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An intelligent and reliable correspondent, az
Cincinnati, writes 10 the editor Of the National
Era, on the Let instant as follows:
aOur friends in this State are making active
preparation for the Congressional contest.
Hon. Edward Wade is supported Tor re-elec-
ton, in the Cleveland district, by both Wing
and Free Soil papers. He will, perhaps, get
three-fourths Of all the votes that will be cast
Hon. j. r. GiddiDgs will doubtless be support
ed for reelection in his district The country
cannot vet spare him from their national coun-
ellis. In the Mount Vernon district, Hon. Will
liam Sapp (Whie) will probably be the Repnb-
loan candidate for reelection. That is Q
strong Democratic district, and he obtained his
election before by the Democrats running two
candidates. Ii is now expected that there will
be a sufficient secession from the Old Line De-
mocracy, ON the Nebraska question, TO over
come their usual majority, and re-elect HIM.
Mr.. Shannon, one of the four from Ohio who
voted for tho bill, declines being candidate
for reelection He is afraid to come before the
people, and have them pass Judgment on his
treacherous conduct Hon. VIM. +. Hunter,
formerly member of Congress, and an able
and consistent Wilmot Proviso man, will prob
ably be the Republican candidate.
1.-THE prospect now is, that DR.. Olds will be
n candidate for reelection in the Columbus
district; and if 50, he will have the privilege
Of staying at home, the next Congress. Hon.
Samuel Galloway will be his opponent He
came within thirty or forty votes Of beating
him the last time, and this time he will I'M
doubleday be elected, by 500 or 900 majority.
Hon. Lewis D. Campbell will DO q candidate
again in his district, and will undoubtedly be
triumphantly elected.
aAn intelligent politician of the city OF
Piqua informs me that Dr.. Dorsey will be the
Nebraska candidate for Congress in that dis
trict, composed Of the counties of Miami,
Darke, Shelby, Mercer, Auglaize &c; and that
the Anti Nebraska Democrats, Wings, and
Free-Soilers, will support for re selection Mr..
Nichols, the present Democratic Representative,
who opposed the Nebraska bill, and that they
will give him large majority. He says, Mi
ami county will give 1000 majority for the
Republican ticket; and that intelligent politi-
cians of Darke county say that that county will
give 1000 or 1000 majority. The masses Of
the Democratic party there repudiato the Ne
braska swindle, and only few Of the leaders
adhere to it.
"In Hamilton county, Hon. j, Scott Harri-
son will be reelected, and some true man In
stead Of Disney.
"Yours for the right, J. T."
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

Amazon, if not the whole Of Brazil, annexed;
and the African slave trade reopeued Such
is the programme Of the new political era
which is foreshadowed by the organs Of pub
lie opinion Of the South, and such the platform
on which Northern dougbfaces, Wing and
Democratic, will have to stand in the future
struggles Of Freedom and Slavery. We have
already seen, in the report Of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, in favor Of the with
drawal Of the African squadron, that the
slaye-traders have party in Congress, and
that they rank distinguished Northern Sena-
tors, as well as Southern, among their lead
crs. G.
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For the National Era.
A HOME SCENE.


