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Brethren, I have Rot come here to so-' licit your applause, or to deserve your censure; neither was it all my object to vindicate the principles of masonry. I came too, under God, to effect the salvation of your souls, and I cannot believe that in my exertions to this end, you will consider me your enemy, if I tell you the truth as a mason I dare not deceive you, or mislead your judgments, and to suffer you to rush headlong to hell without admonishing you, would be a gross violation of my duty as a brother. But as a watchman on the walls of Zion, if I fail to warn you, I incur the displeasure of my maker, and bring guilt upon my own confidence. Permit me then to assure you, that if you live and die without a saving interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, the door of heaven will be forever closed a painst you, and an awful hell now moves to meet your coming. Therefore repent, or you must be indescribably miserable to all eternity. The question is not must you repent? that is beyond a doubt; but this is the inquiry will you repent now when your repentance may be of service ? Or will you repent in eternity, when your repentance can only augment your misery ? We must be digested of all sinful dis positions and practices before we can enter the regions' of felicity, pass through the gates into the city, or be raised to the sublime knowledge and enjoyment of our heavenly Grand Master. Let us therefore fly unto Jesus as our only hope ; take up the cross, and follow him daily. Let us live at his feet, that vre may die in his arms. Then, when the workmen are called from labour to refreshment, may we all hear " Well done good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," and be prepared to rest our weary souls in the celestial lodge, the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." I shall close this discourse, by an ad

dress to my christian brethren. You have heard me this day bear an unequivocal testimony in favor of the masonic institution. I again declare, that I know nothing in masonry repugnant to the word of God. I cannot vindicate the conduct of masons on all occasions ; but I must and will support the institution. If masons are not what they ought to be, censure them ; but do not judge them as christians, until they profess Christianity. They ought to be censured if they act improperly ; but censure not the institution, lest you enact a severe law against yourselves. If masonry is approved of heaven, you cannot war successfully aftainst it, if not it will come to naught. Remember, that if masons lived as they ought to do, the institution would be more generally esteemed ; so if christians lived up to their privileges, the cause of the Redeemer would advance more rapidly, and sinners more frequently crowd the gates of Zion But my friends, be sinIcr9, be masons, be professors of religion, or what you may. without repentance & faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, you cannot escape the miseries of the damned. May the Lord bless you, and give you Understanding in all things. And now brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance amongst all them which arc sanctified. Agricultural Kxpcrimcnt suggested.

Crowded as our columns now are, nothing but the advanced state of the season for planting, induces us, at this moment,

to present to the attention of our readers

the following instructive iiuic .ucmuir, which we copy from the 4th No. of the

Franklin Journal, a monthly magazine,

printed at Philadelphia, under the patro

nagc of the Franklin Institute of the state of Pennsylvania. The suggestions which

it contains appear to us well worthy 1 oc

ing tested by actual experiment -Nat. Int.

Observations on the fircducti-v cf Sugar,

as an appendage to common firming. To the Editor of the Franklin Jour-

rtal. Sir: ou, in common with every

man 'of observation, must have noticed

the great alterations, which, within a

short period of time, have taken place in

the circumstances and habits of society.

Many articles, which, a few years since,

were considered luxuries, have now tak

n their station amone the necessaries of

lift. If these are to be enjoyed, wc must

pursue the course necessary to their at

tainmcnt. Labor isthconlv means which

nature has given to man for the procure

mcnt of either necessaries, comforts, or

luxuries: and by her laws, this labor is

productive, in proportion to the skill by which it is directed. The fabrics, worn

