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Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-22

10 An attempt made at Platte city, Mo
on the 5th Of June, to re-unite the Benton and
anti Benton Democrats, proved. dead failure
rs we learn from the Weston Reporter.
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10 In 1851, the newspapers and politicians
Of the country were industriously engaged in
nominating candidates for the Presidency OF
the United States The following is list,
though perhaps not full, Of the names then
passing the rounds Of the press in this relation,
viz: Lewis CASE, w. Scott Henry Clay, Daniel
Webster, w. o. Butler, Samuel Houston S. A.
Douglas, James Buchanan, ID. s. Dickinson,
Levi Woodbury., John f. Wool, VIM. H. Sew
ard, T. H. Benton, |. P. Walker, John Mclean,
A. C. Dodge, Martin Van Buren,, j. G. Birney,
]. p. Hale James Jones Of Tennessee, Gen.
Lane of Indians, Com. Stockton, T. Corwin,
and Willard Fillmore. Franklin Pierce was
not among them.
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.


The attention Of our readers is invited to tho
calm and temperate Address Of members Of
Congress who voted against the Kansas Ne
braska bill.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-22

10 An Artesian well has been completed
at Frederick, Md The depth is not stated,
but the flow is said to be ono hundred and
fly gallons per minute.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-22

To- Use chloride of lime freely, if the prem
ises or vicinity Of your house is impure. If bed
bugs annoy you, destroy them with corrosive
sublimate, beaten up in the white of an egg, and
pasted on the woodwork infested. If reaches
abound, moisten and sweeten bread crumbs or
boiled potatoes, mix red lead with them, spread
ON sheets Of paper, and scatter them about in
the evening" to be gathered up in the morning.
If rats or mice be the pests, use good traps. In
poisoning them you may poison greater folks;
and if you destroy them in this way, you create
bad odors in the house. Flies should only be
driven of, by so purifying your house as to
make it unattractive to them.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-22

The attention Of our readers is invited to the
calm and temperate Address Of members OF
Congress who voted against the Kansas Ne
braska bill
The FUNERAL OF A SLAvE--The Alabama
Journal, describing the funeral Of Ga valuable
negro man." who persisted by casualty, says:
"He was buried on Sunday last, attended
by an immense procession of slaves, in CAR
riages and on foot We have heard the num-
her estimated at one thousand. We wish that
Theodore Parker, Wendell Phillips, or the
whole pack Of Northern fanatics, could have
seen it; we think the lie would have been
practically given to their declaration OF the
seryile and abject condition Of that class OF our
population"
We remark, first that carriages and ne
groes can often BIO spared to attend a funeral
on Sunday, secondly, that valuable =
man, Of any color, should not be valued as a
slave; thirdly if the condition Of Slavery is
not "servile and abject," We should like to
know what it is; and, fourthly, if the writer
really wishes the persons named could have
scen the pageantry with which the poor slave
was borne to his long home, why do 80 many
Of his fellow citizens Of the South land he
among them, perhaps) constantly threaten
these persons with tar, feathers, hemp bowie
knives, and other pleasantries peculiar to the
regions Of Slavery
o. Rev. DR.. VIM. A. Smith, of Randolph
Macon College Virginia, promises to put forth
an elaborate treatise on Slavery. He says, in
. letter just published, that the subject is
capable Of full defence on purely philosophical
and Soriptural grounds" If he so believes is
it not his duty at once to become somebody's
slave? Being philosopher and believer in
Scripture, how can he refuse? That there are
persons inferior to himself, does not settle the
point that they should be the slaves and he the
master, unless he can demonstrate that there
are not persons superior to him ALSO Besides,
Christianity teaches humility. DR.. Smith, to
DO consistent, and to prove his honesty, ought
to be slave.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10

FKosT.-As the season is at hand when
greenhouse and other plants are liable to in
jury from frost, it may not be unwise to devote
few moments to the consideration of the
manner in which it affects plants, and the best
means of avoiding its influence. 1t is not-the
freezing that does the injury. This really rem
ders the thing frozen warmer, by developing
the latent heat of its watering parts. The
Matosng of the frozen water is what we have
to guard against. In all thawings the solid
substance, as ice, takes up from surrounding
bodies, or from the air, the heat necessary to
render it liquid, and as soon as the process is
commenced, by the suns rays or otherwise, it
is continued by obtaining part or the whole
OF the required heat from neighboring bodies !;
this loss Of heat causes the bad effect. If we
freeze the ear, no harm is necessarily done to
it. If we go near fire, or in any other way
produce rapid thawing, we are liable to lose
the whole or part of the organ, because the
heat of the flesh is rapidly distracted. If, on
the contrary, we. apply snow to it, we render
the melting process SO gradual that the flesh
is not injured by the loss of heat. Many other
instances of similar character might be given
were it necessary. The same rule holds good
in the case Of plants. When their leaves or
fruit are frozen, all that is necessary is to apply
snow, cold water, &C., or in some other way to
prevent the rapid thawing of the ice. BY
attention to this point many valuable plants
may be saved from the ravages of frost. In
cold climates, delicate trees or vines may be
planted on the northwest slopes of hills, or on
the same sides of fences or houses, and the
tempering of the heat of the morning sun will
prevent them from being injured by the rapid
extraction of their frost.
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Washington Territory.

