In all things consider thine own ignorance, | was a professing Christian, but belonged to no and gladly take occasion to be taught, But suffer not excess of liberality to neutralise thy mental independence. The faults and follies of most men make their deaths a gain; And thou also art a man full of faults and follies. And the measure of charity thou dealest shall be poured into thine own bosom. That which vexeth thee now, provoking thee to hate thy brother, Bear with it; the annoyance passeth and may not return for ever. For men and matters change, new elements mixing in continually, And, as with chemical magic the sour is transmuted into sweetness. A little explained, a little endured, a little passed over as a foible, And lo, the jagged atoms fit like smooth mosaic. Thou canst not shape another's mind to suit thine own body; Think not then to be furnishing his brain with thy special notions; Charity walketh with a high step, and stumbleth not at a trifle; Charity hath keen eyes, but the lashes half conceal them: Charity is praised of all, and fear not thou that praise; God will not love thee less because men love thee more. RELIC OF A PAST AGE. particular church. It appears that the deceased, with others of her tribe, in her childhood, encamped and cooked their meals, in that part of the city now called the Battery. In the house where the deceased died, there are two interesting young Indian girls, one of them a Mohegan about twelve years old, and the other a remarkably pretty girl about seventeen, whose family rank high among the Chippewa tribe, and whose hair is such a beautiful jet black, and so luxuriantly long, that ladies of a whiter skin might envy her in that particular. She has arrived in this city on her way to England, being determined, as she says, to visit Queen Victoria before she returns to her native. land.-N. Y. Mercury. A Kentucky Jury recently gave a verdict, which, for singularity, is about equal to a judg ment given in a turkey case, last Christmas, by one of our city Alderman. The Kentucky case was as follows:-Two men, living near neighbours, had a falling out about the cow of one of the parties frequently getting into the enclosure of the other, and which finally resulted in the death of the cow-she having been set on by dogs and chased till she ran against a stump and broke her neck. The case was submitted to a hearing related all the circumstances, the jury jury of respectable and wealthy farmers. After made could not afford to lose her, and that the owner their minds that the owner of the cow of the dogs was not able to pay for her; they therefore rendered the following verdict :-That the jury should pay the value of the cow, the magistrate treat the party, and the constable pay the costs. The verdict was immediately ratified and settled to the great joy of the entire neighbourhood. up A VALUABLE HINT FOR FARMERS. The Coroner yesterday held an inquest on the body of Rachael Gedney, aged 107 years, who died suddenly on Sunday evening, at 91 Seventh Avenue. A grand daughter of the deceased testified that her grandmother was born at Mamaroneck, Westchester county, in the year 1741; that her parents were Indians; The celebrated Robert Bakewell, of Dishley, her father belonged to the Tappan tribe, and Leicestershire, and the founder of the New Leiher mother was a Mohegan. The deceased cester sheep, used to tell an anecdote with exmarried a Malay, by whom she had two child-ceeding high glee of a farmer not only of the ren, one of whom is mother of the witness, and is still living, at the age of 77 years. The mother of the deceased lived to the age of 107 years. The deceased has lived, during her long life, in various parts of this and the neighbouring States, and when 99 years old she went from Haverstraw to New Haven, and remained there for a short time. About a fortnight since she came to this city to see her daughter, and almost up to the moment of her death enjoyed good health, was in perfect possession of her faculties, and seemed to take great pleasure in talking of the many adventures of her long and eventful life; so perfect was her sight, that a few days before her death she could see objects distinctly across the North river. The deceased olden school, but of the golden times. This farmer, who owned and occupied 1000 acres of land, had three daughters. When his eldest daughter married, he gave her one quarter of his land for her portion, but no money; and he found, by a little more speed and a little better management, the produce of his farm did not decrease. When his second daughter married, he gave her one third of the remaining land for her portion, but no money. He then set to work, and began to grub up his furze and fern, and ploughed up what he called his poor dry furze land, even when the furze covered in some closes nearly half the land. After giving half his land away to two of his daughters, to his great surprise he found that the produce in man ought to be stronger than the farm. I told him how to make hot land colder, and cold land hotter, light land stiffer, and stiff land lighter. I soon caused him to shake off all his old deeprooted prejudices, and I grafted new ones in their places. I told him not to breed inferior cattle, sheep, or horses, but the best of each kind, for the best consumed no more than the worst. My friend became a new man in his old age, and died rich.