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The Chicago District.

The Chicago Democrat records the following
incident, from which it i'll be seen that slave
is not allowed to accompany the master home,
even if DESTROYS of doing so.
A stronger commentary on the effect of Seu-
ator DOUGLAS admonitions to the citizens of
that place could not be given Such an outrage
could not have been perpetrated without the
connivance or countenance of the citizens. The
public sentiment is more potential than the
law;
SLAVE WOMAN GONE SoUTH-We are in
formed that a colored woman-a fugitive slave
went South with her master of her own free will
and consent, yesterday. Her name was Nit
chell, This is an unusual case, Most of the
fugitives prefer even death to be taken back to
slavery.
p S.-We learn, since tho above was written,
that some colored men overlook the woman and
her master Ga Mr.. Calbridge of st. Louis) at
Bridgeport, and brought her back to the city.
The same District has now three candidates
in the field for Congress The st. Louis
Republican, referring to them, furnishes the fol-
lowing information:
In the Chicago, Illinois district, there are now
three candidates for Congress. Cotfing the
Wing candidate, Is Free-soicr, in favor Of the
proviso, and against the fugitive slave bill !;
Molowny, who obtained a Democratic nomina-
ton, and then sold out to the Abolitionsts, is
the second; and Collins, the hbolitionist who
frankly avows his sentiments, is the third.
The same print thus prefaccs Mr.. COLLINS
confession of fatlI, regarding him as the most
respectable of the three: 1--WE shall quote his
opinions us gvon over his own hand. Perhaps
they may contribute TO open the eyes of those
shareholders of the Wing party who are so dill
gently taught by the Wing press, that the main
tcnance of the Wing party, is Of more conse-
quencc to them than the security of their fire.
sides and their children. Read and ponder:
lst. believe that slavery should not only be
excluded from the territories bat should be
abolished in the District of Columbia, and in all
tue States of the Union immediately.
I'd. That the Constitution of the United States,
neither guarantees, nor sanctions slavery; that
by applying the same rules Of construction to
those parts of il, which arc claimed as guaran-
tees aud sanctions of slavery which are applied
to the constitution of other points as well as to
all other instruments, every slave in the United
States may be freed by legitimate use of the
writ of habeas corpas, -.
3d. That the fugitive slave bill recently passed,
is most daring violation Of the law of nature
and of revelation, an outrage upon the Constitu-
ton, an assault upon liberty, an insult TO the
people of the free States, and ought to be dis
obeyed and trampled in the DUST until repealed.
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Botanical Gallantry.

Since the original Adam of gardeners found
the fairest flower Of his dcmesne in mother Eve
the ideas of females and flowers have been
coupled together. Both suggest images of fresh
ness, purity, and sweetness and innocent bou-
queJs often are made to act as interpreters for
bashful wooers.
At all Horticultural Exhibitions we have no.
ticcd how cgregiously the fair sex were COM
plimentcd and the recent festival in st. Louis,
the other day, was no exception.
We transplant to our own parterre couple
of the flowers of speech which bloomed on that
occasion:
The Ladies-The Morning Glories" of crea-
ton; our freside Delights" and every day
"Heart-Ease'
Woman-At home in the nursery business,
and unsurpassed in the art of husbandry.
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The First Case under the Fugitive Slave
Law In Cincinnati.


The Cincinnati Enquirer thus cooly and COM
placently records the way the Fugitive law
works in that city. Each new instance but con-
firms our original statement that the bill would
prove failure:
AN ATTENTION. Monday last, man named
Almon, living in the neighborhood of Cynthana,
KY, came to our city in search of slave that
had run away since the Fugitive slave bill became
a law. When he came, he applied to an officer
to hunt him up, promising the officer one hun
dred dollars in case he succeeded. Well, the
officers, accompanied by Almon, heard that the
slave was cook in the Wacousta House, to which
place they proceeded; and when they arrived
there, they found Il company of darkies engaged
in dancing.
The owner of the runaway pointed his proper
ty out to the officers, through the window of the
building, and in the representatives of the law
went to arrest him. 1t was an undertaking much
easier suggested than accomplished, for when
the officers laid hands upon the darkey, his friends
and associates moved both him and the slave
hunters outside the doors in quick time. Find
ing that it was useless to make another attempt
to recover his property, with the small force he
had, Mr.. Almon and the officers came back, and
the darkey, no doubt, made an immediate escape
If he is not now on his road to Canada, he is
safely ensconced in the house of some Abolition
friend, who, if we Judge rightly, has but slight
scruples in what he does in that line.
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A calunnx.
The Independent, a submission paper printed
It Aberdeen, Mississippi, contains the following

