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BEAUTIFUL EyTRicr.- There is all even-tide
in human life, a season when the eye becomes
dim and the strength decays, when the winter
OF age begins TO shed upon the human head its
prophetic SHOWS. 1t is the season of life to
which the autumn is most analogous, aud which
it becomes; and much it would profit you, my
elder brethren, to mark the instruction which
the seasen brings. The spring and summer of
your days are gone, and with them not only
joys they knew, but many of the friends who
gave them. You have entered upon the au-
tuml of your being, and whatever may have
been the profusion of your spring. or the warm
temperature Of your summer, there is season
of Stiffness or solitude which the bcnifcence Of
heaven affords you, in which you may med-
tate upon the past and future, and prepare
yourself for the mighty change which you may
soor undergo. 1t is now that you may under
stand the magnificent language of heavcn-It
mnglcs its voice with that of revelation--it
summons you to those hours when the leaves
fall and the winter is gathering, TO that even
ing study which the mercy of heaven has pro-
vided in the book of salvation. And while the
shadowy valley opens, which leads to the
aboGe Of death, it speaks of that love which
can comfort and save, and which conducts to
those green pastures and those still waters
where there is an eternal spring for the chill
drcn Of God.
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WE'LL kNowx.-A highwaynan, named Dor
lard, confined in Ncwgatc, stut tor a Sol'c''or
to know how he could defer his trial. ana was
answered, by getting an apo'hccary to make MAKE
affidavit of his illness. This was accordingly
done in the following manner: "'l'he deponent
verify believes that if the said James holland
is obliged to take his trial at the ensuing ses:
sious he will be in imminent danger OF his life
to which the learned Judge on the bench an
swercd that he very believed 50 too. The
trial was orlcrcJt to proceed Immediately.
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The strife with evil never ceases. We arc
anoat in u lcaky ship, and must keep pumping
to keep FROM going down.
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Ten friends arc dearly purchased at the OK
pcnsc of a single enemy for the latter will
take ter times more pains to inlurc you than
than the former will to do YOU 4 service.
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good fame of mind on Saturday evening will
seldom lull person to sleep, or make him indif-
fercntabout the worship of God on Sabbath
morning.
Folrthly and lastly. Think of the rapid ap-
proadl of death, and cndcavor to realize to your
sclve the views and feelings YOU will then have
of what you have been. and what YOU haze done,
andwhat you have left undonc, when you are
jns going to give in your account unto God. 1t
is lamentable fact, there are not few in our
churches and congregations who are all their
lie long planting thorns in that pillow upon
which at last they must lie down and die; and
no,c are doing this more cfectuaIly than the
caplcss and the slotl(ul. "Ah," says one, on
dcah-bcd, shat had been more actively en-
garI in the service of God.' "Oh," cries an
othe' in the anguish of his soul, "that could
but I've my time over again! What different
person would be- Oh, the sins have COM
mited, the duties have neglected, the Sabbaths
| have murdcrcd" But it is in yan He is
Just on the borders of eternity; and MI the wealth
Of worlds can neither purchase him a respite
fran death, nor afford him ali opportunity of re-
tievins his condition forever. 'Oh that they
were wise, that they understood this, that they
would consider their latter end"
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Williams, near seventy years ofase, started home
from this place, intoxicated, on Tuesday evening
last, in the rain, and was found dead in the road
next morning, about 10 miles from town and
within mile or two of his own dwelling. The
verdict of the jury of inquest was, that his death
was caused by inoxication and exposure
On Monday last a citizen of this county, Al
fred Story who was on the plank road with
wagon, slipped and fell while attempting to get
into the same, and the wagon run over and kill
cd him. He has left wife and six children.
Grecns6orough Patriot.
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TERRITORY OF WAsuINCToN.-A new Ter
rtory with this designation was created, and
provision made for its organization, by an
Act of Congress approved on the I'd inst. 1t
comprises that part of Oregon which lies North
of the middle of the main channel of Coum-
bia river, to where it crosses the 46th degree
of Latitude, and thence along said degree of
latitude, to the top of the Rocky Mountains.
