The Weekly Anglo-African (New York [N.Y.])
December 24, 1859

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VOL. T.—NO. 2§.9 L f .v The @eckly Anglo-African IS PUBLISHED EVYERBRY BATDRDAY BY THOS. HAMILTON, No. 48 BEEKMAN STREET, NEW YORK TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Two Dollars per year, or Four Cents per eopy payable on delivery. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Six Cents a line for the first insertion, and Three Cents for each subsequent insertion Notices of Births, Marriages, Deaths, Public Meetings, &e., inserted for Twenty-five Cents, pro vided they do not exceed five lines; if more than that, Five Cents for each additional line. All ecommunieations for the paper must be ad dressed THOS. HAMILTON, 48 Beekman st., New York, [P. 0. Box 1212.] {For the Weekly Anglo-African.) COTTON. El BY YORK. gl Cottonis king, high priest of Mamumon, Ruling the nation with imperial sway His will is law, all else is gammon The people murmur, but murinuring obey. "Tis strange to notice how a simple thing, Pregnant with force potential, yet oecult, O’erlooked, may wiar far-sighted plans, and bring To hopeful labor disheartening result. For instance, take the history of these States, At whose confederation all was thought on That haply might effect its welfare, (see de bates,) Lxeept the simple artiele ealled cotton. Pre-seience could not anticipate the trap Inventive genius would ere long prepare, Nor stateeraft predicate the sad wmishap That Whitney’s gin would prove the nation’s snare. As Troy, of old renown, which, after ten year'’s war, Saw from her battered ramparts batiled Greeee depart, Yet learned her seeming vietory to deplore, And owed her rnin to a work of art, So teo may this great polity, whom pristine fame Challenged detraetion to find a Llot on, Recreant to principle, trace with shame Its dowafall to a thing for cleaning eotton. Cotton hath sinothered conscience, stifled law, Made Truth to swerve, and Liberty to falter, Capping the climax of its coup d'etat By strangling Freedom with a cotton haltar New York, Dee. 3, 1859. i e w Defereed Correspondence. e LETTER FROM BOSTON. Bosron, November 30, 1859. Mgr. Eprror:—Circumstances all potent have hitherto prevented the transfer from my tablets of an accumulation of items in tended for the readers of the “Anglo,” and I literally seize the present moment for that purpose. On the evening of the 21st, (just 24 years since the Boston Garrison mob—and, by the bye, Wm. Lloyd Garri som, Jr., was present,) T happened to attend a literary and social gathering, where portion of the exercises was a lecture by Mrs. Frances D. Gage, in which she gave a graphic and cloguent narration of he recent visit to the Island of St. Croix, de seribing the very satisfactory incidents and results of emancipation; and as she pictur ed to the mind’s cye scenes of the insur rection, (distorted, as you know, hy the pro slavery press,) one couid not help thei thoughts wandering to Harper's Ferry news of which movement, under the lead. ership of John Brown, had but a few days ‘before reached Boston. P'rominent features in the St. Croix demonstration were the bon-fires of freedom, and the exclamations of those who had been slaves—“We are free! We are free Mrs. Gage described the peasantry as in a very prosperous condition, and in detail ing their home associations made signifi cant mention of the politeness exhibited by children of emancipated slaves. She me there a colored American named Groce who became acquainted in Baltimore with Benjamin Lundy and Wm. Lloyd Garri son, and blessed God for them and their la bors in behalf of the slave. Mrs. Mary Shad Cary also briefly pre sented the claims of her Canada school mi sion, which was responded to by a cash ap propriation. Dr. John S Rock has delivered, this sea son, in Boston, three lectures, includin “The Voyage of an American Outlaw”— in which he sketches his recent trip to Pa ris, contrasting the treatment there with that meted ont to colored Americans_a home, as illustrative of the Dred Secott de cision, and also an admirable lyceum lec ture on the character and writings of Mad ame De Stael, in which he presents an in teresting account of the prominent even in her life, “with some critical remarks o her writings, bringing into special noti that antagonism between her ideas and th despotic system of Napoleon Banaparte which rendared her banishment necessar for the success of his purposes.” Rev. J. Sella Martin, whose pulpit and platform exercises have interested intelli. gent and large audiences here and else where, has accepted the call trom the Joy street church, and inaugurates his ministry there Dec. 4th. William Wells Brown had a erowd at the above church on the 28th inst., to hea his lecture on “The Heroes of Insurrec tion.” He classified them as heroes of the pen, the platform, and the sword, and adorned the subject with several apposit historical illustrations, and with personal reminiscenses of John Brown. Among the many excellent discourse: which the Harper's Ferry scenes have elic ited from clergymen, that of Rev. E. M Wheelock, of Dover, N. I, repeated at Music Hall, Boston, last Sunday, is in oreatest demand. It is revolutionary, be ing emphatically “the words for the hour.” r Rev. E. Haven, editor of “Zion’s Herald,” in his discourse at Cambridge port, dwelt at much length on the import ance at this crisis and henceforth of a fra ternal treatment of the people toward their colored fellow-citizens. Rev. J. Freeman Clarke and many others have al so spoken manly and Christian senti ments. You have of conrse noticed the speech o Rev. J. M. Manning, of the Old South Church, at the Tremont Temple meeting, and the prominence he gave to that histor ical day, March sth, 1770, and its heroi martyr, the colored American, Crispus At tucks. The next anniversary of that day will have gathered a new interest from th pregnant scenes of these days of exeit ment incident to the second American rev olution. I have a volume, almost, of historical in surrection facts, that I intended and may yet put into some shape for your “Weekly Anglo” or magazine, though the anti-slave ry veteran, Joshua Coflin, Fsq., of Newbu ryport, proposes soon issning his work, which will be authentic, and eminently worthy a place in every library, publicand private. Deeember, 2, 1859. —The day set apart by the Virginia au thorities for strangling John Brown. whaea crime, in the judgment of this wicked na tion, was his faithful application of the colden rnle to man, irrespective of his com plexion. The weather here is unusually warm for the season, which, being remarked by a friend, was commented upon by another to the effect that Virginia has this day gene rated a flame that will spread throughout and neat np the whole Union, and which, before being extinguished, will melt the chains from the limbs of every slave from the Atlantic to the Pacific. W. C. N. LETTER FROM HARTFORD. Harrrorn, Dee. 5, 1859. Mz. Epitor:—While all the cities have been expressing their sympathies at the end of a great, noble, and courageous man, am sorry to say that there was no public expression here yet there were but few of us who did not feel that the morning, dull and hazy as it was, indicated the feel ings and gloomy forebodings of things yet to come upon this unjust nation. The old heathen maxim, “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” can, in my estimation, be applied to the powers by which the martyr Jobn Brown fell a vie tim, not to justice, but to the policy and tyranny of the “peculiar institution.” It is a lesson fraught with great consequences to us, as a people—one which we ought t recollect, and, if the time ever comes, put into practice, and, in the language of that oft repeated poem, “strike till the last arm ed foe expires.” One circumstance which transpired here| is worthy of relation. Mr. Samuel Eaton was hired to clothe the figure of justice on our City Hall in a suit of mourning. He had accomplished the act, but, unfortunate ly, in descending the stairs he lost his hat, and was endeavoring to find it by the aid of a few matches, when some persons, ob serving the light, thought that an attempt was being made to fire the building, and accordingly rushed upon the suspected in cendiary, who, to save himself, told what he had been doing. Accordingly Madam Justice was disrobed of her black suit, and thus ended the only expression of publi sympathy for the martyr in this city. There is in this city about seven hun red of our down-trodden people. Amon them are waiters, barbers, porters, dress makers, laundresses, a restaurant keeper nd a silver burnisher. We have tw hurches, a Congregational and a Method ist. The former has now no regular pas or, but their pulpit is supplied by th whites. The Zion Church is under th pastoral charge of the Rev. Samuel M. iles; He is a minister who combine with true piety the desire to interest hi earers, and really studies to do so. Ther are Sabbath Schools connected with both hurches, and from what T ean learn they are in a flourishing condition. I have seen the famous “Charter Oak’ hair now in the office of the Secretary o State. It'is a rare piece of furniture, and is beautifully carved with leaves and acorns so finely executed that they seem real. 1 is made after the style of the old-fashioned rm-chairs, and sits on a small pedestal of] pine wood, painted lead-color. It cos three hundred dollars, and T am told that this did not pay for the time and labor ex pended in changing a portion of the “old ak” into a piece of furniture to grace the Senate Chamber. SIGMA. bt L OUR TRENTON LETTER. TrentToN, Dec. 10; 18'59. On Sunday, 27th ult., our city was vis ted by the Rev. A. L. Stanford, of New Haven, who held forth at the Mount Zion hurch. T had the pleasure of hearing him in the evening. His text, taken from Joshua, 2d chapter, 16th verse, was beau tifully elucidated, furnishing us with a rich treat, and cliciting the highest encominms from the intelligent part of the congrega tion. The Trenton Debating, Association met on the 28th ult,and elected permanent of ficers for the session. We have our ini tiatory debate this winter far in advance of the Legislature, which begins here about the Ist of January, and shall be fully pre pared to discuss any and all questions touch ing our cause and condition, as well as those of general utility, that may come un gder our notice. 'The debates will be pub lic. One of our old residents, a prominent business man, closed his place of business on the 2d inst., in sympathy with John Brown, the hero of Harper’s Ferry, and it gis some consolation to me to find that, with all our seeming apathy, there exists some philanthropy among us—some kindred feeling to that existing among our friends in this and other counties; and I feel as sured that if he, or any other prominent man—and especially a minister of the rospel—had used the least effort, there :nisht havo brven a geueral p.'ll'thlpa]l(m in fasting and prayer on that day. B Theladies of Mount Zion A. M. E. #Church are to hold a fair some time dur ing the holidays. To judge by the one they held last year, it will be something fvery creditable to them. This congrega tion, by their perseverance and indnstry, have collected within the past year nearly fifteen hundred dollars, and paid it toward the expense incurred in rebuilding their chburch, and the present movement, I un lerstand, is to raise means to meet an in stalment due some time in January. I am glad to see, by our local newspa- Jpers, that our white brothers are beginning to feel the effects of slavery upon their so cial condition, and that, south of Mason and Dixon’s line, the exclamation, “I am n Américan citizen is of little avhil, ex :ept it be accompanied by an endorsement of the hLydra-headed monster in all its phases. The expulsion of two Trenton tinmen, the imprisonment of Northern itin erants, the enmity to a free press and free §speech, have caused the gentlemen of the fpress to compare our Sonthern oligarchy to the despots of Russia and Austria. AFRI. OUR PATERSON LETTER. Parerson, Nov. 30, 1859 Mgz Eprror:—Much concerning the con ition of our people here, may be correct. ly inferred from the fact that no literary or benevolent society is in existence among gus in the place. The Anglo-African,” however, is beginning to be looked upon with favor, and several have expressed their intention of becoming subscribers be fore long. Two daily newspapers are published at Paterson at the present time—* Register,” Democrat, and “Guardian,” Republican. ‘The latter was once considered the most radical anti-slavery paper in the State. But since Mr. Wm. Wright's withdrawal, it has not improved in that respeect, to say the least. There were no services in the colored hurch here on Thanksgiving Day,” sev eral persons professed conversion, and were received as members a short time ago. Rev. Moses Manning is pastor. In the evening of Thanksgiving” the ‘lndependent National Guard” had thei ball, which competent judges considered a orand affair, one of the best of the kind aver witnesscd in Paterson. The desire o be brief prevents a full report, the de ils of which might be interesting. That day a colored military company from Hackensack, Bergen Co., made 3 visit to Lodi, in the same county. They number about thirty men, and their uni form, a black suit, showed good taste in its selection. Their appearance and perform ances on’the’ occasion, attractedgmuch at- NEW YORK, DECEMBER 24, 1859. tention in the village, and elicited consid rable admiration. l In conclusion, Mr. Editor, permit me, o to speak, to second the motion of Met amora” in favor of petitioning for the elec. tive franchise. To do this, we need not et up a State convention, pass resolations Acc., but every reader of the African,” who feels an interested in the subject, pay obtain signitures to a petition, and have it presented at the coming session of the Legislature. True, we may not obtain our rights this year or the next, but the effort will not be lost. If te demand is pressed with vigor, it will remove the shameful brand that we are contented with an in sulting and impurious disfranchisement; a discussion of the question will be provoked. [t may also make it an issue in State pol itics, from which we are now excluded. 1 there is a friend in Trenton who will tak charge of petitions, itis hoped he will over come modesty, pre tem, and give the peo ple of tho State his address. Another suggestion. Some property holders might do the caunse efticient service] by a refusal to pay taxes, on the ground that taxation and representation should g together. Of course the tax would be col lected, but the virtual robbery that would becommitted in such a case, might be turn ed to a good account, especially in a town or city. It would furnish an occasion for discassing the question in the papers and elsewhere. sop e OUR ALBANY LETTER. ALeaNy, Dee. 9, 1859. Shew me thy faith, without thy works; and I will shew thee my faith, by my works.” —Jas. 2:18. Dear Axcro:—Albany, the old Datch conservative city, is showing Zer faith by, her works. As the death of Christ brough not only the living to acknowledge the wickedness of the nation, and the greatness of the blessing which, by it, would be con ferred on man, but even the very dead from their graves, arose to testify to the horrors of sin, and do honor, to its mighty vietor; so the death of the noble martyr, John Brown. branght not only the Tiving advocates of humanity to deplore still more deeply the great wickedness of this nation, which requires so great a sacrifice on liber ty’s halter, and the greatness of the bless ings which from his sublime death will flow; but even the very dead, who have so long slept in the deathly grasp of the slaveoeracy, to arise to testify to the atrocities of American slavery, and hence forth vow eternal kostility to the demoniac institution, and honor the slanghtered vie tim. The second day of December, as your readers are already aware, was ap propriately observed and honored but only a beginning. On Sunday evening, the 4th inst., Wm. J. Watkins, lisq., again held forth power fally and most aceeptably to a large au dience, in the Wesleyan Church, (white) who, you know, of all denominations, are the most hostile to slavery. On Monday evening he again held forth to another large audience, in the Hamilton street Bap tist Church. On Tuesday evening he again held forth at the Wesleyan to a large and interested andience, and immediately after the conclusion of his masterly ad dress, the effect of John Brown’s martyr dom wasshown. Rev. T. Doughty Miller was called to the chair,and Mr. Bishop (white) appointed Seeretary, It was then resolved to form an “Irrepressible Conflict Society of Al bany, its motto—" Eternal hostility to slavery.” llts constitution, by-laws, &c., &ec., was read, in which it is proposed to create a public sentiment against slavery, by the publication of tracts, delivery of| lectures, &ec., &c., wherenpon twenty-one persons immediately enrolled their names as members, (increased some nine or ten at the close of the meeting) and on motion, proceeded to elect officers, as follows: President, E. N. Selkirk, Esq., (white.) Vice President, E. Elkins, M. D., (eol ored.) Recording Sec., Bishop, (white.) Corresponding Sec., Rev. T. Dought Miller, (colored.) Treasarer, S.'mds, (Whife.) EXECUTIVE BOARD. Mev. Mr. Mason, (white.) T. Vogelsang, Esq., (colored.) Rev. Jno. Mills, (white,) and others. The Chairman then vacated his seat and offered the ‘following resolutions which were adopted with a loud and unan imous “aye”: Resolved, That we shall ever remember With un cigned pleasure the visit and labors among us, in his momentous erisis, of that able advocate of hu man rights, William J. Watkins, Esq., and hail i as onme of the many auspicious signs, whie on every side, bid us “be of good eourage, for God is with us,” and will raise up from the mar tyred ashes of John Brown, the moral hero of th age, many a friend of God and humanity, w therwise would have lain dormant in the helli embrace of American slavery. Resolved, That we rejoice in the formation o this society, as a valuable aid in the glorious work f emancipation and we do herewith renew o evotion to the sacred cause, and pledge ourselves before God and the people to leave no effort un tried, no stone unturned, until the black and astardly erime of American slavery is wiped from the soil by peaceable means, if it can, foreibly, i it must. Resolved, That while we dizcountenance polities in the pulpit, we believe that the time has now :ome, when every pulpit in our land, white and| black, should sound forth earnestly and fearlessly the judgments of God on this guilty nation, whose hands are stained with human blood, and thei dvocates, wherever found; and whenevery church hould imprint over its doors, in ineffaceable char cters, No connection with slavery.” Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the “Eveninz Journal,” “Anglo-African,” and Frederick Douglass Paper.” After a few short addresses the meetin adjourned, and the audience dispersed. All hail for the Fmpire State Readers, “Go and do thou likewise.” T. W LETTER FROM CHILLICOTHE. CurLricorne, Ohio, Dec. 5. 1859. Mr. Epiror:—At a meeting held at uinns’ Chapel on the 30th ult., to form an anti-slavery society, the following reso lution, commemorative of the late lamented John 1. Gaines, was adopted: Resolved, That we learn with deep and unfeign ed regret that the noble John I. Gaines has recent-| y departed this life that we recognize in his de cease the extinguishment of a great light among s that in him the cause of freedom and the| cause of education have lost one of their most effi cient and indefatigable supporters; and that we hereby tender his bereaved family an expression of our sincere condolence. Rev. J. F. James addressed the meet ing. He paid a glowing tribute to Mr. raines’ unfaltering perseverance and suc cess in obtaining for the colored people of (incinnati the control of their schoolg, and the funds long withheld from them. His unsullied probity, his persistent advocacy f the anti-slavery cause, his consistent de portment in all the relations of life, were warmly commended. A committee was then appointed to con vey to Mrs. Gaines, at Cincinnati, a copy of the above resolition, and to have th proceedings of the meeting touching Mr. (iaines’ decease published in papers friend ly to the cause. Rev.J.R. Bowles, of the Ilirst Anti-Slavery Baptist Church, gave notice that on Friday a prayer-meet ing would be held at his churck, in which the slave and his friends, and partidalarly the heroic but hapless John Brown, would be remembered. J. K. WILLIAMS. l OUR TROY LETTER. Troy, N. Y., Dee, 11, 1859, Mg. Epiror:—On Monday last the body of the late John Brown passed through this place on its way to its final resting place in the northern part of the State, and it caused some little excitement. The body was accompanied by Mrs. Brown,l Wendell Phillips, I’sq., and two gentle men from New York and Philadelphia. The coffin, of course, was not opened, al though the desire to see the body was very oreat; the sqnare pine box in which the coflin was enclosed, was at one time in im minent danger of being hacked- to pieces so great was the desire to obtain some relic of the departed hero, and the box had t be removed 1o a room at the depot where it could be locked up, in order to prevent its being almost cut up. Althongh no oreat interest has been manifested here at any time concerning this late affair, yet o Monday quite a number of people flocked to the depot to see the coffin of that excel lent man. On Friday last an excellent meeting was held here at the Liberty St. Presbyterian (colored) Church, in behal f thie late hero; prayers were offered, and some very fine speeches were also made. On Thursday 1 attended a lecture be fore the Young Men’s Association, deliver ed by Dr. G. B. Windship, of Boston, wh is said to be the strongest man in America. His subject was physical culture. He is very fine looking young man, about twen y-six years of age, his whole appearan enoces great muscular strength. His le ture was by no means a brilliant one, ye it was full of common sense remarks. Neither did he give as much instruetion o vice about cultivating the physical or anization, as was expected; yet, takin the lecture as a whole, it was very enter. taining. Next week Wendell Phillips, Esq., ures before the Association on Toussain Overture, and as I know it will be a xcellent lecture, I shall endeavor to giv ou some account of it. Wm. Jam Watkins, Esq., passed through this"cit n Wednesday, on his return home fie Albany, where he has been speaking ore some very large audiences. In speaking of the John Brown affair in he commencement of this letter, I shonld have said that the children attending th olored school have each subsecribed small sum of money towards buying a por trait of the veteran hero—the plan 1 think is a good ome, and worthy of adoption everywhere. YOUNG PHISSIC. GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE A M. E. CHURCH. Mr. Epiror:—The General Conference will convene at Pittsburg next May, 1860, to take into consideration the condition ot heir church, to adopt rales for their better oovernment, and suggest plans for the fur ther extension of that gospel the world so much needs. For several reasons, both clergy and laity appear to look forward to his convention with a considerable degree of interest. One of the principal items of husiness to come before it is the election of one or more Bishops. It is said that the progress of the Convention since their last general conference has been so rapid that the pre sent body of Bishops (Quinn and Paine) annot attend to its affairs. And it is also eported, that Bishop Paul Quinn, the oreat pioneer of the west, talks of retiring to private life the remainder of his days. Should this be the case, his vacancy also will have to be filled, for that would leave Bishop Paine the only Bishop this side of the Canadian conferences, and he could not attend to the work of two Bishops, for his own work now is too arduous for one man. lam informed they want a Bishop for California also, where there are souls as well as gold. But the great and con stant inquiry is, who will be our -next Bishop Who is the man among us that is able to fill so exalted a situation, as a leader of the sacramental host, and an ex tender of the Redeemer’s kingdom? It is said, we want holy men, and educated men, and men naturally talented and well experienced. The ministers now talked ot are the following:—J. P. Campbell, ot Philadelphia; W.. R. Revels, of Chicago; J. M. Brown, of Baltimore; G. R. Green, of the Ohio Conference, and A. W. Way man, of D. C.; these five ministers, it is supposed, will be the can lidates for the Bishoprie. PREESIDIUM. Barrivorrg, Deec. 10, 1859, leverywhere‘ A FIELD FOR LECTURERS. Mg. Epit r: —Will you permit a coun tryman to ask a question through the columns of your paper? 1 have for the last four years been living in a country town, which is about fifty-one miles from Philadelphia, and T think it is ninety miles from New York, with a railroad leading to both. What I want to ask is this:——Why is it that some of your good speakers do not come up this way? What is the use of their going over the same ground all the time, when there are other places for them to work? Here is ground that has never been ploughed by any of the Anglo-Afri can race. There are ninety or a hundred thousand white persons in this neighbor hood, and I cannot help thinking thatthere is some who are our friends, but, withal, know that we have a great many ene mies among them; therefore, I hope that there will be some steps taken in this mat ter. We may put out a hundred news papers, yet they will not do any good in this part of the country, for it must be vis ited by some good and able men, who can speak on any and every subject. I am often asked, where are all your good speakers? Why don't they come up this way We would like to hear them. I hope that if any lecturer should make up his mind to visit us, he will let me know, so that T may provide a place for him and make other necessary arrangements. Let one come that can take hold of any sub ject. 0. R. W. BernvLeney, Pa., Dee. 12, 1859, LONG WINTER EVENINGS. Mr. Evror:—From a family circle where the Anglo-African” is read, I have received a letter, from which I copy the following extract:—“ My sister has com to join our family circle this winter, and we all intend to enjoy ourselves these lon winter evenings. We have formed a small society tor the purpose of improving our selves in reading, writing, compositions, and speaking, if any of the members wish to do so.” This is right. There should be a thou sand such circles formed in all parts of th country. Who will go and do likewise 7— A hint to the wise is sofficient.” Ho many homes may thus be made bright and pleasant! How much each mind may strengthened and developed, which by tongue and pen may instruet and benefit multitnde of immortal men. EsPERANCE. BE5™ A poor fellow says: “In am evi hour I became addicted to drink. Fr hat moment I have been going down, un til I have become an outecast,a loafer thing of no accout—fit for nothing else this earth but to be a member of Co gress.” PRICE FOUR CENTS. ARISE, THE DAY IS PASSING. i Arise, for the day is passing— While you lie dreaming on, Your brothers are cased in armor, And forth to the fight are gone Your place in the ranks awaits you— Each man has a part to play The past and the future are nothing In the face of stern to-day. 3 Arise from your dreams of the future, Of gaining a hard-fought field— Of storming the airy fortress, Of bidding the giant yield Your future has deeds of glory, Of honor, (God grant it may!) But your arm will never be stronger, Of needed as now to-day. Arise if the past detain you, 2 Her sunshine and storms forget No chains so unworthy to hold you As those of a vain regret Sad or bright, she is lifeless ever— Cast her phantom arms away, Nor look back save to learn the lesson Of a nobler strife to-day. Arise, for the hour is passing The sound that you dimly hear Is your enemy marching to battle— Rise rise! for the foe is near! Stay not to brighten your weapons, Or the hour will strike at last, And from dreams of a ecoming battle You will wake and find it past! GOOOD MOTHERS. ik e I was once on a visit at a gentleman’s house, in the town of Huntington, and my attention was arrested by a picture that hung in the dining-room. It represented an aged woman in a homely dress. Itl was not a fine work of art, and it boasted no decoration or pecaliarity, but that of extreme simplicity of delineation, yef my eye rested complacently on that good, calm face, with its thoughttul eyes, and kind mouth, that one almost expected to break into a smile. I looked at my host, he had similar bright dark eyes and open brow, and without asking, I was assured the pic ture, with t'e plain close cap and neat apron, represented his mother. Seeing my eyes fixed on the painting, my host came to my side as I stood gazing, and after a little pause, while a slight mist—it might be a gathering tear—dimmed his eyes, said half abstractedly, as though he was thinking aloud, “I know she was a sinner, because the Bible says all have fsinned, so of course she like the rest of us must have been been a sinner, but 1 ecan not call to mind a word or deed she ever said or did that was sinful.” I turned to him as he was speaking, and his eyes caught the inquiring look of mine. He' smiled and repeated, Yes, it’s true, my only knowledge that she was a sinner is, that the Bible says, ‘There is none righ teous, no, not one.” What a testimony I exclaimed, 00, that sy chile. cn could say the same of me!” _ These words ‘of my friend, a man not oiven to strong, stil! less to exaggerated expressions, sunk deep into my heart and led me to think a great deal more about mothers than I had ever previously done. ‘Reader, the best earthly blessing is a izood mother,and the greatest earthly curse is a bad one. Children may overcome the misery of a bad rather, but rare indeed, are the instan stances where they have escaped ruin when they have had a bad mother. Bat I have not the heart to write about bad mothers; it’s satan’s worst mischief—the mystery of iniquity. Let us comfort our souls as we travel life’s journey by think ing over some good mothers. George Stephenson, the great railway engineer, had a good mother. In all her poverty, and it was bitter, she was spo‘ken of as “araal caany body,” the highest praise her neighbors knew how to give.” Sir Humphrey Davy had a good moth er, one who encouraged him to study; one who during her widowhood devoted herself to her children, and taught them persever ance by her good example. Joseph Hume, P. M., the celebrated statesman, had a good mother. She was a widow in poor circnmstances, and kept a small pottery shop in Montrose, Scotland. She resolved her diligent boy should have a good education, and labored hard to give him every advantage when he istartesl in life. Whatever he learned in public life, he learned economy in private life, at his mother’s lowly home. In specially religious biography what a reat number of good mothers come to our remembrance. Mrs. Susannah Wesley had a family of nineteen children. Her hus band’s income was very limited, but her wisdom in managing her small means and large family, made the rectory at Epwerth a memorable dwelling. Here grew up ohn and Charles Wesley and many pious, rifted daughters. Eloquence, genius and spirituality flourished in that home, and ultimately spread from thence over the ength and breadth of the land. Great as were the gifts of nature bestowed on that family, the best gift was the geod mother. Dr. Isaac Watts had a good mother. When he was a little child his pious father was a prisoner at Southampton, for eon science sake, and he remembered his moth er carrying him in her arms to the gate of he prison, and weeping over him as she thought of her husband’s affliction. Those dark days of religious persecution passed way, and her son grew up, not only to bless and comfort his mother, but to m| sweet and holy strains for old and yonng i Dr. Doddridge had a good mother. He was the youngest child of a large family. Death had so often entered the dwelli and gathered the infant flowrets, that Mr Doddridge rejoiced with trembling overh

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youngest treasure. While she cared fo his body, she did not neglect his soul. The old Datch tiles round the fireplace ha Seripture stories painted on them, and th child, as he sat on her lap in the evening used to listen to his motler's voice, tellin him the customs of the holy men of old and God’s dealings with his ancient people. The boy grew to manhood, the mothe went to her heavenly rest, but those even ing hours were never forgotten. Whe Philip Doddridge became a teacher of truth and righteousness, his mother’s voic lingered in his ears, her words dwelt in his memory, her pious teachings throbbe in his heart, and made him in his tu zealous for the truth, and peculiarly forei ble and tender in writing for the young. Thank God for good mothers, may thei number be ever increasing.— Britis, Workman. @he Tlechly Anglo-African, NEW YORK, DECEMBER 24, 1859. I Advertisements for this paper must be ac. companied by the cash. I Copies of this paper can be purchased of th ncws-dealers everywhere. CALLING THE ROLL Some two years ago, when Senato Toombs, of Georgia, boasted that he woul yet “call the roll of his slaves beneath the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument,” h was answered by a shout of derision from the whole North. What was then an em 'ty boast is to-day a historic fact, to the ve |ry letter. Last week, within the shado of Bunker Hill monument,in Boston, with in the sound of the old Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, and this week in the gneiss rock of New York City,the “roll” has been ’“called" of the slaves of the South, and tens of thousands have answered with hum ble gladness, “Here, Massa Nay, mor —these well clothed slaves, fat and sleek have “sciouged” to have theirnames call l “fust)” in order to win an approving smil from the overseer and to merit the cond scending noticé of stern, “old massa.” To be sure, negro blood is not (know. ‘ingly) tainted with this damning disgrace, for these slaves of Boston, New York, an Philadelphia are all white males; but, as white man is at least as good as a negro the value and availability of these slaves cannot be gainsayed. There was Edward Everett, for exam: ple, a very aged but very faithful slave— old enough to be turned out, to live with out any more labor—who briskly crawls up, and answers loudest, in a voice which ‘age has spared. No one can question hi market value. Bonner gives him ten ‘thousand dollars for about two hundred hours’ work in one year. A most valuabl slave—almost of equal cash value with th old African servant of Terentins Lucanus who wrote—“ Homo sum huwmani niha alienum a me puto.” G There was Ex-Governor Lincoln—fo the slaveliolders of the South, wiser in thei day than the Romans of old, make thei slaves not only upper servants, stewards engineers, physieians, priests, bank presi dents, but even governors of provinces and occasionally presidents of the confede racy. Surely, Ex-Governor Lincoln is worth as much as any field-hand in Geor gia. There was Charles W. Austin, Collecto of the port of Boston—once famous for a free tea-party—a faithful and valuable ser vant, fully earning his peck of corn and three pounds of salt pork per week. In Philadelphia were two Ingersolls, old but “likely boys,” one of them bearing on his forehead the “short, emphatic word” which Daniel Webster seared in with a red hot iron. These prudent servants and their fellows, in answer to the “roll call,” spared “ole massa’s” feelings in their ad dresses and resolutions, by never once men tioning the name of Old John Brown, wise ly foreseeing that it would rouse the iron tongue over Independence Hall to “pro-1 claim liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof.” What an affecting proof of the loyal nature of the service which the patriarchal institution engen ders If the “roll calls” in Boston and Phila delphia brought up slaves of culture and scars, that in New York evoked men whose riches placed theg “On a throne whieh far outshone The wealth of Ormus or of Ind"— servants, several of whom could buy oneor two of the Southern States, and pay for them their market value in cash—yet an other touching feature of the “divine insti tution;” at thecrack of the whip there they are, not only shrieking out Here, Massa.” but compelling the children of their bodies, children with white bodies, children born with silver spoons in their mouths, to ran. sack the streets and alleys and slums of New