Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 July 1857 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII

'TwaaatinjyroMwood

.'Mid the dual and

rj -cat

nra untE ooxmr.

Kent

Ef. Ahl what bitter tears shall stsin :J. n' All this satin sheet like rain, And what towerir.j hopes be hid 'Neath tho tiny o'offln lid,

Scarcely largo enough to boar y" Little words that most bo there, Little words, ctH deep and true,

llivo mo a heart with honest heat, Where love's glud waves rejoicing moot, And kindly thoughts like angels greet,

A heart no envy mars

That throws its gleam across the face, With cheerful and seraphic graco, That lighttns uj the darkest plaeo,.

3ff 4'

tfctatf,

Ebon bonndj and gWttorfng y-WithIts sureof Silver vliitt, by. if S silver tablet blank and bright,'.

i'p

ui Downy pillowed, satin lined, That I, loitering, chanced

find 'o--It.

and gl*on»

Of the undertaker^ room,

3*Waiting,

empty—rah! for whoml *,G.

1 Abl what

lore-watched

Keopa tonight tho nestling head,* J" Or, on what soft, pillowed broaat Is tho chorub form at rent, ®That ero long, with darkened if,

aaiK

0* i'

Bleeding mothers' hearts anew— .0 Sweet, pet nome. and "AOED TWO!"

fj Oh! can sorrows hovering plumes a .« licundour pathway cast a gloom, 1 Chill and darksomo as the shade y'| Si Dj'an infant cottln made! ff From our ansa an angel flies, "v ,4. And our startlod, dazzlod eyes, .. .V AVcoping round ita:vacant place, 'T Cannot ris« its path to traco, ..,

a&i.

Cannot see the angel fuco! ,,

•"'•'w,

FtND

f'lft

ME A GRAVE.

J'll make m? ^'""0, «aya the sailor lad, "/Inthoslnp.asbl'crideathcwavc ''ini luugli when tlio oecari'.4 roving

Lettho

,n«Ji

I'll smile whon tlio tempests rav(i.

winds rave on, let tho black Hki? rowii, Tor wlmt euro I how it be? When the vessel's a wreck I'll go down,down down, i- And find mo-a gravo in tho sea.

J'll inntfo mc a homo, says the soldier brave,: Amid battle and gory light When the ouglca in triumph above mc wave,',

I will nhout with a mad delight. 1 could die so well on the battle-fiold, My bhi'oiiil of the star-ling's fold On the Fpot wlicro tho trumpets of victory pual'J,

I'd liud jno a grave with the bold. ". ..

1 wish not a homo 'tuid the battle's tide,. ,, Kor lifo on. tho briny seo,

lVnt I'll settlo mo down at my own firebide, With her who is all to mo. 1 w'ish not a death in the battle's strife, ,,,

Js'or a tomb in tho ocean's foam, lint I'd find, when my heart beat its last in life, A gravo near my boyhood's homo.

TRUE HEARTS.

Oivo me troe hearts, givo me fond ejes,

Where pure afieotion'sBparklolios, Wlicie truth shines like

this

moonlit silica,

Alive with burning stars:

And smoothes life's ruggvd jars.

ivo mo, line hearts,'tli'at like tho sun, Enliven all they shino upon, And Hps from which soft phrases run,

Liko summer's warbling streams. Look up sad heart—sue! earth how fair, Though round thee coils that anako Despair, fliuhold: God hus thee in his care,

Then nurso joy's happy beam!

The blossoms burst their shackles now And dance like elfins on each hough, Tho birds sing in day's golden glow,

Then liopo, heart— liopo and droam!

T1IE WIFE.

fjth I:

She who sleeps upon my heart Was tho first to win it 'sho who droams upon my breast

ftfjj i\\

Kvor reigns within it. S is of Wakes their warmest blossing She who rests within my arms

Fools their closoat pressing.

,» rp ^Oilier days than these shall come, *, Days that may be dreary— n-t other hours shall greet us yet,

Hours that may bo weary }jf, hoax shall bo thy throne, Still this breast shall bo thy pillow "{still tlicso lips shall meet thine oft

e-?. As billow meetethbillow. -•••.. ?*J

tU -T,. "'J**: Sf «j"|r Sloop, then, on my happy heart, Sinco thy lovo hath won it— •4(fT 4! Drenm, tlion, on my loyal breast, i"• .li9C Out

!lfono

but thou liasdono it roni

And when ago our bloom aliall cliango,Witli its wintry weather, May wo in "tho sclf-'samo gravo