—Gardeners' Chronicle. AND THAT OF PAIN DIMINISHED, BY THE EXIST- The inhabitants of the earth have ever been divided into two great classes, the one herbivorous, the other carnivorous; and though the existence of the latter may, at first sight, seem calculated to increase the amount of animal pain; yet, when considered in its full extent, it will be found materially to diminish it. To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare and incessant carnage; but the more enlarged view, while it regards individuals in their conjoint relations to the general benefit of their own species, and that of other species with which they are associated in the great family of nature, resolves each apparent case of individual evil, into an example of subserviency to universal good. creased; he made more money because his new broken-up furze land brought excessive crops, and at the same time he farmed the whole of his land better, for he employed three times more labourers upon it; he rose two hours sooner in the morning, had no more dead fallows once in three years; instead of which he got two green crops in one year, and ate them upon the land. A garden never requires a dead fallow. But the great advantage was, that he had got the same money to manage 500 acres as he had to manage 1000 acres; therefore he laid out double the money upon the land. When his third and AGGREGATE OF ANIMAL ENJOYMENT INCREASED, last daughter married, he gave her 250 acres, or half what remained, for her portion, and no money. He then found that he had the same money to farm one quarter of the land as he had at first to farm the whole. He began to ask himself a few questions, and set his wits to work how he was to make as much of 250 as he had done of 1000 acres. He then paid off his bailiff, who weighed twenty stone! rose with the larks in the long days, and went to bed with the lamb; he got as much more work done for his money; he made his servants, labourers, and horses, move faster; broke them from their snail's pace; and found that the eye of the master quickened the pace of the servant. He saw the beginning and ending of everything; and to his servants and labourers, instead of saying, "Go and do it," he said to them, "Let us go, my boys, and do it." Between come and go he soon found out a great difference. He grubbed up the whole of his furze and ferns, and then ploughed the whole of his poor grass up, and converted a great deal of corn into meat for sake of the manure, and he preserved his black water, (the essence of manure;) cut his hedges down, which had not been plashed for forty or fifty years; straightened his zig-zag fences; cut his water-courses straight, and gained a deal of land by doing so; made dams and sluices, and irrigated all the land he could; he grubbed up many of his hedges and borders covered with bushes, in some places from 10 to 14 yards in width, some more in his small closes, some not wider than streets; and threw three, four, five, and six closes into one. He found out that, instead of growing whitethorn hedges and haws to feed foreign birds in the winter, he could grow food for man instead of migratory birds. After all this improvement he grew more, and made more of 250 acres than he did from 1000; at the same time he found out that half of England at that time was not cultivated from the want of means to cultivate it with. I let him rams and sold him long-horned bulls, (said R. Bakewell,) and told him the real value of labour, both in-doors and out, and what ought to be done with a certain number of men, oxen, and horses, within a given time. I taught him to sow less and plough better; that there were limits and The same " police of nature," which is thus measures in all things; and that the husband-beneficial to the great family of the inhabitants of land Under the existing system, not only is the aggregate amount of animal enjoyment much inraces which are carnivorous, but these are also creased, by adding to the stock of life all the highly beneficial even to the herbivorous races, that are subject to their dominion. Besides the desirable relief of speedy death on the approach of debility or age, the carnivora confer a further benefit on the species which form their prey, as they control their excessive increase by the destruction of many individuals in youth and health. Without this salutary check, each species would soon multiply to an extent, exceeding, in a fatal degree, their supply of food, and the whole class of herbivora would ever be so nearly on the verge of starvation, that multitudes would daily be consigned to lingering and painful death by famine. All these evils are superseded by the establishment of a controlling power in the carnivora; by their agency, the numbers of each species are maintained in due proportion to one another-the