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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-02
price Twolicents.
GBe 1ailp Spy.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1854.
SATURDAY EVENING READING.

"Not only did preachers go out from these
valleys of the Waldenses to proclaim the glo-
rious Gospel, but humble, pious pedlars, Oh
itinerating merchants, (of whom there were
many in the middle ages, scattered the Truth,
by carrying some leaves of the Word of Life,
or some manuscript Tracts, beneath their mer-
chandise, which they engaged those whom
they found to be favorably disposed to receive
and read"
THE vAUDoIs MISSIONARY.
0 lady fair, these silks of mine
Are beautiful and
The richest web OF the Indian loom,
Which beauty's self might wear
And these pearls all pure and mild to behold,
And with radiant light they vie;
hsye brought them with me weary way
Will my gentle lady buy!
And the lady smiled on the worn old man,
Through the dark and clustering curls,
Which yelled her brow she beat to view
His silks and glitterng pearls;
And placed their price In the old mans hand,
And lightly turned away
But she paused at the wanderers earnest call
" My gentle lady, stay I"
so, lady fair, / have yet gem
Which purer lustre filings
Than the diamond fash Of the jewelled crown
On the lofty brow Of kings;
wonderful pearl Of exceeding price;
Whose value shall not decay;
Whose light shall be a spell to thee,
And blessing on thy way ~
The lady glanced at the mirroring steel,
Where her youthful form seen,
Where her eyes shone clear and her dark locks waved
Their casping pearls between.
" Bring forth thy pearl of exceeding worth,
Thou traveller gray Gnd Old;
And name the price of thy precious gem,
And my pages shall count thy gold"
The cloud went off from the pilgrims brow,
As u small and meagre book,
Unchased with gold or diamond gem
From his folding robe he took:
"Here, lady fair, is the pearl of price
May it prove as such to thee
Nay, keep thy gold-I ask it not
For the FORD Of God is free"
The hoary traveller went his cay
But the gift he left behind
Hath had its pure and perfect work
On that high-born lady's mind;
And she hath turned from the pride Of sin
To the lowliness of Truth,
And given her human heart to God,
In the beautiful hour Of youth.
And she hath left her old gray walls,
Where evil faith hath power
The courtly knights of her fathers train
And the maiden's of the bower;
And she hath gone to the VaudOis Vale.
By lordiy feet untrod,
Where the poor and needy of earth rich
In the perfect love of God.
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7, u II TT e r

Il u II TT e r
throws open his do invites his old friends and the
public generally, to call and examine assortment of
CLIO T H IN G.,
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
AS RICH, EXTENSIVE, AND VARIED,
any heretofore offered in this market, And in this,
our new opening we have taken especial pains to make
our READY MADE CLOTHING attractive to all classes.
The stock consists of
ovERCoATs, SACKS, DRESS COATS, FRoCK COATS
FRoCK SACKS, & GREEN & PILOT CLOTH
JACKETS,
of all suitable Styles, Colors, and Prices
VESTS,
Single and Double Breasted, from the richest
PLUSH, yELVETS SILKS, SATINs CLOTHS, MAR
sEILLEs, &C. to the lowest priced yALENCIAs
PANTS,
from Plain and Fancy DoEsKINs, BRoADCL0THs,
KERsEYs, & SATINETs, of all coors Sorts sizes, and
qualities.
We also have in store a very extensive assortment of
CLOTHS AND PIECE GOODS,
and as special pains will be taken make the Store
the place to get suited in Garments made ORDER
would invite all to give Mr. REED chance at them.
All garments warranted, or no sale.
larger assortment of BOYS CLOTHING will be kept
for sale in the Store than has been heretofore and
mothers and fathers invited to bring send their
children here to trade.
Also, constantly On hand, splendid stock of
FURNISHING GOODS,
among which will be found all styles of
SHIRTS, BOSOMS, COLLARS, SCARFS,
CRAVATS, HANDKERCHIEFS,
STOCKS, SOCKS, GLOVES,
SUSPEND ERS. NJ TITS, TIES,
DRAWERS, UNDERSHIRTS,
OVERALI.S, UMBRELLAS,
&C., sc.
Also, large assortment of
Hats& Caps Rubber g. Oil
Clothing.
We beg to assure our friends that we manufacture all
of Clothing ourselves and warrant every article sold
to be reprasented and trust that extensive
Stock, excellent STYLES AMI Cutting good Workmen,
obligng Clerks, and LOW PRICES, will not only ,etain
old cusomers but give proportion of new pat
ronage.
LUTHER'S,
No. i, Worcester House Buildings,
Main street, Worcester, Mass.
Opposite Boston Worcester Il. r. Depot.
ms d&wly
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ether States, "a cts. year.
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-01-19
For the National Era.
SONG TO SLEEP.
BY Lucy ROOM.