The land occupied by missionary stations, not
exceeding 640 acres to each, together with the
Improvements, is expressly reserved and con.
frmed to the Missionary societies respective.
ly which established the same. Stations that
were so occupied prior to the passage Of the
Act organizing the Territory of Oregon, are
also confirmed to the Societies which estab-
lishcd them, even though they have since
been abandoned.
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template that we should voluntarily involve
ourselves in the curses Of Slavery and that no
pro-slavery application of the "rulos OF comi-
ty" can justify us in sffording facilities to the
slave trade, we reject with adherence the
proposition that we should bring dlshonor on
our noble Commonwealth, and peril our souls,
for the convenience " of those who trade IN
the bodies and souls of men.
Your memorialists therefore pray your hon.
orable bodies, that those acts which the voice
of the civilized world condemn as GtrOcious, and
which our laws denounce as piracy and punish
with death if committed on the coast OF BARBA-
RoUs AFRICA, may not be approved and legal
lied by the descendants and successors of Penn
and Franklin, of Morris and Wilson, of Wool
man and Benezet.
That the magnificent public thoroughfares
which we have constructed for, and dedicated
to, the uses of legitimate and God-approying
commerce. may not be prostituted to the pur-
poses of nefarious traffic in human flesh
That our sympathies may not be shocked or
the "public peace" disturbed by the exhibition
of slave-coffles and manacles, and of drivers
and whips, and that our children be spared
from familiarity with such demoralizing spec
tacles.
And they especially and earnestly pray your
honorable bodies to resist every attempt of the
slave power to impGcate the people of our Staee
in the crimes of slavery or the slave trade and
to refuse the enactment Of any law for the
keeping, holding, or driving Of slaves in or
through the limits of our Commonwealth
Signed by 1875 citizens.
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For the National Era.
MS APOSTLES.

The son Of Japhet-so thelabe runs
Essayod to initiate Joye's stalwart sons;
Made comely statues of old Nilus slime,
And gave to them the consciousness of Time.
Promctheus thus incurred the ruthless ire
Of Joye, of gods and men the king and SIRE
Who bound him to the rock there doomed to SEQ
The rolling waters free mmonsity;
Condemned to live, while vultures gnawed upon
The breast from which no psng could wiring groan
In his dire helplessness helper came,
And gave to both a world-enduring fame.
So, nor, the man who would his brethren free,
Is fettered on the shore of Freedoms sea;
While ruthless vutures of fallen race
Assail the foe whom, else, they dare not face.
or him shall come the all unfettering Truth
And, nerved in manhood with the wrongs Of youth,
Der earth's poor bondmcn shall no lift the rod
And Ethiopia stretch her hands to God
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The above table he afirms to be but fair
specimen of the losses in other parts of the
Territory. Accompanying the letter of Gov
ernor Calhoun are letters from New Mexican
officials. Project Sarracino of Paparito de-
tails the particulars of the inroads of the Ma
vajos during tho year 1850. He complains
that the United States troops stationed at CT
boletta, after single days march in pursuit
Of the savages, turned back, and left the own
ers of the stolen stock to contend with the en-
envy, with loss of six wounded that a second
time the Navajos made swoop down upon
some hocks and herds near Ciboletta; that
the troops were ordered out, but returned the
next day. leaving the Navajos to carry off the
plumber at their leisure Finally, on the third
foray, by which the Navajos obtained upwards
of 5000 sheep the unfortunate owners, by
strong representation of the matter, obtained
detachment Of seven soldiers who, not find
ing the trail very distinct on account of the
fall Of snow, gave up the pursuit and turned
back to their quarters
Romos Luna, Project Of Lunas, states that,
learning that the Navajos had stolen some two
thousand sheep near valverde, he had pro-
ceeded to Ciboletta, to demand aid from the
troops. lie was told that the horses Of tho
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is nothing supercilious or condescendng in
their style of comment; they betray no ma
tional animosity or jealousy, no disposition to
disparage the institutions of our country, or
to bring our political system into disrepute, by
making an unfair use of the Anti-Slavery SEN
timent. Their tone is respectful and fraternal.
