The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-08

Clerk Of Court Of AppeaLs-Thomas G. Frost,
of Oneida
The Convention was quite enthusiastic. Ad-
journed sine de
This is the telegraphis report. We shall
publish the proceeding in full next week.
CATHOLIC VIEW OF SLAVERY.
RIcHIBUcTo, JuIy IL. 1853.
p. DoNAHoE, Esq. Please answer the follow.
ing questions lst Can Catholic be slave
holder ID Can he receive the sacraments
while engaged in the traffic of slaves
A SUBSCRIBER
To the LIST. He can. The mere holding of
slaves is not unchristian. The notion that Sla-
very per Sc, is contrary to the natural or divine
law is absurd ID. The external traffic-that
is, the African trade-is forbidden by the
Church as well as by the State. The internal
trade-that is the business Of carrying them
in droves from State to State-is business in
which no Christian would be engaged The
mere private purchase or sale of slave is not,
OF course, improper, per Sc. 1t might be wrong
on account of some unchristian circumstance
connected with it, such as the wanton separa-
ton Of families, or the ignoring of the marriage
tie, would be. 1t would simplify this matter
very much, if people would reflect that when
slave is held or sold, it is not the person, but
the labor, of the slave that is sold IN
Boston Pilot.
If this is not Jesuitism, what isl re lit is not
the person, but the labor, of the slave, that is
sold, how comes it that Slavery is perpetuated
from generation to generation
ERRATA-In Mrs. Stoves letter, on our first
page several inaccuracies occur. In the first
paragraph, fourth line, for accessions," read
accessories " third paragraph thirtieth line
for "a religieuse dress" read I" the dress of
religeuse;" fourth paragraph, sixth line, for
Stanbach read Staubach;n forty.sixth
line, for "they still oeeur, read the former
still occur; )" fortyeighth line, for "as bride,'
read "like BRIDE" eighth paragraph, for
"amberge," read "auberge, )" twenty-iourth
paragraph, second line, for "gran Schnidich,"
read "grand Scheidich !" thirtieth paragraph
for Rosenlane," read Rosenland" Several
other minor errors occur, but the reader will
readily correct them.
THE WHOLE WORLDS TEMPERANCE Con-
vENTIos, met in New York on the Let instant
Among the active mepAbsrs were Rev. Mr. Hig-
ginson, John Pierpont Mrs Nichols, p. T. Bar
mum, Horace Greeley Lucretia Mott, c. C.
Burleigh, Lucy Stone, Frances d. Gage, DR.
Harriet X. Hunt Rev. Antonette l.. Brown, Ed
ward Webb, and Mrs Mary jackson, dele
gate from England.
Hon Mrs. NoRToN---A letter of MIR Ben
smin Moran, to the Philadelphia Daily Regis.
minister county courts, (England) ut the suit of
u carriage-builder against the husband of Mrs
Norton, for bill of f4s 6 sterling From the
testimony at the trial, it appears that Mrs.
Norton has been separated from her husband
since the year 1899, charged by him with inn
proper intercourse with the late Lord Mel
bourne, with an allowance Of f4O0 per annum,
of which he is In arrear with her TO the amount
of 1857, los, and refuses to pay. IL turned
out in the investigation, that MIR. Norton holds
his wfes copyrights, and receives IL, 1000 q
year from them; that bis own income is about
$4,000, whereupon he refuses to pay her even
her f40O, awarded to her at the time of the
separation. His name is George Chapel Nor
ton, and his title, Honorable! The English
common law is pretty thing.
DANIEL T. WOODWARD was executed in the
Jail yard of this city on Friday last He made
no confession, Although the execution was
nomnally private, yet hundreds of men, women,
and children, crowded the windows, roofs, and
eminences near the Jail to behold the snectacle
of seeing fellow mortal hanging by the neck
until he was dead.
Boovs DEEDS I'VE are assured that there
have been executed in this city, since last jan
uary, not loss than two hundred deeds for lands
located in the old Military Bounty Tract ILL
nois and purporting to be made by soldiers of
the war Of 1912, nearly all OF which have been
officially certified "a acknowledged upon the
oath Of one person as subscribing witness--the
makers in no case being produced before the
commissioners OF course, there is foul play
somewhere; and the probability would seem to
be, that gang of scoupdrels have copspired
to frge these deeds in the name Of soldiers
who are known Of presumed TO be dead, and
are intended to be sold to immigrants or 10
sQuatters ON the lands or TO those who may
have settled them under tax sale titles. Who
can ferret out these rascals II rascals indeed
they be?-N. Y. Tribune.
The Illinois people had better keep bright
lookout for these forged deeds.
A NOBEL AcT OF AssEMBLy.-The Legisla-
ture of New York, at its last sesoion, passed
the following aot, which should serve as
model for all Legislators hereafter
The People Of the State of New York, repre-
= sentcd in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
SEC. 1. Ten hours shall be deemed days
work, in the absence of any agreement, for me
chanics - laboren on oil public works Of
this State
SEc. 3. This act shall take effect immedi-
ately.
There is the whole act-the whole story ~
q nutshell
EvYscr ov rHE Nrw STEAMBOAT LAw.--lt
is stated, that since the lst OF January, when
the new steamboat law took effect to this time
there has not been the loss Of life Of q single
passenger, or even IN injury To one, npon
either the Mississippi river or any Of il trihu-
taries, whilst in the seven months OF $50, cor
responding 70 these, there were over 500 per-
sops killed
OHIo.--At the Democratic State Convention
ut Columbus on the 24th, James Myers, OF To-
ledo, was nominated Ior Lieutenant Governor, |
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