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ft I 5- MARCH 3. TjX a. h. KEW ENGLAND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, A public meeting In behalf of tlii moat excellent ml important charitable institution waa held at the Melodcon lust Sunday evening. Mr.

John II. Stephenson, one of tho Vive President, presided, and gave win detail in regard to the origin, establish-nient and sphere of operation! of the Hospital, and then introduced to the audience rt C. W-torsion, who had lately visited that institution, and could testily in regard to its usefulness nd necessity. Mr. Waterston introduced hi remarks by repeating a witticism of Sydney Smith about the particular method of benevolence of the English people.

John Bull, he aid, is a man of fact and figure. He like to know the name, the place, the day of the month, and a multitude of such particular and when assured, by a business-like examination of these thing, that the matter is authentic and correct, he blubbers, and subscribes. Americans, Mr. Waterston said, are much like Englishmen in this respect. They like to be as-sured that a cause is good, and under judicious then they are willing to give liberally to it.

The urgent need, in a city like this, of a Hospital specially devoted to treatment of the disease of women and children, was declared by gentlemen of acknowledged eminence in the medical profession, l)rs. Storcr, Channing, Putnam, Bowditch and Cabot, whose printed testimony was there on the table, ready for distribution to all who wished to examine it. The Keport of last year's operations, also thre lor distribution, showed that the Society was doing much, very much, for the relief of sickness and suffering and whoever would visit the Hospital, at 1 Warren might see that this help is rendered in the most judicious and effective mmnor. Mr. Waterston then made a fervent appeal for aid to enable the Association to extend and perfect its operations.

Dr. Marie E. Zakrzewska.the Attending Physician of the Hospital, being then introduced to the audience, gave some highly interesting and Instructive details in regard to the ideas, purposes and practical working of the institution. One of its great objects was the relief of sickness winch was complicated with poverty and distress. She would manage the institution only on the condition of perfect freedom to take any case of sickness or suffering coming within the range of its plan.

Necessity was, for them, a certificate of admission. Yet the Hospital was by no means for the poor and wretched otdy. The present inmates chanced to be all New England Not the forlorn class only, but the educated and refined classes seek the aid of female physicians, and find their necessities best supplied by that arrangement. Another great object of the institution is the competent instruction of female students of medicine. It accomplished much not only in the care of the sick, but in the education of women.

How are female phy sician to be raised in number sufficient tfl supply the growing wants of this immense country 1 Their qualifications should be such as at once to honor the profession and elevate the community. Where are the means for thi instruction to be found Two of the ladies who had been pupils at the opening of this insti tution had since been at London and Paris for further and had honorably distinguished themselves there. Miss Helen Morton, having taken several prizes Utr distinguished proficiency, in the stud ies pursued in the Maternity Hospital in Paris, ha I now the station of Chief Aid to the presiding officer of that institution. Dr. Lucy E.

Sewall, having completed her studies in Europe, is now ably perform ing the duties of Resident Physician of this Hospital. But travels and studies like these are expensive, en tirely out of the reach of the majority of American pipits. There should be means for their medical ed uctlion on this side the water. During the six years for which the New England Hospital for the diseases of Women and Children has been in operation, it has received and treated 6,000 cases, of which 2,224 came under the care of the physicians during the last year. Yet great numbers who prize and need the peculiar benefits.

of this insti tution are unable to enter it for absolute want of room. There should be accommodation for thrice and four times the number. The supply of this need is a duty which the community owes to itself. Dr. Zakrzewska made an earnest and moving plea that this duty be promptly and liberally discharged.

Kev. James Freeman Clarke next addressed the audience. lie said he had noticed that even people who in health had small faith in doctors and drugs when they became seriously ill were very glad to see a physic-inn. They like to talk to him to get his opin ion; to throw upon him the responsibility, which grows more and more burdensome to them, of deciding whnt remedial measures should be taken. Everybody feels this necessity, and women are even more subject to it than men.

What an immense relief it must be to women weakened by sickness and suffering (especially when these are complicated with poverty and privation) to have at hand medical advisers of their own sex, to whom they feel willing to speak freely, and in whose opinion they can repose full and well-grounded confidence 1 The supply of this need alone is a sufficient reason for the generous support of such an institution. But besides thi, the necessities of sick children, especially when orphaned, or otherwise destitute, demand i'c. Then, for the sake of society itself, women should have full advantages for medical study and training. The welfare of men depends on that of women. The two sexes should share and cooperate in all the departments of practical life.