Twas bitter night--the frost spirit shrieked
In the earth and air on high
And the clouds seemed frozc, like mantIing shroud,
To the stars that gemmed the sky;
And the winds whstling weird spoke Of icy caves,
Whose breath strikes blight 10 all life that Il laves
But the boys cared not, for the kitchen FIRE
Charmed all ffoss that dared intrude;
And the boys Wild eIee would have charmed the
winds, &f
In the toughest solitude;
So the boys and the ERE lsugbed merrily,
While the ffost-winds ragged over land and sea.
Vermont 1854.
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DEMocRAoY--WHATI is IT ?--Does 1t consist
in adhesion to party leaders, in utter Disregard
of principles? This is the question which
above all others agitatos the minds Of the DEM
ocratic pres in Indiana. The STATE Sentinel
and the recensState Convention which met OF
Indianapolis endorse the Nebraska bill, and
make its support test Of party fealty. The
Lafayette Courier republishes the resolutions
Of the Indiana Democratic State Convention,
which met in ls4s, declaring IL to be the duty
of Congress 10 prevent the introduction into all
Territories where it did not then exist, with
the letter Of VIM. J. Brown, now editor Of the
State Sentinel, to the effect that he had al
ways been opposed to the extension Of Sla-
very and pertinently asks, if this was true
Democratic doctrine in ls4s, why different
doctrine should be proclaimed 40 Democracy
in 1882 Great efforts have been made BY
the friends of the Nebraska bill to break
down the Courier, for its outspokon holiness
against this measure but we arc pleased to
see that the people are ralIyiDg to its support.
The Woodford county indy Argus thus de-
fines its views Of Democracy:
aThe' fundamental principles Of Democracy
need no unreasonable tests applied, for it deals
out equal and exact Justice to all men. The
continual desire to do something which has not
been done, is very dangerous, for tho very rea-
son that such ambitious politicians are apt to
do something they should not do, and thus en-
gulf the party into difficulties where no aid
can reach them. There seems to be kind OF
dictatorial spirit growing among some who
have heretofore been regarded as the leaders
Of the Democratic party and they say now,
you shall think as we do, or we will read you
OUT Who shall think and prescribe action
for the people, who are the Government? No
one. Is anybody less Democrat and lover of
his country, because he does not fully agree
with those whom he assisted to elevate to pow
or? Is this the basis of his Democracy, that he
should submit without defence to the prescrib-
ed political action? This is tyranny and it Is
tyranny that the Democrats hate"
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BAsrsHrD CITIZENS on RoME.--The barque
a. H. Kimball from Leghorn, arrived off Sandy
Hook yesterday, having on board twenty five
Romano said TO be banished BY the Pope, after
four years imprisonment without trial or any
Communication with Their families.
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Henry A. Wise, Of Virginia, has written =
letter, in which he defines his position on the
Nebraska Kansas bill Like General Millson,
he opposed it on Southern grounds, and par
ticularly with reference to the Badger proyiso.
Mr.. Wise is spoken Of as a candidate for Gov
erDor, and is particularly anxious not to be
misunderstood at the present timc. q.
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BURyINe Two WIvEs IN WEEK.--At Buff
falo, last week, man is said 10 have lost his
wife by cholera, married another the next day
and lost her also by death on the day follow
ing Erchange
Such creatures should not be taken into the
account whom the number Of the human fami-
y is estimated. But these are they who bring
disease and death into every community.
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IBY HOUSES PRINTING TELEGRAPHi
rELEGRApnIC CORRESPONDENCE

The Murder an .New York-Fwfher Par
ficulnrs.


The Murder in NeD York--Fwfher Par
ficuius.
New YoRK, AUG 3-Dr Graham was fully
committed for trial, for the murder Of Colonel
LoriDg, He is o native Of Kentucky, and re-
puted wealthy.
Later from Harana.
New York, Auc 3-The steamship Cres-
cent City arrived here this morning, bringing
Havana dates to the 10Th ult., rs passengers,
and So, 600 in specie.
The Havana papers contain no news Of i'm
portance
Cholera.
Nrw YoRx. AUc. 3.--Thirteen cases have
been reported at the Franklin Hospital--eix
deaths. Twenty Eve cases remaining.
a Fishing pcssel Seized.
BosroN, AUG 3.--The schooner Ellen was
seized at Miramichi, by British cruiser, for an
alleged violation Of the fishing regulations.
From Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, AuGUsT 3.--The cholera has
nearly disappeared at the Baltimore county
almshouse
Flour remains dull and depressed. Wheat
sales Of II 900 bushels white, $3.50 TO $l75;
red at 81 IS to 81. IS Corn--sales of 5000
bushels; white, 10 TO rs cents; yellow, 70 cts.
Oats--eales of 5000 bushels nc 80 to s8 cents.
No other changes to notice.
From Philadalphia.
PHrLADKIpHrA, Aue. 3.-Markets for bread
stuffs depressed.
Thirty inches Of water Al Whoeling
"A. VI
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10 AT Syracuse, yesterday morning, an
Trishman, named Patrick Cannon, shoe
maker, living in Sslina street. found bis wife
dead in bed. He had beaten her in the night
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15- Hon. Henry X. Jackson, Of Georgia,
Minister to Austria, II is said, is on bis way
home, and intends to resign his position.
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ny- The Reciprocity Treaty was ratified by
the Senate, yesterday, by vote Of 80 to II.
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D The Wings Of tho sixth Congressional
district of Maine have nominated Noah Smith,
of Calais, for Congress He was Speaker Of the
last House Of Representatives Of Maine
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10 The corner stone Of the Western Pres
bytcrian Church, Washington city, was laid
yesterday afternoon, at Eve o'clock, with ap.
propriate ceremonies.
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From Mem York.

