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I stood alone last night where crystal warm
Flow with soft cadence o'er silvery sands;
Counting the annual mounds, the changeless
graves,
Where hurled ages lie along the strand.
And_aalgamet Time Same with able bier, --
With gentle mien and stall, unvarying tread,
And 40w-wed hours, pall-bearere of the year,
Plated in the vaulted 'their cherished
deed.
The wing. of darkness spread their shadow.
down,
of 4pd stare thit sparkled on the brew of night,
With softer radiance than gsytalir's crows,
Shed over ell their tenddi, pitying light.
The wild winds chanted requiems o'er the dead,
The distant belfry ebritiodlis ?beers] knell,
And-pals-winged memories gathered round ids
head,
With tones of praise 'the future _years shall
swell.
W ith getterohe howl the ephemeral child of
lime,
While keeping ettli our reentry's royal row,
Rang pleasure's melodies with joyous chime;
'Neath sultry skies
~,the summer's dewy brew
IV•n garlanded with Ceres' &induce. erosive ;
Then pale.browed autumn journeyed to thd
grave,
l'inatunrber even. , %rub init. of phi and
brown,
a Trailing her robes of mist unit mellow brain,
Lingering like life the 1/1 . 01/11411 boon to Orale,
That future days would all the past redeem
Though thtf dark Plague hod crept across our
land,
the blight was spread with sparing pitying
%Ye met him brat sly ; still, agaionsi uue q
Ili, silent Voming made our pulses thrill.
"/ "Field.: with gentuit'ai trantwentlant fir;
%lensitrC,l the atm.—then flawitoil along the
The ,oiee, of the nt!tione, t oo,pnefro
===l
W ilb bellowed step ova gloe nestled brow,
In cola, repose the /TM pear went to rest -
Ilis deeds beneath hie winoing sheet of snow
Folded like bands across los painless breast
A fate 3.oung loode then Blood beside the bier.
IVtll. einim and ‘&preee decked the cold white
3 ear
Thy n turnrd ta a Jeweled crown and in) alio
wand,
To hear the mandrels in her jived] band,
The stare elnaped hands across the vaulted
skive
Where Atlas veiled the ediery insamight
Aaron, bade the InoPning heralds rise,
And bathe the don gray earl tu. golden be en,
Thew dd winds tune their our Imps an sing
And bridal pan.* through the hem en. ring.
Oh' unknown year where future sorrows weep,
In whose locked chambers unseen pleasures
sleep ;
Oh ! 'ear of promise iu that realm of thine
Like kindling fires to light nor country's
shrine ,
! royal year, Tune's latest chosen bride,
Soften his heart, gently hie footsteps guide
Let sorrow perish, tune your ihinetrely
To joys that are and joys that are to be.
Though winter holds the earth in strong em
brace,
Spring-time wilt warm her through the Aprtl
showers,
'tinsel May with s iolato eyes will light tier
faro,
Dress her ill robes of green and crown of
flowers.
Summer will breathe o'er • ll through gorgeous
days,
And starry nights will weep,refrestiing dews
l'pon the fields, where white the liar? est lays.
And on the li ills where b•rfig ,the mists of
blue,
Autumn will drape the skies in leaden clouds,
Breathing slow death upon the floral bloom,
And guide With chiding Net towards the
shroud.,
That fold in cold embrace Deeember's gloom.
Oh limy there rest upon his frozen hearth.
No sad regrets for golden moments flown,
For soil thoughts that gave to crime its birth,
Fur Weeds of sin where n irtue's need was
sown.
And nurr, fair year, with bow of promise bright
With wisdom's band set all our wrongs aright
Nor let the hopes we cherish for our land,
Like Dead See apples turn to ashes in the hand
Whnte‘er mead the future has in store,
Wq• "Thu Old Union" be restored unto more
And as thy day" drop one by Goo away,
May good deeds follow them m bright army ;
Ma) Ile who ruled in power and might an
prime.
Our country front dialoyal hands redeem
May all the joys thy hidden hand mo 3 send
Light up the paths of patron and of friend.
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DIFFERENT LAWS FOR DIFFERENT
EMI
A great many people who think them
selves, or at all events avow themselves op•
posed to the Abolitionists, take it for gran
ted that what is iistmlly termed slavery is
abashed, extinct, dead, never to be re
stored lignin, and though they also profess
to believe that this ,'slavery" raright and
desirable, in itself, they placidly assent to
its supposed Abolition as a final settlement
of the matter. Strange and fatal contra
diction, or, we should say, fatal ignorance,
an ignorance more embarrassing, if not fi
nally more dangerous, than straight out
Abolitionism. "Slavery," so called, is not
(legally) abolished anywhere south of the
Pennsylvania line, and will ho restored
liiiiitin,everywhere south of that line, if the
Union and American prosperity are restor
ed, or indeed the American people ever re
cover their normal condition again. This
stupendous, and, under existing ciregro
vtances, startling truth, should he beetled
by all thoughtful Domocrtas "Slavery,"
so-called, must be restored, and will be re
stored If the nation itself survives, for IL is
as essential to national existence as the
lungs or heart, or other essential organ.
are to Iho life of the' individual man.
We repeat this iptartling end momentous
truth—a truth flied by the hand of God
Himself in the heart of things—the nation
al existence iv forever impossible without
this so-called slavery, sad therefor unless
the work of Walibington and.hisCompitriote
utterly perish from the eartp, it will be
everywhere restored in all iteiteneficent vi
tality Indeed more so, for, after this tre
mendous effort of human ,creatures • re
verse the natural order, and to "reform"
the work of the Creator, there will be no
question raised in regard to the negro by
foreign ofinAunitiee and whatever may be
the defects in the social order, they will
all be disposed of by those rho, from their
actual knowledge of the negro nature, will
know what is really beneficent and proper.
And the Stales having these negroee in
their midst, no longer herrassed or endan
gered by outside "agitation," will be jut endan-1
pelted by-self interest as well as humor*
to correet social defects, and perfect the
relations of these subordinate populations
Sc the utmost.
What, then, is this so called "slavery"
that has been the supposed cause of such
tremendous oommotions in modern times?
