Jand gentleman, Sate Diswiion at the North. We give below a letter from a New Eng- well known to some of our citizens, taking ground in favour of Disunion. We presume it would not do much harm, if --weof the North, who have so often been terrified by the specire of Disunion, should now turn its frightful features towards chi- valric braggarts of the South. Many of our people are beginning to believe that it 1s useless to try to live in peace with the South, and that a separation must come sooner or later .When a man sells us a house, pockets and spends the money, and then attempts to get possession of the house again, either by vid ofthe law or by force, we must set - him down asa_ rascal and have nothing to do with him. The case is much stronger when the house was our own originally and we paid the money merely to buy our peace. There is just as little inducement to enter into or continue in partnership with such men politically as personally. Let the South beware !-- Cin. Gazette. --'The Tribune accompanied the publication of the letter with the following remarks: Among the letters from the people, which __-wethis morning publish, is one which merits particular attention as well from its subject as from the character of the author whose _ name is signed to it. We refer to the com- 'munication of Mr. Foote, of New Haven, under the significant title of Freedom and 'The writer is a retired and wealthy man of buisness, of ripe years and moderate and conservative tendencies. No 1could be more unlikely to take ex- treme or fanatical views of any great public ie question, and yet we find him coolly advocat- ing Disunion as the means of extricating the free States, not only from all participation in the crimes and evils of slaveholding, but from the degraded position of tools and abettors in the extension of the accursed system. _ Atthe same time he boldly proclaims what _ is no dubt true, that separation would be of great pecuniary benefit to the Northern States. We publish his communication as na evidence of the conclusions at which sen- sible and quiet men are arriving under the conviction that no agreement or compromise which the South may make on this subject can _ be relied on, and that Southern faith to-day ~ is as worthless as Punic faith of old. If, they say,--and there are thousands of such men, --this Union is to be converted into a great instrument for the propagation and perpe- tuation of Slavery, Let it Perish! Such isthe effect of the Nebraska perfidy at the North and such is the spirit to which those conspirators have given birth among the most calm and reflecting classes of our people. FREEDOM AND DISUNION. | To the Editor of the N. Y. Tribune: Can not a convention of wise and Sir: __ prudent men from the free States be had to _ take into consideration the propriety of their immediate separation from the slave-breed- ing and slave-whipping States. The " paint- ed Deyil " of Disunion has so long been held up by the South as a scarecrow to us Dough-Faces, that we are becoming accus- __ tomed to it, and we no longer tremble with fear at the sight of it as heretofore. Per- haps it would be well for the South to look its own bugbear in the face, instead of try- ing to frighten their neighbors with it any longer. Lean perceive no good reason that should induce the free States to wish to remain one day longer chained to the dead carcase of Slavery. They have all the elements of a great empire, and as much territory. as can _ probably be well and safely governed under a republican regime. With unlimited quantities of wheat and iron and coal, their command of sugar and cotton will be unlimited; and with the enterprise and industry which free ~Jabor and a cold climate will always create - under a free government, they must inevita- Loy bly make slave labor tributary. The struggle of the slave States for po- itical supremacy in our National councils, is one of life and death to them, and they will ~ inevitably succeed in it, because it is not a _Jife and death struggle to the free States. _ Heretofore Ihave always considered a se- _ paration of the States as alto gether imprac- ae - ticable, inasmuch as our great Western rivers all debouch through those States that must ee form a part of the Southern confederacy. But our railroads and canals have . superseded the necessity of rivers, for any other pur- pose than that which Richard Brinsley said they were created, viz: to feed navigable canals. - Tam not in the habit of writing political or any other kind of essays; but it appears that the pro-slavery feeling and the moral debauchery consequent upon it is so rampant __ that it becomes the duty of every man to raise his voice against it. As public journalists you have much power and influence, and if you would once look the subject of the sepa- ration of the States calmly and coolly in the face, you would perceive that it is not such a horrible monster as it has been represented, at least so far as the free States are concern- ed; and if you were once to be convinced that disunion and destruction are not conver- tible terms, and that it is better to let our Southern brethren enjoy the benefit of their peculiar institutions in peace and by them- selves, than it is to try to convince them of that of which they have long been aware, _ viz: That the breeding and whipping of ne- groes is not only dishonest and dishonorable, | 'but it is also very unprofitable--then I think you could do much good. ie Very respectfully, Samur. KE. Foore. New Haven, March 10, 1854. A Visit to Dr. Duff's English School, in Calcutta. _ Ram? "R-a-i-n," spells one of the boys. What is rain? "Water from thesky." Has _ it been produced by the sky itself? "No!" _ How hasit been formed? "Oh!" says one, with the characteristic smartness of the Hin- du, youth, "Do you not know yourself?" I think I do; but my present object is to find out whether you know it. " Well," replies in another, with an air of manifest satisfaction, "Tl tell you--itis squirted from the trunk of the Indra's elephant!" Indeed: that is a mew theory of the origin of rain, which _ I did not know before; and I should now like to know on. what evidence it is founded. All I can say about it is my Gurn cold. me so." But your Gurn must have some rea- son for telling you so. Did he ever see the elephant himself? "Oh, no! the elephant is wrapped up in the cloud, as in @ c:.vering, and no one can see it with his own eyes."