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The Slave Trade.

1t IS not a little surprising that after half
a century's cessation to the imp ortation of
slaves from Africa into this co untry,-that
after the oft repeated tale of the no rrors of
tearing them from their father-land. and the
sickening details of the middle passage, and
the strong and unmistakeable voice of Chris
tendon uttered in thunder-tones against the
traffic, there should be found in the South a
few intelligent and respectable men who are
advocates Of its revival? There are two mo-
nves which professedly operate upon such
minds, not ~withoutsome force, to induce them
to favor the project. One is the large de-
mand, if not absolute necessity for the in
crease of slave labor, the other is the more
philanthropic motive of the positive benefits
which would accrue to the slave himself
Both these positions may be true, and yet
there are barriers to its revival. which to ma
ny minds appear absolutely impossible, and
which must ever operate against it The
vast weight of Southern mind is stubbornly
and irresistably against IT, and yet no human
foresight can determine what may be the re-
suit Of the continued agitation of Northern
abolitionism. The evils evolved from this
miserable fanatacism are already legion what
else may be developed time only can decide
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DIED RETURNING FRoa A BAEA.-Mfss
Laura E.. Stratton, second daughter of Mr.
Robert Stratton, No. S20North Eutaw street.
near Hoffman, died suddenly yesterday NOR
ming under the follow ing distressing and
terrible circumstances. Miss Styatton who
was a most estimabie yOung lady of fifteen
years, had attended the ball of Independent
Greys, at the Maryland Institute, in company
with several companions. After enjoying the
OCCASION until between TIVE and three o clock.
she left the scene with her companions to re-
turn home. AT the corner Of Baltimore and
Liberty she said she felt strange and unwell
but walked on until the corner Of Howard
and Monument streets was reached, when
her illness greatly increased, attended with
a gurgling in the throat and a sense Of suffO-
cation. She was laid apon the steps Of
dwelling, supported in the arms of her lady
companion, while her male escort FASTENED
to the nearest physicians Office. When he
returned with Dr.. McSkerTy, ii was found
that Miss Stratton was a corpse in the arms
of her friend. Her only exclamation was,
Lord have mercy on me-" A messenger
was dispatched TO the dwelling of her pa
rents in advance of the body, and the an
nouncement of her sudden decease fell like a
thunderbolt on the hearts Of the household,
who were momentarily expecting her return
from the happy scene she had helped to
grace and ~enliven. 1t is supposed her death
was caused by disease of the heart, to which
she was thought to be subject.-Baltin,ore
Sun.
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Conversation.

Some one has beautifully said, that CONVEX
satiOn resembles the flowing of a mighty riv-
CT. At its commencement, when it first
trickles from its rocky source, its transparent
waters brighten the little pebbles over which
it flows, and its tiny ripples, as they dash
along in their PERCEPTIONS course, sparkle
with each ray Of light, and gladden. the heart
OF the beholder with their brilfancy. Anon.
the broad channel is contracted, and the
streamlet increasing in depth as it advances,
and gathering strength and volume on the
way, with difficulty presses through its mar.
row banks. The rapidity of the current is
lesseued, the glowing ripples are gone but
in their place are depth and vigor. No long.
er turning aside to play with shining stones
or dance with the sunbeams, profoundly and
quietly 1t passes on overcoming all obstacles
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ey7A correspondent of the Philadelobia
Ledger says that a drachm of sulphuric aid
mixed with a pint of whiskey, and taken IN
gllls four times a day, will completely cradi-
cate the disposition to the Incorporate use of
ardent spirits, by exciting a disg st to all
spirituous liquors.
We hope some old topers will give the re-
cipe a trial. We suppose they need not fear
the 'sulphuric acid" as it is an ingredient
very ~abundant1y used in the manufacture of
whiskey, as testified to by an able and respon-
sible chemist in Baltimore recently, the results
OF whose analysis we published a few weeks
ago, taken from the Baltimore Clipper. Viii
some one try it and let us know the result o,
the experiment? If it will do what is prom.
lsed, it is worthy a trial by some one anxious
to be freed from the appetite.
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ENVY.

