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We have so often had occasion to expose the
laundering statistics of the advocates of Sla-
very that we never zee tables of figures in our
pro-slavery exchanges without doubling their
correctness. Ii they do not directly miFrep-
recent the facts as they are, they show only
80 much Of them as conveys false impression.
The Missouri Democrat, opposing the introduc-
ton of Slavery into Kansas Territory, says that
slave labor retards population, so that the great
city of st. Louis would be essentially injured
by its establishment in the new Territory west
of it. "Facts, il says, "prove that the popu-
lation Of the non-slaveholding States increases
with greater ralidity than that of the slave
holding in the ratio of two to one" The
Washington Sentinel meets this assertion with
fiat denial:
"We assert boldly that facts do not prove the
assertion Of the Missouri Democrat, and We
rely upon the census of 1850 to sustain the
position.
"If we exclude the five States of Arkansas,
Iowa. Michigan, Florida, and Wisconsin, which,
from their recent admission into the Union and
the consequent rush of population there are
not proper bases of calculation, we find that in
the decade between 1910 and 1850 the rate of
population has been greatest in the slavehold-
ing State of Missouri, in which the Free Soil
Democrat is published. The next most rapidly
increasing State is Illinois, free State. The
third and fourth are Mississippi and Louisiana,
both of which are slaveholding States. Ken
lucky has increased moro rapidly than New
York, and Maryland more rapidly than Ohio.
Thus we see that 80 far from the assertion of
the Democrat being proved, it is actually dis
proved by the fats upon which it relies. When
. statement is made purporting to DO based
upon facts, gross ignorance Of the facts is as
criminal as willful Misrepresentation of them.n
The Sentinel appeals to the Census, but that
Census will show that the Democrat is nearly
right, and the Sentinel wrong, in almost every
item Of its statement. IL is not true that during
the last decade the ratio of increase was great
or in Missouri than in Illinois; or, in Kentucky
than in New York; or, in Maryland than in
Ohio, as the following table, taken from the
Census, prepared by Mr.. De Bow, a proslave-
~ man, will clearly show:
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to consult with all well-disposed members, and
where seif-sbnegation may tend to secure the
interests of the Cause TO which they are COM
mitsed, they viii not shrink from it; but they
have too much sense and selfrespect 70 permit
their free action to be fettered by the timid,
compromising, or procrastinating counsels Of
purbind or self-sceking politicians
AS to Mr. Harlan, he can employ himself to
better purpose than in carping at the course of
a man, than whom Ohio has never had an
ADLER, wiser, and more faithful representative
in the Senate Of the United States.
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" A NEW PROJECT

Northern prints are making rather too much
of demand, lately set up in the Charleston
Mercury, and another South Carolina paper,
for the formation of Treaty with Great Brit
ain for the exsradition of fugitive slaves. The
"Chivalry" is snmetimes as silly as it is fanat-
ical. Il ought to know that the British Gov
eminent would as soon think of re- establishing
Slavery in its colonies, as agree to deliver up
fugitive slaves. Those who are we'll read in
the history of the Slave Power, are aware that
the Federal Government has no. been remiss
in relation 10 this "new project" as it is call
cd. In 1927, treaty was negotiated with
Mexico for the rendition of fugitive slaves, but
the Government of that country promptly re-
fused to ratify it. About the same time, Mr..
Clay brought the subject to the notice of the
British Government, dwelling upon the Losses
sustained by the South from the escape of fug-
tives to Canada; and proposing a treaty for
the mutual surrender of all persons held to
service or labor, under the laws of either par
ty, escaping into the territories of either This
was when the British West Indies were slave
holding. The prompt answer of the British
Minister was, az was utterly impossible for
them to agree to stipulation for the surren-
der of fugitive slavesD MIR. Barbour again SUBJ
misted the proposition, but he was at once in
formed, that "the law of Parliament gave
freedom to every slave who effected his land
ing on British ground"
The Columbia Is. co. Times seems TO think
the time for urging such demand, very pro-
pitious.
"The time is propitious for the acquisition of
all disputed rights from European Powers.
They cannot afford 10 break just now with the
United States. Let our public men move in
the matter, and we question not but that the
President and the American Minister at st.
James will give the movement cordial SUP.
port. Besides this is golden moment which
may never return. Before We got another sound
man in the Presidential CAair, peace may be
made in Europe, and the European Powers be.
como less inclined to look with favor upon the
demands of America"
The credulity of this innocent provincial is
admirable. We should like to see the "sound
man in the Presidential Chair" through the
cordial" Buchanan, inviting the British Gov
eminent to become e slave-catcher for the
planters of the South! True, those gentlemen
may deem the occupation quite respectable,
but they would be taught, we presume, that
transatlantic prejudiess against it are quite
inyeterate
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An INQUIRY ANSWERED.

