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THE NATIONAL ERA. Ij
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The Indiana Siatt SaUutel, now under the con- *
trol of W. J. Brown, who attempted to ride into *
the Speaker's chair on two horses of very differ- , C(
ent color, has become a mere tool of the Slate t<
Power Its servile tone, we are pleased to say, is
vjoite offensive to many sterling Democrats in Indiana.
A correspondent in Logansport says :
" The course of the Sentinel meets with opposition
from many of the Democratic papers of the
Sute. Ad article id the UOi/un Uetnocrai, beaded.
' It will never do to give it up ?o, Mr Brown,' C
shows the general feeling in 1 hits district." c
The Free-Soilers, at their recent Convention 8
in St Joseph's county, made no nominations for r
the Constitutional Convention, but nominated an j
independent ticket, to be supported at the election i
this month. 1
The following resolutions were adopUd:
Resolved, That we cannot but smile at the fear ,
and trembling of Northern Representatives under {
the disunion threats of Southern demagogues
That the Union cannot be dissolved is a fired ,
fact?the North tcill nor, and the South dare nor (
separate
Resolved. That our Senators, Messrs Whitcomb (
and Bright, by their recent course in the support
of Poole's Omnibus Committee, and kindred
measures, have grossly misrepresented the people
of this State, and k.vM shosm themselves false to
the interests of Freedom.
Resolved, That in view of the recent desertion
of Free Soil principles by prominent Northern
Senators and Representatives, and in view of the
vast importance of the political questions now
agitated in this country, we deem it our solemn
duty to maintain with firmness our independent
political organisation, and to labor zealously for
the spread of our principles.
Resolved, That the recent treason to Free Soil*
principles of Daniel Webster has rendered him
worthy only of the scorn and contempt of all
Freemen.
Resolved, That Thomas II. Renton, in his bold
and independent stand in behalf of California,
while Webster, Cass, Whitcomb, ?nd others, representing
freemen, were battling against him,
deserves our highest commendation.
In the district represented by Mr. Julian, the
Democrats and Free-Soikrs seem to have fully
united. During the last month, they held a Mass
Union Convention at Liberty, Union county, and
passed a series of spirited resolutions?among
them the following:
Resolved, That we, citixen* of Union county, as- '
sembled en masse, do hereby earnestly insist upon J
the application of the Ordinance of 1787, by ConviVWr,
:0 the orginia.ition of the Territories, so 1
that the same be incorporareo" iff each and every '
bill which may hereafter be passed for the gov- c
. eminent of said Territories. ,
Rtsolved, That our Senator for the district of
Fayette and Union, and our Representative for 4
this county, when elected, be, and hereby are, rt- 1
quired and instructed to vote for or support no (
man as a candidate for United States Senator, at 1
the ensuing election, whose course or sentiments
have been and still are against the adoption of 1
the application of the Wilmot Proviso to the Ter- 1
ritories acquired from Mexico.
Jlesolttd, That we, the citizens aforesaid, cber- '
ish the Union with unabated attachment, and
that we will support the Constitution, believing 1
in its powers ami appreciating the inestimable
benefit flowing from it, being convinced that it is 1
better for all parties, and all sections, with refer- 1
ence or regard to any fancied or existing evils, to <
wait patiently and work prudently under and '
through the various powers of the Constitution 1
for a remedy to" these evils, than wantonly de- '
* stroy it. i
Resolved. That we are opposed to the passage of
the bill in Congress, commonly called the " Omni* 1
bus Bill," and hereby request our Representative
in Congress, should said bill ever be pre.
' sen ted in the House, to vote against its passage, 1
and to use all lawful means to have the State of
California, with her present constitution and
boundaries, admitted into the Union as a Free
and Independent State.
Resolved, That as almost all the cherished measures
of the Democratic party are now in operation
under the present Administration, the Whigs
having declared a United States Rauk, a high pro- 1
tective tariff, and the other measures of their 1
party obsolete, we hereby re-aflirm our unshuken
confidence in the practical utility of the great '
leading measures of the Democratic party, our '
principles being equal rights and equal laws.
Resolved, That this Convention cordially he- '
stows its highest commendation upon our Repre- c
sentative in Congress, Hon. Q. W. Julian, for
the able, bold, and intrepid manner in which be
sustained, in bis speech of the 14th of May last,
in the Representative Hall, the principles which
he advocnted before the people ; nnd we most devoutly
wish we could bestow the same commenda- I
tion on the whole ludiuna delegation.
. for the National Kr?. j 1
~SENATOR COOPER.
Chkstkk, Coi'kty, Pa., May 11, I860. t
However much I ono might have been amazed
and astounded to have anticipated the present |
oourse of this gentleman, recent events had fully \
prepared my mind for the Era's editorial com* c
ments of April '26th upon his silence and dodging, (
pending this mighty struggle of slavery in Con* o
gross for the mastery over this continent. The s
Northern Senator who has found no otbr occa- t
eion during five months of fiery debate and con- o
tinuous struggle, for the expression of his views, ?
save the startling and frightful one which un- h
nounced the presentation in the Senate of a petition
from a dozen or two peaceable Clunker men o
and women, for the peaceful dissolution of this C
Union, is the very man to betray the liberties of ii
the people, and barter nway their most sacred
rights for a little place and power. The Northern li
Senator who could witness treason stalk abroad o
at noon-day, in the very inner chamber of the p
Senate, and this Union threatened, resistance and i S
blood intimated and boldly foreshadowed by his tl
official comrades, without once openii^his lips w
without once finding occasion to speak for his
country and the liberties of his countrymen, ii
aod in undying denunciation of that spirit and p
power which would make this land the last refuge ai
and resting place of despotism on earth, but is y
suddenly seized with an alarm for the ''stability ft
of the Union," and is dragged from bis i/ukt if r
firemen/ to make his first speech, by repeating the p
old, worn-out, frothy, stereotyped trash about our
"glorious Union" as his offering to his country t!
and to patriotism, when both were so fearfully a
assailed by a handful of quiet and obscure, peace- e
ful disunionists, makes hiin the very man you a
should mark, as the one who, in all probability, s
bus already pocketed the thirty pieces of silver, t
Not a few of us marked him from that hour, t
and were fully prepared for the Era's develop- j
ments.
Most shamefully is our State represented in the c
Senate. 1 have not met a man, for years, who has <
the least respect or confidence in the poor and 1
imbecile Sturgeon, who would have been forgot- <
ten, did he not make an aunual growl at some ill* <
fated anti-slavery petition. i
But the feeling growing up towards Cooper is [
much more active and decided. It is one of
Indignation, contempt, and disgust?and for t
good reasons. He is one who has sought In t
every election campaign, and particularly in all 1
in which he has had a personal interest, to sum* i
mon to his aid, and the aid of his party, the auti* 1
slavery vote, by his anti-slavery speeches. I aui j
well acquainted with many prominent anti-slavery t
and Free Soil citlxens or Adams county, where
pAAnitr and thfv Knvfl nlwuva r?>?nir?nd in 1
his political triumphs, as triumphs also to their
principles. I
In all caeesof kidnapping and fugitivestakenand '
claimed before the oourts of Adams county, Cooper I
was chief counsel; and in some of (he most protni- j I
nent ones, it is well known, capital was sought and 1
made, by <om~ one going to the pains of getting out j (
notices when he would address the court, which :
never failed to bring a crowded oourt-room. I
In many ways ho had won the respect and confi- I
dence of ihe friends of freedom in this State, 1
and his election to the Senate was deemed cause
of rejoicing, ss the next best thing, to the 1
election of a thoroughly consistent Free Soil t
candidate, not, however, owing to any snpe- r
rior qualifications for the post of United States ?
