VOL. vill TSE PEOPLE'S JOITRNA.L Terms—hi 4LdvanCe One copy per arumm, Village subscribers, Tilt:llS OF ADVERTISING of 12 lines or ,ess,l inser.on, V. 50 $ •si „ o 3 inter ions, 1.5 u every sub:event in+eriion, 03 Ru'e and tivre work, per sq. , 3 iuser.ions, 3.UU Dory subiegocu. inser.iou, .5 1 com.nn, one year, 25.00 1 co nain, six wow hs, 15.00 Ad a nistreori or t:secutors' Notices, 2.00 Sherids Sa es, per :me , 1.50 profession it Card: no exceeding eight lines iaser ed for :3 per annum. 1,7•A1t - le tern on bliiness, to secure et ,ten ioa. shoald be addressed (post paid) to ,tbe S r ei,de children, to come unto me, an I forLi I then/ 11Qt for of much is the kingdom of liras en. M .rk 10 li dud 14[11. _ Arirrt Vorttg. tiTAND i'llSX =3 There are inninen s when fife's ,L a d ow , F. 1,1 aa dark y on .he sun!, Hiding s..,rs of hope beyond .horn In a back, impervious scroll ; When we wa,k wi h tremb,ing, foo:ceps, Scarcely knowing .how or V. here The dun p.i.hs we ,ree4 are .e..dirig, 1n oar inidnigh , of despair. tio: a ray to cheer its onward— aig.o.un from uu; :ho past—. IVpi,e ;be roar •f cLah ng watera Coates ua upon each bast, Aye! an) lit:. "%e t , may plunge us lu .be dre,.e..aliy6s be,uw ; Or anolber a cp m.c save us From .be very ,Je j ,,hi of woe Si:-nd we firm in that dread moment— S and wu firm, nor, e hritdr atvdy, .I..uuking he'd y .hrougl,t he darkuess, 11'.d. .he cual.tig d ,G 4 tiering a reug h, whi.o we're waiting for .he condte, ye. to cut,;;::; fear itu., f.t.i no., light u.i.l ,e 4,1 us, Ye: in safety to .he ituitte. firuCy s and—.hong,h sirens lure thee; Firin y s and— hough fa.sehood reign; Ife.ding Jus.ice, 'l'ru It, and Alercy, pie we Inly, Itu c inno„ fLi!— Fal!,:. is .tvi; word of cowards; Fat ! he tangn ige of he s nee; Tunny b....itd; di du y hechons; On.vard, e'en .hen ,o .ho grave! • Frew :he ti Y. Eve. Post. Polie..----C:ops—rne Farmers—The Maine Law. L ttiSING, Oettib4T 22, 1 b 5 5 There is a general calm in Michig - an on every sul t ject, social, financial and political. An attempt wa.s ii,atleNotric weeks since to get up home excitement caili a Republican :State Convention at Kalarnazoil, as a e~tt of initiatory step to a hatiunal campaign. But the time for excite ment had net come ; a respectable meeting was held, but it has produced no mai ked effect on the puhlie mind. This is also a time of general pros perity. All the crops of the season ere more that, an average in quantity ; end the high prices of molt aglicul tural products are making the farmers wed:thy. The injury to the wheat, during the rains of harvest, was con- Aiderahle ; but as the greater 'part of the grown wheat will be consumed for bread, or be used for feed. it will make no very great difference in the finan cial receipt] of the farmers. Potatoes are everywhere abundant, and ofgo,;cl quality ; but signs of the rot have ap peared in some places. The agricultural fairs, both of the State and counties, were better atten ded this year than ever before ; and they bid fair to become an established " institution" of our people. Some of the county societies have purchased grounds, and are electing permauent buildings fur their exhibitions. With increasing wealth and prosperity, the, ietelligtmets and social standing of the farmer ts'steadily on the gain; and nothing is wanting but their own ex ertions to procure them a. large pre ponderance in the .higher official sta tions from which they have been, to a large extent, excluded by the superior pretensions of other classes. They form' a large praiportion of our State Legislature ; bUt it is rare that an actu al pultivatur of the suit. finds his way to Washing= as a national Legisla tor. In a recent agricultural addreSs, Gorenor Bingham stated, as a matter of fact, that, during the two terms he was a Representative, there was not, besides hiinself, a practical farmer in tither branch of Congress; and when .•;,, 1 , .011. S . -,--.: ..,1 -... .:--•_: -.':. • • ::--' 1- - -.•••••_•-..1.--• ...-1 ..... 'el - ..- - , • , .;:: .. : . ' : ...• .' , " • • •-•';'. ''' :.-- ' .. *" -'; ' 7 , 7 ..."' "'". ''''t . ' ' .- 7' = " "'- !