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33 D E t 1? 2 . [FOR THE COLONIAL-HERALDJ

TU MARY.

Mary, thy eye is clear and bright, And s eaks ofnought but joy within; Cure hath not yet obscured its light, Nor sorrow dimm’d its glance serene. But yet there is a restlessness In that keen eye, that seems to say, Thy soul’s not filled with happiness: What further seek’st thou, Mary? say.

Would'st thou entrust that thought to me,

That, well I ween, glows in thy breast? Or- dost thou shrink in modety

That dreads to breath it? It is best. ’Tis best within the sacred shrine

Ofthy young heart conceal‘d to lie; But yet, I tell thee, Mary, mine

Pants much to know that secret—why?

Because Ilove thee. Shall I speak The worm emotions of my mind? Or wilt thou count me wild and weak, "I should burst the bonds that bind The hearts ofyouth, and freely breathe The thoughts that in my spirit move ;-— Round thy fair brow with rapture wreaths The smiling coronet oflove?

Ob,pould’st than read as written there The ardent passion of my mind, I would not need then thus to swear "‘ To that which graven there thou‘dst find In living characters; but time Will tell, as words can ne’er express, Though warm the fervour of my rhyme, My bosom’s flame is nothing less.

PHILODEMUS.

AN APPEAL TO FEMALES.

As the pledge of Teetotalism binds me to use all the influence in my power to suppress the Vice of Intempe- rance, and knowing that our sexare the principal suffer- ers, and sometimes participate in this degrading Vice,

' I have taketf the liberty ofaddresstng you on the sub- 'ect.

That female influence is great, no one will, perhaps, for a. moment, question, when they reflect that it is a frail woman, like ourselves, that is seated on the throne, and swlys the sceptre overthis great nation. It is not ours to aScend the throne, but we can sway a sceptre

over the hearts ofour children, and our servants acknow- "

ledge our power. Shall this power be used for good or for evil? It is for us to say.

Are you a Wife? Perhaps your husband is in the habit of taking a social glass, as it has been termed. Has it always proved a social one to you? Observation has often told us it was not. Has it made him more kind and affectionate, and has he been better, pleased with your family arrangements, after taking. his social glass, than he was before it? Ifyciu answer in the affir- mative, then to you I have nothing more to say ; but, alas! too many must answer, ifat all, in the negative. If you wish to have him reclaimed, and peace restored to your home, first take the pledge yourself, and then deal kindly and affectionately with him, for you will gain no- thing by harshness. Let your precept and example go together, and, as far as possible, banish the destroyer of your peace from your house, and you will not labour in vain. »

Are you the happy wife of a Teetotaller? 7 Then seek her out who is crushed beneath the shame and de- gradation of a drunken husband; revive the drooping spirit, by repeating the kind and cheering word, and give the needed aid to both mother and children ; cause them to feel the fault is not theirs; get them to sign the pledge, and it may influence the internperate husband to fill his place again in society. How many gems have been brought to lig t by those means that have shone as stars in our moral hemisphere! and you may have them ifyou labour for it in your crown in the day of rejoicing.

Are you a. Mother? Perhaps you have not fully con- sidered that the principles instilled in the minds of chil< dren at the fireside will one day come forth for a bles- sing or a curse to the community. Have the baneful ef- fects of Intemperance been pourtrayed in all their de- formity, till the hearts of your children have loathed that detestable thing that caused it ; and has the fair tree of Temperance wound its branches over your dwelling, and its fruit been delicious to ,their taste? Have you sons that are one day to take their seats in the hall of Legislation ? Unless death prevent, some of you have. Shall the Laws made by them be for or against this evil? It is yours to say. Your little satchelled school-boy must one day arrive to that; the principles you inculcate will then be seen. It is true, some may break from all restraint, and slightthe counsels of a mother ; yet you will have done your duty. The mothers of Dwight, Newton, Wesley and Washington, with a Host ofothers, have their names recorded as forming the infant mind of their distinguished sons. Give them no wine at your tables, and they will seldom seek the brandy at the hotel. But all are not destined for the halls of Legisla- ture. From the highest to the lowest, all have an iii- fluence, either for good or for evil, in the sphere in which they move. Some mothérs have no sons, but have you not daughters? Shall they be companions of the tippler, or shall they not? It is for us to say, in a

‘ great measure. Are they told there is danger ahead, and to fly from it, as for their life? They, in their turn, must leave our dwellings for their own. While we have them as olive plants around our homes, let us see to it that they bear away a branch of the same vine, to plant or god their own.

