SINGLE COPrEsO7 FrOLIDIEiXL7.N.ITZEpt r,s4: irim POTTER J0174111L14 1 , 61.150EI) EVERT TITIiRRDAY' iIORNMO; - BY Thps. S. Chase; Le , ra :and Ceirarnanictitioti d; to secure attetitiorw.,; labiyin - Aditanee r Annum. • Advertising. t insertion; - .•,',=•.- , 50 .. " - - - $1 50 •tion les - s than 13, 25 is, '' 50 • . - 4. 00 5 30 . G Do :, per sq., 3 ins. , 3 00 ;ertion, ' 50 Column sit months, - - - _._ _ _ 18 00 n " 4. .. 10 00 a C. 700 u • per year. - 30 00 Cl St CI. . * -16 00 • ble-column, displayed, per annum 65 00 • •., six. months, • 35 00 4'l " .three " 16 . 00 1. " one monlh, - 6 00 .1 r. per square en lines, each insertion under 4; ' 1 00 xt of colinnus will be inserted at the same rte. loinistrator's or -13xeentor's Notice, 2.00 ilitor's Notices, each, - - - - - - 1.5 0 riffs Tales, per tract, -- - - 1..50 riage Notices, each, I 00 ;farce Notices, each, • 1 50 iministrator's Sales, pbr square for 4 htertion4, 1 50 'I i, Jiness er Professional Cafds, each, .1 not exceding, -8 lines, per year, -- . 5 00 , ? trial and Editorial Notices, per line r 10 IprAll transient advertisements must be ..t i t i re in ne a e d . vance , and no : notice will be taken advertisements from a distance, unless they accompanied by the money or satisfactOrk Ptklltfss . ..eark JOHN S. -MANN, ,TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Caurts in Potter and Counties. All tuiig,•:s entrusted in his . care will receive prompt Attention.- Office on :llain st., oppo site the Court House. 10:1 F..W. KNOX, lrfOliNEY - AT LAW, Coudersport, Pit:, will regularly attend the Courts in Potter and the adjoining - Counties, - . ARTHUR. G...OpISTED, iTTORNEI" J COUNSELOR AT LAW, cougersport, Pa., will attend to all bniiness firt,; , ;tei., to fag care, With promptnes and 1 6dt itv. Ofliee in Temperance Block, see t,n,l leer, !laic. St. . . 10:1 13ENsON. . . - . aTORNEI AT LAW. Coudersvort, Pg., trill atteud to all husiness entrusted to him, iv 4 th are and promptness.. Office corner of West sad Third St. 3. - - , 1 '. : 1 0:1 C. L. HUYT, iIVIL ENGINEER, SURVEYOR and DRAUGHTSMAN, Bingham, "Potter. Co., I'a., will. promptly and efficiently attend to nil business entra.ted to him. First-chess pmfessional references can be given if re quired. .' 10:29-11* J. W. Bllin. im.rEvoit, will attend to ali businiss in his i flue promptly and faithfully. Orders May' Sc left at the Post (nice in Coudersport, or at the house of 11. L. Bird, in Sweden Twp. ?articular attention paid to examining; lands fur non-residents. Good references given if requested. 11:30 W. K. KING, IZVEYOR, DRAFTSMAN AND CONVEY ANCER. Smethpuri, Mliean Co., I'a., will attend to business fur uun-resident land holders, upon reasonable terms. Referen ces given if required. P. S.—Maps of any part of the County made to order. 3:1.3 O, T: ELLISO', iRACTICH PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa., -respectfully informs the citizens of the vil lage and vicinity that he will proinply re :spond to all calls for professional services. Office ou Main et.. iu building_formerly oc cupied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. • 9:22 COLLINS smtra SMITH & JONES,. DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, Oils ; Fahey Articles,Stsktionery, Dry ,Goods, Groceries, &c., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1 • D. E. OLMSTED, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, itc., slain Coudersport, Pa. _ 10:1 DI: W. MANN, DEALER IN BOOKS S STATIONERY, MAG AZINES and Miisic; N. W. corner of Main "and Third 'st.s., Coudersport., Pa. 10:1 MARK GILLON, DRAPER and T.AILOII., late from tho City of Lirrpool, England. Shop opposite Court ' Coudersport; Potter Co. Pa. $.-Particular attention paid to CUT -10:35-1y. Il• J. OLISTED OLMSTED & 'KELLY, nA.LER . INSTO.VES, SHEET - EON WARE, Main et., nearly: opposite the Co.urt Rouse,. Coudersport, d'a. Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to - order, in good style, on short notice.. . ..., • COUDERSPORT HOTEL, D. F. GLASSIHRE, Proprietor, Corner, of 312. in and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot . _ _ ter Co Pa.9:44 ALLEGANY HOUSE, SAMUEL M.. MILLS,": Proprietor, Colesburg Puller Co., Pa., seven miles north of Con tiordport, on the ir.dlitville Road. 9:44 , :, .ff F 7 ,, , ,- :: .. : , .: ,, , 7: , :.?::t :„ ._:7T -- .t:: ,, :: ----- : - .:, - L , ..T: : .F:: .. ,...