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I'd not recall my childhood, Though tender memories throng Around its rosy portals, Preclusive to life's song; ' The full-voiced, living chorus Is swelling round me now, And rosier light is resting Upon my maiden brow. I bare made a changeful journey Up the hill of life since morn: I hare gathered flowers and blossoms, Ivs been pierced by many a thorn; But from out the core of sorrow I have plucked a jewel rare, The strength which mortals gather In their ceaseless strife with care. Non I grasp life'■ burning beaker, And howe'er the bubble glow, I'll pause not, till I've tasted The deepest wave below; Though bitter dregs may mingle, The crimson tide shall roll, In full and fearless currents, Through the fountains of my soul No I'd not go back to childhood, From the radiant flush of noon, And when evening closes round me, I oalv crave one boon; Amid the valley's dartn se, Its dangers and its dread, The signal star,ofJ4ah To shine above iitv head. WILLIE GRAY "Oh mother, it's so hot, and I'm so tired and !sleepy, and, tha old • sun up titers will shine, and I don't see what God wanted to make it. for," said Wil lie, one summer-day. "Lac your head in my lap dear, and we will talk about it. - his mother answered, smoothing the matted curls back from his forehead. . 'But 1 don't want to talk, I'm warm INFLT - EIsZER OF SLAVERY ON FREE and tired, and if I couldn't make a LABOR.—Philantbropy, when it con better world than this, I'd never try, templates a slavoholding country, may that's all about it, now." have its first sympathies excited for "But listen a minute Willie, what slaves ; but it is a narrow benevolence has put you so out of humor with which stops there. The needy free everything 1" man is• in a worse . condition. The " . cl'hy everything acts ugly-- . --my slave has his task, and his home, and top won't spin because it's so hot. I his bread. He is the member of a cannot make it. and it's so hot in the wealthy family. The indigent free pond I cannot sail my boat and—you man has neither labor, nor house, nor told me to lie down to sleep." food, and divided by a broad gulf "Well!" from the upper class, he has neither "So I went into the library and i hope nor ambition. He is so abject spread the great window cuitain out that even the slave despises him. over the-lounge—it was so nice, and j For the interest of the slaveholder is I was almost asleep, when I heard diametrically opposite to that of the such a horrible noise. It wasn't loud, I laborer. The slaveholder is the com but it seemed to go all through me, I petitor of the free laborer, and by the just as though I'd been dipped in scald- help of the slaves takes the bread Mg water." (Poor Willie could from his mouth. The wealthiest man think of no comparisons which were in Rome was the competitor of the rot warm.) "Then it came again poorest free carpenter. The patri andagain—such a scream! and because cians took away the business of the it want loud it seemed worse, till I 1 sandal-maker. 'The existence of sla could'ot bear it any longer and climbed very made the opulent owners of upon the window-seat. There was a bondmen the rivalsof the poor; greedy spider killing a poor fly, and every after the profits of their labor, and tune he bit, the fly would buzz and A monopolizing those profits through scream ; 0, I could'ut look at him—l -their slaves. In every community came away to :iron." where slavery is. tolerated, the poor 'But half an limir ago I heard my freeman will always be found corn little boy say shat he wished all the plaiuing of hard times.—Bancrojt. - flies were dead i " "Well, I didn't want them to be 'bit to death, and-I have to lie and listen to them ; it seemed just as if the fly was tilling me to drive the spider off." "And did you r asked Willie's moth er, "Why no. I was frightened and so Warm I forgot it, and I was in such a hurry to tell you." "I thought you walked rather slowly Ls you came toward the piazzai were you not looking in the garden walk 1" Willie's race grew very red, as he answered: "Well mother, I did stop a minute, and I knew yoia told me not to —only I was so warm." "Not to—What'!" "Why step on the ant-hills in the garden path and brush them all to gether with my feet. But I don't see what harm,there is, and I lova to do it. THE PEOPLE'S "Suppose a great giant with a head that reacb'ed to the sky should come and step on our house,, and grand mother's and aunt Lizzie's and crush them into the earth, just because be 'loved to'—suppose your father and I' should be bruised under the ruin—till we screamed like the fly your_spider was biting in the library." "Oh mother, don't ! It's different with ants." "Not so different as you may think: Didn't I tell you they had mothers and children, and houses, and stores of food as we do, _and that they were orderly and industrious—more so than some men and little boys?" "But it can't do any harm to step on these heaps of dust," persisted Willie—"Couldu't I pile them up again though—can't I now?" - "But the sun is hot." "0, I don't care for that, I've grown . cool—it must be shady on this pizza, come, let me go !" pleaded Willie. "We will both go, but run first for the little glass I gave, you yesterday." - So Willie brought his magnifying glass, not guessing