THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL
JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY; Editors.
COUDERSPORT, PA.:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 26, 1853
Take good care of your Road
laud School affairs ; for on these your
public good depends, and without
them this mighty nation would soon
be in ruins.
tar The National Vedette of Jersey
Shore is a better paper than its t ame
would indicate. It duos no,'t reeog-
Inize the rule of slavery ?,s the law of
ita existence, and conipared with two
lather papers in 'IPA neighborhood, is
an excellent
M 3 ''• 'We have had, since Thursda:j
last, live days of rainy, JAM, improm
ising Weather for Itaymak` eg ; but it
gill make tht buckwlleat and potatoes
grow, an will secure a heavy crop of
°at " Wu fear it will put the corn
;•-• •
—Lek, but hope for the best.
• rJf*The potato crop promises to
be of the old-fashioned, superabundant,
ataff-of-life quantity. We have . not
eeen so many potato blossoms for
years. This indicates a healthy, vig
orous, and prosperous yield for the
farmer, for which we are duly thank
ful.
Cir There is another excellent arti
cle from Zilpha. Let every smoker
read it, and abandon his foolish habit.
Write again, good Zilpha, for we all
need thy gentle corrections ; and it
will be no fault of thine if we do not
profit by them, should thy pen• be as
wisely used as these first efforts prom
ise.
lThc Wellsboro Agitator and
Mercer* Freeman heartily second the
proposition to hold a Republican
State Convention at Pittsburg on the
29th of August. We hope the other
papers favorable to a union of freemen
without regard to former political
predilections, will respond to this
movement. •
IgrThe short speech of lion. S• P.
Chase, accepting the nomination of
the Republicans of Ohio, is so like the
language of the great men who called
this Nation into being, that we feel
fresh hope of the Nation. Read it,
men of Potter, and say whether you
will sustain such sentiments or those
of the Slavery Convention which met
at Harrisburg on the 4th of July.
gar The TVarren Ledger reviews
the actiuu of its party at the Harris
but g convention, in a fearless and able
manner. If it continue its present
course through the campaign, it will
be entitled to the respect of all lovers
of freedom. How it is possible for a
paper` with such affinities and princi
ples, to support the nominee of a
convention whose resolutions it repu
diates, sec cannot understand.
rrone week from Saturday eve
ning 'lest, beiug Aug. 4th, the session
of Eelslia . Division S. of T., will be
enlivened •by a short address from
Joni MANN, on the history of the
Temperance cause as it has come un
der his personal observation. We
trust this announcement will secure
the attendance of cvery member within
convenient distance, and of every per
son entitled to visit the sessions of the
DivisiOn.
'The Sunbury and Erie Railroad
makes progress but slowly. There is,
however, some Lope of its final com
pletion. If it should be located up
the Driftwood, it will add very much
to the wealth and prosperity of this
county, and will secure a large business
ficnit our forests and mines. But if it
should go up the Bennett's Braiich, it
will get but little business from this
county, and do us no good.
10" Dr. Wm. V. Keating, the rep
resentative of the owners of the
largest body of lands in this county,
has bean spending a few days with us,
to the mutual benefit of himselfand
the settlers on the lands. John Keat
ing- Esq., his been the untiring friend
of this county for fifty years, and la
bored unremittingly for its prosperity,
when such labor was performed at
great atter:flee. We rejoice that his
mind is still fresh and vigorous, so that
by this visit of his grandson he will
be made aware of the success with
which his arduous labors have been
Crowned.
CAN THE FBREMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA •
BE lINITED IN ONE PARTY!
There is a large majority in every
free State opposed to the slaveholders'
scheme of subjugating Kansas, and in
favor of political action 6 prevent the
further extension of slavery. It is
conceded that this is the most impor
tant question now before the people.
Then why do not all who so believe
and feel, unite in one party, and ae
r.;maplish their object ? Simply be
cause this mode of action wouldinter
fere with the plans of party leaders.
In this county nine-tenths of the voters
would so act, if it were not for the old
line Democratic leaders. In Allegany .
county it is the Know Nothing leaders .
that stand in the way, which is most
surprising, as they profess to be as
much opposed to slavery-extension as
any body. .