..raKSt/.:,.? Bleep and dream together. ,r| HI MEAT AWD DRINK USED BY ONE .MAN,—

jSonic geniug has perpetrated the following calculation:' 'I have been married 82 years, ilurfng Which time I have received from the Siands of my wife 3 cups of coffee each day, "2 in the morning ^uid 1, at night, making ,'about 35.010 cups of half pint each, nearly 70 barrels of .80 gallons each, weighing ?17,520 pounds, or nearly 9 tons. Yet \^!*from thnt pcriod I hayo scareely varied in sf'iroight myself from'160 pounds. It will be there fore,, that I have drank, in coffee alone, 218 times iny own weight. Iam ,tiot much .of an eater, yet I presume I have ^kcousum'cd about 18 ounces a day, Which ?*niake8, 5,80C pounds. or 10 oxen. Of ifiour I have

1ebnsutii^l

0jlips,.&c.l

'in1 S2 years about

^SGKanrels. For 20 years of this time '^k'drank wine, glasses of brandy eaoh day, making 900 quaffs. The port wine, ludeiria,' whiske^ punch, kc., I am not able *.to count, but they are not large. When t*e takflintonnooatit^aH *the vegetables in ^vdditidii such a* potatoes, ptu, asparagus, -uittravberries, cherrjes. /pe*™, peaohes, rai-

the amount consumed by an in-

dividual is most enormous. How my body •, 'ha^ been, renewed more.than four times in

iS2^ears

and taking it for grantod that the

ll^^ irater, of whieh I have drank more, acts Lt Cfx^nehsl/ dilgent, yet taken:together .1 oonolude I hate consumed, in 82 years. about the weight of 1,108 men of 160 pounds

a tux .... juiboy i«k .Prison only foortcen years of

From the Missouri Democrat.

A LAWYER'S ADVENTURE.

A AIA

less, I was practicing law Illinois in a pretty large circuit. I Was called on one day in my office, the town of C' by" a

vcry

tears

cradle bed J"

prctty woman, who, not without

tola

her

Sleeping to no lollaby, r' ." Whitely robed, and still and cold,'J fii''*} Falo flewera slipping from ita hold, Shall this dainty conoh cnfoWl .t/ .r

husband had been ar«

rested for horse-stealing. She wished to retain mc for the defence. I asked her why she did not go to Judgti B., an ex* senator of the United States, whose office was in the same town. I -told her that I was a young man at the bar, &c. She mournfully said that he had asked a retain* ing fee above her means, and besides did not want to touch "the ease, for her husband was suspcctcd of belonging to a gang of horsc-thievcs and counterfeiters, vliose headquarters were on Moore's prairie.

I asked her to tell nic the whole trntli of the matter, and if it was true that her husband did belong to such a band 1 "Ah, sir," said she, "a better man at heart than my George never lived but he likes cards and drink, and I am afraid that they jnadc him do what he never would have if lie had not drank. I fear that it can be proved that lie had the horse he didn't steal it another did, and passed it to him."

I didn't like the case. I knew that there was a great dislike to the gang loeated where she named, and feared to risk the case before a jury. She seemed to observe my intention to refuse the case, and burst into tears.

I never could see a woman weep without feeling like a weak fool myself. If it hadn't been for eyes brightened by "pearly tcarH," (blast the poets that made them to come in fashion by praising 'em,) I'd never havo been caught in the lasso of matrimony. And my would-be client was nretty. The handkerchief that hid her streaming eyes didn't hide her ripe lips, and her fillowy bo^om rose and fell like a white gull in a gale of vird at sea. I took the case and she gave mc the particulars.

The gang, of which he was not a member, had persuaded him to take the liorsc. He knew the horse was stolen, and like a fool acknowledged it when he was arrested. Worse still, he had trimmed the horse's tail and mane to alter his appearance, and the opposition could prove it.

The trial came on. I worked hard to get a jury of ignorant men, who had more heart than brain who, if they could not fathom the depths of argument, or follow the labyrinthine mazes of the law, could feci for a young fellow in a bad fix, a weep-

iugi.

pretty

her. I tried that game once in a murder ease, and a weeping wife and sister made a jury render a verdict against law, evidence, and the judge's charge, and saved a fellow that ought to have been hung as high as Hainan.

The prosecution opened very bitterly inveighed against thieves and counterfeiters, who had made the land a terror to strangers and travelers, and who had robbed every fanner in the region of their finest horses. It introduced witnesses, and proved all and more than I feared it would.

The time came for

liie

:/.

