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WESTWARD HO!

Never before has there been heavier emf.
grafton to tho far Western States than there is
this spring IL il an emigration not only OF
newly arrived foreigners, who fly from taxa
tion and tyranny in search Of Utopia on the
prairies but the substantial farmers OF the
Eastern States are going by thousands 10 Iowa
Minnesota, Nebraska, and wherever else their
lives may be safe in the far West Every
steamboat that goes down the Ohio carries
hundreds Of Pennsylvania and Ohio farmcrs,
in search of new, virgin farms in the remote
States. Even Ohio and Indiana cease to be
regarded IA tho West and, with their cities
and their railroads they are entirely too civil.
izcd and too crowded for considerable por-
ton of the population.
The apparent abandonment OF the old States
is not the result Of any exhaustion OF their
means Of supporting life, or any failure in any
Of their resources. The contrary of this is shown
by the steady and rapid rise in the value of
real estate and the immediate filling up by i'm
migration Of the vacancies created by emigra-
ton. The population Of Pennsylvania was
never growing 40 rapidly "a it il now Her
farms, her mines, and her factories, we're never
50 productive and 40 profitable. But the I'M
satisfied American spirit will never be con-
tented, 80 long ~ there is n square mile Of va
cant territory between the Mississippi and the
Pacific. Pcnnsylvanians will still be found to
leave comfortable homes and cultivated farms,
and risk all upon n wild, unbroken prairie,
where they must erect new household gode,
and gather aronnd them, with infinite patience
and toll, new home comforts and associations.
There is a Providence in this; for by no other
means can VIC explain a characteristic 10 OK
traordinary. In no other country do people
abandon homes and comforts merely to mi
crate to another part of the same country, gov
erncd by the same laws, and with similar char
actcristics Of soil and climate The result TO be
accomplished is the filing up Of our vast mn
occupied domain, which must be done before
America and American institutions can fulfil
their destiny What that destiny IL, cannot
now be safely predicted, though all feel that it
is high and noble one The Western move
ment OF our thousands Of substantial citizens
il, however, ono Of the great elements at work
towards its accomplishment.
philadelphia Bulletin.
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CONGRESS-.

The Senate stands adjourned from yesterday
to Monday next :
In the House Of Representatives, the anaes
thetic award OF one hundred Thousand dol
lars was tabled; or, in the more emphatic Ian
guage Of Mr.. Jarndyce Of Bleak honse it was
floored Mr. McDougal, from the Committee
on the Post Office and Post Roads, reported a
bill to establish by advertisement and contract
to the best bidder, a weekly m Ill line between
the Atlantic coast and California. This bill
was wisely postponed until the first Monday IN
June, and ordered to DO printed
The House then, in Committee Of the Whole,
proceeded to the consideration Of the business
upon the Private Calendar; having previously,
however, agreed that its adjournment to-day
shall bo until Monday next
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

