The Weekly Anglo-African (New York [N.Y.])
November 12, 1859

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voL. L—NO. 17. ghe Weehly Anglo-Arican 1S PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, BY THOS. HAMILTON, ¥o. 48 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Two Dollars per year, or Four Cents per copy, p&‘ifiue on dt)h"?l‘}'. i RATES OF ADVERTISING.. Six Cents a line for the first insertion, and Three Cants for each subsequent insertion. _ Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths, Publie Meetings, inserted for Twenty-five Cents, pro vided they do not exceed five lines; if more tgmn that. Five Cents for each additional line. All eommunications for the paper must be ad :‘lre:"’l;(l THOS. I{A.\IILTOX, 48 Beckman st., New York, [P. 0. Box 1212.] OUR IDOL. e (loge the door lightly, Bridle the breath, Our little earth Angel Is talking with death Gently he wooes her, She wishes to stay, His arms are about her— He bears her away Musie comes floating Down from the dome Angels are chanting The swect welcome home. Come, stricken weeper Come to the bed, (3aze on the sleeper— QOur idol is dead! Smooth out the ringlets, Close the blue eyes— No wonder such beauty Was claimed in the skies Cross the hands gently ()’er the white breast, So like a wild spirit Strayed from the blest, Bear her out softly, This idol of ours, Let her grave slumbers Be mid the sweet flowers Deforred Correspondence. o 2 Sl OUR TROY LETTER. Troy, N. Y., Oct. 25, 1859. Mz, Epimor:—The citizens of Troy had the pleasure of listening toa very fine con. cort which was given here on Tuesday evenine, at Rand’s Concert Hall, by Prof. Robert Hamilton, of New York City, as sisted by Madame Magnan of the same place, Madame Fisher, formerly of Phila delphia, but now of Troy, Miss A. F. Hec tor, and Prof. Simon, also of Troy. It was “une grande affaire.” 'To many of us the performers were strangers, and of course we went to the concert with the highestan ticipations, and, unlike many who have formed high expectations, we found our anticipations realized. ~Prof. Hamilton is an excellent singer. He has a very agree able voice, and sang Russell’s celebrated song called “The Ship on Fire,” and many others, to the satisfaction of all who heard bim. Madame Magnan is a splendid sing er. Her execution of some passages from “La Norma” and several other operas was superb, and would have elicited commen dation from any audience in this country. She has not, I think, a very loud voice, but it is very sweet, and gives evidence of great cultivation. Madame Fisher is a ve ry fine singer. She sang a great many songs and ballads, which were received with great applause. She has a very loud voice, with perhaps a greater compass than I ever heard before; but it is not so sweet, nor do I think it leaves so lasting an impression as Madame Magnan’s, whose ———+Music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” Miss Hector sang very well for a person not accustomed to singing in public, and with a little cultivation would have a very fine alto voice. Prof. Simon, who presided at the piano, gave us but little evidence of his ability to perform anything besides ac companiments, as the gentleman who was to play some duetts with him upon the vi olin was prevented from doing s¢ by an accident, so that the very part of the enter tainment which every one delights most to hear was necessarily omitted. The con cert, I thought, was very well attened, most all the colored people of the city hav. ing been present, with a few white persons. Professor Hamilton,however, thought there were but few present; but he should recol lect that Troy is only a small place, and even when all of her colored citizens at tend a public entertainment they make but a small number, compared with larger ci ties. Before closing this letter, I havea few suggestions to make. When Madame Magnan visits this city again, (which time, Thope, will not be very far distant,) she will gain many more admirers by substi tuting plainer and easier music for that which she sang here on Tuesday night. It unnot be expected that any people who “e not familiar with operatic singing can {ke and appreciate it even when they hear for T believe that seven-eighths of the #ople who assembled at Concert Hall on T“fidty night never heard an opera in their lives,and that five-eighths of them ,bardly knew the meaning of the word. Therefore, persons who intend singing for the gratification and appreciation of their hearers should adapt their music to their hearers’ capacity for understanding it, and by not doing this Madame Magnon is pre vented from getting all the praise which is Justly due her. Situated as the people of Troy are, far from any place where ope ratic entertainments are held, it cannot of course be expected that they enjoy any singing which is almost exclusively ope ratic, for my slight experiened in such en tertainments teaches me that a taste for them must be cultivated, and that a per son rarely is pleased at the first Learing, as there is something about operatic singing, to the uninitiated, that has hardly any pleasaut sound or tone, it seeming to them to be nothing more than a succession of high and low notes, incerspersed with some odd and inimitable sounds. Therefore, Madame Magnan will see at once the pro priety of changing her programme should she ever honor us with her presence again, for those who both admired and appreciat ed her singing on Tuesday night were too few to control the general opinion of her audience, who expressed themselves as be ing unable to understand what she sung. YOUNG PHYSIC. LETTER FROM NEWARK. NEeEwark, Nov. 1, 1359- Dear Axcro:—Last evening a select and appreciative audience assembled in the school-room of the Plane street public school to hear Mr. Wilbur G. Strong, prin cipal of said school, give a lecture and read iugs. The character of the entertainment was poetic, dramatic, and comic. His readings were excellent, and he displayed a commendable knowledge of the rules of ‘elocution, and all his auditors seemed high ly gratified. His voice, however, is not so deep and heavy as many of his friends ‘would desire, being apparently more of the i throat the chest tones; but as he is quite young and is a lover of vocal music, he ‘will no doubt endeavor to acquire that deep, manly tone which is so indispensable with all public speakers. At the cloge of the exercises, Mr. Strong informed the au dience that his principal design in drawing the people together was to make known to them his desire of enlisting all present— both ladies and gentlemen—in the forma tion of a literary association, the members of which should write essays, discuss ques tions, read selections from standard au thors, deliver lectures, &c.; and, after a few well-timed and welcome remarks from Rev. E. P. Rogers, the well-beloved pastor of Plane street Presbyterian Church, a committee of three were appointed to draft a constitution and present it at a meeting to be held on Monday evening, the 14th inst. This is another good step towards the moral and social elevation of our youth, by stimulating their ambition, de veloping their talents, and creating a noble and lofty spirit of emulation and self-re spect, all of which are much needed by many of the youth of this city, so that, if for nothing more, the deeply mortifying scenes enacted by a vulgar rabble present last evening at a marriage ceremony in St. Philip’s Church, to the utter disgrace of a certain class of inhabitants of this city, and in the sorely wounding of the feelings of many good churchmen also, may never, never be repeated. More anon. SKIMMER. OUR YORK LETTER. Yorg, 'a,, Oct. 22, 1859. Mr. Epiror:—York, having been orig inally settled by Germans, still retains its Germanic proclivities. The language is spoken by almost all classes of its inhabi tants, who are noted for their thrift and closeness. The election for this county passed off quiely on the 12th, the borough going strong anti-Democratic. The political cauldron has ceased to boil now, and from the silence since one might suppose that the parties had adopted the policy of not hallooing until they had ascerjained which of them had got out of the woods. The Rev. Mr. Thompson, of this place, pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Church,f preached an impressive sermon in the new- ly organized A. M. E. Church, on last Sabbath, from the words, “Prepare to meet thy God,” and the necessity for snch pre paration was made plain. As there is nothing important transpir ing at present, I will furnish your readers with a few reminiscences of bygone days. This has long been the hunting ground of the holders of human chattels, and during the existence of our acts of assembly, and before the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, many exciting trials and hair-breadth escapes occurred here. A party of stran gers once laid claim to a colored citizen of this place, who still resides here, and brought five or six witnesses, who swore in the most positive terms to his size, col or, the time and place of his birth, and the marks on his person. They were prevent ed, however, from dragging him into inex tricable bondage, by the appearance of his mother in court, who was a white woman, and who proved to the satisfaction of the court and jury that he was her son, and that he was born in the town 'of Carlisle, in the State of Pennsylvania. Some time after that, three or four trav elers reached here about twilight, closely pursued by persons laying claim to them as chattels personal. Tyqey were said to have taken shelter in the house of a black farmer a few miles from town. All the host of catchers were offered considerations to go out and watch the house all night, while a warrant was being obtained to search for the fugitives. Accordingly, in the morning, all around the house might be seen men with bottles of whisky, watch ing the arrival of the constable with the }search warrant. When, at length he ar rived, the door was opened—but, lo and behold, nothing was to be seen but the old farmer and his wife and children. If the birds ever were there, they had flown, and have not been seen in these parts since. I leave the reader to imagine the disappointment and chagrin of the owners, aiders, and abettors, who spent a whole night in watching, and received nothing in the morning save a little whisky for their trouble. It was in this county that the celebrated Prigg case originated, which, after consider able litigation, was ended by the Supreme Court deciding that the slaveholder had a right to take his slave in any State in the Union. CODORUS. N. B.—lntelligence has just reached here of the death of Mr. Charles Dorris, long and favorably known as a barber and citizen of Harrisburg. ESMERALDA SOIREE. Mr. Eprror:—The grand Promenade Soiree of the Brooklyn Esmeralda Club, came off Wednesday, Oct. 26th. Although the nventng proved to De very untavoravie, yet the hall was crowded in every part. The committee had spared no pains on their part to have everything in ample or der for the comfort of the guests. The hall was beautifully decorated. The entertainment was opened by the reception of the following Clubs: The Empire Club, of Brooklyn; the Youth’s Literary Society, of New York; and the Ariel Club, of New York. The societies looked well and deserve much praise. It was well that the evening proved to be so unfavorable, for there would nothave been room to accommodate, comfortably, those who had secured their tickets in advance. The large ingathering was made up prinei pally of persons who got their tickets at the door on that evening. The soiree was a complete success, and every one went home satisfied, after spend ing a social time with the Brooklyn Esme ralda Benevolent Club. The great secret of our success is that we advertised in the “Weekly Anglo-African.” ESMERALDA. Broogryy, Oct. 28th, 1859. LETTER FROM “THE CHOIR." NEw York, Nov. 2, 1859. MRr. Epiror:—Believing that the world is now waiting in anxious suspense to know of the whereabouts of your correspondent, I thought I would drop you a line to ‘re lieve that anxiety, and to satisfy all that I am still “bobin’ around.” I left New York on Sunday evening, in the fine steamer Francis Skiddy, for Troy, but having pro ceeded as far as Albany, I thought that I would “bob” a little. So I left the splen did steamer to pursue her way, while I, “through the mist of the morning,” sought out a chop-house, in order that I might re plenish the inner man, and be strengthened for the labors of the day. And here was the first evidence that I had left New York City, for at the very first saloon I came to I found accommodations. Afttrgratifying my inner man and my 2zmost man, I start ed on my voyage of discovery, which, by the way, is rather difficult, from the fact that the streets either lead you “all around my hat,” or else they lead you on the top of some hill or down in some hollows It is on the top of ome of these hills that I found our old friend Stephen Myers perch ed. T could not imagine why he went up there to live until I recollected that he was the Albany agent of the U. G. R. R, a position where you can both hear and see a great distance being highly necessary for a depot on that road. He informed me that business was never better on that road ‘than it is at this time. Your cortespondent is happy to say that he found that our people are holdingitheir NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 1859. own in Albany. Mr. Thos. Vogelsang, of the firm of Topp Co., informed me that his business was very good. These gen tlemen are merchant tailors, and have as fine a store and stock of goods as can be found in Albany. Mr. G. Lippett, who keeps a hotel opposite the parade ground, is also doing a splendid business. The gentleman bought this property several years ago, and it has been increasing in value very rapidly since that time. So finely situated is his house, and so rapid has been his increase of trade, that he must realize a fortune in a few years. His suc cess will be wholly owing to the untiring exertions of a noble wife. There are other colored people who own property on the Park. The people of Albany are rejoicing at the removal of the Rev. Theodore D. Mil. ler to their city, anticipating very great benefit from his ministrations. The good people of A. will excuse me for not fulfilling my promise; but, not be ing able to get a hall without paying an enormous price for it, I was compelled to pass them by. Troy and the Trojans in my next. THE CHOIR. MAN WAS NEVER MADE TO MOURN. —_—— “Man was never made to mourn,” Spring, Appollo, to thy feet! Cast despairing thoughts away, Taste the cup of life how sweet. Seize the hammer, seize the spade, Yoke the oxen to the plough, And bright thy lamps of life shall be, Earning plenty by thy brow. “Man was never made to mourn.” Has wealth slipped thy eager hand Be that no cause to meet despair, "Tis strewn by millions o’er the land "Tis gleaming on the mountain top, ’Tis hidden in the valleys warm "Tis springing from the dusty shop, When touched by labor’s honest arm. “Man was never made to mourn.” What though friends prove false and few, Is that a cause to sit and sigh, And wish the world was good and true? ‘Be thou true unto the last, On thyself thy burdens rest Give no sorrows forshe past, Hope —believe all’s for the best. “Man was never made to mourn. Though love has slighted you to-day, Kill the youngster! seal your heart, And time will bring a brighter ray. The skies are full of brilliant stars, Flowers are plenty in the wood And none are found so pure and bright, But others gleam as bright, as good. OLD VIRGINIA. il Mr. Epiror:—Well, may not only Vir ginia but the whole South tremble, when facts like the accompanying ones are known. Please pass them around. THE SON OF A SON OF ONCE HONORED VIRGINIA. From the New York Independent. A COLORED PREACHER IN MISSISSIPPL In a very recent journey on the Missis sippi, I noticed in the companion-way a very well dressed and intelligent looking negro. There were fully an hundred pas sengers .and while knot after knot assem bled and dispersed and freely conversed on politics, the crops, the hard times, this man sat alone and unnoticed. During the evening I entered into conversation with him, and found he was a clergyman in the Methodist Episcopal Church. From a Christian gentleman on board, I learned that he was one of the most successful col ored ministers in the West. He was born and educated in Massachu setts, and had seen much of the world, as a sailor and a cabin boy, and his knowl edge of men contributed to his usefulness. He was immeasurably superior to nine tenths of the passengers in dress, refine ment, and education, yet when dinner was served, filthy-looking vagabonds found their way to the first table, but our colored friend dared not touch a morsel upon the 1 table; there was food in abundance for ev ery one but him. Tea came up—table after table served, but our colored brother sat supper less and unnoticed. He bad paid the full price of passage, but such is the force of prejudice against color that he might have traveled for days on the steamer and not once have been permitted to approach the table, or invited to take a morsel of tood. I found him sprightly, genial, and well- read; from him Ilearned many interesting facts in regard to the condition of the peo-. ple in the West and South-west. During our conversation I was struck with surprise at the interest felt in it by those around us. The passengers crowded about us, and lis tened with the deepest interest to the re marks and aneedotes of the despised color ed man—in faet, he stood among us like a man from a foreign land, and so far remov ed in race, color, and sympathy was he, that we listened to him as we would to the intelligent Hindoo. He mentioned in the ccurse of conversation that his brethren in the free States were constantly receiving intelligence from their brethren in the South. He was at this time retarning from a convention of colored ministers, in which were represented forty thousand church members. In this meeting, from various sources, intelligence was received from their friends in the house of bondage. The number of slaves who can read and write is now not inconsiderable in all the cities and towns of the South, and white men are found everywhere who will run the risk of writing letters for the slaves. “From all you can learn,” I said to him, “do you think that the condition of your people in slavery is improving 1 “No,” he replied, “their oppression is be coming every year more distressing—while in the North legislation and public sen timent is becoming more favorable for us. In the South our bondage is every year more severe, and the hearts of the masters more embittered and cruel. Our churches are being closed, many masters are now saying that the negroes should not be al lowed to be members of any church, for their church relations give the opportunity for retailing their wrongs, and forming plots and insurrections. T'hus throughout the slave states our privileges are being ‘abridged, the slightest excuse is sufficient cause for closing our Sunday-schools and to silence our ministers. Complaint is un ‘availing and only increases our punish ‘ment. If any whiteman defends us, he makes himselt’ an object of suspicion, and very likely of mob violence. (gne of the greatest curses of slavery is, that society comes under the dominion of the worst i men—men of the most ferocious passions; desperadoes and ruflians hold in their hands the reins of power, and rule society as absolutely as any oligarchy. Any man, however "respectable, who resists their counsels and raises his voice against their savage whippings, is insulted and marked. Thus