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... . ! BELLS!
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uitiy on hand, a very large assortment of
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•ely ncic way recently adopted by us. The
k is used, and the most approved method of
r. We have 14 Gold and Silver Medals
1 for “the best Bells, for sonorousness and
>f rme.” Nearly lb,000 Bells have been
l sold from this foundry. We can send to
rk in four hours, and by Canal and Railroads
■ direction, at an hour's notice. Mathemati-
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I. Address
L MEXEELY’S SONS, West Troy, N. Y.
26 1853 30 eov;12m*
sgs rev/Akd. .
F, on Wednesday last, at Midway, or tlie
us between there and Eatonton, a pair of
Spectacles, old fashioned, with the ini-
.. I’. H.” engraved on them. Whoever may
und them will confer a great favor by send-
in to me at Eatonton, as they are held in
.'timation than the amount ot their value,
above reward will be cheerfully paid, it re-
LEWIS P. HARWELL.
25.1853 30 tf
Putnam Plantation for Sale.
undersigned offers bis PLANTATION in
TTXAM COUNTY, lying on Little River,
■ above Whitehead’s Bridge, and 21 miles
unis' Depot, on the Eatonton Branch Rail-
mtaining 1,100 acres—350 in the woods, 150
dity bottom land, and tlie balance, average
of upland. This place contains many ad-
1 in the way of productiveness of soil fine
-good water—convenience to market, Ac.;
cciallv, tlie very favorable terms oil which it
sold. If desired, the place can beconvcni-
v ided into two or more settlements.
B. F. ADAMS.
18,1853, ‘-29 tf.
4e improved Land lor sale In Lowndes.
1 undersigned has not yet sold Ins place 4
!us from the Brunswick and r lorida Railroad
s now building. In this body of land there
0 acres fine hammock and pine land 230
It is well watered, healthy and fertile,
t bargain can be had. Come and view it.
Iress is Sharpe’s Store P. O. Geo.
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Heaven.
OlilHeavcn j s nearer than mortals think,
M hen they look with a trembling dread
At the misty future that stretches on
■t rom the silent home of the dead.
n ? l°J? e *rie in a boundless main, **
N o brilliant, but distant shore,
W here the lovely ones who are called away
Must go to return no more.
No—Heaven is near us; the mighty veil
Of mortality blinds the eye,
That we see not the angel bands
On the shores of eternity.
Yet oft in the hours of holy thought,
To the thirsting soul is given °
Tiiat power to pierce through the midst of sense,
l o tlie beauteous scenes of Heaven.
Then very near seems its pearly gates,
And sweetly its harpings fall;
Till the soul is restless to soar away,
And longs for the angel call.
I know, when the silver chord is loosed,
When the veil is rent away,
Not long and dark shall the passage be
To tlie realms of endless day.
Tho eye that shuts in a dying hour,
M ill open the next in bliss,
The welcome will sound in a heavenly world
Ere the farewell is hushed in this.
friends,
We pass from the clasp of mourning
To the arms of tlie loved and lost;
And those smiling faces will greet us then,
Which on earth we have valued most.
rniTT, Wollce. .
I BE Subscribers having bought out tiie interest
°I a fi other parties in the
,, WOOL CARD AND GRIST MILL,
near the Factory,) lately owned by D. A.
J* ELL A- CO., has put the same again in ope-
,;“ un > and will be liappy to serve aLl may favor
II "*Ih their patron^e. It is intended to put a
."nplri,, set of WOOLEN MACHINERY into the
. ^is season, and persons desiring it can have
r wool spun and wove to order on reasonable
D. A JEWELL.
-'Ll eh 29, 1853. 13 tf
From the New York Herald.
Rich and Racy.
On a former occasion, we made some al
lusion to the adroit manner in which the in
quisitional resolutions offered in the New
School General Assembly, sitting at Buffa
lo, by Rev. Dr. Thompson, of that city from
the Committee on Slavery, were parried by
Rev. Dr. Ross, of Tennessee. Imperfect
versions of his speech on tlie occasion have
been published in some of the religious pa
pers, though none of them do him "full jus
tice, and all are more or less parred with
inaccuracies and missapprehensions. We
are happy in being able to lay before our
readers this eminently good natured, witty,
and talented speech, as written out by Dr.
Ross himself. It carries the war into Afri
ca so effectually, that although the Com
mittee’s resolutions passed in a modified
shape, whereas Dr. Ross’ substitute did not
pass, and probably was not even put to the
vote, every body sees that, the victory is on
his side. The Committee’s resolutions al
though adopted, will be essentially inope
rative, while Dr. Ross’, which were not
adopted, will go all over the country, car
rying conviction with them that there is
quite as much need of investigation North
as South. We hope our brethren of the
press will for once give the South a
hearing. Many of them rarely do such
a thing. They exhibit one side of the
picture, but not the other. Here is some
thing rich and racy, good natured and
sparkling—direct from the South—which
even our “Abolition brethren” cannot read
without laughing. Give it wings then, and
both the North and the South, and the in
terests of truth will be benefited thereby.
