi in advance, or Four if not pawl before Ihe end of the
fvear.’ The Office is on tVayne-Sinet, opposite Me-
' Combs* Tavern. .
Ail Advertisements published at the usual rates.
ICP Each Citation by (he Clerks of the Courts of Or*
i dinary that application has been made for Letters of Ad
ministration, must be published Thirty days at least.
Notice by Executors and Administrators for Debtors
and Creditors to render in their accounts must be publish
ed Sis weeks.
Sales of negroes by Executors and Administrators must
|>e advertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sales of personal property (except negroes) of testate
and intestate estates by Executors and Administrators,
must be advertised Forty days.
Applications by Executors, Administrators and Guar
dians to the court of ordinary for leave to sell Land must
be published Four months.
Applications by Executors and Administrators for Let-
era Dismiasory, must be published Six months.
Applications lor (^closure of Mortgages on real Es
tate must be advertised ouce a month for Six months.
L Sale* of real estate by Executors, Administrators and
Juardians must be published Sixty days before the day
sale. These sales must be made at the court-house
Moor between the hours of 10 in the morning and four in
[ the afternoon. No sale from day to day is valid, unless
150 expressed in the advertisement.
! Orders of Court of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy
I of Jie4)or.d, or agreement) to make title* to Land, must
| be advertised Three months at least.
Sheriff’s sales under executions regularly granted by
| tbc courts, must be advertised Thirty days.
Sheriff’s sales under mortgage executions must be ad-
ertised Sixty days before the day of sale.
Sheriff’s sales of perishable property undef order of
3ourt must be advertised generally Ten daYA.
All Orders for Advertisements will be punctually at
tended to.
All Lcfteradirected to the office, or the Editor,
f must be post-paid 10 entitle them to attention.
MILLEDGEVILLE
MASONIC HALL
LOTTERY.
On Thursday, the 4th day of November next,
TMTHE THIRD DAY’S DKAVVING will positively
g take place—at which time, the Wheel will be in
eudi situation, as for holders of Tickets to reasonably
calculate on some respectable prizes. A nobler chance
for a fortune, in the way of Lottery, was never present
ed to the public. Ail who may feel disposed to purchase
Tickets, would act wisely, to buy, in the Milledgeville
Masonic Hall LalUry before the next drawing. This Lot
tery is athom*, and though you should bo unfortunate,
k there is still the advantage that the money will be in cir-
nhtion amongst us, and added to this, the chance is cer
tainly very good to realize ten or fifty times the amount
f vpended fur Tickets. On examination of the different
drawings, it will be seen that the small prizes are very
much diminished, leaving in the Wheel nearly all of the
. iluable ones—It will also be recollected, that the prizes
under two hundred dollars, were deposited in the wheel
it the commune.ment cftlie drawing, and that there are
yet to be deposited, prizes from two hundred up to
33,000 DOLLARS!
' w hich certainly holds out the strongest inducement to pur-
c ..jEers.
At die next Drawing the following Splendid Tri
bes will be flouting
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PRIZE OF
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$500
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10.000
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5,000
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400
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400
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300
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900
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700
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besides 20*s anil 10’s.
FIUCE OF TICKETS.
Wholes $10—Halves S-5—Quarters $2 50.
’Zjr’ ORDERS addressed to Wyatt Foard, Secretary
to the Commissioners, post-paid, will meet with prompt
| attention.
WYATT FOARD,
Secretary to the Commissioners.
Milfedgcvillc, July 17 2 tf
PENITENTIARY, 24th June, 1330.
NOW ON BAND,
A ND FOR SALE nt tins place, the follow tog ARTI
CLES, to wit:
Road Wagons and Gear,
Two-horse. Wagons and Harness,
Gigs and Sulkeys,
Horse and OxCarts.
Jersey Wagons,
Cotton Gins and Family Spinning Machines,
Wheat Fans,
Windsor and Twist-bottom Chairs,
Clock Reels and Spinning-wheels,
1 sett Mahogany Dining Tables,
A Sofa and Bureau,
High and Low-post Bedsteads,
Pine Folding Tables and Side-boards,
Candle and Wash-stands,
Ladies’ Prunnella and Calfskin Shoes,
Gentlemens’ Boots and Shoes,
Negro Shoes,
Gig and Carriage Ha r rcss,
Jersey Carriage and W agon do.