the best men in the South are com pelled to be silent and caused to sustain measures and cruelties which their whole nature abhors.” “What is your hope then of the future?” “God,” said he, “raised up Moses to de liver Israel in Egypt—we look and pray for a deliverer. But while we wait on God we know he works by means, and we are looking now to see the movements on the stage of the agents of His will. So we hope that the South will succeed in di viding the Union, for the very moment that is consummated slavery will not last forty-eight hpurs. Such is the preponder ance of the slave population, such their superior physical energy and strength, that the work of revolution would be short and easy. What is to prevent the slaves from throwing their masters and overseers on their shoulders and walking off to the Mississippi and pitching them in? I tell you, sir, it would be done in shorter time than we are talking about it, if the Union was dissolved. Iknow that the slaves are now held in check by the fear of the North. Remove the fear of the Northern army, erty would be kindled upon every hiil in the South. Let the North stand aloof, and let insurrection commence, and the real weakness of the Southern slave-holders would be seen. At the first token of alarm the heart of the South would freeze to death. Sir, they are weak as water, they shakeand flee even at the sound of a leaf.” “But,” said 1, “we are often told on very high authority, that the majority of slaves are contented and would not accept of free dom; if such is the case there would be no such result as you predict from the division of the Union.” “Sir,” said he, to say that the slaves are contented and would not accept of freedom is a lie against human nature. There are men here who know that every active, healthy slave thirsts for liberty. There are old, worn-out slaves who are standing over the grave, who dread any change, and would prefer remaining where they must be fed while they live, and buried with their fathers when they die, but these are few compared with the whole number; there is many an old, broken-down slave who would give a year of his life to enjoy the satisfaction of feeling that he was a free man. “In fact, if a negro preacher in the South, speaking to his brethren, attempts a description of heaven, he puts into the foreground as one of the chief elements of its happiness, freedom and liberty to serve God under no restraint but love. This de sire for liberty is constantly increasing, and the consequence is aversion to their masters and brooding insurrection. The slaves are no longer patient and contented as in former years, for many of them are nearly white, and have in their veins the best blood of Virginia and Kentucky. They are no longer the submissive race of the past. Their masters are more :tern, exacting, and unsympathizing than former ly. In fact, the gulf between the master and slave is becoming every year deeper. Reverence for the authority of the master, love toward himself and his family, are now among the shadows of the past. Al most every slave has been pierced with some poisoned arrow, which hasembittered his whole nature: From that hour he has become a different man, and nursed the dream of liberty or the purpose of revenge. There are not wanting white men in the South, who, from a variety of motives,en courage the hope of liberty in the slaves, ‘and aid in their escape. For instance, a slave of Major Rawlins—the late Free-soil icandidate for Governor of Missouri—llate -1y left home for parts unknown. He had several counties to pass before reaching the Mississippi river. In this part of his jour ney he was aided by slaveholders, who said to him, ‘Yo r master should practice what he preaches, he goes over the State and proclaims that he is in favor of liberty, yet he places over you and his vther slaves the severest of overseers. We will assist your master in extending the area of free. dom, and in becoming an honest man. So, John, go; if your old master gets on your trail we will put a flea in his ear” He was just as safe in Missouri as in Illinois. There is another important fact in relation to our people. There is springing up amongst us a strong natural feeling, deep sympathy for one another, as belonging to a proscrib ed and persecuted race. Common laws are binding all the colored race with bonds of iron to ane another. “We are naturally a warm-hearted, af fectionate, and unwarlike race, but a great change is now perceptible among our peo ‘ple. Men are found among us now of iron ‘will and desperate courage, who care no ‘more for death than Leonidas and his S par ‘tans. We will no longem betray one an ‘other. Escapes, plots, and insurrections ‘are now almost as safe in the bosom of ev ‘en a colored child, as if they were hid in ‘the grave. Of this I can tell you remark ‘able instances (several of these I have to omit.) I have seen slaves come on board steamers, for whom a high reward was of fered. 'Their complexion was so light that no one could detect the slightest African tinge. But the cabin-boys and servants knew them, and were delighted to see the Captain’s great deference to ‘Mr. La Croix’ or ‘Miss Du Bois” Every one of those cabin-boys would rather have died than be tray the refugees.” At this point a gentleman who had been listening uneasily, spoke briskly and said, “The negroes are fools—they are much better in slavery than in freedom. The free negroes are a poor, thieving race.” “As for the vices of the free people of color, they are those which are the fruits of slavery. Slavery teaches us to cheat, steal, deceive, lie, and break the Sabbath, etc., etc. As for property we are as well to do as most of the people of the country. Many of our people acquire wealth. But we are a people whom no one thinks of but to despise. We are like criminals be fore a court of justice, whom nobody knows until charged with some crime, and then everybody knows us—judges, lawyers, ju ry, and all. Here I sat on the boat many hours and not one of you thought of me or spoke of me, except tosay, ‘Why, there is a nigger Who cares for a black man except when he commits some crime? Then all eyes are upon him. If we are despised and ignorant, you must ex pect that the evils of slavery will follow us through several generations. Slavery deprives us of manhood and treats us as cattle, or at best as children. But bad as the case is for us, you take any one of these towns on the Mississippi River, in a free State, where you find about an equal number of colored people and Irish. Ten Irishmen are convicted of crime where one colored man is condemned. Ten Irishmen are paupers where you find one of my people. Why, in some of these towns there is a grand Irish fight every holiday nadeppdiy- apd Almast. eyery night they said of this, for they are to vote ai‘iuc next election. Butif one of my people is a thief or a drunkard, we are a ‘miserable, worthless race. But when you consider that many of us are born in slavery, were slaves until forty or fifty years of age, and then turned off without a dollar in the world, and that we are doomed to the lowest employments and frowned upon in all our efforts to gain re spectability—should it be a matter of seri ous surprise that many of our people are poor, and occupy the lowest position in so ciety? Whatever we do or become, we are nothing but ‘niggers.” Property gives us neither rights nor honor. Here one of the company remarked that he knew many communities of colored men in Indiana and Ohio, who were pros perous as farmers, and highly respected by their neighbors. Then many others gave similar testimo ny to the reputable conditions of similar communities in Pennsylvania and Michi an. At this point the Southern gentleman, who had distinguished himself, by frequent insulting remarks, left the crowd and re tired to the bar to liquor. Many remarks followed, and our colored friend began to be regarded as a man and a Christian; and it was manifest thata new interest was springing up for thislong despised race. IOWA. [From the Anglo-African Magazine. CHIT-CHAT, OR FANCY SKETCHES. ey i BY JANE RUSTIC. sl In a luxuriously furnished room sat a number of persons, conversing in low but earnest tones. It was near mid-day, and yet the windows were closed and the rooms brilliantly lighted. The occasion which drew them together was a bridal festival, and they were filling up the interval be tween their arrival and the marriage with conversation. As I drew near, I heard one of them exelaim: I am almost hope less about the condition of our people; T think the only thing that can elevate them is wealth, and I cannot see when we shall ever have wealth enough to gain us a posi- tion, and make us a power to be felt in the community.” 1 “1 do not think,” replied a dark-browed and enthusiastic speaker, *‘that all the wealth we may command would remedy the evils under which we labor. My only hope is in emigration. I look upon the American people as a race upon whose heads vials of wrath are to be poured out, and I feel it our duty to separate from them, lest we partake of their judgments.” “T do not believe any such thing,” re plied another speaker, whose fair complex ion scarcely showed his identity with the negro race. “I believe in staying and fighting it out.” Fighting it out exclaimed our emi gration friend, with an air of impatience, and, as I thought, a slight dash of con tempt in his voice, what is the use of fighting only to be conquered, of contend ‘ing only to be subdued “Because,” brokein animpetuous youth, 'who was a good soldier when there was no PRICE FOUR CENTS battle to fight; In an hour like this, it is inglorious submission—shameful. 1 stand pledged to the slave, if he will only throw down his sugar knife, cast away his cotton hook, and strike for liberty, that I will stand by him, that my wife will say amen ito the deed, even if it widows her; that my children will approve the act, if it deprive them of a father’s care.” This speech had a very exciting effect. Some dreaded that such words were caleu lated to do harm; others thought that such brave words were needed to educlte the people, but in my humble opinion, I set them down as somuch “buncombe,” having embraced the idea that the less is contained in the greater; and as several fugitives had oeen taken from his State, and I had never heard of his arming in their defence, I did not feel any fear of soon seeing his wife widowed by his sleeping in a martial grave, a martyr to the canse of negro freedom. 1 was just mischievous enough to say, 1 thought his life might vie with the wander ing Jew’s if he never lost it till he laid it down in a negro insurrection. Pghaw he exclaimed, while others smiled, and some of the women tittered, but being only a woman, he did not think it worth while to combat me. The fighting argument not finding very many earnest friends, our advocate for wealth took up the thread of the discourse, and proceeded with a disquisition of the social forces being propelled by golden wheels. Give us wealth,” said he, and that will give us position; white men will court our society, and gold, though yellow, will be the most potent whitewash we can find.” And thus for some time the speaker dilated on the advantages of wealth; vis ions of office, power and position gilded his thoughts, and he was growing warmer and warmer with the subject, when our emigra tionist broke in with sudden impatience, “I. do not want to purchase a right to sit at the same table with another man because his face is white; if he is too proud to eat with me I feel too much selfrespect to force myself upon him; in fact, I do not like this American civilization so much as to wish to imitate every feature of it. Hence, I go in for emigration, where we can de velop a civilization of our own, &nd model a character for ourselves, without taking a white man for our constant pattern. 1 would have our race live out their own in dividuality, and build up their own charac ter. Ido hate and despise thisimitation.” “Now, my friend,” said I, are you not a little too radical, on the whole? Todespise imitation entirely, is to throw away a car dinal source of improvement; we had never learned to talk had we, from our cradles, S 5 v d.te, Imltate pyvmds. Thebest seulp he despised imitation; and the best poets and painters are the best imitators of the highest ideal of the natural with them selves. But my friend, if you substitute aping for imitation 1 agree with you.” And what,” said several voices, “is the difference between aping and imitation Now, to answer this question, puzzled me considerably not that it was very hard to define the difference; but here I was in a house, surrounded by what I called apish ness. It was near mid day, and the sky was bending over us as calm and bright as the eyes of affection over the cradle of slumbering innocence, and yet the windows were closed, and the bright sunshine and joyous skies were excluded, as if gas-light were an improvement on sunshine, and the balmy breath of spring less welcome than the stifled air of a crowded drawing-room. Fingers used to the wash-tub were glitter ing with jewels, women were vieing with each other in rich laces and elegant bro cades; hands hardened by labor were en cased in fine and delicate gloves; necks ‘that had sweated in getting up excellent ‘dinners for “white folks,” were adorned with golden chains, and arms that had been ‘weary in carrying heavy burdens were gleaming with golden bracelets. One ‘woman, whose husband was a barber, told ‘me her dress had cost about fifty dollars, and a set of jewelry had cost forty doll rs. Another woman, whose husband was a ‘waiter at some public house, had given three dollars and a half a yard, I under stood, for hers. Now, being a country girl, and having, possibly,a little prejudice against city folks, who would not tolerate my country notions and rustic ways, how could I, with my characteristic bluntness, define my position without giving offense Now, here was a dilemma; my city friend looked warningly atme. With all his good qualities he has one little weakness, at least it appears so to me; he stands in dread of that quintessence of tomfoolery, negro aristocracy, but as I am only a coun try girl, maybe I do not understand city ways well enough to appreciate his fears. At last T summoned up courage, and replied, Imitation is simply a copying or making patterns after an example. By aping, 1 mean servile imitation, or abject mimicking. Imitation is landable, and a source of im provement, when it incites us to copy that which is useful in science or art. Truly beautiful in wsthetics, or excellent in morals, it degenerates into apishness when it leads us to copy the vices and follies of others, because they fill what are c:}lled su perior stations. If I see the wife and daughter of the poor laboring man striving to dress and model their homes after a Fifth Avenue palace, 1 call that aping; if I see a colored man isolate himself from colored society, and harp on the seclusion lof himself ang family, and take pains to inform me that he is not social with his eol ored neighbors, but turning to associate with the dominant race, 1 set him down among the apes; if I see a colored man in business, for instance, a barber, afraid to shave a respectable colored man, afraid to have an anti-slavery paper in his shop, or to take an aetive partin the anti-slavery enterprise, lest he lose custom, I may seem

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a little harsh in my opinion, but still I set him down among the apes. There is much that we may learn from the dominant race, much that we may prOfit‘bly f()l]ow- Now,”said I, turning to my emigration friend, “as mining, agriculture, manufac ture and commerce are the great sources of national wealth, would it not be well for us to imitate the adeptness that the white people have gained in these arts,and so be prepared to add to the productive industry of any country where we might choose to emigrate “I think our great want,” exclaimed a pale, nervous looking man, whose pale, soft hands, and unsunned brow, spoke the dreaming scholar more than the practical man, that our great want is a proper ed ucation. I believe,” and here he paused and coughed slightly, it was one ofP those coughs that always sound like a death knell, tolling the departure of a loved and precious life, yes, I believe in the march of mind, in the progress of thought, and in the government and rule of ideas.” And while he spoke a solemn brightness lit up his eye, a deep glow overspread his pale cheek, it wasnot the tinting of crimson or vermillion, hischeek wastoo gark to show the flushing blood, but it seemed as if his soul had flushed through cheek and brow, lighting them up with an unearthly ra diance. I felt strangely awed, there was something in his manner that painfully disturbed me; the careless smile died from my lips, tears sprang to my eyes, but I pressed them back, I was in fashionable society, and what right had I to act out the deep sympathies of nature, without having my motives misconstrued, and my actions misinterpreted. My friend,” said I, laying my hands upon his shonlder, to the horror of my city friends, I did it unconsciously, for I was only taking counsel of my sympathies; Are you,” said I sadly but earnestly, “a living example of the fact that a man sins against himself when he cultivates his mind at the expense of his body Pardon me if I express myself freely to you. I may appear eccentric and rather strange, but you know that it is gaid that ‘eccen tricities on earth are customs in heaven.’ I think that you have made a mistake which is scarcely just to our people.” He looked steadily at me with a look of grieved' surprise, as if he thought that he had spent his youthful vigorin the cause of his race, and did not deserve reproach on that score. “Now,” said I, you are strangely gift ed; the power to mould public opinion, to influence, sway and direct, has been placed in your hands, and see, they are growing too feeble to hold with unfaltering grasp the threads of existence; you have shatter ed the casket in which has slumbered some of the richest gems of mind and thought. You have done it by divorcing your mind from your body; for years you have been thinning the partition walls of your spirit, till I fear that your health is almost a hopeless wreck. Now, my dear friend, permit me to say to you, forget that there is such a thing in the world as a book, go into the country, make acquaintance with nature, fall in love with every little squirrel darting lithely before you; instead J of books make companions of the pigs and chickens. Instead of burning your mid night oil, get up early in the morning, flowers; go among the haystacks and hunt for fresh eggs, pick vegetables, fresh vines and stems, luscious fruits from well-laden boughs; send the fresh currents of life glad ly through your veins; liberate the pent up electricity of your life, by healthy exer cise, and thus take care of the casket in which such glorious gems are enshrined.” I paused in my speech; the student looked grateful, more, perhaps, fo my sympathy than advice. I thoughtsome of the girls were a little annoyed, and the next day my well meant effort was con strued into a design to fascinate the stu dent, and rumor said that I was dying in love with him, but he did not care any thing about me. However, just as I fin ished speaking, I heard a buzzing moise, mingled with whispers of admiration; the marriage ceremony had commenced and the loving hearts were made one. The Tlechly Anglo-Arican, NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 12, 1859. K& Advertisements for this paper must be ac companied by the cash. EF™ Copics of this paper can be purchased of the news-dealers everywhere. STOPPING THE LEAKS. Verily, we know not what a day may bring forth. But yesterday we had peace, satisfaction, fat negroes, contented in chains; hospitable southern brethren, and warm Northern allies to-day we have Northern scoundrels, infamous Negro sympathizers, excited and alarmed Southern brethren, and plantation after plantation of discon tented negroes disposed to seek after their liberty, and that too after all that we have done to hem in, press down, and crush out that feeling. But yesterday, we were secure in all our measures for the spread and propagation of negro slavery, the capturing of fugi tives, the increase of slave territory, the removal of the Missouri Compromise line— the last that held us and our slaves from any and all territory in the Union, and the complete protection of our slave property by the Federal Government therein—and a fine prospect of increased facilities for the propagation of the foreign slave trade to-day the emeute at Harper’s Ferry has startled us from our seats,and in confusion, dismay, and terror, we run to and fro, wringing our hands over the evils we have done, and the dargers that threaten us. Read the journals of the past, and the same journals of to.day. The New York Herald, which acts as commander-in-chiefi of the Slavocratic-Democratic ship, (which means the South and the servile North) finding her foundering on the rocks and quicksands of Slavery, has come down from its post, and set itself, single handed, to the work of stopping the leaks and get ting her afloat again. The admission on the part of the Herald of the fast-falling fortunes of the party, at a crisis like this, is most surprising,and it is to be seen what amount of the help it so lustily calls for will come to its aid. In an extreme an guish, almost bordering on despair, that journal cries out—*The South must cease this evil agitation of Slavery.” So we are told, by authority, at last, that the South, and not the North, are the agitators of Slavery Wonderful admission this, after so many years of hard denial! Whatdoes it mean? Who cantell? But again that journal says—“ We must all come to this at last.” So we should think, if this con tinual agitation, instead of keeping down the blacks and humbling and frightening the North, is going to increase, as it has done, a disposition to outbreaks, emeutes, 1 and imsurrections, and the number of Browns to head them. This Harper's Ferry business has at least waked up the North to the real con dition of the ctuntry in relation to the down-trodden bondman, and rubbed off some of the flinty obtuseness of even the New York Herald in this matter. It fur ther says: “The present crisis demands something more than a mere suspension of the Slavery agitation. We must undo the mischief which was done in 1854, and place ourselves back upon Henry Clay’s substan tial peace treaty of 1850—that peace which gave such universal satisfaction to the country. We must restore the Missouri Compromise.” So we have got back to this, have we I— back to 18507 We want peace and tran quility, do we? We are glad of it. But, having gone so far on the road of evil as 1859, and got so far back on the back track as 1850, we shall hardly be willing to stop there. Our Anglo-African blood, at any rate, will not permit us to cease hos tilities at that point. We must insist on going farther on, no more patching up of wrongs, no more compromises with wrong doing. We must continue united, and never cease wrestling with the giant evil of Slavery till we have rid the land of it— till the bondman shall stand free and dis enthralled—a man. We must insist upon all this, before we shall be willing to en sure that peace and tranquility now so earnestly sued for. Let the Herald follow up this new work of reform it has, with so much apparent earnestness, began and let its slave mast ers, learning their first real, earnest lesson from the Harper's Ferry emeute, give the Herald and its satellites all the encourage ment in their power,and be induced to study the whole question, like men in ear nest for the right. It is not too late, “For while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may retnrn.” They may yet be enabled to stop the leaks in their foundering vessel, and not o R e the bottom, but Ing together for years to come. Who knows? WHAT A BREEZE! We scarcely know whether to term it a Simoon or a Sirocco, or what. An Irish man was once asked if they had any hurricanes in Ireland which blew over houses and fences and tore up trees, &ec. “Harry Cane ?—Harry Cane?” said Pat, musing; “no, but by my faith, I knew of one Jamie Cane, a very strongman, in ould Ireland, who upset and tore to pieces all the men who came in his way and troth, he must have been a brother to your Har ry Cane.” Now, whether the breeze visiting our country at present is one of the first-named, or is any relation to Pat’s, perhaps we may not stop here further to inquire but one thing is certain—it is doing wonderful dam age over the country just now, terrifying men, frightening soldiers, scaring Govern ors, and almost upsetting the very courts of justice. Whole States have been made to tremble, as though an earthquake had occurred beneath them. John Brown, with his wizzard wand— but whether like the witch of Endor’s or not is uncertain—has raised this breeze, and whither it will tend, or when cease, seems as yet impossible to conjecture. We may, however, at this time, only men tion a few incidents, the result of its ef ‘fects, that our readers may know something of its force and extent. In and about Harper’s Ferry, strange white men cannot walk after dark without molestation. One poor fellow, a reporter for the Herald, even found it difficult to ‘get from an adjacent town to the Charles town court-house, where the trial of Brown was in progress. The Tribune reporter states a case of a strange gentleman, sur rounded by bayonets, and half frightened out of his senses, being marched through Charleston, amidst the burning wrath of the inhabitants, to prison, all simply be cause he had a strange look and had made sundry inquiries about the stirring inci ‘dents of the place. It required two cap tains, three majors and four colonels, some hours in consultation, to admit said repor ter to the poor terrified gentleman’s cell, who, it appears, had come to gather facts to write a history of the great State of Vir. ginia A Boston sculptor struggled in vain to get access to John Brown, to make a drawing for a bust and when the instru. ment for taking a daguerreotype wassought to be taken in, permission was promptly rejected, It was deemed too dangerous an act, too heavy a responsibility for Judge, Sheriff, or any other high functionary, to admit into the prison where lay incarcer ated that old man, a sculptor and a daguer reotypist. There was no telling what dan ger might ensue—what risk was hazarded. Such has been the effect in Kentucky that a meeting of slaveholders—religious ones, we judge—called a meeting, at which it was deemed unsafe to allow colored per sons longer to preach the gospel at all, or hold religious meetings, even without hav ing some white man present. And the same meeting also passed strong resolutiors recommending a similar course throughout the State. The effects of the breeze has been experienced even north of Mason and Dixon’s line. In Brooklyn prayers have been recommended for H. W. Beecher, that he may cease preaching against Sla very and attend to the preaching of the gospel of slaveholding. A committee—of what sort we are not informed—met on Staten Island, and passed some resvlutions expressive of their high disgust at any endeavor of Wendell Phil lips to lecture on said island on any of tho lessons of the hour, or even on g 0 innocent a subject as the “Lost Arts,” fearing thatit might in some sort have a bearing on the matter of Southern Slavery, John Brown, or somebody else or something else not yet to them fully known. Such is the breeze sweeping over the country, and such are some of its effects. How far it will go, or when it will cease, or what further damages are likely to oc cur, is yet in the background. May we hope for the best. Rev. J. Seuna Marmin.—This young and eloquent divine gave the third lecture of the Anglo. African course on the even ing of the 2d inst., in Shiloh Church, toa very large and enraptured audience. His subject was “Nat. Turner,” A synopsis of the lecture would give but a faint idea of its merits. Mr. Martin must be heard to be appreciated. He lectured again last Monday evening in the Bethesda Church, which was crowded to its utmost capacity, on the outbreak in Virginia. In the An glo-African Magazine for November will be found a soul-stirring poem from his pen, entitled “The Sentinel of Freedom.” Axcro-Arricay Musicar Uxion.—ln an other column will be found the announce ment of a series of Musical Festivals, to be given under the auspices of this asso ciation, commencing on Monday evening, the 14th inst., and lasting six nights the price of admission to each to be only fif teen cents. 'This arrangement, if carried out as proposed by its getters up, will re sult in the development of much musical talent among us, and will, no doubt, meet with abundant encouragement from a mu sic-loving public. Further particulars in our next. The Harrisburg Patriot and Union says, in regard to a report which has been very extensively circulated “The report that the Adjutant General had taken the arms from the ‘Garnet Guards,” a colored milita ry company in this place (Harrisburg), and disbanded them, is incorrect. The ‘Garnet Guards’ own their arms and equip ments; we believe they bought them, or were presented with them by a benevolent colored individual in New York.” It was announced by telegraph from Utica, on Wednesday, the Bth inst., that Geerrit Smith had been taken to the Insane Asylum in that city, in an insane condi tion. This announcement will be received with profound sorrow wherever benevo lence is loved and genius admired. Hun dreds of thousands will unite with usin the expression of the hope that the mental illness of Mr. Smith will be of short du ration. SournerN TREPIDATION.—A correspon dent of the Richmond Dispateh, writing from Lynchburgh, Va., Oct. 28, says “Officer King, of Campbell County, went to Jacksonton, a small village in said county, on yesterday, for the purpose of arresting a negro man for some trivial of fense. An old negress, who this man had offended, informed the officer that a gang of negroes, many of whom were from this city, were in the habit of assembling at the house of this man. A search was made, and the booksand papers of a society were found, which was organized in 1854. The books showed that they have now $250 in their treasury. It is purported to be a be nevolent institution, but many persons are of the opinion that charity is not the most prominent feature of the Sosiety. A thorough investigation of the affair will be made.” JUSTICE ALL ROUND. To the Editor of theWeelly Anglo-African: We notice a communication in your last issue, over the signature of W. F. John son, in reference to the courteous treatment extended to him and suite during their temporary sojourn in Stonington, at the house of Mr. W.A. Ward. Now, Mr. Edi tor, we don’t wish it to be thought for a ‘moment that we jealous-minded or selfish; ‘but we like to see justice done and credit given to those who are deserving of it. We know that Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Garri son, and the young lad tha* was with them, were providen with good and clean beds and a bountiful supper, on board of a cer tain steamboat, plying between New York and Stonington but that was all over looked by Mr. J. Now, we would like to ask him if there was anything left undone on the part of those attached to the steam er—for we make it a point to manifest our good feelings towards all Anglo-Africans with whom we come in contact. STEAMBOATERS. Home Correspondence. LETTER FROM REV. AMOS GERRY BEMAN. NUMBER X, Baxgor, Me., 1859. Mr. Epiror: Justice requires that we should say a few words of this place. We were introduced to several friends of our people by our kind friend, Mr. James F. Murry, and had a meeting in behalf of the American Missionary Association on Sab bath evening. Those who took part in it were true and earnest friends of the col ored man the whole world over. During our visit here, we have called on most of our people. Their number is small, but all, we believe, are industrious and temperate, and for the most part, live in their own houses. Thisis a proof of the industry and integrity of the individu al. His home, “be it ever so humble,” is not the gift of ancestors, nor the result of successful speculation, but of hard and honest toil, amid a thousand discourage ments. One of the most interesting men of our people is Mr. Henry Van Meter. He was born a slave in the Old Dominion, sold, when a small boy, into Kentucky, from where he pioneered his way, nearly 70 years ago, on the underground railroad. He is at this time nearly 100 years old, yet he retains to a remarkable degree all the faculties of his mind. He describes the bitter trials of bis early life, and the sad parting with his father,in a manner which shows' that Slavery is a bitter and cruel thing—“the sum of all villainies.” The New York Observer should lecture him, for he made use of one of his mast er'’s horses to effect his escape, and after wards gave the animal his freedom, to re turn and report to his master the “French leave” which “the chattel” had taken, when, as the Lucas sing, “the moon had gone away.” We addressed a large Sunday School on the contrast between the free and slave children of this land. From their appear ance it would seem to be an easy matter to train them, and all the children, in the spirit of liberty for all the captives, if al their teachers were faithful to them and to the slave. There is a great willingness to lLear about the slave, or the free colored people. All profess to hate oppression. Among the most earnest and eloquent in this place is the Rev. A. Battles, of the Universalist Church. He is an Abolitionist of the old School, and a reader of the Liberator. Indeed, wherever that paper is taken in a family you may be, sure they are Aboli tionists—that they dre converted to the §o~p -1 e agouulll lUI LUE CUIOTEd Mman in this land, that they desire his elevation and improvement, and that it affords them much satisfaction to get hold of facts which prove the increasing advancement of the colored people in morals, intelligence and wealth. How much could be done in this way, for our elevation, and for the redemption of the slave! Let all our yonng men consid er this, and throw away their cigars and “dash away” the intoxicating bowl, forsake the gambling board, and in good earnest strive to lay up money for a “wet day” and for all the noble purposes of human de velopment and advancement. We have seen much here to encourage us. The spirit of hope and improvement is burning brightly in the minds of most of our people here. They look over the field with an intelligent eye. Just in pro portion to their intelligence, here as every where, they seek for those papers devoted to our cause, and welcome them to their families and what is written is read and understood. In this, Mr. Editor, you are doing a noble work, and your labors are ‘appreciated just in proportion as they be come known. Go bravely on, my dear sir] The true, the noble, and the gener ous, will stand by you and sustain you. Before the close of this year may your list of subscribers, to both the “weekly” and ‘the “monthly,” increase a thousand fold, ‘and “may your shadow never be less I” A. G. B. OUR NEW HAVEN LETTER. New Havex, Nov. 5, 1859 Desr Ancro:—“The Lion of the West” has roared in the “City of Elms,” and made the earth to tremble beneath our feet by the thunder of his eloquence, dazzled our minds by the vivid flashes of his wit, and entranced our souls by the vivid corusca tions of his meteor genius. He delivered his lecture on Nat. Turner, to a well-filled house, in the Temple street Church, on Thursday evening, the 3d inst.; and the next evening he delivered a lecture on the “Destiny of the Negro Race in America,” to an over-crowded house, in the A. M. E. Church, Sperry street. It would be need i less to say that he acquitted himself, on ‘both occasions with the most transcendant success. (Continued applause greeted al most every one of his matchless periods throughout his discourses, the first of which was two hours in length, and the other one hour and a half in course of delivery. He was heard to the end with the most unflag ging interest by his numerous auditors, and has won golden opinions for himself among the people of New Haven. The public already begin to look with increasing interest, amounting almost to impatience, for the Masonic festivities of December 27th, which I see flmonnced in your advertising columns, when they shall be treated to a poetic effusion by the same gentleman, in the shape of a Masonic po em. Having heard him as an orator, they are now anxious to hear him as a poet. ‘He will doubtless add fresh laurels to his ‘brow on that occasion. The following articles appeared in one of our city papers last week, respecting the recent triennial session of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, held in Virginia. It was doubt less written by one of the clerical or lay delegates from this diocese: THE CHURCH IN DARKNESS. During the sitting of the recent Episcopal Tri ennial Convetion, at Ricnhmond, while preparing for a ballot for a missionary bishop, the gas lights were suddenly extinguished, throwing the whole congregation into consternation. Taken in eon nection with the late outbreak at Harper's Ferry, some were not sure but that the insurrectionists had reached Richmond, and that their first move was to cut off all communication with the foun tain of light and this feeling was strengthened when it was discovered that all the lights in the city had gone out at the same time. Such was the confusion caused by this sudden darkness that Dr. Creighton had to strike his hammer and call out “Order in the house a good many times be fore anything like order could be produced; and by the time when affairs settled down into some thing resembling quiet, and a few candles had been brought in and distributed through the chureh, it was too late to do any further business, and the house adjourned. In reading the above, I was reminded of an editorial of yours in respect to the Dio cesan Convention of New York, entitled “A Laugh in New York,”in which you commented on the contemptuous manner with which that body treated a preamble and resolutions offered therein in respect to the revival of the slave trade, by Mr. John Jay. The above extract shows that in ißechmond the laugh was on the other side of the mouth. How significant it was that the capital city of Virginia, (the oldest State of the Union and the mother of Pre sidents,) and the assembly of the whole American church, should be simultaneous ly darkened at the same time that the in surrection was transpiring at Harper’s Fer ry Did not this event indicate that the American Church and State had been weighed in the balance and found wanting I wonder if any of the members could see amid the darkness the hand-writing of Je hovah on the walls, gleaming in blazing letters of fire—*Mene, mene tekel wuphar sin!” 1 am really glad that this insurrec tion, coneected with the above incident, happened as it did, for two reasons—first, l many Northern clergymen and laymen would have come back with the highest en comiums to lavish upon slave-holding in stitutions, which the terror and panic they saw created by twenty-two men from the centre to the