Sweetly still the infants crying.
Gentle Sleep!
Asa closing violet
Dreathes away the dew drops wet,
So, its pearIy lashes drying.
Through them creep,
Soothe the pilgrim worn and weary,
Lulling Sleep,
Like the autumn winds low song,
Stealing faded boughs among,
Whispering to the mountains dreary,
While they weep.
Murmur softly to the aged,
Blessed Sleep,
Like slow, refreshing rain,
Falling on tho yellow grain;
We, who yet no war have waged,
Watch will keep.
Drop thy balm upon the lonely,
Holy Sleep.
As the dew descends to bless
Palm trees in the wilderness.
All, let warm-winged visions only
Round them sweep.
On thy still seas met together,
Happy Sleep!
Hear them swell drowsy hymning;
Swans, to dying music swimming,
Floating with unrufied feather
Ger the deep
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NO. 1868.

own institutions, unless he has carefully traced
the errors of monarchies and missionaries
And where will he find more instruction than
in tho history Of the race from which his fore
fathers spranga 1t ia wrong to anticipate, but
perhaps the writer may DO permitted TO state
to those who honor this series with perusal, that
the ultimate point he will endeavor to estab-
lish, as he advances from epoch to epoch is
the tendency of England towards that form of
Government which George Washington found
ed. Wait for the evidence. J.. d.
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Senate. yannqrM IL. 1851.


After the presentation Of two petitions by
Mr.. Seward, all prior orders were postponed
and the Senate proceeded to the consideration
of the motion made By Mr.. Cass TO refer to the
Committee on Foreign Relations the message
of the President communicating the correspond
ence relative to the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
Mr. Cass then addressed the Senate. He
said that last spring he was called suddenly to
his home from the Senate, and while he was
absent his views in relation TO the subject, ez-
pressed openly in the Senate some time pre-
viously, had been 80 much misunderstood and
misrepresented, hat he would take this oppor-
tunity of replying TO the honorable Senator from
Delaware.
He said that the documents laid before the
Senate during the past session disclosed tho
construction placed on the treaty. by the uaasi
ratification of it by the British Minister, ac-
quiesced in by the American Secretary of State.
He had taken occasion to state that he never
would have voted for the treaty, had he so I'M
derstocd it, In go doing, he had used no re-
mark of q dscourteous or offensive character
towards the Senator from Delaware
He voted for that treaty, because he thought
it was the nearest approach to the Monroe
doctrine tina. he could at that time get. While
he was in favor of the Monroe doctrine on all
occasions, if he could not get it, he would acqui-
esoe in the nearest approach to it practicable.
He quoted various paragraphs from the
speech of Mr.. Clayton, and held that he was
right in saying that the Central America"
az meant by the treaty, was not the gecgraph-
zeal Central America" supposed to be meant
by those who voted for it. The American Sec
rotary acknowledges to the British Minister
tina. the treaty does not include British Hon
dures, and it was to be regretted that this
declaration was not placed in the treaty. in
which case the Senate would have known for
what they were voting. He again commended
that when the British Government sent the
treaty back to the United STATES with q Quasi
ratification to it, the treaty, with that condi-
tional ratification, ought to have been again
laid before the Senate.
He compared the present to the case where
the British Government, by treaty.
should cede Canada y to tho United States
nd in the exchange of notifications the British
Government should say that Western Canada
vas not included. Would not such an import |
mt change Of the obvious meaning of the treaty |
equIre that the Senate should've advised of 1
ne matter, before it was acceded to!
he said he would throw down the gauntlet
the Senator on two propositions that Great
'ritain, in examining the treaty, saw that its
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A QUAINT CRITIcIsM-A newspaper before
US states, that at tl- breaking of the ground
for the commencement of the Lynchburg and
Tennessee Railroad at Lynchburg, clergyman
slowly and solemnly read a manuscript prayer,
at the conclusion of which an old negro man,
who had been resting with one foot on his
spade and his arms on the handle looking in
tently in the chaplains face, Strengthened him.
self up, and remarked, very audibIy,. aWen, l
reckon OATS de fust time de Lords ebcr bin
writ to on de subtle OBJ railroads."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

