l'z' icromato . zu m 7. T W 11 A: eaturbap tilornign, 3nue at. -1851. luta( Vattru. CHILDREN'S FOURTH OF JULY HYMN. To Thee, the little cltildren's Friend, Our hymn to-day shall rice ; O from the heavenly courts descend, And bles's our sacrifice! While through our land fair freedom's song Our fathers raise to Thee ; Our, accents shall the notes prolong ; We children, too, are free ! The past pith blessings.from thy hand, Was richly scattered o'er; As numerous as the countlesi sand That spreads the ocean shore. O may the forum be as bright, Nor be thy favours less Resplendent with the glorious light Of peace and happiness. On earth prepare nsfor the skies; •Ana when our life is o'er. Let us to purerrinansiiins rise, And praise Thee ever more. CHILDREN'S FOREST H YMN We seem - to hear a voice of praise, • Here, 'mid the lefy bowers; From murmuring streams whose crystal image Doth cheer the thirsty flowers. . But louder where you lofty trees By sutnmer's hand are dreet— It swells 1,1 every gelitle breez-., From bough, and spray. end nest. \ But if the things by nature taught Pour music o ' er the sod, Bow high should rise our raptured thought, Who learn the word of God! To us he speaks. from morniug's From evening'S:dewy sphere: And worn the holy hobb.lth bell balates the Christiaifs ear. To us He speaks, he guides our chLe By heaven's own book divine; And aids our ieach.r's much-loved voice To fix each treasured line. To us he speaks, and we in praise. Would bull our offering Lriug , Here, where erestiorr joins our lays „, And there, where angels sing. ~i . SCC I ta.us. Voc,ation of the Farmer. Opinions of en exist that the calling of the farmer 1- extremely low arid vulgar, anJ should be shun ned by all respectable people. Nothir.g can be more absurd !!'Such }veld-fire notions evidently emanate troth a weak and narrow mind. What gladdens the heart more than the sight of a well cultivated farmi c'ecorated with substantial dwel thigs,„ and with abundance of fruit and ornamental trees No better evidence do we need to be con• a inced 01 the industry and thrift the owner. Such scenes never fail to imptesee one favorably. Oben Jo we hear the milutry, " how do you manage to raise such abundant crops—grow. such delicioils fruit—keep such bearmful stock—arid be surrounded by so many of the real luxuries ol hie 2 Indeed dwrything ati ; reat 3 cu looks so smilingly.— Everybody acknowledges that I am a good farm er, but somehow or utlt"er 1 am always under a pressure ; my produce never sells for as much as yours." For instance turn to thetetiLlence of the speaker. A heart-sickening scene prelents itsell to the loyal of order. Everything is out of place, looking shabi• ly enough; the mind you will find in perfect keep : with the rest. Inquire if they subscribe for a newspaper and they %vitt tell you that they cannot afford to waste money for such useless Now this is no vain illusion, but a tact, and I am sorry to say, of almost every Jay occurrence. It requires two things to make a successful farmer— intelligence in agricultural matters sufficient to make the ground produce freely, and that know. ledge in regard to the state of produce market, ne cessary to insure sales at the best prices. To in sure success, something beyond hard work is need• ed; the head must guide the hand, and in, order to do 11118 the head must be properly enlightened. Thus, it appears that a mind well stored with useful knowledge, is a valuable desideratum, and iequisite in order tb become prorperotis and hap- Our farmers are beeomingthe most independent class of citizens, vieing in intelligence with those who occupy the upper eirctes of society, ai they term it.. The high classed literature is beginning to find its way upon their tables. It r e beautiful scene to behold their family, after the toils of the day are over, gathered around iheparlor table en gaged in reading; and certainly a tnueb wiser course than to frequent the tavern bar-loom, as too many times is Ste case, thus squandering their evenings, for time is money. Th;sir daughters are an ornament both to the kitchen and drawing-room : exceeding 'in teatny and intellect those " faney ar tiPles," loded such abundance of empty airs and external show that we so often meet with. DI ECTIONB OF THE YOUTII TH,E 11/17L MIND -}Jots greairy di parents and preceptors err in mistaking for mulch o f or wanton idleness, all the litde man. oeuvres o young penning, which are frequently practical nquirres to confirm or refute doubts pass • in their inds. When the aunt of James Wan re reproved the boy for hit idleness, and desired him to take a book, or to employ himself to some put . • pose mildly, and , not to be takingoft the lid of the kettle and putting it on again, and holding now a e op and now a silver spoon over the steam, how little was she awaware that he was investigating a problem which was-to lead to the greatest airman inventions J . . , '.,!..":z,1; ~ : .