15ft alty , , + 122 -Mackay Da a Slave-Pen. .The 13.plowiAli is, from a recent letter of ,1 1 :4 irle,..4l4okay -" . On iny iirst arrival at :Sew jitittc4ci fcr : afew moments at the c,psn ,doper of a .;;laxe depot, without daring to fo in, ;hest I should be suspected of es- Bianngtt,nr mere - curiosity; and elv.p::ll.iid t seeing: among the-comp:thy an enti- cut Merchant of Ne7iv York. WIIOSi.! friend ship I Itadl - ko - ettifcrt,nnat...!c:4ol4.l to:nm%e, pntl whyly_ .lin4l - q. to be no slave-dealer pu . piNrtzr or -Slavery, I Walked in and jotne4 lrs pitrty, - drawn thither, like 'eif, by . ettriu.il.7. On ,pne side of the rovm tb? Mate slaves, •with clean linen and shiiling new bats an bo, - Irs, Ware. ar- ranted , and on the other the feniales were in their best attire, roost ,of 00m -r ex ceedingly neat, but some I./• with ribbons, of colors more Oar- ing and tawdry than elepnt or appi•upri- ate; crag immediately beset with nn p:o,6o; f.o purchase ; . me," said a yonnlinegresz, who ppoke French and no "I am a pin.' ""cook-and*a good ueudieww4an. Buy me." - " Buy me," said amither, in the same language ; "I am accustomed to el:ihlren, arrj (44 mnlte myself useful is 'the nur acry." • felt a sensation sorrielhat similar to that of the iirst qualm of s.:a-sic'.;ress to tle:sO addressed by my fellow:ere:tures— feelir.g of nausea, as if I wcre about to I. told the roar (woman that i was a stranger, who lied n)t c:me to buy. tut:they were incredul4us ; and whnn at last convinced, they retained to their se :ts w:th a sigh and an expression of deep dis pppt,intment on their dark and good - hu mored features. I entertained -such a hatred of Slavery that, had it ly.:en in my power to abolish it in one ins:aut off the face - of the earth by the mere- expre,i on of iny will, at that instaut - Slavery wadd have' ceased tAi exist, Then I walked to the male shte a-the slaye mart, where' I was beset . similar entreaties, 'urged in e-cery variety of-t' ne pr manner, and by almost every Tariel pf laborer and handieraft,tuan.' Some were accustomed to the cotton a nd . 0:110 to theisugar plantation. ; some we:e .ea r_ eoters, some gardeners, smile. eoiclim sonic barbers,:t4otne waiter 4, but all anxious to I 3 sod. Ono man—who to My ihesporieuoA eys -seemed as whit as myself, and whom - I aronee put down in my own mind as an Irishman of the purest quality, of the ceatnty of Corl:—got up from his seat as I passed and asked me fa buy him. - •aut a good gard'ier. your honor." said ho, wit 4 en umnictalmkk .; " I a:n also a bit of a carpenter, and canlool; after the horses, and do any sort of a job about the house." 4 "u But . you :r: joking," said I, c, you Tcrriior,!c ,n . the t, - n;t. , ,,, - , st tt•?-3. to detrt , lninef - i arc an. Insinuan?" ' . t:i mseiv,s, whet; pre-; " My father was an Irishman," he-said. . :ire ' t. 5) b e ,,, n ,„,, 5 ,,,,,,,, At. this moment the'-slave,deale.r and; t :e l.ma'aim ehar.lctet I owner pf the depot cane 'up. i u.' ;IT .it t;,.,n: , ti:u im `i Is there not a mistake here r I in-• :mnl th t every itttenip fin. the-part of the Gen-i quivd. t' This is a white man." I ;,, ', . e7a, overall' ent tid ~ His mother was a nigger," he repli,2d.i control their choice or t' We hale sometimes much whiter men i prevcia in an; Iva" the: fur sale than he is. Look at his hair and) Free cnioymeat Gt . titaf lips. There is no mistake about him." i right, is an irre:.oll:it 1 and ine--itirnate exer. Again the sickness came over me, and l eise of'its authority. I longed to get into the open air to breath which deserve:; to her,: a purer atniosphere. I proha . e i, and, ought tit ”I: would like to bay that man and sa- , l bre -: , te. ll ):' tilt coasti' =ion:Ll rnPati3. ' lirn free," I said to one of our party. . " You would do hint no good," \us the The, re,olution and platform, as the reply,. "A manum:t ed ,lave has seldom i reader will uhserve, so flir as either refer any . self-reliaoce .:1- energy. Slavery sot to the partictqur in,htiition known to be degrades and cripples 4lic moral faculties iin dispute, are identical. The re so lu t i o n pf the negroes that they require, the crutch, i says Cougresi shall not interfere on the even in freedom, and cannot walk alone. i subje:A, - so flue, the :platform ;—the for- They find it impossible to compete with nor says pettpie alonc shall - determine the the poor whites, and if left to themselVes,! It-latter :so does the latter. The platform sink ;pc° the lowest and most miserably , says the people way have, slavery ,if the . ) paidlocunpations." . . want it. , The resolution in substance af -" Ton are an Englishlamn and a travel- firms that :lueli is their l sueeedriyht. :;.