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The southern press., 1851-10-30
From the .Ns,o York DDiiy Times.
Gerrlt Smiths Address.
UTICA. Saturday. Oct. 25.

UTICA, Saturday, Oct 20.
Gerrt Smith has issned an address to the Lib
erty party, and others, in which he expresses his
firm conviction that that party is destined &c
overthrow slavery in the United States. He be
lieves the recent demonstration of liberty in Sy,
racuse will help the party, and that with proper
effort it will result in good.
The time was, when he expected the termina
ton of slavery in the United States but, alas
things look dark A discrepancy here-thC
fault, perhaps, of the wires The country i,
divided into two great parties, and ninety out o.
every hundred voters are under the control Of
the wire -pullers Of said parties, and few are pre-
pared TO act Independently although at Syracuse
ley did help the man Jerry TO escape. But a,
re elections they will vote for murderers
The reclaimlng Of fugitive from slavery from
the hands Of the law, is not, be says, a criminal
act; reclaiming fugitive from slavery is said
not to be criminal-it is only the masters at.
tempt TO recover his property-but it is called
treason TO resist the same with only the bare
hands of his friends. Is this just or lawful
We are told the laws are constitutional and
must be enforced but contend that 1t is not
nd | will not support it. Mr. Webster admits
the general government has nothing to do
with this provision. What United States Judge
mere would sav that the United States govern.
ment was justified in chasing down those whites
that helped the slave Jerry to escape at Syracuse
I say that any one that will capture and send .
human being into slavery, should be tried as a
kidnapper of the backest aye, and also a muir
uerer
Such attempt is now making by Milard Fill
more, who has instructed his officers to arrest Mt
all hazards, the so-styed fugitivas from justice.
am glad to see the blacks resist the law.
will not cay by what means they should do il;
but, if officers undertake to deprive them of
their liberty, they must be protected, even il
they have to Jake life. In doing this, they will
be respected by the whites, and find friends.
Many Hungarians are arriving in this country.
Webster and Cass are loud in their boasts and
eulogies of them, and at the same time they are
keeping 100000 of human beings in bondage.
When poor Jerry said to me, 81 will not 90
back had sooner dew ! did not know what
he intended TO do But in what he did do he is
lusti6abie When Kossuth arrives in this com.
try let him show himself man, by declaring
against slavery in this conntry as veil as in Aus
tra.
He concluded by calling on one and all to
rally round the polls in support of freedom and
liberty
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master is Us much fettered TO one end Of the
chain as the slave TO the other and it would be
difficult TO say which is the least prepared for
emancipation"
II is obvious that to reconstruct the whole
fabric Of soeety-whch is what is implied In
any wise method of abolishing slayery-can
never be the work of a day Had the slaves
been introduced few years ago into commu-
nifty whose industrial habits and social judg.
ments and moral feelings had been formed under
free institutions, they might be suddenly re-
moved, and the transient void, soon filled, would
scarcely be observed. But to change the organic
life of ten millions of people, to change institu-
tions and ideas rooted in the past, and wrought
into all the customs of common life, must, at
best, be very slow and gradual process. To
expunge slavery from the statute book would be
the least and easiest thing required-far easier,
certainly than to legisate into the minds Of
whites or blacks the ideas which belong to free
institutions. Were legal slavery abolished al
the South il would probably be centuries before
il could be abolished from the Southern mind
Even at the North, the black, though equal with
the white before the law, is far ever from
having vindicated for himself any position of
social equality In England, in spite of affni
ties of race, color, and general equality of cul-
ture, eight centuries have hardly effected the dis
tnction between Norman and Saxon, and still
less that between Saxon and Celt. And thus
far, all experiments in emancipation, which have
left the negro in the same country with his
former master, show how nearly impossible it is
for either party to overcome the barriers of
race and caste, and color, and historical associa-
ton, and for them to meet each other en- equal
terms.
Such considerations show plainly enough what
IormIdab uhSt9claa nj in tho xua IF al ot-
tempts to remove slavery. And, what is still of
more consequence, they force upon us the con
viction that any change, which deserves the
name Of an Improvement, in the social condition
of people among whom slavery exists, must,
from the necessity of the case, be very gradual,
and must be the result, not of revolution, but of
growth.
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A Curious PlGHT.-A friend has furnished u'
the particulars of quite novel fight which took
place in our town few days since. A gentle.
man having rattlesnake In box with tin bars
put rat in, to see his nakeship give specimen
Of swallowing. The snake struck at the rat
and the rat finding himself in close quarters with
a deadly enemy, like all towards, began to show
fight, when he could do no better. He attacked
his adversary with spirit, and continued to bite
him on the head and neck, until he gained n CON.
plete victory. The snake died Of his wounds
in few minutes, and ;he rat was killed by n
dog, but we are not informed what became OF
the dog that killed the rat that whipped the
snake, thatla in the box that Charley built
Anderson Is. CO. Gazette.
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Protestant PROGRESS IN lRELASp.-While
the world rings with the transit of an occasional
duke or doctor in divinity, or humber clergy
man, from Popery to Professionalism, the vast but
noiseless conversion of Catholic peasaniry and
people in Ireland attracts but little notice An
Irish bishop recently estimated the number of
these conversions, within the period of a year,
at ten thousand. correspondent of the Lon
don Times recently visited Cohnepara, Iassing
through a number Of villages in the remote ard
mountainous seci ions, in nearly all Of which
numerous conversions were taking place At
one place he Witnessed the confirmation of 90
persons, of when only ten were originally
Protestantsi at another very large school has
been gathered wholly Of Catholic children; at
another place 30 persons were confirmed of
whom only three were originally Protesfsnts.
In the latter place, the clergyman wns formerly
a student at Maynooth College, and has been
remarkably successful in inducing former CO.
refgionisis to abandon the Church of Rome.
lie breaches in Irish large congregations. In
these towns there bad been over 900 converts
in the last years. This is the kind Of tri-
umphs that may give courage and hope for Ire
land and Protestsnism. They show the decline
of that terrible power of superstition which is
Rome's stronghold, and give promise of greater
improvements yet to come.--N. Z. Evangelist,
The southern press., 1851-10-30
Gen. Foote's Constituency.

