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Year: 1860

THER-AN AFFECTING SCENE.


Az the 0berlin Church, on Sunday, the pastor
stated that Professor Monroe would lay an inter.
esting matter before the congregation.


Mr.. Monroe came forward, and in substance
stated that he occasionally entertained, and at
times almost adopted certain theories averso to the
practice of buying men and women from slavehol-
ders for the purpose Of giving them their freedom
But when toll worn woman as white and deli
cate as our own wives and daughters, knocks tim.
idly at my door aud asks for the love of God that
will give her something to buy her own mother
from bondage, my hand goes into my pockets,
and my theories are gone n q moment like water,
which spilled on the ground can never be gather
ed together


Mr.. Monroe then stated that there was in the
congregation woman who had been q slave
Her father and owner had lived in South Carolina
Her father dying without freeing her,she with her
mother passed to another owner, who, becoming
embarrassed, was forced to sell them to different
masters, she going to New Orleans, her mother to
Texas. At the death of her third master the
daughter was emancipated, aud coming to Cincin-
natl, resolved to devote her life to the redemption
of her mother. After many unsuccessful efforts
she learned her whereabouts, and ascertained that
her mother could be purchased for 81 900. At
first she thought to lay up the amount by taking
in washing, but she found after years Of trial
that she might scrub until she grew old and died,
and yet not save tho requisite sum. Taking the
advice of Quaker friend, she resolved to visit
the friends of the poor in the State of Ohio, and
fOr Gbn hoeI H.,
dered from city to city, from village to village,
from farm to farm, meeting with some encourage
ment and some rebuffs until now she has gathered
together nearly six hundred dollars of the requir-
ed thousand.


AT this juncture Hou. Ralph Plumb arose and
suggested that many would like to see the lady
who was the subject of Mr.. Monroe's remarks
Being requested, she came forward with Mr.
Plumb, and stood a moment upon the stand.


Every one was astonished at her whiteness and
purely Saxon appearance, aud three thousand
men and women arose to welcome her who had
more than once stood upon the auction block. In
figure sho is tall and and erect was neatly attired
and her whole appearance was that of we'll bred
but grief subdued Saxon woman.


No further appeal was needed; the collection
that was taken up for her benefit attested the feel
ing of the audience.


Mr.. Monroe remarked that Mrs. Piquet 1--WE
have neglected to mention her name bcfore) visi-
ted Columbus during the session Of the legislature
and although some skepticism was at first euter-
tanned about her having been slave on account
of her whiteness, yet when the facts were subsau-
tiated, men of all parties gave literally. He ad-
ded, that when men failed to sympathize with the
stave because he is black he thanked God that the
opportunity was given for such men to exercise
their benevolence towards men and women of their
own color.
Year: 1860

During Anniversary week, large meeting was
held at Cooper Institute New York, at which was
passed the following resolutions.


Resolved, That the Senate of the United States
in the Imprisonment of ThAddeus Hyatt for an al
legged contempt in refusing to appear before
Committs of that body. was guilty Of gross and
dangerous usurpation of power, meeting the indis-
nation of every merican citizen.


Resolved, That the hearty thanks Of every low
er of freedom are due to Thaddeus Hyatt for the
courage and martyr-like endurance with which he
has resisted the power of the Senate and submit
ted to imprisonment in the vile Jail at Washington
rather than acknowledge the authority Of that
usurping body.


RssOlvsn That the practice Of legislative bodis
Year: 1860

| The following is copy of petition now being
circulated in New York in relation to the outrage.
GUS Imprisonment of one of her citizens by the
Star Chamber at Washington.1


TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE OF
THE UNITED STATES:


The undersigned citizens of the State of New
York respectfully solicit the attention of your Hon.
orable Body to the character of the imprisonment
in the Washington Jail now being suffered by Mr..
Thaddeus Hyatt citizen of the State Of New
York, by order of the Senate.


