en! and its retribution. - and veins of public health. i moor * * al _ Fromthe American Baptist. The Man Republic. A nation, let us assume, then, isa great personality. It has a soul; and if we would paint it a body, we must assume that body may somehow be the expression of soul; sud so make we for this gieat soul, a body to match. A nation's soul is the great col- lective of the individual souls; a public mind is the géneral aggregation of single minds. Politicans often talk of manufactur- ing public opinion; and that is a small ~business; there is a creation of a public mind, and that is a momentous business. For the national person, like the individual person, has i's character, its responsibility The individual soulis immortal, and its retribution fills eternity : the organie soul is dissoluble, and its retri- bution is confined to time. As a compo: nent part of the great organism, the indivyi- dual, however excellent. his personal char- acter, shares the liabilities of the whole body, and must share that body's fate. He may suffer here, the penalty of public sins of which, singly, he is singularly guiltless. As yet the world's ages have not produced the nation which has stood the test of its responsibilities, Guilt has been their uni- form destiny, Each in succession, under God's permission, has started up, ambitions to try its blind experiment ; each has had ample means and light for the right path ; each has had ample temptation to test its temper; each in turn has achieved a vo!un- tary, yet ignominious failure. Howeyer it may have been with individuals, national souls have been uniformly damad ! Iis- tory is a perfect book of judgement; and earth has beeome agehenna of doomed mations. Struck with the recurrence of the same great historic decay, men haye resolved its uniformity into a law, and have "made it an ultimate maxim, which maxim they have 'endeavored to make plausible by the analogy between the national and the individuel personality, As a man has his infaney, manhood, and decline, so, they infer, must nations. If this parallelism means simply to stand as an impressive illustration, it is striking ; but let i* not set up for reasoning. That the yital powers ofanindividual body soon physieally deeline, we know to be an inherent law. But what is meant by the physical old age and decline of a race? All races are equally old-- the all-conquering Anglo-Saxon as the all- submitting Italian, My family is as old as the Duke of Buckingham's, only { haye lost my pedigree, Though I eannot, from loss of documents, name, the line of men who stand, in a direct hereditary row, be- tween the great navigator of the ark and myself, yet they all lived, and doubtless had names. Men are transitory ; races are per petual. Why, then, do nations die? We answer, Great Babylon comes up before God and is judged. The thrones are set and the books are opened, and the beast is east into the burning flame, to be consum- ed to the end. National character then embraces all the elements of national destiny, As in the individual, so in the collective, if the or- ganie INTELLecT be wise, if the great ublic HEART, natural and moral, be sound, if the executive wrtt, in all its deeds and volitions, be just, then shall the reward le glory, honor, immortality, and eternal life. when the advent of that nation comes, then let the glad " Eurcka" peal through the world. The grand problem of human his- tory is solved ; the grand hope of humanity is fulfilled. He * * * But.our collective man must also be fur- nished with what all languages has svmbo- lied by the physical term HEART--the ogani¢c bundle of sensibilities and appe- tites, natural and moral. And within this hurdle, preeminently, destiny is developed. Within the stupendous enclosure of a wa- TION's HEART, mighty is the struggle be- tween the lower and the hicher principles, and most decisive will be the results. There is yet a terrible mass of Heathendom with- in the bosom of Christendom. Send your Inissionaries downward, ye guardians of the church, for all the vices of paganism are underlying us in the depths of our na- tion's heart, in the subterrancan haunts of iznorance aud abandonment. And thence ~ ascend moral vapors, pestilences and smoke, ; as of the bottomless pit. Old hereditary depravities, vices of ancient stereoty pe form, ure still perpetuated; and the freshnes of modern genius demonstrates itself in the origination of new iniquity. Still dors licentiousness throw poison into the well of life; and so diffuse its taint, to an unsuspected extent, through all the streams | Sull does | intemperance set on fire the course of! nature, itself set on fire of hell. Still) does