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Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-19
THE MISSIONARY GIRL.
Ey JOAN Z. ABBOT,


A pious gill becomes the wife Of mis-
slonary. See her standing upon the deck
of the ship, they uninrl the sails TO the
wind. Her heart is bleeding as she bids
adieu to kindred and friends A superb
cial world regards her with pity-and it is
because they not the motives which actu-
ate her, and the consultations which fill her
heart. As the breeze propels the ship
from the shore, and the blue haze Of her
country fades awayinthe distance, conso-
lations of noble nature and heavenly origin,
come as an angel from heaven, and strength
en- her. And as in the solitude Of the
ocean, she gazes upon sthe stars hung out
in the midnight sky, and thinks with rap
.ture of the mansion prepared for her there,
oh! think you she would exchange that
rich happiness which melts her heart, and
causes the tears to gush into her eyes, for
any enjoyment the fashionable belle has
ever found in Illuminated halls, and pref
.ty ribbons, and gaudy dfessesi Angels
gaze with interest upon the moral sublini-
ty of the work in whichsshe is engaged and
may always covet the tolls and sacrifices
she is permitted to endure. She is enga-
ged in her Fathers work, aud receives
those satisfying rewards her Father knows
so.weii how to confer. = p
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-19
TWO DOLLARS PER ANN,
NO 8.

Look at hef again. She has passed
weeks and months upon the storm. ocean.
and is just gazing uaon thedistanf outline
of;he dark islands whe-e she is 20 pass her
lie and find her grave. Oh. who call tell
the emotions which thrill through her heart
as she leans upon her husbands arm, and
gazes upon The opening wonders Of her
new and final homel As the ship nears
the shore, the dim mountains rise 10 view.
The luxuriant forest waves, deep and dark
over the extended hills and yallies. Wild
natives shout along the shore, or with has
ty paddle, propel the canoe over the waves.
As with uncouth gesticulation and unintel-
ligible jargon. they throng around the ship
and climb its sides, her heart almost faints
within her at the sight Of the degraded
creatures with whom shesis to spend her
days; think you, that hope--heayenly
bope-does not animate her, as in the Wis.,
ions Of the future she sees them elevated,
through her instrumentality, from sin to
holiness, and presented rejoicing ia par
don, at the throne of heavens
Ask her, il she is willing to turn from
those shores and again seek her highly IA
vored American home She will tell you
MOI And in her humble dwelling, sur
rounded with uninstructed heather, she
will perhaps experience hours Of as great
/ enjoyment as is to be found on earth. She
is. strengthened by faith, and animated by
hope. The consciousness that she is in the
service of God gives her degree Of sub
stantial happiness, such as thessotary Of
worldly pleasure never knew.
Could you hear the silent prayer her
hoo.f oas,r.nri x<,, -
be the prayer of praise. She blesses- God
that she is permitted to enter into such =
| field Of labor, and to engage in SO glorious
an enterprise.
I Look at her again. She is borne down
with inirmities and cares. "A humble hut
is her home, and disease and hardship have
made sad ravages upon her feeble frame.
But mark her demeanor. How calm and
serene aud subdued Gaze UPON that coun-
tenance. 1t is already lighted up with tho
purity OF heaven Listen TO her CONVERSE
ton. 1t comes from an untroabled and re-
joicing heart! Ask her it she is happyl
Every feature Of her countenanne will say.
'YesP Ask her if she looks back with re-
greet upon the choice she made in early
lie, andin he fullness Of overaowing grati-
tude she will tell you, that she blesses
God that she was led thus to choose she
has eutored The way. Of pleasantness--
she has found the path Of peace. And OIL
how triumphant is the hour of her depart
ure from the world. The exulfing Lam
guage Of the dying Christian is on her
lips
LEND, lend your wings, mount, ay'
0 grave where is thy victory!
o death.N here isthy sting:'
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-19
VOL III.
TIE TELEGRAPH.
IL PUBLIsHEO EVERY TdJRsDAY MORNING.
oFFIcE-oveR DIR. YIELDS STORE.
-..e@s---
nv EIlcuh hRKE

TERrrs.-Two dollars # paid within six months
or s 2 80 is de'aved ~. = a..e, the year esoes.
No paper dsco ,li'e-d W. oil ariearages are pv'd
except al 'he OF na of the poblis,ler.
All co-nulr CT. oas TO ,sure erection, must be
ditec. ed 70 t5s ed' o., pooia;e puie
.LJs The edo W he res ,onsble for errors IN
advef,'S'9g. ia ro ic ;ace, beyoad Tie amount
cha ed for lose oo.
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-19
ExTNAoGpINARY MEMoRY.