V•••.

to rise for de

fence. Witnesses I had none. But I determined to make an effort, only hoping so to interest the judge and jury as to secure recommendation to gubernatorial clemency and a light seuteucc. So I painted this pictxirc: A young man entered into life, wedded to an angel beautiful in person, possessing every gentle and noble attribute. Temptation was before nnd all around him. He kept a tavern. Guests there were many it was not for him to inquire into their business they were all well-dressed made large bills and paid promptly. At an unguarded hour, when he was insane with tho liquor they urged upon him, he had dc-viated from the path of rectitude. The demon of alcohol had rcigucd in his brain and it was his first offence. Mcrcy pleaded for another chance to save him from ruin. Justice did not require that his young wife should go down sorrowing to the grave, and that the shadow of disgracc and the taunt of a felon father should cross the path of that sweet child. O, how earnestly did I plead for them. The woman wept the husband did the same the judge fidgetted and rubbed his eyes the jury looked melting.— If I could have had the closing speech he would have been cleared but the prosecutor had the close, and threw ice on the fire I had kindled. But they did not quite put it out.

The judge charged according to law and evidence, but evidently leaned on the side of mercy. The jury found a verdict of guilty, but unanimously recommonded tlie prisoner to the mercy of the court. My client was sentenced to the shortest imprisonment the court was empowered to give, and both jury and court signed a petition to the governor for an unconditional pardon, which has since been granted, but riot before the following inoident occurred:

Some three months after this, I received an account for collection from a wholesale house in New .York. The parties to collect from were hard ones, but they had property and before they had tm idea of the trap laid, I had the property, which they were about to assign before tliey broke, under attachment. Finding I was neck ahead, and bound to win, they "caved in," and "forked over" three thousand seven hundred and ninetj-four dollars and eighteen vents (per memoranduin:btok)'m:eood money. They lived in Shawneetown, about 85 or 40 miles" soulhe&st of Moore's prairie. I received the funds just after bank opening, but other' brtnness detained me till after dinner. Ithen started for intending to go as far lis the village of Mount Vernon that night.

I had gone along ten or twelve mileB, when I notieed spkndid lean1 of hones nttacheid to a ligkt wagon, in which were seated four men, evi£ntiy of the highftnmg wder: They swwpt jMat if to A/cm ho# easQy'tlKy eduld •*&>'• it 5TKey s&Ktenedin, a&fclto#ed'-in6't6 oocattip by*?:2+

.with them, and, hailing me, asked me to ''wet," or in other words, diminish the con-

ITVV) V*. UL VWIWA

Wc presume our Illinois readers will tents of a jhg of old rye "they had aboard. nM, **4 the torn of C-r—r tioned in the following sketch into Cirlyle:

had plenty, on board. plenty, on ooara. They aAed me how far I .was.going. I told them.as far a?

About tliree or four^yew0'^o, more or Mount Vernon, if my horse didn't tife out. They mentioned a pleasant tavern, ten or twelve miles ahead, as

a nice stopping-

place, and then drove on. I did not like the looks of those fellows, nor their actions. But I was bound to go ahead. I had a brace of revolvers and a nice knife my money was not in my valise or my sulky, but in my belt about my body, I drove, slow, in hopes that they would goon, and.I should see them-no more. It Was nearly daak when I saw a tavern sign ahead. At the same time I saw their wagon stood before the door. I would have passed on, but my horse needed rest. I hauled up,, and a woman came to the door. She turned as pale as a sheet when she saw mc—shc did not speak, but with a meaning look she put her finger on her lips, and beckoned mc in she was the wife of my late client.

When I entered, the party recognized me, and hailed mc as an old travelling friend, nnd asked me to drink. I respectfully, but firmly declined to do so. "You shall drink or fight!" said the noisest of the party. "Just as you please drink I shall not said I, purposely showing the butt of a Colt, which kicks: six times in rapid succession.

The partyi interposed, and very easily quelled the assailant. One offered inc a cigar, which I reluctantly refused, but a glance from the woman induced me to accept. She advanced and proffered me a light, and in doing so slipped a note into my hand, which she must have written a moment before. Never shall I forget the words. They were: "]3ewaro, they arc members of the gang. They mean to rob and murder you! Leave soon I will detain them!"

I did not feel comfortable just then, but tried to do so. "Ilave you any room to put up my horse?" I asked, turning to the woman. "What, are you not going on to-night?" asked one of the men "wc arc." "No," said I", "I shall stay here to-night." "We'll all stay then, 1 guess, and make a night of it!" said another of the cutthroats. "You'll havo to put up your own horse —here's a lantern," said the woman. "I am used to it," I said. "Gentlemen, excuse me a minute^ I'll join you in a drink when I come in." "Good on your head. More whisky, old

ga]f" sl10uted

they.

wife, nearly brokcn-hcurtcd suid went out, glauced at their quite distracted. Knowing the use of "cf-

feet," I told her to dress in deep mourning

and bring her little cherub of a boy, only

three years old, into court, and to sit as

near her husband as the officer would let

w#g

wheels

tjlc work

wagon it

^.fashioned, and "lincli pi

was old-fashioned, and "lincli pins" secured the wheels. To take out my ftnife and .—j pry one from the fore and hind wheels was

of an instant, and I threw

them as far off in thc darkness as I could. To untie my liorsc and dash off was but the work of a moment. Thc road lay down steep hill, but my lantern lighted mc somewhat.

