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The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-11-12

s- A lady once said to Mr.. Wesley,
Surprising that you knew that you were
to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night,
how would you spend the intervening
timer
Chow, MADAME" he replied; "why, just
as intend to spend it now. l should
preach this evening at Gloucester, and
again at five tomorrow morning; after that
l should ride to Tewesbury, preach in the
afternoon, and meet the societies III the
evening. l should then repair to friend
Martins, who expects to entertain me, con-
verse and pray with the family as usual,
retire to my room at ten o'clock, commend
myself to my Heavenly Father, lie down
to rest, and wake up in glory"
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THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.

IIIL NUM- II AND TIE oVU n.
A Statistical View of the Condition of the
FREE and SLAVE STATES. By Henry Chase
and Charles W. Sanborn Compiled from Off
cial Documents. 12mo., bound in cloth. Price
so cents.
The able editor of The Euening Transcript
Boston, speaks thus of this work:
"This little book contains vast amount of in
formation respecting the comparative condition
of the Slaveholding and non-Slaveholding States,
as to territory, population, industry wealth, edu
cation, intelligence, religion, moral advancement
and general progress. The work must have cost
great deal of laborious research, and it certain
ly presents arguments in favor of freedom on ev-
cry page. 1t contains just the kind of informa-
ton that should be more generally known in all
sections of the country. We hope there will be
public demand for thousands of copies.''
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THE MANUAL OF THE WARDROBE.

100 large octave pages, in paper, by Mrs Pull
of the price. 1t is complete treatise upon this
branch of Domestic Economy, and by far the
most valuable publication upon this subject ever
issued. 1t, omprises thorough dissertation up
on taste dress, an explanation of the different
kinds of stitches, made in sewing, remarks upon
tn. various kinds and qualities and fabrics used in
the wardrobe, with complete directions for cutting
aud fitting all kinds of garments for women's and
children's wear the preparation table, toilet,
and bed linen. Illustrated by nearly 100 cuts OF
patterns and modes. The appendix contains full
btnsekeeper can afford to do without it.
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THE AMERICAN SLAVE. CODE,

Its Distinctive Features Shown by its
Statutes, Judicial Decisi ms and
Illustrative Facts
PIP 43O. limo Price IS cts, postage paid.
From Hon. VIM. Jay "a. he author.
Your analysis of the slave laws is very able,
and your exhibition of their practical application
by the Southern Courts evinces great and careful
research. 1t is more easy to make
than to refute charge of exaggeration against a
work of fiction, like Mrs. Stoves; but your book
is as impregnable against such charge as Eu-
clid's Geometry, since, like that, it consists OF
propositions and demonstrations. The book is not
only true, but it is unquestionably true"
CosrrNTs.- Preliminary Chapter; the Relation
of Master and Slave; Slave Traffic Seizure OF
Slave Property for Debt; Inheritance of Slave
Property Uses of Slave Property; Slaves can
possess nothing; Slaves cannot marry; Slave,
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UNCoNsTITUTIoNALITY OF SLAVERY

BY LYsANDER sPOONER.
In paper, 294 PIP. 8vo. Price IS cents, or most
age paid Sc cents.
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The feature of the Magazine for the present
month is the essay of DR.. J. MCuns Smith, show
ing the dependence of Civilization on physical
circumstances. The subject is one of great inter
est independent of its bearings upon relations sx-
isting in this country. To those who know Dr.
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THE MARTYRS AND THE FUGITIVE

BY THE REV. s. II. PLATT
Author of "The Gift of Power" &c, and " Christ
and Adornments," &c.
A thrilling work on Slavery and the Slave
Trade detailing the capture of family in Africa
coast, the horrors of the middle passage" their
sale in America, and subsequent martyrdom the
slavery of their son, his terrible suferngs and per
ilous escapes founded upon fact, but fctitiousy
disguised in order to shield him from detection
and published for his benefit
Sent postpaid upon the receipt of SO cents
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TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE

The narrative of SOLOMON N oRTHRUP a citizen of
New York, kidnapped in Washington City in
1o4l, and rescued in 1858, from Cotton Plan
tation near Red River, Louisiana. illustra
trations, 1886 PIP limo Price 81, postage
paid.
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
The volume cannot fail to gain wide circula
ton. No one can contemplate the scenes which
are here naturally set forth, without new CON
viction of the hideousness of the institution from
which the subject of the narrative has happily
escaped.-N. Y. Tribune
We think the story affecting as any tale OF
sorrow could BEN. Y. Evangelist
Next to Uncle Toms Cabin, the extraordina.
narrative of Solomon Northrup is the most re.
markable book that was ever issued from the
American press.-Detroit Trib
He who with an unbiased mind sits down to
the perusal of this book will arise perfectly salts
fled that American slavery is he'll of torments
yet untold, and feel like devoting the energies OF
his life to its extirpation from the face of Gods
beautiful earth.-Erening Chronicle
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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

A PIECE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT PICKED UP.-
E. Merriam, the Usage of Brooklyn Heights" fur
nishes to the New York papers learned dsquisition
upon the late aurora borealis and sundry scientific
phenomena connected Herewith. We make the fol-
lowing extract: ...
On Sunday, the 2sth, the temperature Of the at
mosphere at my place Of observation ranged from 6s
to 10 degrees, from A. N. to P. NJ nine consecu-
tive hours, with the exception Of slight perturba-
ton at II, when is fell 2 and rose degrees At IL
P. NJ. the temperature was at Sc degrees and at A.
M.of to-day was 40 degrees AS the sunlight disap.
peafed on Sunday evening, the aurora kinded up ts
light, and became extremely diffused, and at 4
o'clock this morning the light was equal to the light
Of the moon at its full during cloudless sky. The
aurora clouds that came over from the north were
feecy and like a fine veil and dimmed the light Of
the stars. The telegraph wires were sucharged by
the aurora. 1t is probable the flow of the auroral
light commenced at IL NJ, yesterday, but the sun
light being present, outshone the aurora, and thus
concealed it from view.
The auroral light sometimes is composed of threads
like the silken warp of web these sometimes be-
come broken and fall to the earth, and possess ex
qusite softness and silvery ustre, and denomirate
these as the products of the sikery of the skies.
once obtained asmall piece which preserved.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05
A sketch by 10. o,u,nc.v.

The" Opium Eater" In one or his uurivaled chan
ters speaks OF the reason why DEATH other conditions
remaining the same, is more profoundly affecting 10
summer than In other parts Of the year-so iar,
ct least o. It is liable to any mobilization al all from
accidents Of scenery or reason, the reason lying a.
we have seen, In the antagonsm between the tropi.
cal redundancy Of life 10 summer and tho frozen ste.
rilites Of the grave. In depression Of surpasslng
pathos and solemn beauty. Mr. De Quincey then shows
how naxtricably, in early childhood, his own feel
ings and images of death were entangled with those
Of summer, as connected with Palestine and Jerusa-
lem, about which he read with his three sisters in the
nursery from pictured Bible, and learned to associ
ate the coudess sunlighs Of Syria and the pomps Of
Palm Sunday, with the passion and death Of the Lord
the room in which his dead sister lay. Let the rea
der read and assent:
Turning round. I sought my sisters face. But the
PED had been moved and the back was now turned TO
wide open, through which the sun Of midsummer at
midday was showering down torrents Of splendor.
The weather was dry the sky was cloudless the blue
depth seemed the expressed types Of in6nity and It
Of life e'9''
From the gorgeous sunlight turned round to the
corpse There esr lay the sweet childish figure
| moment ave. not fear, fell upon me and willis.
stood, solemn wind began to blow-the saddest
that ear ever heard. 1t was wind that might have
swept the fields OF mortality for thousand centuries
| Many times SINCE upon summer days, when the sun
Is about the hottest, have marked the same wind
arising, and uttering the same hollow, solemn, Mem
nonian but sanity swell. 1t ia in this world the one
great audible symbol Of eternity. And three times in
my life have happened to hear the same sound In
the same circumstances when standing
between an open window and dead body on sum
| mer day.
Instantly, when my ear caught this vast Eoan in
tonation-when nay eye filled with the golden full
ness of life the pomps Of the heavens above, or the
glory Of the flowers below, and turning when it set
tied upon the frost which overspread my sisters face
instantly trance fell upon me. A vault seemed e
open in the zenith Of the far blue sky shaft which
ran up forever. I. in spirit, rose as II pillows
that also ran up the shaft forever; and the bilow
seemed to pursue the throne of God but that alst
ran before us and fed away continually. The figh
and the pursuit seemed to go on forever and ever
Frost gathering frost, some sarsar wind Of death
God and death dimy struggled to evolve itself from
the dreadful antagonism between them shadow,
meanings yet continued to exercise and torment
in dreams, the decipherng oracle within me, slept
for how long l cannot say. Slowly recovered m,
standing, as before, close to my sisters bed.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

