V OLUME IIt.} ------ PROSPECTUS OF THE PROVINCIAL. FREEMAN And Weekly Advertiser. Mary A.-S.-CARY, H. F. DOUGLASS, I. D. SHADD, oe Editors. The Provincial Freeman will bedevoted to Ant Slavery, Emigration; Temperance and Genere Literature. [t wilbopeu its columns:to the view ef men of different political opinions, reserving theright,as an independent Journal, of u tex pression on al] questions or, projects affecting the people in a. political way; and reserving, alee the right to express emphatic condemnation 0. a projects, having for their object in a great © remote degree, the Subversion of the principles of the British Constitution, or of British rule it the Provinces. nue Not committed to the views of any: religious sect exclusively. it will carefully observe the rights of every.sect, at the sametime.that.a reser vation shall be made in favor of an existing dif ference of opinion, as to the views or actions 0 the sects respectively. As an advertising medium, as a vehicle of in formation on Agriculture,--and as.an enemy ie vice in any and every conceivable form, and a promoter of good morals, it shail be m ade worth it the patronage of the public. 5. ., duu Lerters, to receiv gy aien tion whether fo: publication or on wef usi-paia. |. D. Suavn, Ghat Gade oli ; atin fe, THEGeiie te t.. Cc. WwW. % eh PROVINCLLL PRBS And Weekly Advertiser; : , a | is PUBLISHED EVIRY SATURDAY MORNING AT THE OFFICE OF THE PAPER, King St Wrst, Opposite the Market. CHATHAM, C. W TERMS: ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. INVARIABLY IN ADVANGE. Rates oe ADVERTISING. 82 8 ix to ten lines, first insertion, © - -) - 3... Fach subsequent inserticn, - - - 0 4 Over ten lines, first insertion, por line - 6 Each subsequent ingertiga, per line, - 0 fe A discount aliewed whea advertisainc! re continue! ever three menths, ' {ce Merchants, and others, contracting pace can advertise on advantageous terms. es All advertisements, Without instruction eelength of time, ll b> inserted watil torb aad charged accordingly. ep eR Les AA ho PRINTING OFFICE, King Street Wist, Opposite the Market, CHATHAM, C. W. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE PROVINCIAL FREEMA: euldinform their Friends and the Public, that th Office is supplied with alithe Requisites for the execution of every description of ZOOR & JOR PRINTER ERCLIDING PAMPHLETS, BILT, HEADS, CARDS, FUNERAL LETTERS, : INVITATION CARDS, STEAMBOAT BIL STAGE BILLS, CONCERT BLLLS, PROGRAMMES, FOSTING BILLS, HAND BILLS, DEEDS. sSIRCULA LABELS LAW BLAN BANK CHKECQU PROMISSORY NOT MORTGAGES, MEMORIALS, &e.. d&., &C, And cy ry description of LETTER-PRESS PRINT tu the best and haudsomest style, with accuracy and despatch. $F PRINTING LN COLORS AND BRUNZES. AW RESPEULING NEWSPAPER Subscribers who de not give express notice t the contrary, are considered as wishing to gon. tinue their subscriptions. dt Subscribers order, the discontinuance their papers, the publishers gay continue to s them till all arrears are paid up. If Subscribers neglect or refuse to take t papers from the Office to which they are direg they are held responsible till they have_sesplec their bills, and ordered their papers toe @asuon: tinued. = if Subseribers remove to other placeé mforming the Publishers, and the pa o the former direetion, they are held res ' Business Directo STONE & TURNBULL, CHATHAM CLOTHING DBY GOODS si mi AND Grocery Establish ie KING STREET, CHATHAM, C. W. September6th, 1855. t be ad.iressed, a Le sf ESP ih. FFF ONE RAN DN AAO OY SE we --- quai a W..L. HUMBURT 43, \ M/ OULD respectfully announce te thei siti: zens of try, that he is prepared to MAKE, or CLEAN CLOTHING, at the shurtést fi and in the most satisfactory mannerjo# had ample experience in his line ot busi he Cities of Charleston, S. C., and Bostony} indsor, and surroundine he flattersf himself that, by diligence and pure attention to business, he will be able to pleal® Windsor, C. W., Sept. 9, 1854. Clothes Made, Repaired, & Cleat li : : -- ' 1 $ ADVERTISER. reeman LF-RELIANCE IS THE TRUE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE." Terms? | ONE DOLLAR AND A HALF. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. CANADA WEST, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1857 'NUMBER 41 OS, bimin-s ine PHILADELPHIA. November 1855. 