We need them not only as physician, but on the school committee, on the jury, and at the polls, for the sake of Christian civilization. No better use could be found either for money, or thought, or zealous labor, than the liberal endowment of this institution. Judge Russell was the last speaker, and spoke briefly, in consideration of the lateness of the hour. The prosperity which we enjoy, in spite of the war, imposes upon us, he said, the duty of liberality. The most skilled and intelligent physicians tell us of the urgent nrl of just such a hospital as this.

The feeling which women have in regard to reposing tntire confidence in their medical adviser, is a feeling which affects their health, and retards or accelerates their recovery. The influence of judicious arrangements in this respect, relieving and soothing the mind as well as the bodj must greatly favor the recovery of health. Judge Russell closed by a reference to the victorirs which we are of late so frequently called on to celebrate, and said that the best to show our gratitude for them was by beneficence to the needy and suffering. The meeting was interesting and impressive. It is to be hoped that the ten thousand dollars now needed by thi admirable institution may be raised without delay.

Subscriptions may be sent either to the Hospital, 14 Warren street, or to the Treasurer, F. W. G. May, Esq 1 Broad street. c.

x. w. EXPLANATORY. Cokcokd, (N. Feb.

26, I860. Dear Friexd Garrisox The illness of a brother fn the country called me from Boston at the close of the late Anti-Slavery meeting; and his subsequent death and kept me from reading its proceedings fill told that the report of my few remarks there did great injustice to Gen. Sax ton. This I deeply regret for, while speaking, I did not recollect, and do not now recollect, that his name had been used by the speaker preceding me. My remarks were intended to be only general, in their character and application, as to the treatment of the colored people.

As to Gen. Saxton, I had never heard but one opinion relative to the part he has borne towards not only the colored soldiery, but that whole people, throughout hi Dt-partmsnt and that was on preeminently to bis praise. My own never differed from that, so fsr as formed and I can conceive of no motive or reason I should have had for assailing him. Hastily Lut most truly yours, PARKER PILLSBUIir. MRS, FRANCES E.

W. HARPER ON RECONSTRUCTION. On the evening of Wednesday, Feb- 1st, this talented lady bvforo a large audience, in the linger Williams Church, Providence. She was introduced by the Uev. G.

S. Day, who gave a brief but interesting sketch of her life. Mrs. Harper commenced by referring to the early struggle of the colonies. The birth of the republic was heralded by the Declaration, and it cradle was rocked amid the tempests of the revolution.

She paid a tribute to the signers of the Declaration, who knew not what the future would bring forth, success or failure, defeat or victory, but who felt that their quarrel was just. She said that men might be crushed, but that principle would live always that trampled in the dust, it would rise again, having eternity for its race and the lite-time of God for its existence. The speaker alluded to the great mistake of the early founders of the Republic, in permitting slavery to infuse its leprous distihwent into the veins of the young nation. She spoke of the fatal permission which was given to the African slave trade, and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill. And though the reign, of these things was now over, yet there was a great deal more to be done, so that the oppressed might have not only bare freedom, but bo clothed with all the rights that are necessary to a complete citizenship.

She drew a contrast between the old Union of 70 and the new republic of '65. In the former, slavery was the dominant power of the land; in the latter, slavery is at our feet, its death-groans in our ears, and words of triumph are on our lips. In speaking of reconstruction, she said that no skilful mariner would be apt to be wrecked twice on the same rock and the rock on which the nation had been wrecked was injustice to the colored man. The nation in reconstructing should build, not upon the shifting sands of policy and expediency, but upon the granite of eternal justice. When the colored man drops the bullet, he must have placed in his hands the ballot.

She spoke of the injustice done to the colored man, now under military government, for want of the elective franchise. And suppose peace should ensue; would it not be greater under the rule of the returned rebels Would not the colored man, powerless to remove the despot under whose withering malignity lie would be quivering, sink into the lowest depths of despair? What would his freedom' be worth, if his feet and hands were tied, and none helped him Which would make the more effective people to help the general government a class crushed by a sort of serfdom, or a class educated up to the highest civilization In conclusion, she said that the May-Flower, like India's sacred tree, sheltered the principles of justice, peace, and security, while the Dutch Slaver, like the poisonous tree of the eastern isles, protected injustice, oppression and fraud. We should destroy the deadly Upas of slavery, and in its stead plant the banyan of freedom, beneath whose branches may gather the exile and outcast, and be lifted up to a higher, better civilization. M. R.

L. Mr Dear Fkiexd Garrison Had I supposed that thou wouldst have published my letter in relation to the Liltrtitjr, I should have been more guarded and explicit in my language. I find myself placed in a wrong position, which seems to call for some explanation. I have no doubt that thou published it from the kindest motives. I only regret that it may have made a wrong impression upon some of my friends.