sick, the lame, the aged, and the supernumeraries, are consigned to speedy death; and while each suffering individual is soon relieved from pain, it contributes its enfeebled carcass to the support of its carnivorous benefactor, and leaves more room for the comfortable existence of the healthy survivors of its own species. the land, is established with equal advantage among the tenants of the sea. Of these also, there is one large division that lives on vegetables, and supplies the basis of food to the other division that is carnivorous. Here again we see, that in the absence of carnivora, the uncontrolled herbivora would multiply indefinitely, until the lack of food brought them also to the verge of starvation; and the sea would be crowded with creatures under the endurance of universal pain from hunger, while death by famine would be the termination of ill-fed and miserable lives. The appointment of death by the agency of carnivora, as the ordinary termination of animal existence, appears therefore in its main results to be a dispensation of benevolence; it deducts much from the aggregate amount of the pain of universal death; it abridges, and almost annihilates, throughout the brute creation, the misery of disease, and accidental injuries, and lingering decay; and imposes such salutary restraint upon excessive increase of numbers, that the supply of food maintains perpetually a due ratio to the demand. The result is, that the surface of the land, and depths of the waters, are ever crowded with myriads of animated beings, the pleasures of whose life are co-extensive with its duration; and which, throughout the little day of existence that is allowed to them, fulfil with joy the functions for which they were created. Life to each individual is a scene of continued feasting, in a region of plenty; and when unexpected death arrests its course, it repays with small interest the large debt which it has contracted to the common fund of animal nutrition, from whence the materials of its body have been derived. Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless succession of life and happiness.-Buckland's Geology. The Menoinee and other Indian Treaties, mentioned in the President's Message, are repeated by the Secretary of War, only at greater length, and the Report thus concludes:: There are sixteen manual labour schools and eighty-seven boarding and district schools now in successful operation among the various Indian tribes, and the number of Indian youths attending them, according to the reports received at the department, is three thousand six hundred and eighty-two-of which two thousand six hundred and fifty are males, and the remaining one thousand and thirty-two are females. The schools are generally in charge of missionary societies, and are well conducted. These facts afford the most gratifying evidence that nearly all of our colonized tribes are rapidly advancing in civilization and moral improvement; and 1 I trust it may not be improper on this occasion for me to say, that for the highly improved and rapidly improving condition of the numerous Indian tribes, over which the guardianship of the government is extended, not only in regard to education but most other respects, no stinted measure of credit is to be ascribed to the ability, industry, and faithfulness of that branch of this department to which the management of our diversified and difficult Indian affairs is assigned. Within the newly acquired territories there is a numerous Indian population, over which our supervision and guardianship must necessarily be extended; but this cannot be effectually done without the action of Congress on the subject. Additional agencies are required to manage Indian affairs in these territories, and to extend to them our Indian system of control and management which, in other parts of our country, has already produced such happy results, and is so full of promise for the future. From the National Era. THE WISH OF TO-DAY. I ask not now for gold to gild A rose-cloud dimly seen above, Melting in heaven's blue depths awayOh! sweet, fond dream of human Love, For thee I may not pray. But, bowed in lowliness of mind, I make my humble wishes knownI only ask a will resign'd, Oh, Father, to Thine own. To-day, beneath thy chastening eye, And feel that it is best. A marvel seems the Universe, In vain I task my aching brain, In vain the sage's thought I scanI only feel how weak and vain, How poor and blind, is man. And now my spirit sighs for home, Though oft, like letters traced on sand, J. G. W. Child of grief, does this world move thee? The poor man seeth not the vexations and anxieties of the rich, he feeleth not the difficulties and perplexities of power, neither knoweth he the wearisomeness of leisure; and therefore it is that he repineth at his own let. SUMMARY OF NEWS. CONGRESS.