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- tilished at Ravenna, Portage ' Co.", Olio.
, JLYJUAN Vv. HALL Proprietor. -".
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tlalesof Adverlitvnq. ' r:- .' " :
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eicopt althe option of the Publisher. V. i.",. ..
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
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7iw.Dr. J. Willis,
.-.i sThysleian and Surgeon Streetsboro,Obio.
ti. I'ralf, M. IK ,
PHYSICIAN' AND . SURGEON,
Office in P. W." Seymour's building on the public
square, nearly opposite the Court House. .- -
simjn. Doane Wellman, M. D.
f HYStClAN ANl SURGEON.
-,V asi? X)Jict onMaiMtrett,No.VJS. . - "T
F. H. Wait, IU. D.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, -
Rinm., Poutet Uorucrv. Ohio,
Office at the old stand of Streator ic Haiti
Ravenna, March 6, 1850.
Dr. B. TSpellman,.
Dentist Raveina Ohio.. KJIfire in Seymour's Clock,
over the Post Office. -, - .
M. Birchard & J. XV. Tyler,
; ATTY'S COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
.Rare agreed to become jointly interested in tlieir
professional business in Portage county. . Tl;ey niay
'?k eonsalted at Havenna during tlie terms of court
or at their offices in vacation.' - - - -
Address in vacation Birchard & SutliD", Warren,
O-, or Birchard A Tyler, I ranklin Wilts, O. .
1, T. BIEBCE. "" N- L. JEFFHlES
.' ' Bierce & Jcflries. ';
Attorneys at Law. Office over Swift's Iru Store, oppo-
-. -aito the Court Uouse.
'.r .1 F. W. TAPPAN,
AtTOt-NKY. & COUNSELLOR AT Law,
& So
v, fciciTda it (Jhanceey. . - ,.. .-. "
it Chanceey. :
Office nearly opposite tlie Prentiss House, Ravenna, O.
1 Hakm Strawceu i
O. P. Browb
Slrawdcr & Brown. ,
AttonSevs at Law Bavenna. Ohio Office at the
. , tJourt House. ....
. H. Willard.
AA TTORNBYAND C OVNSEL OR A TLA
, AND 60LICITOR IN CHANCERY. '
vvt '-: falmyrat'-Portage County, Oliio. '1
Aagait 21, 1849. . . - . ' :
Itl. W.
" A ttomey ot Law and Solicitor in Chancery, Office over
Campbell's !Shop, public square, Kavenna, Ohio.
J. L. HAHMEX,
T.. H. TAVLOH
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Ranncy & Taylor
ATTORNEYS & Counsellors at Ijw. arid Solicitors
in ChaatMry, Ravcntia, Ohio.
t CT. Ouloeover Seymour's store.. . ,
; . Darius Lyman.
1.-,M y -- ATT OR ff'E Y AT L A IV,
' RavsitsA, Pobt!E Co., Ohio. '
CT Office in Uuod's Iluilding, ocr S. A.
i CilieU's afore. : ' . i .
Ravenna, June 1, 1319. :
& R. A.
-: tf-2C
Attorney at Law-rClevelond, Cbio Oflico in Par
v - 9rtm Block Superior Street. ' ,
c I;tTCES80K to M. hui.bkbtit.)
Bnut lounder. Copper Smhh, Tin and Sheet Iron 'Work-
lew doors aoulb ot the Court Uouse, Kavenna, u.
.- - TP a x x. o xt.
tLVSremoTed hi shop n few iluera west of tlie post
v. ... " DfgM llavenna, Ohio.
U?A& h.A Cillcil '
- 1 j&CBTertf in Dry Goods, trroceries, Hardware, :;
. , Iron, Nails, Gla. c, north side pub- r -'
He sijaare, Bavenna, Ohio.
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.... , .V ;,iP W jScymoiir ;
Dealer III Dry Goods, Beady Made Clothing
groceries, Hardware, Iron. Nails, Crockery,
..- Bdots,Shoese.,nortlisidepudlic square,
' ... Bavenna, Ohio.
v Rowclf & Brolhcr,
; Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware,
" Crockery, &c. Mason's Block, Main street, ..
' H - ' ' .. Bavenna, Oliio.
' Dealers iii Fancy Dry Gsods, Bonnets, Hats
?( iJ' - Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ready Made Clothing,
Carpeting Sc., at tiieir New Store, Main sU,
V,. , ; i - east of the Public Square.
' v . ' Kent. Cirencll & Co
- Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, Iron, Nails .
Hardware, Glass Franklin, Ohio. .
2 C & J C Prentiss '
- Dealer in Dry Goods,'-Grocerie6, Stoves. Hard
ware, Iron, Nails, Glass, &&, Brick Block,
i . . , west side public square, BavennSjOhio.
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r'v. " ' A V. Borr,
". Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Sc.", all kinds of
' ' Produce, and almost every article that persons
, ,. j; j .( eitlier wish lobuy orsell ,Shaiersvllle,0.-
.v ,i ' i n : , i. ,
-13. T. Richardson, :
-.:'i , Dealer ia English and Arocrwnn Hardware, Sad-
., y . die, tlamess and Csansge Inmminsi, iron,
' , ; NaiU; Steel, ie.. tie,; at tlie old stand
df Mason Brainerd, Ravenna Ohio.
THK best and largest assnriment ot' Pamphlet
Literatnre, entertaining and unexceptionable in lone
.ui tnnuenee, emoramg worcs irom ne pen ot i.a.
. Arthur,- Mm Grev. Miss Pickering. Mrs. Gvre, Mrs.
Mewat, Charles Lever nnd other distinguished writers',
; ever ottered in tnu.marKet, may ne tound at
Oct. 87. - '' Uali-'s Book Stoke.
T ,'.4 T XtO FfilCBS.'
iJjARXl.E stock for'jl in large or Smnll
way at wholesale prices for Ready Fay.
