El ~,r , . Thu TOM of Dr, .1, W. WebAtdc. ;Clapp was one ; entered the cellar by trap- Err t/uf liiiir&r of George W. Park- I do°r ; saw a fresh hole cut in the wall. man, brfirre, tho , Supreme judicial ' Looking through a hole, saw what seemed Court. ;to be pieces of flesh, scattered by the wa . BesroN March 16, 10 A. M. !ter from a sink; being in a rising spot, di- P.The prisoner, Dr. John A. \y o b s : cr ., rioted Littlefield and an officer to enter was briught in precisely at i) o'clock. and pass them out. There were five pie. ife . wore a composed and had a some- ees—questioned tolled Littlefield whether they what.maltiacholy appearance, but in oth- wve parts of a dissected subject t No! er respects was much as usual. i: : , Were they in a place where such dissec 'A.few nietnents rifler, c hie(' justice lirtw ted militias should ho T' No! took his icat.on the bench, accompanied; Was there any other access to that by Assistant Justices Wilde, l/ewev and vault thou by the bole in tit" privy, turd the Metcalf. Some time was occupied incal- one just made in the wall ! There was ling the roll and okrtusing Jurors. mot. While they were there, they heard The'small gallery wasdenstily crowded lbotsteps in tiro laboratory above, and he with spectators, but other pa rtsof t hecou rtl SP Ilt tap to ascertain, but he was not there. room were not crowded, spectators hay- ,00 entering the laboratory, bones, &S., ing been admitted' by ticket. Tho g , :n . was immediately discovered in the fur flemea ol' the bar werc present in full f or c e . nace• Witness immediately dispatched TO prevent a•crowd the sheriff' had taken:officers to arrest Prof. NA'ebster, at ('am the precaution to barricade the corridors bridge, was not present when Prof.• Web and station officers at the outside doors. lster was brought down to the Medical Col * The counsel for the government is .1. H. , le"e• Clifford, Esq., Attorney General, assisted : Calvin G. Moore, sworn.—Saw Dr. by George Bennis, Esq. For the defence, Parktnan in Paul Holland's store, corner lion. Pliny Merrick arid E. I). Solder. of Vine and Blossom street, on Friday, Fourteen jurymen have been examined November 23, about ten or twenty min and there remain forty-two present. : utes before two; saw him purchase sugar. ! At ten minutes before 10 o'clock, Mr.; Dr. Parkinan went nut immediately after Clifford moved the min to empannel a i ll _ his purchase by tine Blossom stet dor.— ry in the case. ', Fixed the titre in his mind the re day o rifler Thomas Barry is the only jurymen vet i when search was to be made. obtained. ! Mrs. Moore, wile of the former witness, The jury were finally empannelled, at.: testitfrd that on Friday, November 23d, tor fourteen peremptory challenges, tell o f, she called to her son George,l w.lO was Whom were set aside. in the stret about ten minutes to two, to Mr. Robert J. Bream is the foreman of. go to scho"L :lir, I, the jury. The court refused to excuse Mr. Ben d ided jarnin 11. Green who held a deck . ion adverse to capital punishments, but not such as would prevent him from find ing a verdict according to law. Mr. Clitibrd, the Attorney General con fined himself to two propositions in this indictment. First—That Dr. Parkman was murdered. Second—That Dr Web ster committed the deed. Ile dwelt at great length won thesy points, contending that numerous circum stances would be found irreconcilenble with the supposition of Prof. Webster's in nocence. On inutirni of the prosecuting attorney, all the medjeal,Witnesses then retired. The first witnesscalled for the govern ment was Mr. Charles M Kingsley, who testified that he had known Dr. Parkman sincelB3o; that he traced Dr. Parkman to the Medical college. The witness then detailed the account of the searches through the college with Mr. Littlefield, the particulars of which have already been published. . Patrick McGowen was then called, but his evidence was unimportant. Robert G. Shaw, brother-in-law of Dr. Parkman, testified that hebclievcd that the hair found belonged to Dr. Parkman, al though he would not have recognized the body, if he had not known him to be mis sing. The court adjourned; leaving Mr. Shaw onthe stand.—Daity.Nctes,qf March 20th. Second Day's Proceedings.