Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1859 — Page 2

Christianity. ‘-Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unt them; for this is the law and the prophets.’' This is the condensed summary of the whol* Bible. Who has the hardiho d to say that the practice of slave-holding is consistent with this injunction? What, in the New Testament, is the classification of slaveholders? It plices them with murderers o! fathers and murderers of mothers. Everywhere the Bible inculcates a spirit of generous magnanimity. “Ye that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of tinweak, and not to please yourselves.” Slavery, I know, claims this attribute, and talks about its chivalry and magnanimity. And is it magnanimous to cheat a poor, ignorant* degraded man, out of the entire earnings o his whole life—rob him of his wife and children, and then justify it by saying that they are an inferior race? Admit the fact .of inferiority—does it therefore follow that it is right to oppress them ? Every page of the Bible flashes its anathemas against the oppression of the poor and helpless. The chivalry of the Bible is to help the weak, to protect the defenseless, an 1 rescue those in perih This, indeed, is the idea of the olden chivalry. Witness the ihiident in the romance of Ivanhoe. The true knight, enfeebled by sickness, rides into the lists to meet a powerful antagonist—and in whose defense? For one belonging to a race, as de■pisvd and degraded then as that of the Afri- j can now is. This chivalry we recognize as having something manly and noble in it. But, from the chivalry that mothers ol j their children; that applies their courage to helpless women, to secure their labor, or J make them surrender their chastity; which! sells a girl for a harlot and a boy for a ppir! of shoes; which, by superior knowledge,'! combination, and legal enactment, reduces millions of human beings to the condition of brutism, and then by false teaching seeks to delude (their conscience, and cause them to • believe that their enslavement is in accord-! ance with the will of God—from all such chivalry I ask to be delivered. i The Bible sanctions Slavery, and, if the 1 Bible, then God. What kind of an ideal of D ity has that religionist who holds this doctrine? The ancients divided their vices, and | made one of their gods the divinity of each. ; The advocate Of Bible Slavery takes a system that concentrates in itself all crime, and makes Jehovah its patron Deity. Ido wish that Slavery would leave us an ideal of the Supreme Being that is not polluted with its slimy touch. It is said of Goldsmith, as a writer, that there was nothing lie did not touch, and nothing that he touched that ho did not beautify. And it can truly be said! of Slavery, that there is nothing that it does n at’touch, and nothing it touches that it does not defile. It lias perverted the*Government, violated,the national faith, muzzled the press,: -debauched the church, corrupted Christianity, and seeks to change the glory of the in-; visible God into a Moloch, and transform the; eternal and loving Father into a patron, wf! cruelty, lust and injustice; and then, with! the impudence of the strange woman, wipes its mouth and says. I have committed no sin. •I shouUl.be ashamed of such a God a.-, tilth! It is to me .utterly incomprehensible that any -one can sincerely believe that the Bible i sanctions the system of American Slavery, j nnd.i leave that point. But this fan ticism goes still farther, and! arrogates to itself prerogatives which God himself never cl- im’ed,nnd what, hi- it spoken with reverence, the Supreme Being himself] c*nnot do; and that is, to 'make right and wrong. Before all law* and above ull Iw, human and divine-, is the idea of right and wrongi eternal, indestructible The Omnipotent does not claim the right or power to annihilate this distinction. lie himself bows •to this i.dea, which sits enthroned, absolute and supreme, higher than the Highest. The supreme Legislator never undertook, by mere arbitrary enactment, to obliterate this deetinction, and put darkness for light and light for darkness—bittpr for sweet and •weet for bitter. Ilis own conduct is controlled by Ilis perceptions of what is nght and what is wrong. Human statutes cannot do what Divine legislation never attempted to achieve. Can you, by a Congressional enactment, change the laws that govern the material world! Can you make the Potomac roll back to its sources amid those fur-ofF hills-, or calm .he ocean, when, moved from its depths, it lifts its crested waves on high, and dashes them in broken spray against the beetling crag.? Much less you can annul the eternal distinction between right and wrong. The attempt is, and must forever remain, utterly vain and impotent. The gentleman from Georgia, the other day, called our attention to the sublime spectacle of State after State emerging from o Ta r ritoriul condition, and wheeling into line as sovereign States in this Confederacy. In this process, according to the gentleman, were united the two principles of expansion and popular sovereignty, arid the gentleman wao icminded o' that grand chorus waidi art ancient exile beard when there was poured upon his ear the voice of many waters, and the v oiee of the thunders, and the voice oi the Almighty, and the utterance of ocean, e’,d thunder and of Jehovah was , Ll Vox Populi v x Dei." Sir. I claim that the o truth, and just: and liberty :s the voice of God. When I hear the ywice o th ms.indand thousands, and ten times ten thousand, • .veiling upward, like the voice of many wa-

