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No. 41 Vol. 111. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY JVATHJUY s. 8. BEMAN 4r CO. 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 for a short er time than one y ear, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid. Advertisements 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 be entitled to a deduction of one quarter of the amount from the above rates. All Communications and Letters relating to the Office, will be directed to N. S. 3. Bernan & Cos. and whether enclosing money or not, mutt come POST PAID: Should any neglect to do this they will be charged with the postage. s Printing for Publick Officers and others will be done on the most liberal terms. AGENTS FOR THIS PAPER. AUGUSTA, J. & a. Ely. COLUMBIA, J.Bynom,Esq.PM.ColumbiaC.U. GREEXESBOROUGH, A. H. Scott. SPARTA, Cyprian Wilcox. HARTFORD, jPuZaifct,G.B.Gardiner Esq.EAt. POWELTOX, S. Duggar, Esq. P M. CLIXTOX, Janet Cos. J. W. Carrington. SAVAXXAH, S. C. & J. Schenck. EATOXTOX, C. Pendleton, Esq. P M. ALFORD'S P.O. Greene, C. Alford, Esq. PM. ABBEVILLE , (S. C :) Rev. H. Reid. SAXDOFER, Abbeville, S. C Maj. U. Hill. JUARIOX, Twiggs, S. Williams, Esq. PM. JEFFERSOX, Juckson, Rev, E. Pharr. LIBERTY-HALL, Morgan, C. Allen, Esq. WATKIXSVILLE, Clark, H. W. Scovell, Esq. P. M. RICEBORO', Liberty, Wm. Baker, Esq. F M. G H.AXTSVILLE, Greene, Samuel Finley. PEXDLETOX, S.C. Joseph Grisham, Esq. PM. DAXIELSVILLE , Madison, J.Long, Esq. PM. ERVIXSVILLE, Rutherford, X. C. • Rev. Hugh Quin. ATHEXS, Clarke, B. B. Peck. LlXCOLXTOX,Lincoln, Peter Lamar,Esq. PM. SPARTAXBURGH,S.C. 3. Brannon,Esq. PM. MILLEDGEVILLE, Leonard Perkins. ELBERTOX, George Inskeep, Esq. P M. DUKLIX, Laurens, W. B. Coleman, Esq. P M. LOUISVILLE, Jeff'n, John Bostwick,Esq.PM. MALLORYSVILLE , Wilkes, Asa Dearing, Esq. P M. WAYXESBORO', Samuel Sturges, Esq. PM LAUREXS, S. C. Archibald Foung, Esq. WRIGHTS BO BO', Q. L. C. Franklin, Esq. JffOXTICELLO, Greene D. Brantley, Esq.P M. CARXESVILLE, Henry Freeman, E6q. P. M. SALEM, Clark, Raleigh Green, Esq. P. M. MADJSOX, William Bandy. DARIEX, Allen Smith. Esq. P. M. ■munrJ'a. maiaww'iW Wi>—————————— CIVILIZATION OF THE INDIANS. Message from the President of the United Stales, transmitting a Report from the Sec retary of War of the expenditures made un der the act to provide for the Civilization of the Indian Tribes; January 22. 1822. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table. To the House of Representatives. In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives, requesting- the President of the United States “ to cause to be laid before this House an account of the expenditures made under the act to provide for the civilization of the Indian Tribes, specifying the times when, the per sons to whom, and *he particular purpose for which, such expenditures have been made,” I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of War JAMES MONROE. Washington, January 20, 1822. department of war, 19 th Jan. 1822. The Secretary of War, to whom was re ferred the resolution of the House of Rep resentatives of the 31st ultimo, “request ing the President of the United States to cAse to he Ibid before this House, an ac cmint of the expenditures made under the act to provide for the civilization oftbe In dian Tribes, specifying the times when, th-. persons to whom, and the particular pur pose for which, such expenditures have been made,” has the honour to transmit the enclosed statement, which contains the information required by the resolution. The Secretary of War would respectful ly refer to the report made by this Depart ment to the House of Representatives on the 15th of January, 1820, in compliance with a resolution of that House, of the progress that had been made in the civili zation of the Indians, which, with the reg ulations, a copy of which accompanies this .will indicate the principles upon %*ich the several allowances for buildings ■and tuition, referred to in the statement Jiave been made. It may be proper to observe that, by a rigid construction of the rules adapted for the expenditure of the appropriation, the schools at Cornwall, in Connecticut, and the Great Crossings in Kentucky, would ap pear to be excluded from any benefit from it. It was believed, however, as there was not a sufficient number of schools in the In dian country, at the time the allowances were made, to absorb the whole appropri ation, that it would advance the object of Congress in passing the act, to include (them in fbe appropriation. All which is respectfully submitted. J. C. CALHOUN/ To the President of the United States. [By the “Statement of Expenditures Sic-., it appears, that from the 12th of Feb. 1820, to the 24th ofDec. 1821, both inclu sively, the aggregate sum paid for the civ ilization of the Indian Tribes, was $16,605 THE MISSIONARY. 