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No. 18. Vol. in. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY NA THAN S. S. BUM AN <s■ CO. vw<wvv The Terms of “ The Missionary” are Three Dollars a year if paid in advance, or within sixty days from the time of subscribing; or Three Dol lars and Fifty Cents at the end of the year. No Subscription will be received fora short er time tnau one year, and no papei discontinued u^'lil all arrearages are paid. Aoverti em : nts will be inserted, by the square, at 62 1-2 cents for the first insertion ; and for every subsequent insertion 43 3-4 cents. Those who furnish standing advertisements for the year, shall he entitled to a deduction of one funrttr of the amount from the above rates. All . oMMUNicATioira and Letters relating to the CJfii-., will be directed to N. S. H. Bemau Si Cos. and whether enclosing money or not, must coble’ POST PAID: Should any neglect to do this they w'd! ‘>e •barged with the postage. Printing for Publick Officers and others will lie done on the most liberal terms. \N<V WW AGENTS FOR TiSIS PAPER. AUGUSTA, J. & 4. Ely. COLUMBIA , J.Bynoin,issq.PM.Columbia G'.H. GAEENESBOROUGIJ, A. H. Scott. SPARTA , Cyprian VViLcox. IK WIN TON, Wilkinson Th. Sherrer, Esq. PM. HARTFORD, Pulaski, G.B.Gardiner Esq.PM. potVELTON, S. Duggar, Esq. P M C>%INTON, Jones Cos. J. W. Carrington. SAFANNAH, S. C & J. Sclunck- KATONTON, C. Pendleton, Esq. P M. ALFORD'S P.O. Greene, C. Alford, Esq. PM. ABBEFILLE, (S. C.) Rev. H. Reid. SANOOFER, Abbeville, S. C Maj. U. Hill. MARION,- -Twiggs, S. Williams, Esq. PM. JEFFERSONJackson, Rev. E. Pharr, LIBERTY (TALL, Morgan, C. Allen, Esq. WAT KEN’S FILL: . Clark, H. VV, Scovell, Esq. P. M. RICEBORO', Liberty, Win. Baker. Esq. P M. GRANTSFILLE, Greene, Samuel Finley. PENDLETON, S.C. Joseph Grisham, Esq. PM. DANIELSFILLE, Madison. .1 .Long, Esq. PM. ERFINSFILLE, Rutherford. N. C. Rev. Hush Quin. ATHENS, Clarke, B. B. Peck. MADISON, Morgan, Milus Nesbit. LINCOLNTON.LincaIn.Peter Lamar,Esq. PM SPARTANBURGH . S.C. J.Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEOGEFILLE, Leonard Perkins. ELBERTON, George luskeep, Esq. P M. DUBLIN, Laurens , W. B. Coleman,Esq. PM. LOUISFILLE, Jrff'n, John Bostwick.Esq.PiVJ. HALLOHYSFILLE, Wilkes, Asa Hearing, Esq. P M. WAYNESRORO', Samuel Starges, Esq. P M. LAURENS, S. C. Archibald Young, Esq. WRIGIITSB oft O', Q. L. C. Franklin, Esq. MONTIC■ LLO , Greene D. Brantley, Esa P M. CARN 1 SjFILLE, Henry Freeman, Esq. P. M. SALEM, Clark, Raleigh Green, Esq. P. M. THE CRUSADES. Extracts from the History of the Crusades, for the recovery and possession of the Holy Land. By Charles Mills. London, 1820. [Continued from our last.] Tim victors wore in their torn beseiged. The emperour of Persia alarmed at their success, summoned all his hosts lo scourge the enemies of the prophet: they pitched their tents around the fallen capital; and a famine, more terrible even than the former, again drove them to the extreme of Wretch edness. Their courage was kept alive by the certainty that Alexins himself was on his march to relieve them, at the head of fresh parlies of European crusaders; but of this lust hope they were soon deprived. Xl#>[inndenry now unnerved some of the br-ivst minds; and if Godfrey, Raymond and the bishop of Pijy, had not deployed heroick fj rnness, the soldiers would have been abandoned, and several of the chiefs would have escaped by sea t • Europe. Their magnanimity checked the first burst of popular despair; superstition ctmr to their assistance, causing their courage to overleap all obstacles, aqd the mighty ar maments of the Persian, which threatened them with ihe heaviest calamity, to redound to their security and reputation. On the 23th of June, 1098, the celebra ted battle of Antioch was fought, which dis sipated the myriads of Ihe Persians, and left the Croises free to conclude the war, by investing the holy’ city itself. Os the millions of funatick* who had vow ed to rescue the sepulchre from the hands 3f th“ infidels, forty thousand only encamp d before Jerusalem; of thee reliques 21. 500 were scldiers, 20,000 foot and 1,500 cavalry. The destruction of more than 850,000 Europeans had purchased the pos session of Nice, 4 Autioch, and Edessa. Jerusalem at the time of the crusade, comprised the hills of Golgotha, Bezetha, Moriah and Acra. The garrison consisted of 4000 regular Egyptian troops, comman -4 ded by isfakar, a favourite general of the CHiipbf At the first alarm, the peasants crowded to the city with their arms and pro visions, and the aggregate number inclosed within the walls could not then be legs than 20,000. The valleys and rocks on the. south tind the east gave the city an impregnable appearance, and the Christians resolved to attack Ihe more accessible sides of the north and west. The northern line was occupi ed by Ihe two Roberts, Tancred, Godfrey, and his brother Eustace,- and the line on the west was concluded by the Provencals; hut their chief, the politick Raymond, wish ing to redeem his character and gain the reputation of great sanctity, advanced in the course of the siege to Mount