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THE HOT WEATHER.

We are brought completely To stand still by
the hot weather. The mails refuse To furnish MS
with any thing of interest, and 10 write when the
very substance is running from in fl BOD at
every pore is absolutely impossible. We will
have to leave subscribers, those that have TO
stay at home, TO regae themselves with the labor
Of the scissors, and philosophy. The thermune-
ter is now ranging from SO TO 90, sometimes for
fun running into the vicinity of 100 hut it is
driven from that the Islands of Ice float South
ward in the Atlantic. BY. the-by, speaking of
ice, the best way to keep cool is to visit the con-
dictionary stores and soda fountains, with which
Norfolk and Portsmouth abounds. Give Fitzger-
aid call and taste his delicious Mead, or ask the
Widow to,flI you up a saucer of her Cream icy
cold, and while you are discussing it you will feel
comfortable
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JAMES w. mATHE,yEs.

frtnc'pat Distributor and Carrier Of The Nc,o Era,
j" whom all subscriptions will he paid and re.
Turns made Mr. NJ. Is the General Agent for tho
4N'c Ed and viii in his route aud by his Carriers
receive COMMUNICATIONS and advertisements for the
'"'i'' july
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FATE OF FAMILY PoRTRAITs.--I remember.
when boy, walking with an elderly oentIemao
and passing brokers' stall; there was a portrai,
OF fine, hOrd gentleman in regimentaIs he
stopped to look at the might have bougbt Il e,y
lew sbllings. After we had gone away. That,
said he, lis the portrait Of my wife's great uncle
member for the county, and colonel of militia.
yon see how he is degraded in these shone y
Why DO you not rescue him, Sir7' said
because ne len me notbing," was the reply.
relative OF NINE an old lady, hit upon device
'ne example IS worth following. Her husband
She took all the family portraits out of their
frames, rolled up all the pictures, and then m,
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=p PROF. NILES Course Of Lectures com
mences this evening Ashland Hall Tickets
for the course to be had at the Hall on the evening
Of the first Lecture.
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This favorite work has been laying on our ia
bic for twoor three days, but our labors have been
UGH. that have not had time To examine its
pages. 1t is work we have often compmened,
and the will must be taken by the deed This
time, and it will be, no DOUBT, when we assure
,ur readers that its table Of contents promise
rich literary repaSt.
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NEW BOOKS FROM THE HARPERs.

Messrs H,dges s. Co.. have laid our table
package of books from this prolific press, which
we briefly enumerate.
No. 81 of the Pictorial Bible.
No. Is the Wandering Jew.
No. 5 Of the Neviles of Garrettstown.
No. Of the Encyclopedia Of Domestic Econo-
my.
No. Of the Dictionary Of Practical Medicine.
A new work entitled the New Reformation
John Ronge, the II Wy Cat Of Treves, and the
New German Catholic Church.
Barnes's Notes Explanatory and Practical on
the Episles of Paul to the Thessaonans, to
Timothy. TO Titus, and tn Philemon
Also, M II ,ofSPlcct Novels containing Pauld
ings popular work of Westward Ilo.
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HOW TO GET NEW VARIETIES OF pO-
TATOES

