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t the last twelve years, in instructing youth in the elements of literature; during which time he has often seen and felt the necessity of a are ready to commence the campaign at the shortest notice. The general-in- cliief had inspected the pontoons for passing the Danube, and had express- correct elementary book, suited to f d nis «««faclion with them. n | nM kind of Confrere rocket had the of learnera^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the last five years, seen this defi- ciency partially supplied, by the use of Elihu F. Marshall's Spelling Book. When this book first made its appearance, the writer felt to A new been dis- FUJTERAL OF GOV. CL1ATOJ*. capacities of the vounefer class K,na 01 ^ongrete rocnei , earners. He has,\however fori**** to the ftb coips. * - - ' Under the date ot Jassy, Nov. 10th, it is announced that Count Wittgens We are indebted to the chairman of the joint committee of the legislature, for the following nai ration of the so- lemnities at the funeral of Gov. De Witt Clinton. Pursuant to the arrangements pre- viously made under the direction of the tein had positive orders to pass the legislature, the funeral of the late Gov eded, and so well Calculated to I ned to believe, is a substantially cor- ] convened at 1 o'clock, r. wi. ana an extensively useful; and on fin- rect description of the nature of count I a short sitting, proceeded in a body iff it approbated by so many of Wittgenstein's instructions; as it! the mansion of the deceased. T J Literati of our country he wou!d be obviously dt sit able, in the I state officers, the clergy of the city, t Clinton, took place on Thursday last. The day was ushered in at sunrise by the discharge of cannon, which was repeated every half hour, until sunset. The two houses of the legislature, convened at 1 o'clock P. M. and after body to he the Russian frontiers, without waiting for farther instructions from Petersburg!], ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ as soon as he had authentick informa- congratulate the publick on the j tion of the arrival of JVI. de Ribeau- introduction of a work so much j pierre at Odessa. This, we are incli- needed, and so well calculated to, ned to believe, is a substantially cor be ' ding the 1-illUrUll Ul Our cuumijr, ««v- j ~M^^^^^^^^^^H^^^^K^naHHMMHM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_ fondlv hoped that our schools « v «» <* »h<\ final rupture of the negoti- J pall bearers, the relatives o the decea would be immediately and univcr-1 •*•• « Constantinople, that so much »*d, his present and late military furm- «.^n,r « inn i; A i w .'tMr • nnH in t K J delay shou d Ml intervene as would lv, and several other gentlemen were ^ 8a PP^^* 1 *' |i ™ \J* be necessary to transmit the knowledge! also assembled at the .ame place,- Stateot New-Hampshire, wheic. f £ facf to Sc . Petersburgh, ami to; The dwellings of Mrs. Van Scha.ck, he IS most acquainted, the WriterU fnio| St 1MersU . jr ,, V lUe „. | Messrs. Brown, Dudley, Wheaton,Da- beheves they are in a good metis-! my rf ^ Pfulh ^ f si|e ins(ruc .; v i*, Llmendorf, James, and Westerlo, tire, furnished, especially m the |i()|)s w , |e||> , lierdore we offlcia || v were also most obligingly opened, for southern and interiour parts—but, i earn tnal ,, |e R uss j an ambassador is j the accommodation ol the corporation is sorry to learn, that in many of I a ; Odessa, we may expect also to hear !«f the city, the members of the bar, and the schools, if not many of the! thai the Russian troops have enteied I other societies. towns, in the northern and eastern sections of this, and in some parts of the adjacent States, they are destitute, probably through want of attention in those whose duty it is to recommend and produce sui- table books. As he is willing to believe, that, few persons of correct taste and good judgement, after carefully and impartially comparing tins with other works of the kind, wi!l hesitate to give to this a decided preference, the undersigned would earnestly recommend to instruc- tors, and to all, who feel a desire for the improvement of the rising generation, to make one more ef- fort for the aooomplMiment of an object so desirable, as that of hav- ing our schools supplied with an elementary book, which will at once ensure correctness and uni- •forniitv. DANIEL K. FOSTER. Chichester, Nov. 81, 1827. The above book is for s-de at the Bookstores in Rochester and all the principal Book sellers in the Northern States. S5SS5S FOREIGN, the principalities. The citizens of Albany were assem- | Members of the fraternity, to the I number of 500, with the insignia of the oilier. The faculty of Union College, pre- ceded by their president, Dr. Nott, ro- bed in a scarf, the Phi