Those who are so sensitive on the point of
national character, would do we'll to expend
their indignation where it is really deserved
upon system which, in gross violation Of the
immortal principles proclaimed in our Decla-
ration of Independence, degrades two millions
and half human beings to the level of the
beast; upon the advocates Of the divine right
of Slavery; upon the Northern Swiss who are
willing for the sake of some petty preferment
to prostitute the Federal Government to its
base uses; upon that dastardly Prejudice,
which in its hatred of the coored man bru-
tally outrages every principle Of Democracy
and Christianity; upon that class Of politi-
clans which encourages brawls in our National
Legislature, INDUCES in ridiculous vauntings of
our country's greatness, and in. mean appeals
to popular passion and vanity, and fosters
rapacious and licentious spirit among the
People
These are the men and these arc the vices
that dshonor the nation, and din, the lustre
of its great example
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PENNsYLvANIA.

The following petition against Slavery, by
the citizens Of Elk county, was recently present
ed in the Senate Of Pennsylvania. The coun-
ty of Elk is largely Democratic. The petition
breathes the right spirit
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Rep
resentatiues Of Pennsylvania an General As
sembly met
The undersigned inhabitants of Elk county
respectfully show: That they are alarmed and
grieved by the report that a bill has been in
troduced for the action of your honorable
bodies having for its object the introduction of
chattel slavery into Pennsylvania by authori-
ling the alleged owners Of men, women, and
children, to hold, transport, or drive slaves
through the limits of our Commonwealth.
That your memorialists had firmly believed,
and do yet hope, that in accordance with the
njunctions Of the Divine Law, the hopes and
the prayers of our fathers, the spirit of our po-
litical institutions, and the light of the age in
which We live, the soil Of our time-honored
Commonwealth had been consecrated to per-
petuai freedom.
That TO cherish, maintain, and vigantly
guard those sacred rights of human nature
for which our fathers contended through
seven years war Of peril and suffering and blood,
will ever be the first object and highest motive
Of Pennsylvania legislation.
That while your memoralists believe that the
Constitution Of the United States was praised
and adopted by the people Of Pennsylvania
" in order to secure to US and our posterity the
blessings Of Liberty" and did in no sense " con-
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LINES


sUGGEsTEs BY READING LATE STATE PAPER,
WHEREIN THE HIGHER LAW Is INVOKED TO
SUSTAIN THE LOWER ONE
piops magistrate sound his praise throughout
TIE wondering churches. Who shah hencoforth
That the long wished Millennium draweth nigh
Sin in high places has become devout
Tithes mint, goes painful faced, and prays its lilo
Straight up to Heaven, and calls it piety
The pirate, watching from his bloody deck
The weltering gaeon, heavy with the gold
OF Acapulco, holding death in check
While prayers said, brows crossed, and beads
arc told
Tho robber, kneeling where the wayside cross
On dark Abruzzo tells Of lifo's dread loss
From his carbne, glancing still abroad
For some new victim offering thanks to God
Romc, listening at her affairs to the cry
OF midnight Murder, while her hounds of hell
Scour France from baptized cannon and holy bell
And thousand-throated priesthood, loud and high.
Pealng Te Deums to the shuddering sky,
Thanks to the Lord who giveth Victory"
What prove these, but that crime ne er so black
AS ghostly cheer and pious thanks to lack
Satan is modest. At Heavens door he lays
His evil offspring and, in scriptural phrase
And sanity posture gives to God the praise
And honor of the monstrous progeny
What marvel, then, in our own time to sec
His old devices smoothly acted DER
Official picty, locking fast the door
Of Hope against three million souls of men
Brothers Gods children Christ redeemed-and then
With uprolled eyeballs and on Bonded knee,
Whining prayer for help to hide tho key
j. G. W.
