SARATOGA LAKE.

(SKE ENGRAVING.)

instantly to the deepest gloom. After a moment's pause, however, they redoubled their exertions, and, in frowning silence, drove the light bark like an arrow over the waters. They reached the shore in safety, and drew up the canoe, and the woman rallied the chief on his credulity. The Great Spirit is merciful,' answered the scornful Mohawk; 'He knows that a white woman cannot hold her tongue.'"

The frontispiece represents a scene of placid beauty, such as is calculated to remind one of the superstitious reverence which the aboriginals were accustomed to associate with Saratoga Lake. It seems like a region of perpetual serenity-a sabbath for the warring elements of this creation which no fierce tempest would dare to

THE regions bordering on our lakes present almost every variety of surface, whether wild or cultivated, which nature or art can bestow. In some places are vast reaches of level land, rich in forest wood of the best species, or richer still in cultivated soils and teeming products. In others are gentle and graceful undulations, rendering the scenery more varied and beautiful; while elsewhere the shores become broken into hills and mountainous elevations, presenting abrupt precipices, aerial tints, gloomy vales, and rushing cataracts, diffusing over all the most wild and picturesque aspects which can possibly be conceived. All this variety of scenery may be traced on our lake borders, and without || invade or molest with its wrath. The engraving is well journeying beyond the limits of our own territory. On Lakes Champlain, Ontario, Erie, and the northern seas, may be seen more of the bold and the tame, the rude and placid, the sublime and the beautiful of nature, than in the whole world beside, if we except, as in truth we must, volcanic action and its results, which probably exceed all other sublime forms and motions of nature belonging to our globe.

Another feature in American scenery is our smaller lakes, varying in size from two to forty miles in circumference. The state of New York contains a great number of these beautiful sheets of water. They are generally bordered with picturesque scenery, and on their shores are often seen neat villages, or handsome towns, adding life and variety to the prospect.

The engraving in this number is a view on Saratoga Lake. This body of water is about twenty miles in

circumference. It is three miles from the Springs, and

executed, and presents an apt show of nature in one of her most comely forms and moods, not in her entire solitude, but occupied prominently by two parents and their child, whose attitude betokens ease and a high sensibility to the charms which nature has prodigally scattered around them. On the right, others linger in the same spirit of undisturbed observation and pleased entertainment.

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CHILDHOOD.

"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a
child, I thought as a child."

WHEN a child I was innocent, happy, and gay
As a lamb in its sports on the meadows in May;
I gathered my boquet from flowers of the plain,
And plucked the rich rose as it bloomed in the rain.
By the brook I have sat in the beautiful bower,
And heard the glad sounds of the birds by the hour,
Whose strains were well suited my fancy to please,

ten miles from the Hudson, and communicates with that noble river by a stream called, at its head, Fish Creek, but nearer its mouth Kayaderosseras river. The appearance of the lake is solitary, from which probably originated with the Indians an ancient super-Tho' they seemed to be sung to the listening trees. stition familiar to but few persons of the present generation. The Mohawks deemed it, in its unbroken quietness and stillness, a sort of dwelling place for the Great Spirit, and so sacred, on that account, that if a mortal should presume to speak, when sailing on its bosom, the craft which conveyed him would instantly go to the

bottom.

With the pebbles I play'd in the bright sparkling rill,
Or drank at the fount as it gushed from the hill;
Its ripples, though wordless, were music to me,
As they murmured adieu on their way to the sea.
The woodlands I found an inviting retreat,
Where berries and flowers were strewed at my feet-
Where unbridled and free I could quietly roam,
Nor feel the restraint I was under at home.

"A story is told of an Englishwoman, in the early days
of the first settlers, who had occasion to cross this lake
with a party of Indians, who, before embarking, warned
her most impressively of the spell. It was a silent,
breathless day, and the canoe shot over the smooth sur-
face like a shadow. About a mile from the shore, near
the centre of the lake, the woman, willing to convince With the sunshine delighted, and yet I admired
the savages of the weakness of their superstition, ut-The storm in the sky, as it came and retired.
tered a loud cry. The countenances of the Indians fell

All seasons I courted alike as they pass'd—
With the calm I was pleased, and was pleased with the
blast-

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OUR COUNTRY.*

BY J. S. TOMLINSON,

President of Augusta College.

OUR COUNTRY.

|be utterly regardless of our duty to God and to the rising generation, we should lose no time in taking effectual measures to put a stop to the progress of this overwhelming evil.

