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WASHINGTON, D. G., THURSDAY, AUGUST 49,

not disabled scotched, not killed" The
Pope is stronger shan ever, and Italy is down
whelmed under g., etfete religion and burden
some oppression. The whole business must be
done over agaiIcS-for all signs have failed
The thing which has been is that which shall be-
and there is noth.ag new under the sun.
Would not li3e to take those two fellows
those two EmpeS,rs, by the coatcollars, and
shake their heads together?
will not say, !. Let us eat and drink, for to-
morrow we die" .ut also will not say,
@The individual wifsers, and the world is more and
more.n
Only let us notice-fhat is about us-the beauty,
and life, and los, that spring up along our
daily paths. Let =. see God as he displays Him
self in the song ot.bird and the hum of bee, in
the tinkling of tie waterfall and the murnur
of the wind through the pines. Let us mark
His benefcence il the beautiful adaptations OF
nature and in Il, purple cup of the hare-bell,
in the white boso4 of the lily, on the old oak
vine-draped, on TIN gray rock mossstrewn, We
shall find engravea,
- fsd isiovsn
So, in the strett and by the way-side, in the
shop, the lecture DOM, and the rairoad-car,
mans nature cable sought and seen. The
heart unfolds its hidden springs. We see its
complicated machinery, its inner workings, its
motive power, just IS truly as on a broader stage
and q higher scers
What was goi, to say is this-but have
said so much preif ninarily that shall not have
nearly time enough for my original remark
My porch is so la ge, that have no room for
my house; so l II just constitute my porch
a house, and pre- smpt another piece of land
next week or thetes bouts. GAIL HAMILTON.
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led from Prooter's Dome to the Edmondson
celty entrance is named Green River avenue.
Il. walls and ceiling of Green River avenue,
fo a distance of three miles and halt, are
ceered with nodules of gypsum, which resem-
bl snow balls.
seven days were occupied in the first ex-
pfations of Colossal Cavern by Mr.. Proctor,
al the second entrance was discovered on the
ft day, which was the first and only time the
list of the sun was seen during the explora
ties.
Besides the avenues briefly mentioned, seven
tyive others, which intersect them, have been
canted, the extent Of which is not known
ad the aggregate distance which has already
ben explored is not less than forty miles,
! hope, at no distant period, to give a more
dtailed account of Colossal Cavern, which pre-
sets such vast field for subterranean research
tothose who take an interest in hoglodytean
lOe. G. w. WRIGHT,
Prof Chemistry in Ky. School Of Medicine
AmnsoM Gaze, July 2S, 1859.
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No. $50.
From the I.beraior
CRISPUS ATTUCKS ONCE A SLAVE IN
80. MASSACHUSETTS,
Boston. MLu %. 1859

BosToN, July 20, 1859.
DEAR FRIEND GARRISON Ny friend, Charles
II. Morse, Esd whose zeal as collector of
autographs and relics of the olden time is well
known hereabouts, has put into my hands a
copy of the Boston Gazette and Weekly JOaU7lat
of Tuesday, November 20, 1850, which. among
other curious items of Massachusetts history,
contains the following advertisement:
" Ran away from his master, William Brown,
Of birmingham, on the Both OF Septembt + last,
a mulatto fellow, about u years of age, named
Crispus, well set, six feet two inches high, short
curled hair, knees nearer together than com
mon. Had on Hght-colored bearskin coat,
brown fustian jacket, new buckskin breeches,
blue yarn stockings, and checked shirt
Whoever shall take up said runaway, and
convey him to his above said master at Fra
mington, shall have Ten Pounds, old tenor,
reward, and all necessary charges paid"
1t will be remembered that, at the Faneuil
Hall commemoration of the Boston massacre
March 9Th, 1851 Samuel If. Brown ESQ, a
grandson of the above William Brown, was
present, and narrated to several persons the
traditions eXtant in the family relating to Girls
pus Attucks-of his goblet, powder-horn, &c.
