The Southern Beacon. (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 18, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 21, 1859 Page: 1 of 4
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TERMS Of JUJYERTtSiNG.
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a covenant wn
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BMllaH
S aausosr*
pod In the
War is * bed-corer Hke * WfctcrT
it'* a connlerpouc ^conntei^poin.)
" Am tou looking tor any oat ia lugeilar ■'
u(be ral id wbenne w tbe catwat«Ji fcMm.
Wuv to a conundrum like a monkty T Be
cmiaeUii*r tei«bed,awl fW!of nomem*^
Tub.
At atrial, i
kmi*g
d*ubt j w^
r the ferj returned
• Guilty, with
tbt rise of a brickbat
A ux* vktter toCul>a divide* the lahabWaata
Into Iwodaaeee—oow of which culm a bring
b^MMMAuUiriag iffw. and tte othavbj ma-
" Too always lm ywir temper in lay com-
ciay," laift in-Mvidu": cf d^btfal ffeptrtatioa
to a gemiec**. -'Trio, rir, andefcocldat Won-
der if I lest everyiM^ X iad about tm£. * *
"Jijcx," bvta eoe Jriehma.to another, the
first tae iw «*' * iocomotive: " wbat ia that
oortin,> bow^T" "Sore,'1 repBefl itaAe. "I
don't kr ,w at ail, unless it's a steamboat splor-
gia^ alocg io get to the watber." -
" IVr re'. Tour tongue a little farther," said a
ic- a female patient; " a little farther,
u Vu , i juj please o little farther still,"—'
Wl}, ttv'V^aJjon tiiitJc there is no end to a
wvti-cu. : " cried the fair invalid.
•'JIi-.v ia tf " said one little Miss to aaotben
" >*--< Jets®! aeper afraid, and I am?"
- f-u cfu;£- Lre goi a Roman nose, and feels
-..J: ,v- reiaember how wj read that it
h t oc«2 uaiu Uu>t a Soman knosra—no
Oiauv-."'
• li. "vrt i is"1 Sotatcp.—A tetcher presented a
j - > , vcr 'j 8me rich s&infitnw " It
M.^-9 N-r 'i;. islter, - that thiafca pretty
r .'a. "iil." " Y " .". odtle botcher, " I've
2 . ' rctir:* Res onsugh to make it appetfrt ;
siu i ^a\ j ciucii zu * to getit squared."
"Cox? here, av iiite dear/'-' said a young
man ic j ate pr~ leMbceeasistne waspayug
his addles; "joa ars -he eweeteat tiicg ob
earth."—1>•£•)■ 1 r- n 3<rt,!' she replied, arueasly ;
" siste r sa; - re vt.e iweet-iat." Tlie ques-
tion ?. v day.
" W >ma .. :uvely woman!" said Browa;' wbU
is the world w.tboul women! Yew, if there were
no wocu^i in the worid, we should Ml be misera-
ble ' lacy- are the primeval cause of all
nc " No doabt," put ia that cynic
eon; " for they are the pnme evU them*!
Arrsn uoittT.— A oelefirated physician said
to Lord £J4 s brother, Sk William Scott, ra-
ther mo.e dippaa*ly taan become the gravity of
hi* profcwaca, "You know, after for^y. a
it «1 ways c!ther a fool or a physician."
r~' "**;v y•"
'• remaps he uiaj be both, doctor."
Bring up lUkjs, UghtJnra lilies
From their cool and limpid e
Sine, ye birds, your softest
Hum, ye drowsy, little"
Darling Minnie, tippy
Wanda whereuoe er
As wc sing, that angel Minnie
Joins no mora oar happy play ;
With the waning of die snmmur
Passed her lovely ami away.
Like -a white rose, faded, withered,
Fell she on the verdant sod ;
Like a bright star, risen newly,
Shines she in the crown of God. :.
Happy Minnie, angel Minnie—
Joined with that celestial
Now yon taste a dearer raptare,
And you sing a sweeter song-
[From the Washington City Union.]
Decay of Abolitionism in Wow
* England-
Boston, March 9.1869.
