The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

@ And where'or flashed their standard-sh = + MS Be = -- "From the National Era. Invocatio Men of the North! amid the graves Of your great sires, kneel down like slaves, To stronger chains and hoavier yoke Than those their rebel valor broke ; s e > And rang their shot and clanged their steel, And Freedom's foes to earth were beat, T Koo, in craven suppliance kneel ! » , hark ! from Southern skies pious mandate ris¢e-- rn hinds, to Slavery's sway ; r those who disobey ! Shall sueh 15 ye presume to stand, When such as wo command to bow ? Yo've Slayery's badge, the toil-worn hand-- "Take, then, its brand upon your brow! And o'er each Northern hill and plain, From Western wilds to Eastern main, E'en where Niagara, wild and strong, Lifts up all Nature's freedom song, Base horn satraps help to swell Iting mandate, till tho call old Independence bell, choes from old Faneuil Hall. where the sacre 5 disclose The graves wherdin your sires repose, And Freedom's yestals vigils keep ' Where Hancock, Adams, Franklin sleep ; And where undying fame surrounds With glory's ever fadeless sheen, And shades with laurel-bowers the mounds Of Warren, Stark, Wayne, Putnam, Green ; And on each field whence heavenward rose Their shout o'er Freedom's vanquished foes-- At Lexington, at Bennington, Where Stony Point was stormed and won, Around the base of Bunker's tower, On Princeton's, Saratoga's plain ; aes yo to the Southron's power, _ Stoop to his yoke, and clank his chain! Selected for the Voice of the Fugitive. Tine Quaker Friends, } Farmington 2rd,"12. Mo. Dear Henny Biss, _ The following are the sentiments, on the ubject of slavery, as expressed and put forth by the lato yearly Meoting of Friends held in New York City. And how admirable it would be for all the churches to act and spoak out full and plain against this great evil in our laws and in our government ; for if all those that profess to follow that religion, that says, do unto others as ye would have men do unto you, slavery could not last in our midst one yoar. Naruan Power. But to our Selection. "Jn relation to slavery, and tho legal en- actments of the United States Government respecting this oppressive institution, a con- cern was spread before tho mocting, that Friends might seriously reflect how far the wrongs of the slave haye a claim on their commisération, 2nd action. After 'an inter- esting discussion, it was concluded to recom~ mend the subject again to the special atten- tion of the meeting for suffrages," as being one deeply affecting the cause of: humanity, and on which our religious society has felt bound to give its testimony. And the meet- ing felt to commend their hard lot to the ten- der commisseration of Friends 'with the de- sire that they may be engaged faithfully to maintain the testimony which our Society has long held,--that it is a grievous wrong for man to exercise the right-of property in his fellow man. We desire to commend to the rénewed ccnsideration of Friends, the views presented by the direction of this meeting a few years since on the duty of ab- staining from the use of the product of slave labor." 4 * A select body that represent tho views and principles of the society during its recess from year to year. No more Slavescan Esczpe. "All of the negroes that have run away are agoing to be brought back to. their owners, who will lash their backs with raw- hide until they are covered with blood, and then rub them off with salt and pepper, just hike farther did old Nelly when she runaway, and he caught her." "How do you know Miss Nancy?" was the reply of a slave, last week, in Kentueky, who was telling him this as a profound seeret. "Oh, farther just read the President's Message, and he says it is so." But thank heaven, this slave is now in Cana- da, as free as. Willard Filmore, or his old master. Little did Miss Nancy then think 'that this slave was calculating to start that night for Canada; but it was even so. We do not believe that the time has ever been when there were more slaves making their escape to this province than there are this fall and winter, from the South notwithstand- ing all that there has been said and done to enforee the fugitive slave law. We clip the following extracts from the New York Tribune on the President's pro- slavery Message. ' "As to Fugitives from Bondage--one of whom the President and Congress are about to vie with each other in honoring--we can- not 80 deeply regret, as does the President, the difficulties experienced in_hand-eutling and forcing them back into Slavery. That difficulty has its origin in the, nature of the ease--or rather, in the ctertllllaws of God written on the hearts of humane and con- scientious men and women. 'ery uncor- rupted human soul is naturally an ally and accomplice of the fugitive escaping from Slavery, anxious that he may not be over- taken, and ready to speed and cheer him on his way. 