-:_,. , .___,_..,...._._. : ... 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Yet every grave' glYei up its'deall' • ' Ere it is overgrown with'grassl4 • theri:nhy Should hopeless tears -be shed, /-Or need vre Cry, Alasl: , Or *by should memory vell'd -With glom!), And like-a sorrowing. mourner , craped,•• Sit weeping o'er an empty tomb . , St hose captives have escaped . , 'Tea but a mound—and will.be massed . .Whene'erthe summer grass appears The loved, though wept are never lost; • We only lose our tears. - Nay, Ilope may whisper with the dead,. By bending forward where they are; But; MeMory, With a-backward tread, • Communes with them afar .; !: - The joys we lose are but forecast; v And shall we find them all once more;— We look behind us for the Past, , But lo! 'tis all.before! SIX LITTLE FEET ON VIE FENDER. To my heart there, liveth a picture • Ofa kitchen rude and old, -.. Where the firelight tippod the rafters, And reddened the roofs brown mould; Gilding the steam from the kettle, - .t That hummed . on the foot-worn hearth, Throughout all the livelong evening Itn measures of drowsy mirth. - Because of the three light shadows That frescoed the rude old,room— Because of the V•OiCCS erwed . . Up amid the rafters gloom=, Becom.:e of the little-feet on the fender Six restless, white little feet= - The thoughts of that dear old kitchen Arc to ate so fresh and sweet. When the first dash on the: window . . Told of the coining rain. Oh I :Where are the -fair againstAbe,pane? .What bits of firelight stealing "Their cheeki betieen, - • • Went struggling out-in the arlq4esB • 'ln threads of silver sheen. • Two of life feet grew weary, „ Oile dreary, dismal day, And we tied them with snow-white, ribbons, Leaving him there by. the way. There : Fos fresh clay on the fender That weary, wintry • For the four littlefeet had tracked' . , From his grave on the bright hill's bight Oh' 'why. in this .darksome evening, • ' This•evening of rain and sleet, Itest_my-feet all alooe on thmhearthstonk? Oh ! where are those other feet? Are they treading the pathway of virtue That will bring us together above? Or hale they made steps that - will dampen A sister's tireless love? • A GREAT SLAVE AUCTION. 400 Men, Women, and Chll-', dren Sold. . • : The largest sale of human chattels that has taken place for years, under ,the folds of the'Star Spangled Banner, caine_ciff on the 3d ult., at the'Race Course,: near the city of Savannah, Georgia. TheY con isted of 436 men, woolen and children, the property of Pierce 1"L Butler, a. well known resident of Philadelphia, which came into his possession, as one' of the two heirs -of the estate of Majoi; 'Butlft. They have been the, property of the Wir for some time, and losses in ilia crash of 1857'—S, have compelled him 4ci realize I funds from the sale of theselunian chat tels, that he rimy satisfy. hiS preising cred itors. . A correspondent, of the N. 37. Tribune, present at the sale, has furnish ed that paper with an extended, aceonut of the particulars connected with,the sale, from which we take one or_two,incidents. The slaves came from : two. plantatieus, - —one a rice swamp near.bariep„ the cith er a - cotton plantation on the iartb'ern point, of St. Siinon's Island. • They Fere brought to the place of sale; sayers) days previous to' the,34 atilt kept 4 the,bnild ings attachcd•to the Race Course., ,The writer,sayS:-: ,r, ,;. Et A. JONIIs D.. IcELLY, It • The slaVes remaibed. tbq r4Pe•course; some of them for pore than a mph Mid all of them for. four ,days before that sate. They were bionght in thus earty-that buy ers who desirekto inspect them might en. joy that privilege, although none Of them %v .- ere - 8 - 0d tit 'private - Tor these Pre. lireinary days their'shed constantly visited by spectilators. The negroes were examit.ed. with as little "conSideration as i if they had been brutesindeedl the buy, ere pulling their MouthS Open to see their teeth, pinching - their limbs -to , find . how bissoilthpiloq of, byok4l4, '4ii4V4:4. 