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To the Editor of the National Era,

10 me Editor OF fM Ndh0nM Era:
notice a statement in the Era Of the Sd in
slant, that tho prickly pear species of the cac-
tus is Indigenous to the locality of Guilford,
Connecticut This is an important and inter-
esting piece Of information 10 rue, Is An ANA
teur olbotanical study. do not presume that
any other species Of that family grow 80 far
north, a. such plants are mostly natives Of
warm climates The prickly pear, however, is
native with us in this locality; at least, it has
been found growing in profusion in one partic-
ulsr locality in this township, on very wild
and rocky summit Of a hill on the banks of the
Susquehanna. II has every appearance of be-
ing indigenous 10 this spot. A curious circum-
stance ia that it has chosen a spot more than
hundred fest above the water where tho
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and most severe, and there il seems To grow in
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Piles and peaches is believe. much more I'M
portant and restrictions on it would operate
severely ON the fairest portion of our constltu-
ents. Sir, the pretty daughters of our Western
farmers have a commendable way Of making
their pin-money by drying this fruit ! trust
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raising an objection to a correction, 80 that the
BILL instead of undried fruits" may read
fruits dried aud undried."
The SPEAKER No objection is made. Inc
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Wentworth, Ill.,, Dec. 81, 1852 - Will not
some Of our great men blush, in after times, to
read the history of their treatment of Mr.
Hale and others who are not afraid to speak
the truth in English t-"the only language in
which truth dares now to speak" ~ Mr..
Thackeray said in one Of his lectures and all
the real ireemen of the world will join him in
what follows, May the race perish on the day
it loses that privilege, may the language be a
dead language ere ever it shall be brought TO
deny the right to hesitate in its Remuneration
OF wrong to glove over tyrants' misdeeds TO
Halter unrighteous power; to iorsake its divine
commission to preach love, and liberty and
honor" With many others, | hope for the
conversion of Horace Greeley, and to see him
shoulder to shoulder with DIR. Bailey-quarrel.
ling a little, of course, about tariff and free
trade, but making freedom the first article in
hs creed or principles first and policy after
wards, think there is no person in the Uni
ted States that could do 80 much as he can in
the way of carrying the liberal portion Of the
Wing party with him.
Mr. Greeley does not seem disposed TO rec
ommepd any action Al ALI Ed Era
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DEMOCRACY OF sCIENcE.-NO. "a.

Washington, Feb, 1853,
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The Grand Lecturer.

Rov. PETER DoUB, yas our City a few
days Of last week, and left on Thursday for
his appointments as published. He reports
supineness and lathargy in the cause of
Temperance, at some few points, but in the
main, he has found the friends determined
and hopeful. lie says, a steady and firm
purpose is being formed every where to abol-
ISL the traffic in ardent spirits, and by this
means to " lift the Mortgage which the State
holds on every mans estate for defraying the
expenses incurred in supportingth paupers,
furnishing Offenders and sustaining prosecu-
ting officers, which are made, caused and rem
dered necessary by this system" This is en-
couraging and the idea of the State hol-
ding a Mortgage over each citizens property,"
is as truthful as it is unique. And it is an
incumbrance that car only beremoved by the
abolition of the Ubiquitous system that forces
the onerous taxation upon the Industrious,
sober classes, without their consent. If a
man, lnfamed by strong drink, kills our
neishbor or our kinsman, the Mortgage, the
state, who granted the privilege to some man
to sell the infaning poison, falls upon US
with the strong arm of power, and either
takes the money from our purse, or, under
the Mortgage, sells our property to raise
means to support said offender in jail, tr,
HIM at our Courts, and consign him to tn,
gallows. And this is said to be justice AM
equal rights No wonder our people are be
ginning to look into this oppressive bushes
and resolving to free themselves of it.
The strong and practical manner of layin,
this matter before the people, of which MI
d. is possessed, will tell powerfully in arous
ing and enlightening public attention to tn
business, and getting a sufficient number q
fanatics" to put the thing down.
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1NTEMPERANcE AND EDUCATION.

