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The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-29

few remarks, after which collection was
taken up amounting to twelve dollars, and
other contributions promised. The church
was crowded to its utmost capacity, and
many were obliged either to retire or join
the crowd at the windows At the request
of many I continued the meetings on
Wednesday and Thursday evenings.
received an invitation to lecture in the
First Baptist Church, (white) which I ac-
cepted, and spoke there on the following
Friday evening to an evidently delighted
audience, many of them expressing de-
sire to have me visit Stonington again.
In passing through the streets of Ston-
ington we did not notice but one building
in process of erection, and could but adj
mire the witticism of our heroine friend
who remarked, "this is the first place l ev-
er saw that was entirely finished"
The colored population of this place are
active, industrious, and intelligent They
have only one church edifce, which be-
longs to the Baptist denomination, and is
large enough to accommodate about two
hundred persons. The pastor, Elder
Smith, (white,) is a farmer residing at Gro
ton and receives three hundred dollars a
year for his clerical services There is a
public school kept in the church and
taught by Mr.. Hamilton, colored gentle
man of much ability, who has ffty-fve
scholars in attendance. The colored peo-
pie of Stonington are literature-loving
people as is evidenced by the fact that
through the instrumentality of the es-
Unable Mrs. Ward, many copies of the
"Anglo-African" have been introduced.
W. F. JOHNSON.
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OUR READING LETTER.
READING, Pa, Oct. II, i

READING, Pa, Oct IL, 1909.
Mr.. EDIroR:-Once more l seat myself
to communicate to your paper, in the way
of giving you some idea of the news
stirring in our midst. Our city has been
the scenes of hustle and excitement for
some weeks past. First our annual agri-
cultural fair, then fremen's parade, and
lastly the election of county officers. The
agricultural fair was failure on account Of
rain but the intention is to have it sec
ond time, the latter part of the present
month.
The fremen's parade came off last week,
which made quite display, there being
several companies from abroad, accompa-
MED by the best Philadelphia bands, among
which was Beck's Cornet Band, which got
the praise of being the best.
The county election has just closed, and
the Democratic ticket has been elected
throughout, though greatly to the astonish-
ment of the opposite party, and the victo-
rious party is beginning to think that "Old
Berks" is getting back to where she start
ed from
am sorry to say that the Douglass
Guards are evincing luke-warmness in re.
gard to their company, and that their ex
pectations will not be realized if theil
minds are not brought to more stern con
clusion, and formidable downfall will be
the inevitable consequences.
| annex an extract from letter received
from Mauch Chunk from friend, descrb
ing the above place and its rural scenery
1t is as follows:
OF all the American places and summer re
sorts, l would advise the stranger to go to Maucl
Chunk. What place is more beautiful? Here tn
stranger has all the pleasure to be derived from
place of this kind For instance, we would tax
him to the summit Of one of the highest noun
tains in Carbon County, leading from the rear {
; the Mansion House, from which he would have
view of the place and the neighboring towns. II
who would wish to see the Switzerland of Amer
en-. let him come here and stop at the Mansio
House, and from thence take hack to the foo
of Mount Pisgah, then take car for pleasul
sake and be drawn up the summit OF Mount Pi
gah, height of eleven hundred and eighty Cd
feet. As soon as the summit is gained the car d
sends to the base of the mountain, distance
twenty-five miles, entering Mauch Chunk oy
, entirely different route. Now, having opened
/ the stranger two routes of pleasure, his mnd'
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d91bt will be set upon coming here for pleasure
sake.
would also recommend Mauch Chunk az al
immediate aid to invalids-the smell of differen
species of trees, together with the notes of bird
OF different kinds, mingled with the loud roaring
of the Lehigh and Packers dam have a tendency
to revive the invalid to an almost supernatural de
gree.
All these paths to pleasure and health are
enough to attract the most Indifferent, and to make
them cay that Mauch Chunk, as little as it is. il
not to be talked lightly of
L made an error in saying that the whole
Democratic ticket was elected, for Gen.
w. ii. Kahn, of this place, was elected to
the Office of Surveyor General, by a large
majority, he being States Right candi-
date, the facts of which you have no doubt
learned before now.
L fully concur with the writer of the ar.
tice styled the Underground Railroad it
being of superlative necessity that the
road should be attended to, as passengers
are becoming very numerous, especially on
this route, and their accommodations are
very poor.
A disease is prevailing in this city among
which has taken great many off.
The ELECTION is all in the throat, and ply
'lclans seem to give but very little aid.
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or should be, for our assumed leaders to
whine because they have not influence
enough to attract the people in large num-
bers whenever they desire to makespeech-
es or have the dollars and cents poured in
to their pockets. 1t is useless for any lee
turer to visit us unless "known to fame"
tor one of the privileges we claim is oknow
who our teachers are. Perhaps if the gen.
tleman had listened to counsel, he would
not have been compelled to manifest such
an unchristian spirit. LAURA.
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LETTER FROM sTONINGTON.
SroNNGroN, Ct, Oct. Is, 1859