The Maine Farmer relates an instance Of
ceived from an individual on whose state-
ment it is said, the most implicit conf
dence can be placed. He says Mr. Rich
ardson, who now lives on the island Of Mar
tha's Vineyard, in Massachusetts,, can re-.
peat verbatim any thing he ever read, al
though of ordinary capacity and educa-
ton. Name to him any chapter in tho
Bible, and tell him the first verse, and he
will repeat the whole chapter. II is fur
thermore stated that he canrepeat correct
~ every word he ever read in books ~
newspapers. ss'.
Now if the above account be true, we
confess this remarkable instance OF memo.
ry is something truly extraordinary, If not
absolutely incredible. IL This Individual
has committed the whole Bible to memo-
-ry, he has evidently had but little time for
any thing else, even supposing him 10 have
arrived at the common age Of man.. OF
his age however, we are not informed.
We must nevertheless suspect his knowly
edge Of books and newspapers to be ex-
tremely limited, although il is said he can
repent correctly every word be ever read in
either. But when we are told in addition
to this, that person of ordinary capacity
and education, has committed to memory
no less than I'LL verses in the Bible
which embrace 773, 697 words, and can
repeat all these in their order. We must
confess this fact is enough Of itself %
stagger the belief Of the most credulous, We
care not who they may be. So
" 81
Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1838-04-19
TITLES OF ACTS.

PasscL BY the Eighteenth Leyisla,,re of Ike STATE
Of yHaiae, and approved by ne GoUerao n. ID.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25
WELL DOVE oKETIBBEHA !
TIE People are q and doing I

The People are tp and doing
we understand that the good people e
Oketibbeha county, in pursuance Of preyi.
Gus notice, held on Saturday last, the 22d
inst. one ofthe largest and most 1especta
bic political meetings ever known in that
county. David Montgomery, esq. stea-
dy and substantial farmer, and man Of
frmness, experience and stern Republican
principles presided at the meeting.
The notice for the call of the meeting
was Z 10 THE GOOD PEOPLE OF oKETIBBEHA
COUNTY" requesting them to take into.con-
sideration the true political issue, and to
determine whether the people of Oktibbe-
ha county we're IN favor Of National
Bank under proper checks and balances;
or the Sub Treasury scheme with the
whole ofthe revenue of the country at the
mercy and control of the executive and his
Official dependents. The notice also states
"that propositions would be made for the
purpose ofapproying the vote oftheir Rep
resentative, the Hon. ]. G.. Skinner, in the
late Legislature, for U. S. Senator. A
large majority of the meeting were Wings,
and great number Of Democrats were
also present. Resolutions were passed
Disappearing of the odious and aristocrat-
ic Sub Treasury scheme, and recommen-
ding National Bank with proper checks
and balances. The people were enthu-
siastic in their approval of the independ-
ent and republican vote of their represen-
tative for u. S. Senator. After reading
the resolutions the meeting was addressed
by DIR. Gillespie in favor of the resolutions
and by Mr.. Elliott in opposition to them
i Henry Dickinson, Esq. of Columbus, who
was requested TO give his views on the
resolutions in regard to a. Sub-Treasuy
and National Bank, also addressed tn,
meeting at some length in favor ofthe res
olutions. The proceedings and resolu
tons will appear in our next paper. Tht
following named individuals subscribed The
call for the rneetinr
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

