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\ \ a, reclaimed son of the Presbyterian clergyman, within six months after his arrival, married an orphan girl worth $40,000 in cash. She had a young sister and brother, who éach had equal amounts. The sister séon after died, leaving one-half of her estate to our hero and his wife, and the other half to her brother, and thus increased his estate to $60,000. 'When the Mexican war broke out, the brother enlisted, and made a will, leaving all his estate to his brother-in-law (our hero and his wife, in case he never returned from the war. He, like many more of our noble men was killed at Buena Vista. Thus our hero eame into possession of the entire estate of the family, which at first was $120,000, but which has increased by advance of lands and increase of negroes to over $300,000. He is now one of the richest planters in Middle 'Tennessee, and does not live twenty-five miles from-Nashvilles es. .255 " f St Pe iby f ~"* A Glance at'New York. ~ "We observe by the New York Papers, ' that there were 23,000. arrests by the police --of that city during the last six months-- - rather a tall list of public malefactors. Of this number the Sixth Ward (the far-famed -rum-hole precincts) contributes 3,000, about one eighth. If the other twenty one Wards - counted out law breakers in the same. pro- portion, the aggregate would swell to sixty-. six thousand. In referring to the number of - rummeries in that city, the Tribune says: _.. The semi-annual report of the Chief of - the Police shows that there are twenty-nine - hundred and seventy-eight unlicensed rum- shops in full blast averaging seven thousand persons in the daily practice of illegal rum- _ selling, openly and with the full knowledge of the Chief and hisfmen. The Chief tells us that there are 6,895 public' rum-holes in New York (to which should be added 2000 to.3000 kept in houses of prostitution and not recorded,) 2,878, or nearly half are un- 'licensed, and that more than 3000 are hab- -itually and constantly open on the Sabbath. In one Ward 225, and in another. 224 are in full operation, and not a single license has _ been granted for either Ward ; in one Ward 352, in another 235, another 375, another 310, another 304, and in the Fourth Ward five hundred rum-shops are opened on Sun- _day----and in this last. Ward only eleven out "of 511 even pretended to close up on that day. ' Rev. Dr. Cheever, of New York, is re- ported to have said ina recent address :-- '¢ There are seven thousand groggeries in this city, three thousand of them are open upon the Sabbath. There isa dramshop to every eighty-five inhabitants... It costs the city for rum and its fruits, one million dollars annu- ally. . Four-fifths of the committals and ar- rests according to the warden's testimony are from the intemperate. There has been an increase of committals from year to year. The. year just ending shows jifty thous.sn ' Branpy anp Birrers.--A bill was late- Ty handed in to the authorities of San Fran- cisco for payment for refreshments furnished to the grand jury of that city, while pursuing their investigations, which contained the fol- lowing items: One dozen cherry wine, jthree thousand five hundred cigars, one dozen Martel's brandy, four gallons do., five baskets of Heidseick, one bottle of bitters, two tins of crackers, and one hundred and 'twenty three dollars worth of cherry wine. _This would give to each of the 23 jurors, _two and a half bottles of sherry, 150 cigars, 2% bottle of champagne, and 14 quarts of brandy. In reply to some inquiries of the supervisors, the chairman of the jury replied, their deliberations were so intense that they required some artificial stimulants! 'The - Slave Trade--Important Trial. In the United States Circuit Court sit- ting in this City, one Captain James Smith has been convicted of having been engaged in the slave trade between the Coast of Africa and the Island of Cuba, The sentence of the law, which is death, was suspended in order that his counsel might take the neces- sary steps to move fora new trial. The facts which were proved in this case were substantially these: In January last, Capt. Smith went to Boston, where he purchased 'the brig Julia Moulton, cleared her in ballast for Newport, and on the 2nd of February brought her to this port. Here he engaged _one James Wills as mate, telling him that he] _was going on a slave-trading voyage, agree- ing to pay him $40 a month on the outward -voyage, and from $1,200 to $2,000 for the "passage back. A crew was shipped of about 'fifteen persons, mostly young men, and a large "quantity of provisions, water, &c., with lum- 'ber, was taken on board. On the 11th of February the brig cleared from this port, and on leaving the dock, Captain Smith pointed out to the mate a Portuguese named Lemos, as the real owner of the vessel, and told him that ¢he Secretary of the Portuguese Consul, at this port, had accompanied him to Boston and aided him in the purchase of the vessel. 