3! INO. _ SEW ston IN THE COMMERCIAL BUILDING SOUTH SIDE GF DUNDAS STREET, OPPOSITE THE MARKET, And lately erected by Messrs. Moore § Rolph, ROWS OMs Bee HE SUBSCRIBER would inform hi old and numerous Customers and Friends that he has again Opened LBwmsimessSy) With a Large and entire New Stock. of DRY GOODS & GROCERIES He thanks them for past favors, and hopes receive of them and the Public at large, a LIBERAL SHARE OF PATRONAGE The Subseriber 7 determined to Sell as. Low possible. A. B. JONES. London, Jan. 7, 1856. 36 NEW CABINET. SHOP, ON COLBORNE STREET, Adjoining Charteris §- Baxter's Saw Mill. LL kinds of FURNITURE, such as BED A STEADS; TABLES, CUPBOARDS ss.,| STANDS, &c., &., can -be had on the mo nable terms. goaes CHARLES H. RAMSEY. Chatham, C. W.,Feb. 13th 1856. 50- MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN, Stereotypers, Printirs, and Binders, PUBLISHERS & BOOKSELLERS, No:"6, PARK ROW, Opposite Astor House, New York, And.107, Genesee Street, Auburn, N. ¥ C.N. MILLER.--WM. ORTON,--E. MULLIGAN. NORTH STAR SALOON. No. 40, Jefferson Avenue. Ri JOHN: WILLIAMS has just fitted up his snlendid DINING SALOON, where all k nds of Choice Eatables can be had at any hour, Superior drinks always on hand. Frieuds give a call and full S:tls- faction will be given. JOHN WILLIAMS. Detroit, Jan. 10th, 1857. v3-n2l-ly ADAMS---HOUSE. S NOW OPEN at No. 38 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. C."W. ELLIS. Detroit, Jan. 10th, 1857. v3n2I-ly J. R. BROWN, FASHIONABLE BOOT & SHOE MAKER, No. 90. King Street West, TORONTO. Mortimer D. FRENCH, M. D., D. D. S. DiHITLIST, iz" Office, cor. of Bay & Melinda Sts., CO RBONTO, Ga Wa REFERENCES: BALTIMORE ReF.--Chapin A. Harris, A. M..M. D., D. D. S., Thomas E. Bond, A. M.. M. D., Phillip H. Austin, A.M .M. D., D. DeSs Washington R. Handy. M.D., Pro- fessors Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. Dr. FLEY¢H has the honor of publishing the tollowing recommendation from the Lord Rishop of Toronto, and also of referring to the following gentlemen:-- Toronto, Oct 18th, 1856.--"'The best recommendation that lcangive of Dr. M.D. French Surgeon Dentist. js. that he has been employed in this family and given much satisfaction." JOHN TORONTO. GoveRNMENT. Hovse, Toronto,'Jan. 1th, 18 7.--"Dr.D 1. French, Surgeon Dentist, hes both Extracted and St ped teeth forme, with perfect.saccess, and with less pa to myself than I thought possible.""--A. P. DouGLass,A C. Rev. Dr. Burns. Rev, A. Fyfe, A. W. Strachan, Esq , aia : 3 : errick, a et fectly fraternal feeling is cultivated towards the Slaveholding churches of the South. No remonstrance as proceeding from' relig- ous bodies ig ever heard. No distinction between religious. publications is ever made in the great bulk of our religious journals; but advertisements which may be from their silence considered pro-slavery prouctions are regularly advertised in their colums. We agree with that indefatigable friend and ad- vocate ofthe Slave, Rev. J.J; E. Linton, that sush a line of conduct is unworthy of freeenm and Britons. We cannot take neutral ground 'in this important question. Either Slavery is right or wrong. If wrong then it is a most enormous which seems to nvite the Immedivte visitation of and pun- ishment of heaven. That it is not a wrong we have never yet seen a Canadian journal pretend. All of us seem willing to con- sider it base both with regard tv God and man; and yet what do we see among us ? Do we not know that Slavery is awfully im- moral, tyranical, soul crushing, degrading and brutal? © Do we not know that the whim of a master or mistress may cause a fair creature (for alas a vast multitude of American Slaves are nearly white !) to be educated every hope of that fair creature can be blastedin a moment by libertinism legalized and perhaps admired? 