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<\FFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
/ adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
Store. I*. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
tii. first Monday of each month to spend the
week. my 31
BR. A. J. ATKINSON,
n'AVING permanently located in Lewis- ,
town, offers his professional services \
to the citizens of town and country, Office '
West Market St., opposite Eisenbise's Hotel. !
Kesidence one door east of George Blymyer.
Lewistown, July 12, ISGo—tf
Dr. Samuel L. Alexander.
it lias permanently located at Milroy,
fy and is prepared to practice all the branch- !
Zes of his Profession. Office at Swine- |
hart's Hotel. my3-ly
EDWARD FRYSINGER,
IfHOI.ES.ILE DEALER & MA.\I FACTI REK
or
ot.iits.WAwaiira,!
&c., &c.,
laSWSSHKBJWSfc IPiio
Orders promptly attended to. jelG
_
GEO. W. ELDER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistowri, will at- I
lend to business in Mllilin, Centre and Hunting- j
don counties. roy2fj j
m f,
Seigrist's Old Stand,
Ear the Canal Bridge, Lewistown, I'a.
Strong Beer. Lager Ileer, Lindenherger !
mid Switzer Cheese—all of the best quality j
. nstantly on hand, for sale wholesale or re- j
tail.
Yeast to he hud daily during summer.
niy24-yr
McALISTERVILLE ACADEMY
Juniata County, i'a.
i. F.I). F. .Mc F.IR L.LVI), I'lincl/ntl Sf Proprietor.
J.ICUII DULLER, Prof. of *Mathematics, Sfc.
,Vis.L\lVl ES. CRIST, Ttaclier of -Music, Sfc. | (
The next session of this Institution com- j
metices on the 26th of July, to continue 22 i
waks. Students admitted at any time.
A Normal Department
will be formed which will afford Teachers the I
iir-t opportunity of preparing for fali exaniina- j
j ti'iiis.
\ N'F.VV APPARATUS lias been purchased,
I. rturn's engaged, &c.
i HUMS —Hoarding, Room und Tuition, per i
-e-siuii,s,olo §GU. Tuition alone at usual rates, i
forY'irculars sent free on application.
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AM)
V E S T I NCS,
which will be made up to order in the neat- j
est and most fashionable styles. apl'J
Lock Repairing, Pipe Laying,
Plumbing and White Smithing
f PHK above branches of business will be I
I promptly attended to on application at j
tin residence of the undersigned in Main j
street. Lewistown.
J mlO GEOIIGE MILLEII. |
A. 9 3 i,
HA\ IXtJi in connection with his Grocery j
and Notion business, commenced the
Manufacturing of Confection
cry,
fn its various branches, and employed a prac- j
o workman, notifies the public that he in- j
•■ II i-to keep a well assorted stock of the !
'' we goods on hand, which will be warrant j
1 to give satisfaction, and be equal to any j
otoctioiieries that can be bought from any
' i-t' rii city, which ho offers ts wholesale mer j
! "'its and retailers at city prices, with cost
' carriage, lie therefore solicits the cus- j
m ut the surrounding country, and re- j
quests them to send in their orders or call j
• n 1 examine his goods, which will satisfy all ■
that they can be accommodated with a selec
tion which will recommend itself,
FAKES, BISCUITS, &c., constantly on j
'"Hid. Also, Pound, Spunge, Bride, Silver j
"id Gold Cakes, in the best style, baked to ]
jr der, on the shortest notice. mh2B
LH.Ot R by the barrel or hundred—Fancy,
A Extra Family and Superfine Flour for
-ale by john KENNEDY & Co.
/ ( JAL OIL LAMPS, Shades, Chimneys,
Brushes, Burners, &c., for sale by
febl 4 JOHN KENNEDY & CO.
Cheaper than the Cheapest!
( -ICASS\V ARE —Tumblers at 62J, 75, 87,
pE u * and 200 per dozen. Goblets,
hers, Fruit Stands, and Covered Dishes,
&c > a t JOHN KENNEDY $ Co's.
I rCST RECEIVED.
10 bbls. Pic Nic Crackers,
10 " Boston Biscuit.
