ADVERTISING RATES, at. 1 MO. 3 mot 0 mos. 1 Tr. Quo Square, . . 1.60 1.78 3 150 &CO 10.01 wo 8 1011 rel . 3.00 360 6.60 Moo 10.00 Three nquarea . 4.00 &CO 8.03 16.00 2100 812 Squares, . &CO 13.01 21.121 4400 Quarto? Column. 10.09 31CO .45.01 MOO Half Column . • . 16.03 32.60 60.00 00.00 One Column 5.140 60. NI MI . CO 100.0 0 • 'Professional Cards v. oo per IMO per year. Administrator's and Auditor'. Notices, P.M. City Notice., 90 cents per line Ist Insertion, 11.1 emits per line eaeli sub...anent insertion. Ton lines agate constitute • .snare. WILLS & IREDELL, PunLTemrsts. ALLENTOWN, PA. nrp Goobs g SUDDEN CDANGE.” WILL LOW PRICES INFLUENCE YOU? OLD TIMES AGAIN IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICES MEE 7: iNi OLD CORNER Just opened en enormous STOOK OF SPRING GOODS, WWCII as usual for ETTER, VARIETY, AND Z01E141E133 OP PRICE shall lied =mot be eurpezeed CompetiEon defied with any other Establishment outride of the larger eilies.jEJ SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT OF NAMING each an ha stense stoek of good+ bat lot It names to say that we have tho most COMPLETE assortment of Ladle, ' Dress Goode, lire, Shawle. Dalmo.ale, Rouge Furnish tgi &oda. Ladies' Cloaking Cloth, Moon Wear In Cloth, Casslmerm and everything that e kept in aFI RST CLASS DRY GOODS STORE in oudless variety. Ido not "QUOTE PRICKS" as some houses do, but will guarantee ASTONISEEDIG FIGURES. ,the AlEetencelnpricesofgoodelo-day. and month ago, Is really painful for Clone who have been caught with barge etocke on hand at high prices, but as that Is not the ease with mo, I shall aa heretofore make the OLD COE. NEU THE GREAT PLACE OF INTEREST AND HEADQUARTERS for masses 13 get their goods st tho LOWEST MARKET PRICES I telly realize that no permanent success can be achieved sinless the promises held out by advertisements are found to berolly sustained on a visit to the store. tier can It be a large suttees Without scrupulously reliable •ud fair dealing at all Wars sod nitiform courtesy io every custo mer. and the 'faeces,ar to make every bore •a constant dealer. All I ask Is simply to decide by actual Zeta/ whether or not It to to your advantage . to become a Gusto. Respectfully Yount. M. J. KRAMER, "OLD CORNER," OPPOSITE TEE EAGLE HOTEL . oral{ -tf 0.1 BEAT REDUCTION OF PRICES WOOLEN GOODS. LARGE STOCK OF FANCY SPRING CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, JEANS, CARPETS, &C In sonsegnence of the abundance and over•stock of the above Goods in the City Market., they cannot at mpos exc any WodonMlle p r at eith er closed m r w u rk c ng on h n l d lime. Under those circumstances. %clothing to keep his mill running. HENRY GABRIEL, ITEM ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL, lIND or spurn BRIM= eraser. Raving a large and fine stock of the best styles of Fancy Cattimeres for mco•• nod boy'. wear, as also a variety of other. Woolen Goods and Carpets suitable for the season and desired In ovet7 household, has concluded to RETAIL I=3 WHOLESALE PRICES. Ma Miro stock of Vi , ooleu and . other Goode, among which are moral hundred pieces of ALL WOOL DOUBLE AND TWIST CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, JEANS, 6.e., all trades, sod at prices greatly reduced. Also a, splzodid scaortmout of INGRAIN, LIST, RAG, AND OTITER CARPETS, As Iry as 60 tent* a yard. BALMORAL SKIRTS, at 73 tents, WOOLEN CARPET YARN, all colors. Bert Quality reduced to 00 route BED COVERLETS, All binds. White or Farley, at cvnttly reduced prices. 0.4 SU BUY RRS, or those having Wool to exchange. will eertaially lad It to thalr Interest , to ex:welsh:4 the Ooods at his house or factory, where i.e has fluted up several rooms for showing the sama. and retpectlully. Invites the Mlle to call audjudge for themselves. HENRY GABRIEL, ALLENTOWN WOOLEN MILL, Southßad of Seventh Street, Allentown. PA April 14-743 1115 HOOP SHIRTS. 1115 WM. T. HOPKINS Na. Hemered'his Manufactory sad Salesroom to NO, 1115 CHESTNUT STREET, riiiLADELpniA. Where his "Own Make" of Champion Hoop Skirt., ea. Fcially adapted to Wirst.clms Wholesale and Retail will found to embrace the most extensive assortment In the elon and all loe e lateat and moatdmirable Styles, Shape.. !la t: e a d n Ate., Ac., together with over :linty different varieties Hisses and Children'eSkirts, all of which for symmetry of style, Stash, lightnem elasticity, durability and real Cheapness. are unequaled by any other goods In the mar ket, and are warranted In every reapect. Shirts made to order. Altered and Repaired, Wholesale and Retail. Full line of Low Priced Eastern Made Skirts, 15 Springs. AS Canto 2113frings a 4 4 5 0 Cenral 25, 3 8pr r i u n t ga. 55 Cents; 30' BPMITEICI"aIIi7TS l ir WAS t0 T13 5 I 57 d I fferent at y " 4 . trZirel,f49'. oute 73 teen to Viyik Corset wart Supporters, Mrs,Aloody tSelf-a d justing Abdominal" Corsets, French, En gl i sh iDo e.. tie Hand-made . Contets, and super ior French Patterns of Colell Contes t 'Our Own Make, "to Which we invite " rogli l litatZtment of Lading' Under 0 gement% at very low p 1 6 / 1 11. GENERAL AGENT for the BARTRAM R FANTON FAMILY SEWING MACHINES, superior t e any other be fore the public. Fifty-two of these No. 1 Machines, Price oreach, are being given away to our customers. in order get them introduced. Every person in want of articles In marline, should examine our goods before_ purchaaing elsewhere. Call or send for circulars, at our Manufactory and Salesroom., No. 1115 Chestnut Si., Philadelphia. Mar 31.3c0ms WX. T. HOPKINS. • ICDENNSVINANIA MOTEL, COR. 7th AND LINDEN 81111. ALtENTOWN, The undersigned has taken this well-known stand. The Bar, Table and Reds have all been newly furatebed. Ile is aloe welt eePnlied with stable room. Reny attention will be be stowed upon the guests to make them 144 et - se Cup I.labff VOL FOLLOW THE CROWD. THE RUSH TREMENDOUS! OUR STORE BLACK WITH CUSTOMERS' WE CARRY EVERYTHING BY STORK! A CLEAN CUT THROUGH THE DRY GOODS TRADE! MOH-PRICED MERCHANTS PANIC-STRICKEN I SOME SAY WE WILL NOT STAY SOME BAY WE ARE LOSIN.O MONEY NOT B_o,l WE INTEND TO STAY. • NCTI3OI WE ARE MAKING MONEY. 