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HOPE.

If hope be dead-why seok to live!
For what besides has life to give!
Love, life, and youth, and beauty too,
II hope be dead-say what are you!
Love without hope! it cannot be;
There is a vessel on yon sea,
Becalmed and sailless as despair,
And know-'tis hopeless love floats there.
Life without hope! o that is not
To live; but day by day, to rot,
With feelings cold and passions dead;
To wander DER the world and tread
Upon its beauties; and to gaze
Quite vacant, o'er its fowery maze,
Oh! think, if this be life! then say
Who lives; when hope hath fled away!
Youth without hope! An endless night,
Trees which have felt the cold springs blight,
The lightning's flashes, and the thunder's strife
Yet pine away weary life,
When older would have sunk and died
Beneath the strokes their youth defed-
But, cursed with length of days, are left
To rail at youth of hope bereft.
And beauty, too, when hope is gone,
Has lost the ray in which it shOne;
And seen without this borrowed light,
Has lost the beam that made it bright.
Now what avail the silken hair,
The gentle smile, the gentle air,
The beaming eye, the glance refined
Faint sembance of the purer mind
As gold dust, sparkling in the sun,
Points where the richer strata run!
Alas they now just seem to be
Bestowed to mock at misery;
They speak of days long, long gone by,
Then point to cold reality,
And with death-smile they say
Oh! what are we when hopes away!
Thus love, life, and beauty too,
When seen without hopes frightening hue,
All sigh in misery's saddest tone,
Why seek to live if hope be gone!
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OF rock or any foreign substance, and what IS
more remarkable, il lies directly across the shaft.
saw great many other masses Of pure copper,
varying IN weight from one to several tons.
IL Is wonderful 10 wish the various localities.
ana see what large amount Of copper has been
already raised, and at every stcpn their progress,
indications Of richer returns are 20 b. found.
But yast amount Of deception exists with re-
gard to the golden returns Of mining operations.
ard too muchOf speculative cast Is giycnfo the la
Dor, 50 that to many the results will be disastrous.
The sail up Lake Superior will ever repay a
rich return IN exhibitions of the picturesque and
beautiful in natural scenery. The coast inient-
cd with the most beautiful bays and harbors-thc
points and headlands jutting out in every drec-
ton, covered with the most luxuriant foliage, or
rising in high and preciptous ridges.
The shores had very primitive appearance.
There is scarcely house the whole distance be-
tween the Sault ST. Marie and Copper llarbor.-
There are very few inhabitants, even Of the men
Of the forest. The soil is unproductive. aud the
climate unfayorable to the pursuits Of agriculture
certainly so, 50 far as the most valuable Of our
agricultural products are concerned. This. with
the scarcity of game, which exists bu in small
quantities, make prccarous enough lhn means OF
subsistence. The mining region will probably
never become much Of an agricultural one. Ii
has its own value in another way. Soil and eli
mate are both adverse. When brttcr order oI
management Of the mineral treasure exists. rich
indeed will be the returns.
The Lake will always be a resort lorplcasurc
travel and for the improvement Of health, during
few months in summer. Then the climate j,
delightful, and the atmosphere, Inygoralng ant
bracing from its stimulating properties, mparl'
an unusual degree of yigor and elasticity 10 the
system. The whole country is remarkably heal
thy, miasma not existing, and, singular as it may
seem, persons suffering under pulmonary di>oa>
cs, derive great and immediate benefit from lev
weeks residence in this country.
My own health has greatly improved thougI
exposed TO all the vcissiudcs OF travelling. ~
they exist in this Infant Empire. ! have know
no such thing us a cold since left home.
The time is not very far distant when patients
aborng under pulmonary affections will b. sen
to improve their health by summer residence Oh
the shore of Lake Superior, instead Of u winter
soourn in Texas or Florida.
Nor are the accounts of the excessive cold ul
this rcgiou we'll founded. When the thcrmume.
ter on the Hudson river has indicated Il cold o
sixteen or twenty degrees below zero, il has no
here gone below six or eight. This is owing I,
the vicinity of the waters of this vast Lake which
remain unfrozcn during the scverest winters
llygromotic observations show a remarkable equ
brium in the atmosphere, which is always very
dry, and the changes very slight. Yours, &c.
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INTERESTING DOCTMENT.