-- ; S How, then, came the Gurn to know that the elephant was there at all? "'To be sure, because the Shastra says so," Now I un- derstand the matter. You say the rain comes from the trunk of the elephant, " Cer- Sretanecpa ttn arene nena tainly 5 for though i Hiave n ever seen it wit my own eyes, yet I believe it is there, be- eause the Gurn has told me that the Shas- tra says so; and what the Shastra says must be true." Your Gurn has taught you a very different theory from that which my Gurn taught me in Scotland. Would you like to hear it. and compare the two to- gether? " Nothing would delight us more." reply several voices. In boiling your rice, what rises from the vessel?" Smoke--va- or.' True; and when it gets very, very wet, does all the vapor continue to stick to it? "No; it falls in drops.' Very good. What, then, would you say of the vapor it- self. Is it dry or wet? "Wet, sure enough." Whence, then, does the wet va- por proceed? "It can only be from the water in the vessel." Is the vapor a differ- ent kind of substance from the water ?-- "No!" Why do youthinkso? "Because, when it gathers on the lid, it turns to water ter again'"" So youconclude that the vapor is just a part of the water in the vessel ?-- "Yes"? What drives it off, then, from the rest, and makes it fly into the air? "Tt is nature to do so." Think a moment; when you hold a cup of cold water in your hand do you see the vapor arising from it? "No." What, then, makes the difference between the drinking water in your cnp, and the water that boils the rice? "The one is cold and the other is warm." What makes it warm? "The fire.' Soit is from water warmed by the fire that you see the vapor ascend, and not from the cold! What must -youinfer from this? "That itis the fire which, in making the water warm, makes it go into vapor." Aftera heavy fall of rain on the heated ground, when the sun shines out strongly in the morning, what do you see? "Great vapors or mists." Where do they come from? "From the wet ground."-- Where do they go to! "Up to the sky." Is it warm or cold up in the sky? '" Very cold high up, so that the fakirs say the water Ganga.' When the vapors from the wet ground rise up to this wet place in the sky, what will become of them? " Perhaps they will form into drops as the vapors from the boiling rice do upon the lid of the vessel.""-- When a great many drops gather tegether, will they stay up in the sky always? "No; they will fall down." And when a great many drops of water fall down from the sky, what isit? "Rain, to be sure." Well, that is the theory of the origin of rain which I once learned from my Gurn in Scotland. " How natural !"'--* How like the truth !""-- "Surely it is true." "Ah! Ah! what have I been thinking? If your account be the true one, what becomes of our Shastra ?-- What becomes of our Shastra? If your ac- count be the true one, then owr Shastra must be false. Our Shastra must either be not from God, or God must have written hes. But that is impossible. The Shastra is true; Brahma is true; so your Gurn's account must be false; and yet, it looks so very like the truth." . Now, here was the commencement or first germ of mental struggle which only termi- nated, in the case of some, with the entire overthrow of Hinduism. Up to that mo- ment the very notion that it was possible for any thing in the holy Shastras to be false, had never been conceived even as the crea- tion of a fitfuldream. Even to hesitate ona point so sacred and fundamental, must pre- suppose*a degree of mental effort which those who have been nursed in the lap of truth and freedom in a Christian land, can scarce- ly conceive. And, yet, here was now the sudden injection of a doubt, where all doubt was believed to be impossible--the sudden starting of a suspicion, where suspicion was believed to be an insult to the memory of an immortal ancestry--an impious contempt for the authority of the gods. Yet so palpable were the facts, so natural the inference, and so like the truth, that in spite of such an array of antecdent antipathy, the mind strove in vain to shake itself loose from a dreaded and hated, but struggling and clearing convic- tion-- Duff on India Missions. FROM THE SHAT OF WAR, A letter from Widdin, of the 2nd, ina Vienna journal says:--'" The tete de pont of Tschernawdo, was cannonaded on the 30th ult, by the gunboats, and the Russians are said to have taken possession of a small re- doubt on the road leading to Hirsova. On the same day, several French and English vessels were cruising off Mangalia, and the rear admiral in command of them, had put himself in communication with the gun-boat of Kustendje." Letters from Constantinople fully confirm the previous reports of four of our English vessels having been fired upon by the Rus- sian batteries on the Danube. The Bed- lington, first reported, received no less than seventeen shots, and sunk in eight minutes; the Crescent received seven, and the Annie three shots. The two latter were boarded and the crews taken prisoners, but were on 'the following day released. The master and crew of the Annie, then took possession of their vessel, and arrived safely at Constanti- nople. 