...j ; PranVria, Jane 8, 1802; .:.
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- THEA The best iu the county roil will find at '
;' , v Second Arrival.
rTTtHE subscribers are noWrecemriT their second stock
M. of Fall and Winter Goods, arid have the pleasure of
Uer5ng-tn "their customers' one of ,tbe largest stocks, of j
vuous ever brought to uul t'ortape. , , J. ne aay ror sei
lins sonnx at lare pmfits has passed, and now to sell a
bic pae" mml tm.llnn" it4ii mnfto - We would
merely aay trr. lm tlK Good, and let those who may favor
.. mi uui, usuij as to prices, . - i
Nor. 23. 1852,, . C J C PKENTISS.
- f. AT CAM PB EL L4l PORT.' '
v "L" '" nennonot trie people In the ar-
Jl. rival of an entire new stock of Fall am! Winter
(ioods. ' war onsiness nas so much increased that it has
"- -warranted as in purirhasins n vnnr inrm .nH.rt
It is eenerallv admitted a SO, titat Ollr Bfl.f.f.iin. in Hi -
pard to stjrle and quality, are superior to any brought to
this section of tlie country.. The Ladies are already
.nmrinred of tho fact.' and if (llCV will call. f u-ill n.
deavor to show them goods that will in every way suit
their wpntsand aste.,if i.
- Jl fine lot of J " "
RF.ADY UA DE CLOTiniVG.
' particularly Over Coat; Oh how eomformlile a good
flick Over Coat is in a coin sio-mx mucn
, n re comfortable not to empty your pockets entirely .to
i'iy for them. .' -'
' BOOTS AND ShOES:
We have double the number that we s.ver had before
consequently a great variety, and all warranted to be 2
' prr cent cheaper than last year.
Ladies Oaiters and Overshoes ctih be purchased much
Iheaper than last Fall.. ' ".
' All thoro who want handsome Crockery, don't forget
lo call and examine our fine Tea Ware. No better styles
can be found this side of the mountains.
ttT The highest prices pniil for nil hinds of Prnduee.
, J.- II- ItOSTWICK ti
Camphellsport Oct. 2B. '
VOLUME XXlr..-irBmkr 10.
, . , For the Ohio Star.
' . A Sons f tbe Age We Live in.
. I like to sing the present age,' : r . . ; . ;
There's so mqeh to sing about ; -
- -: Th world is full of all things new. , -
t And tone things quite woro oat.
' , It is an age For going ahead.
And going backwards -too,
For getting up and getting down.
And sometimes very blue. . ' t .
- It ia an age for good fat, living, ,
' - - On mash and milk and pies and puodin,"
And mors than all, soma "taters ' too,
If good aod found sad "hunt got rotten."
It ia an age for making cheese, .
And butter good and yaller ;
... For fatting pork, and keeping beeves,
, .To clear the hide and tallow. . , . . ''.
It is an age for growing wool J ' ' ' '
To make our coats and troupes ; ' .
For the rfizin down" of iiUloghuts, ' ;
"J "And lb a raising up of pretty houses.
It is an age for Yankee pies, ; ?
. For apples, pears and puukina,'
For "shss and scop,"' for sop and gravy,
. h, And all that sort of fixins. .-
It is an age for telegraphs . . ...
.' For reading thoughla on 14 lightnln ' ;
Away across this great broad laud,
Ia less than hulf a ' twinklin." ,
- It is an age for Ruiiroad Cars," -.
And bellowing locomotive?,
For eoaehes lour, and sulkies one,
Wheel bartovrs, : Carts and 'Buses. -
.It ia an age for digging gold .
Way down in "Californy," . ;
. Where few get rich, but many poor,.
" . Thus ends the golden " drama." ,
It is an age forriensnd papers :
For tracts and songs and hymns and bibles,
For chat and talk for gab and twitter,'
I With tongues that wear no bridles.
' It is an age much famed for. tulking,
. . . Fnr more iu 'tis for thinking,
; - But what's more strange than all the rest,
. Some ladies ga a-"btumping.' -
It is an age for'geat attractions " .., "
And little attractions too, .
. The ' haniroal" cow co all be seen
From 'helcphant'' down to Kanguroo."
' ! It is an ngs for patent rights
- And lights that liavo no pntt-ntee,' ' '
Some patent wrongs, but whut's the odds.
' The Jtfricati'i a slave, wo anglu sasoas free.
. .. .It is.au age Tor drunkenness, . . .
Than this to man no greater b.ino, y
The Devil fills the moral heart -'
And steals away the brain. -, --. V- .
It ia an age of eelG-hness, "
As cold as friien zone,
Myself aod myself only, '
Bespeaks the heart of stone. '
It is an age of wicked nerei . - -.
Of every shade and hue;
-We toliow more that's vain and filae,
Tbao what 'ra just and true, j
It is an age of politics.
Of laws and Compromise, .
A bortle of office seekers too, " '
' To eat tlie loaves and fishes.
It "rs an age of contradictions,
t; . As strange as sltavgt cu be, . ;
Four million sluves, can tread on soil,
When tis ptocluiuied, "alitncnmrefi-ce!
tt is an aje like none before . . '
Since the race of years began, .
" For one can now a christian bo, ,
And tread in dust his fellow man. ' '
Ia an age three thousand years agoue,
. God's statutes did ordain ;
Thealnve that from Uia master flees.
Shall be returned Dot back again. -
In ages past the Prophet snid,
. ' " Let the outcasts dwell with thee.
Not po, our modern solons say.
We make the tone, be wore its penalty- '
This is an age for hunting, too,
The like who ever saw ;
Not hunting beasts, for sport,
. . But hunting me by law. . .
' .
And what an age for hunting men,
The present age may be;
Ifall good citizens obey, . t
That Lower Law Decree. .