'The ship was cleared by Captain Smith, and had regular papers for the Cape of,Good Hope. After she had been out forty days, the timber on board was used to make a temporary deck or floor in the hold of the vessel, and all the other preparations necessary to receive a cargo of slaves were made. At the end of sixty days, they made Jand on the coast of Africa at a place called Cobra, where they were boarded by a boat which brought, instructions, in accordance with which they cruised at sea for ten days longer, and then put in at a port further South called Ambrozzetta, well known as a depot for the slave trade. Here, in the course of two or three hours, siz hundred and suxty- four negroes, including forty women, were brought on board and stowed away as cargo nthe hold of the brig. 'They were placed on their sides, one lying in the lap of another ---were taken out occasionally to be fed and aired, and, after a voyage of sixty-five days, were landed on the South coast of Cuba. They were sent on shore in lighters, under the orders of a person who said he was the con- signee, and the American Consul at that port. The furniture of the ship was then taken on shore, and the ship herself burned. Wills, the mate, came to this city in the brig Marcellus where he again met Capt. Smith, who refused to pay Willis the balance due him on his contract, amounting to about $440, whereupon Willis imparted the nature of the yoyage toa Mr. Donahue, by whom it was laid before the. authorities. 'The re- sult was the arrest, trial and conviction of Captain Smith. _.. We believe this is the first time in v.hich| a conviction of being engaged in the African slave trade has ever been had in this. City-- and this is due entirely to a disagreement be- tween the captain and his mate about the payment of a trifling sum of money. Yet, as we have repeatedly stated in the Times, scarcely a month passes in which there are not one or more vessels cleared at this port, which embark at once in the slave trade and land their cargoes on the coast of Cuba. The facts given in evidence on this trial show how easily this is done, and with what perfect im- punity, so long as all the parties engaged in it are satisfactorily paid for keeping silent. Tn order toa conviction, the vessel concern- ed must be, at the time, owned either in whole or in part by an American citizens, or else the party accused must himself be a citizen. The first provision is usually evaded by a sham sale : the last by procuring a foreigner, usually a Portuguese, as commander. The only defence attempted in this case turned upon this point. It was claimed that Mr. Smith was an, unnaturalized German, and it..was also asserted and partly proved that the ship was paid for by the Secretary of the Portu- guese Consul at thas port. This last pomt-is one that ought immedi- ately to engage the attention of the Govern- ment. If the Portuguese Consul is engaged, directly or indirectly--or suffers his Secre- tary to be engaged--in so flagrant a viola- tion of the laws of the United States, his ex- equatur ought to be instantly revoked.--lV. Y. Daily Times. Legislation of Indiana respecting Color- ed People.* We propose a brief exposition of the legal disabilities of colored people in In- diana, a matter of general interest, and as having particular reference to the mitigation or removal of those disabilities, through the agency of an enlightened public sentiment. We shall confine our observations on this subject to the present time, merely by re- marking that, with the exception of the 13th article of the Constitution, which, as we shall show, originated in a rather " abnor- mal" state of public fecling, there has, per- haps, been some mitigation of the rigors of | our legislation in this direction, in the pro- gress of the times. That it is yet sufficient- ly stringent, or most oppressive and unjust, will appear from the following enumeration of its principal provisions, bearing on this subject. By article second, section fifth, of the Constitution, negroes and mulattoes are denied the right of suffrage. By the thirteenth article of the same in- strument, negroes and mulattoes are forbid- den to come into or settle in the State; all contracts made with them contrary 'to the preceding provision are declared void; and a fine of not less than ten or more than five hundred dollars is imposed on any person who shall employ or otherwise encourage them to remain in the State. The same article further provides, that all fines which may be collected for a violation of the pro- visions of the same, or of any law which may be passed for the purpose of carrying the same into execution, shall be set apart for the colonization of such negroes and mullattoes, and their descendants, as may bein the State at the adoption of the Con- stitution, and will be willing to emigrate. Said article further enjoins legislation to carry outits provisions. . By chapter 74th, volume Ist, of the Re- vised Statutes of 1852, the General Assem- bly proceeded to obey this injunction. In addition to the re-enactment of the principal provisions of the 13th article, they provide for the registry, by the clerks of the several Circuit Courts in the State, of all negroes and mulattoes who were inhabitants of the same prior to the first