When Gen. Foote first removed TO this State
he established paper at Vicksburg, TO advocate
the doctrines of John C.. Calhoun In few
years we find him denouncing those doctrines
as abominable heresies.
For brief while he claims to be an ultra
Democrat But on a sudden, he throws himself
in the Wbig ranks, and as a reward for his
apostacy asks their hands seat in the State
legislature We proved last week that while
occupying that seat, he was one of their chief
spokesmen, and voted for John Anderson, a
Whig, to the United States Senate
And again "a change comes over the spirit Of
his dream" He turns Democrat, and by pro-
fesslon OF overhead, worms himself into the
confidence Of the Democracy, that they place
him on the electoral ticket.
He has been against The admission of Califor-
mia, and for her admission.
He has been against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
Texas, and for the dismem berment Of Texas.
He has been against the suppression Of the
slave trade in the District of Columbia, and in his
letter to Henry A. WISE he denounced any man
"a madman" who would claim for Congress
the right to medde with slavery in the States,
territories or Disrictof Columbia He has said
the Fugitive slave law would be effective and
that it would not.
He has denounced Fillmore as an abolition
Wing, and lauded him as a sound, conservative
statesman.
He has been the bitter reviler of Henry Clay,
and his fulsome adulatOr.
He has admitted the right of the Legislature
to instruct him, and he has denied the right
He has advocated the doctrine of secession
and proved that it was recognized by Gen. Jack
son, and he has denounced the doctrine and de-
MED that Jackson recognised it.
Is Mississippi to rely for the guardianship OF
her rights and honor upon man who has no
stability, and who is so utterly destitute of the
qualities of statesman--SOuthern RepeiLs.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NEW HAvEN
seven o'clock on Saturday
evening a dreadful accident took place on the
New York and New Haven railroad within a
half a mile of Mount Vernon, in the vicinity OF
New Rochelle. The freight train which left New
York at 6, P. NJ, in accordance with the regu' b.
tions, should have waited at Williams Bridge, ,un.
I'll the passenger train from New Haven passed
uown, but 1t proceeded towards the next sta
ton at a high rate of speed, and the consequence
was a collision so violent that the locomotives
were crushed, the engine Of the freight train
was forced back to its own cars, two of which
were sha tered to pieces, the tender Of the loco
motive attached to the passenger train was
thrown upon the engine, and the baggage car
was hurled upon the tender. The engineers,
and one of the fremen saved themselves by
jumping off before the concussion.
James McQuin, the brakeman of the freight
train, received a severe blow on the breast, and
is thought to be injured internally
Charles Nase, fireman, and George johnson,
brakeman, the passenger train, were both
killed.
Charles Jennings newsboy, had one of his
feet cut off
Patrick Harrington had both legs broken.
James Studley, boy about twelve years old
was slightly injured.
Patrick Carroll had both legs broken, and was
otherwise injured.
Walter Taylor, of No Ia Wall street, had his
ankle sprained, and his face and leg cut.
George o. Bartlett, of No. Wall street, had
his shoulder and other parts Of his person Sc
verely bruised.
William Denike, of Ansonia, Conn, was cut
in the face and arms, and much bruised.
The sufferers, Carroll, Harrington and Studley
have been placed in the city hospital. Yester.
day afternoon, the coroner of Westcbester
county instituted an inquest on the remains Of
the deceased, Nasc and Johnson. At the time of
writing this narrtive the verdict has not reached
us. There are two accounts of the cause Of this
accident, some attributing it to the rashness of
the engineer of the freight train in attempting to
reach another station before the passenger train
passed him, and others alleging that it was
solely the fault Of the switchmaE in neglecting
to place the proper signal at Williams, Bridge.
The coroner's inquest will perhaps ascertain the
truth.--N y. Herald
The southern press., 1851-10-30