Others, knowing that I own a homestead, might attribute a mean motive to the net. Permit me to explain. Some six or seven years ago, my health being such that I could give but little personal attention to my business, I gave it up entirely, and retired with what I then thought would be sufficient to convey me through the short remnant of my days. But almost constant sickness in my family, increase of taxes, and the greatly enhanced price of all the necessaries of life, have compelled me to retrench and economise in every possible way. I supposed that the subscriptions for the paper expired with the year, but I had been in the practice of paying for mine at the time of the N.

E. Convention. Had I been silent upon the subject, I have no doubt the paper would have been sent as usual, with the expectation, of course, that it would be paid for and it would have been, however inconvenient it might have been for me to have done so, for I never would have consented to receive it without paying for it. To my unknown friends who have so kindly and generously remembered me, I would present my sincere thanks. Thy assured friend, JOHN BAILEY.

Lynn, 2nd mo, 27th, 18C5. Aid for the Soldiers and Fkeedmex. We have just had a Town Fair held in aid of the Soldiers and Fretdmen. It was held on the 21st and 221. The whole town united in it with great zeal and heartiness, and it was a most agreeable occasion, many visitors coming from Worcester, It was hoped in the outset to raise six or eight hundred dollars, and the more sanguine ventured to fix the sum likely to be obtained at One Thousand Dollars.

On collecting the receipts, the sum total was found to be Two Thousand Six Hundred Dollars. We are greatly gratified at this, not more because of the handsome sum contributed to great and humane causes, which it is our duty to aid. than for the evidence it affords of a generous, kindly, and co operative spirit in the good old town of Lei cester. Very many former residents of the town sent handsome contributions. S.

Jr. Leicester, Feb. 24, 1865. The American Usiox Speaker; containing Stand ard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Recitation and Declamation in Schools, Academies and Colleges. With Introductory Remarks on Ed ucation, and Explanatory Notes.

By John D. Phil brick, Superintendent of the Public Schools of Boston. Boston Taggard Thompson- 1865. The publishers of this handsomely printed volume justly say, that "the deservedly high reputation of its compiler, as an American Educatorforemost among the practical working members of hit profes sion is a sufficient guarantee of its excellence and usefulness. No one has had better opportunities to judge what was needed in this department, and no one could bring to the task of the preparation of the proper book a wider experience, a better judgment, or a more correct taste." A single glance at the volume shows how great is the change which hat been wrought in public opinion particularly in Boston on the subject ol slavery.

Of its three hundred and eighty-four selections, a considerable number of them are imbued with anti slavery sentiments being the eloquent utterances of Charles Sumner, Henry Wil ton, Carl Shurz, Wendell Phillips, George Thompson, and other advocates of emancipation. At lo the rebellion, Sumner exposes its origin and mainspring. Douglas strips off Its pretext, Everett paints its crime, Boutwell boldly proclaims its remedy in emancipation, and Banks pronounces a benediction on the first act of reconstruction on the solid basis of freedom to all." This work will have a wide sale. J7 The Atlantic for March has been received from the publishers. The following is the list of con tri tutors The Story of a Year, by Henry James, Jr.

The Frozen Harbor, by J. T. Trowbridge At Anderson ville; Doctor Johns, by Donald G. Mitch ell; Ancient Mining on the Shoret of Lake Kuperi or, by Albert D. Hager; To a Poet on hit Birthday Needle and Garden, III.

Memories of Authors, Miss Landon, by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall; Our Oldest Friend, by Oliver Wendell Holmes Edward Everett, by E.

K. Hale; Notes of a Pianist, II by Louis Gottschalk The Chimney Corner, by Harriet Beecher Stowe; The Popular Lecturer, by J. G. Hol land The Hour of Victory The Cause of Foreign Enmity to the United Statet, by E. P.

Whipple Re view and Literary Notices. Ticknor Field. CELEBRATION IN NEWnuttYPORT. Th Emakcifatior Jcbilkr and reception of William Llotd Garriron, at the Ct, fUll 0 Wednesday evening, was one of the moil uuuear. meetings ever held in this city.

The 1111 was full to overflowing there did not appear to be a place where another person, large or small, could have been put. Hie music, in which there was some siigni cnange front ilie nrniirsmni. nn of the nresence of the Savory Harmonics, who sang two tongs, was all very fine. 1 he address was what we expected irom Mr. Garrison, evidencing taste, skill, ability and genius.

