lea sap age ey CR ON BY ER tag TS, feta. et _ ere Re nee = = u~ RRR IIIa Wild Flowers. Se sters "peath the hazels gather-- oary reeks you make your bields, South ost without a name, _ your buds come forth, re, where'er ye grow! = the speed well's pecping eyes --the daisy, that doth rise s fall or winds do blow ; re, of blessed forms and dyes, ie =] love ye all t.*< rsli 'the early dew, we your loveliness by every breeze. _ oer by green and arching trees: ed:that d-were-one-of you, -.-.- . . + wpon the prassy leas= --- ae "Se love ye Sli mine anes Beautifal children of the glen and dell-- The dingle deep--the moorland stretching wide, And of the mossy fountain's scdgy side ! Ye o'er my heart have _thrawn a lovésome spell; ~. And though the worldling, scorning, may deride, SF Pu GoS Sind Llove ye all! ---- - Newspapers.--A man eats up a pound of sugar and the pleasure he has enjoyed is ended; but the information he gets from a newspaper is treasured up in the mind to be used whenever occasion or inclination calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of - one man or two men; it is the wisdom of the age--of past ages too. A family without a newspaper is always half.an age behind the times in general information; besides, they never think much nor find much to think about. And there are the little ones grow- ing up in ignorance, without a taste for read- | Ing. Besides all these evils, there's the wife, who, when her work is done, has to sit down with her hands in her lap, and nothing to amuse her mind from the toils and cares of the domestic circle. Who would be with- ~~ out a newspaper 1-- Franklin. = __-Intremprrance.--There is no better or more forcible description of intemperance, than that given by St. Augustine, who calls it, "A. distemper of the head ; a subversion. of the senses; a tempest of the tongue; a storm in the body ; a shipwreck of virtue; -' _aloss of time; a wilful madness ; a pleasant _ devil; a sugared poison ; a sweet sin; which he that_has it, hath not himself, and he. that. commits it, doth not: only 'commit. sin, - but' he himself is altogether sin." "Tntemperance has been aptly called," saith Flavel, " the devil's bridle, by which he turneth sinners which way he pleases ; he > that is,avercome by it can.overcome no other _ Among the heathen he was counted the. best man who Spent more-oil m the lamp than wine in the bottle. ~~; ~ $70s 205 : it Liquin Inpra-Rusper.--A correspond- _-ent of a New-York paper, writing from Para, in Brazil, says: " 'There is a method in pre- paring the gum which has recently been pa-. tented, and which differs essentially from the usual curdling. The milk, as drawn from the tree, is put into large glass bottles and demijohns ; a preparation of a, chemical na- ture, which is. a. secret, is mixed with the milk, and the bottles are securely sealed. In _ this way the gum is sent to the United States. It curdles twenty-four hours after exposure _ tothe air, and forms a pure, white, solid, and remarkably strong rubber. 'There is only" one house in Para which has the secret of _ this receipt, as I learn, and a member of the firm : parat on of the article, some thousands of miles in the interior of the country." gesoea 3 : teats = Under the Moors the population of Spain was thirty millions; it is now fifteen millions. When Granada was conquered, in 1487, it was defended by walls flanked by 1,030 towers.--The kingdom, of which it was the _ capital, was seventy leagues long by thirty . broad, and possessed thirty-two cities of the first rank, and ninety-seven of the second. Granada, before its fall in 1487, contained 400,000 inhabitants, of whom 60,000 bore aims; it now contains but 60,000 souls, all counted. The population of the whole kingdom of | Granada was three millions. Malaga, in the seventeenth century, contain- ed 80,000 inhabitants; it now possesses only _ 50,000. Medina del Campo, in the seyen- teenth century, contained 60,000 inhabi- tants; it now contains 6,000. Merida, at the same epoch, possessed 40,000 inhabi- tants, it now possesses only 5,000. In the sixteenth century, the diocese of Salaman- cha had one hundred and twenty-seven cities _ and villages; it now has thirteen only. Se- __-goria, in 1725, had 5,000 families; now 2,000. Seville, in the seventecnth century, had a population of 300,000, of which 130,000 were employed in manufactuies ; . It now contains 96,000 souls, all told. To- -- ledo, in the fifteenth century, had 200,000 inhabitants; it now has 15,000. Valence, _ which in the year 1600 counted a popula- tion of 600,000, now hardly numbers 60,- 000. In 1778 there were counted 1,511 abandoned villages in Spain, and the num- ber has been increasing from that time to Big a Anticipatory Usz or THe Cross.--It is strange, yet well authenticated, and has _ given rise to many theories, that the symbol of the Cross was already known to the In- _dians before the arrival of Cortez. In the island of Cozumel, near Yucatan, there were several ; and in Yucatan itself there was a stone cross. And there an Indian, consider- ed a prophet among his countrymen, had de- clared that a nation bearing the same as a symbol should arrive from a distant country ! More extraordinary still was a temple, dedi- cated to the Holy Cross by the Teltec na- tion in the city of Cholula. Near Tulansin- go there is also a cross engraved on a rock with various characters, which the Indians by tradition ascribe to the Apostle St. Tho- mas. In Oajaca, also, there existed a cross __which the Indians from time immemorial had been accustomed to consider as a divine | it was placed | Madame Calderon dela Barca... 'feet in diameter: ives his personal attention.to the pre-. Pa" E : : he 'of | one thousand feet, which would give a pres- = red : = in a sumptuous chapel in the cathedral. Information concerning its dis= covery, together with a small cup, cut out of its wood, was sent to Rome to Paul V; who received it on his knees, singing the bymn |" Vexilla regis" &e.