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NEGRO EQUALITY.

The loading journals of the opposition, the resolves of that party in mass convention, the known views of the leading spirits of that party, and all their legislative enactments where tliey have the ascendency, demonstrate beyond all question or doubt, that negro equality is the ardent desire of Black Republicanism. In the last Ohio legislature, the word white was sought to be stricken from every law in which that word occurs, thus placing the negro upon an exact political equality with the white citizen. At the last election, in every portion of the State where the Black Republicans had control of the ballot-boxes, in defiance of law the African was allowed to vote and in the late Muss Convention of that party, tliey nominated S. P. Chase for Governor, who lias long advocated the abolition of all distinction of color, and all their other nominations are of the same character. In Iowa, in the new Constitution drafted by the Black Republican party, (he same object is set forth, and in all probability the recent election has resulted in the adoption of a clause in which the negro is placed upon a political equality with 1 lie white man. Everywhere, where that fanatical party has the control, this one great idea, the degradation of the white man to a level with the negro, is the watch word of our opponents.

Could they succced as they propose, in establishing their abominable doctrines— the ballot-box thrown open (o negro suffrage —the admission of them upon an equality with the professors, teachers and scholars in our educational system—the promotion of them to the highest political stations—admitting them to enact and administer the laws of our country—what an inglorious spectacle would we behold! "What fearful consequences would be the result "Whose cheek would not mantle with shame in beholding the picture

Political equality recognized, social equality would necessarily follow. The pure blood of the Circassian would be made to intermingle with that of the African. Can any sane white man advocate this? The leaders of the opposition—the old Abolition factionists—have for years aimed to bring about this monstrous absurdity, but we are loth to believe that the ••.T:great body of the Black Republican party are sincere in their advocacy of a doctrine •which can only weaken, enervate and destroy the white race in this confederacy.—

And yet, from the foremost to the most lowly member of that fanatical organization, every expression uttered tends to confirm us that they seek to follow their leaders fearless and careless of consequences.

During the last election many persons, under a mistaken idea, flocked to the standard of the so called Black Republican party, under the belief that the National Democracy were pledged to the propagandist! of Slaver}-, and with the opinion that

Slavery would be extended into Kansas if

the present aspect of the country, tl\c virtual decision of the question of Slaver}' extension, the patriotic policy of the present administration, and tlic determination of the Governor of Kansas to afford every opportunity to all the bona ftdc inhabitants to determine the character of their own institutions, without undae interference from any quarter, and that now the late boasting Slack Republican party has been reduced 4oits one, only great plank in its platform, negro equality, socially and politically, will those who attached themselves to that organisation upon account only of the Kansas imbroglio still adhere to Abolition fanaticism? Do they desire this innovation made'upon our social and political sys-

tcm Would they desire to see their fashionably dressed an:l accomplished daughters accompanied to churches and parties by fantastically dressed''buck negroes they desire them to intermarry with ihem? Do they desire this vastly inferior race to be the instructors of their youths Do they desire to fill our Legislatures, our Congress, our courts, all or any of our public stations, with such a race? We cannot tolerate for a moment that any who were Republicans upon the grounds of Slavery extension, will now take a fatal leap into the fond embraces of negroism, and follow in ths dark paths of Abolitionism. That once strong party in the North will l»e shorn of its great element of strength, now that the leaders have shown what they actually design accomplishing. "We look forward with intense interest to discover how many of this wing of the late defunct party will rally under the Abolition banner and gulph down this new doctrine of equality—negro, wool, smell and boots.

GS?~Thc trial of the counterfeiters, recently arrested in Decatur county, was commenced on Monday. Several of the prisoners confessed their guilt, and gave information concerning their confederates. There are three hundred in the gang. The officers of Decatur and Dearborn arc in pursuit of them, aud men arc scudding for Kansas and other places. They should have started in time to have reached there before the Topekaites voted for their bogus Constitution. They would have been a valuable auxiliary to that treasonable faction.

THE MUTINY SPREADING. A brief telegraphic despatch by a steamer araived at Qucbec informs us that late arrivals from India bring information that the mutiny is spreading in all directions. This information will of course cause intense excitement in Great Britain, and produce a painful impression in this country, as a large number of Americans are in India, engaged in mercantile pursuits and as missionaries.