York City to hunt up their fellow slaves to come to the “roll-call.” Surely Senator Toombs must be satis. fied; he has more than fulfilled his boast ed promise. He must, as a white man, spare the feelings of his fellow white men, by refraining to bring his black slaves to the North and place them on a level with his white slaves. He is too wise a man to do so unwise an act. The cool air an bracing winds which blow around Bunk Hill, and Concord, and Germantown, migh stir in their dark bosoms an inspiratio which would cause them to stretch fort their hands and break their shackles, and even redden the cheeks of the Everetts the Lincolns, the Austins, the Stewarts, th Ingersolls, and the Kings, with a dim per ception of the degiadation in -which the fester and stink in the nostrils of the civil ized world. THE LAST OF THE LXECUTIONS. The last of the barbarous Virginia exe. utions have taken place, and the great ag ny of semi-barbarian Virginia is for the present over. Green and Copeland, Coo and Coppic were by Virginian authorities, on the 16th inst., put to death in the sam manner as was their noble leader, Joh Brown, on the never-to-be-forgotten 2d o December, 1859. Virginia may now knock down h bloody scaffold, and pile it-away until she again has occasion for it. When this may be we shall not at present predict. It may be much sooner than she anticipates. If the putting to death of these men, who dared in the face of the whole fero cious South to throw themselves upon he: for liberty’s sake—that liberty which God has given to every man and which every man must yet surely have—have in this country—yea, even in Virginia—we sa if the object was to deter other Browns, and Cooks, and Greens, and Coppics, and Copelands from making infractions upon the infamous codes known as Virginian laws—Southern laws—then we affirm tha Virginia and those who believe with he are most wonderfully in error. Brown’s lite, as brought to light by this startling -transaction, and especially his death and the manner in which ‘he met it —the high religious eminence (not the Virginia scaffold) he occupied, and trom which on that memorable morning he-step ped, so to speak, from earth to heaven—so far from deterring, is likely to create thou sands of John Browns. Who does not see, notwithstanding all the fire, smoke, and brimstone attempted to be thrown round the fact, that it was a higher spiritual life attained by Brown, a higher communion with his Ged than is the lot of men of this age and country, wed ded as they are to the lusts of the world, which enabled him to count bullets, bolts, bars, chains, ropes, tortures, and cru elties of all kinds that tyraunts could com. mand, as but trifles as feeble as those who used them. These had no terrors for him. Not only so, but it was just such a life as not only carried a charm with it, but inspir all who associated with him to think feel, and act on the greatest and highest theme among men—that of human rights— just as he did. We are plainly told by their enemies even that his compatriots who were led to the scaffold on Friday last faced death without any signs of fear or the remotest indication of shrinking. Green and Copeland especially, say they,stepped forth with a firm step and a steady eye, evincing no signs of quaking. Men who are led to the gallows are net usually thus behaved, because no such high motives bring them there—no such feelings actuate them. It is this higher splriital life ia these stirring times in which we live that we need, and in the light of what is before us, must, by God’s help, strive to attain. We must seek and lead this higher life if we would triumph over the powers of the earth. It will give us direction in compar ative darkness, calmness amidst the bitter est turmoil, purpose and energy in every emergency, and, above all, determination and resignation in every situation, howev er trying, enabling us to meetgood, ill, dan zer, death with equal firmness. The scenes we may yet be called to go through require this state of preparation. Let us. seekl for it. WHITE SLAVESAND BLACK SLAVES. How humiliating must it be to every true American, and how dreadful must be that state of things in the country, and how deep seated must be the cause of all the difficulty—namely, American slavery —when the power that maintains and fos ters it, having from the commencement o the government up to to-day guided and conducted its affairs to their present erisis, now demands, openly and imperatively, the prostration in the dirt before it of the whole non-slaveholding portion of the American people This power now wields itself boldly forth, and attempts to crush out of the non slaveholding North, henceforth and forev r, every vestige of its sentiment, and its feeling, and its honest conviction in oppo sition to slavery. It demands the Nort t once to declare, unqualifiedly, the right ousness of slavery It bids it to stifle ev ery pulsation beating within it that i averse to this infamous behest. This slave power, in its gigantic strides has gone beyond the black man. He is but a secondary consideration. It no places its heel upon the white man, and compels him to do its bidding. True, it cracks the lash daily over the heads of fou millions of blacks, who cannot as yet help hemselves, not having yet snapped th hain that binds them; but it more vigor usly grasps with its fangs and drags down into the dirt we know not how many mil lions of whites, whose baseness is evinced by permitting it to be done. How mean, how low, how contemptible must that class of men be, who, having th power to resist, voluntarily submit to such degradation Yet suchis the fact. Thou nds of white men, calling themselvesfree re daily doing all sorts of dirty work a the mandate this slave oligarchy. Whit slaves, they are, moving with alacrity, apd bowing dov n, hat in hand, ready and wil ling to und artake any job their masters de mand. What a degrading spectacle has the world witnessed since John Brown thun ered at the gate of Old Virginia, and told er in unmistakable language of the hein usness of slavery and the necessity, im perative and immediate, of its abolition. At once the slave oligarchy issues its man ate. “Crush out the anti-slavery senti ment in the land,” say they. At once the lave power is brought to bear upon i white slaves, and they set themselves abou the work of crushing out as best they can. On their marrow-bones, in their endeavo to do it, they make speeches in Congres nd out of Congress; they traduce and de ounce honest men; they stultify thetruth; they resort to all manner of tricks to hin er organization and check public businessin the national council; they call meetingsin the leading cities of the North, and ther belch forth the slime that is in them, and 1l because they are the veriest of slaves. But all this does not yet satisfy their mas ters. By no means. “You shall not,” say they to their white slaves North, “hereaf ter allow men to be sent into the national ouneil who will not unqualifiedly endorse he righteousness of slavery, and support it. You shall not allow them to hold any of fice of importance in the government; and by no means, however fairly, upon consti tutional principles, he may promise to ad minister the government, no man who does not endorse fully ourpro-slavery sentiments and pledge himself to support slavery t the fullest extent, can be allowed,to tak the Presidential chair, though fairly enti tled to it by the suffrages of the American people. Whatidea can such men have of th Union about which we hear so much, and what manner of white men must be their laves, can better be imagined than ex pressed. Such is the humiliating state o things to-day, and it will be seen whethe these voluntary slaves are to force these behests of the South upon the North, and the South rule, as they ever have done, or, in the event of their failure, break up the overnment as they threaten, or whether} he free men and free sentiments of the North are to predominate, and drive back the infernal slave power as we would het most dreadful pestilence that ever threat ened the land. THE CHARLESTOWN TRAGEDY. THE EXECUTION OF MESSRS. GREEN, COPELAND, COOK AND COPPIC, ON THE 10TH INST. The prisoners were visited on the after noon of the 15th by the Rev. Mr. Nassau, Rev. Mr. Dutton and Rev. Mr. North, of the Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Bev erly Waugh, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The services in the cells were| participated in by all the condemned men. They all gave unqualified assent to the onvictions of religious truth, and each ex pressed hope of salvation in the waorld t come. iy Cook had been visited throughout his imprisonment by the Rev. N. Green North, at the request of the prisoner, as also o Governors Wise and Willard. Rev. Mr. North was present at an inter view between Coppic and Mr. Butler, a Quaker gentleman from Obio, who raised the prisoner. He describes the interview as an affecting one, and speaks highly of Mr. Butler’s christian deportment and ad vice to the prisoner. Mr. Butler says that Coppic was a trusty but very wilful boy. An uncle of Coppic, of the same name, from Ohio, his father’s brother, visited him also yesterday, the interview lasting over an hour. le seemed in much distress at the sad fate which awaited his relative. All apprehensions of an intended rescue had long since been banished, and nothing was thought of but the approaching execu tion, whilst the overflowing throng o strangers were hunting quartersfor thenight. The bar-rooms were all crowded with peo ple discussing the resignation of the pris oners to their fate, and so firmly had this conviction settled in the public mind, tha military duty was regarded as a bore, and the finale of the tragedy regarded as al most at an end, when, at a quarter past 8 o'clock, the whole town was thrown into commotion by the report of a rifle unde the wall of the jail, followed by several ther shots from the guard house, in clos proximity to the jail. The military were -alled to arms, and the excitement was in tense beyond anything that has yet oc curred during our ever memorable era of military occupation. Ina few minutes th streets and avenues of the town were in possession of armed men, and it was with some difficulty that the cause of all the turmoil could be obtained. Rumors of very description were afloat, and it was at| ne time thought that the prisoners had verpowered their guards and made thei escape, and then that an attack had been made on the jail by parties attempting to scue the prisoners. It was dangerous or a citizen to go out to ascertain the tru ause of the excitément, and rumors of a ost extensive character floated in to b ntradicted by momentary new arrivals o citizens driven in from the streets. The sentinel stationed near the jail re ported that at a quarter past eight o’cloc he observed a man on the jail wall. H hallenged him, and, receiving no answer red at him. Another head was also seen bove the wall, but he retreated as soon he first one had been fired at. The n the top of the wall seemed at first de termined to jump down, but the sentine eclared his intention of impaling him o he bayonet, and he then retreated into th jail yard and both gave themselves u ithout further resistance. It proved to be an attempt on the part of Cook and Coppic to escape. Cook afterwards remarked that if h could bave got overand throttled the guard e would have made his escape. henandoah Mountains are within te inutes run of the jail wall, and had h eachied them, with his thorough knowledg f the mountains, his arrest would hav en difficult, especially as but few of th oldiers could have followed him durin the night. The following is their statement in rela tion to the attempt: CHARLESTOWN, Dee. 16, 1859, Having been called upon to make a fai tatement in regard to the ways and mean f our breaking jail, I have agreed to do rom a sense of dnty to the Sheriff of th county, our jailor,and the jailguard. We o not wish that any one should be unjust ly censured on our account. The princi pal implements with which we opened a passage through the wall of the jail wer barlow knife and a screw, which we teok out of the bedstead. The knife was borrowed from one of th jail guard to cut a lemon with. We did not return it to him. He had no idéa o ny intention on our part to break out neither did the Sheriff, jailor,or any of the uard have any knowledge of our plans. We receivad no aid from any person or persons whatever. We had, as we sup posed, removed all the brick except the last tier, several days ago, but on theeven ing previous to our breaking out, we found ur mistake in regard to that matter. We had intended to go out on the even ing that my sister and brother-in-law were here, but 1 knew that it would reflect on them, and we postponed it—but I urged Coppic to go and I would remain, but h refused. We then concluded to wait. I got a knife lfbide from Shields Green, and with that made some teeth in the bar low knife, with which we sawed off our shackles. We had them off the night pre. vions to our getting out. Coppic went out first and I followed. We then got up on the wall, when I was-discovered and shot t. The guard outside the wall immedi ately came up to the wall. We saw there was no chance for escape, and as it was discovered that we had bro ken jail, we walked in deliberately and gave ourselves up to the Sheriff, Capt. Avis, and the jail guard. There was no person or persons who aided us in our es cape. 'This is true, so help me God. Signed, Jonx E. Cook, Epwix Corrrc. Gen. Taliaferro immediately telegraphed to Gov. Wise, informing him of the frus trated attempt of the prisoners. His answe directed that the military should imme diately take possession of the interior o the jail, and guard the prisoners until they were executed. THE EXECUTION OF COPELAND AND GREEN. _ At half-past ten o’clock of the morning of the 16th, Geeneral Talliaferro, with his staff, numbering about twenty-five officers, ha.ving given orders to prepare the two ne siu prisoners, Shields Green and John Copeland, for execution, took their depart are to join the main body of the troops on the field. The military then formed in a hollow square around the jail, and an open wagon containing the coffin of the prisoners drew up in front, with a carriage to convey Sheriff Campbell and his deputies. The crowd of citizens and strangers was very great—at least five times as numer ous as on the occasion of Brown’s execu tion—most of whom were already on the field, whilst others waited to see the pris oners come out. The religious ceremonies in the cell of the prisoners were very impressive, and were conducted by Rev. Mr. North, of the Presbyterian, and Rev. Henry Waugh, o the Methodist Episcopal Church. At a quarter before eleven o’clock, th prisoners, accompanied by the Sheriff and Rev. Mr. North, appeared at the jail door and, with their arms pinioned, moved slow ly forward towards the vehicle in waitin for them. They seemed downcast, and wore none of that calm and cheerful spirit evinced by Brown under similar circum stances. They were helped into the wag on, and took their seats on their coffins without searcely looking to the right o left. The escort now commenced to move, and the wagon was closely flanked on eith er side bya company of riflemen, marching in double file, lock step. At seven minutes before eleven o’clock the procession entered the field occupied by the military, and the prisoners cast shuddering glance towards the gallows, erected on the rising ground in its centre. In two minutes more the wagon stopped at the foot ot the gallows, and whilst the prisoners were alighting the companie orming the escort moved off to the posi tion assigned them on the field. The prisoners mounted the scaffold with a firm step, and were immediately ioined by Sheriff Campbell. After a brie prayer by the clergyman, the caps wer drawn over their heads, and the ropeswer: flixed around their necks. During th few moments they thus stood, Copeland remained quiet, but Green was engaged in earnest prayer up to the time the trap wa rawn, when they were both launched in o eternity. Green died very easy, his neck being broken by the fall. The motion of hi body was very slight. Copeland seemed to suffer very much, ond his body writhed in horrible contortions for several minutes. They were accompanied on the gallow by Rev. Drs. Waugh, North, and Leah, whom they bade an affectionate fare well, and expressed the hope of meetin hem in heaven. The bodies were placed in poplar boxes ried back to jail, and the following morn ing interred on the spot where the gallowsgh stood, although application had been madej or them by the colored citizens of Phila-§ delphia, as our readers were informed “in our correspondence of the 10th inst. EXECUTION OF COOK AND COPPIC. At about a quarter to twelve o’clock no tice was given to Cook and Coppic that their time was approaching, only one hou more being allowed them. The military movements, similar to those at the first ex ecution, were repeated, and the wagon, wi h two more coffins, was standing at thef door atjhalf-past twelve o’clock. The same military escort was in readiness while the losing religious ceremonies were progres sing in the cell. Since the failure of thei attempt to escape, their assumed compos-§ ure and apparent resignation had given way, and they now looked at their fate with the full convietion of its awful cer tainty. They were reserved and rathe quiet, but fervently joined in the religious eremonies conducted by Messrs. North, Leah, and Waugh. The prisoners conversed on a variety off übjects in the morning. Cook said to af# gentleman who addressed him that he ful-§ ly believed slavery was a sin, and that he believed it would be abolished in Virgini in less than ten years, and that by the people of Virginia. He was prepared to die in such a cause, and thought he had done nothing to regret so far as principle wss concerned. Coppic said that he feared he affair wasnot ended yet; that they had friends North who would not rest satisfied, he feared, till they had been avenged- Hef§ hoped, however, that the affair would.ends here forever. Previous to their departure for the scaf-§ fold, the prisoners were engaged in the en-§ trance washing their feet and putting on§ their under-clothing. Captain Avis said§ that if they had anythingtosay they might say it then, in the presence of fifteen orf twenty persons. Cook replied that he was grateful