"SELF-RELIANCE IS THE TRUE ROAD TO ial INDEPENDENCE," TERMS: CHATHAM, CANADA WEST, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1857. ve DOLLAR AND A HALF, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. ,NUMBER 34. MAN tiser. Editors, voted to Anti- and General s to the views ns, reserving al, of 0 |.ex- sets. affecting Pserving, also, mination o, all in a great oF he principles British rule in any religious observe the e that a reser- 1 existing dif- S or actions ol vehicle of in- san enemy tt le form, anda made worth whether for be adiressed, see Vs. ORNING, PER, e Aarket, HALF, NCK. NG. 10 re line - 4 Hie = = 0 24 adVerlisuments t Fontracting for Hus terns, ht instruction as rd "until forbid, FICH, he Adarket, RS HEMAN Public, that their tisites for the tion of LN aie Ey CIRCULARS, LABELS, BAMBOAT BILLS, ERT BLLLS, LAW BLANKS, ANK CHKCQUES, TiSSORY NOTES, LALS, RESS PRINTING Biyle, with eh, b BRONZES. £7} WSPAPERS xpress notice te wishing l@ con- Kcontinuance Oi sontinue to senc e to take their ey are directed, a a] GEORGE KERR, HARDWARS MERCHANT, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TEALER IN Heavy and Shelf Hardware, CUTLERY, 6§c., &c., Pratt's Biock, Chatham, Cs w. November 22, 1855. ANDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, No, 32, Yonex Srruer, Toronro. References--Thomas Clarkson, Exq., President of the Board of Trade; John Robertson, Esquire, Messrs. A. Ogilvie & Co.; Messrs. Howard & Pitch; Messrs. D. Crawford & Co. 30-ly CHARLES FLETCHER, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, No, 54, YONGE STREET, TORONTO. British and American Works imported and for sale at the smallest possible advance upon the wholesale prices. CHARLES MARCH, House, Sign, and Ornamental Painter, Grainer, Glazier, and Paper Hanger, CARVER, GILDER AND GLASS STAINER., No. 29, King Srreer West, Mixed Paints, Putty, Enamelled ane Plain Win- dow Glass andLooking Glass, for Saie, at the lowest Casi prices. Toronto, l0th April 1854. PUNCTUALL: VY! Ro BR OWN, (LATE OF PHILADMLPHIA,) Mashionable Boot and Shoe Maker, No, 63, KING STREET WEST. All work warranted to be done in a sttperior style TY ee J, Repairing done with neatness und despatch. Ver Feet measured on anetomical principles. £23 Voroute, March 8th, 1854. 2 D. FARRAR & Co. IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Grocers, Wines, Lajuors, §c., Ne. 15, DUNDAS SUREET, LONDON, C. W. Maussrs. Rk. P. & ADAM CROOKS, Barristers-al-Law, ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS, WELLINGTON STREET, TORONTO. Ay B. JONES, : DRALER IN Groceries and Crockery Vare, No. 314, DUNDAS STKEET, LONDON, CG. W., CAYLEY & CAMERON, £2 pasa pet py: ays aye barresters, ¥c , ¥c., Office--CHURCH STRBET, Next door to the Court Mouse TORONTO, WILLIAM CAYLEY, MATTILEW CROOKS CAMERON. VANKOUGHNE?T & BROTHER, Barristers, Attorneys, §c., Ofice--CHURCH STREET, Over "The City Bank" Agency, two dvor-South of St. Audrew's Chureh, TURONTO. MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Stereotypers, Printerg, and Winders, PUBLISHERS & BOOKSELLERS, No. 5, PARK ROW, Opposite Astor House, New York, And 107, Gemesee Street, Auburn, N. ¥ C.n. MILLER.--WM. ORTON,--E. MULLIGAN. - Mistel PA ADMNUY dSverttsements. NINE PIANO RAD IIA NORTH STAR SALOON. No. 40, Jefferson Avenue. M*® JOHN WILLIAMS has just fitted up his splendid DINING SALOON, where all kinds of Choice EKatables can be had at any hour. Superior drinks always on hand. Friends give a call and full satis- faction will be given. JOHN WILLIAMS. Detroit, Jan. 10th, 1857. v3-n21-ly Need ADAMS HOUSE Z A UU La. 1" NOW OPEN at No. 88 Jefferson Avenue, for the accommodation of Col- ored Visitors to this City. C..W. ELLIS & ADAMS will do all in their power to make Boarders comforta- ble, and give general satisfaction. Coe als Detroit, Jan, 10th, 1857. v3n21-ly NOTICE, HE Members of JONES' SAX HORN i BAND, are prepared to play for CON- CERTS, BALLS, CELEBRATIONS, FAIRS, &c., on reasonable terms. For information apply to. EF. ijs JONES, Leader: Chatham, Dee. 26th. 1856, v3-n19 Joetroy. GIVE ME 'THE PEOPLE. BY CHARLES SWAIN, Some love the glow of outward show: Some love mere wealth, and try to win it; The house to me may lowly be, If f but like the people in it. What's allthe gold that etitters cold, When link'ed to hard or haughty feeling? W hate'er we 're told, the nobles gold, Is truth of heart and inanly dealing! Then let them seek, whose minds are weak, Mere fashion's smile, and