number should be increased a few seconds. -American Daily Advertiser. NEW YORK.-The Solar Eclipse.-The weather on Sunday was unusually fine and clear, which afforded a good opportunity for observing the beginning and the end of this interesting phenomenon; and it gives us pleasure to know, that this very rare opportunity has not been neglected. We are assured that the computations of this eclipse, in that meritorious work, the American Almanack, made by Mr. Paine, have been found to be very exact. As navigation and geography will derive great advantages from correct observations made on this eclipse, we hope that the weather has been generally clear throughout the United States, particularly in South Carolina, where several distinguished gentlemen have gone to make observations. In this city, the planet Venus could be distinctly seen with the naked eye, and those who had good telescopes, could turn them towards her, and see her beautiful crescent form, which, by the by, was very similar to that of the sun at the greatest obscuration.-N. Y. Adv. Devoted Attachment.-Habit and confinement will cause beasts and birds of the most opposite nature to herd together, and even become attached, but it is somewhat singular, to see a powerful sympathy exist between animals in a state of perfect freedom, who are almost as remote in their genus as the bird and the fish. A singular instance, however, is to be seen any day in the third avenue, in the devoted attachment of a fine young Newfoundland dog, and an old worn out horse. A gentleman of this city, among many horses, lately had one that served him long and faithfully, and being past work, sent him down to Mr. Daniel Flynn's, near Yorkville, to wear out the little remainder of his life in good pasture. After being turned out for this purpose two or three days, a fine large Newfoundland dog, who had been accustomed to the ve teran, missed his old friend from his accustomed stall, and by some strong instinct, traced him to his pasture field. No sooner had he found him than he seemed resolved they never again should part. He immediately took up his quarters with him in the open field, and has never left him, morning, noon or night. This quadruped Damon and Pythias, may be seen together any day at Flynn's, and it is somewhat curious to observe the care and attention with which the dog watches and guards the old horse. While he grazes, his faithful friend lies down to rest, and when he has finished and reposes on the grass, the "watch dog" moves around him like a sentry on his post, nor will he allow any one to approach. For a time the dog was almost starved, for his faithful attendance was not observed by any who could cater for him; but when it became known, not only did his owner permit him to follow his inclination, but the horse's entertainer became the dog's provider, and now his daily meals are taken to him in the field, for no coaxing or entreaty can induce him to come within the house, or leave his ancient friend for even an hour. How few such disinterested attachments can be found among men-man boasts himself far superior to the brute, yet how often is reason thus admonished by instinct.-N. Y. Traveller. Religious Entelligence. The first three articles which follow, are from the Foreign Missionary Chronicle, issued monthly by the Executive Committee of the W. F. M. Society, at Pittsburgh. We renewedly and earnestly recommend this publication, and the Society by which it is issued, to the liberal patronage of all our readers. FOREIGN MISSIONARY CHRONICLE. In pursuance of a resolution of the Executive Committee, announced in the number for August, page 287, the second volume of the F. M. Chronicle is now complete, containing as many pages as the first volume. And a title page and index to both voJumes in connexion is furnished, that they may be bound together. The third volume will commence and close with the year 1835. The general diffusion of information upon the subject of Foreign Missions, contributes greatly to excite an interest in their favour. Regular communications to the Christian public, through the agency of the press, tend happily to this result. The subscription to the Chronicle is on the increase. As it is the organ of intelligence respecting the operations and missions of the Western Foreign Missionary Society, and the medium through which the freewill offerings of its friends are acknowledged, it is desirable that the work should be well sustained, and its circulation more widely extended; that, while it is intended as a means of promoting the spirit and cause of missions, the patronage may be sufficient to defray all the expenses of the publication, and directly aid the funds of the Society. In view of these things, ministers of the gospel, students of theological seminaries, and of colleges, ruling elders in the church, post-masters who desire to advance the kingdom of Christ, and the active friends of the Society, male and female, are requested to aid in the diffusion of missionary intelligence through this medium of communication. MISSIONARY INTELLIGENCE. Mission to the Western Indians.