| LIE independent, a submission paper printed
at Aberdeen, Mississippi, contains the following
ELLwooD FISHER AN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
foote, IN the course of debate last Monday with
Judge Gholson, seeing him read from the South
ern Press to support his assertions, declared that
hve years ago, Ellwood Fisher, its principal edi-
TOR, was rank Abolitionist and he could prove it,
We could hardly suppose Gen. FoorE capable
OF making such statement, or the editor of the
Independent of misunderstanding him SO much
as to relate so plainly what was not said
The allegation is utterly untrue. "
Since writing the above We find the following
in the Canton (MississippD Madisonian: 10
The EDITORS OF THE SOUTHERN PREss.--Gen
foote asserted here most positively that to his
kno,clsdge the principal editor of the "Southern
Press" at Washington, was four or five years
ago an Abolitionia .~.' L
we cannot say whether any of his audience
gave any credence to the charge /; we can only
say for ourselves that we had not one particle of
faith In it. We never allow ourselves for one
moment to believe that Hunter Mason, Berrien,
Cllngman, Davis, Melville, Brown and Others,
"all good men and true" from the South, would
recommend to their Constituents a man whose
previous opinions and principles on this vital
question were unknown to them.
We have every confidence in any one whom
they would endorse
We shall not however at present deny Gen.
Foote's charge, with the same confidence with
winch he asserts it, but will take some pains to
learn its truth or falsty, and will give our read
ers the result of our enquiries.
gentleman of unquestioned veracity informs
us that to his knowledge, Ellwood Fisher was
ten years ago decided pro-slavery Calhoun man
in Ohio. .s ,.t....
A friend of ours has written to a Young gen.
tleman in Cincinnati for accurate information on
TINS point, and when obtained we will spread it
before our readers. In the meantime we express
the confident belief, that when obtained, it will
not sustain Gen. Foote'S charges.
We are much obliged to the editor of the
-Madisonian for his defence.
Since 1882, long before Abolition began, the
senior editor has been a uniform and decided po-
litical friend of Mr.. CALHOUN, and for more than
= five years" was an intimate personal one And
has invariably written, voted, spoken, and acted
in opposition to the Aboltionists since that sect
arose.
AS fol General FooTE, we have noticed him
but little because we considered his course and
opinions of very little consequence-hs multi
tadinous speeches in the Senate, letters in the
papers, addresses from the stump, and the puffs
he has received from the allied nggrcssors and
submissionists, to the contrary Notwithstanding.
We care, therefore, very little about what he
says Of US.
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the night of the Mayors siectior' gu
y Scarcely had these desperadoss b.en frssd ,ron,
prison, before they are found armed with deadly
weapons, disturbing the peace, assaultins unof.
Tending citizens, and putting life in Jeopardy.
They made the attack upon Stewart, and he
shot Moody in selfdefence. IL is hoped our court
will learn lesson from this, and in future not be
so Gulpably easy and lenient in taking bail for
such characters, thus turning them loose, more fe
rocious than tigers, upon the community
A distressing accident happened to-day near our
city, in the bay, by which seven men were
drowned Capt. Grant, OF the schr. Caroline A.
Cook, saw a canal boat drifted ashore on white
rocks, with men on it giving signals Of distress.
He sent out small boat TO their relief, and when
coming back, near the schooner the boat upset,
and seven out of the eight in it, were drowned, ,
among whom were Mr.. George Smith, mate OF
the schooner, Capt. Grants brother, and others,
names not yet ascertained. The schooner came
into port with flags at haf-mast. ~ ~
The returns thus far from Massachusetts, show
a kind OF mongrel election-no choice by the peo-
pile, and probably triumph Of the Coalitionists.
n In our market to-day, we quote sales of best
flour at "a 68 u ~ rs; grain scarce and unchanged
Stocks quiet, Md. SIS 49,; Md. O's 1922 bid.
~ The New York market to-day has been unset
tied prices unchanged, and unfavorable to busl-
ness.
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Notice to Quit.