SPEECH OP GEY. HR. ROSS.
Buffalo, Friday, May 27, 1S53.
The order of the day was reached at a
quarter before eleven, and tlie report read
again, viz :
“1. That tliis body shall re-affirm tlie doctrine of
the second resolution adopted by the General As
sembly, convened at Detroit in 1850—and
“2. That with an express disavowal of any inten
tion to be impertinently inquisitorial, and for the
sole purpose of arriving at tlie truth, so as to correct
misapprehensions, and allay all causeless irritation,
a committee be appointed of one from each of the
synods of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Vir
ginia, who shall be requested to report to the next
General Assembly on the following points—1. The
number of slaveholders in connection with the
churches, and the number of slaves held by them.—
2. The extent to which slaves are held by an una
voidable necessity imposed by tlie laws of the States,
the obligations of guardianship, and the demands of
humanity. 3. Whether the Southern churches re
gard the sacredness of the marriage relation as it
exists among the slaves ; whether baptism is duly
administered to the children of the slaves professing
Christianity, and in general, to what extent and in
what manner provision is made for the religious
well-being of the slave,” &,c., &c.
Dr. Ross moved to amend the report by
substituting the following, with an express
disavowal of being impertinently inquisito
rial—that a committee of one from each of
the Northern synods of be appoint
ed, who shall be requested to report to the
next General Assembly.
1. The number of Northern church members con
cerned, directly or indirectly, in building and fit
ting out ships for the African slave trade, and tlie
slave trade Between the States.
2. The number of Northern church members who
trafiewith slave-holders, and are seeking to make
money by selling them negro clothing, hand-culls
and cow-liides. , , ,
3. The number of Northern church members who
have sent orders to New Orleans, and other South
ern cities, to have slaves sold, to pay debts owing
them from the South. [See Uncle Tom’s Cabin.]
4. The number of Northern church members who
buy the cotton, sugar, tobacco, oranges, pine-ap
ples, figs, ginger, cocoa, melons and a thousand oth
er things raised by slave labor.
5 The number of Northern church members who
have intermarried with slave-holders, and have thus
become slave owners themselves or enjoy the wealth
made bv the blood of the slave especially if there be
any Northern Minister of the Gospel in such a pre-
' '''“(V'x'pe number of Northern church members who
are descendants of the men who kidnapped negroes
in Africa and brought them to Virginia and New
England in former years.
7 r pi, c aggregate and individual wealth of mem
bers thus descended, and what action is best to
compel them to disgorge this blood-stained gold, cr
to compel! them to giv e dollar tor dollar, m equali
zing the loss of the South by emancipation.
if The number of Northern church members, min
isters especially, who have advocated warder m re
sistance to the laws of the land.
9 The number of Northern church members who
own stock in under-ground railroads, running oft
furtive slaves, and in Sabbath breaking railroads
“‘wThit a special commission be sent up Red
Fiver to ascertain whether Degree, who whipped
Unci ’ Tom to death, (and who was a Northern gen-
demon,) be not still in connection with some North
ern church in f-ooJ and regular st.indin_.
11 The number of Northern church members who
attend meSs of Spiritual Rappers, or Bloomers,
“SS’clmrch members
Ms.*™"mm^fNLhe™etarehmembem w ho
“rls'XSrSuIttetaorv the temper ot
sDealfcranJ audience from . printed report, .1 »
j to Dr K to the whole assembly, and the
due alike to Di. iv. 10 i these re solu-
galleries, ^hout his speech, evinced great good
nous,which was equally
Sated by the assembly and spectators, repeat
edly while he was on the floor] , r l t or,
Dr B.tacn proceeded: Mi. Moderator,
I move this amendment m the best; spu' ;
I desire to imitate the committee m then
refinement and delicacy of distinction. I
disavow all intention to be impertinently m-
ouisitorial. I intend to be inquisitorial as
L committee say tire are, but not rmyjrt;
so. No sir, not at all, not at
(Laughter.) Well, sir, we of tlie South,
who desired tlie removal of the evil of slave
ry, and believe it will pass away in the de
velopments of Providence, are grieved
when we read your graphic, shuddering
pictures of the “middle passages”, the
slave ship piling up her canvass, as the
shot pours aitcr trom English or American
guns—see her again and again hurling hogs
head, aitcr hogshead,tilled with livingslaves,
and thus lightened, escape. Sir, what horror
to believe that ship was built by the hands
of Northern, noisy, Abolition church mem
bers ! (“Yes I know some in New York
and Boston,” said one in the crowd.) Again,
sir, when we walK along your Broadways,
and see, as we do, the soft hands of your
church members sending off to the South,
not only clothing for tlie slave, hut mana
cles and whips, manufactured expressly for
Gim what must we think of your consist
ency of character ? [True true.[ And what
must we think of your self-righteousness,
when we know your church members order
the sale of slaves, yes, such as St. Glair’s,
and under circumstances involving the sep
arations and all the loathsome tilings you
so mournfully deplore. A our Mrs. Stowe \
says so, and it is so without her testimony.
