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biography.
From the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
Departed this life, at his seat in the city
of Burlington, (New Jersey) on the 24th
day of October, A. D. 1821, F.lias Bovdi
hot, Esq. L. L. D. in the 82d year of his
age.
On the 26th of October, his remains
were committed to the tomb, followed by
a large concourse of family connections,
and by the most respectable inhabitants of
the city of Burlington. Among the mourn
ing friends who attended on this occasion
■ Tpi “ deputation from the Board of Mana
ged of the American Bible Society, consis
ting of Gen. Clarkson, the Rev. t)r. Milnor,
Messrs. S. Boyd and Carrow. The pall
was borne by General Bloomfield, William
Core, and Joseph M'llvaine, Esqrs. of Bur
lington, and by Horace Binney, and An
drew Bayard, Esqrs. and Dr. Mease, of
Philadelphia. The body was conveyed to
St. Mary’s Church, where a very appropri
ate discourse was delivered by the Rev. Dr.
Wharton, and the whole ceremony was con
ducted with solemnity, order and decorum.
Dr Boudinot was born in Philadelphia.
May 2d, A. D. 1740. He was descend
ed from one of those pious refugees who
fled from France to America to escape the
horrours of ecclesiastical persecution, and
to enjoy religious freedom in this favoured
land. He had the advantage of a classical
education, and pursued the study of the
law under the direction of the Hon. Rich
ard Stockton, a member of the first Ameri
can Congress, whose eldest sister he after
wards married.
Shortly after his admission to the Bar of
New Jersey, Dr. Boudinot rose to the first
grade in his profession. Early in the revo
lutionary war, he was appointed bv Con
gress to the important trust of Commissary
General of Prisoners. In the year 1777
he was chosen a member of the National
Congress, and in the year 1782 he was elect
ed President of that august body. In this
capacity he bad the honour and happiness
of putting bi signature to the treaty of
peace which forever established his coun
try’s independence.
On the return of peace he resumed the
practice oflhe law. It was not long, how
ever, before he was called to a more im
portant station. On the adoption of the
present constitution of the United States
the confidence of his fellow-citizens allotted
him a 9eat id the House of Representatives
of the United States. In this honourable
place he was continued for six successive
years. On quitting it to return once more
te the pursuits of private life, he was ap
pointed by that consummate judge of char
acter, the first President of the United
States, to fill the office of Director of the
National Mint, vacated by r the death of the
celebrated Rittenhouse. This trust he ex
ecuted, with exemplary fidelity during the i
administration of Washington, of Adams,
and (in part) of Jefferson.—Resigning this
office, and seeking seclusion from the per
plerities of publick life, and fern the hustle
and ceremony of a commercial metropolis,
he fixed his residence in the city of Bur- j
lington, (New Jersey.) Here, surrounded
by affectionate friends, and visited bystran
gprs of distinction—eugaged much in pur
suits of biblical literature—practising the !
most liberal and unceremonious hopitalify—
filling up life in the exercise of Christian du
ties, rti.d of the loveliest charities that exalt
our nature —meekly and quietly
eating and receiving happiness of the pur-’
est kind—he sustained, and has left such a
character, as will forever endear his mem
ory to bis friends, and do honour to his
country.
Prior to the revolution he was elected a
member of the Board of Trustees of New
Jersey College. At the time oi ms de
cease he was the Senior Member of this
Corporation Ine liberal donation he
ma i j i 1 during life, and the more ample
one in his last will, must be long remem
bered with gratitude by the friends of sci
ence. But, while anxious to promote the
interests of science, he was not unmindful
of the supenour claims of religion on his
remembrance and his bounty. Attached
by principle and habit to the religious de
nomination of which he was so distinguished
a member, he has been most liberal in his
testamentary donations to the General As
sembly of the Presbyterian Church, and to
their Theological Seminary, established at
Princeton. But, as his mind, unshackled
by bigotry or sectarian prejudice, was ex
panded by the noblest principles of Chris
tian benevolence, he has also very liberal
ly endowed various institutions whose ob
ject is to diffuse more widely the light of
revealed truth—to evangelize the heathen
—to instrnct’the deaf and dumb—to edu
cate youth for the sacred ministry—to ad
vance knowledge, and to relieve the wants
and miseries of the sick or suffering poor.
