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PACIFIC RAILROAD.

Senator Chase has addressed letter to the
Chairman Of the Committee Of Invitation of the
Memphis Convention, in which great stress is
laid upon the project of railroad from the
Mississippi to the Pacific. Mr. Chase says;
IL will ever be to me gratifying reoollso-
ton, that the provisions of the Army bill, un-
der which the 6rst steps are TO be taken towards
tho accomplishment Of that magnificent work,
were drafted by me, and were adopted by the
Senate upon my motion
The explorations to BE- directed under these
provisions by the able and distinguished citi-
zen who presides over the War Department
will add immensely 10 our geographical and
typographical knowledge of the vast districts
which lie between our present Western FROM
tier aud the Pacific coast. In this point Of
view alone, these explorations will be more
than worth their cost Regarded as the CON-
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LITERARY NOTICES.

The CHRISTIAN EXAMINER AND RELIGIOUS MIS-
oELLASY. May, 1858.
A fine array or articles is presented in this
number, The Gospels, their Inspiration, their
Authenticity, their GsnuineneSS ). Condition ana
Prospects Of the Sandl0ich Islands, Memoir oj
Mrs Mary L, Ware, Sc, &C. The first of these
is an able, liberal, and logical refutation of the
many late orthodox arguments in favor of the
"infallibility of the Gospels of the New Tesla.
mentn
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This Review stands deseryedly at the head @
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Philanthropy and Jamaios Distress; Thacke
rays Works; Iconoclasm In German Phloso
ply Martial and his Times; French Writers
on French Policy; Ruth and yillette; Educa
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Of Alexander Smith; and Early Christianity
its Creed and Heresies
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of Facts in Science and Art for 1858. Edited By
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concise history of the progress of every branch
of Science and Art during the year 1852. A
fine steel-engraved portrait Of Professor A. d.
Bache is given.
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SECOND VOLUME.
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CHARITY.
" Charity pqunteth not itselfn

Charity vdun,ah mot itself"
A spring within a valley welled
Close hid meath dock leaves rank and strong
By nightly dews and drops swelled,
Through tangled grass it slipped along
You might have tracked its windngs far,
Meath forest boughs, by day or night,
Nor found single imaged star,
Or caught ray of glinted light.
You only knew its hidden way
By links of blossoms here and there,
The speedwelI child of brooks and spray,
Or wreaths of violets budding fair;
And yet within its closter green,
The running brook was pure and bright
And II you broke its matted screen,
1t flashed like jewels in the light.
The startled hare, the timid fawn,
AT noon would seek its Swallowed brink,
And sometimes in the early dawn
The antfered stag would come to drink.
Oft through the woods the children burst,
Their heated lips and brows to lave;
The weary and thu wsak fhsir thirst 49, -4--..
Slaked in its cool and sparkling wave.
1t never failed that slender rill,
In winter frost or summer heat
The undiminished fountain still
Supplied its pulse with steady beat.
Forever singing sweet and low,
1t took its course, unchecked and free,
Till, lapsing on with quiet Aow,
1t slipped into the open sea.
JANET HALE.
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ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER NIAGARA

HALIFAX, June %, 1853.
The steamer Niagara arrived this morning
The Baltic reached her dock on the sth
England-Mr. Hayward brought motion
forward in Parliament calling the attention to
| the attitude of Russia towards Turkey.
Tho members from Durham had been I'M
seated for bribery.
The University of Oxford had conferred the
degree Of Doctor of Laws upon Mr. Iugersoll,
the American Minister and Bishop McIlvaine.
Lord Shaftesbury presided over a meeting in
Londer for ameliorating the condition of fugi-
tive slaves in Canada.
Lloyds had advanced the insurance risks to
Russian and Turkish ports from 10 to 30 shil.
lipgs.
Immense hostility had been excited in Ire.
land against the proposed bill for the inspec.
ton of the nunneries.
The crops throughout England and Ireland
were promising.
Frdnee.--It is the opinion of the leading
journal Of Paris that war between Russia
and Turkey will be avoided, but the funds are
nevertheless agitated, and closed ut decline
Gen. Changarnier denies that he had offered
his services to the Porte.
The Moniteur announces that the French
and English fleets had formally offered TO sus.
tain Turkey, and proceed to the Dsrdanelles
Immediately. The Moniieur also believes that
Abdel Kader had applied TO return TO France.
Haiy.-The Sandman Deputies were consid-
ering the propriety of reducing the import duty
on cotton one half They were also consider
ing bill relative 10 transatlantic steamers,
and it was expected that Government would
contribute II, 600 yearly to this object
Free importation Of breadstuffs into Sicily
had been permitted in Neapolitan and Russian
vessels.
Spain.-The rumored recall OF cancdo from
Cuba was contradicted
Austrta.-The King Of Bavaria had offered
10 mediate between Austria and Switzerland.
II was the general belief at Vienna that the
Turkish, Swiss, and Sandman difficulties would
all DO smicsbly adjusted. A special minister
had been sent from Vienna TO Constantnope.
An Austrian camp was forming IN Moravia.
Vargo, an advocate, aud several citizens of
Pesth, had been arrested for corresponding with
Koesuth.
Prussia. General Grokeu had LIFT Berlin ON
a special mission TO Constensinople The King
had not ofEcislly recalled the Prussians in the
Turkish service
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New YORK, June 25. 1883.