AN ABBE IN TRouBLE.-The Ahbe Magnat, who
had grown an immense favorite With the ladies, had
been for several years editor and principal contributor
to charming publication, the ParterTe des Danes
the fine arts. This Journal breathed gentle odor of
charity and virtue. M.rAbhe read every article
before sending it to press He suffered no sexagger-
ated, cloud or orettish toilet to be offered to his
subscribers. His Parterre was composed entirely of
roses and OF lilies nothing thorny, not even sweet
briar, was to be found there. How wonderful, that
the Able should be accused of fraudulent bankruptcy
swndling and all sorts of immoral practices! What
is worse, be was not alone in his depredations but
was aided by lady-a great lady, all crnoline and
scarlet ribbons-who appeared before the Tribunal,
not as the collaboration nor the sisternor the wife,
of course-nor the mother nor the aunt of the good
Abbe-but occupying place in the honest Abbe's
affections nearer and more precious than any. The
Tribunal, who is rough and rude, who evidently
wants to read few numbers of the chaste Parerre,
called it bluntly by name unpose, and the Able,
who is little deaf, being obliged to lean across the
bar and inquire the name thus uttered, caused inn
mense laughter when his shocked gaze expressed the
horror be felt at having suffered anything SO liable to
be designated to approach him for SO many years.
The Abbe's crime fully proved. Five years im'
prisonment was the reward.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

THE AURORA BoREALIs AND TEE TsLRaRArH.--
The Superintendent of the Canadian Telegraph Com.
pany taegraphs as follows in regard to the effect pro-
duced upon the telegraph lines by the borea phe-
nomenon during the night Of the 2sth ult.:
never, in an experience Of fifteen years in work
ing telegraph lines. witnessed anything like the
traordnary effect OF the aurora boreais, between
Quebec and Farther Point, last night. The line was
in most perfect order and wellskilled operators
worked necessarily from o'clock last evening till
o'clock this morning to get over, in an Ineligible
form, about four hundred words Of the report per
steamer Indian, for the Associated Press At the
latter hour, so completely were the wires under the
influence of the aurora boreas, that it was found
utterly impossible to communicate between these two
stations, and the lines had to be closed.
The same difficulty prevailed as far South as Wash.
suotn
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

ASPHALT FOUNDATIONS FOR WALLs.-A cores
pondent of the London Builder, highly recommends
layer Of asphalt the foundation for the walls of
buildings in damp situations. 1t may also be used in
place of hydanlic cement, or common mortar for the
joints OF bricks in walls built underground, as it can
withstand very great pressure without cracking,
when it becomes dry and it prevents damp rising in
the walls. By capilery attraction moisture will
ascend through the pores of common brick and NOR
tar bat not through asphalt hence the eapabiity of
the latter for walls erected in wet situations 1t has
been successfully employed in the underground walls
of stores built along the docks in New York. It is
ap then Iy sm Up s n s he wa 0sa
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

