Pe : Le es 5 mans see r= REPRE Ware ae ae the first week or ten urds, and crums, or i orn may be At a fortnight's ee they may be let are often found great depredators Geese in the young wheat fields. The old gander | L« and brood geese are treated with ayokeor | -- neck-ring: this is simply an oblong pi ece ol shingle, shaped into an oval form, with a he goose, and effectually keeps it ssa goose is never at the trouble ing, so the remedy is effectual. Sawa geese 'suld as low as one and three w double that price. 2: geese profitable,: the farmer's ; them twice and sometimes thrice but.the quills are.not touched, 0 | he animal suffers but little from the Wpritian, ~The head of tlie goose or gander 'is put into a bag; (an old sock is sometimes used ;) this is tied about the neck----the dark- _ness keeps the creature 'quiet--and "the thers are plucked into a basket: a still day and a-warm one is chosen; and in the ~-moulting se: on the feathers fall easily, and "perhaps the loss of them may bea relief trom*thesheat of sucha-thick covering. Turnips chopped small; raw and boiled es, with the run of the barn-yard, ts the goose's fare in the winter. A low log- shed, witha door to shut them in at-night, is necessary. They also, as all fowls do, re- tah lime and ashes in their house in win- ter. The goose begins to lay in March or "April; but if the season be at all mild, in "the latter part of March. The egg should "be brought in as soon as_ laid, as the frost 'ehillsit very quickly; placed in a box of "bran or saw-dust, 'till the goose is ready to 'sit,and the goose must be given water, or "Tet out to wash and feed once a day--she sits "thirty days. It is better to remtove the "@arly-hatched goslings, when strong enough, "to a bas%et, but I would not feed them; re- 'turn them at night to the mother, and you "will most likely have the rest of the family by "the following noon. Late-hatched goslings "are often allowed to go abroad under the "eare of the old ones without any shelter, and "in some dry seasons they 'will succeed as "well as those who have had a great fuss "made about them; but in cold wet springs "care and sheltcr are requisite to ensure the 'lives of the little family. If the cock be re- "markable for his tender care of his wives, "the gander is no less admirable as a father "in protecting and cherishing his young ones. "There is much that is interesting and ad- "mirable to be learned in the poultry-yard by the careful observer; and many a pleasant. 'cheerful hour may be passed in the care of "the domestic birds about the farmer's yard: "children learn lessons of care and kindness, "and many a moral lesson the wise mother "may inculeate, even from so homely a crea- ture as the common hen. *© Tneuitable localities the duck is easily "manazed; but they need a constant supply "of water; and will not thrive unless they "have free access to a stream or pond. The "Fittle ducklings require to be cooped with the "ymuther, and fed with curds, bran, or some "soft food fora few weeks. They are very useful in freeing a garden from insects ; and "Near lakes and mill ponds they get their "own living on the weeds and shell-fish; but "where no water is, they require a great deal of feeding. spe es "The turkey breeds well in Canada; but * the 'young ones are great ramblers, and do *much hurt to the young grain; and for "this reason' the farmer is shy of breeding "them. Some manage to confine them by "tethering the hen to a stake, when the 'young will not ramble far from her. ©" "The Guinea fowl are hardy enough to be - "kept; and even the tender pea-fow! prosper "and breed well in Canada; roosting within _the barn in the winter; 'and it is not often "they die from cold if well fed. I know "many farmer's wives wo rear the young to "sell , which they do at various prices, from seven shillings and six pence to three dollars head. "a he -- Of "tended to as'a matter of profit, as well as of a "amusement, and no doubt will well repay ba --s .-butter. _A quart of milk. .-and set away to cool. £, & x & & wh - time of .each... Add the salt. % cS late years poultry have been more at- the care bestowed upon them. Nilgie? S65 0% bi: _.. Iworaw Movrins,--A pint and a-half of » yellow. Indian meal, sifted. wheat flour. A handful of A quarter ofa pound of fresh Four eggs. A ~-very small. teaspoonful of salt. Put the milk into asaucepan. Cut the butter into it. _Setit over the fire and warm it until the ~ butter is very soft, but not until it melts. » Then take it off, stir it well till all is mixed, Beat four eggs very light;.and when the milk is cold, stir them into it, alternately with the meal, a little at a Beat the ~ whole very hard after it is all mixed. Then butter some muffin-rings on the inside. Set ».them in a hot oven, or on a heated griddle; ienst sorte sof the batter into each; and bake the muffins well. Send them hot to "table, continuing to bake while a fresh 3 ES supply is wanted, Pull them open with = _ your fingers, and eat them with but- .ter, to which you may add molasses or honey.---Farm, Journal. Be =x © Bocnarest, Friday,--A messenger who wt te Ee it ef THE WAR. : "Defeat of the Russians at Eupatoria, by Er eb Omer Pasha. : ~Yeft Eupatoria on the 17th Feb., and performed "the journey from Farna to Bucharest in twen- ty-six hours, brings the following despatch / from the Daily News correspondent :-- >> Buparoria, Feb. 17.