Mr.. ED1ToR:-I left Providence on the
first inst, accompanied by that American
heroine, Mrs. Garrison, for the quiet little
town of Stonington, one of the oldest in
the old Blue State. Its population is
about three or four thousand, including
about two hundred persons of color. The
whites are of moderate business habits and
literary requirements. There are about a
half dozen msillioasares among them who
aim at nothing more nor less than to shut
out and bar doors against all enterprise,
such as manufacturing, &c, and it is only
occasionally that you hear the echo of the
hammer of the mechanic.
On our arrival here we called on my
old friend, Rev. Mr.. Brunson, formerly of
Fall River Mass, but now pastor of the
First Baptist Church, in this place. We
found him, as usual, courteous and hospit-
able, and could scarcely contend success
fully with his persuasion to remain under
his roof After supper we attended a
prayer-meeting at brother BIS church, and
freed our mind of such stores as were mar
ketable, and realized much satisfaction
therefrom. After meeting we found that
our kind Anglo-African friend, Dea. Ross
had secured quarters for us at the residence
of Mr.. VIM. A. Ward. 1t did not take
long for us to find out that we had been
brought to really good quarters, for in the
hostess, Mrs. W., we found kind and in
telligent lady, and one who spares no pains
to make her guests comfortable by provld
ing neat rooms and plentiful table, to-
being Baltimoreian she must, OF course
be an epicure. We take much pleasure IL
recommending her house to the patronage
of the respectable of travelling public
On the Sabbath delivered an anti-slav
cry discourse at the Third Baptist Church
(colored) in behalf of Mrs. Garrison's en-
terprise, and was followed by Mrs. G. in
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I WAIT FOR THEE.


