The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • Page 4

POETRY From the Liberty Ball. PLYMOUTH ROCK. IT JOIt triRRrosT. Escaped from all the peril of the sea-Storms, the angry and engtilfing waves Here stand we, on a savage shore, all free Thy freemen. and not of man the slsves? Here wilt we toil and serve thee, till our grac On thews bleak hill ahall open.

When the blood Thou pourest now, so warm, along our vein Shall westward flow, till Mississippi'" no A Give to our children' children hi broad plains. Ne'er let them wear, God, or forge a bondman's chains December 5th, 1 SiO. From th same. TO THE AMERICAN ABOLITIONISTS. IT JOHII iowriko.

We pleaded in the negro's cause. Fought fur his liberties and laws, While million voices song applause, The many 'gainst the few Yours is a harder task, Jo lead Few against many but the meed Of nobler strife and bolder deed Shall honor Ton. Oca. father and your fathers bore The spirit-atirring strife of yore, Our shores flung on your welcoming shore. The patriot-pilgrims' sail And ye are worthy of the name, And the bright ancestry ye claim The same the sires the sons the same Hail brothers hail Westminster, (England,) Junel6, 1840.

From the same. SONNET. IT MARIA WESTOS CHAPMAN. A little child and yet he spake as one Having authority of God to pour The living words of liberty before The wise and prudent, till his life was done. Ob, in that hour a nobler day begun And all who would the broken heart restore.

Or open wide the bondman's prison door, Are brethren of that well-beloved Son. His spirit is upon them when they preach Liberty to th captive, and unbind By the free utterance of the word they teach The spirits of long manacled mankind. They thank thee, Father that thou hast revealed Tby counsels unto babes, though nged eyes are sealed. From the same. SONNET TO LIBERTY.

They tell me, Liberty that, in thy name, I may not plead for all the human race That some are born to bondage and disgrace. Some to a heritage of woe and shame, And some to power supreme, and glorious tame With my whole soul, I spurn the doctrine base And, a an equal brotherhood, embrace All people, and for all fair freedom claim Know this, man whate'er thy earthly fate God hkver made a ttrart, hor a slate: Woe, then, to those who dare to desecrate His glorious image for to all He gave Eternal rights, which none may violate And by a mighty hand th oppressed He yet shall save. w. l. o.

Boston, Dec. 14, 1840. From the same. SONNETS. BT ARM WARREN WESTON.

I. The chiming of the distant bell comes borne On the faint wings of the flower-laden air; It breaks the stillness of the Sabbath morn, i And summons to the rites of praise and prayer But I no more may in that worship share, No longer bend at that familiar shrine The altar that my heart hath deemed so fair Is lit no longer by a light divine. No prayer goes upward from yon temple high, For the deliverance of the trampled slave His cruel wrongs, his bitter destiny, In yon proud courts may no remembrance crave. From such a spot my heart in sorrow turns. And tor a purer, holier worship burns.

What though my footsteps may not press the floor. By human hands made consecrate to Thee, And though I may not mid the crowd adore. Yet Father wilt thou not vouc afe to me The beauty of thy hoITneas to see, And on the glory of thy face to gaze With heart alike from pride and passion free. As though the proudest dome that man could raise Were witness to the sacrifice I bring? Were mine own kemrt for Thee a temple meet, The praise through the loAiest roofs that ring, Would not be incense in thy sight more sweet, Than its unuttered worship. Father, hear, And in my inmost heart thine altar rear Sunday morning, in the country, June, 1840.

From the same. AN INVOCATION. BY HEKSIETTA SARGENT. Oh, may we, like the Lily fair, a lowly lot adorn, Our virtues rise like Sharon's Rose above the crown of thorn Though seas of grief around ua roll, let the pearl be there Let Faith and Truth about us shine above the Dia- mood's glare. And let bur song of praise ascend let it rise above The lark'a sweet warbling from the cloud, a strain of praise and love, And may we by the Spirit power the galling chain unbind, And free the wasting captive's frame, and free the heav-en-born oniad.

Oh! be their blessed mission ours, who freedom's boon beajow, Who lead the blind in lofty faith, where Siloa's foun tains flow, Who wake tbe dead ia sin, to hear atrange words of life and truth So mount, ray soul, like eaglea mount, and thus re new thy youth I LIBERTY. There is a spirit working in the world. Like to a silent subterranean fire Yet, ever and anon, some monarch hurUd Aghast and pale, attests its fearful ire. The dungeon 'd nations now once more respire The keen and stirring air of liberty. The giant wakes, and finds, surprised, he's free.

By Delphi's fountain cave, that ancient choir Resume their song; the Greek astonish hears, And the old altar of hi worship rear. Sound on fair sisters sound your boldest lyre. Peal yor old harmonies as far from spheres Unto strange gods we long have bent the knee. The trembling mind, too long and patiently. AN EPITAPU.

Would you know' what religion be had, Be hi character thus A dissenter from all that ia bad, -A consenter to all that i good. NON-RESISTANCE. For the Liberator. Wuitebboron. Yn Dec 19, 1810.

Mental Reservations' cetera. To IlertRT C. Wright: Dear Sir By the Liberator of December 4, I porceive that you still persist in charging me with holding the doctrine of 4 mental which I have so repeatedly disclaimed. Why yon do this. I cannot tell, unless it be because you are intent on- carrying a point In argument which cannot omcrwise be sustained.