I have read that splendid, had book. Splen-
uid in its genius, over which I have wept,
and laughed, and got mad, (here some one
said, “all at the same time ?”) yes, all at
the same time. Bad in its theology, bad
in its morality, bad in its temporary evil in
fluence here in tlie North, in England, and
on the continent ot Europe ; bad because
ber isolated cruelties will be taken as
(whether so meant by her or not) as the
general condition of Southern life, while
her Shelhys, and St. Clairs and Evas, will
he looked upon as angel visitors lingering
for a moment in that earthly hell. The
impression made by the book is a falsehood.
>-'ir, why do your northern church mem
bers, and philanthropists, buy Southern pro
ducts at all ? You know you are purchas
ing cotton, rice, sugar, sprinkled with blood,
literally, you say, from the lash of the dri
ver ? TV by do you buy ? What's tlie dif
ference between my filching this blood
stained cotton from the outraged negro, and
you standing by, taking it from me ?—
AY hat s the difference? You yourselves,
say. in your abstractions, there is no differ
ence, and yet you daily stain your hands
in this horrid traffic. You hate the traitor,
hut love tlie treason. Your ladies, too, O
how they shun the slave when at a distance,
in the abstract. But alas, Avhen they see
him in the concrete—when they see the own
er himself, standing before them ; not the
1 ratal driver but the splendid gentleman,
with his unmistakable grace of carriage, and
ease of manners ; why lo, behold the lady
says, “O fie on your slavery ; what a wretch
you are ! But, indeed sir, I love your su
gar ; and truly, truly, sir, wretch as you are,
I love you too.” Your gentlemen talk just
the same way when they behold our match
less women. And well for us all it is, that
your good taste, and hearts, can thus ap
preciate our genius and accomplishments
and fascinations, and loveliness, and sugar,
and cotton. Why, sir, I heard this morn-
ingfrom one pastor only, of two or three of
his members that intermarried in the South,
May I thus give the mildest rebuke to your
inconsistency of conduct ? (Much good na
tured excitement.)
Sir, may we know who are the descend
ants of tiie New England kidnappers.—
AA hat is their wealth ? AVhy here you ai - e,
all around me. Y ou, gentlemen, made the
Lest of that bargain. And you have kept
every dollar of your money from tiie chari
ty of emancipating the slave. You have
left us, unaided, to give millions. AArill you
now come to our help ? AVill you give dol
lar for dollar to equalize our loss. [Here
many voices cried out, “yes, yes, we will.”]
Yes, yes. Then pour out your millions.
Good. I may thank you personally, My
own emancipated slaves would to-day he
worth generally more than 820,000, Will
you give me back $10,000 ? Good. I need
it now.
I recommend to you sirs, to find out your
advocators of murder ; your owners of stock
in underground railroads ; your Sabbatli
breakers for money. I particularly urge
you to find Degree, who whipped Uncle
Tom to death. He is a northern gentleman,
although having a somewhat Southern
name. Now, sir, you know the Assembly
was embarrassed all yesterday by the in
quiry how the Northern churches may find
their absent members, and xvhat to do with
them. Here, then, sir, is a chance for you;
send a committee up Red River. You may
find Legree to be a Garrison, Phillips,
Smith, or runaway husband from some Ab-
by Kelly. (Here Rev. Mr. Smith protest
ed against Legree being proved to be a
Smith ; great laughter.) 1 move that you
bring him back to lecture on the cutcncss
there is in leaving a Northern church, going
South, changing his name, buying slaves,
and calculating without guessing, what the
profit is of killing a negro with inhuman la
bor, above tlie gain of treating him with
kindness ?
I have little to say of the Spirit Rappers,
woman’s rights, conventionists, bloomers
cruel husbands, or hen-pecked. But if we
may believe your own serious as well as
caricature writers, you have things up here,
of which we down South, know very little
indeed. Sir, we have no young bloomers,
with hat to one side, cigar in mouth, and
cane tapping the boot, striding up to minc
ing young gentlemen, with long curls, at
tenuated waist and soft velvet face; the
boy-lady to say, ‘may I see you home, sir V
and the lady-boy to reply, T thank ye; no :
Fa will send the carriage.’ Sir, we of the
South don’t understand your woman’s
right’s convention. YVomen have their
wrongs. ‘The song of the shirt’; Charlotte
Elizabeth ; many, many laws tell her
wrongs. But your convention ladies de
spise the Bible. Yes, sir; and we of the
South are afraid of them and for you. AA hen
women despise tlie Bible, what next ?; Pa
ris ; then the City of the Great Salt Lake ;
then Sodom before and after the Dead Sea.
