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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08
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From DE Bows Review.

From DE Bows Review.
THE ILLS THAT SLAVERY FREES US
FROM
In reading the following, which we take
from an able report on the Sanitary Police
|of Cities, sent to us by the author, DR..
Newman, of Buffalo, New York, we pro-
foundly wonder at the blindness which finds
in Southern slavery ''painted devil"
'Oh. judgment, thou hast fled to british beasts,
And men have lost their reason ~
It seems that a Committee was sent by
the Legislature Of New York to look into
the condition of the lower and working
classes of the city. They report, April 4,
1856, that in twenty-five districts 1 200
tenement houses are occupied by ten fami-
lies each, in some by seventy families, 9TH
ers one hundred, and in one, in particular,
Que hundred and tforty-sin families. oruore
than an Average of one family and hall
to each room! But let the Committee
speak:
In the houses visited by your Committee,
sights were presented to them alike startling
and painful to behold. In many achites
and blacks 'oere living indiscriminatezy q
together; negro men acith achste aoomen, and
sohate men aosth negro ,0onsen Young faces,
haggard with want and sickness, and bear
ing that peculiar look of premature old age
impaired by early sin, gazed at them from
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

A FRENcHMAN ON ENGLISH MANNERS.
The English never expand in society they
seem to reserve all their spirits, and all their
good qualities for home-for s'in-doors. p
1t requires all the genial warmth of the do
mestic freside to dissolve the crust Of ice
which envelopes them when abroad in the
world. In their own little coteries, you
will often find them good and agreeable !;
and in the closet, the pen in their hands,
they are often brilliant, often full of pathos
or of humor. But they do not know how
to talk. They are never at ease in the pres
ence of a stranger; except, perhaps, when
the bottle has been freely passed at the din
ner table; but these are generally shallow
pated fellows, from whom nothing is to be
learned You see them always hampered
by that bane Of English life, fashion" Z
the fear Of being out of fashion-the thral-
dom of the coteries. When conversing
with an Englishman, you often read in his
face that he thinks more than he says that
he has ideas that he will not express It
generally the best, the most profound, the
most intellectual part of himself which he
reserves for his intimate friend, or for his
wife but rarely pays his homage to society.
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every corner; misery and vice in their most
repulsive features met them at every step.
Scarcely an apartment was free from sick
ness and disease, and the blighting curse of
drunkenness had fallen upon almost every
family. Here and there might be found,
it is true, some attempt at cleanliness, some
display Of love of home, some evidences
of industry and sobriety, with their natural
accompaniments cheerfulness and good
health. But these, your Committee found,
were IN most instances families that had not
long been inhabitants of the neighborhoods
in which they lived The Generalization
and ruin apparent all around had not had
time to do their work On them. It is to be
feared that too soon the miasmal air will
creep into their systems, undermining the
sturdy constitution, and prostrating its VIC
TINS on a bed of sickness. Health failing
them, want will follow and then must come
crowding uncleanliness, drunkenness and
crime. This is no fancy sketch, no picture
of the imagination. 1t is stern reality,
enacted every day in the midst of luxury
and wealth, the natural and fearful result
of the capacity of landlords in an overcrowd-
ed city, unrestrained by conscience, and
wholly unchecked by legislation.
In these buildings, thus crowded with
human beings, there is, with scarcely an
exception, but one narrow stairway; and
egress to the multitude inside, in case of
fire, is in impossibility. Common humani-
ty demands some law against this evil.
Every underground cellar in these tene-
|ment buildings, that is not absolutely food
ed by water and filth, is made lodging
room for one or more wretched families
All these are destitute, of any species of
ventilation; in most Of them the floors are
thick with putrid mud, and the pipes and
sinks communicating with them from upper
apartments give out their offensive and
deadly gas, and pollute the air of the whole
|neighborhood.
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geleften plaetry.
THE. FUTURE.