Senator, but to his supposed sincere devotion
to the great principles of Free Soil. s
In the cimpaign of 1S4K, in company with 1
Thaddeus Stevens of the House, he visited our I
county?a .ipecul visit to one of the strongest I
Free Soil districts in It, at which the greut bur- a
den of their speeches was to show that the Whig t
party was the Free Soil party, and their anxious t
solicitude that we should vote for 7-vhary as
the only relkiMti means of effecting anything in ?
behalf of the great question. t
Stevens has, in a degree, nobly maintained his t
Nm reputation upon this sobjeot, in his short but
pointed speech, and hope we shall yet hear much <
further from one capable of measuring eloquence i
and power with any member of that body.
What a spectacle I Lea* than two years ago.
Free Soil brought both psrtiee to their knees, even
in this slavery-ridden State. Johnson was elected
Governor by It?Gamble went In Canal Com- ,
mteeloner, a year since, with sn immense majority,
by en open profession of it?Cooper took his seat
in the Senate covered all over with pledgee to i
1
he great principle?end yet treachery end treaoo.
more acoursed then ever eeot traitor to the
el low*, bee cheated the people oat of their librtie"?has
robbed poor, servile Pennsylvania out
f even one representative in the Senate?has j
lied up the last oup of her degradation, and 1
helmed her in a crime which may reach down
> ages and uncounted millions?a treason against
>iiiury and Ami/, which will doom its perpetrators
> oblivion, or give them a resurrection in the
xecrations of the human race. J.
For the National Kra
JAMESTOWN CONVENTION.
1'ursuant to notice, without reepeol to party, a
'onveution met, June W9tb, Ib&O?G. Jenkins
ailed to the chair, and J. Hibben appointed
ecretary.
J. Morrow, being called on, made some brief
emarks explanatory of the objects of the meetng.
J. A. Jenkins, J. C. Johnston, and J Mor'ow
were appointed a committee of business, who
eport'd the following resolutions, which being
luly considered were adopted.
1 Resolved, That the time has fully come when
he friends of free government, without distiuciou
of party, should assemble together and give
i free and full expression of their sovereign will
with regard to the extension of slavery, and its prolection
by the National Government.
2. Resolved, That the contest now pending in
the councils of the nation is but the inevitable
result of a mighty effort to subvert practically
the great principles of a representative democracy,
as couched in the Declaration of Independence,
and to institute permanently in ith stead an unnailowed
and despotic rule, congenial only with the
interest and perpetuity of human slavery.
3. Resolved, That the pure and patriotic principles
of democratic liberty and the despotic usurpations
of slavery cannot both control the sovereign
power in the same Government; nnd that
the crisis has come, and the conflict is now pending.
which must settle the future destiny of this
nation for freedom or despotism.
4 Resolved, That each Senator and Representative
from the free States of this Union, who are
fawning and catering at the shrine of the slave power,
and yieldiug up the principles of the Ordinance
of 17t*7, are betraying the trust confided to their
keeping, and rendering themselves unworthy
longer to represent a free people.
f>. Resolved, That the only shadow of Compromise
contained in the infamous Omnibus bill is,
that it proposes to compromise the great principles
of human freedom, together with the dignity
of its advocates, fur the very valuable consideration
of remaining the same party organization,
and the privilege of voting for such candidate as
the slave power may think fit to present.
<i. Resolved, That Daniel Webster. Lewis Cass,
nnd others of like stamp, who are aiming to lnll
:he free States with the idea that slavery cannot
tie extended, and sounding the alarm of disunion
is a pretext for their servility and lack of fidelity
0 Aw^oterest of freedom, are worthy vulf of
>ur deepest contempt.
On motion,
Jtttclveil, Th?.t" as a good means of promoting
1 good cause, we would recommeod the regular
irganization of an association in every convenient
iistrict in the county, in support of the Ordilance
of 1787.
Resolved, That a committee be now appointed
o reoort a constitution for the district of James
own and vicinity, inviting all true friends of
iberty, from whatever party they may come, to join
n the association.
Mr. Morrow, being appointed the committee,
reported the following Constitution :
Whereas the country is in a deplorable condition
through the influence of slavery, and whereis
it is the duty of every good citizen to rise in
opposition to this ruinous evil and its extension,
the undersigned, desirous more effectually to oooperate
in this good work, agree to form an association,
and be governed by the following Constitution
:
Art. 1. This society shall be called the Free
Soil Society of Jafnestown, and based on the following
platform
The abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in
the District of Columbia, and all other places
where Congress has the power. A positive prohibition
of slavery in all new territory now in
possession, or which may be hereafter acquired.
Decided opposition to the admission of any
more slave States into this Union, under whatever
pretext. (Remaining articles omitted )
Rtsolvtil, That the secretary of this Convention
forward a copy of the proceedings to the
editors of the X^nui Torchlight, The Cincinnati
Gazette, The National Era, The Ohio Statesman,
mil The Ohio St a hi/aril, with a respectful request
'or publication.
Adjourned to meet at the school-room in Jamesown.
on the first Saturday of August next, at I
?'clock, P. M. J amis Htnevi, Secretary.
t or the National Kra
TU ANTI-SLAVERY MEN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Washington, IV, July 27, 18f)U.
Mk. Editor At the anniversary meeting of
:he Washington County Anti-Slavery Society,
field on the -Ith of July, admirable resolutions
were passed.
I beg leave to commend these resolutions to
he attention of Anti-Slavery men throughout
he State, many of whom are readers of the Era
The act of 1847, here referred to, was an act
>assed by the Pennsylvania Legislature In the
vinter of 1817, to repeal the laws declared unonstitutional
by the United States Supreme
vourt iu the Prigg case; to prohibit all State
ftioers from assisting in the capture of fugitive
laves; to prevent the use of county jails for deaining
captured fugitives , and to repeal the act
f 1780, which authorized "sojourners"from other
Rates to bring their slaves into the State, and
10M them as such for six months.
The act was passed unanimously in both brnnches
f the Legislature; was promptly approved by
overuor Shuuk, and men of all parties rejoiced
u its passage.
In the election of 1819, it was noticed that no
-ss than three Democratic ex-judges, and many
ther promiuent politicians in the Democratic
arty, were elected to the lower House of our
tate Legislature. Indeed, it was remarked that
aere were more prominent men in that body last
inter than were ever seen in it before.
A seat in such a body is not considered an honor
i Pennsylvania by men who have any honorable
osition at home, aud it has no emoluments of
ny moment. Hence none but very email or very
oung politicians seek a aeat there. It was thereire
a matter of surprise that men who usually
efuse such places should be found there at that
articular time.
It was supposed by some that they accepted
he post for the purpose of defeating the pending
mendment to the Constitution, to make judges
lective by the People. But all but one of them
fUrwards supported that amondment; and it
oon became apparent to those of ns who wutched
heir course, that they had gone into the Legislaure
for the purpose of effecting a change in the
tosition of the State on the Slavery question.