Dear BrothtrI have rend yoor
speech of the 21st ultimo, delivered
in the House of Representatives. It
haa. points of considerable smartness,
At a party t"
poin'cd on. i; u"r
lricnd a.
nr evening one gentleman
.Led looking individual to his
•r«.
\V ' said h!i friend, "snch a looking
( . u sculptor! Surely you must Ik
!
rt . nj iot Ue the kind cf one you mean,'
.•-naat, " bull know thai he chiseled
' • u bio dirties ^cst week."
r .iMTrvu .wE<ii!VT Tsr.*B.—laGeorgia, Judiji
7. a: ":;'R te l 3u 'wi. wiohaa lost his leg, and
w.v a . ooatc to be a dead shot, challenged
< j-j !•. a gcntlPDiar. of greal bumar. The
X:.. ;.i u.- t: pi event the meeting, but to no
"C.. Ti.< pi. ties mot on the ground, when
C... . a^ked if be was ready. "No,"
1 . * '• '"Ca- —'* Whaiarcyou a-aiting for, then!"
i / n J ctir.- T.'n 6rio"d-—" Why. sir," s i
' i u-vre scot c.y bry inic the woods
; .^n'ii !<.' <<nt my leg in, for I don't
i gi-.; . _[t«lge any aavanfage over me.
^ . . L as-.- c wooden leg." The whole
■..Oi laughter, and the thing was
i- ..34 it broke np the fight Colonel
! T". a •■/."■i .uds told that it would sink his
i * R'ell " he replied, "it can't sink
i— r tnari a bu.it.: can."—" But," urged his
i no- •" >=■ j ail: filled about y-m."—
• 'cmc j.*, "I wjuld rujiicr all fifty pa-
t «.on:;.." Nu oae ever troubled the
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m
r f IOM1S TV AXC2K'
' . • i my auk
xv *>■ w '«jrrjn; .
tut <: c« mar
limn-to np.tiii'<;
coi'j- "S'_ trico
wtu" tj .i
I
lor 'H.
not Hit': t .
.—A M't^ra'p'! d>vine
have you do
. net t. Co with 'hom:
;lr wit': tiacs., That is
that nwa iAkus a wrong
„• d'.a 'Jp human nature. I
t--n hmnrtii naiitre in a r'ght di-
i ' ■> tttc- , ha\e ;-wod amusements,
thii... W"ci« ic the man that does
. ...u enmrement? Why, I like to
ee*- « V.ttca ct.v=c ila <wi 'ri.. If tlie ministers
w re^ig-' •> had dooetheii duty ia trying to guide
and xret >. ifte amusements oi the people, there
entsns "
as a very clever effort; but 1 see no
other effect that it can produce bot to
irritate the Sooth, and alinate one
section of the Union still more front
the other. Have we not A the North
assimulated onr own self-righteousness
in contrast with the sins of the 8outh,
qslte up to, or beyond a healthy
for a "time, to tm
failings and at
would not be so many *-.-1 amusepicnts as there
Rr- at this day. Io^cad of the clcrgy standing
askance fW>m amusements, I would like to see
them ^nkinr more intercut- taking part—in
them. 1 nam- with John Weslejr, who, when
some people found fcv.ilt with him for taking
tunes which had been associated witll foolia
sou^i, and applying them to aacr^d
piled, "1 see no reason'why the ■*
have all the itood things in' the
more do I. There arc music, painting, cbess,
fjinits, bowls, nnd cricket. I would yoke them
all in the service of religion and virtue."
The Smmi fawlt —" Gentlemen." said a
ctfdidate for Congress, " my name is Smith, and
I am prond to say I am not ashamed of it It
inny ne that no person in this crowd owns that
verj uncommon name. If, however, there be
one such, let him bold up his bead, pull up his
dicky, turn out his toes, take courage, and thank
hi- stars that there arc i few more left of the
suae sort
Smith, r~ntl<Tnen, jg an illustrious name,
\ .! *tands ever high in the annals of fame.
Ltr" ",i*hiU;, Browu.iutd Jon>* increase as they will
B- '5ert me that Smith will outntimber them still.