10 " Sugar Crackers,
10 " Family "
I .. 5 boxes Soda Biscuit.
I ~ e> u from the Bakery. Low to the trade,
| tor sale by JOHN KENNEDY & Co.
jpissnsj'ipsaiß) iisyis) iptgnsxuissiisES) <Ba®iE®ig IPA©
, Jacob C. Blymyer & Co.,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
teu'Flour and Grain of all kinds pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rates, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care"
ful captains and hands.
Stove Coal, Limeburners Coal, Plaster, Fish
and Salt always on band.
Grain can be insured at a small advance on
cost of storage. n022
Let Thy Works Praise Thee!
fCff - The subscriber having obtain
dqw— the management of the old
Lewistown Foundry, lately called
■SSn'r-'refegS the Juniata Iron Works, respect
fully informs the public that the tools and
machinery have been repaired, and are now
read}- to make and finish up any kind of brass
castings which may to ordered. Horse Pow
ers and Threshing Machines of the bestqual
ity furnished at short notice and on the most
accommodating terms.
BAR SHARE, SIDE HILL AND BUIL
PLOWS
always on hand. Having had a long exper
ience in conducting this kind of business, the
subscriber Hatters himself that he will be able
to give entire satisfaction to his customers.
Please give him a trial.
ap4-ly JOHN 11. WEEKES, Agt.
P. S.—AH persons having accounts with
the above Foundry are requested to call on
Samuel S. Woods, at his office, and settle
heir accounts as soon as possible.
AMBROTYPES
The Gems of the Season.
r |MIIB is no humbug, hut a practical truth
A Ihe pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TRUTH
FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DURABILITY. Prices varying according
to size and quality of frames and Cases.
Room over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 1860.
The Greatest Discovery of the Aye is that
John Kennedy & Co. Propietors,
A M>
JAMES FIROYLB, Salesman,
VBE selling goods at prices that defy com
petition. They keep a large stock of
ali kinds id goods such as Sugars, at 7, 9, 10,
IL. Coffees at 10, leas 88, Syrups at GO per
gallon, 100 boxes of Mould Candles 10 oz to
lb., (to dealers at 13 ets. by the box,) 14 cts.
per lb., Segars, very low. Sugar Cured Hams
at 12, Dried Beef 12, Calicos, Muslins, Ging
hams, and all kinds of Dry Goods for sale at
prices that can't be surpassed. Everybody
and anybody are invited to come and see the
sights. Don't forget to bring along the ready
cash, as you may be sure its that we're after;
and don't forget that we sell goods to suit the
hard times; we take produce tf ail kinds in
exchange for goods.
JOHN KENNEDY &, Co.
feb!4 J. B. FIROVED, Salesman.
LEWISTOWN ACADEMY.
f|MIE second session of this institution will
1 commence on MONDAY, May 20th.
In addition to the common English branches,
instructions will be given in Latin Greek,
French, German, and the Higher Mathemat
ics, also, in Drawing, Painting, and music.
No extra charge fur the Languages.
ltates of Tuition. —B3 00, 4 50, and $6 00
per quarter of eleven weeks. Drawing, $3 00,
Painting, $5 00, Music, 810 00, Incidentals,
25 cents.
A Teacher's Class has been formed and is
in successful operation. This class is design
ed for those who desire to thoroughly qualify
themselves for teaching. It will continue
till July, affording ample time for a thorough
review of the studies pursued in common
schools.
Teacher® can enter this class at any time,
though an early attendenou of all who wish
to join it is desired.
For further particulars inquire of
M. J. SMITH,
Prin. Lewistowu Academy.
Lewistown, April 25, 18G1.
New Spring and Summer Goods.
| ) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy
JLV • & Ellis, has just returned from the city
with a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
seleeted with care and purchased for cash,
which are offered to the public at a small ad
vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all descriptions of
Spring and Summer Goods
suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
with many new patterns. His
€*roccvlre
comprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio
and Laguyra Coffee, superior Teas, &c. Also,
Boots and Shoes, Queopsware, and all other
articles usually found in stores—all which
the customers of the late firm and the public
in general are invited to examine.
