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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

COUNTER CoMPLAINT.-John K. Corr.
one Of the policemen who was fined for an assault
and battery named Winters, has made
complaint against the SAID Winters, which he ac-
cuses him OF perjury. He has made an affidavit to
show that Winters was not IN lawful possession al
The ,lme lie and The other policeman went IN and
dragged HIM out but Is the owner of the premises
hat permitted Winters 20 occupy the same and
neither Of the policemen had the slightest right to
enter the premises without authority. cannot
what effect that can Aave On the case The matter
was 10 have come before Justice hing Yesterday
iuoIrns, bur Il Was postponed until Monday week
MoRE RowDYIsM.-The Young man who
was fined $40 a day or two since for rowdy prac-
tees, was at his old tricks YESTERDAY, and viii have
10 be more summary dealt with. re Is far rep
Iesen,ative Of worthless gang which lnfests South
Brooklyn.
UNVEILED D0GS.-A boy in the estab-
lishmeni Of Tee 4 Rogers was badly bitten yes,er-
daS by Newfoundland dog. Medical attendance was
summoned 20 prevent the possibility OF hydrophobia
although the cog has gwen no symptoms OF madness
FoRGERY William I. Mllbourne was
fully committed Tor trial. YESTERDAY. on charge Of
passing forged osier> Tor small sums. lie IS only
about 20 Year. % age
PuRFIc ALTON All the Court Rooms In
the City Hal are undergoing the process OF purica
ton by wafer. brush and boon no soap Is needed.
that article having been abundaniiy deposited by
Counsellor -. whO boasts that II any one can soft
soap Jury. IL q. The NAN tina, can DO that same
MILITARY ELECTIoN.-The election OF
off, ers for the First Company Continental Guards
Was hell 4, TIE Armory on Thursday eyenIng. Lieut.
Col. e b Han, presiding, and MAJOR Teale acting
as Secretary. The following gentlemen were cho-
seD BEN / Hoag!Sui. Captain w Lewis ~
L.sl.. and IOhn swan - Lieutenant
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

8 The Indians. consisting Of the united
lribe> Of TIE Chippe was Ottawas, and Poi'a"aua-
mics who had then homes IN ShoDoygan and Mani
touwOc Counties III this State. have finally consent
e. 10 remove 20 he West OF the Mississippi. Tne
whole number. q i0i including men. women and chill
dren. D4ssed through Beaver Dam on THURSDAY
We Tad an opportunity 70 see the wnole company
pass. and a more ley-lOoklng crew were never
gathered. Falslaf'> famous regiment was 10 com
paIlsCn but occasionally one OF their companies
was BROUGHT 10 n the rear BY one Of those savage
looking Indians with a .oInahawA IN rs bell . me
lis hand. and with ! glcam Of lerocity from IL
eye which would call 20 mind the indian a Ne "a>
n the DAYS Of King Philip. Iney 90 ~ me Noiuil-
bus Iou;e 20 ne Mississippi.
Milwaukee Wisconsin. Aug
Suspected ATTEMPT AT POISONING
There tas been partial examination IN ms CITY
INTO a suspected attempt 10 potson family 10 i
remote ;OWu III this county. Notnihg -MpAcauhg
directly any incIylcual has been elected. though
We believe there = 10 question mat guam
lily Of -four was DolSOned-thai bread Was maize
o.! y, and that BY q fortunate clance' tne NOM
an making i tasted OF some OF tire -four, and Ind
Ing Il OF unusual favor, prevented Inc OIe4l ifcih
beng Freely eaten til is qualities we're submitted 10
q chemical test and the presence OF poison clearly
traced. One person. AFRO IlcauuOus!y ate Lali i
biscuit made from he Aour. taken suddenly and
seriously H. afOrdIng all The symptoms OF a violent
poison. One Of the biscuits Vas gwen 20 dog'
whIch killed HIM N iess than nall IN hour. Ine
OBJECT OF tbs poisoning II Il Is real attemp, 70 taSe
lie. i SuI.se5 10 be the removal OF certain persons
whose lives cucumber cerTatn farm, which would
otherwise revert % another expec,ani and somewhat
iInpa..en. palty Rochester Adv
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

tBoUr DLANoNp PIS.-On "Wednesday
evening, young man, gen,eelly dressed, named
George Goodwin, " no is said TO be from Boston WAS
arrested by the s;h Ward Police suspicion Of hav-
ing soc,i . diamond breast pin. valued at $500. the
property of > Young woman known by the name OF
Jane TYLER For the last two days the case has been
under examination before justice Lothrop. hat. the
evidence being insufficient N. magistrate dismissed
tire complain,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

