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A Revolution In Cotton-Spinning. We Have...
pleted in time to take it § place among the marvels of the Exposition . We understand our Transatlantic cousins have cast an eye on Mr . Kirkman ' s specification , and that on the representations of the "United States' Commissioner to Mr . Abbott Laurence , the drawings have been submitted to that gentleman , who has thought them , worthy of a direct communication to Washington on the subject . As in the case of all discoveries which supersede , or radically simplify
more complicated systems , the present invention may remain a long time very sparingly adopted . It certainly promises a larger profit to the manufacturer and a cheaper and better article to the consumer ; but it is impossible that a change which effects so large a saving in wages should not alarm the labour market and cause hesitation in employers . How can ¦ we escape the reflection that under a sounder industrial regime , science would , cease to be the rival , in becoming the helpmate , of labour .
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Redskin Orators. A Deputation Of Chippew...
REDSKIN ORATORS . A deputation of Chippewas were in Washington On the 4 th of September , when they had an interview with the authorities of the " Indian Bureau . " The facts are gathered from the National Intelligencer of Washington . These Indians arrived there in the early part of the week . They were six in number , including their interpreter . The object of their visit was not very clear , but might be drawn from their addresses to the Commissioner . It was announced by the interpreter , whose Indian title is Emmegahbowh , that three of the chiefs would speak . Accordingly , Iaskwekeshig , or Crossing-Sky , the principal chief , advanced , and , shaking hands with the Commissioner , said : —
" My Father , —The business which brought me here , and which we talked of a little yesterday , I will now speak to you about more particularly . Before I left rny country every Indian gave me counsel , and told me what to say to you and to our Great Father ( the President ) , and when 1 return they will look , to me for a reply . I come here to talk to you because I feel that I have done no wrong , and committed nothing evil , either against the whites ot my own people . I have come a long way , and have been very anxious to see you , my father , and my Great Father . These wampums were present before many chiefs , and the words that I now speak
are the words they wished me to say . Our people have become much troubled and very anxious in their minds , for fear their Great Father is going to take away their land , and they look all around in every direction , and thej r look to the Canada side . We look around . We have no refuge , no shelter . We look to the ocean ; we must be driven to its shores ; perhaps we shall be drowned . Some of our chiefs have wished to go to Canada , and some have determined to die in their native land . They have a great expectation from me that I shall get a good reply from our Great Father . I am going to say a few words respecting payments . We were informed by our agent that we should bo furnished a farmer , a blacksmith , and a teacher among our people . I have often asked for all these things . I have asked our
father . It is now almost fifteen years since we have received annuities , and all this time we have had no teacher . I am very anxious . Before the time comes that we shall be driven from our country we wish to learn the ways of the whites . I have come a great distance , and wish to get good news from our father . And about our timber 1 want to speak . Last winter I went down to ask the Governor about our timber , and I got no satisfactory answer . I wanted to get ¦ white folks to come into our country , uud to put up sawmills in our country . We are anxious and ready to build , but we can ' t build without boards . I am weuk and poor , truly weuk ; you have great strength . You can move great things . I leave this with you . " ( Spreading the wampum on the table before the Commissioner , and retiring . )
Kapewenint , or Sufe-guide , then rose , and , shaking hands with the Commissioner , naid : — "My father , many head-warriors gave me the words I now give to you . - Our Lint payment was poor . Kvery way you could hear wailing of children and women and men . We received what provision our Great Father Bent , but it was poor , we thought . There were many deaths in our party . Alter payment was over only one blanket , wa . s lull to me . After our people left the paying -ground many of our people were Keen lying down and frozen to death . We an ; very poor . Wt : received no money ; many of our people died . In our village were many poor , very poor . " He then laid a ciilumet , on tin ; table and retired .
Nncanegabowh , or Stand Hefore , then ro . se , and with a stentorian voice uddre . sned the Coinininsiomr thus : " My Father , we are in auLiungecountry , hut I hope- you will lit ; ten to the few words 1 have to nay . LiiHt . HUinnior we went down to St . Peter ' s , and we had a council with nome other tribes . The tribe wuh the Sioux tribe- We had » council with them Lint summer at Fort Snclling . When wo wero all together we haw our Great Father , the Governor of the Minnesota territory , and we talked with him . We . are always roady to hear our father . When ho aent
for us , we all came down . When all . «^ mngj «• taken account of between our tribes , it will ^ found the Chippewas have done the least * - « mg- > Ve naa councils . We could not decide We left it then to our Great Father ; he could not decide . He said he would send it to our Great Father here . He told us he would get an answer in three months . We expected after we got an answer to have had reparation for the wrongs the others had , done us . We gave our hands to our Father . We did no damage ; we did no wrong ; we touched no man . We are alwavs willing to obey our Great Father . As soon a 9 we had got home to our wigwams the news came that the Sioux had stricken our children . It is the Siouxthe tribe that had stricken our children .