day of November, 1851, and entitled to reside therein. The clerk is authorized to subpcena witnesses to prove the right of inhabitation of any such negro and mulatty, and if satisfied of such right, is required to register his name and issue him a certificate. The act also extends to the colored people coming into the State the same penalty which had been imposed upon persons employing them. The pro- visions of the 18th article in regard to colo- nization are carried out and " improved up- on" by chapter 8th, 1st Revised Statutes, and chapter 16th, Acts 1853, which appro- priate five thousand dollars annually for some years to that object--the purchase of os in Africa, payment of salary of agent, C. By chapter 42nd, Act 1858, it is provided that " no person having one-eighth or more of negro blood shall be permitted to testify as a witness in any cause in which any white person is a party in interest." ! By section Ist, chapter 106th, Acts 1853, it is enacted that "the property of negroes and mulattoes shall not be taxed for school purposes, nor shall any negro or mulatto, derive any benefits from the common schools of this State." But though, thus ostensibly exempt from taxation for the support of schools, colored people, in common with other citizens, are required to contribute to- wards the school fund, in the way of jines as- sessed for breaches of the penal law of the state, as also by escheats and other forfei- tures. (See Constitution, article 8th, sec- tion 2nd; and Revised Statutes, chapter 98th, section 2nd.) Lastly, colored, people are not exempt from a property tax, nor from labor on the public highways. (See Revised Statutes, chapter 6th, section 6th; and chapter 102nd, section 6th--9th. The above, we believe, are all the legal provisions worthy of note, pertaining to this subject. Tor the sake of brevity, we have not set them out in full, but have been care- ful to give a fair rendering of their substance and spirit, We now propose taking them up in their order, beginning with the second, and making such remarks upon their origin and bearings as may conduce to a better understanding of the character of our legis- lation in the premises. Comment, at this late day, on the enor- mity of this exclusion clause, would seem to be superfluous. Its unjust and unconstitu- tional character has already been fully ex- posed, so far as language is adequate to do so. But there is connected with it a fea- ture of pecwlear meanness, which should not pass unnoticed. 'The same body who thus shut out from our borders the colored peo- ple generally, and sought to banish those al- ready here--all native American citizens-- by the same instrument spread wide our gates, inviting to a participation of equal pri- vileges with ourselves, on a very slight pro- bation, all "the rest of mankind'--not merely Huropeans, however degraded or infamous, but also inhabitants of Asia, Africa, and "the Isles of the sea"--in short, all moderately white foreignzrs, and no other exception whatever! Could anything short of the latent spirit and influence of the " peculiar institution" have inspired so _pe- eS t culiar an exception? = As to the effect of this exclusion clause, and the laws made in furtherance of its ob- ject--although it has not corresponded with the intention of their authors--although we have heard of but one case arising under them--although the statute requistion of registry is, we believe, very generally and very properly disregarded and contemned by our resident colored population--al- though, in short, this clause is to a good de- gree, simply as a proclamation, at once Im- potent, of the inhuman and anti-Christian spirit of our people--its latent influence up- on the colored population, both within and without the State, is doubtless, nevertheless, very oppressive, though no overt manifesta- tion of its power may indicate the fact. The same observations are applicable to the colonization scheme. And yet, it has been far more inoperative. And who can doubt that it will remain so? The idea of sending our colored population to Africa, of "founding an empire" there, with the means provided by our Legislature--not to say by any practical means whatever--is too supremely ridiculous to be worthy of serious notice, That it is a most transparent decep- tion, is known to all intellizent minds, and could readily be demonstrated, were this a proper place to do so. Yet it is but too evident, that on theshrine of this monstrous chimera, the right of the colored people have been offered up! Itis true that the colo- nization scheme Is ostensibly designed to operate only upon those " who may be will- ing to emigrate." But the whole series of oppressive acts with which we are now deal- ing seem clearly designed to coerce the de- sired degree of " willingness." To apply the language of another, " these or kindred enormities must extend over the land--per- secution, abuse, barbarity at which the mind revolts, to induce the consent of these peo- ple to go to Liberia." " Willing to emi- grate;" ay, the wallengness of the convict, who--one or the other being inevitable-- chooses transportation