- - - - - " • - . - - . 1 2 . 1 1: 1 • . , • fir . .••• • , :: • ' • • . . • J l r .• • ' ~.• • -4. .testt• • : ; ,t . g •• • lIIM VOLUME 6 THE PEOPLE'S JOURN4L. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY IifORNII.O BY HASKELL t t AVERY. Te7i;i: _ . . one copy per annurnrin advance, $l.OO Village subscribersperannum,in advance. 125 ' RATES Or . ADVEItTISING. - 0110 . square, of twelve lines or Less, will be inserted dime tinsels for one dollar; for every subsequcte Insertion, twenty-five 'cents will be charge d. Rule. and figure work will invariably be obareed double these rates. 17"rhese terms will be strictly adbered,to. The Professions 1a every community theta an , a few young men who can deliberately choose their profession. There are only a few ; for accident, not choice, determines the career of most. of us. But, here and there, there is a youth who, owing to .the circumstances of his parents or the atrength of his own determination, is able to make up his mind what he will do in life; and lie does it. In former times, young men of this fortunate class embraced, as a matter or course, the profession of arms ; and in some of the less progressive countries of Continental - Europe, the maj.mty of well-born" youth do so to this day. The - girls of Copenhagen still prefer that the arms of a 'soldier should embrace them, when they waltz, and the highest honors of the court and cabinet are still worn with the epaulette. In those-coun tries, not to be a soldier is. not to belong to the elite of society. :Happily, our own army iv so small, that arms, as a profession for educated gentlemen. can scarcely be said to exist among us. IMO lions of our citizeus.live and die without even seeing a man entitled to paint .on his trunk the letters U.S. A. In this republic, the Law has been. till within a few years, the favorite pro fession of the fortunate few. The Law w-as the benten path to the highest hon ors. Every President but two has been chosen from the legal profession: Evrry Vice President whose name we can now call to mind, was a lawyer. Every nrin in our time who has been a prominent but unsucc •ssful candidate for those offices, was .0 lawyer. Almost every Governor of a State has keen a lawyer. The leading persons in counties, towns, and villages, have generally been . yers ; and down even to the present time, the profession 'retains some of its former prestige. It is only in the few years that great merchants. great manufacturers,. great writers, great en gineers. great railroad men, great agri-- cuiturists, great architects, have begun -to overshadow the wealth and conse quekce of great lawyers. Lawyers know the legal profession are over, and over . forever. Simplified codes_reduce fees. Improved manners and increasing en lightenment diminish litigation. The more men know the better friends they are; and the better - friends men are, `the more likely they are to be able to settle their disputes without the tis&.isty ante of a court. • Illoreover, the great honors of a State, once so much coveted. —once so august and overwhelming— are now of far less account, because t' whole country understands that the.-e• I high honors cannot, except by accident, i fall upon the deserving ; but are merely stock in trade of a small, disreputable class of men, who have made a busi 4aess of politics, and whose jargon in•the newspapers is even unintelligible to the public. Emphatically, the palmy days .of 'thy. law are over. ' We believe there is no diminution in the number of •candidates for sucn legal boners as are left; but in the quality of these candidates there is a palpable di.- preciation. We cannot speak for ocher 'places, but in New-York the elite of the 'Young men do not, as a general thing, -become students of the law. When they do, it is because an uncle, or a father, or an intimate friend, is the pos. sensor of a busineis in which there is an opening and a prospect. In fact, to create a legal business: in New-York, is .understood to be just one degree within km impossibility. In the country, it is 'less - difficult; but to an honorable man, .!ometimeti quite impossible. For exam ple, there is a town, about an hundred 'tidiest from New-York, in which reside fourpdting lawyers, whose united praa L ' „„..,,,, PT OF DFAi'OORAbf;AIO:''TDE 4 OISEI.T.NATIDN OF MORALITY . c.LVFERATURF.; AND NEWS DEVOTED. TO"Ttip ace (a year ago) would have kept a cow in tolerable pasture. They were not men to sit at their desks and patiently slam): On the contiiry, they had no Benner got a license to practice, and their tin plates painted, than they set- about • making a stir in the couitty,• ~ to let," as one of them happily termed it, , ‘ their names up " A. embraced the ',tem perance cause," and , spoke at meetings. 