VOL. VII. TEIE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. I:VERY TIIIRSDAY MORNING, -BY ADDISON AVERY. .Ternis—lnvarlably In Advance: One copy per annum, $l.OO Village subscribers, 125 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. I square. of I'2 lines or less,l insertion, t 0.50 " 3 insertions, 1.5 U every subsequent nrsertion, .25 Rule and figure work, per sq., 3 insertions, 3.(111 livery subsequent insertioil, .50 I column, ope year, 25.00 I ecuumn, six tuonilis, 15.09 Adiainis.ra.ors' or Executors' Notices, 2.0 Sheiiiis z•la es, per tract, s. 1.50 p ro j e .isiouri Cards uoi exceeding eight lines baser ed for $5.0 per annum. t?• AU letters on business, to secure at tention, should be addressed (post paid) to the Publisher. AIITIIMMLL FOLIAGE. Ye are coming. brilliant autumn hues, Ye are coining bright and goy: Ye are coming waft .he fro.ty night, And with the fleeting day. Ye are coming by the hillside, And in the quiet glen: And in the farm.t fur and %vide, And round the homes of men With canons tints the foliage fair, 01 anther, brwan, and gold; And fairy red, and orple dark, And orange we behold. Most beauteous is the robe ye wear Beauteous, but alt. how brief; Its golden letters plainlysay, " falls the fading leaf.- And snrniner's flowery dad• has lied, Sweet summer, fitll of song: Its fragrant air and verdant lawns, o w to the past belong. Theleaf rejoice: in itr death, • And wears a glrutent gay ; Why then should man shrink at the tooth' heles wise than they ! They, through the ligh'some summer day., Have %veil performed their part; Havt• Ate'tenni wan and beast Ankg!-‘dderzed every heart. Now that their hour of delth has come The: ,hine M rainbow light ; Amid the tall dark everzreenq, They clean], a splendid sight. So when the pure and virtuon3 soul Iq Am:taloned e.irth to fly, Serene and radiant is the light Which fill: that heavenward eve For earthly duties well performed, And earhly trials borne. And ear.hly joys received, At death W II V. should we mourn Fair bhmtni the rode in mother earth, 1111; itirer far in Iteavt-a ; Nea-ant the Non' , revking ray, But to the good id g'tvett, A rThy Ede which koh no need yf , u-1, or moon, o,•,me; Light he the hies.ed Lii111) of God; heaoiv more than niir: GALILEO That the eminent astronomer, Gali leo, was constrained by the Roman Inquisition of hi•: day to recant and abjure the doctrine, now abundantly drmonstrated and universally received, that the Sun is the center of our plan etary system, and the Earth one among the orbs perionlically revolving around the center, has been Widely credited, but not folly admitted. We have repeatedly met assertions that what the Inquisition condemned was not the abstract doctrine of Coperni cus and Galileo, Ina the presumituous attempts of the latter to base it upon and establish it by texts of Scripture. In Walker's Hibernian Magazine we tint] a translation or the sentence actually passed on Galileo by the In quisitors, together with his abjuration therein exacted. The Magazine af firms that the sentence had never be fore appeared in English save iu a provincial newspaper a few years be • fore, and. that the authenticity and accuracy of the 'following translation may be relied on: Sentence paNsrd upon Galileo by the Coma of Inquisition. Whereas, you, Galileo, son of the :late Vincent Galileo, of Florence, bein g seventy years of age, had a charge brought against you in the year 1615, in this hely office, that you Field as true an erroneous opinion held tty many, namely: That the sun is the center of the wo-hi, and -immovable, and that the earth moves even with a diurnal motion; ale() that you had cer- fain scholars into whom YOU instilled - The same doctrine; also, that you maintained a correspondence on this point with certain mathemalicin n s in Germany; also, that you published certain epistles, treating of the solar spots, itr which you explained the same doctrine . as true, because , you answered to the objections wittch, from time to time, were brought against you, taken from the holy scrip tures, by glossing over the raid scrip ture according to your own sense; and that afterward, when a copy of a writing, in the form of an epistle, written by you fi3le6rtain late scholar of yOurs, was presented to you, (it following the hypotheses of Coperni cus,) you stood up for, and defended, cert44n propositions in it, which are THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. against the true sense and authority of the holy scripture. This holy tribunal, desiring, there