T
IE RALEIGH TIMES,
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY" CTI. CTRACOTEAU,
TERMS: $2 50 VEll ANNUM IN ADVANCE, Oil
$3 CO IF I'AIMIKXT .IS DEMl'EU SIX MOXTIIS.
EDITOR AXD FROI'RIETOR.
Vol. in
RALEIGH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1850.
NO 50
r
THE IMMOlll'Al. INSECT
Also at Home Again ! !
W'K are in receipt nf our enlire Stock of
; CTA)TULYG,
i'..iii..-,i-.!I bliick Dress nnJ Frock COATS, from
0 to jjjiJO: brown, "rem, olive and blue Frock
innl Ores. COATS, from $S to 20 j SACK Coats
nil colors, double niel single breasted, tit from $'J
foS12, wadded nrnl hnl throughout, made ud
magnificently FRENCH SACKS, of nil colors,
tinmeihing entirely new. OVERCOATS blsirk,
blur, brown, ereeu, drab and olive, ill which we uVfy
cnutptlilioii, both ur tri rtt y l, make, and price. We
nave them nt from S13 to iltf.
PANTALOONS all colore, all styles mid all pri
ccs. iroiH to &H,
YRXT.V of every variety, from $1 fit) toS-i.
.., UI.0VB8XM ports. 'JESNYI.IND CRA
VATS; soviifthioi; entirely new ; brides, we liave
nil that is in the Nmte.
Our entire stock will be sold lower than the same
articles e.an be bought fur, any where at the North :
and us me, and we venture to say i.owkh, than they
ran b bought of any itinerant slop shop, located here
for h few weeks, or perhaps durinq the session of the
Legislature. We are known in North Carolina, and
will warrant every article we sell to be such as cannot
fie found ill an ordinary elothini; store. ;
OLIVER ' PROCTOR,
Ao. One, R. R. R. R.
Fmjettexilk Street, Rulrigh; N. C.
Sec Sifoi of the four Red K R It It's!
.;. November H, It-ill. V'. ' "; 49-tf
UOYS' CLOTHING,
e have on bund the most beautiful assortment of
Yoi rn's Ci.otiiinii, front 15 years of utfe clown
efver offered for sale in North Carolina ; consisting of
Frocks, Sucks, Roundabouts, Overcoats, Punts and
Vests. Persons, h forwarding their measures and
slut'iin; the ajje of the Yenth, call be Supplied without
neiu present. Suits of every varivty on baud always.
i?eud iu your orders.
OLIVER PROCTER.
November 8, If 50, 43-tf
TO THE LADIES.
WE have on hand every kind of CII1L
DREWS CLOTHIS'G, that we can sell
riitich cheaper than they can be made, tip in this
country. Overcoats, sacks, Jackets and Pants.
Semi in your orders, together willi the measure
and age.
OLIVER Sl PROCTER.
November 8, 1850. , 49-tf
BOOKS ! BOOKS ! ! HOOKS ! j'l
IIEXRY D. TERSER,
Publisher, Bookseller, and Stationer, Ao. 1, Fay
1 elteiille Street, Raleigh, N. C.
HAS always on hand a larie and general collec
tion of Law, Medical, Theological, Classical,
Voyages, Travels, Novels and Afiscellain-o.is Books .
. ALSO, a very extensive assortment of SCHOOL
i ROOKS, See. Illaiik Books, ledgers, Journals, Day
, Books, Check Books, and any other kind that may
' be wanted, manufactured to order. Together with a
1 general assortment of S TA TIOXER Y. .
I , Particular aftention given to tilling all orders corh
I plele from Bookscllors, Merchants, Teachers and pri
vate Individuals. And every article in his line sold
1 lit the luvrtt prices for cash or approved credit, either
i at wholesale or retail.
. All new Works received at soon as published.
Raleigh, Nov. 8, lt?50. . 48-y
J. Henry llarriss,
Upholder and Mattress Maker,
OPPOSITE TIMES OFFICE,
1 "ITTOULD respectfully inform the Public, that he
L V constantly keel's on band a supply of the best
J,eci inaiiresses 01 an ailius inciuuinv mm iiiucciau-
nroved Shuck a.hd Cotton Mattrkbsks, which will
1 lie found a perfect luxury, either iu Summer or
h Winter. Also,
1 SOFAS, LOU.Xd ES, EASY CHAIRS, 4-c,
ilmnu'actured in every style to order.
j iwpuiriug oi uii Kiuus uoiiu m iiiu suonesv iiouoc ,
! and all work warranted to be done iu the best and
1 fii J .1 1 : .