‘;ow, pr, '!_said the slave-dealer, " •and 1 shoula !we (.12ti'y this whole Itssuniption, resting be much obliged to you if you would put our f,;et, where JeErSon, Madison, do:ph and the early Ran questions to the negroes.".-zites-Itt(nt stood, that P What questions ?" said 1.. " Shall I in Ter6tory already free, slaVcry shad ask, them whether they prefer Freedom or' never be. aliuwed to het a foothold, much :Slavery. ?" . 1 less alloy it to be established just because •" I don't mean that," he replied. " Ask i a new squatters so decide it by their votes. them whether I do not treat them well ; l These great men excluded it front the whether I am not kind to them ; whether they tIo not have plenty to cat and drink While.they aFe.with me ?" I told him I had nu doubt of the, fact; that they looked clean, comfortable and well fed; but—and in that hut" lay the whole ease—though the worthy dealer'ol New-Orleans was totally incapable of com preli. . endnig it. The stung feeling seem: to.e4ist all through the,Sla.ve States—but Inure of this hereafter. . Progress or Pabtie Opinion in Seventy r ears. At' the first session Of the legislature of Maryland, "to which William — Pi :fel - ney was." elected, he made a speech upon the report of a committee appointed to eon sidor tbi latys of that Str,te prohibiting the c , oluriiary emancipation of slaves, in the .course"of which he used the followin: , extraordinary language; at least we shou;c; thiriti such language extraordinary if it were to fill from the lips of a Maryland legislator -in our days: "Per shanie, sir ! let us throw off the tuasl,'tis cobweli one at best, and the threugif it.' It will ipt du_ thukiiiiialk: like plidoSupliers,and act like unrelenting tyrants ; be ii:3rpettrilly pernieuizitigit with ditlerty for our text, and . .actuat oppressicm for our comment ary. * "That the dangerous eousequenceS of phis; system of bolidage have not as vet 7 - • aer,- , bee - h . ieliolot.lmilrgriiiirit'dy - iiMir - 71 be. At leaSt the experinient has 'not `be2n suffici6ntly made to preclude ipecu rlation aid conjecture. To me, sir, ncith ing'for Whicji 4,0 t the.cidet);c4, Q tofizens'es, is piorp ,elear," than that l rill 41 ne dfelli,assfr.6l/ Met iccio'encdfor.l4cF r. I;y.whic4 is 'he Was cot this language prophetic ? *re we not now ruled by a:nil-eminent which sneers at_ the Declaration of Inder.;len d'ence ; a government whi_ch is Alm : first that hastiet.lcelcbrated..tbe anniver.iarv,. of that - declaration at the'Ved‘ii•al capital . ; *a government_ which does not; hesitate to de - criiie that men were, end Owed by nature with unequal rifflits,•and that ' i some Were d•isiti:M..l" to be slaves and others to be, their masterti. - If a man were to utter such 6entimitts as we have j Alucted from this! speech bf Pinckney's, in the lemislature of Mary land in 1857,_ he ivould, doubtless be eOm pelted to leave:the state. -Scarcely al less severe peualty Was-visited upon a-ge - ntic. man only-one year ago . , who'censentdd to, Act as• a secretary of a Meeting which elected Francis P. Blair a ldelegate tai the Pittsburg Convention. - -. Pinckney,' how ever, instead of being, proscribed for his plain speaking, was elected a member of file Executive Council of Maryland as soon as laif,"4.legislative tern -e pied, and be: , nne President of the Board: • - , What—can any one 141 us the nature or the - prozress Nte hate rntide since the hi liberal atid. enlightened •ztatesuianship.