'The Crescent, however, was so severely disabled that it was found tmpossi- ble to bring her into port, and she was alter- wards standing within three miles of the bat- terles. The Turkish corps at the command of Mustapha Pasha, who at the last dates stood at Karassa, consisted of 45,000 or 50,000. At Kalarash, where the Russians are pre- paring to cross into Bulgaria, the Turks suc- ceeded on the 1st inst. in totally destroying a whole bridge equipage, which the Russians had brought up to throw across the Danube. A letter from Bucharest, of the 4th, states that the contest which has been going on near Kalarash ever since the 28th was not then decided. Omar Pasha has set out from Silistria to Rassova, whence he would go on to Trojan's Wall, in order to conduct the operations against the Russians in person-- The Turks, at the date named, had still gar- risons in the Dobrudscha, and were stationed at Kastendje, Pollas, Kostelli, Karassa, and Boghaskoi. Below Silistria, but towards Rassova, the Turks have thrown up several batteries which for some 'time past have answered the Russians opposite with some hot fire. These guns must be silenced before the Russians can set about effecting the passage. In Sil- istria the garrison is fully prepared for every event, Since the 28th ult., all the gates have been kept shut and barricaded, one gate alone being excepted, through which in case of need, the guns planted along the strand can be brought into the fortress. A surgeon who isin the Russian army in Wallachia, writes that the preparations for feeding and doctoring the soldiers are upon a scale unknown in previous Russian cam- paigns. Provisions are accumulated as if the grows hard in the Himaylay at the source of} ° men were going into a desert, The chim- neys smoke day and night with the baking of biscuits. The slaughter of cattle at Ibrail and Galatz is incessant. This witness men- tions the left wing of the Russian army as consisting of 84,000 men, referring doubt- less to the corps at Kalarasch and in the Do- brudscha. He incidentally mentions that the hospitals are all crowded, a large propor- tion of their tenants being wounded. The commercial ports and towns of Russia begin to fell the sad effects of the war. At Odessa, according to the Cologne Gazette, business is in a complete state of stagnation. The government has adopted the most severe measures against foreigners residing in the place, or who have come there on business. Some foreign merchants had requested the governor te give them some information as to the question of peace or war, received or- ders to quit the place within eight days. For several weeks past travellers arriving there--- even those belonging to friendly nations-- have not been allowed to quit their vessels. A Belgain merchant, whose papers were per- fectly regular, had a sentinel placed over him on Board a Belgain vessel for six weeks. He then escaped from the vessel in a boat, and was picked up by her at twenty miles distant from the port. Letters from Warsaw of the 24th ult., state that a very depressed state of feeling prevails there, notwithstanding the carnival with its attendant pleasures has been usher- ed in as usual. All trade is at a stand-still; Prussia's conduct excites amazement. The old Russian party views this power with mis- trust, and it seems in their eyes as some- thing perfectly «stounding that Prussia should remain even neutral--that she should not instantly join the emperor. The Military Union of France and England. From the Paris Presse, April 12. This event at which, the Duke of Cam- bridge was present yesterday, was more than a brilliant military manceuvre--it had a political importance which did not escape the notice of any of the numerous spectators who thronged the Champ de Mars. Eng- lish uniforms mingled with French uniforms, were for every eye the visible sign of that strict alliance which the same feeling of dig- nity and civilization, and the same interest has cemented between France and Eng- land--an alliance so much the more serious and durable that it does not result from those personal considerations, nor from those dynastic affinities which the slightest incident compromises and overturns, but rests on mutual sympathy and on a truly national policy. 'The presence of the Eng- lish officers had besides been the occasion of manifestations altogether spontaneous, which attests at the same time the progress and the justice of public opinion. 'The ac- clamations which broke out on their passage demonstrated in an undeniable manner that the union of the two nations is not less cor- dial than that of the governments. There remains at present nothing of the ancient prejudices which aroused such lively and de- plorable passions between England and France. All the classes of society in each of these two great countries are well aware that France and England are, in the whole world, the most worthy and disinterested re- presentatives of right, justice, and moral and material progress; that they have the same interests to carry out, and the same interests to defend; that, in fine, as their contests have shaken all the states, so their alliance confirms the general equilibrium, and guar- antees the security of modern nations. The first effort of this new and generous alliance has for its object to protect the right of Europe against the ambition of Russia, to maintain respect for treaties, to arrest in their invading march the heirs of Attila Huns, and to oppose to the barbarism of the races of the north the impassable barrier of civilization. The armies which march for the support of his noble cause may be proud of their mission; they will obtain not merely that glory of a military character | which is sought for on the battle-field--they will also have that still more useful glory which great services merit, rendered to hu- manity by the triumph of principles which ensure universal peace. Such were the sentiments and impressions which yesterday filled every