sB- Friend Hooper, of the Montgomery
Mail" is entitled to our best devoirs for
that handsome notice. If We were not af-
flicted with an excessive stock Of modesty
we would like to re publish his paragraph,
"but in view of the facts and in considera-
ton of certain circumstances" as we once
heard democratic siumper remark when
about to suppress something that no was anx-
ious to divulge, wo must forego ourself the
pleasure. We welcome the small" TO our
table, and trust tho bread cast upon the wa
tcrs In this direction may yield fruitful re-
turn.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

WEATHER.-The weather still continues
very thermometer Tuesday and We'd
nesday up to "a and SO in the shade. There
has been no rain here for the last four weeks,
md vegetation begins to look as dry and life
less as Chattanooga paper. The corn is
suffering severely, as the heavens distil no
dews, not cloud has been seen for days. me
hill.tops are continually bathed in a biaze OF
fiery sunshine, and the breezes that OCCASION.
ally play lazily along tho valleys are us op.
pressive and overpowering as the sirocco OF
the desert. AS the preachers say in times of
unusual dearth, "oh, for refreshing shower!'
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

SCARCITY OF CosrIpENcE.-Complaints are
coming up from every direction about the
unusual scarcity of money" The complaints
are ill-g-oundcd. There is more money in
the country than at any former time. Con-
.fdence is the commodity that is scarce, and
the want Of it is causing money to be hoard
cd. All kinds of property rate too high-at
figures which every observing mind knows
cannot be maintained, and consequently
there is an uneasy feeling among capitalists
and moneyed institutions, and disposition
TO "hold on" until matters settle down to n
safe point. There has been long season of
prosperity, of successful trading and spccula-
ton. and many act as though it was always
TO continue; but the more prudent and saga
cious know better, and arc preparing for the
change. 1t is said that property is always
worth what it can be sold for. No PROPOSE
ton could be moro false. 1t frequently hap
pens that property cannot be sold for what it
is really worth, and at other times readily
brings more than its intrinsic value. Long
seasons of prosperity and high prices are al.
ways followed by greater or less reverscs.-
It is law of trade and business ms inevitable
a. the laws Of nature.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21
SYRACUSE, N. Y, July -.

The Democratic Hard Shell convention
met here to-day-a full delegation was pres
ent The Committee on officers reported
Samuel Beardsley for President, and eight
Vice Presidents and Secretaries. The Pres-
dent made speech telling strongly on the
treachery of the Administration. A Com
mittee on resolutions was appointed.
Judge Wemdom begged to suggest name
for Governor, and amidst deafcning cheers
proposed Judge Bronson. The nomination
was made by reclamation. The Judge had
written a letter to the convention, the read
ing of which was postponed till the Commit
tee reports.
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Thank God the unspoken prayer of peni-
tence may wing its way to the eternal throne,
though hooking church spires point only
with arstocratic fingers to the rich mans
heaven.-Fanny Fern.
There is in the above little paragraph a
whole volume of Tebuke for you, oh, We
scribes and pharasees, who every seventh
day sIumber in your velvetcushioned pews
beneath the mild and paintve wooings of a
soporific defamation, and who daily thank
that God to whom your lip worship is worse
than mockery, that you are not MS other
men. Oh, for more works and fewer words
more practice and fewer prccepts!
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