'Ten thousand prayers ascend daily in behalf of the flying bondsman, not one for the success of his pursuers." "The President deceives himself if he supposes that the spirit of opposition to this law is diminishing. If the slavye-catchers ait allow it to fall into disuse, there ean be ittle difficulty in retaining it on the Statute- books. But wherever the People are per- mitted to see its practical working, there they are impelled to hold it in deeper and Relics abhorrence; and if one half the 2 living in the a" States were subjected forthwith | to provisions, its preservation would be morally impossi- ble. "To be hated it needs but to be seen." and if "our Liberty and our Union" are based on our alacrity in depriving our fel- low-men of their liberty, and tearmg ther from their wives and children, as Bolding and others were torn, without the privileges of Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury, then is" our Liberty " a fraud, and "our Union" a "covenant with Death!" The President will live long enough to learn that on these points he is grievously mistaken." fugitives now Another Fugitive Returned. Pennsylvania seems to be monopolizing the Slave catching business just now. Two Fugitives from Maryland were arrested at Columbia on Sunday last. One of them sueceeded in escaping from his captors, the other was returned to Baltimore. A war- yant has been issued for the arrest of a man who resisted the Marshall. Two white men in Baltimore weve charged by thie re- captured man with aiding his eseape. Wonder if it wasa breach of the Sabbath to catch this poor fugitive. It has been de- cidedly wicked for years past to oppose sla- very even by argument ona Sunday. Our holy temples have been closed against such heresy and pious priests have with with holy horror refused even to give notices of such meetings. But asthe fugitive law is above all others, human and Divine, we suppose of course it abrogates the Sabbath and Marshals and "good citizens" may most devoutly kidnap on the sacred day and thus do good service to the deity they worship. Diamonds. Tt would be exceedingly curious, if, at some future exlibition, diamonds rivalling the Koh'i-Noor should be considered of less yalue than the glass models now shown by Mr. Apsley Pellat, and should be produced at even less cost.' But if the result of cer- tain investigations which have been com- municated to us be correct, our preconceived notions will be readily controverted. Hith- erto we have been told by chemists that this glittering stone is pure carbon, and that we may as well try to produce original mat- ter as this substance. But some inyestiga- tions into the laws of chemical combinations and affinities, conducted by the Chevalier Claussen, have within the last few days, led him to believe that the existing notion of the diamond. being composed of the pure element of carbon is erroneous. Instead of being pure carbon, he states that. it is a.com- pound of carbon acidl--in fact a carbonate of carbon; and he is also of opinion that ear- bon itself is not an elementary body, as he thinks he has succeeded in dissolving and analysing it. We have not had an opportuni- ty of verifying the experiments referred to, but we are informed that several eminent chemists are at present engaged in that task. --Morning Chronicle. The first railroad made in this country was commenced 23 years ago, It was in Mass., only 3 miles long and was called the Quincy road. The next was the Mohawk and Hudson railroad, from Albany to Schen- ectady, wich was commenced in 1830 and finished in 18883--18 years ago. On the Ist of January last there were 1400 miles of railroad in operation in this State, which cost $56,200,000. In the New England States there are' 2,644 miles in operation, costing $96,946,450. In the Uuited States there are in operation, 8,757 miles costing $320,000,000. Jour years ago there was only half that number of miles built. This is astonishing progress, and the work has only just begun.--Bnffalo Commercial, Field Marshall Haynau has found it im- possible to keep the property purchased in Hungary with the sum of money presented to him by the Emperor. His desire to part with it is announced to arise from the absence of labor and the difficulty of procuring it from other parts of the country. It may be true that the laborers have refused to work for their new neighbour; they have, however done more, Haynau has failed to get in a single crop of any kind. Eyery thing has been destroyed by the peasantry, the crops above and in the ground have been wasted by fire or other means, the buildings burnt down and every method of agrarian outrage adopted in order to make the place too hot to hold him. 'They have succeeded. [we Hlevation of the Free Pecple iis ; of Color. 