4 liioet workinuulike manner.
, N. 0. 1 he public will please bear in mind that I
I itteud iiersonally to the manufacture of my .Mutt rets.
I es, Sofas, Lounges, &.C. .
i . Oct3d, 18:0. 49-tf.
FINE FRUIT TREES. :
Til E Proprietors of the Poinological Gar
dens and Ntirseiies, Ca:ie Creek, Chat'
bam Countv, N. C. have now ready for trans
h iiluuiin 20.000 FRUIT TREES, of large size and
thrifty growth, ol tlie nnesi kind oi mini Known, lor
ull Seasons, from the earliest to the latest ripening
kinds ) consulting of
1 APPLES, PEACHES, PLUMS, CHERRIES,
APRICOTS, NECTARINES, GRAPES,
, , FIGS, ttc. Ac.
OnV-rs should be sent to ns early, Out we may
lhake enr arrangements to deliver in good time. One !
cif us will be in Kaleigh iu the early part and at tho
' end of the Session, with a splendid collection or our
Tree J. St. T. LINDLEY.
. October 2th, 1P..0. 4--3t
1 ""HOUSE AND LOT
IX 1RAXKLIT0!V, FOR SALE.
' (fe?-?? 1 obedience to a commission to me
4 dirtx-teit. by a Decree of llie Superior
tiftf? Court of Fruuklin Coiuifv, Full Term,
j JC. 18RI, I shall, on SATURDAY, the 23d
' day ol jNoveniber next, sell 10 the highest bidder, at
1 l'ublic Am lion, on the premiBCB in the town of Frank
ii liuton, tho HOUSE AND LOT owned and occupied
by the late tlement Wilkins, dee'd. The Lot con
j tains uboul SIX ACRES. The Dwelling Ilorise is a
' large two steiy building, with ten Well-fiuished rooms,
a fire-place to eurch. Attached is a good Kitchen,
I Negro Houses, aCotfonGin.Slnbles, etc. A Credit
(if Six Months wiH be given. Bond with undoubted
' security will be requitiff of the purchaser,
t' ISAAC H. DAVIS, Commissioner.
, October 2.1d 1850. 4ij-3t
I TO THE LADIES,
THE Sl'RSCRIHEIl has srtcceeded ill procuring
1 llie services ofs superior Workman ; and any article
i which the Ladice may want li the I'micy Bak'uig
i I ..ii eoutidenl I eau pleune i every respect.
Parli-s furnished with every filing nice on the best
1 (Urois- t!ive me a fair trial, and inert if I do not
fWe uiifiu;tiou every way, mere IVVr! -1 ii
tta t:-.;, Sept. i IS.-.0.
Vatt A: P.ittensonV
Kr'rairnt'Blork Srliifr Tru.s.
JVI( THE RADICAL CURE Ol' HERNIA,
"l'l'ri adeaidugcs are a s'ki.V-aiuiotisi raisrirLK,
j I ii:c..lue.iura- uinlonn pressure, lecuie reteuliou,
i I K4..I Wiwe In the wearer, .
i A supply just received and for srle by
r " . . 1'. K. P ESC CD. -
! RV Vi, IVb.lt!., I?50. .
VALUABLE LAND I
And Desirable Residence, FOR SALE.
A. TRACT OF LAND, containing
EfMip Viii Acres, (formerly the pruerty of
lilair Burwell, deceased,)
situated on the Raleigh and Gaston
Railroad, one half mile South of Henderson, is offer
ed for sale. More than half the tract is in original
growth. The remainder is in a fine state for cultiva
tion, and is well adapted for the growing of Grain
and Tobacco. On it is a new aiict,coininot!ious two
Story Dwelling House, of excellent workmanship,
with every Out house necessary for comfart or con
venience. Auy persou wishing to combine the ad
vantages of town with the pleasures and retirement
of the country, would do well to buy. The neigh
borhood is remarkable for its health, hiielligencc and
refinement. Farther description is deemed unneces
sary, as tliosewishiiig to purchase will view tho pre
mises. Reler to ..