The religious and scholastic t~rainingof the
child should be with the parent a patriot
virtue. Parental authority should be rigid
ly guarded in the suppression Of all popular
inducements to error, and if an evil exists
beyond individual control the law must per
form its office.
Is there an individual ofelevated sentiment,
to whom nature has confded the training of
a child, whose solicitude is not increased to
a fearful anxiety, in view ofthe public intro
duction to dissipation and vice? appeal
to any one of this class, if the present system
Of vending liquor at the corners of the streets
If the attachment of a bar-room to every
place of recreation and amusement, fosters
tho d~eyelopament of domestic teaching, or
affords any guarantee ofamanly and virtuous
maturity? Is it expected of the man who
sells a draught Of liquor to temper his ava
rice, by sympathy for the buyer? Is friend.
ly r~emonstrance or parental admonition ex-
pected of him, upon whose every dollar some
sacrifice is engraved who deals out the des,
t~ructive potion, though the hand of death
deposits the dime?
Is there any security for youth, whom The
road to every school house and church il
marked by some attraction to profigacy 2
There is a recklessness upon this subiect
which ann be too harshly reprobated.-
Heads of families sustain, by their patronage
the medium of corruption to their children
The wonderful and unfortunate p~recocit,
ofthe rising generation-the surprising trans
ition from the nursery to the assertion 0
manly prerogative-he freedom Of youth Tit
age, is the result ofoutdoor agencies. Wher
is this familiarity more practiced or this hot
house termination more visible than in tn
bar-room? The boy, scarce let loose fror
his mothers apron strings, is as much a ma
in the bar-room as the veteran of sixty.
Our system Of education will never be pei
feet until the teaching of the schools, tn
moral and religious impressions of you'll
are fosteredby parental consistency and qua,
ded by the law.
Vice must be individualized and its av,
nues suppressed. The schoolmaster mu'
a htemperance-nay abstinence-with tt
alphabet, and the church, unmask its grea
est enemy. The cool philosophy of Prize
and Levite will not do, while the vounde
and dying people the roadside.
The times demand of this great leader
} reform-the church-a moral practical a
5 plication of Its immense energies. Educ
ton is paralyzed while the hydra-headt
monster stands ready to strangle every mar
{ impulse, while the bar-reom is licensed
| stab the public virtue, and boldly confront
nay, intrude upon the house of God itself.
! NcTlJe Pe1ieyer
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CHRISTIAN DIsTuLERsi

No proposition seems to me susceptible OF more
satisfactory demonstration than this-and | am sure
no person can givei it one hours serious thought with
asserting to it-that, in the present state of in
on this subject, no man can think to act
on Christian principles, or do . patriots duty to his
coua ~, and at the same time make or sell the in
struneat Of ntoxication.-Henry Wore, Jr.
Had we the means at hand we would like
to present the above truthful xtract before the
eyes of every protested Christian man in the.
community, and urge him to give itonehour's
serious thought We intend no personal allu-
sion or disparagemcnt of aay of the differ
ent christian churches that honor our nation,
when we say, that we have seen men who
were members of the church, protesting the
Holy Religion of Christ and wishing to make
their neighbors believe that they were devout
men and, at the same time, busy, day and
night, in kindling the fires under their still
pots and testing the trickling stream that falls
drop by drop from the twisted scOrm, and goes
forth to add its waves to the common Ocean
Of Inebriation, whose scething tide carries So
cial, political, moral and eternal ruin in each
of its countless drops!
And some we have seen, of the sameclass,
standing behind their counters in filthy grog-
shops, fit ante-chambers of He'll, measuring
by the glass the water of Death to the misgui-
ded victims, who swore horrid blasphemies
in drunken chant, and receiving from them
bits of coin from their trembling hands, in
order to make a living at the expense of the
present and eternal welfare of their fellow
men, and to get a dollar in advance to pay
their Preacher!
And we have seen the same men in theil
Churches, on the Sabbath, with sanctimonl
Gus cast of countenance taking part in the &c
clesiastic proceedings Of that body, and utter
ing solemn "AmenS" to the devout petitions
of the Man of God to the Throne of Grace fo
the salvation of sinners While during th'
ensuing week, if they had the luck their sor
did, craven souls wished for, they would plac
more immortal souls in the broad road tina
leads to the drunkard's hell, than they ceul'
pray away from in a life time of Sundays
for we are told by Divine Authority that tn
prayers of the wicEed are Of no avail. Gu
soul sickens at the contemplation of the sui
iect and we drop it for the present.
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MARRYING A