80. Os this sum, $13,989 80 have been applied through the different Missipnary establishments of the Moravians, —the A. B. C. for Foreign Missions, —the United Foreign Missionary Society,—the Baptist Missionary Societies,—and the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia. For Indian youths at the Mission School in Cornwall, Conn. $1428, and the Baptist Mission School at Great Crossings, Ky. $400; and the sum of $778- has been paid for the Rev. Dr. Morse’s visit of observation and inspection.] department of war, February 29, 1820. The following regulations, in addition to those prescribed in the circular of the Sd of September, 1819, have been adopted, with the approbation of the United States, to govern the future distribution of the sum appropriated by Congress for the civil ization of the Indians, among indi viduals or societies who have estab lished, or contemplate establishing, schools for the education oflndian children, in conformity to the above mentioned cir cular, and who desire the co-operation of the government: The position selected for the establish ment, a plan of the buildings contemplated, with an estimate of the costs, to be submit ted to the Secretary of War, to be laid be fore the President. Government will, if it has the means and approves the arrangement, pay two-thirds of the expense Os erecting the necessary buildings. No part of the money to be advanced un til after the buildings are commenced; and • ne-fourlh to be reserved until they are completed, The payment to ha made on the certificate of the agent oflndian affairs, for the tribe or nation, in which the estab lishment is located, as to the facts of the commencement and completion of the buildings. The President of the United States will contribute, out of the annual appropriation, to each institution which may be approved of by him, a sum proportionate to the nwn bei of pupils belonging to each, regard be ing had to tha necessary expense of the es tablishment, and the degree of success which has attended it. No advance to be made except for the buildings, till the school is in actual opera tion ; of which fact, and the number of pu pils belonging to it, the certificate of the superintendent or person having the prin cipal control of the institution, will be suffi cient evidence. A report will be annually made for each establishment on the Ist of October, of the number and names of the teachers and oth er persons belonging to it; the number of students; the number which have com pleted their course and left the institution, since the first day of October of the prece ding year; the number entered; the amount of disbursements for the same peri od ; and the value and description of prop erty on hand; which report will be certifi ed by the superintendent or persons having the principal control of the establishment. It is considered to be the duty of all per sons who may be employed, or attached to any institution, not only to set a good exam ple of sobriety, industry and honesty, but, as far as practicable, to impress on the minds of the Indians the friendly and benev olent views of the government towards them, and the advantage to them in yield ing to the policy of government, and co-op erating with it in such measures as it may deem necessary for their civilization and happiness. A contrary course of conduct cannot fail to incur the displeasure of gov ernment, as it is impossible that the object which it has in view can be effected, and peace habitually preserved, if the distrust ofthe Indians, us to its benevolent views, should be excited. J. C. CALHOUN. EXTRACT FROM DR. STAUGHTON’S ADDRESS, Delivered at the opening of the Columbian College, in the District of Columbia, Jan uary 9, 1822. It is far from being the sentiment of the General Convention of the Baptist Denomi nation,or of any of the individuals who have been concerned in the erection of the buil ding in which we are this day assembled, that a liberal education is an essential qual ification in a Christian minister. A vast number of excellent men are to be found in the churches, and will be succeeded by hundreds more, who, without the advantar ges of literature, familiar with the doc trine and power of the gospel, and called, as we believe, of God, to their office, have been instrumental in the conversion and sanctification of the hearts of multitudes. May the Supreme Head of the church still more abundantly crown their pious and la borious endeavours. But these very men are, for the most part, among the first to regret that the treasures of knowledge have, to them, never been unfolded, and many of them are among the. most liberal encouragers of theological schools. Attain ments, such as the apostles of Christ were permitted to realize, who for three years passed their pupilage under the instructions of their heavenly Master, and who were af terwards endowed with the astonishing gift of tongues, it were vain to anticipate ; but GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AXD PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesus Christ. MOUNT ZION, (HANCOCK CO. GA.) MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1822. surely the improvement society has