\fireyou a Sister—the lovely and confiding sister of a food and affectionate brother? Yet, alas! your fears may have been excited, for your keen glance may have observed the inflamed eye, or the downcast look. Per- haps, too, the averted head has been noticed, fearing you would perceive the smell ofthat baneful poison of which he has just been a partaker. Can you bear to see the lofty spirit of your brother bound with shame and dis. grace, and not make an effort to save him ? Perhaps he is not aware ofhis danger. Will you, through false delicacy, let him go with the current till he sinks in the vortex of Intemperance? What sacrifice would you not make for his sake? Will you risk the glass of wine yourself, and give him precept and example both? Raise the warning voice, and lure him, in every possible way to forsake the company of those who would lead astray. Say not you have no influence. Be not discou- raged; ifyou are repulsed, try again and again, till his feet are planted on the rock of Teetotalism, and his name is enrolled with yours, with the wise and the good. Ifyour aid is insufficient, call on others; get them to try what persuasion will do; his soul is at stake. By the love you hear him, try and save him. And are there not others for whom your sympathies are enlisted, and for whom the Author of your being 'fltus implanted in your breast that heaven-born principle called Love? We will not for one moment suppose he

is a drunkard; yet if he is accustomed to hire his daily glass, how long before he may be one? Strqng as he now may be, the strong man has been overcome, and may be again—where, then, is his security? If he‘taste the fatal glass, he may be overcome; if he come to you With the story of his love, can you believe him? Do you Say, it is a delicate subject? and would you have rm break a solemn- engagement? I answer, No, not till evpry means that love and interest can devise have been employed to have his name enrolled with yours, and the thousands that are now engaged in the glorious cause of Temperance. And ifhe will.not, for your sake, be assured you are not the idol ofhis affections. Ifthe special object ofour being in this world was that we might be helpers to the other sex, and they have condescended so repeatedly to call on us to aid them ip this work, as well as to share in their joys and their affections, let us yield a willing ser- vice, particularly as our sex first tempted them to evrl. If this should meet the eye of any who are so fortunate as to have no relative for whom their sympathies are en- listed, think not you are more free. Are we not all one family, destined to the same place of happiness or of misery? .Aud if we are in the possession ofthe love .of God ourselves, let us cast our eyes around us, an in- quire why all are not filling their places around the table of the Lord, who once delighted in the communion of Saints; and why are they not there? Perhaps you know the cause—they “ looked, upon the wine when it was red,” and it has “ stung like an adder.” It was not by one fell blow this was erfected, but by the deceitfulness of it. Go to him, and manifest an interest .in his case, and kindly bid him live; and if you do not gain him, you have done what you could. Look too at a mother mourning over a dissolute son, and a sister bowed down with grief for an erring brother, and let all the better feel- ings ofyour heart be enlisted, that the blessing of those that were ready to perish may come upon you. -

And now let me say to all females that may chance to see this scroll, that a desire to benefit my fellow beings is the only apology I have to offcréthat soulsltnay be re- deemed from that degrading rice, in order to prepare them for a Paradise above. '

-G.

Charlottetown, June 21, IBM.

THE LORD CHANCELLOR’S UNITARIAN BILL.

Most ofour readers are, perhaps, aware, that the Univ tarians, in various parts of the empire, have contrived to obtain possession of many chapels and endowments of Trinitarian foundation. The means by which these properties have come into their hands may be easily ex- plained. Ata time when much laxity generally pre- vailed,persons who did not make any very decided pro- fession ofevangelical sentiments were admitted to the pulpitsoforthodox congregations. Under. the chilling influence oflegal preaching, these religious communities declined, and most ofthose who remained gradually im- bibed the spirit of their new teachers. At length, Unb tariansim was openly proclaimed, and the few who were not prepared to embrace it speedily withdrew. Thus, for a time, Arians and Socinians were left in the undis- turbed enjoyment of meeting-houses erected for Triniia- rian worship. It has since appeared, by the decision in the case of Lady Hewley’s Charity, that British law af- forded ample protection to religious trust properties, and that, iforiginally established for the support ofTrinita- rianism. they could not beheld by Socinians in wrong- fiil possession. Encouraged by that decision, several other suits have recently been instituted in England and Ireland,and several valuable properties recovered from Unitarians. But the party have now betakcn themselves to intrigue, and they have induced an infat- uated government to take up their quarrel. No less a

