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strife. Here mu7t needs come Cora Montgom-
cry, the wife OF General Cazneau. of Texas
writing bds bteu nonsense from New York
about that which she calls " this intensely vital
Southern question Let the GOOD woman
know that she is about as well instructed upon
her side OF the matter as the Beecher woman
would pretend TO be on the other WHY had
the Lennon case been brought before the Su.
preme Court Of Louisiana, the Supreme Court
OF Louisiana would have decided precisely as
Judge Paine has-unless, indeed Il had been
made known to them fact in geography.
which is new to us viz: that the only route
from Virginia to New Orleans is via N York
IL IS only when the slave escapes into a free
State, that the Constitution, and the laws under
It, aid the master in his recovery. IL the slave
be voluntarily taken to free country by the
master, that slave becomes free; and, being
once tree but TOR moment our laws cannot
make him slave again. We have decided
this over and over. The case Of Maria rs
Generis was the case where Generis had pur-
chased a woman born slave, but who had
been allowed by her master to work in Indiana.
Subsequently, he took her to Louisiana. sold
her to Generis; she became dissatisfied with
her condition, sued for her freedom. and OBJ
tanned it, So in the case of Mary Louisa us.
Marot where the plaintiff had been taken to
France to wait upon weak mistress. On her
return here, she sued for her freedom, and OBJ
tanned it,
True our Legislature made an act to correct
these decisions; but such an act is unconstitu-
tional, and no honest judge, with grain Of
regard for law, would dare say it was binding
on him. No complaint has come from the
South, about the decision of Judge Paine but
it is the North and Mrs Cora Montgomery
Cazneau who tell us that somebody has knocked
a chip off our hat, and that sour citizen right
of Interstate transit is in danger. Good
madam, inform yourself upon the law. The
Lennon case is a sad one, doubtless, for the
owner, but she alone is interested A little
study OF geography and ten dollars to law
yer, would have saved her this trouble
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OHIO LAND REFORM RESOLUTIONS.

In the Senate, on Monday, Mr. Chase pre-
scented the resolutions of the Legislature of
Ohio, in favor of free grants to actual settlers
and said
Ear President The bill which has passed
the House of Representatives known as the
Homestead Bill, is perhaps the nearest approx
nation to the wish of the Legislature of Obia
which is attainable during the present session.
That bill has been reported from the Commit
tee on Public Lands and now lies on the table
of the Senate
wish merely to say, upon presenting these
resolutions, that have submitted none during
lay service here, with more tntsigned pleasure
fully accord with their whole doctrine, al
though believe it is not contained in the plat
firm Of any national political organization,
except that whose Convention met at Pitts
burgh.
The resolutions propose to arrest the dispo-
sition Of the public lands by SALE They pro-
pose, also, what is of more Importance at the
present moment, the free grant of the public
lands TO actual settlers, in the several States
where the lands lie A more beneRcent
more wise a more just measure, in my judg-
ment, has never been commended to the con-
sideration of the American Congress Upon
Gil occasions shall give it my hearty support;
and | rejoice that the Legislature Of nay ewn
great State has been the first to recommend it.
by strong vote, to the National Legislature.
Mr. Walker. Wisconsin is ahead of you.
Mr.. Chase. My friend from Wisconsin
suggests that Wisconsin is ahead of Ohio in
this matter. hope that Land Reform is not
one of those doctrines which have been mod-
fed in that State, by the lapse of time and
other influences, under which the Senator told
us, awhile since, the condition Of public senti.
ment in Wisconsin has been changed upon
other questions.
As the subject of these resolutions is already
before us, ! move that they be laid on the
table and printed for the use of the Senate
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mended 70 the attention Of Congress. The Sec
Rotary e'hcurs in the opinion that the Naval
Asylum should he removed from Philadelphia
TO Annapolis or Norfolk
The Naval Observatory is referred to with
appreciation.
The return Of Lieutenant Gilliss with rich
contributions to science is noticed and his re-
port promised.
Professor Espy is making commendable pro
gress IN his meteorological observations.
Sundry other topics Of minor interest are ad-
verified TO-
The concluding portion Of the report is de.
voted to the expenditures and estimates of OK
penditures of the Department for particulars
Of which we refer to the report itself
Republic
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To THE READERS OF THE EZRA.

