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National Anti-Slavery Standard.
SYDNEY HOWARD GAY, EDITOR.  WITHOUT CONCEALMENT....WITHOUT COMPROMISE.  EDMUND QUINCY, CORRESPONDING EDITOR. 

VOL. XIII. NO. 9.  NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1852. WHOLE NO. 633. 

Published weekly, on Thursday, by the AMERICAN
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, at their office, No. 142
NASSAU STREET, NEW-YORK. Terms, Two Dollars
per annum. Printed for the American Anti-Slavery
Society, by NORRIS & JOHNSTON, printers, No. 21
Spruce street. 

Selections.
A GERMAN VIEW OF AMERICAN 
"DEMOCRACY."

Of all the exiles whom the European revolution has
brought to our shores [says the N.Y. Tribune], none
wields so trenchant, merciless and independent a pen
as Mr. Charles Heinzen, now Editor of a weekly journal
in this city, called the Janus. A radical democrat,
speaking right out what he thinks on every subject,
avowing his opinions on religion, literature, politics,
or individuals, with perfect coolness and indifference to
the opinions of majority, he necessarily often shocks
the feeling of his readers and makes foes where he
might make friends, but he also tells the truth. In a 
lecture recently delivered at Cincinnati on the subject
of Pork, Mr. Heinzen was led apparently by the asso-
ciation of ideas, to {?} the {?} and platform of 
the Locofoco Convention Convention at Baltimore. From this part
of his remarks we below translate, at some length, not
only for the benefit of whom it may concern, but also
to show that the Germans in this country are not all
disposed to go it blind for the sham Democracy. Here
are the words of Mr. Heinzen; let those cry out who
are hit by them:

The fact that the "Democratic part" of the first
Republic in world has, in the face of the world-
ruling Czar, and in the year 1852, made the repres-
sion of agitation against Slavery a leading article of
its platform- this fact has in my eyes something so
horrible and saddening, that it would be folly to 
cherish any further faith in humanity, were it not a 
crime against reason to doubt it. But I anticipate.
Permit me to cast a glance into the past. Slavery,
as you know, is as old as human race. The
first slave was weak woman, and she doubtless will
be the last. Among savages, to this day, the wife
is the recognised slave of husband, who regards
her in the light of a mere domestic animal. The
slavery of men began with war, and in the history
of war- a trade of murder- it certainly is a mark
of progress. For originally the rule was, to put all 
of the sword, to make no prisoners. At a later pe-
riod it was discovered that the victor could employ
the vanquished to his personal advantage if he
granted them life, and from that time he made them
slaves. This origin of Slavery, as it existed among
the Greeks and Romans, also indeed among the an-
cient Germans, had at least as appearance of right
in its favour. For, grant the right in man to put
an enemy to death, and it follows that the voluntary
sparing of life by the victor may be viewed as a
rightful means of obtaining a property in him who
was spared. Later still, the progress of mankind
opened another and a civilized method of obtaining
this right of property. Warriors became simply
rubbers, who stole peaceful men who had done them
no injury, and brought them to the trader, whom
they had injured still less. The -trader examined 
not the sight of the man-stealer ; he examined his
wares—his two-legged cattle—he found them worth
the price—he paid the price, and claimed— who will
dare dispute the title ?—a human being as his, and
sought, neither in the rights of love nor parentage,
a foundation for the claim.

Thus have we reached the prosaic ground of
North American State Rights—" Southern Rights”
and Northern “ Democracy." The ancestors of the
Democrats purchased their property in human be-
ings—honestly and honourably purchased it —pur-
chased it as gentlemen and citizens, with no protest
from owner or advocate—with ready money indeed,
cash down, in silver and in gold—for at that time
false bank notes were not: and afterward this pro-
perty, thus honestly acquired, bore young—like the
swine—and increased and multiplied in accordance
with the laws of Nature and the command of Scrip-

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declarations of the Convention humbuggers as sa-
cred, is a bad Democrat at bottom- a "traitor to
the party." And this is true not only with regard
to the candidates nominated by them, but also in 
regard to the platform and the party principles,
which they proclaim and lay before the sovereign
people. Thoroughly to humbug the people and to
bind the future voters for President perfectly before-
hand, the party managers, after the Convention,
appoint so-called ratification meetings, that they
may in future declare any departure from the deci-
sions of the Convention to be a departure from the 
will of the people. 

For, gentlemen, in the sight of these Conventions,
nothing is more sacred than the will of the people.
The gentlemen at Baltimore knew, for instance,
that the will of the majority was in favour of Gen.
Cass; and since the will of the people is law, they,
obedient to the behests of the slaveholders, who 
feared the foreign policy of Cass, chose--General
Pierce. At all events a General.

I am of opinion, indeed, that it is an excellent
thing for Mr. Cass to have received a lesson for
trimming his sails to every breeze, and for his zeal
for the  Compromise; but more valuable in the lesson
which the people have have taught as to the demo- 
cracy of Conventions and the unrestrained rule 
which the slaveholders exercise in all the affairs of
the Union.

Well, then, the candidate selected by the Conven-
tion are the Northern Mr. Pierce in conjunction with
the Southern Mr. King. No prophet on earth, not
even one single German hunker newspaper, had ever
thought of the obscure Mr. Pierce, who was scarcely
known but of his own family circle. Yet, no sooner
is this Mr. Pierce put forward as the candidate.
than, ay if by magic, he at one blow becomes one of
the great ones of earth, fills a large space in all true
“democratic" hearts, and the depth and purity of
their love for him become boundless. In Germany,
they call this sort of thing servility, want of princi-
ple, lunacy, Se. In America it is fidelity to party.
And if the Convention of Humbuggers had nominated
the Emperor Solouque, or King Guizo of Dahomy, as
their candidate, every real Democrat would base
been bound tram that moment to love him as the fa-
ther of his country. Only let a President be secured
safe on the points of "Southern Rights" and "North-
ern Spoils,” and all is accomplished which a good
mete and bad republican can wish. Fiat prases
et pereat respublica!

As head al a family, etc., General Pierce may be
ls very respectable man. This, however, is of more
importance than all else, that be, as a politician, is
an incarnate representative of "Southern Rights,”
or a cypher before which the slaveholders may place
such integers as they please. South Carolina has
not granted her approbation even to Fillmore, who
has gone as far as the farthest in the matters of:
slave-catching and neutrality; but with this General
Pierce, who voluntarily, in a letter to the Conven- 
tion, declared the Compromise measures identical with
the Constitution and Democracy—with him the Se-
cession State is fully satisfied, and under hjs rule
thinks of encircling the Union, with a few new Slave
States, instead of withdrawing herself from it. A
comfortable prospect for the future; but it is—
"Democracy!"

But let him who is in doubt what is to le expected
under the Presidency of a Pierce, let him read the
unexampled Platform which, after his nomination,
was promulgated as the fundamental principles of
the "Party.” The main points are as follows:

1. The party rejects any general system of "internal
improvements " under the auspices of the Government
of the Union; whence it follows that all internal im-
provements must remain unaccomplished or be carried
out by the separate States, in a narrow, sectional
spirit.

2. No part of the Union may be benefitted to be the in-
jury of another; yet, there is no hesitation in making
the entire North, through an open violation of the 
Constitution and of fundamental right, the hunting-
ground of the slave-hunters of the South.

3. Congress has no right to meddle with the question

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The Democratic party, as it now exhibits itself, in
spite of the "moral," "liberal" and "progressive"
expressions in its platform, has no more of true democracy
than the name; and nothing can be more
appropriate to it than what its own platform says of
the Whig party, "which conceives no imposture too
monstrous for the popular credulity."

I have now in a few words shown the character of
the Baltimore platform, in so far as it speaks out.
It is, however, characteristic in its silence, and in
this regard its silence upon questions of foreign policy
is of peculiar significance.  Kossuth, who, in
spite of all previous intimations, and all experience,
would not believe in the rule of the slaveholders,
must not know what he has to hope from the North
American Democracy.  Differences with Europe
work unfavourably upon the Cotton trade, and meddling
with European Slavery might possibly have a
retroactive influence upon that in America; therefore,
is neutrality of necessity the foreign policy of
the slaveholders, not to speak of the natural sympathy
of one tyrant for others.  From North America
may never be expected the slightest official aid to
European liberty, so long as the rule of the slaveholder
remains unbroken, and nothing is more loathsome
than the bullying of so-called Democratic
sheets, which threaten destruction to European tyrants
and at the same time kiss the feet of the slaveholders.

No man, in the present position of affairs, can have
stronger motives for earnest consideration of the 
relations which they sustain to the parties in this
country, than our countrymen.  Most Germans tend
naturally to the Democratic party.  But they allow
themselves to be deceived through the great names
of the past and the original significance which the
term Democracy won in the times of the Federalists.
That period is past; Jefferson, whom the party 
claims as its father, would stand appalled, could he
stand once more among such degenerate children.
The Democratic party is entirely rotten, has completely
gone over t slaveholding and hunkerdom.

To all, on which the Germans especially lay the
greatest stress -- namely, freedom of the public
lands, limit of the slaveholding policy, and a decided
stand in relation to foreign nations -- to all this the
Baltimore platform offers the direct opposite.  And 
this platform, the servile huunker press calls the
foundation on which we must "go on and build."
Let the Russian Czar erect his rule upon the ruins
of the Republic, and the servile Hunkers would
name Cossackdom a foundation to which to "go on
and build."  We must "go on and build" in quite
a different fashion.

From the struggles of the times a new and sound
Democratic party must b brought forth, to which
men of right hearts, full of the love of liberty, men
of principle and honour, may attach themselves.
And should another victory of the Whig party be
necessary to bring about this new birth, our conduct
would be truly Democratic, should we seek to assist
them in vanquishing the Democratic party.

ADDRESS
Of the Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of
Friends, held in New York, in the Sixth month,
1852, to the Professors of Christianity in the United
States, on the subject of Slavery.
The religious Society of Friends is known to the
community as a people entertaining a conscientious
conviction of the incompatibility of Slavery with the
spirit and precepts of the Gospel; and, under this
conviction, they have at different times appeared before
the public in advocacy of the cause of liberty,
as the inalienable right of all men.

We feel engaged once more to invite the attention
of our fellow-citizens -- professors of the benign religion
of Jesus Christ, whose office it was prophetically
declared should be, "to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound," to a serious
consideration of this subject.

There can be no doubt that the Church of Christ

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interest, or popularity. "Thou shalt not follow a 
multitude to do evil, neither shalt thou speak 
in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment." 

That all mankind are the descendants of a common 
ancestor; that God "hath made of one blood all na-
tions of men for to dwell on all the facts e of the earth;" 
and that He is no respecter of persons; are truths
prominently set forth in the Holy Writ; and they
appear to have been fully recognized in the Declara-
ion on which our form of Government claims to be 
based - that all men are created equal; that they
are endowed with certain inalienable rights; and
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit 
of happiness. Happy, indeed, would it have been 
for our beloved country, had these immutable prin-
criples been fully carried into practice. It appears
strikingly inconsistent, that our free form of Govern-
ment and its liberal institutions should be linked
with Slavery; and there is the plainest evidence 
that they do not harmonize. If we trace to their
source the dissensions which have disturbed the tran-
quality of our Government, and even threatened its 
[...] it will be obvious to all that Slavery has
[...] source of those troubles.

[...] the measures latterly adopted to allay
the excitement and remove the discontent existing
in some portions of our country, was the enactment
of the stringent law for the recovery of those who
escape from bondage. The execution of this law has
been attended with circumstances, from the contem-
plation of which humanity shrinks: yet the discon-
tent has not been allayed. But, we would seriously 
ask, has not an additional weight of accountability, 
in the sight of our Omniscient Judge, been incurred? 

Patriotism, in its purest form, may lead us to re-
Gard every country as our country, and every man
as our brother; and may prompt the desire to pro-
mote the happiness of all, to enlighten the unin-
formed to assist the needy, and to relieve the op-
pressed; and popular outbursts of this nature are
not infrequently manifested. But it belongs to re-
ligion to enarge and perfect this feeling. Relition
found this sentiment, not alone on the circumstances
of a common Creator, or common ancestry, but also 
upon the interesting truth, that all are alike objects
of the love of a common Redeember, who gave himself
a ransom for all. He has taught us to regard Him
as our master, and that all we are brethren, de-
signed alike for a happy immortality to be enjoyed
in His holy presence.

Then how can Christians seize upon a portion of 
their fellow-men, consign them to a state of bondage
that is to end only with their lives, shut out, in a 
large measure, the light of knowledge from their 
understanding, and reduce them to a state of chat-
tles, to be bought and sold at the option of the mas-
ter; thus severing the tenderest ties of human na-
ture? How can Christians do thus, and still stand 
approved in the sight of that Gracious Being whose
ear is open to the cries of the poor and the oppressed,
and who we acknowledge to be our Lord?

To bring Slavery to the test of the precepts of our
Lord Jesus Christ, let us suppose ourselves, our chil-
dren, our parents, our brothers and sisters, in the 
position of the slave. Let us ask ourselves what 
course of conduct we should, in this condition, desire
and expect from the followers of Him who was sent 
"to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound;" and who en- 
joined his disciples to do to others as they would that 
others should do to them? Should we not expect
that Christian freemen would raise their voices to
plead their cause? --that Christian masters would feel con-
strained to remove the heavy burden, break every
yoke, and let the oppressed go free? 

We speak of Slavery as constituting a national 
sin; and when we reflect upon the millions of our 
fellow-creatures who are subjected to its blighting
influence, the subject assumes a magnitude that may
well affect us with deep concern. It cannot be sup-
posed that such is to be the permanently established
state of things; and by what means the change is to 
be [] is amount those fearful events which lie

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THE NEW LIGHT SYNOD
This body met in this city. The principal sub-
jects before them were - the draught of a new chap-
ter to be added to the history of the church - causes
of fasting - and the case of Rev. Wm Wilson and
the Presbytery of Pittsburgh. Of the first, we shall
say little now. We did not hear it read. It is from
the pen of Dr. M'Masters; and undertakes, we learn,
to prove that the Reformed Press yterian Church al-
ways treated, the swearing of oaths to the United 
States' Constitution as an unsettled question! Was
there ever greater effrontery? And does that Synod
think convince anybody but its own deluded mem-
bers - any intelligent person in other denominations,
that the greatest and most notorious practical dis-
function between Covenanters and all other bodies
since 1789, had no existence? If it does, it is indeed
given up to a singular delusion. One good thing, 
however, they are compelled to publish the history
in some shape. One of the members stated that for 
want of it - he was from the West - they did not know themselves [ ] there who they were, nor did 
others know. If this history ever sees the light, we
will pay our [...] to it. As to the causes of fast-
ing, it is not a bad document - a better one than
they have ever issued since 1833. The paragraph
on Slavery is as follows:
5th. Slavery. - As friends of humanity and of the 
cause of Christ, we are bound to deplore the existence
of Slavery in any part of the world. But especially 
are we bound to lament and deplore the continuance
and spread of this monster evil in our own land, in the 
maladministration of our good civil Constitution, and
under the sanction of law. We deplore it as a sin
against God, involving this nation in deepest guilt, and
a crime against man of the most aggravated character.
We are bound, too, to lament the countenance given to 
this monster sin by professing Christians, and by the
American churches, which consider it no bar to Chris-
tian communion. We are convinced that it but requires
that the Christian churches of America should with-
draw their countenance from the unjust and cruel sys-
tem, and faithfully exhibit the truths of that gospel
which condemns oppression, denounces injustice, and 
proclaims liberty to the captive, in order that the in-
stitution of Slavery may languid and die. and there-
fore that the awful responsibility of perpetuating it 
rests mainly on professors of Christianity. We are 
bound especially to protest against the law usually
called the "Fugitive Slave Law," as a disgrace to the 
age and country in which we live. By its legally com-
pelling the people of the free States to aid in the cap-
sure of fugitives from bondage, it involves the whole
Union in the guilt of Slavery, tramples on State rights,
and the rights of man and of conscience. It exhibits an
example of legislation calculated to make our boast of 
freedom an empty name, and to retard the progress of
liberty throughout the would. By its practical opera-
tion in remanding men and women and children into
endless Slavery, it tends to blunt the moral sensibili-
ties of our nature, and extinguish the love of liberty in
the breasts of freemen. Instances of cruelty have al-
ready occurred which ought to make even paganism
itself blush. 
Although the Reformed Presbyterian church more
than half a century ago has rid herself of any connex-
ion with Slav very - has no fellowship with slaveholders,
and has, during all that period, uttered a distinct testimony
against this crying abomination in our land, 
yet, as witnesses for truth, we feel called upon to renew 
this testimony in most decided terms, because this
dreadful evil has recently been gaining renewed
strength under the sanction of ecclesiastical connivance
and civil enactments. Even now, attempts are in pro-
gress to strangle the genius of liberty by congressional
resolutions, declaring the Compromises a "finality."
"Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to loose the 
bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and
to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every 
yoke? Is it not the deal thy bread to the hungry; and
that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
When thou sees the naked, that thou cover him, and
that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh." Is.
lviii. 6, 7.
This gave rise to a good deal of discussion! The
older members - Dr. M'Master, particularly - assert-
ing that the churches were not to blame in the mat-
ter; and others insisting that the Constitution con-
rained no pro-slavery compromises. Pretty bold

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criples of the Fugitive Slave Law! The country will
observe that the witnesses to this shambles charge
 are Abolitionists of the vilest stamp - men whose
lives have been devoted to the cause of disunion -
men who have felt the powerful antagonism against 
their hellish designs of such patriots as Franklin
Pierce, and who now, as in January last, baffled and 
beaten, cowed and overthrow, invent the most 
reckless falsehoods against the man and the men
who have crushed their base and unholy combinations
against the constitution of the U. States. The men
who conduct the shameless sheets upon which the
Republic relies are in the last degree unworthy and
vile; their vituperations of Pierce are such as they 
have poured out upon all meant who have espoused
the cause of the Union; and their irreverent sladers
strike not only at the patriotic living, but also at the 
illustrious dead. They are the worst jackals 
even of the party of jackals, and below to those out-
lawed knaves who, in the press and from the ros-
trum, have proclaimed Washington a dealer in hu-
man flues, Jefferson a liar, and the constitution "a
league with the devil" and a "bond with hell."
We speak on the authority of the most respectable
public men of New Hampshire when we sat that 
the character for truth and veracity of the two jour-
naps cited by the Repluic is [ ]
The are the witness of the Republic, the chosen
organ of Gen. Scott. These are the witnesses who
are to convince the South that Gen. Pierce is false
to that fealty to the constitution which as been his 
day-star - the passion of his whole political existence
- the very corner-stone of his political faith. For
shame! - for shame! If this self-refuting falsehood
does not stagger those who retail it, the character
of its dishonored and treasonable authors should
induce them to cast if from them as if there were 
pestilence in the touch. That it is false - false in
the general - false in the detail - false in every
aspect in which it can be discussed - false from the
beginning to the ending - we have the authority of
those who know Gen. Pierce personally for saying; 
who knew of the speech here alluded to, ad who
declare that no such language as that attributed to 
him ever fell from his lips at any time, on any occa-
tion, from his first entrance into public life down to 
this hour. But this is not all. The charge is that 
Gen. Pierce denounced the fugitive slave law in 
terms "to satisfy the Abolitionists" at the very time
when he was laboring to throw overboard Mr At-
wood for a breach of party faith as pledged by the 
Democratic Party of New Hampshire to the maintenance
of the Compromise. These witnesses them- 
selves testify that in the same speech in which they
falsely charge Gen. Pierce as denouncing the fugitive-
tive law, he spoke of the passage and maintenance
of the compromise measures as essential to the safety
of the Union. In his letter of acceptance, Gen.
Pierce tells the country, over his own signature,
that there is "no act of word of his life" in opposi- 
tion to the declaration of the Democratic resolutions,
that the repeal of the fugitive law would be incom-
patible with "fidelity to the requirements of the 
constitution." Yet one of these Abolition witnesses 
produced by the Republic makes this statement: 
"General Pierce immediately replied: 'If I must answer
the question, I say no, I do not. I have been asked if I liked
this fugitive slave law. I answered no, I loathed it. I have
a most revolting feeling at the giving up of a slave; the law
is opposed to humanity.'" 
The value of this testimony, and the loathsome
character of the tactics adopted by the Republic 
against Gen. Pierce, may be comprehended at a 
glance, when it is known that at this very moment,
in this very city, at the same time that the Republic's 
Abolition falsifiers were reproduced to show that
Pierce was hostile to the fugitive slave law, the
Scott Whigs in Washington are circulating Aboli-
tion testimony, from Abolition papers, to show that
he was ever the devoted friend of the South from 
the first, and that he is now in the keeping of the
friends and authors of this very fugitive slave 
law. 
Disgraceful as this exposure is, to the American
press and to American politics, we declare that the
friends of Scott, headed by the Republic, by Mr. 
[...] by Greele[ ] and by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, 






wares-his two-legged cattle-he found them worth
the price-he paid the price, and claimed - who will
dare dispute the title ?-a human being as his, and
sought, neither in the rights of love nor parentage,
a foundation for the claim.
Thus have we reached the prosaic ground of
North American State Rights-"Southern Rights"
and Northern "Democracy." The ancestors of the
Democrats purchased their property in human beings-
honestly and honourably purchased it-purchased
it as gentleman and citizens, with no protest
from owner or advocate-with ready money indeed,
cash down, in silver and in gold-for at that time
false bank notes were not; and afterward this property,
thus honestly acquired, bore young-like the
swine-and increased and multiplied in accordance
with the laws of Nature and the command of Scripture-
for this human property has this excellence,
that it-without effort on that part of the owner-
does not remain a dead capital, but bears interest by
its own action: so, that property bore younger property,
and the young property again younger, down
to the present hour.
Gentlemen, you are no Communists and know
that property is sacred. And if property in things
is sacred, how much more so must be that in man!
This is the basis of North American Democracy, and
the Constitution stands upon the same side. Fo
there is not a word in the Constitution which declares
that stealing men and trading in men are
crimes; and that which is not forbidden by the
Constitution, according to the platform [of the Democratic
Convention at Baltimore], is left to the
several States; so that we, if we should pickle negro
flesh, and make sausages of negro children, would
in no respect act unconstitutionally. I challenge
you, gentlemen, to show me a single paragraph in
the Constitution which forbids any good Democrat
the privilege of slaughtering, roasting and pickling
the negroes.
No doubt some will say that North America
emancipated herself a few dozen years too soon from
England, for otherwise she would have been included
in that act of Parliament which put an end
to Slavery in the British Colonies, at an expense of
[pound sign]20,000,000; but in that case what would have become
of the North American Democracy? In that
case it would have been impossible for 1,000,000
slaveholders-women and children included-to
have lorded it over a republic of 25,000,000 of men;
we should have seen no slaveholder in the Presidential 
chair; perhaps nominating conventions would
not have been invented; we should never have
heard of the slave-catching law, and the bloodhounds
would have been shut up in the stall instead
of the editorial room; we should have had no Baltimore
Platform, and the Democracy would have
wanted the real soul and actual bond of its unity.
Universal history is, after all, but the history of human
blindness. Greeks and Persians, Romans and
Carthagenians, Guelps and Ghibelines, Protestants
and Catholics, Russians and Turks, Germans and
French, Hungarians and Austrians-they have
fought to the death because the true means of unity
escaped their blindness. Had they known the secret
of North American "Democracy," they might
have made a compromise, a slave-catching law, &c.,
and established it as a finality; and then would
union have forever been placed upon a firm foundation,
and "eternal peace" would have blessed Humanity!
The history of the north American Union, if we 
penetrate downward to the punctum saliens, is a history
of the progress of slaveholding. After every
revolution, the reactionary element of the state finds
some new point of crystalization, from which it
makes its preparations for future rule and draws to
itself all kindred reactionary forces. The reactionary
crystalization point in North America has always
been the holding of slaves, and this has gradually
seized upon and made its own all other reactionary
elements. Its progress has been monstrous,
and, like all other reaction, it will never find a stopping-place
until it has overcome all opposition, or is
itself completely overthrown. This is as certain as
the succession of day and night. The means of its
progress lie mainly in the Constitution, and its most
zealous minions are the Hunker Democrats. Its
mightiest, and, in its consequences, most important,
recent victory is the slave-catching law; and in case
Mr. Pierce should become President, the slaveholders
would seek not merely to rule, but to subjugate the
Union. Much has been said of the dangers to which
the Union is exposed; I am of opinion that it never
was in greater danger than just now, for the great
danger to the Union lies not in attacks upon her
Slavery, but in those upon her Freedom. Let us
look a little closer at the signs of the times as they
exhibit themselves in the doings of the Baltimore
Convention.
In the first place, of what spirit was this Convention
born? In the metropolis of a slave State, after
long-continued intrigues and machinations, assemble
a number of so-called delegates, who assume the
title of delegates of the people- but the majority
are nothing but political humbuggers by profession.
The delegates of the people have the strange duty
to perform of making known to the sovereign people
their own will, that they (the people) may bear it
well in mind until the Presidential election. True,
the sovereign people are not bound by this instrument,
but let them read any "real Democratic"
sheet and they find that whoever adopts not the
comfortable prospect for the future; but it is-
"Democracy!"
But let him who is in doubt what is to be expected
under the Presidency of a Pierce, let him read the 
unexampled Platform which, after his nomination,
was promulgated as the fundamental principles of
the "Party." The main points are as follows:
1. The party rejects any general system of "internal
improvements" under the auspices of the Government
of the Union; whence it follows that all internal improvements
must remain unaccomplished or be carried
out by the separate States, in a narrow, sectional
spirit.
2. No part of the Union may be benefitted to the injury
of another; yet, there is no hesitation in making
the entire North, through an open violation of the 
Constitution and of fundamental right the hunting-ground
of the slave-hunters of the South.
3. Congress has no right to meddle with the question
of Slavery; yet it unquestionably has the right to extend
Slavery throughout the Union, and make all free
men the bloodhounds of such as have broken their
chains.
4. The net proceeds of the public lands should be
employed for national purposes; hence the public lands
ought not to be given away. For the freedom of the
public lands, not to speak of other dangers, would in
the increase of immigration, especially from Germany,
lead soon to the erection of new Free States in the West,
and, by this, freedom would gain the preponderance
over the slaveholders in Congress.
5. Should the land bill which has passed the House
of Representatives hereafter pass the Senate, which
must be prevented by any and every means during the
administration of President Fillmore, Mr. Pierce can
kill it by his veto. Therefore, the Democratic party
stands openly for retaining unchecked the veto power
(opposed as it is to all real democratic ideas), which,
above all, may be used against any and every anti-compromise
resolution.
6. The Democratic party holds the Compromise, that
is to say, the slave-hunting law, as a "finality" to all
eternity; it fastens, with Democratic chains, the steed
of time, for the everlasting future, to immoveable pillars,
and "will (literally, thus) resist all attempts at
renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the 
Slavery question, under whatever shape or colour the 
attempt may be made."
This, gentlemen, comprehends within itself the
harshest sentence which was ever passed upon the
Democratic party. It is the ban of all freedom, an
attack upon all human right, a sentence of annihilation
against all Democracy. Such language is not
republican, it is Russian. The consequences of this
act, should the present so called Democracy come
into power, can be no other than restraint of the
freedom of the Press, restriction o the right of public
assembly, and rule of the mob. Whoever raises
his voice against the most accursed institution in the
world, against an institution which, not to mention
its own objectionable features, poisons all morality,
all ideas of human rights, all liberty and all humanity,
and renders all progress impossible, he is from
this moment put under the ban of the North American
Democracy; stamped as a criminal, and denounced
to the mob. In New York, already, a year
ago, the Democracy carried matters with so high a
hand that the Anti-Slavery Society was forced to
hold its peaceful assembly without the city, because
democratic rowdyism has threatened to attack them
in their usual place of meeting, and so called Democratic
newspapers, such as the New Yorker Staats
Zeitung, the most depraved organ of slave-hunting
 in the Union, exulted over such a victory of the
Democracy. From this time forth, gentlemen, the
question will be upon victories of a totally different
nature. The slaveholders have now openly in their
platform stamped the entire Democratic party as
the guard of their tyranny, and their hod-carriers
will look out for the fanaticism of the rude and vulgar.
Should conflicts arise it will be said, the guilt
lies in the agitation against Slavery, and this agitation,
which indirectly saps the foundations of the
Constitution, must be checked by special laws.
When, through the most shameless sophistry, the
slave catching law can be promulgated as a necessary
consequence, a true interpretation of the Constitution,
the reactionary logic needs to go but little
farther to prove that a new law of high treason, or 
one restraining the Press, is necessary to carry out
and guarantee the slave-catching law and the Constitution.
Should the attempt succeed to carry out
this criminal sophistry in practice, by means of an
additional Compromise in Congress-and with Congress,
as with the Hunkers, all things are possible-
as a further consequence would necessarily follow
the increase of the Executive power through the
complete subordination of the militia to the President,
as Mr. Fillmore has already demanded, at the
time the twelve negroes in Boston set another at
liberty. This would be the probable course of the
reaction a course easily conjectures, from the Baltimore
platform, and that, too, with a good degree
of certainty, and thus would the Democratic party 
have the honour of having forged the yoke of the 
slaveholders.
Gentlemen, I, for my part, assure you that I could
bring myself to choose vassalage to the Czar of Russia
rather than be a member of a party which calls
itself Democratic and Republican, and at the same
time brands agitation on the subject of Slavery as a 
criminal. He who adopts a name in accordance with
his real character, acts honourably at all events,
though he follow the most abandoned path; but he
who cherished wickedness under the show of virtue,
adds to his crimes both impudence and hypocrisy.

1852, to the Professors of Christianity in the United
States, on the subject of Slavery.
The religious Society of Friends is known to the
community as a people entertaining a conscientious
conviction of the incompatibility of Slavery with the
spirit and precepts of the Gospel; and, under this
conviction, they have at different times appeared before
the public in advocacy of the cause of liberty,
as the inalienable right of all men.
We feel engaged once more to invite the attention
of our fellow citizens-professors of the benign religion
of Jesus Christ, whose office it was prophetically
declared should be, "to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound," to a serious
consideration of this subject.
There can be no doubt that the Church of Christ
is designed to occupy a very elevated position as relates
to purity and uprightness, and to exert, through
its teaching and example, a purifying influence in
the world; that the members of it should be distinguished
by a scrupulous observance of the moral and
social duties agreeably to the language of prophecy.
"He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and
what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly,
and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God?"
Our Holy Redeemer in his public ministrations
while on earth, was engaged impressively to set before
his followers the high position in which they
were to stand, and the weight of responsibility that
would rest upon them. "Ye are the light of the
world," said he. "A city that is set on a hill, cannot
be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it
under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth
light to all that are in the house. Let your light so
shine before me, that they may see your good
works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
It becomes, then, a very interesting inquiry, whether
the Christian Church in the present day does
stand in that elevated position, which is represented
by the figure of "a city that is set on a hill?"
Whether the light which it diffuses is of that pure
and holy character, that it will induce others to glorify
our "Father which is in heaven?"
If such an inquiry, scrupulously conducted, can
leave on our minds the impression that the members
of the Christian Church are in such a state that it
may be truly said of them, in the language of the
Apostle, that they "walk as children of light, proving
what is acceptable unto the Lord, and have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness,"
then may we be comforted in the hope, that the
blessing of the Lord may rest upon our beloved country
for its sake. For we are instructed by the highest
authority to believe that the members of the 
Church, if standing in their proper allotments, "are
the salt of the earth."
But if the proposed review should result in the 
conviction, that the Church in the present day has,
 in some degree, fallen below the standing of its bright
original; and that practices at variance with the
principles of justice and mercy are tolerated in it;
then is there not cause that it should be earnestly
engaged to return to its first love, and to do its first
works?
We are aware of the sensitive state of feeling respecting
the subject of Slavery. It is our desire not
to arouse angry discussion, nor to array one section
of our country in hostile feeling against another.
But, in all soberness, we would treat the subject as
a questions of right, and as in the presence of Him
whose is to be our judge, and who has solemnly forewarned
us, that he will regard the withholding of
deeds of mercy from even the lowest of our fellow-beings
as being withheld from himself. "Verily I
say unto you, inasmuch as ye did it not unto one of
the least of these, ye did it not to me."
It will be readily admitted, that all who take upon
them the name of Christ, are called to "depart from
iniquity"- and that the declaration, "Righteousness
exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
people," is language full of truth. The Deity is represented
in the Holy Scripture as a Being infinite
in power and wisdom, and perfect in justice, mercy,
and love. The nature of man, his relation and responsibility 
to his Creator, and his duties to his fellow
creatures are clearly defined therein. We are
told that man was made in the image of God; that,
although finite in knowledge, and limited in power,
he is called to imitate the Divine attributes in deeds
of justice and mercy, and in works of love; that
though the image of his Creator has been lost by
transgression, it may be restored through faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ, and by obedience to his precepts.
Of the precepts uttered by Him, the following has
been distinguished by the appellation of "the golden
rule." "Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, fo
this is the law and the prophets."
Now, if we compare the practice of enslaving our
fellow-men with this rule, and try it by this test, it
is evident that the unhesitating verdict of conscience
must be against it. If brought to bear upon ourselves
and our posterity, we should certainly regard
it as the greatest possible calamity-an act of oppression
too heavy to be borne. And if we judge
thus in our own case, by what rule, as Christians,
should we judge in the case of others? We are
warned, in the sacred Scriptures, against allowing
our judgment to be warped by considerations of self

"to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening
of the prison to them that are bound;" and who enjoined
his disciples to do to others as they would that
others should do to them? Should we not expect
that Christian freemen would raise their voices to
plead their cause?-that Christian legislators would
employ our power to loosen, rather than strengthen
our bonds?-that Christian masters would feel constrained
to remove the heavy burden, break every
yoke, and let the oppressed go free?
We speak of Slavery as constituting a national
sin; and when we reflect upon the millions of our
fellow-creatures who are subjected to its blighting
influence, the subject assumes a magnitude that may
well affect us with deep concern. It cannot be supposed
that such is to be the permanently established
state of things; and by what means the change is to
[?] events which lie
concealed in the unknown future? Would that the
hearts of our countrymen could be inclined to seek
out, and adopt measures, tending to the peaceable
extinction of this oppressive system!
It is true that Slavery is confines to a section of
our country, and is not under the control of the national
government; and it may therefore be though
that the responsibility must rest upon the section in
which the institution is fostered. But permit us to
ask if the statesman who expends his eloquence to
rivet the chains of Slavery, and to extend the area
of it, and the citizen who supports that statesman,
have no connection with the system? And to the 
members of our own body, in common with all who
protess the benign religion of the Gospel, we would
address the inquiries, Have the manufacturer and
the merchant, to whom the products of slave labour
furnish the material for a lucrative business, and the
individual whose consumption of those products sustains
the manufacturer and the merchant-have they
no connection with Slavery? It has been said,
"Whoso gives the motive, makes his brother's sin
his own." May we all carefully examine the subject,
and consider whether, while freely trading in,
and consuming the product of slave labour, we are
not indeed giving the motive; and do not become
ourselves, in fact, a party to the system: and whether
we shall be justified in the sight of Him who judgeth
righteously, who is indeed a God of knowledge, and
by whom actions are weighed.
We call upon the professors of Christianity throughout
the length and breadth of our land, seriously to
consider in what manner, as followers of Christ,
called by him to be as the salt of the earth,
the weight of their influence should be exerted
for the removal of this great evil. It is a solemn
thought that retribution is consistent with the attributes
of the Deity. In sacred history we may trace
the visitations of Divine displeasure upon a highly
favoured but revolting people, showing that God is
indeed "terrible in his doing towards the children
of men;" and these things are recorded for our
warning.
We would respectfully invite those who claim to
stand as pastors to the people, to reflect upon the
importance of the station they occupy, and the
weight of obligation resting upon them, faithfully
to discharge the duty they have assumed, and cast
the weight of their influence on the side of justice
and freedom.
It is interesting to reflect upon the effect produced
by the preaching of the Gospel in the primitive age
of the Church, upon a people sunk in pagan darkness
and pagan immorality-how, through the reforming
influence of this ministry, they were drawn
to forsake the evil of their ways, and to "walk in
newness of life." And though these converts to the
Christian faith were despised and persecuted, yet,
unprotected by any earthly power, their numbers
and their influence increased, until at length the
towering institution of paganism yielded to the force
of truth.
And doubtless it was and is the design of the
Great Head of the Church, that this Christian influence
should prevail against every system, the tendency
of which is to obstruct the coming of his Kingdom,
until, through its prevalence, the kingdoms of
this world shall become kingdoms of our Lord,
and of his Christ.
In the transporting view of this renovated condition
of the world, beheld in vision by the prophet,
he, personating the Most High, uttered the language
-"They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy
mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge
of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. And
in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which
shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall
the Gentiles seek, and his rest shall be glorious."
May it be our united engagement so to live in
conformity with the spirit of the gospel-so to labour
in our separate allotments, in the cause of our Holy
Redeemer as to hasten the coming of this happy
day-that at the solemn close of life, when called
to account for the occupancy of the talents committed
to us, we may be favoured to receive the answer of
"Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast
been faithful over a few things, I will make thee
ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of
thy Lord."
Signed on behalf and by direction of the Yearly
Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, held in
New York, in the Sixth Month, 1852.
RICHARD CARPENTER, CLERK.
-Friends' Review.

yet, as witnesses for truth, we feel called upon to renew
this testimony in most decided terms, because this
dreadful evil has recently been gaining renewed
strength under the sanction of ecclesiastical connivance
and civil enactments. Even now, attempts are in pro-
gress to strangle the genius of liberty by congressional
resolutions, declaring the Compromises a "finality."
“Is not this the fast that I have chosen, to loose the 
bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and
to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every 
yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry ; and
that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house?
When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him, and
that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh.” Is.
lviii. 6, 7.

This gave rise to a good deal of descussion! The
older members — Dr. M' Master, particularly—assert-
ing that the churches were not to blame in the mat-
ter; and others insisting that the the Constitution con- 
tained no pro-slavery compromises. Pretty bold 
this! and as as bold. The country says it does,
and the two great parties make this the basis of
their party existence ; and even the Free Soilers, ex-,
cept a very insignificant fragment, admit the fact;
bat this little Synod puta in its whispered denial!
We were glad. however, to hear some members ex-
press other and more rational views—admitting that
the Constitutions does countenance Slavery. A ge-
neral disposition was manifested to hush up the mat-
ter. They were evidently afraid of discussion. —- The
Covenanter.
The Washington Republic copies the following arti-
cle from the Independent Democrat, published at Con-
cord, New Hampshire, and hurls it as a deadly javelin
into the camp of the enemy:

At the meeting appointed at New Boston Centre on
Friday afternoon of January 21, by General Franklin
Pierce, to address the citizens of that town in regard
to the difficulties between himself and a portion of the
democrats of that section, he occupied the hour of his
in defending his military character. He explained the
circumstance of his fainting: and declared that, "with
the exception of a single occasion, he bad led his com-
mand in the blaze of every battle.”

 After this he commenced speaking upon the Fugitive
Slave Law. fe said that it differed in no important
particular from the law of 1793. A clergyman who
was present said, that us the invitation had been given,
he would like to make an inquiry: Do you regard the
features of the Fugitive Slave law as consistent with
common law?”

General Pierce immediately replied : If I must an- 
swer the question, I say no, I do not. I have been 
asked if I liked this Fugitive Slave Law. I answered 
no, loathed it. I have a most revolting feeling at the 
giving up a slave; the law is opposed to humanity.” 

_Here Mr. Foss inquired, “if it was not opposed to 
right as well as humanity.” Gen. Pierce replied: 
"Yes, it is opposed to moral right.” 

The above is the substance of General Pierce's re- 
marks upon the Fugitive Slave Law. The quotation 
marks include the very language used by the General, 
as taken down at the time it was uttered. 

The Evening Post of this city springs to the rescue, 
and presents the shield of the Democratic party as a
defence, with its Northern side out: 

The Washington Republic thinks to create an unfa- 
thomable impression against General Pierce, in the 
Southern States, by publishing the following (above) 
extract from a New Hampshire paper—the Indepen-
dent Democrat. If he has uttered any such language
as is here ascribed to him, we have only to remark
that it does him great honour. If further testimony of
the same kind, in regard to the opinions of General
Pierce, is in possession of the Washington Republic, we
invite that journal to produce it. 

The Union, the organ at Washington, rushes for- 
ward with the same alacrity, but more vengeance, with |
the same shield, but the other side outermost:
THE FIRST WHIG ABOLITION AND SEWARD PLOT
EXPOSED AND EXPLODED.

The friends of General Scott have resolved upon
a bold and hazardous game--a game which, no
matter from what point of view it is regarded, is
calculated to awaken the bitterest and most general
detestation. It might be supposed that men of ordi-,
nary intelligence would hesitate before resorting
to such perilous expedients; but the case of the
friends of Scott is itself in a most perilous and extra-
ordinary position. Something must be done to save
it—some sweeping coup d'etat must be adventured ;
and though the risk they run is great, they hope to
escape the consequences of their profligate disregard
of all honour and of truth by the abandoned reck-
lessness of their movements. A more dishonouring
attitude for a great party to occupy could not possi-
bly be conceived. It is the latest and boldest exhi-
bition of those baleful influences which surround
Gen. Scott, and which, carried into an administra-
tion of the federal government, must visit the most
fatal consequences upon the interest of the country.
Indeed, from these debasing tactics we can see what
sort of an administration Gen. Scott would have if
he were elected President. The Republic has em-
barked in this bad business as in a Iabour of love,
and the example will doubtless be followed by the
whole chorus of the Whig press; but what a work
 it is to expect honourable men to advocate and in-
telligent citizens to approve! 

 The Republic copies yesterday, from two abolition
in papers in New Hampshire, certain letters purporting
to have been printed in January last, containing ex-
tracts from a speech of Gen. Pierce, in which he is
charged with haying taken ground against the prin-

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a most revolting feeling at the giving up of a slave; the law
is opposed to humanity.'"

The value of this testimony, and the loathsome
character of the tactics adopted by the Republic
against Gen. Pierce, may be comprehended at a
glance, when it is known that at this very moment,
in this very city, at the same time that the Republics
Abolition falsifiers were reproduced to show that
Pierce was hostile to the fugitive slave law, the
Scott Whigs in Washington are circulating Aboli-
tion testimony, from Abolition papers. to show that
he was ever the devoted friend of the South from
the first, ind that he is now in the keeping of the
friends and the authors of this very fugitive slave
law.

Disgraceful ay this exposure is, to the American
press and to American politics, we declare that the
friend of Scott, headed by the Republic, by Mr.
Deward, by Greeley, and by Mr. Thaddeus Stevens,
of Pennsylvania, have got two sets of Abolitionists
to swear against Franklin Pierce—the one set to
swear that he is against the South, the compromise
measures, and the fugitive slave law, and the other
set to swear that he is steeped to the lips in pledges
to the South, that his congressional record presents
an unbroken current of votes for the South, and that
he regards the fugitive slave law as a vital, if not
the vital, spark of the whole measure of adjustment.
Let the country look at the spectacle, and Hot honest
Whigs contemplate the new shame which the mana-
gers of the Whig party have upon them.

Of the disgraceful wrong sought to be perpetrated
upon Pierce in New Hampshire by these Abolition
certifiers, the Republic furnishes the full dishonour-
ing evidence. Of the other side of the plot, Wash-
ington city can produce hosts of proof. The Free Soil
Whigs of the House of Representatives—acting, of
course, under Seward's counsels, and with the con-
currence, doubtless, of the Republic—are now flood-
ing the North with the Abolition attack upon Pierce
made up by the Abolition organ here, the National Era,
showing that his whole public life is in accordance with
his early and energetic support of the measures of ad-
justment, and especially the fugitive slave law. Go to
the Whig committee-rooms to-day, and the chances
are fifty to one that you will find the Scott and
Seward Whigs franking the Republic’s rehash of
Abolition calumny to the South, to prove that Pierce
is hostile to the fugitive slave law and to the South ;
while in that same room, and side by side with the
men who frank the falsehoods of the New Hamp-
shire fanatics, will be found the Free Soil Whigs
 franking the Abolition National Era to the North,
giving date, and page, and names, to show that
Pierce is with the South, body and soul! That this
is an exposure black with shame, no honest Whig
will deny. That it developes a recklessness and a
baseness in the Scott lenders, such as even Whig
annals cannot parallel, the whole transaction proves.
 That it has been concocted to deceive both sections
of the country, all who examine the facts will at
once determine. The measure of the guilt of such
a plot cannot well be estimated. But the fearful
measure of indignation and defeat it will call down
upon the heads of the Whig party will be ascer-
tained and admitted by these detected gamesters in
November next.

 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION AND
AMERICAN SLAVERY.

To the Editor of the Morning Advertiser.

Sir—My attention has been directed to a letter
in your paper of yesterday, signed “ Liberty.” I am
supposed to be referred to in that letter as “ one of
our London ministers, well known as an advocate of
civil and religious liberty," between whom and one 
of the Secretaries of the S. S. U., a conversation oc-
curred on the morning of the day of their late anni-
versary.  The supposition is not improbable, inas-
much as such a conversation did occur between my-
self and Mr. Wm. H. Watson. It was not a public
conversation, but neither was it so private that a 
reference to it, now rendered necessary, will be any
violation of confidence.

On learning that Dr. Dyer was to speak at Exeter
Hall in the evening, l intimated to Mr. W. that l
thought it desirable for him to announce Dr. D. as
sound on the subject of American Slavery, it that
were possible. I thought and said, that probably
such un announcement would anticipate a question
likely to arise at the meeting. Your remarks, appa-
rently occasioned by “ Liberty's” letter, lean, as I
fancy, to Mr. Groser’s being the party with whom
this conversation occurred ; and you seem to think
the reply about the “ wickedness of raising the ques-
tion,” inconsistent with Mr. Groser’s letter in your
paper of Wednesday. The facts are, first, that the
conversation occurred with Mr. W., and not with
Mr. Groser. It was Mr. Watson who spoke of the
responsibility of raising the question to which I had
referred. Secondly, that Mr. Watson’s reply related
exclusively to raising the question at Exeter Hall, it
had nothing to do, as "Liberty's” letter indicates,
with the watchfulness of the Sunday School Union
Committee over the soundness, on Anti-Slavery
questions, of parties sent hither, to represent the,
American S. S. Union. The charge of inconsistency,
 therefore, or the seeming imputation of Mr. Groser’s
veracity, whether in “ Liberty's” letter or in your
remarks, or in both, falls to the ground. Mr. Groser
wrote of one thing, Mr. Watson spoke of another,




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I do not like to occupy much of your space, or I
would say a little on the manner in which your
"correspondents" and yourself, Mr. Editor, have
written on this subject.  Fair, full, free discussion,
on so important a matter by all means; but, withal,
an intelligent discussion.  The term Abolitionist in
America, does not mean the same as it does in England.
Here it is used simply for those who seek to
put an end to Slavery; there it is used to designate
a political party, some of whose religious sentiments
are said to be questionable.  An American, therefore,
sound to the core on Anti-Slavery matters, may
hesitate to avow himself "an Abolitionist."  Dr.
Dyer was asked on the platform of Exeter Hall,
whether his church was composed of slaveholders.
His reply was, "I presume so."  Dr. Dyer is an
Episcopalian, so that the word church with him is
nearly equivalent to our phrase Christian denomination.
Had he understood it as the questioner did,
for a society, such as our Independent and Baptist
Churches, he would, I ween, have replied very differently.

The American Sunday School Union may or may
not be sound on Anti-Slavery subjects.  I say nothing
on that point.  One patent fact, however, and
many such might be quoted, is, that Judge Jay,
than whom there is not a sounder Abolitionist in our
sense of the term, either in America or here, is a 
vice-president of that union, and supports it by his
annual subscription; I should judge, therefore, that
the American Sunday School Union cannot be far
wrong in its Anti-Slavery principles or working.

I make these remarks as fair to the parties concerned 
in this discussion, without intending a word 
about the propriety or impropriety of the discussion
itself, so far as the London Sunday School Union is
concerned, and am, 
Sir, yours respectfully,
SAMUEL GREEN.

To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser.
Sir—A printed paper, which is now in circulation
in the metropolis, contains a passage which accounts for
the unwillingness of the Rev. Mr. Groser to inquire 
into the pro-Slavery relations of the Rev. Dr. Dyer,
when he appeared on the platform of the Sunday School 
Union, as an agent of the American Sunday School
Union.

The document to which I refer is entitled, "Statistical
Account of the Connection of the Religious Bodies
in America with Slavery; together with a notice of various
Anti-Slavery Secessions."

Under the head "Tract, Missionary, and Bible Societies, 
Sunday School Union." &c., are the following 
statements:

"All these bodies have slaveholding members.

"The parent Sunday School Union, at the requirement
of the Slave Power, suppressed one of its volumes,
because it contained a paragraph descriptive of Slavery."

Hence it appears that the association from which Dr. 
Dyer is delegated is under slaveholding control; and
as the English Sunday School holds fraternal relations
with that in America, its officers must not venture too
closely to scrutinize the Anti-Slavery course of such 
Sunday School agents from the United States as may
visit our shores; nor can it dare to utter an unqualified
rebuke of those ministers who uphold Slavery.

Permit me to assure those earnest friends of the slave
among Sunday School teachers, and in other walks of
life, whose fears for the interests of the oppressed your
articles have awakened, that when they hear it asserted
that "the cause in being injured" by their watchfulness, 
they may be certain the charge comes from parties,
who dread their investigations, and to whom the 
abolition of Slavery is secondary to some other object.
And it may be well for your readers generally to understand,
that the sincere, indefatigable friend of the
slave from the United States, whether lay or clerical,
so far from being offended by the most stringent scrutiny
into his past Anti-Slavery conduct, will be only
too thankful at meeting with such genuine sympathy for
the enslaved millions of his countrymen as this inquisitiveness 
betokens.

Happy would it have been for the American slave
had the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society faithfully 
pursued a similar course during the last twelve
years.
I am, sir, your obliged servant,
May 13, 1852.                           VERITAS.

To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser.
Sir—My short note, which you did me the honour to
insert in your journal a few days ago, has involved me
in correspondence to an extent I certainly did not anticipate.
From letters received from various parts of 
the country, I find there is a strong belief that the secretaries
of the Sunday School Union have little sympathy
with the abolitionists of Slavery, and that if it
had been positively told them that a certain D. D was
a pro-slavery man or even holder of slaves, they would
nevertheless have introduced him, as they did, at their
annual meeting.

I confess, sir, that my own experience on another
great question on which I had a controversy with them,
induces me to entertain the same belief, spite of the
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young student who purchased it at the North, to
read on his homeward passage to New Orleans. He
was entirely unacquainted with its character: he
was attracted to it by its title, supposing it might
amuse him while travelling. Through his family it
was shown to me as something that I would probably
like. I looked at the author's name and said,
'O yes! anything from that lady I will read,' otherwise
I should have disregarded a work of fiction
without such a title.

"The remarks from persons present were, that it
was a most amusing work, and the scenes most admirably
drawn to life. I accepted the offer of the 
perusal of it, and brought it home with me. Although
I have not read every sentence of it, I have
looked over the whole of it, and I now wish to bear
my testimony to its just delineation of the position
that the slave occupies. Colourings in the work
there are, but no colourings of the actual and real
position of the slave worse than really exist Whippings
to death do occur; I know it to be so. Painful
separations of master and slave, under circumstances
creditable to the master's feelings of humanity,
do also occur. I know that, too. Many families,
after having brought up their children in entire
dependence on slaves to do everything for them, and 
after having been indulged in elegance and luxuries,
have exhausted all their means; the black people
only being left, whom they must sell for further support.
Running away, everybody knows, is the worst
crime a slave can commit in the eyes of his master--
except it be a humane master—and from such few
slaves care to run away.

"I am a slaveholder myself. I have long been
dissatisfied with the system; particularly since I
have made the Bible my criterion for judging of it.
I am convinced from what I read there, that Slavery
is not in accordance with what God delights to honour
in his creatures. I am altogether opposed to
the system; and I intend always to use whatever
influence I may have against it. I feel very bold in
speaking against it, though living in the midst of it,
because I am backed by a power [?] ]?rm] that can
overturn and overrule the the strongest efforts that
the determined friends of Slavery are now making
for its continuance.

"I sincerely hope that more Mrs. Stowes may be 
found to show up the reality of Slavery. It needs
master minds to show it as it is, that it may rest 
upon its own merits.

"Like Mrs. Stowe, I feel that since so many, and
good people too, at the North, have quietly consented
to leave the slave to his fate by acquiescing in
and approving the late measures of Government—
those that do feel differently should bestir themselves.
Christian effort must do the work; and
soon it would be done, if Christians would unite—not
to destroy the Union of States—but honestly to
speak out, and speak freely against that that they
know is wrong. They are not aware what countenance
they give to slaveholders to hold on to their
prey. Troubled consciences can easily be quieted
by the sympathies of pious people, particularly when
interest and inclination come in as aids.

"I am told there is to be a reply made to 'Uncle 
Tom's Cabin,' entitled 'Uncle Tom's Cabin as it is.'
I am glad of it. Investigation is what I wanted.

"You will wonder why this communication is 
made to you by an unknown: It is simply made to
encourage your heart and strengthen your determination
to persevere and do all you can to put the
emancipation of the slave in progress. Who I am,
you will never know, nor do I wish yon to know, or
any one else. I am a
"June 18th, 1852.   REPUBLICAN."
—(N. Y.) Evening Post.

National Anti-Slavery Standard.
*** All communications for the paper, and letters
relating to its pecuniary concerns should be addressed
to SYDNEY HOWARD GAY, New-York.
+++Donations to the Treasury of the AMERICAN
ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY may be forwarded to
FRANCIS JACKSON, Treasurer, at Boston; or to
SYDNEY HOWARD GAY, New-York.

NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1852,

THE COMING PARTY.
PARTIES, it has been said, can exist only under
free governments. The existence of parties is a
proof that freedom of thought and of utterance is
recognised in the countries where they are found,
and their absence proves that the country which
will not endure them rejects also the elements
from which they spring. This political axiom grows



policy of the country, from the success of either the
one or the other of the men, one of whom must
reign over us for the next four years? Parties have,
virtually, ceased to exist in the country. It is the 
worst of the many bad signs of the time. The insidious
despotism, which our Fathers had the cruel
folly to bind in a fatal wedlock to the Liberty
for which they had fought, that despotism which has
from the beginning controlled and directed the national
parties for its own purposes, has ended by destroying
them. Both parties have acknowledged its
supremacy and received their leaders at its hands.
The maintenance of the absolute power is acknowledged
by both factions, as the great end for which
they live and move and have their being. They vie
with each other in their protestations of their readiness
 to crush out the life of their own liberties, as
well as that of their fellow-slaves at the South, if
their masters will but touch with the Sceptre the
National Overseer they prefer. As matters now
stand, there is no party in the nation. Slavery has 
devoured them both, and now gorged, but not stupefied,
she lies coiled into herself with head erect,
ready to dart upon and destroy any insubordinate
and impracticable Idea which may yet creep about 
unconsumed.

If the two great Conventions, which have virtually 
taken the place of the Electoral College in the making
of Presidents, meant what they said, and if the masses
they represent will stand by them, Freedom's Battle
must be all fought over again. If they did not lie,
they are bound to put an end to the Agitation of the
question of Slavery by all means in their [?er].
They have the power to prevent the discussion of this
subject, or to attempt to do it, by penal enactments.
They can suppress Anti-Slavery newspapers, disperse
Anti-Slavery Meetings, establish a censorship
of the press and make a disrespectful allusion to the
Sovereign power a Penitentiary offence. They can
establish a special police for this purpose, and employ
a host of spies to act as an Army of Observation
in every house and street. They have together, the 
power to pass National and State laws to this effect,
and there is no Judge, whether of Nation or State,
who has ruled the Fugitive Slave Law to be Constitutional,
that would not enlarge the meaning of the
Constitution so as to cover such enactments. There
is no difficulty about their performing their pledge
if they really meant what they said—if they were
not political swindlers attempting to obtain Southern
votes on false pretences. It is a critical moment in
the affairs of this country and of the world. Much
depends upon whether the villany of those patriots
be robust enough to soar into Treason, or whether
it will stop short at Petty Larceny. The next four
years will be a chapter of Revelations of deep import
and lasting interest.

The next hope of Liberty in this country lies in
the revival of parties, or rather the crystalization of
the political atoms into new ones. If things remain
as they are, the Despotism which has always ruled
us through our parties and under the disguise of
Republican Institutions, will soon feel strong enough
to drop the mask and govern us directly and under
its own name. Like other Despots, it may graciously
leave us such part of our own earnings as it does
not need for its own purposes, and may allow us to 
divert ourselves with books and stage-plays; but for
any freedom of thought and liberty of expression,
there is nothing to hinder it from keeping them
within as rigid bounds as those prescribed by Louis
Napoleon or Nicholas Romanoff. That is, if the 
delegates of the two parties met for the purpose of
doing it homage, really represented the men that
stood behind them and did not lie. We think that 
they did lie, and that their promise of peace to the
South was like that which Satan made of the World 
to Christ, a promise of what they had not to give,
and would not give if they had the power. That
is, most of them. Some of them, undoubtedly, those
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man not to see that the years of Slavery in Kentucky
are numbered, and that if his own slaves should not
become free, their children yet to be, or recently, born,
might. He hoped, perhaps, that the system would outlast
the lives of most of the former; but if a quarter of
a century hence it should be abolished, the latter, by
the will, could at least be debarred from the benefit of
the Act of Emancipation, and be sent into exile, rather
than be permitted to become free citizens of the Commonwealth.
Far better would it have been if, in his 
last testament, he had simply disposed of his human
chattels as he has of his other personal property. He
would not then have robbed them of all hope.

RECOGNITION OF HAYTI.

AMONG the other objects aimed at in the early days
of Anti-Slavery, and when petitioning was a means of
agitation more in use than of later years, was the recognition
of the Independence of Hayti. It was asked 
for as an act of justice to a young republic, as well as
an act of expediency whereby the interests of commerce
would be greatly subserved. The petitions for this 
object, if ever received, were disregarded, for, though it
was clearly evident that the want of the Recognition
was a serious drawback to the commerce with Hayti,
and therefore a serious detriment to Northern merchants,
the South considered it no less evident that to
acknowledge the national independent existence of a 
people whose forefathers were successful revolted slaves,
would be to recognise the fact that black men could
take care of themselves, and to be holding up a bad example
to out southern chattels. Involved with this
was another difficulty; if Hayti should be recognised
as an independent sovereignty, it would be necessary
to establish with her same sort of diplomatic relations;
and Monsieur Lemonade, as black as the ace of spades,
would present his crdeentials at Washington as Minister
Plenipotentiary from the negro Republic, and expect,
not merely an audience with Secretaries of State, but a 
reception at the weekly levees at the Presidential mansion.
Such an indignity was not to be thought of. No
amount of gold lace could conceal the colour of the
Minister, and no chapeau, of wearible dimensions, hide
the kink of his Excellency's wool. This the South could
not bear; the Lords of the Plantation would not consent
to the presence in the White House of a man of the 
unconstitutional hue, in any other capacity than that of
boot-black or waiter, though he might be a veritable
Lord of Creation in breeding, bearing, intellect, and
culture. So the North consented that her merchants
should enjoy only a restricted trade, and submit to receive
diminished profits, made so by onerous duties.
Perhaps she has never given a more striking proof of
how much she loves the Union, and how much she will
suffer for its sake; though it is not easy to say how
much her own feeling on so tender a point as associating
with a black man on any other terms than as master
and servant, may have had to do with her acquiescence.

The subject, however, is now about to be agitated
from a new quarter. We had heard recently that a
petition was to go to Washington from merchants interested
in Haytian trade, with which Abolitionists
were to have nothing to do. Such a petition has been
presented, and we hope it may have better luck than 
those on the same subject presented in former years.
These merchants are wise in their generation, and do 
not, of course, send their prayer without a lobby-member.
Whether it will be granted must depend upon
his powers of negotiation. Perhaps Faustin I. has consented
that the Empire shall be represented at Washington
by an Ambassador whose colour will not subject
him to the liability of being locked up in the caboose
should he return late from a diplomatic dinner, and of
being sold to defray the jail fees, should he be prevented
unfortunately from communicating with his friends.
If this difficulty can be got over, and it is by no means
impossible that it may, by the Emperor consenting to
be represented by a white man, the petitioners will
have gained some steps towards success. But whether
they will be finally successful will depend upon how
far Hayti is really looked upon by the South as a possible
object of annexation--or re-annexation; as her
people are blood relations, by the way of Africa, with
a portion of ours, and should therefore, according to the 
Southern code, be brought under the beneficent rule of
our divine and republican institutions. The issue of



Then the trade to Hayti is more profitable; for from
the former, our vessels return in ballast, or go elsewhere
to seek a cargo, whilst from Hayti a freight may
always be had; if not always in coffee, certainly in mahogany,
logwood, or hemp. Hayti imports from the
United States eleven times more cotton goods than Cuba—
this last year's report showing the comparison of
two hundred and ninety-six thousand dollars' worth 
exports to Hayti, and only twenty-six thousand dollars worth to Cuba.

Hayti consumes three times more of our flour than
Cuba; six times more pork; five times more soap—
1,925,692 boxes, to 389,748 in Cuba; six times more
pickled fish—10,289 barrels to 1,799 barrels , and much
more dried and smoked fish; being one hundred and
sixty-two thousand dollars compared to eighty-four
thousand dollars; which last article (fish) must be considered
of the highest importance to the United States,
the fishing trade being the great nursery of our seamen.
Indeed, it was the fisheries which gave the first impetus
to ship building, when we had no other market but liberated
and independent Hayti, all the other principal
colonies being closed to our enterprise directed to that
trade.

And these beneficial effects are known-in every town
and city of New England, and felt and acknowledged as
the origin of some of the princely fortunes of the families
and merchants of those enterprising States, which
have carried our flag to every country on the globe.
Now the West Indies is our great and principal foreign
market for the aforesaid articles, and for which Hayti
is still our best customer, and stands foremost on the
list as our largest market in the world, and far above
all others who trade with us in this important article.

Indeed, our exports of dried and pickled fish to all
the West Indies (Cuba therein included) in 1850,
amounted to $372,886; of which Hayti took $150,602,
which last amount of the Haytian trade is about one-third
of the aggregate amount of our trade in that article
to all the world, ($456,494).

This subject deserves the more the attention of our
country, from the well-known fact that France and
England are now holding out their fostering hands to 
their important fisheries.  By benefitting Hayti, we
benefit our fishing, our shipping, our manufacturing, 
our agricultural and our commercial interest generally.

Hayti has neither the will nor the ability to injure
the United States, but she might have the one and the 
other if she were the dependency of a foreign power.

Hayti has given proof of her ability to maintain her
independence, by her successful efforts against the armies
of Spain, England, and above all, those of France.
Since the expulsion of the French, nearly a half of a 
century has revolved, during which time she has adopted
the codes of Napoleon and the civil, administrative and
military laws of the French Empire, under which she
now lives, together with the trial by jury and a constitutional
government.

She (Hayti) accomplished all these things alone,
without the succour of any nation, and with the hostile 
feelings of all against her.  During the last forty-six
years of the independence de facto of Hayti, the laws
of nations have always been respected by her, and piracy
has never existed on her coast, and the United 
States and all the European nations have shared a lucrative
trade with her people, which did not and could
not exist while Hayti was San Domingo, a French colony.

Besides, she has always respected the comity of nations,
and during the war of 1813 she caused her neutrality
to be respected by the then belligerent powers.

The geographical and military position of the island
of Hayti is such, that it is the interest of the United
States that it should never become a European dependency,
but, on the contrary, an independent state
which de facto and de jure, it is already.  Hayti has
vindicated to the world her unquestionable love of indepencence
in her refusal of the Protectorate of France,
and of the brilliant offers of Louis 18th, made by his
commissaries, Fontanges and Esmangart, on the 6th
day of October, 1816, thus adhering to the policy which
actuated her in lending material aid and assistance so
generously granted in 1816, under the Presidency of 
Petion, to Bolivar, when in his misfortune he sought a 
refuge in Hayti, and by which aid that patriot was 
enabled to renew the combat of liberty and eventually
to establish the independence of his native land. 
Thus also was reasserted the Haytian policy previously
proclaimed, that no political link can be permitted to 
exist between Europe and america, except those which
are essential to the reciprocal interests of commerce.

Nor can it be alleged that the origin of the Independence
of Hayti precludes the possibility of its recognition
by the United States, inasmuch as the National
Convention of France did, by their commissaries Santhonax
and Polverel, proclaim the emancipation of the 
slaves of San Domingo, on the 1st day of November,
1793, which was ratified by the same body on the 4th
day of February, 1794, and after which the inhabitants, 
having become French citizens, defended its territory to
France, under Touissaint Louverture in the North, 
and under Andre Rigaud in the South, against the armies
of England and the colonists of the island, under
whose invitation and treaties that conquest was attempted,
and with what success the capitulation of
Maitland to Toissaint Louverture at the Mole St. Nicolas
is a proof.

But the first Consul immediately, without any regard
for these important services, attempted to subjugate to
Slavery the same men emancipated by the National
Convention, and who had, by their valour, preserved


any Court, so we are not to look for the real truth, as
to the condition of the West Indies, from the planters
themselves.  They have a case to make out in their
own behalf, and speak the truth when they assert that
they have been great sufferers since the Abolition of 
Slavery.  But it is not the whole truth.  They are in
a sad condition now; but they were never in any other.
More than fifty years ago, precisely the same complaints
of the home Government were made as are made today; 
and more than a quarter of a century ago, it was
evident, beyond a question, that the planters of Jamaica
were a bankrupt people  If Slavery had never
been abolished, it is by no means certain that their
condition would not have grown gradually worse to 
this time, as it did up to the time of Emancipation; 
and it is very certain that, in that case, the slaves 
would have been slaves still.  Here, after all, is the 
real gist of the whole question—the slaves are slaves
no longer, but a happy and improving peasantry.  The 
men, women and children who, a dozen years ago,
were driven a-field by the whip of the overseer, are
now living upon their own lands, "eating pumpkins,"
it may be, as Carlyle says, but they are pumpkins of 
their own raising, with some left now and then for 
sale.  And this, we maintain, is far better than to be
turned into 'pumpkins' for a master's benefit.

The difficulty with the West Indian is that he has
not been able to adapt himself to his altered circumstances.
There is an analogy between his case and
that of a wealthy man surrounded by every luxury, 
living in Australia or California, on the discovery of 
gold.  His servants can do better than wait upon his
wants and whims for trifling wages, and so the rich
and luxurious man dies of a want of clean boots and a 
good coachman.  But is it, therefore, misfortune that
his coachman and boot-black are earning an ounce a 
day in the mines, and laying up enough to give them 
the comforts, the benefits, and even the luxuries, of a 
home of their own, even though our poor gentleman has
to get his own coffee of a morning, or pay quadruple
what he once did for such service?  Not at all, and nobody, 
but flunkies and snobs, pretends it.  So it is with
the West Indian.  Emancipation was the discovery of 
gold to the poor negro, and they were off, as soon as 
they could be, to the diggings, and have been making, 
ever since, in "pumpkins" and other things, a comfortable
living.  If the poor master chooses to sit at
home, and let his property go to ruin because he can
find nobody who will work for him for nothing, and he
will not work, in new ways, for himself, we do not see
what help there is for it.

MR. WEBSTER AND MR. TALLMADGE.—The Times
having reported Mr. Tallmadge as stating, at a public
meeting, that he had assurance from Mr. Webster that
he would support the Whig nominations, and the Boston
papers declaring, by authority, that he never said anything
of the sort, Mr. Tallmadge attempts an explanation
after this manner:

To the Editor of the New York Daily Times:

I have seen, with not a little surprise, an extract
from a Boston paper, declaring that the representation
of a conversation between Mr. Webster and myself, relating
to the presidential candidate, contained in your
paper, was without foundation.

On the day previous to the reception of Mr. Webster
in Boston, I called on him at the Astor House, when I 
expressed the regret that I then entertained and now
most deeply feel, that I could not meet him under different
circumstances.

Some other conversation occurred between us, in regard
to the political aspects of the country, which it is
not necessary to state.

In the course of our conversation, I stated to Mr. 
Webster that his friends were embarrassed in regard
to his position, but that I supposed that we had no alternative
but to sustain the nomination that was made
by the Baltimore Convention, as a different course
might endanger the harmony of the Whig party and its 
ultimate success; to which Mr. Webster responded, 
that the Whig party should sustain the nomination 
made by the Convention.

At the meeting alluded to in your paper, I certainly
did not, in the few remarks that I made, mean to convey
the idea that Mr. Webster would cordially sustain
the nomination, for I knew that he would not; but 
that, as a matter of principle, he and every good Whig
would sustain a nominee who would carry out those
principles that the Whigs had long contended for, and 
the adoption of which would best promote the great interests
of the country.

At the meeting in the Ninth Ward, I probably spoke
of Mr. Webster as a statesman, entirely divested of 
those selfish feelings which sometimes characterize a

Sir - My short note which you did me the honour to
insert in your journal a few days ago, has involved me
in correspondence to an extent I certainly did not anticipate.
From letters received from various parts of
the country, I find there is a strong belief that the secretaries
of the Sunday School Union have little sympathy 
with the abolitionists of Slavery, and that if it
had been positively told them that a certain D. D. was
a pro-slavery man or even holder of slaves, they would
nevertheless have introduced him, as they did, at their
annual meeting.
I confess, sir, that my own experience on another
great question on which I had a controversy with them,
induces me to entertain the same belief, spite of the 
unworthy insinuation in one of Mr. Groser's letters in
your journal.
One of my correspondents says -- "I have no doubt
the secretary of the Sunday School Union is thoroughly
up to the whole question, and is exerting his official influence
in keeping the Slavery discussion in abeyance,
and preserving good terms with his American ally."
He says further -- "The same influence that is employed 
in favouring the presence of pro-slavery ministers and
delegates in our pulpits and on our platforms, is being
exerted in keeping away from them such men as the Rev
E. Matthews, a Baptist minister among the Free Mission
Baptists, who is come to England to discharge their 
duty to the slave.  Mr. Howard Hinton, secretary to
the Baptist Union, has informed him, he will meet with
no sympathy form that committee.  The British and 
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society have entirely ignored his
society, because they are advocating agitation among the
religious societies - a crime of the deepest dye, in the
opinion of the Broad street committee.  I am assured
by another correspondent, "that the parent Sunday
School Union of America, at the request of the Slave
Power, suppressed one of its volumes, because it contained 
a paragraph descriptive of Slavery," -- that "the 
Baptist Home Missionary Society of America has 
planted slaveholding churches in the South, and steadfastly
refuses to treat Slavery as a sin;" and that
"the American Home Missionary Society pursues a
similar course;" that "the American Baptist Missionary
Union, to the extent of its power, crushes Anti-
Slavery energy and sympathy; " and that "the operations
of the Bible Union, and several other societies,
are controlled by their slaveholding members."  He
adds, "every effort is put forth to intercept Anti-Slavery
light in its progress to the English mind."
It is, however, pretty evident, sir, that a sufficient
portion of "Anti-Slavery light" has already reached
"the English mind," to induce all, except time-serving
officials and interested individuals, to bear an uncompromising 
testimony against the iniquitous system of
Slavery, and to withhold all sanction from pro-slavery
ministers or others, however strongly recommended by
the bodies whose agents or representatives they are.
Our Bible, and Missionary, and Tract, and Sunday
School Societies, may well stand upon their won merits,
and certainly do not require the aid of men who own,
or who countenance, property in human beings.
I am, sir, yours very respectfully, 
J. W. Green.
4, Brighton-place, Hackney road, May 14.

To the Editor of The Morning Advertiser.
Sir - Permit me to throw a little light upon the question
of the Sunday School Union and Dr. Dyer.
Mr. Henson last year having had an opportunity of
speaking on the Sunday School Union platform, in reply
to Judge Darling, from the American Sunday School
Union, went to the committee-room at Exeter-hall,
having had a platform ticket given him by a member of
the committee, and being desirous to show his interest
in the Sunday School, he inquired for the senior secretary, 
and was painted to Mr. Watson, who said, how 
glad he was to see him, at the same time remarking,
that a Dr. Dyer, from America, was present, and inquired
whether Mr. Henson knew him.  The answer
was, "No; not that I am aware of."   Mr. Watson
mentioned that Dr. Dyer was an Episcopalian; Mr.
Henson then said, that if it would not be out of order,
he would like to have the opportunity of replying to Dr.
Dyer, by congratulating him upon his being in a free
country, on a free platform, where white and black
could mingle, but that if he was not a true man he
ought to be brought out.  The secretary then said that 
he believed all the speakers who had been invited would
be present, and he was afraid there would not be sufficient 
time.  In the meeting, Mr. H. sat listening to the
speakers, until Dr. Dyer remarked that Henry Clay
and Daniel Webster were the friends and supporters of
Sunday School Union in America.  Upon this Mr. H.
got up, and was on the point of speaking, when requested
by one of the committee to sit down, as it would
disturb the meeting, to which he acceded.
Now when such men as Henry Clay, who holds from
200 to 300 fellow-men in bondage, and Daniel Webster,
the concoctor and enforcer of that infamous Fugitive
Slave Bill, are thus paraded as being the bulwarks of 
Sunday School Union, it is high time that British Sunday
School teachers should know the character of the
representatives of the American Sunday School Union,
so that they might give them a proper reception.
Now, sir, if Dr. Dyer were an Anti-Slavery man,
would he have risked his reputation by bringing such
men before a free British audience, who would, I feel
sure, scout such a one from their presence?
A Teacher of Eleven Years' Standing.

Uncle Tom's Cabin.  -- The subjoined communication
comes to us post-marked New Orleans, June 19,
1852:
"I have just been reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin, or 
Scenes in Low Life,' by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
It found its way to me through the channel of a 


New York, Thursday, July 22, 1852.
The Coming Party.

Parties, it has been said, can exist only under 
free governments.  The existence of parties is a
proof that freedom of thought and of utterance is
recognized in the countries where they are found,
and their absence proves that the country which
will not endure them rejects also the elements
from which they spring.  This political axiom grows
out of the nature of man and of things political.
Where men are at liberty to think for themselves
and to say what they think, it must needs be that
they take different views of their own rights and interests 
and divide on questions which arise, from time
to time, touching those rights and interests.  So it
was "in Athens and free Rome."  As long as any political
liberty was left to them, they were divided, sometimes
torn in sunder, by parties and factions.  They
divided on principles, as they received them, and,
however violent and bloody the dissensions to which
they gave rise, they were signs of life and of freedom.
It was not until Macedonian and Roman
conquest had "quenched the Eye of Greece, " and her
own vices had extinguished the light of Roman
liberty, that party spirit was replaced in the first
by the subtleties of scholastic disquisition, and in the 
last by the competitions of the green and rEd Factions 
of the Circus.  So in the strifes between liberty
and despotism in modern Europe. In the Italian
Republics, in Holland, in Switzerland, in France,
and in England, the reality of the Liberty they
boasted might be tested almost to a nicety by the
vitality of the parties which seemed to distract, but
which did, in reality, give it a consistent and enduring 
life.
In this country, the same test has been found to 
perform its office with the same unerring accuracy.
In the Colonial times, the people were divided into 
parties on questions involving the principles of the 
Prerogative of the Sovereign and the Constitutional
Rights of the People.  These disputes went before
the Revolution and prepared the the way for its advent.
After the Revolution, the same political necessity
produced the same results.  Party Spirit raged, but
it grew out of questions and relations which at least 
seemed to the parties agitating them to involve vital
principles and to reach towards remote and mighty
issues.  The general mind was in a state of turbulent
excitement, but it was the excitement of life.
The billows roared and foamed, but it was because
the Spirit of Liberty moved on the face of the deep.
The sea and the waves roaring might seem to threaten
heaven and earth, but it was only an agitation which
defecated and purified the surging mass of mind,
and saved it from the fatal calm of the waveless sea
of Despotism.  Of later days, since the downfall of
Napoleon, the nation has also been divided, though
on questions of infinitely smaller moment.  Principles 
have yielded place to policies, and men have
fought, not for eternal laws of Right, but for laws 
of political and financial economy.  Whether more
money could be made by trade or by manufactures;
whether, when made, it should be kept in a Bank or
somewhere else; whether certain branches of business
could be better conducted by natural or artificial 
persons, by individuals or by Corporations;
these have been the questions which have superseded 
those struggles which made Milton
"Scorn delights and live laborious days."
which sent Hampden reeling in his saddle, a dying
man, from Chalgrave field, which made Vane and
Sidney embrace the block, which filled the sails of
the Mayflower and sharpened the sword of the Revolution?
But even the paltry factions of the shop and the 
spinning-jenny were better than no parties at all.
They, at least, served to keep the general mind in
motion and saved it from utter stagnation.  As long
as there was life, there was hope.  But where are 
all those parties, now?  They have, indeed, a name
to live, but they are dead.  Who expects any alteration 
in the Tariff, any revival of "the obsolete idea"
of a National Bank, any difference in the public

within as rigid bounds as those prescribed by Louis
Napoleon or Nicholas Romanoff.  That is, if the 
delegates of the two parties met for the purpose of
doing it homage, really represented the men that
stood behind them and did not lie.  We think that
they did lie, and that their promise of peace to the
South was like that which Satan made of the World
to Christ, a promise of what they had not to give,
and would not give if they had the power.  That
is, most of them..  Some of them, undoubtedly, those
that followed after the Apostate, in particular,
would sacrifice every thing in the shape of principle
or honour for the hope of a slave-driver's vote; but
we really do not think the majority of them to be
anything worse than tricky politicians.  They made
an unmeaning promise for a specific purpose, knowing
it to mean nothing.  What they will do when 
specific performance is demanded of them, is a question
for them to settle with the promises.
The time is now at hand when parties must remodel
themselves in some new principle, and it is
hardly possible that they can be brought into line
against each other on any principle but one.  There 
is but one question in this country on which parties
can divide -- and that is Slavery.  There never has
been but this one, in reality, although it has been 
masked and disguised under many specious names.
Thanks to the indefatigable persistency of the Abolitionists,
those disguises have been stripped off, and
the nation has been compelled to look at it in all its
ugliness, and to recognize it as the disturbing (and
therefore the ruling) element of the country.  The
truth can never again be winked out of sight.  Men
have got to choose whether they will be for it or
against it.  They do, to be sure, seem to be unanimous 
in their allegiance, just now.  But that is in
prospect of what they are to get.  One or the other
of the parties must be disappointed of success, and
disappointed because they will fail of that very 
Slaveholding support for which they have sold their
souls.  A party, and no inconsiderable one, must
arise, which will see that it has no hope of power
except by destroying the Southern Oligarchy.  Then
parties will take their only natural shape -- that of
Slavery and Anti-Slavery, North and South.  Thus
God will make not only the Wrath but the Ambition
of Man to praise him.  This day which the Abolitionists
have been prophesying and labouring to
bring about, not as the end of their mission, but as
a necessary means toward it, we believe to be at
hand, even at the door.  Our business is to create
the necessity of the creation of such an Anti-Slavery
party, to watch it and urge it in the way it should
go, but never to accept it as the final way of salvation.
-- E. Q.

Henry Clay's Will. -- The Will of Henry Clay has
been made public, and, as far as it relates to his slaves,
fully sustains the character of his life.  That was to
compromise between good and evil, but in such a way
that evil alone should accrue from the act.  He recognizes,
by his will, the right of his slaves to freedom, by
a pretense of securing it to a portion of them at some
future time; but to those who have served him faithfully
all their lives, for a bare subsistence, he still
withholds the right by leaving them in bondage to his
heirs.  The terms of the will are these:  all his slaves 
born before the 1st of January, 1850, are to continue
slaves for life, and be divided among his family; some,
probably, to remain in their old home, others to go to
the plantation of a son in Missouri.  But those slaves
who have been born since January 1st, 1850, are to receive
their freedom, the males at the age of 28, the females
at the age of 25, and then be sent to Liberia; the
value of their labour, for the three last years of their 
servitude, to be taken to defray the expenses of their
exile.  To fit them for this missionary enterprise, they
are, prior to their removal, to be taught to read, write,
and cipher.
As every act of Mr. Clay's life is held, by his friends, 
to redound to his greatness, so this, its crowning act, 
will be adduced as evidence of his love of freedom and
his humane spirit.  We do not believe that he himself
would have made, on this account, any pretense to
either.  His aim seems to have been that, so far as he
was concerned, no individual of the African race should
ever free in this country.  He was too far-sighted a

If this difficulty can be got over, and it is by no means
impossible that it may, by the Emperor consenting to
be represented by a white man, the petitioners will
have gained some steps towards success.  But whether
they will be finally successful will depend upon how
far Hayti is really looked upon by the South as a possible 
object of annexation -- or re-annexation; as her
people are blood relations, by the way of Africa, with
a portion of ours, and should therefore, according to the
Southern code, be brought under the beneficent rule of
our divine and republican institutions.  The issue of
the matter, however, will not be hid under a bushel,
and we shall know in time.
The petition is as follows:
To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in Congress
assembled.
The undersigned merchants of Boston, respectfully
represent to Congress:
That Hayti, de facto an independent State since the
first of January, 1804, by the declaration of her independence, 
and de jure since July, 1825, by the recognition 
of France under Charles the Tenth, and all the 
great powers of Europe -- which, subsequently, has
been confirmed by treaties passed and ratified between
the government of King Louis Philippe of the French, 
and Hayti as an independent estate has, however, never
been recognized by the United States; far which this
petition now most respectfully and earnestly prayeth:
The great interests of our shipping, agriculture,
growing manufactures, and commerce in general, imperatively
require that this very important and growing
trade should be regulated and established upon as
firm a basis as it is already with regard to the most favoured
European nations -- while it now exists only by 
sufferance.
The importance of this trade is seen in the reports of
the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, 
ending June 1850 and 1851, and show:  That in the 
fiscal year of 1850, we had engaged in the Haytian trade
seventy-four thousand six hundred and seventy-one
tons of American shipping, which was navigated by 
three thousand five hundred and four American seamen,
and this independently of that trade in foreign shipping,
clearing from and entering into our ports.  And during
the same year the United States exported to Hayti to
the amount of one million three hundred and fifty
thousand one hundred and eighty-eight, thousand dollars,
whilst to China, this country in the same year,
only exported to the amount of one million six hundred
and five thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars,
and only employed one half the tonnage which it has engaged 
in the Haytian trade -- the tonnage in the China
trade being, in the year 1850, 39,799 tons.
The tonnage of the United States engaged in the trade
to Hayti, in 1850, exceeds twenty thousand tons that
to Ireland and Scotland together; thirty thousand tons
that to the Hanse towns, and as much as that to Belgium.
It exceeds, by two thousand tons, that trading with
both the Atlantic and Mediterranean ports of Spain,
and double that trading with France on the Mediterranean, 
taking together the French West Indies, the 
French fisheries, French Guiana, and the Isle of Bourbon.
It equals the aggregate amount of that trading to
Portugal, Madeira, the Azores, the Cape de Verde Islands,
Italy, Sicily, Trieste, and all the other Austrian
ports, and Turkey.
It exceeds by ore than twenty thousand the trade
with Holland and the Dutch East Indies.  Brazil, with
her population of five millions, only employs one-third
more American shipping, and Mexico employs one-third
more American shipping, than Hayti.
Indeed, Venezuela, Bolivia, the Cisplatine and Argentine
Republics, and Peru, all together, only equal
Hayti in this respect.  Now this Haytian trade has increased 
this last year, 1851, $345,197, making, in all, a 
trade amounting to $1,189,968 dollars, or a ratio of
increase of nearly twenty-five per centum.
And although our trade to China has much increased
during the last year, 1851, yet our tonnage in the Haytian 
trade is still equal to that with China, in our exports
in domestic produce is only $476,573 more than
that which we exported to Hayti during the same year
-- the amount of our imports being $1,889,968, and our
exports in domestic produce $1,679,373, and in domestic
and foreign, $1,817,290.  Indeed, with the 81 different 
countries with which the foreign commerce of the 
United States is transacted, Hayti is the eighth in the 
shipping  employed, exclusively of New Grenada, whose
ports serve merely as stopping places, or transits.
Nor is the interest of the Haytian trade confined to 
one portion of the United States, for the New England
States export thereto their fist and domestics; Pennsylvania, 
Northern Virginia, Maryland, and the Western
States, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri,
their pork; Vermont, New York, Massachusetts,
Illinois and Ohio, their beef; Philadelphia and Boston 
their soap; finally, Maine, North and South Carolina,
Virginia and Kentucky, their lumber, rice and tobacco.
Our manufactures of New England, New York and
Pennsylvania, have begun to supply the Haytian market
with our cheap cotton goods, and even those of
Georgia might, with the same enterprise, compete as
successfully with European goods, as do already those
which are now exported to that market by our rising
manufactures.
Mexico, with a population of eight millions, took last
year from the United States to the amount of $335,507
less than Hayti, and employed twenty-six thousand
tons less than our trade to the latter.

day of February, 1794, and after which the inhabitants,
having become French citizens, defended its territory to
France, under Touissaint Louverture in the North,
and under Andre Rigaud in the South, against the armies
of England and the colonists of the island, under
whose invitation and treaties that conquest was attempted, 
and with what success the capitulation of
Maitland to Touissaint Louverture at the Mole St Nicolas
is a proof.
But the first Consul immediately, without any regard
for these important services, attempted to subjugate to
Slavery the same men emancipated by the National
Convention, and who had, by their valour, preserved
the island of France, from the then grasping hands of
the prowess of the French armies, became thus an
independent State, was recognized as such by her former 
Metropolitan power, by Great Britain and all the 
continental powers of Europe, who are now all duly
represented in Hayti, conformably to the comity of
nations.
Therefore, the petitioners most earnestly and respectfully
pray the Congress of the United States to
recognize Hayti as an independent State, and in our
relations with her, place her on the same footing as 
other independent nations.

Robert G. Shaw,                           Josiah Bradley,
N Appleton,                                 Saml. Appleton,
Amos Lawrence,                           William Ropes,
David Seors,                                  John Hancock,
Benj Welles,                                 Stephen Fairbanks,
N. F. Cunningham,                       Israel Lombard,
Patrick Grant,                                A. W. Thaxter, Jr.
William Perkins,                             John Belknap,
Geo Callendar,                               William Parsons,
Benj Burgess,                                   John D. Bates,
Henry Gassett,                                 James Read,
Thomas Gray & Co.,                       Wm. B. Reynolds,
George M. Barnard,                         Crocker & Sturgis,
John E. Lodge,                                  James Lodge,
J. Iasigi,                                           Geo. B. Upton,
Wm. F. Worthington,                       Wm. Rice,
Wm. W. Goddard,                             C. B. Fessenden,
B. K. Hough, Jr.,                                 Isaac Livermore,
J. L. Priest,                                         Benj. Bangs,
Wm. B. Fosdick,                                 Chas. G. Nazro,
Deming Jarves,                                  Thomas Tremlett,
Robert Farley,                                    C. Wilkins,
Stephen Tilton, & Co,                         Alfred C. Hersey,
Thomas B. Curtis,                               B. C. Clark.

Jamaica. -- A Delegation has gone from the Island
of Jamaica to lay before the home Government the 
present condition of that Island.  The statement to be 
made by them is published in some of the Kingston
papers, and opens as follows:
The lamentable condition to which the British West India
Colonies, and especially the Island of Jamaica, the most important
of them all, have been reduced from causes which 
are known to all, must be a source of deep and general regret.
It cannot be a matter of indifference to any one, whatever his
political opinions may be, that a dependency so important as
Jamaica should be abandoned; or that the immense amount
of capital invested in the production of sugar in that Colony
should be recklessly and hopelessly sacrificed.  And yet, it is
no exaggeration of the condition and prospects of that fine
island to state that events so deeply to be deplored must
speedily and inevitably ensue, unless something be done by
the mother country to relieve it, in common with its sister
Colonies, from the distress to which legislation in this country
has reduced them.
The circumstances attending the abolition of British Colonial
Slavery are so well known that we shall not lengthen our
present statement by referring to them, the more particularly
as it is not so much to the immediate effects of Emancipation
as to the measures adopted by successive Governments and
Parliaments subsequently to the very important event, that
the depression of the West Indian Colonies is attributed.  No 
doubt the abolition of Slavery had a very serious immediate 
effect on the value of Colonial property, as well as on the 
general prosperity of Colonial agriculture, but the Colonists,
although deeply sensible of the injustice to which that measure
subjected them, felt nevertheless that the system was
one indefensible in itself, of which the continued agitation in
this country was calculated to be even more injurious, because 
more dangerous than emancipation itself.  They yielded
a ready assent, therefore, to the Act of Abolition, believing
that a great moral principle actuated the statesmen by whom
that measure was conceived and carried, and that this moral
principle, adopted by the nation at so heavy a sacrifice, would
be maintained against any mere politico-economical considerations
arising out of the necessary consequences of such a 
measure.
In ten years the effect of emancipation was to reduce the 
annual value of the three principal staples of the island from 
£2,791,478 to £1,213,281, a decrease which will be found
equal, at five per cent., to an investment of about thirty-two 
millions of property annihilated.
This is a representation made not by the whole 
people, but by the planting interest solely; and it is a
fact to be remarked that they do not venture to attribute 
the present unfortunate condition of the Island --
unfortunate so far as they are concerned -- to the Act 
of Emancipation, but to the subsequent measures of the 
British Government.  By this is meant that no discrimination 
is made between slave-grown sugar and that
produced by free labour, so that the British West Indian
is unable to compete with the cheaper slave labour
of Brazil and of Cuba.  They complain, in short, that the 
consumer in Great Britain has not been compelled to 
pay a higher price for his sugar, that they might avoid 
the necessity of adapting themselves to the new circumstances
brought about by the Act of Emancipation.
As no man is expected to testify against himself in

made by the Convention.
At the meeting alluded to in your paper, I certainly
did not, in the few remarks that I made, mean to convey
the idea that Mr. Webster would cordially sustain
the nomination, for I knew that he would not; but
that, as a matter of principle, he and every good Whig
would sustain a nominee who would carry out those 
principles that the Whigs had long contended for, and
the adoption of which would best promote the great interests 
of the country.
At the meeting in the Ninth Ward, I probably spoke 
of Mr. Webster as a statesman, entirely divested of
those selfish feelings which sometimes characterize a
man of less enlarged capacity, and who is actuated by 
considerations of a mere personal character; and that,
however elevated might be his claims to the most exalted
position within our gift, all would be sacrificed
on the altar of patriotism, and devotion to the interests
of his country.  In this characteristic of Mr. Webster,
I cannot be deceived, and the nomination by the Native 
Americans, nor the oration at Boston, cannot and will 
not, I am confident, for one moment shake his determination
to stand by the principles of a party of which he
has been so long the honoured leader, or induce him to 
adopt a course that will engender the unkindest feelings
of a large portion of that party of whose principles
and policy he has been the ablest advocate.
F. A. Tallmadge.

Whereupon the Post thus comments:
It will be observed that this ill-starred conversation
occurred, as we supposed, at the Astor House, and we
have no doubt -- though Mr. Tallmadge is silent upon
that point -- in General Scott's private parlour, where
difficulties of this kind have arisen before.
The condolent tenderness with which the Recorder
opened the conversation was incomparably delicate.
He hoped to have met Mr. Webster under different
circumstances, but he did not, and so he feelingly recommends
the old gentleman to make the best of it.
"I suppose," he tells him, "we have no alternative
but to sustain the nominations."
Mr. Webster had not yet reached that height of
Christian resignation; he saw no difficulty in Tallmadge's
embracing the alternative he had proposed,
for most people can bear the misfortunes of other men
like Christians, but for himself he could go no farther
than to say that "the Whig party should sustain the
nomination," reserving his opinion of what he himself
meant to do and what the Webster party "should" do
for a different audience.
This letter does not quite bear out the report of the 
Times; but which of the three parties had been betrayed
by their imagination, is not yet ascertained.
We suspect the credit of the fib should be equally distributed 
between them.
Had not the city authorities better have that "private 
parlour" at the Astor closed?
The private parlour referred to by the Post is the 
one in which Gen. Scott sat with his two friends, and
was "fired with indignation" at the conduct of the 
foreign population in elections, and wrote, in consequence, 
his famous Native American Letter.

Cassius M. Clay writes to the National Era to
decline the proposed use of his name by the Free Soilers
as their candidate for the Vice Presidency.  This 
is his letter:
White Hall P. O.
Madison Co., Ky., July 5, 182.
My Dear Sir:  My name has been by some friends
suggested as a candidate for President and by more for
Vice President of that United States, on the Free Democratic
ticket.  Allow me to say that I have, in all my 
conversations and letters, discouraged any such procedure.
I now decline altogether having my name used
in the Pittsburg Convention.  In doing so, I do not fail
to appreciate the very distinguished honour which,
were I successful in such nomination, would be conferred 
upon me -- as much more honourable than a Whig
and Democratic nomination would be, as Freedom is
more glorious than Slavery.  Neither am I influenced
by the prospect of temporary defeat; for it is in my 
view far more honourable to deserve success than to 
win it!  But I, though an old soldier in the cause of
American Republicanism, am a new comer in the Free
Democratic organization; and I deem it but just that
the compliment of standard-bearer should be conferred
upon those whose advanced age will not allow them to
reap any of the fruits of their labours in the achievement
of victory and power.  I think the chances are in 
favour of my living to see both!  I have yet faith that
the declarations of '7 are not only true, but destined 
to accomplishment; that not in vain were the aspirations
of those great hearted patriots, who died that we
might be free; that these events which have illustrated
the last half century are not dimmed by confirmed despotism;
that it can hardly be that the mission of America 
is to hunt down a fugitive slave!  Ove the skies
of my vision no such clouds of despair lower!  My 
spirit is not marred in all its possible happiness by any
such event!  This, not only the eternal course of Destiny
declares, but the late Conventions at Baltimore 
attest!  Liberty, after all, is not so low in the reverence
of its blasphemers, when upon the shrine of her 
propitiation is poured out the blood of a Cass, a Buchanan, 
a Filmore, and Webster!  No; our cause is 
one upon which the ideal builds the heaven of its happiness,
and the practical rests its great development --
the cause of Humanity and of God!  The Free Democracy
must at last and soon control the destinies of this 
Republic.  Sacred be the memory of our fathers!  Their
principles shall be vindicated, their avowals made good,



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the devil of our great woe shall be cast out; Slavery
shall perish!  True Republicanism shall be established
--America shall be free!  Our alliance with foreign
despotisms shall be dissolved; the great pressure of our
apostacy shall be lifted off from the crushed hearts of
the Democracy every where; we shall be not only the
hope but the help of the nations, till their destiny be
accomplished!  A soldier, then, in the ranks, the nominees
of the Pittsburgh Convention shall receive my
unreserved support.  I shall not dishonour myself by
associating with parties who despise me, or vindicate
political creeds which in the same breath I denounce!
"Can't or can be elected," never was and never shall be
in my political vocabulary!  I ask myself, "Am I right?"
And ever, amid the thunders of the battle, my war cry
shall be, "Don't give up the ship!"
  I have the honour to be your friend an obedient
servant       C.M. CLAY.
  G. BAILEY, Esq., Editor National Era.

A FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE. — The Rev. Hiram Wilson,
sends to a friend who communicates it to the Tribune,
the following interresting narrative of the escape of a
free woman from bondage, and of the unsuccessful attempts
to re-enslave her:

ST. CATHARINES, Tuesday, July 6, 1852.
   DEAR SIR: I take the liberty to address to you a
few lines respecting a very interesting case of escape
from the great Southern Sodom (New Orleans).  On
Friday morning last a fine appearing coloured girl, almost
white, was brought to my house by two coloured
men from Chippewa.  She is only in the 14th year of
her age, but had been sold four times.  From what I
can gather from her, her mother is a slave in New Orleans,
having two sons and two daughters, besides this
girl, all the children of a wealthy banker in the slave-
breeding State of Virginia.  Her father had occasionally
sent money to her mother at New Orleans, $50 at
a time.  It was the lot of the girl (Mary Elizabeth), to
be sold some years since to a slave-holder, by name of
C——, who died at New Orleans about two years ago,
and made provision by will for the freedom of his slaves,
fifty in number, on condition that they should be carried
into a Free State.  They were kept in bondage in
spite of the will. I think under the pretext that there
was no means of paying for their transportation.
Mary's mother was enabled to keep the child with her,
by paying $6 per month for that privilege.  A Southerner,
by name of C——, was coming to the North,
and took the girl in charge, in the absence of her mother,
a little more than two weeks ago, and brought
her on the wait on his daughter.  On their way from
Cleveland to Buffalo, by steamer, her condition was ascertained,
I think, by the chambermaid, who with
others, contrived to transfer the child to the British
steamer Emerald, in Buffalo harbour.  She came concealed
to Chippewa.  The master was immediately there
after her, and a lawyer with him from Buffalo.  He
tried to claim her on the ground that she was a free
girl, and that he was pledged to deliver her in New
York, where she was soon to join the other emancipated
slaves from New Orleans, who were to be shipped
around.
   This kind of reasoning would not take; there was
great excitement about the case at Chippewa.  The
coloured people and others took her in charge, determined
that she should have freedom in Canada, without
going to New York for it; so the claimant and his lawyer
had to go back empty.
   The claimant then began to offer money for the delivery
of the girl on the New York side of the river
$500—$1,000, &c.  Thus far he has been foiled.  The
girl is here in my family, cheerful and contented, but
her escaped has caused very great excitement.
   Yesterday morning I received a message by telegraph
from Chippewa, warning us against the trap of the slave-
hunter, who, it is feared, has one or more coloured persons
bribed over in his favour.
   Last evening a coloured woman from Chippewa called
to see Mary.  She was very full of good will, and had
to report that the girl's clothes had been sent on for
her, but that it was necessary for her to go to Chippewa
to get them.  I asked her why she did not bring the
clothes with her – questioned and cross questioned her,
and made her contradict herself in several particulars.
I was satisfied that she was here for no good.  Others
are doubtless lurking about, under the influence of
bribery.  The poor girl shall be protected and educated
in a free country, and not be subjected to speculation
and prostitution by white-skinned, but black-hearted
knaves and villains from the South.  Faithfully and
truly yours,     HIRAM WILSON.
   P.S.-- While writing the above letter, the coloured
woman from Chippewa called again, and in vain asked
to see the girl, begging my wife to let her take a walk
with her this evening.  God forbid!  She shall be in no
such company.  I should have said that the Southerner
was heard to say he had paid $500 for her, and that
she would be worth a $1,000 to him, on getting back to
New Orleans.     H.W.
 
ANOTHER WILL CASE. -- We copied, last week, from
the Cincinnati Gazette, the case of two daughters —
liberated slaves—of a planter, who recovered property
left them by their father.  The same paper tells another
story with a less fortunate termination:
[?] [Edmond Wells a wealthy]

  STOLEN THUNDER.—The Times, in a recent article
on the political prospects of its party, says:
  There is one dilemma which all Southern Whigs do
not seem to have duly considered.  Suppose that General
SCOTT should be elected by the Free States alone;
or suppose he should be defeated by the defection of
Southern Whig States, upon the ground that he is not
sufficiently a pro-slavery man.  What would be the
effect of either of these results upon the nationality
of the Whig party?  It does not seem to us perfectly
clear, that our Southern brethren are fortifying their
peculiar institutions very extensively for the future,
by the course they are pursuing, those of them, we
mean, who bolt the nomination of General SCOTT because
he is not a sectional candidate.
Which means, when translated, if you Southerners do
not help us elect SCOTT, the next time you want aid for
your Peculiar Institution, we hope you may get us to
help you!  We shall turn Abolitionists.  If the Times
knows no better than to indulge in such gasconade, the
first Southern lad he meets can tell him that it will not
frighten even the little girls at home.  The South has
a prescriptive right to bullying, and knows how much
it means.  It is not to be frightened by the echo of its
own thunder.

WHAT HAS BECOME OF IT. — It was just at this season
of the hear, that we have been accustomed for a 
long while past to gather our annual crop of gasconade
and bravado from South Carolina.  Fourth of July
dinners were the occasions that let out all the smouldring
sentiment of that remarkable community.  "Odds,
triggers and broad-swords," was the favourite oath on
these occasions, as it was with that great prototype of
fighting Acres.
   But alas! we miss this source of excitement during
the present year.  Out of ten thousand nine hundred
and sixty-three toasts, more or less, now before us,
there is not one which threatens the dissolution of the
Union, or which swears terribly against the North.  A
certain person at Sadler's Swamp, indeed, speaks of the
present age as "vitiated and depraved," because it does
not appreciate the genius of Mr. Rhett, but beyond
that the famous fire-eaters of the Palmetto State are as
harmless as fire-crackers.  Even of Abolitionism, they
roar as gently as this ninth regular toast:
  9. Abolitionism—A stream that flows slowly, but would
eventually undermine the foundations of our Institutions.
   What has become, we ask again, of all the blood and
thunder?  Or, were our early suspicions right, that the
Southerners were only playing a game of brag, and
that, as soon as there should be no need for their big
words and bullying looks, both would be dropped? —
Post.
   The Post, like many another prophet, has helped to
fulfil its own prediction.  Its early suspicions of a game
of brag were correct; and "big words and bullying
looks" having served their purpose of frightening the
Post and such like Anti-Slavery folk into good behaviour,
what more need of them?

    THE COLLINS AFPROPRIATION has been passed by 
Congress, by a vote of 89 to 87.  It gives to the Company
thirty-three thousand dollars a trip, or about
twice what the British Government allows to the Cunard
Company for the same amount of postal service.  The
people would like to have cheap postage; and we observe,
by the Parliamentary reports, that some overtures
have been made by the British Government to
our own for an arrangement whereby a reduction shall
be made in ocean postage.  The passage of the new appropriation,
which is to be in force for two years, will
now be handed over to the Ministry as an answer to
their proposition.  The people who want cheap postage
generally, and the poor foreigners who need particularly
cheap ocean postage, are not members of the
Union Committee; Mr. Collins is.

PEOPLE'S COLLEGE ASSOCIATION.  -- Mr. Harrison
Howard, the Secretary of this Association gives, notice
that a meeting will be held at Elmira, on Wednesday,
August 4, 1852, when all friendly to the general objects
proposed are invited to attend.  The friends of
the cause are urged to hold meetings in their several
towns and Counties, enroll the names of all persons
willing to become members of the Association, and
choose delegates to the next meeting at Elmira, and
send the names of the members to the undersigned. A
payment of twenty-five cents for each member, for
the current expenses of the Association, is all that is
now asked or desired, but each member will be required
ultimately to subscribe at least one dollar to the stock,
in order to entitle him to a voice in the location, organization
and management of the College.
[?] [expressed as to what]

was first established and went into operation under the
direction of Dr. Nathan Smith, and bodies wee disinterred
and carried there for dissection, one of the plain
men, who lived in the vicinity and was a great friend
of the professor, undertook to allay the excitement
that this practice awakened by explaining the reason
why he was having the handling of so many dead bodies.
He said, in defence of his course, that Dr. Smith, when
in Europe, to increase his knowledge of his profession,
contracted a large debt, for the immediate payment of
which he had not the ready means; and he was buying
up those bodies and converting them into Harlam
Oil.  So I have been carefully looking for a similar explanation
of the maneuvering respecting the lifeless
body of the Hon. Henry Clay.  If some plain man of
the Whig party should attempt a solution, would he not
say that the object was the manufacture of Political Oil
for the Whig party, because their lamps were fast going
out?  This course of proceeding seems a reversion of
the old maxim, "A living dog is better than a dead
lion."  Such proceedings as those which have taken
place in the case of Gen. Taylor and the Hon. Henry
Clay seem to me to be solemn trifling with the remains
of the dead, and deserving of the most earnest rebuke
on the part of all who would not turn one of the most
serious subjects into ridicule.  So it seems to an 
OBSERVER.

MR. GAY -- In my communication published in your
paper of July 1st. there is one error, which, as it
makes such nonsense, and the expression is so entirely
different from what I wrote, or intended to, I would
thank you to correct.  It is this:
  "In doing so it was observed, we owed no money to
South Carolina,: &c.
  "In doing so we did no injustice to South Carolina,"
&c.  Yours truly,  G. W. F. MELLEN.

Foreign Correspondence.

FROM OUR DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT.

DUBLIN, July 2, 1852.
MY DEAR GAY:  The almanacs say that this is the
Second of July, but it is well we have some such proof,
for, as far as we can judge from the sky, the temperature,
and the winds, it is sometimes a matter of uncertainty
whether we are enjoying the summer or suffering
the winter.  Punch has lately proposed that we
should commence our Christmas games, from the great
similarity, in all its skyey aspects, of the present season
to that festive time of the year.  Such storm, such
rain, and sometimes such cold! Wise as we may be,
we cannot altogether separate ourselves from human
weaknesses, and therefore I have so far sympathized
with my country, for some weeks past, as to be actually
ashamed of the weather.  During March and April, we
had an extraordinary absence of rain, and a painful
prevalence of easterly winds, drying and chilling us
up.  May and June have been roaring and crying,
noise and tears to no end, like a pair of disagreeable
children with soiled faces, that cannot be pacified.
Now, we have had a friend from America with us for
part of this time, and, being desirous to do the honour
of the country, it is ridiculous, instead of glorying in
sunny skies and summer evenings, to be forced to make
apologies and to protest that this is a most extraordinary
state of things—that we don't know how it is—
that we hope it will soon clear up—that it has rained
so much, it cannot continue to rain much longer—that
the bit of blue younder looks as if it were going to take
up, and so forth.   When Garrison was over here, a few
years ago, he was extremely diverted by the inconstancy
of our climate, and he was a little mortified by
one fine day without rain, which he declared spoiled a
continuity of six weeks of weeping weather that he
would otherwise have had to boast of.
   A few days since, four of us set off one fine morning,
with our American friend, towards the County of
Wicklow, the great resort of all small excursionists
from Dublin.  The sky was serene, the sun shining
beautifully; the mountains rose before us clear and
cloudless.  Every thing looked pleasant, including ourselves
and our friend aforesaid.  We expatiated on the
rugged grandeur of the Scalp, a rocky defile through
the hills which bound the county of Dublin to the
[?]

America friend that, between sunshine and shower,
no combination of weather could have been more propitious
for our trip to Luggelaw; and that if it had not
been for the clouds and the rain, we should not have
had half such fine effects of light and shade, nor such
glorious rainbows, nor, above all, such a wonderful,
sublime, coal-black Sugar Loaf.
   I beg you will thank your contributor who penned
the article on the Democratic Nomination at Baltimore
for the pleasure he gave me by the expression of sentiments
so entirely coinciding with my own.  I have
known a Friend make a good position for himself in
Monthly Meeting, not by propounding any opinion of
his own, but by taking care to rise immediately after
some wise and weighty member, and declare that "he
agreed with the friend who spoke last."  Whenever
D. Y. says anything, I generally coincide with his
opinions.  I therefore beg you will do me the justice to
credit me with a portion of the sagacity for which that
sage and venerable man is so distinguished.  I think
the Democrats have done remarkably well.  They have
taught the unprincipled somebodies to whom your politicians
bow down another great moral lesson by handing
over to a nobody the prize for which they (the
somebodies) have bartered character and common
honesty.  I am rejoiced that Cass is disappointed, and
that Webster is almost certain to be so.  Whatever
opinion of these men may be expressed by the fickle
breath of popular applause, it is clear that, after all
their subserviency to the slave-owners, they are not
substantially trusted or respected.  It is amazing how
old men, like the generality of those who seek for the
Presidency, can be such fools as to act so abominably
for such an utterly uncertain reward.
   "Uncle Tom's Cabin" has not sprung into such
immediate popularity here as in the United States, nor
has it succeeded so well as I expected it would.  This
must be partly attributed to the strangeness of the
negro language, with which much of the early part of
the book is filled, partly to the remoteness of the scene
and the subject, but chiefly to the close small print of
the only English edition I have seen.  This contrasts
very unfavourable with the clear, large and beautiful
type of the American copyright edition, which is really
very handsome and very cheap, and the illustrative
cuts are admirably designed and executed.  I have no
apprehension of the ultimate popularity of the book
with us; and I doubt not it will attain that position of
a standard English work of fiction to which it is so eminently
entitled.  I have heard many who are greatly
interested in the Anti-Slavery question express great
regret that the writer evinces a leaning to the objects
of the Colonisation Society.
   Within the last week or two, I met with a recent 
American volume,  "Walks and Talks of an American
Farmer in England," which I thought very hearty and
pleasant reading.  The writer is filled with poetical
and kindly reverence for the old country, and describes
the beatiful rural scenery and architecture of England
with much taste and gusto.  He takes some pains to
describe the real feelings of the English people towards
the United States, showing that, on the whole, they are
full of kindliness and good will, with nothing of that
spirit of bitterness and hostility so prominent in American
newspapers.  I think he describes the exact state
of the case, and that in England, as well as in Ireland,
there are ninety-nine who regard your country in a
friendly spirit for one who indulges feelings of a contrary
kind.  He is a good deal huffed by the frequent
expression of abhorrence of American Slavery which
he heard everywhere, and most loudly and earnestly
from those whose political prepossessions disposed them
to regard your country with most favour in other respects.
He thinks the blame is unjustly laid upon the
North as well as the South; that the Abolitionist are
too much listened to on this side of the Atlantic; that
exaggerated ideas prevail respecting the slave system;
that lecturers, to point out the true state of the case,
are greatly required, and so forth.  Now, if lecturers
could be sent from America who would pay a strict regard
to truth, and would say all that can be said for
the American people without abating a jot of indignation
and abhorrence of Slavery, I would be heartily
rejoiced.  The truth will prevail in the end.  If the
United States government and people are as innocent
of Slavery as they generally seem to think, it should
[?] [as it now seems to be that all who]

——THE ENGLISH MISSION. —We learn from
Washington that Mr. Lawrence, our Minister to Great Britain,
has actually resigned, and will return in October, and that
Mr. Webster positively declines the mission, leaving it to Mr.
Crittenden to take it if agreeable to him.  Mr. Webster is
said also to have as positively declined the Native American
nomination for Presidency. —Baltimore Sun.
   And we (Tribune), on the other hand, beg to say that this
is all gossip, that Mr. Lawrence has not resigned, and has no
intention of resigning.  This we state on as good authority
as could be had for any statement.

