Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-04-13

bounds with eases of peculiar interest.
showing the effect of education, not on
ly upon the minds, but upon the man
ners and outward behaviour Of very
young children. We have sometimes
thought, when we have seen Sunday
school breaking loose from confinement
in one of our populous towns, pushing
and striking each other, and filing the
air with wild shouts and loud laughs,
that it was pity they had not been
taught before they went 10 school. A.
mong the cases to which we have
just alluded, as Illustrative Of the good
effects ofinstruction, is the following:
A little boy, in one of Mr.. Wilder
spins schools,in England, between five
and six years old, was taken sick. The
little fellow expressed strong desire to
see his instructor, Mr. Wilderspin.-'Up-
on my entering the room, says Fir. w.
the child attempted to rise, but could
not. well, my little man, said did
you want to see me?' Yes, sir, want
ed to see you very much, said the child.
i wanted to tell you that cannot come
to school again, because shall die. |
know | shall die, and wanted TO ask
master to let my class sing hymn over
my body when they put me into the
grave. You told me, when we used to
say the pictures, that the souls of child
rem never die, and do you think shall
go to GodY Perceiving that l hesitat-
ed what to answer, the child said: i
know shall die, and am not afraid to
die. have prayed for father and moth
er, and master, and all. My body will
die, but l have said the pictures at school,
and kno,c the soul ola child will not
die The effort was too great for him,
and he did not speak after it.-When
the funeral took place, the children Of
the school collected in such numbers that
the undertaken sent Mr.. w. word that
he could not be troubled with such little
creatures unless he attended himself, to
take care Of them. Mr.. w. sent the
messenger back, saying that he would
answer for the children, if they were
only told to follow the mourners two and
two, and were then shown back to
school. When the coffin was lowered,
these children, not one of whom was
six years old, and nearly all Of them from
the lower classes, arranged themselves,
IN perfect order and silence, around the
grave. One of their number read a
hymn; the poor people, who had col
lected, made a contribution for the chill
dren on the spot, and they returned in
perfect order to their school-room.
IA To-
AN OLD ToMBsToNE.-In digging q
cellar for house, about to be built in
Second street, few doors below Ches-
nut, some human bones were discovered,
and afterwards a tombstone, bearing
date l7l5.--Above these relics Of anoth-
er century, there was apparently 'made
ground" inducing the inference that
the site, IN former times, had been &C.
cuPIed as graveyard. The tombstone
bore the record of the decease of
"M--Fdne,
who departed this life at the age of 81.
Philadelphia Ing.
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Cholera IN The atmoSphere.-At New
castle, England, on the 25th Of January, a
curious experiment was tried. a piece
of meat, a haddock, and loaf Of bread
were sent up into the air by means of a
paper kite, and after remaining at con-
siderable height for an hour. it was
found that the fish and meat were put
rid and the bread was filed with animal
cule.
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ROBERT PoTTER.-This person, who
had been electeda member ofCon9ress from
North Carolina, and committed certain out
RACES in fit of jealousy, was convicted Ct
committing one Of them, that on the boy
Willie, as may be remembered, and SEN
fenced 10 one years imprisonment in the
penitentiary. He has recently been tried
FOR the offence Of manning the clergyman,
Mr. Lewis Taylor, a relation. He pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced TO be imprisoned
for two years, and enter into recognizance
in two thousand dollars, with good and sufIi-
Gent securities 10 keep the peace twelve
months thereafter Defendant was then re-
manded to jail.
Since the trial, the Rev. Mr. Taylor has
published long communication in the Ok
ford Examiner, in which he AYERS his entire
innocence of the charge preferred against
him by Potter, and attributes the course Of
that individual either to personal malice, OF
oyerw wrought jealousy.
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CHURCH oUEsTIoN.-The vice-chan-
cellor Of Newly ork has decided that the
vestry Of an Episcopal church have the
right and the power to elect and induct
into Office pastor, without asking the
consent the congregation.
1t might be, but it would be very