110 W THEN CAN WE SELL SO CHEAP t BECAUSE DRY GOODS ARE WAY DOWN BECAUSE OUR STOCK IS ALL NEW BECAUSE WE CIIAROB BUT LITTLE PROFIT BECAUSE OUR STORE IS ALWAYS CROWDED! WE ARE CRUSHING OUT HIGH PRICES! WE SELL EVEN LOWER HERE THAN IN OUR New YORK STORES! GREATEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED! DRY 000DS*DOWN ONE-HALF IN ANLENTOWN f PEOPLE COMINO IN PROM EVERY DIRECTION. EVERYBODY PLEASED WITH THE NEW YORK STORE NO ONE COMPLAINS OP HIGH PRICES THEM Wo ere selling Coats & Clark's cotton at 10, others charge 100; French Woven Whalebone Corset. Mk, others charge $1 60; Paper Muslin. 12.'e other. charge 18e; Double width alpacas 37,14, other charge Mt hinged Towel. 12).0, other. charge 950; gplendill Table Waver tee, others chargo 80er Splendid Linen Napkins el 50 per dos., other. charge $3 00; Eiplegdid yard wide Muslin 1810, oihers charge it.; Merrimack Prints 1214 e, others charge 18c; Sleet DoLainex 18c, 'others charge Doe; Ladles' Cotton Uoao Mic, others charge Mc; Stair Carpets Doe, others charge 45c; All Wool Ingrain., yard wide, $l, other!' chargesl 50; Sloop Skirt. 85c, other. chargo $1 2S; Irish Poplins 01 03 and $1 37,14, others charge $1 50 and 112 85. Also, Trimmings, Laces, Eld and Silk (Rove., Sheeting., Tlckings, Denim., Checks, Caul mere., fie., &0., &a, at equally low price.. Some merchants do not always sell as they advertise. WE DO. When yea come bring this advertisement with you, and If wa do not sell as we state, don't buy a anat's worth atm. NEW YORK CITY STORE, Opposite Oarman Reformed Church, FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! HO! HAVE YOU HEARU THE NEWS 0, NO! 0, NO! NOT SO! The Comer Store and others can't sell cheaper than SCHREIBER BROS NO. 10 , EAST HAMILTON ST. AiOnli TO TOURIXTRAUT. INSCRIOX of TOM 888888 GOOD GOODS & CHEAP PRICES Let tpt hare Peace, in other word/ go to liehreavrlro'e A* • DRY GOODS. Hear ye I Take nollee old and young, male and female, rich and poor, high and low, bond and .freo„ all are earn• mooed to appear to render a good and valid Pigeon why they should. not purehate their FOREIGN & DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS OF SCHREIBER BROS A fallen, to apperr and answer h a forfeit of WO to your pocket. But we call your shanties to our assortment of BLACK DRESS SILKS, all qualities. PLAIN SILKS, all colors; IRISH POPLINS, FRENCH POPLINS, ALPACCAS, PLAIN AND STRIPED MOHAIR& The .or !argent assortment of shawls that we hag pen .ed—elt the 126 W Galen. Ladlea' Backing. of ill kinds, both plain and Ilgored,at 11 brlcoa. Balmoral Skirt, the cheapest over brought to Allentown. MObIiZST/C 000bS, such as bleached sad truhleached sheeting =Mins, bleached and unbleached sheettng tick ing cotton and linen table diaper, gingham. eheekg and calicoes ae low as the lowest. Mareaillel quilts and cotton COMn of all description.. Our stock of Mourning Goods to neck endless variety that it would be impossible to enumerate. We would respectfully Licite attention to the fact we are determined not to be undersold, and will sell cheaper than any establishment In Allentown. Ladles of Allen town and adjoining got:ldles you are paying too Irmicit for yonr goods. Study your trauma, and makeup your mind, B and go to Schreiber ro'• for bargains In dry goods. We have marked our goods down and propose to do a eash business. Our Motto Is "A nimble penny is better than a slow shilling." A cull Is all we ask—yea Will leave Whaled. Yours revectfully mar 17. SaIiREIDER DROTEIBIIIi. IMPORTANT TO BUYERS OF THE " BEE HIVE," THE POPULAR DRY GOODS STORE I= 920 CHESTNUT STREET, For many years conducted as the “PARIB CLOAK AND MANTILLA EMFOIRIM”. Will offer the coming season nt POPULAR PRICES POE CASH, ea enaraly New• Stock of a FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY- GOODS Including Spring and Summer Dross Goods. in the leaved variety. ni..k and Colored Silks. Lore. and Embroideries, Linns o n ;l 74a . its l E4ody o . l a . ye k li!=e . alles. Mourning Veen Goods, • ) CLOAKS, EACQUES. &0., in this department au airlffalled mmortment. at prices from E upura:ds. SHAWLS OF ALL KINDS, Including Lama Lace Cloaks. Busmen and Pohits. sad various other goods adapted to the Popular Trades which will be sold at ECONOMICAL PRICES. 7.l.7.:V. l 2;l l L'aVilfplltuThi= devI4UOIL J. W. PROCTOR & CO., THE "BEE HIVE," NO. 920 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA mar 514.3 m 212 NORTH i:NIADNEMEET, gAmnup.a EDGINGS AND INBERTINGS, Together with • %l i my y o ll s. gomla In thslr llaa Julys " Wafn a , ` P l igittld BITIPmI ? i lici t iMp s: '• •• •: BWI6B MULL. Tarlatan., Tucked Nalnsook: and nun& )(Winn. Bort and hard Walled Cambrl s_ . and_ e Ja .. coneta. Bobinet., Wash Blonds. Illuelona forlßridal V_ iL aiten ue. from Lace and Embroidered Cu r rU . Ins, an/ U `u n ct _ Ge l'''. a": Ml.... digigillsrtmen B o y.inen Elsadkerekbera. for %dies! G ent.. and, ' wear, slid 14 as usually low figures. . . Lawas sof all kind., Cretbat.. Sada. gad German Thread and a nlyure. a ndlurul v/UMW. Imitation. Cluny., Black and White Milt laces,lkc. , and _. _ . _ 1 . , Yina Linen and Lace Collara i Liffa c tst r = lr f .. Pique Braid, Liar Dimity , D attelletah sr ulain. am gl itl i ai . L. B it r rg.t.diet.toell of tam ..a Itathiskasi Vales. - : 011 . 11 "a IR oot' y a gr..... t N6, 31 gad 30 Cantu i I.'" """" immllilliliut. P"'"l'''' al ' Litga 'abirtirests. Minteom• gni a lg ga zu i l i .g o a fk e igh a orauti. um ts•rs. . . . . • , . „ i tilW ... . , ... ..