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Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

SUBMARINE EARrHouAKE.--The New York
Tribune, in noticing the return Of Bayard Tay-
lor, on board the ship Sea Serpent says:
con the night of the 18th Of October, when
in the Indian ocean, about two hundred miles
to the west of the island Of Java, the ship ex-
perienced the shock of submarine earthquake.
1t occurred about IL o'clock at night. The
sea was smooth and the vessel was sailing at
the rate of three or four knots, when loud
rumbling noise was heard, and the ship was so
violently agitated that her course was arrested
for the moment. After an interval of half q
minute, there was second shock, accompanied
with peculiar groaning and kissing sound.
The agitation was SO strong as to awaken every
one on board.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

PETER HEN, distinguished admiral in the
Dutch service, rose to that rank from a cabin
boy, and in desperate conflict with the Span
iards was killed in a moment Of victory. Their
high mightinesses, in respect to his valor, sent
deputation to condole with his mother upon
the loss of her son. The old woman was found
in her original obscurity at Delft and, in her
simplicity, replied to the deputies: ~ always
foretold that Peter would perish like a miser-
able wretch that he was; he loved nothing but
rambling from one country to another and now
he has the reward of his folly
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

DEATH OF Mrs. BETHLAND FooTE BUTLER
On Friday evening, the I'd instant, at halfpast
o'clock, this aged matron and remarkable
woman breathed her last at the residence OF
her son, and only surviving child, the Hon. A.
p. Butler. Mrs. Bethland Foote Butler was
the relict of Gen. VIM. Butler of the revolution.
She had lived through the dark and perious
days of her country's history, had witnessed
the career of that country's greatness in all its
mutations had come down to the fourth gene
ration of American freemen, full ofthose honors
which ever cluster around the brow of fearless
integrity, and fell asleep at last with calm
ness and confidence characteristic only of one
who has led a long life of probity and useful
ness. She was born in Virginia, in the year
1854, but had lived from early youth in this
section of South Carolina. She had nearly
reached the advanced age of 80, when the de-
cree went forth that the measure of her duties
was full and the servant was called to her re.
ward.
We feel conscious of no exaggeration, when
we say that Mrs. Butler was one of the most
extraordinary women of her time. She was
an unfaiing friend Of the poor, firm monitor
OF the needless, devoted patriot, and an hum
bic believer in Christ. Her mind was active
and discriminating, her judgment sound, her
impulses noble, and her fortitude unbending
Thus constituted, she was at once the stern
guardian Of her household, and a genuine or
nament of society. But we designed no eulo-
CYSTIC remarks at this time. The duty Of por-
traying the strong aud elevated character Of
our subject will be pleasing and a useful one
TO some other writer. And we trust il will be
done in a manner which shall properly pre-
serve for posterity so striking an exemplar.
Peace be with the ashes of the dead There
has passed away here one Of the very last of
the women of the revolution.
Edgefeld advertiser, sd inst.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

Hay" Mr.. Epraim Paulk, Of Bangor, in con-
nexion with gentleman of Boston, has re-
Gently purchased the fee of two old French
seignoiries, amounting to about one hundred
and eighty thousand acres on the rivers 81.
Lawrence and Ristigouche, in the British pro
vinces. It is not often that the fee can be OBJ.
tanned TO the lands in the provinces, except bv
the purchase of these old French grants.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

HeA. The editors Of the New Orleans Pea
yune, speaking of the "model subscriber to
that paper says:
We have on our subscription list the name
of one gentlemen, who has taken the Weekly
Ptcayune ever since 1889, and has not once,
during that whole period, that we remember,
found fault with the appearance or contents of
the paper, or complained Of being irreguarly
served by the mails. He paid his first years
subscription in advance, and has not paid any
thing SINCE"
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

B@- country paper says: "When you see
a girl so weak that she can't sweep her seven.
by-nine chamber, but can go and dance all
night with the power of locomotive, make up
your mind that she is got up on bad princii-
PIES The sooner you take your hat and de-
part, the better. Such sort of calico has beeu
the ruin of many a man. -.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24
PETITIONS.

