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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE
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S. IL. KERFOor i CO.,
APPLY st Dearborn street..
FOR SALE AT 4 SACRIFICE
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AN IMPROVED AND CULTIVATED FARM q, :.
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The ANGLo-AFRIcAN MAGAZINE FOR ALL
OF OUR PUBLIC LIBRARrEs-WHo WILL AIDY
Am unknown friend writes as follows:
,,Believ ing that the publication of your in
valuable magazine is doing more to do away
with the wicked prejudice existing against
the black man, and to elevate him socially
and politically, than by any other effort
being made; and feeling that great good
would result from placing it within the
reach of the masses, will give ten dollars
towards creating fund for placing a copy
n every public library in this country"
How does this proposition strike the true
friends of the black MANI Will they re-
spond literally and promptly2
The following is list of pledges and
monies received for said purpose:
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THAT OYSTER BED.

The Tribune" is, we regret to say, in
clined to poke fun at Virginia, because of
long-standing boast that its mothers gave
to the country Presidents, to the nation
fine oysters, and the best breed of niggers
to the ready market, which boast has now
become at least but an empty sound. The
Tribune" says that upon the profits of the
two last named items the first families have
been enabled to subsist We are surprised
that it omitted the presidencies, foreign
missions, clerkships, and other government
pap ladled out to Virginia from time imme-
mortal, by which also these first families
have subsisted, and sometimes even rioted.
But we live now in other times. Other
days surround us. Nobody now cares for
Virginia, and especially her families, more
than for anything else that does not pay.
Hence the revival of the slave trade threat
ems to render her negroes, though having
the best blood in their veins, valueless.
Presidents and foreign missions are passing
away from her hands through the greed
and lust of others; and now that Long Is
land Sound has yielded up that oyster bed,
three miles long by two broad, and two
feet in thickness, what, oh what will poor
Old Virginia and her first families do? To
what source will she, with her first fami-
lies on her hands furnishing for succor-we
say to what source will she look2
Our Anglo-African gravity will not let
us, like the Tribune mock over the sad
and declining fortunes of the Old Domin-
ion. Far from it. Not long since we had
occasion to weep over the declining for
tunes of South Carolina, and shall we now
be so soon called upon-and so suddenly,
toto lament this last mishap, the last
hope of Virginia.
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preach in the Bond-street M II Oh

preach in the Bond-street M. E. Cbnrch :.
an early day. He is certainly an .na
man, minister of the right stamp. and ;
true representative of our race. Womb 70
0od that every church established smonn
our people had ministers of his stamp. tai,
emit, and ability; it would not h. n F. '~.,
years before we would rise in the s.,in.
fion of the dominant race Onr naon,a
"ouio not remain long in ignorance and
superstition pe but would aspire to gain in.
''niSence and refinement, and we would
soon perceive better state of things Pre-.
JudIce, that hydra-headed monster wou,d
sink beneath the blaze of Gospel truth and
the poor colored man would be universally
acknowled as man and brother.
Rev. George Weir's text in the funeral
sermon of Mrs. Ross, was 1 Thessalonians
As.
In my next | purpose to give you a
statement of the number of churches be.
longing to our people in this city, and the
value of the same. MErAMoRA.
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casioned by the presentation of petition
from that great and good man, John Jay,
Esq, in behalf of number of Christians
against the iniquity of the African slave
trade. A petition simply that the Church
might give its testimony and its influence
against this crime of crimes, in which, it is
said, New York city is largely interested.
A petition simply that the Episcopal
Church in the Diocese of New York might
show to the world its own innocence in re-
gard to this sin and that its members were
free from any completely with it.
1t was doubtless forgotten by Mr.. Jay
that New York city is commercial city,
that New York has commercial men, that
she has ships, and ships stores, and cables
and chains, manacles and water tanks, and
all that to dispose Of
Laugh! Why not laugh at any white
Christian man understanding all these
things, man reared in the upper strata OF
New York society, with full knowledge
of all the facts, who should, by petition or
otherwise, attempt to check the legitimate
operation of these things, especially when
SO simple and plain matter as the bring
ing of the darkest and most benighted of
heathens to Christian land is involvedl
What! stop trade, stop commerce, profit
able commerce, and call upon the Church,
the sacred Church, to NEEDLE in it, tooi
Well may we laugh.
And yet, after all, we Anglo-Africans
own we have our msgivings; not for the
revival of the slave trade, but for that de-
risive laugh, for the state of the Church,
for the purity of that Church from whence
that laugh emanates.
Whittier is the Church tending2 What
ere long will become of the Church if such
is the state of things already existing there
in? 1t is fast becoming already too appar-
ent that in the Anglo-African religious ele-
ment is found the only salt that has not al
ready almost lost its SAVIOR in the American
Church.
Let us see to it, then, that by our prayers
and our earnestness and faithfulness that
we, by Gods help, check the rapid pro-
gress of iniquity that serpent-like is coiling
itself in the porch and in the altar. Let
us save the Church, if possible, from the
alike fate of Sodom and Gomorrah; espe-
cially let us by Christian earnestness re-
buke the laugh of this Convention.
We are half inclined to advise that the
colored Christians, without regard to sect,
select one of the feast days of this Church,
say Christmas, and make it solemn feast
day, by assembling somewhere up town,
say on the morning of that day, and there
unite in prayer for that church especially,
and for the American church in general.
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PUBLIC MEETNG.-There will be pub.
lie meeting of the colored citizens of Kings
County, will be held on Monday evening
October 10, at the church of the Rev. w
J. Hodges, cor. of Broadway and Eleventh
ST., Williamsburgh, to hear the report of the
delegates to the Troy convention of the
New York State Free Suffrage Association
and to appoint nominating committee fol
County and City officers, to be supported by
them at the coming election; and to trans
act such other business as may come be
fore the meeting.
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AN ACCOUNT TO BE SETTLED IN HEAVEN
It is stated that at the close of Methodist
camp-meeting in Fairfax county, short
time since, twenty-seven negroes were sold
on the ground for the southwestern mar
ket. One of the men was on his knees,
engaged in prayer, when the trader slap
ped him on the shoulder, and told him he
must go with him. He intimated his will
ingness to go, but assured his former mas
ter that, if they should meet up in Heaven
he would have settlement with him there.
The trader stopped his mouth with his
hand, and hand-cufed him. The whole
party were then put into an omnibus, which
was ready for them, and they were con-
veyed to Alexandria. Isthat the way that
Virginian Methodists follow Christi"
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A LAUGH IN NEW YORK.

