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Poems, Anechotes and Shetehes. MY LAMBS. : I loved them so ' That when the elder Shepherd of the fold Came, covered with the storm, and pele and eold, And begged for one of my sweet lambs to hold, 1 bade him go. He elaimed the pet, | A little fondling thing, that to my breast | Cluag always, either in quiet or unrest. ‘ 1 thought, of all my lambs, Ilovwgd him best ; And yet—and yet— I Jaid bim down In those white, shroudad arms, with bitter tears; For seme voice told me that, in after years, He should know nought of passion, grief or fears, As I had known. And yet again That elder Shepherd came : my heart grew faint; He claimed another lamb—with sadder plaint Another !—she who, gentle as a saint, Ne'er gave me pain. 3 Aghast I torned away! There sat she, lovely s an angel's dream, Her golden locks with sunlight all agleam, Her boly eyes with heaven in their beam. , I knelt to pray. i “Is it Thy will # My Father, say must this pet lamb be given ? Ob! Thou hast many such, dear Lord, in Hea ven;"” Ard s soft voice said, “‘ Nobly hast thou striven, But—peace, be still " Ob ! how I wept, And clasped her to my bosom, witha wild And yearning love ! - my lamb, my pleasant ehild! Hartoo I gave! The little angel smiled, And slept ! ; “Go! go!" I cried, For once agein that Shepherd laid His hand Upon the noblest of our household band ; Like a pale spectre, thero he took his stand, Close to his side. And yet how woundrous sweet That look with which he heard my passionate ery, Touch not my lamb! For him, oh! let medieo!” * A little while,” he said, with smile and sigh, Again to meet.” Hopeless T fell, And when I rose, the light had burped so low, So faint, T could not sce my darling go. He bad not bidden me farewell ; but oh ! | I felt farewell, More deeply far Than if my arms had compass'd that slight frame; Thougk could I but have heard him eall my pame-— Deer mother!’—but in Heaven ’‘twill be the sama - There burns my star ! He will not take Azother lamb, I thought, for only cne Of the dear fold is spared, to be my sun, . f My guide, my mourner, when this life is done— ! My heart would break. | Oh! with what thrill ‘ I heard him enter ! But I did not know { (For it was dark) that he had robbed me so : | Theidol of my soul—ke could not go— i Oh! heart, be still ! Came morning : ean I tell , How this poor frame its sorrowful tenant kept ? For waking tears were mine ; I sleeping wept, ’ And days, months, years, that weary vigil kept. | Alas! “ farewell!” t How often it is said ! I sit and think, and wonder, too, sometime, How it will seem, when in that happier clime, _ It never will ring out, like funeral chime Over the dead ! No tears! No tears ! Will there o day come that I shall not weep ? For I bedew my pillow in my sleep ; Yes, yes, thank God! no grief that elime shall keep— No weary years. Ay, it is well ! Well with my lambs, and with their earthly guide; There, pleasant rivers wander they beside, | Or strike sweet harps upon its pleasant tide— Ay, it is well ! . Through the dreary day They often come from glorious light to me : I ecannot feel their touch, their faces see, Yet my soul tells me they do come to me— . Heaven is not far away ! Quick oy Ttoe Tricer.—* You will please observe,” said old Mr. Lambwell, as he led us through his school the other day, “ that the boys are required to observe the utmost attention to quietness as well as to discipline.” We had at this moment arrived in front of several boys standing around a water bucket, and one had just charged his mouth with the contents of the cup, while the old gentleman was stooping over to recov er his pen from the floor, when another passing along behind, snapped his thumb qaite under the drinker’s ear, and caused Lim on a sudden to eject the contents of his mouth over the pedagogue’s bald pate. Btanding upright, with his face and hair dripping, the master shouted : * Who did that ?” ‘The party unanimously cried out, “Jim Gun, sir.” “James Gun, what did you do that for 77 Jim, appalled at the mischief he had done, muttered that it was not his fanlt— that Tom Owen snapped him. This changed the direction of old Lamb well’s wrath, and shaking his cane porten tiously over Owen’s heag, he asked : . “Did you snap Gun ?” “The culprit, trembling with fear, mut tered : “Yes, sir, I snapped Gun, but I didn’t know that he was Fo&dod P Respvg versus THiNgING.