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> s Tee 2 =e siti ? : is -- g e , sya,8 % k =. : = : _ ; likel i 25 vears of age. How Impressive a Lesson! through the facilities directly and indj- TEE ir ribs e young man, #5 years g 7 : Se tL ' ; t THE SLAVE. drawn around below their ribs, and tied until ja Li Ke y yo j : 2st tata " peretienlay| acl t ale Pre uy ae THE BIBLE FOF ¥ cas, {they locked like # wool baaiffed with a cord | He' is an experienced tavern servant,| Sentence or Tar. This notorious ee rectly affor led by the American flag, DEDICATED TO HENRY BIUP, BY REV. KrF ROOEAS, y 7 has been sentenced at Twronto to twenty Ifthe Brazilian statutes upon the sub. OF NEWARK. Know'ye that three millions, in bondage lament, Whose seasons and years amid sorrows are spent ; Without revelation, true wisdom to see, And this in a country professedly free ? Loid, They hear not his gospel, they have nothis word. ? Tis true, i And how shall we give to the bondmen their sight, 'And speedily turn them from darkness to light q We'll give them the Scriptures so freely bestow d, To lead to repentance, and guide men to God. And rwhp great Jehovah shall breath through his wo Upon thesedry bones which are seatter'd abroad ; They'll look up to him as the Father of all ; fall dissolve, and their shackles Their chains 5 shall fall. Ye, who by complexion, are identified With millions of bondinen, so sternly denied The teachings .of Scripture ; the light and the way, ' Oh give them that treasure and do uot delay ! Philanthropists give to your brethren relief : 'To their lamentations why will you be deaf? They ask, they entreat you, to give them the Ye Christians, of every order and creed We know that the wants of the outcast you'll heed : For surely 'twas light from the the volume of "God od, Which led you to Christ, and to trust in his d blood. The key of true knowledge is taken away, Their souls are benighted,and widely they stray Like heathen, they know not the -way of the band there, a master is found, Instructing with diligence, those he has bound ; But masses of bondmen, oli! sad to declare, Are floating along to the gulf of despair! _ word. . Refuse not lest haply you incense your God. ! Say not you're unable, but cast in your mite ; | Say not that the Slaves to the truth have no | right ; i Nor think, that their masters will give them the word i They have not, tliey will not, the thought is bsurd. absurd. O give of your substance bedewed with a tear, seeching the Lord that the bondmen may hear im, through His word ; and their fetters . On " will fall Bequeathing the blessings of freedom to all. Go forth ye Colporteurs with Christ in your hearts, Pere plantations and visiting marts, Relying on God, whose omnipotene saves, With prayers for the master and bibles for laves. ie The Dying Child's Request, by A. P. D.' Ob; father leave the maddening bow] ! _ _ And stay with me this night ; _¥For Lam sure my weary soul, _ Before the morning light, "Oh, then, my father, do not go. Oh, leave the poisonous liquor shop ; This once, I pray thee, stay ; ' List to the voice that begs thee stop, '_ No longer stray away, From | "Pray leave me not this night alone. } "The father leaves the dying child, | And calls it not a sin ; i} »_ Will beam no more on him ; | For, weary of her dreary lot, 'She's gone where grief is all forgot, _At morning light he staggered home, : sorrow in his heart, 'That he should Ieave that child alone, 'or mother she had not, s not alone, she's with her God ; 'ather felt the chastening rod. 'He signed the pledie, and ever lived An honest temperance man, 'Determined uever more to give _ His aid.to those who can 'Rob men of feeling and of soul, By offering them the poisonous bowl. ~ Livonta. . A Letter to Country Girls. BY MRS. SWISSHELM, » have written to you, and all this time you have _ been making your dresses, just as you used to do, with a long straight seam under the arm. No; itis not straight but in the form of an inclined plane, or what carpenters call a bevel, and pressing your sides into the shape of a You have all heard about the Greek Slave, and know it isa marble statue, to show a most perfect and beautiful form, and I wish The outside of the sides are two hollow curves, as graceful as the un- dulation between two waves, or the bend in a willow wand. Every one has a shape more or less like this, accordingly as she is more or less beautiful, graceful and natural; is it not sin that after the Creator has given | f beauty--of undulating outlines } ,and graceful sweeping curves, you should set yourselves deliberately to work to manufac- ture yourselves into sharp angles, and straight, etiff outlines, with no more pretensions to | grace than the sides of a Dutch churn? This you nearly all do, and you dovit by the shape Rie G . ¥ tunnel. you could all see it. | "you a f of that seam under y 'ugly as sin, even in your faces. Bing lik e the limbs of a supple Jack ! Be a a a Will leave this world of want and woe; | . But, ah, these eyes that beamed so mild, , Si--It is a long time since 1| "Thaye grown so perfectly disgusted with i} this way of making dresses, by seeing great, iH ugly, ignorant, vulgar girls, waddling among pots and waeh-tubs, with their apron strings in the centre. It is very strange that any one haying pretentions to gentility--to say nothing of good sense--would, be caught dressed in a way that proclaims to every one her ignorance of the laws of physiology--of the rules of grace and symmetry, and of all taste for the painting and statuary of Greece and Rome. I never see a woman dressed so, but the first thought is: ' Wonder if that woman canread ?' Jt isasign of ignorance, and nothing else can be pleaded in extenua- tion of such folly. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. The population of the United States in 71850, ascertained or estimated from returns and reported statements of the seventh census, with a comparison with the results of the ceneus of 1840: 150. 1840. Tota Represen- Pop. ss, Pop. Slaves. Maine™.......6 582,000 5,000 N, Hampshire.. 240,000 Massuchusetts® 995,000 Connecticutt.. 380,000 309, R. Island* .... 147,000 1 108,000 Vermont® .... 312,000 ; i vent New Yorkt ....3,200,000 30 2,428,6 New Jersey. ... 450,000 270,000 664 Pennsylvaniat 2,200,000 3,724,000 OhiGt, «+.» 0+. + «2,260,000 1,519,000 Michigan...... 400,000 212,060 Wisconsin™.... 305,000 45,000 Indiana.,..++.+ 1,000,000 685,000 Illinois . 1,000,000 476,000 381 lowa..... 0050 30,000 Callfornia 200,000 Delaware* .... 90,000 2,310 78,000 2,605 14,002,000 = 2,300 9,070,000 3,600 Dt. Columbia* 50,000 3,000 54,000 5,000 Maryland} 594,000 94,000 470,000 91,000 Virginia .. 1,440,000 540,000 = 1.259,000 448,000 N. Carolina 264,000 294,000 752,000 245,000 S. Carolina* 739,006 359,060 594,000 367,000 Georgia .. 890,000 340 000 691,000 260,000 Florida.... 70,000. 30,000 54,000, 25,000 Alabama ...... 622,000 303,000 590.000 253,000 Mississippi... 490,000 240.00 375,000 195,000 Louisiana .... 445,000 220,000 352,000 168,000 TEXGB) Senclevele 200,000 = 100,000 Arkansas* .,.. 192,000 46,000 97,000 20,000 Missourif .... 572,000 80,000 $83,000 58,000 Tennessee ,...1,040,000 290,000 829,000 186,000 Kentucky* ..-. 970,000 220,000 779,000 182,600 Total S.States 9,294,000 9,088,000 4,800,000 2,487,000 Add F. States 14,000,000 3,286,000 17,069,000 The Cost of War for Slavery. Mr. Corwin estimates the cost of the Mexican war at nearly %$300,000,000. What a sum to be swallowed up in blood ! Who can conceive of the benefits which 300,000,000 might accomplish in the cause of education, religion, and civiliza- tion? 'This is the cost of one side, and itis but a part of that. For twenty years will claims growing out of the Mexican war be pressed upon Congress, and the treasury be exposed to plunder from that cause, This enormous sum, with all the additions that time will make to it, exhi- bits only in the lowest view the enormities of war, By what rule can we measure the moral wrong, the demoralizing effect of turning the energies of a whole people into the channels of destruction? Who shall estimate the private wrongs, the in- dividual suffering, the desolation of invad- ed provinces, of captured towns, the sor- ends, from loved one and from home, | rows of widows and orphans, the ruined health of the many men who left for. the war full of hope and dreams of glory, and came back to die, or worse than die, in the homes: now desolate forever 4 It is the strangest problem in nature, that men will not learn the folly as well as the wickedness of war. One twentieth of the bare money which this war has cost, would have bought all the territory which we have acquired, andggpuid have bought with it the consent of Mexico and the good will of the provinces annexed, In nations more than in individuals, be- cause in nations on a larger scale, is ex- hibited the great truth, that ** honesty is the best policy.' Nobody doubts it. When will some great nation dare