Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-06-16

w o'"it Sioity nave q lllerarV, q,
rather Biblical curiosity, to present 10 Il.
American reader, which we feel confidem
in predicting will excite great interest,
those who take pleasure in reading and
studying the scriptures. 1t is the book Of
flasher, relerrt 10 in the Bible Of Joshm
and in the second book Of Samuel, and
which has been in progress of translaGU
from the Hebrew, for several years IN
England. and is now completed. and Win
be published in few days in this city, ina t.
very elegant stereotyped edition. The.
have been several simulated books Of Jas.
er, notice of which VIC find in the Rev
Mr.. Hornes commentaries on the studyo'
the scriptures; but they bear no analogy
to the present work, which is written N
the purest Hebrew, and translated with an
elegance and fidelity highly creditoblc 10
the eminent scholar who has so long been
engaged in the work. The preface to Tie
Hebrew edition speaks of it as having been
brought from Jerusalem with other sacred
rolls and manuscripts, at the destruction Of
that city, and carried into Spain where the
Jews had their most celebrated collie es IN
to the eleventh century. On the discove.
ry Of printing, the manuscript was copied,
and carried TO Venice, where it was print
ed by order of the jewish Consistory Of
Rabbns in 1913, and is now tol the frs,
time translated into the English language
and published. 1t does not differ with tho
Bible in single instance, but amplifes the
events recorded in Scripture, with the sin
gle difference III chronology of some fifty
years, by making Noaa and Abraham CO.
mporary-commencl with the creation
Of Adam, and ending with the death Of
Joshua. Joscphus refers TO this Book and
the great Mcndclson extracts copiousy
from it,"
Our readers are already informed tia,
the Book Of Enoch recently discovered,
has been translated from the Ethiopic, and
published in England. These publications
rs specimens of the curious and antauc.
are well enough. The question as to their
authenticity is another thing. A friend Of
ours, learned and wcl-known scholar
who has had tho opportunity of examining
the Hebrew Of the Book Of Jashcr, consid
crs lis pretensions 10 antiquity dispyoycd
by internal evidence. He supposes thatu
may belong TO the Sd or 9Th century. Still
we know Of hundreds Of PEOPLE who would
be better employed than they arc al pres
cnt, if they should read Jasher in Hclrcv
from beginning to end.-American SENT
mel.
UNIVERSAL Attributes OF WoMAN.
i have observed among all nations, that
the women ornament themselves more thaa
the men; that, wherever foun |, they are
the same kind, civil, .obIiging, humanc.
tender beings; that they arc ever inclined
to be gay and cheerful, timorous and moo.
est. They do not hesitate, like men, 10
perform hospitable or generous action,
not naughty nor arrogant nor supcrciors;
but full of courtesy, and fond Of society,
Industrious, economical, ingenious, more
liable in general to err than man, but in
general, also, more virtnous, and perform
ing more good actions than he. | never
addressed myself in the language Of de-
ccncy and friendship, to woman, whether
civilized or savage, without receiving DE-
cent and friendly answer. With man
has often been otherwise.
In wandering over the barren plains Of
inhospitabIe Denmark, through honest
Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churI-
ish Finland, unprincipIed Russia, and the
wide spread region Of the wandering Tar
tar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, sick, woman
has ever been friendly TO me, and uniform
ly SO; and to add to this virtue, SO worthy
the appelatlon of bcnevolcnce, these actions
have been performed in so free and KIN
a manner that, if | was dry, | drank the
sweet draught, and, if hungry,atc the coarse
morscl with double relish.-Ledyards
Siberian Journal.
Il Tradcgy.-lt is stated in the Courier
and Enquirer, that Monsieur Adricn, if.
son Of "the Great Magician" during
sojourn at Montgomery, Alab. engaged il
the same calling, got entangled in loves
meshes with Mrs. M'Leod, wife Of Dr.
M'Lcod, and was induced to connive at her
I" She was found on board of steam
boat by her friends and carried lone
Adrien who was lodging at the Montgom-
cry Hall, hearing of the circumstance. ia
mediatciy fled, nd took rs:hc svoodo, ,Y..o5a.
he wandered about during the night, in a
miserable state Of alarm, eble 70 hold IN
tercourso with no one, as he scarce spoke
a word of English, and in fact imagining
that every one he saw was a murtlorcy.-
In the morning, however, he got TO place
called Hines ferry. about II miles from
Montgomery, and had embarked on board
the ferry boat III the hope of getting acros 4
me river, when he was oycrtakcn by three J
individuals who had set out armed in the
morning IN pursuit of him. They ,,erc
Mr.. M'Leod, the lady's husband, her ra-
Their, and her uncle, Mr.. Robert d. Cove.