THE son of Justice Anthony, of Utica, for whom
a call for information has been for several weeks advertised in
The Atlas, has returned to his parents.  He has been to New
York, Philadelphia, &c.  This erratic genius, says The Utica
Gazette, is only nine years of age, and this is the third or
fourth of his expeditions.  He starts off without preparation,
funds or baggage, as the humour prompts him, and commends
himself to the good graces and kindness of conductors, hotel-
keepers and others, by his handsome and intelligent appearance
and good conduct.  In fact, all his wants seem to be attended
to by those who become interested in him.  On his
two last expeditions he took the precaution to travel under
an assumed name, to escape any embarrassment from the parental
advertising.  He is an exemplary child in every respect
save this incorrigible disposition to rove.
——Mr. WEED, in one of his agreeable letters
from Europe, gives the following notice of the mania for fine
lace, which is conspicuous among the forms of modern extravagance:
  "The ladies visited the principal lace manufactory, where
the Brussels article is made and sold for sums of money that
would frighten prudent people.  What do you think, for example,
of trimming a dress with lace at $250 and $300 a
yard?  But just now the rage is for old lace.  In Florence,
Rome, Naples, Venice, &c., traffic in old lace is very active,
Ladies look for it with more solicitude than for any other article
of dress.  Neither jewelry nor precious stones are so
much prized as lace known to have been worn by a Cardinal
or monk a century or two ago.  No lady thinks of leaving
Italy without securing some of their precious spoils.  Of
course the supply of old lace keeps pace with the rapidly increasing
demand!  How much of it is genuine i will not undertake
to say.  Every lady is quite sure she can detect the
antique from the modern.
——A SENSIBLE LORD.—The Boston Commonwealth
says that Lord Wharncliffe, tarrying in that city on the
Fourth, was invited by the city authorities to participate in
the exercises.  In a very neatly written note, characteristic
of a well-bred Englishman, he declined the honour, saving
the object of the celebration was essentially American, and
one in commemoration of which it appeared to him he could
not becomingly pretend to take a part; he therefore hoped
the Committee would consider it as no evidence of disrespect
towards them if he expressed his regret that he could not
avail himself of the invitation with which they had honoured
him.
——The Chicago Tribune has the following:  It is
said that since the tracks of the Railroads around the Lake
were laid down, but one single wolf has been seen or heard of
south of them, and it is thought that he had never been north
since their construction.  The farmers of Twenty Mile Prairie,
and adjacent country, are no longer troubled about herding
their sheep in pens during each night, as they were formerly.
The wolf is at all times exceedingly suspicious of
traps, and is not disposed to venture near iron or steel, however
tempting the bait may be that lies near it; hence their
fear of crossing the railroad track to commit depredations on
the flocks in the farming country south.  At night, too, when
they leave their dens, the locomotives pass, and their hideous
noise is not calculated to inspire the varmints with any remarkable
degree of confidence aud security from danger.
——The Nova Scotian, speaking of the alleged discoveries
of gold in that Province, says:  We want no gold regions
in the land of the Mayflower.  Plutus has deposited
mineral wealth infinitely more useful and valuable in the
bowels of Nova Scotia.  The mischief is that the people, for
whom they are held in trust, have been cruelly cheated out of
their rights in this particular.
  Under the existing system it is the direct interest of every
landowner to conceal, by every possible means, the discovery
of every species of mineral wealth.
  There are probably hundreds of men in the Province actually
cognizant of the presence of iron, copper, coal, &c., in
any quantity, who will probably carry the secrets to the
grave, rather than reveal them for the benefit of the Mining
Association, or the British Government.  This state of things
has a most mischievous and disastrous tendency.  The man
must be obtuse indeed who does not trace much of our want
of energy as a people, and our lack of prosperity as a Province,
to the "odious monopoly" which cramps the former
and neutralizes the latter."
——NEW-JERSEY EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.—The
Episcopal Convention continued in session till after midnight
on Wednesday, and adjourned abut 1 1/2 o'clock Friday morning,
after consuming several hours in debating and adopting
a series of resolutions sustaining the report of the investigating
Committee, exculpating Bishop Doane from the charge
against him, expressing confidence in him, &c., and appointing
a Committee of seven to present the report to the House
of Bishops, accompanied with representations, the design of
which is to intimate to the Bishops that a further trial will be
unnecessary, and not conducive to the interests of the diocese
and the Church.  The debate did not assume the violent and
personal character which existed in the last Convention, but
was mostly temperate and general.  The Convention resolved
itself into a Committee of the Whole, the Bishop resigning
the Chair, as no final action could take place in Committee,
after stating that he considered it his duty, as well as his
right, always to preside during the regular transaction of
business by the Convention.  We believe that it is the intention
of those who have been instrumental in procuring the
charges against the Bishop, and who refused to appear before
the Committee of Investigation, deeming it an irresponsible
and illegitimate body, to press the charges before the House
of Bishops, and urge the trial, on the ground that by the absence
of the evidence of several witnesses who refused to appear
before the Committee, their report is necessarily imperfect
and partial.  The majority of the Convention are apparently
desirous that the matter should proceed no further,
deeming the Bishop sufficiently vindicated. —Newark Adv.
——"CROWDING THE MOURNERS."—The death of
Hon. Daniel Webster was officially announced by the Whigs
[?]

——EXCHANGE OF EDITORIAL COURTESIES. —Philosopher
Greeley, the editor of The New York Tribune, and
one of Seward's Abolition organ-grinders, attempts to throw
ridicule upon the letter of Hon. Chas. J. Jenkins, of this
State, recently pnblished in The Republican.  We are not
surprised at this.  Mr. Jenkins is a resident of the South and
a gentleman, either of which is sufficient to insure the abuse
of the "whited sepulcher" who presides over The Tribune.
Indeed, we know of no better test of character than the opinion
of Mr. Greeley.  If he denounces a man, he may be set
down as a gentleman; if he praises him, it may be safely inferred
that he is both a vagabond and a scoundrel.—Savannah 
Republican.
   We gratefully acknowledge the flattering complment paid
us by The Republican, and can do no less than reciprocate it.
Be it known, then, that we consider the Editor of said Republican
a gentleman and a scholar, a philanthrropist and a
Christian.  We are able to say a great deal more in his praise,
but desist, from apprehension that some of his readers might
thence infer that he is "both a vagabond and a scoundrel."
Not for the world would we have any of them imbued with
that error.—Ed. Tribune.

NINETEENTH
NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY BAZAAR.
To be held in Boston, Mass., during the Christmas
Week of 1852.

THE Managers of the National Anti-Slavery
Bazaar feel it unnecessary, on the present occasion, to enter
npon any full or detailed exposition of their principles or objects.
These have been avowed and pursued for so many
years, and with so much publicity, as to render such a procedure
superfluous.  We would not, at the same time, lose sight
of the great fact, that there may be many among us, whose
consciences and hearts have been but recently aroused to a
sense of the importance of this great question, who, though
feeling much, may be doing little, and who would gladly
welcome a medium by which their exertions will be made
effective toward the overthrow of American Slavery.  To
such, we would submit the very briefest outline of our principles
and aim.
  We regard the idea of property in man as unparalelled,
whether considered in respect to its atrocity or absurdity—
consequently, that all legislation based thereon is in the highest
degree criminal.  Any other doctrine outrages every intellectual
perception and every human instinct.
  Considering the above a self-evident proposition, underlying
all religion and all morality apart from whose recognition
the words right, justice, become meaningless, we esteem its
opponents, whether slaveholders or the apologists of slave-
holding, as implicated in guilt of the most fearful description,
both against that God 'who has made of one blood all nations
of men,' and against their fellow-men generally, the
rights of all being perilled by the enslavement of any.
  The promulgation of this doctrine is the end and aim of our
association.  By its presentation to individual hearts and consciences
the country through, we would arouse so deep a
spirit of personal repentance and self-sacrifice as shall result
in a national contrition and reformation.  When this is accomplished,
the American slave is free.  No obstacles exist
now, save those that ambition, and avarice, and cruelty, and
kindred vices supply.  When the heart of the nation becomes
repentant, we may easily trust it to find the best modes of
action for the accomplishment of its will.  To this result, and
this only, our funds are devoted.  We have nothing to do
with creeds or parties, with political enginery or theological
warfare.  In the name of the common Father of all, and in
behalf of humanity, in its most suffering and outraged form,
we appeal for help to all of every class, creed, clime or nation.
Great as is the work, few and humble as are the labourers,
we feel exonerated from all charge of presumption or folly as
respects its undertaking.  We are working in harmony with
agencies vast as inscrutable, and it is not for us to draw back
from this field of moral conflict, because to human vision the
contending parties are so unequally matched.
  We entreat that this appeal may be considered a personal
one to all whose eyes it shall reach.  We conjure you, the
dwellers throughout this broad country, to recognise an individual
responsibility in this matter.  Look beyond the petty
emotions and interests of a merely mundane or conventional
life, and ask, if the question of your duty to three millions of
slaves was not settled for you, by the fact that your birth-
place was the United States.  This cause has claims on all,
but in an especial manner on those who by the very circumstance
of position, must be, if not its opponents, its abettors.
We ask your sympathy, your money, your time and influence,
and proffer a medium through which all may be successfully
employed.  Any information necessary to individuals or associations
desiring to co-operate with us, may be obtained by
application to any member of the undersigned Committee.
  Donations of money, or articles or materials for manufacture,
may be sent to any member of the Committee, directed
to the Anti-Slavery Office, 21 Cornhill, Boston, 142 Nassau
street, New York, or to 31 North Fifth street Philadelphia.
Donations for the publication of the Liberty Bell, and communications
for the same, may be addressed to A. W. Weston,
Weymouth, Mass.

ANNE WARREN WESTON, ELIZABETH A. COTTON, 
ANN GREENE PHILLIPS, LYDIA PARKER,
LOUISA LORING, EVELINA A. S. SMITH,
HELEN E. GARRISON, SARAH SHAW RUSSEL,

knaves and villains from the South. Faithfully and
truly yours, HIRAM WILSON.
P.S. - While writing the above letter, the coloured
woman from Chippewa called again, and in vain asked
to see the girl, begging my wife to let her take a walk
with her this evening. God forbid! She shall be in no
such company. I should have said that the Southerner
was heard to say he had paid $500 for her, and that
she would be worth a $1,000 to him, on getting back to
New Orleans. H.W.
ANOTHER WILL CASE. - We copied, last week, from
the Cincinnati Gazette, the case of two daughters-
liberated slaves-of a planter, who recovered property
left them by their father. The same paper tells another
story with a less fortunate termination:
In the summer of 1846, Edward Wells, a wealthy
Mississippi Planter, brought to this city a beautiful
mulatto girl of 16 years-his daughter by a favorite
slave-and placed her in the Coloured High School, an
admirable institution, established and supported by
the liberality of Hiram S. Gilmore. Mr Wells left
sufficient funds for the current expenses of his daughter,
and returned to his plantation. We have seen
several of his letters in which he speaks of "Nancy"
in the most affectionate terms, disiring that her moral
as well as her intellectual education should receive
careful attention. Nancy had an own sister, somewhat
younger than herself, but we believe she was not educated
in Cincinnati.
In 1848, Mr. Wells died, leaving to each of his daughters,
by a clause of his last will, the sum of three thousand
dollars. He had previously emancipated both,
but, as in the case mentioned a few days since, made no
provision for the freedom of their mother. When the
two Misses Wells--since married-claimed their property
under the will, the payment was resisted by the
other heirs on the ground that it was illegal to emancipate
slaves in Mississippi, unless the liberated chattels
are taken to a Free State, and a legal record made of
the act of liberation. Failing, thus far, to find such
record in Ohio or any Free State, the young women
mentioned they have been unable to obtain a dollar of the
money solemnly devised them by their father.
The following is a copy from the records of the first
sentences of the will: the other daughter is remembered
in another portion of the paper:
THE WILL OF EDWARD WILLS..
In the name of God, Amen. I, Edward Wells, of the
County of Madison and State of Mississippi, being of
sound mind, and of my own free will do, on this 23d
day of June, 1848, make and ordain this to be my last
will and testament.
Clause 1st. It is my wish and desire that all my just
debts be paid, and my funeral expenses defrayed.
Clase 2d. I leave to Nancy Wells, a mulatto girl
about 18 years of age, whom I have raised and liberated,
the sum of three thousand dollars, to be raised
from the sale of my property, also the silver watch
worn by me, also my feather bed. 
EMANCIPATION IN MASSACHUSETTS. - Dr. Lowell
contributes to the last volume of the Massachusetts
Historical Society's Collections an article in which may
be found the following interesting statement. Dr.
Lowell may well say he has an honest pride in making
it:
"In the fourth volume of the Collections, first series, page
203, in a communication from Dr. Belknap, is the following
statement: 'The present constitution of Massachusetts was
established in 1790. The first article in the Bill of Rights
asserts that all men are born free and equal. This was inserted
not merely as a moral or a historical truth, but with a
particular view to establish the liberation of the negroes on a
general principle, and so it was understood at the time by the
people at large.' I feel an honest pride in saying, as I have
authority to say, that his clause was introduced by my
father, the late Judge Lowell, for the purpose above stated,
and that, on its adoption by the Convention, he offered his
aervices as a lawyer, gratuitously, to any slave who might
wish to substantiate his claim to freedom."
Judge Lowell was a member of the Committee for
reframing and reporting a Constitution. The spirit of
opposition to human bondage which moved him then,
lives now in his son, the Rev. Dr. Lowell, and his son,
the poet, James Russell Lowell. The family, for several
generations, has been a distinguished one, and
the time will come when its representatives will be
honoured no less for this than for other great and good
qualities-that it has always been persistent in its love
of Liberty.
THE (London) Anti-Slavery Reporter, the organ of
the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, edited
by John Scoble, devotes several pages of its last number
to the report of the late Annual Meeting of the
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in this
city. The meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society
it disposes of thus succinctly: "The resolutions of 
the AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY are declaratory,
controversial, and denunciatory, opening a wide
field for comment and opposition-we, therefore, forbear
to copy them."
But, we presume, because they are neither declaratory,
controversial, nor denunciatory, and because they
open no field for comment or opposition, it copies, on
the same page, the Resolutions passed by the Baltimore
Democratic Convention relating to Slavery.

August 4, 1852, when all friendly to the general objects
proposed are invited to attend. The friends of
the cause are urged to hold meetings in their several
towns and Counties, enroll the names of all persons
willing to become members of the Association, and
choose delegates to the next meeting at Elmira, and
send the names of the members to the undersigned. A
payment of twenty-five cents from each member, for
the current expenses of the Association, is all that is
now asked or desired, but each member will be required
ultimately to subscribe at least one dollar to the stock,
in order to entitle him to a voice in the location, organization
and management of the College.
SOME curiosity having been expressed as to what
members of the Union Committee were about to present
to Faustin I, of Hayti, a magnificent dagger, which was
on exhibition for several days in a jeweller's shop window
on Broadway, the Tribune explains "that this
present was made at the order of a foreign house having
a branch here, which house had the honour of furnishing
the various imperial gew-gaws used at his Majesty's
coronation. This was not only an humble acknowldgement
of the satisfaction and profit of that
commission, but a sort of invitation of further patronage
addressed to the Haytien Imperial family and aristocracy."
MORE "CAVING-IN." - It was a "mighty caving-in"
at Baltimore, said Stanton, when he announced, at
Tammany Hall, that he tumbled with the rest. Nor is
it over yet; the sand is still rattling down on all sides.
The Tribune states by authority, that Hon. Amos
Tuck, M. C., from New Hampshire, whilom a Free
Soiler, intends, and has from the first intended, to support
no other candidate than Winfield Scott.
A GOOD TIME AT A FUNERAL - The city Auditor's
books show the following charges for taking the body
of Henry Clay to Albany:
For refreshments of Committee attending Mr. Clay's remains
to Albany, on board steamboat Santa Claus.....$1,411 25
For use of steamboat to Albany and back..........$1,090 00
Incidental expenses to Committee...............................653 00
Refreshments for do., in New York...............................193 28
Total....................................................................................$3,347 53
HON C. DURKEE, M. C., will accept our acknowledgments
for several valuable public documents.
THE RECENT TRIAL FOR KIDNAPPING.
SYRACUSE, July 16, 1852
Editor Anti-Slavery Standard:
I NOTICE that when you gave the proceedings on the
recent trial of Deputy United States Marshal, Henry
W. Allen, in this city, on an indictment for kidnapping,
which were preliminary to the argument, you stated
that they were "Reported by W. L. Crandal, for the
Syracuse Star." Now, the whole was reported by me; and
the only reason why I make the statement is, that it
appears to me to be due to Mr. Smith. It leaves room
for the inference that Mr. Smith had something to do
with that Report; whereas, he never saw a word of it,
till it reached him after his return to his residence, in
print. You have many able and acute lawyers among
your readers; and as I am not a lawyer, I may, in that
mere sketch, have done Mr. Smith injustice. I will
add, for the information of lawyers and others, that
the whole case is now in press, and will be published
in two or three weeks. It includes the proceedings
preliminary to the Argument; a brief history of the
origin of the case; and the arguments of Gerrit Smith,
Stephen D. Dillage, George F. Comstock, and of Charles
B. Sedgwick, in reply to the two latter, who were the
Defendant's Counsel. These were prepared by the
several gentlemen named. Judge Marvin's Charge,
written out by himself, will also be included.
Respectfully yours, W. L. CRANDAL.
POLITICAL OIL,
OR THE BODY OF HON. HENRY CLAY.
WHAT is to become of man after death, is a question
that interest every serious reflecting person. What
disposal is to be made of his lifeless body in this world,
as well as of his soul in the next, is a matter of indifference.
Hence, the attention to cemeteries-hence, the 
horror awakened when a body has been disinterred and
dishonoured in the dissecting room. But of late years,
the progress of the science of Anatomy and the science
of Politics, and increasing intelligence among the people
or their leaders, have greatly alleviated this feeling.
Some years since, it was a great puzzle what use could
be made of a dead human body in a Medical College.
When the Medical Department of Dartmouth College

years ago, he was extremely diverted by the inconstancy
of our climate, and he was a little mortified by
one fine day without rain, which he declared spoiled a
continuity of six weeks of weeping weather that he would otherwise have had to boast of.
A few days since, four of us set off one fine morning,
with our American friend, towards the County of
Wicklow, the great resort of all small excursionists
from Dublin. The sky was serene, the sun shining
beautifully; the mountains rose before us clear and
cloudless. Every thing looked pleasant, including ourselves
and our friend aforesaid. We expatiated on the
rugged grandeur of the Scalp, a rocky defile through
the hills which bound the county of Dublin to the
South; and were eloquent on the verdant beauty of the
view that lay beyond, pointing out the indented outline
of Bray Head, and the stately form of the Great
and Little Sugar Loaf, the former a conical mountain,
the latter a truncated cone, that constitute the glory of
that rich and varied landscape. Beneath us lay the
pretty village of Enniskerry, with its white-washed
cottages and picturesque houses; and, having passed
through and beyond it, we came to Tinnehinch, the
beautiful retreat in which Henry Grattan, the celebrated
orator, statesmen and patriot, passed the latter
part of his life, on the estate presented to him by a
vote of the Irish Parliament, who acknowledged to the
tune of £50,000 or £60,000 worth their gratitude for
his services in asserting and being mainly instrumental
in obtaining their independence of the English Parliament
at the time of the Irish volunteers in 1782.
During the latter part of the struggle with "her revolted
colonies" (I mean you, the free and enlightened
American people that now are), England was greatly
weakened and exhausted, and there were rumours of 
an intended invasion of Ireland by the French. Then
uprose the volunteers for the defence of the country, to
the number of 150,000. They armed and equipped
themselves, and presented such a front that no more
was heard of invasions; and the English government,
which, up to this time, had ruled paramount in Ireland,
was full of gratitude and apprehension, for these myrmidons
refused to disband until the entire independence
of the Irish parliament was conceded and the distinct
political existence of the Irish nation acknowledged. It
was this measure which owed so much to the fiery eloquence
of Grattan, who, apart from his eminence as a
statesman, patriot and orator, was, I fear, much like
some of your own very great men, not a bit better than
he ought to be. Morally, his reputation was not unlike
that of the Cincinnatus of Marshfield. Politically, he
behaved himself very well, and would, I believe have
hanged himself sooner than stoop to the unutterable
meannesses that damn the name of Webster. After
this episode, you will rejoice to know that we ascended
the Long HIll, which forms the shoulder of the Great
Sugar Loaf, in good health and spirits, and in spite of
a heavy shower, that compelled us to take shelter in a
cabin, where our American friend had an opportunity
of investigating the interior arrangements of an Irish
cabin. Then we proceeded along a level tract about a
thousand feet above the sea, for some miles towards
Luggelaw, a romantic hollow, with a lofty cliff, many
hundred feet high, on one side, a wooded mountain on
the opposite, and a dark mountain tarn lying between
them. The lake is called Lough Tay. You may imagine
how affronted we were when our friend declared
that our inland sea was about the size of a pond on the
ground of an uncle in Chester County, Pennsylvania.
It was afterwards conceded to our offended dignity
that the pond was only half the size; but this did not
mend matters much, though, form politeness to our
guest, we smothered any open manifestations of indignation.
The beauty of the spot was cheerfully admitted;
and it is some comfort to us little inlanders that
picturesque beauty is not inseparable from size, and
that it is found in as great perfection where the constituent
objects in a landscape are no larger than can be
comfortably embraced by the vision as in those greater
and more favoured parts of the world where every
natural object except man is so big that it requires the
united power of faith and imagination to comprehend
the outline of anything. Returning from Luggelaw,
through the mountains, past Upper and Lower Lough
Bray, two more small dark and deep mountain tarns,
we passed  through an uninhabited waste of brown
healthy hills, so dreary, dark, and gloomy, that it requires
company, and pleasant company too (which we
had), to keep our spirits up. The clouds were very
black, and so were the hills; it rained heavily, and the
cone of the Sugar Loaf, utterly unlike lump sugar, was
as inky as Erebus. We then rolled down on our Irish
outside car, 1,500 feet to the plain of Dublin, where we
got home safe and sound, and repeatedly assuring our

from those whose political prepossessions disposed them
to regard your country with most favour in other respects.
He thinks the blame is unjustly laid upon the
North as well as the South; that the Abolitionist are
too much listened to on this side of the Atlantic; that
exaggerated ideas prevail respecting the slave system;
that lecturers, to point out the true state of the case,
are greatly required, and so forth. Now, if lecturers
could be sent from America who would pay a strict regard
to truth, and would say all that can be said for
the American people without abating a jot of indignation
and abhorrence of Slavery, I would be heartily
rejoiced. The truth will prevail in the end. If the
United States government and people are as innocent
of Slavery as they generally seem to think, it should
not be necessary, as it now seems to be, that all who
try to defend them stand up at the same time in defence
or palliation of "the sum of all villanies." I like people
to say plainly what they think; and this honest
American farmer plainly declares that he regards the
laws of entail and primogeniture as equivalent in their
evil results to the system of chattel Slavery. I never
yet heard any intelligent person who had felt the
slaveholder's lash express any such sentiment. Much
allowance should be made for every man, according to
the circumstances by which he has been surrounded,
but, considering the atmosphere of religious and political
freedom in which every Northern American lives,
and moves, and has his being, I cannot tolerate the
prevalent American indifference to the cruelty, pollution
and degradation by which a vast portion of the
population are forcibly and of set purpose overwhelmed
and kept down, on pain of guns, bloodhounds and bowie
knives.
Before I close, I must just tell you that your old
friend William P. Powell, now of Liverpool, complains
bitterly that he is forgotten by his American Anti-Slavery
friends, that he gets no Liberator, no Standard,
no Freeman, no anything, to remind him of the cause
or of you. His address is 50 Great Nelson Street,
Liverpool. He is a good fellow of the right stamp. I
wish you and some of our friends would remember that
he is yet alive and a good strong, stout rope in the
Anti-Slavery ship.  Yours, ever truly,
RICHARD D. WEBB.
Miscellaneous News.
THE Catholic college of Worcester Mass., was
burned down on Wednesday of last week.
-IT is stated that at the earnest solicitation of
many of his old companions in arms, Gen. SCOTT has consented
to be present at the great Political Celebration at Niagara
on the 27th inst.
-THE Postmaster of Charleston, S. C., has issued
a notice cautioning the public against sending slaves to
the office for their letters. Instances have occurred in which
white rogues have taken valuable packages from the negroes,
but they cannot be convicted on a black's testimony.
-A MAN at Utica, who had been sun-struck,
and was delirious and near dying, was saved by putting his
feet in warm water.
-THE Colonisation Journal contains a list of
three hundred and thirty-five persons, who have been emancipated
and emigrated to Liberia since February, 1851. The
number of owners who emancipated these slaves, is about
forty, of whom four are clergymen.
-KOSSUTH left in the Africa, on Wednesday of
last week, secretly, in or to avoid notoriety on his arrival
in England. He was accompanied by his wife and several
friends.
-Mr. Papineau, so conspicuous as a Canadian
patriot, a few years ago, is just elected as a member to represent
the county of two Mountains in the Canadian Parliament,
by a majority of two to one over the government candidate.
-AMERICAN DIVINES AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
-At the recent celebration of Commemoration day, in the
Sheldonian theatre, Oxford, the honorary degree of Doctor of
Civil Law was conferred, among others, upon the Right Rev.
Samuel Allen McCoskry, D.D., Bishop of Michigan, U. S.;
the Right Rev. William Heathcote De Lancy D.D., Bishop,
of Western New York; Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
D.D., of this city.
-ON Thursday, the 8th inst, Mr. Jno. Holmes.
Adams Co., Miss., brought to Cincinnati three slaves-one
girl and two boys-which were raised on his plantation,
whom he manumitted on their arrival.
Mr. John Ford, Jr., a gentleman from the same country,
liberated three of his slaves also-two girls and a boy. It is
the intention of these gentleman to educate them at their
own expense at some institution either in Ohio or in the East.
The boys and girls are young, fine looking children, and promise
well.
-WHISKY-FED HORSES.-Some of the horses
employed on the Harlem Railroad may have been noticed as
having a peculiarly "hard look," and a few may be considered
as regularly installed into the fraternity of "bruisers."
It appears that during the warm weather they are each in
the habit of taking their "drap" of whisky and water, in
order to better qualify them for labour. This mixture is regarded
as an improvement on the usual beverage of horses
in its native state, and as protecting the animals from the
effects of the sun. Wait awhile, and you shall know whether
this opinion is correct. For ourselves, we very much doubt
its correctness.-Journal of Commerce.
-THE Boston Transcript has opened intercourse
with the spirits, publishing as the first fruits, a poem by the
late HORACE SMITH, rapped out "for the Transcript." The
same poem, singularly enough [remarks The Times], appeared
twenty-five or thirty years ago in the London New
Monthly.

which is to intimate to the Bishops that a further trial will be
unnecessary, and not conducive to the interests of the diocese
and the Church. The debate did not assume the violent and
personal character which existed in the last Convention, but
was mostly temperate and general. The Convention resolved
itself into a Committee of the Whole, the Bishop resigning
the Chair, as no final action could take place in Committee,
after stating that he considered it his duty, as well as his
right, always to preside during the regular transactions of
business by the Convention. We believe that it is the intention
of those who have been instrumental in procuring the
charges against the Bishop, and who refused to appear before
the Committee of Investigation, deeming it an irresponsible
and illegitimate body, to press the charges before the House
of Bishops, and urge the trial, on the ground that by the absence
of the evidence of several witnesses who refused to appear
before the Committee, their report is necessarily imperfect
and partial. The majority of the Convention are apparently
desirous that the matter should proceed no further,
deeming the Bishop sufficiently vindicated. -Newark Adv.
-"CROWDING THE MOURNERS."-The death of
Hon. Daniel Webster was officially announced by the Whigs
of Worcester, on the 5th inst., by ex-Governor Lincoln, in his
speech at the festival upon the Common. We copy a synopsis
of his remarks from the Transcript.-Spy.
"Gov. Lincoln went on in this connection to eulogise the
illustrious dead-Henry Clay, the great Pacificator, and Daniel
Webster, the Defender of the Constitution. These are the
men, said he, to whom, as to the memory of the dead, we
render the homage of grateful hearts."
The Spy is obtuse. Did it ever hear of such a thing as the
apotheosis of the living?-Transcript.
Yes, sir, we have; but that is not the question. You said
that Gov. Lincoln went on "to eulogise the illustrious dead,
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster." There is all the difference
in the world between eulogising a dead man and the apotheosis
of a living one, but we are willing to accept the Transcript's
statement of what the "Governor" intended to do.
According to Webster, (Noah, not Daniel,) apotheosis signifies
"the act of placing a prince or other distinguished
person among the heathen deities;" and as Mr. Webster's
friends have been quite anxious, of late, for some good place
to settle him in after the expiration of his present term of
office, there would seem to be a great deal of propriety in assigning
him, who has proved so unworthy of the society of
Christians, a location among the "heathen deities," where he
could live and shine, the greatest heathen of them all.-
Worcester Spy.
-A WORLD'S FAIR IN NEW YORK.-The Directors
of the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations in New York, have issued the following circular:
Office of the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations. NEW YORK, July 12, 1852.
The Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of all
Nations give notice that the Exhibition will be opened, in the
City of New York, on the 2d day of May, 1853.
The Municipal Authorities have granted to them the use of
Reservoir-square, and they are proceeding to erect thereon a
building worthy of the purpose to which it is to be devoted.
The Association desire to make the Exhibition, in fact as
well as in name, a representation from other countries as well
as our own, of Raw Materials and Produce, Manufactures,
Machinery and Fine Arts.
To this end they have made arrangements with Charles
Buschek, Esq., Commissioner of the American Empire at the
Industrial Exhibition in London, whose skill, experience, and
high character offer the most satisfactory security to contributors
from abroad.
Mr. Buschek is the authorized Agent of the Association, for
all countries other than the Continent of America, and as
such has received its instructions.
All communications from contributors abroad must be addressed
to him at "The Office of the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations in New York," No. 6, Charing Cross, London.
He will state to them the nature of the powers given
and authority conferred, and will also explain the great inducements
offered by this enterprise to European exhibitors.
This Association will correspond with all persons in the
United States, the Canadas and British Provinces, the West
Indies and this Continent generally, who may desire to contribute
to this Exhibition.
All such communications must be addressed to "The Secretary
of the Association for the Exhibition of the Industry
of all Nations, New York."
The Association is now ready to receive applications, and
it is desired that they be sent in immediately. Due notice
will be given, hereafter, when the building will be ready for
the reception of articles.
Applications for the admission of objects to the Exhibition
must represent intelligibly their nature and purpose, and must
also state distinctly the number of square feet, whether of
wall floor or counter required
Machinery will be exhibited in Motion-the Motive Power
to be furnished by the Association-and applications for the
admission of Machinery, to be so exhibited, in addition to the
general description and the requisition for space, must be set
forth the amount of Motive Power required.
The Association deem it proper to announce that Paintings
in Frames will be exhibited.
As, notwithstanding the magnitude of the proposed building,
there must necessarilly be a limitation of space, the Association
reserves the right to modify or reject applications,
but, in so doing, will be governed by strict impartiality, looking
only to the general objects of the enterprise.
The Association also reserves the right of determining the
length of time, not to exceed in any case one season, during
which objects shall, severally, form part of the Exhibition.
Exhibitors are requested to designate an agent to whom
their contributions shall be delivered when withdrawn from
the Exhibition.
Prizes for excellence in the various departments of the Exhibition
will be awarded under the direction of capable and
eminent persons.
With this statement the Directors solicit the co-operation of
the productive intellect and industry of their own and other
countries.
THEODORE SEDGWICK, President.
Wm. WHETTEN, Secretary.
Directors.
Mortimer Livingston,   E. J. Anderson,
Alfred Pell,                   Thomas Sedgwick,
Augustus Belmont,      Phillip Burrows,
Alex. Hamilton, Jr.,       Johnston Livingston
George L. Schuyler,     Charles W. Foster.
The office of the Company is No. 53 Broadway, where copies
of this circular can be obtained.
-THE case between Rev. John Pierpont and
the church connected with the Hollis-st., (Boston) Religious
Society, has recently been settled by a compromise, the basis
of which was that Mr. Pierpont should have the income of
the church property which had accumulated since the commencement
of the suit, and should pay his own counsel, and
waive all further right or claim upon the property. The
amount he received was about $2,500, or one half the original
donation. This settlement avoids the passing of judgment
by the Supreme Court, upon various questions interesting to
churches.

stance of position, must be, if not its opponents, its abettors.
We ask your sympathy, your money, your time and influence,
and proffer a medium through which all may be successfully
employed. Any information necessary to individuals or associations
desiring to co-operate with us, may be obtained by
application to any member of the undersigned Committee.
Donations of money, or articles or materials for manufacture,
may be sent to any member of the Committee, directed
to the Anti-Slavery Office, 21 Cornhill, Boston, 142 Nassau
street, New York, or to 31 NOrth Fifth street Philadelphia
Donations for the publication of the Liberty Bell, and communications
for the same, may be addressed to A. W. Weston,
Weymouth, Mass.
ANNE WARREN WESTON,    ELIZABETH A. COTTON,
ANN GREENE PHILLIPS,        LYDIA PARKER,
LOUISA LORING,                   EVELINA A. S. SMITH,
HELEN E. GARRISON,            SARAH SHAW RUSSEL,
CATHERINE SARGENT,          MARIA LOWELL,
HENRIETTA SARGENT,          THANKFUL SOUTHWICK,
MARY GRAY CHAPMAN,      SARAH H. SOUTHWICK,
MARY MAY,                          ANN R. BRAMHALL,
SARAH R. MAY,                    HANNAH TUFTS,
CAROLINE F. WILLIAMS,      SARAH B. SHAW,
FRANCIS MARY ROBBINS,   ELIZABETH GAY,
MARIA W. CHAPMAN,        MARY WILLEY,
CAROLINE WESTON,           ABBY FRANCIS,
ELIZA L. FOLLEN,                 CHARLOTTE S. SARGENT,
SUSAN C. CABOT,                ELIZA F. EDDY,
MARY H. JACKSON.
THE JUBILEE!
WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION!
The Managers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society hereby notify the friends of impartial freedom, without
distinction of party or organization, in this Common-wealth,
that a GRAND MASS CELEBRATION of the Anniversary
of WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION will be held in
the beautiful Grove at FRAMINGHAM, on TUESDAY, August
3d, at which, all, who are longing and labouring to witness a
similar, but still more glorious, event in the United States,
are cordially invited. No occurrence in human history is
more deserving of commemoration than this, being unparalleled
in its nature, and unequalled in the greatness of the
change effected in the condition of a down-trodden and cruelly
oppressed race. Let it be duly observed, with a two-fold
object.
The Rail Road Company have agreed to take passengers
from Boston to the Grove at South Framingham, and bring
them back to the city, on the following terms: Adults, 50
cents each; children, under 15 years of age, 25 cents each.
The same terms will be allowed at Worcester, and for the
Milford Branch. The prices will be uniform, without reference
to the distance travelled.
Those going from Boston will leave in the train for Saxonville,
at half past 8 o'clock, A. M. Returning, will leave the
Grove at half past 5, P. M.
There will be no lack of able and eloquent speakers on the
occasion. It is believed the services will be unusually interesting.
Further particulars next week.
EDMUND QUINCY, Sec'y.   FRANCIS JACKSON, Pres.
Anniversary of the Western Anti-Slavery
Society.
The Executive Committee of the Western Anti-Slavery
Society hereby give notice that the Annual Meeting
of the Society will be held at SALEM, COLUMBIANA COUNTY,
Ohio, commencing on Saturday, the 21st of August, at 10
[?] [?] [?] [?] for three days.
Now that both the great political parties have anew
pledged themselves to perpetuate the power of Slavery, and
to continue the act for slave-catching as the supreme law of
the land, as above God, and all this called and worshipped
as God, it becomes the friends of Freedom to assemble and
devote themselves afresh to its interest-to take new counsel
-to provide new means of warfare-to combine for new and
more decisive action, such as the exigencies of the times demand.
The Committee, therefore, invite the attendance of
all the members and friends of the Society on this occasion.
We shall have the aid of some distinguished friends of the
cause from abroad, but the work to be done is with us in
Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Let the whole West be fully
represented.
In behalf of the Executive Committee.
SARAH MCMILLAN, Recording Secretary.
National Convention.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a National Convention,
consisting of Delegates of the Free Democracy, will assemble
at the city of Pittsburg, on Wednesday, the eleventh
day of August next, at noon, for the purpose of selecting
candidates for the offices of President and Vice President of
the United States. Friends of the principles declared at Buffalo,
at the memorable Convention of August, 1848, are requested,
within their respective States and Congressional
Districts, to meet and elect Delegates, wherever the same
has not already been done-each State being entitled to
three times the number of its delegation in the Congress of
the United States.
By order of the General Free Soil Committee.
SAMUEL LEWIS, Chairman,
Washington, June 19, 1852.

36  NATIONAL ANTI-SLAVERY STANDARD, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1852.
Miscellaneous Department.
THE WIDOW OF SIXTEEN.
MADAME DE BUFFON, niece of Daubenton, and
widow of the only son of  the great naturalist, is just
now dead-so the newspapers of the day announce
-at her country seat of Montbard, in Burgundy.
Until the railway from Paris to Dijon was projected,
few persons, even in France, knew more of Montbard
than its name; and as the French, up to a
very recent date, were singularly ignorant of the
situation of any place removed from the capital,
they troubled their heads but little to ascertain the
whereabout of the shabby village-town where the
illustrious Buffon was born, and where he died. It
is different now; for Montbard, as well as Tonnerre,
has a railway station, and its name is shouted out
by the zealous officers of the great Dijon line;
whence the pretty spire of the rural church, and
the majestic form of the Great Tower de l'Aubespin
can be plainly seen. The stranger's curiosity is
excited, when he hears that the huge building, apparently
uninjured by time, which peers haughtily
over the surrounding country from the height of its
woody hill, stands in the grounds of the house where
Buffon the naturalist formerly lived.
It has fallen in my way to visit this spot three
several times. The first time I came upon it was
during a rambling excursion through Champagne
and Burgundy, before I reached Auvergne, which
was my destination. My reason for turning out of
the road was rather a sentimental one. A friend in
England had related to me a history of her acquaintance
with the niece of Daubenton, the great naturalist
and comparative anatomist, whose fame is
only eclipsed by that of his collaborator.
My friend was sent, when just emerging into
womanhood, with two sisters to Paris, to be placed
under the care of Madame Daubenton, the sister-in-law
of the naturalist, who, being a widow [in?] [???different]
circumstances, was not sorry to accept the
charge of a few English girls, belonging to a rich
family, to be educated with her own daughter Betsy.
A strict friendship sprung up between my friend
and the pretty, round, rosy, cheerful and affectionate
little girl, who learned English readily "from lips
that she loved," and imparted in return her own
animated [account?] to the French of her "dear Sophy."
When the time came for them to part, both being
then about fifteen, little love tokens were exchanged
amidst their tears; and the then broad ocean, unknown
to narrowing steam, separated them. The
marriages of Sophy and Betsy took place almost
immediately after; the latter had become the bride
of young de Buffon. Then came, before she had
been a wife a twelve-month, the terrible consequences
of several ages of oppression and misrule;
Buffon himself did not see the Revolution, and the
young couple were living tranquilly in their charming
and happy country-house at Montbard, when
the Reign of Terror burst upon them. In the madness
and confusion of the time, the  friends of humanity
suffered alike with tyrants, and the young
bridegroom was torn from his home and dragged to
the guillotine. Poor Betsy was also destined to suffer,
and had already gone through hardships and
terrors which might appall the most courageous;
ha lain in damp dungeons, been exposed whole
nights in a cart full of condemned prisoners, and
had given up all but the hope of rejoining her husband,
when a turn of the wheel set her free.
After a time, the widow of sixteen regained part
of her property and returned to Montbard, where
little remained that had formerly adorned her home,
except one room, the walls of which were covered
with coloured drawings of birds, executed under the
eye of the great Buffon himself-the originals of
those engravings published in his great work. These
had been condemned to add to the bonfire which,
kindled in the market-place of Montbar, had devoured
almost all the carved chairs, tables, and curious
cabinets with their contents, which had belonged
to the chateau; but, luckily, it was difficult
to get these feathered friends from the walls, and
delay saved them.
Here, till her seventy-seventh year, suffering in
health and sight in consequence of the treatment
she had experienced, lived Betsy de Buffon, as far as
her slender means allowed, the Lady Bountiful of
the neighbourhood.
Once, twenty years ago, the friends met in Paris.
I was charged, many years after that, not to pass
Montbard without paying a visit, and bearing a
portrait of her beloved Sophy to the Countess. My
welcome was the warmer for my errand, and as a
surprise to her friend I sketched the likeness of
Betsy; who, even at her advanced age, still retained
much of her former beauty, and whose ancient
cheerfulness was renewed while she told me stories
of her days of childhood.

Before her infirm health obliged her to relinquish
the custom, it was usual for Madame de Buffon to
sit out on the first terrace in an easy chair and witness
the gaieties; but, of late years, she had discontinued
to do so, and sometimes, from her windows,
looked out at the lively parties who made her
grounds their own, and whose hilarity and pleasure
she enjoyed as much as they. I saw several wedding
processions ascend the numerous steps to the
terraces; and very gay and bright all the peasants
in their finery looked, as they went laughingly
along, preceded by their violin, scattering themselves
in groups amongst the orange trees and flowering
shrubs, with which the garden walks are bordered,
in the usual formal style of French gardening
taste. When these parties reached the solitary spot
where the antique towers rears its giant height
amongst the huge grey rocks, of which it seems a
part, they unpacked their pic-nic baskets, uncorked
their bottles, and regaled themselves at their leisure,
after which they danced on the green sward shaded
by the fine trees, beneath the castle walls.
Every Sunday the gardens are filled with the
residents of the town and its vicinity; and the
residents of the town and its vicinity; and the
Countess used to ask, with great interest, how many
had come to visit her from week to week. When
stray travellers appeared, which was not unusual,
they wrote  their names ina book in the porter's
lodge, and then it was that the eloquence of the
female gardener, who had chief charge of, and
who exhibited and boasted of the flower gardens,
came into notice. This functionary is the daughter
of the worthy likeness of Adam who lived there
in the time of Buffon himself, and who died at
the age of ninety; she apologizes for a good deal of
slovenliness by observing that she has not hands
enough to do the parterres justice, and is very
jealous of the personage who has charge of the
kitchen garden, on which all the care of  the establishment
is showered, the truth being, that part of
the revenue of the chateau depends on its cultivation
and [????ness]. The [?] is certainly magnificent
here; the peaches in particular being of an incredible
size, and the flavour, as well as the aspect
of the grapes, admirable.
Of all the statues, monuments, fountains, and
ornamental buildings, which the tase of Buffon
erected in his favourite bowers and groves, nothing
remains but a simple column, which the filial attention
of his son raised close to the study of the naturalist,
once, on occasion of his absence from home.
The widowed Betsy never failed to ask all visitors,
if they had observed that memorial, which she had
caused to be re-erected, after it had been thrown
down by the unthinking rabble, to whose love of
destruction the chateau and grounds had been given
up as a prey.
The death of the widow will probably change
everything at Montbard: as she has no direct heirs,
the house and grounds will perhaps be sold, and the
estate divided. It would take a good deal of trouble
to destroy the old tower which, it is to be hoped,
will be left as a point of view from the railroad,
and, as it could not serve any utilitarian purpose,
there is no reason why it should not be left to its
own reflections of the mutability of things; for the
grand old ruin has seen a variety of changes, since
Roman brick and mortar were employed to seat it
so firmly on the rock in which it is embedded. The
lords of Montbard, who looked out from its loopholes,
were some of the most powerful of their time, and
served their sovereign masters, the Dukes of Burgundy,
in many a war, regardless of the will of the
vassals whose arms and lives were their property to
do what they pleased with. One of them, a certain
Hugues the Fourth, was, in the thirteenth century,
a great benefactor to his native town, reserving for
himself, in consequence of want of money-an excuse
acknowledged in all ages-fifteen days' credit
with the bankers and wine merchants, beyond which
time they were not bound to supply him, until he
had paid his debts. How many of his tradespeople
disputed their rights with a lord who lived in such
a domicile, is not recorded; but it would have been
rather an imprudent act to send up the bill too often
to a spot, whence not only a precipice descended,
but where numerous dungeons completed the architecture.
Philip the Bold, of Burgundy, lived occasionally
in this castle, and there received his bride,
the mother of his violent son, Charles the Rash,
whose frantic ambition an army of Swiss peasants
put an end to-scattering his jewels beneath the
wheels of their rough waggons, and cutting up his
golden tapestry into aprons for their wives. Henry
the Fourth besieged Montbard and took it, and here
he drank confusion to the League, in some of the
best wines of the best wine district in France.
The modern hero of the village is doubtless the
barber. In his old age he boasted to me that, on
one memorable morning, he shaved before breakfast,
the chins of "three men capable of ruling a world"
-Buffon, Rousseau, and Voltaire! Rousseau, who

every possible side, worked and churned hither and
thither by the ever-moving toes and muscles of the
foot. As far as any impurity went, the argument
was, that the fermentation flung, as scum, to the
surface, every atom of foreign matter held in suspension
in the wine, and that the liquid ultimately
obtained was as exquisitely pure as if human flesh
had never touched it.-From Claret and Olives.
Address to Wealth-Gatherers.
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit,
Or, what is worse, be left by it?
Why dost thou load thyself, when thou'rt to fly,
O man, ordained to die?
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high,
Thou who art underground to lie?
Thou sowest and plantest, but no fruit must see,
For Death, alas! is sowing thee.
Thou dost thyself wise and industrious deem,
A Mighty husband* thou would'st seem:
Fond man! like a bought slave, thou all the while
Dost but for others sweat and toil.
Officious fool! thou needs must meeddling be
In business that concerns not thee!
For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares,
Thou deal'st in other men's affairs.
Even aged men, as if they truly were
Children again, for age prepare;
Provisions for long travel they design,
In the last point of their short line.
Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards
The stock which summer's wealth affords;
In grasshoppers, who must in autumn die,
How vain was such an industry.
Of power and honour the deceitful light
Might half-excuse our cheated sight,
If it of life the whole small time would stay,
And be our sunshine all the day.
Like lightning that, begot but in a cloud,
(Though shining bright and speaking loud),
Whilst it beings, concludes its violent race,
And where it gilds, it wounds the place.
O scene of fortune, which dost fair appear
Only to men that stand not near;
Proud poverty, that tinsel bravery wears,
And, like a rainbow, painted tears:
Be prudent, and the shore in prospect keep;
In a weak boat trust not the deep;
Placed beneath envy, above envying rise;
Pity great men, great things despise.
The wise example of the heavenly lark,
Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark;
Above the clouds let thy proud music sound,
Thy humble nest build on the ground.
COWLEY, 1618-1667.
*A great economist.
THE truths in the following article from the London
Dispatch have a much wider application than to the
particular case to which it refers. It is, on that account,
as well suited to this meridian as to that of
London:
THE CHARITY OF SECTS.
It is shrewdly observed by our contemporary in
the Household Words that all the modern prophets
who trade in the credulity and fanaticism of the ignorant
being by fiercely denouncing as imposters,
cheats, and blind leaders of the blind, the clergy of
all ordinarily settled and accepted sects. Di Casale
in Italy, the preaching maniacs of Smoland, the
cordwainer manufacturers of Shilohs in Jollenbeck,
Johanna Southcott, Joe Smith, Rosenfield in Prussia,
and the old rogue of this year, 1852, whom the writer
colls Goosetrap Witness, all vehemently proclaim the
hypocrisy of every recognised hierarchy, and the
soul-destroying tendency of their faith and practice.
The only exception we have to make to the sagacity
of the observation is the partiality and exclusiveness
of the writer in its application. It is not the ignorant,
enthusiasts of the hedge or barrel-head alone
-no, nor the crafty but coarse impostors who wear
long beards and proclaim their title to the appropriation
of seven wives-it is not the dirty and hirsute
vagabonds who put new soles on shoes, and new
shoes on souls-it is not these itinerating spiritual
vagabonds alone who call all wisdom folly, and all
piety hypocrisy, except their own. The Papist consigns
all heretics to perdition-the Athanasian declares
that the Unitarian "without doubt shall perish
everlastingly"-the Episcopalian asserts that there is
no regeneration without baptism by apostolical tradition
-the Presbyterian (Scotch) regards prelacy as
more fatal to the soul than Popery itself; and one of
the most popular of the preachers of one of the most
eminent Dissenting sects, has repeatedly asserted
that the Established Church has sent more human
beings to eternal perdition than all other sources of
damnation put together. The confession of faith of
the Scotch Kirk points out poor old Pio Nono as

had been brought up as a Protestant, it was his wish
that he should go to church regularly.
The perusal of this eolloquy suggests forcibly to
the mind the question of the great Author of the
faith of Europe, "Now which of these was neighbour
unto the man that fell among the thieves?" To
our thinking, Mr. Lenty was more intrinsically a
Protestant than his miserable opponents. He had
no objection to his apprentice because he was a
Protestant. He did not use his power to proselytise
him. Himself a Papist, he yet honestly, not merely
permitted, but compelled, his servant to go to the
state church, whenever he found out that the boy's
parents were Protestants. Had he been a Protestant
parson, like "the Rev. E. Scobell," he would not
have allowed a Catholic shop-boy or chambermaid
to enter his house. In dispensing parish charity,
he would have confined his alms to those alone who
attended his church. He would not have permitted
any of his household to enter a dissenting chapel,
under pain of expulsion-and, as far as he could, he
would have adopted a system of exclusive dealing.
Mr. Scobell and Mr. Adamson judge of the mean
narrow-mindedness of others by their own self-righteous
feelings. Mr. Stapylton drives us instinctively
to the exclamatioh of Shylock-
Oh, father Abraham! what these Christians be,
Whose own hard hearts do teach them to suspect
The thoughts of others.
We have here some of the later fruits of Lord John
Russell's precious policy, by which he has contrived
to set every neighbourhood by the ears, and raise that
spirit of self-sufficient intolerance, which a wise
statesman would have discouraged, and a just and
generous ruler would have scorned. When so much
time and money are squandered in converting Catholics
to Protestantism, it is much to be regretted
that a little of both have not been appropriated to
the much more necessary purpose of converting Protestants
to Christianity. They are by no means
convertible terms. They have no necessary connexion.
They have no bearing even on one another.
In fact, the solicitude which some men are eager to
profess about the former is a positive obstruction to
the cherishing of a due appreciation of the other.
There are indeed, no nicknames to be found in the
New Testament. Even the word Christian is not to
be found there. It was only among the Jews that
distinctive sects were called Pharisees and Sadducess.
One of the evangelical churches, planted by
Paul himself, and universally acknowledged as plenarily
orthodox, wrote to him long after its establishment,
"We have not so much as heard whether there
BE a Holy Ghost"-yet no cavil was made about the
heresy. The fact was, and is, that creed, orthodoxy,
"sound believing," are not Christianity - have
scarcely anything to do with it. It is a religion of the
soul rather than that of the mind-the anima, not
the animus. It is the faith of the heart, not of the
mere pragmatical understanding-in a word it is
the spirit of the affections, not the dry husk of syllogistic
propositions-the divine humanity of Christ,
not the crabbed logic of John Calvin, or the pagan
rights of that Presbytarian model John Knox, who
we see by a recently recovered Tract, actually ordered
a fellow-creature for execution, solely for the
offence of taking part in a harmless and popular
Christmas game. So long as a wretch like that,
who seems to have indignantly regarded human
sacrifices to be as indispensable to the service of
God as Druid, and to have mistaken "the Father"
for Odin or Thor-so long as such a man is esteemed
by a great Reformed Church as a pattern Christian.
It is but too evident that real Christianity has been
altogether forgotten. Why should Mr. Scobell object
to permitting a Roman Catholic to have a Protestant
apprentice? Why should Mr. Adamson protest
"against binding a boy to a member of the
Roman Catholic faith?" Why should "nothing in
the world induce Mr. Stapylton to place one of his
children under the care of a Roman Catholic?" Are
two-thirds of the British people to proscribe the other
third, and yet call themselves Christians? Are the
Protestants to "hold no dealings" with the Catholics,
and yet to be the followers of Him who rebuked
the Jews for holding no dealings with the Samaritans,
and told them both that neither in Mount
Gherizim, nor yet at Jerusalem, but only in spirit and
truth, did the Great Spirit seek the worship of all
mankind? If these Marylebone Protestants look
upon Roman Catholics as Christians, why should they
object to trust the young under their care? If they
do not, what do they say to the fact that for a thousand
years at least there were no other Christians in
the world-that at this moment at least five-sixths
of the whole professing Christians in the world are
Papists-and that, indeed, to assert that Popery is
antichrist, is really to libel the providence of the
author of Christianity, and to say that his revelation
has turned out to be a huge abortion as well as a
gross perversion. We defy what are facetiously

age and the arts. This is impossible, and conjectural
quantities must consequently be taken. The total
of coin has been guessed at £400,000,000. Of
this £150,000,000 may be assumed to be gold, and
£250,000,000 silver. The annual consumption of
gold is believed to be under £6,000,000.
Starting with these figures, if the demand for gold
were likely to continue limited to its ordinary
amount, an estimate of the effect of the supplies now
pouring upon us could easily be formed. Thos supplies
within the few years since the discovery of
California, have probably in the aggregate left us an
excess of upwards of £30,000,000 over what has hitherto
been found sufficient for current wants and to
maintain an equilibrium in the general relations of
property. The increase, therefore, has been equal
to twenty per cent on the whole sum in existence;
in other words, the measure of value would appear
to have extended one-fifth (just as if a twenty-five
inch measure were extended to thirty inches), and
hence the effect to be looked for is obvious. Where
gold is the standard, the price of every article adjusts
itself to the relation it bears to that metal. If
sovereigns were twice as numerous, a man would
demand two where he now takes one. An increase
of twenty per cent in the supply should, therefore,
have been followed by a proportionate advance in
the nominal value of all things.
But signs are wanting of any such general avance.
It is necessary, therefore, to inquire-first,
whether any absolute test is available by which the
change can be shown to have taken place in some
one instance, although it may have been counteracted
in others; and next, if this be impossible, whether
the apparent anomaly can be explained on
different grounds.
The most direct test would be sought in the price
of silver, that article next to gold having hitherto
been the least liable to variation. But it was long
ago pointed out that in those countries where gold
and silver constituted equally a legal tender, one
metal as it became more abundant, would displace
the other, and that the surplus of gold would thus
be reduced, and a large amount of disengaged silver
be thrown upon the bullion market in its stead.
Previously to the Californian discoveries silver was
the circulating medium both in France and the United
States, because since the periods when the double
standard was fixed in these countries it had increased
more rapidly than gold, and all persons having
payments to make, selected it, therefore, as the
best medium. Its relative cheapness in France,
however, as compared with gold, was less than two
per cent, while in America it was merely fractional.
When the Californian supplies came forward the difference
soon disappeared, and silver would have become
relatively much the dearest but for the displacement
which then, of course, occurred. When
one hundred francs in gold, instead of being worth
one hundred and two francs in silver, fell in value to
a fraction below one hundred francs in the latter
metal, it became forthwith more profitable to make
payments in gold, and to sell silver at the market
price for exportation. In this way a large infusion
of gold took place in France, while in the United
States it absolutely became the most common circulating
medium. Thus the effect of the new supplies
of gold has not been limited to that metal, but has
been diffused over gold and silver, and hence, instead
of being equal to twenty per cent., which would
have been the case if the £150,000,000 of gold had
alone been in question, it has been only seven and a
half per cent. from being spread over the entire
£400,000,000 of gold and silver.
By a recognition of this fact all surprise at the
absence of any very striking disturbances up to the
present time is removed. There is quite enough to
warrant the assumption that an influence operating
on one side of the extent of seven and half per
cent. has been partially rendered imperceptible by
the force of circumstances in an opposite direction.
In the first place there have been the effects of increased
production from free trade and free navigation,
the latter of which, combined with railroads,
have caused a large amount of goods that would
otherwise have been in store or in transtu to find
its way to market. Next, it is impossible to estimate
what may have been the extent of hoarding in Germany
and Italy; and, lastly, there remains to be
taken into account the uniform tendency to a fall in
prices consequent upon the march of invention and
the simplification of labour.
We have now, however, to consider the future.
So long as there is any silver, to be supplanted in
countries where, owing to the existence of a double
standard, it is optional for the debtor to pay either
in gold or in silver, the effects of the increased production
will continue to be extended to both metals
and consequently, if the surplus of gold this year
should be, as has been estimated, £25,000,000, its
influence upon prices could be but six or seven per

lue to have taken place. A reduction of five or ten
per cent. in such things as gold and silver would
make little difference in the number of purchases of
wrought articles, in which, after all, the manipulation
constitutes one of the chief elements of expense.
It is, moreover, against all experience to suppose
that a large demand would be coincident with a
falling market. With a possibility of gold and silver
steadily declining in value, people would be much
more likely to diminish than to increase their purchases.
This ground of calculation seems, therefore,
to have no better foundation than the other. Any
increase of consumption that may possibly take
place is consequently likely  to be altogether of an
unimportant kind as regards the great question at
issue, and even if anything of the sort should be observable
it will probably be more owing to electroplating
than anything else-an invention which it
was at first thought would lessen the demand, but
which has increased it by superseding all inferior
materials.
We arrive therefore at the unaltered conclusion
that the Californian and Australian discoveries, even
at their present rate of yield will produce effects of
a momentous character, which nothing is likely in
any material manner to counteract. What may be
witnessed if further experience at Port Phillip and
Queen Charlotte's Island should realise the extraordinary
contingencies that seem to be indicated, and
if the supply of silver should simultaneously increase
to the extent that some persons anticipate, is a problem
upon which each inquirer will form his own
opinion.
It still remains to point out that simultaneously
with these changes the increase of production in articles
of food, clothing, and luxury, which has been
strikingly manifested as a consequence of free trade,
will steadily continue, and will thus most probably
prevent most of those articles from rising in price-
that is to say, although a man ten years hence might
have to pay two sovereigns for some few articles the
production of which had remained stationary, where
he would now pay only one, he might possibly be
able to get as much flour, or coffee, or calico for his
one sovereign as he gets at this moment. If this be
the case, it will be said the position of the annuitant
will be unchanged. But there is something to be
added. Although the income of the annuitant might
obtain for him all that he now gets, and his position
will be actually as good as ever, it will not be so by
comparison. His income will have stood still while
all others have been increasing, and, although the
greater supply of articles of general consumption
will enable him to live as well as he formerly did,
society at large will have advanced to a much more
extensive expenditure. A cottager's wife of the present
day, for instance, in consequence of the improvement
in manufactures, wears clothing which a hundred
years back could not have been obtained by
persons of wealth, but her relative position in the
social scale is precisely the same as formerly. If the
wealthy lady of that time were now living, an
could only get for her money what she got then, she
would be in comparative poverty, and it will be seen,
therefore, that it does not follow from the fact of an
individual being able to enjoy for the future all that
he has hitherto obtained that he may not practically
fall from a good income to a narrow one.
With regard to minor points, little requires to be
said. Some people are still found to ask whether
the Bank is to go on giving the price of £3 17s. 9d.
per ounce for gold; whereas all that the Bank gives
when it issues a note is an acknowledgment that a
certain amount of gold has been deposited with it,
which the bearer may have back whenever he likes
to apply for it. Gold constitutes the general measure
of price, and is therefore the only thing that
has not a price of its own. It is simply receivable
at the rate mentioned; that is to say, when one man
talks of owing another £3 17s. 9d., he means that
he owes him an ounce of gold. To speak literally
of a money price of gold is just as if a person were
to ask how much tea he must give for a pound of
tea. Others, again, inquire if the increase of supply
will not affect the rate of interest for money, which
is plainly aN impossibility since the £5 that may be
paid for interest is just affected to the same proportionate
extent as the £100 which is lent. If a man
borrowed one hundred and five loaves at the end
of the year, he would not expect the rate of interest
of five loaves to be affected in any degree by an increased
production of bread. The same illustration,
if it be applied to the question whether the price of
the funds can be affected, will show that in that case
also the gold discoveries can have no direct action.
The recent rise in Consols is merely consequent upon
a continuance of that absence of healthy enterprise
which has been observable ever since the madness
of 1847. Concurrently with the increase of capital
caused by the active events of the last few years

the neighbourhood.