New YoRK, AUeusT 3--The Commissioner
Of the Canal Fund has given notice that he
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The Nep York Tribune, few days SINCE
contained the following extract Of lcttcr Of
Gen. Washington, never before published:
awe conclude these observations with an
impressive extract from hitherto unpublished
letter Of Washington 10 Tobias Lsar written
from Philadelphia on the 9Th Of May, 1894, while
Mr. Lear was In Great Britain, charged with
negotiations for the sale Of considerable por-
ton Of Washington's landed estate:
al have no scruple in disclosing to you that
my motives 10 these sales are TO reduce my in
come, be IL more or less, TO specalities that the
remainder Of my days may thereby be more
tranquil and free from care; and that may
be enabled, knoDing iohat my dependence IS 10
do as much good as my resources uiif admit for
although, in the estimation Of the world, pos
sess a good and clear estate, yet 30 unproduc-
tive is i, that am oftsntimss ashamed 70 refuse
aid iohich cannot afford unless 1 sell part of
IL 10 onswer this purpose. Besides these, have
another motive which makes me EARNESTLY
wish for these thiDgs-rT Is, INDEED, MORE
POWERFUL THAN ALL THE RrsT--namely: 10
hbcrate certain species Of property which
possess vsry repugnantly 10 my oaon feelings,
but which imperious necessity comPsis, until
can substitute some other srpedisnf, By whieh sr
penses, not in my poaor % acoid, (hoiceper weu
disposed may be 10 do IT, can be deroyed'
After reading these words, who shall 40
cuse Washington Of parsimony, or cite bis ven-
cradle and sacred name as that Of an apollo
gist for slavcryW
Virginia editor attempts TO discredit the
authenticity Of the letter; but he only displays
bis ignorance OF the writings Of Washington,
and Of the history of his country, II be under
takes to deny Wasbington's opposition to Sla-
very he liberrted his slaves in bis will, ex-
pressing his regret that he had not been able
to do so in his lifetime; and in several letters
TO Gen. Lafayette and others, he expressed bis
anxious concern to sec Slavery abolished. The
vrginian who denies this displays deplorable
ignorance Or rockers mcndacity. g.
The HOMICIDE AT New YoRK This act, at
the st. Nicholas Hotel, was committed by DR..
II. M. Graham, of New Orleans. Col Loring,
Of California, was bis victim. The former was
drunk, and making o noise in one Of the corri-
doris. Col. Loring requested him to desist, as
il annoyed his wife. DR.. Graham continued
his conduct, when Col Loring came out and
requested him to desist, eocond time. One Of
the hotel servants testifes that the deceased
struck the prisoner, whom the latter raised his
cane and the deceased seized IT, The sheath
came Oh, and the prisoner ran the sword into
him.
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20 The papers Of St Johns, N. b, state
that there is general cholera panic in that
city. Many families are fleeing from the
scourgo. The deaths average twenty-five or
thirty per day.
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Later from HaUana.


New YoRK, AUc 3.-Thirteen cases have
been reported at the Franklin Hospital--six
deaths. Twenty. Eve cases remaining
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W A citizen Of Roxbury, Massachusetts,,
has brought suit against Mayor Smith, the U.
States Marshal, and other officers, for injuries
sustained during the rendition Of Burns. The
damages are laid at $4,000.
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From Baltimore.
From PMladalphia.

PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 3.--Markets Tor bread
stuffs depressed.
Thirty inches Of water Al Wheeling.
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"A Fishing Vessel Seized.