130111,M0P,014';'POTTEll. 1,;-, 1,7 jitirai.. `i • .1 • • . :* • - • fliscular they were ; walking them up and lown detest any sigh B , lameness; making:them stooplind'beild in different ways thit - thwpightlbccertain there was no concealed 1-uplute; or 74rotiiid ; and in addition tei all thih - tfeatnient",'l asking thetn:seeres questiims-riative. to their ilualifications and aecamplispments. .411 these humiliations, were submitted .to with out a Murmur, and in some iastancesWith ;ood natured ekeerfulneSSwher'e . .. the Aare 6146a - ranee' of the - prciFirks ed buyer, and' fazicieti helmight prove a RE EN cnriously, sad, scene . is the type of s score . of &there were jthat ere there enneted : " - " Elisha, - chattel No. ,5 in the data logiie had taken a fancy—to, a.. benetolent looking.; middle-aged_gentlt-nian r who was inspecting, AU- stock, and thus used his powers of persuasion to induce the benev olent Man to purchase liin3, with hts wife, boy and girl, Molly, Israel'iSavandit, chat tels No. 6.7 and The earnestness with which the Tour felloiv pressed his suit, knowing, as he did, thatperhaps the hap piness o his whole life depended on his success, was touching. and the arguments he usr'd most pathetic. He made no ap ,.peal to the feelings 614,4 buyer; he res.- ed no hope on his eharity _and kindness, but only strove to show how well worth his dollars were the bone. and - blood he was entreating him to biiy. ' ' 4. Look at me miler ; am prime 'rice planter.; slio' yeu won't find a better Man den me; no better on de whole plantation; not a bit old 'yet . ; do too' work den ever: do carpenter work, too, little; better buy me, Mas'r. I'se be good sarvant, Mas'r. Molly, too, •My wife, Sa',' fust, rate rice hand; mos as good its me. Stan' out yer, Molly, and let the gentleman see." - Molly advances, with her hands crossed on her boson), arid makes a tjuick, short curtsy, and stands, mute, looking appeal ingly in the benevolent Man's face. But Elisha talks all the faster. " SIAM' Mas'r yer arm, Molly--Ood arts 6t, Mas'r—she du a heap of Work trio' with-dat arm yet.'Let .good Mas'r see yer teetti,,Molly 77 -see dat Mas'r, teeth all regllar, all yonOgial yet. .oonie but yer Israel, Walk aroun' an' let the teielen See 'hOw 'Spry . •-• Trion, pointing to the three.krear old girl Who stood . with- her' chubby 'hand to tier mouth; holding on to '4l..lll6i:her's dress . , and, uncertairmliat to snake of the strange • ."Liitle Vandy's only a chile Yet; make prime':gal by and by Adtter buy us 'Masi., we'm ills rate bargaiti"=--and so - on.' But She beneyoleut gentler4rifound'Where he could drive a closer bargal4,•a'n,a‘so bought somebody '"' , Siiuilar Sceligs siere f;ansaCtinc , all the while on every side—parents„praising the strength and cleverness of thelechildren., and shewing off every 'muscle and sinew to the very be.st adyar.inge, nos with the, • excusable pride of ottr‘r • parents, but to make them ,the more desirable in the eyes of the mau-buyer; on the ether hand, children excusing and mitigating the ages and inability of parents, _that they might be more marketable, and fall, if possible, 'into kind hands. Not un fro. 'quently• 'these, represcutatiems; if borne, out ry.the facts, secured a -parcha.ser.— The women never spoke to the ivhite men unless sptiken to, and then made the eon feiii.ce as short as pessible. And not one of them all, during the :whale they were thus exposed to, the rude ques-i Lions of vulgir men, Spoke 'the first un-' woman!? or indelicate word, or 'conducted hers'elf 'in any' retard iotherwise than .as a modest woman should; do; their,eonversa don: and demeanor were quite as ; : unex-; ceptionable as they would have been had they been the highest ladies in the land, and through all' the insults to which they 'were subjected they conducted , theroselyes with the most perfect - decorum and self-, respect. , The sentiment of the _subjciiiied char acteristic dialogue was heard. more than once repeated "Well; Colonel, I seen you looking shal) at' slioftaker Bill's Sally. Going to buy tier ?" Well, Major, I think not. Sally's a good, big, strapping gal, and can do - a" heap:awork ; but its five years since she had any children. ',She's done breeding, 1. 