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fllle d with a flood of its mellow light. The paint
• on the window represented the first appear
ing of ihe Lord to Moses. In the back-ground
stood the burning bush, sending forth a wonder
ful radiance on all around. In front, Moses lay
on his face, upon the earth. Blue skies stretch
ed above, over which light, fleecy clouds seemed
t 0 be floating, and flocks of sheep strayed far and
wide over the luxuriant field. All bore the look
0 f reality and life. *.
“Ah, what a picture!” exclaimed the pilgrim.
•‘How brilliant, yet how mild. How warm—
how living —how true ! That, which, in the dark
ness, appeared like the daubs of a madman, is
n() w filled with life and beauty; the work of a
master’s hand. And this chapel, which, even
nOS v, looked to me so gloomy and comfortless—
so unworthy of its holy use—how rich, how chaste,
how appropriate, do all its parts stand forth, in this
beautiful light. But see ! what lines appear on
the illuminated glass ?”
“This is a picture of thy life, O man!
Dark, in disorder, stained—without a plan ;
But let the Heavenly Sun there shed His light,
And all its forms are living, warm and bright,
“Go’ if thus love thy Lord, serve all below.
No other love canst thou thy Master show!
Keep thy heart pure from stains, from selfhood free,
And fie will enter in and dwell with thee.”
The pilgrim took the lesson home. He return
ed no more to his cell, but spent his remaining
years in a life of usefulness to his fellow men.—
fie thought no more of the sins of others, but
guarded his own heart from evils, and trusted the
world to the keeping of his Heavenly Father.
THE BIBLE,
Supposing it other than it pretends to be, pre
sents us with a still more singular phenomenon
in the space which it occupies throughout the
continued history of literature. We see nothing
like it; and it may well perplex the infidel to ac
count for it. Nor need his sagacity disdain to
enter a little deeply into its possible causes ,
than he is usually inclined to do. It has not
been given to any other book of religion, thus to
triumph over national prejudices, and lodge itself
securely in the heart of great communities, —vary-
ing by every conceivable diversity of language,
race, manners, customs, and indeed agreeing in
nothing but a veneration for itself. It adapts itself
with facility to the revolutions of thought and
feeling which shakes to pieces all things else;
and flexibly accommodates itself to the progress
of society and the changes of civilization. Even
conquests —the disorganization of old nations—
the formation of new—do not affect the continuity
of its empire. It lays hold of the new as of the
old, and transmigrates with the spirit of human
ity; attracting to itiself, by its own moral power,
in all the communities it enters, caeaseless inten
sity of effort for its propagation, illustration, and
defence. Other systems of religion are usually
delicate exotics, and will not bear transplanting.
The gods of the nations are local deities, and re
luctantly quit their native soil; at all events they
patronise only their favorite races, and perish at
once when the tribe or nation of their worship
pers becomes extinct, often long before. Nothing,
indeed, is more difficult than to make foreigners
feel anything but the utmost indifference (except
as an object of philosophic curiosity) about the
religion of other nations; and no portion of their
national literature is regarded as more tedious or
unattractive than that which treats of their the
ology. The elegant mythologies of Greece and
Rome made no proselytes among other nations,
and fell hopelessly the moment they fell. The
Koran of Mahomet has, it is true, been propa
gated by the sword; but it has been propagated
hy nothing else ; and its dominion has been lim
ited to those nations who could not reply to that
logic. It the Bible be false, the facility with
vdi'ich it overleaps the otherwise impassable boun
daries ot race and clime, and domiciliates itself
among so many different nations, is assuredly a
far more striking and wonderful proof of human
ignorance, perverseness and stupidity, than is af
forded in the limited prevalence of even the most
abject
superstitions; or, if it really has merits I
which, though a fable, have enabled it to impose
so comprehensively and variously on mankind,
wondertul indeed must have been the skid in its
composition; so wonderful that even the infidel
himself ought never to regard it but with the pro
foundest reverence, as far too successful and sub
hme a fabrication to admit a thought of scoff or
ridicule. In his last illness, a few days before
us death, Sir Walter Scott asked Mr. Lockhart
read to him. Mr. Lockhart inquired what book
e Jd Uk e , ‘Can you ask?’ said Sir Walter,
i Cre ls hut one and requested him to read
‘ C apter of the gospel of John. When will an
9 £ em l l s s to whom all the realms of fiction
n-nf aS 1 * lara a t 0 him, say the like of some
; n i essSec * revelation, originating among a race
associated with a history and a clime as for
connected with the birthplace of
S 9te from those of the ancestry of Sir Walter
we by any stretch of imagination
suppose some Walter Scott of anew race in Aus
y ia or South Africa, saving the same of the
edas or the Koran *!—Edinburgh Review .
