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Luir MJ 1 I II I I I IX XI II I OTONA o A Family Newspaper, Devoted lo Literature, Education, Morality, Temperance, Agriculture, Local and Foreign News, the Arts and Sciences, Politics, Commercial mid General Intelligence NEW SERIES. WINCHESTER, RANDOLPH. COUNTY, INDIANA: THURSDAY, MAlr 5, 1S59. VOL. 2. NO. 18 Y I Randolph County Journal IS HH'ED KVERY THURSDAY MOU.NI.Vrt Dy CLIItfT. D. S .11 ITH, nnuiiir.a asd rnorniETon. OUR TKRMrf. For Twelve Month, in advance,.... $1,1 t?TAll piper discontinued when the time subscribed for expire. TERMS OF ADVERTISING. One vjnare 10 line one insertion,. . . .$1,00 l-!ach additional insertion, 2-" Quarter column one Tear, 2-Vf) nir " n:,no One W,00 3751 advcrtwemcuU must b paid for in advance tPUnle a particular time i specified, shen handed in, advertisement will be pub lished until ordered out, ami charged for accordingly. 8 smcss n itrcttoru .CAREY S. GOODRICH, Attorney and Counselor at Lnw. Ojfice lit Hovr in Xeie Jail llmldiuy. Will promptly attend to all business en tr anted to care. Strict attention given to the security and collection of claim. J. R. GOODRICH' Attorney and Counselor at Late. Office Hp Stairs in the .New Jail, Wilt promptly attend to all limine en trusted to his care. Especial attention piv en to the Hearing anil collection of claim. ILA COLCSROVE , Attorney & Counselor at Law, West Public Square, Winchester, Inl. Will promptly and diligently attend to alj bmines entrust! to his care. T. m . aaowic.J A Hundred Year to Conic." (, where will be the birds that sing, A hundred jenr to come? The flowers that now in beauty spring, A humlred years to come? The roy lip, the lofty brow. The heart that be-U o pai'y now? O, where will be love' beamin;: eje, Joy pleasant t mile, anl sorrow's nigh, A hundred vrar tu come? Who'll prcs for pold this crowded street, A hundred years to come? Who'll tread yon church with willing feet, A hundred years to come? Pale, trembling 'a;?, and fiery youth, And childhood with it brow of truth, The rich and jeor, on land and sea. Where will the mighty millions be, A hundred tears to come? We all within our graves shall sleep, A hundred years toome! No lit ing soul for in will weep, A hundred years to come! Rut other tnen our lands will till. And others then our street will lill; While other birds will sing as gay. As bright the annshine as to-day, A hundred years to come! j. J. Clir.XKT. nuovi: & ciiea'ev, Attorney at Law, Oflice in the iuw Jail Building. (Jive esj4cial attentiou to the collection and security of claim. w. a. rr.ri.i.r.J k. l. witox. PURLL12 fc WATSOSj Attorney At C'oiiiiH'lot n at Law Oflice in the new Jail Building. Will practice in the Circuit Court, the Fupieme Court and the U. S. Court, for the pi-trirt of Indian.u w7T "i'ISHRACK, Attorney nt Iiiv and Notary Public OrricK No. "0 C Wa.iiiito St., E. of Odd Fellows Hall, Indianapolis, Ind. Office at his old stand, cor Main & South St. Where he mar nt sill times be found un- e professionally engaged. thoäT iv Alt Di HARDWARE MERCHANT, Washington at., north of the Public Square. TtoiTii & uitoTiir.ir, RETAIL MERCHANTS, Cr. Main A: Franklin St., Winchester, Ind. DRUGGIST, Kat Public Squire, under Journal Oflice. MllTEU At UVL.L, M 11 CT ACTUS ERS or CARRIAGES & BUGGIES, On Franklin St., south side, west Meridian. nTTi i f V A Ii D , wvMtTACTfara or Kartelle and Harne, Fhop north Public Square, WinchnttT, tnd. John n. Croirlcv, 1. I.3 Physician and Sonjcon, Can be found at present at his residence on Franklin street, West of the Public Square. dr. alio. o. joiiivs, llajrtris aiil Murpeou, Office East part of town, lIi'XTsrii.i.F, Ixn. XsET H? always be found at his oflice unless professionally engaged. Dr. J. E. IlTfv 12 K LY, l'laysiriuti ttnI surgeon, O.Tice and residence in west front of Public Suarc, immexliatcly west of court house, Wine rtttr Ind. n. A. REEDER, CARPENTER AM MILDEN, Shop on Washington St., Opposite t Aker lfnitr, Winrhrstrr, Ind. PALMER. HOUSE, J. I). CAR.HICIIAEL,. ..Proprietor, Cor. Washington and Illinois Sts., ISDIANAIDLIS, IND. ffV" Fare reduced to $1 ;0 per dar. life-sustaining preaching tli.it must Ye tho ministry of tlic pulpit. Carbon in the living tree is delightful and fruit bearing. Carbon in the diamond i bright and precious, but cold anil in ligestiblcp There is, too, something large anl con. preliensivc in the sym pathies ofcAJr. Deecher. His heart has who, ignorant or disdainful of theolog ical dillctanmn, give themselves up to the greatest good of the greatest num lcr. Dr. Stoor is anything but dull, tame or prosaic. Nay, on