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bad continual cause to rejoice that he
bad, in an idle hour, formed the res
olution of visiting his uncle; for he
found, by happy experience, that be
nevolence is its own reward; and that
by promoting the happiness of others,
w*’ onmir iir own. Phil. Album.
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HA Mi h.jS /YLV, JU/.V 5, 1828.
Tu*‘ #’||.> hcioikl A.4v,ury of
American Independence, was cele
brated, in this village, with the usual
and appropriate ceremonies, which
should ever distinguish thegloiious
return of the Sahhath day ofFreedorn.
At 11 o'clock, which was announced
by the ringing of the bell, a large
concourse of our citizens, convened
at the Flatters Hotel, formed them
selves into a procession, and . scorted
the Orator and Reader to the Met ho
dist Chun h. The exercises of the
day, were commenced by a fervent
prayer to the giver of every good and
perfect gift, by the Rev. Allen Turner.
Goorge A. Dawson, Esq. read the
Declaration of Independence, which
whs prefaced by a few impressive and
appropriate remarks—alter which,
Me. Obadiah C. Gibson, delivered an
clofliient Oration, to an attentive au
dience. The exercises of the day
were closed by prayer, when, agreea
ble to previous arrangements, a mini
her of the itizens repaired to the
flanlers Hold, and at 2 oMork, sat
down to an ixcellent dinner, prepar
ed for the on asion, by Gen. Thomas
Dawson. Ac bur Munc rief, Esq. was
Called upon to preside assisted by Dr.
Henry Lockhart, as Vice President
The utmost harmony and social gate
ty prevailed, during the repast. Af
t‘T the cloth was removed, the follow
ing toasts, (interspersed with comic,
patriotic and sentimental songs) were
drank, “with a feast of reason and a
flow of soul.”
1. The day wo celebrate.
2. Our country—Her principles
rest on an equality of Rights, her
downt’ul will b<- hastened by an ine
quality of Legislation.
3. The Union—Formed for the
purposes of National defence and
preservation of State Rights.
4. The Federal Constitution—A
}loly wall raised by the labor and
cemented by the blood of ’76, to pro
tect the citadel of our liberties. May
the people have the wisdom to detect,
the firmness to resist and the power
to defeat every attempt at its subver
sion.
5. Washington,
‘ln war the m untain storm,
In peace the grntle gali of Spring.*
6. The present Administration —
“While the wicked rule, the people
mourn: When the righteous have the
power, the p*opie will rejoice.
8. Gen. Andrew Ja< kson—EnVy.
tmn asanih'd Inin, inn lire Ims np
proadied him and calumny has inva
ded the sanctuary of his home ; but an
indignant people will sustain the man
who was his country’s friend in the
d.iy and hour >f peril.
8. The Tariff—The most effectual
way to render it inoperative is to feed,
clothe and protect ourselves.
9. John Forsyth, Governor of
Georgia—He, was worthy of the ho
nor and is equd to the trust.
10. George M. Troup—A well
tried and faithful public servant—
His firmness and independence has
conducted our state through the fire
and the furnace.
11. Wra.H. Crawford—lf he stand
on the ruins of Ins greatness, like the
Temple of the Gods, he is venerable
even there.
12- Greece—Concert in her mea
sures, victory to her arms, and li
berty to her children.
13. The Fair sex—First in our af
fections, beat, though last in our toasts
All nature swears, the lovely dears,
Her noblest work she classes O,
Her ‘prentice ham she tried on man,
6ad then the made the lasses O,
VOLUMTEBRB.
By the President. Henry Clay—
Your famous “war, famine and pesti
lence” dinner speech at Baltimore,
renders it quite unnecessary for you to
make a visit to the hamlets if Georgia.
By the Vice President. Literature
—like liberty, may it be cherished by
every American.
By D. L. Ryan, Esq. Tlie true A
meriran system—May homespun take
the place of “boughten good a,” and
Adnm’fl Ale the place of Whiskey—
The first will lead to Independence,
the second to Internal Improvement,
without the aid of the Tariff or To
pographical surveys.
By T hos. Gibson, Esq. The sur
viving Revolutionary Patriots—May
they live and experience the gratitude
of the American People,
By Gen. T. Diwson. Agriculture
and commerce, lependatit on each o
ilier, a Judicious Tariff but not a ceni
for protection.
By P. L. Robinson. Gen. James
Jackson—The mar in whose presence
corruption cowered—and in whom
umor patriot beheld her own personifi
cation.