—Agreeable to the instructions of the court, the jury proceeded to-day, in charge of three con ;stables, specially sworn in for the occa sion, to view the Medical College, in North Grove street. flis Honor, Chief Justice Shaw, in-Am:- mil the officers to exhibit to them the roo►ns occupied :by Prof. W. as laboratory, &c., tugether with the privy, and the perfora tion of the central wall made by Little field, before his discovery of the remains in the privy vault. His Honor charged the officers and the counsel to tell the jury merely what apartments they were shown without ceruneut., The jur,:. were further instructed to pro ceed to''the Medical College at half past 7 o'clock; 1. M., and return in time to at tend court by 9 o'clock, when the trial was, resumed. The jury by the direction of the c o urt. this morning examined the medical col lege, in connexiou with the counsel lbr the commonwealth and the prisoner, who were fbrbidden to enter into any a rgu. mot, but , were permitted thoroughly to show:And explain the localities. They re. turned to the court room at about 10 ceelock. Tuhey was called and sworn .ir•ln.the meantime the counsel for corn - rnoowealth produced and exhibited full ..pletris of the various floors of the medical ~college, and a wooden moddle of the _whole building, about three feet long, ca pa ble of being dissected so ns to expose all the.floors and partitions. Mr. Tukey, a city marshal, was inform .ed of the-disappearance of I.)r. Park man on ;the forenooon ofSaturday, November .24th--,cninmenced search immediately at the .West end, and at 2 . o'clock, P. M. the same day directed the entire police of •.the, city, to . senrelr. „Witness was requested to state in gen- Prat terms about what search was made.— AnsWer-T4t was as general and thorough tut the means at the disposal of the city wguld allow. Ilea were sent in all directions for 30 An 6.0 similes--an all the •railroads, to all be towns on the coast,iaeluding those on • ILeide.sof the, cape.. ~, , p•-”r land * ,,and, water, and and eireu lks ch• BE INIMI ~, ~ Y ~ . - IiER I. George Moore being called and sworn, testitied th, when Ins mother called him, he had just cm Dr. Parkman go down Grove street, toward the Medical Colley. Dwight Prouty (another boy who was with theformer) testified to the same thing. Elias Fuller, sworn, clerk of the West Boston Iron Foundry, saw Dr. Parkinan tfrittling up Fruit steee.t. 3,_,-Testiniony only to this point. The Court room is densely crowded, dhictly with members of the bar and distin guished strangers. There is universal complaint ammg the reporters and quite justly, that they find it almost impossible to hear. 1)r. Francis Park wan, brother to the de ceased, is in attendance and seemed much affected as the bones found in the furnace were produced. Elias Fuller, Albert Puller, and Leon ard Fuller, proprietors of the West Boston Iron Foundry, opposite the Medical Col lege, were sworn, and testified to seeing Parkman enter the college at the hour specified by former Nv itn c sse s or within a few minutes of that time. Two of them sent to Mr. Littlefield the tools with which he dug through the wall on Friday, Nov. 30th. Albert Fuller testified that he saw Dr. W. come into their room to sign a check for Mr. Cummings, a blacksmith, on the Tuesday alter the disappearance of Dr. Park man. Paul Holland, grocer, testified that he saw Dr. Parkinun in his store on the 23d of November, between one and two in the afternoon. Jitbez Pratt, coroner, testified that he called on Dr. Webster at Lcverett street jail, in company with Dr. tiny and others. Prof. Webster, whom he found apparent ly in great distress; he was much agita t tted and trembled all over, exclaiming, "what will become of my poor family I" Prof. Webster accompanied them to the college where they broke into various back rooms and the privy. Bones and pieces of metal were found in the Ibrnace of Webster's lowpr laboratory: lie was much excited when these discoveries were made. Dr. Woodbury Strong, sworn—l knew !I)r. Purkinan well ; was his physician for some years; saw hire on the 23(1 ot • Nov.; I went to the college on the next rla went again on Tuesday, when I saw the parts °fa human body lying on a board. The hotly had been opened as no one would be likely to do it who had seen a post morlem ,examination. Ile (the wit ness) had heard it r aid that then , was a pmforation made by a knife, and he re solved to examine for himself; this he did, and found corresponding to the direction of' the cut what seemed to be the mark of a very sharp knife indeed to make such a cut upon a dead body, because the flesh would have lost its elasticity, and would yield to mark ; when there is life the•llesh rather hugs the knife andpermits it to cut, there was a peculiarityof the body ; it was narrower across the shoulders than across the hips; the hotly was very straight up and down; I have noticed the very same in the body of Dr. Parkman; I always take notice of detects in Ibrm,and can judge