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tyottrp. Dirge on iwoYounx Females taking the Veil. AN OLD POEM. I. ‘O secret walks, to silent rfhadec, i-fl places where no voice invades rhe .air, but what’s treated by Their own retired society, .iiowly these blooming nymphs we bring, ” o wither ouf their fragrant spring; / For those sweet odours lover* pine, Where beauty doth but vainly shine. chorus. Where nature's wealth, and ’ art’s assisting cost. Both in the beams of distant hope are lost. ’ * wf ■£> , * ‘ y - - -S’ .. y?/- .*■ %/ . - To cloisters where cold damps destroy The busie thoughts of bridal joy ; To vows whose, harsh events must be Uncoupled cold virginitie ; T<> pensive prayers, where heaven appears Thr ugh the pale cloud of private tears ; These captive virgins we must leave, Till freedom they from death receive. / CUOROS. Only in this remote conclusion blest, This vale of tears leads to eternal rest. 3. Then since that such a choice as theifs, Which styles them the undoubted heirs To heaven, ’twere sinful to repent, Here may they live till beauty, spent In a religious life, prepare Them wrlv their fellow saints to share Celestial joys, for whose desire They freely from the world retire, clonus. Go then, and rest in blessed peace, while we Deplore the loss of such societie. • * EXTRACTS from an essay on the Divine Authority or 7’he imar ‘jfpsT’AMF.kr, By BOGUE. The j manner in which a future State is represented in the New Testa• , ment . : ‘ • : i • When an author chooses a theme which is level to the human capaci ty. and of which all can judge from observation, experience, or reflec tion. he has greatly the advantage. A future state of rewards and pun ishments requires the penof amias ter to write upon it but tolerably well. A review of what has been published on the subject, will evince the pro priety of this remark. The Greek and Homan poets, who were the retailers of the pagan the ology among thp most civilized na tions of antiquity, describe the hap piness of the good, and the misery Os the wicked, after death. But how mean the hapiness l It consists in talking over their battles, 8 in re hearsing poems, -and in receiving adulation. A person acquainted with the ordinary pursuits of mt*n on earth, if he have but a peotio fancy* may easily, as to ideas at least, riyal the description. Their State of misery is better conceived, but it is minute and low. N Mahomet, who knew something of the New Testament, thinking perhaps to improve upon it, and to give a more affecting view, has pre sented us with his ideas of a future world, lie indeed gratified curiosity; but his. minute description are dis gusting in the extreme* “His state of reward allures every ‘sense, and every appetite : it is the happiness of an epicure and a wanton. His state of misery fills the soul with loathing and horror: it is the coarse imagination of an Arab, who had seen and thought of the most brutal cruelty. Modern deists have been rather afraid of the subject. A few of them have spoken of death as the close of human existence. But there is something in this so degrading and at the same time so irrational, that we can scarcely account sos their sentiments in any other way, but bv supposing that they are af raid of a world of retribution. Oth ers, nay most of them, allow there is such a state ; but they say nothing concerning it, which cah afford sa tisfaction to an enquiring mind’ There is happiness to the good ; and some-will add, there is misery to the widked ; But in what the hap piness or the misery consists, where is the deist who has ventured tadcs cribe ? They seem not at home, when a future state is the theme of discourse s we are left altogether in the* dark. Their description has no Sjitpstance : it is a fleeting shade which eludes our grasp. The pa gan Elysium and Tartarus have a body ; but they are *OO gross for reason to endure for a single mo ment : we are only introduced t6the Olympic games, and Dionysius's .tjryrtgepir. Mahomet’s description has a body too : but his paradise is eastern seraglio; and his bdi the office of the Spanish TnquYi*'on Nature is overpowered, and simcs be neath the oppression of the torture. On taking the New Testament in to our hands, what a different scene is presented to ou. view. We are no longer left to grope in the deist’s darkness: nor disgusted and shocked with the tmseemly particularity of the: others. The happiness of the disciples of Jesus is described by f images natural, innocent, and most lovely : and there is always an inti mation that they are but images, and are designed to represent to us a state of felicity, consisting in per fect knowledge and perfect holiness; a felicity arising from conformity to God, and a full fruition of him, and from the society of perfectly wise and holy beings. The misery is de scribed by comparisons from natu ral objects, which are exceedingly awful; and which, without racking the feelings like the Koran, fill the heart with salutary terror. At the same time information is plainly Conveyed, that the misery in a great measure consists in evil dispositions and passions, in remorse and des pair, and in the displeasure of a justly offended God. v The superior ity of the New Testament on this most difficult of subjects, must be obvious to every reader. Let him fairly ascertain the cause. There is a peculiarity belonging to the manner in which this subject is treated, that merits notice. When men write on a future state, they are apt tb throw the reins upbn the neck of fancy. With the exception of the/ modern deists,* this lias always been the case. Hence their descriptions are minute to tediousness. They know not where to stop: and the au thor’s exuberant'fancy is displayed at the expence of his judgment. But we db not find this in the apostles of Christ, There is a dignified reserve * When they have advanced to a cer tain limit, a veil is thrown over the rest. If this had, in one or two of them, sprung from a spirit of cauti ous sagacity, is it not probable that others would have gone further ?