ND ite CREM ORs Gru hee ASN ee NS (roe pNP ov TW ha AY i 4 Sire aa ea ee hee ace saen Shee aaa WOM aaciae, apres th {PTA RAR cee rrr ap Pa i "a sh 3 DP ates Gr tak Sitemeter ate nite >. ------ts-unknown; while here it is practiced. to an ' Pc me fire grew hot, one of the Indians frequently _ -to: Paris, U. C., stopped here for a day, to fee charged, and preferred putting his chest _ theyba:gain. Now if this is not a piece of amusing incident which 'transpired at the ; Croix County, Wisconsin: wy 0 dian fureral enl ¢ from an interior journal. We reco!lect nc- thing more strange and interesting in all our knowledge of the customs and habits of a primitive people: © | _On last Saturday I was informed by a friend, that he had just found, an Indian dead, near Wilson's Carrall, alout.a_ mile West of Columbia. He stated that the night previous, at about dark, he saw the _ same Indian dmnk; it was snowing at the time, he believes that he laid down and froze during the yery cold night. With my friend I hurried' over to the spot; and fore we got half the distance the hills 3 sounded with Indian yells,-- it] _ Approaching near where. t lay, it was a most affecting sight! There "were & _ dozen old Indian squaws, some rolling upon the body on the ground in a most lamenta- ble and agonizing manner, and howling piteously. In about an hour after, they put the body'in a blanket, and the squaws gathered around wherever they could get their hands, and, commenced carrying it in the direction of their ranchero, about half a} ------ 9) cane sialic ama au rate HENAN Ay NIRS ORE NUR ARONA ES ARS RAE WRN ORI Pa, o 8 listan ley had not proceeded me TY defore their were increased' by. the discoyery, of another of their tribe dead | --he having tumbled head-foremost into the | T. C. W. Co's ditch, in the neighbourhood | of their ranchero, Upon the finding of this | DC y, the male Indians, who with a few the first body found, now became perfectly frantic, Tunning-in all directions over the hills and along the ditch, howling most terribly, and wildly acting, as if looking for more vic- tims of tum. "The terrible noise being | heard a great distance, brought miners and the' Indians" from' every direction,' armed with: their bows and arrows; and upon reaching the crowd of Indians surrounding the bodies, they would madly throw them- | _ selves upon the bodies in the wildest anguish, and there remain until pulled off to make ict the next. . Every American present he. a goniziag. grief of the old» squaws, 'stream of tears. rolled down their bout a c rd and a half of wood, ready to rece ive the bodies in. accordance with their . custom, to be burned to ashes. Just before { ; i> es Phed ee old ndian, who knew me, asked me to look t the bodies, and being glad of the chance, I of course consented. He after some effort, got the squaws off the bodies so that I could I recognized an Indian who had, on, three hilerent occasions, told me of the Indians haying liquor and got me to go and taxe it crue hen, he himself finally falling a victim ise! we ; At ubout two o'clock, P. M, they placed t] é bodies, face downwards, upon the wood- pie, together with everything belonging to them, the pile being about six. feet square. The ire being placed in.at the four corners, er, began to blaze amid the. most piteous Bans bedtundied Indians; and as the threw himself in on the bodies, as if willing te i > and as the fire grew hotter. yet, sont would have to be pulled off the bodies, then on fire; and several of them had their hair burned off their heads... Each of the Squaws 'had some relic. to throw in upon the fire, such as bead worked baskets, a things, shawls, and blankets. At 4 _M. I left, much instructed in savage af- ion, it being stronger than I ever expect w, Witness again in my life. I hope never coh ean gh horrible sight as 'an veo Toronto and Hamilton. che 7 » We recently paid. a flying visit to. Hamil- ton, going up by the morning boat, the 'Pas- port,' from teis city, and expecting to return the same evening,. But, to our surprise, we learned. that no .boat leaves) Hamilton for Tv. onto, in. the, evening, and so we were eompelled to stop over night in the 'ambiti- us, little city,' This. arrangement of the Steam Boats, appar to.us a very disadyan- ~tageous one. . Why should two boats leave Hamilton, for, Toronto, in the morning, and both too, at the same hour, instead of one ia the. forenoon, and'one. in the _afternoon ?