l
The Future! tits misty vale;
To pierce whose shadows sight must fail.
The Future! 'tis sbadowy land
We people with spectral band;
And with bright and glowing dreams
It's depth of darkness often teens.
When happy thoughts the bosom swell
The thrilling scenes of JOY twill tell:
But when dark thoughts the mind oppress,
The future wears gloomy dress;
1t ever to our vision wears
The aspect which our present bears.
We vainly seek the veil to raise
Which hides the future from our gaze;
We seek by mortal sight to scan
That ne 'er revealed to finite man.
The mind to realms of shadows clings,
Forgetting what the present brings.
The future time will soon reveal,
AS, moving with nnwaiting wheel,
BY strong, resistless force borne on,
Becomes our present-then is gone
Tis now to exercise our powers;
'Fis now to act-tbese flying hours;
'Tis ours the present to obey,
The future of our yesterday;
Nor seek to pierce the depths profound
Which stretch beyond our present bound.
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approaching when it's principles, its truths,
will have achieved the conquest of the world.
That State is nov the conqueror Of christen-
dom and has any conqueror or conquering
nation yet achieved so extensive a conquest.
Under the strong organization of the Catho-
lie church, during the dark ages Jewish prin-
Iciples and Jewish truth achieved, in about
three hundred years, a more extended con-
quest than old Rome, with all her discipline
and valor and application Of martial resour-
tces, was capable of achieving in the lapse of
the long life of twelve hundred years. In
the language Of exaggeration and indeed of
Eextravagance, for the use of which man has
been prominently distinguished, Alexander
is said to have conquered the world; and
yet he has not left to survive him a solitary
religious or scientific principle or truth
With himself his works have perished, and
the world will know them no more forever ;
while the meek and lowly author of christi
anity, who had not where to- lay his head,
and during the performance of his work was
not only dependent upon Jewish charity for
support, but was hemmed in within the
narrow limits of Judea, lives now more
gloriously and certainly than he did while
engaged in the performance Of his mission
attended by the most splendid and stupen-
dous miracles Such is the contrast between
the destructive power of error and force, on
the one hand, and the progressive power OF
truth and persuasion on the other. A little
leven leveneth the whole lump of universal
man. For the purpose Of learning the his
tory of this State, the Bible, Josephus' His
tory Of the Jews. and Wines Commentaries
on the Hebrew Laws, will be sufficient. But
in studying history, it is not expected you
could recollect all that is contained in them,
but you must direct your attention particu-
larly to the most important portions. In
the period of the first four hundred years
this State was only peaceful, quiet and
comparatively obscure republic, but it was
during this period the principles, which are
now achieving such results in the world,
were matured and permanently established,
while the establishment Of monarchy was
the erection of the stand point from which
Jewish nationality was degraded and over
thre#n. The reign.the guilty and mag
lnlGssak zsenof the lzainaand seaetistieal
lroIumnn deserves your parIiGdlar at6en ntl5H,
for having utterly routed and overthrow
Jewish nationality, and temporarily arrested
the progress of the elements Of Jewish prin-
ciple.
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"TE LlDDLE PLACK BONY. !.
By GoTLElB.

BY G0TLElB. .g 80
"Chon, you recklemcmper dat liddle
plack bony | pyed NIT the bedler next
week %
''Yah, vot of him."
'Nothings, only gifts sheated burdy tam
pad"
"So?"
"Yah. You see in de vurst blace he ish
|plint mith bote legs, unit ferry lame NIT Won
eye. Den ven you gifts on him to rite he
rares up pehint unit gicks up pefore so vur-
sur as chaekmule. I dinks dake him a
fiddle rite yesterday, unit SO sooner I gifts
straddle his pack ye gousmence dat way,
shust SO hge vakin poam on poat-steam
unit ven he gifts tone, I vas so mixed up NIT
efery dinks, vints minezelf zittin arount
packvarts, NIT his dali in mine hants vor de
pridle."
"Vell, yot you going do to NIT him ~
9tOh, | vixed him peter as cham up. Z
hitch him in te cart nit his dali we're his
heat ought to pc; den I gife him apout so
tozen. cut NIT a hitecow; he starts to 90;
put SO soon he see te cart pefore him he
makes backwards. Burdy soon he stumples
lpehint, unit sits town on his hanehes, unit
looks like he feel burdy stamped NIT him
sci 9ea aa1Ias Ri901 el3l3tk l3l3tk aRa hifah6hialz
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

