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BY W.M. JEFFERSOY & CO.
VOLUME 3.
* P Q ETEY.
Written for (be Planters’ Weekly
MY FATHER.
My Father! a’as! ’tis a twelvemonth-andmore
Since the grassThas grown over thy head;
Since the time that I asked for thee o’crand o’er
And they told me my father was dead !
Alas! ’tis a weary long time —many years
Have passed since we laid thee to rest,
With sweet breath’d geranium leaves spangled
r with tears
My trembling hands laid on thy bi east.
Tall, sable-clad forms with levcrent tread,
Glided round thy flowor-strewn bier
And I shrank back appalled to gaze on the dead
My Father, what had I to fear ?
Thou wert kind to me alway—thou dearest,best
friend,
Thy voice was a lovo-tonc to mo
Thy petted one Father, looked not to the end
When the world would seem dark without thee
What wonder my eyelids are heavy with tears
And breaking hi ait heavier still ?
What wonder my bosom is burdened with fears
That cannot be turned back at will ?
Alone, all alone! In vain I implore
Come back, O! iny Father to me!
My spirit is fainting, I cannot come over
The deep, ilar , tUath-river to thee!
O! all the long day i have wept! I have wept!
And sorrow still saddens my brow,
A dull my friends wondering ask* hy my step
lias no elacticity no s !
The sun shines not brightly as in days of yore
The flow ers seem loosing tucir bloom,
My sail tuoiighu ai e >.lllllllO to dial snenl shore
From whence limit wui never return.
I remember the time when I kissed thy cold
brow,
AiiJ*p<w tiieo laid down in the grave,
1 lining it 1 know then all the heart, breaking
. woe
That bereave aunt and orphanage have,
But years hatfi gone by aud the world hath not
been •
So kmc to thy daughter as thou !
I knew n>>t the loneliest orp -surge then;
1 am drinking ils bittiness n -w.
For alas! I’ve no Father to slueld me from harm,
To ward off the treacherous blow ;
Alas 1’ ve no glorious brother’s strong arm
To huil back the little and low.
WOl Idlings dare to condemn, they can ne’er
understand
The injustice 1 Utterly feel !
■O haw my proud soul scorns to brook their
•command
Ilow it writhes but refuses to kneel!
.And sometimes I wish that I no’er had been
t born
God help mo, l know it is wrong,
But to bear the world’s tierce malediction alone
Is hard, buttit cannot be long 1—
‘Lo I’ll choke back the tears that tumultuous
rise,
And surge like a storm in my breast,
‘l'll smother down in my heart-prison the cries
Os my suffering spirit lor rest 1
T >e yew-tree and cypres have taken the place
Os the bay-leaf and laurel for me
Ardknd me iny Father, beams no smiling face
And my soul is shrouded with theej
•O I if on this Earth mourns another sad soul
Like mine, weeping all the long day,
‘Mo Father to bless her! no hand to uphold !
God pity that orphan I pray 1
1.0. S.M.
Mr. Editor. —Will you be so kind ns
to inform an ignorant man what is the
.meaning of the initials I. O. S. M., which
we often see staring us in the daily papers?
Yours, Jambs.
Certainly we will. The word Diosmo
iis the. botanical name for Hops. Some
years ago a irowd of social fellows altend
e<Ta hop; and partaking pretty freely of
malt, they were all soon in n perfect state
-of oblivion. Awaking from this state,
they formed themselves into a society,
wvhicli they designated by the name of
a. O. 8. M. which our correspondent will
►observe is a part of the word b-i-o-s-. M-h,
and means Independent Order Sons Malta
—which commemorates the fact that they
~wero at a hop, aud got fuddled on mult.
•Since then the rociety has made rapid
strides, and will coutinne to do so, unless
Frank Leslie should prevent it.— Business
Director.
Traveller dismounts nt a tavern—Hal
loo, landlord, can 1 get lodgings here to
night T
landlord—No, sir.
