American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

Shawnee Town, Illinois, June 25.

A Female Preacher.—A gentlewoman of decent appearance, who is travelling through the country preaching, (or rather exhorting,) visited our town on Wednesday last; seems an extraordinary being, of considerable understanding and common education. She delivered a discourse, which occupied about an hour and a half, was concise in her arguments, affording a clear connection of ideas in the arrangement of her subject, of a happy and easy delivery, (excepting a few inaccuracies of expression,) solemn but mild in her address, and graceful in her gestures. She takes no text, but frequently makes quotations from holy writ, and poetic authors, by way of evidence and ornament. She says she is induced to travel under conviction of duty, having been visited and instructed to the task by the divine spirit about three years ago She is about 35 years old, slender form, and pilgrim like she travels entirely on foot, utterly refusing the offers of conveyance. We are told she carries with her none other than the clothes which she has immediate use for, depending entirely upon having her wants supplied when necessity may require.