TENTH DISTRICT.

The Republican Congressional Convention for this district, held at Kcndallville on the Gth inst., nominated Charles Case, Esq., of Fort Wayne, as candidate for Congress. The Fort Wayne Sentinel says of Mr. Case: "Charley is a tolerably clever fellow, but a little too crazy on the nigger question to have much chance of success now that the Kansas humbug is exploded."

A COI.OKKD KAI.I.OCII.—Under this head the Columbus Statesman, of yesterday, states that a negro Baptist preacher has been-arrested and brought before the authorities of that city charged with the seduction of one of the female members of his congregation.

8*3?" On the 18th of December, 1854, Mr. Clay introduced a resolution into the United States Senate, in regard to the Anthony Burns' fugitive ease in Boston, where a mob of negroes sought to prevent the execution of the law. He is thus reported in the Congressional Globe: "But, sir," said Mr. Clay,''"this is not all. By whom was that mob impelled onward? By our own race? No, sir, by negroes, by African descendants by people who possess no part, as I contend, in our political system and the question which arises is, whether we shall have law aud whether the majesty of the government shall bo maintained or not whether wc shall have a government of white men or black men in the cities of this country."

ILLINOIS FARMS.

The extent of some of our Illinois farms is a stumbler to the men of the East, who arc accustomed to consider five hundred acres, a large farm. The editor of the "Spirit of the Agricultural Press" has recently been on a visit to the farm of M. L. Sullivant, Esq., in the south-eastern part of Champaign county. The farm contains over twenty thousand acres, and although only about seven thousand acres arc yet under cultivation, employs over one hundred men! Three thousand acres are planted in com and the editor estimates that the farm will produce at least 15,000 bushels of wheat this year, besides large quantities of barley, oats, flax, &c. Mr. Sullivant employs five different reapers this season, and threshes immediately after cutting, employing a steam engine as his power in the latter operation. A blacksmith's shop is located on the farm and employed continually in repairing farm impliments a school is kept up for the education of the children of the workmen. One hundred and twenty-five yoke of oxen and fifty horses are employed. It must be acknowledged that this is something of a farm, aud that Mr. Sullivant possesses much executive ability to successfully manage such a 'stupendous concern, yet we are informed that everything moves on as regular as the click of a chronometer.— This is but one of the many large farms which npw grace the broad praries of that

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THF. NAVIES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND. —The Washington Union of the 5th inst., contaius a carefully prepared list of the navy of France, from which wc learn that it is composed of 317 sailing vessels, carrying 9,176 guns, aud 220 steamers, carrying 4,901 guns, making a total of 537 vessels and 14,077 guns. According to the navy list of Great Britain for- 1856, the effective force of that country was 269 sailing vessels, carrying 9,362 guns, and 25S steamars, with 4,518 guns, makiog a total of 527 vessels and 13,870 guns. It will thus be seen that the navy of France exceeds that of Great Britain by 10 vessels and 197 guns. This is a very small difference, and the navies of the most powerful maratimo powers of Europe, may, therefore, be set down as about equal.

THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.

ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA.

HALIFAX, Tuesday, Aug. 11.

The royal mail steamship Canada with dates from Liverpool to Saturday, the 1st inst., three days later than previous advices, arrived here this afternoon.

The vessels composing the Atlantic Telegraph Squadron had all reached Cork, and were to leave on the 1st inst. for Valencia Bay* where the task of submerging the cable will be commenced. An experiment with the whole length of the cable has been made and proved highly successful.

The Goodwood race camc off on the ap pointed day, and the American horses, "Pryor" and "Pryoress," were beaten.

The India mail has arrived, and the tel egraphic despatches from Trieste arc confirmed, but there is no confirmation of the capture of Delhi. A report, however, had obtained much credence that a conspiracy had been discovered for a general rising of the natives at Calcutta, and the Europeans have armed themselves in anticipation.

The steamship Anglo-Saxon had arrived at Liverpool. ... In the House of Commons on Wednesday night the Government was in a minor ity of sixty, on the division for a second reading of the superannuated bill. A motion for a second reading having been car ried, Lord Palmerston said that the Government would offer no further .opposition to its passage.,

A new divorce bill has also'been debated, and although strenuously opposed was ordered for a secoud reading.

