Quincy Adams as a candidate for the office of Governor, who accepted the nomination. The present LieutenantGovernor, Samuel T. Armstrong was nominated for re-election; but his reply not being satisfactory to the Convention, the vote was re-considered. William Reed of Marblehead was then nominated, and the Convention adjourned. Mr. Reed has since declined. Temperance Convention. On the 18th of September, about five hundred delegates from Temperance Societies in various towns of Massachusetts assembled at Worcester, and was organized by the election of Levi Lincoln as President; Samuel Lathrop, of West Springfield, and William Reed, of Marblehead, as Vice-Presidents; and Emory Washburn, of Worcester, J. W. Yeomans, of Pittsfield, T. A. Greene, of New-Bedford, and Luther S. Cushing, of Cambridge, as Secretaries. A committee of one member from each county represented, was appointed to report a more complete and efficient temperance organization throughout the Commonwealth. This committee consisted of J. Tappan, of Boston, G. B. Perry, of Bradford, Wm. Jackson, of Newton, A. D. Foster, of Worcester, Mark Doolittle, of Belchertown, Z. C. Newcomb, of Bernardstown, J. W. Yeomans, of Pittsfield, Eb. Alden, of Randolph, Jas. Arnold, of New-Bedford, Z. D. Basset, of Barnstable, and Seth Sprague, of Duxbury. At a subsequent period, Mr. Tappan, from the committee, reported a plan substantially for changing the Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, into the Massachusetts Temperance Society, and establishing auxiliaries to the latter, in the different counties of the Commonwealth, as extensively as may be. The committee recommended the following resolutions: 1st. That there be a Massachusetts State Temperance Society-with Auxiliaries in every county. 2d. The officers of all Temperance Societies, founded on the principle of the State Society, shall be, ex officio, members of the State Society. 3d. The officers of all County Societies in the state shall be, ex officio, members of the Executive Committee, or Board of Counsel of the State Society. 4th. Each County Society shall have liberty to send Delegates to the State Society at its annual meetings, not exceeding ten in number from each auxiliary. The Committee further Report That the ancient and venerable Massachusetts Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, having recently altered their constitution and title, and taken that of the Massachusetts Temperance Society, on the principle recommended in this Report, and embracing men of high character and well-known influence, it is recommended that this be the State Temperance Society, and that all enlist under their banners, and help them and ourselves to carry forward the great and good work in which every man, of every denomination and party, should engage-that of making this an entire Temperance state. RHODE-ISLAND. Brown University. The Commencement at this University, took place on the 4th of September, when the degree of A. B. was conferred on twenty young gentlemen, and that of A. M. on five. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on Rev. William B. Johnson, of Edgefield, South-Carolina, and that of Doctor of Laws on Governor Marcy, of New-York, and Professor Farrar, of Harvard University. A discourse was delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, by Virgil Maxcy, of Washington, the literary portion of which is commended, while the attempt of the orator to inculcate the AntiTariff doctrine, is sharply censured in the Providence papers. The Orations, on the day preceding the commencement, before the Franklin and Philermenian Societies, by H. G. Otis Colby and Samuel Ames, were said to be of a high order. Mr. Colby set forth the duties which men of education owe the world, and the importance of an active interest in finding out those duties: he pointed out the errors of former ages, and referred us to the advantages of the present day : he delineated, with great distinctness, the chart over which the obligations of learned men extend, and exhibited, as far as practicable, the illimitable field of usefulness. The oration of Mr. Ames, couched in a most melodious dialect, and delivered in a style of too rapid, but still captivating oratory, chained the eager attention of his audience for about an hour. He discoursed upon the advantages which literature enjoyed in governments regulated by the popular will, and the thraldom which it suffers under the dictation of nobility and kings. He enlarged upon the beneficial manner in which popular freedom operates on the efforts of the mind, and demonstrated the superiority of that influence, which the support of a reading public exerts upon genius, over the pat ronage of a vain and selfish despotism. The Poem of Mr. W. G. Clark, was the neat and tasteful offspring of a neat and tasteful mind. Though it has uniformly been spoken of as a production of merit, we believe, if it could be published, many beauties would be seen which were undiscovered when it was hastily delivered from the pulpit. Elections. At the election for members of Congress, Mr. Burges was reelected. The scattering votes for another member, defeated a choice. Freemasonry. Six hundred Masons of Rhode-Island have published a "Declaration," in defence of the Masonic Institution. This document appeared in the Providence Journal, a few days since, and occupied, with the signatures, over two columns in small type. The signers most