13. plunged into Odd . Fellowship, and passed' his leisure moments in visiting Lodges and advocating' the interests of the Odd Fellows generally. O; went into the extremities of politics, and got his name into the papers. D. devoted himself to the church. and advanced so far on the road to preferment as to be allowed to hand round the plate. These expedients, we are informed, have not been employed in ,vain; and this fact alone—the fact. that "such expedients could be successful—is almost'enough to put the stamp of infamy ' on•the pro fession. We do not think it is going too far to say, that the law' is among the fait prof : ssions'one should recommend to a young man of honor, spirit, and talents. Among the elder mi . .mbers of tVe legal pro'ession, there are men of thii first respectability, of eminent talent and great worth ; but it is not the profession for a young man to choose in the year of our Lord 1b54. t is a talking profession; and What is wanted in these days is action, abd the power of directing actiqn. We want rchkects who, to use the language of Mr. Greenough. can apply Week prin. iples without imitating Greek formi. This nation, in ;be course of the' next fifty years, is to be torn down and built up better.- Of the two, hundred 'and fifty churches standing this day in New- York, not•twenty will exist is the year 1900, but have been replaced by b-tter ones, if architects can be found to build them.' WI- ler, on the one hand, the Taf hick prop erty is accumuk ul on the other hand, 'the •sally dif fused for magnificence, we cannot resist the conclusion, that the United States is about to furniA . The4argest and best'field for the practice of the' architectural pro lesion that has e ve r been a'fiinded at any period, in any country. Btit those who practice that profession must have ideas.. Copyists we have already, and copies we have already. We want men who will thoroughly rreLter their' art, not to be enslaved by it; men who• will seize the great idea' that beauty is utility per fected-, and .make it live in structure's that shall answer their purpose to admi taste of those who behold them. There is a great deal of glory in reserve for the men Who shall adapt the art of architec ture to the wants, thelclimate, the genius of America—and not glory alone. We want engineers, too. Within the next fifty yenta, a thousand tunnels will have. to be excavated, ten thousand bridges will ,be built, a million miles of railroad must be laid out, the whole Rocky Mountain region -is to be made accessible ; and things are to.- be done which we can no more anticipate now, than the people of the year 1800 couild have anticipated railroads, telegraphs, and steamships. What n field for men of science and talent ! The American mind is singularly adapted to enterprises of this' kind ; and it is with the utmost confidence that we urge young men who can choose what they will do, and who have ho fancy for an ordinary, hum-drum career, to give the profession of engin eering a serious consideration. It is a profession for a MAN ! it takes him out of-doors, up mountains, along torrents, across praries, through forests. He be. conies intimate with nature, while he uses the forces of nature to subdue na ture ; and there is something so honestly, palpably, and greatly beneficial_in .what be does, that the narrowest of utilitarians-, cannot refuse him his respect. Look at Col. Serrel, who bridged the Niagara brfoie he was 20 years of age, and _ did the same service for the St.. Johri's,on his wedding trip. Thera is something better in that than stupefying the mind - over "moral philosophy," , and other an tiquated trash, in the .. senior years." Andlhere is tbe greot difficulty. We EMI POTTER-COUNTY, ;3 t 1854. want. men of. action ; l)ut the maia.eflort of ourschnOla is to produce, men of. talk. An engineer who had occasion some time ago, for two assistants,in surveying a railroad, addressed the follOWlng.