AND SEMI-WEEKLY ADVERTISER. "mam-nu) T0 GENERAL IN'I‘ELLIGENCE, Liranaii‘oatx Step—NEUTRAL 1N LOCAL POLITICS AND RELIGION; r" VOL- I- CIIARLO'I‘TI‘I'I‘OWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MARCH 27. 1844. 'NO. 59. moon’s PHASES. MARCH- 4di day, 4h. 48m after. ( 1“: Quarter, Ilth day, 9h. 5m morn. . New Moon. l8th day, 8h. 3m even. 3 rim Quarter, 27th day, 0h. 47m morn. 0 put: \lnon, _. M..— INTER BSTING EX FRACTS. If” “manna—The people obtain their iilnlsss property belonging to'tbe family, mlpassing from one generation to ano- timer they purchase them from some pm,“ ,upposed to be tatnous for the mm, nt‘tlmge w ho purchase the Ir gods [mm him: he makes and constitutes them "all": cost is a matter of bargain be- mn the buyer and the seller. _ A mar- ieilrnuple went, a few years since, to a an ofthis descriptifln. living about item miles from the capital, and wished opurrhase an idol. He had none to ill,lmttlrsired thetn to come next day. he, went; he was still without any, [promised to have one by the evening. lay remained till evening. The tnnn enttoa neighbouring forest, selected istreemit down his bough. brought it me.and prepared his idol. leaving the alter branches littered about near his re-plat'e. In the evening.r he invited ttt'mat'ried friends to take their tnenl of ' withliimmnd they saw him put some liliesell-same branches in the. fire to ilthetirc. They returned home,hav~ gpaid almul twu dollars for their new at. Shortly afterwards a young ntan,a tiltianmalled at their house, and hap- altoreml to the wife the graphic des- riptionolitlolatry in the‘llth chapter of nh. “\l’ith part thereof he roastetb, tltetlia fire,warmeth himself. and the ltluelllet‘t’OIIle tnnketh a god. 4&0.” em astonished ; it reminded her of initial just occurred. helped to con- arebcrot'the truth of the sacred vo- mtyawakened deep attention. and led thethandonmentof the idol. She con- urilalearner, became a true disciple, it well known as Ilat'aravavy. R Passive Famr 'l‘aees.—It will he (Lupon experiment. that a wound ltflflalree in March or April, Will Marital smut as the sap begins to tllltl that the sup will ooze out until i lule have put out. so as to receive Illicit wound made in June, will "I shite, and immediately com- thcaltng. The wounds of a tree litabeen broken hv being loaded “runner otherwise, 'while the tree mews"? foliage, will look white, out e .' - ' can a.1.233233;"in’..?hél°r3."ni $3”. will look black, and incline . the sap will keep the litnb alive to the | Very end, and the healing will be perceiv- ed nnmediately.—Bo.ston Cultivator. immortal is proven by analogy in both the vegetable and animal kingdoms. The lofty oak is felled to the earth, " " r - and in the course oftime another tall T II E G R A V E. l towering oak springs from its root. —'~——--~~—-~ 'l‘he rese tree ” bears its blushing 'honurs thick upon it,” and they die; - - ——"’lyet in the next year others of the THERE is nothing in (life so well 1 same form bloom forth in their places. calculated to humble" the haughty, . But the. animal kingdom proves more and bow down the stifl'knee ofpride, l precisely the immortality ofthe soul. asto follow the remains ofsomeyoung I will give one example, which is suf- and gifted persons—to stand by the t ficient. All the caterpillar tribe un- solemn, tho mournful grave, to seefdergoa change which points plainly thecartb close over him forever. How'to the resurrection of man. Take many melancholy emotions crowd the silkworm, for example. It had its upon the heart, while we stand for n infancy.aud begins its labours 30 800" few moments aroundthe-last dwelling as it arrives at maturity. It spins place of man, A wise God has gnu its thread of existence, and at the en to the grave, for a good purpose, end is silent in its tomb. More wise the power ofexciting the most ten. 3 than tnan, its whole life is spent in der, the mast touching sensibilities in l preparing l‘Ol' its the human heart. Lives there a man, lives there a woman who has not fol- fowcd a father, a mother, a brother, sister,or some dear relative or friend, to the grave '.’ And have they not felt while standing amid the tombs, and when they have {returned to the desolate mansion, the tallacy of hu- man pride, and the vanity of human ambition ? Do they not feel, and are they not impressed with a sense that all human glory is transitory, and all human happiness perishable ? Have they not resolved, as the sublime Dr. Young observes to keep those impres- sions fresh in nycmory,then re.resolv- I at the moment ofdissolution,and does ed and died the same. {it fly ‘0 some far 0 5m": to some To meditate “mung the tombs, m I place of happiness-or does it linger me ig a [nelancholy pleasures. 'rhpre I among us? It. IS true, I18 L‘lIIIOIl Ob. every guilty thought is snpprcssed— 39”“ that— there every unholy passion subsides.“ Millinus of spiritual creatures walk the —-there ambition. Vanity, and pride.l earl"- are swallowed up 'in reflcmion‘ and; Beth when we wake and when we sleep.” the mind abstracted from the worldl Dt'. Priestly. Grill the sect- Called IH‘COmES enter as the summer lake, t Materialists, taught the doctrine that while the sublime current ofeontem—i the mind of man is not spiritual, but plation lead it in pleasing though sad ‘v the mere result of the movement of thought. from life to the grave to im- ll"? film’s "ill"? bl‘aln- They believed mortality. ithat when man dies the mind ceases [ have 3mm] M the ,lentgpgm,‘ and,\vitlt the cessation of the brain’s .movemcnt. They also as a conse- at the. grave of the guy and tlieyt)ting,. _ . _ the beautiful, and the gifted. And ' ‘I’m'lce believed, that. the mind '5 93‘ while Hint/e stood therethesc thoughts,l ""Ct “r ‘l'l'efceut '" "l9 grave "m," have rushed upon my min," is man: the resurrection, when it would again immnrmt 9 And if so, when, and; come into exrstence at the same mo- when does the spirit go ? That the! ":m't that Hie bin", would move' In soul of man is immortal is proven by} ?