It was intended that the vessels should commence sinking the Atlantic cable on the 3d or 4th of August.

The paying out experiment which were made between Dover and Quccnstown were perfectly successful.

The following dispatch was received from Queenstown "QUEENSTOWN, Friday, July 31. "The submarine cable was joined last evening, and messages were sent through its entire length in less than a second for each signal."

Fourteen horses ran for the Goodwood cup. The American horses, "Pryor" and "Pryoress," came in fifth and sixth. The first favorite and two other horses fell, so that the race can scarcety be regarded as a criterion.

The following meagre particulars of tho great race for the Goodwood cup we gather from the Liverpool papers. The French horse Monarque won the race.— The English horse Rigber, is placed second and Fisherman third. Gunboat slipped and fell, and Kestrel and Gemma l)ivcrgy also fell heavily. Monarque won by a head, and Higher beat Fisherman by three lengths. Anton was placcd fourth and was two lengths behind Fisherman.— The American horses Pryor and Prioress were placcd fifth and sixth, and the others pulled up. The finish is said to have been the most exciting ever witnessed. The English papers remark, but without assigning any reason, that the American horses would have figured more promptly had they been rode by English jockeys.

The Emperor and Empress of France were expected at the Isle of Wight on the 5th inst.

It was rumored that the English Government intends sending ten thousand additional troops to India:.

The advance on Consols on Saturday was on the strength of a communication from an East India house that Delhi had fallen.

The Bombay Times says that the rebellion was universal in the Bengal Army, and the Seventieth Regiment of native Infantry—which had been publicly thanked three weeks before for its loyalty—had been disarmed.

The Madras Army manifested the most perfect loyalty. -A list is given of fifty-six regiments or portions of regiments which had mutinied, while twenty disarmed and one disbanded of the Bengal Army had ceased to exist.

There is much anxiety to hear from the Nezanis country, as the first regiment of cavalry stationed there had mutinied and committed great atrocities at Hausir and flesser.

No Europeans had been killed at Arnngzabad, and the mutineers were dispersed. At Albuhad twenty-six Europeans and their families were killed.

There was a rumored conspiracy at Calcutta, on the part of the Musselmen. The King of Oude and others were at the bottom of it.

Nearly all the native troops stationed there had been disarmed. The Goldby Times says that the rebellion was universal in the Bengal army.

The defense of Calcutta is a subject of much anxiety, and the government has consented to the enlistment of volunteers, who patrol the streets at night. The inhabitants are armed, and the public bridges, hotels and other principal places are garrisoned by the sailors belonging to the shipping in the river.

A letter from a highly respectable source at Madras, dated June 27, says that official intelligence had been received of the foil of. .Delhi.

WHO ARE ARISTOCRATS? Twenty years ago this one made candles, that one sold checsc and butter, another butchered, a fourth carried on a distillery, another was a contractor on canals, others were merchants and mechanics. They are acquainted with both ends of society, as their children will be alter them—though it will not do to say so out loud. For often you shall find that these toiling worms hatch butterflies—and they live about a year. Death brings a division of property and it brings new financiers. The old gent is discharged, tho }*oung gent takes his revenues aud begins to travel—towards poverty, which he reaches before death, or his children do if ho does not. So that, in fact, though there is a sort of moneyed race it is not hereditary it is accessible to all. Three good seasons of cotton will send a generation of men up—a score of years will bring them all down, and send their children to labor. The father grubs and grows rich—his children strut and use the money. The children, in turn, inherit the pride and go to shiftless poverty. their children, reinvigorated by fresh pie bi&Ji blood, and by the smell of the clod, come up again.

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Thus society, like a tree, draws its sap from the earth, changes it into leaves and blossoms, spreads them abroad great glory, sheds them off to fall back to the earth, again to mingle with the soil, and at length to re-appear

in new dress and fresh

SricfSrop RUSK.

We take the following from the NewTork Timei:

from &ew Orleans, make the startling announcement that Hon. Thomas J. Rusk, United States Senator from that State, committed suicide on tie 29th ult., by shooting himself through the head with a rifle. No cause is assigned for the act.