-i r., .."-i.. , 1 ..... r " " '.. ~ ..: ~:. :', r. f... -i" ,:„:. ' :... ~".... : . -4,1 - ' :'S . : , -"'-' -. ti';' -- . ' . • . - • _ . . .-.. .'-., . . . . - ./. T ..„ ~, . • .. :. . - BRA-Dt OR I . .... .... .:, ..._ . .... ' , ...1. .... • . , . . . ~..__. . . , . • - _ 41 ' . : . . . . The Process oftesilnlog Gold. A'United States mTnt has been completed in San Francisco, andirprobably ere this time in active operation v coining down daily vast treasures ofgold en ore. It was intended that it should be prepar ed to coin $30,000,000 yearly. it The following de, scription of the system which is about to be estab balled there, will afford a good general idea of the ordinary process of coining gold : The metal, atter being received in the deposit room, is carefully weighed and a receipt given.— Each deposit is then melted separately in the melt ing room, and moulded into bars__These bars next : pass through the hand/ of the assayer, who with a chisel, chips a small fragment from e4ch one.— Each chip is then rolled into a thin ritbon, and filet] down until it weighs exactly ten grains. It is then melted into a little cup made of calcined bone ashes, and all the base metals, copper, tin, Sus ,are absorbed by the porous material of the cup, or car red oft by oxydation. The gold is then 'boiled in nitric acid, which dissolves the silver which it con tains, and leaves the geld pure. It is then weyt• edo.and the amount which it has lost gives the ex act proportion of impurityin the original bar, and a certihcate of the arnoneVol coin dire the deposi tor is made out accordilly. Alter being assayed, t e bars are melted with a certain proportion of sayer, and being'poured into a dilution of nitric acid, and water, assume i a gran ulated form. In this stale, the gold is thoroughly boded in nitric acid, and rendered perfectly free from silver or any other baser metals which may happen to cling to it. It is next melted with one-, 11111111 116 weight of copper, arid thus allpyed, is run into bare, and delivered to the coiner for coinage. The bats are rolled out m a rolling mill until near ly as thin as the coin Which is to be made from them. By a process of annealing, they are render ed sufficiently ductile to be drawn through a lon gitudinal orifice in a rece of steel, thus reducing the whole to a regular width and thickness. .... A cutting machine t'next punches small round pieces horn the bar, about the size of the coin fluise pieces ate weighed separately by the " ad• jesters," and if too heavy ale tiled down—if too dight they ate ie-nielted. The pieces which have bee,, adjusted are run through a milling machine, which compresses titem to their proper diameter and raises the-edge Two hundred and fifty are mided 111 a minute by the machine They tire then agait. softened by ,he itruce.ss ol armeadling, and after a thorough cleaning are placed in a tube con necting with the stamping instiument, and are ta ken thence one at a time by the machinery, and stamped between the dies. They are now finish ed, and, being thrown into a box, are deliieret.l to the Treasurer for circulation The Machinery, of coarse, for'all these proCesses must be of ihe nicest kind. The weighing scales alone, in the deposit room of the California mint cost 31009. • Read what the Clinton Courant man says on this subject :—Baby's got the l measels, second tioy is drooping; third one, dolin on trundle bed, with dreadful cough IV' whooping " Mercury down to zero, wood pile Some below it; man tries to be a hero, bin feels he carino. "go it." Wife hi busy washing, a host of dirty - :' duds;" whilst ever and anon a tear, falls'sileet lobe suds. Husband rocks the cradle, "second" on his lap, soothes the third one with a kiss, and'hitd the fourth a slap. So from melancholy moans,,aoit starting, troubled dream ing, the tune is changed to groans, stifled sobs and screaming. Patience Ea exhausted, he roughly speedsthe rocking, and jolts the little sufferers, with a rudeness that is shocking. Confusion worse con founded ! A , neighbor opens the door, and wadi voice rind face astounded, say, '• Have you heard the price of flour?" " No f'.'huSband loudly hoilas; " what's the latest hews V, , ," Flour's thirteen dol lars! twelve has been rased." A scream ! 