to act upon it Providence Journal. Capital Punishment. The' following bill, in effect abolishing Sapital Punishment, is now before the Ohio General Assembly. It has passed through the hands of the Judiciary Cummittee, and may pass the House and Senate. The bill reads : . "See 1. Be it enacted &c., That if, on the trial of any person for a capital offence, pun- ishable with death, the jury shall find the accused guilty, and shall also recommend a commutation of the punishment therefor to imprisonment and hard labor during life in the penitentiary, such a commutation shall be had, and the court before which such trial was made, shall accordingly, upon such ver- dict and recommendation, proceed to sentence the person so convicted, to such commuted punislment, and the sentence shall be executed. "Sec, 2. All acts and parts of acts contrary to or inconsistent, with, the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage." Ra ee ta Long, the Fugitive Slave. The Richmond papers announce the arm. } You sew it in a regular slope fromthe arm | Reale of . 5 'pit to the bottom of the waist, and that is as ais beng -awithsois degree of tri- jong as it can possibly be made. This makes 'the smallest part of your body below the ribs --that is, you squeeze in the muscles and 'flesh where there are no bones to resist the force, and so crowd the 'liver until it cannot -act; and you grow yellow, bilious, nervous-- It is very strange that you can be so foolish--that any one can deliberately ruin her own health for 'the privilege of looking ugly. It does make me nervous to see a woman on the street with this tight place below her rigs, and her wag- umph. But the question was, what should be done with him ? To make an example of him, to deter other slaves from running off, and to pre- vent his being bought by any one at the North, the owner was compelled to give bonds, in $3000, that Long should be sent South. . Saturday week last, among a long list of names--of fine il hands, of likely gitls between 13 and 18--advertised in the Richmond (Va.) papers, the following special notice tbaacat 'Henry Long ar Avotion.-- will sell on Saturday morning, at 10 o'clock, t having graduated at one of the principal Hotels in New York. ' Puntiam & SuAbDE, Auctioneers.' The papers all noticed the sale editor- ially. The Richmond Whig, of the pre- ceding day, had the following : ' Henry Lone ar Auvction.--It will be seen, by reference to our Auction Head, that the notorious fugitive, Henry Long, willbe sold at auction, at the auction room of Messrs. Pulliam & Slade, on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock.' 'The sale took place on Saturday morn- ing, pursuant to the terms of the adyer- tisement;,and the result was thus an- nounced: 'Henry Long---This black rascal, who for the last two or three-weeks has been ogcupying quite a large space in the public prints, was sold yesterday at the auction city, to a Mr. Clopton, from Georgia, for $750.--Richmond Whig. 'Save or Henry Lone.--Henry Long, the reclaimed fugitive, was sold at auc- tion on Saturday last, by Messrs, Pulliam & Slade, to a gentleman from the South, for the sum of $750. The gentleman was the only bidder, and was required to give bond and security in the amount of #3000 as an assurance that he would re- move Henry to the South, in compliance with the terms of sale. There was quite a concourse of persons in attendance at the auction room.'--Richkmond Republi- can. [from the Peninsular Freeman.] Pro-Slavery Appliances. Tt would seem as though all the existing and available powers of the General Govern- ment were now put forth to crush the spirit of freedom that is abroad in the land. -Mem- bers of Congress and the Administration do not strive so much to learn and carry out the known will of the people as to contrive and execute plans to overthrow and defeat that will. All the patronage of the, Government is most unequivocally so distributed as to bend office-holders and office-seekers into the sup- port of the Fugitive Law. This influence, at Jeast, silences the active and managing mem- bers of the Whig party in the North, while, on the other hand, the leading members of the Democratic party, those who are looking for promotion. to high offices, are strenuously exerting themselves in the same direction, each prominent man striving to outdo his competitor in subserviency to the slave power, that he may thereby increase his chances for the Presidency. Each man of this class has also