--X. f..h. , !3. Post. • .From the Norristown Ilqpubtiean. ILAMENSITURG „CONVENTION-- . Q'E ATIER SG 1,1 EMIG X I.` We observe .by the Chester county pa pers that the united opposition in their niectilig at W t Chester, on the .14th, pa f sed resolution - substantially endoN. the Cais-Douglas doctrine of splatter ,sovert.igntv, which Vie take to be in thc teeth of the pnbliean basis of 1556, and which, if embodied in -a - National platiorm fer htD, cannot receive our Stip-, port. We :dial proceed to revic-r. it, c,)nfi-1 d?.nt th.it %v•J can eimvinec: any Itepubli- , can that -it is a virtual and almost literal reve.s.ti of our deelaratioiii at Philadel phia two ye.trs ago; and that no arili—lave ry voter cmi go into a State or National ca upx. , zu upoa such a resolution, without seirstultitieatiJn, the most tibjeet e r ;retr,iO4. We'lii•ouounee this resolution adopted at the Chester County Union. Meeting, in substance. and aline ;t in latigua!ve, the same as 'that embodied in the Cincinnati platforinrand in Doirlas' Kansas-Nebras ka bill. We ptoceed, - then, to collate the two foNner side-by side. eo. eiltqmiati Pta'ferrn. Resolved, That : we • Th:it we r eogniso, :•ssert, And ret•ognise the right of will tna dl the Territories, people em er; J clu:ling K insns and acting hr 1.,a11y aod i:;ti:i.t expross,ad will c.f a ma ‘.):uty of , autual re.i -.l.uits,, and wb,Luiever nuinher or ;heir in for7;it a Conx'ileiii or teilhottt ra , 11 . 1 ,- .5; :r_ cry, and be admitted in -4u the tsilion upon turn' of pr.rfeca equal ty with the utile' : States. fve North-western States tiv.prohibition; and when tit,• people of Indian `Territory, over Ivjiieil t.e late President liarrisiu was 0101 . Governor, by-a cunventiuu its people, asked Congress to authorize them to hire,-Or employ slalte labor for only years, the Cumui ittee, of which John Bap dulph was Chairman, answered, no ! Slav ery is an evil, and we_ will not allow yon to titstenthe curse on .your soil even for ten rearS. This was . . the ground taken by . tim Buffalo Convention in 184 S, and by every Free-Suilass.embly till the memor ab:e Fremont and Dayton Rep Conention at Philadelphia in ISSG, when the following resolves were adopted, which the reader will see are in direct and pal pable contradiction to these Union Rest,- lutit+ns : Tinnar.lc ts RESOLVES -o Tag 17TH or Jt;NE, IS51; —Resolved, That the Canstitution- con fers No!! Congas:7s Sovereign power over the: rerritories of the United States for their gov •rnaleat, and that ;in thei., excetnee of Alas ouyer 7 it, is both the right Mid iir.perativc du ty of COn'gresi; to prOhibit in the Territoriee those win reli6i of ha rba ris ta--Pulygain.),-. aryl Slav, * * ' *:.Twa t derci t :he authority of (7°7 , 1;7' res.m,! of:a Tereitarial Leg .slature, for. of any 'indiridt4al or association of Lulividmils to give eXi.itence to Slavery in toy Territory of t , .(j - United. States, while the Fesent• Ounstitutio4 shall be maibtn TIrE Jersey Shore 1 - edc:te ,learus that t!le West Branch Canal ha4' been pur- Chased by John A. Gamble & Co. , CCIIPERSPt)RT, PA., ' - -,1 ( ) 11 .4 4 )qii ittql 1 5, l'gASP' T. Sf. gIiASE,: EDITOR AN Paul Miuncsotion deftiaCs a - Democrat wino can poll thelarget.npuiber of 'votes with the fewest men. - - Washington._ cerrtisporidenf :of theßoston Post says that the Democratic , • party : keeps a stiff uppei•-lip A 'dead iiocly : generaiiy has a stiff„ s apperf-lip—atid . a stiff•tinder one too, •1. )ice' The oe# regular ineetizg ot.theicannsiltionia 2'eacheil ..&- sociaiiom will be bold at 011. ANTON, Lii zerne Odunty..coannenci ngi Tuesday, Ailz, I.oth. 'Professor StOddard, will dellyer . the.ittaugural address, anthe Ifon, fitov 7 lice Mim a, President...l, of tioch College, will he ono of the chief speakers. This of itself ought to secure a larziatteri.danee Of Teachers and friends of edivia:ion. The Ifropzan'..; the title of a PaPer published iu edited :by AN E. iNI'DOwELL, with LYDIA J. PEAasoN sfor , fiou-piTo`aclihg ed itor. It is devoted to the interests of Women generally, and particilarly to the interests of working-women; and is edited with mach ability and taste. Price 82,0 P per annum. It is now about closing its 111 Volume, and the new volume will be a Rood time to continence a subscription. I'laase place us on your regular exchange list, AN.Nt.:. We don't want those cuts—, have no use for them here. I par We 'are sorry -tu see a disposition lon the part of several leading men who desire to unite the entire opposition in 'this stab-, to abandon the - position of the Re,lublieun platform of 165 . 