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BY L . F . BARNES.. ‘ OUR CO U N T R Y AND OUR C O U N T R Y ’S FR IE N D S .” PU B L IS H E D E V E R Y TH U R S D A Y . YOLUME 4. THE TRI-STATES UNION IS PUBLISHneD EVERY THtTRSDAY aiORNING, .BY L . P . B A H N E S , P O R T J E B V IS , O B A N & B OO., W /.V , T krm s o f S u b s c r i p t i o n . — ^^2,00 per Annum for Village Subscribers, when delivered by the Carrier, and $1,50 lor Mail Subscribersor per rons receiving their papers at the Office, if paid in Advance, If payment be withheld till the end of the year,fifty cents w ill be added. ADVERTISING: For 1 squaie 1 insertion, - - - $ ,50 • “ “ each subsequent insertion, ,25 « 1 square, G months, - - - 4,00 « i n 12 “ - • - 7,00 “ J column, 3 months, - - * 4,00 PORT JERVIS, N. T., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1853. *3 Advert! set 7.00 12,00 6.00 n ’oo is’oo 30,00 L e g a l Advertisem ents charged at the usual C irculars. Show B i lls, Pam p h lets, B i ll H e a d s , B a ll T ick e t s , B lanks, C h ecks. L a h e ls, Cards, ^ and in short a ll kinds of plain or fancy printing \ done w ith neatness and despatch. For the Tri-States Union. R a fting on tlie D elaw a re. BY nOCT. a . F. REEVES BAKER. The evening came on with wild winds fierce. And driving, drenching rain. The snow from the mountains melted off In torrents to the plain. Then there was trampling to and fro, \When moriung’s twilight glow’d, ‘ • For fast on the rafter’s gladden’d eye. The giant river strode. The oxen were brought (old Brin and Red,) To cast the huge logs in, ■For the rafts must all be made to day. Made strong with bolt and pin. Bring axes, augurs and hammers too A dozen hardy men. Go, Jim, to yonder woods for withes. Take with you cross-eyed Ben. For Ben avows he can two ways look. While you can look but one, Then haste with a nimble foot and hand. Until the task is done. For many a rapid^we must pass Ere y et to-morrow’s sun, O’er hills that glow with his beams to-day. His fiery course shall run. •> \ The work must be strong, for whirling rifts Will strain with an iron hand 5 , Y And strive with an earthquake’s power to 11 wrench If The bolts from boom and band. Then work with your might, oars arc to Hurrah ! how fast we gain. We’re teams ourselves, and we envy not Ton flying, rattling Train. Hurrah ! hurrah ! as the noonday glows. Our Craft grows broad and strong. I s an hour or so, shaffc-like and swift, ^ W e ll shoot the stream along. And what do wo reek of dam or rock, M Old Pete can steer us through, “'% • For he knows each turn, and hidden stone To half a hair’s breadth true. Hurrah! hurrah ! how we glide away, A rapid freshet this 5 But we fear it not, for fifty years Old Pete ne’er went amiss. We’ve passed the rock where Southby stove. And drown’d a drunken man. And his jostling logs like splinter’d reeds. To Davy Jones’s ran. But here we are, in an eddy now, * No ripple mars its gloss. Save when yon hounding shallop shoots Its golden breast across. Slowly, butmerrily float we on, The stream grows black and still. As clustering trees their shadows throw Down from the sloping hill. Bear u p !” cries Pete, “ to the Jersey shore,” •• Hold on ! now let her splash,” And swift as the lightning’s livid wing Through Butler’s Falls we dash. Tree-forms seem dancing npon the shore, • The moss beds and the grass. Are spinning to ribbons brights as gold ' So swiftly do we pass. Away ! away ! no wing is so fleet. As wc upon the stream; *■ We envy no Arab steed his flight, No railroad with its steam. Around us flash the diamond waves. The wild deer bounding free. Nor the-eagle in his lofty flight, Feels not more joy than we. But trees from their rocky pinnacles Cast shadb-ws broad and black. And straggling now are the golden beams . That cross our dizzy track. But what do we care for the sundown, The moon will yield us lig h t ; ^ Our c r ^ t shall dance to the silvery foam OfW®Ms’ Falla to-night. ^heaaoming has dawn’d most beautiful, Thb^angerpus rapids pass’d. And in T r e n t o n now, a m e r r y set We find ourselves at last. Then hurrah ! for the jolly Raftsman, In ihb forest broad and green, By the jarring mill and cataract,, His iron frame is seen. Port J ervis, Dec. 4,1853. -Tfi« w a y t o h a v e good Bacon. Salt your lueat in a good case ; put salt Scieot oikk«ach each layer to cover i t ; three TH A N K S G IV IN G SERM ON. Port Jervis, Dee. 5, 1853. R ev . and D ear S ir :— Will you con sent to the publication ot your “ Thanks giving” discourse, as lately delivered bY you before the congregation of the Epis copal Church at Delaware Hall, we be lieving