GERMAN-AMERIcAN PoLITlcs.--Dn account Of
the staving off Of the reform measures by the
opposition In the State of Wisconsin, the "Ger-
man Democrats" have commenced the formation
of political organization pledged to support
those candidates only who will agree to exert
their influence for what they consider Demo-
cratic principles" Accordingly, a State conven-
tion was held at Watertown, October "a to
further this object, when delegates were enroll
ed from twelve counties. Resolutions were
adopted in favor of land reform; appointing a
German central committeej dsclaiming all in
tention of forming German partyj against the
present license law, and, indeed against all laws
regulating the sale of liquors, inconsistent
with freedom Of trade and the rights of citizen;
declaring the intention of the German Democrats
of Wisconsin to co operate with the democra-
cy' in other States; approving the general poll
cy of the same democracy down to 1870; and,
finally, going for the repeal of the Sunday law.
Ii remains to be seen what effect this movement
will have on the old parties. The German pa
pers IN St. Louis are advocating similar line of
policy by the oerlsns of that city, regarding as
they do, that neither OF the present parties
Wing or Democratic, really advocate genuine
Democratic principles.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

SOMETHING New UNDER THE SUs.-A late
number of the Charleston Christian Advocate
and Journal has the following
A HEATHER TEMPLE IN THE UNITED STATES
New wonders break upon us daily in this won.
derful day of progress. We Just ask all our
readers, while they pursue the folowi ing para.
graph, to remember DIR. Booting's proposition.
Wake up Christian, and confront this bold chal.
lenge of heathenisml Send on the men who
may help to plant Christianity on the Pacific, 80
that, from that point, now invaded by idoatry.
here may go out before long, power that may
smite idoatry ia its own seats of ssver. A
correspondent Of the N. Y. Commercial says
1.-THE Chinese have opened temple for their
pagan worship in San Francisco. One of toe
anomalies is, the fact of pagan temple being
erected within the bounds Of the United States
an imported heather temple in a Christian
country. 1t is strong evidence of the absolute
religious freedom enjoyed in our happy Union
How important it is that the missionary socie.
ties at home should wake up to the fact that
there are gathe-in arosnd Us large number
from China, VIZ call for immediate attention.
The friends of missions in the favo6e land OF
our birth, should devise means to send us suita-
bic persons TO preach to the Chinese in their
own language. One that can do So and is fa-
miliar with the manners and customs of the
people, might do great good. There will be no
-ificulty in supporting such person here"
Heathens! Why we have any amount Of
them in our towns-New York, Baltimore, New
Orleans, Philadelphia, &c. But in San Francisco
there is one temple, and that temple dedicated to
the God of the Chinese, a pesceable industrious
and, in their way, pious people. Hence the long
reward Of prosperity they have, as a nation. en-.
joyed. But our heathens are next to the saw
ages, and those who should preach and teach
among them, would find no merit or romance in
the work. Hence the neglect.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