. A. R. Si II. Tit'RWKLL, Henderson, N C
Or 1. If. DAVIS, Staunton, (iron ille N C
November 1st, loiO. 48-31 Standard 3t
THE LATEST FASII0INS,
AT BIGGS' FASHIONABLE WAREHOUSE.
ON FAYETTEVILLE STREET,
MAY be seen a beautiful assortment of Fashion
able Spring and Summer Goods, consisting in
part of BaowN, Green, Oi.ivr ash Bli k Cloths,
of various sbadeB and qualities.
Plain and Fig'd. Black Cassimer,
do " do Light do
do " do Cnshmaret.
d " do .White Drillings, for pants '
do . " do Light do . ' ii
do : " do Black Satin Vestings,
do " do White " for Parties,
do " do Black Florentine,
do ' do White Marseilles,
do ; " do Light Challev,
Fanru Eiuhrnidered Linen, an entirely new article,
for Vests. With many other articles, such as Cra
vats, Dress Shirts, Bosoms, and Collars, Silk and
Merino I'nder-Miirts, white unci uluck Will Gloves,
light and b'uek Silk do.; Silk and Linen Cambric
Pocket Handkerchiefs,
All of which will be sold on the most accommoda
ting terms.
itr. l lj.-vc ii, i.aio oi runs,
will assist iu the Cutting Depnrnient
All orders promptly attended to, and a good fit
warranted.
N. B, One or two first fate Coat hands wanted
Immediately. ... J. J. B,
Raleigh. March 23, 1830. 18-. .
P. E. PESCUJ),
irnOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN
Prnga, Cljcmtcala, Dnc Stuffst,-
FAYETTEVILLE ST. RALEIGH, N.C.
NORTH CAROLINA
MUSIC STORE
THE Sulwcriber takes this opportunity of annonn
cing to the people of North Carolina, that he in
tends to o eu in this City, in December next,
A MUSIC STORE,
Where will always be found a complete assortment f
FOREIGN AND AMERICAN MUSIC AND
MUSICAL INS TR U ME NTS ; all of which will
be selected by himself. :
THE rTANUS will be from the. best Manufacto
ries in the United Stales, and will be sold at New
York and Philadelphia prices.
K. W. PETERSILIA.
Raleigh, Nov. 8, 1850. 49-y
NEW STORE
THE Undersigned most respectfully inform tbeii
friends and the public generally that they have
associated themselves together, in the Tailoring and
t mining business, under the firm of J. J. Biggs otto.
They have opened a Net Store, a few doors below
the North Carolina Bookstore, where they will be hap
py to see all of their old Friends and Pulions, and
pledge themselves to sell cheaner than ever. ' Thev
can at all times warrant a good fitting Suit of Clothes.
Call aud examine their fine Stock of Ready Made
Clothes. Also, their Slock of fine Cloths, Cassimera,
aud Vestings. '
o the Members of the approaching Legislature,
hey would say, it shall be to their advantage to pat
ronise the uew firm 0f J. J. Biggs it. Co. Call next
door to Mr. Koot's Jewelry Store.
J. J. BIGGS,
SYLVESTER SMITH.
Raleigh, Oct. Hi, 1850. 46
Rice nd Molasses,
"IUST RECEIVED, nml for dale, a new tpply
' ol prime. JAMttS u. TOVVL,t..
June 21, 1849. 29
GEO.WORTIIAM, .
Att. at Law, Oxfokd, N. C
l ILL attend to claims entrusted to him in the
counties, of Granville, Warren, Franklm, V Per'
son.
Jun.4lh 18.10
5-Cm
WEEKS & GRIFFIN'S
Travelling Sky-light Dagucrrcan
: Gallery.
HAS arrived in the City nf Rakigh, and will
shortly lie open to t7ie public ; of ichich dun notice
will lie given. ' Sov, 8, 1850.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL PRESIDENT
' FILLMORE. ' -
Should the Fugitive Slave Bill be resisted at Hie
Nmtli, and tlie autlioritica of the United State be
overpowered, it will be a clear case of iiullincatKin
of aftacl of Congress passed in compliance with
the Constitution. President Fillmore has taken the
opinion of the Attorney General of the United Stale
who declares the law to be Constitutional, anrl the
President; showed his concurrence in that opinion
by sinning the bill. What. then Will be the dnty
of llie President? tJiinply this: If the law is
successfully resisted or nullified, it will be the du
ty of the president to order the Army ami Navy to
vindicate the supremacy or the Constilniifinaml the
laws. The Army would march into the riotous
cities' i wnnld blorkarle their harbors. Iftlierc fore'
es should prove insufficient li enforce the law, the
President will have to call for volunteers, and the
Ninth win send as many a be wants.- We can,
therefore desiet from niin words of persuasion
with the Northern rebels ami get ready to lick
them into rood behavior. Prnncylvania went in
'iu a hum," upon whiskey fmce.and she had better
take care how she mtinnfct the niggers. new or the
coat tails of some nf l.er Quakers will Stand out as
straight a their fronU. I'd. Int.