54, and to en. , • done so mueh of the Cinoinnati platform las refers to Squatter Sovereignty. Now we are willing to bold some of our prim etp.es in ane:.anee fur the sake of union, bat when it comes to endorsing the plat form of our enemies, we make atlat re fusal. \\ l e are' with the Norristown Re tm this question. For the Po sition of the RTulil;can, see article in another column.. - CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS I N KAN S A S.—We dip_ the follinying statement from the Quindaro Vhindoican, as being of interest to our readers : A. 11. Reeder become Governor, Oct. d, First Terr:Cl Leg. elected 31ar. 30, 1853 Wood-on becamO Aetting Gov. July 31, " Wils n :Shannon hecaine " Sept. 1, " Tope:: Constit - tiQon ratified " Dec. I'i, ct elutries Robinson e,' , 71,-(1 Gov. Jan. 15, 1856 Wood on he time Act. " Aug. 2 " • John W. Geary beecnie " Sein.ll, •'t &coml Te Ivo-Iqt Election, 01,. 6. " (Inust.ln I Cot Bill liaised Feb. 19, 057 F. P.. - itanton b..corra.i Act, (dor. Apr. " Rob._ rt J. WolI:er b..eemes •"'. May 27, " Third. Territori;rl Eicrtinn, Oat. 5, "• F. Stanton b , leomes Act. " .1. W. Dent Cr rif,Colll •S Act. D e e. ;0, " Dod..te suinni“inn of Leenm:in, " 21, " Marshall. or Smith Gov. Jan. 4, 1058 Leavenwll eonstitif n ratified, 51 , iy IS, " Ilenry J. A doins d J. W. Denver bocatne " " 3, 0 The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher on Pairlotisin. We tried to secure the attendance of this most remarkable man at our celebra tion, but failing in that, she next best thing We can do is to give our readers an extract from the oration which he delirercd•.in .Druolilyn on the sth to a large concourse of people consisting in part of the _Mayor and Municipal authorities, four regiments of militia under command of General a. Crook, the G rand Lodge of Freemasons.. the Knights Tern p [ars, the Turuveri As sociation and other societies. The oration v.as deli•:ered in front of the City had. Tho remsrable Dr. Lyman Beecher ; t4t.;.er of the oratw tin , day, and !ley. Mr. Milburn, "the blind' preacher,'' were arm.ng the persons seated un the platfertu. Prayer was olferedl?y kiev. (Episcopalian,) and the Declaration of In dependence was read by Mr. E. T. Wood. The 3: Ere. !rub , from which" we - take these proceedings says of the ad dress 4 "t - J'llt was pronounced by some who heard it, one of the clevereSt things be has ever done. Whether he lies surpassed it or not, j.t: was wise and instructive, and cue of the very few speciineus of Fourth of Judy oratory produced since 1776 which deserves to live." Thus 'cominended, we trust every per son .who sees this paper will resolve to make the Fourth of July a time for re-, membering the great truths in relation to human,rights,forrwhieh our fathers pledg ed all they lira, and that they : will read to themselves,., their_ families and, their neighbors, the following, extrztet frona . Mr, Beecher's Fourth of .hily oration : , "I,most happy . here at - least, 'to for the Union, as must heartily '141o; our' undividc;d - allegiance. For there is no' .4acriniee, tooi;reat to pay for ..91e of tlie — se gfales, utilcss we s,acrifice that for Which the; Union was first rriade T -Ltb 4 erty„,. '[Cheers . ':] We will itiffer;mileh for the. sake o'f',, l ::the Union-4 7 -We .Dili 'gibe nrany s .secitpival„gobits Or::•ptide;:l :but hen we are fare . akket - i to spirit which ariithatecUltemewpf:the Res;.