--Life in Mesico, by 4 "Wuar 1s SaLeratus 1--Wood is burnt to ashes: Ashes are lixiviated--tlye is the result. Lyeis evaporated by boiling--black purification by fire, and the potash of com- merce is obtained. By another process, we change the potash into pearlash. Now: put this into sacks and place them over a distil- lery wash-tub where the fermentation evolves carbonic acid gas, and the pearlash. absorbs and renders it solid, the product being heavier, dryer and whiter, than the pearlash. It is now saleratus. IZow much salts of lye and carbonic acid can a human stomach bear and {remain healthy, is a question for the saleratus | Catenssce 22s = : ; Tue Ancient GIANTS OF Fintanp.-- Before the French--so runs the Legend-- there were the giants ; a good while before, | we should think, by the account the Jins give of their departure. i | tion declares--A giant child came one day The Finnish tradi- to her giantness mamma, and showed her a curious insect she held in her 'apron, and had picked up on. the plain. It was~a plough, with team and driver. " Alas!, my child," said mamma," this is is a token of grief to us. Where this thing appears--small as it looks--we of the old race cannot long abide." And so it proved ; and so we may form some near guess as to when the Finnish giants went away. For their legacy--so runs the legend--they left the immeasurable masses of ore which were their prodigiously hot ovens ard stoves, but which are known to the tiny race of their successors as inexhaus- tible iron mines. They left, the people say, such an interior warmth in that particular tract of soil that corn grows and ripens dur- ing the short summer, several degrees north of the points, in Siberia and Canada, where no ear is formed. The flax is the finest known in the world; and even the modern potato ripens in the hoarded warmth of those ancient fires: 'The monstrous salmon that comes wedge-like up the clear frothing rivers, were the minnows with which those giants angled for the marine monsters that roll and tumble in the Arctic Seas. The wild swans were their little singing birds; and, if the swan its grief for the departed patrons, and tales are told of the sweetness of that music when heard far away over the boundless swamp, accompanied by the lyre accompaniment of miles of pine forest' swept by the high breeze. PEeRusinG Otp Parers.--How depress- ing is the overlooking old papers long locked up, and filed away, written many years ago, when the world was brighter and friends were more numerous than now, before mis- fortune had dimmed the one, or death: had snatched away the other? Nor are one's spirits made more cheerful; when some old: document or letter transports us backward to a season of bereavement or sad mischance. The sunshine of the present is clouded by these: reminiscences. which produce in. all their gloom the shadows of a former day. But when it happens, as is most commonly the fact, that a day of darkness' and storm is selected for this melancholy review of past ~-| scenes, the sombre skies above us mingle their weeping with the tears of revived afflictions, and then a pall of darkest hue settles upon the mind. Beware of this; let no one un- lock the trunk of old papers, especially such as concerns the heart, except in a cloudless day, with the sun. shining in meridian splendor... --_---- 2 6 Oo ae _ Professor Studdard, in a lecture recently delivered upon the hurricance in. Knox county, Illinois, says:--" The trunk of- one ofthe trees blown down was about three. Assuming, however, its diametér to be but two and a half feet, a force of 157,000 pounds would be required to break it. 'he surface of the tree ex- panded to the action of the wind was about sure by the wind of one hundred and forty- -| seven pounds per square foot, which is near- |- 'ly one-fourth the initial velocity of a cannon ball. Allowing the height of the hurricane or whirlwind, to have been sixty feet, the whole force exerted at one time along its track was five thousand million pounds--a working power equal to more than half the steam power of the globe." RE Be ee A letter from the missionary ship John Williams, recently received at the London Mission-house, reports a visit to Erro- manga in the New Hebrides. During the stay of the vessel off the islands; the very man who leveled the fatal blow at the mar- tyred missionary Williams, came on board. fle is now a learner of Christianity. The question was put to him why he killed the missionary. His reply was, "White man had been to the island, and had slain his brother and sister. He feared this man would do likewise, and so he killed him." The island is now, to a great extent reclaim- ed from heathenism by the labors of native evangelists. A Pusiic Nursery in Lonpon. Close by the ship yard in Portugal Street, 'there is a nursery for infants. Here parents who are obliged to work during the day can leave their children on payment of a small sum. TheY are well cared for, in a clean and well-ventilated place, lodged in snug little beds, and supplied with playthings, and--that best of instruction for early years --kind and pleasant words. It is painful to witness the bleached countenances of the most healthy oi these little ones. Almost every visitor who has come here from more airy neighbourhoods has noticed this, it seems. 'hose of sufficient intelligence who may visit this nursery, and see, when the faces are cleansed of dirt, how white they are, and how black a tint is below the eyes, will scarcely doubt the necessity of stringent measures of sanitary inspection and improve- ment. This nursery was founded, and is manly supported, by the Rev. John Oliver, chaplain of King's College Hospital, who makes it the means also of affording a refuge to the convalescent female patients from the hospital, who have no place to goto. The number of children varies from 20 to 30 at a time; and milk and pudding are found 'them by the benevolent originator, Chil- dren are brought from Lambeth, Camden Town, and other distant localities, and the symbol. By order of the Bishop Cervantes, pe advantages afforded appear to be thoroughly appreciated by the parents.