that a compliance with our request will be beneficial to the religious interests of our community, remaining in the name of the vestry. With respect, your’s obediently, “sAM. FOW L E R , Senior Warden. Rev. John Grigg. G entlemen ;—In consenting to the pub lication of the “ Thanksgiving” discourse, it is only with the sincere hope that U may tend to light up the flame of national and individual gratitude for the distin guished blessings which, as citizens of this favored Republic, we enjoy. I would also state that the range of countries compared with ourown^has been too limited, and if opportunity had been spared, I would have made such further interpolations and amendments as would have rendered the sermon worthier of yoor approval. At all events, you shall have the discourse as hastily prepared and delivered by Your faithful Rector, JOHN GRIGG. Port Jervis, Dec. 6, 1853. SERMON. *»®CiiB!Btf>i layc or four day#* after, m: 3 cover i t ; ter, make a brine as strong in boilihg water j skim wwfe^Wakingi when cool, cover] meat with and keep it under the sDtweekl} then Jet j t drain a few pkjfte»»Ai»d nth thoroughly with black * * ground fits, (the. finer the better;) SM smoke uniil your baepn is well i. If b; hangs in the smoke house ‘I h i yott nf«d have no fear olj rpIieTs, tesersed popularity is tho pre- m m p L Deuteronomy, 83d Chap, 29fch v. “ Happy irt thou, 0 , Israel! Who is like unto thee, 0, people saved by the- L o r d , the shield of thy help and who is the sword of thy excellency^.” This blessing of Moses pronounced upon the chosen people of God, in consequence of their unexampled deliverances which had followed them to their very arrival at the promised land of Canaan, is singularly applicable to the favored country granted by Jehovah as the heritage of our possess ion, and as the purchase price of tho.se trials which our forefathers undauntedly endured. Like the Hebrews in Egypt, our predecessors drank deep in a foreign land, from the cup of trembling and per secution until wearied out by the oppres sion of merciless taskmasters, they resolv ed to seek across the seas deliverance from the rod of relentless tyranny. Leaving far behind them the altars and idols of their spiritual E gypt, they were seeking bej’ond the waves a promised land of safety and contentment,—a land that would pour forth its blessings without anxiety and tears—a land where their consciences and devotions might rove as free as the native mountain air, and where they might wor ship the God of their fathers upon the shrines, which their burning hopes and affections might erect. They found upon their landing, that they had not reached the acme of, their wishes; enemies had to be expelled, the wilds were to be cultiva ted, deprivations and sufferings were to be encountered from many sources, within and without, and they felt that they were destined to wander yet, for many years, throughout the desert, before they and their children could enjoy the promised rest. Vicissitudes, prosperous and adverse, filled up their interesting history, and before the hour arrived when they were to be crowned with the blest possession of it, they were doomed, like Israel of old, to struggle with many an Amelek and Balek be prepared, like^them, for the enjoy ment of their heritage. Few blessings are so cheap that they are not worth the endurance of many .tears and trials, and they who aspire to the most elevated gifts, must be content to wade through an ocean of much anguish and dismay. It was thus with our ancestors, who were looking forward to a country where they should reap the products of the soil without diflicuiiy and scarceness, political privileges without corruption and alloy, and the service of the God they loved, without envy and distraction. This was indeed a glorious haven of rest With v/hich they were flattering thjeir burning wishes, but it was a haven which they were willing to purchase at the price of the costliest sacrifices, and the page of history has faithfully recofrded the patroit- ism and devotion ol those noble pioneers of civil and evangelical liberty. It might have been supposed by these hardy, intrepid veterans of freedom, that suf fering as they had, unexampled privations and difficulties, that all that remained to be achieved by them was, to take undis turbed possesdon of the land in which they dwelt, and sit down unmolested he. neaih the fig trees of their purchased and realized desires. But as the people of Israel were -not al* lowed to enter into their promised land though standing beside its tempting and flowery borders, so was Ihe fair'“country of Europe’s Pilgrims disputed