indeed for the kindness shown himfg by Sheriff Campbell, the jailor, and the guards; to the Rev. Messrs. Waugh, North Littell, Leach, and the other ministers whof had manifested such interest in his well fare, and Messrs. Joseph Blessing and John J. Cocke, as well as the citizens general-§ ly, for their kindness to him he was very grateful. At this point Coppic looked up, and said, ‘“Them’s my sentiments too, gen tlemen.” Cook then gave directions in re zard to one or two articles—one, a breast pin, he did not want taken off then or at the scaffold. He wished it given to his wife, or to his boy, if he lived. Within his shirt-bosom, on the left side, was a da~ guerreotype and lock of his son’s hair, which he wished given to his wife. Both requested that their arms should not be pinioned tight enough to stop the circula tion af the blaad, which was camplied with {A blue cloth talma was thrown over Cop pic, and a dark one over Cook. During these proceedings Coppic was struggling #to keep down his emotions, and Cook was striving to be calm. The Quaker gentle fmen then remarked that “It was hard to die,” to which Coppic responded: “It is §the parting from friends, not the dread of death, that moves us.” On the way down Bstairs, they were allowed to advanceto the cell of Stevens and Hazlitt, and bid them farewell. They shook hands cordially, and Cook said to Stevens, “My friend, good bye.” Stevens replied, “Good bye— cheer up; give my love to my friends in the other world.” Coppic also made a re mark to Stevens, which was unheard by the crowd; but Stevens replied, “Never mind.” Both then shook hands with Haz litt, and bade him “Good bye,” but did not call him by name. On emerging from the jail, Cook recognized several gentlemen, and bowed politely. When called upon by the Sheriff, they stood calm and quietly whilst their arms were being pinioned, and after bidding farewell to the guards at the jail, were Ehelped into the wagon, and took seats on ftheir cofins. Their appearance was rath fer of hopeless despair than of resignation, and they seemed to take but little notice of anything, as the procession slowly mov ed on to the field of death. On approach ing the scaffold, Cook shook haunds with 2 large number of persons, and bowed po litely to Mayor Green. After the caps had been placed on their heads, Coppic turned towards Cook and stretched forth his hand as far as possible. At the same time Cook said, “Stop a min ate—where is Edward’'s hand They then shook hands cordially, and Cook said, “God bless you.” The calm and collected manner of both was very marked. The wagon reached the scaffold at thir teen minutes belore one o’clock, and the prisoners ascended to the platform with a firm determination that was scarcely sur passed by Captain Brown. A brief pray er was offered up by one of the clergymen the rope was adjusted, the cap drawn, and both were launched into eternity in seven} minutes after they ascended the gallows. They both exhibited the most unflinch ing firmness, saying nothing with the ex- Eception of bidding farewell to the ministers and Sheriff. After the rope was adjusted Cook exclaimed, “Be quick—as quick as possible which was also repeated by Cop ic. After hanging for about half an hour, both bodies were taken down and placed in black-walnut coffins prepared for them. That of Cook was placed in a poplar box abelled and directed as follows: “Ash bell P. Willard and Robert Crowley, 104 William street, New York—care of Adams‘ Express.” Coppic’s body was placed in a ®similar box, to be forwarded to his mother, @in lowa. w Mome Corvespondence§ e OUR PHILADELPHIA LETTER. E Pmaprireiia, Dee, 19, 1859, g Mr. Epiror:—Last week was a very ventful one in the history of our city, asll Fvill be seen by the account which I shall endeavor to furmish. Mr, Samuel M. Smith lectured before the Philadelphiaj Library Company on Tuesday eveningg last, on Friendship,” which was well} written, well -delivered, and highly ap- 3 plauded. This was one of the regular lec-§ tures at Central Hall, and was a well se-B lected subject. When the lecture was con cluded the following question was discussed by Messrs. I. C. Wears and U. B. Vidal in the affirmative, and John C. Bowers and David B. Bowser in the. negative:§ ‘Would the success of the Republican party in the present convass be advanta geous to our cause?” This question elicit ed many facts bearing upon the polities o the country, and was very interesting. On Tuesday last the Anti-Slavery So iety commenced holding a fair and con-§ vention at Concord Hall, but by somes strange procedure on the part of the lessee,§ the hall was closed against them, wheng they removed to the Assembly Buildings,§ Tenth and Chestnut streets, where their§ proceedings were continued, I believe, without any serious interruption. It i supposed that the lessee of Concert Hall isz Locofoco, a wnion saver, and had the hall losed under the pretense ihat he feared af iot, as speeches were made against the Union, but the full particulars I am not i possession of—they will doubtless appearg in the next issue of the Anti-Slavery Standard.” Geo. W. Curtis, Esq., being advertised§ to lecture at National Hall on the pre sent aspect of the slavery question,” on} Thursday evening, appeared, and perform ed the task under many disadvantages. A meeting was called by the unterrifiedg emocracy in Market street, directly op-8& posite the hall where Mr. Curtis was to speak, and which was to have been organ ized a half hour earlier than the one at Na-f tional Hall. Mayor Henry ordered 500§ police officers to the scene of contemplatedi@ riot, and went himself inside the hall. Judge Kelly presided at the meeting in side the hall, and introduced Mr. Curtis,s§ who most eloquently summed up our griev ances and the remedy, as he understood them. An attempt was made to hiss him@ down and prevent him from finishing lecture, but by the prompt action of the police, some of the disturbers were arrest-§ ed, while others were quieted by the offi-% cer’s presence. The mob commenced their work of destruction by throwing stones in# through the windows of the hall. They relled and screamed like madmen, while§ their leaders harangued thom from the tops of lamp-posts and hogsheads. A bot-} tle of oil of vitrol was thrown into thef§ crowd inside the hall, to the detriment of silks and broadcloth; one individual had bis eye impared by it, which, I believe, was the most serious result of the affair; another gentleman, with whom I am ac quainted, a merchant in Chestnut street, had a twenty dollar coat spoiled by thef liquid. He tried to restore it by an appli cation of aqua ammonia, but it had not the desired effect. The freedom of speech was maintained against mob violence. Mr. Wm. Still had a hearing before Al erman Hibbard on Friday last, upon a charge of libel preferred by Mrs. Ellen B. Wells, of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Still was¥ held in $5OO bail to appear before th court and answer the charge. He had en eavored to expose her as an impostor fo trying to raise money to buy her motherg and sister. She seems to be well fortified with documents. On Friday last a meeting was held in the little Wesley Church in First street, to onsider certain matters in connection with Harper’s Ferry affairs. Mr. Geo. W. Gaines was chosen President, and Mr. D. D. Turner as Secretary. The meeting being organized, a committee previously ap pointed retired to consult over matters. There had heen a meeting in the morning t the church, and certain business given then to do to be reported in the evening. These gentlemen werepart of a committee appointed at Shiloh Baptist Church on the 2d inst., whose duty it was to request the bodies of Copeland and Green (in the event of their being executed) for decent inter ment in the North. Their letter, request ing Gov. Wise to grant the bodies having ppearedin the Ledger” of the 16th inst.; it was taken up and discussed before the committee’s report was brought in. The follov.ing is the letter, as it appeared in the Ledger”: PuiLapzirmia, Dee. 8, 1859, To His Excellency, Gov. Wise, of Vir cinia Dear Sir:—Having learned wlth rreat satisfaction of your generous and hu mane conduct, in granting the bodie of the unfortunate, misguined men wh ell at Harper’s Ferry, to their friends in their respeetive States, for burial, has created within us the flattering hope, and he belief that the noble dignity of charac er, and the magnanimity of soul that you have always manifested, would secure t ns from you a similar favor. We, therefore, humbly ask that you will grant to us, in the event of their be ng hung, the bodies of Shields Green and ohn Copeland, to be transmitted to us fo fespectable interment. We need not, sir, argue to you, with cour keen sense of the sympathy of the hu Fhan heart and of the pure, undying love inherent and peculiar alone to our race; #we need not, we repeat, offer to you any thing in extenuation of vur presumption in making this leques:. i We plead further, dear sir, the interven ion of yonr executive influence in behalf f these poor, miserably misguided men. Whatever may have been the impulses hat moved them to this desperate act of self-destruction, it must be remembered hat they are one, in identity of interest, omplexion, and of national proseription with the men whose liberty they sought to jsecure, 1 Sir, when you remember that for two of the counts charged againt them, in the gindictment of the Grand Jury, it is impos. isible, after a critical examination of law, to com.'ict them, solely on the ground of their having no part or lot in the common bles. sings of this confederacy, save by suffer. ance, not by right. When you remember, sir, that these men were driven to desperation by pro seriptive laws, which your own manheod fwould never tolerate or submit to, if ap plied to your own race, and that even your own acts, speeches and example have taught them these sacred lessons—iove therty, hate slavery. When you remember, sir, that all these things may have operated upon their minds as an incentive, driving them into fithe ranks of Capt. Brown, do they not pre. gsent strong arguments in the exteuuation fof their guilt, and may they not justly fclaim the interposition of Kxecutive cle mency in their behalf? We have Leard, that you, at one time, thought it reasonable to commute the sen tence of one of the culprits (Coppic) Whatever may bave led you to such a conclusion, or caused your radical and de cisive change of determination on this sub. iect, we indulge the hopegthat Heaven, and a clear consciousness of right may dictate to you more potent claims than we are able ito offer, in favor of a commutation of the sentence of these poor men. j§Bßut, sir, we request again (that in the event of their being hanged and paying the forfeiture of their lives for Virginia’s violated law) that you grant to us, their friends and brethren, the privilege of pay ing the last sad tribute of respect to the memory of men, who have recklessly torn themselves from home and friends, to die friendless amid tne reproach even of an en lighted Christian community. Humbly and hopefully awaiting your reply, we subscribe ourselves, severally, your obedient, humble sgrvants, A. M. GreEx, J. P. CampBELL, JEREMIAH ASHER, Hon. H. A. Wisg, Richmond, Va. Mr. Packer 'l'. Smith offered the follow ing resolution: Resolesd, That the letter which appeared in the “Ledger”” of this morning, requesting of Gov. Wisc the bodies of Copeland and Green, does not meet the approbation of the colored citizens of Philadelphia. The letter was reprobated in the strong fest terms by Messrs. Parker T. Smith, ißobert. M. Turner, John W. Sinipson and Jacob C. White, Sr., and defended by the committee alone. The language in the petition which grates so harshly upon the ear are the words misguided men who fell at Harper’s Ferry.” Why this cring ing to a man who robs cradles of its in mates and holds aged men in unrequited Btoil 7 1 would not cater to the prejudices of a man-stealer for the purpose of baving a favor granted, and the man who does has my disapprobation. After much discussion an ineffectual motion was made to indefi nitely postpone the matter, in order to hear the report of the committee, but the {dcbate was opened anew and continued for some time, when another motion to post pone was carried. The committee’s report was then read, and adopted by unanimous acclamation, ex cept the resolution to discharge them, which was lost, in view of the pending re solution of disapprobation. The following is the committee’s report: d Whereas, We behold in the late transaction at Harper's Ferry, and the noble and heroie eondue! of Captain John DBrown, Oliver and Watson Brown, his sons, Aaron B. Stephens, John E. Cook, Edward Coppie, Shields Green and John Copeland and their associates in this grand tragedy, the most noble development of pure de votion to the eause of human liberty and equal rights; and Whereas, It is our sineere opinion that the ause of freedom, human elevation, and pure and undefiled religion, is advanced by every such de monatration in any partof the world, and in bebalf of any portion of oppressed humanity therefore Ress.ced, That we hold ever in memory and by proper demonstration the return of the several lays on which the bLlow was truck at Harper's Ferry, and those men were sacrificed on the altar of freedom for theirlove and devotion tothe cause of religion and truth in this eountry, viz; Oct. 16ths Dec. 2d, and Dee. 16th, and that those days or sueh of them as shall be determiged upon,shall be celebrated as the anniversary of new era of the anti-slavery movement,and the true birth of the ir repressible conflict that shall be rocked in the cradle of American polities, North and South, un till every vestige of this hydra-headed monster shall be expunged from our escutcheon and the be loved soil that gave it birth Resolved, That as we experienee wmueh ingon venience from the fact that most of our church literature is made by men who sympathize with the system of slavery, we resommend the adop tion of such revisement as shall more eonvenient ly meet the requirements of our religion and ad vaneced state of publie opin'on on the slavery question. J. P. CAMPBELL, JEREMIAH ASHER, Committes. A. M. GREEN, T'here was a committee of five ministers appointed to carry out the Jast resolution, s follows: Revs. Jeremiah Asher, Jabez P. Campbell, J. C Gibbs, Wm. Vaughan, and W. D. W. Schureman., At a late lhour the meeting adjourned. The Rev. Jonathan C. Gibbs was to have delivered an eulogy upon the charac ers of the Harper’s Ferry heroes on Fri day evening, but Dr. Jonathan Davis, the ianitor of the hall, refused to open it unless the committée would assure him that po eport should go out from the meeting, lest the hall should be burned. The hall was Bregularly engaged and part paid for in ad- Byance, but the janitor imagined there W&*

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danger, and would run the risk of being# sued for damages than risk opening th hall for a Brown sympathy meeting. Itis an outrage upon the publie, and I venture to say that the Banneker Institute willg never apply for it again for any purposef whatever. There are a few men in this§ country with back-bones, and I wonder® what they think of these things? For my own part I am heartily ashamed, and weres it not my legitimate duty, I would show@ the disgrace of Philadelphia. As a chron-] icler of events, I am bound in honor tog give them as they occur. i The number of deaths reported to the§ Board of Health last week-was 206, 5 of which were colored. B I learn with pleasure that the ladies of the Israel M. E. Church intend holding a¥ fair during the holidays, the proceeds of which will go for the benefit of the church.§ It is a praiseworthy object, and I hope they may be successful. BANNEKER. OUR REW HAVEN LETTER. NEw Havex, Dee. 19, 1859 Dzar Axgro: —The Northern-doughface- Southern-lickspittle-Union-saving-meeting, was held here last Wednesday evening, the 14th iust, and passed off just as T pre dicted in my last. The call, with about 700 or 800 names attached, was published in the Register and News,” the organ of the cotton-democracy of this city. In the list of signers were all the O'Flahertys McDonoughs and O'Brady’s that the Emer ald Isle has spawned upon our shores, and thrown up as far as the City of Elms’ A United States District Judge was the mouthpiece of the slave power, and made the sycophantic speech of the occasion, and was followed in the same strain by an ex- Missouri slave-holder, who is now a prac ticing attorney in our city. But amid this general degeneracy o Northern politicians aud Northern mer chantsin making such obsequious obedience to the slave power, it is very gratifying to know that we have some men in our midst who will not bow the knee to Baal nor im molate their principles to the Moloch of slavery. 'T'here are some men of sterling stuff among us, who could not be scared or driven to sign the call or participate in this meeting by the crack of the slave-driver's whip. Among those few in Sardis who would not thusdefile their garments, I may mention Geo. Baldwin, Gov. Dutton, Judge loster, Stephen D. Pardee, Marcus Merriman and Henry B. Harrison. Al Lonor to those brave men, for they are an evideuce that however far gone mankind are from original righteousness, as the 39 articles of the Church of Ingland express the consequence of Adam's fall, yet hu manity is not totally depraved, as the iron reformer of Geneva would have us believe. There was another meeting held here last Wednesday evening, in the Zion f Church, to sympathize with the Harper's Ferry suflerers. But since their proceed “ings have been developed, it is understood that an anti-slavery society was conceived and organized at that meeting. Now 1 bid those gentlemen Godspeed who parti cipated therein, and hope they will go and do all the good they can. But lam com pelled in justice to the rest of the New Haven public, to make some exceptions to their hasty, ill-advised and precipitate ac tion. DBut very few knew that a Harper’s Ferry sympathy meeting was called; and still fewer imagined that an anti-slavery society was to be conceived and rushed through at the meeting. 