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addressed his worship, observing "that, as we were all christians alike, he tho't for his part we ought to behave like christians one to another; and though he might not choose to have his bread taken away by any Jack that had a fancy to purloin it, yet could he have known at the time what he knew then, all the bread in his cellar, mir'ht have

attempted to despoil this man of a loaf kept company with that loaf, il the

vou merciful. I incensed you by no insolence of manner, by no turbulence of conduct. I bore your taunts with mildness. Surely it would become you to distinguish between the hardened sinner and the lowly one between the perpetrator in great misdeeds, and the olFender in trifling ones. "VVhnt i the amount of mv crime? I

could have carried comfort with them to

the poor creature who had pined with hunger three days and nights."

Hu worship, who when the dignity of those in our Union.

of bread. I had no money; I had no friends; I had no home; bul I had God of Heaven hear and forgive me, I had a father! an aged, helpless, blind and dying father, calling aloud for food, and "ho raven of the desert to bring it him. Poor old man! I would have plucked the morsel from a hungry bear to have given thee, rather than have longer heard thy feeble waitings for want; rath

er than still have beheld thy sightless icHr C1iftm nminUtor it ;m

eye oans roning in ineir sockcis, ana ;p irtialJv , to propound an escape for the

y w 4 1 pri-oner; but he very significantly point

office did not interfere, had a really kind

and a compassionate heart in his bosom, looked at mine host as he spoke with a glistening eye, for, he divined his meaning and secretly lauded it. It was not

lor him, however, sitting in the chair of

turning towards Heaven to implore its pitying help! ."What had I to fear from man? From man, who is my brother! From man, whose heart should feel for miserv!

Three long days and three miserabfe nig'its has my father fasted; during that time has he pined, inch-meal, away; in that time has lie drunk nothing but the water of the stagnant pool; in that time has he cursed his existence; during all that time has he groaned beneath the bony grap of death! Stretched on the bare earth, with no shelter from the inclement skies but what the embowering trees could give him, no pillow for his heal but iv green turf, no covering for his wasting-body but his tattered clothes, there he lies, dark, and famished! "I have shared his hunger; I have shared his watching; 1 have set by him, ami longed to hear his lat sigh! Eve

ry moment 1 expected it, and I would

not leave bun. His cries for food I eva

ded, believing death at hand. I shud

dered at the thought of lengthening a

wretched lite a lew sad hours! I sat in gloomy desperation, hoping to see him

expire! Ave! look on me with horror. I panted I thirsted to behold thiV

wasted form stretched in the arms of

death; for what is life to the blind, the aged, the needy, and the ailing? Who that is thus bowed down with the infirmities of nature, and oppressed by the tyranny of man, would arrest the silent strides of death? Da you abhor the savage of the dpsert who leaves his aged parent to perish? he is more merciful than we who shut out the grave, even when we are shut out from the world and world's delights! "Fixed was ny gloomy purpose, and I set, in horrid silence, by my father, heaving in the throes of death! With the green mantle of the standing pool I watered his lips as often as he called for drink: when he moaned for food I was si

lent as the m le; he knew not that I was near him. Heartrending was my task, and dreadfully I fulfilled it. When the darkness of night encompassed the creation, when all was stillness and solemn gloom, than have I sat impatiently listening to my father as he gisped for life! The fever's fiery fang had unstrung his joints, and he could not move. 3 ill as he called for drink I was at hand; but, when he bade me feed him, I answered Dot. Vain hope! Each morning's dawn showed him to me still living but still dy

ed outhow it might be done, while grave

ly deprecating such a course. Pevereil comprehended his humane intention, and, by 3 timely hint to mine host, enabled him to withdraw the charge, which

he instantly did, to the infinite satisfae tion of all present.

"I am free to depart, then," said the

youth. "You are," replied his worship.

"Th-n let me begone," he continued,

"every moment is precious, and 1 should ill deserve the liberty I have regained

were I to waste it in sloih, nor to fulfil

the purpose of my absence."

Pevereil and mine host proposed to

accompany him to the sj ot where he had left his father, and the mayors kitchen supplied him with viands and a flagon

of cordials, which Crab, who had heard

the whole proceeding, placed under the

youth's arm, with an honest "Lod bless

you, as tie lelt the house.