The heart is swept-the fire is bright,
The kettle sings for tea;
The cloth is spread, the lamp is light,
The mullins smoke in napkins white,
And now ! wait for thee
Come home, love, come; thy task is done /;
The clock ticks listeningly;
The blinds are shut, the curtain down,
The armchair to the fre-side drawn,
The boy is on my knee.
Come home, love, come his deep, fond eye
Looks round him wistfully;
And when the whispering winds 60 by,
As if thy welcome steps were nigh,
lie crows exultingly.
In vain; he finds the welcome vain,
And turns his glance on mine,
So earnestly, that yet again
His form unto my heart strain,
That glance is SO like thine.
Thy task is done we miss thee here;
Where'er thy footsteps roam,
No heart will spend such kindly cheer,
No beating heart, no listening ear,
Like those who wait thee home.
All, now along the crisp walk fast,
That well-known step doth come;
The bolt is drawn, the gate is past,
The boy is wild with joy at last,
A thousand welcomes home.
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shall be made of my operations as an
agent by any genuine "stockholder7 or
true friend of the cause; but I am not will
ling to be mute under charges made against
myself or the committee by irresponsible
anspOsters or bogus stockholders" especial
ly when anti-slavery papers are made the
special vehicle of the injustice.
VIM. STILL.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 20, 1852
viii Frederick Douglass Paper" please
copy if it copies the article by "Many
Stockholders ?"
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We have made up from the daily pa
pers, for future reference, an account of
this unhappy event, which, though deeply
deplored by many friends of freedom, only
foreshadows the beginning of state of af-
fairs that will yet make Old Virginia re-
greet her apostacy to the liberty-loving, tyr
amy hating principles of her Washington,
her Jefferson, and her Patrirk Henry.
That we may not be charged with impair
TALLY in making up the history, we collate
from Southern papers and papers of the
North upholding the damnable institu-
ton:
The Baltimore American" says:
"The principal originator of this short
but bloody instruction was undoubtedly
Capt. John Brown, whose connection with
scenes of violence in the border warfare in
Kansas then made his name Familiarity no.
torious throughout the whole country.
Brown made his first appearance in Harp
ers Ferry more than a year ago, accompa-
MED by his two sons, all three of them as
Stunning the names of Smith. He inquired
about land in the vicinity, and made in
designations as to the probability of finding
ores there, and for some time boarded at
Sandy Point, mile east of the Ferry. Af-
ter an absence of some months, the elder
Brown re-appeared in the vicinity, and
rented or leased farm ON the Maryland
side, about four miles from the Ferry.
They brought large number of picks and
spades, and this confirmed the belief that
| they intended to mine for ores. They
were frequently seen in and about Harp
er's Ferry, but no suspicion seems to have
existed that "Bill Smith" was Capt. Brown,
or that he intended embarking in any
movement so desperate and extraordinary.
Yet the development of the plot leaves no
doubt that his visits to the Ferry and his
lease of the farm were all parts of his pre-
paration for an insurrection, which he sup
nosed would be successful in exterminating
slavery in Maryland and Western Vir-
GINA.
Browns chief aid was John E. Cook, a
comparatively young man, who has resid-
ed in and near the Ferry some years. He
was first employed in tending lock on
the canal, and afterwards taught school on
the Maryland side of the river; and after a
brief residence in Kansas, where it is sup.
posed he became acquainted with Brown
returned to the Ferry, and married there
He was regarded as man of some intelli-
gence, and known to be anti-slavery, but
was not SO violent in the expression of bis
opinions as to exile suspicion.
/ These two men, with Browns two sons
were the only white men connected with
the instruction that had been seen about
the Ferry. All were brought by Brown
from distance, and nearly all had beer
with him in Kansas.
The first active movement in the insur
rection was made at about 101 o'clock OF
Sunday night. William Williamson, thu
Waterman at Harpers Ferry Bridge, while
walking across toward the Maryland side
was seized by number of men, who sait
he was their prisoner, and must come wit
/ them. Recognizing Brown and Cool
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9eferreb Correspondence.
LETTER FROM REV. AMOS GERRY
nrzEEArY
MUM Err VIII.

