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THE LAW TO PROHIBIT THE
CIRCULATION OF SMALL NOTES
in MARYLAND. The following is
the law passed at the late session of the
Maryland Legislature, $50 prevent the
circulation Of notes or bills of a denom-
ination less than fire doHars:"
Section l BE 1t enacted By the Gen
eraI assemdly Of Maryland, That
from and after the first day of October,
eighteen hundred and fifty two, 1t shall
not be lawful for any person, firm, or
association of persons, corporation, or
body polite, to pay out, circulate, or
receive in payment of any debt any
bank-note, promisory note, Or other
obligation, payable TO bearer, or en-
dosed in blank, or to bearer or any
other note, token, scrip or device what
soever, devised or intended for circula-
ton as currency, issued without the
limits Of this Statc, of less denomina-
ton than five dollars, under the penalty
of five dollars for each and every offence,
10 be recovered by an action of debt.
in the name of the State, before anv
justice of the peace in the State.
Sec. , ind be 1t enacted, That one
half of the penalty recovered in any
case under this act, shall go to the in
former, and the residue shall be paid to
the collector of county Or city taxes, for
the use of the county or city where the
same may be prosecuted for; and in
all cases the informer shall be Compel
ent witness.
Sec. 3 .And be 1t enacted, That in
case any person against whom any
judgement may be rendered for the PEN
atty provided by this act, shall not I'M
medlately pay the same and the costs of
the prosecution, Or give security, salts
factory to the justice rendering the
judgement for the payment, he shall be
committed to prison, there to remain
until the same shall be paid, Or until
the expiration of ten days from the
date of the commitment, which ever
shall first occur.
Sec. 4. find be 1t enacted, That from
and after the first day of March,
eighteen hundred and fifty,three, it
shall not be lawful for any bank. saving
institutions, corporation or body polite,
OF this State, or for any person or assoc
citation of persons to make, issue or pay
out any note or device, OF the nature
and character described in the preced-
ing section of this act of less denoml-
nation than five dollars, under the pen
atty prescibed in said section for each
offence, and to be received in the same
manner.
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Gen Scott and the Compromise.

The Hon. Henry W. billiard, Of Ala
bama, lately member Of Congress, and
firm and unwavering champion of
Souther interest, publishes in the Mont
gomery Journal his reasons for "yield-
ing hearty support of the Wing nomi-
nees." The following is an extract
from his letter:
He Gen. Scott) is well known to me
personally. His patriotic desire for the
success of the compromise measures
was we'll understood while they yet
hung in doubtful scales; and it so hap
pened tibet | dined in company with
him on the day of their triumphant pas
sage, and heard from his urn lips the ar
dent expression Of his unbounded satis-
faction at Mat most happy consumma-
flDn.
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SATURDAY MORNING AUGUST 7 1852

tive of course. They say that freedom
gives peculiar charm to the sunshine,
a sweetness to the flowers, and freshness
to the air; but Susy knew nothing of it..
She had not the soul of poet, yet she
longed for human sympathy, and that
companionship which springs from equal
ity. Then she might have found ten
thousand influences to her happiness,
that seemed under present circumstan-
ces to augment her misery. 1t was not
the incessant routine of daily toll, the
coarse fare and the hard straw bed, but
it was the absence of all congenial re-
gard and affection that rendered her life
so dark and gloomy. Yet people SEEM
ed to think that she was remarkable
happy, and ought to be wonderfully
grateful. With her back bent over the
wash-tub, or her face roasting over the
kitchen fire, preparing deicacies of
which she would only be allowed to
gather the crumbs. she would hear visi-
tors incidentally remark on the advan.
tages Of her situation. When the min.
lister came there and Susy prepared the
dining table, he spoke to her very seri-
Gus y on thesi gnal dispensalions of Prov
ldence by which she had been born in
freedom, and reminded her how CRATE
full and thankful she ought to be; while
she, poor child, would willingly have
battered her liberty for the privilege Of
loving and being beloved. At length
toll and isolation completed their work,
her spirit was broken and her health de.
cIned. Day by day she pinned and vast.
ed, and Mrs. Clark seeing the improba.
bility of her recovery, ordered her re-
moval to the aims house. Yet even
there the inmates refused to meet heI
on terms Of social equality. Even there
her presence seemed offensive, and her
person an object of loathing and disgust.