About a year"ago he lost his'wife, to whom he was said to have been much attached.— The sad event preyed upon his spirits—but his active mind could not brood over mis fortune, and he returned to Washington at the beginning of the late session of Congress. He took a deep interest in the construction of the projected wagon road to the Pacific, and the overland mail recently authorized by Congress. After the ad journment, last March, he remained at Washington for several weeks, to cpntri bute his personal aid in the initiation of those enterprises. When he saw them placed on what he deemed a satisfactory basis, and certain to be prosecuted with promptness and vigox, he left for home, where an active canvass was then progressing between his colleague, Gen. Sain. Houstan, arid Runnels, the regular Democratic c.indidate for the Governorship.

Gen. Rusk declined any part in the canvass, aud the next we hear of him is that he has died by his own hand. His health has not been very good for a year or more past, although his robust appearance gave no outward token of disease, and his friends rarely heard him complain. It is possible that when he returned to his home, aud threw off the harness of public life, the sad bereavement which had desolated his hearth came upon him with stunning forcc, prostrating his already exhausted frame, dethroning his intellect, and impelling him to seek oblivion in death but, until further advices, wc shall cling to the hope that there is some error in the melancholy intelligence, which will soon be exposed.

General Rusk was a most decided partisan, but no man ever doubted his sincerity. In manner he was blunt, frank and out-spo-ken and in heart, genial and kind. There was no guile in him. His disposition was always well-defined, and not to be mistaken. As an adversary he was bold, powerful, earnest and sincere. Conscious in his own integrity, he conceded the same virtue to his colleagues. As a friend, he was reliable and in liis whole life an exemplification of that true chivalry so often theorized and so seldom to be found. Eminently practical, possessed of an unusual share of plain common sense, liberal in his views of public policy, and ready at all times to join hands with whoever could aid him in accomplishing a public end, regardless of party affiliations, he has made his mark in the Senate Chamber on a host of successful public measures. If it be true that he is dead, his State has lost one she will find it difficult to replace, and his colleagues, who loved him as a brother, will drop many a manly tc-ar to his memory. —a n»t MEXICAN PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

By private letters, from Mcxico, dated the 3d inst., we learn that a Spanish invasion of that Republic was fully expected by the Government. We are further advised by disinterested correspondents at the Mexican capital that the defensive preparations now going on arc of a formidable nature, and that Spain, if she prosecutes the war, will meet with a very stuborn resistance, if not with actual defeat. A war with Spain, we arc told, is extremely popular among the masses, and though the Santanaists, the Conservatives, aud the Church party continue to conspire against the peace and honor of the country, they are numerically weak, and arc wholly unable to oppose the tide of popular opinion.— Perhaps Spain is the only power whose animosity can effectively rouse the nationality of the Mexican people. Their pride and patriotism will be eminently enlisted in this contest, and they will not yield without a desperate struggle. A war with Spain will bring out all their energies more than a war with any other nation would. It is, probably, on this account that Spain has hesitated so long, and has taken so many precautions before pushingmatters to extremes. Wc still, however, hold to the opinion we have all along expressed, that the present Spanish demonstration will not be followed by actual hostilities. A war at such a distance from home, with the Crimean example before her, is altogether too great a responsibility for Spain to undertake in her present exhausted condition. It is quite as much as the home Government can do to counteract the revolutions and insurrections which are breaking out over the whole kingdom as fast as they are suppressed. There is a deep, settled discontent among the Spanish people which only lacks an opportunity to make itself felt, and there are plenty of demagogues at the capital ready to fan the smouldering embers

in a flame. The Span­

ish Government know well the weakness and dangers of their position, and thev know that one false step, such as this war with Mexico might well prove to be, win plunge the country into difficulties of which the end can scarcely be foreseen. As to Mexico, though weak aud distracted enough by intestine feuds, she occupies altogether a different position. She will be fighting on her own soil, and her people will be stimulated by the memory of national wrongs to fight as they never fought before since their independence. At latest, advices, Yidaurri, the distinguished Gen eral of the North, was receiving instructions from the President to conduct a portion of defensive operations. Among the foreign gentlemen who have ofiered their swords to the Mexican Government in the present emergency, and whose services have been accepted, we find the name of Don Domingo de Goicouria.—New York Times.