'That de- spite the teachings of virtue and _ religion she must become "a fancy girl' to be bought by any cruel despot who is. willing to pay a sufficient price? Do we not know that families can be at any moment separa- ted and that too without warning or per- haps the least probability of ever meeting again? Do we.not know. that: multitudes of the negroes are kept in gross ignorance with regard to religion and thus both soul and vody are jeopardized ? Do we not know that the oaly thing which secures to the poor dowmfcecen Slave the least. security from the mest crue: treatment and shocking death is his value as "an article??? Do we not know that by far the larger proportion of American Slaves are' not Africans by birth or feeling, but proceed from progenitors who have been. inhabitants of this continent 'or centuries? And yet with all this knowledge, not fully realized it may be, does not this portion of the Brit- ish empire tacitly give consent to the course of the Southern Slavenoider, and. to the equally sinful conduct. of the Northern American. churches ? But this state of things cannot continue; we must set our faces ayainst all periodical and... American works which pass over Slavery in silence, and notsuffer such publications as the A- mer'can youth are wont to to peruse to be circulated amongst us. British Christians must not permit their offspring to grow ac- ustomed to the horrors of Slavery, but must see that they are early instructed in the fact that the Guspel calls upon the world o break every yoke and let the oppressed po free. It may be said that it is narrow minded and unphilosophical t» guard our youth against the publications of a neigh- bouring State merely in consequence of ne peculiar institution which has been han- ded cown to that people from their forefa- thers, for many generations; but then as a Christian nation we are bound. to Jeok further than mere courtesy might lead us, we must act as philanthropists in the true sense of the word, regarding the souls as well as the bodies of all men. Our holy religion teaches us to consider all men as springing from one common stock, for the Book of Inspiration declares that "God has made of one blood" all nations. Wecannot, then, look with indifference if we truly under- stand our duty, upon a system which treats man made in the image of the great God aga mere chattel, and which barters in the souls and bodies of human beings. It is to be trusted that the Canadian press will warmly advocate the interests of the poor slave, in order that our great and rising | country may not only be a place of safety for the pursued and innocent fugitive; but also un nnfflinching opponent of the slave system and an unequivocal censurer of the Slaveholder,.and of his. still. worse . abetter | and encourager the slave sustaining states- } man of the North. We call attention to the feeling and Christian address to Cana- dian Christians from certain ladies' in Sdot- land, which appeared in our last issue; and also to the very~able and fearless writings of the Rev. Mr. Linton, of Stratford; whose hands should be sustained by Christian phi lanthropist both by pecuniary aid, and use- fnl infermatoin by which hic effurts may be g eatly increased and our couatry through its length and breadth (he being aidad in his good work by zealous. coadjutors whom Providenee is daily raising up) maybe im- bued with active zeal against the'entire sys- tem of Amerean Slavery.--Brantford Couriar. A DAISY POPE. Subsequently there was a Pope Agapetus, who dying, a left young son a lad named. Qe- tavin. This precious individual had influence or daring enough to procure his own election to the Pontifical throne when he was only eightean years of age. He then assumed the name of John XIT., and was the first who changed his name on being crowned with the tiara. He was fond of military expeditions; but*mistakeng. inclination for inspiration or strategical knowledge,.he suf 'fered ignominous defeat--and yet would not allow that be was an unskilful commander. He placed the imperial crown on the head of Otho 1. the first German prince who thus recived that much cyveted and uneasy dia- dem. . This illustrious couple speedily be- came deadly enemies, and Otho determind to depose the Pontiff, The latter was ter- ribly iniquitous; and there was no lack of bishops and cardinals ia the 1nperial interest to hear testimony against him. One told how he had made the gay widow Rainera gover- nor of a city and endowed her with ornaments that belonged to the church, and gold that was intended for the poor. Another point'd out the shameless presence of very lightly- clad damsels in the very Lateran Palce. "Honest widows with fair faces," said a third "dare not come to Rome and visit the tombs of the faithful, because of him." Cardinal Bishop Peter solemaly declared that he had seen John celebrate Mass without having communicated. A -bishop and a cardinal agreed in desposihg that they had heield him in the act of ordaining a deacon ina stable. "I know;" said Deacon Benedict. "that he has ordained many a one for mone "He made a child, ten-years old, Bishop Todi," cried another. Others deposed t he was found bunting, still fonder of wine and very fond of drinking to the health of the devil!