Gig and Carriage Braces,
And a variety of other articles too tedious to mention,
—And all kinds of REPAIRING in any of the above de
scribed articles, dene without delay.
TAILORING-
Executed with neatness, and at very low prices, with dis
patch. The above article will be sold low for cash or ap
proved paper, payable at the Fall.
Cash will be p • id for a few Cart-toads of Cedar or Ju
niper STAVES, and for Green or Dry XKEOSS< de
livered at fair prices. PHILIP COOK, P. K.
July 3 235 6t
LAW 1T0TIC3.
T HE Copartnership in the PRACTICE of the LAW,
heretoexisting between Samuel Lordlier fy Al
fred Iverson, is |hU day dissolved by mutuul consent—
A. Iverson having transferred his interest in said Part
nership to John L Lewis.-
A Copartnership has been this day formed between
Samuel Lowtiiek & John L Lewis, v ho will attend to
the Practice of the Law in the Ocmulgte, Flint and South
ern Circuits. Tfcey will generally be found at their office
in Clinton, when not absent on the Circuit.
A. Iverson will, during the present year, remove to
Columbus, and practice Law in all the counties of the
Chatabaochie Circ ;■( o nu in H ose of the Southern Cir
cuit where iiis struces r< iy be required. The services
of A. Iverson will be rendered in winding up the business
of Lowlher & Iverson in the Oemulgee Circuit.
SAMUEL LOIVTHER,
ALFRED IVERSON,
JOHN L. LEWIS.
Clinton, June 19, 1830. 234mdm
ZOXSCSLLASrBOVS.
NOTIGS.
D URING the temporary absence of the subscriber
from Georgia, Col Samuel A. 'Vales of Clarks
ville, will attend to his Professional business.
JOHN R. SI ANFORD.
July 3, 1830 285
Executive Department, Ga. j
Mi’leilgeviUe, June \7lh, 1S30. 5
lTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that Sealed Propo
I sals will be received at the Department until the
15th day of August next, for printing and binding Two
Thousand Copies of a Compilation of the Laws and Res
olutions of this State, from ti.e year 1820 up to 1829, in
clusive, in quarto size volumes, with marginal notes and
Index. The type and paper to be similar to that of th'*
Digest of the Laws of the United States, published by
Thornes F. Gordon, Esq. in 1827. The Binding to be of
good sheep, (b )W binding,) lettered and filleted
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must be plain and explicit, and must embrace all expen
ses attending the execution and delivery of the work at
the State-House in this place, and also the time of delive
ry, for which good and sufficient security will be required,
as well as for the re-deli' ery of the manuscript
Attest, M1LLLER GRIEVE,
(233—91) Scc’ry Executive Department.
[rg^HE SUBSCRIBER is preparing a Defence of the
BL f *Howing Doctrines:
1. Tbc Docti inc of Election, which is fail ly proved
ty scripture and its use show n.
2 Tift Doctrine of the Covenant of Redemption,
proved hy scripture and reason, and its use shown.
3. A:i answertothe Rev. Cyru3 White on the Atone-
f 'MENT, in which his “views” are fairly refuted by scrip
ture and reason.
4. The Author’s Views on Associations—in whichhe
designs to shew that Associations are not conducted ac-
l curdiiig to scripture—All which will shortly be published
i by LUKE ROBINSON, of Newton co. Ga.
A fay 29, 1S30 . 230
FOUND.
|*jB^IGlIT miles above Milledgeville on the Eatonton
ruad, a sheep-skin POCKET ROOK, somewhat
Isoiled by using—containing notes and other papers. The
>iotes are given to Senborn»J. Thompson; five signed by
Lt iicl Evans, four of them dated in July, 1830 and one
In Nov-1829; there are also other notes—one signed by
~> words, one by H. J. Thompson, one by Charles Thomp
son, one by U'm. B. Grainger, one by a name taken to be
[Taylor, with other pap< rs. The owner can have the
‘.auie by upphcation to John B. Dyer, on the Sheffield Fer
ry Road, leading from Milledgeville to Grceuesboro’, by
having for this advertisement, and a reasonable compen
sation to the finder. JOHN B. DYF.R.