The following eloquent prayer was delivered
by the Rev. Jacob Trout, on the evening before
the battle of Brandywine, that is. on the Ilh OF
September, l777. 1t was pronounced before the
main body of the American army, in presence
of General Washington, General Wayne, and
other distinguished officers of the army:
PRAYER OF THE REvOLUTIoN.-Great Father!
we bow before thee; we invoke thy blessing; we
deprecate thy wrath; we return thee thanks for
the past; weask thy aid for the future; for We are
in time Of trouble, oh! Lord. and sore beset bv
foes, ,merclIess and Implying. Thesword CLEANS
over our land and the dust of the soil is damped
with the blood Of our neighborS and friends.
Oh! God of mercy, we pray thee to bless the
American arms. Make the man of our hearts
strong in thy wisdom bless we beseech thee.
with renewed life and strength, our hope and thy
instrument even George Washington-shower
thy counses of the Honorable, the Continental
Congress; visit our host, comfort the soldier in
his wounds and Affections, nerve him for the
fight, prepare him for the hour of death.
And in the hour of our defeat oh! God of
Hosts, do thou be our stay and in the hour of ri-
umph be thou our guide.
Teach us to be merc(uI. Though the memo
ry Of Calling wrongs be at our hearts, knocking
for admittance, thai they may fill us with the de-
sire for revenge, yet let us, oh! Lord, spare the
vanquished though they never spared us in the
hour of butchcry and bIoodshcd.
And in the hour of death, do thou guide us TO
the abode prepared for the blcst; so shall we re-
turn thanks unto thee through Christ, our Rcdee-
mer. God prosper the cause. Amen.
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Tiny years ago.

BY WILLIAM d. GALLAGHER.
A song Of the early times out west,
And our green old forest home,
Whose pleasant memories freshly vet
Across the bosom come!
A song for the free and gladstone life,
In those early days we led,
With a tceming soil beneath our feet,
And smiling heaven DER headl
Oh, the waves of life danced merrily,
And had a joyous flow,
lnthe days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty year ago.
The hunt, the shot, the glorious chase,
The captured elk or deer;
The camp, the big bright fire, and then
The rich and wholesome cheer;
The sweet, sound sleep at dead of night,
by our camp fire blazing high
Unbroken by the VOLTS long howl,
And the panther springing by.
Oh, merrily pass'd the time, despite
Our willy Indian foe,
In the days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty years ago.
We shunn'd not labor when twas due,
We wrought with right good will;
And for the homes we won for them,
Our children bless us still.
We lived not hermit lives, but oft
In social converse met;
Aud fires of love were kindlcd then,
That burn on warmly yet.
Oh, pleasantly the stream of life
Pursued its constant flow,
In the days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty years ago.
We felt that we were fellow men;
We felt we were a band,
Sustained here in the wilderness,
BY Heavens upholding hand.
And when the solemn Sabbath came,
We gathered in the wood,
And lifted up our hearts in pray'r
To God the only God,
Our temples then were earth and sky;
None others did we know,
In the days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty years ago.
Our forest life was rough and rude,
And dangers closed us round;
But here amid the green old trees,
We freedom sought and found.
Oft through our dwellings, wintry blasts
Would rush with shrek and moan;
We cared not though they were but irail,
We felt they were our own!
Oh. free and manly lives we led,
Mid verdure or mid snow,
In the days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty years ago.
But now our course of life is short;
And as from day to day,
We're walking on with halting step,
And fanting by the way,
Another land more bright than this,
To our dim sight appears;
And on our way to it we'll soon,
Again be Pioneers;
Yet while we linger, we may all
A backward glance still throw,
To the days when we were Pioneers,
Fifty years ago.
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SAWYER AND BYINGTONl