Lot us nee. We havehour millions of no
groes in our andel-4El.y are or they are
net the same spee(k beings be obreelvec
Wilma former, if all were "one blood," then
the solution would be simple enough—we
should mate and mix with them, and give
them the mime rights, and hold them to the
some duties 4, pf course. If the latter, if
they are net the same species, or are not of
•'one blood" with the white people, then of
course there should be specific rules and
regulating's for negroes. One or the other
of these propositions nourbe true of Moen
sity—thesame rules and regulations should
be applied to all in common, or there should
be apecific laws suited to the,ditTerent na
ture, and different wants of negroes. IYhich
of these proposition, is true ? Let us see.
let. Our UM a tells us that negroes are
different ; they are black in color, have
wool Instead of hair, are mindless, have flat
notes, and non expreasive faces, beads that
approximate to animals, and, in a word,the
tool ensemble of the negro, as revealed to our
external emcee, le as widely ditifrent trio
orialit 71(!lattlititAtt,
- VOL. XII
ntraelvee as the pigeon from the robin, or
the owl from the eagle.
2nd. Our reason shows tie a different
being, with a brain not alone widely differ
ent, but twenty per cent. enialler, girl auch
absence of mental capacity that the race
novel even invented an alphabet; his no
idea of - marriage, or care for its offspring
aftEr a certain age, and Indeed that Sts'ut
most mental development is' reached at
twelve to fifteen, and mentally speaking, it
to a "boy," a child race, or natural minor,
that can noluore expand beyond this than
It con change its color .
touttias jells us lhat
he is a differetit being, hi l s organism, in a
word, h is blood so radically
,tliffirent from
ours, thet.we no instinctively and ehudder•
laity abilita from admixtuVe with these
widely different .organisms, , lllet even the
most honest of the believers in "one blood,"
a Chase and Cheerer, would rather die, or
see their children perish wiih smell pox, or
the most loathsome of diseases, than prac•
tine their belief nod mix theif blond with
ca3za
Thus not only our semen, our reason,and
our instincts compel us to Anon , that negroes
are 2 , pacifically different beings front our
solves, but the most earnest and honest be
liever. In the "one blood" theory would
rather nuffer death than act out their be
lief, or rather than ,mix their blood with
negroes If it were so, if whites and De
grees were of "one blood," or of the same
species, then not only would admixture of
this blood be right, but it would be vastly
beneficial in a physical as well as moral
sense, for nothing is more absolutely true,
or indeed universally known, than that ad
mixture of'varieties of the same specks:
whether men or suimals, results in bp:treas.
ed vitality, strength, and beauty. But we
knots that admixture of whiles and negroes
results in the exact opposite, and that the
disorgenimd and Effete progeny rapidly be
homes extinct. It is n rare occurrence:it
, true, among Americans, but Europeans,
djgrasled by class dialinctions in their own
race, their kings, lords and commonn,sofne
times lose their healthy instincts, and mate
with negroes, but the law of nature cannot
be violated with impunity, and; they are
fearfully punished for their unnatural
crime The space separating the whites
and negro in eo broad, that the woman who
democrater her nature as well as womnn
hood, and mates with a negro,'ls as incepri
ble of giving birth to a Hebei negro child ,
as elle is of giving birth to an elephant
As it is, the hybrid offspring approximat
ing To the Caucasian type, may be born
alive, but it is in terrible strain on the vital
forcer of the miserable mother always Of
necesaily shorterrieg her existence to a cer
tain extent, and this mongrel progeny,with
its diserganixed Led vicious structure and
feeble .virility, is absolutely forbidden to
exist at all beyond the fourth generation.
Thus; if those who behave, or profeselo
that God has mutle All nations of
men of "one blood," were to honeotly prac
tice their belief, and male with negroes,
within a given time thettr their children,
and the negroes mixed with them,would all
become extinct, of comae, Ihtt it is said
that the Bible or St. Paul declares that all
are of "one blood," and titerefere ut must be
true that whiles and negroes are the same
apemen, and there are fools and hypocrites
who repent this all alum: us. To these we
would say, if you believe it, be honest And
practice it pemmican • but you have tin
right to pretend to believe it in order to
force others to practice it We are not
called on either to explain or refute the
sayings of St l'aul, but we suppose he
meant that all were alike human, or of the
same creation but if he meant just that
which the Abolitionists of to day Resume ho
did, then he said a very foolish thing,
which they may see any day if they will
take the pains to look through a microscope
with sufficient power, to show the actual or
physical difference of blood in o whites and
negroes
Such are briefly the physical farts, fixed
and fashioned by the band of God, and Such
are the penalties for ignoring these facts,
differences in the physical structure
Or in other words, such are the specific
of whites and negroen, and such are the
physical penalties for disregarding these
differences—the criminals suffer frightfully
themselves, and their diseased or abnormal
progeny utterly perish within 'given time.
This terrible truth is also capable of great
and wide spread illustration. The mixed
breeds of Mexico, Central Antesalely Jamai—
ca, everywhere, are rapidly becoirting ex
tinct, and it is only a question of time
when there will be only Indians in Mexico,
and only - neroes in the islands; &a. It
being therefore a fact, eimrle, palpable,
everlasting, that negroen are specifically
different from us, it is an obvleus truth, or
inductive fact that God and nature, and
reason and oommnn sense, and indeed ne
cessity, ordain that they shall be govern
ed by different rules and regulations in no
cordanoe with their nature and mints.
Could anything be more palpable \or num,-
capable ? The negroes are here, hey are
specifically different beings, not by •limale
chance, time or aceident, but by t e will
and sot of the Almighty Creator, an' there.
fore it is an obvious and unescapabl. com•
mind of Gad Him self that we shall govern
them by specific rules and regulations,
ed to their nature and wants, of course,
Of necessity different from the rules
rev:dation' lipplied to our own race. T
was the cue in the South, In the wh
country, until • (ow years ago ; sflecifl
laws or rules were applied to negroes, any
they must have been right, natural, and in
accord with the will of Gltl, for both whites
and negroes multiplied themselves.
