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But for a 'f he land being neglected, becomes pour and bar considerable time after our meeting, the orgatuza- ren; as it becomes exhausted it is thrown out as lion of the House was obstructed; and since or-; waste, for slave labor never renovates its strength, ganized, a large portion of its time has been occti-, -j'his applies particularly to agricultural States. nipri hv snppches nn the subject of slavery, mostly Tnk-p Viroim iii r..;i Qom.,i c.,ii. l J J- . I I I... .1 Trrin, ii' ion nn nrnrtina nnp. I uy suuuieru gciiticuicu, "" i" j which nas Deen so iriumpnantly reterred to Dy tne lion, -to which they could apply, was before the gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. Clingman.l committee. There was no doubt a well defiened Whence he drew his facts that she was more object in this, partly to intimidate Congress, and prosperous, more populous, and moro rich than hc partly to occupy its time, so that no legislation free States, I know not. I am sure it was not could be matured obnoxious to southern gentle- from personal observation. He would not certain men. Indeed we are not left to conjecture on this j y draw on njs imagination in matters of fact. 1 point. The learned gentleman from North Caro- suppose ne musl ave been msed by the most lina, (Mr. Clmgman.) who was selected to open miserable of sophisis, and most false of chroni the debate on behalf of human bondage, distinctly '.clers, Elwood Fisher. notified us, that unless Congress, as a condition i admit that, by nature, Virginia has capabili precedent, submitted to settle the slavery question, tjes equal, jf nol SUperior, to any Slate in the accoraing io souuiern aemanas, mere snouiu ue no legislation; even to the passage of the ordinary I appropriation bills necessary to sustain the Gov- ernment. And that such measures would not be obstructed by meeting them in manly debate, and , voting on their merits ; but by incessantly calling . the yeas and nays, on repeated and frivolous mo- tions to adjourn, until the end of the session. Sir, 1 doubt not that before he ventured on so high a ' threat, he had full assurances from a sufficient number oi southern gentlemen to carry u into ei- feci. For, if he had made it upon his own bare authority, it would degenerate into contemptible gasconade, which J am sure that discreel gentie- man would not indulge in. The scene of last Monday in this House fully sustained him, and showed that they had the will and power to exe- cute it. t Pennsylvania, and you will see that the land example of the true principles of government of Here, then, we have a well-defined and palpa- produces more than double as much as the same ! universal freedom, ble conspiracy of southern members combined to ( jinj 0f ancj jn Virginia. In the free States new) lam opposed to the extension of slavery into stop the supplies necessary to the existence of the towns are everywhere springing up and thriving ; territories now free, for still graver reasons be . Government, disorganize and dissolve it, until the ' anc anc is becoming moie productive ; smiling cause 1 am opposed to despotism throughout the bands that bind the Uuion together are severed, habitations are within hail of each other; and, ex-j world. 1 admit that this Government cannot preach and, as a gentleman early in the session desired, ' cept under peculiar circumstances, their manu-: a crusade of liberty into other states and nations, 41 discord reigns.'' Well might the gentleman an-' facture and mechanic arts furnishing lucrative i much as she abhors tyrants and tyranny. There ticipate, that the country and posterity would pro- employment to all their people; and their popula-' she can only mourn over its existence. "But when nounce this treason, rank treason against the na- i ijon steadily and iapidly increasing. Turn again t the question of government is within her own con tion ! Sir, 1 doubt if there is another legislative to Virginia. There is scarcely a new town, ex- trol, and she permils despotism to exist, and aids body in the world where such sedition would not ceptat one or two points, within her whole bor- its diffusion, she is responsible for it in the face of be followed by prosecution and punishment , ders. Her ancient villages wear the appearance the civilized world, and before the God of Liberty. France has lately exiled members of her Assembly ( 0f mournful decay. Her minerals and limber are i In my judgment not only the slave Stales but the for a similar offence. But in this glorious coun- unwrought. Her noble water-power is but par-! general government, recognizing and aiding as it try, where nearly two-thirds of the people are free, tially occupied. Her fine harbors are without does slavery, is a despotism. 