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Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20
IifnrnrY Notices.

t-F- The "KEY'' to Uncle Toms Cabin is Key in
deed 1t opens to the eyes Of the world SLAVERY in all
its aspects First it veres the principal characters and
scenes Of Uncle Toms Cabin by array Of atcsted facts
Il then asks 'what is Slavery 20 and answers by copi-
Gus drafts on the civil codes of the Slave States and the
practice and decisions of their COURTS touching the rights
of the Master and the obligations of the Slave The third
section opens with the query 'Does public opinion pro-
tect the slavei After showing that public opinion is
formed by educaton it brings to view the circumstances
involved in the practice of slavery and SHOWS conclusive
" that the education of saveholdng community forms
public opinion in direct conflict with the safety and well
being of the slave Section fourth is an unanswcrable
exposition Of the Influence Of the American Church on
Slavery and the American Church and Slavery in their
relation to each Others and ending with PLEA to which
every humane and Christian heart ,ciH respond
Mr. PRourY to whom We are indebted for a copy, has
the work for sab-price so cents Let everybody buy
and read it, and may their prayers to God for he over
throw of oppression and the reef of the oppressed,
be joined to ceaseless with the oppressor
and his accompces and such action in church and state,
shall undo the heavy burdens break every yoke
~ We have received from the publisher, John c. Ri
kerr 129 Fulton street, N " volume beautifully print
ed and bound, entitled "Letters to Country Girls by
ed in the Ptsburg Saturday visiter The book is not
free from aultswhat book in the eyes of every read
Mrs Swisshelm is sadly wanting in order, which be-
trays itself in all her writings. There is little of logical
arrangement in her thoughts Her ideas issue pell nell,
like the scamperng boys and girls just let out of school,
But to say nothing of this defect and something like
afectaton of naturalness very like want of refinement
her book is full of gems unstrung pearls diamonds rough
and unpurged from the adhering SOIL and richly worth
the perusal of well girls Her notions of well
ordered housekeeping will occasionally subject her to the
structures of the good housewives who have day for
cry work, well place for every thing; but never
theless they will find lessons that pay the learning. 1t is
valuable book and we hone for it many readers.
1.-THE Pocket Carpet Bdg''-a neat little magazine,
small enough to put in the pocket with the utmost con-
yenence has been issued by Geo. X. Snow Boston 1t
is published monthly, ut so per annum.
The .Neic York Tribune has made its appearance in
an ENLARGED form and beautiful new dress IN he n
Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20

The first copy of "Unce Toms Cabin sold on the
10th of March, 1882 since which time there have been
three hundred and five thousand copies disposed of The
thousand dollars for her property in the works. They
have been made rch well she, by the publication Of
only one of them and there saying where the sales
will stop Mr. Jewett, the principal publisher, is an old
liberty party man. and voted for Mr.. Birney in 1840
when there but few political abOtioniss herea
bout thousand so.
ms MT fha Han Thomas Anrahnll rrhn killed
Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20
Foreign Items.

By late arrivals have Liverpool dates TO the I'd
inst conspiracy has been discovered in Berlin, and
twenty persons have been arrested eighty houses search
ed and some arms and ammunition found.
Radetsky who be superseded in Italy by the Arch
Duke Albert has published amnesty in Lombardy to
all concerned in the troubles there Eighty po-
cal refugees shipped for America, at Genoa the
26th ut Genoa dispatch of the 9th states that
mors were rife of an instruction at Palermo.
The Madiai family has arrived at Marseles and will
remain there till their health shall be re-esabshed
Matilda Htzfeld, American lady, has been arrested
in of the German States agent of the London
Revolutionary Committee, and condemned without proof
to six weeks Imprisonment
The trade of Paris had improved Bourse was exceed
ngy heavy, serious complications between Austria and
Switzerland feared, and the Pope it said, had
postponed the date of his visit to Paris
disastrous fire has occurred at Cronstad in Russia
The aggregate loss estimated half million of dollars
rumor is afoat that Persia has broken off diplomatic
relations with England asked the protection of Russia
Rangoun in India has been nearly destroyed by fire.
Adyices from Australia to the 10th of January
The yield at the dggngs reported greater than ever
00 900 men the various diggngs averaging ten
ounces per week.
is creating quite sensation at Naples by her singing 1t
is stated that she bids fair to take the first rank among
the female vocaists of the day.
Mrs Meagher the wife of the Irish exile has arrived in
England She will visit Ireland and then take passage
for America. She is expected at New York about tho
Goth of the next month.
Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20

1t was not the Hon Thomas r. Marshall who killed
by of his tenants has been stated but his cousn
Gen Thomas Marshall.
Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20