The rise, progress, and rapidity of population
which cbaracterizes our new Territories of the
West are without a parallel in the annals of
civilization. A few years, and, California was
scarcely known or thought of, save by few
adventurous mariners. Washington Territory
also presents evidences of advancement which
are almost as wonderful. Two years ago, it
formed three counties of Oregon Territory, viz:
Clarke, Lewis, and Thurston, with a population
Of about 1000 inhabitants. Since it was made
into n Territory, thirteen new counties have
been added thereto. The return of the Mar
shall, of the number of inhabitants last year,
was 1866. 1t is confidently believed that this
year the number has increased to 6,000l Two
years ago, but two sawmills existed in the Ter
ritory; now there are thirty-three, one running
twelve saws, with a dozen more in process of
construction. The Territory has the machine
ry and material to supply the whole Pacific
coast and islands with lumber, and give Japan
and China all they require Of the same. Two
years ago there was not, at the greatest extent,
dozen mercantile houses Exclusive Of the
Hudson's Bay Company in the Territory now
the number has vastly increased-numbering
at Pugets Sound alone, fifty trading establish
ments. Towns have arisen, as if by magic,
and from being able to count their houses but
by dozens, and poorly built at that, they are
now capable of reckoning them by hundreds, of
substantial material and build. Where two
years ago access was to be had to the Territory
but by most vexatious and expensive ways, fine
broad roads are opening throughthe mountains,
thus connecting the Sound and the Wallawalla
country. Rich coal mines and oyster beds,
within two years have been explored, and the
fisheries Of the Sound and Straits offer them
selves to the enterprise of Atlantic navigation.
An exchange Of the commodities Of the Terri
tory has already been made with those of Ho-
noiulu and 0ahua, and the prospect of large
trade with Australia, China, and other portions
of the east, and will soon be realized. Much
is predicted for the Territory as the home and
harbor Of American whalemen.
PHILADELPHIA Argus.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10
A Tame Whale.

An eastern traveller, in newly published
work, entitled "Notes Of Travel relates the
following singular fact which came under his
observation at Muscat:
"No visitor to the harbor is better welcomed
by the natives than 'Muscat Tom. This name
has been given by sailors to male fn-back
whale which has made an habitual practice for
over forty years TO enter, feed, and frolic about
the cove several hours in each day, always
leaving before night. Sometimes q smaller
member Of his tribe, supposed TO be female.
accompanied him. His length may not be
less than seventy feet, and that Of bis com.
panion fifty feet Since his arrival signalizes
the departure Of sharks which infest the harbor
to the prevention Of sea bathing by the ma
tives, the most strenuous caution is observed
not to interfere with his pursuits and diversions.
He shows no fear OF such vessels as trespass
upon his watery field. One day as he came
rolling leisurely and JOLLY alongside of a YES
sci at anchor in the harbor, and on board of
which was, one Of the crew threw with con-
siderable impetus stick OF wood into his open
mouth, ms he raised his head out Of the water.
This breach Of the good treatment which he
had been wont to receive did not draw any
signs Of displeasure from his whaleship, al.
though more than one malediction was be-
slowed upon the imprudent tar by the exaspe-
rated natives who had observed his censurable
conduct
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10
Right Hon. William Ceresford, M. P.

GAMING-HoUsE PRoFITs.-A letter, in the
Wolner Zeitung, gives an account of the profits
of the Gaming Bank at Hamburg, one of the
most celebrated of the German watering places,
at which gaming is allowed by the government.
The shares in the bank are Of the amount Of
FIVE hundred forms each, and on these the fol-
lowing dividends have been paid: In Septem-
Der, l847, dividend of "A forms; in 1913,
two dividends-one of 55 forms and the other
Of SO forms; in lS49, two dividends-one Of
63 forms and the other Of SO forms; in 1850,
two dividends-one of &c forms and the other
Of l25 forms; in 1851, two dividends-one Of
Ill forms and the other of ~ forms; in 1852,
two dividends-one of Y forms and the other
of 81 forms; in 1853, two dividends-one OF
"a forms and the other Of 100 forins; and in
March, 1854, one dividend of 1873 forms, an
other being due in September. This, however,
is only part of the profit made out Of the fire.
quenters Of these German resorts. Before the
shareholders receive any thing, the government
receives large rent from them, as its share Of
the plumber; and all the expenses of the costly
establishments in which the gaming takes place
have to be betrayed.
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who are your Aristocr.,.,