Mr. D. V. CulleY To gratify the wishes of some of the members of the Aurora Sabbath School Union; and to remove an impression, that the Sabbath School Report, read at Aurora on the 4th July last,contaiucd reflections on the Schools that have joined the Methodist Union, I send you a copy of that Report

for publication. It is an exact copy

cept the omissions noted, which contained not a word about any Schools, except

Improvement of the River, Extract of a letter from Capt. Sowers to a gentleman in Louisville: "Island no. 40, 21st Au. 1829. ''Dear Sir: I have the pleasure to in form you, that in about eleven hours we

have succeeded in effectually removing the obstructions at the celebrated and

much dreaded place called Plum Point,

and have made it as good and safe a

point as anjr other on the Mississippi riv-

er. 1 he lleliopolis far exceeds mv

most sanguine expectations; and I have

now the utmost confidence, that if the present should prove to be a favorable

season for operating with her, that there

wilr be but little risk in navigating. the

Mississippi hereafter. Respectfully yours, &c."

ing:

Mt. Sterling, Kv. August 22.,

Horrid Murder. We have received a

letter from a gentleman, who signs him

self J. Knap, detailing a murder that

took place in Greenup county, on r ri

day, the 14th inst. Three gentlemen,

named I ettit, Allen, and Gordon, were driving about 40 negroes of all ages and sexes, from Virginia, on the road be

tween Greenupsburg and Maysville;

when seven of the number rose upon their masters,about 7 miles from the former place, and murdered Allen and Pettit, and pursued Gordon some distance, until, on firing a pistol at him, he fell also. They left him for dead; but he has since recovered, and is now convalescent. Five of the negroes have been taken and lodged in Greenupsbur? nil;

;and the citizens are now in pursuit of the

"The length of my trial subdued my

resolution; the energy which despair and miseiyhad lent me was weakened; the iron purpose of my heart gave way, Yvhoii I c:ur tn u frther linTjriiii nil in

the pangs of death, vet struggling live;1! fogves, who were seen near the when I viewed his emaciated form still 0l the Rowing Monday. Mr.

r;mr,!,;nffnDOrhMnr,n fKn fnsor'f i"orJi;ii s onenu a rcwaru oi ,vuu

rage; when I beheld him gnawing the

J. L. HOLMAN, Secy Aurora S. S. U. SUNDAY SCHOOLS. The second annual report of the Aurora Sunday School Union, read at Aurora, on the 4th of July last, after the reading of the Declaration of Independence, by the Rev. S. Harris, and a national address by the Rev L. Alden.

While reviewing the national deeds of our fathers, we are strongly induced to look forward to the probable conduct of our children. While rejoicing in our

national privileges, we naturally feel a

deep solicitude for their perpetuity;

and our eyes must be fixed with intense anxiety on the disposition and capacity

of our children to preserve them. While

we look up with adoring gratitude l our heavenly father, whose almighty arm was the bulwark of our infant nation; we are led to inquire with alltln

strength of a father's affections, with all (hi: ardor of a mothei's bosom, will our

children be that happy people whose

God is the Lord?

The difficulties of our peculiar form

of government increase with our wealth,

our knowledge, and our population. And if we si nu times tremble lest oui

national privileges should perish in our

own hand, wnat win ue ineir perilous

condition in the hands of our children,

when they, on the tide of prosperity,

shall have spread from the Atlantic to

ue Pacific from the cape of r lorida to the Like of the Woods. Nothing but the influence of the Holy Spirit will be competent to regulate the mighty energies they will then possess, nothing but 'fie wisdom that is from above will be sufficient to direct so vast a concern. But if we rear them up in an acquaintance with the holy scriptures, if the) act under the guidance of their heaven ly father, the Lord Almighty will be their "munition of rocks," and his banner over them will be love. It is therefore a matter of the highest importance that we give their infuut minds that inclination that will lead their feet in the ways of wisdom, and in the paths of pe tee. lu order to effect this desirable object we have called in the aid of the Sahbath school. This noble institution, when in its infancy, had an infantile object. For many years it looked no further than to the

restraining of a few mischievous children on the Sabbath, and to the imparling

t a little education to a few of the poor.