Sion, and en camped opposite that part of the mount where it was supposed the Saviour of the world had eaten his last supper with his dis ciples. Such wa9 the impetuous valour of their first attack, that they traversed the harbacan, reached tjie city walls ; and had THE MISSIONARY. they been in posse-sion of military engines, would certainly have taken the city They were at length driven back. Some Geno ese vessels landing at Jaffa, furnished them with mechanicks, and the wood of Sichon with materials; and they soon presented to the besieged those terrible towers and rams, which were destined to scale, or to shake the sacred city to its deep founda tions. After a penitential procession round the walls with hymus, psalms and cries of “ Deus id vultf they resolved upon one more vigorous and simultaneous attack. This is Mr. Mills’ animated account of the final success oi the crusaders in the storm ing of Jerusalem: “ About noon the cause of the western world seemed to totter on the brink of des truction; and the most courageous thought than Heaven bad deserted its people. At the moment when all appe.ared lost,a knight was seen on mount Olivet, waving his glit tering shield as a sign to the soldiers that they should rally and return to the charge. Godfrey and Eustace cried to the army that St. George was come to their succour. The languishing spirit of euthusiasm was revived, and the crusaders returned to the battle with pristine animation. Fatigue & disability vanished; the weary and the wounded were no longer distinguishable from the vigorous and active; the princes, the columns of the array, led the way, and their example awoke the most timid to gal lant and noble daring. Nor were the wo men to be restrained from mingling in the fight: they were every where to be seen, in iliese moments of peril and anxiety sup porting and relieving their fainting frieuds. In Ihe space of an hour the haibacan was broken down, and Godfrey’s tower rested against the inner wall. Changing the du ties of a general for those of a soldier, the duke of Lorraine fought with his how. “ The Lore! guided his hand, and all his ar rows pierced the enemy through and through.” Near him were Eustace and Baldwin, “ like two lions beside another li on.” At ihe hour, when the Saviour of the world had been crucified, a soldier named Letoldus of Touinav, leaped upon the for tifications ; his brother Engelbert followed, and Godfrey was the third Christian who stood a9 a conqueror on (he ramparts of Je rusalem. The glorious ensign of the cross streamed from the walls. Tancred and the two Roberts burst open the gate of St. Ste phen, and the north and north-west parts of the city presented many openings. The news of the success soon reached the cars of Raymond, but instead of entering any of the breaches, he animated his troops lo em ulate the. valour of the French. Raymond's tower had only been partially repaired, the Provencals mounted the walls by ladders, & in a short time all Jerusalem was in posses sion cf the champions of the cross. The Mussulmans fought for a while, then fled to their temples, and submitted their necks to slaughter. Such was the carnage in the mosque of Omar, that the mutilaled carcas ses were hurried by the torrents of blood into the court; dissevered arms and hands floated into the current that carried them into contact with bodies to which they had not belonged. Ten thousand people were murdered in this sanctuary. It was not on ly the lacerated and headless trunk- which sho:ked the sight, but the figures of the vic tors themselves, reeking with the blood of their slaughtered enemies. No place of refuge remained to the vanquished, o indis criminately did the insatiable fanaticism of the conquerors disregard alike supplication and resistance. Some were slain, others were thrown from the lops of the churches and of the citadel. On entering the city, the duke of Lorraine drew his sword and murdered the helpless Saracens, in revenge for the Christian blood which had been spilt by the Moslems, & as a punishment to the railleries and outrages to which they had subjected the pilgrims. But after having avenged the cause of Heaven, Godfrey did not neglect other religious duties. He threw aside his armour, clothed himself in a linen mantle, and. with bare head and na ked feet went to the church of the sepul cre. His piety (unchristian as it may ap pear to enlightened days) was the piety of all the soldiers: they laid down their arms, washed their hands and put on habiliments of repentance. In the spirit of humility, with contrite heart-, with tears and groans, they walked over all those places which the Saviour had consecrated by his pres ence. The whole city was influenced by one spirit; and “the clamour of thanksgiv ing was loud enough to have reached the stars.’’ [ To be continued .] CHOCTAW MISSION.