—It was pre dicated of & young man lately belonging to oneof the universities, that he would certainly become a prodigy, because he read sixteen hours a day. “Ah! re lYied a fellow-student, “but how many Kuurs a day does he think ?” Too Creax.—Pescater keeps a tavern. Visitors have only one objection to Pescater —he is too clean. Before lie cuts you a piece of steak, he always licks the knife, so that it may not have any taste of ham and “th.m w.” THE SPIRITS IN THE WOODS. _o_—. BY A BACKWOODSMAN. —o— ‘ The table moving was tried by all g}‘ac-’ ing our hands in a ring, upon atable. The effect was almost instantly seen. Our weight could not hold the table down to the floor. Slowly it raised, but tipping a lit‘le, wo fell headlong into the pancake batter, the table and batter rising as we went down. J. would have langhed at our fall, had not H. trod heavily upon his corns. Instead of langhing he looked like cursing. H. was grave, and declared that the spirits compelled him to step where he did. It was evident that we had “got up the Dutch” of our unseen visitors. Wish ing to get at a good understanding with them, we tproposed to learn, by rapping, a variety of matters particularly interesting, and at the same time test, by mental ques tions and otherwise, their spiritual intelli gence and veracity. Perhaps I cannot do better than to give the questions and an swers as they occurred. “ Are the spirits present " . “'They am, sir.” “ How many of them?” | “Mor'n you all can shake a stick at.” ! - % Are they good spirits 7” | “ Fourth proof, and no mistake.” | “From what sphere ?” | “The top noch.” 1 oW they converse with us?” i “Well they will, hosses.” These replies were rapped out as we ‘ drew our fingers over the letters of the al. phabet. Verbal questions were first asked l by different members of the “ circle.” i "% Will any spirit called for appear and answer 7" < “S.a-r-tain.” “Is Cain present " “ He happens to be.” | “Was the club with which he slew Abel hickory or white ash, and what did ke cut it with 7 | “Yes, twant either. It was a shoemake 1 ball-club, cut with a butcher-knife.” This important question settled, Cain stood aside, and Belshazzar was called. “Do you remember the feast when the handwriting appeared on the wall?” “I make out to.” “Were you—begging pardon, sir—un der the influence of intoxicating liquors | that evening " | “Drunk, gentlemen, as a bil'd owl.” ' “Drink champagne or Monongahela?” | “Neither. Owing to the scarcity of | log-wood, we went in blackstrap and clear { rot-gut.” “ Any of the women tipsy ?” ~ “They wan't nothing else, I reckn. Mrs. Belshazzar was so limber-like that in playing * snap-and-ketch-em,” she fell into the oyster-kettle, and broke a turtle-shell comb all to smash.” “Was it fright that made your knees smite together 7" “No sir. I was so almighty tired 1 couldn’t keep ’em from smiting together, nohow.” “Was Cyrus one of the b’hoys ?” “Well, no great scratch. He took the advantage of us when we were on a bend er. He was a cold water fanatic and an enemy to the constitution.” “ Are you in favor of the Maine Law ?” * Not—by—a—jug—full.” “Do you get ‘anything to take’ where you are 7’ “Not a drop. I've got a thundering hankering after a snifter.” “ Help yourself to the cold water on the ! table, old boy.” ' “Go to the devil with your cold water.” l “Is Balaam present ?” i “ What do you want of Balaam ?” | “ How old was that jackass of hism ?” | “ He would have been four yearsold the | next general training.” “ Are there any jackasses in your sphere, | Mr. Balaam ?” | “No, you impudent puppies. The jack- ‘ asses are all on earth yet” - : [This ill-natured insinuation was re- § ceived with enthusiastic raps by the spir- | its. I 1 ‘] Is the boss builder of the Tower of | ‘Babel present?” o | “ He am.” | “ Was the 'Tower built of brick or ] stone ?” | “ Brick.” t “ How many thousand of brick was in ’ the concern ?” “ An almighty heap of them, you'd bet ter believe.” “How much did they cost per thousand ?” “Four dollars and a half at the kiln.” . “ How many Irishmen did it take to car ry mort ?” ’ “ Nine millions and rising.” [“That’s a lie, I know, muttered H. A smart rap on his sore shin under the table made him aware that the foreman of Ba t bel was around.] The enquiries were con- ‘ tinued. . : “ Was there any confusion of language l among the workmen ?” | “ Considerable, I must admit—a perfect hullabaloo.” | “What did the king say when he ex amined into the matter {” “ Nz for stay " i “One thing more Mr.