BSTNothing has been heard lately from the Rev. Mr. Peck, whose daughter thought she wrote "Nothing to Wear." The Hartford Press thus "takes off" her claim:

The authorship of the leader, "Nothing to Drink," in the last number of The Roarer, a paper published in this city at semiintervals, is now claimed by the daughter of the wife of the son of a brother of a Next, ^justice of the peace down the river. She asserts that she wrote the first half of the article on two sheets of paper, and the last fourteen lines on a white-oak chip. It originated from her suffering from thirst in fiie woods last summer while on a blackberry expedition. She lost it a few days after in the crowd around the ticket wagoa of a circus. The only change from the original is "Let's all drink!" in place of "Give me pure water!" as she wrote it.

AFFRAY BETWEEN A SOUTHERNER AN£A WArTER nl NIAGARA PALM -THE WAR OF RACES.

An affray occurred^ at Niagara Falls yeflterdijK morning, causing considerable ex-

T^xbs advices, received by telegraphy jitembnt th^re. The particulars of the

case are stated to us by different parties substantially a^ollows: A gentleman from the South—Kentucky or Missouri-—with liis Wife and daughter, were stopping at the International HoteL On Tuesday they were on the Canada'side, and took a ferry skiff to return.

After the ladies had taken seats in the skiff, an impudent colored man took a seat between them. The -gentleman who accompanied these ladies, tiie husband of one "and father of the other, requested the negro politely to leave the seat that he might occupy it. The fellow refused to change his seat, and gave abusive language in exchange for politeness. The white man ejected the blackone by force from the seat and choked hifli some.

Yesterday morning the man and his wife came to the breakfast table of the International later than usual, and after nearly all the guests had left the dining-room.— After taking his seat at the tabic beside his wife, the negro with whom he had the altercation in the skiff on the previous day came up to .him and said: "You are the man who choked me yesterday." The reply was: "Yes, and I ought to have thrown you into the river."

At this point the black fellow struck the man on the head with a heavy tumbler, felling him senseless to the floor. The wife of the gentleman thus assaulted rose, and, with commendable heroism, dealt the fellow a blow which restrained him. Without an instant of delay, she ran up stairs to the rooms she occupied, and finding the door locked, her husband having the key, she burst the door open, seized a revolver, and ran to the dining-room. By this time the black waiters had passed their companion out of the house and out of danger. Tolerable quiet was restored by the interference of the proprietors of the house and friends.

The negro who had caused the disturbance ran to the river bank, intending to escape to Canada, but did not succeed.— He was arrested by a constable, and while on his way to answer to the magistrate, in passing a hotel a shot was fired from the second-story window. The ball did no mischief, but passed near the constable and his prisoner. Who fired the shot, no one has yet ascertained, or at least it is not publicly known. It is charged upon both parties.

The negro was taken before a magistrate examined and found guilty of the assault. The magistrate decided to sentence the fellow to pay a fine of fifteen dollars and go to jail for three months.

The Southerner who was assaulted came forward and requested that the fellow be not sent to jail. The magistrate then changed the sentence to a fine of twentyfive dollars, which was paid.—Rochester Union, Aug., 8.

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sucecssiul teacher. Moore had a difnculty

with the same child before, and had re-

tnc boy to de\ii him, and that iL

MEANNES DOES NOT PAY.—There is no irreater mistake that a business man makes

l©"Tt was a grand day in the old chivalric time the wine waa circling round the board in a noble hall, and the sculptured walls rangmth aentimenet and song.f-

The lady of Jkch kriightly heart was pledged aloud by name, find many a syllable significant of loveliness had been uttered, untiLit came St. Leon's tuf-n, when lifting Wc sparkling cup on high. '•1 driiik to ONE," ho said, "Whose image never may depart,

Deep graven oti this grateful heart, Till memory be dead. tr c*

To onettliosfe love for mc shall last, •... When lighter passions long have passed, So holy 'tis and true!

To on a wliosc love hath longer dwelt, 70 More deeply fixed, more keenly folt, -I Than any pladged to von." *"9?