Colby, coldly TO her bosom that painted
for some manifestation ofregard, seemed
the otlicious attentions Of public charity,
and often, bat vainly did she look fol
some moistening of the eye, a tremor in
some voice, or sadness in some coun.
tenance as her decline became more
manifest. Often did she listen for a
word Or tone on which to hang a hope
that one tear would be shed over hel
grave, that one heart would cherish her
memory.
And thus she died-happier, per.
chance, in death than IN life, for the
great and good God will not despist
any of the creatures which he has made
however much they may be deSpised by
, men.
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Friends of Protection.

Remember how basely You were be-
trayed in 1914, 1S4S and how shame
fully your dearest interests were sacri-
feed
In 1914 Dallas gave his casting vote
in favor OF the British Tariff of 1916,
and Polk Notwithstanding his pledges,
affixed to it his sanction and approval,
who does not recollect how universal
was he cry among all classes and par
ties for revenge upon the betrayerS of
the Iaborers rights ! Now is the time to
strike a blow that will PROSTATE in the
dust all double-dyed Traitors for years
to come. Remember Franklin Pierce
is the avowed friend of Free Trade, and
consequently the representative OF Brit
ish interests and opposed to your own.
--"REMEMBER '44"--
"They played US then bitter prank
Now let US play them one as frank
For time at last sets all things even =
And if we do but uatch the hour,
There never yet was human power
Which could evade, if unforgiven,
The patient search and vigil long
or him who treasures up wrong"
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For The Cecil Wing.
EXTRACTS FROM AN ADDRESS.
Deiicered ut the Lnying Of the Corae,
Stone Of the PcncocIer Church,
Glasgow, Delaware.
Glasgow, Delaware.
BY THE REV. Fl. S HOWELL.


We are assembled to-day to Law the
/ Corner Stone Of new Presbyterian
Church on this site, and within this en-.
closure where our fathers met to worship
God and where their remains lie in the
unbroken silence OF the grave. The
first building erected, which stood on
the hill in the eastern part of this enclo-
sure, and the second building which
stood where these foundation walls are
now laid, built of perlShable materials
have both disappeared. OF the men
who were active in their construction,
we know but very little. The names
of few have come down to us from
tradition, and among the brief records
Of the past.
On the 9th day of October, 1901, the
"Welsh Tract" was purchased from the
Proprietary and Governor VIM. Penn,
by William Davis, David Evans, and
William Willis, a company from the
Welsh settlement in Chester county,
Pa. Most of the farms decided by this
company to the Welsh settlers were
conveyed in 1907, and there is every
reason to believe that this enclosure
which belonged originally to the farm
OF William Williams, now owned by
Mr.. John Frazier, was conveyed by him
very soon after that year to the Trustees
Of Pencader church, although we have
not been 81 fortunate as to find tbic deoJ
of conveyance. We know, however,
from the Records of the old Phila-
delphia Presbytery, that Darid Eyans
was preaching to the Welsh Presbyte-
rians in this place, as early as 1909. 1t
was necessary that they as well as the
Welsh settlement in Chester county,
should have preaching in the Welsh
language. Unable to obtain regularly
ordained minister, David Evans, without
having been regularly licensed by the
Presbytery, commenced preaching at
both these places. In the year I'LL, he
he was regularly licensed and continued
10 supply both Pencader and the Welsh
settlement in Chester county.
After his ordination in TIA he con-
fined his labors to Pencader alone, and
two years after, when the original Pres
bytery of Philadel phia was divided into
four Presbyteries, this church and their
Pastor David Evans, are found in the
New Castle Presbetery, and the records
oithat Presbytery are the only authentic
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dent of a Free State, and an inmate of
professedly Christian family. who were
bound hand and soul to the cause OF
Abolition, she was slave, not merely
in name, but in reality. There were
few persons of coloR in the neighbour
hood so she was entirely deprived of
any society with which she could min
gle on terms of equality. If she went
to school, as she once attempted to do,
she was laughed at and despsed by the
other children, because she was negro.
She went to church once or twice, but
Mrs. Clark could not admit her in the
family pew, and strangers were scandal
lied by her appearance on the seats APP
propriated to them in the house of God.
