VOL. VIII. THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. PIRLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNIND. BY ADDISON AVERY. Terms—lnvariably In Advance: One copy per annum, $l.OO Village sabscribers, 125 TERMS OF ADVERTISING. 1 - sqnare, of 1:?. lines or less,l insertion, $0.50 ~" " J insertions, 1.50 " every sob.equent in , ertion, Rule and figarn work, per sq., 3 insertion'', 3.00 liven• Atibietinent insertion, COlil4lll, OM year, I column, six months Administrators' .or Executors' Notices, liheritrs Sales, per tract, Professional Cards not exceeding eight lines 'wetted for $5.10 per annum. All letter• on busiitess, to secure at ention, should be addres,ed (post paid) to the Publisher. TER BETTER LAND =EI htve dreams, sweet dreams of the BETTER The Wis.:till home of the early dead; Where the loved that we wept for, a shining hand, In the field: prepared for the pore are led. More preeiote , than cold are those dream, to toe Than gem,' from the mine or pearls from the I have wandered much in that beautiful land, And !dept on the hanks of its c ooling streams; And prayed th.it me ghls; of golden sand Might cbb its last in the Land of Dreams. And as often the I;sion of peace has flown, And the Real of Earth more cheerless grown. There iq no dee:6 - in that Better Land— No of leaves, nu fading of flowers.. The low, Whi,p . ring winds are balmy and bland, And the blossoms of Spring e'er gladden the No cloud ever sullies the deep blue sky, Where the Sun of llts love ever rides on high, There are .iitigjng ford; in that hest retreat That warble a sweet. unbroken •strain t • And the golden harp , of the loved repeat The go-liing lllliiody Elver again: Aed each 'flower. like a golden hell, 'f lie echoing cadenee seems to swell. 0. ye who ha% e fone:ed that llet!er Land ci•v of sapphire. with streets of gold, Aral lil.tzing with diamond , on every hand— Your dream. to the Beal, is dark and cold . glor . your uttermost thought &Jilt eclipse, Poi it 'necks at the conning of mortal lips BLAME NOT THE WAYS OF GOD I=ll There was a rich mair who once heard that alms-giving and the prac tice of other good works was not merely a sacred duty. but the hiLdiest Iviidorn and pleasure also. He took this tv his heart, and had no time to lose . , and having been long in lot ming his purpose, he went forth on the same day to do some charitable deed. He soon Ihund a beggar clothed lin racs. ‘. Come with me, my frieml." sai(l ‘• I will clothe thee." When he reached the house he mong,ht among, his garments, and not finding a thread-bare coat. he gave the beggar one that was almost new. The poor roan thanked him a thou sand times, and said; May (led le ward thee r' But in his joy of having done a good work, he did nut listen to the herrgat's t'lin;ks ; for it WAS not these that he desired. And he went forth again to do good. • de now met. with a poor family that had no bread to eat. lie said compas sionat.;ly, " I will relieve your wants," and lie bought a barrel of meal, and gave it to them. Filled with emotion, they called him their benefactor, and promised to remember him in their prayers. But the rich man rejoiced even more than the pour family, and he said to himself, " Ves, it is true, be pevolence is like a fruitful and plea-:ant garden." When, on the following day, he found a sick man who was very poor, he sent him nourishing conserves and strengthening cordials to promote his recovery, and again repeated thanks, moved him far less, however, than the consciousness that be had aided and benefitted a poor man Who was suffer ing, upon a bed of illness. "He will hi: health the sooner," he tliought to himself, " and return to his labor, and be' bitter enabled to support his family. Thus I will do good and not give , money to the poor, but rather supply them with what they need at once, for this cannot.harm thorn, like gold and silver which they often mis use." Therefore, on._ the ensuing day, he gave a bible to a beggar woman who used profane language, and said he Would aid her bounteously if she would learn to read God's word there in: And, the woman promised to do so, and thanked him, as it seemed with deep and heartfelt emotion for the gift But as 'the rich and benevolent man walked out on_ the .following day to 'do good, his way lekl. him accidentally by a broker's shop. He had scarcely east a ;glance in . at .the door, when he stepped nearer,. in astonishment,. and: 171-I.ll] PEOPLE'S J I UR, \AL beheld his . fine new coat banging in the midst of threadbare and patched garments, and upon the table with various books, lay the Bible which he had the day before given to. the wo man. A nearer examination con vinced him that he. was not mistaken, and to the question how they came there, the - broker replied, " Two prof ligate beggars sold them to me for a few pence, which they have probably spent in drink." This pierced the rich man to the heart, and he walked sorrowfully away; for he thought bow shamefully his gifts had been - abused: Sunk in deep relleCtion, lie had almost stum bled over a bariow which two tired porters had set down, in order to rest. I'hey were carrying a barrel which he imagined he had seen before. He fidlowed them inquisitively. They soon roiled it into a baker's shop, and on