That, as your memoralists are advised and be-
lieve, the said imprisonment is of nature-as re-
CARDS the condition Of the said Jail and the close
ness of the restraint-to endanger the health and
life of the said prisoner, especially in view Of the
summer heats and debitating atmosphere of the
city of Washington, to which he is unaccustom.
ed


That, inasmuch as Mr.. Hyatt is not imprisoned
for any moral crime, but simply for conduct com
PEELED by his differing in opinion with majority of
theSenate in regard to their constitutional powers
your memOrialists respectfully represent that they
think him entitled to at least the consideration
commonly extended by the governments of Eu-
rope to political prisoners.


Such consideration seems to your memorialsts
peculiarly proper in the case of Mr.. Hyatt, mas.
much as it is not pretended that he is acting from
other than conscientious motives and it is we'll
known that his convictions and his conduct are
openly approved by honorable and learned Sena
tors, and by many intelligent gentlemen through
out the country.


In case, therefore, the Senate intend to continue
the imprisonment Of Mr.. Hyatt into the hot
months of summer that are now commencing,
your memorialists respectfully and earnestly pray
that your Honorable Body will order his immedi-
ate removal from the common Jail of Washington
TO comfortable and well.ventilated residence, and
that he be allowed all such opportunities Of open air
and exercise as his health may require, with such
security, by parole or otherwise. for his safe de-
tention, as to your wisdom may seem oxpedient.


And your memorialists, &c., &c.
Year: 1860

We commend the following, which we copy from
the N. Y. Tribune, to the Pro-Slavery Churches
of our country


The following story was not told from the plat
form at any recent meeting Of the American
Board Of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1t
would, nevertheless. be wholesome for sundry
doctors Of divinity to take heed to it, especially if
Year: 1860




GENERAL PRINCIPLES


l am Southern States Rights man l am an
African slave.trader. l believe l am one Of those
Southern men who believe that slavery is right
morally religiously, socially and politically Zap
plause. believe that the institution of slavery
has done more for this country, for civiliza-
ton than all other interests put together. l be-
lieve it it were in the power of this country to
strike down the institution Of slavery, it would put
civilization back two hundred years. Holding,
then, this position, tha. slavery is right in the
point Of view l have stated, l would demand Of
the General Government our whole rights in this
regard believe that the General Government by
the Constitution never had any right to legslate
upon this subject


SLAVERY PROTECTION IN THE TERRITORIES.
You have cut of the supply of slaves you have
crippled the institution Of slavery in the States by
your unjust laws, and it is folly now to ask
for protection for a nonentity, for thing which
is not there. We have no slaves to carry to :hese
Territories. We can never make another slave
State with our present supply of slaves. But if
we could, it would not be wise for this reason, that
if you make another Slave State from our new
Territories with the present supply of slaves, you
will be Obliged to give up another State either
Maryland, Delaware or Virginia to Free Soil upon
the North,


THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MUST BE PEREETUATED.
l believe that the hopes of'this country depend
upon the maintenance of the great Democratic
party North. Applause. 1t is no trouble for a
man to be saint in heaven. Cheers and laugh
teri


tGWhan tho dav;I a;c
Year: 1860

came from the First Congressional District of
the State of Georgia. | represent the African
slave trade interest Of that section. LApplause !
am proud of the position l occupy in that res
pect. l believe that the African slave trader is
true missionary, and true Christian. Applause. |


DON'T RIDE FREE HORSE TOO HARD.


advocate the repeal of the laws prohibiting
the African slave trade, because believe it to be
the true Union movement. l do not believe that
sections whose interests are so different as the
Southern and Northern States can ever stand the
shocks of fanaticism, unless they be equally bal
anced believe by reOpening this trade, land Civ
ing US negroes to populate the Territories, that
the equilibrium of the two sections will be main
tanned. But if the South lies supinely by, aud al
lows the people of the North to people all the
Territories, until we come to be hopeless faction
in the Government, then that gallant band of Dem
ocrats North may in vain attempt to stay the tor
rent that will roll down upon us.


