THE NATIONAL ERA. L. P. NOBLE, PUBLISHER. G. BAILEY, JUN., EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR; J. G. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR. BUELL & BLANCHARD, PRINTERS. VOL. II. ^WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1848. NO. 84.

among his Wilraot Proviso supporters in tho free terviewswith Mr. Polk on the subject of the com-1 comes from abroad or is grown at borne. Taxes THE MOVEMENT. 8oil meetings all over the State. We are pleased ware, and that the votes of him and Ms colleague Street, opposite the Patent OUlce. munication I had reported to them from him, and States. on the raw material; taxei on every fresh value - to see that Samuel Lewis, Esq., of Cincinnati, is ,lrc in direct violation of the instructions of our TERMS. they were confirmed by bis immediate assurance that ia added to it by the industry of man. Taxes State Convention in Maine.—A Free Soil engaged, with his accustomed zeal and stirringBtirrine LeLegislature.gi3latnre- . Two dollars per annum, payable in advance. As excellent reading for the Wilmot Proviso in pursuing the course which they had resolved 6 U. Resolved, That our Representative in Con¬ Advertisements not exceeding ten lines inserted Taylor Whigs in the free States, we oan think of on in consequence of my representation of his on the sauce which pampers a man’s appetite, and State Convention in Maine was held on the last eloquence, in arousing the public mind ofor hisIlls gress,press' John 1'WHousMnW. Houston, ^frfauestel be requested to vote three times for one dollar; every subsequent inser¬ no better papers than the Macon Republican, pub¬ purpose in regard to the point on which their ac¬ tho drug that restores him to health; ou the Wednesday in July, at Portland. Mr. Mussey, na,ive State. agah^against the passage of said bill, or of any other tion, twenty-five cents. tion depended. After the law was passed, and Mr. lished in Tuskcgce, Alabama, and the Selma Re¬ ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope of“ ,rPenobscot, ° c , presided." T ;It wnsT a ConventionT T, jjrw YoYorkrk City—ACm-.—Ann immense meetingng was Iftlaw,w, the practical operation of whichwhioh will be to Polk inaugurated, he applied to General Dix (as without distinction of party, and seventeen dele- hdd ft fcw d sinoe ,n Now York oU toi ratifratify admit s,avei'y into territorynow free. porter, published at Solrnn, in the same State. I am informed by the hitter) to urge the Senate The national era. The price of tho former is $3 per annum, and to act on one of the suspended Cabinet appoint¬ ie brass nails of the gates, from the Whig, Democratic, and Liberty the nomination of Mr. Van Burell. Ron. StephenItephcn Belmont County, Ohio. — Large Free Soil coffin, and the ribbons of thejiride. At bed or P^ies, were appmnted to the Buffalo Conven- AUe]1 waa choson chnirman. Six vioe preBi. we believe, that is the price of the latter. ments, saying that he wished his Administration Presi- m®eting, without distinction of party, at Flush- WASHINGTON, AUGUST 7, 1848. But there is one paperof peculiarmcrlta,which organized immediately, ns he intended the imme¬ board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The f'ou. . . dents and two Secretaries, from each ward,I were 'n8> on l*18 Jesse Bailey was chosen Presi- diate recall of the messenger understood to have should find renders among all parties in the free shoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth Ontario County, N.\.-A large number of appoiated_alnounting in ftU to 180 Vices Presi-I’resi- dent. Hon. B- s- Cowen was called upon for a been dispatched by Mr. Tyler, and to revoke his manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a Whigs and others, of Ontario county, New York. dentg and ;!c SecTet!>rks. Tllc Trilmne BByBys that speech, but declined, owing to his official station THE LATE J. ft. ADAMS. States—we mean the Charleston Mercury, South orders, given in tho last moments of his power, to Carolina. It is able, spirited, without disguise, thwart the design of Congress in affording him taxed road. The dying Englishman pours his met at Canandaigua on the 27th. John Dickson, mimbor pres however, that he wns a Free Soil man We confess our surprise at the repeated ef¬ and sheds continual light upon the mystery of (Mr. Polk) the means of instituting a negotiation medicine which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon formerly M.C, was chosen President Eloquent t0 twenty thoUBand. The enthusiasm was,s greatgreat, an<’ aW1'ig, t0° good a Whig to vote for Zachary forts of certain Whig gentlemen to use the name with a view of bringing Texas peaceably into the which has paid 10 per cent.; flings himself back speeches were made by Hon. AW. \oung, Hon. The resolutions wero exoelIent Numeron8 let. iniquity which works in the hearts of the Ser- oub let- I’ay'or- Strong anti-slavery resolutions were of the illustrious Adams to promote party inter¬ Union. Your friend, P. P. Blair. viles from the free States. upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent.; A- Bascom, and H. B. Stanton, Esqs. Sixty dele- ters from distinguished persons were rend, giving !tcl°Ptetl- Ten delegates were appointed to the ests. Letters have lately appeared in the news¬ “ Hon. Benjamin Taiwan, Steubenville, Ohio.” makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and ex- gates to Buffalo appointed. ;n their warm adhesion to the movement, among Buffal° Convention. The Convention resolved to papers from Mr. Daniel P. King, of Massachu¬ pires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid Onondaoa—The Free Soil Whigs and others them, one from Mr. Dix, and another fromim MrMr. carry tb0 principle into the State and Congres- setts, and Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of of Onondaga held an enthusiastic meeting at Sy- ]\j Be5, Major Blair, of Missouri, son of the s*onal emotions, and appointed a committee to in- designed to convey the impression that Mr. A correspondence, lately published in the New putting him to death. Hiswholeproperty is, then, racuse, on the 22d, at which James Thrayer pre- former editor of the Washington Gbobe, wasms one Arrogate every candidate. Adams was in favor of the nomination of General York Evening Post, throws some light upon the immediately taxed from 2 to 10 percent. Be- sided. It was addressed by Messrs. Slocum and of tthehe speakers. He most" zealously sustained Adjourned Taylor as a candidate for the Presidency. True, transactions connected with the annexation of MODERN REFORMS AND REFORMERS, sides the probate, large fees ore demanded for hu- Sedgwick. A central committee was chosen, to the oause of free soil. 26th of August. they contain but loose impressions of whnt was Texas. It consists of two letters, one addressed rying him in the ohanoel; his virtues ore handed appoint.point three or more delegates from each town, TheTbe New YoYorkrk Liberty Association appointed Winthrop,w Maine. — Free Soil meeting on by ex-Senator Tappan to the editor of the Post, spoken in the freedom of sooial intercourse. No down to posterity on taxed marble, and he is thenhen to the Buffalo Convention. the following delegates to thothe National Conven- July a2d- Joseph B. Fillebrown, President, J dated Steubenville, July 21,1848; the other from distinot, positive statements are made which de¬ No. 12.—The National Debt of Great Britain—The Norristown, Pa.—Convention held on tho tion at Buffalo: M. Benjamin,I Secretary. Seven resolutions pass- F. P. Blair, former editor of tho Globe, to Mr., > monstrates suoh a preference in Mr. Adams; but | Lavish Expenditures o) the Government—Its enor¬ •I | 22d. L.E. Cusen, President. Buffalo Convention Lewis Tappan, Arnold Btiffum,luffum, James O,O. Ben-Bon- ®d,edi i1n vrhioh they pledge themselveB to vote for the impression of the writers, it is thought natu¬ Tappan, dated Silver Spring, July 7th. mous Taxes—Will the Debt be repudiated?— ined. net, Seymour Wliitney, AndrewirewLester, Lester, A.S.Ball, nonno man, as a candidate for Congress, not openly Mr. Tappan, after referring to his course in the rally enough, will be received as sufficient evi¬ Will it occasion a Revolution?—Plan, of Mr. DUPLICITY OF THE OLD PARTIES. Sf.nf.ua County, N. Y.—The Free Soil Whigs S- M- Raymonnatenominate a Free Soil eleotoralelectoral ticket. President, Harlan Gause;Gause ; VioeVico Presidents, what would become of the case and grace of so¬ she free from debt, and her Government economi¬ 1. No support, encouragement, or establish¬ oial converse ? Reports from memory of a studied terms on whioh Congress will admit Texas into gether upon his anti-slavery principles. A Mistake.—Mistake.—““ Now, it seems that the Buffalo Zebulon P. Thayer, John Richards, Abraham ment of slavery by the National Government. the Union as a State’ was before the Senate, it cally administered, to make her every son and speeoh are never certainly depended upon, even Editors, lecturers, and advocates, all make him Convention originated in Ohio, among the dis- Hamer; Secretaries, L. P. Anderson, William 2. No Slave Territory. was soon found that a number of the Democratic daughter affluent. But her huge national debt, out a Wilmot-Proviso or Slavery-Restrictionist contented politicians attached to the fortunes of Chambers. 3. No more Slave States. when made immediately after its delivery. What members who were favorable to the admission of and her immense annual expenditures, crush her of the first water. Our editor (Register Examiner, Henry Clay; and from this faction it is supposed' An address was made by Dr. S. Stebbins, and a 4. No more submission to the dictation of slave¬ Texas would vote against that resolution. I was consideration, then, should be attached to reports laboring masscB between the upper and nether Westchester) says he “advocates his (Taylor’s) that many of the Free Soil movements in the number of resolutions adopted, of whioh the most holders, in contravention of the above principles. of impressions of unstudied conversations, of which one of them. In this state of the matter, it was election solely for the purpose of preventing the Northwestern States can be traced.”—IV. F. Her. important are: proposed that, instead of rejecting the House res¬ millstones of remorseless taxation and hopeless extension of Slavery.” All moonshine 1 The prime movers in Ohio ^solved, That the Peopje themselves,Jn their Iowa.—A large Free Soil meeting held at the real meaning often depends upon a tone, a olution, we should amend it by adding, as an al¬ poverty. Her debt Bits upon the body politic like You may possibly have some spare Southern .. . ,. . . ,, .. .. primary oapaoitycapacity aBas citizens, are the rightful and Rochester, Iowa, on tho call of 72 persons, wim- look, a gesture, or surrounding oiroumstanccs, and ternative proposition, the substance of Mr. Ben¬ the nightmare of Erebus, almost stopping the exchanges that have something in them bearing were independentmdependent men of all parties, thetho parti- finallinal ararbitcrB|);tei,3 0off thet)l0 fitness or ununfitnessfitn688 of0f candi- 0ut distinction of party. John Casebear, Presi- ton’s bill to obtain Texas by negotiation. I had upon the subject; if you could send us one, once sans off no man, but pledged to go against any dates for public offioo, and that the selection of M „ r,. q ' which no one, not habitually distrustful, dreams ciroul&tion of the vital fluids. Like other high¬ of guarding and qualifying as he would an elabo¬ strong objections to this plan, for I did not seethe in a while, it might possibly do some good. Even I candidatelate unpledged to tho Ordinance cof 1787. suchsuoh candidates for our support by a NotionalNational . ’ ’ /' , necessity or propriety of passing the House reso¬ born bankrupts, she is proud, as well as poor. while I am now writing, a printed handbill is „ . n „ Convention imposes upon us no obligation to sup-sup¬ Among tho resolutions adopted, were the fol- rate discourse—reports, too, made months after lution, cither with or without tho proposed amend¬ She maintains the most lavish and expensive handed me, calling upon “ the friends of Taylor Delawareaware Abolitionist.AaoLiT.oN.ST.-The —TheThe DelawareDele Abo-Ato- port (|,them,ena ffartherarther than suoh nominations may be lowing: they were said to be held ? ments ; but it was urged that tho session was so Government in the world. Though the interest and Filmore, and all opposed to the Extension of litionist,t, published at Wilmington, Delaware, has ratified by the voice of the People, whose prerog- 3. Resolved, That slaveholders alono are benc- Were Mr. Adams living, so that ho might cor¬ near its close that the measure would be defeated of her public debt eats out the substance of her Slavery” (a beautiful connection) “ to meet in come to us enlarged, and otherwise improved. rect any erronoous impressions given to the pub¬ if we substituted Mr. Benton’s plan for the other, place to form a Rough and Ready Club.” We are glad to observe these indications of a whereas, if we made it un additional article, it people, and the army, the navy, and the church, lic, or state qualifying oiroumstanoes or condi¬ Please print my name in fulL prosperous condition. would rondily pass tho House in that form. This cling like leeches to her monetary arteries, she John Smith.Smit pr ’ „ ‘ , . „ ,, .. . Resolved, That we will support no man for 4. Resolved, That most of the people in this tions forgotten by hiB reporters) the injustice done reasoning did not satisfy me, but finding that my annually throws away immense sums in the shape Referring our friend to the Era of week before Jackson County, Michigan.—-A FreeSoil As- Pre6ide„t, Congress, or the State Legislature, who State, in selecting for themselves a new home in might be remedied to a certain extent. But he is Refernng our friend to Ju 01 ek belore 80ciatl0I]L formed on the 22d ulfc. Col. R. C. Baker is not openly and avowedly in favor of tlie prin- tho West, would have located themselves farther friends were all satisfied with the proposed ar¬ of pensions and sinecures to worn-out heroes and in his grave; and though each man of the many rangement, I aoceded to it, provided that I could last, for extracts from Southern (laylor) papers, and Lieut# Chadwick, leading Democrats, figured ciples of the Wilmot Proviso. south, if the country there had been free; and civilians, to generals, admirals, ex-chancellors, hundreds who oonversod witlf him should givore- have satisfactory assuranoes that the plan propos¬ we append now but one comment upon this letter, -n .fc Resolved, That we recommend the holding of a that many of them have emigrated from the slave ed in such amendment would be the only one used judges, and diplomatists, to decayed nobles and ports most injurious to his memory, no voice oan and that in the shape of an extract from the T. T Democrat Ann Arbor Michigan £e"cJal mn8S meeting of the friends of free soil States, in order to avoid the presence of slavery. and submitted to Texas. knights, and every kind of titled nondescript Macon Revublican. of the 27ih ultimo which ban- Th , D“°°“AT> ^n" Arb8r’ Mulligan, in Cheater countyi to be held at Westchester on 5. Resolved, That the question, whether the come thence to correct their perversions or ex¬ “ Mr. Polk was in the city; it was understood noodle and nonentity. She lavishes munificent , P has run down the Ca88 twket’and run up the the lst day of Aug«st »ext> at >° o'clock A. M., territory which we have acquired or may acquire aggerations. that he was very anxious that Congress should act pens to dc JJ>ng upon our taoie . name of Van Buren. It is one of the principal for the purpose of appointing delegates to the from Mexioo, shall continue as it now is, a free gifts on dilapidated hospitals, schools, and chari¬ The following paragraph from Mr. Clingman’s on the subject before he came into office. It was The South has nothing to expect, much less Democratic organs of the State. National Free Soil Convention, to be held at Buf- territory, or be converted into a slave territory, also understood that the proposition to amend the table institutions, whose sole recipients of the letter contains some most extraordinary state¬ to gain,gam, by the election of either of the Democratic L'CIU0(,X °b t'alo, the 9th of August, and adopting suoli other is not so much a question between tho North and House resolution originated with Mr. Polk. It bounty arc the dryer branches of noble families, candidates; and were it not for the ties of party, Tho Advocate, in Monroo county, anotherI measures as the emergenoy requires. the South, as it is a question between slavehold- ments: had been suggested, that if we did so amend the its rigid discipline and love of power, not a South- Democratic paper, it is stated, will soon l with long titles and short purses, whose control A Western Pennsylvania Free Soil Convention ors and non-slaveholders; consequently, it is a “ Of the war and its authors bo spoke in strong resolution, Mr. Calhoun would send off the House ern man would vote for General Cass. Would the Baltim0I.e nomination, and adopt Van Bur question between the few and the many. terms of condemnation. ‘ They,’ lie said, refer¬ resolution to Texas, and so endeavor to forestall over the empty establishments is a sheer sinecure. South be true to herself, all doubt would vanish, ’ 1 is to be held on the 17th of August. She heaps bounties on numerous squads of imbe¬ 6. Resolved, That, whereas the extent of the ring to the fi'iends of the Administration,‘ex¬ tho action of Mr. Polk; but Mr. McDuffie, his and General Taylor’s election would be certain, New York Whig General Committki Free Soil paperB are starting up everywhere. slave States 5b twice aB great as the extent of the pect mo to speak on the war, hut 1 am not going friend, having met this suggestion by tho decla¬ ciles, whose blood is of that pale, watery kind sup¬ beyond any probable contingency No one doubts perceive by the New York papers, that the Whig Th„'pioneer ftn aWe paper commenced by F- free States> slaveholders ought to be content in to do it.’ This was said with peouliar emphasis. ration that he would not have the‘audacity’ to posed to indicate royalty, spending, in a recent the soundness of General Taylor in regard to Slavery, General Committee of that city, at a regular p Traov at Norwich Connect out has iustreaoh having so large a part of our country given up to ' If,’ he added, ‘1 were to speak, I should have to do such a thing, it was no more thought of. One year, more than £100,000 upon the nurseries, sta¬ meTeStS UHder /US meeting on the 20th ultimo, resolved on sending fd ' Co“OUt’has -)uat reaoh- their peculiar interest. ' discuss the question of slavery, and that would do difficulty remained, and that was the danger of administration of public affairs.” 6 . n - , ’ .. * ed us. 7. Resolved, That it would bobe inconsistent with bles, and kennels of her Majesty’s babies, horses, harm.’ He then went on to say that he was for putting it in tho power of Mr. Polk to submit the This and the Free Labor handbill fit each a delegation to the Buffalo convention. What Lucius E. Smith, who was too honest to remain the principles of justice and equality, to give up peace, and that the proper way to obtain peace was House resolution to Texas. Wo understood, in¬ and puppies. She pays large annual tribute to her other beautifully ! Committee is this ? editor of the Hartford Courant, a Taylor paper, to the,he specialaP('oial benefit of a few slaveholders a ter¬ter- to turn out of power the present Administration. deed, that lie intended to submit the Senate prop¬ universities, that the sons of her nobility and ritory which has cost this nation one hundred and He then spoke of the Presidential election, and Now for some various readings in the church of Fkancis P. Blair, late editor of the Washington has established the Free Soil Advocate at Hart- I'nTLm!!™ 'IS kwi” osition to that Government; but, without being gentry may riot on good living and bad Latin. fi fty millions of dollars nnd much blood ; especially said that General Taylor would be the candidate satisfied that he would do this, I would not vote the Democracy. There lies before us, an impos- Globe, now a resident, we believe, of Maryland; ford—an excellent, handsomely printed Bheet. since, by so doing, we should infliot a’great'and She quarters at death’s door a myriad army of since, by so doing, we should infliot a great and of the Whigs. 1 suggested that some persons were for the resolution, and it was well ascertained ing handbill, 30 inches by IS, calling upon the does not approve of the action of the Baltimore The Freeman’s Banner, a new Van Buren pa- lasting evil upon thothe rest of thetho community. waiting for a further expression of Goneral Tay¬ that, without my vote, it oould not pass. Mr. starving paupers, that her landlords may main¬ “ Democrats of Lorain,” (O.) “and all lovers of Convention, approves tho doctrines and measures per, has been started at Schenectady. 