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BY 0. S. FOWLER.


How vast the sum total of that quiet
stream Of the purest, sweetest enjoyments
flowing almost continually from The affec-
tomato and happy family circle, with their
comfortable fire blazing before them, and
the means at hand of gratifying every re.
turning want! including their agreeable
conversation pouring necessarily from
every mouth, the pleasant cht.chat ofthe
table, and that ceaseess prattie provoked
by the domestic feelings and family ar
engagements Here also, Order has a
wide field for delightful exercise by hay
ing place for every thing, and every
thing i'll lis place, so as to be forthcoming
at moments call; and Time, by having
a time for every thing, end every thing
ia its season; meals puncually, and all al
their meals at the same time, &c. Here,
too, Causaliy and the Social Faculties
combine with BenevoIence, in giving ad-
vice, and contriving, and arranging mat
ters for their comfort: with Language and
Comparison, in explaining their conclu-
sions, and in asking questions: with Ac-
quisitiyeness, in deyising and exec ting
ways and means OF augmenting their es-
tate: with Cautiousness, in fofeseeing
danger and providing against it, and Sc,
curing their good: and so of their other
combinations. In short, what motive
equals that of a needy or dependant fam
lily for putting the Causality Of parents
upon the rack to invent constant sue.
cession Of devices for their relief, 49, to
sharpen up and call forth every power of
the intellect, every energy Of the body,
every capacity of man, as well as to SUR
up every fountain of feeling in his soul
But this delightful picture is often re-
versed; and then, how changed the scenel
how heaven-wide The contrast When
mbativeness, instead of defending the
family group, is arrayed against it, and,
calling Selt-Esteem TO its assistance, tyr
annizes over it, ard rules with rod of
iron--when contention supplonls protect
ton, and angry looks dispeI the smiles OF
affection; when Appropriateness, instead
of being gratified by commentator, is
mortified by having their faults or follies
exposed, or wounded by reproach; when
Conscientiousness is offended by their I'M
principled immoralilies; when Veneration
turns its back upon the Social group, re-
fasing to unite in devotional exercises;
when want of order or punttuality in
either, incenses the Com 5ativeneSs Of the
Others; when Language, instead of en-.
gaging in agreeable conversation, is en-
pIoycd to noniiy APPROPRIATENESS by ad,
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ANTtSLAV cry.
AMERICAN SLAVERY.

This institution is destined 10 a speedy
overthrow. The sentiment Of all chris
tendon is waxing louder and stronger
against it. Although errors have been
committed by abollionis:s in their efforts
10 speed its downfall and although many
high fanctionaries are crying, you have
put back emancipation fifty years. yet
any Intelligent observer of the signs of
the times may see that opposition TO this
peculiar institution is increasing with
olmost the velocity of lightning, and that
soon, by the ponderous weight OF truth
and public sentiment, it must be destroyed.
These indications appear in the increased
action of ministers and churches, and in
the civil departments in this country
They appear in the action of arlstocra'lc
& despo!ic governments Of the old world,
and in the speaking out of The missIona-
ries of the Sand wich Islands, and OF other
far off locations, saying as 1t were, by the
voice of the Most High, Lei The oppress-
2! go Jfes.'
The following extract of letter from
J. Fl. Chandler, missionary printer at
Maulmain, to the Editor of the Christian
ReGector, is worth reading, and for two
reasons-1st, 1t shows the falIacy OF
Shareholders arguments, and their ignor-
auce or hypocrisy, while they send the
Bible to colored people, half round the
globe, but refuse it to those at home; and
I'd, it shows that distance does not stop
the spirit of reform begun here, but furn :
ishes additional evidence Of the wide
spreading philanthropy which recognizes
the black man as a brother, and which
DEGREES his release and elevation. JH.
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friend. sThis song, which is of itself d
perfect gem, is sung by the oldest OF the
brothers with inimitable pathos and skill.
Yet, in It's execution, nothing of the mere
artist is suffered to appear. 1t is the soul
of the performer pouring itself out in a
gush OF sweetness so subduing, that, with
the hearer, pleasure became almost pain,
from its very excess. A bravura or a
shake would b. as much out Of place in
the touching simplicity of the perform
ance, as a wreath of French flowers on
the grave OF the pure and true-hearted
Mary.