R. F. ELUS.
Country Produce received as usual and the
full market price allowed therefor.
Lewistown, May 16, 1861.
WATT 1 SALT!
f rHIE undersigned are agents for the Onon-
I dago Salt Company.
Wholesale price, $1.60 per bbl. of 280 lbs,
or 5 bushels.
Retail prica, 1.75.
MARKS & WILLIS,
del3-6m Sole Agents for Mifllin County.
THE MIIITREE,
THE FLAG OF THE FREE.
A lit — Itetl. While, ana ]Jlnc.
•| ' >h well we rciiieiiiher the story,
| When Columbia, the child of a day,
j I lore her banner, all covered with glory,
j Wherever the tyrant held sway!
'Neath the stars and stripes see them gather.
From the mountain, the plain, and the sea.
I And their shouts rend the blue, vaults of ether,
"We die on the field or are free!"
cuoias.
-We .lie on the field or are free !
\Y e die on the field or are free F'
And their shouts rend the blue vaults of other.
"We die mi the field or are free!"
The memory lie cherished forever,
Of the martyrs who fell on the field,
j Who -wore that their heart-strings should sever
lire to Tyranny's mandates they'd yield,
j 'di sacred the spot where they perished.
And green may their graves ever be,
j And age after age shall be cherished
The (lag that waved, over the free I
! The heroes have gone to their slumber,
All silent and peaceful they lie,
i \Y liile the stars, -till increasing in numlier,
T.ike a wave seem to mirror the sky—
i And high o'er laud and on ocean.
In vict'ry it streams far and wide,
j Till our hearts seem to burst with emotion,
As we gaze on the banner with pride.
\Y here'er dash the wild waves of ocean,
Where'er its dark waters divide.
Where the storm bird foretells its commotion.
There floats out our banner in pride—
t)n mountain-top, plain, or in valley,
Wherever a footstep may be,
The host of Columbia doth rail v.
And shout for the Flag of the Free!
uh, brethren, sa.v, SAY, would ye sever
The bond once cemented in gore ?
j Would ye shame that proud banner? Oh never!
Till Time and its trial are o'er;
Beneath its broad folds and M> OTHER —
When discord and madness -hall flee,
Let us rally, each man as a brother,
And shout for the Flag of the Free!
[From the Providence .Journal.]
ON! BROTHERS, ON !
Alß — Jl'iil to the Vhhf.
ur SARAH WAIINEK UROOES.
On! brothers, on! for the ling that is peerless!
.Striped from the rainbow, and starred from the
sky—
On ! with a sturdy step! dauntless and fearless!
Oil! to unfurl it in triumph, or die!
Honored in all the lands—
Now shall unholy hands
j Trail it. defiled and despised, in the dust?
Down With the "traitor's rag!"
I'p with the Starry Flag!
Death for our Banner! and God for the just!
j Fiercely at Sumter have thundered their cannon—
! Bravely the guns ol our hero replied!
j <'n! for the ashes that slumber at Vernon !
Oil! for the city whose name is our pride!
Now h-t our country's guns
Swoop down the bastard son-!
) Woe for JUT chivalry's flower in the dust!
Down with the •• traitor's rag!"
I'p with the Starry Flaw!
I H-ath for our Banner! and God f,.i the just!
On! with a prayer! there i- peril before u-!
On! in the face of death, fearless and proud!
| Life! with the Flag that our fathers waved o'er u-!
j Death! with its erinson-.-tained folds for a .-•hrotid!
Now for ottr "father-laud"'
Strike with true heart and hand!
Loyal our venture—and Heavenward our trust!
Down with the "traitor's rag!"
I'p with the Starry Flag!
Death for our Banner! und God for the just!
Be Firm.
Let the winds blow, and waves ofsorrow
frown and beat around you, if they will;
but keep your soul in rectitude, and it will
;be firm as a rock. Plant yourself upou
j principles, and bid defiance to misfortune.
If gossip, with her poisoned tongue, meddles
j with your good name, if her disciples, who
invest every town and hamlet, make your
disgrace the burthen of their song, heed
them not. it is their bread and meat to
j slander. Treat their idle words as you
! would the hissing of a serpent or the buz
| zing of many insects. Carry yourself
i erect, and by the serenity of your counte
| nance and purity of your life, give the lie
; to all who would berate and belittle you.