ters and the voice of mighty thunder and the' voice of the Almighty, it is that other and better sentiment. “Let justice prevail, though -he universe crumbles.” Aye, sir; I, too, heard the voice of the people, and it went surging through the streets of Judea’s proud mat.ropolis. It swept through the porNjls of Pilate’s Judgment Hall and echoed tiling its arches, crying, “Criu-i y him! Crucify him!’’ Was “Fox I’opuh vox Dd" then! Did the gentleman from Georgia hear the voice of the Alm-ghty, responsive to the popular vvi I, demanding the crucifixion of his owe Son! Did their cry of blood have the Divine saiTction, simply because they had voted it, and because they had a law by which the M mo! Nazareth must be put to death! ' What an impious dogma'!

But let us ollovv this ex clusion and voxpopuli doctrine. We already embra e Utah : there the voice ol the people sanctions and demands a multiplicity of wives. Fs it the I voice of God? We aejuire Cuba; there the voice ot the peop e demands the union of i Church and State, and lurlids a prayer to ho I uttered by the open grave ol a friend who; breathed out his soul beyond tlie pule of the! i Papal church; and the voice ol the people is' the voice of God! Expansion! We sweep onward, an i take in M-*xic arid i;i some so questered vale there is a remdant of the old Aztec race, wTth their Teoraili surrounded with human skulls. The voice of the peopl - here leads forth a pampered young man, the fairest and host ol the nati m, decorated with flowers, up to the consecrated hill, laying! him on the sacrificial stone, anil with the I breast raised, the priest seizes the Knife and drags it cruunching through the ribs, an I : tears out the heart, all re* king and qn ive rin«y and this is the voice of God.

But we have taken in the continent, from Esquimaux to Patagonian, and still we must expand. We ride forth on the P cifi,-. wave, and annex the Feejee Island, and the voice of the people here is to feast on human flesh and the voice of the people is the voice of God! Is this an insane asylum! Is the Democracy struck with lunacy as well as filled with fanaticism?