-. blution4r7the-44iirit `of:-Liberty-;_4lrat-; . svil can •troydr . give' up. [Loud oheersl «We declare that, any true patriotism must.be patriotism which shall include in itself 'the knOwledge and- love of- those principles .fi ,- s t embodied . ;ju the Deear . a. Lion of r lUdependence—the rights of Mau-,the deelaration-. that all ; tuen. are - born; free arid [4-Pla.U.4e],r;F'itirj otisUir' Without. ~that.; is- '.cot' jritriotisin in nayl2ic patriotism 111 Aus;-: trh, bait not America - . The patriotism? that 'does, not- •inolude "within 'the' doctrine: that :every-Man' has inalienable rights of life,liberty arid ''prtiparty7-ethe patriotism leaving that out, a man without . a heart or a head, , ,-a hollow! corpse. - • :~i~~~;' PUBLISHER. '- 4 ' We have had patriotism of all shapes s and . forms. Sometimes it goes itn , 4l doWn. the cOuntry preachin!t, Union hrid• patriotism, hut with everything ofdibi,7ty left, oat. Our fathers embrace-4 in their patriotisny•evervthing pertaining to sa cred liberty, and by their sufferings land struggles they maintained their'(k:lara ton. Our patrietisat must be a patriot ism that takes ih Maine, and New Il:rmp s4hirt, f.11(1 Vermont,' and Ma,isnehnsAts; and Rhode Island, and 'Connecticut and ,New Jersey,'-and Ohio,' and Pennsylvania, and Viigiuia, and Deleware, 'and Mary land, and North Carolina and even South Carolina. I Laughter.l Yes. and Geei'gia ; Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas., Ten essee and Kentucky, and dear oid Indi ana, and Illinois, and Missouri. bound for freedotn, mid Minnesota and Wiscoivin, and I not how litany besides. , [A', voice, or Toxas."]- Yes: Texas and Cali-; fornia. : and all the states, named and un-1 natied ; that are yet. tO come. Don't any- indy say Kansas. [Laughter and ap nlause.] A patriotism it-must be thatlshall take in every state that stands within the confederacy—a patriotism not for putty' broils, party spoils, sfinabbles, content ion, wrangle 4 and base ambition ; but a ! otism that shall - givein'every one or tlto states the foundation laid by enr• rcvolu-' tionary struggle—liberty, liher v, nothing ,r else ti an liberty I. [Loud Cheers.] " What are our Fourth-of-Jul in which these great truths are . left out?: What that patriotism which ignores, or claim ily touches and passes by this greatest tho'i, this most noble heritage of civilization— liberty for every-man? This is a patriot ism which will save our great country. I am not an' ill-omened prophet : I do not balky° we shall go to. wreck ; I believe God has built his temples on .these shores. Although. like temples in other times it may have been oceaSionally delayed-and' marred; in some parts at least, yet .the temple is reared to ChriSt and Liberty. I believe it will be perfected and God will preserve this nation by Ihe instrumental ity of your hearts, your hands, your head, and your fidelity to original revolutionary principles. [A ppl ttle.]" Every Inch a Mall The editor of the Milford, ( Delaware) .N;!ics, though living in a SI-we State,. hr.s thrown oti.the tramMels of th. Slave Pow: er,i and speaks,so like a true.maii of the ()Idea time that we are sure that our .read e:.s will be delighted with the following glorious proclamation from his pen: . "In addition to other appellations we have received during the past year, we have lately ben called "a ricgro sympa thizer. "- This expression, we suppose, is designed to convey the idea that a por tion of the human family in this boasted land of freedom having been, without any wrong or provocation on their part; 'en slaved, bought, sold, kteked, cuffed, lash-. eti, kept-in ignorance, debased, downtiod i den and opprassed, we pity them and 'Sympathize - with -them. \lre do pity them, We do sympathize with them; and when we, blush to own it, may that blnsh our last.