The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-09-14

LAMENTABLE lGNoRANeE. tits lamenta-
bly, true, that in several States in this I'M
ion, there may be found gross evidence of
general ignorance and lack of mental cul-
ture, which would seem to claim for our
own land some Of the enlarged charities
bestowed upon other and more distant por-
tions of the world. The Southern Reli-
gious Telegraph in Introducing the report
Of the Granville County N. C.) Bible Soci- (
ETY., observes, that such state of society
was found, in some parts of those counties,
as could hardly have been imagined-such
ignorance and total misapprehension with
regard to the objects of the society. Some
people actually supposed that the reception
of Bible from the society would be
draft warrant to enlist them in the service
Of the British army; and under this false
impression they went so far, in one case, as
to pursue the agent and destroy papers, in
which he kept list of those persons names
who received Bibles. The Philadelphia
Christian Index, in commenting upon the
above, gives parallel instance of stupidity
and ignorance. The Editor was credibly
informed that a minister met congrega-
ton in some remote place in a western State,
and read Hymn, which the people sung.
When the Hymn was ended, his first obser-
vation VASTLY eyes are sore, cannot read"
This, it is said, they sung to the same tune,
thinking it continuation of the Hymn, the
lines of which, one by one, the minister par
celled out He, finding that they would 90
on with the music, told them =" That those
last words about has sore eyes, iCere not to be
SUNG" whereupon they also struck up the
tune to these words again, and seemed de-
termiGed to sing every thing he could say
He found the only way to stop the music
was to leave offspeaking. Hartford Mirror
We have visited the natives of the newly
discovered Islands, brought to this city by
Captain Morreli, of the schooner Antarctic,
now exhibiting at Tammany Hall, and find
them objects Of great curiosity. There are
two Of them, and they are from different ISL
,ands, neither understanding the language
of the other. One of them is upwards of
six feet in height and we'll prOportisned,
his hair resembling a negroes, but his nose
and lips are handsomely formed his com
pIexlon is OF dark copper color, the feshy
or soft parts of his ears are cut SO as to
hang upon his neck, and his breast is tattoo
ed. The other is not near so large, is of a
much darker hue, and of more ferocious
aspect.
The situation of the Islands, from which
they came has not been made known to us.
as their discoverer. intends returning to
them, to avail himself of their resources for
the benefit of himself and EMPLOYERS. But
some idea may be formed of their situation
from the fact that about sixty DAYS were
occupied in performing the passages to and
nou Aahliia. The largest of the group is
about twenty-five miles in circumference,
, and is supposed pono to have population of up
recovering on their person NOR uso ~ ~o.u
'ertio. 10 cultivate the products Of their land
b1t derive their subsistence from fruits
which grow spontaneously, or the ey,eI,ent
fisheries adjacent.-.Nsw York Standord :"
1t il secret known but to few. ve, n
small use inthe conduct of life, that when Won on
iall into mans conversation, the first ~
you shoald consider is, whether he has great.
near him.-SteeLs. WV 'N'uio