O Sir, if slavery tends, in any way, to give
the honor of chivalry to Southern young
gentlemen towards ladies, and the exqui
site delicacy and heavenly integrity and
love to Southern maid and matron, it has
then a glorious blessing with its curse.
Sir, your inquisitorial committee, and
the North so far as represented by them,
(a small fraction I know,) have, I take it,
caught a Tartar this time. Boys say with
us, and everywhere, I reckon ; ‘You worry
my dog and I’ll worry your cat.’ Sir, it
is just simply a feed fact ; the South will
not submit to these questions. No, not for
an instant. AA r e will not permit you to
approach us at all. If we are morbidly
sensitive, you have made us so. But you
arc directly, and grossly violating the con
stitution of the Presbyterian Church. The
book forbids you to put such questions.—
The book forbids you to begin discipline.—
The book forbids you sending this commit
tee to help common fame bear testimony
against us. The book guards the honor
of our humblest member, minister, church,
Presbyterian, against all this impertinently
inquisitorial action. Have you a prosecutor,
with his definite charges and witness
es ? Have you Common Fame, with her
special charges and witnesses ? Have
you request from the South that you
send a committee to inquire into the slan
ders ? No. Then handg off. As gentle
men you may ask us these questions ; we
will answer you. But ecclesiastically you
cannot speak in this mattei*. You have no
power to move as yon propose.
I beg leave to say, just here, that Ten
nessee will be more calm under this move
ment than any other region. Tennessee
has been, ever high above the storm, north
and south ; especially we of the mountains.
Tennessee, ‘ there she is—look at her’;
binding this Union together like a great
long, broad, deep stone ; more splendid
than all in the temple of Baalbee or Solo
mon. Tennessee, there she is, in her calm
valor. I will not lower her by calling her
unconquerable, for she has never been as
sailed ; but I call her ever victorious. King’s
mountain ; her pioneer battles ; Talledega,
Emucfan, Horse-shoe, New Orleans, San
Jacinto, Monterey, the valley of Mexico,
Jackson represented her well, in his chi
valry from South Carolina ; his fiery cour
age from Virginia and Kentucky ; all tem
pered by Scotch, Irish Presbyterian pru
dence from Tennessee. AAV, in his spirit
have looked on this storm, for years, un
troubled. Yes, Jackson’s old hone’s rattled
in their grave when that infamous disunion
convention met in Nashville, and its mem
bers turned pale and fled aghast. YYs,
Tennessee in her mighty million, feels se
cure ; and in her perfect preparation to dis
cuss this question, politically, ecclesiastical
ly, morally, metaphysically, or physical
ly, with the extreme North or South ; she
is willing and able to persuade others to be
calm. In tliis connection, I wish to say,
for the South to the North and to the world,
that we have no fears from our slavery
population. There might be a momentary
insurrection and bloodshed, but destruction
to the black man would be inevitable. The
Greeks and Roman’s controlled immense
masses of white slaves ; many of them as
intelligent as their lords ; School masters,
fabulists and poets were slaves. Athens
with her 30,000 freemen governed half a
million of bond men. Single Roman Pa
tricians owned thirty thousand. If, then,
the phalanxs and the legion watered such
slaves, for ages, when battle was physical
force of man to man; how certain it is, that
infantry cavalry and artillery, could hold
in bondage millions of Africans for a thou
sand years.
But, dear brethren, our Southern philan
thropists do not seek to have this unending
bondage. O no, no. I entreat you to
‘stand still, and see the salvation of the
Lord.’ Assume a masterly inactivity, and
you will behold all you desire and pray for.
You will see America liberated from the
curse of Slavery.
The great question of the world is— What
is to be the future of the American slaves ?—
What is to be the future of the American
Masters ? The following extracts from the
Charleston Mercury gives my views of the
subject with great and condensed particu
larity :
“Married—Thursday, 26th inst., the Hon. Cush
ing Kewang, Secretary of State of the United
States, to Laura, daughter of Paul Coligny, A’ice
President of the United States, and one of our no
blest llugenot families. We learn that this distin
guished gentleman, with Ids bride, will visit his
father, the Emperor of China, at his summer place,
in Tartary, North of Pekin, and return to the Vice
President’s Tea Pavillion, on Cooper river, ere the
meeting of Congress.”
The editor of the Mercury goes on to
say :
“This marriage in high life is only one of many,
which have signalized that immense emigration
from Christianized China during tlie last seventy-
five years, whereby Charleston lias a population of
1,250,000 and the State of South Carolina over 5,-
000,000, an emigration which lias wonderfully har
monized with the great exodus of the negro race
to Africa.”
[Some gentleman here requested to know of Dr.
Ross the date of the Charleston Mercury, recording
liis marriage. The Dr. replied—The date is 27th
May, 1953, exactly one hundred years from this day.
Great laughter. 1
Sir, this is a dream, hut it is not all a
dream. No, I verily believe you have
there the Gordion knot of slavery united.—
You have there tlie solution of the problem.
You have there the curtain up, and the last
scene in the last act of the drama of Ham.