„ .• . .• „d. , -1- - . . •' ' ....... , To • roio rf Jr . ... . Pain anti Smug gob . No. 47 EA:T zE wpa HAMI NTo L 4 TON . ST) • . uPgrAllig, +, , • ra.saAwr PRINTINO • NSW DEBI O. , . . LA'. . . Diamond Chub. •En " ._:ol ` 2l a ats " 76, 13 1 . . , Envelope.. Lltt•a• meads Bills r iLadi XXIII. .. . • ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY - MORNING, MAY 12, 1869. . . NO Bills, Tags and Shipping Cards. oatey size, etc.. etc.. Printed at Rift* Org Goobs. FOSTER'S ALLP.STOWN. PL SHAWLS! SHANVLSI DRY GOODS. PHILADELPHIA. J. W. PROCTOR & CO., ♦ lONTT ♦ID AMMAN? LOT Or CLEOPArTRA. DYING Glorious victim of my magic Ruined by my potent spell, From the world's Imperial station, Have aged thee down to Roll ? Fallen Chia min 1 ljathroned Monarch I Lost through dotirg love for me I Fast on shades of night eternal, • .• Wings my soul Its flight to thee! • Qom' shall not grace his triumph With proud Egypt's captive Queen! Soothed to sleep by aspic lessee, Soon my hunt on thine shall lean I Soon my life, like Lotus blossomti; - Swill shall glide on Charon's stream; Clac •cd once mote in thy embi ants Lora shall prove an endless dreamt Iran! Channain 1 Bind my tresses I Place the crown above my brow! Touch there hands, and take these kisses— Antony reproves not now: Gods my lips breathe poisoned vapors ! They have shuck my Channain dead ! Foolish minion I Durst precede me, Where my spirit's Lord has fl ed ? None shall meet his smile before me, None within his arms repose; Bolds beatt's impassioned fires, • Quenched upon my bosom's snows! None shall shato his horsing kisses, Ere I haste me to his aide Octavia's tears may prove her widowed— Cleopatra's still his bride ! Seel My courage claims the title— Closer press the aspic fangs ; Memoiles of his quickening touches Sweeten now these deadly pangs Honor, manhood, glory's teachings, All, he bartered forvny smile, Twined his heart-strings round my fingers, Vibrant to their touch the while. Followed fast my silver rudder, Fled from Cwser's scornflil eye, Heeded not his bleeding honor, Glad upon my breast to lie I .Then I snared him in my meshes, Hound him with my wily art From the head of conqueling legions, Snatched him captive to my heart. Wild his soul at my caresses I Weak his sword at my command! Rome, with fury, saw her mightiest Bowed beneath a woman'sfiandt Noblest of the noble Romans I Greatest of the Emperors thee! Thou didst Ilieg away a kingdom— Egypt gives herself to thee Sweet as balm! Most soR and gentle Drains the asp my falling breath : Antony I My. Lord 1 My Lover Stretch thine arms to me in death I Guide me thro' these deep'niug shadows— Faint my heart, and weak my knee; Glorious victim 1 Ruined hero! Cleopatra dies for thee! G COLTS WHEN SHOEING. No man of sense, conversant with horses, will deny that where the generality of them resist, fear, not vice, is the cause of it. Fear, then, is the first thing we should do away with in the colt, and nothing ,but beginning with him from his infancy will do this. We have frequently a great deal of trouble in shoeing a colt the first time It is done. Hew, in the name of common sense, could we expect anything else! A goose naturally stands on cne leg. We have had to do with some thousands of horses, but we must say we never saw one voluntarily stand upon three, unless in great agony with the fourth. The actual fear of falling will make the colt resist being held in, to him, an unnatural po sition, for a quarter of an hour together, that he never stood in for aminute in hislifo Ile perhaps kicks at this ; when, to reassig his fears, he probably gets a stroke with the ham mer. Tees Is enough to miike - ahorte some to Shoe for life. Many horses hate smiths ; some will not approach a forgo. This does not proceed from the kindness they have received from such men or in such places. Some horses will not permit a smith to come near them In his smith's dress : put the groom's stable dress on him, and the horse will allow himself to bo shod. - Can anything speak plainer? The animal does not resist yorr wishes, or care about being shod ; he drerds the smith not the shoeing. Horses have no natural antipathy to smiths or forges, but they have to ill usage.—A colt has no more natu ralb ojection to permitting you to touch his hindleg than his head, and if from the first his bind legs were as often handled as his neck he would no more,kick at you for doing this, than he would bite or strike at you for hand ling hie fore-qtfarters. It is the novelty orally act that alarms the young horse, not the act itself. Why is it that vicious horses seldom hurt children ?" They kick, bite and strike at man, beCause man has ill-used them ;•children have not. Surely this shows that vice is not the leading and natural propensity of the ani mal. The child hap probably never done anything to injure him. Even this the horse repays by' gratitude and confidence. What *bold ha then not 46 for those Who' Would take a very little trouble to win his attach ment and soothe his natural fear of man ? Any thing that Nature has given him the power to perform or the instinct to comprehend'— Prairie Farmer. ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO ,One bemired aidten years ago, there was not a single white man in Ohio, Kentucky Indiana, and Illinois. Then, what [snow the moat flourishing part of America was tat little imovin as the country around the mountains of the moon. It was not until 17137 that Boone left his home in North-Corolina to income the first settler of Kentucky. The first plonee.s of Ohio did not settle until twenty years after this time. A hundred years ago Canada be longed to France, and the whole population did not exceed a million and a half of people. A hundred years ago, the great Frederick of Primate was performing those great exploits which have made him, mmortal in military annals, and With his little monarchy was sus taininiyt single handed contest with Russia, Austria, and France, the three great powers of Europe combined. A hundred years ago, rtak)oleoh was not born, and Washington was a modest Virginian colonel, and the great events in history , of the two worlds, in which these great but dissimilar men took leading parts, were then scarcely foreshadowed, A hundred years ago, the United States were the most loyal part of the British empire, and on thet'Olititbd . hdrizen 'speCh Indiehted the struggle which within a score of years there aftex cstabliehed the great republic of the world. A hundred years ago, there were but four newspapers in America. Steam-engines had not been imegined, and railroads and tel egraphs bad not entered into the remotest conception of man. When we come to look back at it through the vista of history, we find' that to the century passed has been allot ted Moie important events, in their bearing upon the happiness of the world, than almost any other which haa elapsed since the Creation. —During a recitation on Natural History, In one of our well-In:own colleges, a student in the pursuit, of .knowledge concerning the habits of animals, said: 't Professor, why does KOst, *ldle eating, turn her head first ono Way and then the other ?" " For the reason," maleil the Profesaeor, "that she can't turn it both waye at once." • (Contribute& PHILANTHROPY --VS. AN THROPOLOGY. The course of lectures delivered by Chaun oy Burr, with the sixth additional free lecture, were concluded on Friday evening week. These lectures are intended to prove the then• ry that God created for each particular race • separate and distinct head. That the most barbarous races were created first, and finally God created the white man in his own image. That It is impossible and fruitless to attempt to elevate a race above its nominal condition. The skeleton of the argument is that God in the beginning created Adam as a white man ; that the book of Genesis is mythical and uncertain history, therefore not to be relied upon, and the author of the pentateuch was entirely ig norant of any part of the world, except that in which he lived. Yet he continually quotes commentaries upon Genesis, to sustain his theory, and boldly asserts that the other races were Lot involved in the fall of Adam, there fore he is driven to announce one of the two contradictories, either that the other rates, de graded as they are, are exempt from punish ment hereafter, or that they hare no souls but are mere brutes. He avoids this question but speaks of them as though they were brutes. He also states that Enoch and the other sons of Adam, after Cain had killed Abel, and been outcast, was obliged to marry one from the other races. Therefore, we, the noble white race are no better than an amalgamation, for by Ms own showing, the marriage of brother to sister was incest at that early time, thus aro the disciples reduced to the degrading necessi ty of considering that we, we the lords of creation, are half man and half brute. fleeing this stumbling block to his theory, he after ward states that the other races have souls and acknowledges that be is afraid to hazard an opin , on of his own, so he quotes an au thority which denies to them a conscience, at the same time not venturing to discuss this matter. This is his theory which he would have us believe. Let us glance at the manner in which he proves it. In the first place, ho quotes three or four passages in which gen eral expressions are used where particulars are meant, and jumps at the conclusion that wherever they occur they 'always mean partic ulars, In this way he proves that, when Christ said, go and preach the Gospel to all the world, he meant the white race to the exclu sion of all ethers. He also proves that the flood was not universal, by stating that it would have been cruel injustice to have drowned the poor Indian out i,zit America. We think he would be troubled tb prove that the poor Indian or that this land of freedom was not eovered by water even after the flood. Geology teaches us that it was submerged at some time, and unless he can fix •the date of the submersion, he might find hispoor Indians here in the form of sharks, &c. He does not attempt to prove this but presupposes it as fol lowing his theory. Ho seems to piers much force urea the phys:cal difference bet Nem the white and negro races. We think it ei,fficult for him to find any two white men of exactly the same chemical and physical structure, and if he would compare the ancient refined Greek with the Franks, who drank the blood of their enemies. when in battle. he difference, yet they are of the same race. Each was cursed by the fall of Adam, there fore why that difference. This can only bo I accounted for by natural causes, habits, cli mate, food, etc. But we have not time to follow him through his discussion and refute his argument hi de tail, but will conclude by taking tho one of which he said, If minted, his theory must fall. It was the condition of the negroes on the Island of Hayti before - and after die emancipa tion of slavery. He dwells considerably cn the evils of the French revolution and states that, before this time, France was filled with great minds, and while the people under the lead of Robespierre were shoaling ins est le tiers etat? and vies to republic the negroes who had attained their freedom were murder- ing in cold blood the white inhabitants and that the exports of the Island, alter the eman cipation, were diminished very greatly, and the negroes had relapsed into absolute barbarity, and were no better than those in the midst of the jungles of Africa. From these facts he draws the conclusion that the negroes are in capable of being elevated above their normal condition, and that as soon as the white man ceases to hold them up, they will inevitably re lapse into their former barbarity. Let us see if the conclusien follows. We must take the negro and regard him oho was with reference to his surrounding circumstances. He was, before the emancipation, treated by the whites as a mere brute, degraded and beaten, com pelled to work under the lash of brutal teak masters, totally ignorant. The whites made no effort to teach them anything, educational or moral. When suddenly their bonds were cut asunder, they avenged themselves upanthelr white masters.