EieHl Persons DROWNED During the
s0uall Oh Thursday afternoon last. >rsll boat was
cspszed near the Kills, nearly opposite the sailors
snug hsrbor on Staten Island The boat contained
Al The time, two sailors nom the Harlor. two fe-
mates, and four children, all Of whom were drowned
before any rchet could De extended 70 them The
names of the persons have not been able to learn
with the exception of that Of one lacy, who Was Mrs
Green, widow, attached ~ Dr. DlrN'S eve infrm-
ap, IN Mot-Si she was probably the mother OF the
cNaltren The party were gong on picnic excur-
Son, and intended 10 land at the Har5or wharf but,
seeing the SQual, pui back 10 another landing The
wind, however, struck them before they reached
shore the boat filed a, once, and the bodies sunk al
most IN moment Mrs Green leaves NO children,
hung IN THIS CITY
fS.-1he names of the persons drowned were
" 'aF as We can ascertain, as follows James Con-
way. Reeesi Ackeeyer. of the sailors Snug Harbor
MS Nss hossn tEiece OF Ms Green aged l. Mrs
"i'eh' AID lour children.
MN uvsR.-A smart lad, about wears
age, son Of Thomas Dorian, residing in Canada,
@FeseE, stopping at But,S's Hotel. IN Murray-si,
,~ ian over, AZ 2. NJ. ~ the private carriage Of
''aa fains, living IN 5,h-av. near l7thst.. while
s'S>ng Roadway AT Murrav-st. The face OF the
S1so %, VAS severely cut, ana his body bruised IN
'e@ places. He Was taken TO the hotel, where
- "ouhcs were dressed by Dr. Farrell 1t is sand
,Se ssas ,sge was being driven at a rapid rate when
N aeeaen, occurred
ASSksT or SUPPOSED FUGirlvE MUR-
IN Tie morning journals of yesterday was
s. geographic news from Providence. r. l.,
,..-s mat the dead body of Mrs Abby Coosson.
!" ra"'ueket, Mass, Was found a, Seekonk.
- I@a' SIZE WAS supposed to have been murdered
- M husband John Cookson, who len Providence
N.ussosy las. IN the schooner Oregon. bound for
a,~ a Va In the course Of the morning. ycster-
bo.,,as schooner arrived al shs port, when she was
M 0! Caass. Silyey and Leonard. of The Is, and
"srdS police, who arrested Coosson and con.
a'ul before the Mayor, who detained him ,,n
- indulgence respecting the matter should he
.ss. 'rm Providence. The accused sesmc,
"' 'ai'0' and denied all knowlejge Of the mur,,er
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

THr MAYORS MESSAGE - Obscurlty "
desires 70 know If HIS Honor, Mayor Kings land, IN
the last sentence of has message presented to the
Common Council on Thursday evening, means TO
say that he Is bound to protect ms own Interests, OF
those o. the city The grammar Is rather doubtful,
thinks onr correspondent
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

ANOTHER CAMPnENE ACciDENr-About
soclock on Thursday evening. two persons named
EDWARD and Mary SHOEMAKER. residing at Man.
hst'an->i, were severely and perhaps dangerously
burned oy the explosion of a camphene lamp which
they were filing while lighted
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

SPIRITUAL INTERCOURSE. 1t VIII De per-
ceiyed Nv an advertisement under the head OF
Special Notices" ihat ne affirmative SIDE Of 'he
question 0: modern Spiritual Intercourse Is 20 DC
presented al Hope Chapel to-Ihorro" afternoon IL
halfoast O'Clock, by one who has bestowed mAcH
attention upon the subject
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-09

DR. Morr.-We take it that the "Jr."
should hNs been attached to this name, winch We
rouced as having accepted the Char NJ Surgery N
Washington University also, that instead of Uni-
versly. the reading should have been Washington
College, OF which there are three IN the country
one at Lexington, Va, ore in Washington County,
Tenn. and one al Charleston. Md, which, with 81.
Johns College forms The University of Maryland
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03
Judge Spaulding of Ohio on the
Fugitive Slave Bill.

