HASZARD'S GAzE1"rE, JUNE 2.

AIEBICAN JOTTINGB. s raw ITIMS saour corona.

Colour is the “plague-spot in the constitution H of America. ow to get rid of it, nobody knows; what is to be the upshot, no one can foretel. So far as an outsider is able to 'udge, few are satisﬁed with the resent state of thin s. The more intelli eat an retlective art of this nation seem to e getting more a ive to the dan er, or at least to the social degradation invo ved in the permanence of slaver . Not a little of this increasing sensibility is, oubtless, owin to the recent and unexpected acts of Congress establishing Kansas and Nebraska, without guaranteeing, in accordance with an existing statute, that slavery shall not be in- troduced into these western territories. Offen- ded with this loose legislation, and possibly apprehensive of the spread of the institution over the broad continent, even to the shores of the Paciﬁc, many persons hitherto inclined to enforce the Fu itive Slave Law are now a pa- rently dispos to adopt every means 0 de- feating its operation ; or. at all events, remain- ing neutral in moody discontent. the lend no assistance to slave-owners in reclaiming their vagrant property. In short, it may be inferred, from recent demonstrations, that the question of conﬁning slaver to its older and more con- genial region, an of modifying other social restrictions in regard to colour, is gaining ground, and that next Congress will not pass away without something being done on this vexing subject. The following are a few items illustrative of matters as they stand :-

A Foiirussra ‘ Cow-niniNo.’—A case was tried not long since in the courts of New York, in- volving an important uestion in law. 'I‘ question was, whether s aves who had been in- voluntarily brought into the state, could be legally carried back into servitude by their master. The result of this litigation has not fallen under my notice; but I observe that in Ohio, the lnwon the point has been established. About a year ago, a Mr. and Mrs. Williams, from New Orleans, visited Circlevillc, in Ohio, bringin with them a female slave, twelve years 0 ago. One da Mrs. Williams thought proper to give the gir a ‘ cow-hiding,’ where- upon she decamped, and took refuge among some of the coloured opulatiou. By them the‘ girl was informed, that having been brought by her proprietor into the free state of Ohio, she could not be legally reclaimed or taken back to slavery. Not aware of this state of the law, Williams tried to recover the girl, but found that the authorities could not assist him, and that if he attempted violence, he would subject himself to a prosecution for kidnap ing. He and his wife,accordinglv, returns to New Orleans without their save, who remained with her coloured friends, and was put to school.

A Bisnor Si.ivsnoi.nss.—A correspondent of the New York Es recs, lately furnished a fasci-

' worthies as Bisho

ne¥oes—ungratefu wrethes !—are continually ma ing their escape from the pleasures of servitude. Unfortunately, good masters do not live for ever; neither are they always ex- empted from pecuniary misfortunes, or from a wish to chan their professional pursuits; and, consequent y, their servants, along wit other chattels, run a continual risk—there lies the pinch—of being suddenly brought to the hammer. When negroes take ﬂight, the best plan for securing them, we are told, is at once to employ a professional slave-catcher, who es to work in a methodical way, with dogs trained for the purpose of scenting fugitives. During last year, a runaway slave was thus traced to Washington, andt ere scented by a dog in a place of hiding, not half a mile from the Capitol, where Congress was at the time in session. The New York Tribune contains the following advertisement of a professional slave- cateher, quoted from a newspaper in a west- ern slave-state :—‘ Nsoao oos.-I would in- form the citizens of Holmes County, that I still have my Negro Dogs, and that they are in good training, and ready to attend to all calls of hunting and catching RIINAWAY Nsenoss, at the following rates; For hunting per day, five dollars; or if I have to travel any distance, every day will be charged for, in going and returning. as for hunting, and at the same rates. Not less than ﬁve dollars will be charged in any case, where the Negroes come in, before [reach the place. From ﬁfteen to twenty-ﬁve dollars will be char ed for catching, according to the trouble; if t e Negro has weapons, the charge will be made according to the diﬁiculty had in taking him, or in case he kills some of the dogs, the charge will not be governed by the above rates, I am explicit, to revont any misunderstanding. The owner 0 the slave to pay all expenses in all cases. I venture to suggest to any person having a slave-runaway, that the better plan is to send for the dogs forthwith, when the Ne ro goes oll', if tlioy in- tend sending at all, and et no other person go in the direction, if they know which way‘ the runaway went; as many persons having other Negroes to hunt over the track, and failing of success, send for the dogs, and perhaps fail in conse uence to catch their Negro, and thus oauseless y fault thedogs. Terms, cash. Ifthe money is not aid at the time the Negro liunt- ed for is caug t, he will be held bound for the money. I can be found at home at all times,

when hunting with the doge.—John Long, Feb. 14th, 1855.