‘c"P'}l‘0"-°»" “I‘ve! “’9 hall" a “'7 his longing alter immortality, and as] 'WWNUM conscmusneu'or “'9 lapse Cato observes, his fear offalling intol 0‘ “me' “"d’ my the-l" m th? grave' annihilation. “- the soul of man is; where there can-be no conscrousness not immortalmpy should it have been i of the flight of time, the soul might AN AFFECTING STORY. l ‘place,and the resurrection is at band. ' It then breaks the barriers of the! grave, and comes forth in the form,I ofa fly, and far more beautiful andi happy. It cuts out now, but makes pleasure its sole object, constantly jumping and flying about. Unlike its former self, it no longer cats, or works, or is sick. It would seem as if the Dicty had made these thingsl as proofs to man‘ of his own immor-- tality. It is a complete picture of? the resurrection. But does the soul leave the body lat first} my. humble let to spend ‘ Mluzttmeyn the spring and tore! huiurcmer, in engraftmgand prun- mu :3. and mv- cvperience goes ? “M: the best time for prunimt,is iii“ it” are full grown, and the "nhhlgorous and growing state. in we fifilfnn, when the sap hasbeen m5" 0 Iage, and the pores of the 0 ethso that when the limb is I“ evade 'fun andnarm weather will “no: the limb and close the 00d against the weather, given the power of progressing in slumberon for millions ofyears, and knowledge and virtue.> 'l'he acquire-i wake “"th me “"pl’“s"'°",that fully mth of the mm] is infinite. and it : a moment had elapsed. but this is would seem strange to suppose that i 3” cmllmlm'", l‘" a” '5, h'd '" ""I’P‘ its duration were finite. I know not "enable darkness' I! “3 enough ‘0" whether other men have the same “5 t" knnw that man '3 "nmortal‘ consciousness, but for myself, I know Oh the grave—the grave—it covers that I have a soul, I can feel the dis- all human hope and human affections! tinction preceptibly between it and, But a short time since I followed to the body; yes,I can feel it as dis~ the grave the lifeless form of an in- tinctly as I can see the yolk contain- fant child of my sister. While lstood; ed in the eggshell. 'l‘bat my soul is with each foot on a grave looking ,ot' fifteen days the change takes‘ down in the dark home of the infant, I asked myselfthe questiou, what is life and what its securities ? Before me lies an infant whose life has ex- tended to but a fetv short weeks, and the graves on which I stand are but: short. \Vhat is lifc,that death should be so terrific—and how strange is it, that, though we dread his approach, we think so little of that change, and. make so little preparation for that hour which must irrevocably come. It is true that life to the youthful mind, is bright and fraught with fu- ture hopes and happiness; and it is Sn because his heart is pure, and he, knows not: the hollowcheartedneSs ot' the world and the imperfection of hu- man nature. The vista opens be- fore him, and he sees not the end—— flowers and sunshine charm his eye, wave, In the course . and he thinks not ofthe darkness that will ere long ensbroud him. Fancy is a fee to solemn reflection,and hence it is that: the youthful mind thinks not of death. The heart has not the independence and fearlessness oi'tbn mind, or we should never reflect on a subject so humiliating and terrible. -- There are but two sources of real pleasure in life,knowledge and virtue; by virtue,l mean religion in the wid- est ncceptation ofthe word. Know. ledge and virtue are progt'essive, and not perishable like that which the world calls pleasure. Some ofthe Grecian philosophers taught the doc< trine that virtue and vice were onlv nominal,nnd there was no distinction only in the names. great a distinction as there is between light and darkness. mits a geod action is richly repaid by pleasing consciousness which follows it, and he who commits a bad one is as surely punished by the pain which follows it. But there is as He who com- What oceans oftears have been shed at the grave, and how many a heart has pined and sickened at the thought. of separation. truth that no less than ninety thou- sand ofthe human race are laid in the grave in one day. And how does the heart shrink when we leok around Us, and think that ofall the actiVP. being: we have seen in the full pursuit of happiness, not one perhaps will be living one hundred years hence—that. the child now in its mother‘s lap will then have been laid in the grave a grey headed man, the father oi'seve- ral generations. How short is the pe- riod of sixty years to pass from gene- rous hearted youth to avaricnus o:d age, and how humiliating is the fact, that the older we grow the more bar- dened the heart becomes, and the less fit for heaven. will welcome to his doir the aged mendicant. will, in future life while grasping after wealth, deny him the pittance ot'a farthing. Money,mone_v runs through every thing. {the place ot'talent, wisdom, greatness It isn melancholy The youth who It supplies