mind in seeing a prince of Eng- land by the side of the Emperor of France, and the superior officers of Great Britain and France confounded in the same ranks, at the same moment when they are about to-undertake the supreme struggle of right against iniquity, and of the interest of all against the ambition of a single one. Galignani's Messenger of the same date says: The most remarkable part of this splendid pageant was not the appearance of the troops, however magnificent, but their bearing, and that of the multitude of specta- tors, towards the Hnglishmen. That our countrymen would he received with courtesy no one could doubt it, from the exquisite was not, however, with mere politeness they were greeted, but with marked and even affectionate cordiality. As the Duke of Cambridge passed along the lines, loud and constant cries of "Vive |'Angleterre! Vive le Prince Anglais!" were raised both by soldiers and people, in conjunction with the shouts of " Vive !Empereur!" and dur- ing the filing off these cries were again repeated with marked enthusiasm by both. The bands too, of most of the regiments, fre- quently played "God Save the Queen!" Amongst the pedestrians--that is to say, the lower and most numerous part of the spectators--the friendly feeling towards the English was in fact so great as to occasion surprise. "Which is the Prince?" "Which is Lord Raglan?" were the universal en- quiries, whenever the imperial cortege passed near; and whenever any good natured fellow said, (with, by the way, as regarded the Duke, a greater desire to oblige than, per- haps, his knowledge of English social dis- tinctions warranted,) "Voila, Lord Cambridge, le Prince Anglais--celui-la a cote de l'Em- pereur!" or "Voila, Millord Raglan--celui qui n'a qu'un bras!"---whenever such a reply was returned, up rose a shout of "Vive le Prince! Vivent les Anglais." One would have said, really, that "perfidious Albion" had never existed in the imagina- tion of the French, and that French and English had been fast friends for ages. Woman's Rigurs.--The Committee which waS appointed on the Woman's Rights petitions in the ew York Legislature have reported in favor of allowing married women, whose husbands shall, from drunkeness, profligacy, or any other causes, neglect or refuse to support and educate their fami- lies, the right to collect and entertain their own earnings. Also, that uo child can be apprenticed unless the mother, if living, shall sigg the inden- tures. A tardy act of justice; the sooner it is passed the better, ae ~~ politeness and hospitality of the French. It ne SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1854. Travelling Agents« Rey. Wituis Nazrey, Toronto. Rey. Wm. H. Jones, Toronto. Rey. 'T, H. Thompson, London,jC. W. Rev. H, J. Youne, Toronto. Local Agents. The following gentlemen are requested to act as Local Agents : Rev. Hiram Wixson, St. Catherine's. Mr. J. W. Taytor, iG ' RoBert Brown, Hamilton, " A. B. Jones, London. " Wm. Hamitton, " '© Haywoop Day, Chatham. & Corngetius CHarity, " " Tuos. Jones, Windsor. "© CoLEMAN FREEMAN, Detroit, U. S. " Gezorce De Baptist, ' « James Hatey, ' " TT, W. Stringer, Buxton. ' GeEorcGE Caney, Dresden. Rey. A. R. Green, Cincinnati. '" WM. WEBB, Pittsburgh. Mr. Txos. W. Brown, Harrisburg. "Wm. Stitt, Philadelphia. " J. N. Stitt, Brooklyn, " JsragL CAMPBELL, Oberlin, Lorraine Co., Ohide Printed for the Proprietors by JOHN DICK, at, the Office, 5, City Buildings, King Street Hast. A Northern Confederacy. It will be seen by reference to the article headed '" Disunion at the Norfh," that the Disunion doc- trine in the States, is making decided progress among politicians on the other side. The Editor of the Tribune, who is a host in him- self, whether on the right side ofa question, or the wrong, endorses the sentiment at once as the plan for the times. The question of the eonstitution- ality or unconstitutionality of negro slavery, does not seem to influence these new Disunionists at all, their own trade, as well as their own liberties, be- ing in jeopardy from the possible march of slave- ry North, it is that gives scope to their vision, and point to their periods. We cannot, in view of the position taken by the writer, regard it at all in the light of an anti- Slavery movement ; for Southern brethren are dis- tinctly told that if they will not be convinced that slavery " is not only dishonest and dishonorable, but also very unprofitable," they may enjoy their peculiar institution in peace. We have often heard that te dissolve the Union to get rid of sla- very, would be wrong, but the North has just as much right to set up for herself as the South, when a little trade is involved; the latter accord- ing to her leaders, and the measures advocated in the late Commercial Convention, intends to do so either at home or in Brazil; that is, after they get the " statistics" about everything,--after Con- gress decides to help them to build railroads, gives them everything preparatory to a suceessful rup- ture, and they feel strong enough in the joints to beging and as it isthroughout a matter of business, why may not the North forestall her? as a "specu- lation"'--it will evidently pay: the new Dis- unionists give us a clear demonstration of that, all but the figures. When did the people North ever take hold of anything that they did not make the point turn up- on the everlasting dollar 2 Only prove to these men that slavery could be made profitable to the North, and before one month, measures would be completed to welcome it in every free State ofthe Union. What assur- rance have the oppressed classes in the States, that the new regime North, would be more endura- ble than the present ? Principle does not take the paramount place with them--pay does, Sure en- ough, some squirming is made at the thought un- derstood that negro-catching is disagreeable, es- pecially, as " they are not our negroes, and as our Southern brethren are bad pay," but, no manly feeling is evinced against the institutions nor in sympathy with the victims. Again, the proposi- tions comes from those who are "thought" to think liberally. Some of the greatest declaimers against the evils of slavery "' away down South," have been known to change when offered better pay : the cases are neither few nor far between. The defection from the ranks of freedom, is so or- dinary, that the question with the colored people of the North, is, who are our friends ?