'There are many who would have been glad to have testified their unwavering fidelity to fregdom by be ing present,and participating in the organ ization ot such a society; and it was due to them that the notice should have been more general specific and mature than wha it was. Such a society ought not to be organized to serve a private, personal o party end, but should have the general good in view. And if an anti-slavery so ciety succeeds at all among our peopie, i must have the spontancous co-operation of the whole, without respect to party or| creed. But it cannot command this co operation if it is one-sided organization, intended to give popularity to any one particular church or class of persons in so ciety. Now I cannot say that the friends who organized this society, with a haste more immoderate than the Virginia courts tried and condemned John Brown and his com patriots, were really actuated by such nar row and sinister views; but their action looks so much like it, that it will be hard to pétsuade the mass of people otherwise. I hope, however, that if such were their views, that further experience will giv them repentance and better minds, as w are taught to pray in the old English litany. The proceedings of this meeting, I beiieve, are to be sent for publication in the Anglo.” I understand the Rev. Amos G. Beman is to eat his Christmas dinner in New Haven, whether the Rev. Mr. Catto doe or not, and he will assist the Rev. Mr. Washingtonand perhaps the Rev. Mr. Stan ford in the religious solemnities of tha double festival, the 25th inst. being both the Feast of the Nativity and the Lord’ day also. We are glad to see that th coldness and indifference ef a few wh ought to know better, does not discou the reverend gentleman from visiting hi old familiar field of labor. Perhaps, bj thus fulfilling his Christian duty,God may have mercy upon Lis enemies, persecuto and elanderers, and turn their hearts, and ;hus bring down an answer from heavento Sanother pv:itinn offered np i the Eaoglish liturgy. Everybody in our midst are all astir it anticipatiou of the great Masonic festivitie: gthat take place here next week. The cel- Sebration is the all-absorbing event of the Sholidays in New Haven, as nothing els: #excites so much attention. Preparations Eare being made in many of the surround #ing towns on the part of many persons tc iho present on this occasion, and we expec: to see a goodly representation from your #city also. OBSERVER. D LETTER FROM ALBANY. ALpaNY, Dee. 17, 1859 Dear Avoro:—Snow, with some pinching jcold weather, has been the order of the day here for two weeks past; butit was receiv fed with evident pleasure by many; as it gcreatly allayed the ravages of that dire disease, the small pox, of which in the lower part of the city there have been se ivere cases; while in the upper part that equally fatal disease, the putrid sore throat. Bhas made sad havoe among the youthful @portion of the community, and within a fjfew weeks ‘past many an one has had fit Bcause to join in with the poet’s mournful o lfly: Death has been here and borne sway, A loved one from our side.” 3 First, there was the daughter of Mr. Mat -8 hews; then, Mr. Francis Douge, a former fresident, whose remains were brought from Northfield, Vt., for interment; then, the Blittle daughter of Mr. Robt. Jackson, afte Bonly a week’s illness; then, Mrs. Barbers; Bwhile some now lie on the bed of affliction, #hut it is believed with fair prospects of re gcovery. The Masons of our sister city, Troy, are g naking extensive preparations for a grand flestival, in common with their brethren through the States, in honor of their patron saint, on Iriday next; your correspondent has received a very pressing invitation, but if present at all, it will only be in the ca pacity of reporter” for the Anglo.” It promises to be a grand affair, and both this flodge, and its younger sister in this city, have increased greatly since their organiza tiong while, per contra, the Odd Fellows, once so thriving, are dying out. The “Irrepressible Conflict Society” are preparing to labor in earnest in the great work which they have undertaken. I'hey propose to keep up the agitation so ddreaded by the South, by publishing tracts, written expressly for them, speech es, &ec.,and the delivery of a regular course of lectures, by such intellectual giants as §Garnet, Watkins, Loguen, Pennington. Reason, Martin, &c., who are universally conceded to be far ahead of their Anglo i>2xon brethren, because so many of them gspeak from experience, not only what they have scen, but what their frames have /7 River navigation is ended for the season, faud it is with the utmost difficulty the fer ry boats belonging to the railroads are :tML“ to keep a passage open;in a day or two it will be entirely blocked by massive cakes of floating ice, and the noble lind §<on will be alive with traffic the same as if] on terra firma. The ladies of the Wesleyan Church fzave a fine entertainment for their benefit, §a week since, which was well attended by both white and colored. {i Your correspondent had the pleasure o an hour'’s interesting conversation the other, day, with Mr. one of a party of six teen, who went from to Harper’s Fer §ry, to strike a blow for libeliy; and al fthough the attack was made when they reached there, and although Virginia's slaves are not yet free, yet, thank God, his entire party, and thirty others, who went to fight for freedom, though their noble leader is dead, are now enjoying freedom in reality, where no chains are ever heard clanking on humanity. Listen, ye that have hearts Listen, ye advocates of sla very Listen, ye that scorn and desecrate fthe name of John Brown and his mission §Llcar his sad tale—placz yourselves in his stead, and then ask yourselves what you should do. Sir, I went there to fight for §{reedom; I went to sacrifice my life; I had Bdetermined beforeband to die, and had committed my soul toheaven’s care. Long had I been waiting such a time, and my heart burned within me. I have seen my own mother torn from my side, with nursing babe on her bosom, exposed to the, rude gaze of the people, manacled, drove, whipped, until the soil has been red with blood, and dare not lift my tongue. 1 have seen my sister torn from me, put on the auction block, and sold like a beast from me, while her moans would have al most moved the very earth itself! I hav seen my little brother, just able to walk, torn from my.mother’s side, and separated forever; and my sorrows, oh! they are too greatto tell. Examineme, sir,if you please let my body speak; and sir, because of all this, burned for revenge, and arose deter mined to give one blow for liberty, or diein the attempt, but by some oversight, the con flict began too soon, and when wearrived in sight, we saw the military hounds, and mad ourselves one glorious, successful leap fo liberty. Nor is my work yet done. This, sir, is not the end; and whenever liberty’s army shall call for vol unteers, never shall the arm of R—— be spared. I could not die a bet ter death, for it is better to die than livei the horrors of slavery.” Who will say then but that God himse] was working and overruling his instro ments in cleansing blood-stained Virginia when, despite all, in the time that L |city also Cclapsed since the outhreak, Oct. 16, no les: han nisety have reached free soil from Virginia alone, while Maryland and other States, too, have mourned over lost pro erty. The news of Mrs. Brown’s illness ha caused a feeling of deep regret and sym. pathy, and many and fervent have been ‘he prayers to the Almighty in her behalf. We are preparing some more guns up here, which we shall soon light and let Iy, the echoes of which shall resound not mly through the political, but the moral atmosphere. More anon. T. D. M. Hartrorr, Dee. 7, 1859. Mr. Epitor:—On the last Sunday eve ning in November the able, eloquent and talented young Liberian, W. Burns E2sq., of the University of Middletown, de livered a very fine historical address onthe ancient great men of Africa, in the lecture room of the Pearl street Methodist Episco pal Church. The lecture was listened to by a large and attentive audience. I saw by your very valuable paper o the 26th of last month, that the Rev. A. G. Beman was to deliver two or three lecturcs in New Haven last week on sub iects of very great interest to the disabled Americans, (so called by one of the lead ing young men of this city). I hope ou {riend B. will soon make his appearance in this city, and give us the benefit of thos lectures. We have with us at present the Rev Henry B. Stewart, of Liberia, who has been here for a few days, collecting money to build a church edifice in Greenville, Alfrica. The reverend gentleman has met, with good success thus far; coming into our city rather late on Saturday and it bein very stormy, he did not get an invitation to speak or preach in either of the churches. We are soon to have an entertainmen here, to be given by the Excelsior Lodge, No. 16,0 f F. A. M. ANONYMOUS. 1 vrm——— A G Sy e LECTURE BY REV. A. A. CONSTAN TINE, IN BROOKLYN. Mr. Epitor:—The Rev. A. A. Constan tine lectured on Sabbath evening,the 11th inst., in Siloam Church, (Rev. A. N. Free man pastor.) After the preliminary ser vices, the pastor introduced Mr. Constan tine as a brother laboring with heart and hand for the civilization of Africa. Mr. Constantine commenced his lecture by guotations from the Bible, showing that the descendants of Ham first peopled Afri ca, and that they soon became the_greatest natioh on the face of the earth. He then turned to the outline of Africa, which wa behind him, and pointed out the river Eu phrates, saying that, by the Prophet Isa iah, God bad pronounced a curse upon the LRgyptiaus in those wourds— Wo 1o th land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,” &c.—[sa ‘ah, chap. 18, verses 1 and 2.] This curse was the result of God’s displeasure at the idolatry of the Egyptians. To confute the arguments of those who believed the cuise permanent, he quoted the 20th verse of] the 10th chapter of Isaiah. The lecturer| said his object in introducing these remarks was to show the fallacy of the reasonings of those who believed it was and® eve would be in vain to attempt to remove the curse or its affects. His opinion was that Africa would yet be the first in greatnes: of all the nations of the world. The speaker then related anecdotes o the natives, illustrating their susceptibility to religious impressions, and- their aptness in imitating. The natives of Afijca hebe lieved to be superior, mentally,’ morally, and physically. He urged the necessity of sending God-men trud’—as the natives call the true Christian missionary—to Af rica, to effect good, as -the natives wen keeunly alive to the difference between true and false Christian actions on the part o their teachers. He then spoke of the cotton trade, say ing that England a few years ago estab lished an agency near the mouth of the river Niger, and sent out a hundred cotton gins. Lleven thousaud pounds of cotton were produced. More gins were then sent to the depot, and last year one hundred thousand pounds was the result. The na tive chiefs, finding the cotton trade so pro fitable, have, with the assistance of the English government dnd the Christian mis® sionaries, nearly abolished the slave trade. Cotton grows in that country wild, and so bundantly as to be inexhaustible but the trade need not be confined to cotton, for the fertility of the soil and the mineral riches of the country, together with its ac dssibility from all points, renders it unpar alleled for commercial purposes. The lecturer then ‘made a stirring a peal to the audience to assist the African Civilization Society’s efforts in Africa, say ing that by the civilization of that country and the development of its commercial powers, the slave-trade would be broken own, and slavery done away with. He losed by presenting a book for subserip tion for any amount, $25 making the do nor a life member. i The tenor of Mr. Constantine’s lectur was that Africa is to be the instrument fo the destruction of slavery in this country. nd the elevation of the colored people. When he retired, Mr. Wm. J. Wilson begged to have a few questions answered to wit: “Can one hundred of our colored men, the best selected, compete, in a com mercial point, with any one hundred men to-day in Abeokuta?” “Can men livin in extreme tropical latitudes equal th in temperate latitudes in physical and in-i tellectual powers 17 “Is pot Africa rather adapted to its own inhabitants, and inimi-i cal to the men of this climate, white and black, and can black men of this climate stand the climate of Africa any better than white men?” “Is it expedient, in the un settled state of the people of color in this country, that there should be auny general movement towards Africa 7—are not all the means, talents, &c., needed just bere at this erisis?” “What is the difference be tween African civilization and African col onization 7”7 Mr. Constantine acknowledged the im portance of these questions, and said if he had a half hour longer he could give the required answers; but time would not at present permit. He commenced again a description of the beauties of Africa, con suming sufficiént time to have answered all the questions propounded, but failed to make any further reference to them. When he had finished, Mr. J. 0. Morel arose, and in a vigorous off-handed speech depicted the necessity for action at home, saying jamong other things that he had seen in the Southern States old African grandmothers teaching little naked immor talsto pray; and if the same sight in Afri ca was an inducement for such efforts as the African Civilization Society was mak ing, he thought the efforts should be much greater at our own doors. He did not be lieve in going so far to do good when so much remains to be done at home. The idea of breaking down slavery by the so ciety’s theory was a mistake. The civiliz ation taught by John Brown was the true one to eradicate that evil. He, however, would not counsel violence, but simply the destruction of the slave system, doing jus tice though the heavens fall. Mr. Morel’s speech, although but a few minutes in duaration, concentrated an amount of logic which produced in the civ ilization advocates unmistakable evidence of their dislike of the appearance of the “critter,” forcing Mr. Constantine to again come forward; but being without argument to confute the reasoning of Mr. Morel, he resorted to sarcasm, and when Mr. More' interrupted him, Mr. Freeman called the gentleman to order, and shut off further‘ controversy by saying that this was not the time and place for discussion of this subject. lat first could not perceive why the time and place were not suitable. The fobject of the lecturer was to get pecuniary aid on the spot; hence I ignorantly sup posed that if the time and place were suit able for that purpose it was equally so tol have a little light thrown on the subject by discussion, thus enabling the donors to give intelligently. REPORTER. o Sy e Hovuipay Presexts.—lf yon are desirous or getung a lasting and appropriate pres ent for your family or friends, call at Bos.‘ ton and Lyon’s Gallery, 4 Beach street, and procure one of their beautifully execu ted pictures. We have before us a like. ness of our “items-man,” and as a speci. men of art we prounounce it ne plus witra. and a fine representation of this winuiugl youth. Don’t forget to call on Boston Lyons. Wae have received from the artist, D. R. tHutchison, 122 Fulton street, a correct Ambrotype likeness of the martyr Brown, set ina gold pin. They can be procured for only one dollar. 4 B e e A Pysric Meerive of the colored citizens of Williamsburg and their friends will be beld atthe Rev.Wm.J. Hodges’ church, cor ner Broadway and 18th street, on Monday evening, 26th inst., at 74 o’clock, to réply to the unchristian and infamous sentimeunts expressed by Charles O’Connor and others at the Union meeting at the Academy of] of Music. The funeral sermon on the death of John Copeland and Shields Green will be preach ed at the same place on Sunday afternoon, (Christmas,) by Rev. Wm. J. Hodges. All the friends of humanity are invited to at tend. eGt e The Rev. Henry M. Wilson, en rou/eto visit his aged father, now 89 years of age, spent Sunday the 18th inst. in Philadel phia, and preached in the First African Presbyterian Church (Rev. J. 0. Gibbs) in the afternoon. e 4 Mr. Cyrus G. Catchins, a respectable lcolored citizen of Philadelphia, died on Wednesday afternoon, Dec. 14, of con sumption, and was buried on Sunday, at noon, from his late residence, Lombard St., above Seventh. e MARRIED: Browsx—Brrey.—ln this city, Deéc. 16th, by Rev. D. DorrelleMr. Stephen A.%rown and Miss Susan E. Buley, both of this eity. ——m——— DIED. Jovgs.~ln New Haven, on the 16th inst, Serah ones, wife of John Jones Baltimore papers pleasq copy. R R LNSA TN HE HOLIDAY FAIR.-THE COM- T mittee of ladies would most respectfully an sounee to the Ladies and Gentlemen of Brooklyn and vieinity, that t}:ey I;nil i“;:d in ST.PAUL'S CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Rev. Geo. Washington Levere) cor. Hudson and D 0 B OESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1859, and close on lATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1859 Apuissioy, Six Cents. N.B.—The FAIR TEA will be on Thursday evening. Jan. sth, 1860, at the same place. Tick ets, 88 Cents each, to be had of the Committee The proeeeds are for the benefit of the above nnmeg Chureh. The se¢ 'nd annual donation visit‘ R e VFEnd's;flulndbeFrig:;’,gDec. 29t and oth, at bis sidence, 44 De Kalb Avenue. 23-It. Special Hotices. e() st First Anniversaryof th Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society, in Xenia, Ohio, anuary 3, 1860. The Olio State Anti-Slavery Society’” will 'hold its first annual meeting in the City of Xenia, iTuesday. January 8, 1880, commencing at o'clock, A. M. All friends of Freedom and Humanity, withou regard to sex or color, are earnestly invited to be present and aid us with their counsels. The friends of the Slave must meet together a this important crisis. Let every oounty, city an village be fully represented. Miss Franges E. WarTEINs, H. F. DotgLass, War Lace SHELTON, and other epeakers of distinetion, both ceolored and white, will be present. By order of the Executive board:— J. M. Langston, John I Gaines, Horrice Morris, D. Jenkins, John Malvin, James C. Oliver, J. D. Harris, Jesso W. Divine, E. P. Walker. C. H. Laxastox, See. Ex. Board. ADVERTISEMENTS. RiENTAL HOLIDAY, ul First grand MELODRAMA AND TABLEAUX, will be perforined by the members of the “Osa watomie Debating Society,” under the direetion of Mr. T. 8. BOSTON, on FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 80, atthe METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 1178 Prince street, for tae benefit of the Anglo-Af rican Reading Rooms Tickets adwitting a lady and gentleman, 25 cents; single tickets 15 cents—to be had at the door on the evening of the drama. Doors ope at 7 1-2 o'clock, drama to e»mmence at 8. N. B.