fore, to provide against the inconve niences and mischiefs which haVe issued hence, and increased, to the danger• of ilur holy faith;_ agreeable to the mandate of Lord N—, and the very eminent doctors, cardinals of this supreme and universal inquisition, two propositions respecting the immobility of the sun and the motion of the earth, were adopted and. pronounced, as under That the sun is in the center of the world, and immovable in respect to local motion, is an absurd proposition, false in philosophy, formally heretical, seeing it is expressly contrary to holy scriptures. • The earth is not the center of the .world, nor immovable, but moves even with a diurnal motion,is also an absurd ptopo,ition, false in philosophy, and, considered theologically, is at least an error in faith. - But, whet eas, we thought fit in the imetim to proceed gently with you; it was agreed upon in the holy congre gatitm held belitre D. N., rk : u the 25th of February, 161 G, that the most emi nent lord. cardinal Bellarmine should enjoin you entirely to recede from die aforesaid . false. docicitte, and should not teach it to others, nor defend it, nor dispute concerning - it; to which command if you would not submit, you should be cast into prison; and, in order to put into execution the same decree, on the fidlowing day you were gently admonished in the palace before abovesaid most eminent lo'rd cardinal Bellarmine, and afterward by the same lord. cardinal, and by the commissary of the holy office, a notary and witness being present, entirely to desist from the said erroneous opinion; and that thereafter it should not be pertained for you to defend it, or teach it, in any manner, either by speaking or writing; and :die, eas you pcom;.ved obedience, you were at that time dis missed. And to the end that such a perni cions'doctrine might be entirely ex tirpated away, and spread no farther, to the serious detriment, of the Catho lic verity, a decree was issued by the holy congregation Indicis, prohibiting the pi hiltng; of books which treat of such sort of doctrine, which was there in pronounced false, and altogether cont.! ary to holy divine scripture. But the same book has since appeared at Florence, published in the year last past, the inscription of which shows you were its author, as the title was, "A Dialeertie'of Galileo Galilei." con cerning the two systems of the world, the Ptolemaic and the Copernican, as the holy congregation, recognizing from the impression of the aforesaid book that the false opinion concerning the motion of the earth—the immo bility of the stm-pievailed daily more and more; the aforesaid book was diligently •examined, when we openly discovered the teansgression of the aforesaid opinion already con demned and in your presence declared to be erroneOus ; because, in the, said book, by various circumlocutions, you undecided, and at the least probable, which must necesssrily be a gaievous error, since an opinion can by no mean.: be probable which bath already been declared and adjudged contrary to divine scripture. . Having invoked the most holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ. and of his Most holy mother, the ever blessed Virgin Mary. we, by this our definite sentence, by the advice and judgment of our most revel end masters of holy theology. mid the doctors of b o th l a w s , our counsellors respecting the cause controvened before us, between the . magnificent Charles Sincerus, doctor of both laws, Ficial procurator of this holy office, on the one part, and you, Galileo (.4ulitei, defendant, questioned, examined, and having confessed, as above, on the second part ive say, judge, and declare, by the present proces-ional - writing, you, the above said Galileo, on account of,_ those things which have been adduced in written process, and which you have confessed as above, that y...at have ren dered yourself liable to the suspicion of"beresy by this office, that is, you believed and maintained a false doc trine, and contrary to the holy and divine scripture, namely, that the sun is the center of Elie orb of the earth, and that it does not move from the east to the west, and that the earth moves and is not the center- of the world; and that this position - may be held and defended as a probable opin ion, alter it had been declared and. defined to be contrary to holy scrip ture; and consequently, that you have incurred all the censures and penalties of the holy canons, and other constitu tions general and . particular, enacted' and promulgated against. such 