Why be afraid of any man? Why tremble
j and cower in the presence of the rich?—
j Why crook the pliant hinges of the knee,
| that thrift may follow fawning? No,
| friend, fear them not! Build up your char
acter with holy principles, and if your path
be not strewn with flowers, let it be beauti
ful with the light of divine life, and you
will leave behind you a noble example,
| which will be an aid to the world ; a pe
j rennial flower, whose leaves will be a heal
ing to the nations, and its fragrance the
panacea of the soul.
A Receipt For Contentment.
Try to compute your artificial wants —
the number of things which you fancy
come under the list of must haves' merely
because other people possess them, and not
because you would not be quite as well off
and as happy in their absence. Try it for
one week, whenever you are tempted to
dally with your purse strings. Record in
your memorandum book what, in view of
this, you sensibly resolve not to buy, and
see what a nice little sum will be left yen
. for real necessaries. It is seldom by these
last that one is hampered or annoyed
• Make the experiment and see if it is not
so. A just ecupomy is not niggardliness ;
one need not be a miser in avoiding the ex
travagance of a spendthrift.
THURSDAY. JUNE 13, 1861,
mW&AMWk
The Church and the War.
SOUTHERN' AND NORTHERN EPISCOPALIANS.
The Mobile Tribune published the fol
lowing extracts from a letter written to
Bishop Potter, of^ Pennsylvania, by an Al
abamian. The letter was called forth by
the circular to tho clergy of the diocese,
issued by Bishop Potter some weeks ago :
" 1 desire, most sincerely, to know how, or
i>n what grounds, a churchman—especially a
Bishop uf the Church—and, beyond all, a
Bishop bearing the reputation for modera
tion and discretion which belongs to you—
can denounce, as 'in error,' and 'in arms
against Ihe constituted authorities of the
land,' those who are armed, as we are in obe
dience to the only de facto, and, as we firmly
believe, the only dv jure authorities of our
land, for the purpose of defending ourselves
against an atrocious invasion. * * *
"Two clergymen from my own immediate
vicinity, have sent their sons as privates in
the ranks ol tho volunteer companies that
have already gone forth towards the Virginia
borders, perhaps to meet in battle some of
those who may be encouraged to level their
muskets and lift their swords against them
by the very language you have put forth.—
Right reverend and dear sir, there is some
terrible mistake here, on one side or the oth
cr. It is monstrous, horrible, that such things
should be. I beg you to explain how it is
possible tbat you could under the circumstan
ces, give so much sanction and encourage
ment to those who are engaged in this unholy,
unprovoked, wanton attempt to destroy us
and ali that is dear to us.
"Ifyou can say anything that will tend to
a restoration of that charity and confidence
so deeply wounded, if not entirely broken, by
the language of the prayers attributed to
yourself and other prominent ministers of
the church, I beg that j ou will vie it."
These were the material portions of the
letter. A postscript was appended by the
two clergymen mentioned above, respect
fully uniting in the request for an answer
to the question propounded, and an explan
ation ol the Bishop's extraordinary prayer.
To this communication Bishop Potter re
plies in the following letter:
PniLADEi.rina, Monday, May 13, 18GI.
MY DEAR SIR: —You " beg me to explain
how it is possible that 1 could, under the cir
cumstances, give so much sanction and en
eouragement to those engaged in this unholy,
unprovoked, wanton attempt to destroy us, and
all thai is dear to us."
Your misconception is so radical that I al
most despair of correcting it. What you re
gard as an " attempt to destroy you and all
that is dear to you," is considered by us as
simply an attempt to defend ourselves and
the capital of our country from threatened
invasion, our Constitution from destruction,
and even our Southern brethren from that
which is the surest pro'ection of themselves
and their peculiar institutions. From the
secession of South Carolina to the storming
of Fort Sumter, the General Government re
mained all but passive. It then became in
dispensable that we should know whether it
was n Government, whether it could retain
its hold of Washington, and whether the
whole system that Washington and his com
peers inaugurated in 1789 was not a delusion
and imposture. This, my dear sir, is the
whole story- Your theory not only disre
gards your own obligations under the Consti
tution, but it leaves to us no Government,
except in name—opening the door for perpet
ual discord, and for secession without end.