1 do not use the we can say anything within these walls or beyond ships, except from other ports; and her sea-port' word in a declamatory, but strictly legal significa them with impunity, unless it be to agitate in fa- towns are without commerce, and falling to decay, j tion. That government is despotic where the ru- vor ol human liberty that is aggression : Let us inquire, what is the grave offence, the michtv wrong, which can justify a threat big with such portentous consequences ? The refusal of Congress to'propagate or to establish a doubtful or even an admitted good in the Territories would surely be no cause for rebellion and revolution much less would the refusal to extend an evil, an be educated without the instrumentality of district It may have one ruler or many. Home was a des admilted evil, an unmitigated wrong. Will an in- schools. In slave States, where the plantations potism under Nero ; so she was under the trium telligent and free posterity believe it when impar- are large, the white population is too sparse ever ( virate. Athens was a despotism under her thirty tial history records that the only cause for this ' t0 maintain them Beside there is another fatal ' tyrants; under her four hundred tyrants; under high threat was the apprehension that the congress r I. J T" 11" 1 .1 .wx nnrrotn Mnc no" i ;erv into her vast lerrtiories now iree j aci such is the simnle fact. It is nroDer. then, to in- Ol llllSyCc XvepUUlIC WUUIU UUl JJIUJJcJycllG, iiui I SOCiaiC Willi lllc JUUl. X we JJUWI vvuilC iauuici 3 uuoi.wu uut uvg(jungi mwcuv. j hi i v-i iijt jhi init to be propagated, the institution of human sla- - children could never be permitted to mingle in the the tmmber of despots ; the responsibility is more verv into her vast Territories now free 1 Yet same schools'and sit upon the same benches with divided, and the claims more numerous. The quire whether the thing sought to'be forced upon j Slavery enfeebles a nation in war as well as in Ier the number of subjects in proportion to the ty the Territories at the risk of treason and rebellion peace, h is impossible that a nation of masters J ranis the more cruel the oppression, because the be a good or an evil. I think it is a great evil , and slaves can be as powerful and formidable I less danger from rebellion. In this Government, which ought to be interdicted ; that we should op--' nose it as statesmen, as philanthropists, and as . moralists, notwithstanding the extraordinary posi tion taken by the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Hilliard) to the contrary, While I thus announce my unchangeable hostil ity to slavery in every place, I also avow my de-; termintion to stand by all the compromises of the Constitution, and carry them into faithful effect. Some ot those compromises 1 greauy oiMiue ; anu - were they now open for consideration, they should j never receive my assent, dui 1 nnu uium m constitution formed in difficult times, and 1 would not disturb them. TJy those compromises Congress has no power .over slavery in the States. I greatly regret that , it is so- for if it were within our legitimate con- trol I would go, regardless of all threats, for some ! hist' safe and certain means for its final extinction. ' mol, OUJC anu ..- . . , ... . , r u i-. e i But I know of none who claim the right, or desire and of slavery. I give her full credit for her pa to touch it within the States. But when we come triotism in furnishing most of the men who have to form governments for territories acquired long borne the official burden of the government both since the formation of the Constitution, and to in the civil and military list. I know, too, that admit new States, whose only claim for admission she has furnished the kind of men for our armies depends on the will of Congress, we are bound so who are apt to be distinguished when great deeds to discharge that duty, as shall best contribute to are done, lor it is only the officers and cotn- oDnnV nnri thft manders of armies who live in storv. Ihe stout ine wrosi'ciiiv, iiiu power, iuc Hclu,a,l''J ' !i..; f, ,ti two dororxr rnntribnte to r l T . . i i : I Imco a'lm mprp v ine nronuciij tiasata. -- "uk . i. r,T.e nf tup earth, add nothino to the ' i r .t,om that fioht the battles and win the victories are un- any oi tuese f j.s u not ratner suoversive i ' . v . - .V f . w all ! Let us fiFst view