the faculty Of taking care Of themselves.
so with Dickinson and Cass--excellent gentle
mon were they in their generation, but equally
unfortunate.
Tho new candidates for our favor, now 80
prominent on the political stage, may, it - to
be feared, meet similar fate but how can
we help it? We arc not responsible for
Northern fanaticism, nor can It be expected
that the South shall build an asylum large
enough to accommodate all it's victims BE-
sides, the friends Of the Consultation and our
rights must learn to take care of themselves,
while discharging their duties to us under the
Constitution. The mere fact that, in their zeal
to serve US, they have been 80 laundering as
to forfeit their political position at home, shows
that, however willing, they are far from being
wise; and as they can give us kind words, but
nothineelse, they cannot expect from ns any
thing more substantial IN return.
Are not these things written in tho book Of
the Chronicles Of Slavery?
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this new work, in which the philosophy Of his
tory and the revelation Of the Holy Scriptures
are found in beautiful harmony to exait high
above NIL praise and worship of men and angels,
Christ, the Power Of God and The JVidom Of
God
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Hon PRIcEs OF SLAVE PRoPERTY.n--At
the recent sale in this county Of the property
belonging to the estate Of Edmund Townsend,
deceased, the slaves, 2s5 in number all field
hands, and large proportion OF them children,
ro'd Tor S207, 1876 being an average Of 1927 |!
ia some instances, a young man and wife, hav-
ing no children, sold for S9,005, many boys
and girls from eleven to twenty years old,
brought from $500 to $i700; two twin
brothers, fifteen years old sold for so 700
brother, sixteen years old, sold for 81 200, and
q sister Of the same, sixteen years Of age, FOR
81 500 The negroes were sold ON twelve
months credit, and the prices were unusually
high. They were, however, principally bought
by tho lcgatecs The entire amount Of the
sale was about S33O,000
Huntsville ldla) Adpocate
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Gy- The Daily Era can be had every morning
at tho Periodical Stand Of Mr.. J. T. BATES, Elk
change, Philadelphia; also, the Weekly Era.
0Y-Mr JAMES ELLIOTT is authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions and advertisements Tor
the Daily and tho Weekly National Era, in Cincin-
natl and vicinity.
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To- The Nebraska bill, the Baltimore Amer
icdn says, is to be brought mp in the House Of
Representatives at an early day in next week
and an earnest effort made 10 secure its adop-
tion without tho Clayton amendment
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In Pm,ana, Sardinia, superstitious girl
twenty years old being asked by her father
contemor, whether she would 20 to hell with
her toa gne or to paradise without il, M soon nj
she returned home, cnt ont her tongne
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SAILING OF STsAMrRs--The steamers Star
Of the West and George Law sailed yesterday
afternoon from New York, crowded with pas
scngcrs for California.
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The assassin Of Count Rossi, at Rome, is said
to have been detected
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15- Heavy frosts have occurred at Mobil,
and vicinity.
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RATES OF PosrAGE.--Many Of our exchange
papers comment upon the bill recently intro.
duccd to Congress by Mr.. 0lds, but wc have
yet to meet with tho first that approves it.
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BANK FAuUREs.-The temporary injunction
on the Cochituato Bank has been made per
mancnt and il was yesterday currently report
cd at Boston that the Bank Of Castlcton (ver-
mont had stopped. IT. bills were refused by
the Suffolk Bank
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VESSEL BURNT AT SrA.--A despatch from
Charleston, on tho | 9th, states that the schoo
ner Nebraska, from Port I.ayaeca, has been
burnt at sea. The loss IL said to be 500, 600.
She was insured in New York
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SALE or TRoTTING HoRsE.--Fanny the
great trotting horse, was yesterday sold Al
Philadelphia, for $4,000. James Hammill wa
the purchaser.
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THE INDECENT INSANE BILL.--A despatch
from this city, yesterday pnblehed in the
Northern papers, states that at is understood
that the President will refuse to sign the bill
granting land for the INDECENT insane.
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LATEST PROM ABsFcoM BEAcH.--So far, 100
dead bodies have been washed ashore at Ahse.
com Beach. IL is not yet known to what ves
sci they belonged.
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ly in the fairy set where Lows hand has trained
the honeysucies over the latticed porch, and
placed 4Eolian Tyres in all the easements.
MARRIED YESTERDAY" There are pearls
and gold shining now amid the flowers that fringe
Loves pathway and stars cleaning ike ehapde-
ers in the frmanent of Hope. There are harps
tinkling now, whose melody is sweeter than the
sound OF the evening bells, and joys falling like a
shower OF amethysts upon the heartsrt that yester
Gay were wed. Life now is become beautiful the
soul scars upward from the dust, like dove loosed
from Its cage there is melody in every breeze and
every place yea, there are angels in every path,
with crownings for those who are pressing onward
with song and prayer
"MARRIED YESTERDAY 1t seems now a lens
distance to the grave-a long road to the final rest
But soon the shadows win come, and life lose its
summer bloom. Then, as the patter of tiny feet
is heard about the grandlathers house. and little
BARNS cluster about his knee those who were mar
ried yesterday, mayhap win turn back to the records
of the Past, weeping silently the while. remmem-
bering that their simmer Is gone, their harvest
ended and that soon gathering up their sheaves,
they must pass beyond the gates of pearl, where
will eyermore be one marriage-that OF the Lamb
with those who love aud serve him.
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The Dead.

