TO CORRESPONDENTS.
J. H. C., of Brooklyn, N. Y. We whall be glad to receive his communication.
M. R. D. His letters and list from Buffalo have been received and credited. May his sanguine hopes be more than realised!
J. L., of Lawrence, Massachusetts. His flattering notice has been received. We trust the future course will give no less cause for satisfaction.
J. W. and J. S. J. The letter of these devoted friends was received, and the North Star forwarded to Albany, as requested. Their absence from the Rochester Bazaar and annual meeting was much regretted. They will act as Agents.
B. W. R., N. Newbury, Ohio. His list of cash subscribers are gratefully acknowledged.
E. L. P., of Bath, New York. Copies forwarded as requested.
S. B., of Salem, Ohio. Favor of December 29th received. Shall be unable to furnish the list therein called for.
M. A. T., of Fallstown, Pa. Happy to acknowledge his communication. The Star has been mailed to order.
J. M. McK., Philadelphia. His good word has been received, and subscribers supplied.
J. W. W., Utica, Ohio. His request has been complied with. May a good list of subscribers be the result.
D. R., Le Roy, New York. The matter shall be adjusted.
D. J., Columbus, Ohio. We hope to find room for his communication.
THE MEXICAN WAR.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin makes the following estimate of the cost of the war thus far:
| The increase of the public debt, agreeably to the statement of the President, has been | $27,870,859 |
| The surplus in the treasury at the commencement of hostilities, was | 12,000,000 |
| The additional surplus that would have accumulated up to this time, under a peace establishment and expenditure | 12,000,000 |
| The further extra surplus that would have also accumulated, under the operation of the tariff of 1846, agreeably to the President's statement, of more than | 8,000,000 |
| The Bounty Lands to the Volunteers | 8,000,000 |
| The arrearages for pay due the army and volunteers, and for supplies, contracts and damages, &c. | 12,000,000 |
| The sum required to replenish our arsenals | 4,000,000 |
| The Pension List, estimated on the average duration of twenty years of life, to the wounded and families of the dead, two millions per annum | 40,000,000 |
| Making a grand total of | $123,870,659 |
From the London Weekly Dispatch.
The miserable and devastating war between the United States and Mexico still continues. The war is growing at every point more sanguinary, as well as more desultory, and the individual passions of men are becoming more sternly and desperately exasperated against each other, converting the whole territory into a scene of outrage and bloodshed. We have in this war batch such a spectacle as the mother country, exhibited during the invasion of Napoleon,—a country occupied by the enemy in his capital and in most of its important points, but with the authority of the occupying power obeyed or respected only where an armed force is present to uphold it. We have a native population, quite incapable of contending in the field with the drilled armies of their invaders, driven from their homes in many instances, and with a fugitive government, almost unable to find a resting-place; yet among these people no idea is so hateful as that of peace, and no sentiment is so strong as that of vengeance on the aggressors. Santa Anna, though he has never been able to cope with his opponents in pitched battles, has great and acknowledged skill in erecting this guerilla spirit. He consents to negociate, but only to put his adversaries directly in the wrong, and to publish to Europe,, and especially to his own countrymen, the admission in plain words, or by as plain a silence, that his country has been attacked, and its citizens slaughtered, without any colorable plea. In his correspondence with Mr. Trist, the American Envoy, he insists that the treaty shall commence by a declaration of the causes of the war, or that it shall be distinctly declared that the Anglo-Americans decline to state them. The aggressors can find no reply, and stand self-convicted in the face that the world of the most unprovoked and barbarous attack. The Anglo-Americans are willing now to pay for the cessions they demand, and to take upon themselves the settlement of the very claims which they pretended to make the cause of quarrel—the debts due from Mexico to their citizens. All this, as Santa Anna forces them to prove, might have been gained, without spilling a drop of blood. In the midst of the horrors of this war, utterly disgraceful to the civilized world, more disgraceful to the republic which proposes itself as the pioneer of mankind, more scandalous still from the hypocritically insignificant cause of dispute, the organs of public opinion in the United States call for an increase of the evils of the war. They ask, with refined barbarity, the entire destruction of all the Mexican cities. We know the crimes and the suffering which such advice includes. There is no abomination which man can inflict or endure, which is not in the catalogue. And, composed as the American army mainly is, of the most ruffianly of their own people, aided by the buccaneers, the vomitings of all lands, we may imagine how such a work would be executed. A series of murders, rapes, robberies, and arsons, revenged by those against whom they are committed, is the war which the enlightened republic is recommended to wage, and which is very lively to result from the quarrel into which Mr. Polk has led his fellow-citizens. So mean an instrument never yet accomplished such tremendous evil. As for our American brethren, the children of our race, we ask, how long will they continue to disgrace us and themselves, and the institutions which the best men in both lands looked to as the beacon of their hopes? How long will they keep down the Anglo-Saxon race, and a republican constitution in one common and overwhelming infamy? Or, rather, how long will the good, the lovers of the liberty, the prophets of men's rights, suffer themselves to be ruled and represented by the vilest ambition that ever yet showed its recklessness of human sufferings, and its contempt for human progress?
From the Poughkeepsie Telegraph.
CHARLES VAN LOON.
An able and eloquent man has been stricken down in our midst. The Rev. Charles Van Loon, respected for his talents, and his faithfulness as a christian minister, has died in the morning of life, being only in his 29th year, and in a career of usefulness. To the First Baptist Church of which he was the devoted pastor, his loss will be great, to his wife and family irreparable, and to the community in which he lived, and where he was always ready to raise his voice for every benevolent or philanthropic movement, it will be generally mourned, as very difficult to be supplied.
