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STONE & TURNBULL, "CHATHAM CLOTHING HALL : 'ba ba ~ eas < a bf ay Se at \ Grocery ' & ¢ ; 3 "try, that he is pre I "oh CLEAN CLO' HING, at the shortest notice, di Having ce in his line of StS in e ities harleston, S.C.,and Boston, Mass. fe by diligence and strict _had ample experien DRY GOODS, AND Establishment, KING STREET, CHATHAM, C. We. . , 1855, ycoe8 September6th 20t- Clothes Made, Repaired, & Cleaned. w. L. HUMBURT J x TOULD respectfully announce to the Citi- zens of 'Windsor, and surrounding coun- yared to MAKE, REPAIR, 'and in the most satisfactory manner. he flatiers himself that, by attention to business, he will be able to pleas e. Windsor,C. W., pept. 9, 1854. 25 DT | GEORGE KERR, HARDWARE MERG NAN WHOLESALE AND RETAIL ZEALER IN Heavy and Shelf Hardware, CUTLERY, &c., §¢., Pratt's Block, Chatham, C. w. | November 22, tvsa-, 30-ly ANDREW HENDERSON, Auctioneer and Commission Merchant, No. 32, Yonge Srreet, ToRONTO. 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Friends give a call and full satis- faction will be given. JOHN WILLIAMS. Detroit, Jan. 10th, 1857. y3-n21-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. Cc. W. ELLIS. Detroit, Jan. 10th, 1857. v3n21-ly Mmit ceD. FRENCH, M. D., D. DS. DHITLIST, {= Office, cor. of Bay & Melinda Sts., 3 CORON O,; Ga Wa REFERENCES: BALTIMORE Rer,--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. D. S., Washington R. Handy. M.D., Pro- fessors Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. Dr. FEE CH 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.--Vhe best recommendation that [can give of Dr. M.D. French Surgeon Deniist. is that he has been employed in this family and given much satisfaction."' JOHN TORONTO. GoveRNMENT House, Toronto, Jan. 15th, 18-7.--*Dr.M D. French, surgeon Dentist, hes both Extracted and Stop- ped teeth for me, with perfect success, and with less pain to myself than 1 thought possible.""--A. P. DoueLass, A.D Cc. Rev. Dr. Burns, Rev. A. Fyfe, A. W. Strachan, Esq, Dr. Scott, Dr. F. Badgley, Dr. N. Bethune, Dr. Herrick, Dr. J.. Richardson, Dr E. Clarke, Hon, Judge Burns Rev. H. J. Grassett, Hon. Judge McLean, Dr. F. A. Cald- well. Office hours from 9 A. M., to 6 P. XM. be TERMS CASK. vo-nd7-ly. Poetry. DDR IR Ory AGRICULTURAL ODi. BY WM. €. BRYANT. Far back in ages, The plough with wreaths was crowned, The hands of kings and sages Entwined the chaplet round; TI men of spoil Disdained the toil By which the world was nourished, And blood and piilave were the soil In which the laurels flourished ; Now the wo:ld her fault despairs-- The guilt that stains her story, And weeps her crimes amid the cares That formed her eailiest glory. The throne shall crumble, The diadem shall wane, The tribes of earth shall humble The pride of those who reign, And war shall lay His pomp away ; The fame that heroes cherish, The glory earned in deadly fray Shall fade, decay and perish, Honour waits o'er all the earth. Through endless generations, The art that calls the harvest forth, And feeds the expectant nations. RMliscellaneous. (From lhe Chichago Congregatianrl Heoald SHOOTING FUGITIVS IN ILLINOIS ON THE FOURTH. THREE slaves, thinking to realize for them- selves the right of "iife liberty and the pur- suit of happiness," had made their escape from Missouri, pursued by three white men. Tt being reported in Nashville, Washington County of this State, on the Fourth of July, that there were three runaways in the neigh- bourhood, a large crowd of men joined the search. After séouring the country for several hours in vain, most of the company returned, but a detached party of some half dozen men met the fugitives in the road. Animated by the same spirit which prompted Patick Henry to exclaim, "Give me liberty, or give me death," the slaves reeisted their would be captors. One of the negroes was shot dead, two of them made their escape, hit ele DLC -up urs wo tle s- ran, ana hoing wounded. One of the Missouri pursuers cut off the head of the dead slave, and carried it back in a vessel of alcohol. to Border Ruf- fiandom as a trophy. However shocking this barbarity may ap- pear in liself, and however abhorrent to the principles whic that Independence Day com- memorates, it is in perfect keepiug with the Spirit which at present directs the adminis- tration of our government. 'hat melancho- ly tragedy at Nashville on the Fourth was not half so mucha burlesque on our Amert- can Deciaration, as the hivhest court of the land has recently perpetrated. 