A Coot. Paorossi..—The troublesome foible thatrunaway slaves have ofgetting into Canada has given considerable annoyance to persons who make a profession of catching them. In some instances, they have tried to follow them across the Boundary, but not with good results ; as, accordin to British law, all human beings are free, and the forcible seizure of anybody, no matter what be his colour, is kidnapping,

nating account 0 the manner in which Ilen-

are treated on a plantation in Louisiana be- Ion 'n to Bishop Polk. We ive it as a curiosity in its way. ‘ The plantation resents a favorable, but y no means a pccu iar pic- ture of southern homes and hearts. I allude to the su r-estate of Bishop Polk, on the Bayou La ourche, and in ssession of one of the happiest and most inte li nt families one sees anywhere. There are 40 slaves, 90 of whom are children under ten years of age, and 170 working-hands. Eighteen children had been born upon the plantation in less than a year. The children are trained religiously as soon as their minds can made to ccmprehen the idea of God and of reli ious duty. Many of the grown slaves can bet read and write: and those who can do so, are not slow to teach others. Probabl , the world over, there could not be found t rec or four hundred bein together he ier or better cared for. than slaves on t is plantation. Thou h a su lanhtion, the slaves are not war ed on

s and Bishop Polk has demonstrated, that it betli practical and economical, even in the grindin , to en nd all sorts of labor on S y. A

perlment, conclu ed to recommend the stopping of labour on the Sabbath; acknowledged tha the change worked well : and that he was mak- ing more and better sugar than ever before. The children have their nurseries, where the very old take care of the very young, while the mothers and fathers are at work. hose from ten years to ten months old, live and play to- ther ; and it is not until they reach fourteen, t at regular day-service is put a them. On a plantation like this, the majority of those of mature years are regular members of the church; and here are ninety oommunicants. “ If northern divines, however anti-slavery the may be, will come here to save souls,” sai Bishop Polk. “I Vrill welcome them when they come. I will not ask whence they came,or what their faith. They shall see slavery precisely as it is. They shall visit ever plantation in the Louisiana diocese, and I will only exact of them, that they preach the gos l, as it is proclaimed in the Word of

I’-' 5 -s I I

i I

Nsaiio Do(:s.—Witlimit calling in question the kindly treatment of slaves by such pious

and subject to punishment. In circumstances so disagreable to slave-catchers, a member of this respectable fraternity—to wit, Mr. John II. Pope—hailin from the town of Frederick, in Maryland, an during the 1st of January, sends a letter to the ‘ chief of police, Montreal, Canada,’ in whic he makes what the news-

pers describe as a ‘ cool proposal.’ In jus- tice to Mr. Pope, we co y his letter entire: ‘ Dani Sia.—Though the awe of your province preclude slavery, and on ma deem it im- proper that I should a dress on relative to that question, which has create so reat sectio- nal animosity at home, and elicito such dis- aproval abroad—still, believing] that a sense 0 justice inﬂuences everyright-t inkin man in the formation of his judgment and t e mode of his conduct, I have taken the liberty, which. if it meets not with views alike to mine, will be pardoned. Vast numbers of slaves, escap- ing from their masters or owners, succeed in

Ielglllhg our wit out t e hzrestored b cunuin , to ther row are 0 re , and will be paid for t eir return ; and could I ﬁnd an eﬁclsnt person to act with me, a rest deal of ngoneyucould be malilie, as I won d “e.quelly divi e. an are wi ing to come a r wri- ting to that e ct The only apprdhension we have in approaching too far nto Canada, is the fear pf being arrests: ; and lipid Ida go0dbassis- tant n your ci w o won in ace t a ne- ﬁoes to the fI'0tII’II6l‘, I would be there to pay t e cash. On your answer, I can furnis names and descriptions of ne roes, which will fully reward the trouble. newer either to accept or decline. Yours, Joan II. Pops, Police Oﬂicer and Conrtoble.’—On this letter, the Montreal Gazette of Januar 13th oﬁ'ers some pointed remarks, and cone udes in a strain to which our readers may possibly res rid : ‘ W have no desire to counsel violence towards any n i n, h t sich a ro osition as that we have jiliit_rea‘ll inlthis iiligrcpi-liunter‘s letter, roiises a Z”l2‘.‘.’Lf. "“i'l‘.'..'.“..‘£°‘2i...‘".'.‘.i.°i'I. "’§l°.'i‘.Z‘ 113.‘. l‘.?l.f e I . ' one's own hands were jllBilil§l)l0, it would be in such a case as this. We will not trust our- selves to write more about it to-day, but can only or shame on the man who would so de- grade liimselfiis to make such a proposition !

e of the Fugitive Slave Iaw,

Polk, it in certain that

ﬁve and a half miles east of Lexington, except-

Triple shame on the people whose laws sanc- tion his conduct! And we may thank God once more, and rejoice, that their countr is not ours—that we have no share or participa- tion in their sin.’