Mr.. EDITOR: | wish 10 inquire q y.
through the Era something in regard &c : -
ritorial Land Bill that is said to have ~ 80
at the last session of Congress. IL Is ss,a =.
. bill paseed, granting a hundred snO -
acres 10 actual settlers within the IeInI o.
Of Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico CIV
men say that there is such law, anc -,
say there is not. Ii is said 10 have passou ~. -
joint committee of both Houses. | behe'e =.
80. . $3.50 " 'Ao Von-s &C. E. T.
We gave full account Of this matter W
moths ago. A bill purporting to srs'' y
hundred and sixty acres to settlers ID ~
Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska, was
but the grant of land was confined ezciI,''~
to settlers in New Mexico. There Is 70 ~
stead law for Kansas and Nebraska. r.
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members of Congress, if not engrossed by profit
less discussions of Slavery might even give and
take help Give the Eastern States cheap
fuel, and take cheap sugar for the West"
Agreed. Let the People unite against both.
Give US cheap coal and cheap sugar. A few
such experiments in free trade will nightly
aid in bringing about other important changes.
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POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE ELECTIONS.


The results of the elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, and Indiana, astonish even those who
had been anticipating political revolution in
these States. The Administration Party is, in
fact annihilated.
In Pennsylvania, the Anti-Administration
Party has elected eighteen of the twenty five
members Of Congress, and of the seven So
called Democrats elect four are Anti Nebras-
ka Eleven members from that State voted
for the bill. The rebuke administered is crush
ing The Anti Nebraska candidate for Gov
ernor, MIR. Pollock, is elected by majority
estimated at from thirty to forty thousand.
Mr.. Bigler's non- communication availed him
nothing. The Know Nothings probably in
creased his majority somewhat; but they could
not have prevented his election, supported as
he was by the real Anti-Nebraska sentiments
of the State. How they stand on the Slavery
Question, may be- inferred from the fact that
they concentrated on Mott the Administration
candidate for Canal Commissioner, whose cleo.
ton is also announced
The North american, in an editorial on the
results Of the election, has much to say of the
influence of the struggle between nationality
and foreignism, but nothing of the bearings Of
the Anti-Slavery and Temperance Questions
Before the election, its principal appeals rela.
ted to these issues, and on them MIR. Pollock
took his stand, and appealed for support TO the
Anti Slavery and Temperance citizens of the
State.
In Ohio and Indiana, the rout of the Admin.
istration forces is complete--not q single Ne
brasks candidate in either, 30 far as the re-
turns have come in, having been elected to
Congress. Olds, Disney, and others of the
tribe, have leave to stay at homo and study the
marvellous workings of popular sovereignty,
which has annihilated, in the twinkling Of an
eye, an Administration majority of 40, 900, and
given majority against it, Of 10000!
The National Inteliigeneer, with serene self.
assurance, puts down all the Congressman
elect in Ohio as Whigs-such men, for exam
pie, as Timothy Day, Edward Wade Joshua
R. Giddings, Mr.. Nichols, &C.. Our venerable
neighbor has not yet heard, we presume, Of the
fusion movements in the West, by which a
Republican Party has been substituted for the
Wing, Democratic, and Independent Demo.
cratic Parties. There are but two Parties in
Ohio and Indiana--a Slavery Party and Re-
publican Party. 1t is the victories of the latter
which our intelligent contemporary is recording
as Wing triumphs!
A wiseacre, through the telcgraphic wires,
announces in several papers the complete
triumph of the Independent Ameriean ticket
in Ohio, by fifty or sixty thousand majority
intending 10 convey the impression that it ia
Know Nothing triumph. There was nc
such ticket in the field. The candidates elect
ed were nominated by an Anti Nebraska Con.
vention, as Republican candidates, and elected
as such-and the majority for this ticket il
nearer ninety than sixty thousand.
OHIO ELECTION.
The Cincinnati Gazette of Friday contains a
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In connection with this subject, we would
call the attention Of our Southern friends to
the fact which few win regard with compla-
cency, tina. in six of their States the ratio of
slave increase for the last decade was greater
than that of free increase, as viii be seen BY
the following table:
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THE NATIONAL ERA, WASHINGTON D. c. OCTOBER 49, 1854