to their weary ofl^sprrng, who, afflicted and oppressed by a foreign taskmaster beyond the seas, war writhing under the most extortionate ex actions, indignities and wrongs. It wa» the Providence of heaven that permitted our forefathers to groan under' the evils Inflicted by n persecuting despot, that they might he ifid to appreciate the value of their legacy, and become prepar ed for the' enjoyment of the blessings they were finally to inherit. The calamities of war only served to convince them that it was solely the pillar o f cloud by day and ihe pillar oj Jire by night, which could con duct them to the land of temporal prom ise, that ii was not their shield or their bow which could establish for them the citadel of secular and spiritual liberty, but that the birthright of their hopes should be theirs, and theirs alone, through the medium of their faith, their devotion, and their consecration to the service of the Almighty. Such were tho deprivations our forefathers underwent, before they en tered this promised land as their peculiar property and resting place, and when in the Providence of God, they passed thro’ the Jordan of their difficulties untouched by its scalding waves, our countrymen must have felt indeed like the Israelites entering triumphantly the larid of Canaan, rescued from the oppressions and cruelties of their tyrannising Pharoah, and made heirs of a great and happy country, des tined perhaps for ages to bless their nums berless posterity. Well might our first political Joshua call upon the victorious people of this country to raise up their hearts in pious thanksgiving for the good ly heritage they had received, and to pre serve inflexibly to the remotest generations the rights and privileges vouchsafed them. In the very words of the Hebrew guide, who conducted the chosen nation to the borders of their heritage, we may also with good reason be reminded, “ the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of vallies and hills, a land of wheat' and barle}-, of vines and honey, a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayst dig brass.” In addition to these benefits, which far exceed the favored country of Judea, we may be reminded of a civil liberty which eclipses the most illustrious governments ofeither ancient or modern re nown; a national literature which .spreads its invigorating light upon the poorest as the richest, on the most ignorant as the most infelligent—^just and benevolent laws which equalise the rights of all, and a re ligious toleration, maintaining the privi leges of every class and sect, and breath ing the essence of the holy doctrines of him who came to teach us the way that leads to the kingdom of heaven. W's are especially invoked to remember the divine band thet has^blessed the abun dant harvests and poured fertility upon the soil of our country, that has prospered our mercantile, mechanical and agricul tural laborsi, that has preserved us invfolate from public and domestic calamity, who has averted from our shores the raging pestilence and destroying sickness, that who has favored our improvement in sound learning and moral science, and more es pecially in our advancement in spiritual and religious refinement, which has dis tinguished all our churches for the antece dent year. None that are feelingly sensible of the peculiar mercies which surround us, can re frain from mingling with the intelligent and devout, and pouring forth the feeble tribute of thanksgiving into the mighty ocean of praise that is flowing through the regions •of the blessed. Every rill, however small, adds to the sdh of the glory of Jehovah, and however feeble and pbscure the per son who approaches this altar with a thanksgiving heart, his song shall equally be heard amidst the thundering ascriptions of blessedness to him that sits upon the throne. To estimate the full value of our civil and sacred privileges, it may be profitable to open a succint comparison between our own and fhe principal countries of the earth, that swayed by the preponderance, we may be enabled to feel the weight of bur own civil and moral superiority. And with what nation shall we begin to com pare the map of our own gifted privileges, and to w h o m else can we apply than to ourselves, the soul gladdening w ords of the leader of Jehovah’s choice, “ Who is like unto tihee. Oh, people .jj^ved of the L ord ; who is the shield of thy help, and who is the- sword of thy excellency. I. Shall we commence with the far Northern Districts of the eastern or west ern continents, where the piercing colds of winter scarcely allow more\than suste nance to tlieir underground