To those of his fellow citizens, however,
who are peculiarly interested in the wide
circulation of the Sacred Scriptures, per
Waps the chief excellence in the character
of the deceased is the ardent and effective
Zeal he displayed in the Bible cause.
The efforts he at first made, notwith
standing the infirmities of age and much
unexpected opposition, to establish the
American Bdile Society ; his munificent do
nation to this institution at its first organiza
tion ; his subsequent liberality to aid in the
erection of a Depository ; the devise of a
large and valuable tract of land; and the
deep and undimtnished intere“t he has tak
en in all the coucerns of the National Soci
ety ever since he was chosen to be its Pre
sident; while they spread his fame through
every region of the globe, will consecrate
his memory in the hearts of his fellow citi
zens in America, and throughout the world.
But, if his publick services and his private
worth claim the tribute of general esteem
and ass ‘Ctionate remembrance, the closing
scene of his life is no l^s-calculated to con
sole his friends under the heavy loss they
ha V C -ww.i a* id io edify and sup
port the departing Christian. In the full
possession of his mental faculties, and in (he
assured persuasion of his approaching dis
solution, his faith was firm, his patience
unexhausted, and his hopes were bright.
While, with paterw&l solicitude he exhort
ed those around him to rest on the Lrd Je
sus Christ as the only true ground of trust;
while, with solemnity and tenderness, he
commended a dutiful and affectionate
daughter (his only child) to the cure of his
surviving friends, with humble resignation
he expressed his readiness—his “desire to
depart in peace” to the bosom of his Father
in heaven; and the last prayer he was
heard to articulate, was, Lord Jesus receive
tny spirit!
HISTORY OF THE ENGISH BIBLE.
From the Boston Recorder.
“ In 1274, the price of a Bible, with a
Commentary, fairly written, was £3O, or.
$133 20. in 1272, the pay of a labouring
man was only three half-pence, or six cents
a day;—so that a Bible would have cost a
labourer more than fifteen years labour.
At the same time the expense of building
two arches of the London Bridge, was onlv
£25, that is more than twenty-two dollars
less than the price of a Bible.”
Townley's Biblical Anecdotes.
“ In 1461, ns one Faustus sold in Paris his
printed copies of the Bible for sixty crown*
each, while the Scribes demanded five hun
dred, information was given to the magis
trates against him as a magician. The red
ink, with which his Billies were embellish
ed, was said to be his blood. It was seri
ously adjudged that he was in league with
the devil.”
Dr. A fun Clarke's Biblio Die.
“ In 1520, in England, they who sold
Tyndal's translation of the New Testament,
were condemned to ride with their faces to
the horses tails, with papers on their heads,
and with the Testaments lied about them,
to the standard in Cheapside, where, after
being fined, they were compelled to cast
their Testaments into the fire. Tyndal,
the author, after his imprisonment for trans
lating the New Testament into English, in
1530, was strangled and burned for the
same crime. His assistants in the transla
tion, John Fry, and William Roye, were
burned, the first in Smithtield, and the lat
ter in Portugal, ou the same accusation.
Newcome's View of Translations.
“About the same time, Bishop Stokeley,
when he had received a part of the Testa
ment from Cranmer, with a request that he
would return it with corrections and obser
vations wrote in answer, ‘ I marvel what
my Lord of Canterbury meaneth, that he j
thus abuseth the people, in giving them !
liberty to read the Scriptures, which doth J
nothing else but infect them with heresy.
I have bestowed never an hour open my
portion, and never will, for I never will be :
guilty of bringing the simple folk into er
rour.’ ”
“In 1526, Archbishop Warham sent a
pastoral letter to all the prelates of his pro
vince, acquainting them, that certain chil
dren of iniquity, blinded by malice, had
tranda'e 1 ihe Bible into English, to spread
heresy, and ruin men’s souls. King Kenry
j issued a proclamation four years after, in
which he told hi* subjects, that by all the
virtuous, and learned, and discreet person
ages in divinity, it is thought that it is not
1 necessary that the Scriptures be in the En
: glish tongue, and in the hands of the com
mon people.”
Henry's History of England.
PULPIT ELOQUENCE.
CLOSE OF A SERM IN,
By Dr. Griffin, Pastor of a Church in Newark,
New Jersey.