1 reaon." q , , - In the intervals of more active labor, the: discussion :',of the leiSpening of the Ative:tvade was commencjikand the cipii= ion , :seerued, togencraliy i ,iireveil tliat its Teestablislinmiit j 'a de voutly to be wished; und'Olie red-tat:est, Major or•G,erieral, orr . Corporalic!ebehed his remarks ,with Ote., etnphatie . assertion that Woll;have all the nigger's hi Afri ca: over here in three, years ,. we won't leave enough for Seed", o .0;11 .o'elock, - the. busineii,men took their - placea-, and aunotinced, that the sale would begin. The buyers uillowere Fes:. unt to the number of some: two hundred, clustered around the platfoiin ;‘ while the uegroes, who were not likely to.be diately wanted, gathered into sad groups in: the, background' to watch the process of . • VIIIIRSDA't • AP R '7,,1859. the,sqlling, in Which they Were 'BO eorroiv fUliy interested; Tt.e whid-howled - tiitt Side, and' thraugh' the open side of 'the buildik the:driving...Tains vame eouriug in; the, bar- ceased for, a .ahort time ,ts. brisktrade; the- buyers fresh cigars, got readi, their, catalogues and ',pencils. and the first lot, of human obattels was led up - cin'the Stand:.riot by'a White man, bat by a sleek% raidattm._ himself a slave,; and wha,seenislo, regard the selling.. of, brethren in which liesp_glibly assists, as a capital jam'. it had been anfieuneed that . the negroes would be Sold in. "fami lies," that is to say,' a hien would -hot be parted - from his wife, _oma mother from a very young child... There is perhaps as much policy as humanity in this arrange ment, for there by - inany,aiied'and unserv iceable people are disposed" of, who other wise would not. find a ready,sale." •.1 .: The first family brotight out were an nounced on the catalogue as ?iA3ft. AGE 1. George. - 47 2. Sue '26- 3. George 6 Boy Child;.l • I 4. hurry - 2 Boy. Child. - - ! The mannerrof buying was 'announced to be, bidding a certain price apiece for the whole lot. Thus George andihis fano= ilp were started at $3OO, and were tinnily sold at 8600 each, being 82,400 for the fOur. To get an idea of the velative.val ue of each one, we must suppoSe s ' George worth $1,200, Sue worth 8900, Little George worth 8200, and Hairy worth $160.. Owing, however; to soine misap prehension on the part of tbelt!uyer,'as to the manner 'of biddiutr, he did .not take the family at .this figure, and ithey were put up and sold again on the second day, when they brought $620 eaeh,i - or $2,480 ,or the whole--an adirauee of 880 over the first solo. .1 flt seems as if every shade of character capable of being implicated lin the sale of human flesh and blood, was, represented among the buyers.: There was the Geor gia fast young man with. hia Pa'ntalootis tucked into his boots, hii velvet over tci.one.side; his cheek. _full: of tobacco, iWtsieb . he 'bites from a hag . e plug„that reseitibles - there:than any,- thhag else un old bit of a-inSty.wa . gon 'tire, and who is altogether an animal-of quite a different • breed from "yourr-New -York fast man. ready revolyei `or his con-- venient knife, ia ready for instant' use: en' case of a heated argument. White'neek- Clothed, gold-spectacled. and silVer-haired old men were there, resembling in appear-, ante that noxious breed - of sanctimonious deaeons = svc -haV6- fit the :North. 'who are perpettially leaving 'documents at your doiii.that you . never read; 'and the-busi ness. Of whose mendicant life is to eternal , ly solicit subscriptions fur charitable. as- : sociationsof which they arc the treas; nese gentry, with quiet step and sundtied voice, moved carefully about' among the live stock, ignoring, as a gen.) era! rule, the' men, but tormenting the women with questions which, when acci dentally overheard by the disinterested spectator, bred in that spectator's mind an almost irresistible desire to knock somebody . down. And then, all imagin'a.L bre varieties of rough backwoods row - dies; who began. the day in a dispirited man ner:bat who, as its hours progressed, and their practice at the bar became more•pro liße in results; waxed louder and talkier and more violent, were present, and ad - dcd a . characteristic feature to the assemblage. Those of-your readers who have read "Uncle Tom"—and who 'has not ?