—* Might not one, at least, of a more adventurous soul, and more luxuri ant fancy than his fellows, have gi ven a loose to his imagination, and said many things which they never thought of ? This might be the more naturally expected, as some never saw the writings of the others, and therefore could have no monitor or pattern tp regulate their steps. The remark acquires additional force* if we extend it to the writers of the Old Testament, to whom it is equal ly applicable. How shall we ac count for it ? Was there not a divine hand guiding the pen ? * r The motive s proposed by the Got pel. From its doctrines, precepts, and discoveries of a future state, the New Testament appears to be no com* man book. The motives it presents, tnough partly included in these, may yet be considered as distinct, and in a peculiar point of view* If the matter be duly examined, it will npt be looked upon as% rash assertion* that it is impossible to conceive stronger motives to deter from evil, and influence to good, and conse quently to banish misery and pro* duce happiness, than those which the gospel sets beforci our eyes. Here every spring of action in the human heart is put in motion : Hope, fear* love, hatred, desire, aversion, grati tude, is addressed : not a chord in the heart is left untouched. Diver sity in motives is of essential benefit. Is not the fear of evil known and felt to be a powerful principle in the soul ? Christ and his apostles reveal from heaven the wrath of God against ail ungodliness, and unrighteousness of man ; and* enumerate the many and bitter miseries which tread on the heels of aggression, in a present life. But a future world is the state of retribution : and we are taught by him, who will sit on the tribunal at. the day of judgment, “ that the wick ed shall go away into everlasting punishment, where there shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.” Could fear suggest a con sideration more powerful, for res traing those strong propensities to evil which are m the human heart l But motives of a different kind are* more fully, and frequently insisted on. Christianity is not the religion of a slave. It does not debase the mind with terror. It is a noble and generous aud abounds with motives of love, and promises of blessings, and the hopes of glory.—. Here we are entering on a roost ex tensive field ; but we must pass thro* it in haste : yet we may enjoy s<jj ne thing of the delightful prospect, as we advance, The Supreme Being describes himself by one word, which contains volumes of ideas: GOD IS LOVE* Infinite the guil ty and miserable,, meets our eye in every page. The boundless corn* passion and grdee of the Lord Jesus, who came into the world to seek & to save that which was lost, eVen the chieFofi sinners and ius iucdnceiv- f able affection for his disciples ; are a frequent anddelightful theme.— The power 01 the sacred Spirit, and his enlightening, sanctifying, and comforting influences, are often pre sented to the mind. God’s paternal care of his people* his guidance hfs support, his presence, his consola tions in afflictions, and his more than J a fatbits regardraml sympathy at the hoar of d»ath, are expressed in language never Used in any other _ book. In addition to all these, the eternal world is unveiled before our eyes; and we are called to behold a, state of the noblest and purest feli city, continuing and increasing thro’ all eternity. Such are the motives of the gos pel ; all tending to promote faith, holiness, and resignation to the di vine will, and to make men like God. Stronger ones cannot be adduced.— But how came these fishermen and tent-makers and publicans, to ex haust the mine ? Look at the mo-1 tives of ancient and modem pagan ism, which the votaries oi Jupiter, of Brahma , and of Fo , have held up to the view of their worshippers 1 Rea son blushes at the sight, and is a shamed to draw a comparison. If Mahomet could not but perceive the * strength of the motives from a future state of rewards and punishments, he has sunk them from spifit to flesh 1 and many of those sweet, tendei, & insinuating ones, which sprang out of the love of God, and the compas sion of the Mediator, he has entirely left out. Well informed deists will own, that their writers seem far more zealous in exclaiming against superstition, than in Urging the mo tives to the practice of natural reii ; gion, which even natural religion af fords : but these are unspeakably inferior in number, strength, and clearness to those of Christianity. From the Columbian* ■ ■ 1 , To the Editor, SIR, The inclosed is a description; in part, and correct as far as it goes, of one of the most celebrated sleeptalk ers which has appeared upon the footstool for two thousand years. Please publish it s it may give occa sion for the display of much scepti cal ingenuity. Very truly yours, ALFIERI. WONDERFUL PHENOMENON. Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Western district* to his friend in this city, dated March 20,1814. N . T*’ DEAR WILLIAM, , I went last evening with dur friends Sand H to hear the famous female solmniloquist, or sleep talker , of whom I said something in my last. We went at an early hour, that; we might have an opportunity of con versing with her while waking, and of laying in stores for scepticism 1 She is a plump, hale country lass of nineteen, rather above the middle size; of a smooth, equal, vacant tranquility of visage* without men tal vivacity or vigor. You would pronounce her eye to be good ; but it is unsteady, wild and capricious with an unusual* if you please say Sickly, dilation of the pupii. She is taciturn and diffident, with a hea vy, languid drawl of utterance* which pains you.’ . Our conversation was of a critical cast j run mostly upon facts relating to herself; her parentage, nativity, age, education* health, accidents, re ligion, &c. and the amazing uncon scious faculty of talking in heF sleep. She followed all our question s in a regular anticipated nqthing—but on the last head spoke with reluctance, and in a manner which betrayed a deep sensibility of her misfortune. > It was not a reluc tance called in t<n resist our incivil ity : it was female delicacy, busy in secreting a deformity. She informed us that she had been in that way about two years, and was not sensible of any bodily disorder which could produce it. She is of the Baptist sect, and for many years; has been a zealous and fervent dev otee, and when sleeping, her mind taking the pious tendency of her waking hours, appears to be wholly occupied with subjects of religion. ■ On this head she appeared to be intuitively prepared to meet ques tions the most dark Sc abstruse. She answers with promptness, without multifarious remark—right onward without repetition—to a total ex haustation of her subject, and not unfrequently of herself—These facts the people with whom she -lived, and who had known her from’ her in falley, united in confirming. The object of our visit being attained, and our curiosity more strongly_ ex cited, we retired to a neighbor's for an hour, and returned Ao full gra tification* She had been in otd sometime, and in a few moments we heard her commence—The doors were thrown open and we all entered —it was not uncommon we were in formed, for three or four hundred to be present. She opened with a prayer of half > an hour and delivered herself with great distinctness,in a clear, harmo nious unhesitating animated tone of voice, with much devotional zeal and attracting fervouH when through, she sighed and groaned as in bodi ly anguish* for ten or twelve minutes, —-her chest hove—she grated her teeth and catched her breath, as one does v ith a palpitation of the heart. - At a proper interval, someone who -belonged to the house, calling her rftildly by her name, observ ed that her elder somebody—his name I come some distance to see her. On this, she la bored a moment as fqr breath, when she commenced aj|d went through with a most elegant exhortation,ad dressed to him personally, on the subject of his duties; urging him to diligence, assiduity and persever ance in his calling—painting in co lors of delirious extacy, the pleasures of the life to come, for the life well spent ; and denouncing in awful so lemnity* with the shuddering rors of eternal damnation, the sen tinel who slumbered or winked upon the watch-tower—interlarding her discourse with many pertinent scrip tural allusions, and in a copiousness of language, which indeed very much astonished us* The elder In the meantime, “ * pa!e amazed, All gaze, all wonder - .*? Eyeing in tremulous weakness, oracular corpse which lay before him, in deep dead sleep, interwove the sentiments which dmpt from it with the awful mysteries of a pre ternatural—'“ Saul! Saul.l why per secUtest thou me?’—and Wept in silent obsequiousness. In fact, the deep attention of th£ auditors—the sighs of the spattering hail—the howling tempest—united with the speaking fcorpse* as it peared uttering its awful warnings to mortality—offered one of those .moments of retirement to the soul, wjien we shudder and shiver in sublimity, like a culprit ih Rome, with his heels to the precipice ; in deed I Was ten times within an ace of coiling Up my logic and uniting in the sympathies Os the cro »vdr , Having finished her adress to the elder* she relapsed again iiitO the same convulsion which she had in her first interval, but visible irt greater pain : it was the contort tion of an e incubus j it was the last conscious grasp oflife to its fixture: she was as colorless as death 1 This unexpected and frighful de bility of the young* lady excited our curiosity,. and gave rise to a conver sation with the lady of the house upon the subject. She told tis that three nights the company had so multiplied questions upon her Jhat she Was driven to a state of the most alarming exhaustion, and whenever this happened it required six, eight, and sometimes ten days Os kind attention,’ caution and for bearance to recruit her. We were very sorry for this information,.as we were obliged to give over asking her many questions