it in the low light of polit- known to lame. Their birth place is not sought ical economy. That nation, I suppose, is always for; their graves are undistinguished. And the he most prosperous, all other things being equal, I South has always furnished officers for our armies; has Se tifost ndustr ous. aud the larger number of, President; . for t he Jepubltcj ; nios of our foreign strength of a nation. Slave coun- has consented that the younger sons ol her di lapi it Sneir car Thave a large number of industri- j dated houses should monopol.se the places of clerks ouTfreemen Slaveholders form an untitled aris-1 and messengers to the Government But whence tocr Individuals! are drawn the common soldiery the men who xocracy, wmi numerous uujjuuui o. ' .,r;i .i,nir !,-,. ond win victories for vour 0 brv ? annronnale lame nam lrtreu iracis ui uuuvj " 1. . ... f in.ritnru in 1 npmupi i ti. . and thus prevent it from being thickly settled by 'freemen. Their laborers, having no ambition to gratify, no love of gain to stimulate them, no pa rental feelings to impel "them to action, are idle and wasteful. When the lash is the onlr slim ulant, thespiiit of man rFul's rrom labot. That republic must be feeble, both in peace and war, that has not an intelligent yeomanry, equally removed from poverty. The middling classes who own the soil, and work it with their own hands, are the main support of every free government. Despotism may be powerful, and long sustained by a mixed population of serfs and nobles. But free representative republics that rely upon the voluntary action of the people, never can. Un der such governments, those who defend and sup port the country must have a stake in the soil; must have interest to protect and rights to defend. Slave countries never can have such a yeoman ry ; never can have a body of small proprietors who own the soii and till it with their own hands, and sit down in conscious independence under iheir own vine and fig-tree. There is no sound COnneClinff link hfitWPfln ihp nrielnprst nnrl tlm 1 Cj ------ ----..wwaa V k w UWWA Itl V I slave. True there is a class of human beings be- tween them ; but thev are the .most worthless and miserable of mankind. The yoor white laborer is the scorn of the slave himself. For slavery al- , ways degrades labor. The . white neonle who j work with their hands are ranked with the other j laborers the slaves. They are excluded from . the society of the rich. Their associations, if any : where, are with the colored population. Thev "" ..,..., wii luiuillb liAllllllJIC IVJ1 IIIC UUUll ...I i. I i . . ' r. Union. Sne has a delightful climate: a soil na turally fertile. She is intersected, as was well sajd by the gentleman from Viiginia (Mr. Bayly,) bv the noblest rivers. Her hills and mountains aJe f,ned wjlu rich minerals and covered with valuable timber. She has the finest watei power, believe, in the nation, in the very heart of her State; and her harbors are among the best in the world. At the time of the adoption oflhe Consti- tmion she was the most powerful State herpopu- jation was double that of New l'ork. It was lne boast of her statesmen that she was prima inter pares. What is she now? The population of Xew York is more than double I think the next census will show nearly treble hers. Her land, cultivated by unwilling hands, is unproductive, Travel through the adjoining States of Ohio and Ask yourself the cause, sir, and 1 will abide the answer. jt js essential to the existence of republics that, education should be generally diffused amonc the people. Slavery presents this. Rich men em- piov private tutors; or send their children abroad. But the children of t;ie people generally cannot obstacle to them in the aversion of the rich to as- I - "PU, . n 1 ! w r same scnoois ano sit upon thf rich man's son's. That would be offensive. either in offensive or defensive war as a nation , 0f freemen. A laree Dortion of her population must remain at home to prevent the rebellion of, those who are constantly in a state of latent war-, fare with their oppressors. J know, sir, we have; had a most alarming description of the Prowess 0f the South. We have heard their cannon roar ; seen their bayonetts bristle; heard ihe war-cry of j the charging chivalry, and seen their bowie-knives ; gieam wunin tins nan, in tne vivia picture oi me terrible gentleman from South Carolina, (Mr. t,nngman. We have often been modestly reminded of the " blood and treasure and gallantry of the South." This I do not dispute- 1 am proud to admit that she has lurnisneu many gauant sons, wnose names, win aoorn me origmebi pages oi our msiury, uum for the war of the revolution, the war of 1812, the war which we lately assumed as the ally of Texas - j . r.i u- hearts and strong arms of the common soldiers bureaus; ana, sometimes, in uer pruuu numimy, , . , , , .... Almost entirely from the free States, except in ijiiii - - a- -j . .. 