-By a letter from Rev. Joseph Kerr, we learn that the members of that mission, on the 1st Oct. were in good health, and cheerfully prosecuting their work. Mr. Elihu Shepherd has been appointed as an assistant to that mission, by the Executive Committee, and will, without delay, proceed to the place of his destination. A Missionary Convention, embracing members of the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian denominations, from the different stations among the Indians, was held, in July last, at the Baptist Shawnee station. It continued in session several days, and passed various resolutions in relation to the spirit and manner in which missions among the Indians ought to be conducted. Mission to the Pawnees.—Mr. Dunbar, a missionary of the American Board, was present at the convention above mentioned. He and Mr. Allis, a layman, are two of the missionaries whom the church at Ithica engaged to sustain, and were originally designed for the Oregon Territory; but not being able to find a company in which they might proceed across the Rocky Mountains, they turned to the Pawnees. Philosophical Apparatus. Hon. Walter Lowrie, with his usual liberality, has ap plied a portion of his funds to the purchase of a philosophical apparatus, for the use of a High School, established by the W. F. M. Society, and placed under the direction of their missionaries in Northern India. It consists of above forty articles, all of good, and some of excellent quality. They were obtained at moderate prices. The whole cost of purchase, packing, freight, &c., amounts to $456.64. With the blessing of heaven, this apparatus may prove the means of undermining the false systems of philosophy adopted by the heathen, and consequently, their false systems of religion, with which their philosophy is intimately, if not inseparably connected. Ordination. On the 29th October, Mr. James R. Campbell was ordained as a missionary to the heathen, by the Philadelphia Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian church. The sermon was preached by Rev. G. M'Master, D. D., from John xvii. 21. The questions were proposed by Rev. J. N. M'Leod; the ordaining prayer was offered by Rev. S. W. Crawford; the charge to the minister was delivered by Rev. S. B. Wylie, D. D, and the address to the people by Rev. Wm. Wilson. The services were interesting, solemn, and impressive, and the audience numerous, attentive, and serious. A missionary spirit at present pervades the Reformed Presbyterian church. Her members are awake, and, with their purse and their prayers, embark in the glorious cause. -Presbyterian. Distribution of Books in China.-An interesting letter of Rev. E. C. Bridgman, is just received by the American Tract Society, giving a history of six days' distribution of tracts in the interior of China, by Leang-Afa, the evangelist. He took with him 1500 copies of the Scripture lessons, having five volumes each, and 300 small tracts. At Chaou-king he distributed, on the first day, 1813 copies; on the second, 3731; on the third, 2752; on the fourth, 1200; on the fifth, 1000; and on the sixth, 550; when a greater number of persons came for books, than on any of the preceding days; but, alas! the books were wanting. All had been distributed. Mr. Gutzlaff still pursues his work, and says the demand for books is greater now than ever before. The missionaries of Canton are greatly encouraged by this success in spreading the knowledge of the truth. The American Tract Society are endeavouring to raise $30,000 for tracts in Foreign and Pagan lands. Of this sum, nearly $25,000 are yet to be raised before April 15. The aid of all Christians is solicited. SUMMARY REPORT Of the Receipts and Expenditures of the Western Foreign Missionary Society, up to July 3d, 1834. Western Foreign Missionary Society, To amount paid on the African Mission, including outfit of the missionaries, bills of dry goods, groceries, provisions, carpenters' tools, agricultural implements, travelling expenses before embarkation, medicine, religious tracts, passage to Africa, and subsequent drafts of missionaries, To amount paid on the Mission to Northern India, including travelling expenses and outfit of the missionaries, two boxes of half dollars, (amounting to $2,000) bills of books, bed and bedding, freight and passage to Calcutta, and subsequent expenses by draft of the missionaries, To amount paid on the Mission to the Western Indians, including outfit of the mission family, bills of clothing, groceries, implements of agriculture, passage via Cincinnati, Louisville, and Independence, to the village of the Weas, and subsequent expenses by draft of the superintendent, To cash paid the Corresponding Secretary, salary for one year, To cash paid the Assistant Secretary, for services performed since January, 1834, Dr. $4,330 00 6,291 16 2,404 09 1,000 00 154 99 To sundry expenses, including those of printing, stationary, mission room, To cash paid for agencies in making collections, forming auxiliary societies, exploring parts of the Indian country, &c., in the years 1832, 1833, and 1834, 1,500 96 1,345 99 6,476 69 $23,503 88 By amount of donations, contributions, legacies, bills receivable, premiums, and payments for the Missionary Chronicle, Cr. $23,503 88 The friends of the Western Foreign Missionary Society, have met with another trial of their faith, and patience, and perseverance. The letter of Mr. Lowrie to the editor, of which an extract is subjoined, was written with the hope that it would be delivered by Mr. Reed. But the providence of God has otherwise ordered. That beloved brother and devoted missionary, after languishing with a consumptive complaint in India, which