. - 41 110 • . . , ' - ' • -' . _ ' .'. '.' ', :':' '''...,:.'. , n '! ".• : : ?.k 4: ' ," :4 *- '::. C 1: 0 ' rot ' .. , , t(tk : V .'' . I. ~ :4 ' r' . .. . ( „ii.:‘ + ~ • t C}.2.II:iLSCAMo ..With sweetest flowers enrich'd From various gardens coll'd with care.' FOR THE GETTYSBURG!! STAR AND BANNER ZS lal II) 324 cb He Dien! This sentence COMM with fearful sound On every mortal ear; lle died! He died! Is written on the page of history From Adam, downward to the preseet day. The consuntmation of the lot of man, With all his year., his good and evil deeds, His hopes, and fears,and joys, is this, He died! The Hero liv'd— lle states.and kingdoms, with their kings Ile raz'd the stately city to the ground, Ile led his saris& to the battle-field, And made earth fat with blood. At length, He died. Fame blazons forth his acts—but Pity weeps, And kind Humanity conceals her face; While Virtue blushes o'er his epitaph. The Monarch sway'd the sceptre of a realm, Ills will was law, he held the destinies Of many millions. He was homed. feaed, Perchance belov'd—The wide world knew his name His fellow men knelt to him ; yet, He died! His name is written for posterity. Who bless or curse his memory, as his deeds Seem good, or call, in their partial eyes.— lie died! The old man with his snowy hair, His trembling hands, his weak and weary feet, And tottering frame is ready for the grave. And who is he? who Hes outstretch'd before us? He has been All that we now arc who surround his grave; A fair young mother's joy; a father's care; Their hope and pride, a happy eherisb'd child. He too has climb'd the steep and arduous path Of literary fame, with ardent soul, And eye fix'd on the ever-verdant wreath That Science proffers to the brow cf Genius. His hopes were high; were realiz'd, or crush'd, It matters nothing now. And he has been The true and ardent lover. He has known The purest, sweetest passion attic heart, The bliss of virtuous love with full return,. She was as faultless as a mortal maid Could be. As beautiful as aught of earth Has ever been. As toad as Woman's love, Her young,confiding, earth untainted love Has ever prov'd itself. And he had sense To see her worth; to lock her whole fond heart Safely within his own; to keep untoueh'd The treasure of her confidence in him, And they were wholly happy. That is past— Long years ago he laid her in the gravo And all his gladness with her. Ile has been A kind and tender father. He has seen His sons and daughters, at her beauteous breast In their first infancy, while her bright eye Tuned from her babe to him, from him to heaven. He saw them flourish, beautiful and strong. Like olive-plants, around his ample board. And poer'd his thanks to God. Where are they now? Scatter'd to every clime! Save that grave man Whose hair is dash"d with silver; and who looks Into the open grave with , swhandag eye. This is the youngest of the little band That us'd to gambol round him, yet he stands With eliildrou, and grand-ehildreu, drest in weeds For this their patriarch Esther. He has been A father to tke people; hooor'd. lov'd, Consulted, and believ'd, a nation's heart Has bow'd before his virtues. Yet, He died! She died! The young, the lov'd, the beautiful, The wife, the mother died!—fierce agonies Were praying on her vitals, cruel pangs Rack'd every nerve, each pulse beat fitfully, Her hands were cold, her eyes were wild and dim; Yet tears were streaming o'er her death-white check Ulm the little face that fondly still Is Kest against her bosom; one pale arm With strong and stiffening grasp is twin'd around Her sobbing husband's neck; while broken words Utter'd at intervals, amidst her pangs, Commend her infant to its father's care; While every word, and agonizing look Prove how love triumphs in a woman's heart O'er %softy, and death. While every throb Is but a death-pang, and its strings are rack'd With life's last tension, and the blood grows cold, And curdles painfully within its cells ; Still, still it overflows with tender care And love towards its treasures.