It was even then the cherished darling ofl benefit of others without the prospect of

a number of pious individuals, who watched over its infant movements with parental solicitude. But little did they anticipate its rapid growth and gigantic stature. They neither thought nor

dreamed that in so s hort a time it would assume such an astonishing attitude, as lo cast its eyes over the nation, and

claim the wide world as its own. "Ex

tending its arms like seas to grasp in ail the shores.'7

which the schools have been conducted of the misconduct of superintendante

and teachers parents and children intimating that if the schools were conducted in a proper manner they would be

their warm supporters. But who could suppose that near thirty schools, awaking into existence almost at once, containing near 300 teachers, and near 2000 scholars, with scarcely an individual among them who was thoroughly acquainted with the best me

thod of Sabbath school instruction, should all be organised and conducted in the most advantageous mauuer; and even if their plans were the most judicious, who could suppose that these plana

would approve themselves at once to me various minds that were just beginning to think upon the subject. In fact if we

consider our almost universal unaequain-

tance with the whole subject of Sabbath

schools, and the endless variety of con

flicting opinions that exist among us on

every subject of a general nat . re, instead of being surprised at the low condition of our schools, we shall be filled

with wonder that we have been instrumental in effecting so much in so short a

time. Nor was it to be supposed that this mighty engine for the moral culture of nnllions, should go into operation among us without direct opposition. It is not in the nature of the enemies of Bible morality to view this wonderful system without jealousy and alarm; but

uth is the force of public opinion in its tavor, that there are few that dare to oppose it openly. They are compelled to

resort to something like plausibility in

their objections against it. Hence the

outcry of '-Union between church and

state" "Sectarian ascendency, ''spec ulalion," &e. 8z.c. Ai d it is to be re

gretted that many good bul inconside

rate n have learned their language,

and aie echoing heir ol jictions; o that

in relation to tfiis subject it is diffi- ult to

distinguish the direct opposer of month

ty, from the disaffected, the indolent,

and the slumbering professor of the reli

gion of Jesus. We lament that it is so;

and call upon every lover of the Bible-

very frieud of man every advocate of

republican liberty, to come out from a

mong the enemies of morality, and to

show himself the friend of individual and

universal reformation, by zealously sup

porting the Sabbath school institution.

I lie high sounding alarm of "Union

between church and state, and Sectari

an ascendency ," is scarcely calculated to

frighten children. Let us promote a

union between Cod and man let us give the ascendency to holiness of heart and life and we have nothing to fear. And who among us is so weak as to be milled by the stale and fallacious suggestion of speculation in Sunday school book?; while those books are cheaper

than any oihers ever furnished to the world, of an equal character, except the holy scriptures. There is but one description of men who have any pretext for being so misled. And they are the men who have never done an act for the

a pecuniary reward; and who have nei

ther the mind nor the generosity to suppose, that others can zealously engage in any thing of a public nature, without similar expectations: And those must be left where they are until they are silenced by the force of public opinion.

But notwithstanding all that has been done to defeat this institution, by enemies in disguise, and by inconsiderate

fiiends and all that has been left un-

very earth on which he lay to satisfy the ravenous cravings of his famished stomach, my soul yeained with pity, and 1 left him this morning with the desperate resolve of procuring food for him at

whatever hazard. Filled with this reso-

for their apprehension.-

IVhig.

Shawneetown, Aug. 29. We Team by report, that the steam boat Plough-Boy was snagged a few days since, on her passage down, about one

hundred miles below Louisville. Re

lutionl passed yourdoor; I repassed it; Port farther adds, that some lives were

rosi.

I hoped to interest your compassion by

my looks; but you had no commerce with pity. I then seized the loaf and ited;

not hastily, or I might have escaped. I

Indianapolis, September 10.