plainly forbade all expectation of any active usefulness there, was advised by his friends and physicians, as affording the only hope of prolonging his valuable life, to return to his native land. Accordingly, he and Mrs. Reed embarked for America, in July last. But he had not been three weeks on his voyage, before his disease terminated in death, and his body was committed to the deep-to be raised, we doubt not, in glory, when "the sea shall give up its dead." Under the merciful providence of God, the uncommon Christian fortitude of Mrs. Reed sustained her, although she became a mother, about two weeks before she reached the American shore. She is now in this city, and with her infant child, is doing well-"The widow's God" has been, and we trust will be, her stay, protector, and comforter. Great gratitude is expressed to the captain of the vessel in which she returned, for every kind attention that could be shown her on her voyage home. We do hope that the concluding part of Mr. Lowrie's letter, in which he deprecates despondency in regard to our India mission, will receive a marked attention. While he is not discouraged, it will be reproachful, if they who should sustain him become disheartened. He will be greatly cheered if he lives, as we trust he will, to meet the rein forcement that has gone to his assistance. May He who rules the winds and the waves, give a prosperous passage to the missionary family now on the bosom of the deep; and grant, that although this, as well as the African mission, has been sown in tears, it may result in a rich harvest of joy, from the many converts to the faith of the gospel, which shall yet be made, through its successful instrumentality. "I am afraid the design of Providence, in placing these one hundred millions under a Protestant government, and in fully opening the door among them for Christian exertion, has not yet been duly considered by our American churches. A very intelligent Baptist missionary, who has been sixteen years in Calcutta, with the best opportunities for acquiring information, expressed his opinion to nie not long since, that ten thousand missionaries might find immediate employment in India, if they could speak the language. I suppose their number is not at all exaggerated, and even with them all, there would only be one missionary to every ten or twelve thousand people. Yet in all this Bengal Presidency, there are not more than forty or fifty ministers; (ordained, I mean, for there are several catechists,) and there are no Americans amongst them excepting brother R. and myself-soon there will be none but myself. So exceedingly ignorant and stupid, as well as depraved, are the great mass of this people, that the means of instruction, which in the United States would be quite sufficient for any specified number of the inhabitants, would in this country be altogether inadequate to meet the wants of an equal number of the people. Our Negroes, and our Indians, are clever (in the English sense,) and intelligent, compared with the great majority of the Bengalees, and perhaps of the Hindoos generally; while as to morals, it is difficult to conceive how any fallen race could be more depraved than these Hindoos are in fact. The representations of Ward, and others, may be fully credited. And yet half a missionary to all the Indians in the bounds of the United States government, would be a greater numerical supply than the proportion which the Hindoos enjoy! "The dealings of the Lord's providence towards our little company, have been in judgment and in goodness. The removal of my beloved wife left a mournful vacancy in our small number, and was by far the severest trial of my life; yet I can now see, as well as believe, it was for the best. But how the setting aside of brother Reed will prove for the best, I am not yet able to see-still we can believe-and it is a cause of thankfulness that we may take refuge in God's faithfulness to his promises, even when his dispensations are most discouraging. But whatever judgment we form concerning this trial, and, after separating what is personal, from what is designed to be general in the intention of it, whatever influence we suppose it should exert on the friends of the Society, still I pray that no friend of the cause may be discouraged.* In writing to you, dear Dr. Green, it would be ill-judged to enlarge on the meaning of such a dispensation. Yet I cannot forbear to make one remark-while these dispensations of Divine Providence do not shut the door, so far as the heathen are concerned, can the Society hesitate for a moment about going forward? So strong is my own conviction that these events should not be so interpreted, that I should be exceedingly sorry were the Society to draw back, and refuse to enter on this field, even if we were all to be cut down or laid aside. "But my paper is nearly full, and as I have not time to mention some other matters which I should be glad to notice, I conclude by assuring you of my sincere regard and affection in the bonds of the gospel. "JOHN C. LOWRIE." We have just received, in manuscript, from our correspondent in London, a member of the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the following interesting article. Extract from Minutes of the Committee, Sept. 22, 1834. Mr. Leeves states his having become acquainted, during his stay at Napoli, with two members of the Greek Regency, Count