instead of hanging! Such is the mode by which our " Empire in Africa" is to be built up! Such the prin- ciple upon which the civilization and Chris- tianization of that continent, of which we hear so much from the advocates of coloni- zation, is to be effected. TESTIMONY EXCLUDED. Our new revised code failed to exclude the testimony of colored witnesses in our courts of justice, whether accidentally, or by design, we know not. But, as we have seen, by an act of the last Legislature, they are now expressly excluded, where a white person is a party in interest. At a time like the present, when the spirit of legal reform, going upon the most ra- tional idea that the object of all testimony is to get at the facts--the truth--in order to the furtherance of the ends of justice, is sweeping away all disabilities of witnesses ; Jeaving the degree of their credibility, like any other fact, to the jury--in some of the States permitting even the parties to testify. and in our own State not excluding wit- nesses on account of crime or interest-- what can be more absurd and short-sighted, even with reference to the true interest of our white population, than the enactment under consideration? Surely, the prejudice agaist color never exhibited itself in a more egregiously unjust and impolitic as well as foolish form! But, as respects the colored man, its folly is swallowed up in its atrocity. For it leaves his person and property, family and home, a prey to whatever abandoned white man may see fit to avail himself of this legislative act of impunity to Anglo-Saxon crime and outrage. And loudly and often have the wrongs of the hapless victims of this state of things borne " testimony," alas, how vainly! to the readiness of such * fel- lows of the baser sort" to avail themselves of such a license! EXOLUDED FROM THE COMMON SCHOOLS. As in the case of the testimony of colored people, their exclusion from the common schools was an after-thought of the Legisla- ture, and sought to be effected by an amendment to the revised code as originally adopted. It is quite natural that the pro- slavery spirit, which seems to control our legislation, should adopt the policy of the slaveholder, of keeping in ignorance the victims of his oppression. But the most obvious considerations of shame, if not of honesty or honor, would, it might naturally have been supposed, have dictated to the Legislature the propriety of entirely reliev- ing the class thus excluded from said schools, from the burden of sustaining them. Yet no such relief has been given. The colored people are made to contribute towards the education of the children of their oppres- sors not an inconsiderable amount, in the way of penalties to which they subject them- selves chiefly in consequence of that igno- rance which the law decrees shall:be their portion! The Constitution, however, seems to be more consistent on this subject--to contem- plate no such exclusion. Section Ist of the Sth article of that instrument makes it the duty of the General Assembly " to: provide, by law, for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all." The law, therefore. would seem to be a clear violation of the Constitution. As, how- ever, the framers of the 138th article were guilty therein of a plain violation of the Con- stitution of the United States, we need not be greatly surprised that the Legislature should, 2 cases of thus kind, imitate their ex- ample with respect to the State Constitu- tion. Such are but samples of the manifold gross inconsistencies in which our law-makers have involved themselves, in the atrocious attempt to trample under foot the rights of a portion of our citizens! SUBJECT TO TAXATION. In the fact indicated by this title we find a manifestation of the extremest point of in- finitesimal littleness. 'That a great " sove- reign State," while holding the colored man as an " outside barbarian,' alien to all the rights and sympathies of humanity, regis- tering him like cattle, refusing him a voice in public affairs, denying the protection of its laws to his person and property, and shut- ting him out from all the avenues of educa- tion and progress, should at thesame time filch from him a portion of his hard-earned pittance for its own exclusive benefit--nay, worse--to aid in the sustenance of the very measures taken for his oppression, is cer- tainly the superlative of all comparative de- grees of meanness! What a falling off have we here from the wholesale villany of the 13th article--from land-piracy to petty larceny ! Such are the black laws of Indiana. We have not spoken--it not falling strictly with- In our province--of that other law, or rather that source of law, which, as has been truly said, is often more terrible and irresistible. than express legislative enactments--we mean public sentiment.' The colored peo- ple also suffer severely from this unwritten code. Under its rule, they are constantly subject to insult and annoyance in travelling and the other daily avocations of life, are practically excluded from all social privi- leges, and even from the Christian commu- nion. But enough. What better could be ex- pected of a