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Year: 1859

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"Oh, what has happened, Harry ?''


"I don't know" he answered. Ct
am bewildered. Something has gone
wrong in business. Oh, Florry, l have
passed through fearful day and
there is no strength left in me-


What change from the bold, bust
ness braggart of the day before! But
Harry Melville was mere dandy in
trade. There was no muscle in the
man, no reserved power, no elasticprop-
erty. He had grown as a balloon
grows, and, like balloon, collapsed at
the first sharp puncture.


What could mere summer-blossom
of wife do to help a man in such an
extremity Nothing. She could
weep and wiring her hands, and sob
like distressed damsel; but she had
no comfortable suggestions, no brave
words, no hopeful sentiment to offer.


Did our young trader, after period
of cool reflection, take heart again !?
Did he go out on the next morning,
and nerve himself for another strug-
gle with the difficulties which had so
suddenly closed around him? No
Busy memory, through the remainder
of that day and evening, supplied him
with data enough to complete his total
overthrow as man of nerve and ac-
ton. His boyish partner came to see
him, and tried to re-inspirit him with
brave words. But they were of no
avail. He was panic stricken by the
fearful aspect of things, and gave up
without struggle.


On the next day the bills of the firm
were not met An assignment followed
and, at the settlement of affairs, the
creditors received dividend of twen-
ty cents on the dollar.


Just twenty-thrce years of age was
Harry Melville when he shrunk back
from his advanced position in the bus
mess and social world, a bankrupt,
his name word of reproach or con-
tempt on hundreds of lips, and sought
hiding-place with his helpless wife in
the house of his father, whose predic-
tions had been but too speedily full
filed. His bark was shattered by the
first storm.


Take the lesson to heart, We too
eager younger men. The story is
scarcely an exaggeration. Old Mr..
Melville was entirely right in his coun-
sci to his son. A business commenced
at twenty-one, or even as early as
twenty-five, without experience, is al
most certain to result in failure. The
first thing young man who hopes to
succeed in the world needs to learn is
economy in his personal expenditure.
If, as clerk or shop-man, he spends
his entire earnings. and trusts to get
into business by virtue of credit, the
chances of failure are two to one
against him. His habits of mind vii
tempt him to almost certain destruc
ton.
Year: 1859

marks of the ex-editor of the Gazette fl am deceived iu the views herein expressed, it is an error into which the whole population of New Mexico have fallen, and the day we are unde- ceived will be to us day of rejoicing The special message of his Exceleney Gov. Rencher to the Legislature clearly indicates his views on the subject, and their refusal to pass vote of thanks to the commanding officers is anything but datterng rroeaa

 The disastrous result of this campaign is solely attributed to :he inetficiency of the commanding officers and it is generally believed that had Col Loring been allowed to command his own regiment of Mounted Rifles, instead of placing 1t under the command of an infantry officer, while the Colonel himself was left with cor porals guard at Fort Union to protect this frontier, the whole aspect of affairs would have been changed

 We believe that Capt Hatch, Capt Lindsay, and others, distinguished themselves SO far as they were able, but no man can be successful swimmer with a milestone swung to his neck. believe the army now here equal to anything required of it, and only needs the removal of old1fogysm to become apparent to all. The citizens of New Mexico delight to honor those wh1 exert themselves for their protection, and grieved that the tax on our gratitude has been oN hehe' ho'O otobOu AACOly dhu openly, and if these constitute me an enemy of the army shall remain SO, and if have been misinformed in any particular, and have thus lnintentionally injured any. one, l should notsonly consider it duty but a great pleasure m rendering him all the reparation in my pow er-for if l cannot succeed by fair and honora- | ble means neither desire nor deserve success. Instead of stunning, court an investigation. tho result of which cannot be otherwise than bcfeiicial know that we are entitled to pro. teetion, and it matters little to us by whom hat protection is given, through what means or at what cost 1t was solemnly promised to thtse people when they became incorporated | vitb the United States, and as they have waited patiently for twelve years their deplorable situ ation certainly requires attention. The honor of the Government, the reputation of the army and the pecuniary interests involved, equally demand investigation.