HIS ABIDING FAITH IN NORTHERN DEMOCRACY.


1 say, Fellow-Democrats, that remained here
because have great faith in the Northern De-
mOcracy. If am forced to part with you it will
be with bleeding heart. l know not exactly
what position occupy here [laughter,l for the
majority of my delegation have voted to secsde.
We come here instructed to vote as a unit.
Whether the minority are bound to 60 out with the
majority is question which have not yet fully
determined in my own mind. but at any rate, l
told them this morning, and tell them now
will not 60 out yet intend to hold on to the
great Democratic party of the Union. Entertain.
ing, as do, such profound respect nay, almost
veneratiOn for the justice of the Democracy Of the
North, will yet stand by you for a time
Year: 1860




We, the Democracy of the South, are mere car
pet knights. 1t is no trouble for us to be Demo
Gratis. Applause and laughter. When look to
the Northern Democrats 1 see them standing up
there and breasting the tide Of anaticism oppres-
sion, wrong and slander with which they have to
Romans view in them all that is patriotic and
nobls; and, for one I am not willing to cut loose
from them. [Great cheering.
Year: 1860

TOM CORwIN ON THE HOMESTEAD LAW.


Tom Corwin has been re-nominated for
Congress. At the time he made an eloquent
speech from which We make an extract.


TnS PrBLIc LANDs.-Ths public land
question next received the attention Of tho
speaker. What do the Republican party
propose to do with their public lands They
propose to give quarter Of section Of
them to every poor man and woman, pro-
vided they will 60 to work. They hold that
the public lands belong to the people Of the
United States. The Republican party pass
ed bill through the House, drafted 10 ac-
cordance with their principle, but in the
Senate y bill Of very different kind was
passed. The House bill gave the land to
the working man |; the Senate bill made him
pay for it. But Mr.. Buchanan vetoed even
that; he is the poor mans friend,; God bless
you, he don't want you to become rich and
20 to tho devil" But what is the reason
that the Southern Democracy would not
agree to the bill As it passed the llouss !?
Unquestionably their system Of Government.
They want these lands to be sold, and they
want the money to put in the public treasu-
~ =; and they also want tho duty to be taken
off foreign goods. What is a quarter Of a
section of land to them? They wouldn't
thank you for il. The Shareholder must
have two thousand acres Of lnnd to work
bis niggers on. But the poor man--the
young man who has just got married per.
haps, who has no land, looks about him
for home. lie wants 10 work, but
wants to work on his own farm, and to him
a quarter Of section Of land is all sufficient.
The Republican party sympathises with this
class OF society. They say to these young
some of Uncle Sans land, and work it, and
keep it.
Year: 1860

e The Secretary of State Of Oregon has
refused to issue the certificate of election to
Shlel lately elected to Congress as successor
to Stout, on accoun. Of the election being
premature, and unauthorized by law.
Year: 1860

engravings, and the like, and no ono will
deny that this is one OF the most efficient
means for producing such an effect.


Here then is an extended map, embracing
some of the most prominent and Interesting
scenes in Scripture history, and presented
with so much faithfulness and accuracy that
de not hesitate to say that the artist has
held ." the mirror up to nature" and most
Beautifully has she reflected her image upon
the glowing canvass. 4- l4


Go and ses-it for yourselves, and then we
doubt not you will send your youth. W
Year: 1860

JUEF 1IKA 1.-THE sun shone out beautiful
ly and glOriously for little while yesterday
morning, but shrunk back nbashed at the
dismal prospect of mud below him. A
glowing weather item, written in all the ex-
ultstion consequent upon seeing such an un-
Year: 1860

