The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • Page 3

MARCH 7. LETTER TO PARSES. PILLSBURY. Liscsvillb, Feb. 25, 1856.

To Pake Pillsbcby. England Deab Pabker, You are fur away, and an ocean rolls between our bodies, but no oceans etn roll no rivers flow, no continents stretch, between thoughts and our sympathies. These know no geo- graphic! lines nor national distinctions. As I mote about this country, any where between Cape Cod and I meet your spirit, your thought and jour word. as you have stamped them on loving nnd no'le hearts.

It is beautiful and refreshing thus to come iu contact with you to hear your name spoken with affection, and your words and sentiments quoted with trusting reverence. I am this moment in a room where you have often tat, and in the midst of those who cherish your memo ry and your spirit with a kind of religious devotion. Isaac and A Lor la Brooks and their family are around me. We have had a talk over you and your visit here. two years ago last summer, and your labors in this re gion.

You are consecrated in many true and noble hearts, that beat strong with high and holy sympathies and hopes for humanity. As I hear thee true-hearted people speak of you, with so much fresh and kindly sympathy, I cannot but feel how the soul rises above all material surroundings, mingles its thoughts and feel tngs with, and nestles lovingly and trustingly in. the bosoms of loved ones that are for, for away. Our souls, leaping over oceans and continents, mountains and valleys, and ignoring all outward obstacles, hover around their loved objects, to whisper in their ears words of eternal life and peace, and to sing in their hearts sougs of heavenly rest. I know the heart of the wanderer, whose life is consecrated to the elevation and perfection of our common humanity, to the overthrow of slavery, war intemperance, sectarianism, national ism, and of all customs and institutions, in Church and State, that cannot exist without wrong to earth's toiling millions.

I know bow good and bow pleasant it is to feel that there are hearts here and there in which you are cherished with trusting affection, and which sympathise with you in your conflicts. We do indeed draw draughts of eternal life from the heart that loves and trusts us. The hearts about me love and trust you. You are to thera as an absent brother, for whose mission of love and justice they ever pray. How the anti-slavery conflict has bound together brave and loving hearts around the globe God is in the work that so rouses and cements human hearts, and it must triumph.

But enough of these deep, holy, soul-sustaining matters of private affection and sympathy. A Significant Fact. The short-sighted Free-Soilers and Republicans often taunt us, the Disunionists, as Do-Nothings, or drones in the great national hive. They make their boast that they are doing the work of abolition. They exult greatly over the recent triumph their party in electing Banks as Speaker.

A fact is now before me in this District, to illustrate the true meaning of their boast. This town and this district have probably more Republican voters than any other town or district in Pennsylvania, in proportion to the population and the reason is, because there is no other district in which the Liberty party. Free Soilers and Republicans, together with all other parties sworn to suAtain a pro-slavery government, and to do the kidnapper's bidding, have been so severely rebuked by Garrisonian Abolitionists, as Crawford and Mercer counties. You, Parker, have labored here, C. C.

Burleigh, S. S. and Abby K. Foster, and others, have labored here, and have shown the pro-slavery charactec of all political parties, and the pro-slavery position of all men who swear allegiance to the will of the slaveholder. The great mass of voters have felt obliged to do something to save themselves from the crime of man-stealing so they satisfy themselves by joining a party that seeks to prevent the extension of slavery, bat not to abolish it.

Why is the Reserve so much more anti-slavery, politically, than any other part of Ohio Because these Garrisonians have most faithfully preached there the dissolution of this kidnapping Why ia the Republican party so strong in Massachusetts? Becae The Liberator has been published there for twenty-five years. There have lived and labored Garrison, Phillips, Quincy, the Fosters. Pills- bury, the Cbapmans, Westons, Jacksons, and a host of the true and brave-hearted, who have denounced and ought the destruction of all institutions that cannot exist without enslaving man. Where had been id-dings. Wade, Sumner, Wilson, Banks, and the whole Republican party, but for the moral sentiment created by Garrisonians Should we cease our efforts now, the Republican party, high-sounding as is their boast and their hope, would soon lose all their vitality, even against slavery extension, and go where the Whigs and the Democrats have gone before them.

The ballot and the bullet aro powerless against slavery, and every other form of sin only truth can triumph over the monster. The God of hot wrath, of and must foil before the Demon of Slavery it is enly wrath against wrath, violence opposed to violence, death to death. Fraud and cruelty can never be put down by blood and murder. Only a spiritual God can ever meet and conquer the God of slavery. You will see what the Pennsylvania Legislature is doing to allow slaveholders to hold slave in this State.

A bill is reported to allow them to bring their slaves here, and hold them here. It is now being discussed. Would 'not that be a sight, to tee Pennsylvania re-ei-tablishine slavery on her own soil, from whence it was driven fifty years ago and more, all to save the Union and sustain the Democratic party We shall soon see the result. Judge Kane has foiled to get the Legislature to remove his trial from Delaware county into Philadelphia. He thinks he shall have abetter ehance to triumph over Williamson, if be can be tried by a jury from the city.

But the Legislature, the Demoeratie party, dare not rink the odium of removing the trial to the city. Pennsylvania is called the Keystone of the Union, the Arch that binds the North' and South together. The other Northern States are becoming disgusted with her mean subserviency to the Slave Power. As the Keystone of the Union, she is losing her power. Let her authorize slaveholders to hold their slaves within her borders, and she will raise a tempest within and around her borders which will not be easily controlled.

