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TABLE OF RATES.
RICHMoND AND DANvILLE RAIL

pICHMOND AND DANVILLE RAIL
~ ROAD-OPEN TO ROANOKE, 80 MILES
On and after Monday March 10. 1854 the regular pas
senger train will daily, Sundays excepted) be
tween Richmond and Roanoke.
The train will stop for passengers at the follow
ing points only; Manchester Robious, CoaIield To.
mahawk, Powhatan, Mattoaz, Chula, Amelia c. H.
Wyanoke, Jennings Ordinary, Haytokah, Liberty
Church, Meherrin, keysvlle, brakes Branch, Over
by's and Roanoke
Leave Richmond at 81 O'Clock, A. NJ. Returning
leave Roanoke at Il 40 o'clock p. NJ.
Children over 10 and under Is years Of age half
price.
by themselves must be furnished
with two passes, that can be retained in the
office, and it must be expressly stated the pass
that they permitted TO go the cars.
Passengers for Halifax c. H., Danville and Green's
borough, can meet Messrs. Flagg 4 Co.'s four horse
coaches at Roanoke daily; and those for German
town, Salem, and Salisbury, N c. can meet Messrs
Flagg Co.'s four horse coaches on Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays at Roanoke. Passengers
for GAINESVILLE; Milton, N. c. and Ysnceyville, can
meet Messrs Moss Co.'s coaches at Roanoke Oh
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. and for Milton
and Yanceyville by Flagg l. Co.'s line MONDAYS
Wednesdays and Fridays, at Roanoke.
Passengers for Lynchburg via South-Side Railroad
and EIay 10 ts sta 1aiIxy
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E'IRE, LIFE AND MAR me INSU
Il RANCE.-The Richmond Fire Association ar,
aow prepared to issue policies of Insurance on the
above description Of risks reasonable terms
Any similar company, and respectfully ask share o,
cesed at the ONCE, No. as corner Of Main and 9Th
sfIeets where the officers win cheerfuy furnish ali
~ and literally adjusted.
JAMES BOsHER, Rresident
JOHN II. RosHEs. Secretary. nh IL
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For the National Era
K0sSU IN LON DON. y
BY ISAAC II. JULIAN.

Lingering in London, Hungary's sad Chief
True in the trial the triumph hour
Mightier Prometheus of greater grief
Bears nobly up noath Fortunes fellest power.
Where needless flows tho tide of common life,
Save a few friends, the partners Of his woes,
The enven0med SANDER or the assassin's knife,
Only may mar his love- constrained repose.
Oh God the crushing weight his soul must bear
With only Hope to comfort or allay
A homeless exile, yet a Nations care
Rests on his steadfast mind from day to day.
Yet is he firm, as only Right is firm;
A veteran in Virtues changofal war;
Still throbs his heart with its high purpose warm,
And still his "wstchings weary every star =
Alone with God or mid tho city full"
He pondsrs Universal Freedom STILL
With fervid soul Misfortune cannot dull,
Hope and Devotion bearing up tho Will!
And hence It is, though lost to action thus,
That tyrants fear his namo the world around
And hence it is that name is glorious,
Shrined in tho Peoples hoart Of hearts profound
That Hungary feels it course through all her veins
That Europe owns 1t rs a household word
That great Columbia through her wide domains,
Feels by it Freedom latent pulses stirred.
| scarce can brook the idle Jars Of Earth
Her sordid tumults grate upon my ear;
l deem her pirate Of Freedom little worth,
While her true prophet pines forsaken bore
Scourged by oppression, fcttered and betrayed,
Hath Europe, then no need Of such a man?
Still win she scorn her best delivorsr'i aid,
While all her tyrants hold him under ban
Oh, righteous Heaven. we invoke the day,
When, as his voice thrilled over land and sea,
His sword may fash aveng;ng Freedoms way,
A beacon to the world of Liberty
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sent out upon the high seas, beyond State linn
its. II there be any constitutional provision in
virtue Of which slaves 50 shipped are held as
such ON tho high seas, let the Sentinel point it
out Even the attempt to do this has never yet
been made.
We are obliged to defer the rest Of the argu-
ment till tomorrow.
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THE MAYoRALTY OF PHrLADELPHIA.--The
present Mayor, Gilpin, George M. Dallas, s.
Austin Allibonc Major Fritz N. B. Browne,
James r. Johnston, J. G. Montgomery, James
Page, and others, have already been named as
candidates for this Office, the dignity Of which
has been greatly enhanced by the extension Of
the city limits. 1t to be hoped no party ma
chinery may be applied in this municipal cleo
ton. The interests Of SO great city are too
important to admit Of any folly Of this kind
without the infection Of great injury.
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA
EXTRACTS FROM OUR CORRESPONDENCE.