What is the doctrine of mental reservations, as taught by the Jesuits, and justly abhorred by honest men It is this that, in making a promise, a man has a tinder certain circumstances, to make reservations in his own mind, which are not understood to be made by those to whom the promise is pledged, nor by the public who may hear the promise, and thus deceive the public, or the person or persons to whom the promise is made. I have advocated no such doctrine, either in respect to oaths to support the Constitution, or any thing else. What I wrote, on that subject, if airly and fvUxi quoted, shows the contrary. I maintained that the public, common understanding of oaths of allegiance, 6lc was, that they were quaiinea ana conditional promises to obey the civil government just so far, and no farther, than is consistent with our duty to God. Nobod is deceived by such a promise, (or has any right to be deceived,) because this is the public and well-understood condition of the promise.

It is as when I give my note of hand, in which I promise to pay a man an hundred dollars. I do it in consideration of the value in goods, which the note says I have But, suppose after I have signed the note, in the merchant's counting-room, and h.ive gone out, I send a cartman with an order for the goods, but the merchant refuses to deliver them. I am not bound to pay the note, and it is by no Jesuitical doctrine of mental reservations that I escape from it. A promise to support a par ticular form of civil government, in its specific or ganization or constitution, is or a similar nature, and is expressed in a similar way. There may be no written promise, in either case, that the condition, on the part of the promissee, shall be fulfilled, but it is mutually and publicly understood.

If the government fails to fulfil its part of the obligation, by re quiring me to disobey uod, then, thus far, I am re leased from my promise. If a Quaker, or any other person known to be conscientiously opposed to military force, promises to support the Constitution, the promise is understood with that exception, and there is no 'mental reservation, like that of the Jesuits, in the case for nobody understands that the Qua ker has promised to shoulder his musket in defence of government. You may call this a no-government theory with a vengeance, but it ia the theory of the common law. It was on this well-known principle, that our fa there refuied to continue their obedience to the British government, when it forfeited its right to command, by its assumptions of despotic power. Were they guilty of perjury3 You will, perhaps, say so but, in order to carry the moral convictions of men along with you, it will be necessary to exalt the letters, the parchment, or the articulate sounds of the promise above the the meaning, and the intent or them.

A singular code of ethics for Hen rv C. Wrifht to insist noon 4 For vour sake, and that of others, may heaven preserve you from Which doctrine is it, I pray you, that is 'replete with hypocrisy and blasphemy' the one that teaches the moral duty of abiding by the mere words, the syllables, the mere letter of the promise, to the dis regard and perversion ot its true nature, its known meaning and intent or the one which looks through the mere outward symbol, to the high spiritual and moral obligation signified, and commonly understood by it? The historical fact to which I have alluded, is suf ficient to prove the common understanding of promises to obey civil government. There were, in deed, those who called our fathers traitors and reb els, for refusing to obey, (and I do not say they were right in resorting to arms,) but those who called them traitors and rebels merely for renouncing their allegiance to the British King, did so, on the ground that he had not perverted the ends of civil govern ment, and therefore had not failed of fulfilling his part of the implied contract The whole contro versy proves that the understanding, on both sides, of oaths of allegiance, was such as I have described. James Madison may be supposed to be a compe tent witness, on a question of this kind. Let us hear what he says: Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the universe and, if a member of civil society, who enters into any subordinate ation, must always do it with a reservation of his duty to the general artbority, much more must every man, who becomes a member ot any particular civil society, do it with the saving or his allegiance to the Universal sovereign.

We maintain, therefore, that in mat ters of religion, no man's right is abridged by the in- i i i i i Simmon oi civm ttocieiy, inu mai religion is wnony exempt front its cognizance. You see, my dear sir, that the doctrine so obnox- ious to vou, and for which I contend, lies at the very foundation of civil and religious freedom. It might suit the purposes of your disquisitions, very well, to make it out that there never was and never can beany religious liberty under any civil government. But the tact that civil governments can and sometimes do consist with religious liberty, is proof pos itive that your representations of civil government are incorrect or, at least, that the promise to obey civil government is commonly understood to be limit-ed by our obligations to God otherwise there could be no degree ot religious freedom. And, conse quently, your charge of mental in the bad sense ot that term, tails to the It does so, for another reason.

If it proves any thing to your purpose, it proves too much. It proves that, in the very nature of things, God never could and never did require any human being to obey another, or to promise to obey rim, (which is contra ry to known fact) You insist that a promise to obey human government must be an unlimited promise. When we speak of their being limited promises, you retort that we teach the hypocritical, blasphemous, Jesuitical doctrine ot mental and you enter your solemn protest against the sophistry, Jesuitism, impiety and blasphemy' of the argument Come, then I look at tacts, uod did require the Is raelites to obey Mesas, add Aaron, and Joshua and David, and Solomon. Of course, it was proper for them to promise to do this thing which God com manded them. Well, then shall it be a limited Eromise, or unlimited If you say tbe former, you ave Henry Wright's 'solemn protest entered against the sophistry, Jesuitism, impiety and bias phemy of the sentiment If you say the latter, then you say that God commanded unlimited obedience to human authority, in the case of the Jews, without any saving of their allegiance to him! But will Hen ry Wright say that? It will do no good to talk of the old and new dispensations, in this case.