 l forgot to mention, that Mir. Winslows ides of the prudence of closing the Navajoe war will be disputed by no one, for its continuance would only have rendered it each day more lisgracefu,. If nothing could be effected when everything was in fine order, what could have been done by men who were now on foot, and disheartened by the inefcicncy of their lead CTS Under the circumstances there could not have been dissenting voice as to the necessity >0f peace. 1t IS better to do bad than worse

 .r. N am, respectfully Yours,

 r. @ S B. WATRoUs
Year: 1859

Under the State head Of Virginia in
this paper, will Re found singular his
tory Of q plot by the famous Ossawata
mie Brown to excite a slave instruction
at Harper's Ferry. This il small post
village on the Potomac, about fifty miles
northwest Of Washington, and seventy
five miles nearly due west Of Baltimore.
According to the statement Of colorcd
man who accompanied him, the plan was
formed about two months ago, in Ohio,
BY Brown alone and it seems to have
been followed up by the greatest secrecy
and coolness, but at the same time with
SO few adherents as to make it certain
from the outset, that the attempt would
fail, and involve all connected with
it in certain destruction. It is hard
ly possible to conceive that any one
but madman could persuade himself
that with twenty men, he could excite a
successful slave lnsurroction yet such
was undoubtedly Browns plan. If his
purpose had been merely to run off a
number Of negroes into Pennsylvania,
he might have succeeded for the boun.
dairy line is only about twenty miles
distant from Harper's Ferry.


Brown was evidently madman. Some
years ago he visited New York. and We
are informed, shadowed forth with care
full secrecy to a few persons, plan Of
running off slaves from the near planta,
tions to tho Allegheny Mountains, where
they might form earthworks for defence,
and subterranean log forts, as points
d'appui from which to carry on further
operations. He was not successful 10
getting single person to approve his
object. He impressed those to whom he
addressed himself as visionary man,
whose brain had been morbidly affected
BY his sufferings and achievements in
A6uSA6, 8uu WO Ou0 evcE OSllev6U ne
would attempt the mad schemes that he
was brooding over. But it i now cer-
tain that he has contemplated them for
two years or more.


There are two considerations proper
to be expressed in connection with this
unfortunate affair, viz: That has just
the degree Of importance that attaches
TO riot instigated by madman who
could persuade twenty other madmen
to join him; this j. the full extent Of
consequence to which he is entitled
The other consideration is that slave
insurrection Is not tamong the things that
can ever obtain any countenance with
tho people Of the Northern States. It
would seem absurd to advance this sec.
ond suggestion, but for the fact that
there are at tho South as mad on the
fancy Of Northern aggressions, Is ever
Brown VA on that Of slave liberation.-
Century. a
Year: 1859

BY SKURB
To thee, beautiful Ohio,
return never more
| am destined to die on
This far distant shore;
But my last thought shall cherish
Each dearly loved spot
Oh the last pulse must perish
Ere thou'rt forgot.
But the close of existence
Most bitter does prove,
When measnreless distance
Divides from our love-
Deserted and lonely


To meet the dread doom,
With strange hands only,
To fill up the tomb.
Yet away with this sadness,
1t soothes not the pain
Regret is but madness,
Repentance is vain.
Draw the dark veil above me,
Ring out the stern knell-,
Ohio /! most lovely!


Forever farewell
Why should deplore thee,
Fair home of my youth
Could thy presence restore me
Its faith or its truth?
Thy fields and thy wild wood,
Unchanging remain,
But the glad paths of childhood
Id seek for in vain.
Though the mountain and river
Divide us apart,
Do'more dread barriers sever
The past from my heart.
Mid thy scenes ever hallow'd,
As once | might rove,
But the cold tomb hath swallow'd
The forms that love.
Yet cen mid life's ruin,


Unto thee | turn
While the chill blasts are strewinc
Hopes buds round its urn;
Still my fond heart regards thee
With love none may tell
With one last glance towards thee,
Ohio, MY country
bid thee farewell
Year: 1859