Moro h"n ten years ago, tho undersigned left a
girl in Ohio, named ANN ELIzABETM RUTHERFORD.
Only once since then have they heard from her. 1t
was said that she was at the tmo, teaching school
in the north part of Ohio, but they unable to
learn hor particular location. Should any person
who may read this in the Era know anything of her
if they will write to the subscriber Cochrans Grove
post office, Shelby county Illinois they will confer
lasting favor on her anxious friends. She may pos
sibly be married, and thus be known by some other
name. If she is living, she is about thirty years
old RORERT RUTHERFORD
Doe Ii MARGARET RUTHERFORD
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
rHrRrr-sreoSD CONGRESS = SECOND SESSION
SENATE.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7.

SENATE.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER I.
Mr. Clemens gave notice of a Joint resolu-
ton comforting on Major General Winfield
Scott the rank of Lieutenant General by breyet.
Mr.. Adams introduced bill to prevent un-
authorized banking in the District of Columbia
A message was received from the House, with
a resolution providing for election of Chaplains,
which was taken up, and cOncurred in.
The Senate then proceeded to the election OF
Chaplain, and the Rev. c. Nj. Butler (Episco-
pail receiving q votes out of 40 given, was de-
| clared duly elected Chaplain.
The resolution TO defer the credentials OF the
hon. Archibald Dixon Senator elect from the
State OF kentucky, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Hon Henry Clay, which
went into effect on September ist 1852, to a
select committee OF five Senators, was taken up
Much discussion followed when, without
taking the question, the senate adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8.
MIR Hale appeared in his seat to-day.
Mr.. Chase gave notice of a bill ceding to
Ohio all the unsold lands in that State
Mr.. Clemens introduced q joint resolution
authorizing the President to confer the rank Of
1t. General by breyet for meritorious services
Mr.. Gwln gave notice of bill granting land
for the construction of railroad from the Mis-.
sissippi to the Pacific.
The Kentucky contested election case was
then taken up, The question being about tC
be taken op the amendment allowing Mr.
Dixon TO be sworn, the Chair submitted to the
Senate the question whether MIR. Meriwether'
name should be called or not
A long debate followed, and finally the
whole subject was postponed till Monday next
Mr.. Gwin submitted resolution directing
the Committee on Finance to report all the ap
preparation bills before January next with the
exception of the Civil and Diplomatic bill
Bill amended by House, granting a register
to the bark Kate Wheeler, was passed.
The House bill making appropriations to-
bringing the votes for President and Vice Pres
ident to the seat Of government was taken W
and passed The Senate then adjourned
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9.
After the presentation of some Executive
documents, the Senate proceeded TO consider Il
resolution submitted by Mr.. Hale, to rescnd
the rule passed on the 2Sth of March, 1880
against according to members dying during
the recess the same honors conceded to thos,
who die during the sessions. After some de
bate, 1t was lost-yeas ID, nays 80.
The Senate, after short time spent in Ex
ecutive business adjourned till Monday.
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For the National Era.
JANUARY.
BY MISS ALICE CAREY.