Once, twenty years ago, the friends met in Paris.
I was charged, many years after that, not to pass
Montbard without paying a visit, and bearing a
portrait of her beloved Sophy to the Countess.  My
welcome was the warmer for my errand, and as a
surprise to her friend I sketched the likeness of
Betsy; who, even at her advanced age, still retained
much of her former beauty, and whose ancient
cheerfulness was renewed while she told me stories
of her days of childhood.

"See here," she said, opening a little cabinet:
"look at this relic, and tell my Sophy how faithful
to our childhood I have been throughout my life.  I
shall never part with this little needle case and
these small drawings, given me when we first parted,
by Sophy and her sisters."

When I considered that the minute red morocco,
old-fashioned article she prized so much, must have
been preserved from pillage, and fire, and blood,
and ruin of all kinds, I could not but look with reverence
on the little old lady whose tender heart
had been able to keep an early friendship so long
warm and glowing.  Betsy delighted in speaking
English, and was not a little proud to show off that
accomplishment in her circle, where not a word but
pure Burgundian was understood.  She had forgotten
almost all she had ever known of our language;
but, the few sentences she spoke were in an almost
perfect accent, and so nearly in the tone of her
friend Sophy, as to be startling to my ear.  I indulged
her in the notion that she had lost none of
her former facility, and never reminded her of the
fact that the greatest part of her words were French,
as she ran on laughing and talking to the amazement
of her friends.

"How well she must speak!"  exclaimed one of
the demoiselles Bussy, as the two antiquated sisters,
her especial favourites and frequent visitors, sat elevating
their hands at her prowess—"how very well!
I declare it seems to me that even I understand half
she says; after all, English is not such a barbarous
jargon when Betsy speaks it!"

These ladies, who were so impressed with respect
for her acquirements, lived in the village, and spent
every evening of their lives at the chateau; possessing
the key of a certain garden gate, which admitted
them without question or trouble to the terrace on
to which the drawing-room opened.  The fourth
hand at the invariable "whisk," in which Betsy delighted, 
and without which she could not have
slept, was supplied by Doctor Le Franc, who, as regularly
as the time came, entered also unannounced, 
and took his seat at the table.  The Doctor had
lived all his life at Montbard, and had never found
time to leave the province.  What he may or might
have been induced to do when the then dreaded
railroad cut up his native valley, I know not; but, 
if he be still living, he can run up to Paris once a
week, without the inconvenience that a journey to
Dijon, the only metropolis he knew, used to cause
him.

The Doctor was almost the only eligible single
man to be found in that secluded region; and report
said—indeed the Countess with numerous sly winks
and nods herself hinted to me—that there was some
truth in the rumour that Mademoiselle Clorinde 
Bussy had laid siege to his heart for at least forty
years.  Why it had been in vain I afterwards conjectured—
but if my suspicions were true, the ambitious
aspirings of the good and obedient doctor had
been forced to subdue themselves into the purest
platonism.  Beyond these guests the widow had no
society; and her infirmities rendering it impossible
for her to enjoy the beautiful hanging gardens of
her domain—which almost exclusively belonged to
the peasantry and the towns-people—she seldom
left the house except for her yearly visit to the capital,
where she always passed the winter—Montbard
being too damp a residence.  In fact the situation
of the house is peculiar.  It stands at the foot of a 
very high hill, the chief entrance being in the street
of the slovenly little ragged town; behind it, a well-like
court is surrounded by wings on three sides, 
and the mountain rises sheer from a lofty terrace,
the first of several which reach to the summit, 
crowned with the fine old tower and a few walls of
the ancient feudal castle that once occupied the
site.  Buffon laid out the whole of these charming
gardens himself, and was the first to throw them
open for the convenience of the townspeople; a
custom continued to the end by the Countess Betsy.

The benevolent naturalist had first conceived the
idea of thus beautifying his ground for the purpose
of giving employment to the people; many hundreds
of whom derived their support from the works which
he watched and directed with extreme interest.  He
fitted up a part of the old tower–as a study; and 
there, most of his great labours were carried on. 
At the revolution his chair and table were burnt; 
and, some feeling not to be conquered, prevented
his daughter-in-law from ever refurnishing "Buffon's
study," although the bare walls are still one of the
lions of the place.

Scarcely a week passed without the gardens of
Montbard being enlivened by a fête of some kind.


whose frantic ambition an army of Swiss peasants
put an end to–scattering his jewels beneath the
wheels of their rough waggons, and cutting up his
golden tapestry into aprons for their wives.  Henry
the Fourth besieged Montbard and took it, and here 
he drank confusion to the League, in some of the
best wines of the best wine district in France.

The modern hero of the village is doubtless the
barber.  In his old age he boasted to me that, on
one memorable morning, he shaved before breakfast, 
the chins of "three men capable of ruling the world"
—Buffon, Rousseau, and Voltaire!  Rousseau, who
had been invited by the master of the chateau to
meet his great rival, in the hope that the two spirits
would become reconciled, was seized, on that occasion
with a fit of sentimental enthusiasm as he was
conducted to the study in the grove, where his host
was wont to write, and prostrating himself on the
threshold, kissed the steps which so often gave support
to his feet.

"What a pity a man of such exquisite notions
Should send his poor brats to the Foundling, my dear!"
 
Both the Countess Betsy and be beloved Sophy
are no more; and the episode of this friendship between
the English and French woman is at an end.
Two more amiable, faithful, and true-hearted beings
never existed.  The memory of their virtues should 
add another charm to the locality.—Dickens' Household
Words.

WINE MAKING.

The wine press, or cuvier de pressoir, consists in 
the majority of cases, of a massive shallow tub, varying
in size from four square feet to as many square
yards.  It is placed on either upon wooden trestles or 
on a regularly built platform of mason work under
the huge rafters of a substantial outhouse.  Close
to it stand a range of great butts, their number
more or less, according to the size of the vineyard.
The grapes are flung by tubs and caskfulls into the
couvier.  The treaders stamp diligently amid the 
masses, and the expressed juice pours plentifully out
of the hold level with the bottom of the trough into
a sieve of iron or wickerwork, which stops the passage
of the skins, and from thence drains into the
tubs below.  

Suppose at the moment of our arrival, the cuvier
of a brief space empty.  The treaders, big, perspiring
men, in shirts and tucked-up trowsers—spattered
to the eyes with splatches of purple juice, lean upon
their wooden spades and wipe their foreheads.  But
their respite is short.  The creak of another cartload
of tubs is heard, and immediately the wagon is
backed up to the broad open window, or rather hole
in the wall, above the trough.  A minute suffices to
wrench out tub after tub, and to tilt their already
half-mashed clusters splash into the reeeking pressoir.
Then to work again.  Jumping with a sort of spiteful
eagerness into the mountain of yielding, quivering
fruit, the treaders sink almost to the knees, stamping 
and jumping and rioting in the masses of grapes,
as fountains of juice spurt about their fee, and rush
bubbling and gurgling away.  Presently, having, as
it were, drawn the first sweet blood of the new cargo,
the eager tramping subsides into a sort of quiet,
measured dance, which the treaders continued,
while, with their wooden spades, they turn the pulpy
remnants of the fruit hither and thither, so as to expose
the half-squeezed berries in any possible way to
the muscular action of the incessantly moving feet.

This process of wine making is universal in France,
with the exception of the casses of the sparkling 
wines of the Rhone and Champagne, the grapes of 
which are squeezed by mechanical means, not by
human feet.  Now very venerable and decidedly
picturesque as is the process of wine treading, it is
unquestionably rather a filthy one; and the spectacle
of great brown horny feet, not a whit too clean,
splashing and sprawling in the bubbling juice, conveys
at first sight a qualmy species of feeling, which
however, seems only to be entertained by those to 
whom the sight is new.  I looked dreadfully askance
at the operation when I first came across it; and
when I was invited—by a lady, too—to taste the
juice, of which she caught up a glassful, a certain
uncomfortable feeling of the inward man warred
terribly against politeness.  But nobody around
seemed to be in the least squeamish.  Often and
often did I see one of the heroes of the tub walk
quietly over a dunghill, and jump—barefooted,
of course, as he was–into the juice; and even a
vigilant proprietor, who was particularly careful that 
no bad grapes went into the tub, made no objection.

When I asked why a press was not used, as more
handy, cleaner, and more convenient, I was every
where assured that all efforts had failed to construct
a wine press capable of performing the work with
the perfection attained by the action of the human 
foot.  No mechanical squeezing, I was informed,
would so nicely express that peculiar proportion of
the whole moisture of the grape which forms the 
highest flavoured wine.  The manner in which the
fruit was tossed about was pointed out to me, and I 
was asked to observe that the grapes were, as it 
were, squeezed in every possible fashion and from


[clares] that the Unitarian "without doubt shall perish
everlastingly"—the Episcopalian asserts that there is
no regeneration without baptism by apostolical tradition—
the Presbyterian (Scotch) regards prelacy as
more fatal to the soul that Popery itself; and one of
the most popular of the preachers of one of the most
eminent Dissenting sects, has repeatedly asserted
that the Established Church has sent more human
beings to eternal perdition than all other sources of
damnation put together.  The confession of faith of
the Scotch Kirk points our poor old Pio Nono as
"Antichrists" and the "Son of Perdition;" and
among the conflicting scrambles of rival theologists,
the poor Jew, although the living depositary "of the
faith once delivered to the prophets," and, sooth to
say, of most orthodox sects now, is like the weakest
dog on a market-day, which no sooner does one cur
worry, than all the rest throttle out of very life.  It
is strange that it never seems to have occurred to
these rival saints, who go about exclaiming of every
opponent's faith, "It is naught! It is naught!" that
their estimate of each other implies some very awkward
admissions.  Take any of these self-righteous
gentry at their word—assume or admit with any
one of them that all other creeds but their own respectively
are practical paganisms, and the conclusion
is irresistible, that the world has got on tolerably
respectably for upwards of six thousand years
without any religion at all—Christianity is nothing
but a huge failure—and that, although its
great Author has left his New Testament to mankind
for the last eighteen hundred years, the lawful executor
has not even yet made his appearance, and the
title of every pretender to a probate is ignored.  Can
it surprise any one capable of the simplest effort of
reflection, that infidelity should increase with a rapidity
so frightful as almost to threaten the subversion
of the very principle of belief altogether, when
professors of religion themselves have nothing more
to show for piety than this?  'Nay, can the scoffer
and the sceptic be blamed for regarding all religion
as humbug, and all saints as hypocrites or visionaries,
when they see that that is the very character which
rival pietists give of each other!  We have the 
greatest reason to believe that "the Everlasting No"
has been arrived at much less frequently from those
whose mental habits instinctively lead them to universal
negation, than from those whose fervour in
favour of what they have been taught has been fostered
by the prejudices of their circle up to the point
of denouncing as error and superstition any modification
of belief other than their own.  Indeed, it
pagans thought as badly of Christians as professors
of Christianity do of each other, the labours of
missionaries would prove altogether abortive; and, 
let us add, that wherever they were successful, they
would be pernicious because, apparently, they would
only introduce discord and all uncharitableness in
the place of the harmony and charity which reigned
before.  We have been irresistibly led to the suggestion
of these reflections by the report of a meeting
of the Marylebone Board of Guardians, at which
a respectable cabinet-maker, Mr. Lenty, applied to
have the indentures of his apprentice signed, and
the premium paid.  The report thus proceeds:

The Rev. E. SCOBELL wished to remark that he had
been informed that Mr. Lenty was a Roman Catholic.
He would ask if it was right to place a by who had been
brought up in Protestant principles with a member of
the Roman Catholic faith?  Such a proceeding had been
strongly protested against.

Mr. ADAMSON–As guardians of the poor they were
bound to set their faces against binding a boy to a member
of the Roman Catholic faith.  He would move that 
the boy be not bound to Mr. Lenty, he being a Roman 
Catholic.

Mr. BISHOP seconded the motion.

The boy, who had been on trial with Mr. Lenty, was
then called in and questioned.  He had never gone with
his master to a Roman Catholic chapel.  He attended
the parish church, by the direction of his master, regularly
every Sunday.

Mr. BUCKTON would like to question the boy as to 
the difference between the two religions.  From the
outside of the churches it was impossible to tell (laughter).

In answer to a question from the Rev. Mr. Scobill, 
the boy stated that his wish was to be a Protestant
He had no objection to be bound to Mr. Lenty.

Mr. POLAND wished to know if the Board was to be
converted into a theological Seminary? (hear).

JACOB BELL, Esq., M. P., contended that to lay down
a rule only to bind boys to members of the Church of
England would be an absurdity, for the rule was to apply
to the Roman Catholic, it should equally be observed
with regard to Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, 
and every other denomination of Dissenters; he would
move, as an amendment, that the boy be bound.

Mr. BUCKTON seconded the amendment.  The master
did not object to the boy attending church.  He deplored, 
as much as any one, the evident decrease in 
Protestantism at the present day.

Mr. STAPLETON contended that they should act towards
the paupers as they would towards their own
children.  Nothing in the world would induce him to 
place one of his children under the care of a Roman
Catholic.

Mr. LENTY had been given to understand that the
boy's parents were Roman Catholics; but as the boy


upon Roman Catholics as Christians, why should they
object to trust the young under their care?  If they
do not, what do they say to the fact that for a thousand
years at least there were no other Christians in
the world—that at this moment at least five-sixths
of the whole professing Christians in the world are 
Papists—and that, indeed, to assert that Popery is
antichrist, is really to libel the providence of the 
author of Christianity, and to say that his revelation
has turned out to be a huge abortion as well as a 
gross perversion.  We defy what are facetiously
called Protestants to escape from the cogency of this
dilemma.  If the faith of five proffessors of Christianity
out of every six is not Christianity at all, then
that religion must be a miserable failure, and must
have substantially shed no real influence upon the
world whatever.  If, on the other hand, Papists are 
true believers in all those particulars which constitute
the essence of religion, how totally without cause
or excuse was the reformation?  How wantonly mischievous
was the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and the 
Durham Letter—how scandalously unchristian is the
conduct of those men who, presumptuously arrogating
to themselves the exclusive title to the name of
orthodoxy, seek to condemn a worthy citizen to social
proscription, because he preferred tweedle-dum, while
they maintained the superiority of tweedle-dee!  If
we understand aright the spirit of our fellow-citizens,
it is not by such dastardly persecution that even
heresy or error is to be suppressed.  The traveller
parted with his cloak at the request of the gentle and
genial sun; when the wind and rain pelted, he drew
around him the mantle of his prejudices only the 
tighter.  When Mr. Scobell parades his faith, let
the impartial bystander, with Paul, whisper in his
ear—"If any man saith he hath faith, can faith
save him?"  When Mr. Stapylton airs his orthodoxy, 
and Mr. Adamson protests against the abomination
of heresy, let Mr. Lenty say to them—"Show
me they faith without they works, and I will show thee
my faith by my works."  And let all parties be less
solicitous to be "good Catholics" or "staunch Protestants,"
than to be what both may become, without
either renouncing "his form of faith"–we mean
sincere and simple-minded Christians.  The execrable
spirit of Exeter Hall is poisoning all the amenities 
of neighbourhood and the charities of life, and it 
is high time some effort were maid to "sweeten the
breath of society," by merging mere sectarian distinctions
in the one common union of all, in the desire 
to emulate each other—not in the acrimony of
their orthodoxy, or the malevolence of their consistency,
but in doing justly, loving mercy, and walking
humbly before their God; for that is the Law and
the Prophets.

(For the National Anti-Slavery Standard.)
To Sorrow.

BY LUCY A. COLBY.

O!  SAD-EYED ANGEL with thy smileless brow
And drooping pinions, trailing in the dust,
Though dark and loveless seems they mission, thou
Dost watch the growth of an immortal trust,
A holy faith, undoubting and sublime,
Which lifts us from this sad, strange world of ours
To a celestial and unclouded clime
Where never falls a blight upon the flowers!
Once thou didst seem a fearful thing to me—
A shadow interposed to veil the light,
And long and vainly did I strive to free
My soul from thy sad presence, and the might
Of rayless darkness round me gathering:
That time is past.  I see thee as thou art;
A sunbeam brightens on thy drooping wing;
Fondly I fold thee to my throbbing heart,
And, while I meekly mourn my lonely lot,
I bless thee for the lessons thou has taught!
Danvers, Mass.

The considerations which, three years ago, were
almost derided as to the probable effects of the increased
over all other subjects.  The anxious pause
of curiosity is latent, but it is nevertheless felt by
every one, and it is easy to understand why it has not
hitherto been more decidedly expressed.  The landowners
do not care to avow the full extent of their 
hopes, and to stimulate a cry from the annuitant
class for preventative meddling.  That class, on the
other hand, together with the much larger body who
dislike everything that upsets routine and necessitates
thought, endeavour to persuade themselves into
indifference.  Their original belief having been
forcibly overcome, they seek new refuge in the conclusion
that fresh uses for the precious metals will
prevent any alteration in value.  The remaining 
class, consisting of ordinary men of business, who
are not affected by the bias of either the landlords
of the annuitants, hesitate to discuss a subject which
they have no time to work out, and on which, nevertheless,
they are expected to be perfectly clear.
Under these circumstances, although it may involve
a repetition of former statements, it will be useful to 
review once more the general bearings of the whole
question.

To arrive at an exact solution, it would necessary
to ascertain the amount of gold and silver in the 
world, and the present annual consumption for [coin-]


prices consequent upon the march of invention and 
the simplification of labour.

We have now, however, to consider the future.
So long as there is any silver, to be supplanted in
countries where, owing to the existence of a double
standard, it is optional for the debtor to pay either
in gold or in silver, the effects of the increased production
will continue to be extended to both metals, 
and consequently, if the surplus of gold this year
should be, as has been estimated, £25,000,000, its
influence upon prices could be but six or seven per
cent.  But the period must rapidly approach when
the displacement of silver will have ended, and when
the changes brought about will be upon gold alone.
In France, the existing amount of silver is still
doubtless very large, but this is not the case in the 
United States, and the proposed law by which the
coins below a dollar are to be deteriorated 6.91 per
cent., will prevent for the present any action upon
that portion of the stock.  In Germany, the debased
state of the silver coinage will likewise for a long
time preserve it from displacement.  In Holland silver
has been already established as the standard, and
cannot therefore be driven out.  With regard to 
eastern nations, it is difficult to form any estimate.
On the whole, however, we may infer the possibility
of the displacement process still occupying three or
four years, and that during that time, therefore, the
effects to be produced will be spread, as they have
thus far been, over both metals.

At the end of that period the consequences will be
felt by gold alone, and the relations of property
measured by a gold standard will proportionably
exhibit a more rapid disturbance.  At the same time,
it must not be overlooked that the increase of gold 
each year will have meanwhile diminished the per
centage of alteration which would otherwise take
place.  For instance, the total amount of gold in
the world, which is now assumed at £150,000,000,
would then possibly be £250,000,000, and a production
which, operating upon the first sum, would cause
a rise in prices of ten per cent., would, under those
circumstances, cause only an additional rise of six
per cent.  This is a feature of great importance in
the whole question, because it will constantly tend
to counteract that increasing ratio of disturbance
which might be anticipated if the supply of each
succeeding year should prove larger and larger.  It
is likewise to be borne in mind that, with a diminution
in the purchasing power of gold, there will be a 
proportionate diminution in the inducement to seek
it.  If the quality of gold were doubled to-morrow,
a man who is at present content to work for one
ounce a week, would then not be satisfied with less
than two ounces.

In the face, however, of these qualifying circumstances,
and of the uncertainty of all the assumed
totals that have been dealt with, it will be plain to
most persons that there is enough to suggest some
very decided ideas as to the main results that are
coming on.  A mistake of a hundred millions in the 
figures one way or the other would only make a difference
of three or four years (where the annual
supply is at the rate of £30,000,000) in the date of
fulfilment.  Even if we were to take the whole
£400,000,000 of assumed money as liable to be acted 
upon, it would require little more than fifteen years 
of the existing production to cause an alteration in
the relations of property of fifty per cent.

But it is urged that the extraordinary impulse
given to trade and luxury by these discoveries, and
the greater prosperity of the whole world, will cause
an increased demand for coin for circulation, and a 
vast consumption both of gold and silver in manufactures
and the arts.  It is difficult to see how
these conclusions are arrived at.  In California and
Oregon new communities have risen up, numbering
two or three hundred thousand souls, among whom
commerce has shown an activity never before witnessed,
and yet a few millions of bullion have sufficed
to establish an abundant circulation, although
all the means of economising it which are usual in
older States have yet to be introduced.  We have
here, therefore, a specimen of the limited demand
that would be created even by the founding of the 
mightiest societies, while as regards more settled
countries, it is certainly a mistake to suppose that
the requirements for coin increase with the growth
of commercial intelligence.  Where a German peasant
would hoard a few dollars, and Englishman
would put the like amount into a savings bank; and
in the same manner even our pettiest tradesmen,
instead of keeping money in a safe, resort now universally
to some establishment that affords them the
conveniences of a drawing aocount.  Cheques, bills
of exchange, postage stamps, clearing houses, circular 
notes, money orders, railroad and steamboat season
tickets—all show the rapid tendency of civilizatien
to supersede the necessity of a constant barter 
of the precious metals; and it may even be questioned 
whether, with the growth of morality and of detective 
skill, the danger of forgery, which was the 
sole objection to notes below £5 has not also disappeared.
As regards an increased consumption in
the arts, owing to an abundant supply, the very form 
of the supposition assumes a large alteration in [va]


of the year, he would not expect the rate of interest
of five loaves to be affected in any degree by an increased
production of bread.  The same illustration,
if it be applied to the question whether the price of 
the funds can be affected, will show that in that case 
also the gold discoveries can have no direct action.  
The recent rise in Consols is merely consequent upon
a continuance of that absence of healthy enterprise 
which has been observable ever since the madness
of 1847.  Concurrently with the increase of capital 
caused by the active events of the last few years,
there have been no fresh outlets for its employment,
and the public therefore rush to Consols and Exchequer-bills,
or other established securities.

As far as regards the general changes which these 
discoveries are to produce in the affairs of the world, 
it may be hoped few will be fouud to question that, 
like everything which happens naturally—that is to 
say, independently of human contrivance—they can
have no result but that of contributing to the march
of civilization.  In the first place, their sole material
effect is an increase of a product which, apart from 
any conventional value it may have had, is more 
beautiful, pure, and useful than any other.  Inasmuch
as we can turn gold to more account than
that, mixed with what was thought to be all sand,
there is a large amount of gold.  To deplore the announcement
of this fact, is simply to deplore that 
another gift has been laid open to us.  On the other
hand, their consequences upon the movements of
mankind are more palpably beneficial than those of
any other physical event yet recorded.  History 
shows the constant influences exercised to induce
the race to spread over the earth, so as to avail
themselves of all that it offers, instead of yielding 
to the selfish indolence that confines them to limited
spots, and whether this is brought about by an escape
from Egyptian bondage, by barbarian incursions,
by the failure of crops, or by political persecutions, 
the beneficent end is no less plainly arrived
at.  The potato rot and the Continental anarchy of
1848 have both caused a distribution of those who
were unteachable in any different way, and who
would otherwise have gone on from misery to misery,
without making the smallest effort to see a position 
where, instead of being a torment, they might be a 
benefit to their fellow-men.  The British people, although
more adventurous, likewise require stimulants
to drive them forth, but the disturbance necessary
in their case is happily less severe, and a gold 
mania has been sufficient to accomplish that for 
which famine, war, or tyranny might otherwise have 
been permitted.

As to any individual inconvenience which the impending 
disturbance in the relations of property may
cause, there has never yet been the smallest progress
that has not upset some quiet arrangements that
people had hoped might be perpetual.  Every breath
blows down a leaf somewhere, but the world is not
to remain stagnant.  When the return to specie
payments took place in 1819 there was a great disturbance,
but it was nothing more than the fulfilment 
of a direct bargain, and it was not for those
who had taken the chance of that fulfilment to complain.
The same doctrine must hold good at present. 
Moreover, those who now apprehend serious consequences
to any particular description of property, 
can act upon their apprehensions if they see fit, and
if they decline, they must not clamour against results
they have deliberately chosen to wait for.  Distrustful 
of all enterprise, they can continue to hold annuities,
while those who prefer the opposite course many
go with the stream, and find, in promoting the very 
movements that are in progress, abundant means for 
new investment.  If each holder were to dispose of 
his property from time to time as he becomes apprehensive,
individual losses would be so diffused that, 
in the end, they would be almost inappreciable, 
while, with regard to their future transactions, persons
can make any bargain they please.  It is true
that those who depend upon property held in trust 
have less choice of action, but those who tied the 
property up, without allowing any future exercise of 
discretion, acted upon their own judgment, not with 
any desire to benefit society, but to secure private 
advantages for their families, and society must not
be called upon to remedy the mistake.  A more 
cheering point of reflection, however, for these parties
should be, that in the majority of instances it
will be in their power, instead of waiting to see their
incomes diminish during a life of unhealthy idleness,
to employ their faculties so as to wrest from the new
order of things far more than it can take away.—
London Times.

SPEAKING of the goods of life, Sir William Temple
says; "The greatest pleasure of life is love; the 
greatest treasure is contentment; the greatest possession 
is health; the greatest ease is sleep, and the 
greatest medicine is a true friend."

I CONSIDER the soul of man as the ruin of a glorious
pile of building, where, amidst great heaps of 
rubbish, you meet with noble fragments of sculpture,
broken pillars and obelisks, and a magnificence in
confusion.

National Anti-Slavery Standard
Sep. 10, 1853. p.63
Anti-slavery Meetings in New York
The New York Anti-Slavery Society, impressed 
with a conviction that the claims of our cause 
should in some way be presented before the
thousands of strangers whom business or pleasure 
is bringing to the great Commercial Metropolis 
of the country during the present season, and 
taking advantage of the presence of several of 
the most distinguished champions of freedom, 
who came hither to attend the Whole World's 
Convention, held two meetings, on Sunday last
in Metropolitan Hall. . . . The chair was occupied 
by Lauren Wetmore, Esq., the President of the Society. 
Among the speakers were William Lloyd Garrison, 
Elizabeth Paxson, a Minister of the Society of Friends, 
from Bucks Co., Penna., Charles C. Burleigh,
 Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott and Lucy Stone.

[*Liberator 20 1857*]
THE TWENTY-FOURTH
NATIONAL
ANTI-SLAVERY BAZAAR.
The undersigned again call on all interested in their cause,--the cause of Freedom, so deeply important, not only to the three millions of American slaves, but to the American nation and to entire humanity,--for immediate aid, by contributions of money and materials, and by purchase at the next Bazaar; to be opened in Boston,
On the 17th of December.
Contributions of money at the present time will enable members of the Committee now in Europe to add to the attractions of the exhibition still further, and, in consequence, to increase the funds; which are to be expended, as heretofore, by the American Anti-Slavery Society, in awakening the whole country, through its newspapers, books and various agencies, to the necessity of extinguishing slavery. 
Our principle is too well known to need more than a mere statement. It is, immediate, unconditional emancipation, without expatriation, and by peaceful means. From a growing conviction of the justice and necessity of this work, for the good and honor of all concerned, every measure possible to be taken will inevitably spring without delay. Our funds, therefore, will be devoted to the primary work of arousing and engaging the public mind; which, as fast as it awakens, never fails to find a way to work its will,--through church action, by agitation and withdrawal,--by state action through the customary political channels, or by the profounder policy of creating others,--by legislative and judicial changes,--by individual efforts in the manumission of slaves and the protection of fugitives,--by economical measures prompted by the greater advantages of free labor,--by humane feelings creating a preference for its products. 
What we ask of the citizens around us, just awakening to some one or other of the manifold aspects of this great question, is, to enable us to continue the use of the means that have proved so efficacious in their own case, and to sustain the primary cause of whatever Anti-Slavery effects they observe and desire to promote.
Let those who labor for an Anti-Slavery national and State administration, furnish voters with the only sufficient motive to any Anti-Slavery effort, by working with us, so to excite the love of liberty, that every man shall take the risk of trampling down slavery wherever it meets him.
Let them that pity the hunted fugitive, who sees in every Northern man a betrayer, bound to that base function by the great organic law of his country, take the means most effectual to turn the betrayer into the protector, by helping us every where to awaken a stronger sentiment than compassion for the millions who cannot fly: of whose case it was so truly said by a New England poet of the earlier time, before school-books were expurgated by slavery--
'Their wrongs compassion cannot speak.'
Let all take warning to co-operate with us, from those earlier days when slavery, instead of dying out, as was prophesied, began to grow stronger, because there was then no such fountain head of moral power as we commend to the attention of the whole land to-day.
We do not make this appeal in a sectional spirit as Northern-born, interfering with matters that do not concern us. We make it in grateful acknowledgment of the benefits we have received from the anti-slavery cause, desiring to communicate them to others. We have all been connected personally with the system of slavery. One has known the evil power of its money temptations; another has felt its political despotism; another its perverting social influence; another its corruption ecclesiastical bondage; another yet has been identified by Southern birth and education with the slaveholders, and sustained the legal relation of ownership to the slaves; while not infrequently among our most efficient members have been the wives of slaves, driven from us by the operation of laws from which we cannot protect them, and which make us liable to ruinous fine and crushing imprisonment, as they have done our associates crewhile. But we all, with one accord, testify to the truth of the anti-slavery principles, and entreat the aid of all whom this appeal reaches, to deliver the country from such a despotism, by their promulgation.
THE LIBERTY BELL will be published as usual; and we entreat all our friends who have heretofore aided us by literary or pecuniary contributions, to let us hear from them once again, as speedily as possible.
Our friends in Europe will not fail to take notice that the Bazaar is open a week earlier than usual. 
Contributions may be addressed to Mrs. Chapman, 21 Cornhill, Boston, or to the other members of the Committee, at their respective homes.
MARIA WESTON CHAPMAN,
MARY MAY,
ABBY KELLEY FOSTER,
LOUISA LORING, 
L. MARIA CHILD,
ELIZA LEE FOLLEN,
ANNE WARREN WESTON,
ANN GREENE PHILLIPS,
SARAH SHAW RUSSELL,
FRANCES MARY ROBBINS,
HELEN E. GARRISON,
ANN REBECCA BRAMHALL,
SARAH H. SOUTHWICK,
MARY WILLEY,
ABBY FRANCIS,
ANNA SHAW GREENE,
MARY GRAY CHAPMAN,
ELIZABETH GAY,
HENRIETTA SARGENT,
SARAH RUSSELL MAY,
CAROLINE WESTON,
SUSAN C. CABOT,
MARY H. JACKSON, 
SARAH BLAKE SHAW,
LYDIA D. PARKER,
ELIZA F. EDDY,
EVELINA A. S. SMITH
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM, 
AUGUSTA KING,
ELIZA H. APTHORP,
JUSTINE DE PEYSTER HOVEY,
MATTIE GRIFFITH.

[*National Anti-Slavery Standard Aug 18, 1855*]
Mr. Blackwell and his Defamers.--If anything were wanting to prove the utter distortion of the mind and conscience of this people, it would be furnished in the efforts made by a newspaper of this city to fasten on a contemporary the charge of being an Abolitionist and friend of Henry Blackwell, and the efforts of the accused to escape the charge. The odium attempted to be fastened on Mr. Blackwell for his participation in the Salem Rescue is, in fact, the highest honor. He saved from the dark doom of slavery a little girl who was being carried through our State ignorant of her rights. He saved her from a fate compared to which death is a thousand times preferable; all honour to him for it. The Romans awarded a civic crown to him who had saved the life of a Roman citizen, what honour shall we award him who saved an American girl from a fate so hideous as that of slavery? The defamers of Mr. Blackwell may spit out their venomous hearts at the Salem Rescuer, but the day will surely come when his descendants will feel more pride that their father deserved the title of the Salem Rescuer, than if he had held the office of United States Marshal, or any other office in the gift of the Administration. -- Cincinnati Herald of Freedom. 

LIST OF BROKEN & SUSPENDED
BANKS
American Exchange B'k, N. J.   ———
Atlantic Bank, N. J.   ———
Atlas Bank, N. Y.   ———
Bank of Rockford   25 dis.
Bank of Salisbury,    ——— 
Bank of Milford, Del.   ———
  "      "  Kanawa, Va   10 dis.
  "      "  Massillon, O.   ———
  "      "  Zanesville, O.   closing.
  "      "   Washtenaw, Mich.   75 dis.
  "      "  Mankata, Min. Ter.,   fraud.
Bank of Circleville, O.,   35 dis.
Cochituate Bank, N. J.   75 dis.
Commercial Bank, N. J.    ———
City Bank, Columbus, O.   5 dis.
Canal Bank, Cleveland, O.   5 dis.
Calis Bank, Me.,   10 dis.
City Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.   ———
Commercial Bank, Lockport, N. Y.   ———
City Bank, Cape Island, N. Y.,   closing.
Citizens Deposit B'k, Pittsburg, Pa.   ———
City Bank, Chicago, Ill.   25 dis.
Delaware & Hudson Bank, N. J.   ———
Dupage Co. Bank, Ill.   25 dis.
Dunkirk Bank, N. Y.   closing.
Excelsior Bank, Meridian, N. Y.   closing.
Eagle Bank, N. Y.   closing.
Exchange Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.   25 dis.
Erie & Kalamazoo R. R. Bank, Ind.   75 dis.
Eighth Avenue Bank, N. Y. city,   7 dis.
Eastern Bank, West Killingly, Conn.   ———
Far's & Me'chs B'k, Kent Co. Md.   35 dis.
Farmers Bank, Freehold, N. J.   ———
Farmers' Bank, Chicago, Ill.   25 dis.
Farmers' Bank, Onondaga, N. Y.   20 dis.
Franklin Bank,, Marion, N. Y.   ———
Farmers' Jt. Stk B'kg co. Toronto, Ca.   ———
Government St'k B'k, Ann Arbor Mich.   60 dis.
Germania Bank, Milwaukee, Wis.   25 dis.
James Bank, Jamesville, N. Y.   20 dis.
Kirkland Bank, Clinton,   closing.
Kentucky Trust co. Ky.   ———
Lehigh County Bank, Pa.   ———
Lewis county Bank, Martinsburgh, N. Y.   90 dis.
Licking co branch Stock B'k Ohio.   ———
Merchants' B'k, of Bridgeton, N. J.   20 dis.
Mousum Bank, Me.   50 dis.
Merchants Bank, Burlington, Vt.   ———
Mech. & Far's Bank, Springfield Ill.   25 dis.
Merch's & Mech's B'k, Oswego, N. Y.   25 dis.
N. Y. Stock Bank,   ———
Newport Safety Fund, Ky.   ———
Oshkosh city Bank, Wis.   25 dis.
Patchin Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.   closing.
Pratesville Bank, Pratesville, N. Y.   ———
Phoenix Bank, Chicago, Ill.   25 dis.
Rockford Bank, Ill.   25 dis.
Railroad Bank, Decatur, Ill.   25 dis.
Stark Bank, Bennington, Vt.   50 dis.
Sullivan Co. B'k, Monticello, N. Y.   ———
Shipbuilders' Bank, Me.   ———
Suffolk Bank, N. Y. City.   closing.
Saving Bank, Cincinnati, O.   ———
Sullivan Co Bank, N. Y.   ———
Trans-Alleghany Bank, Va.   10 dis.
Traders' Bank, N. J.   closing.
Union Bank, Chicago, Ill.   25 dis.
Wheat Growers' Bank, N. J.   20 dis.
All bills south of Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, 
including the D. C., should be refused.  Also
all Indiana bills except the State Bank and
branches.  All banks in the States north of the
line above designated, and not quoted in the 
above list are good.

Those banks have the ——— over against
them have either failed, closed, suspended, or are
worthless.

LATEST NEWS.

INSURRECTION IN AUSTRALIA   -700 MEN
LOST AT SEA
BOSTON, MARCH 17.
The royal mail steamship Africa reached
her dock in this city at 7 A. M.  Her mails
could not be got off in the early trains as the 
Canada occupied the Cunard dock.

Our files of English papers contain but
little news of importance in addition to that
via Halifax.

The London Morning Herald of the 1st
inst., has the following despatch from Trieste:

Despatches from Ceylon of February announce
that the people of Australia have
risen and declared their independence.—
Troops were sent to put down the insurrection
and sanguinary engagements had been
fought.  Melbourne was in a state of seige."

This news has of course been received
by the overland mails and refers to the disturbances
at the diggings.  The Australia
dates are not given.

The Constitutionel says:  We have received
confirmation of the sad news which 
has been for ten days about Paris.  The 
frigate in the straits of Bonifacio is the Semilante, 
which recently left Toulon, with 400 
soldiers on board.  The vessel struck on one 
of the reefs in that passage, and immediately 
filled.  The crew and passengers, making a 
total of 700, all perished.

No other details have been received of 
this calamity.  The loss created the most
painful sensation in Paris.  Seven hundred
men have perished, together with a vast
quantity of cannon, mortars, and gunpowder.
Nother was saved, and all that had been
washed ashore as far as known to the government, 
are two pair of trousers.  The 
Semilante was going to the East.

The Indian mail has been received.

The barque Wm. S. Sayward, from San
Francisco for Shanghai, with 1,000 barrels
flour and $16,400 in [spec?e], sprung a leak
near one of the Ladrone Islands, and was 
abandoned near [N??????] [?] [?]



Reading, Pa., March 17.
At our municipal election yesterday, Mr. 
Baird, the American candidate for Mayor,
was elected, receiving 1544 votes to 840 for 
Young, dem.

The whole American ticket was elected
by about the same majorities.  Much excitement
attended the election.

A NICE PLACE TO LIVE IN.—A writer,
in the last number of Harper's Magazine 
says:

"During the last century, the averag-
number of murders in Rome, with a population
of 150,000 souls, was five or six a 
day, and on one occasion fourteen.  While
occupied by the French there were in a single
day 120 assassinations.

And as late as 1828, they averaged one
daily.  A chapel of the Madonna, in the 
church of the Augustins, is hung about
with knives, dirks, and other murderous instruments,
suspended there by their owners, 
at the order of their confessors, as a 
condition of absolution and evidence of 
pardon of their crimes.


New Advertisements

NOTICE.
AN Election will be held on Saturday, March
31st, at the Telegraph Office in Dubuque, for 
Local Director for ensuing year.  O. SANFORD,
March 22d, 1855.  (3dm22dtf)  Operator.

BRIDGE PROPOSALS!!
Sealed proposals for building a bridge across
the Wapsipinecon river at Independence will
be received at the County office, in Buchanan Co. 
until noon of the second Saturday in April next.
Said bridge to be two hundred and eighty feet in 
length, twenty feet in width, twenty-four feet in
height from the bed of the river.  The timber
and lumber used, to be all oak; frame-work to be 
white or bur oak; the frame to be erected by the 
first day of Sept. next, and bridge to be completed
bp the first of January, 1856.  Plan and specifications
can be seen at the Co. office.  Proposals
must be for both labor and materials.

By order of the Bridge Committee.
O. H. P. ROSZELL, Sec'y.
March 16th, 1855.   3dm22dtf.

MILL STONES
BOLTING CLOTHS,
Heavy and Extra Heavy Mill Irons, and general.
MILL FURNISHING.
WEST WATER STREET. - - CHICAGO, ILL.
3dm19wly   Hayward & Travis.

F. SCAMMON & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND 
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS
140 LAKE STREET,
CHICAGO.
DEALERS in PURE MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, 
GLASS, VARNI-HES, DYE-STUFFS, BRUSHES,
ARTISTS' Tools and PENCILS, COLORS, DRUGGISTS'
GLASS-WARE, &c.
Agents for all Valuable Patent Medicines,
Lard Oil, Alcohol, and Star Candles, 
At manufacturer's prices.

Dealers in all kinds of 
DAGUERREOTYPE MATERIALS, 
and Apparatus, 
PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES.

We offer the above articles to the trade on the 
most favorable terms, an solicit the attention of 
Dealers to one of the most extensive and best
selected stock of Drugs in the West.  All orders
will meet prompt attention, with our best efforts
to please in quality and price.   3dm19d6m

NEW GOODS
AT
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
I am in receipt of lay fall stock,
CONSISTING of every variety of Fancy and Staple
Dry-Goods.  I wish to call especial attention
to my very extensive stock of 
LADIES' DRESS GOODS, 
By far the largest ever brought to this market; 
comprising every variety of Silks, Morenoes, Poplins,
Alapacas, de Lains, Ginghams, &c., &c.  I 
wish especially to invite the attention of 
Country Merchants,
as I can show them such a stock and offer such
inducements for CASH or PROMPT PAY, as will 
save them the trouble of going, as many of them
have heretofore done, to other markets for their 
supplies.  I offer among other articles
100 pieces Sattinetts;
50    "  Cassimers;
100 bales. No. 1 Batts; 
12 cases mens caps;
6   "  boys   "
8   "  mens and boys hats; 
4   "  ladies bonnets.
500 Seamless Sacks;
100 pieces Flannels;
50   " Kentucky Jeans; 
52 bales Brown and bleached sheeting.
50   "   "   "   " shirting.
—ALSO—
Linseys, Canton Flannels, and an endless variety
of Notions, all of which must be sold.

To Country Merchants, I can offer inducements
uch as have never been offered in this market.—
am receiving the largest stock of Goods ever
brought to Dubuque, and I am
Deermined to Sell Them.
To those who wish to purchase for cash, or 
prompt pay, I can say, that I have been in business 
long enough to understand and appreciate
this kind of customers, and if they will call and 
price my goods, they will be satisfied that I mean
what I say.  To my stock of staple and fancy 
goods, among which are many
NEW AND RARE ARTICLES,
I invite the attention of those Ladies who wish a 
genteel and fashionable arriclo.
Will they Call and Look at Them?
P. H. CONGER & Bro's.
First Dry Goods Store above the Waples House,
Main Street Dubuque, Iowa.   mar19d-wtf

LOOK AT THIS!
The undersigned wishing to devote his entire
time to his other business, offers for sale at 
A BARGAIN
the entire stock of goods now in his store on Main
street.  The stock consists of 
Extra fine Moleskin HATS,
Extra fine Beaver    "
Pedal Straw    "
Canton Regalta Straw    "
Rustic Senate Straw    "
Sewed Pedal—white brim Straw Hats,
Indian Plaid Straw Hats



AGENTS WANTED 
TO SELL
Dr Beecher's Great Work!

THE PAPAL CONSPIRACY EXPOSED
AND PROTESTANTISM DEFENDED.
PUBLISHED BY STEARNS & CO., 91 Washton
street, Boston, Mass.

This is one of the ablest works ever written on 
this important subject, and being based on authentic
CATHOLIC HISTORY,
shows clearly the real spirit and designs of the 
Romish Hiearchy.

* The Second Edition contains a letter from the 
Rev. Dr. BEECHER is reply to the Hon. JOSEPH
R. CHANDLER'S Speech, lately delivered in Congress,
in which the D. refutes in the most masterly
manner the position assumed by Mr. C. with regard 
to the power claimed by the Pope over civil 
rulers and their subjects.

The work is a 12mo, of 432 pages, bound in 
cloth and illustrated.  Price $1,25 to $2,00, according 
to the binding.

N. B. Single copies in plain binding sent postage
paid on receipt of $1,25.  STEARNS & CO., 
3dm15d2w   BOSTON, MASS

WHAT OF THE
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD.

WHEN this road is done, freight will be 
considerably reduced in price, and the 
amount of goods in Dubuque very much 
enlarged.  Competition in trade will greatly increase; 
consequently every article of goods will 
be sold at 
REDUCED PROFITS.

Perhaps no set of men will feel the effects of 
this change that is about to take place, more than
will the dealers in
HATS AND FURS.

They are thus by steam brought so near the 
GREAT EMPORIUM OF FASHION, that every
change of style that takes place there, will be 
known and appreciated almost as soon here.

In view of these things, and knowing fall well 
that their efforts to please, and to introduce the 
LATEST STYLES
into Dubuque, almost coeval with their introduction 
into the Eastern cities,, would bE appropriated
by their fellow-citizens.  They have made permanent
arrangements with some of the best 
houses in New York and Boston, to forward to 
them 
HATS AND CAPS,
(by speedy and expeditious medium of steam,)
made in the latest
PARISIAN AND LONDON STYLES
as also, a host of lower priced ones.

And a visit to our establishment will convince
the most skepticl and incredulous that we are 
selling
ALL OF 23 PER CENT. LOWER
than any other house in this section of Country.
Our stock in store and in transit consists in part
as follows–the styles and prices of which we feel
assured will gratify the most fastidious, and SATISFY
THE MOST ECONOMICAL:
Extra fine Moleskin HATS,
Extra fine Beaver   "
Pedal Straw   "
Canton Regalta Straw   "
Rustic Senate Straw   "
Sewed Pedal—white brim Straw Hats,
Indian Plaid Straw Hats,
Extra Panama Hats,
Men's Palm Leaf (all kinds) Hats,
Double Brimmed Mandarin Hats,
Together with every description of CALIFORNIA
HATS, and a copious supply of 
INDIA RUBBER GOODS,
suitable, and in fact almost indispensable for those
that are going over the Plains.  They have likewise
on hand at their store, and will be pleased
to exhibit to their customers the largest lot of 
LADIES' FURS
of all kinds and desnriptions ever brought into
Dubuque.  These are all of the latest styles, and 
offered for sale with the most perfect assurance
that they are unequalled in quality and quantity
by any stock in this city.  They have made such
arrangements with their eastern correspondents
as will keep them
POSTED UP
In relation to every change in the fashionable
world.  In fine, they are determined, that if the 
most unremitted sttention to the tastes and wants
of their customers, and the most unwearied perseverance
will ensure it, they will not rest short of 
ENTIRE SUCCESS.

In conclusion theo would say, that they have on
hand and constantly receiving the most extensive
and best selected assortment of Hats and Caps,
MITTS, GLOVES AND HOSIERY,
Combs, and other articles for the toilet; suspenders,
Braces, Brushes, silk, Worsted and Wollen
Goods, Gents and Ladies Furs; Buffalo and other
Robes, &c., &c., ever brought to this city.

The FURNISHING DEPARTMENT will be 
found unusually replete with the choicest Goods
from the most CELEBRATED FOREIGN and
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.  Linen and 
French Gingham SHIRTS; Ties, stocks, cravats; 
Under Garments of silk, Cotton and Wool; Linen
Collars, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Robes de Chambre,
and GLOVES of every description.  We will
just remark, en passant, that we are selling the 
BEST QUALITY of the renowned ALEXANDER
[GL?TES] at 50 cents per pair, while others are
charging $1 to $1.25 for the same article.