-- Builder. salts are the residium. The salts undergo a | note be now held discordant, it is through "His Grace the Duke of Argyle - - FUGITIVE SLAVES IN CANADA. A degree of attention has of late been directed to the condition of the Fugitive Slaves resident in Canada, but comparatively little information concerning them has reached the public. The | presence in this country of the Rev. Samuel Ringold Ward,. who has been delegated by. the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada to make the case of these Refugees more generally known, has caused a number of Gentlemen to form a Com- mittee, for the purpose of raising a fund to afford them temporary relief, on their arrival in Canada, from the scene of their bondage. The entire number of Fugitives in Canada may be estimated at from thirty thousand to thirty-five thousand, of whom from three to five thousand have annually escaped since the passing of the Fugitive Slave Law, On their arrival at Toronto, and other places along the Canadian frontier, that is, along a boundary of some seven hundred miles, they are usually destitute of every thing, having generally fled. stealthily, and with- out making much preparation for flight. They undergo numerous privations on their painful and wearisome journey, being in constant peril by the way, not only through the Slave States, but through the Northern, or nominally free. At any point, if overtaken, or discovered, or even suspected, they may be dragged before the Courts, and, upon a most summary process, sent back to endure a bondage of which the ord nary rigours are always increased in the case of Fugitives, to operate as a warning to others. Hence, during their flight, they are ina constant state of sus- pense, fear, and excitement; and when they reach the Canadian frontier, usually fall into a condi- tion. of 'bodily and mental prostration, which renders them incapable of immediate efforts, and makes them objects of compassionate interest. Being strangers, destitute of the commonest nécessaries, and in some instances, suffering from temporary illness and over fatigue, they require a helping hand. The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada, and a Ladies' Society at Toronto, pro- vide these Refugees with food, clothing, tools, or whatever they require, until they procure em- ployment and can support themselves. 'This necessarily entails a very considerable expendi- ture, which these Societies are not in a position to meet to the extent to which their aid is needed. It is not only an interesting fact, but one which should be emphatically dwelt upon, that the Re- fugee Fugitives require only temporary assistance. Labour of every kind is in great demand, and the Society being kept duly informed of the parties who are in want of labourers, they sel- dom fail to procure employment on advantageous terms. In no instance wi-hio the last year and a half has the Society been called upon to extend re- lief for more than six days, except in cases of sick- ness. The fund soughtto. be raised is therefore not intended tobe set aside to maintain able- bodied men in idleness for an indefinite period, but to enable the Canadian Society to respond to the large claims made upon it, to supply the more immediate and pressing demands of the Fugitives on their arrival, and until they have sufficiently recovered from fatigue to avail themselves of the advantages of abundant employment and food, good wages, cheap land, equal liberty, and im- partial laws, and the privileges and rights which are common to other classes of Canadians. Canada being the nearest of the British Colonies to the United States, (the stronghold of Slavery) it is of no small importance to encourage the 1m- provement and elevation of these negro refugees, because of the influence, direct and reflex, which would thereby be brought to bear upon American Slavery. The black settlers of Canada are nearly all of them fugitives from slavery. 'Their im- provement would be a triumphant rebuke to those who once held them as chattles, and to those who hold that the slave requires to be prepared for freedom; for they would exhibit the spectacle ofa people just escaped from the galling yoke com- peting as free men, successfully and honourably with other labour. Further, as there exist in Canada some of the prejudices against colour, and as the progressive inprovement of the coloured population is gradually undermining and destroy- ing this feeling, their improvement affords a prac- tical demonstration, not only of the equal capacity of the negro fur self-advancement where he has a proper incentive to. labour, but of the unreason- ableness of the prejudice against him Lastly, his social elevation by his own industry and enter- prise, is even now trimuphantly. proving the fitness of the slave for freedom, the righteous- -ness and the practicability of immediate emanci- pation, (in so far<as the slaves. themselves are concerned ) and the perfect capability of the negre to live and to advance under the same government and upon terms of political and social equality with the Anglo-Saxon raise, or any other of the one great humrn family. At a large and respectable meeting held in Free- mason's Hall the Right. Hon. the Ear] of Shat- tesbury in the Chair,--after an Address from Rev. S. R. Warp, showing the condition of the Fugi- tive Slaves in Canada and stating their need of temporary aid immediately upon their arrival in that Colony.