with which we had come prepared. The company on this information* immediately broke up and we retired. Now friend Willi ami do you think of all this ? Get along as soon as posible with all your doubts * take it as a fact that it is no imposture, no delusion 5 and then let me Hear from you. REMARKABLE LONGEVITY- Manfeus, who wrote the history of the Indies, which has always been a model of veracity as well ais ele gant composition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Nuraas de Cogne, who died, .15&6, at the age 0f370. He was a man of great simplicity, and quite illiterate, but of so exten sive a memory, that he was a kind of living chronicle, relating distinctly and exactly what had happened with in his knowledge in the compass of his life, together with all the cir cumstances attending it. He bad four new setts of teeth : and the co lour of His hair aqd beard had been frequently changed- from black to grey, and from grey tQ black. He * asserted that in the course of his life hfe had seven hundred wives, some of whom died, and'others he had'put away. The first century of his life passed in idolatry, from which he was converted to Maho metanism, which he continued to profess till his death. f ‘ This account is also confirmed by another Portuguese author, Ferdi nand Lopez Categueda, who was his toriographer royal. The useful arte.r—There has been exhibited for two or,three weeks in an apartment of the cajfttal in this city an improved Loom, which for general utjlity promises to excel any modem improvement in the useful arts which has come within our knowledge. Thishnachine resem *bles the common loom, though smaller, but is so ingeniously con structed as to require the force and agency of a single arm only to give a perfect and rapid motion to a!! Its parts. * By simply working the bat ton or slay in the common manner, motion is gfWn to a Spring shuttle, works the treadles and, kt /propel times, lets out the warpafld Vmds up the cloth, keeping the whole well tightened ahd in proper order. Ihe shuttle can he thrown 200 times iii a minute, (or any number of times the slay can be made to traverse* as the motion ot the former is gen erated bv that of the latter ) and the work of the loom, averages thirty yards of common cloth per day \ two inches of ordinary size have been woven.in one /minute. Such i*j thexharactergiven of the machine by the proprietor, and. after atten tively witnessing its operation, Wfc cannot question his statement. The inventor of it is Mr. Walter Jones of Connecticut The loom is adap ted to the manufacture of any fab rick, from the finest silk to the co;*rs , est bagging,: and from its cheapness ; and superiority for family use will prove a benefit to the community* as we hope of wealth to the inventor and proprietors* «t Nat . InU sheiuff^slZeT” On the first Tuesday i>t July next y at the Court iff)use of Clark County, WILL BE SOLD , the following property , to w/7 Th ee hundred and fifty acres of land,, lying on Shoal creek in said county* joining Charles A. Redd* David Harris and others, grants* riot Know’n. five negroes to wit one fellow known by the riante of Will* Lucey and her three children, -Kit, Lewis and Edmond—all levied 01V the property of George* Y. Farra'* toy; satisfy an execution in favo' 1 of the State Os .Georgia, vs Y. Far- ,f Tar as Tax Collector of Clark covin-; ty, and John Barnettj Joseph Brown, and Jack F. Cocke, his securities. , 1 SAMUEL JACKSON, Sheriff. May 26/V Ul4. V *, i NOTICE. * ON Friday ths tenth day of June next, - at the plantation Where J*hn Bor berts , deceased , formerly lived, / WILL BE SOLD, f A. , / ,7 LL the perishable property of said Roberts, deceased.— iioe teonihs credit will be given— jutes with approved security will be re- ■ r AVERY ROBERTS, t Administrator. May 2d, 1614. / DOMESTIC MANUFACIU RES* THE SUBSCRIBERS £ Have established a x } ** CARD MANUFACTORY, ■ , “!v> *”* ‘ *• In this city, where may be had No; 10 Cotton Cards, and Card Leaves for ‘ , v, % f. ... MACHINES ; ‘ t ’ • f J Os the best quality ; which they will continue to sell as low as they can be had for from the Northern Cities. PerspnS having worn out cards, may have new leathers with wires put on them, making them equally as good* and at less price than new cards.— They have'.also a constant supply of GUN-POWDER, » Os superior quality—manufactured at the , ‘-j.. ‘ - . ■ AUGUSTA POWDER MILLS, * ■ --r ‘ f „ * , v / Warranted of equal or greater strength and cleanliness on burning than any made in the United States* —This powder has been thoroughly tried, ar*d highly recommended by the mcil skillful sportsmen.—lts strength Will be satisfactorily shewn by an accurate powder prdof.—Also may be had of them COPPER FOR STILLS, Os 6G‘ to 120 gallons each, w|th rais ed Caps and Bottoms; with * SOLDER AND RIVETS --»V - » ‘ .. J k. .Jt ./ Complete—br they will. have them made up to order, on shoit Also a quantity of, WHITE LEAD, In Oil double ground , of WitherePs Manufacture, vrarranted>to contain no adulterating mixture, and pro nounced by all who use it, superior to that which from Eng land.—Also, PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURED MILL SAWS AND MILL SAW FILES. ! ■ *#•:-. • J3t These saws were made to order, of superior thickness and quality.—All* low for Cash* or approved Town Paper*. 7’ L-, * J H. %, Ta THOMAS. 1 Augusta, April 15*