4elin queuts,from which it is our pleasure DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION, OF MORALITY LITERATURE, AND NEWS COUbERSpORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 2, 1854. to absolve you, on condition that first; with sincere heart and faith unfeigned, you abjure, execrate, and detest the above errors and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to . the Catholic Apostolic Church, in our presence, in that formula which is hereby exhibited to you: . But that your g;ievons and per nicious _error and transgression may not remain -altogether unpunished, and that you may hereafter be more cau tions, serving as an example to others, that they may abstain fiom like of fenses, we-decree that the book of the Dialogue of Galileo be prohibited by public edict, and we condemn your self to .the prism' of this holy office, to a time to be limited by our discre tion; and we enjoin, under the title of salutary penance, that, during three years to come, you recite, once a week, the seven penitential psalms, reserving to ourselves the power of moderating, changing, or taking away entirely, or in part, the aforesaid penalties •and peniteneies. And so we. sav, .prononnce, and by our sentence declare, enact. condemn, and reserve, by this and every other better mode of formula by which of right we eau and ought. So we, the underwritten Cardinals, pronounce r. CARDINAL DE ASCULOi and others NERGINLA RUINS The Richmend.Enguire r praises very much; in a leading article, a collection of the ruins of Jamestown, made by . a Virginian artist. The painter has performed the pious. work of an Old Mortality, and the cam is gratethl therefor, and lyrical, at the same time, in his sentimentalism over the past. We have no doubt a good work has been begun . by the attist; but he should not stop with Jamestown. The .ruins of that place but typify the ruins of Virginia at large, and all her ruins are equally deserving artistic record. For example : Norfolk is commercially a ruin; and Mount Vernon domes tically another ruin; and Richmond, if ant a ruin. might as well be one as be sustained by the trade in human flesh. The fields of Virginia, too, are ruined ; pride and filly. and Tobacco raising. chewing, and spitting, have contributed to wear them' out and drive the" chivalry to new lands. The people, too, are imellectually ruined. There are eighty thousand white hu man ruins who can neither read nor write ; and there are slime hundreds of thousands of illegitimate mulatto ruins, without the position of manhood or womanhood, liable to be sold by their r - vhite parents or brothers and sisters at any moment, to make up tor. real estate ruins: Ruin nestles in the Dismal Swamp and in the Allegba- Ides . ; in the village, and on the old estate. All is ruto.- 'Even the old pride of a Washiogton, praying that the Legislature might abolish Slavery, is succeeded by the tuin of justice and the defense of what the good and great men of Virginia—the Lees. the Jeffersons, the Hem ys—mourned.— Ruin, moral and material, of ethics, of fields, cities; and towns: Even Virginia, "impersonation of the high born aristocrat," as she is, cannot keep Mr. Sully to continue his -menientoes of her ruin: - The editor regrets "to know that he speaks of leaving Vir giuia, having received advantageous . ' offers in another part of the Union." This, however, k not like Old Mor tality, lie stuck to his ruins, and did not rat it. Alas ! that there should be ruins in Virginia—her earliest settlements leading the way to the oblivion await ing her older ones,• acid that human shambles should only postpone the day of her desolatioh. - Unless she adopts a new policy and seeks profit in some more wholesome business than slave breeding, she will, we fear, be given totally over to bats and owls. lut we do not fear that con9ummation for her; she will yet seek safety in freedom, popular , ,educatioo, and honest indus try. The way to this result may be long and difficult, but Virginia has once come near it, and although abounding in ruins she is not alto gether dead. The world will once witness her resuscitation.