--The Russians at- me »tacked Eupatoria this morning. They were commanded by Liprandi; and their numbers ~ were, 20,000 infantry and~-6,000 cavalry, commenced the attack an hour before - The: ah AA and had with them seventy guns. me pe & _ The conflict lasted three hours. The assault "was signally repulsed, The steamers threw "shell among the assailants. The Russians ® have 500 men hors de combat, the Turks 150. © Omer Pasha commanded in person, Selim «Pasha, the Egyptian was killed. Vast masses »of cavalry and 'artilery are now assembled. eqoFound Eupatoria," a | oe "The following telegraphic despatch has ah © Sof guns, attacked Eupatoria at daylight on the | '© vith, and was repulsed with loss by Omer pe owe yer 2 adid'to be inconsidera- | 2° received from Lord Raglan, throu ish agent at Bucharest:--" Before. "February 18th, 1865.--A force, Febn said to 000, of "the grass in the | -- This is drawn over the. d fields through the | three pence a-piece; but they 5 rive well in dry weather, while very young. - both flanks with great effect. The action terminated at ten a.m., when the Russians Tetired a few:miles.".« Despatch from Lord Raglane ._ . War Department, Feb. 23, 1855. Lord Panmure has this day received a des- patch and its enclosures, of which the follow- ing are copies, addressed to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. ~ . » "Before Sebastopol, Feb; 10, 1855. My Lord Duke,--I have nothing material or important to report to your Grace since I addressed you on the 6th. ~ "There was rain yesterday and the day be- fore, and in the course of last.night there was a considerable fall of snow, which remains on the ground; but it does not freeze, and the country is again saturated with wet. "Large convoys of apparently sick men were observed to be moving out of the place, and-.numerous carts, with one horse, to. be coming in. hulks in the Arsenal Creek, and to be using the material for platforms and cheveaur de frise at the battery "du Mat." 'We are proceeding with the armament of the works on the right. , "The health of the troops continues to im- prove in some slight degree. 'They are amply supplied with warm clothing, and with pro- visions. --* " Forage is our only want, and this arises chiefly from the Commissary-General not re- ceiving from England the supplies of hay upon which he has relied. "T enclose the return of casualties to the 8th instant. "1 have, &c., " RAGLAN. "His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &e., &c." The casualties from Feb. 5 to Feb. 8, in- clusive, are 4.rank and file wounded. 'Telegraphic Despnritches. ConsTANTINOPLE, Feb. 15.--The enrol- ment of Turks in a British auxiliary corps has commenced by authority of Lord Redcliffe. A number of steam-ships have been appointed to cruise in the Sea of Azoff. The French troops that were at Constantinople have been ordered to the Crimea. The two-mortar bat- tery destined to play on the fort of Sebastopol will be ready before the end of this month. Paris, Sunday.--The Constitutionnel an- nounces that 5,600 infantry and 800 cavalry will leave probably at the beginning of March. The utmost enthusiasm reigns in the corps. The affair of the mine, mentioned in a Rus- sian despatch, is explained by advices from Constantinople of the 15th, A Russian coun- ter mine was driven into a French mine on ibe nied of the 4th. Only two French were illed. The Journal de St. Petersburg contains a circular despatch, dated Feb. 17, severely con- demning the conduct of Sardinia in joining the Allies; inasmuch as Russia had done nothing to provoke war. Sardinian subjects and Sardinian ships are at liberty to leave Russia, and their property, it is promised, shall be respected. The exequaturs or Sar- dinian conaul are withdrawn; and the agent of Russia at Genoa and Nice are ordered to discontinue their relations with the Govern- ment. = _. Advices from the. Crimea, dated the 14th inst., brought to Malta by the 4rabia in sixty- three hours from "Constantinople, announces that some thousand Ruszians who accompani- ed the Grand Duke Michael to Sebastopol had been frozen to death. : Letters from Balaklava state that in the night of the 7th the Russians, who had re- turned to the number of about 20,000, and taken up permanent quarters tothe east of the plain of Balaklava, threw _up a breastwork a little in advance and to the north of Kamars. Upon a nearer examination, one end of the breastwork was found to be slready defended with two long and heavy guns, bearing-upon the right of our position. Theirobject appears to be to form an entrenched camp in our rear, and to defend it by formidable artillery. They might thus issue forth at any time, harass our men by constant a@lertes, or convert a success- ful demonstration into a vigorous attack, should an error on the part of our generals give them the opportunity. It is daid that a movement would probably be made to drive them from this position. Prince Menschikoff, writing on thé 12th, says:--On the 2nd, Adjutant Uffeth partly desiroyed a French subterranean gallery, On the 6th the French made an ineffectual at- tempt to destroy our countermines. On the 8th we exploded another mine and destroyed the enemy's works, our artillery meanwhile