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a Literary Curios,ty-An African Divine, in New Bed
ford has published the following circular soliciting aid in
the erection of a meeting house.


AerO Bedford July The 1851 Charles Spcer doe this
day of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Do offer my Scelf
10 any or ente man of this town two or three If
inca VIII reant me meetn house in the of Bedford
- ihear heaye been much Come plain to me from tim to
time what Shall We Doc fore hose preace God in Jen
man Oft my life to you for mectin Can do more after
the neetn house Don Let prech day and then
make Scervient if You have mine so to do fore
do be Leef that Doctes and Lowers will have lest for
thear meney Cases thea pea for heare
trble Sol am in hope the lord will Bless this bum
denly and give you hart to help poor Spcer meen
house. SO lea down my pen with hop while tvs don my
chcaks do run for meeting, have off my one life


CHARLES a. SPICER.
To this town.


p. S. have fifty dollars 10 wards the Bilding and
am Carpentir my Scelf So if any or A Jentiemen
Grant me the timber the Last of this moun will peay
you have to so vorge Round Cape horn your Seer
Went on tell you are peae SO to do meen house 28 by
31-1 story


Pm.--A Baccaananan candidate offering for Country
Borough the electors unanimously agreed that he
very proper man to sufronr


Those orators who give us much noise and many
words, but little argument and less witt and who are
most loud when tl.ey are the least lucid, should
take lesson from the great volume of Nature; she
often gives us the lightning without the lhun-
us't put "e'S' shS tiu"aS' "Hhout thc hBnthhlB'


LncOn.
Where the desire of being agreeable supersedes
the desire of being worthy, the character may be
pleasing but can never be estimablc


True politeress consists not merely in a strict
adherence to the forms Of ceremony ii consists II,
an exquisite observance Of the feelings Of others,
and an inrariable respect for those feelings. BY
this definition, it claims alliance with benevoence,
and may sometimes be found as genuine in the cot
tage as the court.


Prize Essay.-The Committee appointed to a.