bv our sires, mieht still have answered

the purposes of their descendants; but

the improvements ot Arkwrignt, wau and others, have so far facilitated the pro

duction of cloth, that what fifty years ago would have been considered as articles of luxury in "dress, are now in common use, and viewed as absolutely necessary. This change, in the habits of society, is quite as remai kable in our food, as it 'is in our dress, our furniture, and other modes of living. I wish, at present, to call your attention to the extraordinary increase in the consumption of sugar, which, in many instances, now forms a part of breakfast, dinner, and supper, even in the families of the poor. It is no uncommon thing with laboring people to have tea with their dinners; and they argue, that, as a beerage, it is preferable to beer 01 spirits, Sc equally cheap. To discuss the merits of this question, is not the object which I have in view, as any thing that either you or I could say would have but little influence upon the habits of society ; now-a-days a pauper in the alms-house gets tea once or t?icc a day. This, a century ago, was a luxury which had to be secured to gteat ladies, by a clause in their marriage contract. The revolution is still going forward, which has brought people to live in bet ter and e'eaner houses ; and, in its progress, it will undoubtedly cause some things heretofore considered as necessary, to be entirely relinquished, or very sparingly used, because they will be found to be incompatible with the style and quality of other things about us. Of this class we may instance tobacco, as its use in chewing, smoking and snuffing, do not suit the cleanly habits, and the good furniture, which refinement is introducing into modern use. Elegant carpets, well papered rooms, Sec. are every clay lessening the consumption of tobacco The honors so well earned by Arkwright, by Watt, by Fulton, and by Whitney, will be equally due to that benefactor of the human race

who shall introduce into our style of liv

ing something that will be a remedy for the consumption of alcohol. Perhaps increasing the quantity, and lessening the

price of sugar, may, in some degree, aid in the discomfiture of the wretched habit, and obviate the evils consequent on the

practice of drinking intoxicating liquors. Should we succeed in discovering some

vegetable, easily cultivated, and yielding a considerable portion of sugar, it may be

the means of compensating the tobacco planter for the loss of his customers.

I'hose engaged in this branch of tillage,

should begin to look around them for some other employment for their laborers and their lands. The current is now setting against the use of tobicco, and when once it is considered as disreputable to

employ it. were it to bo given away, more of it would be wasted, but not more used than now is, excepting among those who are poor, dirty, and ill lodged, like the peasantry of Ireland and Germany. It is generally, but probably an incorrect opinion, that the sugar cane, saccharum o(Jicinarum, and a tropical climate, are our sole dependence for an abundant supply of sugar. It is true, that sunshine and heat are essential to the production of vegetable oils, salt3, resins, Etc. but it

task. This delayed for a few days, the completion of the experiment, end during this period, it was found that the juice in the plant had undergone the acetous and putrefactive fermentations, which prevented the ascertaining the quantity and quality of the sugar, by evaporation and crystalization, as had been determined. Considering that sugar is an article in increasing demand; that the daily improvements making in the old branches of agriculture, are reducing the profits of the farmer to the minimum ; and that sugar, in smaller or larger quantities, is found in many vegetables ; would it not be wise in our agriculturists, throughout the Union, to make experiments upon the cultivation of sugar? the quantity con

tained in broom-corn, convinces niD that ! this plant is of sufficient consequence to ; command their attention, and to procure : for it a general and careful trial. The thing is deserving of experiment, to : the north as well as to the south the! plant grows in every state in the Union, j

It is probable that the advantage will be with those who have most heat and sunshine, provided the people are equally industrious, and have this industry under the guidance of equal skill Sc intelligence for, in all comparisons of this kind, these must be taken into the calculation as in many instances they have power to more than compensate for some deficiency in natural advantages. The improvement and increase of all useful productions, are objects of national importance ; and perhaps, editors of newspapers may think these hin'.s worth disseminating In this case, I hope they will also aid in making your useful repository more generally known, by giving credit to the Franklin Journal of Philadelphia. Yours, ScC. SACCHAIIUM.