inhabitants, whore the torches of wisdom and science have never been taught to burn, where darkness usurps the graatest portion of the natural year, and where the lights of reli gious faith lare only seen hero and there to dimly twinkle, and that too, for hun dreds of miles apart—a solitary group of natives gathered around a self-denying missionary, raising his feeble, v/arningarm to implore them to take refuge m due sea son, within the.church of the Lord Jesus C h rist., Hero where nature reign in all her un cultivated grandeur, and where man is compelled to bow low to the dust and con fess his Jnsigniflcance and insufficiency tp protect him from ibe elements, here; jirWi* phjriical mm I elemental iU- im U MttMlf pranX for aseoiMfAikiy, and the Church is a l m o s t unknown and forsaken, amidst polar snows and ices, which are’far less inclement than the des olation around ; shall we uselessly attempt a comparison with our highly privileged and heaven watered Nation ? II. Shall we contemplate the Sputh American continent, as far, even as the Isles of the Pacific, and examine whether these can furnish subjects of comparison with the richly.favored territories that be long to us? What find ws there but countries in continual rebellion to forms of government that are taking precedence of each other? Nations evermore clashing and attempting to gain the predominance, restless and ambitious aspirants to acquire influence and authority, drowning villages, hordes and countries, in streams of civil bloodshed, and overturning laws, usages and thrones, to establish themselves and parlizans on their dark sinking ruins; what do we perceive hut soils cultivated in proportion to the pacific state of the country, or the characteristic temperament of the people who inhabit them. Wide and desolate vallies and tracts of land over looking tremendous and almost impassable mountains, across which the trader has to journey many w.eeks and months before he can reap the benefits of his Ijmited ad venture, and then a wild and unsubdued interior of country, in which the civilized arts and sciences are entirely unknown, and to which strangers scarcely dare to turn their inquisitive researches. It may truly he said that the current of civiliza tion. intelligence and moral feeling flows altogether, about its principal rivers and coasts, where colonies from foreign gov ernments have planted and diffused them and where travelers and strangers mostly resort. And even among the most refined of these southern cities, so much corrup tion and barbarism exists, and so much bigotry and intolerance, cruelty and im morality prevail that every travelerbreathes forth pity and disgust, that a population so numerous and a country so .sublime and extensive, should exist under laws so op pressive, lyranical and burdensome, and become so heavy a reproach;[^to the rest of ike human'race. Whatever religion ex ists throughout the country is completely overshadowed by the pagentries and cer emonies of a superstitious faith, that it scarcely appears visible to”lhose who be come versant with the inhabitants,. Tilhs, prayers,bendings of the knee, abso lutions and elevation of the mass,usurp the place of that heartfelt piety to God, which causes Protestant Christendom to tremble to its centre ; and they who are strangers to all inward devotion may pass current among the people for saints of the first or der, provided they burn candles in honor of the virgin, and pay\ their customary tithes to the'absolving vicar of Christ. It is scarcely necessary to enter more mi nutely into delails.ns the records of the trav eler and the”expIoringjfiissionary have so amply dwelt on these awful abuses, and shall we for a\ moment place by our side for comparison these far less favored in habitants of our globe? Who is willing to return from Carthagena, Brazil, Peru or Mexico itself and be willing forever to ex- cha'flgo situations—nay to deem them even worthy of an estimate with our own hap py States ? They have reason indeed to bless God for what little they have, and th.at little, like our own, is far mora than they deserve from the bands of heaven. But when we contrast our own with the privileges they enjoy, we feel 'ourselves like Israel in Egypt, surrounded by the glorious civil gifts and moral sunbeams of heaven, when all around is darkness, des olation and corruption, or like the condition of those basking around a blazing and com fortable fire, when all without is coldness, dreariness and tempest, “ W ho is like unto th,ee O, people, saved by the Lordr who is the. shield of thine help and the svyord of thine excellency.” III. Shall we