There is scarcely any feeling of the de-
PRAYED heart more despicable and grovelling,
than that of ENVY. In most cases it is prompt
ed by dark minded malice, and has its seat
in bloody rerenge 1t was this spirit of eney,
that planted unholy ambition in the soul of
the tall Archangel and caused him to be
hurled over the battlements of heaven. A
Poet has most fOrcibly expressed the idea in
two lines: IL
S"Ambition hath but two steps: the highest
Blood the lowest Envy"
And the man who through envy, will detract
and strive to bring down his fellow-man, will
in many instances not scruple to shed blood
in order to wreak revenge upon some enyied
| object. II
Envy is not only a low and debasing pas.
sion, but is frequently the most inexulicable.
We see men sometimes entertaining the most
implacable hatred to another, when that 9th.
er has never done them an injury or in any
manner nterfered with them or their bust
ness. But he is, perhaps, by his industry.
integrity, frugality and sobriety, acquiring
wealth, reputation and influence above them
and they, therefore, and for no other reason
envy and hate him, and roll as a sweet NOR
sci under their tongue, every SANDER they may
invent, or that may come to their ears, th,
invention of some other maliciously envious
confederate: They. wag the head with I.
knowing "ALa. Iknew it." 'sJust as I ex
pected," and with a fiendish leer exult owe,
the hoped-for downfall of one whom they hav,
no just grounds for entertaining any but the
kindliest feelings for. It is a strange wick
edness of the human heart, but it is no less
true, that there are those whose eyes are con
tinually fixed upon another mans prosperity
and their chief happiness is to grieve at it.
Spencer, in his Fairy Queen thus describes
such a man:
Fl hated all good works and virtuous deeds !;
And him no less that any like did use:
And who with gracious bread the hungry feeds,
His aims for want of faith he doth accuse
! Soevery good to bad be doth abuse:
And exc the verse offamous Poets wit,
He does backbite and spiteful poison spues
From ieprous mouth, On all that ever writ;
Such one vile Engsasas, that.6sst in row did sit
~ Who viii send us the largest club Of
knbScriherc ueYt urooi. q
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Or any thing elseg Such e fling has never
occurred in any country IN the world, or in
amy age preceding this, and IT is not at all
probable. that it would take place IN America
"a nation that Is the arsalgum Of almost all
tbe nations on the globe. What 1.-THE free
use of wine a remedy for the love of strong
drinkr' Prsposserous.
We shall continue IN fensrks on this sub
iegt sex4 week.
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That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow, only,
AS the mist resembles the rain"

sat down on al old Wondering, moss
covered log, upon the rivers rim, and looked
away down the wide, watery path cut through
green ridges of grass and bordering trees,
with here and there a snow-white hut speck-
ing the distant, hazy banks, to hide the gath
ering tears, just ready to drop at the slightest
shifting of the surcharged lids. I did not
wish to add to her own heart heayiness, by a
symptom of grief or melancholy in my seem
ing or tone, and tried to crush back the blind
ing spray dashed up by the troubled waters
Of transient feeling.
She nestled down, suddenly, half kneeling,
upon, a grass-clump beside me crossed her
white bare arms upon my lap, and laid one
round, ~roseless cheek against my shoulder
The quick action displaced a large, o~verladen
tear, that breaking from the sustaining lashes,
fell heavily upon her hand, splashing the gol-
den-hooped wrist as the big drop burst.
She started nervously, and gave me a wild,
searching look, then dropping her face upon
her arms, burst into a low, heart-mourning
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WEDNESDAY,. AUGUST 81, 1859.
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Griefs-Pictures of the Past.

A writer whom | have just been reading
has eloquently remarked There may be,
a nd O. there certainly are griefs-of which
the busy world knows nothing-that we lock
in our own bosoms as too sacred to be re-
vealed to all curious lookers-on and yet we
would not. forego the pleasure, melancholy
though il is, which we derive from these
pictures of the Past. There comes before
as the sweet, gentle faces of those whom we
have lain in the cold grave, away from the
beautiful sunshine-aU alone in the darkness.
We feel thei- .rv;s;s~el~-.ssouu c Nass or rove
upon the pale lips, and listen to the magic
tones which were as music to our troubled
spirits. o, who could be willing, even were
it in his power, to draw the veil of forgetful-
ness over these holy memories. We love to
feel, as we gaze on the deep blue vault above.
us-each star in which is a window through
which shine the glorious light of Heaven
that We have q treasure here--a cherished
brother or sister, or little angel child or it
may be, the companion of life's earthly pill
grimage-dearer than ones own life, and
whose place in the heart nothing that is of
earth can ever ill. We love to revert to the
days Of our childhood and youth, when the
years one bright summer always and we
dreamed not of the cares which miqht CONF
and o~'ershadow the hearts joyousness-of
h ecrushed and withered flowers, strewn on the
altar Of Friendship and Love. Although the
contrast between the Past and Present may
be a painful one, yet it is a comfort to the
weary soul to know that amid all the weari-
ness that surrounds us here, there are some
silvery rays, stealing uncalled across the
deeply shaded picture, which we know must
be completed, though every penciled line
dims some fairy light that is to us so beauti-
ful. 1t fades, gradually, from our hearts,
but We would not forget that it once was
there. Then, tell ms not to shut our heart
on mcmories'-leave us at least this fountain
Of pellucid purity"
How beautiful, and how true! Who
would willingly shut out from that holy o.
holics, the heart the dear treasures which
memory has left in remembrance of the loved
and gone ofthose who from brighter spheres
look down upon us and bless us; grievine
when we grieye and rejoicing when werejoice
and ever, with winning, but unseen smile
and unfelt words of encouragement, urging
US to pursue through life the path of recitud,
that our reward may be the greater in tn
hereafter.
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Gahies' Department.
Mrs. M. z. eoRMAN, Editress.
Tha Imaginative Faculty.