From the Richmond Republican.
THE AliOLITIOMSTS.
These monomaniacs, so devoted to the weeds of
woe, cannot recognize other colors. They live in
a dungeon of the blackness of darkness, and their
eyes cannot look uion the sun. To their mental
vision there is no attractive hue but black. They
look with calm indifference upon the red Indian
whose lands their fathers robbed, and whose blood
is on their fathers' sepulchres. They r e nothing
to admire in his heroic port; his more than Spar
tan fortitude ; his successful resistance to bondage;
his native genius. Tlioy experience no emotion
as lie is driven at the point of the bayonet from the
spot where he was born ; the graves of his fathers;
the fields where he sported in childhood ; the cab
in which he had wooed ; the woods where be
had hunted to the far, far west, only once more
to be again forced upon his weary pilgrimage and
driven westward, westward, until the Pacific ap-
rests his steps. And while lias even less claim
than red upon the sympath ies of our modern phil
anthmpist. Two men are arrested in the streets
of a Northern city for debt, .One is a white man,
and lie is taken to jail to pine and rot behind his
dungeon bars without a word of consolation or a
deed of charity rem human soul. The other is a
negro, and an attempt is made to rescue him in
tlie street ; on (lie supposition that he is a fugi
tive slave; and, on the mistake being discovered, his
debt is paid by the crowd on the spot ! Such a
case recently occurred in a Norf hern city. That
is a fair illustration of the black monomania.
Were the two angels which appeared in the streets
of Sodom for tlie protection of Lot to visit one of
these abolitionist towns, they would be hustled
about with bb little ceremony as they received in
Sodom. Were the priuceof Darkness to escape
from his place of bondage, his color would prove a
passport to the best ciicles ; Theodore Parker
would preach a sermon in his behalf; old Mr.
Quincy would deliver him, if arrested on a habeas
corpus', and all Boston would threaten to nullify
the Christian religion before he should be taken
back to the cruel servitude of the pit.
Poverty, Distress, Crime, find no friends with
the monomaniac when allied to a white skin. In
every large city of the North there is a sight more
sorrowful than any which can he imagined under
the most tyrannies ! slaveholder. It is those abodes
of infamy with which the streets abound ; those
market-house of prostitution ; those gilded cages
in which many an enslaved bird withers away,
and even as it sings, is always most mad with the
thoughts of the pure air and unshackled freedom
of its native forest. Yet for these most wretched
multitudes the monomaniac have no sympathy.
They know full well that it is not animal passion
which brings these victims to such a fate ; that it
is sometimes temptation, but most frequently
wani' aslsing fiom llie white slave system of the
North, which compels them to toil in the fabrica
tion of garments and oilier modes of labor for a
mere p ittance, while men, who ought to be at the
plough handle, grow rich and sleek: upon their
gains. Why not break up this horrid slavery 7
If it be contrary to the principle of abolitionists
to expend money for the purchase of black sieves,
why not pour it forth in a mighty flood to wipe out
theso stains of sin and sorrow from the groaning
earth ? Alas, the sinners and the sufferers are
white ! That girl, decked with choice fillets for
the slaughter, on whose rose colored cheek lies
coiled the ugly worm of Guilt, is white ; that mo
titer, who is dying perchance of a heart broken of
her daughter's shame she too is wliife and her
tortured spirit may escape from earth without a
tear of abolition sympathy, or so much as the kind
farewell with which Christianity would address
even a penitent convict uo suiiering soul, to be
happy witli thy God.