-- We found. also, that) several. parties who Were brought, down to. Hamilton, by Rail, and. y Various other conveyances, were de- tained in, the City of 'Dust' over night, in- wtvad of being, permitted to proceed on their journey, as they desired to have done. _ But while co mplaining of! the arran ge- ments at Haniilton, in. this respect, we should not forget tofmention, that in another matter 'closely connected' with the public travel and conveyance, the Hamiltonians possess a decided advantage over the Toron- tonians. We allude to the' Wharfage char- ges. At Haniilton this abominable nuisunce extent'that is/a disgrace to the City. We isi, ourselves, but a day or two,ago, an. in- stance of this kind. A poor Scotch Emi- gvant trom Aberdeen, who was proceeding sve an acquaintance. His chest was landed, and wharfage impost being demanded, the _ poor mandeclared he was going to stop to sve acquaintances, He refused to pay the inthe store room, during the short time he aint "The poor Aberdonian then arched up towa, found out his acquaint- ance, (by the way a Clereyman and a Pro- fessor in one' of our Colleges,) 'and left on the following 'day for Hamilton, to -proceed } to Paris. The boat on which he passed up, from-here to Hamilton, did not stop at the wharf, at which the man stopped the day previous, and the result was, that he had to employ: a carter to convey his chest from the one wharf to the other, to pay wharfage at-both, and to pay cartage and storage into luiun as' great, as can welljbe conceived, then we know not what is. Such conduct as this, renders our good city a by word with 'all travellers, and oucht immediately i fig oS to bé redressed.-- Patriot, cergolivce: st ati bs Bi A Caution' ro Deauzrs rs Poor Lt quor---A Stillwater correspondent of the innesola Pioneer narrates the following Spring term ofthe Circuit Court of St. _ Phe Judge of: the Circuit Court lately in 'Session at Hudson, in' Wisconsin, gave a "| tleme exeeptions, took no part in the howling over | Y Sa fected, and looked with astonishment | able to stand with age, while'a con- | putting the bodies upon the wood-pile, an | see their faces, when, in the last one found, voted to the welfare of before him, which excited considerable mer- riment in the court-room at the time. The action was to recover the value of n* }ertaii-Lquors sent from below, and con- + siyned for sale to the defendant. Evidence was given on the part of the defendant to show that the brandies, &c. were made of forty cent whiskey, and drugged at that; lows: . ie "(ENTLEMEN OF THE Jury: Pure nna- dulterated liquor is @ wholesome and_ plea- sant-beverage, and as far as the experience rtextends, conduces td health and longe ty; ut a bad article of liquor, gen- 'or what-is worse, a drugged article, éannot be*tolerated, and if dealers from be- lowewill send up into this beautiful country, +so blessed with the smiles of a benign Cre- ator, such a miserable quality of liquors as the proof shows this to be, in this court, ventiemen of the jury, they cannot recover." PROVINCIAL. FREEMAN. : : SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1854. Travelling Agents, vets "HRev. Willis Nazrey, Toronto. Rev. Wm. H. Jones, Toronto: Rev. 'I'. H. Thompson, London, C. W. Rey, H. J. Young, Toronto. Locai Agents. The following gentlemen are requesred to act as Local Agents; : Rev. Hiram Wilson, St. Catherines. Mr J. W. Taylor, "~~ Robert Brown, Hamilton. 'A.B. Jones, London. -- * Wm. Hamilton, |' '* Haywood Day, Chatham. Cornelius Charity, " ue Thos. Jones, Windsor. : Coleman Freeman, Detroit, U. S. * George De Baptist, ' James Haley, a £. W. Springer, Buxton. " George Carey, Dresden. ae Rev. A. R. Green, Cincinnati. Wm. Webb, Pittsburg, Mrs. L, Patterson, Niagara Falls, N.Y. Mr. Thos. W. Brown, Harrisburg & Wm. Still, Philadelphia. 6. JON, Still) Brooklyu, " Moses Barton, Niagara Falls, C. W. teak. SaCaryy Y : * George Shreve, Buxton. 6 5, City Buildings, Kiag Street East whereat the Judge appeared quite indig- } nani, and charged the Jury nearly as fol- | © Printed for the Proprietors, by JOUN DICK, at the Office abolition of American slavery, by moral means only. I have some ideas about com- mercial and agricultural opposition, to. the " mate bless! y horrible Bastile," which I shall unfold to you before any of us shall be much older, isut_as for,moral force, repentance, | t irst see some faint signs that | indeed, f common honesty, have any con- trol over that people, before I can believe that a measure so Just towards the oppress- ed, shall find any degree of favor amous the great majority of them. 'They trample un- der foot every one of their avowed princi- ples. hey forswear every article in their Puritan creed ; they belie their every pro- fession, whether of morals, polities or reli- gion. 'They have, now, no conscience, no character, no manhood. ' That's too se- vere," says One. Wait, Mr. One. I write with the creed of the Puritans, the Bible of. all Christians, the Declaration of Independ- ence, and the Federal Constitution before me, on the one hand; and the Fugitive Slave Law and the Nebraska Bill, on the other, I write in view of the fact.that. one. man of | six, in that country, with the full and free consent, not only, but by the direct fiat of 99-100ths of the remaining five sixths, are I was born a slave; and. the infer- nal institution by which my fathers were, and my orothers are, crushed and imbruted, thrives' under the express sanction of the majority of the leading. religionists of the Northern States... . ot held " But Uncle 'l'om is read now, Mr. W." | Yes; and so is the Bible; and one is treat- ed as much asa piece of fiction as the other. " You forget, that great opposition is manifested against the Nebraska Bill." So there was against the annexation of 'Texas, up to the time it was annexed ! 