—will remember with peculiar feelings, Legge, the slave-driver and woman-whopper That that character is not •overdrawn or too highly colored, there is 'abundant tes timony. Witness the snbjoined dialogue: A party of men , were .ceniersing on the fruitful • subject of managing .refractory "niggers;" some were fur severe whip: ping; same recommending branding, tine or two advocated other- niodes•of torture; but one huge brute of a man, who hadmot. taken as active part in the, discussiiin; save to assent with Approving . nod to any unusually: barbarous proposition, at. I,sist. - broke his silence by saying in an Oracular way' "Yma may say what you like about managing niggers -a driver miself, and -I've . had -some experience, and-. 1 ought to know. You can manage (rail I nary niggers by licken' 'mu and giVin''ein a taste of the hot iron once and - awhile ilien they're extra ugly ;- but ifa nigger really sets himiielf up against me, I ean"t, netiorr have any path:ixie, with, him.i I just. get my .pistpl. and shoot him right down, and that's the. best way . , • ~.And this. brute was talking to gentle it,ed his remarks' were listened to with attention,' and his. assertions 'assen ted to by inure than one in the kreat of, listeners. :_dlut all this time, the sale was going on, and the merry Mr. Walsh; with' inapy a quip and jest, 'Vas bcomiting the lime when the 'bidding 'was srow..• The expression on the fears 'of all who stepped on, the wai. always the swami and told of more anguish, than it is ip the power of words to eipress. Blighted homes,.cruslied hopes aLil broken hearts was the sad story to be read in ail the anxious faces—. Some Of thew regMiled the sale, with perfect 'indifference, never mak ing 'a Motion save to turn from one side to the ether at the—word. ofthe_Dapper, 31r. - Bryan, that - all the crowd inighthave a fair -view, of-their. proportions, and:then; When the sale was accomplished; stepping doWn from-the +hick -without caring to east even a look at the buyer, ivho now held all their happiness in his; hands.---' Others,- again,' strained.. heir eyes ._'with eager' glances from one buyer to another as - lhe bidding went On, • trying with ear liest attention - to-follow' -the' rapid".voiee of the auctioneer.' Sometimes, tivo per sons only would lie bidding -for the, same chattel, all' the others having resigned the contest, - and then the poor creature on the block,' conoeiving,an instantaneous prefer ence for one of the buyers over the other, l would regara the, rivalry with the intens est interest, the expression of his face eh6iging• with every bid,. settling into a half smile of joy if the favorite'huyer per severed Ante the end and, secured the property, and settling down, into a look -of ~hopeless despair if the other won the vie ory. The family - of Primis, plantation ear -1 penter 'consisting of Daphnev his wife, with her young babe, and DitiO, a girl of : three years old, were reached in due course of time. Daphney had-a large shawl which she kept carefully wrapt round her infant and herself: This un usual proceeding attracted. much -atten tion, and provoked many remarks, such as t heses • REM MIES. , Prime Cotton Planter Prime Rice Planter." What do you keep your nigger coy ered up. for ?, s off,herblanket:" • What's, the matter with the gul ? Has she got the heAache • "What's the fault of the gal? • Is she sound? Pull off her rags and let us see het."' • .