-iptes tion to three profesinis of mathematics attached to three colleges of high repute: In the class about' to graduate from your institution, are there any young men competent to go upon the road im m• liately and make surveys without any assistance from me ?" " There were none, and the professors frankly said so. What a fact is this ? As a'preparation for the studies of modern life,our college course ..• is scarcely any use at all ; and we care not • who hears - us when we . say, if a young man is resolved to run a great career in an active, manly profession, let him keep out of college. .that young man has no four ,years to waste.l• • His knowledge iwth.be real, positiye,modern. . • He needs a traijied eye. a trained hand, a broad chest, and a long wind ; 14;o? a stinittlated brain merely , . He must be a man of the world, educated in the world, by the world,' for the world. Wecannot pursue the subject further at present. The sum of the . whole mat. ter is this: the talking professtons have had their day ; the means . cif education have-not yet become adjusted to the new want : and he who-promotes such ad. justment, even so 'far ns to point out its necessity, does a good thing.—.-Home Journal. Imoiortality. "It cannot be that earth is man's abi ding, place. lt cannot be that our life is a bubble, cast up by the' OCean of Eter nity, to float a moment;on its,waves,and sink into - nothingness.' ElSe:why is it that the high and glorious aspirations which leap like angels • from the temple of our hearts, are forever wandering abroad unsatisfied ? Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud comet :over us wit.n a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass off and leave — us to muse upon their failed loveliness ? Why is it that the stars which •hold their festivals around the midnight throne, are set above the gmep , of liMitild• faculties-- forever nriockingi.us with their, un.ip proaehable glory ? And finally, why is it that bright forme o.hognati beauty are presented to our view and then taken front us—leaving the thousand streams to fldw back in an Alpine torrent upon' our hearts ? We were born to a higher destiny than that of earth. I :There iS a realm where the rainbow never fades, _where the stars Will be spread out be fore us like the islands that slumber on ings which here psi before us like visions, will stay' in otir presence forev er."—PßENTles. Spunky Yankee Lieutenant. - Lieut. Sheldon, bf the U. S. artillery, a strange, iron-hearted man, stood at his gun at the battle of Lacole Mill (Canada) until every other mart had left it. The enemy, seeing his condition. sent a de tachment to take him and his gun ; but he maintained his position till th colunin came within pistol shot, when he touched it ofT. The order of fire had been given the saine instant to the infantry, arranged, somewhat in the form of a semicircle in the woods ; and when the smoke cleared away, only one of the detachment was standing on his feet, and he making rather ezcelerate tracks .for the Sheldon.once refused to take off his hat in a Canadian theater while the .orches tra played "God Save the King," when an English officer reminded him of his neglect. He made some reply which. led to a duel. A friend of Sheldon tried .to dissuade him from fighting, saying that he ought to apologize for his-con duct, as the established rule, requiring every one to be uncovered when God Save the King" was played, should have been respected. Sheldon, however, was obstinate about it, when his friend told hini that his antagonist never missed 'his aim, and that he was a " dead man" if he fought. " Then," said Sheldon, there.will be two • dead narn.'" They .ughi, and the English officer fell dead at the first fire. Sheldon was shot through and through. He, however, lingered 'on' for some sir months, and fintlly died in Boston. :He retained'his aknost unnatural` fearlessness and hardi hoodsto the last, and would accost his friends, as they stole softly into his sick chamber, with, Walk in, pall-bearers, walk M." He was . aPittsfield man, and was such stuff heroe,s-are made of. IN= Warship 011ie !Wiles Idolatry neither is, nor:ever his been a . partial or local•. evil. It : Passed not away : with the, superb .empires of anti- . quity, nor is it now confined to the re- . gions of the East. In vain has Chris- . tendom enacted the Iconoclaust and shiv ered into atoms 'the• bronze and marble symbols of false deities, so long as the passion or idea, thus embodied, still holds unbroken sway. . • And, tell us, when and where now exists or ever did exist,,a Worship so false and monstrous, or exaeting sacri fiices so terrible,xis that oftha Demon of the Bottle ! read •with shuddering commiseration; of the devotee,:ofJuggar naut offering his body to be crushed be-- neath the .ponderous wheels of the idol car.