'But the people are fully roused now." So they were in 1848. Where have they been ever since? slaves, "Yet there is a strong secession feeling at the present time." It was stronger in 1832, for then it did something. How long Editorial Correspondence. allogté.i.d: am glad to have this medium through which to speak to you about many matters, which seem to me to be quite im- portant. ) <a You will, I enterprise do not meet with very cordial en- couragement from some abolitionists. - Aboli- hope, not be surprised if, your tionists difler and vary in their knowledge and estimate of the negro. Some think we are not to be encouraged to be anything more than a sort of half way set of equals. Others desire and claim for us a full recog- nition of our equal and inalienable rights. The former class, like the Yankee Quakers, desire that we should be free; but, as to our being regarded and treated as equals, that is another thing... This class are always de- childhood on. They assume the right to dictate to us about all matters; they dislike to see us assume or maintain manly and inde- pendent positions; they prefer that' we should be a second-rate set. of folks, in intel- lectual matters. A thousand. times would they rather see us tied to some newspaper that represents us as being about mid way betwixt slaves and men, than to see us hold- ing up a bold front, with a press worthy of Fentire freemen. Such will -always doubt "whether you are on the right track,"' or " whether you have just the right man at the helm," or, "whether a movement of the sort is needed at this particular. time," or « whether it is best to encourage our dear colored brethren" in going too far," &e. &e. 'Some people doubt and deny the abolitionism of this elass. I simply call them a good sort of folk, who are not exactly up to the idea of human equality. ~ They have been so long aceustomed to inferior and degraded Blacks, that they scarcely know how to re- gard us in any other light. . Unfortunately, too many of these occupy leading positions. Happily, however, such' are scarcer in Ca- nada and in England, than in the United States. Let no man be discouraged or dis- appointed, if too many of this class in Ca- nada, even, give you the cold shoulder, as it is called. | Many who are not careful to call them- 'selves abolitionists, will treat your enterprise with much more practical, tangible favor. Again, | beg you not to lose heart, if many of our own people act as nearly as possible like enemies. Some of them al- ways so treat all efforts of such character. Then, be the friends of the paper black or white, professed abolitionists or not, welcome them, and regard and treat every man less according to what he appears and professes to be, than what he ds, as declared by his actions. , | In future letters, I shall take great plea- sure in giviig you somewhat detailed ac- you will not expect me to write as if I had nothing else to do--were independent, and at leisure, . I never was busier. and professional engagements. Were never more humerous ; my own personal. business 'never move embarrassed nor 'perplexing. I never had a less dim and reraote prospect of spending my days at home, ja the midst of my family, like other men, than I have now. And, may I add, that I never felt more de- my people, or more hopeful of the ultimate triumph of our cause. charge to the Jury in a certain action tried | -- yr pape "Ga eur di ae] te a, VRS E i odd yada tito ay origiot oF" ei, sued jell wal of ey eid seven Rely EIST au abs sicetal daoreriasisys jie y. | i S §3 5 ig r * tei: i tate F wey we anlet ii HUTTE MpEn bo we 8 gs 24 OE as Bet ener whe AGh? Sti Gais ' Kind Reabers,--I am pleased and g ateful that the Provincial, Freeman is sirous to keep us with the short frocks of counts of my sojourn in England. Of course | My private [ ain quite hopeless as to the peaceable man, a wood turner, had his skull fractured, did it last ? " Wise men do not believe the Nebraska Bill will pass." lieve about the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law. " But I read in anti-slavery newspapers, that our' cause never appeared so auspicious as at this moment.'" T have read that aa- nually for twenty years; in the mean time, Arkansas, Florida and Texas have been added to the number of Slave States; and California made about half and half; and the Douglas-Nebraska plot threatens to be successful ; the Fugitive Slave Law and its horrible execution, being a part of the Na- tional, and the new constitution of Indiana, and the I"ree Negro enslaving law of Illinois, parts of State Legislative history. _ Indeed, the American States grow worse, instead of better, daily, hourly, constantly. Let