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fhankfort, (ky ) May

fieauchamp's trial. The arguments of counsel in this case, weie closed on the evening of Fi iday last It was conducted with distinguished ability. Every cTort V2s made to save the prisoner, which zeal and talents could dictate. Mr. Laccy, in opening the defence, Mr. Richardson, in continuation, and Mr. Pope, in conclusion, exceeded public expectation, and produced a doubt in the minds of the crowd, notwithstanding the strength of the evidence, and the ability with which it had been explained by Messrs. Bibb & Mayes. Mr. Denny concluded with great power. After a short retirement, the jury returned a verdict of guilty. We learn, that there was not the least hesitation in a single juror. The countenance of the prisoner was unmoved those who were near him, assert that, while speaking to his counsel shortly after, he betrayed sensible emotion. On Saturday the counsel for the prisoner moved the court to arrest the judgment, cn the ground, that 1 there is no law in this commonwealth, for the punishment of muider. The a'gument on this point occupied the court until Monday. About noon, on that day, judge Davidge decided, that the repealing section of the act of 1825, did

at St. Helena, dated March 16th, toka house in this city received by the ship Sabina ; We have just received intelligence from Madras, by the English ship Mcllish, that the Burmese war is at an end, and that they have been compelled to pay to the British l 2,500,000 sterling," with an assignment of five Piovinces.A -From the Baltimore American. The experiments of Mr Babcock, an ingenius citizen of Newport, H. I. n relato the safety of steam engines and the reduced consumption ot fuel, appearto have been crow red with complete success. The Providence American says : uThe steam boat Babcock, made her first trip from Newport to this place on Tuesday. It will be recollected that the engine and machinery ot this boat are on a principle recently invented and improved by Mr. B-bcock, and which was stated & explaind in the papers, last season. The improvements consist in dispensing with boilers and danger, procuring a sufficiency of power with a very small portion of fuel and water, contracting the whole apparatus within the space of a few feet, and in generating the steam only in such quantity as is needed for each motion. Since the last season eighteen feet have been added to the length of the boat, and her general accommodations have been much improved. The engine has the power of 15 horsps, and has propelled the boat atthe rate of ten miles an hour. The trip to Newport, from this place, was made on Wednesday, against the tide, and without wind, in three hours and forty minutes, c tivo feet of zvood or?r, were consumed. She returned yesterdav in three hours Sc ten minutes ; having commenced running for the se son."

is equally true that all these are produced ' not repeal so much of the first section of

mrougnoui mc wnoic tcmpeiate zone and would it not be arrogant to soy that every discovery Sc improvement of which agriculture is susceptible, has been already made ? Agriculture, like all other arts, when uni ed tot'ie sciences, will give results of which we, at pi esent, cannot form any conjecture ; and, I am convinced that the time will come when sugar will be obtained from planti not at present cultivated for that purpose, and capable of being raised throughout an extent of country not now supposed possible. These observations were suggested by the following circumstances : late last fall there had been some sharp frosty nights, succeeded by hot sunshiny days ; on one cf these, I noticed a vast number of flies, of various kinds, swarming about some bundles of broom corn, holcus sorghum, that had been recently cut down; it was evident that they were allured by something in which they were much interested. I at first imagined that the heat and shelter, afforded by the stalks, hail brot them together ; but upon examination, no remarkable degree of warmth was perceptible ; heat Sc shelter, therefore, could not be their object ; food next occurred as the subject of their attention, and upon carefully examining the stems, I found that on twisting them hard, a table spoon full of remarkably sweet juice, could bo pressed from a single joint, near the bottom of the plant; this solved the inquiry respecting the object of the flies, and perhaps may lead to results of greater importance. Cuttings from two or three of the lower joints were saved, for the purpose of having them completely pressed ; but this, on account of their ripe state, their hard cane-like fibres, and my want of proper means, was found to be a difficult

tc act of 1 80 1 , as relates to the crime of murder, because uch was not the intention of the legislature; and that, if it had repealed it, the effect would have been to levive the common law, or rather, that the common law was never entirely superseded, and would have operated, after such repeal, in full force. The judge then proceeded to pronounce scn'ence on the prisoner. He at first fixed on Friday the 1 6th day of June, for the execution ; but the prisoner solicited longer time, alleging that he wished it, not on

his own account, but for the purpose of

writing something to justify those who he left behind him. His request was grant

ed, and he was sentenced to be hanged on

r nday, the 7th day of July.