I had hardly got under full headway, when I heard a yell from the party I had so unceremoniously left. I put whip to my horse. The next moment with a shout they started. I threw my light away, and left my horse to pick his way. A moment later I heard a crash—a horrible shriek. Thc wheels were off. Then came thc rush of the horses tearing along with the wreck of thc wagon. FinaSy they seemed to fetch up in the wood. One or two shrieks I heard as I swept on, leaving them far behind. For some time I hurried my horse you'd believe I "rid!" It was a little after mid-night when I got to Mount Vernon.

Thc iiext day I heard that Moore's Prairie team had run away, and that two men out of four had been so badly hurt that their lives were despaired of. But I didn't cry. My clients got their money and I didn't travel that road any more.

CAVIUG IN OF A WELL—HEAU.TIIER.UING AFFAIR.—On thc 14th ult., Mr. Casper Hibler, residing near Dallastown, York couuty, Pennsylvania, went to his well, in thc yard, for the purpose of drawing water, when the wnlls caved in precipitating him down the well, a distance of seventeen feet, (the well is about forty feet deep,) where he was firmly held by thc earth and stone, unable to extricate himself, The Eagle says:

At the time the accident occurred Mr. Hibler was alone at home, his wife having gone to visthis mother, who was ill. She returned about five o'clock, and not finding her husband in thc house, she called and received an answer, when, on searching for him, she found that he was in thc well. The alarm

was

CliAWFOEDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY 18, 1857.

at which they passed resolutions dcxipuncing Col. Prince in. the most violent terms, charging him with pandering to "American prejudices against color," with being unfit to rcprcecnt a Canadian constituency and calling upon him-to resign, and charging him with ingratitude to thc colored population, who, they say fought under him during the border troubles in 1838, and with some of whom, they say, he "walked arm in arm." To all this tirade of bombast and fustian Col. Prince thus responds through thc columns of the Toronto Colonist:.

Among the many estimable qualities they possess, a systematic habit of lying is not the least prominent and the "colored citizcns" aforesaid seem to partake of that ... JAMBAA ITA/IAIICA

IUUIUOIUU MVVU. «V JF

duty. But ccrtamly never

tal which their

immediately given, and

strenuous efforts made by the neighbors to. rescue hini froiii his perilous situation.— They worked faithfully, and, at bne time, were within eighteen inches of him, the unfortunate

man

conversing' with, them all

tho time. Their exertions, however, seemed to avail but little, for as they succeeded in removeing"the"".earth and stoned, fresh quantities woiild foll upon him.' Finding .their exertions-in b'* "behalf of no avail,' the doomed man, shortly

a a "2

Tr6m the.Ndw Albany ledger. mr»lr» greater fools of yourselves than you COL PBlIfCE on C^MAfiUN XIGGEKS. did at the last, and then "to supper*, with In a late number of the Ledger we prin- what appetites you may." Believe me to tod the remarks of Col. John Prince, a remain,: Mr/ Editor, yours, vci7 rcspectmember of the Canadian Provincial Parlia- i.

To thc Editor of the Colonist: Your valuable paper of yesterday has afforded mc a rich treat and not a little fun, in the report of an indignaition meeting of thc "colored citizens" of Toronto, held for the purpose of censuring me. Perhaps I oughf riot to notice their proceedings—perhaps it would be moro becoming in me to allow them to pass at once into thc oblivion which awaits, them buias itris the fashion in this country not unfrequently to assume that to be true which appears in print against an individual, unless he flatly denies the accusation, I shall, at least for oncc, condcscond to notice these absurd proceedings. They deal in generalities, and so shall I.