made, during the past thirty years, intimates the propriety of a corresponding one in the minister ofthe sanctuary. Surely, without relying on a translation, how much soever approved, it is desirable that a publick teacher be able to read the pages of inspi ration in tha languages in which they were written. Unacquainted with the construc tion of bis mother tongue, with the history of nations, with the economy of the eartb and heavens, and with the science f com position, he must deplore the privation he suffers, when called to defend the truths which are dearer than life, in the presence of adversaries who have arrayed them selves in all the armont 1 which learning can furnish. Os the sober use made by the apostle Paul of his familiarity with Grecian poets, we have a beautiful specimen in his speech before (he Areopagus at Athens. In the present age, when missionaries are pas sing into almost every region of the earth, it is evident that, to enable them with the greater facility to acquire new languages, and to translate (he scriptures from the ori ginal text, a sound and extensive edneation is not only desirable but necessary. It is admirably ordained in Providence that the powers of reasoning during the stages of childhood and youth are feeble, while the memory is in full vigour, and industriously engaged in collecting materials for the fu ture service of the understanding. This arrangement in nature inculcates the pro priety of commencing a course of study, and particularly the study of languages, where so mneb is to be recollected, as ear ly as practicable. Pious youth, oalied by the churches to officiate in the ministry of the gospel, should beware lest the golden period for wental improvement forever es cape them. The observations lam offer ing are predicated on the fact, that ourcel lege embraces a Theological as well as a Classical department. It is unnecessary to insist on the sacred importance of education in general. Many of the ablest authors of ancient and mod ern times have exhibited its value.—What inheritance, equally precious and perma nent, can a parent bequeath?—Where is the man that does not aspire at tho conso lation of redacting, in life’s decline, that he has trained up his children in the way that they should go ? One consideration must not be forgotten.—Children are the hope ofthe coming age. A frar years will intro duce upon the stage of publick action ano ther generation of men, who, when we are sleeping with our fathers, will offer to the world examples, and spread through it principles, that shall prove useful or detri mental, corresponding With the direction that education shall hafe communicated. Other physicians will enjter the chambers of the afflicted; —other divines will be heard from our pulpits ; and other civilians display their talents in courts of judicature. Yonder magnificent Capitol will concen trate the wisdom of other senators, and re sonnd with the periods of ether tepraoen tatives.—Let the parent, the patriot, the Christian, seriously ponder on this idea, and he will no more neglect his duty than he can cease to love his children, his country, and his Ged. The formation of the man ners of youth is the moral fulcrum by which we may raise the world.” After mentioning the benefits which gov ernments may derive from patronizing ed ucation. by which they “threw bulwarks around, that shall remain firm and unimpair ed, when brass and marble shall have fal len and decayed,” the Doctor observes that “ the Columbian College isopen chief ly to classical and theological students; but should the blessing of Heaven descend no the projects and crewH (he exertions of its friends and supporters, additional edifices will soon be erected, where Jeotures will be delivered on the Institutes of Daw and on Medical Science.” THE LOVE OF MONET. From a volume of Sermons lately published by Dr. Chalmers, entitled “ The Application of Christianity to the commercial and ordinary affairs of life.” He who makes a God of his pleasures, renders to his idol the homage of his sens*. He who makes a god of his wealth, renders to this idol the homage of his mind ; and he, therfore, is the more hopeleos and de termined idolater. The former is goaded on to bis idolatry by the power of his ap petite.—The latter cultivates his with wilful and deliberate perseverance ; con secrates his very highest powers to iti service ; embarks in it, not with the heat of passion, but with the coolness of steady and calculating principle ; fully gives up his reason, and his time, and all the faculties of his understanding, as well as all the desires of his heart, to the great object ofa fortune in this world ; makes the acquirement of gain the settled aim, and the prosecution of that aim the settled habit of his exis tence ; sits the whole day long at the post of his ardent and unremitting devotions; and as he labours at the desk of his count ing-house, has his soul just as effectually seduced from the living God t,o an object distinct from him, and contrary to