Cei ikmen, I im proud of being an original
Errj/i; not a Surrnr, nor a Smyth, but a regular
naiiu il K M-i-T-a, Smith. Putting a Y in the
middle nr an E at the end won't do, gentlemen.
Who •."*er heard of a great man by the name of
nr F-milAt * Echo answers vho. and everv-
I^Mly gavd njbotig. But n« for .Smith, plain
S-^-i^r-n. why, the pillars of fame are covered
with tbat bocored and reverend name. Who
H'-rc the m<*t racy, witty, awl popular authors
of this century! Horacc and Albert Smith.—
Who the most original, pithy, and humorous
preacher > Rev, Sidney Smith. To go further
back—who waff the bravest and boldest soldier
in Sumpler'ii army in the Revolution ? A Smith.
Who palavered with Powhattan, galivantcd with
Pocahontas, and lwcame the ancestor of the first
families in Virginia ? A Smith again. And who,
ud I ask tte question more seriously and
7, b that |
bis_I
tb*«Hl speeches, (mashed tte
bdd^te most offlt^^SMg ttw * g . writ-
r*w, m4"it
tr/twij j*- Ma Smltb
I ask—and i
soberly—who, I sav, is t
, who hos roaght the most battlcs.made
nan, and what b
mora at onr o
the virtue* of our.
brethren at the South?
You speak of the change 'of tone
and sentiment that has taken place
during the last twenty^five years on
the subjcct of slavery. It was one of
the dreams of my early life, that the
condition of mankind mightf be greatly
improved.by sudden political changes.
The cry of the slave came to my
youthful ear, wafted by the eloquent
breath of eye witnesses, from Virginia
and New Jersey. Almost every man
at the Soutli, at that 'time, admitted
tbat slavery was an evil, moral social
and political; the horrors of the mid-
dle passage, the barbarian cruettie^
of Jamaica, came to us across the
ocean: Wilberforce and Clarkson
bad acquired a world-wide fame by
their singular devotion to the abolition
of the slave trade; the assault waa
soon made upou Blavery itself in the.
British West Indies, and tho first of
August, 1838, was entered in the cal-
calender as one of the holy days of
the year.
Campbell painted the wild chieftain
on bia native plains, bo free, so happy
—caught, chained, doomed, Buffering,
till the hurricanes in the .West In-
dies were commissioned to avenge his
wrongs. The planitive Cowper wept
out Ins compassion in the touching
lines, " I would not hate a slave .for
all the gold that sinews bought and
sold hfive ever earned ;"and these tones
of suffering,of compassion,of pity,were
cchoed by every harp, and re-echoed
by orator and preschcr till the whole
atmosphere of New England was vo*
cal with the cries of the slave. I have
done my full share of it; but greater
men have been mletaken.anfftave iA ri-
per years becn ^ompclledMo revise
and revoke the opinions of earlier
days. Burke once was enraptured
with the voice of Liberty, as she cried
from across the channel; but in the
full strength of his manhood, he was
compelled to denounce the crimes
committed in her name. 8ir James
Mcintosh wrote his ' Vindica Gallic®,'
but was compelled, by a longer expe«
rience and a wider observation, to
cancel the opinions of early life by
those of maturer years. I am com-
pelled to canccl many things that'I
have ► .tid on tho subjoct of slavery,
and substitute for them the opinions
of riper ago. I might have once said
what, or nearly what, you bavo said
in your late speech in. Congress;
though I think i should have left out
those portions which Bcrve no other
end than simply to irritate, without
.convincing. But my convictions at
the present tirao are, not only that the
slaveholders have a oomplete vindica"
tion of their present position, bat they
are entitled to be looked upon as the
benefactors of the country and to the
human rac*
'lite only ground-on which I can
claim their patience and forbearance
toward us meddling with their affair*,
and for abusing them as Mch as we
have, and as torn still continue to
do, is this. They g*rt t bkt
faoa
WTTfrVts,
Wc. We «
CHalfowt,
Bowls. Blank
qiwrfitkb to
mw*
and v;l| fm
iiJt 'P
and
■'brtte**
ca i slaves on
whh us, and with all
thai we
instrument
make no covenant exoept
of equality.
