and Eternal Life, and the way thither, were the
general pretences of so many insincere and empty
professors of Christ, wholly strangers to his holy
and divine nature; under a deep humiliation in
a view of these things, and of my own want of
an experimental knowledge of God, in true con-

him in secret, I often implored his divine wis-
dom and discretion for my aid and conduct, in
a concern of the last importance; in which,
above all things, we ought to be most certain
and clear, both as to the object of faith, and things
to be believed, done and suffered; about which
there are so many great and unchristian-like
contests in the pretended Christian world, and so
little of the wise, innocent, and holy nature of
that divine and heavenly thing we all talk and
make profession of.

with whom, most likely, they would quickly | run that way; so that as Christianity, Heaven,
join; which accordingly happened at the erect
ing his standard and displaying of his banners.
I (being at Carlisle when this surprising de-
parture of the Popish party happened, and with
them our great fears) wrote to my brother,
Chaplain to the Countess Dowager of Carlisle,
and then with her at Howard Castle in York-trition and bent of both mind and body before
shire, a full and particular account of all the
circumstances of it, which being intercepted
with other letters, and sent to the Lord Delamere,
then in arms in favor of the Prince, it gave him
great satisfaction. But the noise of passive obe-
dience and non-resistance being still fresh in my
ears; and thinking the clergy would oppose their
late doctrine by a contrary practice, I inserted this
sentence in the close of my letter: "However, I
could now wish that those who have so lately
been preaching passive obedience to others, may
not be found in actual rebellion themselves;"
not being aware into whose hands it might fall,
nor had I penetration enough to discern or ap
prehend the subtle and ambidexter distinctions
contrived by the learned clergy, to reconcile
their practice to their doctrine; distinguishing
and explaining it so as to make it at last pas-
sive obedience and no passive obedience.

But the sentence above, being then unfashionable, my brother was directed to admonish me, to forbear meddling any more with that subject. These things gave me still more and more occasion to reflect, and closely to consider the foundation of our own religion, and those who seemed and pretended to propagate it. For though that doctrine, rightly stated, is a Christian doctrine and duty; yet the failure in practice renders that testimony, as to them, void, how nicely and subtilly so ever they may interpret themselves out of the practice of what the people understood, and the priests intended they should understand by it at that time.

But, to conclude this subject for the present though I was well pleased with the revolution of affairs at that time, the circumstances thereof being attended with sufficient evidence of a very particular providence of the Almighty, yet I took offence at the clergy's appearing so much in it as they did, who had lately so vehemently preached up contrary principles.

This great and sudden revolution in the government, seemed to unhinge things for a time; and few, if any, knew where they would at last fix. The Church was divided in judgment, if not in interest; some few keeping to the practice of their former doctrine, but the generality receding from it; so that for my own part, being young, and only a private person, I could not see any certainty in any thing we called religion, state, or politics, all being so interpreted as time served; or as if none of them had any certainty or steady bottom, or longer continued the same, than the humor or interest of pretenders

I think proper, in this place, to recount some of the gracious dealings of the Lord with me from my early days. I was not naturally addicted to much vice or evil; and yet, through the conversation of rude boys at school, I had acquired some things by imitation, tending that way; but as I came to put them in practice, by word or action, I found something in myself, at such times, suddenly surprising me with a sense of the evil, and making me ashamed when alone; though what I had said or done was not evil in the common acceptation. And though I did not know or consider what this reprover was, yet it had so much influence and power with me, that I was much reformed thereby from those habits, which, in time, might have been foundations for greater evils; or as stocks whereon to have engrafted a worse nature, to the bringing forth of a more plentiful crop of grosser vices.

Nevertheless, as I grew up to maturity, I had many flowings and ebbings in my mind; the comu o temptations among youth being often and strongly presented. And though I was preserved from guilt, as in the sight of men, yet not so before the Lord, who seeth in secret, and, at all times, beholdeth all the thoughts, desires, words, and actions of the children of men, in every age, and throughout the world.