The subject is one to which he has given his life, and into which his soul strongest love enters; and the occasion a return tn his home alter so many years of whaf might be termed absence, and after smch an absence of a whole generation, upon the invitation of his townsmen tendering him this great reception, could not fail to bring out the best qualities of the heart and the intellect, lie seemed, as any man in like circumstances would have felt, perfectly happy. The length of Mr. Garrison's oration precludes the possibility of our publishing it, and any report would fail to give the impression it conveyed. He gave a sketch of his life up to the time when he commenced a a Liberator. Then he came to Newbury-port to deliver a course of lectures which were twice announced but not delivered on account of the opposition developed.

Alter that he went to Boston, established hi paper, pursued that course of life which is known to us all, but returned no more to his native town to speak upon slavery till now. when he was in vited back, attr the lull adoption of his policy by tne country. I hit meeting was.jtiereiore, a personal tri umph to him. There has been a great change of opinion in New- buryiort, a there has been in the whole country but the change here has come from the intense loyalty of the people. Before the rebellion, the fulfilment of every obligation written or implied was the fervent desire of the majority.

1 hey would Ktve the southerners every right that the Constitution guaranteed them in the matter of slavery; not because they loved slavery, for we have never seen a dozen persons who seriously approved it, but becanse-they would abide by all the obligations upon us. They hated slavery, but loved their country and they would maintain the Union if it required them, as Webster said, to con quer their prejudices in doing it. After this rebellion commenced, the interest or the Government demanded the overthrow of slavery, since slavery tet ittelf up against the Union and hence loyalty to the government for which the town has ever been noted required opposition to the slave system, and that opposition pervades the community strong, intense. It is not that our people care tor this man or that man-fro ni the President down to the lowest slave but they do care for their country their whole country, desiring it to be united, tree and prosperous. Therefore it is that the parties, each moved by circumstances they could not control, have' been brought to the same action for the government and for the existing administration.

But however all this may be, the final adoption of Mr. Garrison's policy viz. universal, immediate and uncompensated emancipation, which has now been carried, will forever associate him with the great reformation, as its head and chief actor. Forever Garrison will be known as the "Liberator." We subjoin the list of the officers of the meeting on Wednesday evening President, George J. L.

Colby. Vice Presidents R. Piumer, Dr. Enoch Cross, Wm. Thurston, John Porter, Josiah Little, Jacob Hor-ton, Eben Wheelright.

Wm. Ashby, Eben Sumner, Jacob Stone, Charles H. Coffin, Atkinson Stanwood, Daniel P. Pike. Albert W.

Stevens. Thomas C. Goodwin, Edmund Smith, II. W. Moulton, Enoch G.

Currier, Dr. S. M. Gale, Nathaniel Little, Deacon Joseph Mors. Secretaries: John II.

Smith, Joseph W. Butler. The music which delighted the audience was by C. P. Morrison, organist; Warren Currier, John Brook ings, Jacob Johnson, Geo.

Stevens, Martha Stover, Harriet Robinson, Miss Richmond, Mrs. Rufus Adams, of this city, and the Savery Brothers Harmonics 1 from Bradford. At the close of the exercises, on motion of the ven erable John Porter, three rousing cheers were given lor Gen. Sherman, and three lor William Lloyd Garrison. Aewburyjiort Herald.

The following felicitous and stirring poems were written lor the occasion HYMN. BY J0HX O. WBITTIER. Musio composed by C. P.

Morrison. Not unto us who did but seek The word tbat burned within to speak, Not unto us this day belong The triumph and exulting song. Upon as fell in early youth Tbe burden of unwelcome truth, And left us, weak and frail and few, Tbe censor's painful work to do. Thenceforth our life a fight became, The air we breathed was hot with blame For not with gauged and softened tone We made the bondman's cause our own. We bore, as Freedom's hope forlorn.

The private hate the public soorn Yet held through all the paths we trod Our faith in man and trutt in God. We prayed and hoped but still, with awe, The coming of the sword we saw U'e heard the nearing steps of doom, And saw the shade of things to come. bnped for peaee our eyes survey The blood-red dawn of Freedom's day We prayed for lore to loose tbe chain Tis shorn by battle's axe in twain Not skill nor strength nor seal of ours Has mined and heaved tbe hostile towers Not by our hands is turned tbe key Tbat sets tbe sighing captives free. A redder sea than' Egypt's wave Is piled and parted for tbe slave A darker cloud moves on in A fiercer fire is guide by night The praise, 0 Lord be Thine alone. In tby own way thy work be done Our por gifts at Tby feet we east, To whom be glory, first and last TBE JUBILEE HYMN OF TBE RCTCBLIC.