his friends and tools, who work with all the servility of slaves to aid his plans. While all these things are going on among the poli- ticians quietly and behind the scenes, the common people are pursuing their business entirely unconscious of the grand schemes laid to gain their support and defeat the right. One hundred thousand dollars were placed in the hands of what is called the " Union Safety Committee," in New York, to aid the objects of that organization. This committee has, by means of circulars addressed to many prominent ministers of the Gospel in different parts. of the free States, called out many ser- mons from able and influential divines in favor of the fugitive law, many of which not only admonish the people to obey that Jaw, but to sustain it. 'These sermons are printed at Washington city, and, under the frank of members of Congress, scattered broad-cast over the Union, to stifle as far as their influ- ence will go, the free sentiments that are fast taking hold of the minds of the people. Thus the pulpit has been made the ally and co- worker of unprincipled politicians in further- ing their corrupt schemes of ambition. 'They silence the voice of freedom in Congress, throw the petitions of treedom contemptu- ously on the table, denounce and scoff at those who present them, and then keep at work a subservient class of clergy to hurl their " anathemas" against freedom, and dole out their ' indulgences" to the supporters of slavery. All the high places in the church and state seem by this concerted display of influence and power to be filled by men ar- rayed on the side of slavery. All this, how- ever, would not amount, to much in the end, were the forces of freedom mustered and in the field battling the enemy. But such is unfortunately not the case. They do not pre- sent an undivided front, but are scattered in small squadrons, each man fighting on his own hook, carrying on a sort of Guirilla war- fare upon the enemy. Once ina while an advantage is gained, to be Jost again for want, of aid and concert of action. Men may feel strong in their cause, and rely much on that to carry them through, yet the best of causes may be trampled down for a time by over- whelming opposing forces.' We fear the friends of freedom are not now awake to the danvers that threaten their canse--are not fully aware of the ten thousand avenues of influence through which it is assailed. at Ricirs.--A Canadian corre- spondent of the New York Tribune, writing from 'Toronto, says: "It may be interesting to the advocates of ' women's rights' to know that we have admitted women to some of the franchises, the withholding of which was greatly complained of at the Worcester Con- vention. The other day, at the election of schoo] Trustees, several women voted, their tight to do so having been legalized last ses- sion of the Provincial Parliament." - Lrsary or tue Preswentian Mansion.-- At the last session of Congress an appropria- tion of two thousand dollars was made for the purpose of commencing a library for the use of the President. Under the instructions of the President, a handsome and judicious selec- tion of nine hundred volumes, comprising law, history, science and literature, has been purchased and arranged in the White House. Annual appropriations will no doubt hence- forth be made for its increase. years' hard labor in the Provincial peniten- tiary. He was found guilty on two indict- | ments, and condemned to ten years' imprison- ment on each. When brought up to hear the judgment of -the Court, he was asked if he had any thing to say why the penalty of the Jaw should not be pronounced against him. He replied as follows : "No, my Lord; IT have violated the Jaws of my country. I have been tried by an impartial jury and convicted, and T humbly bow to their decision, throwing myself entirely upon the leniency and mercy of the court. There are, however two favors which I would ask, ifa felon in the dock dare ask a favor ; first, as | have no means of my own, though a portion of the money taken from me be- lunged to myself, the Court would see my counsel properly feed, since be has ably, though unsuccessfully, defended me. The second is, that when [ am sent to the peni- tentiary, they would intercede and have me hould I ever be released from it, I. may be ble to earn an honest hvelyhood. I attribute my present course of life solely to the cireum- stances that [ was never brought up to any trade. Should I not be taught any occupation while in