1t seems that Crispus was imbued with the
spirit of Liberty in thus declaring independence
of his master. He subsequently came to Bos
ton, and worked in a ropewalk at the North
End, where he rallied the men TO the attack o
the English forces in King street, himself being
the first martyr Though a slave) in that strug
gle which resulted in liberty to these United
States-securng to them the boon they have
denied to his race
1t Is somewhat remarkable, that although the
impetus to the American Revolution was un
deniably given on the 9TH of March. ITO, and
so regarded by the orators and writers of those
times, yet by some persons, at the present day
this great fact is wholly ignored. For instance
+. o. G. barley, wellknown artist, has re
Gently drawn a fine American historical pctur,
of the Battle Of Lexington and Concord, will
the caption, 4" First Blow for Liberty;" and il
tile Doric Hall Of the State House is to be seer
the cannon dedicated to Major John Butlricl
and Capt. Isaac Davis for their services at Con
cord Bridge, April 18th, l77j, on which is in
scribed, " This was the beginning Of a coutes
in arms that ended in American indcpend
ence."
Now, without the least desire to disparagC
the influence of the battles of Lexington anC
Concord upon the Revolutionary struggle, they
cannot with justice be called the scenes of tn,
first blow for Liberty, unless the 18th of April
| l775, precedes in the calendar March 9TH
| 1870.
Yours for justice to Crispus Attacks,
WILLIAM e. NEIL.
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NORTHERN CAPITAL N SOUrHEBN MAvrFkC
ToRIEs.-We have on more occasions than uss
expressed our firm conviction that The mast ia
dicious mode of securing political Puser aHs.
equality To the South was b. the bstiiiug sF af
domestic manufactures, direct trade. aut ti
direct importation OF white iabuF 81 ~.attt.fs
factories. Public opinion az the North bas .s-.
directed 10 this great SOuthcru enfeFFF-s ar,
her capitalists. ever ready 10 seise upaa -sarf
opportunity for profitable invesimsut- sFr a.ss
looking towards the South pusss.ssinR ssiFsa
tages for manufacturing purpose, vai,h ca
North can never secure. be laiE.
Hgent Southerner. however, will look opsu ths
capacity of the South for the maintenance cd
domestic manufactures, IN political a vel
as a pecHniary point of view; asd well does
this subject deserve the careful consideration Of
the Southern statesman. The preponderance
of Northern influence in our public councils
precludes the hope of present extension oil
Slave territory. With the present Legitimate
limits of Slavery, we cannot expect, by the
natural increase of our population, to recover
the political power that has passed from us, to
the more rapidly increasing population of the
Anti-Slavery States. Our only hope for politi-
cal equality in the Government is by the IN
crease of our population-the great element
upon WHICH we must rely loi 'ho ihai
of political rights. Under our present system
of exclusive agriculture we cannot sustain a
greatly increased population /; neither is 1T de-
sirable. Let, however, factories for the manu-
facture of the vast agricultural and mineral pro-
ducts of the South be established, convert the
products of slave labor into the manufactured
article by means Of white labor and very soon
we will have in our midst an industrious work
ing population, identified with our peculiar
institutions, that will give an impetus to oui
productive and commercial power hitherto un
known, and by which we may alone hope tC
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modes of keeping off damps and dews-all the
while enhancing their beauty-for beside nu-
bias and riggoletts-I am so sorry / began one
of these for you, for think you would prefer a
naariposd or a sunset, and am learning the
stitch of both, so that if have time, / viii
make them for you. Oh, there doesn't seem
half as many hours in a day here as at school.
! have SO much to write you, if only could
find timel
Lovingly yours, META.
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rom the Atlantic Monthly for August.
MY PS A [ M.

mourn no more my vanished years:
Beneath a tender rain,
An April rain of smiles and tears,
My heart is young again.
The west winds blow, and, singing low,
hear the glad streams run;
The windows of my soul throw
Wide open to the sun.
No longer forward nor behind
! look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
plough no more desert land,
To harvest weed and tare;
The mamma dropping from Gods hand
Rebukes my painful care.
break my pilgrim staf, / lay
Aside the ioiling oar;
The angel sough, so far away
Iwelcome at my door.
The airs of Spring may never play
Among the ripening corn,
Nor freshness of the flowers of May
Blow through the Autumn morn
Yet shall the blue eyed genlian look
Through fringed lids TO heaven,
And the pale aster in the brook
Shall see lis image given
The woods shall wear their robes of praise,
The south wind softly sigh,
And sweet, calm days in golden haze
Melt down the amber sky.