A laugh and derision have been heard
in New York. A loud laugh; laugh that
is worth noting down as matter of his
tory. A derision that in some distant day
somebody will be most anxious to blot out.
There are different kinds of laughs
laughs occasioned by different objects, and
producing upon the performers different
and often beneficial effects. But the
laugherS and the laughter on this occasion
were not of the common order-not the
common sort.
They (the laughers) were body of
grave, pious, clerical and highly intelligent
men, assembled in grave, solemn conven-
ton to do grave and solemn business-not
for the interest of the earth, which is
earthly, but for the interest Of the heaven
ly; not for the interest of the kingdoms of
this world but for the interest of the king
2am of God.
1t must have been something wonderful
VI Auuu( VI ulOHStIouo, IH6u, W nave illus
!. excited the laughter Of SO august body at
Sl; and since it was derisive laugh and
not-g Christian one, we would naturally
oonclu3e, in the absence of any facts, that
there mus have come up something he
nious--sousse thing very offensive, not to
man $500 but to God himself. And vet
even then il gaast have been strange
sight Il witness s,body Of grave Christians,
Gods ministers Il any of them, assembled
in Gods bouse - ! do his business, halt in
the midst thereof ind set up laugh, and
hiss, and a dsrisilon; or if not immediate
participantsgiin AL these acts, permitting
them without ,febuke either by word OF
gesture.
But wheyfe, it win naturally be asked
and what was the cause of this sudden out
burst nj laughter and derision2 We an
swer: 1t was given in the Episcopal Con
VEN tion of bishops, ministers and lay dele
y ates assembled in New York city, and oc.
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THE FIRST FAlL lilies AGAIN.

The Tribune is as usual lacerating the
backs of the sons of the First Families of
Virginia for endeavoring to rid their Legis-
lature of Mr.. Caldwell, who has impu-
IDENTIFY got himself elected to the State Sc
nate
Now this Mr.. Caldwell claims, it is said,
to be full-hedged Republican, which, look
ing at it with our Anglo-African eyes, is
not claiming very much; Notwithstanding
we have not the slightest idea that he even
comes up to the standard of our modern
republicanism.
Why we had occasion not long since to
have a talk with one of these Virginian
Republicans, and an editor at that, and we
found him upon the subject of human
rights and true republicanism about as in
telligent as that animal, that, when we
were boy, used to run about our brothers
barn-yard, having very long ears,
The Tribune is not satisfied with thus
wounding the feelings of these sons of the
Old Dominion for merely endeavoring to
crush out this spirit of Republicanism; but
rakes up some glittering generalities of one
Thomas Jefferson, a crazy Drained man who
has said that all men are by nature equally
free and independent; and one George
Washington, and one Jamt Madison, and
one Patrick Henry, and one George Mason,
and one John Randolph, and one Peyton
Randolph and some others; all of whom
have, in times long since gone by, uttered
sentiments and given way to expressions,
well enough for their day, but which are
only weak, silly jargon, fulsome stuff In the
latter-day sons of the T. F's.
Take, for example, one of these now silly
sentiments, uttered by this Mr.. Jefferson,
IN reference to the nations treatment of the
people of color He said, "All men are
endowed by their Creator with the unalien-
able right to liberty" and, Il tremble for
my country when reflect that God is just"
What a generality How it glittersl
What wonder that these sons of the Old
Dominion are burying deeper and deeper
from view the men and the sentiments such
as these, they have been weak enough to
utter.
Seriously, there are those-and we are
among the number-who think that the
age, experience and responsibility of the
Tribune ought to know that this present
crop of the sons of the F. F's are but the
thistles, tares and chaff, unrelieved by a
single grain of wheat.
How it could institute comparison bet
ween The Virginians of the days of Wash.
ington and Jefferson and Henry and Ran.
dolph and Mason and such like however
little even we Anglo-Africans think of their
notions of humanity J, and the pigmy would,
be statesmen of the present days more
| than we can divine.
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OUR PATERSON LETTER.