us, however, do what we can, by the elevation, improvement and evangelization of the native or adopted British Negro ; by adding our quota to the swelling tide of uni- versal public sentiment against slayery ; by holding up Yankee character in the light of its facts ; to hasten the day when, peacefully, if possible, but if not peacefully, by what cause or causes soever, American Slavery shall be overthrown, and then the despotism of no country can long survive. Allow me to ask your attention to some business matters, In the British Empire, we have not to devise means, and adopt mea- sures to be free or to regain lost or with- holden rights. What we need now to learn, is how to use our liberty, and to make it serviceable to the crushed millions of our na- tive land. My own mind is, that the hap- piest way in which we can do both of these, is to seize every means and opportunity for our individual advancement in all things.-- One of these advantages is, the tillage of the soil. I mean profitable, paying tillage. Let every man among us buy land. And let it be bought and tilled, with the distinct under- standing, that there is a most abundant two- fold market for everything, almost, that we can raise in Canada, Wheat, flax, pork, &c., will always command a good price. in England, and in the British West Indies. -- Besides, in the latter we can find for what we send, an abundance of tropical productions to exchange. 'hen, too, by machinery, which I shall hereafter describe, a most pro- sugar, which can be bought in Jamaica, unfit for our market, but capable of being so re- fined as to pay well for importation and_re- fining. Thus the free in Canada can trade with the free of the West Indies, both being profited, and both contributing to the eleva- tion of oti British 'American' célonies, into successful competition with the North and South of the United States. Letius, then, as speedily as possible, become producers and traders in wheat, flour, pork, fruit/and lumber of Canada, ancl cotton, sugar, tobac- co, coffee, &c., of our. British tropical Is- lands. 'Thus shall we elevate ourselves, and | serve the cause. But more of this hereafter. | Aa rots ann se | Stowmarket, Suffolk, 27th April, 1854. ee (> At the the meeting held last evening In the 2nd Richmond street chapel, to unite upon plans for the permanent saccess of this paper, it was decided to hold a 'l'ea Meeting in St. Lawrence Hall, on the 29th inst., Particulars next. week. eee ACCIDENT.--A serious accident occurred | in this city recently, on Adelaide street. 'The | boiler in Parkes'? Foundry exploded. One * IGE * emcntary religion, or, | So wisé men did not be-' fitable business can be done in the refining of | 'outed To the Editor of A enn he Provincial Freeman: Dear Sir :--Your issue of Saturday last, ° & ne . \ tains an article, headed, "A Bazaar in 'Toron- to for "I*rederick Douglass' Paper," which, for the suke of friends at a distance, may re- ee quire a word or two in reply. cs In the first place, the Anti-Slavery Socie- ty of Canada have no comnection in any way with the contemplated bazaar. 'The an- nouncement referred to, in the Freeman, arose from the writer in Mrederick Douglass' Paper confounding the "Ladies" Association for the relief of Colored Fugitives," with the Anti¢Slavery Society --an error which is very frequently committed. Y understand that the ladies Of that Society have.agived to aid in forwarding the inter- « ts of a paper which they consider to be do- in; much for the cause of the slave, by en- coiraging, and I dare say, visiting the ba- zaar. {i doubt not that they would be equally ready to aid in any movement made in be- half of the Provincial Freeman, if the friends of that hitherto well-condueted paper should condescend to make application. I pass over the unbecoming manner in which you speak of the Anti-Slavery Society, and of Lewis Tappan, Esq., whom you are pleased to call the "great embodiment of An- ti-Slavery tactics for the States and the Canadas," and beg to inform you that your statement in regard to Mr. Ward's having fallen into disgrace with Lewis Tappan, Isq., and "the right wing of the Toronto Society," is simply untrue. Mr. Ward never stood higher in the estimation of both parties, than he does at present; and will not, I think, be greatly obliged to those who seek to elevate him with a few at the expense of truth. I cannot conclude without expressing my regret that the writer of the article alluded to, who, if I am not mistaken, is a member of the Committee of the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, should have indulged in such de- preciatory remarks respecting those whom he knows to be friendly to the cause he has at heart, or have evidenced anything like feel- ings of envy at the success of a brother.