subjects that rise above the every day relations of religion and touch tha springs and fountains of truth, he is not onlv elo. Brothers, Awake! Wake, brother, wake! for the foemen arc coming. Their thouts of defiance are borne from afar! From the green funny plains of ill-fated Kanas, Oh, wake, brother's, wake! and prepare for the war! From the South-land they're coming, those proud tones of triumph. Defiant and bold thry're borne on the gale; Shall the nons of the North calmlv li?t to foirh challenge? Shall Slavery 'gainst Freedom and Honor prevail? They have raised the Mack banner of blood- ptained Oppression, And thousands arc gathered beneath its dirk folds; And Northward its rhadows arc steadily creeping, Crushed heart., blighted homes, are the trophies it hold! Shall it more o'er our hearthstones, this cinign of darkness? Khali the foul demon wave round our al tars his chains? Shall the snow of our mountains be crim soned by bloodhounds, And the slave-mart pollute with its pres ence our plains? Shall our rivers that waft the rich treasures of commerce. As proudly they roll on their course to the-sea. Ever bear on their waters that vile tliinp, a $larr hip. To hold nu n in Ijondagc whom Mod has made free? And our green hills where peace, love and virtue arc dwelling. And Lalnir with plenty the toiler hath crowned. Where "Harvest Horn" anthems are mak ing glad echoes, Shall they e'er to the wail of th bonds man resound? Ah! sar not that tre, in our homes of New fcngland, Arc sate from the tyrant, arc free from his Miwer! E'en nntr he is coiling his chains around we stand tip like freemen, or, das tard like, cower? Shall Liberty's birthright, bequeathed by our fathers. For Cotton nnd Fnion be recklessly sold? Shall the kinner of freedom, to slavery given. Hear its impress accursed on each silkin fold? Oh, brother, await! and, with manly en deavor. Stem the tide that so wiftlv is bearing you on; Gird on Truth bright armor, and dream not of resting. Till Right, over Might, has the victory ' won! (Jod ijpeed you, my brothers! and bless each brave freeman. Who manfully strives 'gainst the legions of Wrong; The Messung of millions shall be his bright guerdon. Though now he may walk with the pale m.-irtvr thronrj. Harrr, Mass. CARRIE, In Liberator. From the Trairie Farmer. In a Fix. by Mas. r. D. GAG". f outgrow the restraints and trammels but powerful and rich and ar- of party. D gumentative. Mr. Decchcr täte the sunny side of Decides these, there are numbers of life, anTrlqjcs to dwell on all that vigorous minds in America whom wc feeds the happiness of the human heart, have no space to spare for discussing. He will not pick up withered leaves if They have all great faults; they indulge there be any green ones. He seems to in modes of expression alien to our revel in a bright religious light. taste; and generally work at high pres- Whcn one's friends die, we should sure. Still they arc a powerful race; go to the grave, not singing mournful they do themselves and us credit. psalms, but scattering flowers. Death If our children arc so healthy, what was wrecked long ago. Christ has a noble mother must they have had? taken the crown from the tvrant. When Christians walk in black, and sprinkle the ground with tears, then is the time when tliev would illuminate. .i 1- , e i 1 nai a misiaKe li is io get. in a n.. As tlu ilisrMtilaa fmitnl Ihr nfel in Christ s grave, so in the grave where b fj. irtt.i v i 1 i main, but she was too easy; did not ofronsolaflnn. if we wnnld onlv .M keep things Squared lip. She worked j i , t . t i. t i naru, naru cnougn, uui souieiiuw every thing was behind time, and she was forevermorc in a hurry. It was just her luck, she used to say, to al ways have company when she was out of every thing, and tho whole house in a fix. Now, just what that meant, no one would know unless they could go, as did Mrs. Harper, and sec for themselves. Jane was called a beauty, and ro she was: for her skin was fair, her features good, her eyes pleasant, and her hair glossy, massive and brown; and but for a certain careless, listless habit she had allowed herself to fall into, Jane would have been decidedly a bene, fciic naa an eye iorine ucau tiful, and usually got up her wardrobe with some tae. Yet it too often happened it was all marred by a rip in her dress, i soil upon her collar, or tncm. Decdier has been accused, as most faithful men have been accused, of preaching politics. His views of the duties and responsibilities of the pul pit seem much more expanded than those of many of his cotemporaries. He is a man of a thoroughly practi cal mind. He seems to despise all tri lling with great themes, all prcttincss of speech, all ''playing at preaching.' With him it is an earnest and fruitful work, and no solemnity of utterance is in his mind an apology for dry and dull sermons. Such outspoken preaching will, of coune, tfivc offense. The mills of Manchester would be horrified. The Stock Exchange would expel the preacher. Hut the preacher is right, notwithstanding. Some of his pithy remarks arc fit to . . , . ... , . , ... 