Of the colored citizens of Toronto I know little or nothing no doubt some are respectable enough in their way, and perform the inferior duties belonging to their low or high station tolerably well. Here they are kept in perfect order—in their proper places—but their "proceedings" are evidence of their natural conceit, their vanity, and their ignorance and in them the cloven foot appears, and evinces what they would,do if they could. I believe that in this city, as in some others of our province, that they arc looked upon as necessary evils- and only submitted to because white servants arc so scarce. Hut I now deal with these fellows as a body, and I pronounce them to be, as such, the greatest curse ever inflictcd upon the t\vo magnificent western counties which I have the honor to represent in the Legislative Council of this Province, and few men have had thc experience of them that I have.

n/1

ipent from a portion of the colony most th^ifc?poper to allude'tathe thickly populated with runaway slaves from

the United States. Col. Prince, it will be of whom the darkies' resolutions make menremembered, denounced the negroes as a tion, and who were so improperly and so worthless, vagabonds class of population, «niMtly diBmisscd from the commission of ... the peace. Those two magistrates did their whose society was demoralising to the white

quality in an eminent degree, because in

were, comparatively speaking, unsusccpti- -a

blc of drill or discipline, and were eonspicnous for one act only—a stupid sentry shot

the honor of "walking arm in arm with any of thc eolored gentlemen

tinguished

Few, very

they supported, as a body, my opponent. They took

compassion

of iniured innoccncc," and they sustained

the monument

influence

insignificant

hereafter, I

Then how rich I

colored"

contradiction,

has

after

midnight,

requested that his wife might be brought .within hearing of his voice, that he might bid her a last farewell. His request was complied with, and we leave the reader to imagine tho scene—the. anguish of nund of her who, on .the 14th of April last, he fed to die alter a bride. At one o'clock on Tuesday morning he ceased to exist, and his" lifeless body was found about four o'clock, much bruised, with one hand off. y- ..

|6^-The eminent astronomers, Bonne and Hind, have gone over all the calculations.in reference to the expected comet, and they conclude. that in 1858, or somewhere between 1850 and 1860, the comet will appear but the attempt to designate thc day, dFeven*the year of ita appearanoe. they regard as preposterous. There are ao data for so exaet an estimate.

I hk

gVWhy •oantr^|^\«^kl like well prfiited^ cotton? ^Because they are

color?"

Willli

Hcr

the son of .one of our oldest colonels, under a mistaken notion that lie was doing his ARE THE

corps.

Then

been my misfortune and tho mis

fortune of my family to live among those blacks (and they have lived,,upon us) for more than twenty-four years. I have employed hundreds of them, and with the exception' of orie, named Bichard Hunter, not one has ever done for us a weeks honest labor. I have taken, them into my service, have fed and clothed them year after.year, on their arrival from the States, and in return have generally found them rogues and thieves, and a graceless, worthless,' thriftless, lying set of vagabonds This is my very plain and simple description of the darkies as a body, and it would be endorsed by all Western white men with very few'exceptions.

I have had scores of George Washingtons, Thomas Jeffersons, James Madisons, as well as Dinahs, Gleniras, and Lavinias in my service, and I understand them-thor-oughly, and I include the whole batch (old Richard Hunter exoepted) in the category above described. To conclude, you "gentlemen of dolor," east and west, and espeeiallr you, "oqbred citiiena of Toronto," I thank von for having given me an oppor4- A# «»AH* MAN'

^^^e^fndigu^Sti&g.^and there sweetening is likely to come*lown.

^9?- PRI^CL.

Messrs. Wilkinson and Woodbridge,

daty_they

people among whom they lived, and pro- never been repealed, and they were disposing that they be colonised on some is- missed for not baving acted upon a statute land in Lake Huron, where they would not, ,which did not touch the offense charged— ,.

by their example, contaminate Ae whites.

acted upon a statute which has

horsestealing! However, there is some

congoUtion reflecting that thc black ras.

It appears that this speech of Col. Pnnce oal whom they caused to be arrested was excited a terrible commotion and a vast tried and convicted of the crime charged, amount of indignation among the. Canadian and will luxuriate for six years yet to come darkies. Those at Toronto held a meeting jn Pri.6t°.n °bj°:

Itisbclicved

(and I believe ittdo) that the "monument had much to do. in influencing thc executive against those worthy magistrates, sj ?2

J. P.

When it is remembered that Col. Princc represents a district more thickly populated with this class of persons than any other in Canada, and that ail these negroes arc voters, his bitter language towards them may be considered as indicative of public sentiment in that country towards this class. And this feeling will unquestionably continue to increase as the negroes increase in numbers. Men through whose veins courses Anglo-Saxon blood will not long conscnt to associate on terms of equality with a racc so inferior, so repulsive, so ignorant, and so depraved as the runaway slave population of thc United States.— No matter what may have been their prejudices against slavery when they landed in Canada, they soon see that thc negroes are not qualified to enjoy thc blessings of liberty—that naturally they arc thriftless, lazy, improvident—hangers on about thc houses of thc wealthy and industriousconsuming extravagantly, but producing nothing.