Beta Kappa so- ciety of that college. The St. Andrews' Society, w ith their badges. The officers and members of the Al- bany county Sunday School Union. The Fire Departments, consisting of several companies, with their banners ; the whole under the direction of Allen Brown, as marshal. The masters of vessels and steam boats. The students at law. The citizens of Albany, preceded by the several ward committees. Citizens of the adjoining counties. The procession moved thioogh North Pearl, Colombia, North Maiket, State, and Washington streets, to the place of sepulture, the family vaolt of the lute Dr. Stringer, in Sand street; where the military opened to the right and left, through which the heaise, followed by the relatives and other mourners, and by such of the procession as circum- stances would permit, proceeded to the WESTFIELD. nm>Ar, nnrauAHT29, jaaa. On die other hand, the preparations I bled in great numbers at the consisio-! vault. The mortal remains ol De Witt of the Porte are equally warlike. This we leain from other sources than the correspondents of the Continental Journals. The different Turkish gar- risons are being strengthened and put into a state of complete defence.— Whether actual war lakes place or not it is sufficiently manifest that the Sol ry room of the North Duich Church, Clinton were then deposited in the whilst the side walks and sireel, from « nar row house.\ Military honours the residence of Gov. Clinton to State- were pai(1 to lHem> atu j the pr0C ession street, were tilled by the inhabitants ul [dismissed at half past four. this county and the adjoining coun- ties. Immediately after 2 o'clock, a sol- emn una most appropitute address to tan will derive considerable advantage j 1 ' 1 * ' hrone of lit acr, was made by ihe fiom that system of discipline, ami ih-it more complete organization of his mili- tary forces v»hich the changes lately introduced into the Tuikish unny must render nrcessary. According to accounts from Con- stantinople, of the 2~th ult. the Sultan was preparing for action. The fieUi equip;!g«-s were wads, and the horses tu be used i;i the campaign, had been sent to Adiiannple- Such is the general complexion of the intelligence communicated from Oddessii, Constantinople and Jassy.— From the latter place, also, we find an article, contained in AJgemiene Zsetung received litis morning, which indicates j ^ er **•• ' ayl°' Kev. Dr. Ludlow, who was invited, in l!»e absence, from ill health, of Dr. Cheater, to • hose congregation the gov. was attached, to peif<>:ui 'hat duty.— T:ie cuili.i W«»slhe0 placed in the hearse and the »oteoia kueii which announced lue tunning of tiie procession, resound- ed hum at! quarters of the city. 'ihe procession moved in the follow- ing older, undei Hie filing ot minute guns, which continued until the close of Hie solemnities. The nuliia.y escort} under the com- mand of Brigadier General Cooper, consisting of Tiie ninth regiment of Riflemen, un- LATEST FROM ENGLAND. By ihe packet ship Canada, Capt. Rodgers, arrived at New York on Thursday last, London papers to the 1st of January and Liverpool to the 2d, are received. It would seem by the accounts from Constantinople, that war was moment ly expected between Turkey and the Allied Poweis. The Russian troops on the Turkish frontier, were under I produce it. the command of the Count Wittgenste- j —-^ra™ the state of feverish excitement prevail- ing in that quarter. The account will be found in a subsequent paragraph.— ll appears that a rumour was spread • f a corps ol Turkish cavalry, com* ting of 1500 men, having passed the Danube, a general movement of the Russian army immediately took place, and two pulks of Cassocks instantly passed the Pruth. The rumour, it is added, was unfounded, and the Cos sacks returned : but if the whole state- ment be not a fiction, it is clear the Russian Legions \ stand like grey- hounds in the slips, straining upon ihe stari.\ Every thing is to be feared from collision, where so little is necessary to » ... . j* AJ . - mc , Pbedepaiture of the Allied Am- in, who made so conspicuous n|ng- bassadors from Constantinople, thomjh ure at the time of Bonaparte s inv, sti ,| lin confirmed by any official no.i- s.on, and were said to be ready to cross fnation of the fact, seems to have re- t.ie Pruth at a moment's earning ceivt . d cvery ronfill)Jalion fkm% o , ^ 1 he ambassadors of the A lied Pow- authemirk rt, M _,._ r r . ,. , r , .... . . dumenticK character. 