we oouid get no better;
yet we dxjutd be'glad to
were not made, or to renew it, if brov
ken, and on the same conditions we
now have. The South claim the right
to go into new territory, and try the
new land with their slaves,till the ter«
ritory becomes a sovereign State, and
then bow to its will as before all other
sovereigns. This is a just and equit
able claim, founded oh a fair interpo-
lation of the constitution. Slavery
should be .>permitte<t to flow by natu-
ral laws to regions for whichit is best
ing of slaves to
singular la«C *
our Puritan|
petiebt day
tliat lived a
adapted, ll will go nowhere else.— & nmandment
You could not force it into New-
Hampshire, nor keep it there il intro
duced. The experiment haa been
tried and failed. Slavery wm given
up in the northern SteMy, not by the
foroe of mnei, but ncU&m laws..
It is tree the discussions of the last'
twenty-flve years have produced a
deal of sentiment on the sub-
of slavery in the northern States:
ho# ntterty barrin of
reeults ithae: been^to the
word*—and because their
number ffrsmaff, and will coi.tinue to
he email—we have In the
North
(iriouii
all
■PMHjee
(hi Hebrew
la re were
V all now wh
el *es by Di
ft i charter.
(stolen?
They
i be onl;
in wh
[Ume.
I has been
|ea;end
word ia
.to hve en-
- m„m
thieves
tor bring-
Haa
boast of
laws of the
hettjtfas men
as t-n*
tly or
., _ id ilB-
the men. who lived forty
commandment
outot Egypt.—
on of
All their other
the Decalogue
lj tbry had
' aton ender
they, ii the
it ? Bet aw the
not by Amer.
. pay ftetitea
benevolent man*
done. Ae to
that
in man, it
frosi tbe foun-
to the pres
e and transfer,
property; and
men to men in
spy that there
d old Hebrew
ettea ef
j master
slave* no blood
jledl
and
colored W'h in Boston won
permitted to hire or to
etly enjoy a pew in the broad aisle of
any fashionable church. Iq the West,
where your toil is more fertile, and
where more-free colored men would
be likely to go, you are more strin-
gent; and the black laws of Ohio,
Illinois, Iowa ud Oregon, and the
still more expul^e Topeka Constitu-
tion of K ansas—for which, I believe
yon and all your Republican associates
voted —. proclaim, as with trumpet-
tongue, fte fnate and ineradicable
prejudice against tho African, lurking
_ _ aa it still does, h> the bosom of those
barbarian crueltiedfj whoae toognee are eloquent for bis
rights. W
I am not a little surprised at the
manner in which' you speak of Noah.
Tbe Bible calls him a 'just man, and
perfect in his generation;' and yet
because he, by Divine inspiration and
by Divine command, foretold tho sla-
very of the children of Ham, you give
him some very hard thrusts, and leave
him on the pages of your Boeeoh with
character by no means so far as tbat
given him by the sacred historian —
WaB Noah in the way of your theory,
that you strike at him so vigorously,
as though you would hew him down ?
Yon say he mistook Canaan tor Ham.
Suppose he did, the prediction and
tbe curae rests somewhere—on 'some
nation. The principle is the same in
the Divine administration. Who are
tho children of Canaan? Tradition
and history unite in the belief thiit
they inhabit the continent of Africa,—
Taeir condition fulfills, with remark*
abl^ fidelity, the prophe^of ftat' rl-
baa rested on that
for many centuries. It Js
with a net-work of double
—every chief having his retinue®
of slaves, while he pays tribute to
some higher chief or petty kiog.
You seem to lay great stress upon
the fact that tno Uanaauites were not
black. How do you know? Dr.
Thompson, who has written, perhaps,
the most thorough work on Syria and
Palestine tbat bos ever been published
sayB fte ancient inhabitants of that
country came from Africa. Tbe great
painting of Sampson grinding in fte
mill shows his Philestine drivers were
very dark, if not black. But you
must misB the point of the Scriptural
precedent and example for Slavery.