by Mr.. FLORENCE: The petition of officers Of the navy
of the grades of boaswans gunner carpenters
and almakers praying Congress to pass law to increase
the compensation paid to them.
by Mr.. ELLISON: The petition Of Captain Samuel Ross
Of Clermont county, Ohio, for pension.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

INDIAN CoRS.-A correspondent Of the AL.
bany Caitipato,l says as the result Of some ex-
ccllent experiments that farmers should not
select the largest ears for seed, but rather those
that grow nearest the ground.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-12-24

beA- The editor of the Clinton Courant says
the MAN in the Moon" is sitting up O nights
with the !" Lady O. the Lake, Should they
marry, "Childrcn of the Mist" will follow, Of
course.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31
Frankly Stated.

The Ffeeman's Journal, Of New York,
Bishop Hughes's organ, states the despntlc
principle of Roman Catholicism as follows
81 would conclude by saying that it is
easy to show that, while the Catholic Coz
ernment of the entirely Catholic commun-
ION Is not bound, in order to be consistent
to its principles to tolerate any othtr relig-
lous teaching, the Protestant State, though
having no Catholics established in its realms,
could not. without denying the essential
principles Of Professionalism, oppose the in
PRODUCTION of Catholicity or any other re-
ligion."
federation is the law Of Professionalism;
Intolerance is the law of Catholicism This
is true. But the Journal had not ought
not To con6ne itself to a negative. If the
Church of Rome be infaIIible, i, is not on
ly not bound to tolerate any form Of belief
pronouncedby it heretical, but it is bound to
suppress it by all the means at its disposal.
The Shepherd of the Valley, a Catholic
paper OF the West, states the case frankly
"Heresy and unbeIief are crimes, that
is the whole OF the matter and in Christ
ian countries. as Italy and Spain, for in-
stance, where all the people are Catholic,
and where the Catholic religion is an essen.
Ial part OF the law of the land, they will be
punished as other crimes Here the law
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31
The Jerry Rescue" Trials.

The trials Of the persons indicted for aiding
n wear or two since, In the rescue of the slave
Jerry, at Syracuse, came off recently at Albany
The great efforts on the part of the late Adam
~iistration to produce convictions under the law o
1850, seem TO have been unavailing. In these
cases there was but one conviction, aud hat un'
der the old law and not under the law Of 1850
The course of Judge Hall in these trials is Sc
press. The Knickerbocker a Wing paper, says
1.-THE Jerry rescuers have beeh tried one by
one. Everything has been set to enmesh then
with legal quabblcs, but the vindictiveness o.
Counsel and the pa%rtiality OF the Bench have
been contravened by the honesty that chance
placed in the Jury box. How mortified at thi,
unexpected, unwished-for result must the spur
mish soul of Uriah feel! His power has swaye'
IN vain. The venerable Ma ~ris,rate, who but d
year or so since, was quietly seated on the bencf
of that Court, as he thought, and everybody hat
reason to think, and to wlsh-for life, has beer
bundled off to the nolsome atmosphere of a trop
ic Court, in order that his place might be glvel
to one who would willingly subserve the evl
prolnp,Ings of Uriah's nature.
Judge Conkling was a sound lawyer and al
honest man. He was ruled by his judgmen
and did not move upon the winklng OF authority
None of the Rescue cases wuuld have lived Ill
to day had he been continued in office and THU
is juet the reason why he was put out OF Office
and N. X. Hall put in. With every advantage
against the Jerry Rescuers, what is the resul
of these prosecutions? Only one mana poo
negro-has been convicted, and his conviction
rests upon a violation, not of the Fugitive Slave
Law, nor Of any solitary provision of that enact
ment, but on he act of 1890, which provides 70
the punishment OF any enc who %rescues, or at
tempts to rescue a person under arrest by an,
process issued by the Courts of the Unite
States,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31

