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meeting was held in the court-house. It was a temporary log- 
house, which formed but one room. The chimney fire, and two 
tallow candles formed the whole illumination of it, and the seats 
were constructed of some blocks and boards, upon which upwards 
of twenty people sat. The singing was conducted by a couple 
of old folks, with rather discordant voices. The preacher then 
rose, and delivered us a sermon. I could not follow his discourse 
well, and was very much fatigued by my day’s walk. In his 
prayer, however, the minister alluded to those who despise the 
word of the Lord, and prayed for their conviction and conver¬ 
sion. This hint was evidently aimed at the community in New 
Harmony and the new social system. In the sermon there was 
no such allusion. Probably the discourse was one of those, which 
he knew by heart; which he delivered in various places, and ad¬ 
mitted of no interpolations. The service lasted till ten o’clock 
at night. 
Unluckily for me, my port-folio also remained behind among 
my other baggage., I suffered therefore, the whole forenoon 
of the next day the most excessive tedium, and was obliged to 
remain in noble idleness. I went to walk in the woods, gaped 
about at the pretty flowers, arid the amazing variety of butter¬ 
flies; came back, seated myself in Mr. Dunn’s store, and viewed 
the steam-boats going down the river. At length in the after¬ 
noon, Bottner arrived, with my baggage in a one-horse cart, 
splashed all over with mud, as he had been obliged to lead the 
restive horse all the way by the bridle. The poor fellow bi¬ 
vouacked in the woods yesterday, from one o’clock in the morn¬ 
ing till four in the evening, when by chance the shepherds of 
New Harmony passed by, and gave Mr. Owen an account of 
Bottner’s situation, upon which old Dr. M‘Namee had come out 
with his one-horse vehicle, and brought back the baggage and its 
guard. By Mr. Owen’s kindness, the cart was on this day sent 
on, with my effects. 
Now my earnest desire was to get away as quickly as possible. 
To be sure, the splendid view of the Ohio and its banks by the 
light of the moon, regaled me in the evening; but the residence 
in this place was too inhospitable and uninteresting; besides I 
suffered the whole afternoon and evening with tooth-ache, and 
symptoms of fever. But how were we to get away? During 
the night a steam-boat passed, going up the river, but she kept 
to the left bank where the deepest water was, and took no notice 
of Mount Vernon. About nine o’clock on the 23d of April, 
another steam-boat, the General Wayne, came up, bound in the 
same direction. A flag was hoisted, to give notice that passen¬ 
gers wished to come on board, we waved our handkerchiefs, but 
the vessel did not regard us, and passed on. To kill time, I went 