—Mr.—What's your name—" ‘ “ Smith, if you please.” | “Well, Mr. Smith—one thing more: Was it true that Nebuchadnezzar was made to mix clay on the sweep ?” “True, and a thundering good ox he was, too. He ground all the clay for the Tow er of Babel.” ! *“ Did he have brass knobs on his horns 7” i “He hadn't horns—he was a mueley.” i “Was he a—-" ' ' i “Go to thunder! I won't have any thing more to say to youn.” | “Was he a short-horned Durham or De | von 1" i [No answer. The foreman of the Tow ier of Babel had evidently, believing him ' self quizzed, gone off in a “ huff.”] | The circle continued its sitting, after H. | had filled his pipe, and 1 had spent a few moments in the open air. Noah was now called and found to be present. - “Were you Commodore of that old craft called the Ark?” l “1 was.” , { “Was there much of a shower about those days " - “ Shower! my dear sir, it poured down hat did you sail u lish |or F‘rencl‘fiE : 7 . : 113 Dutch.vr : : “Who was pilot?” } - o “ Christopher Columbus.” % How many animals kad you on board “ Several hundred.” “Any Know Nothings among them ?” “Not one. They were all drowned.” “ Was it true that Belshazzar hailed you on a life-preserver, and told you to go to thunder with your old tub, and guessed there wouldn't be much of a shower?” “He did.” “Why didn’t you take him in?” “He was taken in a few minutes after that—all over.” “Had you any of Barnum’s fire annihi lators on hoard ?” ~ “T'wo or three hundred of them to put out the candles at night.” “One more question, Commodore Noah. What beeame of the dove that went out’ and never returned ?” “Some snipe hunter on Mt. Arrarat shot it.” “ Are Joe P———"s dove's chickens of the one shot 7” . “So said to be—this explains why they are sometimes shot.” : “ Was there any wharf at Mt. Arrarat " “ Nothing but a white-oak snubbing-post and Yankee grocery.” “ Was the Yankee there himself 1" “ Yes, sat on a herring-box, whittling.” “What did he say when you hove in sight ” “ H-a-l-l-oo! what craft is that? Been looking for you this tew days, by goll! Sa-a-y, neow, spose you don’t want to buy any hams nor Wethersfield unyuns, nor nothing, dew ye ?” . ADVERTISEMENTS. &, C Ee ... ARG @he Auglo-Africn Flagasine, A MONTHLY OCTAVO OF 32 PAGES, DEYOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, STATISTICS, AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CAUSE oy HUMAN FREEDOM. Its objects are :— To present a clear and eoncise statement of the present condition, the past history, and the pros peets of the colored population of the United States, free and enslaved. To afford scope for the rapidly rising talent of colored men in their special and general literature. To examine the population movements of the colored people. To pr_esei_it a reliable statement of their reli gious condition, and of their moral and economie statisties. To present 4 statement of their edueational con dition and movements. Of their legal condition and status in the seve ral States. To examine into the basis on which rest their claims for citizenship of the several States, and of the United States. To present an elaborate account of the various Books, Pamphlets and Newspapers, written or ed ited by colored men. To present the biographies of noteworthy col ored men throughout the world. On the condition and prospects of free colored men, by common assent, rests, in a great degree, the condition and prospects of enslaved colored men. Hence, besides the intrinsic interest which attaches itself to uflmugazinc with such scope and information, the aid of all who wish to advance the great cause of Immediate Emancipation, is ear nestly solicited for its support. Trrus.—One Dollar per year, payable invaria bly in advanee. The January number contains an accurate and beautifully executed portrait of ALEXANDER DUMAS. : "% All communieations should be directed to THOS. HAMILTON, 48 Beekman-st., N. Y.; P. O. Box 1212, CONTRIBUTORS. Rev. Bishop PAYNE. « J. W. C. PENNINGTON, D. D, « J. THEO. HOLLY. “« H. HHIGHLAND GARNET. « AMOS GERRY BEMAN. | “ E.P. ROGERS,. | « CHAS. B. RAY. | « JONATHAN C. GIBBS. } « ROBERT GORDOX. ‘ + EDWARD W. BLYDEXN. | J. HOLLAND TOWNSEND. l ROBERT HAMILTON. ‘ WILLIAM J. WILSON i ADAM RAY. W. MILLER DUTTON. WM. H. HALL. CHAS. M. WILSON. GEORGE T. DOWNING. J. M. BELL. MARY A. S. CARY. MARY E. CARY. SARAH M. DOUGLASS. GRACE A. MAPPS. JAMES M'CUNE SMITH. MARTIN R. DELANY. JOHN