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Year: 1859

70 Me Eastor ef Lhe Enquirer::

 The subject of the annual appropriation to the State Agricultural Society has been before the legis lature for the last two three weeks and strange as it may appear there two members of the sen- ate, from the very heart of Litchfeld County, who have from beginning to end given their influence and their vote against the usual appropriation signing as a reason that " the farmers themselves were opposed to the appropriation" "and that the operations of the society da not reach the farming interest"

 That the members of tho State, as we'll as of the County Societies are the pioneers of agricultural i'm provement throughout the state does not admit of a doubt; and such an assertion botrays gross igno- rance on the part of those who made it. and the sertion too that the operations of the society do not reach the farming interest, is equally absurd.

 Since the formation of the State Society," hundreds of dolars have been paid to breeders of booded stock in Ltchfed County, which have been distrib- nted in the eastern part of the state, in Rhode Island and in some parts of Massachusetts. In pairing the stocks of cattle at state fairs. the farmers of the eastern part of the state found that so far as Devon cattle and mutton sheep were con- CeF1e0 Couuty was duFstiiCc, immediately began to purchase to supply this dis crepancy, and have continued to greater or less extent to purchase of us ever since and we have two senators, (and how many representatives } who in their superior wisdom tell by their acts, that the operations of the society do reach the farm ing interest ts

 The state of Connecticut is supposed to be in debt some fifty thousand dollars and has funds on hand amounting to four hundred thousand with which to pay their indebtedness and yet Republican leg isature has been frightened at this small debt, and have thus been induced to withhold several small appropriations from very worthy objects. It is hardly to be supposed that the members of the State S,ciety will cheerfully submit to any permanent reduction of the usual appropriation.

 It is hoped that Litchfeld County, which was first in proposing the establishment of the State Society," will not be the first to abandon it; and it is belev- ed there will not soon be found in the senate indi yduals opposing appropriation in its behalf from Litchfeld County. A REPUBLICAN,.
Year: 1859

fY- Gov. Seward sailed from England directly for St. Petersburgh. He could have hardly chosen a better look just now for discerning the future of Europe, remote as he is from the theatre of war. More is known at St. Petersbugh of what is to be the final result of tho present contest than anywhere else
Year: 1859

Last week we quoted a resolution of the Gin.
cinnati Platform, in proof Of the assertion that
the Democratic party of the nation had taken
the position that the proper time for the people
OF territory to pass upon the question of slave
ry, is when they come to adopt c Institution.
preparatory to asking admission into the Union
as State. That resolution so declared in nlain
words 1t recognized the right of the people
OF all the Territories" whenever-Imark the
wordl the number of their inhabitants justified
II, to form Constitution, with or without domes-
tic slavery" &C. This was no new idea. LONG
years ago our greatest men held the same views
on this important point, to wit the proper time
for the people of a Territory to pass upon the
question OF slavery. As long ago as 1897, Hem
ry Clay introduced into the United States Sem
ate resolution enunciating this doctrine, which
was warmly supported by Benton, Calhoun, ST.
las Wright, and other great Democratic lights of
that day. Here is the resolution to which we
refer:


ResotUed That any attempt of Congress to
abolish slavery in a Territory of the United
1eaeco III IL tAislS, HOulu create serious
alarm and just apprehension in the States sus-
tanning that domestic institution; would be a
violation of good faith towards the inhabitants
of any such Territory, who have been permitted
to enter with and hold slaves therein; and be-
cause when ary such Territory shall be admitted
into the Union AS State, the people thereof
shall be entitled to decide that question exclu-
sively for themselves.


We do not understand Mr.. Douglas to take
the position that Territorial Legislature can
abolish slavery in a Territory by positive enact
ment His position is, as we understand it, That
Territorial Legislature may virtually establish
the institution of slavery in a Territory, by pass
ing series of laws for its protection,-as the
Territorial Legislature of New Mexico has re-
Gently done. or that Territorial Legislature
may virtually exclude the institution of slavery
by refusing to pass any laws for its protection
or by repeating all such laws,-as has been done
by the Legislature of Kansas. And this position
no sensible man will impugn The Territorial
Legislature of Kansas has not, by positive en-
actmeut, excluded slavery from that Territory
and yet all men know that to all intents and
purposes, slavery has been etfectually excluded
therefrom, and simply by force of the act which
repealed all laws for the protection of slavery.
Year: 1859