BT AUSTIN DODGE. Lo a swarthy nation rises With tbe wale-stripes on their backs, With their ankles scarred with fetters, And the red blood in their tracks Lo a boat of coming columns. Like the drops of driven rain, Like tbe dusdey leaves of autumn. Like tbe thick mists on the main. Chorus.

Lo Jehovah's trumpet sounding, Sweeps the blast from sea to sea Hallelujah in the highest God bath set bU people free Bark the tramp of dark battalions, Of a race four millions strong. Keeping time to God's own mnsio, Grandly ebanting Freedom's song Coming op irom years of bondage. From a night of misery, To tbe Nation's Resurrection, From the Hell of Slavery. Charm. Lo Jehovah's trumpet sounding.

Sweeps tbe olast from sea to tea Hallelujah in the highest God hath set his people free Out from under heel of iron. From tbe brutal auotion-block. Out from under teeth of blood-bound, Freed Prometheus spurfts the rook Thrown tbe Etna off tbe Giant, See a Nation stend up free From tbe ravening beak of vulture Springs tbe slave to liberty Ckorut. Lo Jehovah's trumpet sounding, Sweep tbe blast from sea to sea Hallelujah in tbe highest! God hath set his people free On the hills let lighted beacons Blase tbe news witb tongues of fire Let the heavy church-bell, swinging, Kock and jar the granite spire Speak, ye silver tongues of trumpets. Like the storm-wind on the sea! Shout, ye iron lips of cannon, l5oo in out thunder-bursts of glee Chow.

Lo Jehovah's trumpet sounding. Sweeps tbe blast from ea to ea Hallelujah in the highest God hath set his people free Praise God for Emancipation lie bath bared Hi own right arm Let the thank of all tbe nation Swell in thunder like a psalm Fill tbe welkin foil of banner. Let thera elep their hand on high. Till high Heaven shoal wild hosaonas. Sending down lis glad reply I Charm.

Lo Jehovah's trumpet sounding, Sweeps the blast frota sea to tea I Hallelujah in the highest I tied hate set his people free The Late Jubilee. I would add a few words to the verv interesting account of the doings at City Hall nn the evening of Wednesday, in the Herald of Friday. Mr. Garrison was Introduced by G. J.

L. Colby, Km1- in a brief but highly satisfactory tpeecli, and it kiwi, regretted that time did not permit mm to i i They well-deserved report, ami added Utauli i tUm ami nrnflt the ning. r. The music was a.lmlr.v.i ver, Robinson and Mrs. Adam, did ample justice to the sweet lines of Whlttler.

.1,11. tu Currier, Stevens, Johnton and Brooking, and tr.mnvn;,.. from Bradford, entranced the audience and the promising composer, Mr. Morrison, presided with admirable skill and effect at the full-toned organ. We have lis tened to tome of the finest music in the world, but never with more pleasure than to ihe vocal performan cet of the gentlemen and ladies we have mentioned.

We could have wished the company had been enlarged by other ladies, whose musical talents are among the ornaments of our city but as it was, the perform-ers sang a did the Syrens on the promintory of Sicily, and warbled their tweet harmonies over a spell-bound audience. You have aaid to much of the orator, that we add but little. Mr. Garrison had his hour of triumph, but he demeaned himself with manliness and modesty. His vein of humor wat fine, and the whole perform ance waa marked by good tense, good taste, and a very well poised judgment.

The poem by Mr. Austin Dodge was such as any poet might be proud of. Much did we regret there wat no time to sing it lor one, 1 would nave waited till the midnight hour, could I thereby have listened to the soul stirring words, as they would have been tuna: by those accomplished vocalists. We say to Mr. Dodge, he is a poet, and no critic tn creation who has read this odedarea tay the contrary.

The inarch of it splendid diction it grand and state ly, and we place it among the grandest productions of the American muse. We herald tne nne pertormance at the harbinger of other effusions from the tame inter liirent and eif ted mind. occasion was one oi the greatest winch lias ever culled our citizens together, because it so well illustrated the progress of truth and righteousness, the victory of reason over prejudice, and the triumph of rijtht over wrong. The exercises, we may add. were every way worthy of the occasion.

Jb. W. Newburjfport Herald. AN OLD SLAVE CASE DECIDED. The St.

Louis Democrat says Aa slavery is forever abolished in Missouri, it can do no harm to refer to a case which lias occupied tne at tention of our courts for about twenty five years. In the brief space of an hour, the Convention has given liberty to many thousand of sUves. but it required a Quarter of a century lor the lawyers to obtain tne freedom of a single woman held as a slave. The case we refer to is that ot Charlotte against Chouteau, the plaintiff being a colored woman, and the defendant Mr. Gabriel Chouteau, one ot our wealthy citizens.