played, and the enemy answered vigorously. Our volunteers frequently make night sorties; disturb the eaemy in their trenches, and com- pel them to leave off working." The Vienna Presse publishes the following, dated Constantinople, Feb. 14:--"It is re- ported that Lord Raglan has tendered his rea- ignation. On the 12th General Peliasser 'sent a message to Paris, stating that no suc- cessful attempt could be made on Sebastopol for a month to come. The large barracks of Smyrna are being cleared out and prepared for the reception of our own troops, expected shortly from India by way of Suez and Alexandria; and two schemes are under consideration for the estab- lishment of hospitals, also for our own men, at Mitylene and Rhodes, than either of which no. natural situation could be finer for such a purpose. The accidental death of Major C.C. Young, returned from the Crimea, and on his way to join his wife and family at the Isle of Wight, 'is reported as having occurred, by falling from the window of his bed room at the Fountain 'Hotel in Portsmouth. Feeling unwell in the night, he rose, dressed himself, and opening | the window, which was four stories high, he called a policeman to inquire whether he could | get overto the Isle. It.is supposed that ver- tigo caused him to loose his balance. Strength of the Allied Army and Con- dition of the Troops. _ The numerical strength of the allied army has been reinforced toa considerable extent, and notwithstanding the heavy loss sustained by disease, an array of not less than 90,000 bayonets is encamped at this moment before Sebastopol. The sufferings of both the British and French have considerably de- clined, and convalescents are commencing to pour in from Scutaria and Constantinople. Doubtless we have been reduced by hard- ships and want to a sad extremity, but, with the clemency of the weather, thousands of brave soldiers, at present stretched on the bed of sickness at. Balaklava and Scutari, will be enabled to rejoin their colors: Great as have been the sufferings of our brave army, they must have been surpassed by those endured by the enemy; and when reflections are cast upon the weak condition' of the allies, it must be submitted that the | Russian soldiers in the Crimea are languish- ing from the same effects. We believe that the commissariat and medical departments in the Russian service have not experienced Sebew | ussians, with a large number | above 100,000 spiders Poi is any considerable improvement since the last ar-with Turkey, when in two campaigns, ness and famine 'The enemy appear to be breaking. up | PROVINCIAL FREEMAN AND WEEKLY ADVERTIS | oe Kossuth's Opinions on the War. | The New York Times of Thursday con- tains another letter from the great Hunga- rian, from which we make the following ex- tracts :-- And do you know why Bonaparte went to the Orient? Why, there you have it in the dispatch of the French foreign minister, (Dronyn de L'huys) to his representative at London, (Count Walewski) October 4, 1853 :--" We go to the east in order to make the Sultan abstain from appealing either to religious feelings or to fatal auxi- iaries." The religious feeling means " the patriotic valor of the Turkish nation;" and by. the "fatal auxliliaries," are meant the historically national allies of Turkey--the Hungarian, Polish and Italian nationalities, and as their particular representatives, your undersigned obedient servant, and Joseph Mazzini, : ee Revolution was the mother of the Bona- parte family. Both the uncle and the nephew have murdered her; and the blood-stained crimson couch of the assassin is haunted by the spectre of the murdered mother. The complications in the Orient were about to resuscitate some solitary offsprings of mur- dered revolution. Rather anything, cried Bonaparte, aghast; and he went to the east to prevent the Sultan's appealing to the " fatal auxiliaries." That is the key of the position that explains everything. © * + ee _ And worse will yet come. Of two things one, either Bonaparte, with England in his wake, does not succeed in his policy of alli- ances, so as to make them dangerous to the czar, or he does succeed. If he does not succeed, then he falls by the czar; England has no army more, and England and Bona- parte are not able without allies to cope with the czar offensively ; that is already a matter of fact; whereas, if he succeeds in his policy of alliances, so as to cause serious appre- hensions to Russia, and_he falls by what he desired to avoid. * * * 2 Men of America, be prepared for great events! And if you desire to have a fu- ture, be prepared to reserve it, or else you, likewise, will be swept away by the inexor- able logic of events. I will conclude by giving you some signs indicative of the shadows of coming events. The French army in the Crimea is trem- ling on the brink of a military revolt. The war is not popular in France. Pal- merston, at his late visit to Paris, was so much stricken at this fact that he advised the Emperor to resort to some " constitu- tional concessions;" but he fears to paint the evil one on the wall--he might step down, of course. The unpopularity is such that not one volunteer recruit Is to be had in warlike France, either for love or money. The "conscripts" betake themselves to their heels by hundreds. Their families are