MONITORY. "That Power Supreme, whose uncontested sway A warning beacon on the fatal strand; That every woe which springs from vice, shall be MS. POEM. Two cases, tried in the Court of General Sessions in this city, January term, were of an aggravating nature-to wit, that of Thomas Brown, alias Gonsolve, for grand larceny, and Isaac Stevens, for a riot; and, we trust, the following admonitory lessons, given by alderman Vanderbilt to those young men, will have the desired effect-not only on those, but others who too often are guilty of similar crimes. "Thomas Brown, alias Thomas Gondsolve, you have been indicted for stealing the property of capt. Wheeler; you have been arraigned at the bar of this court and plead guilty. You stand here as an awful spectacle of human depravity and baseness-guilty of repeated crimes, which ought to put the crimson blush on the most abandoned profligate. "You were tried last week before this court, for a crime of a similar nature. You were ably defended by your counsel; and as there was some shadow of doubt on the minds of the merciful jury, you were acquitted on account of the probability of your innocence, and your tender years. But, alas! how grossly have they been mistaken, and with what black ingratitude have you requited the court and jury for your acquittal! Instead of obeying their commands, that you should return to your parents like a repenting prodigal, you, in the face of open day, yea, even the next day, added sin to sin; broke open a chest, the property of another man, and stole therefrom the sum of forty-five dollars. "Is it possible human nature can be so base! Young man, you have trampled under foot with impunity, laws human and divine; and like a hardened wretch, set at open defiance the precept of God's law, delivered in awful thunders from Sinai's holy Mount—' Thou shalt not steal!' "Before an earthly judge you have nothing more to answer, but to submit with humble resignation to receive the solemn sentence. And it is with pain the court has to pronounce, that you be confined in the state-prison for fourteen years at hard labor. And had you been convicted in any other country or under our old code of laws, your sentence would have been to be hung by the neck till you were dead! dead! dead! "The justice of the law is thus far satisfied. But what have you to answer to the Judge of quick and dead? You stand here a sinner by nature and practice, a rebel against God and his government. Well may you tremble at your situation; and in the solitary place of confinement you are going to, let the court intreat you, by the mercies of the ever living God, to implore his forgiveness, and to make your peace with your offended Maker, and with tears and with supplica ་ tions of penitence and repentance, return to him, and he will have mercy on you. Although an outcast in society, (coming to him in such a manner) he will in no wise cast you out." "Isaac Stevens, you have been indicted for a riot. You have traversed your indictment; you have put yourself upon a jury of your country, which jury have found you guilty. It is a painful task to the court to pronounce the sentence awaiting your offence, when they consider a young man of your tender years, trampling inadvertently upon the laws of his country, which the court by every sacred principle of duty is compelled to enforce. "The nature of the offence, trifling as it may have been in your opinion when committed, calls loudly for our judicial interference. "The court might with propriety have laid a heavier fine; but considering your age and the situation of your father's family, have only laid a fine of 25 dollars, which you are to pay or stand committed to the county prison till paid, and to be bound in the sum of five hundred dollars, with two sureties, to keep the peace for twelve months. "Let this sentence be a lesson for you to guide you in your future conduct, that instead of approaching the house of God as a rioter, you may approach it as a follower of the blessed Redeemer. "Whatever may be the tenets of Mr Broad; or whatever doctrine he preaches, the court or you have nothing to do with. The constitution and the laws of our country have allowed every citizen the privilege to worship God in his own way. Your attorneys have ably defended your case, and learnedly expounded the scriptures and exemplified the duties of a minister of the gospel; and plead that the doctrine of Mr. Broad had an immoral tendency, and that through your interference this establishment might be broken up. But let the court remind you and those gentlemen, that if the preaching of Mr. Broad is a public nuisance, it is not the province of a riotous mob to suppress it, but the civil authority. "The court would think more favorable of the offence (although unlawful in its principle) if this had been done from pure motives, to destroy any establishment where christianity was not preached in its purity. But the court is bold to say, that you and others, instead of supporting the gospel of Jesus Christ, were instigated by the works and spirit of the devil, forming a riot unguardedly, disturbing the peace of the community, and trampling under feet the precepts of law both human and divine. "My young friend, whilst I, as a father, feel for your situation, let me intreat you to keep out of such kind of company; and, instead of making a riot before (or in) the house of worship, let their tenets be what they may, enter it with fervency and zeal; and pray that God may, through his grace, enable you to receive edification; and if the preacher's doctrine is not correct, search for those who preach it in its purity, that your soul may be benefitted, and you led the way of truth, even as it is in Christ Jesus our Lord. "The court, therefore, not only remind you but others also, that they are determined with vigilance to make public examples of every offence of this nature." AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. Dr. Mitchill has compiled from the returns made to the Treasury Department by the marshals, deputy-marshals and other persons, pursuant to the third census law, the following interesting view of certain valuable manufactures in the United States: "Some most valuable information is derived from these returns, incomplete as they are. Under the head of sheep, we learn that Vermont contains a stock of 450,000 sheep: Massachusetts, 399,182: Connecticut, 400,000; and Pennsylvania, 1,466,916. These papers contain a more distinct and interesting exhibition than we ever had before of the salt-petre manufactured in the United States. Thus Virginia prepares 59,175 pounds; Kentucky, 201,937; Massachusetts, 33,600; Tennessee, 162,420-making nearly half a million pounds of home-made nitre, as good as that usually brought from foreign ports. It is alledged, the quantity may be increased to any desirable amount. The connexion of this with numerous