ST. LOUIS, Feb 7, 1854.
have clipped a short article from the Euen-
ing News, to show you how we stand here on
the Nebraska question With. only one excep-
ton, the press in st Louis is opposed to Doug
lass bill, Or in any way disturbing the Mis-
souri, Compromise. If the People are aroused
In time, the bill cannot pass. | believe that
the only friends Of the bill here are the revlers
OF Col Benton, and they favor it more out Of
hatred TO him than from any other cause
presuming that he will cast his influence
against it,
MARTINS FERRY, O., Feb. 8, 1884.
patition against the pro slavery clanse of
the Nebraska bill now before Congress, is cir
culating and obtaining the signatures of almost
all to whom II is offered but the people every
where feel much moro than they express upon
this subject So little has heretofore been eff
fected In staying the encroachments Of Slavery
by public meetings and petitions that strong
determination is felt by many to make them
selves heard in more efectual manner. II
any OF Ohio's representatives are so lost to vir-
tue and honor as to be willing to sustain that
odious clause in the bill, let them count the
cost. Their reward will be political death, and
name hereafter that their descendants will
blush to own, or | am no prophet. And let
the South beware, lest they find that, contrary
to all former Indications the North has yet q
conscience, and deprecated adherence of
oppression, snmbering though it has been be-
meath the obscurity Of misguided and mista-
ken selfshness When conscience, the love of
liberty, and the omnipotent dollar, are on one
side they may awake and shake from their
limbs the letters that Slavery has hung about
them to retard their progress.
LEE, MAINE, Feb 8, 1854.
| am glad you give 80 much attention to the
Nebraska question. The people are waking
up. have not found Wing or Democrats
who is not opposed to Douglass bill.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.
WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY is, 1854.

