Indiana American, Volume 23, Number 15, Brookville, Franklin County, 30 March 1855 — Page 1

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W. DAVIS. . D.. PHYSICIAJ SDR ala and James streets. Brook rille, Ind. vi. urnti.ttin rw.iuvnua, vomer m Til J.W. H21T,-üKGB0N DE5TIST. jli urrrcs, on uoor souvn 01 toe VtlUf Hti,iPTni. All work warranted. Ms eaarga for examla auoa er advice. ai TTXTJI nLOOZ,-JUST!CK wm PEACE, J aad Aiwraav at caeaeeiior ai law. Brook vine, laa. umi, lis Square. Soma Bast eornerof Pub 3-1653. YTT TSffSSJXt. ATTOK3BY COUHSUL- , ToK At 'LAW. Orrici, Jfo.7, Halle's BiUMlng, Brook Till, Ind. 9 143 CO. CTtOOXnUmC ATTORNEY AND Ataarteaa ÜOo, BrookvlUe, lad. 43 'M wu.isabi.wn ai lah, urnca, unuor ALT.T7AEI),-ATTOR5Zr&COÜSELLOK jLI AT LAW. Omen, otor Powers Siora, Brook vUle, lad. TTCSia J. KZLUT, ATTORSKY AT LAW , X.X So-rasi fustio. Orrio .one door aouia of laa Vslley Hons. Brook villa. Ind. Will Uko aokaowladg maau of Deads, Uka aud aar Urj Depositions, Affldsvlti o.e. mSOKAl J. WETTR-SOTARY PUBLIC, X Larast, Ina. will uka depositions and sckoowUdgmeoU, aad attend to Notarial bo.lne.s geae rally. HARRISON DIRECTORY.. STZXKY. DEALER IS GROCERIES AMD i Provisions, Markal street,' II. taisos, Onio, pa oa hand a food sssortmest of all articles ta Ala (lea. , ALSO a general assortment of Which he will Mil chaap for cssh or country pro dace. Oct 87 O ISj. TCIT TTTRS2LL. OSE DOOR EAST OP i Drag Kior, H.atuoK, Oino, Dealer la 1CAS, FKt.tCH ASD K.N CLIS U IIUY GOODS, Bon neu tad Bonnet Trimming of all styles and prions Ladlea, MUee and Children Sbob kept constantly on hand. oct 17 45 e . nvwia. WW. t0l. TiKTTrra uaoj.-dealers is fa.xcy JJ u4 Uunetli. iai Good, Ladies Dresa Goods o7 every kind. Grooarlaa, Hard ware, 0.aeensware, Boots, Shoes Carpeting, ce., Coassa M.afrr an Walsot Stisiti, HARRISON. OHIO. Pet 7 43 1834 TV X. Z. TTJLtEL DEALER in DR7GS, JafMedialaee, Pautu, Oil, Varnishes, Class, Dye MIS, e., Coraer Mala aad Market Streets, ' HABRISOX, OHIO. Oct 17 43 1134 OHIO nOTZL. C0R5EH MAIS at MARKET UHU, BARRIS03T, OHIO. D. FISUCR Prprltr. Oct 37 43 1834 FTlATXHLIir C0T7UTT DIEECTOEY. Cuictn Coobt aieela Uta 1st Monday la Febrarjaad A of tut may tt ihre week. Como PLB.CocarmU lit Mondays In Jan aary. April, July aad October may atttwo week. Coaaiasioata's Coobt meet lit Monday In Tnnn ."net i-nTrr rtiirniiLti' " 1 Mr-- wit ill SiX Oil i ta bme. Cwantr tflcr. A. K. MeCleery, Senator, time expires Oct laM F. K.A. Jeter, Bep " lc3fl Noah Miller. 1M34 Jona M.Joaaaon, Clerk, M. Batsner, Sheriff', Wat. Robn, Treasurer, John H. Quick. Aaditor. " Feb IHM " Oct Ai l57 Mar 1H39 Oct IH3tJ Oct IHM m 1U40 Quick, J. n. it M Redln Otborn, KeeorC er, M John Kowlby, Coroner, M W. W. Uabbard, Sur-eyor, u Cocwtt ContaionBS-Cyrus Faurot, Elmer Uyalt, Um expires October, 1833 0-7. Jaatic) 4f th Peace. aaaoKTiLLS Towm mr. Cyrus KUcore. Commlsitoa expires Apr 19, IH6 Alfred Ward Apr M, 1M7 Wm. K. Howell, Apr S3, IM7 James Mewhlnney Oct 31, 1C38 svataariBLB Towntmr. Joeeph Welsh, Commlaaioa expires Oct 7, 134 Caleb Yocum, M Ao 1, 1(33 Samuel UoUlday, M AprS4, lKt3 BLooanoeioTi -tw asmr, Dartd Slauf htar, Cammlssloa expires Sot I, la33 Jeaee