Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 March 1860 — Page 1

NEW SERIES-VOL. XI, NO 33.

Tithonus.*

[From the Cornhill Magazine] *7 me! *7 me! tho troodidecay and fall. jSi-i1Tfc« (xr« weep their burthen to the pound. .. Mad comes and Mill the earth and lies boneatn,

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'And after many a rammer diet the swan. Me only crticl immortality Oouiumc* wither (lowly in thine armst

Here at the quiet limit of the world,

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A white haired shadow, roaming like a dream ""The ever'»ircnt *pacei of the east. J&iv Far-folded mists, and gleaming hall* of morn.

Alas! for this gray shadow, once a man—

So glorious in his beauty and thy choice, Who madst him thy chosen, that he seem'd To hit great heart none other than a God! 1 anked thee, "Olve me immortality."

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did*t thon grant mine ajfcinc with a raulc,

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men who care not how they give.

But thy ttromrhours indignant work'd their wi.u. And beat ma down anil marred and wasted mu. And tho' they conld not end me, left me maim To dwell In prcrenee of immortal youth. Immortal age beside immortal youth. And all I wit, in ashes. Canthylore, Thy beauty, make «mend*.tho' even now, Close over us, the nil ver star, thjr guide. Shines in thoso tremulous eyes that fill with

To hoar me? Let mc

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go:

take back thy gift

Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men. Or pass beyond the Koal of ordinance Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?

A soft air fans the cloud apart: there comes A glimpse of that dark world where I was born, Oncc more tho old mysterious slimmer steals From thy purb brows and from thy shoulder*pure. And bosom beating with a heart renew'd. Thy cheek begins to redden thro' the gloom. Thy sweet'eyeu brighten slowly close to mine. Ere yet they blind the stars.and that wild team Which loro thee, yearnii^ for thy yoke, arise. And shake the darkness from their looson'd manes And beat the twilight into flakes of fire.

Lo! ever thus thou growest beautiful 7n sllenco.thcn before thine answer given Departest, aid thy tears are on my cheek.

Will thou ever scare me with thy tears. And make me tremble lest a saying learnt, In days far off, on that dark earth, be true?'•'The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts."

Ay me! ay me! with what another heart In days far-off. and.with what other eyes I used to watch—if 1 bo he that watch d— .•*, .. The lucid outlino forming round thee, saw The dim curls kindle into sunny ring*. Chang'd with thy. mystic change, and felt my blood «Iow with the glow that slowly crimson'd all Thy presence and th? portals, while I lay. Mouth, forehead, eyelids growing dewy-warm With kisses balmier than half opening buds (If April, and could hear the lips that kiss Whispering I knew not what of wild and sweet, lljiko that strange song I heard Appollo sing

While llion like amiat rose into flowers. •.

Yet hold me not for ever in thin* East: How can my nature longer mix with thine? 'Coldly thy rosy shadows Vithe me, cold •Arc all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet

Upon thy glimering thresholds, when the stem Floats up from those dim fields about the homes •rhappy men that hare tho power to die, A«4 graasy barrows of tho happier dead. Release me, and restore me to the ground Thou seest all things, thou wilt sen my grave, Thou wilt renew tiir morn by morn, I earth in earth fw*ettlie»**njpty court-", And thte returning on thjr silirer wheels.

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•Tithorius was a son ofLaomedon, King of Troy. He was so beautiful that Auro-. ra became enamored of him, and carried him away. He begged of Aurora to grant him immortality, and the Goddess granted it: but, forgetting to ask the youth he then enjoyed, he soon grew old and decrepid he then prayed Aurora to remove him from the world.

AN ELOQUENT EXTRACT.

We make the following eloquent extract from a lute speech of Senator Hunter, of Virgiuia. In speaking of the possibility of tie efforts of thu Republicans to overthrow the Government proving unsuccessful, he said:

Sir, in that event, the accusing voice of human history will liug through all tho ages to impeach them at the bar of posterity for having destroyed the noblest scheme the man has ever devised and up-on-that fearful issue each of the succeeding generations of men will rccord its verdict of guilty against them. Their own descendants will heap reproaches upon the names of those who disappoint theni of the destinv which would have been the richest inheritance that one generation could bequeath another. Hut when it is asked upon what, view of the Constitution upon what consideration of religion or philanthropy upou what calculation of interest, general or sectional, the fatal deed was done where will the satisfactory answer be found, and who shall arise in that day to defend their name from the foul reproach? "Mr. President, when I think of what it is that may be destroyed by this narrow spirit of sectional hate and bigotry, I turn away from the contemplation with a feeling of almost indignant despair, but I will not, as yet, despair of my country. I will yet hope tliat the great army of Northern Democrats and conservatives will arise in the might of a noble cause, and expel the intruders from the scat of power. I will trust iu the influence of truth, whose empire is felt in every human heart wheu onco it has touched it, I will put my faith higher yet—in i'rovidcuce, for it cau not be that God will pcimit such a scheme of •government as this, freighted, as it might have been, with the highest hopes of humanity, to be wrecked in the wild orgies of madmen and fanatics."