V. DEGRASSE. JAMES FIELDS. T. JOINER WHITE. GEO. B. VASHON. M. H. FREEMAN. CHAS. L. REASON. | EBENEZER D. BASSETT. ‘ ROBERT CAMPBELL. ' FREDERICK DOUGLASS. WILLIAM C. NELL. WILLIAM WHIPPER. J. MERCER LANGSTON JUNIUS C. MOREL. WM. JAMES WATKINS. PARKER T. SMITH. CHARLES LENOX REMOND. EMMA GLOUCESTER WHITE. FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS. ELIZABETH WATERS. NOTICES OF THE PRESS.] The Anglo-African Magazine is the title of n‘ new candidate for {»ub]ia favor, the first (January) ‘ number of which lies before us. Tt is published in the interest of that elass of our fellow-citizens who are disfranchised by the Dred Scott deecision, and its contents, in their generality, epeak very significantly of the injustice done them by the c(?minions of some of the Judges of the Sn*yreme ourt. #* * * ;( * te* We hail thea rance of this Magazine as a & in the right di};gee:ion. and trust that it will not bl; suffered to lack for the want of support.—Evan gelist (New York.) Among the various new publications recently announced, we are glad to learn of the establish ment of & mnguine condueted entirely by colored Bersons. and devoted to the soeial, mol»‘af and po- | itical advancement of their brethren,—lndepend dent (New York.) ' The Magazine is one of great ability, interest and taste, and will bear a eumwrison with those of mueh g:eater pretensions. We sincercly hope the friends of the colored people wflmnizo this work and help them in this honorable effort ‘to put themselves in a position which they de gerve, and which their enemies would fain prevent them from nttaining. “Blake ; or the %ufi of America,” is beautifully written and filled with thrilling interest.—American Baptist (New York) . Itis a creditable publication. * * * Sueh & journal will, if rigfitghcondncted, do muech to raise the condition of this class of our population, and inspire them with & manly selfirespect, and ADVERTISEMENTS. breathe a Christian aim into their struggles.— Christian Inquirer (New York.) The colored citizens of the United Statcs num ber many men of culture and marked ability as speakers and writers, and they haye established a monthly in New York, entifleg the Anglo-African Magazine, which is certainly creditable in style, execution and literary merit. * * * * {Ve hope that its success may be such as to encour age its undertakers to yet greater exertions to im provement, even amid the difEculties which lie in their way.—National Era (Washington, D. C.) The new year has thus far brought to our notice nothing more gratifying and encouraging than this new publication. 'lihe advent of & monthly mag azine, devoted to Literature, Science, Statistics, ete., is no new thing under the sun, and especially not new in our country. The United States abound in sueh publications ; but to our knowl edge, nothing of the character of the magazine be fore us, has ever been attempted by any member or members of the colored race i the United States. We have had numerous newspapers, a good many pamphlets, a few unpretending poems, a few biographical sketches, mostly narratives of fugitive slaves, some written by themselves, others only written at their dictation, the amanuensis fur nishing the words, and the fugitives the facts; but bevong these, nothing has been even attempted. The Anglo-African is a bright new fact, nn& we trust the beginning of an era in the mental, moral, and religious history of the eolored people in this Refinblic. Whatever may be the fate of this new publication, in point of patronage, whether it shall suceeed or fail, for want of su}i{)ort, we sin cerely rejoice to see the attempt made, and made 8o well. * * * * * * * - The feature of the Magazine for the present month is the essay of Dr. }3 M'Cune Smith,fshow ing the dependence of Civilization on physieal i circumstances. The subjeet is one of great inter est, independent of its bearings upon relations ex isting in this country. To those who know Dr. Smith, it need not be said that his essayis a learned and masterly one. But we will say this and more, for it is an original and brilliant pro duction—one which we would gladly see in the hands of all the political and ethnological malign- | ers of the coloreg races of men. Martin R. De%a- | ny, it will be seen, has chosen a lofty subject. e Las given a peeuliar theory, ascribing to electricity the office of keeping the heavenly bodies in order, which other very able men have ascribed to the law of gravitation. Mr. DelanP' dismisses all our fears that this firm old earth of ours is to be smashed up one of these coming days by a colli sion with any other body in space. We shall re fer again to this new magazine, and meanwhile wish } Mr. Thomas Hamilton, its enterprizing publisher, every suceess in this praiseworthy effort to pro ‘mote literature and learning among our people.