.-bargau ~, vthieh he has subjected himself.
II Is far from certain that others, besides
M. Corse. will not Be brought into the
same disaareeable dilemma By an equal
participation with him, il this gross OUT
rage 81 ne stab nd ate 10 delraad
Mr.. parg 81 hi NO y al property.
FOREIGN IN a I'll II. nee.
We annex some additional items from
English papersNo the 4th August, which
we had neither ll1e hot foonl to publish
ia yesterdays postscript.
FAmINE M INDiA.-The upper pro-
Hinees &C Che Bengal presidency were
when the last dispatches reached Eng
land, the scenes ofthe most frightful mise.
ry and mortality.
Owing e the extreme poverty Of the
natives, occasioned BY the impolitic and
ruinous system pursued by the govern
ment of India towards the occupiers and
eultiyators of the soil, tens Of thousands
have been reduced TO utter starvation.
On the 14th ofApril last, $4,000 pining
wretches, men, women and children, were
fed by bounty 1t Agra; and between the
LIST and 18th ofMarch, II 1923 infisnn and
sightless wretcles were relieved in a slmi.
lar manner. So great haveb cen the raya-
ges Of death, That the air for miles IS tainted
withthe ef1uva from the purifying car.
casses of men and cattle, and the rivers o.
the Jumna ana Ganges, choked up and
poisoned by tie dead bodies thrown into
their channels. The water and fish oI
| these rivers arr rejected as unfit for use
and men are Constantly employedin push.
| ing the accumulated bodies doWn the
torrents. From the July number of the
Oriental Herald, we learn that starvation
disease anddeath, are doing their work q
Cawnpore, Muttra, Gwalior, and Delhi
while the weather. natives look on witt
listlessness and unconcern. Though &
famine fund has been established by the
European public Of India, It is found i'm.
possible to meet the necessities Of the des.
titute and dying multitude.
A correspondent in Calcutta thus writes
on the 10th of April:
"Since the despatch of the overland mail
for Borenice, which left Bombay at the
close oflasl month, by the accounts which
daily reach the capital of the horrid raya
ges of famine in the provinces to the ives
and northwest. 1t is impossible to com
pute the numbers who die in their tedi
Gus progress from the desolate districts tC
the towns where food is procurable. We
hear almost daily Of mothers deserving
Etheir children on the highways: of infant.
Crawling around the granaries to pick VI
the grains Of rice accidentally scattered
during the process Of distribution at tn
doors; ofthe roads being lined with dea
bodies, a prey to vIIture and jackall; o.
the course Of small rivers actually obstruct.
ed by the masses ofbodies thrown therein,
by those who are employed to clear the
highways; OF the inhabitants of the large
towns Of Agra, Cawnpore &c, being COM
PEELED to abandon their evening drive,
from the impossibiIlity of encountering the
effiuvia from the putrid corsses around
and the worst of it is, that two months
more must escape before fall of rain can
be expected, and the earth yield fruit
wherwith to appease the irresistible cray-
ings ofhunger. sa .e'a.' a
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25
From he ". Y. Courier.

STEAM SHPS.-We have been favored
with the perusal Of letter from one of
the first houses in Liverpool too merchant
in this city, dated the oath Of July; which
states tha! al negotiation with Sir John
'Fohin, for the sale Of tho steam shin LII.
yerpool, had ceased and that many of the
proposed speculations In Atlantic steam
navigation were in a great measure sus.
pended. The statement in some of the
papers, therefore, that the Liverpool
would depart for New York on the Gath
August, from Liverpool, is no doubt incor-
rect.
Another letter informs us that the steam
ship British Queen could not possibly be
ready for sea before the expiration of four
months-abon the LIST December. 1t is
very doubtful whether the Company to
which she belongs win think It advisable
to risk first passage across the Atlantic
in the depth of the winter, and in that case
it is probable that the Great Western will
cease running during that season, which
her owners intend to devote in making va
rious improvements in her which expert
ence has suggested.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25
For Constable,
GEORGE STILLMAN,

SPEcU1ATIoN.-Much has been said
against speculation and spectators, and
the present and past administrations
Of our General Government, in order
to ease their own shoulders of the
burden and disgrace Of bringing the coun-
try from the very apex of prosperity to
the deepest distress, have placed all the
odium upon the back of the poor specu-
lators. Who are the spectators? Eve
ry man in the country who has capital OF
credit. Spectators are the very conser-
vatiyes of Republicanism, and specula-
ton alone keeps down aristocracy and
causes a healthy distribution of wealth
But it is said spectators get immensely
rich by their operations. Show US one
wealthy Spectator and we viii show you
a thousand poor ones, for very few are
satisfied after having made fortunes, and
in their eager grasp for more they loose
what they had already gained. In gold
and silver countries, where Sub-treasuries
are in, operation there are no Spectators,
but there is worse class princes, petty
noblemen, and men of gentle blood, privi-
legged classes. who glut themselges-on the
labors Of the wretched, and draw penny
by penny from their hard toll to hoard up
in their already overlooking Golfers. Let
these men turn spectators. For instance
let the lordly owners ofthe soil in ireland,
the absentees, turn spectators, and with
their wealth drain her boys and make them
arabic. Such a speculation would put
bread into the'mouths of thousands Of star.
wing Irishmen, and make the green isle
Of the Ocean," paradise. And what il
they failedl Why few men would be.
come poor while thousands would be bene.
fitted. Speculation is the life. blood d
EVERY thing. and when il ceases we shall
then indeed be cursed with the aristocracy
of wealth, and then it will be time enough
/ 10 CRY out against monopolies and rich
men, and call for an equal DISTRIBUTION d
property. The whole United States is
one grand speculation. and a successful
one It has been and.such i will continue
Is Be If our modern Solons IN linaneiering
viii allow is 10 % back 70 the good old
=
paths tie straight ways wherein We pre-.
viously walked, and 4 treading which We
were happy and prosperous people.
THE ALABAMA 0rE iaEEcER. Coz.
NEIIus g, BALDWIN. ESD. late Of Games.
vile, Ala has associated himself with ouI
friend AFFORD Esq. il conduct
Ing tbs ale and valuable journal r
Baldwin a already Infused much spiff
INTO IS columns and ready aud a
BE writer we may permitted 1.
oln The lasi a nun 81 The II
him suce II til
ion. heartily lae hin s.
bis hight hand Hhieh 81 has extended L
The corn editorial
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