"The Pocket Carpet Bdg"-a neat little magazine
small enough to put in the pocket with the utmost con
yenience, has been issued by Geo. X Snow, Boston.
is published monthly, ut / so per annum.
Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-20

More than six thousand Swiss residents of Lombariy
have been expelled from their homes and their country by
the Austrian government and subjected to great loss of
property and suffering Contributions are being
raised in Switzerland for their relief and among their
countrymen in the city of New York.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30

and anxiety for the schoolmaster. lie found
the interior like most other caverns in the
earth dark damp and of an earthly smell,
with spars hanging like icicles pendant from
the stony roof and flashing like gold and jas
per in the light of the torch he carried. He
found, what may have been considered q lit
tie singular, some fragments of bones and a
perfect human skull with sound and peariy
teeth, which, from the formation, the school
master affirmed to have been that of an In
dams. Themountaineer regarded thoserellc
Immortality with superstitious awe, and when
the school-master left the neighborhood for
ever, the skull was carried back by a tim
orous mortal and cast again into the Cave
its rotting place, withsa heartfelt prayer fol
the eternal rest of the soul that once dwell
within its cold and bony walls.
Many other strange and u~naccountable cir
cumstances were rife in the neighborhooC
concerningthe haunted hill andits cave, of tn,
simplicity or gravity of which, it does not be
come us at present to speak suffice it to sa,
that, in the day of which we write, Ruggie>
hill and cave was a locality that all, even til
adventurous hunters, avoided after nightfall
and it was gravely said that the hounds an
yelping ours never approached it,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
Observatory.

We learn from the Register that an Obser-
vatory, connected with that in Washington
City, is to be erected in this City, under the
charge of DR.. B.. A. Gould, of Cambridge,
Mass. It's object is to determine more cor
rectly the longitude, and is in direct connec-
ton with the Coast Survey, upon which a
large force of scientific naval officers has been
long engaged. Besides giving the longitude,
it will give the latitude of Raleigh, to the
fraction of a second,-a thing that has never
been done.
The modts operGndi is simple enough to
the initiated, but may bear explanation to
others. A station, for instance, is made at
Washington, connected with one at Raleigh.
At the former place, there is an astronomical
clock, connected with the telegraphic wire
leading to the latter. Each vibration Of the
pendulum breaks the circuit Of communica-
ton as completely, as the useo of the keyin the
telegraph Offices, with which many of us are
familiar. At each station is placed a tele-
scope and a set Of transit instruments. There
being a known difference in the longitudes of
Washington and Raleigh, the only question
is to determine how much. A particular star
is therefore chosen as a point of observation,
and the time being noted here and at Wash
ington, the clock is put in motion, and It's
tiekings recordedin bothplaces simultaneous
ly. Each tick records a second, and having
before some proximate idea of difference OF
lontitude, by this means it is brought to a
certainty. Each tick is recorded by the OBJ
server, and afterwards compared with that Of
the astronomer at Washington. The time be
ing carefully noted in both places, they arr
enabled to determine the difference.
1t would be difficult to give a much clearel
; idea to those who have not seen this process
| It is truly wonderful to hear the working 0
: a clock at the distance of three hundred miles
and to see its work recorded. Such is til,
fact, however, and our citizens may see it i
a few weeks.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
Agricultural professorshin.

We have heretofore noticed with pleasure,
the establishment Of an Agricultural Profess
s0rship in our State University, and we hope
the gentleman promoted to that important
station will make his instructions of that util-
~itarian, practical character that will carry
out the only useful object Of such a Chair in
the Faculty. Our People are beginning to
be alive to the fact, that Agriculture is a sci
ence, susceptible of improvementandadvan
ment, as are the Mechanic and Fine Arts
and to foster and perpetuate Investigation
and the application Of means to bring it to
the highest point of scientific excellence and
perfection. The soil Of our State is Of every
variety and our people should be advanced in
that knowledge which is necessary to enable
them to a~nalyze it apply to it the proper
manures, and to employ the required means
for its improvement. Farmers In general, I'M
fortunately, neither have the time nor the In
clination to study the science Of agriculture
they are contented simply with pursuing the
established practice, right or wrong, and are
often the slaves of time honored absurdities.
They are welded to their habits and he who
runs ahead of those around him in scientific
agriculture, is made the object of ridicule,
which affects to pity his creduity and con
ceit.
The only remedy for this is to lay the foun-
.dation Of future usefulness IN solid learning
impaired In schools and colleges. Chemistry
| should be taught with special reference to its
application to agriculture, shouldb be especial
" incnleated not by theory alone, but by ex
pertinent and practice. When knowledge il
once acquired, it is agreeable to make its ap
plication, and if, in our Colleges, a course o
instruction in the science Of Agriculture b.
made a part Of the College studies, we shall
have a guaranty of future improvement in tn,
cultivation of the soil, and Of the increased
prosperity Of our country.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
EVERY Man 10 his Trade.