of the general form, though not so easy al the naked form; DE. Parkman Was pecu liarly fortne6and therelore 1 noticed him the more. Dr. Frederick Ainsworth, sworn—l ant a demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medi cal College. All subjects must come through my hands; 1 keep a record of all anatomical, materials ; my attention was called to the records at the time of finding theseremains; I discovered that all the subjects and materials I ought to have were accounted for; I then examined the remains themselves and was satisfied that they were never sent to me or the college for dissection. All subjects for,dissection are injected with fluid in order to keep them in a state of preservation, : for which pi,frpose 'a solution of arecuical. acid or chloride, of zinc, with a,. saturated Bain tion.of alum and. salt-peter is used. Dr. , Webster has no connection withthe anat mical, department My impression is • that 'mien : who cut up these remains,. had Vorpleel knowledge. ,The person have ,seen body cut iplCdoitbt whether. le e,ypr AA his to do it. 'he; ,proceedings . citement growing out of this extraordinary' trial appears to go on increasing as the ,proceedings Progress. It is the exclusive' !topic Of conversation everywhere: The evidence I have sent you so far, will ena hie you to form some idea of that portion of the evidence against the accused, which was suppressed, before the Coroner's In quest. The anxiety to get standing. room in court' you can hardly imagine. Tickets are issued to certnin privileged Parties, privilege d by profession, and having busi ness to be there—the same as to places of public amusemeht. All day yesterday the hall was so crow ded that the atmosphere inside was Aso-' lutely sickening. It is the'same - this inor-! ning. Occasionally the movement of the crowd towards the doors is so irrepressible, that the police are overcome. Much confusion and noise is the consequence. Personal collisions are also occurring, now & then. Instances have came to toy knowledge of high prices being offered for a transfer of tickets of admission. Public opinion is already dividing as to the guilt or innocence of Webster. The conflicting testimony of the medi cal witnesses is looked upon as a thrum blc men of acquittal ; This morning Prof. IVebster wears a more dejected appearance, I think, than he has yet exhibited. lie talks but little to the persons around hiin, but seems to keep his attention fixed upon the witnesses. l'Le trial. I think, will last till Tuesday or Wednesday next. Dr. Charles T. Jackson sworn. Chem , iq by profession; one of those who exam ined the remains; was called tiaturday P. IM., Dye. Ist; met Dr. Gay and_Dr: Lewis !at the Medical Collezei_mad6llie prelimi nary arrangements for examination. Dr. Gay and myself' undertook the chemical part; some boces and the contents of a small assay furnace were submitted to us; saw the remains ; did not think they had been used for anatomical purposes; tho't that the dissection 'showed sonic anatomi cal skill because the flesh had been boldly dissected away from the ribs down to the cartilage. The cles'iral had been disarticulated neatly; there was no hacking about the thigh; Lave seen the post mrtern report or Drs. Lewis, Gay and Stone, and do not ! disagree with it; knew Dr. Park man well. lie was then literally a dry muscular subject; n strong solution of potash had been applied to the remains. The deposi tion in the hands of the counsel is mine ; all in nm', handwriting, except the title. 'Pile deposition was received by Mr. Be. mis; it related to the action of potash in! the remains, and to the remains ibund on! the staircase; and detailed minutely the! purposes of the chemical examination into which the Dr. entered by direction of the I police. I took the blood vessels 1 had de. I livered to Dr. Gay. They were in the identical papers in which I, gave them to Mr. Richard Cros• by, a skillful chemist who works in my laboratory; he had made a previous exam ination ; I gave the papers to him a com plete his researches ; he repeated their re. sults ; the effects of potash is to dissolve the flesh after a while, it is done quicker with heat. Question—How long would it take to dispose of a body in potash. Answer— It would depend upon circumstances. If the body were cut up into small pieces,, it would be done quicker, it would be dofie by boiling, precisely like making soap. Q. How much potash would it take to dissolve such a body ? A. It would prob ably have weighed one hundred and forty pounds, and about half that amount of pot ash would be required to dissolve. it ; less could