, To these addresses Mr . Commissioner Lea replied . The Commissioner , being informed by the principal chief that they were entirely moneyless , said tnat it was not customary for the Government to pay expenses of Indians , but in this case they would consent to pay their way home . Crossing-Sky again addressed the Commissioner , praying for a sawmill , and asking if he might Bell some of his timber to ereift one . This , the Commissioner said , the agent in the territory would settle for them .
Crossing-Sky concluded in a complimentary address , speaking of the pleasure he had derived from his visit , and how much gratified he would be to t > ee his Great Father . They had seen so much that his people would not believe when they told them . Would not their father send a white man with them , that they might believe him ? The conference terminated in an arrangement to allow them an interview with their Great Father , the President , in a day or two , and a general shaking of hands all round .
Printers' Athenilum. A Most Desirable Mo...
PRINTERS' ATHENilUM . A most desirable movement has arisen among the large section of society who co « ie under the denomination of Printers . It is no surprise to find the name of Mr . Charles Knight , the indefatigable friend of all connected with literature , among the foremost of the promoters of this movement . It is proposed to establish a Printers' Athenseum , which shall be a ^ club as well as a literary and scientific institution . A meeting was held on Monday , tit Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street , to forward this project . Mr . Knight took the chair . He delivered an appropriate introductory speech , from which we cull the following ; — " But there was a startling and lamentable fact mentioned in the prospectus before them , and which he should not on his own authority have ventured to bring under their attention—namely , that a large number of the youths introduced into the printing trade during the last twenty-five years , not to go further back , had been found , when apprenticed , to be cgregiously deficient in the simplest elements of their own language . ( Hear , / tear . ) That was the fault of those who took such apprentices , and perhaps it was partly owing to the present state of society . Formerly , when there existed guilds , a masur who took an apprentice , and solemnly engaged to instiuct him in the att and mystery of printing , was bound to communicate to him a knowledge of general literature as well as of languages . But that state of
society was past , and we were in a highly commercial and competetive state , which had produced deplorable evils , and sent young men into the business lamentably deficient in the rudiments even of litujlish grammar . JNeed he , then , urge a stronger argument to induce them to found the Printers' Athenasum , where they could take such illiterate youths from their daily drudgerytake them from their case and from the imposing etonc , and not allow I hem to wander at night about the town , learning nothing but evil , but invite them to a place of shelter and of ai traction , where they could read the newspaper—itself tile beat teacher—and store their minds with the , knowledge contained in a vvell-assorled library , so that at length they might become skilled workmen , and competent to deal with all the various subjects and technicalities which came before them . "
The following resolutions were unanimously agreed to ; and we may fairly consider the Printers ' Athenaeum under way : — " That in the opinion of this meeting , the proposal to establish for the printing and bookbinding trades , and the callings in connection therewith , a literary ami social institution , under the general name of ' The Printers' Aihemeuin , ' is a movement calculated to confer many estimable advantages upon , and be conducive to the niinlal rlevation and social improvement of , the members of such trades . It in , therefore , highly approved of by those present , and is recommended by them to the favourable consideration of all persons , intereisted in the welfare of the typographical art , and the
perfection of all departments connected with the name ; That the resolutions of the provisional committee , whereby a fund is proposed to be raised through the sale of annual mid life members' tickets , und by honorary contributions , previous to opening ihc institution in question , be adopted by thin meeting , uh u practical means for commencing the ; undertaking free front pecuniar } ' rink , nnd upon a scale compatible ) with the wants of it . H supporters ; and That this meeting is of opinion that ' The Printer */ Athouwum' has claims for support upon all persona engaged in the literature of the country ; m upon the ability » nd skill of the printer the accuracy of the press is greatly dependent . "
Public Opinion . No Sect Or No Religion ...