This par Of beauties have been nominated E.,
Congress, by The LocolocUs Of their distrjr,s
Think Of that Master Brooks. Meddrg, Salrlg-
ana ByAgioM Isn't that glorious tie Of
statesmen and patriots! Hard! HarterV Ia.
ELT!!! The old hard dynasty is in the ascend.
ant in the camp Of the opposition! A fine Tin,
OF II the Stale would have, with her destinies IN
their hands. What think YOU of such a r.s,oro-
uon, democrats" of Ohio! not forgetting Dick
lnson, the deiaultcr; who went into office lolcra
bly, rich and is now said by one of his friends 10
be good for quartar Of million of dollars. yet
refuses to restore 10 the State what the iDyeslira
ung Committee have proved due according to his
rendering OF accounts. Sawyer, should he Oct
back again, can give us another chapter ON tbo
beauties of the 'sPoilS" system, as he proposes
TO have ii carried out, and take another link in
those immortal sausages. Byington can aid in
despatching petitions to the lower regions and
strike another blow at vested rights in Church
property, &c. Ii strikes us, however. very (orci-
bly,, that the voters of the several Congressional
Districts, will hardly swaIlowthe nauseating dose
prepared for them by political empires.
Mr.. Byngon runs in the Ross District and
he will get leave to stay at home by majority
sufficient for practical proposes. Thurman con.
sdcred the case hopeless and declined a nomina
uon. Sawyer secured nomination in the Mercer
district on the first ballot, though there was a
strong opposition. We are not without hopes
of his defeat so corrupt is he now known to be-
by many Of his constituents.-Ohi State Jour.
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Curious TIME PIEcE.-In one of the most fash,
ionable resorts in Paris is a cannon loaded and
prmed, and so placed that the focus of burning
glass falls uponthe powder precisely at 9 O'Clock,
Of course every pleasant day the hour of noon
is indicated by the firing of the cannon. Oncv.
ry such day. a crowd gathers round ii to watch
the progress of the sun spot and the manncr in
which the motion of the earth on its axis is made
10 fire oil anillerN.-ScicniiEc Amcricnn.
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POTATO Ro+.-The rot has made its appear.
ance IN some OF our potato fields A quantity
purchased as sound in market. were found 10 Ii.
spoiled the next day. They had black spo, Oh
The surface. which extended through the potato.
In one large field on the Miami bottoms, the pc.
larors are rouing in the ground. They have the
black spot, and rot through-thc smell in the folJ
is very bad. The crop is abundant this season,
butwc hope this disease may not be found very
cXtensWc.-C Cincinnati Gazette.
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visiting clergyman in Worcester, being ic-
quescd TO open the service by PRAYER, though
not invited 10 preach, replied thai II his Iyieaa
,caS going 10 do Me mor'ag h might rbet his oaR
SrWhC,"
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0ETCol. Todd, our late Minister Plenipoten.
liary at St. Petersburg, arrived in this city from
the east, by way of the lakes, yesterday morning
and left for Cincinnati, last evening. He is in
excellent health, and says he never enioyed bet
ter health than at the Court of the Gar. He
was in Russia five years, having been appointed
by Gen. Harrison, we believe. He returned
month or two since and had an opportunity of
giving his successor, r. !. lngersoll, of Conn.
some useful information and directions week or
two since, at Washington. lie left St. Peters
burgh in three feet snow. lie docs not credit the
rumor afoat that Mr.. |. of Connecticut. rece-
we'd the oficein trust for C. ]. IngcrsoI. to be
given to the latter by the President when Con.
gress adjourned; ii not being considered safe to
must his nomination 10 the Senate. Col. II. is o
man of great worth and deserves the thanks of
the country for the manner in which he acquit-
ted himself as the Representative of tins cotn-
Try in ono of the most powerful nations of the
old world. lie was in Mansfield at the time OF
the Wing meeting there and made few well Il.
med remarks, as We Iearn.-Ohi0 State Journal
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From HE U-cstern Citizen.
Letter from YIN. 7. Allan.
GENEsEo, June 9TH, 1916.
Br. Eastman:

Br. Eastman:
Permit me to give a little narrative by way
of personal experience. 1t relates 10 some Of
the statutes OF illinois, and may serve to show
their exceeding biachnes,.
1t Is known 10 my friends generally tlnt |
came from the South, and that my father was
a STAKEHOLDER. 1t is also known to many,
that at his death he liberated his slaves. Ont
Of six heirs, five resided in this state-one in
Alabama. We all consented to the will most
heartily and the negroes "a dozen in all)
Were allowed 10 choose their place of resi-
dence. They chose Illinois, where the chill
dren,' as they call US, live. Accordingly,
my brother-in-law, Louis Uyefh, Esq, who
is executor Of the will, sent an agent with
them TO jacksonville, in this state, where they
now reside, with one exception The name
of that one is Richmond, a man fifty years of
age. He has been in our flmily ever since
my remembrance. lie is an inotfensive, faith
full old man, worthy of all confidence as a
friend and servant. lie asked me to let him
ride with me from Morgan co. to Henry. lie
wanted TO have more of a visit with me,
whom he had not seen for thirteen years, and
he wanted to sec my brother, whom he had
not seen for ten years. Three weeks ago,
we stopped to spend the Sabbath in Peoria.
On Sunday morning, while the old man was
at work in the stable, he was dragged of by
a rutlian This name is not worth knowingly to
a magistrates c%fice, and thence to the custo-
dy OF the sheriff as a runaway slave! My
testimony, as 10 the facts, was not admitted,
because, f~orsooth, | was a party interested A.!
When the aOise and pairiohc Justice % had
signaIized himself by committing the poor
old man to prison, they proceeded to arrest
me on the charge of harboring and secreting
a fugitive slave. And the same Justice bound
me over in the penal sum of $500 to appear
on the first day of Court, to be tried, &c.-
Well, l appeared accordingly and after ten
days, the jury found bill against me, char
ging me with the crime of harboring a slave
| gave security, and am now under bonds to
appear and be tried next October, under the
siatrte of Illinois, for the crime of riding in
a buggy with a friend 4 mn was al
so served on me TO appear and answer TO Al
fred Todd and the people of Peoria CO. for
the sum Of $500 by me unlawfully detained
They are striving both by civil and criminal
law TO punish me for that same worthy cause,
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Mr.. Bebb--- PROGRESS.

