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GENEVA COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING No* 39 Seneca Street, Up-Stairs, BY CLEVELAND & LOOK. t e r m s * To village subscribers who receive the pa pers by thecarrier,$1)50, Cash in Advance; or $2,00 if otherwise. To Mail subscribers and those who get their papers at the Office $1,00, Cash in Advance. Sir pence per month will be added in all cases where payment is delayed, No pape* will be discontined until all arrear ages are paid, except at the option of the pnb- j ishers. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Onesquoreone week, • << i« three “ “ three months it ,i flix «* “ “ one year H-alfcolumn one year, One < * * t < * $0,50 1.00 3.00 5.00 8.00 25 00 40.00 BusinessCardsinscrtedone year for 5,00 ktneusjt.r No advertisement will be charged lessthah onesqtiare,and all advertisements will be con* tinned until otherwise ordered N. B. All advertisements mxist be brought in by Tuesday morning in order to secure an insertion the same week. VOL. XXII. — N O 17. G E N E V A . N. Y .; W E D N E S D A Y M O R N IN G . M A R C H 31, 1852 W H O L E NO. 1109. A c c o rdeonS) f o r C a s h , f r o m $ 1 ,0 0 upwards, A T T U C K E R ’S ACCORDEON DEPOT , 41, Seneca st., Geneva. N. B. Old ones taken in exchange for new. Repairing done on short notice. For the Geneva Courier. L in e s on She D e a th of Mrs* M ichael S u l l i v a n . BY MAROAItrr J. L. R . H. LAW RENCE, WOOL FACTOR AND * Wholesale Dealer in Window Glass. INSURANCE AGENT FOR Manhattan Life Insurance Co., New York ; JEtrjaFire Insurance Co., Utica; National Pro tection Insurance, Saratoga Springs; Globe In surance Co., Utica; Empire Sthte Mutual Health Association ; Syracuse Mutual Health Association. CO\ California Risks taken at the usual Rates . OFFICE—No. 8, Seneca-st., in A. D. Platt’s Drugstore* 1103 HALL, RUCKGL & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS IN PAINTS, OILS, WHITE LEAD, DYE STUFFS, FANCY ARTICLES, &C. No* 9 9 0 G r e e n w i c h S t r e e t , One D o o r below B a r c la y S treet . N e w Y o r k , Invite the patronage of Country Dcnlcrn, in general. N. B. Manufacturers of the beat Friction Matches In ilie world. 1103 LUTH ER H . H A T F IE L D , WITH BASS, CLARK & DIBBLE, SELLS Tanners’, Nealsfoot & Liver Oil, VERY CHEAP FOR CASH ONLY, 1 0 6 W e s t S l i e r t , N e w Y o r k . Tanners and Country Dealers supplied. \) C T Prompt attention gWjn to orders. 1103 E D G A R H . H U R D , A tto r n e y a n d C o u n s e l l o r a t L a w , LOAN COMMISSIONER, Fire and Life Insurance and Tax Agent OFFICE, North side of Seneca St,, near P armkleb ’ s Drugstore.Geneva, N. Y, 1030 J O H N E. B E A N A t t o r n e y & C o u n s e llo r a t L*aw, GENEVA. N. Y., Will promptly attend to any business in the legal line, that may be entrusted to him. 91 6 P F I C B , T h r e e D o o r s W e s t o f the M a n s ion IIo n » c , Seneca st* RUSSEL -KOBBlNsi BOOKBINDER, AND BLANK BQOK MANU FACTURER, Over D erby , O rton & Co.’s Book Store, Geneva. N. Y. 60 ~ W E A N T Plain anil Ornamental Painter, G raining & I n t e r n a l D e c o r a t i o n s ) for Public and Private Houses, done in the best style of the art, 6m69 S e n e c a st., G e n e v a , N. Y* __ There’s n mist before my eyes, husband, There’s a mist before my eyes; And soon their light will pass awny, That you so dearly prize. Uut Pm going to a better land, Where Death can never come; Where Angels n; the gates shall stand, To bid you welcome home. Pm going far away, husband, From the home I love ro well, To one that’s higher, holier Than human tongue can tell. 1 do not fear the hand of Uentls, Though It presses on my brow ; For the faith that ever cheered my heart, Is beaming on me now. Vet, there Is one 1 do not see— Her form with age is bowed, And her heart is dark and heavy With grief's o’ershndowing cloud. She is not here to-night—my mother— She is not here to-night— But tell her I thought of her As my spltlt look its flight. My hu eband, though 1 leave thee, Yet, fie will be thy friend,— Who In the darkness of despair Will faith and comfort send. O, let the memory of my love Reign in thy bosom still, And bow In resignation To meet ihy Master's will. My little ones I leave to thee. Ere from I he earth l part; O, let ir.y dying blessing shed Its sunlight round each heart. And when they breathe ihcir mother's name, Tell them her spirit lives In the home, that to Ills children The Heavenly Father gives, My brothers, and O, my sisters, Yc are too far away ; Ye dream not that 1 pass from earth Ere dawns another day. But my blessing# shall go with Hum, Wherever they may roam, Until released from earthly tics. They meet me there—at home. G e n e v a , M a r c h slW, 19.V2. CIRCULAR. THOMAS & HALEY, Importers, &'Wholesale Dealers m ? B3&I1 OKSHST <& GREEN AND DRIED w a s ? © * $12 Washington Street, E x t r a c t o f K o s s u t h ’* S p e e c h a t Douisvillc, Ky. Great countries are, by necessity, to holt! the position of a power on earth . If they do not thus, foreign powers dispose of their most vital interests. Indifference to the condition and interests of the world, is a willful arbitration of the position of a power on earth. That position abandoned, independence is abandoned. Neutrality, as a constant rule, is impossi