As a sample of the reasoning of this
class on the subject of union, take the
following from the Pittsburg Weekly
Times of July 14 :
The Gazelle would have the American par
ty be very accommodating. .That party has
carried almost every State in the North, and
numbers several hundred thousand voters—
voters, too, who have united for the double
purpose of checking ; the inroads upon our in
stitutions, of Slavery, Political Catholicism,
and Foreignism. They are not united only
upon one principle, but upon and are
equally determined to accomplish all. The
anzats asks the party-to drop two ofite princi
ples, and unite with it to form a Republican
Party solely upon the anti-Slavery, principle
Ask an anti-Slavery party with between 150,
000' and 200,000 voters in Pennsylvania to
drop its distinctive character, and unite with
a party which has not shown any evidence of
existence in this Commonwealth! The cool
ness of this proposition is remarkable—quite
equal to that of the juryman who complained
of the stupid ity and unreasonableness of the
eleven jurors who would not come over to
his side.
It was just such reasoning as this
that kept the Whig party of the State
in a hopeless minority, and if persisted
in, w ill perform the same work for
the Know Nothings.
The Times makes no attempt: to
state the question fairly. The Ga
zette and the other advocates of the
union of all persons opposed to the
schemes of the slavery propagandists,
do not ask any class of voters to en
dorse sentiments or principles to which
they aro opposed.. They simply ask
the anti-Nebraska Democrat to leave
his pro-slavery party, and the Whig
to leave his obsolete party, and the
Know Nothing to- unite with them in
securing freedom
.to Kansas. The
Know Nothings are not asked to en
dorse a single principle they have ever
opposed. On the contrary the Times
and those who act in concert with it,
ask anti-slavery men to become Native
Americans in order to vote for free
dom. This is not the way the Know
Nothings of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
and of all the New England States,
are acting ; 'and it is not the way to
build : up a party of freedom strong
enough to save this Nation from the
iron rule of slavery. Keep up your
Councils if you wish, reason, influence
public opinion—but surely there is no
such pressing danger from the influ
ence of foreigners as should divide the
free States so that the South may
I again conquer.
. On the Gth of July, 1854, the honest
yeomanry of Tioga county met in
council to listen to that fearless Dem
ocrat, the Hon. David Wilmot. The
President of the meeting, Hon. R. Cr.
While, was also a distinguished Dem
ocrat.- At the close of the addressap
propriate resolutions were adopted,
and among them this one :
&sated, That the union of freemen, -with
out regard to former political attachments, is
the only safety for Freedom.
Now we believe the .above resolu
tion is tine in spirit and letter. We
also believe that this "union : of free
men" cannot be secured by asking the
people to come to' the Know Nothing
party, but that it can be done by
uniting together on the single ques
tion of slavery, as in Ohio and other
free States: Hence, we respectfully
ask the Times to overlook the too
sensitive spirit of the Gez:i.elle; and
unite in the call for a Republican
State Convention.
OP' It is true in all things that we
cannot ' serve two masters' We may
innocently make our courtesy to Fash
ion as she passes. We may make
casual inquiries of her about those
matters of which our Master gives us
no minute suggestions, and then go on
with our lawful service. But if we
bow down
.to her, if we follow her,
trembling lest we violate her laws,
cringing lest we forfeit her smiles, we
can put no heartiness into our services
to God, to his eternal interests wher
ever they aro, whether in our own
hearts or in the heart of the universe:"
THE TRIXDON. OP THE MSS
There are several papers riubliehed
in the slave States that it does one
good to dread. The Wheeling Times
is one of this character: The St: Louis
Dethocrat is another. There are sev
eral others that we -have' occasionally
had the pleasure of reading with ad
miration for their manly independ
ence. There is no - old line Demo
cratic, paper in Pennsylvania with, half
the fearlesiness of the St. Louis Dem- .
ocrat. It has never advised Northern,
freemento mind their own business,
nor suppressed the truth in relation ti 4,
.the outrages of the slaveholders in
-Kansas. It - has never deceived the
people with false assurances that there
was no danger of slavery going to
Kansas. On the contrary the Demo
crat, though Published in a slave State,
has kept its readers advised of all that
was doing to force the black flag-of
slavery into all our Western Territci- I
ries, and it has defended the friends
of freedom from the slanderous char
ges of the Douglas crowd.
Compare this honorable conduct
with the course of the pro-slavery
press in the free States, not excepting
this county, and who can help despis
ing the miserable dougbfaces who
have not a single word to say in favor
of freedom or against the outrages of
the Slave Power?