Sun Office, N. Y. >
Friday Morning, May 18th, 1849. >
The steamer Empire, Capt. W. W. Tupper,
kft her dock in this city last evening as usual, at
7 o’clock for Albany, having on board a large
number of passengers, among whom were manv
ladies.
. At about ten o’clock, when opposite Newburgh,
the pilot, Mr. Levi Smith, discovered the schooner
Noah Brown with a heavy deck load of lumber,
bearing down at a rapid rate through the channel, 5
apparently not discovering the proximity-of the
steamer.
He immediately stopped the engine and went
forward to hail her. Although his voice crying
to the man at the wheel “Luff! Luff!!” was
heard in the cabin, it appears that the person for
whom it was intended did not hear it.
The engines were then reversed and while the
steamer was still in the water, or making stern
way, the schooner came upon her with a tremen
dous crash. The bowsprit entered the forward
cabin just under the larboard guards, and so heav
ily was the schooner loaded that she was not
brought up until her very bow had also entered
the Empire’s side.
The schooner was beating down the river with
a stiff breeze when the collision occurred, the
wind being from the south or south by east, and
she on the tack from the east to the west shore
of the river. She was owned by Mr. Snyder of
Troy, a coal dealer.
The pilot of the Empire measured the distance
with his eye, and found it doubtful if he could
get by the bow of the schooner, and for that rea
son had afforded her every opportunity to come in
to the wind while he could pass, or go upon the
other tack.
The awful scenes which now followed cannot
be described.
When she struck and the water came rushing
into the cabin, the men leaped from their beds
and rushed to the stairs to save their lives.
It is very possible that many in the forward
cabin were overwhelmed with the water before
they could escape, though to all appearance, ev
ery one escaped.
In the terrible confusion they trampled and
bruised each ether.
In the ladies cabin, when it was found that the
boat began to sink, the most awful consternation
ensued.
The screams of the women were heart-rending.
Wives called on their husbands, and children
clung to their parents, for safety.
On shore, at Newburg, the first intimation of
the dreadful catastrophe was the awful screams
which arose from the passengers, and the mourn
ful tolling of the steamer’s bell.
Axes were brought, holes cut through into the
ladies cabin, and many thus liberated.
One of the ladies was accidentally killed by a
blow on the head from an axe at one of the holes;
such is our information from a passenger.
All this—including the assembling of the pas
sengers on the after promenade deck and around
the pilot house—occupied a period of less thav
eight minutes, during which the boat was slowly
and constantly settling down, floating meanwhile
with the tide.
When the water reached the furnace fires, ex
plosions, caused by the rush upon the burning
coals, occurred, which forced out the panel work
upon the deck, and added still more to the con
fusion of the moment.
Shortly after, the steamer Rip Van Winkle,
Capt. S. Schuyler, bound up to Albany, and
about two miles behind the Empire, came along
side, and by admirable management, the passen
gers wers speedily taken from their perillous po
sition, the Empire taken in tow and carried to the
flat, and the bow floating—promenade deck even
with the water.
The steamer Hudson, bound for Hudson, also
astern, came up and rendered much valuable as
sistance.
A passengar on board assures us that he saw
many in their fright jump overboard, and he
thinks that not less than twenty lost their lives in
this way, though a great portion of those who
jumped overboard were picked up by the small
boats from Newburgh.
The only bodies which have been recovered
are those of two ladies and a little girl. One of
the ladies is quite elderly, and is supposed to be
Mrs. Nobie, who was known to be on board. Os
the other, nothing was ascertained before the
steamer Troy left Newburgh on her way to this
city.
General Davis and Daughter, of Troy were
among the passengers. Both, we are happy to
state, were saved.
The little girl was the daughter of Mrs. and
during the awful confusion at the time of the
collision, the mother was seen running hither and
thither in her night clothes, and with an infant at
her bresst, calling upon all she met to help her
find her child. She was finally persuaded to
give up the search and to go above with the oth
er passengers at Newburgh in the hope that the
child might have been saved in the small boats.
.Soon after she left, the body of her daughter (as
supposed) was found.
It is not known how many, if any, gentlemen
were drowned in the lower cabins. About 150
in all were there and none of those \Vho escaped
had time to save more than they had upon them.
Those who were in bed and asleep were awaken
ed by the noise and screams and barely escape*}
with their lives. *
There were about 260 passengers on board)
all told, and it is deeply to be regretted that no
list of those who were saved was taken, and
that the number of them was not counted.
The Captain’s office was buried so quickly
that the books, papers, passengers’ lists and mo
ney were not recovered,
To the kindness of the people of Newburgh
the passengers by the ill-fated Empire are in
debted for many comforts, which they will never
forget.