'hat was, but the playing of a single Scene of a singla Act of this grand drama. 'That was bat the killing ef one man, and wounding another this was the "moral assassination of a whole race." 'T'his decision declares that blacbk men have no rights which white men are bound to respeet, accordingly those white men paid no respect to that black man's dearest right of life and liberty. 'That was an appropriate celebration at Nashville, if the Supreme Court are correct in their in- terpreta ion of the Declaration, and all our Jubilees for the last eighty years, upon the equality of man, are but child's play, yea, the American Revolution was bat a magnificent farce. Indignant reader, do not vent all your opprobrium upon those barbaria nsin Wash- ington County (think of the name), and that border-ruffian from Missouri who carried back the head of the man that loved death better than slavery. Remember that, a few years ago, the United States Government bronght into requisition, telegraph, police militia and navy, to catch and carry back the fugitive Sims, right from the "cradle of liberty" in Boston, and all this under the authority of national law. Remember that by this same law if you had refused to join ihat posse at Nashville when summoned by the proper officer, you would have been held guilty of a misdemeanour. Remember, too, that by our own State law, if you had receiv ed to the protection of your house those hunted panting fugitives, orin any way bind- ered their recapture, you would have been subjected to a tine of five hundred dollars and lo six months imprisonment. And then remcmber tbat these laws are the creatures of the ballot-box, for which every vo.er has a responsibility--the creatures of a public sentiment, upon which every individuail may exert an influence. With these faeis in view are you yourself entirely free from the disgrace of that murdervus celebr..tion? And are you doing all in your power to cor- rect public sentimect, to repeal those inhu- man laws? Tt seems that we are hastening to a crisis in this State, from which there will either be a reaction for freedom, or a_ triumph for slavery. The last Legislature refused to repeal the black laws; one coloured man is now serving as a slave in the State for the crime of coming into it: Senator Douglas stands up at our State Capitol. before a grand jury(!) and gives as the key-note to his party, which is echoed from every pro- slavery press, "the stronger must rule the weaker," and then appears on the Fourth of July as the representative of that sentiment; whilst this bloody tragedy is going on at Nashville upon the same day, in_ practical lustration of the principle; application is now made to onr Chicago board of educa- tion to turn the coloured children out of our free schools; and the public is now waiting the dicision of Judge McLean and Drum- mond in the U.S. Distract Court at present n session here, whether a black man can prosecute a white man for assault and bat- tery. 'These things are now going on before us, and the present is the tiute to improve by striking at the whole pro-slavery ursrpation in our midst. What would the patriots of '76 say if they were to rise from their graves and find that so soon Independence Day was used for hunting and shooting men 'created free and equal," guilty of no crime. and that too under the sanction of both Federal and State laws? What would they say to find that the principles, for which they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor, were voted a lie by the highest au- thority in the land, and that fie made the fundamental principle of the party centreoll- ing the Government? 'They would say, ye build our sepulchres, but ye would kill us if we were now with you in the persons of Sumner, 'Torrey, Lovejoy, and the Kansas martyrs. We want no imeore «i your glorifi- cation, until you show youreslves worthy recipients of the boon we secured for you, and this you will show by preserving and extending the blessings we bought with our blood. But this inconsistency of murdering a man upon the Fourth of July, simply because ne loved liberty better than slave y points to a whole brood of contradictions to which it belongs. We claim to have the most liberal government in the world, and yel we have the most intolerable despotism linked with that government, a despotism which is left almost a single. notoriety for our nation We have civilization and barbarism both fostered under the same system--Christian- Se heathaniam hath in the same Church --enlightenment yoked to polygamy, aduite- ry and caste--a gospel of liberty and justice which is proclaimed in high places as sup- porting rapine and robbery--a Constitution ordained to secure liberty, but nsed to per- petuate slavery---a Declartion of equal rights, which is interpreted by the meanest proscrip- tion. And so this "sum of and villanies is also the sum of all . inconsistencies. What shall we do with it? 