As a politician, ambitious of distinction and promotion, Col. Princc must feel pretty ccrtain that he will be sustained in the course he is pursuing in relation to thc negroes by the almost unanimous voice of his white constituents, as the negroes will oppose him to a man, and arc very numerous. That the people of Canada will ere long demand some legislation or treaty stipulation by which they shall bo protected from the influx of this worthless population there can be little question. Thc more thc Canadians become acquainted with the negroes and their characteristics, thc stronger will be their aversion towards thorn. They look with alarm at the swarms of them who, under the auspiccs of our Northern Abolitionists and Underground Bailroad Conductors, are settling down upon the colony. The negroes are permitted to vote, it is true, but it is under protest of their white neighbors. Socially they arc,

UVVMNJf "UVJ

or bC) afl much under the ban as

ser^ th^duVmg3°the rebellion/"!11walked in any part of the United States for white arm in arm with colored men," that "I owe men in Canada have pretty much the same my election to the votes of colored men," feelings as white men in the United States, and that I have "accumulated much earth- p08gijjiy the bigoted home government of ly gMDS." as hw) «r W»ng ^"torei =h-

Brta wU, notMnsc»t

ents." All lies! lies! lies! from beginning to end. I admit that one company of blacks dition of fugitive slaves, but the Canadian did belong to my contingent battalion but people will, if the influx is not stopped, they made the very worst of soldiers, and

make

thc extra-

the negro feel that slavery in Virgin-

ig a blcsaing compared

with liberty in

Majesty dominions.

B5£^J5JJ£Jrs?L

Thc WashiDgton

NatimuU Era, the

that dis- leading Black Republican paper, thus indi-

as to my election, catcs thc proper relations which the Black

few blacks voted for me. I nev- Republicans sustain to thc old Abolitioncr canvassed them, and. hcnec, I suppose,

Thc En^ w]lich

upon a "monument abolition journal, says.

for awhile upon thc pedes-

ig aiways

been an

do not intend that these facts shall

lost sight of. The early Abolitionists,

erected. But the so far as our influence can go, shall not be

monument fell, and thc fall proved that discredited through ignorance and prcjusuch influence was merely ephemeral, and dice. There are Republicans, so called, it sank into

nothingness, as it who would separate their movements en-

should and I hope ever will do or God tirely from that which those much abused help this noble land. Poor blackics! Be men originated. They cannot do it the not so bold or conceited, or so insolent, movements are one the early-abolitionists

do bcsccch you. were the only .pioneers. They were stig-

have become among my matizcd as iriccndiarics, fanatics., amalga-

-clients. I aEEert, without the mationists, traitors so arc Republicans fear of

that I have been the now. What is the difference? Thcij coun-

„i nntom "d:irlde.s" for more ted onlv by thousands Republicans count friend ?f our western "darkies for more than twenty years, and amidst difficulties and troubles innumerable (for they are a litigious race,) I have been their adviser, and I never made twenty pounds out of them in that long period. The fact is the poor creatures had never tlic ability to pay a lawyer's fee.

ted only by thousands Republicans count by hundreds, of thousands their voices were overwhelmed by the universal uproar against them Republicans, commanding a majority of the leading journals of the Union, in possession' of nearly all tho free States, and with more than a million of voters, can hurl back the charges, and make themselves not only heard, but felt. And yet sonic .of them are pusillanimous enough to*disclaim''any 'connection or sympathy with those brave pioneers whose self-sacri-ficing labors have enabled them to proclaim, without fear of proscription, doctrines, whose promulgation in 1836 imposed political and social degradation, and the pains and penalties of Lynch Law.

A BRUTE.—The Galena (111.) Courier learns that a clergyman who lives a few miles from that place had some slight dis pute with his wife last week, and proceeded to beat her with a -stick"' from a locust tree so severely that her back was covered •with blood and bruises. Having used up one stick on her. he was getting another, when some of thc neighbors iriterferea.— Such a brute ought to be driven from the sacred desk and from the community.

J9*The Louisiana sugar crop promises to yield two hundred and fifty thousand to three hundred thousand hogsheads the present yearr against seventy-eight thousand laat voar. Glad to hoar that tho price of

TERRfBLE RIOTS IN NEW YORK ON THE FOURTH OI' JVlAt. We take thc following account of thc riots in New York on the 4th of July from the New York News of, the 6th, which a

Fearful Riots.—The riot which was commenced about 2 o'clock on Saturday morning by the gang of Five -Point thieves, who style themselves the "Dead Babbits," was recommenced again on Saturday evening, and resulted in a great deal of bloodshed and loss of life. The Bowery Boys, some of whom were injured by this gang at the drinking saloon, No. 40 Bowery, rallied in considerable force to retaliate. A collision took place between the factions about seven o'clock on Saturday evening in Bayard street, between Baxter and Mott streets, and the fighting progressing in a desperate manner, clubs, stones, and pistols being freely used. A detachment of twenty-five policemen was despatched from No. 88 White street to quell the riot.— They were hooted at by the mob, who finally commcnecdto pelt them with stones, brickbats, and whatever missiles could be obtained, and drove them off. Many of thc mob were armed with guns and pistols, who fired indiscriminately into thc crowd, at the same time howling and screeching like a set of fiends. The sccnc was one of the greatest confusion, and several of the police were severely wounded. Officer Jenkins was injured very seriously by

As it wns feared that thc riot would prove still more serious, a lnrgo number having already been badly injured, the Seventy-firat Regiment was ordered out.