what it would show him now. His mother with a stick brushed away the sand he had trodden • down so firmly, and told him to see if he could find what those small brown specks were, that kept moving in it. Willie could see then all the mis chief he had done ; there Were dozens' and dozens-of ants rolling about in the hot:sand; some with broken legs, some with crushed bodies, some cut in two, some dragging a wounded limb after them as they tried to creep away; and some would spin round and round, as if they were dizzy with pain; some were running about here, and there, and everywhere, in and out, as if they were looking up their -mothers or children among the dead; and 'some dragged the dead bodies away, slowly enough, for it is as hard for an ant to lift an ant, as for a man to lift a man; and some were bringing out.the grains of sand that bad fallen into their nice little houses underground. - They did not buzz and• whirr like the fly, it was all still ;—but Willie saw the poor lame bodies quivering in the heated sand, and the tired little feet trying to drag wounded bodies home, .- and the quit dead ones that had run about so ha py and industrious an hour ago, and n w would never move again. Ho trembled all over, for he felt the spider he had hated and despised so, had not done a tenth part so much mischief as he, and it killed the fly for food, while he had killed the ants only "for fun." Suddenly' a bright thought came to the little boy, for Willie was not bad, only lie did not stop to think very often, and so did a great deal of mischief. CARE OF THE EYEs.—Looking in the - fire is very injurious to the eyes, particularly a coal fire. The stimulous of light and heat soon destroys the eyes. Looking at molten iron will soon de stroy the sight. Reading in the twi light is injurious to the eyes, as then they are obliged to make great exer tion. Reading or sewing with a side light injures the eyes, as both should be exposed to an 'equal degree of light. The reason is, the sympathy between the eyes is so great, that if the pupil of one is dilatedby being kept partially in the shade the one that is most ex posed can not contract itself sufficient ly for protection and will untimately be. 'injured. Those who Wish to preserve there general health by cor rect habits must give , their eyes just work enough, with a duo degree of MEE COUDERgPORT, POTTER COUNTY, PA., AUGUST .2, 1855 . From the Pittsburg Journal and .Visiter _ TROUBLE -WITH THE NOEMONS. Tice Louisville Courier anticipates Serious trouble with the Morfnons, and says ; "But a little while will elapse until they will count their adherents by hundreds of , thousands. And then, if they should choose, as they have al ways displayed some willingness t o do, to defy the General Government. and its authority, it will be no easy fask to reduce them to submission. To convey a' force of ten oftwelve thousand troops through a desert filled with Indian foes, will be a matter of no small difficulty. " That trouble is brewing in that part of our domain, cannot be doubted by any who have examined the sub ject. In a recent conversation with an officer of high rank in our.army, 'who had served on the frontier, and who is distinguished in his profession, this subject was referred to. That gentleman anticipated a contest to which the Indian fighting on the'fron tier is but child's play." The way, to avoid all trouble, is for the, general Government to follow out its own precedents; grant to Utah the same liberty of conscience it gives Kentucky, and resolve itself into a committee of the whole for the pro tection of all Peculiar Institutions. It is not likely that Utah will resist the Government while it holds itself ready 1 to do all she requires. Kentucky never does. The South never dis solves the Union unless some part of the'people o" it do or say something she does no. Then, of course, nobody expects anything else but dis solution. When Utah forms a portion of the .Union, she will, no doubt, be very civil so long as she gets all she deman - ds ; 'but the Courier. will" have to stop talking about her institutions,' and the sensible folks must resolve themselves into a police force for catching the runaway wives of their brother patriarchs. Utah will, of) course, demand that the - agitation' of the Polygamy question shall be stop ped, and of course all the Union-saving prints will say "amen !" We cannot, for our part, see by what right the Courier undertakes -to discuss the domestic arrangements of its neighbors. We have every reason to fear that our Western brethren will be quite displeased with such inter ference in their affairs. It is a mani fest violation of " squatter sovereign ty," and as such, ought to call forth the denunciations of the Democratic party. Are not the squatters of Utah as sovereign as those ..of Kansas I - and have they not as much right to appro priate to their own use the labor of t the masses and as many wives as shall suit their convenience If one part of the squatters in Kansas have a right to take possessive of the other," and set them down in their list of goods and chattels, why may not the ruling class in Utah avail themselves , of the labor of the working men, and dispose of the women as they see proper ? We should be very much obliged to the Louisville Courier if it