We have seen this operation in our time,
and have generally observed that it was a
living and a growing curse to the parties
concerned, in nine cases out of ten and a half.
A young man, in looking for a acte, becomes
enamored by the charms of "a fortune
He waits upon it at the church, at parties
and at the theatre dances some selfish jig
with it; courts it by Whispering, s~ycophan-
cy and blushing modesty sends scented
billet-doux to it; in the most fashionable
manner "pops the question" to it !; gets a
faint accent ask my Pa"-from it gets
the old mans consent to give it up mar
ries it says it is a wife carries it home in
a jify invites friends to drop in and see it
lives with it and says it is a good wife and
that he has a happy home. He lies! 1t is
not a vite, neither has he a home! His
friends shower empty congratulations upon
him in winning it, but he swears in his
sleeve that he is horribly done for and locked
up in the wrong pen! He is nailed in a desk
like a rat with rusty copper and musty bank
bills, and he prays for deliverance. lie might
as we'll kick at his coffin lid and scream tc
get out! He resigns himself to the worst
and in ten years he is a equity old ~grumbler
and what he said was a ,c!te is, in less time
a horrible, seolding, uncomfortable, vinegary
charred up old shrew !! =
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SOUTHERN

A writer in the Southern Weekly Post, of
this City, suggests the propriety of some
wealthy North Carolinians offering Premi-
ums for Original Stories, &C., founded en- in
cidents and history Of the State-the Compel
itors all being required to be natives Of North
Carolina. The ideal a good one-one which,
in our humble way, we have carried out to
a limited extent and we have had the pleas-
ure of laying before the readers of the Age
some Stories, Narratives, Incidents, Essays,
&C., written by natives Of our State, of both
sexes, that do credit to their heads and hearts.
Our experiment has demonstrated that North
Carolina possesses Literary talent of a very
high character, and if sufficient incentives
are held out and due rewards extended, we
doubtless will be able to exhibit talents and
ability of exalted character.
But until our people begin to prefer South
ern Literature and Southern publications to
Northern twaddle and braggadocia, we shall
never be able to bring our buried talent to
light. How many Southern Family Jour
mails, that launched their enterprising barks,
trusting to the discriminating sense" Of an
enlightened people (vain hopeO for their
success, have furled their sails, struck their
colors, and returned with their shattered and
empty hulks into port, to be heard Of nc
more on the ocean of literary enterprise
The Southern Editor with his fifteen hun.
dred or two thousand subscribers, can't puff
such frothy verbiage as the Northern swell
head with his fifty thousand. And generally
if he has no other means of support, than by
his paper, he will live a poor man till the
cherries routine of his labor is over, and hi
sinks to the loneliness of the grave, almost
:" unknelled and unknown ?" 0! Temporal
0 mores! When will our land of sunny
chimes feel her independence and her power
When will Southern pride and Southern
spirit awake from the inglorious slumber tina
wraps them Wheu will noble home ambi
ton begin to moveupon the tide-waters Of tn
great Southern heart! When will the lio1
in hemind of the lordly South begin to rous,
himself and shake his name!