Beebe's, Genins and other fashionable styles of 
Hats constantly on hand, and to be sold
Cheaper than the Cheapest.

Store No. 11, two doors south of the American
House, Main street.

Cash paid for FURS.
S. S. McCLURE.
Dubuque, March 20th, 1855.   3dm20dtf

KEY CITY HOUSE.
CORNER OF MAIN AND THIRD STREETS,
Dubuque, - - - -  Iowa.
G. B. SCIDMORE & CO., PROPRIETORS.
THE above House having been recently fitted
up, and furnished with entire new furniture, is
now ready for the reception of travelers.  It being
located in the central part of the city, near the 
steamboat landing, and containing the only offices
of both Eastern and Western Stage and Railroad 
companies.  The Proprietors having had considerable
experience in the business, hope to be able
to attend to the wants of a traveling public in a 
manner satisfactory to all.

Passengers and baggage conveyed to and from
boats free of charge.

Stages leave this house daily, for all points, East,
West, North, and South.
Dubuque, Feb. 16, '55.   d&wtf

OSAGE ORANGE,
MACLURA AURANTIACA.
The subscribers take this means of informing
the public, that they have on hand a large
stock of the above valuable plants, suitable for 
hedging the coming spring, which they will dispose
of at as low rates as can be obtained at any
other establishment in the western States.

It has been fully demonstrated that the Osage
Orange has no equal in the United States as a
hedge plant; is proof against any kind of stock, of
rapid and rigorous growth, beautiful in appearance
[?] and every way suited to our climate



TO CONTRACTORS.
Proposals are requested for grading two streets
in the town of Dunleith.  For particulars enquire
at the Bank of F. S. JESUP & Co.   3td

CITY COLLECTOR.
Office in the N. E. rooms of Court House, 1st story
March 5th, 1855.   A. E. SKINNER,
d t28march   CITY COLLECTOR.

For St. Anthony Falls, Min. Ter. Direct
And all Landings on the 
UPPER MISSISSIPPI.

The new and substantial steamer
FALLS CITY, now being built
and finished at Wellsville, Ohio,
J. B. GILBERT, Master, will leave Pittsburgh for 
the above and all intermediate landings, on the 
early opening of navigation of the Upper Mississippi.
For freight or passage apply on board or 
to John Flack, or Livingston, Pittsburgh; R. Cutter, 
or P. Geisse‘ Wellsville; W. Eborheart, Rock
Island, Illinois.; George R. West & Co., Dubuque, 
Iowa; R. P. Upton, Z. E. B. Nash, D. M. Moulton,
St. Anthony Falls Min.; E. Murphy, John Jackins,
Minneapolis; Burbank & Co., St. Paul.

The FALLS CITY is an entirely new and speedy
boat, powerful machinery built by Geisse, of very
light draught; excellent accommodations; will be 
splendidly furnished and finished; built expressly
for the St. Anthony Falls Steamboat Company, 
Min., under the immediate supervision of R. Cutter,
Engineer, and will run as a regular packet
from Rock Island or Dubuque to the Falls of St.
Anthony, through the season and be manned by 
careful and reliable officers and men.
J. B. GILBERT,
Gen. Ag't for Co.  Office  St. Charles Hotel, Pittsburgh; 
Missouri House, Wellsville, Ohio.
3m5-3md   C. C. CHASE, & CO., 
Treasurer of Co., St Anthony's Falls.

GOLD & SILVER WATCHES.
DIAMONDS, JEWELRY AND SILVER WARE.

THE SUBSCRIBER would call the atention
of persons visiting New York city
to his large and well selected stock, comprising
in part the following, which he offers for 
sale at less than the usual prices, and which will
be forwarded to all parts of the United States or 
Canadas, by Mail or Express, free of charge:
DAGUERREOTYPE WATCHES,
With places for Miniatures,  -  -  $90 to 125
JULES JURGENSEN WATCHES,
Warranted perfect time keepers,   $150 to 275
COOPER WATCHES,
Duplex and Lever,   $125 to 275
INDEPENDENT SECOND,
Quarto second Watches for timing
horses, etc.,    $125 to 250 
CHRONOMETERS
Splendid pocket do., perfect time keepers,
$125 to 250
EIGHT DAY WATCHES,
Which run 8 days with once winding,   $140 to 185
ENAMEL WATCHES
For Ladies, some in hunting cases,   $35 to 100
DIAMOND WATCHES
For Ladies, some in magic cases,   $55 to 300
MAGIC WATCHES,
Which change into three different watches,
$100 to 175
WATCHES WHICH WIND
And turn the hand without a key,   $85 to 140
ALL KINDS OF WATCHES AT VERY LOW
PRICES,
Fine Gold Lepine Watches, 4 holes jewel'd, $25 00
Fine Gold Detached Levers,  -  -  -  30 00
Gold Enameled watches for the Ladies,   35 00
Gold English Patent Levers,  - -  -   35 00
Gold English Patent Levers, hunting cases,  58 00
Silver Patent Levers as low as  -  -   16 00
Silver Detached Levers,   "  -  -  -   14 00
Ladies' Gold Sets, Earrings, Pins,
Bracelets,   -  -  -  -   $15 00 to 75 00
Earrings $2 to $25, Pins, $2 to $25,
Bracelets,  -  -  -  -   5 00 to 80 00
Gold Lockets, one, two and 4 glasses  3 00 to 25 00
Gold Guard Chains,  -  -  -  10 00 to 50 00
Gold Chatelaine chains,  -  -  10 00 to 100 00
Gold Vest  do.,  -  -  -  30 00 to 85 00
Gold Fob  do.,  -  -  -  6 00 to 25 00
Fine Gold Wedding Rings,  -  -  3 50 to 7 00
Gold Guard Keys,  -  -  -  1 00 to 5 00
Gold Fob  do.  -  -  -  -  2 00 to 6 00
Gold Fob Seals,  -  -  -  -  3 00 to 12 00
Gold Thimbles,  -  -  -  -  2 50 to 5 00
Gold Pencils,  -  -  -  -  1 25 to 7 00
Gold Pens and Pencils,  -  -  -  3 50 to 16 00
Diamond Rings,  -  -  :  -  7 00 to 250 00
Diamond Earrings,  -  -  100 00 to 300 00
Diamond Pins,  -  -  -  -  15 00 to 300 00
Gold Crosses,  -  -  -  2 00 to 12 00
Gold Finger Rings, with stones,  2 00 to 15 00
Gold Sleeve Buttons, per set,  2 50 to 12 00
Gold Studs    [?] to [?]
Gold Spectacles, per pair,  5 00 to 9 00
Gold Eye Glasses   "   1 75 to 6 00
Silver Teaspoons, per set,   5 00 to 9 00
Silver Tablespoons,   "   12 00 to 21 00
Silver Tableforks,   "   13 00 to 23 00
Silver Cups for Children,   6 00 to 15 00
Silver Napkin Rings, each.   2 50 to 6 00
Gold Armlets for children, per pair,   2 50 to 6 00
Plain Gold Rings,  -  -  -  -  75 to 3 00
Chased Gold Rings,  -  -  -  1 00 to 5 00
Silver Thimbles, silver tops, 
Gold Scarf Pins,  -  -  -  1 00 to
GEO C. ALLEN, IMPORTER,
wholesale and retail, No. 11 Wall st., 2nd floor
feb12-'55dly   near Broadway, NEW YORK

CROKERY.
VAN DEWATER & HOYT,
163 Washington Street, New York.,
Keep constantly on hand one of the largest and
best assorted stocks in the cito, which they
will offer at very reduced rates, and on as favorable
terms as any other house.  In addition to these
inducements, purchasers can rely upon getting
what they buy, and that the goods will be carefully
packed.  Their assortment comprises CHINA
GLASS, EARTHEN-WARE, LOOKING-GLASSES, CLOCKS,
ETC., in all their varieties.  Orders will receive
particular attention.   d m  d1m.

A CARD.
WE have this first day of March, 1855, formed
a co-Partnership for the purpose of transacting
a Wholesale and Retail
GOCERY, FORWARDING AND 
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
Steam Boat, Rail Road and Freight Agents, and
all business usually connected with the same, at
the old stand
NO. 304 STEAMBOAT LANDING,
corner of Fourth and Levee streets, Dubuque
Iowa.
WILLIAM L. JOHNSON,
JOSEPH ROBISON.
lyd&w3mo5

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
THE SOUTH TWO-FIFTHS of Dubuque city
lot 446.  On each lot is a new one-and-a-half
story house, with cisterns, stable, and other conveniences
attached; situated on the corner of Clay
and Eleventh streets.

Also—two choice lots on Lake street.



BANK
OF 
F. S. JESUP & COMPANY.
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN EXCHANGE
bought and sold.
INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT.
AMERICAN GOLD, CERTIFICATES AND
DRAFTS bought and sold.   Jan. 30.

BILLS ON GERMANY AND FRANCE
FOR SALE AT BANK OF 
F. S. JESUP & COMPANYU.
Jan. 30th.

ILLS ON IRELAND AND ENGLAND,
BN sums of £1 and upwards, for sale at
BANK OF F. S. JESUP & COMPANY.
Jan. 30.—dtf

LAND WARRANTS
AND
LAND OFFICE GOLD,
For sale at 
BANK OF F. S. JESUP & COMPANY.
Jan. 30.—dtf

$500 CHALLENGE!
HOBENSACK'S WORM SYSUP.
AN article founded upon Scientific Principles
compounded with purely Vegitable substances
being perfectly safe when taken, and hns never
been known to fail in curing the most obstinate
case.  Worms can never exist when this remedy
is once used, from the fact that it not only destroys
them but remove all the slime and mucus which
may remain.
THE TAPE WORM.
This worm is the most difficult one to destroy of
all that inhabit the human body.  It grows to an 
almost indefinite length, and becomes so coiled
and fastened in the intestines and stomach as to 
produce Fits, St. Vitus Dance, &c., which is the 
cause of so many going to the grave, not believeing
that these complaints have their origin from the 
Tape Worm; consequently they do not use the 
proper medicines for their disease.  To those who
are afflicted with this awful foe to health, I recommend
the use of my Worm Syrup, and Liner Pills; 
the Syrup to be taken in doses of two table spoonfuls
three times a day, then take from ffve to eight
of my Liver Pills, to dislodge and pass the worm.
By strictly following these directions, the most
obstinate cases of Tape worm can be speedily
cured.
ROUND OR STOMACH WORM.
This worm is usually found in the small intestine
and is the worm most common to young children
yet it is not entirely confined to them, as adults
have been known to suffer with them.  The Symptoms
most prominent while affected with this
worm, are hardness and fullness of the belly slimy
stools, looseness of the bowels, picking at the nose, 
a blueish streak under the eyes, &c.  If you or 
any of your children have any of the above
symptoms, HOBENSACK's WORM SYRUP can
safely be defended upon—by using it you have a 
safe, and speedy cure; and if after using it according
to the directions the patient is not restored to 
health, and the worms thoroughly eradicated from
the system, you can rest assured there is no remedy
beyond the grave; as for fail, there is no such
word as fail with those who use my Worm Syrup.
ASCARIDES, OR SMALL THREAD
WORMS.
These worms, to which the human system is
liable, are the most toublesome of all others.
They are generally to be found in the rectum and 
if allowed to remain, from the irritation they produce,
lay the foundation for serious disorders, such 
as inflammation of the bowels, ond other derangements
of the stomach.  The best and safest medicine 
that can used is HOBENSACK'S WORM
SYRUP.  Such is the astonishing power of my
medicines over Ascarides, that I defy any one to 
Produce a case where my Worm Syrup and Liver
pelis are recommended to to be used they will not
pure.  All that is necessary is to use the Syrup in
accordance with directions on each bottle; and in
case a gentle purgative is required in order to irritation
they produce, the Liver Pills by thei
sympathising action and healthy operation upon
the bowels, is the most pleassant medicine that can
be taken.
HOBENSACK'S LIVER PILLS.
No part of the system is more liable to disease
than the Liver, it being supplied with numerous
blood vessels and nerves, and if diseased, the blood
of course flowing through all parts of the body
produces Liver Complaints, Jaundice, Bilious Affectious, 
Dyspepsia, &c., &c.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
Is attended with chills, succeeded by fever, severe
pains in the region of the Liver, vomiting,
bad taste, yellow furred tongue, pulse full and pain
is generally in the left shoulder, with a bounding; 
the pain the shoulder increases by pressure.  
Should the left eye be affected, the short dry
cough, the skin becoming of sallow appearance, and
the stools clay colored.  This disease can bs
cured by the use of the LIVER PILL, as it acte
directly upon the seat of the disease, then operating
on the bowels it expels all the corrupt and 
vitiated matter from the system.
DYSPEPSIA.
The symptoms of Dyspepsia, and its various
diseased are dizziness of the head, heartburn, oppressions
after eating meals, sourness arising from
the stomach, &c., and sometimes languor of the
whole body, from which it will be seen the disease
owes its origin to a disorganized state of the liver
and stomach.  HOSENBACK'S LIVER PILLS is the
very medicine to affect a permanent and lasting
cure, as they act by changing the cercain and 
morbid actions of the system into a healthy action,
and rendering the blood pure and healthy.
TO FEMALES.
You will find these Pills an invaluable medicine
in many complaints which you are subject.  In
obstructions, either total or partial, they have been
found of inestimable benefit in restoring and
purifying the blood and other fluids, so as to cure
all complaints which may arise from female irregularities,
as head ache, dimness of sight, pain in 
the side, back, &c.  These Pills are the only safe
and effectual remedy to cure the following complaints, 
Gout, Nervousness, Melancholy, Sick Head
ache, Giddiness, Rheumatism, distressing dreams
pimness of sight; or in fact any of the diseases
that arise from affections of the liver, impurity of 
the blood, or constipation of the bowels.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
WE the undersigned Physicians, having had
the receipt of their manufacture submitted to us
for our inspection, say, that the ingredients of 
which they are composed make them the best Pill
in use for all diseases of the liver, impurities of
the blood, &c.
GEORGE WOOD, M. D. 
F. CROWLEY, M. D. 
L. BOWEN, M. D. 

Purchase none but those having the signature
"J. N. HOBENSACK," as all others are worthless
imitations.

Agents wishing new supplies and all others 
wishing to become agents, must address the
Proprietor, J. N. HOBENSACK, at his Laboratory,
No. 120 North second street, above Race, PHILADELPHIA.

Sold by all Druggists and Merchants in the U. S.
July 6, 1853   sep28

For sale by WM. P. ALLEN, No, 1001 Main
street, next door to Waples House, Dubuque, Iowa

CRACKERS!  CRACKERS!  CRACKERS!

Butter Crackers, Boston Crackers, Soda
Crackers,
[?] [?] [?] [?] WHEELER



DUBUQUE AUCTION STORE,
H. McLean, Auctioneer.
THE Subscriber offers his services to the inhabitants of Dubuque and all others who may fine it t
their interest to employ him.  He is prepared to purchase Furniture or any other article, which
his customers may wish to dispose of, or he will sell the same for them at Auction.  His store for the
purchase and sale of Furniture is near the City Market House, where he will always be found ready
to serve the public in exertion of his powers as an Auctioneer, and to render a truthful acconn
of sales, and pay over the proceeds punctually.  His rooms for general auction sales on Market Square
are open at all business hours, where daily he may be heard crying, "Going–Going–Gone."
SALES OF HORSES DAILY.
He trusts from his character for business habits, his prompt, ready and reliable attention to the
wants of his customers, and to the business entrusted to his hands, to merit and receive a liberal share
of public patronage.  He is ready to make allowances upon property consigned to him; to advertise
and sell personal property or Lands at Auction, and to do any and all business that may be entrusted
to him connected with a General Auction and Commission business, as it is transacted in all large
Towns.  All communications in relation to this or other business, will be addressed to 
Dubuque, Oct. 26, 1854—d&w–tf    J. McLEAN, Dubuque, Iowa.

J. L. LANGWORTHY & BROTHERS,
DEALERS IN 
Real Estate and General Land Agents,
OFFICE NO. 71, MAIN STREET, DUBUQUE, IOWA.
WILL enter land on time, buy and sell Land Warrants and Real Estate; pay interest on speci[??]
specie deposits; pay taxes; collect debts, and make remittances to any part of the U. S. 
We have some 300 City Lots, well situated for dwelling or business houses.  Also 200 half acre and
acre out Lots, pleasantly located in various parts of the City; maps of which may be seen at the 
Office; which Lots we will sell or lease for a term of years.  Also a number of stores and dwelling
houses.  Office open from 8. A. M. until 5 P. M.   J. L. LANGWORTHY & BROTHERS.
Dubuque, Iowa, May 13, 1854.      dw1

Chicago Democrat, St. Louis Republican, Merchant's Ledger, New York, will please copy for 
three months and forward their bills to this Office.

HAWTHORNE, JACKMAN & CO., 
General Insurance, Commission, Collecting
AND LAND AGENTS,
CORNER OF MAIN AND SIXTH STREETS, (OPPOSITE THE U. S. LAND OFICES,)
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
H.J, & CO. are agents for the most responsible Eastern and Western Life, Fire, and Marine
Insurance companies, and they are ready at all times to issue Policies on good risks, at reasonable
rates.  They invite the especial atiention of
MERCHANTS, HOUSE-HOLDERS, AND SHIPPERS,
who desire a SAFE Insurance to the companies which they represent.

They are also prepared to BUY AND SELL PRODUCE on commission, ENTER LANDS, Locate
Land Warrants, Bay and sell Houses, Lots and Lands, PAY TAXES and make collections, before
or after due, throughout the North West.

They invite the attention of CAPITALISTS, and others wishing to make investments in city and
country Lands, to opportunities unssrpassed in the West.
Dubuque. 1854.   nov. 8 d&w–ly

LAW BOOKS!  LAW BOOKS! !

The subscriber is prepared to fill orders for LAW BOOKS, upon as reasonable terms as they can be
purchased ANYWHERE.  A liberal discount made where a number of volumes are taken; and
in no instance will Books be sold at an advance upon the Publishers price.

I have constantly on hand, the writings of BOUVIER, KENT, STORY, BACON, PHILLIPS, CHITTY
ARCHIBOLD, ROSCOE, JONES, STEPHENS, WILLIAMS, etc., etc.  Also, complete sets of New York Reports,
including WENDELL, HILL, JOHNSON, DENIO, BARBOUR, COMSTOCK, and SELDEN.  The Kentucky
Reports, Derby's Edition, in sets or seperately.  The Supreme Court Reports of the United States.  Inclu-
PETERS Reports, &c.  DALLAS, CRANCH, WHEATON, and HOWARD'S 15 volumes.  The United States Di-
ding gest, 14 volumes.  English Law and Equity Reports, 20 volumes, Bacon's Abridgment, Bouvier's
Notes, 10 volumes, etc., etc.

I am also prepared to import any Foreign or Continental Works not usually found in this country.
The publications of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, Banks, Gould & Co., New York, T. & J. M. Johnson, Philadelphia, will be sold at their lowest rates.  A general catalogue of modern Law Books
including the old reports, will be sent to any desiring it.

Law, Bookseller and Stationer, corner 4th Street and Washington Avenue, (under Verandah Mall
June 21, 1854.   d&w–y   ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

W. J. BARNEY & CO.

BANKERS, DEALERS IN EXCHANGE AND LAND AGENTS,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.

NOTES and Bills Collected and remitted to any part of the United States.  Money received on
Deposit and interest allowed.  Bills of Exchange on ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF 
THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE BOUGHT AND SOLD.

Paper Exchanged for LAND OFFICE MONEY—Loans made on good security.

Money remitted to Europe in SIGHT BILLS, which can be cashed in any town in England
Ireland or Wales, in sums of £1 and upwards.

Taxes paid, titles examined, and Lands sold on commission.

LAND WARRANTS AND LAND,
For Cash or on time, to suit purchasers, constantly on hand.  Dealers supplied on [liber?lte?]

OFFICE ON MAIN STREET.

IOWA IRON WORKS.

FARLEY & ROUSE
Iron Founders, Steam Engine Builders, General Machinists,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
FARLEY & ROUSE, Manufacturers of Stationary and Steamboat Engines; Steam Boilers of any
dimensions; Mill Geering and Castings of all descriptions on hand and furnished to order.
Their arrangements, tools, &c., are especially adapted for any work that the necessities of the
country may require, and they offer to their customers one of the most extended lists of patterns to
be found in the Northwest.   Dubuque, April 19, 1854   ap19–y

DAY & LEE,
NO. 219 SOUTH WATER STREET.
Corner of Franklin Street, CHICAGO,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
And Agents for the New York Importers of 
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Cigars, &c., &c.
Also—Agents for
RUSSELL'S RECTIFIED WHISKEY,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
OUR stock consists in part of the following
favorite Brandies (various vintages):
Otard Dupuy & Co.      United Vineyard, Propr'trs
P. H. Godard & Co.     Maret Cognac.
Sarzerac, superior.     J. J. Dupuy.
Pinet Castellon & Co.     Alex. Seignette.
Martelle Cognac.     Belle Fleur Champagne.
Louis Le Berton.     Pellvoisian.

Together with a full assortment of Rochelle
Brandies, Swan Gin, Schnapps, Irish and Schotch
Whisky, Old Monoghahela and Bourbon Whisky; 
Jamaica, St. Croix and New England Rum; fine
old Sherry and Madeira Wines; Burgundy Port,
Old London Dock and Pure Juice Port, a superior
article for Medicinal purposes.

We also keep constantly on hand a full stock of 
Cincinnati and Chicago RECTIFIED WHISKY,
of standard proof; New York Brandy, first and
fourth proof; New York and Baltimore Gin; 
Neutral Spirits; Cigars, (imported and domestic,)
Tobacco, &c., &c.

We are also Agents for Duryee & Knapp's
EXCELSIOR CHAMPAGNE, 
Which we offer at importation prices and guarantee
fully equal to any other brand of Wine extant.

D. & L. would respectfully call the attention of 
purchasers to their ROSE WHISKY, which stands
Unequalled by any article ever manufactured.

Orders by mail solicited, and as much care
and attention given in following them as if the 
parties were personally present. 
February 2, 1855.   dly

SHAWLS!  Just received, a large
and beautiful assortment
Long and Single Broche, Bay State, Cashmere and
Thibet Wool Shawls—all new styles.   n9
COLLINS & HERVEY,
One Price Store.

MERINOES!  French, English &
American Merinoe
of every color and shade at very reduced price



RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA.
THE monster, Rheumatism, so prolific of pain
and misery, and which has so long buffeted
the science and skill of the medical profession,
has at length been overcome and completely prostrated
by DR, BARBER'S RHEUMATIC DIAPENTS.  
In almost every case of Rheumatism
that could be deemed curable in any wise, this
medicine has been proved to be a sure curative; 
satisfactory proof thereof can be exhibited by the
Agents.  The excruciating pains of Neuralgia and 
Inflammatory Rheumatism it allays in a few hours.
It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism and Neuralgia.—
Call and get a circular.

Prepared by DR. GEORGE BARBER, No. 47,
West Broadway, New York.
DR. BARBER'S RESTORATIVEP ILLS!
Good News!  No More Disease!  Boon 'o the 
Afflicted!

Since the time of the learned Hippocrates,
medical science has made great and important
discoveries to mankind.  The old theory of attributing
disease to incidental causes is now fully
exploded; and the Faculty are constrained to
admit that the alteration of the fluids and the impurity
of the blood is the cause of nall disease
generated in the human system.  The invaluable
discovery of the lamented Harvey has convinced
the most skeptical that the duty of physicians
should be to re-establish the secretions, purify the 
blood, and cast out all those degenerative humors
which hinder the course of nature.  Upon these,
scientific principles are Dr. Barber's Pills founded.
They are warranted to contain no poisonous or,
mercurial substances whatever, which are so deleterious
to the human system.  They are a sure
cure for Aptha, Cancers, Colds, Cramps, Constipation, 
Cholera and Summer Complaints.  Does—
two pills every day.  Dizziness, Swelling of the 
Bones, Pimples, Insanity, Flatulency, and all kinds
of Fevers:—Dose, two pills every day.  For Hemmorrhoids
or Dyspepsia, take two pills every
other day.  Liver Complaint, three pills every
other day until well.  Jaundice, Headache, Disordered
Spleen, Paralysis, Erysipelas, Scrofula, Scorbutic
Affections, &c., &c.—Dose, one to five pills
two hours before meals, or three hours after, in 
all cases.  Three pills should be taken before
taking DR. BARBER'S DIAPENT for Rheumatism
and Neuralgia.  In all casds where a tonic is 
desired, two pills should be taken at night, on
going to bed.
GEO. BARBE, No. 46, West Broadway.

Phoenix Bank, Chicago, Ill.   25 dis.
Rockford Bank, Ill.                25 dis.
Railroad Bank, Decatur, Ill.   25 dis.
Stark Bank, Bennington, Vt. 50 dis.
Sullivan Co. B'k, Monticello, N.Y.  — —
Shipbuilders' Bank, Me.      — —
Suffolk Bank, N. Y. City.       closing.
Saving Bank, Cincinnati, O.  — —
Sullivan Co Bank, N. Y.         — —
Trans-Alleghany Bank, Vs.    10 dis.
Traders' Bank, N. J.               closing.
Union Bank, Chicago, Ill.     25 dis.
Wheat Growers' Bank, N.J.  20 dis.

All bills south of Virginia, Kentucky ad Missouri, 
including the D. C., should be refused.  Also 
all Indiana bills except the State Bank and 
branches.  All banks in the States north of the 
line above designated, and not quoted in the 
above list are good.

Those banks having the — — over against 
them have either failed, closed, suspended, or are 
worthless.

LATEST NEWS.

INSURRECTION IN AUSTRALIA  -700 MEN 
LOST AT SEA.
BOSTON, March 17.
The royal mail steamship Africa reached 
her dock in this city at 7 A. M.  Her mails 
could not be got off in the early train as the 
Canada occupied the Cunard dock.

Our files of English papers contain but 
little news of importance in addition to that 
via Halifax.

The London Morning Herald of the 1st
 inst., has the following despatch from Trieste:

Despatches from Ceylon of February announce 
that the people of Australia have
risen and declared their independence.—
Troops were sent to put down the insurrection 
and sanguinary engagements had been 
fought.  Melbourne was in a state of seige."

This news has of course been received 
by the overland mails and refers to the disturbances
at the diggings.  The Australia 
dates are not given.

The Constitutionel says: We have received 
confirmation of the sad news which 
has been for ten days about Paris.  The 
frigate in the straights of Bonifacio is the Semilante, 
which recently left Toulon, with 400 
soldiers on board.  The vessel truck on one 
of the reefs in that passage, and immediately 
filled.  The crew and passengers, making a 
total of 700, all perished.

No other details have been received of 
this calamity.  The loss created the most 
painful sensation in Paris.  Seven hundred 
men have perished, together with a vast 
quantity of cannon, mortars, and gunpowder.  
Nothing was saved, and all that had been 
washed ashore as far as known to the government, 
are two pairs of trowsers.  The 
Semilante was going to the East.

The Indian mail has been received.

The barque Wm. S. Sayward, from San 
Francisco for Shanghai, with 1,000 barrels 
lour and $16,400 in specie, sprung a leak 
near one of the Ladrone Islands, and was 
abandoned near Nasking with seven feet 
water in her hold.  The ship Vincennes 
tried to save the specie but was unsuccessful.  
The crew were transferred to the ship 
Nightingale, which carried them to Shanghai.


Washington, March 17.
For the expedition to search for Dr. Kane 
the Secretary of the Navy has purchased 
for $50,000 the steam propeller City of 
Boston.  The new light-ship Philadelphia 
goes on the expedition as soon as refitted, 
probably the 1st of June.

The Star says that not the slightest doubt 
of the correctness of the report of Czar's 
death is entertained by the President, Cabinet, 
or foreign officials.  

The President has appointed Charles S. 
Fairfax, of California, register at the land 
office at Marysville, and John A. Paxton, 
Receiver.


Louisville, March 17.
We were visited with a most tremendous 
storm last night  The hail stones that fell 
were at least two inches in circumference, 
and they came down in such force as to 
break in roofs, demolish skylights and do 
much damage otherwise.

It is reported that some dissatisfaction is 
felt in regard to the nomination of the late 
Democratic Convention.


Somebody says a wife should be like 
roast lamb—tender and nicely dressed.—
Somebody else wickedly adds—"and without sauce."



Hayward & [?]
F. SCAMMON & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS
140 LAKE STREET,
CHICAGO.
DEALERS In PURE MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, 
GLASS, VARNISHES, DYE-STUFFS, BRUSHES, 
ARTISTS' Tools and PENCILS, CoLors, DRUGGISTS' 
GLASS-WARE, &c.
Agents for all Valuable Patent Medicines.
Lard Oil, Alcohol, and Star Candles,
At manufacturers's prices.

Dealers in all kinds of
DAGUERREOTYPE MATERIALS,
And Apparatus,
PERFUMERY AND TOILET ARTICLES.

We offer the above articles to the trade on the 
most favorable terms, and solicit the attention of 
Dealers to one of the most extensive and best 
selected stock of Drugs in the West.  All orders 
will meet prompt attention, with out best efforts 
to please in quality and price.     3dm19d6m


NEW GOODS
AT
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
I am in receipt of [?ay] fall stock,
CONSISTING of every variety of Fancy and Staple 
Dry-Goods.  I wish to call especial attention 
to my very extensive stock of
LADIES DRESS GOODS,
By far the largest ever brought to this market; 
comprising every variety of Silks, Morenoes, Poplins, 
Alapacas, de Lains, GInghams. &c., &c.  I 
wish especially to invite the attention of 
Country Merchants,
as I can show them such a stock and offer such 
inducements for CASH or PROMPT PAY, as will 
save them the trouble of going, as many of them 
have heretofore done, to other markets for their 
supplies.  I offer among other articles
100  pieces Sattinetts;
50      "        Cassimers;
100 bales. No. 1 Batts;
12 cases mens caps;
6     "      boys  "
8     "      mens and boys hats;
4     "      ladies bonnets.
500 Seamless Sacks;
100 pieces Flannels;
50     "        Kentucky Jeans;
52 bales Brown and bleached sheeting.
50   "        "          "         "        shirting.
—ALSO—
Linseys, Canton Flannels, and an endless variety 
of Notions, all of which must be sold.

To Country Merchants, I can offer inducements 
such as have never been offered in this market.—
am receiving the largest stock of Goods ever 
brought to Dubuque, and I am
Deermined to Sell Them.
To those who wish to purchase for cash, or 
prompt pay, I can say, that I have been in business
long enough to understand and appreciate 
this kind of customers, and if they will call and 
price my goods, they will be satisfied that I mean 
what I say.  To my stock of staple and fancy 
goods, among which are many
NEW AND RARE ARTICLES,
I invite the attention of those Ladies who wish a 
genteel and fashionable arriclo.
Will they Call and Look at Them?
P. H. CONGER & Bro's.
First Dry Goods Store above the Waples House, 
Main Street, Dubuque, Iowa.     mar19d-wtf


LOOK AT THIS!
The undersigned wishing to devote his entire 
time to his other business, offers for sale at
A BARGAIN
the entire stock of goods now in his store on Main 
street.  The stock consists of
Extra fine Moleskin HATS,
Extra fine Beaver     "
Pedal Straw             "
Canton Regalta Straw  "
Rustic Senate Straw   "
Sewed Pedal—white brim Straw Hats.
Indian Plaid Straw Hats,
Extra Panama Hats,
Men's Palm Leaf [all kinds] Hats,
Double Brimmed Maudarin Hats,
Together with every description of CALIFORNIA 
HATS, and a copious supply of 
INDIA RUBBER GOODS, LADIES' FURS,
MITTS, GLOVES, AND HOSIERY,
Combs, and other articles for the toilet; Suspenders, 
Braces, Brushes Silk, Worsted and Woolen 
Goods Gents and Ladies' Furs; Buffalo and other 
Robes &c. &c., the best assortment ever brought 
to this city.

Linen and French Gingham SHIRTS; Ties Cravats,
Stocks; Under Garments of Silk, Cotton and 
Wool; Linen Collars, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, 
Robes de Chambre, and GLOVES of every description, &c., &c.

This desirable stock of goods will be sold at 
prices that will be satisfactory to any one who 
wishes to enter upon the business.  To such, I 
would say that I am
DETERMINED TO SELL,
as I have other business that requires my undivided 
attention.  I am desirous to sell it for cash, but 
rather than be obliged to devote my time to it, 
will exchange it for land, or any other available 
property, and in so doing I will give to the purchaser 
the entire stock on better terms, than the 
same articles can be bought upon in this, or any 
Eastern Market.  To any person who can devote 
his time to it, and who wishes to enter upon 
this business, [for which there is now a grand opening 
in this city,] this opportunity presents advantages 
seldom to be met with.
Dubuque, March 11th, 1855,     S. S. McLURE.
3dm11d&wtf


FOUND.
A Purse with some money in it.  The owner 
can have it by paying for this advertisement 
and proving property by calling on 
  d3t3m13     CONSTANTINE SMITH.
At the store of C. H. BOWMAN.


FOUND.
A Certificate from the Receiver of the Land 
Office given to James Facey [or Fucey] for 
$50 48-100.  The owner can have the same by 
calling at this office and paying for this advertisement.
mar17d-w1w



Extra fine Beaver     "
Pedal Straw             "
Canton Regalta Straw  "
Rustic Senate Straw  "
Sewed Pedal—white brim Straw Hats,
Indian Plaid Straw Hats,
Extra Panama Hats,
Men's Palm Leaf (all kinds) Hats,
Double Brimmed Mandarin Hats,
Together with every description of CALIFORNIA 
HATS, and a copious supply of 
INDIA RUBBER GOODS, 
suitable, and in fact almost indispensable for those 
that are going over the Plains.  They have likewise 
on hand at their store, and will be pleased 
to exhibit to their customers the largest of of 
LADIES' FURS
of all kinds and desnriptions ever brought into 
Dubuque.  These are all of the latest styles, and 
offered for sale with the most perfect assurance 
that there are unequalled in quality and quantity 
by any stock in this city.  They have made such 
arrangements with their eastern correspondents 
as will keep them
POSTED UP
In relation to every change in the fashionable 
world.  In fine, they are determined, that if the 
most unremitted sttention to the tastes and wants 
of their customers, and the most unwearied perseverance 
will ensure it, they will not rest short of
ENTIRE SUCCESS.

In conclusion theo would say, that they have on 
hand and constantly receiving the most extensive 
and best selected assortment of [H??] [?],
MITTS, GLOVES AND HOSIERY,
Combs, and other articles for the toilet; suspenders, 
Braces, Brushes, silk, Worsted and Woolen 
Goods, Gents and Ladies Furs; Buffalo and other 
Robes, &c., &c., ever brought to this city.

The FURNISHING DEPARTMENT will be 
found unusually replete with the choicest Goods 
from the most CELEBRATED FOREIGN and 
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.  Linen and 
French Gingham SHIRTS; Ties, stocks, cravats; 
Under Garments of silk, Cotton and Wool; Linea 
Collars.  Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Robes de Chambre, 
and GLOVES of every description.  We will 
just remark, en passant, that we are selling the 
BEST QUALITY of the renowned ALEXANDER 
[GL?TES] at 50 cents per pair, while others are 
charging $1 to $1 25 for the same article.

Beebe's, Genins and other fashionable styles of 
Hats constantly on hand, and to be sold
Cheaper than the Cheapest.

Store No. 11, two doors south of the American 
House, Main street.

Cash paid for FURS.
S. S. McCLURE.
Dubuque, March 20th, 1855.     3dm20dtf


KEY CITY HOUSE.
CORNER OF MAIN AND THIRD STREETS,
Dubuque, - - - - Iowa.
G. B. SCIDMORE & CO., PROPRIETORS.
THE above House having been recently fitted 
up, and furnished with entire new furniture, is 
now ready for the reception of travelers.  It being 
located in the central part of the city, 
near the steamboat landing, and containing the only offices 
of both Eastern and Western Stage and Railroad 
companies.  The Proprietors having had considerable 
experience in the business, hope to be able 
to attend to the wants of a traveling public in a 
manner satisfactory to all.

Passengers and baggage conveyed to and from 
boats free of charge.

Stages leave this house daily, for all points, East, 
West, North, and South.
Dubuque, Feb. 16, '55.     d&wtf

OSAGE ORANGE,
MACLURA AURANTIACA.
THE subscribers take this means of informing 
the public, that they have on hand a large 
stock of the above valuable plants, suitable for 
edging the coming spring, which they will dispose 
of at as low rates as can be obtained at any 
other other establishment in the western States.

It has been fully demonstrated that the Osage 
Orange has no equal in the United States as a 
hedge plant; is proof against any kind of stock, of 
rapid and rigorous growth, beautiful in appearance, 
hardy, and every way suited to our climate.

All orders will be filed in the order of their reception, 
so that purchasers will see the wisdom of 
early applications.

We have also on hand, ready for delivery in the 
Spring, a large assortment of 
FRUIT TREES.
Consisting of Apples, Plums, Cherries, Dwarf and 
Standard Pears, Goosberries, Currants, &c., all ef 
which will be sold at low rates, and warranted 
[?ue] to name.

All orders should be directed post paid, to 
Leonard Horr, our agent for the Osage Orange, or 
to     FAHNESTOCK & HORR,
DUBUQUE NURSERIES, IOWA.
February 7th, 1855     d-w2mo


FRESH CAMPHINE, just received by 
jeb26 dtf     F. W. DE BERARD.

NUTS!  NUTS!  A few boxes.
F. W. DE BERARD.

SPRUCE GUM by the Box.
F. W. DE BERARD.

SPERM CANDLES. A superior article, VERY 
CHEAP, by     F. W. DE BERARD

LAMP OIL.  A splendid quality—same price as 
you pay for a common article.
F. W. DE BER ARD

PERFUMERY.  A splendid assortment at 
DE BERARD'S


LOST OR STOLEN.
All persons are forbid negotiating for three 
notes drawn in favor of and undersigned and 
signed by John Poor Dated at Delhi Delaware Co., 
Iowa some time in May last.  One note was Given 
for one hundred dollars due June 1st 1854.  One 
of three hundred dollars, due September, 1854, and 
one of five hundred dollar4 due September 1855 
all drawing interest at the rate of 6 per cent from 
date.  They were supposed to have been taken 
from the house of the subscriber about two weeks 
since- Whoever will return said notes, or any 
o them, shall be liberally rewarded.
JAMES PHILLIPS.
Delhi, March 5, 1855.     3dm72tw



WATCHES WHICH WIND
And turn the hand without a key,    $85 to 140
ALL KINDS OF WATCHES AT VERY LOW 
PRICES.
Fine Gold Lepine Watches, 4 holes jewel'd, $25 00
Fine Gold Detached Levers,  -  -  -   30 00
Gold Enameled watches for the Ladies,    35 00
Gold English Patent Levers,  -  -  -   35 00
Gold English Patent Levers, hunting cases,  58 00
Silver Patent Levers as low as  -  -   16 00
"   Detached Levers, "  -  -  -   14 00
Ladies' Gold Sets, Earrings, Pins, 
Bracelets,  -  -  -  -    $15 00 to 75 00
Earrings $2 to $25, Pins, $2 to $25, 
Bracelets,  -  -  -  -   5 00 to 80 00
Gold Lockets, one, two and 4 glasses  3 00 to 25 00
Gold Guard Chains,  -  -  -   10 00 to 50 00
Gold Chatelaine chains, - - 10 00 to 100 00
Gold Vest  do.,  -  -  -   30 00 to 85 00
Gold Fob  do.,  -  -  -   6 00 to 25 00
Fine Gold Wedding Rings,  -  -   3 50 to 7 00
Gold Guard Keys,  -  -  -   1 00 to 5 00
Gold Fob  do,  -  -  -   2 00 to 6 00
Gold Fob Seals,  -  -  -   3 00 to 12 00
Gold Thimbles,  -  -  -   2 50 to 5 00
Gold Pencils,  -  -  -   1 25 to 7 00
Gold Pens and Pencils,  -  -  -   3 50 to 16 00
Diamond Rings,  -  -  :  -   7 00 to 250 00
Diamond Earrings,  -  -   100 00 to 300 00
Diamond Pins,  -  -  -  -   15 00 to 300 00
Gold Crosses,  -  -  -   2 00 to 12 00
Gold Finger Rings, with stones,   2 00 to 15 00
Gold Sleeve Buttons, per set   2 50 to 12 00
Gold Studs   [?]   50 to 10 00
Gold Spectacles, per pair,   5 00 to 9 00
Gold Eye Glasses   "   1 75 to 6 00
Silver Teaspoons, per set,   5 00 to 9 00
Silver Tablespoons,  "   12 00 to 21 00
Silver Tableforks,  "   13 00 to 23 00
Silver Cups for Children,   6 00 to 15 00
Silver Napkin Rings, each.   1 50 to 3 50
Gold Armlets for children, per pair,  2 50 to 6 00
Plain Gold Rings,  -  -  -  -   75 to 3 00
Chased Silver Rings,  -  -  -   1 00 to 5 00
Silver Thimbles, silver tops,
Gold Scarf Pins,  -  -  -   1 00 to
GEO. C. ALLEN, IMPORTER,
wholesale and retail, No. 11 Wall st., 2nd floor
near Broadway, NEW YORK
feb12-'55-dly     near Broadway, NEW YORK


CROCKERY.
VAN DEWATER & HOYT,
163 Washington Street, New York.,
Keep constantly on hand one of the largest and 
best assorted stocks in the cito, which they 
will offer at very reduced rates, and on as avorable 
terms as any other house.  In addition to these 
inducements, purchasers can rely upon getting 
what they buy, and that the goods will be carefully 
packed.  Their assortment comprises CHINA 
GLASS, EARTHEN-WARE, LOOKING-GLASSES, CLOCKS, 
ETC., in all their varieties.  Orders will receive 
particular attention.     3d m 5d1m


A CARD.
WE have this first day of March, 1855, formed 
a co-Partnership for the purpose of transacting 
a Wholesale and Retail
GOCERY, FORWARDING AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
Steam Boat, Rail Road and Freight Agents, and 
all business usually connected with the same, at 
the old stand
NO. 304 STEAMBOAT LANDING,
corner of Fourth and Levee streets, Dubuque, 
Iowa.
WILLIAM L. JOHNSON,
JOSEPH ROBINSON.
dyd&w3mo5


REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
THE SOUTH TWO-FIFTHS of Dubuque city 
lot 446.  On each lot is a new one-and-a-half 
story house, with cisterns, stable, and other conveniences 
attached; situated on the corner of Clay 
and Eleventh streets.

Also—two choice lots on Lake street.

Those wishing to purchase property in Dubuque 
will find it to their interest to examine the above 
before purchasing elsewhere.  For particulars, inquire 
of the subscriber, on the premises.
feb15--2mod     C. F. WICKES.


TO CONTRACTORS.
BIDS will be received until the 20th of April 
next, for the building of the superstructure of 
a Bridge of three spans, two of 40 feet, and one 
of 56 feet,—To be built across the main Slough, 
in line of Jones street.  The models of the Bridge 
can be seen at the store of Geo. W. Burton.

Further information can be had by application 
to the undersigned:
JAMES HUFF,
J. H. EMERSON,
CHAS. GREGORIE.
Dubuque, March 19, 1855.     3dm19dtaf20


RUFUS STORY,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
And Dealer in
Teas, Coffee, Ginger, Pepper,
And all kinds of SPICES.
Nos. 7 & 9 Front street, NEW YORK.
d–w tf 7br8


NOTICE
IS hreby given that at a meeting of the stockholders 
of the Dubuque Gas Light and Coke 
Company, held Monday, the 12th inst, it was unanimously 
decided that the articles of association 
of said company, be amended by the addition of 
the following article:

ARTICLE 7th—The private property of the members 
of this corporation shall be exempt from 
liability for corporate debts.
Dubuque, Feb. 12, 1855.
CEO. W. BURTON, Chairman
T. F. HAY, secretary.     47-6w


NOTICE.
PURE Vaccine Virus can be obtained by Physicians 
abroad by addressing a note, enclosing 
one dollar, to DRS. HORR & DAVID.
Dubuque, Iowa, Jan. 30, 1855.     wtf-45


HATS AND CAPS--A large stock of Hats and 
Caps in store and for sale by
05     FARLEY & CUMINGS.



ASCARIDES, OR SMALL THREAD WORMS.
These worms, to which the human system is 
liable, are the most troublesome of all others.  
They are generally to be found in the rectum and 
if allowed to remain, from the irritation they produce, 
lay the foundation for serious disorders, such 
as inflamation of the bowels, ond other derangements 
of the stomach.  The best and safest medicine 
that can be used is HOBENSACK'S WORM 
SYRUP.  Such is the astonishing power of my 
medicines over Ascarides, that I defy any one to 
Produce a case where my Worm Syrup and Liver pelis 
are recommended to to be used they will not 
iure.  All that is necessary is to use the Syrup in 
accordance with directions on each bottle; and in 
case a gentle purgative is required in order to irritation 
they produce, the Liver Pills by their 
sympathising action and healthy operation upon 
the bowels, is the most pleassant medicine that can 
be taken.
HOBENSACK'S LIVER PILLS.
No part of the system is more liable to disease 
than the Liver, it being supplied with numerous 
blood vessels and nerves, and if diseased, the blood 
of course flowing through all parts of the body 
produces Liver Complaints, Jaundice, and Bilious Affections, 
Dyspepsia, &c., &c.
LIVER COMPLAINT.
Is attended with chills, succeeded by fever, severe 
pains in the region of the Liver, vomiting, 
bad taste, yellow furred tongue, pulse full and pain 
is generally in the left shoulder, with a bounding; 
the pain in the shoulder increases by pressure, 
should the left eye be affected, the short dry 
cough, the skin becoming of sallow appearance, and 
the stools clay colored.  This disease can bs 
cured by the use of the LIVER PILL, as it is acte 
directly upon the seat of the disease, then operating 
on the bowels it expels all the corrupt and 
vitiated matter from the system.
DYSPEPSIA.
The symptoms of Dyspepsia, and its various 
diseases are dizziness of the head, heartburn, oppressions 
after eating meals, sourness arising from 
the stomach, &c., and sometimes languor of the 
whole body, from which it will be seen the disease 
owes its origin to a disorganized state of the liver 
and stomach.  HOBENSACK'S LIVER PILLS is the 
very medicine to affect a permanent and lasting 
cure, as they act by changing the cercain and 
morbid actions of the system into a healthy action, 
and rendering the blood pure and healthy.
TO FEMALES.
You will find these Pills an invaluable medicine 
in many complains of which you are subject.  In 
obstructions, either total or partial, they have been 
found of inestimable benefit in restoring and 
purifying the blood and other fluids, so as to cure 
all complains which may arise from female irregularities, 
as head ache, dimness of sight, pain in 
the side, back, &c.  These Pills are the only safe 
and effectual remedy to cure the following complaints, 
Gout, Nervousness, Melancholy, Sick Headache, 
Giddiness, Rheumatism, distressing dreams 
pimness of sight; or in fact any of the diseases 
that arise from affections of the liver, impurity of 
the blood, or constipation of the bowels.
MEDICAL EVIDENCE.
WE the undersigned Physicians, having had 
the receipt of their manufacture submitted to us 
for our inspection, say, that the ingredients of 
which they are composed make them the best Pill 
in use for all diseases of the liver, impurities of 
the blood, &c.
GEORGE WOOD, M. D.
F. CROWLEY, M. D.
L. BOWEN, M. D.

Purchase none but those having the signature 
"J.N. HOBENSACK," as all others are worthless imitations.

Agents wishing new supplies and all others 
wishing to become agents, must address the 
Proprietor, J. N. HOBENSACK, at his Laboratory, 
No. 120 North second street, above Race, PHILADELPHIA.

Sold by all Druggists and Merchants in the U.S
July 6, 1853.     sep28

For sale by WM. P. ALLEN, No, 1001 Main Street, 
next door to Waples House, Dubuque, Iowa


CRACKERS!  CRACKERS!  CRACKERS!

Butter Crackers, Boston Crackers, Soda 
Crackers.
MANUFACTURED BY J. WHEELER,
AT THE CITY BAKERY.
(DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE WAPLES HOUSE.)
HAVING recently made extensive preparations 
for the manufacture of the above articles, I 
am now prepared to furnish as good,  If not a 
better Cracker than can be offered by any other 
establishment on the Mississippi River, which I 
will sell at 
WHOLESALE,
on terms that cannot fail to give entire satisfaction.  
With my present facilities, I can turn out 
about twenty barrels per day, but with the assistance 
of another 
CRACKER MACHINE,
which I shall order on the opening of navigation. 
I hope to be able to supply all who may favor me 
with their patronage.

Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
J. WHEELER.
Dubuque, Jan. 4, '55.     d&wtf


SLOAN'S HORSE OINTMENT,
CONDITION POWDER—Farrier Book—Tannin 
Paste and FAMILY OINTMENT.

Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, at 
No. 40 Lake street Chicago, Illinois, by
W. B. SLOAN.

Aed sold by A. GILLESPIE, Dubuque, Iowa, 
and Mnrchants generally.


NEW GOODS AGAIN BY EXPRESS
S. ERCKANBRACK & CO.,
MERCHANT TAILORS,
HAVE on hand a fine supply of Cloths, Overcoatings, 
Cassimeres, and Silk Plush, Velvets 
and Maltalese Vestings, Gent's Furnishing Goods 
and Ready-Made Clothing, which they will sell 
cheap.
S. ERCKANBRACK & Co
Main street, Dubuque, Iowa.

MINSKI,
THE PRINCE OF BARBERS.
This accomplished artist is to be found at all 
proper hours, at his New Shop, a few doors 
north of City Hotel, where for a dime we will be 
in readiness either to take gentlemen by the nose, 
or to sell them a choice segar.

All work in this department done neatly and 
fashionably.     3d m 5 dtf



[?]
I am also prepared to import any Foreign or Continental Works not usually found in this country.  
The publications of Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston, Banks, Gould & Co., of New York, T. & J. M. 
Johnson, Philadelphia, will be sold at their lowest rates.  A general catalogue of modern Law Books 
including the old reports, will be sent to any desiring it.     S. S. HOMANS,

Law, Bookseller and Stationer, corner 4th Street and Washington Avenue, (under Verandah Mall
June 21, 1854.     d&w-y     ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.


W. J. BARNEY & CO .
BANKERS, DEALERS IN EXCHANGE AND LAND AGENTS,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.

NOTES and Bills Collected and remitted to any part of the United States.  Money received on
Deposit and interest allowed.  Bills of Exchange on ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF 
THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE BOUGHT AND SOLD.

Paper Exchanged for LAND OFFICE MONEY—Loans made on good security.

Money remitted to Europe in SIGHT BILLS, which can be cashed in any town in England 
Ireland or Wales, in sums of £1 and upwards.

Taxes paid, titles examined, and Lands sold on commission.

LAND WARRANTS AND LAND,
For Cash or on time, to suit purchasers, constantly on hand.  Dealers supplied on [liber?lte?]

OFFICE ON MAIN STREET.


IOWA IRON WORKS.

FARLEY & ROUSE
Iron Founders, Steam Engine Builders, General Machinists,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
FARLEY & ROUSE, Manufacturers of Stationary and Steamboat Engines; Steam Boilers of any 
dimension; Mill Geering and Castings of all descriptions on hand and furnished to order.  
Their arrangements, tools, &c., are especially adapted for any work that the necessities of the 
country may require, and they offer to their customers one of the most extended lists of patterns to 
be found in the Northwest.     Dubuque, April 19, 1854.     ap19-y


DAY & LEE,
NO. 219 SOUTH WATER STREET.
Corner of Franklin Street, CHICAGO.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
And Agents for the New York Importers of
Brandies, Wines, Gin, Cigars, &c., &c.
Also—Agents for
RUSSELL'S RECTIFIED WHISKEY,
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
OUR stock consists in part of the following 
favorite Brandies (various vintages):
Otard Dupuy & Co.     United Vinyard, Propr'trs
P. H. Godard & Co.      Maret Cognac.
Sarzerac, superior.       J. J. Dupuy.
Pinet Castellon & Co.   Alex. Seignette.
Martelle Cognac.         Belle Fleur Champagne.
Louis Le Berton.           Pellvoisian.

Together with a full assortment of Rochelle 
Brandies, Swan Gin, Schnapps, Irish and Scotch 
Whisky, Old Monongahela and Bourbon Whisky; 
Jamaica, St. Croix and New England Rum; fine 
old Sherry and Madeira Wines; Burgundy Port,
Old London Dock and Pure Juice Port, a superior 
article for Medicinal purposes.

We also keep constantly on hand a full stock of 
Cincinnati and Chicago RECTIFIED WHISKY, 
of standard proof; New York Brandy, first and
fourth proof; New York and Baltimore Gin: 
Neutral Spirits; Cigars, (imported and domestic,) 
Tobacco, &c., &c.

We are also Agents for Duryee & Knapp's
EXCELSIOR CHAMPAGNE,
Which we offer at importation prices, and guarantee 
fully equal to any other brand of Wine extant.  

D. & L. would respectfully call the attention of 
purchasers to their ROSE WHISKY, which stands 
Unequalled by any article ever manufactured.

Orders by mail solicited, and as much care 
and attention given in following them as if the 
parties were personally present.
February 2, 1855.     d1y


SHAWLS!  Just received, a large 
and beautiful assortment 
Long and Single Broche, Bay State, Cashmere and 
Thibet Wool Shawls—all new styles.     n9
COLLINS & HERVEY,
One Price Store.


MERINOES!  French, English & 
American Merinoe 
of every color and shade, at very reduced price 
at   COLLINS' & HERVERY'S
Wholesale and Retail House.


EMBROIDERIES  The best 
assortment 
West of N. Y. consisting of French, English 
and Swiss Needle Work Collars, Chemizettes, 
Sleeves, Flouncing, Inserting, Edging, Bands, 
Hdkfs., Caps, &c., at prices which cannot fail to 
please.   COLLINS & HERVEY,
n9     Emporium of Fashion.


SILKS!  SILKS!!  100 Dress Patterns of 
magnificent Silks—styles unlike 
any to be found elsewhere: 50 pieces Black Silks 
and Satins, at remarkably low prices, at
COLLINS & HERVEY'S
n9     Head Quarters for Fashionable Goods.