circumference of that slave holdine Qtata. will now forhid them to in dulge in; and s:cond, the consternation' that Providence permitted to seize upon the members of the General Convention by that moment of darkness that came over them, is a sharp rebuke to that “laugh in New York,” the leading diocese of the church, which attempted to stifle the cry of bleeding humanity. I do not contend that it was necessary to pass that preamble and ‘resolutions as offered, because 1 think that such kind of work befits political rather than ecclesiastical conventions. These lat ter conventions ought to concern them selves most with: their own internal disci pline, taking good care that it should al ways tell in behalf of God and humanity. Canons, therefore, and not resolutions, be fit ecclesiastical bodies, and this resolution ought to have been referred to the Com mittee on Canons to inquire what action, if any, was necessary to be taken, in order to purge the church from any complicity in this nefarious traffic, condemned alike by the laws of God and the Constitution and laws of our country. And if it might be feared that any clergyman of the church would not use his powers to excommuni cate any member of his flock who could be proven guilty of participation in this traffic, then a positive canon should have been enacted, making it the bounden duty of every clergyman to excommunicate all such persons, and to prescribe that they should thus remain excommunicated until ‘they had done public penance. I have no ‘doubt that, if Bishop Doane was living, he ;would, on this point, prove himself to be the Ambrose of the American Church. This holy father, who was Archbishop of ‘Milan in the fourth century, did not hesi tate to excommunicate the Roman Empe ror, Theodosius, for needlessly staining his hands in human blood and this venerable ‘author of the T'¢ Dewm did not admit the guilty Emperor to the communion of the church again until he had publicly done ‘penance, stripped of his imperial robes, dressed in sackeloth and ashes, and kneel ing in the portico of the cathedral to re ceive absolution. I think that Bishop Doane would have thus fearlessly admin istered the discipline’of the church on any gu.i.lty wretch within his spiritual jurisdic tion, no matter how high his station, if found guilty of complicity in that abomina ble traffic. Such canonical action as this is within the appropriate sphere of the church, and would be far more potent than mere denunciatory resolutions. In view of the revival of this execrable traffic, the church might well inquire what action she c#h consistently take in the premises to anthematize the same, and Mr. Jay’s res olutions gave the opportunity for such an inquiry but the cry of humanity was sacreligiously laughed down. Aside from such canonical action against sins and l crimes in the church, another potent way in which she might have manifested her protest against the revival of the slave trade, would have been to appoint a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, to be seech Almighty God to turn the hearts of these wicked men engaged therein, and thus avert His righteous judgment from this guilty nation. Both of these methods are legitimately within the sphere of ec. clesiastical action, and that church is false to her duty that will not embrace the first opportunity to testify in an effectual man ner against the most heinous of all outrag-- es on the laws of both God and man. And here, while on the point of this na tion’s sins, I would suggest to all the friends of God and humanity, and par- ticularly the colored people, that Friday, the 2d of December, the day appolnted for the execution of “Old John Brown,” the martyr of liberty, be publicly observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer, beseeching Almighty God to forgive the sins of his enslaved people, to come down and espouse their cause, and make bare His arm among the people of this guilty nation. Let us pray with the psalmist: “0, Lord God, to whom vengeance belong eth —OO, God, to whom veageance be longeth, show Thyself. Lift up Thyself, thou Judge of the Earth; render reward to the proud. Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked tri umph? How long shall they utter and speak hard things, and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? They break in pieces Thy people, O Lord, and afflict Thine heritage. They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the father less. Yet they say the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.” (Ps. xiv.) I say let us thus afflict our souls for the enslaved and the oppressed, and God will hear our cry. OBSERVER. OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER. PuiLaperrulA, Nov. 7, 1859. Mg Epiror :—Pursuant to announcement, ‘a very large and highly respectable audi }ence assembled in Israel Church on Mon day evening last, to hear a defense from Mr. Wm. Still concerning the charges of dishonesty preferred by a writer in Fred erick Douglass Paper of the 14th ult., Signed Dimmick Charlton, The officers of the meeting were Messrs. Jacob C. White, Sr., President; John P. Burr and Elijah D. Davis, Vice-Presidents; and Parker T Smith, Secretary. The President, after declaring the meeting organized, stated that the meeting was convened for the pur pose of affording Mr. Still an opportunity of defending himself from certain gross charges preferred against him by a corres-‘ pondent of Frederick Douglass’ Paper of a late date, and that Mr. Still was there, and would speak for himself. At this junc ture it was, on motion, resolved that the Secretary be requested to read the ar ticle containing the charges; but sev eral gentlemen proposed to have Mr. Still’s correspondence with Frederick. Douglass’ Paper read first, which the President ruled out of order on the ground of irrelevancy. The Secretary then read the article con taining the charges, after which Mr. Still read his defence, which he said was sent by him to Frederick Douglass’ Paper, and would perhaps appear in the next issue. Mer. Still concluded his defence by reading testimonials from several gentlemen of af fluence and influence in Philadelphia, all testifying to his unexceptionable charac ter, to which Mr. J. C. White, Sr., added his testimony. The President then said there was an opportunity for any one to speak who might desire to substantiate the charges against Mr. Still. He hoped that all who had anything to say in the matter would speak then, or forever hold thei peace. Mr. Wm. H. Johnson felt it due to himself and to the audience to say that Mc. Still’s defence had satisfied him of the character of that gentleman’s assailant; he was base and unscrupulous, &ec. It was then unanimously resolved, on motion of the Rev. Wm. Douglass, that “Mr. Still’s defence be considered perfecily satisfacto ry. Mr. Isaiah C. Waars offered as an amendment that “it is the sense of this meeting that Mr. Still has successfully vin dicated himself from the charges contained in Frederick Douglass Paper of Oct. 14, 1859.” 'The chairman would gladly have entertained the resolution as an amend ment, but he thought it inopportune. It was then, on motion, resolved that the pro ceedings be published in Frederick Dou glass Paper and in the Anti-Slavery Standard. The meeting then adjourned. The Harper’s Ferry insurrection con tinues to be the all-absorbing topic of news paper comment and conversation here, among all classes of thinkers, of whatever shade of polities or opinion. Wendell Phillips, Esq., of Boston, lec tured on “The Lost Arts,” before the Har rison Literary Institute, on Thursday eve ning last, at Jayne’s Hall, to a large aundi ence. The lecturer commended very highly the system of lyceum lectures. He said it was a church without a creed; each week they had a new minister, upon whose doctrines they sitin judgment. He thought ‘that teachers of the people should be al lowed and ought to speak their honest sen timents; and he who feared to combat an opponent with his opinion had no opinion. Mr. P. said we are too apt to boast of our knowledge, and [say what a great nation we are. He likened the American people to a man that some traveler met, who, when he spoke of himself, always took of his hat in profound reverence. This firs of American orators then raised the thick veil, and [disclosed some of the hidden things of antiquity, to the admiration and delight of the throng. Some rude individ uals went to the lecture for the purpose of throwing rotten eggs at Mr. Phillips, I un derstand, but they were prevented from doing so by the police, who had been sent there by order of Mayor Henry. Mr. Phillips comes up to my idea of an orator exactly. It seems to me that he has ap object in view in delivering this lecture, anq that it is to teach the American people hy. mility by reminding them that the ancients were far their superiors in the arts and sci. ences. The Banneker Institute will celebrate the 127th birth-day of Benjamin Banneker, at Central Hall, to-morrow (Tuesday) eve. ning. This, I believe, will be the sixt} anniversary of the Institute. A course of lectures will follow immediately. They will be delivered by the members, in con. |mection with the Philadelphia Library Company. The first lecture of the Ban. neker Institute course will be delivered on Tuesday evening, Nov. 15tk, by Mr. W, H. Johnson. A respectable colored man was shot in West Philadelphia on Tuesday last, by a policeman named Roan, who supposed him to be a thief, it being very early morning, and he having a carpet-bag. He died oy the spot, and Roan was held in $3,000 bail to answer the charge of manslaughter. The number of deaths reported to the Board of Health last week was 198, 14 of which were colored persons. BANNEKER. THE OUTBREAK IN VIRGINIA [Continued from last week's paper,] EIGHTH DAY. Coppic, who was found guilty yesterday, has not yet received sentence. Shields Green, one of the negro pris. oners, was put on trial to-day. Hisde fense was entrusted to Mr. George Sennot of Boston. He attacked the indictment onall points. He moved that the first count, charging the prisoner with treason, should be abamdoned, on the strength of the Dred Scott decision, which deprives negroes of citizenship, and consequently of their treasonable capabilities—and thi count was abandoned. He moved tha the entire indictment should be quashed, for a variety of reasons, involving any number of legal technicalities. First, he objected to it on account of its excessive interlineation; but this, the Court ruled, was not a material point. Then he ob jected on the ground that, as it comprised three various charges, it confused the pris oner’s right of challenging jurymen—since, the law allowing him to challenge eight, L might desire to set aside a juryman for reasons connected with one charge, and to retain him in reference to another. T'his also, was overruled by the Court. NINTH DAY. Shields Green was found guilty this morning. Sentence wes deferred. Copeland, the mulatto, is now upon tria, Mr. Sennot defending. The following is his confession QuesrioN—Are you John Copeland, of Oberlin, and the same person that was in dicted last year at Cleveland for rescuing the slave John? Axswgr—l am. Q. Do your parents reside in Ohio? A They do. Q. Who induced you to enter into the Harper’s Ferry movement? A. J. H. Ka giand John Brown, Jr., wrote letters to Leary, at Oberlin, which 1 saw, and was thus induced to go into it. Q. Who furnished you the means to come to Virginia? A. Ralphand Samuel Plumb gave the money ($l5) to bear my expenses. Q. What other Oberlin persons were at Harper’s Ferry? A. None but Leary and myself. Q. Whereis Leary? A. He was killed in the river, near the rifle-works. A. Did you come through Cleveland’ A. Yes. Q. On what day did you leave there! A. The day of the Octover election. Q. Where did you stop in Cleveland A. I stopped at Isaac Sturtevant’s, on Walnut street was there from Monday noon until Tuesday evening at 9 o'clock. Q. Did Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant know what you were going to Virginia for? A Mrs. Sturtevant did; she was the person who talked to me about it; 1 suppose Mr. S. knew it. Q. Where did Plumb give the money, and who was present? A. Ralph Plumb gave it to me; Samuel Plumb and Leary were present; it was in Plumb’s office af Oberlin. Q. Did the Plumbs know where you were going? A. Yes,and wished us good luck, and gave me the money just before leaving, Monday morning. Q. Did Charles H. Langston see you in Cleveland A. He did, and knew I was coming on to join Brown's company. Q. Who directed you to go to Sturte vant’s at Cleveland? A. Leary ;he was ‘directed by John Brown, Jr., to go there. Q. Did you hear Ralph Plumb, on the day the slave John was rescued, urge per sons to go to Wellington, and if so, where’ A. 1 did; he was on the ravement, L front of Watson’s grocery. Q. Have you any knowledge of an at tempt to raise an insurrection in any other State or region of our country? A. lun derstood that there was an intention attempt a movement of that kind in Ker tucky about the same time. Q. Did you know from Brown or anj other person that help was expected from the slaves in the neighborhood 7 A. 'L did from Brown, that help would come from the slaves, but I did not understand at any time before Monday moraing after the fight had commenced, that anything else than running off slaves was intepded, I being at the rifle works, half a mile from the engine-house. Q. Did you learn from Brown or any o the company that persons at Harper’s T'er ry sympathised with them, or were in any way connected with the movement? A From Brown I understood that there wert laboring men at Harper's Ferry who

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wished to get rid of the slaves, and would aid in running them off. TENTH DAY. The case of Copeland, the free negro, was brought to a close, the jury finding a verdict of not guilty of treason, as charged in the first count of the indictment—he not being recognized as a citizen—but guil ty of conspiracy with slaves to rebel, and of murder, as charged in the second and third counts. The prisoner was defended by George Yennott, Esq., of Boston. A bill of exceptions and a motion for acrest of jndgment was entered by the pris oner’s counsel. ELEVENTH DAY. An indictment was found against Capt. (ook, and a motion made to bring on the case immediately for trial. This was op posed by his counsel, who preferred that Stephens should betried first. A glury was then partially empannelled for that pur pose, when a despatch from Gov. VV.lse was received by Mr. Hunter, suggesting that Stephens be handed over to the feder al authorities. Mr. Hunter stated that a samber of facts important to the develop ment of the case were unknown to the pub lic, and he felt assured that cngugh would be ascertained by the trial of .btephens by the federal authorities to eriminate a num ber of prominent Northern abolitionists. Stephens was then handed over to the United States Marshal, to take his trial at the next term of the Federal Court, at Stanton, which will not assemble for some time. TWELFTH DAY. (ook’s trial commenced. The opening speech was made by Mr. Harding. Cook’s confession was read in open Court by An diew Hunter. A jury was then empan neled. BROWN'S CARPET-BAG. The following documents form a part of the contents of this terrible bag Cuarsgan, C. W., Saturday, May 8, 1858—10 A. M. i (onvention met in pursuance of a call of John Brown and others, and was called to order by Mr. Jackson, on whose motion Mr. Wm. C. Monroe was chosen Presi dent when, on motion of Mr. Brown, Mr. J. H. Kagi was elected Secretary. On motion of Mr. Delany, Mr. Brown then proceeded to state the object of the (lonvention at length, and then to explain the general features of the planof action in the execution of the project in view by the Convention. Mr. Delany and others spoke in favor of the project and the plan, and both were agreed to by general con sent. Mr. Brown then presented a plan of or ganization, entitled “Provisional Constitu tion and Ordinances for the People of the United States,” and moves the reading of the same. Mr. Kinnard objected to the reading un til an oath of secrecy be taken by each member of the Convention whereupon Mr. Delany moved that the following par ole of honor be taken by all members of the Convention: “I solemnly affirm that I will not in any way divulge any of the secrets of this Convention, except to per sons entitled to know the same, on the pain of forfeiting the respect and protection of this organization ;7 which motion was car ried. The President then proceeded to admin.- ister the obligation after which The question was taken on the the read ing of the plan proposed by Mr. Brown, and the same carried. The plan was then read by the Secre tary after which, on motion of Mr. Whip ple, it was ordered that it be now read by articles, for consideration. The articles, from one to forty-five, inclu sive, were then read and adopted. On the reading of the forty-sixth, Mr. Reynolds moved to strike out the same. Reynolds spoke in favor, and Brown, Monroe, Owen Brown, Delany, Realf, Kinnard and Kagi against. The question wasthen taken and lost, there being but one vote in the affirm ative. The article was then adopted. The for ty-seventh and forty-eighth articles, with the schedule, were then adopted in the same manner. J was then moved by Mr. Delany that the title and preamble stand as read. Carried. On motion of Mr. Kagi, the Constitution, as a whole, was then unanimously adopted. The Convention then, at 1} P. M., ad journed, on motion of Mr. Jackson, till 3 o’clock. Three o'clock P. M.—Journal read and approved. On motion of Mr. Delany, it was then ordered that those approving of the Con stitution as adopted, sign the same where upon the names of all the members were appended. After congratulatory remarks by Messrs. Kinnard and Delany, the Convention, on motion of Mr. Whipple. adjourned at 3% o'clock. J. H. KAGI, Secretary of the Convention. 'The above is a journal of the Provis ional Convention held at Chatham, Canada West, May 8 1858, as herin Stated. Cuarnan, C. W, g Saturday, May Bth, 1859. Siz P. M.—ln accordance with, and in obedience to, the provisions of the sched ule of the Constitution for the proscribed and cppressed people “of the United States of America,” to-day adopted at this place, a convention was called by the President of the Convention framing that instrument, and met at the above-named hour for the purpose of electing officers to fill the offi ces specially established and named by said Constitution. The Convention was called to order by Mr. M. R. Delany,upon whose nomination Mr. Wm. C. Monroe was chosen President, and Mr. J. H. Kagi Secretary. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Whipple, Kagi, Bell, Cook and Monroe, was then chosen to select candidates for the various offices to be filled, for the conside ration of the Convention. On reporting progress, and asking leave to sit again, that request was refused, and the committee discharged. On motion of Mr. Bell, the Convention then went into the election of officers in the following manner and order. Mr. Whipple nominated John Brown for Commander-in-Chief, who was, on the sec oding of Mr. Delany, elected by accla mation. Mr. Realf nominated J. H. Kagi for Secretary of War, who was elected in the same manner. On motion of Mr. Brown, the Conven tion then adjourned to 9A. M., on Mon day, the 10th. Moxpay, May, 10th—9 A. M.