The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-05-13

The bill extending the time for the payment
OF duties on railroad iron by the Raleigh Rail-
road Company was then taken up.
Mr.. Jones OF Tennessee, objected to proceed
ing with business in the absence of a quorum.
motion for call Of the House was made
and negatiyed
IL was then moved that the bill lie on the
table upon which the yeas and nays were or
dered, and 1t was rejected-yeas 20, nays "a.
The House adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY, MAY 10.
The House went into Committee, Mr. Hib-
bard, OF New Hampshire in the chair. and took
up the Homestead bill
Alter various propositions to amend had
been rejected, the first section was passed as
amended ON Friday.
That portion requiring the parties to make
oath that they are not worth Ave hundred dol
lars was stricken out, to make the second agree
with the first section as already amended in
that particular
The 4th section was passed. as were the
other sections, with one or two verbal amend
ments and one proposed by the Committee on
Agriculture, providing that settlers under the
act shall as far as practicable, be limited to
alternate sections of land, and that pre-emp-
ton rights shall not be interiered with
Mr.. Florence, of Pennsylvania proposed to
amend the bill, by extending its benefits to Of
hcers and others engaged in the war of 1912.
The amendment having been negatived, Ak
were one or two others, relative to registers
and receivers of the land Offices motion pre-
vailed that the Committee rise.
The House having resumed, the Chairman
reported that the Committee had come to no
conclusion with reference to the business be-
fore it.
DRAYToN AND SAYREs-The Liberator in an
article commenting with some severity upon
MIR. Summers silence ON the slavery question
says
In January last, petition for the release
of Drayton and Sayres from their dreadful
Imprisonment in Washington signed by near
ly three hundred persons, was forwarded to
MIR. Sumner, to be laid before the Senate but
he has not yet thought proper to comply with
the wishes of the petitioners, or to give them
any reason for not doing so. We know that
they feel not less aggrieved than surprised at
| his course
We happen to know that it was from no dis
respect to the petitioners and no unworthy
personal motive, that Mr.. Sumner did not pre-
sent the petition. On consultation with sew.
eral of the Anti-Slavery members of Congress
and with persons specially interested in the
case of the unfortunate prisoners, the opinion
was unanimous that any agitation of the sub
ject in Congress at present would affect YER,
unfavorably other and more promising move
ments in the case.
Will our friends throughout the country &C
: cept from us the assurance that all that car
be done for the unfortunate men, is now bein,
done in Washington and should all this fail
we will apprize them of the fact
1t is to be regretted that MIR Sumner die
not take measures to inform the petitioners o
the disposition of their memorial, but we sub
NIT in all candor, that knowing the Sena
tors sincerity Of character, and devotion to tn,
best interests of his race, this neglect or mad
vertence cannot justify any questioning of hi
integrity.
The MArLs--On the 9th of May we received
letter from subscriber in Iowa, complain
ing of the long time it takes our paper tt
reach him Has letter ,cas mailed on the l4ii
of Aprii, and waS % days ON ITS vay 10 Wash
ington This will show him that the fault il
in the Post Office arrangements, not in ours
II is too bad, that while we can receive inteli
gence regularly from Europe in ten or twelve
days some of the States of our country canno
communicate with each other in twenty
A CORRESPONDENT writes: 81 have on
charge against you of a grave nature, viz
=, not fulfilling your promises | was going to say
= but it may be you did not quite promise. Still
= you came near promising allude to the a(
: vocacy of the election Of President and Vic
President directly by the People, subjeC
= which ! land it seems you did consider {
q great Importance We hold the same opir
d ion still and intend to discuss the subject bu
when or under what form, we cannot yet de
termine. We shall try to keep all our promises
DEATH OF MATTHEW ST. CLAIR CLARKE-
The papers of this city record the death o
Matthew St Clair Clarke, on the 9Th instant
{ after a protracted illness. He was Clerk o
the House of Representatives during the AID
ministraton of John Quincy Adams and fol
some time subsequent.
RHODE IsLAND-The Legislature was organ
lied at Newport on the 9Th A. Bosworth was
chosen Speaker of the House. A canvass OF
the votes showed that the Wing candidate for
the Office of Governor lacked 40 votes. He will
be chosen by the Legislature.
The DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION OF
New JERSEY, which met at Trenton last week
to appoint delegates to the National Convention
of that party expressed its preference for Gen.
Cass as their candidate for the Presidency.
n~"A VERMONT FARMER" tells us that
DR.. Vanderburgh il quite mistaken in his
statement about the non-sweating of oxen, pub
lshed in the Era of January 22d-" for" he
adds, 81 have seen oxen sweat very much, and
even cows"
The LEGIsLATURE OF CONNECTICUT met at
1 New Haven on Wednesday. The Governor
recommends q Convention to amend the Con-
stitution to substitute general laws as far as
may be for special legislation to limit the
hours of labor to abrogate capital punish
ment; 10 aid the common school fund by levy
ing a small tax in the school districts; to re-
| form the laws relative TO paupersm, and to
protect laborers employed In the construction
Of railroads by lien upon those works for
their labor.
The Governor is opposed to the enactment
| Of the Maine law He regards the late ad-
| justment of tho questions which had disturbed
the peace Of the country as final. He endorses
| the African colonization plan
| Tho 6ancial affairs Of the State are prOeper-