In recent speech at Toledo, this gentleman
expressed himself with great ability and plain
ness. The following passage is unanswera.
be;-
"The Secretary of State has claimed recent
| ly in his Buffalo speech, that the Constitution
requires that Fugitive slaves should be RETURN
Ed
Mr.. Webster is a great lawyer, but he can
not read plain English any better than you OF
me.
The Constitution has 10 such provision; and
the debates, as taken down by Mr.. Madison show
that 1t was never intended that the free States
should be subjected to the trouble or expense o.
returning the tugitivcs The Free States sim.
ply stipulated, by the adoption of the Constitu.
ton, that they would refrain from lnterposing
any hlndrance to the recovery of fugitive slaves
by their masters when they should reclaim what
they considered 10 be their property, within the
bounds of free territory.
The clause IN the Constitution is prohibition
upon the free States from interfering actively in
hehalf of the slave and it may be considered
as suspending or abrogating so much of the law
OF Nature as would give to the slave his free
dom, whenever he could plant his foot upon the
soil of free State. But it is no warrant 10
Congress to enact any law upon the subject,
least of all law that disgraces civilization. and
intlcts pains and penalties upon the free cltlzeas
in our free States, it they shall attempt to exer
else the commoneSt acts of charity
AS judicial officer in the State of Ohio,
sworn to support the Constitution of the United
States, as well as to administer justice Impair
italy between the rich and the poor, if called on
to act in the premises, would set at liberty as
many fugitive slaves, apprehended in our State,
under the late act of Congress, on habeas cor
pus believe the law TO be wholly nugatory
and void, and holding it to be clear violation
of the constitution of my country, aud opposed
to the genius of our free institutions. could
not strike down the sacred guarantees, of per-
sonal freedom, or inflct so much of a wound up
on the sovereignty and independence of the
State of Ohio as to permit U. s. officers, within
her jurisdiction to encircle with chains of iron,
either colorcd persons or CoURT HOUSES
when should be called upon to administer jus
tica
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03

the act, but the word inhabltant is used
If these words are synonymous, it does not
altar the case, for the enquiry, whether a
fugitive from labor, necessarily involves the
enquiry of citizenship. But in looking in
to the act, it will be found to authorize pro-
ceedings in cases where person is claimed,
or arrested as a slave, whether he Is an in
habitant of the state or not. In any view
which have been able to take Of the act,
if itsprovisions are enforced in case where
proceedings have beenlinstituted under the
act of congress, there will be a conflict of
jurisdiction; aud in this particular l cannot
regard the passage of the state law as ga
just exercise of power" The act, no doubt
was passed from the best of motives, and
with no intention to interfere with the pow
er OF congress, for the people of no State are
more strongly attached to the Union, or
more ready to yield willing and cheerful
obedience to the laws of the National Gov
eminent, than those of Vermont. This,
however, cannot effect the validity of the
act. l may be mistaken in my views of the
law, but cannot change the convictions
of my mind. ,..
No one can regret more than do the
course have felt it my duty to adopt
Many of my friends will be disappointed,
and, fear, some offended; but beg them
to consider whether it were not better and
more honorable to avOw my sentiments and
Withdraw from the canvass, than to remain
silent and permit hudreds to vote for me
under an entire misrepresentation Of my
views. | cannot close this communication
without an expression of gratitude to those
friends who have so cordially supported
me on many occasions; and if have not
served them with all the ability they de-
sired, | have the consolation of knowing
that never intentionally deceived them.
LUCIUS. B PECK.
Montpelier, June 90 1851.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03
Correspondence of the Evening
Post.