--not are they unsound. They know that the numbers of professed friends, is on the increase, but they are not so certain that their ¢rwe friends are. In view of the bearing the agitation of the question will have upon the Northern colored man, the subject to him, at least, assumes a significance immeasurably beyond computation in dollars and cents.. In this movement to our mind, is his fu- ture subsistence involved. We speak not of po- litical nor social recognition. The free North with unlimited ability to be generous, has barely and grudgingly eked out to the colored man a pe- cuniary subsistence--he is used to enough to keep from starvation, and they to give just enough and in such a way as to prevent a just verdict against them. There has been nothing in the situation of the Northern republics, to justify their Jittle- ness in this respect, Slavery and its attendants were proven to be unprofitable to the North; by what parity of reasoning then was it assumed that the alienation of a large body of those freemen, would be an advantage? As free States, they owe nothing to the South--not even according to South- ern assertion, which boldly declares that the pe- culiar institution shall be let alone; but as volun- tary tyrants they promote within their own terri- tories, a prejudice more debasing than the world ever before saw. Should the fssue they now make, be successful--should merely commercial inter- ests determine their action, what guarantee have the colored people of the North, thata work of ex- patriation may not commence, more: terrible in its results than could possibly be effected even un- der the Union with the Southern States? The great confidence of the North is in accession of strength from foreign emigration, and in the slave labor monopoly of the Southern States. Looking forward to an inexhaustible supply from the human store-houses of the old world, by reason of the encouragement to white emigrants to labor, she unhesitatingly labors to get rid of her colored population ; the work of starvation is not to begin; already in many sections a tacit agree- ment obtains to withhold patronage from them.-- In the large cities and towns, tlaey are not only prohibited from buying property, or renting in good locations, but often from living on their own premises; for land is sold vith an express pro- hibition against selling to colored people, and every ingenuity that a monkey-like imitation to "use up" our negroes can suggest, is devised up- on a pitiful scale. Strange, that with the extension of these separa- tion views there should not be some abatement of the rancor against their colored population, but there is not! Men now live who refer witha measure of satisfaction, to periods in the past, dur- ing which the burdens of the free man were far less weighty than now. Whatever separation may do for the slave, it is very clear' to our PROVINCIAL FREEMAN. 'total !--Do not vote for Larwill! man opposed to you !--Persuade your neighbors yo vote for a gentleman, a man who does not hate mind, at least, that bu: very little good may be hoped for by the freeman, so long as he continues numerically far in the minority, and so long as that minority can be effected, by a large influx from abroad, of a more highly favored class. Our plan would be to leave for a better coun- try, Canada for instance. But more of this next week. * John Mitchell's Reward. he latest intelligence received of the above worthy, will be read with great interest no doubt, as why should not everything be which relates to him 3 John is a "luckier" man than is often found among the slavery advocates; he gets his pay 'nearly as soon as the work is done. Webster, Clay, Calhoun--men to the manor born, severally and singly failed of the reward they sought, but John Mitchell wants a plantation well stocked with negroes, and of course, the an- tecedents to the same, and straightway come the. antecedents in the shape of congratulations from masters, with a magnificent invitation at the end. Who will say, in view of the proverbial liberality of Southern gentlemen, when they do not have to '| earn the means, that the plantation and negroes will not come next in order ? It matters little that other men sought to win the Presidency, by defending the " peculiar," which ' high seat" some say is far above John's humble wishes--that will not save their fame from unfavorable comparison with Mitchell, the convict. ; Ele is decidedly the greatest genius of the whole of them--he has ascomplished an unbidden task and is sure of his pay. We think there is a mis- apprehension in respect to the Southerners ; they are usually said to be bad pay, but our opinion of them, founded on facts, is, that they not only pay pany but well, provided there is no bung- ing. True, indifferent sort of work pays poor- ly with them--your doughface or flunkey, though necessary to the corrupt, but thorough-bred politi- cian, gets but little for his services, let the aim he makes beas high as it may; but the man who takes to the work from an inherent relish for it, and carves out his own course without their dictation, will notfonly be popular with them, but will receive marks otf especial regard. Mitchell is the man! His course has been the most successful of the many who have attempted to steer