The lust of the flesh, of the eye, and the pride of life, had their objects and subjects presented; the airs of youth were many and potent; strength, activity, and comeliness of person were not wanting, and had their share; nor were natural endowments of mind, or competent acquirements afar off; and the glory, advancements and preferments of the world, spread as nets in my view, and the friendship thereof beginning to address me with flattering courtship. I wore a sword, which I well understood, and had foiled several masters of that science, in the North and at London; and rode with fire arms also, of which I knew the use; and yet I was not quarrelsome, for though I emulated, I was not envious. But

III. Let each consumer in moderate circum- | inundate us with more goods, even though we stances ask himself" Have I paid for the do not order them. We may not be able to pay goods I have already bought and used? If not, off much this year, but let us resolve to go in let me stop short and buy henceforth no faster debt no further. Let us stem the current this than I can pay. The old score must be wiped year, that we may be able to roll it back thereoff as I can afford it, but not a dollar's worth after. And, as our Foreign Debt is mainly made shall hereafter be charged to my running ac- up of the debts of companies and individuals, count." If this constrains the wife and daugh- let us sternly resolve that we will, individually ters to wear their old dresses and the sons to and corporately, go in debt no further. It is wear their old dress boots and hats till the busy high time that we recognized and enforced the season shall have ended, they will manage some- sound old maxim of Pay as you go. how to survive the trial.

IV. Let the farmer who lives under a mortgage or chronic debt ask himself if he could not sell something that would pay off at least a part of that debt. Suppose he has a hundred acres of land and owes $1,000, might he not sell off a quarter of his land, pay off his mortgage, and have as much land left as he has stock for, with means to till to the best advantage? But very many are worrying along under a load of debt who have much more than one hundred acres of arable land. To such we say, sell off if possible enough to pay your debt, and provide you with an adequate stock and implements for the residue, unless you are sure your crops will pay your mortage when due, and do n't rely on the chance of your land rising rapidly in value. It may do so; in time, it probably will; but the sheriff may sell you out ere that time shall have arrived.

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V. If you are pressed to take stock in a new railroad or other improvement calculated to benefit your locality, do not shrink behind your neighbors and try to reap a personal benefit at their expense, but consider what you can do, in justice to your family and creditors, and say: "If I can sell a piece off my farm for enough to pay up my subscription, and have a farm left worth more after your road shall be built than the whole now is, I will go in; but if not, you must wait till next year-at all events, I must. I value railroads, but I cannot permit them to plunge me deeper into debt. Henceforth I pay go.'

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VI. This is a good time to stop drinking liquors, using tobacco, and other noxious habits like these. There is a good deal that might be said on this head, but we will beg our readers to suppose it. We are a prodigal people, and are always letting our expenses run ahead of our incomes. Let us resolve now to see the end of this, though this should bring us down for a season to old clothes and coarse fare. We are heavily in debt to Europe. Our city merchants and bankers owe those of Great Britain; the country owes the cities; the farmers owe the merchants-in short, two-thirds of us are in debt. To" owe no man anything" is not the rule, but the exception. The bare interest on our Foreign Debt is a heavy item in our annual outgoes. The Tariff Reduction, which takes effect in July, will

From The Jefferson City (Mo.) Examiner. RIVAL TO THE MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY. We have been furnished the following description of a large cave in Maries County, by M. Meyer Friede of St. Louis, who explored it on Thursday, the 14th ult. The cave is known by the name of the Big Saltpetre Cave:

"The cave is in Maries County, 14 miles from the Gasconade River, on a creek called Cave Spring Creek, in Township 38, Section 21, Range 9, west. He went to the cave, guided by Mr. R. H. Prewett, a young man about 25 years old, who was born and raised about a quarter of a mile from the place.

"In front of the entrance was a small stone house, which the old settlers thought was built by the Indians, but is now in ruins.

"The entrance goes straight in the rock on a level with the surrounding surface-rock, is about one hundred feet wide, and, in the centre, about twenty-five feet high, arched. Messrs. Friede and Prewett entered the cave for near four hundred feet, where it narrows to about twenty-five feet wide by fifteen feet high, and presents the appearance of an ante-chamber; from there they passed into a large chamber about one hundred feet in height, where three galleries branch off; they then passed into the left gallery, which ascends near twenty feet on a bed of saltpetre. This gallery is called the Dry Gallery, and is about five hundred feet in length; the height varies from one hundred to about thirty feet. The ceiling and sides are composed of solid rock. Near the end is a large round chamber which Mr. Prewett calls the Ball-room, and that gentleman states that his father had given balls in the chamber frequently; the last was in the winter of 1850, at which time there was about eighteen or twenty persons there. in the morning and stopped all day, and arrived They went at home in the evening, cooking and eating their meals in their subterranean saloon, and had a merry time of it.

"After exploring this chamber, they retraced their steps, and passed into the right branch (or fork) of the cave, where they ascended a rise of about twelve feet, and entered another gallery, the end of which is not known; they, however, explored it about three fourths of a mile.

"Mr. Prewett states that he has been in this

"They went in at 1 o'clock, and emerged from father inherited a small family estate, which was the cave at 34."