The ORDINANDE OF 1878 AND THE LATE
BLACK LAW OF fLLINoIs.-,The Jefferson Ord
finance, which has been regarded as the grea,
bulwark OF Liberty to the Western States, must
now be overthrow and ~trampIed under foot. or
the late black law of Illinois must be a nudity.
That Ordinance, expressly embracing all the U.
8. Territory north Of the Ohio River, declares:
"There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than
in the punishment Of crimes, whereof the party
shall have been duly convicted"
The law Of Illinois ltnost clearly contravenes
this Ordinance, and one or the other must fall.
The Supreme Court of the United States will
not probably be permitted to dodge the question
which may yet constitute an issue that shall
shake this nation to its centre.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31

QUESTIONS tt BE ANswERED.-The Clncin-
natl Nonpnlel puts forth the following pertinent
questions and requires them to be ans wer.d:
|. Can any man be a Christian and not de
sire the highest possible good to his race?
=. Can IL man be a true Cnrl4tlan and no,
labor for the heighesl good Of his species?
3. Cfn any nan be a true Christian while he
knows that thousand around lin-lilile children
too are gong to ruin toc lack of that which
he has the power to supply?
4. Can any man be Il true Christian and moi
dedicate al the means which his supply does
not require, to the good Of those who cannon OBJ
tam n sufficient supply?
D Can any man be a true Christian while
manipulating the wealth OF the world, knowing
that the more he gets The more difficult II Is ioi
others to get a supply
b. Can any man be a true Christian and live
IN extravaganza While the p,or l.Ire IN want,
fea sting hlnseif wti!e others stsrve
Z. Can IA ma or woman be a true Christian
ana not labor tor his or her lvlne?
9. Can any woman he a true Christian and
spend her time ~ dressing auj Hdnrulng her
person aud visiting whiI4 her servant Is doomed
to excessive labor IN ~priyalion and RAYS, and
ought she not TO share The burdens OF her poor
sister and be to her an administering spirit
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31
From the Anti Slavery Standard.
"A Chiefs amang We

1t is, perhaps, one of the Uncle Toni
tudes' that of the mul!itudes who are con.
%stantly passing through the Slave States,
many now keep their eyes about them for
observations upon the slave system, with a
sincere desire to see, not what it is moi,
but what it is. OF these notes by the way,
many get printed, and we should hardly
have room for anything else if we copied
all that is said by 'our own correspondent,
who goes over the countryfrom the Maryland
line to the Cult of Mexico, from the Ohio
to the Rio Grande. Such facts as are re-
lated by these new thousand Witnesses
have been for many years presented to the
public in Anti.Slavery journals, aud to that
degree that we are surprised, upon having
occasion, recently, to turn over the back
volumes of the STANDARD with reference to
this subject. to find how much illustrative
OF the character of Slavery had been collec.
ted. OF course, we rejoice that new ,es,i.
mony to The same purpose is coming for.
ward, and that a new and larger jury is EN-.
%pannelled to sit upon the case. Southern
Vlgllencr Committees will find it impossi.
bic to prevent the collection of The evidence,
Tor even be whoruns may read, and a man
with his eyes open will see something worth
recording, though he may stop only long
enough in a Southern city for a steamboat,
to land or take in freight, and have barely
time enough for a walk of an hour or two.
As witness a correspondent of the Chicago
Times, who says of Memphis, Tenn:
IL landed at tins place Christmas morning
The first thing that met my eye, standing on a
high bank facing The liver, was the following
inscription IN laIge letters, upon a fine building,
with piazza and pillars in front :" Bolten. Dick
ems 81 Co. Slave Dealers In addition to this,
| soon found two Others on one of the principal
streets 10 the city, situated nearly opposite to
each other Tbe sign Of one reads thas : Byrd
Hill, Slave market the other, Eeu Little.
Slave Market g. Livery Stablcs | visited them.
ana was invited TO walk liz and look at the
stock Oil how my whole being rscoiled at
the thought, There were men and women, girl.
and boys, OF almost every shade of complexion
ranging IN age from ten to thirty or forty, al
well dressed, as you see no other slaves, excep
some favored body servants. Some of The best
looking young women we're attired in beautlfu
dc lame, made IN the fashion too. When an,
stranger goes IN, they are quickly arranged upon
seats on either side of the room, and they wa,ct
with interest any one they suppose intends t.
huy. VI course, you can examine teeth, limbs
&c, and call for any exercises from hem vol
choose. They ale taken out every day and
walked around in a large circle--the men an,
boys under one leader and the females undeI
another. ! was not permitted to look into theil
place OF confinement for the night, but only sav
the grated window. Near by are horses ant
mules for sale, and they are fat and sleek. be.
cause in the market. For the same reason were
these men and women well dressed"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31
An Approaching Crisis in the
Affairs of California.