ble to a great power. Only small countries, as Switzerland, and Belgium, can exist upon the basis of neutral ity* Great powers can remain neutral in a par ticular case, but they cannot take neutrality for a constant principle, and they cannot chiefly remain neutral in respect to princi- pies. Great powers can never play with impu nity the part of no power at all. Trttmansburgh, 1 5th March, 1862. G e r r i t S m i t h , Esq., Dear Sir:—A copy of your very extraor dinary printed circular letter,dated 20th Feb , 1852, addressed to Gov. Hunt, was received by me a few days since through the medium of the mail, superscribed (apparently) by your own hand. Therefore I conclude that the letter is intended for other eyes beside those of the Governor. Your first object seems to be, to administer to the Governor alternate doses of castigation and flattery, mixed up in about equal proportions. Your second object is to defeat the Bill now pend ing before our Legislature, proposing to ap propriate $5,000 for the benefit of free peo ple of color who wish to emigrate to the Republic of Liberia, under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. Your third, and probably your d a r l i n g object, seems to be, to abuse the American Coloniz ation Society, and to prejudice colored peo ple against it and against emigration. As to that part of your letter which was intended for the Governor, I, of course, have nothing to say. He knows how to deal with you, and how to defend the system of benevolent action towards our colored people, which he has so forcibly recommended in his message. To that part of your letter which was in tended to degrade the American Colonization Society, and myself as one of its members, it is my right, and perhaps my duty, to re ply, and make my defence as public as you have made your ungenerous and unjustifiable .attack. An injury inflicted upon the char acter and influence of that Society, is an in jury done to that unfortunate class of our fellow rnen whom it designs to benefit and bless. Therefore it should be defended when ever it is wantonly and wickedly assailed. In orderto accomplish the third and prin cipal object of your printed circular, you have indulged a bat] temper, in strains of vi tuperation and railing, rarely to be met with in the sayings or writings of any oilier man, claiming the character of either a gentleman or a Christian. You have used almost every abusive and insulting epithet that our lan guage affords, to express your malice arid hatred towards the American Colonization Society, and of course towards all its friends and members, for you have made no excep tion but the Governor. And why have you thrust this abusive letter before my eyes ? Was it to irritate, and provoke, and afflict me. 3 It could not have been intended to win me over to your views. It could not have been intended to convict me of error in ad hering steadfastly to that society; for there is scarcely a fact or an argument in the whole of it. Unjust , undeserved, and harsh denunciations never convict nor convert men. Your letter is made up of the grossest de nunciation, vituperation, and railing. No man can fully appreciate it until he reads the precious document. To delight the eyes and edify the minds of those who may never be so fortunate as to see it, I shall, before I dose, quote one paragragh as a fair speci men of its general character. But before I do this, I will examine its truthfulness and its truthlessness. calumnies? Here are your own words :— ‘Some of their charges brought against the Colonization Society, by members of the An ti-Slavery Society, and the Society itself, make so ludicrously large draughts on public credulity, that one can hardly notice them seriously. They are ill judged , rash, un charitable, slanderous , and some of them in cendiary? You then proceed to specify one of their ‘slanders,1 which you then thought Moo ludicrous to deserve serious notice,’ to wit: ‘That 265,000 of these who are now slaves in this country, would have been free ere this time, had it not been for the influ ence which the Colonization Society exerts in favor ofSIavery.’ If the above charge of pro-slavery influence was (on your own tes timony) 1 false and slanderous,9 in the year 1834, may it not he equally 1 false and slan derous1 in the year 1852?: Who believes that your word is any better now than then 3 Nobody. What then is the result? It is this; your testimony in 1852 is contradicted by your testimony of 1834, and therefore is good for nothing on either side Of the ques tion. But you and your friends will reply, ‘you have changed your opinion about the American Colonization Society.’ But your change of opinion does not change facts. If your testimony was true in 1834, it is true still. If it was false then , it may be, and very probably is, false now. ,.And how are we to account for such un warrantable and exaggerated statements as are found in your letter? I can think of no apology but the mortifica'ion and chagrin that you must have experienced on reading the Governor’s able and conclusive reason ing and arguments in favor of colonizing our free colored people; and soon after, your eyes were pained, and your heart ached, when you read Mr. Birney’s conversion to the same principles. Yon say, ‘Deeply do I lament Mr. Birney’s recent advice to the colored people.’ Mr. Birney apostatised from the true colonization faith a little before you disfranchisements and prejudices tinder which they here suffer. You say ‘they have chosen this country for their home V But under what circumstance have they ‘chosen it?’— Under your false representation, that Liberia is a 'jrightful grave y a rd9 If they have indeed made this wretched choice, to slay here and rot in in this ‘American hell, 1 it has been made under the influence of the false If. RAN’ l THOMAS, fCRCMIAH HALEY, C9y 1 NEW YORK. BULK1B1T & B 2 HTTTETT, Manufacturers of, and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CABINET WARE AND FURNITURE. Ware R o o m s -41 Seneca st** You begin your indic'ment by saying, the American Colonization Society 1 deceived yon.’ That 1 yon joined it when you was a young man.\ That ‘ you joined it as an Ah- Neutrality, as a principle, is so much as | oliliotn ,f°=iet>':’ llnssible that Vuere is r.ifi.,*™,*.' *— u i any truth m all this ? Do you mean to say seriously that when you joined* this society, as not to possess a sound GENEVA, N. V. 50 S U P E R IO R C H A I N P U M P , MANUFACTURED AND SOLD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, B Y D . M A B I E , Opposite t l i e T e m p e r a n c e H o u s e , CASTLE ST., GENEVA, N. Y. 4 Ay d 7” t . c l eveland , Fire^ Marine) Life, ami Health INSURANCE A G E N T . OFFtCB AT THE COURIER OFFICE, SOUTH SIDE «£N EC A STREET, NO. 39, UP STAIRS.) ~ DIL WM KIMBERV Physician and Surgeon—Office, five doors north of the Hank * 4S GEO. P.\\MOWRY; Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, etc., No. 10,Sen eca street. A. D. PLATT Wholesale and retail dealer in Drugs, Groce ries, Paints and Dyes. No. 8 Seneca street. H. PARMFLEE, Dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs and Groceries, No. 24, Seneca st. j. w T smith & co., Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, Carpet ing, etc,—store at No 23, Seneca street. H. H. & g T c . SEELYE, Fashionable Dry Goods, No 30, Seneca street DERBY, ORTON & CO., Booksellers,Stationers, Bookbinders, etc., N 22 Seneca street. WILLIAM H. SMITH, Bookseller, Stationer, Blank Book Manufacturer snd Binder. No. 31 Seneca street. 4 WIGHT & CLARK* Fashionable Hat Store, No 11, Seneca street. J. R. JOHNSTON, Manufacturer of Steam Engines, Boilers, Mil Searings, etc., at the Seneca Lake Foundry Water street, Geneva. ___________ _ _____ Wasii ngtoa Temperance House, GENEVA, N. Y. O. EDMONSTON, Would say to the former patrons of this popular House, while under the Direction of W m * L- P earce , that no pains will be spared on his part, to make it agreeable to them, and ihe travelling Public. Carriage always ready at all the Trains, and Boats to carry Passengers and Baggage to and rom the House, Free of charge $1 DOGT. J. HOWE, H o m o e o p a t h i c P h y s i c i a n ) W OULD inform the inhabitants of the vil* lage ot Geneva and vicinity, that he has taken the Office* recently occupied by Doct. H* W. B elt #, where he will, at all times, be iri readiness to attend to professional calls* pf&ce and Residence the same building* Gefle'te, Oci. 1, 1651- * *1084 indifference to the condition of the world, lndfference of a great power to the condi tion of ti.e world, is so much as a choice given to foreign-powers to regulate the inter ests of that indifferent foreign power. Remember the Sibylline books! Look in what light you appear before the world, with your policy of indifference. Look at the instructions to your Navy in the Mediterranean, recently published, for- bidding American officers even to speak pol itics in Europe, Look at the correspondence of your Com modores and Consuls, frightened to their very souls that a poor exile on board an A- merican ship is cheered by the people of Ita ly and France, and charging him for the im mense crime of having met sympathy with out any provocation on his part, that he is possessed with the devil. Look at the cry of astonishment of Euro pean writers, that Americans in Europe are , so little Republican Look how the French Napoleonist papers frown indignantly at the idea that the Con gress of the United States dared to honor my humble self. Look, how they consider it almost an in sult that an American Minister, true to his always professed principles, dares to speak about European politics. Look how one of my aristocratic antago nists, who quietly keeps house in France, where l was not permitted to pass, and who, a tool in other hands, would like to check my endeavors to benefit my country, because he would like in some other way to get home than by a revolution and into a Repub lic. Look how he, from Paris, in London papers, dares scorn the idea lhat America could pretend to weigh anything in the scale of European events. Do you like this proposition, free Repub licans of America? And yet, that is your position in the world now ; and that position is the consequence of your adhering even then to your policy of indifference, when it would have been a necessity to act like a power of earth. Remember the Sibylline book. The first three were burned when you silently let Russian interference be accomplished in Hun gary, and not giving us the saving bark of your recognition when, we had achieved and declared our independence. Six books yet remain. The