— Tribune. "In travelling in New Hampshire from Franconia to the Connecticut river," said a gentleman, "I noted the. birdsnests upon' the trees that stood on the road-sides. and felt • de lighted will► the evidence which they gave of.the good qualities of the moth ers and children who live there. I noticed the nest of one hula within three feet of the froarakor of a dWell.' flow •confiding - was that clear• little bird—well did it know that the good mother of that household bad trained up her children in the way they - should go. FANNY FHBN." We should be glad to give the true name of this authoress. - But she pre fers still to maintain her incognito, and a proper deference for the obli gations of .courtesy.' (Which are- as binding in literary as in social life) forbids our doing what would other wise be pan equal gratification- to our readers and ourselves. With regard to the personal history.of FANNY Fknx we feel a. similar constraint. We shall, therefore, only touch, and ,that I. lightly, upon'such points as, under the circumstances, may be referred 'to without the slightest violation of pro priety. Not Many years since, Fanny Fern was living—no matter where—in af fluence. No home need be more lovely, no family more happy, than was hers. Ample 'wealth, devoted love; cultivated intellect, refined taste, and a fervid religious spi;i . t. combined to make that home whatever could be desired on earth, and excited the re spect and admiration of all . admitted to the happy circle. But suddenly a bolt fell. Death came.. The husband and father was smitten down. The widowed mother and the half-orphan children were lea to fight the battle of life alone. Adversity succeeded adversity. Poverty fidlowed in the dismal train, and illness and want had the afflicted family at their. mercy. The mother struggled on as best she could ; 1)14 we all know how , is fin- ladVto find employment which will enable her to obtain a livelihood even for herself, much less for trfam ily of children. The female teacher, , generally receives only a meager "sal ary; the copyist pursues an uncertain calling; the seamstress can at, best , eat n but a miserable *pittance. And so, at last, after bitter years, the-wid owed mother, from sheer despertithin, took to her, pen, and.another and a bright star NVas added to our literary galaxy. Fanny Fern's first article was ten and publi-hed in 1 . 851. It was immediately copied lite and wide. Each succeeding piece met with sim ilar favor; OntiCmost of the newspa pers of this county, and many Bkitish periodicals, were regulio ty enriched with her But while she was thus ihroishing amusement and in struction to the public, she \Va'; not receiving an adequate reward. When ever a woman is obliged togo tub the_ world and earn her V , I (AliV:tig, she bas to undergo vials and daeui ties of which a mani can, perhaps, to. mno just idea. A delicate, 'sensi tive lady can not, for instance, call at newspaper offices to solicit employ ment, or race an a• ticle fur sale, with out being exposed: to annoyances which to her are very paiatal, but which a man might not observe. A refined lady can ill brook the inquiring gaze and itnpetzi..eut stave of hangers on; nor can she' ba.gain for a proper remuneration, nor call again, and again and again, if need be, in foul as . well as tier weather. And then it is often assumed that a woman shinild be paid less for her labor than a man for his. thought hers he equally valuable; and is is only after she has acquired a commanding reputation that She .can ordina • ily obtain jast equivalent tot' her productions. And tilos, for many months, the compensation whiCh Fan ny Fern received for her writings was 'not at all commensurate. with: their value. For articles which were wmth filly dollars, and which Would have commanded that sum had she known better how to sell them, she often received but a tenth. of that amount; and during this time her income was far from being sufficient to Maintain herself and-her children conifo‘tablv. . . Tut with unyielding persevetance, and her trust 'in God .unshaken, she .worked on until she triumphed over all obstacles, earned a name of which -she may well be proud,, secured no ample fintune, and won the increased respect and love of those who ,knew her best. It is, perhaps, needless to remark that - she now• commands the highest price paid to writers in this country. examining Fanny Faru's wri tings,• even the earliest of them, one is r,truck• with the evidence they ex hibit that the writer understands her own powers perfectly; or rather, that she knows positively that she cats„ do certain things better than they have ever, been done before: Though this is unquestionably the case, she deaht less often achieves more brillieht tri umphs than she anticipated vitt other words; she is probably often surprised at the excellence of her own articles. She never makes a mistake; becatise she never attempts what she cannot successfully • achieve. This .fact haT,. been manifested' throUghnut her lif6-. ..ary career. At , first her. articles *From THE FEMALE PROSE WRITEDS OS AMERICA. By Prof. Hart. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co: - • - were mere paragraphs, and contained generally only one clearly pronounced and admirably developed idea. No words we‘e wasted. The idea, or fact, or principle sought to be pre sented was distinctly stated and clear ly" Worked up in every attractive and telling phrase possible (as Beethoven worked up the theme uf a symphony); and then the . article was brought t• an immediate but artistic conclusion. With practice her 'confidence seemed to increase, and she struck out into 'bolder paths. Having tried and proved the strength her pinions, she took loftier flights and continued longer on the wing. Relieved of pecuniary em harassments, and surrounded once more with the comforts of life, she wrote with greater freedom, and cer tainly gave to her .'articles a polish which some of her earlier peices did not possess. Her latest productions ate models of style and and compo sition. dRECDOTES OF TEE HORSE We . 'find the following anecdotes of the Horse in Merry's Mtr:eum, edited bylklr: Goodrich. • They seem strange, but are published as true, and we sup pose they are true : A gentleman, riding home through a wood on a dark night, struck his head against a branch of a tree, and fell stunned to the ground. The horse, finding his master unable to..mOve r _immediately returned to the house they had lett. It was all closed up, and the family had gotid to bed. The horse went directly up to the door, and knocked upon it with his fire foot, till some one rose and came out. •He.then turned suddenly about and walked away. Wondering what he could mean, the man followed, and the faithful, intelligent animal led him to the place where his-master had fallen, and where lie still laid insensible. A little girl, playing on the bank of a canal, fell into the water. There was no person near to help her, and she :was in the greatest danger of (I,•ownii, g , A little pony that had long been kept id the family, and was a great with the child, was feeding i=i the field, near the place where she had fell in. Hen ing her scream, be ran to the bank, pludged in, took her ca-elnlly by her clothes in his mouth; carried her out, and laid her on the grass, where she soon re covered. Ati old horse belonging to a carter had been, particularly familiar with children, fin' his master' had a large family. One day be was dragging a loaded calt through a narrow lane ; he stopped by a young child lying, in the road, who would have been crashed under the ivheels - if the horse bad gone on. The good-nail' ed, sagacious old creature took him carefully ,up by his clothes, cart led him a• few yards to the side of the way, and placed him on a bank. He then moved slowly on, looking back as he went. as if to satisfy himself the little fellow was not Lut. PRAYING MACHINES A recent-traveller among the Him alaya,: gives the following account of the sac , ed implements used by the Thibetan - Monks and Lamas: "The sacred implements in these temples are curious enough: Fitst in impo.lance is the. mani, or praying machine. It is a cylinder of leather, of any size'up to . that of a large barrel or even hogshead, placed vertically upon an axis; so that it may revolve with facility. It Is often painted in 'brilliant colors, and is inscribed with the universal Om Manzi Pa/mi Om. Written prayers are deposited within. this cylinder, which is made to revolve by pulling a sting attached to a crank.A n iron arm projecting from the side of the.cylinder, strikes a small bell at each, revolution, and any one who pulls the string properly is sup posed to have ilbpeated all the prayers contained in the cylinder at every stroke of the bell. Some of these ma chines are put in motion by water power, and thus turn out an amount of supplication too great to be easily estimated. There is another kind borne in the hand which can be made to revolve by a very slight movement Of the owner. These are usually car tied about by the wandering preists, half Mountebank, half Lama, and whole beggar, who perambulate the country, managing to pickup a very comfort able subsistence, though they not un frequently present a very dilapidated appearance in the matter of clothing. If these cylinderS do their Work in a satisfactory manner—and those. who use them, have no doubts on that score --no labor-saVing machine ever in :vpnted can he . gt, n