Since his residence here, which has been upwards of four years, his health his been feeble, though he has been able most of the time to preach and discharge his other pastoral duties. During the last summer he left home on a tour for health, and travailed into Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and the western part of this State.
Since his return, his health has been better, and he has labored zealously in the cause to which his life was devoted. On Sabbath morning last, he preached, it was thought by its congregation, with even more than usual strength and terror; and in reply to some inquires afterwards as to his health, he replied "He never felt better in his life."
He gave out his subject for the evening, and stated his text would be "We all do fade as the leaf." Just before service, while he was engaged at his house in giving to a member of the choir the number of the hymns to be sung, he was suddenly seized with an apoplectic attack. Medical aid was immediately called, he was bled, and consciousness partially restored, but he was beyond human assistance, and died about one o'clock that night.
Thus has fallen a ripe scholar, a sound reasoner, and an able and impressive speaker. True it is, that when least expected, death aims his arrow at a shining mark.
It may be observed that his text in the morning foreshadowed his departure. It was from the sixteenth chapter of John, and at the last clause of the 32d verse, where Christ speaks of being separated from his disciples. The words are "I am not alone, because the Father is with me." And he alluded in conclusion, to the consoling fact, that the Christian was not alone in his dying hour.
The remains of the deceased were attended to the steamboat landing on Monday evening, by the Sons of Temperance, of Division No. 9, of which he was a member, and by the Rechabites, to be conveyed to Albany, where his parents reside, and where he had buried since his residence here two children. In the evening there were funeral services in the church of which he had been pastor. The building was crowded to overflowing, by the hundreds of our citizens whom he had often addressed, and by whom he was esteemed and beloved.
The following is an extract from a sermon preached in Poughkeepsie, on Monday evening, Nov. 22d, by the Rev. Mr. Ludlow.
"I never knew a man more principled in his every action, than Charles Van Loon. Nothing could intimidate or bribe him to turn aside a moment from what he believed to be the path of God's requirements, or descend from the eminence of acknowledged rectitude to a mean action. There was a magnanimity about our brother, whose character was truly enviable. It was on this account he threw himself into all the moral reforms of the day. In him, the down-trodden and the dumb of every complexion found a friend and advocate, and his voice was lifted up in every association which contemplated the ultimate overthrow of intemperance, licentiousness and slavery. It was nothing to Charles Van Loon, that the rich and polished turned the cold shoulder to these celestial enterprises. It was enough for him that they were crowned and blessed of God, and contemplated the redemption of suffering man from oppression and from crime. When Charles Van Loon was converted, he was consecrated to men as well as to God, to humanity as well as religion. As a minister of Christ, he was eminently powerfu1. Few men could command the attention of an audience, and hold the people in breathless silence, more than he. When he gave utterance to his deep convictions, in his deep and solemn tones, he made the congregation feel that the claims of Christ and of his Gospel to their respect and their confidence were real. He understood not only the system, but the philosophy of the theology he taught. His was not only the full assurance of faith, but the full assurance of the understanding."
TORREY'S MONUMENT.
A monument has just been erected, by means of voluntary contributions, over the grave of Torrey, in Mount Auburn. It occupies a conspicuous position, and is thus described by the Emancipator:
The form is three-sided, with such finishings as give it great beauty of appearance, as it stands, surrounded by three avenues. It is of fine Italian marble, handsomely clouded, resting on a granite base, which is itself elevated on a green mound, making the entire height upwards of ten feet, of which the marble makes eight feet and upwards.
The front or principal side has a beautiful medallion head of Torrey, cast in bronze, inserted in the marble with pleasing effect.
Reverend Charles T. Torrey, born at Scituate, Nov. 21. 1813: graduated at Yale College, Aug., 1833: ordained at Providence, March, 1837: arrested at Baltimore, June 24, 1844: died in the Penitentiary of that city, May 9, 1846.
The friends of the American slave erect this stone to his memory, as a martyr for liberty.
Over the head is the following sublime sentiment written by Torrey, in prison, but three months before his death, when he was already sinking under disease, and when he was apprehensive that his friends might urge him to purchase his release, by some acknowledgements or pledges unworthy of his principles and character:
"It is better to die in prison with the peace of God in our breasts, than to live in freedom, with a polluted conscience."—Torrey's letter, Feb. 7, 1846.
On the second side is a well conceived statue of a kneeling slave, cast in bronze, with these glorious lines of Whittier, Freedom's Poet.
"Where NOW beneath his burthen,
The toiling slave is driven,
Where now a tyrant's mockery
In offered unto Heaven;
THERE shall his praise be spoken,
Redeem'd from Falsehood's ban,
When the fetters shall be broken,
And the slave shall be a MAN."
On the third side is a brief and simple statement of the circumstances of his death, the facts alone, without comment or enhancement:
Charles Turner Torrey was arrested for aiding slaves to regain their liberty. For this act he was indicted as a criminal, and convicted by the Baltimore city court, and sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. While on his death-bed he was refused a pardon by the Governor of Maryland, and died of consumption, after two years confinement, a victim of his sufferings.
NOTICES OF THE NORTH STAR.
The following selections from numerous papers will show in what spirit the North Star is hailed by the press. A few of the baser sort, such as the New York Express, we understand, have made our appearance the occasion of pouring out a little of their pro-slavery hate. But this we can afford to bear, when we consider the respectful bearing toward us of the more respectable journals of our land.