made responsible, and can get no substitute under 6000 francs (about $1,200.) At Paris, between the " garde" and the "ine," a dozen duels day by day. Difference and division in the head-quar- ters of Bonapartism, and in the very midst of the family. Fould and Morny are for peace at any price. The emporer is for war, but only as "a simple diversion a 1' esprié public," and therefore, a war restrict- ed to the Crimea, and to the Pruth at the utmost, just as Louis Phillippe desired to make the war in Algeria. Certain mem- bers of the " family" tell him that. this is as much as to lose the only real 'army he has, and to expose France to a coalition, without having any force to oppose but raw recruits, badly led, because it is a fact that he has no generals (the Cavaignaes, Changarniers, Lamoricieres, Bedeaus, Leffos, Charrases, remaining irreconcilable.) The Emperor asks-- Well, what is to be done?" Some of the family answer-- Recall the arm from the Crimea; leave the English to do in the east as they can, and a ' Polish cam- paign' with the whole of the resources we have left," Upon this the Emperor gets into a fit, and shouts--* So you advise revo- lution ? d n you, rather than Nicholas." And he sends for the lawyer, Bentmont, and orders him to draw up a memorial show- ing that Morny, after being Morny for forty-six years, is his own legitimate brother, a full blood Bonaparte, the next heir to the throne, upon the principle of the Roman law, Pater est quem mytie demen- strant.--Very likely you will have soon some Bonapartes in America again, probably without passports, if the people will let them go. THE HUNGARIAN, BY AUGUSTE DE GERANDO. The dignity of the Hungarian is that of the Oriental. He is grave like the Turk. This dignity suits perfectly the physiognomy of the Hungarians, which announces their Asiatic origin. 'Tall and muscular, they have the purely Oriental tpye: the aquiline nose, the black mustache, the full face, and the open forehead. 'Their step is at the same time grave and firm, and their gestures, by reason of this very gravity, never want nobleness. The Hungarian proverb says the Magyar is born a horseman. Never was proverb more true, The people of this country be- lieve a man is not a man if he be not a horse- man. At four years old the child is placed on a horse. He grasps the mane of the animal with his little hands, and as soon as he feels himself well seated, he does not hesitate to excite him with his voice. he can gallop without falling, his father says aman." At these words thechild feels him- self'a foot taller. He grows up with the idea that he is aman anda Hungarian--two titles which impose obligations. A man, he is called to the honor of being a horseman and of bearing arms ; a Hungarian, he must remember that-he is superior to all, and that he must do nothing derogatory. The sen- timent of pride which animated his ancestors subsists as the other results of the conquest. He has therefore the consciousness of his value and dignity. 'To be convinced of it, you have only to hear his language. The word " honor"--* besculet"--recurs con- stantly. All that he does is " besculetes," ----" worthy of a man of honor." When he has carried you ata gallop for a whole stage, do not think he will demand his fee. He '*| detaches his horse, uncovers his head polite- ly, and, addressing you in his figurative lan- s you a good journey. © You will im back to give him the money. owever little you may suatrate. That deta tat'dane On the day that | to him gravely, " Ember vagy"--* Thou art | into the ideas of honor of the Magyar to be either eager for gain like the German, or indolent like the Wallach. He works hon- orably like a man who-has a family to support. He brings to the village the grain of which his wife will make his bread, the hemp of which she will spin his garments. In the evening, when he has well employed his day, he smokes before his door, caressing his moustache. If he is master in his house, he does not the less treat with kindness those whom he calls his people. He is gentle, like all the strong. He'neverill-treats his wife, never subjects her torude labor. She knows that she has in a him a support, a protector, and she receives from him the most tender names: rozsam, my rose; csillagom, my star; gyongyom, my pearl. The Magyar | language, full of metaphors, like all the Asiatic languages, contain a great many expressions of this kind. It contains, besides, a great number of polite forms, that are ad- dressed to neighbors, to friends, to guests. , If youstopin a village you will see one of the inhabitants, the one before whose door you may have stationed yourself, aa- vance toward you, take.off his hat, and offer you hospitality. When you quit him he will address you his thanks ina discourse which he will call down upon you the bene- diction of Heaven. All this with a wonder- ful ease, and that dignity which only belongs to the Orientals. -- ee . _ The men of this privileged race have a natural nobility which puts them ona level with the stranger who addresses them, who- ever he may be. They have a reserve of language which surprises us in men without cultivation; a coarse peasantry would never come into their mind. Nature has endowed them with an easy eloquence, which gives force and vivacity to the expression of their sentiments. Whether they express Joy: or give vent to anger, the:words flow sonorously from their lips. 