Eacli guest np started at the word, And laid a hand upon his sword, With fury Hashing eye,' „r Aud Stanley s»d, "-We crave the nftme,

A SCIIOOI, 1 KACIIKR CUT TO PIECES. A shocking affair took place near Greenville, Hunt County, Texas, on the 3d of July, between a school teacher by the name of Moore and a man by the name of Jesse Howard and liis four sons. Moore undertook to chastise Howard's son, about twelve years old, for writing inilec.ent language in a young lady's copy-book. He had struck the boy but four or five blows with a switch, when the boy's brothers rushed in with clubs, and one of them struck the teacher with a heavy club on the forehead and felled him to the floor.— The other struck the teacher seven.'! times while down, but the teacher recovered himself and got out his pocket-knife and drove them out of the house. But at this juncture the old man rushed in with a large dirk knife. Moore begged Howard to spare his life, telling him he was then nearly dead. But Howard rushed upon him and plunged his long knife into him twice on his right side, both of which wounds entered the cavity. Moore broke from him, when Howard cut him on tho right shoulder, making a frightful gash foui trains would run between the two cities at inches long and to the bone. ita all his ji0

wounds, Moore broke from the house and

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clubs at him as he ran, one or two or which j0U|Jtl(3.ss famiiiar. The remainder of his hit him. Mooi escaped, but the pin si-,

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St Leon paused, as if hef would Not brcatho licr iino in caroless mo Off, Thus lightly to another Then bent his noble head as though To give that word the reverence due, ..

And gently said, "My MOTIIKK!" .'.

THE ORIGINATOR OF RAILROADS. We find in the Cincinnati Enquirer an interesting sketch of the Jatc George Stephenson, the great English Ka.'lxoad engineer, whoso fame as the projector cf railways, which now traverso not only thiifbut our owit and every other countr}r, is world-wide. From it wc learn that StcpTienson was the son of poor laborers employed in one of the collieries on the Tyne, and was born in one of the huts in the dirty village of Wylam. His father was a fireman. Stephenson being one of six children who were supported out of twelve shillings a week, the joint products of the labor of father and mother, was sent out at eight years old as herd-boy, at twopence a day. His ingenuity early displayed itself by the construction, of little mills. Then he became assistant fireman, and at the age of eighteen attained what was the summit of his ambition—that of fireman, at twelve shillings a week. It was not until he reached his eighteenth year that he learned to read at nineteen lie could write his name. He was always trying his hand at all kinds of inventions and machinery, and finally succeeded in mastering an old steam engine which was attached to the colliery, which he set in motion and employed, so as to attract the notice of his employers, and thereby to secure the place, of engine wright. From this time his mind became steadily and earnestly set on the idea of a locomotive steam engine. It had been thought of, snd some of its features suggested by others, but it was for Stephenson to combine them, and with suggestions of his own, render them practicable. Ilisfirst experiment was with a clumsy locomotive, whose highest eflbrls wc:e to d'ra.w thirty tons weight, at four miles an hoar. Inprovements were afterwards made, and in lo!5 Stephenson presented the locomotive substantially as it now is.

This locomotive was long used for carrying coal. Finally, however, he induccd the Directors of the .^locktou and Darlington Railroad to adopt his locomotive aud appoint hint engineer. It was a complete success. Thousands of persons a.ssembled to witness the first passenger train drawn by a locomotive on this road, expecting to seethe "traveling engine" blown up.— They were astonished at the results exhib ited. This was the first attempt in England to conduct a train of cars filled with °c passengers with a locomotivc.

Then followed the grand railroad experiment between Liverpool and Manchester, with the history of which, including the opposition of the people, trie mobocratic violence, the hostility of corporations, the utter disbelief of Parliament of Stephenson's assurance that the day would come when

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made and is making. Such a policy is very much like the farmer who sows three pecks of seed when he ought to have sown five, jTHE '-BOi'' lir..Vit\ ^I)IXC)N OIJ.sTIand as a recompense for the leanness of NAl El/i R.^FL-s .S insi I RLEpO.M. his soul, onlv gets ten when he ought to It will be remembered that during the have got fifteen bushels of grain, livery inter we published se\eral touching apbody has heard of the proverb, "penny peals in behalf of a free born negro named wise and pound foolish." A liberal ex-1 Henry Dixon, who had been sold into slapenditure in the way of business is always very under the laws of a Southern State, sure to be a capital investment.