The first number of this new Anti-Slavery paper, under the editorial control of Frederick Douglass, has appeared. It is well printed, and gives promise of ability. In sentiment it is ultra abolition; better in its denunciations of slavery, and making but little allowance for other people's opinions and prejudices. We see much in the opening number that we cannot agree with in sentiment; but the paper, as well as its proprietors, have our best wishes for its success.—Rochester Daily Democrat.
We have received the first number of Frederick Douglass' new paper, bearing the above title. It is unnecessary to say that it bears marks of much ability: for the public is well aware of the talents of its editor.
The fact that so creditable a journal is published and conducted by a colored man, is to us full of interest. It is very likely we shall differ widely in opinion from the North Star, yet we rejoice in the augury its publication affords, of the elevation which sooner or later must come to an oppressed race.—Rochester Daily American.
The new Anti-Slavery paper called the North Star has just made its appearance. It is a beautiful sheet, doing great credit to its printers and publishers. Frederick Douglass is its principal editor, and all who know him can make a correct estimate of its editorial ability. Mr. Douglass was once a slave: some ten years ago he escaped from bondage; the Abolitionists of Massachusetts discerned his talents, and gave him an education. Two years ago he went to England, and furnished the English with a good living text from which to vent their spleen against us. He received great attention, traveled through the United Kingdom, obtained from Englishmen his press and types, or at any rate the money wherewith to purchase them, and now has settled down in Rochester to speak out for his brethren who are lying in bondage.
Since his escape he has certainly enjoyed great advantages both of study and observation—and his fine natural talents have enabled him to improve them. In his new enterprise we hope he will take discretion as his guide, and remember that no matter how holy the cause he advocates, exhibitions of violence either in language or otherwise, only tend to retard its advance, whilst calmness and dignity win respect both for our arguments and ourselves. We wish him all the success he deserves.—Rochester Evening Gazette.
The first number of this large and interesting sheet is before us. It is published every Friday, at No. 25, Buffalo Sreet, Rochester, at two dollars per annum, always in advance. Frederick Douglass and M. R. Delany, editors.
Mr. Douglass, it is well known, is a manumitted slave, and has, for several years past, been a very popular lecturer in the cause of abolition. Consequently the "North Star," chiefly under his supervision, may be expected to be principally devoted to that cause. The Lord crown the philanthropic enterprise with abundant success.—Advent Harbinger.
This paper, of which Frederick Douglass is editor and proprietor, made its appearance in this city on Monday morning last. The paper is large and of respectable appearance. Mr. Douglass is a man of decided talent, and is capable of making the paper a very useful anti-slavery instrumentality. We apprehend, however, that the bent of the paper cannot be decided from the first issue. The number before us, so far as we can see, contains no very objectionable features. In the progress of the enterprise, we shall learn the tendency and spirit of the man and the paper.—Genesee Evangelist.
The first number of this paper—conducted by Frederick Douglass, the distinguished refugee from slavery—appeared some days since, but, owing to some mishap, we did not get hold of it until yesterday. A glance is all that we have been able to bestow upon it: but its mechanical appearance is exceedingly neat, and its leading article indicates a high order of talent. Mr. Douglass, it will not be denied, is a man of much more than an ordinary share of intellect; and having himself experienced the sweets of the "institution," it is not to be wondered that he is an enthusiastic abolitionist. As we have plenty of professing abolitionists among us, we trust they will deport from their usual liberality, and sustain Mr. Douglass' paper.—Rochester Daily Advertiser.
The North Star is the title of a paper just started in this city, devoted to the cause of Abolitionism, by Frederick Douglass, a colored man, who has felt the evils and wrongs of slavery in his own person for more than 20 years. He has traveled and lectured extensively in this country and in many parts of Europe, and has obtained from the latter country money sufficient for his present undertaking. He is possessed of the requisite talent and information to make his paper an efficient organ of the Abolition party.—Christian Sentinel.
We have just received the first number of Mr. Douglass' new paper, the "North Star," published at Rochester. N. Y. It is a large and handsome sheet, exceedingly well printed and put together. Its principal editorial contents are, the editor's introduction to his readers, (which we shall copy in another place;) an address to the colored population; and a letter, extremely pointed and spirited, to Mr. Clay, suggested by his late Lexington speech. Its literary and mechanical execution would do honor to any paper, new or old, anti-slavery or pro-s1averv, in the country. Mr. Douglass has our sincere good wishes for the highest degree of prosperity and usefulness in his new career. The prospects of his labors in this as yet untried field, are certainly full of promise of an answering harvest. We hope, as we believe, that it will not "unbeseem the promise of its Spring."
Dr. M. R. Delany, late of the Pittsburg Mystery, (which, we believe, has been united with the North Star,) is associated with Mr. Douglass in the editorship of the new paper, and will bring a measure of practical experience into the partnership which cannot fail of being advantageous to its interests. Mr. William C. Nell, favorably known to most of our readers from its connection formerly with the Liberator, and from his prominence in all efforts for the improvement and advancement of our colored countrymen, is the publisher of the paper. His connection with it will, if possible, increase the interest which will be felt, in this region, in the success of the undertaking. The printer is Mr. John Dick, the son of Mr. Thomas Dick, of London, who is known to our readers by his communications in our columns, as one of our most intelligent friends abroad. Mr. John Dick came to this country in the course of the last summer, and made a very favorable impression upon those who made his acquaintance here, during his short sojourn among us. It must be a source of just satisfaction to the friends of Mr. Douglass in England, who supplied the means for his enterprise, that he has secured the services of this gentleman in carrying it on.