--it was proposed by the Rev. C. B Grissie, of St. Pauls East Smithfield, and secconded by the Rev. Tuomas James, Secretary to the Colonial Missionary Society, and adopted: " That having heard the statement of the Rev. Samurt Rincotp Warp, respecting the destitu- tion of the Fugitive Slaves on thier arrival in Canada afterfaffecting their escape from the United States; and, feeling that under such circumstances they have a claim on our sympathy, andneed temporary assistanee, this Meeting cordially ap- proves of the object of the mission, and pledges itself to promote it; and that for carrying out of the same the following Gentlemen be the Officers and Committee, with power to add to their number: PRESIDENT. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. TREASURER. GEORGE WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Esa. HON. SECRETARIES. REV. JAMES SHERMAN, AND SAMUEL HORMAN-FISHER, Esa. : COMMITTER. APSLEY PELLATT, ESQ., M. P.,-G. F: WHITE, ESQ., REV. T. JAMES, REV. J. C. GALLAWAY, A. M., JAMES SPICER, ESQ@., REV. GEORGE SMITH, REV. THOS. BINNEY, ROBERT FORSTER, ESQ., E, N. FOWLER, ESQ@., JOSEPH SOUL, ESQ.. L. A. CHAMEROVZOW, ESQ., W. JONES, ESQ., J. TALBOT TYLER, ESQ. It was moved by the Rev. J. Wemberley, Rec- tor of Dorrington, seconded by the Rev. George Wilkins, and adopted :-- "That the best thanks of this Meeting be pre- sented to the Earl of Shaftesbury, for his kindness in presiding on the present occasion." The following contributions have been already received :-- & an His Grace the Duke of Sutherland 10 Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland 10 10 The Most Noble the Marchioness of Kildare' - - -. = 5 The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury 10 The Right Hon. the Earl of Harrowby 10 The Right Hon. the Earl Waldegrave 2 The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P. 10 Sir Edward North Buxton, Bart. 10 The Viscount Ebrington, M.P. The Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P. The Lord Mavor of London, M. P. The Lord Calthorpe - - : Dowager Lady Gray - - - Lady Acland - - - - - Lady Macdonald - - Rev. James Sherman - * Rev. Thomas Binney - - Mr. 8. Berry - - - Mrs. W. Cook _ - G. T foe QU et OV AE OU OUT OU OT OCD et tS DD IT TH OOH Miss Copley - - H., Spicer, Esq. - - W.R. Spicer, Esq. - - - S. Horman-Fisher, Esq - - Ernest Bunsen, Esq. - - R. Forster, Esq. - - Collection at Islington - - G. F. White, Esq., and Family - J.T. Tyler, Esq. - - Mr. J. Fitzgerald - - - James Spicer, Esq. Samuel Morley, Esq. - - George Hitchcock, Lisq. J.T. Barry#ilisq@24i= sis - Joseph Sturge, Esq. - - Messrs. Clarke, Beeton & Co. - Mr. Smithers - - - - J Samuel Sturge, Esq., and Friends - James Cunliffe, Esq. - - Miss Sophia Portal - - - Collection at Freemasons' Hall - J. Cheetham, Esq., M. P. > - - C. Hindley, Esq.. M.P. - - A. Pellatt, Esq.. M.P. aA - E. Ball, Esq., M. P. - = 3 Sir George Goodman, M.P. ae Sir James K. Shuttleworth - J. Talbot Tyler, Esq., (2nd donation) Rev. W. Broek - - - - a a freed foe feed fed oooco 10 | Mr, Hunter = SSSSSSSSSSOSSSSSOSCSOSSCSS OSU OCSCSCSO OOH OSCOCSOOCSSO ONC CSOeSOSOO eos eocoeooeoooooocesocooscoososeogeneceoscooessooescsocoecoeoscoesoso ooo ft fe eek et et HD et Rev. J. Hamilton, D.D. . Sees W. Cook, Esq., M.D. - - "a My bial Rev. George Smith - - - - Collection at Brighton - - - I Mrs. Casterton - = = = J. Nisbet, Esq. C. Gray, Esq. S T. G. Stapleton, Esq. 2 - « Mr. W. Purvis 2 = = é T. Waterman, Esq. 2 - - - D. Beeman, Esq. =. Sas Rice Hopkins, Esq. - - Joseph 'Tritton, Esq. - - Edward Edwards, Esq. - - Jacob PostHs@. ~ .< 1. +. <3 50+ James Dawson, Esq. _ = - W. Flanders, Esq. William Edwards, Esq. = a W. Churchill, Esq = Z 2 Rev. Thomas James - - - R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. - - Mrs. Faulkener = S - Miss Jane Grant - 3 - - J. Brown, Esq. s = : K. Viney, Esq. = R. N. Fowler, Esq. -- - - F, W. Cobb. Esq. opeaceess a Joseph Cooper, Esq. - 2 W. Janson, Esq. a cecooonroococoocoeocoooseooocorH Ke OoMOorFOoooS oh SCecoceceeoscoce esoce Se Sooce 2 S00 COC oO SO g md TOO CUA UOT OW DO MNMNADW NAAN TNH BNONS eee 4 L} ¢ $ Messrs. McIntosh & Gordon - = Mr. Geldart S = S 3 = Collection at Cavendish Chapel, Rams- gate - S = = = _ 12 lie G. Putley, Esq: -- - syeuets See sink of i6 Sundry small sums, © - = alo 5 0) _-2- 8 & Constitution of the National Council. For the purpose of improving the char- acter, developing the intelligence, maintain- ing the rights and organizing a Union of the Colored People of the Free States, the Na- tional Convention does hereby ordain and institute the " NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PEOPLE." Art. 1. This Council shall consist of two members from each State, represented in this Convention, to be elected by this Con- vention, and two other members from each State to be elected as follows: On the 15th day of November next, and biennially there- after, there shall be held in each State, a Poll, at which each colored inhabitant may vote who pays ten cents as poll-tax, and each State shall elect, at such election, such delegates to State Lsgislatures, twenty in number from each State, at large. The election to be held at such places and under such conditions as the public meetings in such localities may determine. The mem- bers of the National Council in each State, shall receive, canvass, and declare the result of such vote. The State Council, thus elect- ed, shall meet on the first Monday in Janu- ary, 1854, and elect additional members to the National Council, in proportion of one to five thousand of the colored population of such .State; and the members of council thus. elected, to take office on the sixth day of July next, and all to hold office during two years from that date; at the end of which time another general election by State council shall take place of members to con- stitute their successors in office, in the same numbers as above. "Che State council of each State shall have full power over the internal concerns of said