Miss Ginson.—ln the New York Tribune of January 30, there a pears an account of a runaway affair. It begins with a quotation from the Detroit Tribune of the 15th of the sauie month, to the effect, that a Miss Gibson, from Maysville, in Kentuck , has just crossed the river St. Clair to the auadian shore, havin arrived in safety by the under round railway from Toledo. ‘ What makes t is case of un- usual interest,’ proceeds the Detroit paper, ‘ is the fact that Miss Gibson is as white as any of our lady-readers who will con this para raph. Unless informed of the fact, no one would have the rcinotest suspicion, that she had a drop of negro blood running in her veins. Her e are blue, her hair brown, her complexion air and clear. She is very intelligent, and her appearance really prepossessing.' Now or Greeley's characteristic commentary : ‘ The suberb chivalr which would keep such a fair chattel should e known, but in default of such knowledge, let us ima inc a public dinner, and the company, with that chivalrous man pre- sent, and the proceedings at Toast No. 18: Woman .' [ Nine cheers.]

0 tn

0 women ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard lo please, dtc.

[ lminense applause, the whole company risin and using their glasses, some breaking them. The gallantllolonel Fitz Specimen, ofKentucky, being called upon to respond to this toast, rises and speaks as follows 2-“ Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen.—It is time-honoured custom to toast women at public dinners ; and, what is more, to reserve the toast till the close of the feast, when our hearts are warmest,and, under the inspiration of jolly Bacchus, our feelings uiellowcst. [Cheers rnd laughter.] Woman ! what shall not be said in her favor? When too young to know love or gratitude, we are nurtur- ed at her breast, and her tenderness glows in the ratio ofour helplessness and infant sorrows. When a little older, the ﬁrst beam of divine feeling comes from the rainbow of undeﬁned passion which oyerarches our existence, even in the dawn ofyouth. [Applause and disorder.] Then in our days of ripened passion, what makes the stars shine, the ﬁowret perfume, the grove vocal—what makes life worth the toil of existence, but the love of woman! Oh. how poor, how mean is our boasted ambition, our

ublic honour, our private labours, without ller smile ! A lause considerable.] But how doubly, triply, quadrubly blest, are we in this land of liberty, where alone women is

respected by the law? Look at Europe, and

you ﬁnd her ever and everywhere doomed to the coarsest toils. War’s reatest mart rs, and the shame of peace! be ploughs, digs, delves, carries loads, plays scavenger, descends into coal-pits, is he itually prostituted—the centre of civilisation, Paris even, showing one lost daughter to every three that are born [Shame ! shame! and groans.] But in our own country, the land of the free and the home 0

the brave, women ﬁrst ﬁnds a place due her honour, nobility, and tenderenss. Here she is respected. ree as virtue can render her-

prevince, and are, therefore,

run muted, beloved, venerated—this is her para- disa. [Extravagant cheering.] Go where you will in the thirty-one states, and a halo of ido atry encircles her fair brow ! [A gentleman mutters: “ All except niggers.’] The gentle- man need not correct me—I said air brow. EGrcat cheerin and laughter.) oman. Mr.

qairman and entlemen, now and for ever- God bless her!” Need we add that, be end a doubt, the gallant colonel sat down ami loud applause, lon continued, and that—in spite of his speech, iss Gibson found it necessary to run away from his proprietorship.

ms woai.n's raooiiiss.

It is curious and deeply interesting to ob- serve how much of the advance which man- kind has made in some of the most essential branches of internal improvement has been eﬁected within the last quarter of a century; and on the other hand, in how many do rt- ments human intelligence reached its culminat- ing point ages a In the ﬁne arts and in speculative thoug t, our remotest ancestors are still masters. In silence and its ap lica- tions, the order of precedence is reverse , and our own age has on more proliﬁc and amazing than the aggregate of the ages which have gone before us.