% tho snhiocts Of slavery and the p,,ck
Lave n, RIM was inst and olonnont-
lVLat,rar wn nav ,yos,iI in orr nansr GAL.
cnIated IN any w3v r. convey tho imnrassion
,I'at he il MT s;ncereIv hostile to the BIncE
J.ws If we have said anythinc Of the kind,
Voc t,ke nle,snre in nubIiclv re,raclinr-
T,rre W. miaht noint r. tho omissinn nv Mr..
RoLb in his snelch &C ,nv eynIir;, dccIa-,.
ian ,bn, he was in FAVOR If anv measures for
Tho oy,inction of sIa vory ei,bey in tho statas
or il, ,hoso nIacos nycr which tho Federal
Government exercises exclusive jurisdiction;
we might point to the fact, too that while
avowlng opposition TO me PACK Laws gen
crafty he confined himself IN ms spec'hca-
TONS 10 the law reialhg 10 testimony ana
dia not even pledge MS party 10 tAe rep'ai oil
ms law. put, we 90 not choose 70 appear
captlouS' MI Deoo Is e'iuehHy ANXIOUS 10
be 'hought an antl-SlaVery man. anu we snail
not dely his claim to me tlIe. AiteT refer
rag to The olt-repeatfd declaration Of his op-
ponents' mat he would MOI date 10 say In
southern ONO what ne l@d s'ia In NortheTn'
ne called upon an VINO he'rd hlh' 10 aitenu'
Whlle he aVo"ed IN Iinc'hnA'i Precl5t'y IAe
s'he sentiments lie hid uttered on me re-
serve - am opposed TO inc p'"cK laws
ana III favor Oh t'eit repeal ne exclaimed
with strong emphasis" ana yet, ! dare not
say. mere what Sa'G IN me nofVNefn part OF
oh'o-eh!' LOUD s9ou' from me crowd
'os''hed mat after ali' the popular heaF' n,p-
P%recia'es lair-aeaiing ana lnueP.endence' Mr.
beoo proceeuea 10 proclaim ms utler aoho.-
renee OF slavery ana every form OF 0PPFes-
Sloh' IN terms mat tnree years ago Wou'u nave
doomed MN 10 Poltcal lns'ghlhcahce' ana
ne quoted WIN an ardor oil expression ll1'
drew warm Pian1,tS from MS hea'eiS' 'Ae cel-
epraleu lines oil Co"per,
Il would not have a slave TO till my soil, &c.
lie contrasted the States Of Kentucky and
Ohio, denouncinr slavery as the cause Of the
painful difference, and EXPRESSED the belief
that. if Kentnckv would emanrinlte all her
! slaves to-morroy' the increase in ,ba price of
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Richmond, the colored man, is now with
my brother in this place. / sent for a COPY
OF my fathers will, and obtained some other
testimony, which were entirely satisfactory
10 all candid minds. But the sheriff did not
feel authorized to let him go. We then bro't
MIN before Judge kgrner, by a writ of babe
as corpus. But the Judge decided that he
mad no jurisdiction in the case. lie said
mat 1t devoIved wholly on the sheriff. We
Told him that the evidence had already been
presented to the sheriff, and that he declined
lioeratlng him.. But the Judge still waived
me matter, presuming that the sheriff would
lloerate HIN. We then furnished the sheriff
win stlll further evidence touching Rich
mona S freedom. He hesitateG. counselled
WIN the lawyers, and finally let him go with
my brother on condition that he would hold
nun subject TO his order, in case any 0lCncrs
should come and prove property, and be LA
PIE 10 meet any expenses that he (the sher-
Ill might incur in consequence of letting
Nun 60. They seemed terribly afraid that
the taws Of alabama might not consent to his
ilnetallon; and that, possibly, a minor heir,
by and by, might claim a sixth part of the old
worn-out negro as property. These Weighiy
considerations were duly appreciated by these
legal gentlemen, and officers of Peoria. Il
Is but justice to say of Mr.. Frye, the sheriff,
that he did not put Richmond in Jail, but
treated him kindly in his own house.
And now what do all these things prove ?
They prove that the black laws of Illinois
are as wicked and u%nrigh,eous as the wretch
that seized old Richmond. These things
prove that the Legislators Of Illinois aud all
that sustain them are mere tools Of the slave
power. They show that slavery has mucl
to do with us-that Illinois is n mere appen
dage to slave states-a sort Of dependency OF
Missouri and Kentucky. There is somethin.
tolerable in a genuine, bona fde Shareholder
Buta Shareholders tooi in a northern state,
sort Of tpo-iegged bhoodhound, that banks o
the track of an old negro or his friend, a dir
ty cat's-paw, a dcspicahle minion of tyrant
language can't describe him. Shall Hin
oiS continue to sustain such a relation TO sla
very ! Shall her statute book continue 10 bt
bloucd with such foul provisions Shall al
act Of mercy or of common humanity be con.
sidered and treated as a crime committed
against the peace and dignity of the people
of the state Of Illinois! 'NNo to them vino
decree u%nrighteous d~ecrees.'
] have given you, Mr.. Editor, a very briei
outline of the facts in this case. Many tho't:
rush to my mind in relation 10 It, but | sup,
press them, and leave it to others to make
comments.
Yours in invincible opposition to slavery
WIN. II. ALLAN.
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A Scene of Anguish.