1 lie altered crsat Constantinople, had demanded period of thci, leaving va.ies between the ir passports, which it is said were j lhv lst aml 4 , h Jns( b M d e Riheau- refused, or. the ground that they were unnecessary, the ministers being per- fectly safe under the protection of the Sublime Porte. The probability is, that the Grand Seignior was not quite ready to take the last step, and as the departure c/ the ministers would be pierre, it is reported, goes to Odessa, and Mr. Stratford Canning, and- Gen. Guilleminot to Corfu. The Porte, it is said, declined to give them passports upon the ground that they needed none as they were under ihe protection of the Ottoman government. • _a^o^o^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H- fc\* 1 'ouicni. The Sultan equivalent o a formal declaration of probal)| that bv refusing a war, he preferred keeping them a l.t- formal diplomatick assent to their de- tie while longer The famous despatch of Prince Met- iernich to Baron Ottenfels. in which the latter is reproved for not acting cordially with the Ambassadors of the three Allied Powers, is disavowed in the Austrian Observer, the journal of the Prince. Peace had been concluded bet«veen the Russians and Persians. The Rus- sians retain all the territory lying north of the Araxes, and a small portion of that to the southward—the Persians to pay all the expense of the war.— The treaty leaves Russia at liberty to pursue her measures against Turkey parture, he will avoid what may appear an overt declaration of hostilities.— Some doubts are expressed as to the truth of the report that Admiral de Rigny had destroyed ihe Greek fleet. No farther accounts of that transaction, beyond a repetition of the first have yet been received. ONE DAY LATER. The hip Corinthian, Capt. Chad- wick, arrived at New York from Lon- don, from whence she sailed on the third of January, bringing London dates to the evening of January 2d. The reported change in the ministry is contradicted A battalion wf Light Infantry, under lieut. col. Shanklaud. Caiiimandauts ot companies, captains Fry and Gioes- oeck. To this battalion were attach- ed three companies of Light infantry from Gibbnnsvillc and Troy. A battalion of Artillery, under com- mand ol major Gibbous. Commandants of companies, captains Thomas and Pieston. , A squadron of Horse Artillery, un- der lieut. col. Van Schaick. Comman- dants ot companies, captains Green and fuller. A squadron of the third brigade of Horse Artillery, under the command of col. Consaul. Commandants of com- panies, major Winne and capt. Bran- don. Brigadier-General Cooper and staff. The clergy of the city, and the at- tending physicians, with scarfs. The IIKARSE, covered by a superb conopy, surmounted with black plumes di»wn by four white horses, their heads also decorated wi'.h black plumes, and their harness trhr-med with crape.— The horses were led by grooms prop- erly habited. The following gentlemen, with scarfs, as PALL HEARERS: Gen. Uwgardus iVIr. Crary ^^^^^ Mr. Elswortli Mr. W ilkerson of Ihe Senate. Chief Justice Savage Judge Sutherland Mr. Marcy. comptr. Mr. Flagg sec. oi'st. E Mr. Bucklio Mr. Scudder Gen. Moatross Mr. Williams Mr. Breese <J«MI. Bi inkhotT of the Assembly Alr.JD P. DIMIW Mr. Wo Jame* Sir W A'Court has been appointed The London Sun of the 2d states, mmister from Great Britain to Russia. thal U was reported ^J *,£ j!^ Sir Frederick Lambe is appointed minister to Spain. Sir Brooke Tay- lor minister to Prussia. LONDON, Dec. 31. In our preceding columns, we have given from the German and Paris pa- pers, received since our last, various statements respecting the progress of affairs in the east ; and we wish we could add that there prevailed in all or any, of them, reasonable grounds for believing that a pacifick adjustment hazy had that morning received a con- firmation of the report from Vienna, of the departure of the Russian ambassa- dor from Constantinople, and that the British and French ambassadors were immediately to embark ; but the gov- ernment had received no advice. i^-otw the British Traveller of Jan. 2d. The intelligence brought by the ex- press from Vienna, which arrived yes- terday, states that when the Russian ambassador at Constantinople commu- of the question was probable. Such, | nicaied to his French and Englishi col t »_ ,- A _ , leagues, his determination to leave for Odessa, they strongly remonstrated with him, and used every exertion in their power to detain him there ; as they wished to remain until the very last hope of accommodation with the Porte should have vanished, when they might all leave the Turkish capital together. It was reported at Vienna that be would nut listen to their pressing solicitations, however, is not the fact; and so far as they are entitled to confidence, they constitute a mass of concurrent evi- dence of the most unfavourable char- acter. From Odessa, under the date of Nov. 24, we learn that Count Witt- genstein had issued an order of the day recommending to the commandeis of corps and divisions to take the great est care that the troops and material!and accordingly embarked) The