Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-01-24

IN the SAID Territory OF NeDraskd as c5cwncIo
within the United States, except the eighth sec
tion of The act preparatory to the admission 81
Missouri into the Union, approved March ON,
1920, iohich soas superseded by the principles 81
the Legislation of 1850, commonly called me
Compromise Measures, and rs hereby declared
sn0peratfUe.0
This amendment is manifest Justification
of the truth of history, as is shown in the body
Of the foregoing address Not q man in Con-
gress or out Of Congress- in 1850, pretended
that the Compromise Measures would repeal
the Missouri Prohibition. Mr. Douglas himself
never advanced such pretence until this SEES
sion His own Nebraska bill, Of last session,
rejected it, It is sheer afterth0nght. To
declare the Prohibition imperative, may, in
deed, have effect in law az repeal but it is q
most discreditable way Of reaching the object.
Will the People permit their dearest interests
to be thus made the mere hazards Of Presi-
Dental game, and destroyed by false facts and
false differences?
MORTALITY IN New YoRK.--The number Of
deaths last week was 529, OF which AZ were
from small por.
CHIcAGo.--Horaoe Greeley says he saw Chi
cago in lS47, and that it is now not quite four
times as large as it was then. Its first civilians
house was built in 1892; and in 1897, Presi-
dent Van Buren, addressed letter to I" Chica-
60, Michigan Its first census was taken in
1910. fit meet with no drawback, it is like
~ to add Ii, 900 to 10000 per annum for the
next seven years, and to have population OF
10000 in 1860 Nine railroads run daily
freight and passenger trains, IA in all, into the
city.
ST. LouIs.--In 1883, st. Louis contained
about 6 900 people, and taxable property valu-
ed at only $2,OOO,OO0. The CITY has now over
100 900 inhabitants and taxable property ex-
coeding $3s,Oooooo. Her population is seven.
teen times and her wealth nineteen times
greater than it was in 1888.
try the experiment of using steam fire engines.
We trust it may prove successful The pres
ervation Of property and the cause Of good
morals are alike dependent upon some such
Improvement
ABoLIrIoNIsM IN WESTERN VIRGINIA.--Be-
lieving the people of Virginia are not aware Of
the progress Of Abolitionism in our State, have
thought the following communication might be
read with some interest by large portion OF
the citizens of our State. At the last Confer
ence of the Northern Methodist Episcopal
Church, held in Weston, Lewis county, Vir
GINA, there was sent to this station preacher
who ayows the sentiments Of Abolitionism.
This preacher avows his eternal hatred to the
Fugitive Slave Law on four distinct grounds:
Ist Because the law does not give to the fugi-
tive the right Of the hnbeas corpus; I'd. The
right to trial by jury; 3d. The right to call
testimony (colored or whitc) in the free States,
in defence of his rights as an American citizen;
and, 4th. That the law does not recognise slaves
as citizens thereby arguing that slaves are not
property. This preacher goes further, and says
that the Northern Methodist Episcopal Church
should be upheld and supported by Virginians
in preference to any other church, because the
ultimate object Of that church is the extirpation
Of Slavery. He also declares that the laws Of
Virginia are Of such damning character las
to Slavery that it will be the cause of the eter-
nal damnation of thousands of masters and
slaves in the world to come.
What do Virginia Northern Methodists think
of this doctrine, advocated in Virginia, by
regularly ordained Methodist preacher, regu-
larry sent to fill a very important station in
Virginia? But | am proud to say that this
preacher is no Virginian. He was raised in
Pennsylvania and Northern Ohio, and now sent
to Virginia to teach us Northern Methodism,
alias Abolitionism. JUSTICE.
Cor. Of Richmond Chris. ADVOCATE.