personage than the Lord Chancellor of England has

brought in a bill to quiet them in the possession of their chapels and their endowments. The keeper of the royal conscience proposes, that when congregations have professed Unitarian principles for twenty or thirty years, it is to be taken for granted they have an undoubted right to all the property they 'enjoy.......The bill of the Lord Chancellor has filled Irish Presbyterians with in- dignation, for they regard it as calculated, not only to deprive them of present rights, but also to sow the seeds offuture dissension. Many of the meeting-houses of the General Assembly are held by prescription, so that ifa minister, after signing the Westminster Confession, broaches Unitarian principles, and contrives, for twenty or thirty years, to escape the discipline of, perhaps, a not very vigilant presbytery, he may then, with a knot of kindred spirits whom he has seduced into lieterodoxy, Set up, a claim to the Church and the endowments. The bill provides that, where no religious doctrines are m:- presslg/ mentioned in the title-deeds, the opinions profess- ed for twenty or thirty years must be received as con- clusive evidence of the views of those by whom the meeting-house was erected; and thus encouragement is given to dishonest men to enter the General Assembly and to steal away its property. The bill at present be- fore Parliam'ent is in the highest degree partial, for it perverts the principle of religious trusts, and it can serve the cause of none but Unitarians. And who are the men for whom the government are prepared to perpe- trate this piece ofinjuslice? In Ireland, it may be, they amount to the three hundredth-part ofthe population,— in point of learning or superior intelligence they have nothing of which to boast; but many ofthem have con- siderable wealth, and, as a political party, they have con- trived to make themselves rather. prominent. It is un- derstood that their sentiments are not disagreeable to Lord Brougham and other equally consistent statesmen, and hence they have met with greater favour in high places than might have been otherwise anticipated. When the.Church ofScotland, one of the greatest insti- tutions in the empire, was on the verge of disruption, Government considered that the law should be permitted to take its course, but now, when a paltry sect of semi- infidels are aboutto be deprived of property to which they never had a title, the Lord Chancellor steps for- ward,and presents a bill to protect them in their spolia- tion.—Frec Church Magazine.

(From a Narrative of the Texan Santa Fe Expedition.) BY G. W. KENDALL. AN INDIAN BUFFALO HUNT.

The savage was mounted on a small but beautifully formed bay horse, of short, quick strides, yet fine and powerful action. He was armed with a long lance which he held poised in his hand, while a bow and quivert were strapped to his back. His dress was a buckskin shirt, with leggins of the same material, while his loner black hair, although partially confined by a yellow band about his head, was waving in the breeze created by his rapid course, along the prairie. He had scarcely got

clear of the curtain, which confined our-view to objects

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only in advance ofthe waggon, when another Indian was discovered following immediately in his steps. “ Los lndiosl L05 Indios !” said'Mr. Navarro, with conster- nation depicted on hiscountenance, while he was eagerly

feeling about in the bottom of the waggon for his rifle. “ Camanches,” shouted Fitz, at the same time pommel- ling and’kicking the mules into a break-neck gallop, in the hope of soon coming tip with the advanced guard, which could not be far ahead. “ The whole tribe l” I could not help exclaiming, as I now looked out at the binder end of the Waggon, and saw still another well

mounted Indian dashing down the roll ofthe prairie With the speed of the wind, and, to appearance, making di- rectly for us. This whole scene was enacted iii a few

minutes, and in our lame and unprotected situation, our minds were ill at case on the score of an'attack. The appearance of the last Indian, and the reasonable suppo- sition that a large body might be followmg him, induced Fitz to kick and beat the mules more zealously than be- fore, and at such a rate did they go, that the race be- tween us and the foremost Indian was close, and for a short distance well contested; while the buffalo led her wild pursuers on directly by our side, and so near that- the very earth thrown from their horses’ hoofs rattled the curtains of our \vaggon. The savages, though they must have been aware of our proximity, did not appear to bestow a Single glance upon an object so strange asa Jersey waggon must have been to them, but kept their eyes steadily bent upon their prey. -With mad eager- ness this strange race went on, the Indians using every endeavour to overtake and lance the unfortunate cow, while we were even more anxious to gain the protection of our friends. I had noticed, not a little to our relief, that the hindinost Indian wheeled his horse suddenly on

seeing our waggon. and retraced his steps over the roll of the prairie, but the other two never deviated from th( ir course. In a race of half a mile they had gained per- haps a hundred yards on us. An abrupt turn in the prairie ridge now concealed them from our sight, and

before we had reached this point, the sharp reports of

séveral rifles in quick succession, convinced us that our unexpected neighbours had been seen by the advance guard, and thatsuccour was near, ifnccdcd.