s4y- In reference to Mr.. DALLAS late letter on
the adjustment" and the dangerous centraliz-
ing of the federal government, the Ieras Re-
publican says:
These opinions coming from Northern man,
and at time like the present, are well calculat-
ed to arrest public attention, and to unite not
only the South, but the true lovers of the
Union everywhere, in defence of the Constitu-
ton. If Dir. Dallas, Northern man, sees danger
in the present aspect of affairs, so much so that
"as a people, we are generally calm and con-
servative-perhaps more tamely so than is con-
genial with the spirit and antcipations Of the
Constitution" we cannot perceive why South
ern men, who are affected by the sectional
legislation TO which he refers, cannot also see it.
1t must be evident to every man, that unless
better understanding exists between the two
sections of the Union, and the slavery question
is put at rest, the Union is destined to decay
1t may survive the present period many years
but ultimately the time must arrive, when the
Southern States will have to unite in defence
of their rights.
Let the patriotic of all parties, and of botf
sections determine that this question shall bt
settled, fairly and permanently, and we see nc
reason why the Union may not be rendered
perpetual.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

~ There are dissentions among the Aboli-
tionists. Mr.. SCoBLE, secretary of the British
and Foreign Anti-sIavery Society, now in this
country, altogether disclaims connection with
Csc. THOMPSON. He appears to treat the latter
rabid gentleman with considerable contempt
Indeed an acknowledgement or even suppose
ton of sympathy with this pretended philanthro
pst, Mr. SooBLE evidently felt, would damage
himself and cause with many in the North
THOMPSON, again, and DOUGLASS are at logger
heads, while GERRITT SMITH, who has lately
disgraced himself by speech of the most foul
and violent character in the cause of insurrecton
and anarchy, comes in for share of the attacks
made in England by THOMPSON. DOUGLASS
states that such attacks are ungiateful in one
who hesitated not to pocket money contributed
by his party. All this is highly amusing. and
shows these paragons of liberty and phanthro.
py in their true colors.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

The following statistics Of the Great Exhibit
ton will be found interesting The income of
the establishment has been as follows mp to the
present date; public subscriptions, E64,344;
privilege Of printing, f3,200 privilege Of sup.
plying refreshments, rs $4,000 amount received
for season tickets up to lst May G40,000.
Total funds in hand on the lst Of May, El13,-
04i Amount received Mt the doors up to Sat
urday, Oct 4th, f439,32l 2s The liabilities
in 'urred are as follows for the building, G79,-
800 for resembling of contract, G5,000 extra
galleries, counters and fittings, t35,000; man
agemeni including printing, &c, up to May /,
G20,953 police force, 10000; prize fund,
100000 Total, Gl70,7l3. The expenses of
management, gas, water, &c, will probably
amount to E50000. ard the sum likely to be
received this week for admission will be at least
100000. This would bring the total income
up to fd60 900, and the total liabilities to about
f220,COO leaving the very handsome balance in
hand OF ego 900, or nearly quarter Of mil
lion sterling. The total number Of visitors up
10 Saturday was b,547,238.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