July 17 2 2t
NOTICE.
I HE Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett coun
ty, Ga. have appropriated $4000 for the purpose of
IUILDING a
Crick or Stone Jail,
said county—to consist of not less than five apartments
>r prisoners. Sealed Proposals will be received for
luiidiug the same until the first day of October next. The
Proposals will embrace plan and price, and be addressed
to William Maltbie, Esq- Clerk of said Court.
JOHN BREWSTER, s. «. c.
J. VVARDLAW. j. i. c.
CLIFFORD WOODROOF, j. I. c.
ASAHEL R. SMITH, j. i. c.
June 26 234 I4t
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Thursday, December 17th, 1829.
HERE AS the cumber of members, which, under
the present provisions of the Constitution of
this State, compose the General Assembly, is considered
by many of the good citizens of the State, by far too nu
merous, and sonsequently unnecessarily expensive, for
an economical People.—For the purpose therefore, of as
certaining the voice of the People on this all important
and interesting subject—
Re it therefore resolved, That all the voters of Georgia
who feel for the interest and prosperity of the State, and
who wish to reduce the number of the members if the
General Assembly of Georgia, be required on tbe first
Monday in October next, to say, on their ticket, if in fa
vor of a reduction—“REDUCTION”—if against it,
“NO REDUCTION.”
Resolved further. That the Superintendents of Elec
tions on that day keep a poll of the same, and certify it
to the Governor, a statement of ihe poll, and that he
cause the same to be laid before tbe next General Assem
bly; and that he cause these Resolutions to be published
once $ month in the Gazettes of Milledgeville, until the
election.
Approved, December 21,1S29.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
March 9, 183b 227- 5m
NOTICE.
LL persons are hereby forewarned from trespassing
in any m inner, upon the following LOTS in Car-
Dll county—Nos. 140, 173, in the 2d—203, in the 6tb
-139 and 271, in the 7th District. Persons wishing to
irehase cither of the above lots, will apply to Mulfurd
lir»h, Esq. Jacksonboro, Striven county, or ThomasF.
jireiui in MilledgjlKille.
July 10 1 3t
Notice to all Persons !
HEREBY forward all persons, from trading with
Elb ridge Harris, for lot No. 272, in the 6th district
Carroll county, because ( have pui chased the same of,
from said Harris on the 26th of June last past, and
|M him for the same, and am determined to hold it.
kis notice is therefore given for the. benefit of ali per?
is. JOSHUA HOLDEN.
labenham county, July 13th. IS3Q> < 3 44
A N ACT to extend the time for fortu
nate drawers in the Land Lotteries of eighteen
hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
and eighteen hundred and twenty-one to take outgran’s
for the lands thus drawn, and alter the time therein
specified, to vest the same in the state.
Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it
is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That every
person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lotteries
by the authority of the acts passed qn tbe fifteenth day
of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on the six
teenth day of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen,
and on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and
twenty-one, shall have untill the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and thirty, to takeout his, her or their
grant upon paying into the Treasury the sum of eight
dollars.
•Sec- 2. And he it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That from and after the first day of November,
eighteen hundred ami thirty, the lands so drawn as afore
said, and not granted, shall revert to and become the
property of the State.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall
not extend to any lot or lots of land drawn by orphans
until three years after tbe said orphans shall have arriv-
cd'at tbe age of tivenl}-one years; nor to any lots drawn
by idiots or lunatics or persona who have departed this
life since they gave in for a draw or draws in said lotteries
of 1818,1819 & 1821, and whose estates are unrepre
sented, nor to any lots number ten and one hundred set
apart for the purposes of public education.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and
parts of laws militating against this act, be ana the same
is hereby repealed.