PATERsoN,N N. ] /, Oct i, 1859
Mr.. EDITOR Although, in some re-
spects, colored Patersoniaas are undoubt
eddy behind their brethren of other places
there are others in which they keep STEP
with the foremost elsewhere. A colored
military company is in existence here, mum.
bering at the present time twenty-eight
muskets, to which it is likely more will be
added before long. A uniform has not yet
been adopted, though it is designed to have
it of good, but not very costly materials.
The organization bears the patriotic name
of the Independent National Guard" It's
officers are j. Fl. Smith, captain; A. Wan
namaker, first lieutenant; and A. Conover,
second lieutenant. 1t is proposed to 60 on
a target excursion to Bergen county about
Thanksgiving Day, the proceedings to con-
clude with military ball in the evening.
Two things the writer likes to see in the
hands of colored men-the "Anglo-Afri-
can" and the musket, training physically
with the one, Intellectually with the other.
In the possession of others, guns and letters
have been the instruments of oppression;
while in our own they will become aids to
elevation, and assistants to the work of re-
formation
h., n1r 1f I,4a H14., ~
Bergen Tunnel, your readers are doubtless
familiar with-six or seven hundred Irish
men obstructing travel on a great thor
oughfare, because some of their numbers
did not receive on the regular payday a
few weeks wages due. These honest fell
lows have thus had slight taste of what
they infict upon others, and it appears to
be general belief among them that an
Irish laborer is worthy of his hire. Wheth-
er they will ever learn that colored man
should also be paid for his work, remains
to be seen. AT present these honest
strikers" are sound "Dimmicrats,' earnest
supporters of slavery, and will vote for
Gen. Wright for Governor this fall, all the
more readily because of his profound dis
covery that the word Gree" is an interpo-
lation, not properly belonging to the De-
claration of Independence. The word
LIBERTY however, cannot be erased from
that document, but will remain there con-
tinual terror to such servile supporters of
slavery. APPS.
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A LEcTURE.-In order to meet a few
payments nearly due and to make winter
arrangements for the comfort of the con-
gregation, the Trustees of the Seventh-av-
enue Presbyterian Church, between 18th
and 18th streets, (Rev. Henry NJ. Wilson,
PASTOR have engaged the Rev. E. P. Ro-
gers, of Newark, N. j., (whose reputation
as pastor, poet and lecturer will, we hope
secure for him good audience, and fol-
the church large receipts) to deliver lect.
ure on eating, Dress and Drinking" on
Monday evening 10th inst. Admission
only 20 cents.
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HAYTI = The daughter of President
Geffrard was recently assassinated. 1t ap-
pears to have been part of the programme
of plot against the government, at the
head of which was General Prophetic. The
conspirators, who are composed of adhe-
rents of the late Emperor Soulouque, and
dissatisfied republicans, expected by this
crime to entrap the President into an am
buscade and take his life, as he was at an
other part of the city atthe time, and would
naturally rush to the scene of the murder.
His friends, however, would not permit
him to leave, and the plot was therefore
frustrated.
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No REsPECTER OF PERsoNs.-A louisa
ma paper, recording the death by lightning
of two "hkely negro men, says: "The
electric fluid of the clouds seems TO be nc
respecter of persons. 1t would as soon
kill negro worth fifteen hundred or two
thousand dollars, as poor white man, not
worth the powder and lead it would take
to blow his brains OUT
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For the Weekly Anglo-African.l

Mrs. Tisdale, the colored lady from Ca
NADIA, now in this city soliciting aid to pur-
chase her mother, a slave in Arkansas, at
tended worship in the African Union
Church, Fifteenth street, on Sunday even
ing last. After the services she was per-
mitted to relate her own story, and there
was fifteen dollars and sixteen cents worth
of sympathy taken, and the cash paid down
for it, and some subscriptions for more
besides which there was real hearty
wish expressed that she may soon dispose
of the whole three hundred dollars worth
and then get her mother out of bondage.
P. s. PORTER.
New YoRK, Oct. 3, 1859
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Ggs Meeklg AyIo- 9hiean.
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 8, 1859.