Not less shall manly deed and word
Rebuke an age of wrong;
The craven flowers that wreathe the sword
Make not the blade less strong
But shifting hands shall learn to heal,
10 build as to destroy;
Nor less my heart for others feel
That the more enjoy.
All as God wills, who wisely heeds
To give or to withhold,
And knoweth more of all my needs
Than all my prayers have told
Enough that blessings undeserved
Have marked my erring track,
That, wheresoe'er my feet have swerved,
His Christening turned me back
Tat more and more Providence {
OF love is understood,
Making the springs of time and sense
Sweet with eternal good
That death seems but a covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Fathers sight
That care and Trial seem at last,
Through MemoIy's sunset air,
Like noun a n-ranges oveIpast,
In purple distance far
That all the Earring notes OF lie
Seem blending in a psalm,
And all the angles OF its strife
- sa'- ~ a-..als..
Aud so the shadows fall apart,
And so the west winds play
And AL the windows ofmy he art
| open TO the day
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FEMALES IL LARGE CITIEs.-According TO
an official census of the United States taken in
1880, there were in the city of New York
254, 100 males and 26l al females, making
an excess of the latter of 1885. In Boston.
there were 65,774 males and 7l,l07 females,
making an excess of the latter 1888 in the
city and county of Philadelphia, there were
l96,49l males and 2l2.37l females, making an
excess of the latter Of 1850. Making the
total excess of the females in the above-named
cities of 25,jl6. According TO the n. Y. State
census of $780, there were in the city of New
York 302 $50 males and 326,9lS females, ma
king an excess Of females OF 1882. In the
city of Brooklyn, there were 81 ,l29 males and
$50, l2l females, making an excess of females
of 1892 Making a total excess of females IN
the city of New York and Brooklyn of 34,924.
From the above official statements it appears
that the female portion of the population Is rap
idly increasing in the city of New York and its
vicinity. In the State Of New York at large,
there were in 1855, l,727,650 males and
l,73S,562 females, making an excess OF te-
males of only 1892; thus showing that the
male population largely exceeds the females in
the agricultural coupties.-ErchdHge.
This excess of females in the older States IS
fully explained by the census tables, which
show corresponding excess of males in the
new States. The facility with which young
men without families emigrate, while females
cannot with proprety go without their parents
or friends, will fully account for these dispari-
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ANEcDoTE OF NJ. GUIzOT.-The Paris cor
respondent of the Boston Trareiter relates the
following anecdote
"a few DAYS ago, NJ. Guizot quilted the man
sion III the Rue de la Mile rEveque, where for
twenty odd years he has lived and labored, and
which he quilted never to occupy again. HIS
house is on the line of the new boulevard, run
ming westerly from the Madeleine, and is To be
demolished. The city OF Paris gives him
SOC, 900 for it. He has carried his valuable
library of more than $4,000 volumes to his
country seat at Val Richer, and intended To
move there altogether, but his daughters, who
are married in Paris, have besought him to
spend some months here every year, and he
has consented. He has taken house in the
Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore.
"A few days before he quilted town, the
Duke de Montcbello called on him. Ii Wa the
first time they had met since Monticello de-
serted the Orleans family, To whom he Was
bound by every tie that hold man at
honor, and had taken service with Louis Ma
poleun. He was shown into NJ. Guilots draw
ing-roOm. NJ. Guzot was standing with hIs
back to the fire place, his arms crossed. He
bowed in the most cerelaon!ous manner to the
Duke, but neither pointed 20 a seat, nor said a
word. He looked and acted as II he had been
a marble statue. The Duke was somewhat dis
concerted by this frigid reception, but, being
man of the world, he pretended not to see j.
and talked in the strain he was wont to adoTF
when he was with NJ. Guizot for they were
once ON an intimate footing. He spoke Of his
embassy: ne exhibited the reasons why he ac-
cepted place from Louis Napoleon. NJ. Guizot
stood rs if he was the statue OF the commander
~ DqGa uR2fnr, ..,srr uaun,vu, rNrurssru AN
opinion on the present state of the political
world, and took care to express an opinion
which he knew was most repugnant 10 NJ. Gui-
zot's way of thinking, in hopes of egging him
to discussion. NJ. Guizot not only did not
speak, but he did not change his position. An
noyed 10y this reception, the Duke de Montebel-
10 took his hat, and just as he was going out
of the door said, Good morning. You, Mon
sieur Guizol, are the only person from whom |
would take such a reception. ] am going to
see the Duke de Brogie; | am sure he will re-
ccive me differently go, sir replied NJ.