Ani what an age for southern Lords,
Who can, in all their grandeur
Bid their ? oorthern hounds" return.
Their " wicked wandering niggers."
- . This ia an age for all to vie,
To be the best man huater.
The curse of God may be obtained, .
But Sulan's power is surer.
The strangest thing this age can boost,
Is a preaching, praying people, -A
serving Cod but with their lip?, '.
' And with their hearts the Devil.
From FraserM M&gnzwe for November.
Some Account of Mrs.Bccehcr Slowc
and Iter Family, by an Alabama
Man.
The family to which Mrs. Stowe belongs is more
widely and favorable known thaq almost any other
in tho United States. It cousbta of tho followiug
persons?
1. ReT.' Lyman Beecher, tlie father, Doctor of
Divioitv, ex-President of. Lane Theological Semi
nary, and late pastor of a Presbyteria Church at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
2. Rev. William Beepher, pastor at Chilioothe,
Ohio.
3. Rev Edwatd
Massachusetts.
Beecher, pastor at Boston.
4. Rev. Henry Ward Beechec, pastor at New
s orK city.
5. Rev. Charles Beecher, pastor at Newark.
New Jersey.
This word, though strange to English curs is the only
one used in the I nitert Fbitostn designate a atiitioncd min
ister of the Preshvtpiian and a few mhrr dcuuiuiiialir.ns.
4 Family Newspaper, Derated U General Intelfigtnre, Kisc'ellaBcons Beading, and the Eights of Han.
C. Rev. Thomas Beecher, pastor at Williams
burg, New Jersey. " - -
.7. Rev. George Beecher, deceased several
years smce. , liis deatn was caused by toe acci
dental, discharge cf a gun. At the time, he was
one of the most eminent men iu the Western
Church.
8. Mr. James Beecher, engaged iu commercial
business ia Bostoa. . .. -
9. Miss Catharine Beecher. -. '
10. -Mrs. Harriet B. St.) we- ......
11. Mrs. rerkins. . ' r '
12. Mrs. Hooker. "
Twelve! the apostolic' number. And of the
twelve, seven apostles of the pulpit and two of the
pen, after the manner of the nineteenth century.
Of the other three one has been swept into com
merce by the strong current setting that way in
America; and the other two, wives of lawyers ot
respectable standing, and mothers of families, have
beeo absorbed bjtbe cares and affections of do
mestic life. ...They are said to be no way inferior,
iu point of natural endowments, to tbe cine who
have chosen to play their parts in ti before a
larger pulilio. Indeed, persons who know inti
mately all the twelve, are puzzled to assign superi
ority to any one of tbem. - With the shades of dif
ference which always obtain between individual
characters, they bear a striking resemblance to
each other, not only physically, but intellectually
and morally. " All of them are about the common
size the Doctor being a trifle below it, and some
of the sons a trine above it neither stout nor
slight, but compactly and r-iszedly built. Their
movements and gestures have much of the abrupt
ness and want of grace common ia Yankee land,
where the opera and dancing school are considered
as institutions of Satan. Their features are large
aod irregular, and though not free from a certain
manly beauty fa the men, are scarcely redeemed
from homeliness in the women, by the expression
of intelligence and wit which lights them op, and
faiily spaikles ia the bluish grey eyes.
All of them have the energy of character, rest
less activity, strong convictions, tenacity of pur
pose, deep sympathies, and spirit of self snciifice.
which are such invaluable qualities in the charac
ter of propagandists. . It. would be impossible for
the theologians among them to be members of any
other than the church militant. Father and sons,
they have ever been in the thickest of the battles
fought in the church and by it; and always have
moved together in solid column. To them, ques
tions of scholastic theology are mummeries, dry
and nttraclionlcss; they are practical, living in the
real present, dealing with questions which palpi
tate with vitality. ' Tempero nee, Cureign and home
missions, the influence cf commerce . on . public
morality, the conversion of young men, the estab
lishment of theological seminaries, education, colo
nization, abolition, tbe political obligations of Chris
tians ; on matters such as these do the Beechers
expend their energies. Nor do they disdain taking
an nciive part ia public aiTair.-;onof them wns p
pointed at New York City to address Kossuth on
his arrival; What is remarkable ie that, thousrV
they have come in violeut collision with many
the abuses of American soeiety, their motives have
never boeu seriously attacked.
This exemption from the ordinary lot of refor
mers is owing not only to their consistent disinter
esledness," but to a certain ankee prudence,
which prevents their advancing without being sure
of battalions behind tbem; and also to a reputation
the family has acquired for eccentricity. As pub
tic speakers they are fur above mediocrity; cot
graceful, but eloquent, with a lively scorn of the
mean and perception of the comic, which overflow
in pangent wit and withering satire ; and some
times, in the boat of extemporaneous apenking. In
bitiog sarcasm. Their style of oratory would often
seem, to a staid, charch-gning Englishman, to con-'
trast too strongly with the usual decorum of the
pulpit. '" - - :- ' '
Nine of the Beechers are autho-.s-. They are
know to the reading and religious public of the
United States, by reviews, essays, sermons, ora
tions, debates, and discourses on a great variety of
subjects, chiefly ot local or momentous iaterest.
All of these productions ere marked- by vigorous
thought; very few by that artistic excellence, that
conformity to the laws of the ideal, which alone
confer a lasting value on the creations of the brain.
Many of them are controversial, or wear an ag
gressive air which is unmistakable. Those which
are of durable interest, and of a high order of liter
ary merit, are six temperance sermons by Dr.