Ts not Abolition madness 7 May if not be mad
ncss which goes before destruction J There is
but one danger to the Union of this country , yet
upon one rock the ship may go to pieces. This
vegrtyhohia may carry oflf the young giant of the
West, whose strong arm had appalled the nations,
and whoso step made tho earth tremble. An end
as ignoble as our beginning was glorious. Who
Can think with patience of the idea that a Repub
lic of twenty millions of freemen should sacrifice
its own liberties for the emancipation of three
millions of slaves ? And those slaves incapable
of self government? Who can listen to the daily
outpourings of negrophohis, without feeling that
in' the political EJeti of this Republic the Spirit
of Darkness is opon his walk, clothed in an an
gel' robes of philanthropy, yet (.reaching up the
same lesson of revolt and disobedicuce which led
to the downfall of our race 1
Father Matiiew. The following is Father
Muthew's letter to the Bishop of Cincinnati, rela
tive to hi deferred visit to that city ;
St, lou, Mo. Oct. 25, 1850.
Most Reverend Dear Bishop : Do not accuse
me of ficleness, stern necessity atone compels me
to postpone, until next Spring, my , long contem
plated visit to Cincinnati. The early appearance
of wintry weather has produced on my constitu
tion, enfeebled by partial paralysis, the same a
larmffig symptoms that forced me to fly from the
NoftTi hist Fall. I must hasten to Florida to es
caie the cold, and preserve my health for future
exertions in the sacred cause of Temperance.
This pains me exceedingly, as I looked forward
wilh'the ntrnost' atikiety for the long wished for
o portunlty to" a Vail myself' 6( your Grace's cher
ished Invitation to be your' guest iti llie Queen
City of the Wesf, which welcomed me' immediate
ly on my arrivat in this great Republic' With a
heart affficted by this slid disappoiiit'nieni, I shall
fakes passage'im'inediately fur Orleans en route
for Florida. Aguin expressing my profound re
gret st this unforeseen disappointment, I have tlie
f . i. i-. ' i. ...! f.:.,.i
llOIIOr 10 DW VOUJ url' 7 ni'rri uriuicu m ictiiu,
TiiEOBOlD MATIIEW,
Most Rcv'd. B,
TurccHc
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL. I
The New York Merchant's Day Book has some '
excellent comments on the spirit of resistance to
this law by those who have always pretended to
have a great reverence for the law. It is worthy
of remark, that the very men who have been most I
eager in invoking the power of the General Govern
ment to be used against the Souih, are the first to
flare up when that power is used against themselves.
Out upon the knaves and hypocrites I
The Day Book says :
"We see also that quite a large portion of oiir
'good northern Christians' do not care tho snap of
their finger for the laws of their country, but like
Wm. II.Seward.set them at naught because they
in their suporior wisdom have come to the eage
conclusion that they are not in conformity with
that 'higher law' to which they profess "to owo
greaterallegiance than to the State. If any of
these lovers of a 'higher power' should take it into
their heads that the Day Book belonged to them
and that the 'higher power' intended it for therfi,
we suppose they would consider themselves bound
to come and take it. Some of them, we know, do
think that a certain portion of land belongs to them
by divine right, and certain ulher portions think
that their neighbors poultry and vegetables belong
to them, and they take it, while certain other
portions consider that anything they can lay tliPir
hands upon is theirs. It is a pity that all these
people cannot be put into one great Fourierito pen
and made to live and work together for their mutual '
benefit. Law-loving and law-keeping people would
then have some peace in the world.
"From the muss and excitemenPwe see created
by the arrestof Hamlet, one would suppose that
half thi negroes in the city were fugitive. Who
would have supposed tin i. our agreement to surren
der runaway bIuvcs had heretufore been so badly
kept? Who thought that every third negro he
mei in the street was a runaway, who actually
and truly owes a deot to a man or a woman who
had fed clothed them from their infancy, which thoy
not only refuse to pay, but threaten to murder the
officer who should attempt to make them pay it ?
Surely this is a great country."
AGITATION NORTH AND s'oUTII.
The Secession papers South are iudustriously
engscjed in copying from the Abolition and Freesoil
papers all the accounts of the indignation Aboli
tion meetings at the North, in order to prove that
the North is not satisged with tne late adjustment
bills ; that the Fugitive Slave bill is certain to be
repealed by the next Congress, and therefore
they go for a repeal ol the laws, or a repeal of
the Union !
Repeal ! repeal ! agitate ! agitate! are the ral
lying cries of the Abolitionists of the North, and
to these cries they unite the advice through Abo
lition societies and resolution adopted at public
meetings, as well as by pulpit and Abolition orators
and letter writers, to nullify, to resist the Fugitive
Slave bill by force.