JAS. S. GREEN.-We have always admired this
gentleman, and the more experience he has, the
better we like him. He is of the Yonng Amer
lea stamp, and holds to no old fogy notions. He
is young man to occupy the position he does
that of being one of the leading members of
the United States Senate. We had the pleasure
of putting in type the first published speech he
ever made in a Legislative body. He has always
been a consistent politician, and we were not
surprised, on reading synopsis of his remarks
made short time since in Jefferson City, that
the chief point in it was the declaration of his
friendship for Senator Douglas, whom he said he
would cheerfully and heartily support for the
Presidency in 1860, if he should be nominated
by the Charleston Conyention.-Red Bluff Bcac
Year: 1859

~ The Hydraulic Press says up that way
there are mosquitoes so large that they can
cup That's nothing. We have them up this
way SO large that they can stand fat footed and
drink out of whisky barrel, and plenty Of
them can drink quart of water at one time.
Year: 1859

whatever you are THEY'LL drill holes in your
art Magsman, like Gullender. And when
you've no more left to give, they'll laugh at
you to your face, and leave you to have your
bones picked dry by Wnlttrs, like the dead
Wild Ass of the Prairies that you deserve to
be| Here he Civ himself the most tremen-
dious one of all, and dropped.


l thought he was gone. His Ed was 30
heavy, and he knocked it so hard, and he fell
so stoney. and the sassagerial disturbance in
him must have been SO immense, thot I thought
he was gone. But he soon came round with
care, and he sat up ON the floor, and he said to
me, with wisdom comm out of his eyes, if it
ever come -


ssMagsman! The most material difference
between the two states of existence through
which your unhappy friend has passed !" he
reached out his poor little hand, and the tears
dropped down on the mustache which it was =
creeit to him to have done his best to grow,
but it is not in mortals to command success
"the difference is this: When I was out of
Society, was paid light for being seen. When
went into Society, I paid heavy for being
seen I prefer the former, even if I wasn't
forced upon it. Give me ont through the
trumpet, in the hold way, Tomorrow


Arter that he slid into the line again as
easy as if he had been lied all over. But
the organ was KEEP from him, and no allusions
was ever made, when company was in, to his
property. He got wiser every day; his views
of Society and the Public was luminous, be-
wilderin, awful; and his Ed got bigger and
bigger as his wisdom expanded it. .,5vf
s1 u ia9f TO BE CONTINUED.
Year: 1859

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Soon after the President had accepted his
appointment at Kenyon College, he used his
influence to have Mr.. LANG, then at Indian
apolis, to occupy the Mathematical Chair. In
this endeavor to have his early ay-fellow at
his right hand in the faculty of their common
Alma Mater, as in all other of his undertak-
ings he succeeded.


In this capacity Mr.. LANG has used his tai
ents to the highest advantage; in the delicate
position of college Dean he has done every
thing kindly and firmly; as member of the
institution, frankly and nobly. He makes
hearts as well as intellects, and has secured
the envied prize of the good teacher-the re-
spect and friendshipo of the taught.


Although he has for long time suffered
patiently from bodily infrmities he has been,
always, the same pleasant and efficient teacher.
None but his most intimate friends knew his
intense pain in his afHictien, until lately all
have seen the whole soul in the full discharge
of duty with but half of the body.


At length all saw the necessity of rest and
change in routine. Verify, it is probable he
would still have clung to the classroom if the
students had not the other evening given him
a public admonition, "a little different from
some of those he gives occasionally.


All were assembled as usual in the Chapel
for prayer. 1t was not apparent why the pray
ers were shorter than common until all the
books on the desk began to be arranged in
perfect pyramid, the certain precursor of
something from the President.


t. d;J ono raal r,ood 70 COO vbaf fol1oIrad =
The President made few remarks which we're
magic to all; the effect cannot be written or
read only in the pulsations of that moment,
and that test of afection-the tear. We then
presented the Professor with purse "well
filled with gold % as token of the regard of
the STUDENTS AND FACULTY of Kenyon Col
lege. Then only did the force of the Hymn,


We share our mutual woes, rs


Our mutual burdens bear;


And often for each other flows
The sympathizing tear,
selected and sung just before, become known
to all


The Professor arose-all felt as though they
sat at the feet of GamaIiel, and replied in the
eloquence of broken sentences, assuring the
q young MEN that all he should gain in mind
or body, from rest and travel, through this gift,
would be sweetencd in the remembrance of the
source"