destroy the identity. The largest vessel I saw in the laboratory was a tin boiler with a coppe r bottom, similar to those used for washing. There were dark stains on the stairs down to the laboratory, and on the side wall there was a greenish fluid whieh seemed to have been spattered there by he ing spilled on the stairs. It was most a bundant opposite the stairs where the stairs were the darkest, and towards the bottom of stairs. The fluid WEIS examined and proved lo be nitrate of copper, this is a deliquescent salt, attracts moisture and remains fluid fbr a long time. It might have been thin fluid for several days; it did continue fluid for several days after we took some of it. I delivered that part of the examination to Dr. Jeffrey Wyman as more proper for microscopic observation ; saw pantaloons and slippers with blood on them; left Dr. Wyman to examine them, blood being an 'organism the microscope is the only prop ler test of it; the microscope is also an es sential instrument with which to watch the progress of chemical action on it. A large Turkish knife, with silver han dle and sheath, was shown to witness.— He recognized it as the property of the prisoner; which he had seen in the labo ratory in Mason street, when the medical college was there; it had in it a little whi ting and oil, as if fresh cleaned; know Dr. Parkrnan; Ms height was about the same as his own, which was five feet eleven in ches. The draft of the furnace in which the bones were found was sufficient to have carried off the odor of burning flesh. Dr. N. C. Keep.--4 Have practiced den .tistry nearly thirty years; am a neighbor of Dr. Lewis; have known Dr. George Parkman since 1822 ; acquaintance, began when I was a student 'of Dr. John Randal; have been his family dentist sinco 1825; I had a block of teeth shOWn me. I did recognize them as a set ~ o f teeth that I had made for Dr. Parkinan in 1846—the teeth :Were handed to the witness=--these are the same block which were shown to me, and I recognized. • • : State how ,17). ''lrkrtuiles ; mouth was. trelation ~f ^ ti' , =EEC • -, ~.-. . - . ''' • 'T T .). neeted with these two models were some-;under the curse " of slavery? . Who ever , ..4 - 1 MIZE vick,..viNt4w i elia4a, •,, ... what peculiar. The first question asked 'complained of the slownessof our progrbes? ' . '. ' ' e.g , ...1t.: , ,... , ,A.1.2.1 ..... A I '''llt i..1-Ate.;or 1 'll.-;---' In lob I;: ::' me by Dr. Parknian, when the teeth were a I ,LiATIr ; 4 , e ' . 7 1 2 3 12, :1t ; No'one; We know that the slave states ' !PPuP# l O / i ” 15 ,-1650.--. about to be ordered, was how long will it progress in the same'ratio with the ' '-,•-•-, C s 'l , ': - - take then, and the reason why lie asked, do not P i' fi i over your-papi tti rj aB T,i ‘ ,. c , ck ru fin . d ,-,, in the editorial column an artielb headed ' he said he was at the Medical college go . 1 free states, thus proving itself to be a po- Union " in which ing to be opened on a certain day,- whew litical evil,,,without, however, giving any 4ThoDissolutio,ii of file be should want new teeth, and he did evidence of its beluga moral evil, although the Ongers 'OJ:this!.fee r 1 . : • tiot! ; u ;ca amtty are want to order them unless he could' glaringlyforth,t'i • - • have i innuMetable sins grow out o f slavery, bait e -, 11 1, 11 ~the lugge s ti on measure, .. them by that day. That time was rather ~ that the south will. no k)ngt;sUft ra t t t o t h e - -- short. The peeuliaritieti of the mouth I te. wof which, however, mild . be prellented encrOrtehtnents of: the N kat j - ~ k 0 ' $ mum' tne made .it a difficult requiringcaSe, as muchby emancipation. But that•slayery has WI 13 S''• A uniot Proviso pr any Luturet, old I skill as could be made. I been a curse to the United States, ",.e in 'restrietinitlie rights of the -p'eva ii ,,• o r t i to I began as soon as possible, and P a i d a i vain seek for the evidence. Or that it is I sltiVeholdiriir States be adopted.,l4, wo .' 0 large. part tif, thy attention to: it from day t , . . look upon such an act as the W ~61 , , mi i .... to day;•l saw him frequently while it was a sin against Go d ," tilso needs some sus. ti n ? o ti:j i. tn and would , w 7 ithdp\s 11. ..... ,t h ,or in progress, and . in consequence of the • taining proofs. slavery' has-eNisted in all shortness of the time and the close atten- l oges 'of the world, as well among-the Jew! ' , I ask what are the encroachine 1,;,,,, tion to it; I remember that More distinct-l as the Gentile world. It has been prat-' the North•arb inflicting upon th . i o l it - i ii i i i ly than in ordinary cases • . speed by some of the most. revered , etois.lWlnt.fa•re' the rightt of fife peopor the ' I proceeded to take the ordinary impres- . t and modern times, ma it 00 ' e - k t cO i ng 1 4 414 1* wh l igh , the .!ilmot sions; the first step was to get a fac simile sinus of ancien ' ' * • rovlto*.ldr.lny !cilium? m0014 , 4 061E1 . of each jaw, or an impression, which is existed on the earth at the time et the' so resiriet That they 'S - voil - 1 logic' the same thing; here he went into a reg- Mission of our Saviour, and it is no Acre, i ( . 