—Oh! how high That heart has danced to bliss—what thrilling hopes Have play'd amongst its young elastic strings, Making joys melody! Ah! she has been The happy careless girl, the worship'd bride. The fond expectant mother! And, She died! Her widow'd husband's heart will heal ere long Aud find another - treasure,--and the child For which her dying heart so agoniz'd, Will never know its loss, Though haply when Earth's cold reality comes with its blight O'er young joyous fancies, it may say, "Had my own mother lied, I should have had One friend who would not thus have cheated me!". Ho died! The miserable vagabond .Has found a home at last. No weepers stand Around his open grave--and none inquire What strange, and varied scenes of good and ill His path has led him through. What various climes His Weary wandering feet have travers'd o'er; How madly he has toed; how bitterly Cold disappointment with her ircei-hand Has wrung his heart-strings; how bereavement stood Forever in his path—'Till manhood's pride Ceased to contend with Fate—and be became A hopeless, reckless. homeless fugitive, For Scorn's hard eye to smile at. Yet even then While braving the proud world, and rushing on To ruin and perditioe, one kind word, One humid look of sympathy, could reach e buried spring of feeling in his breast, hieh gushing forth proclaim'd him still a Man! I isse care for these things--'Tis enough, He died! He died! The feeble infant of an hour ids she pangs of death. A few filial hopes • re busied with it, a mother's heart . loners- echoes to the words. Re died.' He _died! She died! has been pronounced of all .e.bye-past human race. And'soon these words HI be ciwaad memorial, we mom ma! lust! there is No reprieve— ' Pis GOD'S decree. that has life laud die, and be dissolv'd, *ogled with earth's free elements. The form seems so passing fair, is so belor'd, to soma so brightly. and so fondly Clings Mend its lov'd ours, soon must pass away. there a heart that will not pause, and shrink, . /tough throbbing e'er so high with hope and joy, ' hen this appalling doom rings through the car, keg its shivering strings? That will not turn nd serk instinctively with shuddering dread e refuge, sonie avenue of escape? t Nature poit.ts to Mug. Her proudest light Could never pierce the loathsome shade of death; lie hand still writes on all things, MAN MUST DIE! Hail glorious light Of IRevelntion! brightly streaming forth From the Eternal Mind—Rise! Nature rise! Throw off thy shuddering despondency, Look through this heavenly beam to future life, To realms of blessed immortality, Where pain, and age, and agony, and tears , And death, and parting, never can obtrude On the sweet rest that Goo through JESUS gives. Read, and believe, Wa me—TO LIVE AGAIN! LYDIA JANE. LI Ilk RTT, PA FOR THE STAR AND BANNER " RISE COLUMBIA." Alum Columbia, brave and strong, Arise, put on thy glory ; The voices of the mighty dead Call from their graves all gory— "Arise. Columbia, brave and strong, Thou land of glory and of song; And earn the glorious wreath of fame To twine around thy free-born name.' "Arise, Columbia! bright and brave, Thy honor keep, thy glory save ; And though revolving years we see, Columbia still is brave and free." Columbia! hearken to that voice, And thou wilt take fair wisdom's choke; And long thro' time's swift course shalt be, Columbia fair and brave and free! GETTINOUSICIII, PA MOIPW.ITLFbaffo For the Gettysburgh Star 4- Republican Banner. CONSUMPTION. Tux station which man occupies in the scale of animated creation, is as far superior to the near est approach to him as our imagination can possi bly conceive. Ho stands•upon a proud pre-erii nence; but whether ho was lowered in consequence of the departure of our first parents from the pri meval state of innocence in whi-h they were crea ted, it is not intended to discuss. His peculiar intellectual endowments, aro of themselves suf ficient to entitle him to the lofty rank we have as signed him. But this is a part only of the excel lence of hi, nature; the beautiful organization so wonderfully displayed in every lineament & feature; the graceful ease and dignity of all his movements, are of themselves sufficient to impel us with the belief, that he has been created by a master-hand, for wise and noble purposes. In short, when we take a survey of his towering intellect, and the beauty of his form and features, wo are compelled to indulge in tho pleasing idea that nothing less than OMNIPOTENCE could have been the architect of so much perfection. But unfortunately for his terrestrial happiness and enjoyment, the moral and physical evils to' which man is incessantly exposed, arc in proper- I tion to the superiority of his physical and intellec tual endowments. That which stands foremost. perhaps, in the catalogue of what may be termed physical evils, is PinzioNanx CONSUMPTION:— Notwithstanding tho