The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-09-22
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alleged Conspiracy E. Sharp, VIM Cox
and A. Z. L. Reese, of this city-the two latter
having published themselves as an "Independ.
ent Police were arrested last week, on
charge Of conspiring to sell, and with having
sold, out of the District of Columbia, as slave
for life, negro woman about thirty years of
age who had only five years to serve. Justice
Donn held the defendants to give bonds in the
sum of S266.66 to appear at the next Criminal
Court
WiSconsin-The Democrats of Wisconsin
have nominated w. A. Barstow for Governor !:
j. T. Lewis for Lieut.. Governor; A. p. Gray
for Secretary of State J. B. Smith for Attor-
ney General; H. A. Wright for Superintendent
of Public Instruction and F. H. Jansses for
State Treasurer.
Il Good Movement-A general meeting of
the presidents and directors of the various rail-,
roads in the United States, we see it stated,
will convene in this city during the month OF
October, to consider the adoption of code of
laws and the establishment of such general
measures as shall guard against accidents on
railroads and give more confidence to travel
lers, and assurance that precautionary meas
ures of the most reliable kind are hourly exer-
cised upon every railroad throughout the Union.
1t is time that some such general movement
was had, to insure the safety of railroad trav-
ellers, and we trust the convention will effect
the objects for which it is called.
Progress in the So,tA-The Louisville Jour
nal is publishing series Of articles on Slavery.
The writer says:
Slavery as a crime q Wrong, and an unholy
thing and now is the moment for all to unite
their energies 10 abolish IT, by wise and grad
ual, but etectual, emancipation"
Spirit Of The South-The Michigan Free
Democrat says; "a gentleman from New Or
leans, native of the South, who was in. our
sanctum few minutes since, remarked that
they who had always lived in the midst OF Sla-
very know its evils better than any Northern
man could tell them. They hated Slavery,
while the force Of circumstances held them to
it. But there was one thing they despised
more than Slavery, and that was silly, lying
apology for it by Northern man. who had no
excuse for his mendacity When Northern
men, bred in the love of freedom and the per-
petual assertion of it, attempt to sugar over
Slavery, they know they lie; and Southern
men know they are deliberately and wilfully
lying too"
The Wilkesbarre Fugitive Hunt-The inde-
pendent presses are speaking out in relation to
the slave hunt which recently disgraced the
avale of Wyoming" The Boston Sunday
News says:
"As it is one Of the legitimate fruits of the
law about which SO much has been said, it is
worth recording, and still more worth reading.
II presents three interesting features of Amerl-
can character: First, the more than fendish
conduct Of the slave hunter second, the gori-
Gus heroism of the hunted slave, who, with
noble American heart in his bosom, preferred
death to Slavery and afforded one of the finest
illustrations OF herosm ever presented hird,
the dastardly cowardice of the hundreds who
witnessed q single man struggling for life and
liberty, against an unequal force, without
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slave
The Cuban Junta Of New York, in COM
munication in the Herald, express their hostili.
ty to the annexation Of Cuba to the u States
by purchase. They add the following signii-
cant intimation
prepared with sufficient forces within and
without the isle, to revolutionize it by force of
arms, we, the sons of Cuba, aspire to that idea
as the only one which can give us honor and
glory in acquiring the title to our sovereignty
in the rank of nations; and il it were then the
free will Of the Cuban people to form part of
the great American Confederation liberty of
action would be accompanied by the title
which our efforts for the independence Of our
country, crowned with success, will have given
us. Ii will not be slave which asks in the
Union confraternty and liberty, but free Cuba
exempt from every stain, and worthy, by its
honorable antecedents, Of entering into the
family pact"
At the Temperance Convention in Boston, on
the 18th instant, resolution vas passed, de-
claring that this is convention Of men, ac-
cording to common usage Speeches we're
made by Elisha Huntington, of Lowell, Horace
Mann, Rev. Mr. Chaplin, and Rev. Theodore
Parker.
A hackman, named Green, and one Of the
city watch, named Bloom, were arrested at
Cincinnati on the 9th instant, ON charge OF
kidnapping free mulatto, named Watkins.
They had got Watkins into carriage, and
were carrying him of, when their progress was
arrested by mob.
A writer from the South says; " 1t may be
new to most Of your readers that there lie dan.
ger of New Orleans yet becoming an inland
town. The Bayou Plaquemine--a branch q
the Mississippi-which sets out in nearly u
straight line for the Gulf Of Mexico, is rapidly
enlarging itself; and unless something is done
TO check it's progress, it will, in few years
become the main channel The Plaquemins
sets Of about l25 miles north OF New Orleans