— EIIiot. Jan. 1, 1821. —Mr. Kingsbury left Elliot on business to the Choctaw Agency; and Mr. Jewell set out for Six Towns to estab lish a local school there, if circumstances should render it expedient. On his way at Mavhew, he learned that the mission fami ly from Goshen, Mass, were probably at Walnut Hills, and would need assistance in getting through the wilderness to Elliot. He therefore deferred his journey to the Six Towns for the present. Three men and one woman who had chil dren at the school, came About 90 miles to visit them, having heard unfavourable re ports respecting the school. The result of i GO YE urro ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EFERY CREATURE.— } un CRwr. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1821. the interview is thusGtated in the the jour nal: J Jan. 13, 1821. We had a long conver sation with our visiters this morning, in which we made known to them fully what we had done, and what we meant to do, with their children, whilst under our care; and that we should not make any alteration in our general mode of treatment, on ac count of objections, or idle complaints, and that we were greired that they should cred it such reports respecting us. They then freely declared, that they were perfectly satisfied, in every respect. And as an evi dence of their satisfaction and good wishes, they went into the school and each address ed the school in an animated strain. It is worthy to be mentioned, that the woman made a formal and urgent application to join the school herself, that she might learn; and premised to assist, with her hands, in any labour she could perform. She appears very young; and both her countenance and manners bespeak more than ordinary talents for improvement. Her husband died in the U. S. army, in the late war with the Creek Indians. She ha 9 two fine little boys in school, and she ap peared really desirous to put herself under our care and instruction. This was a try ing case. But we were under the painful necessity of rejecting her. We had rejec ted many children, and are already much crowded for want of room. When she heard our answer, the tears started from her eyes, and she left the room, and walk ed about the yard quite agitated. She be came composed, however, and took an af fectionate leave of us. On the 16th, Mr. Dyer started for the Walnut Hills to assist the brethren; and on Ihe 271 h, the mission keel boat was sent with six hands, on the same errand. March 14. —The Hooper, Cushman, and family, arrived at Maybew safely, and commenced their labours of love. Severe affliction of Mr. Smith and Family. 14. One of the men, who went in the keel boat, returned this evening from the Walnut Hills by land. He brought a let ter from Mr. Byington, who has made ar rangemeßts for having all our supplies brought up the Yazoo by ihe steam boat Eagle, as far as it can ascend, which will probably be as far as the mouth of the Yalo Busha. This man brought the first certain intel ligence we have received from our dear friends on the Yazoo. The keel boat pas sed them 11 days ago. 130 miles below El liot. Their covenant God and Father has seen fit, in his all wise and holy providence, to visit brother and sister Smith with se vere affliction. Death lias again entered their family and torn from their fond em brace a beloved child. This is the second time they have been called to mourning since they left the land of their nativity". At Bedford, Pa. they consigned Lorenzo, a lovely infant boy, to the grave. But their cup of sorrow was not then full. A portion of (he cup was reserved foranofher and se verer trial of their trust in God, and as further proof of their resignation to bis ho ly will. After toiling three weeks in as cending th: Yazoo, their eldest son, an ac tive, healthy and amiable youth of fifteen, who had assisted at the oar, was taken sick. They had but an indifferent supply of medicine, and no one on board skilled in administering it. In these trying circum stances, when no physician was near, no minister of the Gospel—and but a single Christian Brother, —and more than 100 miles by water from any habitation ofman, did these afflicted parents 9ee their beloved child fall a victim to disease, and waste away before their eyes, till he sank into the cold arms of death; and then they had to aid in the last rites of Christian burial towards one, who was hone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh. The bereaved father assis ted in digging the grave, and in depositing the remain* of his child in the earth, on the lonely banks of an almost unfrequented riv er. Then peeling the bark from a large tree standing near the spot, to mark the place of the grave, they proceeded on their way with their surviving children towards the scene of their future labours. They were supported through this trial by the grace of God, and the abundant consolations of his holy word. Several days after this, Mr. Smith fell overboard when getting the boat under weigh, and very narrowly escaped a wa tery grave. Divine Providence interposed and rescued him, when there seemed scarcely a “possibility that he could be sav ed. Mr. Smith, family aod company reach ed Elliot on the 20th. Sabbath 18. This was the last Sabbath we expected our dear brethren and sisters, destined to the Arkansaw, to worship with us. They have been long with ns, and are endeared to us by many tender ties and kind offices. They have shared with us in our labours and trials, and sympathized with us in our joys and sorrows. Together have we mingled our hearts jn prayer and praise, and together have taken sweet counsel. We desired, once more to commemorate together the dying love of our blessed Re- , deemer and Lord. It was a profitable and interesting season. Mr. Washburn preach ed and be with Mr. Kingsbury administered the sacrament. Mr. Jewell’s babe was baptized by the name of Frederick Swartz. 