Slaves are now fleeing across her territory in all directions. This is a great jubilee for fugitives. This subject of fugitives, and the aid given to them at the North, keeps up the wrath and bluster of the South to boiling heat. Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are discussing retaliatory measures. One is, that no man from Massachusetts, Ohio or Wisconsin, or any State that harbors or protects fugitives, shall be able to collect his debts in the South Govd Let that be done, let no Northern merchant or mecbauic be allowed to collect his debts in the South, and then the North might wake up.

Then there is a proposition to get Congress to pass a law compelling each State to pay for all the slaves it harbors and pro tects. Good Let that be done! All goes to con vince the people that there is but one alternative, EXTISE SCBMIsSIOS TO THE SLAVE POWER, Or THE D1S- SOLCTIOX Of THB FKESEST UsiOJt. You will have seen the ease of the heroic slave moth er, Margaret Garner. The names of Virginius and Virginia will be forgotten, while tboee of Margaret and her babe will live. She cut the throat of her loved lit tle one, to save it from the outrages to which Jlmeri can Christianity and Republicanism would have sab- jeered iu But the end is not yet.

It is to be hoped this case will be the power which will lead Ohio out of the Uuion. The State and National Governments, it is hoped, must have conflict over it. Let the Union reeaslave that noble mother if it dare. The fetters of four millions will be snapped all the sooner. Dear Parker, watch the progress of event her in Church and State, and lay them before the people of Europe.

You can understand them and expound them to the people. Do what you can to fasten the brand of 1 fa ay aud outlawry from social life upon American slaveholders and their apologists. Slavery has fled for refuge to the bosom of a God and a church and clergy that ean shelter criminals so all-over dripping with innocent blood as are American slaveholders and their apologists. Show to the people there the trne character of what they have regarded as the model Repub lic Will there be war between England and America The people of England need not fear it, while Slavery bears rule for the first blast of such a war-trumpet would sound the knelt of slavery. The contest for the is begun in earnest.

The South are trying to Unite on Pierce. Cushing is laboring for the nomination of the Democratic party. The Republicans have met in Pittsburg to form platform. I have not seen it, but they will not utter one word against slaaery, only against its extension. The Method if a the slaveholding Methodists have held a protracted meeting here five week, to convert souls to a slaveholding Christ and a slave-hunting God.

by singing, praying nnd shouting, day and night. But you, the Fosters, and others, have forestalled them. They can do nothing. I have held four meet ings here, all to show the supremacy of man over his incidents, and the folly of killing, enslaving and crush ing men to save institutions. All admit my premises.

but struggle against my conclusion, when applied to Sabbaths, Ceremonies, Bibles, Constitutions, Churches, Priests, Politicians, and Governments. This sentiment is going deep into the hearts of the people. When Europe and America shall practically recognise the fact that man is above his incidents, and never to be sacrificed to them, then, and never before, will institutions, in Church and State, hold their true relations to men. Adieu, dear friend. God bless you HENRY C.

POLITICAL, ABOLITION JOSEPH BARKER AND STEPHEN S. FOSTER. Toronto, (Canada West,) Feb. 18, 1856. Dear Friend: I will presume, with your good leave, to invite the attention of Joseph Barker and Stephen S.

Foster to a short letter of mine in The Liberator of 21st of last December. Though Mr. Barker and Mr. Foster were recently pitted against each other, on the question of the character of existing anti-slavery politicians, yet Mr. Foster, hardly less than Mr.

Barker, seems afflicted with the popular delusion that anti-slavery may be served by politicians. In the letter named, I believe I have un answerably shewn that political anti-slavery is an absurdity and an impossibility. Mr. Barker, in bis letter from Iowa, in your paper of Jan. 25th, says, To rank such men us Giddings, and Sumner, and Chase, and Hale, with euchj men as Stephen A.

Douglas and Henry A. Wise, is neither wise nor just nnd he seeks to strengthen his case by referring to the opposite motives that sent the two men to Congress one for the noble object of overthrowing the honor of the the other to uphold Am illustration may cast some light on the subject To rank such men as Thomas Fowell Buxton with the common herd of brewers of ale and porter, is neither wise nor just. Or, to rank respectable and holy men, who are moderate drinkers of intoxicating drinks, with the out-and-out drnnkards whom police men take in charge, is neither wise nor quoth the advocates of moderation. Now let it be borne in mind, that it was as brewer, and not as philanthropist, that Mr. Buxton was classed by teetotallers with the strong drink-making fraternity, and that it is only as drinkers of strong drink that respectable and holy men are ranked with common drunkards.

The man who takes one glass of etrong drink, in violation of the laws of heajth, has no better reason for doing so, than another roan who, having taken one glass, proceeds to take a second. If the first is right, the second is, and the third, and so on to the utmost length of drunkenness. The first is transgression of law, and the last ia no more, and hence the wisdom and justice of the tee-total classification. It 19 only at politicians that Giddings, Sumner and others are justly classed with the slaveholders. Their proper and exclusive work in Congress as legislators, is to do in moderation what the slaveholders carry to People in the Free States, and claiming to be abolitionists, dare not trust one another for the regulation of their mutual intercourse, without establishing the relation of mastership and subjection.