None of the laws delay is experienced in the
operation of the higher law" at the North.
We subjoin specimen of the promptitude Of
the proceedings under this summary process ju-
rsdiction, which takes cognizance of cases under
the Fugitive law:
The Baltimore papers state that, recently, two
police officers from that city, named Zell and
Gross, were at Lafayette, Ind, with requisi-
ton for murderer. While there, they received
n note signed by @many citizens" in which the
officers were notified that if they came to cap
ture negroes under the Fugitive slave law (and
there are said to be great many in that place
10 ieaue withia three hours or suffer the conse.
quences" ..' ..'. -s..t'
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DR.. THos. III. AvERETT.--Wc understand
that our friend DR.. Averett, has addressed his
constituents in Halifax, Pittsylvania, franklin
and Patrick, at their respective Court Houses,
since the adjournment of Congress-, His efforts,
we learn, were bold and able, and were well re-
ceived by the people,-Lynchburg Republican,
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A NICE TowN-The editor of the Paducah
Journal, speaks of PerryviIle, Boyle county, KY,
and the ten miles square around it, in the fol-
lowing extravagant manner. He says that, in
that scope of country, San ugly woman was
never seen, aud beautiful, buxom lassies grow
in clusters, like roses, around every chimney
corner, whether of stately mansion or lowly
cof
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CRAZE CRoP SHORT IN FRANcE.-A French
correspondent Of the N. Y. Herald says:
"A great calamity is now felt in France in the
grape yards of the whole country. A sort of
leprosy has covered the fruit, and there are very
few orchards in France which are not more or
less attacked by the disease. This will un-
doubleday increase, this year, the price of wine
i'm France"
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Lord Bacon says that Ethewood, Bishop of
Winchester, in famine, sold all the rich YES
sells and ornaments of the church, to relieve the
poor with bread, and said, "therc was no reason
that the dead temples Of God should be sumpt-
uously furnished, and the living temples. suffer
penury"
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ADVANCE IN CoTToN GooDs.-The Providence
Posi- of Friday last says:
"Shcetings, Shirtings, Jeans, &C., are held
with great firmness, at an improvement Of latc.
from the prices of few weeks ago, and some
descriptions have been sold at full &c. advance
OH the lowest sales of the season. Printing
Cloths are held firmly at an Improvement of
ta4c., but the transactions have been light, buy
ers and sellers not being able to get together
We notice sales of 60x6S, extra, at ST 60x64,
good, AZ; 56x6O, al. At the close, good Cox
CAS- are generally held at 5c., and AZ offered
freely" 49,.
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From the Baltimore Patriot.
Boston, No'

The election up to this hour passed off quietly.
From appearances, the Wings will poll their full
vote in this city.
Mrs. Webster, widow of the late Professor,
and her two daughters, have sailed for Fayal in
the barque Son.
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Hon. Jos. A. Woodward has been appointed
BY the citizens of Fairfield delegate to the
Southern Convention which assemblies at Nash
vile on Monday next.
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RuyAwAys-The Baltimore Sun says

We learn from the Eaton (Md) Democrat,
that seven slaves, n man his wife and FIVE child
rem, belonging to Mrs. II. NJ. Tghman, escaped
from her residence in Miles River Neck, on
Saturday night week, taking with them horse.
"A reward of $500 is offered for their appre-
hcuson and delivery in Easton ail s..a
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From the mississippi Jacksonian.
Hon. JEFFERSON DAvls.-A public dinner has
been rendered to Colonel Jefferson Davis, in
Holmes county, OIL the 9th, and in Yazoo county,
on the 9th, of next month
GEN. H. s. FooTE.-Ths gentleman made
speeches at Aberdeen, Columbus, and Jacnto,
last week.
He is laboring hard to get the people of the
State, to submit to Northern dictation, and to
sustain him. But he cant come it.
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RosroN. Nov. u. Or.