eR The German Liberals of Boston have
responded to the call of their brethren in the
West, and put forth platform almost ident-
cal with that laid down by the Free German
Democrats of Louisville. According TO them,
the American people have strayed from the
true principles of freedom and repubicanism,
and they demand number of notifications
in the constitution and laws of the country,
which notifications are necessary, in their
view, to remove the imperfections of our ex.
isting government. As their platform Involves
among other things, the repeal of Sunday law,
Temperance laws, ETC., the exclusion of the
Bible from Schools, it is not probable that
the party will thrive greatly in the uncon-
genial atmosphere of New England.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

PREACHING vs. PRAcTIcE.-Douglas Jerrold
speaks in this wise: You will hear a good
lowly creature sing the praises Of pure water
call it the wine of Adam when he walked
in Parndise-when, somehow, fate has be-
slowed upon tho eulogist the finest Burgundy.
lie declares himself contented with crust,
although benfcent fairy has hung fat
haunch or two in his larder. y
Yes, il is delightful to see these humble folk,
who tune their tongues to the honor of dry
bread and water, compelled by the force Of
fortune to chew venison and swallow claret.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

MExIco.-The steamer Orizaba arrived,
bringing Vera Cruz dates to the 9Th, and
city of Mexico, dates to the 3D.
Alvarez is reported i'll beyond recovery.
A new expedition, under Count Boubon,
was expected ut Euayamas. Troops had
been sent to Mchoocan, where the revolution
continues.
Santa Anna has sent the Cross of the Order
of Guadaloupe to the Soveieigns of Eng
land, France, Prussia, and other European
Potentates. Galveston dates to the 9th inst,
represent the crops as being favorable. Tho
mail from Ell Passo arrived in &c days at San
Antonio. 1t was attacked by Indians at Ea-
gle Springs The Indian hosti!ities continue
Various tribes are combining against the
whites. A general Indian war is expected
Troops have been sent to Eagle Springs,
and other preparations are making to operate
against the Indians. Mrs Wilson, late a
prisoner among the Camanches, had arrived
at Ell Passo, homeward bound.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

THE NORTHERN DEMocRAcY.-In the
Maine Democratic State Convention on the
2Ist ult, w. B. S. Moor, the Chairman of
the Committee on Resolutions, said:
awe came into power eighteen months
ago with an unprecedented majority in the
Nation; and in the State we had great NOR
al power, perhaps too much. Since then
changes have come over the aspect and the
prospect of the Democracy. We have lost
Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and it is
merely draw game in New Hampshire, that
ought to stand firm as her granite hills"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

TENNESSEE MONEY ABRoAp.-We learn
that at all the Railroad Depots in Georgia,
the following notice is hung in some conspic.
uous place:
"Tennessee money ,oH not be received here"
Memphis Wing.
There is on error in the above statement.
The notice referred to as being hung up at
Railroad Depots in Georgia reads:
"No Bank bills except Georgia and South
Carolina taken at par"
The difficulty with the Tennessee money
rests entirely with tho Banks themselves
An agency either at Augusta, Charleston, or
Savannah would remedy the evil complained
Of
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

W- The Washington correspondent Of
the Charleston Standard writes that Messrs.
Toombs and Dawson, of Ga, Dixon of KY,
and Jones of Tenn, Of the Senate, and Ste
phens of Ca, Cingman of N. c., and Pres
ton and Ewing of KY, have prepared an ad-
dress to the Southern Wings, designed to be
the platform of new Southern Wing party;
but up to this time they have Eot succeeded
in getting any other Wing member of Con-
gress to join them, and the address therefore
NAV not bo issued.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21
tag "Ion." the WASHINGTON corrosrond.