88.. Resolved, That Texas, which is sufficient in lor’s views. Ho instantly replied: ‘Oh, he is a Haywood, who had voted with me, and was op¬ tain monopolies in the soil, the grain, and the Freedom,” to meet in mammoth convention, “at of the Barnburners, and would give them a cordial Dr. Ingraham has begun the publication in New ®extentxtent tato make Bix StStates!lteB aBas }largearg®, 38as 0hloOhio,i bahas? AVhig;’ or * I have no doubt but that he is a Whig;’ posed to the House resolution, undertook to con¬ game of the kingdom. Fond of fight and feath¬ been added to this nation within a few years, and and, while speaking of tbo probable nomination, verse with Mr. Polk on the subject, and did so. the Court-House in Elyria, on Monday, the 26th support, did ho not regard himself in honor bound York of tho Daily Statesman, a campaign Free hasWm^°given up to the interwt of slaveholder^ ers, she hires the sons of her poor at thirteen has been given up to the interest of slaveholders; he Baid: ‘The South, 1 take it, will he for him, He afterward told me that he was authorized by inoi.Ani.il Weller by the Convention. Lull papA». consequentlyconsequently, , non-slaveholders can justly demand and part of the North,’ and he added that had no Mr. Polk to say to myself and other Senators^ that shillings a month, t® nua mu round the announced as the speakers. “ The compaign is “ The Wilmot Proviso and Freeman’s Her- And so on. all the territory whioh may hobo acquired from Joukt Hat he wouiu no tho nominee of tho parly. worm, ana (limy and kill all wlio oppose their opened,” proceeds the call-“ GENERAL CASS, Ann,” is the name of a new paper, devoted to Free Southern Ohio.-Tlie following letter will MexiooMexioo, aridstilland still nothavetheirpartinpropor-not have their part in propor- Though I do not recollect any pnvtlouTto expres¬ ment proposed to be made, he would not use the progress, while she keeps their fathers at home tiou to their number. sion of preference to General Taylor over the House resolution, but would submit the Senate of Michigan, is tiie Democrats nominee for Soil, just commenced for the campaign, at Mass',1- sh0w what they are doing in Southern Ohio. ‘ion to their number other Whigs spoken of as probable candidates, amendment as the sole proposition to Texas; upon to work out the expenses at a shilling a day. President. * * * The man who is in favor of ion, Stark county, Ohio. , " , Oneida County, N. Y.—FreeY— Free Soil, Anti-Tay-Anti-Tay¬ She lays open the whole kingdom as foraging yet I cannot be mistaken in saying that he had a this assurance, I voted for the amendment moved so enforcing the principles of the Constitution as Wisconsin.-A State Free Soil Convention take "* “ " ' “° lor Whig Convention on the 23d ultimo. Judge settled conviction that he would be tho candidate by Mr. Walker, containing tho substance of Mr. ground for a ravenous church establishment, most effectually to prevent the EXTENSION Wfla t0 meet on the 2gth uU ftt Jftn^ of the party, and that he expressed a stroDg de¬ Benton’s bill, and voted for the resolution as it whose wardens tithe not only mint, anise, and the 28th ultimo, at Janesville, al here amid exoitement-no Cass, no Tay- Rober,s: of Roffi8> PresidiBg- Thirty delegates OF SLAVERY over territory new free.” Wisconsin, to nominate an electoral ticket, and lor excitement—but all Free Soil, Free Labor. sire for its success. In fact, ho seemed to be as now stands on the statute book. cumin, but all “ weightier matters;” and whose minate an eleotoral ticket, and strongly identified in his feelings and views with “ It is matter of history that Mr. Calhoun did Our type gives but a faint idea of the mammoth, appoint delegates to the Buffalo Convention, Southern Ohio is coming up, and will speak out Wayne County, Mich.—Free Soil Convention “ wolves,” clad in broadcloth, hunt foxes at £5,000 to the Buffalo Convention. strongly. If we had three months more than we the Whig party, and as anxious for its triumph, have the ‘audacity’ to send off a special messen¬ heavy characters in which this single issue, named nt n /T. , „ on the 22d ultimo. C. Pudney,President. Speeches ger with the House resolution to Texas, on the per year, and hire ourates to look after the sheep, sh (Pa.) Post, noticing our re¬ have, we would sweep the Buckeye and Hoosier as he used to be in 1844, when Mr. Clay was the in the call, is printed. It is signed by « H. H. The Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post, noticing our re- made by several influential politicians. Thirty candidate. I was even surprised to hear him ex¬ 3d of March, a few minutes before he went out at £50. In a word, the pockets and patience of land as with a whirlwind. Kendall, H. D. Clark, L. Whitman, J. V. Baker, ““ that8CT8™1 PaP®vs, while carrying the Cass “ Last week, full and enthusiastic meetings were delegates, Whig, Democratic, and Liberty, ap¬ press a determination to refrain from discussing of offioe; and that Mr. Polk adopted and confirm¬ the larger share of British subjects are so heavily . „ p n f r l r •„ flag, are strongly inclined to Van Buren, says wei the subject of slavery, in which he usually mani¬ ed this act of Mr. Calhoun, so admitting Texas A. K. Penny, Democratic Central Committee. held in Miama, Montgomery, and Greene. pointed to the Buffalo Convention. taxed by these imposts and impositions, that loy¬ are mistaken, and calls upon us to name the p “ J. C. Vaughan addressed the people last Tues¬ fested so muoli interest, lest by speaking on it he into the Union, and placing the United States in June 12, 1848.” (Any gentleman from the South Calhoun County, Mich.—Free Soil meeting should jeopard tho success of tho party.” a state of war with Mexico.” alty itself cries out in tones of vexation and ag¬ pers. The Bradford Reporter is one, and the day at and around Troy, morning and evoning. who may desire to illustrate the tactics of the Full houses wero had, and, belter yet, the men in at Marshall of the Democracy. Hon. Jabez Fox From all whioh it will be seen that Mr. Tap- ony, “ Though Kings oan do no wrong, they have nre two others, we now recolleot, which have n We do not question Mr. Clingman’s sin¬ Wilmot-Proviso supporters of General Cass, is ’ them were full of spirit. ‘ Give us any man,man so addressed the meeting. pan and hiB Northern friends were taken in and a very expensive way of doing right.” need Van Buren and his movements prominently hc be honest,’ said they, ‘and we will support cerity in this presentation of Mr. Adams’s views. welcome to it.) The Arm Arbor Democrat contains a call for a Doubtless he believes it correot; but we believe “ done for.” At the accession of William and Mary, in 1689, As a neat comment upon this nail, we present and cordially. We shall not name them; it is him. The great issue is Free Soil. Let the not worth while to point out subjectsluhjecls for pro¬pro- nominations at Buffalo be made, and we are out.’ meeting in Washtenaw oounty, signed by 300 of it docs the memory of the deceased extreme in¬ To ooniirm his statement, Mr. Tappan accom¬ the national debt of Great Britain was £664,000. two lines from an editorial of the Washington scription. “On Wednesday, J. C. Vaughan spoke to the the most respectable citizens of the county. justice. panies his letter with one from Mr. F. P. Blair, At the close of the French war, in 1763, £138,- Union, August lst: Saturday Ci.ipfer, is the title of. a newspaper People, morning nnd evening, at Milton. The ICane County, III.—Free Soil Convention, Although a sense of propriety would forever whioh speaks for itself, making a disclosure which 000,000. At the close of the American war, in “ General Cass has bravely and frankly defined oi a newspaper same enthusiasm prevailed there. The Free Soil large and enthusiastie, on the 17th. E. W. Brew¬ have restrained us from any public allusion to the certainly ought to be a pregnant lesson to all non¬ 17S3, £250,000,000. At the commencement of his position in his Nicholson letter. He will veto in Troy, Ohio, hitherto neutral,, which has just men here are uppermost, and will keep so. In ster presiding. Strong resolutions adopted, opinions of Mr. Adams, expressed in private in¬ slaveholding politicians. In politics, a man shows the Continental wars, in 1793, £240,000,000. At the Wilmot Proviso.” committed itself to the cause off Free Soil and that strong nnd intelligent neighborhood,-1 doubt if fifty Taylor men oan be found. Cass is no- Twenty-six delegates appointed to the Buffalo tercourse, still, as so many injurious representa¬ more simplicity than statesmanship by taking their dose, in 1815, £840,000,000. Thus, it cost The reader, we think, will be much edified by the Buffalo Convention, Convention. tions of his opinions have been given to the pub¬ much for granted. Distrust is a necessary armor England £600,000,000 to put down Napoleon and the double column illustrations whioh we shall The Xenia (O.) TorchlightTobchlight toitook ns to task, a “ Thursday night, some four hundred citizens , ...... _ lic, we may be permitted, on tho strength of sev¬ against the wily tacticians of the South. restore the Bourbons. Some £40,000,000 having now present to him: week or two sinoe, for reporting some fifteen or gathered at Dayton, Montgomery county, to hear AwonAlton,> III.—Free[Lr"~Freo SmlSoil me8tinmeeting8 of thothe Democ-Democ¬ eral free, frank, and earnest conversations held “Silver Spring, July 7. been paid off during the last thirty years, it now more Whig papers in that State, as opposed to Mr. Vaughan. This is a hard county. The two racy ou the 22d ultimo, Robert Fergusou,Ferguson, a high- parties stick close to their candidates, to their ly respectable merchant, presiding. John Dye, with Mr. Adams during last winter, to enter our “Dear Sir: Your letter of the 1st instant asks stands at £800,000,000. The population of the Taylor, and it added, we believe, that there are me to state what I know 1 as to the way the Texas party leaders ; but the seed is sown, and the re- city Colleotor, Sooretary. Nomination of Van solemn protest against all suoh representations. United Kingdom is 24,000,000. Consequently, but five, anall tow.told. Thei ne followingAllowing paragraph, from turn will be large. _ J ’ TTY. , , . , , question was got through the Senate.’ I comply, the average debt of each man, woman, and child, We know that, so far from changing his views of and will not encumber the narrative with imma¬ the True Democrat,Democrat, Cleveland, we presume is cor- Friday, a Convention of the district was held-held— BuronBuren aapproved—eightPProved-eight delegates appointed to the paramount importance of the slavery question, terial details. is £33j^, or about $103. The adult male popu¬ delegates appointed to Buffalo. Preble, Darke, Buffalo. and the necessity of its discussion, he seemed “ When tho resolution passed by the House of lation, with such females as are independent prop¬ There arc fifteen Anti-Tayior Whig papers a”d Greene, were represented. J. C. Vaughan Dedham, Mass.—Large Convention on the 31st Representatives for the annexation of Texas more deeply impressed than over with both. We erty holders, does not probably exceed 5,000,000. n this State, as follow: True Democrat, Elyria w.ultimo, S. A. Walker presiding. Mr. Keyes, of reached the Senate, it was ascertained that it To discharge the debt, it would be necessary that know that no party interests in tho world would would fail in that body. Benton, Bagby, Dix, bumper ^oeftng^ which aTast the Governor’s Council, Charles F. Adams, and for a moment have restrained him in the discus¬ Haywood, and, ns I understood, you, also, wero these persons should pay, on an average, about doctrines ex serTe chronicle, Medina Whig, Hamilton Intel- meellng after the Buffalo Convention. others, addressed the meeting. sion of this question. We know that he repeat¬ absolute in opposition to this naked proposition $800. This debt may be repudiated; but can it '■cmJrnsil ligencer, Lebanon Star, Saturday Clipper, Meigs “Saturday,(a very rainy day,) a thousand free- Taunton, Mass.—Great Free Soil meeting, edly said that the war would in all likelihood of annexation, whioh necessarily brought with it ever be paid ? -e reflect that County Times, Marietta Intelligencer, Seneoa n ft ,5embled ftt Xemoi Green# oounty. A more o , p ki nresidimr Meetimr nd the war in which Texas was engaged with Mex¬ ‘‘W*- County Standard, and Mount Vernon Times.” earnest set you never saw. They are for Free- Hon. Samuel I erktns presiding^ Meeting ad¬ produce a succession of military Presidents; that ico. All had determined to adhere to the bill Looking only to the records, the debt is owing it biblical or- rp> p„ - . dom out and out; .T.C. Vauglian and E.S. Ham- dressed by Hon. John Mills, Ex-Governor Mor- he greatly deprecated this as an evil threatening submitted by Colonel Benton for the appointment to some 300,000 persons. It would seem, then, aafad«“S The Portsmouth Clipper, reported formerly as Bn spokc in the morning. J. C. Vaughan in the ton and others. the stability of the Union; that he predicted that of a commission to arrango tho terms of annexa¬ that 24,000,000 of people are enormously taxed to ! be Hand" by dx8ftff“ted> “ow 8UPport8 Taylor-so says the evening. All Greene is right. But it is useless to attempt to give the names lamented Har- Marietta Intellivenwr. “ Tho same day, H.D. Campbell spoke at Ham- _ General Taylor would be the first of these Presi¬ tion with Texas, and to make tlie attempt to ren¬ pay the interest on this vast debt to this small der its accession to our Union as palatable as pos¬ and General Still BoLTiNG.-CharlesRot ting Charles D.D SSmith, ’Hi Secretary9 i,ton’ BatleF OOUW- A turnout. John of a11 the Frc0 Sqi1 meetings in the old Bay dents; and that ho did not appear to take any sible to Mexioo, before its consummation. It was number of creditors. The British Government is Wood, Auditor of the State, denounced Judge State. pleasure in this idea. We know, too, that he an¬ hoped that this might b« effected by giving (as always laying anchors to windward. Forty years of the last Senate m Michigan, and editor of the McLean; said he held the samsame view with Cass, CoNNEoxicUT.-Statc Free Soil Convention on ticipated the final absorption of Mexioo, through has been done in the into treaty of peace) a pecu¬ ago, when this debt was rapidly accumulating, it Adrian Watchman, has abandoned Cass, and given &c. He came out for Taylor, Ha Hmo“K2 22 *• « ** Men or * niary consideration, fully equivalent in value, for saw that if a revolution should occur, and the is¬ in his adhesion to the Barnburners. weak, illogical. Messrs. Van the insidious, aggressive ambition of the Slave . t , ,, „ „ speak every day this -peekveelc ini Preble, Clarke, present. State and county committees elected. the territory desired by the United States, and sue bo made up between the tax payers and the Indiana.—July 26th, a Free Soil State Con- Sto. Power; but, so far from being oven then hopeless to whioh Texas could justly assert any title. &c. Y. N. Eighteen delegates appointed to Buffalo, six of the Republic, he foresaw in that contingency The Senate had been polled, and it was ascertain¬ tax receivers, the former could easily trample vention was held in Indianopolis. The Court- “ Ohio.” Wliigs, six Democrats, six Abolitionists. down a class with whom they had no sympathy, the overthrow of Slavery, whioh ho regarded as ed that any two of tho Democratic Senators who house was filled. Major J. B. Seamons was elect- Westchester, Pa.-APa.—A large and enthusiastic Lod., Medina County, O.-A Free Soil meet- were opposed to Brown’s resolution, whioh had and repudiate the debt. Accordingly, it has been a matter of righteous retribution. ed President. A debate took place between some Free Soil meeting wobwas held at Westchester, Au- iag on the 4tb July_tbe proceedings of whioh We shall not go into particulars, and attempt passed the House, could defeat it—the whole the policy of the Government during these forty Whig party prefering annexation by negotiation, members of the Convention and Taylor men, in gust ]8t. Hon. David Potts presided, assisted by to report the details of conversations. Our state¬ upon Colonel Benton’s plan, to that of Brown. years to induce the middling and poorer classes to invest money in the public funds, through the ; ana we cratic paper, the latter were floored. Spirited ments are general; they accord with all his pub¬ While the question was thus pending, I met Mr. Hd Dudley Field, Esq, of New York, addressed Keep and Dyer Several excellent resolut licly expressed views; with his known principles; Brown, (late Senator of Tennessee, then a mem¬ medium of savings banks, charitable institutions, en. Can, resolutions were adopted, delegates appointed to lutions were adopted, delegates appointed to the meeting at length.n” * °Samuel rau 1 ;'Aaronaron aialso°° »P°Kespoke were adopted,adopted approvingapprovine the course of Messrs,Me with the tenor of tho latter years of his life; and, ber of the House,) who suggested that the resolu¬ and friendly societies. Not long since, there was wenfltto Bu®d° Convention, and a resolution was tion of the House and the bill of Colonel-Ben ton, Buffalo Convention, and a resolution was t0 great acceptance.ice The meeting was in favor ZfZHalC; NileS) pairrcy) Tuck, Giddings,Z L&c., repu-r we venture to affirm, with the impressions of hun¬ found to be standing in the names of the commis¬ leeidedly passed to hold another State Convention on the preferred by the Senate, might be blended, mak¬ ed ‘°''°'d..nn0U'?r .Sta_te„C!n:Cnti0n,0n. of Van Buren for' tthe lB Presidency.PreB1deney. diatingdlti^ the Baltimore and PhiladeluhiaPhiladelphia nomina-non dreds who have had the honor of intoroourso with ing the latter an alternative, andleavingtbePres- sioners of those associations some £25,000,000 of desired.” g0tb 0f August next, to nominate an eleotoral ident elect (who alone would have time to con¬ the public debt, belonging to about 800,000 indi¬ . ticket. Of the forty delegates chosen to the Buf- Washington Counties.— The tions, and denouncing the electioneering tactics Shame upon all attempts to use the name of the summate tho measure) to act under one or the vidual depositors and 16,000 associations—the lat¬ Position or Gen. Cass. Position of Gen. Cass. fai0 Convention, 16 were Whigs, 16 Democrats Demoorati“' Z are not only willing to do right, but able to with- 8011’ free ,ab8r’ and fre0 m an

