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liam Writer'S house, at Lynn, and did
here privately (nnd at other times, being
an excomnunicate person. did take up
on you to preach aud bap,ize) upon the
Lords day, or other days, aud being
taken then by the constable, and coming
afterwnrd to the assembly at Lynn, did,
in disrespect to the ordinance Of Cop
and his worship, keep on your hat, the
pastor being in prayer, insomuch that
you would not give reverence in vailing
your hat. till il was forced ofiy your head,
to the disturbance of the congregation,
and protesting against tho institution Of
tho church, as not being according to
the gospel Of Jesus Christ and that
you the said Obadiah Holmes did upon
the day following meet again at the said
William Writer'S, in contempt to au-
thority, you being then in the custody
of the law, and did there receive the sa-
crament, being excommunicate, and
that you did baptize such as were bap-
tized before, and thereby did necessari-
ly deny the baptism that was before ad-
ministered to be baptism, the churches
no churches, and also other ordinances,
and ministers, ms if all were nullity
and also did deny the lawfulness of bap.
tizing Of infants and all this tends TO
the dishonor of COP, the despising the
ordinances of Con among ns, the peace
of the churches, and seducing the sub
iecis of this commonwealth from the
truth Of the gospel Of Jesus Christ, and
pervcrting the straight why's ofthe Lord,
the Court doth fine you $40, to be paid,
or sufficient sureties that the said sum
shall be paid by the first day of the mex.
Court Of Assistants, or else to be well
WHIPPED, and that you shall remain in
prison till It be paid, or security given in
for it. BY the Court.
INCREASE NOVEL;"
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

Coon REASONING. "A sailor being n
bout to sail for India, u citizen ask cd him
where his fnther died.-'In a shIpwreck.
And where hid yonr grandfather die =
AS he was fishing, a STERN arose, and
he, with his companions, perished.'--
And your great grandfather 4 lie al
so perished from shipwreck.' 'Then.
if ! were you. ! never would go to sea.
Pray. Mr.. Philosopher, where did your
father die 7 My father, grandfather.
and great grandfather, died in bed
Then, if l were you.' retorted the SON
Of Neptune, would never 60 to bed
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12
From the table book.
THE HAUNTED MILL.

----Can Guch things be
And overcome us like summer cloud
Without our special wonder
At the basis Of. the Wolds, in the
north riding of Yorkshire, creeps a
sluggish stream, on whose bank may be
seen the ruins of a mill, which our good
forefathers supposed to be haunted. /
often gaze upon those ruins with great
interest; not so much for its picturesque
beauty, which, like flower in the will
derness, made solitude less lonely, as
for the many erdearing Claims i. has
upon my memory, by way Of assosia-
ton. 1t stands near the homo Of child
hood; il reminds me Of the companions
Of my youth, and tells Of pleasure long
departed.
1t is now nearly ten years since lis
tened to story, which haunts Inc like
the recollection Of fearful dream; per-
haps because Of its locality, or rather,
Of its having been told me os fact. BE
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

A Scotch parson. in his prayer, SO
Laird bless the grand council, the p
lament, and grant they hang toge,h
A country fellow standing by, remark
Yes. yes, with NIL my heart and the so
er the better--and I'm sure it is
prayer OF all good people. But. frier
said the parson, ] don't mean as q
fellow does, but pray they mny all hi
together in accord and concord.
matter what cord, replied the other,
It's but strong cord!
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12
SYvONY.MY.

"A Fronchmap, who English would learn,
Got hold Of an old dictionary,
But had not the sense to discern.
How the meaning Of words often vary
lie found that 10 squeeze" and to "pressv
Were both pretty much the same thing |;
so he thus friend did address.
"Prny squeeze that young lady to sing"
Like most Of the French, he was not
~ uIhes accustomed 10 sickle
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

