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THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL!
Bayard Taylor.
On Monday evening last we had the pleas
ure of hearing this gentleman deliver a lec
lure before the Young Men's Association at
Toledo. His subject was " The Arabs." His
lecture was one of the most classical and
finished productions that we have ever list
ened to,.and was received with marked sen
sations of pleasure by a large audience. His
uunciation was very clear, deliberate and
distinct, and his voice strong, musical and
well modulated. His gestures were some
what constrained and awkward, showing
that he is not yet much accustomed to pub
lic speaking. His notes were before him,
but the lecture was 60 well conned that he
had but little occasion to refer to them.
The subject was somewhat amplified and
dilated upon, but there was but little said
that was new to those who have attentively
read his letters in the Tribune from Africa
and Asia. The principal incentive with us
was curiosity to see and hear the most dar
ing, energetic and extensive American trav
eler of our day. His temperament and phy
sical form are in perfect unison with his
character just right for action and endu
rance. His personal appearance and bearing
are excellent, he is decidedly " good look
ing." We copy the following in regard to him
from the Sandusky Register:
Besides being a lecturer of fine power, he
as. iust such a man as the world should love to
honor, whose life has not been an experiment
bat one of manly action, and from which he
lias reaped the noblest of rewards the ad
miration of hi-i countrymen. He is a self
made man, ami just such a persou as young
mwi, may, with safety, imitate.
Bayard Taylor was a printer boy, and after
Attaining an education, gathered together his
little means for a tour over Europe. With
three hundred dollars he started from our
bhorcs; and that amount, with some small
sums earned as a correspondent of the New
"York Tribune and another paper, served to
bear him all over the Continent. A hardy,
ag-icious youth, with his knapsack on his
back, he travelled afoot from Cadiz to St.
.Fefersburgh and won such a knowledge of
i he people of Lurope as was worth his pains
and privations. Upon his return his let
ters iu the Tribune, having alread won him a
name In; published his "Views Afoot,"
one of the most readable and interesting
volumes of travel that ever issued from the
American Tress, Its sale was very large
and the author stepped into an enviable re-
jmte. It was shortly followed by his
" Rhymes of Travel," his first volume of
Poems. This book added to his fortune, as
well as to his fame, and made the author's
name a household word. He soon became an
associate editor of the N. Y. Tribune; and
to this time has been either active or corres
ponding member of the editorial corps of
:hut paper. When the California "fever"
broke out, and the. mines became the resort
if thousands, he departed for this El Dorado
n " take noies" for the Tribune. He spent
twenty months in the Gold Regions, Mon
terey, &e.. and then returned home to pub
lish Ids '-El Dorado" and his "California
"Ballads" both of which books added nia-u-ridUy
to his reputation and his means.
After resting awhile, he. determined on an
expedition to Egypt, ti e Holy Land, the
Indies, &c., and left our shores early in the
summer of 1S51. We are all familiar with
that memorable tour," for who has not
followed him through his letters to the Tri
bune ? After exploring Egypt and her aged
iiiin?, hi penetrated the Kile to a point far
ther into Nubia than Buy white man ever
had attempted, except the German Catholic
missionary. Dr. Knoblecker. who Is now, if
alive, in th. heart of Africa, at the head
waters of the mysterious liver. Returning,
lie passed to Jerusalem, by the Desert and
through lV-lrea then he isited Ninevah
im .Babylon, where ljayard was exuming
human headed bulls and verifying scriptural
prophecies. Then he passed on to
India,
and there embarked on the American Japan
expedition, and was present when Commo
dore rerry made his landing, jerom japan
and China he shipped for home, and arrived
in New York about the 20th of last Decem
ber. This is the written history of this celebra
ted young man, who is now, we believe, in
his thirty-second year. There i3 not, per
haps, another instance on record of one so
young having seen so much of the world.
What a lesson does his experience teach !
It shows that, with an earnest purpose and
stout heart, any young man can coin a noble
destiny.
Moving large trees from the woods in
winter, on the "frozen ball principle," is
said, by a writer in the Horticultural Jour
nal, to be " a job that don't pay." He says :
Three years ago I brought from the woods
a great number of trees of various sorts, and
for every one that has flourished nine have
died; at the same time I procured from a
nursery a few small elm trees, barely strong
enough for walking sticks, which were
planted in the same situation; to be sure
thev were not such conspicuous objects at
the first start, but now they are nice hand
some trees, while those from the woods have
nearly all disappeared."