--- . , 16 Who's going to bid on that - nigger, if you keep her. covered, up. , Let's see her , face ? " . And a loud chorus of sirailtir remarks, empliaSized With loud profanity, and ruiP: gled with sayings too indecent : and. ob-, _scene to be even hinted at here, went up'. from the ciiikil;:of ,chivalrous Southern gentlemen. .. , • _ • • At, last the ;auctioneer obtained a hear !ing,long. eicough to explain that there was, no attempt,tel practice ; any :deCeption in the' caselie`, parties .were not to be wronged i• in any. way; he had no - desire to pall* off an , inferior article, hut' the truth of the matter NSlas thatDaphney had been confiner" only fifteen days ago, and he thought, that on that account she ivas-eis titlet). tu the l s`light indulge*. Of a blan ket, to keep from herself and, child the chill air and the drivin.'rain. ' Will your _lady readers look at the 'cir cumsiances of this ease.' The day was the 2d,ot March. ' Daphney's baby was hdrn into the world on 'St. Valentine's happy day - , the 14th of February Since her confinement, Daphney had traveled o:n the 'pl;intation to Savannah, where she had been kept - in a shod for six days. 'On the 'Sixth or seventh day. after her sickness, she had left her bed, takerCa railroad journey across the country to the shambles, was there exposed for six days to the questionings and insults of the ne gro speculators, andhen on the fifteenth day after her:confinement was put on the bloek with her husband and her other child, and with her new-bornbaby in her arms, was sold to the, highest bidder. It . was very considerate in Daphhey to, be sick before the sale, for her wailing' babe was worth to Mr. Bailer all of a hue dred dol l'ars. The family soldfor $622 I apiece, or $2,500 for the four. Maniothhr babies, of all ages of baby hood, were sold, but there was nothing particularly interesting a bon t them; There 1 were-B=e thirty •babies in the lot; they I are esteemed worth to their wastera hun , hundred' dollars the day they are born, and to increase in value at the rate bf a hun r j Idred dollars a year till they are sixteen or seventeen years old, at which -age they bring the best prices. ,• When the family of Mingo, consisting l ot his wife two sons and a daughter,.was called for. it was announced by the aue- - , tioneer that chattel No. 322, Dembo, the, l eldest . son,'ag,ed 20, had the evening, be fore procured the - services of ' a minister and been joined in wedlock to chattel No. 1 404, Frances, and that he should be com-. p ,elled put up the br. ca ide ,and groom in one lot. They werelled up, - and, as was to'besexpentettfbeir appearance' was the Signal fcif'd velly,Ot coarsejokesifrom the auetiOneer,!and of ribald remarks from I the surrounding hrowd. The newly mar ried pair bore it bravely, although ono re fined gentleman tool;: holdhf France's lips land pulled them apart to See 'her age. Thia sort; of thing' it is that makes "Northern bleed boil, and Northern fists 'clench. with a laudable desire ,to hitsome , - body. It was-almast too conch for endur ance to, and and see thoie brutal Slave drivers .pushing the wo . a on , palling their lips 'apart-with•tlicir not too-cleanly hands;. and cerninittihgmany other inde eentacts;:while the husbands, fathers and brothers of tliose,woMert- were compelled ESSE = e FtilJß:: OgN'T,B: TERNS:; xsl;2& -PER--ANNUE to witness thiir;'s 'Without the poor:' er to resent the,entrage; „ Dembo, and .Frances were atli,st struek t = off for $ 1 , 320 each, mid, went to spend their honey-moon on a Cab* Plantatiniff. in Alabama. ; And so the great salnirentr'on 'fortio long.days, during which time 'there wertc" sold 429 men, womenandehildren. There were 436 announced to be sold, but a few .- 'were detained on the plantation by ness. , At the clos e of tho sale, on the lastday; several baskets,"Of Chimpagne.were ion++; duced, and all.were invited to partake; the 'vine below at the experiseof the liroker -- Mr. Bryan. ' - The total amount of the sale ((cots up 8303,850--7 the proceeds: of the first'ditY: being $104,480, and of the second '&y* , - 6142,370 - The highest sum 'paid for any faint;• ly was given for Sally Walker end her five` children, who were mostly up. Thee price was $6,180, , The highest price paid fora single man, was $1,750, which wasigiven for Williani; , a "fair carpenter and eaulker.", . The highest price " a id ford woman was' 61,250, which was given for Jane, "cot ton hand, and house servant." ' ' z The lowest price paid was for' Ansa* land Violet, a