'tis Sissy's voice ; sorriething comes athwart her. In she comes, all covered .o'er, with blood and ; dirty water. " Old Brindle's gored the heifer, broke the yearling:a, thigh, kilciked Sissy down and cut her, and scared a passer by!' Wife sits her down des pairing, weary of her fife; husband nothing caring, for the quadrupedal strite—wonders whether Job, the man of many sores, when his wife bade faith give up, led such a life in doors. Meantime, the wealthy mother, site in her easy chair, on its rich embroidered cover, 'mid comfort everywhere, and wonders what they mean—these people that are poor—prating of their troubles, which they think they endure.—" If they only had her trials—knew what she underwent, they'd think that all the vials of wrath were on . them spent;'' which efts us thinking, reader, that rightly esti. mated, one half of alliour sorrows, We sadly otter. rated. And the moral of our rhyme, though'pros. ilyit rune., is never borrow trouble, bat 'take it as it 4 Comes. " Where is your house? asked a 'traveler of a man be met iii the depths of the " old solemn wilderness" of the Great West., "House? I alai got no house." " Well, where do you live?" "l live in the woods—sleep on the Great Government Purchase, eel raw bear and wild turkey, and drink out of the Mississippi.",' nd he added :It is get ting too thick with folks about here. You're the second man I've seen within a month, and .l hear there's a whole family coming al:lour fifty mires down the river. - I'm going to put did into the woods again" Gi2oz. PAT.-000 of the uninformed p'oit•mastera out ie epokerdom, who found among the post-office lawea clause to the effect that; Reach :,postniaster mtty be allowed - Iwo mills for delivering, from his to a aukicrihee, eadli . neweitipernOt charges bi- ith posiage,'? • mea is his bill to the depart mot for-delivering the only paper sent to his office, told thine that, as his wife was out of the ar fiats, t might eeii9 hiaf a conple Or4Tes rrtills - ,••-* PUBLISHED VERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRXDFORP COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. Trouble, "/LEE AEpLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY y QUARTER.' Wonderful Works of the Creator The mariner who first crossed central Atlantic in search of a new world was astonished when, on the 19th of September, 1492, he found himself in the midst of that great bank of seasweed—ethe sea-weed meadow of Oviedo—the Sargassosea which, lath a'varyicg breadth of 100 to 300 miles, stretches over tweety-five degrees of lattitude, covering 560, 000. square miles in surface, like a huge floating garden, in which countless myriads of minute ani mals find food and shelter. Now, it is the eddy of numerous sea rivers which collect in one spot, and the cold water of the Northern Atlantic mixing with the warur streams of the sot thern and western cur rents, which produce the temperature most fitted to promote this amazing development of vegetable and animal life. What becomes of the dead re mains of this vast marine growth? bo they decom pose as fast as they are produced ? or do they ac cumulate into desposits of pecolia( coal, destined to reward the researches of tuturW geologists and engineers, wfien the Atlantic of oui days has be• come the habitable land of an arei time? In the craft of the Pacific Ocean we are- 'resented with` another remakable instance of t h e influence of sea t,, rivep on vegetation. Ftom the shores of South Victoria, on the Amu- tic Continent, -a stream of cold water, 60 degrees in width, Ohe reader will recollect that in high latitu dessfie degrees of longitude are very narrow) drifts sloWly along in,a northeast and easterly direction lion across the Southern- Pacific, till it impinges up on the'South American coast to the south of Valpa raiso. There it divides into two arms; one of Which streches south and east, doubles Cape Horn, and penetrates into the Southirestern Atlantic; the other flows first northeast and then northwest along the shores of Chili and Peru, - carrying colder waters into the warm sea, and producing a colder air along the low plains which stretch from the shores of the Pacific to the base of the Andes. This cur rent, discovered by Humboldt. and called after his name, lowers the temperature of the air about twelve degrees, while