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other specimen Of Free Slave State. From
the hour of its admission to the present its in
fiuence and votes have been given in favor Of
Slavery. Augustus Caesar Dodge's vote has
always been as certain for any villanous
scheme Of Slavery Propagsndism, as those Of
Butler and Atchison. Where the special blame
Of this state Of things lies, we do not pretend
10 say--we hope at least, that our Quaker
friends there have clean skirts in the matter
but there is no Disgusting the fact that Iowa is
now, and has been from the outset, 80 far as
her action in the Confederacy is concerned to
all intents and purposes slave State We
are glad to notice, at the present time, signs of
reaction and protest against this unnatural
and degrading alliance, sufficient, at least, to
warrant the hope that, at the election about to
take place, new order Of mon will be returned
to Congress-. We notice, with pleasure, among
the anti Nebraska candidates, the name Of r.
L. B. Clarke . brother Of Grace Greenwood,
and, like her loving Freedom and hating Sla-
very with equal heartiness. He can scarcely
fail to unite upon himself the entire anti-Ne-
braska strength of his district Of the anti
Administration candidates in the other districts
we have no personal knowledge; but if they
are reliable men, it ia to DO hoped that they
will havo the support Of all parties opposed to
Slavery extension. There is no time left for
new arrangements and combinations The
Standardization candidates. as matter Of
course, stand pledged to reverse the mischiev-
Gus policy Of the Dodges and Henns, and their
election would 60 far to place Iowa where she
belongs, on the list Of Free States
g. w
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To tie Editor of the National Era !.

10 Inc Edit0T OF inc N0tiOHdt ETd
Insidious attempts are being made by the
shareholders 10 convert California into a slave
region, but too many hardy emigrants will set
tie there, to enable them 10 attain consum-
nation so ardentiy desircd-indced, non-
STAKEHOLDER, going from Virginia, would 20
against them, knowing that tho introduction
Of Slavery would exclude him, not only from
the best digging grounds, but from a partici-
patton in other pursuits, now denied him in
Virginia. A non-slavcholder cannot be sue
'cessful agriculturist in Virginia, and what par
ticpation have they in the Legislative depart
ment Of the Statcs A slave owner with five
hundred slaves, in California, would dig five
hundred times as much gold as an individual
non-slave owner; and the consequence would
be, that the slave owners would soon monopoizc
all the profitable pursuits, and leave the non
shareholders as they are to DO found in Vir-
ginia, a discouraged GLASS, without employment,
except the few that get situations as overseers,
a calling sought with AZ much avidity as the
lucrative Offices of tho General Government
are sought by political aspirants.
As for the rest without employment and
oppressed by poverty, they have to seek homes
in the far-of West; and If in their new homes
they do not oppose the spread OF Slavery, then
they will invite the curse that has driven them
from the land Of their nativity.
A VIRGINIA FREE-SoILER.
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IBY HOUSES PRINTING TELEGRAPH
rELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE Gu
FOR DAILY NATIONAL ERA.
From .Ne,p York.

New YoRK, jury l0.--Mr Barnum has re-
signed the Presidency Of the Crystal Palace
Association. As yet, no cause assigned for the
act
The weather is cooler and pleasantor today.
More cases OF cholera are reported.
A better feeling prevails in the stock mar
kct NJ operators believe that Nc have seen the
worst. The sales at tho first and between
boards to-day, show an advance Of from fifty
cents to two dollars in the entire list Of fan
oiesn
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GLASGOW, BARREN Co., KY,
JUN /, 1854.


To the Editor of the National Era.
believe, if the people Of Kentucky were tc
vote on the subject, undrilled by politicians
there would be an overwhelming majority op-
posed to the repeal Of the slavery restriction in
the Missouri Compromise. | am truly glad
that the country is waking up to the encrosch-
ments of the Slave Power Better now than
never But it would have been much better
and the Union Uouid haze been much safer, u
they had naked up some fue gears ago, and ez
cl,iaed Slavery from oil our Territories.
The people Of the free States arc said to be
intelligent, well read but they have studied
history and human nature to little purpose, il
they think to make the Union safer, or curta;l
the power of slavery, by yielding to its do
mands. Permit me TO say to the Anti Slavery
party, when they get into power, be moderate
Permit me to say to tho Anti Slavery press and
politicians, don't denounce the South" Re.
member, a large majority in the South" ore
not slavoholders and very many, who own
slaves, and who do not, are rs anxious for the
removal Of slavery, and curtaimcnt of the
Slave Power, as any persons at the North p
perhaps moro So They arc under its blasting
influence.
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POSTAGE IN FREE AND sLAvEH0LDING COM.
RUNITIES