inquiring he learned that the poor family to whom ho had given it, had sold it. Then his blood. boiled, and he walked angrily onward. EMI 15.00 2.00 1.5'1 He now stood before the house of - the sick man to whom rte had sent the conserves and cordials. Loud laugh ter and merry song reached his ear from the invalid's chamber, and upon looking in, he discovered the two men who were sitting at a table drinking wine or brandy. Then rage took possession of his soul, and he resolved thenceforth to quit the foolish practice of doing good, and to trouble himself about no one, as every gift was but a temptation to sin, and .as the evil in the World was augmented rather than diininished thereby. And when again on the following day a beggar crossed his threshold, and asked him liUmbly for alms, an evil spirit awoke within his bosom. c•orn:uily ho cast a stout hempen rope to the beggar, with the words— " That is the best alms fur you and your like. 'Begone, vagabond, and hang yourself therewith !" The beggar looked with a sigh towards Heaven, and silently walked away with the most despicable of all gifts. But the rich man kept his an ger till evening, and railing at the corrupt world, murmuring aiiainst od and reproving his long suffering, he sought his couch, and sleep soon received the wearied man into its MEM He then dreamed that he was.stand ing alone. in a vast inoadOw. A cloud descended slowly to the earth, and an angel stepped forth from its Midnt, and' his glance was pleasant, and the robe which he wore was as white as snow. and white also was the lily which he held in his hand. In the messenger from above beckoned . him to approach, and as he did so with heating heart, the angel said to him, " I am sent because. of thine un belief—listen, then, and • treasure up my words : "The garment Nyllich thou gayest away, and (East Fee at the broker's, was purchased afterwards by a poor amaritan who gave it up to a devout and excellent youth who yesterday had his only coat burned 011 his back in endeavoring to save a human be ing's life, and who to-morrow is to be ordained a minister . of the gospel. He. is at this moment upon his knees thanking the Lord for this gift. The Bible wt.ich thou gayest now serves to edify and enlighten the thoughtless son of the broker, who was . already entering upon the path of vice. The barrel of meal was sold by that poor family in order to pay their landlord who is nearly as poor as themselves, and who presses them hard for the payment of their rent. They have hungered for a day, but they have gone to bed contented since a roof is now secured to them, The conserves which were sold for intoxicating drinks, were the means of frustrating a plot against the life of a worthy man which these men revealed in their drunkenness. Lastly, the rope with which thou in thy blindness didst mock at God and poverty, has, in the hands of that beggar, proved a source of good, and not of evil. 0-rief led- the poor man out along the steep bank of the liver, where he heard cries for help, and looking up on the stream, he beheld a follow.creature struggling in the waves. Then that rope which thou didst destine for au instrument of destruction, became an instrument of reseed. Casting it to the drowning man who caught it when on the point of sinking, the beggar with great labor drew him to the shore. Therefore blame not the ways' of a Being who is unsearchable and past finding out; tebuke not the Lord whom thou canst never comprehend, but do good and doubt not." With these words the form of light melted, away , into the air, and _upon the rosy clouds stood written •these words :,• "Happy are they, who see not and still believe," - When he awoke; the rich man corn DEVOTED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, AND THE DISSEMINATION OF MORALITY, LITERATURE, AND NEWS COUDERSPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., JUNE 7, 1855. muned with himself, and he thence forth did po d without hesitation, murmuring, or doubting. Then his good deeds_ became for him and others, a true garden of blessing ' and of pl6asure. From the Cayuga Chief. THE STORX Never in' the history of the Anti- Slavery agitation, has anything oc curred to stir more deeply the mind of the North, than the recent outrages in Kansas. .The most sluggish and indifferent, are awakened to the most intense feeling. Even conservatism thinks that there is such a thing as stooping too . low to Southern tyranny, and is more than half inclined to gird its loins for a struggle with the oli garchy of the bowie knife and lash. Throughout the length and breadth of the Northern land, there is,an•omin ous burst of indignant feeling—a clenching of teeth and of hands, which forebodes movements of more than, ordinary strength and determination. A North will vet be fbund, and when. once aroused and closed in with slavery, freedom will not longer blush at the serfdom of a whole people. Hearts never throbbed so fiercely as now against the ever insatiable slave power of the South: We never have been more sad in view of the overbearing insolence of the slaveocracy, than at the recent affairs in Kansas. The press of Mis souri has endorsed the action of the bowie-knife bandits who entered a peaceful territory and trampled the most sacred .privilege