compare our own favored land, with the hordes of «savages on the northern and southern continents ? Shall find am o n g the Idols of stocks and stones, among cannibals and barbarians, where traditions'of sacred trtflh are only known to glimmer where the j a y s of lit erature atid. science, have never been known to shine, and where the earth just yields a sufficiency to provide for the support of its inhabitants, proper objects of comparison with the illustrious land that gave us birth ? It w e r e as w e ll to liken a spark to the raid-day su n , or a drop of water to the e x haustless ocean. And yet there are some that have the hardihood to assertthatChris tianily confers no superior privileges to these nations of darkness,but that they had better sleep on forever in their midnight of superstition and corruption. If they would only go and exchange places with these untutored sons of the forest and forego for a ahort period the blessings that distinguish them from all the rest of the earth, they would soon be convinced of their preposterous error .and quickly would' they be heard breafking forth m the con fession of the law giver of Juder, “ Who is like unto thee* ' ' Lord, who is the 8 Word of IV, Shall ers of the Arabian impostor, reposing on the couch of effeminate indulgence, their country lying waste through lack of culti vation, the arts and sciences much neglect ed and disused, the civil laws administer ed with a cruel and intolerant sway, and the precepts of heaven itself buried under the ceremonies and corruptions of a dark ened despotic Alcoran ? Shall we cross the Mediteranean and visit the Egyptian domains, a land which faintly begins to revive from its barbarous sleep of ages and put on the mantle of civijizarion and re finement, a land where the largest portion of the feeble crops raised is compulsorily paid over for the support of the tottering go vernment, where scienceand literature are scarcely commencing to dawn upon the people, and where the voice of the Gospel Missionary has scarcely been heard to prophecy ? Shall we convey you to Chi na, and the East, dishonored by their dis gusting Idols, corrupt laws and their detes table orgies and rites? A people who possess no authentic history of themselves or the nations around them, who boast of learninglhey never display,of purity which they cannot maintain, and institutions which are obsolete and evidently falling into ruins ? It would be an insult upon our intelli gence and common sense to compare coun ties steeped so deeply in corruption and ignorance with the land in which heaven has cast our lot, illumined by its innumer able torches of wisdom, and reflecting the bright purity and glory of the very sun of righteousness himself! “ Happy art thou O; Israel! Who like unto thee 0 , people, saved by the Lord, who is the shield of thy help and the sword of ihejxcellency.” T . It may be said that highly gifted Europe presents an extensive field for a worthier comparison. Here indeed the monuments of genius and Hie Arts tran scend indeed the rest of the civilized world. Here undoubtedly, towers and palaces, treasures and luxuries of the costliest na ture, specimens of all that man can accom plish corporeally and mentelly present themselves to the contemplation of the philosopher. But a countrys true wealth consists Jess in its physical and scientific than in its civil and spiritual preeminence. And to which of its renowned empires shall we go and not find the people sub jected to the domination of an affluent and bigoted aristocracy, where the admin istration of the laws is not under the con trol of the ruling few, and where the peo pie are not awed down by the despotic and arbitrary domination. The land of the Bourbons is so far as is nominally concerned in the power and subject to the influence of the poeple at large, but the condition of affairs there is far from being stable and desirable, and the opportunity Is only wanted for rous ing. up new subjects of Anarchy and re bellion. The most of the Interior kingdoms are merely waiting for the triumphs of civil liberty m *the South and West to plant their banners on^lhe deified temple. If the testimony of modern travelers be true, the civil and political condition of these nations is far from being enviable and stable, and abuses of the most mon strous kind, are allowed to become a stain upon their national character and upon the heads ol the most intelligent and influ ential among them. Cruelties practiced under the specious veil of popular amuse ments. The Holy Sabbath-day publicly vilified and degraded by dissipation, de? bauchery and crime. The ignorance