There may have been many citifects in the
social arrangements, or in thin so called
slavery, but that it was in accord with the
laws of nature, and therefore t 4 will of
God, is absok i tely and obviously certain,
for they obey i
It primal command and mul
tiplied themselves. Nothing can perma
nently exist if in conflict with the laws of
nature; thus / negroes do not (crotch in our
northern climes, nor do we ourselves in OS
Bolls of the tropics, or women, if forced in
to the condition or status of men, or child
ren if distorted into that of adults, or men,
as in antique times, when forced into abso
lute submission or slavery to their fellows.
It is an obvious •aud unavoidable truth
that negroes, speoifloally different from our
selves, ore dealgsfed by the Almighty tobe
governed by speeUie rules, &0., suited to
their nature 'and vault!, anti in Smith 'Car
olina, kc., there is the demonstrated and
unavoidable proof—they multiply qhile as
fast as tiller masters, and therefort of ne—
cessity are in their normal condition, and.
in accord with the will of God. But the
special rules cud regulations adapted to
the nature and *ants of the negro, and un
der which be has been so happy,and which,
moreover, by preventing class distinctions
in our own race, as in Europe, presents the'
happiest conjuncture in human affairs that
Illiowerld exec saw— the tail enaemble of
these special rules called shivery, and "sla
very" being wrong, the whole civilized
world Ilan 'gone mad over it, and our own
people are at thin monientimnildest of all,
though we have the forts daily Lefore us !
We here sacrificed n million of lives aril,
-wasted half of' the property of the 'Cliuulty
to , abolish 'livery," that is, to 4,Glish the
special laws, adapted to the nature and
wants of the negroes, and force these ne
groes to submit to those wo apply ap our-
selves Or in other words, we ha'e made
wtreniendoue sacrifices to "reform" the
rand "abolish'' itie design of the Al
mighty Creator, end instead of special rul
es, adapted to the cloture of negroes, to
force whites and negroes to submit to the
trine rules end regulstione v Since Adam
cat his apple, is there soy parallel or even ,
approach to this impiety to nod, or this
crime against His creation ? No, indeed,
nothing in the tout rturonfile of human mad
ness, sin and crime that can even approach
it It is true, this enormous notional sin
has beetLeommitted under. false preleneee,
and pretended “war for the Uniod."
Massachusetts abolished the rules and
regulations adapted to the nature and wants
pf her negroes, and forcing them to submit
to the same laws in common with the while
people, she destroys the hapless beings at
Ike
,rate of five per eent. But instead of
gelling rid of her horrible madnees and
reforming her laws, she has gpread her im
pious lunacies all over the northern States,
and oombinding the States in 1860, took ,
possession of the government common to
her and South Carolina, with the avowed ,
delitgn of p ling it into an instrument
ferritoing the latter to adopt her lunacies
and practice her crimes. Or in other words
to abolish the special rules and regulator's ,
adapted to negroes, and compel them to
submit to the same common rules with the
people. it is true, Abraham Lincoln and
his followers only designed to apply this
principle of "impartial freedom," or mon-1
grelism, within the Federal jurisdiction at
first, but as South Caroline seceded, and
gave up everything held ,ip common to es
cape from the Abolitibn madne s tie of the
North, they look advnntage of thia to make
war on the South, and under the mask of a
"war for ifie Union," to abolish so called
slavery in the Slates
. The grand result Is .bel!ke us—South
Carolina, overrun by mighty armies, is
prostrate and powerless, andAtaettachusetts
has forced her to adopt her lunacies ; that
is, tq abolish the special rules and regula•
lions necessary to the negro element, and
to apply, or to strive to apply, the same
laws to whites and negroes. Of course it
cannot be done, for human society cannot
exist a moment on a basis of legal equality
for naturally unequal beings ` This should
be a self evident truth for Americans, but
unfortunately there is a large class who
dream of some impossible condition where
negroes ore neither to be "slaves" nor citi
zens, or to other words, where the epeciah
rules suited to negroes may be abolish 4
without whites and &roes submitting to
'common laws.
vet
We repeat it should be self evident to
Americans that abolition of so called slav
ery, or of the special rules, &a , necessary
to the negro, is the abolition of human so
ciety. But let us look at the necessary re
sults for a moment. The negro intellect
corresponds to that of the white lad from
twelve to fifteen, and therefore he will not
labor, because he cannot practice self de
nial for a future good any more than any
other child In Africa, with his natural
aptitudes, he lives to a great extent on the
spontaneous production of the earth, but in
the North, in Jamaica, everywhere, where
denied the care and guidance of a master,
he dies, simply because be does not pro
duce enough to 'unnerve life.
In the next place, he is in the way of the
/nth& laborer, who of course will not work
beside the negro when the latter claims
equality, as we witness everywhere at the
North. Thus production and order, the es
sential and only foundations of human so
ciety, are torn down in South Carolina
Without production, life cannot be preserv
ed, and without order of course life is im
possible. Liberty, republicanism, State
sovereign, the tin ion,S outhern 4/confederacy.
are words, nothing but words, in oompario
son with this tremendous state of things—
the destruction of production and overthrow
of order from the Potomac to the Gulf of
Mexico.
Meanwhile, external order is preserved
by military force, and northern Abolition
ists, taking the negroes from their masters,
are getting a certain amount of work out of
them, and peace prevaps universally. But
the foundations of human society are torn
down, and the simple but terrible problem
is the period or time of restoration, or in
other words, when will the monstrous luna
cy of the day be exploded, and the normal
order be meted to recover itself. et.d
herd w e e wish we had the trump of an arch
angel to Arouse the southern mind to the
monstrous and indeed awful truth that so
(dal order Is forever ?Impossible in the
South, care as it has ever existed there, or
n other words, that human society cannot
xist on a basis of legal equality among'
beings whom God has made unequal in
fact. The fatal and deplorable misoonoeP:
lion of Andrew Johnson, Governor On, and
others, that there is some unknown condi
tion between the normal ordei and mongrel
lap, where the negro is neither to be a mi
nor nor a citizen-is pregnant with a mighty
danger to the counicy4or, nothing Is more.
absolutely certain, or marplainly written
by the band of God in the organism of
things, than this simple but misunderstood
truth, the negro most be governed by spe
cial toles, adapted to his nature and minis,
as hitherto, or human /moiety L rendered
impracticable In the South, and from inev
itable neoessity dragging down that of the
North into the same condition.