This reminds us that of the large number
of forest trees set out in Perrysburg last sea
son, but very few are alive this spring, al
though most of them gave signs of life through
the summer. We thought, at the time, that
they were set out too late in the season, and
that the " frozen ball1' plan would be better,
but it seems from the above that that plan
i mi i . . j1
is a iaiiure. ine closing suggestion in me
above item is probably the best practical one
for the transplanting of shade trees. The
mere circumstance of taking young trees
from the forest, where they have fgrown up
shaded to a considerable extent, and setting
them out in the streets, exposed to the full
force of the summer sun and drouth, is
enough to kill them if their roots were un
disturbed and in the full vigor of expansion
and growth. The transition is too great.
Trees of a more hardy nature and growth
must be substituted.
Foreign Items by the Arabia. The
Turkish government, in concert with Eng
land, France and Prussia, addressed a remon
strance to the Greek Court for allowing the
insurrection to attain such headway. The
King is reported to have apologized and
dismissed his Minister. Several British
ships of war has been ordered from Malta to
the Greek coast to look for insurrectionists.
The latter have been defeated by the Turks at
Astrea.
Louis Napoleon opened the French legis
lative session on the 2d inst., in a speech
which is unanimously praised by the Eng
lish press. He alluded first to the famine,
which, for a while, threatened France, but
which, by judicious measures, has been
avoided. He says, in speaking of the war,
" Strong, then, in the nobleness of our cause,
in the firmness of our alliances, and the pro
tection of God, 1 hope soon to arrive at a
peace which shall no longer depend on the
power of anyone man to disturb."
Gen. S:. Arnaud.it is rumored, has been
appointed to the command of the French
army in the East.
Kalefat has been evacuated by the Turks
and they now occupy no position North of
the Danube.
A fugitive slave was arrested in Racine
on Saturday last, and lodged in Milwaukee
jail by the U. S. Marshal. During the after
noon one hundred men arrived from Racine
I y steamboat, went to the jail, broke it open
an I set the fugitive at liberty.
Millard Fillmore end suite, including the
Hon. John P. Kennedy, late Secretary of
K ivy, were, at last accounts, at Frankfort,
Rv. They were to return to Louisville on
Wednesday ond be received by a grand pro
cession of the citizens. A public dinner
i was to be given them the same evening.
Douglas Impartially Judged.
We who condemn the villainy of which
Mr. Douglas now stands before the world as
the chief advocate, may possibly be accused
of prejudice and partisan feeling, growing
out of the fact that on most, if not all po
litical questions, it has uniformly been our
fortune to be entirely opposed to him. But
no such accusation can be brought against
Lt ltepublicain, an able French journal of
New York city, which has hitherto been wont
to hold up the senator from Illinois as a great
prophet of democracy and universal progress.
His scheme for the extension of slavery is,
however, too much for our French cotempo-
rary. Unlike Mr. Douglas and John Mitch-
el, its democracy does not include negro
driving as one of its fundamental principles;
and it revolts at the last intrigue of this
smallest of " giants" in the following deci
ded language : N. Y. Tribune.
Ambition to be President is the reason why
Mr. Douglas aims to repeal the compromise
of 1820. He constitutes himself the apolo
gist and propagandist of slavery, wearing at
the same time the badge of democracy, for
the purpose of catching southern votes. Ihe
desire to be chief magistrate of the republic
causes him to trample on right, justice and
liberty. With the same end, others, before
Mr. Douglas, have acted similarly. Did not
Daniel Webster contribute in 1850 to adopt
execrable laws in favor of slavery, which his
conscience must have condemned, and his
intelligence doubtless rejected? His con
science certainly, for we know nothing more
cruel in human history than the extradition
of fugitives claiming their inalienable liber
ty, and that with less formality than in re
storing a dog or a pig which has escapedan
inclosure. His intelligence we say likewise,
for that was too keen for him not to compre
hend that the privilege accorded to the ter
ritories of Utah and New Mexico to establish
slavery to the north of 36 deg. 30 min. would
not fail to be interpreted as annulling ipso
facto the Missouri compromise. Mr. Doug
las probably has no struggles with a con
science seared with remorse, nor with his in
telligence, cultivated in the narrow mental
circle which Illinois offers.
This free state regrets, it is said, to be de
prived of slavery, first by the ordinance of
1787, and afterwards by the compromise of
1820. The code which her legislature nas
promulgated against the colored population
surpasses all we know of what is hideous
and revolting in South Carolina or Alabama.
Here is an extract from the code :
" Every person who brings into the 6tate a
man or woman of color, free or slave, will
be fined from one to five hundred dollars,
and will be imprisoned for a term not ex
ceeding one year."
An amendment, however, in favor of plant
ers permits them to cross the state with
slaves, not forfeiting their property, as is the
case in New York and other free states.