Beecher; a Volume of practical sermons by tlie
same; tile " Vintm awl tier son," on imaginative
work, by Chas. Beecher, with an introduction by
Mrs. Srowe ; some articles on Biblical Literature,
Edward Beecher; "TrU.h stranger than Fiction,"
and other Tales, by Miss Cathenoe Beecher;
" Domestic Economy," by the same ; Twelve
Lectures to Young Men," by Henry Ward
Bencher; "An introduction to the Works of Char
lotte Elizabeth," by Mrs. Stowe ; "The May
Flower," by Mrs. Stowe, being a collection of
stories originally published in the newspapers; and
"Uncle Tom's Cabin." I am sorry not to be able
to place in this category many letters, essays, and
addresses on education, and particularly those
from the pen of Catherine Beecher.- Before Mrs.
S'.owe's last bcok, her celebrity was hardly equal
to her maiden sister's. Catherine had a wider re
putation as an authoress, and her indefatigable
activity in the cause of education, had won for her
very general esteem. I may add ia this connec
tion that it is to her the United Stales are indebt
ed for the only ext?nsively useful association for
preparing and sending capable female teachers to
the West. ' She had the energy and the tact to
organize -and put it ia successful operation.
Such is lire family, iu the bosom of which Mrs.
Stowo's character has been formed.1 We cannot
dismiss it without pausing before (he venerable
figure of tbe father, to whom the honor of deter
m'ning the bent of the children propeily belongs.
Dr. Lyman Beecher is now 78 years 'bid. Born
before tho American Revolution, ho lias been,
until reconlly, actively and ably discharging duties
which would be onerous to most men in the r.i inie
of life. He was the soa cf a New England black
smith, and was brought Up to tho trade of his fath
er. He had arrived at mature age when he quit
ted the anvil, aod begau his collegiate studies at
Yale College, New Haven; Ten years later we
find him pastor of the church at Litchfield, and
rising into fame as a pulpit orator. His six eor
moos on temperance extended his reputation
through' Ihe United Slates; I might say throughout
Europe, for they ran rapidly through several edit
ions in Euglaud, and were translated iulo several
languages on the Contiueut. ' ' ' '
HI
RAVENNA, WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 9.
Being now favorably , known, he was called to
tho pastoral charge of the most influential Presby
terian Church at Boston, where he remaiced until
1S32. Ia that year, a project long entertained by
that portion of the Presbyteriau Church, whose
active and enlightened piety and liberal tendencies
had gained for it the name of New School, was
put into execution the Lane iheologieal ana
Literary Seminary was founded. Its object be
ing to prepare ycun men for the Gospel Ministry,
such facilities for manual labor were offered by it,
as to make it feasible for any young man of indus
try, to defray, by his own exertions, a large part
of the expenses of his education. ' Dr. Beecher
had long been regarded a8 the only man compe
tent to direct an institution which, it was fondly
hoped, would demonstrate the practicability of ed
ucating mind and body at the same time, infusing
new energy into tbe work of domestic and foreign
mission's, and ' revolutionize the Presbyter'an
church. A large corps of learned and able pro
fessors was selected to aid him. The doctor re
moved to his new home in the immediate neigh
borhood of Cincinnati, and remained there until
1850, and with what success in Lis chief object we
shall hereafter see.
A certain eccentricity of manner and character.
and sharpness of repartee, have given rise to hun
dreds of amusing anecdotes respecting Dr. Beech
er. Some of them paint tbe man.
His lively sense of the comic element in every
thing, breaks out on tbe most unlikely occasions.
One dark nighr, as he was driving borne with his
wifa and Mrs. Stowe in the carriage, the whole
pirty -were upsot over a bank about fifteen feet
high. They had no sooner extricated themselves
from the wreck, than Mrs. Beecber and Mrs.
Stowe, who were unhurt, returned thanks for tlieir
providentitd escape. "Speak for yourselves," said
the Doctor, who was feeling his bruises. "I have
got a good many hard bumps, any how.'
In many matters he is what Miss O'iva would
have called "shiftless." None of the Goldsmith
family were more so. No appeal to him for chari
ty, or a contribution to a good cause, ever goes un-
responded to, as long as he has any money in his
pockets- ' As the family income is not unlimited,
this generosity is snmotiaies productive of incon
venience. One day his wife bad given him fiom
the common purse twenty five or thirty dollars in
bills, with particular instructions to buy a coat, of
which he stood in need. He went down to the
city to make the purchase, but stopping on the
way to a meeting in behalf of foreign missions, the
box was handed round, and in went his little roll
of bills, tie forgot his oa it iu his ausiety for the
Sandwich Islanders.
Well do I remem'ier the first time I heard him
preach. It was seventeen years ago. From early
chil'lhood I had been taught to reverence the name
of the great divine and orator, and I had long
promised myself the pleasure of listening to him
My first Sunday morning ia Cincinnati found me
sitting with his congregation. - -The pastor was not
as punctual as tbe fi-jk. Several minutes had
elapsed after the regular hour for beginning the
service, when one of the doors opened, and I saw
a hale looking old gentleman enter. As he pulled
off his hat, hi!f dozeajjgpers, covered with notes
of sermons, fluttered down to the floor; the hat ap
peared to contain a good many more. Stooping
down and picking them op deliberately, he came
scuttling down, along the aisle, with a step so quick
and resolute, as rather to alarm certain prejudices
I had on the score of clerical solemnity. Had I
met him on a parade ground, I should have singled
him out as some general in undress, spite of the
decided Stoop contracted in study ; tlie iron-grey
hair brushed stilly towards the back of the bead
the keen sagacious eyes, the firm, hard lines of the
brown and wrinkled visage, and the passion and
power latent about the mouth, with its long and
scornful under-lip,-bespoke a character more likely
to attack than to defend, to do than to suffer. His
manner did not chance my first impression. The
ceremonies preliminary to the Birmon where dis
patched in rather a summary way.' A petition in
tbo long prayer was expressed so pithily I have
never forgotten it.