The case was in court so long th at it outlived the plaintiff, and it was continued for some time on account of the costs which had accrued The costs amounted to seven or eight hundred dollars, and were finally assessed, a few days ago, against the defendant. The suit was commenced in 1843. The mother of Charlotte was a negro woman named Rose, who was held as a slave in Montreal, Canada, by one Joseph Berlinguette. In 191 he sold her (Rose) to a man named Stock, who took her to Mackinaw, He died there. Rose was then sold to a man named Todd, rho, in 1794, took her by way of Prairie du Chien to St.

Louis, and in 1795 sold her to Mr. Didier, who sold her in 1793, to Colonel August Chouteau, the father of the defendant in this suit. The case was reached for trial on the 9th of March, 1859. When it was called, the defendant, Chouteau, moved the Court to hear the testimony relative to the legal existence of slavery in Canada at the time Rose was born. On this point a number ot witnesses were examined, and depositions read.

Some of these wit nesses who had lived in Canada knew nothing of the existence of slavery there. Colonel Menard, of Kas- I kaskia, who had left Canada in I486, testified that up to that time he was familiar with the fact of negro slavery there. Charles William Grant, Baron de Longuevillc, ot Montreal, testiDed that he was born in in 1782. and that his family had three I slaves as late as 1794, two of them negroes and one an and that slavery was universally recognized in Canada at that time. The court decided that slavery did exist in Canada from 1760 to 1793, and that Rose was legally held there as a slave.

This decision was reversed by the Supreme Court, and the case was sent back to the Circuit Uourt, where it wa finally disposed 01 a lew daytago." CONVENTION OF COLORED PEOPLE. Harrisbckg, Feb. 9, 1865 The State Convention of colored people Is now in session here, under the auspices of the State Equal Rights League. The presiding officer is the Rev John Peck, of Pittsburg, and among the vice presi dents are Elisha Weaver, O. V.

Catto, and H. Red man Faucett. of Philadelphia. Speeches were made by Morrow B. Lowry, ot the Pennsylvania Senate, I and a number of colored orators.

A series of resolu tiont were submitted and adopted, in substance as fol lows 1st, It is the duty of every colored citizen to obtain a repeal of the law which disfranchises him on the I soil 011 which he was born. Zd, Colored people should adopt the motto that self-reliance is the sure road to independence. 3d. No people have beer, more patient. law-abiding, or enduring, or have suffered more imut tice, and received less consideration than colored people.

4th, In manual labor and commercial enterprise, the history of the colored man begins with that ot the Slate itself, since when, at Red Bank, he has been true to Pennsylvania a interests. 6th. As the nation has cast off slavery, let them destroy restrictions which prevent colored people from entering libraries, col leges, lecture rooms, military academies, jury boxes. churches, theatres, street cars, and from voting. 6th.

It is the duty of Pennsylvania to do justice to her col ored men in the held. 7th, Colored men at home should secure indemnity for the past, compensation for the present, and security for the future, oth, ask of the people a patient hearing and admission to our common brotherhood, the human race. 9th, We re commend that colored schools be taught by colored teachers. The Convention is in session this evening, and num bers of Pennsylvania Senators and members are pres ent. State Cohvestios of Colored Citizens or Michigan.

Delegates to the number of 48 assembled st the Second Baptist Church in this city on VVednes- day, chosen to represent the interests of the colored men of the State. This is the first convention of the kind tliat was ever held in this State, and was intend ed at an auxiliary to the national movement started at Syracuse, N. several months ago. I he delegates rithout exception allowed themselves to be well post ed in the proposed revolution of public sentiment, and discussed with ability the questions incident to the past, present and future condition of the colored men of the country. The speeches, of which there were many made, were logical, and could not fail to impress I upon all who heard theut tbat a blackmail, properly educated, is capable of understanding the English language Detroit Ad ver titer, 25th ult.

A TEACHER GONE. By the death of William B. Fowle, at Med field, last week, one of the foremost mends of education in our Commonwealth has passed away. He was the pioneer of the monitorial system, and taught one of first schools in Boston for abont forty years. As a conductor of Teachers' Institutes, editor of the Com mon School Journal, and the author of a large number of school books, he lias done good service in the cause of education.

He gave himself to the work of promulgating what he regarded as advanced ideas of education, with an indomitable will and the fervent zeal of a reformer. A generation of scholars owe to him the training they received, aad to day rise up and call hiui blessed. Few men as they past away can point to a more useful life than hit. It waa crowded with active efforts to benefit hit fellow-men. He thought more of this than of enriching himself.