The next number of the North Star will be issued on the first Friday in January, and thenceforward regularly on every succeeding Friday. Its terms are two dollars, always in advance. We are happy to hear that the present state of the subscription list is encouraging, and trust that it will become all that its friends can desire.—Q.—Liberator.
We have received the first number of Frederick Douglass' pager—the North Star. It is neatly printed with handsome type, on a sheet almost the size of this. Its selections are judiciously made, and its editorials well written. Altogether, it does credit to the taste, the skill, and the ability of its proprietor and editor, and is all that its best friends could wish it to be. We cannot better give an idea of its contents, and the spirit with which its editor has commenced his new vocation, than by copying his introductory.—National Anti-Slavery Standard.
We are right glad to welcome this superlatively able and spirited advocate of the enslaved class from one of themselves. It is a living word which cannot fail to impress the heart of this nation. Here is a chattel in human shape who on our boasted national principle takes the reins of self-government into his own hands, revolutionizes himself, escapes from a slave state, works three years on the wharves in New Bedford, travels, lectures, writes, speaks in his own great cause, and that of his people, seven years more, and now raises in the sight of the whole nation a journal edited with as much ability as any that can be named. Of scholar, poet or statesman, we care not of whom, nothing in the shape of a weekly journal can be found more instinct with genius and mental power. We put if fearlessly to the decision of editors most devoured with prejudice against color, such as the editor of the New York Sunday Despatch, for example, can you find any short coming in this effort? Can you find a man in the editorial field who can bear the palm from Frederick Douglass? Call him saucy, impudent, out of place. There he is, a whole man—though black and a runaway slave. And we put it to the most rabid colorphobist of the whole of them, whether it is anything short of the most devilish folly to use up such timber as Douglass is made of for the vile purposes of slavery.
Douglass' paper is published at Rochester, N. Y., for $2 per annum, in advance. And it is worth any man a money. We shall give some rich extracts from it such. The typographical execution of it is first rate. Mr. Douglass is assisted in the editorial department by Mr. M. R. Delany, a gentleman of his own color; and the publisher is William C. Nell, a colored Boston boy, well known for his gentlemanly bearing and business energy.—Chronotype.
We have received from Rochester, N. Y., the first number ff Frederick Douglass' paper, which bears the name of Freedom's glorious beacon light. It is a large sheet, well printed, on good paper, and is decidedly prepossessing in typographical appearance. The motto it bears is a sentiment worthy of a reformer with the noblest aims and widest philanthropy:—"Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the Father of us all, and all we are brethren." Its opening address is manly and serious, and breathes a hopeful spirit, which is encouraged by the favorable prospects with which the enterprise commences. Perhaps no man can be found within their ranks better qualified in all respects to be the organ of the people of color in their present struggle for equal manhood in their native land. To remarkable powers of intellect, and a clear moral vision, and unconquerable perseverance, he aids the still more important qualification for this work, the solemn conviction that he is called to it. But he is too well known to our readers to need any commendation from us. That the North Star will be a powerful auxiliary to the anti-slavery cause, and eminently worthy of patronage, no one who knows Mr. Douglass will doubt. We especially hope that the colored people will extensively subscribe for it, for their own sake, as well as to sustain the paper. It is a paper which will stimulate them to improvement, and elevate their moral and intellectual character, and increase their self-respect, and the respect of other men for them. To break down the walls of prejudice, which now shut them from many avenues to honor and excellence, they should rally, by thousands, around Douglass, and sustain his hands and strengthen his heart. We quote a passage from his opening address which will show the spirit and hope with which he enters upon his new and important enterprise.—Pennsylvania Freeman.
The North Star, a new weekly folio, by Frederick Douglass & Co., No. 1, reaches us from Rochester—vigorously edited but not well printed. Its motto is—"Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the Father of us all, arid all we are brethren." Douglass does not write so happily as he speaks; but, considering that he was a benighted slave until twenty-one years old, next a laborer for three years on the wharves at New Bedford, never had a day's schooling in his life, and has been only nine years out of bondage, (if the condition of a colored hireling in a Northern city is to be considered freedom,) all must pronounce him a man of decided talent. His principal article in this No. is a letter to Mr. Clay, in review of his remarks on slavery in his late speech at Lexington—caustic, forcible, but rather more savage than is politic.
We trust the African race in this country will resolve to concentrate their patronage on the Star. Douglass is among the ablest, if not the very ablest, of their number, and will fight their battle vigorously.—N. Y. Tribune.
We have received the first number of an anti-slavery paper bearing the above title, published at Rochester, edited by Frederick Douglass and M. R. Delany. The paper evinces considerable talent, and the former gentleman (who has been a slave,) asserts his right to freedom by publishing a bill of sale, and a receipt in full for his purchase as a slave from one whom he terms a "cold-blooded Methodist man-stealer," and "the hypocritical nation that has sanctioned his infamous claim."
Although we do not coincide with the abolition views of the Star, we are willing that every one should enjoy their own principles, which they have an undoubted right to do; and if there are any in this section who wish to support a paper of this character, we would recommend them to the North Star, as in patronizing that sheet, they bestow their favors upon "one who has felt the wrongs of slavery, and fathomed the depths of its iniquity."—Newark (N. Y.) Herald.
The North Star is the title of a weekly paper at Rochester, N. Y., edited by Frederick Douglass, the fugitive slave. Its motto is, "Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the Father of us all, and all we are brethren."
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Douglass was a benighted slave, until 21 years old, next a laborer for three years on the wharves at New Bedford, never had a day's schooling in his life, has been only nine years out of bondage, and now we find him issuing one of the ablest papers in the Union. Who says the colored race is inferior in intellect?—Hampshire Herald.