I am satisfied with the tendencies of
things. I stand on the mountain peak,
above the clouds. I see far beyond the
storm, the calm sea, and the blue sky. I
see the Cannan of the African. I like to
stand there on the Nebo of liis exodus, and
look across, not the Jordan, but the Atlantic.
I see the African crossing, as certainly as if
I gazed upon the ocean divided by a great
wind, and piled up in walls of green glit-
teringglass on either hand—the dry ground
—the marching host, and the pillar of cloud
and fire. I looked over upon the Niger
black with death to the white man—in
stinct with life to the children of Ilam.—
There is the black man’s home. Oh ! how
strange thatyou of the North see not how
you degrade him when you keep him here.
You will not let him vote. Y'ou will not
let him hold a pew in your church.—
Send him away, then. Tell him begone
Be urgent like the Egyptians ; send him
out of this land. There in his father
land he will exhibit his own type of
Christainity. He is of all races the most
-gentle and kind. The man the most sub
missive, the woman the most affectionate.
AVhat other slaves would love their mas
ters Letter than themselves ; rock them
and fan them in their cradles ; caress them
how tenderly, boys and girls ; honor them,
grown up, as superior beings ; and in thou
sands of illustrious instances, be willing
to give life, and in fact, die to sen e or
save them? Verily, verily, this emanci
pated race may reveal the most admiable
form of spiritual life, and the jewel may
glitter on the Etliiop’s brow, meaning more
sublime than all in the poets imagery.—
Brethren, let them go, and when they are
gone, aye,before they go away, rear a mon
ument ; let it grow in greatness, if not on
your highest mountain, in your hearts, in
lasting memory of the South ; in memory of
your wrong to the South ; in memory of
the self-denial of the South, and her phi
lanthropy in training the slave to be free,
enlightened and Christain.
Can all this be! Can this double emigra
tion civilize Africa, and more than re-people
the South ? Yes, I regard the difficulty pre
sented here, in Congress, or the coun
tv, as little worth God intends both emi.
grations. And without miracle, lie will ac
complish both. Difficulties! There are
no difficulties. Half a million emigrate to
our shores from Ireland, and all Europe
every year. And you gravely talk of dif
ficulties in the negroe’s way to Africa !
Verily, God will unfold their destiny as
fast and as fully, as he sees best for the high
est good of the slave, the highest good for
the masters, and glory of Christ in Africa.
And sir, there are forty thousand Chinese
in California. And in Cuba, this day,
American gentlemen are cultivating sugar
with Chinese hired labor, more profitably
than the Spaniards and their slaves. O !
there is China, half the population of the
globe, just fronting us across that peaceful
sea. Her poor, living on rafts, and a pit
tance of red rice. Her rich hoarding mill
ions in senseless idolatry, or indulging in
the luxuries of bird’s nests and roasted ice.
Massed together, they must emigrate.—
AA^here can they go ? They must come.
to our shores. They must come even
did God forbid them. And he will hasten
their coming. They can live in the cx-
tremest South. It is their latitude, their
side of the ocean. They can cultivate cot
ton, rice, sugar, tea, and the silk worm.—
Their skill, their multiplication, is unriva
led. Their commonest going you can
neither make nor explain. They are
a law-abiding people, without castes, ac
customed to rise by merit to highest distinc
tions, and capable of the noblest training,
when their idolitry, which waxing old as
a garment, shall be folded up as vesture,
and changed for that whose years shall not
fail. The English amhwaBador assures us
that the Chinese negociator of the late
treaty was a splendid gentleman, and a di-
plomastist to move in any court in Europe.
Shem, then, can mingle with Japhcth in
America.
Tlie Chinese must come. God will
bring them. He will fulfill Benton’s no
ble thought. The railroad must complete
the voyage of Columbus. The statute of
Genoese, on some peak of the Rocky
Mountain, high above the flying cars must
point to the AVest saying—There is the
East—There is India, and Cathay.
Let us then, North and South, bring
our minds to comprehend two ideas, and
submit to their irresistible power. Let the
Northern philanthropist learn from the Bi
ble, that the relation of master and slave is
not sin per se. Let him learn that sin is the
transgression of the law, there is no sin ;
and that the golden rule may exist in the re
lations of slavery is simply an evil, in cer
tain circumstances. Let him learn that
equality is only the highest form of social
life, that subjection to authority, even slave
ry, may in given conditions, he fora time,
better than freedom, to the slave of any
complexion. Let him learn that slavery like
all evils, has its corresponding and greater
ood; that the Southern slave though de
graded compared with his master, is elevated
and ennobled compared with Ids brethern in
Africa. Let the Northern man learn these
things; and be wise to cultivate the spirit
that will harmonise with his brethren of the
South, who are lovers of liberty as truly
as himself. And let the Soutnem Chris
tain, nay, the Southern man of every grade
comprehend, that God never intended there-
lation of master and slave to be perpetual.—
Let him give up the theory of Voltaire, that
the negro is of a different species. Let
him yield the semi-infidelity of Agassiz;
that God created different races of the
same species, in swarms, like bees, for Asia,
Europe, America, Africa and the islands of
the sea. Let him believe, that slavery, al
though no tsin, is a degraded condition; the
evil, the curse on the South, yet having
blessings in its time, to the South and to
tlie Union. Let him know that slavery is
to pass away, in the fulness of providence.