cordially unite with their brethren of Massachusetts and Connecticut, in the declaration and hope, that, "should the people of this country become so infatuated as to deprive Masons of their civil rights in violation of their written Constitutions, and the wholesome spirit of just laws and free governments, a vast majority of the fraternity will still remain firm, confiding in GoD and the rectitude of their intentions for consolation, under the trials to which they may be exposed." CONNECTICUT. Yale College. The annual commencement of Yale College was celebrated on the 21st of August. Number of graduates, eighty-seven. The degree of A. M. was conferred on thirty-four alumni of the College;-eighty-six students were admitted to the Freshman class, and a few to the other classes; a larger number than was ever before added at commencement. The Religious Intelligencer states that the Kent Professorship of Law having been endowed with 2 portion of the funds recently raised for the University,-on Tuesday evening the Hon. Judge Daggett, Professor of Law, delivered an address on the occasion. It was stated by the Treasurer that the recent subscriptions to the University amounted to $107,000. This sum has been contributed by six hundred and eighteen individuals, from fourteen States and Territories, and two from Lower Canada. The sum of $41,000 has been paid on these subscriptions, (though only one fourth was required at this period,) and $37,000 received in accepted drafts; leaving only $29,000 yet to be collected. PENNSYLVANIA. A convention, of which Mr. George Kremer was President, has been held at Harrisburg. Their object was to point out the changes which may be advantageously made in the Constitution of the state. They agreed to recommend a diminution of the power of the Executive in relation to appointments, a limitation of the tenure of all offices, an extension of the right of suffrage, a curtailment of the term of office of Senators, and a provision for the mode in which future amendments shall be made. Some other alterations were proposed, which are to be submitted to a convention to be held during the winter,-of which the most important are, restrictions of the power of the legislature as respects the granting of charters, and the borrowing of money for the use of the state. MARYLAND. Odometer, or Road Measurer. There is now daily running between Baltimore and the city of Washington a stage coach, furnished with an Odometer, or Road Measurer, which attracts much attention, not because this instrument is entirely novel in this country, but owing to the new principles in mechanics employed in its construction, and its simplicity and very great accuracy in determining the distance over which the carriage has traveled. This is shown to the passengers by means of an index, affixed to the front of the coach, inside, the figures of the index regularly increasing in value with the increasing distance. This is not only shown in whole miles, but in fractional parts of miles, until the complement of a mile is manifested by an additional number to the index of whole miles. The traveler, at the setting out of the coach, has only to take note of the number and parts of miles which the index indicates, and compare them with those shown on his arrival at any particular place,-the difference will be the distance gone over. The index is calculated for one thousand miles, after which it is all blank, till the fraction one-eighth begins to fill it up anew. The coach here spoken of has very nearly filled up its measure of numbers, and ample opportunities have been had to verify its great accuracy, both on smooth and rough roads, of well-determined measurement. Thus the traveler will have an additional pleasure, whether in public or private land conveyances; for, as is affirmed by the patentee, Mr. W. A. Turner, of North-Carolina, the cost of affixing them to all kinds of wheel-carriages will be but a trifling sum, there can be no doubt of their being very generally put into use. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Georgetown College. The editor of the National Gazette, who has recently visited this institution, gives the following account of it :-No institution of the kind in our country has a more eligible and commanding site. The lofty eminence on which it is placed overlooks the river Potomac, the beautiful island, and the adjacent picturesque region to a great extent. This magnificent pros pect is the more gratifying as it is known that the grounds of the college have been always healthy; no malaria has ever been experienced there; when the cholera prevailed in the town proper and in Washington, no case occurred on the college hill. Additions have been made to the college edifices, which enable the faculty to accommodate double the number of students of last year. At the western end of the old college, a stately building, ninety and more feet by forty-six, has been erected. It contains, over a spacious cellar, a dining-hall eighty feet by fortysix, ornamented with paintings from Europe, and capable of receiving tables for four hundred persons. Above this refectory is the College Chapel of like dimensions, decorated with stucco-work, and hung round with suitable ornaments which give it a very rich appearance, while its double row of pillars that support the roof, admit of the fullest display of church garniture. Above the chapel is the aula maxima, the great saloon, which served