- This produced lawlessness. They were too ignorant to form any govein ment, therefore they relapsed into barbarity, atrocious as he pleases to call it. Was there anything contrary to human nature in this? Was tke revenge for injuries, especially en act peculiar to negroes? Did the negro by this prove that he considered himself inferior to the whitest Place white men in eie same situ* tion. Would they have acted differently But you say they would not have relapsed into bat bat ity. Let us see : each was equal; Intoxi cated by their freedom, no education or ideas of government, would whites have settled down and begun to hoe the sugar cane, as the negroes'were expected to do ? We need only. refer you to the histories of Napolean and Wel lington to learn their opinions upon the bane ful influence the sacking of a town had upon their educated FreneA and Englisls soldiers, and you may judge what an uneducated and ungoverned white rabble would do. Would any one be so foolish as to take the most igno rant men to be found in New York city, end lock them in a spacious palace to work under cruel taskmasters, then suddenly free them from their bonds, but still confined to the palace, and come back in one, ten or fifty years and expect to find them all or any among them doctors of divinity or lawyers? Yet ilos is expected of the negro, and because he does not do that which you would not ex pect in whites, he is incapable of being elevat ed above his normal condition. But suppose, for the time, we admit his theory to be true, let us investigate it and follow it out in its . detalls, the first question which presents itself to our consideration, What relation tinder the theory does God bear to the inferior races ? The foundation of the theory, as stated by the Lecturer, is. that they were not &mica in the foU of Adam. This being the case : Ist, They are either ex empt from the punishment of their sins, in another world; or, 2nd. there is for them no hereafter. and they are brutes and have no souls ; or. 3rd, having souls. conscience or moral agency is denied thorn. ' The first hypothesis is contradicted by the theory itself, for they would then be in all things, religious or moral, our superiors, for to them the attainment of heaven would be a certainty, while to us the cursed race it would be only attainable after a long life spent in the rigorous observance of religious precepts, com manded by Christ. We would be the slaves of the world and they the lords of creation. 2nd. That there is for them no hereafter and they are brutes.—For the investigation of this we must find out the difference between a man and a brute. Tho moral Philosophers aro agreed upon this point. I quote from WhewelPs Elements of Morality. He says : "If some plain and simple criterion of the dif ference between man and brute be required ; wo can point you to such a character at once, in the use of Language. ,A being who can understand and apply the general terms of which language consists, can apprehend rules of action, Means and ends, and hence, the Supreme rule : He is rational and consequent ly a moral being, it is impossible to deny this to the other races, therepre they are not brutes. Now as to the last point, he grants to them a soul but denies that they aro moral agents or have a conscience. This is an ingenious argument but what is it worth ? It takes from the other rates and puts in the bands of God the whole responsibility of their actions. In fact it amounts to saying that God grants Immortality to the.negro at the same time in suring to him freedom from punishment here after—for no one would suppose God so un just as to punish ono for doing wrong when he had deprived him of the power of discern ing the difference between right and wrong. But you say, they have a separable heaven. On what ground do you say so ? Is it because of their conscience, 1' or, is it because God gave to them one talent while to us he gave ten, fifty, or five thousand, if you wish it so ? Multiply heavens according to the perfection of the conscience and you must make's sepa rate one for each and every man white or black. But aside from this let us ask: Does any one, Anthropologist or not, treat the negro as if devoid of conscience ? It is impossible to do so. Suppose a negro were to murder In cold blood the father, mother, sister, brother, and all the dear friends of an Anthropologist, would he, for the sake of his science fold his arms and say : I cannot prosecute him, ho is of an inferior race devoid of conscience, ho does not know be has done wrong ? Thank heaven our juries are not composed of An thropologists, for it would be impossible for them to condemn a negro, an immortal soul, to die for that which be did not know was wrong ; thus you see that our laws cannot teach the negro, because he would be as a madman not responsible. Practically there fore the soul and conscience are inseparably connected; destroy one the destruction of the other must follow. Anthropology therefore is practically a