Let the South belivc this, and prepare to
obey the hand that moves their destiny.
Ham, will be ever lower than Shem, Shem
will ever he lower than Japheth. All will
rise in the Christain grandeur to be reveal
ed. Ham will he lower than Shem, be
cause he was sent to Central Africa. Man
south of the equator, in Asia, Australia,
Occanica, America, especially Africa, is in
ferior to his northern brother. The bless
ings was upon Shem in his magnificent Asia.
Tlie greater b less ings w a s upon Japheth inhis
man developing Europe. Both blessings will
be combined, in America, North of the zone,
in commingled light and life. I see it all in
the symbolical altar of Noah, on that
mound at the base of Ararat. The father of
living men bows before the incense of sac
rifice ; streaming up and mingling with
the rays of the rising sun. His noble fami
ly, and all flesh saved, are groped round
about him. There is Ham at the foot of
the green hillock, standing in his antedilu
vian, rakish recklessness, near the long
necked giraffe, type of his Africa. His mag-
nificient wife seated on the grass, her little
feet nestling in the tame lion’s mane, her
long black hair flowing over the crimson
drapery and covered with gems from mines
before the flood. Higher up is Shem, lean
ing his arm over themousecolorcd horse, liis
Arab steed. His wife, in pure white linen,
feeds tlie elephant, and plays with liis lithe
proboscis, the mother of Terrah, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, David and Christ.
And yet, she looks up, and bows in mild hu
mility to her of Japlicth, seated amid
plumed birds, in robes like the sky. Her
noble lord, meanwhile, high above all,
stands with folded arms, following that ea
gle, which wheels up towards Arrat, dis
playing his breast, glittering with stars
and stripes, of scarlet and silver, radiant
heraldry, traced by the hand of God. Now
he purifies his eye in the sun; and now he
spreads his broad wings in symbolic flight
to the West, until last to the prophetic eye
of Japlicth, under the bow of splendors set
that day in the cloud. G od, covenant with
man, Oh, may the bow of covenant between
us be here to day, that tlie waters of this
flood shall never again threaten our belov
ed land.
AA T c are informed says the New-York
Express, that sample of the bales of Cotton
exhibited at the Crystal Palace were sub
mitted to the examination of a committee
of three gentlemen of our city, two of them
cotton brokers, and the other a merchant,
for their opinions ou its merits—they deci
ded the samples were beautiful in the high
est degree—that the one maiked (B.) of
Dr. Samuel Bond, of Memphis, Tenn., was
most attractive in color—but the one mark
ed (A.) exhibited by Col. John Pope, of
Memphis, Tenn., was superior in fineness
of staple, better ginned, and was entitled
to the preference. The latter sample is the
product of a new variety of cotton called
tlie golden seed, obtained from Central YIcx-
ico. Its peculiar excellence is its unrival
led fineness of staple and the large size of
its bales. Col. John Pope obtained the
prize at the World’s Fair in London. He
is an accomplished planter.
A DAY AT HAMPTON COURT.
The following account of a visit to
Hampton Court, the palace of Cardinal
Wolsev, near London, was furnished to the
New-Y*ork Observer by the Rev. S. L.
Prime, who writes over the signature of
•‘ Irenceus
Of all the places in the Old World there
is notone so rarely rich in historic interest
as this glorious structure which Cardinal
AA’olsey built and gave away. “ TV liy are
you building a palace so much more splen
did than any of mine?” his jolly master,
Harry the Eighth, inquired of the Lord
Chancellor. “ To make it a present to
your Majesty,” was the ready and wily
answer of the ambitious Wolsey.
It stands on the Thames, twelve miles
out of London, and is the greatest resort of
the public, for whose pleasure the grounds
and halls and galleries of art arc now free
ly thrown open. Its history I shall give as
1 go on with my letter.
It was Friday morning when I rode out
there : not the pleasantest morning I could
wish, but the only day I could command
before leaving the city, and if I did not
see the palace now I never should. I must
not pause to speak of the many classic spots
I passed in that morning ride ; the haunts
of Pope, of Thomson, of Gray, of Cowley, of
Oliver Cromwell, and a host of others
known in their country’s story. I reached
the palace about eleven, and was surprised
to find myself alone on the ground. The
armed sentinels were pacing the great door
ways, which were open as if an army as
well as a single traveller might enter, but
I was speedily summoned to stand. “ r I here
is no admission here to-day ; it is Friday!”