ClemanU, M Apr Si, 1837 rrLia tow air. A. B. Line, Commlssloo sxplres HoTember 1 1R55 S quire Uarrey Dee 3, 1H44 rutrnts Towxtmr W. A. J. Glide wall. Coram expiree Feb W, JohaTaraer, M M Jaa3,lH33 snaaiaaa Towasitir. Francis Knecht, Commlaaioa eiplres So 6, IMS Fraacle A. Bowera, Oet 13, 1P33 taeasi. rowntmr. iMtsClemenU Commission siplrts Pee W, 1RW Ludwtek Ensmlnrer M Vor S, IKM Robert U.J lake 14 M Oet W, 1S3S staKob Towasair. JohaOorsley, Commission 'expires July 13 UM roea rowaiair. Hobt. If. Milter, Commission eiplres Sept I, lss Jsmes Ii. Moers, u Julylo,Ii37 T Towii. Henry Belmeler.Commltalon expires Msy ft US Ulram George, " M May 7, 1133 att? cbssi TOWMsntr. T.Q. Ahraham, Cemmtsstott expires Te 0, lt.t Itaas Phillips, Fb4,ll3T wnrra wtTta Towa.ni. Walter Mitchell, Commtnetoa expiree "ep a,m I p. EllnhaWt Barber. M Bsp 11, im aar tewasui. John Blw, Cetamlaaloa ex iplree June as April SS, 13S Lewis Woltems. AEEIVAL AHB DEPAETTJIIE 07 HAILS. ClflrtnnaU mtl kfrltsS dally St 8 f M. D' parts daily at A M. Indianapolis mail arrWes dally all P- Us Ie parta dally at P M. l onaers'llle mail trrWe on MimUr, Wed esdavsand frldsys at 0 I M. lpnru Tusi dava.Thur.ita. and t.turdavs at A M. Frl'ls at f M. .tonarts ?uetai Thursday ndHatardtjialS A M. Moaamalla-rtea Taaedsys aad FrlJay at f ClMtlla trnnt Mnait. W..1mJ.v. nd birord mall arrive Fridays at 10 A M. P sans Fri'lsYtst II A M. Mu.hvtlia mail arrives Taasdavs, Thursdays aad Maurtlay at 4 f M. Depart Mondays WedaaoUv. and Frtdavk at A M . WiulsnvlUe ruall arrivsi lurOait HOP M.Daparu rrioaya ai a a m. Varaatllaa mall arrtva Tady at 1 M. De dart Mondays at 4 A M. Lawreneabunh mall errtr l "aUrdaji at I P M Departs Friday at e A M. Letters to he mailed muitha la the Office before eviMk rM, pravtoa to th departure of all mails leaviag is toe morning, union COUNTY DIRECTORY. Cisccrt Coeav nissta the 4th Mondays In Feb man and Amustma slttwo wsaks aaahttma. CsMdoa Pi.b.Ciu a v in.au J Moadayata Pub ruary. May, Aug ttfV,ao4 Nu..mtr! a.eapt whan there are ive Moadays la the preceding month thsa 1st Monday. Msy sill wsekssach time. lamistaaaa S Couav meals let Moadavs la Jaaa, tipUaMr, Dvaawbar and Marea may alt siiaaysesca time, Cevntf Oflcers. Mlaer Maaker, Maaator, Urn eiplres Oat. 133, uo. W.Clark, Ken. Oat. I S3, KaoehWsrd,Nhsriir, K. Hardatde, Clerk, W. Dawson, A editor " C H attar, Traaaarar, Wm. a. Koaa, Coroaer, " Jeaae Cook , aurvaror. Lewis J. Cllne, Reeorder Ag. IKAV .Nov. Ii03, Nov. I 33. Aag, lr3. Oct. M3, Oct. IHM, Nov. lt)31 CaewTT Catidiaataaa Garret anwar, . m . rauoo i , ti me expires Sep. laiv( lona-v-i. Jas tlee ml the Peace. W. Bract, jarvou, uommiaaioa expiree Apr. In, iu Ira Maiwall K. M. Hawerth, J. F. Beaaett, o.wnit T.J.Celvln, Jaa Lamb. II. Sl.Ur, m JW.Swaaa, Joaaph Brown, II. KaoVr, m Ga. Wtlaon J. F.TempletoaM Z. Feigusoa, M I BBB-aaaamtja-awaaTai Sen. 16. IM3n. Apr. in, ihm, MsyS, ii7. "ov.sa.iH.?. Oct. 10,131, Hep. I, m. Dee. 94. I A3. Apr. 9, KMt A ug. , IH.13. Fb.l4,latt. Auf. M, IKK,. MayS. Oct. 5, 133 Apr. 13,1 433 aC-HabiUn a rf.il. is i.t first like a spider web; irneglected if becomes a thread, next a enrX iVton a las! cable, mocking the eflorts of A - 1 1 .

