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Notice Is hereby given. that ,he co partnership
hereiofore existing between a D Black and N.Y.
self under the name Of A. ID. Black q Co., has
some time since been dissolved.
All porsuas Indebted 70 said late him, wlllset
,lo ~iih me. The Notes. Acespaa ~, o. said
hrm are with me. ,. q. HAht ORD.
June 18th, '57-an
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THE Notes md Accounts Of Joseph Waller which we're
formerly owned BY Walkers irrsnd, have been trans
fefred 20 g. BALDWIN, and sra IN my hand for co
lection. Those Interested win take noiico, and aia tho
same without delay and save cost
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Banking House of

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deposits as usual,
JOSIAH HEDGES.
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VIC. HEDGES.
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nEw ADvERTIsEmEmTs.
Boots 81 Shoes.

WILL scl Boots and stoei uy oid proeI, ard will
y take Seneca County nank. and Az other GOOD b.nt
two years. THOMAS CARTER
Thin, June 10. 1867.
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Steering by the North Star.

The best account we have seen of Virgin
ia scamanship is given by Olmstcad, in his
'SeabOard Slave States in the history Of the
fast sailing putty-bottomed, packet sloop
Abstraction, Capt. Jerry s., manned by one
negro boy, named Mopus, and aged sixty.
'Mopus was proper slave, patient, meek,
stupid and stubborn-a talking donkey
lie never had been taught to read or to COM
prehend figures. lie could not understand the
dial and the binnacle compass was sort of
fetish to him the mystery of which he was
too humble to desire to penetrate. lie
piously left these great things in the hands
of his owner, and resigned himself to the
will of that Providence which had given HIM
master to take care of hlm, who was res
ponsiblc for his safety and profits, as well
as the sloop's.
The resignation and faith of the good Mo-
pus, however, often gave Capt. Jerry deal
Of trouble, for it obliged him to be nearly
always on deck and wide awake, and he
sometimes thought he might better sell Mo
pus, and buy niger that was not so good
Captain Jerry, as heard it, used to put
in word between SO and good, and bear
down on it, but the danger that such one
would prove entirely reckless Of all moral
suggestions, as smart niggcrs are very apt
to, and go and steal himself prevented his
doing SO, and he tried to make the best of
Mopus' muscles, and to supply the necessary
brain-power for the sloop from his own
private skull.
One night, Capt. Jerry having been up
all the previous night, and having just
worked the sloop out of Hampton Roads,
against the wind and tide, and being quite
overcome with fatigue, thought he might
venture to trust Mopus with the helm for a
lew hours, the sloop's course being now due
North up Chesapeake Bay, wind light and
quarterlng, clear sky, aud nothing in the
way for fifty miles
Mopus knew the North Star very well, as
niggers generally do, and telling him to
keep the bowsprit pointing straight to it.,
and not to disturb him till he saw land to
starboard, Capt. Jerry put out the pinnacle
light to save oil, and turned in,
Captain Jerry had the habit, which small
craft men are apt to get, of consulting
aloud with himself, No sooner had he co-
sed the companion scuttle than Mopus with
head to the stove-pipe, heard Moon full
Thursday-slack water at six-North Star
-that'lI do till daylight, sartain-due
North-Tapgier lsland-not aioEe meridian
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nj | S G. Il LII A n
An Awkward Predicament.

was once engaged to be married how
/ went so far as that is marvel to me
still, J but an incident of so irightful a
character took place as to put the matter
entirely out of the question. | was young
Undergraduate, spending the summer with
reading party at the Irish lakes,
when | met with-wIth Lucy, and got, in
short, to be accepted. She was residing
with her mother, in the same hotel in Kill
larny as ourselves and we all met every
day. We boated on the lake together, and
fished, and sang, and read We landed on
the wooded islands in the soft summer eve
nings, to take our tea in gypsy fashion, and
to sketch; but she and | mostly whispered
- not about love, at all, Gs | remember,
but of the weather, and the rubric; only it
seemed so sweet to sink our voices and
speak low and soft.