As a sample of the fearless tone of
the St. Louis' Democrat, take the 'fol
lowing notice of a pamphlet just pub
lished in defense of slavery, by Peter
G. Camden:
St. Louis is practically a free city as Mis
souri is practically a free State, but both State
and city number among their .citizens rich
and influential slaveholders whose influence
an aspiring politician cannot yet afford either
to lose or to defy. Mr. Peter G. Camden,
therefore, handles Abolitionists without gloves
—which, by the way, we may observe is
rather an easy operation when the leaders of
that party are absent. But in order that no
offense may be taken.by the majority of the
citizens of St. Louis—five-sixths, at least, of
whom it is said are in favor of free soil—Mr.
Camden, while abusing Abolitionists as a class,
takes care, by a reserve clause, to acknowl
edge that all Abolitionists are not equally in
earnest. He says—examine the sentence
and see how artfully all the qualities" we de
spise are described as characterising the friend
of the African:
"I believe that abolition is the concentrated
spirit of impertinence, selfishness, envy, am
bition, hypocrisy, and knavery,.; that its advo
cates are mostly infidels, fanatics„scolrers at
religion, and advocates of women's rights and
all other new-faugled notions, broken-down
politicians, and designing demagogues, and
hypocrites who out-Pharisee the Pharisees of
old. Some of them, no doubt, .are honest
and sincere ; but honesty and sinerity cannot
sanctity error, or remedy mischief, that has
been inflicted."
This ultra definition is very foolish in itself,
but as a bait for ultra pro-slavery voters, it is
first rate ! Judging by it, Washington was an
impertinent fellow, and. Jefferson an ambitious
knave. An Abolitionist is a person who wish
es to see slavery abolished. Now Washing
ton, Jefferson, and nearly all the Revolution
ary fathers, have recorded their desire to see
negro slavery eradicated. Mr. Peter G. Cam
den, we happen to kuow, is an
.abolitionist
himself.
There are fire-eating, anti-abolition fanatics
in the Western part of this State. These
rioters the author defends in this wise:
"Accordingly, societies have been formed
in the anti-slavery portions of our country, to
send out people to Kansas and Nebraska, with
the avowed purpose of accomplishing their ob
jects by numbers and force; thus recklessly
disturbing the peace and jeopardizing the
safety of a slave State bordered by those Ter
ritories. And
_in view of these facts, anti
slavery people—practical nullifiers as they are
—expect the people of Missouri in particular,
and stave States in general, to sit quietly and
permit such things to be done ; aye, affect to
think Missourians unnecessarily sensitive, and
opprobriously denounce them as mobocrats
and lawless savages because they oppose force
to force in a case involving not simply their
peace, but their safety, their 'social existence,
indeed."
Is Mr. Peter G. Camden prepared to prove
his grave charge against. the emigrants to
Kansas from New England t We challenge
him to do so. Tho emigrants, we affit in, went
to Kansas with the avowed purpose of making
Kansas a Ire° State peaceably and by consti
tutional means. But we deny that they in
tended to employ force.
-j/ If any bf our readers overlooked
the excellent address of the State
Temperance Committee, published on
the first page of last week's Journal,
we hope they will turn to that paper,
and -give this unanswerable document
a candid perusal. The present law is
not the kind of legislation temperance
men asked for, but it is a great step in
the right direction. One proof of this
is to be found in the bitter warfare
waged against it by the liquor sellers.
If it were a mere " jug law," as they
hysterically call it, would drunkard
makei•s oppose it ? Not they. As it
has virtue enough in it to secure the
hatred of all the enemies of Temper
ance, it is surely the part of wisdom
for the friends of the cause to give the
law their enthusiastic support. So,
here is one Temperance paper which
the Pittsburg Journal will find doing
battle for the act of 1855 to restrain
the sale of intoxicating drinks.
rir..A. man who in ordinary life is
very inquisitive after every thing which
is spoken ill of him, passes his time
but indifferently."
TBZ pttcmoNAL Inv/alma
We hope every friend of Education
in our villagewill read the communi
cation of P. in our last in relation to a
union of the District School with - the
Acadethy. We are pleased to see the
subject attracting the attention of our
iax-payers, and welcozne - •the commu
nication of 0. It. breathes the right
spirit; and we hope is an indication dpf
the public sentiment of the village:
We are decidedly in favor of the
proposed union, and shall do what we
can to bring it about. But there are
serious obstacles to the measure, that
we may' well look at on the start.