This was a blow to my hopes, and I asked
if the rule was inflexible. “O yes,” was
the answer ; “ there’s a great many comes
here Fridays who don’t know the rule, but
they never gets in ; they try to hire some
body to show them the apartments, but the
porters is all gone, and there’s nobody to
show them. You can’t get in at all.”
Here was a dead failure. A ride of
twelve miles to see a royal palace, and any
one of my guide books would have told me
it was closed on Friday; hut I had thought
lessly come on the only day I had to spare
before leaving. I was more than disap
pointed—vexed at my own dullness, and
made resolutions not to be so careless in fu
ture.
The gardens were open, and I walked
among the beds of flowers, and under the
bowers of beauty, gravelled and shaded
walks, a mile in a straight line, and lakes
with golden fish and sparkling fountains
on either hand : hut even these, more luxu
riant and paradise-like than I had ever
seen, seemed but to aggrex’ate my disap
pointment. I sat down in an antique chair
in a lovely nook, and promised myself not
to mention my visit to Hampton Court to
any of my friends. Several parties had
been out to see it, and returned to me with
glowing descriptions, and now I had come
alone, and was to return as I came.
A thought struck me. My venerable
father often said that he never knew a door
that would not open at my asking, and he
had often been amused in travelling by tlie
facility with which I gained access to the
most inaccessible places. It had always
answered in America; why should I not
experiment upon it in England ? I deter
mined to try.
Finding a servant on the ground, I asked
if there was a gentleman anywhere who
had any connexion with thepalace to whom
I could apply for some information. He
led me to a door and gave me the gentle
man’s name. I called upon him, sent him
my card; he invited me in, and received
me courtcoirsly. I told him I was asham
ed to say I had come on a fool’s errand;
carelessly had visited Hampton Court on
Friday, and must now return to America
without seeing it, unless I could find access
to-day. He said that during his residence
there he had never known ofthe apartments
being open except on the appointed days ;
that crowds varying from five hundred to
five thousand were there daily, and some
times fifteen thousand had visited it in a
single day ; and on Friday the doors wer
never opened : but—and then I began to
hope—but, said lie, “ it would give me
great pleasure to walk with you through
the palace ; the porters are all away, hut if
I can get the keys we will he our own por
ters, and take our own time.” And he
soon found the keys, and we mounted the
King’s staircase and entered the halls ot
Henry the Eighth.
The story of AA T olsey, the Prime Minister
of Henry VIII, is familiar to every youth
ful reader. And it should he. His life is
the grandest lesson for statesmen, and in
deed for all mankind, that English history
presents. By rapid strides he rose from
obscurity to he more powerful, more wealthy,
and far more luxurious than his monarch :
and then he fell like Lucifer, and perished
miserably by poison to escape tlie shame of
the scaffold.
In the days ofliis greatness he resolved
to make a palace of unrivalled glory. He
called on foreign and domestic doctors to
select the healthiest and tlie fairest spot in
the vicinity of London ; and this being
chosen, he bought up thousands of the sur
rounding acres and converted them into
parks, and gardens, and hunting grounds.
He lavished untold sums of gold in building
a house that covers upwards of eight acres
of ground, with apartments to lodge and
entertain some thousands of guests, and
these he embellished with the most costly
paintings, and every luxury the wit of man
could suggest or a voluptuous imagination
conceive. The records of the revellings
that once made these halls jocund for suc
cessive months appear like romance to us
who live in days when vice is less public,
if not less common than in the times of our
ancestors.
The King accepted the present of the
place in 1530, and here he set up his royal
residence, and right regally he held sway
in these now peaceful courts.
I have just been in the Chapel Royal,
where successive monarchs have heard
prayers. Here Edward VI. was baptized,
with Archbishop Cranmer for godfather.
Here Jane Seymour, his mother, died a
few days afterwards; and here the many-
wived Henry VIII, (having disposed in va
rious ways of five) was married to Lady
Catharine Parr. Here, too, James the
First presided at the famous conference be
tween the Presbyterians and the Establish
ed Church, and out of that conference grew
our present translation of the English Bi
ble. Queen Anne, his wife, died here.
Charles I was monarch, and Cromwell was
master after him, and celebrated the nup-
tails of his daughter. After the Restora
tion successive sovereigns resided here.
But I will not weary you with the history.
William III. adorned the palace and
made extensive improvements, and there
are monuments of his taste on every hand.
But what is now tlie use to which it is ap
plied ? The State apartments embrace a
series of magnificent rooms in the central
palace, a quadrangle with a fountain court
in the centre. Here is the Guard Chamber,
the King’s Presence Chamber, the Audi
ence Chamber, the King’s Drawing Room,
the King’s Bed-room, the Queen’s Bed-room,
tlie Queen’s Drawing Room, the Queen’s
Audience Chamber, the great Hall, hung
with the most remarkable tapestries and
emblematical flags. These, and niany oth
er apartments I have not named, are now
hung with paintings all but inumerahle by
the most illustrious masters, making galle
ries of priceless value ; portraits of the most
distinguished men and the most beautiful
women, in the costume of the times in
which they lived, on many of which I
i could descant at any length, but in such
a wilderness of paint I knew not where to
begin. I could more easily recite the
great men whose portraits are not here.