I do not believe that at the North one man
in fifty desires an invasion of your soil or the
destruction of your social system. They sim
ply desire that you should not break up the
Union by .your method of leaving it, but re
fer all subjects of complaint to a convention
of all the States, which will be competent
either to redress all grievances or to provide
away in which you can retire from the Un
ion without dissolving the whole fabric of out-
General Government.
I nder the present exasperated state of the
sections it is impossible to say to what length
this conflict may go. But I assure you that
in the few lines above you have the whole
animus of the loyal States and of the Union
men everywhere. Only the smaller number
of fanatics think or talk of slavery. The
whole question is one of self defence, and of
Government or no Government.
Yours, sincerely,
ALONZO POTTRR.
Hon. C. M. Clay and the London Times.
To the Editor of the Times :
Sir —Allow me your journal to make a few
remarks upon the complications of the Uni
ted States of America, which, I am surprised
to find, are so little understood this side of
the Atlantic.
" What are ice fighting for ?" "Wo the
people of the United States of America" (to
use the language of our Constitution,) are
fighting to maintain our nationality and the
principles of liberty upon which it was found
ed—that nationality which Great Britain has
pledged herself, both by past comity and the
sacred obligations of treaty, to respect; those
great principles of liberty, that all power is
derived from the consent of the governed;
trial by jury, freedom of speech and the press;
that "without law there is no liberty"—which
we inherited from Great Britain herself, and
which, liaving been found to lie at the base of
all progress and civilization, we desire to per
petuate for ourselves and the future of all na
tions. The so-called "Confederate States of
America" rebel against as —against our na
tionality, and against all the principles of its
structure. Citizens of the United States—of
the one Government (not of Confederated
States, as they would have the world believe
—but of "us the people"), they propose, not
by common legal consent, but by arms, to
sever our nation into separate independencies.
Claiming to " be let alone," they conspire
against us, they seize by force our forts, arms
and stores; appropriate to themselves our
mints, moneys, and vessels at sea; capture
our armies, and threaten even the capital at
Washington.
The word "secession" is used to cover up
treason and delude the nations. They stand
to us iu the relation of one "people;" the idea
of "State sovereignty" is utterly delusive.—
We gave up the old "Confederation" to avoid
just such complications as have now occur
red. The States are by our Constitution de
prived of all the independent sovereigns, and
the National G vernment acts not through
State organizations, but directly upon the
citizens of the States themselves—to that
highest power, the right of life and death.—
The States cannot keep an army or navy, or
even repel invasion, except when necessity
will not allow time for national action : can
make no treaty, nor coin money, nor exer
eise any of the first great essential powers t f
"sovereignty." In a word, they can no more
"secede" from the Union than Scotland or Ire
land can secede from England.
The professed friends of the independence
of nations and popular rights, they have not
only overthrown the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, but the Constitution of the Con
federate States themselves, refusing in every
ease to refer their new usurpations to the
votes of the people, thus making themselves
doubly traitors to both the States and the na
tion. The despotic rulers over 4,000,000 of
enslaved Africans, they presume to extend
over us, the white races of all nations, the
same despotism, by ignoring the political
rights of all but their own class, by restric
tions upon the popular franchise, by the sup
pression of the fredom of speech and of the
press, by the terrorism of "Lynch law," or
tyrannical enactments, backed by standing
armies, to crush out the independence < f
thought, the ineradical instincts of our world
wide humanity—with the atrocious dogma
that negro slavery is the only basis of real
conservatism and progressive civilization, and
that the true solution of the contest between
labor and capital is that capital should awn
the laborer, whether white or black.
The sucees3 of such demands would send
the tide of barbarism not only over the mil
lions of the New World and the isles of the
western oceans, but roll it back over England
and emancipated Europe, and blot out from
history this, the greatest glory of our times.