him, as if the Leger over which he was bending was a book of mystical characters,written in hon our of some golden idol placed before him, and with a view to render this idol propi tious to himself and his family. Baal and Moloch were not more substantially the gods of rebellious Israel, than Mammon is the god of all his affections. To the fortune he has reared, or is rearing for himself and his descendants, he ascribes all the power and all the independence of a divini ty. With the wealth he has gotten by Iris own hands, does he feel himself as inde pendent of Ged, as the pagan does, who, happy in tho fancied protection of an im age made by his own hand, suffers no dis turbance to bis quiet, from any thought of the real but unknown Deity. His confi dence is in his treasures, and not in God. It is there that he places all his safety and all his sufficiency. It is not on the Su preme Being, conceived in the light of a real and a personal agent, that he places hie dependence. It is on a mute and ma teria] statue of his own erection. It is wealth which stands to him in the place of God—to which he awards the credit of all his enjoyments—which he looks to as the emanating fountain of all his present suffi ciency—from which he gathers his fond est expectations of all the bright and fan cied blessedness that is yet before him, on which he rests as the firmest and ablest foundation of all that the heart can wish or the eye can long after, both for himself and his children. It matters not to him, that all his enjoyment comes from a primary foun tain,and that his wealth is only an intermedi ate reservoir. It matters not to him,that if God were to set seal upon the door of the upper storehouse in heaven, or to blast and to burn up all the fruitfulness of the eartb, he would reduce to the worthlessness of dross, all the silver and the gold that abound in it. Still the gold and silver are his gods. His own fountain is between him and the fountain of original supply.—-Hu wealth is between him and his god. Its jmrious lodging places whether in the Bank, or in the place of registration, or in the depository of wills and title-deeds, — these are the sanctuaries of his secret wor ship—these are the high places of his ad oration : and never did devout Israelite look with more iotentness towards Mount Zi on & with his face towards Jerusalem, than does be to bis Wealth as to the mountain and strong bold of his security. Nor could the Supreme be more effectually de posed from the homage of trust and grati tude than he actually is, though his wealth were recalled from its various invest ments—and turned into one masa of gold-—and cast into a piece of molten stat uary—and enshrined on a pedestal, around which all his household might assemble and make it the object of their family devo tions—and plied, every hour of every day, with all the fooleries of a senseless and de grading paganism. It is thus, that God may keep up the charge of idolatry against us, even after all its images have been overthrown. It is thus that dissuasives from idolatry are still addressed, in the New Testament, to the pupils of anew and a better dispensation ; that little children are warned against idols; and all of us are warned to flee from cov etousness, which is idolatry. • ‘l’ • ‘A • Late Missionary Intelligence. From the London Missionary Chronicle, receiv ed at the office of the Boston Recorder, RUSSIA. Extract of a letter from Mr, Knill , to W. A. Hamkey , Asg. Valeri St. Petersburg , 2d October , 1821. “ The favour of a King is as the dew upon the grass.” Solomon said so, and I have found it to he true. We have long been desirous to have a Charity School connected with our little congregation, and about a month since I drew up a statement to present to the pubJick, soliciting aid. But before aoy thing could be done official ly, it was Recessary to obtain permission from the Prime Minister Galitzin, who is Minister of Spiritual Affairs and National Instruction. In order to obtain this permis sion, my dear friend, John Venning Esq. took what 1 had written to that excellent Christian Princess Mischertsky, to give it an elegant Russ translation. She cheerfully accepted tbe work, and while engaged in translating it, His imperial Majesty called on her, and tbe whole matter was laid be fore him. The Princess was pleased to mention my name, tbe Chapel, &c. and add ed that she frequently heard me preach. The result is this: last Friday Mr. V. re ceived information from Prince Galitzin that the Emperour had appointed me Su perintendent of the School with an annuul salary of 2,000 rubles; 1,000 rubles for the master annually, and a donation of 5,000 rubles to cornmeuce the institution. “Bless the Lord, O my soul.” It was delightful to see so many people ut the Missionary Prayer Meetiog yesterday evening. I endeavour to alt the Missionary Intelligence I can against those seasons, which has a very cheering effect. A gentleman was present at tile meeting in September, and was so much pleased with the idea of