If the State 3 that voted for Abrahatz
Lincoln to 1860 bad seceded sod bet up a
"STATE RIGETS AND 1911083 ULT. 11NI08."
• BELLEFONTE, PAIRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1867.
Northern Confederacy, on the basis of "im
partial freedom," thy would-h!ye tiontin
tied prosperous and preserved their repub•
lican institutions, for having but a handful
of negroes, the social ulcer of free negro
jam, 6ko that of prostitution, would scarce
ly be felt, and in a few years sloughed off
altogether. But in usurping the common
government of the ,States, and forcing those
south of the Potomac to submit to mongrel
ism, they have as observed, torn down the
foundations of humancsociety, and if this
enormous and Leaven daring madness could
continue, or if the 'Abolition lunatics could
preserve their power over the Northern
nand a certain length of lime, the restora
tion of nodal order in the'Soulb would be
impossib:o in this generation, and from in:
eritable -necessity the North must needs be
dragged into, the same horrible abyss. The
sole hole of anything ever approaching to
sepal oldet seoulll be in the amalgamation
of blood :Rs .well as condition, but this would
render us wholly incapable of pmerving
republican institutions, as we witness in
!tlexici But races of men so widely diff
erent as the Caucasian and negro, will not
harmonize or amalgamate, and therejore if
the monstrous madne;s of thetinte is not
exploded, there is nothing before us save
the scenes of San Domingo, on a scale m
stupendous'and awful, that it Will stake the
world turn pale for a thousand y rl to
minim And every man and pomen, Nortand
South, East and Wert, that 'eat en this r
011.1 and accursed wort, or that turn fails to
word a 'off, ins efforts to erplode to the mad
ness of the hour, goa l to rertore the normal
condlion under which Providence has hitherto'
so Gloried and prospered us a people, will den
serve the j ereeration of posterity for all coming
time. lernot the South, or true Amer. ,
leans anywhere, despair of the future The
very enormity of this impious lunacy will
save us. The tremendous power of the
mailmen will explode in national bankrupt
cy, and like a revelation from Heaven, all
men will see in a moment, as it were, that
the "Union as it was," cr different rules,
La , for whites and negroes, le lh the order
of nature, and then/ore ..o-called slavery
the design of the Almighty, and the ques
tion settled forever, the coon sy will peace
full advance in the fulfillment of lie destiny.
—Old Guard.
From the Wheeling Inteligencer.
WEST VIRGINIA AND HER RESOURCES
---NECESSIAY FOR A GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY.
EeNor. /nitthyme',"
Western Virginia crowns the Alleghen
ies She wears the diadetit of the Atlantic
Slates, and should sway the scepter of our
mineral kingdom. Her mountains hold the
wealth of the Appalaohains,—her rivers the
keys of the West. The forests of Maine
might be lost on the Great Kanawba—"Rte.
er of the woods"—and the mines of Penn
sylvania grow dim among the minerals of
the mountain State. Her fields of coal are
more extensive than those of the celebrated
"Keystone," and her resources in "black
diamonds," even more vast than those of
Illinois More than lmll thaeannel coal of
Me frorl4, reposes in her mountains : and
her fountains of petroleum appear to be in
exhaustible. It is even solidified in her
caverns, and exists in dykes through which
it has burst, under the pressure of its vast
subterranean accumulation
The central location of West Virginia
'surpfunded by old and populous State., is
singular and suggestive. The richest min
eral State in the Union, and yet undevelop
ed, though thousands have been pushing
their way beyond the Rocky Mountains, in
search of the wealth which lies concealed
in her bosom Within the limits are the
most productive soils, and her climate is
the most salubrious and delightful of all the
New World, and yet the adventurous sons
of New England, and the industrious, mon
ey loving Germans,pass on to the vastplains
of Wisconsin and lowa, where the winds
that rush down from the Northwest, are as
piercing as steel They do not know of the
paradise which they pass unheeding by,
where the maintains and streams, and soils
and climate they could love, repose in the
wild beauty of sylvan loveliness, rich in all
the wealth and happiness they go so far,
and suffer so much, in search of. There,
corn need not be burned for fire Insatiate
markets are ever open for profitable trade
in her cereals Her very rooks are fuel
Fest Virginia id New England transform.
ea! The rocks are toned to virgin soils,
"where corn and wine and milk and honey
flow." The sun shines warmer, the winds
have lost their icy breath, and nature
smiles from March to December.
The lumberman and ratlmen of the dis
tant forests, on the waters of the Allegheny,
toil for a pittance ; with vast labor they,
send their floats by the mouth of the Great
Kanawha, within sight, almost, of unbrok
en wilds, where magnificent forest trees of
the most valuable varietieep stand like vast
giants, defying the are and saw. Does the
"woodman know how long he spares the
tree!" Tell the pioneers of Minnesota, the
waterman drthe Allegheny and the Sus
quehanna, and the lumberman of Maine, of
the magnificent, Kitts that darken . the
mountains of your State, and Ciecinneti
will no longer have to depend on the floods
from Pennsylvania for her lumber, nor the
steamboats of the Mississippi wait for the
ice-floods to supply the Crescent city from
the far Northwest. Where else will loftier
forests of pine be found than on the "river
of this woods 1" Where finer black walnut,
locust and cherry ? where nobler poplars,
oaks and hickory? where whiter, lighter
lino, maple and buckeye! in fact all the
timber trees of the Atlantic exist here in
magnificent profusion. You have only to
let theworld know of their existence.
*ley are the men of the iron city sending
t coed and their iron from the mountains
of Pennsylvania to the cities below your
borders 1 %thy are the merchants and man
ufacturers of Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York sending their rails, their steel
and their implements of iron, through your
Territory, while your supplies of iron end
coal aro inexhoustable ?