The prisoner received his sentence with the most perfect composure, U addressed

the judge, asking for further time, in an

unlaultering voice. His couiuel moved

an appeal ; but it was refused. Applica

tion, it is said, will be made to the old

court for a supersedeas. Argus.

Good Jdvice A late Dover Gazette says, that one of the reverend gentlemen of that town, in the course of a fast day

sermon, gave the following excellent

piece ot advice : 14 If, (said the preacher,) the young gen

tlemen were more frequently to mingle

with the virtuous young ladies of the town,

instead of hovering around grog shops Sc

gaming tables, it would, in time, have a beneficial tendency in weaning them from

many of their vicious practices, Sc thereby

render them more respectable members

of society. .Vat. Int. JvVtv York, May 7.

India. The following is an extract of a

letter from a very respectable merchant

ISew Series of t lie Museum of Foreign Lift ratin e Science. E. LITTELL, 88, CUES NUT STREET PHILADELPHIA, Has juHt commenced a NEW SERIES OF THK

MUSEUM or

Foreign Literature Science.

This work has now been published mor

than three years. Its plan embraced every

thing valuable in the Journals ot Europe but vhileit vet remained to be nroved that

this plan would be acceptable to the public

it was not tnot expedient to incur the great expense necessary to execute it fully or to encounter the disadvantage of copying from

Journals to which our readers might perhaps be subscribers. On these accounts we have

with one or two exceptions, avoided the Ed-

imurgn anu Quarterly Kcviews. All doubts of the success of a work on thfc

plan of the Museum, have been entirely removed by the experiment, and the best proof of gratitude for the public favour will be

louiui in increased cilortsto deserve it.

The new scries contains double the ouanti-

ty of matter that was in the first and when

it is considered that that was already the cheapest periodical work in the country', it will be evident that we effer very considerable inducements to subscribers. There will be twelve numbers a year, each containing nearly as much as one of the Kc iews. This increase of space enables us to rcprmt every thing worth reprinting, in the Edinburgh Cf Quarterly Rakus : In addition to the following works, from which we have regularly

uruwn our supplies ncretotore :

Blackwood's MuzazincJ

London Magazine, Edinburgh Magazine. Wtatminstrr Rtviriv, Retrospective Revitzv, Literary Gazette, I London Journal tf Sci ince. Literature, and the Art, Brewster's Edinburgh

Philosophical Journal

European jMagazine,

Very Monthly Ma-

zine. Monthly Magazin: Iiritish Critic, British Bex-itxv, .Monthly Review, Acker man s Rcpj yitory, Im Belle Assemb'ec Eltctric Review, Christian Observer

Ladies lagazine.

Pocket Afiirrazir.r

And all new Journals of merit, for which

we have standing orders abroad. The Editor of a Journal consisting entirely cf selections from foreign Journals, ma v perhaps be allowed, without the imputation cf v aiiity, to speak of the (jualitif, as w ell as the quantity, ot the matter contained in lus It is v cry ev ident that an abundance is offered to his choice, and as the Journals cf G. Uritain arc supported by writers cf great talent and high reputation, to whom large salaries are paid, much must be of a very superior order. It would seem thin to be easv to compile from all these Journal, one which shall be superior to any one cf hem. January 1325. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. The price is a year, payable in advance but if not paid in advance 50 cents No subscription to be discontinued until all arrearages shall be paid and the publisher to be at liberty to retain the numbers as coU lateral security, until they shall have been paid for. The work will be sent to any part of the United States by miil, on receipt cf g5 on account, by the publisher. Jy-Subscnptions for the above work received at the ofuce of the Western Sun.