Activate Javascript or update your browser for the full Digital Library experience.
Next Page
OCR
VOL. 1V.—No. 15.
—a
THI CATE
“GO TEACH ALL NATIONS.”
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1836.
Matt. xxviii. 19.-
“AS MY FATHER HATH SENT ME, I ALSO SEND YOU.”
SGoha xX. Be se :
. WHOLE SUaneR 172.
THE CapHolre oe RALD i is published
tances,) must
tne Gaol tt
© paper will be discontinued until all
arrearages are settled.
Doetry.
THE TYPE OF THE SINNER,
4 When you shall boas an gak with the legros falling off
and axa garden without water."—Isa
Well wert thou chosen thou fled tee,
A te othe sof sudo Saat
‘There was freshness thy leaves among,
‘And tq Sones bad uch when bi beat was you:
‘There was beauty around thy 6 rown,
‘And ton vo her God, tht ot] once done;
But thou arta wither'd and faded tree,
And how tru
ly the sinner resembles thee ;—
‘The cheerful and innocent birds of air,
In the smiling spring would shelter there;
srhen his mind was young snd pure
‘There innocence lov'd to rest necure;
‘He shall wither and shed his
try storm shall complete his fl
And the
No future spring
Shall raise him up from sad d
Bt the axe shall be lid to hi fated ro
‘And the tree shell burn that would viel ne tat
BIBLIOTHEQUE DU ROI.
whe finest library, at the Dresent day, in the
rid, is the yal Library in P: ‘The build-
af immense extentecan ob) jong square, with
is of twe
ents
ry part n
progress, and rise t magni-
parti ically i interesting, and should serve
ncouragement to those who m:
ever so small or so limited a scale. com-
under the reign of King John of France,
and, rng hislife, did not exceed ten volumes—
n profane « Uiveratures and four on re-
ligion. THis son, Charle it to up-
wards of nine hundred ‘alone, “which, at that
Gime, (when printing was not +a
Books, of course, very seco) 9 ‘was considered a
most ex! the death of |
taken | an
rs
byt the then Dute of Bedford, and brought 1o
-» however, col coal ve many of
bo a them ack
again to Paris, Aboutthi iod the att of print-
ing was discovered ‘which enabled the Kin ng of
e810 increase: epi 'y this favorite nation:
‘as then n published, silig
1
men into Greece
any expense, every thing
Maluable i in the way | ‘of literature. In the reign of |
Louis X! prin books and ma-
nuscripts, of sixteen thousand eight hundred vo-
umes, Under Louis XIV. (1684), it amounted
- _to sity thousand three hundred volumes; and so
Ld repi its increase since, i it it now
raoke, beyond all compar and great-| qw:
the world, consisting or the follow-
number 3 volum
ray’
2 _ Seventy “ime thoosand-volames i aauctipt;
eight hundred thousand volumes of printed
_ Besides the richest collection of medals and an-
The are ia suceession, and o open
into each other. In the centre of one of these
Joor a miniature of the classic mo n
. passus,” beautifully executed by the artis Fiton,
It represents a roun nonin shaded | ¢,
with the emblematic myrtle and laurel tre
‘Tepresentation
Ui atrica the Pyramide—groven of palm tree!