-On the 13th inst, the petition of the inhabitants of New Mexico, (noticed in our 12th number,) was presented in the Senate by Senator Benton, who remarked that he considered the peti tion to be a reasonable one in every respect, and that it ought to be granted. Calhoun declared that he considered the petition as not only unreasonable in all its aspects, but insolent in the highest degree. After a very warm discussion, Benton's motion to print was adopted, 33 to 14, and the memorial was referred to the Committee on Territories. In the House, Palfrey, of Massachusetts, asked leave to introduce a bill providing for the repeal of all acts of Congress establishing or maintaining slavery in the District of Columbia. Leave was refused, yeas 69, nays 85. Root, of Ohio, then offered a resolution, instructing the committee on territories to report bills for the organization of territorial governments in California and New Mexico, excluding from each, for ever, all involuntary servitude except for crime, which was passed, by yeas 107, nays 80. OHIO LEGISLATURE-The Senate has at length succeeded in effecting an organization. The House remains as before, the Democrats continuing to sit in the Hall, and to eat and sleep there, and the Whigs meeting daily, to call the roll and adjourn. Propositions have been made for a compromise, but none had been accepted at the last accounts. U. S. SENATORS.-Gov. Whitcomb has been chosen by the Legisla'ure of Indiana, in place of Edward A. Hannegan, whose term expires on the 3d of Third month next. The new Senator is considered a decided Wilmot Proviso man. A. P. ButG. W. ler has been re elected from S. Carolina. Jones and A. G. Dodge, have been chosen by the Iowa Legislature. Iowa has heretofore had no Senators, the closeness of the parties in her previous Legislatures preventing an election. EUROPE.-The steamer Canada arrived at New York on the 14th, with dates to the 25th ult. The Niagara reached Boston on the 16th, having left Liverpool on the 2d inst. The death of Lord Melbourne, formerly Prime Minister of England, is announced. The Court of Queen's Bench of Ireland had decided in the case of John Martin's appeal, against the prisoner. The cases of O'Brien, McManus, O'Donohue and Meagher, had been argued, and held under consideration by the judges, till next term. Large numbers of people are emigrating from Ireland. In France, the Presidential canvass occupied most of the attention of the peoA memorial has been presented in the Senate, ple. Cavaignac and Louis Napoleon were the canfrom Wm. H. Aspinwall and others, in reference to didates between whom the chief struggle was ana railroad across the Isthmus of Panama. The me ticipated. A number of those concerned in the morial sets forth the great importance of such a road unsuccessful insurrection at Vienna have been exeto our Oregon and California territories; speaks of cuted, among others, Gen. Messenhauser, the coma treaty which has been negotiated between the go- mander-in-chief. Immense bodies of soldiery have vernments of the United States and New Grenada, been sent against Hungary. In Prussia, the King by which the United States has undertaken, in con- and the Assembly seem to be on the eve of a consideration of a free and uninterrupted right of way flict. The King summoned the Assembly to meet over the Isthmus, by any road or roads then existing, at Brandenburg, but a large number of the memor thereafter to be made, to guaranty the neutrality bers refused to leave Berlin, and continued to hold of the Isthmus, and the authority of New Grenada sittings, though frequently dispersed by the troops. over it; and states that the meinorialists have ob- They had passed, with the greatest unanimity and tained "an exclusive grant or privilege of ninety enthusiasm, a decree forbidding the Ministry from nine years from the Republic of New Grenada for levying taxes. Great numbers of troops had been constructing a railroad across the Isthmus of Pa introduced into Berlin, and the burgher guard had nama." They ask no advance of money from our been disarmed. The Frankfort Parliament apGovernment, but simply request that the Secretary pears disposed to favour the popular side in Berlin; of the Navy may be empowered to contract with and it is also at issue with the Austrian governthem for the transportation of stores, mails, &c., for ment, on account of the execution of one of its a period of twenty years, provided they shall with- members by the latter. An insurrection took place in one year commence, and within three years com- at Rome on the 16th ult., the objects of which applete, the construction of a railroad across the Isth-pear to have been to compel the appointment of a mus. This memorial was presented on the 11th, and on the 14th, a bill was reported in comformity with the prayer of the petitioners. W. H. Aspinwall is a distinguished New York merchant, and one of the principal founders and proprietors of the new line of mail steamers from Panama to California and Oregon. more popular Ministry, and the active carrying out of the vote of the Chamber of Deputies, in favour of Italian nationality and the war of independence. The Prime Minister was assassinated. The palace was attacked, and the Pope was obliged to yield. He appointed a new Ministry, and promised to leave the other demands to the decision of the Legislative