another dreadful outbreak may be anticipated be- mitted against it, it will think better of the Barn- Garnett Duncan of Kentucky, and Mr. Haskell THE SENATE AND THE OREGON BILL. n«vep be introduced, owing to the climate and pe- Let freedom be tho fixed law honoeforth of all )Gr We copy the following from tho Washing¬ fore long. Whether it be from the reverses of the burners. Whatever may be their faults, treason of Tennessee, who had not voted oh the first mo¬ - culiur productions of that portion.” territory acquired, and slavery will no longer ton papers: to the Cause of Human Rights cannot be laid at tion, voted in the affirmative on the second; and The Oregon hill of the House, was reported Again, he remarked, it was thought, “ in case seek to ally itself with the spirit of territorial ex¬ INTERESTING FROM CUBA. ion has become the refuge of an unusual number last Saturday in the Senate, from the Committee Congress refused to touch the subject, the country ofif foreigners, of all ranks, from deposed premiers ttlclp aoor- that Franklin Clark, who had voted nay on the pansion, whioh will then develop itself in obe¬ downwards. = first motion, voted yea on the second. This would on Territories, to which it had been referred, with -would he slaveholding only where by the laws of dience to the wants of our population, and In har¬ The following is the copy of a letter to a mem¬ Our Physical Foroe revolutionists appear to 'ITHE NATIONAL ERA. have made the vote to lay on the table the motion two important amendments—one securing an ab- Nature slave labor was effective, and free labor mony with the rights of neighboring Powers. ber of Congress from Florida, written by a gen¬ have yielded to that sort of power which they tad -» to reconsider—115, hut, Robert Smith, who voted solute veto to the Governor, the other incorporat- oould not maintain itself.” These thoughts have been suggested by recent tleman of high character at Pensaoola,’ and oan invoked. The good cause of Reform has been by = no doubt be relied upon: yea on the first motion, did not vote at all on the ing the following as a part of the 12th section, ft was then the view of tho Committee, that by movements on our Southern border, which show them thrown into the oategory of quantities; the WASHINGTON, AUGUST 10, 1848. “Pensacola, July 20,4848. 'seoond. In this way the vote of 114 is ex¬ which prohibits slavery—“ inasmuch as the said the laws of Nature, that is, tho laws of God, there that the pernieious element of Slavery-aggression problem is worked—as the solution for the pres- _ “ At this moment, just before the departure of ent is, that the amount of force in the hands of Gov¬ plained. Territory is north of the parallel of thirty-six de- arc portions of the earth whioh must be culti- is again at work. tho mail, I snatoh tho littlo time I have to say ernment is a large multiple of that possessed by the On the other hand, Franklin Clark, changing grees and thirty minutes of north latitude, usu- vated by slaves; and it was their purpose by this The Natiowl Intelligencer of the 1st instant in¬ that, by the arrival of tho schooner General Ben¬ “steel pen and red inksohool” Earnest Jones, „ his vote from nay on the motion to lay the bill on ally known as the Missouri Compromise.” bill to allow slavery to be introduced into such vites the attention of Congress to the following nett from Key West, we received accounts of an Messrs. Trussell, Williams, Vernon, Sharpe, and insurrection at Havana, island of Cuba.. Five Looney, are doomed, each of them, to rather more 0 the table, to yea on the motion to lay upon the A similar amendment was moved in the House, portions of the free territories obtained by us statement, presented in tho precise language of an at the second session of the last Congress, by Mr. from Mexico! This is Wilmot Provisoism with hundred of the insurrectionists were killed. It than two years quiet in the new House of Cor- table the motion to reconsider, and Mr. Clingtnan, authority on whioh it placos entire reliance: seems their plot was discovered before it had fully reetion for Middlesex. Mr. Trussell protests who voted nay on the first motion, not voting at Burt, of South Carolina, at the instance of Mr- a vengeance! “ The arrangements are nearly completed for matured. Finding that, their conspiracy was de¬ that ho never recommended the romoval of obnox- “ 1 all on the second, would have reduced the last vote Calhoun, and rejected by a most decided vote. This is obeying instructions, too! Messrs. , the contemplated new Republic, to consist 0/ the tected, they forcibly possessed themselves of am¬ ious tyrants by private assassination, but tho jury on to 95, had it not been for Mr. Cummins, of Ohio, Why Mr. Douglas should attach suoh an encum- Clayton and Phelps were both bound by the Mexioan provinces on the Rio Grande, with San munition from the stores, after an engagement and he were, unfortun itely for him, at issuo on ° ™ Luis ns the capital, and Tampico and Matamoros with the regular troops, and retired to the moun- this point. ." who, not having voted at all on the motion to lay brance to the present bill, unless to defeat the instructions of their respective Legislatures to us the seaports. General Shields is at tho Iioad In Ireland, we are likely to have a few more on the table the bill, voted against tho subsequent measure entirely, it is hard to understand. Messrs- vote against any measure allowing the introduo- of the movement, and is now probably at San “ This is tho beginning of what must follow, martyrs to Physical Foroc doctrines, in tho per- 1 motion. This explains the 96 nays. Dayton, Niles, and Hale, on one side, and Messrs' tion of slavery in free territory ; but both eom- Luis in general oouncil to make the final arrange¬ and foreshadowing what it will be necessary for sons of Meagher, Duffoy, Doheny, and others of The Cass papers of the South charge the respon¬ Butler, Underwood, and Mason, on the other, op- mitted themselves to tho support of this bill, ments. Many havo already gone from New Or¬ our Government to do in relation to tbis great leas note, connected with tho Felon and the Nation. *“!! leans to meet him; the American force will not be sibility of the defeat of the Compromise, on the posed it. Mr. Douglas insisted that the amend- which, according to Mr. Clayton’s own statement, gateway to our Southern and Western commer¬ The country is considered by the Government to less than five thousand men. ’Our Government cial interests. bo too much agitated to render a visit of the v eight Whig members from the South voting to lay ment would commit no Senator supporting it, one would leave the question of slavery to be decided [the Executive] were consulted; but they said [We publish the letter, as we find it, without Queen desirable this year. En it upon the table—but, it must be recollected, that way or the other, in relation to the Territories, by natural laws, as one portion of the territory, that they would neither aid nor oppose it. They j professing to understand precisely the import of On subjects affecting Slnvory, 1 havo to observe, an'1L We do not see it in this light. Where is the use it was conceded on all hands, required slave mill aid it, notwithstanding their declaration. the last paragraph, or passing any opinion at all that Lord John Russell is making progress with tru was not a test vote on the merits of the bill. Sev¬ of it, unless to assign the only reason why slavery labor! Thoy can leavo arms, ammunition, he., at Tam¬ upon the subject.— Union.) his measure, unsatisfactory though it be to nearly <1 resuming their wonted aspect of unruf- icans, skillful in the sport, and acquainted with purpose of preventing an evil which we only ag- —, r, rr, „ „ and the Senate amended the resolution by sub¬ _ ' fled serenity, the pathetic Senator from Indiana the habits and haunts of the animal, will join the ulation concerning this important intelligence. gravate by this means, and we may expect that „ ** Fotl ™K Trial or T,IE Pbisoneks or TIIE stituting the 14th for the 7th of August. party. Due notioe of the time of meeting and the A largo number of American citizens are set¬ before the faoe of the faots which havo been Peakl> see fourth page. The verdict of the jury, As the Signal letttr has been solely relied upon, arose, and announcing his purpose to refraira Since then, the House has passed the Oregon bill rendezvous will be given through the publio tled in Cuba, many of whom are engaged in brought to light, our Government will see the wis- (guilty of feloniously abducting,) in view of the by the Anti-Slavery Whig supporters of General from introducing any bill relating to the Terri- by an overwhelming majority, steadfastly voting press.” planting, and the rest interested generally in the dom of abandoning this scheme altogether. instructions of the Court, is extraordinary. Dray- Taylor, to give countenance to the idea that he lories, for the very sensible reason that the trans- There is nothing wonderful in all this. Mex¬ An effort has been made by the Bishop of Ox- ,i „„ , down all attempts to embarrass it with bills for was friendly to the Wilmot Proviso, in tact com- oendent genius of the Special Committee had maintenance of slavery. ford, to bring the. force of legislation to boar t0n >8 a8a'a °a tnaltmosecond indictment, the Government of the other two Territories, or ico is in a state of anarchy, growing out of the mitted to it by his declaration of approval of the failcd to secure any favor to their goodly off- Europe is now in a state of progressive revolu¬ against the crime of seduction; but after pro- " ’ to amend it so as to allow the introduction of sla¬ debility of both olasses of her population, and tion, one nation after another adopting republi¬ oeeding as far ns the third rending, tho measure IGtItIt is impossible, while Congress is in ses-ses¬ sentiments of that letter, we are pleased to be able 8Pri°gi be accompanied the declaration with one their increasing jealousies. She isdevoid of pub¬ very. The bill is now in the Senate, committed can institutions; and experience shows that the has been lost, in oonsequonoe of being encumber- sion, and the Free Soil Movement is requiring so at last to set this matter forever at rest. The ed- °t those overpowering bursts of eloquence to lic spirit, and her military ohioftains are reckless to its Territorial Committee. We shall see wheth¬ moment a nation thero revolutionizes, it seeks to ed with other provisions, comprehending more muchmuoh attention, to afford much room to Correa-Corres¬ itor of the Tuscaloosa (Ala) Monitor has obtained 'whioh, doubtless, the Union of these States owes of everything but their own personal interests. er, in the face of such a vote from the House, it give freedom to its colonies, if it have ony. pondents. Wo have communications on hand leave of General Taylor to publish the following *t8 perpetuity. As our neighbors of the Press in The_States in the region referred to are filled will dare defeat it, and drive the people of Regenerated Franoe abolished slavery in Mar¬ Parliamentary enactment. Another Parliament- (S(goodrr*ood ones, too)w: enoughrr--***-*.*“ to fill two or three num¬num- letter. The reader will perceive that it complete- Washington, penetrated with profound admiration Oregon to desperation, by an unwarrantable at¬ with a rebellious, disaffected population; they ary measure, designed to diminish the amount of bers of the Era. In a few weeks, we shall get ly sustains the correctness of our interpretation f°r a genius capable of suoh an effort, are cele- tinique and Guadaloupe; let Spain be revolution¬ tempt to encumber it with Territorial Govern¬ have long been the theatre of our army opera¬ ized, and slavery may fall in Cuba. “Sunday traffic,” though going on favorably at rid of Congressional matter, and probably take of his reply to the Signal letter. brating it in proper phraseology, wo must com- tions, and it may he supposed' that some of present, will most probably fail before it has ad- ono or two wceksj rnr. „„ ments for New Mexico and California. Such This explains to a great extent the unset¬ one or two weeks’ rest for-ourselves—then wo “ Headquarters, Army of Occupation, mend our Patriotisra b>’ ^Hating their taste. vanoed much further. It is a sad thing that pee- , two weeks rest for ourselves-then wo conduct would bo properly judged by the coun¬ our officers had abundant leisure for inter¬ tled state things in that island, and the de¬ pie will not avoid tho evils which God has pro- may deP°Pula‘« oup pigeon-holes. Camp near Monterey, Nov. 5,1847. ‘” 8aid Mr- Hannegan, “that the try. course and consultation with some leading Mexi¬ sire of many of the inhabitants for annexation to hibitod, until some human authority, having j -•- Oregon is the sceno of a bloody struggle, grow¬ “Sir: Your letter of the 4th ult. lias been re- events of, ‘A6 prTnt a??toI> .they wdl be ieTe us wild adventure. The advent of peace has disap¬ time after the adjournment of movements of the age.- Our truly apostolic Bishop of Exeter, who publisb lt 80“® tlm® the adjournment of in Washington entreats Congress to pass the bill. communication to express an opinion either in \e on tbe ver8® of disunion and civil war. At pointed many of them, and thrown them out of seems determined not to be outdone by I-Iilde- Congress. concurrence with or in opposition to any of the £h® ?ery 831,1 e m°mcmt that we are standing out Look out for Cuba! Nothingbutthe complete On the contrary, New Mexico and California are employment. They are just tho material to be brand, has called for a fresh sacrifice to his epis- , * ~ , . views embraced in the editorial article to which beforo ^uroPe.a8 the bright exemplar; illuminat- triumph of the anti-slavery sentiment, in the ex¬ copal wrath, whioh is to be furnished forth in the V:T -Acknowledgment.-We feel constrained at peaoe—they have just been acquired by it refers. 1D8 an<1 arousing mankind to a consciousness of used in Such ti soheme as is developed in the ex¬ clusion of slavery from the Territories of Ore¬ person of the Rov. James Shore, who will proba- again to acknowledge the kindness of our friends treaty—there is no urgent necessityfor providing “The letter itself; like most other letters of tho va!u® .of.rati?a/- “nd regu1Iated bberty, we tracts above. Add to all this, tho States border¬ gon, California, and New Mexioo, and the estab¬ mine on unofficial matters which havo found their present this humiliating spectacle of internal dis¬ bly be soon thrown into prison, really for the in their efforts to extend the circulation of tho any other than a Provisional Government at the ing on the Rio Grande and the Gulf of Mexioo lishment of a similar polioy in relation to all Ter¬ crime of leaving the established ohnroli, and bo- Ertu The hint of our friend c_g_ of present session. Why link together Territories way into the newspapers, was not intended for ^Yhy’ 8,r’’[was but tb® otbcr da7> as are especially adapted to the growth of cotton, and coming a dissenting minister, nominally for the , , , . . , . ’ publication, but simoly Written as a matter of I bav® been informed through the correspondence ritories hereafter acquired, can prevent the ulti¬ oppressive costs of the prosecution which this Botrton> has be8a a most prc8aaat one-his exam- so differently circumstanced? Again: in the courtesy in answer to one which I had received ®f one ofJ>ur diplomatic agents that m the great far more accessible to slaveholding emigrants, and mate annexation of Cuba, with its six hundred sucoeaBor of tho Apostles dircoted against the P'e I0 yet remembered. Scarcely a mail that does campaign of 1844, it was the conjunction of Ore¬ from the gentleman in question. For this object, Go™an lament, assembled for the purpose of convenient for thoir purposes, than New Mexico thousand slaves. man who denied baptismal regeneration. not bring us some fruit from it. Take the follow- gon and Texas to which the entire Democratic it was entirely sufficient; though, under the be- mg in one grand confederajey the Germanic or California. Here, then, we soe the Element Having worked my way into matters ecolesiasti- ing illustration of its operation, selected from party solemnly pledged itself. Both were to be lief that it would never go beyond this point, it is f^68’ ? ?“ al!usloa be,Dg mado to ‘be Un,ted whioh will consolidate and direct this new enter¬ oal, I must notice tho opening of thothe Roman Catho¬Catho- quite probable that it may not have been prepared Stat!8 °f, Amenca- tha‘ aa?ust assemblage, com- brought into the Union together, protection to prise. lielic ohuroh in St. George’s.George’s, Lambeth, the buildin*building many Cr>ually 8tTlking • with that care and critical accuracy which ap- p0S “cu ,Cto d and Poetic as you have There is an error in the electoral ticket for and decoration of whioli have been going on for Cincinnati, Ohio, July 8, 1846. both was promised at the same time. Part of pears to be so muoh required by politicians. It beT ev.er aaght re8ard ‘be®: rose simultone- The statement, so far as it implicates the Exec¬ utive of this country, or the present aotion of Indiana, as published in the Era last week. My the last eight years. The opening of this church Dear Sir : Enclosed you will find six dollars the bargain was fulfilled. Texas Was dragged in, was simply my desire, on that occasion as has ?U8ly’ 1?.token respect, and burst forth into name is written Andreev instead of Addison Coffin. has, of oourse, boon a source of great gratification, for three more numbers of the National Era, mak¬ neck and heels—one half of Oregon was quietly been my custom uuiformlyuniformly through life, to erexpress ?ud “?d long-protracted shouts, at the bare men- General Shields, is emphatically denied—but the If convenient, please tell tho Doctor to correot it. not only to tho Roman Catholic population of ing twelve in all, to be sont to my address. and most cautiously inducted—Texas was at once my respect for opinions whichwhioh I believed to be I0n of °T namc ’ he,r® we are’ln rfcla lon rest of it remains uncontradicted. Thine, respectfully, Abmson CorriN. England, but to the members of that community If you please, you may toll your subscribers, as honestly entertained, and, as longlone as thus held to, T‘e8Von wh,c l s\ould excite no feeling, throughout the continent of Europo and tho a fact taught by the experience of one who con- provided with a Government; but Oregon, through whioh involves no interest upon one side, and only Now, what is the best preventive against all worid. The building is not a oathedral, as lias aiders himself us having but little tact for busi- the tender mercies of John C. Calhoun, was left “ Should it ever become my offioial duty to eive ”erTes assail an lnieresi upon tne otner, sona- such fraudulent schemes ? The established, de¬ bcenbeen orronoously stated, but a largo churoh,churob, ca- ness of the kind, tlithat they will find it almost no without any; and now, through the same consid¬ my opinions on any or all of the political ques- !°e C°rth th,e tPfu,'c that barder8 upo? clared polioy of the Government that there shall pabio of holding above 3,000 persons. It is a trouble at all to get subscribers for the Era at the erate interposition, while Texas rests at peace, tions referred to in the article above mentioned* I th° bor™rs of„that whloh haa recently 8tartled be no more slave territory, no moro slave StateB. On our first page we present a record, occupy¬ Gotbio structure of the “early English” era, the present time, if they will only make a little effort, shall discharge the duty to the best of my judg- men m 1 ranoe- ing nearly three columns, of the movements in entrance being through the magnificent arch of a The late mob hod thotl: effect of giving your paper Oregon, with the knife of the savage gleaming at Nothing but this will prevent the Slave Power ment Until then, my opinions on such matters Mr- Hannegan must control his emotions; it is relation to Free Territory. It is a simple record, tower, whioh is to boar a tail spire “someither a great notoriety,iety, itsiti existence and principles be- her throat, is compelled to stand without, unde¬ are neither necessary nor important. a oonsolation to know that Christendom has not from perverting the passion for territorial ac¬ day.” Tho walls aro plain, and defaced by sun- came known to alaalmost overy one, and a strong fended save by her own right arm, until Mr. Cal¬ “1 need hardly add, in oonclusion, that this yet read the debates of tho Senate. Had these quisition, oharaoteristio of the Amerloan People, containing scarcely more than the dates and dry pictures hung up on each sido. At tho end public sentiment in ent in its favor was the result. And houn Buoeeeds in establishing slavery in New communication is not intended for the public been familiar to that German Parliament, had i* to its own purposes. places of Conventions. Among these are eight of the nave is tho chance), which is one mass of then the actss of tlthe late Conventions have cut State Conventions. Several^fteil reports of pro¬ gliding and paint,surmounted by a huge crucifix, thousands adrift fr Mexico and California! And seconding him in Irift from the old parties, whom a P “I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient been known to the “embers of that body that the ceedings and meetings have been forwarded to rising out of the rood loft. The crucifix has an ™ry 1\H1b perouorioreunrion wifi lull.looL* take the PV. this work of good faith, and humanity, and lofty " tj. r» > —Sanatn of the United States has blocked all legis- imago of the Saviour, I auppoae us largo ns life, by wiiioh they will be safely drown on board the “ Major General V. S. A.” lation for our immense Territories. us for publication, but wo have boon obliged to At the end of the loft aisle is the chapel of the Anti-Slavery ship. Now is the time for every -•- pel the other branch of the Legislature to oonsont abridio ot— «u. wvrirWd lo jmbUnli atr.'ttivrt) Sacrament; at. tho end of the other aisle, that of friend of Freedom to exert himself in her behalf; would be room for nothing else. We prooeed THINGS THAT OUGnT TO BE KNOWN. ‘0 th® establishment in them of human slavery, the Virgin. Theso three places arc as magnifi- and in no way can he work more effectually than TRE CHILD BY THE RIO BRAVO. with a reoord of movements: cent ns the available wealth of the Romish churoh in extending the circulation of Anti-Slavery pa- - there might have been loud and long-protraoted here and abroad could make them. Tho Earl of pers. John Darling. A Northern paper says the bill of Messrs, shouts, but they would havo been shouts of de- Suggested by Hoffman!s Mexican Lament. Gloucester, N. J.—Free Soil meeting, With¬ Shrewsbury gave £800 for the window over the -•— Calhoun and Clayton had the “ singular fortune rision. Bless your stars, Mr. Hannegan, that the out distinction of party, at Swedesboro', on the We copy the following analysis from the Nen> By the hauke of Rto Bravo .