The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-06-22
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ESCAPE OF OLAVEs.-l WentJseuIeo be
from Grant county, KY, are REPORTED to have
made their escape on Tuesday night. They
descended the Licking river il disguise, and
crossed the Ohio below Cincinniti, and imme-
diately SGT out for Canada.
Nine fugitive slaves from Booze county, Ky,
were arrested in the suburbs O., Cincinnati on
Wednesday night, including bur men, two
women, and three children. ley are said to
present dep!orable. sight. Oe Of the men
was over sixty years of age.
The great fire occurred the 5ther night at
Worcester, and NOT at Boston as our des.
patches stated
CONNECTICUT The Maip-S Liquor Law
passed both branches Of the LIZ aslature yester-
day. In the Senate the vote v Is 10 to /.
The steamer Cahawba, fro Mobile and
Havana, arrived at New York esterday, with
dates to the 18th inst.
The report by the steamer ,bel, of an out
break az Matanzas, is untrue. The black sol
diers are hard to discipline
The Spanish sailors are so csrce that the
Government was impressing b. stmen into the
Queens service.
The yellow fever was preva ing among for
eigners to a considerable exte /. There were
some cases of cholera.
% Mr.. Chastain, of Geo gia, said in his
Cuba speech, the other day, hat, if nothing
else would do, he would & for an undis-
guised, open war, for taking aba by force of
arms" The Union, in publishing this speech
said" His positions will be earthly respond
ed to by the country" Not irmatiyely, per-
hsps.
~ A Washington corsesa ondent says that
the members Of Congress seem indisposed to do
any business since the passage Of the Nebraska
bill. The anaconda, after swallowing such a
monster as the Nebraska blk Is inert and lies
at the mercy of his Destroyer
70 1t appears that Mr.. I Fnhart Hem, of
Iowa, who voted for the NJ Sraska BILL has
been laid on the shelf by his srty at home.
20 T. R. Westbrook, of New York, who
voted for the Nebraska bill, IS been appoint
ed United States District Att iney.
~ John P. Hale will peak at mass
meeting of Anti-Slavery mel, in East Liver
moro, Me, on the 4th Of ly. He will be
present at the Free Democratic State Convcn-
ton, at Lewiston, on the 5th.
10 Resolves have been ip reduced into the
Rhode Island Legislature, ash ing for the repeal
of the Fugitive Slave bill, az aisapproving of
the Nebraska bill.
THE CHoLERA.-In New York city, last
week, there were about fifty ieaths from chol-
era. In Boston, on Friday, Capt. John H. Tit
comb, and three others, dice of cholera We
hear of the disease also in fading, Mass. A
letter from Boston, dated the, 18th, says:
"Withn ten days there hive been, perhaps,
thirty cases of cholera in thi city, in Woburn,
Reading, and other places, o I'd half that num-
Der may have died.
"a good many deaths from cholera are re-
ported in Kentucky, in Mary syille, in Spencer,
and Washington counties. Also, in Bedford,
Tennessee.
An exchange paper asks, very innocently, il
it is any harm for young ssdies to sit in the
lapse of ages.
EDITORIAL CHANGE.-WYD. Gallagher has
withdrawn from the Louisville Courier, In
consequence of radical differences of opinion,
as to the duties and propi iosics of editorial
conduct in certain contingencies between
himself and Mr.. Haldemap, who retains the
paper. The parties separats by mutual con-
sent and without breach af friendship
Is 1T So4-The New Yrrk Evening Post
learns, by special despat from Washing
ton, that Theodore r. w stbrook, young
lawyer of Ulster county, is o be appointed U.
States District Attorney for that city, in place
of Charles O'Conor, resigned Mr. Westbrook
is a member of the present congress, and uoted
for tie Nebraska bill!