HOUSE KEEPING GOODS—Curtain 
Draperies in Damask; Lace and 
Muslin, with trimmings to match; Table Damasks; 
Napkins, Towelling, Sheetings; Boots and Shoes, 
&c.; full stock of staples.

These Goods are all new—bought during the 
greatest depression in the Eastern market—hence 
to merchants generally unusual inducements are 
offered at our new store in Gen. Jones' Building.
COLLINS & HERVEY.
Fashionable Dry Goods Store


DRESS!  GOODS—The most rich and 
beautiful vartiety of all Wool, 
Paris, Fancy and Plain Delaines; Alpaccas, Saxony 
Plaids, Cashmeres, &c.; which will be sold at 
Eastern Prices,    by COLLINS & HERVEY,
n9     Staple and Fancy Dry Goods Store.


CARPETS!  The finest lot of Carpets 
ever offered in Dubuque; 
Tapestry, Ingrain Tapesry, Brussels, 3ply 
and Ingrain—entirely new designs.     n9
COLLINS & HERVEY, Cheap Cash Store.


BISSEL & CO—Offer or sale, 5,000 lbs super 
or BACON; 1,000 lbs. superior DRIED VENISON; 
50 sacks Salt; together with a general assortment 
of GROCERIES, at wholesale or retail 
all of which will be sold low, and warranted to 
give satisfaction     s28



RHEUMATISM AND NEURALGIA.
THE monster, Rheumatism, so prolific of pain 
and misery, and which has so long buffeted 
the science and skill of the medical profession, 
has at length been overcome and completely prostrated 
by DR, BARBER'S RHEUMATIC DIAPENTS.  
In almost every case of Rheumatism 
that could be deemed curable in any wise, this 
medicine has been proved to be a sure curative; 
satisfactory proof thereof can exhibited by the 
Agents.  The excruciating pains of Neuralgia and 
Inflammatory Rheumatism it allays in a few hours.  
It cures Dyspepsia, Rheumatism and Neuralgia.—
Call and get a circular.

Prepared by DR. GEORGE BARBER, No. 47, West Broadway, New York.
DR. BARBER'S RESORATIVEP ILLS!
Good News!  No More Disease!  Boon to the
 the Afflicted!

Since the time of the learned Hippocrates, 
medical science has made great and important 
discoveries to mankind.  The old theory of attributing 
disease to incidental causes is now fully 
exploded; and the Faculty are constrained to 
admit that the alteration of the fluids and the impurity 
of the blood is the cause of nall disease 
generated in the human system.  The invaluable 
discovery of the lamented Harvey has convinced 
the most skeptical that the duty of physicians 
should be to re-establish the secretions, purify the 
blood, and cast out all those degenerative humors 
which hinder the course of nature.  Upon these, 
scientific principles are Dr. Barber's Pills founded.  
They are warranted to contain no poisonous or, 
mercurial substances whatever, which are so deleterious 
to the human system.  They are a sure 
cure for Aptha, Cancers, Colds, Cramps, Constipation, 
Cholera and Summer Complaints.  Does—
two pills every day.  Dizziness, Swelling of the 
Bones, Pimples, Insanity, Flatulency, and all kinds 
of Fevers:—Dose, two pills every day.  For Hœmorrhoids 
or Dyspepsia, take two pills every 
other day.  Liver Complaint, three pills every 
other day until well.  Jaundice, Headache, Disordered 
Spleen, Paralysis, Erysipelas, Scrofula, Scorbutic 
Affections, &c., &c.:—Dose, one to five pills 
two hours before meals, or three hours after, in 
all cases.  Three pills should be taken before 
taking DR. BARBER'S DIAPENT for Rheumatism 
and Neuralgia.  In all cases where a tonic is 
desired, two pills should be taken at night, on 
going to bed.
GEO. BARBER, No. 46, West Broadway, 

Agents wanted in all the large cities and 
towns in New England.
DR. GEORGE BARBER,
No. 47, West Broadway, New York.
Jan. 19, 1855     1yd2tw&w


INDEPENDENCE
GENERAL AGENCY OFFICE.
BREWER, ROSZELL & BEMIS are prepared 
to enter Lands either in the Dubuque or Des 
Moines District, either for Cash or on Time.  Also 
to invest money, pay taxes and examine titles, 
furnish plats and information concerning the 
western country, and make selections for persons 
wishing to purchase.

Farms and Village Lots also for sale.

Two of the above firm are practical Surveyors 
and are always ready to do surveying and to show 
precisely the land persons may wish to examine

Office in P. O. Building, Independence, Buchanan 
county, Iowa.     E. BREWER,
()     [??]
dlm–wtf–45,     GEO. BEMIS.
1855


FOR RENT.
A TWO Story Brick House, on Cooler Avenue, 
belonging to A. Heeb, and lately occupied by 
Doct. Seipman.     M. MOBLEY, Agent.
March 3—d6t


DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
THE Partnership heretofore existing under the 
style of ANDERSON & MITTON has been this 
day dissolved by mutual consent, and the whole 
interest is now vested in ROBERT MITTON, who will 
pay all demands against, and who is alone authorized 
to receive moneys or other assetts due said 
firm.     HENRY ANDERSON.
ROBERT MITTON.
Dubuque. Jan. 23, 1855.


WANTED.
A situation, by a respectable young man from 
Philadelphia, in some business where he can 
make himself generally useful; is not afraid of 
work, and can do anything from book keeping to 
sweeping out store.  The very best of references 
given.  Address "CAREY," Dubuque P. O.  3dm9d64

DUBUQUE DAILY TRIBUNE.
Thursday, March 22, 1855.

OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY.
Daily, per year $7 00 in advance $8 00 if not,
Tri-Weekly,  4 00  500 if not
Weekly,  2 00   "  3 00 if not

A. W. HACKLEY,
Editor and Proprietor.

FOR PRESIDENT IN 1856,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
OF NEW YORK.
Subject to the decision, of a National
Convention.

STATE OFFICES.
For Commissioner of Des Moines Improvement,
WILLIAM McKAY,
of Polk County.
For Register of Des Moines Improvement.
J. C. LOCKWOOD,
of Louisa County.
For Register of State Land Office,
ANSON HART,
of Johnson County.

TO IMPORTERS, JOBBERS, &c.—The business
men of Chicago, St, Louis, New York,
Philadelphia, Boston, &c., who wish to obtain
a portion of the business of Dubuque,
will do well to advertise in the Dubuque
Tribune, which is the official paper of the
City, and is not exceeded in circulation, by
any paper in the State. 

WANTED.—At this office, a good, reliable
Foreman, who is also a good Job Printer,
and who wishes a permanent situation.

PEOPLE'S MASS MEETING.
A meeting of the citizens of Dubuque, will be
held at the Court House, on Saturday, March 24th
at 2 o'clock P. M., forthe purpose of nominating a
Ticket irrespective of party, to be supported by
the people, for city and township officers, at the
coming April Election.     MANY CITIZENS.
Observer, and Express & Herald please copy.

Blarney and Buncomb.
The Express and Herald of this morning
is out with one of the most shallow possible
dodges to catch German votes. We
have no concealment to make of our sentiments
with reference to the policy of enacting
a Prohibitory Liquor Law; and although
we have strong objections to the
wholesale prohibition of the bill, and would
greatly prefer that the use of beer, wine
and cider should have been preserved from
embargo, we are nevertheless so impressed
with the necessity of preserving our infant
State from the curse of drunkenness and
the unrestricted manufacture sale and use
of ardent spirits, that rather than postpone
the enactment of a Prohibitory Law, we are
disposed to go for the law under consideration,
nothwithstanding our dislike to its indiscriminating
restriction, and to seek at the
hands of the next Legislature, a modification
of its objectionable features. 

The fact, that those countries producing
the greatest quantity of wine, are the most
strictly temperate, and those not producing 



point. Besides, it is so framed that
let the people vote as they may, for or
against the law, it will not the less become
a law. Our readers may rest assured that
this is the fact: and they must therefore
see the folly of throwing away their votes
on the question. We entirely agree with
the resolution of our German friends, which
we published yesterday, that a judicious
system of general public education, is the
surest bulwark for the security of our liberties,
and will gladly co-operate with them in
all suitable endeavors to extend our educational
facilities to every family in the land.
We do not intend to blarney the Germans,
or to pursuade them to adopt our views
against their will; we have not the smallest
idea of writing buncomb articles to entrap
the less prejudiced amongst them into supporting
the prohibition candidates; all we
ask is that our German friends will calmly
review the past; and they will we think, not
long remain in doubt, as to whether we, or
the Express and Herald have been their
most consistent friend, or their saftest adviser.

To show the ridiculous nonsense of charging
the Whig party, (especially when no
such party exists) with making Liquor Prohibition
a party question, we will merely
state, to show up on the foolish and wilful lie,
that, Hon. R. Noble, a [Democrat] Whig, during
the discussion of this very Liquor Bill, left
his seat as Speaker of the House, came
down upon the floor, and addressed the
House in an able and effective speech, he opposed
the bill, as presented for the action of
the House, and moved an amendment,
which was lost, excepting beer, wine and cider
from its restriction; and further, the bill
itself was framed by Mr. Witter (a democrat
[also]) from Scott Co., who did more than
any other six men to ensure its passage.

The Czar's Death Confirmed.
As will be seen by reference to our telegraphic
reports, not the slightest doubt of
the correctness of the report of the Czar's
death, is entertained in Washington. Immense
preparations are making for an assault
upon Sebastopol. Napoleon still insists
upon leaving for the Crimea, against
the remonstrance of England and Austria.
Reports are current of the cession of the
Russian Possessions in North America to
the U.S. for $30,000,000.

The Galena Jeffersomian says: that
goods are sold in Galena cheaper than they
are at Chicago or St. Louis; and advises
Dubuque merchants to make their purchass
there. We are informed that not only is
such the fact, but that so anxious are some
of the far-famed Galena merchants to find
customers, and to dispose of their stocks, and
[s?] possible do they find it to do so at
[?hat] goods have been hauled from
[?] [?]



IS THE MAN MAD?—The Express &
Herald, thus speaks of the Rev. Bishop Loras,
of this diocese:

"But, as he has taken a course indiametrical
contrast to that of the Catholic Hierarchy
of the United States, we leave the question,
so far as he is concerned, to be decided
by another tribunal than the popular opinion
of Dubuque."

Has it then come to this? that a Bishop
in the Catholic church, cannot discharge his
sacred duty to the flock, of whom Christ
has constituted him the overseer, without receiving
insults and injury, accompanied by
threats of being called to account before a
higher tribunal? We trust not; and do
most fervently hope and believe, that all
good men, both Catholics and Protestants,
will frown upon their audacious and wicked
attempts, to trample upon the rights of the
Bishop, and of any and every other man, who
dares conscientiously to discharge his duty,
to his fellow men, and to his God.


We would say to DON HOMBRA,
first, that we never publish any article
without receiving the real name of the author;
second, that we are obliged for his good
opinion of the course and conduct of the
Tribune; and third, that his article contains
nothing with reference to the Express &
Herald, that was not contained in our editoral
of the 19th, written for its especial 
benefit; that the people are fully aware of
its worse than worthlessness, and that we
do not wish to take up valuable space, in
calling attention to, or criticising its political
contortions, nor do we wish to repeat from
day to day the advice to the better class of
our citizens to withold from it their patronage
and support.


It cost $12,000 to bring the great
California tree from Sierra Nevada to New
York, and will cost $1,000 more to take it
to the Paris Exhibition.


A Ball.

(Concluded)

The officers accompanied us to the ballroom.
I was already enjoying the idea of
the effect which my national ribbon and
our two beaux would produce; and, entre
nous, I could not give up the hope, that if
all the others really had square heads, we
should have the only two round ones in the
room!

But great was my mistake and surprise. 

There was not one of my companions
who had not at least twice as much national
ribbon on her dress as I had; and as to the
officers, our two cavaliers held but the third
rank among them.

One was more agreeable, more fascinating,
handsomer, livelier than the other; how is it
possible that men like these can shed so
much blood!

There was one in particular who attracted
my attention—nor mine alone, but everybody's.
He was a young captain his [str?]



ed of the badness of confectionary in our
town. He probably supposed from my
grimace that somebody had offended me at
the ball, and answered something, from
which—by the gestures which accompanied
it—I could only infer that he intended cutting
the offender in pieces; unless indeed
what others would express under such circumstances
may be the common gesticulation
of men who live in war.

At last, my quadrille came. The band
played the symphony, and the dancers hastened
to seek their partners.

My heart almost burst from my dress
when I saw my dancer approach, and, bowing
low, pressed the little flower to his heart.

I fear my hand trembled as he took it in
his; but I only smiled, and made some observation
about the music.

"Ah, you are carrying off my neighbor!"
cried the Major, laughing, with one of his
"annihilating" gesticulations.

As we joined the columns, some body
whispered behind us, "what a well-matched
couple!"

Ah, Ilma! how happy I was! I felt, as
we stood there, hand in hand, as if his
blood were flowing into mine, and mine into
his! We waited for the music; but before
it could begin, the noise of horses' feet were
heard galloping up the street, and, at the
same time, several cannons were fired at a
distance, which made all the windows rattle.
Suddenly an officer entered the ball room,
with his casko on his head, and covered with
mud, and announced that the enemy had attacked
the outposts.

The major had heard the cannon, and
read from the courier's face what he could
not understand from his words.

"Ah, that's right!" he exclaimed, clasping
his hands, and again those fearful gestures
by which people express killing. "We were
only waiting for them, messieurs; we must
ask our ladies for a few moments' leave—
just a few moments, mes dames; we shall
return immediately, and meanwhile you can
rest."

And he hastened to put on his sword; all
the other officers ran to get theirs—and I
saw the gay, courtly, flattering expressions
suddenly changed to angry, fierce, threatening
countenances; but one and all seemed
eager to start, as if they had expected it all
along.

My dancer, too, forsook me to look for his
sword and casko. His step was the firmest,
his eye the keenest of all; if I had hitherto
felt happiness—more than happiness—
in looking at him, admiration, enthusiasm
now filled my breast.

As he buckled on his sword, a strange
fever seemed to burn in all my veins; I
could have wished to be in the battle with
him, to ride beside him, and dash with him
into the midst of the enemy!

He stillheld my rose in his hand, and, as
he took up his casko, he placed it beside the
cockade; and then he turned back, as if he
sought something through the crowd—our
eyes met—he hastened away, and the ball
room was empty!

Meanwhile we remained alone, as if nothing
had happened; the major had given orders
that none should leave the rooms before
his return. It was the longest hour I ever
spent. 

Many of us stood at the windows listening
to the cannon, and trying to guess the [re?]



As the people were balloting in the new
town hall at Meredith, the floor gave away
and precipitated some 200 of them 18 feet
on the stones and rubbish beneath; 40 were
taken from the ruins with limbs broken and
others were severely injured. Four of them
are not expected to live, and two deaths
reported when the train left.


DIED.
In this city, of paralysis, at the residence of her 
son-in-law, Harvey Snow, on the 7th inst., 
MRS. BETSEY BROWN, formerly of Lowell, 
Mass., aged 68 years, 2 months and 4 days.

Also, on the 22d of March, ABEL BROWN, of 
lung fever, aged 73 years and 2 months. 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire papers 
please copy.

The funeral will be attended to-morrow at 2 
o'clock, P. M., from the residence of Mr. Snow, 
in Bluff street.


Special Advertisements.

NOTICE
The public discussion of the Prohibitory Liquor 
Law will take place according to adjournment, 
at Globe Hall on Thursday evening next, 
March 29th, at 7 1/2 o'clock precisely. Come one 
come all.

E. BROWN authorises us to announce him as a 
candidate for the office of Constable, for the township 
of Julien; and pledges himself that if elected, 
he will devote his time and best efforts, to the 
faithful discharge of his duty. 

EDITOR OF TRIBUNE:—Please announce the name 
of JOHN W. CLARK, as an independent candidate 
for office of Constable, for the township of Julien. 
MANY CITIZENS.

We are authorised to announce the name of LUCIUS 
H. LANGWORMHY, as an independent candidate 
for the office of Mayor, of the city of Dubuque, 
at the approaching election.
Dubuque, March 16, 1855.   d-tf

We are requested to announce name of P. C. 
MORHISER, as a candidate for the office of City 
Marshal.   mar13dtf

We are requested to announce the name of 
JOHN HARTSOCK, as a candidate for the office of 
City Collector.   mar13dtf

EDITOR TRIBUNE:
As the time has arrived for the Citizens of 
Dubuque to commence making nominations for 
City officers I will mention the name of Wm. S. 
Gilliam, as a suitable man for the office of City 
Marshal in April next. 
mar6d     AN OLD CITIZEN.

SPECIAL NOTICE.
All persons indebted to Finley & Co. for Lots in 
Finley's Addition to Dubuque, are hereby notified 
that the second instalment will be due on the 
first day of April, 1855. Those who have not yet 
received bonds for deeds, must come forward by 
that time, pay up, and receive their bonds.
March 21st, 1855.     WAPLES & WALMSLEY Ag'ts.
Office in Thedinga's new building Main-st. 
3dm21d1m.

McCLURE, MILLS & CO.
LAND BROKERS AND AGENTS.
Jones Block, corner of Main and Sixth streets,
WILL attend to all business connected with 
lands in the States of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. 
Have for sale city lots and lands in many counties 
West of Dubuque. Will buy and sell, and locate 
Land Warrants, will attend to the paying of taxes, 
collection of debts, and in fact all business requiring 
an agent. 

A REGISTER



NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS.
Gentlemen wishing to make their lady friends 
a valuable, ornamental and useful present, will 
find at the subscriber's some of the finest Muslin,
Crotchet and Cambric Collars, Undersleeves, Chemizettes 
and Bands in setts and single. Lace 
Veils, Reticules, Pearl, Velvet and Papier Mache, 
Porte Monies, and various other articles, all of 
which are new, having been received by Express 
yesterday.

Ladies are invited to call and examine the Muslin 
work, as it is of better quality than is usually 
brought to this city. These goods are marked at 
verylow prices from which no deviation will be 
made.   THOS. ADMAS.
Dec. 29, 1854.  tf


SPRING FASHIONS,
JUST RECEIVED.
wish to inform my friends and the Public that 
I have on hand [?] supply of
SPRING STYLE HATS FOR 1855.
–ALSO–
Hats Made to Order on Short Notice.
R. C. SILENCE,
76 Main street, 3d door below Third,
Feb, 22–d tf     DUBUQUE.


PAPER WAREHOUSE.
G. H. & L. LAFLIN,
175 South Water street,
CHICAGO, ILL.
HAVING now in Store the best selected Stock 
of assorted Paper west of New York City 
which will be sold as low as they can be purchased 
East, on favorable terms. Their stock consist in 
part as follows:
5,000 Rms Blue and White wove Letter Paper,
2,500  do   do  Plain and Ruled Cap,
500  do Flat Caps,
300  do Folio Post,
500  do Medium and Demy,
500  do Bath Post,
2,000  do Asst'd Note Papers,
2,000  do Wrapping Paper.  Tissue Bound and 
Envelope Papers.
500,000 M Envelopes assorted. Printers Cards
and Card Board, also Straw and Bonnet Boards.
Whips, Cigars and Powder, always on hand.

Cash paid for any quantity of Rags. Orders
respectfully solicited and put up with promptness
and dispatch.   jy8dy

RECEIVED BY EXPRESS.
Gentlemen's Fancy Silk Cravats, Cloth an
Linen Gloves, Linen Pocket Handkerchiefs, Merino
Undershirts, Hosiery, &c.     T. ADAMS.
Dec. 29.   tf


New Goods.

Robbins is now in receipt of a complete assortment
of Watches, Jewelry and Fancy Goods, which
he offers at wholesale or retail for cash.
Dubuque, May 11 1854.


D. S. LEE.     L. ROBINSON.
LEE & ROBINSON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
INDEPENDENCE, BUCHANAN CO., IOWA
Especial attention given to collections, securing
of claims, locating lands, with cash or on time, investing
money, paying taxes, examining titles,
conveyances, and all other matters pertaining to a
Law or Land Business.  [?]ec. 23.  tf


Have You Been at Churchill's?
IF NOT, CALL IN SEASON.
Just Recieved at the
FURNITURE WARE HOUSE,
A new and splendid assortment of Sofas, Papier
Machie, and Chinese Tepoys: Hat Trees, and
What Nots of various kinds. Gothic and Office
Chairs. Card and Centre Tables, Damasks, Cornices
and Curtain Goods.
WILLIAM CHURCHILL.
Dubuque, Jan. 30th. 1855.   dtf

[?] CENTRAL RAILROAD.

[?] MERCHANTS OF [??]



CHOICE FLOWERING BULBS. [?]

Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocuses and Narcissas
freshly imported from Hollans, of the choicest
and most beautiful varieties, warranted in
good order and truly labelled.

A part of the above choice collection of bulbs
will be disposed of at reasonable rates. Those
wishing to avail themselves of this first opportunity
of procuring in Dubuque those beautiful ornaments
for fhe garden or the parlor, can do so
by calling at the basement of the residence of
Dr. Horr
3d m 5 d, tf.   FAHNESTOCK & HORR


H. McLEAN'S
DUBUQUE AUCTION EMPORIUM.
"The Dubuque Auctioneer"
Is always found at the Emporium Rooms, which
are open at all business hours. Everybody knows
that those rooms are on
MARKET SQUARE,
Where he daily sells—
Houses and Lands;
Dry Goods;
Yankee Notions;
Household Furniture
Horses & Cattle [?]

He will purchase or sell property of all kinds
or make advances on articles left with him for
sale.     nov18 dtf


NATIONAL
DAGUERREOTYPE GALLERY.

MESSRS. COREY & PICKERILL would respectfully
say to the citizens of Dubuque and the
surrounding country that they have just completed
a suit of rooms which are well adapted for
Photogenic purposes, and would respectfully ask
all the lovers of the beautiful in art, to call at their
Rooms, and examine specimens now on exhibition
free of charge. We flatter ourselves that our
Pictures, for fine finish and life-like appearance
cannot be surpassed by any artist, East or West.

The highest premium for the best Daguerreotype
was awarded to us, at the Indiana State Fair
over a host of competitors; and from the encomium
with which our pictures have met in various
cities in which we have operated, feel assured
that we can please all who may favor us
with their patronage.

Full Plate Pictures and Family Groups, Views
of Residences, Public Buildings, &c., taken in the
most perfect manner. Likenesses of sick or deceased
persons taken at their residences.

ROOMS over Geo. W. Barton's Store, corner of
Main and 4th streets, 2d story.
Dubuque. Dec. 5th. 1854.     d&w-tf


EDWARD MEAD & CO.
NO. 50, MAIN STREET, CORNER OF PIN
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
Are receiving direct from European a
ern markets a large and well selectand [?]
ment, among which are the following ranging articles,
viz:
Gold Lever and Duplex Wa
Silver do. and Lepine
Gold Ear Rings and Breast Mins,
Gold Lockets, Pen and Pencil Cases,
Golp Fob, Gaard [a?] vest Chains,
Gold Jewelry of, [?] kinds.
Daguer[????] [?lates] and Cases.
D[?]

though we have strong objections to the
wholesale prohibition of the bill and would
greatly prefer that the use of beer, wine
and cider should have been preserved from
embargo, we are nevertheless so impressed
with the necessity of preserving our infant
State from the curse of drunkenness and
the unrestricted manufacture sale and use
of ardent spirits, that rather than postpone
the enactment of a Prohibitory Law, we are 
disposed to go for the law under consideration
nothwithstanding our dislike to its indiscriminating
restriction, and to seek at the 
hands of the next Legislature, a modification
of its objectionable features.
The fact that those countries producing
the greatest quantity of wine, are the most
strictly temperate, and those not producing
it at all the most drunkard-cursed, is we
think an unanswerable argument in favor
of fostering the growth of the grape and
the free, untr melled and unlimited use of
its pure, refreshing and invigorating juice.
The compounds which are now in use 
amongst us, called wine, are intolerably vile
compounds of noxious drugs, and alcohol;
and do not contain one solitary drop of the
virgin juice that gushes from the ripe and
purple clusters that flow from the sunny and
temperate hillsides of sunny France and
Germany, and the vicinity of Vevay and
and Cincinnati. But we doubt not that this objectionable
feature of the bill will in due
time be stricken out, and the wholesome
products of the hop, the apple and the vine,
relieved from the injurious and useless embargo
under which they suffer by the present
law. Of the two evils we choose openly,
fearlessly and honestly, that which is in
our opinion the least. So far as the interest
of our German fellow citizens are supposed
to be involved, they will of course,
themselves be the judges, whether we or
the Express and Herald have in time past
been their best and truest friend. Freedom
and Temperance must ever go hand in
hand; and our German friends are at present
obliged either to choose between slavery
and drunkenness, or freedom and temperance.
We will not insult the majority of
our German friends by affecting to doubt, 
upon which side of the question their votes
will be cast. No party, or people in this
nation have been so wantonly insulted by
the Democratic party, as the Germans.—
They have been treated by it, like a set of
beer-drinking idiots, whose votes could be
purchased on the most momentous questions, 
by the promise of legislating rivers
of beer and oceans of rum, to their doors.
Perfect wisdom is incompatible with human
legislation; and it not infrequently happens
that we are obliged either to throw
away our vote or choose the least of two
evils.
This is the position of our German fellow
citizens, and we leave them to make the
application, nothing doubting that their
own wisdom and patriotism will lead them
to decide aright upon this, one of the most
important issues of the day.
Let us then, instead of blusteringly and
viciously advocating the unrestricted spread
of slavery and intemperance, vote for the
law, but let us be sure that in doing so, we
elect men, who, while they are in favor of
its main provisions, shall be pledged, to so
amend it, as to do away with its objectionable
restrictiveness so far as beer, wine and 
cider are concerned.
We were at first fearful that the law so
passed was unconstitutional; but on mature 
reflection, we are satisfied that it will stand
the ordeal of any and all courts on this



sault upon Sebastopol. Napoleon still insists
upon leaving for the Crimea, against
the remonstrance of England and Austria.
Reports are current of the cession of the 
Russian Possessions in North America to
the U. S. for $30,000,000.

The Galena Jeffersonian says: that
goods are sold in Galena cheaper than they
are at Chicago or St. Louis: and advises
Dubuque merchants to make their purchass
there. We are informed that not only is
such the fact, but that so anxious are some
of the far-famed Galena merchants to find
customers, and to dispose of their stocks, and 
[s?] [*ossible] do they find it to do so at
[surviv??] at goods have been hanled from
[?] [?] [?] [?] [?]
merchants at 20 per cent. less than they can 
be purchased for in Philadelphia or New
York.
MORALE:  As Dubuque merchants generally
pay cash for their stocks, it matters
not where they purchase; and we would
suggest to them as a matter of profit to
themselves, as well as charity to Galena, that
as they can buy of these singularly enterprising
gentlemen so much cheaper than in the 
original market, they had better do so, and 
thus enable the more ultra enterprising of
our Galena neighbors to pay 25 or 50 cent.
on the dollar.

What Next.
The party of Know Somethings, recently 
conceived in the fecund womb of Massachusetts 
fanaticism, is based, says a correspondent 
of the New York Evening Post,
on opposition to Slavery, Rum and Popery,
the three things being regarded as evils in
the order that I have placed them, the
enmity to Popery being a not very strong
sentiment, in comparison with that which
animates the spirits of the lash, and the
spirits of the cask. That which will alone
prevent this party from coming to anything,
singular as it may seem, is the universality
of the sentiment which it entertains. — Ex.
& Her.
Here we have contradiction and sommerset
No. 1001, from the above authority. —
This sheet as is well known, is engaged in a 
hand to hand conflict with Liberty, Temperance
and Protestantism; and yet he admits
in the above editorial, that Slavery, Rum and
Popery are almost "universally" regarded
as evils, in the order as placed above.
This spawn of the Illinois giant, has this
morning devoted the greater portion of his
editorial space, to we us and Co. This immense
sheet with its thousands and ten thousands
of doughface readers, surely is not
getting jealous of the "little Anti-Slavery,
Temperance, Know Nothing, Know Something,
Fusionist, Ishmite, &c. The Dubuxue
Daily Tribune? Oh, no! They only
are aiming to aduce the cause of TRUTH
and GROD MORALS. That's all!

MARCH WINDS.—March is notoriously a
blustering, windy month, and is undoubtedly
bad for blustering, windy people. The
lungs are apt to become "affected" by the
raw condition of the atmosphere, which operates
injuriously upon, and at critical periods
dumbfounders the generally sound, and
sounding wind apparatus of truckling politicians,
and dodging demagogues. We do
hope that some of the advocates for free
whiskey, will be able to add a few rounds to
their political tombstones by taking the proffered
opportunity on Thursday ev'ng next,
to give their reasons, if they have any, for
considering liquor prohibition UN-CON-STI-TU-TION-AL.

The Ohio now measures 16 feet of water
in the channel at this point.



The [?] accompanied [?] to the [?a?]
room. I was already enjoying the idea of
the effect which my national ribbon and
our two beaux would produce; and, entre
nous, I could not give up the hope, that if
all the others really had square heads, we
should have the only two round ones in the
room!
But great was my mistake and surprise.
There was not one of my companions
who had not at least twice as much national
ribbon on her dress as I had; and as to the
officers our two cavaliers held but the third
rank among them. 
One was more agreeable, more fascinating,
handsomer, livelier than the other; how is it
possible that men like these can shed so
much blood!
There was one in particular who attracted
my attention—nor mine alone, but everybody's.
He was a young captain [?] his strikingly 
handsome face, and tall, graceful figure
became the braided atilla so well, it
seemed to have been moulded on him.
And then his dancing! with what animation
he went through the mazur and
csardas; one could have rushed through the
crowd to embrace him—I do not talk of 
myself; and, what was more than dancing
—more than compliments, a je ne sais quoi
in the large, dark, dreamy eyes; you cannot
imagine that, it is not to be described—it
bewildered, inspired, overpowered, and enchanted
at the same moment. In less than
an hour, every girl in the room was in love
with him. I do not except myself. If they
are as irresistible on the field of battle, I do
not know what could withstand them. Imaging
my feelings, when all at once he stepped
up to me and request the honor of the 
next quadrille!
Unfortunately; I was engaged. What
would I not have given at that moment, had
a courier entered to call away my dancer.
"Perhaps the next one?" said the captain,
seating himself beside me.
I do not know what I said, or whether I
replied at all; I only know I felt as I do
when flying in a dream.
"But you will forget, perhaps, that you
promised me?" he continued.
Had I not suddenly recollected myself, I
should probably have told him that sooner
could I forget my existence; however, I only
replied, in a very indifferent tone, that I 
should not forget.
"But you do not know me!"
A country simpleton would have answered
in my place, "Among a hundred—among
thousands! at the first glance!"
Not I! As if I were doing the simplest
thing in the world, I took a single rosebud
from my bresst and gave it to him. "I
shall know you by this," I said, without betraying
the slightest agitation.
The captain silently pressed the rose to
his lips; I did not look, but I knew it I
would not have encountered his eyes at that
moment for all the world.
He then left me and sat down under a
mirror opposite; he did not dance, and
seemed absorbed in his own reflections.
Meanwhile two csardas and a polonaise
were danced, after which our quadrille would
come. You may conceive how long the
time appeared; these eternal "harom a tanczes,"
seemed absolutely to have no end. I
never saw people dance so furiously; and
although it was the third night they had
not slept, nothing could tire them out.—
However, I amused myself pretty well by
making the acquaintance of the commander
of the battalion, Major Sch———, who is a
most diverting person.
His name is German; and though he
speaks Hungarian shockingly, he will always
speak it, even if he is addressed in German
or French.
Then he is most dreadfully deaf, and accustomed 
to such loud-toned conversation,
one would think the cannons were conversing
together.
They say he is a very gallant soldier; but
his appearance is not prepossessing—an uncouth,
grotesque figure, with a long thin
face, short-cut hair, and a grisly beard, which
is not at all becoming.
But the most amusing thing was, that
what I spoke he did not hear; and what he
spoke I did not understand. He brought
me over a box of bonbons, and I complain-



in looking at him, admiration, enthusiasm
now filled my breast.
As he buckled on his sword, a strange
fever seemed to burn in all my veins; I
could have wished to be in the battle with
him, to ride beside him, and dash with him
into the midst of the enemy!
He still held my rose in his hand, and, as
he took up his casko, he placed it besides the
cockade; and then he turned back, as if he
sought something through the crowd—our
eyes met—he hastened away, and the ball
room was empty!
Meanwhile we remained alone, as if nothing
had happened; the major had given orders
that none should leave the rooms before
his return. It was the longest hour I ever
spent.
Many of us stood at the windows listening
to the cannon, and trying to guess the re-
[?] they [?] [?] nearer, now more
distant. None judged it advisable to go 
home, as the combat might have ended in
the streets, and they thought it better to
await the decision where we were.
Ere long, the sounds began to recede
further and further, till at last they ceased
entirely. The civilians concluded by this
that the natianal guards had gained the victory.
They were right. In less than a 
quarter of an hour we heard them return
with great noise and chatter. And the officers
entered the room gaily, as if nothing 
had happened; and many of them wiped
something from their dress—perhaps mud
or blood—and each hastened to find and
cheer his partner.
"Where did you leave off?" cried one.
"At the quadrille," replied several at once,
and began arranging the columns as if they
had just come out of the supper-room.—
My dancer and the major alone were absent!
In vain my eye were fixed on the door
- -every instant some one entered, but not
the one I sought.
At last the major appeared. He looked 
round, and when he saw me, immediately 
approached, and making a grotesque bow
without waiting for me to speak, "Fair lady!"
he said, "your dancer entreats your
pardon for this breach of politeness; but
he is unable with the best will to enjoy the
happiness of dancing the francaise with
you, having been shot through the leg,
which is obliged to be amputated above the 
knee."
Oh lima! I shall never dance a quadrille again,
I am very ill! I am overwhelmed by despair.

SERPENTS IN A PILE IN SOUTH AMERICA.
—In the savannah's of Izaeubo, Guinea,
I saw the most wonderful and terrible spectacle
that can be seen; and although it may 
not be uncommon to the natives, no traveler
has ever mentioned it. We were ten
men on horseback, two of whom took the
lead, in order to bound the passages, while 
I preferred to skirt the great forests. One
of the blacks who formed the vanguard, returned
at full gallop, and called to me,—
"Here, sir, come and see the serpents in a 
pile." He pointed to something elevated
in the middle of the savannah or swamp,
which appeared like a bundle of arms.—
One of my company said: "This is certainly 
one of the assemblages of serpents which
heap themselves together after a violent 
tempest. I have heard of these but never
saw any; let us proceed cautiously, and not
t o near." When we were within twenty
paces of it, the terror of our horses prevented
our approaching nearer, to which not
of use were inclined. On a sudden, the
pyramid mass became agitated; a horrid
hissing issued from it, thousands of serpents
rolled spirally on each other, and shot forth
out of the circle their hideous heads, presenting
their envenomed darts and fiery
eyes to us. I own I was the first to draw
back, but when I saw this formidable phalanx
remain at its post, and appear more disposed
to defend itself than to attack us, I 
rode round in order to view its order of
battle, which faced the enemy on every
side. I then thought what could be the
design of this numerous assemblage, and
concluded that this species of serpents
dreaded some collossean enemy, which
might be the great serpent or Cayman, and
that they thus unite so as to resist this
enemy in a mass.—Humboldt.



All persons indebted to Finley & Co. for Lots in
Finley's Addition to Dubuque, are hereby notified
that the second installment will be due on the
first day of April, 1855. Those who have not yet
received bonds for deeds, must come forward by 
that time, pay up, and receive their bonds.
March 21st, 1855. WAPLES & WALMSLEY Ag'ts.
Office in The liaga's new building Main-st.
3dm21d1m.

McCLURE; MILLS & CO.
LAND BROKERS AND AGENTS.
Jones Block, corner of Main and Sixth streets,
WILL attend to all business connected with
lands in the States of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.
Have for sale city lots and lands in many counties
West of Dubuque. Will buy and sell, and locate
Land Warrants, will attend to the paying of taxes,
collection of debts, and in fact all business requiring
an agent.

A REGISTER
will be kept open for all the real estate and lands
they have for sale, and every facility in their power
will be offered to buyers and sellers of real estate.
One of the firm, a practical Draughtsman and
Civil Engineer will devote the whole of his attention
to this department, and will be found at all
times in attendance. Strangers visiting Dubuque, 
for the purpose of investing, will find at our office
all the information concerning the country they
may require. Money loaned and invested. Houses
and Lots purchased and sold, with the assurance
that they will give strict attention to their
business in all its details; they trust that they will
receive a share of the public patronage.
March 20, 1855.   d&w-tf

Beebe's Spring Style Hates,
Silk and Cassimer, just received by 
S. S. McCLURE.
At the old stand of J. W. MILTON & Co.

Dubuque Academy.
The spring Term of this Institution will commence
Monday, March 12th, and continue eleven
weeks. The subscriber having had four years
successful experience in teaching, is confident he
can refer the school worthy of the patronage of
the people of Dubuque. He will give his entire
energies to the school, having no other cares or
interest—will give prompt attention to all cases
of trauncy, and communicate with parents frequently
in regard to the habits and progress of
their children. The school will be entirely independent
of sectarian influence. Tuition same as
heretofore.
3dm9d1m   HORACE AUSTIN.

SELECT SCHOOL
FOR YOUNG LADIES AND MISSES.
Vestry of the Stone Church, on Locust street,
between 6th and 7th.
Hours of school from 9 to 12 A. M., and from
1 to 3 P. M. Payment in advance, and no deduction
made for absence, except in cases of illness.
TUITION:
For a term of eleven weeks, $3 to $5.
Pencil Drawing, Latin and French, each extra,
$1.00   MISS M. J. SMITH.
Dubuque, Jan 19, 1855.   d1y

SPECIAL NOTICE.
I have this day sold my interest in the mercantile
business, to Mr. Thomas T. Barr. The business
will be conducted hereafter, by Robert W. Walmsley 
and Thomas T. Barr, under the name and firm
of Walmsley & Barr.—[?]a withdrawing from the 
business, the public will receive my thanks for 
their patronage during the last fifteen years' and
I take pleasure in assuring the public, that the 
gentlemen to whom I have sold out, have rare
advantages in purchasing goods and conducting
the mercantile business; and it affords me pleasure,
in saying that they are gentlemen worthy of
all confidence.   R. C. WAPLES.
Dubuque, March 1st., 1855.
We have this day, entered into a copartnership
for transacting a mercantile business, under the
name and firm of Walmsely & Barr.
ROBT. M. WALMSLEY, Jr.,
THOMAS T. BARR.
Dubuque, March 1st., 1855   3dmo2—d&w-tf

SHERMAN HOUSE.
This new and splendid House, being larger,
more commodious, and fitted up in better style
than any other in this State, west of Dubuque, is
now open for the reception and entertainment of
the public, at
WATERLOO, BLACK HAWK [C?]., IOWA.
The subscriber pledges himself to his numerous
friends, and to the public, that as his guests they
shall received all the attention, and enjoy all the
comforts of an Eastern Hotel, and that no efforts
shall be wanting on his part to render it a HOME
TO ALL who may choose to seek it.
H. SHERMAN 
Waterloo, Dec. 14th '54.   d&w–6 mo



ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
INDEPENDENCE, BUCHANAN CO., IOWA
Especial attention given to collections, securing
of claims, locating lands, with cash or on time, investing
money, paying taxes, examining titles,
conveyances, and all other matters pertaining to a 
Law or Land Business,   [?ec.] 23, tf

Have You Been at Churchill's?
IF NOT, CALL IN SEASON.
Just Recieved at the
FURNITURE WARE HOUSE,
A new and splendid assortment of Sofas, Papier
Machie, and Chinese Tepoys: Hat rees, and
What Nots of various kinds, Gothic and Office
Chairs, Card and Centre Tables, Damasks, Cornices
and Curtain Goods.
WILLIAM CHURCHILL.
Dubuque, Jan. 30th, 1855.   dtf

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.
TO SHIPPERS [?] MERCHANTS OF DUBUQUE
AND THE NORTH-WEST:
This Company hereby give notice that they will
be prepared on the opening of navigation next 
spring, to receive and ship Freight, at DUNLEITH,
by Rail or Steamer, destined for all points on the 
line of the road south of Galena, or between Galena 
and Chicago.   R. B. MASON, Supt.
Feb, 21.   d&w tf

GOODS WELL BOUGHT ARE HALF SOLD!
SIGN OF THE RED COAT.
Nearly opposite the city Hotel.
T. W. M., proprietor of this establishment, would
say to the good people of Dubuque and vicinity,
that he has on hand the largest and best selected
stock of CLOTHING, ever brought to this market
and will sell the same lower than any other establishment 
in town. I will sell at cost for the
next thirty days, so as to give country people and
country merchants a change to buy so as to make
large profits and good bargains.
P. S. Time given to Merchants, on large or 
small bills.
As every man's eyes are his "chapS," we invite
all to call and examine for themselves.
G. N PAFF, Agent.   T. W. MORSE.
Dubuque Iowa, Jan. 24th, 1855.   d&W–tf

A New Line of Stages
FOR
THE NORTH AND NORTH-WEST
BY
BORDER & CO.
Through Tri Weekly from Dubuque to Decorah.
The subscribers,carrYing the UNITED STATES
MAIL, will leave Dubuque and Decorah three 
times each week., in the following order:
Leave Dubuque Mondays, Webnesdays and Fridays.
Arrive at Decorah Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays. Leave Decorah Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. Arrive at Dubuque Tuesdays, 
Thursdays and Saturdays. All errands 
packages, or business of any kind entrusted to
our care, will be carefully attended to at moderate
charges. Offices—Julien House,(formerly Waples
House,) Dubuque; Garnavillo Hotel, B. F. Forbes 
Agent, Garnavillo; Winneshiek Hotel, C. C. Day
Agent Decorah.
MESSRS. BORDER & Co. would respectfully in
form the public that they are prepared with good
comfortable Two Horse Coaches, good Teams and
sober Drivers to offer a pleasant, safe and reliable
conveyance to persons wishing to make the above
route.
MESSRS. B. & Co. have also made arrangements 
o connect with the intersecting lines running to 
the different towns, both ON THE RIVER AND IN
THE INTERIOR, and have also secured a permanent
connection
Through to St. Paul, Minnesota Ter.
As we devote our own entire time and energies
to this matter, and instead of trusting all to irresponsible
agents and careless drivers, attend PERSONALLY
to the whole matter ourselves, the
Traveling Publlc may depend upon having their
comfort and safety care for.
G. G. BORDER & CO.
Dubuque, Jan. 29th, 1855.   d&w-tf

S. S. Homans,
BOOK SELLER,
AND DEALER IN
Law, Medical, Miscellaneous, Classical, Scientific
and Standard Works, School Books, Staple and 
Fancy Stationery, Verandah Row, 4th Street, corner
of Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.
See Advertisement.
June 21, 1854.   d&w–y

20,000 REAMS WRAPPING PAPER.
The best and cheapest ever offered in this
market.    BRADNER WARREN & CO.,
d&wtf-jan11   No. 12, Lasalle st., Chicago

JUST RECEIVED,
A NEW STYLE OF
KNOW-NOTHING HATS,
FOR MEN AND BOYS,
splendidarticle, SILECEE.b



of Residences, Public Buildings, & c., taken in the 
most perfect manner. Likenesses of sick or deceased
persons taken at their residences.
ROOMS over Geo. W Barton's Store, corner of
Main and 4th streets, 2d story.
Dubuque, Dec. 5th, 1854.   d&w - tf

EDWARD MEAD & CO.
NO. 50, MAIN STREET, CORNER OF [PIN?] 
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
Are receiving direct from European a [ ] 
ern markets a large and well selecte [as??ment] 
among which are the following [?] articles,
viz:
Gold Lever and Duplex [Wa?] 
Silver do. and Lepine
Gold Ear Rings and Breast Pins
Gold Lockets, Pen and Pencil Cases,
Gold Fob, Guard vest Chains,
Gold Jewelry all kinds,
Daguerrotype [?lates] and Cases,
[TIMBL?]Apparatus complete,
Single Barrel Guns,
[?all] and [?] [?ocked] American Rifles,
Colt's Revolvers, Pocket and Belt Pistols,
PercussionC aps, Poweder Flasks, Shot Belts,
Game Bags, Wads and Drinking Flasks,
Razors and Razor Strops,
Scissors, Pocket and Table Cutlery:
Silver and Plated Ware—Tea Sets, Castors,
Trays, Baskets, Spoons and Forks; 
Accordeons, Violins, Guitars, Violin and Guitar
Strings, and Musical Instruments generally:
French, Mantel and Yankee Thirty Hour and
Eight Day- Weight and Spring Clocks;
Fancy Goods, Port Monaies, Card Cases, Coral
Beads, Papier Machie Work Boxes, Writing
Desks and Tables, Hair and Tooth Brushes.
We have perfected arrangement with the Manufacturers 
of WATCHES, GUNS, PLATED WARE, &c.,
in Europe, and are regularly supplied. Our American 
Goods have been purchased direct from
Eastern Manufacturers since the late depression
in trade, and have been lain in a very reduced
prices. We would invite you to call and examine 
our stock, and pledge ourselves to sell to prompt
time or cash customers as low as any house in the
United States.   3d TH 5.

MAP OF DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA.
FROM ACTUAL MEASUREMENT BY ORIGNAL 
SURVEYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
The subscribers are preparing to publish shorty,
provided a sufficient subscription is obtained,
 a new and complete MAP OF DEBUQUE COUNTY.
The surveys are about completed. All the
public roads, section and lot lines, and the locations 
of the MILLS, TAVERNS, PLACES FOR WORSHIP,
POST OFFICES, SCHOOL HOUSES, COUNTRY STORES,
SMITH SHOPS, WHEELWRIGHTS, &c., are to be marked.
The NAMES OF THE PROPERTY HOLDERS generally,
(carefully including all those in the county
who subscribe in Advance to the Map,) are also to
be inserted upon their places, in the style of the
map of Jefferson county, Ohio. To be illustrated
with vignettes of views in Dubuque county.
Maps of the principal Villages, on a large scale, 
will be inserted in the margin.
The Plan will be plotted to a suitable scale, so 
as to make a large and ornamental Map. To be 
engraved and delivered to subscribers  handsomely
coloured and mounted for Five Dollars per copy.
A Map of the city of Philadelphia, as consolidated
in 1854, just ready. Price, $10. Size, 7
feet square.
JAMES D. SCOTT, Publisher,
115 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
Feb. 14, 1855,   d&w-tf

NEW FIRM
JNO. KENT, & CO., successors to Tilton & Malony,
will continue the business at the old stand,
Burton's Blbck, on Main street,
All persons indebted to the old firm of T. & M.
are requested to make payment to the new firm
Wisconsin and Illinois funds will be received both 
for debts and goods,   JOHN KENT, & Co.
Dubuque, Nov. 19, 1854.   d&wtf

New Goods.
COLLINS & HERVEY,
Have this day received per Express, the most rare
and beautiful assortment of Goods ever offered in
this market—consisting in part of Satin, Union, 
and Cotton Damask, Chintz and Lace Curtains
Cornices, Bands, Loops, &c.
Long and square Broche Shawls, [?] Bay State
Brocade, watered, plain and fancy dress Silks of
the latest styles. Cloaks, Talmas, and an assortment
of Embroideries, such as Collars, Caps, skirts
flowering, edging and insertion, unequalled by
any ever exhibited in the West.
COLLINS & HERVEY.
Dubuque, Oct. 17th. 1854.—c & w–tf

20,000 REAMS FINE PAPERS.
PLAIN and Ruled Flat Cap, Folio Post, Cap
Letter and Note of the best Manufacturers
bought for cash, and for sale at prices that defy
competition.    BRADNER WARREN & CO.,
jan11-d&wtf   No. 12, Lasalle st., Chicago

Dubuque Daily Tribune.

BY A. W. HACKLEY.   DUBUQUE, IOWA.   THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1855.  VOLUME I---NO. 308.

DUBUQUE DAILY TRIBUNE.
(Official Paper of the City.)
JACKSON & CO., PUBLISHERS.

The DAILY TRIBUNE will be issued every evening 
(Sundays excepted) at SEVEN DOLLARS a 
year, payable in advance; if not in advance, 
EIGHT DOLLARS.

CASH RATES OF ADVERTISING.
For 1 square, (10 lines or less,) 1 insertion, $  75
One Week, - - - - - - - - - - 2 00
Two Weeks, - - - - - - - - - - 3 00
Three Weeks, - - - - - - - - - 3 75
One Month, - - - - - - - - - - 4 50
Two Months, - - - - - - - - - - 6 00
Three Months, - - - - - - - - - - 7 00
Four Months, - - - - - - - - - - 8 00
Five Months, - - - - - - - - - - 9 00
Six Months, - - - - - - - - - - 10 00
One Year, - - - - - - - - - - - 15 00
WEEKLY DUBUQUE TRIBUNE.
(Offici al Paper of the City.)

JACKSON & CO., PUBLISHERS.

The WEEKLY DUBUQUE TRIBUNE is published 
every Wednesday morning at the following terms:
In advance, - - - - - - - - - - $2 00
Before Six Months, - - - - - - - 2 50
After Six Months, - - - - - - - - 3 00
For SixMonths—in advance - - - - - 1 00
For Three Months—in advance, - - - -   60

No paper discontinued until all arrearages 
are paid, unless at the option of the publisher.

DAILY TRIBUNE, published every after 
noon.  (Sundays excepted,) on the arrival of the 
Eastern mail, at $7 00 per annum, in advance.

TRI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE, is published on 
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at $4 per annum 
in advance.

CASH RATES OF ADVERTISING.
For 1 square, (10 lines or less,) 1 insertion, $1 00
One month, - - - - - - - - - - 3 00
Two months, - - - - - - - - - - 5 00
Three months, - - - - - - - - - - 7 00
Four months, - - - - - - - - - - 8 50
Five months, - - - - - - - - - - 9 50
Six months, - - - - - - - - - - 10 50
One year, - - - - - - - - - - 15 00
Each additional square for any time, half 
price.

Advertisements received not marked with 
the number of insertions will be inserted in the 
Daily until ordered out and charged accordingly.

Special advertisements which stand permanently, 
near the reading matter, will be charged 
double rates.

Advertisements displayed in double column 
will be charged 1 50 [?] cent. in addition to the rates 
for the same amount of matter in single columns.

Daily advertisements will be inserted in 
the Weekly paper by paying 50 [?] cent. of the 
Weekly rates in addition to the charges in the 
Daily.

Advertisements will be changed as often 
[U?] desired by paying 25 cents a square for com
[Wh?] ion.
All [bi?], undersigned, newspaper publishers at Du-
[?uri], [incl] agree to charge the rates of advertising 
in the foregoing schedlue.
[?] [Indi?]  THOMAS, STRADLING & CO.,
[?hes.] [All]    of the Observer.
RITT, MAHONEY, & DORR,
[?ve] [design.]
of the Express & Herald.
[?e] [good.]  N & CO., of the Tribune.
[havi?]

[faile?]
THE [LA?] OF NEWSPAPERS.
1st. Subscribers order discontinuance of
 not give express notice 
to the contrary, are [?] [?ed] as wishing to continue 
their subscriptions.
2nd. If subscribers order discontinuance of 
their periodicals, the publisher [?] continue to 
send them mail all arrearage [?L?]  -700
3d. If subscribers neglect [?][?] their 
periodicals from the office [?o] which [?irec-]



BUSINESS CARDS.

H.W. SEMMES.  S.I.R. M'MILLAN.  H.M. LEWIS
SEMMES, MCMILLAN & LEWIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW AND SOLICITORS IN 
CHANCERY.
Offices at STILLWATER, Minnesota Territory, 
and HUDSON, St. Croix County, Wis.

WILL attend promptly and faithfully to all business
in the line of their profession entrusted 
to their care.

As an entirely different jurisdiction and system 
of law prevails on either side of the River and Lake 
St. Croix, which constitute the boundary line between 
the State and Territory, they deem that peculiar 
advantages will result to them in the prompt 
and reliable transaction of their business from the 
location of an office in each.

LAND WARRANTS LOCATED, BOUGHT and 
SOLD.
—REFERENCES—
STILLWATER—Socrates Nelson; H. R. McKinstry; 
Short, Proctor & Co.
ST. PAUL—Marshall & Co.; Geo. W. Farrington; 
C.D. Fillmore.
ST. LOUIS—Sam. J. Wetherell & Co.; L. H. Larkin 
& Co.; D. M. Hitchcock & Co.
HUDSON—Alfred Day, Daniel Anderson; Joseph 
Bonsons.
GALENA—Geo. W. Campbell & Co.; B. H. Campbell
& Co.
DUBUQUE—Henry Anderson.
NEW YORK—Hanford & Bro.; John McMichael.
March 8, 1854.     mh8–y


W. M. CROZIER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.  Office, Room No. 1, 
Globe Building, up stairs.     dec20 dtf


PHYSICIANS.
C. S. BRADSHAW, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
OFFICE, COL. ROBISON'S STORE,
Boards at Tremont House,
DUNLIETH, -  -  -  -  ILL.
Will hold himself in rediness to attend all calls 
in his Profession.     mar16d–w1y


R. S. LEWIS  -  -  -  -  WM. WTSONN
DR'S LEWIS AND WATSON,
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
Office in Thedinga's Block, Main st. between 7 & 8.
DR. LEWIS' Residence 
corner 10th and Main sts.
DR. WATSON, at the 
Waples House.
Dubuque, Iowa, Nov. 24, '54.     dtf.


DR. WM WATSON,
TENDERS his professional services to the citizens 
of Dubuque and the vicinity.  Office over 
Carson's Jewelry Store, 2 doors above the Waples 
House, where he can at all times be found, unless 
professionally absent.
Dubuque, May 5th, 1854.     d&wy


DR. W. R. MCMAHAN,
TENDERS his professional services to the citizens 
of Dubuque and vicinity.  Office and 
Residence on Locust street, between 7th and 8th 
street, immediately opposite the residence 
of Gov. Hempstead.
September 28, 1853.     s28–'53y


DR. GEO. W. SCOTT,
CONTINUES to practice the various branches of 
his profession.  Office and residence corner 
of Sixth and Iowa streets.