—The proceedings of the Convention on Satur day were read and approved. The President announced that the busi ness before the Convention was the fur ther election of officers. Mr. Whipple nominated Thomas M. Kinnard for President. Ina speechofsome length Mr. Kinnard declined. Mr. Anderson nominated J. W. Loguen for the same office. The nomination was afterwards withdrawn, Mr. Loguen not be ing present, and it being anunounced that he would not serve if elected. Mr. Brown then moved to postpone the election of President for the present. Car ried. The Convention then went into the elec tion of members of Congress. Messrs. Alfred M. Ellsworth and Osborn Anderson were elected. After which the Convention went into the election of Secretary of State, to which office Richard Realf was chosen. Whereupon the Convention adjourned till 2§ P. M. 2} P. M.—Convention again assembled and went into a balloting for the election of Treasurer and Secretary of the Treas ury. Owen Brown was elected as the former, and George B. Gill as the latter. The following resolution was then intro duced by Mr. Brown, and unanimously passed Resolved, That John Brown, J. H. Kagi, Rich ard Realf, L. F- Parsons, C. P. Tidd, C. \%’hipp)e, C. W. Mofiit, John E. Cook, Owen Brown, Stew ard Taylor, Osborn Anderson, A. M. Ellsworth. Richard Richardson, W. H. Leeman, and John Lawrence, be appointed a committee to whom is delegated the power of the Convention to fill by election all the offices specially named in the Provisional Constitution which may be vacant af ter the adjournment of this Convention. The Convention then adjourned sine die. J. K. KAGI, Secretary of the Convention. NAMES OF MEMBERS OF THE CONVENTION WRIT TEN BY EACH PERSON. Wm. Charles Monroe, President of the Convention, G. J. Reynolds, J. C. Grant, A. J. Smith, James M. Jones, George B. Gill, M. F. Bailey, Wm. Lambert, S. Hunton, C. W. Mofit, John J. Jackson, J. Andérson, Alfred Whippel, James M Bell, W. H. Leeman, Alfred M. Ellsworth, John E. Cook. Steward Taylor, Jas. W. Purnell, George Akin, Stephen Dettin, Thomas Hickerson, John Cahnel, Robinson Alexander, Richard Realf, Thomas F. Cary, Richard Richardson, L. T. Parsons, Thomas M. Kinnard, Robert Vanvanken, M. H. Delany, Thomas M. Stringer, Chas. P. Tidd, John A, Thomas. C. Whipple, J. D. Shadd, Robert Newman, Owen Brown, John Brown, J. H. Harris, Charles Smith, Simon Fislin, Isaac Holler, James Smith, J. H. Kagi, Secretary of the Convention. MEMORANDUM—OFFICES FILLED. Commander-in-Chief, John Brown; Sec retary of War, J. H. Kagi; Members of Congress, Alfred M. Ellsworth, Osborne Anderson; T'reasurer, Owen Brown; Sec retary of the T'reasury, Geo. B. Gill (va cant;) Secretary of State, Richard Realf* (vacant.) [No. 18.] $lO. Broogryy, Aug. 18, 1859. Esteemed Friend 1 gladly avail myself of the opportunity afforded by our friend, Mr. F. Douglass, who has just called upon us previous to his visit to you, to inclose to you for the cause in which you are such a zealous laborer a small amount, which please accept with my most ardent wishes for its and your benefit. The visit of our mutual friend Douglass has somewhat revived my rather drooping spirits in the cause; but seeing such ambi tion and enterprise in him, I am again en couraged. With best wishes for your wel fare and prosperity, and the good of your cause, I subscribe myself Your sincere friend, 7 MRS. E. A. GLOUCESTER. Please write to me. With best respects to your son. [No. 14.] CrLeveLanp, Aug. 22, 1859. My Dear J. Henrie: 1 wrote you im mediately on receipt of your last letter; then went up to Oberlin to see Leary. 1 saw Smith, Davis, and Mitchell; they all promised, and that was all. Leary wants wants to provide for his family, Mitchell to lay his crops by, and all make such excus es, until I am disgusted with myself and the whole negro set—G-p p-ux ey If you was here your influence would do something; but the moment you are gone all my speaking don’t amount to anything. i I will speak to Smith to-day. Iknow that Mitchell hadn’t got the money, and I tried to sell my farm and everything else to raise money, but have not raised a cent yet. Charlie Langston says “it is too bad;” but what he will do, if anything, I don’t know. I wish you would write to him, for I believe he can do more good than I. Please write to him immediately, and I will give up this thing to him. I think, however, nothing will inspire their confidence unless you come. I will, how ever, do all I can. Yours, i B Charlie goes to see Leary to.day. p. LETTER FROM FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Caxapa West, Monday, Oct. 31, 1859. To the Editor of the Rochester Democrat: I notice that the telegram makes Mr. Cook (one of the unfortunate insurgents at Harper's Ferry, and now a prisoner in the hauds of the thing calling itself the Gov ernment of Virginia, but which, is but an organized conspiracy by one party of the people against the other and weaker) de nounce me as a coward—and so assert that I promised to be present in person at the Harper’s Ferry insurrection. This is cer tainly a very grave impeachment, whether viewed in its bearings upon friends or upon foes, and you will not think it strange that 1 should take a somewhat serious notice of it. Having no acquaintance whatever with Mr. Cook, and never having exchanged a word with him about the Harper’s Ferry insurrection, I am disposed to doubt that he could have used the language concerning me which the wires attrib}xted to] ;xim. The lightning, when speaking for itself,is among thge mosgt direct, reliable and truthfal of Brown says an Englishman, and died on the passage coming over. things; but when speaking for the terror stricfen slave-holders at Harper’s Ferry it has been made the swiftest of liars. Un der their nimble and trembling fingers it magnified seventeen men into seven hun dred—and has since filled the columns of the New York Herald for days with in terminable contradictions. But assuming that it has told the truth as to the sayings of Mr. Cook in this instance, I have this answer to make to my accuser: Mr. Cook may be perfectly right in denouncing me as a coward. I have not one word to say in defense or vindication of my character for courage. 1 have always been more distinguished for running than fighting— and tried by the Harper’s Ferry insurree tion test, I am most miserably deficient in courage—even more so than Cook, when he deserted his brave old Captain and fled tothe mountains. To thisextent Mr. Cook is entirely right, and will meet no contra diction from me or from anybody else. But wholly, grievously and most unac countably wrong is Mr. Cook, when he as serts that I promised to be present in per son at the Harper's Ferry insurrection. Of whatever other imprudence and indis cretion I may bkave been guilty, I have never made a promise so rash and wild as this. The taking of Harper’s Ferry wasa measure never encouraged by my word or by my vote, at any time or place. My wis dom, or my cowardice, has not only kept me from Harper’s Ferry, but has equally kept me from making any promise to go there. I desire to be quite emphatic here —for of all guilty men he is the guiltiest who lures his fellow men to an undertaking of this sort, under promise of assistance, ‘which he afterwards fails to render. I ‘therefore declare that there is no man liv ing, and no man dead, who, if living, could truthfully say that I ever promised him or anybody else, either conditionally or other wise, that I would be present in person at the Harper's Ferry insurrection. My field of labor for the abolition of Slavery has not extended to an attack upon the United States Arsenal. In the teeth of the doc uments already published, and of those which may hereafter be published, I affirm that no man connected with that insurrec tion, from its noble and heroic leader down, can connectmy name with a single broken promise of any sort whatever. So much I may deem it proper to say negatively. The time for a full statement of what 1 know, and of all I know, of this desperate but sublimely disinterested effort to eman.- cipate the slaves of Maryland and Vir gunia from their eruel task-masters has not yet come, and may never come. Inthe de nial which I have now made my motive is more a respectful consideration for the opinions of the slave’s friends than from my fear of being made an accomplice in the general conspiracy against Slavery. 1 am ever ready to write, speak, publish, or ganize, combine, and even {o conspire against Slavery, when there is a reasonable hope of success. Men who live by rob bing their fellow-men of their labor and liberty, have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or pur poses of those whom they rob and plunder. They have, by the single act of slave-hold ing, voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have be come only fitted tor companionship with thieves and pirates—the common enemies of God and of all mankind. While it shall be considered right to protect one’s self against thieves, burglars, robbers,and assassins, and to slay a wild beast in the act of devouring his human prey, it can never be wrong for the imbruted and whip scarred slaves, or their friends, to hunt, harrass, and even strike down the traffick ers in human flesh. If anybody is disposed to think less of me on account of this sen timent, or because I may have had a knowl edge of what was about to occur, and did not assume the base and detestable charac ter of an informer, he is a man whose good or bad opinion of me may be equally re pugnant and despicable. Entertaining this sentiment, I may be asked why I did ‘not join John Brown—the noble old hero whose one right hand has shaken the foun dation of the American Union, and whose ghost will haunt the bed-chambers of all the bgrn and unborn slaveholders of Vir ginia through all their generations, filling them with alarm and consternation My answer to this has already been given, at least impliedly given. “The tools to those who can use them.’ Let every man work for the abolition of Slavery in his own way. I would help all and hinder none. My position in regard to the Harper’s Ferry insurrection may be easily inferred from these remarks, and I shall be glad if those papers which have spoken of me in con ‘nection with it, would find room for this statement. I havelno apology for keeping out o the way of those gentlemanly United States Marshals, who are said to have paid Rochester a somewhat protracted visit late ly with a view of an interview with me. A Government recognizing the validity of the Dred Scott decision, at such a time as this, is not likely to have any very charit able feelings towards me, and if I am to meet its representatives I prefer to do so at least upon equal terms. If I have com mitted any offense against society I have done so on the soil of the State of New York, and I should be perfectly wil ling there to be arraigned bef:ore an im partial jury; but I have quite insuperable objections to be caught in the hands of Mr. Buchanan, and “bagged” by Gov. Wise. For this appears to be the arrange ment—Buchanan does the fighting and hunting, and Wise “bags” the game. Some reflections may be made upon my leaving on a tour to England just at this time. 1 have only to say that my going to that country has been rather delayed than hastened by the insurrection at Har per'’s Ferry. All knew that I intended to leave here in the first week of November. Frepericg DovsLass. BURIAL OF HAYWOOD. A letter from Winchester, Va., in the Alexandria Gazette, gives the following description of the faneral of Haywood: “The negro man Haywood, the porter connected with therailroad, who was killed at Harper's Ferry, was buried here on Wednesday with military honors. He was a favorite with all who knew him. and those who have traveled over the road will now miss the laughing countenance of Old Haywood. The remains were accompa nied by the Morgan Continentals, Major B. B. Washington, and two other companies, one from Winchester, and the other from Martinsburg; their names I cannot recol lect. The battalion was under the com mand of Col. Moore. The fine band of music connected with the continentals head ed the procession, and played some beau tiful airs. In the procession were the May or of the city, the officers of the regiment in uniform, Mr. Holliday, and other leading citizens of the place. 1t was an imposing sight to look upon; and could our North ern countrymen have witnessed the fune ral of Old Haywood, and the hundreds who gathered around his grave, and the respectful and serious attention with which they listened to the bnrial service, which was read by an old colored preacher, there would be no such fanatics as Brown and Cook.’ Meerive 1N ProvipeNce.—The proceed ings of the great meeting in Providence, R. I, reached us too late for insertion in this week’s paper, but will appear in our next issue. (Advartisemant.] COLORED YOUNG MEN OF NEW YORK. Me. Epiror :—What are the colored young men of New York doing at these times—times that try all men’s souls When white men bring their sons and pour out their blood at the feet of the slaveholder, and submit their own necks to the gallows for the deliverance of our oppressed and enslaved people—when their wives, and daughters, and sisters get up in a congregation and denounce the system of slavery and the pre- Jjudice that exists against the colored race, and ex press sympathy for them, are the colored young men of New York muzzled, like the pulpit of the Christian Church, or are they gagged by the Me tropolitan Hotel, Everett, and Lafarge House pro prietors? Does Col. Fifth-avenue, or Com. Washington-Square or Murray-Hill tell his col ored waiter or cocahman that, if he dare say Capt. John Brown is a hero, he shall not pass around the silver tray in his family, or sit on the box of his handsome coach, and hold the reins of his fie ry steed, or wipe the kitchen of his palace? Does the Fall River Steamboat Company tell the col ored part of their erews that ii they proclaim to the public that colored men have rights and white men must respect them, they will discharge them from the saloons and cabins of their splendid stea mers? or why are the young men silent A MEMBER OF SHILOH. eet temioies A PROTRACTED CONCERT. A WEEK OF SONG. MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE. The Anglo-African Musical Union take great pleasure in announcing that the ar rangements for exhibiting all the ANGLO-AFRICAN MUSICAL TALENT of New York and vicinity are now completed, and that the Iniatory Festival will take place on MONDAY EVENING, the 12st inst., and will be followed by others on the EVEN INGS of the 23d, 25th, 28th, and 29th insts., at the new and splendid edifice known as The Metropolitan Assembly Rooms, NO. 178 PRINCE ST, between Thompson and Sullivan streets. That this demonstration may be participated in by the million we have made the price of Admission 15 Cents Only. Further particulars in next week's paper. JAS. R. W. LEONARD, President. ADAM RAY, Treasurer. REE WILL OFFERING.—There F will be a meeting held in the Academy street M. E. Zion’s Church, Newark, N. J., on Sunday, the 13th instant, for the purpose of receiving voluntary contributions to liqmdate the standing debt on said church, it being at present $7OO. The pastor, Rev. Jacob B. Trustly;, in the be half of the Trustees of said church, has pubhshed to the members and congregation of his charge that he wishes to raise by collection on that day £lOO. There will be three charitable discourses pronounced on the oceasion, by the following per sons—viz Rev. Jacob B. Trusty, pastor of said church Rev. H. Castor, of Philadelphia, Pa.; and Rev. Wm. F. Butler, of Hudson, N. Y. As the meeting is a free-will offering, it is sin cerely desired by the pastor and the trustees of the chureh thatit may be interesting, and do pray and hope that the friends of Christ and well wishers of the interest of His kingdom will come forward and contribute largely and freely during the meeting. N. B.—The meeting will be continued for sev eral evenings during the week, at which times lectures will be delivered by persons from abroad. Also collections will be taken up at each meeting. Yours very truly, in behalf of the Trustees, JACOB B, TRUSTY. Newarg, Nov. 9, 1859. JAME S PYL E'S Dietetic Saleratus. a perfectly wholesome article, which is unequaled for its certainty in producing good Bread. This Saleratus not only has the approval of the most eminent physicians and chemists of the day, but upwards of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND intelligent families in the New England and Mid gle (;S‘tatel Lave given it preference overall other Klnds. Its unparalleled success has brought a multi tude of counterfeits in the market, some of which are of a poisonous nature, but the best class of grocers everywhere sell the genuine. However, purchasers should always see that the name of James Pyle is on each ]packsge. Some of the gro cerymen are unscru;;]u ous enough to recommend the imitations, but their object i 8 to make a large profit, as they can buy them for much less than the genuine. Grand Depot 845 Washington st., cor. of Frank lin, New York. 6-tf NOTICE.—The annual %ivi!}_g visit, for the benefit of the Rev. H. M. Wilson, lE)ust.or of the Seventh avenue Presbyterian Church, will be held at his residence, No. 8 Morton strest, near Bleecker, on November 17 and 18, at 8 o clock in the evening. eek e o e L e i PRAYERS FOR JOHN BROWN. There will be a Young People’s Prayer Meet ing in the Lecture Room of Shiloh Chureh, cor ner of Prinec: and Marion streets, on Snnda%evon ing, at 6 o’clock precisely, for Capt. John Brown, and those who are in confinement with him in the cells of a Virginia prison. FOR SALE, at the office of the “Anglo-Af rican,” the following ILLUSTRATED TOY QUARTO BOOKS. Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom. Edinburg Dell, Grandmother’s Stories. Minnie May, and other Rhymes. Cassey, or Early Trials. Pictures and Stories from the Lamplighter. Mother Goose’s Daughter. Stories about Egypt. Price 12 cents each; postage 3 cents. R oo it LOS'I‘.-—ln Beekman street, opposite Old St. George's Church, last Friday, a fine fid breastpin, of the square-and-compass form. e finder will be suitably rewarded bg‘leaving the same at this office, or at 349 West 26th st. P. MISCELLANEOUS. %'WHEELER WILSON’S SEWING MACHINES, WITH IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS. The Great Economizer of Time and Pre server of Health. OFFICE, NO. 505 BROADWAY, N. Y. Send for a Circular! Ttis found by accurate experiment that the stitching of a shirt, requiring by hand 13 hours ‘and 31 minutes, can be done lt)g’ this Machine in one hour and five minutes. Other work is done ‘with equal faeility. The lock-stitch made by this machine is the only stitch that cannot be raveled, and that presents the same appearance on each side of the scam. It is made with two threads, one upon each side of the fabric, and interlocked in the centre of it. Goop NEws.—[From the Christian Advoecate and Journal.]—A reduction in the price of Sewing Machines is announced in our advertising ecol umns. Their utility is established beyond ques tion, and at the present prices we see no reason why they should not be found, as they ought to be, in every household. Several varieties are manufactured, adapted to various purposes. So far as public opinion has been formed and ut ‘tered, the preference is emphatically accorded to the Wheeler Wilson Machine for famil}y use, and for manufacturers in the same range of pur pose and material. During the past year the tri ‘als were numerous, and all the patents of any fretension were brought fairly into competition. In every case the Wheeler Wilson Machine won ‘the highest premium. We may instance the State Fairs of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl ‘vania, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Virginia, Michigan, Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, an(i’ Cal ifornia, and the Fairs in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, Richmond, and San Francisco. At the Fair of the St. Louis Mechanical Associ ation, the Examining Committee was composed of 25 ladies of the highest social standing, who, with out a dissenting voice, awarded for the Wheeler Wilson Machine the highest and only premium, a Silver Pitcher, valued at $75. If these facts do not establish a reputation, we know not what can. We prefer them for family use.