A mau who is writing an interesting

Billiards Practically Considered.— The Bucyrus (Ohio) Journal thus speaks of the game of billiards:

Yes, sir. we can tell you all about billiards. It is a game consisting of two men in their shirt sleeves, punching balls about An a table, and presenting the keeper with twenty oeuts, or as is most compionly the case in this country, telling liiin to just mark it do wn. This last-mentioned custom hat given them the title of billiard-mark-ers. If jou have a decided genius for the gaiue, you will make a superior player at an expense of about $5,000. Blacksmiths, carpenters, 4c., play it for exercise.' It was invented by a shrewd saloon-keeper who was not satisfied with the profits on whisky, and was too much opposed to .temperance to water it.

MF* A re turned Califoroian has a right to rest upon his ore.

(From Robert Dale Owen's "Footfalls on tho Bonn d*r* of Another World."

THE OLD KENT MANOR-HOUSE.

In October, 1857, and forseveral months afterwards, Sirs. wife of a fieldofficer of high rank in the British army, was residing in Kanihurst Manor-house, near Leigh, in Kent, England. From the time of her first occupying this ancient residence, every inmate of the house had been more or less disturbed at nightnot usually during the day—by knockings and sounds as of footsteps, but more especially by voices which could not be accounted for. These last were usually heard in some unoccupied adjoining room sometimes as reading alond, occosionally as if streaming. The servants were much alarmed. They never saw any thing but the cook told Mrs. that on one occasion, in broad daylight, hearing the rustle of a silk dress' close behind her, and which seemed to touch her, she turned suddenly round, supposing it to be her mistress, but to her gaeat surprise and terror, conld see nobody. Mrs. II 's brother, a bold, light-headed young officer, fond of field-sports, and without the slightest faith in the reality of visitations from another world, was much disturbed and annoyed by these voices, which he declared must be those of his sister and of a lady friend of hers sitting up together to chat all night.

On two occasions, when a voice which he thought to resemble his sister's rose to a scream, as if imploring aid, he rushed from his room, at two or three o'clock in the morning, gun in hand, into his sister's bedroom, there to find hei quietly asleep.

On the second Saturday in the above month of October, Mrs. drove over to the railway station at Tunbridge to meet her friend Miss S whom she had- invited to spend some weeks with her. This young lady had been in the habit of seeing apparitions, at times, from early childhood.

When, on their return, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, they drove up to the entrance of the manor-house, Miss S— perceived on the threshold the appcarance of two figures, apparently an elderly couple, habited in the costume of a former age. They appeared as if standing on the ground. She did not hear any voice, and, not wishing to render her friend uneasy, she made at the time no remark to her in connection with this apparition.

She saw the appearance of the same figures in the same dress, several times within tho next ten days, sometimes in one of the passages—always by daylight.— They appeared to her surrounded by an atmosphere nearly of the color usually called neutral tint. On the third occasion they spoke to her, and stated that they had been husband and wife, that in former days they hau possessed and occupied that manor-house, and that their name was Children. They appeared sad and downcast and whea Miss S inquired the cause of their melancholy, they replied that they had idolized this property of theirs that their pride and pleasure had centered in its possession that its improvements engrossed their thoughts and that it troubled them to knovr that it had passed away from their family, and to see it now in the hands of careless strangers.

I asked Miss S how they spoke.— She replied that the voice was audible to her as that of a human b«ing's, and that she belivcd it was heard also by others in en adjoining room. This she inferred from the fact that she was afterward asked with whom she had been conversing.

After a week or two, Mrs. It beginning to suspect that something unusual, connected with the constant disturbances in the house, had occurred to her friend, questioned he closely on the subject and then Miss S related to her what she had seen and heard, describing the appearance and relating the conversation of the figures calling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Children.

that dinner was served, and that he was quite famished. At the moment of completing her toilet, and as she hastily turned to leave her bedchambcr, not dreaming

•series of papers about "Boarding House of any thing spiritual there, in the door- ... way, stood the same female ugurc Miss Life," says

If the attics of New York would disgorge their inhabitants to-day, a greater variety of remarkable people would be seen than all tlic soirees, receptions aud asthetic clubs of the season can produce. To the attic ooincs fallen greatness, disappointed hopes, aspiring genius, the refugee from other lands, the seedy philosopher and the penniless poet. Too light of gold to gravitate to a lower level, thep ascend the attic by the force of a natural law. Here life iB lived, seldom in comedy, but often in direful tragedy. How often I have lifted my eyes to the top of a stately mansion, to the narrow, prison like windows which crowd its summit, and said, "I wonder who rooms in the attic?"