When the vines are dune growing and are turn
ing brown, the seed is ripe; then take the balls
and string with large needle and strong thread /:
hang them IN dry place where they will gradn-
ally season and mature, without danger ofinjury
from frost. In the month Of April. soak the ba lis
for several hours in water. then squeeze them. to
separate the seed from the pulp, when washed
and dried they are fit for sowing in rows, in bed
well prepared in garden they will spruut in a
few days; they must be attended TO like other
vegetables. When about two inches high, they
may he Trimmed and transplaDted into rows. AS
they increase in size they should be billed. In
the autumn many of them viii be of the size of a
walnut, and from that 10 pea. In the following
spring, they should be planted in hills, placing
the large ones togiher-lhey will in their second
season attain their full SIZE and will exhibit sew
eral varieties OF form and may then be selected to
SUIT The Judgment of the culivator would pre-
Ter gathering the balls frum potatoes of good
kind. The first crop from seeds Tins obtained
VIII be very productive, and will continue so for
years, gradually discriminating until they will
again need renewal by the same process.-.an,.
Farmer.
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JBE GREAT BRITAfS STEAHsHIp-This SIN
pendous vessel. the success Of which will revolo
tonne the Whole system of ocean navigation. left
The Thames, where she has so LONG commanded
attention aud admiration, Jnne 18th, for Plv.
mouth At the latter place she moored on the
evening ct Saturday, June 18th, with between
on ana ~ passengers. The weather was mild,
ana her speed was as high as fourteen miles per
hour. She was To leave Plymouth June % E,r
Dublin, and will convey passengers from one
place to the other a guinea and a half per head
In Dublin she will remain week, after which
she "llI sail Tor Liverpool, and start on the ap
pointed day for New York
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CHAM OF MAGNETIC TELEGRAPHs.-Ac cir
cuIar has been published by Henry O'Reiy, one
Of the agents fnr Morse's telegraph. in which il
developed the grand system of agnelic commu-
nlralion to be established throughout the United
States, connecting the Atlantic cities with the
valley OF The Mississippi and the Great Lakes
ihr line VIII be completed on the Susquehanna
al iIarrisonrg IN December, and TO tie Ohio river
fariheSi.
We learn from an Albany paper that Mr.. Geo.
T.. P"meroy OF that city has concluded an arrange
ment with the Palentees uf Morse's magnetic
telegraph, which ensures the immediate establ sh
nent o' line between The cities of New York
and Boston, by way Of Springfield and New Ha-
ven. This will also secure The early completion
OF line between Boston and Albany.-Ledger.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
For The Green Mountain Freeman.
Moral Principle.

MEssRs EDIToRs:-There are doubtless various
methods by which the great mass of religious tea
chers in the free states justify themselves in with
holding their testimony against the slavery of the
Southern states: among which, | am inclined to
think one is, that they tear they should 'be found
fighting against God" Not that they would hest
tate to admit that slavery is sin; but that if they
should do any thing to oppose, or destroy it, such
act might be in contrayenton of the will of God,
and thus prove that they were unreconced to his
government. am serious in what | say. 1t is
not long since had long conversation with an
intelligent female upon the subject of Slavery,
whose reputation for tenderness of heart is unriYal-
led, s. whose zeal in apoogizing FOR shareholders,
worthy of better cause. She seemed to have a
pous horror, for the wrong the slave committed in
running away from his master And as my argu-
ments for the poor slave, all failed, | thought
could touch chord whose vibrations could surely
prompt an answer to my inquiry, that might use
at least to to palliate the case of the flying fugi-
tive asked her if she should be taken and rcdu-
ced to slavery, if she would think it wrong to make
her escape to land freedom, provided she could
do without injury to her master any other per-
son, save simply running atc0y? Tony surprise,
she answered that she would not do it, because il
would be wrong. That she should consider thai
God had placed her there, and that therefore il
would be her duty to submit. Incredible ex-
claims the reader. No indeed, not incredible mol
even strange; when viewed in connection with
things as they are. This lady, doubtless, believe.
not only that 'Phe Priests lips should keep kuow
edge" hut that they actually do as they ought
She had undoubtedly, often heard from his lips, the
doctrine preached which have since heard myself
by minister of tho "most slraghtest sect;' Of the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
From the Morning Chronicle.

The Journal of Commerce, the kneadability
of whose doughs all that Nero G, Calhoun could
desire really, seems to manifest little sympathy
for Miss Webster on condition that she turns out
to be no abotionist at all, and not to have help
ed any slave at ALL OF this the Rev. Editor
doubts, on account of the great responsibility of
her counsel, but has the graciousness to add:
off, however, she is not an abolition emissary,
but victim of that restless jealousy, caused by
the villainous conduct of the abolitioniss, which
makes every northern man or woman in the slave
holding States an object Of dstrust and apprehen-
sion, we shall be happy to unite with some of
our generous-hearted readers, in making up a
purse to defray the expenses ofbringing her case
before higher tribunal, or, in any other legal
method of securing to her that protection to which
innocence is entitled"
The same article has another very precious
paragraph, which we extract:
"The number ofsaves stolen from their mast
ers in thepast few years. has been so great that the
utmost vigilance has become necessary on the part
ofslave holding communicated in the exercise
ofthis vigilancemany innocent persons will doubt
less suffer inconvenience, if nothing worse. The
abolitionists ought to pay all damages resulting
from their misconduct, but it is not to be expected
that they will. The incendiary rarely rebuds the
house which he has burned down"
With what sanctmonious sauvity would this
quondam PIE bald preacher ply the cowskin, as
piece Unnecessary security, upon piece ofrebell-
ious human flesh He needs to change no princi-
pie, and part with no feeling, to make thorough
driving Mississippi overseer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
New Hampshire and Illinois.