—Tribune. They are the favorites for families.—Times. It has no rival.—Scientific American. J ddWorke more uniformly than the hand.—Her- Equal to nine seamstresses.—Home Journal. An almost perfect instrument.—Evening Post. The machine for family use.—Advoeate and Journal. Most honorable to American genius.—lnde pendent. We cannot imagine anything more perfect.— Evangelist. Will give entire satisfaction.—Observer. The best ever invented.—Christian Enquirer. A triumph of mechanical genius.—Ure's Die tionary. In looking for the best, see these.—Examiner. Indispensable in every family.—The Preacher. We praise it with enthusiasm.—Christian Intel ligencer. A swift-fingered sister of charity.—S. S. Advo cate. Worthy of the highest award.—-Sabbath Re corder. It surpasses all others.—Ladies’ Repository. A benefaction of the age.—Putnam’s Monthly. It is an American institution.—Knickerbocker. A complete success.—National Magazine. Magical in operation.—Mrs. Stephen’s Monthly. It is eminently superior.—Dictionary of Me chanies. Begond all question, the machines.—Life Illus trated. The stitch cannot be unraveled.--American Ag. riculturalist. They maintain the pre-eminence.—~Express. Saves the time and Lealth of ten wemen.-—Wa ter Cure. Our household is in ecstacies with it.—Porter’s Spirit. Its superiority is unquestioned.---Freeman’s Journal. Its superiority is obvious.—Household Words. Hand sewing eannot equal it.—The Tablet Supply the fashionable world.—Daily News. Are pre-eminently suci)erior.—Ladies’ Visitor. One of our household gods.—U. S. Journal. Unrivaled in every quality.—Day Book. It has no superior.—Dispatch. Pretty, useful, magical.—Ladies’ Gazette. Have no equal in family use.—Musical World. ;I‘he best suited for sewing.—Mining Jour nal. _Combine every requirement.—Family Maga zine. It combines every essential.—Livin Aic. Vastly superior to all others.—-GolEen rize. Wa entirely prefer them.—Mother’s Journal. We cannot tire in its praise.—New Yorker. Incomparably the bzst.—~The Hearthstone. I find your machine invaluable. I have used it a year, and it has never been out of order. The stitch is very durable, and can be adapted to fine or coarse materials. It works with the rapidity of a dozen hands saves much time, fatigue, and ex pense. One of your machines is used in my fath er's family, another in the household of a sister, and others by various friends. The opinions of all accord with that I have just expressed.—Mrs. Anna Cora Ritehie. Of it we can speak with entire clearness and confidence, after the use of one four years or more in our family. We look upon it as one of the ben efactorg of the age, and one which will constitute an era in the history of woman.—Mrs. E. Oakes Smith. Mrs. Vinton desires me to express to you her entire satisfaction with your Sewing Machine. I may add that, judging from the frequen cy of the rapid tick of this machine, it promotes both industry and pleasure. My purse bears wit ness that the Sewing Machine, among its other xcellencies, is a household economy.—Rev. Dr. Francis Vinton. S Your admirable needle woman is the only seam stress that defies extortionate men. They cannot cheat it, nor starve it, nor deprive it of szaep, nor tire it out, nor make its hands weary. It is a worker that is a mateh for the most unwearied and avaricious manufacturer. At last I am thank ful that there is a machine woman that cannot be oppressed nor kept suffering.—Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. I take pleasure in saying that the Sewing Ma chine purchased of you by me has been wholly serviceable.—Rev. Samuel Osgood, D. D. I regard it as the best instrument I have seen for neatness, variety, rapidity, and beauty of per formance. Its introduction among the families of onr land will be a benefaction and a blessing to mothers and daughters.—Rev. G. D. Abbott, Spin- gler Institute. There is but one Sewing Machine, and that is Wheeler Wilson’s.—Judge Meigs, of the Ameri can Institute. The most practical invention adapted to com mon use.—Com. Mechanics’ Institute, Balti more. It will work as greata change in the family as railways have in states.—Hon. N. P. Banks. The machine has given the highest satisfaction. It isindeed a houschold treasure. It runs with ease and velocity, makes a beautiful stitch, and has not once got out of repair.—T. S. Arthur’s Home Magazine. 175 CHABLES C. BLUE’S 3 BOARDING HOUSE, 102 Olive street, New Haven, Conn., where he will be happy to have his friends call at all times. 8-13 t A RARE BARGAIN.--FOR SALE, at Jamaica, L. I, a house and sixteen lots of Eround, for sel‘iot())o.bngl‘mszl 8500 cash, and the ce secur nd and mor e. Apply to J. Solon, Mcl\'e)i,l streat, Jamaictag,‘gr to 'Fl?ocy 1 Hamilton, 48 Beekmar reet, New York. 0-tf ATTENTION! ATTENTION!AT tention! Titus’ Reformn Intelligence Office, 193 Mercer street, between Bleeker and Amity streets. Letters written, and male and female help supplied by the month, week, day or job. A reg ister is kept for the names of all colored persons to enable their friends to find them without trav ‘eling over the whole city. Priee of registering, ten cents, or gratis to those who have no money. Also a register of the different societies, their pla ces of meeting, and the names of their officers. Rooms to let. T. S. W. TITUS, 152 Proprietor. A BoBERTS, _ Agent for the Weekly Anglo-African and the Anglo-African Mlgzine. 120 CLINTON COURT, EIGHTH ST, near Sixth avenue, New York, where orders for the above-named publications may be left or copies obtained. [l2-tf MISCELLANEOUS. DEC. 27, A. L. 3859, FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. ORIENTAL LODEE No. 2, F. 4. M., located at the Orient of New Ilaven, Conn., and working under the ausFices of the Philanthropie United Grand Lodge of Ameriea, will commemo rate the festival of the above patron of the Mason ie order, on TUESDAY, Deec. 27, A. D. 18359, by the following exercises in BREWSTER'S HALL, in said citg, commencing at 8 o’clock P. M. 1. VOLUNTARY ON THE ORGAN, 2. Prayer.......... Rev. Bro. Jas. M. Williams. 3, Singing of a Masonse Ode. ..By the Brethren. 4. Masonic Address. ....Rev. Bro, J. T. Holly. B Musie. i civand inin cnone B thaßend Mns9mc Poem.. Rev. Bro. J. Sella Martin. L, Mwms. ........0. Dyths Baad 8. Closing Ode, or Doxology. :By the Brethren. 9. Benediction. .I;.ev. Bro. Jno. Taylor The offlcers and members of the Grand Lodge, and numerous other brethren from abroad, are expected to be present and participate in the fes tivities of the occasion. The order will appear in full regalia. Immeditealy after the conclusion of the above exercises, procession will be formed and proceed to the State Houre, where an elegant supper will be served up. Tickets o}] admission to the exercises in Brews ster’s Hall, 15 cents each. Tickets of admission to the supper, 50 cents each—to be had of the fol lowing commitsee, and also at the music-store of Skinner Sperry, 154 Chapel street. COMMITTEE. J. P. Anthony, 35 State st., Charles Boardley, Charles I. Freeman, William Bartice, Prince T. Rogers, Richard Zarcus, Henry Martin. 16-td R:)BT. HAMILTON respectfully an ounces that he will give A PARLOR ENTERTAINMENT in the city of Brooklyn, MONDAY EVI'BNING, NOYV. 28. 1859. As the exercises, which will be both mental and musical, will last all night, the people may pre pare for a “good time.”” Full particulars in the next number of this paper. Tickets, 38 cents. 16-4 t ANGLO-AFRICAN COURSE OF LECTURES. A course of popular lectures will be delivered in SHILOH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Prince street, corner of Marion, during the ensu ing season, for the purpose of establishing an ANGLO-AFRICAN READING-ROOM, in this city, where persons may resort without re gard to distinction of complexion, sect, or party. The lectures will be delivered weekly, on WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, in the following order: Oct. 19th—*“Great Men,” Hon. Horace Greeley. Oct. 26th—(expected) Rev. Chas. E. Harris. Nov. 2d—**Nathaniel Turner,” Rev. J. Sella Martin. Nov. 9th—*The Wrongs and the Remedy of the Anglo-African,” Hen. E. D. Culver. Nov. 16th—Poem, “Dred Scott Decision,” Rev E. P. Rogers. Nov. 23d—*Chattel Slavery and Revelation,” Mr. William Herries. Nov. 30th—“ The Crown of Oak,” Mr. Theodore Tilton. Dec. Tth—*Africa,” Rev. Amos G. Beman. Dee. 14th—*The Republics of the East and the West,” Mr. George L. Ehle. Dec. 21st—(subject to be announced) Rev. Geo. B. Cheever, D. D. Dec. 28th—*Secret of the progress of Slavery,” Rev. J. B. Smith. ADMISSION TO EACH LECTURE, TEN CENTS. Tickets will be sold at the door only. Doors open at 7, lectures to commence at 8 o’clock precisely. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, Chairman of Committee. Wwu. Herries, Yecretary. 13-tf ROBERT HAMILTON, VOCA IST AND CHORISTER of ZION CHURCH, corner of Church and Leonard streets, New York, respectfully announces to the ]]mblic that heis pre pared to give instructions, day or ¢'°ning, to such scholars, singing societies, clubs, or individ uals, as may desire 1 knowle Ige of the m heau tiful SCIENCE OF MUSIC. He also offers his services to churches or indi viduals, to sing at, or conduet, for a moderate compensation, t%xe vocal department of concerts or exhibitions, or to act as agent for persons desir ing to give concerts. Persons living at a distance desiring information from this eity or vicinity, or wanting to make purchases in this market and not hnving the time or means to come themselves, might find it advan tageous to employ the subscriber, as his circle of acquaintances is very large, and his facilities for purchasing or selling very favorable. TERMS, MODERATE. Please address the subseriber, at the office of the Anglo-African,”’ or at his residence, No. 22 Talman street, Brooklyn, L. 1. 9-tf G_IDEON LIPPETT, ICE CREAM AND REFRESHMENT SALOON, NO. 75 KNOX STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. 137 Families supplied with ICE CREAM at the shortest notice, in forms of all sizes. MISS A. E. FREEMAN, TEACHER OF VOCAL AND INSTRU MENTAL MUSIC, 148 JAY STREET, Brooklyn. Terms reasonable. 13-tf T B. VOORHEES’ DANCING «ACADEMY, at Metropolitan rooms, 178 Prince st. Practicing evenings, Monday and Friday, Pri vate classes on Wednesday evenin%, from 8§ till 11. An afternoon class for masters and misses every Saturday, at 3 o’clock. Ali the fashionable dances taught. For terms, &e., apply at the rooms at the hours above specified, or at his residence, 154 Sullivan street. 15-12¢ EMBROIDE RY AND BRAIDING done to order, by Miss Addie M. Hamilton, No. 22 Tallman st., Brooklyn. 15-tf J A. SIRMONS, Boot and Shoe Maker, 147 Navy street, Brooklyn. Repairing done at the shortest notice. FOR SALE-=The good-will and fixtures of a Barber’s shop, in the thriving village of Stam ford, Conn. Price $l5O. Applyto ROBT. STE VENS, in said village, or at this office. 10-tf FANIILY BOARDING HOUSE, By MRS. S. BABCOCK, 541 Broome street, near Sullivan, New York. 10-tf STEPHEN LAWRENCE, ENGINEER, and agent for STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, AND STEAM PRESSURE GUAGES, No. 35 William street, 12-1 y New York. THE YOUNG MEN’S LITERARY Association of the city and county or New York, meet every Wednesday evening in the lec ture room of the Seventh Avenue Igreebyterian Cburch, near Eleventh street, (Rev. H. M. Wil son, pastor.) The exercises consist of reading, lectures and debates. Admission free. 13-tf MBS. E. LEONARD, FASHIONABLE FRENCH DRESS MAKER, No. 166 Church street, Receives monthly the latest Paris Fashions. 8-tf BELL’S INTELLIGENCE OFFICE has removed from 41 Howard street to 82 Spring street, 2d house east of Broadway. 10-5¢ nd ISS OLIVIA\. HAMILTON, ionable dress making, No. 22 Tallman st., Brooklyn. 15-tf FOB SALE.—A com})hm File, bound, of the New York Daily Tribune, for 1851. In quire at this office. BOOKS. PUBLJ CATIONS FOR SALE BY THOS. HAMILTON, 48 Beekman street, New York. THE AUTOBICGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAVE. In one vol., 12mo. Price One Dollar. EXTRACTS FROM RECOMMENDATIONS AND NOTICES. From Hon. W. H. Seward. DeAr Sik:—Just on the eve of my departure from home, I received the volume which you had sent me entitled the Autobiography of a Fe malg S}ave." I read it with fixed interest from beginning to end, and I have met no recent pub lication that has seemed to me so truthful, just and benevolent, and so likely to touch the hearts and consciences of men in regard to the practice of slavery. Accept my thanks for it, with my best wishes, less for the sake of the author or for your own than for the sake of our country and of humanity, that the to ok may obtain :riee and wide circulation. I am, &e., &e. But here at last is a genuire, bona fide voice from the South. Out of the very company of the slaveholders themselves, bristfing with defi ance of the world, comes this wail of mled pity and condemnation.”—Anti-Slavery Standard. Each page, each line, each word, seems drawn out of a seetting cauldron of hnman agony, drip ping from its bloody baptism.”— West. Lat. Mag. THEODORE PARKER'S EXPERIENCE AS A MINISTER, With Some Account of His Early Life and Education for the Ministry, Contained in a letter from him to the members of the Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society of Boston, With the farewell letter of the Society to Mr. Par ker, and other correswondence. A volume has just appeared entitled Theodore Parker’s Experience as a Minister, with some se count of his early life and education for the Min istry, contained in a letter from him to the mem bers of the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society of Boston. Boston: Rufus Leighton, jr.”” This -work will be read with deeE interest gy a large number of persons beside the g:rish to whieh it is especially addressed. Itis dated “Frederick sted, West End, Santa Cruz, Afiril 19, 1859,” and occupies 160 printed pages. Mr. Parker gives a history of his life, reviews recent religious and re formatory movements in this part of the country, and relates his experience as a minister. The let ter has the author’s noted beauties of style, his biting sarcasm, womanly tenderness, masculine vigor, extravagant statements, rare pathos, and oftensive comments on those who differ from him. The tone is that of a conqueror and a hero, not of man reviled and a martyr. There is a great deal of pluck in the work, and many of those most se verely censured will find it entertaining in the hottest day. Of course the sharpest things are said about those who most nearlly agree with the writer, and ngninst his eclerical brethren. He does not stint either praise or censure in his com ments on men and opinions.— Evening Transcrip (Boston.) FORTY YEARS IN SLAVERY. THE KIDNAPPED AND THE RANSOMED Being the personal recollections of Peter Still ang his wife Vina, after forty years in Slavery. BY MRS. KATE E. R. PICKARD, With an introduction by Rev. Samuel J. May, and a Biographiecal Sketeh of Seth Coneklin, %y gVilliam H. Furness, D. D. 1 vol,, 4 illustrations, 408 pp. 12mo. Price $l, ostage paid. Peter Still was flidnappped in earl§ chiluhood from the door-step of his home in Ne¢w Jersey. For more than forty years he was a slave in Ken tuekly and Alabama. At last he purchased his freedom by the slow accumulation of extra labor, and returning to the region of his birth, found his yet surviving mother and his numerous brothers and sisters, living in and near Philadelphia. His wife and three children, under the pilotage of Seth Concklin, attempted to escape, but were re—ui)- tured at Vincennes, Indiana. Peter immediately set about collecting the means for their purchase. The sum demanded for them was exorbitant— ss,ooo—and would have discouraged almost any other man than Peter Still. ~Yet the strong social feeling and the energy of his race were strikingly manifest in his untiring Rersevemnce, which was crowned with success, and Peter had the unspeak able pleasure of bringing his household to a free home, where they can quietly enjoy their own fireside, free from the master’s frown and the dri ver’s lash. The writer of this narrative was- a highly es teemed teacher in the Female Seminary at {'mb cumbia, Alabama, who had everY opportunity to acquire (})ersonnl knowledge of al tfie prominent facts and circumstances which she has narrated. We can promise the lovers of exciting adventure very much in this volume to gratify their taste and all those who really desire to fathom the heights and desths of that iuiquity which is threatening the destruction of our Republie, may ‘turn to it in the assurance that they will find in it 'much valuable information, given with the striet est regard to truth. THE GREAT BOSTON SLAVE CASE. ANTHONY BURNS. A HISTORY. BY CHARLES EMERY STEVENS. Illustrated from Originul Drawings made by an eye-witness. 12m0., cloth, gfi cents. The volume gives the secret history of the case together with personal sketches of t{e princijnl characters, including J udfie Loring, Wendell Phillips, Richard H. Dana, Jr., Theodgore Parker, Gov. Gardner, Gen. Edmands, Mayor Smith, Hal let Freeman, the Suttle Familg, &e. In an ap pendix will be found official documents, letters, and other matter illustrative of the subject, to gether with a detailed account of the first slave case under the Constitution of 1780, in which the Supreme Court decided that Slavery no longer existed in Massachusetts. THE PROVINCIAL FREEMAN AND SEMI-MONTHLY ADVERTISER, Is published by I. D. SHADD CO., CHATHAM, C. W. TerMs—One Dollar per year, invariably in ad vance. The Provineial Freeman” will be devoted to Anti-Slavery, Emigration, Temperance, and Gen eral Literature. It will open its columns to the views of men of different political opinions, re serving the right, as an independent journal, of full expression, on all questions or projects affect ing the people in a political way. Not commutted to the views of any religious seet exclusively, it will carefully o{serve the rights of every sect, at the same time that a re servation shall be made in favor of an existing difference of opinion as to the views or actions of the sects respectively. As an advertising medium, as vehiele of infor mation on Agriculture, and as an enemy to vice in any and evmconceivable form, and a promot er of good morals, it shall be made worthy of the patronage of the publie. All letters, to receive attention, whether for publication or on business, must be addressed, post-paid, 1. D. SHADD, Chatham, C. W. THEE GOLDEN RULE, DAVID F. NEWTON, Editor, is published monthly, at 48 Beekman st., New York. TERMS. Single copies, monthly, per annum, in ad- R o eBB N o B b to one address 200 20 ki 6 w 100 A 8 _sia i 8 0O Sabbath Schools supplied at half the usual rice. I 3 Address all Jetters to Box 1,212, N. Y. City st Office. FRANKLIN L.JONES, TAILOR, 174 Mulberry st., New York. 7-tf Ll L R eSI SO s SRR NOTlCE«——Thero will be a BAPTISM at the foot of Thirty-neeond street, N. R., on next SUNDAY MORNING, at 10 o'clock. FOB SALE LOow. THE VAL~ uable house and lot, 32 Bank street, Newark, N.J. Enquire of J. ELLIS, 14-5 t 291 Broad street, Newark. HBATB‘B EXCELSIOR WASHING BLUE, (the very best article of the kind,) for sale at the Drug "Store 55 WEST BBOAD WAY. 12 1-2 cents per bottle. 7-tf N, MULLER. Printer, 48 Beokmsa Bt., N. X.