70 In an article yesterday, ON Protest
ant and Catholic Schools" we referred to q
literary notice, which was crowded over till
to-day.
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Rev. Mr.. MILBuRN-We perceive that this
gentleman, the present Chaplain Of the House
OF Representatives, is announced to lecture in
New England in the latter part Of this month
Mr.. Milburn, q New York paper remarks is
one Of the most living speakers in the country,
and when in New York lately was listened to
with pleasure and profit.
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MASSACHUSETTS ON THE NEBRASKA BILL -
The House Of Representatives of this State yes
terday passed the resolves in opposition to the
Nebraska bill, by a vote Of 246 yeas to 10 nays,
eleven Democrats and two Wings voting in the
negative. So the spirit Of justice and Of froe
dom have not yet been crushed out Of the
freemen Of this noble old Common wealth
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MARYLAND SENAToR.-The Hon. James A.
-Pearoe was yesterday reelected Senator in
Congress BY the Legislature Of Maryland, for
the term Of six years from the 4th Of March,
1855, when his present term Of service will ex-
pire. The vote was--for Mr.. Pearoe SO Mr..
Constable, (Dem,) IS; and scattering 2.
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10 The Daily Era be had every morning
at the Periodical Stand Of Mr.. J. i. BATES, Elk
change. Philadelphia; also, the Weekly Era.
10 Mr.. JAMES ELLIOTT is authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions and advertisements for
the Daily and the Weekly National Era, in Cinch
natl and vicinity.
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THE BRrTIsH Provinces north Of US are SO
scarce Of silver change that storekeepcrs i'm
port it from the United States, and the Bank
Of British America has issued five and ten
chilling bills The whole amount Of revenue
collected in New Brunswick, during tho year
1853, was about $4,000, Of which over
100000 was received at the port Of St John.
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IRIS STATED that Mr.. George Law is rapid
ly disposing Of the two hundred thousand guns
he come years since purchased of the Govern
ment, and is getting for them quadruple the
sum he paid for them. Tho demand from
abroad for American manufactured muskets
and other firearms is represented to be far
greater than the supply.
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Or THE STEAMER SAN FRAscIsco's passen-
gers who were rescued by the ship Antarctic,
fifty died on the voyage to England.
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The La Belle Iron Works, Wheeling, are
again fully in operation.
young man was beaten to death by row.
dies, at the railroad depot at Savannah, Geor-
gia, on the 9th instant.
The cotton factory at Memphis Tennessee,
was recently sold by the sheriff, for $4,000,
IL originally cost over 100000
Mrs Darlington says that -four rises SO fast,
there isn't the least need Of emptingso in
making bread.
Eggs are selling at AZ cents dozen in Bos-
ton.
During the past year, siso6s were expend-
ed in the construction Of the Washington Mon
ument at Richmond, Va
The Humane Magnanimity Society Of Troy
offers reward Of $50 for the best method Of
preventing sea sickness on the canal Jacobs
recommends walking on the towpath
The French papers state that zinc ship,
recently built at Nantes, has made trial trip,
and proved an excellent sea boat She is quite
strong, and the metal did not affect her com
pass
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The NEBRASKA BILL IN New YoRg.-The
Evening Post says: "One Of the best tests Of
public opinion in this metropolis is the voice Of
the Sunday press. We have Sunday papers Of
every shade Of opinion, Wing, Hard Soft. sport
ing papers, Sc. and ,cifhom srception hes op-
pose The bill Of Mr.. Douglas The Sunday alias
it is true, is not 30 earnest in its opposition as
it was at frst-possibly its article Of the 18th
inst may be. regarded as friendly TO the bill
But the Sunday Courier, Mercury, Times, and
Dispatch, all take strong ground against the
bill, and there are not two harder papers in
the State than the Mercury and Times
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REVIEWS.

*writtsn last autumn, while he yet remained there.
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A Massachusetts State Convention has been
called at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on the 10th Of
February, for the purpose Of protesting against
the Nebraska measure.
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PHoNoGRAPHY. - The merits Of this new
mode Of writing are hut little understood in
this community. Some, who have heard Of il
as means Of reporting suppose that its use
funess is confined to that object alone. But
its capacity, as we believe, fits IL for use in
every department in which writing is needed
and in time IL must become (strange as il may
seem) the universal mode Of recording thought ;
and for the same reason that the railroad Is
now SO generally used, viz: economy Of time
and labor.
When compositors, as well as editors and re-
porters become familiar with this art. so that
the type can be set up from the Photographic
manuscript, it's usefulness will be invaluable.
This we understand, is already the case in the
Office Of the Evangelical Repository, the editor II
which has used photography for several years
This gentleman, who is also pastor Of Pres
byterian church, states that his sermons aio
written exclusively in that hand, and that no
has no more difficulty in reading ID than il,
reading the common long hand
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
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The administrators Of MIR. MoCloskey, Of
Pittsburgh, who was killed in March last BY O
collision, while on car OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, have recovered 81 500
damages from the road.
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am glad you give 80 much attention to the
Nebraska question. The people are waking
up. have not found Wing or Democrat
who is not opposed to Douglass bill.
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NO. 81

and yet the Governors remarks con-
cerning it, are certainly unexception-
able. and were his apprehension we'll
grounded, they would be most prais-
worthey The se,ni.occasiopal ar
rival Of, or rather the very Irregular
ihy of the mails, is the subject of a
good deal Of talk and no little condem-
nation as well as disappointment.
Jacob Collamer, Genl, Taylors, P. M.
General. and after him the stick of all
sticks. Mr.. Hall who had the honor Of
the peoples anathemas, were both
severely scored by the press, for their
official neglect but Mr.. Campbell.
(from Pennsylvania, where the people
tear up railroads cause tho passengers
wont buy their kakies and bier is
equally. as negligent and careless Of
the manner in which the mail service
of the Union is being performed. The
press here is down on Mckay's bill, to
give monopoly Of all SUGGESTIONS and
sales to the Sheriffs. and think they
are right. The Col. may be a clever
fellow, but as for his wisdom as q law
makersif that bill is a fair sample oft,
| think the less we have Of Il, the bet
ter it will be for Louisiana. \
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Tho Reso urces of East Baton Rouge.