as the hall of exercises at the late commencement, and afforded room for two thousand and more spectators. It is furnished with neat desks and chairs, for the convenience of the pupils of the institution, who are called to study there together twice a day under the supervision of a Prefect, so stationed that he surveys every individual. The view from the southern windows of this grand and airy hall would quicken any eye and imagination. Here hangs the excellent large map of Virginia, presented to the college by the legislature of that state, as an acknowledgement for the value of the education given to several of her distinguished sons, who were among its alumni. Behind the new structure is the College Hospital, a spacious edifice, too, which may be said to be romantically situated. It commands so fine a prospect, is so well ventilated, wears an appearance of so much comfort and purity, that it might tempt health to feign sickness, to enjoy the luxury of the scene. The College Library embraces upwards of thirteen thousand volumes, and produces a grand effect as it is located and arranged. There are some choice specimens of typography, ancient and modern. The three illuminated manuscripts are, perhaps, unique in this country. The higher classes have access to the library without any extra expense. SOUTH-CAROLINA. A great sensation was lately created in Columbia, by a sermon delivered in that place by Rev. Mr. Pinney, who is described as a missionary of the Colonization Society. A meeting of the citizens was held, at which testimony was submitted respecting the character of the discourse, and, after an animated debate, resolutions were adopted, denouncing Mr. Pinney, Colonization, and the North, in very indignant terms, and declaring, that the attempt to teach the negroes to read and write, ought to be immediately put an end to by the civil authorities. On the following day, another meeting was held, before which a letter from Mr. Pinney, in vindication of his discourse, was laid; but the communication proved to be so unsatisfactory, that a new series of resolutions was adopted, in which the conduct of that gentleman is described as reprehensible to the last degree, and "official notice" was given to him, that he must immediately leave the town. The Columbia Times comments at considerable length upon Mr. Pinney's conduct, in a tone of much exasperation. He is described in the resolutions, as 66 filling the ears of negroes with the falsehoods and delusions of a hypocritical society, that Jesuitically passes itself for one thing in the South, and the very opposite, in New-England and the North." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE. From Susquehanna's utmost springs, A shepherd of the forest came. FRENEAU. ON Sunday evening last, we were, fortuitously, witnesses of an incident equally interesting and painful. Many people have denounced Shakspeare's Othello, as too unnatural for probability. It can hardly be credited that such a fair, beautiful, and accomplished woman, as Desdemona is represented to have been, could have deliberately wedded such a black-a-moor as Othello. But if we ever entertained any incredulity upon the subject, it has all been dissipated by the occurrence of which we are to speak. About two years ago, an Indian of the Chippewa nation-formerly said to have been a man of some rank in his tribe, but now a Missionary of the Methodist Church among his red brethren-was sent to England, to obtain pecuniary aid for the Indian mission cause in Upper Canada. What was his native cognomen,-whether it was the "Red Lightning," or the "Storm King," or "Walk-in-the-Water," we know not; but in plain English he is known as Peter Jones. An Indian is a rare spectacle in England. Poets and romancers have alike invested the primitive sons of the American forest, with noble and exalted characteristics, which are seldom discernible to the duller perceptions of plain matter-of-fact people; and which English eyes could alone discover in the hero of the present story. But no matter: Mr. Peter Jones was not only a Missionary from the wilderness, and, as we doubt not, a pious and useful man amongst his own people,-but he was a bona fide Indian-and he was of course made a lion of in London. He was feasted by the rich and the great. Carriages, and servants in livery, awaited his pleasure, and bright eyes sparkled when he was named. He was looked upon as a great chief-a prince-an Indian king; and many romantic young ladies, who had never passed beyond the sound of Bow bell, dreamed of the charms of solitude amid the great wilds "the antres vast and desarts idle,"of the great west;-of the roaring of mighty cataracts, and the bounding of buffaloes over the illimitable prairies;of noble chieftains, leading armies of plumed and lofty warriors-dusky as the proud forms of giants in twilight;-of forays and stag-hunts-and bows and arrows-and the wild notes of the piercing warwhoop, in those halcyon days, when, unsophisticated by contact with the pale-faces "Wild in woods the noble savage ran," and all that sort of thing, as Matthews would most unpoetically have wound off such a flourishing sentence. But it was so : "In crowds the ladies to his levees ran— Among others who perchance may have thought of" Kings barbaric, pearls and gold," was the charming daughter of a gentleman of Lambeth, of wealth and respectability. But she thought not of wedding an Indian, even though he were a