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   Alton Weekly Courier (Newspaper) - February 10, 1859, Alton, Illinois                                anD General for EDITOR THURSDAY FEBRUARY and toa second reading By In relation ti the as is Central Railroad than an The of this Put upon its it is that the may apply to the case of One Two without alteration One without Iwo without J JJj Three without Six without alteration ss OM A3 TUB Terms 00 DEALER IN FANCY AND STAPLE UKY and Ready Made corner of Alain and Upper So Bach QO 3 OO Two 4 oo O 1 1 square Displayed COOK SILK AND AND 94 ond Pine between Tuini and Fourth uf the 72 Green aud aud are and tnade to HS anew tf satin uni are aud re lu LAW and for the janl dw ANI to and at t and on Lna and blank sw wall window and louth CIVIL HIE District oi Madison tb rd floor Bank 4 COMMISSION and dealers in all of Ibey hare taken the formerly occupied by and more recently by U Morrison 4 Illinois Office on Third i C IMPORTER OF QUEENS W AMI Wholesale and Retail imd aud L Cut nnd Tea nnd ill NU AS1 Aient for Premium 11 Locust fur nul Mann ttc filled at lowest possible for iale and re respectfully Shipments of all wilt be lui January 4 4 yati A 4 Eussell t Drown i Hillard 4 Louis 4 J cib Y 4 UU 4 Co Barry 4 Jt Jt OF BLINDS in and iCO Clark be tween Taylor and Twelfth near and of prices on applica tion ON THE of Market and Second aud funeral under also vault in Alton and will accommodate any person their deceased on patent metallic burial cafes ILL was rejected by four majority The fal lowing is the vote BCD Bray Bur HORACE B John Co Davie Davis Farns Lawrence Robert El or Edward Jay Freeman John on William Thomp Democrats in italic 7 Anti and small capital S Republicans A Car John Barton Davis El Gil G rocs II Hty Owen Samuel Marshall MAYS John Rns IB buo Henry on trial for the murder of Sophia his in before a court under existing adjourns on Saturday before the trial can be In the early part iff the several Bills increasing the Jurisdiction of tne County Court of and other were referred to Com on introduced u resolution calling upon that Committee to report either those or general law applicable to all those On this resolution ensued a discussion consumed more than half the fore noon The debate hinged upon the expediency of altering the duties and pow ers of County the increasing of the Jurisdiction of the either specially in all over the Several amendments were offered to the were made by Davis of and on motion oi the and sul were laid on the On the rules were suspended for Aaron Henry Sh Samuel James 9 Short street and nl Commission and far the German of BT I upon Nor one friendly She and not My in hpr I gur upon the sky afar Tis hung with sable And I tbe evening star Is bright tbe For the Quanta quitque riM pluta A 0 wouldst thou know a Key to free the Soul From bondage of tbe Bodys biso control A secret To undiscovered Treasuries of Thought A Passport to farmore than Power or Mysterious sesame of Sell Tho magic by which tbe Gain entrance at the sullea port of By which the august signal Through fiery ordeals of earthly trial At last are at Gate of Heaven Behold the the mighty mf SelfDenial 1 Hill of day before in the House of moved to reconsider the vote by which the was referred to the Com mitteo of the This was agreed to and tho was then passed by a vote of 120 ayes to 70 It will meet with more difficulty in the The provide that any person who is the head of a over twentyone years of and a citizen of the United or who has Sled his intention to become according to tbe naturalization shall be entitled to en ter a quarter section of or unap nnd hold the same con dition of actual settlement and cultivation It should be put record that the Democratic party is not in favor of build the despite its professions to ibe Bight or ten days tho before tbe House being a to amend the Preemption pending tha discussion of Mis moved to strike out all after the en acting and insert substantially th Homestead providing that any citizen of the United States may free o one quarter of the for tbe purpose of ant Democrats in italics 4 7 not une Of seventeen members who voted yea on the question us to of tbe amend Administration Dem directly round and voted nay on the passage of the and the other five did not vote at tency thou art a jewel Of the Illinois dele gation and voted both for tho Amendment and did not vote on the Amendment but voted for iho SHAW and did not vote on the Amendment and voted against the our own ROBERT did not vote on It will be seen that the vote was almost a strict party Republicans all voting for Iho American for and seven Democrats for and four seven Administration Democrats for and eightyfive What do the working men of the country think of this vote Do they or