of freemen in the dust. Freedom of speech and the press is prohibited, and the halter and the knife promised to_ all who do nut yield obedience to organized ruffian ism. Now and then a pro-slavery press deprecates this last most infa mous outrage of the slave power. For the honor• of the South and of our common manhood, we wish there were more. We have no terms to . tiince in speaking of these things. A baser set of villains than Missouri has sent out to .strike down the rights and liberties of an infant people, never went un hUng. if such is the flame of the South, we say, meet them at the threshold. We would rather see the rivers of Kansas crimsoned with blood,. than thus infamously . wrenched from freedom and befouled by the -leprous curse of slavery . . Union-savers may prate until doomsday, but if life, lib erty, and property can and nu pro tection fiorn our Government, it is tune for the peo . ple of the North to resort to the higher law of the right arm, and meet organized ruffianism. With its own weapons. We would Make Kansa's as a grave yard and fat ten her slopes with the dead, before they should be tilled with the lash driven chattels of the inaster. A gallows would be too honorable a fMale to iihe career of a wretch like Atchison. lie should. live to be blasted and damned by,the loathing of ever• go•)d, high-minded citizen. He i )lirld who does not see that slavery must be met. It most he met, not only in Congress, hut if needs be, in Kansas. The Northern. Lion ly.ls been. scourged until he roars. A feel ing has been kindled which nothing can allay. The freemen of the North themselves deserve to be sold into bondage if they longer submit to the aggressions of the South. CORN.—Hilling corn is an attempted substitute for deep plowing. If corn land is plowed deep, there is no need of billing. The roots will strike down, instead of stopping at a hard - pan; and waiting for mellow earth, in the firm of billing, to be put over them. By deep plowing you give the roots a chance to go• down, and they will gn as deep 'as nature re quires, without having the earth piled over them. Never disturb the roots by plowing after the tenth . of July. If weeds, or grass are, getting up, cut them off, but it is. better to "let the wheat and the tares grow together, lest while ye dig up the tares, ye pluck up also the corn with them."—Ohio Ea Two .little girls, of seven or eight summers each, were discussing the subject which is at once so interest ing and bewildering to children—the state of' the soul after death. Neither knew much of doctrinal matters, but both had heard ,such things canvassed by their eiders. In the- course of the conversation, one of them mentioned the Catholic belief in purgatory,— "Purgatory," exclaimed the other; I'm sure I hope there's no such place; I'd rather go to everlasting darkness at once, than to stay ..in purgatory a while and then go toleayen all scorched • up." One Week Later from Europe. -The 'United . - States mail steamer Pacific, from Liverpool about noon Saturday, the 19th, arrived at New York at an early hour on Wednesday, May 30. She does not bring any .very important intelligence,but wegive the folleiving account of the present state of the .easternworld as prepared for the N. V. Brazing, Post : Tee \VAR.—April 30 is the date to Which correspondence by mail from the Crimea reaches. At that date the English fire was mostly suspended. On the 'night of the 24th a combat ' took place bet Ween the Russian and French sappers. The object of The Russians was to die new rifle pits, which the-French undertook to pre vent. Constant firing and bayonet work continued from S o'clock eve ning till 3, morning, when want of ammunition compelled both parties to cease. The Russians 'had, under the fire, actually dug and retained several new pits. Two hundred French were placed hors de combat. The French, however, had pushed their- sap con siderably.forwards, and mounted sev eral new guns. • On the 26th, Gem Canrobert re viewed the whole? of Gen. Bosquet's army of observation, consisting of fiwty-five - battallions of infantry, four regiments of cavalry and sixty guns. The affair was magnificent in the .ex— treme, and Canrobert made the most of it in oratorical display. In several of hiS many " little speeches," he in -formed his hearers that in twelve or fifteen days he expected the arrival of 75,000 to 50,000 additional men, "when," said he, "if we cannot enter SevaStepnl through the door, we shall through the window." The review was quite visible to the Russians, but only one sullen gun showed they were awake and watching proceedings. April 27th—Canrobert reviewed the Imperial Guard and the troops on the right. May Ist—The 'advances are approaching surely though Nothing else reported. Lord Raglan s dispatch of the Ist says . : " I have little to report to-day. The Russians continue .actively en 'gaged flc covering their advanced works, and they have COnstructed a new battery on their left of the Mam elon ; troops are constantly in motion on the north side, and there is every appearance ofthe establishment of a very large camp on the plateau above the 13albec, extending toward.; Mac kenzie's Farm. No movement has been perceived on the Tchernaya. The following are supplied to the