Have not the bravest of my subjects bled? Of honouring justice-Why? because 'tis justice: and you broke your faith. Almas was slain-it was perjury to your soul, But perjury is a little crime to you; In souls so black it seems almost a virtue. Know, monster! know, that the prodigious wealth And dearly have you purchas'd it; for know, And of your hands demand the souls you've murdered, Almas can relish now no other food Shall stalk through earth, and we want curses for him JANE M'CREA. This young woman, it will be recollected by some of our readers, was, in the summer of 1777, inhumanly murdered and scalped, by a party of British Indians, near Fort Edward; and her body, owing to the perilous state of the times, received a hasty and informal burial, in a field, about three miles distant from the Fort. and the traces of the fatal tomahawk in the skull were still visible. FEMALE EDUCATION. The Bellows Falls paper, gives a pleasant description of the mar riage of an honest farmer to a young lady just graduated from a country Female Academy, after a residence therein of about six months. The Her remains were recently disin-husband, boasting of her learning, terred by the young gentlemen of says: "She can tell the year and Fort Edward, and its vicinity, for day of the month when our forefathers landed at Plymouth; know the humane and praiseworthy pur- the name of every capital town in pose of depositing them in the pub- the Union; can tell to an inch how lic cemetery; and on the 13th of far it is from here to the Antipodes. April last, pursuant to notice, notI think she calls them. If you withstanding the badness of the should bore a hole through the weather, a large and respectable concourse of people assembled from globe, and chuck a millstone into it. the neighbourhood and the adjoin- become of the millstone. She is she can tell to a shaving what would ing counties, to attend her obsequies. The family of Judge M-likewise a monstrous pretty paintCrea, of Ballston, and other rela-er, and can paint a puppy so wel that you take it for a lion, and sheep tives of the deceased, were present that look as big and as grand as an on this occasion. She knows all about elephant. Although forty-five years have almost elapsed since the remains of this unfortunate girl were committed to her mother earth, yet but few of the bones were decomposed, *See Masonic Register, Vol. I. page 154. chymistry, and says that water i composed of two kinds of gin, tha and air is made of ox-gin, and ni is to say, ox-gin, and hyder-gin: tre-gin, or (what is the same in English,) saltpetre-gin. She says that burning a stick of wood in the fre build is nothing but a 'play of comical || pear the low pursuits which agitate (Chemical) infinity: and that not a the toiling race of man. He who particle of the matter which belong-has been for a series of years ed to the stick is lost, but only scat-ing airy castles, and preparing for tered about like chaff in a hurri- future years of enjoyment; who cane." has been filling his barns with plenty, and his stores with abundancehow is he astonished, when to him PETER PINDAR'S OPINION OF is sent this awful summons! His er." CATS AND DOGS. proud projects vanish into empti- "Has made the statutes of the Lord I do not ove a cat-his disposition is mean and suspicious. A friendship of years is cancelled in a moment, by an accidental tread on his tail or foot. He instantly spits, raises his back, twirls his tail of malignity, and shows you, turning back as he goes off, a staring, vindictive To him, death comes not unlooked face, full of horrid oaths and unfor-for-he knows it is the lot of our giveness, seeming to say, "Perdi- || frail nature, and he rejoices in it, as tion catch you! I hate you for ev- the road to blessedness. Sustained But the dog is my delight: by the hope of glory, he sinks not tread on his tail or foot, he express- under the rendings of pain-the es, for a moment, the uneasiness of agonies of disease are considered as his feelings; but in an instant the the price of his passport to a happicomplaint is ended. He runs round er state, and receives the cup of afyou; seems to declare his sorrow fliction. The death of the Chrisfor complaining, as it was not inten- tian, is the revival of faith. Those tionally done; nay, to make himself who stand at the bedside-who be the aggressor; and begs, by whin- hold him throw off the shackles of ings and lickings, that his master mortality; his countenance beaming will think no more of it. Many a with heavenly smiles, and his lips time when Ranger, wishing for a uttering praise-must surely be conlittle sport, has run to the gun, smell- vinced that he has followed no ed to it, then wriggling his tail, and "cunningly devised fables"—and with his eyes full of the most ex- even skeptics must be induced to pressive fire, leaping up against me, wish, that their latter end might be whining and begging, have I, against like his.