VOL. VII. TEE P,EOPLE'S JOURNAL. TOILISHED VS CRYTHURSDII MORNING. BY ADDISON AVERY. Terms—lnvariably In Advance: One copy per annum, Wale subscnlcrs, TERMS OF ADVERTISING I square, of 12 lines or less, I insertion, At 41 11 14 3 insertions LuO " every subsequent insertion, .23 Rule and figure work, per sq., 3 insertions, 3.00 Evers subsequent inseriion, . co . tuisn, one year, 25.00 1 eo.unin, six moths, 15.00 Adainistra:ors or Executors' Notices, 2.00 Peritrs Sa'es, per tract, 1.50 ProfeisiontlCard4 not exceeding eight lines iuer•ed for 8").0to per annum. Alt le.ters on business, to secure at tenion, should be addressed (post paid) to the Publisher. THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR A youth light-hearted and content, I wander through the word; ' Here, Arab-like, is pitched toy tent, And straight again is fur:ed. Yet oft I dream, that once a wife Close to my heart was locked; And in the sweet repose of life A blessed child 1 rocked. I wake! Away that dream—away! Too long did it remain! So long, that both by night and day It ever comes again. The end lies ever in my thought ; To a grave, so cold and deep, The mother beautiful was brought; Then dropped the child asleep. But now the dream is wholly o'er, I bathe mine eyes and see, And wander through the world once more, A youth solight and free. Two lock*--and they are wondrous fair— Left Inc that vision mild; The brown is from the mother's hair, The blonde isfrom Inc child. And when I see that lock of gold, Pale grows the es ening red; And v% hen the dark look I behold, I wish that I were dead. A WORD TO THE WISE. The _Anti-Slavery movement is no longer at the mercy of spasmodic and irregular forces. It has got a prodig ious momentum from its own action that secures it against obstruction from opposing influences forever here after. It cannot be arrested or again Fubordinated to other political issues. This is the great fact evolved from the elections; of 1351. .We especially ; commend it to the Know Nothing managers. The leaders of public af fairs fur the last quarter of a century, have made other questions dominant, and centred upon them the- chief interest of the public mind. Slavery, just so far as possible, has been kept out of the ring of-general patty dispu tation, and every attempt to introduce it has boon systematically frowned down _by the engineers of both the great political parties. But time has gradually disposed of misty of. the great ques7ion.; in issue, and slavery has a- , gradually forced its way in to take their place, till now it is the ab elrhing and overshadowing question in our politic;. This po-ition it will continue to occupy till either the National Govet nmeoti, divorced from the support of the institution, or the free and slave States of the 'Union cease to live together under one Gov ernment. That the movement will be constantly onward and invariably successful, is too much to expect or to hope. It will ha% e its petiods of success, and it will probably meet with reverses. The cause of ,free principles has never yet in the history of the world exhibited a constant advance; and it is too much to expect from the future an experience totally opposite to that of the past. It is enou g h if we are able to mark a con- Itaotly accumulating force driving forward the great cause of Human Progress, The varying results of a campaign dis May no great command er. They are the fortune _of war. He is content if the course of events ni,en the whole, favorable to his aims. The signs of the times preeminently admonish the friends of freedom that they should be girding up their loins for future contests. They have every catn,e for encouragement, and none for fear. The only substantial and wide spread basis for an enduring and successful party in the free States is that upon which they repose. They have the heart, the conscience, and the understanding of the people with them. Every motive that can sway the action of independent, liberty leving, moral, or religious men, con strains the voter to their ranks. All that is noble, all ,that is true, all that is pure, all that is manly and estima ble in human character, goes to swell the Power of the Anti-Slavery party of the North. That partyis no longer the fraction, the handful of men it once was, with designs tniscOnceiied, motives anpersed, and conduct de tried. It now embraces every North ern man who does not want to see this Government converted into a hug, engine for the spread of slavery . . . THE .. ~ ' • PEOPLE'S . ! _.....