The Slavery Democracy prates and chatters about "negro equality,” “black Republicans,” and “bigger stealing,” to.use its classic phrase and improved orthography!; It has, or affects to have, a great horror of gers.” And any one-who advocates' the principles of human Freedom, as they were enunciated and laid down by the F -tiiets ol the Republic, is a “woolly-he- d," .-■mi these same Democrats have learned to speak of them with a peculiar' nasal twist. JVbso con ten mere ad unco. You would suppose- that these gentlemen, whose olfactories are s • sensitive and acute, never saw a nigger, unless in a menagerie. And yet, would von believe it, the very first service rendered bin on earth is performed by a nigger; as tin infant he draws-the milk which makes hts flesh and blood and bones freon the breast, of a nigger; looks up in her face and smiles, and calls her by the endearing name of “mambegs, perhaps, in piteous tones, for the privilege of carrying “mammy” to the Territo-ies; he is undressed and pu* to bed bv ja nigger, and nestles during the slumbers ot in fancy in the bosom of a nigger; he is washed, dressed and taken to the table by a nigger, to eat food prepared by a nigger; tie is led to and from school by a nigger; everyservice that childhood demands is perform 'd by a nigger, except that of chastisement, which, from the absence' of good manners in many cases, it is to by leaied is not performed at all When down appears on his lip, the tonsorial service is performed by a nigger; and wlu-n he reaches manhood, lug invades the nigger quarters, to place himself in he endearing relation of paternity to half niggers. Finally, if lie should be ambitious, it may occur that he will come to Congress to represent a constituency,, three-fifths ol whom are u'iggers, and talk about “Black Repub icuns,” “amalgamation,” “nigger equality,” “nigger stealing,” and the offensive od >r of niggerism. ! I insist upon it, we have enough of this tomfoolery. Let members from the slave States treat us with the cou-tesy tine f-orn one gentleman to another, and they will receive the same in return. But till then, if God pleases, they sh l! have a R hand for an Oliver. I call gentlemen to witness, that during all last session I endured this kind ol abuse. Scurrilous letters were read from the Clerk’s desk, and I held my peace. A ,T ain this session, old Mose is exhumed, and served up in a Democratic rehash. And who is this old Mose, that is to form the pabulum of an interesting chapter; when some Democratic historian shall give us the history o the United States! A poor, old, septgenarian negro, whom I never saw, and of whom I never heard till he came to my door—free bv the admission of the blackguard who had owned him. I gave him a m .1 of victuals; lie remained a few hours till the cars came, when 1 secured the payment of his passage to Chicago, and lie went on his way rejoicing, like the Ethiopian of old. By the way, ought there not to he an et uiiienie.il council of the Democratic church;, to get out an expurgated edition ot the Bible! \\ hat a scandalous thin . ' >! IM.illpbli m!d rule with the Ethiopian! ' '- asked why I did not state this fact before. I answer, I will no hold myself bound to explain every ebullition irf blackguardism, either in >r ou' o. Cotigi ess. Wlu-n a bov, I used to strike back at every dog that barked at me us 1 rode along t.,u

; h ghways; but I have ceased doing so, long since,,and let them bite the iron that encircles the wheel. An ! now, what about this negro equality ot which,we hear so much, in and out of Congress! It is claimed by the Democrats ot to-day, that Jefferson has uttered an untruth in the deelaption of principles which underlie our Government. I still /abide by the Democri cy ol Jefferson, and avow rny ] beliefihat ail men are created oqii.il. Epial ! how! Not in physical strength; n *t in ,-yin- ] me try of form-and proportion; not in gruce- ' tullm-ss of motion, or loveliness of le itur ; not in mental endowment, moral sii-cepti- ! hi 1 ity, and emotional p wer; not socially lequi!; not ot necessity politically equal—- ! not this, but every human being equally en- ' titled to ilis lile, his liberiy, and the fruit of ; his toil. The I)<-moeru.ic party deny this i fundamental doctrine of our Government, and j say that tlieie is a certain class of human beings who have no i ights. I■' von inaliciousl ly kill them, it is tu m.ir.L-r; if y .hi take ' away tlifir liberty, it is n > cum ■; i: y_>u deprive them of their earnings, it is no theft. ; N > rights which another is hound to regard! ' Was there ever so much diabolism compressed into one sentence!

Why do the Democrats come to us with their complaints about the negroe ! I, for one, feel no responsibility in the matter. I did not create tin m— was not consulted. Now if there is any one dissatisfied with the fa t, that there is a whole race of hum in beings vvi h the rights of human beings, created wit!) n skin not colored like our own, let him go mouth the heavens, and mutter his blasphemies it life ear of the God that! made us ail. Tell hint that. He hull lit* husi- . ra-ss to mak- human beings with a black ■-kf.n. I repeat, I teel n > resp m-ibility fori this fact. But, inasmuch as it li s pleased | God ta in :ko them human In-'iigs, I iru hound j t.o regard them as such Instead of ch. Bering y< ur gibberish in my ear about ne wo equal,ty, go look the Son <>' God in the face, ami reproach him with layering negro equa ity h-'cnuse lie ppured out his blood for the most abject and .despis *d of the human family. Go settle this matter with the .God who created, and tlrtigOftrist- who redeemed. -'He that d spfjselh the poor, fceproacketh | liis Maker.”

