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Specializing Philanthropy.

A Rev. Mr.: Erwin, from somewhere
" Down East" is at present combining pro-
fit with philanthropy, in depicting the horrors
of the Americas Stare Trade by means Of
q Panorama in London.
The New York Spirit Of The Times con-
tains the following allusion to the labors Of
this Pharisee, whose title was probably pur-
Joined from the same place whence he de-
rived his facts. These living libels on our
country, when encountered by our country
men abroad, should be exposed and branded
with merited ignominy. Here is a fellow,
pretending to be clergyman, and making
a speculation out Of English credulity, by
disgracing his fellow citizens by fctitiou,
representation Of horrors existing only on
canvass. The letter referred to, says:
The last novelty from the United States, is a
Panorama illustrating the African and American
Slave trade. 1t will be news to John Bull as to
Jonathan, when he discovers by pictorial repre-
sensations that the Americans are engaged i'm the
slave trade, But John is more easily gulled than
Jonathan moreover, Jonathan would probably
re-paint this canvass with rotten eggs, if it were
unrolled before him. The Rev. Mr.. Erwin and
Mr. Bloom have selected the best market in the
world for their exhibition of ''the American Slave
Trade" They kindly promise to show ga true
picture of slavery from actual observation-cap-
ture Of es-shipment--ocean passage-Bri-
fish chase-conhagration of saver--cntrance
into the southern States, en- route to the market
auctions-escapes into her Mnjesty's domain
Canada-residence Of Washington, &c. Was there
ever more barefaced imposition practised upon
John Bull, or blacker libel on the American
character!
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The following gentlemen constitute the Execu
tive Committee COL Peter Force, Prof. Walter
r. Johnson, Prof Joseph Henry, J. C. G. Ken
nedy, Esq, Capt. Charles Wilkes.
On motion 9eU
Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to
prepare the proceedings of this meeting for pub
LEGATION.
And the Committee adjourned.
CHARLES F. STANSBURY.
Secretary of the Meeting
MISREPRESENTATION committees, or individuals
desirous to make propositions or to receive infor-
nation, are requested to,address their communica-
tons to ]. G. G.. Kennedy, Esq.
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ADDITIONAL Particulars OF THE BURNING OF
THE GRIFrITH.-We have our Buffalo papers of
the 18th, with dispatches from Cleveland, which
furnish us with the following additional details of
the fearful disaster on Lake Erie:
The hre was discovered about half-past three
O'Clock on Monday morning, about the smoke
pipes The crew endeavored TO cxtinguish it
without alarming the passengers, but the flames
spread so rapidly that the cry was soon raised,
"save YOURSELF
The hurricane deck was literally packed with
emlgrants sleeping, and when the fire was first
announced as beyond CONTROL the utmost con
fusion and terror reigned. The boat was imme-
dlately headed towards land and grounded some
GOO yards from shore. But the heat had been so
intense that most of the passengers had Jumped
overheard, preferring watery grave to death by
fire.
The poor emIgrants were crowded forward and
literally pushed overheard by those retreatinc
from the flames. Some had presence Of mind
enough to throw overheard their chests and swim
upon them, but ncurly all were lost Both yawI
boats were so badly burned as to be useless
When the Delaware left, several yaw boats
and skifis were hooking up the bodies. The
beach was already strewed with them for several
rods. They lay so thick upon the bottom of the
lake and in such shallow water, that they were
finding them and taking them ashore by the boat
load. I1f
Captain Roby had just had his life insured for
S6,OOO. The clerk and engineer were saved
One man was hooked up from the bottom of the
lake, with an infant child clasped tightly in his
arms. A group of five or six emigrants, men,
women, and children, were found with their arms
closely locked together, evidently having left the
boat and sunk in that condition
II was supposed that most of the passengers
Jumped overboard-but il appears that the boat is
literally covered with the bones of the burned.
A large trench is being dug to bury these UNI
fortunate persons. Only two females were saved
These fortunately secured a settee, and were
taken out Of danger by waiter who was himself
saved
Capt. Roby, we are told, threw his wife and
child and wifes mother overheard and then
jumped into the water himself, which was the last
that was seen Of him alive.
The steward was found grasping in his hand
Captain Roby's child, whom he endeavored to
save, and, as was supposed lost his life in conse-
quence.
mother with four daughters, just from Engs
land, whose husband lives in Cleaveland, lost
name not known. The whole number of bodies
found is lao. The number saved, as near as can
be ascertained mt present, is 25
The Griffith is new boat--this being her sec
ond season-of second class in respect TO size.
Capt. Roby purchased her last week, and this was
his first trip as her first officer. She was insured
for S27,775.
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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRlOOS
AMERICANS.
Dagueneotypes by Brady--Engraved by
D'Avignon.
EDITED BY AN ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN.