BosroS, AUG 3.--The schooner Ellen was
seized at Miramichi, by a British cruiser, for an
alleged violation Of the fishing regulations.
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NEW YoRK, AUe 3.--Dr. Graham was fully
committed for trial. for the murder Of Colonel
LoriDg, He is . native Of Kentucky, and re-
puted wealthy.
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D5- A riot occurred yesterday in Thirteenth
street, New York II appears that the Rev.
Mr.. Mallory, q Catholic priest, went TO sec the
sick wife Of an Irishman named Calligan.
Permission to see hor was refused by Calligan,
and, on tho priests insisting, he received Sc
verc blow. Some twenty or thirty lrishmen
soon assembled, and Mallory was badly injured
Twelve arrests were subsequently made.
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HANDBOOK OF GERMAN LITERATURE. New York:
D. Appleton. For sale by X FsHham, Washing
ton, ID. G.
1t contains poems and fctions BY eminent
German authors, with an introduction in Eng
lish.
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MUTTERING THUNDER.

The People are beginning to awake. The
heavy, single drops, and deep mutterings,
which precede the tempest, are, already felt
ahead
We extract below a stern warning to Rep
resentatives from Ohio, uttered, in due season,
by the Sandusky Daily Mirror a stanch Old
Line Democratic sheet, to which they will do
well to take heed. We arc glad to know that
an address to the people of that great State,
from their Senators and Representatives, is in
circulation for signatures, and will appear on
Monday.
. But read the article from the Mirror:
"DoUGLAs's NEBRAsKA.-Let no member of
Congress Uote for Douglass bill for Territorial
government to Nebraska. If any do, they had not
better return. to Ohio-mask at! Much as we
desire the organization of Nebraska, we would
rather wait until after another election for
members of Congress, than have such a bill
pass. How contemplate men do appear, when
they resolve at Baltimore against agitation Of
the Slavery subject, and then repair to Wash
ington, and open the pow-wow, anew. These
clap-trap politicians must mean that they
alone have the right to talk on that subject,
and nobody else. By such a course, Mr..
Douglas may get himself elected to take care
of his 14O slaves in Mississippi, but he can
never reach the Presidency"
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CHIvaLRY ILLUSTRATED.