She was permitted to visit her mistress
parlor, at east, once every day, but it
was always to rub the furniture or
sweep the carpets. The only lace
where she was welcome at all times and
seasons was little uncomfortable corner
of kitchen, which she contrived to keep
clean and bright, and which. Henrietta
notwithstanding her mothers injunction
continued TO visit frequently.
Susy's mother had been slave N
NIrglnia--a slave in name, not in reali.
ty; for there is mighty difference. No
mental labors were ever required of her,
but she superintendent the wardrobe of
her mistress, and discharged the lunc-
tons of lady's maid. In this capacity
she Travelled nofthward, where she en-
countered company of Abolitionlsts,
who were travelling through the country
delivering lectures on Southern institu-
tons. Unfortunately she was persuaded
to abandon her mistress, and 60 with
them. But as her account varied so
widely from what they wished to make
it appear was the condition of the slaves,
they soon grew tired of her company
and finall y dismissed her to take care of
herself. Now her trouble commenced
in earnest. She was no longer the SER
want Of a refined and amiable mistress,
but emphatically the servant of servants.
! Wherever she went the most mental
and incesSant laborS We're required of
her. Her constitution, naturally weak,
was soon broken, and she sunk beneath
the accumulated burdens of sorrow and
daily toll, in less than two years from
her entrace into freedom. With her
dying breath she requested that her
daughter SuSy might be transferred to
her old mistress at the south. TO this
no attention was paid, and Susy was
doomed to wear out her life among
those, who, having neither wealth nor
rank to be proud of, attach a marvellous
superiority to a white skin, and who
protesting to honor laborer will not
admit the negro to the familiarity that
they would dog.
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CHAP. II.

CHAP. II.
"Well dear; hope you had a pleasant
meeting" observed Mrs. Clark to her
husband when he returned home.
ooh certainly, very pleasant and in
teresting," was the rejoinder. "Mr.
Longwind, the great orator, was there,
and made speech in which he proved
conclusvely that slavery was an injury
to every working man, since it tended
to eIualize laborers with negroes"
"Here" says he, ''the white man, what
ever may be his ignorance Or poverty,
occupies rank in society infinitely SUI
perior to the rich or we'll educated ne
gro, if such being could be found;
whereas in the South poor men and per-
sons of color are associated and ciassed
together. We, as poor men and labor
ers, should be interested in putting stop
to this"
every likely" replied Mrs. Clark
somewhat impatlentlv, shut is Sally
Jones coming to live here"
yes" he answered, "she will be
here tomorrow, and hope you will
tend to it, and See that Henrietta quits
playing with Susy."
Poor Susy who was to be her COM
panion.
The morrow came, and with it Sally
Jones. Herself a servant, yet permitted
by the mistress of the house, and the
customs of society to consider herself of
far more Importance than Susy, which
she embraced every opportunity ofshow-
ing. Susy now was never spoken to by
any of the family except to receive com.
mands. In the midst of social and do
nestle affection, she was solitary and
alone, excluded from the pale of sympa-
thy, and utterly deprived of that con-
vivial intercourse in which her race so
much delights. Once, and once only,
did Mrs. Clark attempt to provide Susy
with companion. Then beggar g,rl
of Irish extraction called and asked for
supper; Mrs. Clark hesitated for some
time, and then babe Susy let the girl eat
supper with her. 81 hope you don't
expect me to eat with nigger,' ex-
claimed the beggar in an angry tone.
"Right spunky, | declare" exclaimed
Mr.. Clark.
Mrs. Clark laughed, and the Irish
beggar eat solitary supper. And was
Susy happy! Those who imagine that
negroes are necessarily happy in a state
OF freedom, will answer in the aliirma-
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VOL. XII.---No 3
For The Cecil Ihir,
a Shadow.


Down behind the tree-l0pS, sinking,
have watched the sun, and now,
While the shadows gather round me
While the night-dews battle my brow,
| will tell thee OF shadow,
Like unto this twilight hour;
Der my gladstone heart it hovers-
All my feelings own its power.
Here, Just where now am sitting,
Close beside our cottage door,
OFT Eve sat with one-whose shadow,
On our threshold, falls no more.
Oh! how earnestly listen
For her foot fall soft and light,
But it comes not, and my spirit
Sinketh silent, into night.