1.. r... iU fn Siatec cases of sudden emergency, when volunteers are called nearest the scene of danger. The pres ent Secretary of War, a southern gentleman of great ability, and strenuous for southern rights, a,c in his report: " According to the practice which has long pre vailed, the great majority of enlistments is made in the northern Atlantic cities and the adjacent interior towns, whence the recruits are sent to the general depot for instruction, and finally distrib uted to the southern and western posts, according to the wants of the service." Yes, sir, our northern freemen have always filled the ranks of the regular army. The south has lent us the gentlemen to wear the epauletts and the sword; to take command of our troops, to lead them to southern and southwestern climates to fight the frontier battles, and whiten vour fields with their bones. 1 am opposed to the diffusion of slavery, be cause confining it within its present limits will bring the Stales themselves to its gradual aboli tion. Let this disease spread, and though it will render the whole body leprous and loathsome, yet it will long survive. Confine it, and like the cancer that is tending to the, heart, it must be eradicated or it will eat out the vitals. The soon er the patient is convinced of this, the sooner he will procure the healing operation. The learned and able gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Meade,) in a pamphlet which he laid upon our table, takes the same view of it. He says, "Virginia has a slave population of near half a million, whose value is chiefly dependent on South ern demand." Let us pause a moment over this humiliating confession. In plain English; what does it mean That Virginia is now only fit to be the breeder, not the employer of slaves. That she is reduced to the condition that her proud chiv alry are compelled to turn slave-traders for a live lihood ! Instead of attempting to renovate the soil, and by their own honest labor compelling the earth to yield her abundance; instead of seeking for the best breed of cattle and horses to feed on her hills and valleys, and fertalize the land, the sons of that great State must devote their time to selecting and grooming the most lusty sires and the most fruitful wenches, to supply the slave bar racoons of the South! And the learned gentle man pathetically laments that the profits of this genteel traffic will be greatly lessened by the cir cumscription of slavery ! This is his picture, not mine. The same gentleman says in the same speech, " If we intend to submit to the policy of confining the slaves xoithin their present limits, we should commence forthwith the work of gradual emancipa tion: it is an easier w.nrh fnr its than for our chil. dren." The eloquent gentleman from Alabama, (Mr. Hilliard) is of the same opinion. He said " TVe must make up our minds cither to resist the interdiction of the progress of slavery, or to submit to an organic change in our institutions." Yes, sir ; this admitted result is to my mind, one of the most agreeable consequences of the legitimate re striction of slavery. Confine this maladv within its present limits. Surround it by a cordon of t Ireemeu that it connot spread, and in less than twenty-five years every slave holding State in the Union will have on its statute books a law for the gradual and final extinction of slavery. Then will have baen consummated the fondest wish of every patriots heart. Then will our fair coun try be glorious indeed; and be to posterity a bright . lers govern subjects by their own mere will by decrees and laws emanating from their uncon- trolled will, in the enactment and extension of which the ruled have no voice, and under which they have no rights, except at the will of the ru J lers. Despotism does not depend upon the num ber ol the rulers, or the number of the subjects her three thousand tyrants, it has been generally - o o r v o A f V i f rlncnnticm Inrroneik.1 in c-oinrIt tr txifl- . triumvirs each demanded his victims 1 he smal- the free white citizens are the rulers the sover- eigns as we delight to to be called. All others are subjects. There are, perhaps, some sixteen or seventeen millions of sovereigns, and some four millions of subjects. fhe rulers and