ByMr. Monaghan. May the Ame
rican Eegle, carry a germ of the Tree
of Liberty and plant it in the Emerald
Isle.
By Hamilton Goode, Erq. New
York and Virginia—The Coalition
have piped unto them but they have
obstinately refused to dance.
By Dr. Wilson. Our Ilcst, Gen.
Dawson—The earliest prediction of
Gieene, the sample is good, we will
take a large invoice of them.
By Daniel Chandler. Our con
gressional delegation—Like the Epi
grams of the Poet, some are good,
some bad and some but so so—let us
keep the good, reject the bad, anil
wati h the so so’s.
By the Orator of the lay. The
memory of Patrick Henry—May his
motto be perpetuated “American Li
berty, and American Union”
By T. H. Dawson. G, VI. Troup;
May his life be long, illustrious and
happy, and his example a object of
honorable emulation to the Statesman
<if America.
The Orator having retired;
By Gen. Dawson. The Orator of
the Day.
By Geo. W. Shivers Eeq. The
Reader of the day.
By M. M. Butt. Gen. Jackson—
May the civic wreath of liberty adorn
the brow of its most devoted cham
pion*
By S. A. Pardee. Our next Pre
sident; May he be the choice of the
people.
The President having retired,
By Daniel Chandler. The Presi
dent of the day ; The strong advo
cate of correct principles,
The Vice President having retired;
By Hamilton Goode, Esq. The
Vice President, honesty of intention,
and uniformity of deportment, cha
racterise the man.
By L. Prait, Esq. G. M. Troup ;
The able defender of State Rights.
By John Dawson. Our country ,
and our country’s friends;
By P. L. Robinson; The memo
ry of John Torrence—An active
W big in “ the time that tried men’s
souls.” A Republican of the old
School—As a man, without fear aipl*
without reproach*
From a report of the Committee
on Education, made to the late Gen
eral Conference of the Methodist E
pisropa! Church, we gather the fol
lowing particulars, in relation to the
Literary Institutions under the pat
ronage of several of the Annual Con
ferences.
The Mississippi Conference has un
der its patronage a female Academy,
in the town of Washington, State of
Mississippi, called the “Elizabeth
Female Academy.” in honor of Mrs.
Elizabeth Greenfield, who founded it,
by presenting a building for the pur
pose, with three thousand dollars and
a lot of land. Another institution of
similar character, has been commenc
ed, and is in a state of forwardness, in
Tuscaloosa, state of Alabama.
The Illinois Conference has com
menced two institutions, one in Green
1 County, the other in St. Clair Coun
ty, state of Illinois*
The Ohio and Kentucky Conferen
ces have united their patronage in
favor of an Institution called ‘Augus
ta College,’ situated in the town of
Augusta, State of Kentucky. The
number of students 130 or 140 and
increasing.
The Pittsburg Conference have
under its patronage Madison College,
situate in the borough of Union Town
Fayette County, immediately on the
National road. At the ( lose of the
first session there were 107 scholars
—the number of students is rapidly
increasing.
The South Carolina Conference
have under tlieirjpatronage, Taberna
cle Academy. It is situate at Moant
Ariel, Abbeville district, S. C., and
lias been in operation eight years,
and was incorporated four years,
since, by the legislature of the state.
Besides two academy ed*Tices, it has
a capital of from seven to ten thou
sand dollars, w liirh is increasing, by
the solicitations of two agents, who
have been appointed by the confer
ence to obtain funds. T his school
has a male and female department,
with two teachers in each who have
under their care 140 scholars. Young
men who contemplate entering the
ninistry arc here iristrui ted in litcra
ry studies, preparatory to that work:
and it is contemplated, as soon as
funds will permit, to educate the cliil
(Iron of travelling preachers gratui
tously. The school has been favour
ed with three extensive revivals since
its commencement.
The New York Conference has a
Seminary in New York city—lt has
a male and female department, with
an av erage number of eighty or nine
ty students. There is also at White
Plains, within the boundary of this
conference, under Methodist influ
ence, though not formally recognized
as under the patronage of the confer
ence, an Academy, which is repre
sented as flourishing,
The Genesee Conference has a lit
erary Seminary* in the town of Caze
uovia, Madison County, N. Y. and
lias about seventy scholars- This in
stitution is represented a9 flourishing
audits prospects quite flattering.