tnat of the 'water itself is sometimes as much as twenty four degrees colder than that of the still waters of the ocean through which it runs. The cold air seriously pflects the vegetation along the whole of this coast; at the bamelime that the cold streams raises fogs and mists, which not only conceal the shores and per plex- the navigator, but extend inland,also, and ma teriall) modify the climate. The beaotitul and beneficent character of modi fying influence becomes not only qparent, but most impressive, when we consider; as the rain map of the world shows us, that ion the coast of Peru no rain ever falls; and that, like the desert of Sahara, it ought,therefore,to be condemned to per petual barrenness. But 111 consequence of the cold stream thus running along its borders, " the atmos pliere loses it transparency,and the sun is obscured for months together. ''''l he vapors at Lima are often so thick that the sun seen through them nth the naked eye assume t!,e appearance of theocia's disc. They commence in the morning, and e •tend over the plains in the form of refreshing fogs , tett disappear soon after mid , day, and are follow s by t\ i heavy dewe, which are precipitated during the night." The morning mists and evening dews thus suctileplace of the absent rains, and the vendure rich covers the plains is the offspring of a sea river. What a charming myrth would the' ancient poets have made out of this striking corn pensation.—Edurbergh Review. VALUE OF LEACHED A.811E9.-111conwarsatien with en agricultural friend, a few days since, ho nien• boned that he,harl found great benefit train the ap plication of old leached ashes to wheat especially on sandy soils. In one instance, 100 bushels of ashes per acre, spread, on the soil after the wheat was sown, gave.him au increase of ten bushels per acre.. fie has spots 'fn his.farm where he can see the la,:iteficial effect of unleached, ashes, 'applied nine years ago, every time the lot is town with wliet He has tried leached ashes with no bene fit to wheat , , though he thinks them gooillor corn. To what is the fertilizing property tit old leached ashes eu-S t ig? We are inclined to - think, however, that it is oWing in some way to %substitution of the alkali ammonia for the potash and soda which have been leached out. It may be that they contain the double salt ofsilic'ate of alumina and soda to which clay owes its power of retaining ammonia. If this be the case, by adding leached ashes to a sandy wa:add ammonia, or at least the means of re taining this ammonia brought to the. Pod by the at. . 1 • mosphere, and that too, in the best condition for as sirnilationl,l4 the - plant. Taking this view,it would follow, thria,the older . the ashesy had been exposed to rain, the .urger they would be. But whatever difference of opinion there may be to the cause or reason of the fertilizing value of leached ashes, elf agree that they are valuable for wheat on sandy soils. QUALIFICATION or VOTERS IN kNCLAND.—in En• gland, whethera man shall be on erCetor or nor, depends ont the house he lives in. If his ,annuat .rent is £lO, then he it 'qualified to vote, it being rimmed that the person living in a pooref house than that is not eompetent to exercise the right of suffrage. The consequence is, that in some Villages there Is not a voter. A York•shire manufacturer lately elated that of 1600 men in hitemploy, there was not one who possessed a vote, yet, inhat man declarer was the proprietor of the borough, he wodd - either go to Parliament himself, on his own vote,. or he would send the man he chose. A t HAMM Arrtimparzo.—.4 young lady in a class stiilying physiology, made answer to a question payrhat In sir years a human body becime en• tirtily`dhangeb, so distil° particle which was to it at the .commencement of the period would remain at thicclossr o it: "Then, Miss L," said the young tutor, ik in six years yoo will cease to tie Miss L-1" Mkt ims sir, I suppose so," said she, very me islesqlooking at the Boor. aIiI cal. ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE MEMBERS 'OF, CONGRESS ADVERSE TO TII E NEBRASKA BILL! wAsHINGTON,iA, dnesday, June 21, 1854. - At a meeting of th members of Congress who' opposed the p.assag of the . hill 19 organize the ter ! ritories of Nebraska and Kansas, held pursuant to previous nptice, in the city of Washington, on ihe 2011? day of June, instant, the Hun. Solomon Foot, of Vermont was elected chairman, and the Hon. Daniel Mace of Indiana, and the Hon. Reuben E. Fenton of New York, were appointed secretaries A committee appointed for the purpose reported an Address to the people of the United States, I which, having seen discussed and amended, was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be publish• ed. , i i _ f., TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. The eigh l th . sectron of the act fur the admission of Missouri inio the Union, known as the Missouri Comptbmiie law, by which the introduction of slavery into the regions known as Kansas and Ne braska was fuiever prohibited, has been repealed. That law, which, in 1820, quieted a controversy which menaced the Union, and upon which you have so lonireposed, is obliterated from the sta. ttle•book. 1 1 ; 7 13 had no reason to expect any such pro position wheri we assembled here six months ago, nor did you expect it. No state, no citizen of any state, had demanded the repeal. It seems a ditty we owe to the country to state the grounds °pin which which we have steadfast• ly, though ineffectually, opposed this alarming and dangerous act. You need not be told that the slavery .question lies at the bo . tom of rt. As it was the slavehold ingepowcr that demanded the enactment of the Missouri Compreffniss, so it is the same power that has now demanded its abrogation. African slavery was iregarderl and denounced as a great evil by the American colonies, et - en before the revolution ;:and those colonies which - are now slaveholding states, were equally earnest in such remonstrances with those which ale now free states. 'Colonial laws, trained to prevent the increase t,f slavery, were vetoed by the King of Great Bi itain. This exercise of arbitrary power toenfarge and pre• petuate a system universally regarded as equally wrongful in itself and inprious to the colonies, was one of the crises of the revolution. When the war ended there was an imperious - necessi'y for the insti:ntion of some government in the Men unoccupied territories of the United States. In 1784. Jeflerson proposed, and in 1787 the Con• tinental Congress` adopted, the oitt Mance for the government pf,thei territory tying northwest of the Ohio, by which it was declared that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary serviiede except for the punislimeritcf crane. The greet anal flourish. ing states since organized within Lit territory on the ,bAsis a drat o-dinance, ate enduring monu ments of the wisdom of the statesmen of the rear,. The forei&% (lave trade was regarded as the source of American slavery, e bleb it was believ'ed would be dried lip, when that fountain ithotild be closed. le arlihin4 the, constitution, it was uni• veracity antiitittated that the foreign slave trade would be pror4!ly prohibited, that all I tilt ee ac quiesed ln a stir4tilaticti postponing that measure till 1808 The foreign slave 'lade was pruhibitedz— !hits the.isourekof slavery was dried up, while the introduction ristavery Into the territories was pro. hibi•ed. The slavery qtrebtiorr, so f ar as it was a 113110(131 one,li'as understood to be finally settled, and at the satire time the states tied already talt6ti op and were Ztarry Mg forward a system of gradual entarteipation . 4 In 1803 Louisiana %%as acquired by puichase from France, and included what is known as the states of Lou:siana IMiesouri, Arkansas and 'town, and the territories kn .- owners Kansas an,t.Ne• lbraiika. Slavery existed at the time at New Or leans and tit St Louie, and so this purchase resulted in. bringing the slavery question again before Cott, ,grees. In 1812 [he region immediately sarrountl ing NewlOrlearis applied for adinissitu into the Uriibn under the name of the of Lonisiat t a, wilt a eonsli Litton to ta lerating slavery, and in T lree states acquiesced' Eight years afterwards tl.e region con nected with Sr. Louis demand admission under the name of the state of _Missouri, with a unnetitution Itileratiog slavery. The free states reverted to the principle ov 1787, and opposed the admission of hl issouri unless_ she would incorporate intoliercon stitution an Inhibition of the further iniroduCtion of slavery inte'the state. The slaveholding states id sisterl upenMer unqualified admission. &contra. versy arose%which was sectional and en4iteree, and which, we are enured' by' conterhporineous history serihusly imperilled the -Union. The states : raetrof thaCday in Congress settled the controversy by compromise. 