NUMBER VIII.
MAINE, Oct. II, 1859.
Mr.. EDITOR The highest wisdom has
declared that for "the soul to be without
knowledge is not good" whatever may be
the motive which prompts others to say
that "where ignorance is bliss tits folly to
be wise.n This brief letter proposes to
say few words upon the improvement of
the mind, urged to do this in view of the
season Of the year, and the wants of the
people, and the opportunities for gaining
useful knowledge now presented, especial
ly by the "Anglo-African." Long winter
evenings are before us-many hours are to
be disposed Of How shall they be occu-
pied?
One of the resolutions read and passed
at a political meeting in Williamsburg the
other evening, recommends that if there are
ten of our number, these meetings shall be
held there their rights and interests dis
cussed. A noble resolution. Now is the
time to form "Social Improvement Circles"
where the few, if no more are willing to
join, may meet at least one evening in
each week, and read such selections
as may be agreed upon, or recite from the
great poets such portions as will expand
the mind, strengthen the understanding
and improve the taste. We knew little
company of five or six individuals, in &
small country village, sit from what in the
country is called "early candle light" un.
til the ''King of day" poured his illuminat.
ing rays in upon them, to hear one of their
number read through David Walkers Ap-
peal to the Colored People of America
Would that that book could be read by ev.
cry person within these United States. Its
pages thunder-its paragraphs blaze Let
every one procure copy, and get the edi
ton published a few years since by Rev
Henry Highland Garnet, and which con
tains his address to the slaves of this coun
try. An effort should be made to preserve
the writings of colored persons, and w
know of no better way than to form sue
improvement circles and to gather up al
the books and writings so far as may b
which refer to us as people. If this
faithfully done, there will be many a libra
ry formed of no small value-of inestims
bic value-and of increasing interest.
Said the good mother of Sir VIM. Jone
to him when little boy, "read, my SON
read and you viii know" The effect G
such advice in his case the world knows
Some kind voice should whisper in on
ears, in the ears of all our yong people
read, read.
What may well be called the anti-slay'
y literature of the age, is worthy of OF
oeepest attention, whether we consider til
oStS, the principles, the learning in law,
|e0lOgy, in history, in science, in poetr.,
" Its spirit of liberty, in its logical acume
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LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. II, 1859.

| WV - AOO0
DEAR notwithstanding to promise
send you brief history of the Chanoiille
Building and Loan Association of this city
During the first week in January, 1858
the following persons convened for the pur.
pose of forming a Building Association
and which resulted in the formation of the
aforesaid society, viz : George Roberts,
VIM. ID. Laws, Amos Weber, AbEam A.
johnson, John P. Worthington, ard 9TH
ers. On the night of its organization,
thirty-fve names were enrolled, including
several females who were admitted under
Art. I'd of its printed Constitutions:
" Females and minors nay hold stack in this
Association by Trustees, provided such Trustees
are members of the Association"
Immediate steps were taken for its in
corporation, but Charter was not obtain
ed until December following. Owing to
the failure of other similar associations and
the public supposing ours was only branch
sprouting from the other side of the tree,
1t was sometime before confidence in it
could be established. On the 18th of
March all the members paid their initiation
fee and took stock at the rate of one dol
lar per month per share, to be paid until
the value of the whole stock shall be suf
ficient to divide to each share the sum of
two hundred dollars. Whenever the state
of the Treasury warrants, one or more
loans shall be disposed of to the highest
bidder, the Association seeing to it that
the securities are ample.
AT the commencement of the enterprise
the shares were worth on1v one dollar
dollars, and although we have twenty
members, yet the greater part have been
benefited by the operations of the Associ-
alton. The following statement shows its
financial condition:
Invested in Real Estate, .......S 2,820.80
Loans, ..-........... 4oz'oo
Balance in Treasury, 35O.5O
Actual worth, Sc, 624.10
1t has been in existence six and a half
years, and has three and half years more
to run. Another fact in connection with it
is worth recording: The President, Geo.
Roberts, has not missed single meeting
during the whole time of its existence.
All of the officers have faithfully performed
their duties, and the Association is in a
prosperous condition as before shown.
AMOS WEBER
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A HOUSEHOLD DIRGE.