The three angles of a right angled triangle were equal to two right angles in the days of Moses, as well as now. Tell me, then, whether the obligation of the Hebrews to obey their rulers included the obliga tion to worship the golden calf, at the command of Aaron, or to disobey the command of God, in obedience to the command of Saul And if not, tell me whether there was not a limited obeoience required of them and whether it would have been impiety and blasphemy' in them- to have promised such a limited obedience. Before quitting this subject of 'mental reserva tions, let me ask you what sort of a reservation it waa that you made, if any, when you promised me an answer to my question, whether you desired the legislative abolition of slavery I felt an assurance that you would answer me that question. To your own question to me, about the support of a President clothed with military power, I gave an open and frank answer, expecting equal frankness in re turn, and little suspecting that my answer would be lonurcu ana iwisiea oy non-resistants into an argu merit, by means of which they could persuade abo litionists to cast whig votes, under the supposed sanction of mv locic. and that the-v would then turn round and taunt me with being the author of their own mischief-t I may indeed be morally obliged to live under and obey (so far a I conscientiously can) the civil gov- erninent under which God places mv, whereas it i optional with me whether 1 will buy the goods.

The promises are nevertheless similar in their nature. Memorial and Remonstrance on the Religious Rights or Mao, written in 17b4, at to request of the Baptist ia Virginia. To the same effect we might quote the common law. The inferior law must give a a a place to the superior man law to iioa a JYouts' Maxims. Jlf the Corresponding Secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and those who act with him, bad not made an industrious use of my alleged logic LIB A OU But I ought not to wonder, perhaps, that I am made to sustain the practice of pro-slavery voting: (which the Herald of Freedom and national Anti-Slavery Standard declare to be less mischievous than voting for Birncy I perceive, by the Liberator of December 11th, that I am made, likewise, to hold that women have right to hold civil office, and vote at the polls as well as men the same right After this, none of your readers onght to be stir-prised if you should prove that Paul also was in favor of vour views of women's rights.

The same rules of interpretation, which you apply to my lan guage, would, no doubt, be equally successful with his. And your skill in ascertaining what William Goodell would qualify you to decipher, with equal CorrectneHS, what Panl and the other writers of that day held. In your logjc, on this point, I see another exemplification ot the same principle by hich, (as in the interpretation of promises or oiths, yon stick to tlie dead letter the syllables the sounds and the ink of a paragraph, instead of its plain and commonly acknowledged meaning. I have not time nor room to answer your letters as. I could wish.

I can only touch, briefly, on a few lending points just to snow you that your main positions are unsound. In the Liberator of Dec. 1th, you seem to assume, as heretofore, that, if the Government derives its powers from the people, it doea not denve them from Uod. This not true. unless it be true that the people are independent of uoo, or wnouy disconnected irotn nun, or nruess be proved that he has not clothed them with powers aa a a to establish civil government You assume, in an this, the very point to be proved.

You labor to show that the civil government of this nation is not an ordinance of God, because, as you say, the frame rs of the Constitution have not, in that instrument, explicitly recognized him. lut is this a correct course of reasoning? Suppose a pa rent should undertake to write down some of the rules by which his family should be governed. And suppose the parchment should not contain any direct allusion to the divine authority and origin ot paren tal government would that omission prove that nei ther the parent nor the children, in that family, believed parental government to be an ordinance of God No Still less would it' prove that family government is not an institution of God Suppose, if you please, a family wholly ignorant or forgetful of God. Would it be the less true that the children are morally bound to obey all the lawful and proper commands of their parents And would it be any tbe less true that God commands such obedience in other words, that he has instituted parental gov ernment? Man's forgetfulness and man's ignorance do not annul the divine law, nor prevent the exis tence of the unknown or forgotten lacts. By the same course of reasoning contained in your letter, you might prove that if God's government over the world be not known and acknowledged by its inhaD itants, it ceases to exist I cannot suppose you in tend to lay down such a principle.

Yet I follow your example in 'entering my solemn protest against principles which 1 believe to be wrong, and which 1 think i see plainly implied in an argument And it is not true, in matter of fact (as you labor to prove,) that the people of this country, in establishing a separate and distinct not recognize distinctly and publicly, the authority of God, and the divine origin of civil government 1 bey did so, in the most emphatic and explicit language that they could have used. It was the Declaration of Independence, and not the Constitution of 1789, in which the people undertook to define the origin and charter civil government In that document, which the new Constitution does not abrogate or supersede that document which is, in fact a part of the Constitution itself you will find the found ers of our government asserting that the laws of I nature, and of hature God, entitled them to assume among the nations of the earth, a saparate and equal You will find them tracing their inalienable rights to their Creator, by whom they were endowed with them. You will hear them say that to secure those rights, governments are in stituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed' 'powers' to which, as before expressed, 4 the laws ot nature and of nature's God entitle them. You will find them appealing to the bupreme Judge ot the world, ftw rMtitiislA tKoi i inlAntiAna' (with a firm reliance on the protection' SANCTION' of Di vine The Constitution did not formally repeat these declarations, for the same reaso'n that the Constitu tion of the American Anti-Slavery Society did not repeat the Declaration" of Sentiments. The thing has already been done, and all that remained was to specify the forms of organization.