0 , it r f , as the: wor s t of despptisna '.and wowi th. \ ular lecture on practical dentistry in gen- written as one of the sins he came to hat- draw from the Union? ifillese elk., ish from the world. But "a f r i en d t o in t . 'Dents arc that. the !North claims a to o. cunt, as well ns in this case, which would not be understood without the patterns he - her convictio . I , t illustrated it, the great irregularity of the nianitY" points to the divineinjunc tion ' ' slavery in arty form, or 'tinder at,: • left. side of the lower jaw of Dr. P., (wen. "do as you would that others should .do, cumstances is*.a, ; ,'siti e againsit: - .Gpd N'" 1 slimed much trouble in fitting. Both unto yon," and can only a pply it to the: outrage upon iitimariity, ilia, t'if i 4 nio blocks were back teeth , three blocks of oftheWhy not apply it to : impossible for)tufy itAtion to' ' / prosper % case slave. groaning.under such a cuese,„ u and al / teeth were attached toone gold plate ; which the master? He tells you he is not re completed the tipper set; there were spi.. .. . e .,. is the duty of the Nerth Mel of chrish, : everywhere to cry aloud ' adainst: sup Ii rat springs which enabled the wearer to sponsible for slavery. Ile found Mins ii ' and'nut cease lo cry o open and close his mouth with less danger, the possessor of slaves, and without ma-1 enormous evil; of the teeth being displaced than without I king bad worse, he cannot escape from' until the last word witch woulLtoltrat them. the position ofmaster ; then why taunt him human slavery be stricken from our qat ‘ The teeth were fasts - ned to the plate by ute books. 1 say, if these are• the en' with the sin of slavery ? Is this "doing platina pins and not gold ones ; mentions croachments with which the South g area ' , that merely as a fact, as he remembered. as you would be done by?" Is this the , .grieveo, let them - ;reflect how weal: and c , roundless are their complaints when 0x... P " Witness showed the model of the tipper:conduct a b n brother christion ! But how - surfaces of the teeth showing their length. l i s i t „i t h t h r , poor African? Itis%vell known posed to the light of Truth, Justice and exist ,„ Right. And the rights oldie people, what Owing to an accident which happened I that , to one of the teeth it was necessary tot In their native country they , . Ore they! 'ro 1101 d their fellow -Man in ' have another made, which made it =es- I tribes like our W ill Indians . , and are vac- . bandage, even to doom their earn sons and sary for the witness and his assistant to Using a system of slavery to each other daughters (as the great iiumber of !Mika. • work all night ; before the medical college much more cruel and degrading than any to slaves abundantly prove) to that curse ' opened we finished the teeth in season, that ever existed in this country—where ' which is worse Than death itself. Strange and had just thirty minutes to spare. rights these that are restricted iithe North The court here took a recess. ! they are literally t h e ''servants of set- : - ' presumes to Ea y a word agailfst the extra. . i vants"—and who knows but that we, may, spun ol„ . , slavery hv law over'otir newly ac: quired ter: itory. In Hirt it appears to he be ''doing as (undersimilar circumstances) ' we would have others do unto us'' in thus considered au infrilo,rement tip:in South., -- : ; alb viatim their condition! :ern rights to agitate the question at all, 0- tiler in the Noriti or South. Again, "M I But we cannot now follow our corre- . have seen no disposition on the part of the :' spondent any further. It ii an absorbing , Iv o , .