-People's Friend. my inclination, indulged him with a scamper through the woods, or in the fields; for many a time he has left a warm nest, among the snows of winter, to start pleasure for me. Thus there is a moral obligation between a man and a dog. A Grecian youth, taking leave of his father to go to battle, promised to bring home the head of one of the enemy. "I pray, (said the father,) you may return safe yourself, though without a head." "THOU MUST DIE." When we bring to mind this aw- The editor of a late Western a corresful sentence, which has been passed paper, in his notice to upon every creature inhabiting this pondent, says, ball of earth, how insignificant ap-in our next." VOL. IT. 10 "Truth will appear pass through alber of rooms ing into the hall, you STUPENDOUS CAVERN. There was discovered a few weeks since, on the north bank of the Black river, upon the land of James Le Roy, Esq. opposite the village of Watertown, an extraordinary cavern or grotto; the mouth of which is about ten rods from the river, north of the falls and of Cow-ber, a small mound is formed about an's island. The great extent of the cavern, and the great number of spacious rooms, halls, and chambers, into which it is divided, and the immense quantities of calcarious concretions which it contains, and different states of those concretions, from the consistence of lime mortar, to that of the most beautiful stalactites as hard as marble, render it difficult, if not impossible to describe it, and I shall only attempt to give a faint description of three or four rooms. The mouth of the cavern is in a small hollow, about five feet below the surrounding surface of the earth; you then descend sixteen and a half|| feet into a room about 16 by 20 ft. and 8 feet high; and behold in front of you, a large flat or table rock, 12 or 14 feet square, 2 feet thick, and elevated about four feet from the bottom of the cavern; the roof over head covered with stalactites, some of which reach to the table rock. On your left hand, is an arched way, of 150 feet; and on your right hand is another arched way, 6 feet broad at the bottom, and 6 feet high, which leads into a large room, passing by this arch about 20 feet, you arrive at another, which leads into a hall, 10 feet wide and 100 feet long, from 5 to 8 feet high, supported with pillars and arches, and the sides bordered with curtains pleated in variegated forms as white as snow. Near the middle of this hall, is an arched way, through which you pass into a large room; which, like the hall, is bordered with curtains, and hung over with stalactites; return ined in like with stalac 12 feet in diameter, rising three feet from the floor; the top of which is hollow and full of water from the drippings of stalactites above; some of which reach near to the basin. Descending from this chamber, and passing through another arch into a hall by the side of which you see another basin of water, rising about four inches from the floor; formed in the same way, but in the shape, size, and thickness of a large tea tray, full of the most pure and transparent water. The number and spaciousness of the rooms, curtained and pleated with large pleats, extending along the walls from two to three feet from the roof; of the most perfect whiteness, resembling the most beautiful tapestry, with which the rooms are embordered; and the large drops of water, which are constantly suspen ded on the points of innumerable stalactites, which hang from the roofs above; and the columns of spar resting on pedestals, which, in some places, appear to be formed to support the arches above-the reflection of the lights, and the great extent and variety of the scenery of this amazing cavern, form altogeth|| er, one of the most pleasing and interesting scenes, that was ever be held by the eye of mortal man. Its discovery immediately drew to it great numbers of people from the village and surrounding country; who were making great depredations upon it, by breaking off and carrying away, whatever they es teemed most curious; when Samue! C. Kennedy, Esq. Mr. Le Roy's said he had been in Philadelphia about four months. agent, was applied to, to prevent further spoliations; who immediately directed the passage into the cav- Poor Patrick turned round to his ern to be enlarged; stairways made, wife and children, and looking, as if with a strong door placed under for the last time, on their rosy a lock and key; which has been cheeks, concluding that in four finished, and the door closed. months they must also change their The discovery of this grotto, add-complexion, exclaimed, "O, mered to the extensive petrifaction along the river in this vicinity, especially on Cowan's Island, of the once inhabitants of the deep, cannot fail to render Watertown, (to the curious at least) a lasting place of resort. It may be proper to mention here, that the cavern has been but partially explored, and that no one who has been into it, although some suppose they have travelled more than 100 rods, pretend to have found the extent of it, or to know the number of rooms, halls, and chambers which it contains.-Water. Rep. IRISH NEGRO. ciful powers! Biddy, did you hear that? He is not more than four months in this country, and he is already almost as black as jet." FOR THE MASONIC REGISTER. (By a Lady, on her Friend.) A friend more true, sincere, and kind. For oft, when care oppress'd my heart, And shalt thou not remember'd be, is spoken by all classes, happened to may And may each year be richly fraught When summon'd from this world of wo, o meet a gracious God, you go, Come, come, ye blessed of the Lord, DIED, EMMA. At Braddock's Field, near Pittsburg, on the 10th of April kast, general John Gibson. During the revolutionary war, he commanded a regiment on the continental establishment, with honour to himself, |