Politicians of the most diluted stamp, it may be no stronger than small beer, are 6 till sent to Congress for this work to represent the want of foiih in the right and duty of self-government, and to make and to execute lower law. True, these men may have a larger audience for what Mr. Phillips lately called their anti-slavery lectures, but that is no service to the cause of liberty. They have a larger audience before whom to stultify themselves by saying one thing lip service and doing another, that is all. If they do speak true words for liberty, they must condemn themselves.

Their lecturing in Congress is worthless, because it means nothing. The man whose convictions are earnest enough and enlightened enough to compel him to conform his conduct to the true words which rise to his lips, can afford to content himself with an handful audience in a log school-house, feeling the assurance that he is working with Omnipotence, which can dispense with the parade of the showy but hollow services performed before the' larger audiences, whose kingdom of heaven cometh by observation. I heard Mr. Foster expound his views in Michigan, about a new political party. It is a pity for so earnest and able a workman to spend his strength for worse than nothing.

He despaired of the people being weaned from their inveterate propensity to voting. Their idolatry is hopelessly incurable, therefore he provides them this calf. The only available anti-slavery is the total and everlasting destruction of all their idols to break them to pieces, to grind them to powder, and scatter them to the winds. I press the question on all religious mids. Can we set up, or consent to the setting up, of other authority than God's but as enemies to the divine government Why halt ye between two opinions If the Lord be God, serve him if Baal, servo him.

Yours, very truly, GEORGE SUNTER, Jr. In the last paragraph, for scitnet. Congress read con- BORDER-RUFFIANISM IN THE CHURCH. Mr. Gabbisox Dear Sib, We have Abolitionists here, plenty of them but they have fallen behind the times, and are no longer dreaded by the Propaganda.

Why is it that Union JVorship takes the soul out of Abolitionism, and leaves it a dead, a lifeless principle, without power to stir the nobler energies of the soul i Probably, be cause slavery owes its perpetuation to the magic influence of the Union-saving principle and for the reason, too, that anti-blavery Union-savers, as sT general thing, always abate just enough of their opposition to the demands of the Power to secure, ultimately, the ends of slavery in almost every contest it has with freedom. But I am wandering from the purpose of this writing. For the Methodist Church of this place has been re served the honor of numbering among its members one who openly avows Lis sympathy for the border ruffians of Missouri! Recently, the Rev. Mr. Watson, an Englishman, preached a missionary sermon here.

To ward the close of bis remarks, be slightly alluded to what Henry Ward Beecber's church had done for the Kansas cause; not, of course, supposing that any of his members would take umbrage at the allusion. At the close of this discourse, be passed around to receive contributions. When be came to me, I told him plainly that I was in for Sharp's rifles, and that I felt much more interested just then in seeing a revolutionary than a missionary spirit developed. From! it A appearances, I should judge that the Be, gentleman shared my sympathies. At last, approaching Eh war ren.

a prominent member of the.ehurch, said Warren very decidedly condemned the allusion to Kansas af fairs, remarking that if he should go there, be would 'join the Missonrinns! After the congregation was dismissed. I. stepped up to Warren and said. 'Do read the Tribune He looked at me somewhat aav- gely, I thought, and replied in the negati Polling a Tribune from my pocket. I said' Permit mo to do not know the'kind of work the border ruffians would put you to.

He now became somewhat excited, and made some impertinent remarks. He said be wanted none or my newspaper lies I then asked bin if he would like to take eervie with the Kickmpoo Rangers, and if he thought that playing the cut-throat and assas sin would comport with his profession He indulged in some abusive language, and I left him. after eompli-menting him with the assurance, that from the spirit he seemed to possess, I felt confident he would make a better border ruffian than church member. Very respectfully, yours, 1 HOGEBOOM. Shad's Corners.

N. Feb. 12, 1856. 1 THE BIRTH OF WASHINGTON- -I Utica, Feb. 22, 1856.

Friexd Garrisox The streets of this city are alive with military display, in commemoration of the birth of Washington. This calls up some Are guns and bayonets, swords and pistols, ostrich feathers and gaudy rags, fit emblems to celebrate the birth-day of the 'Father of his Country'; Are implements calculated to excite our animal aad destructive passions, and our natiaaal vanity, id accoruance wua ine cuaracivr vi wu appearance on earth calls up such i I wish not to slander the dead, nor to hold in reverence principles which no enlightened mind can respect. In looking over the history of Washington, putting the best construction on bis acts of which are capable, such displays are in keeping with the character he manifested. First in war, and one of the largest slaveholders of his day owning a form fifteen miles square, and having human beings enough to carry it on whom he reduced to chattels the signer of Andre's death-warrant what more can be expected than that the military should celebrate his birth-day as a fit me mento for these vain and animal displays I say this is in perfect keeping with those who pro fess to be in favor of war and bloodshed but for a Christian people, who claim to be followers of the Prince of Peace, whose warfare was not of carnal weapons, to be seen with guns, swords, and other instruments of destruction, or even to countenance such proceedings, gives the lie to their professions. 'Actions speak louder than words, and the person who claims to be a follower of Jesus Christ, looking with favor upon such vain and warlike displays, is a hypocrite, to say the least.