We might go on TO specify other Of our
favorites, with their peculiar excellencies,
but to those who have not heard them, we
may stand accused of fulsome aduIation ;
while those who have listened to the
8 Grave OF Bonaparte,' The Maniac, and
the SnowStorm,' will deem any descrip-
ton tame.
In conclusion. we rejoice in being able
to say, with truth, that the private charac-
ter Of this gifted family is so es!imable, as
to CONVEX! admiration of their musical tai
ents into friendship and esteem, in the
case of all who have the pleasure of their
personal acquaintance. They are to re-
main with US, we understand, some three
or four weeks, sufficiently long 10 give
most of our citizens an opportunity to hear
them. And We sincerely hope that while
we so literally patronize foreign skill and
genius, American talent will not be uu-
dervalued or neglected.
A LOVER OF Music.
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D. S. MURRAY, PRINTER.

ministering reproaches or hurting reproof;
and when miserIy Aequisi!iyeness, instead
OF making money 70 procure comforts for
the family, arrays Combaiveness against
the family because they are c1pensi0e; in
short, when the other faculties, instead of
unitng with the Social TO make home
paradise and the family happy, are brought
iato COLLISION with them, and make
home pandemonium--a real family la.
dss their sulferings are intolerable, and
their warfare is perpetual; because the
family relations bring them and keep
them IN constant contact, and that the
most, direct and powerful. Then it is
that the stream Of life is poisoned at its
fountain head, and made to send forth Bit
ter waters, and that continually. The
very quintessence Of misery consists in
this collision, this warning ofthe faculties.
AS in the case Of magnetic bodies, the
nearer their contact the more powerful
their attraction or repulsion, SO the family
relations bring every point in the char
acter of each into direct unison with, or
opposition TO, those of the others.
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E N G l. A N d.
June %, 1913.

June 20, l843.
The Princess, Augusta Caroline, with
five or six more appelations) is to marry
tonight with his Royal Highness, Fred
erick, the Hereditary Grand Duke o.
Mechenbnrg Strelnz; Que of that class Of
little p'tfnI German princes who used to
sell their subjects TO England by the head,
to fight in Foreign wars, whose falher,the
old Duke of Mecklenburg, has received
Il pension out of English taxes to the
amount Of 335 600 pounds, for some good
or evil conduct in events connected with the
progress of the French Revolution. And
now that the poor son of this pensioned
father is to marry the eldest daughter Of
the Duke Of Cambridge, and cousin to
Victoria, the Queen, OF course sends o
modest request to her faithful commons
for a grant of money to " enable her moj-
esty TO maize suitable provisions for Prjn,
cess augusta al her marriage" The
Queen already receives a trihe more than
Joar times as much as our whole exeeu-
live, including the President and heads Of
departments. The Royal family, babes
otN otl1 CLCltC EiOl = LIdL I OO3OCO pOuuuS .
more than twenty-eight hundred thousand
dollars annually! Yet her majesty meek
Y asks the country to enable her to en-
dow her cousin, because her cousin is
granddaughter to George III
As some parts of the country are in q
state bordering on starvation, and other
parts as near rebellion, her majesty's
minister brought forward bill (Which of
course passed. TO settle on the Princess
Augusta litlle annuity of $4,000 year,
l. e. above twelve thousand dollars! One
honest Scoichman, Mr.. Hume, Of Mon
trose, had The firmnesS 10 oppose the ap-
preparation; and though his speech was
a sort of running the gauntlet like one of
Adams, Giddings', or SIades in a slave
holding house of Representatives, there
were found 81 men in their places, out Of
553 English, and los Irish members to
sustain his opposition to the grant
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~ am happy 10 learn that the cause Of
truth and liberty is prevailing so extern
sively among you. 1t is evidently the
cause of God, and will finally triumph
over all the prejudices and corruptions oil
men. But it will require more than Or
binary effort to break up the horrible sys-
TEN Of slavery, which has become so
deeply rooted in our boosted land of light
and liberty. | have been among slaves,
and seen them as they are. Among all
that | ever conversed with, do not rec.
olect of finding one who felt contented
and happy with his lot, or felt that it was
right for him to be held in bondage; and
so long as our Creator implants in the
bosom of his intelligent creatures the
principles of liberty, never expect to.