Traveller—Can’t you even give me a
•blanket, and (piiicli ot shavings for a pil
•low in your bar-room ?
Landlord—No, sir, there’s not h square
.foot of space unoccupied’ anywhere in the
!t#ufgt>.
Traveller—'Chen I’ll thank yon to
shove a uok* out of your second floor win
dow, and I’ll roost on that.
I# - Stephen Whitney, of New* York,
has left a property of fifteen millions, and
not a penny is given to any cliaritnhltt nr
Jilrrary institution ; only to Ins rich sur
vivors
k Weekly loaraal—OeTated t® Haxae ILuter&frarc, Agrieiiitare-, Foreign aad Domestic Hews, Wit, Eftmor, &e.
SPEECH
O F
DR. J. O. AYER.
My friends and fellow citizens :
From circumstances which have transpired
—from acts of public men and individuals
—it is believed by large numbers nt our
fellow countrymen in the South, that the
people of the North desire and intend to
accomplish the abolition of slavery in the
Southern States.—There are politicians
whose interest it is to spfead this belief, to
blazon the acts which give color to it, and
to procure the general dissemination of
this conviction among their people, in or
der that they may constitute themselves
the great, the indispensable defenders of
the people’s right.
Now, fellow citizens, since there are facts
which might give ground to this presump
tion, it is proper for ns to consider whether
we mean any such thing. If we do, it is
surely from motives of philanthropy alone;
then let us inquire whether the abolition
of slavery is in fact, a measure of philan
thropy. For the fair consideration of this
qnesiion, we must take a survey of the ne
gro race as it has been, as it is, and as it
would be,,if released from bondage.
From the earliest history we have of it’
until now. slavery, rather than freedom,
has been its normal condition. At the
present time, at least three-fourths of the
whole negro population in Africa is held
in servitude by the other fourth, and this
has been very nearly its condition for con
furies. That it is almost natural to the
African, is seen in the fact, that of, these,
many mil lion slaves, nearly every one could
have freedom by taking it. A lew miles
run into the woods would place him be
yond the reach of his master, and yet he
and his father before him have con
tentedly spent their lives as bondmen.—
II uve you not seen the same thing there in
Virginia, where the white population cf
Harper's Ferry for two whole days, said
hy their notion to the blacks, go where you
will, but oh ! spare our lives, and yet not
011 c negro would walk away to freedom !
Can we gainsay his ehoiee in preferring
the certainty of such a home as he lias,
and as he knows ho must have with his
master, to the doubtful experiment of ob
taining a living among strangers, in the
cokl climatfe of the North, and among the
colder sympathies which he would find
here ? Can we think ho decides unwisely
when we compare his condition where he
is with that of the degraded free negroes
of the 8011th, or the despised and oppressed
negro population of the Northern states,
or that of the poverty striker! and de
serted condition of the escaped slaves in
Canada?
Look at the black man in his native home
in Africa ; the veriest savage that the world
affords, but one remove from the brute and
sometimes scarcely that. The abject slave
ot a master, as ignorant, degraded and
brutal as himself, and at the same time
clothed with unlimited power over his
person aud his life. Compare his condition
there with it on the plantations of the
South. Here he has more labor, but with
it security and provision for his health and
daily wants. There he has none of these.
The absence of substantial government
over the whole continent leaves him no
protection to build him a permanent bouse
for shelter. More or less ex pc sed to the
inclemency of the burning sky, disease
overtakes hiui without protection or relief,
and he perishes. His average term of life
is bui little over one half wliat it is in Ibis
country. Even that is spent in constant
danger. Security of life and limb he never
knows. An inroad of warriors or slave
hunters may any night burn liis hovel and
his scanty store ; steal what of his family
are worth stealing, aud murder with hor
rible'brutality the balance. Their usual
mode of killing an enemy is to cut his
leg off and leave him to die of ihe wound.
Travellers tell us of the revolting cruelty
where viilagoshave been ravaged and the
ground strewn with the inhabitants thus
inhuman.y maimed and left Jo die.