CORRECT SpEAKING.-Wc advise all
young people to acquire, in carly life,
the habit Of using good language,
both in Speaking and writing, and to
abandon as early as possible, any use
OF slang words and phrases. The lon
ger they live. the more difficult the
acquisition Of correct language will
be and if the golden age Of youth,
the proper season for the acquisition
Of language, be passed in its abuse,
the unfortunate victim of neglected
education is, very properly, doomed to
talk slang for life. Money is not
necessary to procure this education.
Every man has it in his power. He
has merely to use the language which
he reads, instead of the slang which
lie hears to form his taste for the
best speakers and poets Of the coun-
try, to treasure up choice phrases in
his memory, and habituatc himself to
their use-avoiding, at the same time,
that pedantic precision and bombast,
which show rather the weakness Of n
vain ambition than the polish Of an
educated mind.
Year: 1859

A foreign correspondent Of the Mo-
bile Advertiser writes of a visit to
Mcrose aud the burial place eff Sir
Walter Scott. In the course Of his
ramblcs, he stood where the Wizard "
so loved to linger, and looked upon
the scene the poets eyes had so long
dwelt upon, and alludes en- passant, to
a touching incident that possibly is
not familiar to all our readers. The
writer had attained the summit of the
hill of Bemerside, and the the vale Of
Mclrosc, with the beautiful Tweed
bending in a perfect semi-circle around
it, reposed in exquisite lovelines be-
meath. Oh, it was a picture that
would inspire any soul, and which
Turner knew SO well how to represent
in his gorgeous pcncilings. The gay
and luxuriant vegetation that covered
the hillside and valley, the masses OF
noble wood skirting the plain, the
placid limpidity of the stream sweep
ing in a graceful curve through the
emerald meadows, made up a scene
too inimitable for the pen upon
which the sun seemed to love to shine
for it illuminated what might be Area
dia, if we could only then and there
have been lullcd into some Utopian
dream.


No wonder then, that when Sir
Walter Scott passed over this hill on
his favorte horse, he would stop and
gaze back upon the lonely vale of the
Tweed. 1t is said that Scott loved
and admired this picture more than
any other scene in nature. When
that same old favorite horse which
was drawing the remains Of his mas
ter, arrived at this spot, hc stopped in
the midst of the funeral procession as
it was his masters custom to do.
Year: 1859

perience leaves them ignorant of consequent


ces. There is no field Of danger less talk


ed Of than this. Through many years of


attendance upon the public ministrations
of Christianity, have never but twice heard
this subject pointedly and faithfully alluded
to. Books are mainly silent upon it. Faith
ers and mothers, faithful in all things else,
shrink from the administration of counsels
upon matters which they would fain believe
are all unknown to the precious ones they
have nurtured Thus is it in schools, and
thus is it everywhere, where counsel is need
cd, and where it is demanded An impure
word, doubtful jest, tale of sin, drunk in
by these fresh souls, excites the Imagination,
and straightway they discover the field of
contemplation, so full of danger and of death,
and learn all its paths before they know any
thing Of the perils to which they subject
themselves. Let me say to those, what
they hear so little from other lips and pens
that whenever they find themselves attract
ed to it, they can never abide in it, or enter
upon it, without taint and without sim
Sooner or later IN their life will they fud
that from all willing dalliance with tempta-
tion, and unresisted entertainment of unwor-
thy and impure imaginations, their character
has suffered an injury which untold ages will
tail to remedy.
Year: 1859

BY JOHN HODGES.
Darkness has hed-with joyous tread
Comes in the harvest day,
And all things fair its joys to share
Are making round our way,
The king Of light 10 garment bright,
Robes grove, aud stream, and plain,
AS with glad song we haste along
To cut the golden grain,
A cheerful band of harvesters
To cut the golden grain.
The great of EARTH of kindly birth,
TO fame and title born,
With all their powers, more JOY is ours
On this bright harvest morn
While despots bind their fellow kind
Aud tyrants forge the chain,
With horny hands and well-made bands
Well bind the golden grain,
With hearts the while all free from guile
Wen bind the golden grain.
Our boast, is not treasures bought
From blood Of toiling slaves,
The crowns we spend no collins send
To fill up paupers' graves.
We boast not hall with pictured walls
Nor ships that plow the main,
Our pride is health, our seas wealth
Are seas of rich, ripe grain,
And all the earth must own our worth
In seas of rich, ripe grain.
The gay may join around their wine,
Aud full libations pour;
Who sigh for fame may seek name
On fields of crimson gore,
We ask not wine nor will we join