-trayed a little ohitit alone, of owing its defeat to the almost equal opposition Senate debates have not yet reached Christcn-Christen- Am! hit infant voice woe plaining with a eait anil wearv tone; 2.9th ult. President, Jacob Harney. Resolutions York Tribune: Smiled the moonbeam* gently downward, and tho placid river England, and a large number of Protestants, who INuS, &C. of both sections of the country.” That paper has aad ^r- ®°yd tnoved to refer to the Com- the bill would not allay excitement, and might ^ tm at la8t we bcbold tbo giving 8Word & Half forgotten ’twee a fabric built on human rights and 1 Spirited resolutions were adopted, and an Execu¬ Then I hear that, orphan’s walling, and hie pallid lip I see and show in a house of Christian worship, and mittee of tho Whole on tho state of the Union, Total (Whigs 75, Locos 39) - - 114 vitally injure tie Whig party. brother arrayed against brother, and our streams "Rio Bravo! Kio Bravo! give my father back to me.” tive Committee of five was appointed. “ In point many of our Protestant neighbors contributed to Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, moved to lay upon the On the final passage, the vote stood—yeas 128, Whatever mty be thought of this allegation of and rivers running red with blood;blood ; but you can | of numbers, order, and manifest interest in the tho support of tho pageant. There lias been table. Groat excitement and confusion followed, motives, the facts referred to show that our co- never, on this or any other question, dismember preaching there overy night since; and among nays, 71; 56 majority for organizing Oregon with motives, the facte referred to show that oar co- never, ?n this or any other question, dismember cause of Free Soil and Free Labor, the assem¬ the preachers were Mr. Oakley and the Hon. Mr. uring whioh several motions were offered, and the Wilmot Proviso. The free States voted solid temporary has totally misunderstood the matter. thf, ^ sirBirj thattbat I1 hold it moral treasontrCft8on blage has rarely been equalled in that place.” liort speeohes made. for the bill, except that Lewis C. Levin, a South Spenoer, formerly Protestant clergymen. The Carolinian representing the Native district in We wish the Thole transaction could bobe under- t0 tattt]k]k „f disunion or civil war here ! Whut!What! Bradford County, Pa.—The last Bradford latter gentleman, for ho evidently is one, malgre Mr. Smith, of Indiana, said that he had asked Pennsylvania, voted with the bulk of the Southern stood by the country. Like the billhill itself, the talk of disunion at this hoar,hour, when from thetho ccn- his coarse Passionist garb, earnestly exhorted his leave that morning to report bills founding Terri- Reporter contained a call, signed by 500 citizens members against the bill. movement8 preteding and accompanying it, will tral heaven beams all over Christendom the star of Bradford county, for a mass meeting of all The following Representatives from free States not bear the light. ' £our Republic, not the less brilliant because, voted for block bondage, and we give them black Ttri ' y r\ vn •, * *, . like the fire-fly, its light is mellow and mild— friends of Free Soil and haters of compromise, our country would find rest in Catholicity from nia‘““j’rrrr;—but objection had come from the“ Democraticd While the original Oregon bill, with its amend- when our prftcipleS6 are scattered broadcast to appoint delegates to the Buffalo Convention. the revolutionary spirit which is now abroad in s'd« of flic House. He was anxious to provido ments, was pending in the Senate, a meeting of throughout the European world—when the Ger- The editor says that only a portion of the signa¬ other lands. I believe most of my countrymen these people with Governments. But this Com- thethc Southern members of that body, without dis- man Parliament offers its enthusiastic homage at tures to the oall is published. Bird sail, N. Y. McClernand, Ill. tinction of party, was called and held,hold, to consult tb® “ere “entionmention of our country’s name! Is it at —- - Ficklin, Ill. Miller, O. Hon. J. M. Root.—The old Hunkers of this tu _____ „„„ snchsuch a period that we send words of exoitement None so blind as those who will not see. The ligion which has failed to produoe peace and good agree.t0' Chs. J. Ingersoll, Pa, Richardson, Ill. upon the subject.su^ect. No member from the non- andaud discorddiscor(j abroad, to make those who arearo straw.strng- gentleman’s distriot appearing disposed to make order anywhere. Yours, truly, Amidst great confusion, Mr. Stephens got the Wm. MoICennon, jr., O. Robinson, la. slavcholdwg States, unfriendly to the extension gUng to imitate our example, doubt the capacity Administration organs wore constantly admon¬ adherence to Taylor a test of Whiggery, Mr, floor. The bill, he said, settled nothing—would Wick, la. Sawyer, O. of slavery, was admitted to the caucus; whether of man for self-government ?” ished of the impossibility of bringing the Demo¬ Root, in a letter, thus explicitly defines his posi- give no peace to the country. The session was al¬ any of that claw of Free State men who sympa- Tbis may be all very sublime, but it strikes us cratic masses to agree to any extension of slavery RIOT AT ALLEGHANY CITY. ready too long—the question could not be adjust- thize with slaveholders on this point, were con- tbat tbe oratorj in bis foll from tbe beamillg star into free territory, and of the oertain disorganiza¬ . ed during the present session—it was time for “ So far as I am concerned, I am ready to do all Operatives 'in possession of the Factory—Defeat of r, „ 1 suited, we cannot say. That caucus, it is believed, t0 a lightning-bug, has beautifully illustrated, by tion of tho party, if the attempt were persisted in my power to relieve all embarrassment that my the Sheriff and Officers Congress to adjournadjonrn and go home. He moved to fixed the time when the debate on the bill should example, the old nmxim of the critics—“ there is in. But they proaohed peace, when there was no position occasions them. 1 oan neither vote for lay the bill upon the table. Atkinson, Ya. Thompson, Ky. Pittsburg, July 31, 1848. >ay bill ”PO” tlie table, Barrow, Tenn. close ; devised the project of a Special Commit- but a step between the sublime and the ridiculous.” peace, and would not see, what everywhere stared Taylor nor Cass ; and I feel well assured, that if Edsall, N. J. the Whigs of our distriot knew as well as I do Alleghanv City has been the scone of great ex- TThe.h° yeasyCaS and naysDayS wereWCre demanded,d®“anded> and theythey Beale, Va. Gaines, Ky. tee; determine! the time when, and the man by a beaming star in the “central heaven,” shining them in tho faoe. What a rare comment upon Bedjnger, Va. what kind of motives and insirumentalities pro¬ citement all day, in consequence of a riot among stood: IrwiD, Pa. whom, the motion for its appointment should be iike a fire.fly) is a spectacle to behold! the sagacity of tho old party managers, in the duced the nomination of the former by the Phila¬ the factory operatives. A strike had taken place, Yeas—Messrs. Abbott,-Adams, Ashmun, Bcl- Belcher, Me. Johnson, N. H. made. A subsequent caucus, perhaps informal, ___ following, (whioh appeared is the Washington Boyden, N. C. delphia Convention, not a score of them would to fbroe tho mill proprietors to let the ten-hour cher, I’ingham, Blanchard, Boyden, Buckner, LefHer, Iowa. Union last May,) when considered in connection vote for him ; but I have no quarrel with any of law go into operation. Somo of the operatives Butler, Canby, Clapp, Collamer, Collins, Conger, Bridges, Pa. Levin, Pa. of Southern members, and Northern Senators PL INS OF ANNEXATION Brown, Pa. with Southern principles, it is understood, deter- __J with what has already taken place: had resumed work in the Pennsylvania Mill, not- Cranston, Crowell, Crozier, Darling, Dickey, Meade, Va. “ It is not for me to say whether I am to be re¬ withstanding the owners refused to grant their Dixon, Donnell, Duel-, Daniel DuncaD, Dunn, Buckner, Ky. Morehead, Ky. mined the composition of the Committee. All We have no sympathy, as our readers well un- “ The Proviso Question.—In tho political as¬ Clapp, Me. pect of the present moment, there is, perhaps, nominated or reelected, nor by whom it shall he demand, anil, in consequenoe, tho other malcon- Eckert, Edwards, Embrce, Nathan Evans, Faran, Morse, La. these things were concerted by Senators from the derstand, with that timid Conservatism which done, if done at all. I have neither changed nor tents attacked tho mill, broke tho doors and win- Farrelly, Fisher, Freedloy, Fries, Giddings, Gott, Donnell, N. C. Nes, Pa. slaveholding States, without distinction of party, finds nothing but ruin in the expansion of our nothing so remarkable as the almost entire dis¬ Wilson, N. H. appearance, in the Democratic ranks, of the onee abandoned any part of the old Whig creed ; but dews, and finally dispersed the sheriff’s posse Gregory, Gritmell, Hale, Nathan K. Hall, Ham- Peyton, Ky. I adhere to it, and shall. If a majority of the oalled out to repress the outbreak. Tho sheriff mons, James G. Hampton, Moses Hampton, Murphy, N. Y. Strong, Pa. suoh men as Corwin, Davis of Massachusetts, Dix, rritory. That Anglo-American institutions are threatening excitement on the subject of tbe Pro¬ and Niles, being totally excluded from all consult¬ spread over and control this North Ameri- viso in the new Territories. This day twelve electors in the distriot desire me to oontinuo to and several of the police offioers and other persons Henley, Henry, Elias B. Holmes, Hubbard, Hud- represent them in Congress, 1 shall not object; were badly hurt. The operatives appear to liavo soai Joseph R. Ingersoll, Irvin, Jenkins, Kellogg, ation respecting them. Is comment necessary ? :n continent, has long been with us a settled months, many good Democrats doubted whether, TIIE VOICE OF THE PRESS. but if they desire another to represent them, they gained the day, and fears are entertained that D. P. King, Lahtn, William T. Lawrene.e, Syd- What think the Free Soil men of the country? nviction—a conviotion derived from a oonsid- because of a diversity of opinion on this question, any National Democratic Convention could be oan elect him. they will proceed to farther violenoe. They are ney Lawrence, Lincoln, Lord, Lynde, Maclay, “ 1 am for Free Men and Free Land, and hold my¬ now in possession of the factory. McClelland, Mellvainc, Horace Mann, G. P. We shall not continue our quotations from the Who now should declaim about sectionalism? eration of the nature of theso institutions, tho safely held, or indeed be held at all. Now, tho What comment will the Whig and Democratic character of the people who have created them, day for the assembling of that Convention is self in readiness to defend them whenever they hmy be _x Marsh, Marvin, Morris, Mullin, Nelson. Nes, newspapers whioh have condemned and ore yet at ailed It I shall, by the aotion of tho political Till)irmiff tn!'rytt'i1 u Nowell, Nicoll, Palfrey, Peaslee, Peck, Pendle- denouncing the Clayton Compromise, hut simply parties of the free States put upon such a trans- their history, present condition, and future wants, close upon us, and no one imagines that tho Pro¬ viso is to have any disturbing or disastrous effect parties of our distrtet, be relieved from the du¬ iGRILLING ADVENTURE. ton, Petrie, Pollock, Putnam, Reynolds, Julius record the names of suoh papers, and their party action? Need we wonder now that suoh gentle- While, therefore, we condemn the measures ties of a candidate, I may find timo to address my . , - Rockwell, John A, Rockwell, Rose, Rumsey, St. upon its deliberations. The difficulty has almost The following letter from Charles Ellet, jr., to John, ScWk, Shirrill, Silvester, Slingcrland denomination. men as Mr. Hannegan et id genus omne, received which have resulted iu our recent vast aoquisi- disappeared. Among the National Democracy, follow-citizens on the state of the nation.” a friond in Philadelphia, appeared in the Iforth Smart, Caleb B. Smith, Robert Smith, Truman Kennebec (Me.) Journal—Taylor; Montrose e proposition of Mr. Clayton with such de¬ is of territory, and oppose the motives of m it is alive only in the State of New York; and Hon. Horace Everett, lately an honored rep-, American on Thursday morning. It is one of the Smith, Starkweather, Stephens, Andrew Stewart, (Pa.) Democrat—Cass; Connecticut Whig—Tay¬ light ? That Mr. Dickinsoi a Northerner, pre- of their prime n there it lives only in the lingering vitality of an resentative from Vermont in Congress, also a del¬ most thrilling adventures we ever gave pub most thrilling adventures we ever gave publicity Charles E. Stuart, Strohrn, Strong, Tallmadgc, lor; Eastern (Me.) Times — Cass; Gem of the eminent for his admiration of Old Virginia, and ed at the magnitude of the acquisitions. All that old sectional and personal quarrel. As an ele¬ egate from that State in the Philadelphia Con¬ to; and, asaa a feat of cool,oool, oalm daring, it has never Taylor, James Thompson, Richard W. Thompson, ment of practical disunion in the Democratic been excelled.—Baltimore Clipper. Prairies, (Ill.)—Independent; Vermont (Brattle- Mr. Bright, a Senator from the West though is now necessary to makema them a blessing to the party of the country, the Proviso has not even vention, has come out in an address repudiating holding slaves in Kentucky, should have been se- Union, and the Union ia blessing tc»them, is to be¬ “ Niagara Fares, July 20, 1848. ton> Tuck Van Dyke Vinton, Warren, Went- borough) Phoenix — Taylor; Bradford (Pa) Re¬ the force of a good or plausible pretence. It will tho Philadelphia nomination, lt is said to be a lected as fair representatives of the North and stow upon them our fretfree institutions. Population not do any longer even for a mask! It is not to “ This morning I laid tho last plank of my foot Wb,tc’ Wll®y{ Wihnot-m. porter—Cass; W estehester Register and Exam¬ very strong document. He says: bridge on the Canada side, and then drove over NAYs-Messrs Atkinson Barringer, Barrow, iner—Taylor; Saco (Me.) Demoorat—Cass; Lan¬ West? Phelps, too, it was known, was an ex- of the right stamp wilwill soon flow in upon them. be denied that this good result has been brought “ In my judgment, the Whig party, as a na¬ and hack nmiin in a hinn»A lei^n Bayly, Beale, Bedinger, Birdsall, Boooek, Botts, ceedingly moderate man, and had expressed an The three hundred thothousand emigrants from the about, in large measure, by the frank and states¬ tional party, was dissolved, at the Chinese Mu¬ caster (Pa.) Examiner and Herald—Taylor; Balls- manlike manner in whioh leading statesmen of Bowdon Bowlin Brodheml WiUiam g! inclination to compromise; and it was understood old world, that crowd our shores annually, will seum, at 6 P. M, on the 9th day of June, 1S48. ton (N. Y.) Journal—Taylor; Portland (Me.) Ad¬ the Democratic party have met the question, lt And from that day and hour I dedicate myself to My horse, though spirited, went along quietly o'?ro^’> A,bert G' Br®wn> Bur/> that, however Clarke might be opposed to the quioken the current of interior emigration. It is touched up occasionally with the whip, just to £ttbel ’ TCaftoar*> Chapman, Jranklm Clark, vertiser—Taylor ; Lewiston Fails (Me.) Journal— is of course attributable, in a still greater extent, the Free Soil party. Henceforth I shall speak of show him that he was in command, and givo him Beverly L^ CUirk, Chngman, Howell Cobb, W. Independent; Christian Philosopher, (Sandusky measure, he had not the advantage of a ready or a magnificent spectacle—this grand prepara- to the patriotism, the moderation, and tho justioe the national Whig party as of a defunct body. courage R- Cooke, Cnsfield, Darnel, Dickinson, City)—Religious; Bennington (Vt.) Free Press— forcible eloquence, to push his objections very tion that we are making for an ample home in this of the Democratic masses.” And in speaking of it, I shall ohange the adage “ On returning, I directed one of the drivers to A'®xa"der Evans Featherston Ficklin, Flour- Taylor; New York Evangelist—Religious; Woon¬ successfully. new world for the surplus millions of the old. de mortuis nil nisi banum, “ speak nothing of the doad but good,” to de mortuis nil nisi mum, speak bring on his team-a two horse closed carriage, rwp'« n Gayl°’ Gentry, Goggin, socket (R. I.) Patriot—Independent; Cadiz (O.) On another point onr cotemporary is equally But let us take care that no deadly foe lurk by THE SENATORS FROM MICHIGAN. weighing altogether over a ton and a half. I took Ff?^8pn>HH,armM“0n> HaI’ nothing of tho dead but truth.” Sentinel—Cass; Massilon (0.) Telegraph—Tay¬ mistaken. He remarks that the fact that two of the hearth-stone—that no noxious principle poi- his place on the box, and drove over and back. S8’ 5L1!1’ SWiT E. Holmes George S. The Washington correspondent of the Charles¬ New Jersey.—State Free Soil Convention at The horses went quietly. The flooring is but eight Houa,t,on,’ Jobn • Houston, Inge, Charles J. in- lor; Weekly (Me.) Umpire — Taylor; Gettys¬ the members of the Special Committee who were son the atmosphere or blast the soil—that no El- ™ ton Mercury, in a letter dated July 27th, says that Trenton, on the 2d. Every Congressional dis¬ feet wide, 220 feet high, 762 feet lonf, and wifh- H^raon, Ja^on, A. Johnson, Robert W. burg (Pa.) Star—Taylor; Mahoning (0.) Index— umong the most aotive in support of the bill, were ement of Discord, Decay, and Death, be let loose Mr. Felch, of Michigan, in the debate on the trict in the State, but one, represented, although out railing, over such a torrent as you nover saw, dollaBOn> George W. Jones John W Jones, Cass. Of oourse, all the Independent Whig and known Wilmot Proviso men, is an evidence of where these myriads of human beings are to rear Compromise Bill in the Senate, deolared, “if his tho notice had been circulated scarcely two weeks ■">»™ ■» •i“” Democratic and Liberty papers are in opposition, their belief that the practical operation of the bill a new empire. Let them be one with us. Let vote were necessary to carry the bill, he Would give it.” Kay, McLane, Job Mann, Meade, Miller, More- before. The Convention was addressed by H. but these it is needless to mention. would have been to banish slavery from the Ter- the law of Personal Freedom—a law stamped upon The same correspondent, in the same letter, says: THE VAN BIJREN FREE SOIL MOVEMENT. head, Outlaw, Pettit, Peyton, Pilsbury, Preston, N. Conger, a delegate to the Philadelphia Con¬ §£jf* Since the foregoing was written, many pa¬ ritories,” &c. John M. Clayton and Judge Phelps all men by the hand that formed them, and whose “ In the South and the North, a majority of the _ Rbott, Richardson, Richey, Robinson, Rockhill, are here alluded to. Now, the following extract untrammeled operation exalts, humanizes, and vention, and other gentlemen. Seven delegates, We regard the pretended Anti-Slavery move- Sawyer, Sbepperd, Simpson, Sims, Stanton, Thib- pers of all olasses have reaohed us, denouncing Democrats went for the bill; and it would have with alternates, were appointed to Buffalo, ment of the New York Locofoeos as heartless as odeaux, Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Robert A. all compromise. No room for even names. from Mr. Clayton’s speech, on presenting the develops society—bo their unchangeable law. been the same in the West, had Mr. Fitzgerald’s Vermont.—State Free Soil Convention on the that party has ever been since it has had a con- Thompson, Tompkins, Toombs, Turner, Venable, bill, will show what kind of Wilmot Proviso men Establish this as an unalterable principle in vote been necessary to save the bill.” We hope trolling influence in that great State. Wallaoo,Wallace, Wick, Williams, Woodward—97. Hon. Franklin Clark. — This gentleman, a these gentlemen were: our Governmental policy, and acquisition by con- 1st, at Middlebury. Hon. John Kellogg, Presi¬ these statements are erroneous ; but it can do no dent. Nominations were made for State offioers. New Haven Palladium. A motion to reoonsider was laid upon the table member of Congress from Maine, voted against « While it was admitted on all sides,” he re- quest, fraud, or violenoe, is stopped. It has been harm for the Democracy of Michigan to inquire When the editor of the Palladium and his po- by yeas 114, nays 96. A letter read, from J. R. Giddings, was muoh ap¬ laying on the table the monster Compromise of marked, “that by far the greatest portion of the our destiny to increase, to extend our borders, into the matter. litioal friends shall have heart enough to repu- It will be perceived that the hill was laid upon the Senate. As he is a candidate for reelection, Territories was prop«rly%dapted to free labor, but, to our disgrace and injury, what might have plauded. Horace Everett addressed the Conven¬ tion, and was followed by Ex-Governor Slade, in diate a Party which, in rejecting (he Wilmot tho table by a majority of 15 ; the motion to re-1 it is but fair that his constituents should know and would necessarily be free soil forever, yet it been accomplished peaeefully, though perhaps not The Charleston Patriot (S. C.) runs up the Proviso at its National Convention, and selecting consider was laid upon the table by a majority of the meaning of that vote. Was he in favor of was also with equal unanimity conceded that so rapidly, has been precipitated by Slavery, seck- name of General Taylor for President, and Gen¬ a long and an able speech in support of the Free ftr candidate a slaveholder, understood to be com- 18. By eomjjariiig the two votes we find, that I that Compromise? there was a portion of it where free labor could I ing to maintain and perpetuate its-domination. eral Butler for Vice President. It is Whig. Soil movement. NO. 84. THE NATIONAL ERA, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 10, 1848.