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Poems, Anecdotes wd Shetches. For the Weekly Anglo-African. GOD NEVER MADE A SLAVE. —0:0— BY THEODORE DOUGHTY MILLER. 00— Ah! dark skinned tribes, though black we be, God, our creator, made us free 3 To all Helife and being gave, But never, never made a slave. His works, all wondrous to behold, Proclaim to us a power untold He made the sea and formed the wave, But never, never made a slave. He made yon sun with splendor bright, The moon to brighten earth’s dark night Ile made in power this vast concave, But never, never made a slave. He made all colors and all climes, Of living things made every kind For all he made the evmmon grave, But never, never made a slave. Though Adam’s sin brought pain and death, Yet life came with Christ’s dying breath From henceforth heaven and hell may rave, His blood speaks freedom to the slave. For all He sent His Son to be The Great High Priest of Liberty From sin's strong chains our souls to save, And break the fetters of the slave. All men ure equal in His sight, The bond, the free, the black, the white He made them all—all freedom gave— God made the man, man made the slave. But glorious tidings of great joy Yon kingdom beams without alloy And while we view that “crystal sea,” We'll shout, praise God, we're free! we're free! Tre Barrie or THe Srurs.—But there is one incident in Captain Brown’s recent career in Kansas, which was laughable in its character, and which has never been narrated in the eastern journals. He took a party of slaves from tlhe vicin ity of Atchison. The owners and pro-sla very rabble were indignant at him when they heard of it, and organized a formida ble party to pursue him. The sheriff, a pro-slavery man, went with them, armed with the parchrent terrors of the law. They soon overtook the fugitives! Brown, with Kagi and others, instantly drew up in line of battle to receive them; and, although less than one-fourth in nu merical force, it was evident that they in tended to conquer or to die in defense of the negroes. 'T'he sheriff, seeing the old man’s preparations, with prudeatial cour age, wheeled round his horse and galloped off. Dozens of his followers imitated his example. There was one company, how ever that refused to fly. Brown captured them. He caused them to dismount, and put the negroes on their horses. They swore. Old Brown ordered them to be silent, as he would permit no blaspheme in his presence. They swore again. “Kneel I” said the old man, as he drew his pistol in stern earnestness, which left no room to doubt his intention. They knelt down, and he ordered them to pray He detained them for five days and compelled them to pray night and morn ing. They never swore again in old Brown’s presence! "They returned to At chison; one of them indiscreetly told the story; the ridicule that overwhelmed the others, compelled them, I was recently in formed, to leave the town. This was the last time that I heard of old John Brown in Kansas.— Cor. of Atlas and Bee. A lady once said to Mr. Wesley, “Supposing that you knew that you were to die at twelve o’clock to-morrow night, how would you spend the intervening time?” “How, madam?” he replied; “why, just as I intend to spend it now. I should preach this evening at Gloucester, and again at five to-morrow morning; after that I should ride to Tewesbury, preach in the afternoon, and meet the societies ih the evening. I should then repair to friend Martin’s, who expects to entertain me, con verse and pray with the family as usual, retire to my room at ten o’clock, commend myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down to rest, and wake up in glory.” 825 Whoever takes a little child into his love, may have a very roomy heart, but that child will fill it all. The children that are in the world keep us from growing old and cold they cling to our garments with their little hands, and impede our progress to petrifaction they win us back with their pleading eyes from cruel care they never encumber us at all. A poor old couple with no one to love them is a most pitiful picture but a hovel with a small face to fill a broken pane, here and there, is robbed of its desolateness. 8™ A minister noted for combining the somewhat incongruous profession of a preacher and a money-lender, was proffer ing a prayer in which was the following petition “Grant that we may have more interest in heaven “Don’'t do it!” exclaimed one of the congregation, “don’tdo it. The old sinner gets five per cent a month now and that’s suflicient, the Lord knows 8@ In a meeting in Florida, lately, a hymn was being sung which contained the words There's no sorrow t ere!” At the close of the hymn alusty brother stood up, and in a voice of thunder shouted “Yes, brethren, thar’s no sorrer in Heaven And why not? Because, in the words of this Heavenly hymn, thar’s no sorrer thar “There,” saig the Doctor, “that’s what I call c;a,miug ont of the same hole you went in at! 8~ The subject of crinoline, like its di mensions, appears to have no limits. The last invention announced is thus comically described It is the non-expansive-last forever-let-in-or-out-six-foot-in-diameter-ne- ver-bend-or-break-sct-down-as-much-as-you please-with(é'yt-injuring-a-hoop—skirt. Am‘b, when shown an encylopedia, said: “Ah !'if we but had a dictionary of what we arg ignorant of I” DR. GUTHRIE'S APPEAL. At the annual meeting of the Scottish Temperence League, noticed last month, the Rev. Dr. Guthrie concluded one of his inimitable appeals, by the following touch ing allusion to a case which had passed under his observation that very day “1 was visiting to-day, and I held in my hand a letter written by a dying man. His home, three years ago, was one of the happiest, sweetest, tidiest, and most com fortable homes of any working man in Edinburgh. He is now dying of consump tion—his life is druining away, his cheek is hollow, his eye is prominent, his voice sepulchral. There he lies on his dying bed. When I first went to see him, beside him lay a child of three years old, which was lifted out of the bed beside him by its mother. Of all the pitiable, touching ob jects I ever looked on, it was the most touching. Its limbs and arms ‘were re duced to skin and bone. Its ankles were bandaged up with scrofulous sores, and its mouth was drawn together. It had the sweetest face I almost ever saw. There was the dying husband, and there was the dying child, and there was a woman— three years ago as respectable, genteel-like, and 1 know as tender a mother as was in all Edinburgh. And six days ago the ‘missionary of the district was heard tosay that that woman had switten her dying husband and was like to kill her child 1 went there this day, and with tears fall ing on the face of that poor young corpse, gave God thanks that the child was dead. On tlte Sabbath morning the gray dawn looked in upon a room, and what saw it there? A mother lying in the bed, the pillow where that child was lying stained with its life-blood—the child dead and the mother dead drunk—and with that poor infant corpse before her but yesterday—l think that scene, as I told her, might have sobered a bacchanalian—she took a chair and hurled it at her husband, the dying man, far gone in consumption. Can men see that,and go quietly back to their work May all the curses of a gracious Heaven be upon that vice —may God blast that tree that can produce such scenes of mis ‘ery in this world I detested drinking be fore—l detest it ten times more now. And how ministers of the gospel—how Christian elders, in the face of this vice, can go on with their indulgences, is to me a mystery. I cannot understand it. Ido not condemn them—by their own hands ‘they stand or fall but before them 1 charge ‘drink with breaking more hearts—with de stroying the ties of more families—with ruining more bodies—with sending more souls to perdition than almost all the other vices in this country put together. And I would appeal to my brethren if there were ‘any of them here. You are no better for it—you are the worse forit. It does your body no good—it is, I believe, the mighti est agent the devil ever invented to ruin souls. I call upon them, as I did the last time I was here, on their knees, over their Bibles, with the example of Christ before them, to consider this question and I am certain if they do so in a right’spirit, they will come to a right conclusion. They will do what I have done, and I have never re gretted it, and I know I never will regret it, by giving myself heart and hand to this cause, until by God’s blessing we triumph. A INTERESTING INCIDENT. —O— The following is an incident in the life of Col. Houghton, of Huntington county, N. J., the grandfathor of thelate eminent Baptist minister, Spencer A. Cone, D. D.: It was in Hopewell Baptist meeting house, where Conant Cone and Alice Houghton alike worshipped, and where they were immersed, that Joab Houghton received the first news of the battle of Lexington, and the defeat of the Earl of Northumberland, the hanghty descendant of the hero of Chevy-Chase, by the half armed yoemanry of New England. Still ing the breathless messenger, he sat quiet ly through the services, and when they were ended passed out, and mounting the great stone block in front of the meeting. house, beckoned to the people to stop. Men and women paused to hear, curious to know what so unusual a sequel to the services of the day could mean. At the first a silence stern as death fell over all. The Sabbath quiet of the hour and the place deepened into a solemnity. He told them all the story of the cowardly murder at Lexington by the royal troops, the retreat of Perey, the gathering of the children of the Pilgrims round the be leaguered hills of Boston;; then, pausing and looking over the silent crowd, he said, slowly: “Men of New Jersey, the red-coats are murdering our brethren of New England Who follows me to Boston 7’ And every man in that audience stepped out into a line, and answered “I!” There was not a coward nor a traitor in the old Hopewell meeting-house that day. L ot A DECIDED CHARACTER. Miss Lucy Stewart, of South Scituate, Mass., recently died at the great age of 96 years. The following account is given of her strange personal history 1 Her father was a white man, a sea cap tain, and her mother a full-blooded Indian. She was brought up in one of the first fam ilies of the town of Scituate, and had, un til within a year or two, lived in the family down to the fifth generation. Within that time she had been unable to support her self, and became an inmate of the alms house. She was a woman of good man ners, and possessed a great deal of pride. She was much averse to going to the alms house, and until the day of her death was in the habit of dressing herself in a very gay style. She requested, just before her death, to be laid out in her bright pink dress, and to have on her lace turban, which was decked very gaily with feath ers and showy vibbons, and her ’kerchief round her neck. She also wished her cof fin to be lined with flowers, and requested to be buried in the burial-ground with and near the family she had lived with most of her days. She wished to be carried to the methodist church, and have the Episeopal minister attend Rer faneral. She request ed the minister to state—which he did— that she had never been out of the limits of the town, and had never entered a church until she was carried in for burial. 8&™ The young lady who was so deli cate that she had to have her strawberries pared declares that she will never marry without stipulating that her husband shall live at least one block away from her. ADVERTISEMENTS. @gt Buglo-Africar Flagusine, MONTHLY OCTAVO OF 32 PAGES, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, STATISTICS, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM. Its objects are To present a clear and concise statement of the present condition, the past history, and the pros pects of the colored population of the United States, free and enslaved. To afford scope for the rapidly rising talent of solored men in their speciul and general literature. To examine the population movements of the colored people. To present a reliable statement of their reli gious condition, and of their moral and economie statistics. To present a statement of their educational con dition and movements. Of their legal condition and status in the seve ral States. To examine into the basis on which rest their claims for citizenship of the several States, and of the United States. To present an elaborate account of the various Books, Pamphlets and Newspapers, written or ed ited by colored men. To present the biographies of noteworthy col ored men throughout the world. On the condition and prospects of free colored men, by common assent, rests, in a great degree, the condition and prospects of enslaved colored men. Hence, besides the intrinsie interest which attaches itself to a magazine with such scope and information, the aid of all who wish to advance the great cause of Immediate Emancipation, is ear nestly solicited for its support. Terus.—One Dollar per year, payable invaria bly in advance. The January number zontains an accurate and beautifully exeeuted portrait of ALEXANDER DUMAS. All communications should be directed to THOS. HAMILTON, 48 Beekman-st., N. Y.; P. O. Box 1212. CONTRIBUTORS. Rev. Bishop PAYNE. J. W. C. PENNINGTON, D. D. J. THEO. HOLLY. H. HIGHLAND GARNET. AMOS GERRY BEMAN. E.P. ROGERS. CHAS. B. RAY. JONATHAN C. GIBBS. ROBERT GORDON. EDWARD W. BLYDEN J. HOLLAND TOWNSEND: ROBERT HAMILTON. WILLIAM J. WILSON. ADAM RAY. W. MILLER DUTTON WM. H. HALL. CHAS. M. WILSON. GEORGE T. DOWNING J. M. BELL. MARY A. 8. CARY. MARY E. CARY. SARAH M. DOUGLASS C RACE A. MAPPS. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH MARTIN R DELANY. JOHN V. DEGRASSE. JAMES FIELDS. T. JOINER WHITE. GEO. B. VASHON. M. H. FREEMAN. CHAS. L. REASON. EBENEZER D. BASSETT ROBERT CAMPBELL. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. WILLIAM C. NELL. WILLIAM WHIPPER. J. MERCER LANGSTON JUNIUS C. MOREL. WM. JAMES WATKINS. PARKER T. SMITH. CHARLES LENOX REMOND. EMMA GLOUCESTER WHITE. FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS. ELIZABETH WATERS. NOTICES OF THE PRESS. The Anglo-African Magazine is the title of a new eandidate for Yublic favor, the first (January) pumber of which lies before us. It is published in the interest of that class of our fellow-citizens who are disfranchised by the Dred Scott decision, and its contents, in their generality, speak very significantly of the injustice done them by the opinions of some of the Judges of the Supreme Court. We hail the appearance of this Magazine as a step in the right direction, and trust that it will not be guffered to lack for the want of support.— Evan gelis (New York.) Among the various new publications recently announced, we are glad to learn of the establish ment of a mngazine conducted entirely by colored Fersons, and devoted to the social, mora{nnd po itical advancement of their brethren.—lndepend dent (New York.) The Magazine is one of great ability, interest and taste, and will bear a comparison with those of much ter prete’ sions. &'e sincerely hope the friemf:e:f the colored people will patronize this work and help them in this honomgle effort to put themselves in a position which they de serve, and which their enemies would fain prevent them from attaining. ‘Blake or the ];luts of America,” i 3 beautifully written and filled with thrilling interest.—American Baptist (New York.) Itis a creditable publication. Such a journal will, if ng{n)tlg' condueted, do much to raise the condition of this class of our population, and inspire them with a manly self-respeet, and breathe a Christian aim into their struggles.— Christian Inguirer (New York.) The colored citizens of the United States num ber many men of culture and marked ability as speakers and writers, and they have established a monthly in New York, entitleg the Anglo-African Magazine, which is certainly creditable in style, execution and literary mert. {Ve hope that its success may be such as to encour age its undertakers to yet greater exertions to im provement, even amid the difficulties which lie in their way.—National Era (Washington, D. C.) The new year has thus far brought to our notice nothing more gmtiffling and encouraging than this new publication. e advent of monthly mag azine, devoted to Literature, Science, Statisties, ete., is no new thing under the sun, and especially not new in our country. The United States abound in such publications but to our knowl edge, nothing of the character of the magazine be fore us, has ever been attempted by any member or- members of the colored race in the United States. We have had numerous newspapers, a good many pamphlets, a few unpretending poems, a few biogap}u'cal sketches, mostly narratives of fulgitive slaves, some written by themselves, others o Emwritten at their dictation, the amanuensis fur nishing the words, &nd the fugitives the facts but beyonfi these, nothing has been even attempted. The Anglo-African is a bright new fact, ans we trust the beginning of an era in the mental, moral, and religious history of the colored people in this Regqblic. Whatever mafy be the fate olp this new publication, in ?oint of patronage, whether it shall succeed or fail, for want of support, we sin cerelyurejmce to see the attempt mu{: and made so well. The feature of the M?gazine for the present month is the essay of Dr.J. M’Cune Smith, show ing the dependence of Civilization on physical circumstances. The subject is one of great inter est, independent of its bearings upon relations ex isting in this eountry. Te those whe kmow Dr. ADVERTISEMETS.N Smith, it need not be said that his essayis a learned and masterly one. But we will say this and more, for it is an original and brilliant pro duction—one which we would gladly see in the hands of all the political and ethnological malign ers of the eolorego races of men. Martin R. Dela ny, it will be seen, has chosen a lofty subject. He has given a peculiar theory, aseribing to electricity the office of keeping the heavenly bodies in order, which other very able men have aseribed to the law of gravitation. Mr. Delany dismisses all our fears that this firm old eartz of ours is te be smashed up one of these coming days by a colli sion with any other body in space. We shall re fer nfiin to tl?is new magazine, and meanwhile wish Mr. Thomas Hamilton, its enterprixiné publisher, every success in this praiseworthy effort to pro mote literature and learning among our people.— Frederick Douglass’ Paper (Rochester, N. Y.) It discusses in an able manner the condition, past and present, and the future grospects, of the colored population of the United States. Such in t,ellectms efforts, affording scope for the aspirin free colored population, deserve lHatroxm.ge ang we heartily hope the Magazine will be well sup ported. %e J: not expeet to agree with all the views which may be presen'oed in it, but hearti(l)g wish it success.” Thus far the articles are go specimens of thought and composition.—New York Colonization Journal. Its list of contributors will embrace the most prominent colored writers and speakers in the ‘country. The present number is very creditable. Liberator (Boston.) We dre much pleased with the first number o the Anglo-African’ Magazine issued by our old friend Thomas Hamilton.”— Visitor (Franklin, N. Y) “There is a well-written introductory, but the ablest and most elaborate article is that on Civil ization—its Dependence on Physical Circum stances,” by James M’Cune Smith, a colored phy sician of much distinetion in New York. Itshows much research and thought. The Magazine commences its eareer with a modest appearance and subscription price—a favorable sign of permanence and success. 'We hope that it will be taken by all the colored personsin our village who are able, as it cannot fail to im{yrove them, intellectually, morally, and ‘Physica ly.— Daily Republican Binghampton, N. Y.) “Here is a curiosity—the first number of a monthly Magazine, published and edited by eol ored men, its contriEntors mainly colored people. Among these contributors we notice the names of those whom we know to possess talent of a high order: Rev. H. I. Garnet, Dr. James M’Cune Smith, Frederick Douglass, J. W. C. Pennington, Mary A. S. Carey, Sarah M. Douglass, Geo. B. Vasfion, M. H. Freeman, &e¢. Among the number of contributors named, no doubt others of equal talent are included but we are not so well able to speak of others. x 3 o ’lfile articles are generally creditable the Intro ductory, and one on ‘Civilization—its Depend ence on Physical Circumstances,’ are certainly able.”—Daily Dispatch (Pittsburgh, Pa.) “This first number gives promise of an inter esting and valuable journal, and we hope the ex periment of its publisher will be a decided sue cess.”—Free South, (Newport, Ky.) This Magazine is one of the best appearing monthlies we have seen from the American press, and the leading articles, and those from the con tributors, contain arguments and general informa tion that should be procured by every family, and particularly young men, and treasured up. Let the friends of literature and progress subscribe for it, read and preserve it. '?he contributors are among the ablest writers we have, and from the number interested in this work, at the end of the year, you that subseribe will have the material to make an interesting volume.”—Provincial Free -man (Chatham, C. W) ANGLO-AFRICAN MaGazine.—We have received the number three of a handsomely printed Maga zine, under the above title, publri)shed in New York, b{ Thomas Hamilton, No. 48 Beekman ‘street. Never have we received a monthly which, in view of the circumstanees under which it has been issue®, and the manifest ability exhibited on -every page, that has given us so much pleasire. It is managed exclusively by eolored men, and filled alone with the contributions of their pens. It con tains very able articles by the following distin- uished colored men: Dr. Martin Delany, Dr. games M’Cune Smith, Rev.J. W.C. Pennington D. D., J. Holland Townsend, Esq., Robert Campbell. No colored man who can rea% should be without it, and everyfriend of the colored American should patronize it. Republican (Norristown, Pa.) ANGLO-AFRICAN MaGaziNg.—The first number of this Magazine, published by Thomas Hamilton, 48 Beekman street, N. Y., I]'as appeared. We think it will be read with interest by all who re ceive it. The third article, Civilization—its De gendcnce on Physical Circumstances,” by Dr. ames M'Cune Smith, we regard as peculiarly in structive and valuable, The idea that in nations advanced in civilization, the sources of intellectual power spring from the common people, the physi cally vigorous, is hap{fily de\'clloped, and worthy of general attention. We wish suecess to the An glo-African Magazine.—American Missionary, (New York.) We wish it could be put in the sossession of every negrophobia-monger in the land.—Student’s Monthly (Oterlin, 0.) “This publication, considered relatively to its scope and design, will compare fayorably with any other.”—Star (Brooklyn, N. Y.) We should judge it to be rather superior to the most of the monthlies. 3 We hope it may meet with a large circulation.”— fepoailory of Religion and Literature (Indianapolis, nd.) Eprror or TrißuNe :—I have just received from the office of the Anglo-African Magazine, pub lished in New York, three numbers, and. as a trib ‘ute to both enterprise and merit, 1 desire to say a few words on the subject. While there is a spirit that would crush the colored race, and trample them under foot as infe rior, it is cheering to witness a single triumph of l our colored friengs, and see them rise in manliness and Eower, in spite of prejudice and hate. If any ’one oubts their upward tendency, their want of elements essential to elevation, let him call over and read a single article in one of these Magazines, and then blush for the injustice done a crushed Eeople. The talent and taste exhibited would do onor to any Magazine Eublished in our nation. Nor would we thus speak of a single author or a -single article the wfiole work glows with the evi ‘dence of talent and scholarship—far more so than ‘many of the popular rroductions of the press. Let our citizens interest themselves in the Anglo- Afri ean Magazine, and while t}:gy encourage the en terprise, they will also beenfit themselves b{ an increase of useful knowledge, and a decrease of un generous and unreasonable prejudices. I com mend it to our Reading Rooms, and to every pri vate family, as a work of decided merit, for only one dollar a year.—Rev. R. H. Conklin, tn Tribune (Providence, R. 1.) “This monthly, published at New York, b?' Thomas Hamilton, is edited and written by col ored people. Tt is an able Magazine. _Some sta tistical articles on the colored population of the United States, evince a great deal of research, and are valuable.”— Zion's I;crald (Boston, Ms.) We have the third number of this work before us, and have perused it. It is certainly an able work.”—The Prospect Charlestown, Ind.) ANGLO-AFRICAN MAGAZINE.—A new monthlg in the pamphlet form, issued at 48 Beekman-st., New YorE, at one dollar per annum, by our friend Thomas Hamilton, promises good things, solid things, noble, elevating. The first number exhibits tact, talent, erudition, scientific investigations, the pen of a ready writer. The econtributions are of the highest order. The narratives, sufferings and hair-breadth escapes of fugitives from the land of Egygt and Pharaoh’s host, are tmldy; marvelous, ‘wonderful! No romance can equal them, and yet they are solid facts. These narratives will grace ‘every number of this new monthly, and will ‘doubtless give it a wide ecireulation. Anythmg and everytiling caleulated to elevate and emanci pate the colored race, meets our warmest sympa thies. The hand of God isin it. Ethiopia 1s soon to stretch forth her hands to God.”” Friends, hand"in your names, enclose $1 to Mr. Hamilton, 48 Beekman-st.—Golden Rule (New York.) This is a new Magazine, but, as its name im ports, it is to fill an existing void, and circulate in a sphere peculiarly its own. It is to be the organ of the colored race. It has been projected by col ored men, and, in the main, will go condueted by them. The initial number appears well. Its leading articles are of a high o:ger, and give evi dence that if negr yes have no rights which white men are bound to t,” they at least wield pens whieh, one dnm work eut the redemp- ADVERTISEMENTS. tion of their race, and extort from the proud and domineering Anglo-Saxon the justice now so per sistently denied them The opening article is an introductory one by the J)ubliaher, Mr. Thomas Hamilton, who sue cinctly states the objects he has in view, and the work which he and l{u fellow-laborers undertake to do. There are paragraphs somewhat caustic; we refer to those comparing colored and white scholars, one comparison being between scholars in the City of New York, ang another between students in French colleges.