Sec. 5th. And be it further enacted by the authority a-
fore said, That it shall be the duty of his Excellency the
Governor, to cause this act to be published in all the pub
lic Gazettes of this State, once a month, until the first day
of November next, and that he cause the expenses of such
publication to be paid out of the contingent fund,
WARREN JOURDAN,
Speaker Qf the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to 9th November, 1829.
GEORGE XL GILMER,
Governor.
Not. 14, ■ —w202tr"Hal2a
Conjugal Affection.— Julius Salunus having
engaged the interest of the Gaul9, caused
himself to be proclaimed Emperdr of Rome ;
but being defeated he fled to his country
bouse, and set it on Are, in order to raise a re
port that he had perished. This scheme an
swered his end, for he was there believed to
have suffered a volun’ary death.
But, in the mean time, he lay concealed
with his treasures (for he was immensely rich)
in a cave which he had caused to be dug in a
solitary place, and which was known only to
in his shop, as thongb the whole building was
in one general flame. He ran with the great
est precipitancy, and on flinging ope a ihe door
discovered a man standing erect in the midst
of a widely extended silver colored blaze, bear
ing as he described it, exactly the appearance
of the trick of a burning candle in the midst
of its own flame. He seized him by the shoul
der, and jerked him to the door; upon which
the flame was instantly extinguished. There
was no fire in the shop, neither any possibility
of fire haying been communicated to him from
.any external source. It was purely a case ol
spontaneous ignition. A general sloughing
came on, and his flesh was consumed or remov
two of his freedmen, upon whose fidelity he, ed jn th ;Messing,leaving the bones and a few
could depend. He might easily have with
drawn to Germany; but he could not prevail
on himself to abandon his wife, whom he pas
sionately loved.
Sabinus, that none might doubt his death,
did not for some time, even undeceive his wife,
who solemnized his obsequies with great
pomp, bewailed him with many tears, and at
last, no longer able to hear the loss of an hus
band for whom she had the siucerest affection,
resolved not to out-live him, and began to
abstain from all food. This news alarmed Sa
binas; and therefore, by means of Martialis,
one of his fresdmen, he informed her that he
was still alive, and acquainted Iter with the
place where he lay concealed, desiring her at
ihe same lime to suppress her joy, lest the se
cret might be thence betrayed.—Empena
heard the relation with inexpressible pleasure,
and pretending business in the country flew to
her husband. The cave to her was then pref-
ferable to a palace, for there only she was hap
py. She went frequently to see him and
sometimes contrived to stay whole weeks un
suspected. She had even two children by
him, who were born & brought up in the cave.
When at Rome, she continued to bewail
him as dead—and concealed the whole with
exemplary fidelity and wonderful address; nay
she found means to convey him to the city, up
on what motive wo know not; and from thence
back to his cave, so well disguised he was by
no one known. But after he bad passed nine
years in this manner, he was at length discov
ered by some persons who narrowly watched
his wife, upon her frequently absenting herself
from her own house and followed her to the
cave without being: discovered.
Sadinus was immediately seized and sent to
Rome loaded with chains, together with his
wife, who throwing herself at the Emperor’s
feet, and presenting to him her two infants, en
deavored with her tears and entreaties to move
to compassion. Vespasian, the Emperor,
could not help weeping at so affecting: an ob
ject; nevertheless he condemned both her and
her husband: &, caused them to be executed!-
Cruel tyrant! humanity blushes for thee.