number of deaths produced by diseases attended with extreme emaciation, mid which are too apt to be confounded with Pulmonary Consumption, the ravages of this disease upon the human family are very great; and were it not for the respectability of the proof, the numbers annual ly reported as the victims of this disease would not be credited. A late distinguished medical practitioner of Great Britain informs us, that the number of human beings who annually fall victims to this disease in that kingdom alone, amounts to fifty-five thousand! This disease, though produced by a variety of cases, is evidently, in numerous in stances, occasioned by the pernicious influence of rxsittori, more especially amongst the fairest and loveliest of creation. But unfortunately, the most I prolific, as well as the most fatal cause of this dis ease, is of an hereditary character. Many have witnessed the dreadful ravages it not unfrequent. ly commits; whole families falling victims to its resistless violence, sparing neither age nor sex, devouring all alike indiscriminately—its rapacious appetite not being satiated as long as a solitary remnant of a numerous family remains. The lovely virgin of eighteen, blooming with youth and beauty, the object of love and admiration, sinks paha and dejected, - as soon as the dorniant germs of consumption, which aro waiting only for an impulse to develop them are brought into ac tion, and which nothing but the cold hand of death can arrest! The young hero renowned for his prowess and noble achievements, who has vanquished the foe and returned from the field laden with the spoils of victory, and his brows encircled with the wreath of laurels, falls an easy victim to the insidious attack of this dread enemy of our race! The fond father, while dandling his lisping boy upon his knee, exulting in the joyful anticipation of his manhood, looking forward to him with a lively hope for support in the evening of life, little dreams that an enemy is concealed under the im posing features of his smiling cherub, awaiting the favourable opportunity when'he may snatch him from a fond parent, and add another to his nume rous victims! Witness the heartrending scene of the death-bed of a mother, with her lovely infant in her arms, gazing upon the hectic flush upon her dying cheek, and exulting in the fatal bloom which is only dec orating her for death,unconscious that the embryo of the same fatal disease Is lurking in its own fair bosom, waiting for the favourable moment to se cure its prey! Hereditary Pulmonary Consumption is a disease insidious in its attack and fatal in its consequences. It has baffled the skill of the most distinguished medical men in all ages and in all countries.— There is not ono well authenticated case of con. firmed consumption upon record, having perma nently yielded to remedial means, notwithstand ing the numerous empirical reports, with which we are daily annoyed, of miracles performed by panaceas, nostrunas and other quack inventions. VERITAS. ' , What's the mutter with your eye?" said a gentleman the other day to an honest em igrant, who looked as if he had been playing at fisty cuffs. "Och, it has been put out, knocked out, annihilated, expunged." "How can that be?"• replied the other, "Can't you see with it?" "01) yea, I can see with it; but for all that it is expunged. Don't you see the black lines around it?' "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF HY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."-SHAES. cumworaurzleat o (Pga.Q e mai:Pa:az, atazaeut tow,. The Cunning. Fisherman. the following eastern tale, written by L. G. Wilkins, Esq. is from Lady Blessington's Book of Beauty, a superb English annual, fur 1837. This fisherman had long followed his occupation and supported a largo family by the sale of what he caught: he was clover and well versed in all cunning which is so common in the East, and to which, necessi ty frequently obliged him to have recourse. lie had the good fortune to catch a !threw, ofa size rarely met with in that species; and thinking it a pity that so fine a fish should be cut into small portions for the market to suit the convenience of ordinary customers, he resolved on presenting it to his sovereign; and repaired with this proud specimen of his sport, to the royal palace. No sooner had he entered the - door beneath the sitting room of the sultan, that he was summoned to ap pear before him, and to explain the object of his visit. "Fortune," said the fisherman, "has given me this fine khreet, which ap- peared to me of such uncommon size arid beauty, that I scrupled to send it to market, and knowing that no one's table was so well suited to receive it as your majesty's, I have bro't it here to lay at your feet, and to beg you to accept it." "Makhool, Makbool— "the gift is welcome," said the sultan.