| : : :" : bUbTUN, ANUV. II, y p M
The Legislature, far az heard from, stands
1872 Wings, 131 Oppositonists, and 80 without
choice. The Coalitonists have ma jority in the
Senate; therefore elect their Governor. Total
vote for Governor in 275 towns for Briggs 49, 1856;
Boutwell, 32,259; Phillips 26,292; scattering 376.
In the second district, Uphan,wants ,636 to elect
him. In the third district, Duncan wants 346.
In the fourth district, majority against Thompson
3,O67; ffth, against Allen 2, 7l5;. sixth Davis
ninth, majority for Fowler 2,77Ss, tenth, Scudder
behind his ticket. The Free-soilers fired salute
of one hundred guns to-day on account Of Mann's
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Retaliatory Measures in North Carolina

ASoeahaIoly ~oaouAoS IA I$oAsA Sa1oAo'
The stole school of philosophers, which incul-
Gates submission as the remedy for wrongs and
insults, does not seem TO be gaining disciples in
the old North State.
The Charleston Sun thus refers to some re-
cent proceedings at Wilmington, in that State
The Wilmington Aurora complains of the
mischief done by free negro sailors, who visit
that port in Northern vessels One vessel that
lately arrived there had eight of this species of
"help" on board. N.".
The people of that State will have to adopt Il
law similar to that Gin such cases made and pro-
yided" in South Carolina.
The Aurora concludes its article with the
statement of the following fact; ...
awe are glad to learn that the patrol of our
city, which consists of energetic men, have
pretty well supplied the defects of the law
One instance has just come to our ears, few
days ago, they found a sailor Of this description
in the street, using impertinent, If not sedtious
language--chastised him, jailed him, and when
let out chastised him again. The fogging was
inflicted In both cases BY slave, and tho wit
nesses assert that it was never better DONE
This may be Judge Lynch's law, but we think
il very good. Nor have the patrol stopped here,
They have extended their services Into the tribe
of free negroes who have swarmed here from
other sections, and squatted in the purlieus of
the city, and already have, and now are in the
act of abating much Of that nuisance. The
thanks of the public are due to them"
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MICHIGAN acknowledgements State tick.
ct all elected. Two Wing Members of Con-
gress, perhaps three, elected. Democrats have
large majority in both branches Of Legislature.
Henry c. Kobbe, Dem, elected to State SEN
ate in Wayne District by andsome minority
Detroit Free Press s8ar#}.
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SECOND DESPATCH. q

p BALTIMORE, Nov. 1910 o'clock, p. m.
General Chapman, Wing, was elected President
of the Maryland Convention to-day on the twenty
first ballot, beating William Cost Johnson three
votes. General Howard withdrew previous to
| the last ballot. Al
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DANcERoUs GAZING OF THE MissIssTPPI BANK
IN NArcHEz.-Abouta week since, a most ruin
ons falI;no in of the bank took place, on Water
s,reet :, Satcbez landing, by which the streetwas
entirely cut off, and three buildings on the Caro-
Ian estate rendered untenantable. The entire
hant including the whole width OF the street,
sunk without moment warning, to the depth of
twenty-five or thirty feet, nearly on alevel with
Nv water in the river The disater has not only
mined the street. side walk and all, but has en-
rendered the buildings unsafe and useless. An
ominous crack in the rear of the buildings, shows
that their rites are threatened, if not irrevocaby
doomed. -- .r ..a
This is the third dangerous break in the bank
which has occurred in Natchez and It's vicinity
Size the low water; one very destructive one near
the Steam Saw Mill of Andrew Brown Esq ::
another Opposite and below the Steam Saw Mi u
of B. Cozzens, Esq
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SECOND DESPATCH.