*!' . _ ..._ IA 111 ,- '..P.:', • •- ~ . . , . .. j . .... . . . . , he it:formed' some of the members that 'he lived upon a farm which be '-hed himself redeemed from the'Wildertaess, and that he cut the . logs for ,the con struction of his house with his ; own hands, they thought he was taxing their credulity beyond the bounds of reason, But. the fault, if there he any, has been chiefly with the farmers themselves. Mary of them have_ _ex cellent sense and good abilities, but are deficient in that ready knowledge of practical holiness transactions which every village lawyer possesses. It is not necessary that a Legislator or State officer should be - a perfect or ator ; but, all men, in such situations, need the- ability to express their thoughts on paper with correctness, precision, and force ; and in this re spect the farmers of the best minds are geneta:ly deficient. A. member who cannot write an amendment of a few lines to a bill without a violation of all the - rules of orthography and syntax, will be outstripped in :legisla tive influence by any ready and skillful pettriogger. SLOO 125 Our prohibitory liquor law has been in operation UOW nearly, six . months ; a pet iud long enough to afford s:mie data for a correct estimate of its ca pabilities for-good. and of its probable result in future. The present statute has thu.4 far stood the W.I. of constitu tional oljections. No part of the law Las been declared uncunstitutioilal by any court iu the State. The friends . of the law have no fears for it, on any . constitutiwal grounds. The only thing which seemed to threaten to ren der the law nugatory, was a clause in the act itself; permitting the sale of imported liquors.. Some dealers claimed the right to sell any imported liqu its in any quantity, from the ()rig-. int.l pa ckage. As Canada adjoins us, the claim, of course, if allowed, would at once flood the State with imported liquors. But the courts have decided that such liquors mu..t he mild in the origh:al packages, which must contain not loss quantities than are . prescribed by the laws of the U.iited States. his t,, the general eaforcement of tbe law, L have taken same pains :o ac quire an rodl infiwrnati6u, by personal <lLservatinu, and by inquit lug of those, butt, ti iantis atid erierniei it the law, who have traveled different parts of the State. There aTO six or seven hundred citities ai e town, in the State, iu ab , alt. all of woich, six muntLls up, iotoxicating liquors were freely al;s1 openly sold. I have not heard of a single pl ice, in which such sales have been continued without intermission and withiMt concealment. Such in stances ally exist ; and it would he strange, indeed, if a law of this charac ter were immediately executed a!I over the State, in tracts of country extending to the extreme yerga of cul tivation. I have not heard of the continued violation of the law in any place,. nor its open violation except in iv few lo calities'; and the same class of persons who boast that they can get, in every place, all the liquors they wish, ac knowledg'e that they are not openly sold. The amount of liqUors consum ed in the State, has immensely diinin i:hed, although much is illegally sold. The greater part of the cotkumptiOo is by respectable people. Sots, con firmed unkaidt and •the more de graded class, find . greater difficulties. in geting supplies. _The value - Of, the liquors retailed has largely increased. 1)-alers, wholay-themselve.s liable to prosecutions, very properly indemnify themselves by advancing the price of the contraband articles. No:cons'ide table popular. opposition„ has - been made to the law. A mass meeting. in one instance, was projei.ted ; but it was no feeble in point of uninhers, talent and influence that it showed the weakness rather than the strength - of the opposition to the law. It is worthy of notice, • that the law i 3 oppoSed by these who hab itually use the prohibited 'Among its opponents may be some who never use such beverages; but. in allrny,acquaintance . ;l..do not know DEVOTED . TO THE piuNtipLts OF DEi,IOeRACYI AisiD THE DISSEMINATION • c 4" .• LiT IM ERATE.. ,/NH . NEWS COUDERSPORt, POTTER, NOVEMBER • - .8, - 1855. ofpna of - titut clesct iproq The law ; in its pruyi.itrs,l and thus . far initi 'execution, has met - the ex peetailons of friends.' Its bene ficial effects are everywhere seen ,in the quiet and- decency of bar-s;cos and groceries, and , the .rareness with which intoxicated persons are seen in puhlid places. It is "Very generally enforcA. From, private inurces,, and from reports in the papers, I hear of prosecutions in alt parts of the state. Seller's are usually c9nvlcted ; fines are in:wised and. paid, and in some in; Stances sellers have been imprisoned. Iu the various trials the law , has sometimes been evaded ; but in no in stance has it been broken down. The dealers are watching each . other, and experiments are making to see how fat it will he cafe to violate the law, and all are ready to recommence sell ing as soon a 3 it can be d.me .wlth impunity. Six mouths,more will de termine whether the law is to be gen erally and permanently obeyed; or whether it is to be uliversally . disre garded. Public opi 'ion will settle down on one side or