1 ,J hex brown hair would be neglected till i;m u:d states iio ri: n. M. Dick nell. Proprietor, J . W. Hodcdoi, Clerk. sonii-wrT eoa.xr.a or Sixth ami Walnut Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. rillLLII'S HOUSE, DAYTO, OHIO. J. R. HUBRELL Proprietor. Re-openel September 1, 1 föT. oc nouscnoni worus: A helping word to one in trouble is like a switch on a railway track but one inch between wreck and ruin and smooth oii-rolling prosperity. "Slavery is a state of suppressed war. "A grindstone that has no grit in it, how long would it take to make an ax sharp? A flairs that have no pinch in them, how long would they take to make a man? "A man who is in the right knows that he is in the majority for God U on his side." Dccchcr is the preacher for the peo ple. His sermons are not fierce, vul gar, and vituperative declamation, without a scintillation of genius, how ever sincerely meant, such as are heard in the Surrey Music hall. They arc pregnant with celestial fire, rich in suggestive and original thought.- its gloss was dimmed. Col. Harper had only been n resi dent of Walnut Grove one year; and his fine establishment that is, the new house he had built in the prairie grove, for which he was able to pay cash down, his splendid span of grays and his fine carriage attracted great attention in the neighborhood. Walter had called once or twice upon Helen and Jane, for Mr. Peters was the rich est farmer in the town, except it might be the Harpers themselves. And what was more suspicious, he had taken Jane out to ride once in his buggy, and once he had walked home with her from an evening meeting; what more was wanted to set Madam Rumor to guessing what might happen? Xow Mrs. Harper was very proud of her boys, and when Mrs. Hildrcth came in one morning to make a call, TTrtfrt oml tlinrn iin find i n n si r f rrrdil link im iiivib Iiis nun iiiiyiu vi .. ., .it i. i.i . iiT l f . . i and just incidentally hinted that al and gems of the first water, let he A . . .. 4.4f. . . . . . . , ter was smitten, an I added that "Mis: YOUXC? & rOJIKROY Importers aud wholesale dealers in FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC H AUD w ARE, No. 1 Pearl Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. MEREDITH HOUSE, North-eat corner of Main and Fifth sts. Richmond, Imd. S. lUr.COCK, "..Proprietor. 77 An omnibus will convey travelers to nd from the depot free of eharge, and every thing about the establishment satisfactorily done on the7iirr. Patronage respectfully solicited. marSl CITY HOTEL, J. II. KIRTLEY raoMtinoit, iouth side of Main Ft., !t. Marion and Franklin, Richmond, Ind. inar31 C. F. HALL, SEAL ENGRAVER, 14 Wct Fourth St., CINCINNATI, 0. "LAWS Sc SOIST, DCALKftS It WOOL AND SHEEP PELTS, Cor. Fifth St. and Ft. Wayne Avenue, near railroad depot, uur31 Richmond, I.xd. I. O. O. F Meets every Thursday even ing at C2 o'clock, at their new Hall, on the Public Squar I. O. of t;. T of Winchoter, meets every Monday evening of each week at their Hill, on the corner of Miinand Washington Street. Mngliah view of American I'rcaeh- crs. From the London Press. Henry Ward Ueecher is a remarka ble, though somewhat eccentric preach er. "The Plymouth Church," Brook lyn, is a sort of audience hall. Ther arc about it very few of the usual and distinctive features of a place of Chris tian worship. In the vast pulpit, you will find on Sundays a respectable looking person who writes notes, and makes himself singularly at home, be fore service begins. He wears neither cossack, gown, nor surplice, nor bands, nor any particle of the clergical uni form. His voice is not possessed of extraordinary power, nor is it musical. His manner is ordinary in all respects. Notwithstanding all these mediocrities of the outer man, he is vet the most pcpnlar andctfective American preach er of the day. He owes his power wholly to the depth and force and originality of his thoughts, the home ly, and yet neither vulgar nor ungrace ful, expression of them, and the hon est but not pretentious faithfulness with which ho inveighs against hypocrisy in every guise, and immorality in every rank. He regards every doc