Repeal! repeal! agitate! agitate! through the
press public meetings public speaking letter
writing, and Southern societies, on the other hand,
are heard from the ultras the Disunionists of the
Scuut. They, too, would repeal all the bills but
one the Fugitive Slave Bill nd they are doing
their utmost to convince the people of (lie South
that this law will never be enforced. TheSt?ces
sionists also call on the people to resist these laws,
even if secession and civil war follow.
The Abolitionists denounce the Fugitive Stave
bill and declare that any officers who will enforce
it are degraded slaves, and that any people who
will submit to such an outrageous law are fitted
for slaves.
The Secessionists assert that if the Southern
people tamely submit to the admission of Califor
nia they are degraded serfs.
The Abolitionists denounce the constitution and
the Union because they protect slavery. Tlie
Secessionists 'denounce the constitution and the
Union because they do not protect the institution
of slavery,
The Secessionists weuld dissolvo the Union to
perpetuate slavery. The Abolitionists dissolve
the Union to abolish slavery,
The abolitionists threatened to dissolve the Un
ion because Texas was annexed with slavery
The Secessionists threatened to dissolve the Un
ion because California has been admitted with'
out slavery. Extremes hero meet and unite to
destroy..,, '
These agitators d not desire tlie peace and
quiet of the country. Theirexistence depends op
on agitation, and it will be continued so long as
they are able to furnish fuel to feed the fire of ex
citement. They labour to create dissatisfaction
both at the North and at the South, and they will
continue therr efforts until put down by the people
themselves1.
The best evidence fhaf could be presented in
favor of tlie justice, wisdom and national equity
of the bills passed by Congress, is the opposition
of these ultra factions North and South. ,
But the people will soon stop the career of these
agitator. They have too much at stalie In the
existence of the Union to permit it bands rent
asunder by such hands. They will proclaim
through tl.e ballot box that roch miscliieviou g
itators shall never dictate or lord it over freemen,
and that tlifs Union shall stand.
. . ' Mobile Advertiser.
The Georgia Helicon sets down the number of
cotton mills ht the Slates of Georgia, Tennessee,
South Carolina, ind Alabama at nine-eight, in
which are invested about one million dollars.
Some 16,000 hands are employed, and 132,000
spindles. They consume 94,000 bale of cot
ten per ahnmn.
We learn that there are almnt 40' Cotton facto
ries in North Carolina, in which roout one million
of dollars are invested.
There ought to be st least two hundred, and
vTOukl be, if our people used their advantages, :
THE TWO GUIDES OF THE CHILD.
from rtcuKN.-s' nousEiiot.u worms,
A Spirit near me said,"J.oo!; forth upon the
land of Life. What do yon sne ?"
"Steep mountains, covered by a mighty plain, a
table hind of many colored beauty. Beauty, nay,
it seems all beautiful at first, but now I see that
there are some parts barren."
"Are they quite barren ? look more closely
still!" -
"No in the wildest deserts now, I see some
gum dropping acacias, and the crimson blossom of
the cactus. But there are regions that rejoice a
bundantly in flower and fruit ; and now, 0 Spirit,
I see men and women moving to and fro."
"Observe them, mortal."
"I behold a world of love; tho men have wo
men's arms entwined afoiind them ; and some up
on the verge of precipices friends are running to
the rescue. There are marly wandering like
strangers, who know not their road, and ihey look
npward. Spirit, how many eyes are looking up,
as if to God ! Ah, now I see some strike their
neighbors down into the dust ; 1 see some wal
lowing like swine, I see that they are men and
women bruta."
"Are they quite brutal look more closely
Still." '"
"No, I see prickly sorrow growing out of crime
and penitence awakened by a look of love, I see
good gifts bestowed out of the hand of murder, and
see truth issue out of lying lips. But in this plain,
O spirit, I see regions wide, bright regions
yielding fruit and flower, while others seem per
petually veiled with fogs, and in them no fruit rip
ens. I see pleasant regions where the rock is full
of clefts, and people fall into them. The men
who dwell beneath the fog deal lovingly, and yet
they have small enjoyments in the world around
them, which '.iiey scarcely seo. But whither are
those women going ? "
"Follow them."