— "Here are a hundred gold mahboobs; take them and prosper." The grateful and de ' lighted fisherman kissed the ground before him, and retired; but scarcely had he left the room, when the sultana upraided her husband for his extravagant generosity.— "How," said she, "could you think of giving the man a hundred mahboobs for a paltry fish? A hundred mnhboobs! Would not one be much more than it is worth? Had you given him five, the present would have been a noble one, and he would have 'had cause to bless you, and to pray that your life may be long; but to throw away 100 maldmobs in such a manner is absurd. I have no patience with you; men have no discretion. Do cull him back, and take teem from him. I desire that you do." "How," said the Sultan, "can I take away a gift? it would be unworthy of a monarch." "Not at nII: has not he who gives, a right to reclaim his gift?" "A right! yes, but how mean would it be. Would it not be said that Sul tan Mustapha was - capricious, and did not know his own mind?" "Well,then,said the Sultana, "make some excuse; but take away, the money you must." "Yet what excuse can I make; what can I say?" "Say! oh, ask him if the fish is a male or female; and if he tells you it is a female, say you wanted a male." The fisherman was sent for and brought back. "Tell me." said the Sultan, "is that fish a male or female?" "1 beg I your nit jr:gy'e pardon. -it would be a dis grace to my beard if I spoke an untiuth; this kind of fish is both male and female." The Sultan could say no more; the fisherman saved his hundred.maliboobs, and the plans, of the angry Sultana were defeated. But, seeing that the fisherman was fiware of the snare that had been laid for biro, and admir ing the ingenious manner in which he had extricated himself, the Sultan doubled the present, and once more dismissed him with good wishes for his prosperity. The indig• nation of the Sultana was excessive; all corn plaint,however, was vain, and she was silent. The fisherman walked slowly across the court,carrying the sack which contained the money on his shoulder; but hearing, one of the gold coins fall upon the hard ground, he stopped to look for it;" and after search ing some time, found it; and proceeded on his way. "Look," said the Sultana, observe the avarice of that wretch;. one mahboob fell from his bag, and not contented with the hundred and ninety-nihe that re mained, he had the meanness tq,stop to pick it up, and even to toil in searching for it.— Cou!d ho not have left it for some of our servants who might chance to pass that way, and find it? What a vile monster!— Do call him back, and take it,all away from him. I would have him bastinudoed: he really deserves any punishment; the stick would be too lenient for such a sordid cre ature. By your head? I—" "Well, you shall be satisfied: I really do think his meanness deserves a severe punishment, and the money shall be taken from him." The fisherman was sent for, and brought again into the royal presence. "Why," said the sultan, "could you not leave that one mah boob which fell to the ground, and rest con tented with the hundred and ninety-nine that remained? Could you not spare it for some one who, accidently passing that way, might have found it, and blessed me for his good luck? Are yetis* cevetous? and that, too, after ell my liberality to your' "It was originally my intention," replied the fisher man, "to have thine as you suggest. I was actually pursuing my way, resolved to leave the coin where it fell, when it occurred to me that your majesty's sacred. head and revered name was inscribed upon it; and I thought that if any one happened inadver triatly to put his foot upon it, and trample upon that blessed head and name, the fault would have been mine; and I should never have forgiven myself for my neglect leaving it on the ground." With this reply. the sultan Was delighted;and inwardlicommend• ing his 'quickness, ho presented him with another two hundred mnhboobs. Then, convinced of his folly in permitting the im prudent interference of the queen, he issued a