A man in Yorkshire, who was fond ofhunti
had cleaned his leather incxpressblss, and hu
them to dry in his garden, preparatory 10
sport: Of the following day. In tho course
tho night fellow broke into the garden q
was stealing the article in question, when I
owner, hearing a noise, looked out Of the wi
dow and saw the thief Having been preyiou.
robbed, hs was determined to punish the ofFs
der. and producing buuderbuss, fred at .
killed him. lie was put upon his trial for mr
slaughter, but the fact of tho trespass and re-
berry was soon established in evidence. WI
called upon for their verdict, tho jury return
through their foreman, the following :-"y
find the deceased guilty of stealing a pair I
leather breechcs.
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CoNscrENcE.-An enlightened con-
science permits mono who slight her
voice to have peace. Tho first wish en-
rendered in the human heart, to quit the
paths of virtue, IL met by this ever wake
fol monitor, mildly but firmly. If her
voice be unheeded--if the victim shall
pross to the broad way that leads to des-
truction, she is still louder in her dissua-
sion but II, unhseding her kindly voice
no rush on to the acme Of crime, msyhap
1t were better for him, il he had never
opened bis eyes to the light Of day. He
may plnnge into the vortex of dissipation,
no may participate in scenes Of most vo-
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12
EAREWELL.

fHnEV Ella
FAREWELL! for have school'd my heart
At last, to say farewell to thee;
Now can bear TO look on death
It's bitterness is past for me.
There was O time should have wcpt
To look upon my altcr'd brow
The lip, whence red and smile are fed,
Bo, I am glad to see them now.
The faded brow, the pallid lip,
Proclaim wha. soon my fate will be,
And welcome is their tale Of death
For have said farewell to thee
When fret we met, | saw thee all
a girls imagining could feign
Ibid not dream Of loving thee,
Still less Of being lov'd again.
I felt it not, ill round my heart,
Link after link, the chain was wovc,
Then burst, at once upon my brain,
The mad'ning thought love II love
We then wero parting, others wept,
But let not one tear. drop fall,
And when each kind farewell was said
Mine was the coolest Of them all.
But mine the ear that strained to hear
Thy latest step and mine the eye
That watch'd thy distan. shape when none
But ms, it's shadow could doscry.
And when the circle in its mirth,
Had quito forgot farewell and thee,
went to my swn room and wept
Tho tears would not let thee see.
And time passed on, but not with time
Did thoughts Of thee and thine depart
The lesson offorgetfulness,
Was what could not teach my heart.
We met again, and woman's pride
Nerv'd me to what had to bear,
would not, though my heart had broke,
Have let thee find thine image there.
eltthine eyes gazing on mine;
] felt my hand within thy hold /;
heard my name brea,h'd by thy.voicc,
And was calm, and was cold.
| may not say that you were false,
1ncver had one vow from thee
But ! have often seen thine eyo
Look % 1t lov'd to look on me.
And whom you spoke to me your voice
Would always take a softer tone,
And surely that last night your cheek
Was almost pallid as my own.
But this 10 worse than vain--Fsrewell 1!
OfHeaven now only crave
For thee, ofalI life's happiness,
And for my self sn early grave.
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

Two honest Hibernians in this to
conversing upon the subject of work
evenings, one Of them exclaimed, g
luck to the man who FIRST invented wt
ing by the dirty light iv a lamp, W
the blessed light iv heaven is emo
for any man "Musha bad luck" rel
ed the other, "to the dirty sowl Of
who first invented working at all
all."-Lowell Compend.
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clephan,, for the purpose Of despatching
him with his pistols. but in alighting, bs
came in contact with the tiger, which had
only crouched for second spring, and
which. having caught hold of him by
the thigh, dragged him some distance,
along the ground. Having succeeded
in drawing one of brace of pistols
from his belt, Lieut.. c. fred and lodged
IA ball in the body Of the tiger, when the
beast becoming enraged, shook him vi
oleDtly without letting go his hold, and
made of towards the thickcs, part of
the jungle, with his prey. In the strug-
gle to free himself from tho clutches of
the animal, Colnett eau ght hold of him
by both ears, and succeeded nfter some
time, in throwing the beast upon his
side. when he availed himself of his mo-
mentary release to draw forth the re-
naming pistol, and clapping the muzzle
to the breast Of the tiger, shot him
through the heart, He then returned
to his elephant, which he mounted with
out assistance, feeling at the moment
little pain from his wounds, Of which he
had received no fewer than five ant
twenty, between the knee and the groir
many of them severe. understand HI
has ever since continued to suffer fro II
the consequence Of the conflict, ant
that he has lost the motion of that knee
whicn was the seat of the principal ipju
ry.
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