the war spirit send its maddening hurrah, through the hearts of our populace, ever ready to lead them out into piratical marauds, upon our weaker if not honester neizhbors; ever alert to revive what we had onee hoped obsolete, the old-fashioned vice of decrepit royalty, the plain vulgar war of coutest ; ever courted hy those bow- 1 ing, simpering, courticrs of the mob, who | in Russia would have been the vilest! panders of the despot, the demagozus| of war. And there stands slavery--never | loss ashamed than now--not couchant, | bue rampant--making her plans w live! mile and a half in length and three-fourths jof four miles an hour. forever--Leldly ~cluming to advance by Jequal stéps with freedom-ns if darkness were as good as light, and the devil had as fair a right to a lion's share as Mes- siah. Nor may you marvel, friends, if I who was once noted here as the © apolo- gist of slavery," can now present, myself its stern assailant. For its existenee I did anil would, apologize but never for its extension. I-would deal geal gently with the hereditary sin of its being ; but [abhor the stuprndous volitional crime of its pro- pagandism. And when [ think what a scheme of continental enormity the slave power is strurgling to develope before us, my heart sickens with disgust and my soul 18 paralyzed with horror, The greit mar- ket for human eattle, if the slave power can succeed, is to'be opened in the new States ot the West, for which the supply is to be raised in the East. 'Our Atlantic States are to become the American Guinea. -- Old Virginia, the mother of Presidents, barren of tobacco and teeund of bipeds, has already gone to breeding babies for sale! Sweet Carolina is anxious to drive her children to the shambles. Asiatie Georgia has long been celebrated on the page of infamy, for selling her fair offspring to the harem; American Georgia is eager to outrival that shame, by selling her tawny danghters to the sugar field ana the gold mine. When the trade of human cattle-breeding is fully established, and the East shall annually pour her myriads of yoked, seourged and handeutfed live stock, like a miehty gulf- stream to the West, the prohibition of the forcign slaye-trade will be a fine protective tariff tor the encouragement of this domestic production, Then will come a erand slave- oeratic millenium, in which the East will be the slave-breeders, and the West. will be the slave-consumers; the South will be the slive-holders, and the: North the slaye- catchers. We shall doubtless then preserve. the " glorious Union /'--as elovions, for- sooth, as the ropes: and chains wherewith old Mezentinus bound the living man to the rotten corpse, If these indications of depravity.in the national heart were our only omens, or in themselves weve irremov- able, small would be the hope of regene- rating the public conscience into life, Our history, too, must turn out a' disastrous failure. Then wherever the star of hope should turn, whether tracing its steps back to wearied Christendom, or verging to. our occident, should curve over the broad Pa- cific. until west beeame east, the prospect would be equally desperate. ef renovating humanity on the shores of Europe, or the dains of Asia, Let these dark influences quench our lamp, and " [ know not where is the: Promethean fire that can that light relume.""--LPref, Whedon. Territ Conflavrration. A most destructive fire has occurred in Montreal, consuming a great number: of houses and much valuable property. It broke out 'on Thursday morning, the 8th inst. in St, Catherine-street, St. Lawrence suburbs, originating, in the outbuildings of the houses oceupied by Mr. Wauwzh, baker. From this it was ewrvied by the wind in a northeasterly direction, to the adjoining houses, which were all roofed with wool and generally built of the same material. the Jate dry weather having rendered them as dry as tinder the flames spread with astonishing rapidity. There was, again n» water in the reservoir when it commenced Within halfan hour after the commence- ment, # hundred houses were.on fire. They were conerally the dwellings of poorartizans and laborers, and it was the most heart- rending speetacl: to see the poor people gathe ing their household goods together and carrying them perhaps to some place where the Hames woald reach them ina few minutes, after carrying them, as they thoneht, toa plice of safety. Frequently hy the time they had removed the load, it was ton late to return for more, © Tn many instances the poor mother had just time to grasp her infant frony the flames, and rush ta an adjoining field or garden anc sink down despairiug and exhausted upon' the little remnant of proporty which