Rhode Island.—Free Soil State Convention be important for Christendom to understand that iand. now and then, contains reflections as jnst as SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. weather. Able and stirring speeches were made, stitutc out of order, as containing irrelevant mat- Mr. Crozier, of Tennessee, followed in expla- on the 1st, at Providence. A. B. Arnold, Presi¬ this reverend dissertator regards Nature as a bet¬ they are acute and discriminative. - by gentlemen belonging to different sections of tcr. Mr. McClernand appealed, but the deolsion nation and defence of his vote in opposition to - By the America and Hermann, wMch sailed from the Free Soil movement. Messrs. Keyes, of Ded¬ of the Chair was sustained. Numerous amend- the “ Compromise Bill” of the Senate, dent. Addressed by Messrs. Leavitt and Walk¬ ter light than Revelation on the attributes of Graham's American Monthly. George K. Graham and Liverpool on the 21st and 22d ultimo, dates seven ham, and Lovejoy, of Cambridge, went at. their ments were proposed, some adopted, and others Mr. Birdsall, of New York, next addreffced the er, Payne and Adams. The hall was crowded. God. R. T. Conrad, Editors. August, t848. Philadelphia. Wcr are brought f,.om Europe. business without gloves. Mr. Amasa Walker, of rejected. Committee, chiefly in relation to New York poli- Four delegates appointed to Buffalo. Ten lines and a half suffice for the discussion Brookfield, kept his on; hut that is nothing. Mr. The clause giving the veto power to the Gov- tios. and the difficulties between the “ Hunkers” of the Old Testament, whioh constitutes the themo This number opens with a memoir, biographi- i re land.—Affairs seem to be rapidly approach- W. has been out of tbe way of politios for a con¬ ernor was stricken out, it boing contended that, and '• Barnburners.” Ohio.—The Germans of Cincinnati have or¬ cal and critical, of the late Maria Brooke, by R. . . . . A * * ** of ohapter 5, and is dismissed as of equal authen¬ ___ ~ . ,. 5 _ . — j, mg a fearful crisis m Ireland. The Club orgam- siderable time, but he is an excellent popular the double exeroise of the veto power by the Gov- Mr. Catho irt made a Democratic speeoh on the ganized a Free Soil or Barnburner Club. The W. Griswold. The other articles are from some f. _ _ , speaker, and will do a great deal for tho cause, ticity and obligation with Roman and Greek His- _ . . . . . v it v zations are everywhere progressing. Meagher ernor and by Congress is unnecessary. political questions of the day. Cincinnati Signal says that the club is already S00 of tho best American writers. The embellish- Dohd O’Brien, are addressing the people when he gets well into it. He is a Barnburner. Having proceeded with the bill as far as the Mr. Bayly and Mr. Tallmadge followed. strong. Hitherto the Cincinnati Germans have Most of Mr. Phillips’s speeoh was a defence of bis 12th section, whieh embracesthe provisions of the . ments are beaut,ful. _ in tbe most impa3sioned style. More copies than past course. Mr. Keyes dissected, commented Ordinance of 1787—the “Wilmot Proviso”— August 4. nearly all voted for the regular Democratic can¬ Mr. Clay is condescending enough to devote a upon, and completely used up, the recent letter of Mr. Birdsall moved to amend so as to make the Senate.—Tho Senate then resumed the oonsid- didates. The formation of this club will make a whole chapter, (the 6th,) containing seventeen Tim Union Magazine. Edited by Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, ever of the Felon and Dublin Nation are cirou- New York: James L. De Oraw. August, 1848. lated, notwithstanding the interdictions of the the Hon. D. P. King. His was the speech of the section, in this respect, conform preoisely to the eratiou of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation tremendous inroad upon the strength of Hunker- lines, to the great themes—“ The New Testament day. Tho other gentlemen (excepting Mr. Phil¬ provision on the same subject, in the aot to or- bill, which was amended in various particulars “Sight Seeing in Europe,” by the editceditor, is Government. On the 18th, Dublin,Cork, Water- ism in the Q.ucen City and in Ohio. and Christ,” The Christian world is greatly in¬ lips) attempted no more than off-hand remarks, jgnnize the Territorial Government'of Iowa. Lost. An appropriation of $41,000 to the Creek Indians debted to him for the declaration that “ the New good reading. Mrs. CMld contributes one of her ford, and Drogheda, oounty and city, were pro- Mr. George Bradburn (having hecn several times Mr. Sawyer moved to amend by striking out *®d to a long and protracted debate ; after whioh, Indiana.—The Froe Soil County Convention, Testament, the history of Christ, is true.” This peculiarly entertaining stories, entitled Home and claimed under the Coercion act, and the procla- called for) came forward at a late hour, and gave all of the section relating to the Ordinance of fhe Senate adjourned. held at South Bend, on the 22d ult., appointed the audience a brilliant specimen of the keen sat¬ settles the question. Chapter 7th discourseth of Politics. The poetry is superabundant. A paper mation followed up by the most vigorous measures, 1787, retaining simpiy that part which continues House.—In tho House, tho day was wholly oo- eight delegates to Buffalo. J. L. Jernigan Esq., ire for which he is so distinguished. Of course, “Sin, Evil, the Devil,” proving, in about a page on John Guinoy Adams, by H. M. Clements, opens All commanders of regiments in Ireland, who are in force the laws of the Provisional Government, cupied in Committee of the Whole on the state one of the most distinguished lawyers in North¬ he would not go for the “ least of two devils,” nnd “so far as the same be not incompatible with the 0f the Union, (Mr. Ashmun in the chair.) with of matter, that the devil is a figure of speech, evil with a sentiment which needs some explanation, absent, have been ordered to their commands, Perhaps not for the Free Soil candidate, (he be¬ ern Indiana, addressed the Convention. Mr. principles ami provisions of this act; subject, nev- tho consideration of the Army bill is necessary to good, and death to life—“for, if “God grasps at random,” he says, “the men and the military is in a state of constant prepara- ing friendly to the Gerrit Smith school;) but he erthcless, to ho altered modified, or repealed, by Mr. Daniel, having the floor from the hour of Whitlock, the Locofoco candidate for Represent¬ the old die not, the young cannot be born—there whom he has destined to represent their genera- tion. Rev. Kir. Byrne, a Catholic priest, arrested showed in ail his remarks the best feeling towards the Governor and Legislative Assembly ofthe said the adjournment of the session of yesterday, made ative, said that ho would support tho Buffalo the Free Soil movement. G. W. L. is no room for them!” Of course not. Do not tion on earth.” We have been taught to believe for sedition, was finally released by the populace, Territory of Oregon, nnd the laws of the United „n animated speeoh, and was followed by Mr ticket,. He also ileolared that he would oarry States aro hereby extendod over and declared to Bott*. people always, before engaging in the process of that God does nothing at random. Some people, A declaration has been put forth by the Clubs, P. S.—It is not out of keeping with what has out the will of his constituents in voting for U. been said, to mention that about one hundred prooreation, inquire, Will there be room 1 Next in order to say striking tMngs, too often perpe- denying solemnly that their object is pillage, S. Senator, and uttorly repudiated the oonduot of J persons, on being called upon, have subscribed for follows a disquisition on the Immortality of the irate shocking things. massacre, or anarchy—all the purpose is, to free amendment was agreed to, 73 to 66. Senator Bright. the Era within the last two or three weeks, in Soul and Future Rewards and Punishments, con¬ (The Magazines are y W. Adam, on Ireland from British sway. this place and Danvers. More will do so. Mr. Gayle, of Alabama, moved to amend by ad¬ Me no eh. Coijntv, Pa.—Froe Soil Convention ding at the close of the section a proviso, that stituting chapter 8, which comprehends twenty- France.—The Constitution is progressing at the Court-house in Mercer, on the 28th ult. nothing containedmed in the section shall be con¬con- Mr. Vinton (chairman of tho committee report- ono lines and a half. His demonstration of the Jj*Dr. Snodgrass sent us an address to the strued to authorizehomo the exolusion of slavery, oroi ing) then addressed tho Committee in the way of President, MoCluer Cowan. Addresses by Dr. Liaiocs Miscblla 3'0w'y- The advocates of two Legislative Cham- immortality of tho soul is overwhelming—ly brief. “ fiTcho^4" bers are in a ^P®!®83 minority. The manner of friends of freedom in the South, designed for last i force any law of the Provisional summing up and review of the debate upon the R. Barber and D. H. A. McLean. Twenty- Thus: “ But gross, unthinking matter, is com¬ week’s last paper. It was crowded out, with many Legislature on this subject. Lost. bill. Tho topics of this number of thehe Examiner are e'ect’nf>8 tbei President has been under discussion, five delegates were appointed to Buffalo, and a posed of elements whioh are imperishable; in oth¬ other good things. We take pleasure in now Mr. Evans, of Maryland, moved to amend the The seoond seotion of the bill was amended so good, and generally well handled.I We like the and a resolution ’n fftTOr b'8 election by the section by inserting after the words (above quoted) as to reduce the maximum number of the oompa- Central Committee was chosen to call future er words, matter is everlasting; how much more, calling the attention of our readers to it, omitting Conventions. The meeting was large; and the tone of the work—at once conservativervativc and pro- Assemblyaaem insteadini of tbe People, has been adopt- “ not incompatible with,” the words “ the Consti- nios to 42 men eaoh, giving the President a dls- then, is the ethereal soul immortal!” If this do what was intended for a special occasion, now tution of the Uuited States and.” Agreed to. cretion to increase the number of those companies best, feeling prevailed. So says the Mercer Lumi¬ gressive. It appears to aim at Reform without ede Tbyj^ a large“B< majority. not convince the sceptic, then will ho not believe, gone by.—Editor Era. Mr. Palfrey moved to amend the seotion by ex- employed in the Territories to 100 men; butpro- nary. violence; to welcome the new, withoutithout despising Tbe® comm00Inmlttee appointed to consider the ques¬ though one should rise from tho dead. He as¬ cepting from the laws of the United States to be viding that the aggregate of privates and em- the old. Its table of contents is asts follows:follows ■ B tion'®uo of tbe. ®p Plress bas decided in favor of a deposite TO TIIE FRIENDS OF FREE SOIL IN THE extended over the Territory, that which relates to ployees of tho army shall not exceed nine thousand Ohio.—The Cincinnati Herald at last Thurs¬ sumes that matter is imperishable—infers from Joan of Aro, The Hebrew Ideas■as of GodGod, The of oautoautlon*on moneyn to he made by all the journals, SOUTH. the surrender of fugitive slaves. Rejected. and sixty, exclusive of oflioers—just fifty per day, says: this that spirit is immortal—infers from this that Mr. Hilliard, of Alabama, proposed to amend, cent, above the strength of tho army before the Water Cure, History as the Jews,rs, Revealed Re- Tbe examinationexam of nearly 1,100 insurgents has “ Upwards of thirty Free Soil meetings are to when disembodied it will remain just so—that is, The opponents of slavery in the South have by inserting at the olose of tho section a proviso, war. ligion, Peter Schlemihl in America,:a' Our Position,Position bbeen,een o!osedclosed,> and Paris appears tranquil. Assas- be held this week, in Ohio! This looks well. It unchanged. As to the resurrection of the body, continually been charged with a design to inter¬ that nothing therein contained shall be oonstrued The Committee also voted an appropriation of is well—for these meetings are the spontaneous Prospeots and Duties as a Religiousious Body,Body Pres-PreB- sinations,ainations, hohowever, in the public streets, are re- to prohibit citizens of the United States from re- $too,000 for a national armory, to be looated by that, he says, seems “impossible in the nature of fere with the institution in their respective States $190,000 for a national armory, to be looated by movement of the people. ent Condition of Ireland, Notices of Recent Pub- P, daily' through national legislation, and thus their posi¬ moving to the Territory with their property of thethe President somewhere in the West; and two things.” Of course, ha knows. “The meetings at Ripley, New Richmond, H&tions,lic’ations, Intelligence. ’ " Lamartine has been making a great speech in tion has been greatly embarrassed. The great every description, and enjoying all the rights, national foundries, whose sites are also to be lo¬lo- Georgetown, Tiffin, Mount Vernon, &o., will be Having given to the world eight elaborate chap¬ _ defenee of his foreign policy, when Minister of obstacle was the refusal of the press to give the privileges, and immunities of citizens of the seve- oatedcated by the President. But, before the final vote large. Indeed, all the meetings we have attend¬ ters of what he seems to regard inspired truth, he A Funeral Oration, Occasioned by the Death of Thomas Foreign Affairs. It was a triumphant effort. people the truth on the subject. But the great ral States. upon this amendment, the Committee rose— ed—some twenty-eight in Southern Ohio—have Mr. Vandyke moved to amend the amend- And the House adjourned, thus solemnly reviews his Herculean labors: Colo, Delivered hetoro the Academy of Design, New gome remark having been made respecting the law of demand and supply is beginning to regu¬ And tho House adjourned. been full of enthusiasm. 1 The spirit of 1840,’ late this matter. The readers of our Southern ment by inserting “ with the exception of slaves.” . said a leading man at Springfield, ‘purified of “ In giving my views upon such serious sub- ■D«:^o.By WilllaraCUU‘nBry‘Dt NCW YMk: foreiB“ P°licy Napoleon, LamartiJ, in closing papers are demanding light, and tho conductors Adopted. Augusts. its party dross, is alive, and among the Free jeots, I have looked only to tho establishment of of the press will not dare to refuse the supply! Mr. Garnett Duncan moved further to amend Senate.——Mr.Mr. Douglas reported back, with Soilers.’ ” Truth and Human Happiness. I came not to de¬ A beautiful oration on the death of an artist of ... . . „ , v . , . . , , the amendment by inserting as a substitute for it amendments, from the Committee on Territories, _ . _ .. „ , , “I admire Napoleon, but do not extend my ad- In this way wo are to account for the unusual But wo must stop, though boforeuslie accounts stroy, but to save I” great merit and a man of worth, one of the found- miration t0 his 'i,ltern,al legislative organization, readiness of the papers of this city—even the the provisions of the Missouri Compromise, bnt House bill to establish tho Territorial Govern- of numerous other Conventions. Part 2d is entitled “ Civil Liberty,” contains ers of the National Academy of Design. or his external diplomatic proceedings. In my organs of the old parties—to reoord the doings of applicahle to Oregon alone. Lost. ment of Oregon. ten chapters, occupying, altogether, thirteen the recent meeting. And, since our resolves have The question then being on Mr. Hilliard’s Tk® principal amendment Is that whioh con- - . opinion, Ms legislative idea was a sublime reac- amendment as amended, that gentleman, with the ^a'n8 the Wilmot Proviso. The others were not pages, and embodies the results of Mr. Clay’s The Odd Frllow’s Literary Maoazine. W. K. Cole, tfon, but incompatible against the Democratic been spread before the people, there are thou¬ WORTHY OF ATTENTION. Editor. Albany, New York. party, which it was necessary to restrain and sands whose eyes have been suddenly opened to consent of tbe Committee, withdrew the same. important. profound inquiries into the Science of Govern¬ the fairness of our propositions, and the good Mr. Crisfield, of Maryland, moved to strike Mr- Benton offered a resolution, which was In urging upon Liberty men the importance of ment. It is sufficient to say, that it is equally The Odd Fellows seem determined to provide curb, but not stifle. All his institutions were op- out the entire seotion ns amended. Lost. [So adopted, to meet, hereafter at 10. A. M. literature for each other’s families, as well as fel- Posed to the spirit of the age of liberty and the faith of our motives. Suoh will be with us, soon¬ cooperating with the friends of freedom of all par¬ original, aphoristical, and luminous, with Part 1st. er later. It is no easy matter to throw off sud¬ the section stands with the amendments above The Scnato resumed the consideration of tho ties represented in the Buffalo Convention, we denly the trammels of party ; but time will make noted.J C!viI and Diplomatic Appropriation bill. Seriously, Mr. Clay has mistaken himself and ™—r s:*_; iftSteissjES The Committee then proceeded with there- Numerous amendments were introduced and aro glad to bo fully sustained by suoh men as Mr. his vooation. He has not the first element of a azmc is very neatly got up, and contains matter world, and threw the pieces to the winds, without ail right. Depend upon it., this is the last politi- l cal engagement that will be fought with the old maining sections, nnd several further amend- adopted. Mahan, President of the Oberlin Institute, the thinker, and tho very last thing he should venture specially devoted to the interests of the order. attempting to join it again. He slashed with his - sword ail the national alliances and nationalities issues. The next question will be, “ Freedom or ments were proposed, but most of thorn rejeoted, Tim numerous amendments, by the Finance celebrated Mr. Finney, and other gentlemen of on is a book. His egotism has placed him in a Herald or Truth. L. A. Hlnc. Cincinnati. July, 1848. 0f Franoe, without ever bestowing one thought Slavery ?” And the very fact of our people taking when the Committee rose and reported tliebilland Committee and by individual Senators, whieh had distinguished fidelity to the Anti-Slavery oause. most ridioulous position before the Publio, and the sides with freedom will show that the party which amendment to the House. The previous ques- been ngreed to in Committee of the Whole, were A rare variety of subjects is discussed by the on the morrow ; and on the day of the inevitable tion was moved and sustained, when the House then reported to the Scnato and agreed to, together They say, in a brief publication in the Cleveland sooner he learns to think humbly of himself, the shall rally under that watchword is not a “ sec¬ Herald of Truth. We have in this number an ^payment of all this blood and glory, we only tional party,” but a party of principle. But to the adjourned. with the following exceptions, whioh were aoied True Democrat— _ . find his name to defend us. When Franoe looked better for his reputation and influence. He is a article on Pathetism, a Sermon by Van Amnnge around berj 8be f top «™ble.hi.m to introduce a resolution of tho approaching Presidential election. To “ I believe now is the time to meet the South; meet these issues, we think that all the friends of qualities which should embolden him, at such a ITEMS will follow in its path and traditions.” Offioe, with a statement ofthe amount of terri- calling for further information irorn the Depart- ■period as this, to put forth a book, and that stamp¬ and the friends of Freedom ought to do all in freedom should unite in a patriotic forgetftilncss _ The planting interest has been using its influ- their power to meet the slaveholder, and say to tory north and south of 36 deg. 30 min. [n®n,t *£JLefer®n00 ,t0 *he Pf f «““aI C,hm Of former party pledges, party ties, and predilec- ed all over with superlative pretensions. The resolution from the Senate, directing the "b,1e Governor and Superintendent of Indian Tiie Charleston Democracy at a recent meet- ence with the Government to reinstate the old him, ‘ there is the limit to your usurpations, and thus Postmaster General to renew the contract, for Affalrs; Th® House however, refused to suspend As an actor in the cause of Human Freedom, ing adopted the nomination of Taylor, without order of things in the colonies. It urges the re- far shalt thou go, and no fartherl I am sure there “3. Should the coming Buffalo Convention pre¬ carrying the great Southern mail, with the Poto- tbe rul®s’ 87 t0 65> ‘wo-thirds not voting in the he appears in a different light. We watched with Fillmore, and Butler, without Cass! oall of the Commissioners,.and the appointment is not a man on this side of the Bay, that hates mac, Fredericksburg, and Richmond Steamboat atl]xj»a'vve. sent candidates for the first offiocs in the gift of Slavery more than I do.AU you say, in this nation—oandidat.es openly and honorably de¬ deop interest his first movements on the sub¬ Who creates sectional parties ? of others of less ultra opinions—precisely the and Railroad companies, was taken up, and, after Tb® D°use> m Committee of the Whole, re- your letter, about my hostility to Slavery, oppo¬ delmte, was, on motion of Mr. .Tones, of Tenncs- 8?m®d‘h® consideration of the Army Appropria¬ voted to these objects, and who do not stand com¬ ject of slavery in Kentucky, and cheerfully re¬ The Western Citizen, Chicago, one of the gan>e that deluged St. Domingo with blood, and sition to Taylor, Cass, and so on, is but doing me mitted against any of tho other important meas¬ te laid m, the f,.hie ro.ltofio tion bill, and numerous other amendments were cord our testimony to the boldness, directness, best papers on our exchange list, appears in a drove it to rebellion. No experience can drive justice ; for, come what may, no man shall ever fill The House then ’resumed the consideration of Proposed, but generally rejected. The Commit- . ures involved in tho Anti-Slavery movement, they and power of his efforts to redeem Mb State tltt office of Chief Magistrate by my vote, who is not will receive our hearty support. new nnd beautiful dress. We congratulate it idea into the tMok heads of those colonial the Oregon Territorial bill, and concurred in ro*« >vnd reported the bill and amemlments to from the dire euree—until the day he abandoned free from War and Slavery ! ” most of the amendments made in Committee of t “4. Under the influence of suoh principles and upon this evidence of sound condition. So that planters. The Government will not undo what So much for the spirit whioh is abroad in the Whole yesterday in Committee of the Whole—Uiat- by sentiments, w» Intend, the most of us at least, to his elevated position to enlist in a war Which he this is »• character, it need ask no ha8 been done. The Messages says: in Maryland. Now, read what her little sister, On the question of concurring with the Com- ^r;.Danoan’ of amended by Mr. attend that Convention, and hope to meet the deuouuueJ us aggressive, inhuman, and Waged for more, “We are fes&fwl. that —sr nala.wa.ro. sava. tbroueh one of her enterprising thousands of the friends of freedom, and of our the purpose of extending the evil, to the extinc¬ ’ • , , „ concert on the. France and England merchants, and let her mis-representative, Senator I mittoo Of the Whole in striking out all of the HaU> Dunonn> of 0blo> &«■> aad given m my ‘ Liberty friends’ especially, there. Saturday Clipyer, 1b the name of a newspa- have reciprocA%;givcu notice to each other, of twelfth section which relates to the Ordinance of I®?ort °f yesterday—waa rejected, by the House tion of whioh he had devoted Ms life. But that Clayton, the would-be Great Compromiser, hear 1787—'“Wilmot Proviso”—the yeas and nays were this afternoon, 67 to 68. The other amendments per published at Troy, O., whioh has lately com- sending a squadron of observation to the Black chapter *in his career is closed. We have no and tremble: “ There is no question bnt the peo¬ again ordered, and the House refused to concur, Committee were concurred in by the House, mitted itself to the cause of Free Soil and the Sea, to watch the movements of Russia on the ple of Delaware, especially those of the northern comment to make upon it. It is said that he in¬ 88 to 114. So the Wilmot Proviso remains in the and tb® bdl> fl“end®c'> Wtta ordered to be cn- Buffalo Convention. Lower Danube.” part of the State, are opposed to the farther ex¬ bil] grossed and read a third time. tends to resume his labors in the cause of Free¬ tension of Slavery. The change whioh two years SuooeBS to it. England.