supporting a native preacher in India, that be commissioned me to inform the JDireptcra that he would contribute j£lO Price, if 9 ' 50 P r - wm - OT 'l met, j $3 00 in advance .J annually for that purpose—the preached to be called, “ Johfi Meybohm Venning.” Last week we voted 300 rubles to the Scottish Missionaries at Astrachan for print ing Tracts in Tartar and Persick. Two hundred and thirty-five to Mr. Rahmo for Calmtic Tracts, and 235 to the Missionaries at Selinginsk, for Mongolian Tracts. All the missionaries in the empire are supplied with Russ Tracts by the Princess Mischertsky. She is an accomplished Eng lish scholar, and has translated great num bers of English Tracts into her own lan guage, hundreds of thousands of which have been circulated, and are still circulat ing in Russia. 1 have this day heard from the Jewish missionaries who are travelling in the Cri mea, under the patronage of the Edinburgh Jewish Society. They have a large and interesting field before them. O that the Lord may arise and have mercy on the off spring of his servant Abraham. GREENLAND AND LABRADOR. Extracts from the correspondence of the British and Foreign Bible Society. From Rev. C. J. Lalrobe. JYwW’s Court, London, Oct. 17, 1821. Both from Greenland and Labrador I have received Letters; and beg leave to trouble you with the following extracts, for communications to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society. From Okkak, in Labrador, dated August 8> 1821. “ We request you to present to the ven erable British and Foreign Bible Society our most cordial thanks for the valuable present of more copies of the New Testa ment in the Esquimaux language, gent to us by the ship. Thoy are to us and our people a treasure of immense worth, for which we pray the Lord to reward those generous benefactors. As most of ourchil dren and many grown persons in our con gregation can read, they are read with great eagerness and much blessing, by old and young.” From Main, in Labrador , August 21, 1821 j After repeating their thanks for the valu able gift of the Esquimau's New Testament* they add— u Several of our Esquimaux here at Nain, having been informed of the nature of the Bible Society, and its aim in the dis tribution of the sacred Scriptures through out the world, of their own accord began to collect seals, and blubber, by way of mak ing up a small contribution towards the ex penses of the Society. “ Some brought whole Seals, others half a Seal, or other pieces, as they could afford it. Some brought pieces of blubber in the name of their children, requesting that their poor gifts might be accepted. “ The expressions they made use of in presenting their gifts deeply affected me, and us all. Having been told, that in Rome parts of the world, heathen, who were poorer than they, had contributed their, mite, however small, towards the further ance of the spread of the word of God, with great eagerness and delight they said— “ How long have we not heard the pleas ant and comfortable words of God concern ing Jesu3 our Saviour, and received so ma ny books treating of Him, and yet we have never known and considered where they come from! We have indeed sometimes spoken together, and observed, that these many books, given to us without pay, must be very dear somewhere; but we never have known before now, that even poor people bring their money, out of pure love, that we may get those comfortable words of God. We are indeed poor, but we might bring now and then some blubber as a con tribution, that others who are as ignorant as we were formerly, may receive the same gospel which has been so sweet to our souls, and thereby be taught to find the way to Jesus, and to believe on him.’ By this spontaneous declaration a great impres sion was made upon our people: Each would bring something, when they beard how desirous other heathen nations wer® to hear the word of God. They now beg ged me to send this collection of blubber (yielding 30 gallons ©f oil) to those gener ous friends who printed the Bibles for them, that more heathen might be presented with that book, “so precious above all things.” Similar expressions of gratitude are con tained in the letters from Hopedale, the southernmost of the settlements of the brethren on that coast, dated Sept. 4, 1821. They write The Lord be praised that his word dwells now richly among us ! We desire, with all our hearts, to preach the word of bis Cross with unwearied faith fulness. Surely we have the heat encour agement, by knowing what it has effected during the 50 years of the existence of the Brethren’s Mission iu the ceuntry, where formerly darkness and death reigned. It might truly be said of the Esquimaux that they aat in darkness and in the shadow of death; under the cruel bondage of satan; but God our Saviour has wrought deliver ance, and brought many of them into the florious liberty of the children of God. lany are already with the saints in bliss, praising with eternal songs the Lamb that was slajn, for thgic redemption by blood,” -t ‘