During the consideration Of the Bill Of Mr..
Odds, for raising the postage-which was very
properly rejected--Mr. Haven, Of New York.
made an appeal to Southern men, to abstain
from urging such a measure; and to enforce
it, he called their attention to the fact which
he referred to in no sectional spirit, that the
deficit in the Post Office Department is chiefly
owing to the comparative smalIness Of postage
receipts in the Slave States, while in the free
States enough postage is collected, not only to
pay for the transportation Of the mail in them,
but the deficit accrning in the South. To sus-
tain this view, he submitted the following ia
BILE, taken from official documents, furnished
by the Postmaster General:
"The following table shows the amounts act
lily credited for the transportation Of mails
by States and Territories, and the amount Of
hostages collected in the same:
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~ The grand jury Of the United States
circuit Court at New Orleans, while they
/" strongly incline to tho opinion that mcet-
ines are held and fands collected by persons
having ncfarious designs upon Cuba, think
that the reports OF preparations havc boon
greatly exaggerated, nothing like military
organization or preparation having been
brought to thor notice"
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The LATE RAILROAD DrsAsTER---We have
already published the particulars Of "a deaths,
and an additional one, that Of Mr.. Thomas N.
Parsons makes IS Rail Sun, July H.
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WASHINGTON, ID. G..
TUESDAY, JULY II, 1854.
HON. MIR. MACDONALD, OF MAINE.

The Biddeford lMaine) Union, OF the 7th
instant, after describing the offensive conduct
Of some persons at the railroad depot in that
town, toward Mr.. Mcdonald in shouting ont
that "doughfaceo could be seen, and point
ing him out to the crowd, remarks:
awe are sorry that any indignity should be
offered TO Mr.. Macdonald but the strong and
bitter feelings which his course has excited,
aud the d,spleasnre 80 generally entertained
for his betrayal Of the cause Of freedom and
the rights Of his constituents while il does not
excuse personal indignisy, furnishes the reason
which calls it out"
We perfectly agree with this writer. The
least and most servile Of Northern crouchers
to Southern arrogance should be held respensi-
Bile at the ballot-box, alone. Members Of Con-
gresa, however unpopular, should everywhere
feel secure from personal indignities. The du-
ties of their position are such as reqnlre the
utmost freedom from restraint in thought and
action
EDUCATION IN Lower CANADA.--By table
sent in ono Of our Canada exchanges we find
that, in 1853, the whole number OF educational
institutions Of all kinds in Lower Canada, was
1882; pupils, lOs,as4. In 1850, in Massachu-
setts the whole number Of educational nstltu-
tions Of all kinds was 4 COG; pupils, 1872. 1872
The population Of Massachusetts was within
fraction OF a million that Of Canada IL about
100000. The children between five and twenty
in the former were 10000; in the latter, they
are about 100000.
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CONGRESS.
rHIRrY-rHIaD coHGREss--SIRsr SESSION

In the House, yesterday,
The bill for continuing the work Of clearing
the mouth Of Cape Fear river was finally pass
ed--11O TO %.
1t was then resolved, that all debate in Com
mittee of the Whole on tho state of the Union
shall be confined strictly to the question or
proposition Immediately under confederation !;
and that, on and after the lth instant, the
House will assemble at IL o'clock A. M.
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the injuries it fails to prevent. This is the
means, and the only thoroughly efficient means,
Of preventing deeds of violence and wanton de-
struction by law-defying mobs
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EZlape DESTROYED.