the ruled are of all colors, from the clear while of the Caucasian tribes to the swatthy Ethiopian. called white. The The former, by courtesy are latter black. In this govern ment ihe subject has no rights, social, political, or personal. He has no voice in the laws which 'govern him. He can hold no property. His very wife and children are not his. nib lauor is anoiii- jer's He, and all that pertains to him, are the , absolute property of his rulers. He is governed, bought, sold, punished, executed, by laws to which he never cave his assent, and by rulers whom he never chose. He is not a serf, merely with half Ihe rights of men like the subjects of dospotic' Rus sia; but a naked slave, stripped of every right which God and nature gave him, and which the high spirit of our revolution declared inalienable which he himself could not surrender, and which man could not take from him. Io he not then the subject of despotic sway 1 The slaves of Athens and Home were free in comparison. They had some rights could ac quire some property ; could choose their own mas ters, and purchase their own freedom ; and when free could rise to social and political life. The slaves of America then lie under the most absolute and grinding despotism that the world ever saw. But who are the despots ? The rulers of the coun try the soveieign people ! Not merely the slave holder who cracks the lash. He is but the instru ment of despotism. That despotism is the gov ernment of the slave States, and the United States, consisting of all its rulers all the free citizens. Do not look upon this as a paradox because you and I and the sixteen millions of rulers are free. The rulers of every despotism are free. Nicholas, of Russia, is free. The Grand Sulan of Turkey is free. The butcher of Austria js free. Augus tus, Antony, and Leonidas were free while they drenched Rome in blood. The Thirty Tyrants, the Four Hundred, the Three Thousand, were free while they bound their countrymen in chains. You and I, and the sixteen millions are free, while we fasten iron chains and rivet mahacles on four millions of our fellow men ; tear their wives and children from them; separate them ; sell them and doom them to perpetual eternal bondage. Are we not then despots despots such as history will brand and God abhors 1 But we are told that that is none of our business. That southern slavery is a matter between the slaveholders and their own consciences. 1 trust it may be so decided by impartial history, and the unerring Judge, that we may not be branded with that great stigma, and that grievous burden may not lay upon our souls. But could we hope for that justification, if now, when we have the power to prevent it, we should permit this evil to spread over thousands of square leagues now free, and settle upon unborn millions 1 Sir, for myself I should look upon any northern man, enlightened by a northern education, who would directly or indirectly, by omission or commission, by basely voting or cowardly skulking, permit it to spread over one rood of God's free earth, as a traitor to liberty and recreant to his God. Slavery lends to render the people among whom it is planted, arrogant, insolent, intoler ant aud tyrannical towards ihe freemen of oth er parts of this Union. The honorable member from Virginia, from whom I have already quo ted, Mr. Meade, says, speaking of slavery. " Our paat history testifies to the fact that it elevates ihe character of tho white man. Though we have been in a numerical minority in the Union for fifty years, yet during the greater part of that, period ice have managed to control tho destinies of the Union. Whether on the battle field or in ihe council, ihe sons of the Souih have taken the lead ; aud tho record3 of the nation afford ample testimony of their superior energy and genious .'" Sir, I do not complain of this statement. The former part of it is bolh candid and true. But I cannot listen to the re cital without feeling the burning blush on my countenance, that the North, with her over shadowing millions of freemen, has for half a century, been lame and servile enough to sub mit io this arrogant rule. The South imprisons northern freemen when found within her borders, if they happen to be guilty of a dark skin, and carry it "between the wind and their nobility." And when a sover eign Stato sends a learned and venerable agent to lest ihe legality of such imprisonment before their own tribunals, he is driven with violence and indignity from their shores. Massachu- sens uas sunereu, anu, j trust, remcmoers tne i ..ii- i it. . . . i insult. How ofien have these walls been profaned and the North insulted by the insolent throat, that if Congress legislate against Southern will, it should be disregarded, resisted to extremiiy, and the Union destroyed. During the present .