Once in a party over the moOrs, while |
was leading her pony over some boggy
ground, ! caught her hand by mistake in
stead of her bride, and she did not snatch
it away. 1t was the heyday and the prime
of my life, my friend, and that youth of the
spirit which no Iower can ever more renew.
knew what she felt, and what would please
her, as soon as the feeling and the wish
themselves were born. Our thought-my
tHOuhut ~ ltdsI- Ituptu OuI W Ntu Win
thought, ere thought could wed itself with
speech She took fancy to a huge mastiil
dog belonging to fisherman, and bought
1T for her at once, although it was terribly
savage, and, except for Lucy's liking it)
not either good nor beautiful. Its name,
also-the only one it would answer to, and
some times it would not to that-was Tow
ser, not name for lady's pet at all, and
scarcely for gentleman's. There was q
little secluded field, hedged in by coppice
which sloped into the lake, about mile
from the hotel; and there Lucy agreed (fol
the first time) to meet me alone. was tC
be there before breakfast, at eight O'Clock
in the morning, and you may be sure
was there at six-with Towser.
Perhaps ! was never happier than al
that particular time, The universal nature
seemed in harmony with my blissful feel
ings. The sun shone out bright and clear
80 that the fresh morning breezes coulC
scarcely cool the pleasant throbblng of my
blood but the blue ripping waves of th'
lake looked irrepressibly tempting, and
could not resist q swim, Just a plunge anC
out again, thought for though haC
such plenty OF time to spare, determined
to be. dressed and ready for the interview al
hour at least before the appointed time
Lucy might, like myself, be little ear
litr and at all events, with such an swfu
consequence in possible apprehension,
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RoBBERY AND MuRDER,-A shocking muir
der was committed in Westfed, Mass, on
Monday,
Isaac jackson, aged some seventeen years,
employed as pedar by his brother, a jew
merchant at Westfeld, was murdered and
robbed, on the road leading from Westlield
to Russell, by Charles Jones.
lie was shot through the heart and his
body was dragged some thirty rods to the
bank Of the river, where it was sunk in
swift current and covered with stones and
rubbish Suspicion was not excited until
Tuesday morning, when an old man who
was driving cows to pasture saw trail
where some heavy body had been dragged
across the road, and gave the alarm.
Search was then made by some half dozen
of the neishbors, and the body was found.
Jones after shooting the pedlar took the
wagon and drove it towards Blandford about
mile, and there left it in piece of woods
over night. lie then went to King Has
tings' house, in Blandford, where he staid
until o clock on the morning of Tuesday,
1t is suspected that after leaving Hast
ings' house Tuesday morning, he went to
! the dead body and completed the work OF
searching it, From the body he went back
/ to the wagon, which he drove to another
| place, changed his clothes entirely, and
/ came down to Russell to get boxes to pack
| goods IN This was towards noon on Tues
day, and suspicious having been excited as
above, the man was detained
A warrant for his arrest was promptly
obtained and an inquest held on the body.
| All the evidence pointed to Jones as the
murderer. jackson was shot through the
/ heart md ,IOnes was fnund IN hava a pistol
which King Hastings recognized as one
(Ilastings) house in Blandford, where
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can tgo wrong till after daylight, no how
good snooze this time-go in-or boots >
! Nope was "A capital helmsman and for two
hours, while the breeze held, he kept on n
| bee-line to the northward Then it fell
calm and then there came little catspaws
from the northwest,and Nope, after giving a
| pull OF til G nam sheet lett the helm min
ute to ilatten the jib. While he was for
ward, flaw from the northeast took him
oil aback. Delaying lib sheet, he came aft ,
and put helm up to wear round. Just as
he jibed, came another flaw from the south
east, and pretty smart one Nope met it
trimmed close, and seeing it was going to
be steady, left the helm again, and showed
the centrc-board down. Then he went to
the hatchway and got his coat, after which
he took pull at the tlc-butt and struck
hight for u smoke
All this time the old Abby with her head
southeast. was shaking like nail-mill
Nope finally hauled the jib up to port, till
the mainsail filled, then took the helm again
and keep her rap full heading south, but
running off to the westward, now and then.
in search for the North Star, which as he
could not see it anywhere else. he thought
for long time must have got behind the
mainsail
lie had smoked out two pipes before he
found it, and then it was right orcr the stern,
which at first struck him as a singular cir
cumstance. There it was, pointers and all;
he could not be mistaken. But how did it
get hcre'
Nope pondered over it for two pipes more,
all the while giving hera good full and no.
thing off lie was at first inclined to treat
it as a mystery but when about two clock
the moon rose, he grew bold. knotted his
elbows, clenched his teeth, took off his tor
paulin, and struck his reflective organs
with his clcnched fist.