How beautiful is the memory OF the dead w hat
a holy thing it is in the human heart, and what
clastening influence it sheds upon human life =
How it subiues all the harshuess that grows up
within us in the daily intercourse with the world.
How it melts our unkndess and sOftens our pride,
kindling our deepest love- and waking our highest
aspirations Is there no one who has not some
loved friend gone TO heaven, with whom he delights
to live again in memory? Does he not love TO SIT
down IN the hushed and tranquil hours OF exis-
tence. and call around him the face the form, so
familiar and cherishel-to look into the eye that
mirrorcd not more clearly his own face than the
soul which he loves-t listen to the tones which
were once melody in his ear, and have echoed soft
" in his heart since they were hushed! Is there
a spirit to which heaven is not brought nearer by
holdinr some kindred soul? How friend follows
friend into the happy dwelling place OF the dead
till we find. at length that they who love US on the
heavenly shore are more than they who dwell
among us Every year witnesses the departure Of
some one whom we knew and loved and when we
recall the names of all who have been dear to US
in life. how many of them we see passed into that
CITY which is imperishabe
The blessed dead {. how free from stain is our
love for them! The earthly taint OF our aIiec-
tions is buried with that which was cOrruptibe,
and The divine flame in its purity illumes our
breasts. We have no fear of losing them. They
are fixed for US eternally in the mansions prepared
for our reunion. We shall find them waiting for
us. in their garments of beauty. The glorious
dead how reverently we speak their names! Our
hearts are sanctified by their words which we re-
member How wise they have grown in the limit
| less fields of truth How joyous they have be
! come by the undying fountains of pleasure! The
| immortal dead how unchanging is their love fOl
us. How tenderly they look down on us, and how
closely they surround our being How earnestly
they entreat US, and how touchingly they rebnk'
the evil of our lives.
Let men talk pleasantly of the piOus dead, a
those who no longer suffer and are tired-as thos
who pursue no longer the heetng, but have grasp
ed and secured the real With them the fear AM
the longing, the hope and the terror, and the pam
are all passed the fruitiOn of life has begun HoV
unkind that when we put away their bodies, W
shoul6 cease the utterance Of their names IN
tender-hearted dead, who struggled parting iron
usl wby should We speak of them in awe, and It
member them only with signing? Very dea
were they when hand clasped hand, and heart rt
snonded to heart Why are they less dear whe
thew have grown worthy higher love than ours
Rv the hearth-sde, and by the grave-side, in sol
tnde and amid the multitude, think cheerfully an
speak lovingly of the dead.
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MEDICINAL.
AFFLICTED READ!


9UlIADFIpHIA MEDICAL H0USE.--Established Is
wears ago by DIR. KlNkEIiN. The Oldest surest and
hest hand to cure all secret diseases Of the skim aud
solitary habits Of youth, IS DIX AINhELiN, N W corner
of Third and Union Streets between Spruce and Pine
and half squares from the Exchange, Philadelphia
Take Particular NOtice.-There is habit which
poys teach each other at the academy college, habit in
uiped when by themselves solitude growing p with
the boy manhood and which, if not abandoned in due
time only beges serious obstacles to matrimonial hap
pness but gives rise TO of protracted nsdous and
devastating affections. Few of those who indulge this
perncOus practice o the Consequences until tep
lind the yse shattered feel strange and unac-
counabe feelings vague fears in the mind The ndylduaI
becomes feeble he unable TO labor with accustomed Wig
or or 10 apply his mind to study his tardy and weak
ne dull and lrreSOue the countenance doWnca5t the
eyes without natural lustre shameacedness apparent
1hcse symptoms iDoh should apakea tie attention Of
these similarly afflicted
If the victim be conscious of the of his dacay and
having fenqusted the odous practice, he suffers under
those terrible nocturnal emissions which weaken and shame
him, producing mental and physical prostTaiion Ii he
eancpate himself before the practice has done IT'S worst
and enter marinony, his marriage IS unirnu and his
senses tell him that this is caused BY his early foies.
Too many think they Will hug the secret TO Their own
hearts and cure themselves Aias how often this fatal
delusion and how many apromsng YOUTH who might have
been ornament TO society," has aded from the earhl
Young Men Let false modesty deter you from
making your known TO who from education and re-
spectabiy, alone befrend you He who places himself
under DR.. KiNKELiNS treatment may Tehgousy conide
his honor gentleman and in whose bosom Will be for
locked the secret Of the patient.
Country Notwithstanding il inconvenient to make
personal application, can by stating their explicitly, to
geter with all their symptoms per letter postpaid have
forwarded TO them chest containing DR. h medicines,
appropriated accordingly, and be cured al home.
Structures of the ureha weakness aud constitutional de-
bility promptly cured and full vigor restored All letters
post paid.
- remittance of 25 cents in letter. post paid adj
dressed to Dr. Knkeiin Philadelphia will his book
on the Secret Infrmities of Youth. sept4-wly
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0na Glass Of VIM.