State. Art. 2. The members of the first council shall be elected by this convention, which shall designate out of the number, a Presi- dent, a Vice-President, Secretary, Treasur- er, corresponding Secretary, and committee of five on Manual Labor--a committee of five on Protective Unions--of five on Busi- ness Relations--of five on Publications. Art. 3. The committee on Manual Labor School shall procure funds and organize said School in accordance with the plans adopted by this National Convention, wih such modifications as experience or necessity may dictate to them. The committee shall immediately incorporate itself as an academy under " The General Committee of the State of. »' and shall constitute the Board of Trustees of the Manual Labor School, with full power to select a location in the State designated by the National council, to erect buildings, appoint or dismiss instructers in the literary or mechanical branches. There shall be a farm attached to the School, Art. 4. The committee on Protective Unions shaJl institute a Protective Union for the purchase and sale of articles of domestic consumption, and shall unite and aid in the formation of branches anxiliary to their own. Art. 5. The committee on Business Rela- tions, shall establish an office, in which they shall keep a registry of colored mechanics, arti- zans and business men throughout the Union. They shall keep a registry of all persons will- ing to employ colored men in business, to teach colored boys mechanical trades, liberal and scientific professions, and farming ; and also, a registry of colored men and boys seeking empleyment or instruction. They shall also report upon any avenues of business or trade which they deem inviting to colored capital, skill, or labor. Their reports and ad- vertisements to be in papers of the widest circulation. They shall receive for sale or exhibition, products of the skill and labor of colored people. Art. 6. The committee on Publication shall collect all facts, statistics and statements, all laws and historical records and biographies of the colored people, and all books by colored authors. They shall have for the safe keep- ing of these documents, a Library, with a Reading Room and Musenm. 'The committee shall also publish replies to any assaults, wor- thy of note, made upon the character or con- dition of the colored People. Art. 7, Each committee shall have abso- lute contro] over its special department ; shall make its own by-laws, and in case of any va- cancy occurring, shall fill up the same forth- with subject to the confirmation of the coun- cil. Each committee shall meet at least once a month or as often as possible ; shall keep a minute of all its proceedings, executive and financial, and shall submit a full statement of the same, with the accounts audited, at every regular meeting of the National council. - Art. 8. The National council shall meet at least once in six months, to receive the reports of the committees, and to consider any new plan for the general good, for which it shall have power, at its option, to appoint a new committee, and shall be empowered to receive and appropriate donations for the carrying out of the objects of the same. At all such meet- ings, eleven members shall constitute a quo- rum. In case any committee neglect or refuse to send in its report, according to article 8th, then the council shall have power to enter the bureau, examine the books and papers of such committee ; and in case the committee shall persist in its refusal or neglect, then the coun- cil shall declare their offices vacant, and ap- point others in their stead. Art. 9. In all cases of the meetings of the National Council, or the committees, the tra- veling expenses (if any) of the members shall be paid out of the respective funds. Art. 10. The council shall immediately es- tablish a bureau in the place of its meeting : andthe same rooms shall, as far as possible,be used by the several committees for their vari- ous purposes. 'The council shall havea clerk, at a moderate salary, who will keep a record of their transactions, and prepare a condensed report of the committees for publication ; and, also, a registry of the friends of the cause. Art. 11. 'The expenses of the council shall be defrayed by the fees of membership of sub- societies or councils, to be organised through- out the States. The membership fee shall be one cent per week, Art. 12. A member of the council shall be pombe of only one of the committees there- of. Art. 13. All officers holding funds, shall give security in double the amount likely to be in their hands. 'This security to be given THE COLORED to the three first officers of the council. = Art. 14. The council shall have power to make such Bye-Lawsas arenecessary for their proper governmen : The following resolutions, having a direct: bearing upon the plan of organization were adopted by the Convention and are therefore appended to the Council's Constitution. ] Resolved "Chat the Council shall be dele- gated to select.its various Committees. Resolved, 'hat the Council shall have power to offer a premium for prize essays on different subjects agreed on by Council. and grant petitions and be governed by the rules of legislative bodies, and their decisions shall be final. Resolved, That any State applying for ad- mission into this Union, shall be admitted on such terms, as may hereafter be agreed upon. Resolved, That in establishing a National Council for our own special improvement, and a Manual Labor School for the education of our children in science, literature and me- chanical arts, this Convention do this, not to build ourselves up as a distinct and separate class in this country, but as a means to a great end, viz: the equality in political rights, and in civil and social privileges with the est of the American people. PLAN OF THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. The undersigned, the Committee on Man- ual Labour School, appointed by the National Council of the colored people, in offering a plan for the organization of the school, beg leave to state, Ist. That the location of the school, which is to be within one hundred miles of the town of Erie, Pennsylvania, will be selected as soon as three thousand dollars are paid in; the school building and work-shop will be commenced as soon as ten thousand dollars are paid in; and the school commenced as soon as fifteen thousand. dollars are paid in 5 and that in no case will a contract be made beyond the sum of money actually paid in. hundred acres of land, one hundred and fifty of which shall for ever be used as a farm for agricultural instruction. 