S had described, identical in appearance and in costume, even1 to the old point lace ou her brocaded silk dress, while beside her was the figure of her husband.— They uttered no sound, but above the figure of the lady, as if written in phosphoric light in the dusk atmosphere that surrounded her, where the words "Dame Children," together with some other words, intimating that, having never aspired beyond the joys and "Borrows of this world, she had remained "earth-bound." These last, however, Mrs. scarcely paused to decipher for a renewed appeal from her brother, as to whether they were to have any dinner that day, urged her forward.— The figure, filling up the doorway, remained stationary. There was no time for hesitation she closed her eyes, rushed through the apparition and into the dining room, throwing up her hands and exalaiming to Miss S—-—, "Oh, my dear, I've walked through Mrs. Children!"

This was the only timo during her residence in the old manor-house that Mrs. R—— witnessed the apparition of these figures.

And it is to be remarked that her bedchamber ab the time was lighted not only by candles, but by a cheerful fire, and that was alighted lamp in the corridore which communicatcd thence to.the dining-room.

This repetition of the word "Children" caused the ladies to make inquiries among the servants and in the neighborhood, whether any family bearing that same had ever occupied the manor-house. Among those whom they thought likely to know something about it wa« Mrs-Sophy O-—, a mtm ia the fohily, w^o had spent har

life in that vicinity. Bat all inquiries were fruitless every one to whom they put the question, the nurse included, declaring that they had never heard of such a name. So they gave up all hopes of being able to unravel the mystery.

It so happened, however, that about four months afterwards, this nurse, going home for a holiday to her family at Riverhead, about a mile from Seven Oakes, and recollecting that one of her sisters-in-laws, who livecTnear Tier, an old woman of seventy, had fifty years before been housemaid in a family then residinjg at Ramhurst, inquired of her if she had ever heard of a family named Children. The sister-in-law replied— that-n© such family occupied the manor-honse when she was there but she recollected to have seen an old man who told her that in bis boyhood he had assistod to keep the hounds of the Children family, who were then residing at Ramhurst. This information the nurse communicated to Mrs. R-—• on her return and thus it was that that lady first informed that a family named Children had once occupied the manor-house.

All these particulars I received in December, 1858, "directly from the ladies themselves, both being together at the time.

Even up to this point the case, as it presented itself, was oertainly a very remarkable one. But I resolved, if possible, to obtain further confirmation in the matter.

I inquired' "of Miss'S- whether the apparitions had communicated to her any additional particulars connected with the family. She replied that she recollected one which she had then received from them, namely, that her husband's name was Richard. At a subsequent period, likewise, she had obtained the date of Richard Children's death, which, as communicated to her, was 1753. She remembered, also, that on one ocasion a third spirit appeared with them, which they stated was their son but she did not get his name. To my further inquiries as to the costume in which the (alleged) spirit appeared, Miss S replied, "That they were of the period of Queen Anne or one of the early Georges, she could hot be sure which, as the fashions in both were similar.1'

These were the exact word3. Neither she nor Mrs. however, had obtained any information tending either to verify or to refute these particulars.

Having an invitation from some friends residing near Seven Oaks, in Kent, to speud with them the Christmas week of 1858, I had a good opportunity of prosecuting my inquiries in the way of verification. 1 called with a friend, Mr. on t.iic nnr.se, Mrs. Sophy 0 Without alluding to the disturbances, I simply asked her if she knew any thing of an old family of the name of Children. She said she knew very little cxccpt what she had heard from her sistcr-in-lav,-, namely, that they used in former days to live at a man-or-house called Ramhurst. I asked her if she had ever been there. "Yes," she said, "about a year ago, as nurse to Mrs. ." "Did Mrs. 11 I asked her, "know any thing about the Children family?"

She replied that her mistress had once made inquiries of her about them, wishing to know if they had ever occupied the manor-house, but at that time she (Mrs. Sophy) had nevor heard of such a family so she could give the lady no satisfaction. "How did it. happen," I asked, "that Mrs. supposed such a family might oncc have occupied the house?" "Well, sir," she replied, "that is more than I can tell you, unless, indeed, (and here she hesitated and lowered her voice) it was thorugh a young lady that was staying with mistress. Did you ever hear, sir," she added, looking around her in a mysterious way, "of what they call spiritrappers?"