At length the problem was solved. and his
lips trembled and gathered inward and puck-
cred hack with that nleo sura which niggars
IN common with human beinos eniov wbnn
thew are conscious Of having acouittoJ
themselves we'll of n trving and bonorabla
resnonsibilitv lie ;nmediatoIv Lanlnd
the boom down close to tho tairroil ba
went forward and belovad tho i,h IN wind
ward. lighted his nine again. nnd kent n
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The Vermont PARTY in Kansas.

'nr Boston journal
MArLEroN, Bourbon Co., X. T., May 20, 81
To He Editor of the Boston Journal.
will give you some account Of my iour-
ncyings in Kansas, since | entered the Ter
ritory on the 10th Of May.
At Quindaro, where / landed, fell in
with Rev. b. b. Newton of 81. Adams Vt.
Il member of the National Kansas Commit
tee. lie has given his time for q year to
the cause Of Freedom in Kansas. Early this
spring he came on with a Vermont company
OF some sixty persons, who designed making
settlement in some desirable location in
the Territory. At Kansas City they stop
ped to make preparation, and purchased
sixteen yoke OF oxen, five large wagons, five
prarie plows, flour. meal and bacon, and
tents 20 that they could go forward on
their journey, keep their own tavern, and
supply all their necessities from their own
stOrchOuse. They started early in the
spring, SO that they were obliged to wait in
camp ut Leavcnworth nearly a month for
weather warm enough to warrant moving
into the interior While there one of their
number, Mr.. Blake, died, leaving to Mr.
Newton 5 care his family, consisting Of his
wife and six children. Soon after his DEATH
Mrs. Blake gave birth to their seventh child.
She with her children remained behind at
Parksville, Mo-, while the rest Of the party
moved on 10 find location
At Quindaro met Mr.. Newton who had
just left Mrs. Blake in good health at Parks
vile, to Join his company. concluded to
make the journey with him. The company
is located on the Little Usage River, on the
3Sth parallel, north latitude, in range 90 d.
east township % south, some eighty miles
east of south from Lawrence, and fourteen
miles west of Missouri. They have pre-
empted township site of three hundred
and twenty acres, which they intend to call
Mapleton, and they have taken some fifty
claims around the town lot, running back
on all sides two or three miles.
like the appearance of things so well
that think Ct taking claim and joining
this company. So far as | have seen them
they are the right kind Of men-stalwart,
hardy, earnest, fearless, and resolved to
plant here the ideas of New England. They
are now busy turning over the prairie
and putting in the seed The soil here, all
Of II, is as rich as any one could wish. Il
have travelled nearly two hundred miles in
Kansas, and have not yet seen Il swamp
No country is better drained. Good water
is every where found by digging from TWEEN,
ty-fve to forty feet The heavens are
bright, and the air comes laden with vigOr
and health. The little Usage country i.
well timbered with black walnut, hickory
oak and maple If some capitalist would
come here and put up steam saw and gris
mill of about l2j horse power, he would
make money by the operation, and confer a
great blessing upon rapidly increasing
community. If any one who reads this
should wish to emigrate or settle in this
neighborhood, Kansas city would be his bes
point Of leaving the boat. From that point
there is Il good road.
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From New York,

We nave had a trumphal ovation here.
not precisely in the Roman style, but per-
haps quite as betitting the object as any
old reception ofan Emperor could have been.
There is a German soldier of fortune, by the
name Of Ilrnningsen, who has fought in
Spain, | believe, and elsewhere, and, hav-
ing married a Southern lady with posses
siOns settled here iu Now York When
the steam-lord Morgan was fighting the
Nicaraguans, through the agency of Wal
kcr, the other steam lord, George Law, who
had large quantities of old muskets on hand
sent llenningsen to Central America, hop
Ing some favorable chance would open for
his General to cut out Morgan's General
But circumstances were adverse, and Hen
ningsen played only the second fiddle.