__:......: , ... JO I 1 ~. . :, , ..,•. , _ :., .....;;, ....... ..., over the whole coutinent, every man who is and was opposed to, the scan dalous attempt to abridge . the terri tory of freedom and . enlarge that of servitude, by the passage of the Kan sas-Nebraska bill. It has thus a broad and firm basis, whereon every North ern public man should stand now, and whereon they must stand in the future, or be driven into merited disgrace. At this moment, just as the old and hitherto invincible Democratic .has been destroyed by collis ion with the Anti-Slavery sentiment of the North, a party has arisen upon a new - platform, with its members mainly engaged in seeing how skill fully they can dodge and avoid the Anti-Slavery issue which everywhere occupies the public heart.: Its chief business just lIOW is to devise ways and means to escape the necessity of siding with or against the Anti-Slave ry party of the North. Its utmost dexterity is: called into exercise, and it is yet to be seen with -what success. At this juncture we wish to, call atten tion to the inevitable fact that the Auti.Nebraska or Anti-Slavery party in the North hold a position which they cannot and will not abandon, and cannot and will not defer to any .other question or platform whatever. They stand immovably upon the- ground of resistance to the encroachments of slavery; they aim at the disconnec tion oldie Government from its sup port; they are, and will be, until the work is accomplished, for the restora tion of the prohibitory clause of the Missouri Compromise. The N6rth ern Anti-Nebraska men will insist upon this as the first condition of co operative action iu all coming elec tions, as they have in the last. They have won everywhere on this ground,, and they are not now goin g to aban don it. Any battles to be fought, or any victories to be won, by their aid, must be fought and won on this plat form.. Let all who are calculating political chances, let all who are in a quandary as to what combinations can be .made in the North, and who, per chance, may be verdantly speculating upon concessions - or suppressions by the opponents of Slavery-Extension, not dream of any other or better terms than these. Upon this point all must be plain, open and above-board. Our motto is, and is to be in the Presiden tial contest, as in all that precede it, REPEAL of the law which broke down the harriers to the spread of Slavery, and on that position we stand or fall. The Anti-Nebraska men will not be. cajoled into the support of any Pres idential or other candidate who hesi tates on this question'. Their candi date for the Presidency must stand squarely on it. Let all,_ whether they know nothing or know something, know so much as this, and govern themselves accordingly. The country can be triumphantly swept upon this issue, leaving not a remnant of the Nebrascal policy or flirces anywhere standing. And it is the only existing public issue upon which a triumphant. majority, or any majority at all, can be to-day obtained in the United States. Any party that attempts to tarry the country upon a I platiiwm less broad than this, will find itself' met by an opposition fatal to its success. Attempts may be made. and be partially successful, to succeed, here and there, on other grounds. But the final result will be scrub rac s all over the country, the repre sentatives of the smallest minorities in sentiment often finding their way into power. Instead of fighting one great battle, as may be done, with ! a compact and overwhelming force strong enough to crush all adversaries I and to inaugurate an era of peace, •harmony and justice, ending in the 'absolute settlement of the slavery question, so far at the General Gov ernment is concerned, we shall wit ness an infinite number of political skirmishes, sometimes resulting in favor of one party, and sometimes in favor of another—the aggregate re sults of which- will be just nothing at all. The time consumed in such struggles will, in the end, be found to have been wholly thrown away, and the broken fragments of all sides will still have to be gathered on the One point where all are agreed, and the contest again opened and pressed. to its solution. It is the interest of the Nebraska• men in the North to foment discord among the friends of freedom, and keep up divisions among them. In this, and this alone, is their only hope even of , partial success. Shall the opponents of their great in iquity gratify them? $l.OO 1.25 We submit these considerations to the Anti-Nebraska men of all sides, and ask ibr them• a thoughttill and candid consideration. The movements of individuals and parties, iu reference to the Presidency, seem to render their expression particularly necessary . - DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, NEWS COUDERSPOR' . I%, POTTER . VOUNIT; - PA., - MARCH 15, 1855, at thiS time. Ve are deeply solicit ous that the present high and com manding pcisition Of the Anti-Nebraska men—holding, as they do to-day, the power to control the Government— shall • not be lightly thrown away or Weakened. We deprecate. a -- scrub race for the Presidency, as breaking the force of the Anti-Nebraska move: ment, and prolonging a contest which can now • be speedily ended and . brought to a . beneficent termination the majesty of overwhelming num bers, carrying With it n• moral . force that shall silence:and •destrOy, : all -op position. But this scrub-race, where in nothing is certain,. must come,, if the restoration of . the prohibitory clause is not made the central idea of the Presidential contest. This issue is tangible,: and permanent. It Nvill be sustained by a vast majority, while • all others are comparatively vague and transient, and -their , strength un certain. We believe that a verrlarge portion of the South itself would be found ready to gdwith the North on this ground, if all the men who really hold to it would rally with *ardor to its support, and make it the sine qua non of their cooperation in any , na tional movement. Let •us hope that the good sense of the country will prevail through all party organiza tions, and that the Northern people will illustrate their . intelligence and stability by steadfastly adhering to the position they so nobly won in the elections of 1854.-IV. Y. Tribune. BACH NICHTB RICH DEVELOPMENTS-WHEN WINE IS IN, WIT IS OCT-TILE PLAN DISCLOSED AND THE SECRET TOLD The Bucyrus Journal, of ,March 1, contains a rich treat for political gos sips and sober thinkers. One G. W. Johns, an official of General Pierce," and two democrats, Hall and Jackson, started for Rich mond by Rail, to form a Sach Niclit Society, and reached that place, 'Feb. 16. The .faithful met them, and got into a regular spree. " Drunk came," and brought in the Manila], who nabbed G. W. Johns,while the others, being swift of foot, managed to es cape. Thereupon this worthy wrote •as follows to the Editor of the Craw fordcounty Journal: MANSFIELD, Fin. 16, 1855 Dear Sir—Here I am "tight" as thunder, and a good deal . 11;gliter than any of us were, when the Marshal undertook to nab the whOle gang for getting struck with 'Jersey Lightning.' Fortunately for you fellows you were a little more nimble than I was and un derstood the private alleys with which I, a stranger, was unacquainted. But I do nut think you and Hall and Jack son displayed the right kind of diSpo sition to jump and run, leaving me alone, to drop into the hands of an officer without having any intimation given of the proximity of the police. - The success of the administration and the certainty_ of getting our re ward, depends upon our keeping united. but the idea of forming a Sach Nicht association is all knocked in the head for the present, (confound that Muscat of Shack's.) Gen. Pierce will think I am a devilish queer clerk, and am "doing up" his business in beautiful style by getting into such a confOunded scrape. Really, I cannot help but blame you fellows, but no matter now. The Mansfield Guards are all right, the Postmaster tells me. As soon as I get clear of this arrest; I will let you know, and you. and Hall and Jackson can come over and assist me in organizing. In haste Yours, G. W. JOHNS'. Here was a fix; but .. G.W. Johns is a genius. He got bail; agreed, to appeal-before the Mayor, changed his mind, and "cut stick." His next let ter, therefore, was dated at . ASIILAND,.Feb. 17, 1855. . Here I am, clear and clean, ' and having the letter which 1 wrote at Mansfield still in my pocket, I will continue an explanatory note in .con nection and remit to you. You don't catch me in Mansfield again. The Mayor, riot having time to go into an examination, bound me over to appear at the, next (this). morning for examin ation. 