-- Such a spirit is not one likely to conciliate, or to gain that respect and confidence, to which the colored man is equally entitled with his white brother: and which, amongst Britons, he will ever ultimately gain, when he is really worthy of them. Very truly yours, THomas HENNING, Svc. of the A. S. Socicly of Canada. Toronto, 6th June, 1854. REMARKS. We are charged in the above, direct, with falsehood, envy, self-importance and what not; and indirectly, with want of fealty to Lewis 'Tappan and the Toronto Society ; and, to crown all, another, and an innocent person, has been selected as the scape-goat, to carry away our sins--having, meantime, the as- surance of a Briton, that should he and his people behave properly, their superiors will consider the propriety of giving them their due. Cool! and our readers will not lose sight of the fact, We have spoken truth, that our, most significant assertions are silent- ly admitted. Thomas Henning, whom we suppose to be talking for himself, and not for the Toronto Society, and who kuows more about the ar- rangements, it seems, than those who made them, is particularly solicitous about "friends Is it, then, the old story of what people abroad, will think and say of us, and not how do we deport at home? But, if we admit what Mr. H. would have us be- lieve--that he is talking for two societies, we must give him credit for his address in con- ata distance." ducting their case; so far, we think, he is certainly well posted in the style of remark most suitable for, and to be used when talk- ing to negroes, by " friends" even; and did he not take a measure of satisfaction at the thought himself, he would hardly, in this day, and with his evident love of popularity, ven- ture to risk his anti-slavery reputation, by perpetrating the foregoing. 5 The ladies, he "understands, have agreed to aid Frederick Douglass' Paper, &c.,? and he doubts not that they would aid the Free- man, if the friends of the same " should eon- descend to make application." How vividly we are reminded of the ne- gro-hater by that paragraph! Slaveholders say all negroes are alike. Abolitionists of the 'Tappan school, would have the colored peo- in mind, that they would have them lose sight of the difference of their respective positions, as disfranchised citizens of a slaveholding re- public, and adopted members of the freest and best government on earth--would sub- ject them to the same conditions,marshal them under the lead of a pet colored brother. or two of their choosing, now living in the States --set them up as objects for the world to pity, and so be dragged down with the vic- tims of Yankee oppression, or, be. swallowed up in the leaders. But the author of the let- ter, and such friends, committed two grave mistakes just here. Colored Canadians will not submit to leadership from any. colored man im the States, whether chosen by. the Toronto Societies, at the dictation of Mr. Tappan, or by voluntary offer on his or their own part; nor will the friengis of the Provin- cial Freeman, apply for aid solicited for, and belonging to newly arrived fugitives, The paper must cease to exist before they will con- sent to an imputation 'of taking such funds ; and, though they "io desire the countenance of all good peopte, and despise none, (as Mr. Henning woult/imply), they will rely "upon \ the sympathy of those not connected, official- which I have only received this evening, con- | ple of Canada and the United States, bear | Ren TET ET amoral ly, or otherwise, with the Abolition Society' proper, before they will beg from those who. make haste to invoke opposition to the Lree- man, at the same time that they recommend 'to the people here, a paper opposed to Ca- nada and the right of coloréd men to settle herein, £ a ee But we have spoken unbecomingly of Lewis Tappan, lsq., and have misrepresent- | ed their united feelings towards Mr. Ward. We have not !--and if Mr. Henning knows anything about it, he knows we have spoken truth. It is easier, however, for Mr. Henning to make assertions, than to prove them. No one man in Toronto, nor out of it, can rightly charge us with speaking unbecomingly in this case, either of Mr. Tappan, or of the Socie- ty. Lewis Tappan is not the god that we worship,--neither are we to lose sight of the principles and actions ofa portion of the To- 'ronto Society, in a goose-like admiration of their social position. -- "Mr. Ward never 'stood higher." "How high did he stand with them, when he stood lower than now? We would not believe that, if we said it ourselves! Had Mr. Henning showed equal readiness to sustain the agent of the Toronto Society, in his natural right to liberty of speech, agaist the published mandate of Lewis Tappan, (who, by the way, is made equal to the entire Society here) and by implication, lord over all, we might be disposed to doubt facts in our possession.