Mr St. Clair the new Register of

was brought back. An agonizing' the Land Olke at this place entered

thought of my poor father's condition came across my mind. I rushed forth

again pursued by you and others. I was

upon the duties of his office the first part of last week. Mr. Drake the Receiver

I of Public Monies has not yet arrived. -

deceived in that lane; I thought it led to We hear but little complaint of the new

wtiere my rainer lay. n u nad, and Ij appointments. Gazette, i

could nave droppea me oread by his

vou,

side, I would have turned upon

and delivered up myself without a strug

glc. But it was otherwise ordered ! and now glut your revenge: here I am, a poor, forsaken, wretehed, persecuted outcast. You know my crime; you have it recorded. I would have robbed this man; but let it be recorded also I would have robbed him to feed a dying parent! Perhaps, by this time, he is dead. Heaven grant it may be so ! I am your prisoner. Only let me know mv father's spirit is released, that it is in another world, and you may command this carcass of mine to what part of this world it may please you to send it." Here he paused, and never did an oration of Demosthenes of Cicero produce an equal effect. After a silence of tome minutes, which was more expressive than any language could have been, mine host, in a stammering voice.

DIED, at his residence in Loudon county, Va. a short time since, Tommy TomUins,a black man, aged 130 years. He was born and lived in Virginia, and retained his mental and physical faculties, to within a few days previous to his decease. Leaning to the Church A man, who had applied for admission into the

cnurcn, was ooserved by the pastor, a

day or two after, in a state of glorious in

toxication, leaning on a fence in front of

the meeting house. 4kI am surprised to

see you in this condition," said the minis

ter, "I thought you wee calculating to join the church." The unworthr aD-

plicant looked up with a maudlin stare,

anu replied: "True, I did think about

it ana J m rather l-l-leanins that zvav.

U 4

now

Berkshire American.

Thcv saw it as the hope of the poor'done, by the indolent and the slurnbei-

and the friendless: we see it as the hone '"g? the system of benevolence moves

oi me statesman lor the preservation and perfection of liberty as the hope of the christian philanthropist for the renovation of a world that h'eth in wickedness But in order to establish its claim to universal empire, and to satisfy the broad eye of hope that is fixed upon if, we must make it an individual concern we must give it dominion in the circle in which we move. The promotion of this benevolent institution in our immediate neighborhood, has demanded and received, portion of our attention. But we are not able to give 60 favorable an account of all the schools as we did last year. In some there has been a diminu

tion in the number of teachers and schol-

ars, and two or three have entirely ceased to act.

But this apparent declension was not unexpected. The general attention to this institution was then excited to a very high degree. A variety of causes op

erated to silence opposition; and the no

velty oi ttie subject brought into the schools a number of teacher3 and scholars who had no higher object in view than to go with the crowd. These continued no longer than the novelty existed, and they could devise some plausible pretext for being dissatisfied with the institution. Others expected too much. They were impatient for the harvest before thc6eed was properly sown. The name and the appearance of a Sabbath school did not effect an immediate trans

formation in the minds of the scholar?,

nor an instantaneous coincidence in o

pinion amongsuperintendants and teach

ers. They were disappointed, and have become a serious detriment to the progress of moral instruction. They have been heard to complain of the manner in

forward with a progress that insures sue

cess. Since our last report we have formed a connection with the American system by the name of the Aurora SundaySchool Union, Auxiliary to the American S. S. Union. This union was formed by sixteen schools, and two others have since united with them. Of these, three have been formed within the last y ear.t The school in Wilmington, and the first in Manchester have not been kept up with that regular

ity that ensures success, boine others have been irregular, especially during the winter. There are a few in our contemplated bounds from which we have received no account, and know not whether they will unite with us or not. Although the number of teachers aud scholars in several of the schools is not as

great as was stated in our last report, yet as in the same bounds we have more schools, we have not the slightest reason to be discouraged. Independently of this, we have gained some points of the utmost importance. We have several hundred scholars who have acquired a regular habit of punctually receiving Sabbath school instruction throughout the year. We have a