A single word as to this negro stealing, f suppose 1 hare a rigii* to speak on this subject, having hern made the obj ■et ol this allegation Si faros my personal aliuse'is concern-ed, it miy go for whit it..is worth. I: the obj -el is to ascertain whether I assist j fugitive ski.es who come to my d >or and! ask it, the m itter is cusHy disp ised of. I ; march right up to the confession il itnd°say, j I do. I reed licet the case of u young yvomai:, I who came to my house, who hid not a sin- j gie truce-of A ricun descent either in feature ; or cumplexion According to her own story, j >he was be rothed to a man of her own r.<ce, I though not of her ow n color, and was, before ! her marriage, sold to a libertine from the i i South, she being in S'. Louis. Siie escaped, Sfnd, in lier flight from a life of infamy and a ] fate worse than death, she came and implored aid! Was Ito refuse it! Was lto hetriy i the wanderer! Was I t> detain her, and give her up a prey to the incarnate fi n-J who had selected her as a victim to offer up u the altar of sensualism! Who would do it! 1 would not, did not ! No human being, black or white, bund or free, native or foreign, infi lei or Christian, ever came to my door, and asked Ibr food and shelter, in tlie nmu of a c nniii in humanity, or of a pitying Christiiti, who did not receive it. This I have done. Tins I mean to do, us long as Gid lets me live. I ! shall never ‘-bewray him that waudereth.” ; I shall never become a .slave-catcher. Ary one who chooses may transform himself into a blood-,hound —snuff, and scent, and liovvl, along the track of the lug live—loll out his tongue, and lip up the dir'y water tfi.it stands in muddy pools by the w y side—overtak .- the r.lie-scarred ml lash- -xe orbited slave, ( i m ither, may be, with her infant, the Move of w hom has nerved h-*r :or the flight.) thrust his canine teeth into the quivering 11.-sh, brace out bis lore feet, unJ h >ld the captive till the kidnapper ennes, with fetters and handcuffs, to load down ankles and wrists, ami hen receive, as u reward of this brutism, a pat on the head from the slave catcher, and the plan lit, “Good dog, 805..” Sir, I never wiil do tills. I never will degrade my manoubd, and stifle the sympathies of human nature. It is an insult to claim it. I wish I had nothing worse to ] meet at the judgment day than that. I would ■ not h ive the guilt of causing th it wail of man’s despair, or that wild shr ek of woman's agony, as the one o- the other is captured, for till thfe diamonds of all the stars in h -liven. Is it desired to cull attention to this fact. Brood : it then upon th<j house-tops. Write it on every leal that trejmbk's in the forest, make it •: .to fr in the sun at high noon, and shine forth-in tlie milder radiance of-every star that bed eks'tbe femanuntot God. Let it echo through alf the ..relies of heaven, and reverberate and bellow along all the deep gorges ol hell where stive-cutehers will be very iike'y to hear it. p.ven L >vejoy lives at I*rinceton, 1 iiiiuis, three-quarters ol a mile east of thefvilluge, and lie aids every fugitive tli.it com -s to his door and asks j it. Tn. u invisible djeenioti o S averv. dos th u think to ir - ujy liumh e tnris o and turbid me I. give br* ad to the Imug-y ami sheiitn to tn ■ h uso.es-! I id I i YvLJ DEFIANLE IN THE NAME OF MV iGOiM

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE. RENSSELAER, INI). WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1859.

um! ;v 'ii Wasiiinoton ('ity. 05° Wr cull attention to the advertisement of Dr. Laß.ir O. u.iiist. in another column. (FI7“A meeting of the Bo ml of Agriculture of this county is called for the 22 I inst. Opposition ticket was elected in Cin -ijirviti. by majorities ranging ffom 1.000 to 1,500. 5 ofy”'rhe Republic n ticket of Indianapolis was elected lust Monday by maj -ritios averaging 43.3. L nis has again elected i Repu'iic.ni Mayor bv between 1 000 and 1 .',0.4 mii c ity. Well done, R -publicans of Sr Louis! ofs“Miss Fanny Martin advertises that she is desirous of forming a class in vocal and instrument 1 music. She is well qualified to give instruction in this art. 055“ We occupy a large amount of our space this week with the speech of Owen L ivejov, which is well worth readi-g. Next week we will publish the rc-plv o. his brother.