I intimated that Ihad heard the name. "I'm not afraid of such things," she pursued "I never thought they would harm me, andlrin not one of your believers in ghosts but then to be sure, we did have such a time in that old house." "Ah' what sort of a time?" "With knOckings, "sir, and the noise of footsteps, and people talking of nights.— Many a time I've heard the voices when I was going along the passage at two or three o'clock in the morning, carrying the baby

Up to that time Mrs. though her rest had been frequently broken by the noise in tlie house, and though she, too, has the occasional perception of apparitions, had seen nothing, nor did any thing appear to her for a month afterward.— One day, however, about the end of that time, wlwn she had ceased to expect auy apparition to herself, she was hurriedly dressing for a late dinner, her brother, who to my mistress. I don believe in ghosts had just returned from a day's shooting, I but you may be sure, sir, it was something bavins called to her in impatient tones! serious when mistress'brother got up in the middle of- the-night and came to his sister's room with his loded gun iu his hand. Aud then there was another brother he got out of his bed one night and declared there were robbers in the houso." "Did you see any thing?" "No, sir, never." -1 "Nor any of the other servants." "I think not, sir but the cook was so frightened!" "What happened to her?"

Well, sir, no harm happened to her,' exactly only she was kneeling down making her fire one morning, when up she started with a cry like. I heard her, and. came to see what was the matter. "Oh," says she "nurse if I didn't hear the rustling of a silk dress all across the kitchen!" "Well, cook," says I, "you know it couldn't be me. being I never wear silk." "No," says she—and she sort of laughed—"no, I knew it wasn't you, for I've heard the same three or four times already and whenever I look around there's nothing there!"

I thanked the good woman, and then went to see the sister-in-law, who fully confirmed her part of the story.

But all this afforded me no clue either to the Christian name, or the date of occupation, or the year of Mr. Children's death. I visited, in search of these, the church and graveyard at Leigh, the nearest to the Ramhurst property, and the old church at Tunbridge making inquiries in both places on the subject. But to no purpose. All I conld learn was, that a certain George Children left, in the year 1718, a weekly, gift of bread .to the poor, and that a descendant of the family, also named George, dying some forty years ago, and not residing at Ramhurst, had a marble tablet, in the Torbridge Church, erected to his memory.

Sextons and tombstones having failed ma, a friend suggested that I might jtossibly obtain the information I sought by Ma-

CBAWrOBDSYILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, -INDIANA, MARCH 3,

iting a clergyman. I did so, and with tne most fortunate result. Simply statins to him that I had taken the liberty td call in search of some particulars touching the early history of a Kentish family of the name of Children, he replied that, singolarly enough, he was in possession of a document, coming to him through a private source, and containing, he tho't likely, the very details of which I was in search. He kindly intrusted it to me and I found iu it, among numerous particulars regarding another member of the family, not many years sincc deceased, certain extracts from the "Hasted Papers," preserved in the British Museum these being contained in a letter addressed by one of the members of the Children family to Mr. Hasted. Of this document, which may be consulted in the Museum library, I here transcribe a portion, as* follows: "The family of Children were settled for a great many generations at a house called, from their own,name, Cbildrens, situated at a place called Nether-street, otherwise Lower-street, in Hildenborough, in the parish of Tunbridge. George Children, of Lower-street, who was Higb Sheriff of Kent in 1698, died without issue in 1718, and by. will devised the bulk of his. estate to Richard Children, eldest son of his late uncle, William Children, of Hedcorn, and his heirs. This Richard Children, who settled

himself,

at Ramhurst, in

the parish of Leigh, married Anne, daughter of John Saxby, in the parish of Leeds, by whom he had issue of four sons and two daughters," &c.

Thus I ascertained that the first of the Children family who occupied Ramhurst as a residence was named Richard, and that he settled there in the early part of the reign of George I. The year of his death however, was not given. This last particular I did not ascertain till several months afterward, when a friend, verged in atiquarian lore, to whom I mentioned my desire to obtain it, suggested that the. same Hasted, an extract from whose work I have given, had published, in 1778, a history of Kent, and that in that work I might possibly obtain the information I sought. In effect, after considerable search I there found the following paragraph: "In the eastern part of the parish of Lighe, (not Leigh,) near the river Med way, stands an ancient mansion called Ramhurst, oncc reputed a manor, and held of the honor of Gloucester. It continued iu the Culpepper family for for several generations. It passed by sale into that of Saxby, and Mr. William Saxby conveyed it, by sale, to Children. Richard Children, Esq., resided here, and dial possessed of it hi 1753, aged eighty-three years. He was succeeded by liis% eldest son, John Children, of Tunbridge, Esq., whose son, George Children, of Tunbridge, Esq., in the present possessor."