—We find the following concerning have wrought in public sentiment, is highly en¬ On the passage of the bill, the yeas nnd nays ®f.r' Tbo“P®<»b °f Indiana, moved a reconsid- dom, and we rejoice at suoh a prospect. He has were again ordered, and resulted, yeas 129, nays 71. era^.on of.tbe v.ot® ordering the bi l to a third generous impulses, and courage, and resolution, The Iowa Freeman in its last number an- tbe Proceedings of the House of Commons on couraging to the friends of Liberty and Universal A motion to reconsider was laid on the table, and roadmg, with a view to the introduction of a pvc- nounces the accession of D. M. Kelsey, as its cd- 21 • Emancipation. Two years ago, two out of every and energy, and talent enough, when fired by a three refused to sign a petition for the abolition so the bill has passed the House, inoluding the T,3‘®n ,b® improvement of the Western nverB. noble object and concentrated by a high princi¬ iter. He will make a good paper. The number ‘‘Mr-Hume asked Lord Palmerston to produce Wilmot Proviso, and plaoed its vote beyond the I"r' McClelland opposed tho reconsideration, , . . ,, 6 /' , the farther correspondence between the authori- of slavery. This year, but twenty persons out of power of reconsideration. “n‘ was opposed also, however favorable he might three hundred, who have been so far solicited, ple, to be of great servioe in the anti-slavery en¬ before us is unusually well filled. Ues on the subject of postal arrangements with The House then resolved itself into Commit- b® to.tle ‘mproveraent of ‘he Western waters, to terprise. We abhor the Intolerance whioh is fond The Cincinnati Daily Herald, whose pater- the United States, have hesitated or refused to sign I And it is fair tee of tho Whole, and took up the bill making *b® introduction of any such amendment into a to prosume that men who want Slavery abolished of upbraiding a man with what it regards as incon¬ nity wo always claim with a little pride, it beinge; “Lord“ Lord Palmerston deferred answering the appropriations for the support of the army for the mB of this description. , ° question until Monday. in their own State, would not be over-anxious for sistencies, or evil acts in his former course. The the only daily Liberty paper in the Union, has 1 « Mr jyj Qjbgon ga' year ending 30th of June, 1849. Mr. 0. J. Ingersoll moved to lay Mr. Thomp- has tl jyjr (jjbson said he hoped the Govern¬ its extension elsewhere I We intend to hold a Mr. Andrew Johnson followed Mr. Vinton, on son’s motion on the table. Lost, 81 to 84. Ad- sole question with us is, what is he, what does he, lately strengthened its editorial corps, by the ad-ed- ment would consider that the establishment of General Ratification Meeting after the Buffalo Convention, at which it is expected some distin- the general political question of the day, and Journea- what seeks he now. If his position be right note, ditionof John C. Vaughan, with whom, while; he an American line of packets would be of great particularly in defence of the war—the veto power A U0U8T '■ was editing the Cincinnati Gazette, no used to havelave advantage to the traditrade of this country. He un- tinguished champions of non-extension will be This volume, of 533 pages, opens with a Dedi¬ if anxious now to striko for God and Liberty, we present,” &c. ofthe President; arguing that the Whig party Senate.—Mr. Benton, from the joint committee . derstood that the present cause of complaint was, are responsible for the war, nnd for its protraction. °f the two Houses for revising the present system cation to Horace Greeley, in which Mr. Clay flat¬ shall not look to the past. We do not even ques¬ ..„,.n.,lJP„T.,.„, He is nowon thetae that a duty was levied upon all letters brought Those who intend to ratify the nominations of tion horn Mr. Clay can reconcile it to his views to the Buffalo Convention, of course, would take care At the conclusion of Mr. Johnson’s remarks, of reporting debates and proceedingsof Congress, ters himself that, if he has “ advanoed nothing right side, and his blows fall far more potentially,al'y- by American packets;packets and he could assure the Mr. Marsh, of Vermont, obtained thefloor, nnd the made a long report in writing, which he rend from very new,” he has “ plaoed old truths in a striking sustain General Taylor—everj man must decide Few papers in the oountry have so able editorsasrsas Government that any such distinction made be- to be represented therein. They have according¬ ly appointed delegates. Before me lies a copy of Committee rose. tb® Secretary’s table. The report states that the light and in a few words,” and makes the singu¬ such matters for himself, without impeachment Vaughan and Matthews. Henry Sperry, its de-je. tween letters brought by those packets and by A resolution to olose the debate on this hill, in present system adopted by the Senate has entirely •tb English packets, would have a prejudicial effect the call of a general meeting. How called, think lar announcement, “ I came not to destroy, but to from us. Let Mr. Clay write, speak, and aot for voted publisher, has sold out to J. V. C. Smith, English packets, wou, . - Committee, on Friday, was adopted, and then tho failed in attaining the object contemplated—and . * „ ’ , ’ uponUDon both countries.” you, friends of free soil in the South? Privately, recommends the employment of the “Union ” and Bave;” and it doses with two stanzas addressed freedom in Kentucky, and he shall have our cor¬ formerly of Chicago, though he is still connected „ or in some obscure corner of a newspaper, without House adjourned. August 3. “ Intelligencer,” to publish, on each and every to him by Mrs. E. J. Eames, in whieh he is thus dial God-speed. But as a Prophet, aTeacher in with the concern. GmatAmr.-The Frankfort Constituent As- signature, for fear of the wrath of the slave in¬ terest ? No—in the most open manner, by glori¬ Senate.—The-House bill to establish tho3 Ter¬Ter- morning after they ooour, sketches of the pro- apostrophized: Religion, Morals, the Seienoc of Government, an Long life to the Herald. ' sembIy on the ir,th voted an increase of tbe army ■n up, oe®din^s and debates of the two Houses, to com- T of the Germanic Confederation, in the ratio of 2 ous handbills, duly signed by a number of the ritorial Government of Oregon was taken up, “ Brave heart anil truly node, that dUl'st single Author—spare us! No man is equal to all things. menoe immediately, paying each $7 50 per column From all earlh’e loftier, alms the loftiest one, Louisville ExAMiNRR-Mr Vaughan has ceas- cent of the popn]atiol). ifoarriedout, this moro wealthy and influential oitizens of the State, “Aro all apostles? Aro all tcaohers? Are all ed to be the principal editor of the Examnmr, but ^ fiwell the t0 800 000. The co^mit- men coming in disgust from the ranks of the ola Mr. Clayton called the attention of the Senate ®,f brewer, paiments weekly—and to employ also Pursuing it by means which might not mingle to the peculiar circumstances under which the bill ‘b?, Congressional Globe for the publication of With views less generous: nobly hast thou done,” &c. workers of miraoles?” It is well enough to covet wntes for R. It is now controlled by an asso- ^ d „ fte pru38iln Constituent As- parties, in search of something that really seeks It would hence appear that Mr. Clay has given the country’s good. These men are not found comes from the House. The bill to organize the ;ul1 and revised reports of speeches and prooced- the best gifts, and among these, we reokon self- n of gentlemen in Lomsv.lle, who have the on the Constitution, has resolved in favor Territorial GovernmentofOregon, California, and lnS8> book fo™, tor binding and preservation, his life and writings to the world, under tho im¬ skulking now! The fetters have been knocked knowledge. “ Man, know thyself—all wisdom of freedom in Kentucky at heart, and de- flf the" tWQ chamber t taking our sy8tcm as off from their limbs, the padlooks from their lips, New Mexico, had passeded the SeniSenate, as was known, as n bistory of tho national legislation ofthe pression that he is a prophet, in the modern sense centres there.” vote themselves, without price, to themaintenance & model and they stand forth as freemen; and as freemen and had been sent to the Hous'House, and as yet they country—the proprietors of the Globe to be paid, had no official informationation as to the manner of its •“ 11 by subscription on the part of Congress, of the term—one gifted with the spirit of reform of that able paper. We bespeak for it the attention * LlVERr00L) July 21 _TUe duty on wheat and they will talk and vote in support of the nominee and wisdom above his cotemporaries. He regards of what they well call the “ Peoples Convention I ” disposal by that body.r Publio rumor however for a cortaln number of copies. Two thousand LITERARY NOTICES. of the anti-slavery citizens of other States. It stands flour continues at the maximum rate of 10j. per 'laid on the tabie, without C0Plp8 °f the rePort wf« ordored to be printed. himself already as a historical oharaoter. “Those,” But here is another letter! Let us see whence alone in Kentucky, and its vigorous support there, quarter and 6s. per bbl. Owing to the unsettled it comes. Lo! it is from the Old Dominion ! Yes, ionsideration, from whence it cannot be taken up The Senate prooeeded to consider the Oregon he says in his dedication, “who have taken part during the agitation of the Convention question, weather for two or three days, the corn mai even Virginia is getting ready to move, it makes except:xcept by a two-tliirds vote. If suoh a rule ex- Territorial1 erri bill. in this struggle for the liberties of men, hnve vol¬ my heart leafi for joy, to read the very post-mark! isted here, he would not enforce it to prevent uc- House.—The consideration of the Army Ap- untarily ohosen this position; it remains for im¬ It comes not from extreme Western Virginia, tion, whatever might be his opinion of the provi- propriation bill was resumed, the question being Contents.—The Laws of Land, Life in the Far the■ service it has rendered'rr“. to the Pbwcause of liberty potato crop, which may or may not prove partial history to award tho deserts of each.” where ^e would naturally have looked for coop¬ sions of this bill. He trusted it would be treated on Mr. Thompson’s motion to reconsider the vote West, Amerioan Thoughts on European Revolu¬ in Kentucky. We deeply regret to learn that it serious character, it being too early yet to judge eration at such an interesting crisis as the pres¬ with courtesy due to the House, by a reference of by which the bill was ordered to be engrossed, The frequency with whioh Mr. Clay makes tions, The Caxtons, Republican Franoe, Coloni¬ is in a languishing condition. »8 to the later and more important part of the ent, but from the Great Valley. Hear its lan¬ it to the appropriate committee, and that it would The House refused to reconsider—56 to 117— similar references to posterity, shows that, in zation, Siberia, Tho Scottish Deer Forests, The „ AT .... crop. Indian corn, however, being scarce, has guage, too. It asks for information, but declares receive all proper consideration. and the bill was then passed. his own judgment, he has done enough to enrol The New Yore Tribune, after assigning its ftl4er advanced ionsiderably-say to 35s. to that, “ in order that the advocates of Free Soil in Mr Downs, after a few remarks in referenoe to On motion, the House then prooeeded to dis- Buried Flower, Struggle for the Rule of the reasons for continuing to withhold its support 36*. for sound wMte, and to 36j. to 37s. per quar- his name, among the illustrious benefactors of this State can have an opportunity of voting t heir the manner in which the Senate “compromise” pose of Senate bills on the Speaker’s table, Whigs, The Navigation Laws. from the Philadelphia nomination, says, that he ter for yellow, and Indian corn meal is selling bill had been disposed of in the House, gave no- The House resumed the consideration of the mankind. Nothing but such an hallucination sentiments in November next, it is proposed that The subjects treated are of peculiar interest at (the editor) will vote for Taylor, “even in Ms at 15*; to lr«- 9d. per bbl. In wheat and flour the a Free Soil electoral ticket be formed.” Then it tioo that ho should, when this bill came up, move message of the President in reference to the treaty, oould have emboldened him to oome before the . , JA.A . . . rise is comparatively small—American wheat to amend by inserting that portion of the com- the boundaries of California and New Mexico, the present time. Of oourse, the Tory view is present equivocal attitude,” if, in his judgment, gj Qd iQ ^ £er 7Q p”undS) and flour 28l. to 28s talks of the “Anti-Slavery men of the State.” publio, challenging its attention and respeot, as a Think of Anti-Slavery men and open advocates of promise bill which related to California and New and the establishment of oivil government in con- always taken. Some English Tory, in the dis¬ that vote be “ necessary to the defeat of Cass.” c>d. per bbl., duty paid. Teacher in Religion, Morals, and Government, the Free Soil movement in the State whose des¬ Mexioo, so changed only as to meet the clrcum- quered territory. guise of a Boston Yankee, writes a letter in this In reply to the question, “ why not take ground at No sales of turpentine are reported this week; stances, and with on additional seotion embracing Mr. Venable, of North Carolina, addressed and embodying the orudest, most superficial spec¬ potic pro-slavery sentiment, but a little while ago, number, pretending to give a fair representation once for Taylor?” he answers: “ 1. Because,that ‘E® la®6 business done was at 6s. 9d. per owt. Of drove John Hampden Pleasants to the duellist’s the Missouri compromise. He laid the proposed the House for an hour, on the political topics of ulations, in the form of a book. amendments on the table, nnd asked that they the day. of “American Thoughts on European Revolu¬ until after the Buffalo Convention, and the Au- di8P°Sed death! But it could not be always so. Thomas “In touching the serious subjects of Religiom tions.” The disguise is imperfect—we deteet the Carlyle has forcibly declared, that-a lie cannot might be printed. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, followed, in expla- gust election, should have uttered their voices, it • • r • The bill was referred to the Committee on Ter- nation and defence of his oourse in voting to lay Morals, and Government,” says this gentleman, cloven foot. No Yankee, unless an utter rene¬ live forever! The time is at hand when all the is not absolutely certain that Taylor or Cass must T Lit 1 TP 1 misrepresentations of a servilo Press cannot ore- ritories. the “Compromise” bill of the Senate on the “I have looked consequences full in the face. 1 gade, could ever have sympathized with the sense¬ be chosen. 2. Because we are bent on opposing JAIBAllA. On motion of Mr. Atherton, the Senate then table, came not to destroy, but to save.” (I) * # “The ate odium enough to longer suppress the truth less proscription of the Jews in the British Par¬ the pending Compromise, and the introduction of The laboring population in Jamaica is said to that has been lying dormant in many a panting resumed the consideration of the oivil and diplo- Mr. Bingham, of Miohignn, delivered a care- tone of many of these articles I would glodly soft¬ matic appropriation tall. liament, or the idle clamor of the Conservatives slavery into new Territories, to the very utmost • be gl.Ctttly disquieted on two grounds, the non- breast, awaiting a proper occasion for utterance! fully prepared speeoh, in explanation of his views en, hut then I should lose in truth and freshness The emergency is finding leaders fit for the trial, The yeas and. nays wore ordered, on striking I on the question of slavery, taking the Northern about the destruction of agrioultnre and the ruin and we believe we oan do this more effectually payment 0f a large amount of arrearages, and the what I should gain by more gentle phraseology.” and through true courage they shall yet be victo¬ out the appropriation for Savannah river, when views of the subjeot. of the oolonies by liberal legislation. from our present position than any other.” suggestion foolishly thrown out of annexation to Mr. Yulee was excused from voting, in conse¬ Mr. Wentworth obtained tho floor, and moved So solemn an announcement naturally awakens rious in the noble oonflict. They will begin with Blackwood must be content withtheadmiration The Clay Banser, is the title of a new paper this country, which they regard as equivalent to this Free Soil movement, but end in a movement quence of having “ paired off” with Mr. Berrien, the previous question, which was sustained, and anxious speculation. The reader turns over the paid by Brother Jonathan to his wit and satire— in behalf of State action. For the converse of the who is absent, and Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, pro¬ the main question was ordered. commenced in Albany, and published every Tues- a reduction to slavery. leaves with breathless expectation, desirous to see but as to sympathy with his antiquated no¬ proposition of my Delaware correspondent is cer¬ oeeded to explain the reasons whioh would induoe Mr. Stephens moved to lay the message On the the radical, original, startling views which this day and Friday. It is devoted to Henry Clay and “ Rumors were current that in the parishes of tainly true: Men who advocate the restriction of sla¬ tions of Government and Policy, there is about conscientious constitutional scruples known to be The yeas and nays were ordered, and the House new prophet, who, appropriating to himself the Free Soil, but will support the nominee of the Hanover, Westmoreland, and St. James, (and we very, on account of its evils, will not be long satisfied as much of it felt among us as for the paternal in¬ Buffalo Convention. bel‘®Te tbar8 i8 in those respecting the two with its presence at home ! entertained by tbe President. laid ihe messages on the table—76 to 61. language of Christ, seems to imagine that his stitutions of Russia. B first named.) the laboring population are in a very J. E. Snodgrass. The Savannah River Appropriation mas then strick- a motion to reconsider was laid on the table. mission is soarooly inferior to his, may have taken dissatisfied state, and some disturbances are to be, Ba Itimore, July 31, 1848. en out, 36 to 15. Arid then, after one or two unsuccessful efforts of Religion, Ethics, and tho Science of Govern¬ FROM OREGON. or rather were, apprehended in August, which is Tho Senate also made an amendment, on the to adjourn, the House, at 4. P. M., resolved ment. - the great negro holyday, and anniversary of free- recommendation of the Finance Committee, pro- itself into Committee ofthe Whole, and hassinoe Dates from Oregon on the 16th March have dom. The reasons assigned for this condition of THIRTIETH CONGRESS- viding for the payment of the slaves in the cele- been engaged in various motions to take up par- Parflst is entitled “ Religious Liberty,” and been received. Lieutenant Gilliam had had thinSa are> br3t,- 1,arSe arrears of wages due to brated “ Ruiz and Montez case,” which has oeou- ticular bills, and on questions of order, this includes precisely eight ohapters, making Not having paid any attention to the literary , . ... r rr,, the people, which they cannot obtain payment ot, pied so much of the attention of Congress, for so — ■ - . ■+- - precisely eight octavo pages. Chapter 1st treats another brush with the Indians. The engage- in /oJeqience of the inability of the parties in manyyears—yeas 24, nays 21. Adjourned without CORWIN'S GREAT SPEECH ON THE COMPRO- efforts of General Cass, we were not aware that a ment lasted three hours, 415 Indians being in charge of properties to procure the necessary of Belief, and he occupies just two pages in de¬ getting through with amendments proposed. wise hill. man of so much gravity oould gossip so agreeably the aotion. means; and second, alarm, arising out of the silly Senate.—The House joint resolution of thanks monstrating that nil belief is involuntary—does House.—On motion, the House then, in Com- typMw»lea™ih«eom™if the°?l or aunexinB the States navy, was passed. able or rcwardable. Chapter 2d bestows half a rature. He would have been quite a star in the ed that a city has sprung up, as if by enchant- 18buid to tbat country' Also, House resolution providing for the ap¬ °‘Mu MSifTvJrmt" addled the Com- ™ page on the subject of Toleration, and doses with ment, in the midst of the desert, near the south- ‘ ”* pointment of a joint committee to revise the sys¬ mittee, chiefly on the question of slavery, and in ]£VJBafmJ?%CmhilhBostiai awl for Is. literary worid, beaming, to use Mr. Hannegan’s tem of reporting for tho two Houses. the most original idea that “all attempts to make ern extremity of Great Salt Lake. It contains a Lynn, Mass., July 24, 1848. relation to the condition and existing laws of the publisher's prices, at the Depository ofthe Amerlcauand simile, with a ray “ mild and mellow as that of the The Senate resumed the consideration of the Oregon, California, and New Mexico. I-Ieargued Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, New York. Price, 25. cent* religion anything else than a relation between a population of 3,000 persons, and numbers within *#*# *#*# fire-fly.” its precincts 600 houses, one flour mill in opera- One word more about the Liberty men, in ref- amendments reported to the civil and diplcmatio that slavery had not been abolished by Mexico, each part, or 0° cents 'harnED Agent man’s conscience and his God are persecution.” Seriously, we like this book, and see not how it tion, four saw mills, nearly finished. I presume erence to the statement just made. I find the able appropriation bill, and, after disposing of several, in either California or New Mexico—that down August 10.—lam 61 John meet. went into exeoutive session. The great subject of “ Miracles” is disposed of can do any damage to its author. He certainly the above are the Mormons. article in the Era, on the duty of Liberty men at to the extinction of Spanish d..Hum, slavery-,,TUT We have had a most delightful winter. My the present time, to be generally approved of by When the doors were again opened, the consid¬ had been permitted in all Spanish America—and LiTTELLS, living age. in a chapter containing six linos and three-fourths, was prepossessed in favor of Louis PMlippe in eration of the amendments to the general appro¬ that the Mexican Constitution contained provi- (JONTENTS OF N°. 221.—August 5,1848—Prloe, twelve and dosing with the following dogma, which, we peach trees are now in bloom, radishes up, &c. this branch of the Freedom party, so far as I have 1840 ; he seemed to think his Government at that -*- been able to learn its views in this region. It is priation bill was resumed, and considerable pro¬ gress was made. Adjourned. hITpZhE d06S "0t '• Zo..logleA.Zlt.o.„.-CA»reAo/^A^ Quarter,y presume, will put an end to all discussion on the time just the thing; in fine, ho wub deeply im¬ LATER FROM MEXICO not ,ooked upon us recreancy to principle, to unite question : “ Miracles may induce belief in one to pressed with the virtues both of the King’s court for the time being with the mass of the people, in House.—The consideration of the Oregon Ter¬ Mr. M.. read from the Mexican Constitution to 2. Literary nnd Historical Memorials of London.—CAi whom they come ; hut they cease to be conclusive and the King’s household. He also manifested Intelligence has been received at New Orleans, takin« the first anaand most important step towards ritorial bill was resumed, the question being on show what were the provisions on this subjeot, ofBmland Quarterly swfff,,r at second hand, or as soon as they pass from pri¬ ,. w r„ , ,, .. .w .. accomplishing the objects the Liberty party have the substitute offered by Mr. McClernand, (the then proceeded to show what were the oonstitu- ]. tiiVb»«s Rook.—New Monthly Magazine. a genuine oonsorvatism very different from the from Vera Cruz, up to the 27th ultimo, announc- !n v;e„ Senate Compromise bill, with an additional seo¬ tions of the several Mexican States, and argued 5, Life in Spielberg.—Metropolitan. mary to secondary evidenoo.” If Yale do not con¬ spirit of daring progress whieh has more recently ing another conflict between Bustamente and Pa- Depend upon it, old Essex is wide awake. The tion oontaining the provisions of the Missouri, that slavery now existing in California and New 6 story of a Family, chap, vi, vli.—Store’s Afa#nm fer on this gentleman the title of D.D. as a re¬ possessed him. As a Senator of late years, he has redes, in which the latter was utterly routed. address recently delivered at Salem, by the Hon. or rather Texan compromise, providing for the Mexico, by the organic law of the country, the r,iTmfr ward for this elaborate treatise on Miraoles, cer¬ enaoted t^ie part of Sempronius, but as an Author, The guerilla chief, Jarauta, had been seized Charles Francis Adams, met the high expeota- admission of new States, from Oregon, California, deoision of the Supreme Court provided for by poktkv —Martin Farcmhar Tuprer to Brother Jonath the compromise bill of the Senate, if in accord- Oegood's Painting of the Saviour; Punch’s Birth Day Oi tainly it oannot withhold it after reading his pro¬ he piped of pcaoe and law and order in the spirit v . , , 5 turns of the people. The District Convention and New Mexico, from time to time, prohibiting and executed, and it was considered that all op- jMt held ftt t£e ^me place, to appoint delegates slavery north of 36 deg. 30 min., and permitting anoe with the doctrine tot slavery^hallbe ex found treatise on God and Revelation, embodied of Penn. position to the Government of Mexico had been for the Buffalo Convention, came off in the most it south of that line, as the people of the Terri¬ eluded where it does now exist, and be permitted Sea on -Punch, Wants; influence of Trade; Unhaj in the next ohapter of twenty-one lines. It may The b6ok is light, rambling, graoeful, amusing, suppressed. spirited manner, notwithstanding the extreme hot tories may determine.) The Chair ruled the sub- Where it does, must be in favor of the South. ' Marriages; Railway damagesDamages for Death. THE NATIONAL ERA, WASHINGTON, AUGUST 10, 1848. VOL. n.