L forgot now what reprehensibto intrigue our
rulers were busy ia at tbe time, but the Doctor,
after praying for their adoption of Tarious useful
measures, alluded to Iheir conduct ia tho follow
ing terms :' And, O Lord! grant we may not
despise our rulers; and grant they may not act so.
that we can't help it.'. It may be duubted wheth
er any English Bishop has ever uttered a similar
prayer fur King and Parliament. To deliver his
sermon, the preacher stood bolt upright, stiff as a
musket. At' first, he twi'ched off and replaced
his spectacles a dozen times in as many minutes,
with a nervous motion, gesturing meanwhile with
frequent pump-handle strokes of his right nrm ;
but as he went on, his unaffected language began
to glow with auimnticu, hia simple style became
figurative and graphic, and flashes of irony lighted
up the dork groundwork of his Puritanical reason
ing. Smiles and tears chased each other over the
faces of many in his audience. His peroration was
one of great beauty and power. I have heard him
hundreds of times since, and he has never failed to
justify his claim to the title of "the old man elo
quent," . "...
- Harriet Beecber was born nt Litchfield alout
tbe year 1812. After the removal of the family to
Boston, she enjnyed the best educatiunal advan
tages of that city. With the view ot preparing
herself for the business of instruction, she acquired
all the- ordinary accomplishments of Indies, and
much of the learning usually reserved for the
. . . ,
stronger sex. At an eariy Hgo eue ungun io m
her eldest eistor, Catherine, in tho management of
a flourishing female school, which hud been built
bv tho latter. When their father went West, the
sisters accompanied hint, and opened a similar es
tablishment at Cincinnati.
This city is silualed on the nolhern bank of the
Ohio. The range of hilla which hugs the river
for hundreds of miles above, here recedes from it
ia a semicircle, broken by a valley and several ra
vines, leaving a basin several square miles ia sur
face. This is the silo of the busy manufacturing
and commercial town which, in 1832, contained
less than forty thousaod inhabitants, and at present
contains more than one hundred and twenty tliou
sand a rapid increase, which must be attributed.
iu a croat measure, to the extensive trade it car
ries.oo with ihe slave States. The high hill,
whose point, now crowned with on observatory,
overhangs Ihe city on the east, stretches away to
the east and north in a long sweep ot table-land
On this is situated Lane SomioaryMrs. Sldwe'a
home for eighteen long years. Near Iho Semi
nary buildings, uud on the public road, ' are certtiiu
comfortable- resiliences, situutcd in yards green with
1853.
rafted grass, and half-concealed from view by
acacias, locusts, rose-bushes, and vines of honey
suckle and clematis. These wore occupied by
Doctor Beecher aud the Professors. There ere
other residences more pretending in appearance,
occupied by bankers, merchants, and men of for
tune. The little village thus formed is called Wal
nut Hills, and is one of the prettiest in the envi
rons of Cincinnati.
For several years after her removal to this place,
Harriet Beecher continued to tench ia connection
with her sister. She did so until her marriage
with ihe Rev. Calvin E. Stowe, Professor of Bi
blical Literature in the Seminary of which her
father was President. This geotleman was al
ready one of the most distinguished ecclesiastical
savans in America. After graduating with honor
at Bowdoin College, Maine, and taking his theo
logical degree at Andover, he had been appointed
Professor at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire,
whenoe he had been called to Lace Seminary.
Mrs. Stowo's married life has been of that equable
and sober happiness so common in the families of
Yankee clergymen. It has been blessed with a
numorous offspring, of whom five are still living.
Mrs. Slowe has known the fatigues of watching
over the sick bed, and ber heart has felt that grief
which eclipses all others that of a bereaved moth
er. . Juucti ot her time has been devoted to the
education of her children, while the ordinary house
hold cares have devolved on a friend or distant re
lative, who has always resided with her. She
employed her leisure ia contributing occasional
pieces, tales, and noveletes to the magazines and
newspapers. Her writings were of a high moral
tone, and deservedly popular. Only a small por
tion of them are comprised in ihe volumo "The
Mayflower" already montioned. This part of
Mrs. Stowe's life, spent in literary pleasures,
family joys and cares, and the society of the pious
and intelligent, would have been of as unalloyed
happiness as mortals can expect, had it not been
darkened at every instant by the baleful shadow
of slavery.
The " peculiar intlitution " was destined lo
thwart the grand project in th life of Mrs. Stowb'd
father and husband. When they relinquished their
excellent positions in tbe east, in order to build up
the great Frosbj terian Seminary for the Ohio and
Mississippi valley, they did so with every prospect
of success. Never did a literary institution start
under finer auspices. The u umber and reputa
tion of the professors had drawn together several
hundred students from all parts of the United
States ; not sickly cellar plants of boys sent by
wealthy parents, bat hardy intelligent young men,
most of whom, fired by the ambition of converting
the world to Christ, were winning their way.
through privations and toil, to education and miuis
tevial or ders. They were the stuff out of which
foreign missionaries and revival preachers are
made. Some of them were known to the public
as lecturers: TheoJore D. Weld was an oratori
cal celebrity. For a vear all went well. Lane
Seminary was Ihe pride and hope of the church
Alas for the hope of Messrs. Beecher aod Stowe
this prosperity was of short duration.
. The French Revolutibn of 1830, the agitation
in England for reform, and against collonial slavery
the fine iw.d imprisonment by American courts of
justice, of citizens who dared to attack the elave
trado carried on tinder the federal flag, had begun
to direct tbe attention of a few American philan
thropists to the evils of slavery. Some years be
fore, a society bad been formed for the co'oniaing
free blacks on the boast of Africa. , It had been
patronised by intelligent slaveholders, who feared
the contact of free blacks with their human chat
tels; and by feeble or ignorant persons in the
not til, whoso consciences impelled them to act on
slavery in some way, aud whose prudence or ig
norance of the question led them to accept , the
plan favored by slaveholders. However useful to
Africa the emigration to its sliores of. intelligent,
and enterprising blacks may be, it is now univer
sally admitted that colonization, as a means of ex.
tinguishing slavery, is a drivelling absurdity.