ed in originating a similar institution, even upon | ©
the| t he hesbandmen,. whe
and caravans of travell
ellers—all executed in the
very Thursday, F of Market| most, exuet proportion, according toa scale which
ind [Second Sire a oat is given «: Adjoining this n dedicated to
avs—Tunee Douvane perannum, payable works on raphy and ‘saronon Here are
half yearly @ in a ava ance. erson remitting t glo! oes the world—
advance, shall receive two copies of the 50 great,
Herald, for one year, or one copy fortwo years. | i essary to cut
munications (except from Agents, and re large circular openings in the upper floor;
the frame-work rests on the |
globes are situated in the
and haif in the lower room:
turning them, thi ey ean b e seen from either;
are both the same si ing (each) twelve
feet in diameter, nd about ‘thirty-five feet in cir-
cumfere
In the | Cabinet of Antiquities re shown the fn
est collection in existen of gold, sil
bronze medals, of all vations’ large
silver shield spposed to be that ueod by Scipio;
chair of king Dagobert; the armour
ores rancis Io} a veal vase, in the shay ape of a
chalice, made of ii
grou floor, aad the
in the highest state of pre: sereation, reupposed to
be upwards of three thousand y
he remaining
@ Yolumes consist of foreign
‘ipt of Telemachus, in the pane writing:
jent manuecrip 1 of Homer;
Pe
Tagaicent library is po to the world
gratuitously tal ¢ laid in each saloon for
be accommodation of ‘those who sant to read;
d if you should wish to take notes or extracts,
any extent, you are supplied rsa, al-
80, with pens, ink, &c,—: ney being
made annually by the Government for this pur-
ose... In each saloon are servants in the king's
livery, regulrly etatined and ready to hand you
in amomen
may wish to eal for.
or to those who go m
S| through the saloons, it
Wednesdays, and Fridays;
to read, and to foreigners, it is open
aay (Sundays excepted), an
of every rank and class in life, fi
€
&
every
d crowded with ps
m ‘the
highest to the lowest, allowing and cultivating
the peculiar bent of their geniues-
lestined to enrich, by itt pro-
diuetions, the very fountain from. which they’ are
fc
now s0 tely and co abundantly” permitigd to
We
a
This
not, however, the enly library open
are several others, of | 1
The
oyal Library of
they |i
of gyp
led the Ibis, with its lumoage fa and | as a bl
e sono
any work iy the entire building you | —a
cern in the distance, the towers, the steeples, the
arble pil les starting Hike cen palnoce from the] I. c, xxv,
of the fabled
dei on nthe deep, where Nereids held their court,
and Teitons worshipped.
blood of the Lord.” —S, Aug. contra Creseon, h-
xx, :
iAs correspondent of the New York Observer, bea
0.3 nireata, no.
from the main Tend, and no sidges to it,—men,
women, and children, floating about in gondolas,
—the hack
metamorphosed into boatmen,
mector thes lazy
1} have react
‘the horrors which attended the Eogich reformation:
3 | Liszon.——The number of ‘valuable books, col
lec
you instanily
id in a boat,—trading, cor
the atee—what divine dit. . The public library of
aids and mermen, but how unfit for mes, and a large col-
“ ing 8 gone lection of manuscripts, and of eoins and medals.——
‘eat dola,—you | There are long tables for writing and study in
visit ina gondola,—without a qondole, in short, }¢2¢h room, and lib
et wbat a{ There is also a room Gitted up for the use of la-
the maimed, the {dies "who may wish to go there tnd read, and the
only place Goors of two other apartments are now covered
ary, nd with manuscript copies of the trials and sentences
whe wr eften ae much of an incumbsance {OF Persons by the Holy Inquisition, with el the ho
tinless Lexcept an American stage. {evidence in each case, written 0 te
co: ine persons in it. How do they live ‘occupy, each from afew qui wre
without streets ?—y hey water, JOf oper. | Having been brought to Tight but re-
Tanswer} and they have litle nairow alleys, 19 °e°Hys they are yet xainined, when some
ith some hundreds
gona an
they go without horses!
horse and thei
—you dem:
r coach; Taner
and wih it an in. it, e they
choo yn. the small. canal, or on
the trond Tagoe iba ‘ads to the ocean or to the
main
Bu h me—if you please, before I
write further of Venice to Milan, and then Jet us
see the things upon the road. ):'The highly eulti-
vated and. beautiful country, is one of the chief
things that attract ‘Though no!