The call is quite common to add this -birth-day of Washington to the list of holidays, and by all means let it be added. A people who believe that might makes right, who regard Jesus Christ as an upholder of slavery, who would rather see their own mothers sent into slavery than have a national enactment, claiming to be Lw, violated, should, to be consistent, observe the birth-day of their father warrior and slaveholder. Yes, let warriors and slaveholders turn out in full regalia, guns, swords, pistols, bowie-knives, cat-o'-nine-tails, flaunting rags and ostrich feathers, and let the baying of blood-hounds mingle with the wail of heart-broken mothers and distracted children, torn from each other for life, and hell will hiss responsive to the proceedings. The reformer, whose awakened mind sees beyond the present, knows that Humanity is progressive, that Truth will sometime triumph, and Justice eventually rule our world in love now dark and groaning with oppression, through ignorance of the end and aim of existence. Tb present Is indeed dark and sad, yet, through the eye of knowledge, hope lights up the future, and Eden bliss shall be more than realised, when justice, sympathy and love are the governing motives of mankind.

D. HITCHINGS. BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS. The increasing anti-slavery feeling in the free States, together with the sympathy extended to those who have escaped from oppression, has induced many unprincipled persons to go through the country soliciting money for the professed purpose of purchasing relatives or friends, or educating the person asking the donation. Several of these impostors from time to time, been exposed through the columns of The Liberator.

While at North Bridgewater, last week, we met one of these persons, passing under the name of Mary Adams. This woman was advertised, more than two years ago, by Mrs. Abby K. Foster, who met her in the State of New York. She has passed under various names since thecommeneemeut of her career.

She is tall, slender, and inclines to stoop has a bright, penetrating eye, yellow complexion, evidently a mixture of African, Indian and Anglo-Saxon prominent? nose, high cheek bones, and ber hair somewhat curly. She has several scars on her neck, and her left cheek in now swollen, over which she wears a cloth. This woman has any amount of impudence, and sustains a very bad character, aside from that of an impostor. But by for the most successful impostor of whom we have lately heard, is a man who worked as a journeyman barber in Brattle-street, some two years ago, under the name of Baker, and who is now travelling through the country under the assumed name of Leo L. Lloyd.

While following the calling of a barber. Ba ker one day found his employer reading Moffat's Travels in South and became very much in terested in the subject upon which the book treated. He subsequently obtained the work, studied it atten tively, and soon began to relate his experience in South He left Boston, and after remaining away but a few months, returned under the name of Leo L. Lloyd, the only son of the late King of Nubia. The Prince gave a lecture in Tremont Temple, some weeks since, in which he related the story of lbs.

Wedding Ring, just as it is told in Moffat's Lloyd is from somewhere near the Ohio river, and was doubtless a slave in the ad joining State of Kentucky. During the past winter be has made Boston bis borne, when not out on a begging tour. He spent some days, in the month of January, in New Bedford, where he went from house to house soliciting money to enable bim to carry civilization and Christianity into Africa When in New Bedford, be was accompanied by a colored man named Bell, better known as Shof Bell, who assisted the Prince in his operations. The Odd Fellows' Levee called Lloyd from New Bedford for a day or two, but when that was over, he returned to finish up the houses not before visited. We understand that he obtained the sum of fifteen dollars from one person alone.

During the winter, the Prince bos often been seen with girls, and gliding over the snow with railroad speed, the performance concluding with, an oyster supper, and His Royal Highness footing the bilL Strange to say, this brazen-faced impostor baa ob tained the names of such men as Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. Rufus Cboate, and Hon. R. Winthrop, as en dorsing bim.

Stun, alias Baker, alias Leo L. Lloyd, is a small black man, of neat figure, short hair, bright eyes, and has a somewhat wirey walk, and has done much in the way of committing other persons speeches and poetry, all of which he gets off with much ease. He relates adventure which be experienced with lions and other wild besets in South Africa. Of course, be knows nothing of that land, except what be learned from Moffat's His Royal Highness the Prince of No- bia talks of visiting the Western country. Our friends should receive him in a becoming manner.

B. QT Will the Standard and Bugle please copy i Inspector, the Washington correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer, thru speaks of Gen. Wilson's annihilation of Toucey Mr. Toucey. paper-maker to the Administration, who has been instructed out of his seat by his State Legislature, and who represents no part of Connecticut own paper-nulls, sprang forward, to prove his ready servility to his employers.

anJ mailt ven omous assault upon the Senators on the other side of the Chamber, denouncing them as agitators, rejoicing mat at last justice was about to be done upon them, and condoling with them that their occupation was about to be lost. The poor tool, however, meet speedy and effectual justice. Air. Wilson, of Massachusetts, branded as a falsehood his lost charge upon the opposition Senators, and stamped it to use his own words) anon his brazen forehead. Long as my experience has been in observing such characters a Senator.

more properly ex-Senator Toucey. I never witnessed insolence and servility more terribly rebuked. It will be necessary for the Administration to get another champion. General Wilson, having administered this castiga-iion, proceeded with altogether the ablest and most interesting exposition of Kansas affairs that has yet been heard in the Senate. His facts embrace the whole ease for the people, and against the Administration.

SrsAToa Wilsos's Speech. The speech of the new Senator from Massachusetts, which we commence in another part of this sheet, marks a new era in the history of that body. The federal representatives of the three millions of slaves in the United btates have never been talked to quite as plainly before, and we have no doubt they will be the better for it. -V. Y.