The love of liberty find equally strong
in all races of men, that have ever found
as yet. l can not conceive how color
should ever be pleaded as an excuse for
slavery, or keeping our fellow creatures
| in bondage. If tho white man alone is
to receive the full blessings of the gospel
and liberty, our brethren have greatly
erred in sending missionaries to India. |
hope the day is not far distant. when all
people, especially Christians, will feel as
they ought on this subject.
am happy to learn that an effort is
making to supply the slaves with the
word of God. What possible objection
there can be among Shareholders, against
circulating the word of God, among their
slaves, can not see. have had much
conversation with Shareholders, and they
all, without exception, appeal to the Bible
as their authority for slavery. Now if the
word Of God juslifes or sanctions slavery,
there can be no possible objection to cir
cuating Bibles among slaves. 1t will
only make the system more permanent
s. greatly add TO the interest of the South.
Why Southern professors OF religion, who
value the Bible so highly, and look upon
it as a positive warrant for slavery, have
been so lardy1n circulating Bibles against
their slaves, is mystery TO me. From
their reasonin9s, it would seem, that the
interest and safety of the South depended
on the immediate circulation of the word
of God. But to derive any benefit from
Bible distribution, it is equally important
to teach the slaves to read. There can
be no harm in this, so long as the Bible
is in the hand of the slave. We have
only TO make an effort to prove the sin.
certify of the South. May God grant his
blessing on the effort, and give his people
a willing heart, and enable them to do
their duly to the ignorant slave'
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GIL u Z, II o u Y

PRoF. CALDWELL says" For every
reeling drunbard that diseraces our coun-
try, it contains one hundgcd gIultons-
persons, mean, who eat 10 excess, and
suffer by the practice"
Now let US make an estimate of the
number Of Citations which, q! this rate
and Prof Caldwell is no mean authority
we have among US. In 1880 it was
thought that the number of confirmed
druuKards in the United States - apart
from those in some stage of progress to,
wards the fixed habit - fell not much
short Of 100000. What the state OF
things may be in 1912 is uncertain. Our
population has increased from 100000
to 100000; and at the foregoing ratio
we now have $4,000 drunkards. But
may we not hope the number of confirmed
drnnkards does not now greatly exceed
100000? Certain it is that the labors of
Hawkins and his coadjutors have not been
wholly without effect. Ye! even then,
if we have 100 gluttons to a drunkad, we
must have among US, it would seem, So
100000 gluttons.
But Prof. Z. has said as much as to
say that If we have not thirty mi!lions,we
have eighteen at least. Incorporate
eating," says he, ais perhaps the most
universal fault we commit. We are all
guilty Of it, not occasionally, but habitual-
IY, and almost uniformly, from the cradle
TO the grave. 1t is the bane alike of our
infancy and youth, our maturity and age.
IL is infinitely more common than intem-
perance in drinking, and the aggregate O f
the mischief it does is greater. One
American consumes as much food as two
Hjghlanders OF two Swiss, although the
latter are among the strongest Of the
race. "-L56rary Of Heath.
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NJ | s C L L l. A N Y.
From the N. Y. Tribune.
THE TIUTCHLNSCNs.


These charming vocaIis's, whose
" charming melody" surprised and de-
lighted us last spring, and who, during
their brief stay among US, won the an
plause and admiration of every lover of
music who heard them, have again re-
turned TO our city. Their first appear
ance at the great fair was greeted with
enthusiastic cheering. Their Family
Song newly arranged TO celebrate this
great festival Of American arts and agri-
culture, was sung from the galleries of
the spacious hall of exhibition, with an
inspiration and effect suited TO the occa-
sion, and was listened to by the enraptur-
ed thousands with almost breothless 81,
Ience, till they reached the finale, when
the silence was broken by one smuLta-
neous, universal acclamalion of prolong-
ed and raplurous applause, shaking that
immense edifice 10 its very foundations.-
Never were our feelings wrought up to
more enthusiastic admiration. When ii
was announced by one of the managers of
the Fair that this talented band of broth
ers we're all native American productions
the air was again rent with dealening
thousands of applause.