.:.On conversing with Mr. Blooming
dale, we came to the conclusion that
the School, conducted on the plan
proposed, would require, for teaehers,
a Principal and two Assistants; that
the tuition of students from abroad
will not pay the Principal—so that
the District would have to raise from
taxation the salaries of the two As
sistants and a part of the Principal.
The following is the best estimate of
the amount required from Couders
port District per year that we can
make .
Ist Assistant, $3O per mouth, $360
2d " 12 • " 144
Part . pay of Principal, 200
This will require an assessment of
two per cent.—double the amount of
the present year's tax. This we know
will be a heavy burden ; but then it
will secure to every individual in
Coudersport, "above the age of five
and under twenty-one years," the in
valuable blessings of an Academic
education ; and we shall heartily and
cheerfully advocate the proposed
change.
Tax-payers of Coudersport, your
Academy is poorly sustained; your
District School never can amount to
much as - at present conducted. Will
you curtail some of your other ex
penses, and double your school tax,
for the purpose of establishing a first
class Academy—the best in Northern
Pennsylvania 1
In order to obtain a full expression
of the sentiments of our people on
this question, we second the motion
for a public meeting; and we hope
the Trustees will issue a call soon.
SPOKEN LIKE A PEZEitAN
The Warren Ledger Of July 17, is
an admirable paper. Its editorials are
written with great ability, and with
the spirit of a. freeman. It discusses
with courageous frankness the living
questions of the day, and points out
the shortcomings 9f. its party friends,
with a fearlessness that must command
the respect of all honest men. In an
article a colunin and a half long, it
gives a faithful history of the. conduct
of the'President in relation to 'Gov.
Reeder and the Missouri mob. If our
up toWn old fogy dont take immediate
measures to purge the party of this
traitorous agitator, there - is . no telling
what knavery will be practiced next.
Take the following extract from the
Ledger as a sample of its.metat :
'But have our expectations been realized ?
Have our hopes met with happy results 1
Has it been proved that we have a President
who recognizes -"no north, no'south, no east,
no west," but who is planted on the immutable
principles ofjustice and equality, and who is
bound to dispensate both to ail - sections of the
country I Let his obstinate silence thus far,
on this question, answer. Not a syllable of
disapprobation has fallen from his lips upop
those pouthern vandals who defied our coun
try's laws ; and sought by force of bowie knives
and revolvers, to control the ballot box for
unrighteous and revolting purposes; not a
single movement has he made toward throw
ing the shield of the Federal Government
over Gov. Reeder and the lawful settlers of
Kansas. And this tame quietude and stoical
indifference he has maintained appeals,
nay, demands, both urgent and ,barnest, have
been pouring in upon him from every quarter,
to proclaim his sanction of Gov. Reeder's
course, and put a check to the bold current
of lawlessness and riot that is sweeping over
the soil of Kansas. He has seen a fair coun
try invaded by hordes of armed ruffians • he
has seen the sanctity.of the ballot box dese
crated; he has seen uneffending citizens de
spoiled of their dearest rights, driven from
their homes, and treated like felons; ho has
seen his own appOinted officer threatened,
bullied, buffeted, and his life - endangered, be
cause he would not - become the pliant tool of
cut-throats and rioters;' all this he has seen
enacted within the reach of his executive.
power, and not a finger has he raised, not an
arm has he stretched forth to prevent it all.
There, honest Democrats of Potter
county, we commend such sentiments
to your candid attention; - We have
used language somewhat similar here
tofore, but the pro-slavery concern in
this village has the audacity to 'tell
you it is none of your business what the
President does, or what becomes of
•
Kansas ; and some of you are tame
enough to submit to the insult.
rir'"A vain person is the most in
sufferable creature living, in a well
bred assembly,"
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A great change has taken place in
the old . Bay State: since the Court
House was surrounded with chains for
the benefit of Slavery. The election
of Henry Wilson, the passage of the
Personal Liberty bill, and the rebuke
of Commissioner Loring, was the
action of a healthy public sentiment
acting through die Legislature of Mas
sachusetts.
But oven Harvard College is waking 1 1
up, and is reflecting this sentiment.