proclamation, that no man for. the future should on any account listen to the advice of his wife: a proclamation which, if ru:-)or be true, is said to have decreased hie populari• ty with the wives rather more than it in creased it with the husbands throughout his empire, and to have led to • insurrection in' public, and insubordination in private. "I believe that if Christianity shonid be compelled to flee from tho mansions of the great, and academies er the philosophers, the halls of legislators. or the throng of busy men, we should find her last and purest retreat with woman at the fire...sitle, her last sitar would be the female heart; her last an '• uce would be the children gathered a "round the knees ofa mother; her last sacri fice, the secret prayer, escaping in silence from her lips, and heard, perhaps, only at the throne of God." Interfsting to Phyla()log•has and Phrri oto t rigts. A very curious paper was recently rend by M. Nobill before the Medical Society of Ghent, relating the following remarkable case of the lcrss of great part of the substance of the brain. A youth, 10 years doge, of a gloomy and saturnine disposition, and a limited deg ree of intelligence, fancied he had been deceived by a girl to whom he Was attached, and who he believed enter tained a reciprocal attachment. In conse quence of . the supposed slight, he determi ned upon committing suicide; and for this purpose fired a pistol, loaded with two balls, through his head. The balls passed out at the same orifice, and with them a portion of the brain Sufficient -to fill too moderate sized tea cups. On receiving the wound, the young man became insensible,- ; {J ut re • covered at the . expiration of twenty four hours, with the loss of hialiight. Each day when the wound was dressed, large Ir onions of the brain came away with the dressings; and by the 28th day the part was entirely healed. After the healing of the wound a wonderful change took place in the charac ter of the youth; instead of being gloomy and taciturn, he became lively, intelligent. and talkative. The other senses remained intact, but he did not recover his sight.— Ile never appeared to suffer the slightest aberration of mind, notwithstanding the en climes lose of cerebral subQtrince, amount ing in all probability to the whole of the left anterior lobe of the brain. Ho survived the injury two years, presenting, during that period, a great puzzle to the phren ologist.—New Era. WGIMEI2/Mo A CRUEL ItioTnEn.—The Vermont Tel egraph says, that the female fiend named Morfitt, who whipped her daughter to death for not pronouncing a word correctly, has had a true hill found against her finr man slaughter, and been held to bail is the sum of 1000 dollars. A Lem; REAson.—The Portlender says that the reason why• the Vermont and New Hampshire boys are so tall, is because they are in the habit of 'drawing themselves up so asto peep otter thErmountains to see the sun rise. It is dreadful stretching work. From the New York Transcript. Situation of the Southern States. [Concluded from our last.] In the range of country around Richmond, Virginia, at the time _adverted to in our former number,large assernblages of blacks were almost 'nightly convened, and the God of Liberty, with pretended piety, was in. yoked, to aid them in bursting the chains of slavery, and in crushing the power that held them in . bondage. in these nocturnal convocations, an extensive • and ably organ ized insurrection had been prepared, which included in its ranks more than thirty thou• sand blacks. They had matured their plans under the counsel and guidance of an intel ligent slave as their General, who though a negro, possessed the daring hardihood of a Hannibal, and the spirit of unrelenting destructiveness that characterised a Chris topher Petion, of St. Domingo. The black soldiery of his army, were regularly enrolled, and partially armed with fowling pieces, rifles and swords, while others sub- stituted forks, scythes, and other implements of husbandry, the most dangerous and dead. ly they could collect. Their purposes were rapine, fire ; tape, bluod,butchery, and indis criminate destruction of the whites. The day of their premeditated vengeance had arrived, and they remained undiscover ed and unsuspected. In the afternoon of that dreadful day, however, a valued house hold servant man, whom his master loved and confided in, exhibited great perturba tion of mind, and repeatedly stumbled and broke the