The Empire can easily be recovered, so that
the loss to the owners will be comparatively tri
fling. The shock was so sudden that the hull
and timbers of the boat were not materially in
jured.
The accident wholly resulted from the want
of a proper look out on board the schooner or
from the inattention of the man at the wheel.
The least regard as to the sailing of that vessel
would have discovered to them the vicinity of
the steamer. On board the Empire every thing
was done which prudence could dictate to avoid
the accident.
CENTRAL RAIL ROAD--NEW STOCK.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Central
Rail Road & Banking Cos of Georgia, held at the Banking
House, May 9,1849, it was
Resolved , That books of subscription for new Guaranteed
8 per cent Stock, bo opened at the Banking House on Mon
day next, and be keptopeu until the first day of June next, at
the following terms:
Ist. The amount to bo subscribed shall be $150,000, at
not less than par.
2d. In case the subscription be over $150,000, then the
preference shall be given to those who, on subscribing, shall
offer the highest rate of premium.
3d. The manner of subscribing shall be as follows : The
subscription of each subscriber ou the book shall be num
bered, and the rate of the offer, whether at a premium or at
par, shall be, by the subscr.ber, placed in a sealed note with
similar uumber, which shall not be opened until the books
are closed.
4th. Among those offering at the same rate, in case of
excess of subscription, distribution of stocks shall be rateable.
sth. If the whole sum of $150,000 shall not be subscribed,
then each subscription is to be taken at the rate specified in
the sealed note of each subscriber, but never under par.
6th. Cash to the extent of par shall be paid on subscribing.
The fractional interest from the date of payment to the 15th
June, (the day of payment of dividends,) to be allowed to
the subscriber. Premiums to be paid on issue of scrip.
7th. The scrip to be issued will be similar to that hereto
fore issued, redeemblo in 1859.
By order. GEO. J. BULLOCH, Cash’r.
Extensive and Extraordinary Sale
OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
BOOKS & STA'I lONERY,
Encyclopaedias, and Valuuble Standard Works.
TN the various departments of Literature, Sci
fi ence, and the Arts ; Annuals and elegantly illustrated
Books, among which are Splendid London Editions of very
rare and choice works; fine Bibles and Prayer Books of every
description ; Portfolios, Gold Pens, in Gold and Silver Cases,
of the best makers; Letter, Packet Post, Commercial Post,
Cap and Note Paper; Envelopes; Blank Books, Memoran
dum Books, etc., etc., to be sold
cnoiw
At, our Sales Room, commencing at early candle light THIS
EVENING, and to be continued Every Evening until the
whole is sold. The Books are now ready for examination and
Private Sale. Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to call and
examine them during the day. The Books are new and war
ranted perfect, and will be sold without the least reserve to
the highest, bidder.
Terms, Cash.—Purchasers to pay for and take away their
Books the day following each sale,
may 31 PHILBRICK & BELL, Auctioneers.
To the planters and Farmers of South
Carolina, deorgia. Alabama, Tenn
essee'and Florida.
T AM THE AUTHORIZED AGENT for the
1 sale and purchase of the CAMELINA SATIVA or
GOLD OF PLEASURE SEED, a native of Siberia.
1 am now ready to fill all orders for the seed, and being au
thorized by the Company to purchase the same, I will pay the
highest market price for all that rnav be shipped to me in
Savannah. - WM. HUMPHREYS, Jr.,
may 31 Agent for the Company of New York.
Situation Wanted.
BY A YOUNG MAN, as Clerk or Book keeper,
good references can be given to any person needing his
services. Apply at, this office. may 31
New York & Savannah Line Steamships
To leave WEDNESDAY, June 6th.
The new and splendid Steamship
Tennessee, Collins, Master,
IT7TLL leave Savannah as above. Passage to
\V NewY r orks2s. No berth secured until paid for. The
ship and owners will not be accountable for any article sent on
beard, unless bills of lading are obtained for the same. Bills
of lading signed by the Clerk on board.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
PADELFORD & FAY.
The ships of this line carry a clear white light at masthead,
green on starboard side and red larboard.
S £SP* No Freight received after 9 o’clock on the day of sailing.
QF* No colored persons will be allowed to go on board for
any purpose. may 24
J?l. A. Cohen.
(Late of ihe firm of S. Solomons &f Cos.)
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING MERCHANT,
SAVANNAH, GA-
Agent for steart packets H. L. Cook and Ivanhoe.
may 10
Fashion for Spring-, 1849.
TVTOBLE LYON, (Gibbon’s Buildings,) jjatter,
Successor to Ives Horsey & Cos -The following'Varieties
may be lound at the above named Hat Store : Fme Black and
Drab Beavers. Whue. Otter and Pearl Brush, No. 1 and 2,
Moleskin, Drab and Black Brush. Also, Plantation Hats.