The Mechanic boasts of his proficiency in
his branch of the arts and delights in the ex-
hibition of a specimen of his genius the
Merchant spreads his wares and goods to the
gaze of the public and invites all to come and
examine; the Farmer presents the products
Of his industry and profession and challenges
the admiration and commentator of his fell
low citizens . and all men engagediAan hon
orable, respectable business, throw open their
doors and spread their windows. to attract
the favorable gaze of the passer-by. Not so
with the liquor seller, we care not how hon
orable, how creditable and reputable a name
he may have assumed, or have awarded him,
his bar is either removed to the back room,
and the windows carefully and thickly cur
tanned or if in the front room, his doors and
is impossible for the passer-by to witness the
administration of his dignified calling! And
if perchance, one ofhis " finished jobs" should
get before the public gaze, he Will deny his
work, and protest that he does not sell t.
drunkards! Wonderful proper men are they
worthy Of the commentator of " benefac
tors" in the community!
The Giraffe gives us, in the following para
graph, an account of an exhibition of one 0
) their specimens of handiwork, to be seen il
) our City a few days ago. We venture tn
t assertion there was not one Of the vile crow,
/ that would have acknowledged this to be thei
II All Ill Io-o Jo~1oJ - ooI 80
! there the wretched victim lay. But it woul
/ be cruel tyranny, unconstitutional oppression
to prohibit men from selling this degrading
damning poison. But to the paragraph frol
the Giraffe:
A drunken woman we blush to make Il
i statement was seen PROSTATE before a gro
shop in this City, a few day ago! A frier
= observed, that that house had hrorn o.
its sign" A sign indeed! Yea, and veril
y thought we, it was a sign of the depravity
/ the age and theprostitution of that female
\ character. It was a sign, too, that cick'
: hands had dealt out poison to the weaker Sc
le thus making her q fit companion for the bru
E. creation.
,e Here, let us be allowed to ask Comm,
- Sense one question:: Are themen, lorna
suitable persons to retail spirits ? and did t
" Commissioners, when they signed the recol
mendation, act wise?
Again, we must insist, that the man, fit
- the traffic, has not yet come into existen,
vi Good in a medical point of view, Liquor i
ly dangerous thing to be made an article of e
ok ry day, and every hour, traffic; we hunt
Du contend, that its presence in our commun
:. in any community-is an evil, n very nu
ance, and the blood of innocent men, a
n famished households, cry aloud for its ut
by destruction. Take inyour sign, do; hide
nd from the gaze of the public, that her sha
may be less.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30

The progress Of the Mime Liquor Law is
given by the New York Herald as follows:
-Four States Maine, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, and Vermont-haye adopted the Maine
Liquor Law; onthe other hand, t~heseadvanta-
ges are counterbalanced by Simultaneous
checks. Illinoishas tried the law, and repealed
it. It has been lost in the Legislatures of New
Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Michigan. UD
to the present moment, the attempts which
have been made to introduce it into New
York have failed. It is rendered a dead let
ter in Massachusetts, by the decisions Of the
courts against the right of search, and the L.
cense to sell liquor previously granted by the
city corporation of Boston.-Star.
We regret that our neighbor should have
gone to the pimp and paid hireIing of the
New York Rummies, to learn the progress
Of the An~tiliquorlaws in the Northern States
The trigncss and truthfnlness Of the above,
may be Judged Of by the following facts, vel
known to every one who has kept an eve or
the matters in question: 1st. Illinois has
never had q law similar in its provisions t.
the Maine law. At the last session thu
anti-liquor law passed at the previous one
/ ? ICp0IAGu3 GL1u ldOUtlci, OCGl1S / Nv SO1Qt
temperance men the better law of the two
was enacted in It's stead. The whole trutl
that laws against the traffic have failed to b
adopted by the Legislatures of New-Hamp
shire, Wisconsin and Michigan, is not state.
above-or at least, the additional fact is con
cealed, that verylarge numbers ofthe citizen
sof these States are in favor of the law, and
opportunity were afforded, decided majoritie
would be given for their enactment. Tn
statement about Massachusetts, is a dowr
right, positive falsehood. Every where bu
in Boston and a few large cities, the law
faithfully carried out-and in the places tina
form the exceptions, it viii be, after existin
licenses, procured before the passage of tn
law, shall have expired. Reliable, truthfu
Information ought always to be giyenthe pul
lie, through the papers.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
The Cost of rntennarance.