His last days were spent in the quiet and beautiful towu of Medfield, and after a painful illness he died in the fulness of Chris tian hope. He trusted with unfaltering confidence in the free, infinite, unpurchased grace ot God, and the religious truth he taught to others waa a strength and joy to bit own toul. JJoston Lhsistian txegiaur. The Constitutions', amendment abolishing sla very wat ratified by the State of Louisiana on the 17th by both branches of the Legislature. Mr.

Uuls has introduced in the Louisiana Legislature a memorial, signed by about 6000 colored men, asking for the right of suffrage. Tbe memorial waa read, and referred to a select committee. Freedmkv ix Louisiana. The annual report of Thomas W. Conway, tuperintendent ol the Bureau of Free Labor in New Orleans, shows the following result The number of treednien now under Mr.

Conway's charge, supported by the government, it fourteen thousand expense to government for the year, $113,600. Number ot freednien on plantation! in the department, managed by the bureau, 60,000 on the plantation! under culture by military order, 15,000. Amount of property transferred to treasury, 1.000,240. CHARLESTON An EMPTY SHELL. It is not Charleston city, hat the emntv and mined shell of a city, that the enemy have found lying with its door open, and entered without opposition.

Tfce Yankee nation it not particular about lit title to boast and vaunt, else it would say very little about its reduc tion of Charleston. After three year of immense and superhuman effort to take that place by regular siege after burning more powder and throwing more weight of iron ball and shell han ever wat expended in any siege since the world began, ami all in vain at length, finding the back door of the place purposely left open, they slip in and straightway the whole Northern peo ple ting Te Deumt and lo Triumphet on th reduction of the hot-bed of secession. They find there a few Jews, tome telegraph op (who are and a wilderness or shat tered and tenantless stone and lime; not Charleston, but the abandoned hull of Charleston. The tout and spirit of that heroic city lives still; but not in those ruine i tne field with Gen. Lee and Gen.

Ueau-regard, where the hot-bed of secession yet blooms with vigorous branches, and gives promise of blood-red fruit. But our enemies anxionale iri telvet that they have subdued the famous city and even that they have conquered South Carolina. How iriumpnanuy mey wm display their felon flag upon the glorious ruins of Sumter! How majestically their Provost Marshal will tread the deserted regions of King street and Meeting ttmt. and predominate like a three-tailed pacha over the few Dutchmen and old women left to be awed by that mighty Yankee power! But at to the real, living Charletton, and immortal Palmetto State, the Yankee nation will find that it hat still to reckon with them. When the sons of South Carolina, now in the army, shall read of the desolating passage of a hated foe over the fields and cities of their native State, tramp ling down and ravaging their well-beloved hornet.

surely they will twear a deep oath to see those homes no more until they have met those blue rascals of Sherman's face to face, and tettled accounta with them once for all. Perhaps the day of reckoning may be nearer than they think on either side. liickmona Ex aminer, eb. 11. Several hundred rebel deserters were concealed in the houses in Charleston, and when our troops entered they surrendered, declaring that they were tired of the rebellion, and would no longer fight for it.

They were received at prisoners. Crowds of negroes met our troops, and made many demonstrations of joy. There were men, women, and children. 1 hey wanted food many of them said they wouiu be glad to work some proposed to take up arms against their masters. 1.

he population of Charleston consisted entirely of the poorer classes, who were unable to get away the rich had for several days been removing. The persons who remained were" in want they had nothing to eat, and no means of obtaining anything. Their sit uation is described as much worse than that of the inhabitants of Savannah after the capture of that city. 1 lie lower part ol the city within reach of our guns was in effect a ruin, and was almost uninhabited. Com paratively few persons dared to remain there.

Some of the houses were knocked down bricks and tim bers were lying everywhere, and the streets in particular were strewn with the fragments, in many placet entirely obstructing travel. Shells were lying among the ruins. 1 he appearance of the city the lower part uninhabitable and the upper part in flames is described as dreary and desolate ip the extreme. there is information that theevacuation of Charles ton began nearly three weeks ago. A rebel officer, who deserted and was examined at Port Rural, gave some of the details but they were not then believed.

Since that time, the rebels have been at work removing stores; though all the heavy supplies were left. So at hist this guilty city is in our hands. There is a moral in the issue that should not be lost. No city in the land is so stained with the crime of treason, or has so mhch to answer for the blood shed in thi war. South Carolina led the way in secession, which the other States of the South did but follow.