— | Frederick Douglass’ Paper (Rochester, N. Y) It discusses in an able manner the econdition.’ past and present, and the future prospects, of the eolored population of the United States. Such in tellectnal efforts, affording scope for the aspirin f free colored population, deserve patronage; ang we heartily hope the Magazine wiE be well sup ported. We d[: not ¢xpeet to agree with all the views which may be presented in it, but heartily ’ wish it success.” Thus far the articles are good specimens of thought and composition.—New York Colonization Journal. Its list of contributors will embrace the most prominent colored writers and speakers in the country. The present number is very creditable. —Liberator (Boston.) % We are much pleased with the first number of the Anglo-African Magazine issued by our old friend Thomas Hamilton."— Visitor ( Franklin, N. Y.) “There is a well-written introductory, but the ablest and most elaborate article is that on Civil ization—its Dependence on Phyeical Circum stances,” by James M'Cune Smith, a colored phy sician of much distinction in New York. Itshows much research and thought. * * * * * * The Magazine commences its carcer with a modest appearance and subseription price—a favorable sign of permanence and success. We hope that it will be “taken by all the colored personsin our village who are able, as it cannot fail to improve them, intellectually, morally, and physically.— Daily Republican ( Binghampton, N. Y.) “ Here is a curiosity—the first number of a montbly Magazine. Eub’lished and edited by eol ored men, its contributors mainly colored people. Among these contributors we notice the names of those whom we know to possess talent of a high order : Rev. H. H. Garnet, Dr. James M’Cune Smith, Frederick Douglass, J. W. C. Pennington, Marvy A.S. Carey, Sarah M. Douglass, Geo. B. Vashon, M. H. Freeman, &ec. Among the number of contributors named, no doubt others of equal talent are included ; but we are not so well able to t’slpeak of others. * ® » : . ¥ he articles are generally creditable ; the Intro ductory, and one on *Civilization—its Depend ence on Physical Circumstances,’ are certainly able.”"—Daily Dispatch (Pittsburgh, Pa.) “This first number gives promise of an inter esting and valuable journal, and we hope the ex periment of its publisher will be a decided sue cess.” — Free South, (Newport, Ky.) \ ~ «This Magazine is one of the best appearing - monthlies we have seen from the American press, and the leading articles, and those from the con tributors, contain arguments and general informa tion that should be procured by every family, and ! particularly young men, and treasured up. Let the friends of literature and progress subscribe for it, read and preserve it. 'Fhe contributors are l among the ablest writers we have, and from the ' number interested in this work, at the end of the year, you that subseribe will have the material to lmake an interesting volume."—Provincial Free man (Chatham, C. W) ’ | ANGLO-AFRICAN MaGazine.—We have received | the number three of a handsomely printed Maga- ‘ zine, under the above title, published in New ' York, by Thomas Hamilton, No. 48 Beekman | street. Never have we received a monthly which, } in view of the cireumstances under which it has ' been issued, and the manifest ability exhibited on f ' every page, that has given us so much pleasure. It ‘ ' is managed exclusively by colored men, and filled | | alone with the contributions of their pens. It con- | | tains very able_articles by the folllt)):ving distin- | uished colored men: Dr. Martin Delany, Dr. ’gamesM’Cmm Smith, Rev.J. W.C, Pennington D. ’ ' D, J. Holland Townsend, Esc&., Robert Campbell. | ' No colored man who ean read should be without | it, and every friend of the colored American should ! patronize it.— Republican ( Norristuwen, Pa.) ! ' AnGLo-Avricay Magazise.