, From the Lafayejte Weekly Catette. RESOLVE TO WIN. st tt pocrarr. Tolling youth at midnight lamp, Conning o'er the well-worn page; Bravs man I a the martial camp, High or low, In youth or age; Revolve to win. Waal If friends desert thy name. What If fools deride thy Ore; Win without their aid thy fame, Darlog all to heaven aaptre; Resolve to win. Though da. pair hall cloud thy way. Faith desort and hop depart ; Beams of light of brightest dsy, Shining far the words Impart s Resolve to win. Bravely launch thy fearless bsrk, On the waves of life's rough sea; Fearing t.ot the billow dark Shroui og future's prise from theo; Resolve to win. Earth tvi jeme to grace thy brow, Brig f far than e'er have shone; Row's U.- tour, the time Is now Thou r nst make them now thy own : Resolve to win Glory gives to thee the toil ; Fame hall give to thee the prize " Springing from the earthly soil, Thon may's! bloom In glory's skies : Resolve to win.

DAYTON, Ind., THEACHELOR'S BURIAL. a raaonr on tu acaui or lotb. Two lone old m;- at that of day, A bachelor's body bore awty. With wrinkled brow and matted hair, And heart which nTf f !T J the fair. Bring briars, they groaned, bring weeds unblown Bring rankest plants of name unknown, Bring withered bonghsfrom dreary wild, To strew the bier of Error's child. And make his grave where the lizards hide, Where nightshade strews the swamp creek's side, Far out of sight, where loving Sprit Shall send no genii J birds to sing. His old Jack-knife lay with him low That cut the string of Cupid's bow, The sad house-cat shall whine around Ills lonely grave In grief profound. We shall not aourn him long, or miss His unshorn face, that none would klas ; But plant a thorn-bssh at his foet, That there may grow no dairies sweet. Low lay him who 'liore, wiierj saall gate no pitying eye For him, for him no loving heart Shall ache for him no tear shall start. Mis bloodless limbs shall fall to d nst. The old Jack-knife shall wast with rust. He whom we hide from sight of men, Shall nevorff Ight the babies again. For we have laid him from tho light, Beneath the ground and out of sight; But this rude epitaph shall stand, lie who to no one gsve his hand. SrMRoriBLB TowKsmr, March, 19th, 1835 Str.ii rt Speech of "William H. Seward. Tnthe Senate of the United States, Feb ruary 23m, 1 855, on the bill to pro iect oßcersof the United State. CONCLUDED. Tho second question is, What is the nature and extent of the change which you proposo'to make by tho bill which is under consideration? That question is answered in a word. When ever the rights of a citizen are invaded in rny State within the Union, by a person holding a commission, whether ciril or military, from the President of the United States, ho shall hence forth haro only a single safeguard, instead of that doublo panoply which has hitherto shielded him, and he must either forego redress or seek it in a tribunal otthe United States, in which justice is administered by Judges appointed by the President and the Senate, and irremOYoable, except on impeachment by the House of Represen tatives, and, therefore, responsible in the leant pusMblo degree to that wholesome public opinion which is the guardian of public liberty. Every post master and hi deputy, every marshal and his deputy, every mail-contractor, every itago driver, every tide-waiter, every licuton at, every ensign, and even every n Miipmitn, will bo inde pendent ot -to authority, mil, when proaocutca boiore a Magiatrate or Court, la the ; amcdin to vicin Ago where his offence is . oraiuitted, will defy tho party aggrio .od, and remove tho Motion commenced against him into a Fedeial tribunal, whose terms are rarely held, and then in remoto and practically tnaccouiblo places. Ono half of tho power rosidincr in the States is thus to lo wreted from them nt a sioglo blow, and they will henceforth stand shattered monuments of earlier greatness. No such chancy V4 this was antici pitted by. the framers of our Federal and Statu Constitution. They established tho Federal Constitution chief ly for tho protection of tho whole country against foreign dangers. They cave to it a stronger Executive than they gavo to tho States, respectively, They established th State Constitu lions chieflv for the protection and de fence of personal rights. They knew that this Central Government would grow stronger and stronger, and would ultimately become ai imperial now er. Itihas realized that exDecta tion, and it has become even a Continental Power. Hitherto, the citizen has enioved his double safeguard. Why shall one half of his panoply be now torn- away from him? What lawful and proper object of the Feder al Government has failed to be obtain ed by reason of tho exercise of jurisdiction by State authorities over offi cers of the United States? None lift -1 aa .a a a v ny, tuen, an au ine ancient law ana custom bo changed? Is there danger that the citizen will be too secure under the double protection of the State Courts and the i ederal Courts? That was not the doctrine of the earliv days and that is not sound doctrine now.

, I demand, in the third place, a reason for this innovation. In reply you urge, first, a precedent. Precedents,

in every country, are the stairway of tyrants." What is this preceden? It is a law which protects the publio Treasury, by withdrawing from the State Courts certain actions against collectors of the revenue. Who knows, now, ithout more examination than you allow time for us to make, on what ground, or under what circumstances, or upon what exigency, that single departure from the ancient system was made? I do not know- that I should have been in favor af that departure. Nor can you show that the innovation thus made, and which you now plead as a preeedent, was necessary. We are always wiser in our judgements in retrospect than in anticipation. I can now see, when the precedent is pleaded to justify a futher departure from tho ancient system, abundant reasons to regret that the precedent was ever established. You tell me in tho next place, that there is danger of insubordinationdanger that tho State Government wil nullify the laws of the Federal Government This is always the ready plea for Federal usurpations. It is the same ground which the British government assumed towards the British subjects in the British colonies, when it transported them beyond seas, to bo tried for pretended offenses. I proclaim in your ears here, and I proclaim it to my countrymen, that there is no necessity and no shadow of necessity for this'great)andfearful change -"From every tribunal in any State in Union which renders a final judgement that can affect the rights of any public officer of the United States, there is tn appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, reserved to him by the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that high tribunal can, merely by its mandate, annul the judgement and discharge the party from all its consequences. This, and this alone, was tho security which your forefathers established to prevent the evils and dangers of insubordinrtion by the State authorities. I proclaim, further, that when the Constitution of the United States was submitted to the people of the several States, to be adopted by them, the chief objection which wns urged with rrrrewse a?rvtiernos'"e?lcTy7Tri'I the most effect, was that the liberties of the citizens weuld be brought 'into eoDardv br the extended Dower of e a of j the Federal Judiciary. So strenuous ly was this objection urged, that the Constitution was not adopted, until it was demonstrated by Hamilton, Jay and Madison, in tho Federalist, that the State jurisdiction which you are now about to strike down, was left to the States, and cm!d n-ver bo wrested from them without an act of Congress, which there was no reason to presume would even bo passed. air, this is an important transacts i. I warn you that it is a transaction too mportnnt to be suddenly projected, ana carried out with unusual and unseemly rapidity. It is a transac tion that will be reviewcd'frcely," boldy, and through long, years to come. You would have done well to have given us a week, or a day, or at least ono hour, to prepare ourselves w'th arguments to dissuade you from your purpose and to stay your hands. SufJ fer me to say, with all deference, that you would have dono well if you had aa a a .a . a allowed yourselves time to consider more deliberately the necessity for a measure bo bold, and the consequences which must follow it. I repeat, Sir, that thcro is no ne cessity for this act. In every case which is intended to bo reached by it, the mandate of tho Supreme Court of the United States annul $ tho judgement of tho Stato Court which has mistaken its own powers, or encroach ed upon tho Federal authority; and tho State itself, with all its dignity and pride, falls humbled and abased at tho foot of central and imperial power, x iiauiiuaijy conicropiato cv cry thing connected with the developmcnioruio resources, and with tho