her husbanl or children had been able to bring there. The despair and agony written on their features were most saddoning. From the Miin or St. Lawrence-street, the fire burned everything b-fore it along St, Cath rine and Dovchester, and widening its'pathway up toward Cote-a-Baroa, and downward toward Craig-st. As it went along in'St. Donnis street, notivithstanding the most strenaous exer- tions ta save them. the splendid buildinzs known as Cornwall Terrace, were con- sumed. Tie fire haying eaught in Bllstie's wood yard, and nothing but wooden buildings in- tervening between it and the Montreal Ge- neral Hospital, that institution was in immi- nent danger from about 1 o'eloek until 34, and the most strenous exertions were re- quired to k»ep the fire from reawhing it. The Bishop's Chareh and palace: fell a prey to the flames. The greater part ol 'the palace had been newly erected, and was a splendid ent stone building, with baautifully fluted columns b:fore the St. Catherine-st. front. That part of the city known as the Que- bee and Si. Lawrences suburhs is destroyed almost entirely making a clear sweep of a in width, principally d wallingss. The total number of buildings destroyed by the conflagration is frum 1.2 10 to 1,500 including chiefly those eceupied by the poorer classes in the suburbs of the city. Itis estimated that nearly 5.000 persons have been rendered houseless by this cala- inity, The loss is variously estimated at from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000, Misccllancous, : Brack 'ayy Wutre Agrs.--A tabular statement in the Charleston (S. C.) papers, of the anual mortality in that city, gives some interesting statistics tending to show that, asa general thing, there are more in- stances of deaths at an advanced age among the blacks than the whites. The total number of deaths in Charleston for the vear ending May, 1852. was 922, of which 533 were blacks, and 889 whites. Of the blacks ten were upwards of one hundred years of age at the time of death, and ten were between ninety and one hundred ; only three were over ninety. OsrArto AnD THE Scsqupianna.---The directors of the proposed railroad to con- nect Lake Ontario with the Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad, met at Auburn, June 21st. $450,000 in cash was subscribed, ineliiding the $100, 00 authorized to be taken by that city. SreamM ow tre Canat.--The steam tug Jacob Hinds passed through Lockport last Thursday, having in tow four of the largest class of, boats that can now navigate the eanal. They were heavily loaded with railroad iron, and as eighty-four tons was the smallest that any of them had, the aggregate amount of freiaht. must have been at least three hundred and twenty-six tons. It made no swell to wash the banks, but moved on smoothly, hardly 'breaking 'the surface of the stream with a ripple. New Postaor Bro. i tar U, S-- This important act, affecting newspapers and pamphlets has finally passed the House of Representatives. It is to take effect on the 1st of October next, and provides that printed matter shall be charged at the rate of one cent for two ounces forany distance under three vhousand miles, and one cent for every additional ounce or part of an ounce. For any distance over three thou- sand miles, double these rates. Postage to be paid in advance. But actual sub- seribers, recetying their papers regularly from the office of publication, will be charg- ed only half these rates. They may pay quarterly in advance at the office where they receive, their papers. . Bills and. re- ceipts may be enclosed by publishers with- out additional charge. Weekly papers are entirely free of postage within the county where they are published.-- Weekly Com- monwealth. Tue Montrear Scregrers.--The Pro- vincial Government of Canada has placed at the disposal of the relief committee £2 O0 for the relief of the sufferers by the fire. The citizens of Quebec have given £1700, and the Corporation of Montreal £1000. Six firms and individuals in N. Y- have united in-making up the sunr of five thousand dollars for the immediate relief of the sufferers by the fire in Montreal. This has been forwarded, and several tirms have headed the list. for another collection of five thousand dollars.-- Weekly Common- weallh. Ourkse Facrory.-- George Hezlep's gréat cheese factory, in Ohio, converts the milk of about 2,200 cows, belonging 10 farmers in the neighborhood, into the best cheese, by labor saving machinery. 