They were all warm partisans of Mr. Ruchanin
for the Presidency , and as one of the chief
>bstacles in the way of Mr. Buchanan's success
vith the South was the position of the Democra y
of the State in favor of the Proviso, and the
xistenoe of the act of 1817 on our statute hook,
t was deemed essential to change the one and re>eal
the other.
Accordingly, one of the ex-judges led off with
inking for a special committee on the slave qnesion
It was granted ; and the committee made a
long report, declaring both the Proviso and the
act of 1847 to be unconstitutional This was followed
by the introduction, by another of the exludges,
of a bill to repeal the act of 1847, and
ifterwards by the refusal, on the part of the ma
iority, to take up resolutions of instruction in
favor of the Proviso.
The hill to repeal the act of 1847 was urged
by the men to whom 1 have alluded, with great
vehemence. The ground was ably contested with
them, and during the pendency of the bill, Mr.
Buchanan visited llurrisburg, and personally soicited
the votoe of members for the bill. To the
iiegraoe of the State, the bill passed the House?
peas 49, nays 41. But five Democrats voted in
he negative, and two Whigs in the affirmative.
In the Senate the bill was defeated, that body
ieing more equally divided than the House.
Prom the force employed to put the bill through
ast winter, there can 'be do doubt that the at
-a .111 k- a 1 a 1 ? a a I 0 It
fiuut mil hi" rcpcuieu nrxi sillier, anu i lear n
fill be successful, unless we employ more ensrfry
against it than we did then.
Undoubtedly, the act of lt>47 is a serious obitaole
to the success of Mr. Buchanan. It is a
aw very obnoxious to Southern men?was passed
iy a Democratic Legislature, and approved by a
democratic Governor. When Southern men
re asked to support Mr. Buchanan, they point
o this act, and demand its repeal as a svtr yita moh
o their support.
It should be understood, then, that this whole
tfort to repeal the law is made to promote the
nicee?? of a Presidential aspirant and truckler
;o the South.
Mr Buchanan's friends managed thing* very
quietly last year They slipped their leading
men into the Legislature without making thia a
test question. They oannot do that, thia year, if
the friends of the bill choose to contest the ground
with them.
1 he resolutions of our Soaiety mention only
vrtUxom or runotiit tunes, as a means of resistanoe.
But if the Anti-Slavery men of the Stat# will
look to it in time, they can prevent the eleotion of
men secretly pledged to the repeal of the aot of
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1 1847, and can tear the cloak from theme who wish
to soeak into the Legislature without making
! their views known. Let me invoke every friend
of the act in question <o look well to the candidates
for the Legislature in their respective counties,
and to use every legitimate means for the
; defeat of men who would sacrifioe the integrity
of the State to promote the suocess of a Presidential
aspirant.
Let me also commend to the notioe of all Anti|
Slavery friends the fact that an election for Congressmen
comes off this fall in Pennsylvania.
The present Congress is disgraced by the presence
of no less than sur iougkfaets from our Stats;
three of these, at least, are from Anti-Slavery die
tricts?from the hne. Butler, nnu bucks districts
A proper vigilance will prevent a recurrence of
the like disgrace. In the Westmoreland district,
too, there seems to me, in the present disorder
prevailing among the dominant party there, a
chance for the hamlfull of Anti-Slavery men it
contains, to do something for the defeat of a dough|
face. Russell Errett.
Note?The Legislature elected this fall will
choose a United States Senator in place of
, Daniel Sturgeon, whose term aipires next March.
Simon Cameron, a prince among doughfaoes, is a
candidate for the place The same body will also
; divide the Slate into Congressional districts under
the new apportionment I mention these
facts, that our friends may take them into consideration
in connection with the attempt that will
be made to repeal the act of 1847.
for th? National Kra.
| FREE SOIL MASS MEETING I.N NEW VORK.
MioDi.evij.lk, July 15, 1850.
The friends of " the ixraediate and unconditional
admission of California into the Union"
met at Herkimer, in mass meeting, on Saturday,
the 13th instant
The meeting was called to order by Judge
Graves, and Arphaxad Loorais was chosen Presi1
dent. The meeting then listened to an able and
earnest speech from Ex-Senator Dix, upon the
"speedy and unconditional admission of California
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organize the Territories, with the prohibition of
slavery from them forever." The speech of the
Senator was calm, deliberate. and very impressive.
He urged the duty of the Democracy of
the Union to adopt the principle of divorcing the
General Government from all responsibility for
the existence and perpetuation of slavery; and
affirmed that this was the only ground upon which
peaoe could be restored to the councils of the nation.
He took up Mr Webster's doctrine of trampling
upon the will of his constituents, and handled
it without gloves. And, by the w iy, did he
not mean to lash the recreant Senator from his
own State, who has done the same thing ?
After the address, letters from David Wilmot,
Preston King, John Van Buren, and others, were
read, in which the measures of thjs. Free Soil
movement were strongly commendeoTahd encouraged.
The meeting adopted unanimously*a series
of resolutions, advocating the "immediate and
unconditional admission of California into the j
Union, and the speedy organization of the Terri- I
tories with the Jefferson Ordinance of 1787."
The meeting was well attended, occurring, as it
did, in the midst of the hay season. It was a fit
celebration of the Anniversary of Liberty in the
Great West, it was a meeting of /remit*, to make
and keep free other men?of liberty-loving citi- j
zens, to make citizens of others who love liberty
just as well. And let the Senators and Rcpre- i
sentatives of the old Empire State heed the voice
of Old Herkimer, which comes up from her hills I
and valleys, bearing upon its tongue the tones of !
liberty.
Yours, truly, A. Decking.
TO ANTI-SLAVERY MEN OF PENNSYLVANIA, j
To the Editor of the National Era :
Shall we divide our votes between the old parties,
next October, for Canal Commissioner, &c. I
Shall we organize through the State, and present
such a ticket to the people as we can with pleasure
support ? The latter is my choice.
The Democratic party, it seems, have thrown
uway their anti-slavery platform of 1849, and
adopted the Baltimore platform again for another
il>feat. The Whig resolutions seem a little better,
though they are not the thing They smell a
little of compromise. 1 am anxious to learn the
views of others. Nkwkli. Cai.lkndkr.
Blakt ly, Pu., July 'J.'i, 1850.
| BRITISH WEST INDIES?FREE LABOR AND
.U.I I r, L/llMIK.
l_y One of our English friends, G. W Ai.ix- j
andkk, who lately spent several month* in the
West indies, baa furnished us with the following
T&luable article.?Ed. Era.