Yon prove, as you think, that the
Canaaattoe were not black, and then
jump at ouce to fte conclosiod that, if
they were not black, they have
enslaved because ftey were bl
men. litis does reiy well to stir
prejudice at fte North}
truth ? The "
to enslave fte
ftey
ftey
rain
**iypra-
d molasses, and
. "W send
them both in oer vessels to the coast
of Africa to bdy oil jraihered wo-
men and carried on uteir Iteads in jars
from fifty tu two hundred miles. Thej)'
are driven itlong by a* heard of Inzy
men, and stepping carefully every
initiate under the express condition
that if one pot of oil is spilled; one
bead of a woman and wife must be
cut off to atone foi it
Now, is it any great Bin to ca'ch a
set'of these lasy fellows, that live on
the earningsf of their wives, learn
them to work, imako them work, teach
them to love, one another and to love
their children, to that their highest
ambition shall no longer be to buy
an extra number of wives tbat they
may have a; few "pickaninnies"
(children) to sell? A wild African
recently brought' to Boston by
merchant begged for an old gun
which he saw. When asked what he
wanted with it, he replied, "to buy a
wife and have pickaninnies to sell,"
Is it any harm to yoke up such men
and work fte lasiness and the brutality
> of litem? Yes but you say there
is a better .way to do it There may
be, bnt it wanta tbe evidence of a sue-
" H experiment. Tbe Moravians
once kindled'their altars ef devotion
all around fte African coast, but fte
waves ef barbarism have extinguished
them. Jamaica fat spite ef devoted
philaafti
"m '
and
ft
^•BateaiaM mtm
Bl VG*j TttBS 1
wee stamped
of the Jewish i
i that the idea of Half
the Bible; it
i the entire history
t^and upon the his-
(nation u
upon the
I strongly bus-
this is the normal condition of
ge portions o^a depraved raoe, and
that a man may
of slaveholder in
with the entire
Then are visible
, , ^ ^ disapprobation of
tkt aboHlimism of tftrr country, Look at
I can readily
sustain the
appro!
footprint* of
theflockB of
tbat have ooi
Infidels that
man ef good
praise hum!
terballance
phimfy CW
of man
•wives
bachelor,
cause Sarah
and
itj
edition of
divorce, '
cubinage.
these imi
therti States
Souft.* Is
The trui
contemplate
Slavery; o*
point of'
withradoe
civilized,
them on l'
beasts and birds
oat of its train.—
God, abuse every
and then
I to ooun*
ity and bias-
abstract rights
n tbe more abstract
once respecta-
t. Paul a crusty old
Jbram a tyrant, be-.
him, and Paul
fte fact. The second
;hts of Woman is
universal con-
have far mora of
dencies in the nor-
-ftey have at fte
aac to look at home?
have been wont, to
condition of the
South fromja wrong
We compare them
itions more hignly
are not^lenty of
bat because they
the suae British
otter
a great will
ut out of this
of vices.—
recreneis
Work U
idleness grow
Work b salvation.
ales tbfc> ee*ft and
progress, ani* Without it nothing.
The title deed of the earth toman
had this proviso i that he should sub-
due it and mulnriy uptin it. Now if
be only multip&B and does notsnb-
bouse and tills bis farm. Henos fte In-
dian must be &i*en seit; be will not
work en aey flMafitioa, neither self-
drivcu by the hand of an
Ike, fte last tenia-
hawk of teSnwillSoMi bang
hails of tbe eon-
African works pa-
driven to U ;be
condition. Bis
ia a terrible protect
he
to
>lc there in
<m.. . j many
of earth as twenty thousand Yankees
n California in one third of the time,
f this half million had the twenty
thousand to lead and guide them and
plan for them, then, that island, which
was once a fruitful fie'd. would not be
going back to a wilderness. The best
thing that could be done for Africa, if
they could live there, would be to send
thom a hundred thousand slaveholders,
to work them up to some degree of
civilization.