The following humorous argument was ad
vanced by a canal stockholder, for the purpose
of putting down railways:
“He saw what would be the effect of it; that
it would set the whole world gadding—twen
ty miles an hour, sir! Why, you will not be a-
ble lo keep an apprentice boy at his work,
every Satur Jay evening he must take a trip to
Ohio, to spend the Sabbath with his sweet
heart. Grave, plodding citizens will be flying
about like comets. All local attachments
must be at an end. It will encourage flighti
ness of intellect. Various people will turn in
to the most immeasurable liars; all their con
ceptions will be exagerafed by their magnifi
cent notions of distance—‘only a hundred
miles off! Tut, nonsense. I’ll step ^across,
rpadam. and bring your fan!’ ‘Pray, Sir, will
you dine with me roday, at mv.little box on
the Allegany?” ‘Why, indeed, I don't know—
I shall be in town until 12—^weU, I shall be
there, but you must let me off in time for the
Theatre.’ And then, Sir, there will he barrels
of Pork, and cargoes of Flour, and chaldrons
of coal, and even lead and whiskey, and such
like sober things, that have always been used
to sober travelling—whisking away like a set
of sky rockets. It will upset all the gravity of
the nation. If a couple of gentlemen have an
affair of honor, it is only to steal off to the Roc-
kv Mountains, and there no jurisdiction can
touch them. And then. Sir, think of flying for
deht! A set of bailiffs, mounted on bomb
shells, would not overtake an absconded debt
or—only give him a fair start. Upon the
whole, Sir, it is a pestilential topsey turvey,
harum scarum whirligig Give m ■ the old, so
lemn. straight-forward, regular Dutch Canal-—
three mil^s an hour for expresses, and two for
jog or trot journeys—with a yoke of oxen for
a heavy load! I go for beasts of harden; it is
more primitive and scriptural, and suits a moral
and religious people better. None of your
bop skip, and jump whimsies for me.”
Spontaneous Combustion of a Drunkard.—Dr.
Peter Schofield, in a late address delivered at
the formation of a Tenperarce Society in the
township of Bastard, in the District of John
stown, in the Province of Upper Canada, states
a case of spontaneous combustion, which oc
curred in his practice. “It is w'ell authentica
ted, says the Doctor, that many habitual drink
ers of ardent spirits are brought to their end by
what is called “spontaneous combustion*! By
spontaneous combustion, I mean when a per
son takes fire, as by an electric shock, and
burns up without any external application.—
Trotter mentions several such instances. One
happened under my own observation. It was
the case of a young man, about 25 years old.
He had been an habitual drinker for many
years. 1 saw him about nine o'clock in tbe
evening on which it happened. He was then
as usual, not drunk, but full of liquor. About
eleven on the same evening, 1 was called to
see him. I found him literary roasted from
the crown of his head to the sole of his ftet—
He was found in a blacksmith’s shop just across
the way from where he had been. The own*
all pf a sodden/ discovered an extensive light
of the larger blood vessels standing. The
blood nevertheless, rallied round the heart,
and maintained the vital spark, until the thir
teenth day, when he died, not only the most
noisome, ill-featured and dreadful picture that
was ever presented to human view, but his
shrieks, his cries, and lamentations were e*
nough to rend a heart of adamant. He com
plained of no pain of body—his flesh was gone.
He said he was suffering tbe torments of hell;
that he was just upon itsthreshhold. and should
soon enter its dismal caverns: and in this frame
of mind he gave op the ghost. O the death
of a drunkard! Well may it be said to beggar
all description. I have seen other drunkards
die, but never in a manner so awful and affect
ing. They usually go off senseless and stupid
as it regards a future state!”—Kingston, (Can
ada) Gazette.
The first duty of a Statesman is to build up
the moral energy of a people. This is their
first interest; and he who weakens it, inflicts
an injury which uo talent can repair, nor should
any splendor of services, or any momentary
success, avert from him the iDtamy which die
has earned. Let public men learn to think
more reverently of their function. Let them
feel that they are touching more vital interests
than property. Let them fear nothing so
much as to sap the moral convictions of a peo
ple, by unrighteous legislation, or a selfish po
licy. Let them cultivate in themselves the
spirit of religion and virtue, as the first requi
site to public station. Let no apparent advan
tage to the community, any more than to them
selves, seduce them to the infraction of any
moral law. Let them put faith in virtue as
the strength of nations. Let them not be dis
heartened by temporary ill success in upright
exertion. Let them remember, that while
they and their contemporaries live but for a
day, the State is to live for ages, and that
Time, the unerring arbiter, will vindicate the
wisdom as well as the magnanimity of the pub
lic man, who, confiding in the power of truth,
justice, and philanthropy, asserts their claims,
and revereutiy follows their monitions, amidst
general disloyalty and corruption.—[Channing.
The way to patronize a Newspaper.
1st. Subscribe: it costs you nothing just to
write your name.