These States located at such distance from
each other, so dissimar in topography, soil, eli
mate and rosources-the one bald, rough, rocky
iceberg, as it were, the others smooth, rich, loamy,
fertile ElDofado-one scarce aflording subsistence
for its Inhabitants, the other overburdened with
superintendent agricultural productions, have some
curious, strong points of political disagreement
The one, the younger state, is casting away her
Rail Roads, the other, the older, is just taking up
these modern improvements. The one declares
loudly against all religious tests and property quail
ificatons, while the other votes almost TWO to one,
that no Romanist is eligible to office, and that no
citizen shall be her Governor unless worth prop
erty to the value Of 500 pounds Aud while the
one repeats soIemnIy her determination against al
terng her fundamental law on these two important
points, the other is not only welcoming Romanists
to full political privileges, giving them d right tc
vote and eligibility to Office by her constitlon, in
months from their first arrival within her borders;
but also taking her bigoed sister to task before LIE
gislatiyo Committees for her oppressive, ant-re-
publican Intolerance
And, after al-Herod and PLATE AGREEING
who would believe it?-inconsistent and paradox
ical as it scems-incongruous heterogeneous-nay
antagonistica even as are the eIements-these two
dear sisters, "cheek by jowl," right bower and left
bower-chme in-'honey pe'-together, in con
demnng and dscarding tariffs, distribution, banks
bigotry, monopolies, arstocracy and sail that ilk'
offering themselves up at the same instant, vii
ling sacrifice to agoguisnI-spreading out I
wide, fair hunting grounl-where men catch met
and deyoting all cordially, aye, desperately tC
the support of Polk, Texas and SIayery-yes
throwing themselves passionateIy into the clutch
es of that monster canniba, whose nsatiate NAV
has drunk the blood Of millions, and whose "horse
eech" cry of GlvE-GtvE, outsounds the roar of the
Atlantic, reverberatng on the affrighted coasts o
Africa, and hushing the clangor of ur:ns; the din
and bIoodshed Of Texan revolt and Mexican re
nonstNnce, for more horrid meal of human flesh
These modern days-what can equal?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17

so 900, 900. Presidents, judges OF Y. ). courts,
more than their share, ministers to foreign courts,
consuls, army and navy expenses for the especlai
benefit of the South, since 1915, exclusive OF FLOR
ida war, 10 600 000 Capital of U. ). Bank sunk
in cotton speculation and ?ocketed 10y sinye-hold-
ers, 27,000,O00 Loss by post-oi1ice IN fourteen
wears, ending 1912, 100000. Loss since 1919,
which the North has suffered in commercial inter
course with the slave holding Staes,-not includ-
inc the loss Of the capital Of the y. ). Bank ean-
mol be less than 5 900, 600 year New York cry
this day, has bad debts against raders and traffic
kers, piisnamed mcrch lunts,-lor the term nler-
chant implies II trader in goods who pays for them
of 100 600 .OOO since the last war, not one dollar
of which will ever be paid, and 100000 more
| in MORTGAGES ON SLAVES. At 100000 per an
mum since 1915, you have the loss in trade for q
years, 4aO,o0Oo00.
Amount paid by the North for the South on
orthp mai. onal wealth since 1915, 214,256,4 AIS.
Loss of the North in trade in IS years, 5000,
coo year, 400 100000.
What department of the government has escRp
ed the controlling inhuenre of the SlaUe POaCer
The treasury, the war department, the navy de
apartment the department Of state, the post otic
department; ALL have been laid under contribute
to further the designs, perfect the plans, and eX
tend the power Of slnve-holding States. An
vet, MS if God was determined to furnish a witnes
against the most horrible ofall ciines-the cnslaV
ement of lnen-the South is at this day mpoveI
ished ignorant, debauched in morals, depraved i
reigon and corrupt in politics, notwithslandn
the general guaranty for responsibility and chiva
ry, democracy and piety, which the North has Civ
en- her for sixty years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
From the LiberatOr.
A Wife Redeemed !