ds they not think that the man who wishes to buy and improve a piece of somewhere here in the should have an advantage over the speculator who only wishes to buy that he may sell at an advance sometime or other after tbe country has been built built not with any of his but by the toil of the pioneer And as shewn by this favors the settlers There was a time when tbe Democratic party upheld a generous policy in relation to the public lands and this policy was its tower of As says tho Louis Democrat It was the liberality of the old Democratic party to the pioneers and set that won the confidence of the new talcs and the result was that one by ono s those States into the Union enrolled themselves un cr tbe Democratic more ian any other feature in its main the ascendancy of that mak ng up in the now States for any losses in ie old This vote shows that tha party of today has anew t is no longer the party of the the of tho laboring but ho party which favors tho speculator as gainst the actual settler nnd the can party now occupies the old Demo ratic is the party of the peo uner Courts and Boards of to or dispose of the same at their After a very brief the was House then took up the Defin ing the rights and duties of the owners of which was prepared by the Com on General and addressed the and Epler submitted an im portant Pending this discus the House adjourned until two When the House met at two the Sneaker announced the special the consideration of the suspending the collection of the constitutional two mill On motion of the special order postponed until the Ferry which was under consideration at the hoor of noon shall be disposed made an able in be showed plainly that this not a law of 1845 now in contains all its except one or two which he embodied in an amend the first section of which vides for Railroad to change their By amend an Act to In corporate the Town of Jersey By that the pur chasers of Railroads may be invested with their to operate Bv review and amend 54 entitled By regulate the sure of By Incorporate the City Company of By amend an Act to amend the assessment and revenue By relation to and perfecting the Laws of this By the time of holding the Court in the first and second grand By relation to Suits by and against Companies and Joint Stock By the sale of pro perty for freight and storage due Railroad By Act to permanently settle tbe State Fair ting to purchase 46 acres of to be selected not more than one mile and half from the corporate limits of tho purpose of taking up a for a gener By Judd To amend an Act to pro pany to reduce the stock of said Company below the nominal value The following Bills were Concerning In relation to certain decrees in Chan cery and Orders of To incorporate the Illinois Male and te male To incorporate the Belleville an Tama roa Railroad To incorporate the Metropolis and Louis Railroad For the if the payment of the claim of Concerning Conveyances in this State to Concerning Conveyances in tms to secure the payment of tho Connecticut scheme ever by even Democratic J Had it been possible to enter School To authorize the formation oi GAS Com invests th e taxing Ferry Property the se e County Courts and Board soond buo Supervisors with the power to grant all Ferry and provides that no Franchises shall be granted for more than ten made an able and earnest speech in opposition to the Upon com inj to a substitute was and the ordered to a third Tho House then to tho consid of tho special order was post nt the commencement of the after to suspend the collection of the two mill discussion on which consumed the remainder of the and was decidedly the ablest and most in debate which has occurred in tho House during tho present session opened the with a short speech against the the that its provisions are in direct con of Article 15 of the He with and Davis of who followed in op admitted that the necessity for tho tax does not at present and that they would like to see the tem relieved from the payment of it but they cannot conscientiously vote for this conflicts with the Con In favor of the Hurlbut and Green addressed the House in four of the best speeches that have been made this These gentlemen are all lawyers ion cape was lost for want of a tional was and ac tion thereon temporarily After half an hour about an ad the Senate In the this Under wood introduced a resolution calling upon the House to return a passed yester day to establish a State Reform School for Juvenile The Democratic Senators thirk they have discovered a nigger in the and when the goes it is the intention to draw the party lines against it and defeat The resolution lies over under the Tho House joint calling aOon was taken up and adopted by a bare The following is the vote thereon of Adams of Ste A authorising parson