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who Iftrgely and readily profit by the industrial conditions of slavery in the South , should in decency be silent on the subject . The position of the New York Tribune , oa & leader of abolition opinion in the States , makes the irgctrnent all the more valuable
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" ADVANCE , AUSTRALIA !* ' * Advance , Australia , " was selected as a motto of the heraldic bearings of our great colony , and each day has shown it to be appropriate . The latest mail is rich in facts showing the progress of the colony . The colony of Victoria is the foremost of the three colonies . Its population in 1851 was but 95 , 000 ; in 1852 it rose to 200 , 000 . Its shipping ( inwards ) , 126 , 000 in 1851 , was 408 , 000 tons in the succeeding year . Its imports , 1 , 056 , 000 ? . in 1851 , rose to 4 , 044 , 0007 . in 1852 . But its exports show a still more remarkable increase . They were l , 424 , 000 £ in 1851 , and in 1852
they had increased to 7 , 452 , O 0 OZ . But this is merely the official record at low prices of the exports ; while it is known from other sources that the gold exported alone amounted to nearly 15 , 000 , 000 ? . Thus the exports of this young colony equals the exports of California , surpasses by four millions the exports of Bengal , the greatest of our Indian presidencies , and approaches to one-fourth of the value of the exports of Great Britain itseif . The town of Melbourne has shown proportionate progress . In March , 1851 , it had 23 , 000 souls ; at present it contains 80 , 000 ; and Geeling , the second
town in Victoria , which had but 8000 souls two years ago , has now 20 , 000 . The entire value of the gold raised in Victoria , during . 1852 , is calculated at 18 , 500 , 000 ? . Rich mines of tin ore have been also reported . Immigration continues , but the wages of labour are still high , and house-rent and market prices are exorbitant . ^ In Sydney , also , there is a severe pressure on the market , the demand far exceeding the supply of goods . At the diggings therejs still " good luck : " at a new district called Jumberry Creek , two men averaged 502 . a-day for twelve weeks , and their companions had been equally fortunate .
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REPUBLICAN SIMPLICITY . SOME instructions from the Department of State in Washington , addressed to its Diplomatic Agents in foreign countries , have lately been printed in the newspapers . We extract a paragraph : — " In . performing the ceremonies observed upon tho occasion of his reception , the representative of tho United States will conform , as far as is consistent with a just sense of his devotion to republican institutions , to the customs of the country wherein he is to reside , and with the rules prescribed for representatives of his rank ; but the department would encourage , as far as practicable , without impairing his usofulnesa to his country , lus appearance at Court in tho simple dross of an American citizen . Should there bo cases where this cannot bo done , owing to the character of the foreign Government , without detriment to tbo public interest , the nearest approach to is
it compatible with tho duo performance oi his duties earnestly recommended . The simplicity of our usages and tho tone of fooling among our people aro much more in accordance with tho example of our first and most distinguished representative at a Royal Court than the practice which has sinco prevailed . It is to bo rogrotted that there was over any departure in this rogpecfc from tho oxample of Dr . Franklin . History has recorded and commended this example , so congenial to the spirit of our political institutions . Tho department is desirous of removing all obstacles to a return to tho simple and unostentatious course which was deemed so proper and was so much approved in the oarhest day * of tho ropublic . Tho instruction to Consuls are of a practical character , entering into a common-senso statement of dotails more useful in tone than tho usual stifl and dry style of English official writing .
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MORMON ORATORY . Tub " saints" aro disturbed by « apostates" amongst thomBolvcH , and their chief ; Brigham Young , hurls holy denunciation against tho traitors . In tho tjiboraci at tho Great Salt Luke City , ho spoke a fierce " peech amid a crowd of his people . After warning thorn against tho apostate , in their midst , who were trying to rise up and usurp Joseph ' s ( Joo Smith's ) P l « Whafc do wo soo horo P" exclaimed tho prophet . " Do W HOC l « wo , p W Jo j ) o w 0 sc 0 ftj , OH-^ iSH s ^^ x ^ s s ^^ feLSr . W-r- ?^ diu
¦ xu *™ , --v - - h " Oppo 8 od to nothing unr « - jne-king ¦ apostate , J * y ? P Si go and prosper tianity . I Bay to nun , r of ^ ftoro worH 0 if you can I But wo liavo g ^ ^ } m [> than auoha oharaotoi . ^ wn ^ ^ . m Sabbath my oars wore ^ aluto . t ^ ^ tho atrootfl here . . / J ^ on iBm in you-tho spirit that havowt thoBptafc ^^ J fc J ^ horo > wouui Hay Joaopl ! and Hiram u < I » or ^ ^^ ftnf l « fcot iu hoa * bot , whft ? do vou Wftnfc o prove P »» you KtfI S 3 ^ S « w * 2 . ' * - L * - - » » ff
from the church thirteen tunes for lying , is anything worthy of notice ? I heard that a certain gentleman , a picture-maker in this city , when the boys would have moved away the wagon in which this apostate was standing , became violent with them , saying , ' Let this man alone , these are saints that are persecuting . ( sneeringiy ) . We want such men to go to California , or anywhere they choose . ' I say to those persons , you musfrnot court persecution here , lest you get so much of it you will not know what to do with it . Do not court persecution . Wo have known Gladden Bishop for more than twenty years , and know him to be a poor , dirty curse . * * '¦¦ * I dreamed that I was in the midst of a people who were dressed in