I hastened on lest I should he trespas
sing on my kind and excellent friend's
courtesy; but he insisted on my proceed
ing leisurely and studying all that I wish
ed to master. ■ And there we enjoyed the
silence an JF solemn quiet of these old halls,
looking upon the faces of men and women
that bad once shone in those very courts.
One chamber contains all the frail beauties
of the licentious court of Charles II. An
other is filled with scenes from Holy AYrit,
making strange contrasts now as of olden
times. Here is the portrait of a little man,
Sir Jeffrey Hudson, who is so very small
that at a feast given to Charles I. he was
actually serx ed up alive in a cold pie ; and
then we have a full-length portrait of a
man seven feet two inches high. Philoso
phers, poets, and painters, kings, queens,
and statesmen, priests and people, are here
in endless ranks. It was so much better to
be alone in this study than in the midst of
a crowd, and my guide was so familiarwitli
tlie pictures, enlivening the hours with an
ecdotes now and entertaining, that I was
not unwilling to give him one or two in re
turn. And when we had at last complet
ed the circuit, lie sent for the keys of the old
kitchen, used for two hundred years, where,
tlie Cardinal’s feasts were prepared. The
fire-places were sixteen feet across, and the
iron bars still stood in them on which the
spits rested to roast the meats before huge
fires ; and we explored the old vaults where
the rich wines were stored, and we thought,
for a Cardinal, AYoolsey must have had
things quite comfortable.
“Anti now it is dinner time; come and
dine with me,” my new friend said to me
as we emerged from the lower regions.
And in spite of all my protestations to the
contrary, he insisted, and the rest of the
day was spent at his hospitable hoard.
AYc had a good time there, too. And was
not all this as handsome a specimen of
kindness to a stranger, of genuine urbanity
and hospitality as you ever met with ? I
refrain from the mention of his name, for I
know that I should offend him if I did not,
but 1 take pleasure in recording it as not
only English, hut beautiful, and an incident
that I shall cherish when I return to my
own land where such attentions to stran
gers will I trust never be uncommon, as I
am sure they are not here. In America
we have thought our English brethren sel
fish, cold, and disinclined to open their
hearts to strangers, especially to those
from our country. I have not found it so,
and do not believe it is so. A gentleman is
always kind ; But I know that few are so
kind in any land as he was to whom I am
indebted for one of my most agreeable days
in England.
I inquired at tlie table to what use these
scores of apartments in these long wings
are put which we have not explored.
“These,” he replied, “ arc all occupied by
families of distinction and merit, by the
kindness of the Government, which thus
confers upon them, free of rent, a heme,
when, by a reverse of circumstances, they
are in need of such provision. It some
times occurs that the widow and children
of an officer who has fallen in his country’s
sen ice arc thus made easily comfortable for
life by being housed in these grand old
halls, where they may live in a style that
suits their taste and means, surrounded by
elegant grounds, and every thing to please
the eye and promote the health, though
there is nothing of it all they can call their
own.”
It is very much the same with the richest
and greatest among men. What can they
have but wliat they cat and drink and put
on ? They may gaze on their parks and
fountains, and so may the deer that browse
in them, and the beggars who look through
the gates. And when they die, there is
the end of it. Still it is a fine thing to be
the owner of such grounds as these, I have
no doubt.
And so I returned to the city, musing on
what I had seen and felt during the day.
I had dined in the palace of the sovereigns
of England; had trod the courts where
Henry VIII,and Edward VII, and Charles
Land Cromwell, and Charles II, and AVil-
liam III, and others of the royal line had
feasted, and I asked myself is any one of
them happier or higher than if he had nev
er been monarch of England ?
Remedy for the Yellow Fever.—
The newspapers of British Guiana contain
accounts of the discovery of a remedy for
that scourge of tropical America, the yel
low fever. The discovery was made at
Angostura, in Venezuela, or, as the city is
now called, Ciudad Bolivar.
The remedy is the plant vervain or ver
bena, which grows abundantly in that re
gion. The expressed juice of the leaves,
gjyen in small doses three times a day, with
an enema of the same every two hours, is
stated to he a perfect cure for the yellow
fever and black vomit, even in their most
threatening stages. All the physicians of
Angostura have adopted this treatment of
the disease, and they state that hardly any
deaths occur under its influence. This in
formation is furnished by Mr. Ylathison,
the British Vice Consul at the above place.
—The varieties of the verbena growing in
the warm and temperate regions of the
Western AAYrld are numerous. The par
ticular species referred to above is that
known to botanists by the name of verbena
jamaiccnsje. It is a native of the AA'est In
dia islands, as well as of tiie continent.
There are two kinds of it—the male and
the female ; the latter is the one used a.^
above.