--that he was cruel in his c never said Matins never made the sig of the cross, and could not even play @c: without ejaculating now and then "by Jgpi- ter," or other oaths made in the of Pagan divinity. The Synod imper invoked to try John pronunced him "Gufjty' and declared him deposed. When int tion was conveyed to him that a new ele the Papal authority was about to be opened, he answered, that he flung his excommunica- tion at all concerned in such a proceeding, and that was sufficient to render the threa- tened proceediug nugatory. The Chevalier Artaud de Montor says that he was legiti- mate'y Pope, and in this exercised an indis- putable rihgt! However this may be. John was deposed,and Leo.8th,elected.in his place A. D.. 963.--Monarehs Retired from Busi- ness: By Dr. Doran. @ Doo HEALTH OF EMPLOYMENTS. The following table, recently prepared by order of the Legislature of Massachu- setts, is very Instructive--showing as it does the comparative heaithfulness of various employments, by a statistical statement of the average ages which those that fo.low them attain to : Agriculturalists Bakers Bank Officers Blacksmiths Butchers Calico-printers Carpenters Clerks Clergymen Coopers Editors Gentlemen 68°19 Hatters 54.27 Judges & Justices 65.00 Lawyers 54.43) Teachers 34 46 Machinists 36.41 | Traders 46.35 It will be noticed that those who pursue the pleasing avocation of living '" Gentle- men," attain to the greatest age, being an uverage of over 68 years. Tien come the Judges and Justices, 65 years. . Then the Agriculturists and Bank Officers nearly 64 years. he Lawyers and Physicians live 54 years--and the Merchants only 51. Of the ubove classes, it is doubtless partly the mental anxieties and excitements to which the Merchants, Lawyers and. Physicians are subjected, which shorten the average of their lives. They also do not live as regularly, do not take their sleep and meals as leisurely and methoiically as the "Gen- tleman," the Judges and the Bank Officers and Merchants--they are anxieus as to their situations, and a life at the desk is not of itself a healthy one. E.titors only live, on the average to forty. Poor fellows! who can wonder at it? Their means of living generally | are precarious, and they are expected to do up the larger »o tion of the complaining and quarreling of the community. ~~ Does any grieve, and they are not grieved? Forty years of such harrassing, temptuous life--spent In keep- ing the rulers of the world in the straight aod narrow path, to say nothing of the people, and an occasional tilt with the edi- tor of a rival paper! is generally 'enough to consume the vital energies of the strong- est and most hopeful. The Clergymen, it seems, live to fifty: five. Editors belong to the ¢ehurch mili- tant, the Clergy, very generally, to' the church triumphant. This gives them fif- teen years more of life~'hough they fall short of the "Gentlemen" nearly as much as the Editors fall short of them. Of the - trades, Coopering seems to be the healthiest, 58 years ; while the Hatters 63.93 43.45 63.70 51.44 50.00 51.33 49.39 34.36 55.72 58.37 40.00 Manttfacturers 43.28 Masons 47.78 Mechanies 48.45 Merchants 5L.71 Musicians 36.86 Operatives 32.93 Painters 42.68 Physicians 94.94 Printers 38.00 Public Officers | 56.87 Rope Makers 54.50 Shipwrights 55.27 Shoemakers 43.12 Tailors 44.35 and Kopemakers live 5 years, and the Butchers 50--showing that the last. ante 4 is not, as some have termed it, a "killing ec- cupation." The poor Printers are down near the tail of the list, being two years _worse off than the editors, reaching only thirty eight years, . The Musicians blow their breath of life away at about 40--and the Machinists sacrifice their human mia- chines as victims to the brass and iron steam-gods of tis money-loving genera- tion at 36. The Teachers are the lowest in the list-« teachiig children being even a more wore rying business than teaching men ; "while the wages are even smaller. Puor fellows, they die on an average at 44--to.thegreat gain often of their assistants, who-each take a step higher. Swedenberg says that all the children that die early in this world, have to be taught in schools in the next.