trine of the Bible not as a mere part of a theological system, dry and or thodox, but as tearing on man in some of the varied phases of his life. To Iiavc value, he holds that a doc trine must be vital. Thssc are the leading principles which gave his preaching what such a course is sure to create its just ap preciation and gresd. popularity. lie repudiates, and most justly, every sys tern which exalts the government of God Himself, and substitutes laws for a living presence, and makes nature yearn for what will still its fcrvercd beatings, and sooth its irritation, and satisfy its longings. A sound theol never loses sight of the end of a ser mon, which is to profit, or of the hear ers of it who arc ignorant, sinful, and unhappy. He says quaint things, but never takes jokes fiom Joe Miller and christens them. Our clergy may copy and study his excellencies, and avoid his interspersed and sometimes provo cative remarks. He is not a model, bnt he is better he is capital, on which others may draw, and send what they draw into currency in thoughts ami words that will do the world a vast deal of good. He is full of vigor; never dyspeptic in his divinity as, in all likelihood, he never is in a humbler region. He has carried into manhood the freshness and the exurbcrant force of earlier days, and overflows, therefore, with sympathy and communion with all . w living and growing things, lie says occasionally an indiscreet thing, but raitly, if ever, a tame thing. Another preacher, not popular, per haps, as Ward Deecher, but a vigorous thinker aud an able speaker is Theo dore Ledyard Cuylr. He is pictur esque and varied in his style, homely in his preferences, and altogether a useful and able exponent of his own !tMOI,PI DIVISION No. R, - Snt of Temperance of Winchester, meets 'J'" Tuesday nrnn- f each week, at ogy ought to be the possession of the the Temperance !I11, on the corner of Maui . and W.hiflston Strecu. I preacher, but it is a hfe-giving and Jane was real good looking, but she would never set the river a fire," it excited Mrs. Harper to call oyer, and kill her four birds instead of three. "Walter's not a going to get him self took in by a pretty face if I can help it," said the mother to herself, as she stood wiping her hands at the long roller, after she had finished up the morning work. And here they were, face to face Walter Harper's mother and Jane. "It will never do," thought the careful mother. "I'm done for," thought the agi tated girl, as she saw the scrutinizing eyes peering in every direction round tho untidy room. In the meantime, Helen was worry ing and fretting in the kitchen. Xow, the true way to make a cake, when one is in haste, is to build a fire first; then grease the cake pans, roll the sugar, add the butter, work them together thoroughly, add eggs and sour cream, soda, spice and flour; pour into the pans and bake. That all seems simple enough, does it not? Helen dashed down cellar and bro't up alas! nothing. There was not an egg no butter, and, now come to cr said it was both, and a real family quarrel ensued. But wc can't tell the half of the trials of that afternoon. No supper was ready when the Colonel re turned. They waited an hour it was dark. "Did vou ever see such buscnit," exclaimed the old lady as quick as they were out of hearing. "They certainly were not the best," answered Miss Sexton. "And such cake." "Oh! that was hurried; accidents will happen." "The sausages hadn't one mite of sage in them." "Well, vou know Miss Jane said m that was forgotten." "Oh, go to fiddlestick!" exclaimed the impatient lady, "I don't make no excuses for them sort of things." "Best to be charitable, mamma," sriil the Colonel. "So I will. Take care how vou drive; O, we shall all be upset. Yes, I'll be charitable, but charity begins at home, and I shall speak a piece of my mind when I get there, I tell you." "That's one of your ways," said the Colonel. "Well, there's no use talking, Mr. Harper, if them three women can't get supper in a whole afternoon better than that, I ain't going to let any of their pretty faces conic between me and my boys, now sure." "Ha, ha, ha," shouted the good ma tured Colonel, "I'll bet Barney against father Peter's old spavin that Walt don't go home with Jennie next Mon day night." "Mercy on us, Colonel, we shall all have our necks broke." "Vou have been telling that for twenty-five years; never broke your neck yet, mamma nor your spirit." "Xow, shut up, Mr. Harper." "Well, I will," answered the Col onel, with another guffaw. Walter met his parents at the gate, helped out the schoolma'm and Ia'o nora, and lifted his dear oTd