| ir g t> fi=*h seem to be greatly oirthe ! increa-e in the Iroqu aise this season. Several have been cauglit within tlie past week or two at this place .weighing from four to s ; x pounds. Some call them pi. keral, and others insist that they are bass. o^7”On A 1 Fools’ D>y ;l stone, covered with an old hat, was placed on the sidewalk j near Li ber.i 1 Corner. Sever a 1 indi vijlu o Is, in ‘passing along, attempted to k-ok the hat off the walk, and received a st .nhing reminder of the existence o! their corns., to the great merriment, of the big and little boys. , re'urns by t“legr.p!i from. Con-' necticiit indicate that the R“puhlicans have carried the whole S ate t'clu t and the four members ot Congress. If this be s-, we giiu two C-ngr.-ssmen in that State, and there will not be one Democratic Representative Irani till New England in the next Congress, 00-t: ie following was the result of the! township election in this township last; M unlay: Trustee —A. Thompson. Justices o the Peace—W. S. II ipkins and G. J. Green. Constables—C. 11. Do-vn ng.T. W. Lain son and D. C. W liter. Supervisors—1. C. M Watson: '2. J >hn \V r . Ivers; 3 J. P -acock; 4. B. F. Downing; 5. S. W. Grmt; 6. N. W. IB pkins; 7. JI I) dihins; 8. Geo. W. Burk; !). David 11 dbum; 10 Win. Ta’man; 11 G o. P. I) •ughertv. In B irkh v township A. ICrkison was j e| i-ie l Trustee. Win. Potts Justice ot the Pe.u-e. and J 1> Eugli-h Constable. In Newton town-hit) .1 ).-eoh 3 eoman was ejecte I Prus-.ee, an I J*m ‘s Ye >n m Justice : of the Peace. If our friends from tlie other townships will furji'sh us with the returns, we will publish them .next week.

[ K u r tlie Kensselaer Ga/.ctte.

BIKDS OF JASPER COUNTY, No. 1. THE PHEASANT

r riiis*is anion • the mo t. beautiful of-, bur forest birds and remains with us throughout the year. I's length is eight *e,i in di -s. and tw-en'y-lour indies across the win rs. I inhabits most pots of the United St ires. It is the partridge oil New England. T it- species vary in different localities. The head and neck are of a pale chestnut color and black, in b irs and spots. The crest of some is a tli ck tu t of leathers, o the same color as the neck, turned back, like the J iy’s, when no*, disturbed, but when excited may be raised and turned forward. I n others t be crest s ands, like the Peacock's, erect upon the bead. On the sides ol tiie neck of the males, is a black ruff' of feu. hers, with violet shades. The -uff of the teinale is sin iller and of a lighter brown. From which th v are called the rvffid grouse. The coverts of the vvihgs uie reddish spotted with black and brown. The tail, is mostly grey with black bars near tiie end. The two middle feathers of the tail are longer, the color light r and the bars near the ends reddish fawn. The hill, feet and nails are usually pale brown. Frequently tiie legs and feet are covered with thick, downy short leathers to tlie ends of tlie toes, and nearly white. Tie legs are li.iz -I. This bird resembles the d nnestic fowl in the rearing of its young. About the first of May the female seeks a heap of leaves, that may have been collected by the wind, beneath u low bush, or at the side of* fallen tree, where sin- const nets her nest of * lie ,l j leaves auJ plants on the sp .t, and lays from eight i > fifteen yetffcvvis 1 eggs, which j t.re h.’ched at the end of eigirron -.! ys jncu | butien. If scm jcf tlie eggs ate removed in