would mind its own affairs, and leave the domestic institiltions of Utah to be regulated by those who . understand them. It cannot be expected that men who can sell all their surplus wives and chil dren and put them in their pockets, any day, can appreciate .the difficul ties of those gentlemen with numerous families that cannot readily be con verted into cash. The position of our 'Western breth ren, is very delicate, and surrounded by many difficulties of which outside. barbarians can know nothing. All harsh labguage should be avoid ed, and if people differ with them, let them express that difference mildly. in Christian love, not with harsh epi thets. No doubt they would have abolished polyg amy long ago if it had not been for th abuse of fanatics like the Courier. It used to - be that no Mormon acknowledged that as part of his . creed, but they have' been so abused and vilified that now they come boldly out and proclaim and defend their institution. Just so it used to be. Southern gentlemen talked of abolishing slavery, but Nor thern-fanatics began to talk about it, and they quit. No doubt they would have been talking about it yet if 'it had not been for the abuse of inter meddlers from other States. Now, we do not want to see the same scene reenacted towards our other " pecu liar institution." The Louisville Courier must let it alone—leave it to be disposed of by those who are interested. Is there' no crime, or misery, or violence in Lou isville, that the Courier must send its sympathies away out to Salt Lake ? Do not its editors know that Aboli tionists Of . the North have greatly transgressed in. not.curing all the so cial evils at home before saying any thing about the sine of Kentucky 1 _,.. . . . - ~,...r.l .-.-. ...... .._ ~. . , ~., .........: _..... . . J . 11 . ..t.. - R \. .... 7, 7.. iv• . J. . . , .. - . .. . Al. • . . And how dare they overlook, or neg lect, or talk a))out anything else than the sins of their own city, so long as any such exist? Will it not be "time enough " for them to talk about Utah, when the Millennium comes in Ken tucky-. 1. Then they should travel reg ularly across the.. country, or around by the rivers, and spread the kingdom as they go; and it will be a long time before they get to Salt Lake. Lot any one reflect a moment on the bad effect of vituperation such as' is ton commonly indulged - in by those abolitionists who would uproot the very foundations of society in Utah, " to further their own mad schemes of aggrandizement." • Abolitionists like the Courier, who would destroy the, domestic institutions of , oar Western brethren, and involve the land in rap ine and ruin, would turn the hearts of the happiand contented wives of Utah against their liege lords, and the working men against the elders Who demand so- large a portion of their labor to support the State. Suppose these should rebel, what woul4be the condition of society in Utah? Does not the heart sicken at the pictures conjured up? (Aside. Dear reader, this is psi.; tively hard work, and we do wish some kind friend would send us some one or all of the.many pious defenses of Slavery and our glorious Union, which have appeared during the last twenty years. By going over and altering a word here and there; we cari•make it equally good as a bul wark for cier pet Patriarchal Institu tion, and it would save us all the trouble of thinking. Or let any one read any such work, substituting Poly gamy for Slavery, 'Western for South ern brethren, Utah for " the South," and he will have our view of the case. 'But to return, in the meantime.) 'Look at the devoted piety of our brethren' in Utah. Who build such temples ? 'Who say so many pray ers ? Who exhibits . such untiring zeal and liberality in the.cause of re ligion ,Like that celebrated individual known as " Rusin the Bow," they travel the country all over, and then to' all others they go, and move heav en and earth to make converts to the faith*; and even granting that they may be in error about their peculiar institution, it is our duty to' deal gen tly with them and speak softly, if so be we. may-win them to' repentance. Then remember that it is their mis fortune, and that we should sympa thize deeply with them in their afflic tions. This system of polygamyhorse stealing, and general appropriation of other people's goods, was forced upon them by Joe Smith and other men from this 'Eastern States, It existed in the community before they went to Utah, eyen in the Northern counti y at Nauvoo, and now we are holding them responsible, when it is their misfor tune, poor fellows, and not their fault! Let any one reflect upon the trouble it is to live peaceably with one wife, and sympathize with the difficulty of keeping twenty in a good humor! No doubt these Christian men would glad- . ly be rid of the institution, but how is this to be dorie That is the ques tion. Some one may answer, !! by passing a law to forbid any man mar rying more than ono woman ;" but one might as well talk talk of passing a law in Kentucky forbidding any man to buy or sell ' more than one woman. The women are there, and what is to ' be done with them unless they are ' married, in the one case, or sold in the other. Cannot=any one perceive - at a glance the necessity under which these chiv alrous men are placed '? These wo men cannot take care of themselves, and of course they must be provided with husbands and masters to take care Ofthem.