people guilty of such a series of iniquities, than that they should be found in political and social sympathy with the slave power, ready to obey "with alacrity" its ne- gro-catching mandate? work of repentance, of reform, lies within our own borders--even at our very doors. May the spread of liberal education and of the spirit of Christianity hasten our pre- paration for it! * A suit, it is said, has been commenced against a Methodist minister in the southern part of this State, for employing a colored clergy- man of Kentucky to come over and preach for him! neath <i -@- > From the New York Tribune. The Slave Trade. "Mr. McKeon, District-Attorney, ad- dressed the jury. He contended that the transaction was a most flagrant violation of the laws. He little thought, he said, when he assumed the office he now held, that he should so soon discover that New York is the very depot of this nefarious traflic. The testimony in the case showed that the Julia Moulton was fitted out at this port expressly for the slave-trade, and that James. Smith, the prisoner, was the master. The provisi- ons taken on board, and other circumstances, were proof. They finally took on board, on the coast of Africa, what they designated cargo. 'There were 664 human _ beings | crowded on board a small vessel, seated, in day time, on the deck, one within the ex- tended legs of the other, as close as possible, and laid at night on their right sides, stowed also as closely as possible--the object of pla- cing them on the right side being that the action of the heart would be more free. She made the coast of Cuba at a point directed by the instructions, and it is singular that a man-of-war has not been directed to cruise at such a point to prevent such landing. * * * * Asto the oaths at the Custom House, it has been said that they are lightly administered. It might have been said that they are lightly taken. Here is this. man, who has solemnly sworn that he is a citizen of the United States, and has signed to that effect, and he must be holden to it. The indictment says that the vessel was owned by said Smith, a citizen of the United States, or by some other citizen to the jurors un- known. It has been shown by a witness that the Secretary of the Portuguese Consul was said to have been interested in the vessel. Mr. Figaniere, the Consul in order to do away with that, is called by counsel for de- fence, and he swears that he has no secretary Who is this man? He declined to answer questions put to him in relation to the ves- sel, and it is to be regretted, from the ap- pearance, that there are slave traflickers among us, bearing the seals of a foreign power. The District Attorney alluded to a figure put forth by Mr. O'Connor in his argu- ment, that the District-Attorney was grop- ing about in the dark for a dagger with which tomake his threats. There are real daggers, the District-Attorney said, in the hands of the persons engaged in this traffic in this City, and any man's life is in danger who attempts to expose them. But for myself, even if I should lose my life, I will fearlessly do my duty." | An examination of ship's papers at the Custom-House, for years past, proves that the oath of the owner or master of a vessel that he is a citizen of the United States, which by law he is required to be, is omitted --apparently with the design of shielding the wretches who, as captains and owners, are engaged in the slave-trade, and who almost weekly send out from this port vessels fitted out for that trafie. The law makes the pun- 'ishment death, provided the master or owner isan American citizen. The Custom-House authorities in Philadelphia and Boston, where a like examination has taken place, were found always to have particularly followed the provisions of the law, and it is doubtful if slaves are fitted out at those ports, at least, to any such extent as is known to be the case here. The water for ships leaving New York is supplied by persons who purchase the privi- lege from the Croton Water Department. These persons know that vessels built to sail with extraordinary rapidity, of from two to four hundred tons, for which any legitimate trade should carry a crew of from ten to sixteen men, are continually and openly sup- plied with from fifteen to forty thousand gal- lons of water, and they know that this water is fora slave cargo. The men, too who sell rice, and they who sell the shackles know likewise, for what these are intended. And yet, in the face of these facts, and of the be- lief of intelligent merehants that on an aver- age, a slave ship, almost openly, send out as such, leaves the port of New York, about every two weeks throughout the year, our authorities take no cognizance of the matter. Sravery iN [uLivo1is-- WiIpenine THE AREA. --A citizen of [llinois, Mr. D. J. Van Deren, writes to the Charleston Courier, that an en- terprise is on foot in that state to repeal the clause of the state constitution which prohibits slavery, and to take a direct vote of the people on the question of establishing slavery, He says that many who have lived in Illinois long enough to test the comparative advantages that slaves and free systems present, are now prepared to pronounce openly their candid preference in favor of slave labor in all agri- cultural business. 