-- The thought respecting Mr. Ward's obliga- tions to us is gratuitous. "That gentleman has position; he has not to be elevated by us, --was not by Mr. Tappan, nor the big half of the Society here, including Mr. Henning. He has lived long enough, probably, to esti- mate those aright who fear to offend the many. But why should Mr. Henning identify us with the only colored member of the Commit- tee? Are not not the colored people to have one representative in the business depart- ment of the Society, since Mr. Ward re- signed the agency? Has our unfortunate article furnished the opportunity to ostracise, probably, the most active member of the Committee. Why not call the gentleman's name out in meeting, Mr. Henning? How can a colored person speak of the approaching ba- zaar becomingly, without feeling "envy at the success of a brother?"' And how dare he doit any how? Mr. Ten- ning tells the man he has conjured up, what The last question staggers us. Britons will let him have some day. On what do his Britons "feed?" has he yet to learn that colored men are men, and that they will not ask respect from Britons who give such clear evidence of prejudice as himself, when they are worthy ? No, no, Mr. Henning, you are as much mistaken there, as you are about the writer of that bazaar notice, You have been wasting precisus time and much " powder," not upon a brother Commit- tee member, who never gave you the slight- est occasion--your equal in every way--but upon one who would not be admitted to a seat in your committee. a Burns sent Back. _-- The brave people of Boston have permit- ted Burns tobe carried back before their eyes, submitting themselves the while to abuse and maltreatment ivom the U.S. troops. These are the people who prate so much about liberty, justice and bravery. Hence- forth let them keep silence. ists of New England would not submit to | such an outrage, but we were not of the num- ber. We have known of them too long.-- They might make a stir, were their own per- sonal liberty about to be wrested from them ; they talk flippantly enough about what " our fathers " did, &c., but their counsel to the colored man, is, " bear it patiently." They are not so ready to help him to his liberty, but rather encourage his capture, by advis- ing him to remain where he is, knowing well that were he to leave their skirts he would add to the defence of this couutry, something they are unfavorable to. % are) ED > Ge GRBs (<> The readers of the Preeman will. be pleased to see the letter from the Editor, Mr. Ward; it will be taken by them, we trust, as evidence of what he will do in the future for the paper. The non-appearance of articles from him heretofore, has been subject of remarks, no way favorable to those connected with the Freeman, who have said all along that he would write. This letter will put them at ease on that point. | Our corresponding Editor, Mr. McArthur, writes from Pictou, Nova Scotia, that he will furnish his quota also. - -------- ("eA communication which was received from Amherstburg, some time since, but, un- avoidedly delayed, will appear next week ; which we assure, gentlemen, will be the ear- liest period possible. We wish to see jus- tice done to all parties. ait a a Another 'step in the subjugation of the North is about being taken in this City, in which the State of Virginia appears as the complainant. 'The reader will recollect the discharge by habeas corpus of the Lemmon slaves, who were proved to have been. volun- tarily brought by their owner into this State. The slaves were subsequently freed by pur- | chase. 'The State of Virginia now takes offense at the law of the State of New York which declares that slaves brought into our Jurisdiction voluntarily shall be free, and, hav- 185 Ge It was thought. by some that the abolition- | omen | from the action of Judge ae " Attorney-General to en- al law of this ing got an Paine, sends up her deavor to overthrow the loc us. It is hard to say what the slave power will not do; but we are tolerably confident that this attempt to legalize ae the Empire State will fail. The modest de- mand of Virginia is substantially mgt slave- holders may bring their slaves to New York, go to Saratoga with them, and turn white men of the State into a committee to watch them, and see that they do nof run away from their masters. 'This is one: of the first steps towards that glorious consummation looked for by Toombs, when he shall trrum- phantly call the roll of his slaves on Bunker Hill; Ne riba. ome They will be sure to get what they claim. The present race of Northern cowards are hopeless for any purpose but talk. South- erners know it and calculate accordingly. * -- ; For the Provincial Freeman, The Rev- Dr. Pennington's Brother and two Nephews returned to Slavery from the City of New York. PuiiapEeLpuia, May 28,1854. The hearts of the friends of the fugitive probably have never been more suddenly and painfully horrified at hearing of the arrest of any unfortunate victim. of the Fugitive Slave Law, than they have within the last two days, on hearing of the arrest and return of the brother and two nephews of the distin- guished Dr. J. W. C. Pennington, of New York City. , The arrest was made last Friday morning, in the most pirate-like manner. Indeed, it seems no more than truth to state that in point of piracy and heinousness, the conduct of the U. S. Commissioner and U. 8S. Mar- shal may justly be compared with those whose office it was to perform the horrid deeds of the Inquisition. 