BAD MATcHEs.-A notorious q
used TO mourn about not having a Il
lar pair of eyes, one being black ant
other light hazle. "It is very ID
for you," replied his friend, "for il I
eyes had been MATCHES, your nose NJ
have set them on FIRE long ngo."
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12
Don in a fresh hobble ho got,

Soon in q fresh hobble ho got,
For he rhonght to preseryc'was to pickle
So thus he took leave atthe door
ITO see you, dear lady glad am.
Anc till We meet happy once more,
Kind Providence pickle you, madam"
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

L<HCOuHtG pttH u tSeTs oun0 the
subjoined account of a most extraordi.
nary adventure that occurred some time
since at tiger hunt, in late number
Of the Bengal Harkaru news paper, ta-
ken from the journal of mn officer in the
British East India Company
On the march Of detachment from
Louton to Bulrompore, to join General
Wood, we arrived at our first ground of
encampment, about eight A. M. Soon
after our arrival, the Zumeendar of the
village came to US to complain that a
Tiger had taken up his quarters in that
vicinity, and committed daily ravages
Among the cattle; he had also killed sew
eral villagers. and had that morning
wounded the son Of the Zumeendar.
On this information, Lieut.. Collnett,
Capt. Robertson, aud DR.. Hamilton
mounted their elephants, and proceeded
to dislcge the animal. They soon dis
covered the object Of their search; Lieu,
CoInett's elephant being little in adj
vance, was attacked by him; tho other
elephants turned round and ran off a
short distance. The tiger had sprung
u pom the shoulders Of Lieut.. Colnstt's
elephant, who in that situation fired at
him, and he fell. Concciviug him to be
disabled, Lieut., G. descended fnom the
The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1833-03-12