We have received the first number of this paper issued at Rochester. N. Y. William C. Nell, publisher, and Frederick Douglass and M. R. Delaney, editors.
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Frederick Douglass is now about 29 years of age. We regard him as one of the most extraordinary of living men. It would seen, as if Providence had raised him up to deliver his race from bondage. We trust he will keep his eye fixed on this single sheet, and not suffer his influence to be lessened by collateral questions, not having a direct bearing upon the welfare of his race.—Cleveland (O.) True Democrat.
** We hail this accession to our list of co-laborers—this mouth-piece for the dumb slaves.
We shall say little or this behalf, as little need be said. That little we allow Mr. D. to say for himself.**** [Bangor Gazette.
The first number of the "Star," which we have been expecting for some weeks, has come to hand. Mr. Delany, formerly editor of the Pittsburg Mystery, is associated with Mr. Douglass in the editorial charge of the paper. The Star is declined, we believe, to be a powerful agent in regenerating the public sentiment of this nation on the great question of human freedom. We give in another column the address of the editors, to the colored people of the United States. It is forcible and high toned; and we are sure will be read with interest, not only by these to whom it is addressed, but by all who are friendly to the elevation of the colored man.—Anti-Slavery Bugle.
We hail this paper as a good omen, presaging the downfall of the barrier of prejudice existing towards the colored race. The first number is crowded with articles which would do honor to the pen of Henry Clay. We welcome the "North Star," with almost the same feeling the fugutive slave does the orb after which it is called, when it bursts upon his eager view, to guide him to the land of freedom. May all the expectations of friend Douglass be realized, and may his paper prove all that his friends have anticipated. With such a man as Frederick Douglass at its head, the "North Star" cannot fail to give light to the minds, and strike conviction to the souls of his white but bitter enemies. Again we say, success.—J. W.—Clarion of Freedom, (O.)
Frederick Douglass, the manumitted slave, whose lectures upon slavery have attracted so much attention in this country and Europe, has commenced the publication, at Rochester, of a paper called the "North Star." Its regular issue will commence on the first Friday in January next. The specimen sheet has been sent to us. Its typography is neat; its selections are in good taste, and its editorials exhibit a high order of talent, fervently engaged in the political and social regeneration of the wronged and oppressed victims of American slavery.—Niagara Courier.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Utica Steam Woolen Factory.—We take special pleasure in noticing the fact that dividend of ten per cent. on the stock has been declared to the stockholders in the Utica Steam Woolen Co. The first piece of finished goods was completed in this factory about the end of March last, and the establishment was not put into full operation till the latter part of April. This dividend is the result, therefore, of considerably less than a year's operation, and is a bona fide division of actual profits. It augurs well for our steam manufacturing enterprises.—Utica Gazette.
"Got a paper to spare?"
"Yes, sir; here is one of our last. Would you like to subscribe, sir, and take it regularly?"
"I would—but I am too poor."
The man had just returned from the circus, which cost fifty cents; lost time from his farm, fifty cents; whiskey, judging from the smell, at least fifty cents—making a dollar and a half actually thrown away, and then begging for a newspaper, alleging that he was too poor to pay for it!
That's what wo call "saving at the spile, and wasting at the bung hole."
Mountains of Eatables.—The annual product of provisions in this country is enormous. The statistics of the commerce of our state canals during the season just closed, prove this. Look at the mighty heap of eatables, for instance:
There were brought to the Hudson river, on all the canals of this state, during the year 1847, of
| Flour, | 3,952,972 | bbls. |
| Grain, of all kinds, | 14,055,916 | bush. |
| Peas and Beans, | 106,088 | bush." |
| Potatoes, | 108,369 | bush." |
| Dried Fruits, | 3,558,000 | lbs. |
| Pork and Beef, | 148,445 | bbls. |
| Bacon, | 4,902,000 | lbs. |
| Cheese, | 40,844,000 | lbs." |
| Butter, | 22,724,000 | lbs." |
| Lard, | 4,348,000 | lbs." |
Women in the Army.—Official documents state that there are at least 2,300 women attached to the American army, cooking, washing and tending the sick.
The Largest Church in the United States.—The First African Church, (Baptist,) Richmond, Virginia, is said to be the largest body of communicants in connection with a single congregation in the Union, being two thousand four hundred and seventy. The other churches of the same denomination in that city report in addition two hundred and 268 sixty eight colored members. Total 2,788.
What the Girls of the Bay State Do.—We have received the statistics of the various branches of industry in Massachusetts for 1845, taken with the census that year. To show our young ladies that it is no disgrace to work in the pilgrim land, we give them the particulars of the straw bonnets and hats, and straw braid, and palm-leaf hats made there in one year:
| No. | Value. | |
| Straw bonnets and hats, | 1,046,954 | 1,057,892 |
| Value of straw braid, | 102,367 | |
| Palm-leaf hat, | 480,337 | |
| $1,640,596 |
All this by females, mostly farmers' daughters. Worcester, Hampshire, and Franklin counties do most. Are not such industrious girls worth going after? Instead of street yarn, they are for dollars and cents. They don't constantly bother their parents and husbands with teasing for a new silk dress or $40 shawl. They have the money in their purses, from their own industry. There are lots of rosy cheeks who have their hundreds deposited in banks, from the straw braid employment. We once knew two sisters who bought a farm for $4,000 for their parents, from the savings of braid.—Rochester Daily American.