Do the miners of England and Wales
know of your unequalled beds of coal? ypir
seams of splint and cannel! Your N.poa
its of iron ores mad fire clay ? If they
knew, would they slave in the mine and the
mill for a bare pittance while a Icingdo—
an independence awaits them her:a
Though mountainous, West Virginia
is rich in soils, while the bare an barren
granite bills of Ntlw Erigland will produce
neither grass or groin. Your_ mountains
sod highlands are rich in herbage) Grapes
flourish on the steepest slopes, vklile cattle
grow fat on the bill tops Even the wilder
ness of the Tug s od the wild swamps of
Co awl tilaulev, afford brats in the, dead
of win where sheep will live nod thrive
amid un asteil bay stacks
But luxuriant as those Cid and unculti
wiled mountains are in pastor., and soils
t he wealth above bears no comparison to
the wealth below. The vegitable kingdom
sinks into insignificance When compared
. 4%
the mineral kingdom The coal and iron *
beneath the hills of Weal Virginia, would
buy all Europe, if developed as the miner
als of England are. West Virginia has
more Ann twee, the amount of coal and iron
which England possessed a century ago,
nearly three times as Tech as she owns now
and nearly twice as much evailabl cool as
nil Eurelus now 'possesses !
The location of this vast Mineral wealth
is central, as regards the Atlantis &oleo,
and beyond the influences of competition in
regard to the control of the marksts of the
Lower Mississippi, and the great basin
which etrechei a thonsand miles !tom the
Alleghenies to the Rocky Mountains, and
from the - Lak es to the Gulf Iron can be
made in the Valley of the great Kanawha
cheaper than any other port of the world
under the samyegree of development, and
the same rotes of wages for labor Owing
to the availability of both coal soil Iron,
their extent,purity and proximity, iron and
steel may be manufactured in competition
with the world, consumption, when
that great valley is fairly open to naviga
tion and the locomotive
The vast extent of its beds of coal, and
their variety and richness. place this val
ley pre-eminent among the mineral regions
of this continent, for the productions of the
most availl i ble fuel—that alchemy which
transforms he rocks of the mountain. to
limbs of iron and steel That mystic tails
man—"the black diamond"—whose touch
changes the inanimate stones to things of
life and beauty—whose cabalistic power
evokes from the caves of the mountains
those mighty giants whose tireless limbs
move heaven arid earth—the engine, the
furnace and the mill
Of these tireless and obedient slaves, En
gland own 83,000 000!!,+ each one of whom
does the duty of ten strong men, to pull the
ear paddle the steamer, turn the mill, work
the loom, and perform a — Thousand artistic
shore, which ignorant men cannot perform
to weave the glossy fleece of wool; fashion
the °Maly lace from the cotton grown by
rode barbarians( shape the needle or polish
the sword or gun
When Western virginia reaohos this stage
of developemeni, and why may she not
America shall own her as its crowning glory
L the world know the story of your
wean ' minerals, and timber, your opu
lence in a 'ls and pastures ; your magnifi
cent water-power and your vast-and varied
manufacturing svailabilities, with your
genial and salubrious clime. These facts
are not known to the hardy adventurers
who are pouring from the East, over the
Rocky mountains, into the inhospital wilds
of the far west
Did they know of the fair fields for en
terprise so near at home, they would not
pass the inviting smiles of West Virginia,
to go for beyond and find hardship and sor
row instead of wealth and fortune
Millions of Misers are now being squan
dered in fancy gold and ailed stocks, in
the almost inaccessable mountains of the
far West. The distant,e lends enchant
ment" to those wild speculations. Enor
mous dividends aneke promised, bat never
realislised. Men bra blinded by
glitter, instead of gold; they meoff st ten or
twenty per cent. retursv,from their invest
ment, yet are.compelled to take less than
nothing—even to the loss of the principle.
Investments in West Virginia, at the pre.-
eut day, simply in lands, would yield from
ten to one hundred per cent per anum, on
the original investment for years to come
in coal lands, farm lands and manufactur
ing sites. •
Railroads are being projected and erect
ed over the entire eontinent—even beyond
the pale of eivtlation. iddllions are put
in lines for speculation than present profit,
while the most inviting line ever built in
this, or any other country „exists only on
•paper Though the first line 'for traffic ever
everl.proposed in this country, and propos
ed, too by the first and meat eminent en
gineer, statesman soldier of any age or
country—by the immortal Washington him
self—it is yet only proposed•
A connecting link between the east and
the West, provided (or by nature, who has
kewn the mighty Alleghenies to their base,
and cut a pathway for the steamboat and
the locomotive, from the Ohio to th Chesa
peake. The trade of the vast and.teeming
West, barred by the ice of winlpr, and the
heat of summer,from the upper Ohio,awaite
the spirit of industry and enterprise, to flow
througb its natural ehannels to the East,
while the trade of the East await, to recip
rocate through the great Kanawha valley.
The Old Diminion and the old North State
look hopefully, perhaps but indolently to
the West, watching with longing eyes and
morbid desire, the golden showers rained
on northern cities Baltimore, Philadel
phia, New York and Boston grow fat on the
trade of the West, while Virginia -stories
In order to present the facts, as they ex
sot, to the world, an official and authori
tative statement is required, carefully writ.
ten, practical and to the point,showing what
West Virginia is and may be. Not a mere
scientific exposition of its focal flora and
lithologioal structure—a "dead letter" to .
practical industry, made even doubtful to
the most Intelligent by dogmatic (Atones
and learned disquisitions
You want a popular, interesting andread
able statement of the available wealth of
West Virginia; the extent, locality and
character of her coals and Iron ores; her
titiber, pasture and farm lands, her menu
luring sites and advantages; her natural
avenues of trade from the East to the West
and vice rasa; her central position and her
command of the trade of the West and East
with a monopoly of many manufacturing
facilities.
Let the world know of bee salubrious and
genial climate; her history and her minerals
J.et,ti book be written for the world to read
•51,00,000 hone power of steam machinery
Not a pbnderous tome for the scholar, and
the Italicise to mould with dust and moths
in public Miracles or private garrets
We do not ignpro4e scientific; that which
is done should be well and carefully done.