the dangerous way, because undertaken with a will, and independent of outside influence, he must have a plantation; if not, something cer- tainly. Southern gentlemen never have much cash to spare--the Legislature now inviting him is with- out funds to pay its members, but, as it is easy enough to make change with negroes, he will pro- bably return with pockets full of it. * The Representation of Kent. Asa great deal of misapprehension appears to exist as to the political complexion of this County, we may state that it is both largely and staunchly conservative, and that there is no question--unless there is some such accident as two conservatives running, ofits returning a thoroughly reliable and uncompromising man of that party. We under- stand--and we make the announcement,with very great pleasure--that Mr. Larwill will again contest the County, by the general desire of the Conservative party. He isa self-made man, thoroughly conversant with the interests of the country, sufficiently independent in Parliament, and strongly conservative in his principles. That we are not mistaken in the political character of this County we subjoin the returns for the different townships at the last election, from which it willbeen seen, that Mr. Larwill had a large majority over the other two candidates. And there is little doubt, that had Mr. Rankin--who was asort of John Vansittartand Francis Hincks politician--not run, Mr. Larwell would have been returned for the County Mr. Brown now represents. Townships. Larwill. Brown, Rankin, Raleigh. ne 109 29 69 Howard, §.9... » 94 55 53 Tilbery & Rowney . 36 56 16 Camden and Zone . 23 12 32 Dover. sek 16 19 67 Harwick oie: 1%. 90 90 65 Chatham Township . 93 34 12 Oxfords ec <yo oe 31 3 [504 326 317 | --Colonist. | We would call the attention of the colored Chathamites to the above, particulary the voting portion. The opportunity will ere long be given, to vote for or against the mam who has been so long known to oppose the true interests of Her Ma- jesty's colored subjects in Kent. Politicians are seldom over serupulous as to the mieans to be used to effect their purposes, and you of Chatham may, in view of past favours, reasonably anticipate the usual number of tricks, and extras gratis, in this instance. Remember the " Larwill Petition" against your settlement in the country. Remember the exclusive public school, from which yourchildren are debarred admitance against alllaw and decency! and particularly remember the favor shown it by the prospective canditate for Conservative honors! Of what impor- tance is Conservatism or any other ism to you, when the probabilities are, that against your peace and rights as British subjects, a war of opposition will be prosecuted, more annoying because directed by connivance of some political party? Is ne- grophobia to lead off in Kent, in the person of its most suitable representative, dressed in the sheep skin of Conservatism? But countnot upon open and deliberate opposition before Election. No no! you may possibly find yourselves transform- ed into "good darkies," colored fellows, decent black men, colored men, colored gentlemen, and even colored brethren, before the time for meeting at the hustings. Who doubts it? The different classes will be treated aecerding to their status. Who doubts that ?--T'o the cheap character whis- key, to others, placards, flattery, &c., as the case may be. Avoid the bait as you would the Upas. Do no permit yourselves tobe disgusted by deceit o flattery, and then be caught with anonymous pla- cards. They are then worse than all. Converts to the cause of equal rights, who take that way of showing it only, are not to be trusted. To be plain, your votes are wanted. We dwell upon this point, because we think it deserves particular attention. Do not suffer yourselves to be deceived into a vote for the man who stands committed to the Larwill petition, even should you bea Conservative. Neither isten to any overtures that will cause you to throw away your vote; but vote, by all means, for any tinker jfarmer,or what not, though a Reformer ,you can find who is qualified, and who is honest enough to let you and yours prosper without mo- lestation. Do not, we entreat you, look at this subject in- differently, or assistin doing something now, through devotion to party names, or through ignorance, that willhave to be undone, Sum colored people, not your cnemy, Do not vote for a moderate drinker, tippler, of confirmed brandy drinker. Do not vote for Larwill!!! * DestiruTion 1N Bautimore.--Bishop Nazrey, writing from Baltimore, U.S., says, 'I left Phi- ladelphia for this place, in company with Bishop Payne, and arrived here in season to preach in Bethel church on the 9th. After service in the morning, afternoon and evening, a collection was taken up to liquidate the debt on the church, and the sums received were: in the moraing, nth! = e 602-05 ; afternoon $702:00 ; evening $2039 a making the round sim of $1507'96 for the ne Wednesday following, 10°00 and the, nex ae bath $6400. Up to this date (17th ult.) $1581 This speaks well for the industry and genera indulgent Mr. hi bee of some thirly or mare of the well "raised, g-c., but had sold one after another until the num ber had been reduced to these two " uncommon! intelligent $1200 negroes," and that a mortgage of thriftiness of the people of Baltimore ; be it is also a true indication of the pecuniary ability of the colored people generally, should they ay to exhibit it; though their funds are Le through much unfavorable competition. ae who can command means so readily to pay e churehes, do not need to be heralded the He over, as needing funds to build colored schoo ne they have the funds necessary for all the exclusive x schools they need. For the Provincial Freeman. Ma. Eprror: Dear friend,--As your interesting paper, I trust, has a wide circulation