We do not thiuk that the great question of
slave emancipation should he decided by the number
of hogsheads of sugar or halea of cotton that
may be produced by free oomparcd with a alare
community, but by the far higher considerations
of justice and benevolence and the requirements
of Christianity. Nevertheless, at a time when
the actual results of emancipation, on a large
scale, in the British West India colonies, are extensively
and confidently misstated, we believe
that it will uot be unacceptable or useless to our
readers to present them with a few statistical
facts relative to the subject. They will, at least,
show that the consequences of slave aliolition
have not been so disastrous to the planters in
those regions as has been represented, und still
more will they prove that the emancipated peasantry
is not of that indolent und semi-barbarous
character which ignorant, prejudiced, or interested
persons have been wont to affirm. It will be
observed, that the table given below contains an
socount, not only of the sugar received from the
Briti.?h West India colonies, but from other
sources for the supply of the market of Great
Britain, Bnd that it also embraces the consumption
of sugar in that country. Much of this information,
which does not immediately relate to
the exports of the emancipated colonies, will be
found to have nn indirect bearing on that subject,
and will be, also, interesting ss making the
statement relative to the supply and consumption
of sugar in Great Britain more complete.
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net for the al>olition of slavery in the British
West Indies and British Guiana earne into
effect on the 1st of August, 1NM4 . and the system
called apprenticeship was terminated on the same
day of the same mouth, in IH.'H By that period
of the year, a rerr large portion of the sugar
crop Is shipped, and the whole of those years are
therefore classed, in the first mentioned year under
slavery,and in the latter under the "apprenticeship."
By an eiamination of the tables, it appears
that the average export of sugar from the
British West Indira and British Guiana, in the
last fbnr years of slavery in those colonies, was
.'1,841,809 owti" ; the average export of the same
colonies during " apprenticeship," 3,4N8 392owts ;
and under freedom in the first period of four
years, 2 424,018 owta , the second similar period,
2,41*3,404 cwts , and in the three last years.
2,830,038 cwts.
Home persona will perhaps say, on reading this
statement that it is indeed true that sugar culti- |
ration is not wholly neglected in a state of freedom
in the British colonies, hut that there is a
large decrease of exports We admit that this
is the case, and we hare reason to rejoiee in the
(hot when we consider the manner In which the
larger amount was formerly wrung from the
bondsman and the miscalled apprentice Hlarery
and the apprenticeship were terminated because
it was frond that the lebor obtained under those
systems was only procured hy the exercise of a
cruel ooeroioa, and that both were therefore in
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consistent vkh lh? happiness, whilst they were
seriously oppesed to the intellectual, moral, and
religious improvement of the laborer. Lord
Stauley, la introducing the British act for the
abolition of slavery, urged, among other reasons
for that measure, the very large number of punishments
Inflicted on the slave population, and
the increase of exports in some of the principal
colonies, simultaneously with a considerable de
crease la their population. It should also be
aotad that since the introduction of freedom, a
considerable number of mothers have withdrawn
altogether, or to a greater extent than formerly,
from field labor, whilst not a few of the turn have
changed their employment, and children are extensively
sent to school instead of the plantation
In addition to these causes of decreased exports,
may be e*ated the greatly increased consumption
of sugar by the peasantry, and the prevalence of
unfavorable seasons during many late years in
the important island of Jamaica. We might advert
to other causes tending to the same result,
which marked the very early period of freedom,
especially disagreements with respect to wages,
and other circumstances, but which h.tve now to
a great extent ceased. We must not, however,
omit to mention, as a serious discouragement
to the production of sugar in the British
colonies during the last four years, the operation
of the sugar act of 1846, which has produced
a serious fall in the price of the great staple,
and has thereby led to the nbandonmeut of
many sugar plantations, and greatly reduced the
rate of wages given to the laborer on estates that
remain in cultivation 't will be wu that amidst
all these circumstances there has been a decided
tendency to increased production from a
very early period after the establishment of treeJoin,
and that the exports of sugar from the
British West Indies and British Guiana have
during the last three years reached three fourths
of their amount during the latter period of slavery.
We have not at hand an account of the exporta
to the same colonies from Great Britain,
j but we know that they Bbow a large increase as
coin paved with the time of bondage, and thereby
evidenoe to how much greater an extent the necessities
and comforts of life are enjoyed by the
mass of the people than formerly. We are
pleased to learn, from the American Almanac,
that the people of the United States also export
largely to the British West India colonies and
British Guiana, which received froui them in
1848 no less in value than $1,9.19.650, whilst the
slave island of Cuba, with a larger population
and greatly superior fertility to the average of
the British possessions. did not purchase inure
than $6,432,380.
If the results of British emancipation be satisfactory
to the extent that we hare shown it to he.
in a commercial point of view, in its infancy,
what may not be expected in its maturity, with a
rapidly increasing population, and that population
advancing not slowly, as we have reason to
believe from the past, in intelligence, morality,
and religion ? ^
From Buchanwi'i Journal of Man.
tyQIWRKS ()j> TWK mnRY
A few of my readers, perhaps, may give me no
thanks for introducing to their acquaintance a
great many things which they are not prepared
to believe, and possibly some which they are not
even willing to investigate. But I trust there
are vei^ few who are not disposed to sympnthixe
with free, bold, and patient inquiry?very few
who wish to stifle investigation or to scoff at those
who believe more than themselves At any rate, I
shall go on publishing freely whatever of interest
these eventful times produce.
The greatest wonder of these soul stirring days
is the wide-spreading conviction of intelligent
men, that the spiritual world is coming into free
and open connection with our cvery-day life, and
that spiritual^ beings are beginning to become
audible and tangible to our gross and earth-mixed
seuses. The wonderful developments of Auburn
and Rochester, related by Messrs. Capron and
Barron, are beginning to display themselves in a
bolder and more conspicuous manner. The parties
to these displays, Mrs. Fish and the Misses
Fox, have visited the city of New York, where
they hsve been holding spiritual communications
in the presence of a number of our distinguished
literati, whose reports have been highly favorable
They were invited to a party at the house of
tbe ttev. ur. uriswoM, wnere among the distinguished
gentlemen present were the poets Bryant
and Willis, the novelist Fenimore Cooper, Mr.
Bancroft, Rev. Or. Hawks, Gen Lyman, Dr.
Francis, Dr. Marry. Mr.Tuckerman. Mr Ripley,
Mr. Bigelow, and other literary gentlemen. The
experiments, rappings, and answers, on these occasions,
as described by gentlemen present, (in the
Tribune, How Journal, and .Burning Post,) were
about the tame aa usual. The answers were given
freely and oorrectly to Mr. Cooper, Dr. Francis,
and Mr. Tackennan, describing deceased persons
whom they had in their minds. Dr Hawks did not
succeed well in getting nnswers, and with the rest
of the company the spirits declined communicating
The physical manifestations, however, were
very striking, and we are much indebted to N. P
Willis, ot the Honv Journal, tor the direct and
frank way in which he has spoken out of what he
saw. The following extract from his leading
editorial iu the lioiw. Journal is quite interesting
:
"The two Misses Fox, as well as their married
sister, have nerves so pltimply clad in health and
tranquillity, that it is difficult to reconcile their
appearance with the fact that they have been
worked upon, for two years, by the phenomena
of unexplained visitations; and, indeed, throughout
the evening, we were struck with their combined
good humor and simplicity, and the ease and
unpretendingness with which they let their visiters
(from both worlds) have their own way. They
evidently won on the respect aud liking of all
present, as the evening went on
"One little peculiarity, hitherto unremarked,
came to our notice. The questioner's seat, to
give him access to paper nnd pencil, was on one
side of the table, and, chancing to occupy the
place between him and the ladies, we had accidentally
thrown our arm over the back of his chair.