—Should the weather be unfavorable, the drama will be postponed until the next fair even ing. ORDER OF TABLEAUX. {Prologue, (original) by T. S. Boston. Quartette, by Glee Club., No, I.—Tableaun, Mediation, by a lady, Declamation, by a member: No, 2—Mausie, instrumental. No. B—Tableau, The Beautics of Married Life. 3 Address, by a member. Duett. NYo. 4—Tablean, The Serenada. First part, (ac eompanied wilh musie,) the vow, Deelamation, by a member. Solo, by a lady, “Marrying for Money.” No. 6--Tablean, the Stingy Traveler. PART 1L Quartette, by the Glee Club, No. 6—Tableau, The Eovers’ Confab. Scene in first part, “the engagement,”” *the intended.” Musie, piano. Address, by a member. No. 7=~Tableaux, Taking the Veil. Scene Ist, taking leave of friends; scene 2d, the ceremony, accompanied with musiae. Solo, by a ladv. Declamation, by a member. No, B—Tablean, The Mock Wedding. Scene Ist, the ceremony; scene 2d, interruption, Duet. Address, by a member. No. B—Tableau, Inconvenience of Single Life. Solo, by a lady The whole to conclude with the laughable ta ble entitled Confusion, or Blind Man’s Buff. Scene lst. the eveuing party; scene 2d, the play. O R. W.'S ANSWER TO THE OxaKF, wio StyLrg Hivserr Tae Invisi sLe GExtLeENAN.? I can answer, but Ido not in tndtodo so privately. lintend that the world smal: judge my motives. If they find me guilty L am wiiling to bear with It, but I am not willing to be iusulted by any one person, who, perhaps, ihas a little more money than have, and when that is said, it is the cndyof him, having not raing cnough to act the part of a gentleman. If you wanted to show your great eare of the ladies, why id you not eowe to the place where I am living jand make an investigation of my charncter? I'hen if you had found 1t to have been anything lcws than what I have put it to the world to be, then you would, Mr. luvisible, Lave a full right to brand me as an imposter. No, you poor, misera ble wretch, you have not the manliness to face me aud charge me with what you would secretly try to injure me with. I will now answer the ques tious that you ask. You want to know if |am able to take carecof a wife. |de not know wha you mean ¥owme wmen, who call theiuselves gen t.emen, would try to make the impression on the minds ol strangers that they are very great pro viders for the.r familics, when they are away from home and out of hearing of the'r wives. Well, as it has pleased the Giver of all things to take mine from me, will not answer that question now, for hLope, if 1 should live, I may be able to get anotlicr in spite of all that the inveterate wretch can do. He o¢an, then, come and got his answer from her. Mr. Invisible wants me to inform him what I mean by a lady of intelligence. Well, sir, all that L can say to you is that I hope you will go and study your spelling book and try toimprove your, mind, the sime as lam trying to do. He "also wants to know what I would give him to get mea wife. Well, sir, that would only depend on cir cumstances. If she did not possess any more brains ‘than you appear to have, I would rather vou iwould not bother yourself You ask me if I ‘'was Lo dumb that I did not know how t» talk to iwoman. Iwould that it had been that some such as had never had the use of speech, then there iwould not be so many of our once bappy daugh Eters, who are now living a life of misery and !shzuue. No, sir, that was not the cause of my jtaking the course I did. If you had had sense aclmugh to have understood my eard, you would im»z Lave asked the question. Now, sir, I will (tell you why I said intelligent woman am a Eu man who never had the chance, when a boy, to reecive an edacation, on account of losing my pa reite when guite young. I now feel the want o it, but not having means envugh to edecate my self, and being engaged in a business affording m a living. I thought f’wuuld select o partner who had an edueation, so that she might help me in my endeavors to improve my education. This 1 shall try to do, whether I succeed in getting wife or not. lam a poor man, and have nothin but what I earn by my own hands. But I thank] God I have a character unstained. Now, sir, you have y aaewer, and the worid may judge wheth er I am right or wrong, Mr. Invisible Not knowing where I may be called, nor do 1 know where this poisonous reptile may have crept. I do not tLink it pradent that I should withhold my name any longer. GEURGE WELLS WORTON, Berniemen, Pa. P. S.—As it is your ‘esire to know when should come to the city, I will gratify you. I ex- Ipect to be down on the 9th of Jauuary—l wi oblige you so much as to tell you where you can fiud me. Call in Coomb's Alley, below Arck St.. in the rear of Second St A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT The ladies and gentlemen of the Hartf Union Association will give a grand entertainmen and levee on Tuesday, %Vednesda_v and Tharsday, an. Bd, 4th and sth. 1860, for the benefit of th African M E. Chureh (in Hartford) and the tor thereof, (Rev. ~amunecl M. Giles)an Union é’:ll, 289 Maine Bt. There will be speaking a portion of the time cach evening, accompanied with sing ing. The public generally are iuvited to lttenfi The committee promise that they will spare n pains to make the entertainment attractive to all who may favor them with ther presence. Ad mission Ten Cents. Doors open at 7 o'olock ex creises to commence at 8 o'elock. For furthe particulars see programme Mrs. ELLEN VANDYKE, MARY DAVIS, é Committee. A.C.ROS3 238-2 t. e ee g ee e Attt HARLES C. BLUE'S C BOARDING HOUSE, 102 Qlive street, New Haven, Conn., where he will be happy to have his friends call at MISCELLANEOLUNS. _ THE EVERETT] \HOUSE ASSOCIATED e CLUB will give their first GRAND COMPLKMENTAE\Y BALL in honor of the openin%‘of the Everett House, on TUESDAY EVL;’I’.;’G, Jan. 17, 1860, at the METROPOLITAN ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 178 Prince street. EZRA SCHUYLER, President. HENRY SIMONS, Vice President. R. L. Lavson, Secretary. Epwarp S. Hurcuisox, Treasurer. b I e e i e G_ RAND ORATORIO.—THE PUPILS of Colored Grammar School No 2 will re peat the Oratorio of “Joseph,” by Geo. W. Curtis, on which occasion they will be sssisted by the Luca Family, on Thursday evening, 29th inst., at St Philip’s Church, Mulberry street, near Bleeker. for the benefit of said chu:g. Tickets 25 cents. Doors open at T o’clock; performances to com mence at 8 o’clock. For further particulars see small bills. 23-It. FA] R.—THE LADIES CONNECTED WITH ZION METHODIST E. CHURCH Of Brooklyn, E. D., will open a Fair for the bene fit of their Pastor, On Thursday Evening, Dec. 22, 1859, at their place of worship, in Devoe strect, near Union avenue, on which occagion will be offered or sale a select assortment of USEFUL AND FANCY ARTICLES, at the lowest possible prioes. The fair will b opered with performances of musie by an efficient hoir, and nstiresses by the Pastor aud othe may be expected. ICI CREAM of a superior quality constantly on hand. Admission, 6 cents COMMITTEE OF ABRANGEMENTS! Mrs. Sanders, Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Brown, Miss Dias, Sherman, Mrs, Chichester, Hieks. 22-2¢ A TFAIR FOR THE BENEFIT OF SI LOAM CHURCH, (Rev. A. N. Freeman pas or,( will be given by the ladies of said church at GRENADA HALL, 112 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, commencing Dec. 22d, and eontinuing until the evening of the 26th inst. Admission 1U centa. 22-2¢ FOR SALE.—THE STOCK AND FIX. TURES of a well established Grocery Store in Brooklyn. Terms very reasonable. Applyto SAML. J. HOWARD, 22-tf 97 High st., Brooklyn. e VOORHBES’ GRAND HOLIDAY Re-union, at the New Metropolitan Rooms, 178 Prince street, above Thompson, on Wednes day evening, Dec. 28, 1859 Prof. ROBT. H. BROW N, Orohestral Director. Floor Managers, no. Gray, B Lllston, T. B Voorbees. Thesub joined order of Quadrilles, &e., will be danced by the pupils attached to his dancing class,—2Zud Lancers, Double Lancers, Caledonians, Mazurka Quadrille, (new) Le Temé)et,e, Le Galop, and Fer rero’s 19th Century Quadrille. Tickets to admi ne Gentleman and two Ladies, $2 50 single Btickets, $l, supper included, to be had of the Com mittee, Floor Managers, R. D. Keuney, and at the door. No rehearsals during the holiday week, un til Jan. 8. For particulars, see circulars. 21-t AMBROTYPE GALLERY:- BOSTON AND LYONS Take pleasure in annouucing that they have taken rooms at No. 4 Beach street, near West Broad fway, where they are })repared to take Ambro types, Phototypes, Melanotypes, and Crayono types. Pictures taken for lockets, breastpins, and finger rings. Pictures with or without cases, to suit customers. P. S. Old pictures copied and cleaned at the shortest notice. The public are invited to call and examine specimens. THOS. BOSTON, nli9 tf M. J L} ONS, A RARE BARGAIN FOR PER sons wishing to lay out money to advantage. —TWENTY-IWO LOIS (inercasing in value ycarly) for -ale for cash. Tiey aresituated in tl.c;“ beautiful littie viliage of Bloomfield, N H., and fcontain 4,000 sq are feet each. ['hey are within two miles of the ilourishing village Island Pons. The Grand Trunk Railroad is loc.ted near the purchase and the Nulhegan River is also nem-.i Price, $lO each, or move reasonable if one wished, to purchase the whole. A good warrantee deed guarranteed. Apply to THUS. HAMILTON, 4y Becekman street, New York. d3tf SA NUEL J. HOWARD returns his sincere thauks to his friends and the public at large for their patronage. and hopes that his prompt attention to busiuess heroto&e will secure a continuation of the same. Orders will be received at the following places: Office, 97 High street, Brooklyn Dudley Statford, (9 Beekman street, New York; 313 Broadway, New York. i This express may be found cach day at Peck Slip whart, from an early hour until 8 o'clock A. M., and from 12 till 3 P. M. Orders received in Brooklyn at the office, 97 High street 299 Hudson avenue, Dr. R. J. Davis’, coruer Clinton and Fulton streets; 814 Fulton street, 41 Ilicks street 19-26 t M:ISS VIRGINIA WILLIAMS, L FASHIONABLE DRESS-MAKER, 21-tf 1 King street, New York DBC. 27, A. L. 538359, FEAST OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST. ORIENTAL LODGE No. 2, F. A. M., dlocated at the Orient of New Haven, Conn., and working under the auspices of the Philanthropic United Grand Lodge of America, will commemo rate the festival of the above patron of the Mason ic order, on TUESDAY, Dec. 27, A. D. 1839, by the following exercises in BREWSTER'S HALL, in #aid city, commencing at 8 o'clock P. M. 1. VOLUNTARY ON THE ORGAN, 2. Prayer.......... Rev. Bro. Jas. M. Williams. 3, Singing of a Masonsc Qde. By the Brethren. t. Masonie Address...... Rev. Bro, J. T. Holly. B Masle. oL, i b i eia o o el SR Ran 5. Masonie Poem...... Rev. Bro. J. Sella Martiu. e DRI oovveiniinie o e niihin memanl AT 3. Closing Ode, or Doxologfi. :By the Brethren. 9 Benediction. .........Rev. Bro. Juo. Taylo 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 eonclusion of the above xercises, a 8 procession will be formed and proceed to the State Houre, where an elegant supper will be served up. 2 Tickets of admission to the exercises in Brews ster's Hall, 15 cents each. Tickets of admission o the supper, 50 cents each—to be had of the fol lowing comymitsee and also at the music-store of Skinuer Sperry, 154 Chapel street. COMMITTEE. P. Anthony, 85 State st., Charles Boardley, Charles I. Freeman, William Bartice, Prince T. Rogers, Richard Zarcus, Henry Martin. 16-td e e 5 A U I GIDEON LIPPETT, ICE CREAM AND REFRESHMENT SALOON, NO. 75 KNOX STREET, ALBANY,N. Y. 25" Families supplied with icE cxeaM at the shortest notice, in forms of all sizes. T B. VOORHEES' DANCING +.ACADEMY, at Metropolitau rooms, 178 Prince st Practicing evenings, Monday and l'ridag,. Pri vate classes on Wednesday evening,fi-o_m till 11 \n afternoon class for masters and misses ev Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Ali the fashionable dances taught. For terms, &e., apply at the rooms at the hour above specified, or at his residence, 154 Sullivan street. 15-12¢ FAII[ILY BOARDING HOUSE, By MRS. 8. BABCOCK, _ 541 Broome street, near Sullivan, New Yf;l:f MISCELLANEOU THE YOUNG AMERICA P, a perfect article. and fully warranted $lBO, and a SCHOOL PIANO, for 30. The subscribers h&r?é be% induced, after re peated application, to make a Piano at low price, to meet the wants of many now deprived of the l;n;ry. have perfected such an instrument, suita hle for SMALL PARLORS, SITTI' G ROOMS, &c. finished in rosewood—a beautiful piano, at ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DOLLARS. These pianos are fully warranted, and have all wir last improvements. Circulars farnished on wpplication giving.full particulars. THEY ALSO FURNISH A HANDSOMELY FINISHED PIANO, adapted for school practice and purposes, at ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY DOLLARS. All our piano-fortes have our great improve ment, the insulated iron rim. PIANOS TO RENT. We have constantly on hand a variety of pianos to rent, mostly of our own manufacture, which are very desirable, as they have our new improvements, wnd are unsurpassed in quality of tone and excel lence of finish. We rent PIANOS OF ALL SIZES, 6, 64, 63, 7. and T} octave. All styles, from the small school and cottage in strumenis for small parlfors and sitting rooms, to ihe full grands, for concert rooms, large parlors, e, Persons who wish to rent pianos and purchase in a few months, can select from our large stock, wnd the Fent for a specified time will be allowed :owards the purchase money, as may be agreed apen. Our arrangements for TUNING AND REPAIRING ire under the entire supervision of Mr. C. A. Vin ton, whose long experience in this department en ibles us to guarantee Y,erfect satisfaction to all who may wish to employ him. Orders addressed to 7im at our piano-forte rooms will be promptly at ended to. N. B.—Special attention given to boxing, pack -Ig, and caiting pianos for families Instruments +curely packed for forwarding to all parts of the :ountry, as well as for sea voyages. Persons at a distance unableto visit the city can, 'y stating the quality of the instrument wanted, e supplied. lllustrated circnlars furnished on applica tion, giving fuil particulars. New York City Ware-rooms, 487 Broadway. BOARDMAN, GRAY CO, Albany, N. Y. M CON]NIUN]()N FURNITURE.==An experience of 80 years inone place in the man nfacture and sale of Communion Furniture, en ables the subscriber to supply churches with sets of Communion Service, either silver-plated or Britannia, varying in price to suit the wants of all. Also a general assortment of Plated and Bri tania.Ware, for family use, at retail as well as wholesale. Old ware replated, to icok like new, at the old stand of LUCIUS HART, nl9 4¢ 4 acd 6 Burling Slip, N. Y. eeee et b et e e ettt et T R PPV OP~ JTEPHEN LAWRENCE, b ENGINEER, and agent for STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS, AND STEAM PRIESSURE GUAGES, No. 35 William street, 12-1 y New York, ’[‘HE YOUNG MEN'S LITERARY Association of the ecity and county ot New York, meet every Wednesday evenin¥ in the lec ture room of the Seventh Avenue Presbyterian cbureh, near Eleventh street, (Rev. H. LX Wil son, pastor.) The exercises consist of reading, lectures and debates. Admission free. 13-tf at Jamaica, L. 1., a house and sixteen lots o sround, for $l,OOO. Terms, $5OO eash, and the halanee secured by bond and mortgage. Apph to J. Solon, MeNeil street, Jamaica, or to Thos. Hamilton, 48 Beelmayr ireet, New York. 9-tf 1\ TRENTION! ATTENTION! AT [X tention! Titus® Refrm Intelligence Office. 103 Mereer street, between DBlecker and Amity streets. Letters written, and male and female help supplied by the month, week, day «r job. A reg- ister is kept for the names of all o] red persnnsl to enable their friends to find them without trav cling vver the while city. Price of registering. ten cents, or gratis to those who have no money \lso a register of the different svoieties, their pla es of meeting, and the names of their officers. Roomas to let. T. S. W. TITUS, 15-2¢ Proprietor. A ROBERTS, Agent for the Weekly Anglo-African the Anglo-Afriean Magazine, 120 CLINITOX COURT, EIGHTH SBT., near Sixth avenne, New York, where orders for the ahove-named publication: may be left or copies obtained. 12-¢f [IEATH’S EXCELSIOR WASHING BLUE, (the very best article of the kind,) for sale at the Drug Store 56 WEST BBOAD WAY. 12 1-2 cents per bottle. 7-tf e T—rn—- EHBROIDEHY AND BRAIDING done to vrder, by Miss Addie M. Hamilton, No. 22 Tallwau st., Brooklyn 15-tf \(IRS. E. LEONARD, UL FASHIONABLE FRENCH DRESS MAKER, No. 166 Church street. Reeeives monthly the latest Paris Fashions. 8-tf BE LL’'S INTELLIGENCE OFFICE has removed from 41 Howard street to 82 Spring street, 2d house east of Bljua.dwav. 10-5¢ \jISS OLIVIA A. HAMILTON, (M fashionable dress making, No. 22 Tallman st., Brooklyn 16-tf JAMEB R. W. LEONARD, CARD AND JOB PRINTER, 219 CENTRE STREET, NEW YORK. H OLIDAY PRESENTS! BOSTON AND LYONS® Ambrotype Gallery, No. 4 Beach Street, is the place to get nice Jwelenu to give to your friends luring the Holidays, where you can get them eheap. You are iuvited to call and examine specimens T. 8. BOSTON, M. J. LYONS. FOR SALE.—A comjp]eu File, bound, of the New York Duily Tribune, for 1861. la quire at this office. RUB'I‘. HAMILTON -mpeeaufly an nounces that his Concert is postponed for further preparation. .——M RANKLIN L. JONES, F TAILOR, 174 Mulberry street, New Yok __‘-__M A. SIRMONS, J Boot and Shoe Maker, 147 Navy street, Brooklyn. Repairing done at the shortest notics. 7W J' ME S P YLE?''S Dietetic Saleratas, perfectly wholesome article, which is unequaled for its certainty in producing good Bread. This Saleratus not only has the approval of the most eminent physiciaus and chemists of the day, biit upwards of ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND intelligent fawilies in the New England and Mid kli: (is.tates have given it preference overall other Its unparalleled success has brought s multi tude of counterfeits in the market, some of which of a poisonous uature, but the best class o. grocers evergwbere sell the genuine. However, purchasers should always see that the name of awmes Pyle is on each package. Sowe of thegro cerymen are umcru'h))ul.ouu enough to recommend the imitations, but their object is to make a large profit, as they can buy them for mueh less thao the uine. Gfi:d Depot 345 Washington st., eor. of Fraok lin, New York. G-tf N. MULLER. 