the penitentiary, when I come out IT shall be friendless, homeless, penniless, and ragged, and | must necessarily resume my old habits and become what I was before, a robber." room of Messrs. Pulliam & Slade, in this) taught'some trade or profession, in order that Brutal Murder. We learn from the Pike County Free Press. that a man named William D. W. Gould was murdered in Griggsville, Pike Co.,in a most brutal manner, 'The par- ticulars are as follows : He was passing a shoe shop in which were several persons, among whom was a young man named Kesterson. Some small boys had been annoying those in the shop, in sundry ways, and when Mr. Powell, who was with Gould, knocked at the door of the shop, the boys retreated and those in the shop came out, and Kes- terson accused Gould, in a threatening manner, with disturbing them, and wished Gould to fight ; this Gould refused to do, and at the same time warning Kesterson not to strike him. After some further altercation, Gould was about to leave when Kesterson threw a stone, weighing nearly four pounds, and struck Gould in the forehead, crushing the skull in upon the brain. Not content with his work, Kesterson, with fiend-like malignity, then jumped upon the body of the prostrate man, and stamped and kicked him several times before the bystanders could inter- fere, at the same time swearing that, if Gould was not dead, he would kill him. Gould died on the 14th ult., ten days after, of his injuries, and was attended to his graye by a large number of friends, and the Griggsville Division of 8. of T., of which Gould was a member. Kesterson is still at large.--Chicago Democrat. ARRICAN SLAVE TRADH. Offital Documents from the American Minister TAZU. The documents communicated by the President to the Senate on the [2th of December, in relation to the traffic in slaves in Brazil, under the American flag, have been made public. We give.a brief statement of the origin of the troubles and the result of the investigations instituted at Rio Janeiro. The information was transmitted to the United States Govern- ment by the American Minister at Rio, Mr, Tod; from whose statements it ap- pears that the infamous traffic is still car- ried on to a great extent. Not less than 45,000 negroes have been imported into Brazil within the last year. More or less of every cargo are murdered on the voyage, and the survivors are too often used as mere beasts of burden. By far the greater portion of it is carried on by vessels built in the United States, and under the flag of our country. 'The American Consul at Rio, in the months of May and July, 1847, took sun- dry depositions, clearly establishing the fact that the American brig Senator pro- ceeded to the coast of Africa, in the month of December, 1846, and brought to the coast of Brazil a large cargo of ne- groes. 'The depositions representa scene of cruelty and horror indescribable. In January, 1848, the American barque Laurens was seized and sent to the United States. On the 27th of May, in the same year, the United States vessel Alleghany arrived at Rio, to be used in making seizures, where there was eyi- dence of an intention to carry on the slave trade, under our flag. On the 80th of September following, Mr. Tod recom- | mended the Government to recommend the abolition of all trade, in American vessels, between Brazil and the African coast. On the 24th of July, in the same year, Mr. Tod issued a circular, addressed to the American Consuls in Brazil, with a view to obtain the statistics of the slave trade, as connected with American ves- sels. On the 11th of January, 1849, after measures had been adopted to stop the illegal traffic, Mr. Tod still complained that the American flag was still used by the illegal traders in human flesh. On the 8th of January, 1850, Mr. Tod wrote to the Secretary of State that fifty thousand Africans are annually imported into Brazil, and sold as slaves for life. One half of this number are intréduced jeot were faithfully enforced, says Mr, Tod, the slave trade could not continue, Unfortunately, however, those clothed with their administration and execution, with some honorable exceptions, connive at the traffic, and silently acquiesce jn the violation of the laws they are 'sworn to uphold. Whilst the head of the Govern. ment, and many of the most enlightened statesmen of the empire are believed to consider the slave trade as inimical to the true interests of their country, 2 greater number profess to be honesily of the