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cut his d—d heart out. It is gencia „rCat invention which he was the first to supposed that the bo} was uiged to pro- |atja.)t ]ic

wil-n ATruirri in phnctisp nun nrm fhfi timior TT 1 pincss or mankind, lie Jived 111 great

voke Moore to chastise him, and the father and sons were waiting near by to rush in. The old man's bail bond was fixed at $4,000 the oldest sons at S2,000, and the other three sons at $250 each. It was premed that they could not get bail.

hints in regard to the

wai

,tSj convenience, and hap-

wealth, and with a reputation for honesty and truth above reproach, to the age of six-ty-seven, and died on the 12th of August, 1848. His son, a distinguished engineer also, has placed the world under great obligations by the able and agreeable manner in which he has cxecutedjjthc pious task of a a

e.cntJul, glorious, and honorable

and was then held as a slave in the State I

are people who are short-sighted enough of Alabama. These appeals proceeded to believe that their interests can be best jfroin the pen of our esteemed fellow citipromoted by grasping and clinging to all zen Judge Sampson, and were creditable

get, and never letting a cent slip alike to his head and heart. They were through their fingers, As a general thing, widely published by the press of other lo it will be found, other things being equal, that he who is most liberal is most successful in business. Of course we do not mean to be inferred that a man should be prodigal in his expenditure but he should show to his customers, if he is a trader, of those whom he may be doing any kind of

calities and the substance of them repeated from the pulpit. The result was, that enough money was raised to buy the "boy" and effect his restoration to freedom.

This money was sent to some attorneys in Dixon's neighborhood, who, in accordance with their instructions, announced to

business with, that in all hi3 transactions, the "boy" that they were charged with the as well as social relations, he acknowledges agreeable duty of purchasing him and set-1 the everlasting fact that there

can be no

ting him at liberty. The "boy" thanked

prosperity or good feeling in a his liberators and their agents but "recommunity where benefits

spectfully declined the proffered boon.

cal.—Hunt's Merchants' Masazinc. Judge Sampson was notified of the failure of the "mission," and the same fact was ADou RACE.—HenryA.Ewersof Green-j published in a local paper, whose account .1.1 \r_ -L .ii. Z. m/tnl* irrt a/? in full .Tllfl(ff* field, Massachusetts, was going last week to Wisconsin to reside, so he left his dog with Henry Briggs as a small memento.— But the dog followed Mr. Ewers to the depot, and then followed the cars to South Deerfield, where he arrived while the train was stopping there having made eight miles in twenty-two minutes

we re-published in full! Judge Sampson and the friends of the 'boy' Henry were incredulous^-»they naturally- suspected that a bogus 'Henry Dixon' had been got up for the occasion, who had played the part assigned him in a most admirable manner The Democrat, the organ of tho "friends of human freedom," according to custom.

assailed us for giving correnoy to the

C\°usc

ac*

count of the matter which we copied from the Alabama paper and charitably^accused us of some sinister object or design in

They were determined to probe

the affair to the bottom, and show up tne game of fraud that had been played in the name of the'boy* Dixon. So Mr. S. D. Porter was selected for the purpose, and induced to make a journey 'way down in ^Alabama" to find the genuine Henry

Dix­

on and redeem him from a cruel fate thrice worse than death. Mr. Porter has now returned—but ho brought no Henry Dixon. He found tho 'boy,' as we learn, without difficulty—the genuine Henry Dixon, whoso misfortune had evoked Jso much sympathy. Mr. Porter conversed with him about Rochester and Rochester people, till he satisfied himself that the Henry who stood before him was no counterfeit, and then he proffered him his liberty. But the 'boy' refused to accept'liis freedom thought he was better off where he is and no measure of entreaty sufficed to change his sentiments on that point—but stay in Alabama he would! He had lived a good part of his life as a free negro at the North and his comparatively brief experience as a Southern slave taught him that the latter condition is the best. Strange as it may appear, THE FACT is now established beyond all question, for Mr. Porter is a man of rare intelligence, and lie is an Abolitionist in principle.—Were it possible to have induced Henry Dixon to exchange slavery for freedom, Mr. Porter would have done it. But he failed. The Democrat will please ignore this whole matter lest it be suspected of having "an object" at heart adyerse to tho

of "Human Freedom!" Thosd who subscribed their means to purchase the 'boy' will learn these facts with astonishment hut they certainly need feel no mortification at ill?- result. Their contributions do them honor it is Pot their fault that they failed in their bencYolciiJ purposes.