He discards the use of calomel and all other 
known deleterious agents, in the treatment 
of disease.  Pure Botanic Medicines constantly on 
hand.
Dubuque, Sept. 28, 1853.     s28–53y


DR. C. L. USHER,
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN.  Cascade, Iowa, will 
attend to all calls in the line of his profession.  
s28'  3y

WHOLESALE [?] HOUSES.



R. H. POWARS,
FORWARDING AND COMMISSION 
MERCHANT, AND GENERAL STEAMBOAT 
AGENT.
Water Street, Rock Island, Ill.

Refers to 
CHILD, PRATT & Co.,            St. Louis, Mo
SAM'L J. WETHERILL & Co.   St. Louis, Mo
G. R. WEST,         Dubuque, Iowa.
LORRAIN & Co.,  Galena.
N. B. BUFORD.    Rock Island.


H. C. EVERTS,
Iowa Street, Between Sixth and Seventh,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
HOUSE, Sign and Ornamental Painter, Glazier, 
AND PAPER HANGER.
Work as good as the best, Terms as low as 
the lowest.     my17dly


H. J. GOFF & CO.,
GROCERS & MANUFACTURERS OF
CANDIES.
Opposite Globe Building, Main Street, 
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
WOULD respectfully inform their friends and 
the public, that they are in constant receipt of 
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS AND FRUITS, 
of the best qualities, which will be sold cheap for 
CASH.  Sincerely thankful for the liberal patronage 
heretofore bestowed, we trust that by continual 
exertion and a desire to please, we may still 
cuntinue to receive a continuance of the same.
TO HOUSEKEEPERS.
Always on hand the best of Family Flour, also:
Clarified Sugar         Coffee                Spices, all kinds
N. O. Sugar              Black Tea            Soap    "    do
Crushed do              Y. H.   do            Star Candles
Loaf    do                 Imperial Tea        Sperm  do
Molasses                  G. P.   do            Tallow   do
Syrup,                      Chocolate            Rice
Starch                      Corn Starch         Pearl Barley
Table Salt                 Mustard              Pickles
Sauces                     Katsups               Extracts
Sugar Crackers        Macaroni            Buckets
Boston  do               Vermacilla          Tubs
Soda   do                 Yeast Powders    Brooms
Butter  do                Matches              Hams Bacon and
every thing appertaining to our business, which 
will be sold cheap for CASH.
Dubuque.  May 31, 1854.     d&w


FURNITURE WAREHOUSE.
No. 79, Main Street, opposite the Waples House
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
WHERE can be found at all 
times a choice selection of     FURNITURE 
Kitchen and Parlor Furniture, 
consisting of
20 Doz. Slat Back Chairs
10  "    Boston   "
10  "    Scollop   "
5    "    Bannister   "
8    "    Jenny Lind and Bustle Chairs.
6    "    Cane Seated Cottage   "
4    "    Cherry and Walnut lorecian Chairs.
8    "    As'd Rocking                          "
—ALSO—
Bureaues, Breakfast, Desert, Dining and Card 
Tables; one and two drawer Stands; Baby rockers; 
Tin Safes; Writing Desks; High and low posted 
Bedsteads, &c., &c.  Shack Mass and hair Mattrasses, 
made to order.
—ALSO—
A very large lot of Queensware of every variety, 
which will be sold at unusually low prices.

All we ask is to give us a call, as we fell confident 
you will not go away dissatisfied.  

Remember the place, No. 79, Main Street, at the 
old stand of John Bell & Co.
COATES & WILDE.
Dubuque, May 11. 1854.     d&wtf


GROCERIES FOR THE WINTER
TRADE.
WE offer for sale at the lowest market rates a
complete assortment of GROCERIES, suited
to the wants of city and country purchasers:
[?] [?] [?] [?]



IOWA BOOT AND SHOE STORE.
C. J. RICHARDS & CO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
BOOTS, SHOES, LEATHER, &c.
Main St. nearly opposite the City Hotel
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
Are now receiving their large stock
of Fall and Winder Goods, which
they are selling at very low prices
for cash.  Country merchants and the public are
invited to examine their stock, which will be sold
at prices that cannot fail to please.
Dubuque, Sept. 28, 1854.     d–w6mo


THEY HAVE COME.
I HAVE this day received by Express, a splendid
stock of 
Cloaks and Talmas,
Of all colors and qualities, of Velvet Cloth and
Merino, which have been manufactured especially
for the subscriber, in the best and most fashionable
style.  Ladies who wish a choice, will do
well to call soon.     THOMAS ADAMS,
North West corner Main and 6th streets.
Dubuque, Oct. 6th, 1954.—d&w–tf


HOME MANUFACTURED
BOOTS AND SHOES.
ON hand and receiving, the best RETAIL
STOCK ever offered in Dubuque [?all] selected
and manufactured by me, expressly for
this market.

My assortment consists of BOOTS, SHOES and
GAITERS, of every style and variety for Gentlemen.

I have a complete assortment of the same articles,
of MY OWN MANUFACTURE, and will
MANUFACTURE TO ORDER, at the shortest notice
and on the most reasonable terms.

Having selected the stock myself, every thing
made in my shop will be WARRANTED not inferior
in make, material or style, to any in this city.

Call at my BOOT and SHOE STORE on
Main street, opposite the Glove Building.
J. MICH  L.
Dubuque, June 24, 1854.     daw--y


J. P. FARLEY & CO., 
HAVING made arrangements for doing an exclusively
JOBBING BUSINESS in DRY GOODS
and BOOTS & SHOES, would respectfully inform
their city and country friends that they have just
received from the East one of the largest and best
stocks of goods for the Spring and Summer trade
ever brought to this market.  Their motto being
"Quick Sales and Small Profits," they are prepared
to sell by the piece or case at a very small 
advance from cost.

Country merchants are respectfully invited to 
call and examine their stock, and if they cannot be
convinced that goods are a little cheaper than
they have ever bought before, no charge will be 
made for the trouble.

Dubuque March 31st, 1854.     dw–y


C, P. HALL, 
SUCCESSOR OF THE LATE FIRM OF HAMMOND AND
HALL.
 STORAGE, FORWARDING, & COMMISSION
MERCHANTS, STEAMBOAT AGENT, AND
WHOLESALE GROCER
No. 308, Dubuque, Iowa.
HAVING the largest Warehouse this city, and
being located at the Steamboat Landing, and
being well acquainted with my business, I flatter
myself that I can serve the public in any line, in a 
satisfactory manner.

I will make iiberal advances on goods, consigned
to me to be sold on commission; and I will receive
goods and furniture from boats and cars, pay
charges, and immediately on receipt of them, inform
owners of their arrival.  My terms are low, 
and I pledge myself to do the best I can to please
my customers.

Persons moving West, will do well to mark their
Packages to 
C. P. HALL, Dubuque, Iowa.
Oct. 11, 1854.     d&w tf


J. HARTSOCK,



TIMOTHY MASON.

(SIGN OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN
No. 52 Main street,
DUBUQUE, IOWA
ROWAND'S TONIC MIXTURE.
THIS medicine for the cure of Ague and Fever
has been so long before the public, that little
need be said in its favor.  It has been tried for
a great many years, and has always bewen successful
in the cure of this distressing disease; the object
of this advertisement is to inform the public
that I am agent for the sale of this invaluable medicine,
and that I will supply dealers with the Tonic
Mixture on favorable terms.

BLACKBERRY SYRUP.
Dr. Rowan has also prepared from the root of 
Blackberry, a Syrup for Dysentery, Summer Complaint,
Diarrhea, Cholera Morbus, and 
CHOLERA.

At this season no family should be without this
medicine; 

The rapidity of the sale of this article is the best
test of its excellence.

NOTICE TO THE LADIES.
I have received the celebrated Hair Restorative
of Professor Wood.—Those having ordered it, will
oblige me by calling soon, that they may not be
disappointed in getting the article, as the demand
for it is daily increasing, wherever it is introduced.
T. MASON.
6md&w     Sign of the good Samaritan.


DOCTOR
ATKINSON
PRIVATE DISEASES.
DR. ATKINSON, from the East, has opened an
Office for the cure of all diseases of a confidential
nature.  His promises of success are predicated 
on a practice of over twenty eight years
in different cities of Europe and the East.  He
uses no mercury—charges moderate—treats his
patients in a correct and honorable way—has references
to an unquestionuble veracity from men of
known respectability, and ensures success.  All
parties consulting him by letter or otherwise, will
receive the best treatment and implicit secrecy.
Medicines sent to any part of the country free
from observation.

Seminal omissions, the consequence of self abuse.
This solitary vice, or depraved sexual indulgence, 
is practiced by youth of both sexes to an 
almost unlimited extent, producing with unerring
certainty the following train of morbid symptoms
unless combatted by scientific medical measures,
viz :

Sallow Countenance, dark spots under the eyes
pain in the head, ringing in the ears and nose like
the rumbling of chariots, uneasiness about the 
loins, weakness of the limbs, confused vission a,
blunted intellect, loss of confidence, diffidence in
approaching strangers, a dislike to form any acquaintances,
disposition to shun society, loss of 
memory, hectric flushes, furred tongues, night
sweats, fætid breath, coughs, consumption, monomania
and frequent insanity.

The afflicted, on the first appearance of any of
the above symptoms should immediately apply to 



BOARDMAN & GRAY'S
DOLCE CAMPANA ATTACHMENT PIANOFEORT
MANUFACTORY, ALBANY, N. Y. 
BOARDMAN & GRAY, offer to 
the citizens of the United States
their new invention, called the 
Dolce Campana Attachment, in the fullest
confidence that those who use it will find its beautiful
effect a most delightful addition to the Piano-Forte.
This Attachment has been every where
approved of; it has, with their Piano-Portes, been
awarded the ten first-class Premiums at the Principle
Institute Fairs of the several States, with the
unreserved recommendation of eminent musical
men, who were at each place selected as judges.
The press of various cities, almost without exception,
have spoken critically of its happy and perfect
adaptation to the Piano-Forte, to which it adds 
a new power, without interfering in any way with 
the original and present attributes of that instrument.
With such unquestionable guarantees of
its merits, Boardman & Gray feel justified in directing
it to the attention of the public.

All their Piano-Fortes have the complete Metalic
Frames, Metalic Over Damper, Register and
Cover, Improved Grand Action, and contain every
real improvement; and are all warranted to be 
perfectly satisfactory.  These instruments have the 
warmest commendations from the first musical artists
of this country and of Europe.
BOARDMAN & GRAY,
Manufactory and Music Ware-rooms, "Old Elm
Tree Corner," 79 State Street, and 4 and 6 North
Pearl Street, Albany.     j2 19–tf

DUBUQUE AGENCY.
A. W. HACKLEY, Editor of Tribune.

ARCHITECTURAL.
JOHN F. RAGUE, Architect and Building Surveyor,
twenty years a practical Builder in the 
city of New York, will draw Plans, Specifications
and superintend the erection of Buildings in Burlington,
Davenport, Galena, Janesville and other 
places.  Residence Dubuque, at present City Hotel, 
Iowa.

Office and residence, corner of Iowa and 5th st.
REFERENCES.
Gen. G. W. Jones,               Wm. F. Tompkins.
Hawthorn, Childs & Co.,    Mr. Jno. P. Farley.
Gov. S. Hempstead,           Messrs. Wood & Luke
Dubuque, Oct. 17th, 1854.     d6m 432


GREAT CENTRAL ROUTE.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Great Western Canada Rail Road open!
Forming with other Lines,
The shortest, quickest and safest route between
Chicago, Boston and New York.
On and after Monday, January 30th, Passenger
trains will run daily, (except on Sunday) from
Chicago as follows:
Leaves at 6:30 A. M. and 8 P. M. 

The 8 P. M. Train connects next morning at
Detroit with Train for the East. over the Great
Western R. R. 

Morning train from Chicago connects at Michigan
city with Trains on the New Albany and Salem
Rail Road for Lafayette and Cincinnati.

Through tickets for Cincinnati, New York, Boston
and other cities East.
L sept 27 d–w tf     CH'S A. NOBLE, Gen. Ag


THE QUICKEST ROUTE TO BOSTON
NORTHERN OGDENSBURGH, VERMONT
CENTRAL, AND RUTLAND & BURLINGTON
RAIL ROADS.
SHIPPERS of western produce, will find the 
above Route the most direct and expedious, by
which Flour, Wheat, Corn, Wool, and all other
Freights, destined for the Boston Market, can be
Forwarded.

It will be borne in mind that there is no Trans-
Shipment by this Route.  Also that there is [—?] 
added immediately a large number of New [?] 
Cars on the above Roads, thereby insuring [?EY &]
and Speedy Delivery of Freight.



CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS
U. S. MAIL AND EXPRESS ROUTE.

CHICAGO & MISSISSIPPI RAIL R.
AIR-LINE ROUTE TO BLOOMINGTON, SPRINGFIELD,
ALTON AND ST. LOUIS.
TWO through passenger trains leave Chicago
daily, Sundays excepted.
Day Express and Main, at   [?] 20 A. M. 
Night Express, at   10 05 P.M.

Trains runs directly through to Alton, without
change of cars or baggage, and connect with the 
Company's Steamers, Winchester and Reindeer,
through without landing, and arrive at St. Louis
Day Express, at   11 P. M.
Night Express, at   12 M.
Time from Chicago to St. Louis, 14 hours

R. R., Stage and Steamboat connections:
AT BLOOMINGTON—Night train from Chicago connects 
with Trains of Illinois Central Railroad for
Clinton and Waynesville, and with Stage for Peoria.
AT SPRINGFIELD—With Trains of Great Western
R. R. for Decatur, Jacksonville and Naples and
stage for Petersburgh and Havana.
AT VIRDEN—With stage for Waverly and Franklin
AT CARLINVILLE—With stage for Hillsboro, Salem
and Vandalia
AT ALTON—Day train from Chicago connects with 
evening line of packets for Hannibal, Quincy and
Keokuk, (direct route to all portions N. E. Missouri,)
Night train connects with stage for Edwardsville,
Jerseyville and Carrollton.
AT ST. LOUIS—Trains connect with regular lines
of steamers for all points on the Missouri, Mississippi,
Ohio, Tennessee and Arkansas Rivers.

Baggage checked through to St. Louis and
to any stations.

Through Tickets to St. Louis and to all 
way stations can be obtained at the Rock Island
Passenger dept, and at the Company's Ticket
Office, No. 48 Dearbon st., opposite the Tremont
House.     R. P. MORGAN, Jr., Sup't.
Oct. 1, 1854.


DESIRABLE LANDS FOR SALE.
THE following very desirable locations of 
L A N D
Can now be Purchased on favorable terms by application
to the undersigned.

To Persons desiring it, a Liberal allowance of 
C R E D I T
Will be given for part of the purchase money.
DUBUQUE COUNTY,
Part of Sec.  Sec.  T. R. 
N. W.       33      91 [?E]
Lot 4        35     91 [?E]
Lots 3&4  30     91 [?E]
S E N W     9      88 2W
S E N W    21     88 2W
N S W       15
E N W       11
S N E        11     87 1W
N E N E     13     87 1W
S W S E     31     89 1W
S E N W      9     89 1W
N E N E    [?8]    89 1W
S W S E     29     87 1E
S W S E     33     87 1E
N W          11     87 2W
N E N E       9     87 2W
S W [?] W    4     90 1W
N W N W    9     90 1W
E N E           5     90 1W
W S W       18     88 1W
W N W      18     88 1W
E N W        19     88 1W
JACKSON COUNTY.
N W            9     86 3E
W S W       33     86 3E
S W S W      6     84 3E
S W S E      23     86 1E
N N E          8     85 2E
S W N E      8     85 2E
S E S E       19     85 4E
W N E         9      "     "
Part  of Sec.  Sec,  T. R. 
N S W       19     95 5w
WINNESHIEK COUNTY
N N W      26     
N N E       35     
S W S W   10     
N W N W  15    98 8W
S S E          27     97 7W
BLACKHAWK COUNYT
N N W      34     89 13w
S W N W   39     89 13w
 N W S E     6     90 15w
E S W        33     90 13w
BUCHANAN COUNTY.
S W S W   14     90 10w
N E N E       4     90 10w
N E S E      11     90 9w
BREMER COUNTY.
N E S E       9     92 15w
S W N W  24      "    "
N W N W  25     93 12w
W S W      33     92 11w
W N W     33     92 11w
N E N E    30     92 11w
E N E         1     92 12w
CHICKASAW COUNTY
N N E                95 13w
S E N E              95 13w
N E S E     32     95 13w
S E S W 
W N W 
S E N W     7
W S W       6     96 14w


he Weekly paper by paying 50 per cent. of the 
Weekly rates in addition to the charges in the 
Daily.
Advertisements will be changed as often
desired by paying 25 cents. a square for com
ion.
undersigned, newspaper publishers at [Du?]
agree to charge the rates of advertising
in the foregoing schedule.
THOMAS, STRADLING & CO.,
of the Observer.
RITT, MAHONEY, & DORR,
of the Express & Herald.
N & CO., of the Tribune.

THE [LA??] OF NEWSPAPERS.
1st.  Subscribers [w?] do not give express notice
to the contrary, are [?] as wishing to continue
their subscriptions.
2nd.  If subscribers order [?] discontinuance of 
their periodicals, the [publish?] continue to 
seal them until all arrangements 
3d.  If subscribers [n??ect] their
periodicals from then [?] directed,
they are held responsible until they have settled
the bill and ordered them [lis?] [?atinned.]
4th.  If subscribers ]remove to other places without
informing the publishers, and the papers are
sent to the former direction they are held responsible.
5th.  The courts have decided that refusing to 
take periodicals from the office, or removing and
eaving them [?] for, is prima facia evidence
of intentional fraud.


BUSINESS CARDS.
ATTORNEYS.
WM. TRIPP.     S. M. POLLOCK.
TRIPP & POLLOCK,
Attorney & Counselers at Law, 
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
WILL attend to any business connected with
their profession they may be entrusted to their 
care either in Illinois, Wisconsin, or Iowa, or any
of the Territories adjoining said States.

Office in Jones' Block, corner of Main street.
Room No. 4.     Jan. 15, 1855.     d&w-tf

HAND & COVEL.
ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law, and Solicitors 
in Chancery.  Office—No. 2, Weilge's
Building, corner Main and 6th sts., Dubuque, Iowa.
Dubuque, Iowa, October 18th, 1854.—d&w–y

H. & E. T. WILDER
ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law, Dubuque.
Iowa.  Office No. 4, Union Building.

They will also attend to the buying and selling
of Land, entering of Land on time, and do a general
agency business.
Dubuque.  Oct. 16, 1854.—d&w–tf

E. L. THOMPSON.     THEO. E. PARKER.
THOMPSON & PARKER.
ATTORNEYS & COUNSELLORS AT LAW.
jy6 y     STILLWATER, MIN. TER.

J. S. BLATCHLEY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Dubuque, Iowa.  Office No. 4, Union Building.
ap22,y

W. J. HENRY,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Anamosa, Jones Co., Iowa,
WILL practice in the District and Supreme
Courts of this State, and will give special
attention to the prosecution of all kinds of claims
before Congress and the Departments of the government
being connected therein with F. E. Hasser, 
of, Wahington City, D. C.     f22–tf

PLATT SMITH.     JAMES M. M'KINLAY.     B. W. POOR.
SMITH, McKINLAY & POOR,
(Successors to P. & J. M. Smith.)
ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law, Dubuque,
Iowa.  Office in Globe Building.  room No. 5
upstairs.     s28–'3y

J. W. JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Maquoketa, Jackson
county, Iowa.
—REFERS TO—
PLATT SMITH, 
BEN. M. SAMUELS, 
F E. BISSELL,
T. S. WILSON.

Particular attention will be given to procuring
Land Warrants to which applicants may be entitled
under the late Bounty Land Law.     s28–'3y

CLARK & BISSELL,
ATTORNEYS and Counsellors at Law, Main
street, Dubuque, Iowa, opposite the Bank, and
over Decker's Shoe Store.  They will practice in
all the Courts of this and the adjacent counties,
and will attend to collections and all other business
in the line of their profession.     s28–'3y

SILAS SAWYER,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 
(Office in Globe Building,)
DUBUQUE, IOWA,
WILL practice Law in Dubuque and adjoining
Counties.

He will collect debts, pay taxes, examine titles,
procure pensions, Locate Land Warrants, invest
money at profitable rates, &c.     j21dawy

BEN. M. SAMUELS.     WM. VANDEVER
SAMUELS & VANDEVER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW and Solicitors in Chancery,
will attend to all the business entrusted
to their care, in Dubuque and the adjoining counties.
Office in Globe Building, second floor—entrance
opposite the office of Smith & McKinlay, 
Mainstreet, Dubuque, Iowa.     sept28–'3y

A. C. FORD,
ATTORNEY and Counsellor at Law, COUNCIL
BLUFF CITY, IOWA.     .jy21–ly


DR. W. R. McMAHAN,
TENDERS his professional services to the citizens
of Dubuque vicinity.  Office and
Residence on Locust street, between 7th and 8th
street, immediately opposite the residence of 
Gov. Hempstead.
September 28, 1853.     s28–'53y

DR. GEO. W. SCOTT, 
CONTINUES to practice the various branches of 
his profession.  Office and residence corner
of Sixth and Iowa streets.

He discards the use of calomel and all other
known deleterious agents, in the treatment
of disease.  Pure Botanic Medicines constantly on
hand.
Dubuque, Sept. 28, 1853.     s28–'53y

DR. C. L. USHER, 
ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN, Cascade, Iowa, will
attend to all calls in the line of his profession.
s28' 3y

WHOLESALE [?]
J. P. FARLEY.     EDWIN JAMES.     D. K. CORNWALL
WHOLESALE GROCERS and Commission
Merchants, corner of Iowa and Fourth
streets, Dubuque, Iowa.
General Steamboat Agents.     nl6

[?]. P. FARLEY.     JOHN CHRISTMA
J. P. FARLEY & CO., 
WHOLESALE dealers in DRY GOODS, Boots
and Shoes, Main street, No. 10 Bank Row,
Dubuque, Iowa.     ap12–tf

F. DOYLE,
WHOLESALE & RETAIL DEALER IN 
DRY GOODS, & GROCERIES,
BOOTS, SHOES & CLOTHING,
MAIN STREET BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH
(OPPOSITE THE CITY HOTEL,)
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
Goods sold at the Lowest Rates for Cash, and
but one Price made.     mar7dtf

BANKERS.
M. MOBLEY
EXCHANGE AND BANKING HOUSE,
DUBUQUE, IOWA.
INTEREST PAID TO DEPOSITORS.  Drafts
and Notes Collected and proceeds remitted to 
any part of the United States.  Sight and Time
Bills purchased, and Sight Exchange on all the 
principal cities of the Union, as also Bills on Europe
for sale at the lowest rates, and in sums to 
suit.     s28–13y

AGENTS.
L. A. STYLES,
LAND AND GENERAL AGENT, also, Notary
Public and Conveyancer.  Office:  Corner of
Main and Fourth sts., up stairs, in room with H. 
W. Sanford.     [n?h29y]

J. N. WILLIAMS,
AGENT of the AMERICAN SUNDAY SCHOOL
UNION, at Dubuque, Iowa.

DEPOSITORY, corner of Fourteenth and Prairie
Streets, up the hill.

CONGRESS HALL,
BY LEWIS.
On fifth street, near Main, Dubuque, Iowa.
THIS splendid establishment, fitted up in the
best style, and supplied with every thing
needed, is now open for the reception of the public.
Every attention will be given by the proprietors
to the wants and wishes of their patrons.
April 8, 1854.     ap–y

DR. J. P. PORTER, DENTIST.
Office, Opposite Mobley's Bank
ENTIRE set of teeth inserted
on Allen's patent improved
method, with continuous 
gums.  Pivot teeth inserted 
on his original improved 
method, viz:  uniting pivot and tooth in one
inseparable mass.
Dubuque, April 28th, 1854.     d&wly

W. H. ROBBINS,
CLOCK AND WATCHMAKER, Jeweler and Silversmith,
old Postoffice, corner of Main and
Fifth streets, Dubuque, Iowa.     s28–'3y

THE BOOKSTORE.
R. SPAULDING, Wholesale and Retail Dealer
in Books and Stationery, Blank Books, Wall
and Window Papers, Musical Instruments and
Music.

Country Merchants supplied at a small advance
from cost—a few doors above the Globe
building.  Enquire for SPAULDING'S BOOK
STORE.     s28–'3y

NORTHWESTERN INSURANCE CO.,
OSWEGO, NEW YORK.
CHARTERED by the Legislature of the State of
New York in 1833, with a capital (all paid,) of
$150,000.     GEO. FISHER, President.
SAML. HAWLEY, Secretary

COOK, SARGENT & CO., Agents, Dubuque,
Iowa.     s28–'3y

H. J. GOFF & CO., 
CONFECTIONERS,
AND MANUFACTURERS OF CANDIES of all
kinds, and Dealers in all kinds of 
FAMILY GROCERIES,
Green and Dried Fruits; Wood and Willow Ware.
—ALSO—
Raisins, Figs, Prunes, Nuts and Dates; Lemons
and Oranges, by the box; Sardines, Pickles, Pickled
Oysters, &c., Wholesale or Retail.

Opposite the Globe Building, Main street,
Duubuque, Iowa.     dec8–y


6    "  Cane seated Cottage
4    "  Cherry and Walnut lorecian Chairs.
8    "  As'd Rocking
—ALSO—
Bureaus, Breakfast, Desert, Dining and Card
Tables; one and two drawer Stands; Baby rockers; 
Tin Safes; Writing Desks; High and low posted
Bedsteads, &c., &c.  Shack Mass and hair Marrrasses,
made to order.
—ALSO—
A very large lot of Queensware of every variety,
which will be sold at unusually low prices.

All we ask is to give us a call, as we feel confident
you will not go away dissatisfied.

Remember the place, No. 79 Main Street, at the
old stand of John Bell & Co.
COATES & WILDE.
Dubuque, May 11, 1854     d&wtf

GROCERIES FOR THE WINTER
TRADE.
WE offer for sale at the lowest market rates a 
complete assortment of GROCERIES, suited 
to the wants of city and [?]
3000 lb choice [?] [?]; [?] [?] molasses
25 bbls Cider Vinegar; 40 bbls Refined Sugar; 
25 bbls N O Sugar; 10 M Regalia & Hav. Cigars; 
30 bxs Fresh Teas; 60 cases Milwaukee Matches;
50 M. C D Caps; 160 kegs [Mi??ng] Powder, f ff fff;
80 kegs superior Rifle Powder, FFF G; 
5 M feet Safety Fase; 5 bags Pepper and Spice;
75 lbs No. 1 Nutmegs; 10 bbls Rice; 
166 bushel Dried Apples; 75 bushel dried Peaches;
30 bbls Quincy Crackers; 100 bags G A Salt; 
300 cans Fresh Baltimore Oysters;
100 cans Fresh Peaches; 20 dozen Pails;
40 bxs manu'ed Tobacco; 10 bxs smo'g Tobacco;
20 bxs Fine Cut and Yellow Bank Tobacco; 
Rio, Laguira, Java and Moca Coffee:
Refined Winter Whale Oil; Cream Tartar and
Sup. Carb. Soda; Star, Sperm and Mould Candles;
English Currants; Presevred Citron and Raisins.

For sale in quantities to suit purchasers, by
BISSELL & CO.,
No. 2 Globe Building.
December 28, 1853.     d28tf

DUBUQUE STONE YARD.
(Corner of Eighth and Jackson Streets.)
J. BOLAND & M. ROBILLARD,
STONE CUTTERS and BUILDERS, would respectfully
inform their old customers and the
public that in addition to their quarry of IOWA
FREESTONE, they have opened one of the so called
DUBUQUE MARBLE, of the best quality.
With their superior advantages they feel confident
of giving satisfaction to their patrons.

All kinds of work, either plain or ornamental,
done to order.
March 8, 1854.     mh8–

S. GOODRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, &
GENERAL LAND AGENT,
Bunker Hill, Allamakee Co., Iowa.
HAS on hand, and is constantly receiving, Land
Warrants for 40, 80 and 160 acres, for sale for
Cash, or located on time.  Warrantee Deeds from
the soldier will be given upon the issuing of the 
Patent.
—REFERS TO—
Gov.Stephen Hempstead, Dubuque.
Hon. J. J. Dyer,     do
P. Waples & Co.,     do
Col. J. A. Wakefield, Allamakee co., Iowa.
Chas. W. Hobbs, Esq., Delhi, Delaware co., Io
Dr. F. Andros, Clayton co., Iowa.
Hon. Stephen Whichler, Muscatine, Iowa.
Sam. Hall, Fayette co., Iowa.
J. Munn, Esq., Anamosa, Iowa.
John P. Cook, Esq., Davenport, Iowa
January 20, 1852.

WM. C. CARSON, 
Main street, near the Waples House,
DUBUQUE,
WHOLESALE and Retail
Dealer in Clocks, Watches,
Silber Ware, Fancy Goods,
&c.  Also, Wholesale Dealer
in fine WRITING AND
PRINTING PAPER.  The
largest, best, and cheapest
stock in the city.  Call and 
Examine.

Watches repaired, Job Work done, so as to 
warrant satisfaction.     n23–y

Just received a fresh lot of newest style of
JEWELRY, solid Silver and Plated Ware.  Also,
Gold and Silver Watches, with many other articles
too numerous to mention, now offered at
prices favorable to purchasers, by
WM. C. CARSON,
Main street, near the Waples House.

S. ERCANBRACK & CO., 
MERCHANT TAILORS,
Have just received their Fall and Winter
supply of Cloths, Cassimeres, Over Coatings,
And Vestings,
which they can recommend, and will manufacture
to order, on short notice in the latest and best
style, all kinds of Garments, and warrant to fit.

Also we have on hand one of the largest and 
best assortments of 
READY MADE CLOTHING
and Gents Furnishing Goods in the West.
Dubuque, Sept. 27, 1854.
S. ERCANBRACK.     P. YALE.
Williams' Report of Fashion
FOR SALE.     d–w t

CHAINS—10 casks of Log and Trace Chains
just received and for sale by
ap28     FARLEY & CHRISTMAN

FURNISHING GOODS—A complete assortment
of gentlemen's Furnishing Goods, in sto
nd for sale by     FARLEY & CUMINGS


SUCCESSOR OF THE LATE FIRM OF [?]
HALL.
STORAGE FORWARDING, & COMMISSION
MERCHANT, STEAMBOAT AGENT, AND
WHOLESALE GROCER.
No. 308, Dubuque, Iowa.
HAVING the largest Warehouse in this city, and
being located at the Steamboat Landing, and
being well acquainted with my business, I flatter
myself that I can serve the public in my line, in a 
satisfactory manner.  

I will make liberal advances on goods, consigned
to me to be sold on commission; and I will receive
goods and furniture from boats and cars, pay
charges, and immediately on receipt of them, inform
the owners of their arrival.  My terms are low,
and I pledge myself to do the best I can to please
my customers.

Persons moving West, will do well to mark their
Packages to 
C. P. HALL, Dubuque, Iowa.
Oct. 11, 1854.     d&w tf

GROCER AND PRODUCE MERCHANT, AND
DEALER IN COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Lower Store in the new Brick Block immediately
below the Waples House,
Dubuque, Iowa.
KEEPS, constantly on hand Coffee, Sugar, Spices,
Soap, Candles, Chewing and Smoking Tobacco; 
Codfish, Mackerel, Powder, Shot, Brooms,
Nails, Rope, Wooden Buckets; Liquors of all 
kinds; Vinegar, Pickles; fine and coarse Salt; and
almost every article usually found in a Grocery
establishment.

Corn, Oats, Butter, Cheese, and other descriptions 
of Country Produce, bought at the highest
market rates.

Also, a large lot of Wrapping Paper for sale.

The trading public are invited to give me a call.
Dubuque, January 11, 1854.     ja11–tf

REAL ESTATE AGENCY,
THE subscriber has for sale 15,000 acre
WILD LAND, in the counties of Jones, Jackson,
Dubuque, Delaware, Clayton and Allamakee,
which he offers for sale cheap for cash or CREDIT.
—ALSO—
IMPROVED FARMS AND CITY
PROPERTY.
He will at all times be ready to show the above
lands to those wishing to purchase.
LEONARD HORR.

Office with J. G. Higginson, opposite the
U. S. Land Office, up stairs.     o9dawtf

WM. SCOTT,
SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER.
INDEPENDENCE.
Buchanan County, Iowa.
BEGS Leave to announce to residents of Buchanan
and adjoining Counties that he has 
opened a Saddle and Harness Shop at this place, 
on Main street; where he will be prepared, to
supply Farmers and all other persons, wanting
any thing in his line, as at cheap a rate as possible.
 
It will be my constant aim, to transact my business,
in an honorable and satisfactory manner.

Repairs done on the shortest possible notice.
Cash paid for Hides.      d–wbr

WAR IN TURKEY—BOSTON STORE.
No. 79 Main street, Dubuque, Iowa.
THE undersigned would respectfully inform the
citizens of Dubuque and the surrounding
country, that they have entered into partnership
for the purpose of selling DRY GOODS, GROCERIES,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, NOTIONS,
&c., at Wholesale or Retail.

We are receiving the most extensive and attractive
lot of Goods ever brought to this market,
which enables us to offer inducements to purchasers
that cannot be surpassed.  Thankful for past
favors, we hope by strict attention to business to 
merit a continuance of the same.  Our stock consists
in part of the following.
DRY GOODS.
Muslin Delarne, Barize, Delaines, Printed Lawns
Calicoes, Swiss Mull, Jocconett and Braid Muslin
Victoria Lawns, Black Silk, Orange and Cotton
Handkerchiefs, Irish Linens, Table Linens, &c.

Broadcloths of various colors, plain and fancy
Deerskin, Cassimeres, Satin Vestings, Sattinetts
Tweeds, Jeans, Cottonades, Bleached and Unbleached
Cottons, Ticking, Drillings, &c., &c.
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS & CAPS.
We have a very large stock of Boots and Shoes,
of all grades and qualities.  Silk, Wool, Leghorn
and Chip Hats.
GROCERIES.
New Orleans crushed, loaf and clarified sugar
Rio coffee, Imperial, Gunpowder, Young Hyson
and Black teas, N. O. and S. H. molasses, spice
cinnamon, pepper, nutmegs, starch, powder, bed
cords, Manilla rope, and many other articles too
numerous to enumerate.  Try us, you that have
not, we charge nothing to show or goods and invite
all to call and see them.
WANTED,
In exchange for Goods, any thing that the farmer
has got to sell, at fair prices; but the cash we can 
not refuse.
COATES & WILDE,
No. 70 Main street, at the old stand of John
Bell & Co, opposite the Waples house.
JOHN COATES.     JOHN WILDE.
Dubuque, May 17, 1854     d–w

Another Arrival of Cloaks by Express.
The subscriber has this day received a few Velvet
and Satin Cloaks of superior quality to
any ever before offered for sale in this city.

Ladies are invited to call and examine them
soon as they will be offered for sale only for a 
limited time.     THOS. ADAMS,
Nov. 14th.     d&wtf

CASSIMIRS, Doeskin, Ruckskin, French and other
Varieties, just received and for sale by 
ERCKANBRACK & CO,


Known respectability, and ensures success.  All
parties consulting him by letter or otherwise, will
receive the best treatment and implicit secrecy.
Medicines sent to any part of the country free
from observation.

Seminal omissions, the consequence of self abuse.
This solitary vice, or depraved sexual indulgence,
is practiced by youth of both sexes to an
almost unlimited extent, producing with unerring
certainty the following train of morbid symptoms
unless combatted by scientific medical measures,
viz :

Sallow Countenance, dark spots under the eyes
pain in the head, ringing in the ears and nose like
the rumbling of chariots, uneasiness about the
loins, weakness of the limbs, confused vission a,
blunted intellect, loss of confidence, diffidence in
approaching strangers, a dislike to form any acquaintances,
disposition to shun society, loss of 
memory, hectric flushes, furred tongues, night
sweats, fætid breath, coughs, consumption, mon
omania and frequent insanity.  

The afflicted, on the first appearance of any of 
[?]
Dr. A. for relief.

All letters from patients burned immediately on
perusal.  F males abroad, and in the city, may
consult Dr. A. by letter, without diffidence.

The various complicated and distressing diseases
incident to females, treated with eminent success.
Mothers who have become victims through
the depravity and criminality of their husbands,
may rest assured that they and their infants can
be perfectly cured.

Letters addressed to Dr. A., free of postage, and
containing a reasonable fee, will be promptly attented
to, and medicines forwarded to any part of 
the United States and Canada.

Remember the place—No. 207 Randolph
street, (up stairs,) corner of Franklin str., Chicago,
Ill.

Private entrance on Franklin street, northwestern
of Randolph.     nov14 d&wly

PATRICK FANNING,
STONE CUTTER AND ENGRAVER,
On Iowa between Sixth and Seventh Streets.
DUBUQUE, IOWA,
WOULD respectfully call the attention of Builders
and the public generally to his Extensive 
Stone Cutting and Marble Yard, where he is
ready at all times to supply any demands for Grave
Stones, or building materials, such as Transoms,
Water Tables, Sills and Lintels, which are superior
to any thing in "Free Stone" line that has yet
been brought before the public.  I would refer to
the buildings of Mr. T. Levins, City Hotel, Geo. L. 
Nightingale; F. Weigle, corner of Sixth and Main 
streets; Mr. Kadmus, on Iowa, between Sixth and
Seventh streets, &c.

I will warrant all work done at my yard; any
thing breaking within 5 years after the erection of
a building, to be replaced free of charge.

The purchasers are requested to examine well
before purchasing.
jy28     P. FANNING.

AXES—50 boxes Simonds', Collins', and Da
Axes, just received and for sale by
ap28     FARLEY & CARISTMA

SEET IRON AND TIN PLATE—1000 bundle
heet Iron, and 50 boxes Tin Plate, in store
and for sale by     FARLEY & CHRISTMAN.

TO CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS.
OUR stock of Planes of all kinds, Hatchets,
Hammers,, Drawing Knives, &c., is large and
complete.  Also, our stock of House Furnishing
Hardware is complete and extensive, and will be 
sold at prices that cannot fail to suit purchasers, at
the old stand by     FARLEY & CHRISTMAN.

DUBUQUE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
COMPANY.
THE above company has been in operation four
years, and has done a fair share of business.  
The expense of the insured during that time has
been less than one half the cost of insurance in
any other company upon similar property.  It is
the only company in Iowa and losses can always
be adjusted at home.  The persons insured become 
the stock holders of the company and therefore
the company cannot fail.  We solicit the business
of the country.
DIRECTORS.
Richard Bonson           C. H. Booth.
James L. Langworthy   F. V. Goodrich
F. E. Bissell                   J. P. Farley
Timothy Mason          H. S. Herington
M. Mobley                  J. G. Shields
E. Langworthy            P. A. Lorimier
F. V. GOODRICH, President.
F. E. BISSELL, Secretary.
L. A. STYLES, Surveryor.

L. A. Styles having been appointed Surveyor for
the above Company, would call the attention of 
all persons wishing to insure, to this company in
prefernce to any other for the following among
the many reasons:  Its perfect safty, it cheapnes,
its main offlce being in Dubuque and last but not
least.  The promptness which characterizes,, all
the business of the Company.

I can at all times be found at my office corner
of Main and Fourth streets, and ready to attend
to all ceses relating to all business.

AGENTS' OFFICES.
O. F. Stevens, Esq., Garnavillo, Clayton Co.
D. F. Spurr, Esq., Bellevue, Jackson Co.
Jonas Clark, Esq., Maquoketa,  "   "
A. Harland, Esq., Marion, Linn, Co.
E. V. Carter, Esq., Elkader, Clayton Co.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug, 25, 1852.     se28–tf

P. T. HAYDEN,
MANUFACTURERS and Importers of evee
description of Saddlery and coach Hardwarr
9 Pearl street,  New York.  cot 27 '54–d–y

CANDIES Manufactured by G. R. WEST & 
Col., and sold at wholesale and retail at his
store on Main street Dubuque, Iowa     sep2


The 8 P. M. Train connects next morning at
Detroit with Train for the East, over the Great
Western R. R. 

Morning train from Chicago connects at Michigan
city with Trains on the New Albany and Salem
Rail Road for Lafayette and Cincinnati

Through tickets for Cincinnati, New York, Boston
and other cities East.
L sept 27 d–w tf     CH'S A. NOBLE, Gen. Ag

THE QUICKEST ROUTE TO BOSTON
NORTHERN OGDENSBURGH, VERMONT
CENTRAL, AND RUTLAND & BURLINGTON
RAIL ROADS.
SHIPPERS of western produce, will find the
above Route the most directed and expedious, by
which Flour, Wheat, Corn, Wool, and all other
Freights, destined for the Boston Market, can be
Forwarded.

It will be borne in mind that there is no Trans [?]
Shipment by this Route.  Also there is [?]
added immediately a large number of New [?]
Cars on the above Roads, thereby insuring [?]

The [?] [?]Freight [?] contracts
for the transmission of all kinds of Freight over
the above Roads from Ogdensburgh to Boston or
to all points on the Line of Roads.

S. C. ANDREWS, Western Freight Agent.
Office Mich. C. R. R. Depot, Detroit.
L. Oct. 10, '54—d&w–tf

CHICAGO & ROCK ISLAND R. R. 
THIS Railroad affords, in connection with the
Mississippi, the only continuous route by 
steam to the Atlantic, from the North west.

THROUGH TICKETS TO CHICAGO
Tickets may also be had at the office, over the
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Rail
roads, New York and Erie, New York Central, and
all Roads connecting east or branching south.

Fifteen days time allowed on all tickets sold
from east of Chicago.     L sept26 d–wtf
JOHN C. HENRY, Sup't

ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD
FALL ARRANGEMENT
ON and after Monday, Oct. 30th, 1854, Trains
this route will run in connection with the Galena
and Chicago Union Railroad daily, (except
Sunday's) as follows:
—LEAVE GALENA—
First Express and Mail train at 9 A. M, arriving
in Chicago at 5:35 P M 

Second Express Train at 4 P M, arriving in Chicago
at 2 A M next morning.
—LEAVE CHICAGO—
First Express and Mail Train at 8:10 A M, arriving 
in Galena at 5 P M

Second Express Train at 9 P M, arriving in Galena
at 6:45 next morning.

No change of cars or baggage on this route.

Freight Trains leave Galena at 5:30 A M daily
except Sundays.

Freights way-billed directly through to Chicago,
and without change of cars.
J. R. WYMAN, Superintendent.
November 6th, 1854     d–tf

CHANGE OF TIME.
GREAT WESTERN MAIL ROUTE
WINTER ARRANGEMENT.

GALENA & CHICAGO UNION R. R. 
BELOIT AND MADISON,
And Dixon and Iowa Central Route.
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1854,
TWO Passenger Trains will leave daily, (Sunday's
excepted) from the Wells st. depot, as
follows:

For Galena at 9 A. M. and 3. P. M. 

Passengers for Beloit, Milwaukee, Janesville, and
Madison, will leave Chicago at 9 A. M. and 3 P. M. 

Passengers for Dixon and Iowa Central Route, 
will leave Chicago at 3 P. M. 

Passengers for Belvidere, Rockford and Freeport
will leave Chicago at 9 A. M. and 3 P. M. 

TRAINS EASTWARD:
TRAINS LEAVE     ARRIVE AT
Galena        10 A. M.   Chicago,   7.15 P. M.
Freeport    5.30   "          "           11.25 A. M. 
Footville    5.30   "          "           11.25   "
  Do.          1.20   "          "             7.15 P. M.
Dixon        6.15   P. M.    "           11.25 A. M.
Fare from Chicago to Galena,      1st class, $5 15
"                 "           "   Dubuque,   "            6 15
"                 "           "   Lane,          "            2 25
"                 "           "   Dixon,        "            3 00
"                 "           "   Beloit,        "            3 00
"                 "           "   Afton,        "            3 00
Fare from Chicago to Galena,      2nd class, $3 45
"                 "           "   Dubuque,   "           4 45
"                 "           "   Lane,          "            1 50
"                 "           "   Dixon,        "            1 90
"                 "           "   Beloit,        "            1 95
"                 "           "   Afton,        "            2 10

Connections made East with all the Great Eastern
Lines to Buffalo, New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburg, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Central and Southern Ohio.
JOHN B. TURNER, Sup't.
T. W. HECOX, Agent, Dubuque, Iowa.
October 1, 1854.     d–tf

PLEASANT HILL NURSERY,
HALF a mile from the South Line of the 
City of Dubuque, on the Iowa City road,
is now in a condition which enables the
Proprietor to furnish those varieties of Fruit
Trees, Shrubs, &c., usually called for in this region,
especially of the hardy species.  Orders from a 
distance promptly attended to.
sep7–ly     W. LONGWORTH.

A LARGE quantity of Galvanized Chain and 
Pump fixtures, in store and for sale by
FARLEY & CHRISTMAN.

S N E   11
N E N E   13   87 1W
S W S E   31   89 1W
S E N W    9   89 1W
N E N E    8   89 1W
S W S E   29   87 1E
S W S E   33   87 1E
N W   11   87 2W
N E N E   9   87 2W
S W S W   4   90 1W
N W N W   9   90 1W
E N E   5   90 1W
W S W   18   88 1W
W N W   18   88 1W
E N W   19   88 1W
JACKSON COUNTY.
N W    9   86 3E
W S W   33   86 3E
S W S W   6   84 3E
S W S E   23   86 1E
N N E   8   85 2E
S W N E   8   85 2E
S E S E   19   85 4E
W N E   9   85 4E
N E S E   9   85 1E
N W S W   3   85 1E
S E S E   1   87 3E
LINN COUNTY.
N E N W   5   84 8W
JONES COUNTY.
N W S E   20   86 3W
S E N W   24   86 4W
FAYETTE COUNTY.
S E S W   12   95 9W
N W S E   4   95 9W
N E S E   21   92 7W
N S E   35   94 7W
E N E   6   94 7W
JOHNSON COUNTY
N E N E   29   78 7W
ALAMAKEE COUNTY
W S W   96 5W
N E S W   96 5W
N W S E   15   96 5W
W S W   3   96 3W
S S E   4   96 3W
DELAWARE COUNTY
S E N E   13   90 4W
E N W 
BLACK HAWK COUNTY
N N W   34   89 13w
S W N W   39   89 13w
N W S E   6   90   15w
E S W   33    90 13w
BUCHANAN COUNTY.
S W S W   14   90 10w
N E N E   4   90 10w
N E S E   11   90  9w
BREMER COUNTY.
N E S E   9   92 15w
S W N W   24   92 15w
N W N W   25   93 12w
W S W   33   92 11w
W N W   33   92 11w
N E N E   30   92 11w
E N E   1   92 12w
CHICKASAW COUNTY
N N E      95 13w
S E N E    95 13w
N E S E    32   95 13w
S E S W   
W N W
S E N W   7   96 14w
W S W   6   96 14w
S E N W       96 14w
W N W      96 14w
S E   19
W 1/2 
W S E   30   [??] 18
S S E 
S S W   22
E N W 
N E 1/4   27
N W S W 
S E S  W 2C
E N W 
N N E 
S W N E
W S E   35   90 12w
N W N W   36   90 12w
CLAYTON COUNTY.
S E N E   27   91 4W
Lot 3   25   91 1W
S W S E   29
N S W    8
S E N W   17   92 3W
Lots 2 & 3   25   92 4W
N E N E   25   91 5W

All of the above have been carefully selected
and may be had by application to the subscribers.
W. J. BARNEY & CO.
Dubuque, July 6, 1854.     jy6d&wt

DUBUQUE SAVINGS BANK.
THE Books of the Dubuque Savings Bank will
be opened at the Bank of F. S. Jesup & Company, 
on Saturday the 13th day of October next.

Deposits will be received on Tuesdays, Thursdays
and Saturdays of each week, in sums of ONE
DOLLAR AND UPWARDS.  Interest will be paid
on the first Mondays of April and October of each
year.  Interest uncalled for will be added to the 
principal every Six Months and draw interest as
principal.
F. S. JESUP & CO., Proprietors.
Dubuque, September 21, 1853.     [se21??]

DURHAM STOCK.
THE subscriber offers for sale one full blooded
Durham Bull, 3 years old.  One full blooded
Durham Cow, 9 years old.

The above stock is equal to any in this State, and
will be sold at fair prices by the subscriber.
RORERT LOGAN.
Decorah, Winnieshiek c., Jan. 23d. 1855.     dwtf

CITY MARBLE WORKS.
HERRICK & DUDLEY,
—DEALERS IN—
AMERICAN, ITALIAN, AND OTHER
FOREIGN MARBLE; MONUMENTS,
GRAVE STONES, TABLE-TOPS, &c.
HAVE opened rooms and commenced the Marble
business in all its branches, on the 6th, near
corner of Main street, where they offer for sale,
at wholesale or retail, the best, largest, and cheapest
assortment ever brought into this city.

If you want, call and see us, and you are sure to 
buy.     d&wly
Dubuque, Nov. 29, '54.

HALLETT, DAVIS & CO.'S PIANOS.
A FULL Assortment of six and 
one half, and Seven Octavo Grand
and Square Pianos, with and without
the Æolian, in every variety of style and finish,
constantly on hand and for sale to Dealers
and others, at factory prices.  These Unrivalled
Pianos have the entire iron frame, curve scale,
paptent suspension bridge and Æolian with improved
voicing.  Prices, $200 to $1000.

MODEL MELODEONS, OR REED ORGANS,
For the parlor or church, manufactured by Mason
& Hamlin, of Boston, Mass.  These improved Melodeons
are highly recommended by Lowell Mason, 
Geo. F. Root, Wm. B. Bradbury, and many 
others, and cannot be excelled in fullness and 
sweetness of tone, and promptness of action.
We supply them wholesale and retail at the lowest
rats.  Prices, $60, $75, $100, $120, $150, and
$175.  Second-handed Pianos at great bargains.

Pianos and Melodians to let.

New Music published daily.  Dealers, Teachers
and Seminaries supplied at the lowest rates.  Music
sent by mail free of postage.
BERRY & GORDON.
d&w-tf     297 Broadway.
Sept. 20, 1854.

CO-PARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
I HAVE this day associated with me P. H. CONGER
for the purpose of doing a Wholesale and
Retail Grocery Business, under name and style
of MITTON & CONGER.  All persons knowing themselves
indebted to the late firm of ANDERSON & 
MITTON, either by book account or notes, are requested
to make payments to the firm of MITTON 
& CONGER without delay.     R. MITTON.
Jan. 22, 1855.     dtf

WATER PROOF CLOTHING—India Rubber
and Oil Cloth Coats and Pants, on hand and
for sale at the manufacturers' prices, by 
o5     FARLEY & CUMING  .


New York Advertisements.

New York Advertisements. 
From Visscher & Schell's
General Advertising House, 
APPLETON'S BUILDING, 346 & 348 Broadway

New York & California Steamship line
VIA NICARAGUA.
REDUCTION OF PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES
The Cheapest and Healthiest Route.
700 miles shorter than any other route, and avoiding
the deadly Panama fever, and two miles
of dangerous boating in Panama Bay.
THRO' IN ADVANCE OF THE MAILS
The Accessory Transit Company (of Nicaragua)
Proprietors,
The NORTHERN LIGHT, STAR OF THE WEST, PROMETHEUS, 
or DANIEL WEBSTER, all first class
Steamships, will leave New York on the 12th and
17th of each month, connecting by the Nicaragua
Transit Route (having but twelve miles of land
transportation over a good macadamised road in
first-class carriages,) with the Steamships SIERRA
NEVADA, UNCLE SAM, CORTES, PACIFIC and BROTHER
JONATHAN, one of which will leave San Juan
del Sur—the Pacific terminus of the Transit route
—where the Pacific Steamships receive the passengers 
at the Company's wharf immediately on 
their arrival , and proceed at once to San Francisco
An experienced surgeon is attached to each
ship.

For information, or passage at reduced rates,
apply only to   Charles Morgan, Agt. 
2 Bowling Green, N.Y.

N.B. Commencing on the 20th of April, the
days of leaving New York will be changed to the
5th and 20th of each month.  3dm10d6m

CASH MUSIC AND PIANO STORE 
OF HORACE WATERS,
Number 333 Broadway, New York.
OPPOSITION TO MONOPOLY.
Music at Greatly Reduced Rates.
Notwithstanding the combination of music dealers
to keep up the prices of non-copyright 
music, against the interests of the native composers,
and their refusal to extend to Mr. Waters the 
courtesies of the trade, he is making immense sales
—having abundant evidence, that he has public
countenance and support, in his opposition to the 
GREAT MONOPOLY, and in his efforts to aid NATIVE
TALENT, and to adopt the NATIONAL CURRENCY.
His stock of American and European music is immense, 
and the catalogue of his own publications
is one of the largest and best selected in the United
States.  He has also made a GREAT REDUCTION
in the prices of PIANOS MELODEONS and MUSICAL 
INSTRUMENTS of all kinds.  Superior toned 61/2 octave
pianos for $175, $200 and $225, interior of as
good quality, and instruments as strong and as 
durable as those which cost $500.  Pianos of every
variety of style and price up to $1000, comprising
those of TEN different manufactories: among them
the celebrated modern improved HORACE WATERS'
PIANOS and the first premium Æolian PIANOS of
T.GILBERT & CO.'S make. (owners of the Æolian
patent). SECOND-HAND PIANOS at great bargains.
Prices from $40 to $150. MELODEONS from FIVE
different manufactories, including the well known
S. D. & H. W SMITH'S melodeons, (tuned the equal
temperament,) the best make in the United States.
Prices $45, $60, $75, $100, $115, $135, and $150.—
Smith's Double Bank Melodeon $200. Each Piano
and Melodeon guaranteed. The best terms to
the trade, schools, &c.:  12 1/2 per cent. discount to
clergymen and churches.  All orders promptly attended
to. Music sent to all parts of the country,
post-paid, at the reduced rates. General and select
catalogues and schedule of prices of Pianos forwarded
to any address free of charge.  3dm9d3m

SCHOOL & COLLEGE TEXT-BOOKS.
THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SERIES
INCLUDES
SANDERS' NEW READERS, SPELLER, P
WILLSON'S HISTORICAL SERIES,
THOMPSON'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS,
SCIENTIFIC TEXT BOOKS. ETC., namely:
Gray's Chemistry, Hitchcock's Geology, (new
edition,) Kiddle's Astronomy, Newman's Rhetoric,
Porter's Rhetorical Reader, Hallock's English
Grammar, Spencer's do., McElligott's Orthographical
Works, Oldham's Hamorous Speaker, Oldham's
Amusing and Instructive Reader, Comstock's
Zoology, Schuster's Drawing Books and
Cards, O'Donnel's Series of Writing Copies. Bradbury's 
Music Books for Schools and Choirs, etc.
FASQUELLE'S FRENCH COURSE, Readers, etc.
WOODBURY'S GERMAN SERIES, Grammar,
Leader, etc.
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE
of the above, with terms, to Teachers, etc. sent
gratis and post paid on application.



NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS.

JOHN ROACH, 
OPTICIAN,
No. 111 Fulton Street, up stairs, NEW YORK,
Late of Nassau street.
MANUFACTURER and IMPORTER of Optical 
and Mathematical Instruments, Philosophical
Apparatus, Electro-Magnetic Machines,
Galvanic Batteries, Barometers, Thermometers,
Telescopes, Spectacles, &c.
sptbr8 d–w tf

TO WESTERN MERCHANTS!
CLOCKS AND TIME PIECES.
J. C. Brown,
No. 3 Courtlandt street, NEW YORK,
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
CLOCKS AND TIME PIECES,
Would call the attention of Western Merchants to 
his large and well assorted stock of
all descriptions. 
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
N.B. Merchadts and Dealers will do well to call
before purchasing elsewhere.
spt 11 '54 d ly

WILLIAM RADDE,
IMPORTER, BOOKSELLER, PUBLISHER, AND
FOREIGN AGENT,
No. 322, Broadway, New York.
Also, Dealer in Homœopathic Medicines, and
Homœopathic Books and Journals.
HOMŒOPATHIC MEDICINES,
In complete sets, or by single vials, in Tinctures,
Dilutions and Triturotions. Also Pocket cases
of Medicines to suit all the Guides. Physicians'
and Family Cases carefully put up. Also, Arnica
Tincture and Arnica Plaster, Urtica Urens—a specific
application for Burns.      7br 9 d–w tf

TYPE AND PRINTING MATERIALS.
NEW BUILDING, No. 29, Beekman street, between
Nassau and William streets, near the
City Hall Park, and principal hotels. The undersigned 
beg respectfully to inform their patrons
and the trade, that they have removed their establishment
to their new building, No. 29 Beekman 
street, between Nassau and William streets.
They trust, from the facilities there offered, by every
modern improvement, to meet a continuance
of liberal support. Fonts of plain Scotch faces,
ranging from 100 lbs., to 1,000 lbs. weight, will be
kept on hand, as well as a varied assortment of
fancy letter, and every article necessary for the
furnishing of complete printing offices. The subscriber
would beg to call the attention of the trade 
to their metal, which for durability has not been 
surpassed, if equalled, by any fonudry in the United
States. By a peculiar combination of metals, 
arrived at from an experience of thirty years, 
they are enabled to cast type which they feel assured 
will last one-third longer than that heretofore
furnished by any foundry in the country. In
proof of this, they would state, that the last dress
of the New York Herald lasted upwards of one
year, averaging a daily circulation all the year, 
including Sundays, besides extras, of 35,000 copies,
and this on their rotary cylinder presses— 
thus evidencing conclusively the fact of durability.
JAMES CONNER & SON, 29, Beekman st., N, Y.
The type, &c., on which this paper is printed,
is from the James Conner & Son's Foundry.
L spt. 19 '54,                 d&wtf

TAMMANY HALL, situated on the corner
of Nassau and Frankfort streets, fronting
the Park and City Hall, New York.

The subscribers respectfully inform the traveling
public, that they have completed their extensive
alteration and improvements, and are now
ready to accommodate merchants and others visiting
the city, with good rooms and clean beds, and 
the best refreshments served up in the splendid 
refrectory attached to the house. Ever thankful
for past favors, hope that by strict personal attention
to the wants of their patrons to merit a continuace
of the same.     J.H. HOWARD,
L spt. 18, '54, d&wtf     CHAS. BROWN

STAPLETON & DART,
MANUFACTURERS and Dealers in FUR, SILK
and WOOL HATS, (by the case only,)
No. 86 William street, near Maiden Lane, 
EDW'D STAPLETON,   }     NEW YORK.
BENJAMIN DART.   }     Feb. 22 –  liv

PUBLIC NOTICE.
RUSHTON, CLARK & CO.'S COD LIVER OIL.
The late firm of RUSHTON, CLARK & CO.,
being dissolved by the death of Mr. RUSHTON, the
only person by the name of Rushton ever connected 
with the firm, the business will be continued by
HEGEMAN, CLARK & CO.
surviving partners and sole successors, No. 165
511 Broadway: [?]



Chicago Advertisements.
JOHN STEWART.                ALEX. STEWART
STEWART AND BROTHER.
IMPORTERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
WHOLESALE dealers in Wines, Brandies, whiskey,
cigars, groceries, oils, Varnishes, &c.
Agents for the sale of Stow's Patent Erasive soap,
Kendall's Chemical Olive soap, and prepared Indigo,
230 and 240 South Water street,
nov.13dly                         CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.


D. SHIPMAN'S
HOMŒAPATHIC PHARMACY,
94 Lasalle street,
CHICAGO.
HOMŒAPATHIC Physicians and Families will
find here a large supply of Books, Medicines;
cases, containing from 10 remedies upward;
Pillets, Sugar of Milk, pure Alcohol, and
everything in the Homœapathic line.
Orders accompanied with cash or city reference
will meet prompt attention.     o24daw6m


E, THOMPSON,     C. O. THOMPSON,
Hopkinton, Mass.     Chicago, Ill.
C. O. THOMPSON & CO.
Manufacturers & Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS,
127 & 127 South Water St.
Third door west of Clark,     CHICAGO, ILL.
L d ly —sept. 20th.


JOSEPH T. RYERSON
IRON & COMMISSION MERCH[ANT]
199, 198, 200, 202 South Water St.
CHICAGO, ILL.
Iron, Steel, Nails, Spikes and Heavy [r?] are
Berea, Ohio and Huron Grindstones.
L. d&w-tf—Sept. 20, '54.


HAMMILL, MURRAY & CO.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
73, Lake Street,     CHICAGO, ILL.
A NEW and general assortment of Railroad
Goods, Mechanic's Tools, Builder's 
Hardware, Household and Farming Implements,
&c., &c.

Jack Screws, Steam Guages, Portable Forges, Endless
Chain and other vices, Nuts and Washers, Pump Chains,
Fence Wire, Nails and Spikes, &c., &c.

This firm, newly established in Chicago, having an experienced
partner resident in New York, has peculiar advantages
for the selection and purchase of goods
HAMMILL, MURRAY & CO.
Nov. 2nd, 1854.                                                     d&w–tf


HARDWARE AT WHOLESALE.

TAYLOR & WILLIAMS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
FOREIGN & DOMESTIC HARDWARE.
Cutlery and Tinner's Stock, and Manufacturers of
TIN, SHEET IRON AND COPPER WARE,
NO. 239, LAKE STREET,
CHICAGO, ILL.
WOULD call the attention of Country Merchants 
and Tinner's, to their new and large
stock of
GENERAL HARDWARE.
Nails, Log, Coil, Trace, Halter and Pump Chains,
Sad Irons, Hook and Strap Hinges, Anvills, Vices,
Bellows, Sledge and Hand Hammers, Shovels, 
Spades, Hoes, Sythes, Rakes, Files, Glass, Sash,
Pumps, Coffee-Mills, Scales, Pocket and Table Cutlery,
Cross Cut, Mill and Circular Saws, &c., &c,
TINNER'S STOCK.
Tin Plate, Sheet Iron, Tinned and Brasiers Copper,
Metal and Copper Bottoms, Bauca Tin, Wire,
Pot Covers, Tea Kettle Breasts, Rivets, Ears, &c.
BUILDER'S HARDWARE.
Door Locks, Butts, Screws, Shutter Hinges and 
Fasteners, Sash Fasteners, Weights and Rollers.
CARPENTERS & JOINERS TOOLS.
Planes, Squares, Levels, Augers, Boring Machines,
Chisels, Bitts, Hammers, Hatchets, Saws, Rules
Braces, &c.
Brittania, Planished and Jappan Ware.
Tea and Coffee Pots, Urns, Dish Covers, Castors,
Candle-sticks, Ladles, and a large stock of TIN,
SHEET IRON AND COPPER WARE, of our own
manufacture. Our facilities for purchasing are
such, that we can confidently assure country merchants
and all others purchasing goods in our line,
that we can offer them a LARGER STOCK, a more
COMPLETE ASSORTMENT and LOWER PRICES,
than any other house in the City. We solicit a call
when all can judge for themselves.
Chicago, May 23, 1854.                              dw–y



St Louis Advertisements.

JO HN T. CHAPPELL,     V. FRANK VALLE
CHAPPELL & VALLE.
COMMISSION AND FORWARDING
MERCHANTS,
No. 14 Pine street.     ST. LOUIS, Mo.
L sept 11 d–w tf.


ROBERT S. CAVENDER,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN WOODEN,
WILLOW, AND CEDAR 
WARE.
No. 98, Second Street, opposite Monroe House.
ST. LOUIS, MO.
HAS ON HAND AT ALL TIMES,
Tubs in Nests, 
2 & 3 Hoop Pails,
Cedar Tubs, 
do., Pails, 
Willow Wagons, 
do. Cabs,
Brooms, 
&c., &c.,
E. W. Boards, 
Tar Cans, 
Cedar churns, 
do, Keeler,
Marketbaskets,
Clothes do.,
Brushes, 
&c., &c.,
Well Buckets,
Cov'd Buckets,
Nests measures, 
Cedar half bush. 
Rattan baskets, 
Peach do., 
Mop handles,
&c., &c.
Orders respectfully solicited, and promptly [exe?]
[c??]     lyw

ROSENHEIM & COOK,
IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS
IN
RIBBONS, SILKS, MILLINERY
GOODS, LACES, TRIMMINGS, PARASOLS,
Embroideries, Fans, &c., &c.
NO. 56 MAIN ST., OVER AMERICAN EXPRESS OFFICE.
St. Louis, Mo.
The attention of Merchants and Milliners is respectfully
solicited to our large stock of tLe above
articles.     L sept 11 d–w tf


Philadelphia Advertisement.
Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle, &c.
JOHN KRIDER,
Manufacturer, Importer and Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in Shot, Guns, Rifles, Pistols, 
Fishing Tackle, and all kinds of Sporting
Apparatus.
Together with a general assortment of
MATERIALS FOR GUN MAKERS,
N. E. Cor. of Walnut and Second Srteets,
PHILADELPHIA.
ALL of which and such other articles as belong 
to his line of business, will be sold as low as 
can be afforded by any establishment in the United 
States.

In testimony of his skill as a manufacturer, the
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, has awarded
to him since 1840, two certificates, six silver medals,
and one recall premium; and in 1854, the
Crystal Palace of New York, awarded to him a 
medal, the only one awarded for Shot, Guns and
Rifles in the United States.

"Krider's Sporting Anecdotes," illustrative of
certain varieties of American Game, with remarks 
on the Character of the Dog, Field Dogs, Snipe,
Woodcock, Rail, Partridge, Duck and Pigeon match
shooting, on the Rice Bunting or Reed Bird, Grass
Plover, Bill-headed or Golden Plover, Canvass
Back and Red Headed Duck, American Widgeon, 
Scaup Duck and Canada Goose.—Price $1.00.
Address JOHN KRIDER,
aug25:yldaw     Second and Walnut, Phil'a.


Buffalo Advertisements.
HILL, FLEMING & CO.
PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 9 Central Wharf,     BUFFALO N. Y.
Lsept 11 d–w tf


BUFFALO TYPE FOUNDRY,
AND
PRINTERS' FURNISHING WAREHOUSE,
Nox. 18 & 20 WEST SENECA ST., BUFFALO, N. Y. 
N. LYMAN, Proprietor.
HAVING recently enlarged and improved his 
Foundry—now occupying two large four
story buildings—and added many new styles to 
his assortment of 
BOOK, JOB & ORNAMENTAL TYPE,
Bodrers, Rules, Scripts, &c., would respectfully
call the attention of Printers' and Publishers to
his establishment.  Enjoying ample facilities for
executing orders of any magnitude, he hopes, by
promptness, to merit a continuance of the favors
heretofore bestowed upon him beiieving it to be
for the

Cleveland Advertisements,
CLEVELAND POWDER COMPANY
BRAYTON, WALWORTH & CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
All kinds of sporting and blasting powder.  Also
Wholesale dealers in Safety Fusee.
Office over ForestCity Bank,
L sept 26 d-wtf                CLEVELAND, Ohio

FOR THE HARVEST OF 1855.
J.H. MANNY'S
PATENT ADJUSTABLE
Reaper and Mower Combined,
AND SINGLE MOWER,
Secured to John H. Manny by Nine
Patents in the Unit d States!
ALSO PATENTED IN EUROPE.
Manufactured by
MANNY & CO., ROCKFORD ILLS.
These valuable Machines are being constantly
manufactured.  A large number are being made
for the coming Harvest.  Over TWO THOUSAND
were constructed during the past season, and used
with ENTIRE SUCCESS, yet the demand was not half
supplied.  Forty First Class Premiums have been
awarded to Mr. Many for the superiority of his
Machines over all others, in the freqent trials it
has had with them, including every machine that
has any claim to reputation.
A WARRANTY is given to each purchaser that the
Machine is well built and of good materials; and
it will Mow as well as can be done with the scythe,
and Reap as well as can be done with the cradle.
The Machine is drawn by two horses, and managed
by one person for Mowing and two persons
for Reaping; and is also warranted to cut from
ten to fifteen acres per day.
THE NINE PATENTS of John H. Manny for Reaping
and Mowing Machines embrace Adjustability,
the Knives, Guard Fingers, Dividers, Arrangment
of Wheels, of Platforms, Trucks, Levers, Braces,
Frame Work, Gathering Wings, Oblique Platform
Joints, Position for Attendants, etc., etc. all these
being exceedingly valuable features, and in most
successful operation.
The only successful and perfect combination of
Reaper and Mower in the World, as well as
being the best single Machine for
either prrpose.
All the various kinds of Reapers and Mowers
have endeavored to compete with this machine;
the result in every instance has shown its superiority,
and though the Self-Raker came up with
boasted ingenuity and boasted labor-saving advantages,
yet it is unable to win
A Prize of Fifteen Hundred Dollars
But is decided by an honorable committee {as a
Reaper only,} to be inferior to the best hand-raking
machine; to say nything abut their additional
price, nor their not being adapted to mowing.  But
their complication of Machinery, wasting the grain
and irregularity of the gravels, far more than 
neutralize their claims to labor-saving.  While
MANNY'S MACHINE
Excels all others in simplicity of construction, in
facility of management, in lightness of draught,
{requiring only two horses,} in having no side
draught, in its adjustability to uneven ground, and
in being readily adjustable to any height from the 
ground when reaping, by means of a lever extending
to the driver's seat, and under his control.  It 
also excels every other implement in cutting lodged
or tangled grain or grass, and also in cutting all 
kinds of grain or grass wet or dry, without
clogging.  It will cut flax close to the ground, or gather
the seed, and will also gather timothy and cloven
seed, TWO KNIVES - one a sickle and the other smoothe
edge - are farnishod with each Machine, either of
which may be used as required.
THE COMBINED MACHINE is converted from a 
Reaper to a Mower, and vice versa, by simply
removing or inserting a loose platform, which may
be done in less than one minute.
NUMEROUS CERTIFICATES, Recommendations and
Testimonials to the great value of Manny's
Machine, have been received from all parts of the
country, are published, together with a large
amount of other information, in a pamphlet, which
will be promptly sent by mail to all applicants.
TERMS SAME AS HERETOFORE.
MACHINES DELIVERED WHERE ORDERED;
TRANSPORTATION ADDED.
Two Horse Machine, of about 5 ft. cut, cash price $125,00.
Half cash and the other half on the 1st of Dec. $135,00.
Four horse Machine, of about 6 ft. cut, cash price $.35,00
Half cash, and the other half on the 1st of Dec., 145,00.
Orders should be sent in season to secure
Machines.  To meet the wants of those who have
on hand certain kinds of  ? ? ?

McCLURE, MILLS & Co.'s COLUMN.
McCLURE, MILLS & Co.,
LAND BROKERS,
OFFICE IN JONE'S BLOCK. CORNER OF MAIN AND SIXTH STREETS.
DUBUQUE,- - - - - - IOWA,
Will attend to all business connected with lands in the States of Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois.  Have for
sale City Lots and Lands in many of the counties west and north west of Dubuque.
WILL BUY, SELL AND LOCATE LAND WARRANTS,
will attend to the paying of taxes, collection of debts, aed in fact all business requiring an agent. We
shall have a new map of the city, embracing all the additions, and maps of the whole country as soon
as they can be completed.  Strangers visiting Dubuque for the purpose of investing will find at our
office all the information, concerning the country, they may require.
MONEY LOANED AND INVESTED.
Oct 30. '54 HOUSES AND LOTS PURCHASED AND SOLD.

M CLURE, MILLS & CO,
Offer the following Property : r. e 1/4 od s w 1/4, sec, 24, town 87, range 1 east, n e 1/4 of s w 1/4, sec. 12. town 89, range 1 east, containing 200 acres Timber, Prairie and Meadow Bottom land ; on it is a good
house and saw mill, and good mineral ground ; this land is 7 miles Dubuque on Maquoketa river ;
A double Brick House, on Lot No. 114, Locust street, with Brick stables, cisterns and well, ? ?
premises;
ALSO n w 1/4 n o 1/4 sec. 32, town 90, range 2 east, s e 1/4 n e 1/4, sec. 32, town 90, range 2 east, containing 40 acres each, about six miles from Dubuque, above the Maquoketa ; will be sold separately as desired.
ALSO 57 acres of Land on Delbi road, 8 miles from Dubuque, in sec. 35, town 89, north range 1 east ;
this Land is Timbered, and a fine location for a sottler.

CIVIL ENGINEERING, DRAFTING AND MAPING
Of all kinds by an accomplished Engineer, at the office of
McClure, Mills & CO.,            McCLURE, MILLS & CO.,
Dubuque, Feb 9, '55,  dtf       Jones' Block, corner of Main and 6th streets, Dubuque, Iowa

  RARE CHANGE FOR SPECULATION.
LANDS OPPOSITE EAGLE POINT, GRANT CO., WIS.
TERMISUS OF THE SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD.
1 36 part of Fr. Sec. No. 20 Tp. 1 R. 2, W, 4 p. m.   1-18 part Fr. sec. 20.  Lots Nos. 5 & 6, Sec. 26
1 36 " " Lots Nos. 5 & 6, Sec. 20, Tp. 1, R. 2            Tp. 1, R 2 West p m
West of the 4th P.M.                                               4th p m
1 36 part Lot No. 1, Sec. 29, Tp. 1, N R 2, W p m    150 Town Lots in the Villages of New Haven
For sale by                                                               Independence, county seat of Buchanan ?
Nov 4 '54 dtf                                                           McCLURE, MILLS & CO.,
 Land Brokers, Jones Block, corner of Main & 6th streets, Dubuque, Iowa

VALUABLE PRODUCTIVE REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
By McClure, Mills & Co., Land Brokers, Jones' Block, Dubuque, Iowa.,
North half of Three Story BRICK WARE HOUSE on Lot 30S, corner 5th and White street, ?
Levee.  The Lot is 25 1/2 by 100 feet building covering whole Lot, and rents at from $1,200 to
$1,500 perannum. Nov 30 '54 dtf

FOR SALE
240 Acres of Land, two and a half miles west of Independence, county seat of Buchanan county,
a rare chance for a splendid farm, and one of the most desirable locations in the county.  Being the ?
N E 1/2, and N 1/2 S E ? aad S E 1/1 of N W fraction 1/1, and N E 1/1 of s w fraction 1/1 of section 31, town ? north range 9 west, Timber within 2 miles at $5 to $8 per acre.
ALSO 332 40-100 Acres, beautifully located, gently rolling, on the east side of the growing timber, with
a stream of living water running through, also 40 acres timber, 1 1/2 miles west, to go with the above.
This is splendid opportunity for a nice farm, and is situated 4 1/2 miles of Dyersville.  Being N W
fraction 1/4, 5, and E fraction 1/2 N E 1/4, and N W fraction 1/4, N E 1/1. 6, 88, 3 West.
McCLURE, MILLES & CO.,
Nove 4 '54 dtf  LAND Brokers, Jones' Block, corner Main and 6th streets.

TIMBER LANDS IN ALAMAKEE COUNTY.
S w 1/4, section 18, town 96, range 3 west, 160 acres;
S 1/2 of S E 1/4, and S E 1/4 of S W 1/4, section 10, town 96, range 3 west 120 acres on which is a frame
house and barn :
W 1/2 of s w 1/4, section 20, town 96, range 3 west 80 acres;
S E 1/4 section 12, town 96, range 4 west, 160 acres ;
N E 1/4 sec. 13, town 86, ra. 4 west, 160 acres, on which is a log house, 12 acres cultivated and ?
S E 1/4 of N W 1/4, and s w 1/4 of N E 1/4, and N E 1/4 of n w 1/4, S E 1/4 section 29, town 96, range 3 west 160 acres, on which is a house, cultivated field & c.;
1/2 of N W 1/4, section 13, town 96, range 4 west, 80 acres;
W 1/2 of N E 1/4, and E 1/2 of N W 1/4. section 23, town 96, range 4 west.
These Lands are for sale on good terms, and are about seven miles from the Mississippi river.  They
were entered expressly for the Timber and are on Yellow River A fine mill Frame and Mill Fixings (?)
goes with them, Also a qu ntity of Saw Logs. for sale by
McCLURE, MILLS & CO.,
Feb 14, '55 dtf  Land Brokers, Jones' Block corner Main & 6th street, Dubuque

different manufactories, including the well-known S. D. & H. W. SMITH's melodeons, [tuned the equal temperament,] the best make in the United States. Prices $45, $60, $75, $100, $115, $135, and $150.-Smith's Double Bank Melodeon $200. Each Piano and Melodeon guaranteed. The best terms to the trade, schools, &e.: 12 1/2 per cent. discount to clergymen and churches. All orders promptly at tended to. Music sent to all parts of the country, post-paid, at the reduced rates. General and select catalogues and schedule of prices of Pianos forwarded to any address free of charge. 3dm9d3m 
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SCHOOL & COLLEGE TEXT-BOOKS. 
THE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL SERIES 
INCLUDES 
SANDERS' NEW READERS, SPELLER, P WILLSON'S HISTORICAL SERIES, THOMPSON'S SERIES OF ARITHMETICS, SCIENTIFIC TEXT BOOKS, Etc., namely: 
Gray's Chemistry, Hitchcock's Geology, (new edition,) Kiddle's Astronomy, Newman's Rhetoric, Porter's Rhetorical Reader, Hallock's English Grammar, Spencer's do., McElligott's Orthographical Works, Oldham's Humorous Speaker, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader, Comstock's Zoology, Schuster's Drawing Books and Cards, O'Donnel's Series of Writing Copies, Brabury's Music Books for Schools and Choirs, etc., 
FASQUELLE'S FRENCH COURSE. Readers, etc. 
WOODBURY'S GERMAN SERIES, Grammar, Leader, etc. 
A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE of the above, with terms, to Teachers, etc., sent gratis and post paid, on application. 
DIVISION & PHINNEY,
No. 188, Fulton st., New York. 
Dec. 29, 1854. d&2-if
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SATTERLEE & BENNETT,
WHOLASALE DEALERS IN 
HATS, CAPS AND STRAW GOODS 
30, Dey street, NEW YORK. 
Orders from Iowa respectfully solicited and promptly filled. Feb. 12, 1855-dly
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ST. LOUIS HOTEL,
101 & 103 CHAMBERS ST., NEW YORK CITY. 
This Hotel i very favorably situated, being about equidistant from the Hudson River Railroad Depot and Broadway. It is conducted on the best plan for the comfort and convenience of travelers, and its proprietor has been favorably known for the past thirty years. Terms $1.50 per day. 
March 1st, 1855, A. WILDER, AGENT. 
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SNUFF AND TOBACCO. 
PETER LORILLARD, MANUFACTURER. 
NO. 42 CHATHAM STREET, NEW YORK, SUCCESSOR OF PETER & GEORGE LORILLARD, offers for sale all kinds of SNUFF and TOBACCOS in general use. For particulars, a Price Current can be obtained by addressing as above. This Establishment is one of the oldest of the kind at the United States. Feb 12,-'55-dly 
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ENGLISH AND FRENCH 
FANCY GOODS, STATIONERY, &E., 
A Large stack on hand and constantly arriving, which dealers are invited to inspect. 
RICHARD MOSELY & CO., 
L13def No. 39, John st., NEW YORK
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The Four Great British Quarterly Reviews and Blackwood's Monthly,
are still promptly issued by, L. SCOTT & CO., 
54 Gold Street, New York.
Terms of Subscription - Any one Review or Blackwood. $3 a year. Blackwood and one Review - or any two Reviews, $5. The four Reviews and Blackwood, $10. Four copies all, $30. 
POSTAGE on the FOUR REVIEWS AND BLACKWOOD to any Post Office in the United States, only 80 cents a year. Viz: 14 cents a year on each Review, and 24 cents a year on Blackwood. 
SCOTT & CO., 
3dm15dtv 54 GOLD STREET, N.Y.
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WESTERN HOTEL.
Nos. 2. 10 & 15 Courtland Street,-NEW YORK. 
D. D. Winchester. Thos, D. Winchester,
Benj. F. Winchester,
W d-w tf7hr
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[*Anti-Slavery Standard
May 19, 1853*]

[?ndard.]
[?UND QUINCY, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.]

WHOLE NO. 676.

SPEECH OF MISS LUCY STONE.

To my mind it does not need the poet's utterance
to give woman a claim to speak on an Anti-Slavery
platform, while there are "Cassys" scattered by
thousands all over this broad land; for, so long as
their wail comes to the ear of woman, how is it
possible for her to keep silent? Whether we find in
the pen of the poet or any other source an endorsement
of our claim, we think we have a sufficient endorsement
in the great promptings of our own nature,
which we cannot, if we would, hush.

The Anti-Slavery Anniversary, as it recurs year
by year, brings to those who are engaged or interested
in it a survey of what has come to give us
cheer in the year that is gone, and also what has
come to show us the strength and purpose of the
slave power. Within the last year much to make
the heart beat with highest hope has come clustering
in the way of the Abolitionists. We have had
new voices speaking, and fresh and friendly hearts
beating. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," strong and true,
has gone the length and breadth of the world, winning
hearts that did not before feel one throb of pity,
calling forth deep gushings of sympathy that we
hope will never die out. Other causes of rejoicing
have come to us, but I purpose rather, in the brief
space of time I occupy, to look at some of the manifestations 
of pro-slavery. And I will not make an
apology for speaking of political parties from the
fact that I am a woman. I need to make no apology.
I believe in the political right of everybody, man or
woman, not only to think, but to speak on this question.
If a political party puts itself in the way of
the slave, then let anybody and everybody, disfranchised
or not, speak in rebuke of what is done.

Our Chairman remarked, that since our last anniversary
the Baltimore platforms had been put forth.
Yes, and not only put forth, but they have been
adopted too. When the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore had written out its creed—a creed so infamous
that I never attempt to describe it, for I have
no language that is adequate—when it had put 
forth the platform, pledging itself plainly and unmistakably
to return the fugitive slave, and when
Franklin Pierce, in accepting the nomination, said,
"I accept it, not because you expect it from me, but
because it harmonizes with my convictions," and
when he had pointed to his career in Congress, glorifying
in deeds that ought to have been his shame,
to prove that his sentiments were in harmony with
that platform, then the people rose up like a cloud
over the length and breadth of the land, and gave


[da] (applause) ; no thanks to the Baltimore platform
for it (applause). 

Such facts were being written in letters of blood
all over this Union, and the Democratic party knew
it. They knew what was the root of the evil. They
knew what it was that caused helpless mothers to
flee out of this Union. They knew it all; and yet
Franklin Pierce and his party said, "the fugitive
slave law shall be sustained, and we will resist all
agitation on the subject." They virtually declared,
"no man or woman, or child, shall open the lip
against it; they shall be dumb; the heart shall
cease to beat, and the infernal system shall be
allowed to continue." And when the people knew
that such deeds were constantly being done, not the
less did they rush to ratify and endorse what their
leaders had done. The voters of New York City
rushed to the polls and cast their ballots for Franklin
Pierce by an overwhelming majority.

Men, fathers, Democrats! how could you do it?
You, who are proud to take your own little boys and
girls on your knees, and know that you are backed
and protected by law which is strong enough to
guard you in any emergency, when you knew that
millions of fathers and mothers who have no protection
are hunted like partridges on the mountain, how
could you do it? How could you go and give your
suffrages for candidates that pledged themselves that
every such father's heart should bleed and every
such mother should have her soul wrung with intense
anguish? How could you do it? You know
why you did it; I know why you did it. Will not
your children's children find their cheeks tingling
with shame at the remembrance of the deeds their
fathers have done? (applause).

The Whig party did just what the Democratic party
did. They had a platform just like the Democrats.'
Nobody knew which belonged to which, they were
so alike in spirit. The Whigs, what there were of
them, and General Scott, freely gave their adherence
to the platform, and all went as far as they were
able to accomplish the same infamous purpose that
the Democratic party accomplished. Not coming
into power, the Whig party escaped the necessity of
being used as the tool of the slave power to do whatever
it was bid. The Whig party was not ignorant,
any more than the Democratic party, of what slaveholding
was and is.

A slave fugitive father and mother, with their
two children, came to the Ohio river last summer.
It was during the very time of the campaign. The
father and mother had borne in their own persons
all the cruelties that Slavery inflicts. They had
endured, and perhaps would have continued to
endure, its inflictions, had there not woke up in their
souls a new born love of the little ones as they looked
with mournful forebodings over the future of those
children. They saw that there was not a single ray
of sunlight to gladden that future. They looked
upon that future, not as you look on the future of
your children, knowing that some place of usefulness,
of honour or of profit, may be theirs. To that
slave father and mother the future was one pit of
blackness. There was no school house for their
children. Into the very presence chamber of the
Eternal they would be obliged to go without a single
ray of light to guide them there. With their children
they attempted to make their escape from
your model Republic. They came trembling down
the Ohio bank, on the northern side. A man with
tones of kindness told them if they were fugitives
they need not tremble so. They were on the soil of
Ohio, and God's clear sunlight was looking down
upon them, and yet they trembled, guilty of no crime,
charged with none, unless it be a crime that there
swells in the human soul that love of liberty that
neither waters nor floods can quench (applause).
The man said, "you need not tremble so; if you
want to hide, here is an old boat under which you
can go." The father and mother and little ones
went and hid themselves under that boat till the
sun should go down and the North Star come out.
Very soon after they were concealed, a man who, in
mockery of his Maker, claimed ownership in the
body and soul of his brother man, came. The villain
that told them where to hide had told the owner
where they were hidden. He came, uplifted the
boat, revealed the poor victims trembling before his
gaze, and demanded their surrender. That father
came out of his hiding place and did as most of you
would have done. He put his wife behind him and
one little one, and taking the other on his arm, with 
his other hand he fought with all the desperation
[?] knowing that on the

SPEECH OF MISS LUCY STONE.

To my mind it does not need the poet's utterance
to give woman a claim to speak on an Anti-Slavery
platform, while there are "Cassys" scattered by
thousands all over this broad land; for, so long as
their wail comes to the ear of woman, how is it possible 
for her to keep silent? Whether we find in
the pen of the poet or any other source an endorsement
of our claim, we think we have a sufficient endorsement
in the great promptings of our own nature,
which we cannot, if we would, hush.

The Anti-Slavery Anniversary, as it recurs year
by year, brings to those who are engaged or interested
in it a survey of what has come to give us
cheer in the year that is gone, and also what has
come to show us the strength and purpose of the
slave power. Within the last year much to make
the heart beat with highest hope has come clustering
in the way of the Abolitionists. We have had
new voices speaking, and fresh and friendly hearts
beating. "Uncle Tom's Cabin," strong and true,
has gone the length and breadth of the world, winning
hearts that did not before feel one throb of pity,
calling forth deep gushings of sympathy that we
hope will never die out. Other causes of rejoicing
have come to us, but I purpose rather, in the brief
space of time I occupy, to look at some of the manifestations 
of pro-slavery. And I will not make an
apology for speaking of political parties from the
fact that I am a woman. I need to make no apology.
I believe in the political right of everybody, man or
woman, not only to think, but to speak on this question.
If a political party puts itself in the way of
the slave, then let anybody and everybody, disfranchised
or not, speak in rebuke of what is done.

Our Chairman remarked, that since our last anniversary
the Baltimore platforms had been put forth.
Yes, and not only put forth, but they have been
adopted too. When the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore had written out its creed--a creed so infamous
that I never attempt to describe it, for I have
no language that is adequate—when it had put 
forth the platform, pledging itself plainly and unmistakably
to return the fugitive slave, and when
Franklin Pierce, in accepting the nomination, said,
"I accept it, not because you expect it from me, but
because it harmonizes with my convictions," and
when he had pointed to his career in Congress, glorifying
in deeds that ought to have been his shame,
to prove that his sentiments were in harmony with
that platform, then the people rose up like a cloud
over the length and breadth of the land, and gave
their suffrage to that man and for that party, knowing
well that he was pledged to the cause of the
slaveholder, and knowing well what Slavery is. The
people who are not chattels, into whose souls the
iron of Slavery has not pierced, knew, as far as language
can speak it, what Slavery is; and those who
acted with the political parties knew it. And yet,
with their eyes wide open they went and pledged
themselves to return the panting fugitive.

In that month of June, when the Convention met,
there was fleeing from the Republic, so named, and
a 'model Republic' too, a mother and her little
child, a babe sleeping in her bosom. As she passed
across the State of Indiana, having got half-way
through it, she dreamed that, having passed so far
from the line that divides the non-slaveholding from
the slaveholding States, it might do for a woman,
seeking her liberty and the liberty of her little one,
to walk at mid-day; and so, with the sun above and
the green earth under her feet, she went on, hoping
that she was safe. At mid-day she was startled by
the loud cry of the kidnapper behind her, demanding
that she should stop, and, if she did not, threatening
that she should be shot on the instant. That
mother, instead of pausing at the bidding of those
who were pursuing her in harmony with the fugitive
slave law, in harmony with the platform of the Democratic
party, in harmony with the convictions of
Franklin Pierce, took her babe from her bosom,
placed it on her shoulders, and as she grasped its
little hands in hers she ran with all the speed that
fear could lend her feet. The kidnapper, who
cared not whether they brought her back dead or
alive, drew his pistol and shot as deliberately as
though the game before him had been a deer. Aye,
it was dear, in more senses than one. He fired, the
ball went through the head of that infant and 
through the ear of its mother, leaving the scattered
brains and blood upon the cheeks of that mother, who,
when she perceived that the little one had found its
freedom with God, let go her grasp of its hands, not
to stop as you, mothers, when your little ones die, to
dress their bodies neatly for the grave, to lay them
where you can plant flowers and go to weep over
the treasure of the love they gave you—not to stop,
I say, but, leaving it all unburied on the plains of
Indiana, that mother fled for liberty dearer than her
life—and found it, thank God, on the shores of Canada


fathers have done? (applause).

The Whig party did just what the Democratic party
did. They had a platform just like the Democrats.'
Nobody knew which belonged to which, they were
so alike in spirit. The Whigs, what there were of
them, and General Scott, freely gave their adherence
to the platform, and all went as far as they were
able to accomplish the same infamous purpose that
the Democratic party accomplished. Not coming
into power, the Whig party escaped the necessity of
being used as the tool of the slave power to do whatever
it was bid. The Whig party was not ignorant,
any more than the Democratic party, of what slaveholding
was and is.

A slave fugitive father and mother, with their
two children, came to the Ohio river last summer.
It was during the very time of the campaign. The
father and mother had borne in their own persons
all the cruelties that Slavery inflicts. They had
endured, and perhaps would have continued to
endure, its inflictions, had there not woke up in their
souls a new born love of the little ones as they looked
with mournful forebodings over the future of those
children. They saw that there was not a single ray
of sunlight to gladden that future. They looked
upon that future, not as you look on the future of
your children, knowing that some place of usefulness,
of honour or of profit, may be theirs. To that
slave father and mother the future was one pit of
blackness. There was no school house for their
children. Into the very presence chamber of the
Eternal they would be obliged to go without a single
ray of light to guide them there. With their children
they attempted to make their escape from
your model Republic. They came trembling down
the Ohio bank, on the northern side. A man with
tones of kindness told them if they were fugitives
they need not tremble so. They were on the soil of
Ohio, and God's clear sunlight was looking down
upon them, and yet they trembled, guilty of no crime,
charged with none, unless it be a crime that there
swells in the human soul that love of liberty that
neither waters nor floods can quench (applause).
The man said, "you need not tremble so; if you
want to hide, here is an old boat under which you
can go." The father and mother and little ones
went and hid themselves under that boat till the
sun should go down and the North Star come out.
Very soon after they were concealed, a man who, in
mockery of his Maker, claimed ownership in the
body and soul of his brother man, came. The villain
that told them where to hide had told the owner
where they were hidden. He came, uplifted the
boat, revealed the poor victims trembling before his
gaze, and demanded their surrender. That father
came out of his hiding place and did as most of you
would have done. He put his wife behind him and
one little one, and taking the other on his arm, with 
his other hand he fought with all the desperation
that a man could command, knowing that on the
issues of that hour were hung not merely life to him
and to his, but liberty and life. He drove back his
assailants. The men went over the river, procured
helpers, and, with bowie-knives and pistols in their
hands, they came back and attacked him, still standing
with his babe in his arms. The pistol-shots
riddled the body of that father and his child, till
they were literally a clot of gore. The father fell
exhausted by loss of blood, the man-hunters pounced
upon him and his, and while we are here in the city
of New York speaking for outraged humanity, the 
poor man is where no tongue can speak in his defence.
While this very deed was being done, and
thousands like it, the Whig and Democratic parties
were going up and down the length of the land,
urging everybody--except women (laughter)––to give
their votes for men who were pledged that just such
deeds as that should be done and be done perpetually,
and that we should not have Ohio, Indiana, nor one
single State where a slave father or slave mother
can stand and take their children by the hand and
say, "they are mine." And when the leaders of
the Whig and Democratic parties were saying that,
the men of the party were assenting and giving
their sanction to platforms that they knew were
ready to bind hand and foot and bury in eternal
night the last spark of liberty that should glow in
the soul of any slave, and not only that, but to gag
the mouths of any who dared to speak a word for
down-trodden humanity, if they could hinder it.
Thank God, they could not.

And while the political parties were doing this,
the church was lending itself an ally to the parties
all over the land. In my own State of Massachusetts,
the Congregational ministers met in that very
month of June. Oh! how many deeds of infamy
were committed in that month of June! The ministers
of all the Congregational churches in Massachusetts
met in Association at Lowell, and there
came up to that body a man who had just returned
from the meeting of the General Assembly of the
Old School Presbyterian Church at Charleston, South
Carolina. They had met where before them and all
around them was to be heard the sound of the slave
whip, and where were to be seen the auction-block
and slave-pen. They had sat there to talk
about what? Those who help God's poor and op

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oppressed? About imitating Him who came "to
preach deliverance to the captive?" No. They
sat there to talk about "church extension." The
slave-gang marched before their face, and they
had no protest; and when they at last adjourned,
they appointed as a delegate to go and attend the
Association of Congregational ministers of Massachusetts,
the Rev. Mr. Fitch. The ministers of Massachusetts,
from Barnstable to Berkshire, met in
Lowell; all the Associations were represented, and
when they came to have their communion, according
to their custom--when they spread their table and
put on it the bread and wine to commemorate the
death of Him who came to "break every yoke and
let the oppressed go free," and when they wanted
some one to assist at the breaking of the bread and
pouring of the wine, they chose this very delegate
who had come with his lips all gory from that communion
with slaveholders. And there he stood
among the ministers, and performed his part, and
there was not a clergyman there at that meeting
who made any protest. And when I read in the
Congregationalist the account of their meeting, I
hoped to find in some part of it a protest; but there
was none. And then I listened to Massachusetts
pulpits to hear if there should not come from some
one of them some earnest condemnation of his
Christian character, or the Christian character of
those who came from that union with slaveholders,
but listened in vain. And as we stood back looking 
at that sacrament with horror, and asked "Just God
and holy, are these they who minister at thine altar
--is this thy church which lends strength to the
spoiler?" as we beheld them joining hands with
each other and with religionists all over the country,
and asked if this could be the church of God, they
said, "You are infidels." But I can say to them as
Sallie Holley said--"let them call us infidels, if
they please; but oh! don't let them call themselves
Christians" (applause).

There is not time to look over the religious phase
of what has come to use the past year. The support
of slaveholding has been so open that none of you
can fail to see it. But while the Church and the
Government take hold of hands with each other, and
only here and there a pulpit remembers the slave,
not the less shall we remember him. Let them
brand us as infidels, if they please; we can afford
to hear it. The works that we do bear witness of
us, and, without abating one jot of our hope, we
take hold on one side of the hand of Him from whom
the Higher Law comes, and on the other the hand
of the slave, and we shall not let go the one or the
other (great applause). It does not matter to us if
we are driven from one city and find no refuge in
another. We will still find human hearts to which
we can speak, and hearts that can feel. We will sit
down by the mother in her little country home, and,
while she holds her infant in her lap, we will wake
up in her soul a sympathy for the mother whose
baby is not hers. And when the father who lives
back in the woods looks proudly upon his daughter,
we will tell him of the father who cannot take care
of or protect his daughter, and we will soder anew
the link in that father's heart which binds him to
every other father, and his arm shall be moved to
be a co-worker with us in this cause which needs
the consecrated energies of every son of Adam.

Lamartine said of Wilberforce, that "he went up
to the throne of God with millions of broken fetters
in his hands as evidence of a life well spent" (applause).
If we would give evidence of a life well
spent, if we would be sure to do those things that
will commend us to Him who is "of purer eyes than
to behold iniquity," let it be our business to take in
our hands the broken fetters, and stand in the great
day along side of the slave, before our common
Father, and let him bear testimony there, that to our
faithful efforts was due the loosening of the fetters
from his limbs and from his spirit too (great applause).

SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I can say, with the utmost sincerity,
that, so far as the simple Anti-Slavery question
is concerned, there can be no necessity that we
should detain this audience at all. I can add nothing
either to the testimony or pathos with which
you have been addressed. I begin to think it almost
a waste of time to spread either facts or arguments
before an enlightened American audience on the 
subject of Slavery in this 22d year of the Anti-Slavery
enterprise. But at the same time, Mr. President,
the motto of our organ in this city is "Without
concealment, without compromise," and you all
know, as indeed the earliest speakers this morning
have shown, that there is, in the peculiar type of 
Anti-Slavery which this meeting represents, a motto
and a principle from which not only the great
majority of the country, but the great majority of the
Anti-Slavery men stand aloof.

I read with pleasure, with more than pleasure,
with a thrill of delight which words cannot describe,

is to be bought only in this nation of yours at
price of martyrdom. I have been labouring
some six or eight months up in the country district
of New York and Massachusetts. I tell you, Mr.
President, it is with pain that I have asked the
tenants of those country pulpits to preach an Anti-
Slavery sermon. I could not sit down at their tables
as I have done, with their children, without knowing,
from the very tone of public sentiment in their
villages, that if they obeyed me, they obeyed me
only at the sacrifice of the bread of their children
and the house under which they slept (applause).
Slavery is planted in South Carolina. Yes, and [?]
gags the otherwise very free lips of the Berkshires
and Vermont pulpits, and that is your "glorious
Union!" You have sent the representatives of your
religion to London from the May anniversaries [?]
this city. They go to the June anniversaries [?]
London. They will be hissed there, and that is your
religion. Why, we have to bear our very Christianity
with a BUT. There is an American religion.
It differs from the Christian. Charles Sumner said
"Slavery is local, Freedom national." Well, [?]
Christianity is national--not for the world, geographically,
not for all climes. Our Christ died for [?]
whites. The Swiss walks up and down his valley
and dare not speak above a whisper for fear [?]
brings down the avalanche that hangs on either [?]
over his head; and in this "glorious Union" [?]
yours, clergymen in New York pulpits, and politicians
at Baltimore, tell you to walk softly and [?]
the Sermon on the Mount in a whisper, lest it br[?]
the whole Union down on your heads (applause).
That is a "glorious Union"--autoethnioc, par[?]
the blood! We cannot reprint an English b[?]
without expurgating it. That is your Literat[?]
Your American Bible Society dare not offer a B[?]
in this very country to a man who has a drop of
black blood in his veins. It is a "glorious Union".
Your Sunday School Union or Tract Society [?]
not publish a tract with Anti-Slavery in it, for [?]
of its Southern supporters. It is a "glorious Union".
Thomas Jefferson, they used to say, was an infidel.
He took the New Testament and cut out those 
portions that displeased him, and called the rest [?]
Testament. They told it in all the "federal" pulpits
of New England, and men's blood grew col[?]
the blasphemy. But we blot out half the Bible [?]
suit a hundred thousand men south of Mason
Dixon's line, and he is an "infidel" who obj[?]
(hear, hear). That is your "glorious Union".
Men walk about and dare not tell their

only here and there a pulpit remembers the slave,
not the less shall we remember him. Let them
brand us as infidels, if they please; we can afford
to hear it. The works that we do bear witness of
us, and, without abating one jot of our hope, we
take hold on one side of the hand of Him from whom
the Higher Law comes, and on the other the hand
of the slave, and we shall not let go the one or the
other (great applause). It does not matter to us if
we are driven from one city and find no refuge in
another. We will still find human hearts to which
we can speak, and hearts that can feel. We will sit
down by the mother in her little country home, and,
while she holds her infant in her lap, we will wake
up in her soul a sympathy for the mother whose
baby is not hers. And when the father who lives
back in the woods looks proudly upon his daughter,
we will tell him of the father who cannot take care
of or protect his daughter, and we will soder anew
the link in that father's heart which binds him to
every other father, and his arm shall be moved to
be a co-worker with us in this cause which needs
the consecrated energies of every son of Adam.

Lamartine said of Wilberforce, that "he went up
to the throne of God with millions of broken fetters
in his hands as evidence of a life well spent" (applause).
If we would give evidence of a life well
spent, if we would be sure to do those things that
will commend us to Him who is "of purer eyes than
to behold iniquity," let it be our business to take in
our hands the broken fetters, and stand in the great
day along side of the slave, before our common
Father, and let him bear testimony there, that to our
faithful efforts was due the loosening of the fetters
from his limbs and from his spirit too (great applause).

SPEECH OF WENDELL PHILLIPS.

MR. CHAIRMAN: I can say, with the utmost sincerity,
that, so far as the simple Anti-Slavery question
is concerned, there can be no necessity that we
should detain this audience at all. I can add nothing
either to the testimony or pathos with which
you have been addressed. I begin to think it almost
a waste of time to spread either facts or arguments
before an enlightened American audience on the 
subject of Slavery in this 22d year of the Anti-Slavery
enterprise. But at the same time, Mr. President,
the motto of our organ in this city is "Without
concealment, without compromise," and you all
know, as indeed the earliest speakers this morning
have shown, that there is, in the peculiar type of 
Anti-Slavery which this meeting represents, a motto
and a principle from which not only the great majority 
of the country, but the great majority of the
Anti-Slavery men stand aloof.

I read with pleasure, with more than pleasure,
with a thrill of delight which words cannot describe,
some of the speeches with which our excellent,
faithful and eloquent friend, Mr. Hale, was received
at the public dinner in Boston (applause); and at
the same time it seems to me fit that the tone with
which that meeting addresses the American people
should be distinctly different from the tone with
which we address it. They have, as they think, a
brighter picture to paint. They are happier than
we are, in this, that they can read the history of
their country with pleasure, and can join in the
usual adjectives and epithets of praise with which
the great, heroic names of the country are received:
we cannot. They can call this a "glorious Union."
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth before
the son of any American mother, worthy of an
American child, calls the Union which this speaker
[pointing to Miss Stone] has just described, where
a mother drops her murdered infant behind her to
be safe, a 'glorious Union' (applause).

Two adjectives distinguish us and that class of
Anti-Slavery men who met in Boston, who stand in
the Senate of the United States, and who serve the
cause of the slave at the Tabernacle to-night. With
them the Union is glorious; with us it is accursed.
With them the character of Washington is heroic.
They love to speak of the beautiful symmetry of its
proportions. With me, I dare not thank God who
gave him to us when I know that behind the sacredness
of his example thousands of "Legrees" are
hidden from the indignation of Christendom and this
Republic (applause and hisses--loud applause). Do
you suppose that the class of brutal slaveholders to
whom Mrs. Stowe has given a generic name could
ever have sustained Slavery in this country to the 
year 1853? Do you suppose that profligate priests
like Theodore Clapp, of New Orleans, could drag
Slavery behind the altar, if it had not been sheltered
under the magnificent reputation of Washington?
No; it would have died, a hissing and bye-word,
sixty-years ago. But now, alas! it finds a Gardiner
Spring to dread his own prayers, lest he bring down
upon himself the horrible result of emancipation
(applause). It is the good men of the country, it is
the great men of history, it is the men who have in
some sort a Christian character to boast, that are
the guilty men in this great national iniquity. What
are we that we should go down and grope in the
brutal wickedness of the plantation to find the defenders 
of a system like this? Shall it be said of
the American people that they could listen to the
lips of such men for arguments in behalf of such a
system of human wickedness as that of American
Slavery? Oh, no. It is because Americans dare


is to be bought only in this nation of yours at
price of martyrdom. I have been labouring
some six or eight months up in the country district
of New York and Massachusetts. I tell you, Mr.
President, it is with pain that I have asked the
tenants of those country pulpits to preach an Anti-
Slavery sermon. I could not sit down at their tables
as I have done, with their children, without knowing,
from the very tone of public sentiment in their
villages, that if they obeyed me, they obeyed me
only at the sacrifice of the bread of their children
and the house under which they slept (applause).
Slavery is planted in South Carolina. Yes, and [?]
gags the otherwise very free lips of the Berkshires
and Vermont pulpits, and that is your "glorious
Union!" You have sent the representatives of your
religion to London from the May anniversaries [?]
this city. They go to the June anniversaries [?]
London. They will be hissed there, and that is your
religion. Why, we have to bear our very Christianity
with a BUT. There is an American religion.
It differs from the Christian. Charles Sumner said
"Slavery is local, Freedom national." Well, [?]
Christianity is national—not for the world, geographically,
not for all climes. Our Christ died for [?]
whites. The Swiss walks up and down his valley
and dare not speak above a whisper for fear [?]
brings down the avalanche that hangs on either [s?]
over his head; and in this "glorious Union" 
yours, clergymen in New York pulpits, and politicians
at Baltimore, tell you to walk softly and [r?]
the Sermon on the Mount in a whisper, lest it [br?]
the whole Union down on your heads (applause).
That is a "glorious Union"--autoethnioc, [par?]
the blood! We cannot reprint an English [b?]
without expurgating it. That is your [Literat?]
Your American Bible Society dare not offer a [B?]
in this very country to a man who has a drop 
black blood in his veins. It is a "glorious Union".
Your Sunday School Union or Tract Society [o?]
not publish a tract with Anti-Slavery in it, for [?]
of its Southern supporters. It is a "glorious Union".
Thomas Jefferson, they used to say, was an infidel.
He took the New Testament and cut out those portions 
that displeased him, and called the rest [?]
Testament. They told it in all the "federal" pulpits
of New England, and men's blood grew [col?]
the blasphemy. But we blot out half the Bible [?]
suit a hundred thousand men south of Mason
Dixon's line, and he is an "infidel" who [obj?]
(hear, hear). That is your "glorious Union".
Men walk about and dare not tell their [nan?]
dare to travel only at midnight; to give a [fell?]
being a crust of bread or a drop of water [(wit?]
Thomas Garrett), it shall make you a poor [ma?]
bankrupt. That is your "glorious Union!"

Perhaps they are right in saying it is a "glorious
Union." The man that stands under the shadow 
the Union, whose right hand holds an oath to support 
it, who is taking office under it, who is part 
parcel of it, is bound to that oath and to the establishment;
but we wash our hands of it. We [st?]
outside of it. The only platform that we [thin?]
decent to stand upon is this; and this is our religion
where there is "neither male nor female" (points
to Lucy Stone), where there is neither African [?]
Saxon (pointing to the coloured men), where [t?]
is neither "bond nor free" (great applause), [w?]
spite of all human laws, all necessities, we will [?]
obedience to the laws of God. Perhaps the Fugitive
Slave Law was necessary. Necessity, the [tyr?]
plea, excused the devilish law. Perhaps it was
necessary. My friend Garrison thinks it has not
succeeded. It has. There is a sense in which it has
not succeeded, it is true. It has not kept the [sla?]
the plantation. Nor has it taken up the rails [o?]
under-ground railroad (applause). It has not [cr?]
the glorious inconsistency of the Free Soil party, [?]
holds up its right hand to swear support to the Constitution,
and with its left holds a pistol to [shiel?]
slave. It has not done either of these things, but 
done this: it has carried terror into five hundred [?]
in the city of Boston, where from twenty to [twen?]
years have dwelt in safety many a fugitive [fro?]
dark and wicked institution. It has separated parent
and child, husband and wife, perhaps never [t?]
again. It has sent abroad over the inhospitable 
of Canada, by thousands, men that were living in 
and with successful industry, in our cities and villages.
We sent off three hundred men, within six months 
the City of Boston. A law is not to be tested 
number of those arrested under it. It is to be 
by the number of those whose lives have been [w?]
by it without the knowledge of the courts. The Fugitive
Slave Law in some sense has succeeded, for 
crushed in many a pulpit a rising sense of Anti-Slavery
responsibility, and brought it again in subjection 
lower law. It has not been met as it should have 
with a radical discussion of the duty of the citizen
wicked laws and to a Union which binds them up 
integral part of itself. The Fugitive Slave Law 
occasional, no temporary expedient   It is the [fo?]
tion corner of this Union. When we would picture 
Italian, how do we paint him? With his [out?]
severe classic beauty, and girdled about by [th?]
nants of the classic ages. And the German [c?]
our minds poring with his large glasses, with [li?]

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