Whenever the knockings occurred, we observed
that his chair was shaken, though our own intermediate
chair, and the two standing immediately
behind, were unmoved. We called attention to it,
and it was corroborated by the other gentlemen.
With such a heavy weight in the chair as Mr.
Cooper's, or Dr. Francis's, it would have taken a
blow with a heavy hammer to have produced so
much of a vibration That spirits cm exercise
mechanical force at all, is something new to believe.
And the law of mechanics would be equally
puzxled (cavillers insisting that the ladies themselves
produce these noises and vibration") to explain
how Mr Cooper's chair was shaken, when
we avar, that, between their petticoats and hiin,
we sot unmoved positively cutting off all physical
and mortal communication. We tnay add that
the ladies gave no particular attention to the
phenomena, talking willingly to any oue while
the knockings were going on Later in the
evening, it was proposed to the Spirits to let us
see them move the table across the room?a feat
they are said to have done?but they were not iu
the humor. *
11 An experiment was tried, as to what the Invisibles
would do with one of the ladies alone, or
with two without the third, or with a gentleman,
and one or two of the ladies. The strongest
knockings were on the floor beneath, when the
widow and her twosisters stood any wheretogether.
With two of them the kuocks were fainter. We
plnced onrself between the widow and one of the
young ladies, and the spirits would have nothing
to say to them in our company. To ono of ths
virgins, or to the widow singly, there wm no demonstration.
The spell, evidently, is in the combination
and close locality of these three. Yet it
seems communicable. with neighborhood and time
Mrs. Fi>>h mentioned thot, in Rochester, the
knocking visitation hadsjtretd, extending, at prea
ent, to twenty or thirty families if it U to
'spread ' the world over, and if we are all to have
spirits at our command, such as are alrcckly yrowd
la >ie uhle to shake chairs and mo re tables, there will
soon come a Fulton or a Morse, who will put this
ghost-power into harness, and it will follow Steam
end Kloctricity in doing man's work for him
Things reslly look like a remvoal of man's curse,
at the Fall, labor; and, if chloroform do as much
for toman's curse, so that she will no longer
'bring forth in sorrow,' we do not see much hinderance
in the way of an early Millennium. It
would he wise, we fancy, pretty soon, tow.tah our
hands and take a holyday a little oftener, that' all
ploy, and no work, may not prose rathir tedious
than otherwise, when it oomes, after nil!'
" With three men on the outside of a door and
three on the inside, watching it closely, that door
could not be so violently knocked npon as to tremble,
though no visible force approached it, without
giving one something to believe. We witnessed
this, with one hand upon the panela, and what
can it be, but the eternise of a power beyond anything
of whioh we have hitherto known the laws?
That it is to be subject to human control seems
probable, for it soU at present in s certain obedience
to human orders, and is most obedient to
those who have need it longeet There seems an
alphabet to learn, in this as in other new fields of
knowledge; and, indeed, considering the confusion
of ideas in the minds of those who visit and
try to talk, off-hand, with thaM newly discovered
'natives,' it is wonderfbl that the knockera make
themaelvee ae well nnderatood ae they already do.
If Providesoe derigaed to subject an mtrlhi{>.nt
power to oar servloe (in addition to the usw/'f/itent
miracle-workers, Steam and Eleotrioity,
which have saeoearively been given us)?the beginnings
wonld, by all precedent, be at least as
imperfect and dimly understood ae these are.
. C., AUGUST 8, 18B(
" Tkeeuggeetione and 'outside' bearinga of thia
matter are manj and oorioua. If theee knocking
ana were to queationa are made (aa manj insist) bj
electric d/'ona/ion.t, and if disembodied epirita are
still moving, consciously, among ua,and have thus
found an agent, at last, ii.kc raicirv, h\ which they
can communicate with the world thfy have loft,it must
soon, in the progremive nature of things, ripen to
an intercourse between this and the spirit-world.
The fuilure of the 'Cincinnati?ns' to estabiish
their 'clairvoyant telegraph.' three or four years
ago, may have been owing to the fact that the
new power is an intelligence, and will not be
basely employed to'fetch and carry' for trade
But we understand it haaoonsented to he employed
for healing. A report waa made to the Homeu
pathic College, of new York, recently, that a
phyeican had employed these kuockero 10 consult
the Spirit of Hahnemann as to a case despaired
of, and the instructions given in reply had been
followed, to the cure of the yaiuut. The ' knocking'
differs from clairvoyance, in the fact, that the
spirit, in the former case, tpeohs fru?and it is
an advance upon clairvoyance, of course, as spirits
know where they can be of use hotter than we,
and are more at leiaure to knock and tell us, than
we to look up a clairvoyant. But then comes the
wonder, how thoee. who have got well out of this
world, should either wish or conaent to have anything
more to do with it 1 Or is it as schoolmasters
go back to mix with children for their good,
or as missionaries fall behind, in the march of civilization,
to carry light to the benighted heathen
who are coming on rather too slowly ?
u We were very glad to see Mr. Cooper interested
in the ' knockers,' the other evening, for
he is one of the few men not afraid of the world,
and whatever he sees and believes, with his logical
and bold mind, he has the coursge to tell, and
tell well. The numerous plaoes ia whtcA '/oif >
knockings have been heard, within the past year,
show that the ghosts st large have got the trick
of it, and the ' demonstration,' altogether, to our
thinking, is of sufficient extent and respectability
to warrant grave attention. An electric telegraph
across the Styx, before they get one across the
Atlantic, woald make death less of a separation
from friends than a voyage to Europe?but there
is no eud to the speculation on the subject, and
we leave it with our readers."
A gentleman living in the midst of these phenomena.
is western New York, writes uuder
date of June *th, as follows:
" The demonstrations continue to spread and
make new converts. Many are firm in the faith
that they are from hell and the devil; and others
as earnest in the belief that they are augeis from
upper spheres. 1 can concur in neither opinion.
The spirit world, like this, is composed of ignorant
and intelligent?all governed by the great law of
affinity. There, of course, men will find spirits
or tbeir own altinity, to converse with, and time
will show that the sources of these communica
tions are not infallible, as all evil, or all good, but
a mixture.
" Some of us who are in the midst of these demonstrations
will be happy, at some future time,
to /e/rnfeb you for fkbVOxiioa * ow1
tial arfcle upon the subject."
A letter received by a gentleman of Pennsylvania
contains the following passage:
' You wish to know about the possibility of extending
these communications. So far as the
actual conditions necessary for a medium are
concerned, I have never yet been able to ascertain
It evidently is not all clairvoyants that can be a
medium. ? #*
The spirits either do not seem perfectly to understand
the law themselves, or they judge it uot
best to give the world the full secret at this time
Whenever and wherever it appears in a new place,
it seems to come as if by accident, and take them by
surprise.
'* 1 have not succeeded in getting any spirit to
agree to communicate with you through your
sister, or otherwise. We do not often succeed in
such requests, except in a general way, and the
answers are,1 tell them to be patient, they will
hear it soon.' All the spirit* that communicate
agree that the time is not far distant, when all
that are desirous will be able to communicate with
their friends. I am much inclined to believe in
the prediction made by several spirits, that a very
general communication will take place during the
present year."
Still more wonderful announcements will be
given in our next number. A private letter gives
details of some phenomena more remarkable than
any that have yet been mentioned.