2nd. In accordance with a vote of the Rochester Convention, the teachers are to be selected for, and pupils admitted into, the school without reference to sex or complexion. 3d. Special provision will be made to make this, from the beginning, an industrial school for females as well as males; a prom- inent principle of conduct will be to aid in providing for the female sex, methods and means of enjoying an independent and hon- orable livlihood. F'repDERICK Dove ass, } JoHn D. Precx, | Committee Amos G. Braman, on Manual JOHN JONES, Labour J. D.. Bonner, School. J. McCune Smith, J 1. The title shall be "THe AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL ScHOOL." 2. The foundation fund shall thousand dollars. 3. 'Twenty thousand dollars shall be in stock of 2000 shares, at ten dollars per share. 4. Ten thousand dollars shall be in dona- tions to be solicited from the friends of the cause. 5. The shares shall be payable, ten per cent. at the time of subscribing, and ten per cent. every first day of July, October, Janu- ary and April thereafter, until the whole is paid in. 6. 'The School shall be organised and conducted entirely by a board of fifteen trus- tees. 7. Six of these trustees shall be the Com- mittee on Manual Labour School, appointed by the National Council of the People of Color; and nine of the trustees shall be elected .by the Stockholders when three thousand dollars shall have been paid in by them, (the stockholders) and annually there- after. Each share of stock shall count as one vote at all such elections. And stock- holders may vote by proxy, on affidavit made and acknowledged before a Commissioner of Deeds.- 8. In organizing the School the following regulations shall be strictly enforced : a. For every branch of Literature taught, there shall be one branch of handicraft also taught in the School. 6. Each pupil shall occupy one half his time when at School, in work at some handicraft, or on the farm. ce. The handicrafts-shall be such that their pro- ducts will be articles saleable for cash, or money's worth, ata market within easy access from the School. The agent appointed by the Committee Frederick Douglass, Esq., shall be empow- ered to receive donations and take subscrip- tions for stock, giving a receipt for the latter, signed by himself and Rev. Amos G. Beman, the Secretary of the Committee. As soon as, and as often as the Agent aforesaid shall receive two hundred and fifty dollars, either in subscriptions or donations, he shall pay the same over to the Treasurer, John Jones, Esq:, of Chicago, who shall deposit the same forthwith, in the Bank of America, Chicago, Ill.: the Treasurer aforesaid, as soon as he shall receive one thousand dollars, and for every thousand dollars thereafter, shall give bonds with two sureties to the President and Secretary of the National Council of Colored People, for double the amounts aforesaid. For his services, the Agent shall receive five per cent. on all stock instalments paid in by him, and ten per cent. on all donations above two hundred dollars paid in by or through him. 10. The members of the Committee on Manual Labor School shall also be empow- ered to receive donations for the same; and they shall transmit all said donations to the Treasurer, by draft, within ten days after receiving the same. They shall also be entitled to five per cent. on all such donations paid in by him. 11. The Treasurer shall publish at least once a fortnight a list of all the donations and subscriptions of stock received by him ; and shall transmit to each donor or stock- holder, a copy of the paper, (Frederick Doug- lass' Paper or Aliened American,) which shall contain the acknowledgment of their gift or subscription. THE GOSPEL TRIBUNE, PROSPECTUS, The first number of a monthly paper, to be known as above indicated, is proposed to be pub- lished in Toronto within a few months, and not later than the First day of July, 1854. The work in size and appearance, to be at least equal to the Missionary Record or Christian Observer ; and as much superior to either in style and execution as the subseriptien list will warrant. DISTINCTIVE OBJECT: To enlarge the limits of Communion and Church-Membership, among Christians, to the greatest possible extent; and to circumscribe hose bounds to the exclusion, if possible, of all' other characters, without otherwise disturbing the Membership of existing Churches; till acknow- ledged Christian Character shall constitute the only passport, at any time, and the perfect pi sspor at all times, to every Communion and Chureh worthy of the Christian name; "that the world may believe" in Christ, even as he prayed. GENERAL OBJECTS: be thirty The promotion of Religious, Moral, Intellect- Resolved, That the said Council shall hear The site of the school will be at least two ual and social improvement, under the guidance of Divine Revelation, submitting every soee and measure to the test of Gospel Principies. : SUPPORTERS: ~ The distinctive and general objects of the work. are such, as to claim for it the patronage of all classes of men, excepting those wedded to other pre-requisites of Communion and Church-mem- bership, than acknowledged Christian Character; and here it is recorded with great pleasure that the encouragements tendered, thus far, are m strict accordance with the above genera! claims. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS: This movement has long been contemplated. For twenty years the subscriber. has made the distinctive object of the Gospen Tripune his spe- cial study: examining carefully and personally the denominational aspect of Religions Sccie- ties,--their reciprocal bearings, their mutual relations, and the nature of their combined in- fluence on the evangelization of the world. Lat- erly, his pesition as' Publisher of the ScripTukE Manvat; has probably afforded him the best pos- sible facilities for personally testing the strength his positions, and for the attainment of certain important infcrmation, but little of which he had previously been able to obtain. All may rest as- sured, however, that no undue advantage will ever be taken of the frankness and candor with which Christians of every name, as well as skep- tics of every class, have freely expressed their convictions in the presence ofjthe Travelling Col- porteur ; the capacity in which the Publisher is still extending his observations through Canada and the neighboring States. CO-LABORERS : Of distinguished worth and of well-khown literary ability, are already secured in the several sections of Canada, and in the States of the A- merican Union; and arrangements are now in progress, to obtain from living responsible writere in Britain, important assistance in the develupe- ment of the Tripune's. Mission. TERMS AND NOTICES : The Terms are One Dollar per Annum in ad- vance,--otherwise Two Dollars; it being found that one half of the Subscriptions, not paid in ad- vance, are worse than lost. Editors--friendly-- will render assistance by noticing this Prospectus. All parties willing to aid, may ai once commence soliciting the names of Subscribers. 'Two books --the Seriplure and Laconic Manuals --fully gilt, and the Paper one year, will be forwarded to the person who first sends the names of ten Subsceri bers; and one of either of the books, in substantial leather binding,or the Paper one year, to every one who sends ten names. Subscriptions and all other communicalions for the Paper to be sent, post-paid, marked Money, (if inclosed) and ad- dressed, Roper Dick, Box 411, TORONTO. - Sermons and Lectures, promotive of the Tr BUNE's object, will be delivered by the Publisher throughout the Province as frequently as shall be found compatible with his other duties. (Signed) ROBERT DICK, Toronto, March 25th, 1854. CALL FOR A NATIONAL EMIGRATION CONVENTION OF COLORED MEN, Lo be held 1 Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, 25th and 23th of August, 1854. Men anp Breruren :--The time has now fully come, when we, as an oppressed people, should do something effectively, and use those means adequate to the attainment of the great and long desired end--to dg something to meet the actual demands of the present and prospective necessi- ties of the rising generation of our people in this country. 'Yo do this, we must occupy a position of entire equality, of unrestricted rights, composing in fact, an acknowledged necessary part of the ruling element of society in which we live. The policy necessary to the preservation of this element must be zm our favor, if ever we expect the enjoy- ment, freedom, sovereignty, and equality of rights anywhere.- For this..purpose, and to this end, then, all colored men in favor of emigration out of the United States, and opposed to the American Colonization sheme of leaving the ~Western Hemisphere, are requested to meet in CLEVE- LAND, OF iO, on TUESDAY, the 24th DAY of AUGUST, 1854, in a great NATIONAL CONVENTION, then and there, to consider and decide upon the great and important subject of emigration from the United States. No person will be admitted toa seat in the Convention, who would introduce the subject of emigration to the Eastern Elemisphere--either to Asia, Africa, or Kurope--as our object and de- termination is to consider our claims to the West Indies, Central and South America, and the Canadas. This restriction has no reference to personal preference, or vrdividual enterprise ; but to the great question of national claims to come before the Convention. All persons coming to the Convention must bring credentials properly authenticated, or bring verbal assurance to the Committee on Creden- tials--appointed for the purpose--of their fidelity to the measures and objects set forth in this Call as the Convention is specifically by and for the friends of emigration, and NONE OTHERS-- and no opposition to them will be entertained. 'The question is not whether our condition can made worse. It not, then, there is no part of the wide-spread universe, where our social and poli- tical condition are not better than here in our na- live country, and nowhere in the world as here proscribed on account of color. Weare triends, too, and ever «will stand shoulder to shoulder by our brethren, and all our friends in all good measures adopted by them for the bettering of our condition in this country, and surrender ho rights but with oar last breath ; but as the subject of emigration is of vital importance, and has ever been shunned by all delegated as- semblages of our people as heretofore miet, we cannot longer delay, and. will not be further: baffled ; and deny the right of our most sanguine friend or dearest brother, to prevent an intelligent enqgniry to, and the carrying out of these measures, When this can be done, to our entire advantage as we propose to show in Convention--as the West Indies, Central and South America--the majority of which-are peupled by our brethren, or those identified with us in race, and what is more, destiny, on this continent--al stand with open arms and yearning hearts, importuning us in the name of suffering humanity to come--to make common cause, and share one common fate on the continent. time fixed for assembling, as none but those fa- vorable to emigration are admissable ; therefore no other gathering may prevent it.