grey haired couple, well hav:- . . nurbbered more than fifty years; they bro't but $250 apiece. • : • - I Leavinmlhe Race baildingSWhere the I scenes we have described, too ' lr 'place, crowd of negroes were seen gathered eager- . ly about a white man. The man was Mr, Pierce M. Butler, of the free cityalPhi . := adelphia, Who was solacing the - wounded hearts of the peoplele had sold from their firesides-and their homes, by 'doling out small change to them at , the rate of a dol lar ahead. To every 'negro he had sold who prssented his claim for die Paltry pit tance, he gave the manificent stipend Of one dollar in specie; he being provided with two canvass bags of 25 cent Pieees, freili from the mint, to give an additional glitter to his ' generosity. ' - - -And now eomes:the scenes" or the last partings—of the 'fiballsepirationiof : those who were akin, or who had been suet deilr who from youth that no time kindred should bind them closer—of- thinie-wldt were all is all to eaoh'Other; and for whose bleeding hearts:there Shall be do ' , Otiirthly l'eomtort—the parting Of parents' and chit- I •dren, of brother from brother, and the rend! rang Of sister , from sister's :bosom; and 0, hardest, cruelest dill, the testing asun der Of loving hearts, wedded in . ail Savo '.the one ceremony of the Church—these scenes pass all description; it ia'not meet for:pen to meddle with tears so holy. As the last family stepped down• from the block, the rain - Ceasede forL the- , first time in four days the' clouds' broke - away, and the soft sunlight fell on 'the-scene. The unhappy slaves'-had many , or them been - removed, and others were now de parting with their new waiters. - -7 , That night; not Steamer left that 'Southern port, not a train of -cars sped away from that cruel City, WO:lid not bear each its own sad burden of those unhap py ones, whose only crime is that they are not strong and wise: Some ofthein maim ed-and wounded, some scarred and gash ed, by accident ort4the hands of ruthless drivers—all sad and, , sorrowful as, hunt= hearts can be. ' . But the stars shone out -as brightly as if such things had never been,tha,hittah ing fruit trees ponred their ragrance on the'evening air, and the scene was as calm ly sweet and quiet as if' Man had rioter marred..the glorious• beanty:of Earth by deeds of cruelty and wmn,n,l: • , IT is 13EST To Cter Farr, a statistician connected with the aegis trar-Generals Office in tAndon,,has.recently read a paper, which Was afterwards Printed in the Daily Nem i on, " The Influence of Marri age on the mortal ty of 'the - French People." Re Says ;" A remarkable. siries of observa tions, extendi'zg over the whole of France; en ables us to determine for the first thin ,the effect of conjugal ccinditiOn on. the life* of a large population. The result Confinus 'the common opinion of:the evil consequences of marriage in manY cases under the age of twen- . ty, before; the growth of the individual man or woman is comploted." The marriattromliben ty to sixty: have a Intheri death ' pie" tha ri the 'un married. 'Among the .widowed a higher titor..- tent) , prevails than' amongst the inarrieC '-Dr Farr sums up,-I. l ..Thisia the, generat re sult. - Marriage is a , healthy state.: The single tdivideal is more to be.wrecked' on his I voyage. than the liVesjoindd together ii(inat rimony." - To the ,'question', - " Ts'anY Vert of the excessive mortality of the singlettarance referable' to vice ?" answer; is de eided-",:res; to vi*attcliits attendant. ireg ularities,'! which he tellsma half tne sickness and, indirectly, some of theinertaLty I of the army, which respect fairly;rep resents the unmarred population." B One of the best methods we 'have found to raise early plants of the melon and encumber under glass, . is to Wawa, from threb to five inches thick, soak them some twelve hours'. or more in liquid' ma nttre,.and then.plOge them, grass down, into the b ed,- then insert three or four seeds in- each sod,, where they caw,ifterairils bff transplanted with the sect; vfichitnifliilurb itig the roots.:.;:. f ~I =I El M NZ ME
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