• But what is this corporeal death. throu h a single. pang of infinitesimal d Lion, 'compared :with the lingering, sore-itrugglitig dissolution or-the bOttle• .victim ? His is a death, wherein inno cence, kindliness and conscience, domes tic and kindred affection, love of repute tion, and even all love 'and fear of God, 'expire one by one, with agonizing throes,. and the• wrecthed creature may traverse the earth for long years; net so much a veritable living Man, es an au tomaton. moved by demoniac influences. If the antique idolatay of 13dc'chns involved much-of debasing;_ there wits also associated with at same*hat orie deeming influence. The magnificent temple, the sh•ipely'statue, the Speaking picture, the thrilling music and taste fully superb pageantry,'--these, at least, appealed Co soMething, higher than the lowest animal-propensities and served to cultivate hiirtnony and beauty. • But the devotion to the bottle is,-'in all its principal stages, _coarse, hardening, degrading, without qualifications. .The miserable eramshop, the kennel, tatters and blavhetny : the frenzied, ferocious brawl, and not seldom crimes of even the darkest dye,—such are the natural accompaniments of this service, and amid such scenes even the highest or ganized become low, whit the low minded and coarse, grow. ever coarser and •lower still. And yet.r/iis is a wide. spread. idolatry of christian lands I Ant! •1 rangcr null, we despatch shiploads of missionaries and runt barrels:to - redeem heathen nations from the worship - of idols ! What spectacle so unaccguntable in is unaccountacle world,' that which many have been called perforce, kV itness,—thee progress from beginning the close of an inebriate's career.? quYir-weraultjrcov.si, , .atutn..4re.s.„lV4; moving_straight forward to affu ntimely; dishonorable grave. 11e heard the sobs . of that breaking heart, to which he was more than all the world beside, and, which before Heaven be hull vo*ed to cherish,—but these did not arrest him. lie heard the cries of the dependent lit tle ones, "bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh," whom he was Plunging in poverty, want and disgrace,—but he moved never the slower.- He encoun tered the averted locks, and heard the scathing reproaches•of society ; he hark ened to the stern denunciations of .God's word,—but all were in Lain. "Hell from beneath was moved to meet him•at his coming," and ,he caught, the whis pers of that dreadful irony,.trt thou al so become weak as we, art thou become like unto us 9"—but he went down ; to its depths _without pausing,—it may be tvithout plea or attempt 'at self-jostifida- ion. You told him of 1 . 1 i; ivital (ions; again and again you remonstrated . with him tilltears drowned youfutter ance ; he acknowledged his obligations; he wept yith you, bitter,rstaldinglears ; the thanked you for your delity—and this was all! There was a demon had fast hold on him,- that . could not, would not be content, r save by . draughts inces santly renewed at hip. o'wn.d,...burning :element ' And - yet, with this picture multiplied ten thousand times befOriour'eyee; we find men in respcnisible official positions, . who can ileep soundly at nights, Apr raise.a hand to arrest ht. pogress,;•and even -defend their worse -than neglect With the , meanest sophistry which ever MilEl ; Sullied !tie breath-of wron-doers. • Haw dhieris;kftow long is•tbis, to be tolerated? • there nti potent 'voice in alithis greai'Atir; that Shall be 'hehi'd swelling the cry as it' rolls through our streets into a demand for tiction r Saturday Evening ,Mail. Male . • The ..pring field Republitan gives shine tome truths'in 'saying that •"phyS ically and 'mentally,' men •and women are' unlike, and, in a :certain''-sense, -nt least unequal. Two-ttirdd of the phys ical power; energy, and_ endurance of the huinan family:are held.by the male sex, although, the., female predominates in-numbers. The• physical formation of the female, her gracefal tasfe*,lbei,quick sensibilities, her ingenuity, and hei fain ity light manpalation, .point her out as adapted to the performance of all . ' the lighter employments of life, while the larger:ft : ante, the stionger muscles, .titeste move meats iner force, and the slower ov'e , meats of • the male, indicate , his appro priateness to the employment of a se- vers.'