One of the rioters, named Mack, was shot on the top of the head, in Mulberry street, by one of the opposite party, llis injury will probably prove fatal.

Timothy Ilaggins, aged sixteen years, living at No. 11 Mulberry street, was shot in the side, thc ball entering above the thigh. Thc shot occnrrcd at the corner of Mulberry and Bayard streets, during thc fight between thc "Dead Babbits and thc Bowery Boys."

A man named P. Rohan, of Mulberry street, was 6hot near No. 96 Bayard street, by a man who discharged a gun at him.— Thc ball took effect in thc head and the wound is considered fatal.

Notice was received at thc Motripolitan office in White street, about four o'clock, that there was a fight in Baxter street.— Thc police were phot down nnd found the people in Baxter street firing brickbats and pistols from thc windows and roofs of the houses. Twenty or thirty of thc policemen were 6truclc by thc missiles. In one room which thc police forced, they found a mau and two women with a bushel basket full of brickbats which they were throwing out at people in the street. The man gave his name as Jim Lane, was arrested by Officers Shanglc and Russell, and taken to the Fifth Ward Station house and locked up. Thc fight soon became general, and muskets and pistols were fired by thc opposing parties in Bayard and Idizabctli streets. The police arrested a large number and locked them up in the White street Station, where they were subsequently taken to the Fifth Ward Police Station. They had barricaded Mulberry street, near Bayard, with carts, Wagons, horse-carts, and timber, and in Bayard street, near Elizabeth street, another barricade was built of the same materials.— Frombehiad these barricades the belligerents were continually firing at each other with muskets, pistols, and other weapons.

Officer Shanglc, accompanied by others disguised, went to them and represented themselves to be Deputy Sheriffs. They told them they must stop firing, as thc militia had been ordered out, and would fire upon them unless they immediately dispersed. Thc Bowery party said if the others would stop they would. Thc officers represented they had consented to do so.— They said the "Irish sons of b—s commenced it, and if they had enough they were satisfied." They replied that they should, and set at work and removed the barricades. They objected some, but did not molest, us. The police then started to go down to thc other party, but before reaching them they met an Irishman with a brickbat his hand. Sonic one fired at him three or four shots at oncc. He fell dead at Officer Hospell's feet, having been shot through tho head.

The disguised policc continued down toward the other party, and raising their hats thc mob forebore to fall upon them,— They proceeded to remove the other barricade, since which there has been no more fighting. Two dead rioters, shot from the top of thc houses in Bayard street, wero taken to thc White street Station house.— One of them was an Irishman about fifty years of age. He was shot through the right breast near thc nipple. Another one was apparently an Italian boy, about twenty years of age—he was shot through the left breast, thc ball entering

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nipple and passing downward toward the stomach, thus proving conclusively taat the shot came from above. Another uead man, a rioter, was taken to thc oc cntli Ward Station house.

The force sent by thc Metripolitans was a squad of twenty-five men, who were driven back fifty men were then sent, and a second fifty were disptched after them.

Thc Commissioners having made a requisition upon Major General Sandford, that officer ordered out the Seventh Regiment, Col. Duryee Eighth Regiment, Col. Lyons and Seventy-first Regiment, Col. Vosburgh. They were held in roserve, and were ready for duty at a moment,s noticc.

WaS"Mr3. Osgood, one of the sweetest of die sweet singers of the age, has been seven years in the grave. On thc seventh of May, 1850f her prophetic aoul breathed the following lines:

... 1 in going through the Eternal gatca, Ero JIBO'B swoot roses blow! Death's lovely Angel leacla mo there,

And it is sweat to go."

And on tho twelfth, she icau: I

NUMBER 52.

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PARTY.—A.