If we would contemplate emancipation
ns a measure of philanthropy, we must en
quire'what will be the negro’s condition
when he is free. These are examples from
wlneli sound conclusions can be adduced.
The American Consul at Deinarara,
Doctor Craigen, has been tor many years
my personal frielid. He is a native orNeiv
Hampshire, and not likely to have a natu
ral predilection for shivery. He tells me
of ids own Experience and knowledge,
that until the abolition of slavery in that
province by the Dutch Government, there
was hardly a more prosperous country on
the face of the globe. Surinam, its port ol
entry, was filled with vessels car
rying and briugiug the products of liumau
toil tor the increase ot tinman enjoyment.
The country was thickly populated with
slaves apparently happy, and mainly con
tented with their lot. hut,as heexpressed
it, philanthropy got possession of the
Dutch Government, most of whom had
never seeu a slave or a plantation, and in
an evil hour they abolished slavery in De
marara. Now, says ho, all has changed ;
the richest plantations have become de
populated nutl valueless, aud may be bad
for the asking them oftholocalGoycurmuent
—Though unfortunately they are not worth
eveu that, for you can do nothing with one
it you get it.’ The white man cannot cul
tivate it, and the black man will not.. Ne
groes arc strolling the country without t
GREENESBORO’, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 21, 1860.
home, perishing from sickness and want, —
The’wharves ot Surinam, once so busy,
may now be seen i-vt r-t /winwith the rank
grass of the tropics, and here and there a
negro family domiciled under a shed famish
ing and retting with diseases that are
loathsome to look upon. He says there
can be no question that the abolition of
slavery has been a misfortune, an unmiti
gated curse to the negro race in Detnarara.
The same result Las followed the same
experiment in St. Domingo Hayti, Trini
dad and where has it not ?
Bad as their condition may seem to you,
where on the face of the earth is any con
siderable number of negroes better situated
for the enjoyment of life than on the Ameri
can plantations ?
The Bishop ot Liberia, an intelligent
man, although as black as ebony, once said
to me of the native negro there; You may
hire him and for a few days, or even weeks
he will work well, hut. ere long his natural
indolence comes over him, and then neith
er gew-gaws nor money nothing can induce
him to work any more.
The negro has strong muscles and a wil
ling hand, but it is not in Lis nature to work'!
without a master. He never has, and there
is nothing to show that he ever will. Yet
the highest authority known to mankind,
savf, ‘Bix days slink thou labor.’ Under
the tropical sun the anglo saxon cannot
cultivate soil. Ha is constitutionally in
capable of if. The Latin races can do it
but indifferently. Hei.ce the obvious con
clusion that if the exhuberunt wealth of the
tropics is to be developed, it must be
through the instrumentality of negio slave
ry. It’ the fields;<of rice, cotton, and sugar,
in the far South a;e to bo cultivated at all,
it must, be by the black man, for .the white
man cannot do it, and all experience has
shown .that the free black man will not.
Let us not be suspected of a sneer at philan
thropy, for that is one of the. noblest emo
tions oftho heart, and especially so when,
as on this question, it feels in behalf a
weaker race ; but it is fair, and, sir.it is
wise to consider whether the abolition of
slavery in the South, or at least anything
we can do fur it, is in fact, it tnettsure of
beneVolence.
I am satisfied that it is not and I believe
the people of Lowell and of Massachusetts
arc satisfied that they have not the right if
they had the inclination to interfere with
the institution of slavery where it exists,
and I also believe they have not-the incli
nation.