-WmLIAN's PANORAMA OF THE BIBLE.-Thrs
finely executed painting was exhibited at
the MeIodeon for the first time in this city ,on
Tuesday evening" Owing to the rain and
mud, and to the fact that its merits as
work Of art were unknown to our citizens, the
audience was comparatively small. The ap-
probation of those present however was frs-
quently expressed in whispers, by. ."Isn't
that beautiful" !" "see that bower; it looks
az if one could walk in and take a seat, "Look
ct that palm tree; see how it stands out from
the canvass and upon one occasion their
applause broke out in q heartfelt clappfug
of hands. i-f-i 'tii
We noticed in the audience a clergyman
whose head had been frosted by nearly three
score winters, who was as much delighted as
any of them. We understand that in few
days an opportunity will be offered for the
admission Of our Sabbath School children at
a reasonable price. To this we give our
most unqualified appreciation. We pay
thousands annually to educate the young,
but of what avail is an enlightened under
standing without a corresponding cultivation
Of the hearth A strong and vigorous intel
lect guided by selfish aim or sensual de-
Sires is dangerous foe to peace and good
order in community, or social bliss at the
domestic hreside.
Year: 1860

TERRAcINe.-Frank Smith is terracing the
hill side ip the rear of his house on Cherokee
street, and will besiow upon it elaborate
cultivation, thus forming beautiful back
ground of verdure in the rear of which Mt.
irving raises its pine-crowned summit
People are too apt to neglect the back part
of their premises, thus losing much pictur-
esque effect A flower garden in front of a
house and barren hill behind is like a
woman with an embroidered apron over a
dirty gown.
Year: 1860

| LAKE CrrY-The Eureka Lake-Ditc Co.
have laid out a town site on a piece of land
owned by them at Arnold's ranch, about
eleven miles from San Juan up tie Middle
Yuba ridge, facing Humbug Canon and sur
rounded by some of the finest scenery in the
mountains. The embryo town is christened
by the ambitious title of Lake City. The
company sell lots at merely nominal rate,
and say they will apply tie proceeds to pub
'lic Improvements, such as laying out park
and garden. Several houses are already
built on San Juan street, and occupied as
dwellings, shops and hotels. One of the
hotels is the well known house of Henry
Arno.d ANOTHER was lately built by Mr..
PoquiHon, and the roof of it commands an
entrancingview ofthe adjacent mountainous,
pine clad country, with far vstas of the Sac
ramento Valley, the Three 'Buttes 'dhd the
purple Coast Range. The slopes of the ridge
on which the town is laid out nearly all have
a southern exposure, are clothed with deep
rich soil and are admirably adapted to hor


ticultufe and grape growing. There does
not seem to us to be any necessity for town
just at that point, although there are good
diggihgs in the vicinity but if some of our
French fellow citizenscdn content themselves
to stop there and go into the wine-growing
business Systematically, they can make
themselves independent and eventually build
up very pretty village. Mr.. Poquillon is
about to construct new road to unite with
the one leading from Nevada to Eureka and
the proposed Henness Pass road
Year: 1860

When Horace Greedy took his famous overland journey to the Pacific coast, several of our cotemporaries suggested that hls ob- feet was to influence the California election Setting aside the fact that neither Greedy, or any other man, could control any State election, and that such journey, for such a purpose, would be useless, we believed that the object of the pseudo philosopher was connected with the Pacific road. The black republicans, long ago, laid 1t down as a fundamental article in their creed that there should be no more slave labor States. They maintained this with fire and blood in Kansas. They spent immense sums to aid emigrants to different territories so that the free soil element would predom- nate in the politics of the embryo State. The country west of Kansas and Missouri was critically examined with vlew to It's further settlement. Pike's Peak was puf- fed and other gold localities written of, to induce emigration from the abolltlonlzod States.
Year: 1860

homes either of our own people or new corners from the western and southwestern States.