'By the terms 61 this compromise the free wafts assented to the admiiision of Mrs soon with henslaveholdini constitution, while the slaveholding ;fates on their part yielded the exclu sion of shivery in all the residue of the territory which lad riclth- of 36° 30 mina constituting the present territory of Kansas and. Nebraska. The alaveholding-slates accepted the compromise as a triumph, end the free states have ever since left it undisturbed and unquestiOnech Arkansas, a, part oldie territory of Louishina, which lay youth of 36° 30 Min , in compliance with an iMplination which tugs contained in this compromise, was at. terward , acimittet as a slaveholditta state and the . free state acquiesced.. i I n !81P, Fttrid o , staveholding province of Spain, w4s,acquired. This province was afterwards 'admitted tut a slavehalding state. 'The free:states again acqhiesced ; in 1845, Texas, an independent stavehoWing state, was annexed, with t provision in the article of agnoxatiot. for ,the subdivision, of her territory. into jive states, The free states, al though they regarded the•annertation with the pro bable increase of the number of lave states, with very 'great disfavor, nevertheless acquiested:again. New ,territories were acquired by the treaty of peace which closed the war with Mciiico. The people cf California formed a constitution inhibit ing slavery, and applied for - admission into the Union. Violent opposition was made by the slave states in and out of Congress, threatening the dia. solution of the I:nion if California should be ad mitted. Proceeding on the ground of these alarms Congress adopted another compromise, the terms of which were, that ten million dollars of the peo ple's money should be given to Texas to induce her to relinquish s very douhthil claim upon an in. considerable part of New Mexico, that j ew Mex ico and Utah should be organiied ikiihoiat,an in hibition of slavery, and thathey . shoulti • be :titer wards admitted as slave`; , free states as the peo ple, when forming constiiiitihns, should deterrildite —that the public slave tradifiruthe District:A:4l - should be abolished withiftft- 2 effeeting.the existence of sravery in the district ; and that new and rigorous provisions for the re capture of fu,gi live slaves, of disputed constitutionality,,should be adopted, and that on these conditions California should be admitted as a free state. Repugnant as' ibis compromise was to the people of the free states, acquiescence was nevertheless practicably obtain ed by means of solemn assuranzes, made on be half of the slaveholding states, that ifiecompromise was and Should be forever regarded as a final ad justment of rho slavery questiod; and oral? die is sues that could postiibly arise out of it.' A new Congress convened in December, 1851. Repre sentatives from the slave states demanded a tenew ed pledge of fidelity to this adjustment. ft was ,:ranted by the house of Representatives on the fol lowing terms: 7 Resolved, That we recognise the binding efficacy of the compromise of the constitution, and believe it to be the intention of the people' generally, as we hereby declare it to be ours individually, to abide by such compromises and sustain the laws, neces sary to carry them oat, the provisions for tht. dehv ery of fugitive slaves, and the act of the law Con gress fur that purpose included, and that we depre cate all further agitation of questions embraced in the acts of the last Congress, known as the coin• promise, and of questions generally connected with the institution of slavery, as unnecessary, useless and dangerous. A few months subsequen•ly the Democrutic Na• Ilona Convention met at Baltimore, and assuming to speak the sentimen.s of the Deincratic party, set forth in its platform : That the democratic par ty will resist all attempt at renewicg, in Congress or out of it, the agatuton of the slavery question under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made. Soon afterward another a, national conven• tion assembled in the same city, and assuming the right to declare the sentiments of the Whig party, said: "Me deprecate all further agitation of the question thus sett•d as dangerous to our peace, and will discountenance all efforts to continae or renew such agitation, whenever, or hoWevrir made."