who Jay out will disfranchise a large portion of the towns to other than the County population the and anable the Surveyor to the and minority to rule and govern majority Sur in with tba agreement legalising the rf port of eueh Sur This introduced liy and defended by but finally lait upon tne A giving Judicial to Justices of tba in was It provides that in oases where the County is by consent of a County Justice may preside over the tba Committee on State reported a appropriating to complete the building for the Insane and to furnish the same to heat by and the same to make appropriating to pay arrearages due on too completion of the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb and for current nf said Institution the years 1859 and 1860 and for tha current expenses for tba Asylum for the Blind for the years 1859 and and one quarter of Both these together with the Report were the table and ordered to be TLey will meat witb an uncompromising spirit of op position from a small portion of the mem bers of the and I think it probable lhat the appropriations will be cut and tha manner of disbursing the same Tha House then When tha House met at two the special order was taken Tbe in by 1 to ba tha one prepared bv the workers and approved by his Satellites in was read in and then raad paragraph by for purposes of and Several amend manta ware by Republican but wera all or laid on the by a strict parly at the behest of who officiated as head fu cleman through the entire Tha had evidently been well drilled and whan the gentleman from said I hope the amendment will not ba or I hope the amendment will ba laid on the that was all that was toot to to him and to his stood Church and as the reading of the pointed ont and moved to amend its constitutional de exposed anl denounced the glaring inconsistencies manifest injustice witn which it in a manner that will not soon be forgotten by those who or those who are endeavoring to force upon tha people of tbe vilest and odious lering apportionment and in accordance with tha agreement entered into on Friday the Republi cans had allowed the to ba acted consenting to a suspension of tha roles for that i hat agreement fully and honor they need now expect no more assistance or countenance from tha licans in the further progress of this abom If anything more ie done with the will have it to do the work and take the The discussion had frown pretty and was likely to grow still more when it wan ard brought to a While Plato was Mack stood up in his and said rise to a privileged 1 wish to announce that the Stata House is on The members at first thought it was a joke of the gentleman from Kankakee but it was very soon ascertained to ba true that the pipe of one of the stoves in the Senate Chamber had set fire to tha lathing near and that the building was in emi nent danger of being Plato gave way to a motion to which prevailed amid some I am was Had it been possible to enter tain a feeling of sympathy for partizan tricksters when engaged in a scheme Of P On motion of the vote taken political villainy of which bv which the to repeal sec the French and other kindred European fion chap er of Revised revolutions would havo felt I must have pitied tbe Democratic members ment and Will make Democratic members managed t avoid a vote upon but Be from eoeded in moving an amendment tha about an between the lators and It wasto the from and after tho of the ac no public bo exposed to sale b tt unless have been and the re turn of anch filed the Land for ton years or more before The object of this amendment ww to giv the working who wished S oomine from the East to new countries to the west realize the dreams the hoje of an of ten i made a would hare been t oi 01 sir Spain At one time the Spanish Empire occupied he eighth part of tho known compris n2 a space of square with a population of Of this ast territory more than twothirds havo been In 1555 Spain gave up the isle f Malta to the order of In 1020 ho Lower Navarre and Beorne were yielded o and in 1649 the In 040 Spain lost Portugal and her n 1648 sho recognized the sovereignty of tho In 1626 the English wrested tho Barbadoes from in in 1704 in 1718 the in 1759 and in 1797 In the seventeenth century France took of and the half of the isle of San and ta 1800 In the eighteenth century Spain yielded up Sar dinia to the Duke of and to Morocco her rights on and She and with other dominions in the North of to princes ofthe bouse of and in 1150 Sicily were emancipated from In 1819 ahe aold gentlemen eminent ones too they are gentlemen whose opinions on a law constitutional or worthy ol the highest consideration and they seemed very and argued very eloquently although the BUI may contain an apparent of the Con it is not a violation of that instru In these these