Twenty years ago, this one made candles,
that one sold cheese and butter, another butch
cred, and fourth carried on distillery, another
was contractor on canals others were mer.
chants and mechanics. They are acquainted
with both ends Of society, as their children will
be after them, though il will not do say out
loud For often you shall find that these toll.
ing worms hatch butterflies, and they live about
q year. Death brings division Of property,
and bring new 6nanciers; the old gent is dis
charged, the young gent takes bis revenues and
begins TO travel-towards poverty, which he
reaches before death, or his children do, IL he
does not SO that in fact though there is a
sort Of monied race, it is not hereditary, il is
accessible TO all three good seasons Of cotton
viii send generation Of men up--a score Of
years viii bring them down, and send their
children TO labor. The father grubs and grows
rch-his children strut and use the money.
Their children in turn inherit the pride, and 90
TO shiftless poverty; next their children, rein
vigorated by fresh plebeian blood, and by the
smell Of the clod, come up again.
Thus society, like tree, its sap from the
earth, changes in its leaves and blossoms, spread
them abroad in great glory, sheds off TO fall
back TO the earth, again to mingle with the
soil, and at length re-appears in new dress and
frest garniture.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10
The Grand Catholic Council at Rome.

The Apli de la Religion, (Paris,) Of October
10, says;-"The Catholic world is at present
occupied with great event which is about TO
be accomplished at Rome. Bishops are pro
ceeding from all parts of the earth towards the
Eternal City, at the voice Of the visible chief
Of the church. From France, ii. 4. the Car
dinal Gousset has already left for Rome, and
has taken the way Of Switzerland. The
Bishop of Mons has arrived in Paris, on his
way to the holy city, and is to leave in the
course Of the week. The Cardinal Archbishop
Of Mechlin has arrived in Paris. Several Irish
Catholic prelates, and among them the Arch.
bishops Of Armagh and Dublin, are also at
present in Paris, and on their way for Rome.
Ireland is the only Catholic country in the
world from which more than two prelatss have
been invited by name. But we learn from
Rome that great number Of bishops are ex-
pected, and that the presence of other prelates
than those officially invited will be seen with
pleasure. Al the bishops will take part &C
cording 10 their rank in the projected grand
general assembly. The assembly will be pre-
ccded by private meetings, composed, we are
tod, solely Of the prelates specially invited
II is Mgr. Autici Mattel who has been nomi-
mated Secretary of the Consistorial Congrepa-
ton. Amongst the French prelates who are
to 90 to Rome TO take part in the assembly
are named the Archbishop of Paris, and the
Bishops of Marseilles and Agen."
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Waslington gentinel.
Prairie Fires.

The western heavens are nightly aglow with
iurid reflections of tho burning prairies. To
any one who has never before seen them, there
IS something sublime-almost awful-in these
sights. The sensations they awaken are
strange, and TO a mind supersttously inclined
might not be unmixed with terror. We have
seen nothing equal to the first we beheld OF
these scenes. Long after night had clothed
the landscape in darkness, the entire heavens
at the south and west, from the horizon far up
toward the zenith, seemed a canopy Of fire,
with shadows undulating like waves reflected
from the surface of lake of liquid flame. No
light below the clouds could be seen, which
circumstance greatly heightened the effect.
The sight is one, however, which becomes com
mon and looses much of its interest to those
who witness it almost nightly during two or
three weeks every autumn. Yet there is much
more OF the grand and the sublime in this
fame-rehection than in the actual fires which
cause it.
great deal OF fine writing has been wasted,
innumerable excellent adjectives have been
misused, in describing these prairie fires
Writer'S who happened to see them once in
their lives, have told of them in terms the most
extravagant and logged them into works OF
hction to do wonders in the way of roasting
herds of wild Indians, buffaloes, horses, &c
One of the first books given to the child at
school, contains, even at the present day, an
execrable wood-cut representing divers quad
rupeds using their legs for their lives to get
away from the fire, which is furiously pursuing
at their heels. 1t is unexplained, however, to
the child that every animal in wild state will
flee from the sight of flame; that it is an in
stinct of his nature, and not any knowledge he
may have of danger, which makes him do so.
The character of prairie fire depends on the
wind and the combustible nature of the grass
If the latter be dry it of course burns rapidly,
and IN a high wind the fires will move with
great speed. But the flames never mount very
high, and the space over which they spread is
at most but two or three feet in width. A
horse, with rider, might always be able to leap
across with ease and safety. The most san
guine prairie fire we have ever seen, which
was with full "ten knot" wind, might have
been crossed by man on foot with small
damage to his pantaloons and whiskers. Once
over, he is entirely safe, waste of only black
ened ashes, without smoke or cinders, reach
ing to the very border Of the blaze.
The Indians, understanding the instinct of
animals to run away from the blaze, set the
prairies on fire to fighten the game from
covert They had no fear themselves of sus-
tanning any damage, having no fences, or
stacks, or houses to be consumed, the only dis
astrous effects, we believe, which prairie fires
can have.-Chicago Times.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10