most prominent Of whom IS col p-s
Cen. snAs Blown, is the onlv W.. aa'--
hes get appeared as a candidate :, NO
presume no other win offer. Vs.
fore invite our Whigfriends to rallv ,, 1sl'.
the General and elect him, as he : -.
sented to be a sterling man in eys,.i ~
spect. The following we copy f,0,' . e
Natchez Courier, whose knowIs5a.
Gen. Brown is better than our ON, q
STATE TREASURER
We have announced Geue,,l
BRowN, Of Jackson, as suitable s4ls
to FIJI the importantofice for which Il P'''a
liens Of this State will soon be caIIo5
to vote. We are in favor of Gen D Dpp'o
for several weighty reasons. He;''@
tleman of unexceptionable moral i g.
ter-ofplain, transformations and nm
ing urbanity. A SOBER, industr;os
A man Of figures and of caIcilsis
free from the sporting, fashioDabS ~
gacy Of the day. In the hands ~ '9@
man the money of the people win 49, MI
it will be accounted for, and this br,D.
/ the public service will be DISCHARGE !9
facility and to the satisfaction of III ~
| pie. And Gen. Brown Is mo,s p
more than we have said, and 70 b;sa -aa
we will say it-he is A WIG. das
ed, unassumlng, calm and dscreei gu sIt
clan; opposed to Executive usurpsl;ao ~ j,
unauthorized power;-Opposed 10 Co.,
ment extravaganza and prohigacv@;HEs'
Yor of the RULE OF THE PEOPLE, tbessr
OF THE STATES and EQUAL PRrylrre,. ,-S
! Fellow citizens, vote for Gen r..
for Treasurer, and let the man bonor ' n,
Office; and not select a man 70 Be boDor y,
| BY the Office.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25
THE HUZzAs OF PosTERIE

- 1A@AAO VI W A
a little boy near Hagerstown, IN Alf
land, was one day pointing out 70 d.
copse oftrees as the place where Wasa
ton, at the head of the Virginia TalsA
fought a battle long before the reVos
with some Indians, headed by FrencaH.
Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh. IeI
tie fellow had some balls of lead whlch 4 4,
been fired in that battle, chopped f0a J
centres Of the now massive and aged =
| saw the sunbeam of some mora en- 1,
was in his eyes, and | asked bin iaI' 3
Of w ashington, the brave youth Vlo /.
the Virginians into that thicket E1s1 7.
war-wheop shook its boughs, ana ils ?
rung inits gloom. ~
His mind seemed to glance Ike y.
ming through the illustrious deeds o -
IN which Washington had been es:
and settled down at the closing s:
7 orktown. He told me Of one e \. 4.
stance only. Said he "when tie 3
troops were marched out other emu; !,
lments to lay down their arms, "
ton told the American army, NY
there be no insults over a conqes.
when they lay down their arms ee3'
"a; posterity aCiH huzza for you.
] could have Rugged the lIiiF
my bosom. Although he had %.
bly, been able to read more than lopi !,
yet his mind bad dIank deep u "
/ greatness of tie act Of sparing %
81 d fallen Zoe. Iasked hm' : =
that " ashinelon said thatposlsllg
dol he quickly answered, hps.;
"a then, said !; and be sent is -.
shout into the battle-wood, aIsl
with him Z 7nzza for Hdshia 'a'
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25
MERCHANTS CONVENTION.