four gen tlemen proved themselves to bo legislators of far more than ordinary Peck closed up the discussion for the in a short speech intended to prove that the pending is clearly un and if tbe the Court will so Pending the having the the House adjourned until tomor row Your readers will probably remember that tomorrow is the day fixed upon for tho discussion and disposition of the two Apportionment Bills now to establish a State Re form School far Juvenile pass ed the Senate this afternoon by a bare con A startling fraud on tho State Treasury was accidentally brought to light this So far as I have been ablo to the particulars are as follows During the year for want of funds to pay for work as it was the Canal Commissioners issued Checks the branch of the State Bank at pay able ninety days after It will be re membered that Otis Allen and others were and some of the parties for counterfeiting these and sent to tbe State The genuine Checks were all redeemed except about in It was accidentally this that on the nf the Fund Commissioner frYm in above described which were by direction of tho and then was issued upon one hundred and five of dated July NoV inclusive These Bonds were deposited by in the Sinking March and aid circulating notes issued on them this Marshall Oof Bryans to suspend tba collection of the Constitutional was laid upon the table until tha Fourth of In tho Martins political resolutions were taken The Douglas Senators have been from the to aroid a direct vote upon and Higbee offered the follow nz as a substitute by Oil of concurring therein That the Democracy of through their Representatives the Gen eral Assembly and reaffirm as follows i Hero follow the resolutions your readers may refer to at their if That the foregoing resolu adopts as a of the National assembled in Convention at Cincin 4th of fully authorise and a further and more explicit declara tion ef as follows That the Democracy of Illinois re the idea that the Union cannot continue exist as their fathers made composed partly of partly of Free and reject the dogma that it must necessarily become all one thine or mil the slave or all free that i the Constitution shall be maintained in and and its principles faithfully and fully carried where by each State and Territory will be ly free to form and regulate its domestic tions in its own the Union of the and the of the will endure as long as patriotism shall hare a home in the hearts of the oue and now and for T That a New State applying must have pitied tbe Democratic around whose ears fell the withering denunciations and of and Blais proved np nnd down by facts as incontrovertible us their argu ments were In do pity I know that thire are very very and very among who would if left to do anything positively un fair or even to accomplish a partizan Thesa of been bv the powerful force of party into the support of this the most ini abomination that was ever spawned by even Illinois I pity these for they are certainly in a position where intelligent and men are subjects of pity and Nothing that I could send you would be more interesting to your readers than an abstract of tha discussion upon iliin in the House this afternoon but I have neith er time nor space to give it Suffice it to that the clearly proven to bo an outrageous attempt to defraud the peo ple of Illinois by virtually disfranchising a nt a n i arranging impel a large i happy to sav that tha Era wss soon and that but little damage The most of the afternoon was taken np with tha consideration of Senate Bills on their third The following were disposed off To amend tha of tha Supreme It provides that consent of Appeal and that mere informality of tha bond shall not affect the validity of the To amend tha law of 1851 providing for a geological and survey the two Railroad one authorizing and to purchase so much of the Sangamon and NorthWest Railroad as lies between Alton anil and the other creating those threa gentlemen into a Corporation under the title of tha Alton and Louis Railroad Com were The Senate to establish a City Court in the City of Alton WM taken np and from Judiciary a in regard to imprisonment for which was laid on tha Original i to reform the Probate System raid and ordered to a third to civa County Judges juris diction to amount of one thousand and giving them jurisdiction in eases of pe tition for partition and for assignment of dower the law to be submitted to the peo and to take effect in only tha that poll a in ita favor raad twice and ordered to a third On motion of Rosevalt tba House to Senata Tha first of these was a Senata joint resolution the printing of tan thousand co pies of the biennial Report of tha Stata Agricultural Upon this sprung up an active debate lasted over half an Davis of and spoka in favor of the