extension nnd aggrandizement and! an net of Federal usurpation, that it glory of this my country, with an en virtually suspended the writ of hubcai thuiiam which! am suro I do not nl- corput, tkat it unconstitutionally dcways find burning in the hearts of nnd a trial by jury, and that it virtu all with whom it Ts my duty to net in ally commanded n judgement of perher Councils. Dut, hir, I shudder petual slavery to bo summarily ren-

when I think that this development, this extension, this aggrandizement, and this accumulation of glory, are f;oing on firmly, steadily and crushngly, at tho expense of these noble, independent Mates; that the mttjesMo dome, while it spreads itself more! widely and erects itself higher and higher, is pressing into crumbling fragments, the pillars which constitute its true and just support. Sir, we have had, on this occasion,

as we always nave on piuniul occasions; rancra camo in ironi every siue, you of this kind, pathctio allusions to the I resorted to an old and much abused safety or this Federal Union. And!xP.edien1, Vou brought all the great theso allusions havo been addressed to 1 Political parties in the United States me. although I have hitherto heen ! n coalition nnd leago to maintain

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debate. What do you think must be tho Kc lings or a man, himself a Representative of three millions, one ciirih of your whole people a Representa tive ot one-sixiu oi au ine ireemen in the Republic a Representative of even a larger proportion of the whole wealth or the country a Representative of your whole concentrated Commerce when he finds himself surrounded by men who think that it community so numerous and so intelligent, and enjoying such wellh and cherishing such interests, aro so far habitually blindod by pajsion as to bo disloyal to the Union on which all their safety depends? Sir, I almost forget my customary toleration, when I see around mo men who know how the interests nnd affection- oflhtir homes cluster nnd entwine themselves with every fibre of their own hearts, and yet seem to forget that tnoso interests nnaaiiecuons are offsprings of humanity itself, JA 1 V . tho And'

therefore common to all men. and suppose that it is treason against the country to protest against the oppression of any ono of its many and various masses of races. Warn you, Senators, that you are saving this Union at a fearful cost. This is a Republican Government the first and only one that has ever been widely and permanently successful. Every man in thjs country, every man in Christendom, who knows anything of thephilosophy of Government kuows that this Republic has been thus successful, only by reason of stability, strength and greatness of the individual States. You are saving tho Union of those States, by sapping and undermining the columns on which it rests. You reply to all this, that there is a newly developed neces

sity for this act of Federal aggrandizement. There is no such new noccsity whatever. " The Courts of the several States have exercised their concurrent jurisdiction over officers and agents of the United States, for a period of sixty years, in cases which involved life, liberty, property, commerce, peace, and "War, subject to supervision "by the supreme tribunal of the Union, and. while individual rumts have been maintained, the public has been everywhere preserved, and the public safety has never received a wound. During all that time, there has never been an agent or apologist of the Federal power, so aprehensive forjtbe public safety as to propose the measure which is now before us. T.iere has been a time when such a proposition would have been received with favor. There have indeed been discontents, but they have been local and transient. Such discontents are inci dent to, free and independent society every where.and they are inevitable here. It is through the working of such dis contents that free communities, acting by constitutional means, and within constitutional restraints, work out the reformation of errors, the correction of abuses, and the advancement of society. All that has happened isvrt chr.nge of the scene of these great discontents, ulting from a change in the . geo graphical direction which the action of the Federal Government takes. Heretofore the murmurs of discontent cnnie from the South. Now, the breezo which bears them sets in from lT,.c?rö7J.T TVTicn the rind bletr from the Southern quarter, the rights of the citizens were not snfe without the interposition of State tribunals. NoV, when It comes from an opposite point of the compass, a senator from Connecticut (Mr. Tocey) requires Congress to prohibit that interposition, and to arm the Federal Government with new and portentous power. Mr. President, all this'trouble arises out of tke Fugitive Slave Law. The transaction in which we are engnged is by no means the first act of a new drama. You began here, in 1793, to extend in the Free States, by the excr eis of tho Federal power, the war of races the war of the master against the slave. Tlu Fugitive Slave Law which was then passed became obsee lete. Though no great inconveniencwas sustained, the pride of the slaveholding power was wounded. In J850 you passed a new Fugitive Slave Law, and connected it with measures designed to extend the territorial jurisdiction of the United States over new regions, without inhibiting Slavery. You were told at that time, as distinctly as you arc told to-night, that your new law could not be executed, and would become obseletc for the same reasons that the old law had become obseletc: that the failuro of the old law had resulted, not from its want of stringency, but from its too great stringency. You wero told then as distinctly as you are now told, that your new law, with all its terrors, would fail, because, like the old law, and raoro than the old law, it lacked tho elements to command the content ! n J Pproval of the consciences, the ympathies and tho judgements of a i,wi,,v' Tho now law, however, was adopted 'In uchnnco of our protest, that it was derod ex yartt evidence, which the par ty accused was not allowed to refute in the due and ordinary course of tho common law. You adopted now and oppressive pon'tlties in answer to all these remonstrances; and, under threats and alarm for tho safety of tho Union the Fugitive Slave bill received tho sanction of tho Congress of tho United ; States, und becamo a I aw, This was the second act. When murmurs and loud complaints arone, and rcmonstran l i r . ,i it., unimpaired, nnd to perpetuate it forovtr. All your laws, although they might be beneficient, and protective of human rights and of human liberty, could be changed, but this ono unconstitutional l iw, so derogatory from the rights of human nature, was singled out from among all the rest, and was to be, like tho laws of the Mcdes and Persians, a decree forever. This was the third act. And where are you now? It is only five years since the Fugitive Slave law was passed. You have poured out treasure liko water to secure its execution. Tho public police, the revenue service, the army und the nary, Iihvu been at your command, and have all been i orously employed, to aid in enforcing ti. auu -uii tue i' ugiure dmvu law is not executed, and is beet ming ob selete. You demand a further and a more stringent law. Tho Federal Government must be armed with ' new