Every one left the chapel more manly and
and from the knowledge that he had improved
the privilege of doing an act of kindness for
Professor LANG. -.
Year: 1859

NOTICE is hereby given to the subscribers
of the PARISH VISITOR that the term of
their subscription will expire with the present
number 1t is earnestly hoped that all of them
will renew their subscriptions, and many others
begin to take this excellent and evangelical
periodical. IL as only twenty-five cents per
copy, payable an GdUance. Names left with
the money at the store of Mr.. Henry R. Par
sons. Commerce street, or with Rev. Mr. Gram
mer, will be at once forwarded, and the paper
sent free OF postage, to any address that may
be desired dec 3
Year: 1859

lIE subscriber, having to quit his present place of
l. business by the first day of February next will
sell for CASH his entire stock AT COST And he
would respectfully announce to his customers friends
and the public generally, that now the time to GET
Bargains, as he has just returned from Philadelphia
l,uiIh a lnrnn nf
Year: 1859

On RE OPENING THE SLAVE TRADr-The
Charleston Is. C) Mercury, objects to max
ing the re-opening of the slave trade an issue
in the politics of the country, and says:


"As practical living issue, on which to
turn the politics of the South, we regard the
re opening of the slave trade as very fire
brand. fraught with mischief and danger
And in this point Of view we are, and have
been from the beginning, strongly opposed to
its being used"
Year: 1859

| Such was the declaration of Gen. Dodge ir


his speech at Oskaloosa. Nearly all the


Democratic orators and newspapers in this
State have heretofore denounced slavery, and
professed to be "as much opposed to it as
anybody" but, true to the progressive"
tendencies of the party, they have changed
their tactics. Their Southern masters have
dictated to them the course they must here
after pursue to prepare the minds of Northern
people for the further encroachments of
slavery, and they hasten to obey, with the
illustrious Dodge leading the van. The bitter
pill of slavery must be sugar. coated to agree
with Northern stomachs.


| The following, as "backer" of Dodge's
declaration, is being extensively copied by his
organs in Iowa. We clip it from the Iowa
City Reporter:


The number of slaves in the South who are
connected with churches is 46S,0OO, or about
one-seventh of the slave population. Says
the Boston Post:
"When it is considered that the ancestors
of these slaves were so recently most degraded
heather in the wilds Of Africa, these figures
appear very rcmarkablo, especially when, as
a result Of all foreign missionary efforts, the
native heather church membership in 1866
was only 100000"


Would it not be we'll for the missionary
societies of the country to divert their ener-
gies, hereafter, to the slave trade? The old
fogy system isn't half as expeditions in ''civ-
ilizing and christianizing" the heathen as that
discovered by Gen. Dodge.





yThe Democracy of the South are il
favor of Congressional Slave Code and the
restoration of the Slave Trade, and expect the
Nsrthcrn Democracy to fall into line and
support these measures. Hear what the
Richmond Examiner, the leading Democratic
organ in the Old Dominion, says on the
subject:


"The Democracy of Virginia believe that,
when the occasion arrives for the protection
by Congress of slavery in the Territories, the
Northern Democracy will nobly unite with
the Democracy of the South, as they did when
Texas was annexed. and when the Missouri
Compromise was repealed"


That is surely very reasonable expectation
on the part Of the Southern Democracy. III
the Northern Democracy united with them in
the annexation of Texas and the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise, they will no doubt be
prepared, 'when the occasion arrives" to
unite with them in favor Of any and all the
measures the Southern Democracy and |
Slavery Propagandists may demand. Cen
Dodge has already shown his willingness to
acquesce in any Of the demands of the South |
even to catching runaway nigger.
Year: 1859

Schade, who has done more dirty work for
the Democratic party than any other man in
it, wanted nomination for the Legislature in
Desmoines county, but was kicked aside with
contempt
Year: 1859

Talk Of Saln Kirkwood's brilliant oratoryr'
One might as we'll talk of the graceful antics
of an overgrown jackass. Dapeaport Dem.


describing all that courtesy due from one
gentleman to another, he (kirkwood) takes
every mean advantage Of his competitor
Ww Eagle Cor.