Slavery still continues the struggle for q
foot-hold on The Pacific. 1t would extend
lis empire from ocean to ocean, So as to se.
cure for itself whatever territorial acouisi
lions may be hereafter made our Souther,
border. Hitherto its advocates in Califor.
MA have worked steal,hily, cIoakiug their
design, as we have often said, under a de.
mand merely Tor a revision of the Ccns,i.
luton but they are growing bolder. as the
time tor decisive action approaches. rhev
now announce that their object is the diyi.
SION OF the State; and this move. if sue.
c%essiul, they are confident will secure their
Interior design. Territorial Governmen,
tor Southern California, and land and labor
monopoly would follow, as things of course.
We regret 10 see. by late arrivals from
San Francisco, that the Senate have agreed
to a report, recommending an appropr,a.
ton OF SlOO,O 600 to deiry the expenses Of
a state Convention on the subject. II was
to be acted upon in the Assembly. which
1t was feared, would concur in the meas
, ure.
As throwing additional light upon the
state Of things, in the new State, we pub
lIsh the following extract of a letter, IRON
"A highly intelligent gentleman in San Fran
CISCO, dated Jan. 3lst, to friend in this
city
Will regard to The old parties, they
are both corrupt, hopelessly corrupt. Boll
are conir lied by the pro.sIavsry spirit
By the connivanc, of their leaders. the
South has a large majority in both branch.
es of our Legislature. The f~avorite prof.
ect of the South is to divide the State
knowing that the southern part must fall
back under a Territorial Government. -
While thus situated, they will fill it with
slaves, and when they adopt a State Consti.
tuition, that instrument must protect the in.
stitution. This is known to the leaders OIL
both parties, yet neither would suffer their
Candidates to be INTERCEPTED on the sub.
lect OF a division of the State, previous to
the election The consequence is, we have
v" the lover branch Of the Legislature. 80
members from the south (of The clothes
nhe' and ~ from the north, true native
Ca'i'ornians, who favor the division of The
n'a'e' n OF the others, | have not We,
'ssfned their former residence. You will
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31