powers, subversive of public liberty, to enforce the obnoxious statute. The bill before us supplies those new powers. This is the fourth act. It is easy to be seen that it cannot be the final power. Sir, I look with sorrow, but with no anxiety, upon these things. They will have their end, before long, in complete discomfiture. I abide tho time, and wait for the event. I perform my duty, the only duty which remains for me now, in protesting against the enactment of tnis.law, and in expressing to you my conviction that you are traveling altogether in the wrong direction. If you wish to secure respect to the Federal authorities, to cultivate harmony .between the States, to secure universal peace, and to cieate new bonds of a perpetual union, there is only one way before you. Instead of adding new penalties, employing new agencies, and inspiring new terrors, you must g back to the point where your mistaken policy began, and conform your Federal laws to the Magna Charta, to the Constitution, and to the Rights of Man.

öDorresponiiCHct. Correspondence of the American. "STJTE TAIL." - Editor Americik: The tacit condemnation of "Ruth Hall," by a few editors of distinction, is only another evidence that even genius itself cannot escape the storm of criiiccl wrath un les the fear and trucilent respect of all rich relations tre continually be-H fore the eyes and on tho he;trt of its possessor. It id but seldom ny domestic duties will allow me to read'r.ny books of this class and I took up Ruth Hsll to look through it because such men as "John Smith," one of your talented, but, I thin. old-fashioned contributors, and House, of the Advocate, who, in many respects, is a sprightly und snicy writer, are down on the work. With Fenny Fern, I had only a scattering newspaper acquaintance; and of course WR3 not ery partial to her f?rae. or intimati with her literary bantlings. But 77010 as I have read the nook, I mvst try to demvr in the position assumed by the above named gentlemen, and aII ' others of their class. For if works of fiction are really of public utility, then may wo have some hope of the good to be accomplished by the beautifully written work of Ruth Hall. Tho "iron hearted" affection of fathers who are living in. the hey-day of their second marriage the scanning soullessness ard impoverishing guardianship of "kindred-in-law," together rith tke collar-starched, timeserving, world-souled brothers mode many n "Ruth Hall" in the dreariness of her poverty-pinched solitude, fed that 'Love hns stricken oother name, And while her blood runs bot through Life's rd svenuos, no hcrrt Is thinking on her." Yes, even John Smith says tho au thor of Ruth Hall "Aas a very bad heart." Ohl John, how could you? Why even in your bachelor days you had more soul about you. Has that "little '.vifo" so far carped you to the "pprental" side, as to havefyou stand up r.gp.inst "the widow" in; her poverty, her repulsions, und almost death stiugglcs? ' Shamo on youl I havo hoped better things at' your hands. Indeed I had some reason to hope' You havo often spoken of the poor but then perhaps you did not mean "widows" with little starving children perhaps you only thought those poor who havo no rich relations no wealthy father no Dr. Halls and Mrs. Ilalls and Hyacinths among their kindred. Ahl John, I havo seen iust such skinflint economy in manifest affection often, ve ry olteu in my ram blings, Yesl now I havo it, I havo no doubt if Ruth Hall had been a "white nig ger," like they my "Ha May" was, thoutrh I haven't rend the wort:, then John Smith, nnd Mr. House, and the whole regiment of captiousj 'puritans,' (1 don't know how to call hard names maliciously,) would havo seen a thousand beautiei in tho book, and Ruth Hall, the widow, would have been "alteil down" nnd preserved tflcctu. ally by tho tears of their rarMed humanity, and old Dr. Hall. Mrs. Hall. Mr. Kllitt and tho perfumed dandy brothei Hyacinth would havo fveen deemed worthy only of an Infamous immortality with tho Legrees of Uncle Tom notoriety. Indeed this is too rauch tho way with the Di'oM sympathy of many thinking souls almost everywhere. For at this very hour, uear reaut r, -while vou aro running over these lines, there are "Ruth Halls" with vou their littlo "Katys' and shrewd little "Hettys" all around you. And many of them have rcA relations too. Rich relational What a cursel What a mockery I They aro often the firtt to oppose you and almost always the lait to help you. And then if you are, liko Ruth Hall, able to help yourself, get up in the world without their sympathy. Ohl then it is "Cousin Ruth, how have you been? I have been almost dead to see you. Why nro you no unsociable? I always want my re" lations to bo a one of the family." Hem! Heml How little and how shallow is this contemptible trickery of hu man pride and human meanness. Even editors, as the observer will dis cover by rending Ruth Hall, are not impervious to the 'flattering unction." Withlhcm a bookispufied iftt willoy, nnd men are eulogized with a profu sion of '.'soft soap," if they carry "the tin," or hold forth from tho "lofty eminence," of somo popular office, while "Many a flowes Is born lo blush unsocn, And ws-14 It swoi'tuesi In the desert air.' And the worthy and valiant "poor, who are struggling amid the white caps and breakers of life's fearful cur