Winds, stirring through the pinetops high,
Or lowering on the oceans breast,
Blow softly on the ways that lie
Sloping and Frightening toward tho West.
Blow softly, for my thoughts would sweep,
Upon your still and beauteous waves,
Back to the woodlands green and deep,
Back to the fresides and the graves
The fresides of the rosest glow,
The graves wherein my kindred rest
Winds of the Northland, softly blow,
And bear mo to tho lovely West
There linger sweetest voices yet,
That ever soothed from grief its pain;
There glow the hills with suns long set
Aud there my heart grows young again.
As the dead days, unswathed and white,
In beauty from the dust arise,
The days when distances of light
Met the blue border of the skies
The hope which in the crIm.oning boughs
Shpt up her wings dim years away,
Sits with her wan and crownless brOws
Leaned on the sodded grave to-day,
For when the last sweet vision died
She nursed for me, there fell a night
Cloudy and black enough to hide
Her smiles almost eternal light
When, whistling to the whining winds,
The year went tracking through the snow
Ny heart was comforted with friends
Gone on the last long journey now
Who in the middle heavens can Wow
The noontide sun without sigh
A yearning for the faded dew
Where mornings broken splondors lie.
And from the glory up above,
My eyes como down to earth, and mark
Tho pain, the sorrow for lost love-
Tho awful transit Of the qsrI
..,.at .s.siut -. g." '"
Weak and unworthy, still live,
Harvcsts and plentoous boughs to see
Ny God how good thou art to give
Such blessings as have, to mo
o add to those all ncedful grace
Divide me from that proud dsdain,
Climbing against the sunless base
OF an. eternity of pain.
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THE LENNON CASE,

The Union has suddenly become dumb on
the Lennon Outrage" 30 called--not word
about it for the last two weeks. 1t went off
halfcocked and missed its aim.
Opinions are divided in Virginia. In the
Richmond (va.) Enquirer able writer's take
opposite views of the decision of Judge Paine.
One of them, over the signature of State Rights,
argues that the law of New York does not oon
fict with the Constitution of the United States
"The laws of Virginia allow any one to hold
slaves in Virginia, ) but she could not allow
any one to hold slaves in New York. II she
could, q citizen Of Virginia would possess a
right in New York, which a citizen of New
York would be deprived Of by the laws of that
State. ! believe it is nowhere commended that
a citizen can take the local law with him, but
must be subject to the laws of the place he is
in confess my inability to understand clear
ly who has right TO make citizens if the
States have not Ii is submitted to by Congress,
for every negro in Massachusetts ia just AZ
much represented as any white person in Yir-
ginia This law Of New York is the same 10
principle as the laws of the United States,
which prevent the importation Of slaves from
Cuba or elsewhere A slave taken few
niles-say from Cuba into Florida--is free the
moment he touches the shore, because he is
carried there unlawfally yet property in him
is acknowledged in both places
The Daily Qrleanian Of the 97th ult, pub
lished at New Orleans, administers sharp re-
buks to tho Slavery agitators. We commend
its words to tho cotton merchants of New York,
and TO Northern toadies generally
Agitak.-Here they arc, going of again,
these newspapers ut half.cock, about the de-
cision Of Judge Paine, in New York, in the case
OF Louis Napoleon, E. m. c., Us. lennon. How
earnest Me letters and scribblers fJ4 newspa-
Pers, at the North, do seem TO BIO in stirring up
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DEATH.

Died near Newcastle. Lawrence county, Pa,
on the morning of the 9Th ult., JOHN moore
aged about 81 years.
In the death of Mr. Moore the Presbyterian
church has lost a member Of more than forty
years standing; tho Temperance reform, it's
first advocate in Chenango township the Anti
Slavery party its first voter ut the polls where
he resided and the down-trodden and imbruted
slave, true friend
On the Goth of last April he buried his aged
companion. Consumption removed them both
from earth, to higher enjoyments at Gods right
hand
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Wings in this county since the election Of 1s4s'
and very confidently refers TO the National Era
for his authority.
On examining your table of the "Oficial
Vote of Ohio in the last Era, | find you have
put the Wing vote too small, by 300, while you
have stated the vote Of the other two parties
correctly.
The official vote Of Mahoning county at the
last two Presidential elections, is as follows.
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or Shields; and that have within few days,
received information from tile most reliable
sources, that the far greater portion of Scandi-
nayian voters in Chicago as well as throughout
the whole country voted for General Franklin
Pierce and Hon. William r. King Yes, feel
warranted in saying that not a tenth part Of
them voted for any other candidates.
Perfectly satisfied with the ample and hon.
orable evidences with which the Democratic
press has furnished me, of the success which
attended my efforts in behalf of the Democratic
candidates during the last Presidential cam
paign, cannot bat smile at the contrary opin-
ION expressed by the editor Of the Chicago
Citizen. Respectfully, G. c, HEBBr
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OFFICIAL VoTE OF KENTUcKY.-The vote of
Kentucky was counted by the Board of Exam
liners, at Frankfort on Monday Of last week,
ana the following is the rsblt:
For Scott and Graham 57,le8
For Pierce and King $4,000
For Hale and Julian goo
Maj. for Scott over Pierce 300
The vote of Whitley county, not being Off
cially returned, was not included in the above
count With the reported majority for Scott
in Whitley, added to the above, SCOTS majority
in the State would be 1915.
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NEW YORK EVENING PGSI