But, sir. I have no wish for. the spre ad
of slavery-upon a foot of soil that cun be
better cultivated without it ; I prefer that
the higher accomplishments and more ac
tive capacities of the white man should oc
cupy the land wherever he can live and
thrive. It may lie as Senator Seward says
among the inevitable destinies of tbe future,
that the Anglo Saxon shall occupy this
whole continent; as his spread westward
has driven the red man into the western sea;
so may the increase of his numbers and
strength southward as lie becomes acclimated
in the slow process of time, drive the black
man into the Gulf of Mexico. But this
is far in the future. Only the long lapse
of years can accomplish it. Our action
cannot, nor is the burthen of its consum
mation upon us. If it be within* t lie pur
poses of Providence,Povidcuce will execute
its own decrees upon the-destinies of na
tions.
There is no real antagonism between the
freo labor of the North, and the slave la
bor of the South, nor should there be any
aggression from either. By* the constitu
tion of the Union, each system has been
left to the discretion of the several states,
and si far as one state ‘ inteferes with the
internal policy of another, just so far does
she violate the spirit of the constitution
under which we live. The intermeddling
of agitators can only disturb master and
slave—inflict injustice upon the one and
injury upon the other, without benefit to
either or to any body. Were Ia bondman
of the South, my first request of northern
abolitionists would be to leave me alone.
I should say, spare me, oh spare me from
your sympathy. No one thing has done
so much to tighten the bonds ot the slave
and to put off the day of his emancipation
if such a day might ever come, as aboli
tionism. Before its interference, several
of the border states .were seriously consid
ering whether it was ‘not their interest to
provide for tire gradual emancipation of
their slaves ; and the legislature ot Mary
land (I think it was) came within ono vote
of enacting this project into .a law. Left
to themselves, their own interest might
have led them to such a result before this,
but niw the consideration of that question
has been indefinitely postponed. For this
change in his prospects, the black man is
indebted to iiis abolition sympathizers, and
not for this alone either, but for* many < f
tire severest restrictions under which he is
held. His liberties have been curtailed,
bis privileges diminished, and the heaviest
burdens that lie bears have been imposed
by theill-advuod and unsought interference
of those who were tendering him their aid.
If any among us flatter ourselves that
our com passion tor the slaves is to be ‘’ac
counted unto us for righteousness,” do
they remember that a negro would rtot bo
employed in one and our nulls to keep him
from starving, and that m the vast multi
tude before me thero is not probably one
person present who does not approve of
this exclusion of the black n an from the
ordinary means of getting livelihood,-
from every path they tread.
That the negro is’infeiior, is as fully felt
and as much acted on in the North as in
the South, and it is simply ignoring the
facte before you in every day life, to claim
that the South alone put him in a servile
and dependent condition.
The truth is, that tho negro is not the
same animal as the white man. This is
indisputably shown in the physiological
fact that the two cannot perpetuate the
race. Their progeny ceases at the fourth
generation, and hence, although they are
nearer akin than the horse and the ass,
they are still like them different varieties
of the family to which they belong, and
which their Creator ordains shall continue
different and apiut forever.
That slavery has’ ils abuses and its
wrongs, none will deny; but wliat human
institution lias not ? When I see one of
my neighbors rolling in the wasteful ex
travagance of wealth, while another of
equal merit and usefulness is a stranger to
plenty and shivers in the cold, can you or
I say that the rights of property do not in
flict some wrongs? Do not abuses grow up
in your churches ? and would you abolish
public worship for that reason !
No my friends! If you think there are
wrongs in slavery, which for humanity’s
sake you want remedied, &p<jcify;*what they
are and momoralize those states where you
find them to exist, with a decent and rea
sonable request that they may be abolished.
But you all know tho American character
too well to expect to do anything by im
pertinence or threats.
• It is alleged that the slave power, so
called, is aggressive, and in proof of this,
the threat is quoted of a southern states
man to call rite roll of his slaves mi Bun
ker Hill, with other assertions of like
doubtful origin. Now Senator Toombs
denies that lie ever said any such tiling,
and if he had, what does it matter? Hold
the South responsible for wliat its fire
eaters do or threaten, when you want
Massachusetts to be held responsible for
what Wendell Phillips says aud does.