'The enrd is made, sacked and marked' by the farmer, and sent to the factory by a wagon which daily gos the rounds, Eight teams are thus employed. The curd is then weighed, sliced rapidly in a machine. then passed through the double curd-eooking apparatus, then through a machine, whieh cuts it fine to powder and salts it while pas- sing thiough. It is then pressed, sacked, and again pressed. A machine sacks 240 cheeses per hour. The factory makes 800 cheeses daily, and weighing about 6,000 pounds, Nearly 410 tons aré' turned out yearly. Svswartve. Terecrarn perweex Ene- LAND. AND. IReLAND.--As has already been stated in the Tribune, the laying of the wire across St. George's Cliannel was per- formed on the Ist of June. The rope was yather less than one inch in diameter, and was composed of a central copper wile en- closed in a double gutta-percha tube, and surrounded by twelve galvanized iron wires. The breadth of the ehanvel being only 56 miles, eighty miles of line were put on board to prevent a repetition of the accident which happened between Dover and Calais. At compare the distance run over with the lenxht of the line run out, and it was found that only twelve miles of it had been expend-d. The next comparison showed 20 miles of line to sixteen miles' distance ; the next, 31 to 2%; the next, 55 to 47; finally, for the 59 miles' distance, only 65 miles of line were expended. During the operation the vessels moved at the rate The greatest ld spth passed over was 84 fathoms, the end of ten miles it was determined to | Newrouxprayp, Triecraru. -- FR, N Gishorne Esy., thes of the Newfound- land Electric Telegriph Co., has contraet- ed in England for the land wire throug! Newfoundland upon very favorable terms. Mr. Gisborne has also Mecred into contract for the submarine line connecting New- foundland with Nova Scotia upon terms much less than estimated. . Messrs. Newall and Co., of London, the contractors for the Newfoundland and sub- marine line, have also contracted to lay dott a line from the Hague to Harwigh. 4 a distance of 135 miles, and are now ue- gotiating with the French Government for a submarine line from France to Algiers, a distance of some 400 miles. Laziness.--Laziness grows on people ; it begins in cobwebs and ends in chains. 'The more business a man has, the more he is able to accomplish ; for he learns to eco- uomise his time. You cannot fathom your' inind. There is a well of thought there which has no hottom.. The more' you draw from it. the more clear and plentiful it will be. -- fa That state of life is most happy wherein superfluities are not required, aud necessaries are not wanting. y #a@ The Ironton Register details a case of kidnapping in Lawrence County, A begro man, who had been some time resi dent in that county, loaned some money ta a white man, by name Collier, who was to give a note for it, payable on demand; but, instead, a note was given payable ina year, including the interest. The negro could not read; but when he learned what the note was, called upon Collier for the money, which was refused. A diy or two. after he sent for the negro to come and get his money. Thé next, morning, Collier and two men, named Davis, wee seen taking him bound toward the Ohio River. Collier soon after returned, and went to church with the negro's clothes on! The absence of the negro, under the circumstances, ex- cited the neighborhuod, and Collier and the Davises were arrested and held to bail, jointly, in $300. It was soon after ascer- tained that a negro was in jail.at Greenup, Kentucky. He had free papers, which were taken from him.' The accused were in- dicted but made their escape into Kentucky, where they are at large. On Liberty. BY J... Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it; all constraint Except what wisdom lays on evil mea, Is evil--hurts the faculties~--impedes, Their progress in the road of science-- Blinds the eyesignt of discovery---begets, Jn those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial---a meagre intellect--unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form, Speak Out. Though an honest thought, outspoken, Lead thee into chains or death-- What is Life, compared with Virtue? Shalt thou not survive thy breath ¢ True Fricudshig. a If seandal or censure be raised 'gainst a friend, Be the last to believe it, the first to defen ; Say to-morrow will come, and then time will un- fol That' one story's good till another is told !' A friend's like a ship when with music and song The tide of good fortune still speeds him along ; But see him when tempest has made him « wreck, And.any mean billow may batter his deck ; But give him the hart thut true sympathy shows, and clings to the messmate, whatever wind blows, And says, when aspersion, unanswered grows old, Wait--' One story's good till another is told! GOOD PRINTER WANTED. NY Person who understands this