The preliminary should lay the foundation
for the permanent and thorough.. But
now we want the primal facts—those most
interesting to labor, energy and enterprise
An authoritative statement on which cap
italists can depend. Not a colored, or an
imaginative exaggeration, but plain, sub
stantial facts-=evident, palpable and open
. to proof,--clothed, if you please, in popu•
Itar language, and presented in a style to be
comprehended by the people A readable
book, showing itheise hea/th:lvetti/eand hap
piness may be found. -
When the State,becomee more populous
and wealthy, the, mysteries of the moun
tains may be unraveled, the (milli unearth
ed, theories expounded, scientific questions
discussed, and all the interesting geology of
your State made plain by map and section.
To do this well and thoroughly, would re
quire not less than from five to ten years,
and from S4„1:10 to $lOO,OOB, while it world
he almost suedes to your practical industry,
becaus it would be inaccessible to the peo
ple. sad a dead letter to the emigrant.
Five t housand dollars in the hand s of
person, whose elatements would Lava weight
and credit, who is familiar with your geolo
gy, and whose labor could be consequently.
properly directed, would be of far more
service to the State at thi, present time,than
$lOO,OOO and Inn years of time and labor.
8 JIMMIES iMUDOW,
Author of ..Coal, Iron and Oil. '
St, Clair Pa„ December, 1866
=
No part of the old thirteen States has
been so much neglected as what is known
as West Virginia, This, to a great extent.
the result, of the land having been surveyed
in large bodies and held by . „, non residents
—and this, tolether with the existing pre
judices against slavery, turned the tide of
emigration away from this very desirable
section of our counory. Put if the emigrant
would atop to consider the advantages and
disadvantages attending a set tlemmi..in the
West and in West Virginia, he would have
little difficulty in deciding in favor of the
latter. In the West you have, in most sec
tions, long and cold winters, with fuel
scarce and high—the amount of fuel con
sumed by a Pennsylvania farmer in one
winter, would cost from three to four hun
dred dollars In some sections of Xh.e West
The materials for fencing, buildings, &c.,
are scarce and costly.
Another great draw back to the West is
the scarcity of water. In many parts stock
have to he driven from three to four miles
to water, in dry or very cold anions In
Went Virginia the soil Is fertile, generally
hilly, with en abundance of timber of the
best quality, costing but little for houses
and fencing C0a1,..0f a superlerr quality,
abundant in every section ; flier costing al
most nothing ' Short, mild winters, and a
superabundance of water gushing from the
hill sides.
The mineral wealth of West Virginia in-.
sures to her a great future. The immense
deposits of ore and coal lying contiguous,
offer more advantages for the manufroture
of iron than any other 'sallow:lf the United
states.
The rivers and contemplated railroads
will .don afford abundant channels to con
vey her vast mineral wealth info the &Het
i°e of commerce
No one can for a moment suppose that a
section of country so glled with all the ele
ments of comfort and wealth, and lying al.
most between the great State' of Pennsyl
vania and Ohio, and within comparatively
a short distance of the cities of Pittsburg
and Cincinnati, can long remain in lts pres
ent wild and undeveloped condttion.
Respectfully, Am,
JAI. OILLILAND.
A DANCE WITH AN INJUN
b e n account perliVTof the manifold du
ties always pressing upon us, we have nes-,
er learned to waltz-Lwe have never placed
our arm around • fragile, fairy, fleecy,
fluotuating form, and whirligigged around
litese, but at the Grand Masquerade and
Fancy Drees Ball, on last Tuesday night,
we happened to express, our regrets at this
deficiency In our education to .w..young,
plump, fresh and closely dominoed Injun
girl, while we were promenading the vast
hall with the lusciotfe humsy-dumpey. She
sweetly intimated that the hub-bub of ouch
an occasion, when afatorlisr would scarcely
ben iced, was the very. beet time in the
wort o learn. We would not acknowledge
our n eif we had backed out irbitin such
an °Be and, as a matter of course, we very
shyly ueoted her to afford us the sub
limely rpendicular pleasure of a small
lesson, rely for the purpose of getting
acquaint with each other, and giving us
relish for ur victuals at supper Sweet
and gorge s aborigine—without swearing
she'd ne'e consent, consented—do so.—
Gently, deli ely fastidiously and timidly
we placed ou arm around her pliant waist
..,„anitalciost muted away. Her long ra
ven looka tick d our elbow Thousands of
millions of spa d beadle vibrated and tink
led around her airy /Arm, as her bosom
rose and fell to ve them melody, like an
,Eolian harp up the heaving sea. Her
hand was in ours a soft as a pussey cat's
back, as she silentl watches • mouse hole
at the soft and witch g hour of twilight.
Her left foot was aga st our right boot.—
The gaudy feathers pen her moccasins
tickled our manly kn s. Our eyes met.
Two soft and melting ances shot out of
the holes ia.her domio and coming to
gether' in the middle sp he like the R. E.
Lee rounding to at Willia e' wharfboat on
• dark night in the latter rt of, December.
Music arose with its poly Woos swell and
dreW nearer unto the fema red man. Her
warm breath was upon our mire and her
long raven hair went nippy -flop over our
shoulder. We had oaf yet lined an inch,
and we didn't ears • Cordede to bond if we
never moved from that spot, II the , editor
of the Vicksburg Herald joins like Sons of
Temperance. We shook batik ur yellow !
locks, and , immediately the or rof Mar.
Ilia Washington's Hair Regional e, for sale
by Hardware 11.,, Co , and all respectable
druggists. We bowed low our editorial
head, and whispered in a voles whose dul
cet and mellifluous notes would have moi
led the heart of a deputy const•ble--"Goor
genus child of the forest, whose aateators
-NO. 6.
discovered Columbus, would we were a
glove upon that;hand, that we might tench
that cheek—would we were a pair of moo
seine upon theta feel, that we might caress
thy corns—would we were a i honk 'of yarn
strung, with spotted beads ttiat we might
encitqwle that form—would we were a long
bunoh of raven hair, that fe might Bop
around that neck—would we were no open
barrel of golden syrup, that thou might dip
thy finger in us and lick it. would we were
a coronet, that we might rest upon that
brow—would we were a roll of greenbacks,
that we Might slay in thy pocket—would
we were a brindle dog, that we might guard
thy wigwams—would we were a big black
rooster's tail, that we might dingle near
thy f, d° we were also ;in Indian
chief."