r1NpER this title will be published, during the
u year 1850, twenty -four Portraits and biograPhi
cal Sketches Of American citizens Who have becsme
illusrious ia the service OF the country Every por
ton of the work will receive the most careful atten
tion and nothing will be spared to render 1t worthy
mad enduring monument to the great men oil the Re-
public.
Mr. Brady has been many years engaged, at gnat
expense, in collecting Portraits for National Gal,
lery, and those which being engraved Tor TINS
work are believed to be superior to any that nave
ever been taken In the accomplishment Of tins great
encouragement from distinguished men, Mr.. Brady's
reputation has been too long established to need any
recommendation. His daguerreotypes are in TIE
highest the work. OF art, glowing with the soul
Of the living countenance
The drawings and engravings OF DAvignon have
been pronounced by Europeans OF taste to be fully
equal and in some respects superior to those OF the
best artists OF London and Paris and every inn
precision in thi, Gallery will be taken under his inn
mediate supervision The typography will be exc
cuted carefully and in superb style as the en-
cravings themselves. The entire work will be on
the finest imperial folio paper, l6 by % inchcs made
expressly for this purpose.
This work has nothing sectional in its scope; it
will therefore be compreh ensive in its spirit. The
name. OF those only admitted whose talents
and public services have won for them honorable
fame throughout the nation. Each OF the great de-
partmens OF life will have its representatives. Art
and Literature are universal in their spirit and the
Gallery is intended to be worthy and enduring
ulnent to the great men OF the Republic, whose
achievements and fame constitute the chief glory OF
the nation. We hope that every lover Of Art, and
friend of glorious Union, will respond to our app
peal for encouragement and aid in so commendabe an
undertaking. that its publication mry make an era in
the progress OF American Art, and by grouping the
illstrous men Of the Union together, consolidate it
still more firmly.
As no work Of this kind has appeared in America,
and the prices they sustain in Europe would place il
bcvopd the reach Of most OF citizens, the publish
crs have resolved to merit large circulation, by
charging very low price. They have, therefore,
established the following
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H% The Boston Courier contains me-
mortal, for general signature, from the people
Of Massachusetts, to their Representatives in
Congress, instructing them to adopt, towards
the South, more liberal and conciiatory
course.
We are happy to learn also, from the
speeches and conversation Of northwestern
members, from the valley of the Ohio, that
they are becoming more favorable to the
preservation Of good feeling with the South
That part Of the States OF Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois, between the National Road
and Ohio river, is more closely connected
with the South, by the origin Of its popula-
ton and by social and commercial inter-
course, than any other part of the North.
II would, therefore, suffer more from dis
cord between the two sections. We hope
that they will yet prefer to do Justice to the
South, rather than sacrifice the interests CT
their region to Northern ambition and ag-
erosion.
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mander Ingraham, his term of service having ex-
pired.
Bishop Hughes, of New York, in letter to
one of the newspapers of that city, complains that
the English and American Journals single out the
Pontifcial Government among the powers of
Europe, and hold it especially to the execraton
of the Anglo-Saxon race. There is good deal of
truth in this, but the matter originates with the
English papers, from whence it is copied into the
American papers.
The Philadelphia Pennsylyanian of this morn
ing speaks in high terms of the s. Southern Press,
and the ability displayed in its editorial manage
ment.
The news by the Cambria appears to have had
some little effect upon our market. Sales We're
made this morning of 700 bbls. Howard street
lourat S5,25.
There was sale Of prime Pennsylvania red
wheat at Sl,2O. City corn meal is selling at
S3,l2k. Sales Of 100 bags Rio coffee at l0sc.,
though generally held at 1lc., being cent ad-
vance since the news. Sales Of white corn at
57a58c., and Of yellow at 6Oa62c.
The Northern markets are all unsettled by the
news, and but little has been done to-day. Cotton
at New York continued firm, with small sales at
yesterday IS rates.
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I5-The quantity of domestic cotton goods ex-
ported from New York, for the first FIVE months
or 1850, was 2,l89 bales and cases valued at
1850 1863 is; for the corresponding period in 18-
&c. IL, l28 bales and cases. valued at S579 $50 a.
Increase in quantity, 6lbales and cases, in value
geo ,415 80, .....
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of the Lynn News says he saw man the other
day in very uncomfortable situation He was
highly incensed at an article in the News, but not
being a subscriber to it, he was debarred the re-
venge Of saying "Stop my paper"
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IMPORTING LEAp-The emigration of miners
from the west to California has produced so great
scarcity of domestic pig lead that it is now i'm.
at Boston few days ago,
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dy. We commend to the attention of ali

6J- We commend to the attention of all
the opponents, enemies, prosecutors, and
slanderers Of the Nashville Convention,
past, present, and to come, Tin this city and
elsewhere the testimony Of the Nashville
Union, to be found in this days paper. Ii
furnishes complete and satisfactory vindi-
cation Of the members Of that Convention,
from charges and imputations rashly and
cruelty made against them. 1t also proves
most conclusively, that that Convention was
not /" a Jaiire," as its enemies allege, but
on the contrary, signally successful in the
men it convoked, the councils which guided
it, and the spirit which it has inspired, not
only in Tennessee, but throughout the entire
South. 1t shows how easily conflicting
interests and opinions can be made to yield
to the common safety, and laying down
platform, broad and strong enough to support
all true-hearted Southerners Of whatever po-
litical creed, loving their own rights and liber-
ties more than Party
The Resolutions are thus endorsed by the
Nashrille Union. In the same spirit will
the united South respond.