IHc IL 81 are crazy upou CHe supJcck VI Ac-
groes and slavery. They are mere lunaties,
or rather monomaniacs, acting without sense
Or reason. They have conceived an i'm
mense affection for the dirty and filthy ne
groes Of the South and have fallen into the
hallucination that those negroes are as ca
pable of civilization, and of establishing and
enjoying the institution of civilization, as
white men. They shut their eyes to all the
facts Of history concerning that abject and
degraded race. They forget that, from the
first dawn of historical light, the negro has
been the same, physically, morally and in
ltellectually-t 5000 years ago, he had
a woolly head, fat nose, thick lip, a
crooked shin, and a long heel; that during
that long period, he has been slave, eth
Ter to race more civilized than he, or to
his own sable compatriots, which was a
great deal worse; and that, he has never
progressed in civilization, or Christianity,
except when he has been in subsection to a
superior and civilized race.
They contend for the absurdity that the
''nigger is as good as the white man, in
other words, they contend for his political
equality with the white man in this Repub-
lie. This hallucination on the part of the
class OF men of whom we are now writing,
is, however, more theoretical than practical;
for most of those negrophilists, while they
contend so Justify for the rights of the black
man, will not admit him to their parlors,
their dinner-tablcs, to associate with their
children, to marry their daug ughters, to train
side by side with him in military compa-
ny, nor sit side by side with him in jury
box-thus denying practically the doctrine
OF equality between the negroe and white
man, which they are constantly preaching
And these monomaniacs avow their will
lingness and determination to subvert the
government and destroy the Union, if they
cannot otherwise enforce the popular recog-
milton of their absurd and impracticable
dogmas. But, no danger to the country
could result from the follies and adsurdities
of this class of fanatics per- Sc. They are
comparatively mere handful even Of the
people Of the North, and are confined main
ly to the followers of Garrison, Wendell
Phillips and Abby Folsom.
But the fanaticism of these poor mono
maniacs is seized hold of by class of men
who are rational, and who know what thew
are about. These are the political DEMA-
GoGuEs, and include the Stewards, Chases,
Hales, Wilson's, and the rest of the wicked
and reasonable crew whose Vaccinations
threatened the overthrow of the Republic
These men really care nothing about slave
ry in itself. They would not if they could.
set the slaves free tomorrow They have
no faith In the doctrine of the moral, intel
lectual, Or political equality of the negro,
honestly advocated by their co-laborers, the
fanatics. The emancipation. improvement
and welfare of the black man, are really no
part Of their aims and ends Their great
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
BY e. WELLS,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERMS OF SUBS scRlpTfoN.-For one year, if paid
in advance within six months, sl.50; If not paid
within six months, $500.
TERMS OF ADvERrIsING.-S1 90 per square for
the first two insertions, and 25 cts. for every sub
sequent insertion; twelve lines less constitute
a square. If the number of Insertions be not
marked on the advertisement, it will be published
until forbid, and charged accordingly. liberal
deduction made-to those who advertise their busi-
ness by the. year. The privilege Of annual adver-
tisers extends only to their Immediate business.
Announcements of candidates for Office, 81 90
per month. to be paid in advance.
Communications, the effect of which is to pro-
mote private or individual interests, are matters
of charge, and are to be paid for at the rate OF
50 cts. per square.
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purpose is, political agg,andisensent, the a.
chievement of political place and power, and
the enjoyment of political honors
These are the really dangerous men, the
true pests Of the Republic. The fanatics
are of no account, except as instruments in
the hands Of the demagogues, who are the
really dangerous men. And we hesitate
not to say that, if the people of the North
do not soon awaken toa consciousness Of the
real state of things-to the actually and
truly formidable dangers which menace the
peace and integrity of their country, from
the intrigues and Vaccinations of the dem
agogues, who are filling this section of the
Union. with prejudice and passion by their
artful and infammatory appeals-they will
ere they are aware of their danger, be star
tied from their dream of security, by the
crashing of the pillars Of their beloved Union
about their ears.
1t is time for rational and patriotic men
to cease to countenance this senseless and
injustiiable crusade against their brethren
of the South, and to put down the treach-
erous and dangerous demagogues who are
preaching it up. It is time for them to "a
waken to true sense of the relative rights
of all the members of this great Confedera-
cy of sovereign States, under the Constitu-
tion, their common bond of Union. 1t is
time for them to inform themselves of the
true history of the negro, of his capacities,
his necessities, and his true relations to his
fellow men. They should conscientiously
study the will of Providence with regard to
that degraded race, to realize his abject and
miserable condition in his native country,
his improvement in connection with supe-
rior and civilized race, and what immense
blessings and benefits he confers upon the
human race, and how much he promotes
the civilization, comforts and happiness of
mankind, by the necessarily subordinate
union of his physical labors with the intel
lectual guidance of the white man. Let
them bear in mind, that, if this connection
between the labor of the black man, and the
guiding intellect of the white man, were to
be dissolved, almost every cotton spindle in
the world would be stopped; the great COM
mercial staples Of cotton and sugar, would
almost cease to be produced the progress
|nf xifds N T75l
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81 CAN'T MAKE UP MY MIND. "