THE PAMRERo.-We learn from the San Au-
gustine (Florda) correspondence OF the Savan.
nah Republican, that the taking Of testimony in
the case of the Pampero commenced at that
place on the 10th instant. We extract the fol-
lowing:
The first witness examined was John King a
native of Ireland, one of the men attached to the
expedition, who departed from New Orleans on
the Pampero, and arrived with said vessel at
Cuba; but being taken sick on the voyage and
thereby disabled, he did not land, but returned
with the Pampero to Jacksonville. In the latter
town, King lay some weeks at the point Of
death. He arrived in very destitute condition,
though his wants were supplied by the charity
of the ladies' of Jacksonville. His testimony
before the court was very full, and il is thought
alone ample TO prove the violation of the laws
He described the passage Of the steamer, her ar
rival at Cuba, aud Identification of the vessel in
question as the one engaged in the expedition
To-day, Col. II. T. Titus, also of the expedi.
ton, was called His evidence as to the rein
forcament from Jacksonville, and the departure
and subsequent disbandment Of the Pampcro
party in this region, IL full and conclusive. j.
G.. lIenning and Capt, Thompson, of Jackson
Vile, occupied the latter part of to-day in giving
evidence, which was brief, but to the same point
The court adjourned over to Monday, when tes
timony will be resumed. IL is understood that
the argument will be postponed until another
sitting of the court
Major b. a. Putnam, of this place, and Nc
Queen Mcintosh, esq, are the present counsels
for Mr. Sigur; G. NJ. Call, esq, u. s. district
attorney.
Some fifteen witnesses are subpmnaed--citi.
zens of Jacksonville, persons attached to the
Cuban expedition, and others a commission
has been forwarded TO New York to take the
deposition of Lieut.. Van Vechten, although the
testimony of King renders it almost superfuous.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

FRUITS OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ON
LONG IsLAND.--The following, says the New
York Day Book, which we clip from the Long
Island Farmer, is truthful description of the
intoerable nuisance it represents. Nearly all
these negroes were slaves, and they are just
what and no worse than negro slaves every
where would be, if, like those wretches Of Long
Island, they were set free and left to themselves:
We, for long time have refrained from
noticing an intolerable nuisance existing in our
village, in hopes that The proper authorities
would adopt some measures whereby the evil
might be abated, by finding no action taken by
them, we appeal to the villagers generally to
urge our worthy trustees to enact some law
whereby our village may be freed from the
greatest curse, in moral point of view, that can
be inflicted upon us--we refer to the congrega-
ting ia our streets of dirty drunken, impudent,
Infamous set OF male and female negroes, who
make it common practice nightly to gather in
large groups on the corner of almost every
street, drink rum, use all kind of filthy and pro-
fame language, quarrel and make night hideous
with their incessant squalling and drunken rev.
eries The ladies of our village hardly dare
venture in the street after night fall fearful their
progress may be impeded, (Which is the case
frequently by these dirty, impudent blacks, or
their modesty shocked by the foul language,
which falls from their polluted lips.
"Jamaica, is pretty village, and many more
would make it their place of residence, were they
not deferred by the cause above named. We
have been repeatedly told that we need not ex-
pect persons of responsibility to settle here 80
long as we allow set of drunken negroes to
run riot at night and infect the atmosphere with
an odor that no non-infectant can eradicate.
"WilI our trustees take the matter in hand
If so, all WELL if not, who will blame the people
if they take the law in their own hands and
abate this intolerable nuisance?
The southern press., 1851-10-30
.N-News from South America place tho ,

sF-News from South America place the af.
fairs of RosAs in an unfortunate position. The
Orientals were deserving ORIBE, and the Argan.
tine troops were refusing to fight, being wearied
of the war. The whole of the Banda Oriental
seems likely TO fall into the hands of the veto
rieus Brazilians 1t is to be hoped that this TEN.
pest in teapot, whish has so long disturbed
these petty republics and exercised the ingenui
ty and tried the honesty OF so many European
diplomatists, will at length be brought to a set.
t'ement The tyranny Of RosAs, and silly jeal.
ouses of Buenos Ayres and Montevidio, have
sufficiently long occupied public attention.
The southern press., 1851-10-30

s-W- Conversions and perversions 90 on in
England and Ireland The richer classes te-
come Catholic; the poorer, Protestant! Some
go forward-soue go back. Some love show
and pomp--some are attracted by simplicity
Some are BY nature romantic-others matter
of-fact.
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