mother out with care. Miss Sexton expected to hear a real onslaught made upon poor Jane, but the mother of Walter knew better; she had lived with his father too long, nnd knew from ex perience that when she wanted him to go, the surest way was to say stay. "What kept you so late," asked Walter. "Whv, wc had our tea rather late" not a word about its taking three to get supper. In five minutes the black silk dress was hanging in the bedroom, and tho calico wrapper whisking around the tea table, and in just twen ty minutes a nice warm supper was smoking on the table. "Can you beat that, Miss Sexton," asked Mrs. Harper. "Guess I can do as well," she an swered, while Leonora declared it was just one hour after she smclled sau sages before supper was ready. "Oh, never mind," exclaimed Mrs. Harper, "they did the best they could; some folk!, you know, will try a life time, and then they will always bo be hind time." Thus, little by little, the whole sto ry leaked out, Mrs. Harper looking grave every time, and making some sly insinuation towards the abilities of Miss Sexton. But we won't carry out the whole plan of operations. It is all our read ers need to know that Walter never went home with Jane, and that Mrs. Walter Harper before Christmas called upon the Misses Feters, and found all in a fix. flesh, in every splinter of the skeleton, j the great hatred. They have deeply from skull to cs eoceyyis or toe-joint, j corrupted themselves; therefore he will there would be found the presence and ' remember tluir iniquity, he will viit action of the deadly clement. j their sins." Such is the sin of slaveholding, and ! Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers the guilt of slavery, and the iniquity j f Sodom; give car unto th law of the Bible Society was not in&titute'i for that. Taught to rca 1? Tin law for protection of the masters forbid that. Missions and the (iopcl! Tho American Board fan have nothing to and not being an do with slavery of slave-jurisprudence, in our nation, government, and people, and such are our (Jod, ye poople of fZomorrah! Anti-Slavery Stx-ietr. can not exrludo the omnipresent and omnipotent influ- Jcu"h people and their rulers w as j who uphold an I practice this md. Th enccs and action of the sin and its ' never justified by half the facts of American Board mnt be silent, an. and moral system. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint ; sanction through our whole political crime, to the letter, that would authen ticate the same application to us. A more glaring and public eniblazon- from the sole of the foot even unto the ment of onr guilt and shame as a heal, there is no soundness in it, but! nation of adulterers could hardly be all wounds and bruises and putrefying j conceived than is thrown up to view I nifhnf l'A Ar liicrmf 1'reacners mat is, me class wno aiiv their influence to every good move- cdirnl f f frdi ; hr rnnte n-i th n-Ut ...... . r, r think, there was not a bit of soda for arc called in America, "the Beforminsr .. . ... ., loiner was called instanter for consultation; and . i .i , V ill was sent post haste to a neigh ment that touches and rises the down- ... T , , , lrr i in Imrrnw- !,nn w.k KroIiiPil ill trodden and depressed sections of soci- L . , . . , , , . .... . I to the churning: they all churned, but eiy. l utrc is m nut a practical uoou i . . . , r . . , . .. . the cream had not teen taken care ol. wnicn commenus reunion to . Jt ii i i nnd thf rream w nn hi not turn to nut tWe who nre otherwise indisposed to Qf iimcii iu us nanus. I i .1 l 1T 1 1 leu, momer cuurneu, oanu vuuiuvu, Thu is what is wanted in onr own IIelcn churned; thev put in salt, thev country. We have too much theology aJdctl j10t water. but all would not and too little reliance m our pulpits do n0 butter came. too mucn systems and dogmas, and . never wni get in such a fix tneir relative positions and supersti- again, said tho worried woman. tions in the Christian system, tnd far Girl, it' a shame: I have so much too little of that homely, intelligent, to do, you ought to see to some of and common-sense use of those grand these things for rae." truths which shine the splendor but al- Girls excused themselves, of course, so with the usefulness of stars, guiding and worried on. tho sailor on the trackless sea, and At last the cake was in the oven. lessening the darkness of a moonless ftIui in hot haste baked more than night. tionc brown. Dr. Stoors, of Brooklyn, is another I Jane declared it was Helen, and of those masculine American minds ' Helen declared it was Jane, and ruoth- From the X. Y. Independent. Developments