General Intelligence: The Cause Of Freedom In Michigan

If I niny judge of tlio abolitionism of Michigan t.y the "i"iugs nd sayings" of otir friends at íheir lato Convention at Ann Arborj we siiould put it down, number nne. It seems onr fricuda are deicrmined to cling to the early nnd woll tried friends of the cause aa candi - (!:iíes foí office. We notice lliat they have noininated our candidate for th 2 Presidency as lluir candidate for Govcruor. We are pk ased with tlits mark of high confidence in Mr. Birney for it vill' haie its influence. Should Mr. Ifirney b'e induceJ lo resigo bis nomina tion for the Presidency, this act of the frionds ofliberty indicates strongly th it he will be their choice foí n i"ënótnirrttiotf. Wc corïorralu'irrte the LibeVty Party of that State m liavinjr selected so upright and able a man for their Licutenant Governor as Luther P; Stèvrjör. We were in former years wel] acqnainted with this pentleman, whcn hc Was a rcaident of Séneca FulU, in tlus State. He was esteenicd lor his probity and talénts, and liis removal to the west was much rcgretted. With stich disíinguished ñames for candidates vo shall look for a very great advnncement. 'J'here is one point which gratified us much to find that tlicy had not overlooked. ]t is the importance of the "lown power." TiU the Liberty party throughont all its borders hall sepnrato iíseífcomple'ely from all alliance with the parties, wc shull not tnake nny permanent progrets. The toivn power is the most bewitclnng of all the powers which voters exerci?c;nnd the results of tovvn meetings are trumpe!ed with ns much cclnt as are the rcsults of a Preöidential canvass. We shall in this state get our party much botter organized for the spring elections tlian at nny former period; bul there will be very many towns where onr friends will be induced to forego a distinct nomination out of regard to Tcmpernnce or some other question. 'J'liis should in 110 case bc. Let us not divest ourselvcá of the etreuglh we possess in the towha where we Jivo, and oiir cause will be nble to report glorioiis progresp. J. c. J. - Utica Libcrlt Press.In 1839 the Sccretary of the Trensury rcported to Congress, that the tonago of vessels huilr. in the United States was 120,983 Built in the Slave States and Tcrritories 23,600 Or less Iban one fifth of the whole! But the diiïerence is still more striking, when we take into considerntidh the comparative value of the shipping built ia the two región-; In the free statos the value is $6,31 1,805 In the Flavedo. 704,201 ït wonld be tedio.? nnd tinrnfitablc lo compare the rosults of the different branches of manufacture carried on til the north and the sonth. Ït is sufficienl to utate that according to tbs census the value of the manufactures ín the free States are $354, 139,690 In the slave Slales 83,035,742 In the elcction of l"40, the electora chosen were 204; of tfirrse 168 were from the free, and 126 from the slave sta tes. Die popular vote in the free statea was 1,72(5,737 or one elector to 10,278 votors. The popatar vole in the slave states was 682,503 or one elet íor to 5,935 votere. Evrn this disproportion, enormous as it is, s grcatly aggravated m regard la particular state-'. NTnw Y'itk,'_ravc 113,331 votes nriJ hart 42 doctors. Virginia, f Maryland, V gave 229,568 " 48 " N. Carolina, j Olrio, ' gave L72,939 Si Georgia, De'aware, Kentucky, ) gave L65,941 " 44" Alaba ma, $ Louisiann, Arknnsas, ) These facts address thcme!ves to the understanding of all, and prove bevond cavi! that the slave states have a most unfair and unreasonable representa! ion inCongress; anda very disproportionale share in the elcction of President. At the fiVst censiH, in 1790, the free popníation of the present free states and Terriiorïes was 1,930,125 do. of the slare stiltes and territorios, 1,394,847 DifTerence, 535,278 By ilie last census, 1840, the sarno population in the free stntes oiïd territorios was 9,782,415 In the Blave states and territorios, 4,793,738 DiíTercncCí 4,908,677 Thus it nppears tbat in 1790 the popularon ofthesonth was 72 per cent. of that of the north, while