of the people, wiUully promoted by a refusal to patronize learning and knowledge among the lower classes. Religion ex isting as a system but not working such beneficial effects as.in this and another kindred nation like our own. In short wherever we go, whether from the fro zen poles to the burning plains of the Equator, from the most renowned civ ilized empires, to the darkest which bar barism shrouds over with her leaden man tle, we fiud predjudice, superstition and intollerance—a.,bigoted adherence to forms of faith, an ariuitrary spirit to trample un der foot a disposition of intelligence and: rational liberty, because these, if tolerated, would undermine the thrones of tyrants and promote throughout the earth univer sal freedom, happiness and triumph. With nations like these, we cannot just ly compare our own institutions ^ f law, lit- erature and morals, we cannot place by their sides, without blushing, our own principles of moral liberty, which pro claims all men mor&Jiy free and equal, which imparts to ail classes alike thp ben-^ efits of mental and sacred instruction, and rejoices to make known to the world the revelation of the will of the, great God.— Happily for us we are so far remote from these sanguinary despots that our country need not fear for the stability of her prin ciples. Here retired from the errors and disorders of the old world, we can hear.of wars a n djum o rs of wars which are har- rassing foreign governments, while we. on the contrary are enjoying moral peace and sunshine and are occupied alone in t b i con test of commerce, education industry and ity. Peace forever reign within thy bof- !rs, blessed country, wJiera God has cast' ir lot; may hone emies molest tbee.whom Tiiy valor <*M«l « |§ convert into the firmest of friends, be thy allies as numerous as the number of tby ports ; extending throughout the globe, may every nation honor thee, not only as their examplar in civil liberty, but as their guide to that kingdim eternal in tha heav\ ens. “ Happy art thou, Q, Israel! who is like unto thee, O, people, saved by the Lord, who is the shield ot tby help and sword of thine excellency.” VI. Shall w'e visit then as our last re source, the Island of Great Britain, distin guished for its civil constitution, its judi cial law s , its science. Us literature, its re.- ligion, its moral grandeur and usefulness to the world ? E n g land has for centuries past borne a sim ilar relation to the rest of the world that the chosen tribes once did NUMBER 6. sacrifice of pious hearts, and the incense of burning words. Since upon us, J.§|io- vah has conferred pure Jn5lilutions,'ofdi- nanecsj and laws, strive to make iheir-in- fluences felt and perpetuated, not only in the political, biU in the social walks of life. Teach them to your children, your frilRids and your dependants, and “ b%id them as signs upon their hands apd front- lets between their eye,s.” Since to us has been bequeathed a pure nalionaj'liberty, let us honor and cherish it as the best le- of heaven,'and let us liberate and she has maintained in all their purity the doctrines of Christianity, and diffused as far and wide as her commerce and lan guage ; and small as she is she has dif fused more light throughout the Christian and heathen world, than all other nations in the memory of man ; but amidst all her scientific and spiritual gloiy, her laws are very far from ministering equal privileges upon the great mass of her peeple of He reditary entailments,of compulsorily tithes, of purchasing important offices in the State and Church, with many other evils and abuses that might he added, are sufficient to render her civil code unworthy of un qualified commendation. Although the principle depository of divine truth and the instrument of advancing religion through so large a portion of the world, her church is but’ an impure mart of lawless buyers and sellers ; her priesthood and services are often the price of favorit'sm and ve nality ; her religious duties are weighed down by so many extortionate exactions as to endanger the safety of her govern m ent and being ; and there too the unholy wedlock of the civil state and polity of God, with the awful abuses flowing from the union, are unable to redeem the manifold benefits which they impart as good may sometimes emenate from evil. Added to this its vastly growing population clamo rous fora support, which is daily becoming less, and for a reformation which keeps all classes in continual agitation, the land of our forefathers,, is like the Bush of Horeb; *but it is to be feared that unlike that Bush may perish by the very element that nurtures it. It