of National Wiek cdness in the Trial nt Washington. BV GEORor B. CHtrVEI. God is continually revealing sin sores, which, though whole commit tees of Tractarian surgeons and nurses, and union-saving medical conserva tives, have endeavored to stanch, stitch up, plaster over, and make fra grant, defy all treatment, and ever ami anon break out afresh, as old cuts gape open, and gangrened issues corrode and deepen, neither closed, neither bound up. neither mollified with oint ment. Our manners, morals, senti ments, piety, justice, law, arc all cor rupted with this plague; and the sin j being held and taught for filthy lucre's sake, there is nothing pure to them that arc defiled with it, but even their mind and conscience are defiled. They profess thrt they know Go 1, but in works they deny him; being abomina ble and disobedient, and unto every m good work repiobate. Having held the truth of God iu the unrighteous ness of this sin, and this sin through tho medium of the truth of God, thev are given over of (tod to strong delu sion to believe a lie. It becomes like a drop of strychnine or prussic acid quaffed in a cup of ether, and carried almost instantaneously to every fiber of the brain and tissue of the system; only in the case of the moral poison they do not drop down dead, but rise up, self-exalted and exhilarated, and go about their business, as if they were treading the air, their very iniq uities being converted into wins that buoy them up. Inflated with the gas of this delusion, they arc as walking balloons, and, walking or flying, are a higher law unto themselves, breathing over again the fumes of their own subtle sophistries and lying statutes, as the native, sacred atmosphere of delivered saints, and counting the great things of God's law as strange, wild, impracticable. Xo wonder that their watchword is, Clear the way; cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us, prophesy not unto us right things, prophesy smooth things', prophesy deceits! He looked for judg ment, but behold oppression ; for righteousness, but behold a cry. In tho plantation, fosCcring, and harvesting of this wickedness, and grinding out the meal, and baking it into our daily bread, wc are precisely as those sinners -of old. Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped in iquity, ye have eaten the fruit of lies, trusting in oppression, and staying yourselves thereon, swearing falsely in your very covenants; thus judgment springcth up as hemlock in the fur rows of the field. Our slave Icgirda tion, and tho principles of injustice and cruelty there enshrined, taught, and commanded as our social and civil piety, arc a wickedness so plowed in, that the roots, interwoven and matted, run everywhere, and the whole soil is so impregnated with prolific seeds, that if the land is left, as Judea of old, Tili tremendous apostrophe to the from tin? churches under its care tfioo I must admit slaveholders to tlw com munion of the churches, and the churchct must In? silent. And to vro grojw fr the wall like the blind. Wo look for judgment, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from ns. Speaking oppression, conccirin an 1 uttering from tlw heart word of false hood, judgment is turned away back ward, and justice standeth afar off, for truth is fallen in the street, and equity can not enter. Hott long, O Lord, holv and true! in the procedures of the trial of adul tery and murder now going on at Washington. In that trial it has been announced that slaves have no marital rights, and there being no marital rights recognized as between slaves, there could be no adultery. The case of a white man, whose mati tal rights are recognized by law and by society, and those of a black man who has no marital rights, are very different. It must be so, the Judge averred, localise slaves can not con tract marriage. The consequence fol lows, among others, that no white A Rit of JH.torr. It ha been observed by all who have ever seen President Bnclianau, that his head leans to one side, giving him a singularly marked appearance, which the observer never forgets. How h? obtained thcr leaning is a laughablo bit of hivtorv ftiriiiblt'.! Li m t n .i K -..w I.. I r.v 41.. s.itiii. si i . o . ' I friend who is posted, as follows: adultcrv with the wife of a black man,j but on the contrary, if the black should The w'?"'e ' V" KyheaJf catch tho white man in the very crime. Mr" l'Tou:-It u not uncommon and smite him down, nhhon-h if the ,U1 ,,K,: lu injured husband had been himself a white man, and had murdered the adulterer, it would have been merelv w m manslaughter in the eve of the law, yet