And, furthermore, in lamenting and bewailing our national sins, we should not fail to remember and deeply to regret that among our conspicuous public men there is not a more distinct and general recognition, both in word and in deed, of the supreme authority of the Christian revelation, and a more habitual and reverential conformity to those sacred public institutions therein enjoined, and especially that of observing the holy Sabbath, by coming up to the house of worship, and there devoutly acknowledging the sovereignty and superintending providence of God, and our great indebtedness to him for the gift of his Son, in the redemption of our guilty and benighted world. The most of our public men are so extremely cautious to prevent a union of Church and state, that there is too little Church in the state-there are too many among us that are intrusted with the high and important functions of legislating for and governing a Christian people, who are themselves the votaries of infidelity, either in principle or practice, or both. I am happy to be able to say, on this occasion, that our late lamented Chief Magistrate formed a most conspicuous exception to this last remark-that he gave many gratifying proofs of his sincere attachment to our holy Christianity, not in word only, but in deed and in truth. In language worthy of himself, and worthy of the glorious theme, he has recorded his sentiments on this point in that imperishable document-his Inaugural Address. And, in this connection, allow me to repeat his own words in relation to this matter: "I deem the present occasion (says he) sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion, and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness; and to that good Being who has blessed us by the gifts of civil and religious freedom-who watched over and prospered the labors of our fathers, and hitherto has preserved to us institutions, far exceeding in excellence those of any other people, let us unite in fervently commending every interest of our beloved country in all future time."

In enumerating those national sins, in the remembrance of which we should humble ourselves in the sight of God, on this solemn occasion, we cannot forbear to mention the degrading, wide-spread, and deso- || lating vice of intemperance. We complain of the hardness of the times, and are startled at the indebtedness of our state and national governments, amounting in all, it is said, to the enormous sum of about two hundred millions of dollars; and yet it is estimated, by good authority, that for the single article of intoxicating drinks no less than one hundred and twenty millions of dollars are expended every year by the people of this country. So that if the traffic in this abominable article alone were abandoned, and the amounts thus saved were applied to the liquidation of the claims against us, we might, in less than two years, present to the world the sublime and most enviable spectacle of a nation, consisting of almost twenty millions of inhabitants, entirely free from debt. But, great as it is, the pecuniary loss is one of the least of the many evils that are entailed upon the country by the prevalence of the vice of intemperance. It is the fruitful source of almost all the idleness and vagrancy, crime and pauperism that are too prevalent among us, and of the numerous outrages that disturb the peace of society, and break up the happiness of families. Incredible as it may appear to one who has not attentively considered the subject, it has been satisfactorily ascertained that no less than three-fourths of all the domestic misery in our land is traceable, either directly or indirectly, to the intemperate use of intoxicating drinks. And when we reflect upon the numberless and nameless calamities that result from this source, and when we behold this destructive poison administered from day to day (and that, too, under the sanction of law) to every person that may choose to call for it, not excepting the inexperienced and inconsiderate youth, in what other light can we view it than as a species of legalized murder—a species of murder in which more than blood is spilt? And woe to that man that shall stand before the judgment seat of Christ with the horrible crime upon his head of having spent his time in the inexpressibly odious busi- I rejoice to add, that we are furnished with corroboness of manufacturing drunkards, and thereby trans-rative evidence that these sentiments proceeded from a forming his fellow immortals into brutes! It were infinitely better for that man that he had never been born. And fearful indeed must be the measure of responsibility incurred by that people that gives the sanction of law, or even the connivance of civil authority, to any such employment as this. Ah! my friends, the account which we, as a people, have to settle with the providence of God on this subject, is one of so much magnitude that we have great reason to tremble while we reflect upon it. And unless we are determined to

*Concluded from p. 7, vol. ii.

"sincere heart." We are told by the reverend gentleman who attended him during his last illness, and had the mournful privilege of closing his eyes, after he had breathed his last, that the General informed him that it had, for sometime been his settled purpose to take the first suitable opportunity to identify himself, publicly, with the Church of God. The same gentleman also states that he had preached to several Presidents, (naming them,) but that he (General Harrison) was the first of them all who worshiped God on his kneesmeaning, of course, in the public congregation in the house of God. These and many other circumstances