'So private were the movements oi the Marshal, that they actually allowed no time or chance for the friends of the fugitive: to procure a hearing even after the manner of the infamous Fugitive law--to say nothing But. the counsellors, Commissioner and of an impartial trial. Judge' Jay and his colleague, with other fiends, when inquiring to see the prisoners and to know their whereabouts, were lyingly told by the Commissioner and the Marshal, that they wanted no counsel--that they had owned their'master, and had been given up and gone. And it was only by the most diligent search that the horror-stricken fugi- tives were found to be secreted in a.room in the very building then occupied by the Com- But before a Habeas Cor- pus could be procured and served on the missioner, &e. slave-hunters, they were gone, having about ten minutes start of the friends with the warrant, which gave them sufficient time to get out of the State. Only think! This day week, Stephen and his two sons, after having duly counted the cost of their freedom, and feeling assured that it could only be won by the most brave and earnest effort in 'seeking it by flight, started, determined to rest not until the vic- tory wos theirs. After a successful journey of over one hundred and fifty miles, which they had travelled in twenty-five hours from gclyas 4 » hands of the Underground Committee, who heard with the deepest in- terest aad sympathy their tale of slavery and The father, be- ing intelligent (reads well) was able to give avery straight and connected account ef great anxiety for freedom. his life of slavety, and also the state of an- xiety which at present prevails in the breast of the slave, to obtain his freedom. Pro- bably none but those who saw and conversed with them, can form any idea of how intelli- gent and interesting they were--of the high and noble value they had set upon their liberty ; and especially of the source of joy and gratitude they manifested in contem- plating their suecess thus far, and their flat- tering prospects, which seemed to warrant them that henceforth they should be the owners of themselves, instead of the tyrants from whom they had fled... In short, their appearance. forcibly impressed those who saw them, that they had been designed to fill more than ordinary stations. But alas! how soon and terribly were their hopes, as well as those of their friends, dashed in ruins, and the yoke again placed upon their defenceless necks -- by their merciless op- pressors. 'The Committee, into whose hands they fell, before reaching New York, spared no pains to render their success sure; which resulted in their landing safely in that city-- the father twenty-five hours, and the sons nineteen before they were arrested--suffi- cient time, it would seem, for their friends to haye placed them beyond the reach of their infernal pursuers, if their vigilance had been as duly aroused' as were their owners. 'It is true that it is much easier now to see wherein steps might have been taken to have secured their freedom, than it was before the dread- ful outrage was perpetrated ; and under the circumstances, I suppose we can do no bet- ter than to regret that the least oversight safety. It'is the opinion of some here, as well as in New York, that the hunters were aided or instructed in this city by a " stoal pigeon" or traitor; and to this their success in so readily finding their prey may be attribut- able. That there are those among us who for a few paltry dollars would be base enough to betray a fellow-man, there can be no doubt. Indeed, the Committee have always felt it to be their duty to be exceedingly cautious onall occasions, and especially of § phere ; Pe ' #36 Blight oy } #33 id A ' 4 F: 4 4 Cee eRe ¥ Sec te3i34. 3 fon ¥. hi r ! . Stateand extend the local law of, Virginia over | the time tvey first set out, they found them- | was permitted to stand, in the way of their | certain characters who are known not to be trustworthy ; but whether the opinion that a traitor acted as nale tool of the hunters, be correct' oF 'not, one thing is certain--it must be quite obvious to all reflecting minds now, that it was no more than might have been expected on the part of the owners, who knew of the Dr.'s whereabouts, that his re- latives would very naturally go to him; hence the secret of their being traced to New York. But sad and unfortunate as this affair has been, it will not stop the Underground. It will increase its success. It will doubtless make many' friends for the slave and the fu- gitive. Also, Iam not without the hope that Dr. P.'s brother and nephews will yet be free. 2 The riot, growing out of the arrest of Burns, a fugitive, in Boston, will make thou- sands of abolitionists, and