ALBANY, N " July Tho thriving little
ruins the entire village having been destroyed
BY Ere Inst evening, including the three hotels
and the post Office. Loss estimated at $75, 900
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10 II appears that the grand jury Of the
Criminal Court at Cincinnati has found true
bill Of Indictment against Peter Kroger, the
Roman Catholic priest, for the alleged attempt
to commit an infamous outrage on tho person
Of young German girl.
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BosToN, July s, 1854.
To the Editor Of the National Era,


To the Editor Of the National Era.
just now our citizens are called upon pretty
generally for tho Emigrant Aid Society, and
the first detachment for Nebraska and Kansas
will leave on the 18th inst. Ii soems to be the
impression in the Senate and in Washington
that Mr. Sumner is not folly endorsed by
Massachusetts, but only supported by those
who procured his election. Never was there
a greater mistake IL an election was to take
place tomorrow, he would DO triumphantly
elected by the vote Of every member Of the
Legislature, unless some postmaster or custom
house officer had crept into a seat Every
tongue is loud in his praise and will sustain
him a. the embodiment Of Massachusetts
heart and spirit now fully awakened to q sense
Of their rights and the danger to our free in.
stitutions, and the odium cast by tho present
Administration upon our fair fame.
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

Hundreds of on-slaveholding pioneers are al
ready in tho Territory, and they viii stay there
The Baptist and Friends' missions are Anti
Slavery. While Atchison's nullifiers are re-
solving and threatening, the industrious hardy
freemen are quietly taking possession, making
their clearings, and preparing to give an au-
thoritative declaration Of their views at the
ballot-box From our exchanges and our pri-
vate correspondence, we infer that thousands Of
emigrants are on their way to the Territory.
Non - the time, for those who intend to 60.
Let them leave their affairs at home haifset-
tied, rather than delay single day. The idea
that hundred or two Propagandists should
march over the line into Kansas, resolve it into
a slave Territory, and then nearly all march
back again, and coolly warn off FREQ emigrantS
as intruders il simply ridiculous. The men
who settle tho Territory and labor with thor
own hands, must and will determine its institu-
tions. We have heard the DULLES resoLve--n0w
let MS sec the WORRIES act.
If shareholders meanwhile choose to carry
slaves into the Territory, we supposc there will
be white folk enough to show them their way
to Nebraska. Some Of the Democracy who have
been reading the stereotyped denunciations Of
the Washington Union for the last year, against
Africanizing Cuba, will be apt to set their faces
against Atchison's plan for Africanizing Kan
sas
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10 The Louisville Journal says Of Mr.. Ben
toms cpistlc on MIR. Petit
"The remark is q coarse ono, and there is
nothing to redeem it except its strict truth"
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DIseRAcEFuL 0UTRAGEs--The Albany Jour
nal alludes 10 the catalogue Of outrages it has
recorded within q week past, AZ follows
The first was tho robbery and desecration
ofthc Scotch Presbyterian Church edifce in De-
troit; the second, too successful attcmpt to
blow mp the new Roman Catholic Chapel in
Dorchester, Massachusetts, the third, the rob-
berry and attempt TO burn tho Broome street
nv. ~ Baptist Church; tho fourth the rob-
berry Of the communion service Of an Episcopal
Church in Philadelphia; the fifth, the destruc-
ton by mob Of the windows Of the Roman
Catholic Church 10 Manchester, New Hamp-
shire; and the sixth, and most alarming the
destruction Of the Roman Catholic Church in
Bath, Maine by mob"
For the deeds of thief or secret incendiary
the municipal government cannot be justly
held accountable because they are deeds that
its utmost vigilance cannot wholly prevent
but II il in the power Of every municipality in
the Republic 70 prevent the destruction Of prop
erty BY a mob and WHOM it fails TO do 90, i
should be compelled 10 make compensation fo'
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oooT1foT'cs Tjf"oiSStfDo
Classified, the figures will stand as follows
for She free States, slave States, and Terrific
ries
Postage collected. Transportation
Free States S3sI7,05l $2,i6S.564
Slave States 1,2b1,553 1,95S401
Territories 1851 1881
5,Os7,4s5 s4,lsss46
transportation sl,s4s,As7
Excess of cost Of transportation In slave
States over postage S7O6,S4S
Excess Of postage in free over slave
In round numbers we may state the total
amount Of annual transportation in tho slave
States at "a 100000 miles--in the free States
at $4,000, 00o--so that with about two-6fthr
OF the whole amount Of transportation, the
cost Of transportation in the former is about
ee-soyenths Of the total cost.
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CHARGE OF KrDSAPPISc-J. s. Russell, the
captain Of canal boat, was arrested ycster-
day morning, at Albany, charged with being
an accomplice Of MurrilI in kidnapping Solo
mon Northrup. He admitted hc was at the
Inauguration at Washington, in is4i. He was
ironcd and taken to Bsllston Spa for trial.
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Decision or A TRusr CAsr--Thc Supreme
Court at New York yesterday dismissed, with
costs, the half million trust case Of the North
American Trust Company against Graham,
BIatchford and others. The trust was made
in 1910, to sccure the Girard and United States
Banks at Philadelphia
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FORESTS REPETITION OF HAMLET,