These were the views of Ihe abolition convention,
which met ai Philadelphia in 1833, and set on
foot the agitation which has since convulsed the
Union. .
The President of that convention, Mr. Arthur
Tappan, was one of Ihe most liberal donors of
Lane Seminary. He forwarded its address to
tho students ; and a few weeks afterwards the
whole subject was up for discussion amongst them
At first there was little interest. But soon tho
lire begau to burn. Many of ihe students had trnv
eled or taught school in the slave States: a goodly
number were sons of slaveholders, and some were
owners of slaves. They had seen slavery and bad
facts to relate, many of which made the blood run
chill with horror. Those spread out on Ihe paces
of ' Uncle Tom's Cabin,"' reader, and which your
swelling heart and overflowing eyes would not
let you read aloud, are cold in comparison. The
discussion was soon ended, for all were of one ac
cord ; but the meetings for the relation of facts
were continued night after night, and week after
week. What waB at once sensibility grew into
enthusiasm; tbo feeble flame had become a con
flagration. Tbe slaveowners among the students
gave liberty to their slaves ; the idea of going on
foreign missions was scouted et, because there
were heathen at home ; tome, left their studies and
collected the colored population of Cincinnati into
churches, and preached to them ; others gathered
the young moo into evening schools, and tlie chil
dren into day schools, and devoted themselves lo
teaching them ; others organized benevolent .80'
cielies for aiding thorn, and orphan asylums for the
destitute and abandoned children ; acd others.
again, left all to aid fugitives on Iheir way ro Can
aria, or to lecturo on the evils of slavery. The fa
naticism was sublime; every student felt himself
a Peter the Hermit, and acted as if the aboli
tion of slavery depended oa his iu dividual exer
tions.
At first, the d'rscossiott had boon urged by the
President and Professors ; but when Ih'ey saw
swallowing up everything like regular study, they
thought it high time to stop. It was too late; the
current whs too strong to be arrested. The com
merci'd interests of Cincinnati took tho alarm--
manufacturers feared the 'loss of their southern
trade. Public sentiment exacted ihe suppression
of the discussion and excitemonr. Slaveholders
came over from Kentucky and urged tho mob on
to Violence. : Far several weeks there was immi
nent dager that Lane Seminary, and tho houses
of Dr Beecher and Professor Stowe, would be
burnt or pulled down by a drunken rabble. These
must have bebn woeks" of mortal auxiety for Harriet
Beecher. . The BoavJ of Trustees now interfered
und allayed the cxcitouieut of tbe mob by foibiJ-
Whole Nnmbcr 1206
ng all further discussions of slavery in the semi
nary. 10 tais me students responoea oy wiiu-
rawing en masse. Where hundreds bad been,
there was left a more handful. Lane Seminary
was deserted. Fer seventeen years after this.
Dr. Beecher and Professor Stowe remained there,
endeavoring in vain to revive its prosperity. Ia
looO, I hey returned to the Eastern States,, the
great project of their life defeated. After a short
stay at Bowdoin College, Maine, Professor Stowe
accepted ao appointment to tho Chair of Biblical
Literature ia the Theological Semin ry at An
dover, Massachusetts, an institution which stmJs,
to say tbe least, as high as any in the United States.
These events caused a painful reaction in tho
feelings of the Beechers. ' Repulsed alike by the
fanaticism they had witnessed among the foes, and
the brutal violence among tho friends of s'avery,
they thoight their time for action had not come,
and gave no public expression of their abhorrence
of slavery. They waited for the storm to subside,
and the angel of truth to mirror his form in tran
quil waters. For a long time they resisted all at
tempts to make them bow the knee to slavery, or
to avow themselves abolitionists. . It is to this peri
od Mrs. Stowe alludes, when eho says, in Ihe clo
sing chapter of ber book : For many years of
her l.fe, the author avoided all reading upon, or al
lusions to the subject of el ivery, considering it ne
too painful to be enquired into, and one which ad
vancing light and civilization would live down."
The terrible and dramatic scenes which -occur
red in Cincinnati, between 1835 and 1837, were
calculated to increase the repugnance of a lady to
mingl ing actively ia the melee.. That city was the
chief battle ground of. Freedom and Slavery.
Every month there was some event to attract at
tention to the strife either a press destroyed or a
house mobbed, or a free negro kidnapped, or a tri
al for freedom before the courts, or the confection
ary of an English abolitionist riddled, or a public
disenssion, or an escape Of a el-ive, or an armed at
tack on the negro quarter, or a negro school-house
razed to the ground, or a slave in prison for killing
his wife and children to prevent Iheir being sold
to tbe South. The abolition press, established
there ia 1835, by James G. Birney, whom, on ac
count of bis mildness and firmness. Miss Mailinean
called "the gentleman of the abolition cause," and
continued by Dr. Bailey tho moderate editor of
the National Era, of Washington city, in which,
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" first appeared in weekly
numbers, was destroyed five times. Oa one occa
sion, the mayor dismissed, at midnight, tbe rioters
who liad also pulled down the houses of some col
ored people, -with the foUowinc pithy speech.
Well boys, let'j go home; "we've done enough.'
One of these mobs deserves particular notico, as
its victims enlisted deeply tho sympathies of Mrs.