'They have been endeavor- ing to learn the sentiments of the people upon this subject, and have been astonished to see with what unanimity they express themselves in favor of the introduction of slave labor. He has conversed with many of the best far- mers, who were raised in the eastern states, and they will give their hearty co-operation in effecting this object. He represents this pros- pect of success as better than the most san- guine friend could have anticipated. When the vote was taken before, it was lost by a small majority against slavery, and he is sat- isfied now that a better and more favourable opportunity for bringing this question before the people than the present cannot be expected. We should be rejoiced at the success of such a movement. Establish slavery in Illinois, and it would give us the key to the great West. The South should not content herself with maintaining her ground; she should progress, She should expand her in- stitutions wherever soil, climate, and produc- tions are adopted tothem. 'They are the bal- ance-wheel of the republic--the preserver of our form of government--the Christianizer of the negro and the promoter of the white race. | As philanthropists, jit is our duty to remove the opposition which has been created for the want Verily, our first | P@P of proper information. If it be true that Illi- nois is adapted to slavery, economical consi- derations, if no other, must eventally carry it there.--Semi-Weekly Mississippian, Oct. 20. A Star Chamber in New Orleans. % The Southern papers reveal constantly phenomena of Slavery, which are worse than the ordinary subjects of condemnation, select- ed by the friends of humanity from among its dark details. For example, take the fol- lowing from the New Orleans Tue Delta of October 20, in rather an obscure part. of the aper: 3 ." EFiendish Outrage---A. woman. named Fanny Smith was yesterday arrested on a charge of burning with hot irons, and other- wise cruelly ill-treating, two slave boys whom she owns, and who lived with her in a house on St. Louis street, It is said that Fanny's establishment is a brothel of the grossest stamp, and that her behaviour toward her slaves is the most fiendish that can possibly be imagined. Itis to be hoped that. such fiendishness will not.be permitted to pass un- punished. Itisa little strange that affidavits in relation to charges similar to that made against Fanny are generally hidden trom the reporters in the Recorder's Office of the Second District. Fanny had recently re- turned from California with goodly stores of wealth, but surely her wealth cannot pur- chase impunity for so foul an offence." Observe, the paragraph states that it is 'a little strange"--only a little--it is not " pass- ing strange," or monstrous. So the legal tails of the infernal barbarities practiced toward the slave, in that quarter at least, seldom see the light! What Star Chamber or Inquisition Hall could be worse? No other paper but the Zrue Delta noticed this circumstance on the 20th, but the next day the Picayune had the following respecting it: " Charge of Cruelty to Slaves.--F anny Smith, alas Mrs. Hickley, who keeps a house in St. Louis street, between Burgundy and Rampart streets, was charged on Wed- nesday last with torturing her slaves. It seems that on Wednesday morning, one of the policemen of the Second District was walking down St. Louis street, when he was startled by the sudden appearance of a negro woman, who rushed out of an alley-way per- fectly naked, with the exception of'a piece of blanket tied round her waist. Her back was bleeding in several places, and, on question- ing her, she told the policemen that she had fled to escape the cruel treatment of her mis- tress, who had stripped her and was beating her when she broke from her and ran into the street. The policeman took her to the guard-house, and, on examining her, her body was found to be covered with lumps and scars, the effects of former whippings. She also stated that her mistress was in the habit of beating all the slaves in the most cruel man- ner, and mentioned a couple of slave boys, whom she was continually torturing by burn- ing with red-hot irons and sticking forks and other pointed instruments into them. On hearing these statements, Lieut. Monde im- mediately made an affidavit, got out a war- rant, and had the woman arrested. When brought to the police office, the accused in- dignantly denied these allegations, and pro- duced a boy who she said was one of those she was accused of torturing, and upon whom no marks could befound. 'The slave woman first arrested, however, reiterated her state- ment, and said that the boys were kept locked up in the back yard, and no one permitted to see them. An officer was dispatched to her house, and soon returned with the two boys, who did not appear to be more than seven or eight years of age. On stripping them, they were found to be marked in a number of places with the scars of fresh and old burns, and punctured wounds were found in different parts of their bodies. The accused was or- dered to give security in the sum of $1,000 for her appearance for examination, which she immediately gave. The slave boys and girl were sent to the Parish Prison." Be it remembered, that a slave cannot give evidence against a white person. The arrest, we may safely affirm, is all that will ever be heard of this circumstance.