Military Association, flanking the pall bearers. The relatives of the deceased and his family, in carriages. Among them were the venerable John Taylor, late Lieut. Gov. Chief Justice Spem-er, Chancellor Jones, Judge Woodworth, Judge Duer, and other gentlemen of distinction. The present and late military fami- ly of the commander in chief, also as mourners. The joint committee of arrange- ments, in scarfs. The Senate, preceded by its officers, the president with a scarf. The Assembly, preceded by its offi- cers, ihe speaker with a scarf. The Attorney General and Treasur- er of the state, the Canal Commission- ers, and other stale officers. Gov. Van Ness, of Vermont, and other strangers specially invited. The Common Council of the city of Albany, and their officers. The Judicial and Executive officers of the county of Albany, The members of the bar, with their distinguished senior, Abraham Van Vechten, at their head. Knights Templars, with their ban- ner. Master Masons. Royal Arch Masons, with their offi- cers in full dress. . Present and past grand officers of the Grand Chapter of the state of New York, in full dress. Thus terminated the funeral honours decreed by the representatives of ihe people of New-York to her distinguish- ed son. The day was not inappropriate to the occasion ; the sky wrapped in clouds, and the cold, oamp atmosphere harmonized with the solemn duties to which it was devoted. The utmost regulaiity was observed throughout; and the earl\ hour at which the solemnities terminated, enabled the immense mul- titude of spectators to disperse in good season, and with perfect decorum. It was alike honourable to our citi- zens, and indicative of the great inter est felt on the occasion, to observe the entire suspension of business, and the stillness and solemnity which every where prevailed. Many interesting circumstances could be mentioned to illustrate the general feeling, were it not feared that this account was already sufficiently ex- tended. A i\:w particulars only will be adverted to. Great interest was manifested by the publick to see the body, Pre it was for- ever withdrawn from human observa- tion. From an early hour in the mor- ning until one o'clock, 'the room in which the coffin was deposited, was thronged by respectable visitants who attended for that purpose, and many of whom had come from a considerable distance. The side walks ofevery street through which the procession moved, and the windows of the houses, and the roofs of several of them weie thronged by spectators of both sexes, and of every age. Many of them wore badges, bear- ing a miniature likeness of Clinton.— More than one of the groups thus dec orated, were composed of children whose parents had adopted this mode of manifesting their own sympathy with the general feeling. The colours of the several vessels at the wharves of the city, were display- ed at half mast. Several buildings were dressed in mourning; among these were Mr. Hos- ford's u Albany House,\ in State street the \ Western \Hotel\ of Mr. Wilcox, in Washington street, and the taverns of Messrs. Elihu Lewis, and Daniel Shields, in the same street. Upon the whole, cvery thing was done that duty or sympathy required ; and so done, as to confer honour upon the legislature and the state. The so- lemnities, without being ostentatious, were appropriate and imposing; they were calculated to call out the finer feelings of ihe heart—to remind those who witnessed them, of the solemn rites consecrated, in ancient days to the memory of heroes and mighty men— and to furnish at the same time, a no- ble incentive and a bright reward to publick virtue— Argus. NOTICE. WE are owing CASH—Our customers who are indebted to us MUST without delay PAY US— We shall prosecute all demands which are now due—a lame share of them can already be found in the hands of II. Newcomb, Esq. where we have left them for col- lection. We hope all who are indebted to us will avail themselves of the pre- sent opportunity to SAVE COST. Budlong, Babcock, ty Co. 83 Jan. 3, 1828. 500 BARRELS COARSER FLYK SALT, NOW IN STORE, and receiving which is offered wholesale or re- tail, on reasonable terms, at our warehouse. Portland Harbour, November 8,1887. 75 GOODRICH, FOWLE, & Co. Masonry a System of Selfishness. Masonry has always been renowned as a benevolent institution; and in all the pom- pous oratory which has been displayed in its praise, this has been the theme—this has been held forth to the world as the grand ob- ject, the moving spring of the H Holy Order.\ The world has been told, and the world has believed, that \Holy Friendship, Love,\ and Truth, were the only tics, which, for so many centuries, had bound, in one common fraternal embrace, men of all ages aiid na- tions, \ of the most opposite tenets, and die most contradictory opinions.