Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-07-12

hammered it upon an anvil, and both
the anvil and hammer were broken
without affecting the Laz. The Rab-
binical writer's, with their wonted per-
version ofScripture, support this silly
notion by verse fromthe Psalms: He
keepeth all his bones, so that none OF
them is broken A dew is to descend
upon the earth preparatory to the res
direction, and quicken into life and
growth these seeds of the dead. Dur
ing the pontifcate of Urban VIII. a
large burial ground Of the Jews at
Rome was broken up to make room
for some new Notifications, and the
Jews were particularly anxious to col
lect all the bones paying the labourers
dear rrice for them. But not sim
gle specimen of the Luz could they
pro, uce to their enemy Bartolocci
when he called for it upon SO favoura-
bic an opportunity.
Smother curious opinion is, that
wherever their bodies may be buried,
it is only in their own Promised Land
that the resurrection can take place,
and therefore they who are inferred in
any other part Of the world, must
make their way to Palestine under
ground, and this will be an operation
of dreadful toll and pain, although
clefts and caverns will be opened for
them by the Almighty. 1t has been
gravely objected to this notion, that
although the bodies of the just after
the resurrection, will according to the
opinion Of St. Thomas Aquinas, be
endued with agility and penetrability,
which would enable them to pass
through any distance in the twinkling
Of and eye, and through any substance
without experiencing resistance, yet
this cannot be predicted Of the Jews
whose bodies, they being to rise only
for condemnation, will be gross and
feculent. Whether it arose from this
superstition, orfrom that love for the
land Of their fathers which in the Jews
is comected with the strongest feel
ings of faith aud hope, certain it is
that many have directed their remains
to be sent there. 'We were fraught-
ed with WOOL says an old traveller,
from Constantinople TO Sidon, in
which sacks, as most certainly was
told to me, were many Jews bones
put into little chests, but unknown to
any of the ship. The Jews, our mer-
chants, told me Of them at my return
from Jerusalem to Saphet, but ear
nestly intreated me not to tell it, for
fear Of preventing them another time
Sometimes a wealthy Jew has been
known to import earth from Jerusalem
whcrewith to line his grave. This
is point of feeling, not Of supersti-
ton: but superstition has made the TIA
lians, in old times, import earth from
the same country for whole church
yards.
Extract ofa Journal of Gentleman, who
sailed about the LIST inst. from Georgetown
S. C. for New-York. in the schr Arkan
saw, Capt. Wood.
A vast gap occurs in myjournal, and
an awful gap has it been thus. We
have passed Cape Hatteras in tranquil
weather, but were afterwards destined
to encounter gale, the memory OF
which can never be erased from our
minds; gale more violent than any ev-
er experienced by the Captain or the
crew; gale in which we all had nearly
persisted.
81 would not pass another such night,
Tho'twere to buy world of happy days;
SO full of dismal terror was the time ~
On the evening of Friday, the wind
about N E. blew violently. The storm
rose high, the passengers were driven
to their melancholy cabin. The wind
grew louder yet, the waves lifted up
theirheads, and nature seemed to frown
on us in anger. Amid the bowling OF
the tempest, and the roaring of the
seas, sounds occasionally reached us
from on deck, more horrid and appal.
ling than all the thunders Of the ele-
ments. "Foresail gone-topsail shiy-
cred and arm coming down-gib gone
-stsnd by with the axe-stern boat
torn away--off with deck load" Those
and others were the saddening tidings
from above.-Allnig we tossed up
on the waters, now seated on noun.
tain, now plunged into the gull. Nor
| was this all! The morning dawned.
and where were we? fast shoaling our
water, driving rapidly to land; no arms
to save us, no hope to comfort US. Il
was the general conclusion, that mid.
day would find the vessel stranded, and
the people drowned. Oh! how awful
a thing it is to think that at such an
hour +" thou shalt surely die" Our
pocket books were secured to our per-
sons, to buy. perhaps, from some wan.
derer upon the beach, the rights OF Sc.
pulture. Closely crowded together sal
men, womep and children, looking in