In the last few months this German gen
tleman, in company with Walker, has been
procuring the shooting, starving and horri-
Die suffering of some hundreds of Ameri-
can citizens in Nicaragua, and being in
contincntly kicked out of that country, he
arrived in this city on Friday Of last week
An inpatient public waited for him upon
the wharf. Those friends of man, Col. Fab
ems, General Cazeneau. and Mr.. Thomas
Francis Meagher, with Others received him
in their arms, and the noble company drove
through Broadway, to the Saint Nicholas
Hotel, where they liquored, and then pro-
ceeded to the residence of the distinguished
General, Twelfth street, where he was last
evening serenaded, and made a speech in re-
ply to the huzzas of the crowd. The point
of this speech was, that William Walker is
one OF the most remarkable men of the age in
which he lives that everybody who says
that the Nicaragua, campaign was tragic
farce, is q fool; and that General Walker II
Company have contributed their share to
the historic glories of the American name.
Robert Macaire and Jaques Strop, re-
turning from a spree of THEFT and murder,
and entertained with speeches of welcome
and melodies, is a refreshing spectacle.
Walker is a man whose whole career
shows his utter want of brains lie has not
done a solitary clever thing, lie stood in
Nicaragua Just as longas he had Rivas as
mask for his play, The moment he played
false to Riyas, he began to fail, and has
made patent to the world that he was mere
ly imbecile lie evidently neither knows
men nor affairs. His Nicaraguan career
was silly blunder, and like all such blum
ders produced more bitter and unnecessary
misery than those who are not familiar with
the history could believe.
But of the fzzled tillibuster, no more.
In fact, notwithstanding the procession
of three carriages to escort General Jaques
Strop to the bar-roOm of the st. Nicholas,
there is no especial town talk this week
GREGORY.
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ry wrongs, invaded your soil, destroyed your
Tree presses, burned your humble cabins,
and plundered and murdered your brethren
for the crime of loving liberty. lie was
fully convinced that Kansas was lost to the
Slave Power, that she would take her place
in the list of Free States. The Senate might
sustain Lecompte, the President might re-
ward the men who have wronged, outraged
and murdered the people, with Official hon
ors but no power, not even the sabres OF
dragons, could uphold much longer, or per
petuate human Slavery in Kansas. The de-
vOllon, the enduring courage and sublime
hdelity of the men and women of Kansas,
had touched the heart of the nation their
brethren had left their homes and come here
by tens of thousands to share their home,
to share with them in the trials and the
honors of making Kansas IA Free State. The
contest was DOT yet closed, but the issue
was settled beyond the power OF man to re-
verse it. Kansas was destined speedily to
repudiate Slavery thrust upon her. and to
engrave upon her beautiful prairies the
word Liberty, in characters of burning light.
She would do this, not by the vague prom
ises Of the National Government or its
officials, but by the power Of her own sons,
sustained by the generous sympathics Of the
ireemen of the North. lie saw that the
contest was not now 50 much to make Kan
sas Slave State, as to divide the noble sons
who stood together in resistance to inya-
sions, usurpations, arbitrary law and law
less outrages, and make her a pro-sayery
Administration State. lie had no advice to
give the people of Kansas in regard to modes
of action they knew better how to act
than he could know ; but he warned them
against the seductive influences which
would be applied-now that the battle was
going against Slayery--to make her pro-
slavery Democratic State. Kansas has been
baptised in the tears, prayers, tolls and
sufferings of the friends of Freedom. She
should be free herself, and be ever for the
freedom of others. If his voice could be
heard by the dwellers in the cabins scatter
ed over her priiries, he would say to them,
Your fidelity, toll, and endurance have
made Kansas a free State see to it that you
place her on the side Of equal, universal,
and impartial liberty for all men, in the
contests of the future. lie should return
home filled with admiration of their Terri
tory it would be great and proud Com
mon wealth. lie could almost forgive the
border ruff Ins who sought 50 fair herit
that policy which opened that glorious land
to slavery, strife and bloodshed. lie could
assure them that IN the future, as in the
past, he should give his voice and vote, in
public and in private life, to the vindica-
ton of the rights and to the defence Of the
Free State men of Kansas
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TIE CRors This has thus far been a
bad season for corn. In some parts of this
County the farmers have planted twice, the
seed refusing to gorminate, Grass is doing
finely everywhere. The Boston journal
states on the authority Of gentleman
who has recently paid flying visit to the
States of New Hampshire, Vermont and
Maine, that although the season has been
somewhat backward for labor, there has
been larger breadth of ground planted this
year than has been usual. " Farmers have
generally paid more attention to raising
supplies of potatoes, as these have been
better paying crop for some years past than
any other The winter grains look splen-
didly everywhere. Spring wheat promises
we'll. The pastures are rich in all direc-
tons, The hay crop, which is by far the
most important, pecuniarily, IN New Eng
land, gives indications of bounteous yield,
The best old hay can be bought for Sl2 to
sl4 per tun, and is falling. The dlscre-
pancy between the prices quoted is caused
by demand being greater on the seaboard
than inland, Cattle are generally in fine
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THE BACHELORS BURIAL.