• Think of the advanta ges to these dependents. Have they not, in both instances been brought from lands of, heathen darkness into the marvelous light of the gospel l and was it not the hand of Providence which ordered all this for the conver sion of the heathen.? There can be no doubt but the Louisville Courier is a rank infidel sheet, or it would not be talking of Indian wars to -suppress a Bible institution, and' be interfering with the order of Providence in con verting the heathen. We recommend it to the prayers' of Southern saints, and all Union-saving Christians. .KNOWLEDGE. — How beautiful and exalted are the following sentiments of De Witt Clinton: • "Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ec static in enjoyment,pereruiial in fame, unlim ited in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices it fears no' danger, spares no expense, • omits no exertion, It scales the mountain, looks into the volcano, dives into the ocean, perforates the earth, encircles the globe, explores the sea and land, contemplates the distant, ascends to the sub lime! No place too remote for its grasp, no heaven too exalted for its reach l" . fakil;pipOryw*:4:l: I THE Isi..aso, May 12, 1855. It is Saturday afternoon. At one I left the city fifty miles away, and the better part of the afternoon, is mine at " The Island." Six weeks have gone by since 1 visited' this dear place before. That month. and a half has done much toward remedying the ravages .of a long and dreary, winter. The grass is starting in the : meadows, the trees begin to put on their drapery of leaves, and flowers may be found by the wood side. The orchards are full of prom ises of blossomibg—all save the poot' peach trees—they warn us we must needs do without them and their deli cious product. And my dwarf apple tree—Lhave watched its thrifty growth now for three years—it is full of blos som buds. Shall I see any crimson checked " Northern Spies" when I Come home in October 1, - Six weeks have brought many new and bright thirigs - up into the sunlight. 0, - slumbering bulb and seed, ye were not dead beyond a resurrection! The spring sun shone upon yoUr graves, and ye start into life again. Type of a glorious immortality, of the - precious " natural body," so often sown with many tears and a, heart-ache that can not be forgotten, but which shall come forth a spiritual body, with its weak ness and dishOnor transformed into power and glOry. Let the sprouting seed, the unfolding bud—every Align of awakening ;from the slumber of winter—remind us of hopes for the hereafter. But "The Island;" and the friends r meet again. !Fuse, what a chubby fellow you are growing, and how many new woi ds you have learned to speak, sinco I saw you before. Life must seem a new revelation to such as you. I wonder not that you are ever in motion—running from mischief to mis chief—from therain-tub to the chicken coop, from grandma's cupboard to uncle'sshop—never resting in your researches and experiments until day comes to its Close. Would you like to hear the song with which ',priced you to sleep su'often only a year ago? 'Little boy Pine', go blow the horn! The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where is the boy that tends the sheep 7 Under the haystack, fast asleep." There never was a better song for melodious variation, refrains, and fanciful choruses, and for lulling a tired child to sleep, than that same — " Little boy Blue," of wither Goose': melodies. 1 have spoken of the youngest— and, alai! have room to go uo farther. Father, mother, sisters, to glad am I to get home to you, even though I stay to see but two sunsets shed their glory on the landscape so familiar to our eyes.: But: I have a new interest in going home. Six . weeks ago I added twenty acres to the homestead farm, and so am now one of the "lord.; of the soil," and am a farmer by proxy. For the firsvtime, I-walk over my new pos session—examine the soil, plan im provements, and decide on the crops; feeling very well satisfied with the fact that lam liable to pay taxes. I wish Noah's flood had not settled away so quietly bore, for it left me scarce a hill high enough to be "dry land," when the rains fill the earth. That great snow-storm, a week ago, stopped our plowing and muck-dig ging, and the water passed away but Slowly. But never fear, the oak leaves are scarce out yet, and they should be as "large as a mou'se's ear," at planting time. • There are trees in my meadow!— Oak, elm, ash and maple, tall, stately and beautiful. But J uue will be the time to visit and to talk of them., What a sweet repose is his, who, returning to the home of his child hood, finds his old room and bed, and the pictures which he hung on the walls when a boy, all kept for him in their.old places. More than that, the old love, warm..and genial, and ten-. derer than ever, if there could be any . change. Igo to rest with a grateful hears, thanking God for the blessings which surround me, hoping for a Sabbath of peace to-morrow. Good night, JAPHET. HELP ONE ANOTIIER..