'We published Jast week the proceedings of a Gonyention of the colored people, held at Sandy Lake, in this county. Some of their vesolutions are good, others we confess our inability to understand. We do not de- sigh to comment on these proceedings, but to throw out a few thoughts on the general subject of the elevation of the free people of color. We are satisfied that but little can be done for the promotion of this object by the holding of Conventions, and the passing of frothy, nonsensical resolutions. Conventions may be useful if they serve, by the light elicted in discussion, to point out the true path of progress to the colored people, and to stimulate them to earnest and persevering effort in following that path, But if such meetings be made the occasion of exciting prejudice against the whites, or of indiscrimi- nate denunciation of the true friends of the negro, they will be a positive injury. Again: if such Conventions are designed to convince the despisers of the colored man of his ability to meet, and act intelli- gently in deliberative hodies, they will ob- viously be a failure, until those composing them can write common s and passable iglish. The true elevation of all men is the pos- ession of intelligence and goodness. Hence the only way to elevate the colored race is to promote amon them, sound intelligence and pure virtue. 'That alone, therefore, is for their real good which tends to this result. To confer the highest pohtical and social privileges on any class of men, so long as they lack the intelligence and integrity to act worthily jn their exercises, can avail but comparatively little. The enjoyment of these privileges may, indeed do much to promote solid learning and morality, but without these they are rather a cwrse than a blessing to their possessor. We do not mean to affirm, because we do not believe, that the colored people as a class ae more ignorant and degraded than an equal number of whites, selected from the same condition. Place the negro, where the white man has been for centuries, in the en- joyment of the highest state of civilization and (Christianity which the world affords, and we haye no doubt he would make quite as good an improvement of his privileges. Piace the white man under the ban of social, political and religious proseription, and he would sink very speedily to a level with the most vicious and degraded of any na- tion. Again: the existing prejudices against the black man which exclude him from equal political, educational, social, and religious privileges, we regard as utterly anti-Christian and wicked. We have testified against this prejudice and the restrictions imposed to the best of our ability. We shall continue to do so; and had we power we would at once admit the colored people to the right of suf frage, to equal educational and religious pri- vilewes with the whites, and open to them freely the door to every honest and honor- able callmg. Distinetion founded upon color we regard as both wicked and absurd. But in this, as in many other things, we are in a minority. The majority say the black man shall be excluded from most of the honorable professions, and from equal participation in the rights of American free- inen. in view of the existence of a prejudice which thus oppresses the colored people, the practical question is what can they do that is best calculated to remove the prevailing prejudice, and the burdens it imposes? There can be but one correct answer to this question. Let the colored people put forth every exer- tion to acquire solid education, and to culti- vate moral and religious principles, and they will be on the high road to their highest elevation. Habits of untirmg industry, im mental and manual labor; principles of un- swerving uprightness and honesty in all busi- ness transactions, and the strictest regard for truth in the performance of all promises and contracts, lie at the basis of all veal inprove- ment. The colored man who is industrious honest, sober, peaceable, intelligent, and pious, is doing far more for the true elevation of his race, than the man who lacking these virtues, spends his breath in frothy declama- tion against the injustice of the whites. It is easy to'see how such a course as that we recommend, if generally adopted, must speedily break down prejudice and secure to the negro the enjoyment of equal ights. In all cases where the prejudice of caste exists the sins of individuals in the despised race are charged upon the race. There are many persons who really believe that stealing, lying, drunkenness, &e., are natural to the negro. This belief is of course as foolish and un- founded as it is unjust and eruel. But it does little good to reason against it, if those under its influence can point to a majority of the colored people as addicted to these vices. Butif this people will, in the language of one of the Sandy Lake resolutions, " dis- pense with intemperance and all manner of eyil"--if they become, as a class, intelligent, honest, upright and pious, so that in every community where they live plenty of living witnesses to prove the falsity of the current charges against them may be found, it will necessarily weaken and finally destroy the prevailing prejudices against them. There is thus a most powerful motive pre- sented to the colored people to strive with all ther energy for their own improvement, and to avoid eyery degrading vice. By this course not only will they, each one indivi- dually, benefit themselves, but will be doing all in their power to break down the unjust | hatred of their race which is now crushing