It is charged that tbe life of the
slave at fte South is sometimes at tbe
mercy of tbe master. In Africa the
immediate I ody servants of every cbeif
at his death, are at once beheaded and
hurried forward' to attend the new
wants of their old master It is
wicked to buy these devoted victims
of heathenism and put them under
the protection of civilzed, and often
christian mastei s? Jurt in proportion
as the priea of these slaves is raised
in Africa, just to that degree is there
a motive to the heirs to spare their
lives. So far as Africa is concerned,
the slave trade was and \is humane in
its operations; its abolition was the
result of sentiment and not the deter-
minatios of calm and deliberate states-
manship. Tbat ii was not called for
by the condition of the world or by
any deep seated moral sentiment, is
proved from the fact that the nation
foremost in its abrogation has.now
revived it on other shores and under
another name, adding'to whatever sin
there is in the direct open slave trade
tbe other sin' of bypooricy and false
Jafttlca Wants UltertrB.<^ot'because
Honor to the sagacious and far-see-
ing statesmen ot Georgia and South
Carolina, almost the only ocnaistant
slave 8tate in the Union; for they
breasted tbe united streams of Brtish
and American fanaticism, claimed and
maintained tbeir rights, and saved the
South from barrenness and desolation,
the North from a civil war, and the
negroes from barbarism. If more labor-
ers are needed for Texas,Central Amer
iea, parts of Mexico and Cuba, tbey
ought to be brought, without objec-
tions, under snob humane regulations
as are made In other-cases for the com-
fott oT passengorS." These laborers
should ooms from Africa, becanes they
are stronger and make better slaves
than any of fte copper colored races,
because ftey arc more susceptible of
transformation, and their improve-
ments will be greater, and lastly
because ftey are themost degraded. .
As to tbe influence of slavery on fte
character of the whites, t^at is quite
sinotber question,- but so far as tbe
political history of our country ia
it Is not easy to see how
do without slaveholders,
hsb nisMa shine along and
, pastbostory of eer country,
Washington, Jtffei son, fte Randolphs,
' " " Madison, Monroe,
Jed
out
of others, from Ibe
Wt fair motto St
onr-speech: "The fana-
. t ^anwciatic party." "If
there &Mifd be found in the Democratic
party or in Us histonr any of Uwf
element, certainly no wie ought to be
better qualified to deal with it than a
gentleman from tbe Republican ranks.
They were boru of it and nutured by it;
it is their meat and drink,their nervine
and anodyne; their zeal in the conflict
and tbeir consolation in defeat The
Democratic party needs no defence;
a simple recital ol their biogaphy is
its brightest eulogy. When the meag-
ure of the British insult was full —
when for tweniy yeare.they had iusul-
ted our flag, embarrased and put undi-r
tribute our commerce; when they had
seized our sailors and fired into our
ships and hung innocent men for being
found on board an American vessel,
then Henry Clay, Felix Grundy, and
John C. Calh oun, and their associates,
performed a lustration—then the Dem-
ocracy of America vindicated the na
tional honor, and establsbed a new
name and a new flag over the ocean*
and from that day to this all the
ogrebR and expansion at home and
nor abroad, have been won by the
measures of the Democrat'c party.
This glory will remain, in spite of
all that enmity or mistaken zeal can
do to mar or destroy it. You may
possibly succeed (but may heaven
prevent you) in the attempt you are
making to trample under your feet the
the CQyenat of our fathers, and exalt a
sectional parly with Bectional aims
to places of power and trust, but the
day of your success would i« the hour
"'yout dissolution. Like the last dav
thi^RHw nfiMrrrr. i—r nin .
ly rise to go down* Opposition is*
your Cobesion-fhe only cement of your
party Your party can construct no-
thing; they lay down no principles;
adhere to no names. Mr. Banks goes
: 'or the absorption of the colored races,
while Mr. BUir goes for their expul-
sion. Which shall be the policy of
the party?
The Democratic party has carried
the country up from small begiriings
to .its present prosperous and happy
condition; and only occasionally being
taken out to be aired and purified, is
destined under that name, and with
essentiality its original and present
mncpiles to govern this nation while
wc remain a republic. Equality among
all the States—each State to manage
their own affairs—slaveholders not to
be taunted nor insulted for that fact
—equal rights in the new Territories
and new lands annexed and new States
welcomed, as fast as they wish to
come.
These are the principles, mottes, aud
banners of succcsa which wave around
the Democratic party.