New YORK, June rs, 1853.
To the Editor of the National Era:
A pamphlet of some fifty Or sixty large and
closely printed octave pages, Is about to be
issued from this city, entitled /" Proceedings Of
the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting Of Progress.
sive Friends, held at Old Kenneth, Chester
county, fifth month, 1882 1t contains the
entire OF the minutes of the meeting referred
TO, which arc, for the most part, of no special
interest to Anti Slavery readers, beyond the
exercises of other religious conversations in
which reformatory feelipgs sd aspirations are
permitted to have their p1y, to more or less
extent But there ia one featre of them which
is not to be met with in the Ienerality of such
exercises or proceedings, and shich cannot fail
TO secure at least a warm side" from Anti
Slavery readers generally, TO- these Progress
sive Friends" as they have zen fit to eptitle
themselves and to sustain thur claim, to which
we must leave to themselves. This Is an unu.
sual degree Of sympathy with the Anti-Sla-
very reform in this country, siown in special
address upon Slavery signed by Sydney Pierce
and Joseph A. Dugdale, the cerks of the meet
ing. | cannot refrain from quoting the closing
paragraphs Of this address. They read as fol-
low
"The whole world is givlg heed 10 the cry
Of the slave. The counsel IF the wise and
prudent is turned headloug and the political
shutters who endesvored to Silence the voice Of
freedom by the tsrrors of To Fugitive Slave
Law are utterly confoundel Uncle TOMS
Cabin is on its mission of mercy throughout
the world, and the Key, by which the Bsstile
Of Slavery 10 unlocked, and Is horrid secrets
revealed, is rapidly following in its wake,
startling thousands by its arry Of unquestion-
able facts, and compelling conviction by its
eloquent appeals to the conscience and the
heart. We cannot doubt tina, the moral agi-
taton Of this subject which nsw pervades the
land, which is every day becoming more in
tense, aud which the cunning Of the politi.
clan and the msndats Of pfestly authority
are alike impotent to alenceis the very In
strumentality by which the cl@ins Of the slave
are 10 be broken. Il is not tis rage Of human
passions, blind, headlong. and destructive, but
the deep and earnest working Of the human
heart under tho operation Of he highest and
hottest convictions and imposes II 10 the
voice Of God, speaking thrsgh all that 10
godlike in those whom ho he created in bis
own image, and utterng his Iwn Truth with
q power that tho oppresor carsot long resist.
ave would therefore encourage those who
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THE NATIONAL ERA, WASHINGTON, b. C. JUNE 80. 1853

mencement of the Pacific railway, it is import
ant to estimate their value.
Whatever route the result Of these explora-
tons shall indicate as the best, the cheapest
and the most practically useful should be
adopted at once by Congress and the actual
construction of the work should be at once he.
gun, and pushed forward to completion, with an
energy which will give new lustre to the Amer
lean name
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THE AMERICAN SLAVE CODE, IN THEORY
AND PRACTICE

IT'S Distinctive Features shown by its Statutes Ju.
Il dicin Decisions, and Illustrative Facts. BY VII
liam 9oodell, author of the Democracy of Christian
ity" Slavery and Anti. Slavery" &c The work
contains 43O pages l2mo neatly bound in cloth Price
20 cents per copy, postage Is cents. For sale by
June 80. L. CLEPHANE, Office Nat Era
The following is extract Of letter from Hon
William Jay to the author.
Your analysis Of the slave laws is very able, and
your exhibition Of their practical application by the
Southern courts evnces great and careful research
Your book is mpregnable against the charge of
cxaggeration ms Eucd's Geometry since, like that
it consists Of propositions and demonstrations The
book is not only true but IL is nnqKeStioaOblv true
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To- The steamship GOLDEN AGE having been
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at the foundry to finish the machinery in the time
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WOOL GROWER AND sTOiK REGISTER
A MONTHLY JOURNAL