them in the dust. Not a crime is now com- mitted by a colored man that does not affect his race. The negro-hater points triumph- antly to the crime and exclaims. "see there, that is just what may be expected of nig- gers." While there is foul injustice in this, and while if true it would cause the truly Christian heart to mourn rather than rejoice, it furnishes a motive to every colored man to live and act so as to give the lie to such cruel slanders. The most powerful motives from every quarter press upon the colored man to labor with untiring energy for his own improye- ment arid the elevation and religious instrue- tion of his children. It is true tltat the difficulties in his way ave great. But these difficulties furnish to the energetic only an argument for higher exertion. The truly great mind, so far from shrinking discou- raged before obstacles, only feels that addi- tional eneray is ealled for, to enable him to overcome them. This energy ought always to correspond with the greatness of the obstacles to be surmounted. Now the colored man claims for himself, and his friends claim for him, equality of natural rights and of mental powers, with the white man. The best way in the world to vindicate his claim, and force his enemies to acknowledge its justice is to overcome the difficulties that oppose his im- provement, and thus rise superior to his pre- sent condition--Aree Presbyterian. far Two hundred "volunteer military companies " of New York city, offer to fur- nish 8000 men for the Kossuth procession. They are distinguished from the regular municipal army by the name of the "Target Guards." How to Risx.-- Ata meeting recently heli in Preston, the Rev, B. Powell related the following anecdote of the Bishop of London: --The latter, on being asked as to what time it would be convenient for an interview the following morning, replied, " At any time after four o'clack." He (Mr Powell) said "My Lord, do you rise as early as four oelock?" Elis Lordship answered, " I do:-- if I had not made a point of rising early I should not have been your Bishop!" Porvuuarion or Carrrornta.--Census re- turns recently received from California, in- dicate that her complete enumeration will give her a white population of 165,000, and 1800 blacks, This makes her fractional Re- presentative enumeration 74,000, and secures her a second Representative in Congress. Ants iy Prrv.--tThe forests of Pern swarm with ants} every shrub is alive with them. The large yellow puca sis? is seen in myriads in the opem air, and it even pe- netrates into the dwellings. 'This insect does not bite, but its crawling creates great irritation to the skin. The small, black yaha sist, on the contrary, inflicts most painful punctures. A very mischievous species of stinging ant, is the black sunchéron. Ita wound is painfnl, and even dangerous, "C. Klee, my travelling companion," says Dr. Tschudi, " being stung by one of these ants, such severe pain and fever ensued, that he was for a while delirious." The Dr. himself was stung, and he states that the pain' was severer, ror a few moments, than any he had ever experienced. A most remarkable phe- nomenon is exhibited by the swarms of the species called the "ereat wandering ant," which appears suddenly, in immense trains, ceaselesely marching forward. in a straight line. The large and strong flank the army and look out for prey. These swarms come- times enter a hut, and clear it of all dis- agreeable insects. 'The united force of these small creatures is so vast, that not only snakes, but also large animals, such as the armadillo, on being surprised by them, are soon killed. . A man who had gone west for the purpose of buying land, found, upon his ar- riving at his destination, that his money, some $1000 in bank bills, which he had placed in abelt about his body, was matted together and nearly converted into pulp, by means of perspiration, which had penetrated the girdle. His only resouree was to return home again, in attempting to separate the mats he broke it into three pieces, and then gaye up the job. Afterwards he committed the remains of his " pile" to a chemist, Mr, Webb of Utiea, who succeeded, in sepa- rating the bills from the confused mass, and restored nearly the whole amount to a shape that rendered them as valuable as they were before. Thisis worthy of remembering, both asa caution on the one hand, and a guide on the other. --Buffalo Commercral. A New Comnr --A letter from Berlin of the 28th ult., states that Dr. Brown has just diseovered, at the observatory of Berlin, a new comet, in the constellation Canis Venatoris. This comet is very luminous, and has two tails. As it will soon be in eon- junction with the sun, it may be seen in the evening in the north-west, and in the morning in the north-east, at a distance of from seven to eight degrees from the last star of the tail of Ursa Major. Drarn or Jamus Monrcomery.--By the last arrival from England we are informed of the decease of James Montgomery, whose fervent devotional poetry holds a cherished place in the hearts of his cauntrymen. 