Thus I verified the last remaining particular, the date of Richard Children's death. It appears from the above, also, that Richard Children was the only representative of the fa'mily who lived p.nd died at Ramhurst. But as of Tunbridge.— From the private memoir above referred to, I had previously ascertained that the family-scat, after Richard's time was Ferox Hall, near Tunbridge.

It was communicated to me about fourteen months only after the events occurred, by both the chief witness, and incidentally confirmed, shortly afterward, by a third.

The social position and personal character of the two la'lies to whom the figures appeared preclude, at the outset, all idea whatever of willful misstatement or deception. The sight and sounds to which they testified did present themselves to their senses. Whether their senses played them false is another question. The theory of hallucination remains to be dealt with.— Let us inquire whether it be applicable in the present case.

Miss S first saw the figures, not in the obscurity of night, not between sleeping and waking, not in some old chamber reputed to be haunted, but in the open air, and as she was descending from a carriage, in broad daylight. Subsequently, she not only saw them, but heard them speak, and that always in daylight. There are, however cases on record in which the senses of hearing and sight are alleged to have been both hallucinated. That of Tasso, for example. And if the case rested here, such is the interpretation which the physician would put upon it. But some weeks afterward another lady sees the appearance of the self same figures. This complicates the case.

For, ase lsewhere shown, it is generally admitted by medical writers on the subject, that, while cases of collective illusion are common, it is doubtful whether there be on

It is true, and should be taken into account, that Miss S bad described the apparition to her friend, and that for a time the latter had some expectation of witnessing it. And this will suggest to the skeptic, as explanation, the theory of expec* tant attention. But in the first place, it has never been proved that mere expectant attention eould produce the appearance of a figure with detail of costume, to say nothing of the phosphoresoent letters appear^ ing above it, whieh Mrs. certainly

did not expect and secondly, Mrs. expresssly. stated to me that as four weeks had elapsed, and she had seen nothing, she had ceasedr to expect it at all. Still less can we imagine that her thoughts would be occupied with the matter at the moment when, hurried by a hungry and impatient brother, she was. hastily completing, in a cheerfully lighted room, her dinner toilet It would be difficult to select a moment out of the twenty-four hours when the im agination would be less likely to be busy with-spiritual fancies, or could be suppos ed excited to the point necessary to rcpro duce-(if"it caff 'ever reproduce) the image of a described apparition:

But, conceding these improbabilities what are we to make of the name of Children, communicatcd to the one lady through th.e .sense of hearing, and to the other through' that of sight?

The name is a very uncommon one, and both the ladies answered me that they had never even heard it before, to say nothing of thier being wholly ignorant whether any family beaming that name had formerly occupied the old house. This latter point they seek to clear up, but

neither

nor neighbors can tell them any thing about it. They remained for four months witbotil &ny explanation. At the end of that time one of' the servants, going home, accidentally ascertains that about a hundred years ago, or more, a family named Children did occupy that very house.

What could imagination or expectation have to do with this? The images of the figures may be set down, in the case of both the ladies, as hallucination but the name remains a stubborn link, connccting these with the actual world.

If even we were to argue—what no one will believe—that this agreement of family name was but a chance coincidence, there remain yet other coincidence to account for before the whole difficulty is settled.— There is the alleged Christian as well as family name—Richard Children there is the date indicated by the costume, "the reign of Queen Anne or one of the early Georges and, finally, there is the year of Richard Children's death.

These the ladies stated to me, not knowing, when they did so, what the actual facts were. These facts I myself subsequently disinterred, obtaining the evidence of a document preserved in the British Museum in proof that Richard Children did inherit the Ramhurst property in the fourth year of the reign of George I, and did make the Ramhurst mansion-house his family residence. And he is the only representative of the family who lived and died there. His son John may have resided there for a time but, previous to his decease, ho had left the place for another seat near Tunbridge.

Then there is the circumstance that misfortune compelled the descendants of Richard Children to sell the Ramhurst property, and that their ancestor's family mansion, passing into the hands of strangers, was degraded (as that ancestor would doubtless have considered it) to an ordinary farm-house all this still tallying with the communications made.

It is perfectly idle, under the circumstances, to talk of fancy or fortuitous coincidence. Something other than imagination or accident, be it what it may, deter

It remains to be added that, in 1S1G, in mined the minute specifications obtained

consequence of events reflecting no discredit on the family, they lost all their property, and were compelled to sell Ramhurst, which has since been occupied, though a somewhat spacious mansion, not as a family residence, but as a farm-house. I visited it, and the occupant assured me that nothing worse than rats and mice disturbed it now.