and Davis of and against Upon a final the resolution was Davis of Montgomery read a long siring of Democratic and and asked a suspension of the rules in or der that they might be introduced and made a special was crats as well as Republicans voting against Hacker made the same for of the that I umin slavery amoral and and thit if it be fattened on the pro areas in al agreat and prosperous community will be greatly we should view the of into those ies with reret and and will oppose such in all anj constitutional offered the following amend mt That the of Cuba to the United States is of tne greatest importance to and our Senator 01 Congress he and our be requested to encourage all lawful and prudent means to secure the uf that The Chair decided tnat the amendments of Cook and not being ger main to tha original were not in Higbee offered the following amend Strike out of the original resolution of the Senator from Schuylor Richmond the words OUT and insert in lieu thereof the words our the Lyman Cook offered amendment to the amendment as follows Strike out the resolution and proposed amendment and insert the t plowing That tba territory of Kansas should be admitted into the Union with her present pop upon an application of the people of said with a which fairly the will tbe people of that Territory and that opr Senators and be lu Richmond moved to lay tbe last amend ment on The ayes and noes be ing the vote stood Coff i Under He taw more darkeyed queen Among her stand They elapsed his they kissed his 1 held him by the band I A tear burst from the lids And fell into the And at furious speed he Alo is the bank lib bridle reins were golden with a martial At web leap he feel nil scabbard of steel Smiling hiJ Before like a Tae bright fiew From mom 111 1 night ha fallowed their Oer t lains where the tamarind Till he saw the of Caffre And rose to At heard the lion Ana the Anl the as he crushed the reeds Bestae some hidden stream And it like a glorious roll of Through tbr triumph of hie The their myriad Shouted of liberty And the Blast of the Desert With a so wild and That he started in his sleep and smiled At their lie td not feel the drivers Nor the burning heat of day For had illumined the Land of And his lifeless body lay A that the soul broken aad thrown There is a rare fitness in the imagery ef r the last two in which the Slaves dead for the Union upon an equal footing with the original and witu a guaranteeing a form of and which has been fully submitted to a the people thereof and adopted by or is known to their and gire and to their should be admitted without reference to the fact contain a provision or prohibiting the emigration such and that under no circumstances a new State be f into the against the will of the people er witb a Constitution or unapproved by That the Democracy of Illinois point with pride and pleasure to their past his tory as a guarantee ta tbe country as to their f ntnM folly and cally committed m by their a Srm adherence te the usages half the isle of San Domingo and before 1825 ail her vast possessions on the Ameri can continent wera lost to her foreign possessions now ara the Cuba and and some Norwegian met ffA of tba the first both first instructing the Finance Committee to inquire the and investing them with power to send for persons and The discovery baa occasioned no little ex in and about the State I that has been and he bought tha Checks in tba at different times and of dif ferent and be able to light the au of the Since writing the upon I following forgaj were during ore ted a eed moraine their patient ly into the matrimonial and are now together uphill of 1 Saved all the money and Uller in a vast amount of I hare a strong tendency to the rout enall I do to wrest its pro Take a bucket of water and a Ion of How Drink the ana carry the latter np ot teg preceding were by order of hundred dollar th h ty bj three Smithin all amounting to a arm fcw of tbe and to the support of the nominees of all in regularly organised aid ritbtfully whether or amendment ta tho Jndd offered tha following Retained thi Smite of tlu stale of tat Bouu of That we view with the made to revive tbe African slave asa oar Seua in are hereby instructed sal our Representatives to employ best efforts to amend the existing laws for tbe sion of such infamous If any so a effectually to prevent the erosion or violation of such and to punisa the psr against the same in the most ex That the Federal hav ing been convicted of an to forse a nolle Constitution upon an unwilling people la ot their natural dicta of the Kansas and the com mon Northern interpretation of the Cincinnati forfeited the of the peo ple of and that therefore our Senators lu Congress be instructed and out Representa tives requested to vote against the