2 The real and personal property of Newark, New Jersey, has been assessed at $13,072,400. The complete amount of pro- perty belonging to the inhabitants of the city should be set down at $20,000,000. The city tax is abont $70,000. The county tax is $25,000, of which Newark pays $11,400 20c. The per cent, this year on property "i the lamp and watch district is $61 per $1,000, and outside of the district $438. REMARKABLY SteApFast, -- Mrs. Ruth Pierson, who died in Derby, a few dayssince, aged 89, was the last resident descendant of the first white settler of that town, Thomas Pierson, who purchased the land in 1654, of the Chiefof the Sagamore Indians, O'Kenuck. His descendants have retained a portion of that purchase to this day, nearly 200 years -- New Haven Reg. Recrerociry.--Your attention is again invited to the question of reciprocal trade be- tween the United States and Canada, and other British possessions near our frontier. Overtures for a convention upon this subject have been received from her Britannie Ma- jesty's Minister Plenipotentiary, but it seems. to be in many respects preferable that the -- matter should be regulated by reciprocal legislation, Documents are laid before you showing the terms which the British Goyern-- ment is willing to offer and the measures which it may adopt, if some arrangement upon this subject shall not be made.-- Mon- treal Pilot. Orecon Bounpary.--From the aceom-- panying copy of a note from the British Legation at Washington, and the reply of the Department of State thereto, it will ap- pear that her Britannic Majesty's goyernment - is Cesirous that a part of the boundary line: between Oregon and the British possessions. should be authoritatively marked out, and that an intention was expressed to apply to Congress for an appropriation to defray the: expense thereof on the part of the United States. Your attention to this is accordingly invited, and a proper appropriation recom-- mended.-- Montreal Pilot. Catirornia Soap Prayr.--From a pa-- per read before the Boston Society of Natu- ral History, it appears that the soap plant grows all over California. The leayes make- their appearance about the middle of Nov., or about aix weeks after the rainy season has- fairly set in. The plants never grow more than a foot high, and the leaves and stalk drop eutirely off in May, though the bulbs- remain in the ground all summer without decaying. It is used to wash with, in all parts of the country, and by those who know its virtues, it is prefered to the best of soap.. The method of using it is merely to. strip it of the husk, dip the clothes into the water, and rub the bulb on them. It makes a thick: lather and smells not unlike brown soap, The botanical name of the plant is Phalangium : pomaridianum. Besides this plant, the bark- of 3 tree is used in South America, for the - purpose of washing, Several' other plants have also been used im different countries as- a substitute for soap. With all the virtues of this cleansing soap plant, can the Califor- nians ever wash from their hands the foul blood stains left by the inhuman barbarities of their vigilance committees. SranpArp For THE Suare or Fow1s.--- At the late exhibition of poultry at Boston, a well known gentleman, who had carefully examined the different kinds of fowls, ob- served: These long-legged, thin breasted. chic*ens will never answer for the table.' TI: speak from forty years' practice in carving. Thave formerly had them, sometimes, on my table, but I have grown wise by experi- ence, and will have no more of them. 'To say nothing of the poor quality of their flesh, their shape is not right. For instance, if T have a pair of such chickens, and there are half a clozen of ladies at table, each chooses a piece off the breast, and there' cannot be enough cut from that part to serve round; but if I have a pair of patridges, ( ruffled grouse, ) though they may not weigh half as much as the chickens, I can ~ readily take a slice of the breast for each' guest. The patridge, then, should be the standard for the shape of fowls; and beside the ad- yantage alluded to, it will be found in gen- eral, that the nearer this form is approached, the better will be the flesh, and the greater quantity in proportion to the bone-- Cuh- vator Tar Cost or Curt iry.--The cost, in dollars, of conyertin e Sandwich Is- and to the faith of the Gospel, has been during the first eight years, $54,000; the second eight years, $118,000: the third eight years,$324,000 ; the fourth, $258,000 ; the last three years have been respectively,. $35,006, and $26,000. Total, $854,000. . The New York " Herald" wnderstands: that the chemical composition required %o- charge the fire annihilator cannot be madein, New York; that all experiments to that end' have failed; and that before a public exhibi-- tion of the annihilating capacities of the ma-. chine can be expected, some of the vessels, already loaded, will have to be procured' from England. The "Herald" thinks it may, may therefore, bo a month yet before the present fire department will resign. Mean- time, it learns that Mr. Paine is still woek= ing at his gas.