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ENGLISH ITEMS or Microscopic Views Of England
and EngIishmen. By Matt +. Ward New York
d. Appleton 4 Co. For sale by r. Farnham,
Washington, D. G.
In the. English sense this is clever, and
in the American smart book. From " title
page to colophon" a running fire is kept up at
the unprotected Joints and assures of the armor
of British institutions, beginning with the Eng
lish assumption of superiority in all things
passing to the sixpenny tax upon visiters to
Westminster Abbey, thence to rural scenery,
&C., and closing with grand discharge upon
heraldry The author is a man of good parts ::
sharp wit and keen perceptions, a mind fluent
with thoughts, and pen equally fluent with
words but, in view of the books of Dickens
Marryatt, sc, upon America it seems to US
too much like mere retaliating operation TO
be exactly in accordance with our notion of
good taste.
A WINTER IN MADEIRA, AND A SUMNER IN STAIN
AND FLORENCE. New York d. Appleton & Co.
For sale by X. Farnham, Washington, D. c.
This pleasant work has passed to its fifth
edition 1t was written during the winter OF
'42 and spring and summer Of '43, though not
published till so, and then only to satisfy
friends and stop private applications for infor'
nation regarding the localities described. The
style is clear and succinct yet easy and even
elegant at times and here and there one is sur
prised by quite Il poetic outburst of description.
" Surprised" we say, for one involuntarily
opens the book, thinking of the author as the
distinguished statesman, versed in the willy in
trigueS of political life, rather than the supple
tancied tourist, noting with appreciative eye
the phenomena of nature or the glories of art.
The book does not drag" anywhere, which is
saying much for book of travels in these
days, and there is much valuable information
upon various subjects introduced
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New MUsIc.-We are indebted to +. S.
Berry g. Co, New York, for several pieces Of
rich music for the piano, got up in very fin
ished style. Among them, SOntag Scottish,
La Pluie de PerleS, Young Folks at Home,
Phelim Mavowneen, The Burial of De Soto,
&c. Gould & Co, Philadelphia, are part OF
the same firm, which is among the first estab-
lishments of the country in the music line
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EXECUTION OF A WHITE MAN FOR KILLING a
SLAVE.

Some time since we saw a brief paragraph
in Southern paper, announcing the execution
of a white man in South Carolina for killing
slave.
Being rather incrcdulous, as we had never
heard of such an instance, letter was ad'
dressed to Q gentleman in South Carolina
for tho purpose of verifying or correcting the
statement. From the reply received, We are
permitted to copy the following extract
IL have just heard some Of the particulars
Of the man who was executed for killing his
,lsve in Barnellsvile, Marlboro District he
was between forty and fifty years Of age had
six children, was a bad neghbor, and cruel "
his family and slaves. He was proved to have
killed the mother of the slave for whose mur
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TO ADVERTISERS.

We have been compelled, for want of ROOM
TO suspend several new advertisements lately
received, but will give them place as soon as
We can make room for them. We devote but
three columns to advertisements, and are there
fore not always able to insert all received, but
endeavor to do 50 as speedily as possible, and
in the rotations in which they are received
Our terms for advertising are ten cents line
for the first insertion aud fUe cents a line for
each subsequent insertion.
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NEW MEXICO AND THE INDIAN MARAUDERs

When General Kearny at the head of the
United States troops destined for the conquest
Of New Mexico, during the late war, reached
the frontier town of that Province he drew up
his troops in the great square, and, mounting
with his staff to the fiat roof of one of the
houses, thus addressed the inhabitants:
"Mr. Alcalde, and People of New Mexico |
have come among you by order Of my Govern
ment, to take possession of your country, and
extend over it the laws Of the United States. |
absolve you from all allegiance to the Mexican
Government From that Government you have
never received protection. The Apaches and
the NavajOs come down from the mountains
and carry Oft your sheep and even your women,
correct all this NY Government will protect
you in your persons and property
Such was the promise made by Gen. Kearny
at Las Vegas. The same was repeated at Santa
Fe, and other towns of the conquered territory.