 Upon the passage of the bill, a set of middle-men and land agents in the north ern cities, would at once get lists of all vacant lands in our State, send people out here to settle, and, when this was done in good faith, would receive fee therefor, or by fraud would eventually secure the lands to themselves. It would throw open the door to fraud and perjury. and benefit speculators and land jobbers.

 In no possible way could it favorably effect our people, and, in many ways, would prejudice them We shall be glad to chronicle its defeat in democratic Senate, and hope that such black repub- lican wedge, as it is, may never be in serted or driven into the body polite.
Year: 1860

We have read the report of T. Butler King to the legislature of Georgia, on the subject of railroads. When New York commenced her system of internal inn provements, her population was about double that of Arkansas, as was the value of her taxable property. Her population is now seven times greater than that of our State, and the value of her taxable property is s1 ,4O4, ,907, ,679. As immense as this sum is, and made up, in part, oi articles not enumerated in our lists of tax able property, the amount to each individ- ual in the State is not so large as in Ar kansas.

 In New Jersey, the land on each side of the Camden and Amboy road increased in price sufficiently to pay double the cost of the road. From the report of Mir. King, and from other sources, instances are frequent where the taxable property of counties through which roads run, double, or increase a hundred per cent, in two, three, four or five years.

 IL is singular facl connected with rail roads, that they increase the value of real estate, in far greater degree when they run through poor country, than when they run through rich one Thus the pine lands of Georgia, that once sold for 1 five and ten cents an acre, now sell for ten dollars an acre Roads that run parallel with great rivers, or of fertile vallies, do not increase the value of property to such per centage as when they run across the face of the country. Thus, road up the valley of the Arkansas river would, no | doubt. double the value of real estate for ten miles each side of 1t, in two or three years. Lands now worth twenty dollars, would sell for forty or fifty dollars an acre Counties, with five million dollars worth of taxable property, would soon show ten millions worth. The travel and freight on such road, would be far greater than on one running through poorer country. A road running across the vallies and through the hills, would be more expensive and have less freight But lands in its vicinity now selling for a dollar, would then sell for ten dollars an acre; and counties, with taxable property amounting to half a mll- lion of dollars, would then run to four or five millions. The reason of this IS obvi- ous. The first roads are generally parallel with large streams, because the wealth and population are found there, on them are the cities, and the trade comes from thelr borders. No fact can be more clearly and conclusively demonstrated, than that pro- pertv holders, along the line of a road, could afford to give the road fifty per cent ! of the value of their lands, and then make fifty per cent. clear. In some cases the value of property is quickly trebled and quadrupled.
Year: 1860

To PROHIBIT THE CIRCULATION OF SMALL NorEs.-A bill is before the Legislature of Pennsylvania to prohibit the circulation of small notes in that State. In substance 1t requires that all persons, such as merchants, hotel keepers, brokers, and in fact every one engaged in a business where there is ne- cessarily much receiving and paying out money, shall appear before the County Treasurer and make oath that he or they will not pay out or circulate bank notes ofS less denomination than S20, where upon the said Treasurer grants him or them a license to carry on their business, what soeyer 1t may be.
Year: 1860

The months of February and March, it will be remembered are unfavorable to such work, and it is only within the past two weeks that the contractors have been able to push. As the weather grows milder and days longer, the work will increase.

 The company are confident that they will have portion of the track finished by May or June next, and the iron horse will be snorting on the opposite bank of the Tiver.I Next summer our citizens can take pleasure trips on the railroad. The middle division will be built and then we can breakfast at Little Rock, dine at Memphis and transact business, then returning to Little Rock by supper time. At Memphis it will connect with other roads, and we will be within few days communication with the principal cities.
Year: 1860

Az Attention is invited to the card of Mr. John Wassell about his new saw mill. He is just the man to do that sort of busi- ness, and we feel certain that he will please ali who give him orders.
Year: 1860

As an evidence of the manner in which this work is being pushed to its completion, we give below the estimates of the company on the third division of the road. for the months of February and March, for embank r,art ,rorE n loDa