A correspondent Of the Christian Advocate
and Journal, travelling in Louisiana, gives
the following account of a sceneat Raymond,
near Vicksburg, such as are, alas far too
common south Of us:
Its the practice here for the Sheriff to sell
property on which executions have been lev
led, in froat OF the Court House, on the
first day of the sessions of the Court, and the
citizens of the county in great numbers gen.
orally assemble on that day. Amoug the
property to be sold on this O. cAsion werr
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-Hamnshire Anli-SIarnr.

The following Preamble and Resolution
were adopted by the House Of Representa-
tives in New Hampshire, on the % ult.. tie
Preamble by a vote OF 1870 to 81, and the
Resolution UNANIMOUSLY.
Uli9rcas, tho government Of the United
States, by the annexation Of a foreign nation
and by the admission of the State of Texas
with Il Constitution that in effect makes -Sla-
very perpetual therein, have placed Us as a
people before the world N the false attitude
of supporters and defenders Of a system Of
oppression odious to every friend OF liberty
and abhorrent to every principle of humanity
and religion; and whereas, the constant, pro-
gressive, aud increasing Gncroachments of
the slave power have become so formidable
and imperiouS, that forbearance ceases to be
a virtue, and to be silent is to be false to the
great interests Of Liberty ; therefore,
Resolved, by the Senate and House Of
Representatives, in General Court convened,
That New Hampshire solemnly and deliber-
ately announces and reiterates her abiding
and unchanging adherence to the great prIn-
ciples of the declaration of our Revolutionary
Fathers, that All men are created equal re-
asserted in the first article of the Bill of
! Rights of our own constitution that she de-
clares her firm determination that, in the
great contest now being waged between Sla-
worry and Freedom, her voice shall be heard
on the side Of the Free that she pledges her
cordial sympathy, and, within the means of
her constitutional action, her cooperation
with the friends of civil liberty throughout
the land, in every Just and well-directcd eff
fort, for the suppression and determination Of
that terrible scourge Of our race, Human Sld-
very.
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WHOLE 40. 81.

The immense audience which, durinr the
discussion OF the ordinary participates had
been .'..H'ise, became enthusiastic while he
was Ut,g..L these sentiments. His declara.
tim, OF adherence Of slavery, his exposure
ct slavtholdlng aggression, his calls upon the
People Of OHIO To maintain tltsir riulis. and
his denunciatlons Of the Black Laws, were
loudly applaudod.-Cin. Herald.