answered The following day, and that telegram Of
the mme date wna received at Halifax On the dsy q
IL transmission, namely the slst Of August, 1905
rs,r.,a, ! have NE a'n'ds, 8. y SscRxr.
Capt FsmSsr, IL the ship John Fyfs, arrived 4
arrest for having shot dead 3 seaman named JONI
NcArthur Capt. r. u said 70 have fired pistol =
WcArthur. sfer having been thwarted In an astemPs
to strike him with hAndspike.
The Zurleh Conferences. M. i.
The following II from the Paris correspondents VI
tho London News: -.
come Ia 4 dead lock. The presumption ana loiy =.
the socalled arrangement pompousy annconcso M
Villsfranca will soon be patent ana con,oea ~ :"
lie world Ocia people now anscs Y q ,sst;ar
~ n hsd Ve eot together and sent o me second
u.trisr PIenDotensary N. de keysenburg, 70 VI
snns ior further instructions There must ptooeny,
they say be hitch about sne aash - pe era
Twin Ana 40 about the restoration OF the dukes
rerhans II is said, moreover, the exact proportion
81 Ina Austrian national debt which is TO be saddled
upon Lombardy cannot be easily agreed upon. why,
n coorso these difficulties start up, and everybody
exeapt ia Emperor Napoleon's datterers saw them
fron the first. Austria. who to . great extent has
The cards in her own hands, since the Emperor can.
not very well recommends the war against her is OBJ
stinate and insolent. She will make the most Of q
peace concluded hastily and from unavoidable mo-
tiyes In spirit Of hostility to all the principles in
support OF which the war was professedy undertaken
onn;on that the restornton Of the Grand Dukes was
opiv to he tolerated. OF perhaps favored by the
Fr:nch Emneror nails him to 4 nositiye epraaement
IN that hehaf That restoration vas. ii says sane
cnt;on gusrsnteed nv their nlirhted word and the
nower of the two monarchs ID the sucient assurance
that the promise viii be performedN The Prose- Of
V;enns infers from this That the French and Aus.
tran armies will il necessary restore the Dukes and
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05
Texas Intelligence,
The Galveston News Of the lat inst, saws


The Galveston News Of the lat inst. says:
This day commences the autumnal season, and
though the rather unusually hot weather has not
been mi igated yet We may soon expect cool nights
We have ever before had In this city.
Carol Fike, convicted Of murder, was hung Al
Richmond on Friday the 26th. He acted the part Of
hardened sinner. There were but few spectators
present.
The Austin Gazette Of the 9th states that report
having reached that city Of the presence OF some nix
OF seven Indians in the surrounding country, some
six miles from Austin, company was soon made up
under Capt. Ford, and was then in pursuit Of the
Indians.
At public meeting held in the town Of Dallas, a
few days ago, resolutions were adopted strongly de-
nouncing the presence OF Abotionists both lay and
clerical, preaching their insurrectionary doctrines in
their midst All such persons will for the future be
expelled from their borders as public nuisance
Parson Solomon Mckinney is specially requested moi
to attempt again to preach in that community.
The Austin Courier gives the following account Of
q balloon ascension made from Hampstead few
days ago by an amateur @ronaut:
The balloon, which was filled to its utmost tension
rose gradually until it reached, as we suppose, some
| thing like three.quarters Of mile, gradually bu
slowly bearing northwest. Aftef sailing like hug
bird, some 600 or 800 yards in horizontal line X
the northwest it became stationary, and remained 81
for some ten or fifteen minutes, when 1t commenced
moving back in the opposite direction, southeast
and as we learn, having burst while at it's higbes
altitude, it commenced making pretty rapid de
scent it neared the earth, Of course the velocit
became greater, and when within one hundred yard
Of the ground it bid fair to light upon the Of tn
Central Road, which were then coming up from Hous
ton. 1t fortunately, however, struck some forty
City feet below the track. The shock OF the bsloo
on striking the earth split it from basket to pinnacle
and it Immediately fell exhausted.
The balloon fell within one hundred var ds Of til
point of starting, which we think ID the first thin
| of the kind on record As well as we remember
the nearest point Of return has been one mile.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

An old friend, distinguished judge and an ex,war
minister, resident in Pennsylvania tells good story
Of Dutch neighbor of his, who had the govt, and
was greatly puzzled to know how he came st by IL;
What is the matter with you, my friend e inquired
"vell, don't know, chudge; dey say it ish de cout
but w should have de cout2 lives plain don't
eat too much nor drink too much why should have
hereditary "Vell,' responded the invalid, with the
look Of a man who has suddenly been enlightened on
difficult subject, Veil, guess it is hereditary-I
remember my wie's uncle had de sout."
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05
SUICIDE OF A PR1NrER.-A Philadelphia pa per OF