proposition now to place thirty million of dollars at the disposal of the be expended by him in the of Territory contiguous to oar The first of thesa last was unanimously Tna was re by a party noes Tha as amended by tha addition Tit adopted by a strictly party noes Martin for tbe thus down hie own what may plQ UI large portion of and so counties into Districts as to number of them to submit to The shows upon its face that but ono purpose was had in view in getting it viz to so arrange it as to enable the to retain what they now have control of the State known majority of the popular vote of the State against them to the contrary They know well that a fuir ap give entirely snd largely to tbe and they are determined that no fair apportionment shall lie At the close of tho Peci offered the Apportionment prepared by the Republicans as a This was voted of by a strict party then offered an amendment in the shape of an additional a new town in to be called the town of SouthWest Mask objected to the amendment on the ground that it was not germain to the title or object of the The Speaker sustained Macks and decided that the amendment was ont of and could not be This decision is creditable to Speaker Morrison in the highest nnd is a in to the many he has already given although an ardent he is n and highsouled of and has a proper sense of duties and responsibilities as Speaker of tho House and not of a The was ordered to a third reading read a third by the nn der a suspension of tho and ayes noes I need not send yon the ayes and for it was party every Democrat voting for and every Republican against One from each aide was Church moved to amend the title so as to make it read ns follows A for an Act to violate the Constitution tho purpose of disfranchising the People of the Notwithstanding the extreme appropriateness of the proposed amend it was laid on the We had a regular summerlike thunder storm and rain last night tho streets have the purpose of enabling him to introduce a resolution providing for a Select Commit tee to inquire whether present laws are suf to prevent free negroes from coming to or settling in this State and if to report a for such a law as will be suf The House refused to suspend the consequently the resolu tion was not Some of the Democratic members peem determined to not rest until they get up a political on this and they will very when it does they will get their full satisfaction of from the Select Commit tee to whom it was reported back a to establish a system of ing accompanied by a Panding tbe vote on tho adoption of the the House Snow has been falling ever since noon as the was frozen hard when it it is probable we will have good sleighing by Very little of importance was done in the Senate In the the Select Committee appointed to investigate some thing which the sagacious Post thought he discovered to bo wrong in the letting of the contracts for doing tho State submitted two The majority re signed by Post and presents a long array of but establishes The minority re submitted bv is a full and clear vindication of our Kuy AJams of Adams of Vanderen So the resolution was laid on tbe Parks offered an amendment to tbe as follows Provided that it shall be ascertained that the of Oregon is sufficient ta entitle it to one Rep in Congress according to the rula recently proposed and adopted on this there being nothing in the present circumstances of Oregon to justify its being taken out of tbe operation of the general rale as in the case of moved to lay the above amendment on tbe Kuykendall previous ques Richmond withdrew his motion to lay n the The question being on the motion for the previous it was The question then being upon the adop tion of Parks the and navs were with the following re mit Adams of Adams of Cof The question then being on tho adoption of amendment to Rich monds viz to strike ont ear and insert in lien oor the Lyman the yess and nays were aud resulted as fallows Oof Adams of Adams of Kuyken The question then being on the adoption of the original resolution of Richmond the aves and noes were called and resulted as follows of Adams of Steph African scenery as to have been quoted by scenery as o ave en qu Bayard at the head of one of the chapters in his Journey to Central The Good Part that shall not be taken away is a less but yet am It commemorates a Virgin ia freeing her slaves at the call of Conscience and thereafter her daily bread by daily We quote a few verses we cannot mutilate We give the whole She dwells by Great In and cool And all her hope all her pride Are in the like the transparent air Toat the Though not of there All things with anna ttt And thna she walks am one her With praise and mild rude village By to them at eventide 0 One who to UTC To c tst the And liberate the And oft