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For the Weekly Anglo-African, LINES, T'o the memory of Maline A. I Pallier, who was mui dered by her husband, Alexander Lee, et San Framcisco, July, 1859. sl BY HER MOTHER. —C— I miss thee, dear daughter—thy image is still Most deeply impressed on my heart A remembrance of Lee and his murderous will, From ray worn mind can never depart. Thou wert torn from my side when I treasure thee most, When my reason could measure thy worth— When T knew but too well that the daughter lost Could ne’er be replaced upon earth. I miss thee, dear daughter, in circles of joy, When awaking with rapturous zest How cruel the hand that could tend to destroy The bright hopes that arose in my breast. Some melody sweet may be floating around "Tis no ballad of musie to me Sweet strains may be played, but I shrink fron the sound, i For my daughter was murdered by Lee. I miss thee, dear daughter, in full health and bloom, As I sink in the languor of pain; Where, where is the hand that onee pillowed my, ll(‘fl(], And the ear that once heard me complain Other hands may support, gentle accents may fall, For the fond and the true are fet mine I've a blessing for each, T am grateful for all, But whose can be soothing as thine I miss thoe, dear daughter, by night and by day, When I rest on my pillow to sleep Then T look on your two little ones, and T pray That the Lord in His sight may them keep. At the Mission I've lain thee, and Tinny by thy side, When time has scaree wrinkled my brow There I've carefully placed thee with sorrow aside, When grief to the ground makes me bow. I miss thee, dear Maline—Oh when do T not Though it was but the wisdom of Heaven, That the deepest shade fell on my sunniest spoty When suel ties of devotion were riven For when thou wert with me my soul was below— I was chained to the earth I then trod— My affections, my thonghts, were all earthboun d but now They have followed thy spirit to God e K& The Lowell “Courier” relates the following: “We have frequently heard the advantages of keeping a pig spoken of. but the slang terms of expression were hardly so convincing as the argumen which came to our ears a few days since, while passing through one of the by-ways of Lowell, inhabited chiefly by the sone and daughters of the Emerald Isle. A new sty had been built for the comfort and convenience of a shoat, the property of Bridget Malrooney, and Bridget’s neighbor Ellen Flaherty, had called to inspect the premises, during the progress of whied we happened to be passing: “An illigant sty said Ellen, enthusias tically; “and the fine shoat !—what com pany he'll be for ye when Patrick’s away” e 8™ Teacher—“ Come here, you young scamp, and get a sound spanking.” Scholar—*Yon hain’t got no right to spank me; the copy you jest set says§ 50." Teacher—‘l should like to hear you read: that copy.” Scholar—*“Youn shall; (reads) ‘Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country’s, &e.) and when yon're a spanking me you ain’t aiming at no such end.” e B Says a Sounthern exchange: A specimen from the rural districts dined at the Gibson House the other day, when they had apple dumplings with butter and sugar sauce for dinner. lle got through with the sauce, when mine host kindly in quired, Will you have some more dump lings, sir?” “No, sir, thankee,” quoth Bumpkin “but Pll thank ye for a little more of th ‘intment (ointment).” et L B “Once ven I was courtin’ my Caterine, T vas gone to mine fielt to hoe mine tato's. Vell, den I seen mine Cater ine comin in der road,so I dinks I give her a boo; so I climbs a tree, and shust as 1 vas going to boo her, I falls off der hem lock fence and sticks a pine knot hole in mine pantaloons and Catarine laff and made more shame dan a sheep mit one tief on his back. B A schoolmaster in Connectieut was, on one oceasion, examing a boy from Rhode Island in his catechism, and asked the following question: How many Gods are there.” The Providence Planta tions’ subject seratched his head for awhile and then replied: I don’t know how many, you've got in Connecticut, but we hav none in Rhode Island.” AU Be¥™ A good story is told of a country gentleman, who, for the first time heard an Episcopal clergyman preach. IHe had heard much of the aristocracy ot th church, and when he returned home he was asked if the people were stuck up.’ Pshaw no,” he replied, why, the min ister actually preached in his shirt-sleeves. i B=F™ A parson cornered a farmer whom he seldon saw at his ministrations, by ask ing him directly after a little reproof of his -sin of omission:— Shall we see you at church next Sab bath 77 “Y.e-s,” he replied slowly. “Yes, 'l go—or send a hand.” ek BZ™ Ah me said a pious lady, “ou minister was a powerful preacher; for the short time he administered the word o (God among us, he kicked three pulpits to pieces and banged the inards omt of fiv Bibles. W A B Captain, what’s the fare to St. Louis?” that part of the hoat do yo wish to go on—cabin or deck!” “Hang your cabin,” said the gentleman from Ind diana, I live in a cabin at home; give me| the best you've got!” el A e 85" Did you ever know a young lady who was too weak to stand up during pray. er time in church who could not dance all ight withont being tired I miss th THE DELIGHTFUL PLEASURE OF HAVING A BABY. —o— letter, which bears inter nal evidence of being a bona fide epistle was picked up in the streets of Utica not ong ago:— Broraer axp Sister Stespixs:—We have got a living baby at our house, a lit tle girl baby—that’s so. How I wish thi might find you in the same situation. But our baby is none of your common babies. She laughs (and cries) so pretty, you ca have now idea ho handsome she is. It is decided by the best of judges (her moth er and me) that she is the handsomest] child that ever lived; and everybody says what a pretty child, how much she look ike her father;” children will resemble their parents, you know. I wouldn’t take wenty dollars for her; no, sir, no tempta tion. Perhaps you think 1 am a fool Who cares—guess you'd be a fool if you had such a baby. 1 wish your domestig affairs would come to a erisis (ery sis.) You must excuse all mistakes, for I am so delighted and transported that 1 expect here is a right chance that I may go crazy. DBut after the excitement was ove wasn't 1 tickled some. If it hadn’t been for that white hat of mine, I couldn't have told which end my head was on. 1 went up stairs a dozen times or less after my hat —went and looked at the baby,and forgot it every time. Sold a man some goods “on tick,” and charged him, “T'o one baby, sixpence per pound.” DBut I'm almer now think I shall entirely recover. Begin to think that baby aiu’t such charming affair, after all. It's quite a night institution. Ittakes one Lalf of the bed, and right in the middle, and I have tc sleep all around on the edges. Can’t rol over and kick as I used to, might wake up the baby. And if I just happen to roll on the little thing in the night, then there’s a fuss, for my wife would make a great fuss if 1 should kill that baby. She sleeps with one eye open. I'll tell youbow I get along nights. The other night 1 went to bed as usual, got in to a snooze, when my wife called, John John! there’s a mouse in my bandbox, and it willruin my bonnet.” Well, I rolled off the bed-rail and made a break for the bandbox. Mouse takes the hint and leaves, and I balance myself on the bed-rail again 2o to sleep, and dream of the old song tha says, Bless me, this is pleasant, riding on a rail.” But soon I am wakened by my wife, (watchful creature) calling, “John I guess that mouse is in the lower bureau rawer, where all the baby’s things are.” So up 1 got once more and made a plunge for the bureau, and mouse leaves as usual, while I, like an old Quaker, wish .for some profane person to d—n that mouse. Well I get on the rail once more and dream of sending an order to Chicago for mouse traps. Well, I dream away awhile: till 1 am once more awakened by the old fami liar call,. John! John! the baby wants tending to.” Well, I sit up and hold the licht while she—--well, no matter, you know what 1 mean. The next morning I have to be careful in using the towels, for “all is not gold that glitters.” But I must keep still and stand it all for the dear little baby, moth er’s little precious lamb. DIGHTON. P. S.—Our baby’s name is Fanny Lonisa. N. B.—Don't forget ‘he baby's name.

VIRGINIA JURIES. —o— Charlestown correspondent of the “T'ribune” gives the following illustration of the manner in which jurors were quali fied in the late treason trials: A stolid and heavy man stands before the Judge to answer the necessary ques tions. Ilis countenance is lighted only by the hope of getting a chance to give his voice against the wounded man upon the ground. You can see this as plainly as if] he told yon. Judge—Were you at Harper’s Ferry during these proceedings Juror—No, sir. Judge—Yon are a frecholder of this county Juror—Yes, sir. Judge—Have you heard the evidence in the case Juror [eagerly|—Yes, sir. Judge—l mean if you have heard the evidence, and are likely to be influenced by it, you are disqualified here. Have you heard much of the evidence Juror—No, sir. Judge-Have yon expressed any opin ion as to the guilt of these parties Juror—Yes, sir [eagerly again.| Judge—Are you, then, capable of judg ing this case according to the evidence, without reference to what you have before heard or said 7 Juror—Yes, sir. Judge—Have you any conscientious scruples which will preuent you from find ing this man guilty because the death pen alty may be his punishment Juror—Yes, sir [promptly.| Judge—l think you do not understand my question. T ask you if you would hes itate to find this man guilty because he would be hung if you did? Juror looks around puzzled, overcome by the abstract nature of the proposition. Judge—The man will be hung if you find him guilty. Will that certainty of his being hung prevent you from finding him guilty, if' the evidence convinees you he isso? Juror [eatehing the idea]—No, sir—no, sir ‘i Judge—Very well, sir, you can takel; your seat as a juror. Love Mg Lirtie; Love Me Loxg.—A tall western girl, named Short, long loved a certain big Mr. Little; while Little, /zt¢/¢ thinking of Short, loved a /it/fe lass named Long. To make a long story short, Lit tle proposed to Long, and Short longed to be even with Little’s shorf.comings. So hort, meeting Long, threatened to marry ittle before lonz, which caused Long in short time to marry Little. Query: Did 1 Short love big Little less, hecanse bi Litttle loved little Long? An Irish house-maid, who was sent to call a gentleman to dinner, found him using a tooth-brush Returning, her mis tressinguired, Well, Mary, is he coming ?"i ‘Yes, ma'am, directly,” was the laconic re ply, he’s sharpening his teeth.” 1 ADVERTISEMENTS. e e B A 7 T AR NSS

The Auglo-Bfrican Ragusine, A MONTHLY OCTAVO OF 32 PAGES, DEVOTED TO ITERATURE, SCIENCE, STATISTICS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CAUSE OF HUMAN FREEDOM. Its objects are To prescat a elear and concise statement of th present condition, the past history, and the pros peets of the eolored population of the United States, free and enslaved. To afford scope for the rapidly rising talent o solored men in their spetial and general literature To examine the population movements of th colored people. To present a reliable statement of their reli jous eondition, and of their moral and economie statisties. To present a statement of their educational con dition and movements. Of their legal eondition and status in the seve ral States. To examine into the basis on which rest thei claims for citizenship of the several States, and o the United States. To present an elaborate account of the variou Books, Pamphlets and Newspapers, written or ed ited by ecolored men. To present the biographies of noteworthy eol ored men throughout the world. On the condition and prospeets of free eolored men, by common assent, rests, in a great degree, the condition and prospects of enslared eolored men. Henece, besides the intrinsie interest which attaches itself to a magazine with such scope and information, the aid of all who wish to advanee the great eause of Immediate Emaneipation, is ear nestly solicited for its support. Terus.—One Dollar per year, payable invaria bly in advance. The January number eontains an accurate an beautifully executed portrait of ALEXANDER DUMAS. 55" All eommunications should be direeted to THOS. ITAMILTON, 48 Beekman-st., N. Y.; P. O. Box 1212. CONTRIBUTORS. Rev. Bishop PAYNE. J. W. C. PENNINGTON, D. D. J. THEOQ. HOLLY. H. HIGHLAND GARNET. AMOS GERRY BEMAN. i 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. 11. HALL. CHAS. M. WILSON. GEORGE T. DOWNING J. M. BELL. MARY A. S. CARY. MARY E. CARY. SARAH M. DOUGLASS RACE A. MAPPS. JANES M'CUNE SMITH MARTIN R DELANY. JOHN V. DEGRASSE. JAMES FIELDS. T. JOINER WHITE. GLO. 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 s new candidate for publie favor, the first (January) number of which lies before us. It is published in the interest of that class of our fellow-ecitizens who are disfranchised by the Dred Seott decision, and its contents, in their generality, speak very signifieantly of the injustice done them by the opinions of some of the Judges of the Suprem Court. X We hail the appearance of this Magazine as a step in the right dircetion, and trust that it will not be guffered to lack for the want of support.— Evan agelis (New York) Among the various new publieations recently annonnced, we are glad to learn of the establish ment of a magazine condueted entirely by colored persons, and devoted to the soeial, moral and po litical advancement of their brethren.—lndepend dent (New York.) The Magazine iz one of great ability, interes and taste, and will bear a eomparizon with those of mueh greater pretensions. We sincerely hope the frienda of the eolored people will patronize this work and help them in this honorable effor to put themselves in a position which they de serve, and which their enemies would fain prevent them from attaining. Blake or the Huts o Ameriea,” is beautifully written and filled with thrilling intevest.—Amerwan Baptist (New York. It is a ereditable Fuhlieation. F RO a journal will, if rightly conducted, do much t raise the condition of this class of our population, and inspire them with a manly self-respect, and breathe a Christian aim into their struggles.— Christian Inquirer (New York.) The colored citizens of the United States num ber many men of eulture and marked ability speakers and writers, and they have established monthly in New York, t’:ntiflfl{ the Anglo-African Magazine, which is certainly creditable in style execution ‘and literary ment. W hope that its suceess may be such as to encour age its undertakers to yet greater exertions to im provement, even amid the difficulties which lie i their way.—National Era Washington, D. C) The new year has thus far brought to our notic nothing more grati'ff'ing and encouraging than thi new publication. The advent of a monthly mag azine, devoted to Literature, Secience, Statisties ete., is no new thing under the sun, and especially not new in our country. The United States abound in such publieations but to our knowl edge, nothing of the character of the magazine be fore us, has ever been attempted by any membe or members of the colored race in the Unite States. We have had numerous newspapers, a good many pamphlets, a few unpretending poems, a few Diographical sketches, mostly narratives of fagitive slaves, some written by themselves, others opl‘)l'_ written at their dietation, the amanuensis fur nis! m% the words, and the fugitives the facts but b‘f‘ynm these, nothing has been even attempted. The Anglo-African is a bright new fact, anX we trust !.h.e .lregmning of an era in the mental, moral, and religious history of the eolored people in this Reguhllc_. Whatever may be the fate of this new publication, in point of patronage, whether it shall sueceed or lil, for want of support, we sin cerely rejoice to see the attempt made, and made 80 well. The feature of the Magazine for the presen month is the essay of Dr. J. M'Cune Smith, show ing the dependence of Civilization on physi lcircumstances. The subject is one of great Inter est, independent of its bearing upon relations ex isting in this eountry. To those who know Dr. ADVERTISEMENT 3mith, it need not be said that his essay is ag earned and masterly one. But we will say this nd more, for it is an original and brilliant pro uetion—one which we would gladly see in th hands of all the political and ethnologieal malign ars of the coloret]l races of men. Martin R, Dela ny, it will be seen, has chosen a lofty subjeet. Il as given a peculiar theory, ascribing to eleetricity the office of keeping the heavenly bodies in order. which other very able men have aseribed to th law of gravitation. Mr. Delany dismisses all ou fears that this firm old earth of ours isto 1 mashed up one of these coming days by a colli ion with any other body in space. We shall re fer again to this new magazine, and meanwhile wish Mr. Thomas Hamilton, its enterprizing publisher every success in this praiseworthy effort to pro mote literature and learning among our people. Frederick Douglass’ Paper (Rochkester, N. Y.) It discusses in an able manner the condition, past and present, and the future prospects, of the colored population of the United States. Such in tt’“L’CtU‘H efforts, affording seope for the aspiring free colored population, deserve patronage; and] we heartily h(:})é the Magazine will be well sup. ported. We do not expeet to agree with all the views which may be presented in it, but heartily wish it success. Thus far the articles are good specimens of thought and composition.—Ner York Colonization Journal. Its list of contributors will embrace the mos prominent colored writers and speakers in th country. The present number is very creditable. Liberator (Baston.) We are much pleased with the first number o the Anglo-African Magazine issued by our old friend Thomas Hamilton."— Visitor (Franklin, N.