% mus ne took lehHe u tne uooT--
ITO see you, dear lady ! glad am,
nc till we meet happy once more.
Kind Providence pickle you, madam"
From The Detroit Courier.
MICHIGAN EmIaRAsr's SoSo.
Tune-uohn Anderson my 10 job
Come all We Yankee Farmers
Who'd like to change your lot,
Who've spunk enough to travel
Beyond your native spot,
And leave behind the village
Where Pa and Ma do stay,
Come follow me and settle
In Michigania.
I've hearn Of your Penobscot,
Way down in parts Of Maine,
Where timber grows in plenty,
But darn the bit Of grain;
And have hsarn of Quoddy,
And your Piscataqua,
Bot these can't hold candle
To Michigania.
And you that talk Of Yarmouth,
Why what place is that2
Be sure the gals are pritty,
And cattle very fat;
But who among her mountains
mid clouds and snow wouldstay,
When he could buy prairie
In Michigania.
And there's your Massachusetts,
Once good enough be sure
Bnt new she's always laying on
Taxation or manure;
She costs you pecks Of trouble,
But dell peck can pay;
While all is scripture measure
In Miehigania.
Then there's your land o. Blue laws,
Where deacons cut the hair,
For fear your locks and tenets
Should not exactly square,
Where beer that works O Sunday
A penalty must pay,
While all is FREQ and easy
In Michigania.
What country ever growed up,
SO great in little time,
Just popping from the nurs'ry
Right into like its prime;
When Uncle Sam did wean her,
Twas but the other day,
And now she's quite Lady,
This Michigsnia.
Upon the river Clinton,
Just through tho country back,
You'll find in shire OF Oakland
The town of Pontiac
Which springirg up o. sudden,
Scared bears and wolves away,
That used TO rove about there,
In Michigania.
And il you follow downwsrds,
Why Rawchster is there;
And further still Mount Clemens
Looks out upon st. Clair;
Besides some other places
Within Macombiu,
That promise population
To Michigania.
Or you'd rather 60 to
Aiplace called Washtenaw,
You'll find upon the Huron
Sich lands ye never saw;
Where ships como to Ann Harbor
Right through La Plaisance bay,
And touch at Ypsilanty
In Michigania.
Or you keepa going
A great deal further on,
I guess you'll reach st Joscy's,
Where cverybodys gone.
Where everything, like Jacks bean,
Grows monstrous fast they say,
And beats tho rest al hollow
OF Michigania.
Then come ys Yankee farmers,
Who've mettle hearts like mo,
.9nd elbow grease in plenty
To bow the forest tree;
Come take a Quarter Section
find I'll be bound you'll say,
This country lakes the rag Of,
This Michigsnia.
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Of the year.
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Usher.
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Fashion --Smcide.-An eminent ply
sician in Glasgow. has jus. published a
volume entitled Hints Ia Fashionable
Mother. The following is an extract
from the work.
81 have repeatedly been almost in nm
agony to see young ladies who were
dressed too tightly attempt 10 sing; for
singing requires full inspirations, which
they are entirely unable to take. If they
experience half Of the inconveni1nees at
such times from their clothing, which
they appear to do, it must be intolera-
ble. Oh thou tyrant fashion! to what
tortures are thy slaves subjected! More
slow than the Russian knout, or the in
fern al engiats of the bloody inquisition :
but equally dreadful in its effects. The
latter are but ,nomenisry, and may soon
be unheeded by the senseless victim; but
when the former have been borne for
years, they give place to diseasea which
prey with insatiate violence upon the
accutely sensitive frame, aud delight IN
protracting human suffering till the last
fibre has Eeen broken. Perhaps fame
is kindled in the lungs that gradually
consumes the vital principle. Perhaps
disease Of the heart is destined to wear
out the wretched sufferer with horrid
palpitations and hourly expectation OF
sudden dissolution--or perhaps the thou
sand maiadies that affect the nerves
are commissioned to keep poor nature
upon rhc rack, till she sinks exhausted
by pains thnt no medicines can cure, no
sympnthy nssuage. The scourge aud
mortifying abstinence Of Romish zeal
are conte mplated with disgust, and the
bloody hooks, the wheels of Juggernaut,
and The blazing pile of Hindoo fanaii-
cism fill the soul with horror. Yet how
many are inundated at the shrine OF
fashion How many voluntarily suffer
torfnres more severe than any ever i'm
posed upon the devotecs Of heathen
deity
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A dog Jlown up.-The Exeter News
Letter gives this curious account of a
canine explosion, that took place in a
"neighborlng state." a place where a
great many singular things happen. A
man having been long troubled by the
repeated intrusions of the dog Of neigh
boring storekeeper, at length resolved to
rid himself of the nuisance by his own
ingenuity, MS his remdnstrances with the
owner were likely to prove. unnvailing.
He accordingly procured cylinder of
tin, half an inch in dinmeter, aud about
three inches in leng,h--this he nearly
filled with powder, and placed on the
top small piece Of touch wood. cnvel-
oped the tube in piece Of fat pork and
threw il in the street. Poor Jowler seized
and swallowed the dainty morsel and
thus primed and loaded, returned to his
masters store which was well filed with
gentlemen and ladies' cheapening goods,
where he soon exploded With tre-
mendous report (says the editor) which
shook the whole building, and alarmed
all the citizens in The neighborhood,
poor Jowler was blown INFO ten thou
sand atoms, which were equally distri-
buted in every part Of the shop! The
ladies were covered with the bleeding
fragments of the dog ; and one of them
had her check terribly scratched by the
claws which were attached to one of his
hind legs, ms il whizzei like double
headed shot past her ear. A portion Of
the spine struck Mr.. Smith, ,-the owner
lin the forehead, and laid him sprawl
ing. HIS clerk rushed to the door, his
clothes and features bespattered with
blood, and screamed "fire ~ and murder
right manfully. The ladies joined in the
chorus, the bells were set ringing, and
the people rapidly assembled, and gazed
with horror and CONSERVATION ON this
scene of blood and car
mage.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-02-18