I am not sure that I have found on record, among what are usually termed ghost stories, any narrative better authenticated than the foregoing. It involves, indeed, no startling or romantic particulars, and warning of death, no disclosure of murder, no circumstances of terror or danger, but is all the more reliable on that account, since those passions which are wont to excite and mislead the imaginations of men were not called into play.

from the apparitions in the Old Keut Man-or-IIouse. The lesson taught by this 'story—if wc admit the figures which presented themselves to the two ladies to have been, in verity, the apparitions of the Children family—is, that crime is not necessary to attract tbo spirits of the departed back to earth that a frame of mind of and exclusively worldly cast—a character that never bestowed a thought upon any thing beyond this earth, and was troubled only by the cares of possession and the thoughts of gain—may equally draw down the spirit, though freed from the body, to gather, cumber and sorrow amid the sccncs of its former carc. If this be so, how strong the motive not to suffer the present au the temporal, necessary aud proper in their places as they are, so completely to engross us as to usurp tho place, and wholly to exclude the thoughts of the future aud the spiritual!

BRITISH GOLD L\ AMERICAN POLITICS.

Wm. Lloyd Garrison's paper, the Liberator, contains a list of the names of the Britifcli Abolitionists who have recently given money toward the causc of Abolitionism in the United States, and as a consequence and matter of course, for the purpose of revolutionizing, if possible, this Union by bloodshed. Within a short time these pious philanthropists of Great Britain have freely supplied means, some of which was probably intended to aid John Brown in his attempt to get up a servile war and horrible massacre. Fred Douglas and other emmissarics are now in Europe, soliciting more mouey for the same purpose. The Rev. Dr. Cheever, of New York, a pet preacher of the Abolitionists, sent to England for money to carry on the war against slavery. In the campaign of 1856, it was stated, with a show of truth, that the British aristocracy had furnished funds to the Abolitionists to assist in the election of Fremont, which event Wendell

Phillips declared would be the first crack ,je

in the iceberg, meaning that in the event!

of a Republican triumph in that contest,

r.t t»»/ I

thc dissolution of the Union was not far distant. This gang of traitors is merely the advance guard of the Republican party. The two are so closely allied that it is difficult to discriminate between them and whatever differences did exist is grad-

record a single authentic case of collective ually disappearing. All experience proves hallucination: the inference being that if two persons see the same appearance it is not mere imagination: there is some objective foundation for it.

that the great body of a fanatical party eventually follows the courso of its most ultra leaders. Of this the Republican party is a striking example. It is becoming less and loss reasonable in its demands, and les3 conservative in its aims every day, and is gradually sinking to that abominable depth of depravity when its leaders will depend upon the British aristocrats and snobs for the money to carry on elections. All signs point with unerrring certainty to this end.—Ohio Statesman.

t9"The Abolitionists up at Oberlin~are not very quiet though they keep themselves in "Reserve.—"Louisville Journal.

r,1860.

MY DEBORAH LEE.

Those who have read Poc's Annabel Lee will appreciate the following parody

In the agneish eonntree.

The angels wanted her in Heaven, (llut they nuvcr asked for me.) And that is tho reason, I rather Bness.

servants

'Tis a dozon or so of years a*o. Somowhore in tho n'rstern eountrec. That a nice firl lived, as re Hoosicn know.

Ify the nnme of Deborah Leo: Ilor sister was loved by Edgar I'oe, lilt Deborah by me.

Now I was green, and rt»e was areoo, As a summer'.* squash might be. Andwelorod a* warmly as other folks, 1 and my Deborah Lee-

In tho agneish West eonntree. That the cold March wind and the doctor and death Took off my Deborah I.ci—

My beautiful Doborah L«ie—Fr..m tho warm sunshine and the opening flower. And took her away from me.

Ourlovo wns as strong as asix-horso team, Or the love of folks older than we. And possibl/wiser than we. But death, with the uid of doctor and steam.

Was rather to many for ine He closed the peepers and silenced the breath Of my swoetheart, Dcbfteah Lee And her form lies cold in the prairie mold,

Silent and cold—ah, mc!

The foot of the huntershall press her grave, And the prairie's sweet wild flowers. In thoir odorous beiuty around it wave,.

Through all the sunny hours The still, bright summer hours. And birds shall sing in tho tufted grass .-j

And the ncctar-laden bee. With his dreary hum on his gauzo wings pass— She wakes no more tome

Ah! never more to me!. Tho' the wild birds sing and the wild flowers spring. She wakes no inoro to mc.