in 1840 it wps only 49 per cent.; while the differencc iu 1840 is more than nine lifnes as ffreat as it was in 1780 Tliua you perceive hov uneq ml is the raóe. Fifly years have given the north an increased prepoinlerancc of about four anda halfrflilljons of free citizens. Anothcr fifty years vill increaso this preponderance in a vastly augmented ratio. Aríiiur Youngis ïnduslnal Establishment at Citcdux in Fr anee. - We have received a letter from IIngh Doherty, Ësq., editor of the Londen Phalaux, in which ho informs us that the Association nnderUiken by Arthur Young", is progressing very properously. Mr. Voung investpd a large f-uin in the cnt.erpriso, (near $400,000 we believe.) and reserved for himself, at V ast three per cent, interest upon his capital; it has paici him, Mr. Doherty informs U5. three and half per een . the first yoar; and cach lalwrmg family had a clear dividend of $40, besides llicir keeping, which averaged for adults $100 per annum, 75 for youths, and $50 for chüdren. VVlien we coosider the niiseral)le condition in which the laboring cinsses live in Europe, and havo nothingat the end of the year, we may consider this a very favorable rcsnlt for the beginiung, Tlie pcoplo in tlie Association have lived well and ' comfortahly. nnd hive cleared a djvideni. - JY. Y. Tribune. ■ IA Cinctnnuti ISlitvghter Hnse.- Althonsrli I we are not one of tlie nnirber " who can look i upon blood and oarnnge wirh composnre "' wo ' i accepled the invjtation nf Mr. Clearwa'ter, a weck or lwo sinre to ride out and view Lia ! establishment at Krighton. And ns accutint of the wholesalc runnnerm which hogs are killed and dressed at lus place, wíl! probably apply ín its genera] details to all the others m j tlns qttarier, wc have fhoirht the dodcriptiori mav prove iijterestin-r to distant rcider?. 'l'he hogs are conecntrnted at thid "point from the Northern pnrt of Kentucky, and from Ohio and Indiana. Tho slanghteriixr eenson generally opens about the beginning oflXe-' cember, with the hogs ('rom Kentucky.- They are driven thróngh the city (the mora corpulent being assisted on their pilgrimago np trom the river by drays and wagons) out to Deer Creek and tfiighton, where extensivo pens and housen are erected for their accomüdatiofi . The slaugliter hüuse.- are generally long buiLling-s having a stout bench running nearlythe uhole length, at the door. At a ímall pen, where the dooi opns, threff men are cmploycd Trom dayligljt to dark iir knocking down nnd dragging m the hog8, just incide the door, where odp man is employl ed in nothingd.se throtigh tlieday, but cutting tlieir thmats. Two scalders then paso them into the scalding tub, whieh holde 4 or" f hogs nta time, four eernpers then haul thetn out on tn Hip aforesaid bcch, ucrape oiT their Imir and brisllo;, nnd pass tlicm along to sis shaver?, who finish cleaning them, and give them anothcr rcinnvc to ihe off bearers,who hang them wp, and resin their charge to the wash down?. The entire hog has thus reach'd theend of its rupid journey Trom the pen lts errtrailá are thm delivercd by the glitter to the gut cleaners, wbo inake a selection of ihctr charge, and pafS certain partB to the p!uck boy und' to the Tat washers, who aro diligently employei' in preparing the rnw material for t.'ie nse of the boiler, candle maker, and other mnnfoctnrers of unctuoiisarticles. The hog, in tiie menn'rmp, has been washed down thoionghly, and hnng up in the Dry floose, where thfl Dry honpemnn ttirns Ifis (thchog's) tonigi."e Mie sidc, and places a cob in his niouih to1 eitenil liis jawn and let tho water draiioffvHL The hog then hanga qniotly till called for by the wngoner, who bring him into the city to' be cut, parket!, sallod, and shipped' to tlicend's of the rarïh. In tbis manner, Mr. Ca OPtabÜHhmcnt, for instanco, has gitfen rfajly èmplöyrtinnt to 40 hands, wbo huve &HIed nearlv 30,000 hogs. (The precise nurnber we bbnll soon give iiï tables.) Their grea-test aehiëvpment w killing 827 hogs in orte day of a littie over S hours - at u nother time fhey killet! ín' threw days, ,SG5 - and at another in'four Sixfif 2,i!