SUICIDE OF PRINTER-A Philadelphia pa per Of
the 30th has the following:
Late on Saturday evening, Edward J. Gross, 81
years old, boarding with Mr.. VIM. Parish, No. 7l3
North Tenth street, above Poplar, committed suicide
in his chamber, by shooting himself in the head with
pistol. His death must have been instantaneous
portion of the skull being dreadfuly shattered by the
ball. The inmates Of the house were not aware of
the circumstance till yesterday morning. when some
of the family went in to call him up The deceased
was printer by profession, but was studying law
during his leisure hours, and it is believed by his
friends that his close application to his studies caused
temporary arrangement, under the influence Of
which he committed the fatal act.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05
NEW SILVER MINES IN AR1zoNA.-From the a

NEW SILVER MINES IN ARIzoNA.-From the ART
zonian Of August II, we extract the following:
Several rich yiens of silver ore have recently been
discovered in spur of the Santa Cruz mountains on
the westerly side of the range and about five miles
from the Santa Cruz river. The mines have been
registered at Mesilla as the Boundary Mines, the
chief of which is styled the North Vein, by Mr. Guido
Kustel and his associates, amoug whom are Messrs.
Montgomery, Smith and Archibald, of Tuscon. The
ore, which is argentiferous gaena assaysas high as
$l79 per tun-the average at 1888. Close to the
Boundary Mines there is an abundance of wood and
water. The Patagonia mine is only eight miles, and
the New York and Compadre miles only ten miles
distant from the newly found mines.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

PEcuL1AR1r1Es OF GREAT SALT LAKE.-ln re-
cent letter from Salt Lake City to the st. Louis Re-
publican occurs the following:
Yonder, distant from my hotel window about
eighteen miles, my vision rests upon the only wonder
Of the kind, perhaps, upon the face Of the globe
emphatically miniature ocean. Great Salt Lake is
said to be about eighteen miles in length, and from
twenty-five to thirty in width and am told in spots
unfathomable in depth. Three gallons Of water
yield one gallon of pure salt So saline is the water,
that piscatory life in it is impossible The Jordan
Weber, Malad and Bear rivers receive their supplies
from the ever melting snow, and the myriads of in
exhaustbe springs of the mountains, and come rush
ing down through canons on an average declination
reach this great valley when they gracefully meander
on their way, spalklngly dancing through all sorts
Of fantastic curves and twists, and finally pour their
crystalline contents into this lake.
The consequence of this is, that at this season Of
the year. and on until the beginning Of next month
the basin of the lake is much fuller than nsua but
from the month Of September, and on until the spring
months become sufficiently warm to melt the snow
which will have fallen through the wintur season
the waters of the lake decline.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05
REPUBLICAN MANIFESTO" Ion" the Washington

correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, writes:
The report on the manifesto of the Republican Ma
tional Committee lately assembled at Albany is the
first gun Of the Presidential campaign. The sugges-
tons and recommendations of the Committee show
that they have lost confidence in their old issues and
find it necessary to make new ones upon doctrines
ute to the South. The platform thus reared is more
decidedly sectional than that of Philadelphia and is
entirely consistent with Mr.. Stewards Rochester
speech
The American State Council of New York, in a
session at Geneva, have thrown cold water upon any
project for fusion of Americans with the Republic
cans of that State.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

The annual commercial statement published in the
New Orleans Crescent of September LIST is one Of the
most complete statistical records for reference and
general information that could have been devised 1t
shows an industry on the part the publishers which
il worthy of commentator from the entire business
community. The single number of Sept. LIST il
worth thu. daily subscription for year.
[Clinton Q4a.) Patriot.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

The venerable lady of celebrated physician. one
day casting her eye out of the window observed her
husband in the funeral procession OF one OF his
patients, at which he exclaimed do wish my
husband would keep away from such professions it
appears too much like tailor carrying home his
work. -
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

To Printers, Druggists, Grocers and Others
A large supply always hand Of PRINTING PAPER,
various sises; Palm Leaf and STRAW PAPER. all sizes
VANILLA PAPER. sAMPLING PAPER and ENVELOPE
PAPER; sHoE PAPER AND WASTE PAPER, all sizes
and qualities. Also GAP LETTER PAPER. ruled and
plain at manufacturer prices.
BLOOMFIELD, STEEL / CO.,
No. 6o.Camp street.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-05

Bibles and Teataments.
SCHOOL BIBLES AND rEsrAMENTs,
ALSO,
FAMILY BIBLES, II all prices.
HYMN BOOKS, Of every description. ...-
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No. 90 Camp skssa.