were devoutly to be implored that Tliis ancient emporium of civil and sacred light may purify herself faom these cry ing and grievous corruptions, and become., not only the star of wisdom to enlighten and encourage, but the divine pioneer to go before the world in pure and undefiled religion. “ Peace be within thy wails,” blessed AlbioA, land of cur ancestor’s ashes—“ and plenteousness within thy pa laces !” for my brethren and companions’ sak e s , I will now say “ Peace be vvithiii thee.” Yea ! because of the house of-the L ord thy- G od , I will seek thy good. And in what civil condition are her two sister kingdoms, also; the one beihg given up to the agitations of two opposing sects— and fhe other bowed do'wn by the chains of a'»supersiitieus narrow minded fanati cism—throughout the entire land, faction, discontent, and uneasiness, are too mani fest to escape notice, and are only v/aiting for some favorable moment to. break off their unnatural alliance and assert thoir nalhral rights. Emigrations without num ber from these sister kingdoms to this pro mised Canaan of the-West—this land of fhe stranger and the friend—proves incon testably where it is believed civil blessings truly exist, and here indeed malcontents from all parts of the earth, with those dri ven from their homes by the counter cur rents of adversity and war, readily come to take up their perm a n ent a b ode, and even those thin remain behind, like the anxious bird that sees its mate take its departure before it, feel desirous to bend their course also to A m e r ica, as the refuge of the dis consolate and the homeless, tho Asylum of the poor and forsaken and the oppres- Our country is indeed the modern Gali lee of the whole world, and already the nations of the earth are waking up to the glorious value of our civil rites, institutions issings, and the day, we know, will ime, when the name of America will be regarded gacy of heaven, and let us liberate and colonize the captive, whom for ages has' been bound in chains. Pince upon us has been poured the choicest fertility of nature, let us yield back to heaven the- frankincense of grateful hearts, und the fruits of our dedicated lives. Since the winds of prosperity have blown upon the sails of our commerce, let fervent prayers and blessings inspire those merchants and traders who have been so liberally, benq- fitted by the providence gf heaven- Since for us the lights of literature and science have so plentifully shed forth their beams, let the rich influences be more than paid back in the information we impart to the* darkened understanding, and the consola tions we pour forth into the broken hearted mourner. Since for us has been warded off the svvoid of the destroying angpl, let us wakeake upp likee Ninevehch off old, andd let us w u lik JNinev o old, an sacrifice to the Lord the lives he has spar ed unto his own glory. Blest as vve are, with spiritual benefits, nurtured, enlightened, and cheered by the beams of evangelical religion, whirh the churches of our land so plentifully dis-.. pense ; let us extend the blissful gifts within and without the tabernacips oTthe Lord ! light up by her Holy Bible, her prayer book and her tracts, the wandering and benighted, and promote the advent the prince of peace, by. speeding’lhe mis sionary on his errand of salvation. Let the powers and afibetions of our hearts, prayers and the confessions' of our tongues! • L e t those faculties and de sires which hare burned so long uselessly amidsj; the world, be consecrated supreme ly without delay to the God of Heaven, and Earth,and thus dedicating our e n tire selves to the .praises of him ivho has so very highly distinguished us among the nalio.ns, we will extort from all the world, the ex clamation of Moses, as being emphatically due to us as the peculiar .people of God; “ Happy art thou, O, Israel ! who is like unto thee, O, people, saved by the Lord, who is the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thine excellency.” Tlie G reat E x liilrition. Now is the time to visit and thoroughly enjoy the Exhibition at the Crystal PaL ace. The number of visitors has dimin ished te a daily average of about twentys five* hundred, and there is therefore no obstructing crowd al any^part of the dpy or evening. Thirty-two gigantic stoves difiuso the needful warmth. Those in.the broad aisles leading to the centre of. the building are ten feet in height and five feet in diameter, and those in the recesses are only less prodigious. The stoves are of thick sheet iron, and throw out a truly volcanic heat. Large screens of tin pro- • tect the articles from injury, and a ramifi cation of stove pipes conveys the gas to the upper air, and adds to the warmth of the building. On the coldest day of win ter, we feel confident, the Palace will be perfectly comfortable. The season, it has been again announced, tVill close at the • end of the present month—that is the con tract between tho Directors and the Ex hibitors will then be at an end, and arti cles may be removed from the building'.