-ession we have been more lhan once told, amidst raving excitement, that if we dared to legislate in a certain way the South would leach the North a lessen ! That their minds were made up to extreme resistance ! Is this the place 10 use threats instead of arguments? Are the Representatives of freemen to be thus treated ? True, you are not wholly without justification in the belief that it will be effectu al. You have loo often intimidated Congress. You have more lhan once frightened the tame North from its propriety, and found "dough fa ces" enough to bo your tools. And when you lacked a given number, I take no pride in saying, you were sure 10 find them in old Pennsylva nia, who, in former years, has ranked a portion of her delegation among your most submissive olaves. But I hope, wiih Borne fears, that the rare of dough faces is extinct. I do not see how it could well be otherwise. They were an unmanly, an un virile race, incapable, ac cording 10 the laws of nature, of reproduction. I hope thev have left no descendants. The old ones are deep in political graves. 1 For them lam sure there is no resurrection, for they were soulless. Now, when the whole civili - zed world unites in denouncing slavery as a curse, a shame and a crime, I trust that when the great battle between liboriy and slavery comes to be fought on this floor, there will be none found hiding among the stuff, no fraudu - lent concealments, not one accursed Achan in thi whole camp of the Representatives of free - men The eloquent gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Seldon, ihe other day, in his beautiful person ated the great States of Virginia, Koniucky, and Louisiana, and in their name apostrophized j asthma, and who has in vain sought relief from the good, and I will add, the great man who, regular physicians, wishes us 10 give publicity occupies ihe executive chair; and in their 1 10 me following remedy : namo besought him as he loved the place of his j Procure common blotting paper, and ihor bi rib, the place of his nurture, and the place of 0ughly saturate it in a solution of nitre, (salt his residence, noi to forsake his southern breth- p6tre,) and let it be carefully dried by ihe fire, ern in 1 his emergency, but to stand by them in or by exposure to the rays of ihe sun. Oh re defonce of human bondage. How much more tiring at night, ignite it, and deposit ii, burning, effective, enduring, and hallowed would elo- on a nlae or quare of sheet zinc or iron in quenco have been, had tho orator's lips beenjy0ur Dej r0om." touched with a coal from the Ahar of Freedom!; j many cases, it is said, this has enabled Then could he have gone with friendly anxieiy 1 persons painfully aftliced, to enjoy their rest, to that noble, benevolent, and heroic man, and ( . xVazn Cultivator. admonished him, that although he had gathered j Hundreds of nights within the last fire all the earthly laurels that can he reaped by theyeariJi when the binerpain widened ihe lime in nickle of death, yet if he would have his name proportion as respiration became more difficult, descend 10 prosperity wiih increasing lustre, . he must, by one great, just and patriotic exam-' pie, wipe out the only spot thai obscures ihe sun of his glory. He might wiih propriety have ta ken wiih him ihe learned gentleman from Ala bama, Mr. Hilliard, and together have pointed him to that solemn hour, which to hirn, and to of us who are treading the down-hill of HTe, f t -' C I-. . ! must soon arrive, when the visions 01 amuinou ; and of earthly wealth shall hare passed from J before his eyes, and left him nothing but a gap-! ing grae, and an eternal judgment. j The accomplished gentleman from Alabama, . . . . . 