'Tear it up root and branch and destroy it forever. BLOODY TRAGEDY, IN CHESTER COUNTY. On Saturday morning last, one of the most frightful tragedies occured in Chester coun- ty, which it has been our unpleasant duty to record, and which indeed we are glad to be- lieve is rarely parallelled. We proceed to give the facts of this fearful transaction-- whereby one life has been lost and another placed in imminent jeopardy. Earls on the morning above mentioned Constable Lynch, of West Chester, in com- pany with Milton Layman, proceeded to ex- ecute a warrant which had been placed in their hands for the arrest of a man named William Baugh. Baugh resided on the road leading from Lionviile to Yellow Sprigns about 23 miles from the former pluce, at what is called Marisville, on the Conestoga turnpike. Buugh was charged with inflict- ing wounds upon a colored man with a pitchfork; this was the offence for which the arrest was to be made. The police officers arrived on the spot, at the residence of Baugh about 6 o'clock in the morning. Baugh was at the wood pile cutting wood with an axe iu his hand when they drove up in a light wagon. The officers alizhted-- advanced to Baugh who asked Layman if he was an Officer. Layman repli¥l h:+ bad some business with him, and Inch proceed- ed to read the warrant. At this moment Layman advanced toward Baugh, who raised his axe over his head, and with both hands brought it down upoa Layman, aiming at his head, but striking the collar of bis coat, and penetrating his neck, inflicting a wound of the most ghastly and deadly character! The wound extended clear across the neck, and is described as some three inches or more in depth, almist severing tbe jugular vein and slitting it down 14 inches.--After inflicting this wound he again swung his weapon aloft, to deal another blow, and Lay- man, who sprung back, drew his revolver and fired to disable the right arm of his an- tagonist. The ball struck the helve of the axe, and grancing, grazed the shoulder of | Baugh, and passed has neck, just missing it, and grazing the chin. Baugh then rushed on Layman, a struggle ensued; Layman held him securely, until Constable Lynch furnished a pair of handenffs. The struggle was long continued--some ten or fifteen minutes--and was of the most desperate character. Finally his hands were mana- cled and he was fored into the wagon. They then drove rapidly towrad Lionville, Lay- man driving, and Constable Lynch guarding the prisoner. After driving two miles, Lay- man became so much exhausted with the loss of blood, as to require assisfance--whis- | pered to Lynch that he must summon aid-- as they were in the immediate vicinity of Vickers' Pottery.--A eclored man who was working in the adjacent fiell was cailed to, who came forward, but refused to render as- sistance when told that Baugh was in the wagon. Perceiving their helpless condition Baugh determined to frustrate their efforts to obtain aid, and, with the desperation of despair, made an attack on Lynch, who held a loaded pistol in ns pocket. Lynch by the throat and attempted to force him from the wagon, Lynch drew his pistol from his pocket--Baugh got hold of the pistol, but with aid of Layman it was re covered by Lynch; Baugh again seized the arm of Lynch, making a desperate effort to regain the pistol, and the pistol in the strug- the head of the prisoner, at the temple, and side of the head. 'The wound was again proceeded forward with all speed. Constable Lynch was the only partp/now not in a disabled condition--and he reached prisoner and his desperately wounded com- panion. The cireumstances which led to the issue of the warvant for the arrest of Baugh, were as fo:lows: Cn the 10th of July, Baugh, was pitching hay in the field of John Maris, ia company with a colored man. 'The latter made the remark that he pitched more bay than Baugh when B. took offence, and drove the fork into him two or three times, inflicting some wounds not of aserious character. 