Leghorns, Rutland and Palm Leaf, Men's and Bovs’ and
Children’s Coburg, and Infants’ China Pearl Hats, dec. &e *
For sale wholesale and retail at New York Prices.’ ’
mar 29
Lamp Oil.
JUbT Received per ship Hartford, a lot of su
peiior Sperm Oil, which is warranted pure. For* sale
very cheap at store, 111 Bay street.
M 12 “ GEO. 11. BROCK.
Foreign Fruits.
RDE MARTIN, Corner Whitaker and Bay
• Streets, has made arrange met s to be constantly supplied
with choice WEST INDIA FRUITS and VEGETABLES,
selected expressly tor his trade, to which ho invites the atteu
tion of the public. Orders from the country respectfully so
licited and supplied upon the lowest terms. Also, constantly
on hand a complete assortment of select Groceries, Teas,
Wines, Segars, Syrups. English Sauces and Pickels, Pre
serves, &e., which would be to the interest of purchasers to
inspect previous to supplying their demands. ap 12
A C lIS I*.
The undersigned having re-opened, with an
entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and
FAiN C\ ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughton
street, (formerly Walker’s Marble Yard,) is now ready to
furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA
WATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of
the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state
of perfection.
Prescriptions put up with care and despatch.
The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully,
respectfully solicits a share of their patronage,
apr 26 THOS. RYERSON.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, GLAZING, &C.
THE subscriber having taken the store No. 121, Brough-
F ton street, has re-commenced in the above business, and
will be happy to receive orders for work. Pie will also keep
or sale all kinds of mixed paints, window glass, putty, oil,
turpentine, &c.
March 22, ’49. 3m. JOHN OLIVER.
SPRING GOOD*.
THE Subscriber has just received, by late arri
vals from New York and Philadelphia, a handsome assort
ment of every kind of BOOTS AND SHOES, for gentlemen,
ladies, youths, misses and children, all of which he offers for
sale on reasonable terms. SAM. A. WOOD,
March 21. 105 & 106 Bryan-st.
Breakfast House—Central Rail Road.
ILHE public are respectfully informed that the
subscriber furnishes BREAKFAST at* the Twenty Milo
Station, Central Rail Road, from Savannah.
apr 26 __ HUGH CASSIDY.
CLOTHING.
“DIERSON & HE IDT offer for sale, Clothing,
Jl Wholesale and Retail, at New York prices. No. 10,
Whitaker-street. apr 26
Portraits and Miniatures.
MR. VOIGT, who is for the present located at
the West end of the Academy, entrance opposite the
Presbyterian Church, respectfully requests those who propose
to avail themselves of his services, to engage their pictures
soon as conveniently practicable, as his stay in Savannah is
limited. aor 19
Summer Retreat on the Salts.
AT MONTGOMERY,\
TWELVE MILES FROM SAVANNAH.
ABONAUD respectfully informs his friends
• and the public generally, that from the 21st inst., he will
be prepared to accommodate guests, to whom he promises
good attendance on accommodating terms, having good and
intelligent servants. Persons may be accommodated for board
per week, month or day, at the following rates, viz:
Board and Lodging, per week, $5 00
Do. do. per day 1 50
Plorses well fed and attended to for 50 cents per clay.
• N. B. During the season there is an abundance of Fruit
on the place; and the table will also be provided with all kinds
of fish that the river will afford. apr 26
IlOIJSi: FURNISHING STORE.
pOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. 10S Bryan-st.,
VJ would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers to
their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Waie,
and House Furnishing Goods, cons’sting in part of Flowing
Blue, Mulberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; China and W. G.
‘1 ea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw
berry Wines, Ashburton Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades,
Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Stone
Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, Ac.
LAMPS AND TIN WARE.
Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan
terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Tea
Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big
gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate covers,
Cake Boxes, &c.
FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn nnd com
mon Cutlery, Razors and Pocket Knives, Coffee Mills, Sauce
and Stew Pans, Soup Digesters, Ovens. Pots. Skillets, Spiders,
Gridirons, Wafer and Waffle Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel
and Tongs, Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissors,
Paste Jaggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screw's, Mouse Traps, &c.
WILLOW AND WOOD WARE.
Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Piggins. Churns, Beef
Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Spoons, Butter
Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll
ers, Faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons,
Hobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting and
Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and
Frames, Thermometers,Spool stands. Swifts for windingsilk, Ice
Cream Churns, Knife Cleaneis, Nut Picks nnd Crackers
Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers ana
Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, of Soap Stone, Table
Mats, also Door Mats of different qualities, together with a
great variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and
Burning Fluid of the best quality.
Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call as
their prices are as low as else where.