Affectionately, your brother.
JOSEl'H C. LGVEJOY.
To Bon. Owen Lovejoy, Li. C.
®i n Clip! i>f orriw, Jvr * gv, or otb-
w-x onr
«a dt bvefy hf Uk- nut
highest degree criminal autf disgrace- '
ful. Lopez bitimdf, ny a closer uc-
, .Jfr does by no means turu <«it
he Ibe tyrant and oppressor, tte has
been sojoften dvi!Cribe<l. As to the enor-
mous wealth of which ho has Lecu
represented to be the possesor, that
story haS'Originated from confounding
fte public im venues which psr-s
through bis hands with his own pri-
vate property*. But even those public
revenues do not anotfiit to auytltitio-
extraonl uary. The entire population
of 1'atagWf <i-><.-*> §ut exceed four
ex -
atKi iK
hidusAy t.; — y, n
moment to he
equal number of our own people, Tho
public revenue is cuainly derived from
monpolies of some oi the principle
articles of produce,the Tresident being,
not*only the civil ruler but the chat"
merchant also, which easiiy accounts
for the quarrel into which lie g< i with
Mr. Hopkins, wlio seems to have aimed
at setting np for himself nnd his Com-
pany a sort of commercial rivalry with
the Government-
AA e- trust tiiat tlie good feelings
which the getting rid of u* without
bhicdshed has exctied will m,t l«.
dissipated with the fumos of wine
drunk at Urcjuizii's baii^ut't, and this
in thi^ distant part ot America at least,
we may succeed in maintaining a char-
acter for moderation and magnanimity.
—Ex.
0nripfipB.
Luckily out of it.
- •
The concluion of the treaty brought
about through the mediation of Pres-
ident Urquii^i,between President Lopez
and Mr. Commissioner Bowlin, appears
to have given us a position and char-
acter in the countries bordering on the
waters of the Plata which It is to be
joped we may be able to maintain.
Considering the very bad odor for
teral years p^at of thp namo aid
icy of these United States of Amcr-
ca among all our Spanish-Ametican
neighhoraove cettainly have reason to
be thonful to Mr. Bowlin, or rather to
' President Urquisa, that instead of car-
rying death and desolation among the
, Paraguayans, and making our name
still more feared and detested,our naval
officers have only been called upon to
eat, drink, dance and exchange coin-
ilimcnte and congratulations; and
hat, on the La Plata, at loast, we have
eared to be regarded as wolves prowl-
ng about to seek whom wo may
cvour.
The accounts which were sent home
of tbe military strength and the alarm*
ng preparations for defence made by
jopca appear to have had their origin
n tbe same lively imagination which
plaoed a formidable military force at
the disposal of Brigham Young, aud
lined all the passes into the Valley
of tbe Great Salt Lake with fortifica«
tions almost impregnable. The people
of Paraguay eeem, in fact, in a mili-
tary point of view, scarcely more
formidable than were the Mormons;
hnd nobody who reads tbe acoouut of
tbe condition of Paraguay given by
Mr. Commissioner Bowlin himself, can
help coinciding in the opinion ex-
pressed in letters written hone from
the fleet, that to bave made war on a
people so.weak, helpless, inoffensive
sad happy, wo«M bare been m fte
The papers of Wisconsin speak favorably of
the appearances of tho wheat crop. Tlie last
two years have been disastrous. A fhinl fail-
ure would be overwhelmingly ruiuuus to the
State.
A New Covet Discoveiied.—The Correspond-
ent of the Detroit Advertiser says :
I have the pleasure to inform y«u that I ilis-
epvered a new cornet at nine o'clock tlii- <• -•■«-
tag, near the star numbered 17 in the constrllu
tiou Lynx. Its right ascension is t> hours f>K
minutes and 30 seconds, awl its (l -cliuatiijii GO
degrees and 67 minutes north.
It has a tail about a quarter of a degree in
length, and the nucleus is as bright a.^a star of
the eleventh magnitude.
The observations made this evening show (hat
it is moving west about two degrees uud south
one degree and fifty minutes daily.
Jamks C. Wats, i .