'To welcome a guest or to curse an enemy, they find an abundance of smiles and epithets--the most polite phrases, the most.energetic terms. It is true their language aids them marvelously. Poetic and melodious, it is not the less capable of expressing the most manly sentiments. Cer- tain terminations which mark the plural give it sometimes a character of harshness, while, from the abundance of vowels, it is usually very soft. According to what he wishes to express, the Hungarian can, by laying stress on one or another syllable, employ at willa harsh or a harmonious language. I have more than once noticed the eleva- tion of ideas and sentiments in these men whom their nature alone aspires. The Hungarian peasant is usually sober of words; he never becomes familiar; but he is frank -and loyal, and. if -he. recognises a friend in you, he will open his heart to you with sin- eerity. You will then be struck with the ex- pressions which will escape him, with the sentiments that he will utter without an idea that he is strongly captivating your at- tention, and it will be easy for you, in your turn, to excite in him lively emotions. It is that there are, in the heart of this nation, noble chords, which vibrate to the first con- tact of an elevated sentiment, a generous idea. PROVINCIAL FREEMAN, ' 5 PAPAPAAARAAAAA ABABA PA AAIAAPAAADAAAAAAAAADARIAAA SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1855. PARRA ARO AAAIAAABRAN AAAS . Travelling Agents, Rev. Elijah Burket, Michigan. William Douglass. Local Agents. The following gentlemen are requested to act as Local Agents : CANADA WEST. Brampton--Jesse Burke. St. Catharines--Rev. Hiram Wilson. Do. J. W. Taylor. Paris--Thomas Keith. ' Hamilton--Georgé Miller. Do. Josiah, Cochrane. Vienna--Moses Thempson. Dundas--Robert Brown. Lefroy--Z. H. Martin. London--A. B. Jones. Do. William Hamilton. Chatham--Rev. H. J. Young. Do. John Lott. Do. Cornelius Charity. Windsor--Thomas Jones. - Do, Coleman Freemen. Brockville--C. H. Coles. Amhersiburgh--Levi Foster. Do John Hatfield. Niagara Falls--Mrs. L. Patterson. Dresden--George Carey. ; Buzton--T. W. Stringer. De. George Shreve. UNITED STATES. Logansport, Indiana--Mrs. C. M. Barnett. Do. do. George W. Parker. Detroit, Mick.--George De Baptist. Do. .. dow James Haley. 'Harrisburg, Pa.--Thomas W. Brown, Pittsburg, ss Wm. Webb. West Chester," John M. Brows, Philadelphia, " ~ William Still. Buffalo, N. Y¥.--Moses Burton. Brooklyn, * J.N. Still. Princeton, Ia.--John O. Butler. Cincinnati, Ohio--A, R. Green. Do, s John I. Gaines. Cleaveland, ' Printed for the Proprietors, at their Office, 5, City Buildings, King Street East. RAAPAAAPAPAPAABPAP BPA LPR BP°BPE°PP PD Mr. Isaac D. Suanp, ts authorized to receive Subscriptions for this paper, and lo give Receipts for the same. 5 Dr. Jesse Borxn is authorized to receive Subscriptions for this paper,and to give Receipts for the same. = - ~ ? - af ial (7 The space clieerfully given to our Anti-Emigration friends, this week, has ex- cluded remarks bearing upon their commu- nications and other matters, which shall be attended to next week. Caution 32! From information received from reliable sources, we learn that parties are at present in Toronto, endeavouring to induce colored persons to goto the States in their employ as servants. From the character of the propositions, there is reason to believe that "foul play" is intended. Possibly, that Constable Pope's designs on the fugitives and others are being carried out. Individuals have proposed to women to go to Detroit tolive in their service, and an- other party under cireumstances of. great suspicion, to a boy, to go as far South as Philadelphia. We say to our people, listen to no flattering proposals of the sort, You are in Canada, and let_no misplaced confi- dence in this or the other smooth-tongued | be mercenary enough. to ensnare you into | bondage by 'collusion with kidnappers in the. - States. deorive You of your liberty, ° | granted the warrant, and the successful ap- R. H. Johnson. j Yankee, or British subject either, who may | ER. Many free colored persons--men, women, and children, are annually sold into hopeless slavery from having been kidnapped, or by arrangement, made with the victims them- selves to enter service at a distance from their homes, From travellers South, we hear of kidnapped children from Philadel- phia and other cities in the slave pens of Baltimore and other slave-trading towns. Read the captivity of Solomon Northrup, a free man, who entered into just such an ar- now asked to do, and who has to lament 12 years of captivity, from which his release was more improbable than its continuance; and all the result of listening to fair offers of excellent pay and easy position from rogues. This everlasting going whining after the flesh pots--this going to the States during the summer to pick up the crumbs that fall from Yankee tables, though in a pecuniary point profitable for the time being, possibly, is on the whole most humiliating, if not. as we believe it to be, direct encouragement to those prowlers about of the Pope class to prosecute their nefarious business. Think of it, men and women, who eschew a re- spectable life, of toil though