with t
though never so neat and o
withe auch. besutfal farm houses so beautifully
covered with flowers, yet the whole plain of
3 Lombardy, both Austrian and Venetian, from Mi
lan to the shares of the Adriatic, is buta
ranches of the thickl
ladly Mlanted mabey res,
fore, isa aciencé w
Lombardy. ‘The ingenious manner
waters are distributed for irrigation, rertcultly
struck’ my attention, At firs dykes,
the peopla sostain thelitle rivers 2» beds snooty
elevated, and then they draw canals from them,
which run ii-divers directions eo te lo. water
the country. en wo canals meet, and each
is of aboui the same elevation, in order to keep
that elevation as itis, they make one
pass pon an
golden Pacts simitly sale
hat at ti *
such books as you may eall for, all ee ofexpenss.
of thein will be published, whilet those which are
energi
@ following unsuspicious testimony to the literary
tating upon interested sie they sre ‘oce
asionally led a8
ay ward ond ‘will wit admit thi
times to do, and in, evil
the lot
et nd justice they a seldom at
ungenerous they
prise is found in destiution in
the bo pe of belering thei hed log. ‘Their hatred
of oppression is proved by their ill-directed, but
constant struggles for equal rights ; and, if kind-
heartednees and charity eovera evi ne
no people on earth can justly claim
Tn iteration ¢ of which
out of the U possess
serve as an illustration of my ai ion, and gra-
wi holo love to content ‘he bright side
of poor bum:
‘The followingsta fatement was €
an excellent Qi
:
nelosed to me by
waker, one of. the ‘vier of ie
use from Ww. pose 100 ks the doct
ith a lett rt ‘her Tey
but sill only add, that the statement is incontro~
verti
| “From the Ist of January 1834 to the Ist of
May 1835, ‘bration Bell & Co., of New York
most disgraceful, w:
venta in Po
immense building, "Toscly occapted by Francis-
can monks.” ‘There are there, ab present, 250,-
000 and 6, paintings.
When the collection is Gnishedy he library wal
y
lion, three hundred thousand
mes. A larg Proportion of these are valuse
ble falios and quartos, and mot of the books are
well bound and in a goo rate of presevation.
re much interested in examining the or
inal log-book of that famous hero, Don Jobn De
ate, interaperse oats arts of his discove-
rics, drawn with a pen and signed with his awn
heeeis an accurate sketch of New
ava, dated |
jatch have always. had
it of first discovering that island, a century
later than the date above.
‘There is also a book of manareript charts, dai-
ed 1651, in. which there is eorreet draught, of|
the coast of i :
was the punishment of any one who should fur-
nish foreign nations with a chart of any orien
possessions abroad,
‘This library also contains a most splendid ma
nuscript edition of the Bible, with tre ‘pictures
ih | of scripture scenes and character. in seven,
folio volumes, magnificently bound, and o ly two
years were employed in writin, i
1495 to 1497. The French catried it ways
0
0 little has been | fe
he teen ar “the “Portugues is the fact, {hat ia
” cow d here aud the
havo received from the working classes of Triah
migrants, that is, from comm farm.
rvants, i to remit
to their friends and. kindred in Trclan the
sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, in amounts
varying from five dollare upwards. average,
amount of the whole number of drafts, sent is
twenty eight and a half dollars each.
Neio York, May \9th, 1835.
“Thece is 00 i'n part of the country to which I
have wandered, where I did not find that a like
gentle Eyealleetion of the ie bd “ home.