SENSATIONS 0F STARVlNG.

I have never yet seen a treatise or dissertation upon starving to death—-—I can speak feelineg of nearly every stage except thelast. For the first two days through which a strong and healthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing, his sufferings are perhaps more acute than in the remaining stages—lie feels an inordinate and unap- peasable craving at the stomach, night and day. The mind runs upon beef, brand, and other substantials; but still, in a great measure, the body. retains its strength. On the third and fourth days, but especially on the fourth, this incessant craving gives place to a sinking and weakness ofthe stomach, accompanied by nausea. The unfortunate sufferer still desires food, but with loss of strength he loses that eager craving which is felt in the earlier stages. Should 'he chance to obtain a morsel or two of food, as was occasionally the case with US, he swallows it with a \volfisli avidity; butfiveininutos after- wards his sufferings are more intense than before. He feels as if be had swallowed a living lobster, which is clawing and feeding upon the very foundation of his existence. 0n the fifth day his cheeks suddenly ap- pear hollow and sunken, his body attenuated, his colour an asby pole, and his eye wild, glassy, cannibalile The different parts of the system now war with each other. The stohiacli calls upon the legs to go with it in quest of food ; the logs, from very weakness, refuse. The sixth day brings with it increased suffering, although the pangs of hunger are lost in an overpowering lringonr and sickness. The head becomes giddy—the ghosts of well remembered dinners pose in hideous procession before his mind. The seventh day comes,‘bringing increased lassitude and further prostration ofstrcngth. The arms hang listlessly, the legs-drau heavily. The desire for food is still left, to a degree, but it must be brought, not sought. The miserable remnant oflife which still bangs to the sufferer is a burden almost too grievous to be borne; yet his inherent love of existenceinduces a de- sire still to preserve it, if it can be saved without a tax upon bodily exertion. The mind wanders. At one moment he thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain him a inile—tbe next, he is endowed with unnatural strength, and, if there be a certainty of reliefbefore him, dashes bravely .and strongly onward, wondering whence pro~ ceeds this new and sudden impulse.

A NARRO\V ESCAPE.

That we were to be immediately shot was terribly manifest. We exchanged glances with each other, and those glances plainly told that each of my companions, in obedience tp Fitzgerald’s emphatic call, was prepared to rush upon the cowardly and faitbless miscreants the moment they were in the act of levelling their guns, to wrest their weapons from them, and then to sell his life at as dear a rate as possible. I will give Lewis the cre- dit ofacting, in that moment ofextreme peril, as became a man. Mystation happened to be on ti.e extreme left of my companions, the position bringing me within a yard of a young Mexican, whom I aftcrirdrds ascertain- ed to be a son of the Alcalde of San Miguel. Tied loosely around his waist was a coarse cotton handker- chief, in which he had stuck two of Colt’s revolving pis- tols, taken from one of my friends. These I instantly determined to seize in the meleé, while each ofmy com- panions had singled out his man to spring upon at the Signal. A man lives almost an age in a single moment of imminent danger—his thoughts crowd upon each other-With such lightning rapidity, that his past life, its promises and hopes, are reviewed at a glance. I thomrht of home, relations and friends, in the decline momZnt whichpassed after Salezar had manifested hisbinhuman intentions; but the thoughts that came uppermost with all of us were deep regret that we had given up our arms to_such cowardly assassins, mingled with the bitter con- sciousness that we were to be shot down like dogs with- out a possible chance that our friends could ever ,know the place or manner of our death. But our thoughts were suddenly checked by a motion from Salezar, as if

I cast ades for a n alterca-

hurried glances at Fitzgerald and my cotnr signal to make a dash; but at this juncture a “(911. ensued between Dimasio and a Mexican named Vigil. l‘lot a word could I understand, but from m

companions I learned that the latter was lntelfet‘ino foi: our lives. He contended that we had entered this set- tlements openly and peacefully, and that we had asked to see and hold converse, with Governor Armijo. With him rested the power oflife and death, and before him we must be taken. Vigil prevailed over the blood thirs~ ty captain, and thus were our lives spared—but in the few tnoments which had passed since we were first