Enough has been said from time to
time, In reference to this subject, for
the benefit Of the resident population
This is designed for the eye of the
euterprising Yankee, and the indus
trious Gaul
There is no Parish within the fertile
borders Of Louisiana, possessed OF
greater agricultural resources than the
parish of East Baton Rouge and yet
three square miles out Of every twenty
four, lies in its premitive wilderness,
Whe so? The principal reason is an
unpopular one to advance; yet there
are others growing out Of 1t, which
might be met and would be, had our
county population small n,odtcnm
Of the energy, set down to the credit of
the Anglo.Saxon race.
A newspaper article cannot infnse
it therefore let It pass. To persons
abroad who wish to migrate, the par
ish Of East Baton Rouge, properly con
sidered. offers greater inducements
than the Gold region ITSELF of Upper
California for there man can only
grow rich; and here man can not
not only do that, but be happy and
enjoy rational life at the same time.
Under our genial cline, there is not
one single square inch Of the Parish
that cannot be made to yield some
valuable product. Nearly the Whole
surface Ii above the reach Of the
Mississippi and the various roads to
market, offer more natural advantages
than are to be met with, either in the
South or the West. The Amite river
come fifteen miles East OF us, opens
market direct to the Crescent city,
aud if the country we're populated,
the State might be induced to send
one Of her boats there, to clear out
the distractions and then steamboats,
could get as high as Duifs ferry, If not
higher. Unless much mistaken, boats
have been up to that point, The wa
ter power Of that river. could be used
for mills and other machinery al
though the listless inhabitants of that
region, think not; and had we people
there, possessed with energy enough
ITO live," few years would render
location on that river more desirable
than one on the Mississippi itself.
Now, as it is, what is the condition /? |
People vegetate in that region, and the
rising generation comes up for no other
purpose than to 60 to seed. The
houses are mostly made of crooked
logs, the people generally, being too
lazy to look out straight ones-the
fences are all honorable with age, and
choked up with under growth, and all
there are, are venerable mementoes ofI
the earlier times-the gates are hing
less, and wherever the bars are taken
down to get in, to the "old field" they
are left tor some one else to put up
The people think that if they have a
family bible on the shelf, and take The
best Democratic newspaper, that they
are safe, not only here, but hereafter
their whole duty is performed to
God and man, in this. How many
there are, there, and elsewhere, who
cannot read or write, and know not
where they live--we refer to the fig
ures illustrating this matter in the late
census papers.
as S----
70 Mr. Charles Briggs has been
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Another Bear, II Not A Bull.
That portion of the Governor s Mes