Chambers. HAVERFORD SCHOOL. On the 18th, the bill for the admission of the State of California, was taken up in the Senate, and after a warm debate, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The Panama railroad bill was discussed at considerable length. In the House, a motion to reconsider Root's resolution was laid on the table, 106 to 85. J. R. Giddings asked leave to introduce a bill giving to the people of the District of Co-delphia, will be forwarded. lumbia the privilege of expressing their sentiments on the subject of slavery in the said District. The bill was laid on the table, 105 to 77. Parcels for the students, left at Uriah Hunt & Son's bookstore, No. 44 North Fourth street, Phila Letters sent by mail, must be directed to "West Haverford, Delaware county, Pennsylvania." 12th mo., 1848. FRIENDS' REVIEW. VOL. II. A RELIGIOUS, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS JOURNAL. PHILADELPHIA, TWELFTH MONTH 30, 1848. EDITED BY ENOCH LEWIS.} Published Weekly by Josiah Tatum, Price two dollars per annum, payable in advance, or six copies for ten dollars. This paper is subject to newspaper postage only. For Friends' Review. MEMORIALS OF REBECCA JONES. NO. XXII. (Continued from page 211.) 31st. First day.-At ten o'clock held our little meeting, composed as before: in which, feeling the spirit of prayer and supplication, my heart was poured forth to the Almighty, that He might be pleased to bless our little company, and to reveal Himself to every soul on board the ship, and favour them with the knowledge of His pure will, giving them hearts to fear Him and to love His holy law written therein. After meeting, A. W., S. D. and myself by turns read many chapters in the Scriptures. "Oh that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!" Ninth month 3d. Fourth day.-Awoke this morning refreshed in body, and thankful for the favour of a quiet night. A gale suddenly came on, and heavy rain, with squalls, which, though fair, tossed us much about: during which my mind was inwardly retired to the Lord, in humble secret intercession, that for His mercies' sake and the sake of His blessed cause, He would be pleased to look down upon us, and preserve us over the mighty deep when the assurance which was given me on my first coming on board with my dear friends to feel after right direction, was comfortably renewed, viz.: "Fear not for I am with thee, be not dismayed for I am thy God." In about an hour and a half the sun broke out, and the wind becoming more steady we went on pleasantly. Oh, the unspeakable loving kindness of the great I AM! My mind this day was variously, and, I hope, not unprofitably engaged, taking a retrospective view of of my steppings, in the arduous service in which, during the four years I have been separated No. 15. from my native land, I have been steadily, and, I trust, honestly engaged. The consideration whereof, deeply bowed and contrited my mind, and qualified me afresh to admire, worship and adore that Power which has been experienced by me, a poor weak instrument; and excited a renewal of my confidence in the continued mercy of the Almighty, also raising living desires and fervent breathings and cries to Him, that I may be, through the blessed assistance of His Holy Spirit, enabled to walk with care and circumspection, on my return to my own country, and, to the end of this painful pilgrimage, be clothed with the garments of unfeigned humility, gratitude and fear. And now, under a precious sense of the Lord having in early life plucked me as a brand out of the fire, made me sensible of the multitude of my sins, which for His mercies' sake He was pleased to forgive, and to blot them out as a thick cloud; by the spirit of deep and sore judgment, and the spirit of burning, to cleanse and purify my soul from the pollution of sin and iniquity, and for purposes best known to Himself, to commission me, a poor unworthy creature, to testify to His goodness and the sufficiency of His mighty power: has been with me hitherto by sea and by land, provided me with suitable companions, and every necessary and agreeable accommodation, and favoured me, from time to time, with fresh and sure direction as I have waited for it ;-my soul is prostrate in great awfulness. I acknowledge nyself worse than "an unprofitable servant"and can set up my "Ebenezer" and say, with gratitude and thanksgiving, "Hitherto thou, Lord, hast helped me!" Blessed be Thy great name, for ever and ever, Amen! And now, in the prospect of my returning to my beloved friends and native country, without a home of my own, nor certainty of what place will be allotted me, there is at times the source of great anxiety. Yet I dare not distrust the care of the heavenly Shepherd, who both knows what I want, and how to supply with all needful things. If Thou, Lord, then wilt but condescend to be with me in the way that I go, give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, and bring me again to my own country in peace; Thou shalt indeed be my God, and I will, according the measure of light and strength afforded, for ever serve and follow Thee. |