Two old maids, at shut of day,
A bachelors carcass bore away,
With wrinkled brow and matted hair
And heart that never loved the fair.
Bring briars, they groan'd. bring weeds unblown
Bring rankest weeds Of name unknown,
Bring wihered boughs from dreary wild,
To strew the bier of errors child.
And make his grave where the lizards hide,
Where night-shade strews the swamp creek side
Far out of sight-where genial Spring
Shall send no gentle birds to sing,
His old jack knife lay with him low
To cut the strings of Cupid's bow ;
Tho sad house-oat shall whine around
hi, lonely grave In grief profound.
Low lay him who was often high"
Here where shall fall no pitying eye
For him-for him no loving heart
Shall ache for him no tear shall start
His bloodless lips shall fall to dust
His old jack-knife shall waste with rust
He whom we hide from the sight of men
Shall never fright the babes again.
For We have laid him from the light,
Beneath the ground and out of sight
But this rude epitaph sha! stand
" lie who to no one gave his hand ~
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The New CENT. The new cent coin wins
opinions anything but golden. Its color
like copper counterieiting pinchbcck, and
blushing at being caught in the cheats
the ground of objection with some. Others
revile the ambiguous figure which the mint
officers interpret into a flying eagle, but
which, to the uninstructed, resembles II
table napkin, or pen wiper got up for sale
at fancy bazaar. The latest objection
we have noticed is, that children swallow
it with great consequent irritation Of the
stomach and bowels, from the corrosive ma
ture OF the metals of which it is composed
There is Just one good thing in the new
cent. II weighs precisely the hundredth part
of pound, People inclined TO decimals
may turn it to some purpose as a convenient
mode of determining fractional weights six
pencewOrth Is an ounce three OF them can
be sent by mail for three cents more.
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SUMNER FEED FOR CATTLE. For severa
years we have earnestly recommended our
readers to plant or drill in corn or millet
for sOiling' cattle; that is for cutting up
and feeding while the crop is green. Every
succeeding year has confirmed the profit of
this course. During the dry season. and es-
pecially in the case Of drouth, there will
always be II period of short, dry pasture,
and then nothing comes in better than
quantity of green succulent food, just such
as growing corn, cut up and fed two or three
times day, either in the field or stable.
Cattle will thrive upon it, cows will CON
tinue full supply OF milk, working oxen
keep in good heart and be ready for heavy
Fall work, and animals to be tattened will
continue in good flesh, and instead of los
ing, they will show the good effects OF such
Iced when lat carcasses are desired. All
neat stock, thus got well through the worst
part of the Summer, will be best prepared
for the Winter campaign. We say then,
again, drill in half acre or an acre, or Sc
veral Of than if you have a large stock, and
our word for it, you will find it valuable
two months hence 1t is best to SOW, say
one-:hird of the plot very soon, one-third
ten days after. and the remaining third ten
days later still; or small portion may be
I reserved for sowing at the close OF June. This
will provide a continuance of green food
! until a full growth of Fall grass. Sow
the corn thickly, in drills wide enough apart
to admit the cultivator to pow between
them, and keep down the weeds. Any por-
ton not required for green food may be cut
while still green, and dried for winter forage,
One who has not tried it can have scarcely
an adequate conception of the great bulk of
rich cattle food that a single acre Of corn
will produce.