Spirit of the age, the Sibylline of opportunity, holds the other three books nverthe fire. Do not allow her to burn them, else only the last three re- * . main, and I fear you will have, without pro- fit, more to pay for them than would have bought the whole nine, and with them the glory and happiness of an eternal, mighty Republic. did; and as every body knows, was once your candidate for President. To sec such a man repenting, and returning to his ‘first love ,1 is truly grateful to our feelings, while it must rasp up yours to the highest pitch of irritation. Hence the very extraordinary character of your letter. Before your most unfortunate apostacy from the colonization faith, your views were those of a statesman, noble anti manly; your benevolence was expansive, and included the whole colored race ; the benighted people of Afiica, as well as those in our own country. But since you yielded up your own better judgment to the blighting counsels and influ ence of Mr. Garrison, that ‘noble Garrison,1 (as you call him,) your heart seems to have shrivelled to less than half of its former di mensions. We hear no move eloquent speech es, such as you delivered at Ithaca in 1839 : in which you made Africa and the nefarious foreign slave trade the theme of your remarks. We hear no more from you of the horrors of Intestine wore in Africa, ■ burning Of Vil lages, and the capture of prisoners for the supply of the slave market. No mote do we hear of the horrors of the middle passage— no more about the necessity for a cordon of settlements of civilized men along the coast of Africa, to keep off the slave ships, and to teach the natives a belter and more humane commerce than that of the traffic in the flesh and blood of their fellow men. the topics you thep, dwelt upon with convinc The recital of the barbarism C r a n b e r r i r s o n H igh L and , —Paul Hatha way of North Middleborough Mass, writes to the Ploughman that he has succeeded in cultivating cranberries in a lot which had been pastured and mown for more than sixty years, producing little feed (soil sandy loam with rocks hnd small stones.) He ploughed in the fall and the next spring obtained vines from a bog meadow and set them out in small holes three feet apart each way. Not one in a hundred failed and they bore cran berries the same year. • f .1 4 V ▲ * I L • _ you was so young as mind and judgment? Was this the way in which you Was deceived? It cannot be; for although [ do not know precisely your age, yet 1 hazard nothing in saying that you was more than twenty-five years old when you joined that Society. And is it possible that you are willing to stultify yourself so much as to declare that 11 (you) joined it as an Abolition Society1 ! ! And would you have the world believe that you >vas so stu pid that you did not take the precaution to read its Constitution before you joined it? And that if you did read it, that your intel lect at that tender age was so feeble, that you did not understand the difference be tween a Colonization and an Abolition So ciety? The Constitution of the American Coloni zation is so plain and explicit, that I cannot conceive how any sane mind could ever have misunderstood it. Here it is: A rt . 1st. This Society shall be called the American Colonization Society for coloniz ing the free people of color of the United States. A rt . 2d. The object to which its attention is to be exclusivly directed, is to promote and execute a plan For colonizing (with their consent,) the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such other places as Congress may deem most expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in co-operation with the general government, and such of the States as may adopt regula tions upon the subject. In the above two articles of the Constitu tion, the whole plan, aims and objects of the Society are spread out to the gaze and in spection of the world. There is not one word q-bout abolition in it. And yet you dare to say to the Governor, that ‘ you was deceived ?—that 4 you thought you had join ed an Abolition Society1 ! ! And pray, sir, how long did it take you to find out your mistake 3 to discover this monstrous cheat, by which ‘ you\ was deceived.1 f believe you was a member of the Colonization So-' ciety about ten years, and most of that time Vice President. The Society was organized in the year 1816. You did not discover your mistake, and that you had got into the wrong box, until 1835 ! ! In your own lan guage may I not say, 1 shame on your head and shame on your heart,1 that you made 6(fch a mistake, and took so long to find it out. But who among all your friends, or all your enemies, will so dishonor your head, as to believe that you was ever deceived or mistaken in any of these matters. The truth is, you have simply changed your mind , be ing led astray by Mr. Garrison, that ‘noble Garrison1 whom you so much admire; who contemns all human government and the 4lh commandment. You are a very singular man, whether yon know it or not. It is difficult to follow your track in your vascil- lating course and winding ways. You now charge the Colonization Society with being ‘the unmeasured calumniator of the Aboli tionists.’ In the year 1834 you made a speech, (as you are in the habit of doing,) and what did you then say? You said (and said it truly,) that the Abolitionists were the aggressors,—that they were the calumniators. And how did you then speak of Abolition m g eloquence. and sufferings of colored people, stirred our souls, excited our sympathies, and we were converted to the colonization enteprise. We see no reason why we (like you) should a- bandon it. It has not deceived us. Although the primary object of the Ameri can Colonization Society was to benefit the free people of color, of this country, as it is plainly expressed in its constitution, still it was forseen by its founders and members, that its enterprise would inevitably tend to civilize, christianize, and bless all Africa, and do more to break up the inhuman slave trade Ilian the united squadrons of the British and American navies. It was also forseen, that the improved condition of the colonists in Liberia, would naturally induce such slave holders as have a conscience, and who pro fess to love their slaves, to manumit them for the purpose of sending them to a comfortable home ; and experience has shown that this epxectation has been realized. These are the views and the hopes of colonizationists.\ Such were yours, when you was a member of our society. But alas, you have exchang ed them for the contracted and narrow-mind- ed policy of caving only for the colored peo ple of this country, wtiom you would un wisely and cruelly shut up in these States, simply because ‘ they were bom here, and have a right to stay here.1 And now let us examine your wisdom and your humanity in this scheme of confining our colored people within these States, anti opposing emigration and colonization. You admit in your letter, that their present cbndi- tion is that of '‘deep degradation 1 and dis franchisement. In their present condition, you say, that 1 they are their own worst en emies,1—pent up in our 1 cities, where the mass of them rot both physically and moral ly? You also admit that the constitutions and laws of the free Stales, are becoming more and more stringent and unrighteous to wards free colored people; and that’at present there is no prospect of any melioration of their condition. To complete this dark pic ture, you have added (what is not true) that our ‘ Society has made and will continue to make America a Hell to the colored people. For the sake of argument, admit the last charge to be true, and then defend, if you can, your unnatural, awkward, and inconsit - ent position. You are as cruel as Pharaoh. You 1 will not let the people go1 out of this bondage. They must stay forever with their oppressors, because they have a right to do so. You and Mr. Garrison have monopoliz ed all the zeal and love for the welfare of our colored people, and yet you most strenu ously insist on retaining them under all their sufferings, in this 1 American Hell!' This is, to men of but common sense, a strange way to manifest your love ! Are you not still ‘blind to philosophy and history 3’ Your old friend Mr. Birney, has ‘ come to his right mind’ on this subject. He has dis covered the monstrous inconsistency of the position he and you have occupied ; and he has had the good sense and candor- to give up his pride of a mistaken opinion, and has come back to the old platform which he de serted. It is to be hoped that you will soon follow his example. You are exceedingly cruel to our free col ored people, when you discourage them from going to the Republic o£ Liberia, where th,ey may be freed from all the abuse, and all th^L statements of Mr. Garrison and your It is true lhat sicknesand mortality pre vailed to a considerable extent among some companies of the first emigrants to Liberia, and particularly with those of northern con stitutions; and in the absence of physicians who kenw how to treat the acclimating fever; and partly too through theirown imprudence. But the mortality in Liberia at no time hears any comparison to that which took place in the early history of our own country, at Ply mouth and Jamestown. You had no right to represent Liberia as a frightful grave yard. 1 The facts recorded in Dr. Alexander’s History of Colonization, contradict you, and make you a ‘ false accuser.1 Says Doctor Trotten, the colonial physi cian, in his official Report to the Society, ‘The mortality little exceeds that experienced in the most healthy parts of the world. 1 have no doubt that emigrants from the north, if they be placed and provided for in the proper man ner, may with few exceptions, be carried safely through the fever, and enjoy the same health as in the United Slates.1 Francis Devana, (high sheriff of Liberia,) being examined in Washington in 1830, be fore a commitle of Congress, declared, that ‘The health of the colony is generally good . From 10 days to 6 week after their arrival, strangers are liable to an attack of ague and fever, but after that time they are generally healthy.1 Captain Pnwlin reports to the Board, a very decided testimony in favor of the Colony.— ‘It is growing finely. All is health, activity, and prosperity.’ Says Capt. Nicholson, in 1837, ‘The salu brityof the climate is found to increase as the forests are cleared away.’ Says D dc I ov Hall, in 1836, ‘l am now able to assure yon that we continue to prosper; and l believe I may truly say , that every month of existence witnesses an increase of energy, industry, and contentment among the fine inhabitants of our little settlement.’ ‘In September 1837, a public meeting was held by the citizens of Monrovia, for the pur pose of declaring and making known to the world their free sentiments and opinions con cerning African Colonization. This interest ing meeting was addressed by several citizens of the Colony, under a deep sense of obliga tion to the Colonzation Society ; and with an enthusiasm and eloquence worthy of the cause they had assembled to promote. Said one, ‘I arrived in Africa on the 24th of May, 1823. My object in coming was liberty , and under the firm conviction that Africa is the only place, in existing circumstances where the man of c o l o r can onjny iWo inoelimnhlp VI i pcc . ings of liberty and equality, I feel grateful beyond expression, to the American Coloni zation Society for preparing this peaceful Asylum.’ Said another, ‘I thank.God that ever He put it into the hearts of the Colonization So ciety to seek out this free soil on which 1 have been so honored as to set my feet. 1 These Vreic | and my famliy were born in Charleston, South Carolina, under the appellation of free people; But freedom 1 never knew, until by the benevolence of this Society, we were conveyed to the shores of Africa. My lan guage is too poor t< express the gratitude I entertain towards the American Coloniztion Society.’ Said a third, ‘ I came to Liberia in 1832. My place of residence was the city of Wash ington, District of Columbia,, where I passed for a free man. But I can now say that 1 was never free until I landed on the shores of Africa. I further state, that Africa , as far as I am acquainted with the world, is the only place where the people of color can en joy true and rational liberty.1 Said a fourth, ‘ I beg leave to state that my situation is greatly altered for the better by coming to Africa. My political knowl edge is far superior to what it would have been had I remainec^r.t America a thousand years. 1 therefore seize this chance to pre sent my thanks to the American Colonization Society for enabling me to come to this col ony, which they have so benevolently estab lished.1 The following Resolutions, among others, were then passed, as expressive of the sense of the meeting: That this meeting regard the colonization as one of the highest, .holiest, and most be nevolent enterprises of the present day.— That as a plan for the melioration of the condition of the colored race, it takes the pre cedence of all that have been presented to the attention of the modern world. That in its operations, it is peaceful and safe—its tendencies benevolent and advantageous.— x 1 That it is entitled to the highest veneration and unbounded confidenceof every man of col or. That what it has already accomplished demands our devout thanks and gratitude to those noble and disinterested philanthropists who compose it, as being under God the greatest earthly benefactors of a despised and oppressed portion of the human family.’ ‘Whereas it has been widely and malicious ly circulated in the United States of America, lhat the inhabitants of this Colony are un happy in their condition and anxious to re turn. Resolved . That the report is false and malicious, and otignated only in a de sign to injure the Colony by calling off the support and sympathy of its friends; that so far from having a desire to return, we should regard such an evpnt the greatest calamity that could befall us.’ Nothing more is needed to prove that Liberia is not a ‘frightful grave-yard.1 Noth- 41 (Get rit Smith) conclude with saying, that if there are members of the Legislature who wish to give money to the Colonization Society, let them give it from theirown pock ets, and not presume to give it from the Treasury of the State. To give it from the Treasury of the Slate, is to thrust their hands into my pockets, and into the pockets of tens of thousands, who in common with me, re gard that Society as nnunparalledcompound othypocrisy and meanness and-?na/tgmVy, and as the shameless servants o f the slaveholders. \ye had rather be plundered by highwaymen, than have our money taken from us for the purpose of strengthening the hands of such a society. Nay, we had rather our money were taken from us to buy daggers to plunge into the bosoms of our'colorfd brethren ; for the plans and policy of the American Coloniza tion Society are more murderous than dag gers.* How finely this beautiful paragraph con trasts with the statements of emigrants, and resolutions passed at the meeting of the citi zens of Monrovia ! ! How tender of the ‘ bosoms of our colored brethren!1 General Arnold never indulged in quite so severe lan guage towards those,from whom he deserted. Michael, the Arch-angle, would not have ‘dared’ to write such a ‘ railing accusation,’ even against the devil. You must have for gotten that story, or you would not have hazarded your Christian reputation so 'much. The standing and character of a ‘ railer11 is that of an 1 idolater and a drunkard;1 unfit for Christians to cat with. (See 1st Cor. 5 : 11.) But who is a ‘ railer ?’ Noah Webster says that a ‘railer ’ is ‘one who scoffs,insults, censures or reproaches with opprobrious lan guage/ Have you not ‘ r a i l e d not only against the American Colonization Society, (which is composed of some of the best statesmen, patriots and Christians the world affords,) but against what you arc pleased to term the ‘ current,’ the * conventional religion, of our country? You say they are 1 in f del' 1 hypocritical,9 l mean,' ‘ fiendish,' 'devilish? ‘ murderers? ^c. fyc. Let an intelligent public pronounce the verdict in the case. If they say you are not guilty of ‘railing,1 then 1 will admit that Noah Webster is no authority, and that 1 am greatly mistaken. If they should bring you in guilty, as I expect they will, I hope it will teach you to be a little more modest and charitable toward those who happen to differ with you as to the best way of conferring favors on our neighbors. With due respect, H ermon C amp . Puritanic Law. A friei d favors us with a copy of the Northampton (Mass.) Courier, which in a sketch of the local history of Easlhampton, relates the following. Some changes have come “ ’twixl now and then Great stress was laid by men of the past generation, on the performance of the public duties of the Sabbath. It will surprise teome of my hearers to be informed, that a law once existed, compelling men to attend meet ing on the Sabbath, once every quarter, or submit to the payment of a fine. i say no thing of the wisdom of such a law.. The law was once or twice actually enforced in thirf place. And then, too, that other law which forbade all unnecessary traveling on the Sabbath ; how faithfully that was executed by the tythingman, carrying through the street his staff of office. And, constructed as the galleries then were, in the meeting-hous es, and occupied as they were, almost entire ly by the youth,how frequently this officer had occassion to exerceise the duties of his office, during and after divine worship. Often did the playful hoy, snugly rnsconsed in one corner of a gallery pew or pen, more inlent on play than on listening to the sermon, hear the monition of the tythingman,warning him by name,with stentorian voice, to desist from Ins play ; and sometimes, too, he wished himself very small, as the self-important of ficial opened the pew door, took him out and showed him up to the staring congregatioth During this operation,at times interrupting the good minister in the delivery of his discourse, the unlucky wight certainly felt small and cheap too, whatever his size may have been. And how dreaded, too was thal wnrden staff, by the young folks, who were bent on whis pering laughing or playing in divine worship, and how often did they have occasion to rue that propensity/as they fell on the head, the rap from that staff, not soon to be forgotten. Female Society, You know my opinion of female society; with out it we should degenerate into brutes. This observation applies, with tenfold force, to you ng men.and those who are in the prime of manhood. For, after a certaine time of life, the literary man makes a shift (a poor one, l grant) to do ik * ladies. To a young man nothing is so im portant as a spirit of devotion (next to his Creator) to some amiable woman, whose image nay occupy his heart, and guard it from the pollution that besets it no all sides. A man ought to choose his wife as Mrs. Primrose did her wedding-gown, for quali ties that will ‘wear well.’ One thing at Jeast is true, that if matrimony has its cares, cel ibacy has on pleasures. A Newton, or a mere scholar, may find enjoyment in study; a man of litereiy taste can receive in books a powerful auxiliary; but a man must have a bosom friend, and children around him, to cherish and support the drea'iness of old age. — John Randolph. V aledictory of an E ditor . —The fol lowing is the valedictory article of an editor out West: ‘The undersigned retires from the editorial chair with a complete conviction that all is vanity. From the hour he started his paper, to the present time, he has been solicited to lie upon every given subject, and can’t re member ever having told a wholesome truth, without diminishing his subscription list, or making an enemey. Under these circum stances of trial, and having a thorough con tempt for himself, he retires, in order to re cruit his moral constitution.’ A man in this city, who had hut recently commenced business, found his creditors lath er too prompt in urgin/ the payment of their little bill.s. ‘What is the matter?1 he at length asked., ‘Do you fear me ?’ ‘Yes,’ was the hesitating reply of a modest dun. ‘Fear me!’ he exclaimed, ‘on what grounds? Has auy one said l am not honest?’ ‘No, no,’ replied the other ‘ but—’ But what, sir?’ ‘ Why, to be candid with you, we have no confidence in your business capacity, seeing you do not advertise.’ The man immediate ly madean annual contract with three papers, and is now in excellent credit, and prosper ing finely —A/b. Knick . M acready ’ s O pinion of the S tage as a S chool of M orals —Mr. Macready, the tragedian, now resides at Sherborne, in the bosom of a most interesting family of twelve children. Among many excellent rules for the government of his family, is one, from which, it is said, he has never deviated. It is, that no one of his children should ever, on any pretence, enter a theatre, or have any visiting connection with actors or actresses. Mrs. Swisshelm declares that the coil of an Anaconda would make a better girdle for a young woman’s waist than the arm of a drunken husband. A little girl told to spell ferment', and give its meaning, with a sentence in which it was used, unswered :—‘ F-e-r-m e-n t-, a signifying to work —I love to ferment garden * verb, in the n ‘I wonder,’ said a Scottish maiden, ‘what my brother John sees in the lasses that he . . . .. . - . . . likes them sae well; for my part I would no .ng more need to be adduced to prove that gie lhe coinpany Q, U ,ad for twenty lasses.’ your efforts to prejudice the Governor, the n 1 J _ ___ J Legislature, and our people of color against the American Colonization Society, are the result of those vindictive feelings which are common to all deserters from a good cause. This was the case with a celebrated General in the days of our Revolution, who made a mistake similar to yours. He got into the wrong box, the wrong army; and finally found out that the Whigs were rebels, and immediately deserted them and joined the army of his King. Ever after that, he hate l the rebels with a perfect hatred. He did not, however, plead the baby act to excuse his mistake. But I promised to copy a paragraph from your letter, as a fair specimen of the whole, and to show clearly how much you love the colored people, and how intensely yon hate Here cooks there It is an old sa>ing that “ too many | spoil the broth,” but we really wish were, in our vicinity a few more such man as Charles Cook of Havana, Charles A. Cook of Geneva, and Constant Cook or Paul C. Cook of Bath, either of whom is \Vorth a hundred orinaryman in organizing earn ing ont a project of finance or speculation. Dundee Record. L ola M oxtez . —This fair notoriety wa* on her way, in Ihe cars, from Washington to this city, one day last week, we believe, when she look out a cigarette, lit it, and throwing herself elegantly back in her seat, began to puff out the smoke like—like any thing. Presently there came to her one of the conductors, who said ‘ Madame, you can’t smoke here*’ ‘ Eli?1 said the piquant beauty, leisurely withdrawing the cigarette from her pretty mouth. ‘ You can’t smoke here, madame.’ ‘ But you see I can? and she puffed* forth a volume of smoke into the very face of the mystified and abashed conductor, who wms feign to leave the beauty to do as she pleas ed. So she finished her cigarette without fur ther annoyance or interruption. Such is Lola Montcz—the friend, adviser, and savior of the King of Bavaria. In your undertakings, if you will be suc cessful, let reason he the president of all your actions;—miscarriages are the effect of folly; fools are unfortunate because the)' never con sider; and men make Fortune greater than she is, and by their own folly increase her power. Foresight is the right eye of Pru dence. The intellect was created not to receive passively a few words, dates, and facts, hut to be active for the acquisition of truth. Ac cordingly, education should labor to inspire a profound love of truth, and to teach the processes of investigation. We cannot guard too much against indulg ing in thoughts and actions, which, trivial as they may at first appear, would give a cast to our whole character, should they become set tled habits. If parents would render their children hap py and wealthy, they should early inculcate in them a desire for, and a knowledge of la bor, both manual and mental. The temperate man’s pleasures are dura- able, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. The most slendid efforts of genius are less the effect of inspiration than lhat of profound thinking. The Messrs. Be/cher, sugar-refiners, in St. Louis, are boring an artesian well on their premises. They have gone down 1,275 feet, and expect to go some 500 feet lower. The yearly cost of a large ship of the line is about $341,000 : of the Ohio (64) $266,000, of a razee $200,(fOO : of large frigates $150,- 00 q , second calss do. $121 000 ; sloop-nf- war $55,000 to $62,000; bring-of-war $25,- 000. A merican S tatistical A ssociation ; —There is, in Boston, an Association devoted to the collection of Statistics ini every department of hnmmt affairs, se lecting and arranging facts which relate to the condition arid progress of man. They have already gathered much relate ing to population mortality, education* pauperism, crime, finance, commerce, agriculture, manufactures, and other topics illustrative of the development) advancement, or retrogression of society. This Society has been many years in ex istence, and its labors cannot fail to be of great utility to thoes who seek for, sound legislation. Dr. E. Jarvis, of Dorch ester, Massachusetts, is President, and Wm. Brigham, Esq., Foreign Corres ponding Secretary.— Rock. Democrats H omesteads from U ncle S am ' s B io ; F arm . —The Homestead Bill, upon vgjiicli so many political speeches have b$e,D and, are being made in the Housft.Yif Rep resentatives at Washington,, grants to every man who is at the hend qf a.fanqin !y and a citizen of the U. S. a homstead of one hundred and sixty acres of land: out of the public domain, upon condition of occupancy and cultivation of the same^ for a period therein prescribed. i i those whom you have deserted e it is The story that Jenny Lind had purchased a farm at Nopthampton, is contradicted. ... . W anted .-1- A pair ofspectacles to sajtthe, eyes of a potato. The club with which an idea struck $$ poet $ » .. *■ -s - 1.. i-~ K ■**- !