prevailed. In every large is or
more siete Irish house hich Secomes the p pope
lar, medium through thete offerings of
the, heart are oe ited 0 the -miserable at
Vhen itis reflected that the donors are,
themselves the poorest of the poor, and that often
at the close of their first summer, they are found,
iting their earnings to other, oF
ter, without providiny se astor eink,
ing of the severity otapprenching winter no eulo~
trated my
"tin New Orleans, fo 8 poor
llow who, after three months’ hard Jab
brought him forty-five dollars 10 send home, “let
keep back ten dollars of
this to buy yourself a warm coat; we havea cold
month eoiming, man, and you are ill off for cover
“I lor ye, Davy scratching
bis head, “sa glancing own at hie Tagged gary
nts, “bud its only for a month you'll b beh n’,
poor erature at
aqueduety—and for the other, under the bridge, c t over, and heras mye elf,
reenal,” containing about a hundre they ittle pipe in masonry, which after | poner here, but it was restored by the wrealy a lees able for id. The clothes ost a hee ap 0",
eighty thousand volumes, rich in historians and | baving received the waters of the tn i money here, too, I find ; and if you plate, sir, in
poets chiefly Talian +The Library of the Pan- | cording to the laws that govern Guids in seek @ paintings tskei fiom the! convents are, | the name o* God, send sll T have hones ond rn
theon of Si vieve,” one hundred and twen-| their equilibrium, brings 10 their elevation, | Many of them, ofits value, but still, a handsome) keep off the cowid, when it eoines, y workin’
ty thousand vole “the ry,” | over the bridge—and thus thet ‘raveller often sees | Cllection might works of] the harder.” —Fower"s Impression
ie hundred thou he Library | the waters of two different canals tocross without | High value, by the ea iar There are
of the City of Paris,” ‘out fifty. thousand vo-| mingling, though their waters are. nearly of the |°™0PE them ig scripture
lumes ; besides several attached to particular in-| same height.» In the envir ia, which |S°eness and the finest religioos sketches, and de Ivis not perhaps koown to all our readers, that
stitutions. re watered by three different rivers, this water |Yolonal heads of ancient saints and martys,| the common division of the Bivte into chapters
ower is used to the best advantage, for while the | ‘hat I have ever seen, and verses is_not only wuthority
ABUSE OF TIME. -
“Let none of you, brethren, make light of the
time which
seepale time, al
ever to be recalled, the
ins to converse
ir pass.” OF! “till the hour pass!
reator grants you
to do penance, to obiain pardon, to acquire grace,
to merit glory—untl the time passin which you
ought to propitiate divine mercy,
society of Angels, sigh afier the heavenly inheri-
tance, aspire after the promised fic
you languid will, weep over the ini
at have commitied. Ie it thus, forsooth, that
the long wished for time
for so
without working t
the public fairy, that th» merchants
seek forocasione of amusement, Test they should
derive any profit
mendicant
m them? Is it thus that the
poor, when the dispenser of lms after
d Ww, seek | tl
whilst their companions. rush for-
thee vacated places, and hide| !
15 !"—S.° Ber
3
to
themelven an com nard, Serm,
XVIL
THINGS IN VENICE AND ON THE ROAD.
September 23, 1835,
wot | rent & a a Yankee ayes when he knows
rah!” « whoo} en”
" This a nT onatur, ‘all to n
ing Ys Whip me, if it doesn’t!” Down
wile ie nett ing t any other ville wpon
which I ever laid muy yen, any thing to it The
teavelle jer, now and then, even when his senses be-
callous to novelties, will have his
spas, and thus here, 1 have one ove
ice—this oddest of
of the ocean, that iays' Upon the bosom o!
atic, like some bright gem upon the bosom of. an
aslern queen. If it would do to whoop upon
| paper, 1 would whoop through a column of peri-
thus salon Timpart an Fmpression
oe tts wil, strange feeling that comes over
inan when, in his gondola, his eyes first dis-
Until the hour| Courage. to.
ten to the | ¥!
ae Ait at last with bi
waters, divided and distributed with intelligence,
spread fertility throughout the country, they also
turn many mills, and move many forges. ‘The
“ !
beat the iron and eop-
| per, and the sledges or F penis vo bell the ries
moved by f water power. All
Brescia, faye an Italian proverb, would not give
rescia is renowned
Emilia was “ne road uj
upon which
L travelled, the Via Emi
&
>
55.