It wat her statesman Calhoun, who taught the pestilent heresy of Mate rights to the whole hrood or Southern politicians. That State was the first to carry his doctrine into practice. It was in this very city of Charleston that the ordinance of secession was passed on the 20th of December. 18G0. Here the first gun was fired against Fort Sumter, on the memorable 12th of April, loot, lhis was the act winch at once fired the Southern heart," and plunged a whole people into a frenzy of madness, of folly, and of crime; and at the tame time ttirred the manhood of the North, and roused it to a defence of the country which hat made immortal thit period of our history.

And now, behold, South Carolina reaps in blood and tears the consequences of her guilt Her chief city. where treason was nursed, where the black act of se cession wat passed, is again in loyal haVds. And not only Charleston, but Columbia alto, the capital of the estate, the very centre and teat of the ilaveholding aristocracy, it under the feet of the hated men of the and over that very State House where South em conspirators plotted disunion, now floats the flag of Union and Liberty Liberty for all, even for that despised race, on whose perpetual bondage they iounai tneir new empire I xruly, it seems like a judgment of the Almighty on those who would op press their fellow-men 1 So let all thine enemiet per ish, Lord but 'et them that love thee be at the tun when be goeth forth in hit might 1 AT. Y. Evan gelitt.

The Old Fi-ao over Charleston. A considera ble part 01 the notorious Last Uitch fell into our hands last Tuesday and to the surprise of our sol diers, and of the world in general, neither Beaure gard, nor Pickena the Brave, nor Barnwell Rhett, nor ihe writers of the Charleston Mercury, nor in fact a single one of the hundreds of Charleston bloods," who vowed todie in the Last Ditch," performed ao cording to promise. The season of the year, or the moistness of the ditch, or something in the air pre vented mem tor we, mere vulgar xankeet, would not presume tn hint that these chivalrous persons were only bragging, and never meant to make dem-nition bodies of themselves at all, to use Mantali- ni's phrase. The rebels have run away in the night from many placet from Bowling Green, from Fort Donelson, from Nashville, from Columbus, from Memphis, from Corinth, from New Orleans, from Gettysburg, from Atlanta, from Savannah. I hey have tried to run away from tome others, as Vicksburg and Port Hud son.

lSut they always solemnly vowed not to leave Charleston; never! never I never! Nor would they have left, in all likelihood, had it not become danger- out to stay there. They may plead with some reason that, when they selected Charleston as their favorite dying place, their chosen part of the last ditch, they did not know that Sherman was coming in that di A ew oric THE CAPTURE OF WILMINGTON. Our troops entered Wilmington on the morning of the 22d inst. After the evacuation of Fort Anderson. Gen.

Schofietd directed Gen. Cox to follow its garrison to Wilmington while Gen. Terry followed Hoke on the east side of the river. The latter took up a new line 4 miles from Wilmington, but was so closely pressed by Gen. Terry that he could send no troops to the west side.

On that tide the rebels made a stand behind Town creek, but on the 20th Cox crossed hit troops be-; low them on a flat boat, attacked them in the rear and routed them, taking two guns and 300 prisoners. On the 21st, Cox pushed to the Brunswick river, opposite Wilmington, where the bridges were on fire. On hit arrival, the rebelt began burning the cotton and resin in the city, and left it that night. Uur captures, including Fort Anderson, amount to about 700 prisoners and 30 guns. Citizens state that the rebelt burned 1000 bales of cot ton and 15,000 barrela of resin.

The- Last Voices for slavery in the Congrett of the United States were raised by Benjamin and Fernando Wood. A writer in commenting upon the pat-' sage of the anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution thus alludes to the fact: It teemed a fitting thing that, in thit latt struggle for itt life, thtvery should have no loyal men to wage battle for it, and of all itt tupportert it wat eminently appropriate that Fernando Wood and Benjamin Wood should cast the last votes in the United Statet Congress, to save the life of tbe demon which hat to. nearly destroyed our national existence. When the yeat and nays were taken on that final vote which virtually abolished slavery, these namea came latt on the list of the opposition, and aa their repliet came, No," No," the corpse of slavery wat lowered to itt grave, and the echo of their tullen voices went with it to the tomb." Execution of Beall, the Pirate. John Y.

Bead, the rebel pirate and spy, who waa hung oa Governor! Island. New York harbor, on Friday, ex hibited remarkable self-possession throughout tho try ing orueai. 53T" Roger Pryor" gained hit releate from prison through Col. Forney, Clerk of the Senate and editor of the Chronicle, with whom he waa an associate editor of the Union newspaper with Forney, some years aince. The querulous article in the last number of Magazine, attacking President Lincoln, waa written by M.

D. Conway, now a resident of London. Poor business for aa American. Philadelphia Press. -Trix Eomoi.

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