being a black man it homes mur der. The crime of adultery was no crime, committed by the white man on the black, because slaves have no marital rights, and therefore such a crime as that of adultery is impossible. And tho injured husband, being a black man, and having no right to his own wife, exclusive, had no right to be thrown into a passion, or state of indignation or excitement, by such an injury as that of the violation of his wife by his white owner. And this shame in the open eye of day! This page of diabolic law pleaded in Washington ! This jurisprudence, reeking with such abomination, foul with such impiety and licentiousness, appealed to, and commented upon, in a solemn trial for the protection of common morality! Slaves no marital rights! Xo right as husband and wife, no possible con tract of matrimony, no right to each other's persons or affections, conse quently no such crime as that of adul tery possible to be committed! Xo rights of parents or children, no fam ily ties or rights, no possibility of the family institution as appointed of Go 1 for mankind, and consequently no sin in the violation and breaking up of that institution, in the sundering and selling of its members, or in turning it into a factory for the breed in? of tock! It must be so, if, as the Judge avers, adultery is not possible, because the slaves can not contract marriage. And the Judge merely laid down the law. Let us see how the case stands in Stroud's Slave Laws, page 1'J: "A slave can not even contract matri mony; the association which takes place among slaves, and is called mar riage, being properly designated by the word contulcrnium, a relation which has x sanctity, and to which m no civil rights arc attached. A slave has never maintained an action agaifist premonitory symptoms of future great ness. Wc have an instance of this in our Chief Magistrate, Mr. Buchanan. At tha age of about seventeen, lu attended a select school at Meadville. Crawford county, Pennsylvania. Ono fine day the boys of the school discov ered an empty sugar hogshead near a tore in that nncicut village, nnl thinking it would be a good bit of fun to take it to the top of tho hill on which the Seminary stood, to enjoy the sport of seeing it roll down again, proceeded to roll it up. On arriving at the top of the hill, our "Jecms" proposed to enter at tho open end of tho hogshead, and o enjoy the ride down the hill it is suppose I that at that early day he had the strong propensity to illustrate tho powers of gravity, in which he has so indulged of late to the great danger of tlic Dem ocratic party the boy a approved of the proposition, ".Toenis" got in, tho hogil cad was put in motion, it started with the loud cheers and jeers of thn boys. About three-fourths of the way down it struck a stump that stood in the way, a delivery took place! th passenger lav still. Tlic boys ran to lift him up. The condition in which they found him may he more easily imagined than described. There appeared to be with him a confusion of ideas, from whicli the writer fears lie lias never entirely recovered. His neck was not broken, but was badly bent, nnd henco the inclination of his head to one side. Xt withstanding thU Ieson on tho gravitating property of a ang.ir hogs head oil a declivity, our worthy Presi dent is trying to signalize himself in a second feat of about the same wisdom, on the acquisition of Cuba, which will piobnbly end more disastrously than even the first. If you doubt the cor rectness of this account of th? caufcof Mr. Buchanan's wry neck, I dare say there are some persons living in Meadville, who are cognizant of tha iC,.ll .l .f 1 cen io a oaooam oi rest, me harvest tne vi0lator of his bed. A slave is r - ! i . .i oi c u is greater man ever, spontane- not admonished for incontinence, or ous, luxuriant, habitual, hereditary. You can not burn over an acre, but out of the ashes, as from a new fertil izing impulse, spring the same abom inations. You can not strike your spade into a neglected furrow, but punished for fornication or adultery; never prosecuted for bigamy, or petty treason, nor for killing a husband being a slave." And page 02, "A slave can not be a party before a judi cial tribunal in any species of action fact. 0 Springfield J'epnldic. these principles lie as thick as ground- again,t his master, no matter how nuts, as pregnant and poisonous as j atrocious may have been the iniurv And where there is a heart sin, a vital cockatrice's eggs; he that eateth of; xvhich he has received from him." ... . i sin, an organic sin, whose veir.s and arteries run through the whole system, so that even