the -. other. But there - is, at present, not the least ail poition to alter or amend the taw among its friends, and if the question of repeal were submitted to the peo ple to-day, the contiou nice of the law would be affirmed by a vote of more than two to one. A BARD CASE We published last week an accoun t of the suspension Of a minister, by "the Cumbe!land Pteshytery of Indiana," fur assisting fugitive shrei . , to escape. Since that account was published, some additional facts have come to our knowledge in regard to this case. The suspended minister's name is T. B. McCormic, and ho is now him self a fugitive tleaiag from arrest by the civil authorities of Indiana. A. re qui.itiun was made by the Governor on the G.iveraur of Indiana; fur the delivery of - Mr. Mc- Connie, to the aUtliolitiOS- of the form er State, for the allaged offense of as sisting fugitives to escape. This rn qu:Ation the Goveinur ut Indiana coin with,so jar as tu issue a Warrant fur•the arrest of McCurinie, and he is now fleeing fo escape capture on that warrant. It is also statedithat it was through the proceedings ache Piesbytery iu this cast that the L lientu.,.:ky Governor obtained his knowlinlge Comic's agency in assisting cuitives;. and that so;ne of the slaves wkont he helped to libert y^ had belonged to a b ro ther mi n istei of the sante church,- in the South.! Taken all in all, this is ono of the hardest caseS . .which slavery, prolific in crime and cruelty as it is, has yet produced. A minister of Jesus Christ i s cant out of his stabding in the Church and then hunted down us a et imitial by the State ; and for what 7 Fur simply obeying the plainest Commands of the Bible,-and the dictates of common hu 'nullity. Nut only is the duty of assist ing iugitive slaves enjoined itt those general precepts of the • Scriptures which require u 3 to feed the hungry clothe the nuked, hide the outcast, &c. but it is cortrnanded in *press terms. Thou shalt nut deliver unto hir mas ter the.screant that is cscapedfrom his master unto thee. He. shall dwell among you, even in one of thy gates where it liketh him best, thou 611alt:•iiot• oppress Had this divine laWa been. made exclusively fur the UM ted Stiate, it could not have been. ex . pressed in hinguuge More exactly sui ted to, our circumstances as a nation. And had the. " Indiana Presbytery" and the Indiana .Govertun_ conspired together for the :express purpose - of insulting and nullifying the law of Ged, •they could have done nothing, rmore 'directly in point thin w.hat,they have (Imre inthis . case. Again, God com mands t " Execute, ye judgment end. justice, and deliver the spoiled out of the Land of the oppressor." .Dii4 the free States " fear God and-keep his :• commandments," as they should, they would, rise rn masse and. .demand the ins:au', deliverance of every ,Oppressed victim .of Southern despotism ; and proceed at once, if necessary, to com pel the tyrants to obey,: • But instead Of that, the State and the Church band .together iu a guilty league to enable the oppressUr to hold his victim se curely, and outlaW the man who has humanity and religion , enough to obey his 'Maker. Nu facts can nil e - clearly prove the practical atheism of many who lay claim to the •Ciaristiau name in thi.4 land. ' TEE 17.E*-*OII.IE,TBIBURE.-18.55-58. Tue Taincxe is now in the middle of its fifteenth year; Vol. XV . of its Weekly issue commenced. on the of September last. The '•American public need not now be made acquaint ed with its character or, claims to con sideratiun. But with , a subordinate regard fur prudence, policy or popu larity, it has aimed to stand for R ight • yousness, for Truthi: for Humanity, against fortified Iniquity, Fitted and Oppression. -There is not a shire-tra der no this Continent, though he may never read anything but his bills of • sale and notes-payable, who does nut know and hate Tire TRIBUNE; there is not an extensive fabricator of drugged and poisohous Liqu.trs Who does not consider it a very dangerous and im moral. paper, and wonder why its pub • licatiUn is tolerated in a commercial, cotion-ba,iug I;ity like New-York. The Newark - Mercury, mice forcibly remarked that it bad never known a hard, griping, screwing, avatictous employer wilt; was not hostile to Tile our one eminently generous cud It' otlli win., did nutlike it. Prompt aad plain-spoken in its denunciations of iniquity and auuseS of puwer, waiie clawnlig no exception tioin human it may Lave done temporary in j ustice to individuals, but it has never been u.naitinnl to.Priuciple, nor azal to rue cues ef'tne wcunged and buifei lug. In its e..lainns the advocate of noVel aad unpopu,ar .theories con templating