Evening Post. From the Boston Journal of the 28tb alt. Kansas. In the nous, on Monday, a Kansas message was received from His Excellency the- Governor, transmitting a communication in relation to Kansas, received by bim. There was no opportunity for reading the communication, which was laid on the table.

The following ia the message of the Governor, which covered a communication from the Executive Committee of Kansas, similar to that which has been transmitted to the Legislatures of other States To the Speaker of the House of Representatives In compliance with the request of the House of Representatives, contained in an order of that branch, passed on the 25 th which has been duly communicated to me, I transmit herewith the only cation I have received, in my official capacity, relative to affairs of It consists of a brief letter of the 21st of January, which, from such inquiries as I have been able to made, I believe to be authentic, purporting to be signed by J. IL Lane. C. Robinson, and G. W.

Ditsler, representing the existing condition of things in that territory at the date of the letter, and the apprehensions entertained by its inhabitants of impending outrages from the anticipated incursions of evil-disposed persons from the adjoining State of Missouri. While this document no such official character as, in my judgment, to warrant the Governor in obtruding it upon the Legislature, or making it the subject of an- Executive communication, I cheerfully avail myself of the order of ihe Honorable House of Representatives to transmit it to that body, for such action as they may djtem it proper to take in respect to it. HENRY J.GARDNER. Kansas Aft-aibs. A correspondent of the N.

Y. Tribune telegraphs from. Washington as follows Intelligence was received by the Government this morning, containing assurances that the border companies of Missouri will acquiesce in the present state of things in Kansas, and make no aggressive movemeut. 'The President instructed Governor Shannon, before leaving, to vwit the companies personally, and say, if an invasion was attempted, it would be resisted by all the power he could command. Also, to say to the people of Kansas, that the same authority would be exerted if any insurrectionary demonstration occurred.

If the Topeka Convention assembles, a civil process will be sued out against the Governor and other officers, on the ground of the territorial law, that they are as- Burning functions to which they have not been legally elected or appointed. The same law prevails in most of the States. No military force will be employed unless the civil process is resisted. Republican instructions have been 6ent out by a special messenger, who started on Wednesday night, to members of the Topeka Convention, desiring them merely to organize and adjourn, so as to be prepared for other movements hereafter. With these' precautions on both sides, so collision is now apprehended.

The Slaveholders' Crusape agaixst Kansas a Precious Extract. A Major a ford, of Alabama, advises for- pro-slavery emigrants or volunteers to go to Kansas in April. He will take no females, no slaves, nor minors under But the following part of the notice is the richest morceau that has fallen in our way lately. Addressing the solicited emigrant, he says On his way there, he is expected to be orderly and temperate to attend the reading of the Scriptures, and prayer, night and morning learn to fear God, to be charitable to our enemies, gentle with females, and those in our power merciful to slaves and beasts, and just to all men' Wonder if Walker and his Nicaragua fillibueters had prayer night and morning Oh when will the sacred name of religion cease to be invoked by the workers of iniquity, in furtherance of their devilish schemes i UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. I Since the unconstitutional freezing up of the Ohio river, referred to some days since by the Cincinnati Gazette, the underground railroad has been doing an uncommonlyMhriving business.

In the course of our newspaporial pickings and stealings, we found the following items, all in one issue of the Daily Columbian, of Cincinnati that of the 13th ult. More Fugitives. We are not members of the Un- derground Railroad Company, but during our attendance at the fugitive slave trials, we hear something of their business. Besides a party of six negroes mentioned in another column, another party of three reached Covington on Monday night, and approached the river. On coming in sight of it, they retreated in fear, on account of the number ou it.

They came up with a horse and sleigh standing hitched at a residence, jumped into it, rushed off at lightning speed for 4 the other side of Jordan. left the sleigh standing by the river side, made for the invisible depot, and were soon sliding safely along the underground railroad. Number Two. We learn that six more slaves from Kentucky reached the depot of the underground railroad in this city on Monday night they were Bent on to the terminus in Canada. Number Three.

The Maysville Eagle says that a party of five slaves in Macon county, borrowed their master's horses and sleighs for a ride, three or four days ago, and crossing the river upon the ice, effected their escape ako, that a party of four were stopped and arrested at a toll-gate near Flemingsburg, who were also bound for Canada. The above make fourteen. The party involved in the fearful tragedy at Cincinnati numbers seven, besides which, four more of the slaves of Mr. Gaines, the owner "of Margaret Garner, have made successful flight, while be has been attending the trial of the fugitives in our sister city. An Act of Congress against the freezing of the Vhio must be appended to the Fugitive blave Act.

E7 A negro attempted to run away from Mason county the other day. He was caught at Wyoming, badly frost-bitten. Louisville Democrat. The Democrat might as well have said snake-bitten as to say be was running away southward. Wyoming is more than thirty miles from the State of Ohio and Abolitionism.

Maysville Eagle. If slavery is such a blessed institution for the ne groes, how does it happen that they never run away southward Why is it that they prefer snow fields to cotton fields, if slavery is so genial to their natures ctactaaar commercial. How Fillmore was Nomixatsd. Mr. Fillmore received, on the test vote for the nomination, forty-five votes from the elaveholding States, and but twenty-six from the free Of the thirty-five delegates from his own State, only eight voted for him The entire pro- Slavery section, exaept Kansas and two scattenog votes.

vent ier mm. lhis and the secession of the Free boil members nominated him. Black BjtrtraxiCA Coxsistexct. To Hrear, in Convention, never to support a slaveholder for any office to procure an election to Congress on the strength of sucn swearing, ana then to cleat lor ciera a slaveholder and slave-breeder and to transfer, from a bxavx pek in Washington, a SLAVE AUCTIONEER, to the office of door-keeper hy don't somebody give three cheers for the friends of freedom' in Congress -Vermgnt Patriot. 'The friends of Hon.