The Maine conference has been
particularly favoured, by a donation
■f a benevolent individual, which has
laid the foundation for a promising
literary institution, incorporated un
der the name of‘The Maine Wesley
an Seminary.’ In the seminary, a
regular and enlarged course of an
English education is to be pursued,
besides classical studies; and connect
ed with this, agriculture and the me
chanical arts are attended to, by
which the students not only enjoy a
healthful exercise, and contract hab
its of industry, but also are enabled,
in numerous instances, to meet a part
or the whole of the expence of their
education; and it has been officially
stated, by the principal of that sem
inary, that this could be done, and
had been done, without retarding the
student essentially in his advancement
in his studies. This institution has,
in its executive, official board, a me
chanical agent, an agricultural a
gent, a principal of the literary de
partment, and one or two assistants.
The number of scholars is 140, forty
of whom are engaged in the mechani
cal and agricultural departments.
The New England Conference has
under its patronage and in successful
operation a flourishing institution
called the Wesleyan Academy, situat
ed in Wilbraham, Mass. This in
stitution hohls a chaiter from the
state, and has been in operation since
Nov. 1825. It was originally design
ed to connect a department of indus.
try with the school, in the branches of
agriculture and the mechanic arts.
.The design is still maintained, and
’has been partially accomplished. A
small farm is connected with the in
stitution, on w hich the students, in the
summer season, recreate and exer
cise themselves, and are enabled also
to earn something towards defraying
their expences. One mechanics’ shop
will probably be erected the coming
autumn, and others as funds and cir
cumstances will permit. The present
funds, including buildings and farm,
amount to above 825,000. There is
a male and a female department, in
j which the common and higher branch
es of an English education, the Greek
and Latin classics, the French lan
guage, and the ornamental branches
are taught.
The late arrivals from Europe
furnish English accounts to the 16th
Ma y.
ENGLAND.—The Catholic Ques-
Mon has met w ith a degree of favor in
Parliament, w hich appears to justify
the opinion formed hy some, of the
favorable influence of the repeal of the
Test Acts. On the 12th after along
deliberation, the House of Commons
adopted a resolution offered by Sir
Francis Burdett, in favor of consider
ing the subject of Catholic Claims;
The votes stood 272 to 266—majority
in favour, 6. Sir F. B then intro
duced the following resolution, which
was carried without a division, de
signed to obtain the concurrence of
the Peers, and to be sent up to them:
“That it is the opinion of this com
mittee, that it is expedient to take into
consideration the laws affecting his
Majesty’s Roman Catholic subjects,
vviih a view to a final conciliatory ad
justment, for the peace and strength
of the United Kingdom, the stability
of the established church, and the
concord and satisfaction of his Majes
ty’s subjects.”
Important frum Portugal.— \
telegraphic desp/tjxh from Bayonne
announced, on the 10th ult. that Don
M iguel had been proclaimed King,
with nit opposition in Coimbra and
several other towns. The Courier re
marks that he is now a traitor to his
neice, the legitimate Queen, Don I*;-
dro having abdicated on March Bth,
in favor of liis daughter, Donna Ma
ria, charging D m Miguel as his Lieu
tenant and Regent of the kingdom,
with the execution of the decree.
A.o Armistice was concluded on
the 12ti between Don Pedro and the
Buenos Ayrean government through
the mediation of the English Govern
ment, by the agents of the two powers
in London
p or £i, e CABINET.
” THE VESPER , JVb. 111.
THE WIDOW.
Curs'd be the wretch that pluck'd the flow c r,
Os Virtue, in a breast once fair, •
And trampling on confided power,
So\v‘d the wild weed of passion there.
Among the earliest of my youthful
friends, was an orphan
and grandson of Maj. John Somers,
a distinguished officer, attached to the
Revolutionary army. This veteran
had been appointed to the dangerous
service of guarding the passes con
necting the northern frontier and the,
then, more immediate theatre of war,
in the northern part of the state of
New York.
During the early part of the revo
lutionary struggle, Maj. Somers fell,
at the head of his little chosen band
of hardy warriors, in a skirmish with
the British and Indians, in the sum*’
mer of 1776, in the vicinity of Fort
Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain.
He was a brave and experienced sol
dier, and fell gloriously, bequeathing
to his wife and infant son, his all !
the untarnished reputation of a pure
and honest patriot.
As soon as the melancholy tidings
reached the Widow, she removed to
her parental home, in the neighbor
hood of the city of New York, and
placing her infant son under the car
of its maternal grandfather. She re
sided in the family, during her after
life. As years passed on, Edmund