1 got some friends (1) to enter bail for me, and afterwards found out that they are putting. the temperance law in force without any distinction as to the standing. or Seeing of the persons arrested. Seeing no chance for myself if I came to trial; I. '.'"cut stick" and left the bail in for it. , I would have had some compunction about doing that if they had treated me right, but I had hard- work to coax my fricnds.to bail me, and even then, I had to promise) that I would say. a "good word" for them to the Presi dent in case there should happen any snail agencies or any bther government offices to be filled, With the certifi- . • catef, that my pessessiiM from Pierce and other leading men ofWashL ingtOti and of this State, and of which they,.had full knowletige,l think it 'was their duty to step forward - promptly and assist me; but when I found how backward and shy theyiivere,l deter mined that if I got them, into it, I would let them stick; and I did and am not in the least sorry fur it. They can recover the loss the best way they can. 1 will try to get to your •pla'ce soon and form an organization. Your county has great repiitaiion with the powers that be at Washington, and.of course your name as well as the names. of 4041. e. other leaders of your county, stand high on the list of the,Presi dent's favor. If we can push the Sag „Nicht association through and keep' strong enough to carry the next Presidential election, you Prnay,,all expect to obtain a reward fully equiva lent to the majority your county will give ;,- , ,you know the terms: 1,000 majority will entitle your head man, to a chargeship, with other offiCes for other leaders. -The postoffices of course you get anyhow. Our name takes well with the butch, but it does not go down well with the Irish.. But the Irish have no help for themselves. The' Know-Nothings are down,on the Cathiilics, and that fixes them. If I am - rightly informed, the Gerrnana are strong in Crawford, and there are..but few Irish to conciliate, so that I see no difficulty in your keep ing everything right. I will give you due 'notice when to expect me. . Yours - fraternally, . • G-. W. J. BY oversight these rich letters were sent to the Bucyrus Journal instead of the Cranford County Journal. The editor of tie forme' did not exactly understand them, having neither sym pathy. with sack or . Sag Niclit, but concluded something rich-was "leak ing- out." So he published them! But the day 'after, a note, a precious note, was received by him, the close of which is as folloWs: - "ASHLAND, Feb. IS, 1855 En. BUCARUS JOURNAL, SIR-It is only .:;ecessary to say that it (the -let ter) .icas misdirected, and will .in all prolaility fall into your hands. • As the contents aro strictly of a prirate nature, I trust that if you get this before you receive that, that you will -return it to my address at this place without opening it. It; perchance, it should have reached you and you should have opened it; 1 Will he under lasting obligations to you if you will reonclose and return it to me, for which service . I will remit you ten dollars as soon as I get it. . Yours truly, G. NV. Jouss. The editor of the Bucyrus Journal determined to probe the matter, and ascertain who this G. W. J-ohns was, and what was his business. So he visited' Mansfield and Ashland, and ascertained that he was at the present time a clerk in the employ of the Administration at Washington, but engaged just now in the business of organizing Sag . Nieltt Societies in Ohio!—Cleveland Leader. ANTICIPATIONS of the future, is an 'elevating and spiritualizing exercise of the Mind. It tends to carry the soul a little way towards its proper, region. It tends to lessen the false importance of things in this world, and to slacken their hold. It contributes to obviate that unnatural and perniciuus estrange- ment and dissociation between our present and future state. It tends to habittiate the spirit to seek and find the grand importance of its existence in it, hereafter. It tends to awaken a lively and sacred curiosity, which is surely a right and worthy state of feel ings with which to go toward another World, and to go into it. It may help to turn to valuable account the varieties in the present system of our existence, the facts in surrounding naturethe immediate 'circumstances of. our own being by. prompting, on each partic ular, the thought and the — question, "What, corresponding to this—what in ;contrariety to this—whae, instead of this—may there be in that other world'?" It may aid to keep us asso ciated with those who are gone thither. It may give new emphasis to our impression of the 'evilofsin, and the excellence of all wisdom, holiness, and piety, by the thought, ‘;What manner of effect is this adapted to,result in, in that future state'?" As Rufus Choate was eross , questiOnL• ing a witness" tlie - other day in; one . of our courts, he asked what profession he jolrowed for a livelihood?