Mr. Eliot, the only member of Con
gresS from that State that voted for
the infamous Fugitive Slave bill, was
lately proposed as a candidate for the
honor of one of the higist degrees
of the College. He was rejected by
the overseers for the reasons given in
the following extract frorn.the Boston
correspondence of the N. Y. Evening
Post. We commend the sentiments
of this* extract to all persons wh'o
think they "are freemen, and not the
mere slave of party, or the tools of
party _leaders :
Some of Mir papers-are making a great fuss .
about the rejection of Mr. Eliot, by the Board
of Overseers at Harvard College, when it
was proposed to make him a doctor of laws.
He was rejected because he voted for the
fugitive slave law; and the man who would
do that is unfit to. hold any office irt Massachu
setts, or to receive any mark of favor here, no
matter how barren that favor may be. The
majority of the overseers would have stultified
themselves if they had voted for Mr. Eliot.
If he chose to carry his conservative notions
so far as to vote in a, way that perfectly out
raged the sense and sentiment of his con
stituents, he cannot reasonably complain if
other men are wedded to their views, and
act in accordance with them. Is there to be
an immunity in behalf of all who do anything
for slavery, while the friends of freedom are
to be maltreated on all occasions 'I "Oh !"
says hunkerism, " think how hard it is upon
Mr. Eliot to reject him!—so respectable a
man I" That is just it. A man thinks he is
at liberty to do anything because he is re
spectable; but as we do not allow men to
violate laws on account of their respectability,'
so we cannot allow them, on the same score,
to make bad laws with impunity.
$7OO
WHITE -GIRL KIDNAPPED—The Philadel
phia:Ledger states that on Friday I ast tt
men attempted to kidnap a young white int
from Chester county, Pa., and carry her off
into Maryland. The girl had been engaged
as a nurse for a sick child, and was driving,
home the cow, at an early hour in the morning,
when two genteelly dressed men standing
near a sarriage, addressed her, inquiring her
name, where she lived &c., and on her mak
ing answer, one of them- placed a plaster
Over her mouth, and the two dragged her to
the carriage and drove away. After getting
some twelve miles from her home, they put
her out of the carriage, in a secluded wood,
and left her. Two negroes happening to
come along, assisted her in removing the plas
ter from her mouth and directed her how to
reach her home. The supposition is that the
kidnappers mistook the girl, whose face was
sunburnt, for a mulatto, and intended to carry
her into slavery, 7 —Lorkport Journal.
And why . suppose these villains
mistook this girl's color Are there
not thOusands of white girls in Slavery?
Is it any worse to kidnap a white, than
a mulatto girl 1
The whole history of American
Slavery is full of outrage and inhu
manity. Kidnapping free citizens of
Pennsylvania has always been a com
mon occurrence, and - it will continue
so until the people shake off their
pro-slavery leaders, and say to the
black powers of Slavery, Hands oil—
touch not another free-born American
citizen,.at your peril. This language,
spoken as if there were men behind it,
will instantly put a stop to this kid
napping business. Is there anything
else that • will ?
IGF Notice is hereby given, that the .
Annual Eiection of Trustees of Cou
dersport Academy will be held at the
Court House in Coudersport on Fri
day, the 3d day of August next. •
By order.
THE WORLD AND THE PULPIT
-The Rev. - Henry Ward Beecher
discourses more truth than fiction in
the follolking
We-have no doubt that a vigorous
proprietor, having been sharking it al!
the week, screwing and griping among
his , tenants. would be better pleased
to doze through an able gosple sermon
on divine mysteries, than to be - kept
awake by a practical sermon that might
treat of a .Christian proprietor. A
broker who has gambled - in a magnifi
cent scale all the week, does not go to
church to have his practical swindling
analyzed and measured by the New
Testament spirit. Catechism is what
he wants—doctrine is to his taste. A
merchant whose last bale of smuggled
goods was safely stored on Saturday
night and his brother merchant who
the same day, swore a false invoice
through the Custon House—they go
to Church to hear a sermon on faith, on
angels, on resurrection. They have
nothing invested in those subjects;
they expect the minister to be bold
and orthodox.. But if be wants re
spectable merchants to pay ample pew
rents, let him not vulgarize the pulpit
by introducing commercial subjects.'
PHYSICIANS rarely take medicine,
lawyers seldom go to law, and ministers
steer clear of other parson's churches.
Editors, however, read all the papers
they can get hold of.