kV16k01 6kkk1411VN Vf 6A0LET.
1t shows the versatility of Mr.. Forrest.
that much as his success in Claude Mel.
notte was doubted, his PRESERVATION of that
character, on last evening, was ore of his
most beautiful and perfect dclineations.
Whether we consider the dress, the style,
or the new and striking paints of his act-
ing' it was . great performance. This
evening, We have him in repetition of
Hamlet. The character, in his hands,
has been much criticised, especially by
those who have adopted the fancy that
Hamlet is lackadaisical and feeble
minded young prince, instead of the man
made of him by Forrest. The scenes with
the ghost--the scene with the queen
mother-the scene with the players and
the far-famed soliloquies, were rendered
with the taste of scholar and the grace
and beauty Of true artist. Every word,
every sentence, every position, exhibited
earnest study and careful conviction.
Those of our great men in Congress who
talk about Hamlet, and profess to know
all its merits, should compare their own
opinions with the acting of Forrest. We
have heard the most thorough Shakspe-
rians declare that Forests Hamlet is, OF
all his triumphs, the greatest and most
complete. Let doubters test the fidelity
of this opinion tonight b. their own SEN
sations. ... -r-as..--gr
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MUSIC BEAUTIFULLY EMBE1L1,HEp


Mrs. G. Anderson, on Pennsylvania
avenue, between 18th and 18th streets,
has sent us several pieces of new and
beautiful music, some of which is embel-
lished by beautifully photographic illu-
minated titles, among which we find the
following, arranged for the piano: .:The
Water Spirits" a duet; ooh, Use so
Wicked" Topsy song; "My HEARTS Like
a Faded Flower" pretty ballad; 1.-THE
Flowers are Sleeping" ballad; 1.-THE
Laughing Chorus" an Ethiopian song;
"Do Good" a song and chorus; ''Hot
Corn Girl, song; "Come sing me that
Song" ballad; and 1.-The Spectre of our
Time a polka; ':Pop Goes the Weazel,' y
a gallop; La Prima Donna" waltz,
and ''Recollections." set of waltzes.
Hilbus & Hitz, Pennsylvania avenue.
between 10th aud 18th streets, has laid
on our table The Water Spirits" a
Duet, handsomely embellished =" Fly,
Fly, Away, or, The Dream" an affecting
song; 1.-The Good For Nothing Polka, u
handsomely embellished and the "Pres
colt House Polka" ornamented by a
handsome colored engraving of the Pres
colt House, New York. .-
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SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.