-- If this be so, we hope the teachers' wages aae better, and the little urchins not quite so unmanageable. HARD UP FOR A HERO, General Walker, as the telegraph inform- ed us on Saturday, and as the New York papers of Friday give us full accounts, land ed at New Orleans, an¢_was_receivedwith c erablemiarks of favors. :Spéaking of e scene, the New York Tribune does:it- self much credit by saying :+--"G-neral William Walker capitulated onthe 1st: in- stant, with all his forces, to Captain . Davis, of the United States ship of war St. Marys, by whom he was brought to Panama, where, we are told, he was held a close prisoner by the Commodore. -The next thing we hear of hin he arrives. at. New Orleans inthe Empire City, not as a priso- ner of war, nor as a fugitive from justice. nor as a person held to answer for piracy, robbery and murder committéd abroad against citizens of the United States, but as a passenger; and on his arrival he would seem to have been received and welcomed by crowds as a patriot and a hero. That crowds should flock to see Walker, just is every great criminal always draws a crow 1 in his train, we can well understand ;. but that anybody should have for him any _ad- miration or respect, or should view him in any other light than that of @ poor creature as destitute of abi'ity as he isof - honesty or hu nanity, we cannot very well. under- stand." The Americyn papers devote a great deal of their space to a history of his achievements; but the Tribune, from which we have quoted, says that beyond murders, plunder and villainy, there is li:tle else to chronicle in his history. He will, however, be a vulgar hero for a day ; and then will settle down as a pound keeper, or a killer of rabid dogs at the usual price of twenty- five cents a head.--Golonist. Hew Persvapers:--The Springfield Re- publican in speaking of a new inventiow for a hen's nest, whereby the eggs. drop through a trap-door, and it decéives tie hen that she keeps on laying, is responsible for the following: "Blobbs met with a loss, however, 'with one of the persuaders. Blobbs had a love- ly young Shanghaie pullet, of boundless ambition. Blobbs bought a persuader. and his lovely Shanghaie used it. She went upon the nest in the morning. ~ Blobbs:saw her go, and his heart bounded within him ! Alas ! he never saw her come off again. At nizht he visited the persuader. In the up- per compartment was a handful of feathers, a tew toe nalis, anda. bill. In the lower compartment were three dozen and. eleven evus! Blubbs saw it all! | Her delicate constitution had been to unequal too the ef- fort. and fired by young ambition, she had laid herself away." Soar = Epirinc a Paper--The majority , of readers seem to think that 'nothiug can be more easy or pleasnt, than to edit a paper; but of all diffcult employments. by. :which men make their bread aud butter, there is none we firmly believe that so taxes the mind, temper, and flesh, as that of editing a paper. There is none that requires a nicer tact, a sounder judyment, a more constant a plication, a quicker wit, ora kinder heart. A churlish temper could never succeed as an editor; nor a narrow-minded men, nor an ignorant one, nor a hasty one, nor' unforgiv- ing one. Aneditor must: of necessity turn himself inside out to the public.. He cannot be a hypocrite any more than a busband conld be a hypocrite to his wife' "He must expose himself in all that he does, "as much in selecting the thoughts of others, 'as' 'in publishing his own, and, therefore, the bet- ter way for him in the outset is to begin frankly, to save himself from after eontra- dictions and mortification --Whoever suc- ceeds tolerably well as an 'editor, is some- thing more than an ordinary man, let..nis cotemporaries think of him as they will. New Covuntrerrsits--the Free Pr @: of yesterday says the Bank of British North America's hills are being tampered: with-- the $1's altered to $2's.. Caunterfeits well executed are traced on the Kingstap, Torons | and otbet branches.