— The present administration was elected on the principle of adhet'ence to this compromise, and the President, referring to it in his inaugural speech, declareil that the harmony which had been secur ed by it should not be disturbed doling his term of of office. The president, recurring to the same subject, renewed his pledge in his inesqui,ge to ckingress at the beginning of the present session, in th following language t • " But notwithstanding differences of opinion and sentiments which there existed in relation to de tails and specific provisions, the acquiescence of •disiinguished cHzens whose devotion to the Union can never be doubted, has given renewed vigor to our intitutions, and restored a sense of rerrose and security to the public mind throughout tiro confed eracy. That thiS repose is to softer no shock du• ring my pffidtal term, if I have the power! 'to avert it, those who placTd me here may be assured." Crider these circumstances the proposition to' !fa peal the Missouri Compromige %YRS suddenly end tin • expectedly made by the same Committee otTerri• tories, which only ten days before bud affirmed the sanctity of the Missouri Compromise, gird declared the end of agi\ whin in-the following el - plicit and on ec mistakable lani,uag r t '• Four comminee trot feel thein.elvcs called upon to enter into a disc salon of those controverted questions. They involvelhe same grave issues which produced' the agi'ation, the see Tonal strife and the fearful struee et 1850 As Congress deemed it wise and prudent to refrain from :he-mat. leis in controversy , then, either by affirming or re• pealing the Mexican laws, or by an act declaratory of the true intent of the constiteiHn, and the extent of the protection forded by it to slave property ih the territories, so your committee are tint prepared now to recommend a departure Gem the course pursued upon quit memorable occasion either by of firming or repealing the . ei6tith section of the Mis souri act, or by any act declaratory ul the meaning of the constitution in respect to . the legal points' iii dispute." • The abrogatioh has been effected in parsuince of the demand of the administration itself, end by means of its influence on Congress*. In the House of Representatives, that body which is more mime diatefy responsible to the people, the contest was more equal than in the Senate; ;hough it is due to Jamie() and candor than it should be stated, that c ,it could not have been earned in either house with oat the l votes of the representatives from the free elates. The minority resisted the attempt to arrert discdssion upon this grave question, 11-rough a struggle of longer deratton than any other known to Congressional history. Some attempt wart made to stigmatize that minority as"' factionists," yet fearlessly declare that throughout the, contest the resorted solely to the powers .secured- to them by the law and the roles of the Muse, and the'passage of the measure through the Wage - was effected through esubversion of its rules by the niejettly, andlhe exerclie of a'powor 'Unprecedented in the annals of Coniressional thi . deed iV done. It is dor4 witit a clear reclamation by the . ' _. ~. ~ inrManta administration and by Congress, that the principle Which it contains extends not only to Kansas and Nehrairrta,'but to all other territories now belonging to the United States, and to all which may hereaf ter be acquired. It has been done unnecessarily and wantorily, because there was no pressure for the organization of governments in Kandla and tie !Kaska, neither of which territories contains one lawful inhabitant who was a citizen of the United States, and because there was not only_ no danger of disunion apprehended, bt.t b) this reckless thee sure the free states have lost all the guarantee for freedom in the territories contained in former com promises, while all the states, both alat,e and free, have Orrin the guarantees of harmony and union whichi hese comptom iscs afforded. It seems plain to us that, fatal as the measure is'in these respects, it is only a cover for broadei propagandism of slive ry in the future. The object of the administration,, and of many who represent the slave states, ijr-as „ ~ we believe, to prepare the way foriureking Cuba at whatever cost, and a like annexation•of hilt a ' dozen of the states of Mexico, to be admitted sled as slave:states. These aUeprisitiona are tO be made peaceably, if they can he purchaseitat fter.,..nott of hundreds ed million*. If they canottlt:-be made . peacefully, then at the cost of a war WlthiMexico, and a war vrn Spain, and a war with Franee at the cost of an allianc'e wish Russia scarce less ril pugnant. Uirmistakable indications also appear of a purpose to annex the eastern part of San Eton:tinge'. and dd to subjUgate the Whole istend, restoring it to thedOminion of slavery—and this is to be followed up by, an alliance with Brazil, and the extension of , slavery in the Valley of the Amazon. It is tot you to judge whether, when slavery shall have made these additions to the United States, it will demand unconditional stibmissitch on the part of the free states, and failing in that demand, attempt a with : ./ drawal of the slave states and the organization of if separate empire in the central region of the emir neut.