God make acorns? No, but oaks. Did He to take them. On Drayton we found a watch, which-belonged OFFICE OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND FREE PRODUCE STORE. THE NATIONAL ERA. ledge of the True God, -whom, like the Atheni¬ to a negro, which he delivered up; I thought that the guard COUNSELLERS FOR PATENTEES: lVT E W GOODS.— GENERAL REDUCTION IN ans, some of them doe ignorantlie worshippe, form apple seeds or peach seeds merely; No, but or something belonged to Drayton, and said to him, if any FOR imparting information on the subject of Inventions, In PRICES.—Just received— orchards. Did He produce a cub lion ) No, but part of this belongs to you, you had better take it; he an¬ ton joked about running slaves off. Have never heard people and on the application of Chemical and Mechanical Sci- Fine 4-4 Prints, various stylos, while the greater part, as was said of the heathen the full-sized, strong limbed, mane-shaking, fire- swered, it all belongs to me by right- speak of hlyunning away slaves. H is a common joke among | ence to tbe Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Mines, and New stylos of Prints of medium quality, usual width. • formerlie, doe not, out of the good things that are 1 asked if he had given any value for it—he refused to an¬ for procuring and defending Patents, either in the United Fine and wide Paper Muslins: aim*colored Cambrics. eyed, monarch of the woods. Did He softly mould swer. He admitted that the watch was thenegro’s. He said that Drayton was a man who would run negroes. Drayton States or in foreign countries. Curtain Calico, iuperiofflne Chintz Umbrellas, Oil Cloths. seen, know Him that is; neither by considering the an unfledged eagle ? No, but let loose at once the said nothing to me about his trip to this place in April last. Professor W A LTEK R. JOHNSON, late of Philadelphia, Satinets, good and cheap; alRO on hand, mostly at reduced Have never seen a vessel anchored within three miles of and Z. C. ROBBINS, of Washington City, (aided by HAZ- prices, Ginghams, various qualities and styles. MARGARET SMITH’S DIARY Works doe they acknowledge the Work-master, but broad-pinioned* golden-plumed, sublime-soaring lord of the firmament. And so was it with Adam. Point Lookout, on the bay side of the Point; have seen them ARD KNOWLES, Esq., late Machinist of the United States Fine and heavy Shirting, Sheeting, ami Pillow Muslins deem the fire or Wind, or the swift air, or the circle of made the remark about tie condition l understood that he anchor at the distance of three miles, frequently;frequent they an- Patent Office,) have associated themselves together for the Striped Cambrics, fine 0*4 Plaid Muslin. God did not lay a blossom-like babe on the soil of knew they were slaves. I spoke of Mr. Carter’s slaves. He chorchorln in all partsparts^of^the of the baybay^the ; the place of anchoranchorage depends the stars, or the violent Water, or the lights of Heaven Eden, but breathed the breath of lives into the did not say that he knew that Col. Carter’s slaves were on on the wind and the size of the vessel; vessels -either in their office, at the Patent Office, or before the courts; Linens, warranted free from cotton. to be the gods mho govern the World. board Speaking of the slaves and the excitement, he ap- of anchorages; there is no anchorage markedmar on the and will devote their undivided attention to forwarding the Flannels, 4-4, good, and price low; Canton Flannels, white [continued.] most splendid, up-leaping model of a man that peared to have great confidence in me, and said that sooner charts within three miles of Point Lookout, on the bay interests of Inventors or others who may consult them or and colored. He counselled against mischief-makers and the world ever saw. And just so—had it been than be torn to pieces by a mob, which he likened to a mad side. place business in their hands. / Table Diaper and Cloths, of different styles. Newbury, November ye 12th, 1678.—Dr. Russ God’s plan to people the world by creation— bull, he would prefer to go up on deck and let me shoot him. The defence here offered the testimony of se preaohed yesterday, having for his text 1 Corin- stirrei'8 UP of strifc. and suoh as doe desire occa- would it have been in every case. That is, every He said the Pearl sailed about 10 o’clock at night, fcud if he negroes, to prove that Drayton had no ager thought pursuit would be made, he could have escaped. I esoape. The Court said slaves could not be cj thians, chap. 13, verse 5. Charity seeketh not her sion aSain8t tkeir brethren. He said that it did creation would have been perfect. And then, not think he said he sailed from the city wbarf—Sayres or Eng- nesses. own. He began by saying that mutual bencvo- seem as if manie thought to atone for their own only in relation to natural rights, but also in re¬ lish might have6aid this.^ 1 a The defenceebere closed tbeircase. wherever the office is Itself known. Wadding, white and colored Cotton Laps. lcnce was a Law of Nature—the Individual not sins by tbeir 8™a‘ heat and zeal to discover wick- lation to personal perfection, it might have been proclaimed as a self-evident truth, that all men are might have sSdto Drayton that he would1*?©toOmpeniten- law to the Court!? 8 g P The office of Messrs. J. Sc R. is on. F street, opposite the also, bcing a whole of himself, nor capable of happilie eduess in others; and that he feared such might tiary for life, ^rebuked persons who spoke^to the prisoners ^ 1st. bervitude^of the slave must be proved,no. .... — Patent Office, Washington, I). (•., where communications, Refined Loaf, Crushed, and Pulverized Sugar. created equal. post paid, will be promptly attended to; examinations made, Brown Sus-ar, good quality, of rations grades, subsisting by himself, but rather a Member of the be tbc caBe nowi when ‘here was much talk of the “But this was not God’s plan. His plan was, to he would filing them on the yard-arm. No other person coun- bring it within the Constitution of the United State?, the drawings, specifications, »md all requisite papers prepared— The whole stock exclusively Frbk Labor Goods, to which people the world by generation. This arrange¬ tenanced such language. There were no arms on board the several acts of Maryland, and acts of Congress establishing and models procured when desired—on reasonable terms, the subscriber would invite the attention of Country Mer- great Body of Mankind, which must dissolve and outward and visible doings of Satan in this place; schooner, except one double barrel gun, in bad order; there' and recognising slavery in the District of Colur vl- Letters of inquiry, expected to be answered after examina- chants, as well as his friends and the public generally, pcriBh unless held together and compacted in its whereasi the Enemy was most to be feared who ment seems to havo been designed to unite the were some clubs and axes that might have been used. Wheu Mr. M. cited, in support of this proposition a tious had, must be accompanied by a lee of five dollars. Much pains are taken by tho managers of the Free Pro- race by tho most endearing relations, the most de¬ Drayton was in the cabin, before he was taken, l told him to land. 1715, ch, 44, section 22; 1783, ch. 23; 1794, various parts by the force of that common and did work Privi]y in the heart; it being a small lightful sympathies, and all the charities and come out; and when the door was opened I expected resist- ch. G7,67, sec. 1; 1798,1/98, ch. 76;76 ; and under these stastatutes, and as Laws, Messrs. J. & R. will he assist ed by a legal gentleman sortmeut from time to time. ^ blessed Law. The wiso Author of our being has tbin8 f°r bim to bewitoh a dwelling made of wood ance, and kept him within the range of my gun, and I told explanatory of them, LeeLee. vs. Lee,Lee} 8 Peters, 44, and 2 Hoic- of the highest professional character, and fully conversant GEORGE W. TAYLOR,TAY courtesies of mutual dependence. Husband and him he must not get out of tbe range of the gun; have no ar to bear one another’s burdens, men, all of them would have borne His image. proved, &c., is no proof of larceny, unless such going on board Having been a Practical Mechanic, lie can readily under- comfortably accommodate 25 patients-overy room is well But, in generation, the child appears in the image was by the procurement of the prisoner. stand the parts and judge ot the utihty of an invention, ventilated and neatly furnished. The sleeping, bathing, and affect each'*other; and that it is by the cnergie of and 806 umke this Churoh in the Wilderness of its parents, instead of the image of God. Had Samuel Baker. 1 am a sea-faring man, and was oaptaiu of 6th. That the going of the slaves on board of prisoner’s from a rough drawing and description; and persons at a dis- dressing-rooms, for ladles, are as entirely separated from this principle that our solid Earth is supported, beautiful and oomclie, an example to the world of the steamer Salem. The schooner Pearl lay in Cornfield har¬ tance, by sending their models, or a pen or pencil sketch, those of the gentlemen, as If in different buildings; alsosep- our first parents retained tho Divine image, they bor, under Point Lookout. It was 2 o’clook. I navigated the with a short description of their invention by letter, may arate pttrlor8. The bathing rooms are furnished with all the and the Heavenly Bodies are made to keep the tbat Peace and Good Will to men which the An- would have transmitted it to thoir children. But steamer. The Pearl was in a condition to go up the bay, and be informed whether it be patentable, and how the patent necessary baths for undergoing a successful treatment, nowhere else; she was not sea-worthy. We towed the Pearl rhythmio harmonies of their creation, nnd dis- 8eI“ 8an8 of ttt ‘ho birth of the blessed Redeemer, they lost it. They became sinners. Their off¬ can be obtained without the expense and inconvenience of a Numerous pure soft-water springs surround the Establisb- spring were conceived in sin, and 1 shapen in in¬ near Piney Point, and went in the steamboat to Cone river journey to Washington. ... ment ; pleasant and retired walks among the neighboring penso upon us thoir benign favors; and it may be 1 have becn the more careful to give the sub¬ after sunrise. Cone river is opposite Point Lookout. Saw an Those who desire to send models, can do so with entire hills are abundant, and tho exertion of roaohin^the summits iquity.’ From that time to the present, sin has hermaphrodite brig lying under Point Lookout, about three safety, by boxing them up and forwarding them by any of i„ amply repaid by the beautiful views over a moat plotnr- said that a principle akin to this hath been or- stan00 of Mr-Russ his sermon, as nearly as I can multiplied its fearful power over all generations. miles from where we had captured the Pearl; the place where 6th. 'that color is not sufficient evidence of slavery, to the Expresses whioh run between this city and almost ev- esque country. dained for the moral world—mutual Benevolence remember it, forasmuoh as it hath given offence Imperfect parents have continued to produce im¬ the brig lay was a place where vessels bound up the bay, or i raise a presumption that the prisoner knew them to be slaves. ery part of the country. .... Dr. Baelz, the proprietor, who resides in the Establish- up this river, anchor when the wind is ahead; it is not a ; Cited 3 Harrington’s Rep., 551; 1 Devereux's Rep., 376. All models and confidential communications are kept with ment, has had several years’ ext eri/nce in this popular mode being the comont and support of Families, and to some who did listen to it. Dea. Dole saith it perfect children. All have suffered deeply, but place of general anchorage; it is no place where water, &c., 7th. If the prisoner found the slaves on board of his ves- the most scrupulous care and secrecy. f of practioe. and. early in thc ensuing summer, expects to be j sel, without any previous act or knowledge on his part, even a Churches, nnd States, and of the great communi- wft8 8Ucb a discourse as a Socinian or a Papist some more than others. Doubtless Divine provi¬ can be obtained. Those who may visit this city, to make personal examina- joined by lUDr. ivlasonfMason, Fellow ofoi the Royal College of Snr- dence has superintended matrimonial alliances to The weather was not such as would oompel any vessel to subsequent conversion to the prisoner’s use would not tmp- tionsof the Models of paten^di^mjHons, P™' geons, London, who is now visiting the best establishment in tie and brotherhood of mankind. It doth both mi8bt have preached, for the great stress it laid put into such a place; I did not see the name of the brig; I a great extent, and mercifully counteracted thou¬ can’t say the brig^was there when weeaptnred the Pegri- tions, would flnd it to their advantage to call upon him in.- stab)ishment has been so ffir well patronized, and moke and preserve all the Poaee, and Harmony, uPon works i and Goodwifc Matson, a noisic, talk- sands of influences tending to destruction. In 1 Taylor's Rep., 126. mediately upon their arrival, as he can furnish them with „o pains will bo spared to make it as comfortable and agree- 8th. That the statute of 1796 vi?tually repealed thc act of such Information its will greatly famlitate the transaction oi ablo to invalids as the system will admit of. and Beauty, which liken our World in some in8 woman—such an one, no doubt, as those busy- some families, tho combinations have been so hap¬ 1737, under which these indictments are framed. py, and the offspring nre so healthful, beautiful, this breeze was such that the brig need not to have anchored their business, and materially aid them lu seouring their The terms arc aa follows: For patients, $6 per week, to small degroo to Heaven, and without it all things bodies whom Saint. Paul did rebuke for forward- there at all; she might have got up or down the bay, as she Mr. Mann then delivered a long argument upon thesp sev¬ nghtH. ... , Pai<1 weekly. Very feeble patients are required to bring intellectual, and amiable, that they seem almost eral proposition?. Letters Patent frequently fall to protoot ingenious and their own nurses; board oan be had for them in the Estab- would rush into Confusion and Discord, and the n0s8>flnd command to keep silence in the Church- to have escaped the touch of sin. In others, how¬ Mr. Key replied briefly, relying upon the evidence in thc useful inventions, aud inventors are Bubjoot to vexatious de- Ushment., at $2 per week. Each patient is required to bring Earth would become a plaoe of Horror and Tor- 8ays tbe Proacbcr.did goc out of his way to favor ever, they have been so unhappy that their piti¬ cause as supplying everything necessary to conviction; and lays and expense in obtaining them, in oonsequenoe of their the following articles—two linen or cotton sheets—two wool- upon the decision of this Court iu the case of United States papers and drawings being imperfect and insufficient. These ien blankets—six coarse towels—cither throe comfortables, rnent, and men become as ravening wolves de- Quakers, Indians, and Witches; and that the ful victims appear to have been the targets of in¬ have gone into tbe bay that night at all; but, if I were on unnecessary delays and extra expense may be avoided, and 0r a light feather bed—likewiee, an old linen and flannel vouring and being devoured by one another.' Devil in Goody Morse’s house was no doubt well numerable transgressions. Hence the variety that such an expedition as this schooner was, I don’t think I Mr. Carlisle followed, principally upon the two points, that a strong aud valid Patent insured, by the employment of a sheet, for bandages—and one injection instrument, exists in society. Creation would have conferred would have f topped. lucu causa is necessary to larceny; and that the act of Mary¬ competent and faithful Agent, residing at the seat of Gov- The following diseases are successfully treated, and a eu>« Charity is the socond great commandment, upon Phased with the discourse. R. Pike saith he does Did not speak the brig; can’t say if she had a cargo. land in force, does not make the offence larceny. Before he eminent, who has thc advantage of daily access to records and effected, if there be no disorganization of the parts, or the equality—the equality of personal perfection—the had concluded, the Court adjourned. which hang all the Law and the Prophets; and it no wiBC marvel at her complaints; for when she Cornfield harbor is a common anchorage. Nothing unusual other sources of information that do not exist elsewhere. disease of too long standing i Fevers; Intermitting Fevers, equality of a common likeness to G od. But gen¬ for a down-eastern vessel to anohor anywhere; they some¬ August 1. For evidence of hia competency and integrity, he would re- or Ague; Inflammation of the Lungs, Stomach, Bowels is like unto the first, and cannot be separated formcrlie dwelt at the Marblehead fishing haven, eration, through sin, has produced inequality—the times anchor in the Bay of Fundy We had pleasant weath¬ spectfully refer to all persons for whom be baa transacted Liver, Splei n, and Kidneys^ Dyspepsia; Asthma; Kheum- er all the time; we had no such weather as to compel the At the opening of the Court this morniug, Mr. Carlisle re¬ from it; for at the Groat Day of Recompense we she was one of tbe unruly women who did break inequality of infinitely diverse imperfection—the brig to anchor where she did. After we had left Cone river, sumed his argument upon the points of law submitted by N. B. Letters must be post paid. rhcea; primary and secondary Syphilis ; Feroful^ ifervoua shall be tried by these commandments, and our in‘° Thompson’s garrison house, and barbarously inequality of infinitely varied resemblances to an at 12 o’clook, on our way back, the brig was gone; the time Mr. Mann and himself yesterday, and spoke until after two Office on F street, between Seventh and Eighth streets, Diseases; partial Faralysis; Neuralgy; Sick Headache; infinitely varied parentage.” intervening was four hours. If she had sailed up the Pofco- opposite thc United States Patent Office, Washington, D. C. Palpitation of the Heart; Hypochondriasis: Dropsy; Jaun- faithfulness unto the first will be seen and mani- Pu‘ ‘° dea‘b two Saugus Indians, who had given At a quarter before 3 o’clock, hia Honor delivered his writ¬ ten opinion upon all thepoints presented by the counsel for Juue 22.—3ni dice; Habitual Costiveness; Delirium Tremens; Spasms of festod by our faithfulness unto the last. Yea, by themselves up for safe keeping, and who had nev- the defence. -- the Stoniaob and Bowels; Spinal Affections; Chrsnio Dys- Messrs. Mann and Carlisle excepted to the dcoision of his L ITT ELL’S LIVING AGE. entery, or Diarrhoea; Totter, Ringworm, Scald Head, kc. our Love of one another the Lord will measure cr harmed anie> which thing was a great grief Honor, and then the Court adjourned. D3- The Publishers of the Living Age annex a Prospcotus Female Diseases, aa Prolapsus U tori, or bearing down of tbe As I have yet room, suffer a remark or two in was at Donovan’s a year ago; 1 have not seen him since; it ol tbat work, and solicit to it the attention of tbe readers of ’ PllnfU'’ and'Menstruation. our Love of Himself, Inasmuch as ye have done it ““d scandal to all well-disposed people. And yet may be less than a year. August 2. unto one of the least of these my Brethren, ye have done this woman, who scrupled not to say that she another connection. One of the most common The District Attorney called this witness to prove that, in the National Era. Those who wish to accomplish much in _ J_'___ pleas in favor of slavery is its antiquity. In many the month of June, 1847, the prisoner proposed to Mr. Dono¬ The following is a statement of the opinion of the Court their generation must take a large view of what is passing GGILENHAVKN LEND A VEN WATER CURE, it unto me. The Grace of Bcnovolonce is therefore would as lief Btiok an Indinn 88 fl bo88i and who van, that he, tbe prisoner, had a vessel and would coast about upon the points of law submitted by the defence: aspects of it, this is a foolish plea; but I have now the shores of Maryland and Virginia, pick up slaves, bring 1st point—That the servitude of the slave must be proved, around them—they must look over the whole of the age they 'THUS newv and commodious establishment for the treat- no small part of our meetness for the inheritance of walked aU the way from Marblehead to Boston to do with only one of them. It is said that sla¬ them to Donovan, who could confine them in his pen, and, not by the claim or possession of the master, but by such live in X ment, byyy Water, of Disease, is open to receive Patients. the Saints in Light; it is the temper of Heaven; to sec tbe Q-Uakcr woman hung, and did foully very existed in the very dawn of time. Surely after searoh was over, they might be shipped to the South, facts as will bring him within the Constitution and acts of PROSPECTUS. It Is situated at the head of Skaneateles Lake, ten miles and botluprofit by them. Mr. Carlisle objected to the evi¬ Maryland as authorize slavery. the air which the angels breathe; an immortal Jest over her dead bodie> WRS aHowed to have her there is no proof of this. There is no record even By the Court.—The ownership of a slave, on a trial for or This work is conducted in Hie spirit of Littell-a Mu- §£$ °n^h™Stato of Nev^York*1 ^Th^houae is lamelLm of a prophecy that slavery should exist, until we pass dence. Mr. Key urged its admissibility, on the ground of stealing him, must be proved precisely as the ownership of seuin of Foreign Literature, (which wae favorably received modious, and newly bnilt. The springs are four In number, Grace—for when Faith whioh supporteth us here, "way in the Cburc!l) Mr- Richardson being plain- its showing the intention of the prisoner to steal and sell the any other piece of property. It is not necessary to do more the history of nearly one-third of all time. There slaves in the Pearl. Thc argument had not concluded when than to establish generally that he is owned by the alleged and Hope whioh is as an anchor to the tossed lie in fettr of ber iU t0Q8ue and wicked temper. is no evidence of the existence of slavery in the the Court adjourned. ^ ^ owner, and is held and possessed as such by said owner. and appears so often, we not only give spiritand freshness to ver^’coiU'^ Jvery rema”tfo,Sa“d Soul, are no longer needed, Charity remaineth for- Novem!,er ye 13th.—'The Quaker maid, Mar- antediluvian world. 2/1—[granted by the Court]—To constitute the scaling of it by many things which were excluded by a month’s dtday, the situation, for the Invalid, delightfully inviting. Dr. S. This morning, Mr. Mann concluded the argument in oppo¬ a slave, it must be proved that the prisoner committed a but, while thus extending our scope aud gathering a greater O. Gleaeon and lady have chargo of tbe medical department, ever, for it is native in Heaven, and partaketh of 8aret Brewster, came this morning, inquiring for When our Saviour was asked by the Pharisees, sition to the admissibility of the evidence in relation to the “ Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for trespass, within this county, by taking said slave from the attractive variety are able so to increase the solid anl1 wil1 Klve tbllic attention exclusively to those seeking the Divine Nature, for God himself is Love. the Doctor, and desiring him to visit a sick man prisoner’s proposition to Mr. Donovan; and the Court ruled a “m0 , y’„ , , . , health at the “Cure." James C. Jackson nnd wife take every cause?” “he answered and said unto them, the evidence to be inadmissible. 3d and^th—[granted by the Court]—That the going of thc and substantial part of our literary, lilstorloal, and political oharge of the business and home department; ani all letters “ Oh, my hearers,” said the preacher, his ven- at her father’s house, a little way up the river;i Have ye not read that he which made them at the [I forgot to remark, that the District Attorney yesterday slave on board the prisoner’s vessel, if proved, is no proof of harvest, aa fully to satisfy the wants of tho Amerioan reader, having reference to business, or to admission, should he ad- stated that Mr. Donovan, upon the proposition being made to such trespass, without additional proof that such going on The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edinburgh, Quar- and whose wife was a weak, ailing wo- writing of divorcement, and to put her away ? He for such knowledge, if it existed, could never be proved*, saith unto them, Moses, because of the hardness of K. H. Lambell. I have known the prisoner for three or fonr ber and respectable Christian Observer—these are inter- Hecure°the8berro^ortunlties ffi/looation^as regard^rooms1!1 eth the Weak strong and the unoomelio beautiful; man> who was at this time kindlie lodging and years by sight; the first time I saw him he run wood to this mixed with the Military and Naval reminiscences of the Tkrms.