Ga Wednesday evening they gave their
first concert in the Apollo Saloon. They
had large and intelligent audience, and
never were the lovers of music more fully
gratifed. The whole assembly seemed
perfectly under their control. At one mo-
ment they we're convulsed with laughter ,
and the next melted TO tears. Intact they
all seemed to laugh and cry at the same
time. We saw many eyes filled with
tears, whose owners, Judging from the
bold, saturnine cast of their features,
were
Unused to the melting mood
We can hardly conceive how music could
have been made more affective.
five are asked what it is that gives
these mountain singers their matchlass
power, we answer, we can hardly tell
Where all is so admirable, we know not
what most to admire. Besides, there is
something in their style which cannot be
described, it must be heard and telh in
order TO be known. If We We're called
upon to specify what particularly pleased
US, we would say, the artless, unaffected,
yet graceful simplicity of their manners
1.-The richness, variety, power, and yet strik
ing similitude of their voices, producing
angelic harmones > the style oftheir ex.
ecution, simple, chaste, and effective; and
above all, the soul of feeling expressed in
every tone and 1eat~re-these are some OF
the prominent characteristics of these
charming singers, which have completely
won both our admiration and affection.
The Irish Emigranl's Lament, though
we have not heard it since their former
visit, is, even now, thrilling on our ear
and heart, with power which seems al
most 10 hallow the spirit of emigration
land to transform every emigrant into /
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THE POOR.

A-A Az X OASA
BY WIN. ELLERY CHANNING.
do not mourn my friends are false;
dare not grieYe for sins OF mine;
l weep for those who pine to death,
Great God in this rich world of thine.
So many trees there are to see,
And fields go waving broad with grain,
And yct--what utter misery!
Oar very brothers lie in pain
These by their darkened hearth stones sit,
Their children shiyering Idly round,
AS true as liyeth God, 'twere fit
For these poor mon TO curse the ground.
And those who daily bread have none,
Half starved, the tong, long winters day,
Fond parents gazing on their young,
Too wholly sad one word TO say.
To them it seems their God has cursed
This race ofours since they were born;
Willing TO toll, and yet deprived
Or common wood, or store Of corn.
l do not weep for my own woes,
They are as nothing in my eye;
weep Ter those who starved uud iroze,
Do curse their God and long to die.
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So o So q I8 * ca


For the Voice of Freedom.
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE SOUTH.
They say that ye are beautiful,
Mid bright and sunny bowers,
Where strewn DER mountain hill and dale
Are fair and blooming flowers;
Where mighty Oak and branching Elm,
In towering grandeur rise.
AS if in conscious pride, to kiss
The beauteous, blushing skies.
They say that ye are beautiful,
With soft and wtcling air,
With laughing eyes as diamonds bright,
And curls of flowing hair;
That when ye strike the harp or lutte,
Some gentle strain to sing,
Sweet as the feathered warbler's lay,
The mellow numbers ring.
O yes, | know ye're beautiful,
As yon bright stars of night,
That deck the spangled brow of eve,
With their resple ndent light:
And when amid the brilliant crowd
With greenest laurels hung,
We seem like some fair spirit-gem,
From starry Orbits flung.
They say that in tay fury land,
Spring sohcst zephyrs blow;
That ripping ri!ls and RAINING streams
In sweetest music flow;
That there in native tenderness,
The clasping ivy twnes:
And clothed in natures loveliness,
Grow Wild the clust'ring vines.
But 0, beside thy lovcliest stream,
That winds 'nd hooks ami bowers,
Where signing btcezes gently blow,
10 fan the leaves and flowers
There, .stayery rcigas with ruthless hand,
Through all those Wales Of light,
Consigning A:ric's injured sons
To sorrows staress night.
There, womans fragile form is chained,
10 cruel tyran,s given;
There, yirue IS trampled in the dust,
And tender ties are riyen:
" lid, piercing shrieks and groans are heard,
And bitter waiiings still;
And griels and tolls, the Negroes lot,
On every sunny hill.
Then e-you-well, ye gentle fair,
Though beautiful and free,
Your brig ht-wreu,hed smiles may joyous play,
They have no charm for me;
And fare ou-wcll, We sunny plains,
III" ncctared fruit and vine;
And waving trees and forests green,
That in your verdure shine
Give Inc some lone, unknown retreat,
Some Snowy mountains crest;
Press to my lips its Alpine flower,
And lay me on its breast
When life, its joys and griefs are Ger
And ye may roll in pride,
Along that land of signs and chains,
In guilt and murder dyed!
EULoRA.
Brandon, Nov. 1913.