19. Mr. Washburn left Elliot on horse back; and on the 21st, Mrs. W. and her sister, with Mr. Finneyfollowed. These went by water, having been commended to God in prayer by Mr. Wright at the landing. THE OSAGE MISSION FAMILY. Extract of a letter from the Rev. B Pixley, dated Aug. 6, 1821, Mission Boat, Osage River , 10 miles above Chouteau’s establish ment. - Rev. and Dear Sir—You will join with us in returning thanks to Almighty God, for our safe passage thus far ; and .as we sup pose we now are within a few miles of the place where we shall eventually be estab lished. Our journey has indeed been long and tedious, but it has not on that account been less marked with the peculiar Provi dence of God in our favour. We have had a flood tide against us most of the way up this river, as well as up the Missouri—but if it had been otherwise upon this river, we, instead of being here, should undoubtedly have been 200 miles below, without the least possible hope of getting our boats up this season. The water was never known to be so high in this part of the country as it has been this last spring, and we come along just in season to improve it, though at times it cost us much labour and patience to encounter the flood-wood, and the rapid- ity of the river. An old Indian, as we have been told since our arrival here, was asked if he could tell why it rained so much. He replied that the missionaries were coming, and had been praying to the Great Spirit for rain lhat they might get up the river. Our health, considering the number of our family, their circumstances, ond their fatigues, has been remarkable. We have had no alarming sickness, and only one slight attack of the ague and fever. The Indians appeared very highly pleas ed at our arrival, and sent off an express the next morning, (which was day before yesterday) to assemble the chiefs, who were gone away to their hunting grounds, in order that we may have a talk with them and ascertain where they would wish us to make our establishment. Air. Sibley, superintendent at Fort Osage, has written us a letter to come and estab lish ourselves at a place where he is now building a trading house for government. We are now within five or six miles of the place where (he boats are necessarily prevented from going farther by the shal lowness of the water. Three of the brethren have been to view the station which Air. S. is erecting, and re port favourably. Thus things seem to in dicate (hat this is the time for Christian ac tion. We may, however, be much delay ed in collecting the Indian council, as there are some apprehensions of a war with (he Cherokees. [We understand that the Domestick Mis sionary Secretary ha 9 received a letter from the Family, dated the 10th of Aug. —they had arrived at their place of destin ation.] ABSTRACTS— Foreign and Domestick. CHITTAGONG MISSION. In our last, we gave some extracts of a letter from Mr. Colman, missionary at this station. Mr. C. was originally attached to the Rangoon mission, but as the Burman Emperour had refused to tolerate Christian teachers in his dominions, Chittagong was fixed upon as a place of retreat, in case Mr. Judson should be compelled to abandon Rangoon; and Mr. Colman went there for the purpose of making the necessary ar rangements. Chittagong is contiguous to the Arrakanese converts —if converts they they can b£ called, who, although they have some very indistinct ideas of the Dei ty, have no clear views of the Gospel plan of salvation. Many of them believe that Jesus Christ, the god of (he Hindoos and the Burroans. is the same; and that the eternal heaven of the Christian is the same as the annihilation of the Boodhist. An Arrakanese wished to be baptized, because he thought it would save him from hell! These indistinct idea 9 of the Christian sys tem are attributed to the want of proper instruction. Mr. Do Bruen, their first teacher, did not understand their language, and always spoke to them through an in terpreter who was a boy; and Mr. Pea cock, their next teacher, was as igno rant of their language and religious ideas as De Bruen, and, on account of the school he kept, could pay them but little attention. It is no wonder then, that jhe Arrakanese are still deplorably ignorant. They, how ever, ‘profess a desire for better instruction —which, we hope, will he afforded them by Mr. Colman, and Mr. Judson, should the latter be compelled to leave Raugooo. Chittagong is the name of a province and of the chief town, and is about 200 miles east from Calcutta. The province contains 1,200,000 inhabitants, principally Mahom etans. The converted Arrakanese reside about 50 miles from the town. Mayor, in his Universal History, says, tha< an ancknl king of Arrakan was made to believe that he wofild not long survive bis <;oropstiooi Price f pr. wan. or, > ™ CC ’*|£oO in advance!