the timi f Whin all iball musical ai Their falling chains aball And her beloved In decent her life one sweet record And deed of For she was and gave up all To break the iron Of who waited in hf r hall And labored en her Long since beyond the Southern eaiU While in meek Now earni It is their prayers which never That clothe her with each grace blowing is the light of peace That upon her The Lines And musical eilver Their falling chains ahall are peculiarly The Slave in the Dismal S able and efficient Secretary of St ae an ecen against every accusation and imputation that has been brought against him in con with this As the reports were laid on the table and ordered to be we will soon bo able to see what has been said pro and But ton days of the term yet and there is an astounding amount of business yet before the But little has been fully The House has finally acted upon only about 55 of its own Bills its Engrossing have engrossed only 258 and enrolled six Bills and three joint reso In the Senate about the same number of Bilis have been finally acted on as in the House of its Bills have been on as n and 10 Bills and one joint Twenty Bills only both Houses anl received the Gov r i fw 1 1 have approval Qi been very muddy uorth wind is bl 1 and it is growing To tht Editor of the Allan Courier In the this por tion of the forenoon session was consumed in engineering through the Bui to extend the time allowed to the collectors in tha Township Organization Counties to col lect and pay over the read ers will probably remember that a similar passed both Houses in the early part of the and was killed by an amend ment tacked on in the has passed tha but has met with a factious opposition in the as it does almost ex from the Democratic members who represent that be at all affected by seams almost to hive as tha character of a partizan It hie aa though some of the Dem determined a nd suggestive instance of what rigid canens as taken on the adoption of the To tht Editor of the Alton Courier r In addition to the Senate proceedings of contained in my letter of last I send vou the following Marshalls an Act to restrain the granting of licenses for the sale of spir was made tba special order for tomorrow Friday at two The following is the vote on laying on tho table the to suspend the collection of tho two mill tax Adams of Knykendall Rich Adams of Applington j Bryan Cof Higbee from committee on Educa reported an act to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the improvements in tbe Institution for tbe deaf and from committee on Banks and reported ah act to incor the Highland Louis Railroad Ordered to a third Tbe Senata took following The Senate then For the Alton Foela on We have characterized Bryant as tho Poet of Longfellow might be called with no less the Womans And in saying this we mean no disparage It is true the epithet does not imply It mean that prettiness is of ten unaccompanied by on the other it implies a strong religions and moral it suggests great purity of great reverence for what is great love for home and its simple and innocent It sng a delicate strong facile and a beautiful And these though they may not make a great will make a widely read and useful To a majority of the read ing hie own words apply well have power to quiet The restless of And come like tbe benediction That follows after Commend said the Longfellow is tne most rend of any American the most of any living English He as a consequence of what we have a favorite of the female and of our Tennyson undoubtedly at first and second hand commands a greater influence but it is Longfellow who is and who will be quoted for generations utter the golden coinage of Tennyson has lost its Nature outlives As a consequence also of our preceding Longfellow is a friend of uni versal right of all men to liberty and the pursuit of to a poet of his pure is of necessity an abhorred nnd loathsome To him it as it did to the earnest mind of John tho sum of all vil implying and involving every vice which debases and embrutes human the violation of every right wbich Nature bos given whether of proper or corruption of every whether of Truth or Longfellows Poems on Slavery are eight in and were in a we in as he nearly all written on a sea suppose e We must pass over to give complete The Quadroon a poem opens to view the most abhorrent uf American Slavery but never indignation peculiar to our A father is selling his slave daughter to wealthier lust no very favorable time one would they are poems of decided merit TTn effect music hum na of to the edge of the and lets us for moments gaze into that ne vota was taken on tha adoption of tha reso lutions aa amended by tha adoption of tha I To the Bailor Carter When the Journal bad been tha House this motion of and by unanimous