Now then, my friends, my reasons are
all before you, and I hope to be justified by
your consciences, while I execute the com
mission given me in the text. God hath
saitHo the wicked, “ O wicked man thou
shalt surely die;” and the vvaichmen are
commanded upon their peril to sound the
alarm. I therefore solemnly declare, in
the name of God, that there is a dreadful
war waged of all the divine perfections
against sin—that the sacred rights of Hea
ven have taken the field—that every glory
ofthe Godhead is a livid lightning pointed
at every thought—that the inviolable hon
our of Heaven’s king is enlisted, and is
coming down to crush a rebellious world.
In equally solemn tones I declare, as my
office obliges, and call every angel to wit
ness, that in this war God is right and the
world is wrong. These great truths, while
I Irve, I will declare, and hope to pronounce
them with my dying breath, —God is right
and the, world is wrong. I wish they were
set forth io broad letters upon every fore
head, and with a pen dipped in heaven
were writen upon every heart. I wish
they were set upon the frontispiece of eve
ry book, and posted in sunbeam* at the cor
ner of every street,—that they were grav
en with a point of a diamond in the rock
forever, —God is right and the aoorld is
wrong. I would that these ponderous
truths would pass from land to land—pros
trate nations of unknown tongues, and, roll
ing through every clime, might bring a
humbled world to ask for mercy at a Sa
viour’s feet.
Standing on my watch-tower, 1 am
commanded, if I see aught of evil coining,
to give warning. I again solemny declare
that Ido discern evil approaching ; I see
a storm collecting in tbe heavens : 1
discover the emotion of the troubled ele
ments : I hear the roar of distant winds—
Heaven and earth seem mingled in the con
flict—and 1 cry to those for whom I watch,
A storm! A storm! Get you into the ark or
you are swept away. Oh, what"is it I see ?
I see a world convulsed and falling to ruins
—the sea burning like oil—nations rising
from under ground—the sun falling—the
tjamned in chains before the bar, and some
| of my poor hearers with them ! I see them
cast from (he hattlejprnls of the judgment
scene : My God ! the eternal pit ha 9 closed
upon them forever.
* — -oto&oe*
FROM THE BOSTON RECORDER.
BOLDNESS OF PAUL.
The precepts of Christian'*)’ re entirely
opposite to the maxims ofthe world. Love
your enemies—forgive (hose who injure
you—resist not evil—are commands totally
repugnant to the selfish, unforgiving, re
vengeful dispositions of worldly men.
Hence Christianity has, by ils enemies,
been considered degrading and pusillanim
ous. Nothing is farther from the truth.
Paul was a Christian. Did cowardice or
meanness constitute any part of his char
acter ?
View him as a preacher. Hear him at
the hazard of his life, proclaiming the
truths ofthe gospel, Jesus and the resur
rection, before Pharisees and Sndducees,
before idolaters and kings. Let the scenes
at Jerusalem, Athens, Corinth, Rome, testi
fy. Felix, Agrippa, Festus—ask the
magistrates of Philippi, the proud judges of
the Areopagus, the court of imperial Cae
sar—all these will testify, that neither their
splendour, nor power, nor threatenings,
prevented their hearing the truth from the
intrepid Apostle. View him as a man.
Engaged in a perilous enterprise, surround
ed by enemies, and in the almost certain
prospect of a violent death, he says, “ none
of these things move me.” A t what time
in his life was he free from danger? At
what time did he shrink? Never.
Decision and boblnesi, wherever they
exist are noble qualities As their exist
ence and exercise do notdepend absolutely
on ihe character of mora 1 feeling, bad men,
as well as good, may make an irresistible
demand on our admiratioa. We involunta
rily admire the courage of the soldier,
reaping his laurels in the field of courage
and death. We admire the fortitude of
the captured Indian, who scorns submission
and exults in the midst of tortures and
flames. Such qualities give a nobleness to
our species, and stamp on human nature a
comoiundi >g dignity. But in these caes,
pride, ambition or revenge mar the actions,
and dimmish eur admiration. On the con
trary the whole character of the Apostle
presents a consistency of parts, a symmetry
of proportion worthy the soldier of tjie
cross.
In Paul we behold firmness and compos
ure, in the hero ofthe world obstinacy and
presumption ; in the one, a steady deter
mination to pursue the path of duty, trust
ing the event with God ; in the other, a
| fierce resolution to effect his own purposes,!