its minute and micro scopic ramifications interweave it with every part, from the skin to the bones and marrow, and the very nerves are channeled and grooved through it, or imbedded in it, defended by it, and conduct sensation and intelligence through it, as telegraphic lines through an insulating case of gutta percha, then you can not touch any part with out encountering it, finding evidence of its presence, and exciting it to ac tion. The very hue of the skin, the very blush of the blood upon the cheek, is tinctured by it. The smallest blood-vessels contain it, 6o that, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, the prick of a needle or the touch of a lancet will develop it. There are poisons that by long contin ued habitual doses may so saturate the system, that if Professor Doremus should take the dead body into his dissecting room, and seize upon lungs, heart, pleura, kidneys, stomach, dia phragm, muscles, or bones, and put any piece through his analyses, with retorts, chemical tests, or what not, in every organ, in every square inch of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. The very plowshare of divine prov- Wo will not now prosecute the quotations or demonstrations of these infamous laws and principles. Our idence, whichever way it turns, does national jurisprudence, adopting th but develop the intricacies of this sin, atrocious slave-co les, is a source of tangled up with every other issue, j perpetual moral dehauchery and cor- Begin at almost any crime, and some way or other it runs into this; strike at almost any reform, and you encoun ter this radical, primeval, granite inge of sin. "When I would have healed Israel, then the iniqnity of Ephraim was discovered, and tho wickedness of Samaria. And they consider not In their heaits that I re member all their wickedness; their own doings have beset them about. They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after ha hath kneaded the dough, uutil it be leavened. For they ruption. And suppose a stranger, who never had heard of such enormi ties, present at the trial in Washing ton for a man's killing another for the crimp of a lultery with his wife, to have paused in astonishment al that legal and judicial announcement that slaves can not contract marriage, and have no marital rights, and, therefore, adultcrv or incontinence is no more sin among them, nor white men ever to be punished for its commission upon them. Suppose snch a stranger to have asked how many such anomalous creatures we have among us, for whom have made ready their heart like an i the distinctions of God's law are done oven, while they lie in wait; their j away, and who have no right that baker slecpeth all tho night; in the j white men are- bound to respect. The morning it burneth as a flaming fire, j answer is, Only four or five millions. They are all hot as an oven, and have ; Fonr or five millions! And has the devoured their judges. The days of j Bible been given them? Are they not visitation are come, and the days of taught to read? Is there no attempt recompense are come; the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and for to bring them out of this Sodomie state of morals and of ignorance? Arc there no missions for them? Bibles! Items to Think About. He's armed without that's iuno?ent within. Pleasure is the greatest foe that happiness has. Wealth makes a man proud when he has little eke to be proud about. He who ran do all he wishes rarely docs what he ought to do. When success makes a man better than h3 wa before, he must be a good man indeed. When a great man stoops or trips, th small men around him suddenly become greater. Simplicity of manner, as of dresa. is a charm that a woman generally admires in another more than in her self. In ancient days the precept was. Know thyself." In modern time. it has leen supplanted by the far more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and every thing about him. "I will lay a wjg?r," aid one sportsman to another, "that. I will shoot more crows to-day than you." "O, ye you can beat any on? a crowing. The worst featnre on a man's fc is his noe when duck in other peo ple's business. m a 5T We observe in the London Illnstrated Xcws. in the list of wills, the particulars ol tha will of Miss Mary Dickson, formally of Clapham Com mon, in which, after several bequests to charitable associations, she makes the following rather peculiar provia ioc: "Her clothes to the Society for clothing poor pious Clergymen." We were not aware that this society clathed their "poor pious Clergyman' in pet ticoats. Surely, it doesn't mean ths bishops, doej it?