—Five dollars per week, payable weekly. Patients your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives: city. He had a small sloop, and occasionally ruu oysters: he it sheddeth a Glory about him who possesseth it’ nursiD8 a P00r broken-down soldier, by no means but from the beginning it was not so,” Stc. United Service, and with the best articles of the Dublin wishing fire other than [n the sitting room, can have one in like that whioh did shine on the face of Moses, or likely t0 repay bi“>in anie sort- As for the sick So we say in relation to slavery. From the he- University, Ecu, Monthly, Fraser’s, Tait’s, Ainsworth’s, ^l^To’sehwl.hlLg to toXyl^ sTgly ^Kflre IlooiVs, and Sporting Magazines, and of Chambers’s admi- in them, will pay ten dollars per woek, payallie weekly, that which did sit upon the countenance of Ste- manibe bad bcen bardlio treated in the matter of• ginning it mas not so. God made one woman for citizens of this District—and, in point of fact, d one man, but no slave for either. Slavery is not a rable Journal. We do not consider it beneath our dignity Washing and ironing iu the institution, fifty cents per dozen phen, when his face mas as the face of an Angel. bis wages, while in the warre, and fined, moreover, Mr. Carlisle objected to this evidence. Mr. Key replied, that pieces. Eaoh patient must have one linen sheet a yard and natural relation—not an original relation—not a it was a circumstance showing^that he was here without any to borrow wit and wisdom from Punch; and, when we think aP lahalf«a9- square,*"**»«“* two woollen blankets,aa;e°”9 three oottonVo^ulZcotton comforta- 1 Above all, it conformeth as to the Son of God— on tbo 8round that he did profane the holy Sab- Divinely designed relation. It is at war with the By the Court.—Color is prima facie evidence of slavery in ea, our owe a, an o g1?FaSON, & CO. for through Love he oamo among us, and went bath ’ and tkough he had sent a petition to the whole scheme of creation, and utterly opposed to was here preparing for this enterprise. The Court said he this District, but the presumption may be, and is easily, re¬ tall increase our variety by importations from the conti* JACKSON, GLEASON, & CO. might prove that the prisoner was here, and nothing else. pelled by proof that the negro passes as free, and which being int of Europe, and from the new growth of the British ool- Glenhaven,Glcnhavcn, December 1,1847.IjfMf_ April 6. about doing good, adorning his life with miracles honorable Governor and Counoil, for the remis- the spirit, though it cannot prevent the progress, The United States closed their case, and Mr. Mann rose made, the parties would be put to direct evidence. of the system of redemption. 7th—[granted by the Court)—That if the prisoner found lies. .MOUNT 1*1.KAMA NT BOA I: DING MTIOOI, Flint of Mercy, and at last laid down his life for the sion of ‘be 8amo>“ had been to no purpose. Mr. and addressed the Court and Jury. We copy from the cor- | thc slaves on board bis vessel, without any previous act or The steamehip has brought Europe, Asia, and Africa, into IIOVS, AMHERST, MASS, Some people object to the frequent references, respondence of the N$w York Tribune the report of an ex- , salvation of men. What heart oan resist his melt- Russ said bo bad 8 ‘heir aboad at Concord, the day of Drayton’s arrival here, had identified it as the day o', as the civil law expresses it,,f LucricausaThis desire out entirely neglecting our own. County court—first Monday In February, May, and Oo- Jdly 27. of the torch-light procession, and that allnsion had called to of gain, the Courtis of opinion, need not be to convert thu I as dedicates pottred upon a mouth shut up or as meats Capt' H” undor Preteno® of your Petitioner’s These cases were eommenoed this morning by the arraign¬ Mr. Mann’s mind a great public meetingheld on that, occa- While we aspire to make the Living Age desirable to all Circuit court—seoend Monday in June and November. set upon a Grave. But he that hath found Charity Profanation of thc Sabbatb> had sentenced your ment of Daniel Drayton (the supercargo of the schooner) thief the value in money of the’ thing stolen. If the aot is ! felonious, and is prompted by the desire to obtain for himself, to be the temper of Happiness, which doth put potHioner to lose a fortni8h‘’8 Pa7- Now, the District of Columbia., Washington county, to wit : would read some extracts fron/some of those speeches, by sicians—to men of business and men of leisure—It is still a LAW OFFICE, SYRACUSE, N. Y. the Soul in a natural and easy condition and thing that W”8 aUedged aBflinst your Pcti(ioner The jurors of the United States, for the county aforesaid, way of showing the particular stimulus to which the slaves upon their oath, present, That Daniel Drayton, late of the in this District were continually exposed, and which might stronger object to make it attractive and useful to their CIPENCER fc NORTH, Attorneys and Counsellors openeth it to the solaces of that pure nnd sublime Wn8’tbat h° CU(t “ pi°°e °f an °ld Hatt *° put in excite in their minds the idea of running away, quite inde¬ 9th—The transportation of a slave to assist him to escape wives aud children. We believe that wo ean thus de some O Law, Syracuse, New York. oounty aforesaid, laborer, on the fifteenth day of April, in from slavery is not such a conversion as will constitute entertainment whioh the Angels doe snread for his Sll00es> and emptlcd *hr0e °r four Cartrid8es. the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- pendently of any acts on the part of this prisoner, or of any good in our day aud generation; aud hope to make thc work Office, Standard Buildings. ISRAEL^S.^PENCER. eight, with force and arms, in the county aforesaid, two other person who might design to deprive their masters of stealing indispensable In every well-informed family. We say hulls- ' '_' _ such as obey the will of their Creator hath dis N°W>there gl'eat °COaSI°n and ncce8sity for slaves of the value of one thousand dollars, of the good6 and their services. Mr. Mann then proceeded to read certain ex 10th—To this the Court said: Merely to entioe a slave to chattels of one Andrew Hoover, then and there being, felo¬ tracts from the speech of Mr. Senator Foote, of Mississippi, pensable, because In this day of oheap literature it Is not LAW OFFICE, CINCINNATI, covered a more subtle Alchemy than anie of which bi8 8°! doiDg’ ^ b‘8 Bb°oe° "ere soe bigg, niously did steal, take, and carry away, against the form of as reported in the Union of April 19, ill whioh that Seuator nil taSy, although the Slavs ThouliTrlin away" that' is possible to guard agaiust the influx of what Is bad In taste TURNEY ti SHIELDS, Attorneys at Law, corner of Main the Philosophers did droam-for he transmuteth by "alklDg ,nnd, ™,,n* “ tbe wet and dew’tbat the statute in such oases made and provided, and against the spoke of the late Revolution in France, as holding out “ to barely entloinsr, without any felonious carrying away—anil and vicious in morals, in any otter way than by furnishing AJ anil Court streets, Cincinnati. peace and Government of the United States, ^ the whole family of man, a bright promise of the universal that is, the Court thinks, what the law of 1761 was intended „ _ , , . TI,« mental ans JAMES BIRNEY, Notary Public and Commissioner to the enjoyments of others into his own and his tbey ga]llcd blS f 806 that he was not able to e°e establishment- of civil snd religions liberty; that glorious a sufficient supply of a hea thy character. The mental aud take MknowtMgnien^ of dee& and depositions for the Statea large and open heart partaketh of the satisfaction witboUt pai°e; a”d bU cartridges> bein8in a Ba88, Attorney of the United ’states. work so well begun cannot fail of complete accomplishment ; nth—Tothls point, the Court said: Merely to transport moral appetite must be gratified. of Maine, Vermont. Connecticut, Michigan, New Hampshire, Mr. Key appeared alone for the United States: Hon. H- that the age of tyrants and slavery is rapidly drawing to a a slave, if it stands ulone, la not larceny; bnt if it be pre¬ We hope that, by “by winnowing the wheat from thc Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, New York, and Arkansas. of all around him. Are there any here who in WCre worne Wlth contlnual travelli 806 ‘hat they Mann, D. A. Hall, Esq., and James M. Carlisle, Esq., coun¬ close; and that the happy period, to be signalized by the uni* ceded hy corruption of the slave’s mind, nnd by artful means chaff,” by providing abundantly for the imagination, aud by Jan. G.—tf__ the midst of outward abundanoe are sorrowfu’l of lost the poW and be888 lisle followed in support of tbe motion. Mr. G. commented with earnestness upon the point of law, and urged as a r>a- feet. “ He was sure the Judge must belaboring under some The Court gave the instruction with this addition: That a Jt Co., corner of TremoUt and Bromfleld streets, Boston; EMERY, LardOD Manufacturer, q who are the servants of sin and evil habits who the pardon °f his pCOpIe for aDy offenoe done to strange misapprehension. He himself (Mr. C.) was born and felon:ous taking Is a taking animofurundi,ho.,as explained son why the Court should interfere to prevent this double bred*, and expected to live and die, in the midst of a slave- inanewer to point No. 8. * lack food for both tho body and the mind Thus tUem thereby' A”d d°tb humbly rcfiueat the charging, the enormous expense of four thousand dollars 14th—That if the jury believe that these slaves were taken In advance. Remittances for any period will be thankfully — - . 1 L C0Bts, unnecessarily accrned, to the Government, by this consistent with the prevailing notions of such communities, on board the Pearl with the Intent to transport them to a free received and promptly attended to. BUSINESS NOTICES. shall they, in remembering others, forget them! “Ti °f yaa‘ bonfor8 ,to coa8idcr «*• premises, system of oharging different offences upon one state of and on that very account he had watched the course of his State, then the offenoe comes under the provisions of the aot To insure regularity in malliog the work, orders should be . .- , , . selves; tho pleasure they afford to their fellow r°m ‘“P08ed Up°“ hl“’and t0 facto. K h d ith much wa th e slled associate’s argument with the greatest attention, and be was of 1790, and is not larceny. addressed to the o/Kcc of publication, aa above. IE£-AllIS"All communications relating to the businessbusyness sure the point taken was most pertinent to the case,and one The Court gave the instructions with this addition: creatures shall come back larger and fuller\Zn giT° °rder t0 th® Committee for tbe warr for inference that he had, for his own ends, framed these double which it would be cowardice in the prisoner’s counsel not to That if ths jnry believed that the prisoner before receiving Clubs, paying a year in advance, will be supplied as fol- matters of the paper, So., and particularly the indictments. He said he cared not what the eost was—if it take ; and he must respectfully beg his Honor to deliberate the slaves on board, Imbued their minds with disoontent, per- names of subscribers, remittances, &c., should be their own bosoms, and they shall know of a truth th® paymcnt °f hia wnge8’ So sha11 he foreTW were fifty or a hundred thousand dollars, and he thought it suaded them to go with him, and by corrupt influences, tee., necessary, he would not hesitate a moment to promote the well before undertaking to stop tbe mouths of counsel, with¬ Four copies for.$2(1- $20 addreBaodto L. P. Noble, Publisher. how muoh tho more blessed it is to eive than"to pray ” ends of justice, even if be were pnt out of office the next out having full constitutional warrant for it.” caused them to oome to his ship, and feloniously took and Niue oopies for.40- 40 J^>As this paper is not sent to any new sub- receive. 1 n Love and Compassion^ God hath “ ^.-The CounctU sees no cause to grant Mr Mann then rose and explained the course and point of carried them away, then it was a ease of larceny. day for so doing. This was a case of the most horrid atro¬ 15th—The Court said on this point, that if the jury believ¬ Twelve copies for.60• Dl) scriber, unless paid for in advance, the reception made us dependent upon each othe^ to the end ,he^tUl0ner city, and he felt it hia duty to do all in his power to bring it ed tho prlsouer never took and oarried the slaves away, then Complete sets, in fifteen volumes, to ths endnd of 1847, hand 0f jt will be a sufficient receipt, to justice. tory matter introduced into the statement of it. Mr. Maun he was not guilty. soinely bound, and packed in neat boxes, are for sals at thirty Agents and others, in sending names, are that by tho use of our affections we mLy find true [to be continued] The Court, in a long opinion and review of the eases cited, disclaimed the slightest purpose to utter one inflammatory To all this ruling the defendant’s counsel took exception. decided that it oonld not direct the District Attorney to elect, word, and explained that this inflammatory matter consisted This morning, till one o’clock, the counsel were engaged in requested to be very particular, and have each let - appiness and rest to our souls. Ho hath united For the National Era. although, personally, his Honor said, be was opposed to the Any volume may be had separately at twoo dollars, bound, ter distinct. Give the name of the Post Office, the practice, whioh had been unbroken in this Court. entirely of tbe words of Mr. Foote, which he had introduced for preparing these bills of exception. The following jurors were then sworn: W. H. Perkins, P. the very purpose of showing under what influence the slaves By the Court.—The mere transportation of a slave, with a or a dollar and a half in numbers. Comity, and the State. as8fi,nws’that tuey d°make natural equality. McKenna, Noble Hurdle, James Craudell, Simeon Matlock, in this District were placed; and he proposed to read some view to assist him to escape out of slavery, is not stealing In Any number may be had for twelve and a, half oents; and Orders arc ooming in daily for papers with- them W 1 P °Ur being> and in oomforting - W. Parsons, F. Mohun, James Lusby, K. K. Nevitt, J. Tol- farther extracts for the same purpose. this District. But if such transportation be preceded, in the we doe most assuredly comfort ourselves Dr- Bailey : An old friend respectfully sub- The District Attorney now rose to object. If this was put judgment of the jury, by a seduction of the slave from his it may be worth while for subscribers or purchasers to oom- out the pay. No paper will be sent except the pay son, S. Cunningham, and G. W. Campbell. plots any broken volumes they may have, and thus greatly accompany the order. Funds muy be sent at am i herein doth happiness come to us unawares and rait8 to y®ur judgment an extract from a Sermon Mr. Key opened the c se in a brief expogtion of the law, in as evidence, it must be first proved that such speeches were and of thc nature of the offence, and its alarming character, delivered, and that the slaves heard them. enhance their value. AQENCIES risk, by mail, taking care to have the letter /rutput in an without seeking, as the servant ’ ,. delivered in several places within the last two or and a statement of the evidence. Mr. Mann. In opening the case, I have a right to state master’s errand findeth hl9 thrce year8' He ia fond of Preci8e “en‘al di8‘ what cau be proved; and, if necessary, I will call Mr. Foote We are desirens of nfaktag i^rengements. In ail parts of ™U StaUd> P°8t PUid’ ‘° ^ . , . , P casan‘ fruits nnd sweet criminations and verbal criticisms, regarding After this matter had been disposed of, Mr. Key addressed This was Andrew Hoover—who identified th etosiaves, jSE&SSSS' What paper is that from which thc the jnry in forcible amUmpressjve array of facts in the case, North America, for increasing the circulation of this work; A ‘ cl(Jr„yman wh0 will procure four sub- ovor un8,n£ nnd oool fountains, them as of essential importance to tho ascertain- testified that they were in his possession on Saturday night, counsel proposes to read? and for doing this a liberal commission w 11 be allowed to ^ ^ ^ ug eight dollars, may have a which he knew not of, gushing up by the wny8ide, m0nfc anc* advancement of truth. The occasion were missing the next morning, and found by him, with Mr. Mann. Holding it np to the view of the Court. The | plained the cause and necessity of the manifold indictments, Union. and vindicated his own course mo6t triumphantly, from the gentlemen who will interest themselves in the business. And gratis for one year.- for his solace and refreshing” J ’ of this communication, as its subject indicates, is others, on board the schooner Pearl, near the month of the The Judge*having now got his eyes open, allowed Mr. insinuations and imputations thrown upon his official con¬ we will gladly correspond on this subject with any agent who Accounts are kept with each subscriber, and river, Drayton and two other white men being also on Mann to go on; tor which liberty he returned thanks to the duct. will send us undoubted references. „hen we reoeive money from him on his sub- The minister then spake of the duty of charity f“rDiflhed l>7 Yonrs7cSPC°Ch °f Mr' CM*T* Court, and proceeded to read an extract from the speech of At 3 o’clock, Mr. Maun commenced to address the jury in Hon. Mr. Stanton, member of Congress from Tennessee, de- behalf of the prisoners. He took up the several instructions, POSTAGE. joription, it is immediately passed to his credit. towards oven the sinful and froward, and of win- July 20,1848. ’ At half past two o’clock, the Court adjourned in conse¬ | given by the Court, seriatim, and argued that the facts in mng iem hy love nnd good will, and making even “ Our venerated forefathers commenced the I livered on the same occasion, and peculiarly illustrative of When sent with the cover on, tho Living Age oonslsts of jy. Agents will notice tbat we keep an acoount quence of the illness of Mr. Carlisle, one of the counsel for | the way in which ideas of freedom may be, and are, diffused three sheets, and is rated as a pamphlet, at fonr and a hali ^th each subscriber. Hence no accounts will be their correction and punishment a means of awa Declaration of Independence by asserting the the prisoners. among the slaves of this District. I these instructions. Irle concluded a few minutes befbre five, oents. But when sent without the oover, it oomee within the gept w;th the agents; and in transmitting moneys July 28. | and the Court then adjourned. kening them-to repentance, and thc callino- fm-th 8r«at doctrine of natural rights, in language We now continue to quote from the Baltimore Sun— Mr. Carlisle speaks in the morning for the prisoner, aud definition of a newspaper given in the law, and cannot legally on which they are entitled to a commission, they of the fruits meet for ii ,.w , 8 ' . which has since been subjected to severe criticism, Evidence for the prosecution was continued. H. S. Wil¬ Mr. Mann continued by urging that the true account of then Mr. Key closes for the proseoution. be charged with more than newspaper postage, imo and a hali „etain the amount of their commission,- and, in styled nronheZml IVi, .n®.aIso 8Pak® of self- or, rather, to undistinguishing hypercriticism. liams detailed the circumstances of the capture of the ves¬ the affair was, that some six or seven negroes made a con¬ tract with Drayton to take them to the mouth of the river; oents. We odd the definition alluded to: gj casfs forward the money with the names, so as ,y P p a a“d cnthusinstio people, who went They held this statement to be a self-evident sel ; but, as these are sufficiently stated, and with some ad¬ At the opening of the Court this morning, Mr. Carlisle A newspaper is “any printed publication,issued in nnm- 0 m4ke’the account even at each remittance, ■ to ono against tho Churoh and the State truth, ‘ that all men are created equal! The critics, ditional items, by the next witness, we insert the testimony commenced his address to the jury in behalf of the prisoner bers, consisting of not more tlutn two sheets, and published Agents and others who wish to "hend us and to teaoh new doctrines, saying that oftentimes nB far a8 1 bav0 8CCn’ havo 00nfilled ‘beir atten- of this one. er, took^possesrion of it, and made Drayton their prisoner. He reviewed the law and the facts, and contended that the at short stated intervals of not more than ono month, convey- fractional parts of a dollar, can now do 80 with¬ Thomas Orme I was on board the steamer; as we ap¬ He was then only a contractor to carry away seven or eight— prisoner was not guilty of larceny under the act of 1737, but suoh were sent as a judgment umm tion to tbc word alml> and contented themselves proached the Pearl we saw no other vessel; I did not navi- of transportation of slaves under the act of 1796. He closed ing intelligence of passing events.” }ut inoreasing tho postage, by remitting pre-paid of the Truth wZt.n .u l V? h8 professors with ,ho denial of natural equality. All men, Mr. Mann here snspendeifhis opening, to take the following MONTHLY PARTS. 00st office stamps, which oan now bo obtained at whflo loaf ’ 11 had the form of godliness onlie, say they, are not equal. Nothing is more obvious, all over the vessel, some to the hatches, whioh were down ; Mr. Key fol lowed ^n reply, which was listened to with the utmost attention. His remarks were forcible, just, and con- j ‘ For such as prefer it iu that form, the Living Age is pnt my post office. lacking the power thereof; and that he did “l all the world, thnn personal inequality, and, as »e carried the white men on board the steamer; Hoover was up in Monthly Parts, containing four or five weekly numbers. Agents or others having funds to forward believe that the zeal which had been manifested tbe effcct of tbis> 80cial inequality. Now, this is In this shape it shows to great advantage In comparison me desired, if the amount bo considerable, to pur- against such had not always been enouvh season true enou8h i bu‘ 1 oal1 ‘bo oritios hyperoritics, NO FELLOWSHIP WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. with other works, containing in tuck part double the matter jhasc of SOinO bank a draft on New York, Phila- ed with oharitv It dirl „„„„„ „ , , * / because they deny what tho authors arraigned A SCRIPTURAL ARGUMENT in favor of withdrawing the Trutb lo “WWftlaokof faith in did not assert. Our forefathers asserted only the of any of the Unarterlies. But we recommend the weekly lelphia, or Baltimore. Smaller aniountB may be > ° nie into a Pamok and a great Rage equality of natural rights, especially of these it foolish to undertake Bach a thing without the means of erating Slaveholding among them, b> Rev. Silas McKeen, numbers, as fresher and fuller of life. Postage on the Month- -.ransmitted by mail, observing, when convenient, resistance. time. I never heard anything against his moral character. of Bradford, Vermont, is the title of a tract of 40 pages, just ly part is about fourteen oents. The volumes are published to send large bills on New England, New York, wnen it was called in question j and to undertake three—the right to «life? the right to ‘ liberty,7 and He replied, substantially, that the crime of itself was bad published by the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Soci¬ quarterly, each volume containing as muoh matter as a Quor- Philadelphia, or Baltimore banks. Do not send enough, and he would not be instrumental in shedding blood. He has for some years past complained of his health ; he was ety, and for sale at their Depository in New York. Price— to become God’s avengers, and to torture and burn tbc rigbt t0 lhe lPursuU °f happiness.’ These He said he was no Abolitionist, and that upon one occasion not a hearty man; some years ago he was under the doctor’s $2.50 a hundred; single copy, 3 cents. terly Review gives in eighteen months. certificates of deposite. heretics, was an error of tho Pnni»t« v ri8hts ‘bey announced as ‘unalienable.’ Will he was offered by a negro man $400 to convey him to the hands for some time; his hair was shaved off at one time, and WILLIAM HARNED, Agent, oar Published at six dollars a year, by & Mr. V. B. Palmer, at his newspaper agency, cameoamo thou*those wb/Nwho 11 ‘ ’ u‘vuluUD,lbC‘ i>thethe criticscrltics