Ash Arbor, Mich., April 23, 1K> .
Skow as I& at to:: At (lie las! v-
count- the sleighing was quite good on tlie si;!;jo
routes in the extreme eastern portion of the Stale
of Maine, and the i;e had not left Ihe stre«m.-.
Seven inches of snow fell in the Aroostook dis-
trict on the 14th of April.
Richmond, Va., May 1. --a fire broke oul th's
morning on Maiu-street. Several large vessi Is
planing milln,"etc., were destroyed. Tlie los* is
upward of io(J,UOO, oa w hich there is but slight
insurance.
The Dtko Never Wekp.—It is a striking
1r'
fact—tlie dying-BPver we4p? The circle of sob-
bing, agonized hearts arouutl. proiluees not one
tear. Is it tiiat he iB insensible nnd slit!' already
in the chill of dissolution ? That cannot be ; for
he asks for his father's hand as if to gain strength
in the mortal struggle, atal leans ou the tueai t
of mother, brother, or sister, with still conscious
affection: and just before expiring, at eve. after
a long day's converse with the Angel of Summer
he says to his oldest brother—last audit c
" good night" of earth Kiss me. kiss me?"—
It must be because the dying have reached a
point too deep for our earthly crying and wee; -
ing. They are face to.face with higher and lit -
lier beings, with tlie Father in Heaven and his
angel throng led on by the Son hiin-self; and
what arc griefs of a mourning, tear.- of a dying
farewell—lie it that they are shed by the dear-
est on earth—in that vision bright of immortal
life and everlasting reunion—Chri-iivm Inqumr
Frozex to Death.—Two men were frozen t i
death one night recently on a rait in the Ohio
river near Parksburg, Virginia. Another of lUe
same party was found insensible and resusitaled.
Is China a man can obtain a divorce from his
wife, if he can prove she is jealous. This beats
Indiana, and if the Chinese should ever become
fully civilized, what an emigration would set ia
for that land from all Christian couutriiE. m
The last news lrom Cochin China contain the
information that tho French Admiral command-
ing the expedition, had resolved to make use of
elephants for ihc army. Tho annamite army
employ a large nnmlier of those animals, as is
also the custom in Iudia.
The Board of Trustees of the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary will hold their first meeting
In Richmond Va.. dining the intervals of the ses-
sion of the Southern I>ap<i.-t Convention, which
meets on Friday, the 6th of May next.
A i.adt called on a witty friend who was not
at home, and finding the piano dusty, wrote upon
it slattern. The next day they mot" and the lady
Baid, I called on you yesterday."
" Yes ; I saw your card on the Fiano."
that srtoio
uths- tho
Kecklkss Viu.AtNy.—We learn
fiendish rascal nr rascals put cross-ti,
track of the Charlotte Railroad, near Yougucs-
ville, which eame very near causing serious dam-
age. Tbe express train coming down, ou Mon-
day night, about half-after 1 o'eh oL, eame in
collision with Ihe obstructions, wtierwiniiin.- at
tho rate of twenty miles an hour. Rirtiinatelv.
however, no injury was sustained by any person
on the train. Damages by the engine, ,le... ore
estimated at ab.mt-S'350. Owing to the deten-
tion, the train did not roach Columbia uuiil a
late hour.—(blum'Ha'Otnliniin.
Tns Wheat Crop.—We have seen gentlemen
within the last few days fVom different parts of
Georgia, and. with few exceptions, they report
tlie growing wheat as very promising A gentle-
man from Forsyth eonnty, says a much larger
amount than usual lias been sown in that section
and that it looks very well.
The weather has lieen unseasonably cold for
the last week, and crops have been 'sotm what
retarded in cooseqtienco. Tho fruit crop still
promising to he abundant.—Macon J.turm'.
Foctt hundred Mormon converts from Don-
mark recently Wt that couu;ry for Salt Lake.
The London Globe announces the death (,i
Lady Morgan, the authoress.
Tbe valuation of propertv in Cincinnati! .,
$110,000,000.
Tire 8w nratinwrs who broke iail at KojiL-
folk bate beco uroted ia Nortfa Caroliaa,
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