MORE SLAvEHoLDING lNIoUITy.-The
Washington correspondent of the AshtabH-
la Sentinel, (Hon. J. R. Glddings,) writ
ing from tle capitol IN the 4th inst, tells
the fqIia.A.j sdA.i~~.lin..-..se ~ ,ac do
mination 4 The slave.power =
l think Il was Oh Friday last that an eff.
fort was made to suspend the rules Of the
House, in order to take up the private
claim Of Benjamin Hazard Wigg, of S.
Carolina, whose grandfather, in 1850, lost
ninety-six slaves. This claim, from its ex.
traordInary character, is destined to figure
somewhat in The political history OF our
times, and individuals who came forward TO
distinguish themselves BY sustaining it, are
justly entitled to all the honor or disgrace
attending such an act; but | cannot now
60 into a description of it.. The motion
failed however at that time. " n n "
On Wednesday, every member appear.
cd to feel the danger of losing the appropri-
alton bills for want of time to pass them
The Mtetigenecr came out with a long ar
ticle, purportIng to be written by a lady, in
favor the Wigg claim before alluded to, and
the older members foresaw that that bill
was to pass. In the course of the day, the
motion was made to suspe ID the rules of
the House, aud all other business, both prI-
yate and public, in order TO take up this
claim. A herald passed around among the
members, informing them that the motion
was about to be made This was to give
the doughfaces an opportunity to vamose be-
fore the question was put, and you will see,
by looking at the yeas and nays, that they
took the alarm. The yeas and nays on
suspending the rules and all other business
were called, and the names of men were
recorded for the motion, who, in coming
time. will reg,e, the STAN they have thus
brought upon their wi characters by such
disgraceful seryllity. But the bill passed,
and your readers are constrained to pay for
slaves who left their masters in South Car.
DINA seventy years since, while thousands
of Northern men lost their all, by furnish
ing the army with supplies, and taking their
pay in Cnntinep,ial funds. The nation re-
pudlales its jus, claims, but pays for slaves.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31
G0itor's Gable.

WESTERN LITERARY MEs>ENGER.-ThIs
chastc, morally healthy and exceedingly inter
estlng monthly magazine. edited by J. Clement.
and publ he'd BY our oil friend Jewett Il ca !,
at Batflio, Al $3.50 per year. begnn It's 20 h
volume in NJ ,fcn. in II new AMI neat dress, with
promise Of increasing excellence. Oar FAINT,
deem 1t one Of the very best of the nnmeron.
exchanges Of the kind whlcl we bring into tn
house.
FoRREsrEa's BOYS AND Girls MAGAZINE for
VI ,rci, p~ihIIshed b, + & &. Z Rand. Bosom.
a Sl,00 per ANNA IN advance, is before us, and
an interesting nlmber 1t is to,, of this mos, N
teresting work. We can hardly conceive how
a paren, # children fro u seven to f~lu,teen can,
At he SINE yic", better furnish pleasure and
instruction far them ihan by subscribing for this
deIlgh ia little monthly.
PUTNAM's MAGAZINE for April has already
reached US. Among the rich table nf contents
are. another eIlh'r1te article addnc,na f,rthp,
proof thar Rev Z. Williams is the lost D,uphio
az interesting account of u visit 10 Pouocst, NOT
the far fatned. towering ~vrlcanic mouniain i.
Mexicn, By n conpany OF nffi crs, in lS4S. III,
first from the United Sta'cs who ever assembled
this terrific nnuntain, which rises 1886 feel
above the level Of Tho sea, being n. highest bu,
one on the NMrric,n continent,
Mr. Putnam's work is so different. and A.
much better and every wav more vaIuabIa tina,
yonr common frippery ptrlnr mprtzinas. like
Graham's, &c., that it must soon drive the wbol,
brood fton the market. and S, mote it be.
The CAPTIVE IN PATAGONIA. or Life smono
The Giants. bang the adventures of B F. B urn
a shlpwrecked Californian. Published nv Gould
u Lincoln, Bns'nn 22s pages, price from so t
70 cents. This authentic narrative of Captair
Bnurn's residence among this race of Indians
the largest people IN the void, averaging ss
aud a half feet he says. makes one of the mos
J interesting books we have lately read.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31

The editor of the Albany Journal, in com
m%enting upon the Address of the new Pres
ident, SAYS:
Gen Pierce has no synpathies or asplra-
tons in favor of emancipation. tie does
not even regard human Slavery az an evil,
differing in this respect, not only VITA the
gifted statesmen of other nations, but with
Washington, jefferson. Madison, his lllns'-
rlous predecessors. 1t is painful 70 see a
President of the United States who does
not, in the nineteenth century of Christian
civilization, look forward TO a hope when.
by some just, wise aud peaceful means, this
great and glorious republic will achieve
universal emancipation.