It has been calculated that opium has cost
China, within these last fifty years $40, 000,-
900 IN specie; that the number of opium
drunkards is 1000, 900 and that of these,
100000 annually find a premature grave -
Now for Alcohol. "The use of alcoholic
beverages" says President Everett, g has
cost the United States, directly, in ten years,
81, 200, 900, 900 has burned or otherwise de-
stroyed 100000 moro Of property has
destroyed 100000 lives sent 10000 to our
prisons, and 100000 children to the poor
house caused 1900 murders 1000 sui
cides and has bequeathed to the country
1000, 900 Of orphan children" We arc not
very good at figures ourselves, but we conf
IDENTIFY believe, from a rough calculation, that
to opium on one hand, or alcohol, in some of
its infinite variety of forms, on the other, the
world at large pays an annual tax of one
dollar a head for every man, woman and
child that it contains. No wonder it is still
so poor /! Four millions of opium drunkards
in China out of a nation of $50 millions, is
only one out Of 81 100000 deaths annually
out of these four millions is only one in ten,
On the other hand, 300, 900 drunkards out OF
our twenty-five millions is one in secenty
three! $4,000 deaths annually out of these
100000, is also one in ten! Alcohol intem
perdncc IN the United States Is therefore q
greater erl than opium intemperance IN China
Yet China is Pagan and America Christian
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30

DRUNKEN HUsBANDs.-A celebrated wri-
ter makes the following truthful remarks up
on drunken husbands. We do seriously be-
lieve that the man who marrics a woman of
fine feelings, and afterwards amuses himself
by abusing his wife in his drunken spree,
ought to be condemned to a bachelors cell
during his natural life and do his own wash
ing: "He who is the husband Of a woman
Of delicacy and nice feeling, and comes home
drunk, is still more contemplate in proper
ton to the regard we have for the unhappy
consort of his beastiality."
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30

my beloved crying to me, warning me that
he too is soon to die, and would see me aga,n
before the awful tragedy is eonsummated
And again came up the voice saying -!
Columbine Celumbine would to God l
could SEE thee ere I die III
20! Heavens p shrieked aloud the fran
tic captive, "'ti~ a voice ike that Of my be-
loved calling me away to meet him in the
spirit-land S~oon,soon, Baptiste, will be
with thee FIR from earths troubles and trials! =
lTo BE eoNTIauED.l
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30
PRINCIPLE,

Unfinching, answering integrity is one
of the most desirable elements in the charac-
ter of both young and old. With a young
man possessed Of true manliness of chaIac-
ter, principle is his talisman forever. He
never makes the inquiry respecting any pro-
posed course of his-will it be profitable p
viii it bring gratiication-or honor-or in
fuence ?-but Is 1t right? Does it comport
with my professed principles?
The man who makes not such inquiries is
standing in the way of temptation and easy
to he overcome; but he who makes integrity
and principle his law of action, at all times
has a strong barrier about him to shield him
from evil. When principle is abandoned /;
when the heart is surrendered to popular
customs when a willing ear is given to the
corrupt counsels of wicked associates and
when all is r~elinquished to the swayings of
the current Of wicked practices, then we may
look out for a thousand barks Of youthful
voyagers to be silently severed from the moor
ings Of truth and honor, and sent adrift upon
life's dangerous sea, exposed to all the fierce
storms and peltings Of moral infamy and
moral ruin.
1t is the abandonment Of principle which
crowds our gambling saloons, liquor shops
and every haunt Of dissipation; our jails and
almshouses with young men once respected
but now lost to honor, diseased and prema-
turely old, who, had they not forgotten their
talisman, principle, would have secured du-
ring life the honor and comnsendation Of all
good men, and dying, would have left behind
them a legacy to their name and memory,
like the sunlight Of their worth s%iiVering tina
evening clouds Of a summers sky!
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-03-30

saA The circulating medium causes the
feminine gender of equina race to make a rap
id progress. Now, that is a true saying,
manufactured and r%emoddled from an old, vul-
gar saw. How often is it asked by young
ladies, in allusion to som worthy young man,,
is he rich ?" They don't care a fig wheth-
er he is intelligent or not, SO he has a pocket
full of rccks-the real California grit-or q
rich Uncle even, they set a cap for him
sharp for his dimes. Intellect is the true
riches-man's true nobility, but it don't take
in these wonderful times of Caloric Engines,
Worlds Fairs and universal epidemics IF
Gold Fever. Now, we can conceive Q young
man with his thousandsi in gold and his thou
sands in stocks, and a contemplate nineom-
poop in the worlds lettcrs-a regular built
Jack, so far as mans true dignity and the
ennobling virtues of his Godlike nature is
concerned. But SO deprayed are "thess
modern times" that a young man without
money is ike a steamer without fuel-he
can't progress. With the ladies he is like
the little stars and the moon Off drizzly night
he can't shine