PUBLIC OPINION . No sect or no religion will henceforth prosper or even keep its ground , says the Daily News , by the old system , of religious teaching , which seized on the child and neglected the man , which instilled dogmas and then trusted to exclusive society and closed ears to keep the grown man firm to it . This is Dr . Cullen ' s plan of faith and education We ought to scorn any Much old worldism in England * And instead of fearing mixed education , we ought to oourt it , give the young all the advantage of that acatenesg and quick reasoning which secular learning bestows and
then create a religious teaching , simultaneous and apart which should have its wience , its profession , and be equal to the task of combining religious belief with the freest and highest activity of intellect Seven centuries back there was really very little difference between the ideas the knowledge , the beliefs of the boy and the man . And the education of the man was precisely that of the boy What vast difference is there now between all that a boy can know , and all that a man mast ? The teaching of everything has made strides , except the teaching of religion . "
The Nottingham Mercury objects to the " scheme of double voting , " lately thrown out as a feeler in tha
Globe : — " The scheme may be suitable for Hungary , or Australia , or many other places , for aught we know , —but it is altogether un-English in its character as applied to the important affair of choosing men to legislate for the population of this country , and wiHnot , therefore , the Globe may rest assured , be ever submitted to by them . " This scheme of franchise extension is condemned by the Dublin Commercial Herald as a " clumsy device , an inadequate extension of popular righte , " and as the " hackneyed stop-gap for kings on the Continent , when they sought a compromise between Democracy and Absolutism . " The Lincolnshire Chronicle has a long article in favour of Protection , based on an American work on Political Economy of cognate views .
Disraeli ' s abandonment of Protection is disoussed under the head of " The Knell of Protection , " by the Preston Guardian . But by far the more useful article is an . admirable expose of the county expenditure of Lancashire , with a vie w to Mr . Milner Gibson ' s bill . The Boston Heirald , dealing with Disraeli ' s declaration , that he had no hope for the restoration of Protection , " until every class throughout the country shall be convinced of its necessity , " says : —
" Nor have we ; nor can any reasonable Protectionist have . Upon our conviction that all classes in the country will ere long insist upon the reversal ofthepresent Free Trade insanity , is based our confident hope of the advent of belter times . We have never advocated Protection as a class interest ; our cause has been that of all the industrial community ; and , however some may appear at present to be removed from the influence of existing depression , we are satisfied that ' the curse will come home to roost' even to the uttermost ends of the land " The following cool statement of the state of the Protectionist question is made by the Exeter Flying Post of Thursday : —
" The existence of agricultural distress is admitted . There is not a Free-trader , from the Land ' s-end to John o'Groat ' o , who will attempt , to deny that thirtyeight shillings a quarter for wheat is a price absolutely below the cost of production ; and as the theory of high farming , with a view to counteract the evil influence ot Free trade , is completely exploded , the question ansee , and it is one which must force itself upon the attention of the Legislature , what is to be done to secure to me ocenpiera of the toil a fair return for their labour ana capital ? " , Barking the speech of Disraeli at Aylesbury , ana accepting it as the manifestation of ft " clear and decisive line of tactics" ( 1 ) , the Wake / teld Journal
prophetically perorates : — ' Here , then , we have a distinct repudiation of a return to Protective duties as a benefit to the farming > ' « eirc "' and we shall probably noon see eomo substantial rein i volunteered to the agricultural classes , in order to cna 0 '" them to meet the disadvantages in which they are present placed . " . " Early closing" is the subject discussed by the Coventry Herald : — ,. ^^ m-r ^^ % s * V ** ¦ w * t » % ^ f m -u w «^ w m ¦ that coul
"We believe that the same organization eflect early cloning , could organize an attractive a useful method of employing the leimire hours "I y ° "' men . The joint work should be immediately u" ™ taken ; and if the correspondents who hare recency _ » dressed us go widely and industriously to work—H «•» ¦' will invest time , faith , and energy in the undertaking , they will assuredly succeed . " . The Preston Chronicle winds up a grievous oxtioi on ' American and Continental Politics witli i » l enorinouH Htiiitenco : — , " The opportunity for reform , lioivrvrr , has , we rope , been thrown away ; and as the democracies ot I . ur I are for the prenent c . u . hed beneath the Iron hcriof ^ tary power , and the demagogues of America have Hhow that mobs cannot be trusted with ' Liberty , {*!*" * f ( Fraternity , ' aH the controller of b .-tt * r-clefinecl la . w « * restraints , the Sovereigns are determined to restore u old defipotieiriH with moro than their former power , i thus , from their panic-terror at the past , and « t »»« « organization which they behold in th « ^ United SjaWJj they are again ehnklng society to It « centre , and prep * n » n
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27091851/page/8/
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