that might be mentioned go to show that he, whose | tive dispensations that he may have been pleased to death we are now assembled to deplore, was by no send upon us, and particularly in the one which is so formeans neglectful of the duties of our holy religion. cibly brought to our minds by the solemnities in which And let us, my friends, all unite in fervent supplica- we are now engaged. We should contemplate this octions, at the throne of divine Mercy, that his example|currence with a deep, and an adoring conviction, that in this respect may lead to a more general, healthful, "the Judge of all the earth will do right." And while and elevated tone of religious feeling than now exists we do this, we should not forget to ask our heavenly among our prominent public men-recollecting that Father, that the evidences of his displeasure may not when the righteous are in authority the people rejoice, be repeated and multiplied against us. But if, on the but that when the wicked are permitted to bear rule the contrary, the people will not turn away from the evil people will inevitably have cause to mourn. of their doings, and humble themselves under the Before we pass from this part of our subject we would mighty hand of God, and sincerely deprecate his meralso include, by name, in the catalogue of our national ited indignation, the afflictive bereavement which we sins, one of a very grievous, aggravated, and alarming now deplore may be only the beginning, as it were, of character. We refer, in this expression, to those shame- our national sorrows. Unless it is so sanctified as to less and daring exhibitions of mobocratic violence with produce a salutary effect upon the hearts and habits of which our land has been so frequently visited and cursed the people, it may be that it will be to us like that disduring the last few years. These flagrant outrages upon tant, awe-inspiring sound, that precedes the convulall the sacred obligations of law and order are very just-sions of an earthquake, or a frightfully desolating torly entitled to the appellation of national sins; because nado. It is for us to determine, by our conduct, whethwere it not for the culpable supineness of the greater this event, and the numerous difliculties and reverses mass of the people such abominable scenes would sel- with which we are beset, shall be productive, to us and dom, if ever, be witnessed among us. If, on such oc- to our children, of wise and wholesome lessons, or only casions, the people stand by and look on with indiffer- conspire, with other causes, to precipitate us from that ence, or fail to exert themselves with becoming prompt-proud and lofty position which, for so many years, we itude and energy, in the suppression of these things, have been permitted to occupy among the nations of the they are, in the eye of reason, and in the eye of God, earth. scarcely less criminal than the ferocious and unprincipled perpetrators themselves. The blood of the victims of mob violence will God require at the hands of that people among whom they were sacrificed, and who cared not, or dared not to step forward in vindication of the insulted majesty of the laws, by bringing the of fenders to justice.

I know that there are those who are disposed to scoff at the idea that the God of the universe gives himself any special concern about the destinies either of nations or of individuals; and, consequently, such persons are accustomed to make themselves merry with what they would call the simplicity and superstition of those who feel it to be their duty to supplicate the Divine Being for national as well as personal blessings. But thanks be to God, that such have not been the sentiments of the wisest and best men that ever lived, whether in Christian or in other countries; and still more heartily, if possible, do I thank God, that such were not the sentiments of that illustrious personage, in consequence of whose death the whole nation is now covered with the weeds of lamentation and woe; for the reverend gentleman, to whom we just referred, has announced to the American public, over his own signature, that General Harrison, "in his first letter to his family after his inauguration, observed, that upon his return from the Capitol to the President's Mansion, as soon as he could command any time, he retired to his room and fell down upon his knees before his Maker, thanking

There never was a truer declaration than that a corrupt people make a strong mob, but a virtuous people a weak, a powerless mob. These lawless proceedings (like those bodily symptoms that indicate to the intelligent physician the real state of our physical health) are only so many external, visible signs, which point out, with too much precision, the internal condition of the social, or political body. They manifest but too plainly that, in the language of the Bible, "the whole head is sick, and that the whole heart is faint." Those excesses of which we are now speaking, I am happy to believe, are somewhat on the decline in this country;* but should they continue, and, especially, should they reappear among us, with all their former violence and frequency, I verily believe that it will not be long before God, in his providence, will deprive us of those blood-him for his mercies, and supplicating his gracious guibought privileges, which, in this way, are so shamefully trampled upon, and hold us up to the scorn and derision of the whole civilized world, as utterly unworthy to be intrusted with a deposit so inestimably precious.

dance in the faithful discharge of the duties of his high station, to his country and his God." And I would here take occasion to say, that if his footsteps are followed, in this respect, by his constitutional successor, I have also stated that, on this occasion, we should we may confidently trust that the fostering care of an humbly acknowledge the justice of God, in any afflic-all-wise and merciful Providence will be abundantly

vouchsafed to this bereaved people. It was a contempt

I am sorry to say that, since the delivery of this discourse, uous treatment of such pious sentiments as those to there have been, in different parts of our country, several outbreaks of popular fury of the most astounding and alarming

character.