Tnc agitation of the slave question by
Sis obnoxious to the interest and feelings
our fellow country men in the slave
states. If it be so are we disposed, nay,
are we willing to inflict’ annoyance ahd
disaster upon them? Who are the people
of the South? Are they men we would
willingly disturb ?
Travel through tbe southern states of
ibis confederacy and you will find a large
proportion of their people our own kin
dred ; born, schooled, bred and related in
tlie North, but settled, married, related
and progressing in all the elements of
prosperity in the South. Those who are
native on ihe soil are also our fellow coun
trymen, whom, by tho common compact
tin ier which we live, wo are Jfouiid’ to aid
and protect in peace and war. Southern
slaveholders are men who govern with us.
live with its, cat our wheat as we do their
lice, Wear our shoes as we do their cotton;
are fellow citizens with us and allied by
the bonds of one nationality, one religion,
ohe, origin, one ifestiny. They are our
brothers. Is it then really our intention
to harrow them up to destruction on an
abstract question about negro labor, itr
which they, but not we, are interested?
We all know well that it is not. Let us
then tell thorn and shsw them wliat we
u.e;u. Let the people of both sections
take their relations out ot the control of
their reckless politicians, and extend to
each-other the hand of confidence and
friendship, which as neighbors and broth
ers we do in fact feel.
If we look to our right to meddle it;
this matter we shall find that we have
none, that we cannot touch it without posi
tive wrong* without breaking the compact
under which we have arisen and become
one of the powerful nations of the earth.
But sir, this question of our right ceases to
be of interest when we conclude, as 1 kuow
we must, that we have no intention or de
sire whatever to interfere with the institu
tion of slavery. Wo must leave that in
the hands of Him who dobs all things well,
and who may have decreed that in His
own good tune the anglo saxon, the fore
most among the raees of men, shall have
this gigantic continent for his own to peo
ple and possess it, —a heritage on which
to grow his raiment and his food—on
fcwtiich to buiid Lis railroads, factories, ships
his churches, colleges and schools.
I am not here to express or to feel any
fe... for the safety of the Union. That is
a copartnership in which there is no arti
cle for its dissolution. Neither am I actu
ated by any motives of business with’ the
South, for many here present know that 1
have all I want to attend to of this world’s
cares, it I never had another order from
the southern States. I am here, gentle
men, for tbe single purpose which I be
lieve you all join, of expressing together
our determination to stand by onr constitu
tional obligations to the whole country, to
infringe upon the rights and comforts ot
none while we guard well our own, and to
protest against being represented ns sym
pathizing with assassins, slave stealers or
disonranizers of a'nv sort. I, sir, have un
fiklterinf? confidence in the patriotism of
tlie whole country, ami I firmly believe
that if wo will execute strictly our own du
ties, our fellow countrymen in the South
will faithfully perforin theirs, aud we shall
go onward nml upward together toward*
the high destiny which tho God of nations
Ims decree ] Ibr the American people.
Review by the President of the Sew
York Seventh Regiment.
The President received the Colonel and
officers of the Seventh Regiment in the
East room, and, after the reception, accom
panjadwby the Secietary of War and the
Secretary of tbe Navy, proceeded to review
the corps, who were drawn up on the pave
ment opposite tho President’s House.
The review concluded, Col. Lefferts exer
cised the regiment in the mound. The
President then addressed the military as
follows:
Col. Lefferts, officers, and Soldiers of the
Seventh Regiment: I cannot permit you
to part from me without, expressing, in a
few words, my cordial thanks for your hav
ing* graced the great occasion of yesterday.
The military precision of your march, the
admirable inannet in which you go through
your exercise, and the stout, hardy, no
ble, and defiant look which you exhibit,
shows that in tho day and hour of battle
you would not be mere parade cfficets, but
you would be in its very front.
The occasion on which you came was a
■great occasion. The alacrity with which
you obeyed the request of the authorities
here ought ever to bo highly commended.