Stowe. In 1840, Ihe slave-catchers backed by
the liff-rnfTof ihe prpu1r.tion, and urged on by cer
tain politicians and merchants, attacked the quar
ters in which the negroes reside. Some of the
houses were battered down by cannon. . For sev
eral days the city was abandoned to violence and
crime. The negro quarters' were pillaged and
sacked ; negroes who attempted to defend iheir
property , were killed, and their mutilated bodies
cast into the streets; women were violated by
ruffians, and eome afterwards died of (he injuries
received ; houses were burnt; and men women,
and children were abducted in the confusion, aod
hurried into slavery. From the brow of the hi'l
on which she lived, Mrs. Stowe could hear the
cries T tlie victims the shouts of the mob, and the
reports of tbe guns and cannon, and could see
the flames of the conflagration. To more than
one of the trembling fugitives she gave shelter,
and wept bitter tears with them. After the fury
of the mob was speant, many of the colored peo
ple gathered together the little left them of world
ly gooods, and started for Canada. Hundreds
passed in front of Mrs Stowe's hoase. Some of
them were in little wagons; eome were trudging
along on foot after their household stuff; same led
their children by the hand ; and there wore even
mothers who walked on, suckling their infants.
and weeping for the dead or kidnapped husbands
they had left behind. . .
Tho road w hich ran through Walnuts Hills, and
within a few feet of Mrs. Stowe's door, was one of
Ihe favorite routes of the underground railrcad ,
as ofteu alluded to in Uncle Tom's Cabin.' This
name was given to a line of Quakers and other
Abolitionists, who livirg at iuteivals 10, 15, or
20 miles between tho Ohio RWer aod the Northern
Lakes, had formed themselves into a sort of asso
ciation lo aid fugitive slaves in their escape to Can
ada. Any fugitive was taken bv nivlit or on horw.
back or in covered waggons, from station to statioo
until he stood on free suil, and fouurl ihe fulds of
the lion banner floating over him, and the artillery
of Ihe British Empire between him nud skverr.
The first station North of Cincinnati was a few
miles up Mill Creek, at the house of ihe pious and
lion-hearted Joho Vanxandt, who figures in chap
ter nine cf Uncle Tom's Cabin," as Johu Van
Trompe. Mrs. Stowe must hnve often been
roused from her sleep by ihe quick lattle of the cov
ered wagons, and confused gidloping of the horses
of constables and slave-catchers in hot pursuit.
" Honest John " was always ready to turn out
with his team, and the hunters of men Wrra not
often adroit enough to come op With him. : lie
sleeps now in the obscure grave of a martyr. The
'gigantic fiamo"vf which the novelist speaks, 1
wns worn down at last by want of sleep, expo
sure and anxiety, and hU spit its were depressed
by the persecutions which were accumulated ou
him. . Seveial slave-owners who had lost their
prnjierty by his means sued him in tlie Unite States
Courts for dainiges; and judgement after judg
ment stripped him of hia form and all h's property.
Dnriog her long residence on the frontier of the
Slave State?, Mrs. Stowe made several visits to
them- ' It was then no doubt, she made the obser
vations which have enabled her to paint noble, gen
erous, ant) humnce slaveholders, iu the characters
of Wilson, the manufacturer, Mrs. Shelfly and her
sou George, St. Clare and his daughter Eva, the
benevolent purchaser at the Now Orleans auction
salo, mid ihe mistress of Susan and Emmolioe,
and Sy mmes, who helped Elian and her boy up
tho river bank. Mrs. Siowo has observed slavery
in every phase ; she has seen masters and srwes
at home. New Orleans markets, fugitives. Tree
coloree people, pro-lavery polil cians and priests.
aHolitionits and culoniBationists. She and her fam
ily hnve Buffered from it ; seventeen years of her
life have been cloudeid by it. For that lung period
she stifled tho strongest emotions of her heart.
No one but hor intimate friends knew their etengih.
She has giveu them expression at last. "Undo
Tom's Cabin v Is the agcu'iag cry iTfeeiin pent
up for Jem iu the bean of a Uue wuiuao.
From the National Era '
Sale or Slaves' In Washington.
Piana Forte, ' Household and IGfchen Furniture,
JVegro Boy, Horses, Harness, Carryall, Carls,
Farming UtensUs, fyc., at Auction On Sat
urday morning,' December 11, 'at 11 o'clock, in
front of the Auction Rooms, 1 shall sell without ,
reserve, 8c'., dc, at twelve o'clocltf- '-' " v
One Negro Boy, 18 years of ageV'' - 4"r:- '
Also, a Negro Girl. 7-' - "I - ' ' '"':
3 horses, saddles, bridles, and liarnesA ' v "'
Carryall, 2 carts, wheelbarrow."
Hay rake, 2 ploughs, cultivator. '
Hay cart, lot of farm harness, Sco.
-J i- t
ierms, cash. jAs. C. Mcf?,-.
" '. . ' ' : Jluctxoneeri .
The above advertisement appeared m the JYVt
tional Intelligencer for several days prior to the
sale. Pu'suant lhereto, a crowd collected at the
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and J 0th street, on
Tuesday morning; After the sale of Horses, cows.'
and farming utensils, the human cattle were put
up, viz: a boy ' years old, and a girl - years'
old." On pu'ting up tbo boy, 'the auctioneer said
he would give any man S2i if he Would relieve?
him of the disagreeable duty of selling those chii-'
dren. -No one offering to relieve him, he proceed
ed to sell them. He stated that be was informed
that the boy was restricted to the1 District,' which
he believed was tho fact; that tbe boy was deaf.
Had a running in his head, aod was an invalid; that
he was the pet of his motber, who was preseuri id
great distress, nnd desired, as did also the relatives
of the family to whom he belonged, not to be sepa
rated trom him. 1 heje children were part of thet
estate of Jesse Brown, deceased, late proprietor of
"Brown's Hotel;" and it was known that; Mar
shall Brown (one of the heirs) was present for the
purpose of buying the boy, if sold at a reasonable-
price, that h'e might not be5: separated form big
mother. Tbe bidding commenced, and he wa
struck off to Mr. Brown at $325, when a man' by
the name of Naylor, ft trader, claimed the bid a
his, and insisted npon the negro being struck off Ut
him. Mr. Brown averred that the bid was his,
and claimed the boy." Naylor threatened to pros
ecute the ructionecr if he did not get him. '..After
much r-avHring among the bidders, the boy was
again put up, and this man Naylor advanced the!
bid !oS330, when -Ihe auctioneer prompted by
feelings of humani'y, offered him 525 if he would
not bid more.' ' This offer was accepted, with the
Christian remcik,' that he (Naylor) ? had at lief
make 25 in this icay at lo make it out of a nigger."