Yet oft. in the hu.ih of the dim, still night, A vision of beauty I see Gliding soft to my bedside—a phantom of iighi.

Dear, beautiful Deborah Leo— My bride that was to be. And I wake to mourn that the doctor ana desth And the cold .March wind, should stop the breath

Of my darling Deborah Lee— Adorable Deborah Lee That unguis should want her up in Hcavon

Before they wanted nie!

THE

SPRING

QUEEN Ol' THE VALE

There is a mist upon the mountain. There are shadows on the hill, And the frost-imprisone'd fountain

Sighs in murmurs low and chill.

The maple bows are bending With a weightof drifted snow. While from every spray depending,

Prisoned icy sides glow.

The moonlight'schilly glimmer On the glassy river plays, And tho waves' reflected shimmer1-

Faintly answers to its rays.

The plaintive winds are sighing, Sadly round thu bending eves— Like a sutlcring mortal dying.

For the charily none gives.

Thus the outer world is clouded With tho heaviness of gloom. And the cold earth lies cnshroudi'd

As apparalcd for the tomb. _,*

But. the Winter King uflosc minions Are the frosty winds and liui Soon shall yield his wide dominions

To the Spring Queen of the vale. ij

Onhnrfairy pinions, fleetly She is cuimng to the bowers, With her sunny tresses sweetly

Wreathed in dewy wild-wood flowers.

Oh! her lovingstuilo of gladness 'e Will erase i'roin every heart. livery trace of gloomy sadness.

And h!is«ful joys impart.

PA LN ATI ON LIFE IN TIIE SOUTH— GRAPHIC PICTUKE.

A traveling correspondent of tho New York Journal of Commerce, ,who lately readied the "up country of Georgia," has given to that paper a very graphic and interesting, and, we do not doubt, a correct portraiture of plantation life in that section of the South and his pictures of Georgia plantations are but reproductions of what are common in all the cotton, rice, and sugar States—this one exception, that Georgia is unquestionably, whether from its soil, its geographical situation, or the energy and the enterpise of its people, or all, the most flourishing State in the South:

THE COTTON' COUNTRY.

There are broad acres white witli silver weallh, each plantation a community by itsef, having its own domestic system, with its proprietorship, overseers, laborers, and police regulations. Rice and cotton plantations differ little in their general arrangement, excepting in those respects which the culture of the different staples requires. If we are fortunate enough

Some distance apart, and embosomed in shade trees, is the negro "quarter," a village of cabins often laid out in streets ami squares, the entire premises scrupulously neat and free from filth, which sanitary precaution requires in this warm and not

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Coppers they regard with contempt, attaching to them no value, aud refusing to accept them as a gift. (This is merely men-

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from the overseer on the evening previous, and these arc eaten in their own cabins.— They consist of wholesome food, such as

as exquisite in kind as was the, original of bacon, corn rice, &c.. and excepting rice,

that gifted genius, whose lamp was soon extinguished. if

arc varied daily. At night the plantations arc regularly patrolled, and at daylight the slaves are calTcd to their task, and ak nppn are sumMoned to dinner by the whistle or horn. Those who are active will

have finished their stint by this time, and are at liberty to employ the remainder of the day according to thehrown inclination^ Such extra time many devoto to their own private gardens and poultry houses, which often yield them a revenue of two or thrco hundred dollars a ycai%

With a loVu that the laMo* of UoosierdooM-.* Coveted her and me.

But somehow it.happened long nj o, j, In theasueish AY est conntree. That a chill March morning gave the shakes

To my beantifnl Deborah ficr And the grim steam Doctor (enrae him) came. And bore her awny from UK— Tliedictor and death, old partners they—

THELASH. -'*3

The doctrine of Abolitionism would scent to demand for the slave full immunity from punishment for all faults and crimes.— jjiacks are by no means ^inMliMev cvett though slaves. In some States whipping is still the legal penalty for ihfcridT crimes,.' and inflicted upon all offender* whether black or white. -iW,

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LABOR TAXEtT.

It is not uncommou to sec the master himself working side by side with his black slave, that precious time may bo saved. Then he does not pause to arguo the question whether "labor is degrading." Even then, when time is money,, ho has consideration for tho health and strength of his servants, and if the heat be intense, invariablo calls them from labor during the sweltry hours of midday. It often happeus that emulation runs high between the negroes of neighboring plantations as to which shall perform the greatest day's work, and in such cases it is sometimes, actually necessary to employ fofec& to. compel them to case work, wheti the repeated summons of the horn have passed unheeded.

The Sothcrn slaveholder has learned tho capabilities of the blaak laatl, and knows how much is to be cxpcctcd from him. lie is aware that, generally speaking, two of them are not as efficient as one white man, aud accordingly works hiiu more moderately.