sB- "Ion," the Washington correspond
ent of tho Baltimore Sun, states that
Frenchman, named Charles Dubois de Tuck
ct, has lien upon the Mexican territory
ceded by the treaty to the United States,
mortgaged to him by the Mexican Govern
ment, as security for the payment of ono
million of dollars. 1t is said that Louis Ma
poleon has under consideration this claim,
and may proceed to enforce it against Mexi-
co. The Attorney General of the United
States will Of course have to examine this
with all other liens, Of which there may be
several
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

THE FOREIGN PoPULATIoN.-By the census
of 1850, it appears that Of the white popula-
ton of the United States, then amounting to
l9,55305S, there were born in foreign coun-
tries, 2,24O,535 persons, viz: male, l,239,434;
females, 1,00l,lOl. Those ascertaned to
have been born in the United States amount
ed to l7,279,375, and 1868 were reported
unknown as to their nativity 1t thus appears
that the proportion of natives to foreigners
in 1850 was nearly eight to one in the whole
United States. 1t should be observed, that
since the census of 1850 was taken, the for
eign population has largely increased by i'm
migration, amounting to over one million in
all; so that the number of persons of foreign
birth now in the United States may be stated
at about three and half millions. The pro
portion of Germans among the recent immi-
grants has been very great.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

UNION OF THE EAST AND WEsT.-Rev. T.
NJ. Post, of st. Louis, recently delivered an
address, in his characteristic style of brilliant
and glowing eloquence, before the annual
meeting Of the American Congregational
Union at New York, of which the following
are tie closing paragraphs, as reported in the
Independent: --
"Strong are the ties that hind MS TO rou.
Your sons bear ever frightening chain We
feel it by The Pictured Rocks Of Lake Supe-
rior, at the distant Falls of st. Anthony, and
to the Pacific Sea. We feel your heart beat
across continent. We are of you STILL
Your land of rocky cliff, and dell, and crystal
lake, your melancholy pines, your eataracts
that dash above the storm, your glorious
mountains and free old solemn sea-they
come to us in our dreams, that come with the
faces of memory-living brows on which still
beat lite's storms, with spell of many graves
of honorcd fathers and brothers that have
fallen in their strength, Of gentle sisters that
Sleep in silent beauty on distant hill-sides,
and of mothers whose holy love still looks
out upon us from the green mound in the
shadow of the old church, or in dels where
the awful mountains keep guard, like angels
of the resurrection.
Oh! from all that magnificent and bound
less realm where your brethren seek a home,
from the mystic springs of the Mississippi,
and the tropical splendors of the Southern
Gulf, TO the valleys Of the Oregon and the
Alps of Gold, the West pours on you her
thought from hearts and homes without num-
Der, weaving the mllion.threaded web that
binds still our lives together Yours is tho
power Of our mother-land. Use it well. Use
it promptly. We are growing fast out of
your shadow. Be instant, be earnest, be pa
tent in using the golden opportunty-th
plastic era. But look not on us with cold
ness and distrust if we grow not exactly in
your likeness-if our prairies produce not
Adirondacks, or our Mississippi picture not
your Hudson. Accord to us somewhat of
the freedom of your own glorious founders;
and wonder not that forms vary, though
principles be unchanged.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

~ 1t is common to speak Of Judge
Douglas as the author of the repeal Of the
Missouri Compromise. This is not the case
A very able supporter of it he was, but the
original bill reported by him did not contain
any provision of the sort. Mr.. Dixon, of Ken
lucky, moved the amendment by which the
Missouri restriction was repealed. To him
and him alone, was the credit of originating
this great feature of the act due The Wash.
ington Union, at that time, denounced the
proposition as factious. But after the Ad-
ministration approved and Judge Douglas
endorsed it, ate its own words with degrading
and dishonoring servity.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-07-21

sSy" The Russelivile (Ky.) Herald Of the
10Th says: "The farmers of our county are
in the midst of harvesting. The wheat turned
out finely, and the oats, perhaps, has never
been surpassed, both in size and quality. La
borers in the harvest field are scarce and
wages high. There is fine opening for
white laborers in this section, both in the
town and on the farms.