try to win it; The bouse to me may lowly be, If but like the people in it! A lowly roof may give us proof, That lowlv flowers are often fairest; And trees, whose bark is hard and dark, May yield us fruit, and bloom the rarest! There's worth as sure 'neath garments poor, Ase'er adorned a loftier station; And minds as jus: as thosh, we trust, W hose claim is but of wealth's creation! Then let them seek, whose minds are weak, Mere fashion's smile, and try to win it; The house to me may lowly be, If I but like the people in it! ANDREW CURRIE, DEALER IN Let AY VS TE OY 2 1S EE IRON, NAILS, TIN- WARE, CARPENTERS TOOLS, BLACKSULUIS BELLOWS Anvils, Paints, Olis, Turpentine and Colors. NEXT DOOR TO D. R. VAN ALLENS, KING STREET, CHATHAM, C. W, Chatham, June J3th, 1856. MES. S.. WILKINS, BOARDING LiOUSs 3, No. 168, PINE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. November 1855. IN THE LDINGS, STREET, RETF core §> Rolph, la ald inform: his rs and Friends, ImmeSssy v Stock of UE R LES! rs, and hopes to lig at large, a TATRONAGE. )» Sell as Low as B. JONES. 36 SHOP, BT REET, tter's Saw Mull. E, such as BED- CUPBOARDS, had on the most H. RAMSEY. 1356. 40-Ly ba 5 a 1 eat THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING. In commenting upon the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case, we referred to the rule of our Southern masters, one never varted fiom, to test always the obedience of the North, either when she really complains that her burden was greater than she could bear, or when the load laid upon her patient shoulders is so heavy that she might be expected to complain. In other and homelier words, the South always proves her pudding according to the proverb. It may be a very good pudaing, according to the proverb. It may bea very good pub- ding, fair to look upon, round as a ball, un- broken asa globe, smooth as glass, and and smoking hot--but the proot, after all is in the eating thereof; the good maker is not deceived py the outside; a fair seeming does not satisfy ber; she must plunge into its depths for the evidence she needs; she eats the pudding, and thus proves if. Do not accuse us of treating a serious matter lightly. Proverbs are epitomes of the dom of ages, and sume times one of "WIS- these ithy septences illustrates more completely | f than columns can do the wisdom of an ac- tion which is universally in accordance wi'h | ites The Dred Seott case is decided; the Su- preme Court makes the law of the land, so far-as they eould, in a decision of this case, the monstrous douctrine which Judye Kave was the first to promulgate, and profess to be governed by. intheseat ofa Judge. Weat the North, bave had our say about it; the Tridunes have blustered; the Jowrnals have sneered; the Couriers have solemnly argued; one class has thundered in indignant words; another has protested in meek humility; a third has given apprehensive warning of trouble to come; all are moved. It is des irable to know, say the overseers, just what these 'niggers' mean; are they moved even to the point of seizing the whip which is laid on their backs? Let us see. We bey the intelligent reader to consider for five minutes the character of the decison of the Suprme Court; how it ignores all bis- tory; bow it sets all Jaw at definance; how it | last week, in search of two fugitives. outrages common sense; how it scorns human pretences; how it tramples upon the plainest principles of the Chistian religion; how 1t laughs at liberty; how it scoffs at democracy; and how it scouts all Northern pretension to fredom of thought, or freedom of act, or free- dom of conscience. And consider then that the March in which all this was done has counted out but little more than half its thirty-one days ere, under the very eyes, and within the reach of the very hands of some hundreds of thousands of grown men, to whose faces all these things have been said, there appeared first in Boston a slave- hunter, in search of a man who had_ lived there for years, a respectable, a thrifty, an honourable man--the free citizen of a free State, who helped to make Governors and Mayors and other officials, more or less wor- thy--who paid taxes, and, probably, sup ported the preaching of the Gospel like any other well-to do and respectable citizen--a man like any other man who goes daily down State street, or on Sundays into the broad aisle of the Rev. Dr. Adams's Church--but who this slave hunter was to take, if he found him, back to the