failure. It does not grant to the other races that they wero cursed with Adam. It cannot grant to them the faculties of the. white race, or those of a brute, and practically the soul and conscience are insep arable. But, say you, we thought his argument was very clear, can you point out to us his mode or unguent um mutt - Was in this, he relied wholly upon inductive reasoning, this is the reason of politicians. Ho states a few facts which bearupon a point and from that jumps at the conclusion without examining whether he has got all the facts, or examining tho conclu sion to see whether deductive reasoning will sustain it. In conclusion let us look at the faculties of the negro. Is there any difference, if so, where is it/ We have no faculty which is not to be found in the negro. Whowoll says: The same faculties of mind have' appeared in the negro, as in the white, so far as the con dition of negro nations and negro classes has afforded opportunities ,of their development. The negroes do not appear to be duller, ruder or coarser, in mind or habits, than many sav age white nations ; or than nations, now high ly cultured, were, in their early condition. The negro has a moral nature, and is there fore included In the consequences which fol low from the Principle, that all men have a common nature. The negro has the same affections and springs of action as we ourselves. He loves his wife, his children, his home, and any security and stability 'which is granted him. He can buy and sell, promise and per form. He has, as much as any race of men, moral sentiments. Ho can admire and love what is good ; he can condemn and bate what Is bad. He has the Sentiment of Rights and Wrongs also. Though the Law allows him no Rights, he can feel bitterly the monstrous Wrong of the Law. His Reason is the Uni versal Reason of men. He understands the general and abstract Forms in which Language presents the objects and rules, with which Reason deals. Ho recognizes, as we do, a Supreme Rule of Human action and Human being ; for, like us, he can direct his thoughts and acts to whatia absolutely right. In short, there is no phrase which can be used, describ ing the moral and rational nature of man, which may not be used of the negro, as of the white. Why then not allow. that the negro was cursed with Adam. Is there anything degrad ing in it? Would , that I could feel myself free from the curse. Compare the negro of Massachusetts, where negro sc'iools are numerous, with one of Car olina, and you will see a vast Intellectual Im provement. If there is an improvement in a single can, we cannot affirm that the nergo Is incapable of improvement. But now we have negroes free among us. Slavery is abolished never to rear its head in this country:. What shall we do with the negro ? Anthropology would say let.them alone and they will relapse into their barbarous condition. Our duty to humanity teaches us to prevent this, and how is this to be done ? Only by developing their faculties by intellectual and moral culture, by education, repress their vices and teach them to love that which is right and despise the wrong, not allowing them to remain in their degraded condition but lend a helping hand on the road to civilization. Let us try this, success is sure, audit will stand as amemorial of the greatness of the American people. COMPLIMENTARY TITLES • [lt is known to most of the admirer& of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, that more than once ho bas declined the honorary degree of D. D. (Doctor of Divinity), offered him by promi nent institutions. The reasons for his decli nation of a nominal dignity which moat gen tienien in his profession are only too anxious to append to their names, are pointedly as well as characteristically stated in a letter to Mr. Bonner, of the New York Ledger. Mr. Bon ner; it appears, wrote to Mr. Beecher, asking the question. "Why did Mr. Beecher decline the degree of D. D., when it was conferred upon him VI I declined it because I did not want it. I had it already. Every Irishman called me "Doctor." Every man that begged for fifty cents called me "Doctor." Indeed, I was called "your reverence"—a title which be— longs to the Cardinal, I believe. What good would a cones degree do a man who already had it conferred upon him by the great uni versity of the common people ? Aro these not good reasons ? But there is• a difference between reasons and causes, After a man has given his reas ons for any course, he might with profit analyze the real causes which produced the result. Men act from many motives combined. They select from among them those beat suited to bear exposure, and state e them as reasons. Thus the real causes are often hid by the al leged reasons. It would amount to quite a subtile disquisition if I wero to go into the in teriors of the matter. I think that I was a natural-born Quaker. I agree with that worthy sect in everything, unless it be in the matter of Doctrine and of Practice. I always admired plain and straightforward speech. My early, reading was of authors who sprang up with the Amer ican and the French revolutions, and who had in them the glow and fervor of those early democratic doctrines which prevailed before slavery debauched this nation. The doctrine of the unity, fraternity, and equality of men had a charm for my youth not lees be witching because it was an enthusiasm rather than a philosophy. In some vague way, I Can hardly tell how, I conceived a notion of repugnance for all titles. I remember dis tinctly that, as early as ;vhen I was fourteen years old, I had contempt for any author who put into his title-page a string of honors and titles. I was much taken with the story of some of the French nobility who renounced their hereditary titles and joined