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For Governor, Lucius B. Peck; for Lieutenant
Governor, Stephen Smith ; for Treasurer, Joseph
Poland.
This is a strong ticket. Mr. Peck is now in
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The convention passed thorough-going Free Soil
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The " unterrifled" Hunkers met in convention
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WILLIAM B JAK VIS, Jan.. Attornryand CouneelUt
mt Law,t'ctumbns.Ohio Office In Piatt's naw building,
State street, oppoeite soutb door of State House.
Business connected with the profession, ef all kinds^nne
toallvattended tw Ian IV
EXCHANGE BANK OK R. W. LATHAM A CO.,
Washington, D. C.,
IAKALS in checks,drafts, acceptances, promissory noter '
1 ' hank notes, aud coin.
HANK NOTES.
Notes on all solvent banks iu the United States bought j
and sold at the best prices. ,
DRAFTS, NOTES, AND BILLS,
in Washington and Georgetown,collected, and remittance* |
promptly made, in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, or ,
Boston funds, at a charge of one-quarter per cent.
COLLECTIONS
Made in all the principal cities of the Union,on the must ,
favorable terms.
EXCHANGE. ,
Bills of exchange and bank checks on most of the princi- (
pal cities of tbe Union bought and sold at the best r tea.
(XT* Office hours, from eight o'clock A. M. to five P. M. ,
Nov. 15?tf I
LARD FOR OIL. !
LAM WANTED.?Cash paid foroorn,mast,andslop-fed ]
Lar 1. Apply to '
THOMAS EMERY, Lard Oil Maoufaeturar, '
Jan.2f>. 23 Water street, near Walnut,Cincinnati O
THE FRIEND OF YOUTH.
'PHIS new and attrac'ive journal for Youth, edited by ,
1 Mrs. Bailey, and published at Washington, can be had j
at the Boston Agency for the Nutional Era, 3 Cornhill \
Price, by mail, 60 oeutsayeur; delivered in Boston, free of ,
postage,75cents. GEORGE W. LIGHT, ,
Nov. 25 3 Cornhill Boston.
<1. W. S EATON,
ATTORNEY ami Counsellor at Late, and Solicitor in 1
Chancery, will give prompt attention to all business 1
intrusted to Ids care in this and the adjoining countiee.
Youngstown, Mahoning Co., O. May 9?ly
WHEELA* Ac WOOD*
WHOLESALE ami Ret all Pool ami Sitae Mwiufartur- .
ert, sign of the BIG RED BOOT, No. 39 l.ower
Market, aoatb aids, two doors west of Nycamore street,(..'in- ,
ciuimtl?Dealers In Boots. Shoes, Palm Leaf Hals, Jte.
J. P WHKLAN.
Mav23-lv a. WOOD. J
THE AMAM TEA COMPANY, f
No. 136 Greenwich Street, New York.
rPHE proprietors beg to oall the attention of connoisseurs
A In Tea, and the heads of families, to tks choice and rare ,
selection of Teas Imported by them, and hitherto unknown ,
in this country, which by their trwgrsnse and delicacy, com- ,
blued with virgin purity and strength, prod use an infueioo
of surpassing riehiess and flavor. I
The Teas offered are the follosrutf: 1
The Jeddo Bloom, a Black Tea, at f 1 00 per lb
Tks Niphon, do. do. 75 do.
The Blari, do. do. ... BO do. .
Tks Osaooa, a Oreen Tea, at .... t.(? do.
The Too taiaa, do do. - - - 75 do.
The Tleki-t?iaa,do. do. .... 50 do.
Tbk Ud fl Miature, a compound of the most
rare and choice Teas grown on the fertile I
and (snial soil of Assam .... 1 00 do.
With a view to encourage the introduction of these matchless
Teaa, it is the intention of the proprietors to distribo e
by 10% among the purchasers, a quantity of Teas equal to
the FIRST YEIR'S PROFITS on the sale* effected
Each purchaser will reeeirs. enoleaed in the package, a numbered
certificate, entitling bin to one oheucc In the Distribution
'
F?r trery fifty cents laid out,and on thersoeipts amount
ins to $9C,ntO, ihs undermentioned parcels of Tea, to the
ralue of ten per cent,or ?2O 0, will b? given away as bo
nuses, according to tbs followiug scale:
Ut.
5 Prises of BO lbs. of Tea each, at fl per lb. 280 ?250
20 do. 25 do. do. do. 800 8(?l
50 do. 10 do. do. do. 500 find
100 do. ft do. do. do. 500 ftOi)
380 do. I do. do. do. 280 25b
438 Prises in all. 2,iwn a,ono
Those persons who prefer lower priced Teas cen receive
their priaea in proportion, or they will be re purchased tor
cash, at a redustion of 10 per cent.
OT"Country Agents required. Applications to be ad
dressed, poet paid, to the Company's Depot, as above,
'nne 6?3m
RIWIPAPn AGENCIES.
VH. PALMER,the American Newspafier Agent la agent a
fur ilie N-tltottal Era, and authorised to take Adrer- |
tiseronita etui subscriptions at the sanir rates ?- required by 0
n? His olll<*?* are at Boston, H t "ongresa street; N?w York
Tribune Building; Pbiladslj. bin, north wee t corner of Third ?
end I'hritnut street* , Baltimore,southwest eoruer of North a
end Keyette streets. ,
OCT M M. PKTTENOIl.l., Newepeper Adeertlslng.Sub- e
icription. end < ol'eotlng Agent, No III State street Boston m
Journal Building its elan earn! birth# Walionol M
WATSON k REN Wit K, WASHINGTON, D. V., s
A'JKNTI/o# proraring J'-llen/< in II,t I'mini fituU< *1
2\ ami forugn rmtutrut g
They prepare K|M*elfloetlone end I'rewliir* of ure inren
hone, end transact ell business connected with their pro
r?(?ton d
They will re r lee and att#nd to the re. onaideralion of thoOe *
applications wbiab here been rejeoiel l.jr the < oiuiuUalener ?
of Pntmto either on arwnnne of a dafectire spec.Oration and h
drswing, or th? presentation of an imprn|ier elalu f
Persona residing at a distance mar procure ail neeenary 4
Information reapecting the patentability of their lewali#m, .
may hare their applications for im'ent* made in proper tor*, J
end may obtain patents without iucurrlng lh? sipewseofa *
pereoual attendance at Washington, by writing to Iks sab- *
eerihare.
Models ean be safely sent to ns by thaEgprssses
Rough sketches and dseoriplkoaa can he sent by mall
L* leri null he pmtl ;>uW. .
OReeoa t etreet ,oppoeite the Thlsst ORsw H
f. H WIWM"
July 18 K. ?. SKNWK'K
t OM MlvelON STORK*
WM GUN N IRON, OeseernJ Cast* Inim
J Wkmrf, Jatft?ere, Mi.
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PARKKVII.I.E HYDROPATHIC INRTITl TP.