0F7The following letter, we presume, will be
read with qualification by those who generously
contributed toward the purchase of Mr. Fount-
aims wife, from worse than Algerine Slave
ry
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10, 1914
Respected Friend Garrison,-Permit me, thro'
your paper, to inform the many friends of human
ty, particularly those who kindly contributed to
aid ME in the redemption of my wife from slave
Try in Virginia, that have succeeded in my OBJ
ject. She arrived in Philadelphia on the 10th
IofDecember; and, Notwithstanding she is much
broken by labor and distress the last year, since
she began to breathe the air of the free States,
she has sensibly revived, and in short time will,
it is thought, be perfectly restored.
Dear Sir, words are inadequate to express the
gratitude that we feel to the people of Massachu-
sets, New York and Pennsylvania, for their as
sistance in raising this one of Gods children
from the condition of cAatteJ to that of human
being We think that with the aid of Provi-
dence, we can take care Of ourselves.
| Yours in behalf of bleeding humanity,
JNO. n H. FOUNTAIN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17

HHEAR THE WORD OF THE LoRD!" "Be not d.
ceived. God is not Knocked. For whatsoever al
man soweth that shall be also reap" "Be not de-
ceiyed He that doeth righteousness is righteous.
.sThe righteous cousidereth the of the poor,
but the wicked regardeth not to know It," "IrustI
We not in lying words, saying, The temple Of the
Lord the temple of the Lord, the temple of the
Lord, are these. For if ye thoroughly amend your
ways and your dongs; if ye thoroughly execute
Judgment between man and his ueghbor; If ye
Cypress not the stranger, the lalhorless, and the
widow" Sc, "then will cause you to dwell IN
this place. But go We now to my place which was
in Shiloh, where set my name ut the first, ana see
what did to it for the wckedness of my people
Israel" "Therefore will do unto this house,
which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, as
| have done to Shiloh" See Jer. chap viii
Chrst's promise that the gates OF hell should
never prevail against his church was no pledge
that the seven churches Of Asia, the church OF
! Rome or the churches Of North America, might
Wedthemselves to oppression and impurty' and
not be cut off! God is able of stones to raise up
children unto Abraham When the mystic Baby
lon was doomed, the climax Of her denominations
was her traffic in s'SlaveS and souls Of mem" Then
il was that voice was heard in heaven, ." Come
OUt Of her, my people, that ye pGrtake not OF he'
SINS, and that ye receive not of her plaques" (ReY
xviii. A. On this passage, Scott, the commenta-
tor, says,--"I'his summons concerns all persons
in every age They who believe in Christ anc
worship God in the Spirit should separate from
SO corrupt church, and from all OTHERS tina
! copy her example ofidolatrg persecution, CRUEL
TY, and TYRANNY and avoid being partaker
of her sins, even if they have rejected her com
munion, else they may expect to be involved il
her plaques"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17

orthodox, that "God permits and designs simple
acts" This doctrine was deduced by the preach
err from a remark of Joseph to his brethren, who
had sold him into slavery, viz: eye meant it unto
evil but God meant it unto good;' The whole burd-
en- of this discourse was to prove that the govern
ment of God is universal, embracing the sinful ac-
tons of men as we'll as their virtues or holy ac-
tons He made the great distinctions between
the ghteous and the wicked, between him that
serveth God, and him that serveth him not,' (M&1
81 l8) to consist in this, viz: "The wicked are
uureconciled to this doctrine of Gods universal
government, while the righteous are reconciled to
! it. He said there were some who admitted this
doctrine of Gods government of the world to a
limited extent, but denied its universality. These
he said would be ranked among the enemies of
God.
The prophecies of the Scriptures he said, emf
braced some of the most sinful acts of men, aud
that neither these prophecies nor any thing else
could be certain, only by the design and decree Of
God. saw at once where this doctrine placed him
on the subject of Slavery. He admitted that slave
ny was sinful, said these brethren of Joseph were
very gulUy LOT Selllllg nun AHu huOW Nv duIHllS
also that American Slavery is SINFUL But | do
not know that be believes it would be rghtto make
direct efforts TO destroy that which God designs
should exist. Nay, see not but that the concus-
ion is legitimate and irresistible, that to oppose
what God designs, would prove the opposer to be
unreconced to his government. this certainly was
, the view taken by the female alluded to above
This view Of the moral government of God is to
r my mind shocking beyond expression. That God
oyerrues the sinful actions Of wicked men, andoft
, en- prostrates their sinful designs is doctrine full
ofcomlolt and encouragement to him who sets
himself to work to reform corrupt aud wicked
, world. But to admit that God is the author oftht
sinful actions of men, or in the language of thu
: preacher, (Which is the same Ehng) "designs sin
full acts" is calculated to drive every man beev
ing it, TO the very position of the preacher referet
S to- upon the subject of Slavery, viz: Do-NoTH
, ING POSITION }. 5.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
Modern PhiIosOnhyi especially POIilica!