can't make up my mind, mamma, j.
In such unseemly haste;
Nor pick from all my dying swains
A husband to my taste.
There's gay Charles Dash, a charming man,
Most effabIe and kind,
Who loves me so devoted|y-
But can't make up my mind.
And next. there s Frank, young Harry West.
So fond, so true, SO clever,
Who, though f-scold him all the day,
He adores me more than ever.
There's Roger Snipe, the pink OF beaux,
Or else your daughters blind,
And yet when Snipe grows serious
! can't make up nay mind.
There's lawyer Kean and Poet Good,
Examples Of their sort; i35
Still, still can't make up my mind. st
There's no accounting fort!
5"Yes, yes, there is. stern truth replied,
"Your vanity imparts
That false delight in fatt ring tongues.
Which forfeits loving hearts,
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an Qriginal Getter,
ON READING.
A LETTER FROM ECCENTRiCITY TO
SIMPLICITY. ~
Mr.. s1MpLlcITY:

Mr.. SIMPLICITY:
Dear Sir,-Your letter of January Sd,
1857, duly came to hand, and should have
answered it promptly but for two reasons:
one is the disincGnation to write at any time
except where business compels me; and the
other is, distrust of nay ability to furnish
you, appropriately and correctly, the advice
and instruction you desire. You say you
have much time to spare for reading, and
amidst such a multiplicity Of books, where
there is SO little of sterling literature, you
know not what to read; and, under these
circumstances, you ask my counsel and ad-
vice as to what are the best, the soundest,
safest, the most salutary and instructive
books, not only to be read but to be studied
Owing to my own peculiar mode Of study
and thought during my whole life, I feel
that am the most incompetent man in the
world to give you the advice and counsel
you desire. My mode Of study and thought
heretofore have wrought out for me "a world,
as it were. of my, own, and have made me
appear often SO singular and eccentric that
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

Two persons contending very sharply on
matters regarding late election, got on
rather high words, when one of them said,
"You never catch lie coming out of my
mouth" The other replied, "You may
well say that, for they fly out so fast that,
nobody can catch 'em."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

There is good story told of a young
man who had light and incipient mus
tache. One day, while lingering the few
hairs. he said to Harry, Hadn't I better
dye this mustache?" "Oh, mol" replied
Harry, "let it alone, and it will die Of it.
SELF
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

What difference is there between prince
and a peasant? No more than between two
bricks made of the same clay only one is
placed upon turret, and the other at the
bottom of wall
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