- Can any oue tell - us how it is that in Delaware; where we are taught rev Paled natural to ii ion. his ! tory, pe , try, and by all sout•ees of -knowl edge combined, that pity and. sympathy for the unfortunate and oppre. ,, d are ;among the highest virtues-4tan any due iinform us why it is that th , least ',Tress ! ion ttt . sympathy it,r tho crushed ,slime is I held up as :t reproach ? a iolitical and so crime ? Prom what source-hat•e• the I,people of Delaware learned this ? Unles I steps are taken to prevent it, in the course of a f'ew years a.thowiand or two children will be bout, in the State of Delaware, `slaves, liable to be bought, sold and snb jected to all the degradation of the most ahjeet slavery. We have- shown, and shall , eoutinne to show, that duty and in terest imperatively command us to take steps - to preVent. it,- and we are ettileda on e gro sgropathAer." and are, of coat.: p, e4pected to hang 'our heads under the , dreadful appellation. Now, on the eon- Itrary; we-stand ready to look our aceus4r is the titre, and -say to him that we do entertairfa:sinoore,'deep, heartfelt, burn ing sympathy r for this oppressed Trople; and' if-it is a crime, we desire to live orim: ivals, die- criminals and receive a crimi nal's reward. • . . IN the -lowa Democratic State Qonvett tiOn on the 24t11 nit., 4 resolotionapprov ii3g the administration of ,Mr. Buchanan was laid oil the table by a vote of 163 to The rcF,olutions adopted do tun mention Kansas or Lecompton, but one Of 'them thiclares that the rights of the States should be maintained alike against. ; ihe - encroachnients ofre,cleral,.power and the pq,l 9f .I . 4id _payt . - . ,Strwberrr-Culture. ^As a good. thany of our- citizens: ha. corn ;re"euee4 'raising this r delleious 4ruit, arika . good inanyothers doub_tless havkthe rod setiSeito eciinnienee soon, we clip, the following 41ireetions for -the Vultpit; of StrawbeiTies,.frorn the Cotinfr:y Geziti;nzam, publishe'd‘A.lbany' , - N. Y. As those directiob h s are te,oppositeof those generally given, we trust_ some of. our reaaers i will give this modes thorough alul,report the result. 1 ESsn,9. Erafous—l noticed on page, mode of cuitivating-the:strawherry. , 'Now -I differ -Materially Mr. 11.. in the ; cultivation' pr strawberry; I have tried a great many experiments . witli it ; and hate come to. this conclusion t The, I soil fur st'awberries, wants to be rich and I deep—no matte how deep; en plow .or Ispade it. If' it is three. feet, do not make the gruund, any richer than you would for drop.uf corn. . Set your plants in the e sprinfl,.i and Mit in the fall. Let the rows .be. three, and a half ~feet apart. and i : the plants:six:inches in the row. 'I gen : . erally plant beans for'carly use between the rows tile first year—hoe and them clean-till the first of August—then ; clear away the:bean vines,' cultivate and make the giound nice and mellow.. Then I let theta triune until the first u August , the next year, or Until you have: uicked.! your crop ~ of berries. Then cultivate I a , ain, and make all nice and mellow be-. 1 tween the T o ws, but never break off- a runner after the Rlth of August,_ ii til you have. picked ywir crap the next sca sa-in, nor walk among the vines, especially_; when' they, arc in 'illy:sum, - nor pull. a weed. Do not tonetf the 7round in thel fall or spring, if sim want berries that are nice and pleat;; of !them, for your plants want all the ground. Mr. EL saye, pill cdT the runners. • would as soon pull: oft the leaves as the runners., if i wantal:g.ood, healthy plants.' Brother gardners, try my •mode of cull tore, and your vines will not freeze out duriug whiter, and yon need act Muleh them neither, and V on wall have as many attain and lar , rer' on 0 1 . 1 , 'tame 1 niece of !2.irourid. than if you follow the old way of pul/it.;•off runners : , m1 hoeing! continually. Ido not cultivate the kinds that Mr. 11. does. Thpy mat; suit him,' kiut, they Would not me. 1 prefer._Largt.! Early Scarlet, Dundee, Boston Pine, and; These suit toe the hest! of the many kinqsj luiVe tried. Large Early Setlrlet beats for quantity, vat ! Burr's New Pine for flavor: I have nev er tried the Albany or Hooker or. Pea- j body, Perhaps 1 may like 'them better: , —G. A. H. Port Byron, • "Motu: fruit and less pork and qui nine," s:rys a friend. He is right. The mass of people have*.neglected the very important matter of fruit. No excuse for this. , Even if an ankle coulp Hot be grown, the smaller fruits can be, elreapiy, and in great -abundance. Strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, currants, black berries, etc., only need the ini-itation and a little attention, to insure a heaping re ward of pleasant and healthfulpfruit.