the ape cial Apportionment until two with the un that the matter shall ba finally disposed of this A to create the Judicial Circuit ont of the counties of Johnson and was taken m and was in np House Bills on their for it provider f or accommodating the inhabitants of the Township Organization and can not possibly injure sing it for a severe but wellmer U have so fao this Green offered an providing that the collectors in the Counties teat have not adopted Town ship ehall have the first of August to settle with the same ae it for County The then We had another political row this morning upon a motion made by Dot nob to suspend rale to allow to m a resolution calling the Sen ate to return in order that aa error in the menage it was reported to the Senate may be cor On this motion a very In opposition to its and Democratic on then acted though bnt few of them wen such ae probably interest only the this afternoon An Act to amend sections 62 and 63 of chapter 30 providing that any person convicted of shall bb sent to the when tne value of the thing stolen amounts to The second upon second any perso tho age of eighteen shall be sent to the if the value of the property stolen ba five Ysas Adams Bry Hig In addition to the political with the action yesterday the Senate look Rich monds part of the special or follows that the be eipe ward to House to aid or urging for a which is so odi passage a which is so odi if it a hi att Haute Slat cf Mat oar Senators bo and are our Representatives in ess to employ then best to secure Se immediate ol into the apart from their special He be gins with a poem addressed to tho gifted after reading the writ ings on Slavery The pages of thy book I I My heart ever of God t Toy At times they seem Like Luthers in the deys of for the until this land The old and chartered The feudal whips and yokes A Voice is ever at thy side Speaking in Like the voice that cried To John in Write and tell out this bloody tale Record this dire This Day of this Endless This dread Apocalypse 1 The aa a Vork of poetic is surpassed by few of Long fellows Its fine adaptation of tbe gorgeous scenery of the strong contrast which it draws between the present abject condition of the slave and his dream of homo and family and the barbaric pomp of his once kingly sta and the touching beauty and pathos of ite close will appeal both to taste and ethical the unfathered nee he Ills sickle in his His breast was his Was burled in the Attain in the mist and Sleep TTe saw through the landscape of his dreams The lordly Kiger Beneath the on the plain The Slaver in his broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail He waited for the Ana foi the evening shore his boat was And all her crew tue gray slide Into tae still Odors of and Reached them from time to Like airs that breathe from Paradise Upon a world of The under his reof of thoughtfully and slow The Slavers thumb was on the He seemed in haste to He my f hip at anchor rides In yonder broad I only wait the evening And the rising nf the Eef ore them with her face In timid Like one half curious half A maiden Her eyes were and full of Her arias and neck were bare Xo garment save a kirtle And her raven And on hnr played a Emile As and Aa lights in louia cathedral aisle rf is farm is Tha thoughtful Flutter said Then upon tbe Slavers And then upon the Hli heart within him was at strife such accursed gains For he knew whose passions gara her blood ran in her Bat the nature waa too weak Ue the glittering Then pile as the maidens Her icy The Slaver led her from the Ue led her by the To be pis slave and paramour In a strange bod distant The saddest victims of Slavery are those of tho mixed race who often with the intel the of tho White are subject to the condition of tho eif The Paris correspondent of the National The following hasbeen related to illustrative ot the philosophy of a game which enjoys tha traditional admi ration of as requiring the exertion of every originating faculty of the In the of one of the gumus between Morphy a move of the former excited much among the He had declined to take a although apparently exchange of would have it was conclusively in The game without verbal was rapidly by No sooner did he deliv er the checkmate thai one of the moat intense For the love of heaven tell ine why yon did not take the Ba said all alive to tbe nature of his friends it a deep laid In have lost the game by a saw the and he planned this snare for So he placed the as they had beea at the critical and the re sult by a series of moves which been inevitable had he taken the knight I not Pre t that the of Dark ness was not without a share in tha sition of the young Tho following dialogue is have glass of ft will do yoa If   

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