was never " a Novel reader"-a few OF
scOtPA, Bulwer's, and other like celebrities,
comprise my stock Of knowledge derived from
the literature of Romance; !" but am
not Of those who decry the indulgence OF the
imaginative faculty, If it be educated to con-
fine itself to pleasing and profitable bounds
We cannot see why the imaginative faculty
should not be cultivated like any other OF
Heavens best gifts, IL that cultivation be
properly directed. How would the world be
any the worse for it, If they were to let a
little Of the rich sunlight Of ideality upon the
souls that are being moulded beneath the
plastic hand Of the modern edu%cationist; IN
stead Of trying to make them petrifactions
Would Il not be better to soften them, and
make them susceptible to loving and gentle
IMPRESSIONS The world and its ways are
strong enough, and many of its days are dark
enough; for
"Into each life some rain must fall,
some days must be dark and dreary."
II would be better for US, therefore, that
We were taught to live, so that when the
blackness of darkness should come down up
on life's landscape, one might learn ito find
,o,i oe ooodneea IN h..-~ns-A-- f'SneefN
- Beauty from the storm and darkness, and be
hold the rainbow of hope with its ~sevenfolt
glory spanning the storm-cloud. would
have the heart always childlike, and would
keep alive within it the same trusting, guile
less, and implicit faith. He understood it
who spake as never man spake," when hi
said "Unless we become as this little child
We shall never enter the kingdom of heaven
-ssas this little child'' in all the rich fullnes
Of it's loving nature-"as this little child"
its upwardloOking, ~self-dependent, and guile
less fafth-"as this little child, " in the purit
and iullness of an imagination filling its lit
soul with bright and blessed visions. An
when he taught his disciples, he taught the
as little children, in parallels and stories
the imagination-incorporating great trut
in those figures Of speech in which He nc
converse with them. The culture Of the i
agination, therefore, / consider, has been h
lowed and eountenanced by the sanction
One who knew the human heart in all its
vious ways. Let us take heed, then, how
neglect so great a gift, and the instruction.
80 great a Teacher.
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The Lecture System.