. Add, This is -the simple and,un mistakenbre- lesson of - nature, and all Ruin : ding with it, will avail notiling. A view of society will show-ty imperfectly - this lesson of nature h a s been practised. Go into our hotels, and youwill see a small army , of large, strapping Male waiters, and, not_a female in ,sight, to mingle in - duties and labors peCuliarly fitted to her, and peculiarly; her own. Go into, the multitude of dry= goods and fancy establishments .in the cities . , and even, the smaller • towns, - and you.,will find them ° all filled with . grownmen, engaged in measuring off silks. and tapes, and ; laces and such sim ilar light employments in the United States. may be counted in tens if : - not hundreds . of thousands. At the same time there is a corresponding number-of femaleS;%vhoteing thu's unjustly thrown out of a good, welt-paying employment, are left' to the mercy ,of the- manufactu` • ring sharks of the cities, or the pitiless wiles of the seducer and the libertine. V'Countrylike this,'Wheie ! Stick; it , rpagnificent,field'9l labor and enterprise lies open . lo every may, thdro- is no .apol ogy. for crowding the Stores and hotels of the cotintry •witli-men, at tho-.expense of the suffering and the prosiitution of the fernnle sex. icay, there is no tnanlineis in it, It is time the public opinion which attaches superior respecctbility to those employments which man steals from* woman, was corrected We do not blanie young men • for entering employments which'lhey have been bred from boys to consider the most respectable. bu rn t dtt inte JINN' anti -to musc!ei are those pursuit& which Call out their physical and mental ener gies, and make them' independent and self-reliant. There never was in • the history of our. country, so splendid' a field for youthful. enterprise as this coun try now presents. -Railroads are build ing, forests are being cleared, ;nines are being-developed, agriculture is advanc ing with giant stride's, all the productive nrt& are active and flourishing, and in this grand race for- competence - . and wealth, for flme and influence, do you, my friend, clerk and ,wniter, feel content behind the counter? If you do, you are spoiled for \ st man,- and you should stay there arid do !Arra work." • ' ,SlSvery is an Ishmael. It is.malevo !eat arid malignant. It loves aggression, for when it ceases to be aggressive,- it stagnates and deCays: It is the leper of modern civilization, but a leper whom no . cry of "unclean" will keep from in trusion into uninfected company. Hith erto Slavery in this country has held 'its ground : by sheltering itself behind the Constitution. It hasylayed the role of persecutid virtue—and thus it has ex cited the sympathy of well-meaning per sons who would never lend it aid or comfort but when it assumed the char acter of a distressed and wronged ap pellant. .It basin past years pretended that it was assailed by injustice and fg naticiarn, which were destroying its sup porta and defences placed ; around., it.— It hap appealed to the North' for aid on the ground of essential justice and con stitutio,palobligittiOn.., It, has declared its right . t o existence within' thespfiere of IheState's where it Was establi hed; an 4 .that tn,tissatiltit, r or in . any yio inter fere _with it; Was to.bti ail of flagrant ,injustice. Its fr,rliii..c . .ar 0 . !I gab? 9. Abo litiOniita has been *that i y . . inte4ered with .a 'domestic insiitultoci for- which nd Female FMpleyMeill. Slavery Militant. tJ.I"-::073.q JET I • --: I. : NintrßEit4e. ER -, te.,.. they - had no responsibility, an d with ,which they -had' nothing to dot -.ltt ad vocates have sought to keep the.mition of Oil suffering and per - secuted; party, - and haVe thus enlisted a sorf'of'is . 'senate of jusliie', in; the uPree Swop which, more pqtent than discriminating; Juts borne Avery on its slaouldert thvpmlt every contest. Though it often been' urged' that slavery was aggreisive in its nattirr;thei l proof of the fact to . the ' coinirion tirlder sta nding has not been entirely - conch/5We. - To many. Northern ,men , it„has always seemed to be wirrmg . ort the . defertsbre • side. But present appearance indicates that this erroneous view of slaVery, will . soon' be reniovedthroughout . ihe'Ntiikh. We see already the encroaching salipaiit is taking in Congress, as welt as on the PaCific. it 'dares itilempi theappwspria tion toils use of..territoryy. already . conk crated.to freedom. by .e solemn r otomq, b,2tween the North and the South... Ails manitestine. 