it be, under this free government, to gain dollars in the United States at the expense of your and your children's liberties, by encouraging them to enter into a like course of pursuits, and so risk their freedom. Is there not enough of the love of liberty, and of manly dignity, to grapple with whatever difficulties. may present themselves here, though toil and care attend your efforts, without for--- ever running such risks for the small return of a few extra dollars ? : We hope that this subject may receive the attention its importance demands, and that the people may be warned by preach- ers and the press of the dangers surrounding them. A correspondert of the Antz-Slavery Standard, writing from Philadelphia, gives the following account of the return of a fugitive, &c. We had a slave here the other day, in which our Mayor acted very creditably. A woman eloped from New Orleans with a free white man (an Irishman, to the credit of his country, be it said,) who took a deep inter- est in her welfare, and who was willing to peril his life for her sake. They took pas- sage in a vessel bound for Philadelphia. The flight of the couple was discovered, and re- quisitions were sent on from the Executive of Lousiana, one of which was directed to the Police Department of Philadelphia. De- scriptions were given, at the same time, of the party and the manner of their escape ; and, with these descriptions and this authori- ty, one or more (I do not know how many) of our Philadelphia policemen boarded the vessel, and arrested the man and the woman, putting the latterin the prison at Newcastle, as a fugitive slave, and bringing the former to Philadelphia, and incarcerating him here, on the charge of being a fugitive from justice. As soon as the facts were known, Passmore. Williams, the vigilant and_ indefatigable Secretary of the old Abolition Society, wrote to a friend of the Governor, at Harrisburg, to use his influence to prevent the granting of a warrant on the Lousiana Governor's requisition ; being well assured that the charge of crime was only a slaveholders ruse to get possession of and punish one who had inter- fered in an obnoxious way with their institu- tion. Mr. William's letter had come too late. Governor Pollock, not suspecting the trick (he will be wiser the next time) had plicant had returned to Philadelphia to exe- cute it. But " all's not lost that is in dan- er." The next morning, the papers con- tained the following note, which will explain itself : Mayor's Orrick, Phil., March 6th, 1855. Mr. Sam' Jonnson--Dear Sir: With the kindest feelings for you personally, and with great respect for your character as an officer, it is proper that I should inform you that if you act as the agent of Lousiana to return Warwick, charged with encouraging the es- cape of a fugitive slave from that State, I will consider it my duty to discharge you immedi- ately from the police service of this city. Yours respectfully, R. T..Conarp, Mayor. This, of course, blocked the whole game. The next day, David Paul Brown and some one else had the man brought out on habeas corpus, and, no one appearing against him, he was discharged from custody. The woman, poor soul, did not fare so well. A letter before me from Thomas Garrett, who was written to by Mr. Williamson on the subject, says: _----Tmmediately on hearing the case, I took a lawyer and went over to Neweastle, but she was gone. They had had her before the Commissioner, early in the morning, who granted a certificate, and she was put on board a vessel bound from Philadelphia for New Orleans, soon after sunrise. Iam serry I could do nothing to aid the woman." This was bad ; but there is some comfort in having a Mayor who will talk to his offi- cers in the style of the above note. I hope this will be the last case in which our Police department will be disgraced by its officers turning slave-catchers, either within or with- out the bounds of their jurisdiction. We had hoped to have Theodore Parker to lecture for us, in the course of this month, but the postponement of his trial before the Boston Court till April makes it doubtful whether we shall have the pleasure of hearing him here before May. He is expected in another part of the state during that month, and, if he should come, he will probably kill two birds with one stone, by taking that oc- casion to speak for us in Philadelphia, as he passes through. : Yours ever truly. M. The Mayor of Kingston Unseated. In the Court of Common Pleas held at Kingston, Judge McKenzie decided last Thursday, that the officiating Mayor of Kingston was illegally in possession of that' holder in the amount of £140 12s. 6d: in' the City of Kingston Gas Light Company, We believe this decision will a rangement as colored citizens of Toronto are | | Toronto, March 22,1855. - | supported or not. dignity, on the ground of his being a stock-| which Company supplies the City with gas, |'" " st other | Correspondence. To. the Editor of-the Provincial Freeman : , Dear Mapam,--As the Second Volume of the Provincial Freeman has made its ap- pearance in an improved condition, some of its friends and patrons have concluded to call a Public Meeting, next Wednesday night, the 28th instant, in the 2nd Wesleyan Chapel, Richmond Street, to which the public are respectfully invited, in order that