Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-07-20
HON. ME-. GILLETTE.

HON ME- GILLETTE.
We regret the necessity that has compelled
US to delay the publication Of the speech Of
this gentleman, part of which we this day
publish After perusing it, every candid reader
will acknowledge that Mr.. Toucey has, in his
own conduct afforded the most ample testi-
mony to the hollowness and hypocrisy Of the
plea Of |" Popular Sovereignty" advanced by
him and the other contemners Of the popular
will
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRIsE.--We regret
that we have not space for the prospectus, an
nouncing that the Executive Committee Of the
New York State Temperance Society have
prepared series Of twelve tracts, adapted to
tho present necessities of the Temperance
cause, which they desire to place in the hands
of every family in the State, previous to tho
November election. The series will be enclosed
in packages, containing one Of each; and for
ty-two Of these packages making 504 tracts,
or 2,0l6 pages, will be wrapped in bundle,
and sent, post paid, to any part Of the United
Slater, for one dollar. They are not local in
their character, but are adapted to every lati-
tude that is cursed with the liquor traffic; and
it is hoped that their circulation will be as
general as the evil they aim to remedy.
NATURAIlzATIoN.-O A. Brownson,
the Roman Catholic journalist, is said to have
come out in favor of what is called Nativ-
ism y but the Pilot Roman Catholic news
paper appears to have preceded him by the
publication of the following paragraph:
"Would il not be well to naturalize oil re-
spectacle Catholic ernigrants rs soon az the
laws will permit, and then, in order to check
mate the German, French, Italian, and Irish,
imported radicals and anarchists, to agree TO
an alteration Of the naturalization ia,osap
~ The lifeless body of Mrs. Reed was
Yesterday found in the canal in this city. She
had left an almost wholly illegible NOTE to OK
plain the cause Of her desperation and suicide
Her husband is stone-cutter and she had
kept clearinghouse. If we have heard cor
rect accounts of this affair, the fate OF this
poor woman demands our deep sympathy
and the circumstances leading to it should ex-
cite the hearty indignation Of every kind and
generous man.
10 Thomas Francis Meagher, of the Citi-
zen, assailed James A. McMaster, of the Free
mans Journal in the public street, in New
York, on Tuesday last McMaster, who got
all the bruises fred single shot at his assail-
ant, but without effect. Both were held to
bail The provocation was personal attack
upon Meagher, in the columns of the Journal.
NA school Of superior claims to the con-
fidence Of parents, in which children and
youth Of both sexes will be received and edu-
Gated, has been established at Perth Amboy,
New Jersey. II will commence a session on
the first Of 0c.obsr. Address Theodore ID.
Weld, BeIleyille, New Jersey.
~ The rumored defalcation OF the Presi-
dent of Boston bank, as mentioned by q
New York paper, for $4,000, is pronounced
untrue.
Co Marshal Gallagher arrested at Cleve-
land, on Tuesday Charles Lamartine, a wealthy
Frenchman, and keeper Of a saloon, (yroggcry,
we suppose II is alleged that he has been
engaged for several years in manufacturing
and vending American quarters, and counter
feiting two-dollar bills Of the bank at Pots
dam.
10 Two men were arrested in Baltimore,
yesterday, and held to answer, for beating their
wives Their names are Martin Buck and
William Douohue. Have they in Baltimore a
punishment adequate to the case?
~ The Establishment' Of the Smithso.
MAN Institution met on Saturday last; present
all the members save the Chief Justice of the
United States and the Mayor OF Washington
| The President Of the Uoited States presided
over the meeting. The usual election OF an
honorary member was postponed to the next
appointed meeting October 2lst. The Score
tarJ's report was received and read.-lat
VOLUNTEERS. - The New York Natona
| Democrat says:
"We understand that full-dressed and ap
parently well drilled corps Of negroes was on
some few days since, numbering about seventy
muskes. They were accompanied BY one O
the white bandsn
INDIANA--Hon. Smith Miller one OF the fol
lowers Ct Douglas from this State, has beer
nominated for reelection.
A NEGRO PATRIor.---The Charleston Mcr
cury Of late date, chronicles the death, IL
that city, on the nth inst, of Captain Viii
hanson free man Of color, at the great ag'
OF ono hundred and thirteen years. In thi
long life Of industry, ho accumulated . sufh
cient fortune for the comfortable support o
himself and wife. The latter survives him
being over eighty years Of age. The Merew,
saws OF the Captain. that, "during tho war o
the Revolution, he assisted in throwing up thu
l;pas CIR fhe deConco If the oitv lCharleekop