ets
—McAdamized, spaci-
ously arched, and studded with stone
regularly. numbered, and thus showing the dis
tance from ‘place to place. . Beyond Bre
famous town, L might as well say bere
der ih the nam e of Brisas that
ths conquered an
beyond Brescia tie road
covered w gardens, and villages,
which are bounded toward the now by the lofiy
and seni "tips at the base of which for miles
you seem to be moving, Subsequently the road
panes u spon the
int Mark, for alt things
file
ia of the ancients, | odus
II | but to keep the ni
-|retained in the
ee
make two disinet precepts of verses 9 and 4, Ex-| 6
whereas, the Roman Catholics, and the
Lutherans, divide
ho Tooks into Walton's Pallyglott
that the
omnem site, Se. neque adorare ea, is
in Vulgate ; and aueely. au
the division, f 80 little importance
may wonder itever could
To the English Choe ota sing Jew
ut the interdict to th
worshinringe graven image
whole of onr Catechism,
ai
ry through the
there any caution in-
Churel
ol
hen warranted, in
Sate the dideence betwen them Rome... am not arraigning
say being that the Italians name after the Apot-|the sincerity af the Roman belief, oF the upright
les, and distinguished holy men, & we afterstolen | ness of their intentio ents.
foreign namesyand the chief political gods ofthe be aswaxen of ur any raven a
lay. After the bridge Saint Mark is passed, the | eu
taveller Gonnee upon the margin of the ancient
Benacus, the Lake that Virgil (arose ome of
Mantua i d
surgens, at the slig!
wind, prove ( that evento the present day tr
its old fa
EUCHARIST.
“Though the Lord himéelf sayé of the body ‘and
Blood of the Lon the only sacrifice for our salva-
2 Unless a man eat my flesh and drini
Meod, he shall not. have le in him; does not
the Apostle teach that it is hartful to
receive it improperly ? for he says: Mhosoever
Neat the bread and drink the chalice of the
Lord unworthily, shall be Bully of the body and
s5
S
those who | whi
Of disingenuous omission, or unautho-
rized in the Decalogue."-—Parr's
Character of C. J. Fox, vol. ii. page 1
IRISUMEN IN AMERICA.
shall ever love America for the happy hom
it as proved tothe provident smongst the exiles
ree the polities! eeonomist would desire, the
are many allow: made for them.
Tet it not be considered an unpardonable enor-
mity that the poor Irishman runs a little riot a
deoly and wholly feed from thie" heavy’ clog
h the exhibition ¢ of ino opinions have Bees
not uprising tit
ve been for life hoodwigked ei
fail to see clearly for themselves in all cases ot
seuptile, neque! 1250,
Few gun wneking, or | ab
of Ireland,» In almost. every f the: land,
y form an important portion of the freemen |.
of the soil. » If, on becoming American, they have
jot at all times ceased t Irish i fall de-} j,
except that ef custom, but
avery recentdate. ‘I!
also an invention of
histories, poems, prophe-
DIVISION OF THE COMMANDMENTS. cies and letters composing the Holy Volume, came
lately met with the following remarks of | from the hand: ne pire ina ve
+ sisting vine of he Engh car onthe different form from that which they bear at present.
sision ofthe commandments which is eo often the sub-] 7Me tex! was written be woe ee
: sw ven the succeeded en
Jpetotmiopprebneon and minepreenatin ather continuously nospacebeingallowed between
“In the division of the Decalogue, the Chris-| them. ‘The, constant necessity of reference,
tian Churches are not agreed., ‘That of Eingland,| however, soon made. it convenient wlatedace
and the whole of the Calvinists, with Josephus, “Among the
tome method of division
ve books of Moses were, at an early period, ‘ie
vided into fifty-four sections, whic! again
still further subdivided. , Among the early Chris-
tians, a similar plan was also adopted, althougt
the method of division greatly varied at differe:
imes and in different place:
y Person w
Robert Stepliens, a printer, inredeed ib di division
of verses into the New
afterwards, viz. i a ee Amster-
dam effected te same division in the old. "Vesta
0 ment.—Church Bdvo
THE curcuan. a i
Cross EXAMINATION:
# nol you compared the rage fo
lies in ner othe religious rev
e for mover
ds
rit partak.
f the age end people
10 it prevails.”
' flave you: not stated {hatabout he perad you
mention, this rage for ‘the ic life led the
eof Northum-
Pray who was this veneroble Bede
Tam astonished you should affect j iguorance.—