manufactories of gunpowder, puts us quite at ease as to the nitre or potash, and to the means we possess of compounding it. In "The manufacture of straw is eminently worthy of notice. Massachusetts, where the forming of bonnets from that material seems to have first begun, the yearly amount of the sale is not less than 551,918 dollars. The manufacture of straw bonnets has been since undertaken in Connecticut, and produces the yearly value of 27,100 dollars; and it is worthy of remark, that the labors of two women in New Jersey, in the same way, yielded them 140 dollars, amounting to the sum of 469,228 dollars for the single article of straw bon nets. "Nor is the preparation of sugar from the juice of the maple tree unimportant. Of this domestic sweet, Ohio produces in a twelvemonth, 3,033,806 lbs.; Kentucky, 2,471,647; Vermont, 1,200,000; and East Tennessee, 162,340; making a quantity of nearly seven millions of pounds in these States only, wherein the returns may be conceived to be greatly within the truth. "Works in horn, ivory and shell, have made a progress that is worthy of notice. The combs, for instance, which Connecticut prepares annually for market, are estimated at 80,000 dollars; Massachusetts 10,624; and Pennsylvania 6,210-equalling a sum of 156,861 dollars. "I may mention too the abundance of copperas which West Tennessee and Vermont afford. The quantity per annum from the former, is stated at 56,000 pounds; and from the latter at 8,000. The quality of these sulphates of iron is declared to be very fine, and that druggists and dyers may be supplied to any demand they may make. "The quantity of ardent spirits annually distilled appears, by the returns, to be equal to the prodigious amount of 24,720,000 gallons! The extraction of Brandy from peaches, of an alkoholic liquid from elder, and of a whiskey from rye, and even maize, is carried to this alarming excess. The products of the distilleries are chiefly consumed among ourselves, though a portion of the latter is converted to gin before it reaches the human stomach. While, therefore, we observe the increase of these home-made fluids, we must reflect on their inebriating effects. It cannot be disguised that their intoxicating quality recommends them to such general employment. Nor ought it to be concealed, that in a country where a gallon of this maddening stimulus can be bought for half a dollar, a gill may be ob ́tained at retail for three cents, and the seller at the same time double his money. The fondness for this bewitching beverage, and the repugnancy to an excise upon it, raise in the mind a curious association between the free use of it and of political freedom; and it deserves the consideration of all the thinking part of society, how far disease, idleness, immorality, and other miseries incidental to strong potations, may not degrade freedom to rudeness, and something worse. "The number of water and horse mills employed in spinning cotton on this exhibition, amounted to 330, in the month of August, 1810, and working 100,000 spindles. These on an average will spin annually between 4 and 500,000 lbs. of yarn; and the yarn would be sufficient to weave 18,000,000 yards of cotton cloth, three quarters of a yard wide; and this is wholly independent of what may be spun in private families, although it makes a part of what is wove there. "The fulling mills returned, amount to 1630; and the wool carding machines, going by water, to 1835. "The number of looms returned exceeds 330,000, and the total number of yards of cloth made of wool, cotton and flax, returned, exoeeds 75,000,000. "Gun-powder mills are enumerated to the number of 207, and though some of them are small, they prepare yearly 1,450,000 pounds of gun-powder-530 furnaces, forges and bloomeries, are enumerated. "The paper-mills amount to 290." Connected with this analysis of valuable manufactures in the United States, we may with propriety add the immense progress made in printing of books, which in many instances, such as bibles, testaments, some of the classics, and other elementary books of instruc tion, has nearly superseded the necessity of importation. We wish it were in our power to estimate the capital employed in this department of essential industry; it would far exceed, if ascertained, the most extravagant calculation. Subservient to book printing is the trade of book binding, which has rapidly increased within the last ten years, and which, with the consumption of leather employed in this branch, must save great sums to the nation. Independent of the more common binding of school books, the United States can produce specimens of elegant binding which might vie with London or Paris. We cannot refrain giving our humble meed of praise in favor of Mr. WILLIAM SWAIM, of New York, who received the gold medal awarded by the American Literary Association, as a token of his excelling in this branch. We have seen patterns of his work, which evince the taste and skill of the artist. NOTICE. The Assistant New-York Missionary Society will meet on Monday evening next, precisely at 7 o'clock, at the usual place. DANIEL S. LYON, Secretary. 6th March, 1813. THE HEAVENLY DOCTRINE OF THE NEW-JERUSALEM, (In continuation from page 71.) IV.....ON THE NATURE OF LOVE IN GENERAL. No. 4. 27. Love constitutes the very essence of man's life, forming, according to its nature, both the quality of his life, also the general character of the man. This, however, is to be understood of that Love only which hath the rule and government in man, and which, therefore, keepeth in subordination all the varieties of other love that are derived from it. These varieties of subordinate Love appear, indeed, of different complexions, but they all center in the governing Love, as their common parent, and constitute together one kingdom. The governing love is, as it were, their king and chief, influencing all their motions, and making them subservient, both directly and indirectly, to its own principal ends and purposes. The object of the go verning Love is what a man loveth above all things. 28. The ruling object of the Love, or what a man loveth above all other things, is continually present in all his thoughts and affections, and constituteth the very essence of his life: as, for example, if he loveth riches above all other things, his mind is then continually employed about the ways and means of accumulating money and a great estate; success herein causeth his greatest joy, and disappointment his greatest misery; riches, in short, take possession of his whole heart, and his heart knoweth no other satisfaction. So again, if a man loveth himself above all other things, then self is the ruling object of his attention, and regard; his thoughts, his words, his actions do all center in himself; in short, his life is a life of selfishness, because self-love is its only end and object. VOL. II. 20 No. 4. |