—The witness repliedi'" I am a candle of the Lord,---a minister cifthe gospel." ".0f what denomination?" asked the .coun selor.. "A. Baptist, ". replied the.Wit nese. "Then, ' said Mr. C., " you are a dips, bur/. trust not a witke - d candle.". BEB9BTAI'Ui FROM THE I1~6IDL: ___An Arnerican.physiciao, - attaclie4.to the Russian army, has written a letter to 'the, PrOviiknee Touinid, dated - Se', hastopol; Dec. 26. Afler - describiit the, situation .of the town, " and the beautiful views :from. the ,walls, he continues: • "Three days ago I crossed the, bay for the first tune; paSsed several hours in the city, and had the honor of dining with Gen. Ostensacken, who has lately taken the defense of the city, and .was most cordially received., ,Aid-de : Carnp Rumsrii conduked me' the cupola of a house used aS'a place of observa tion, on the side of the city nearest the French., works, which commands •, a perfect view of the entire, English. and French 'batteries, and 'of their encaMp: ment: The trenches of the French are a little within '500" feet of the outer lines of the Russian batteries, but I believe they have approached no nearer then they were two weeks ago: .The city haVing been beseigcd two months and a half; has not; as you!may imagine, an-entirely deserted appear ance. ...Stores ave open, women-and children are seen here and there in the streets, and every pleasant after noontbdre is music on the Boulevards. On my way to, the ferry, after leaving the general's to return to the hospital, my progress -was suddenly arrested by some plaintiVe strains wafted down from the. bights of the Boulevards; and as 1 listened, the music was ren dered more plaintive, and even more touchingly sublime, by the oft-repeated peals of the cannon; ever and anon, intermingling their deep and terrific bass.. - '" The. military operations, as con ducted at•present, &insist only of more orless firing from the different bastions during the day; and occasionally at night . some pretty hot cannonading. To witness at night,.at these times, the rapidly succeeding flashes of the guns, • the bombs, like balls•of fire, perform ing., their beautiful curves through the air, and to hear the terrible-whizziug of the halls, is peculiarly and fearful ly interesting. • Christmas bus passed here without anything whatever to remind me of the delightful and merry Christmas holidays - of home. The Russian Christmas comes twelve days later, as their dates are so much behind ours. The climate here is not severe, With very little - snow during the win ter. Last night it was sufficiently cold to freeze up the mud, of which, in rainy weather, the depth' is actually frightful; and fir the weather to-day, nothing . could be finer, clear, bright, and mild, and it is only at long inter vals that we hear the report of cannon." Front the Conneatuville Courier, A PATRIOT. The editor of the Kansas Pioneer is a patriotic man. His wrath is greatly kindled because of sundry papers which, advocate that "all men are born free and equal, and are entitled to the inalienable rights of life, liberty,, and the pursuit of happiness." This doc trine, he is fully persuaded, is a-trea sonable one, and ought to he stifled before it makes further progress. It is one which creates hard feelings, on the .part of some "gentlemen "'down south," - who ddal in that peculiar property called "niggers.". And it is also gaining strength, he thinks—inso much that " the institutions of the South are invaded at their very doors." Verily, the Pioneer editor is indignant, and thrusts his patriotic language abroad in a style that. sets at defiance all previous attempts at "honest indig nation." Hear him: "0 tempora ! 0 mores Has it come . to. this, that the press, aye, three of them in one small town, in a sparsely settled . territory,' shall thus trample under' foot the constitution of the United States, and set our code' of Civil Law-and. Religious . Institutions at defiance? And still they live. Live! Yes, weekly scatter over our beloved land thousands of largo papers from these three Abolition .presses, their •nefariouS acid' incendiary missiles, to light the fires of civil and political discord till the heart shall, faint, at the carnage,. and anarchy will roll over our ' • , • MEASURES, NOT MEN-A young man Was .frequently cautioned by his father to vote for "measures, net men." He promised to do so, and soon after re ceived a bonus - to vote for a Mr. Peck. His father, astonished at hia voting for a man whom . be - deemed objectionable . , inquired his reasons for voting . so. "Surely, father," said the youth, "you told me to. vote- for measures, and if Peck is net a measure, I don't. know what is," , . • THERE is a maiden -lady in Connect= kik who iniio extremely nice in. her notions of female 'modesty,. that she turned off her washerwoman,. because she put her clothes iii .the sane tub with those of a young Ell TO ASPIRING YOUNG YEN • 'l:Want to go into business,' is the : ispiration 'Of our young men. 