BosTON, June IL.
My remarks on the course OF the Boston A.
las, i'll my letter of last week, were founded on
the article in the Bee, purportlng to be copied
from the Atlas, and perhaps did that paper
some injustice. Time, however, will rectify it,
for the Alias has got to support Mr.. Webster
10 must caue in The spontaneity" will have
the effect of frightening the opponents of Mr.
Webster in this State, SO that they will take no
active Steps to defeat his nomination in the
State Convention, and as the Atlas is destitute
Of pluck, it will, as a matter Of course, run up
the Webster flag in due time The real state
of things with the wing party in Massachusetts,
now is like this.
A majority are opposed TO Mr.. Webster but,
that self sacrificing individual is so unfortunate
ly persistent in his demand for the nomination
that they are fearful he will annihate the party
| it it is with held and as the extinction of that
party is dreaded by them as the greatest earthly
calamity, they can do nothing but sit still, and
let the spOuz ride rough shod over their bare
necKs.
The Commonwealth Is doing admirably. Mr..
Lyman, who now assumes its manae cement, is a
man of fortune, and has the disposition and abil-
ity to make the Commonwealth the best paper
in Boston.
The assumptions OF Judge Sprague in the
rescue trials, have been truly startling. as they
destroy at once the value of jury trial.
tie takes It upon himself to pack Jury, and
them found not to SUIT his purpose he unpacks
it. Thus not making the Jury the creature of
law, but the creature of the Judge. Not content
with this, he instructs the Jury contrary TO all
custom and precedent, and, in violation of all
justice, that the court alone is Judge of the law,
and the application of the law. Thus the Jury
are not to find whether Lewis Hayden is guilty
of violation of law, but whether he is guilty
of an act that Peleg Sprague can const,ue into
violation of law. But, perhaps it is well, that
Judge Sprague holds the court, for less arbi-
trary and less partial judge might construe the
odious features of this odious law in way to
dlvest 1t of part OF Its niquity, which would
tend somewhat to its permanence. Sprague
has caught the spirit of the trainers of the law,
and Joins heartily with them in making it a cru
Gl and inhuman as the most hardened kidnapper
could desire. Massachusetts and Congo are
alike the hunting ground of the slave pirate, and
will be until the people return to the principles
of the Declaration of Independence.
PECAN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03

The WING STATE CONVENTION, met at Bel
lows Falls on the 25th, nominated the old State
Ticket, and finally agreed upon platform O
resolutions, adrotly calculated for getting along
while longer under the dIssensons and divis
ions which are known to exist in their ranks.
The two closing resolutions, however, al
cunningIy as their authors supposed they hat
framed them, sufficiently reveal the cloyen foot
of I1unkerlsm, to give character to the conven.
ton We think Mr. Webster must be unreal
sonably captous, if they are not satlsfac tory tc
him.
ReSOtCeG, That we are, as we ever have been,
devotedIy attached to the Union that we look
to the Courts of the United States as the true
Interpreters of the Constitution, and the Laws
OF the Nation, conlidng in their wisdom and f.
deity that we have no sympathy or toerntion
Tor the revolutionary doctrine Of secession, null.
LITIGATION, Or disuhion, in whatever quarter man.
Tested.
ReSotUed That in the moderate, and discreet
aud practicable measures recommended to Con
gress by the present national administration, and
the firm determination to repress internal disor-
der, execute faithfully the laws of the land, and
maintain lnvloate the faith of public treaties
we recognize measures and principles to which
we give our cordial appreciation and pledge a
hearty support.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03
Promptly Appreciated.

The Boston Courier, the great Webster organ
for New England, copies, with an air of triumph
an article from the Springfield Republican, an
other Wing Hunker paper, in which the editor
who was at the Bellows Falls Convention, says
he had heard and seen enough to convince hin
that NINE-TENTHs OF THE Wires OF YER.
MONT PREFER Mr.. WEBSTER TO ANY OTHER
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE"; and again, by way
Of relutlng the idea that the Wings will hesitate
to sustain the compromise, he further remarks
q" The RESOLUTIONS HAVE PUT ALL DOUBTS
AT REST"
The Courier, in another column, fully endors
es the resolutions declaring the doctrine therein
set forth to be "GoOD AND TRUE WEBSTER.
WING NATIONAL SENTIMENT" He also men.
tons, as an addition TO the good news from Yer
mont, the grounds taken by the Hon. L. B. Peck
in his letter Of DICKINSON, which seems to meet
the entire appreciation of this faithful exponent
of Wing Hunkerism.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03
Literary Notices.

The BosToN MUsEUM--This excellent
weekly miscellany is about to commence a new
volume under the most promising auspices of
increasing patronage. 1t is richly deserving of
success
The CoMMoNwEALTH,-This able political
paper has passed into the hands of Joseph I,v-
man, ESQ, who has become its sole owner and
responsible Editor John G. Palfrcy being
contributing Editor, while the services of Elizur
Wright are still retained. No paper in New
England, probably, ever obtained larger cir
culation within so short time from its establish
ment,
LITTELL's LIVING AGE has entered on a new
volume. The proprietors generously propose to
prepay the postage to all mail subscribers who
have paid their subscriptions directly to the Of
fec Of publication, and who shall hereafter sub
scribe, The work is still 6 dollars per year in
weekly numbers, and each number containing
about so pages, and always we'll filled.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03
The Last Day of Slavery:

The London Times, paper circulated over
the world. predicts the sure extinction oil Amer
lean slavery in the course of one or two genera
tons at farthest, from the ordinary progress of
human affairs. The successful culture of cot
ton in Africa. India, and New. Holland and the
recent discovery of a scientific method to convert
flax into the most beautiful, enduring iaorcsj
and yet vastly cheaper than cotton, would alone
be sufficient to extiDgdish slavery without legs
latye action or moral influence. Cotton gives
life to slavery, because the production is proiita'
BILE; when the culture becomes unproductlvej
as 1t soon must for the reasons stated, then the
very sefshness of slave owners, II no better
principle, will impel them to run from their slaves
rather than the slavesfrom them. In the meantime
as the pressure comes on, they will be preparing
to meet the exgency by colonization, by the IN.
PRODUCTION of different articles OF culture and
forms OF labor, and by emancipation OF the slaves
and converting them into free laborcrs upon their
farms and plantations, which can be profitable
only under such cultivation.
Slavery is but question OF time. 1t is scarce
ly possible to conceive that a Hundred years
hence there will not be one slave IN the United
States not to say In the whole continent oil Amer
lea. The slave owners see the ramparLs rising,
the trenches opened, the communication estab-
lished, and the blockade closing round them,
that is one day to reduce them to unconditional
surrender. We doubt not for an instant that
our children, or our children's children, will see
the chains drop in one hour from the limbs OF
three million slaves. The Fugitive Bill is only
last legislative effort against the progress OF
human affairs. Every acre added to the terrific
ry Of the Union, every free born child added to
its population, and every immigrant that lands
on its shores, is another weight to the scale Of
abolition. Then why, unless they are demented
and doomed, DO the slave overs take no steps
whatever to prepare for the great day of reckon
ing? Why do they assume the perpetual sta
bility ofan institution at variance with the whole
tenor and course of modern civilization
We do not hesitate to advise them to set their
house in order. If 1t is harder to do SO now
than 1t was seventy years back, instead of being
easier, as the great statesmen of that day hoped
and expected-if time has hitherto aggravated
rather than removed the enormous difficulties OF
the question, what will be the case thirty years
hence, when perhaps there must and will be alb
clifton without either the slave or his master be-
ing prepared for the change? The choice lies
between gradual ana sudden abolition, and it ID
for the States themselves TO choose which of the
two they will have-for one they must.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03

CHEF JUSTICE HORNBLowER pronounces the
Fugitive Slave Law Unconstitutional. We are
permitted to make the following extract from a
letter from Chief Justice Hornblowcr, to Sena-
or Chase, dated Newark, N. j., April 8, 1851.
Toledo Republican,
"Somewhere about the year 1886, fugitive
slave came before US, upon habeas corpus al
lowed by me, land it was a few days before our
regular term) made returnable at bar. On that
occasion when no such excitement existed us
now prevas,) | wrote an opinion, to the effect,
that, LIST, Congress had no authority to legislate
on the subject; I'd, whether Congress had such
power or not, no man could be deprived of a
trial by Jury, whom his personal identity, his
age, his ownership OF himself, and his obligation
TO serve another as his slave, were in issue
The opinion was not read by me from the bench
Though the amount of it was orally stated by
me- because it became unnecessary, my assoc-
ate justices uniting with me in opinion, that the
Magistrate had no right to commit" the man
claimed as a slave, as he had done, to the custo
dy of the Sheriff, for safe keeping, until his mas
Ter came for him, our jas not being built for the
safe keeping of any mans slaves, but for Grim
inals only"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-07-03

The FUeITIvE LAWN recent article no.
tcing Mr.. Websters arrogant remark that no
lawyer whose opinion was good for anything,
believed the Fugitive Slave Law unconsltution :
al, we mentioned the names OF many eminent
lawyers and judges who held that opinion as TO
the law. The Brandon wi Post quotes from
the american, and then adds
The editor of the american might have added
to the list of distinguished jurists who consider
the Fugitive Slave Act unconstitutional, the
Hon. Charles X. Williams, late Chief Justice
and now Governor of Vermont. We under
stand that Gov. Williams does not hesitate to
give his opinion that that act is unconstitutional,
and that it was that opinion among other reasons,
that induced him to approve the Habeas Corpus
Act passed by our Legislature last fall.