themselves to the democratic citizens. I formed a ro mantic notion of a true man, as ono whose character and actions needed for their illustra tion neither office nor title. Insensibly I Im bibed that a title was a sign of imbecility or vanity ; that a 'strong man needed no such crutch or bolster ; that it was useless if it con ferred on one nothing but what he had in him self, and dishonest if it gave to a man some thing more than really existed. These were boyhood whims and notions. They were strengthened by the influence which was derived from my first teacher in mathematics. I had no fondness for this study, yet I became proficient in its elementary branches, in my school days, under the teach ings of W. P. N. Fitzgerald, which, in full, is William Pitt Nelson Fitzgerald. When Prof. Davies, of West Point, was once travelling in Canada, ho was served by an hostler's boy, and in putting some questions to him, he proved so sharp at figures that the Professor took him along as a servant. He was waiter and boy of all work. But ho developed such Oita and graces, that he was put to his books, and became a cadet, and stood second to none, until an unfortunate Christmas spree delivered him from the thrall of West Point, and sent him to finish his career in the great academy of the world. I found him, in 1827, teaching - mathematics at Mount Pleasant Classical In stitute, Amherst, Mass. He taught me to conquer in studying. There is a very hourin which a young nature, tugging, discouraged, and weary with books, rises with the con sciousness of victorious power into master hood. Forever after he knows that he can intellectualing if he pleases, It is disiinct "convetston." I first went to the black-board, uncertain, soft, full of whimpering. "That lessodmust be learned," he said, in a very quiet tone, but with a terrible intensity, and with the certain ty of Fate. All explanations and excuses he trod under foot with utter scornfulness: "I want that problem. I don't want any reasons why I don't get it." "I did study it two hours." "That's nothing to me—l want the lesson. You need not study it at all, or you may study it ten hours—just to suit yourself. I want the lesson. Underwood, go to the blackboard 1" "Oh, yes, but Underwood got somebody to show him his lesson." "What do I care how you get it? That's your business.. . But you must have It." It was tough for a green boy, but it season ed him. In less than one month I had the most intense sense of intellectual Independence and courage to defend my recitations. In the midst of a lesson, his cold and calm voice would fall upon me in the midst of a demonstration—"No 1" I hesitated, stopped, and then went back to the beginning; and, on reaching the same spot again—"No I" ut. tered with the tone of perfect conviction, barred my progress. "The next I" and I sat down in red confu sion. Ile too, was stopped with "No I" but went right on, finished, and as he sat down, was rewarded with "Very well." "Why," whimpered I, "I recited it just as he did, and you said No I" "Why didn't you say Yes ? and stick to it? It is not enough to know , your lesson. You must know that you know it,l You have learned nothing till you are sure. If all the world says No, your business is to say Yes, and prove it I" The inward confidence inspired by such a drill, joined to the chivalric notions of inde pendent manhood already existing, tended to fix and fasten the feeling that a man is what he is in himself, and that the love of doing and the power to do are all the 'honors he needs ; that no man deserves a title who has not the power to make his own simple name a title, and that then ho needs no other, and that a man's own life is the true university that should confer honors upon him 1 These were the impulses of youth. I had not quite got over them when a doctorate was proffered to me, and in a moment of haste it was de clined, although the good-will of my Alma Mater gave me a gentle pleasure. "But—would you take one now ? Like a prodigal beauty who has for forty years re• fused suitors, have you not come to a time of life when a round, plump, companionable Doc tor would be an agreeable prefix or append' age to your name ?" Far be it from me to depreciate the value.of titles on other men. Wiser men than I am, Or ever shall be, wear them and play with them, as old-fashioned gentlemen do with a bunch of seals to their watch. The chronom eter performs no better for the rattling seals and charms,. yet melt like to fuss with them. Why not, if they like it ? Every man to his own taste in trifles. lam older, but not old. My mother had a name waiting for me when I was born. Two brothers, very dear to her, had died early. She joined their names—Henty and Ward— giving to me a name that to her was a sacred memorial of love. I mean to die with It, just as she gave it to me, neither tarnished nor en cumbered. If you ask me again, Mr. Bonner, why.l do not take a title, I reply, that I hats ono which my mother gave me. —" Leavo you, my Mend," aaidatipay fel low, clinging to a lamp-post on a dark night ; "leave you in a condition not to ,take care of yomuelf I (i' . c) never." 