()9. Thns the ihhig hns boen rcpeateo'ly donor of killin nnd completely dreusing more tharr one hog in a inimiie tlnonoli the dny. The grentest order, ccon-uny, systein and nea(nes-) prevftil nt these cstublisiitnèhts. ! Everythinj,' i; tnrncil to neemm", the b'istlej are uil Foid nt S cents ppr hojf, Die hair nt dl ler load, and the eUrails to soap boi'era at cents per hog. Tbe pro rietors of the sl.-uigh'rrs houev as a general rule, kilí an' drea the hog, for the bris'.les and ofTal. They nre alo tlie rxpeiise of wfigoning them into lown, nd dcliv eringf utnny pork ho'ise deáireJ. - 'Jincinnali Guzette.The ate Congrrrx. - The ablt corrpuprndcntofthe Amoriran, Dr. Bicon, in tumming' up ihc histnry of tina congre-i, writc, "The Whig CoiiL'rrss is rem;irkab!c fnr manv prciilinr circumstance.", distinct and apart" froin pohliciil charncteristics or act. It lina been in uciiml se?sion rnorc tba.n onc year and! a qnarter, bciftg no i the six'oenth month of its logisla'.ive labore. No other Congre cTersat 12 mnnths. This hnsent more month more wceke, more day, and moie houra thau any othor pi?JCc ihe bezinning of the (lovern- ment. ít lias mnd; More speeches, done mora receited more pctilions, exnmined more cases, made more reporta, printed morar documenta, actcd on mofe resohitions, panprd more private bill?, rrjected more private billa, pás.-ed more public bilis hito acts and lavvs, rejected more public brllr, had rroror bilis vetoedy effect fcd more and geater rctrencliments. cadsed more rcforms iutïieparíiamcntnry rules, lost more members by resi?nation, lost more by death, than any previou Congres.. Thirtcen have died. Seven hirö 5oit their wíts by deatli durina1 this Congress Nine liave rrrarried since their election.- ' Tuclve or more htftre lost their cliildren by death. Seven Senators and twelve Representativos have resigncd. Of tlie twelve Representalives so resigning. threc have been reelected to the same seats in this same Conijress. Several hnvebeen vcry ïll and near ta death, One hos hud his leg broken. Ouc [Mr. Spripg of Ky .] lias had his car jitien ofl' in a firlít. Threc have been falsely reported as dcad; and ptiblished nolices to' that efft-ct hnve generalfybcenbelieved throvghout ihe country íbr n tifne. FeiíoCioü? Í)og Mrsmkhizkd. - Thfi Mes- meriznre in Irelanc!, appear to go nhend-of our American professors óf "ihe science." At n ate meeting of Mesmeric authorities, (as rcsorted by the Londo Medicnl Times,) it vn ttateJ by Dr. Élliotson, the president, that "theDukiof Marlbnronjrh har] informed him,if a letter from that wliüent the MnrquM ofEly's scat. in tliat country, and strolling cut in the morninghc cnme upon a ferociou log, chained in a farm yard. Hisö race dunt not approach the brute, but, standing at a reí- iccifiil disfn.ncc, he mesrrieiiietj him; and gonr up, aciuallv ernbmeed the sleeping brute. The do? remained in the 6$eep far thirty mintïtes. "- Tra n scr ipt If mankind had rrot been dooraed to óe, there vvould have been at present about 175,000,000,000,000,000 ofmortalp on the enrtb; and in thts case thcre woiild still have been 9Í 10 sfjnarc feet óf earth remaining for each man. Rcckoning only tlirce generations during a century, and eupposing at the eam time that the world has only exisled &,800 years, there have been only 171 generationa from the creation to our time; 124 since tho deluge; and 53 since the Christinn era. Now as no fdrnily in Ruropo can trace its origin lo the time of Charlemagnn, it followa that th most ancient Iioiisi'b cannot reckon more than thirty gonerations, nnd very fev? ií'nny, can go so far back; but sópposíng it lo be the case, wlia't iö this but 1 ,000 years ïllustratioa against 4,800 years of obscurity. A ivorin to Boys.- Begin in earïy life to collect hbrarirs of your ovn. Begin witli a single buok; and wiie.ii you rind or hear of auy firsl ruto book, obtain it, if you can. Afler i while get anothcr, as you are nblo, nnd be snre tn reo;l it. Tak o the best care of your books: nnd in this way, vvheji you are nier., you will have good librarles in your üeads as wcll as on your shelvesv