'The in, jured man made complaint to Esq., Butler SS He siezed | rle was discharged, and the contents entered | : 5 ee loads of negroes had arrived tere. the ball lodged above the eye on the opposite | mortal; | the prisoner was disabled, and the wagon | Lionville, covered with blood, with his dying |. upon which a warrant for his arrest was made which was not served for some time after. The warrant was placed in the hands of Moses Moses, Cons:able of West Pikeland township who went to Baugh, stated his business and advsied him to deliver himself up peaceably--to go before the magistrate, and promised that-security or bail should be forthcoming. Baugh refused--took excep- tions to the magistrate who issued the war- rent, as well as to other magistrates, and finally absolutely refused to be taken--and declared he would resist to the death. His wite and niece earnestly implored him to sub- mit to the law, and to deliver himself up; but he declined, and tireatend be would kill any person who should attempt his arrest. The Constable, fearing bodyliy ijary, re- turned the warrant to Esq. Bute, the offici- ating magistrate. After consulaation with the District Attorney, the warreant was placed in the hands of Constable Lynch, of West Chester, who called in the aid of Mil- ton Layman, also of this Borough, to assist him in executiug the warrant.--Jtccord. A NEW DODGE The Washington correspondent of the Tirbune Writes: A very remareakie fact has been communicated to me by a gentleman who sympathizes with the South in all ques- tious connected with Slavery. He says that the vessel lately seized and examined at Savannah. Georgia, upon suspicion of being engaged in the slave trade, but released for want of proof, had really been prepared for a voyage to Africa, and that her owners iti- tend to bring into Savannah a cargo of slaves from Dahomey. If the several laws tor the suppression of the tratlic be brougth to bear aganst the legality of the enterprise, they will take position agalnst the right of the General Government to prohibit the impor: tation of merchandise essential to the inter- ests of the South. Should such a conflict of State and Federal authority arise, it can- not be doubted that it will be decided in favor of the South, and that the Slave trade would be formally established under the prin- ciples of the Drep Scorr decision. . = PRO-SLAVERY CATECHISM, ~ The Synod of Mississippi has recently published "a catechism for the religious in- struction of the Colored people," in which ihe fullowing questions and answers occur: Q. Are not servants bound to obey their masters ? A. Yes--the Bible exhorts servants to be obedient to their masters, and to please them well in all things, not answering again. Q. If the master be unreasonable may | the servant disobey ? _ A. No--the Bible says "Servants be su'- Ject to your masters with al! fear, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the fro- : : , ward threw him. and jumped upon his body, and | Q. What does the Bible say to servants on this subject ? A. They are to obey; tot with eyé ser /vice as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ. = Q. If servants cuifer unjustly, what are they to do? A. They must bear it patiently. Q, Ought servants to rebel against the authority of their masters ? A. No--it is a sin against God and man, Q, How do we know this? A. The Bible tells us that the Apostle Paul found a servant who had run away f om his master, and he gent him home. Q. Why did not Paul conceal him, that he might be free ? A. Because he would not make religion a cloak for injustice! That will do! This is certamly the pure suit ef religion under difficulties. --s @ fae New York Lerald says that the English are tn advance of the French in the new seheme tn supplying the West Indies with negro labor and that Palmerston is ahead of Louts Napoleon in the busiiness. The Heratdinakes this statement on the au thority ofa letter from Port Spain Island of Trinidad. in whlch it is stated that two ship 2 On the strength of this the Herald cries out that Great Britain has commeneed the slave trade. But in point of fact the negroes al- luded to are Portuguese African emigrants, who have of their own free will gone to the Island of Trinidad to serve a voluntary ap- prenticeship of ten years. SS antitiac> eas Emancrpation.--The colored population of Toronto and Hamilton celebrated on Sat- urday the Ist inst., the emancipation of the } negroes in the British territories' at the lat- ter city by a procession to and from the Church; and a very ereditable display of oratory at the Mechanics' Hall in the after- noon. The proceedings were orderly and creditable, and showed that the colored. péos pie of these places know how to enjoy the blessings of freedom so justly accorded to, them,--Mazl. 2B a OEAG. a