papers . by Lord Panmure : " The Russians made a sortie on the night of the 11th, on the advanced works of the left attack. They Moved forward iii two columns, but both were immediately-repulsed with con siderable loss. The conduct of our troops•was admirable. Our (British) loss was one officer and five men kill ed, and thirty wounded." Evening of the 10th 's . the Russians hoisted a Hag of truce, with a view to bury their dead who were killed the night before in front of Our advance. The truce was granted. - During the night the enemy opened a heavy fire 11 our trenches, .and maintained it for tw, Imurs, but did • not attack our. advanced parallel."' Prince Gortchakoff'S despatches, dated the 7th, areas follows: "From the sth-to 'the 6th of May allied armies. were occupied princi pally in augmenting. their batteries and 'reinforcing their approaches against the central bastion. Accord ingly their fire, which has - become inure active, has been directed against the fla-staff and central bastions and the Selinyhinsk and Volhynia redoubts. The garrison replied. - In the nights of May 3d and - 4th - the besiegers sprang two mines,-- to unite the two craters formed by previous explosions. The garrison made use of several ca»zeufiets. In the nights of May sth a - ndtith we made a little sortie,:and took an English officer and three soldiers prisoners. Three powder magazines in the allied batteries blew up." May 16th, Gen. Canrobert tele graphs: " We continue our works before the place. Various attempts to 'smoke out the enemy (by camoullets or "stink potS.,") have perfectly succeeded. Our troops Continue in excellent spirits; they are full of ardor and confidence," Letters from Paris say .that, the French government is in possession of telegraphic accounts from the Crimea, stating that there had been heavy rains fOr some days; the trenches were full of water, and operations, for the . moment, were impossible. Reinforce ments were still waited for. Count . Coronini, Austrian Com reander-in-chief, has proclaimed mar tial law in the Principalities. Constantinople letters - of the 10th; say that the capitation tam on Chris tians is finally abolished. Christians are liable to military service, but will form separate corps. The first Sardinian division went straight to the' Crimea. A new imperial manifesto •has been issued•at St. Petersburgh, in which the Czar orders another levy of twelve men, per . thousand, throughout the seventeen western provinces, and to completed by the - end of July. Change in the Plan of Operations. There is some change in the plan of operations in the Crimea, but what it is is not very clear. Firstly, the Turk ish troops were suddenly re-embarked at Kamiesch, and taken back to Eupa toria. No reason for this hasty move ment was apparent, excepting a rumor that two Russian divisions were about to make an attack.- Ou arriving at Eupatoria the Turks found all pre cisely as they had left it, and there seems no reason to apprehend that the. Russians, so long as, with a few regiments, they can keep the Turks shut into Eupatoria, will attempt the enterprise of taking the place itself.— A reconnoissance has ascertained that the Russians have 25,000 men at Saki; near Eupatoria. Prince Gortchakoff states that, on the 3d of May, a division of the allied armies, amounting to from 10,000 to 15,000 men, embarked in the greater part of the vessels before Sebastopol, and proceeded to sea in a northeasterly direction along the coast: The squad ron passed Yalta and the *Bay of Kalil', until it reached the Straits of Kertch, but, after showing itself off that place; it appears suddenly to have been re called,. and to have sailed back to Kamiesch flay, where it arrived on the Sth of May, without having .at tempted anything against the enemy. It was subsequently that the Turks were re-embarked for Eupatoria. Present State of Negotiations The latest statement with regard to the position of negotiations was given in the House of eoMmons on the .I.7th, by Lord Palmerston, who, in answer to a iluestion, repeated what he had stated upon a preceding Ticcasion, that there had been informal communica tions between the governments of England,' France and Austria, since the last protocol of April :26di, but no formal communication winch could - be laid before Parliament. Neutrality of Germany—lmportant 'Russia , . Dispatch. The Ind e pen tl nee Del ge publishes the following dispatch under the date of Frankfort-on-Maine, May 11th : "A iitt-zsi an dsipateh, dal ed 18th-30th April, addressed to the Russian Min isterat the Court of Darmstadt, says that Russia considers the understand ing come to at the Vienna CMiference on the first two points ';s -a useful and acquired result.' In disengaging Ger= man interests from the question, this result must confirm the states of Ger many in that determination to maintain a strict neutrality. Russia will : not consider 'herself bound to maintain the interpretation of the first two points as agreed upon at Vienna, except on the condition of the suict neutrality of Germany." . WOMAN'S Rtorcrs.