J. Geer, esq.,

for several years editor of the opposition paper in Juniata county, Pannsylvania^ has retired from the editorial chair. The following Is a portion of his valedictory! "Tired of begging a living, and with a supreme contempt for ultra Black Republicanism and Black Republican derfili, with this number w! close our connection with this paper. They weep, they groan over the wrongs heaped upon the unfortunate people of Kansas in the loss of free suffrage, freo thought, and free press, through the instrumentality of border ruffianism and yet when the truth of their own iniquities is brought home to their own door, they bccomc ns ruffianly and oppressive as their prototypes from the border counties of Missouri. Wc need not go to Kansas for ruffianism but wc can find it .even in little Juniata. "The Republican party, under its present constituted leaders, is thc meanest party with which wc ever had anything to do. Without pnidcncc or discretion, it rushes madly into extremes, and renders itself obnoxious to all liberal-minded people."

SABBATH—Where is thc

blow of a brickbat on thc head, and it is thought he cannot rccover. The mob seemed disposed to approach thc Stationhouse in White street, but no persons were allowed to pass up White street. Two of the rioters were arrested.

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docs not. feci refreshed by thc sweet calm of thc sabbath? But how few arc there who properly avail themselves of its exemption from thc worldly cares, nnd tho deep and solemn pause which it gives to human pursuits and passions, so as to lay up thc treasures of truth, to learn spiritual wisdom and to reclaim themselves from thc errors and false steps of life?—«How few arc there who give to the crcator that just homage which He exaots, and who summon up new resolutions of future struggles

Thc Sabbath should be the day wherein wc should leave behind us thc petty concerns that vex and trouble, and retire within the mind for reflection, for musing, for moral improvement, and for an humble approach to him who has fashioned all things for his own wise purposes. If properly used, it is sufficient for tho regeneration of men and a mighty revolution in thc habits, thoughts and actions of men.— God has dedicated it. It is for mankind to receive and apply it£ unction and bo thankful.

l^~Somc one lately sent thc following paragraph to Henry Ward Boecher: "One day, says Luther, as Satan and his imps were gathered together to consult in relation to their plans, and to give an account of what cacli had done, one said—• "I let loose the wild beasts Upon a cavarn of pilgrims, and now their bones lie bleaching upon thc sands of thc desert." 'Pshaw,' said thc devil, "their souls were all saved "and I," said another, "by tempest wrecked a ship loaded with Christians on their way to found a community." "Pshaw," said thc Divil, "their souls were all saved "and I," said a third, "cultivated an intimate (lorfuuiiitanoo frith on 'inJopondout preacher,' and after long persuasion 1 induced him to drop his Bible and go to preaching politics," and then tho Devil shouted in exultation till thc arches of Paudcmonium rang and all the night stars of Hell sang together for joy."

Tnii COMET.—Thc Boston Herald tells the following: An Irish laborer, while going home from his work (Thursday evening, during the shower) with a tin pail in his hand, was startled by thc loud crash of thunder, lie was on Washington street, near the foot of Avery street, at thc time. He stopped for a moment as though surprised, but as peal after peal rcverbrated through thc heavens, shaking the earth with its solidity, and flash after flash of lightning blinded his eyes, he dropped his pail, clasped his hands together, and with a yell of "thc comet—the comet

Jasus thc comet," rushed frantically along thc street, and did not stop his headlong course untill he rcachcd his home.

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.—Wc find thc following call in thc Boston papers:

WORCESTER, June 24, 1857.

Dear Sir:—There will be a meeting of the State Disunion Committee, at 21 Cornhill, Boston, on Wednesday next, (July 1) at 12 M.

The special object of thc meeting is a conference with a Committee of thc Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, as to the expediency of a National Disunion Convention, at some Western locality this RUtumn.

Your attendance is requested. Truly yours, T, \V. JIIGGINSON, Chairman.7

£§7~There is no one thing in the whole coifipass of crcation fully understood by any human being. In a single drop of water there is mystery enough to baffle tho wisdom of thc wisest philosopher now living on earth.

C'IV'T SWALLOW NEGROES WIIOLE.^—1 Thc llmington Herald, a staunch Rcpublican paper in Illinois, which has swallowed all the other isms offthe party without a bone sticking in its throat, has not thc an-aconda-likc property of gulping down "negro equality though covered with tho salvia of "bnicWcfly" feeling and mock philanthropy, previous to deglution. The editor says: "Whenever negro suffrage becomes one of thc planks of thc Republican platform, we shall feel free to seek sonieothcr political organization, anil we think we ehould find most of (nir Republican brethren in the same way."

86rHaving in my youth notions of scvcrc piety, says a celebrated Persian writer, I used to "rise in thc night to watch, prayan^ read the Koran. One night, I was engaged in these exercises, my father, t* man of practical virtue, awoke while I was reading. "Behold," said I to him, "thy other children arc lo3t in irreligious slumber, while I alone wake to praise God."— "Son of my soul," ho answered, "It is better to sleep, than to wake to. remark tho faults of thy brethren.