The main article, Civilization—its Dependence on Physical Circumstances,” is by Dr. James M’- Cune Smith, a gentleman of liieml education, t.honfis for it he is not indebted to his own coun trg, ving been obliged to obtain it in Europe, where the tiger-ferociousness of caste of color is un known. It is an able Eaper. and conclusively dis- Eroves the current p ilosopl‘x.z which predicates uman advanecement, or, in other words, civiliza tion, on the innate superiority of a race; but, on the cont(ti'ary, shows that it is due r'lz‘a’t.her to cli mate and geographical position. e Tis learned, plge giggwith f}::t.s, 80 skillfullymlr’ledled. thut the deguctions are beyond the possibility of being overthrown. The doctrine of innate superi ority of race is scattered to the winds. This cen tury-nursed lie, which has been made the excuse for slavery, with all its horrors and barbarities, which to-day, in these nominally free States, crushes the colored man beneath a remorseless prejudice and a fiendish spirit of caste, command ing him to quench the fires of aspiration as he feels them burning in his soul, to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water, a menial, feeling no manhood, to keep shut the windows of his soul, never opening t}:em to let in the sun-light of knowleffl;e, is eviscerated, and shown to be but the invention of the o}:ipressor, as an excuse for his dark and damning deeds and erimes. When the despised negro can ply such artillery as this, it is time to pause, and ask what we are to 'Fam by at temptini longer to hold him down. The time is approaching when the black race now in this country will be a fearful Eower, unless we relax the hand of oppression. They are under the tem perate parallels, where all eircumstances conspire to give them physical and mental tl::wer. In each decade, the census figures show that they in crease in a ratio which, ere long, will reach that oint when the red right hand of revolution will ge raised, clenching a sword, beneath whose heavy blade fetters will be but as flaxen strings, and op pressors but as men of clay. The negro is natur ally patient and docile—naturally he abhors blood ung strife but there are examples which emphat ically warn us that, in the school of slavery, and under the treatment he receives when he is ly;)oked uron as he is now, by a large portion of this peo ple, he aptly learns the aphorism of Jefferson, and which we profess to believe a God-ordained one— Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!” St. Domingo thunders in our ears, Beware! Take your hands from your victim's throat, or meet the retributive justice ready to pour upon your heads wrath more terrible than the seven vials of the Apocalypse Such are some of the thoughts which have sug gested themselves while we have been writing this notice. Others there are which come thronging around our pen, but this is no time for their utter ance. In conclusion, we would say, we are glad this Magazine has been established. Conducted as there is every reason to believe it will be, it will demonstrate that Anglo-Africans stand on the plane of progress, and are not those brutish beings they have been represented to be. 1t is calm and dignified, manful in its tone, counselling the col ored man to toil on and vindicate his race, by be ing true to the instinets of his nature, notwith standing the other races proudly affect superiori ty, and look down with scorn and contempt. The Magazine is published by Thomas Hamil ton, at 48 Beekman street, New York, at $1 a year. We mention the terms, because we hope there will be many who will subsecribe, if for no other purpose, to see *what good can come out of Narragansett.”—Pendulum Greenwich, R. 1.) BOOKS. PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BY THOMAS HAMILTON, 48 Beckman street, New York. THE DREAM; Or, the true history of Dea. Giles’s Distillery and Dea. Jones’s Brewery. BY GEO. B. CHEEVER, D. D. Price per single copy 10 cents, §1 per doz., or §7 per hundred. This will continue to be an excellent work for circulation so long as distilleries and breweries continue to send forth their poisonous stream.”— A. S. Bugle (Salem, 0.) We have received a pamphlet copy of that re markable production of Dr. Cheever's—* The True History of Deacon Giles’s Distillery,” which is now being r%published and illustrated by Thos. Hamilton, at 48 Beekman sk, New York. It isa scathing article, abounding in the fire and hammer of unfilnching truth. It was written originally for a dpaper ca%led the “Salem Landmark,” pub lished at Salem, Mass., where Dr. Cheever, then a young man, was engaged in the ministr?‘. It gro— duced a great sensation at the time, and the whole rum-fraternity were in arms about it. Cheever was armigne! before a court of justice. The re production of the article at this time is called for and is eminentlg opportune, when, on either hand, the hellish tloods of Intemiperance are surg ing back upon communities once reclaimed from their devastating flow.—True American (Erie,Pa.) No work on Temperance ever had such a wide circulation as this and the exigency of the times seemed to call for its republication. It purports to be a Dream,’ but it is ‘not all a dream,’ but an awful reality.”—Ncws Letter (Westfield, Mass.) A dream that is worth dreaming. Generally speaking, we have very little confidence in dli)'eeams. PDreams are liars,” yet there are dreams that tell truth of vast import. This is true of Joseph’s dreams, Daniel’s, and of others recorded in God's Book. Bunyan dreamed a dream that astonished the world): that scattered light and life the earth around; and this same dream is still doing wonders! But to the dream before us “It was a dream, yet not all a dream.” It's a dream or true history of Deacon Giles's Distillery and Deacon Jones’s Brewery,” by Geo. B. Cheever. Friends, it would be impossible to ive you even a faint outline of this dream. Suf g::e it to say, it is one of the author’s happiest ef forts, on a subject that ought to interest every one. This new edition of this invaluable dream is put up neatly in parillph]et form, with unique engravings, by Thomas Hamilton, 48 Beekman st. —Golden Rule (New York. COLORED PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; WITH SKETCHES OF SEVERAL DISTINGUISHED COLORED PERSONS TO WHICH IS ADDED A BRIEF SUR VEY OF THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. BY WILLIAM C. NELL. 396 paEes. Price 81. Postage 19 cents. This work has been compiled as a means of en lightening public sentiment on an interesting but much neglected department of American History, and is graced with an introduction by Mrs. Har riet Beecher Stowe, and illustrated by engravings of Crispus Attueks, the first martyr in the Boston massacre of March sth, 1770; I;efer Salem, on Bunker Hill, and a fac-simile autograph certifi cate of General Washington, tendered to a colored soldier. The increasing interest on the general subject of Slavery invests this book with rare at traction at the present time, for throughout its fi:fe. are exhibited various phases of the pecu iar institution,”’ interwoven with incidents oi)pat riotism and bravery of colored Americans in the days that tried men’s souls.” From several com mendatory notices of the press, the following are selections This neat volume of nearly 400 pages is a vez curious and interesting book, not only as regar the character of its contents, but as being the pro duection of a young colored man, a native of, and educated in, goeton. It purports to be an effort to stem the tide of prejmiice against the colored race, and to show that they are fit for something higher than the menial drudgery to which they are ngnenlly doomed. s 4 Nell has gathered many interesting facts, and woven them together in a very effective manner. He has extended his researches into the loeal his tories of seventeen of the States of the Union, and presents a great mass of testimony in behalf of the military services of the colouJ' people, which :hiil ::onuh t.btfiu 'lim hslvin. not heretofore given ject a thought. ve ly com meness with the story d%mgm&onn- BOOKS. e, ey ettt e whdo fell the time of the Boston Massa cre, and records very many deeds cow forgetting, of ouree these i s oyeos, 20t ans at the battle of New Orleans. He has also emqu_ied much information in the cha ters on the cond_mon and prospeets of the coloredp American and in the Appendix.”—Salem Register, “This work is an enlargement, and an improve. ment as well, of a valuable pamphlet übliaEed by Mr. Nell several years ago, andp whicfi had gone entirely out of print. Itisa record of Striiing facts, which, as they illustrate the important ser vices rendered by colored men in the struggle this nation with the mother country, it has too ten been the polic&of our white historians to ig nore or conceal. Mr. Nell's industry in eompiling this volume is equalled only by his modest esti mate of the value of his labors. He deserves the thanks of every friend of impartial liberty, and his book should find a place in every Anti-Slavery household. It is welY calculated to put our spuri ous Christianity and our sham Democracy alike to the blush of shame for the cruel prejudice against the colored people, to which they so in sanely cling, and for denying to them the rights and [;rwileggs of manhood, and dooming them to social prescription and virtual outlawry, in a land for whose deliverance from oppression their fath ers freely shed their blood.— Anti Slavery Standard. The title o the native colored people of this country to be considered as men uns brethren” of the whites, has been often contested by ungen erous men, who are willing to consider tie negro asa Yerson,” but reject his elaims to eitizen ship. In this volume, the heroism which was dis played by some of the colored men whose blood mingled with that of their white compatriots, in the Revolution, is commemorated, together with the testimonials which those who lived in the times when the serviees of Lirck men were neither rejected nor unrecognized, paid to the colored de fenders of our country and homes. Itis a timely work, well written, and full of historic facts of value to every reader.— Rochester Democrat. MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM. BY FREDERICK DOUGLASS. 1 vol., 12mo. 464 pp., Illustrated. Price $l, postage paid. It revesls the miseries of servile life with in tense vividness and impressiveness, that ean bu fasten its facts and arguments upon the reader’s mind as with a pen of iron and with the point of diamond.— Vt. Journal. This volume, besides its many moving and thrilling details, affords evidence of a most remark able man. Mr. Douglass has emphatically made himself. As a writer and speaker he has Kut few equals in the country.— Christian Advocate. It presents a clear and graphie picture of his slave-life from his earliest recollections, his escape and his life since, including his experiences in this countrg' and Europe. No one wilfileny Mr. Dou glass the possession of genus and character of a high order. He writes in a nervous, clear, and most telling manner, clothing his sarrative with intense interest, and conveying his moral impres sions with a vividness that leaves the reader ‘scarcely any escape. The subject is deeply tragie, ‘and, in his masterly handling, possesses an en grossing interest.—N. Y. Evangelist. We have before listened to the homely tale of the liberated slave, but it did not impress us as does this narrative of Douglass, for the reason that we were left to supply the commentary which is here pressed upon us b'ly:lone who has both seen and felt what he relates. The story bears through out the impress of truth, and the manner in which it is told stamps the writer as a man of genius and a high order of talent.— Ohio State Journal. This is a splendid work. The personal worth of the author, the deserved pogularity he has secured throughout this nation, and the universal desire that prevails to have a memento of one of nature’s noblemen, will consgire to ereate an unprecedent ed demand for this book.— Wesleyan. The book is written with the happiest deserip tive power, with nerve and vigor of expression, and with richness of style. It hasan ample re source in phrase, great perspicuit}y, and a musical, resonating, and half-rhythmie style, which reminds the reader of the author’s origin, and of the native melodies of his race. The book manifests a high. and, to us, unexpected polish. The interest aroused and kept up by a perusal of this book is of a high order, ang rarely degenerates.—Detroit Daily Advertiser. GERRIT SMITH IN CONGRESS. “Slavery has no right but to die!” A work of over 400 pages, containing all his sieeches delivered in Congress; also, an accurate likeness. Price only 80 cents per copy, and p stage paid. THE PALM LAND; OR, WEST AFRICA, ILLUSTRATED Being a history of missionary labors and travels, with deseriptions of men and things in Western Africa. AEO, a Synopsis of all the missionary work on that continent. BY GEORGE THOMPSON, Author of various works on Africa. Price $1.25. Sent by mail free of postage. THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. A Statistiecal View of the Condition of the FREE and SLAVE STATES. 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THE HARP OF FREEDOM. “A volume of Poetry and Music adapted to the great struggle now pending between Freedom and lavery in this country.” The music in this work is arranged as Solos, Duetts, Trios, Quar tettes, Chorusses, &e., &e., adapted to wuse in the domestic cirele, the school, the club-room, the mass-meeting, and, in short, wherever music is loved and appreciated, Slavery abhorred, and Liberty held sacred.” i It contains nearly 200 choice songs, and is sold for 75 cents per copy. Postage 16 cents. THIIE MANUAL OF THE WARt?RgßEi’u] 100 large octavo pages, in er, rs. lan. Prig: 25 centsl.) Sr‘xt, poatgaid, u{mn receipt of the price. It is a complete treatise upon this branch of Domestic Economy, and by far the most valuable publication upon this subject ever issued, Its omprises a thorough dissertation up on taste n dress, an explanation of the different kinds of stitches, made in sewing, remarks uson the various kinds and qualities and fabrics used in the wardrobe, with complete directious for cutti aud fitting all kinds of garments for women’s axt:g children’s wear the preparation o table, toilet, and bed linen. Illustrated by nearly 100 cuts of tterns and modes. The appendix contains full gi.rections for usinf% the Sewm& Machine. No bemsekeeper can afford to do withaut it. THE AMERICAN SLAVE-CODE, IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Its Distinetive Features Saown by its Statutes, Judieial Deeisi sns andy Tllustrative Facts pp- 430. 12mo. Price 75 ets., postage paid. From Hon. Wm. Jay tohe Author. “Your unl{m of the slave iaws is very able, and tE:nr exhibition of their practical npghcation by the Southern Courts evinces great and careful research. #lt is more easy to make than to refute a ehufie of exaggeration against a work of fiction, like Mrs. Stowe’s but your book is as impregnable against such a charge as Eu clid’s (?eomet since, like that, it consists of propositions unrg demonstrations. The book is not only true, bus it is unquestionably true.” (lonmu—l’rclimiury Chapter the Relation of Master and Slave; Slave Traffie; Seizure of Slave Property for Debt; Inheritance of Slave Property Uses of Slave Property; Slaves can possess nothing Slaves eannot marry; Slaves BOOKS. cannot constitute families; Unlimited power of Slave-holders Labor of slaves Food, clothing, and dwellingg of slaves; Coerced labor without wages Punishments of slaves by the owner and hirer Of laws concerning the murder and killing of slaves; Of the delegated power of overseers Of the protection of slave property from damages IF)y assaults from other persons than their owners ‘acts illustrating the kind and degree of protec tion extended to slaves Fugitives from slavery The slave cannot sue his master: No power of sglf-redemptlon or change of masters 'Fhe rela tion hereditary and perpetual Rights to educa tion—religious liberty—rights of conscience Or lim of the relation and its subjects Relation of the slave to society and to civil government Of the ground and nature of the slave's eivil condi tion no access to the judiciary, and no honest g.rovmon for testing the claims of the enslaved to eedom Rejection of testimony of slaves and free colored Y‘"’SOM Subjection to all white per sons Penal laws against slaves Edueation pro hibited Free social worship and religious in struetion prohibited lflgiAFative, Jjudicial, and constitutional obstruetions to emancipation Rela tions of the slave code to the liberties of the free g Liberties of the free people of color Liberties of the white people of the slave-holding states Lil erties of the white people of the non-slaveholding states. 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