The promise was unquestonably made in good
faith, and there is little doubt that belief that
it would be fully redeemed by the American
Government went far to reconcile the people of
New Mexico to the new order of things
How far our Government has endoavored to
fulfill its promise, thus solemnly made, we are
not prepared to say. That it has not succeed
ed in doing so, is unfortunately but too mani
fest.
Ia the documents accompanying the Presi-
dents message, of last session of Congress- the
correspondence of the Governor and Indian
Agent of New Mexico with the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, is particularly noteworthy,
disclosing, as it does a state of things in that
Territory which can find parallel only in the
condition Of the Scottish lowlands and English
border, when subject to the forays Of moss
tpoopes and highland freebooters and cattle
stealers Under date of I'd month I'd, 1851,
Governor Calhoun writes that the Navajo In
dams had been unusually active in their depre-
dations Early in the last month they had
robbed the pueblo of Isletto; on the 18th they
had attacked the little town of Corvales, only
seven miles from the large village of Albu-
querque, killed one man, wounded two others,
and carried one off a captive, together with all
the cattle which could be found. Ten DAYS
later, they swept along the road between San
Miguel and Santa Fe, killing three shepherds
and driving off large hocks of sheep. In an
other direction the Utahs had made a success
full foray upon settlement on the St Charles
In short the Governor says that the Apaches
and Navajoes, taking advantage of the moder-
ate weather. had roamed through the Terri
tory in all directions. He gives what he calls
an approximate estimate of the losses of stock
in the two counties Of Santa Ara and Berna-
dilla, without including large amount of stock
which was lost by the Government, from 1876
| To 1850 inclusive:
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Power, should neglect to record their opinions
by their votes, can be explained only on the
assumption that they profess more than they
feel-in fact that they are without depth of
conviction or earnestness of purpose
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A DISTINGUISHED CoNvERT.-From declara-
tions heretofore made, it has been supposed
that Gen. Cass thought the Constitution of the
United States was law high enough for him.
The subjoined extract from speech lately
made by him in the Senate indicates that tho
General finds in the Christian religion a "high-
er law" as the bond of republcanism, and the
cement Of free institutions;
Independent of its connection with human
destiny hereafter, believe the fate of Republi-
can Government is indissolubly bound up with
the faith Of the Christian religion, and that
people who repeal its holy faith will find them,
selves the SLAVES Of their own svii passions ana
Of arbitrary potcer."
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"MARK SUTHERLAND"-We are still able
to supply subscribers with the paper from the
commencement of this story. Persons desiring
to begin with the story will please state the
fact in ordering the paper
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70 " ask you, as physician, whether the
publication Of works from such gifted writers
as Mrs. Soutbworth and Grace Greenwood,
portraying the marriage of cousins, and giving
countenance to such crimes, are not doing mis-
chief? need not tell you that the deteriora-
ton Of the race is the necessary consequence OF
such marriages"
That is true but we are not aware that the
writer's named above have given countenance
to such marriages.. Certainly such has not
been their intention. Era
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of the All Wise, but they are bound also to ~,
from the light they have. The fact that tho
is an overruling Providence, unerring in ia >.
rangements, cannot relieve us from the re.no]
Gbility Of determining and acting for our,eIrsD
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% Subscribers who do not file the Era
will confer favor by remailing Nos. 3l4 and
sl5 to this Office.
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you, as you never loved me before You wrong
me in taking yourself away. You take from
me mine own. There is voice in your heart
that assures you of this. But you stihe that
voice. You outrage Nature-but beware Be
sure that that Nature is dread goddess, and
Nemesis waits upon her bidding!"
TO BIZ CONTINUED