This far we spoked), and she sighed. Her
ruby lips did part, and she epaketh, let in,
for the music is writing away "' Our two
hearts beat with such responsive ttiVobe,
tbat a greased toes knife could not have en
tered between the throbs ,It seemed as if.
ten thousand caterpillars ;here siiirrayg
- up our book, and turtle Wives wer e Wok ug
meal bran out of our ears Huger sighs of
the size of a rotating turnip escaped our
lips ; heard murmuring brooks, whispering
boughs, and warbling birds, and tinkling
cow bells, and we floated far away on p
fleeey cloud of one hundred dollar greenback
bills The music missed, but the Washing
ton Hall kept on waltzing. The Indian
maid sought her native forests, and we are
carried by our friends to the Tunes office,
with a cramp In the bottom of our feet,
and our eyes turned • Wrong side out
wards —rick/tura , Herald.
-- -----
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
--Funny—Our Devil.
--Gay—The Bellefonte ladies.
--Our Devil says be loves (—•—.) the lad ier
--They have oranges in Florida that weigh
• pound and • half.
—lt mit. thirty million. &year to fight at*
lodian•.
--A flee outdone in Indiana reeentll eon.
mained two coon. and Six rattlesnakes.
—A Charleston paper allude. to Wendell
Phillips as • Bengal tiger fresh from Africa.
—A convention of strong-mindea women
and negro,. was held mkt "%andel' his last
week • \I
--4 low to make hens lay—eut their beads
off. This Is the only way we ran get ours to
--A colored man In IlunUngdon. Pa. was
poisoned by eating deer. lle eared himself by
AO emetic.
--;—Governor Morton, of Indiana, has tent •
sneu•ge to the Legislature, resigning the office
of Governor.
—General John M. Palmer is likely to b.
the ` radical candidate for Governor of lllin.
°is. , '
—Genera' Sterling Price. friends are ar
ranging to bay him a 00,000 house in St.. Louis.
A sterling price for a hone. for Sterling Price.
—The Radical, have dropped Gen. Grant
for the Presidency, bue. not until he had drop
ped them.
--40Ight hundred years ago the " waterfall' .
was a masculine appendage in Franoe, and quite
the mode among men of
—ln the Supreme Court of the United
States, on motion of Reverdy Johnson, Findley
T. Johnson was admitted to the bar under the
new rule rechnling the Test Oath.
—Thick shoes end underclothing, it le esti
mated, have improved the health of the women
at lout 25 per cent. Let on hope they will al
ways continue fashionable.
—A Chicago enterer has put cooking ranges
into the sleeping care that rue out of that city,
so that pamengers may have a warm breakfast
without Ica ing the care
•
—An oil well, in Uniontown, Pa., • liew .
days since began to throw atones and water into
the air to a height of 100 feet, and kept up the
performance for an hour.
—This trying to live on theireputaefun of a
dead grandfather Is'lhr.bout .• enterprising
am trying to hatch out rotten egg. under a tin
weather-cock.
—lt ie reported thittagents of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad are In England for the purpose
of purchasing steamers to run between Phila
delphia and Liverpool.
—An old rag-picker died lately near Bos
ton, apparently in grdat poverty. Just prioi to
her decease, several thousand dollars in gold
were discovered sewed up In one of her skirts.
—Sixty mile. of the Central Branch of the
Union Pacific Railroad no now in running
order; the present terminus ofpe road being •
few miles south of Seneca, kansaa.
—Of the new Senators, Conklin is thirty
nine, Cameron sisty.nine,Frilinghaysen forty
nine, Morton forty , and Nye fifty-two
years of age.
—A man In Chicago cul,his throat boom's.
he loot forty thousand deltip, is olrrikeeala
tienc" If ell In We Mate, who loot money in
oil epeculatlons were to follow his example, the
State would soon be depopulated.
—Trouble h•s occurred In South Carolina,
opposite &mann* with the negro., and Unit
ed States troops ate nowover there to proofing,
order. It is reported that 200 to three handred
ntgroes are under arms to meld ejeotmeot from
• plantation.
—Re. Mr. Mimsfield, of Butler eounty,
Kentucky, who was • Cumberland Presbyterian
minister, applied ,for membership in • Baptist
church, was received, baptisA ordained, mar
ried and preached a sermon—all in the same
day.'
—An attempt was made on the evening of
the 15th instant. to burn - the West Virginia
Penitentiary, at Moundsville. Some of the eon
•. • t Ore to a portion of the:roof, but by the
exertions of the guards and a few of the prison
ers, the fire was extinguished without serious
damage.
—ln the Senate time are no two members
of the same name. In the House there are two
Aga eys, two Clashes, two Harding., two troo
pers, four Habbards, two llobbells, two Law
reneM, two 11,andallo, two Riess, two Taylorei
three Thomases, two Van Hams, two Wards,
three Washburn(' two Wilson, and—alrobile
diets—nee Smith! ~;
—lt I. stated that a manufactory for ma
king printers type of vulcanised Indian robber
his been established at Easton, England.
new species of typi:lt 4 saki, Is made irir7
qutokly, mad at one-third the east of Granath
metallio type, whilst It I. claimed that the In
dia rubble type are as durable and of as good
quifity s aa those bowie use.
—The following 6 • verbatim report of a
speech delivered • • religious meeting out
West by • good pious deaeon. It te a queer
combination of terms, certainly: - '•My female
brother's, it is of the molt in-11-night-eat Wiper
lance that we should all be elotherLin white
remnants•"
WHAT THE L MEN OF THE NORTHWEST
ASK THEMSELVES IN THEIR OWN
MINDS, AND WHAT THEY ANSWER.
(Wenn Whet 1, the name ttl' the ekele
ton in Eastern closet.? .\newer. Iteputli
■non of the National debt.