dishes, which he was about plat.. ing on the table for dinner. His master's perspicacity was not long in discovering that something extraordinary was the matter, and he took him aside, and interrogated him closely, touching the causes of his un. wonted conduct. The slave overcome by his feelings, fell upon his knees, and. die• closed the particulars of the horrible con spitacy. He said in substance to his mas .er, there is to be an insurrection of 30,000 slaves this night, and Richmond is to be wrapt in flames, and reduced to ashes, and I was designated as the murderer of you and your family. The angry and relentless blacks are to murder all the whites, save the young and handsome women,:who are to be preserved and kept as their wives; the banks are to be-robbed, and then destroyed; the arsenal is to he stormed and taken, and not a vestage of ill-fated Richmond, except its ashes, is to be left. Thus armed, And furnished with money and provisions, and waggons and horses, the army of blacks in to roil on with a terrible vengeance towards the south, increasing fearfully in numbers and strength as they go, compelling all the slaves•to join in the exterminating warfare against the whites, and those who refuse are to be put to death. .And the work of death was not to cease until the whole south was desolated and destroyed, or subdued.— This timely disclosure of this horrible plot was instantly communicated to the city au thorities and citizens—the drum beat the alarm--all the whites flew to arms, and pa. trolled and guarded every avenue to the city. Still there was but a handfull of whites compared to the number of the blacks.-- j Some time after night, the negro army came marching so-filthily, but rapidly towards the city, to eratify their vengeance, and to strike terribly for liberty. But, although man was impotent to save, God, who is all powerful, interposed his aid A terrible tempest and to rm of rain came on, and poured a de luge of water on the earth. .The little streams and rivulets were soon swollen to the size of mighty rivers, and rolled their towering waves along. - The blacks were disconcerted and dispirited: and when they approached a small streace near Richmond, over which they had to pass, they found it too deep and rapid to fad, and were compel. led to come to a halt. Their fiery chief, however, on a noble charger, and complete. ly armed, dashed backward and forward through the looming flood. and loudly urged his soldiers to follow him to liberty and glory; but they, dare not do it. After lingerirsa en the banks of this Rubicon, shut our from hope of SUCCORS that night, the army c.f neeroes retraced their steps; disbanded, at td soon spread themselveS over the respective plantations; and Rich mond was saved, for there were "ten righte ous" therein. As the names of she ringleaders were, through the confessiiins of the household servant, who first disflosed the plot, made known to the proper authorities, the most prominent actors, with the Gee. of the late negro army, were arrested on the ensuing day, locked in prison, and securely guard ed. And when the black hero of this ex terminating plot was questioned as to his'" hope of success, lie boldly declared, that" the force they would have been able to mus ter and embody, would, by the celerity of their movements, have been sufficient to have massacred all the whites and to have overrun and conquered all the South before they were overcome. And lie added, that they would have enjoyed, he late*, only a short.period of unrest rained freedom, before the hardy and daring white men of the North, would march by hundreds of thou sands upon them and cut them - to pieces, and they must be in the end destroyed; but that the South must first have fallen a prey to their fury, and they would have had their revenge. Such was the spirit oft hat leader of an insurrection, and such the opinion of himself and co-conspirators of iii a boasted -strength and power of the South at that day, when the blacks were not near so com paratively strong and numerous. as nt pre " sent. lie, and more than a score 'of- his chief officers it is true, expiated - their mur derous desi g ns upon the gallows, but the same spirit o f vengeance is yet to •eathed - by their survivors—the- same rebeLious blood yet flows in " - the aegis:fee veins, and the same daring designs, will, we fenr again be formed. This historicartale which was told us more than twenty years ago by a distin guished jurist, now an eloquent Senator in Congress, is substantially as we heard it; our memory, however, may have erred in some unimportant particulars. And if this gigantic plan tif dest ruction vas then firmed, what we ask is to prevent its recurrence.