Pye lost my little May at last;
She persisted in the spring,
When earliest flowers began to bud,
And earliest birds to sing;
1 laid her in a country grave,
A green and soft retreat,
A marble tablet DER her head,
And violets at her feet.
| would that she were back again,
In all her childish bloom;
My joy and hope have followed her,
My heart is in her tomb;
/ know that she has gone away,
| know that she has fed.
| miss her everywhere, and yet
| cannot think her dead
sit within my quiet room
Alone, and write for hours,
And miss the little May again
Among the window flowers
And miss her with her toys beside
My desk in silent play;
And then l tnrn and look for her,
But she has flown away,
l drop my idle pen, and bark,
And catch the faintest sound
She must be playing hide-and-seek
In shady hooks around;
She'll come and climb my chair again,
And peep my shoulders DER;
L hear stif1ed laugh-but no,
She cometh never more!
| waited only yester-night
The evening service read,
And fingered for my idols kiss
Before she went to bed;
Forgetting she had gone before,
In slumbers soft and sweet:
A marble tablet at her head,
And violets at her feet!
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and burning eloquence. The very names
and personal history of those who have
given the best efforts of their cultivated
minds to the advocacy of the right of hu
manity, shineth as "stars of the first magni
tude." Here is source of knowledge
pure as the breath of the morning, abund
ant as the waters of the ocean. May many
amind-may many a little group of aspir-
ing ones find, during and through the long
winter evenings, high satisfaction and a
rich reward in the examination and study
of the anti-slavery literature of the world.
May the names of its writers and orators
become as familiar as ''household words" in
thousand circles. Into every circle-in-
to every mind may the inspiration of your
pen-editorial fall from the pages of the
"Anglo-African," gentle as the dews of
heaven, effective as the power of Omnipo-
tence
1t is frequent remark of one of
the best thinkers among us, "that we per-
ish for lack of knowledge as a peo-
pie we do suffer immeasurably for the want
OF appropriate knowledge, is such a sad
truth, SO constantly before those who think
among us, that it seems strange SO little is
done to gain and diffuse more general
knowledge among the people. Who will
beginY Where shall the first circle be
formed and reported in the "Anglo2" How
many lectures might thus be easily secured
during this winter-how many minds
would be saved from dissipation and sor-
row. Try it, reader-gather fewaround
you and lead them on in the bright path of
We commend the following little piece,
which we clip from the Independent" to
all our readers:
READING ALOUD.
There Is no treat great as to hear good read |
ing of any kind. Not one gentleman or LADY, in n
hundred can read SO as to please the ear and send
the words with gentle force to the heart and I'M
derstanding. An indistinct utterance. whines. na-
sal twangs, cultural notes. hesitations, and other
wees OF elocution are almost universal Why it
Is no one can say, unless it be that either the pull
pit or the nursery, or the sunday-school, gives
fha n Sahfss IH thew t6f Considerable EXECUTION, but
cannot read English passably. Yet reading ia by
far the most valuable accomplishment of the two.
In most drawing rooms, if anything is to be read |
it is discovered that nobody can read; one has
weak lungs, another gets hoarse, another chokes,
another has an abominabe singsong evidently q
tradition of the way he said Watts hymns when
he too young to understand them; another
rumbles like broad-wheeled wagon; another has
a way of reading, which seems to proclaim that
what is read is of no sort of consequence, and had
better not be listened to.
A. G. B.
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Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-08-18

y Some one says: ''Insects generally
must lead truly jovial life. Just think
what it must be to Lodge in liY'y. Imas.
Inc palace Of ivory or pearl. with pillars
Of silver and capitals Of gold, and exhaling
such perfume as never arose from human
censsr. Fancy, again, the fun of tuckiDg
yourself up for the night in the folds of a
rose, rocked TO sleep by The gentle sighs of
summers air; and nothing to do when you
wake but wash yourself in a dewdrop, and
fall to and eat y our bed-cloths!"
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-08-18
Hon. Edward Everett.

The August number Of the Electic Mag.
azine, in speaking Of this gentleman, gives
an account Of his labnrs in conne,tiun with
the Mt. Vernon Fund. His Washington
Grafton was first delivered Feb %, 1856,
and has been given since then. one hundred
and twen'y-uine times, yielding $50 7S3,-
62 For the ''M;. Vernon Papers" in the
New York LeIger, he received $4,000,
and in other WAYS smaller sums, maEing a
contribution to Mt Vernon Fund o. S66.-
1853 56. In addition TO his labors for this
object, he has delivered lectures for other
benevolent associations, making a total Of
more than ninety thousand dollars, in little
more than three years. |; is to be under
stood, too, that Mr.. Everett has Travelled
many thousand miles, and betrayed all his
expenses from his prirHte purse.