— That the farmer has Dui time to devote - to these matters, is a Mistake. There is no man who Cannot devote two or three days to this department—not one. 'The out lay of time and expense, is utterly insir:- mticant in comparison to the return.— Wisconsix Oh icy: Let the peonle all say, "more f-uit and less pork," and this will soon be a pros perous.mid 'happy country. Pork, whis key and tobacco eist more money,'lwing on more sickness and misery; and:cause more filth and squallidnes,,, than any other three things that can be named. Vigilaaee Committee h* Wig- COildi3l• Correspondence of the Potter Journal. BLACK RIVER FALL'S, Wis., July 4, 1858 The. new Court House which has late !ly been under Construction at this place, and ucarly enuipleted,.is now a massive ruin, with nothing to mark -its Wherea ihouts.but a smoking pile of combustibles. LEriday morning last, at about 2 o'clock we ware starded••by tit my of „"jirel Lfire!" and hastily.puttiug on our clothes, we ran to -the streets, to ascertain the cause of so much noise, when to our sur- prise we beheld the China House wrap ped in ono lurid flame of fire. A large, crowd of the citizens .were soort:•pthered together, anxiously watching the ascend- ling flames. • Their countenances Showed i plainly tne indignation they felt, for well they knew hat. the act, was counuitu d by ' !seine unpriimipled villain, for the night I was dark and .stormy; aud 'no accident could have' set it oulirmi -, In the afternoon, funs persons.were ar rested on suspicion, but; uo.positiF4.l proof being found against thew they were dis-1 charged..l A Convention was then held, and a conitnittee..of Owe-appointed to give 4, list of the names 9f the most ,sus- ' picious characters in the, town; live or six nameS_ were immediately handed in' for the consideration of the people:;. Sex,' eral spec ekes were then -made, -Ift,th for. and against . he suspected ; perSona i — George K. If aswell, first. took .the stand, and spoke in favor of•the criminals,. after which William T. Price, C. :-.Z. Johnson and. others took , the stand • aud• spoke against the :criminals.' A committee was then appointed to, request the individuals whose.. names were handed in, to leave itown .in twenty-four hours, . or' means would be taken to rid the community of .1 their presence. " The time is up,. and they I, ltave:lefkon suspicion.. ,The-people are. goinii-to keep. a vigilance ,committee -for the...purpoe of -vratehing the - town and feeping - it secure Lom ,the depredations _Of worthless vagrants. It,is hopeful they indy auceeect in rooting out ill the evil doers. Then, and then only will our vil lage flourish as it ought. No more at present. YOurs, with pleasure, . J. MANLEY. _.-. 3 1 7 r0nt the Radical Abolitionist. Abolitionism Among the Meth- odists. As - a refreshim. contrast. to the' servile • proccediints of the American Tract Socie;.. ty, we glailly:Tc6Ord.tpelfolloliing.-,-....;---: At the late: annual inCetitig-of tlieNew York 7 East': Cii ti faten e'en!' the ' neiliCiarir (Episcopal Church,il. hiliViat:lliealhirry Street, Church, New .York •Eity,.:thufoh. lowing Re.solUtions, reported:l;lr Rev. Br; Witr.np,;(, Chairman ; of the' - Committee:, on . Slavery, were discussed during 'Por i tion* of.six:successii.:e days; and:severally adopted by large majorities, viz::: . ' ' . I.....Resulved, That we afErni' the lan" -- 01.u , e 'of our Church in 1784; namely; -: , that the practice of'holding. out fellow creatures to jsis;v4l..y is contrary ,ta Alin.. 7olden ruk °lA:loci:and the .inaliCnablp. ri-hts of mankind-, as well as the princi ples of the_Amerieanßevolution; tindle therefore deem it:onr - toost bounden .dUty to take some effectual method- to extir pate this aboaduatiou from among un-, . : 2. Resolved, That it is the duty of our Church as a unit to educate 4rnieniber-• ship to the 1ii , ,,11: Standard of these her primitive dOctrines,-and to -thisend it.is , her duty to inculcate them prudently, but firmly, through her organ, Whether