Last winter, the majority Of the Senate, at
the dictation Of the Power that rules this Gov
eminent, excluded Messrs. Chase and Sumner,
two of the most able lawyers and best-read
men in that body, from any respectable posi-.
tions on the Standing Committees, because they
did not choose to fall down and worship the
fetish which commands the homage Of the
dwelling tribe OF politicians.
The notice taken of this magnanimous con.
duct was such, that this year there was some
hesitation at repeating the experiment. The
Democratic Caucus by an extraordinary effort
of heroism, ventured so far as to provide for
Mr. Chase, whose business habits and expert
ence render his services on any committee in
valuable; but the Wings, unable to rival this
daring act suffered Mr. Sumner to drop, al.
though requested by the opposite Party to pro
vide fer him.
The constitution of the Select Committee on
the Pacific Railroad affords another illustration
Of the ignoble spirit of sectioualsm that reigns
in tho Senate Soon after the commencement
Of the session, Mr.. Chase submitted resolu-
ton that the Committee on Roads and Canals.
(of which he is a member) be instructed to in
quire into the expediency of constructing a
road from the western boundary of the Mssis-
sippi States to California-thus taking the in.
itiative in that great work. Not long after
wards, he called up his resolution, and Mr.
Gwin moved an amendment to it, (which was
carried,) ordering Select Committee on the
subject. The resolution, as amended, passed
According to Parliamentary usage or courtesy
Mir. Chase was fairly entitled to the post Of
Chairman of the Select Committee but be
longing to neither of the ruling party organi
zetions, it was not surprising that the custom
airy rule should be disregarded, and Mr.. Gwir
be selected as Chairman. Still, it was the gen
eral expectation that he would be appointed 9
member of the Committee. This was absolutely
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invalidate it by comforting on the People there
the right to admit Slavery if they choose.
This is shown by the language of the BILL ex-
pressly inserted for the purpose Of guarding
against misconception. And the organ"
from the time it first spoke on the subject down
to this hour, has constantly asserted that such is
the intent and effect of the bill So that the
Missouri Compromise, which was not interfered
with by the Compromises of 1850, but the prin-
ciple of which was reafirmed in clear, intelli-
gible terms in those Compromises, is to be set
aside by this Bill. And yet the Albany AhaS,
with an excess of credulity and charity incom-
prehcnsible except on the presumption Of
determination on its part not to break with the
Administration, claims that the Union and
itself agree as to "the necessity of preserving
the status quo of the Territory, as left by the
Compromises of 1920 and Of 1901"
o, for frank plain, manly, straightforward
dealing in our politics! We saw, the moment
the deceptive bill was introduced, that it would
afford shelter to dodgers-to politicians, on one
hand afraid of their Party and of Slavery, on
the other, of their constituents. Slavery would
be satisfied by the indirect repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise their constituents might be
appeased by the statement that there was no
clause in the Bill positively and formally re-
pealing it. 1t is the old game of dodge and
deceit, in which the North always gets cheat
ed The atlas was keen enough in 1S4s to ex-
pose the game and hold the gamesters up to
contempt will it suffer itself and its associates
to be hoodwinked nowi Is it not of as much
Importance to preserve free, the old Territory
of the Union, consecrated to Liberty for the
last thirty three years, with its immense capac-
ties for sustaining free-labor population as it
was to keep Slavery out of the new Territory
acquired from Mexicoa In this more fragrant
and outrageous conspiracy of the Slave Power
to establish universal empire, we can hardly
believe that it will abandon its old faith, and
place itself under tho guidance of such paper
as e the organ"
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required, not by courtesy, but by justice; for
it was on bis motion, after all projects in rela-
ton to Pacific Highway had failed in the last
Congress, that resolution was passed, author
izing the President to institute a series of ex-
plorations of the different routes proposed for
the road, with view of submitting whatever
information might be collected to this Congress
Under that resolution, explorations have been
actively going on, and great mass of invaluable
information has been obtained Nor did Mr.
Chase intermit his labors after the adjourn
ment of Congress. He brought the subject be-
fore the People of the West, and his services
were noticed in the most honorable manner by
the Authorities and People Of ST. Louie
In view of all this, and of the fact that he
had taken the initiative in the business in the
Senate this session, it was due to him that he
should be placed On the Select Committee.
So thought the caucus that arranged the mat
ter for the final decision of the Chair but it
will surprise the country when it shall learn
that from this Select Committee, as named by
Mr.. Atchison, President pro tenn. of the SEN
cluded! Here are the names
Mr. GwIN, of California, Chairman.
MIR. BRIGHT of Indiana,
Mr. RUsK of Texas,
Mr. DOUGLAS of Illinois,
MIR. BELL Of Tennessee,
Mr.. EVERETT of Massachusetts,
Mr.. SEWARD of New York,
MIR. GEYER of Missouri,*
Mr. EVANS Of South Carolina
Any one of whom could have been quite as
well spared, majority of whom could have
been better spared, than the man who (sinoe
Mr. Bsntons retirement from the Senate) thus
far has devised the only measures in that body
relating to the road, of any practical value.
Does any man imagine that had Mr.. Chase
bent his knee to the dark spirit Of Slavery he
would have been thus prescribed? How long
do the supporters of the peculiar institution
think they can thus arrogate to themselves all
honor and power! 1t has come to this, that
man must swear by negro slavery before he is
considered entitled to political position, or even
social equality.
For one We reject the test, defy those who
propose, and detest and scorn those who ae-
cept it.
4 The People of Missouri will appreciate Mr.. Atch
sons devotion 10 their interests when they learn that
the name of Mr. Geyer, whom sickness and absence
will probably prevent from giving any attention to
the business of the Committee, substituted for
that of Mr. Chase, the known and active friend of
the Central route.
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and that he shall studiously avoid giving any
countenance to any form of Oppression in his
new home.
In both these respects, Mr.. Mitchell has not
only lamentably failed, but with indecent
haste, ofhcious zeal, and in vulgar terms, he
volunteers his support to a system of political
and social Despotism, which three-fourshs of
the People of his adopted country regard with
aversion, and the most reasonable and candid
of the other fourth claim liberation for only
as necessary evil.
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VOL. VIII

intent upon another object lets the truth -,
by accident when it styles it an amenJn.r. !,
"The bill" it says as proposed to be qm,r5 !,
by Mr.. Douglas" thus incidentally disclos.
the fact that the 2lst section was an az
thought
Gentlemen, the sooner you get rid of sDob
bill, the better will it be for you. lie. n.
Douglas have friend ready, next MoD5,.
after having explained his views respec.iOg !.
to move recommitment; and the neyt :;
the Committee shall act, let it be to reno,
simple, legitimate bill for the Formation .,
Territorial Government in Nebraska viii
any clap-trap about the Compromises Ct I..@