very interesting story of the brth. nareBtage
and rise to power of the Emperor rance. =
given in Harpers Magazine. Inc u 1855 ---
ticIe we also find the history of lone 1s-
as follows:
The Duke Of Orleans, the elde-j
Louis Philippe, was the inheritOr of -
the royal family could transmit. II
young man physically end intellectual!
One morning he invited few compan
him, as he was about to take his departure
is to join his regiment. In the conviviaity
hour, he drank a little too much wine. lie dlu
become intoxicated; be was not in any respec
dissipated man. His character lofty and
bic. But in that joyous hour he drank glass too
much. He slightly lost the balance OF his body
and of his mind Bidding adieg TO his companions
he enterrd his carriage
Bat rur that extra glass of wine he would have
kent hi; seat lie leaped from the carriage But
for that extra glass of wine he would have aight-
al ON his feet His head struck the pavement
S,.nseless and bleeding he was taken into beer
sbop and died That extra glass Of vine Overthreg
the Orleans dynasty cOnfscated their property Of
one hundred millions of dollars and sent the Whole
family into exiIe-N: Y. ObseTrer-
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ImnOrianee Of The C0mnaSS.

Captains of ocean steamers diher considerably
in their attention to exaetness in compasSes. Good
eompasses are doubtless furnished to all vessels of
this important class hut the very best eumpass
may be rendered worse than useless, by disregard
of the petty circumstances on board that derange
its action. Capt. Shannon, OF the Cunard steamers
line related to US curious instance of deraage-
ment in the compass, which had since rendered
him punctiliously cautious. IT., had left Halifax
with his vessel on the homewarI bound voyage;
it was during one of the cold winter months, when
fogs prevail on the American coasts. Ills direc-
tions to the officers of the watch to run for
point 30 miles eastward of Newfoundland so as to
make sure of keeping clear of the roek-bound
shores and that the point OF the compass that
would lead to this required direction was fixed.
On coming on deck in the grey of morning,
what was his horror on his seeing that the ship
had just entered a small bay, and seemed about TO
be dashed to pieces the lofty precipiees that re-
veaed themselves through the mist. By instan-
taneously shouting orders 10 the at the wheel,
and By reversing the engine, he barely saved the
vessel from destruction. After some trouble, 1t
was padded out to deep water His first impress
sion of course was, that the compass had been
neglected But to his surprise, he found that his
orders in this respect had been exactly followed
The head of the vessel had been kept in the drec-
ton which. by compass, should have led to the
open sea- 80 miles from land and yet here 1T was
running full in shore To all concerned the devia-
ton seemed perfectly magieal-Hot on ordinary
principles to be accounted for. The truth ut
length dawned upon the captain.
The error must have arisen from local derange-
ment of the compass. lie caused all the eompasses
in the ship to be ranged on the deck and soon it
was perceived that no two agreed. The seat Of
disorder was ascertained to be at spot close TO
the funnel of the saloon. Could this be the
cause: 1t was brass, and had never before shown
any power of dstracting the needle. On looking
into it. however the captain discovered that, when
at Halifax a new iron tube had been put inside of
the brass one, without his knowledge and the cir
cumstance had never been mentioned to him.
There, in the patry iron tube, was the whole caseu
of the arrangement, which said Capt. Shannon
speedily made to shift its quarters How near
was thus fine vessel being wrecked, from a
petty circumstance which no one would have pre-
viously dreamed of; and it may be said how many
vessels assumed to be diverted toward rocks by
currents may have been led to destruction from
causes equally triyial.-Chomber's EdingbUrg
journal.
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From the n. Y, Mercury
Married Yesterday.