! regardless of consequences. In the one, a :
I heart glowing with love to God and man :
in the other a heart burning with ambition
or bursting with revenge. In Paul you
see the Christian, clad in the panoply of
the gospel, striving to impart knowledge,
peace and happiness to all his fellow-men ;
in the hero of the world you behold a mon
ster, armed with the weapons of destruc
tion, breathing out threatenings and slaugh
ter, and scattering arrows, firebrands and
death. If Paul dies, he knows he shall re
ceive a crown of life ; if the hero dies, he
knows not,thinks not, cares not what follows.
The Apostle did not, like the Stoick de
sirous of vain glory, endure, with sullen
contempt, sufferings, which might have
been avoided ; nor like many worldly he
roes rush unnecessarily into difficulty and
danger. It was only when they opposed
his duty that he despi=ed them. Where
Christ bade him. he would go. What
Christ bade him, he would do. Yea, though
a host interposed, though friends and ene- 1
mies presented an imposing front to stop his
progiess, yet with a zeal unsubdued by
tenderness, and unappalled by terrors, he
would break through their lines, and pur- !
sue, with resistless march, the call of his
Divine Leader.
Let the spirit of Paul animate the bosom
of every minister and missionary, and it will |
soon manifest, though the weapons of their
warfare are not carnal, that they are migh- ’
ty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds, and effectual in training
“ by every rule
Os holy discipline, to glorious war,
The sacramental host of God’s elect.”
FOR THE MISSIONARY.
“ Publick Opinion is the Queen of the world.”
Since this queen lays no just claim to he
reditary right in governing, and can be de
posed when the weal of the people requires
it—it behoves the Christian and every good
citizen to inquire, whether her majesty has !
not enacted some laws which are not only [
unwholesome but oppressive. I know our re- |
ligious papers, and many which do not claim 1
that title, do much to weaken the force of,
some of her precepts, and to enforce the ‘
observance of maQy rules, and a regard to
many institutions concerning which her laws
are silent. But may not individuals in ev
ery community use some more exertions,
devise some plans to give publick opinion a
proper direction, and thus-improve us, and
make us a happier people. Few men are
so lost to a sense of propriety, degraded so
low by crimes, hut that they pay some re
gard to her mandates. Let her then fix
her indelible brand of disgrace on the
wretch who prostitutes his faculties to low
aßd debasing purposes—who pollutes all we
deem sacred, and tries to sever those bonds
without which our condition would be no
more desirable than that of the Creeks and
Cherokees on our borders. We are apt to
look upon the violation of many things held
sacred, as a venial fault, because this vio
lation happened not within our own itnme*
dime neighbourhood, as if distance of place
destroyed the malignity of crime. We
hear of murder, theft, and other enormities
committed in a distant section of the state,
with but little, if any, suitable indignation
against the perpetrators, because it has no
close bearing upon ns. But let our own
property be stolen, or our child murdered,
ur any indignity o*ffered to our person, and
■arefeel it. The good citizen, who consid
ers the community as one great family,
when the majesty of the civil law is insulf
‘ ed, or the sacredness of religious institutions
trampled on, whether it be near him or far
from him, manifests the same resentment.
The publick body is as much wounded in
one case as the other, and that utter detes
tation of the instrument which gave the
wound should be discovered in the frown
of all, and in their attempts to drag him to
justice Publick opinion should impress it
on her subjects, that the law which secures
a congregation peaceably assembling to
worship God, is as sacred as that which
shields their persons from injury ; and the
wretch who would disturb the harmony of
the one, or assail the other, should be held
up to universal obloquy and contempt. In
deed, tbe molesting the one is more injuri
ous, in so much as the liberty of conscience
is dearer than life. Let the man too, who
opens a dram-shop, prepares a race-path,
ora card-table, those drilling places for the
devil, those kennels where are spawned
and nourished the worst of passions, and
where schemes of lust and wickedness are
evolved and matured—let him share a sim
ilar fate. Why ? Because he is a publick
pest. He first does not openly expose to
sale poison by name ; but there is a pestif
erous vapour arising from his abode, which
poisons and corrodes both the health and
morals of a great portion of society. I
speak not of respectable houses for enter
tainment, but of those low dealers in grog
only, around whose doors you may see in
the morning twenty idle drones, and at eve
ning as many fuddled fellows, whose wives
are suffering, not for their attention, but
for the attention of good husbands.