compare-with them. What is a sewing machine, that makes a thousand stitches a min utea printing Machine that throws• off twenty thousand sheets in an hoth-,=. compared with an instrument •Which . repeats all the. supplications . prayer-book, as often as a cylinder can he made to revolve on its axis?" The Monks of Himalaya are by means entitled to claiiii all the origin?. ality of inventing praying machines. We have ,had them long, and iii great. abundance, and often decorated in as " brilliant colori," ..as those of • the- Thibetan Monks. Their prayers are not rolled. out, it is true, like those. thrown into a Cylinder, and turned by. a crank. But they are thrown off with the least apparent difficulty, and can be multiplied as abundantly as occasion may demand. I have often seen one of these machines operating in the religious sphere—a most beau-. tifully turned prayer, with roundest, mos - t musical periods, I hive heard come from one of those mactines,_that, ' the .Lord would give us righteous rulers; that " Ho might be made our rearward," and that our nation be . exalted in righteousness; producing, also, in the richest, most musical tones, our Lord's Prayer, that His will be done, on earth, even as in heaven—rolling off,. - -also, that most/ tender mid heart-touching supplica tion to the kind Father of all, in - be half of the oppressed,. the wronged, the orphan and widow, the homeless and bread less, the child of -- the drunk ard, and the forgotten of earth. Bat then, this machine operates badly, in the'spliere of the actual, the real, and crushes, like the wheel of . a corn-, shelter, the beautiful prayer that, a i moment before, passed from its -lips. It takes with its taper fingers, a small piece .of paper, folding a printed 'name, throws it into a box, and lo! in time, there issues thence, a power that crushes that prayer, and grinds it to poWder. An armed being, as the bead of Minerva, springs forth, and ia his grasp the kingdom of. darkness `spreads. The poor are despised, op ! pression grows stronger, rum spreads 1 its pall of death. There was run through this pray ing machine .a.- - Rum and -Pro-Slavery vote!—Reformer. - . FREE Tit!. DE "Hitherto, my political creed has been composed of but two articles, ami-slavery and temperance, but- I do not7know but I shall adopt a third, viz: airect taxation and free trad. America can live with free trade, Europe cannot lire without it." The above opinion expressed by the Rev. M. Wallace, of this city, 16 his laz,t letter written from Ireland to the American is worthy of attention inasmuch as it is the conclusion to which a man of candid and discerning • mind has arrived after examining the results of commerce and trade in both hemispheres.. We ha4e always been a believer in free trade, and the char acter of the present administration has led us to feel that it was especially desirable to abolish the present system of collecting, revenues from the cus toms. Let a system of direct taxation, be adopted, and the great body of the people will watch the treasury with a jealous eye. lithe 820,000,000, taken from the pockets of the people by the (.;adden treaty, had been levied by a direct tax, instead of by duties upon imported articles; the denunciations which would have come up to Wash ington from every section of -the Union, would not only have filled the executive ‘vith, dismay but de:eated every member of Congress who voted htr that infamous fraud. As it now is, the sum comes•notso - tnuch from the pockets of the capitalists as from the laboring classes—the- consumers of sugar, coffee; clothing, leather, silk and linen goods. The only sure road to economy' in our national expendi tures is DIRCCT TAXATlON.—Manclas ter (X. H.) Democrat. Henry Ward Beecher in an excel-. lent article in the Independent . con " Building a House," says: " But a genuine holvie, au original house, a house that expresses the builder's in- . ward idea of life in its social and do mestic aspect, cannot be plawied fur him; nor can „he, all at once, sit down and plan it. It must 'be the result of his own growth. It must first be wanted—each room and each little nook:. But, as we come to our-, selves little by little, and gradually, so f a house should either be built-by successive additions, or it should be built When we are old enough to put together the accumulated ideas of our "Do you drink hale 'in America!" asked a cockney.. "No, we- drink s 140,c1rr.anc?AgAtlin . g,7 said the Yp.n kee. The .lady whose, sleep was brokeri has had. it mended.- !II NO. 24i