•irtil to withhold their acts of interfe•• rence in the questiou of slavery.” I pre.' question, and cannot be argued in a sin.: gle page or two. The day, however, is, slim f e it would be vain to look or such a' past by, for northern sentiment to become 1 disposition, and why should %% - e. If sla- very is a sin, which few pretend to d en y„ , poisoned against the south: Our states.: how thou is it the duty of ,christians la ! men no longer suffer their % *mews to be preach against every other sin but leave misunderstood. Very remotly Diorirmi that untouched (for Icor of a dissolution WEasina, whose declarations more than' of the Uaien.) Will God he cireurnserih ed,or arc we to revere the Gonstitutioii any other man, have been quoted by the; ; which was formed tinder very peculiar cit .. Abolitionists, has conic out in a most man- i cumstances by fallible men and ca i ist ,.: fill and patriotic denunciation of the Abe- I quentiv liable to contain't ross errors, litionists and their measures, and justly ! more than we revere the great Judge'er heaven and earth whose law is eternal awl: charges them with riveting and binding tighter the chains of the slay,. And not , whose , judgment .. is just, and whose lath, binds us as ennstians to d o unto other Irk lonby this, but he charges in the clearest! we would have them to do onto us: . Ii and most emphatic language, that the! this the rule among slaycholdem who are , North, has wantonly infringed upon the daily exercising despotic power in order, to keep their slaves in subjection, inflicting rights of the South, grossly disregarding! . the most cruel treatment; justified bylaw and purposely evading the plainest consti of their own making in we. slave, tutional injunctions, in their ac t s of aggres- I 1 had no voice, and worse than all, tearini - 'asunder iiimilies—husbands from %vivef . and children from parents anti vice vi.T.4, —thus virtually dissolvin! , the marriage! contract for filthy lucre's - sake, and re. gardless of the ties that bind thinilies to: gether, doom them to a state of heart-Vro. ken misery that ends only with their lives: And are we oldie North living in ticeord.! ance with the Golden rule! are we doink, as we would have 0111 M'S (10 fir us if . IVQ, were the much injured & oppressed bonq r ,. men while we not only do nut raise'our voices against the evil, brit condemn and THE DOLLAR. __— Clearfield, Pa., March h, 19). KrWe are ulldcr wile wed obliOitions to lion. A. Cl tioton , of the National I louse of Representatives, for various public doc uments. The Niagazines Tor April, arc before us as usual. Godcy's Lady's Book, and Sartain's Magazine, are running a sort of opposi tion line, the result of which is that their subscribers arc decidedly benefittcd. In trying to excel each other, they only ex cel themselves. We insert a conlinunication in another column, from a subscriber, who calls us to account for what he conceives to be our erroneous views on the slavery question. We do not object to this. If we arc right, we may thus be the instrument olcorrect ing the errors of others. And if we are wrong, we want to be right. llad we the time, and the room, we have the vanity to believe, that we could not only sustain all we have said on this subject, whether regarded as the editors of a neutral paper, or as a paper published in a free State, but that we could correct many of the errors of our amiable • friend, if not convert • in tato from the errors of his ways. Wit hou t, however, attempting to rnter into all extended argument to sustain the correctness of our U. n position, and thus proc the unsoundness of the position of our correspondent, we will briefly point out a few of his errors. In the first place, then, we will declare that we arc not the apologists of slavery, neither politically, or morally; that if it was a question now to be decided, wheth er the people of any of the States of this Union roc c . to have authority under the Constitution to hold slaves, nothing could induce us to favor the proposition. But the question is an entirely different one. We find slavery existing in half the States —existing at the time the Union was for. med—and the institution recognized and its rights guarantied by the constitution that binds the whole together. Slavery under such circumstances can be defended for various good and wholesome reasons. Our correspondent asks "what arc the rights of the people of the Slav e holding States?" We explained this point, as we thought, sufficiently clear at the time. Every southern man feels that he has just as perfect a right, under the Constitution, to take his slave and carry him into any of the territories south of 36 deg. 30 min., as any northern man has to go there with his horse. And, when men thus feel and thus bdieva, would they not look upon that power nallespotic, which would say to them "yoti shall. not' o there -L-because yea held slaves, although the. questjon was settled by our forefathers, and,tho Constitution which. protects us both, gives you equal rights with us, . yet it does not suit our notions of .morality to allow you to extend the' area ofslavery'." But,hOW Otti,erresPondent accoutti for the . measure of prosperity ttophos mar. 