South to drag out his weary life hereafter as a mere chattel slave. Boston stands where it did eighty years ago, and the tide into which her people once threw a cargo of tea still rolls into her har- bour. Have they thrown a man into it this time? Not at all. In all probability the slave hunter has the best rooms in the Ievere House--it may be, like Daniel Web- ster, is entertained only for the honour done by his presence; perhaps he has dined with Judge Loring, and Edward Everett invited to maet him; perhaps asked to say grace over parson Adams's breakfast table, or to lead in prayer in any Bible Class or Sunday School where his hungry soul might lead him to seek a meal of spiritual cold victuals. And how is it with the man whom he seeks? The Vigilance Committee, as the bestthing they can do, and notwithstanding the Personal Liberty Law of Massachusetts burry bim off as fast as steam can carry him, to where British Law and Lord Palmerston's Govern- ment will give hima refuge. If the slave- hunter had got hold of him, he would have been taken back to Virginia as sure as there isa monument on Bunker's Hill. Nor is this all. A scoundrel of the same sort was prowling about this city nearly all 'The particular villain who is kuown, of all our policemen, for his past services in the per- petration of wickedness.of this sort, was seen luring the day--he knew too weil to go there in the evening--lurking about, in com- pany with a white fellow, in those streets where the colored people congregate. 'The pair were slave-hunting here in Mew York, one of them sent, at this particular moment, to test our obedience to the powers that be, and also show us the precise measure of our opposition to the decision of the Supreme Court. If the two poor wretches had been found, does any body think that New York would have raised her hand in anger, or bowed head in humiliation? Not at bit of it. The quantity of bough in this particular pudding, which the mistress has just proved, has as many ounces to the pound as ever--Anli- Slaveru Standard HISTORICAL WORDS. There are recorded in the history of man kind many words with whieh every body is acquainted, and in the genuineness of which everybody believes. Sometimes the whole signification of v great event lies, so to say, hidden inthem. They vive vent to a common aud public feeling, and thorefore they are accepted by high and low, with no more distrust than the fact to itself which they refer. Antiquity has transmitted to sucoeeding ages many words, both simple and sublime} worthy of the deeds of the heroes of the time, In this case inquiry is of no avail, and we must account all such sayings as truthful traditions. All we are able to do is to examine whether the words attributed to Alexander, Pericles, Cincinnatus, or Casar, are worthy of those great men: and if we find they could have said so, why they But happily or not for the time of the moderns, historical criticism is there Jess diffenlt; and it is realy curious io enquire whether. the words which are at- tributed to high persons, espec ally to crown- ed heads, were truly uttered by them. No history abounds more than that of France in historical sayings--2a mots, as the French say; and in no cther country doves a single word, when appropriate to the cir- cumstance, produce so much sensation,-- Yet it so happens that scarcely any of these mots are authentic; avd strange as it may seem, it is precisely those that are received without question that are most false. Who has not read, in the appalling his- tory of the execution of Lous XLYV., the beautiful sentence putin the mouth of the Abbe Edgeworth, when the uofortunaye mouarch was on the puint of receiving the deaaly blow of the guillotine: "Son of St Louis, ascend to Heaven," Have we not all on hearing these pious and exaited ts is ms did SaY SO. J words, been t uched te the heart; and did one of us ever doubt the accuracy of the record? The priest must have said so, is the common notion. Nor only did all the important historians of the French. Revolu- tion, M 'Vheirs ineluded, youch for the ac- curacy of that scene, but whether in the hut or in the palace, in the home of the re- publican or of the royalist, everybody takes the words of the Abbe Edgeworth for gtan- ted truth; and, nevertheless, worthy clergy- man declared publicly in writing, more than thirty years ago, that the words were a mere invention; he never uttered them on the scaffuld of the Place de Ja Revolution. And yet, in spite of that public declarat'on, the touching farewell is still repeated again and again. For critics, it is no more an historical saying, but the rest of the nation take it as such, and thereby give expression merely to their own feeling. 