- From an act so unjust arid wrongful in itself and fraught with consequences so fearful we sppeal to the people. We appeal in no sectional spirit =e - We appeal equally In me North and to the South, to the bee sta.es and to the slaveholding stated themselves. It is no time for exaggeration or for passions, and we therefore speak calmly of the past and weal you in sober serinu-ness of the future. It would nut become us, nor is it necessary, to Sagest the Measures which ought to be adopted in this greet emergency. For ourselves, we are ready to do alt that shall be in our power to 'wore the Missouri .Compromise, and to execute such further measures as you in your wisdom shrill command, and as may hii;necessary for the recofery of the ground fog Id •frealorn ' and to prevent the further aggressions of alavery. SOLOMON FOOT, Chairman. DANIEL MACE, Secretaries. Iterate E FE::TON, Thb meeting was fully atternfed and all the - anti. Nebraska members concurred in the address. ftEtIPEC'T THE AGED -Bow low the head, boy , do reverence to the old man. Once lite you, vi. cissioriles ul life have silvered the hair, and chang. ed the round merry fate to the Wan visage now before yon. Once that heart beat with, incidents co equal to any that you have fell; aspirations crushed to disappointment, as your'. are perhaps destined to be. Once that form stalked proudly through theigiy-scenes of pleasure, the beau ideal Of grace; now the hand of Time that withers the flowers ul'yeaterday, has warped that figure and destroyed the noble carriage. Once, at your age, he possessed the lkousand thoughts that pass thte-t, your brain, now wiahinglo accomplish deeds wor thy of a nook in fame, anon imagining tile tite>4dreain,/ that the sooner heawokefrom, the tenter: EhreleS,.. has lived the-dream very near-through. The time to awake is very near at hand; yeekliia eye evr kindles at noble deeds of dal nig,.and a hadd takes a firmer grasp Mille stall Bow low the head boy,. as you . ' would in your old age be revemcfo. • Od our return to the ship we visitedtjt nutmeg plantation. The trees, which are from twenty to-thirty feet in heighth are 'planted in rows, at intelvali4 at abotit twenty feet. The Leal is dark, green and glossy, resembling that of the law tel end the fruit, at a little distance, might betaken. for a small russet colored apple. Whew ripe the !hick husk splits in the centre showing a scarlet tieV wrok of mace, enveloping an inner nut black as N.... ebony, the kernel at which is the nutmeg of com merce. The' clove tree, not now in its bearing sea son, has some tetembtance tithe nutmeg but the leaf is smaller and the foliage more loose anti apreading. As we drove through the orchard the' warm air of noon was Iteaiiy with spice. The rich oltre exhaled from the tree penetrated the frame with a sensation of languid and ,voluptuous repose. Perfume became an appetite, and the senses were drugged with an overpowering feeling of lux itr I continued to indulge in it, I should ere long have realized Sybil tte's complaint of his morn- • pled (Übe Ieaf."—BAZARD TAYLOR. Ilfmntst.E —We were deliberately and seriously asked, the co:her day, why a soap boiler was like an amatory poet And for !ea/ we would under. take to solve the contemptible query, the uMer wretch proceeded to inform•us that " both• dealt in melting strains "' The perpetrator• is, of course, by this time, in durance vile. • Yousc Arnstst.s.—Young antmahrshoutil be lept growing until they reach maturity. IttheySir Suf• fered to get poos.anci stop growing, they anti irtvo grade and neva: attain a fyll sirs; and ‘afthoufgrain or someihnig"benter than hay, it la next to impoW, sible to keep them in that conga:on, eapeoially , tte first winter. Bear rirrt. StrtrTIKENT —When the Rinilooprinsf is about to bap'ize an infant, be, utters the following beautiful aeorfinent • "-Liule bitbe,,thowegteraltrle world weeping, while all around thee smile: con •TiYo 60 to nye thaty of : may cleiqft in entpee,vrhilft atounl :e ..verp.'i II
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