its frieads may have an opportunity to ex- plain its conduct through the past year, as some of itslast year's subscribers seem dis- satisfied with its course. By order of a number of citizens. THomas SMALLWOOD. Be : For the Provincial Freeman. Miss M. A. Suapp : Dear Mapam,--Since it is now obvious that your efforts in Editing and Publishing a Newspaper have been successful--at any rate your pledge that it should continue for one year has been fully redeemed--I trust it may not be amiss, therefore, to congratu- | late you on entering upon your second volume. That you have had formidable difficulties to contend with, in relation to your enterprise, none will doubt who have the least idea of how much labour, activity, and ability that is required to fill the post of Editor, Publisher, and Financier, all at the same time. These responsibilities have, doubtless, kept your hands full of labour ;and your mind filled with cares and anxi- ety. How you have thus long and well succeeded, to me is a matter of wonder. As I glance over the wrecks which have marked the career of not a few of the " sterner sex," who have at different times attempted to establish Presses for the advo- cacy of the rights of the oppressed, facts '| stares 'me in the face on every hand, that in almost every instance those enterprises have hopelessly failed ere they had existed twelve months--indeed most of them before: six months. In consequence of the failures alluded to, which are fresh in the minds of all who have observed the movements of our cause, especially our public men, doubt- less your enterprise has suffered materially. Many, when solicited to subscribe to your paper, have readily found excuses for refus- ing, on the ground that they had subscribed to *s paper, which soon died of bad management ; next subscribed to a similar one, started by " C." which only survived a few weeks; again, had subscribed to dis- honest or careless agents, who had kept the money--hence nio paper came at all. Thus many have turned the cold shoulder, or have resolved not to subscribe until they should be convinced that the paper would live, through. evil as well as good report, for at least one year. Others have stood alvof, as they always have done, bound never to risk a dollar with any body, for the cause of humanity, however clear the evidence might be that demanded help at their hands; and that great gocd would result from their timely co-operation. Another class, how- ever, have willingly, or by entreaty, sub- scribed, trusting that a sufficient degree of interest would be felt, on the part of those seeking the elevation of the colored man to make the effort potent and permanent. To do this, comparatively, but very little in the way of material aid is required, taking' into | account the many who are able to pay, for a paper, and whose duty it is to aid in this department of the Anti-Slavery cause. But small as is the amount required, and as few as are. the individuals who could easily meet' the demands, nevertheless, it is a fact not to be denied or concealed, that, as a general thing, the masses of our people are quite indifferent as to whether their Presses are With regard to. the regularity of the «© Provincial Freeman," its visits have been punctual, at least to your subscribers in this City; and as the first volume is now com- pleted, those who commenced with its befin- ning have already received what they bar- gained for, It is to be hoped, therefore, that all will feel encouraged, and will renew | their subscriptions immediately. The inte- rest in the minds of thousands, in the States, in relation to Canada, for various reasons, increases daily. _ How important and indispensably neces- sary it is, therefore, that a direct medium of information should be kept up--such as the Provincial Freeman designs to do. Here allow me to remark, I do hope, in the future, that you may be delivered from a certain class of " Agents," from whom you have received names, but no money ; seid Agents having appropriated it to their own use. What an extraordinary lover of freedom he must be who can lend himself to the base trick of swindling the Publisher of an Anti- Slavery Paper! Nevertheless, according to statements which I have repeatedly seen in the Freeman, and from my own knowledge, you have been considerably imposed upon inthis way. ~~ = In conclusion, as you have given so muc evidence of devotion and faithfulness to the interest of the enslaved, by your unceasing efforts to establish and maintain a Press, especially to promote their welfare, allow me to say, as a friend and individual, I feel the most ardent desire. that your labours may- yet be crowned with the most triumphant 'success. And T shall always take pleasure oes ane | the colored man, and induces the social i Mo b For the Provincial Freeman, ; A few Thoughts for the Considerat:, _ of Emigrationists, I take it for granted that the obj the ' Emigrationists," is the elevation portion of the African race, or their de dants, to be found in the United gt, North and South, bond and free. On'se ing a remedy for any evil, the best plan is to find first the cause, and the cessation of the cause is frequently the best remedy. ; The evil to be remedied, is 'that prejudice which exists in the American 'mind -again e political proscription, under