In strife on CORY plain,
But with kind words and scythes for swords
Wen battle with the grain.
On earth to increase sweet love and peace
Wen battle with the grain.
Then let's again another strain


send on the breeze away,
Earth's voices sweet ring out to greet
The Joyous harvest day.
The bright sun smiles through leafy wilds
And DER the meadows green,
The whispering breeze among the trees
Display their sivery sheen,
And on the plain the waving grain


Awaits our sickles keen
Year: 1859

Notwithstanding thevast stretch and
compass of the work of the redemp.
ton, it is a work of the most humble
detail in its style of execution. The
Saviour could have preached a sermon
on the mount every morning. Each
night he could have stilled the sea.
before his astonished disciples, and
shown the conscious waves lulling in
to peace under his feet He could
have transfgnred himself before Pi-
late and the astonished multitudes oi
the temple. He could have made Wis.
ible ascensions in the noon of every
day, and revealed his form, standing
in the sun, like the angel of the Apoc-
alypse. But this was not his mind.
The incidents of which his work is
principally made up. are, humanity
speaking, very humble and unpretend-
ing. The most faithful pastor in the
world was never able, in any degree,
to approach the Saviour. in the lowell
ness of his manner and his attention
to humble things. His teachings were
in retired places, and his illustrations
drawn from ordinary affairs. If the
finger of faith touched him in the
crowd, he knew the touch and also
knew the faith. lie reproved the am
bilious housewifery of an humble wo-
man. After he had healed a poor be-
ing. blind from his birth-a work
transccnding all but divine power-hc
returned and sought him out. as the
most humble Sabbath school teacher
might have done; and when he had
found him, cast out and prosecuted By
men, he taught him privately the
highest secrets Of his Messiahship.-
When the world around hung darken-
ell in sympathy with his cross, and
the earth was shaking with inward
amazemeEt, he himself was re member
ing his mother, and discharging the
filial cares of good son. And when
he burst the bars of death. its first and
final conqaeror, he folded the linen
clothes and the napkin. and laid them
in order apart, showing that in the
greatest things, he had set purpose
also concerning the smallest. And
thus, when perfectly scanned. the
work of Christ's redemption, like the
created universe. is seen to be a vast
orb Of glory, wrought up out Of finish
ed PARTICLES. Now life Of great and
prodigious exploits would have been
comparatively an easy thing for him,
but to cover himself with beauty and
glory in small things, to fill and adorn
every little human occasion. so as to
make it divine,-this was a work of
skill, which no mind or hand was
equal to, but that which shaped the
atoms of the world. Such everywhere
is God. lie nowhere overlooks or de-
spises small things.
Year: 1859

Readcrs are not generally aware of
the fact, nevertheless it is fact and
one of great magnitude and of terrible
importance. that their first grand ne
cessity in reading is to be vigilantly
and conscientiously select. Books
are, like human souls, divided into
y"sheep and goats" or compared to
beasts, may be divided into clean
and unclean."


All poor and worthless books should
be placed in the position of the goats.
on the left hand of the Judge. IL they
have any place at all. and should DO
entirely ignored by the reader. Tho
world is full of books, and nothing is
of more Importance to the rising gen.
Grafton than careful selection from
among them. What o useless waste
of time it is to read over thousands of
pages in which not single idea oc-
curs worth remembering, or which
imparts any really useful information.
This remark will apply to nineteen
twentieths of the light reading news
papers and periodicals. Carlyle was
right in saying that all sane men and
women should ignore such nonsense.
Year: 1859

Pres. Wayland has never been re
garded as an ultraist or an enthusias
tic. This fact gives the more weight
to the following expressions of senti
ment and fceling:-


Il can not worship men in power
In so far as they are virtuous men
love them. In so far as they are able
men, | respect them. l will pay all
due Difference fc the offices they hold,
and will bow with seemly respect tc
the men who hold them These men
are to me the representatives on earth,
of eternal Justice and unsullied truth
and may my arm fall palsied from my
shoulder blade, when | refuse to raise
it in token of respect to him who is
called of God to minister under SO
solemn responsibility