her absence without disturbing the nest, leaving one or two, sh > will lay as miny as twenty-five or thirty. If the nest iis hr. ken up. even after incubation, she seeks nnotli-r spot and lays again. But naturally she rears hut one brood in a year. lake domestic chicks, the voting, soon fI ter they emerge from tlie shell are able to ! Inflow tlieir mother. She leads them abroad in search id food which consists of berries, the tender li-im s of plants, insects, seeds and grain. In a couple of weeks tie r- re able to fly ash >rt list me »at a tiin >. They disperse an ! hide on the slightest al irm a“d • n their places of concealment, in-tinct'vely jim.i'itiin the m st perfect silence, while the I mother obstinately exp ses herself 'ur their ! s.ikes. indignantly strik'ng with h r hill, ! wings and feet, or like the snipe, llmte-iug land feigning lameness as if wounded* Tiie males do n d atten 1 ; h ■ vain i broods directly a ter hitching, but before Fill they may olten be found wit i t'l-m. an 1 I hive jsev rul times seen them defend the young II 'cks witn spirit. J; is generally believ d they prefer a m- untain.ms or bit y reg'on, | but they are everywhere found in the level glades id 'his cuuntv. In the Spring at d Au'umn t!i - males set k j some rm k, or pr .str.ite log, and -ime tim -s 1 I theiigh rarely, a small hillock, upon which • hey produce a drumming n >ise wi h their ; u rigs, by striking them slowlv ami alierujatelv agioi-t their sil-s, r ipid.y increasing j the nutnher o' blows, soon hem ng a c n.- ; tiuiioiis rumbling soiin t wliicli may l>» heard at the distal* eoi lait a mile. Tueu suddenly stop an ! after a le.v minute- r peat the drumming- In this w.v, m *-n u ; and everting, liev sp oil hours, and not uufre- 1 queritdy whole nights. This noise may be imitated by tapping on dry i*>ll ited bladders, when lie- male bird approaches and is s ot. I, the leaves are scraped from the ground so as to lurm mar- i row paths near their h ‘upts, they wiii select .these paths for ruti-Wi.ys, -when they ut v be Caught in nooses suspended across them. Tin ir fic.-lr is vi iy y, bite, swict, tender and possesses a peculiar, delicious il >vo , -a ith nice soda crackers, tn iking excellent s m.i. They feed upon b r*-iifs of all It a Is, th .* leaves of several i irts > ' evergreens;, seeds, grapes and the tender bo Is of trees and often prove injurious to apple trees and other fruits. I caught one, in a snare, on the seven;, of last M trolt. which hud r. nu tis-sour kernd* of Indian corn in its crop, with some clover Raves and several poplar.buds. W hen undisturbed it walks gracefully and proudly, ini if alarmed it utters hue'., iuc l ,'. buc'r.buc',. then a low shrill whist!-*, spreads its tail, runs a short distance, and (lies aw iv with a loud whirring noise, something like their chumming. It --cldom flics more than a few hundred yards, and if pursued bv a noisy dog, alights ’upon a branch of a tree, remaining in a m itionless upright p isiti-m, when it tn iy be ap,pr,nc!iud within gunshot and brought to the ground.

!n the vicinity of evergreens, such ns 'm-m----lock, spruce, cedars an I pin >s,th -v resort to thus - trees for ro is»s at tr 'r. Wi*ath .* snow is deep th v plunge !*el)i-ath it tn 1 conceal th -insi'lves, and emerge at a distant place. Jn this county they roost i\,i the small branch -s of thi -.k ;ts an I s vrub'»y sipiings an lev ui on t : n•-ai ir > i a ti ■ ki • i for shelter. Tney becom * tlie prey of different. ■ species of hawks, racco n, . fi,x,-s ami other anunils 'v'iic!i suck tlieir egg- and devour their flesh. They are not. esily tamed, preferring wild 'reeiloin to the -a-, iety oi man. * -' * *

Pike's Peak.