BosToN, Nov I'LL p NJ.
1t now appears by the returns that there has
been no election of Governor by the people
Briggs thus far has lost 1000 votes.
Congress. William Appleton, Wing, is elect
ed in the first district by about $500. In the
second and fifth districts there is no change, and
probably none in the fourth.
George f. Davis is believed to be elected in
the sixth district. -
In the seventh district it is doubtful Goodrich
probably elected.
In the eighth district Horace Mann, Free-sbiler
is chosen by 500 over all others
The ninth district is very close. Orrin Fow-
Ter, Free-soiler, supposed to be elected.
No returns yet received from the 10th District.
STATE SENATE.-There have been 81 Coa-
ton senators elected which is II majority of that
body. The Coalitonists are composed Of Demo-
Gratis and Free-soers.
In the House the Coalitionists have gained Al
representatives in So towns, but the late altera-
ton in the vote of representatives will reduce
that advantage.
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rW-A subscription has been started at Ma
drid for colossal monument to Columbus,
twenty feet high, Of Florentine bronze, at an
estimated cost Of f2O,0OO.-The plan or de-
signis to be open to all European artists forcom-
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ELECTION OF JUDGES FOR VERMONT.

MONTPELIER, Monday, Nov. IL.
The Legislature of Vermont have chosen
Robert Pierpont as Judge of the first judicial
district, and Jacob Collamer, Milo L. Bennett,
and Luke p. Boland for the second, third and
fourth districts. They were all chosen without
opposition.
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WORCESTER, ii o'clock, p. m.
A heavy vote polled here for Congress. 1t
stood, Charles Allen, Free-soil, l4l9; Barton,
Wing, 6l3; J. Kiroldin, Democrat, SIG.
The Hon. Caleb Gushing will represent New
berry in the House, which is a Democratic gain.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-13

A speaker at the meeting of the American
Bible Society in New York last week, after de-
scribing the various dogmas of the day, referred
to the German nseendentalism--says it was
the witty sayings of Jean Paul Richter, that Ger
many, like Van Wrinkle, had been asleep and
when she oke up, she found that France had
taken up all the land, and England all the sea,
and as there was no place for Germany to 90,
she went upward and took possession OF the air
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THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1850.
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BALTIMORE, Nov. l2-5 p. NJ

BALTIMORE, Nov. l2-5 Pm.
/ observe that the Baltimore Patriot purposes
publishing weekly paper, in addition to its daily
and tri-weekly. This is good move in the Pa
triot, and have DOUBT the proprietors will find
it Of great advantage to their widely-known and
deservedly popular establishment '@'
Our city, last night, was the scene Of another
bloody tragedy A notorious person, named
Thomas Moody, was shot dend, while in the up
per tier Of the Front street theatre, by man
named George Stewart. Moody had the same
day, with two OF his companions, been refeaseu
from inil in the sum of $1,000 bail each, TO answer
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We find the following very odd announcement
in one of our exchanges. No temperament less
enthusiastic than the Gallo, would display such
devotion to scientific research.
SCIENTIFIC DEvoTIoN.-An account is given
in the Continental papers of great Congress of
medical men which it is proposed to be held in
France, for the purpose of testing by experiment
the virtue of n newly discovered cure for mad
ness and for the bites of venomous serpents bv
means of "cedrone" seed. 1t seems that two
subjects, NJ. Auguste Guillemin and NJ Hippolyte
Fourier, Professor Of Mathematics of the de.
partment Of AveyrOn, have offered themselves to
be operated on-which means, we suppose, that
they offer to let themselves be bitteli-for the
purposes of the inquiry. at has been thought
advisable" says the Brussels Herald, "to post
pone until next month the experiment to be tried
on NJ. Augustc Guillemn, in order to afford suf-
ficent time for all the celebrated medical men of
France and other parts of Europe to meet to-
gethcr at this sort of medical Congress, in which
one of the most difficult problems of occult
medicine is to be resolved. II is announced that
all the different States of Europe will be repre-
scented ut this meeting. Russia, by physician
attached to the person of the Emperor; the Ger
man States, by seventeen doctors; and Sweden,
Norway and Denmark will send delegates, al.
though in those cold regions there are but few
serpents, and cases Of madness are rare. Some
of the cedrone seed will be sown in tine Jardi,i
des PLantes-where it is hoped it will succeed.
Several Of the faculty, who have already made
experiments on different animals, hope, by the
means Of the cedrone seed, to arrive at the cure
of mental disorders and epilepsy" We know
nothing more of this subject than is involved in
these paragraphs. r'.