* He consulted a magician on the means of averting the impending danger, who told him that he must make a composition of the hearts of 0000 of his subjects, 4000 white cows and 2000 pigeons, and that he must also inhabit a house, tbte foundation of which must rest upon the bones of females. The monster complied with the advice of the inhuman magician; and, it is said, that the lives of 18,000 human beings were sac rificed for the purpose of preserving his own! [Southern Eva.ngelical Intel. The baptized Greenlanders, almost with out exception, are able to read and write ; are fond of reading religious hooks in their own language, and anxious for improve ment. They are cheerful, talkative, and abound in humour. They honour the hon est and industrious missionary, and have much respect for religion. A distinguished Missionary says, that he has never met with but one scoffer of religion among the natiyes, and he was an hypochondriack. Bost. Recorder. When the Greenlanders were first visited by the Europeans, they had no other word of affirmation in their language, than “ tru ly,”—and had an utter abhorrence for strong liquours, so that if one of their coun trymen was found drunk, they ridiculed him as a foreigner ; but now they are not uufre quently seen drunk, and heard uttering all kinds of sailor’s oaths. So much evil do ungodly sailors and tra ders effect—and so much reasoo is there lhat those who traverse the world should be brought under the influence of Christian principle by the efforts of the pious at home. Said a Greenlander to a missionary who had sent for him to reprove him seriously for his disorderly way of life ; “ Reprove your countiyirien—they should be wiser and bet ter than we, but the}’ are much worse.— When you have corrected them, then call me to an account.” [/6. Seven young gentlemen completed their, course of Theological study at the Baptist Seminary, Philadelphia, on the 25th of July last. The several classes were fully ex amined in the languages, higher branches of inathematicks, natural history, kc. and the result was highly satisfactory. Disser tations on various subjects connected with the ministry, were read by those who were to take their leave of the Institution, to an attenlive assembly. [lb. A Young Men’s Baptist Foreign Missioq Society has been formed in New York, and raised in the first year SIOO for the treasu ry of the Parent Institution. [lb. • From the Baltimore Chronicle. VANITY. The account of Bonaparte’s death is con firmed—Gifford, in his excellent version of the Satires of Juvenal, has some lines strongly bearing on this point : “ Produce the urn that Hannibal contains, And weigh the mighty dust that yet remain*. And is this all ?” What an awful satire is this on human ambition! Look at this lump of earth! this mouldering corpse, offensive both to the sighi, the scent and the loueb. “And is tbis all” of Bonaparte? Is this the brow, this cold, cheerless and bending simicircie, that once appalled the whole continent of Europe by its frowns? Is tbis heavy, life less, mouldering hand, the same that once distributed crowns and sceptres? Is this dull and motionless eye the same (hat fired armies with enthusiasm, and before which victory herself seemed to kneel in homage? Is this the form, now dragged along, cold and insensible, exposed lo vulgar gaze, that once seemed almost a being of another world, who dwelt for a season among us to receive the worship of man ? How trifling is human grandeur, how fugitive human greatness ! Yet those locks on that cold and insensible head, will not be allowed the common privilege of dust; they will be made into rings and necklaces, and breast pins, and surrounded with diamonds, to adorn the fingers or the bosoms of surviv ing idolatry. How littie will be known of the last moments of the ex-emperour of France ! Whatever accounts are publish ed in England will he discredited in France; and whatever are published in France, will in England receive the same discredit. If all his papers are at the moment of his death sealpd up and deposited in the hands nfthe British ministry, the admirers of Bo naparte will denounce them as so many forgeries. There will be statement and counter-statement, crimination, and re-crim ination, without end. The humble inqui rer aftpr truth will he confounded and amazed and give up his researches in dis gust. We shall despair to see a fair and impartial biography of Bonaparte. He must be resigned over to another age. In the hands of his friendly and of his hostile biographers, an angel of light and a demon of darkness will be seen contending which shall hear off the character of Bonaparte. Another generation tv ill know more about (he man than ourselves. Perhaps the dead body of this hero may be deposited next to that of Admiral Nelson. Look at these two little hillocks, six feet in leogtb, and then (ell us what it human jjlory !