'a de - termined' j)inpive 'to cross tie boundary batifsid - Which ltd pgt tilent influenee has -hith'evto laesir-rtiin • fined, and thus totlisregard •Altpxrittdir ation.s of justice, and .. trample, .upst.to ; its own` sacred obligations,it. is ehotling it -silf to be a power which teftiies to ad here to . its . engagements, and . breakilts faith at the first temptation. Alelot content wiihin its 'own proper liinll,4, defined ! after a bitter contest, - in Whichmoielfan its due was yiefded,to, its irnpesialat ex. actions, it now proposes to .inyade o nd overrun the soil of freedom, and to.un- roll the'pall of its darleriess"nier - virgin territory, 'whereon a slava iliturlnevler stood. Freedom is to be elbewed.outqof its own home, to make roont, for the leprous intruder.. The free laborer is to be expelled,, that the slav,e . may bo _ brought in. It is plain to be seen how such an Ng , gressire'splrit will be met. .If Slavery .is determined , on ,the conquest of free territory, it will ineyitat4 ber:lesisted and paid in kind. if the convictlon4- i tain that Slavery infends• to disown its obligations and. provelaith less in jut own 1 contracts„then will it follow that !hose who hive' hitherto admitted - its rights undeethe'Constitution, will. admit: ,thern no longer. Let but the' sentiment. , g - On foothold that SlaVery. intends to naake wjtr u rot, -the territory of freedom, and s eize and rpproiiriate whatever it can; ixrest from the hands .of. free labor, - ,and,...the b inner of reclamation will be rai.sed . :'l7l Slavery may encroach upon thc,deinata.. of---treemk, freemen may cricroach'unon the .domain of Alavery. If Slavery ! thinks this is a safe game to. play at,lit : 0 be pursued as it hasheen.begun.-4. ''..l'. Tribune. ' . ' . ' CorrespotelenC of the Journal.. Letter from a Squair.--No. 2. MESSRS. EDITOR : As you, Were. lima t 7 nough to print those lines penned by me, I will beg the favor once more. My p-ople can't. vote ; yet we want, the Mains Law. Your pi.ople tell us the existing law• is sufficient if enforced. We can't believe it; for in the adjoining county resides a rumseller whom we call (I; baron. The worm is in his house and I.,rlrc. to hit. . every child that caT7ilor4 .letter or a slate-pencil. He is a pope. lar man. The Artist rooms there, -On the Sabbith`all" likenesses are taken pt 'half price; and on that sacred day groups may be *seen conveningh-41l grades of society, from the gentleman - in broadcloth to the gray-haired inebriate that staggers there for his morning_ctips. At . sunset 'the. majority leaVe. Those who can walk drag those who It 'kin) the verge of the burial grouitil.; the cries of the orphan reverberate over the, dust of its- sainted parents. ~. Charon paid his physician' five gal lons of ardent spirits,. causing him an other fit of delirium tremens. Womin has plead with all the eloquence of 'wee for her relatives; but tears nor,orooos r ? availed dr nothing. Charon fumi3hed a com ny with bottles.of brandy to Cis. turd; a religious Meeting—which they did. • Last - summer he got Ocompanly intoxicated, *hen 'they met a friend of temperance, who, with • his.sister,,Tas returning' from church . . They corn. menced an unprovoked attack upon hiiii, and were shockingly 'mangling' Mtn, when assistance arrived. This un.of fend ing gentleman complained of Charon for selling liqCol , -N i •ithout license. liis plea was enteird - before the Grand Jury, testimony k•rought,—?is career was . ode of crime—unparalleled crime: ...IVtiat was the verdict of the Jury 2-I.A:lid riot ; say= the bribed-' Jury. ,Charon 13,Ayt guilty—the complainant stands comtnkt. • • ' t4LI until costs are paid. Reader, this is no fiction t 't irtinthlstronger than ficlion., Dies•the'preseet liquor law proieci. us V iirkcin't vote ; but'red-skins have souls, foid heartycki. 'We' see the rising generation ' goine,io ruin, arid ' we cannot help ihem, - We have 'tried -entreaty and argaMeit".in vain. • Can we hive the Melee tow! Irnot, we are undone. ,- 1 '" :••• '') • • , • QUEtCESIT . Warren, Jin. 11, 1854. f a r APlCean Newsplease copy.% 0.1 1 - -7.2112 % I t IN
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