! rent, are left to struggle alene, with

out a look of pity without a word of J raise. In the truthful language of ohn Smith, I would hero repeat with most devout emotion "God pity the poor." Ahl that js it, hey, you say Ruth abuses her father, and makes Mrs. Hall a hypocryte, and 6he a church - member. What of 'that? Don't facts bold, strong facts sustain the "ase? And are there not such characters to be found even holding that sacred relationship? This would be a world of beauty, and a sweet home of lovely kindrcdship, if the work of grace on all hearts was real. If the many who have a name to live were in reality living. But alas! how many arc deadl How many are there who do not love their neighbors? And the number is not small of those who hale instead of loving at least their poor relations. It is true in the churches and out of them that sin empties the heart of all nobility and fills it with a pride whose verp odor is sickening, and with a selfishness whose very spirit is distructive of all about it that is lovely, or pure, or of good report. Those are truths which none will deny indeed tbey are seen by the observing, lying out on tho very crust of society, and Ruth Hall has only dished up a few of them, in her golden bowl, for. the inspection of stich as are willing to throw a penny into the vrn of her good fortunes to free "Katy from the clutches of her pious old grandmother, and to save little "Hetty" from the mortification of carrying away "the last dollar" from the very benevolent Mr. Eilet. "God pity the poor." Her book is no fabled representation of human nature, and if there has ever been an exception, where the long injured and broken spirited daughter and sister was justified in turning teacher and castigator, then Ruth has found it, and used it, simply, beautifully, with point, and power, and now, in spite of Editor House, and ex-bachelor John Smith, she will surely obtain another "bank certificate" and her promising nephew "Dr. John Millet," will never have cause (I sincerely hope) to be mortified in being cousined again. But then some men and perhaps aetc women are exceedingly quamh on nil subjects where pocket meanness is exposed, or family pride is put to the blush. The wealthy "Wards," the talented "Crittendens," the business "Kissancs." The rich, humbugging, lying swindling Barnuras, the honororable. but gold-sold Senators, and the fashionable in general, must all be respected for "their social position." Yes, resnectcdl Treated with courtesy! Bah! Why the very thing the world wants and has been dying for, these many years is a bold, out-spoken, truthful spirit, in the pulpit, the chair editorial, the forum and in tho arena of political strife. Tho rorld wants it and the whole world must have it. But then this spirit must, when it comes, come in love, not Jove Jot friends, love for fashionable emptiness and gilded iniquity, but love to God, to man, pure faithful and substantial. ' a,01i! what a world of boauty, ' A tovliif heart nil it lit plan, If man but did hi tluty. And helped his brother man." HETTY HALL. Glen Hill, March 20, 1855. Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune. Progress of Oniroa ia Illinois. SntiNOFiELD, March 5, 1 854. "Tho world docs move." Only a ew years ago, tho pcfplo of Illinois and tho wholo country beside, wei-e shocked with tho announcement that Urn innocent man, for tho expression of an honest opinion, throutrh a press that lie, himself, owned and controlled -as hunted down by a mob, and put to death. Your readers will recolcct tho scene at Alton, when Loveoy, tho martyr, was sacrificed to the hnd nnd insaciate fury and ignorance of tho multitude, inflamed ty passion and whiskey, for tho expression, in n respectful and temporale manner, of tho great truths founded deep in tho nnluro of man, nnd underlying the whole superstructure of human socie ty in this country truths, which, like a man, he dared openly avow and defend, Tho scene was a horri ble one; it has left a blot upon the good name of Illinois compared with which her failuro to pay her just debts will be, in tho eyes of the world, but a trivial olTeneo. But, "the blood of tho martyrs is tho seed of tho church." During tho session of the Legislature just closed, wo had the reverse of the picture: uwen L.ovejoy, tue brother of him who fell in that unequal conteat with the besotted prejudice of the few who thirsted for his blood, stood up in tho lower Houro, a member of the county of Bureau, and, in the presencu of tho beauty, fiuhion talent and morality of tho capital, and the Representatives of the wholo State, nssumed broader, wider and moro extreme ground than that, for standing on which his brother poured out his blood. Ho found a s) mpathetic audience; and, in tho home of Douglas in thevery had where his waning power was won this typo of tho fruit which the blood of the martyr has brought forth, declared, in a speech of two hours' duration, and of surpassing eloquence, his utter abhorrenco of Slavery and tho slave system his determined opposition to the slave power, his devotion to the truth of tho. truths upon which tho Declaration of Independence is based, his uncompromising hostility to tho Fugitive Slave La; and during the whole time, so profound 'was tho attention, and so breathless the silence of those who listened, that a feather might have been heard to fall 1 At the conclusion, the deep-drawn breaths, the sympathetic looks, and the nistened eyes attested the impression he had made. The proprieties of the place forbade further

manifestation of approval. . "Sir," said he, "I am not ashamed to avow myself a believer in the "higher law." I hold myself amenable to that law, and avow, myself, my allegiance to the Supreme Power that enacted it. I would not, save for the weightiest reasons, declare my intention to disregard any human enactment; but, Mr. Speaker, I tell you, and tell this House, that Icannot and will not obey tho requisition of that Fugitive Slave bill! I will brave your penalties, if it need be. I will meet tiues and - imprisonment; and if the same grace snail help me that sustained my murderedbrother, I will meet