The fntellleeneer eulogises the able
speech delivered yesterday by Senator
Everett against the Nsbraska-Kansas bill.
and inclines to the opinion that Britain
is most anxious for peaceful and per.
fectly satisfactory settlement of the Cen
trial American question; drawing that
conclusion from the tone Of the London
Tunes on this subject, which journal, the
editor thinks, thus speaks the sentiments
of Downing street.
The Union is grateful to the Intelli-
geneer for that journals republication of
its Nebraska bill arguments, and extracts
from the report of Senator Douglas to
the same end, though thus republished to
the end Of convicting the Z" official of
inconsistency. In second article the
Unien contrasts the position of the Adolf
tionists three years ago upon the Missouri
Compromise, with their pretended views
on it at this time, saying:
at is sudden transition that, by which the
Abolitionist of yesterday has become the Com
promise defender of to-day; by which the
opponent of all compromises has become the
champion Of all; by which the ancient de-
claimer on the subject of slavery, who dotes. ed
the Compromise of 1920, now worship it, and
thinks not only that il is sacriege to interfere
with it, but that interference with it is doubly
terrible, because it endangers what he equally
detested-the Compromise of 1851 The Com
promise of 1920 was bad thing, forsooth The
people were justly enraged with those who
made it. The Compromise of 1850 was vastly
worse, and the people ought to have been more
enTaged by the contamination of that We
have the word of all the Abolitionists for both
these positions And we have them now all
clamoring with elongated faces and lifted
hands, from the fear and tribulation they are
in, lest, by interfering with what was bad, we
should endanger the existence of that which
was absolutely intolerable Said Mr. Hale,
in the Senate, in 1850: Il think some gentle
nen will 60 home from this Congress marked
about as plainly as those who went home from
The Missouri Compromise in 1920 And he
told the Senate of members who voted for that
measure, and had been SO branded for it, that
the brand remained after thirty years All
this was vauntingly said. Your Aboltionist
rejoiced three years aga at the thirty years
prescription of the friends of the old Compro-
mise And now he deems it too sacred to be
touched. And the new Compromise, whose
friends he attempted tn brighten from the sup
port fit, By pointing to the brands upon the
supporters of the old one, is now emerging
above the floods of his denunciation and enjoy.
ing the sunshine of his regard He stretches
out his hands, with a most patronizing air,
over this young enorinity, and is eloquent in
expressing his fears THAI some accident will
happen to It if that more ancient enormity is
disturbed
The Sentinel continues the discussion
of the Nebraska question.
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AN INTERESTING AND VALUABLE BOOK

The senior editor of the Star acknow.
lodges the receipt of :" The History of
Alabama /; and, incidentally, of Georgia
and Mississippi, from the Earliest Period, ~
by James Pickett, of Montgomery, (Ala. J
IN 2 volumes; Charleston: Published by
Walker & Jones, 1851" which Edward
Hanrick, Esq, of Montgomery, Ala,
kindly sent him by the hands of mu-
tual friend. The work is one of class
of great value to our country's future;
inasmuch as it is replete with details of
events making US what we are, which
are rapidly passing away from the mem
DRY Of the living, without being recorded
for future reference. The author has
evidently labored assiduously to gather
truth and facts in all quarters, and from
all able to help him. He has succeeded
so as to embody much in his work pre-
viously almost utterly unknown, except
to those having at command rare books,
which are not to be consulted by one in
fen thousand among US. His details of
Southern Indian history, heretofore, for
the most part, unwritten, are also trea-
sures in their way. We trust that every
State in the Union may have competent
son, to follow Mr.. Pickett's praiseworthy
example in this instance.
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% We devote much of our space to.
day to the publication of a report of an
Army Board concerning rank in the pay
department, which is of great interest
to the service, inasmuch as the points
settled therein bear upon all classes or
ranks of officers in the United States Ar.
my. The Star, ia our hands, is more
complete mirror of all transpiring in, or in
connection with the military and naval
service of this government, than ever was
before published for we labor assiduous-
ly to make that department of its news
as comprehensive and correct as possible.
We are thus forced, as it were, to pub
ish this report in full, though it trenches
somewhat on our capacity, to-day, to
present as varied news as usual.
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WATCH RETURSs.-0vid F Johnson living
drunk IN the street work house thirty DAYS
Dennis Nccurdy, Tagrant; do.
The above item would serve as a text
Tor the reiormer and mOralist.
Ovid E. johnson is well known as being
at one time an influential member of the
Democratic party, and Attorney General
oil the State of Pennsylvania. He is q
man OF acknowledged ability, a good
lawyer eloquent speaker, and finished
writer. ....
Dennis McCurdy, for a number wears
taught school in this city. Many of the
sons of our Citizens, now grown up to
manhood, no doubt remember him we'll
Dir. McCurdy is man of learning, has
written several works on Mathematics,
and is considered one of the best arith-
rnsticians Of the age. Alas! for poor, frail
humanity! l.
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70 We are in the receipt of two dis
courses on 1.-The Power of the Gospel" by
Rev. G. w. Hiacock, of Buffalo, N. Y,
and on The Polity of the Presbyterian
Church" by Rev. B. Sunderland of this
cifx, ,,
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O Avery respectable Roman Catholic
organ, the Galway Packet, states, as a
rumor, that peremptory order either
has been or will shortly be issued by the
Holy See, prohibiting the priesthood in
Ireland from taking any active or promi-
nent part for the future in political mat
tiers. = = = . /. .