Loud complaints are heard in every quar
ter, that our penitentiary, instead of ans
! wering the and designed, and benefitting us,
is a publick expense, a nuisance. What is
the reason ? The good designed to be ef
fected in its establishment is in a great mea
sure defeated, because a confinement there
has not disgraced the culprit as it ought.—
The penitentiary is a novel thing with us;
we have visited the prisoners in crowds,
and seemed rather to condole with them as
unfortunate, than look upon them as crimi
nal. After their release too, where were
no indications of reformation, instead of
shunning them as unworthy the society of
good and peaceable citizens, we have evin
ced towards them that fellow-feeling which
the poor sufferer looks for, whose house
has been consumed by fire. But why are
you so severe on the unfortunate ? A law
without a penalty is only advice. The
welfare of society requires that the fence
which has been erected between virtue and
. vice should be kept up. Break this down,
| and you have no security. Crimes would
increase in a ten-fold ratio. Nay, in a few
years we should say to anarchy and confu
. sion, “ Come reign in us, and rule over as,
1 be our gods, and we will be your people.”
Against the gambler severe laws have
been enacted. They have had a salutary
effect. Let publick opinion, since no other
authority has seen fit to prevent it, publish
her laws against horse-racing, cock-fight
ing, &c. A noble triumph has been gained,
or nearly 90, by her over duelling —a bar
barous practice, which has its seat in a cor
rupt heart, and which might appear tolera
bly well among the bull-baitings, and naked
thong fights of Greece. Had not Christians
and good citizens arose and trampled upon
, this “ law of honour ,” we might hear daily
| of some of its sad effects—we mightsee the
j widow and her orphans weeping at the
1 grave of a murdered father. Ridicule has
! been successfully employed against this
! practice. A gentleman will not condes
cend to accept a challenge from the fellow
who offers it. Let other vicious customs
meet a similar fate. Then our country
would not exhibit scenes so disgusting to
the eye, and sounds so grating to the ear of
piety. Then the whole horde of dram
drinkers, and cock-fighters, and horse-ra
cers would become good citizens, or seek
an atmosphere congenial to their longs.—
But how shall this be effected—how shall
publick opinion fix her stigma on these vi
ces? Let magistrates and ministers of jus
tice do their duty. But I durst not frown
on these vices, say some magistrates, for
| fear 1 shall lose my popularity. Is such a
man, who would connive at sin, or fear to
i punish crime, lest he should forfeit the fa
l vour of the vicious only, entitled to the
| name of a patriot ? No. A patriot acts for
1 the good of the people. He is conscientious,
he does not fear the IVawns or court the
smiles of a fickle populace. It must afford
the sincerest pleasure to every well-wisher
of his country, to discover that what mag
istrates have omitted, has been effected by
the Grand Jurors in many of our counties:
I mean the prosecution of so many persons
for keeping disorderly houses, gambling
tables, &c. Vice has trembled. Let Chris
tians give a proper direction to publick
opinion concerning some tilings which have
been mentioned, and many others, and we
may hope for better times. Let them
frown on vice in every shape. Let them
cleave to the “ good old way,” and con
tend for the honour and sanctity of relig
ious institutions as long as a sinew braces
their arms, or an atom of flesh quivers on
their bones.
CHICKASAW MISSION.
Extracts of a letter from the Rev. Thomas C.
Stewart, Missionary in the Chickasaw Nation,
to the Rev. Thos. C. Henry, Cor. Sec’y. of
the Missionary Society of the Synod of South
Carolina and Georgia, dated
Monroe, Sept. 16, 1821.
Rev. and Dear Sir,
About ten days since I received the remaining
part of your remittance of S4OO. Since iny last,
our family has been visited with the fever, and so
great has been the affliction that liMle business has
been attended to for several weeks. The sick are
now better, and I have hopes they will soon re
cover. I expect to be left entirely alone about
the last of next month. Mr. Pickens (whose
family is now with me) has concluded to remove
to (he white settlements. He intends setting out
in a few days to look out a place. T'his move
ment will derange my business very much. I
shall be destitute of a wagon, horses and har
ness ; also tools to work with ; and, in short of
every thing necessary to go on with the business
of the mission. If I can have a cook and a la
bourer, I will provide such tools and other arti
cles as 1 need, that our business may not be en
tirely suspended. 1 have doubts whether I can
hire hands nearer than Tennessee. I have raada
several fruitless attempts in the settlements on
Tombecbee. The idea of living amongst Indians
appears to be an insurmountable obstacle with
the commonalty. We shall always be compelled
to give higher wages for hands to labour in this
country, than in the white settlements. 1 have
a thought of going to Tennessee as soon as prac
ticable, and employing labourers by the year. I
have not been able to hire but about five months
work this season. My help has not been sufficient
to carry on the business as fast as was desirable.