The lilly seems to us the most hallowed
of all the flowers Of the field, from the use
that was made of it in that inimitable SER
mon on the mount. Honored above all the
painted children of the rainbow, for it is a
syllable Of the speech of the Son of God.
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mankind, including especially tie very ne
groes about whom SO much misplaced sym
pathy is expended, would be deprived of
many of the comforts, and even necessities,
Cor of things which have become such, }
which they now enjoy.-Concord (N. H.
Standard.
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best OF my ability.
You have observed through life and do
now observe, that, as general rule, the
community in which you are placed has a
singular and uncomfortable proclivity to read
and be directed by the novels, the fictitious
productions of the day, which are in reality
as feeting and unstable as the vapors of the
morning; indeed, many of them are as
poisonous in their effects upon the human
character as those noxious miasms which
emanate from quagmire, stagnant pool,
or a fatid dunghill Upon this subject 1
feel and speak seriously; and it is this sort
Of reading which has carried so many of our
promising and noble young men down to an
untimely and dishonored grave The influ-
ence of such reading is incalculable because
national, embracing millions, and operates
with the multiplied force of numbers.
have always aseribed the Revolution of
France of '93, and particularly its misdi-
rection. with all its horrors, to such litera-
ture; and the present diversified, unsettled
and chaotic state of the national mind of this
country at this time is largely due to such
reading. | do not mean to say that there
are not some works of fictitious character
which may be read with both profit and plea
sure. Such works as Homer's Odyssey,
Scotts Novels, Milton's Paradise Lost and
Regained, and Shakspeare's Plays, will both
please and greatly instruct. But, in read
ing such works as these, there should be a
permanent and practical rule by which your
inquiry and reflection should be directed.
For instance, in reading Milton. what is the
peculiar and important principles intended
to be taught and illustrated It is rebel
lion in heayen--and when you shall have
ascertained this fact, then another question
comes up for consideration Who is the
rebel, and what is the heaven? Despotism
is the rebeIthe popular power is the hea-
vens; and this idea of rebellion is not 10
cal or temporary, but it is and has been as
universal as the human race in every stage
and phase Of its progress nor is it a mere
fgment Of the Imagination, having only a
real or imaginary existence in the insensible
world, but it is now and has always been a
living, disastrous, practical reality. The
popular power-the heavens cur below
ed country, has largely triumphed over des-
potism- the'rebel. Thus not only read but
study such works as you would your Latin,
by words and sentences, and improve your
memory by committing to its kind care and
watchful keeping the most important, beau
atiful and instructive passages.
But. my young friend, you have just
started in the world, pregnant, I will not
say with central fire, but with youths hope
and energy. What then do you want -
Do you want reality or inreality? Do you
want fiction or fact. truth or error? God
has gifted you with commodious and safe
store house, and has left you to I'LL it with
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-10-08

The HUNTsMAN At FAULT.-A pack, ID
a provincial country, with wild huntsman,
were one day at fault, when loud shouting
was heard from a man on hayrick-
clark, holloa p screamed the huntsman;
and away went his darlings, best pace up to
the man, followed by the whole field, he'll
ter-skelter, for another start.
.Where's the fox gomez" shouted the
huntsman.
II ha'ant seed no fox, sur -
''Then what the devil made you holloa
SO p
''The ould gentleman, hisself, I do be-
ieve; and he'd made you halloa, if you'd
seed un, as did, spring off the cut Of hay;
the hair, riz up on my head like hogs bris-
ties"
''What does the fool mean ?" asked the
huntsman, in furious passion.
''Why, I doa'nt know what It names !;
but [ tell ye, when 1 put the ladder against
the NOW, long tailed critter jumped out Of
the mitch of hay, and cut away into yonder
copse; and the very sight on un was enow
to make anybody holler. But, dang it,
look-there hur zits in thick big oak"
And, on the horseman riding to the wood
hedge, a large baboon was seen sitting in
the tree, chattering, and making faces at
| his friends below.
"Hah! hah! hah p' shouted Tom Lark
ing, leading man in the hunt, ga devil
ish good joke, Jem, to be hallooed on to
monkey. But hang it let's have him out !;
he'll show US run, now we have lost our
fox"
''My hounds run monkey, STRIP ex-
claimed Jem, Indignantly; ''they amt come
to that pass yet, anyways"
.1'll bet five to one they do run him
though, Jem." persisted Larking. But
Jem, fearing mischief, trotted briskly away
to find another fox, leaving Jacko to be
handled by any one else who fancied him.
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Louis XVI, asked Count Mahoney if he
understood Italian. Eyes, please your
Majesty" answered the count, IF it is
spoken in Irish F"