The Congress of the United States made
provision for the erection of an cquestrain
statute of the Father of his Country. It
was yesterday inaugurated: and, through
the rain, the mud, tho inclement weather,
you appeared as if you had been on holi
day parade; and we all thank you to* the
sacrifices which you have made in doing
us this honor. The statute was inaugur
ated. It whs a national, not a municipal
occasion.
The statute was executed by the au
thority of Congress; it was inaugurated by
.Congress; and we thank you for your
great and important services during tho
ceremonial. Who would not do honor to
the memory and tbe name of Washington ?
lie is endeared to t lie heart of every Amer
ican. And so long as the 22d of February
shall come in eacli successive year, so long
let it lie a clay of cherjshed patriotism in
the heart* of all countrymen. It is a day
to be remembered in our annals; and
when the birth-day of Washington shall be
forgotten, liberty will have perished from
the earth.
Everything passed off admirably yester
day. The crowd was imme.nse; the
plaudits bestowed on the Seventh Regi
ment were enthusiastic. If there was any
thing to regret it was this: that none of the
representatives of foieign governments
graced this commemoration.
When you were here you had been
a guard of honor for the remains of James
Monroe. lie was a soldier; lie was a
statesman; he was an excellent President.
There was peace in bis day;, I trust there
will be peace in the days of mj successors.
Storms have prevailed during my period;
but. I see tlie clouds breaking away, and I
tiust and believe that anew “era of good
feeling” will erelong return I
I will not detain you longer than to
reiterate my thanks for the honor you have
done as, amt I am jure that it will be a day
recorded and impressed upon your memory
ms one on which you have rendered good
service to your country; a day on which
you have stirred up the fires ot patriotism
in every breast. I thank you, gentlemen
—thank you with all my heart—for this
visit.
Upon the conclusion of his remarks, the
regiment gave nine hearty cheers for the
President ot the United States, which
were heartily participated in by the im
mense throng of spectators on ail hands
Hon. John Cochranb was then called
for and made a few complimentary re
marks.
The regiment then gave nine hearty
cheers for the Union, and again marching
in review, retired to their quarters. They
left last evening for New York, where they
are to be recieved by the 12th regiment,
Col. Butterfield. — Washington Union.
The Foe of Use Tarantula.
The tarantula has a deadly foe in tbe
v*asp, which preys upon it. The manner
in which the wasp attacks tho tarantula is
described by the editor of the Mariposa.
(Cal.) “Democrat,” who recently witnessed
its mode of operation. An ugly-looking
tarantula was shuffling at the usual awk
ward gait, lilting bis long, unwieldy lpgs
above the short blades ol grass, when sud
denly tiie venomous insect stopped in its
wanderings and raided itself up to its full
height as though watching the coming of
some unwelcome visitor. It then quickly
crouched behind a turf of dry grass, and
remaining very quiet, seemed to make bint-*
self as small as possible. A slight buzzing
was heard in the air, and in a moment a
wasp passed quickly near, hovering on the.
wing over his trembling victim. Like
some bird of prey, tbe wasp remained
p liaed a moment.and then, quick as thought
darted down upon his enemy and Btung
lain many times with great rapidity. The
tarantula, smarting under the pain, began
a retreat with all the speed of which he
was capable; but the wasp hung over him
with revengeful tenacity, and again and
again struck him with bis venomous sting.
Gradually the flight of tho tarantula be
came slower and more irregular, and nt
length, under the repeated thrusts of his
conqueror, bo died, luting tbe grass with
Ids terrible fangs. The wasp then seized
the tarantula and dragged him away.
Term—sl,so Always in Advance.
The Mail vs. Telegraph,
An old man who had often heard of dia
patches, but who had never cast eye on
one, had the.following placed in his hand:
Nkwvalk, February, ’6O.
Mr. W. Wheat, —Dear Sir—Your daugh
ter and mysqjf—marriage. What say
yon! Phil. Blue.