Yet even there, the object was stated to be 'to establish justice 'promote the general and 'secure the blessings of liberty, in other words to 'execute judgment between a man and his neighbor, the very thing bod had commanded to be done. Yet you say XMot an allusion to the Holy Une is in the government, as it is on paper. Astonishing state ment! When the very instrument bv which the government was first constituted, contains not less than four distinct repetitions of the divine name, under the several forms ot nature a Ood our Creator Supreme Judge of the world and Di vine I am sorry to see you laboring so strenuously to dissever the social condition and relations of man from the law of his Creator, or (what amounts to nearly the same thing,) denying that governments can originate with the people, and yet be or dained ot who commanded them to originate or establish them to execute justice.1 Equally sor-rv I am to perceive that vou should conceive of this power as being beyond the moral capabilities of man -which you evidently do, when you dread what you call discretionary power Pray leave it to anti- aboutiomsts to pretend that the execution of justice is a work too intricate and complex tor human beings to perform There is a spirit in man, and the a i inspiration oi uie Aimigniy nam given mm Yours truly, WILLIAM GUUJJKLU nay, if they had not misrepresented its import no whig or democrat would have ever thought of draw ins an argument from it. Thev would have discov ered no parallel in the case. Van Buren anl llarri- ron are in favor of slavery.

But there is no evidence that Birney is in favor or war. Nor did I ever insist (as is alleged) that I hud a right to clothe him with military power I denied that 1 did so. From the Herald of Freedom. Amos Wood Excommunicated. Our brother Wood has not only been imprisoned in Hopkinton jaiL for being conscientiously as a Christian, 'of bearing arms' but he has been excommunicated by the Rev.

Noyes' church, for being alike as a Christian, of supporting a pro-slavery pulpit He was a deacon of the South Church. Of his ardent and heaven ly-minded piety his devoted ness to the cause of Christ his exemplary life and conversation, it be hoves not us to speak. They are known (o all the people of this place, who, however they may despise him as the friend of the outcast slave, cannot withhold rrom him tbe most spotless character. The pulpit of his meeting-house was occupied by a pro-slavery minister. The church occupied a position of most inconsistent character on this subject and other moral subjects of the day.

Brother Wood, to bear his testimony against that position, absented himself from the South Church meeting, and declin ed paying to support its minister as he most un questionably had a right to do, and was bound to, as he felt and believed in regard to anti-slavery, lie aixeuaea a iiiue owcun oi inaepenaenc slavery worshippers, as he bad equal right to do. The church called him to account for it and in stead of attempting to show him that he'was wrong as a Christian, excommunicated him. The military power stood ready to take him and carry bun to Hopkinton prison. Change of Fortune. A young Irish woman who had been sentenced to Blackwell's Island for petty larceny for three months, was yesterday discharged, her time having expired.

While making preparation to leave, a eentlmuan who had but just heard of her whereabout, came on the IIand, with a truuk full of elegant clothing and what was better, the information that one of her relatives in Ireland bad died and bequeathed her the sum of twenty thousand dollars. She left the prison elegantly dresned and with purse well filled with cash. Era. A most melancholy occurrence happened in Union Broome N. on Saturday morning the 12th inst.

A Mr. Lorke, wife of At r. Locke, a mason by trade, living on the Nanlicoke Creek, early in tbe morning, after her husband and two elder children, boys, had got up, took her two little girl, one six and the other eight years of age, up stair, and with a razor cut both their throats, nearly severing their Head from tliei bodies. She then cut her own throat, not effectu ally, but that the wound waa aewed up, and it is thought he may yet live. She was, and for a year or two ha been, partially deranged.

Horrible JXnrclers. We learn that a series of most atroeioo murder was perpetrated by a miscreant in Southampton ennu-fr. on Mondav niflit. An axed Quaker, of tbe name if Scott, residing nt far from Jerusalem, hi aister. also aged, a little girl, about nine vcars old, named Pre low, wegi'i woman and hwrrhild, wwvntni sivelr hutehfred to further the design of robbery, entertained by their destroyer.

Six persons were on the premise at the time and but one escaped. A ins was a young neru girl. She relates, we understand, that a man residing in the neighborhood visited the hoae a little after sunset, and spent the evening by the fireside of Mr. Scott, in conversation with tbe family; As he was about to quit, he askeJ Mr. 8.

to walk with him to the gate, as lie bad a word to say in him in private. To this the unfortunate man con sented. i The -irl saw no more of him. A violent struggle was next heard in the kitchen. The murderer, armed with a 'short, heavy dogwood penile, had seized the negro woman, and was heating out her brains.

when the aged sister of Mr. Scott, attracted by the noie, appeared and begged him to desist. Irrevocably bent" on his design, he instantly despatched the poor negro, and seizing the old lady, felled her to the floor with a blow oi me pesxie. nrgro ouj uwji nine years old was then killed in the same manner. He next proceeded in search of the little white girl and the vounr nesress.

The latter made her escape unobserved. The other child was not so fortunate. She was caught in tbe room and murdered a summarily as tbe rest. Sot seeing the negro girl, and resolved to leave no clue to his fearful necret, the monster made a careful search in the rooms, turnine over the beds, and scan ning every corner narrowly. Convinced that one ot the family bad escaped, he seems to have gone off without consummating the robbery, lite girl ilea immediately to the nearest neighbors, and communicated what had occurred in her sight and hearing.