11 by does the prospect of Repudiation
frighten them so! A Beeauee they are
the reeeivere, and the North-West, West
nod South are the mere of the 'Debt.
Q. How dui Engem men manage to hare
it so arranged • A By bringing on the
late var.
Q Why did they bring on the late war•
A. Well, they eau :hat Negro Slavery was
profitable to the Shuth,,and they conceived
the grand ides of reducing el the people
of the united Stales, While and Black, to a
state of Slavery to thpaselvet. r
Q. What ie slavery ] A Shavery Is that
state of soolety in wltich the surplus earn.
ihry 01 the slave are applied so the sole use
and benefit of the roamer
Q What is the emoont of die' surplus ,
earoimpt of the people of the North-West,
West and ,South, snouully 1 A They
amounted lost year to the sum of about
4576,em00.
WhaGbecame of !bone surplus earn.
ing• A After deducting a small amount
to support the Government, the balance
Went into the .pockets of foreign and eas
tern liondbalders.
Q What proportion of the debt of the
United States is 'hitt! by foreigner*? A.
About one-fifth
Q Who owns the balance A Eaolere
het)
Q . )low did they come to own it A
During the war, they did the contracting,
while the West and North-West did the
fighting, TheAtiLfurnished the shoddy,
the bad pork no lieef, the wonky bread,
the gum. that bursted, the old rotten trans
ports, in which so many soldiers were
drowned, fire-proof whisky, the Yankee no
tions, the negro substitutes, the hollow talk
about loyalty, the life of the nation," and
II that; they gathered home all the silver
spoons and other Portable property, and so
became rich, while the West and North-
West furnished the food for powder, and are
now gathering their dead from a thousand
battle fields, and with the South are now
called upon to pay the National debt.
Q. What fa a summary of the result of
the war? A. Why the negroes are to be
paid fax.at (Lnery high valuation; but, In
stead of abir owners getting paid, the price
goes into the pockets of the shrewd Eastern
Yankee, and oomes out of the surplus earn
ings of all the other sections ,
Q Why are the surplus earnings of the
people of the North-West, West, and South,
so small! A. Bei:mime of the enormous
amount of indirect taxation they are oorn•
polled to pay to Eastern manufacturer*.
Q. Explain A Eastern men hive so
arranged the legislation in Congress that
the tariff on Rtreign ntanufactureslsno high
as to exclude them from the country ; so
that Eastern men charge what profit they
choose on their own manufactures ; •H of
whith profit comes out of the consumers,
gess into the pookets of the Eastern menu
faikorer, and 601 the surplus earnings,.
of the other sections.
Q. Now that the negroes are free, why do
the Yankee. fuglemen, Buttery' Sumnauktett
yeas,to., keep up such a howl about theet.„
A...8y this they expect to keep •the people
of various sections of the country by the
ears, and thus prevent them thinking about
Repudiation.
Q. Will they succeed in doing so ? A
Q. Why 1 A. Because the people are be
.ginning to think.
Q. Why do the people begin to think so
very hard t A. Why, they know and feed
that everything they use costs about three
,limes as much as it used to, and they are
thinthig where all the money goes and
whaltheoomss of it.
Q. What is to come of all this hard think\
tog ? A. The people are going to sot.
Q. How 1 A. Why, somebody out West
will run for Congress on the Repudiation
ticket, add, if elected, then several others
will run for Congress on the same ticket,
and be elected; then somebody will run
for President op the same Lipka, and be
elected; they will reconstruot the Bu.
proms Court on the same ticket, and then
comes Repudiation.
Q. What t repudiate a debt to which the
faith of the United Mates is solemnly plodg
ed A. Yes tll was a Yawl'se trick get.
ting the pledge, and It is Yanlee ohicanerz
that keeps op the talk about the pledge. i
Q. To what other institutions wu the
solemn faith of the United States pledged?
A. To the greet United States Bank and to
to the institution of Negro Slavery.
Q. What became of those institutions
A. The first was repudiated by General
Jackson, and the other by bfr. Lincoln,
Q. Who is the coming man for whom the
people of the Northern Staten so anxionaly
look? A. The man who will make a dollar
be a dollar ; who will bring five trade and
cheap goods ; who will abolish the Internal
Revenue ani paper money ; who will utter
ly squelch a horde•ottax-gathers who
now consume the subitsiedie of the people ;
in tine, the man who will igingabout Re
pudiation of the National Debt..—Es
—The bill giving negroes the right of 1 >:
suffrage in the territories has become p law
without the signature 1M the President.
Two-thirds both Nome of (longtime passed ,
it, every Radical voted for it, *ff',avery
Democrat against it. glided any of our
radical friends desire to see their colored
brethern enjoying the same rights they do
can be accomodited by immediately remov
ing to the Territories of Nebraska, Newts
Montana, de. Of course the men who vot
ed the Abolition ticket did not understand
that its leaders were in favor of negio suf
frage, and, eonsequently are luring a nice
joke played upon them. .They enjoy Mr'
qgely.—.Ex.
—Dr. Franklin's celebrated reeelpt ter
cheap sleigh-riding runs as follows: Bit
in the ball in your night Adopt's. with both
doors open, so that you oan get . good
draft, put your feet is a pail of leo water,
drop the front door key down your beak,
hold an Icicle in one hand and ring the tea
bell with the other. Lie says you can't tell
the differenos with your eyes shut, and lir
great deal cheaper.
Tun WINTIE In TRIAL—A private latter
from Galvestoa, Texas,dated the 14th bast.,
complains of the severity of the weather in
that State, and adds:
"On the lint day of January we had a,
snow storm which lasted fidia 8 p en. until
daylight on the morale' of the 2d. On the
morning of the 24 the ground was frozen
hard, and there was a quarter of in Mal of
toe. This is the lent snow storm slim
1869, and the second time the Galvestonians
have seen the_ novelty in 17 years. The
t.
young. (2111dt:11W kw)* what to make of
think," said it wife who could nd
agree with berbusband,
we bad better Abide the house. Ted shall
live cm one sidiaad lei tS. other ' "Very
well, my deer," replied be “you take the
outside and I'll have the Inside."