19 DRIFTINGS I= Menem dear mover). oh! pause In thy flight, Uo with mo down through the chambers of night: Down through the drillings of numberless years, Lle the,loys and the hopes wo burled In tears. The faces that smiled In the sweet "Long Ago," Dare numbered their days In beauty below; With crushed hearts wo hoard the "dip of the oar," As they drifted away to the fathomless shore. AJoy that wo loved, and fondly deemed ours, Juat budded and blonmed and died with the flowers Its perfume we gathered In silence and tears, .21. all that I. loft from the drifting, of year.. A hopo we once cherished, so street In Its birth; We set It apart from the shadows of earth; Bet Its altars were human, It drifted away,. That beautiful hope that blossomed In May. And now as wo stand, and look back through the years With their shadows and entishine, their smiles And their team, We gather more closely each lesson of truth, As drifting it fell from the casket of youth. VICIOUS HORSES CONTROLL ED BY KIND TREATMENT. A J U DE DEILIND DEXTER The control that Mr. Bonner has acquired over Dexter is truly wonderful. Those who have been acquainted with the horse would not beleive the change without seeing it. As Is well known, Dexter has always. been very free with his heels. His playful moods bor dered on the vicious, and ho had a fashion of lashing out somewhat savagely at those who came close to his quarters. For this reason, strangers have viewed him at a respectful dis tance, and trainers have handled him with the utmost caution. Notwithstanding he was In Doble's hands so long, the driver never ventured to take any liberties with him, for it is to be presumed that a horse so strongly muscled can kick with unusual force. But Mr. Bonner is always good at experiments, and by kind but firm measures be has made himself master of his situation. We saw him pinch Dexter in the flanks, rub him on the inner surface of the thighs, and then wind up by crawling under him and between his legs. No one ever before dared to be so familiar with his kingship, for his playful moods were generally in the ascendency, and at such times lie was continually on the gui vies to land a foot in somebody's bread basket. You have Hamiltonized him; have you not? we asked, as we saw Mr. B. taking these liberties with the horse. "Partially," was the brief but smiling reply. "Look at his head ; see how broad ho is between his eyes. Dexter is a horse of sense, and I conquered him, not by brute force, but by appealing to his reason." A sound theory, simple as true. When hooking him to a wagon, Dexter has always had a fashion of striking out first with one foot and then with the other, very often to the inconvenience of grooms and damage of wheels. But Mr. Bonner has thoroughly broken him of this habit. Wo saw him stand like an old plow-horse between the shafts while the traces were fastened. And viewing these things, It occurred to ua that no horsois naturally vicious—that ho is made so by treat ment. And when you find an animal seem ingly vicious, the surest way to conquer him is gentle measures which appeal to his under standing.—Turf, and Farm. JOSH BILLING'S SAYINGS. There seems to b., four styles of mind. Ist, them who knows its so 1 2d, them who knows it aint so I litd, them who split the difference, and guess at it 1 4th, them who don't care a darn which way it is There'is but few men who her character enuff to lead a life of Idleness, Truelove is spelt just the same way in Choc taw as it is in Englsh. Those who retire from the world on account of its sins and peskiness must not forget that they have yet to keep company with a person who wants just as much wachin as any body else. A puppy plays with every pup he meets but old dogs have few associates. It costs a great deal to be wise, but it don't cost anything to be happy. Necessity begot convenience, convenience begot pleasure, pleasure begot luxury, luxury begot riot and disease, riot and disease, between them, begot poverty ; poverty necessity again —and this is the revolution of man 'and is about all ho can brag on. "Love Iles bleeding I" this is probably one of the darndest lies that ever was told. When a man irises his health, then he just begins to take care on it this is good judg ment, this is 1 An individual to be a fine gentlemen, has either got to be born so, or be brought up so from infancy ; he can't learn it sudden any more than he can learn how to talk injun corl rectly by practicen on a tomahawk. If a man wants to get his actual dimensions, let him visit a graveyard. I have often set down square on the ice by having my feet get out of place, but 'I never could see any thing in it to WI at, (especially if there was some water on the top of the ice,). but I notice other folks can. Precepts are like cold buckwheat slapjacks, nobody feels like being sassy to them, and nobody wants to adopt them. If any man wants to be an old bachelor, and get sick at a boarding tavern, and have aback room in the fourth. story, and have a red-hair chambermaid bring his water-gruel to him in a tin wash.basin, I have always said, and I stick to it yet, ho has got a right to do it. It is dreadful easy work to repent of other folks' sins—but not very profitable. —After the Crimean war a young "officer in the flouse of Commons wore tremendous moustaches, on which ono of the members said: "My dear 'fellow, now that the war Is over, why don't you put your moustaches on the peace establishment I" "Had you not better put your tongue on the civil list ?" was the prompt retort. —" Come here, sissy," said a young gentle. man . to a little girl, to whose sister ho was pay lug his addresses; "you aro the sweetest thing on earth." "No, I ain't," she replied; "sister says you are the sweetest." The gentleman popped the question the next day. —" Do you say your prayers regularly every night and morning ?" asked a sympathetic lady of a little shoe-black to whom she had just given a trifle. " I taloa sez 'um at night, mum, but any smart boy can take care of blaself In the day-time," was the little rogue's reply. —" How well he plays for one so young I" said Mrs. Partington, as the organ-boy per formed with a monkey near the door ; "and how much his little brother looks like him; to be sure l" • Irintero, 'BEET, TM STYLES `looks. Collett. ..,11111 Woad. ading. Way eo.ter. or any Notice.
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