great chief—or half a king—not she! But Peter Jones saw, or thought he saw-for the Indian cupids are not blind-that the young lady had a susceptible heart. Availing himself, therefore, of a ride with the fair creature, he said something to her, which she chose not to understand but told it to her mother. Peter Jones sought other opportunities of saying similar things, which the damsel could not comprehend -before him-but she continued to repeat them to her mother. He sought an interview with her. It was refused. He repeated the request. It was still refused, but in a less positive manner. Finally an interview was granted him with the mother-and the result was, that before Peter Jones embarked on his return to his native woods, it was agreed that they might breathe their thoughts to each other on paper, across the great waters. Thus was another point gained. And, in the end, to make a long story short, a meeting was agreed upon, to Those brown tribes who snuff the desert air, Are cousins-german to the wolf and bear. The proud Britons, moreover, were red men, when conquered by Julius Cæsar. What harm in their becoming so again! But we must hasten our story. On Tuesday morning of last week, a beautiful young lady, with fairy form 66 grace in her step, and heaven in her eye"-stept on shore from the elegant packet ship United States. She was attended by two clerical friends of high respectability-who, by the way, were no friends of her romantic enterprise. She waited with impatience for her princely lover to the end of the weekbut he came not. Still she doubted not his faith, and, as the result proved, she had no need to doubt. For, on Sunday morning, Peter Jones arrived, and presented himself at the side of his mistress! The meeting was affectionate, though becoming. The day was spent by them together, in the interchange of conversation, thoughts and emotions, which we will leave it to those better skilled in the Romance of Love than ourselves, to imagine. Though a Chippewa, Peter Jones is nevertheless a man of business, and has a just notion of the value and importance of time. He may also have heard of the adage "there's many a slip," &c.-or, perchance of the other-"a bird in the hand," &c. But no matter. He took part, with much propriety, in the religious exercises of the John-street church, where we happened to be present-which services were ended at nine o'clock, by an impressive recitation of the Lord's Prayer in the Chippewa dialect. Stepping into the house of a friend near by, we remarked an unusual ingathering of clergymen, and divers ladies and gentlemen. We asked a reverend friend if there was to be another religious meeting? "No," he replied; "but a wedding!" "A wedding!" we exclaimed with surprise. Pray who are the happy couple?" "Peter Jones, the Indian Missionary," he replied, "and a sweet girl from England." 66 It was then evident to our previously unsuspecting eyes, that an unwonted degree of anxious and curious interest pervaded the countenances of the as sembling group. In a short time chairs were placed in a suspicious position at the head of the drawing-room, their backs to the pier table. A movement was next perceptible at the door, which instantly drew all eyes to the spot, and who should enter but the same tall Indian whom we had so recently seen in the pulpit, bearing upon his arm the light, fragile, and delicate form of the young lady before mentioned her eyes drooping modestly upon the carpet, and her face fair as the lily. Thereupon up rose a distinguished clergyman, and the parties were addressed upon the subject of the divine institution of marriage-its propriety, convenience, and necessity, to the welfare of society and human happiness. This brief and pertinent address being ended, the reverend gentleman stated the purpose for which the couple had presented themselves, and demanded if any person or persons present could show cause why the proposed union should not take place? If so, they were requested to make their objections then, or forever after hold their peace. A solemn pause ensued. Nothing could be heard but a few smothered sighs. There they stood-objects of deep and universal interest-we may addof commiseration. Our emotions were tumultuous and painful. A stronger contrast was never seen. She all in white, and adorned with the sweetest simplicity. Her face as white as the gloves and dress she wore-rendering her ebon tresses, placed a la Madonna on her fair forehead, still darker. He, in rather common attire, a tall, dark, high-boned, muscular Indian. She, a little delicate European lady-he a hardy iron-framed son of the forest. She, accustomed to every luxury and indulgence-well educated, accomplished, and well beloved at home-possessing a handsome income-leaving her comforts, the charms of civilized and cultivated society, and sacrificing them all to the cause she had espoused-here she stood, about to make a self-immolation; and, far away from country and kindred, and all the endearments of a fond father's house, resign herself into the arms of a man of the woods, who could not appreciate the sacrifice! A sweeter bride we never saw. We almost grew wild. We thought of Othello- of Hyperion and the satyr-of the bright-eyed Hindoo and the funeral pile! She looked like a drooping flower by the side of a rugged hemlock! We longed to interpose and rescue her. But it was none of our business. She was in that situation by choice-and she was among |