which we suffer, Let us first seek the cause. mi One cause as. _| signed by. a recent writer in the. Provincial caer srt ee of our people. I will not stop here, to argue the truthfulness. of | that--posit; but apply it to the dogma iends the. " Einjordtion oe? Se) sa fe - x gee ; " Lee Color Ig the cause of prejudice; then wherever we go that prejudice will arise; for wherever we go we carry our color with us. Let it be France, England, or Canada, wherever 'the prevalent complexion is different from ours, and we may expect prejudice. Persons » holding that opinion to be logical, should ad. vocate emigration to Africa, where the color would be a recommendation instead of a Cis- advantage. They should advocate emigra- tion to Africa or amalgamation. e Another class there is, who assign as the cause of prejudice, the " Condition" of our people. To this idea I myself incline. Ido not mean by the word " Condition," to em- brace the idea of our social and political proscription, or the slavery in which a por. tion of us are held; but that Ignorance and Poverty, and their consequent degradation, which to a lamentable degree, characterises our people wherever found. I will not-here assign a reason for this ignorance and degra- nation; whether the recent savageism of nr progenitors, or the cruel captivity we have suffered ; but as in the former case, apply this cause to the positions of the " Emigrationists." Condition then we assume is the cause of prejudice. Any considerable number of our people moving, or an-en masse emigration, would carry with them their condition, and wherever they settle, whether in England, France or Canada, or any country where the resident population is superior to us im the elements of wealth, and intelligence, prejudice will at once arise. Is not this true of Ca- nada? does not social proscription increase in the same proportion as the colored popt- _ lation? I know you will say that none but run-away Yankees manifest this prejudice; but I have been' creditably informed, that white laborers in the vicinity of Dresden, have refused to eat at the same table with colored laborers. Here, we -find prejudice ony among the laborers, and yet the Yankees in - Canada, are not generally found among the laboring classes. -- Re 3 I do not deny that one family of wealth and intelligence, or perhaps a hundred such families, might settle in spots of the earth comparatively free from proscription ; but we are considering an en masse emigration, and our people are deficient in wealth and intelli- gence. But says the caviller, in the Cana- das, where all are equal before the law, the chances for obtaining wealth and education, are better than in the United States, where the laws are proscriptive. Softly, sir; the laws are but a portion of the effects of pre- judice, it is social proscription that bars the path to wealth and intelligence, in the Unit- ed States; as witness Massachusetts and other States, where the laws make but: little distinction, yet social proscription retards our progress, almost as effectually as the laws of South Carolina. 'Now let this prejudice but arise in Canada, as it must, should we : ' | emigrate ¢n masse, carrying with us our con- dition, and although the Jaws may remain liberal, social proscription will bear as heavily upon us there as here. Some, I know, only de- sire the emigration of those who possess some wealth and intelligence; but that is not emi- gration en masse. Again it is claimed, that in a country where the laws bear equally on all, we would combine more readily in action for our enslaved brethren. To this I demur, if we do not unite now, when almost forced 'to by the pressure of prejudice, we will not when that pressure is removed, and we are left to be swayed by the motives that usually shape political action. We would array our . selves as Liberals or Conservatives, the same as our white fellow citizens. . As we find i the United States colored men silly enough to vote K.N. tickets. fo Tf it is proposed to elevate the greatmass of our people, and prepare them by the prac tice of economy, and the diffusion of know ledge, to emigrate, you are taking just the steps for preparing them to remain. exertion and training that would fit them to emigrate would fit them to remain. If we emigrate as we are, the task of elevating ourselves would not be lessened, by a simple change of locality. ASA, The true remedies for our ills area? Uy share of the wealth of the country, intel gence aNd UNION so _ Before closing, I must notice a statement of your correspondent, S. A. Lowery, "= does Mr. J. I. Gaines great injustice. The challenge which Mr, Gaines gav® was to bring under discussion the Clevel se platform--the. project of going to South Central America, where new "governmen are established every new moon--the 1 sense about establishing a national! ins countries already in the possession of nat : --the platform that. speaks of Cz a consulting oe) \ ' nterprise. gees sy in your yOu: sitting "members of the Kingston' City. Council, (Si Gas ts "Sigma corsa: Yd Se aii SL Sse f b Hista <i Vetwss Ippecciuaccvma | ae Pe ae ee eee RE SE atte Via, 13th March, 185500 ae = Ree seecis met in a mee calle z 1 m4 him, with propositions ne denied in 3 challenge, he. of enue dutliped "Geet 2s ae see 'ok Cincinnatt,