Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-02-04

Court of the United States decided adversely TO
the eighth claim Of the Morse Company, which
was for the exclusive use of the motive power
Of electromagnetic for the purpose Of making
signs or letters at any distance" This covered
the whole grant; and its rejection cxtinguishes
the claim to an absolute monopoly.
The SLAVERY PRoPAGANDIsTs.-The New
York Herald, consistent upon no other subject
Of policy or principle, has ever been faithful
TO the interests Of Slavery. II yesterday COM
menoed o long article, as follows:
There can no longer be any doubt that the
Nebraska controversy 10 about to revive the
agitation which the passage Of the fatal Mis-.
souri, Compromise first aroused
The Herald is perfectly correct in this, and
also when it says
Once, indeed, Mr. Senator Douglas did
move in the Senate to prol0ng the line 36 deg.
80 min. to the Pacific, and declare it the bound
airy between slavery and free labor. This in
judicious proposition was fortunately negatiyed
in the House,
SENATOR HoUsToN ON THE NEBRASKA BILL.
No one, says the New York Commercial Ad-
pertiser, will accuse Senator Houston, Of Texas
celebrity Of being an Abolitionist or anything
thereunto akin Yet that gentleman, in q leo
ture upon the Indians Of North America, de-
livered at Providence on Monday night, made
incidental alluson to the bill, and his remarks
are thus reported:
He alluded to the excitement now springing
up in the country in reference to the Nebraska
Territorial BILL He was ON the committee
which reported it, but was warmly opposed to
it, and added, 81 will die opposed to it' Ap,
plause IL was a violation OF the faith OF
solemn treaties Eighteen tribes Of Indians
live within the limits Of tho proposed Terrific
ry, and are owners in fee simple of the soil.
and they cannot be displaced without the COM
mission Of great national crime. His re-
marks upon this point were warmly received,
and there was not . single person in the audi
ence, whose sentiments on this interesting ques-
ton did not accord with those advanced by
this distinguished Senator
JUsT LAws.-Just Osborne, at the Halls
of Justice, New York, has under examination
three cases Of seduction. The names of the
parties are given in the reports. The penalty
of the law is imprisonment in State prison
not exceeding five years, or by imprisonment
in county Jail not exceeding one year The
subsequent marriage OF the parties may be
placed in bar Of a conviction
The value Of the imports of foreign merchan-
disc at the port Of Boston, during the year
which has just clofed compared with 1852,
was as follows:
In 1853 $43, $40 449
In 1852 1888, 144
Excess Of imports in 1853 1888, 305
D5-In another column will be found the
card Of Tracy s. Williams Professors of PEN
manship who have lately taken up their.resi-
dence in our midst They come highly recon-
mended as very superior penmen
Correspondence of the Baltimore SUM-
WASHINGTON, Feb 8, 1854.
The Territory of Arresonia ought to be called
Fagendia, for il is the fag end Of nature, with
no placers in it. II is not the land conveyed
by the treaty, but the treaty itself, which con-
tains the placers, and they are just worth five
million Of dollars. 81
As to the notion that il gives us route to
the Pacific, that, too is moonshine The pro
posed Southern route, az you will zee when the
Special Committee on the Pacific Railroad
shall report, does not require any other portion
of territory than that which now rightfully
belongs to the United States; so that all said
on that score amounts to nothing. We gain
nothing by the treaty but quasi settlement Of
fraudulent claims under the 18th article Of the
treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Colonel Benton is preparing an onslaught on
the Nebraska bill, in conjunction with the Pa
cifc Railroad project. Colonel Benton's oppo-
sition to the bill is much to be regretted In
the coalition formed by the present Admins
tration, it was n blunder to overlook and ex-
clude the great men Of the party. With the
exception Of Marcy, there is no prominent
statceman 10 the whole coalition; and he, if
am not very much mistaken, is not p very
willing not very enthusiastic
supporter Of the Nebraska bill. He Is, how
ever, bound to 60 for II, strong officially.