--WVew York Tribune. M. A. Suapn, General Agent for this paper, is in the Western part of the Province, on business connected with the paper, She will visit Michigan, Ohio, and probably Pennsylvania before her return ; will lecture, by invitation, on 'the prac- ticability of an en masse emigration of colored Americans to the Canadas, and other British Provinces, north of the United States, and will, at the same time, seek to exlend the circulation of the " Provincial FREEMAN." Business letters addressed as usual, PROVINCIAL FREEMAN, NV DAmmnr, HOO SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 1854. Travelling Agents, Rev. Willis Nazrey, Toronto. Mr. Alfred Whipper, Local Agents. The following gentlemen are requested to act as Local Agents: Rev. Hiram Wilson, St. Catherines. Mr. J. W. Taylor, ee " Thomas. Keith, Paris, C. W. "George Miller, Hamilton, ©. 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Sebastopol is not yet taken. Great anxiety as to the result of the siege is manifested in England and France. Reliable accounts state that the loss of the English at Balaklava was far greater than at first supposed. Lord Palmerston had gone to Paris on a secret political mission. In the Assembly, on the 23rd, the Clergy Reserves Bill was read the third time, and passed. Yeas, 62; nays. 39. | means of increasing a true Gospel Clergy, (we shall heartily wish it God speed. At Conviction of Captain Smith. Captain Smith is declared a pirate by the law, and worthy of death, because he has happened to live since the year 1808; had he lived previous to that time, he would no doubt haye been considered an honorable | gentleman. 'The framers of the Constitution of the United States were aware that slave trading was a crime, before the section declaring it so was inserted, and yet, for the sake of " filthy lucre," they consented to let it be carried on for a term of years, or until a good stock of negroes was procured. Acting on the same principle, they might have allowed pirates on the high seas, who» instead of stealing Africans, plundered ships, to pass unmolested until they had amassed vast quantities of ill-gotten booty. But it may be said that the cases are different, because men, commonly designated pirates, commit murder at the same time that they plunder. So do slave traders. Every stolen African that dies from close confinement or being otherwise ill treated, is as verily murdered as if, without warning, stabbed to the heart. Much surprise is being manifested at the disclosures that have been made during this trial,--and why is it? 'Need it be a matter of astonishment that New York merchants should engage in the African, when southern merchants engage in the coast trade. Mat- ter of astonishment that no compunction of conscience is exhibited by northern ship builders when they sell vessels, knowing that they will be used to transport the unculti- vated African to the plantations of Cuba, when the slave-breeders of Virginia send off ship load after ship load of their own sons and daughters, to replenish the broken ranks of toilers on the sugar fields of Louisiana, the whole of whom are swept off every seven years! Not stricken down by disease, but worked, driven to death by overtasking and the lash. It may be a very fine thing for Govern- ments to have Declarations of Independence and the like; beautiful truths to look at, but which are not intended to be practised; but let it be remembered, at the same time, that the greater the lie acted out, the deeper will its corrupting influences be felt on the people atlarge. The people of the United States have declared that all men havea right to life, liberty, &c. 5 but they have said also, by their actions, that they will withhold those rights whenever it is in their power and ap- pears to conduce to their interest. That is the principle on which the present Adminis- tration is now acting ; and the result is, cor- ruption through all grades of society. 'The disgraceful conduct of their Soules, Bor- lands, and Hopkinses, is only a_ natural ebullitions of the schemes of wickedness gene- rated at Washington. . Men will not be deceived by specious reasoning, and high sounding pretensions to a love of liberty, and honesty, in their rulers in a country where their actions are every day communicated to them by newspapers and telegraphic wires. They soon begin to get accustomed to the evil, especially if their pecuniary interests are involved, and regard liberty and honesty as but idle dreams. We have heard of slaveholders who give their slaves a flogging every week, in order that they may remember their condition ; and now, we suppose, Smith will be hung, or at least has been frightened by his conviction, into the knowledge that, although