number of superiutendants and teacheis,

who have accustomed themselves to all

the roline of the school?, and ho have obtained much useful information aud experience. We have profitable libraries in all the schools, and have cultivated an increasing taste for instructive and devotional reading. We have been instrumental in giving a new aspect to the Lord's day, and a new tone of serir ousness to a very considerable portion of the community. We have promoted a more extensive diffusion of the gospel ol peace, and a more general acquaintance with the word thai God has given of his son than would have been done in the ordinary course of instruction; and we have extended those blessings into the bosom of families that seemed to be shut up against any other mode of religions instruction. We have thus become convinced, that a sufficient number of individuals may act in concert to carry on this institution in every school district; and that with that zeal and perseverance that becomes the disciples of Jesu?, we can overcome the ten thousand obstacles that retard the moral discipline of youth; as surely and as unquestionably, as the fertility of the soil, the warmth of the sun, the moisture of the shower, and the hand of the cultivator, will re ar the budding seed into a copious harvest. And that under the fosierii g care of heaven this magnific ent system of benevolence will ultimately tiiumph over all opposition, and will, ir us progress and perfection, injure inralrulamV blefsinga

tu the present, and to all future genera tions.

When we look beyond the bounds of our Union we see much of an encouraging nature. Many school have been organized in parts where they were heretofore unknown; and a continually increasing attention to this i-ubj.-ct haa been awakened in almost every part of this state. When we take athil wider survey, we aie animated with the rapid progress of this institution. We have not received the latest reports, but are confident that there are at this time in the United Spates, half a million of Sunday schoo!s;and that the individuals wha

are receiving some moral benefit from

this institution are more than double that number. In every quarter of the globe those blessed nurseries of moral , principles are to be found. The sun that lights the Sabbath morning, sheds his smiling beams upon nearly two millions of Sabbath scholars, repeating cr preparing to repeat the precepts of Jesus, in nearly fifty languages. And all

this is the work of a little more than for

ty years, if the number of Sunday

scholars should continue to increase in

the same ratio, it viill not be thirty years before all the children on our globe will

be embraced hi this Sabbath school.

By the time the least of these children

become active, efficient teachers and

superintendants of Sunday schools, their

ears may be saluted with the triumphant acclamation, sounding frcra the northern to the southern Winter, that the last child j of the human family is brought into this nursery of Jesus. Here then is the hope of our beloved country. And on this our day of national festivity, there is nothing that shed so bright a glow over our future nrospecls,

or tunes our hearts to go high a key of felicitous expectation, 3s our Sunday schools. Not the high tideoi prosperity that swells through all our bound? not the exuberant provision that is dis

played for this day's rejoicing; nor the smile of plenty that gladdens our fertile fields not the boitteroos huzzas of two mill ions of freemen; nor the loud roar of artillery that shakesourextended shores, and echoes from the Allegheny to the Stony mountains, can give such an assurance that our civil institution will endure to the latest ages, as is to be derived from the Sabbath exercises of these little children.

BIBLE SOCIETY.

T!k anniversary of the Aurora Bible Society will be held at Aurora on Sunday the 18th of October next, commencing at 1 1 o'clock. All persons friendly to the distribution of the Bible, and whe wish every destitute family in the county to be supplied, are respectfully and earnestly requested to attend. D. BARTHOLOMEW, Sec.

Here followed the particular Uto of each school , wbicb having been pubhihed heretofore is now omitted. Some general remarks respecting two schools recently formed are also omitted, as those school have since jnned the Union. The whole number of schools is near 20; teachers 21 1 ; scholars 1160; volumes io their libraries 2700. tAlso the two thu Lit inca jyioeJ our Unioa.

Communicated. Lan-nnceburgh, Sept. 1 5, 1S2. Mr. Cullev In your paper, of the

:12th in?t. I find a letter from Robert

Hanna, jr. to Solomon Manwaring, on the sub; ct of Reform. Mr. Hnnni displays an apparent refignation, which is certainly creditable; and will redound to his advantage on a future occasion. Amen. But the motives which prompt such declarationstas wefnd in thrs letter, are subjects of criticism, as will be acknowledged by all parties. The motives can alone be decyphered by a knowledge of his character; and character should be established and understood by a series of actions, all tending to the point to be established. I promise, on a future occasion, to scan the actions of this man in past life; and previous to this examination, it will be prudent for tho public to suspend their opinion?, as to his merits, for I promise correctness ant! impartiality in the examination. 'NltiTCi; .

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