They repaired to the premises forthwith, and found the melancholy confirmation of her story. The murderer had fled, and the house was burning slowly. The fire was -extinguished before it bad defaced the bodies, or done much injury to the building. In the morning, among the spectators of the night's bloody fruit, was the individual spoken of by the girl as the actor in the scene. lie gave an instant contradiction to her story, and referred to the absence of blood from his clothing a proof ot nis innocence.

lie denied also, we learn, having been on the premises for a fortnight Traces of blood, however, it is said, were found among his whiskers, and he was detained, till search was made at his house. This resulted, we learn, in the discovery of a suit of his clothing exces sively besmeared with blood. He was forthwith ap prehended. Air. scott was an old and esteemed resident ot tne county, and was reputed to be wealthy.

The hope of securing his money led to a scheme of murder, as bold Iv conceived and deliberately executed, as any fur nished by the annals of crime. escape of the zirl alone prevented the full execution of the plan. If she had fallei, all explanation of the mystery would have been impossible. The house and bodies of the slain would have been consumed together, and the murderer would have possessed in security the poor reward or lus atrocities, beyond tbe tear ot detection. Disasters at Sea reported iir the year 1840.

A record of disasters at sea lias been kept at the office of the American Seamen's Friend Society, during the yeur pl, as in former years. Such nly have been noted as have resulted in the total loss ot the vessel The greater part of them were wrecked on tho coast of the United Stale, and the most of them were American vessels. The following is tbe result Ships and barques. 67 Brigs, 120 Schooners, 233 Sloops, 4 Steamboats, 6 Class unknown, 81 Total. 521 Of these there were lost toward tbe close of the year 1839, principally in tbe month of December, but reported in this year, ZVi Lost in January, 20 Februaay, 2G March, 31 April, 22 May, 19 June, 9 July, 15 August, 17 September, 14 October, 44 November, 34 December, 4 Time not ascertained, 54 By these disasters many lives were lost 684 have been ascertained, and in regard to many others, the crews were missing, and, in all probability, perched with the vessel.

Added to this, 39 vessels have been reported as missing during tbe year, which, in all probability, went to the bottom, with all their crews. These statistics exhibit, in some faint degree, the perils of the sea, and teach us, in most emphatic language, that what we do for sailor should be done quickly. A Colored Settlement Th? New-York Sun states that there is in Mercer county, (Ohio) a colony of colored persons. It was founded by a Mr. Augustus Wattles, who some five years ago made a purchase for himself and a tew oiner coioreu men.

ins example nus Deen so well followed that there ia now taken up by the colony full 24,000 acres. They have laid out a town to be called Carthagena, which is situated at the head water of the Beaver river, about three miles south of the grand rose voir. The general character of the coldnists for honesty and industry is highly spoken of, and it is a gratifying fact, that the use of ardent a pi its is strictly prohibited. A good school and a college are established, and some advance made in the cultivation of mulberry trees for the purpose of making silk. The improvements on their farms and their breeds of cattle are all of the best kind and the neatness and regularity of the whole village excites the pleasure and admiration of travellers.

Mr. Batchclor, the Police Officer. We are gratified to learn that this gentleman has nearly recovered from the very severe wounds and bruises he received in the vicinity of the Eutaw House, during the riot, on the night of the 2d of November last. His recovery may be deemed almost a miracle, when we take into account what he went through. Some idea of his situation may be had when we state that five ribs on the right aide, and four on the left were broken; the breast very muoh bruised and injured thirty-two dif-ferent wounds in the head, one of which fractured the skull the right jaw bone broken in one place the sight of the right eye nearly dastroyed by a wound from some sharp instrument, and both ears nearly cut off.

It requires a constitution of iron to stand all that, and yet we find Mr. B. in a fair way for actively en gaging in his dnties again. We hope and trust that the author of his misfortunes may be made to suffer the very utmost penalty or the law, for their base and cowardly act. Baltimore Sun.

The Glovers, brothers, are attaching to their new ship, the Clarion, the Transversal Propellers, which work under water. The engines will be 70 horse power, and the whole weight of tbe machinery wil not exceed SfU tons. J. U. Maw.

1 Quick Work. The National JE.e record tbe fact, that Mr. Billing, a blacksmith of Leicester, forged 150 horse-shoes in nine successive hours. They were made in a workman-like manner. It is lucky for Mr.

Billings that he did not flourish in times of yore. Not even nis horseshoes would have saved him from the penalty of witchcraft. Result of Challenge John McCord has been sen tenced in the Boston Municipal Court to six months hard labor in the house of correction of that city, far sending a challenge to the mate of th Caledonia to fight a duel. tj A lamentable case of suicide occurred on Sunday, in a nouse at ine upper eno oi sc. unarie street.

Tbe individual bore the name of Benjamin Oliver. He pierced his breast with mora than twenty dagger wounds, and finding them all ineffectual to take away bis life, be cut hi throat from ear to ear, with an old penknife. It appears that the suicide waa committed from an inducement to escape the horrors of deprivn- ww lion, ernoie, lerrioie indeed, are the flings or por erty JV. O. Advertiser.

Sudden Death. BIr. Icbabod Condict, a highly respectable merchant of Orange, N. J. died suddenlv at Newark, in an apoplectic He was on hi way to this city, and bad just entered the railroad ticket-office, wnen lie tell oeau on ine noor.