\ But thechann is broken—the veil is rent asunder, and we are now permitted to behold the true princi- ples of the order, the real, as well as the os- tensible springs of action. The object of this article is, to investigate the high-sound- ing pretensions of the fraternity, to so much benevolence—so much charity ar d Jove; and to show that their boasted scheme of be- nevolence, which they so highly extol, even above the religion of Jesus Chrkt, is but a system of supreme selfishness. In the first place, it will be necessary fo consiJet the nature of true benevolence— Defore our hearts are prepared to exercise or our minds to understand this Godlike principle, we must learn to place a just esti- mate upon all things, and to value evert ob- ject, not according to its relation to us, or its proximity to our senses, but according to the place it tills, am! the station it occupies in the M great chain of being.\ This mav, indeed, be humiliating lo our own i recious little selves; for it is the nature of short- sighted man to value himself above all other objects, and to consider himself the grand centre, around which all thing-* revolve. But the principle we are attempting to des- cribe, will be found to embrace the essence of the two great commandments, on which •• hang all the law and the prophets\: \ Thou ihalt love the Lord thy God, uith all thy heart, soul, strength, mind and might, and thy neighbour as thyself.\ Nor are these unreasonable requirements ; for suielv, that Being who fills immensity with his presence; whose omnipresent mind grasps in one com- prehensive view, millions of worlds, and mill- ions of planetary systems; whose ALL-SEE- ING EYE beholds with equal distinctness, the minutest particle of «and, and the most mag- nificent of worlds; whose care is equally over all his works,according to their relative con- sequence, from the meanest insect that flut- ters in the breeze, to the most glorious of his intelligent creation ; and who adds to all his greatness, the perfection of \holiness justice, gbodness, and truth;\ surely, we say, that Being, if for no other reason than his own intrinsic-It value, the moral excel- lence of his character, the sublimity of his supreme intelligence, and the glorious beau- ty of all his perfections, deserves the iii^hest place in our estimation, and to be theccutre of all our affections; and we are bound to estimate all things, just in proportion as they bear a resemblance to this glorious charac- ter, or occupy a higher or a lower place in the grand system of which he is the anther; hence, our neighbour, occupying the same level with ourselves, is entitled to the same seat io our affections. And, if we love our neighbour as ourselves, we shall be equally solicilous for his welfare—ifv.esec him in distress, wc shall feci the <-a:r.e desire tor h.s relief that we should feci for ourselves, were we in his situation; and we shall not enly feel, but we shall fly to his relief. This is benevolence. W hen this principle is i:> ex- ercise in the heart, there is no need of the influence of honorary engagements, nor the terrourof a vow, under the \ penal sanction of death,\ to induce us to extend the hand of charity, to relieve the burden of human misery. Nor is this principle confined to the limits of a particular sect or party : the benevolent man desires, first of att, the glo- ry of his Creator, M and the highc.;t possible good of his moral system;\ and he recog- nizes a brother in every individual of the great family of man. This is the doctrine taught by Him who \spake at never man spake\:—\If yc love them which love you, what reward have ye ? Do not even the pub- licans the same ? If ye salute your brethren only, what reward have ye * Do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye lend to tbem of whom ye hope to reccive,what thank hare ve ? for sinners also lend to sinners to receive as much again.\ This is the prin- ciple so beautifully exemplified iu that holy prayer, which, in his last expiring breath, ascended to the throne of ihe Most High tor his murderers—\ Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do !'* Let us contrast this holy, heavenly prin- ciple with what masons call benevolence, and we shall find written upon the latter, as in characters of sunbeams upon midnight darkness, \MENE MENE, TEKEL! : * If, in a small community, we see one man setting up a separate interest, and living for himself alone, regardless of the welfare of those around him, wc are ready at once to attribute to him the detestable and swinish principle of covetousness, and brand h»m with the opprobrious epithet of a sordid mi- ser. Again, if we see two or three individ- uals combined for the same purpose, setting up an interest of their own, separate frooi