cabinets may concoct fillibustering expeditions, private citizens may not, without they will remember never to quarrel, so that the public can hear. S. Colonial Church and School Society. Weare happy to find that, with the sanc- tion of the Bishop, this excellent institution has taken up an important position in this Diocese. Under the able supervision of the Rey. M. M. Dillon, a Normal and Model School, in connection with this Society, has been opened in London, C. W. We are informed that the preparations are now com- plete for the reception of young persons of either sex to be trained as school teachers, without any charge, except for such book as they require; and these will be furnish ed at avery reduced rate. The excellen and devoted Mr. Ballantyne, under whose im! mediate superintendence the whole will be carried on, 1s (we heartily rejoice to be able to asure our readers) eminently qualified for the task which he has undertaken, from a pure and disinterested love to the best wel- fare of the rising generation for which he has so long been distinguished. We shall now have the happiness of seeing truly "Church Schools," in which the pure doc- trines of the word of God will be inculcated. 'We hope that since the Colonial Church and School Society has thus got a footing in the Diocese, it will be the means of in- | creasing the number of 'a true Gospel | Clergy.--Echo. : Is this the same Rev. M. M. Dillion, who figured at meetings of the colored inhabi- tants of Toronto a short time since? Is this the school which he told a large audi- ence, assembled in:the Sayer Street Church, would have for its great object the training of Preachers and 'Teachers for Africa? If the same person, but not the same school, if his plans have undergone a radical change; if, in short, Mr, Dillon has abandoned his special mission to the colored peo- ple, and has taken the supervision of a a.school or schools for Canadians, without reference to color, for the training of School Teachers, whose powers shall be directed to dispelling ignorance and vice in Canada, as well as Africa, at least while there is such a demand for teachers here as at present, and has opened one which will be 'the the same time, we think that it is more ] needed in a locality where good schools and -- churches are not so numerous as there, 4 | Jamaica, for instance, according to reports € from the different missions established there, presents a field-in which laborers are much needed. Ss. That Box, Rey. (?) C.C. Foote, whose name ap. peared in the American Missionary, some -- months since, appended to a communication, 4 in which he appealed to the sympathies of the public in aid of the " poor fugitives," ] settlers in the Bush, dvc., and at the same time referred to a box of clothing which he | had distributed-at some unknown point, has not yet ceased talking about " the box," | which we suppose is the same one. | ~ We cut this slip from the Wesleyan, of last week, published at 'Syracuse, Ni Yig « Seventeen fugitives, in one company, were handed up into the Cnnada depot, from the U. §, Railroad------men, women, and children, 'all hale and happy. Among these new comers the con- tents of the box were principally distributed. C. ©. Foors. Is this the same box, and have the days of miracles returned again? We would speak reverently, but, as in both cases, it is "the box," and yet it has been twice emptied ; our thoughts will revert toa cer- tain meal barrel spoken of in the Scriptures. Why do not the people of Windsor speak out, as in days gone by, against the begging which is being revived again? That Foote has bétn distributing his goods in Chatham and Windsor, we were informed not long since by another source, and now his own statement confirms it. We shall have colored missions forced upon us, and lazy missionaries, both white and black, in our midst, eating the bread of idleness, ob- tained by means of highly exaggerated re- ports of our needs, industriously circulated abroad. So long as the people at the points from whence the reports emanate observe a profound silence in the matter. 8. fe An advertisement of the valuable works published by Messrs. Fowlers and Wells, New York, will be given in our next, 2 The Prospectus for 1855, 'of the Saturday Evening Post, a first class family newspaper, published in Philadelphia, U, S., by Deacon and Peterson, will' also be given. : re a= The Rev. William H. Jones is not an agent for this paper. (> Dr. Graham, who murdered Col. | Loring, at a hotel, in New York, not long | since, has been sentenced to the State Pri- | son for seven years. io A ag ite A New Orleans paper states that the murders committed in that city, average one for every eight hours! ("- Thomas Foster,:a New Orleans slave trader, in a circular which he has lately.issued, assures the public that he will conduct the business of selling men, women, and children, in a strictly moral manner. t The St. Louis Democrat chronicles the exodus of fifteen or twenty slaves in one company, from that city, supposed to have been spirited away by the invisible conduc- tors on the " underground railroad." Correspondence.