—The Legibla- Lure 'of Wisconsin has recently pass ed a law relative to the rights of mar ried women. It is as follows: "Any married woman whose hw band, either from drunkenness; profli gacy or from any other cause, shall neglect or refuse to provide for her support or for the support and educa tion of her childres, shall have the right in her own name to transact busi ness and. to receive and collect her own earnings and the earnings of her minor children . and apply the same for her own support and the support and education of such children, free from the control and interference of her husband or any person claiming the same or claiming to be released from the same by or through her hus band: Prorided, That if it is denied by plea that either of the causes mitt merated in this act as entitling the married woman to sue in her own name exists in point of fhct, then the issue upon this plea shall be tried and' determined by. the jury trying the case with the other issues submitted." A late writer says that every ani mal has a brain, has a memory, has a past, and. applies its experience for the benefit of its future happi ness. An old dog in a bear-hunt is as cautious of Bruin's teeth, as an old broker is of suspicious stocks ; and both act on the same principle— the recollection of being bitten " in a previous transaction." We once beard of a rich man who was badly-injured by being run over. "It isn't_ the accident," said he, " that I mind ; that isn't , the thing ; but the idea of being run over by an infernal swill cart, makes me mad." OUR STATES AND TEBETTOBLES. According to the last census report. the area of the United States - and Territories is 2,936,166 square mile,. The following table, taken from. do. document c , but transposed so as to giv:• each its proper rank, shows the are:: of each State and Territory :. i . , Sq. Miler. Neliraiika. Territory, ' :r.3.5,& ,, 2 Utak Territory, 269,170 'rexa-, . 237,504 Neu - Mexico Territory, 207,007 . Oregon Territory, 18Zi,11:lU Minnesota Territory. 166,0?7, California, 155,551 Wii,liington Territory, 1•211,022 h - anvis, 114,978 Ind. Territory, (S. Kansag,) 71,1.26 Missouri, 117,3b0 Virginia, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arkansas, • lowa, Alabama, North Carolina. New York, PeinNylvania, u Louisiana, Ohio, Kentucky,' Lid inna, li line, Souih Carolina, Maryland,. Vermont, New-lianmshire, New-Jerny, Connecticut, • Delaware, R ltode District of Columbia, The Nebraska Territory is large enough to cut up into seven States of the State of New-York, and leave a surplus of territory large. enough f;o -a State of the size of Connecticut— Kansas Territory has au area sufficient to make two States of the size off.ffiio, and one of the size of Indiana—Texa- . will make four States of the size of Indiana—and California has a suffi cient area to convert into sixteen States of the size of New-Hampshire. and have a surplus to make one about the size of Massachusetts. ImmonrAurv.—Why is it that the rainbow and the cloud come over u+ with a beauty that is not of earth, and then pass of ; and leave us to muse upon their faded loveliness ? Why is it that the stars that hold their festi yak around the midnight throne, are set above the - grasp of our. limited faculties—forever mocking us with their imappioachahle glory; And why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view and then taken from us, leaving the thou sand streams of our affection to' flow back in an alpine torrent upon our hearts ? We arc born a bight•t destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow neverfades. where the stars will be spread out before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beautiful beings that now pass before us like visions, will stay in our presence for cver.—G: D. Prentice. " "A m mucANs SHALL RCl , CAmnrac.t." —This precious catch "phra;e which ha, been adopted by the Know-Noth ings, is taken- up by the Colombo: Capital City Fact, in the following lively strain: "As we are. Americans, whether naturalized or native born: America will of course be ruled by them, ai long as, she maintains hei national independence. We are not aware that there is any danger just now of a foreign power grinding us under its yoke. The Pope is too obl and feeble to attempt :t, and` the nephew of the great Bonaparte will hardly be insane enough to think of if. He will wait till he has taker Sebastopol, and then his soldiers will need a breathing spell. • • In fine, we have no -fear but that Americans will continue to rule Amer ica long after the Dutch, Aare erased to creepy Rolland !" SHINNING IT TO ALI. ETERNITY.- One of out big speculators in real estate, met a friend and relatire in the street a few days since, when the fiillowing dialogue took place : " How do you do, 0 ?" "Not very well, Ez." "Why, whit's the 'matter ? Yu should be in .good spirits ; money- - is getting .easier ; lots are tising." " Weil, '[isn't that altogether; was down is S's office, a whole hour to-day. We were talking about th e other world., You know he is a Swedenborgian. He says we will be doing the same kind of work in the next world, that we hate been en gaged in in this. I tell you Ez., what makes me feel bad. I have been.shinning it, and shinning it Vit. the -last twenty years, and be hanged if I like the idea of shinning . it to all eternity !"—St. Louis Dem. A NO. 3. 8,322 7,e00 1,674 t2,12u 1,3011 6()
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