We have three comfortable dwelling houses erect
ed, a smoke-house, workshop, stable and horse
mill. The mill, (for want of a good workman)
has done no good. We have been obliged to
grind all our corn on a small hand-mill at a neigh
bour’s house, which has consumed much time. I
hope, by making some improvements ou our
; mill it will yet answer our purpose. The body of
the large house, designed for a dining room and
kitchen, is raised, and scantling and boards for
the roof are provided. We are now employed in
hauling brick for the chimney. 1 aui expecting the
workmen on in a few days to finish the house,
which can be done in a few weeks. We have
also the logs for five small cabins, designed as
lodgings for the children, cut in the woods, and
boards sufficient to cover three of them provided.
Could I hire suitable help, I calculated I could
have the buildings completed by the first of Janu
ary. 1 conclude it will be the first of March be
fore I can open a school at tbe station. Ido be
lieve we should have a school in the neighbour
hood as soon as possible. The Indians, 1 fear,
will become impatient before l can he ready to
take in their children. A school in the settle
ment would, no doubt, satisfy them.
I expect I shall not pursue the plan of tho
1 buildings which I forwarded to the Secretary of
War ; a copy of which I transmitted to you. I
i believe that 1 have underrated the expense. I
have concluded to dispeuse with one dwelling
1 house 18 by 22 feet, for the accommodation of
I the mission family. It seems that I have already
more houses for that purpose than will be occu
pied shortly. 1 have also dispensed with the lum
j her house, 16 by 18, and instead thereof will dig
a cellar under the large house. I shall put a cab
in roof on the school house, and put the chimney
in the inside. The lining of the houses with
boards will also be omitted. This arrangement
will save considerable labour and expense, and
yet answer every purpose.
I calculate our crop will amount to about 340
bushels of corn, 20()01bs. fodder, and perhaps five
wagon loads of pumpkins. I have yet about 50
bushels of old corn. I cannot tell what will be
the price of corn in this country. I have hopes it
can be obtained for 75 cents per bushel. It is
very scarce in all parts of the nation except in
this settlement, and the settlement about ten
miles below this. I regret that I have not had
advices to what extent to make provision for the
ensuing year. Engagements for corn and pork
should be made early in the fall, when they are
generally lower than at a more advanced period.
I expect 1 can get a supply of pork at $3 per
hundred. Fearing that the Tombecbee could not
be navigated before Chiistmas, (about which time
pork should he killed) 1 embraced the opportuni
ty of sending to Natchez by the agent, for a sup
ply of salt, and a small quantity of coffee. 1 have
yet about 801bs of sugar. The agent is now ab
sent for the Indian annuity. I have no hopes of
obtaining any thing from the Nation for the sup
port of this establishment. Upon mature delibe
ration 1 have thought it adviseable not to make
any application at the present. They must first
see the school in operation, and their children
making progress in learning before they will con
tribute any thing. You will have the burden of
the expense of preparation to bear, which will be
pretty heavy. But 1 trust you will be fully able
to meet every expense.
In a former communication I stated that yon
would have a wagon and team to purchase,house
h*ld and kitchen furniture to provide, and all the
various articles necessary for the accommodation
of a large lamily. These things will require
a considerable sum of money. Perhaps we
could be better supplied, and on cheaper terms,
by buying them in Charleston and sending them
| round to Blakely. It is true there would be some
| risk in sending them by water, but I doubt whe
-1 ther 1 could be so well supplied by writing on to
’ Blakely, and procuring an uninterested person to
purchase them. Mr. Gurney, our agent in Blake
ly, is a man in whom confidence could be placed,
j yet for want of proper information he might not
; provide so well as could be wished. In provid
ing table furniture, pewter and tin would be pref
erable, a this kind of ware is not subject to be
broken by a fall, and would therefore last longer.
As it respects clothing for the Indian children,
| a few boxes will be sufficient to clothe all who
will be dependent on us. A number of the na
tives who intend sending their children are able to
clothe them. Benevolent females would better
suhserve the cause by furnishing cloth. With
this 1 could purchase corn and many other artj<