1t would be an easy task to demonstrate that the greater number of the words put inthe mouth of Napolean Bonaparte are nothing but popolar ficlion. But go to the farm and workshop, there the ery vf sentry --"And ifyou arethe Petit Corperal you shall not pass'--and other familiar discour- ses between the mighty emporer and_ his affectionate soldiers, are more readily be- heved than the address at the foot of the Pyramids or the adieu of Fontainbleau. There exist thick volumes of apocryphal Na- polean anecdotes; in this respect, he is infe- rior to none, not even to Frederiek the Great of Prusia. There is also a word commonly attributed to the celebrated General Kleber, who suc- ceeded Bonaparte in Egypt as comander-in- chief, and who is said, by nearly all histo- rians, to have flattered the future dictator by exclaming: "You are as great as the world." he truthis, that the simple and heroic Kleber never uttered these words, for he, like his colleagues, Dessaix and Alexan- der Dumas, foresaw and feared the ambitivus designs of the talented Corsican. Gen. Al- exander Dumas, the father of the illustrions memory, lately deceased, without any sub- jection claim, or demand whatsoever, And we hereby renounce, and convey to the said King of Scotland his heirs and succesors whatever right we, or our ancestors in time past have laid claim to in any way over the Kingdom of Scotland. And these same presents, we renounce and declare void for ourselves, and our heirs and successors, all obligations, agreements, or treaties what- soever, touching the subjeetion of the King- dom of Scotland and the inhabitants thereof entered into between our predecessors and any of the Kings thereof, and their subjects whether clergy or laity. Aind, if there shal anywhere be found any letters, charters, muniineuts, or public instraments, which shal? have been granted, touching the said obli- gatious, agreements, or compacts, we "de- clare that they shall be null and void, and of no effect whatsoever. And in order to the fulilment of these promisses, and faithful observation thereof, in all time coming, we have given full power and special authority to our faithful and well beloved cousin, H'y. DePercy and William le Zouche of Ashby, to take oath on our soul, for the per- formance of the same. In testimony wher- of, we have given these our letters patent at York, on the 1st of Marcel, and in the se- cond year of our reten; (sealed) By the King himself and lis Council in Parliament?" For two and-iwenty years, from 1206 till 1328, Bruce hervically fought for the inde- pendence of 'Scotland, Never was there gained so complete an acknowledement by an enemy, of the right of a nation, and of their own unlawful attempts at subjugation and dominion than ts contained in the above declaration. 'The war of Scottish indepen- dence in the end fo the thirteenth and begin- ning of the fourteenth centuries, was a les- son for all time, But, alas! we modern race of Scotsmen have to confess that English diplomacy has mightily curtatled Scottish independence; and that what Bruce so nobly won by the sword has been, bit by bit en- croached on by English Statecraft and Act of romance writer, always denied the state- ment; and it is certain that he, the gallant friend of Kleber, Dessaix, Augereau, and Brune, lived and died under the first empire greatly neglected. We.come now to an anecdote of a more pleasing character. Every history of the two Erench restorations of 1812 and 1815 relates that the Ducd' Artois afterwards King Charles X., in making his entree i .to Paris, pronouneed the wo.ads; 'Nothin is changed in France there is only one French- man more." Happy words in the mouth of a Prince returning from exile, and happy the Bourbons if they had alwavs kept these words in mind! But here, again, we must declare that this promising sentenee was nev er utered. The famous Talleyrand of eun- ring memory, had in the evening of that eventful day a rather select party assem- bled at his hotel, and asked the company, as a matter of course, "What did the prince say?" The general answer was "'No thing at all." « But exclaimed the sby di- plonalist, "he must have said something ;" and addressing a well known political writer