2d. Send in, now and then, an adver
tisement for insertion with tf at the end of
it.
3d. Send your paper away, when received t6
some distant friend, and dispatch a messenger
post haste to the printer, or go yourself for an
other of tbe same date. If you think it too
small for your gentlemanskip to ask for a second
gratis, say, orjdirect your messenger to say, that
the carrier left you none: and just give the
printer a significant reprimand, thereby to
show your own dignity and to make him tee I
his dependeuce.-All this is encouraging It is
patronage. What is one extra newspaper a
iveek to a printer who has your patronage?
It is true your single subscription may cost
bim one hundred papers a year; but that is
nothing: he has your patronage, ^.-.id he ought
to pay you for it.
4th. When your bill is sent in, stare at it;
say, “I don’t know about this; I never received
more than fifteen or twentypapers in the whole
year. Besides I subscribed merely to patron
ize the paper. 1 sha’nt pay it.”
Mr. Patronage, to,Timothy Typesticker, Dr.
To Advertisement, in the Orinoco,—squares
—weeks, $
“What does this mean? I never advertised
in the Orinoco in my life.” ‘ Your clerk, sir,
handed in the advertisement, and it was inser
ted as directed ” “Let me think. O, yes, 1
remember now! I remember I told him be
might carry it, just to encourage the paper, as
I wished it well. But 1 had no idea of ever
being called on for pay for it. And now
sir, as I sent it merely to patronize the paper,
it is not right that I should pay and I will not
pay.”
Mr. Patronage s Soliloquy. ‘Good! five dol
lars sa\ r cd already this morning! I’ll set that
down on the Company’s book, to my own cred
it. The poor devil is gone, and he knows too
well to sue tne. Five dollars saved! Money
saved is as good as money earned. The fel
low’s bill was reasonable enough to be sure
and be ought to be paid. But it is my busi
ness to t*ke care of number one; and it is his
look out, not mine, about his losses.
It would require a good many such patrons
as I am to support a Newspaper, true enough.
One thousand such would keep from the prin
ter’s purse jive thousand dollars; quite a round
sum for one man to lose. But I presume his
other subscribers don’tuqderstand the get-offs
quite so well as 1 do; so that he don’t lose all.
Down, conscience; money-making and money
saving is my trade. And for a man to follow
his trade is no sin. Therefore keep quiet. It
is only.five dollars, that 1 have quibbled out ot
the printer. The world owes bim a livingland
he can’t starve in this land of plenty. So
keep still conscience. I’ll go to church three
times next Sabbath; that will pay you for all
your aches.—Orinoco.
Envy is a passion whose characteristic is
a cowardice, so less tfcas malice aod detraction I central.
NEW MIRACLES.
A new sect of believers have lately sprung
up in Gareloch, Scott land, whose faith and
works are beginning to attract C e attention
of the learned, as they have for aotne time ex
cited the warmest feelings of the ignorant.—
About a twelve month ago, a volume was pub
lished, entitled, “Peace in Believing, being the
Letters and Memoirs of Isabella Campbell,” a
young person who died of consumption. This
volume acquired great popularity among kind
red minds, both from the interesting character
of the writer, and the natural eloquence of her
letters. About tbe period of tbe publication,
a brother and sister ol the deceased were ta
ken ill of the complaint of which she died.-—
The similarity of the circumstances, character,
and acquirements of the two sisters, excited a
considerable interest among those who consi
dered themselves the true believers. Every
Word the apparent dying sister spoke was lis
tened to as inspiration, and she spoke with fer
vor and fluency truly wonderful. Miss Camp
bell was of the sect who lay claim to direct in
spiration, and being listened to wRh such re
verential feelings, she probably regarded «w
she poured forth to her admiring auditors with
such facility, as in reality the outpourings of
the spirit. Contrary to ali expectation, she
some months ago began to recover, and deter
mined, in gratitude to Heaven, to devote her
life to £he conversion of the heathen. It was
obviously necessary to the success of the work,
that she should understand the heathen lan
guage. The difficulty was overcome by «
new miracle, and Mary Campbell received the
gift of tongues, in which she became, quite as
flueut as in her native speech. It is true, no
one who has yet listened to the voice of her in
spiration can understand one word she utters
when she quits her mother tongue; but their
faith is not shaken in the reality of the miracle
which is to ha manifested, ever, to unbelievers,
which Mary visits the heathen. Every time
she opens her mouth, the sounds she utters are
different, but this only proves the greatness
of the miracle, the language being that of
many nations.