the, menoratiun uf human woes, eve:A:tally hone of iuv vuicasss and down-trodden, have ever fuu.id undience and hospitality; wed,: it has ardently resisted, and w,.l persistently cumbat, every attempt to prose/ iho and degrade soy class because of di versities of Nativity, Creed, ur ILI deliatiCe UI caludunies the must atrocious, add of hostilities the Most deadly and untiring, TlJETniuuNe has growl steadily iii puulle appreciation from the day tit its . origin. Its means of serving toe pubtie nave been zing intuited in proportion. Instead ill a hingle editor with one or two - assist- ants, its urganization now comprises a numerous body of writers, each fitted by special accomplishment and experi ence fur the particular line of discus tdon to - which his pen is clJruted ; the daily amount of reading matter given.' in&re than quadruples that of us ,est istme; a staff of valued ,correspon dents encircles the globe, ttansmitting I milli and inteiligeut narrations of ;rata• ever is most worthy of atteution;•whife Politics, Legislation, Literature, Art, Hi.stury—in short wnatever affects the social well-being of mankind, Polemic Theology alone excepted-7-finds here , the freest,and must searching discus sion. Attached by. profound conviction to .the : benelicent policy of Industrial. de. velopment and Internal lidercUmmu nication, whose most conspicuous champion through the last Half-Cen tury was LICNRY CLAy—irnhued, more over, with that . spirit . of fOrbearance toward our weaker .neighbors, and toward the mucn-wrunged. Aborigines of this Continent, .and of Peace with all - which wal hallow the. name of Wliig, THE TRIBUNE, wl.ileSurrender iug uu jut of its proper independence, cuopeiated earnestly and ardently with the Whig pail i sci - leng . as: its vitality was preserved. When, in 1850-2, au attempt was made to interpolate slave hunttng into its creed, we sternly re sisted that imposition ; when, at the close of the last Presidential canvass, =I . it 'was seen that a large portion'Of . the Whigs preferred to defeat their own party rather than allOWlta Anti-Sla very wing to Share its' Arittaipin, even under a .conservative Chief on a Prii- SlaVery platform, ive• kneW. and -Pt* claimed that the Whig party was more. Subsequent events, including the rise itad . culmination *of the Know- Nothing conspiracy, and the speedy absorption therein of the' while force of Pro-Slavery - Whigisni; only con firmed our undoubting anticipations. With no sickly lamentations,therefitre, for dui inevitably bygone, but with hope, and joy, and sympathy, and Words of cheer, have we hailed the beginning watched the progress of that mighty REPUBLIC . I4: movement which,- impelkid by the perfidious violation of the Missouri Corripact, and "stimulated by the astounding outrages whereof the rights - of the Free Set tlers of Kansas have been the victims —by the repeated and utter vitiation of their elections by an armed snob collacted by conspiracy and - hurled suddenly upon them from the dnirder countreS ofthe neighboringSkve State, is destined to sweep away the land marks-of old party feuds, and - unite the true hearts and strong arms of the free-souled in one mighty eFfort to confine-the scourge and scandal of our country. within the limits of the 'States which unwisely uphold it. To the success of this effort the energies of Tim TarneNc will be sternly devoted ;. while the TzurcaANeu Reronst, •in eluding the entire suppras.,,ion of the Traffic in Intoxicating Beverage r, will find in it, as hitherto, an earnest and unflinching champion. Commencing as a daily folio sheet of moderate. size, and with scarcely a shadow of patronage, Tun Tatum: is now issue.d in quarto from Deily (three distinct edition,), Semi-Weekly and Weekly, on a sheet 44 by 31 inches eight ample pages ofsiz columns each. Its circulation has steadily grown from nothing to the following aggregates:. Daily issues (evening and morning) ' 29,akiu copies Semi-Weeldv 14,175 NVeek.y . . 1:37,750 California edi,tou To.al copies Wu believe no other newspaper in the wmll has a subscription list over half so large a.i.thii; and no periodical of any suit can rival it. And while its extreme cheapness, rendering an increase of paying readers only as indirect pecuniary adva rage` to us, has douhaess largely swelled its sub scription list, it vi:,4!d be absurdity not to perceive iu this unprecedented patronage some evidence of public approval and esteem. TERMS TnE TRIBUNE employs no traveling agents and sends out no papers on trust. If it is not stopped when the tot m'paid fur expires, and the sub scriber dues not choose further to• pay fur it, we rOort to no legal process to compel him. Oo the Weekly