- The number of delegates will not be restricted--except in the town where the Convention may be held--and there the number will be decided by the Conven- tion when assembled,.that they may not too far ex- ceed the other delegations. The time and place fixed for holding the Con- vention are ample ; affording sufficient time, and a leisure season generally--and as Cleveland is now the centre of all directions--a good and fa- vorable opportunity to all who desire to attend.-- Therefore, it may reasonably be the greatest gathering of the colored people ever before assem- bled in a Convention in the United States. Colonizationists are advised, that no favors will be shown to them or their expatriating scheme, as we have no sympathy with the enemies of our race. All colored men, East, West, North and South, favorable to the measures set forth in this Call will send in tbeir names (post-paid) to M. R Delany, or Rev. Wm. Webb, Pitsburgh, Pa., that there may be arranged and attached to the Call, jive names from each State, | ; Z We must make an issue, create an event, and establish a position for ourselves. |v is -glorious to think of, but far more glorious to carry out. Rev. Wm. Webb, M. R. Delany, H. G. Webb, Thos. A. Brown, John Jones, L. L. Hawkins, Samuel Venerable John Williams, A. F. Hawkins, S. W. Sanders, Jefferson Miller, Rev A. R. Green, P. L. Jackson, J. H. Maloney, G. Harper, Jonathan Green, H. A. Jackson, E.R. Parker, Samuel Bruce, ~ J.J. Gould Bias, M. D. Rev. M. M. Clark,. - Pitisburgh, Pa., Alleghany City. aioe! ene eennes tag Pe pes pete eH ee p) A.M. Summer, Phii. Johnson Woodlin, James M. Whitfield, _- 3.. 2 : John N. Still, New York. be bettered by emigration, but whether it can be }. The Convention will meet without fail, at the |. | tinued. s West #5in 5th con. Nth Gwilliambury LOOaeres: 10 6 5t 66 6¢ &s P 200: se S.E.} 10 in 9th " FORGERY. The Counterfeit Radway's Rees dy Relief in Canada. THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE IN DANGER. te HE public are cautioned against purchasing a counterfeit of Radway's Ready Relief, which is now circulating through the Canadas. -- We are informed that parties at Hamilton, C.Ww. have been selling a.spurious article of our Rea. dy Relief, for the genuine to dealers. This is not only a fraud upon us, but is a most wicked im- position on the public. The wretch that will knowingly lend himself to so vile and treacherous a trick, for the gain of a few extra sixpences, is unsafe to deal with, and should be shunned by all respectable dealers, for ifa few sixpences wil] induce him to rob the distressed sufferer of hope and health and to place the invalid's life in dan- ger, he would not scruple to deceive his best customers. to Dealers who wish the genuine, purchase only of established credit, not of irresponsible pedlars or travelling adventurers and impostors. Dealers who have R. R. R. offered to them be- low our regular price, may rely upon the same © being a counterfeit preparation. We never selk R. R. R. in large quantities for less than 10 per cent. from our regular gross price. Dealers whe purchase the counterfeit and offer the same for -- sale, render themselves liable to prosecution, All of our travellers and authorized Agents have a power of Attorney signed by us, authorizing them in our name, to transact our business. The following are our only Agents in Hamil- © ton, C. W. T. BICKLE & SON; HAMIL TON, KNEESHAW &CO., In Toronto, LY- MAN. BROTHERS, & CO., are our. general agents--we also sell to SIMPSON & CO. Toronto, April 24th, 1854. 3 THE TORONTO ge CIRCULATING LIBRARY AND : ef ey Fancy Goods and Stationery Store, No. %6, KING STREET EAST. RS: HIGGINS informs her friends and the brary, containing over 2000 volumes of Standard W orks-in History, Biography, Belle Lettres and new Standard Works and Periodicals as they issue from the Press. One Year pel 0 Uae Six Months 015 0 Three Months 0 8 0} One Month 0 3 9 Entitling the Subscriber to Three Sets of Books, to be kept no Jongerthan one week : One Year. : . £110 0 Six Months : 3 gen tee Ga Three Months : S201 2- *6 N.Bb. If not paid at the time of subscribing, the terms will be 10s. 3d. for two sets, and 16s. 3d. for three sets for every three months. NON-SUBSCRIBERS To deposit the value of the Book, and to pay for a single volume 3d. for four days; for a work in work in four or more volumes, at the rate of 2d.. per volume. For conditions see Tickets. Mrs. Higgins further offers for sale a wel] as- sorted stock of Fancy Goods and Stationery, to which she invites attention. : Toronto, May 10, 1854. NFORMATION is wanted concerning the whereabouts of HENRY THOMPSON, a coloured man, who visited Detroit in February last, and has not since been heard of by his family, _ to whom it is a source of great solicitude. Such. information will be thankfully received at this" office. ss Toronto, July 7, 1854. 16 , Important to Housekeepers. -- Toffer for sale 35 different recipes for $1, many of which have been sold the past year for $5 a piece. No housekeeper will grudge $1 for one' of those recipes alone after trying it once. £ Address WM. Brumsacr, Point Pleasant Pa.,. and the whole number of recipes will be forward-_ ed by mail. Re $5 REWARD! STOLEN OR STRAYED, About ihe 1st of April, 1854. A large bay horse,in good condition, 9 years old, ahow: two splinter bones on his forelegs; has a cock tail, and a--- bout 8 inches above his taila lump' where he has been' hurt; and his nigh side hind foot white. : Whoever will give inforznation where the horse may be found. or bring him to the owner, will receive the above reward. 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