he continued: "B , you area wit; go into my closet and make a mol." B went and came back three times; his wit was at fault; and his ideas did not suit the company. At last he returned the fourth time and pronounced with triumphant em- phasis the alove mentioned patriotic words: "nothing is changed in France; there is on- ly one Frenchman more." Tallyraud ap- | plauded; and the Duc d' Artois had found his moé; and the next the papers made is known to the world, and, as an old French author says. "In this manner history written." -- Chamber's Journal. is SCOTTISH RIGHTS. DecLaration of the Independence of Scot- land, and of the right of Robert Bruce to the Scottish Crown, by Edward 11., King of iJngland, and his Parliament, assembled at York, on Ist March, 1327-28. "Whereas we and others of our predeces- sors, Kings of England, have endeavoured to obtained a right of dominion and superiority over the Kingdom of Scotland, and have} thereby been the cause of long and grievous wars between the two kingdoms and, con- sidering the numerous slaughters, sins, and bloodshed, destruction of churches, and other evils brought on the inhabitan s of both king- doms by such wars, and the many advantages which would accrue to the subjects of both realms, if, by the estalishment of a firm and perpetual peace, they are secured against ull rebellious designs, have therefore, by the ad- vice of our Prelates, Barons and Commons of our kingdom, in Parliament assembled, granted, and hereby do grant, for us and our heirs and successors whomsoever, that the kingdom of Scotland shall remain for ever to the Magnificent Prince and Lord, Robert by the Grace of God, the illustrios King of Scots, our ally and dear friend, and to his heirs and successors, free, entire, and unino- lested, separate from the Kingdom of En- Parliament legislation, till at last we are left hardly even an emblem of Scottish nation~ ality.-- Scottish Paper. Tus Prices or Siaves Risine IN 80UTH Carotina.---At a recent sale in Pickens District, of Mr. John Bouch's personal prop- erty, fifteen slaves, men, women, and chil- dren, brought upwards of $16,900.--Geen- villeS. C. Patriot. We attended the sale of the property be- longing to the estate of Smith Bradley, de- ceased, on Tuesdry Jast. Ten negroes were sold at an. average of $730. One negro man, field hand, sold for $1,500; a boy fifteen years old, at $1.000; another at, $970. Negro women and girls brought as high as $900. Of the number sold there was one child two years old, and one five years old. Greenville Enterprize. bere nes SS RECIPES, &c. A Remedy for Caneer---Take a yolk of an ego, with as much salt as it will absorb; stir into a salve, and apply it as a plaster, spread upon silk, three times a day. Cure for Erysipelas and all inflamations of the skin----A simple poultice of cranberries pounded fine and applied in a ray state. Cure of Coughs.-- <A strong decoction of leaves of the pine, sweetened with loaf su- ryy P bs gar. 'Take a wine glass full warm on go- ing to bed, and a halfan hour before eating three times a day. Cure for chapped hands Sore Lips &e.-- Take 1 lb honey 1 1b sal soda, and 2 quarts of water. Apply when necessary. Cure for Rattlesnake and other porsonous uées.--Indigo, 4 drams, gum camphor, 8 drams, alchol, 8 vunces; mix and keep in close bottles. Cure for the bite of a Mad Dog.--Take of the 100 of alleacompane 11 ozs, cut it fine P b} -andboil it ina pint of pew milk down to a 4 | pint. Take this every morning fasting . . 5 ad eatine ne food until 4 p. m.) from 1 to 2 § ie I fees oz3, ata time, for two weeks. This has cu- red many individuals. To make fine Blacking.--Put 1 gal, of vinegar Into a stone jug, and 11b ivory blaek well pulverised, a half Ib. of loaf sugar, half ounce oi of vitroil, and 6 ounces sweet ail, incorporate the whole by stirring. The )lacking, produces a fine polish never to be surpassed. Dr. Chapin says of the equally wel known Dr. Franklin: 'His temperatehabits made him cheerful, and as bright in bis old age as an evening paper, and as fresh as a new monthly mag- azine." A sentimental chap intends tu petition Congress for an act to improve the channels of affection, so that benceforth the 'course of true Jove" may "ran smooth." A coekney philologist says that the letter W enters into the composition of woman, gland by ats respective marshes in the-time of Alexander, King of Scotland, of goad in all relations of Jife--i. e., Wirgen, Wife, | Widow and Whixen.