—The first number | | of this Magazine, published by Thomas Hamilton, , 48 Beckman street, N. Y., has appeared. We ! think it will be read with interest by all who re | ceive it. The third article, Civilization—its De- | ' ndence on Physical Circumstances,” by Dr. ‘ g:mes M’Cune Smith, we regard as peculiarly in | struetive and valuable. The idea that in nations advanced in civilization, the sources of intellectual | power spring from the common Feop]e, the physi cally vigorous, is hupaily developed, and worthy of general attention. We wish suceess to the An glo-African Magazine.—American Missionary, (New York.) “ We wish it could be put in the gosaession of every negrophobia-monger in the land.— Student’s ‘ Monthly (Overlin, O.) “This publication, considered relatively to its scope and design, will oom‘?are favorably with any ‘ other.”’—Star (Brooklyn, N. el “We should judge it to be rather superior to | the most of the monthlies. ¥ a il o We hope it may meet with a large cirenlation.” — Repository of Religion and Literature (Indianapolis, Ind.) Epiror or TriseyE :—I have just received from the office of the Anglo-African Magazine, Pl{b- ! lished in New York, three numbers, and, as 8 trib ute to both enterprise and merit, I desire to say a few words on the subject. " | While there is a spirit that would erush the eolored race, and trample them under foot as infe vior, it is cheering to witness & single triumph of our colored friengn, and see them mse in manliness and gower, in -pitc of prejudice and hate. If any one doubts their upward tendency, their want of elements essential to elevation, let him call over and read a single article inone of these Magazines, and then blush for the in!‘l:&oe» done a crushed fieople. The talent and taste exhibited would do | honor to any Magazine Eublinhed in our nation. Nor would we thus oEen of a single author or a 8 single article ; the whole work glows with the evi | denee of talent and scholarship—far more so than many of the popular mefiom of the pross. Let our eitizens interest ives in the Anglo-Afri ean Magazine, and while the em the en terprise, they will also befllgt' e by an ADVERTISEMENTS. inerease of useful knowledge, and a decrease of un generous and unreasonable prejudices. [ com mend it to our Reading Rooms, and to every pri vate family, as a work of decided merit, for only one dollar a year—Rev. R. H. Conklin, in Tribune (Providence, R. 1) “This monthly, published at New York, b{ Thomas Hamilton, is edited and written by col ored people. It is an able Magazine. Some sta tistieal articles on the colored population of the United States, evinee a t deal of research, and are valuable.”—Zion’s g::dd (Boston, Ms.) . ¢We have the third number of this work before us, and have perused it. It is certainly an able work,”-—Thcl;’ero:pect(Charlestmm, Ind.) | ANGLO-AFRICAN MAGAZINE.-—A new monthlfi in the phlet form, issued at 43 Beekman-st., New Yorm one dollar per annum, by our friend ‘Thomas Hamilton, promises good things, solid things, noble, elevating. The first number exhibits tact, talent, erudition, scientifie investigations, the pen of a ready writer. The contributions are of the highest order. The narratives, sufferings and hair-breadth escapes of fugitives from the land of Egypt and Pharaoh’s host, are trulg marvelous, wunéerful ! No romanee can equal them, and yet they are solid facts. These narratives will grace every number of this new monthly, and will doubtless give it a wide circulation. Anything and everything caleulated to elevate and emanci pate the colored race, meets our warmest sympa thies. The band of God is in it. “ Ethiopia is soon to stretch forth her hands to God.” Friends, hand in your names, enclose $1 to Mr. Hamilton, 48 Beekman-st.—Golden Rule (New York.) This is a new Magazine, but, as its name im ports, it is to fill an existing void, and circulate in a sphere peculiarly its own. It is to be the organ of the colored race. It has been projected by col ored men, and, in the main, will Ee condueted by them. The initial number appears well. Its leading articles are of a high orger, and give evi dence that if ““ negroes have no rights which white men are bound to resEect,” they at least wield pens which, one day, shall work out the redemp tion of their race, and extort from the proud and domineering Anglo-Saxon the justice now so per sistently denied them. The opening article is an introductory one by the Yublisher, Mr. Thomas Hamilton, who suc- | cinetly states the objects he has in view, and the work which he and his fellow-laborers undertake to do. There are paragraphs somewhat cavstic ; we refer