An Irish Compliment.—A lovely girl was bending her head over a rose tree which a lady was purchasing from an Irish basket woman in Covent Garden market, when the woman, looking kindly at the young beauty, said: "I axes yer pardon, young lady, but if it's pleasing to ye, I'd thank ye to keep yer cheek away from that rose; ye'll put the lady out of consait with the color of her flowers."
The Chicago (Illinois) Citizen, in an article on the colored population, thus speaks:
"We have made some inquiries into the condition of the colored people in this city. There are probably three hundred colored inhabitants here. Many of them are persons of property; none of them are in the lowest stages of poverty; and the day is yet to come when any one has seen a colored person begging from door to door, which cannot be said of the people of any other origin residing here. In moral character they stand on a par with any other class of our citizens."
Literature and Learning in China.—The Chinese are a reading people, and the number of their published works is very considerable. In the departments of morals, history, biography, the drama, poetry, and romance, there is no lack of writings, such as they are. The Chinese materia medica comprises forty octavo volumes; of statistical works the number is very large. Their novels are said to be excellent pictures of the national manners. China is full of books. New authors are continually spring up; the press is active, and the traffic in books is a lucrative and most honorable branch of trade. When examination take place in the capital of the palace, the most apt students are chosen to fill the office of bookmakers. There are, however, few really new works, and all that appear are compilations and quotations, the author never venturing an idea of his own; and in this consists their learning, according to Chinese notions. There is one work in the Royal Library on the topography of China, which is said to consist of 5,000 volumes: some of the best translators that have had access to some extracts from this giant, were sadly disappointed, as it appears to be a mass of confusion, without any attempt at order or proper arrangement. There are numerous small treatises similar to our tracts, gratuitously distributed by private, individuals, inculcating morality and virtue. Printing is evidently cheaper in China than in this country, when ten volumes, each containing 100 pages, can be purchased for less than a dollar. Every peasant, and the poorest fisherman, can read and write. Private and public schools are numerous in every province, and entirely independent of government. Occasionally, an examiner visits all schools, to ascertain the qualifications of the teachers.
The Mother.—Sheridan wrote: "Women govern us; let us try to render them perfect. The more they are enlightened, so much the more we shall be. On the cultivation of the moods of women, depends the wisdom of men." Napoleon said: "The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother."
Chancellor Kent.-His health has been failing, by slow degrees, for some months past, and he was daily waiting for his departure. He expired, we are told, without suffering, and in the perfect possession of his faculties to the last. Up to within a few days of his death he was occupied in correcting the proof sheets of one of his works, an edition of which was passing through the press. In his death, we have lost a great man, a man of great judicial talent and erudition, and endowed with many virtues.—Eve. Post.
☞ A rumseller once visiting a victim of his murderous traffic on his death-bed, said to him: "Do you remember me?" "Yes," said the dying man, with a startling emphasis, "I do remember you, and I remember your shop, where I formed the habit which has ruined me; and when I am dead, my beggared widow and fatherless children will remember you."
For the Ladies.—The following scrap is taken from Henry's commentary:
"Woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to top him—not made out of his feet to be trampled upon by him—but under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved."
Female Courage.—A servant girl, remarkable for her fearless disposition, laid a wager that she would go into a charnel-house at midnight with a light, and bring from thence a dead-man's skull. Accordingly, the appointed time, she went, but the person with whom she had made the bet had gone before and hid himself in the place. When he heard her descend and take up the skull, he called out, in a hollow, dismal voice, "Leave me my head!" The girl, instead of displaying symptoms of horror or fright, very coolly laid it down, and said, "Well, there it is," and took up another; upon which the voice repeated, "Leave me my head!" But the heroic girl, observing it was the same voice that had called before, answered, in her own country dialect, "Na, na, friend; ye cana ha' twa heads!"
Gallantry.—Fontenelle, assisting at the marriage of Madame Helvetius, did not cease to whisper the most gallant things. Some moments after, he passed before her without perceiving her. Madame Helvetius, remarking his distraction, said to him:
"How lightly should I esteem your gallantries, since you pass me without looking at me?"
"Madame, replied the amiable old man, "If I had looked at you, I should not have passed you."
Correct Definition.—An intelligent female witness having been much perplexed by Old Blowhard in a long cross-examination, happened in replying to use the term humbug.
"Madam, said the man of the law, "you must not talk unintelligibly. What is the court and jury to understand by the term humbug?"
The lady hesitated.
"I must insist, madam," said the counsellor, anticipating a victory, "that you proceed no farther until you state plainly and openly what you mean by humbug."
"Why, then, sir," returned the lady, "I don't know how better to express my meaning than by saying, if I met a company of persons who were strangers to you, and should tell them that when they saw you, they might prepare to see a remarkably learned, courteous and agreeable man—that would be a humbug."
MARRIED.
On the 8th ult., by Rev. Mr. Shaw, Mr. BENJ. EMERSON, of Ridgeway, to Miss Mary S., daughter of John Foster, of this city.
On the 15th ult., by E. Barnard, Esq., Mr. JACOB HOLDEN to Miss ELIZABETH D. HICKS, all of this city.
On the 23d ult., by Rev. Mr. Holland, Mr. JOHN FARRANT, to ELLEN HARRIS, alt of this city.
DIED.
On the evening of the 22d ult., of Whooping Cough, ELLEN COOK, youngest daughter of Henry and Abigail Bush, of this city.
In this city, of consumption, on Friday evening, the 24th ult., ISAAC R. HALL, aged 27 years, son of Joseph Hall, Esq.
In this city, on the 13th ult., of a short illness, Dr. E. G. MUNN, aged 44.