We clip the following from the <McGregor Times>, a paper most likely to contain the latest news of interest from the gold region: PIKE'S PEAK, January 28, 1859. <Dear Father:> Me and my wife left the old Sucker State on the 1st of last September, and arrived here right on Pike’s Peak on the 17th of the same month, being just seventeen and one-fourth days on the road. Short trip say you. But the route traveled was not by the Arkansas neither that of the Platte, but just between the two. Uniting the ndvmt.mes ol each w'tlmut the dis .dvan"ages ~ ei'li r. 'l’liis route was never traveled till nv‘ and mv wife passed along it; it is much better and much n • rer; it turns ii -ith -r to the right o >r to the Ie t, but goes sir light aim rigtit to the mines, and furnishes an abundance of gr ss. w ood and w iter; so nutricitms is tlie grass that w lien me i.ud my wife got here, our cattle were -bu.ter-iat.” At the urgent request ot the halt starved miners, m • and my w ife killed them and.sold the shanks at thirty-three an 1 one-eighth cents per pound; the flesh pieces we swapped for gold nuggets, pound for pound. But ain’t we rich! Tell all our folks to come my route; no difficulty in finding it as me and mv wife took panes to .daze ull the trees. We think of putting up a toll-gate, rny wiie can tend '.t while I work in the mines. There is truth in all he exagera,ted accounts about gold. Just now my youngest child (a yearling) brings in a shirt-tail lull ot veiy rich dirt, which my wife will wash and send V u the yield. I supply me arid my wife with "meat hv iny gull. Buffalo, bear, deer and antelope are iii aim idanee; yesterday 1 kilim! an antelope at three hundred and twenty yards. A gun will kill further here than in am- place I ever saw. Strange as it may appear, right ori the peak and close to our house is a little lake filled with honey; a few yards from this is u gu-l mg spring of pure milk! There is a peculiar species of tree here, the Iruit of which i» better than tlie best buckwheat cakes you oversaw. My wile thinksh - has discifVeri d indications ot a soap mine; Bom Trousers ha. discovered a rosin mine, and J-*e Bootee is making preparations to maim...c ure turp.-ntin ■. The n<-ys are ..II doing well; I have ninety or a hundred pounds

o r g dd, which I intend sending back to niv wile's poor connections by ’be fi st express: sickness and sorrow, pain and death rre strangers here. When me and my wife left I* nkiu Hollow, jn Illinois, s -e was a poor# lit He. scrawny, wusp-waist creature, weighing eighty-'wo pound-*; n**w she weighs one hundred and loriy, and looks like a huge molasses hogshead. The color of my wif-V skin has ch tnged to a deep yellow". This J t ike as an indication ot an abundmee of g dd. My wife stops me to say the shift tail ~f earth was n it very rich, on’y m-ki -g S'ls,9J, niii“ mills and a fraction nvs-r. My sec - ond b.oy just brought in the puifit oi a two t dged sword, doubt less th ■ on 1 * ilwt cr .arcb-d tlie gir lon o' E l -a. Tn-re is an oid lu(li:|!i lie.e who y-s Ie- w*-ll rem -inbers N *ah and ibt* ark. My twaiv** -oi * .ire all beany an Rny two daughters are tine-looking girls’. Farewell. James Smith and Wife.

A Horrible Crime.

Last Saturday, we learn from the Wabash <Intelligencer> , a man named William Joy was convicted of <burning his own child to death> and sentenced to eighteen years confinement in the Penitentiary. The principal witness against him was his little daughter Nancy, whose story to the jury is thus given by the <Intelligencer>. We should promise that the offense was committed in the fall of 1857 but concealed by the family through fear of the father, till his arrest for another offense, lately, gave them an opportunity to tell it without fear: Her little brother John, child about four months old, was quite unwell, and had been so for some days, and was consequently fretful, and had cried considerably during the night and disturbed her father. Early on the morning her father called to her and told her to get up and make a fire. She did so— made the fire principally of brush, because there was no other woof prepared. After the fire began to burn, the child continuing to cry and fret, her father became enraged, and snatched the child from his mother's arms, tore every particle of clothing of it, and then took it by one arm and one leg, and held it over the fire until it was burned in several places to a blister. He then struck the little sufferer two blows with his hand, leaving upon its body the marks of his fingers, and then threw it into the cradle or bed. His wife and daughter struggled to get the child away from him, but were unable to do so, and when Mrs. Joy found that he was going to burn the child to death, she ran out of the house to prevent seeing the sight, and to get out of hearing of the child's screams. Joy took down his gun and pointing it at her compelled her to come in. He then left the house and did not return, as we understand for a day or two. Four days after this terrible scene the little suffering child died and was buried. No one by Joy and his wife and two young daughters knew anything about the cause of its death. The neighboring women, who came in and assisted to lay out the child, found it so mortified and decayed that they could not wash it or even take off the clothing upon it. Joy told his wife and daughter that if they ever said a word about it, he would kill them, and they believed it, and so kept the horrible secret. ———<>———

The Gallantry of Slaveholders.