R Advertisements for this paper must be ac-
companied by the cash
B Copies Of this paper can be purchased Of the
dealers euerVlchere.
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was gotten up for the purpose Of giving the
visitors row. Property to the amount Of
$4,000 was destroyed.
The number Of deaths repooted to the
board of health last week was 1854, seven
of whom were colored. BANNEKER
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OUR NEWARK LETTER.
NEWARK, n. j., Oct. 8,


DEAR ANGLo:-It is now midnight
Many of the inhabitants of this city are
wrapt in the arms of sleep. Night has
spread her sable mantle over this part o
the globe; the beautiful queen of night ha
sunk behind the western hills, and all il
still save the barking of dogs and the foot
steps of some weary traveller. But here
am 1, with pen in hand, seated at my table
thinking and scribbling; erasing line
here and a line there; pain in my eyes and
heart throbbing, while endeavoring to stu
dy out the nsod~s operaradi in penning a
few lines for your excellent paper. But,
say you, enough of nonsence2 Though,
dear "Anglo,
ga little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wisest men,"
l am admonished that [ must use brevi-
ty; SO I will, and call your attention inn
mediately to matters in this city.
Mr.. John III. O'Fake, our talented vocal
list and musician, left the city this evening,
en- route for Toronto, G. W., being dele
gated from the Lodge of Odd Fellows of
this city to the public celebration of the
Victoria Lodge, which takes place at To
ronto on Friday, Oct. 18th.
Rev. William Jones, of Chatham, G. W.,
a minister in the Bethel M. E. Church, is
in this city, on mission to collect funds
for the purpose of building church for his
people at Chatham. On Sunday, Sept.
25th, he delivered an able discourse in the
Central M. E. Church, white, Rev. d. D.
Love pastor, from Ec. ,40th chap, 1st, 4th.
and 9th verses. In the evening he preach
ed in the Clinton-street M. E. Church, Rev.
]. K. Burr, pastor, from 1st Timothy, LIST
chap, 18th verse. After giving beauti,
full exordium, he stated that there were
three distinct propositions in the text
viz: 1st. The divine mission Of Christ.
I'd. The suitableness of His character in
order to perform his work. Sd. What ii
| is from which he saves. Both discourses
| were sublime, well timed, eloquent, and
full of pathos. A large collection was ia
ken up in both churches, the proceeds o.
which were appropriated to the object ii
question. The churches were crowded Il
excess. At the close of the sermon, b.
stated that the people of color in Chatham
and other parts of Canada had been repre-
scented, as lazy, idle, and degraded pee
pie, in state of starvation. He said tina
these assertions were false-that the ma
jority of them were industriou
and intelligent. He affirmed fun
ther that New Jersey had been misrepre
scented to him-that the people were pre-
/ JUDGED, and would not hear black man
but he had found it entirely different-h
had met with cordial reception in a
parts of the State, and preached in man
of the churches, and expected to preach
all of them, which speaks well for Ne
Jersey.
Mr. Jones preached in the South Ma
ket-street Church last evening, and is
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Canadian whom met at Manchester, who,
from his peculiarly pleasant manners and
thorough knowledge of the cotton culture,
in witch he instructs the natives, is becom-
ing one of the most important aolsate men
of the place.
Kanawha Valley star. [volume] (Charleston, Va. [W. Va.]) 1856-1861, 1859-07-19
Mixrxs Up THE BAgIEs.-The Wfav-
sruiIle Gal. Journal contains the fol-

MixTsG uP TIE BABIEs.-The Wfdv-
ergile Gal. Jo,nnot contains the fol-
loving
Some time ago there was dancing
party given up north - most Of the
ladies' presen. had lille. babies, whose
noisy perversity required too much AZ.
tention to permit the mothers TO enjoy
the dance. "A number Of gallant young
men. volunteered 10 watch the young ones,
while the parents INDUCED III a :. break
down. No sooner had the woman left
the babies in charge of4he nlischievous
devils, than they stripped the infants,
changed their clethes.s giving to one the
apparel Of another. The dance over. 1t
was time 10 go home, and the mothers
look each baby.1in the dress ofrher
own, and started some to their homes,
ten or fifteen miles. off. and were fat ON
their way before tas light But the day
following there was prodigioussrow in
that settlement /; mothers discovered that
a singleday had changed the sex OF their
babies H observation disclosed startling
physiological phenomena, andIthen COM
nenced some Of the tallest female pedes-
trianism living giles apart, It required
two days to unmix the babies, and as
many months to restore the woman TO
aheir naturally sweet dispositions. 10
this day It's unsafe for any f-the baby.
mixers to+venture within the Territory