The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1843-05-30
From The Men York Spectator, Of May lS.
RHODE ISLAND.

kllODE IL LAND.
This is a great and glorious day in lit
tie rue-hearted Rhode Island. The Roy
al charter, as it has been called, but which
was in truth the peoples own charter,
ceased TO exist al II O'Clock last night,
and the new constitution goes into effect
to-day. Under that old and much abused
charter, called "royaI +" only because it
had received the sanction of the British
crown, but which was formed by the peo-
Pile of Rhode Island themselves, and writ
ten by Roger Williams, the people of that
colony and State have enjoyed as much of
freedom and happiness as has ever fallen
to the lot Of any political community. 1t
has however served its purpose, and is now
superseded by another charter, under the
more formal name of Constitution and
happy it will be for the people who have
formed it, and their Successors who are to
live under it, should it prove as benehcent
form Of government as that has been
which il supersedes. 1t is great conso-
lation, however, to know that this new con-
stitutlon is the legitimate work of the peo-
pie and although framed amid the t"rbu-
| lence of faction, that it has been done in
defiance of faction, with all the forms and
the most solemn sanctions Of law. Tho
present therefore is a proud day for the
gallant little State. 1t was fearful crisis
through which-she has passed, and nobly
has she borne herself through and come
out of it. Treason has been disarmed, in
surrection discounted, faction crushed,
and law and order sustained by the people
themselves, unaided, though moi unassailed,
from without, and all under circumstances
the most trying and difficult that can we'll
be conceived. The victory has been COM
plete and cannot but be regarded as one
Of the greatest moral trlumphs of the age
for not traitor has been executed, though
many deserved it, and but single life has
been taken, and that by what the lawyers
call chance medley. We repeat, the &C.
casion is a proud one; and ii is 10 be APP
propriately celebrated at Newport to-day.
The following, not from the Midnight
Cry, but from the {" Vial Of WRATH" IN.
y is not so bad
"The beast had seven heads, and ten
horns on each head, which makes seventy
horns, answering 10 the seventy weeks of
Daniel. Now, the tail of this beast was
666 feet long, which is the number of the
beast. Multiply this by 7, and it makes
/ i,662, which was the age Of the world
when the first anti Christian pope began to
f riegn. Now, lie up the beasts tail into
three knots and it will shorten it TO Ola
feet inches, which being multiplied by
1 8, the number of knots, gives lS43 exactly
the year in which the world will be
burnt up, But there is another remarka-
bic coincidence, Martin Luther wore boots
with nails in the soles-just 263 nails in
both boots, which, being multiplied by the
seven heads, gives lS4l. Ihrop in the
boots, which correspond to Miller and
Hines, and it gives ls43."
The Rotort Courteous. Edward Ever
EFT, our present Minister TO England, de-
liyered an Grafton before the Phi Beta
Kappa Society al Cambridge, at their an
nual celebration, a few years ago, and, af-
ter the public exercises we're over, the So.
ciety had dinner, as is usual on such &C.
casions. Judge Story, who presided at
the tables, is said 10 have proposed the
following sentiment, after the cloth was
removed, in compliment to the orator:
The Orator Of the day--Applause follows the
footsteps Of fame wherever ii everett goes"
, This directed the attention Of the whole
, company to Mr.. Everett, who immediate.
~ arose and made the following happy re.
, tort:
. "7he Members Of the Legal Professton--How.
! ever lofty their aspirations may be, they never
can rise higher than enc Story" !,
DR.. Ray, superintendent of the Boston
Insane Hospital, states, in late answer to
the inquiries made 10 him, that five pa
iients have been admitted TO the Asylum
the victims of the Miller delusion. Elev-
en- victims have been admitted to the Mas
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