the design ef England anu SPAN III
reference to Cuba, has become the
principal subject for leaders in the
city press, and per force we are called
on to say something about it.
! The Bulletin thinks that sthe Coy
ernor had better left out the concus-
ion of bis message" and that ''the
people can no longer be humbugged
about Cuba" The Crescent is of
very near the same opinion. The
Delta thinks that ''the editor Of
the Bulletin probably Dies not
understand Spanish, or he would
not make this reckless assertion. II
he had been a reader Of the Spanish
journals edited usually BY the Captain
Generals Secretary, he would have
seen ample proof of this rule ID ruin
tendency OF that Government; he
would have read long and plausible
arguments in favor of emancipation,
and the virtual realization of what the
Bulletin believes would be far better
! for the interests Of Louisiana, to wit .
the delivery Of this beautiful island to
the African race" 4
Our neighborin Church street, (but
not therefore piously inclinea--hav
ing a good deal Of the recklessness OF
Young America about I,im) thinks
that the Crescent is an old Fogy, and
gives vent to the following exclama-
ton in reference to him and his con
freres !:
I" What a terrible thing Young
America is, to be sure. and what WiW
become of the world when all the Old
Fogies are dead I What a racket
Young America will make over their
quiet conservative, old bones---almost
enough to keep them from sleeping
soundly,"
This opens the battle. and we
scarcely know what position to take.
The Bulletin and the Crescent are anti
bellum, and the Delta with the Advo-
cate by its side, is bellum. The mat
ter in controversy is Africanization.-
For the sake of political excitement (if
not for leaders) it is best for us to de-
clare "for war - Let it be taken in
to the very heart of Africa, itself. Say
what we will, the Bull Story must
grow more exciting at every new par
agraph because there is no neutal
ground.
For our own part, we are not Old
Fogish, nor are we by any means one
Of the respectable ultra Democratic
leaders Of the party called Young
America. " With the Bulletin we
think that the Governors Message
would not have been marred, had the
latter end of it been omitted; but
since it is said--perhaps it is well said
There is no Old Fogy in this section
of the Union, SO Old Foggish as to be-
lieve that either the United States or
the southern extremity Of this State,
will ever be shaken into fits by any
thing that either her Catholic Majesty,
or her Church of England Majesty,
can do in the Gull. And such being
the fact, there is nothing to justify TAX
ing Bull " by the horns, and worry
ing the old gentleman without inter-
mission. The old gentleman can nev-
er enjoy his "roast beef" to be tor.
mented in this manner. Bull" is a
sagacious animal, and is not going to
come into the American arena of poll
tics. against the odds that can be
brought to bear against him. He is
also very philanthropic, and he would
like to see Africa free, but depend up
on it, he will not risk his own life and
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public, has a reputation for greatness
The phrase "This is d great Nation
il the exclusive property Of Brother
job nathan, of which be has the copy.
ripht secured. 1fUncle Sans domin.
ion is not great for other things, it GER
tainly is, for great speech-makers. -
They come up spontaneously like
drum head cabbage in soft and fertile
soil. Political movements are made
and questions raised, it would seem
for no other purpose than that they
may bring out great orators, who
may make great speeches. # small
caucus of pot house politicians, come
together at beer garden, some pat
riotic fellow must make speech, and
If this were the end Of it, 'twould be
well but it is just the beginning for a
committee appoints itself to wait on
the speaker and request copy for
publication, and by this means the
light literature Of the world accumu-
lates to volumes. Forth of July, and
other occasions seemed to have been
donated to us by ont sagacious fore
fathers, for no other purpose, than to
develop the resources Of the country.
In Congressional and Legislative pro-
ceedings, each word that falls from
the mouth Of feloquence, must be jotted
down in the Reporters note book, and
90 to the organ in power, for the pc
cuniary benefit Of the organ, if not for
mankind at large. Thus in payment
Of reporters, the public is forced to
make voluntary donations--as kind
of slight recompcnse for the labor Of
writing them out; but no one has
ever supposed that money could pay
the speech makers, for their valuable
thoughts, thus shed abroad, upon the
benighted race of man. In the q. s.
Senate a controversy arises about that
lucid affair--the very Gordian knot of
Dictionary words, the Clayton Bulwer
Treaty. Gen. Cass opens by throwing
off fifteen Union columns, and Mr..
Clayton throws back at him twenty.
Who reads it9 Nobody but the poor
devil Of printer, and the proof read
er and who profits by it9 Nobody
but the Globe newspaper, and it is
paid little more than a fair living
price for labor.
This is a great country as before
said, if for nothing but its great speech
makers.
Is THERE No REpREss.-The shame
ful irregularity Of the United States
Mail, in this outraged fraction Of the
Union, is a matter that the citizens
should lay hold Of: since it is impos-
ible for the public press to move any
one in authority on this subject
Scarce an issue comes from the daily |
press of New Orleans, without some no.
tice Of the neglect and carelessness of
government officers having charge Of
his branch Of the public service, and
yet it all passes down to oblivion, and
he deaf ear is turned to it. In the
country we say little, because less ef-
fact is produced by our mutterings
han if we said nothing. Yesterday |
morning we took from the office not
ess than ten Eagles" from Memphis,
he latest Of which should have been
lere three days ago.
4-a-----
The LOUISIANA Mutual Insurance.
JoMPANY.-Such is the title of a new
company now being organized in New
orleans. This is will. There can be
70 reason urged against such COM
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BATON ROUGE, LA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 49, 1864

or's Message comes before the house,
we shall have reporter on the spot,
that every thing "warlike patriotic y
may be faithfully chronicled.