2. "Bateau yon subdue the revolted States?"
Of course we can. The whole seven revolted
States (2,103,000) have not as much white
population as the single State of New York
(3,851,563) by 1,500,000 people. If all the
slave States were to make common cause,
they have only 8,907,894 whites, with 4,000,-
000 slaves, while the Union has about 20,-
000,000 of homogeneous people, as powerful
in peace and war as the world has seen. In
telligent, hardy, and "many sided." their late
apparent lethargy and weakness was the self
possession of conscious strength. When they
had made up their minds that farce was ne
cessary, they moved upon Washington with
such speed, numbers, and steadiness as is not
surpassed in history. We have the money
(at a lower rate of interest than ever before),
the men, and the command of the seas and
the internal waters. We can blockade them
by sea, and invade them by land, and close
up the rebellion in a single year if we are
"let alone V' For the population of the slave
States is divided perhaps equally for and
against the Union, the loyal citizens being
for the time overawed by the organized con
spiraey of the traitors, the North is
united to a man, the late allies of the South,
the Democratic party, being now more earn
est for the subjugation of the rebels than the
Republicans.
3. "But can you govern a 'subjugated' peo
ple and reconstruct the Union ?" We do not
purpose to "subjugate" the revolted States
—we purpose putting down simply the rebel
citizens. We go to the rescue of the loyal
Uuionists of all the States. We carry safety,
and peace, and liberty to the Union loving
people of the South, who will of themselves
(the t} r rant overthrown) send back their rep
resentatives to Congress, and the Union will
be " reconstructed" without a change of a let
ter in the Constitution of the United States.
Did England subjugate Ireland and Scotland?
Are the united kingdoms less homogeneous
than of OJLJ, before the wars against the re
hellion? So will the United States arise from
tho smoke of battle with renewed stability
and power. In turn now let us ask the Brit
ish public some questions.
1. Where should British honor place her iu
this contest? We overthrew that political el
ement in America which has all through our
history been the studied denouncer and real
hater of the British nation, while we have
been always from the beginning the friends
of England. Because, though under differ
ent forms of government, we had a common
cause, and therefore a common intarest.--
England was the conservator of liberty in
Europe—the Old World; we in the New. If
the Confederate States are right, then is
England wrong. If slavery must be extend
ed in America, then must England restore it
in the West Indies, blot out the most glori
ous page of her history, and call back her
freed men into chains! Let her say to the
martyra of freedom from all the nations who
have sought refuge and a magnanimous de
fence on her shores, " Return to your scaf
folds and your prison houses ; England is no
more England!" Let the Times cease to ap
peal longer to the enlightened opinion of the
world; nay, let the statues of the great dead
through which I passed in reverence yester
day to the Houses of her political intelligence
be thrown front their pedestals, when Eng
land shall forget the utterances of her Chat
hams, her Wilberforces, and her Broughams
—that natural justice is the only safe diplo
macy and lasting foundation of the indepen
dence of nations.
2. What is the interest of England now ?
If we may descend to such inferior appeals,
it is clearly the interest of England to stand
by the Union of the States. We are her best
consumer; no tariff will materially affect that
fact. YYe are the best customer of England,
not because we are cotton growers or cotton
spir.nera, agriculturists or manufacturers, but
because we are producers and manufacturers
and have money to spend. It is not the South,
as is urged, but the North who are the best
consumers of English commerce. The free
white laborer and capitalist does now, and al-
New Series—Vol. XV, No. 32.
ways will, consume more than the white mas
ter and slave. The Union and theexpausic.it
of the States and Republican policy make us
the best market for England and Europe.—
W hat has the world to gain—England,
France or any of tiie Powers to gain bv re
ducitig the United States to a Mexican civili
zation ? '
3. Can England a/lord to oft ml the great
nation which will still be " The United States
of America" tre a if we should lose pari of
the Stiiith ! Twenty millions of people to da v,
with or without the Slave States, in twenty
years will be 40,000,000! In another half
eenturv we wiii he one hundred millions!—
\Y e will rest upon the Potomac, and on the
west batiks of the Mississippi river, upon the
Gull of Mexico. Our railroads will run
4,0u0 miles upon a single parallel, binding
our empire, which must master the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans ! [s England so secure in
the future against home revolt or foreign am
bition as to venture, now in our need, to plant
the seed of revenge in all our future ?