Nathaniel P. Banks celebra ted bis election as Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, by a dinner at the Revere House on Thursday of last week, at which J. A.

Andrew, Esq. presid-d, and a number of eloquent speeches were delivered. Woman's Rights in Nebraska. Cir iration in the West is retting the start of the While la this Dart of the country we are onty discussing wo man's rights! the lower branch of the Legislature of Nebraska baa passed an act extending the right or suffrage to women. It passed by four majority, but we do not find that it was acted upon by tne etner orancn.

Wornem Rights in Kentucky- Th Ken tucky Legislature has adopted an act authorising the courts to give married women the right to do business and hold property, distinct from their husonnas, wnen the latter are intemperate, or otherwise fail to perform tne uutiea or Husbands and fathers. CP" The Rhode Island Legislature) has fussed a law by which a married' woman may devise by will any lands, tenements, or hereditaments held in her own right in fee simple, fee tail, or for the life of any otner person, or Tor any other person, or lor any other term than her own life. The only restriction im posed is, a provision that such last will or testament shall not impair the rights of the husband upon the aeatn oi tne wiie as tenant oy tne courtesy. Ttcitis and Triplets. A few days since, the wife of Rev.

Horace James, of this city, gave birth to two children at one time, and sine then, the wife of Rev. George Bushnell, also of this city, has given birth to three children, all at one time. irorcester Spy. -Republican Victory in Detroit. O.

M. Hyde, Republican, has been elected Mayor of Detroit, by about 200 majority over A. W. Buel, the Administration can didate. Mr.

Buel was in Congress in 1850, and voted for the Fugitive Siave Law. The slavery issue was therefore fairly represented during the canvass. rS5 Three men came up to Bristol, It. on the ice, on Wednesday of last week, from Sandy Point, off Prudence a circumstance which has not happened oeiore in thirty years. Colored Military Company.

Robert Morris, J. W. Clark, and others of our colored citizens, have petitioned the Legislature for a epecial enactment au thorising, tnem to organise aa on independent military company, on the model of the volunteer companies of the Commonwealth. The petitioners are already or ganised as a private military association, and are the proprietors or a handsome stand of arms. The uniform they propose to adopt is of dark blue cloth, ornamented with simple white or gold trimming.

Boston Post. Newspaper Stock. -Three thousand five hun dred dollars were offered, yesterday, for one share of the New lork Tribune. This would make the one hundred shares, into which that establishment was di vided a lew years ago, worth SoOU.dUU. Ihe par value cf each share is $1,000.

We congratulate our neighbors on their immense pecuniary success, and confess that Abolitienism pays better than Unionism. It ia hard work sculling up Niagara Falls with a crow bar. iV. Jr. Mirror.

Railroad Accident. On the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, between Fitchburg and Ash-burnham, on Saturday evening, savs the Sunday Dis patch, a man and a woman who were walking on the track were run down and almost instantly killed. The train at the time was passing through a deep cut of snow, just wide enough to allow the cars to pass. Re-election of Hon. B.

F. Wade! The Ohio Legislature, on the 28th re-elected Hon. B. F. Wade, whoso present term expires in March, 1857, to the United States Senate fur a second term of six years, by a vote of 100, against 36 for Todd, and 2 scattering' Assault upon an Editor and its Consequences.

Thomas Hayne, U. S. District Attorney, attacked Charles Wilson, editor of the Chicago Journal, in the street, on the 28th striking him a severe blow in the face. Mr. Wilson returned the blow, knocking Hayne through the window of the State Bank.

The difficulty was occasioned by the comments of the Journal on the political course of Hayne. Cincinnati Feb. 25. The Licking river, opposite this city, commenced rising rapidly yesterday morning, throwing immense quantities ice into the Ohio, breaking up the ice in the latter, and doing great damage. The steamboats Flag, Albertine, Bridge City, Grapeshot, Madonna, Salem, Yorktown and Black Dio-modd, were all sunk, and will prove a total loss.

It is aUo reported that the steamers Wisconsin and Forest Queen are lost below Mill Creek. Several other steamboats were more or less injured, and a number of barges and flat boats sunk. The total loss thus far ascertained is upwards of 8200,000. Fur ther disasters are apprehended. The Ohio river has risen about eight feet with in the last twelve hours, and is still rising.

tST We find a paragraph m-eircolatiou in which it is estimated that the clergy cost the United States six million of dollars per year the criminals twelve millions the dogs ten millions and the law yers thirty-five millions. Mr. Du Pre died in the Queen's Bench Prison, London, on the 6th ult, after an incarceration of fifty-four years for dest. That Elephant Story. The story of the el ephant that was lost overboard from a Baltimore steamer swimming ashore a great distanoe.

is contradicted by the Charleston Mercury, which says the animal was almost certainly killed by a blow of the propeller of the boat. At any rate, it has never been seen or heard of since. Exciting At Austin, (Texas,) a great excitement existed on occuunt of the trial of the persons charged with the burning of the auditor's office. The court was attended by an armed guard. The citizens were also arming, and a conflict was feared.