Branch of Busiuess, who desires em- loyment, would do well to give us @ call at Windsor, Canada West. We will give a good Workman, wlio will come wed? recommended. liberal Wages and constant Employment tor One Year, or more, at the Office of the Voice of th. Fugitive, Windsor, July, 1852. DRESS MAKING. Wes. BUBB \ OULI) inform the Ladies of Windsor, sandwich and vicinity, that she has the newest Eastern and Parisian Fashions for Digss Sacate and VistE. She will be happy to wait on all who may favor her with their patronage. Windsor, July, 1852. PRICE REDUGED FO PIQUETTS SUPERIOR GOLD PENS, DIAMOND POINIED. $1,40 for Pen and Silver Holder. ERSONS in want of a fine fini-hed Gold Pen, with a SMOOTH POINT, will find a large a*sortm«nt to seleet from at the manufactory, 117 Jefferson Avenue, slate- colored front. DAMAGED PENS REPOIN IED, ita Medium 50 cents Engrossing 75 cents. Also Watch-repairing, such as Chronometers, Duplex, Anchors, Patent Levers, Lapine and Common Watches, cleaned and repaired by skilful workmen, Also a good stock of Watches, Jewelry and Silver Ware, at reduced prices. 5 Ata? DAMAGED PENS sent by mail enclosing the amount for repairs in Post- office Stamps will be promptly attended, DETROIT, 1851. NEW SPRING GOOSS AT t {HE BRITISH COMMERCIAL STORE, , WINDBOR, HE Subscriber, while tendering to the Public his thanks for past patronage, would respectfully solicit their attention to his new and extensive Stock of Fancy and Domestic WRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, CROCK. ERY, STATIONERY, _ BOOTS AND SHOES, READY- MADE CLOTHING, Prugs, Patent MArevicincs, sc., Which he offers for sale at most r-asonable prices, for Cash or Barter. All kind of Produce taken in Exchange. The Trade supplied on reasonable terms and at Low Prices. CASL) PATD FOR WOOL, Liberal advances made on Pot Ashes, Call and see for yourselves at the British Commercial Store.. Windsor, 10 June. Hu J. McCRAE. NEW INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, DETROIT, MICHIGAN, HE Undersigned would most respect- fully call your attention to his New Intelligence Office, directly opposite the Post Office, where he intends conducting the Business on the Eastern, plan, The Business will be conducted on strictly moral principles. . Families, Hotels, Rail- roads, Steamboats and Merchants, can, at all times, be supplied with. Servants, Laborers, Clerks, &c., at shortest notice. Buying and Selling Property, Collecting Rents, &e., promptly attended to, s T. J, HUTCHINS, Detroit, July 15. #ECRIPT . S J. May -- pays to Vol. 3No -1 P70 Roenna R. Staunton Bey V2, alert James Chase Oe 1 0 A. M. Wilson Ge Se 10 A. Hawkins Bay 16 10 Wilson Harris Bo LG a 0 James Spencer a, <1'6 30 tev. J. A. Thurman Bye iB eo Rev, William 'Anderson 3 ,, 16 LD Geoige WW. Hill Bis 16 ia, Henry Vestel 8 ,, 16 12 0 Thomas Blake SL Ke e D James Thorp * Be heres IAG William Jolinson ay Te LW Alexander Tarditf BB 1 0 Thomas Little ae pe Shee) L, D. Loey aoe 18 pry THE WINDSOR PRINWVUNS OFPPICE BIBB AND HOLLY ESPECTFULLY inform the inhabitante of Windsor and vicinit®, that they me now prepared to execute every description of work in their line with accuracy, neut- ness and despatch. Books, Pamphlets, Circulars, Handbills, &e., at Detroit Prices. Handbills struck off in one hour's notice. The patronage of the public is varnestly solicited. IT. BIBRB, Js te HOLLY, OMNce of the Voice of the Fugitive, Canada West. NEW CONFECTIONARY SALOON. A JESSRS. CARTER & FRESH wish to inform their Friends and the Pub- lic generally that they have neatly fitted up the Saloon on the Con: of Beaubian and Fort Streets, in the* City of Detroit, with a good assortment of Cu es, Crackers, Bread, Pies, Soda Water, Ice Cream, Candy, Raisins, Nuts, Fauits, &e. &e., for the ac- commodation of Ladies and Gen lemen, which willbe sold on the most hberal terms. Come and " taste and try before you buy." Satisfaction is warranted, or no pay. SAVE YOUR MONEY AND PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH. -- STUCCO WASH. HE Subscriber would respectfully inform the Citizens of Detroit, that he is pre- pared to wash the outside of Buildings with Stucco, givin: them an excellent -| water-proof coat, of any color desired. Stucco Wash is superior to Pajpt in durability ; resisting wet, and preventing dampness in brick houses, and can be fur- nished at less cost. He bas also a beautiful and durable wash for wood. Rooms neatly whitewashed, He will promptly attend to calls, whether made through the Post Office, or to him self personally, at his residence, corner of Fort and Randolph streeta, E. VANSANDT, Bz The above Stucco Wash reosived |+ Premium at the last State Fair. >