George W. Warner, a journeyman printer, of Prov idence, committed suicide, on Sunday last, by cutting nis inroii wivti us waa du years oi age. state that tbe census of Virginia, iudrinv from return, will, in all likelihood show full ffty thousand wniitt aauii in uiai aiaie wno cannot read Mr. Combe, the phrenologist, is preparing to publish a new work, entitled A phrenological visit to the United It will consist of three volume. im urn wnicn is aireaay priniea.

ii will treat largely on tbe manners, customs, and institutions pre- -J f. railing 13 iuo vniuu ouiei. The Governor of Virginia, in hi annual message I monrntodi tbe abolishment of imprisonment for debt For maim at the Depository of Ike Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 25 ComhtU, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, TRACTS, PRINTS. THERE are now so many eicellcnt Anti-Slavery publications, that the circulating librar syteini is probably th wNt effretaml and least xpewwvo "7 nfspreading the whole subject ueiore me plan is simply thU: Let the friends of the cause in each school district' tart a subscription, rawe what they can, purchase a library, appoint some one to act as librarian, and then draw out the; read them themselves, and put them into the bands of their friends and neighbors who are not abolition ists (who will read them,) eachanging inera two weeks, until every person in the district haa had am nnnortunitr tn read them. Those who help pay for the library will be entitled, not only to tha use of( the books tor themselves, but also to cirruiaio mcin among their friends.

In this way, three or four abolitionist may abolitionize almost any town or village, without the aid of a single lecinre.r This has been done in many instances. Those who can be induced to re ao, will most assuredly be converted, and thoroughly converted. i- Reader! will you see that an Anti-Slavery Library is established and put into circulation in your district, without delay? Libraries will be made op varying in price from five to twenty-five dollars. A liberal discount will be made to ocletie and individuals, who purchase tn sell again, or for distribution. A complete list of all the publications sold by the society will be given next week.

NEW Liberty Bell, for 1841, North Star, 7 Arrhv Despotism in America, by the Author of Archy Moore, Buxton on the Slave Trade, Peter Wheeler Chains and Freedom, British India or Thompson Lecture, Jay View, Jay on the Condition of Free Colored Rirhr and Wronr in Massachusetts. Madden Letter to Channing on tbe abuse of our Flag in tho Island of Cuba, Right and Wrong in A. S. Societies, The Envoy, Emancipation, by W. E.

Channing. COMFORTABLE PRESENTS. A LL THOSE who wish to make a real comforta- 21. ble present to their friends on Christroaa and New-Year's days, are reminded that tbe I a re est assort-! ment of MUFFS maybe found at the Ladies' Fur 1 Store, Prices from 50 cents to 15 dollars La dies and gentlemen, please remember 173 Washington street, nearly opposite the Old South church. W.

SHUTE.wfcnt. Dec. 18. FREE DRY GOODS. CALICOES.

Bleached and unbleached Muslins. do do Canton Flannel. Apron Check, and Colored Muslins. Printed and Plain Poneees. Bleached, unbleached, mixed, and lead colored Knit-I ting -Cotton and Linen Table Diaper.

i White Grass Cloth. Wicking and Cotton Laps. Fine Linen Thread. Superfine Bed Ticking, 4-4 wide. Cotton Pantaloon Stuffs.

Men's and Women's Cotton Twilled Muslin. Also a variety of SILK, LINEN, and WOOLLEN UUUUS, Wholesale or Ketail. CHARLES WISE, North West Cor. of Arch and Fifth sts. N.

B. Persons from a distance, wishing any ofthe above Goods, can have them sent, by forwarding I their order to the subscriber. U. YV. Philadelphia, 11 mo.

7, 1840. Ladies' Far Store. CASHMERE Goat Lynx Fitch Jennett-Snuir- rel. Coney and Swans-down trimmings of all shade and qualities. Also, the same materials in I MUrrs of all sizes and prices, rurs manufactured or repaired, at short notice, and by the best workmen.

lou are respectfully invited to call. WM. M. SHUTE. Aeent, 173 Washington-st.

nearly opposite Old South Church. Boston, XVov. 1840. dwis RICHT AND WRONG1N THE AN TI-SLAVERY SOCIETIES. -bij the soul Only, the nations shall he great and free Wordsworth.

THE Seventh Annual Report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, presented Oct. 14, Jo-HJ. tor sale at the Anti-slavery office, 25 Corn, hill. Price, 12 1-2 rents single. This work ought to be in tbe bands of every abo- litionist.

The following selection from it is the purest gold. ana ueaumuiiy wrougnt out: i it The anti-slavery societies have not vet done their work. When, in the "heat of political excitement, amid which the farorersof the few year hence, will be engaged when, in the conflict of a northern and southern party, yet to spring out of this question, compensation partial emancipation interme diate arrangements delay, become the rallying words ofthe opposition then let the slave rejoice if the an- ti-siavery societies exist, to urge up to the laark a par tially regenerated people, who, though favorers of) the cause ot freedom, will not deserve to be called its friends; for they will need constant and persorving rebuke, entreaty, warning, to prevent their making suipwrecK ot tne cause. iot by numbers, but by la- l- 1 wwrioua auu energetic naeuiy, will tne work De wrought out. Not by might or by power, but by ur spirit, saith the Lord of hosts Nov.

13. A. S. JORDAN, JW. 2 ilk Street sl Store from Washington St.

EVERY VARIETY OF SHELL COMBS HORN COSIBS POCKET-BOOKS FANCY GOOD3 AND PERFUMERY. Combs of every pattern made to order and repaired oci. .11 A. S. JORDAN, Sign of the Original Golden Comb, JVo.