We would suggest that this Dixon fund be appropriated to some other humane object, under the direction of a committee of the contributors. They will probably not be obliged to wait long for an opportunity to use it in as good a cause as the redemption of a negro who prefers slavery to lib-erty.-—Rochester Union and Advertiser.

Walter N. Ilaldeman, the editor

and proprietor of the Louisville Courier, seems perpetually to ache for a fight with Prentice. When Gallagher was in the Courier, Prentice challenged hiin to mortal combat for an article that Ilaldeman wrote, and when Ilaldeman took the responsibility, Mr. P. had nothing to say.— The other day the witty plug ugly sought a street fight with Durrctt, of the Courier, lie article occasioning the row being from the pen of Ilaldeman. But when Prentice discovered that., did ho light Ilaldeman? Not a bit of it and Ilaldeman republished the offensive paragraph saying Prentice is "a notorious drunkard," etc., and remarks in addition: "Those who have read the correspon deuce between Prentice and Durreti, will recollect that Prentice did not attempt deny the truth of the above charges. Not he! He did not attempt to show that they wore in any way incorrect, but demanded of a gentleman who had nothing to do with (ho mutter, that they fjhould he "withdrawn." "Now, if the Plug Ugly editor thinks wc did him injustice, let'him proceed in tho pro?cr way to right himself.— Let him have a commission appointed, and if we do not demonstrate by as strong testimony as ever was produced before a court of justice, the entire truth of every thing wc wrote, we will publicly acknowledge our shame rid be content to wear the brand that should be marked upon us, in case our allegations were not. made good to the letter. Nay, more! If he gives us' {tower to send for "persons and paper," we will establish some facts that will make even this community, who knows him so well, open their eyes with wonder. What, says the Plug Ugly editor?. Dare lie facts the truth'!"

Mr. I'rentice, why don't you shoot Hal-, deman He is your man.—Cm. Com.

Ax AiiMor.ous iSrinrTUAwsT.—At the Spiritual Convention, hold at Ravenna, Portage co., on the 4th and 5th, Mrs. Lewis, of Cleve., said 'She was in favor of universal freedom and that loving whomsoever she chose was a part of that freedom, and to confine her to love one man was an abridgement of her rights. She said, that, 'although she had one husband in Cleveland, she considered herself married to tho whole human race. All men were her husbands, and she had an undying love for them. She said also, that 'what business is it to the world whether one man is the father of my children, or ten men arc I have the right to say who shall be the father of my offspring.'

A GOOD IDEA—NOT GUILTY, NOT PROVED. Our readers no doubt noticed-, in a latereport of the doings in a court in Glasgow, Scotland, upon the return of the jury to give in their verdict, on the trial for murder against a Miss Smith, that the jury made return to the several counts in the indictment. To some they returned "notguilty," to others "not proved." In this country that jury would have made a return to the whole indictment "not guilty," when in fact they really think the prisoner is guilty, yet are satisfied that not sufficient strictly legaltestimony has been introduced to «ud •. tain the charge. Besides this, it gives au acquittal two bearings, a legal one and a moral one.

A Goon HORSE.—The New York Spirit of the Times gives the following characteristics of a good horse: 1. His eyes, even when seen in the stable, are perfectly clear and transparent, and the pupils or apples of the eyes aro alike in eolor and size. 2. On being nipped in the gullet, ho will utter a sound like that from a bellows. If, on the contrary, he should give vent to a dry, husky, short cough, beware of him. Ilia wind is unsound. 3. His legs are smooth and "clean." If you find bunches or puffs, or a difference in size, though he may not be lame, disease lurks there. 4. If broad and full between the eyes, he is susceptible of being trained to almost anything. If some white or particolored, he is docile and gentle.

®S5f""'John, I fear you have been forgetting me," said a bright-eyed girl to her sweetheart. "Yes, Sue,

I

have been for getting you

these two vcars."