rags and tatters—they had turbans upon their heads , and these were also hanging in . tatters . The rags were of many colours , and when the people moved they were all in molion ; their object in this appeared to be to attract attention . Said they to me , 'We are Mormons , Brother Brigham . ' 'No , you are not , ' I replied . 'But we have been , ' said they , and began to jump , and caper about , and dance , and their rags of many colours were all in motion , to attract the attention of the people . I said , ' You are no saints , you are a disgrace to them . ' Said they , 'We have been Mormons . ' By-and-by along came some mobocrats , and they greeted them with , ' How do you do , Sir , I am hamov to ' see vou . ' Thev kept on that way for an
hour . I felt ashamed of them , for they were in my eyes a disgrace to Mormoriism . Then I saw two ruffians , whom I knew to be robbers and murderers , and they crept into a bed where one of my wives and children were . I said , ' You . that call yourselves brethren , tell me is this the fashion among you ? ' They said , ' Oh ! they are good men , they are gentlemen ! ' With that I took my large bowieknife , that I used to wear as a bosom-pin in Nauvoo , and cut one of their throats from ear to ear , saying , ' Go to hell , across lots ' . ' The other one said , ' You dare not serve me so . !'' I instantly sprang at him , seized him by the hair of the head . and . brinerma Mm down , cut his throat ,
and sent him after his comrade ; then told them both if they would behave themselves they should yet live , but if they did not I would unjoint their necks . At this I awoke . I say , rather than that apostates shall nourish here I will unsheath my bowie-knife and conquer or die ! ( Great commotion in the congregation , and a simultaneous burst of feeling assenting to the declaration . ) Now , you nasty apostates , clear out , or judgment will be put to the line , and righteousness to the plummet . ( Voices generally , ' Go it ! go it ! ' ) If you say it is right , raise your hands . ( All hands up . ) Let me call upon the Lord to assist us in this , and every good work . "
The " saints" appear to have other causes for fear than from " apostates in their midst . " There was said to be in the territory " a horde of Mexicans , or outlandish men , who were infesting the settlements , stirring up the Indians to make aggression upon the inhabitants , and who were also furnishing the Indians with guns , ammunition , &c , contrary to the laws of this territory and the laws of the United States . " President Brigham Young has issued a proclamation ordering small detachments of " military" to " reconnoitre the country" for the purpose of arresting and keeping in custody every strolling Mexican party , and furnishing information to head quarters .
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ARNOLD RUGE'S LECTURES . De . Abnoid Rucke has given this week three lectures on German Literature , Philosophy , and History , in Willis ' s Rooms , showing ua the state of that country in a new light . Beneath tho Literature sinco Lessing was German Philosophy , beneath Gorman Philosophy the system of Humanism ; and in Gorman History we find the practical consequences of those ideas . Considering the Literature of tho last hundred years , ho described the first poriod , that of Lessing , or of tho enlightenment , as that of the struggle for liberty of thought and science ; tho second , that of Kant , as the
poriod in which a tomplo of free science and art was erected , the supremacy of scienco and nrt being established ; tho poriod of Ficlde as that of tho licentiousness of the romantic party , which deteriorated Fichto ' s absolute liberty into absolute frivolity , and opposed tho supremacy of reason by tho supremacy of their fancy . The fourth period , that of llegel , bo described as that of tho victory of Philosophy over tho romantic party . Tho men of tho first poriod ho stated to bo Leasing , Liehtonborg , Klopstock , Wioland , F . H . Jnciobi ; of tbo second , Kant , Herder , Schiller , Goethe ; of tho third , Fichto , Novalis , Seholling , Ticdc , the Schlogols , and
tho Teutonic writers sinco 1815 ; of tho fourth , Hegol and his school ; Strauss , Fouorbach , Platen , Hoino , tho Political Lyrics and tho Humanists . In tho courso of Gormiin Philosophy tho Kantian Philosophy was explained ns n system of restricted liberty or moro indopondenco of men of nature and of tho senses j tho IHohtian Philosophy , ns laying down tho principle of absolute liborty of tho tlrinking person ; tlio Hegelian Philosophy , » h currying out tho priuciplo and tho system of absolute liberty ; and Humanism , m realizing tho principlo and nyntom of human liberty in religion , societnnd state .
y , For tho political history of Germany ho stated tho dissolution of tho old Germany by tho Reformation , the formation of n now Germany ' tho progrom , Prussia ; tho doHtruotion of both in 1806 ; tho reformation and revival of IVusihm from 1808-18 ; the Frnwiiw roi » tin «
tic reaction j the revolution of 1848 , and the causes of the failure of the attempt to reconstruct the empire and the single dominions of the princes upon a democratic basis . Calling the German princes the aristocracy of the empire , and their system pastoral supremacy , he showed that the present constitution of Germany"is an aristocratic anarchy ; full licentiousness and the dominion of the romantic or old German party , by which the present insignificant position of Prussia is explained , and the future revolution may be foreseen , as at last the will of the people must be done , and also in society and state the licentious party conquered by the party of the supremacy . of law .