If he use the power committed to
him for any other purpose than that
for which it was committed; if he pros
titute his official influence to pander to
the wishes of political party-if he
sacrifice the gravest interests of his
country for the sake ofsecuring to him
self the emolument of oflice--if he
trample national honor in the dust, in
order to minister to the grasping sell
fishness of contemplate clique--that
moment every vestigc of his sacred
ness is gone for ever. He stands be-
fore me like Sampson from the lap of
Delilah. Shake himself as he may, it
matters not to me; his strength is de-
parted.


But is this all? No, not half; not
only is his official sacrcdness departed,
he has become to me the most odious
and dcspicablc of men. He has sacri-
feed his country to his lusts. He has
bartered away the well-bciny of mill
lions for food to nourish his vices
Whether in office or out of it-wheth-
er powerful or powerlcss--I can look
upon him hcnceforth with no other
feelings than those Of pity and dis
gust


The magistrate may not only do
wrong himself, he may command me
to do wrong, or, what is the same
thing, forbid my doing right. How
shall / regard that command? l will
regard it as do every other command
to do wrong-I will not obey it. /
will look the magistracy calmly but re-
spectfully in the. face, and declare to it,
that in this matter | owe it no allegi-
ance. / will have nothing to do with
its wrong-doing. l will separate my
self as far as possible from the act and
its consequences, whether they be
prosperous vi adverse. IL lS wicked
ness, it has the curse of God in
wrought into it, and | will have moth
ing to do with it. From the begin
ming to to the end | will eschew it,
and the rewards it offers
Year: 1859

y house which has been standing for
about eleven years on the National
Road. mile east of Aquilla Parker's
in Warren Township. was removed
the other day and an excavation mado
on its site for the purpose of erecting
a new building. About three or four
feet beneath the surface of the earth
two human skeletons were dug up,
which had the appearance of having
been buried in a doubled up position.
The remains were exposed to view.
and several portions of them brought
to this city. From an examination
of the teeth it was supposed that ono
of the skeletons belonged TO an old.
and the other to a young person.
How the bodies, of which the skeletons
now form the only visible parts. came
to be buried beneath The house, is a
matter which no one can satisfactorily
explain. 1t is supposed that the de-
ceased persons had been murdered and
their remains buried beneath the house
to conceal the crime committed. 1t
is not probable that the house was
built after the burial of the bodies, for
somebody would have lnown Of the
existence of the graves. The house,
some years ago was occupied by Nor
mons, and a number of the people of
the neighborhood arc Of the opinion
that the bodies were buried beneath
the floor while those fanatics, living
in a measure secluded, were in the
building Daily Journal.
Year: 1859

Two men stood forth prominently
at the time OF the Great Reformation.


One was Erasmus. the other Luther.
Both were substantially agreed IN
opinion; both had received the same
light; both shared the same convic-
ton, and acknowledged that it ought
to become general. But Erasmus. q
man of scholarly wit and learning.
and the clevercst intellectual precep-
tions, was morally timid and back
ward. He was afraid of hurting
himself; he was afraid of disturbing
excessively the social order, and of
overthrowing more than was wise,
the popular faith. So he kept his
truth prudently back. and discouraged
others who would get it delivered for
him. He let it coze out I'm elegant
Latin phrases, artfully chosen and
seasonably printed. but he never al
lowed it to break out in strong Ger
man speach that would reach the ears
of the hungering people. Luther. on
the other hand, was almost fiercely
outspoken. The world had to come
to him, and should not by him be
withheld. To speak it. every time
was the right time, every place tho
right place, every audience the fitting
audience, and the popular language
the best language. The people should
have the Bible in their own tongue
He would have no twilight; he would
use no vague or doubtful speech; nei-
ther silence nor equivocation suited
him. And though his battle" words
kindled fires in cities and reused ma
tions to arms, he thundercd them
forth.