So the 25 was paid over, and the poor trembling,
boy was delivered to Mr. Brown. 7 . ". ;
Ths girl only ten yer.rs of age, was next set np
and in the presence of its agonized mother was
struck ofl to Judge Sturgis, of Georgia, for the nam
of S ;, and this child is now. probably on it
way to that distant State, where she will -most
likely drag out a miserabe existence in the cotton
field, without a single' friend on whom to rely, in
case of sickness of distress! , .. ' .
This all took place in a christian community,
within half a mile of the Capitol of thU free ni
enligltlened nation, where sat, at the very time
this disgraceful scene was going on, the Repres
entatives of a people whoso laws ore based. orl
the principle of equal rights and privileges, and
who have declared " that all men ere created ffeo
and equal!" '.
This is one of many cases that proves the truth -of
Mrs. Stowo's assertion that families are sep
arated Indeed, we here only wonder that it has
been denied, fur every week we know of instances'
where one or more out of a family of slaves ar$
sold and carried South. . .
- - Cor respondencc of the Rational Eri.
Grace Grecirwood at Burns' BirtU--
-. '-'-: -place." '--:.
. On the way back to Ayr, we called to- see the
sistor and nieces of Burns Mis. Beggs and ber
daughters who wo had been assured were most
kindly accessible to visitors.. This visit was1 alto
gather the most interesting and gratifying event of?
the day. Mrs. Beggs lives ia a simple but charm
ing little rcse-embowed cottage, about a mile-, frord
her birth-place, where all who seek her with a
respectful interest, receive a courteous and cordi
al welcome. Mrs. Beggs is cow about eighty
years of age, but looks eearcely above sixty, and,
shows more than the remains of remarkable beauty-
Her smile could hardly have been sweeter,
or her eye Gaer, at twenty. Her eight, hearing
and memory, seem unimpaired ; her manners ore
graceful, modest and ladylike, and she converses'
with rare intelligence and animation, peaking
with a slight, sweet Scottish accent. Her like-
ness to Nearaiih'4 portrait of her brother is very
marked her eyes are peculiarly like the idea wo
have of hie, both by pictures and description large
dark, lustrous and changing. Those eyes shono
with new brightness as I told her of our lava for
the memory of her beloved brother, our sympathy
for his sorrows, and our honor for his free and
manly spirit when I told her that" the New
World as the Old, bowed to the mastery of bis
genius, and were swayed to smiles or tears by
the wonderous witchery of hia song. - But wheat
I (-poke my admiration of tho monument, and said.
" What a joy it would have been to him, could bo
have forseen such a noble recognition of hia great-'
ness !' she smiled morofully, and chook her head,
saying, " Ah madam, in his proudest momenrs,rny
poorurotber neTer dreamed of such a thing;
then added that his death-chamber was darkened
and his death agony deepened by want and care,
and tarlurtus fears for the dear ones be war to
leave, ' ' ' . ' ' .
Mrs. Beggs says that Nosmiih's portrait of her
brother, is the best, but that no picture couhi hiavo
done full justice to the kindling and varying x
prcsssion of his face. In her daughters. Who aro
pleasant and interesting women, you can trace a
strong family resemblance to the pcet. Tho tore
sons of Burns are yet living two are ia the artny
and one has a situation uuder Government' at
Dumfries. All three are widowers. When I
saw her, Mrs. Beggs was expecting dai'y the two
youngest, tho soldiers, who, as often as possible
visit Ayr, and cheiish as tenderly as proudly tho
memory of iheir father. .' . . ''
Exlrii:Uai;ry W':libr aSontlicru
Planter. .
The New York Tribune translates tho fothiw.
ing from a Germon paper: ' ' - ,
" A rich planter, a Mr. Delabitxscher, oVscwav
ded from an sncieut French family, receatly died!
in New Orleans. He was a young man at tho
time of Ihe first French Revolution, and fled frour
guilotine to become a merchant's rlerk in tho Cre
scent City. After a time he married the daughter
of a rich planter, and carried on tito, plai.tation so
skillfully; as ia a cou.poi aUvely short time to ac
quire iho. reputation of os of the rivhest D?en ia
Louisann. Since his death tho division of hia
property has shown its aggregate, to ba an amount,
which from an Euiopeau point of viaw, ia almost
fabulous. It ronawted of 31 plibtaliodv upon
branc-lms of tho Missitoippi, affording an annual
profit from the cultivation of eoffoe and sugar, of
$00,000; 1'2 steamboats npon tit Mississippi, 3
uoou the ocean, and 3-f tot -reliant vessols,tho ag
greenUi income of which, at lite lowest calculation,
is 3150,000 ; thaves to the amount of S&OOOtf"
in railroad s'ocks, -producing annually 5250,000 f
I limited parMrIiiis in Europe,, otto in each of '
tho citS of Lmit'iMi, Paris, Bordeaux, Lisbon
Cadiz, Naples and Constantinople. ech producing
au annual profit of 0,000, ia all $000,000 ; cash,
to the amount of $7,u0o, :0Q iu tlie Bank of Eng
laud, drawiii an 2 j-r com., prceuciug 140.000.
mUng in in nil an annral income- f, ,350,000,
or about 11,000,000 of tVaise. Hia pruprity ia
eousea, futuituns colleoiwiis of wiKts o( att, bvKik,
&o., ere in ptoi-ottigu. T,Uo uipettr ,S4 to.
tiueo heiii."
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