to those comparing colored and white scholars, one comparison being between scholars in the City of New York, ang another between students in French colleges. » * * * * » * » The main article, ** Civilization—its Dependence on Physical Circumstances,” is by Dr. James M’- Cune Smith, a gentleman of ligeral education, though for it he is not indebted to his own coun try, having been obliged to obtain it in Europe, where the tiger-ferociousness of caste of coloris un known. It 1s an able Faper, and conclusively dis | Erovos the current philosophy which predicates “human advancement, or, in other words, eiviliza tion, on the innate superiority of a race; but, on the contrary, shows that it is due rather to eli mate and geographical position. The paper is learned, pregnant with facts, so skillfully handled, that the defiuctions are beyond the possibility of being overthrown. The doetrine of innate superi ority of race is scattered to the winds. This cen tury-nursed lie, which has been made the excuse for slavery, with all its horrors and barbarities, which to-day, in these nominally free States, crushes the colored man beneath a remorseless prejudice and a fiendish spirit of caste, command ing him to quench the fires of aspiration as he feels them burning in his soul, to be a hewer of wood and drawer of water, a menial, feeling no manhood, to keep shut the windows of his soul, never opening them to let in the sun-light of knowle(i)ge, is eviscerated, and shown to be but the invention of the oppressor, as an excuse for his dark and damning ({)eeds and crimes. When the despised negro can ply such artillery as this, it is time to pause, and ask what we are to gain by at tempting longer to hold him down. The time is approaching when the black race now in this country will be a fearful power, unless we relax the hand of oppression. They are under the tem perate parallels, where all circumstances conspire to give them physical and mental R:wer. In eac%l decade, the census figures show that they in crease in a ratio which, ere long, will reach that {)oint when the red right hand of revolution will »e raised, elenching a sword, beneath whose heavy blade fetters will be but as flaxen strings, and op pressors but as men of elay. The negro is natur ally patient and docile—naturally he abhors blood and strife ; but there are examples which emphat ically warn us that, in the school of slavery, and under the treatment he receives when he is lyookeJ u})on as he is now, by a large portion of this peo ple, he aptly learns the aphorism of Jefferson, and which we profess to believe a God-ordained one— “ Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God ! St. Domingo thunders in our ears, ‘ Beware! Take your hands from your vietim's throat, or meet the retributive justice ready to pour upon your heads wrath more terrible than the seven wvials of the Apocalypse ! Such are some of the thoughts which have sug gested themselves while we have been writing this notice. Others there are which come thronging around our pen, but this is no time for their utter ance. In conclusion, we would say, we are glad this Magazine has been established. Conducted as there is every reason to believe it will be, it will demonstrate that Anglo-Africans stand on the plane of progress, and are not those brutish beings they have been represented to be. 1t is ealm and dignified, manful in its tone, counselling the col ored man to toil on and vindieate his race, by be ing true to the instinets of his nature, notwith standing the other races proudly affect superiori ty, and look down with scorn and contempt. The Magazine is published by Thomas Hamil ton, at 48 Beckman street, New York, at %1 a year. We mention the terms, because we hope there will be many who will subscribe, if for no other purpose, to see “what good can come out of Narragansett.’— Pendulum (Greemwich, R. 1) BOOKS. | PUBLIC ATIONS FOR SALE BY THOS. HAMILTON, . 