Devoted 10 the Wool and Stock Gyo,cing Interest
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LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.
New York. june %. 1853

NEW YORK, June %, 1853.
The steamer Crescent City, from Aspinwall
has arrived, bringing one weeks later ntelli-
gence from San Francisco, her dates being to
May %. She brings about 100000 in gold
dust.
The dates from Panama are to the l L tn inst
The English steamer Lima arrived there on
the ed instant, with dates from Valparaiso to
the l4th of May and from Callao to the Goth
Political affairs in Chill were quiet.
The produce Of copper and silver in the
Northern provinces continues large.
A project has been introduced into the Legis-
lature Of Bogota, to lay tax on specie in the
transit across the Isthmus.
Mr.. Eames, U. s. Consul at Acapulco, died
on the 10th May.
The mining accounts were of the most ia
vorable character, the yield this summer prom.
ising to exceed that of any former season
Agricultural prospects were fine, and the crops
OF gram would be abundant.
The Legislature adjourned sine die on the
10th. Gov. Bigler had been authorized by tn,
Legislature to organize company of armet
men to 90 in pursuit of tho robber joaquin.
Dates from Oregon arc two weeks later. Tn
miners in Southern Oregon were doing well
Provisions plenty, and low.
The difficulties between Peru and Bolvi
were increasing. The former had sent troop
to the southern frontier, to cut off the supple
Of the latter The enemies of Bolivia we're ais
collecting large force on the Buenos Ayre
side. The Gillian Minister had bsen expelled
from Bolivia and the United States Charge
was the only diplomatic official near the Gov.
ernment Affairs had reached crisis
New York, June "a, 1853.
The steamer Northern Light from San Juan,
with dates from San Francisco to June LIST, ar
rived this morning
A duel was to have taken place on the same
day between Senator Gwin and Mr.. McCor.
kle, member of Congress The cause of the
difficulty was some personal remarks made by
the former in reference to the latter. The
weapons chosen were rifles ut thirty PAGES
A destructive fire had occurred at San Fran
cisco on the 3lst, which destroyed thirty build
ings on California and Kearney streets. Loss
$50 900.
The Sonora expedition was still talked Of
The San Francisco Times rays that Balti-
moro clipper, lying in the harbor, has been en-
gagged to convey the party to their destination.
The ship jamestown has arrived at San
Francisco, with later advccs from China. Her
dates are to April 9Th
The captain reports that the rebels had been
completely defeated at Nankin, and driven
away from the city walls with terrible slaugh-
ter. The dead and wounded were literally
piled one on top Of the other.
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Mas. STowE IN pARB.-The literary ladies
Of Paris have decided, it appears, to give n
magnificent reception to the authoress Of Unele
Toms Cabin. A deputation Of tho Partisan
literary women will 20 to the port where she
disembarks, to meet her. During her stay in
Paris, all these ladies will be on duty, four ut
time, with the illustrious stranger, TO keep
her company talk for her, write at her dicta-
ton, thoroughly inform her of the mqurs and
usages of Paris and be her cicerone in her
promenades and visits. Two banquets will be
offered her one on her arrival, tho other on
her departure. There will be none but ladies
at the table. The services will be performed
by male domestcs white, Of course. ball
will be given in her honor to which men will
be invited and, lastly, she is to be requested
to accept all sorts of valuable presents, inclu-
ding three complete toilettcs, made in the latest
Partisan style
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

TAkIs, JUHf 3 IdJa
The Leonidss WHICH arrived yesterday a.
Marseilles, left Copstantinople ON tho 25th ult
At that date, the greatest enthusiasm for the
Sultan prevailed among tho TaIkish iahsbi.
tants Of the capital,
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Religious Organisations and Slapery-7he
Progressive Friends" and their Manifesto
4 New Colonial Projset-Foreign Books
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The INDIANA BLACK Laws have caused the
removal of large numbers Of colored persons
from that State, as the penalties incurred by
residence there are quite severe. The C'ncn'
nati CommsreiGl says that it is scarcely possible
to pass along the river front Of that city with
out observing one or more cciored families
from the Hoosier State They appear to be
persons of some property, having with them
tine stocks Of horses, mules and mich COWS.
Rxv. HEskY WARD BEEcHER states in the
New York Indspsndfnl, that il Is not true that
sny part of the avails received by Mrs Stowe
from the sales of Uncle Toms Cabin" or the
Key" are 10 be used for building house for
Professor Stowe and family at Andover. The
dwellings for the Professors are furnished BY the
corporation. The ayails are 10 be appropriated
Tor the establishment Of an institution for the
education Of the colored race in this country,
a. also will be the contribution Mrs Stowe re-
ceives in Europe