Again : it is probable, that Abraham sent messagesto Lot as rapidly as Frederick the Great or George III. transmitted orders to their Generals and Admirals. In 1774, the wooden telegraph was invented, and made a certain, though a partial and a slight advance. But, with this exception, the rate at which in- telligence could be conveyed, had remained stationary at that of ordinary locomotion on horseback up to I840. In 1840 we communica- tcd over vast distances in appreciably inﬁnitesi-

mal subdivisions of time. Iho experiment was made, and a message was trniisinitted from Belgrade to Liverpool inslantmimusly. .\ spark given at Dundee could lire the cannon ol the

Invalides at Paris. Here too at a single leap we seem to have reached the neuplus ultra of earthlygpossibility. In ten years—nay, in five —we ve cleared the vast space between the speed of lightning.—North British Review.

BUBIAL OF TIIE DEAD AT SCUTARI.

On the edge of the bank of the Sea of Marmara, a few hundred yards to the loll of the mouth of the Bosphoi-iis, is a level space of greensward, used by the English, from the time oftheir arrival in Turkey, as a. burying ground. The placid sea, the distant isles, the Cape of Broussa on the lelt, and the Seraglio Point on the right, make up a lovely view of the melancholy spot. At thejscuthern extremity, are single graves neatly deﬁned and turfed, where those, who died while the army halted here in the spring, are laid. But the press of moi-_tality no longer admitted of such decent burial. To those accustomed to see the departed treated with reverence, and at- tended solemnly to their last habitation, there was something horribly repulsive in a wholesale interment. Where the dead far outnumbered those who stood round the grave. A pit about ten feet deep and fourteen square, received every afternoon those who died during the last twenty-four hours. A rickety araba, or country cart, drawn by two oxen, was the hearse which conveyed them from the neighboring hospi- tal to the place of sepulchre. In the yard of the hospital is a small dismal house, without windows; for its tenants no longer need the light. Thither those who have died in this and the neighbouring hospitals, are brought on stretcliers, and packed like sacks in a granary till the araba comes for them. Sewed, each in a blanket, with sufficient tightness to leave a caricature, mummy like resemblance of humanity, a score of bodies are laid on the vehicle, travel slowly, dangling and jostling as they go to the mouth of the yawning pit, where the party who dug it await the coming of the cart. There is no time for ceremony; each oor corpse is hastily lilled off, and and, oiihled up limply in cases of recent death, or still’ and stake-like where it has been longer cold, is handed down, nameless, unknown, and void of all the dignity of death, to its appointed station in the crowd. One row being laid, the next covers it, and the feet of those who deposit them necessa- rily trsmple on the forms below, leaving muddy foot-prints on the blanket shrouds. Sixty-one (about the daily average number at the time) were buried together on the day I visited the spot. Noticing one corpse on which the lower part of the outline was unusually thin, I remarked to the corporal in charge, that the diseased must have been long ill, to be so wasted; but he pointed out to me that one limb had been amputated’ A clergyman waited till all were deposited, to read the funeral service; close by, ano- ther pit was being dug for the requirements of next day , and we had seen in the hospi- tal many of those unmistakably destined to ﬁll it. The scene reminded one of Defoe’a accounts of the burial about London at the time of the Great Plague. I have menti- oned elsewhere the trenches dug on the battle-ﬁeld to contain rows of dead. But there they lie like soldiers, with an awe and glory on their blood-stained uniforms and upturned faces no pall, nor coﬁin could bestow. In the pits of Scutari, Death is deprived of its sanctity, majesty, and myste- r , and retains only those elements which constitute the grotesque. ﬁicers are bu- ried singly in graves close to the edge of the bank where cross headed slips of wood, like those which mark plants in a green- house, and not much larger, are labelled, sometimes with the name of the occupant below, sometimes less speciﬁcally-—-as a “ woman ’ “ a Russian oﬁicer. ”

Noon DAY Tsuisiis.—Love, the toothache, smoke, a cough, and a tight boot, are things which cannot possibl be ept secret very long. Every woman is in t e wrong until she cries- and then she is in the right instantly. A hw- dy is often the safety-valve of insanity. e man who lends an umbrella is a real philan- thropist sacriﬁcing himself for the beneﬁt of his species. There is a craving in almost every man's breast for a latch-key. Every woman’a mother has been beautiful.——Punch.

The incen.-s burning in Chinese idol temples it said to cost £90,0ll0,U0(l annually, or more than a dollar for every hnin, woman and child, in the whole l‘lllI[IlIt:.