An attempt to kidnap slaves in Strat ford, Canada, is recorded in the Stratford Examiner. The mistress wrote a loving letter to the slave-woman, and the master wrote to the chief constable of Stratford, offering him $200 ifhe would induce her to go to Cincinnati. Pay of the Judges. Gov. Gardner has sign ed the bill, which, after the 1st of January-.

1856. al lows the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court a salary of iiuu a year, and bis associates $4UUU each. CP Samuel Williams, a colored man, sold his farm near Clear Spring, recently, containing nearly 200 acres, for $7000, to John PearL The Ha- gerstown Mail says Williams was a slave at forty years of age, bought himself, and has raised twenty-five children, four of whom, he bought and manumitted. He is now in his 71st year, and is a stout, tall, and intelligent looking old man. He is now in independent circumstances.

Most of his children are in the Wast, and the rest of them all desire to go to the same country, to "pull up stakes, and follow them." The Removal of Free Negroes. A bill has passed the Georgia House of Representatives, by a large majority, which provides that the Lax now imposed on free persons of color shall be set apart as fund to be applied in transporting this class of people voluntarily oeyona tne limits or tne united states, and those so disposed, may voluntarily return to sorvitude. How kind lSf Since 1853, twelve steamboats lost at sea bave cost 1250 human lives, and $7,250,000 of pro- ihe iuerctiry states that two geese were due out of a snow drift in that town. few days since, which had been without food forty-two days, ibey were very thin of flesh, but quite lively. Mount Auburn.

There have been 573 interments in the cemetery for the year ending Dec. 23, 1855 of which, 435 were of persons just deceased, and 138 were of bodies removed from other cemeteries. Whole number of interments in the cemetery, 7325. Transcript. Kidnapper Arrested- An Inopportune Kiss.

Early yesterday morning, a man and woman crossed the river on the ferry boat from Portland to New Alba ny. The woman had a tnicx veil over ner xaee, so that it could not be seen, and was neatly clad. On stopping on the wharf at New Albany, the man raised the veil of the woman and kissed ber, when the ferryman dis- covered that she was a negress. The ferryman then brought her back, and placed her in charge of officer Crawford of Portland. She represented herself to be free, but had no papers.

The officer intimidated her, when she acknowledged that she belonged to Mr. New-land, of this city. She stated that a white man bad made an arrangement with ber on Monday night ti meet bim early the following morning at the railroad on Main street. She did so, and went with him to New Albany. J.ne omcer then put her in jaiL Officers Crawford and Mitchell, accompanied by the ferryman and Sam McHugb, went to New Albany to find the man.

He was in an eating cellar, where they arresssd him, and brought bim to the jailflin this city His name is Elijah or Elias He says he is from New York. He was confronted ia the jail by the woman, who said he looked something like the man who took her off. Louisville Journal, Feb. 6 At the concert given by the Hutchinsons for the benefit of the fugitive slaves recently under examination in Cincinnati, the amount of 9188.40 was realized. 8PECIAL CONTRIBUTIONS To the American Jnti-Sfoverj Society in ttid of Of eic series of Tracts, Scotland, -From Edinburgh, to Samuel May, for publishinr Scottish Remonstrance, (23,16.

Massachusetts Rev. James W. Thompson. Sales, Martha Fletcher 1. Lydia L.

Walker 60c, SepbU 8. Woodbury 2e, Ab.ie W. 8prague 25c. Atmlnt Lock 25e. Chaney W.

Cartrr iL5c Francis IT, 4 Drake 25c, friends, 25c, all of Leominster. i Ohio. Vim. F. Parker.

Cleveland, I 25. -Ind iR0. Thomas W. Bailey 60c By Joseph A. Howland Rhode Island.

At Valley Falls, tS2 82 Weoaesak et 2 89, Edward Harris, do. 8amuel Chste ca. 2, Elisabeth Chase, do. 1. Massachusetts.

AX Millville 2 45, Upton 1 By Aaron M. Powell Mirhiram S. McGee. Albion. 25o.

Ml Ch 25c, Hart well Russell, Fairfield, 2, 8. B. Fandy and A. W. Bennett 25c, Manly Smith.

EriitcB, 25o M. Lee. Howell, 25. IL Gardell. do.

lie, A. Rickey, Lyons, 25, friends 1 50: FRANCIS JACKSON, Tresurtr. WORLD'S BIBLE CONVENTION. undersigned, desirous of promoting the improvement of our race, and believing that the doctriaa of the divine authority of the Bible is one ef the greatest hindrances to its improvement and believing fur ther, that this doctrine has no foundation in truth, and that a fair and thorough investigation would lead te its speedy and general abandonment, invite all, la whatever part of the world they may dwell, who feel an interest in the matter, to meet us in New Yer ia May next. and to adopt each measures as may be ad culated to spread through the world what may appear to be the truth on this important subject.

The alleged evidences of the divine authority of tbsj Bible will, as far as practicable, be examined ia the order in which they am presented in the works meet approved by the JeadinwUgiona -dsnseaiwJio ae4-roost frequently referred to as authorities by advocates of the common faith. Such arrangements will be made with regard to speakers as may appear best calculated to secure a correct exposition and a thorough discussion of every branch of the subject. To secure the order and efficiency of the Conven- tion, it is required that all who contemplate taking an active part in the discussion will please apply te the Committee of Arrangements, accompanying their application with suitabte references as to character and talents, and, in case they are delegated by churches of by liberal associations, with certificates of their election. The discussions will take up the forenoons and afternoons. The evenings will be given to lectures and addresses.