The fame of Mary Campbell’s inspiraliou,
and the divine influence as it was called by
the true believers, was felt by others of the
faithiul. The shape it in general took, was
the miraculous cure of diseases. When the
miracle did not work well, it was always owino*
to want of faith in the subject. An inspired
brother approached the bed of bis sister, who
had been confined to it a long time, and comr
manded her, in tbe name of the Lord Jesus, io
rise and walk. Her faith was perfect: she a-
roseand walked about her room, and slept bet
ter that night than she had done a longtime be
fore, and has continued well ever since, though
thin and emaciated—a circumstance which
causes a want of faith in many, who cannot be
lieve that God would work half a miracle, but
think he would at once remove all (races of
Ihe complaint. Other similar miracles have
been performed, and some have failed for want
of faith. The effect of the imagination in the
cure of many diseases is well known. Miss
Mary Campbell’s miraculous tongue, under
stood by no one, can be accounted for: but the
real miracle is, that men of education, that
members of the Scottish bar, and ministers of
the Scottish Church-— should be found among
the believers. Their number exceeds two
thousand, and it is still increasing, f Abridged
from an Edinburgh paper.] °
The Great Eclipse oj 1831.—The eclipse,
which will happen on the 12lh of February,
will be one of the most remarkable that will a-
gain be witnessed in the United States for a
long course of years The apparent diameter
of the sun will be 32 1 2 minutes of a degree;
that of the moon 31 1-2. Of course tbe e-
clipse will be annular; that is, in all places
where the sun will be centrally eclipsed, at the
moment of greatest obscuration, it will exhibit
tbe appealanfie of a beautiful luminous ring
around the moon. Eclipses ot this kind are of
less frequent occurrence than those which are
total. The centre of the eclipse will first touch
the earth's disk in the great Pacific Ocean, on
the morning of February 12th, in latitude 31
degrees 55 minutes N and longitude 140 de
grees 3 minutes west from Greenwich. At
this point the sun will rise centrally eclipsed,
at 34 minutes past 6 o’clock, or at 3 boors 54
minutes P. M. apparent time at Greenwich-—
Thence proceeding by a gentle curve to the
South and Easi; in 16 minutes it will enter up
on the coast of California, in Latitude 27 de
grees 30 minutes N. Thence carving north
wardly, 47 minutes more, it will enter the U.
States near the S. W. corner of Louisian.:, and
in six minutes will cross the Mississippi, near
St. Francisville. Passing through the States
of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia, in 27
minutes more it will arrive at a print in Pen
dleton county, South Carolina, in Latitude 34
degrees 37 minutes N. Longitude 82 degrees
28 minutes W. where the sun will central e-
clipsed on the meridian. Thence passing over
North Carolina into Virginia, in 14 mmufes i
will cross Jame’s River, near Richmond; jrui
continuing in nearly a direct line, in 8 minute*
will leave the Jersey shore at Little Egg Har
bour, passing a few miles east of AlontauK
Point; in 8 minutes it will leave the shore ci
Cape Cod at Wcllfleet, and in 6 minutes will
enter upon South Western extremity of Nuva
Scotia. Thence passing over the Island of
Newfoundland, and increasing in velocity as it
approaches the verge of the earth, in 19 min
utes more it will leave its disk in- Latitude 57
degrees, 28 degrees, 10 minutes,. W. at which
point the sun will set centrally eclipsed at 4h.
30m. or 6h. 25m. Greenwhich time.
The eclipse will have been 2h. 31m. in cros
sing the earth’s disk, and about one hour trom
its entrance to the time of its leaving the Unit
ed States. A line drawn through the abovo
points on a map of North America, will pass
through all those places where the eclipse is
Two othey litres oii qtch side of the