The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-11-09

'oH negro converts at Antigua, b stations, II
missionaries, and IL ,972 negroes; at st. Kits,
3 stations, ii missionaries, and 1852 negroes !;
at Barbados, 81 stations, 10 missionaries, and
3,767 negroes Tobago, l station, 5 missiona-
ries, and 400 negroes at Surinam, stations,
"a missionaries, 6,671 negroes. In South At
RIGA, there are stations, 45 missionaries, H..
639 converts of the Hottentot Caffree, Tam
bookie, and Fingoe tribes. Making the grand
total of So stations, 243 missionaries, and 67,-
S13 converts.
CHRIsTIANITYI IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
BY late arrival at Boston, accounts have
been received that forty men and forty wo-
men are now added to the mission from
abroad, and employed in the missionary la
Dor.
Ten thousand copies of the Bible are
printed In their own language and distribu-
ted among the natives of the Island. Mar
rage ceremonies are introduced, intemper-
ance check and laws are promulgated
schools and churches are established and
agriculture and the mechanic arts flourish.
The distileries are all stopped. The gov
eminent is modified from an absolute des-
potism to limited monarchy, the laws are
published and read, and the rights of the
people understood and protected-vicious
and destructive amusementS are abandoned
and the Christian sabbath is more fully OBJ.
served in this than in any other country.
Poverty has given place to riches, and
the open pastures every where laugh with
fairness. Two thousand hogsheads of su-
gar have been produced. and silk, to which
the climate is peculiarly adapted, will soon
become staple of the island.
The present monarch is gentleman but
not Christian. He plays billiards and
drinks moderately; converses well, and is
intelligent. One of the churches is 1876 feet
long and 60 broad, and on the Sabbath may
be seen filed with Sandwich Islanders. who
are well dressed. reading the scriptures in
their own native language, taking notes from
the sermon, and singing hymns and spiritual
songs in tunes imported from the United
States.
The language is smooth and soft. and
musical-'tis the language of love. Thirty
thousand of the inhabitants can read Fiji
teen thousand attend schools, of which
there are boarding schools and high schools,
and schools for the children of the chiefs,
where they are taught in English and their
native language. There is missionary
seminary where the arts and sciences are
taught.
There are nineteen churches, in which
10000 persons assemble weekly for divine
service.
WOUNDS OF TREEs-Melt pound of
tar with four ounces of tallow, add half an
ounce Of salt petre, and stir the whole to-
gether. A coat of this composition, appli-
ed where limb has been cut off, or tree
bruised, will prevent decay, and cause the
wound TO heal. Before applying it how
ever, all unsound wood should be trimmed
away, and the surface, left as smooth as
possible.
THE APosTATEs. A correspondent of
The Richmond Wing thus excoriates three
pl,iful traitors-Wise, Gilmer and Mallo-1
ry.; =,
The conduct of our new tertium guilds
Wise, Gilmcr, and Doctor Mallory, has
excited among the Wings of this region,
one common sentiment, disgust and con-
tempt largely predominating. An apostacy
so cold blooded, arrogant and selfish, it is a
greed, is without any known parallel
Wise and Gilmer are understood, (God
save the mark y to be quite chrysalis can
iidates for the Presidency, and have deter
mined to erect new party, which, after
destroying Clay, Webster, Preston, Rives
md ali other rivals shall fulfil their own
nigh aspirations! A more immediate OBJ !
ect is understood to be to compel disso-
uiion Of the Cabinet. that they, modest |
nenl may supplant the distinguished men
selected by President Harrison. with such
ligh judgement and discrimination, from /
he ranks OF 300 900 Wings. Whatever
Use we may deny these gentlemen, wheth-
IT ii be patriotism. or modesty or common
ense, let Us concede TO them the charac-
eristics. in which. these are their dreams
hey certainly eclipse the world-a pre-
umption above measure and a vanity which
xceeds credibility.
Never have l seen the Wings so firm,
Indignant, and determined. The petty OBJ
tructions placed in their path by these sell
sh and weak schemers, so far from impe-
ing them, will but serve in the end to rem.
er their triumph more complete. Every
vhig feels the generous indignation which
postacy so unprovoked excites, and row.
d to himself, that however prepared to
ubmit TO an open and avowed foe, and to
fair defeat he will never succumb to
reachery. The wings will never agree
nat the fruits of victory SO arduousIy ACHE
ed. so dearly purchased, that the hopes
nd expectations Of this great people, shall
III be sacrificed to aid the individuals
f cabal insignificant in talent and weight,
nd yet more contemplate in numbers {
or coald Henry Clay, full as is his meas {