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JENKINS oUTDoNE.-Ac According to the
Boston Mercantile Journal Henry Jenk-
ms is not the oldest man of modern times;
for Peter Tortn, a E1ungarian, who died
Jan. 5, l724, was l85. or l6 years older
.han jenkins. He appears to have been
in INDECENT circumstances, for a few DAYS
before his death he is said to have walked
to neighboring village to solicit charity.
His chief food, through life, was bread,
pulse and milk; and he kept frequent
tasts.
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The Punishment for Prc0ching.-The
Attakapas Gazette reports that number
of negro slaves found coseed together
and preaching in some back kitchen of
the town, were arrested few nights since,
confined 5n j@jL end punished tile nexs
m0rni@g, for being found out of their
quarters at an undue hour!
Who needs missionaries the more, the
negroes or their masters - Philauhsro.
QGSt
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WRoNos Recently
large meeting of taiIors and addresses,
and others friendly to the rights of the
working classes, was held 10 Fanuei
Hall. 1t is said there was good speaking
and good sense uttered The object was
to redress the wrongs of laboring women.
Now they are almost at the mercy other
employers, mere drudges from morning
till night, and barely able to obtain a de-
cent livelihood, with no time for mental
improvement, and scarcely anything to
lay by for an hour of need God never
designed intelligent creatures for such a
life, and it is time there was reform in
this direction, and we are glad the spirit
of rightiug wrongs has taken hold of this
case. Il is spirit that must prevail
OberIin EvGngeJist
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SUICIDE, RUM,-One Rene Richie,
a Frenchman, committed suicide at New
Orleans on the 7ih ut! He had been for
some time laboriog under the dreadful eff
(ects OF manj@-G-pot@ and on the above
morning he pat pistol into his mouth,
and blew out his brains.
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ne iolloWing address was adopted at the
Dublin Repeal Association on the 18th of
October ID reply to the address oftbe Gin.
clnnatl Association on the subject Of slave
Try:
Corn Exchange Rooms Dublin,
llth of Oct I843.
Commemorative have read with the
deepest attiicion, not unmixed with sone
surprise and much indignation, your de.
tailed and anxious vindcalion of The most
heln0us crime that has ever stained hu-
manlty-the slavery of men OF color in
The United States OF America. We are
lost ia utter amazement al the perversion
of mind and depravity Of heart which your
address evinces. How can the gener.
ous the charitable, the humane, the no.
BILE emotions of the Irish heart have be.
come extinct among you? How can your
nature be 50 totally changed as that you
should become the apologies and advo-
Gates of that execrable system which
makes man the properly OF his fellow man
destroys the iouodalion of all moral and
social vlgtuts-condemn to Ignorance,
immortality, and irreligion, millions of
our fellow creatures--renders the slave
hopeless Of relief, and pefpetuales op-
preston by law, and in the name OF what
you call constitution
1t was not in Ireland you learned this
cruelty, Your mothers were gentle,
kind and humane. Their boscms over
flowed with the honey Of human charity.
Your sisters are probably many Of them
still amongst us, ard participate in oil that
is good and benevolent IN sentiment and
action. How then can you have become
so depraved} How can your souls have
become stained with darkness blacker
than the negfo's skin2 You say you
nave no pecuniary interest in negro slave
ny. Would that you had ! for it might be
some naIiaton of your crime! bur, alas
you have inflicted upon US the horror of
behoIding you the volunteer advocates Of
despotsm liz its most frlghful state; of
slavery in its most Ioaihsome and uare-
leniing form.
We were, unhappy, prepared to ex-
pect some fearful exhibition of this des-
cription. There has been testimony
borne against the Irish, by birth or de-
scent, in America, by person fully ir-
formed as to the facts, and incapable the
slightest Misrepresentation noble of
nature more than of titled birth-a man
gifted with the highest order of talent and
most generous emotions of the heart-the
great, the good Lord Morpelh; he who
in the house OF Commons boldly asserted
the superior social morality of the poorer
classes ofthe Irish over any other people
he, the best friend Of any Of the Saxon
race that Ireland or the Irish ever knc
.-he,amidst congregated ibousaLds d, ~.
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INDoLENcE.-' If you ask me- said
Zimmerman, which is the real betedila-
~ sin Of human nature, do you imagine I
shall answer pride, or luSury, or ambition,
OR egotsm2 No: [ shall say incidence.
Who conquers incidence, viii conquer all
the rest. Indeed all good principles
must stagnate without mental activity"