Guizot 'the Duke de Broglie will be more
cruel than | have been; he will tell you the
opinion he has Of you!
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RECIPE FOR DIARRHGEA.-Put into bottle
three ounces pimento, (allspice,) upon which
pour one pint best French brandy-sweeten
with white sugar. Dose-a wine glass full
every hour for three hours for an adult. For
children, dilute, and give table spoon full each
hour. This remedy has been known to cure in
violent cases of Alexandria Gazette,
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secure our lost position in the Government, and
to extend, deepen, and widen, our natural
boundaries for the full and complete develop
ment Of our social aud domestic Institutions
Richmond Td.) Morning NeicS.
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"REIIGION OF REAsoN.'-Gerrit Smith re-
Gently delivered a sermon on the above topic,
which is published in The Tribune as an adver-
tisement. In the course of it, the author thus
adyerts to the subject Of death
death is necessary to make room for count
less millions of human beings, who otherwise
could have no existence; and thus it is to be
credited with swelling indefinitely the sum
total of human happiness. Again, while per-
petual earthly existence would be the fOregO
ing of another and probably higher life, it
would also be characterized by far less enjoy
ment, dignity, and usefulness, than is limited
earthly existence Human nature is slow to be
improved after its habits are formed and fixed.
The commonest illustration of this Is that the
physicians over forty years of age rejected the
discovery of the true theory of the circulation
of the blood. Had the earth, instead of being
peopled with n succession Of young, and, be-
cause young, free spirits, been the abode Of
men who never die, hoary errors would have
successfully conspired against all progress, had
there indeed, been any to cOnspire against.
OF all the inventions which cluster upon our
day, probably not one would have been known
i'm the whole range, from the "cifer-match,
which supplies the place of CARVING fire in a
skillet to the telegraph, which does in a min
ute what live-forever men could hardly have
BENIN i'm a month
In the opinion of Mr.. Smith, the only reason
that the earth is not overrun with old fogies is
because death is down on that sort of people.
The moment they approach fogydom, death
"trumps them with spade" and runs them
into the ground to attend the diet OF worms"
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WN,r ~. lNTENPERANCE. - Mr.. James y.
Putnam. citizen Of Buffalo, n. T., writes
from spain. 81 the Buffalo Advertiser, an inter-
sting letter in regard to the drinking habits Of
ths people
" \ - cents everywhere buy bottle of
piaa its sse Is universal there is never a
seal sahaat u. What is the effect Of this
SIS tsH,s aud tins universal use upon the
.s.s.s o. t.. people2 ] can only say that L
ss.r s... ht The most intelligent sources of in
..iasf...a. sad have had but one reply, and
Ga. ass b,eo confirmed by my own observa-
t.e.a. shah has b.oa inqaisitive, that drunken
ss.ts b. asst a Wee of the country that excess
.re drinking ct Intoxicating liquor is not its
habit. that while there are exceptional cases,
as a nation. u j. one of sobriety. Ii is not
true that there Is no drunkenness. But it is
rarr. no, habitual. even in individuals, and is
NOT t,.lt as a public evil. Nor is it true that
wines. drank 10 a great excess, will not intoxi-
cate. You will think my curiosity little i'm
pertinent, but have visited hospitals both in
Portugal and Spain, and inquired of their physi-
clans If they ever saw a case OF detu1une ire
D,ens-that scourge which, in our country, opens
the gateway to death to so many gifted and
noble natures-and their reply has been, that
it was disease unknown to the country. Pr-
vate practitioners told me the same thing.
During the three months i have been in Spain,
! have seen but single instance of intoxica-
ton; this was on bull-fght" day, at Gran
ada.
Another thing have observed: there is in
Spain no constant dram-drnking. First, let
me say, the hotels in this country have no bars
or saloons. The loungers-and the country
swarms with them-visit the cafes and club
houses. The hotels are as quiet as a private
dwelling. But if yoa we're 70 visit those even
ing resorts of the people, 10 see their life, you
might see them ali drinking, but most of them
would be drinking nothing stronger than coffee
or lemonade, without spirits of any sort"
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META.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-03-12
From Mexico.