The trial has been made with some degree
of success in our Northern Cities, not only
to interest but instruct large numbers of those
whose leisure winter evenings would be bad
ly spent otherwise, by introducing a system
of lectures on historical, scientific or phil6-
sophical subject. We are not prepared to
say whether the plan has fully succeeded or
not but it has been not a little notifying
to us how poorly such attempts have succeed
ed in the South. So signal has been the fail
ure IN almost every instance that has come
to our knowledge, that we would be unwil-
ling to insurea respectable au Hence to the
most gifted lecturer in the land, on the most
intensely important subject for more than
one night in a month. To be sure a popular
lecturer of great fame, might command a re-
spectacle audience for a few nights in sue
~cession until the excitement wore off, and
then our people would require a new resur-
rection before the same lecturer could COM
mand them. s-
Now, why is this? 1t does not arise from
the lack of intelligence or a want of the ap-
probation of science, but the lecture presents
knowledge in a form too dry and uninteres-
ting to Southern ears. We demand tower
ing defamation, close, melting, moving logic,
or the earnest appeals, to move us hence. as
highly as Southern people appreciate preach
ing, the practice of reading sermons is gener
ally disapproved Of by. those who must not
only be made to know what is duty, but to
feel it, in order to produce any direct impress
sion. Lectures we prefer reading ourselves,
than to have them read to us and hence the
Indifference to the LECTURE system.
TExAs.-We see that Col John Ell. Manly.
formerly of this City, is one of the members
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we nave neard IL aflrmed that France is q
wine drinking. but still a temperate country. The
latter is entirely false The common people there
are burnt up with wine, and look exactly like the
cider brandy drinkers of Connecticut, and the
New England rum drinkers of Massachusetts,"
And not only in France, is the "free" and
" common use of wine" deleterious, and pro-
motive of incorporate habits, but from un-
doubted witnesses it has been proven, that in
other wine-growing countries it occasions a
vast amount of intemperance among the peo-
pie, and that its use is actually destructive of
human life. The Rev. Eli Smith bears wit
ness to the deadly influence of even the pu-
rest wines, in the region of Syria, where he
was sojourning, as a Missionary. He says
Of the inebriating effects of the wines of the
Mediterranean, zoe hare often powerful erideuce
On hrst going to Malta, with the impression 7
bad received here, lin America) that there was no
danger from the pure wine of those countries, I
Tell IN with what l found to be the prevailing
custom, and took a little wine with nv dinner
AT length l found a friend of mine falling into
habits OF lntoxication from using the common
Massala wine from Sicily. I then gave up nv
wine and so far as 1 know, all of nv brethren
ABSTAIN from the habitual use of it-as a temper
ance measure"
He says further and emphaticaIly, and
which ought to settle the point at once. that
lin preparing aTract on temperance, for cir
cutatdon an Syria, are hare included sciae NTH
brandy, as one Of the causes of intemperance
to 6eacoided."
The Rev. Dr. Scudder, of Madras, saws
In India drunkenness prevails in the bivbs,
circles; out 1t Is to be seen in its widest range
among the middle classes of Europeans and Eas,
Indians. Half of the natives of this CITY. we bave
been told, get drank daily Probably half of tbe
Europeans who are in the hospitals in Black Town
die OF intemperance."
We do not wish to make these articles tc
lengthy, and shall therefore desist for tbe
present. We,will resume the subject. how
ever, in our next. But we think we bav.
already submitted sufficient testimony. and q
an unquestionable character. too To tot.l,,
disprove the assertion that the free use q
pure" or eight wines" Knight have
greater effect in producing temperance, thar
the effort at total abstinence" WHY did i
not do this IN olden times, where there wa,
such a thing as squire wine ' Wbv has !;
not this tendency now in France, Italy. Per
sia and the East? In those countries the,
ca" obtain the wine in an unfermented state
and yet the truth is, the inhabitants prefer
and use, the fermented, because ofits intoxi
eating properties And what right have W.
TO suppose. that our countrymen, who have
been accustomed to strong wines and stronge,
brandies, w~hiskeys, &C., would discard these
ana resort to the squire juice of the grape
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WOMEN ALLOWED TO VoTE.-In the con-
stitution being formed for Kansas, women
are allowed to vote in school matters. They
may vote for a school officers, school taxes,
and everything pertaining to the organize
ton of the common schools equally with
men. Comforting this much of the elective
franchise upon females is intended as an ex-
pertinent.
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na- 1t is stated that Bishop Davis, of S.
c., has become almost totally blind. His
general health, however, is good, and his
vigorous nental faculties are unimpaired.
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TExAs.-We see that Col John Ell. Manly
formerly of this City, is one of the members
elect to the Legislature from Harris County.
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~H Who win send us the largest club of,
subscribers next week >
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And the Rev. DIR. Hewett saws:

" We have heard il affirmed that France is a
wine drinking, but still a temperate country. The
latter is entirely false The common people there
are burnt up with wine, and look exactly like the
cider brandy drinkers of Connecticut, and the
New England rum drinkers of Massachusetts,"
The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1859-07-07

The new Democratic doctrine announced
on behalf of the Administration by Gen.
Cass, that ifnaturalized citizens ofthis coun-
try return to Europe and are called upon to
fight for their old masters, this government
will extend to them no protection, is one of
the most startling that has ever been pro-
nulgated in this country. Ofwhat earthly
benefit is naturalization, if the recipients of
it are entitled to no protection from it uot-
side the territorial limits of the United
States? And yet it is to this precise limit
to which this boon to the oppressed is sought
to be frittered down by this Democratic Ad-
ministration. What friends of the foreign
naturalized citizen this Democratic Admin
istration is, truly! Why, the most ultra
Know Nothing, never dreamed of doctrine
half so monstrous. 1855