Which of these men did the most
for the reformation? i need not an
swcr. The name of one of them is a
tower of strength to all truth-speakers
to-day. The name of the ot her many
of you may never have heard of before
this morning.-[o. B. rockingham.
Year: 1859

The venerable lady Of celebra-
ted physician. one day casting her eye
out Of the window, observed her hus-
band in the funeral procession Of one
Of his patients. at which she exclaim-
ed: Il DO wish my husband would
keep away from such professions: it
appears too much like a tailor carry
ing home his work
Year: 1859

Paddy was summoned to court.
for refusing to pay a doctors BILL
Judge-'Why did you refuse to pay"
Paddy-'What for should / pay
shure did he give me any thing but
some emeiics. and the never a ono
could ! keep on my stomach at ALL
Year: 1859

Attorney and Counselor mt Law.
Office lst Floor IN New jail Building.
Will promptly attend to all business en-
trusted to his care. Strict attention given
to the security and collection of claims.
Year: 1859

EE The Alton Courier" publishes an
account of the mysterious disappearance of
four farmers from Portage des Sioux, who
had sold their wheat in Alton and received
their money for it, They were last seen
on Tuesday evening OF last week, since
which no trace Of them has been found.
Foul play is suspected, Efforts are ma
king to clear up the mystery.
Year: 1859

quiet retreat and the allurements of domes-
tic tranquility, and enter upon career
perilohs and precarious in the extreme, the
freeing of our great and now independent
country from the yoke of tyrrany and op-
preston.


Hope is the christians solace, and when
he comes to die it gives him foretaste o.
that future bliss which awaits him in Hsa-
ven, where he may sit upon the right hand
of the Father and sing the song Of Moses
and the Lamb forever
Year: 1859

of slaves in our new possession, while
there was :: powerful class of capitalists,
holding the political power of the island
who wanted to fill up at a cheap rate the
gangs on their plantations


Spain, it is known, has never put down
the slave trade in Cuba, though the whole
naval power Of Great Britain has been
associated with her own to break it up
Great Britain has been in earnest, but
Spain has not. Is there the least prob
ability that our own government will be
more in earnest than Spain j.? Certainly
not, with such men as we have at the
head of it, while there is the least chance
Of political favor being gained by conniv-
ing at the traffic.


Our conclusion, therefore, is that the
slave trade at Cuba will be rather encour-
aged than checked by its annexation tt
the United States. We shall get rid Of
the interference of Great Britain in the
trade, and our Executive will be no more
disposed to stop it than the government o1
Spain has been.-Ecening Post.
Year: 1859

The Washington Union Of yesterday
euloyises, in particular manner, that
part Of NJ Buchanan's message which
relates to the acquisition Of Cuba, but
on,its to take notice Of this passage:


':lf this were accomplished 1.-THE annexation,
of Cuba, the last relic Of the African slave
trade would forever disappear. y


This is for the North a sjde-arguncnt,
with which those who want to make an
apology for the annexation Of Cuba likely
to have plausible sound in the latitude
of the free States, arc obligingly supplied
by the President. They can say I'VE
are as much against slavery as anybody
but VIC believe the acquisition Of Cuba
will be the severest blow that can be
struck at slavery. 1t will put an end to
the African slave trade, which is carried
on with so. much inhumanity, aud which
continually replenishes the slave-markets
Of that island" This will answer as
we'll as the pretext so commonly resorted
to few years since, that the annexation
of Texas would have the effect to narrow
the area of slavery.


Let Cuba be admitted into the Union,
however, and let the Administration re-
main in such hands as now hold it, and
who believes that the trade in human be-
ings brought from Africa will cease ?
Our government pretcnds that it cannot
stop the piratical expeditions against Cuba
and Central America, fitted out in our
own ports, under our own eyes. Is it
likely that it will be aole to prevent the
fitting out of vessels for the slave trade,
which may be done with far less noise
and greater certainty Of concealing the
object in view? Is it likely that our
government would take any serious and
well-planncd steps to prevent the landing
Year: 1859

BY HANNAH F. GOULD.
Alone I walk the ocean strand,
A pearly shell was in my hand;.
stopped and wrote upon the sand
My name-the year-the day.
As onward from the spot passed,
One lingering look behind I cast;
A wave came rolling high and fast,


And washed my name away.
And so, methought, twill shortly be
With every mark on earth from me;
A wave of dark oblivion's sea
"" Will sweep across the place
Where I have trod the sandy shore
OF Time, and been, to be no more;
Ofmc, my frame, the name bore,


To leave no track or trace.