48 Beekman street, New York. | THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY | OF A FEMALE SLAYE, In one vol,, 12mo. Price One Dollar. EXTRACTS FROM RECOMMENDATIONS AND NOTICTS, From Hon. W. H. Seward. DEAR Sir :—Just on the eve of my departure from home, I received the volume which you had sent me entitled the * Autobiography of a Fe male Slave.”” I read it with fixed interest from beginning to end, and 1 have met no recent pub lication that has seemed to me so truthful, just and benevolent, and so likely to touch the hearts and consciences of men in regard to the practice of slavery. Accept my thanks for it, with my best wishes, less for the sake of the author or for our own than for the sake of our country and of Kumanity, that the book m?' obtain a free and wide circulation. I am, &e., &e. “ But here at last is a genuine, bona fide voice from the South. Out of the very company of the slaveholders themselves, bristling with ‘defi ance of the world, comes this wail of mingled pity and condemnation.”—Anti-Slavery Standard. “ Each page, each line, each word, scems drawn out of a seetiing cauldron of human agony, drip ping from its bloody baptism.”— West. Liz. Mag. THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH. A Statistical View of the Condition of the FREE and SLAVE STATES. By Henry Chase and Charles W. Sanborn, Compiled from Offi cial Documents. 12m0,, bound in eloth. Price 50 cents. The able editor of The Evening Transcript. Boston, speaks thus of this work : “This Etfle book contains & vast amount of in formation respeoting the eo.xgrntive condition of the Slayeholding and non-S vehddiu? States, as to territory, population, industry, wealth, edu eation, intelligence, rel'%i‘zn, moi-aiY advancement and general PNFN“" work must have cost a great deal of laborious research, and it certain ly presents arguments in favor of freedom on ev ery page. It contains just the kind of informa tion that should be more finenny known in sall sections of the country. We hope there will be & public dewand for thousands of copies.” ; THE GREAT BOSTON SLAVE CASE, ANTHONY BURNS, . A HISTORY, ; BY CHARLES EMERY STEVENS. e Illustrated from On% Dfl'm?mado by sn. 5 eye-witness. 12m0., cloth, 75 gents, - | BOOKS. The volume gives the seeret history of the case l togethier with personal sketehes of the princijmll characters, including Judge Loring, Wendell Phillips; Richard H. Dana, Jr., Théo(fi»rc Parker, Gov. Gardner, Gen. Edmands, Mavor Smith, Hal- Jet Freeman, the Suttle Familv, &e. In an ap pendix will be found official docuuents, letters, and other matter illustrative of the subject, to gether with a detailed account of the first slave case under the Constitution of 1780, in which the Supreme Court decided that Slavery no longer existed in Massachusetts. FORTY YEARS IN SLAVERY. THE KIDNAPPED AND THE RANSOMED , Being the personal recollections of Peter Still ans his wife Vina, after forty years in Slavery. BY MRS. KATE E. R. PICKARD, With'an introduetion by Rev. Samuel J. May, and a Biogra&hical Sketeh of Seth Coneklin, by William . Furness, D. D. 1 vol., 4 illustrations, 408 pp. 12me. Price $l, , iostage paid. Peter Still was kidnappped in early childhood from the door-step of his home in New Jersey. For more than forty years he was a slave in Ken tucky and Alabama. At last he purchased his frcogom by the slow accumulation of extra labor, and returning to the region of his birth, found his yet surviving mother and his numerous brothers and sisters, living in and near Philadelphia. His wife and three children, under the pilotage of Seth Concklin, attempted to eseape, but were re-cap tured at Vincennes, Indiana. Peter immedinte}v set about collecting the means for their purchase. The sum demanded for them was exorbitant— ss,ooo—and would have discouraged almost any other man than Peter Still. Vet the strong social feeling and the energy of his race were strikingly manigst in his untiring ?crseverance, which was crowned with success, and Peter had the unspeak able pleasure of bringing his houschold to a free home, where they ean quietly enjoy their own fireside, free from the master’s frown and the dri ver's lash. The writer of this narrative was a highly es teemed teacher in the Female Seminary at fi'us eumbia, Alabama, who had ever{ opportunity to acquire Jwersonnl knowledge of al tl]:e prominent facts and circumstances which she has narrated. We can promise the lovers of exciting adventure very much in this volume to gratify their taste, and all those who really desire to fathom the heights and degths of that iniquity which is threatening the destruetion of our Republie, may turn to it in the assurance that they will find in 1t much valuable information, given with the striet est regard to truth. THE MARTYRS AND THE FUGITIVE. BY THE REV. § H. PLATT. Author of “ The Gift of Power,” d&e., and “ Christ and Adornments,” &e. 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