JOSEPn BARKER. Salem, Obi. REUBEN WEBB, Philadelphia. ERNESTINE L. ROSE, New York.

AUG. T11EO. STAMM. HORACE SEAYER, Boston. J.

P. MENDUM, J. M. BECKETT, BEDFORD UARMONIAL SEMINARY. Fbiexps of Humanity We can now say, and say with confidence, that the Bedford llarraotilal Seminary is well established, having a sufficient fund to keep it up ten years, at least, if nothing more should be donated.

It is located five miles west of Battle Creek, Michigan, in a rapidly growing community of liberal minds. Several new buildings are in process of erection, for the accommodation of the school. Families and students will find Bedford a very desirable situation. The larga -boarding-hall will be in complete condition at the com-mcnoement of the Spring Term. The expenses ef a student for board, tuition, room rent, all, are about $2.50 per week.

Students an also hire rooms on reasonable terms and board themselves. The Spring Term will com me nee on the 4th of Marob, next the Fall Term on the first Monday ia September. The following br nobes are taught in the Seminary Latin. Greek and French a full course of Mathematics Natural Sciences and English. Studies.

Instrumental Music by Mrs. Howe. H. CORNELL, Principal. O.

D. HOWE, Teacher of Languages. J. W. TALBOT, Teacher of Mathematics.

J. P. AVEBIIX, R. COBHBIX, L. HOTJGBTOW, E.

T. Corkeix, J. W. Talbot, D. Bbowb, H.

Corutxu, Trustees. Harmonia, Jan. 23, 1856. N. B.

All communications must be sant to XL CORNELL, Battle Creek, Mich. LECTURE 8' GENT LEMEft, OJT -r AJVATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY HEALTH, AT TBI N. E. Female Medical College, 274 WAsnntaTOB Sr. At the request of Members of the Legislature, and other gentlemen, a Course of Eight Cowversafionci Lectures', illustrated with manikins, anatomioal preparations.

will be given by WM. SYMINGTON BROWN, M. one of the Professors in the College, commencing at 74 o'clock, on MONDAY EVENING, -Feb. 18, and continuing at tht same boor on TUC3 DAY and MONDAY evenings. These Lectures are free to the members of the Legislature, who are respectfully invited to attend whenever it may suit their convenience.

At the close of any of I the Lectures, the Secretary will give (to Members who may desire it) information respecting the history, eon-dition, and prospects of the College, and explain the nature and object of the change in its charter and organisation which the Board of Directors have recently petitioned the Legislature to make. Tickets for the Course, $1 each, to be bad of tht sub- scriber, at the College, 274 Washington street. SAMUEL GREGORY, M.D., See'ry. Boston, Feb. 16, 1856.

ET ANDREW T. FOSS and JOSEPH A. HOW-LAND, Agents respectively of tbt Massachusetts and American Anti-Slavery Societies, will hold meetings as follows Chester, Friday svt'g. Mar. 7 Sunday, 9.

Monday sVe'f, 10. Wednesday 12. Friday "14. Sunday J.8. Monday eve'g, 17.

Tuesday 19. Thursday 20. Friday 21. Sunday, 3. xnifni-d Amherst, Candia Village.

Wilton, Hancock, Peterborough Dublin, Fitswilliam, Marlboro, Troy, Keene, WM. WELLS BROWN, an Agent of the Mas-' sachusetts A. S. Society, will hold meetings, for the present, in Rhode Island. PLACE WANTED IN THE COUNTRY.

A colored lad, between 14 and 15 years of age, well-die- posed, well-behaved, and intelligent, wants a place in a good family In the country. Apply to 8amob Mat, 21 CornhilL i i E7 Applications for Urs. Webb's readings in Hosra-ebusetts and vioinity, durirv the month of ilarcb, nay be addressed to WM. C. NELL, 21 CornhilL ar ENGLISH LAWS FOR WOMEN, by the Hon.

Mrs. Nobtoh. A few copies of this interesting work are now for sale (20 cents each) at 21 CornhilL BRAMHALL, BONNELL RICHMOND, rx poetess aid jobbxu or Foreign and Domestic Dry Gocds, No. 186 Fulton, opposil Church Si. NEW T0L2.

COnSaXIUB BBAMHALL, JOSEPH A. B0X9SLL, CHARLES BICmiOXD, "Worcester Hydropathic Institctica, On Arch and Fountain. Streets WORCESTER, Mass. THE Proprietors of this Institution aim to make It ft comfortable boms for invalids at all seasons. Tht location is elevated and healthy, and easy of access fron all parts of the eity.

The medical department ie ooudaeted by Dr. S. Soe ebb, and has never been limited to the exclusive use of water in those oases which seemed to require other treatment. There has recently been erected a first-class Gymnasium upon the groanda belonging to. this, institution, which is under the charge of an experieaced teacher.

For term, address E. F. ROGERS, Superintendent, Ont-door practice, attended to. OCoe hours, 2 to 4 Worcester, Jan. -Jv TERRINTON SON, 21 rrTjti toxica.