'ked, the history, of -our cOutitryi, if during ;a11:. this time she . 'has been "E;waitine "ai; one my ‘.."4t4lWith OUR POSITION. MEI hi conclusion, however, it e must re mind our correspondent that he is grossly mistaken IT he thinks that the South will not be driten from the Union for fear of the consepiences to la•rself—tliat she could not subsist without the aid and pro tection of the northern States, &c. We fear a "friend to humanity" has studied the statistics of his country to but little ad ' vantage. 01 cotton alone we annually 1 export about sixty millions of dollars' 1 worth—entirely the production of the South—whilst the aggregate value of all! other exx)rts, sonic of which arc also the productitns of slaveholding states, do not average half that sum. Suppose, then, instead ci living under one and the same govcrnnriit, we had a Northern and a Southern Confederacy, what would be the consequince. I Why, Unwed of having our northern cotton Factories supplied Ifree (f (hall, as now, they would have to bid against England, tad perhaps under' the disadvantage of such embittered feel. .ings as a separation of this Union would i Le likely to engender. 'Could our manu facturers stand this? hit this is not all : The South now consupes a very large proportion of these fal acs of northern . manufacture ; but woul\ she continue to do so if separated ? or liould she not be most ady to buy fron England, who would be thus euabled! to give a higher i price for linr raw material) This, how ever, is amere speculation, and one in which it s painful to indulge. The t/ storm tha a few weeks ago threatened to burst On our hen !s has now we trust, well-nigh lAA over us without ; doing any other harm than preparing the political graves ofillose 'agitators of the country,' who are nbst at ease when the country is most inlanger. A Illys•ry Revealed--The papers of! Beebested (N. Y.) have been much occu. 1 . pied latel in discussing Old' cause of cer tain "my erious' hnockinge," N'vhich aro alleged t have been, heard at various 1 times by ifferent persons in that city.— A "Hun r," in the Rochester American, 1 solves tl mystpry by stating that, it has been t..) 6,n g t ii. (iselSitained , thth at 6o46 "knmltigs". are' canspd by thedeparted spirits f din FreP! SoilerE rapping on the "Bu 6 Platfairri." th é (fa y. Os' mad ar. ;.7::.. censure those who do, and charire With naticism the attempts that may be mil I to spread the truth. There is no far the South dissolving the Union bcciuse would be certain death to their pt'cutiutin. stitution which they are trying to 11)0 with such care, It could not live without - , the support of the North. You ask wily, Because it is in the North that the South finds a ready market for the greater, re • of her slave grown cotton, sugar, rice,tet, bacco, &c., and it is the North who are bound as long as the• Union remainsett7 tire to shoulder arms in case of an loin:, rection among the slaves and march tode, fend this blessed institution—dissolve the Union and where arc they ? They are, thrown helpless upon the mercy, ark slaves whom they have wronged, and they know it. But the North should not inter fere, the sin is their own and they will: have it to answer for. 'But is not the nal who stands an eye-witness to the perpetik, tion of a crime and endeavors to (TOO it, or refuses to britig, it.to the light, etoo sidered accessary to it and almost in guilt to the perpetrator. himself. PIO ; question of slavery is justly,' becoming . ao of thrilling interest to the people of thd,l,r; nitod States, and when. We reflect enormous Weight or guilt 'is attached we are not surprised that therwhole eatoti is interested about the '' . fUture . disposal'afit , I presume •the" . day is approttOing,,4 May God speed its corning curse or slairery under- which this coutitri; so tang groaned andliiiiich bad tn'eyetl', FS preying Upon the . very vltalset fide G'utf . on'; Will be quiettY and peacetblly ed. Then will the ,Sduth, enjoy rights b ! , qual to the North and 'there l cause for encroachments. The: of liberty will . pour in Om:: the . out 1. getlie'r with 'the North,. and btlme,, country may yet be one of:: the, arid most prosperdOnatiort'S pn A' FRIEND TO 'l.ll4Ati 1461 . 1 i t; RE)rAnKs.—Pcrhaps wo:4iri; too foF from ,pur . 'csiablished giving ploco to, the foregoing .cormuuDi‘ tion, for the reason , that thoautlior•did Olfico us ins 1 1 0§POsion of his iCafita i lil4. We are'Ofien thus t t I rca e , 171 gno Il , 1'.:::( 7 11l II 11