WAsmSGTON, Friday March 2, $50.
New Orlesn. paper, Of Saturday last are recsvst.
They contain the details OF the By the brig Nine
titlsn from Tsnpico on the Goth ul'.
The Tampico papers manifested cohs iersbls siarn
a. to tie result Of Mramors expedition but they co.
sidered Vera Cruz in most perfect state Of defcsss
More thar 1000 men, Gays the Prism0, can DO ess-
centrsed there at moments notice in case Of sssk.
without including the commands Of Lsave and Irejs.
or the army Of Osjscs numbering 900, now before
Oiizavs AL couIted, the LIBERAL, have for the d.
fense Of the city about 900 available troops. On The
other band the P,;ma thinks that not more thas ~
men can be spared from the cities now held at the psa
Of the bsyoret by the ReacticnaIy party, aud shst
Mirsmon will have to depend almost entirely upoe The
amy with which be set out from the capital.
In the NE time, the war ia TO be proseeotea VITA
yigor 81 Though tie interior.
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eiSr.nt There. We suppose, girls snt boJi A!
yysrg yea and yours woven de'sht N eT'". s'' >
end are enrspsured b. adultery A murder
sect. Up" the youth Of that vicinity Tor year
A reproba.e olergy1n,n is q gcdsens All DOM
qusut is friend Of the press Ous Of bis seeming
evil be is expected to educe good-ss least 10 ne
pockets Of newspaper propretors That the
rs..on why al criminal details il the Boston p'Pe"
are expected 10 be. AID, without doIbt, are many
tines more pruriez. than they are here. We print
them partly because it is highly important, not only
10 the domestic but to the pocket interest OF soei
ETY. that depredstors should be exposed; partly
because we cannot in this corrupt city, Afford
TO lose the example of wrong doing arrested; partly
because we are kindly DESTROYS Of warning Boston,
Springfield, Worcester, Philadelphia, and other
country tosrs, sgsinst the unworthy gentlemen
sent here from the various yirtsous quarters to
which they msy return.
IT., Boston Couri.r is certain that the horrify-
ing exposure of human frsisy does not constitute
"the whole duty Of 8 newspaper We humbly
hope that il does not constitute the rhos duty nor
yet the whole performance Of our own. But we
cannot well gee how in the pIessnt state OF morals
the exposure of human frailty should be Otherwise
thsn "horrifying" Perhaps The Courier has dis
covered some way Of making il pleasant charm
ing. delicious, to those who err. We have not yet
been favored by the importation Of the secret.
Printing sheet for the daily events Of this world,
ard for the daily recording Of human affair We have
thus far been unable to record only that which Is
sc.d. Iveet sud ssemly. Nor have We as yet been
{ e to discover that any high moral influence
would be secured By ccquetdshly pretending sha:
al things Upon this lower sphere are goirg on
beautifly-tts. men sre always contneht-that
women are always chssts-that no merchant ever
chest.--that nobody ever forses-thas there
are are 10 adulteries, no murders, no
assults-thst mankind hiss shot upward into an
ideal enpJresu. AL this may have been acc om-
n sbed in Boston, in spite of Mr. Joseph Hiss, IN
spite Of Cobum ard Dalton, in spite Of the Rev.
Mr.. Kslloch, in spite Of the Rev. Mr. Loyeloy, IN
spite of Prof Webster in spite of MT Sam.
Lawrence. in spite of Mr.. Tuclerman in spite Of
the def.lcations in ihe Suffolk Bank, in the Gro
GERS Bank, in the Merchants Bank-in SPITE 10
sLort, Of the b Oh moral influence Of The BoHV-
Courier. We are Of course-we are accustomed
to the admission in the lowest degree humble, y
but we do not see why The Boston Courier should
lecture us. Ours msy be the beam, aud ours may
10 Sc ,Ia mote, But whether there may be beam
or mote IN the HISTORIAN eye we have never OBJ
served any particular delicacy in the Boston news
paper, in exposing it, or in demonstrating iIS cubic
aud supeIfciSl inches.