death itself rather than aid in the execution of that infamous enactment." And the galleries applauded! Say, docs not tho world move? Thiä is an Illinois Legislature, not three, score and ten miles from the bloodstained spot where that "murdered brother" laid down his life. Mr. Lovejoy's was the first exposi tion of the doctrines of his school ever heard in our State House. Southern members, who listened for the first time in their lives to an "abolition tirade," were surprised that principles so just and conclusions so irrcsistable could be raked out of the depravity in to which they have supposed all AntiSlavery men to be plunged. A family of Kentuckians good people in the main, but violently prejudiced Against everthing that does not chime in with Sonthern notions of "the institution" was present. After the speech was concluded, and while the crowd was going down from the gallery to the rotunda, one member of this family said to another, his voice yet husky from ill-concealed emotion, "John, is that Abolitionism?" "Yes." said John, 'I reckon that's all there is of it.' "Then," replied the first, "I have been an Abolitionist for more than twenty years, only I am sueii an old fool that I didn't know it!" The avowal of this old man is 'significant, and it opens to us all, the hope that when, the doctrines of the Anti-Slavery men are understood not to mean "nig- .... . . p ' ger stealing, and "amalgamation when they majbc canvassed and discussed, like ot)icr questions of vital interest,-in Viir Legislature, and the most berrig'lrted portions of the world, the Nsm ef UnnoM vmi move faster than ever before." Uud speed "the day! The progress of opinion m our Slate is steady and rapid. The events of the year past have precipitated what has long been? impending. The propie are tired of Douglas und his whisky crew; and however he may boast, however he may continue to brave his fate, the public sentiment that he has outragad by his subserviency to the South is surely pointing to his final overthrow and political ruin. W r c r f 1 I n- it r ft ii c ry V J V 4 It l V V M I SPECULATING IN WHISKEES. BT SOL. SMITn. There lived in Macon a dandified individual, whom we will call Jenks. This individual had a tolerably ftvor'ably opinion of his personal appearance. His fingers wero hooped with rings, and his shirt-bosom was decked with a magnificent breast-pin; coat, hat, vest, and boots were made exact ly to fit; he wore kid gloves of remark able whiteness,; his hair was oiled nnd dressed in the latent nnd best style; nnd to complete his killing ap pearance, he "ported nn enormous pair of red whiskers. Of theso whiskers, Jenks was as proud as a young eat is of her tail when she first discovered she had one. 1 was fctttiriLf one day in a broker'sofTice, when Jenks came in to inquire the price of exchange on New oik. Ho was invited to sit down, and a nogar was offered him. Conversation turning on the subject of buying and selling stocks, a remark wits made by a gentleman present that ho 'thought no person should sell out stock in euchand.such a bank at that time, as ilMf get better in a tew days. "I will sell aiiv thintr I've got. if 1 can make unylhinir on it." replied Jenks. "Oh! to." replied one. "nut unu thing; you wouldn't aell your whiskm." A loud laut-h followed this chance remark. Jenki immediately answer ed: "I would; but who would want them? Any person making the purcliace would lono money by the operation, I'm thinking. "Well," I observed, "I would bo willing to take the speculation, if the price could be made reasonable." "Ohl I'll sell 'em cheap' answered Jenks, winking at tho gentlemen present. "What do you call cheap?" I in quired. "I'll nell 'em Tor firty dollars," anwercd Jenks, puffing forth a cloud ol smoko across the counter, und repeat ing the wink, "Well, that is cheap; and you'll sell your whiskers for fitly dollars?" "I will." "Both of them?" "Both of them." "I'll tale them! When can I have them?" . "Any timo you choose to call for them." "Very well they're mine. I think I shall double my money on them, at least. ' I took abill of sale as follows: "Received of Sol. Smith Fifty Dollars in full for my crop of whiskers, to be worn and taken care of by me, and delivered to him when called for. J. Jenks. The sum of fifty dollars was paid, and Jenks left the brcker's-ofllce in high glee, flourishing five Central Bank As, and telling all his acquaint-

lances of the great bargain he had

made in the sale of his whiter. The broker and his friends laughed at me for-being taken in so nicely. 'Never mind,' said I, "la those laugh that win; I'll make a profit out of those whiskers, depend on it." For a week after this, whenever I I met Jenks, he askedme when 1 intended to call for my whiskers? - "I'll let you know when I want them," was always my answer. "Take good care of them; oil them oc casionally; I shall call for them one of these days." A splendid ball was to be given I ascertained that Jenks wa to be one of the managers he being a great la-dios'-man, (on account of his whiskers, I suppose,) and it occurred tome that before the ball took' place, I might as well call on him for my whisers. One morning, I met Jenks in a barber's shop. He was agonizing before a large mirror, and combing up my wlfiskers at a great rate. "Ah! there you are, old fellow," said he, speaking to my reflection through the glass "Come for your whiskers, I suppose?'' "Oh! no hurry," I replied, as I sat down for a shave. "Always ready' you know," he answered, giving a final tie to his cravat. "Come to think of it,"-- I said musingly, as the barber began to put the rrather on my face, "perhaps now would be as good a time as another; you may sit down and let the barber try his hand at the whiskers." "You could'nt wait until to-morrow, could you?" he asked hesitatingly. "There's a ball to-night you know " "To be sure there is, and I think you ought to go with a clean face; at all events, 1 don't see any reason why you should expect to -wear my whiskers to that ball; so sit down." He rather su kily obeyed, and in a few moments his cheeks were in a perfect foam of lather. The barber flourished his rrzor, and was about to commence operations, when I suddenly changed my mind. "Stop, Mr. Barber," I said; "you necden't shave off those whiskeri just jet." So he quietly put up his ' izor. while Jenks started up from tlie lair inxomething very much rescmb ing a passion. "This is trifling!" he exclaimed. "You have claimed your whiskers take them." "I believe a man has a right to do as he pleases with his own property," 1 remarked, and left Jenks washing his face. At dinner that day, tbe conversation turned upon the whisker affair. It seems the -whole town had got the wind of it, and Jenks could not walk the streets without the remark being continually made by the boys, "1 here goes the man with old Sol.'s whiskers on!" And they had grown to an immense size, for he dared not trim them. In short, I became convinced Jenks was waiting very patiently for me to assert my rights in the property. It happened that several of the party were sitting opposite me at dinner, who were present when the singular bargain was made, and they urged me to, take the whiskers that very day, and thus compel Jenks to go to the ball wbiskerless or stay nt home. I agreed with them it was about timo to reap my crop and promUtd that if they would all meet me at the broker 's-shop, where the purchase had been made. I would make ft call on Jenks that evening, after he had dressed for ihc ball. AH promised to be present at tho proposed shaving operation in the broker's-oflice, and I sent for Jenks and the barber. On the appearance of Jenks, it was evinent that ho was much vexed at the sudden call upon him, and his vexa tion was not lessened when he saw the brokcr's-office was filled to overflowing by tpectators anxious to behold tho barbarous proceeding. "Come, be in a hurry," he said, as ho took a seat, nnd leaned his head against the counter for support," "1 can't stay heie long; several ladies are waiting lor mo to ocort them to the Uli?" "True, very true you nro one of the managers, 1 recollect. Air. Harber, doii't detain the gentleman; go to work at once." j The lathering was soon over, and with about Ihre strokes of the razor, oeih of his face was deprived of its ornament. "Come, come," said Jenks, "push ahead; there Is no time to be lost; let the gentleinatt have his whiskers; be is impatient." "Not at all," I replied cooly, "I'm in no sort of a hurry myself; and now I think of it, as your time must be precious at this pa'tioular time, several .adieu being in waiting for you to es curt them to the ball, 1 believe J'fl not take the other whiiker to tu'yht.." A loud laugh from the by-standers, and h glanco in the mirror, caused Jenks to open his eyes to the ludicrous appearance he cut with a tingle whis; ker, and he began to insint upon my taking the whole of my property! But all wouldn't do. 1 had ft right to take it when I chose; trat not obliged to tal e it all once', and I chose to take but-Aa at that particular period; indeed I intimated to him very plainly that I was not going to be ft very hard creditor; and that if he "behaved himself," peshnps I should nev. er call for the balance of what he owe ed me! When Jenks becamo convinced I I was determined not to take the re maining whisker, he began, amid the laudly-exprcsscd mirth of the crowd, to prtposo urms of compromise nrsi oiiering me ten dollars, then twenty, thirty, forty fiftyl to take ofl the remaining whisker. I said firmlr. . JP . - m "My dear Sir, there is no use talking:

I insist on your wearing that whisker

for mo a month or two." "What will vou; take for the whiskers?" he at ler.2th asked, "Won't you sell them back to me?" "An i , repiieu a, now-yoa Degin to talk as a business man should. Yes, I bought them on aptculaüot! I'll ell them if I obtain a good price." "What is your price?". "One hundred dollars must doublo my money 1" "Nothing less?" "Not a fartning less; and I'm net anxious to sell even at tlutt price." "Well, I'll take them," he groaned, "there's your money, and here, barber, shave off t his; infernal whisker in less than "no time; I shall be late at the ball ' Horrible if true 10 Persons Perish ed OH the Prairiei. The Chicago Democratic Press of the 24th relates the followin? horrible case of suffering and death on the au thority of ft gentleman from Lafayette, Indiana, but expresses the hope mat me icport may prove an exaggeration, if not unfounded. The details are given, however, in such a shape as to lend more than an air of probability to the terrible catastrophe. The Press says: On the Saturday preceding the me. morable 6torm of the 2 1st of January, a i . ". a two lamuies numbering ten persons moving from Southern Indiana tn Northern Illinois, arrived at Oxford, the county seat of Benton countr.Ind.. about forty miles north-west of Lafayette, with two ox teams, and well pro vided with necessaries for the road. They remained there through the atorm and on Monday morning resumed their journey. Last Tuesday morning a man passing over a prairie only about five miles from Oxford, came upon a sight which filled him with horror. The carcasses of two oxen, from which the viscera had been removed, lay upon the ground. Inside cae of them were the frozen bodies of fjur children, and in the other the frozen corpse ,of the mother with a nursing infant at her breast. Under the snow was a heap of ashes in which the irons of the wagons bhowed that the party had broken them up, and burned every thing they bad in them, in the effort to save tlieir Jives. iNot far from ttis spot was found the body of the other woman of the party, partly concealed in a snow drift, and near her, one of the men. The two other men had net been found. It is probable that the party became inextricably involved in the 6now drifts on the bleak prairie and lost their presence of mind. After burning up their wagons it would seem that the men had killed two of the oxen for ft heiter to those found in them, and then.! accompanied by one woman, vainly endeavored to reach the town they had left, and procure aid to rescue their companions. The two other oxen had wandered off. There was nothing about the persons to indicate who they were, and nothing more is know about them than was accidently communicated by them during their stay at Oxford. A tlirillijjg paragraph. I well rcmembir the CaD ain of the Moselle, which exploded at Cincinnati some years ago, but who was, at the time I speak of, commanding another boat, trading from Cincinnati to New Orleans. We were followed by another boat, from whose chimnevs rushed gigantic columns of thick black smoke, t . . a stowing mat ane was urging her speed oy burning roMn a very common device in such cases on the Western riv ers. Our Captain went foaming and . .i t ... . nciiiiiiy mrougn tue noai in a iremcnduoui excitement. An old lady, a cabin pas-icnger, went up to hioj and begged him to go more slowly. All watted to hear, what he would say. I hall never forget his answer: "Madam," said ho swearing a horrible oath, if I knew every soul on board would be blown to hell, I would not suflei that boat to pass mel' II did cot suffer ii, and his impious blaophemy for that time was permitted by his Creator to go unpunished. A few months afterwarJa, however, ho commanded tho Moselle, and when tho terrific explosion of that boat took place, caused as was asserted, by the Captain leaning his weight against tho safety-valve, and declaring that he S .a a a a. a would not l.oe an inch or atenm he, poor wretch, was blown a hundred ttct through the air. and Iiis head forced, up to the s boulders, through the roof of a shed standing 'near tho wharf! Churleiton Courur. The American Bible Society. It is stated that the disasters of the time ftll heavily on the American Bible Society two hundred hands, onehalf of the entire woiking force, having been recently discharged from the Uible housw on Aktor Plac in New York, and nearly one-half of the press es stopped. IOWA. Tho Legislature of Iowa adjourned on the 27th ult. They rassej a U submitting the queslionot a Constitu' tional Convention to the people: a l'rohibitory Liquor Law was l?o pam-d, which is likewise to be submitted to the popular Yote. -1-1-Ilichigan. Tho House of Representative by a vote of 51 to 18, passed "An act to prohibit the use of common jails and other buildings in the several counties of this State lor the detention of persons claimed as fugitive alaves' Crysostem says: Dances ftre high schools of impure passions Yes, and the number of females who have graduated from this high school, wiC iu highest disgrace, U legtoal

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