AT a meatiug of the Hoard of IfMim of it, Purke?lila
Hydropathic Inatltute, held Plfth month 16th ihj,<i
Jooaph A Wader, M. U., wna unanimously elected
PkuMtna* In tba plaee of Ur Heater, learned
Hering made rarluna Improeemenfe, thla InetltuUI, Bow
r- pared to reeolre an additional number of patieate- ,L(1
from I?r Wedar'awaU known akill and exprrun,,
in Kurope, (aeqntrod under Vinoana Prelnanltt, tha found, r
of Ota Hydropathic ey?t?m,)end for aererul ?e?r? paat
tAu reuelry, and particularly in the otty of Philadelphia
(whore ha haa had many pationta,) tha Manager* beliaaa
tha aflleted Will And him an able and an attanlira phaai
inn '
Tha domaatla department being under theehirr, # .
Ntewurd and Matron, will auabia tha Doator to derota u
tha patiaata whatarer time may be noecoaary.
Applieatlou for admlaaion to be made to ,
^ ~ SAMUBL WEBB, Httr,iut.
(MBoe No. 68 South f ourth atreet, residence Mo 16 L.1L?
square, Philadelphia
Umeral Ducription of th> Parkevdk HydrowitHu
Institute.
Tba mail) building la three atoriea high, ntaadlae ' from
tha atraet about ..no hundred faet, with a aamiri^H?
MM Plot In front, and tonnin. tki-.-. - .
-- i"i-tv roe
grounds around tbe house arc tastef . I j
and planted with tree#, shrubs, Ac On the left of th* ?7
tranee to tb?M grounds li a cotUgt containing four ro, m,
used by male palianti aa a bathing houae, with nwr con'
v.utenee for " packing," bathing, fco.; on tha right of th.
entrance, about two hundred feet distant stand* **!??,.!,
cottage, naad by the ladle* for similar pnrpoaea
in tba rear or tha laatltuta, at th* distance of oaa hua
I red feat, ar* three other outage*, aome eighty f.*, aiart
Una of thaaa t? th* lanndry, with a hydrant at the door tha
other two ar* occupied by th* aervants
The bydranl water U introduced into these eou*ge, ..
wall a* luto tha main bmlding, and all the waaU w*ur ear
ried otf by drain* uodar grout, d
THI WtTU WOAkk
Consist of ? circular atone building, standing on the hevw
of a bill, surmounted by a large radar reservoir evataioto*
*- I'.,' _ A-iaiiiugs(irteg of*
pure cold water in the aide of the hill, by -a bydrauli*
ram," a self-acting machine of east iron, that i# kept Tin
tantly going, night and day, by ths descent ot the * *r
ftoio the spring. Tb* surplus water 1* carried from tha
rsserv?ir to a fountain in tne water work* yard surround-d
by weeping willow*. In tbe first story of th* water works
is a circular room, containing the douche bath, which is a
atraam falling from a height of about thirty fert ai.d oaa
be varied in sise from half an ineb to an inch at,d a half in
diameter Adjoining tba douche room ia a dressing rcsan
with marble tables, Jto.; tbe rising duurKt (for tha cure <>i
piles, ke ) is one of the most complete rontrlvtncei ot th*
kind .being entirely under the control of the patient wing
the same.
There are many other appliances, which eau be better understuood
by a personal examination May 30.
NEW ENGLAND TRUSS MANUFACTORY,
BOSTON.
JAMES F. FOSTER eontlnnas to manufacture all th*
various approved TRUSSES at his u?w stand, No. 4*7
Washington street, opposite No. 416 Washington street,
and bis residence and business being both in the same
building, can b? seen at home most of tbe whole of the time,
day or erening He has more room and better convenience,
for tb* Truss business than any other person engaged ia
It tu this city or any other.
Alao, ABDOMINAL SUPPORTERS for prolapsus
uteri, trusses for prolapsus ani, suspensory bag*, knee oape,
back boards, steeled shoes for deformed feet. Trusses repaired
at one hour's notice, and made to answer oftentimes
a- well as new. Tbe subscriber having worn a trues himself
for the last twenty flee year*, and fitted so many for
the last twelve years, -eels confident in being able to suit
all eases tbat may come to him.
CONVEX SPIRAL TRUSSES; Dr. Chase's trusses,
former It sold by Dr. Loach; trusses of galvanised metal,
that will not rust, baring wooden and eupuer padt , Keed I
spiral trues; Kendall's do ; Salmon's ball and socket;
ranch di.; Bat ?-ii* km
single; Stone's trusses. Alio. TRfX-Vt'S *v>? nun
UAENotu11 SIM* 1>T Kletoher'n tree*, Marabt'a tru??,
Dr. Hull'* trim. Thompson'* crotchet truss, bad Ik* She
Ktr1* rucking trusses, may be had at thii establishment
Alio, Whitptring Tubrt and Ear Trurnpcti, that will
enab ? a person to oouverae low with ene that is bard of
hearing.
All ladies in want of abdominal euppo'ters or trustee will
be waited upon by hi* wife, Mr* Caroline D hotter, who
hae had twenty year*' experience in the holiness
JAMES F. EOSTEK
BotUm, I860. June 6?3ui
JAMES BIRNEY AND I HAULAS C. PEIRCE,
Cincinnati.
BIKNKY A I'ElHCE, A toiiuys at Laic atui Nttun,,
Public.
JAMES BIKNKY, commissioned to take depositions,acknowledgment
of deed*, an i to administer oath* and attrattions,
by appointment of the Governor* of
Alabama Connecticut Delaware
Illinois Indiana Iowa
Kentucky Luuit'an* Michigan
Mi*ao>iri Miasiaaippl Maine
New York New Hampshire North Carolina
Pennsylvania Khode Island South Carolina
Tennessee Vermont Wiaoonsln.
Tex a." Maryland
Special attention given to eollection* and to the taking of
lenoaitiou*.
Ofliee, No. IU Main etreet. July 25.
WUKTHINHTON O. SMETHEN,
Formerly Solicitor of the General Lud Office,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CONTINUES lu practice in tbe Supreme Court of the
United States, in tbe Court* of tbe Distriet of Colon
Ma, '.Maryland, and Virginia, to prooecuteoiaim* of all kindi
igainst tbe United State*, either before Uonpreuornpy of j
the Executive Department*, and to procure l?-tteVr^ne?m I
for inreHtlons. Business confided to hi*care will be prompt- I
ly attended to. I
N. H. Particular attention paid to the prosecution i m
Maims before the Hraxilian Commission now silting it
Washington.
JYat/iinfton City, D. C. July 25?im
OLD DOCTOR JACOB TOWNNEND,
THK ORIGINAL DISCOVERER OP
THE UENl/lNE TOWN SEND SARSAPARU.LA
OLD Dr. Townseml is now about seventy years s/agt, smd
ha* long been knowiia* the Author and Dl*ew??r*r of
tbe genuine original " Toh'nttnd SmrtaparilUt.'KJMng
poor, h? was compelled to limit Ite manufacture, by which I
mean* it ha* been kept out of market, and the sal a eirocm I
scribed to those only who i ad prored it* worth and knows
it* value. It bad reached tbe tars <J many, nevertheless, u
tboee persons who hail been healed of sore disea **, and
tared from death, proclaimed its excellence and wonderful
healing power. This
(< ratal a ad UmrqiiaUrd Preparation
is manufactured on the largest scale, and is called for
throughout the length and bread'h of the land.