Post and Willis, Dealers in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Dye Stuffs, Paints, Varnish, Oils, Glassware, Brushes, Perfumery, Daguerreotype, Stock, French and German Chemicals, Artists' Colors, Brushes and Canvass, Etherial Oil, Gold Leaf and Foil, &c. &c.
Being Agents for most of the celebrated Family and valuable Patent Medicines, and receiving the same directly from the Manufacturers or their Agents, they are enabled to supply all orders at wholesale and retail, on the most favorable terms.
Homœopathic Books, Medicines, and Family Cases, with full directions. Only agents for Western New York.
Also, Sherwood's Vibratory Magnetic Machines, with directions.
Phosgene Gas; also Etherial Oil and Lamps, for burning the same. Those who would consult economy and convenience are invited to examine these Lamps. The attention of Country Merchants, Physicians, Families, and others, wishing goods in the above line, is requested at the APOTHECARIES' HALL, 4, Exchange Street.
UNIVERSE COOKING STOVES.
The Subscribers are manufacturing this invaluable Cooking Stove, designed for Coal or Wood, warranted to excel any other stove ever invented, and constructed strictly upon philosophical principles. The Oven heated by hot air, (the only hot air oven ever patented,) and warranted to bake as well as any brick oven. For sale only by the undersigned, wholesale and retail, 34, Exchange Street. H. BUSH & CO.
OWEN MORRIS' CITY BINDERY,
under the Museum—late Fisher & Morris.
Mr. Morris was in the employ of Mr. Marcus Morse for seven years, and during that time procured for him three Silver Medals, for the best specimens of Book Binding, exhibited at Mechanics' Fairs held in this city and Buffalo.
Gentlemen's Libraries fitted up and repaired ; Music Paper ruled; Music and Periodicals bound and finished to any pattern. Blank Account Books executed at this establishment have given unequalled satisfaction, by their durability and elegance. Strict attention is always paid to the quality of paper used, to render them equal to the best of the United States or those imported.
Ladies' Scrap and Guard Books, Albums and Portfolios, in all their varieties, manufactured to order in the best style.
Banks, Institutions, Societies, &c., may be assured of work being done on the most advantageous terms.
Gentlemen residing at a distance, by packing and forwarding volumes to the above directives, stating price and style, may rely upon their being well bound on the most favorable terms, also carefully and punctually returned.
N.B. The proprietor has spared no expense to fitting up the establishment, and introducing into Western New York the latest improvements in Book Binding.
OWEN MORRIS,
City Bindery, under the Museum.
BOSTON ADVERTISEMENTS.
CLARKSON,
LONDON EDITION—WITH PORTRAIT.
A few copies of CLARKSON'S HISTORY OF THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE; with prefatory remarks on the subsequent abolition of Slavery; a beautiful London edition, with a fine Portrait of the Author, done on steel,—a book which could not be imported for less than three dollars, can be had at 21, Cornhill, if applied for immediately, at the very low price of One Dollar, cash. Also, EULOGIUM ON CLARKSON, by Alexander Crummell, at the reduced price of twelve and a half cents.
ROBERT MORRIS, Jr., Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Brazer's Building, State Street.
JOSEPH H. TURPIN would invite the attention of his friends and the public to his DAGUERRIAN GALLERY, No. 138, Hanover Street, where he pledges himself to execute Miniatures with a lifelike finish, and on as moderate terms as any others in the profession.
MACON B. ALLEN, Attorney and Counsellor at at Law, Massachusetts Block.
BOYS' CLOTHING.
SAMUEL WILSON, 14, Brattle Street, having made recent additions to his stock, is prepared to furnish BOYS' CLOTHING, of as material and fit, and at as cheap prices, as can be obtained in the city.
NEW ENGLAND SECOND HAND CLOTHING STORE,
No. 56, Union Street, Boston.
JOHN WRIGHT keeps constantly on hand a great variety of New and Second Hand Clothing. Goods of all kinds, such as old clothes, W. I. goods, Watches, Boots and Shoes, &c., exchanged for new clothing. Cash advanced on all kinds of goods, from one to one hundred dollars.
JOHN D. REVALEON, Hair Cutting Saloon, and Perfumery Emporium, 114, Blackstone-st.
NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS
DR. J. M'CUNE SMITH, 93, West Broadway.
T. JINNINGS, Surgeon-Dentist, 185, North Broadway.
PHILIP A. WHITE, Druggist, corner of Frankfort and Gold Street.
WILLIAM S. POWELL, Sailor's Home, 61, Cherry Street.
WILLlAM RICH, Hair Dressing and Bathing Saloon, Troy House, Troy, New York.
NORTHAMPTON WATER CURE.