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SPIRITUAL PENMANSHIP . Oitb tables and heads have been turned by tmwilling hands and talking ghosts- but they manage those things better in-America . Tho Neio York Tribune reports , as fact , a great extension of our communications with " the other world . " " The Hon . N . P . Tallmadge , " wishing to test the " spiritual" messages conveyed through the Misses Fox , summoned the spirit of John C . Calhonn . It came , and gave him several answers to his questions . But Mr . Tallmadge , willing to be thoroughly convinced , asked the spirit , could it do anything—that is , make a physical manifestation . The spirit said " Yes . " And on a subsequent day , the parties present sat quite away from the table , and the table moved . The following conversation then occurred : —
" Q . Can you raise the table entirely from the floor ? A . Yes . " a . Will you raise me with , it ? A . Yes ; get me the square table . " The square table was of cherry , with four legs—a large size tea-table . It was brought ^ out and substituted for the round one , the leaves being raised . I took my seat on-the centre ; the three ladies sat at the sides and end , " their hands and arms resting upon it . This , of course ,
added to the weight to be raised—namely ,-my own Aveight and the weight of the table . Two legs of the table were then raised about six inches from the floor , and then tho other two legs were raised to a level of the first , so that the whole table was suspended in the air about six inches above the floor . While thus seated on it , I could feel a gentle , vibratory motion , as if floating in the atmosphere . After _ being thus suspended in the air for a few moments , the table was gently let down again to the floor !"
Subsequently , the spirit of Calhoun became musical —made a candlestick beat time , rang bells in a lively peal , and played a guitar in a way " most musical , most melancholy . " 3 Mr . Tallmadge then asked the spirit to write something . The spirit told him , in reply , to sharpen the pencil , und put it and some paper into a drawer . Tt was done ; sonic sounds were heard—the pencil was heard to move ; but when the drawer was opened there was no writing . Tlio spir it rapped out , that ho had not then " power " enough to write—on another evening would . Tho other evening came , and thus Mr . Tallmadgo tells the story : —
" Wo mot pursuant to appointmont—took our seats at tho table , our hands and arms resting on it aa usual . I placed tho paper with my silver-cased poncil on tho drawer , and said"' My friend , I wish tho sentence to bo in your own hand writing , so that your frionda will recognise it . ' Ho ropliod , ' You will know tho writing . ' "Ho then said— . . "' Havo your minds fixed on tho spirit ot John C . Onlhoun . '
" I soon heard a rapid movemont of tho pencil on tho papor , and a rustling of tho paper , together with a xnovoment of the drawer . I was then directed to look under tho drawer . I looked , and found my poncil outside of tlio drawor , near my feet , but found no papor on tho drawer whoro I plaeod it . On mining up tho drawer , I discovered tho paper all under it . Tho uheota were a littlo deranged , and on examining , I found on tho outnido shoot those words— ' m with you still ! ' " Tho writing ban boon pronounced by Cnlhoim ' H friends to bo " a perfect fac simile" of his writing . Mr . Talhnadgo adds : —
" This ' sontonco' is porfoefcly characteristic of CuJhoun . It contains bin torHono . su of stylo , and his condensation oi thought . It in a text from which volumes might bo written . It proves" 1 . Tho immortality of tho soul . " 2 . Tho powor of spirits to revisit tlio oartii . " , 'J . " Their ability to communicato with relatives and frionda . . . " 4 . Tho identity of fipmtn to all otornity . " How ono ' x flO . nl oxpanda with thoso sublime concoptionn ! How rosistlosa i » thin toHtiniony of Ihoir truth ! How surprising that men can doubt , when this flood of living li tf ht i » poured upon thorn by spirits who , in tho lungtuiKu of Webs tor , ' revel in tho glory of tho otornal light of God . '"
Lord Burloigh ' s shako of tho head was not half bo impressive . What makes tho matter at all worth notice , in tho credit it has received in America . Tho New York Tribune opoiiH its coIuuhih fivoly to mich narratives ; and tho " Hon . N . P . Tnllunulgo" iu a public man of eorno note .
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July 9 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 6 S 7
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Leader (1850-1860), July 9, 1853, page 657, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1994/page/9/
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