Now, it appears from the record, that
Mr. Wheat had a very fine daughter go
ing to school, at the very place, still furth
er, that that very young lady (took it into
her head to form an engagement with the
above said Mr. Phil. Blue. Well, nobody
ought to find fault with the young lady
for that, for young ladies are very apt to
do those things the very first chance they
get; but it is a fact that Mr. Blue ought to
have gone to see the old man to get his con- .
sent, and not, have sent him the dispatch, be
cause, if he had done that, he might not have
received the following letter by the regu
lar mail;
Pkecii Bli mh Valb.
Deer Sur.—A liftle boy hand me a
small peace of paper with your naim assin
cd to it. He sed it was a dispatch, but as
I dont no nutbing of no dispatch except
the Augusty Dispatch, you will pleeze
rite me what you mene by sending me the :
little stoopid tiling, if you aint got sense
enuff to right a letter, 1 would advise you
togotoskule and larn—righting is easy
enuff when you once onderstand it. you
sa, Your darter and miself—well, jv’iat do
you no about my darter? Ino Nance is a
right smart gal, but X told her when she
left home not to recevo enny visits from
such punkin-head fellers as you. theniu
your slip you have the word Marriage—
what in the naim of Commun Sense,
you mene by that? I hopc*you dont mene
that you want to be married with my
Nance—ct you do, I say no! just let me
tel you. if you send me enny moar of yore,
dispatches, I’ll thrash you more nor a lit
tle. now mind. W. Wheat.
A good story is told of two United
States, Senators—one from Maine and Vhe
other from Georgia. During one session
of Congress, while both were in Washing
ton, they were one day engaged in a con
versation on the Lord’s Prayer, when the
one from Maine offered to bet five dollars
that his brother Senator did not know it.
The bet wfis accepted, and, by agreement,
hp was to repeat it, .and accosJting'ly com
menced as follows:
“Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray she Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake, ,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
“Well’l declare.” said the Mainer, “I
did not think you knew it,” wheroat he
handed him the five dollars.
Dissolution of .the Canada Union.—
On the 28th of February, Mr.Brown, leader
of the Opposition in the Canadian House
of Assembly, gave notice that be would
move the following resolution :
Resolved, That the existing Legislative
Union of Upper and Lower Canada haß
failed to realize the anticipations of its
promoters, lms resulted in a heavy debt,
burdensome taxation, great political abuses
and universal dissatisfaction, and it is the
matured conviction of this Assembly, from
the antagonism developed through differ
ences of origin, local interests, and other
causes, that the Union in its present position
can no longei be contiuucd with advantage
to the people.
Direct Trade with France. —A vessel
was to sail from St. Nazaire, for Norfolk,
Va., on the 11th ult., as the pioneer in the
direct trade between those ports.. Among
the consignments are 100 flagons of medi
cine from an eminent druggist in Norfolk,
to test the possibility of opening a trade
with that city.
Written by a traveler in’ journeying
from York to Williarnsbug, Va., after a
long spell of rainy weather:
• I’ve reached this place, thanks to the
gods!
Through paths steep, rough and muddy
A certain proof that making roads
Is here no public study.
Tho’ with religion I’m not crammed.
Yet as the scripture says,
The people here will sure be damn’d
Unless they mend tbeir ways!”
Free Negroes in Missouri.— The bill
excluding free negroes from the State of
Missouri, under the penalty of becoming
slaves, passed the Senate on Wednesday
last; it had previously* passed the House.
Tho same bill passed both Houses at the
last session, but failed to receive tho sig
nature of the Governor.
Tho Shoemakers’ Strikes is reported as
rapidly extending to all the principal man
ufacturing towns of Massachusetts. The
strikers remain orderly and peaceful.
Charleston Con rent ion. —The Charles
ton papers confirm the statement that sf>
a day will be the established price* for
boar 1 at tho hotels of that city during the
holding of the Democratic National Con
vention. The Courier says those visitors
atm delegates who are coming on vessels
and liavn prepared for their eating apd
sleeping on boaid, may congratulate the
■elves on tlio wisdom of their
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