There is a well-written introduetory, but the blest and most elaborate artiele is that on Civil ization—its Dependence on Physical Cireum tances,” by James M’Cune Smith, a eolored phy sician of much distinetion in New York. Ttshows much research and thought. ‘he Magazine commenees its carcer with a modes appearance and subseription price—a favorable ign of permanence and success. We hope that i will be taken by all the colored personsin ou village who are able, as it eannot fail to improve them, intellectually, morally, and physically.— Daily Republican Binghampton, N. Y Here is a curiosity—the first number of monthly Magazine, published and edited by eol ored men, its cnntrinntm-s mainly colored people, Among these contributors we notice the names of those whom we know to possess talent of a high order Rev. 11. H. Garnet, Dr. James M'Cune Smith, Frederick Douglass, J. W. C. Pennington, Mary A. S. Carey, Sarah M. Douglass, Geo. B. Vashon, M. H. Freeman, &e. Among the numbe of contributors named, no doubt others of equal talent are ineluded but we are not so well able t« speak of others. The articles are generally ereditable the Intro ductory, and one on Civilization—its Depend ence on Physical Circumstanees,” are certainly able."—Daily Dispatch (Putsburgh, Pu.) “This first number gives promise of an infer esting and valuable journal, and we hope the ex periment of its publisher will be a deeided 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 proeured by every family, and particularly young men, and treasured up. Let the friends of literature and progress subseribe fo it, read and preserve it. The contributors are among the ablest writers we have, and from the number interested in this work, at the end of the year, you that subscribe will have the material tof make an interesting volume.”-—Provincial Free man Chatham, C. W.) ANGLO-AFRICAN Macazine.—We have received the nmmnber three of a handsomely printed Maga zine, under the above title, published in New York, by Thomas Hamilton, No. 48 Beekman street. Never have we received a monthly which, in vie w of the eirenmstances under which it has been issued, and the manifest ability exhibited on every page, that has given us go much pleasure. 1 is managed exclusively by colored men, and filled alone with the contributions of their pens. It con tains very able articles by the following distin guished colored men: Dr. Martin Delany, Dr. Jates M Cune Swmidh, Re— I. W O Danningtan, 1) D., J. Holland Townsend, Esq., Robert Campbell. No eolored man who ean rc'-ml) should be withou it, and everyfriend of the eolored American should patronize it. Republican (Norristown, Pa.) Axgro-Arrican Macazine.—The first numbe of this Magazine, published by Thomas Hamilton, 18 Beekman street, N. Y., has appeared. We think it will be read with interest by all who re ceive it. The third article, Civilization—its De pendence on Physieal Cireumstanees,” by Dr. James M’Cune Smith, we regard as peeculiarly in structive and valuable. The idea that in nations advaneced in eivilization, {he sourees of intellectual power spring from the eommon people, the physi cally vigorous, is happily developed, and worthy of weneral attention. We wish snceess to the An olo- African Magazine—American Missionary! (New York.) We wish it eould be put in the possession of every negrophobia-monger in the land.—-Student’s Monthly Oberlin, O.) “This publication, considered l'rl:liiv--l_v_ to iis scope and design, will eompare favorably with any other.”—Star (Brooklyn, N. Y.) We ghould judge it to he rather superior t« the most of the monthlies. X We hope it may meet with a large eireulation.”— Repository of Religion and Literature (Indianapolis, Ind.) Epiror o Trizuse :—I have just reecived 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 suhjeet. While there is a spirit that would erush the colored race, and trample them under foot as infe rior, it is cheering to witness a single trinmph our colored friends, and sce them rise in manliness and Eower, in spite of prejudice and hate. If any one doubts their upward tendency, their want o elements essential to elevation, let him eall ove and read a single article in one of these Magazines, and then blush for the injustice done a erushed people. The talent and taste exhibited would de honor to any Magazine published in our nation. Nor would we thus speaE of a single author or single artiele the whole work glows with the evi denee of talent and scholarship—far more so than many of the popular productions of the press. Let our citizens interest themselves in the Anglo- Afri can Magazine, and while they encourage the en terprise, they will also beenfit themselves l?' an increase of useful knowledge, and a deerease of un generous and unreasonable prejudices. I ecom mend it to our Reading Rooms, and to evasy pri vate family, as a work of decided merit, for only ne dollar a year.— Rev. R. H. Conklin, in Tribun (Providence, R. 1) “This monthly, published at New York, by iomas Hamilton, is edited and written by eol red people. Tt is an able Magazine. Some sta tistical articles on the colored population of the United States, evinee a great deal of researeh, and are valuable.”— Zion's Herald (fius!un, 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 MaGA%INE—A new monthly in the pamphlet form, issued at 48 Beekman-st., e York, at one dollar per annum, by our frwqd Thomas Hamilton, promises good things, soli things, noble, elevating. The first number exhibits et, talent, erudition, scientific investigations, the pen of a ready writer. The eontributions are o the highest order. The narratives, sufferings and hair-breadth escapes of fugitives from the land o Egygt. and Pharaoh’s host, are tml{ marvelous, wonderful No romanee can equal them, and ye they are solid faets, These narratives will grace very number of this new monthly, and wil oubtless give it a wide circulation. Anything nd everything caleulated to elevate and emanei ate the eolored race, meets our warmest sympa hies. The hand of God isin it. Ethiopia is soo to stretech forth her hands to God.” Friends, and®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 rts, it is to fill an existing veid, and cireulate i sphere peculiarly its own. It is to be the orga f the colored race. It has been &'ojected by eol red men, and, in the main, will be condueted b em. The initial number O:Hcpears well. Its cading articles are of a high r, and give evi ence that if negroes have no rights whieh white n are bound to respeet,” they at least wield ns which, one day, aml work out the redemp- ADVERTISEMENTS. ion of their race, and extort from the proud and lomineering Anglo-Saxon the justice now so per istently denied them The opening article is an introductory one by he publisher, Mr. Thomas Hamilton, who suc inetly states the objects he has in view, and the work which he and his fellow-laborers undertake do. There are paragraphs somewhat eanstic we refer to those comparing colored and white scholars, one comparison being between seholars n the City of New York, and another between students in French eolleges.

The main article, Civilization—its Dependenee n Physieal Cireumstances,” is l?v Dr. James M’ Cune Smith, a gentleman of liberal edueation though for it he is not indebted to his own emmfl having been obliged to obtain it in Europe, where the tiger-ferociousness of caste of coloris un nown. It is an able paper, and conclusively dis proves the current pHilosophy which predicates wman advancement, or, in other words, eiviliza ion, on the innate superiority of a race; but, on he contrary, shows that it is due rather to cli mate and geographical position. The paper is learned, pregnant with facts, so skillfully handled, that the deggetions are beyond the possibility of being overthrown. The doctrine of innate superi rity of race is scattered to the winds. This cen ury-nursed /ze, which has been made the excuse for slavery, with all its horrors and barbarities, which to-day, in these nominally free States, rushes the colored man beneath a remorseless prejudice and a fiendish spirit of easte, 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 them to let in the sun-light of know‘lo«{ge, is eviscerated, and shown to be but the invention of the oppressor, as an excuse for his dark and damning deeds and erimes. When the espised negro can ply such artillery as this, it is time to pause, and ask what we are to gain by at tempting longer to hold him down. The time is pproaching when the black race now in this ountry will be a fearful power, unless we relax the hand of oppression. They are under the tem perate parallels, where all eircumstances conspire o give them physical and mental power. lln ach decade, the eensus figures show that they in erease in a ratio- which, ere long, will reach tha voint when the red right hand of revolution wil Le raised, elenching a sword, beneath whose heavy blade fetters will be but as flaxen strings, and op-‘ pressors but as men of elay. The negro is natur ly patient and doeile—naturally he abhors Mnod‘ nd 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 amket upon as he is now, by a large portion of this peo p[e, he aptly learns the aphorism of Jefferson, ane which we profess to believe a God-ordained one Reststance to Tyrants is obedience to God St. Domingo thunders in our ears, Deware! Take rour hands from your vietim’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 sng rested themselves while we have been writing this notice. Others there are which ecome thronging round our pen, but this is no time for their utter nee. In conclusion, we would say, we are glad this Magazine has been established. Condueted 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 heings they have been represented to be. 1t is ealm and dignified, manful in its tone, counselling the col ored man to toil on and vindieate 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 Beckman street, New York, at £1 a ear. We mention the terms, because we hope there will be many who will subseribe, if for no other purpose, to see what good can come out lof Narragansett.”— Pendulum (Greemwich, R. 1) BOOKS. PUBLICATIONS FOR SALE BYE THOMAS HAMILTON, 48 Beekman street, New York. THE DREAM Or, the true history of Dea. Giles’s Distillery andg Dea. Jonez’s Brewery. i BY €EO. B. CHEEVER, D. D. Price per single copy 10 cents, $1 per doz., or 87 3 per hundred. “This will eontinue to be an excellent work forg circulation so long as distilleries and breweries continue to send forth their poizonous 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 Deacen Giles’s Distillery,” which is now being republished and illustrated by Thos. Hamilton, at 48 Beekman st., New York. It is a§ seathing article, abounding in the fire and hammer§ of unilnching truth. 1t was written originallyf for a paper called the Salem Landmark,” pub-g lished at Salem, Mass., where Dr. Cheever, then alg young man, was engaged in the ministry. It pro-g duced a great sensation at the time, and the wholef rum-fraternity were in arms about it. Cheever was arraigned before a court of justice. The re- 3 production of the article at this time is called forg® and is eminently opportune, when, on either§ hand, the hellish floods of Intemperance are surg-5& ing back upon communitics onee reclaimed fromi§ their devastating flow.—True American (Erie,Pa.) No work on Temperance ever had sueh a wideg citculation as this and the exigeney of the times 2 seemed to eall for its republication. 1t purports to be a Dream,’ but it 15 not all a dream,” but§ an awful reality.”—News Letter (Westfield, Muss A dream that is worth dreaming. CGenerally speaking, we have very little econfidence in dreams.” Dreams are liars,” yet there arel reams that tell truth of vast import. This isH true of Joseph’s dreams, Daniel's, and of others recorded in God's Book. Dunyan dreamed a Iream that astonished the wur]nP, that seattered light and life the earth around and this same dream is still doing wonders! But to the dream hefore us It was a dream, yet not all a dream.”'B [t's a dream or frue history of Deacon Giles's Distillery and Deacon Jones’s Drewery,” hrv Geo.g B. Cheever. Friends, it would he impossible to rive you even a faint outline of this dream. Suf fice it to say, it is one of the author’s happiest ef forts, on a snbjeet that -amhL to interest every e, This new edition offthis invalnable dream is put up neatly in pamphlet form, with unique; ngTAvings, hy Thomas Hamilton, 48 Beekman st. __Golden Rule (New York COLORED PATRIOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; WITH SEETCHES OF SEVERAL DISTINGUISHED COLORE PERSONS TO WHICH IS ADDED A BRIEF SUR VEY OF THE CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF COLORED AMERICANS. BY WILLIAM C. NELL. 396 pages. DPrice £l. Postage 19 cents. This work has been compiled as a means of en lightening publie sentiment on an interesting bu much negleeted department of American History, nd is graced with an introduction by Mrs. Har riet Beecher Stowe, and illustrated by engraving f Crispus Attucks, the first martyr in the Boston nassacre of Mareh sth, 1770; Peter Salem, on Bunker Hill, and a fac-simile autograph certifi sate of General Washington, tendered to a eolored Idier. The increasing interest on the genera übjeet of Slavery invests this book with rare at raction at the present time, for throughout i pages are exhibited varions phases of the Feeu iar institution,” interwoven with ineidents of pat iotism and bravery of colored Americans in the ys that tried men’s souls.” From several com endatory notices of the press, the following are eleetions “This neat velume of nearly 400 pages is a very urious and interesting book, not only as regards] he character of its contents, but as being the pro duetion of a young eolored man, a native of, and :dueated in, Boston. It purports to be an effor stem the tide of prejudice against the eolored ce, and to ehow that they are fit for something igher than the menial drudgery to which they re generally doomed. Mr. Nell has gathered many interesting faets, and oven them together in a very effective manner.| has extended his researehes into the loeal his ries of seventeen of the States of the Union, and resents a great mass of testimony in behalf o he military serviees of the colorel people, which ill astonish those who have not heretofore given he subjeet a thought. He very properly com menees with the story of Crispus Attnefifho mu. BOUOKS. ut.h: wylm fell at the time of the likr;ihxn s ere, lllfd records very many deeds 'rowess, no forgetting, of course, those of the co]or«d ey s at the battle of New Orleans. He has alsoff snbodied much information in the ehapters onthely sondition and prospeets of the 001"l‘~:‘FAmerican and in the Appendix.”—Salem Repister, “This work is an enlargement, and an improve ent as well, of a valuable pamphlet published by Ir. Nell several years ago, and \vhicL had gone ntirely out of print. Itisa record of strikingf facts, which, as they illustrate the important ser viees rendered by eolored men in the struggle this nation with the mother country, it has too en been the poliey 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 Anfl-Slavery household. Tt is wofi caleulated to put our spuri us Christianity and our sham Democracy alike to the blush of shame for the eruel prejudice wgainst the colored people, to which they so in nely eling, and for denying to them the rights ind privileges of manhood, and dooming them tol Rocial preseription 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 the negra as a person,” but rejeet his claims to citizen hip. In this volume, the heroism which was dis played by some of the eolored 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 black men were neither rejeeted nor unrecognized, paid to the eolored de fenders of our country and homes. It is a timely work, well written, and full of historie faets o 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 reveals the miseries of servile life with in ense 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 poiut o v diamond.— V¢, Journal. This volume, besides its many moving and thrilling details, affords evidenee of a most remark able man. Mr. Douglass has emphatically made himself. As a writer and speaker he has gut few :quals in the country.— Chiristian Advocate. It presents a elear and graphie picture of his lave-life from his earliest recollections, his eseape nd his life sinee, including his experiences in this country and,Europe. No one wil{xdcuy Mr. Dou zlass the possession of genus and character of a high order. He writes In a nervous, clear, and most telling manner, elothing his narrative 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 hand}éng, possesses an en grossing interest.—N. Y. Fvangelist. We have before listened to the homely tale ot 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 l:i' one 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 popularity he has secured throughout this nation, and the universal desire that prevails to have a memento of one of natu:e's noblemen, will conspire to ereate an unprecedent-£8 ed demand for this book.— Wesleyan. v 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 perspicuity, and a musiecal, resonating, and half-rhythmic 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, and rarely degenerates.— Detrot Dllfly Adeertiser. GERRIT SMITH IN CONGRESS, “Slavery has no right but to die!” A work of over 400 pages, eontaining all his speeches delivered in Congress also, an accurate likeness, Price only 80 eents per eopy, 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 Afriea. Also, a Synnpsis of all the missionary work on that eontinent., BY GFORGE THOMPSON, S Author of various works on Africa. Price $1.25. Sent by mail free of postage. s h 1 THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. A Statistical View of the Condition of the FREE and SLAVE STATES. By Henry Chase and Charles W. Sanborn. Compiled from Ofi-j cial Documents. 12m0., bound in eloth., Pricell 50 eents. The able editor of The Eeernang ‘Transeript. Boston, speaks thus of this work “This little book eontains a vast amount of in formation respecting the eomparative conditionf of the Slaveholding and non-Slaveholding States, as to territory, population, industry, wealth, edu eation, intelligence, religion, moral advancement§s and general progress. The work must have costig, a great deal of laborions researeh, and it certain-B: ly presents argnments in favor of freedom on ev-Bg ry page. 1t contains just the kind ot nforma-Sh tion that should be more generally known in allg seetions of the eountry. We hope there will bef§ a public demand for thousgnds of copies.” REVIEW OF LYSANDER SPOONER’S ES-JR SAY ON THE UNCONSTITUTION- ALITY OF SLAVERY. BEY WENDELL PHILLIPS, Price 25 eents. 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Its omprises a thorough dissertation up »)n taste n dress, an explanation of the differen kinds of stitehes, made in sewing, remarks ugon he various kinds and qualities and fabries used in the wardrobe, with complete directions for eutting ud fitting all kinds of garments for women'’s and hildren’s wear the preparation o table, toilet, ad bed linen. llustrated by nearly 100 euts o yatterns and modes. The appendix contains ful ilirections for using the Sewing Machine. No hemsekeeper ean atford to do withaut it. THE AMERICAN SLAVE-CODE, IN THEORY AND P2RACTICE Its Distinetive Features Saown by its Statutes, Judicial Dedisi .ns and lilustrative Faets pp- 430. IZmo. Price 75 cts., postage paid. From Hon. Wm. Jay to*he Author. Your analysis of the slave aws is very able, nd your exhi?-ition of their practical afislleatio by the Southern Courts evinces great and eareful esearch. It is more easy to make han to refute a eharge of exaggeration against ork of fietion, like Mrs. Stowe’s but your boo is as imPregl)al»]e against such a charge as Eu lid's Geometry,” sinee, like that, it consists ropositions and demonstrations. The book is not nly true, but it is unquestionably true.” ConrENTs.— Preliminary Chapter the Relation f Master and Slave; Slave Traffic; Seizure ol Slave Property for Debt Inheritance of Slave] Property Uses of Slave Property; Slaves can) possess nothing Slaves cannot marry; Slaves HOGOKNS. annot constitute families; Unlimited power of Slave-holders Labor of slaves; Food, clothing, and dwellings of slaves; Coerced labor without wages Punishments of slaves by the owner and birer Of laws concerning the murder and killing f slaves; Of the delegated power of overseers Of the protection of slave property from damages 'y assaults from other persons than their owners Facts illustrating the kind and degree of protec -lon extended to slaves Fugitives from slavery 8 Ihe slave cannot sue his master; No power of _"f‘redflmptlon or change of masters 'Eie rela lion hereditary and perpetual Rights to eduea -lon—religious liberty—ri, -hts of conscience Or gin of the relation 74 T 4 subjects Relation of he slave to society and to eivil government Of he ground and nature of the slave’s civil condi 10m; no aceess to the judiciary, and no honest provision for testing the claims of the enslaved to freedom Rejeetion of testimony of slaves and free colored Yersons Subjection to all white per gons Penal laws against slaves Edueation pro hibited Free social worship and religious in struction prohibited Imgisf;tive. 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No one ean contemplate the scenes which are here so naturally set forth, without a new con vietion of the hideousness of the institution from which the subjeet of the narrative has bappily esoape-].—.’\'. Y. Tribune. We think the story as affecting as any tale o gorrow could be.—N. Y. Evangelist. Next to Unele Tom'’s Cabin, the extraordina narrative of Solomon Northrup is the most re warkable book that was ever issued from the American press.— Detroit Trib. He who with an unbiassed mind sits down to the perusal of this book, will arise perfectly satis fied that Ameriean slavery is a helfiu of torments ret untold, and feel like 3cvoting the energies or is life to its cxtirlmtion from the face of G(n]'s‘ beautiful earth.— Evening Chronicle. 8 CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS OF THE American Reform Traet and Book Noeiety GOD AGAINST SLAVERY, AND THE FREEDOM AND DUTY OF THE PULPIT TO REBUKE IT, A 3 A SIN AGAIBNST GOD. BY REV. GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D. D. Price 50 ets., postage 13 cts. 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