The undersigned, gratefully appreciating the credit generously awarded by a discerning public to his success as a Hydropathic Practitioner, would respectfully inform the friends of Hydropathy, that his establishment is pleasantly situated near Bensonville, on the west bank of the Licking Water, or Mill River, about two and a half miles from the centre of the town. It is thirty-six by seventy first; three stories high, with a piazza on the south side. There are separate parlors, bathing and dressing rooms, for ladies and gentlemen. There are also twenty lodging rooms, each of which is well ventilated and conveniently furnished for the accommodation of two persons. Among the variety of baths in the establishment are, the plunge, douche, drencher, and spray baths. The ladies' plunge is six by ten feet, three and a half deep; the gentlemen's, eight by twelve, three and a half deep. There are also two cold douches, one of which is situated a mile, and the other half a mile from the establishment. The former has a fall of twenty-two feet, the latter eighteen. The scenery in this vicinity is picturesque and romantic. There are a variety of pleasant walks passing near and to springs of pure water. The walks are sufficiently retired to allow water-cure patients to appear as they should, plainly dressed, enjoying their rambles, without being exposed to public gaze or observation. Since daily experience, for the last three years, has strengthened his opinion, that the condition of the skin clearly indicates the character of many diseases, and the ability of inability of an invalid to bear the water treatment in its various forms; also the necessity of applying the dry woollen blanket, or the wet sheet, to promote evaporation or a sweat, when either may be necessary; and from results which have attended his application of the treatment, he hesitates not to say, that the electric symptom of the skin indicates vitality or power, and that an invalid, whose skin is not attended with this symptom, cannot be safely or successfully treated with water. Among the complaints which are here successfully treated, are pulmonary affection, liver complaints, jaundice, acute or chronic inflammation of the bowels, piles, dyspepsia, general debility, nervous and spinal affections, inflammatory or chronic rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica, lame-limbs, paralysis, fevers, salt rheum, scrofulous and erysipelas humors.
All patients who visit this establishment for a course of treatment, should furnish themselves with three comfortables, three woollen blankets, one linen and three cotton sheets, two pillow cases, six crash towels, some well worn linen, to cut for fomentations, an old cloak or mantle, and a syringe.[1]
Terms for treatment and board are $5 50 per week, for those who occupy rooms on the third floor; on the first and second floors, $6 00 per week, payable weekly; washing extra. A patient, who, from choice or necessity, occupies a room alone, on the third floor, will pay $8 00 per week; on the first and second floors, $8 50 per week. Invalids who are so feeble as to need extra attention and fire in their rooms, (except for swathing purposes,) will procure their own nurses and fuel, or pay an extra price.
Northampton, Aug. 1847.
N.B. The afflicted, desirous of being examined in regard to their complaints, and of ascertaining the adaptedness of the water-cure in their particular case, should call on Tuesdays and Fridays.
- ↑ This instrument may be obtained at the establishment.
WILLIAM B. LOGAN, Dealer in Fashionable Boots and Shoes, 80, Purchase Street, New Bedford.
W. B. L. keeps constantly on hand a good assortment, and will sell cheap for cash. Strict attention paid to custom-made work, by Messrs. Parker and Davis.
WASHINGTON'S Daguerrian Gallery, 138, Main Street, Kellog's Buildings, Harford, Connecticut.
THE NATIONAL ERA: Washington City, District of Columbia. G. Bailey, Editor; John G. Whittier, Corresponding Editor. L. P. Noble, Publisher.
The leading purpose of this journal is, the discussion of the question of Slavery, and the advocacy of the main principles of the Liberty Party. Due attention is given to Social and Political questions of general importance; nor are the interests of a pure Literature overlooked.
It aims to preserve a faithful record of important events; of inventions or discoveries affecting the progress of society; of public documents of permanent value; and, during the sessions of Congress, to present such reports of its proceedings, as will convey a correct idea not only of its action, but of its spirit and policy. The debates on the exciting subjects of Slavery and the Mexican War, expected to arise in the next Congress, will occupy a large share of its columns.
Arrangements have been made for extending and enriching its already valuable department of home and foreign correspondence.
It is printed on a mammoth sheet, of the finest quality, in the best style, at $2 a year, payable in advance.
The generous spirit in which the Era has been welcomed by the public press, and the very liberal patronage it has received during this, the first year of its existence, encourages us to hope for large accessions to our subscription list.
It is desirable that subscriptions be forwarded without delay, so that they may be entered before the approaching Congress.
All communications addressed to
L. P. NOBLE,
THE DAILY AND WEEKLY CHRONOTYPE. Edited by Elizur Wright. Published by White, Potter & Wright, 15, State Street, Boston. Terms: Daily, ONE CENT, each number. For ant sum forwarded to the publishers free of expense, they will send the paper at that rate till the money is exhausted. Weekly, Two Dollars a year in advance, or for any shorter time at the same rate. For five dollars, three copies will be sent for one year.
This publication is made in the finest style of newspaper typography. It is independent of all sects, parties, and cliques, expressing freely the views of the editor and of such correspondents as he thinks proper to admit, on all subjects of human interests.
It advocates equally of human rights, and the abolition of slavery, through land reform, cheap postage, abstinence for intoxicating drinks, exemption of temperance men from taxes to repair the damages of drinking, a reform in writing and spelling the English language, the abolition of capital punishment, universal and kindly toleration in religion, life and health insurance, water-cure, working men's protective unions, and all other practical forms of associations for mutual aid—and generally, Progress.
It also gives the news from all parts of the country in the most condensed and intelligible style.
Its Exchange List is already very large—so large that it will be increased only on condition that the paper requesting the exchange will keep the above Prospectus standing in its columns.
Any country paper which will keep the above in its columns, and furnish us with the most important news of its vicinity, by slip or otherwise, in advance of its regular publication, shall be supplied with the Daily Chronotype, in exchange for its weekly, and have our best thanks and due credit to boot.
Boston, Sept. 2, 1847.
THE DELAWARE ABOLITIONIST.
A PAPER of the above name will be published in Wilmington, by the Delaware Anti-Slavery Society. It will be edited by a Committee, and will be published on a half medium sheet, at twenty-five cents per year, or for twenty-four numbers. It will be devoted to emancipation in Delaware, and will advocate its accomplishment by all lawful means. It will be published semi-monthly, if means are afforded, or as often as the means can be obtained.
JAMES B. BROOKE,