Every person of color, irrespective of sex,
age or occupation, who stays ten days with
in the boundaries of this state, is liable to a
fine of $50. In default of payment, he will
be sold to the highest bidder, paving fines
and expenses ; the proceeds of such sale to
be divided equally between the informer and
the charitable foundations of the place.
Every person born with one-fourth black
blood is considered a negro or mulatto.
These atrocious laws, which deprive a man
of his liberty because he has not fifty dollars
at command; the laws which appear to be
long to a bygone era and to a people at once
pagan and savage ; these laws, which outrage
our century, our Christianity, and our civil
ization, bear the date of February 12, 1853!
Such is the democracy of the state of Illi
nois. Is not Mr. Douglas worthy of repre
senting it ? When he dilates on the individ
ual sovereignty ot the states, we understand
what he means by his redundant rhetoric.
He wishes to establish a despotism devoid
of shame and mercy, by means of a popular
vote ; he wishes to rate humanity as worth
just fifty dollars; he wishes to assimilate to
Illinois all the tree states oi the Union! ;
If Alexander Dumas 6hould be bo foolish
aa to come to the United States, let him take
precious good care not to set foot on the soil
of Illinois 1 If on his arrival he should lose
his pocket-book, he would be 6old to the
highest bidder, maugre his immense talent6,
simply because he is quarter-negro Dtooa !
His being a Frenchman would not 6avehim,
for, according to Douglas and his long " tail,"
the stigma of color would not only place
him without the pale of nationality, but of
humanity.
The Nebraska conspirators have a great
deal of respect for their own humbug of self
government in the territories. They declaim
loudly about leaving the people to manage
all their own concerns, but refuse to let them
elect their own governor and other officers,
or to make their own laws without being
subject to revision by the federal government.
They will not even allow the territorial leg
islature to exclude slavery if it chooses. And
yet they talk about popular sovereignty and
democratic principles ! If their principles
are worth anything why don't they carry
them out? N. Y. Tribune.
The English Quarter of Grain. There
is some misapprehension existing, as to the
quantity of grain contained in an English
Quarter. It is eight bushels, but not eight
Winchester bushels, which is our measure.
The Quarter contains eight Imperial bushels.
The Winchester bushel, which was the stand
ard in England up to 1826, contains 2,150.4
cubic inches, while the Imperial bushel
which has been the stardard since, contains
2,228.192 cubic inches. An English quarter
therefore, is equal to about 81 of our bushels.
This is a fact worth remembering, by any
man in the grain market.
How to Treat your Boots and Shoes
when Partially Burned. On one of the
coldest days of the present month, I palled
off my boots and set them close to a stove
which wa9 very hot. The room was filled
with a smell as of something burning.
Turning round. I saw my boots smoking at
a great rate. 1 seized them and immediate
ly besmeared them with soft soap, much of
which, owing to their highly heated condi
tion, quickly disappeared in the leather.
When the boots became cold, the leather
was soft and pliable; and now, after several
days of subsequent wear, they exhibit no
marks of having been burned. S. G. W.,
Rochester, Jant 1854. Rural New Yorker.
The Cincinnati Unionist, a newspaper start
ed in Cincinnati last fall by the journeymen
printers in that city, has been discontinued.
On the 13 th the proprietors issued a bulletin
pronouncing false all reports of its stopping,
and on the 14th the. suspension was announ
ced. The two Cunard steamships seized at New
York during Mr. Fillmore's administration,
for containing goods not on the manifest,
were fined $15,000 one $5,000 and the oth
er $10,000. For an alleged violation of the
revenue laws, but which it is said cannot be'
maintained, the high and mighty government
of Spain imposes upon the American steam
er Black Warrior a fine of $250,000.
Advance in Sailors' Wages. The keep
ers of sailors' boarding houses in New York
have publicly announced that after the 15th
March they will use all lawful means to
prevent the shipment of seamen for less wa
ges than $18 per month, for voyages west of
the Cape of Good Hope, and east of Cape
Horn. For voyages to the east of Good Hope
and west of Horn, the wages must be $15.
After the same date, also, the sailors will be
charged $4 per week, or 60 cents per day,
for board.
, Cure for a Bone-Felon. A correspon
dent of the Baltimore Clipper says, that a
thimble full of soft soap and quicksilver,
mixed and bound tightly over the felon, will
draw it to a head in the course of ten or
twelve hours. The curative can then be re.
moved, and by the application of the usual
poultices, the Bore will soon be healed. This ;
remedy is said to be a very severe one, but
altogether preferable to the disease. Bone
felons of late years are quite common, and
the remedy, if effectual, will pro ye a rea
blessing to the sufferers.