among the fugitives, as well as their friends, in Canada, it may not be uninteresting to all concerned to see a letter occasionally from this region, relating 0 " escapes," "arrests," &c. Hence you are at jiberty, if you see proper, to appropriate this letter to your readeys. Yesterday another poor escaping fugitive was found secreted on board the Pennsylvania, near Newcastle, Del., within sight of the land of liber- ty--of the place where he had doubtless so earnest- ly prayed that he might reach and be free. This unfortunate man, evidently, through great peril, had succeeded in getting on board of ne Pennsylvania, at Richmond, with high hopes of being able to escape his tormentors and oppres- sors, thereby winning for himself the inestimable prize which he had been so long robbed of--liber- ty. But how horrible and hopeless must he have felt when he heard the sound of infuriated voices of men armed with crow bars, clubs and other deadly weapons, searching in every corner of the dog. Alady who witnessed, with weeping, on board of the boat, the terrible scene connected with the arrest, described the savages who made the arrest, as being armed as above alluded to, and the poor heart broken hero, as looking of course very dejected and friendless. I can hardly conceive how he restrained himself from utter desperation ; from taking the life of his captors, or his own. Certainly it must be beyond the con- ception of the human mind to fathom the bitter anguish which must pervade the bosom of any one placed in the situation he was found. . The telegraph was used in BETRAYING him. A week ago four others were taken from a boat, near Richmond, who they were ot what disposi- tion was afterwards made of them I am unable to say, having heard nothing further of them than the simple fact of their having been arrested. These tidings 1am aware will fill the heart of not a few anxious fugitives amongst you, with many most keenly the situation of dear friends left in bondage? The inquiring thought will go to many hearts doubtless, exciting their apprehen- sion that the captured fugitives were the very ones they had been looking and praying for--their own blood kin ! Well, notwithstanding these brutal arrests and the ever vigilance of the slaveholder and slave- hunter, the number of fugitives escaping, and of those who are ready and willing to aid them to Canada are daily inereasing, and there is not the least room to doubt but that the underground Rail-road will do this year, according to what has already been done since the year setin, just double the amount of business that was done last year. In this respect that mischievous book Uncle Tom's Cabin, may be charged with helping the under- ground largely; for but few of the intelligent "articles" there are in the south, who have not read,or heard it read, and consequently have at once "fired up" to strike for Canada. By the way, quite recently I had the pleasure of an in- terview with avery intelligent "' piece" of proper- ty from far South, who had Uncle Tom with him, thinking as much of the old fellow probably as any other friend living. Since writing the above, four very hearty and "likely" looking young men and women have arrived; and will soon I hope swell the goodly number who are already counted amongst her Majesty's subjects. You are already aware that Davis the "Salt water" fugitive has been sent back to,Ga. § That does not end the matter, however, for the friends ance. And there issome reason to hope that their efforts will not be unavailing. That Davis will stand as good a chance on trial for his freedom in Georgia, amongst the rankest slaveholders as he would be likely to doin Del., where they think themselves quite well NorTHERNIZED, cannot fora moment be doubted, since it is now a fact that he was sent back by them notwithstanding the most unqualified proof of his freedom; and that he had been illegally deprived of his liberty, by going into Maryland, &c. But I wish again to call your attention to " old Virginia." For some time past she has been let- ting off no small amount of fury on account of the "frequent escapes," from her dominion. The following specimen, taken frem a Richmond pa- per, is about as moderate and reasonable as any thing I have seen of the sort, and I hope, there- fore, you will let it have room in your paper. It Vote for no reads as follows: paper, the " widow lady," " Mrs. Louisa Wke," "has been left penniless" by the "rascality sne- where," of a 'nest of Abolition scoundrels or by the uncouimonly intelligent negroes, "whhad been raised with the greatest indulgence !" >oor soul she is to be pitied, truly ¢! The writer in the Richmond paper forgt or omitted to tell his readers, however, that he 5 i } ea boat for him, as they would have done for a mad' great sadness. Will it not revive in the minds of tage of their ignorance, and against the law and | usage of the country, assigned to them an exclu- | sive school. rights better now, and the best of all they have -- the courage to demand them. persons who are not one whit behind those of St Catharines. There are several mechanics, several -- | in business, &c. &e. They have two chapels i | this place also Methodist and Baptist. They et joy equal privileges &c. London, there are about -- 500 colored people in this, the handsomest and Jargest town in Canada West. The colored people are making most rapid progress in thi place. Mr. A. B. Jones, a resident of Londo laid out in half acre lots, many of which have been purchased by colored persons. Here, too,the colored people have two chapels, viz: _ | Methodist and Baptist. I suppose that by this | time you have concluded that we are all Metho- | | dists and Baptists, or that, that is the extent of ot! ishould be limited. But I must resume my sub #700 was at the time of escape hanging over th head of one of them. Of course, being