If Ireland, or Scotland, or Wales shall at
tempt to secede from that beneficent Govern
ment of the ! nited Kingdom which now
lightens their taxation and gives them secur
ity and respect at home and abroad, shall we
enter into a piratical war with our race and
ally, and capture and sell in our ports the
property and endanger the lives of peaceable
citizens of the British Empire all over the
world? 1 enter not into the discussion of
details. England, then, is our natural ally.
V> ill she ignore our aspirations ? If she is
just, she ought not. If she is honorable and
magnanimous, she cannot. //' she is wise,
she will not.
Your obedient servant.
C. M. CLAV,
United States Minister Plenipotentiary, &e..
to St. Petersburg
Morley's, London, .May 17.
Col. Anderson in Cincinnati.
Col. Anderson, on Sunday a week, made
the following neat little speech to the
scholars of the German Mission Sabbath
School in Cincinnati :
! did not expect, my dear children and
friends, when I came, to be asked to ad
dress you, but it is well, perhaps, for me
to say a few words. 1 have been placed,
providentially in a position that has attrac
ted the attention of our country to me and
my little band. But I would not have you
misunderstand me or my position and the
causes which have led mo safely through
the dangers by which I have been sur
rounded. No mortal assistance, no individ
ual aid, would have sufficed to that end.
I am willing, and I am not ashamed frankly
to tell you my young friends, that no event,
no transaction took place there, in any day,
of any interest or importance to the cause,
without my first appealing to God in tho
morning, to give me spirit of wisdom to
understand, that I might comprehend If is
will, to give me strength of purpose and
resolution to know my duty to 11 im and to,
my country. Therefore the credit of what
ever was done does not belong to me. Be
fore 1 left Fort Suxnter 1 received letters
from friends telling me that I should be
in more danger from my friends than {was
from my enemies—that I must be careful
not to be spoiled by flattery.
The advice was well timed ; but T trust rn
God tbat He has saved me from the dan
gers in which 1 was placed. Feeling, be
lieving, and hoping thus, I confess I have
not believed in my own mind that I was
entitled to the least credit for what I have
done, because God put it into my heart to
do that which I did. Therefore, my young
friends, I would urge upon all of you, in
the transactions of life, that you will bo
called upon to perform—and each individ
ual has transactions to perform as momen
tous to him as what I have performed is
to me; his eternal happiness depends upon
it —I would have you all put your trust in
God. Do that with an humble heart, and
you will be blest in this life, and prepared
for everlasting happiness in that which is;
to come. 1 can say no more.
African. —A recent African traveler,
Mr. Petheric, tells some funny stories.—
< iue t ibe that lie encountered used to
steal his tobacco and smoke his pipes. He
filled a pipe, placing among the tobacco
some gunpowder, and toJJ them that the
pipes were so indignant at being used by
them, that they would evince their dis
pleasure. One of the chiefs, in the trav
eler's absence, 'tried it on' again—and the
pipe exploded into fragments. After this
the traveler was looked op as a prophet,
and his goods were not meddled with.—
Another tribe had a singular mode of salu
tation. The chief spit in his face. At
first he deemed it an insult, and thought of
knocking him down, but contented hirti
self with spitting back. This, as it proved,
Vas the right thing to do, and it was re
ceived as a civil response to a courteous
overture.
Terrible Place for " Yamiints." —The
destruction cf human life in India by wild
beasts is almost beyond belief. Within
the last two years nine hundred and nine
ty-nine children have been killed by wolves
iu the Punjaub, and a large number of
adults. Although the government pays a
considerable sum for the destruction of wild
animals, they do not seem to diminish in
numbers. In 1859 there were killed 12
tigers, 192 leopards, 170 bearsj 1,174
wolves, and 2 hyenas—total 1,567. In
1860 there were killed 35 tigers, 103 leop
upds, 3qo bears, apd 2,080 wolves —total
2,658. '
to whom honor is due