Gates of scientific and medical men as TO the gen
uineness The owner asked $4,000, or 81 900
month wrote him if be brought il on, would
take il, if found il as he represented, or would
pay his expenses if not. found il was my old
original humbug come back 10 me again; OF course,
| refused it, and never heard OF il afterwards"
So much has been written on the subject Of
Juvenile depravity," its causes and its effects,
without producing any good, that we can only
attribute the failure to the fact that crime in
high places is tolerated, and the acts of the
rich, sinful and wicked as they are, are looked
upon as management and tact" 1t is a
fearful fact, that the lessons of wickedness are
more readily learned than those of the good;
hence it is that examples in crime are more
pleasing to youth than those of the Just and
righteous We all remember the effect the
drama of Jack Sheppard had upon the morals
Of the community. What effect will the book
of Barnum, that great intellectual highway
man, have on society? Time will show.
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CURIosITIEs OF SCIEScE.--WALKISG ON RED
HoT IRON PLATEs-Professor Pepper recently
delivered lecture in the POLYTECHNIC Institute,
London, before large audience of mechanics,
in which he remarked that the setting Of the
Thames on fire was no longer a joke but a
reality. BY dashing small bottle Of sulphu.
nc ether with few particles of metal POTASH
nm into a fat cistern bright fame was pro.
duced, which illuminated the whole place. He
then laid down four plates of red hot iron on
four bricks and one Of his attendants walked
over them barefooted, without any injury. By
wetting his fingers in ammonia, the Professor
dipped them into crucible OF melted lead,
and let the metal run off in the shape Of bull.
lets, into shallow..cistern Of water.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10
How Gentlemen Settle their Quarrels In
England,

We find in our English exchanges the fol-
lowing correspondence between two members
of the English House of Commons:
HAMPTON CoURT, SATURDAY,
October IA, 1854.
SIR: In reference to your letter of the 18th,
l have carefully read over the report of my
speech at the anniversary meeting ofthe Hinch.
ford Agricultural and Conservative Club, as
published in the Essex Gazette, which have
Just received.
l have consulted a friend on whose judg-
ment ! rely, and he considers that the Ian
guage to which you refer is unduly offensive,
in which opinion, on reflection, coincide. One
word" coward" slipped out unintentionally.
therefore retract it; and beg to express to
you my feelings of regret thatI should have
been betrayed, in the warmth of the moment,
into transgressing the fair bounds of courtesy.
Iremain your obedient humble servant,
WILLIAM BEREsFoRD.
The Right Hon. Sir JAS. Graham, Bart, M. P.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10
THE BATTLE FIELD.

How fine contrast has Macauley drawn, i
nese lines, from his Lays Of Ancient Rome, be
ween the corn fields as they are, and the battl
ED as it was.
Now on the place of slaughter
Are cots and sheep-folds seen,
And rows of vines, and fields of wheat
And apple orchards green:
The swine crush the big acorns
That fall from Corne's oaks;
Upon the turf by the fair fount,
The reapers pottage smokes.
The fisher bats his angle;
The hunter twangs his bow;
Little they think on those strong limbs
That moulder deep below.
Little they think how sternly
That day the trumpets peal'd;
How, in the slippery swamp of blood
Warrior and war-horse reerd.
How wolves came with fierce gallop,
And crows on eager wings,
To tear the flesh of captains,
And peck the eyes Of kings;
How thick the dead lay scatter'd
Under the Portian height;
How, through the gates of Tusculum,
Raved the wild stream Of fight;
And how the Lake Regillus
Bubbled with crimson foam,
What time the Thirty Cities
Came forth 10 war with Rome.
Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-10

A NATURAL CuRIosITY.-We have several
times heard Of spotted negro man belonging
to Mr.. A. +. Bruce, of Saline county. A few
days ago we called TO see him. His master
informed us that the negro is about as years
old. At twelve he was copper color all over /;
at twenty years Of age he was spotted like a
leopard; since that time he has been white
nearly all over. He is now undergoing sec
ond cbange-the black spots increasing in size
as the skin as any laboring white man. The
veins in his arms have the same blue appear.
auce of those of the fairest skinned white man.
The hair and features show that he is an un-
mixed African. He is stout, and always has
been healthy, except rheumatism in one leg,
which is Of late origin. In the hands Of Bar.
mum, Joe would be foriune.-Ler. NO. En-
press.