2 uoors jrom nasnington Boston. Cheap Wholesale and Retail Comb, Pocket- Book, Fancy Goods and Perfamery tore. OHELL COMBS, Lace, Wrought and plain, of ing lawn iua ma lai nnih a miutm mil Horn Combs, of ev Combs, Pocket Combs, Shell, Ivory, Horn, Metalic, huuu, 1 ue ivory lyomoft rancy lortoise Shell Work Pocket Books and lr rietv: Dressina- Cases: Jftwelrv Roih: Mnmnran. 1 uuinduoh; waste ana Dank au: oneep and (jal Mr.ll.. rraiieis ana rocKei doom: nnenariA iim.h- nf all Pin.

a f- l. va ivi Ainici fancy Articles, of every description; Card Case Shell, Pearl and Ivory, 75 different pattern Napkin Ring I uw viaspj jvizors ana straps; Shaving Boxes; Hand and Glass Mirror Pen and Pocket Knives; Silk Purse: Games and Tom: Finn Kiiin.rv Perfumery of all kind; Fine Cosmetics; Hair Re-1 nurcn loom rowjer; reruviao do. nf Comb and Pocket Book made tn order, or rm. paired. Aug.

14,1840. MONTHLY SUBSCRIBERS for this publication are coming in rapidly. Yesterday thirty were received. One man says: 'We shall obtain -many mora. shall bring up the subject at our next monthly meet-1 Another correspondent writes I welcomed with thy the first number of the Monthly Offering.

I think. it is just wnat we nave needed tor some time. Another: I received the first No. ofthe Month. ly Offering a short time since have showed it to as many as I could, and find it meet with general appro- tunuiinK it win oo more good ban the Cradle of Libetty, being so cheap that every one can tske it if they wish Says another I ant rooeh nleased with th Monthly Offering, and have procured four subscribers in as many different families, who have never taken an anti-slavery periodical.

I shall make exertions to procure It has been favorably noticed in several ofthe anti-slavery newspapers. The true by Mr. Chapman, commenced in the first No. and to be comulcLH in tbe second, worth the entire subscription price of tbe public tioa for year. The second No.

is to ba delayed a few days for subscribers to come in, Now's the day, and note's the hour. Uj- Price 37 1-2 cts. per copy for the year. But to encourage it circulation, four copies will be sent to I 1 1 rwi -Mirew iur ops ooiltr, J. t.

B. isoaion, Aug. lUth. REMOVAL. FRANCIS C0GGSWELL, A.

WU 11. Dn (nomaeopatfceUc PfcyMciaai FmeUeal Ca. HAVING practised hi profession eight years, has removed from Taunton lo Boston, and takaa bouse 3U Front, near Eliot street. rarnem Hi Eseel'cyGov. Morton, George Bancroft, Em, lion.

Uaniel vt ensier Bradford Sumner, Esq. a ul: lien, iiuiu isiioaie, Fredcsick Smith, Esq. Iltn. num. siviiT, tjfjT Several letters, for general per on are lefts Mr.

J. B. Dow' Bookstore, 363 Washington street i a OfT teatr THOMAS INNINGS, Practical Snrgeoa Dcatist, 16 StraaxK (at Dr. Mann' office.) FILLING, Setting, Extracting and Regulating Teeth. Teeth" filled with pure gold, or the cd- hrattd JJthodton.

By the use vt this -rateable and re-' eently discovered article, thousand or item can ae saved, which, for the want thereof, other Dentist are compelled to extract. Mineral Teeth inserted wnn pivot or on goto piate, form one to an entire set, in the mot perft-ct and do- nhL m.nanr. Term low and all Operation Wetwl janted. Mr. J.

respectfully invites bis friends and tha public to call and examine hi practical specimen -plate work and mineral Teeth. 4-p3as. NEW WORK. A SCRIPTUKC MANUAL containing Toor bn- dred and thirty-five Question on Theological and moral subjects alphabetically arranged, designed to facititate the finding of Proof Texts. By CaanLxa I 81NNOKS.

Price 62 1-2 cts. single, 56ct. by tbe half dozen, and 50 cts. each by the dozen. For sale by CKOCKEK BREWSTER, 47 Washington StreaL Nov.

6w New Beaks, mi mt ii. 4 ft fin: 9ft r.mi;it 1 FREEDOM'S LYRE. Anew Anti-Slavery Hym Book, compiled with great care, and just from tbe New-York pi ess. Price 37 1-2 cent. collection of original pieces of poetry and prose.

Published at Hartford, Ct. Price 50 cents. v) Mr. Mat's Discottrsi, on the Life and character of Charles Follen Delivered before the Massachu setts Anti-Slavery society in ine Aianooro' cnapel, Boston, April 17, 1840. -Price 17 cents.

dj- ine above are ait worn 01 peculiar interest. NEW BOOK. THE ENVOY from Free Hearts to the Free. Just, published by the Pa wtueket Juvenile Anti-Slavery Society, and for sale at the Anti-Slavery OfSce, 25 Corn hi 1 1.. This is the Anti-Slavery Token no-, ticed by M.

W. C. in the Liberator of Sept. 18. Price 42cents each or $4 per Every abolitionist should be a purchaser.

1 hi Aieri-bLAVKRv DzroiiTORV is supplied with a large assortment of anti-slavery publications, whole-, ale and retail, which we are anxious to eichange for the money; Will our friends send in their orders? oct. North End Book Store. MOSES A. DOW (ofthe firm of Dow St. Jackson) has opened a Bookstore.