1 Rev Mr Hilliard, might with peculiar pro- priety, do "hat, with profane lips I dare not, go J td his illustrious friend, and with fervid piey ! and eloquence more thrilling lhan thai hich ! inde Felix tremble, implore him by a'lovo j eeper than thai of binh-place, of nurture, and of residence, by the love uf his own immortal aoul, to be warned in time by the awful, the inexorable dodrh--u Accursed is the man steaU er." He might, perhaps, have pointed io the gloomy journey that leads through ihe dark shadow, and shown him how ineffably brighter are the glories of (hat Kingdom where all are free. Perchanco, loo, he would have lo ticed tho thronging thousands iraveling to that same dread tribunal, summoned to givo evi dence of deeds done in the dody ; some of them were bondsmen and slaves on earth, but whose disembodied spirits were ihen disen thralled, erect, tall as the proudest of earth's oppressors; and asked him to inquire of his own conscience, who was most likely to meet a hearty welcome ihere he whose cause was advocated by -the supplicating voices of thou sands with whom he had dealt justly on earth, and made free indeed, or he whose admission should be withstood by myriads of crushed and lacerated souls, showing their chains, their snipes, and their wounds io their Father, and to his father ; to their God, and to his Judge. When Mr. Stevens concluded his speech several southern members endeavored to get the floor, and among ihem Messrs. Seldon and Millson ; but the Chairman awarded it to Mr. Buel, of Michigan. Singular Case. There has been considerable excitement at Frederick, Md., in regard to the sudden death of a son of Mr. George A. Cole. A correspon dent of the Hagerstown Mail says : ' After being kept for the period of four daya he was placed in Mr. Han's vault, in the Lu theran grave yard, wiih the lid of his coffin open, as there were very serious doubts wheth er or not ho was in. a trance. His disease, tho doctors say, was the erysiplas, the only indi cation of which was a small pimple on his lip, causing much swelling, and of which, in the short space of three days, died. Many persons have daily visited his remains, and all express iheir doubts. Though in this state for more than two weeks, his cheeks are as rosy and fresh as when in good health ; his lips, at first somewhat blue, now have a very natural and life-like color, and his limbs are as pliant as ever, not having the rigidity of death at all ; his eyes are not at all sunken, but natu ral as when in robust health. There is not, as vet. the least annearance of decav. and no of- : "L j 1 fensive smell. His parents visit him daily, io ascertain if any change has taken place, either for better or worse. Though doctors say he is dead, many persons in ihe community doubt. Doctors are not infalliable. He was fifteen or sixteen years of age fine looking and intelli gent. On Sunday he was in excellent health, enjoying himself wiih hi3 companions ; on Wednesday night he was declared a corpse. 1 Such is life. From tho Pennsylrania Telegraph Li I me for Apple Trees. No fact has been more frequently and satis factorily demonstrated of late, than that old lime, that has been used in plaster, is one of she moat energetic and salutary applications for apple irees, that can be named. Trees that for years have been. nearly or quite barren, and so overrun with moss and oilier parasiteal plants, as to induce the belief that no efforts for their regeneration could possibly be suc cessful, have, by being manured copiously wiih this article, been made to yield prolifically, and to resume in a few years the appearance and almost ihe energy of youth. This fact is worthy the serious consideration of the farming community. There are but few homesteads around which there may not bo found trees, once healthy and valuable, that present ihe symptoms of approaching if not present Darreunoss, ana winch, consequently, ! demand ihe immediate application to obviate the ordinary effects of old age. By removing the eurface soil, 10 tho depth of three or four inches, around ihe trunk, and from a circle, J the radius of which shall be equal to three feet, 1 and spreading on lime say from one to two bushels, an immediate effect will be produced ! for ihe better, and tho whole system return j rapidly to health. Remedy for Asthma An indm'dnal who hBS suffered much from hundreds of nights has the difficulty been les sened by a suspension of what seemed an al most interminable agony in the smoke of burn ing niire. As a means of avening present suf fering, the subscriber can recommend, from his own experience, the use of saltpetre almost (identically prepared as above. Many umes has he lain down in a smoke condensed seem- - . t r 1 11 v ,0 lnB smothering 01 a common neanny Dreaiher, and found relief from ihe worst suf- ferjng )tlon Isaac Hill. Cure for Coru. 1 itr t-i 11... r c ; .. n 1 .1 :.. it.i- iir. w. Drausiey ui oiMiugumu, ... mauuu county, informs us that salfflratus bouud upon these troublesome visiters for a few weeks. wim occasmudi uuducs, -in cuou.ua, iy tu.n ihem. He has given it a lair trial, anu wnuitl recommend it as an infallible remedy 10 those -Hlictuu wowi wgu.
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