- "JOHN JOI,IFFE.-T—As many of out' •
readers at a distance may- expect
through the columns of the Sentinel to
hear something about this blackheart
ed, thiu-skinned, and fearless Aboli
tionist, we take the present occasion
to give them the particulars connected .
with the case, as far as we have been
able to learn them. He arrived at
Williston on Thusrdey last, and en
deavored to procure a carriage or
other vehicle for the purpose of eon. ,
veying . himself to the 'plantation- of
Elijah Willis, where we understand
several rusty-colored individuals con
templated giving him a suit ho did not
bring with him from Ohio; but Borne
few persons who were aware of this
fact, and who were most interested,
perhaps the executors, advised-him to
remain where he was. He was waited
upon, we understand, by some five or
six gentlemen, who inquired of him if
he was an Abolitionist; to which he
responded that. he was, but that ho did
not come here for the purpose of ad
vocating or extending his principles,
but merely to execute a trust reposed
in him by one who was dead, and be
'would execute that trust if he died in
the attempt. We here assert witat
we heard on last sale-day. Ho left.
Williston nn the day-, following, Fri
day, for this place, and, we are sorry
to say, 'was permitted to,'leave here
on Saturday last unmolested, again,
for Williston, where he remained until
Monday morning last. Why he was
permitted to remain at Williston so
long, we know 'not, neither do we
know what the sentiments ofa majority
of our citizens are; but our own were.
expressed before he landed among us,
and we aro sorry, very sorry,
,•to say _
that the people of Williston suffered _
this vile Abolitionist to depart un
touched. We are of opinion that an
Abolitionist like Joliffe should not be
allowed a stopping-place in the State;
it matters not whether they come on
business or pleasure, our cry is 'tar
and feathers.' Those who are opposed,
to using any foul - means with this fel
low, Joliffe, in our opinion, will see
what lie thinks of them in a few weeks.
Enough has already been . said. concern
•ing him, as the communications in this
issue will show, and we here beg leave
to have done with the subject until
we are permitted to peruse the Ohio
-papers.---Barnteell (S. C.) Sentinel.
AN ABOLITION PRESS IN .A SLAVE
STATE.—We have seen frequent no
tices of the Zeitung; a German paper
published at San Antonio. The ed
itor of .this paper, it seems, considers
slavery a curse, and incompatible with
republicanism. He also thinks that
the Germans of Texas are opposed to
slavery. His opinion of slavery, ab
stractly considered, is a matter of very
little consequence. If he does not
like Southern institutions, he can very
easily get away from them. We have •
had slaves in the Southern States
almost-since Virginia was colonized.
We have alsu had an occasional aboli
tion hypocrite among us. We have
seen enough of both to satisfy- us that
the morals of the slave are superior
to those of the abolitionist, and that
lie makes a much better member of
society. For these reasons we prefer
having him among us to having his
pretended ftiends. The Southern pee . -
ple consider themselves capable of
attending to their own consciences in
such matters, and think it ample time
for quacks to give their. advice when
called on. When they require teach
ers, they will not call upon the drivel- -
ing hireling, who is paid by their
enemies to slander the - country which
gives him bread.
The Germans as a class, we do not
believe, approve the doctrine put forth'
in this incendiary sheet. We have
noticed their formal repudiation of
such cant in the ptoceedings of several
meetings held by them.. But Lit is
dangerous to permit the continuance
of such e men as the editor of that
paper among us ; we think it would
be nothing more than right to turn
him over to the African Colonization
Society and have hid tent to 'Liberia,
where he can rant " nigger" tonegroes
all his life. They could doubtless ap
'preciate his clap-trap better than
intellioent Southern men.—Houston_
( Texas) Gazette.
Gorse--GONE.—The pasty of gentle
men that left here on Mondiy, for
the purpose .of pursuing the - slaves
who escaped on board a Northern
vessel, returned yesterday, after an
ineffectual search in the "Roads."—
Slave property is becoming as insecure
on the seaboard of Virginia, as on the
borders of Maryland or Kentucky.
Our commerce with the North is in
creasing daily. _Northern vessels are
multiplying in our harbors, andrin the
wood trade upon the river, hundreds
of negro,es are employed in loading
these vessels. Some rigorous system
of inspection, then, must be adopted.
Every craft leaving our waters for a
Northern - port must be thoroughly
searched, and the law must be en
forced to the letter, or the increasing
insecurity of slave property in Vir
ginia. must materially depreciate its
value—Norfolk Beacon.
To enjoy to-day, stop Worrying
about to-morroy. Next week will be
just as capable of taking care of itself
as this one, And .why shouldn't it?
It will have .seven days more experi
mice.