Unlike young S. P. Townseml's, it improve* with we, so l
never change*, but f< r the better; because it is prepared 01
scientific principles, by a scientific man The higbwt knowledge
of Chemistry, and the latest discoveries of tbe Art.
here all been brought into requisition in the manufacture of
tbe Old Doctor'J Sartaparilla Tbe Sarsapari'la root. it it
well known to medical men, contain* many medicinal properties,
and some properties which ere inert or ostites; and
itbera, which, If retained in preparing it for use, produce Ur
mentation and acid, which is injurious to the system. Some
of tbe properties of Ssraapariliasre so volatile, that they entirely
evaporate and are lost in tbe preparation, if they are
not preserved by a scientific process, known only to thus
expe tenced in its manufacture. Moreover, these volatile
prlnclplf*, which fly off in vapor, or as an exhalation under
neat, are tbe very essential medical properties of the rvot,
which give to it all it* value. The
6e*alsr, Old Dr. Jacob Tewaiend'a Ma rta gorilla
is so prepared, that all the inert properties of the banupsrill*
root are first removed, everything capable of becoming
told or of fermentation is extracted and rejected t then every
panic's of medical virtue i* secured in a pure and ooncen
:rated form, and tbns it is rendered incapable of loeing ssy j
>f it* valuable and healing properties. Prepared in this
way, It i* mad* the most powerful agent in the
Cure of Innumerable Disease*.
lid*. In it* favor, by men, women, and children We Ad<1 It
Icing wonder* in the cure of Consumption, Ifytprpna end
Liver Complaint, and in Rheumatism, Scrofula, and PtUs,
Costtrtnrsi.uU Cutaneous Kruptums, I'impUl, Blotches,
Hid all affection* arising from
Impurity of the Blood.
It po**e**es a marvel Inn* efficacy in all complaint* arlniuf
"Tom ludlgeotion, from acidity of the etcmarh, from nneqnal
limitation, determination of blood to the bead, palpitation of
he heart, oold Wet and cold hand*, cold chill* and not flaabd
ver the body. It ha* not bad it* equal til cough* and eoldi,
ind promote* eaar expectoration and gentle |*rxptreti< u, reaxing
atrtoture of the litnge. throat, and every other part
But la nothing I* it* exeellence more manifectiy teen and
icknowledged than In all kind* and etage* 01
Female Coinplainta.
It work* wonder* In ea*e? of fluor ulbvs or white*, falling
>f the womb. ob?rruct?d, *opprt??ed, or painful tnencm, irregularity
of the meratruai period*, at.d the like; and 1*
iff actual In curing all form* of the kidney dieea**.
By removing obat ruction*, and regulating the general ip
:?m, It give* tone and atrength to the whole body, and ruiei
ill form a of
Xerveui Disrate* and Debility,
ind tbu* prevent* ov relieve* a great variety of other dieeaie?,
ae (pinal irritation, neuralgia, St. Vitu* dance, **orr
ng, epileptic At*, coavuiaiotu, <to.
la not it la, then,
The Medicine yoa Pre-eminently Weed?
Bnt can any of the** thing* be mud of S P. Townaesd >
nferior article? Thie young man * liquid I* not to b*
Cam pet red with Ike Old Dr.V,
?ecan?e of one Grund Fad, that the one I* hscapaUeof Dteriorutwn
and
Never Spwlla,
rbil* tb* other doe*; It aoun, ferment*, and blow* the holla*
containing It iato fragakeate , the nar, acid liqaM ?
itodtng and damaging other good*' h?u*t not thie berrltl*
'.inpound be poiaoaou* to tb* *y*t*m 1 Whet! pot ?'i<?
nto a eye'vin already dieeaacd with arid! What raa***dy?wpaia
but acid t Po we not all know, that whe* ftod aourt
n our itomacha, what miachief It profface*1? AaleUi < ?,
leartbnrn, palpitation of the heart, liver complaint dtarrfcow,
yten'ery, nolle, and corruptloa ef the blood? Whet It
da bnt an acid bnmor la the body I What produce* ali Hj?
nmor* which bring on eruptianeof the ikia.eoald head**'
beam, eryaipelan, wklt* (welling, fevor-oovee, and *" ***"
tiona, internal and external 1 It la nothing aadet > ***
ut aa acid (oliMjm, which aour* and thn* apotle allJ1,
luid* of the body, mere or lea*. What tsaaae* AwW'',
at a aour, acid Said, wbi?h irelnuate* ?t?*lf betwee* u>
-lut* and elaewhnro, irritating and InSamlng the louder
elicgk* liaeuae upoa which it acta 1 He ef *?rv*o? di!**** i
f Imparity of the blood, of deranged circulation*,aad
11 tb* alls eat* which *0tot human nature. -_,.?i.
Now, la It not horrible to make and coll, aad infinite
rorwe to aeo, thi*
t*atiring, ferment lug. Arid ' t ow*pound - of ? ?
11>? imxi:
nd /at be anald f?ln have it ai.daratuud (bat Old l?r J? "<>*
"uwneend'a (rename Or 141*4J Sati?jpat tUa laaa
t tail later!,.r pr?i?mi?a I! .
Hraeeu forbid that wa aboald dial la a? *r' 1
" '"Id haar tba awtdiataatraaa?hbia?ato * F Tttma?x'?
rtiela' aad which abeuld Ma dawa / *** *",k
mountain load of nata/lulBtaaadarlailaatloe 1 from
'ao 1 are told, aad purekaaan wb* " *' h F. Town
'"* 'Tlu'Tni'liTlMalaTf '* ' ,b* "t'o af# fm
hat tt. Y Toaraaaatl' attWa aad Old l>r. Jer,.h I ownr-i.d
trrai-arilla an baaraa?t<taapai% ir. l lalultelj dUoimllar
hat theT are aaNki la rtarj naMtaular, baaiag aot oaa ata
'aa'It'F* TWiwaf ?a ao doctor, and aaaar wa* If a?
hernial a* iibaiaiaaaafif *1 ? W"r? at atadleiae '
leaaae Una aa/etbar aaaiaiua, oaaeientifk. aupxofeMU"?'
rtat (auaatrt re a tba pi Mir bare that tbey are r*
ata tag a fawlK aciaallda andlciaa r..euiniag all tbenr
aaa of tba arttalaaaaad ia peaparlr ( it aad vbiab an "<
abtaadubaaga* wbtrb aitfrbt render tbaai tba ufr?h ?'
illfflli IsHcmI iMBfcltll I
It la ta arraat fraada apon tba uaforrunata. to penr U
ito Hanadad boatanlty. to kindle boje la tha
aaeM, la raatofw baaltb and bhom aad elf* lata tba cm'
i aad bcabra, aad to baniab tnflrialr *?that Oil)
tlX)8 TOWNhKltll baa im|JU a*4>aatl tba
11/ aad ataaaa ta brlag bla
Graad, talveraal. Caaraatnlid Beatadf.
Itbla tba nark, aad to tba kaowlrdge, of ail wbo ae?J "
bat tba/ ata/ laara aad know b/ ja/fu! aaprrtaoaa, tta
Traaarendenl Fawrr laHeaM
03T Far Mb la Waablagtoa <11/by?
J V 0Jlaa Vlt dW. H 6U???
S. Butt M I "alaaa
Ma/ 9. Uidgai/ ?ta.