Armansberg and Mr. Maurer, besides several of the Greek ministers, and that to an application made by him to the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Coletti, he had received a most favourable reply, stating that full permission was given to him to sell or distribute the sacred Scriptures in the Modern It will not be overlooked, I hope, that every thing is encouraging excepting our health-and my health is quite as good as usual. In all this, we can see goodness and favour. Greek tongue, throughout the kingdom of Greece; and that an official circular had been addressed to all the Nomarchs (to be communicated by them to the Eparchs) instructing them to offer no obstacles either to himself or whomsoever he should entrust with the distribution and sale of the sacred volume. He had, in consequence, engaged a young man of great respectability (the nephew of a person well known in the history of Modern Greece, with whom the Rev. Mr. Hartly was also acquainted) as agent, and he was now employed in traversing the interior of the Peloponnesus. Resolved, As the opportunities for disseminating the Scriptures in Greece appear at the present moment to be particularly favourable, that the 300 copies of the Modern Greek Pentateuch, originally destined to form the commencement of the Modern Greek Bible, be appropriated for immediate distribution. From the Missionary Herald. RELICS OF EARLY INDIAN CHURCHES. Writing to a Christian friend, a missionary says-" I have, here in this part of the world, found some of the children of David Brainerd's church-members. My heart has been so full ever since I found them, that I have hardly thought of any thing else. And this morning, I resolved to return to the house and sit down and give some account of them. "Last Saturday I went to a missionary station in the Shawnee nation, situated a little above the mouth of the Kansas river, and about a mile and a half from the river, on the south side. A two days' meeting among the Shawnee and Delaware Indians commenced on this day. Full a hundred Indians assembled. They were well dressed, and they behaved well. Many of them appeared to be serious. Mr. Kingsbury, and Mr. Pixley, late of the Osage mission, were there also. Two Methodists, and a Shawnee Indian addressed the people at the first meeting. At the second meeting Mr. Kingsbury and myself addressed the Indians through interpreters. We told them about the Choctaws and our labours among them. They were quite attentive. After the meeting closed, I walked a few steps and spoke to an old Indian woman, who spoke good English. I inquired of her concerning her origin. She said she belonged to David Brainerd's people. This at once roused up my heart to make many inquiries. At her side sat her sister, also a member of the church. Both could read in the Bible, and both had kept their Bibles through all their wanderings. Their father, and mother, and grandmother, were members of David Brainerd's church. These two women became pious about twenty years since, under the preaching of Isaac Wab-e, who was a disciple of Sampson Occum, at Brothertown, in the state of New York. When they were quite young, their father, Jacob Skikit, left the state of New Jersey, and removed to New York. The children yet remember how he prayed in his family. They spoke much of their grandmother, who often prayed with them, and when she prayed, Catharine, one of the sisters, said, 'I would look to see if I could see any body. But I could not see any one.' I asked Catharine if she had ever seen any trouble. Oh yes,' she replied. Have you ever seen the time when your children have cried for something to eat, and you had nothing to give them? Oh yes; when we lived down on James river, (which is a branch of White River that empties into the Mississippi,) we had hard times; we had to go 150 miles to buy corn, and we had no preaching.' Did not you almost forget the things of religion and your hearts become cold? Oh yes, my heart died;' and here she spoke at length. Elizabeth then spoke of her troubles, when she was on a journey of 900 miles from the state of New York, and while passing along on the south shore of Lake Erie her husband died with the lake fever, leaving her with six small children, and the youngest two days old. 'I thought I never should get through my troubles, but the Lord helped me: I did not forsake him. She now has a son who is pious, and prays in his family. His mother lives with him. These two old women were well dressed, spoke good English, and seemed to be very happy, as now they live where they can attend religious meetings. They sustain a good religious character among their acquaintance. Their children have attended our mission school at Harmony. Think of this, and see how the Lord provides for his people, for their children, and for children's children. A school was established at Harmony, in the Osage nation, to educate the grand children of David Brainerd's church-members! Several of the children are hopefully pious. "I also inquired about Brainerd-what did your grandmother say about him? He was a young man: he was a lovely man: he was a staff: he was a staff to walk with. He went about from house to house to talk about religion. That was his way. He slept on a deer skin or a bear skin: he ate bear meat and samp. Then we knew he was not proud. He would come to my grandmother's and say, 'I am hungry; make |