No. 204 Hanover St wlifro hn inltnda tn Lorn a rcnrml ncartrl nmnl nf V. ligious, School, Miscellaneous, jnvrnile and Toy UUUM. flIKI, DIjAim DUUAO AHU OI A IIUA' Any Book not on hand, by leaving order aa above, will be furnished at short notice, and as low as at any other store. fO" Anti-Slavery Books, of all kind, for sale aa above.

3t. Oct. 9. Boarding School for Yowig Ladies, BT MR. AND MRS.

MACK. THE Academical Year commence tbe second Moa day in September, and consists of four quarters of eleven week each. The vacation at the close of the year is five weeks; the others one week each. Air. and Mrs.

Mack bave been engaged 10 teacnias several year, and devote themselves to the parental education of their pupils. They have a bouse built expressly for the accommodation of about vwektv rvriLs, in a "pleasant and healthy situation. Thev- are assisted by-the best teachers of Music, Drawing, and modern languages, and by assistant teachers wko reside in the family. TtiKMS. Board (Due in advance,) for one year, 150.

For one quarter summer or fall, $45 winter or spring." TciTioir, (per quarter) English or Classical branch es, fla; Instrumental Music, with use of instrument $20; cultivation of the voice and singing, (teacker Miss Yoc.to, who boards in the family,) $5 Draw ng i painting in water colors, Silo teacher, Mr. England. Teacher of Italian and French Mr. Lanza, from Italy. Miss Cdshiro.

Assistant Principal. Bliss Saroxr, Assistant Pupil. D. MACK, Principal Cambridge, March 10, 184U. lleptf.

BOAH9XXTO XNXTJXXT VOJUt. GENTLEMEN visiting New York, either transiently or for a considerable time, who have nn nar. liality for an aimnsphere reeking with the fumes of alcohol and tobacco, will find a pleasant, quiet, comfortable house durinc their star, at the Temmmrt House 163 Barclay street, near tbe centra nfhuaina-M- nnd within a few minutes' walk of all the Steamboat Landings. Tbe location i one of the most desirable in the city the house new, spacious and com mod jobs, and tbe fare, though vegetable, and prepared with a trirt regard to Temperance and Health, will be feuad acceptable, and embracing every variety desired by the nndepraved appetite. July 10.

Boarding House for Seamen. i COLORED SEAMEN'S IIOII E. VRDKR THE UlRKCTIOIf of THE SltAMEN'S HOME SOCIETY, WILLIAM P. A. BODES.

No 61 Cherry; between Rosevelt street and James Slip. Cooks, Stewards and Seamen, who came this house, will have their choice of ships and tha highest wages. HATHA AY r. i i AD UNION COOKING STOVES, dke dke. -t STEPHEN BATES, Nos.

14 and 15 Dock Sauare, has fot sale 1 Hatha way Hot Air Cooking Stoves, Union Premium ulo do -i a Boyce's do do Experiment do do Lady's Hill pot, do do do Six plate Stoves, Two Funnel Parlor, do Fie Oven and Boiler tfoarlur, Ash pit Doors, Taunton Hollow. Ware Cauldrons, New-York Parlor Grates, Cast Iron Sink elegant Steel Fir Sets, vc. i Also, an assortment of Doris 1 sad- Miser va Fire Places, improved the best 8tov for naming coal ia um- Nov. SO. AGENTS OF THE JUBESATOH.

Massachusetts. William Loring, Sandwich -Z Freeman, Brewster; Exekiel Thatcher, Barnstable and Yarmouth R. F. Welk at, Dennis George Harmon, Haverhill --Joseph Brtwir Anaovtr I sepb L. Noyes, Georgetown; John Clement, Towns' end.

Rhodk-Islaicd. Wm. Adams, Pawtucket Wai Aplin, Providence; Georg Gould, Warwick. Co secticot. George Benson, Brooklyn tU 8.

Cow I en, Hartford yVeter Osborn, Jew-HaVm Thomas Keoney, Jr. jVorwieh John 8. Naw-Yoaa. S.W.Benedict and Thomas Van ataax aalaer, JYew- York City Charles S. Morton, Albany 3 James C.

Fuller, Skantattlts H. Barker. Pr; Thomas McCliatock, Waterloo; Charles JtlsraioR Hwtsoit. A PxswsvLVAifiA. H.

C. Hewell, Alleghany; J. Yashon, FUuhmrg Preston, West Grove Ji seph Fulton, Jr. AJm p-Tboroas Peart, EnUrprise Thomas Hambletoa, RusoeUvUle B. Kent, Andrew's Bridge John Cox, Homortan Xev.

A. Boyd. Erie, Erie Cm. James M. M'Kim, Philadelphia.

Boyle, Ci-aa Medina; Hm. J. Harvey, Harveusburg A4ner G-Kuk, William Hilla, Obe, Lot Uolmss-JVew Lisbon iJooow' A.DugdaWCteUs. mi TH POT MAITII SIIISAI. 4.

Remittances by Mo4ijA Postmaster may eawler: money in a latter to the publisher of a newspaper, pay the subscription of a third person, and frank L. tter if written by himself. i Agents was remit Hey shoald always sWj nata thepersons to who or it is to ba credited it' 1-.