we.mean to stop every paper on the expiration of the advance payment, awaiting's , fresh remittance from the subscrirbe. If none comes, the account is closed: We pay no ; local agents; wish no money paid to any . when . the payer m cannot trust him to ail or other Wise send it to us; once mailed, its safety is at our risk, (and a serious •risk` it often proves) ; but are gratefbl to every one who deems' it a good Work to obtain and forwalid 'the' names and money of his . friends 'and neighbors. Our terns invariably are-4er the Daily Tribune, s6' per annum. Semi, Weekly, $3; two .; copies for $5-1 five for $ll 25. Weekly,- $2 ; . •three ,, copies for $5 . five . ciapies Riess ; ten •copies for $l2; twenty copies, or '.over: to. one address; for $1 each ; twenty copies, or over, to addreis of each • • subscriber, $l-20 each: • :Additions may at all times be made to a club at the price paid by those already in it. GRRELEY &•"31cELRATE No. 154 Natfilia - stieet, New York. _ VT q cr9 L , ;* •-• SAVING CHOICE USD, The fact that we can get superior breeds of alaimals_unly faun the yeti best and inost perfect specimeos. is so well established "das no one stow doubts it. :,11rtiy should not the ONO hesnalagaUS iu the raising of vegan/. bled 7 , xl) . erierite says it is anelagoite —that superior .vegetables can besaw ed only from the -.must mature Ina petfect seeds.. This the -market pr ener s in the vicinity., of titles. 22 . 00 well aware of, and govern themselves accordingly.. To raise these fine veg etables, for which- they can. obtaist almost any price—and prices always iu advance of the market:prices for ordinary articles—they use seeds in the pmduction and selection of which the greatest pains have been taken. These superior seeds are raised' by themselves, or specially for theta they do not depend on seed -deal f ers for -their supplies. They Jaye their most thrifty specimens of radishes, lettuce. parsnips, turnips, -beets. - carrots. nab .bages, &c , &c., from which to' raise their own seed. B) doing this year after year, most surprising improve ments have been made is the stie s flavor•,, taste, and other qualities 'of many gat den productions. • these tarts, well known among market gardeners and others, render it highly probable; or almost certain, that in the case of, all plants and; all vegetable productions, improvement to any extent, or to an indefinite ex tent, might be secured, if thO' practice of selecting only the best apecitneno and the best seed's, wore persevered in for a number of years. Some Wu.. have been at pains in this matter for a few years, hay* obtained such a reputation fur superior kiads of 'vari ous vegetables and grains, that they can obtain prices for their seed : cora. seed wheat, seed potatoes, and gardo seeds, _which are highly remuuerativs:.. Some have obtained so much reputa tion for superiority in field' and gar den products, that they can sell ma they can raise, at any price which they May _;.1..,k.:--Conntry Gentlerrian. I A wag thus eulogizes his musical attaitimuuts—" I know two tunes, tips one is Auld Laug Syne, and the oth. er - isti't—l always sing the latter." lar The editors of a western paper observe : " The poem which we pub lish in this week's Herald . was writte..l by an 'esteemed friend, who has lei* many years iu the grave for his 04, a neusemen t. Q A New York paper, announc ing the arrival of a vessel near 'tins Narrows, says : The only passengers were T. B. Nathan, who owned thret.- fuerths of the cargo and they caplais'• wife. Q` A New - Qileants editor, record ing ttie career of a mad dog, says— we are grieved to say that a rabid animal, bet;ire if could be killed, se verely bit Dr, Hart and several itth,e•- dogs." . KANE the Arctic adventurer is at home again. How glad a welcome ere this lie has received from his itoino tiieuds. We cannot but think of Elio sad late of another man . who is lying iu a Philadelphia dungeon. for telling a 'poor . ilegruwoman'that'she was free_ Bythe infamous decisions olDr Kaue's father, Pa.ssmore Williamson is a' hot away froM his little ories—.is confined • in a prison. Judge ICMin is; rejoicing over the escape el his '4uwn son fro . in; the Arctic' icebeigs. We . wondei if he Lines nut think of, somebody else's . sun; . wno fur righteousness sake accepts ‘ a late as terrible as ISA of Sir Juluii Franklin.' Better . for a man to trust to the Mad e s of an arctic winter, titan tis such a monster as Judge liane.—Hart. ford Compliments costnet4ing., , Tat many people pay dearly for tbeyi.... , 0804 Mr Where :t.beie ian c. ittve can be no en - deacer: • • --..g*. _ k, ...._..:c NO. 25.
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