Through my fingers 've been twining-
Twas but now laid it down.
A dcarlock of hair SO sIlkcn,
And the lightest, soflcst brown.
Once upon her brow it rested
She the spirit of my song
But The tears mine eyes are binding,
am weeping.--I Is it wrongi
HadSt thou known her heart so gentle,
lfals thou seen her smile so soft,
HadSl thou heard her words Of music,
As Eve heard them, oh! SO oft,
Halst tlou telt her soft arms twining
Round thee, when thy heart was drear,
Then with me thou wouldst be weeping
Then thou could'st not chide this tear.
All! this sad, this twilight shadow,
viii it ever pass away!
Must it DER my spirit hover,
Shrouding it in gloom for aye2
Will no sunlight of tomorrow
SHIN" alhwart the gathered gloom
Joy and %laineSS, will they never
In my saddcned heart find room?
ELLEN GREY.
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For The Cecil IIhig.
NORTHERN PREJUDICE
AGAINST PERSONS OF COLOR.
BY MRS. lamar DAVIS.

.author Of "LDe .4mons Negroes al The North"
CHAPTER 1.
"Child alive; what on earth; now
you've been wiplng on that towel again,
have you," screamed Mrs. Clark, adj
dressing a brigh.-eyed, curly headed
little girl apparently four Or five years
old.
II has ma, replied the child, looking
half.irightenrd at her own diSobedience,
or her mothers earnestness.
"Well, now 60 wash again, and then
come here, and let me- wipe your face,
or sha'nt bear to kiss you again i'll a
week. continued the mother.
"What is the NATTER inquired Mr..
Clark, looking up from the Anti-Slavery
document he had just been reading.
"Why, Henrietta persists in wiping
her face on Susy's towel, replied the
lady, land | can't bear it,"
Its strange" observed Mr.. Clark,
land that isn't all, don't like her play
ing with Susy. The wench should do
the work. She is not a suitable play
male lot henrietta.
AS 10 that replied the mother"
whose maternal susceptblities We're
touched, 'the child has no one else to
play WITH"
"Then We'll provide some one else,
that's certain. III stop this very night
at Bill Jones', aud get Sally to come and
live here. Then she can have play
mate of her own color"
"WelI; do So" replied the mother,
'but | hardly know where she could
sleep we are rather scant of beds"
''L,et her sleep in Susy's bed,' sug-
gested the gentleman.
"Sleep with Susy," echoed the lady.
s'whv shouldn't dare mention such a
thing. The Jones's would never for
give me in the world, poor as they are"
81 said sleep in ousy's bed," explain
ed Mir. Clark.
"Where'd Susy sleep, them" was the
next inquiry.
''No difficulty about that, | shouldn't
imagine,' he answered, "almost any
where will do. Fill that old chest with
straw, and let her get into it."
81 might do that" rejoined Mrs. c.,
Frightening with the idea, land If you
ale going to call at Jones you'd better
be off, too"
"Mother, where is pa going," inquir-
ed Henrietta.
"To an Anti-Slavery meeting, my
child"
"What is that I"
"Why, the folks down South have
slaves, and the Anti-Slavery people are
opposed to such a wicked practice"
"What are slaves, persisted the child.
"Colored people, who have to work
very, very hard, and who are cruelty
whipped too, sometimes.
"But Susy has to work very hard, |
think, and you whipped her, too, till the
blood ran down her back, is she slave"
blush child, what do you know about
such things, come here and say your
book"
Leaving the mother and daughter in
this profitable employment, and Mr..
Clark on his way to attend the Anti
Slavery meeting, of which he was Pres
ident, we will give our readers little
insight into the past history of the SER
want girl.
ousy was negro, and though a resi-
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IT, G. w. Crawford, OF Georgia, the
Secretary of Wa under General lay
lor, who brought odium upon the Ad-
ministration by his connection with the
Galphin claims, has come out for Pierce
and King. 1t is presumed, the Demo-
cratic press will now keep silent on this
subject, as they have got the Chief of
the Galphins.