press or pulpit. • , 8. Resolved, That while we oppose slavery as eirizens, and' give otirs}nipa thy to thO•ie who, in the state, are main twining the cau4e Of freedom against the slave power, we are_ (specially . the. otiiii6 7. , vents of oppression as a siii; and the sup: porters of enutheipation s as the require went. of righteousness ;..and we would, therefore, reknetnber, that .our anti-Aive-; uisin should be deeply;inibued with the spirit of the Holy Gospel; that it should wisely een , ult the, honor and unity of our Church, in t-he Tull faith that the highest. pooh will lyr• uhtAiniid throu - ,h the mate' irFt.r.thcutali - ty Iter established 4. ResOlved, That we offer our. un feigned thanks to• Almighty God, And tentkr our cordial . c:•ngratulations to the friends of humanity, - fdr the rapid'exteb:: sion of the principles of justice-.andfree : doni' during the- past year, as well as for the . elieering - prospectS of the e,,xtensiok of Pree . Institutions in our country ; and we cherish the anticipation that,s6th proper effort in maintaining and .diffusing light and truth on the subject, nil misunder standing will disappear, and, the church will unite,.as with the heart of one Man, upon the ancient Wesleyan platform, and,. as in the great English emancipation struggle, Methodism will be unanimous and energetic in the cause of freedom, MINNEsoTA.- 7 —The Minnesota House of Representatives has adopted reSolutions 44 to 20, denouncing the IcansaS policyor the AdminiAratton.. and endorsing Doug las and ,Slticids. Thirteen -anti-Lecoutp ton Democrats voted for the resolutions. - THE Posteflice Departm nt deeities . that. the postage ou a-letter t Canada, not, weighing over half ail 'ouq.e,.is tew cents, whi - ell eau be prepaid 07 -tth; 'AV' props. rn. of the sender; but if 'the be prepaid iu full, , uo of part, payments. . UENERAL Cm.tiou's's Surveyo - : General of l i cam ka, having expired on•th the President has tender , General Ward B. Burnet, The latter cannot possibl as much mischief in his t tiler tried to accomplish, 13Z - Many people du nit putout, fruit and ornamental tree, fo the reason, as they give it., that the sl tit never enjoy the product. And et hese people do not expect to die Are there not,manj can say to themselve.4l trees ten years ago , b i ! mental, how valual;lei j would now have beep over the grounds of -.. admire R.; work. A season, would have . much so.— 'Mew/sin TEM remains of 1:.:.-Pi were removed from Now' on Saturday, on ' board . 'I The ceremonies were Very Hen. John Coehrane co, mains to the custody of tl Virginians in an earl e:st , speech, to Ni bich Mr 0. ot Virginia, a son of Gel accepting the trust, n' t 'colleagues, eloquent' • an ponded. Minute.guns w the afternoon' by the Gov DANCING.—The tilfi Protestant Annual Cone ed the following resolati "That. any parents fir m . ing to our church;, wh, that school of .sin, ; tie di sending their citildr subject to trial and r expulsion, as the - das If this Conte+ suspend or expel al Church whO;dishopol by refusing to obe' soever ye would that von., do ye; even. s 4 ti be considered an !// i i Persons unaCquaint • stauees might supp . ittofeleipoussfrelic, few ma C/i u orl prod 'es 'I 'me Itito Lend ,e Option 'former it must ice belly , . taken leommisstOn;Ts •as atENebrai; thh;d. of:, July, the office to of New York. contriveto do I nn as the for= ur readers who f I had put out fruit and'orna beautiful- they Such *ill look neighbor and days' work each -3 his owu as , l ie6ident Monroe "ork to Virgini.A he Jamestown:. , mposing, The. isit t ned the re-. le Committee nd:alipropriatn jerinings Wise, rernor \Vise, it le - .name of hia id solemnly res, 'ere fired - during 1-rrandnt forts, . . lama .ence has adopt, I ardians belong,. shall patronize ( A n .. §ehuol, by *cards, shell_ bo: if, suspension or y demand?' ould . resolve to -.tubers Of tirii ,e mdse . a-Christ ,lounuand-."what -1 he m ,lloldi d i o n . ) u ils rio might 'at:// doctrine.- - itii the dream-, i iat danug is 1,0 n - slavehol4ing. f .:
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