"I have followed down the mountains to a haven
in the Vale below. All that is lovely in the world
of flowers makes a fragrant bed for the dear chil
dren ; birds singing they breathe upon the pleas
ant air; the butterflies play with them. Their
imbs shine white among the blossoms, and their
mothers como down full of joy to share their inno
cent delight. They pelt each other with the lilies
of the valley. They call up at the fantastic
masks, p;,im giants play to make them merry, a
thousand grotesque loving phantom kiss them ;
to each the mother is the one thing real, the high
est bliss the next bliss is the dream of all the
world beside. Some tjliat are motherless, all moth
er's love. Every gesture, every look, every odor,
every Valley. Some little figures fall and die,
and on the valley's soil they crumble into violets
and lilies, with love tears to hung in them like
dew.-
"Who dares to come down with a frown into
this happy valley ? A severe man seizes an un
happy shrieking child, and leads it to the roughest
ascent of ihe mountain. He will lead it over steep
rocks to the plain of tlie mature. On ugly needle
points he makes the child sit down, and teaches it
its duty in the world above."
"Its duty, mortal ! Do you listen to the teach
er ?"
"Spirit , 1 hear now. The child is informed a
bout two languages spoken by nations extinct cen
turies ago. and something also, 0 Spirit, about the
base of an hypotlienuse."
"Does the child attend ?" .
"Not much, but is beaten sorely, and its knees
are bruised against the rocks, till it is hauled up,
woe begone and weary, to the upper plain. It
looks about bewildered ; all is strange it know
not how to act. Fogs crown the barren mountain
paths. Spirit, I am unhappy ; thero are many
children thus hauled up, and as young men upon
the plain ; they walk in fog, or among brambles ;
some fall into pits ; and many getting into flower
paths, lie down and learn. Some become active,
seeking right, but ijgnorant of what righ'. is ; they
wander among men out of their fog -land preaching
folly. Let me go back among the children.
"Have they no better guide?"
"Yes, now there comes one with' a smiling face
and rolls upon the flowers with the little ones, and
ihey are drawn to him. And he has magic spells,
to conjure up glorious spectacles of fairy land.
He frulicks with tlienf, and might be first cousin to
the butterflies. He wreathes their little heads with
flower Garlands, and with his fairy hand upon his
lips he walks toward tlie mountains ; eagerly they
follow. He seeks tlie smoothes t upward path, and
thai is bat a rough oue yet ; they ruri up merrily,
guide and children, butterflies pursuing still the
flowers as they nod over a host of laughing faces.
They talk of the deligliiful fairy world, and rest
ing In shady places leafu yet mare of the delight-
iu world of God. They learn to love the Maker
of the flowers, to know how great the Father of the
Beetle. Thc listen to the story of Ihe face,fhcy
go to labor with upon the plain, and love it for the
labor it has done. They learn old language of
men, to understand the past more esgerly they
leant the voices of men of their own day, that they
may take part with the present. And in their
study when tliey flag.they fall back upon thoughts
of the Child Valley they are leaving.- SporU and
fancies are tlie rod and spur that bring them with
new vigor to the lessons. 'When they reach the
plain they cry, "We know you men and women :
we know to what you have aspired for centuries ;
we know the love there is in you : we know the
love there is in God ; we come prepared to h.bor
withyofl my good friends. VV'a -w ill not call you
clumsy when we see jon tumble, we will try to
pick you up ; when we fall, you shall pick us up.
We have been trained to love, and (lien? fore we
can aid you heartily, for love is labor !"
The Spirit whispered, Yon have seen H yoo
have heard. Co now and speak unto your fcllow
mea ; atk justice for Uu child." -
To-day should love To morrow, for it is a thing
of hope; let the young Future not be nursed by
Care. God gave not fancy to (he child that men
should stamp its blossoms down into the loose soil
of intellect. The child's heart was not made full,
to the brim of love, that men should pour its love
away, and bruise instead of kiss the trusting inno
cent. Love and fancy are the stems on which we
may graft knowledge readily. What is called by
some dry folks a solid foundation majr be a thing
not desirable. To cut dowri all the trees, and root
up all the flowers in a gardeti, to cover walks and
flower beds alike with a hard crust of well rolled
cravel, that would lie to lay down your solid foun
dation' after a plan which some think good in a
child's mind, though not quite worth adopting in a
garden;
How to Live. Said an old man once to us.