will teach slave- holders and the South generally a lesson which will be very unpalatable to them, es- pecially just now, while they are rejoicing | over the passage of the Nebraska bill, ke. Really the sigrs of the times do seem to in- dicate, at last, that the North begins to see and feel the folly of her past conduct, in the innumerable concessions made to the South, tion. Some of the leading Whig papers, -- which have, until the present, advocated the 'compromises, &c., and have heretofore la- yished any amount of abuse upon abolition- ists, for what they were pleased to consider as fanatical and treasonable doctrines, are ~ 'to-day about as fanatical and treasonable as the most anti-slavery paper to be found. And who knows what may grow out of the beginning in Boston? A civil war or a- dissolution of the Union may be upon us -- ere we realize it. For my own part it is matter of unspeakable gratification to my own mind to see the elements in motion. One poor servant of Uncle Sam and the abominable Fugitive Slave Law, who was made a Deputy Marshal: of the U.S., for the occasion, was shot dead in the riot in Boston, last Friday night. How many more may meet with a similar visitation yet _ remains 'to be seen. The telegraph this afternoon holds out very sanguinary pros-' pects. Your readers like the Provincial Freeman very much; but some would like to hear a price of lands, the various productions of the -- soil, &c. &e. On those subjects you are both interested and posted, and J doubt not you will gladly furnish your readers, at an- early day, with an occasional editorial on the subject alluded to. Yours truly, W.S. Railway Disasters. Last night an accident occurred on the even- _ ing train due at Windsor, by the breaking © of the rim of one of the wheels ot the hind- ermost passenger car, a short distance from . Chatham. 'The ear was overturned, and, disconected, but without any one in it being hurt, except by a few bruises, none of which were seyere--Fyree Democrat. Accipenr on tHe G, W. Raitway.--. We regret to announce the accidental death of William Dixon Worthington, one of the conductors on the express train, Great Wes- . tern Railroad... The melancholy event. took . wrong with, the wheels of one of the cars, and stepped down to the bottom step of the platform, and holding on to one. of the iron braces, extended his body outward so as to geta full view of the train. While in this position his head came in contact with a. post of one of the cattle guards, causing in- stant death. The accident took place about. . 16 miles east of Chatham; the body was brought to London for interment. Worth-_ ington was 'n honorable, intelligent, amiable _ young man, highly esteemed by his ac-, quaintances; was son of Thomas Worthing: | ton, Esq., of the customs department, and nephew of Thomas ©. Dixon, M. P..P., and was in the 23d year of his age. 'Too much caution cannot be used, by all connected _ with the running of cars, or on railways, and we do hope, that the: lamentable accidents of the past, will have the effect of inducing. the utmost caution for the future--Proto- type. Disaster on THe G. W. Rarmroap.-- An emigrant train on the great. Western Railway starte1 from Hamilton yesterday -- with a large number of Norwegian emigrants, whose interpreter said they wanted to. come through to Windsor. In stopping at one of the stations it was fuund out that a good number of them intended to stop at London, but as the train hal passed that point, the - conductor carried them to Chatham, and. then left them. alt hal At Chatham they were put on board a. freight and a second class, and started for. London, but after proceeding a part of the way, the engine ran over a cow, which threw . the train off the track, and smashing the engine and car, killing seven persons in; stantly and wounding a number of others. severely, one has since died, maki @ thei! lars we have as yet been, una' le to learn, | but these are bad enough. The night was. not a very clear one after the moon set, and though the engine was supplied with a cow-. catcher, the animal got-under it by some -- ts means other.--Jee Democrat. 0: (<> It is stated that the expenses attend- ing the rendition of the Fugitive, Burns," will stand between $30,000 and &50,000. In connection with this case, we notice that a movement is on foot in Cambridge, among :: the law students, to refuse further attendance -- upon Commissioner Loring's Lectures at the Law School.-- Globe. 3 ' DB C>- Pee Montreal, just received by telegraph, informs -- us that Mi. Hincks hed just returned. from * Washington,and that the Reciprocity papers had been signed.-- Colonist, ae | ¥ and that she will now take a defensive posi- -- little more on the snbject of the quality and -- AccIDENT on THE G. W. Raritway.-- | ° place on Thursday last, the 1st inst. 'The deceased thought there was something . number of dead eight. The further particu: Reciprocity.--a private despatch from. . PRE IEN 5 T Re e i i il