so " un. commonly intelligent" it was not a very hard matter for them to calculate how long it would be before their change would arrive. Now it may be that they have been foolis enough after all, to make away to Canada, onthe under-ground rail-road; if so, they should see this and learn the " penniless condition of their " ip. : dulgent Mistress. Will they not be moved to re. turn, think you ? Your paper is read here with lively interest, so far asl know, andI have seen and conversed with quite a number on the subject. Yours truly. WM. STILL. Brooxtyn, N. Y. April 12th, 1864, _ Mr. Eprror,--Yeur paper is well received herg and hazard the asertion that in the event of ity _ success for even me year, you will have done more for the slave as well as more to thwart the designs of colonizttionist, than all the talk that the stay-here menhave done in seven years, | had no idea untillately that there was so many respectable and itelligent colored men, looking Canadaward, I hve no doubt but next year you © will have an extinsive emigration of that class a from this state, Several will come out this sum. mer to look, as tley did last summer, from the Rochester Convation. : An intetligen! and respectable man called on me last eveningto get information in relation to _ Canada. This aan told me that he had bought ' twice, during ne past winter, (a house and lot 7 each time) for bout two thousand dollars. But in consequenceof the embarassments thrown in | the way, he hd to give them up, in the last in-4 stance, howeve; he made two hundred and fifty by © the operation. fle is determined never to attempt a to buy again i the States, but is bound for Cana. da. Anotherman called on me to-day for the same purpos, who is also bound for Canada-- The class of ren whom you may expect in future, 4 will be men ¢ enterprize and intelligence--men _ who will go> work; principally I think farmers, The old sty-here do-nothing men's objections -- will have bu little weight in the course of a year -- ortwo. Thre are others, and many of them, too, -- who beginto think and act for themselves.-- There was large tract of land sold a few days -- ago in the righborhood of the colored settlement, called Wicsville, adjacent also to their cemetery, but they mst abruptly refused to sell to colored q persons. .$soon as the effect of such refusal is seen by thiact of our people's leaving andgoing -- to Canad: it will produce a change at once in : public seriment in regard to us here. Hereto- fore we hve had no resort but to grin and bear it, but nov that we have begun to move, it will cause a cknge of feeling with them. I mean the whites. . white gentleman who never was known toake any interest in colored people be- fore now,old me that he was going to Canada this sumier, expressly to see the fugitives and colored yople of Canada, and wanted me to give himetters of introduction to some respecta- ble colorl fugitives there. I know of nothing that is cing more good than the general stir about ergration. Itis indicative of enterprize, say the hites, and they seem doubiy willing to do sombing for us. They are satisfied that we now m@ something more than talk, and that we arezally dissatisfied and mean to better our condith. © a. CPR NETL For the Provincial Freeman. Mrepitor:--A short time ago I had the opporinity and pleasure of visiting several lo- calitie West, in some of whichI found large numb of colored people interspersed amongst other asses of her Gracious Majesty's subjects, whot their sobriety, industry and enterprize, are gning the respect and confidence of all who haveny dealings with them, or in any way be- comeequainted with them, and thereby giving a mostractical and palpable contradition: to the hypcitical cavil of slaveholders and their abet- tors,7yho are constantly prating about the inca- pact of not only their slaves, but of the colored peop asaclass, Thus that which has been their soleretext for perpetuating the accursed system of slvery, is, by such repeated and continued evi- denis as are daily seen in this Province, and even inne U.S. most demonstrably proved to be wiout the last foundation in the truth. It is not myurpose however, at the present, to go into anlaborate argument to show how totally false, anbasely absurd, such charges are. But] will coent myself with giving a brief statement of fas respecting the colored people of this Pro- | vice, which have recently been within the scope -- otay own observation. In St. Catharines there ia population of 500 persons; who are doing vil, as mechanics andcommon laborers. Workis | jundant and wages good. Many of them are | wners of real estate property, and in comfortable : ircumstances; and the desire and determination | f all is to become possessors of the soil or | ome kind of property. They have two chapels | fiz. Methodist and Baptist. They have had | ather an inferior school, in consequence of a few egrohaters, who a few years ago took the advan- However they understand theif In Hamilton the [ colored population number between 600 and 700 himself an owner of some very valuable propert there, showed usa very beautiful site of land There isnot | a better location in London than this site of land. J religious divisions. It is pretty much the cas¢ [assure you, to which lam quite agreed they ject. All that has been said in favor of the othe places, may in truth be said of London, and {am disposed to think, that London is a little ahead. either of the other two. But they are all doin remarkably well, when it is remembered that@ few years agothe most of them were slaves, ant came into this Province penniless, some of thei almost naked; who have in a few years by their perseverance and industry, raised them: selves to respectability, and if not to affluence, | they are to say the leastina way fairtoit, I hav had the pleasure of seeing several colored farmer®