— The history of the past is the prophecy of the future, and there are thosealive we fear, who will yet be called upon to contemplate ' a deeper and stilt more dreadful trairedy. ' The extensive conspiracy of a a. band of out-laws, headed by a man named Murel, a cunning, bold and unprincipled villain, to tamper with the blacks of almost all the south, for the basest of purposes, not to do them any good whatever, but to make them the actors and operators in a wide spread ruin of their masters, for the aggrandize ment and interest of the conspirators, has been told in detail within the last three years, and serves as another beaCon light to warn the south of their danger. It did not suc " ceed, but if it had, the ruin and deaths would have been dreadful. But, to men wilfully blind, it is almost useless to pre , sent the light. When told of their danger, by those who are really their friends, they spurn the kindly admonition, and heap insult and abuse on those who present it. To ma son they refuse, for reason deserts them in fi ' moment whenever the subject is mentioned, and angry invective, and threats of violence and bloodshed, and disuiaioh,- are all the ar guments, all the reason they coielescend to offer. Degenerate sons of noble and patri otic sires, they spurn their father's counsel and example,and instead ofreasoning coolly, as they did, they rush recklessly onward, ' regardless of their future safety, warring w;th prudence and a wise precaution, and hating, and reviling all who dare to caution them of the consequences of their conduct. Not so the wise framers of the constitution acted. They coolly reasoned on the subject of their slaves, and a compromise, which re sulted in the adoption of our present consti. tution,was the consequence. Noise thought, wrote, and spoke the illustrious Washing ton, Jefferson, Madison. and Monroe, and others, the founders ofour liberties, and the fathers of our republic . They saw the evils that slavery would entail, and they issued their warning voices, as sermons, to posteri ty. ! "7 They knew, and every reflecting man io' the South must know and confess, that the vast increase of slaves in that section of our country, inevitably renders the white population unsafe—that won the negro race will far exceed the whites in numbers,and in less than thirty yearn - Bence, will amount .to more than five millions of souls. They knew that such a mighty - mass of boudmen will know—without extrinsic aid or advice —their numbers, their,strength, and their wrongs, and will devise powerful, though private means, to organize for their redress; and when the blow falls, it will be too tern- We to tell. It is in vain for the southern states to hope for long enduring peace and safety with millinna of' restless, an ! trench. , emus,' and darin g eneniies a Inengjheiu..-r. !'hey ranunt nlwaya be kept 'quiet., Black, land dewittled as they are, they'stiff tire men, with minds and souls, and hone, and. 'nibs- . des, to think, In feel, to plpn, and hi use: and if Jefferson trembled foribis eountrymn the contemplation of this danger, and to dared by saying, "Cod's jetties Will pot :al ways sleep," well may the j;reseut rilo tremble for the evil thatriti upon And in contemplating„t het illuStrieu4; in2ton said— • - • "I can only say that there is not alitan living ;rho wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it,[slayerya but there is only . une effectual mode by which it min' be accompliied; sad that is by legislative authority; and this,'ltar far as nay suffrage will go, shall never be .wanting.' Let the South then hear the Inther . ofitis country, and hasten, in their own Wisdom,".o_ legislate this evil from r.atniMg them. . Let them act as rational beings, as wise 'men' ought to net. Let them think and reason, instead of rant and rage, and vilify, and a buse .all those who they Warn,. theni . of their danger. But if will not hear,and madly resolve to rush recklessly onward into a coming calamity; let them know, that 'lie who being often reproved, and hardetieth his neck, shall suddenly be deStroyed,.and that without remedy." We leaver.theip to• their own reflections. • ' . • From the Herriehurglt Telegraph. EXTRA