'Can't you find me a place in the city?' is their constant inquiry. -• (Friend,' we answer tO. Many, 'the best business you can go into, you will.find. on your father's farm or in his wurk shop: : If you have no futility . or : frieadi to aid you, and no prospect 'opened to you there, turn your face to the Great West, and there build up a home -and- a fortune. ' But dieam not of getting suddenly rich, by speculation, rapidly, by trade, or any how by : a profession. 'All these ave nues are choked by eager, struggling aspirants, and ten must be" trodden down intho press, where one can vault upon his neighbor's shoulders to honor or wealth. After LB, be dtither afraid hot ashamed of honest- industry; and if you catch yourself fancying any 'thion: 4 more - respectable than this, be , • ashamed of it , to the last day of your life. • ; Or, if you find yourself shaking more cordially the ha - nd of your cousin the COngressman, than of your uncle ihe'BlackSmith, as such, write your self down an enemy to the principles dour institutions; and a traitor to the dignity of humanity.' GREELEY. .THE Lafayette Journal thus alludes to featureet the trial of S. M. Booth, of MillWankee, which deserves • the hearty coraleinnation' visited upon it by the Journal: • • It is a sad commentary on the free- Aona - of our institutions when such facts as the following cOme to light in regard CO the enflircement of the most odious law everimposed upon a free people: lu the late trial of S. M. Booth, at Mil waukee, for •the rescue of the fugitive slave'Glover, one of the juror's openly said to Booth'l .counsel; "I am death against your Side." The Counsel Of the prisoner objected to the packieg process pursued by the Marshal and Clerk, contrary to laiv, and sought to appeal .on the. ground of illegality; but the Judge refused to hear his state ment read ; s and when complaint was made to thdJudge that the juror was disqualified to act with impartiality on account of his declaration that he- was death. against the prisoner, the Judge; .said that this was no objection against rhim: he was just the man they wanted, for he wasfor . enforcing the law. , Why should .theological disputants apply opprobrious epithets to ono another? One Dr. Foster lectured the other evening in Brooklyn on Theodore Parker, calling him an "Infidel," etc. Why an infidel? With . . - respect to certain opinions held by Dr. Foster, Mr. Parker is an infidel, i. c., an unbeliever. So, With respect to certain opinions held by Mr. Parker, Dr. Foster is .an infidel. But the word infidel is a word of opprobrium. It was the word applied by the Cru saders to Turks, Saracens, and Assas sin; it is held to mean, not merely a want of belief, but a want of fidelity; and a person who applies so foul a name to a man 'of blameless life and. conscientious loyalty to what he be lieves to be true and right, convicts himself of uncharitableness and nar row-mindedness. Theodore. Parker, of course, entertains erroneous opin ions; if he didnot, he would not be human;. but doctors of - -'divinity are not likely to convince him.of his errors by, " calling him names."7--Life ."Ir - every cask of liquor produced in the country, were to be taken as it left the manufactory, and spilled in the gutter, - and the cost paid out of the cowmen treasury, the losS to the coun try would be less than it actually is under the ordinary course of the traf fic."—*--Jonrnal of Commerce. - How true is this l and yet if the Press of the'country would utter this truthin earnest,.hew soon might it be . true that every grog shop would •be closed up, .and the land free from the .curse. The supineness, the indiffer ence, the'criminal neglect ofthemasses upon thii subject, is after all, the chief reason all the liquor has not been spilled ere this... Rouse ye, ; oh slumbering' p e ople, and see your own children hastening to the drunkard's grave, and ; if you have any wish to save them or others-, do something.now,.before it is to late.—Now is the time to work.— Conn Fountain. Loss or AN . : ELEpuszcr.—Caps.. McKay, of the ship. William Goddard, which arrived at this port this morning from Calcutta,' had oti board a noble Elephant When he left Tort, bet soon after getting io sea, the animal became very stid-sick, his 'sufferings being ap parently proportionate to his size. He also experienced much inconveni ence Wom 'cold' weather, although he was well clothed in flannels, and funny lic died. v .The'value of the animal in this countryhive been about 550, 000. Boston Traraler. M INN 11•=. II NO. 43.
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