—Sir Walter Scott wrote : "The race of mankind would perish did they cease to help each other. From the time that the mother binds the child's head, till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of, the dying, we can not exist without mutual help. All, therefore; that need aid, have a right to ask it of their fellow mortals; and ne one, who has it in his power to grant, can refuse without incurring guilt." Learning refines and elevates -the mind. • LIMB • From the Journil end Viiitor THE DTBSOLUTIOE OF ME 111101 L An intelligent writer in the Kansas Free State of the 25th says "that no effort is spared to' furnish the pro slavery party in that territory. all•the assistance necessary for making Kan sas a slave State." The general im pression is,. that all the "material lad" necessary to such a result is already GI in the hands of the friends of Atchison and Stringfellow. Yet there remains' one obstacle in the way of complete success. They feel pretty sure that Kangas asking for admission_ to' the Union under such circumstances: as those in which the Territory has,boen . placed, would inevitably be denied . her request. In the words of the ' pout, "Jibe might talie it, out in asitiag." .We might call seven upon the bell virethers of the late Democratic party (requiescat in pack) to oppose the ad mission of Kansas into the Union upon the principles_ of their own . cherished Nebraska-Kansas' 'bill.' We think we , can catch the vivacious smile of that fine old country gentleman, the "great Michigander,"' at this moment, as lie leads tho columns of the " integral Democraty" against the admission of Kansas, for the reason that the people of the Territory have not exercised the blond-bought right of squatter sovo i rei'grity, but have boon overcome at the polls by illegal voters, and put in ' a minority by illegal votes. . We say this obstacle has presented , itself in the way of successful opera tion of the slavery propagandists upon Kansas. All others being removed, 1 this stands. Now comes the war whoop from the plains of Mississippi and Georgia. - The Hotspurs cock ! their beavers, and look terrible things. Their bloody thoughts take shape in these words : " Unless Kansas shall bo admitted as a slave State on application, we will dissolve the Union. ..It is true she has . been made a slave State by armed men mustered into the service by blackguards and red-eyed ' 'eskers, but unless she be received into the Union without agitation, we , will 'dis solve the Union, or plungel it in _civil war." The writer to whom we alltuie above, speaks, without doubt; the • opinions of many others, as follows : But the South will never dissolve this Union. There is too much good sense there for that. The moment the Union is gone, farewell to slavery. Abolitionists cannot and do not wishenything betterihan this Southern dissolution of the Union, as it would enable them to carry out their idea of immediate and unconditional, emancipation. Southerners •' know this full well, that the moment the con stitutional obligations are removed, that thou sands of men are ready to incite iheir /Levus. to insurrection. There would be no calling upon the United 'States troops for protection.- lint this is the great scarecrow the Soothers,' press is beginning to present to Norther* cowards, in order to carry out their great fraud to US full extent. And that it will have a powerful effect on Northern minds, there is no doubt. Some papers at the North are al; ready telling their readers to beware and not do anything that will. dissolve this glorious Union. Let the friends of freedom fight this ques tion on to the last, then in the halls of Con gress if it is necessary to go there, and if 350, 000 slaveholders wish to .dissolve the Union, we say God speed them 1.12 all such enter prises. ANOT.IIER SLAVE EXCItEgENT:WeI bad another "slave rescue" on Mon- day morning.. The circumstances, we are informed, are as follows: Not lung ago a young Cuban gentle man, tho son of a. wealthy planter in . the. "gem of the Antilles," was ar rested by order of ,his Government, on the chargo . of sending an order to Springfield, Mass., for 500 muskets. The young man was imprisoned in a strong castle; but through the con nivance of some officials, and the aid, of his father, he contrived to escape. in a cask! He was placed in a cask, which was closed; and thus rolled to the sea shore. Hero the brig Gen. Taylor, from Cardenas for this .port,, was, by previous arrangement, moorq for his reception. The young Cuban was taken on board, with a negro eer. vant, aged eighteen - years, given • him by his father. The brig sailed, and on Saturday reached this port, and was moored at Soutli-st wharf. The young Cuban took lodgings at one 'of our principal hotels. Tuesday morn, ing the Captain of the General Taylor took the negro to convey hi' to his master, who wanted Win for a body servant. On the wharf; a party of negroes met the Captain and the slave, and told the latter he - wasfree. But the Cuban negro did not understand them. . Several white men came -to the aid. of the Captain, and a scuffib ensued. Finally the negroestriumphed and carried away their Cuban friend.' since which he has not been heard 'from.—Philadelphia Sun, July ARMY TALK.—"WeII, Jack; .hare's good news from home. We're to have a medal." "That's very kind. Maybe one of these days we'll kayo a untie stick it on." - MEI = =ELM NO. 11
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