which we have just referred, that operated more than any thing else to open the flood-gates of that terrible

not be delivered unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him on the bed of languishing, and will make all his bed in his sickness." The man that, in view of all such powerful motives as these, can shut up the bowels of his compassion against the cries of the needy, must have a heart that is harder than the nether mill-stone. All such persons as these should never forget that with what measure they mete to others, it shall be measured unto them again by the Judge of all the carth, in that solemn and eventful day, when God shall try every man's work, of what sort it is, and shall execute judgment without mercy, upon those who have shown no mercy.

revolution among the French people, the progress of || him alive: he shall be blessed upon the earth, and shall which was characterized by scenes of confusion, violence, and outrage, which, when taken together, constitute the "bloodiest picture in the book of time." I rejoice to believe that the leavening influence of that religion which teaches, in the most explicit and impressive manner, the doctrine of a special, superintending providence, is spreading itself with unexampled rapidity throughout every department of society. And my heart's desire and prayer to God is, that the time may soon come, when it shall have leavened the whole masswhen all our citizens, both public and private, shall be brought to subscribe to and act upon the principle that no foe to God, and, by consequence, no foe to the Bible of God, was ever yet a real friend to man; or the still more authoritative principle, that, if in all our ways we acknowledge him, he will direct our steps, and so direct our steps as shall be most conducive to our individual good, and to our national prosperity and happiness.

liberality of feeling and of conduct towards those with whom he differed, either in politics or religion-his unobtrusive, sincere, and amiable virtues, in the various endearing relations of parent and husband, brother and son; and, above all, let us endeavor to imitate his profound reverence, both in principle and practice, for the Christian religion, and especially as displayed towards the latter part of his eventful life.

But having already detained you longer than we anticipated, we must hasten to a close. While we reflect upon the irreparable loss that we have been called to sustain, in the death of our beloved and venerable President, let us determine in our hearts that we will, And, finally, on such an occasion as this, we should as far as possible, imitate those excellent and shining not fail to cultivate charitable feelings towards our qualities, by which his character was adorned-his arneighbors, and, as far as may be, to give substantial ev-|dent patriotism—his readiness to do the bidding of his idence of our willingness to meliorate the condition of country, at any time, and in any way, that it might be the poor and the destitute. If we expect our offerings pleased to demand his services-his devotedness to his to be acceptable in the sight of God, they should pro-friends-his magnanimity towards his enemies-his beceed from hearts that are actuated by feelings of benev-nevolence and bounty to the poor and the needy-his olence or good will, not only towards those of our own religious or political persuasion, but towards the whole of our fellow citizens, no matter of what particular sect or party. And, indeed, our benevolent regards should not stop here; but traveling beyond the limits of our own heaven favored country, they should be so comprehensive as to embrace within their range the whole of the wide-spread family of man-sincerely desiring, as the consummation of all human felicity, that the peaceful and rightful dominion of our blessed Redeemer may soon be established in every heart, and acknowledged by every tongue. And while we are bemoaning this overwhelming national bereavement, let us not be forgetful of the poor and the destitute, by whom we are surrounded. God himself has expressly given it as one of the characteristic traits of an acceptable fast that we deal our bread to the hungry, and that we bring the poor that are cast out to our houses. "Then (says he) shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily, and thy righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward." We may rest assured, that there is no social duty, the performance of which more effectually conciliates the favor of God, than that of delivering "the poor and the fatherless, and them that have none to help." For every such charitable contribution, or benevolent act, the God of the universe condescends to make himself our debtor; for we are told, upon the highest authority, that "he that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord, and that which he hath given will he pay him again." And on another occasion it is said, with peculiar emphasis, "Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him and keep

Though we know that he was by no means unconcerned about his own eternal salvation, yet his dying words were expressive of such an ardent and all-absorbing love to his country, as to show that, for the time being, at least, he had utterly lost sight of himself. The words to which we refer, richly deserve to be inscribed, as with a pen of iron, in every conspicuous place in the nation, that they may be read, remembered, and admired by our children, and by our children's children, down to the latest generation. And with a repetition of these words, and a single additional remark, we will close what we have to say on the present occasion: "Sir," said he, as if addressing himself to his constitutional successor, "I wish you to understand the true principles of the government; I wish them carried out; I ask nothing more." The patriotic, the brave, the venerated HARRISON spake these words and expired.

HE that has never known adversity, is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For, as it surrounds us with friends, who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.