CHARACTER OP THE SLATE.

The negroes, as a class, arc constitutionally lazy, though there are many marked exceptions. Some of them have a natural inventive talent, and a peculiar tact for the mechanical arts. They are frequently employed as engineers on steam tugs and locomotives, and other responsible capacities. The private business of their masters is not unfrequently entrusted to them. But these arc still merely exceptions. It has been urged that they will work as industriously as freemen as when sustaining the relations of slave, but experience proves the contrary in both free and slave States. It is not uncommon for masters to allow such of their negroes as, from sheer laziness, will hardly pay for thoir support, to hire their own time. Thus it is not unusual, especially in the citics, to sec big, lubberly negroes sunning themselves upon a cottou bale, or lounging against a fence. A stranger naturally infers that they arc free, or supposing them to be slaves, wonder how, in this land of oppression, they are permitted thus tt waste their time in idleness. Curiosity impels them to inquire. Satubo rolls his eyes and strctohes his moath as you approach. "Well, boys, how are you? Out a holiday have you!" "Oh, no, sah—got no holiday." "No holiday! How is it that you are noi at work, then. Are you froe?" ,m "(.JoIIv, no, sali. i'se a specable nigger, sah. Tink I'd be a miserable free nigger? Yah, Yah! No sah!" "Who's your master?" "Massa Jones—up on dc hill."

Well, if you belong to Massa Jones, why arc you not at work? What are you doing here?" "Miring l'se own time, Massa." "Humph! this is a queer way to pay for it. Ilow much do you give your master a month?

Five dollar, massa. Any nigger can earn dat in no time. Gub a.quarter, massa? Tankee."

The negro who hires his own time is cs-

escapc the horde of ignoble curs, which sentially tree—works for whom he pleases take upon themselves the especial duty of, and wlmn he pleases, and goes where h* guarding the premises, particular ut night, lists. Rut the result almost invariably howling and snapping their displeasure at shows' that they earn little more than sufiithc intrusion, we shall obtain some insight cicnt to pay their master the stipulated into offairs. In many instancies, the extcri-1 price—working perhaps, two days of tho or of the master's residence differs little week, and passing the remainder iu mdoiu appearance from 'lie cabins of his ser- llenee. Northern men, who have been acvants, except iu size, and perhaps the em- customed to the greater amount of labor bclishmcnt of white paint and a verandah. I performed by the whites, arc naturally the while the latter are simply white-washed, hardest taskmasters, because they expect The more aristocratic planters, however, the same amount from the negro, and make greater display of wealth, and their more than he i* really capable of performhouses and "rounds are often models of arenitcctural beauty and good taste.

The above facts would furnish some of the strongest arguments in favor of tho employment of l'ree labor iu the seaboard slave States, were free labor practicablethere, especially in consideration of tho present high prices for negroes. How gladly would every planter hire laborers at tiie moderate wages paid at the North,

too healthy climate. ry, where urchins of all ages, from in-j thereby considerably diminishing the nu faucy to early childhood, are intrusted to iu»-rical strengtli of his fir-ld-hands, or inthc care of superannuated negresses, while creasing his crops in like ratio with an their parents are engaged in their daily jcejual force, and at the same time relieve

I I a at on re at a so he a el of he he a or a re on it

and perpetual annoyance which he now suffers under the present system! IJut ho knows that such a change is itnpracticablo—knows it from experiment for there aro those who have given it fair trial and witnessed its utter failure. It is this obvious necessity for the employment of slave la-

tioned by wa}' of of suggestion to Uncle bor, the increasing demand for such labor Sam, whose passion for coining cents has

monuments, on which are insoribed expressions of the master's csteiu for the ser« vices and Character of the faithful servant.

PLANTATION LIFK—ITS ROUTINE

The slaves rcccive their day's rations

nJ the corresponding increase in the val-

already elicited much comment.) Near at ue of negroes, that li!.s induced a few tj hand is the hospital, where white physicians advocate the evivs»l the slave tradev of professional skill arc employed to attend »m w. jthe sick and in another placc stands tn: Of Massini is told the r&maKfco .^tolittle chapel, Sabbath day to engage iu in early lifo he loved a beautiful their devotions. In an appropriate ami coi^ntrv.w'ji&in, who was torn from him by secluded spot in the little graveyard, neat- Church, aud placed to wither iu a conly fenced and adorned with ^fubberyj cnt, He tfeett cwis^cratcd h'i9 life thro'

JfiT" A Pacific Railroad bill has boon subufftted to Congress, for the construction of a railroad aud telegraph, on hpn'j northern and southern route.