' Fact is people an't more than partly larnt how tut
live." We thought then that the old man was
right,and we have since been convinced of the fact.
For to live rightly, implies that we do rightly
towards all.
When we see a man , with money in his pocket,
refusing with lying pretences and sneaking sub
terfuges, to pay a small bill, justly due, we think
he has but partly learned how to live.
When we see a family who make great preten
sions to fashion and gedtility, and are clothed
sumptuously in purple and fine jiiien, putting off
from day to day the payment of a poor dress
maker , who comes feebly and timidly knocking
at the door for her dne, we think, little have they
learned how to live.
When we see a man endeavoring to bolster up
Pride at hi front door, while Poverty enters bold
ly in the rear; squandering his small income on
fine furniture and V.ompany',borrowing of his
neighbors and never returning without insult or
injury, we arc sure he has but partially learned
how to live.
When we see another, laboring like a slave,
(o accumulate wealth, not to extract happiness
from, but to hoard, starving his own soul, pinching
his family ar.d making all miserable around Jmri,
we think he has not at all (earned how to liVe;
When we see a man Wholly given up to the
pleasures of appetite, reveling in licentiousness and
debaucheries, while the higher pleasure of the in
tellect are wholly neglected, we think, how poorly
he has learned to live.
Wten we see a young man, born to wealth, neg
lecting his great opportunities, squandering time
and money on trifling things, and employing the
best of his life in laying up misery for the future,
we think how sadly is he neglecting the things
which teach how to live.
When we see a child of misery and want, tread
ing almost unconsciously the dark path which leads
to crime and otter ruin, we sigh, as we exclaim,
he has never been taught how to live.
And when we see a subscriber to ft newspaper
sneaking out ot the back door when he sees the
collector coming with the bill, and when canght,
denying that he has received the paper, disputing
the bill, asserting that he never subscribed, that
lie ordered it stopped, that he ha not fallen it from'
the post office, and finally declaring that he ha
got nothing, and nothing can be got from him, w
set him d iwn as a hopeless case, for surely inch a
man will never learn how to live.
, ' Portland Transcripij
ORIGIN OF ODD FELLOWS.
On the night of the 25th of December; 180G,
whiles winter storm was drifting over this island
city, in an upper chamber of a house yet standing
in Fulton street, five men assembled to organize
the first Lodge of Independent order of Odd Fellows -ever
founded on this continent
To the Genius of hu'inanity, who presided over
that humble scene and foresaw its consequence,
it must have seemed, as (o it first discoverer did
the parent rill which guides from the Rocky moun
tains, and flows on in its faf pilgrimage till it
swells into the solemn Mississippi.
They called the institution they founded, Shaks
peare Lodge, and, like the name they gave it, it
has ptevaded the world. Its chartc'r now lies side
by aide with the pla of Hamfrt in the library of
Sunny Side on the Hudson, and in the frail tent
of the gold-digger on the golden banks of tlie Rio
Sacramento'.
The names given (o the first four Lodges in'
New York, indicate the spirit of their founders. '
Shakespeare's name represented Literature and
Humanity ; Franklin was the second, and it rep
resented Philosophy and Labor ; Washington was
the third, and it represented Heroism and Love of
Country ; Columbia was the fourth, and it ropreJ
tented Ihe broad continent where Odd Fellowship'
was to achieve its greatest triumphs. ' .
. , Odd Fettovt Offering.
WINTER 13 COMING. ; ' .
And with it many a sigh of the afflicted and'
poverty stricken. In the dispensations of Provi
denceevery eommunity has within its. limits a
number ol tliose upon whom the hand of affliction'
is heavily laid and many a gentle heart, a pure
and good ss ever throbbed is made to bleed by the'
shifts of m'is'jrttine. The approaching winter to
such is gloomy in the extreme. There are those' i
who while eating their scanty meal at night scarce'
Can guess front whence their morning food is to'
come. Iri what strong and unmistakable language
do such eofmnend rhemselvM to the sympathy and!
and charity of those whom (leaven has favored. ,
' To-lhegood and viiluouj Hi a pleasing task
to minister comfort to the" needy; while to a if
who have the mean itliecome a high and imper
ative duty. Let us then, as God hag given list
ability, bestow our goods upon the hnngry, the
nsked and unprotected. The work will meet
reward from Him wholoveth a cheerful giver,
t Rockingham Register,