opi- nion that the welfare of Brazil demands the continuance of the trade; and, aftey defending the tratic on the ground of ne. cessity, many proceed to contend that the condition of the African is meliorated when he becomes a Brazilian slave. How. ever repugnant to the principles of sound political economy. and of enlightened hu- manity, these doctrines may be, they are very generally entertained by the people of Brazil. When to these impressions jg added the tremendous power of the Prinee, wielded by those who reap the immediate profits of the traffic, it may be inferred that the few who labor for its suppression have very embarrassing obstacles to con- tend with. In the unequal struggle between hu- manity and patriotism on the one hand, and cupidity and imaginary self-interest on the other, the influence of the United States flag is scarcely felt, except in sup- port of the slave dealer--the seizures made by American men-of-war weighing as nothing in the seale with the facilitie which our colors afford inthe transporta- tion to Africa of slave goods, slave crews and slave vessels. Many of our vessels have been seized and sent to the United States for trial. on a charge of participating in the slave traffic; but how seldom, except when slaves have been absolutely found on board, has a condemnation taken place. Forfeitures scarcely furnish exceptions to the general rule. Having its inceptionin a distant land, the crime remains unpu- © nished, because a conviction is in a great measure dependent upon a chain of cir- cumstantial evidence, and an intimate familiari:y with the mode of conducting the trade, which are alone attainable on the spot where the offense originated Apart from the odium which the parti- cipation of our flag and our citizens in the trade brings upon our country, it not unfrequently happens that private parties in the United States become sufferers. 'The case of the barque Herald is an in- stance in point. Masters and mates of vessels are sometimes seduced into a be- trayal of the interests of their employers, and become pirates, in the hope of sud- denly accumulating a fortune. Might not a repetition of outrages similar to those which mark the case of the Herald, seri- ously endanger the peace of the countries? A letter addressed by Mr. Gorham Parks, late U.S. Consul at Rio, to Mr. Tod, gives the following important facts : The number of American vessels which, since the first of July, 1844, until the Ist of October, 1849, sailed for the coast of Africa from Rio de Janeiro, is ninety- three. Of these vessels, all except five have been sold or delivered on the coast of Africa, and have been engaged in bringing over slaves, and many of them have been captured with the slaves on board: 'The value of the cargoes it is impossible to ascertain, as the amount of property on which duties are paid at the custom-house by no means indicates the true amount carried over. They were all of them loaded with goods with which to purchase slaves, and with provisions and water for their support on their passage over. The number of American vessels which have entered from the coast, during the same period, has been fifty-one. The value of imports from Africa, excepting slaves, nothing. There is no trade be- tween either the east or west coast of Africa and Brazil, excepting what is con- nected directly or indirectly with the slave trade. , The English cruisers form the princi- pal impediment to the prosecution of this traffic ; and, as our Governimen does not permit vessels carrying our tag to be searched, our vessels are preferred to most, if not to all others, by the slave traders, as offering perfect protection for the traffic from their dreaded enemy, (<> The Washington Monument has now reached the height of eighty feet above the surlace, thirty-eight of which have been raised during the past year, at an expense of $200 per foot. A number of stones from different States and societies have already © been inserted in the colnmn, and many other? ' are on the ground, ready to be placed in the walls as the work advances. Deatu or Hugues, rue Boston Srave- Catcurr.-- We learn from the Central Georgian, published at Saundersville, that Wills H. Hughes of Macon, was killed in that place on Sunday night last, by a Mr. ene, a brother of the individual who was in Boston with him last fall, in search of William and Ellen Crafts, as fugitive slaves. Hughes was killed in a street fight, growing - out of political differences with Knight.