The Commercial Advertiser, give.- tin- lid. lowing in-w illustration of the h-'-.d’adtv and gillantry of the chivalry of tlie whip, hr.i nd and co li c ; “A married i,,dy residing in tiie iu'ig limringCity of ii -o .ikiyn, tv!io»e n.uue was in »n ironed in the n irrdtive given ton , ha.-been spending the. Whiter at a hotel in Aikip, *8 >nth Carol ti ~ in company w ith a si.‘k d uigiiter, wiiu re pi'n-ed a mini ciim tte. A tew wee s ago she \\i ..te to a : brother residing in tlie western port of this S\.t , and in the course, dl the h tier, sp. ke of*he evils . i Slavery, as she saw them ur u.-id her. To is lellcr vas puLdish- il, ~nd s.m.e one s nt a, copy ol the paper to toe Rostmaster at A kin. A public mee :*.g \v, s immedi itely called, and a C muHtteeap o ute.l t * lei-ret out t!i|* wr-t.-r. A- \.. io.-rn g.-llt ii-iu . n who, os an i.v.l.d, oapp.-iuil also to be it. ’the,lntel, was su-po. t d. cni w is threaten il with lynch la.v i In did net c iN'ess A-, i! colt ' !i : c nl.! only p; rsist in a d dial, In- ", ou.o pr. b :h!y n v»- sii! er. d ..cc )i-duig v, hi 1 n,t tiie 1 1 tv no!) v coin * cov ir I t,i xm t .re ai i liv icku *.v,e !giog tiie tetter .is u-r o-.vn ..tii min'g. ~t tin- sme i iim- tout sin* w .s n o pr-.vy to its puh.icat mu. I’lie c tiZeli- men turn d in -ir wrath u > >u h -r, ,ui ! sue was pi r uip oriiy order d to I. av.- the place il. 48 hours. The laiy ■»ieaii d for more tin*- oil behail o’ it - r sick dui rift er, hut tin* c.tiz -ns o Akn kn > v iio - iieii hum or v. Mb a-ked I, r iI erty to remo - until I; r liu-li nil -c uid -r ive t ■ escu.i t her and her ,-ic.k chi d . But h oil izens of Aik n k-i -w uo ‘.ing ~f g iM.iiury *r courtesy. The order wis in p rati.e, i) spite o the earnest p cad tig o toe worn n, wife and motlier. Nor was this all. Th--I nidlord ot the hotel—would that we kri w tte- in insiei’s non -- *rd -re.) the m<*to< r.n i the si. k daughter to jl-utve h s p a inis. s j halt an h nir.’ W.i.t fu-lhe- occuria-d li - t.veen th ■ lady ami Up- in um n citizens o’ Akin. South (’.ir dimi, w - ar • not in oin *d. But we learn t at on SV e ne-uiuv morning l ist he husnaud re ve l i letter apprising him-oi h-r situ i ton. id on tie atteitn iu-i o the same day o• si o o-d t'n South, amt m-” his wile and 0.. u ,s rat (!olumiiii, up tlieir way horn

ite advices fr d.m Mexico, high’y important, if authentic, go to snow that some very decisive steps have been taken by the European powers for the control o. tin- Isthmus of Tehauntepec, and for the adjustment ol affairs i i Mexico, in direct contravention l ot the Monroe doctrine, as constructed bo the Administr ition. Suspicions of this sort have long existed, and sugges ms have repeate«liy been m ale that our Ovyc o- nt ava- allowing itself to be .-.auv died in pr ic ticc.ii) this quarter, v-. liile c-.l -ntl-. proclaiming it- ol*stract tln’ories on this subject The sah h Mexico! States in the Smite to f- t : me purpose of colon zing .from. H ; ■ .*. is reported to hove been actually c*.n-limited. (B 5 l’l>e L union Critic is at length enabled to stale, upon i vid-lice of uie highest authori j that the autlio" ol the celebr ited Vestiges of the N t’u-al History ot Creation, firs' published in 18 1 1 and which Itas since gone tlmough several editions, aas the late j Dr. George Combe, who died u year ago.