No words are too vulgar and loathsome to
glide smoothly and easily through his dirty
lips. lnuendoes and double entendres are too
inexpensive to perform the task allotted them
by this prince of dirty blackguards; they are
thrown aside, and bold, shameless words, and
gross, disgusting phrases, occupy their place.
A countenance, well fitted to the despicabe
task, iluminates, with its maudlin light the
sentence that fairly disgusts the auditor in its
low and degraded significance. Such is a true
delineation of the tone and manner of Mr..
Kirkwood.- Oskaloosa Times.


We will not insult our readers by giving
any more than two or three specimens of the
billingsgate necessarily vomited forth by
the Democratic press, intended to charm
voters into the support of Gen. Dodge.
Neither will we allow ourself to be provoked
into a similar course of lying augmentation,
feeling not only disinclined to it, but believing
it to be ruinous to any candidate before a
decent and intelligent people.
Year: 1859

Relays of horses have been stationed
at all the principal points on our western
railroad, to convey Mr.. Dean to any of Gov.
Grimes places of speaking. g. Var Eagle.


What fanciful figure that will be
Imagine, if you please, the reverend gentle
man of portly dimensions posting through the
country on horseback at the rate of 2:40,
taking up his relays at every fve-mile station
We pity him if he does not find that kind Of
exercise more soothing and agreeable on an
average than that which our ex- Governor will
put him through, if he succeeds in getting
within reach of him. Poor man, he is travel
ing entirely too fast for his own health and
comfort!
Year: 1859

THE SLAVE TRADE.-The New York COR
respondent Of the Charleston Mercury reiter-
ates his assertion that a dozen or twenty
savers leave that port annually. He describes
different classes of operators in the business,
such as the managers, brokers and capitalists
The second class are the most conspicuous,
although the whole business is conducted with
the utmost secrecy. They are mostly Cubans,
and flourish on the outskirts of good society,
wherever money and the love of money are
conspcuously in unison. The correspondent
says:


II knew of two ladies, now attracting ado
ration at fashionable watering place, who
invested in a little venture of this kind, not
long ago, and, as result, have augmented
their banking accounts-one to the extent OF
1923 900, and the other $4,000 The head
quarters of the traffic in this city are mainly
in South, William, Broad and Water streets.
Two vessels are now fitting out fo1 the
business


81 have not written the above as sensation
paragraph, nor as a complete expose of the
Slave Trade in its relations to New York"
Year: 1859

Now, when he appears at that bar which he
must expect to do in short time at farthest,
and the question with regard to his duties to
this slave comes up, as come it will, he will
be compelled to excuse himself for their non-
discharge, by pleading the fact that she was
stolen from him by the Aboltionists Hedoes
not know what her state is or has been since
her abduction. Ifsh have turned aside from
the path of virtue into those of vice and i'm
morality, the blame lies, not at his door, but
at that Of her abductors and their aiders and
abetters. She left him but poorly qualified
at her time of life, to struggle against the new
temptations to which she was to be subjected
without suitable education, by being with
drawn from the overruling protection of his
authority. She was unaccustomed to a self
government which was abnormal to her cha
racter, new to her previous mode Of thought
and opposed to her previous habits. What
wonder, then, she was duped, like her mother
Eve into abandonment Of the fidelity due
her state and condition in life. She had to
begin, as it were, a new life of resistance to
vice in new forms, when the guards that had
been previously thrown around her, and on
which she relied and was accustomed to rely,
were withdrawn. What wonder, then, if she
forthwith came to be the victim Of the wiles
of the vicious and the depraved, and as fair
consequence to be expected, fell into vice and
squallid poverty, to which she had been a
stranger in early infancy and early woman
hood The right that should have charac-
terized the conduct of her master-the right
rules that regulated his duty and the duty o.
others was disregarded by her abductor. &c
full of all subtlety and all mischief thou child
of the Devil, thou enemy of all Righteousness
wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways
of the Lord


Here you see his right of property with its
| several obligations, reciprocally bound al
other persons in the obligations of honesty
with regard to his rights. Had her abductor
been honest or faithful to the rights of pro


perty, he could have discharged the mora


obligations the higher laws imposed upol
him.


What have TO say on the other question


must be reserved for another issue.


w. s. GRAYSON.