Two thirds thereof would propose an explanatory
amendment TO the Constitution or two thirds "a
themselves, ifsneh had been their option, might by
an application to Congress, have obtained a Con
vention for the same object" Again" These
several means, though no, equally eligible in them
selves, nor probably, to the States, were all consti
lu,ionaly open for consideration. And fihe Gen.
cra Assembly after declaring tho two acts to be nm
constitutional the first and most obv ious proceed.
ing on the suhiect-did not undertake 10 point out
10 the other Statesn choice among the farther
urcs that might become necessary and proper, The
reSerre rnnfd not be construed by liberal minds i'ito
any cRipabie imPniotioa
have thus brought TO view the prominent doc.
trincs of that celebrated document To which hear
thy md sincerely SUBSCRIBE, but do not any
where avowed this right Of secession, as reserved
sovereign right--nor do think II can be deduced
Mr. Madison himself denies that it contains any
such docu me.--The Kentucky resolutions are to
the same ,lirct.
One more No. will conclude these Essays
UNION.
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POE'TECAl..
ALEXANDER WILSON.


This distinguished Naturalist will long be con
slered as the father of Ornitholoey in this country
l. was he who first told US the habits of the "brds
of the air enl who placed them before US in so ma
tural a manner, as almost to endow them with
breathing ard song In being thus made familiar
with this division of the Creator S works, we owe
TO his memory ahectionle attachment. lis
wish I" to be buried in rural retreat, where the
birds might sing over his grave gave rise to the
following poetcal eidslon
H. asked to be laid where the birds might sing
Their mathis around his tomb
Where the earliest grass of the year might spring,
And the earliest lGwres bleon
For Nature had filed his gentle breast
With love that could not de
And he thought it were sweetest to sink to rc,,
Where in life he was wont 10 lie.
Mid the beautiful creatures that tensn, the wild,
His hrghtes, days pess'd,
AMI the voices he loved when a f'olic child,
" ere the voices he loved TO the last
II meet they should give him vcrlant tomb,
" mere The flowers unpjuolsd nieht throug,
An] the bright wlngd birds unuolesicd might
come,
With their sweetest and softest song
Thy made his crave near the old church towc,>
Away from the baunrs Of care
Where breath g its odour the sumner h,w"r,
And tie music Of birds is there. e.. W. Y,
Swedrs Church, near the Navy Yard.
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n Safes OF the Union of tho s0ter1fHy ~ 1f Pco
pie :" Se---I say there certainly has not for hf
people IN their sovereign capacity, ereeiea over
the heads of tho State government, a national gov
eminent Tor certain purposes which could not DC
oh,aine by the State governments individually noi
eonfederntod And farther, the people have made
their Stale government subordinate, Whenever then
laws interfere with the laws oi tho national gov
ernment. Hence, ] conclude that the several
States this eonfedcrecy mol pe,feetia sovereign
States because they acknowledge superior IN
all great matters of national coneern.
Ono concluding remark IA u'' shall aid lay
lor' says, in conclusion, and federal govern
mcn,, forming Union of certain limited powers,
granted to tby twenty four d's'nei masses OF pro.
plo, composing as many separate distinct States,
which States have retained, each 10 Itself, the sepa
rate ndiyisibe, eternal and unalienable sovereign.
", from which those powers cmana'ed.' Now, II
these masses ofpcope' spoken of could give an
etcrnul sovereignty to one gore,nmem of their
own framing why could they not give II To dnoth-
er gprerRiccnt of their oen framing, Tor other and
highor pnrpastsp "Teylor's" closing paragraph
Is very imposing and had il IA much solidfy as
sound II would borresst'blc.
A REPUBLICAN.
Nate -" Taylor" niimetcs TINT because " n
Republican" makes the federal government the
high hest potee,,n that therefore IT Is possessed OF
RhttRned power over thc Stairs Notians Ia
more Illogical lhun such n conclusion ihe ioief'
al government is government Of spfdDhfd powers,
and IN the exercise OF those powers, It IL para
mountto all other governmons--lt ~ noovo oil
Taylor" and "a Republican d'iief IN mas
" Thy lor" believes that the STATE government ARE
paramount TO the national government ond nrc th'
Judges Of tieir acts IN the last resort" Ropub
icnn' believes such thipg-~he believes TINT TN
people, III their sovctn.n capacity, have TIM con
scrvatve power am happy TO find thai there I,
now prospect OF having this question decided VIZ
whether State government ran, by It's enact
ments, control Inv of the rational government
| coaSiitafioadHg passed.
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