A meeting of the citizens Of Columbus
viii be held on Saturday next, at 10
O'Clock, Al. M to select suitable persons
to represent Lowndes County in the Con-
vention to be held in Augusta, (Ga.l next
month. A.general attendance is request
al 49,
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25


TIE INDIAN Wait seems that too
much importance was attached to the ~.
NOR Of the rising Of the Indians ip I.ealse
County, BY Governor McNdtt and that
his call for volunteers was unnecessary.
No mention IS made 6f tle natter IN eth
er Of the Jackson Papers that we have eb-
served, and all that we have heard Of i
from below is from the Canton Herald 81
the 10Th inst. The Herald says 80 We
have very recently conyersed with seve-
raj citizens Of Leake County, immediate.
" from the scene Of the supposed distur'
Dances, and they represent the matter as
an ordinary affray at a Grocery, and any
thing but alarming in its consequences
We must therefore conclude that the Go
vernon has been most egregiously hoaxed
or that ne has suffered momentary ex
citement to magnify the supposed danger
far beyond the bounds Of truth, or the so
Der dictates Of prudence"
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

SHERrF's OrFicR.-Col. BYRN, our
Sheriff, has moved his Office from Main
street, to the building formerly occupied
by Doctors Slade q Baker, in Market
street.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

YE1Aow FKvRR.-Private letters from
Mobile, received in this city, announce the
existence of yellow fever in that city.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

Congress of the United States, to 6B6.
vacancy occasioned by the resigpatlo,o !,
the Hon. FeHr Grundy. Mr.. Grn5s.
term expires on the 4th of March neTlI
Mr.. Foster had been already eleciedhe.
Legislature for the term of six wears I'm
the 4th March next.-NashUas Bar-
An UNExANFLED ENTERPRISE.-h
ny attempts have been made to reuu
from the waters of the Thames the huIs
large vessel, which was firmly fixed !
the bed of the river, but without sucoss
An officer of engineers recently pro0,
the plan of filling two enormous cyEa
dersof lead with guBpOwder. and pscEs
them, by means of a diving bell, aadsr he
sides of the imbedded vessel, and exIo5.
ing them. A tube communicated a one
end with the cylinders and CONTAINED a
fuse to be lighted at the other. Two a.
tempts to put this design into exesa.n
failed, by a arrangement of the appars'1
AMI one sailor lost his life bv an eniangs.
ment in the cords of the diving beH. Wild
were constantly agitated and displaced
the motion of the water. Bmat las
prepa atoms being all completed, 4OA
pounds of powder, with which the cyIl
ders were filed, were ignited in the bedf
the river, to throw to the surface the m
nants of the wreck. A mass Of vas
taking the form of dome Of NOR azl
eight hundred feet 10 circumference, VS.
urged into the air to the height of seyslE
feet, then a thick and black vapor bnB
forth, from the midst of which, as iron {
volcano, escaped in every direction Ha4
planks, and beams. The silence Of >
tonishment which had seized upon then
mense crowd upon each side of the Hs,
was soon broken by vehement Yplaz
and but a few minutes after the eEPOsiol|
boats approached to collect the fragments
ofthe ship, which were scattered upon fs
surface. No accident interrupted Il
successes Of the hazardous undertakng.
Spirit Of the Tines.
The AMALGAMATION HMMBUG.--M
Democrats, in carrying out this desPsa
game to lure as many of the States rigs
men as may be caught with chat into q
ASSOCIATION with them, have had anOhz
meeting in this State. Port Gibson vs.
the scene fther maneuvering. but tLrs
as at every other place, with all their efotb
they had a meagFe attendance. ThyFI
pointed Delegates to the "Democratic a
State Rights Convention" two of who
are Van Buren, editors, two others who
not attend their meeting AID only one
whom we believe is a State rights man.
After all the bombast they dispsya
about the amalgamation meeting at b.
Mi. Springs, it turns out, now that TIE
truth is ascertained that there mv oN.T
81 persons present friendly to he hun
bug. OF these 80! were DemOeras and
2once Nullifers. This unnatural con-
neefion, II IS plain, cannot be foFmedi.
mongst Alississippians. The State rsis
men know the fable ofthe man and tifF
per, and they are determined to PsOH
it. [Natches CaiFi0'
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

RESUMPTION Last week was distin.
guished BY the resumption of scater pay.
ment by The clouds, after drought Of al
most unparalleled duration. No rain Of
any consequence had fallen since the 9Th
June until last week, and almost every
thing had become parched and dried up.
The corn crops have suffered most, and
the cotton has been deeply injured-and
50 great has been the lack Of moisture il
the Prairies that the planters have been
Obliged to drive their stock from Eve to
ten miles for water. Rain fell in album.
dance last week, but it came too lateto be
Of any benefit to the crops.
Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1838-09-25

Or We owe an apology for our unu-
sual late appearance this week. I'll health
and a pressure Of job work are the causes.