VA GA NCE —OR MA SONIC R ETR ENCEI MEN r. 7 As the expending of public ren - neritt a subject which materially interests the pub. lic, the following facts should be !mown to Idle friends of Justice and EConomy- : The present Sorg,eant.at•Arnis of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mitchell; a "]ti.stioiv,!' is allowed by the worthy party now in 'pow.. er, to procure the services of. a . naentmt MASON, Mr. Arouse, as art•A'ssistant '-kiler gaint, paid out of the public moneY . . Not in consideration of the services he renders as an assistant, (as one man ts" sufficient to office, do the duties of the as is fully exam. pl;fied in the case of Mr. J. Ash who Was Sergeant.at-Arms during the regular and extra session of 183.51'6, and pi3rfoimed : the whole duties of the office with.lionni to hint. self and the party that elected him, the business of either session being much great er than the present,) but in consideration of r'L the services rendered by Mr. Krause,, to the Van Buren Masonic cause last fall,- the au thor offalechooda and 4 Btllingegate' slang, for base and 'party purposes. This is the way in which this truly economicai-Legifi !alum spend the public money.: It is high time that the people should , know_iti is a notorious fact, that while they, preach "retrenchment," they are pampering- tire hired menials of the Lodge—paying theta for doing tho dirty work of their Wasters.— The present officer pchnits that •he and. his assistant, have to procure, (at sundry times) the assistance oldie "Sergeant of theSen.' ale." Now let the public remember that during the Sessions of 18:35 and '6,' when the business was greater and more conipli cated, Mi. Ash did himself that which , now requires the aid of two assistants! -.• Verily these men Must be a swift pair to do business. AN :X. , DISINGENUOTIB.—W bile the Convention to form a State Anti•Sluvery SoCiety,. was in session at Harrisburg'', a polite request was made for • the use of the hail Of the House of Representatives during two even ings, for the purpose of delivering 'lectures on the subject of slavery. This request gave rise to a warm debate, in which. Mr. Babbitt took a part, and rejected 'by 'a large majority. The course of the House in thus refusing should be denounced- by every Pennsylvanian,when the fact Is known that but a few days previous that same hall had been thrown open to an individual ab lecture on Colonization. .When we. dook at this request, made as it was, by between two .and three hundred respectable and talented citizens from all parts of our state; and rejected, because the sentiments which they entertain on an exciting subject , did not harmonize with those of a majority of .. the House, and then turn to the request of, and grant to, a strolling pedestrian from another quarter, we cannot but look upon such conduct in representatives as illiberal and unjust. In at tempting tbas to stifle and prevent the freedom of speech, which 'the constitution guarantees to every individual, he being responsible for the abuse of that privilege;—to retard the propagation of the sentiments of the Abolitionists, will Tail, aiid instead of lessening their number will but increase it, by eliCiting the sytnPathies of the good and virtuous ofall parties. Perse cute the advocates of doctrines, and yet* put into their hands the very means to disseminate such. doctrines. We have always been the friends offreedom ofsPeech, and whether Jew or Gentile, we nay, let him be heard.—Erie Gazette. INFAlN.rierne.---The Philadelphia Herald says a new born infant was found, in an al. ley, on Wednesday morning, near the con , ner of Callohill street and Old YOrk Read. wrapped .in a blanitet or some, rage, and frozen hard to the ground. As there were marks of violence upon it, a large gash be ing on its head, from which the blood - had flawed, the presumption is that it was killed ' by its worse than brutal mother. A WESTERN STEARBOAT.....-IRet Pitta • burgh Advocate gives the following thp Sr w 'tensions of a splendid stetatplKs4o,tel he* called the ST. Louts, now in progress• or completion at the wharf in that city: ,:This dimensions ofthishosi are: 205 feet itt rakki_ keel, 28 feet beam, 01 feet bold, 280 filescs4 the main deck, 55 feet from apt.to col..—P; The main cabin is 140 feet in leagib, and flu: t-nat will carry Ritual 101)0 totes. [VOL. 7.6..N0:A9:- t'f,' ; ..;•; ; TiZ '"I.:0!:
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