All men are endowed with certain nuenable
rights except negroes, and very poor white peo-
pie.
All men are born free and equal, except the
blacklist!
All men are allowed to think and act freely, ex-
cept those who work for living.
All men who do not pay their lawful debts, are
great scamps and neflrious rogues, except all who
make a staggering show in equppago and enter
tainments, and cheat on G large scale.
All well dressed, stylish, and fashionable men
and women are ladies and gentlemen, except dairy
maids, factory girls, and women who work with
their hands, and men who drudge and toll, and till
the soil, who wear old clothes, live honestly act
independently, as lords of Gods creation, and fol-
low mechanical pursuits for the benefit of them
se,vcs, and the good Of mankind
All the midnight plots concocted and plans
adopted by caucuses, and all the proceedings Of
arstocralc cliques that control cities, and misgov-
ern corporated institutions, must be carried into
laws and reckoned legal and right whether they
may or may not, meet with public appreciation !
For it has hcen an old maxim among many of the
rich and learned, and counses of the sage that the
few lcise and great, should always rule the many
no matter how much might should initiate against
right, or how much error might oppose truth, and
The reign oftyranny violate every principle of JUS
tire
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-01-17
Whittier on the admission Of Florida

Such is the Constitution which Florida has
sent up to Congress, as an evidence other fitness
to enter the republican sisterhood. 1t is I'M
doubtedly republican form of government, "
for it rests, without disguise or shame, on slave
ry which, Gov, McDuGie tells US, is " the cor
ner-stone of the republican edifce" Without
the requisite population for a representative in
Congress, Florida thrusts her slavery-blackened
charter before Congress, and demands admission
into the Union as a sovereign State, with rep
resentation in the Senate equal to that of New
York. Her entire white population at this mo.
ment does not exceed that Of the city of Lowell
For this handful of shareholders, forty millions Of
dollars have been expended in the expulsion Of
the Seminoles-a class of people infinitely better
for true republican government than themselves
Judging by their ' Constitution" before us I'll
ger-tail Osceola, and their red companions, sea
ted in council on the hammocks of the Everglades
would have made a more humane and christian
g compact SeIEburdened with the load of e
ternal slavery, they come knocking impudentl,
for admission into the conlederacy presentm!
this bloody and wicked document, which make
slavery perpetual, and rewards the espresso
with political power in proportion to the humble
of his victims, as sample and loretaste of thei
future action in Congress in making laws for tn
whole country.
Just Colds there to be no end to all this
Are we to go on year after year strengthening tn
stakes and frightening the cords of slavery! I
there no limit to slayehoding aggression an
northern seryty. Have we no man in Con
gress to rise up with this infamous Constitutio
in his hand, and speak out in plain tcrse Saxo
the honest truth about it! No man to rise u
and tell the House or the Senate that slavery i
Florida exists by the authority of Congress alon
that all the monstrous and brutal laws of til
territory are sustained by the same authority
that tho red-hot branding iron which sunk hissin
into the flesh Of Jonathan Walker was held by Ii
arm of the General Government Is there no on
to demand in the name of God and humanity tt
repeal ofthese laws, and the instant withdrawal
the support and sanction of the General Cover
, ment from Florida slavery!