American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-10-13

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NJ. d. Fowler & Wells, New York, 1851. \
| This is neatly-printed limo, to be com
pleted in eight parts of 100 pages each, at 25
cents or So for the whole. It's object is stated
to be g to bring together, in the most condensed
and practical form, for public use and profess
sional reference, all the facts and principles in
medicine and its collateral sciences, pertaining
to the philosophy Of life and health and the
water cure treatment of diseases 1t is there
lies, and textbook for physicians" This
design appears to US most admirably executed
in the three numbers before US.
Received from the publishers.
The CHRISTIAN STATESMAN: A Discourse occa-
stoned by the death of the Hon. JAMES Nc
DowELL, &c. by Reo. ID. X. Jmkm, u. ID.
James Nourse, Washington City, 1851
This discourse has been published in neat
pamphlet form, at the request of number of
gentlemen who enjoyed the opportunity of hear
ing it delivered. 1t is alike creditable to its
eloquent author and honorable to its lamented
subject. We quote from its pages:
GAS the orator and Christian lived, so he
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called to bury out Of his sight the loved COM
panion Of his bosom-distinguishe for her
beauty Of person, her gentle, lady-like deport-
ment, and her unobtrusiye piety His late
journey from Washington to what he called his
mountain home was with the remains of %
| beloved daughter, whose dust he carrying
back to lay alongside that of kindred dust, in
the old graveyard at Lexington and for months
past his friends had apprehensons that he
| I, Al.
death he had so much mourned. None, how
ever, unless it were his physicians, anticipated
that he would be so speedily summoned away
"When informed that his end was nigh he
was perfectly calm and colected-laid his hand
upon the heads of his beloved ones, and gave
them a silent, unutterable blessing and fare
well-declared that nothing else was precious
but Christ and his promises'-asked his pastor
to pray that he might have "a stronger faith,
more reliance and, in answer to the inquiry,
if he had any other hope but in Christ, declared,
land they were his last words,) none what
ever
lie died sets the morning star, which goes
Not down behind the darkened west, hides,
/ Obscured, amid the tempests of the sky
But melts away into the light of Heayen.'
g 1t was the mournful privilege of my venera-
bic colleague and myself to witness the passage
of this distinguished man through some of the
deep waters by which his earthly path was
flooded. And | must say that, to my mind,
there was more Of the moral sublime in the
aspect of that Christian father, when bending
in fearful solicitude over the couch of his dying
child, pouring into her ear the language of
Gospel hope and encouragement, and kneeing
in fervent supplcation for her spiritual peace,
than there was even in the moment when his
peerless eloquence had won its proudest tri-
umph, and listening legislators hung weeping on
his lips
I" But he is gone! That commanding form
that so lately moved amongst u.s. and bent in
devotion in our sanctuary, now occupies silent
grave. That gifted, ransomed mind rejoices in
the 'house not made with hands And who
will say it is not well Who will deny to the
faithful soldier the promotion that is his due :?
Who will countermand the order that has bid
him Come up higher' Who would reprcss
the plaudit-' Well done, good and faithful SER
want, enter thou into the JOY of thy Lord p
Let us be also ready Let US acquiesce in
the awards of Providence: yet let us not re-
press the tear that starts for the memory of the
loved and honored dead. Let us not stifie the
throb of heartfelt sympathy for his sorely
stricken family; nor fail to urge the prayer
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth.' Let
us pray for help for our beloved country. Let
US pray for help for our church, and for our
selves; in view of this and other recent bereave-
ments, that we may follow the departed SO far
as they follow Christ.
"And how solemnly, my brethren, has the
Lord spoken to this congregation by recent
bercaving proyidences First, we were called
to mourn the daughter of the Governor. Then
one and another, and still another of those
whose kindred worship with us. Then the
tidings cross the ocean that an Elder of this
church has buried his beloved daughter in n
foreign grave; then this sad news from the
valley of Virginia; and again, within the last
week, the death-knell sounds from Kentucky,
and we are called to sorrow for the death Of the
lovely, accomplished and godly wife of our
Attorney General, Mrs NJ. l.. Crittenden J
Brethren, if these things move not our hearts,
we should tremblc lest they be left to judicial
hardness Help, Lord for the godly man
| ceaseth for the faithful fail from among the
children of men = Amen! !"
Received from James Nourse, corner Of and
| 10th streets
| W1LuToFT; OR, THE DAYS or JAMES |. 4 Tale.
| Baltimore John Murphy & Co. 1861.
! This tale, we are informed, is written by an
American, who says of it that it "is addressed
to the Catholics Of England, to picture the suf
ferings endured in other days for their faith
to remind them Of the patient courage of their
forefathers in the midst Of persecution, and to
warn their prosecutors how vain and impotent
must always be the efforts Of those who are
found even to fight against God! =" 1t is not
written by a practical writer, we conjecture,
and is in the style Of the novels Of by-gone
day 1t is too ford, too vivid, and too gloomy
to impart much pleasure in its perusal, though
evincive of talent on the part Of the author. We
can readily sympathize in the concluding line,
in which the writer says: If but awaken