Every day in the journal that with the first
CLEAN of the sun is flung within our portals, We
read this little sentence Married yesterday, So
and So" Every day there is wedding feast in
some of the mansions of earth clasping of hands
and union of hearts in the dim asles of some holy
temple a pledging of eternal love and constanry
during all the hours that are yet to come down
ike spring flowers, upon life's pathway. Bach
day some new marriage crown is put on ana she
that wears it leaning upon him whose love IS the
brightest jewel set midst its leaves, steals away
from the q dear old home" and nestles trembling
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Restoring the Drowned.

The following has often been published but we
insert il as It may lead TO the saving Of Hfe
To BRING TIE DROWNED TO LIFE.
Immediately as the body is removed from the
water, press the chest suddenly and forcbly down
ward and backward and instantly discontinue the
pressure Repeat this without interruption, until
a common pair of bellows can be procured. When
obtained, introduce the muzzIe well upon the base
of the tongue; surround the mouth with towel Og
handkerchief, and close it; direct bystander TO
press firmly upon tine projecting part of the neck.
(called Adams applet and use tine bellows active
ly then press upon the chest to expel the air from
the lungs, to initiate natural breathing. Continue
this least an hour unless signs Of natural breath
ing come on. Wrap the body in Blankets ace it
near fire, and do everything to preserve the nat
ural warmth as well as to impart artificial heat
if possible. Everything, however is secondary TO
initiating the lungs.
Send for medical man Immediately
Avoid all frictious until respiration shall be in
some degree restored.
VALENTINE MoTT,
Surg. Gen. of the Amer. Shipwreck Soc.
New Ork 1874
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BONAPRTE 5 POVERTY ~ EARLY LIFE
in his history of the Consulate, recites 81
strange and previously unknown partiep
speeting the early life and penury Of
BOnaparte. 1t appears that after he had
a subalteru's commission in the French sery,
his skill and daring at Toulon, he lived some
in Paris in obscure lodngs, and in such ex1I.
poverty that he was often without the means
paying ten sous lone dime) for his dinner, and o.
ten went without any at all. He was Under the
necessity of borrowing small suns and even worn
out clothes from his aequaintanees. lie and his
brother Louis, afterwards King Of Holland had at
one time only one coat between them, 50 that the
brothers could only go Out alternately, time about
At this crisis, the chief beneiactor Of the future
Emperor and corNIuerOr at whose mighty name
the world grew pale,'' was the actor Tama, who
gave him food and money NapoeOn's face after
wards so famed for its classical mould was duriag
that period Of starvation sharp and angular in its
hneaments, with projecting cheek-bOnes. His
meagre fare brought on an unpleasant and insight
" cutaneOur disease, Of type so virulent and
malignant that it took all the skill and assiduity
OF his accomplished physician COrvisart to expel IT,
after a duration Of more than ten years The
squalid beggar then, the splendid Emperor after
wards-the thFeadbare habiliments, and Imperial
mantle-the meagre food, and gorgeous banquet
the friendship OF a poor actor, the homage and
terror OF the wOrld--an exile and a prisoner
Such are the ups and downs Of this changeful life;
such are the lights and shadows Of the great aud
the mighty.
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GOun right over i.

have friend whose ready wit often ' enlivens
the social circle and sometimes also e.
tie @ us e.r, Ls house to go church, he met
strPc ppecr driving heavily loaded wagon through
stlan sur t1rn He turned upon him, stopped, lifted
the 'ISn i, and stood in tragic attitude, gazing
Dotl .hn oroind beneath the vehicle, and exclaim
upon TbSrr 1s there you are going right over it Yeu
have % gone right over it," The traveller hastily
gathered up his rens drew ID ms horses, came 20
@ What little innocent child, dog, or pig might
have been ground to jeley by their heavy weight
But seeing nothing, he looked anxiously up to the
man who had so sngularly arrested his progress
nnJ said "Oyer whatl" "1'he fourth command
mentlH was the quick reply; Remember the Sab
bath day to keep it holy" II was hard starting
those wheels again, and hard hauling that load a.
the rest of the day.-Nortrieh Er.