Below we give the resolutions adopted by the
Southern Convention in a connected form They
have heretofore been published separately. On
this platform we take our stand On this rock we
place our political fortunes sand the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it,
The Kentucky Statesman, also, publish
ed at Lexington, thus adds its testimonial
to the conduct and proceedings Of its mem
bers. After this proof, we trust that this
stale SANDER will be repeated no more.
We give to-day the proceedings of the last day
OF the Southern Convention, as reported by Tele-
graph. 1t seems that the Convention adopted an
address and resolutions ,--seyeral members dis
senting Recommending the extension Of the
Missouri Compromise line through the Territories.
II will also be that the Convention adjourned
to meet again on the sixth Monday after the adj
journment of Congress. Thus ends, for the pre-
sent, the great Southern Convention, which has
been, for some months past, the theme Of SO much
talk and debate, and about which so much has
been written and predicted. Ii was body OF
men distinguished for talents and responsibility,
and so far from manfesting that disposition to dis
| solve the Union which has been attributed to il,
1t eylnced commendable zeal FORTS preservation
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.The following il the resolution introduced by Mr..
Weller OF Ohio, and passed by near wo.thifds Of Con-
gress, March ~, 1892 a-'iastt"e ts#@
Whereas the honorable Joshua r. Giddings the member
from the 18th congressional district Of the State Of Ohio,
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In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. FooTE
presented resolutions adopted by the State
of Mississippi, and took occasion 10 defend
that State from the charge of disunion;
after which the Senate went into con-
sideration Of Mr.. BRADBURY's resolutions
calling on the President for information
in regard to removals from Office, when
Mr.. SMITH condemned the gross attacks
which had been made upon the PRESIDENT
in connexion with this subject, and char
acterized them as unjust and entirely in
consistent with the previous doctrines of
the Democratic party. Mr.. S. had not
concluded when the Senate adjourned.
In the House Of Representatives., the con-
sideration of the bill for supplying def
ciencies in the appropriations for the pres
ent fiscal year was resumed in Committee
of the Whole, and several amendments
were made to it; after which the commit
tee rose, and the House, after passing the
bill for carrying into effect convention
with Brazil, adjourned.
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Important Admission.

A cursory reader of the Union might be
led to suppose that its occasional admis-
sions and implications unfavorable to the
Locofoco party were the result Of par
oxysm Of honesty, of candor, or fairness
towards opponents, whom it is perpetually
stigmatizing with the foulest epithets, and
deriding as unworthy of respect and conf
dence. Others, again, might well impute
these exhibitions to cunning notion, that
incessant abuse and censure, without stint
or discrimination, must lose all force or
power, and that, in order to make its as
saults effective, there must be occasion
ally at least the appearance Of justice and
impartiality, and that now and then it is
indispensable that its own friends should
be made the subject Of just apprehension.
Both classes of readers would be wrong in
their suggestions. The Union is incapa-
BILE ofliberality or generosity. 1t is never
surprised into an act of that description
Neither is its system of tactics so perfect
as to embrace the affectation of such
thing, as matter of policy. Any admis-
sion of the errors or follies of Locofocoism,
therefore, is sheer blunder, made in
voluntarily, and without comprehending
either the weight and value of language,
or the consequences of what it says.
We extract the following from an arti-
Gle in yesterdays Union:
"In view of these movements, going on in the
ranks Of the federal party, the course of the Dem
ocratic party appears TO be obvious and straight
forward. IL should, North and South, East and
West, rid itself Of all ultraisms inconsistent with
national and catholic creed. Now is the favorable
time for effectng this salutary reform in its ranks
Now, then, we repeat, is the time
for the great Democratic party of the country to
throw off It's ultraisms and to re-estsblish its
old national faith and creed"
II is but few days ago that we were
assailed in the choicest terms of Locofoco
invective by this same paper, for stating,
in substance, what is here distinctly adj
mitted. In repelling charge made by
the Union that the Wings had fomented
the Abolition agitation at the North for
sinister purposes, we stated that the polit-
ical movements Of the Abolitionists had
been under the control Of the Democrats,
and that TO the Democrats had enured the
advantages resulting therefrom. All this
was passionately and peremptorily denied
by the Union, and that party was alleged
to be free from all association or sympa-
thy with them. The admission copied
above refers, Of course, to the Abolition
lists I; and we should like TO see the edi-
tors attempt to reconcile the contradiction.