— But it has been ascertained that few arti cles of interest will be removed, and the Exhibition will remain open and uearly unchanged, through the winter, and prob ably during the whole of next year. Nor is it impossible that it may become a per manent institution. Additions continue to be made to this wonderful display of interesting objects. We observed on our recent hurried visit and blessin: soon coi ' as wa! all the empires of of advancing the world more rapidly in light, civilization and morals, and hasten- vas the name of Israel, by f Christendom, the means ing on that millenial period, wfien the glory of the Lord shall be everywhere re ad. It is here we ought to feel a gra titude to God, which no words or services of inquiry, an excellent statuette of Wil liam Dargan, the founder of the Dublin Exhibition. Mr. Dargan, if this statuette be correct—and it looks as If must be— has a most Irish countenance, broad,round and jovial, with that Irish twinkle of the eye, which if wont to announce a good joke or a sa.ucy repartee. We looked jn vain over his face for any indicatibn of that practical talent which has placed him at the head of Ireland’s business men.— The artist has evidently given his dinner look. Canada, the land of pieigh bell.<?, has sent, as an appropriate oflering for the season, two magnificent sleighs j one of the kind called ‘ cutters,’ and the other a large family or stat.e sleigh. Both 'of them have the peculiarity of a shelf behind^ for a footman to stand upon. It seems the' Canadians are not up to the Yankee no tion of double runners, and we fear that the large sleigh, with its unbroken length of runner, would hardly navigate Broad way in safety, when a superabundance qf snow and traffic has made the street.,a succession of hills and valh has forwarded a small C( valleys. Lifierja lollection of bows and arrows ; the bows being very , long, very stiff, and not thicker than a lady’s finger. Numerous accessions have been made to the department of machinery,aqd we think it safe to say, that the machine arcade now presents a ntiore- wonderfo! and various display of mechanfcalingenu ity than was ever l ^ r e exhibited in nne place and at the same lime, sipeet:, tbo world began. The mineral departnxeat continues to attract great atteutiop, ipjOiie of the cases, we observed a col lection,-ff stone arrow heads, nearly four h'undrf44** number, and not two aluce. There.; fac-simiies of the famous diamonds.-JK^- i-noor and Gmat Mogul, a-splendid s'peci- men of emerald nestling in i.t«»axlv#i»ck and some curious‘nuggets’ from ;thifc Jlisd of gold. A centxe-tabfe fipm'* shows the richness of that . ...................... fuI woods. Its top isformed ofa hamtild of the earth, we will humbly congratulate pieces, all difleritjg in grain AfTd e p lor,^ each other with hands-and hearts, and The sculpture and the picture*, can adequately portray. Pre-eminently distinguished amidst ih nation? of the earth, we will not make this a^jneentive to our pride, but to inspire a li* i e r piety to the heavenly giver. With all our boasting, we will lay all our secular and spiriiual btessiogs-upon the altar of the K in g o f kings. W e will appear befpre tb all these, with our fortunes, fa- ind friend?, and present them all a willing sacrifice, expressive of the Jove which inflames nnr gladdened hearts. “ Not unto US,” we would exclaim, “ Not unto us O Lord, but unto thy name give the praise.” “ Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, ho to him that sits upon the throne, and to the Lamb forever.” -Crowned so signally with the richest tokens of the divine favor, and so iUu! triously distinguished qmidst the natior respond with the enraptured prophet, who thus felicitated the chpsen tribes “ Happy, thriqe happy 1 art thou, oh, Isr««d, whols like unto thee,faee, oh,,,, people*ople* savedaved by the L ord , who is tha shieldhield ot thjrhj help, ftrho ii the sword of thy excellency,” , The resultisult ' ' '^ ' ' \uld ilNid «* all to oh pe s s t ly^ea of 4 sho aye still the great charm e f thei* The itatuary of Power* i» ey«H ed by admiring by admiring ffOttfMi, And IS of the t»v«v« Afmltes, want dttstiBg.) 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