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Those who have not traced the
course of family quarrels, would not
readily guess from what light circum-
stances they often originate. They
arise more frequently from small defects
in temper, than from material faults in
character. People, who would perhaps
sacrifice their fortune or lives for each
other, cannot, at certain moments, give
up their will or command their humor
in the slightest degree
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PRETry.-The light of love is ever
beautiful amid scenes of sorrow, and as
the moonbeams seem holier and more
tender round a ruin or a churchyard
than in festival halls, so is affection
purer and brighter when bestowed VI on
the wretched than when attracted by
youth and happiness.
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have remained sisgh, but he couldn't
afford it. What 1t cost him for gals
and ice cream was more than he now
pays to bring up wife and eight chill
dren. Bachelors should think of this.
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'OF what is cider made!' Il don't
know SIR What stupid boy. What
did you get when you robbed widow
Upton's orchard 2 i got licking, sir
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the building committee are Jacob Faris,
William Whann, Peter Williams, and
John Aiken.
In the year 1876, a Mr.. Cheally took
charge of Pencader IN connection with
the Forest. He was man of popular
address; an eloquent preacher, but PROV
ed to be unworthy of the sacred Office of
the ministry. In 1901 he was deposed
and communicated.
After an interval of 8 years the Rev.
Samuel Bell, now of Newark, Del, was
installed pastor Of st. Georges and PEN
cader, on the 9th day of April, 1909, and
continued in this relation until 1893.
In the year 1922 when the seasonal
! records commence, the session of PEN
cader church consisted of the Rev. Saml.
Bell, Mod, Peter Williams, VIM. Wat
son, Seth Stuart, Thomas j. Clark, to
whom were added the next year Frisby
Henderson, and james Mccullough.
During the years 1912, when so
many churches in different parts of our
land were blessed with powerful revivals,
this church was ot passed by. Forty
two persons were added to the church
during those years on profession of their
faith. Of that number, five have since
become Elders in this or neghboring
churches, viz: James Robinson, in the
church at Newark; Jacob Faris and Robt.
Cam, in this church; Andrew Mclntire,
decd, and James T. Mccullough, in
the church at Elkton.
Mr.. Bell was succeeded BY the Rev.
Hugh Hammill, now of Lawrenceville,
NJ. who was installed, pastor of PEN
cader in connection with a new church
at E2hton, Nd, January 21st, 1884.
The church at Elkton had been organ
lied May Sd, 1888, Mr.. Frisby Hendel-
son and Andrew Mclntire were elected
elders. During the same year house
of worship was ere cted, which was dedi-
Gated on the same day that Mr.. Ham
mill was installed.
In the year 1898, Mr.. Hammill was
succeeded by the Rev. James McIntire,
who remained pastor until the year
1S49, when he was succeeded by the
Rev. H. S. Howell, the present pastor
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"VlG1LANcE COMMITTEES" kowdy.
ism has become so rampant in New
York that "VigIlance Committees are
recommended, to deal out summary
punishment to the offenders.
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The BRlr1sH FOR PIERCE The Lon
don Times says it prefers Pierce to eth
er Cass, Buchanan, or Douglass, and in
giving its reasons for preferring Mr..
Pierce, it says "He has not made
speeches for Kossuth, or promised the
annexation of Cuba. He has had ex-
perience of public affairs in the high
est assembly of the Countrywide Sc
nate of the United Safes; and, to de-
scend to minor particulars in his politi-
cal creed, he is at once man of New
England and yet DECIDED
CHAMPION OF FREE TRADE"
OF course the British 90 in for Pierce,
and when they find cold Chippewa"
has been nominated against him, they
will work harder for Pierce than ever.
Who are the "British party' now!
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DIssIpArIoN.-The world is not so
barren of beauty and bliss that we
must, to recreate on. spirits, drink of
the foul sediment Of corrupt pleasure.
When every sunbeam is winged with
glory, and every rain-drop falls as if it
were benediction from the skies
when in our daily walks so much glad
ness meets us at every turn-W hen,
even in our labors of hand and head,
there is often mingled so much of still
steady happiness-when in our homes,
the air is so full of love and enjoyment
when in music, in books in innocent
sports and games, in the ride, the social
festsvity, such ample and various means
are provided for all reasonable exhilara-
tion-w no would in his better moments
wish to plunge into the giddy world of
fashionable dissipation.
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.Author Of "LJe .4mong Negroes al The North
CHAPTER l.