We publish the prospectus of the Evening
Post in this weeks Era. We like the Post,
and expect always to read it with profit and
pleasure, 1t advocated General Pierce, but de-
nounced the platform, and maintained its An
ti-Slavery bearing 1t is prepared to support
his administration, too, but in the hope (falla-
cious, we think that it will not be pro-savery
Should it be disappointed, it will be honest
enough to say so, and able enough to make its
dissent formidable
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VoTEs Nor RETURNED-A friend, writing
from Carbondale, Luzerne county, Pennsylva-
MIA, says that 79 votes were polled in that
county for Hale and Julian, but no record of
them is found in the returns 1t is not improb-
able that the Free Democratic votes of some
other counties were omitted Sixteen are put
down as having cast none. Will our friends in
these counties inform US on this pointl
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"a GooD WAY OF ADvERTIsING.--lt has been
announced that new novel was about to be
commenced in the National Era by Mrs Stowe,
to be called Mark Sutherland After this
paragraph is well copied, tbe alteration is
made that it 10 from the pen Of Mrs. South
worth, not Mrs, Stowe. This is commencing
the campaign under false colors plain enough"
The foregoing paragraph is from the Con-
nectcut Courant, paper with which the Era
has never exchanged, 1t charges US with having
advertised a new story by Mrs. Stowe and then,
when the advertisement had been well copied,
having corrected it by stating that the story
was to be from the pen of Mrs. Southworth,
not Mrs Stowe, Wore we capable of such
irickery, we should be no better than the editor
of the Cot.rdnt, whose charge is as false az it is
mean Our readers very well know that the
only advertisement we have ever mace Of the
story referred TO- il the following, which has
appeared in the Fra for the last two weeks
ANEW WORK By MRS soyTHwoRTH.
We shall commence IN the first number of
the next volume of the Era, q new story by
Mrs SOuthworth, which will run through q
quarter or third Of the volume, entitled as
follows:
MARK SUTHERLAND:
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cASFIELD, MAHoNIsG Co, Pa,
December o, 1882.
To the Editor of the National Era:

10 me Editor OF inc Ndi0nM Era:
SIR The. Era Of the 18th ult. contains y
letter from your correspondent OF Goshen
township, Of thia county, in which he exuts
over the result Of the recent Presidential cleo
ton in that township inasmuch rs the Free
Democracy have, ~ he properly CLAIMS, ia
that given ' BY tho came party arp1 IN is4s Very
well--but the Wings have done better still
In tho same township, and for the same period
the Wings increased their vote rising, Of las
per cent. And this morning Free Soil friend
greots me very oomplaoently, with the remark
that his party has increased largely on tho
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MARK SUTHERLAND:
POWER AND PRIHcItLE
ATALE FOUNDED ON FACTS.

The author has furnished us with the fol.
lowing outline Of its contents.
"This story illustrates, among other things
the genius of American Institutions in develop
ing and recommending native talent in all ranks
of society, shown in the history of planters
son, who, giving up his patrmony for con-
science sake sets outupon life Of toll and self.
denial, and through many early trials, advcn,
lures, and suferings, carves his way to merit
cd honos."
The subject is one of peculiar interest to our
readers.
The Courant comes TO us desiring an es-
change. We can have nothing to DO with q
man so reckless Of truth and decency as the
editor Of that paper
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