Lawford; and this ship having led the line in of Flushing, on the coast of Portugal, and in the battle of Copenhagen in 1801, young Frank-other parts of the world, but chiefly on the Bralin had the honor of serving in Nelson's hardest zil station, whither the Bedford had gone as one fought action. Having left school at the early of the convoy which had conducted the royal age of thirteen, his classical attainments were family of Portugal to Rio de Janeiro in 1808. necessarily small, and at that period there was In the ill-managed and disastrous attack on New no opportunity on board a ship of war, of reme- Orleans, he commanded the Bedford's boats in dying the defect. Two months, however, after an engagement with the enemy's gunboats, one the action of Copenhagen, he joined the Investi- of which he boarded and captured, receiving gator discovery ship commanded by his relative, slight wound in the hand-to-hand fight. Captain Flinders, and under the training of that able scientific officer, while employed in exploring and mapping the coasts of Australia, he acquired a correctness of astronomical observation and a skill in surveying which proved of eminent utility in his future career. In the prose-government on such matters, he set himself sedcution of his service he gained for life the friendship of the celebrated Robert Brown, naturalist to the expedition.

In 1803 the Investigator having been condemned at Port Jackson as unfit for the prose cution of the voyage, Captain Flinders determined to return to England to solicit another ship for the completion of the survey, and Franklin embarked with him on board the Porpoise armed store-ship, Lieutenant-Commander Fowler. In the voyage homewards this ship and the Cato which accompanied her, were wrecked in the night of the 18th of August, on a coral reef distant from Sandy Cape, on the main coast of Australia, sixty-three leagues, and the crews, consisting of ninety-four persons, remained for fifty days on a narrow sand-bank, not more than 150 fathoms long, and rising only four feet above the water, until Captain Flinders having made a voyage to Port Jackson, of 250 leagues, in an open boat, along a savage coast, returned to their relief with a ship and two schooners.* After this misfortune Captain Flinders, as is well known, went to the Isle of France, where he was unjustly and ungenerously detained a prisoner by General de Caen, the governor. Meanwhile Franklin proceeded with Lieutenant Fowler to Canton, where he obtained a passage to England in the Earl Camden.

On reaching England, Franklin joined the Bellerophon 74, and in that ship he was again intrusted with the signals, a duty which he executed with his accustomed coolness and intrepidity in the great battle of Trafalgar. In the Bedford, his next ship, he attained the rank of lieutenant, and remaining in her for six years, latterly as first lieutenant, served in the blockade

The Bridgewater, another merchantman, was also

On peace being established, Franklin turned his attention once more to the scientific branch of his profession, as affording scope for his talents, and having made his wishes known to Sir Joseph Banks, who was generally consulted by

uously to refresh his knowledge of surveying. In 1818, the discovery of a north-west passage became again, after a long interval, a national object, principally through the suggestions and writings of Sir John Barrow, secretary of the Admirality, and Lieutenant Franklin was appointed to the Trent, as second to Captain Buchan of the Dorothea, hired vessels equipped for penetrating to the north of Spitzbergen, and if possible, crossing to the Polar Sea by that route. During a heavy storm, both ships were forced to seek for safety by boring into the closely packed ice, in which extremely hazardous operation the Dorothea was so much damaged that her reaching England became doubtful; but the Trent having sustained less injury, Franklin requested to be allowed to prosecute the voyage alone, or under Captain Buchan, who had the power of embarking in the Trent if he chose. The latter, however, declined to leave his officers and men at a time when the ship was almost in a sinking condition, and directed Franklin to convey him to England. Though success did not attend this voyage, it brought Franklin into personal intercourse with the leading scientific men of London, and they were not slow in ascertaining his peculiar fitness for the command of such an enterprise. His calmness in danger, promptness and fertility of resource, and excellent seamanship, as proved under the trying situation which cut short the late voyage, were borne ample testimony to by the official reports of his commanding officer; but to these characteristics of a British seamen, he added other qualities less common, more especially an ardent desire to promote science for its own sake, and not merely for the distinction which eminence in it confers, together with a love of truth which led him to do full

in company with the Porpoise at the time of the justice to the merits of his subordinate officers, wreck, and narrowly escaped sharing the same fate. Without wishing to claim their discoveries as a The master of her, however, having on the following captain's right. Added to this, he had a cheerday seen the shipwrecked vessels from a distance, pro- ful buoyancy of mind, which, sustained by reliceeded on his voyage to Bombay, where, on his arri-gious principle of a depth known only to bis val, he reported their loss. He did not live to explain his motives to those whom he thus deserted, for the Bridgewater never was heard of again after she left Bombay.

most intimate friends, was not depressed in the most gloomy times. It was, therefore, with full confidence in his ability and exertions that he