that the lesson may not be lcst-thst hereafter
our ship-owners viii be more careful in select
ing the crews of their vessels What our ma
rine wants is respectable native seamen, in
stead of the offscouring of the earth.
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In the above forty-two counties the Gazett.
says) the Anti-Nebraska majority is 54.I44
So tar, we have not heard of county which
| the Administration party has carried. There
! are Lightweight counties in the State. and we
should not be surprised if the Peoples tickle,
was elected By ninety thousand mojorit.. We
have carried every Congressional district, and
| it looks as If We had carried every county
The above returns are not official, but they are
nearly right
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
The Return Judges of the various countie.
In the State Of Pennsylvania. were required x
meet at the respective county seats on Friday
to prepare the aggregate returns The Ph,Ls.
deiphia American Gays that Mr.. Pollock's ma
Jority for Governor seems likely TO reach thir.
| ty thousand. But three Nebraska mon are
known to be elected 10 Congress from the
State, all the rest being opposed to that meas
| sure.
VERMONT SENATORS ELECTED.
The Legislature of Vermont assembled on
Thursday, and organized without difficulty.
There is q large Anti-Nebraska majority In
both branches Two United States Senators
were 10 be e'ected-one for the remainder Of
the term ending March 3, 1855, rendered va.
can't fret by the death of Mr.. Upham. and
next BY the failure of the Legislature last wear
to elect q successor to MIR. Phelps, whom the
Governor appointed temporarily, and the 9th
or for a full term of six years, beginning March
4, 1855. The Legislature proceeded to the
election on Saturday, and elected for the short
term the Hon. Lawrence Brainard, of Sc
Adams, and for the long term the Hon. Jacob
Collamer, formerly an able Representative in
Congress from Vermont and moro recently
Postmaster General during Gen. Tsylor's ad.
ministration.
SOUTH CAROLINA CONGRESSIONAL ELEc.
TON.
We learn from South Carolina that lob,
Mcqueen, William Aiken, Lawrence M Ke;tt
Preston 8. Brooks, James L. Orr, and William
w. Boyce, the present Representative in Con.
gress from that State, have been all reeleoted
as members Of the next Congress. In the die
tricts represented by Messrs Aiken, Keitk Orr.
ano boyce, there was no opposition to their re-
election. Nr Mcqueen was opposed BY ]. ID.
Wilson, and Mr.. Brooks BY A. C. Darlington.
BALTIMORE
The fntelhgenesr of the 18th inst. says:
"The municipal election yesterday, in the
city Of Baitimore-heretogore denominated the
Gibraltar Of Democracy - resulted in the
almost total defeat of that party. Mr.. VIM.
G. Thomas, thsir candidate for Mayor, fell
2,740 votes behind Mr.. Samuel Kinks, who has
been houored with an electioa. Besides being
supported, ss We presume, y the Wings gen.
orally, Mr.. Kinks received the .oSe of tina
Know Nothings.' Two years ago he Demo.
cratic candidate was elected BY q maioritv n
1905 votes. To the City Councils, YESTERDAY
the Democrats elected only ten out Of the tbirty
members OF which they are composed
A correspondent writing to US from Balt.
moro day before the election, gives his version
as follows
BALTIMORE, October 10, 1854.
Our municipal election comes of tomorrow.
and we are IN the midst Of animating scenes
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COAL AND SUGAR.

The New York Evening Post says:
"When we look at the history of the tribut,
we are made to pay to the owners of the Goa
mines we shall be amazed at the good natur,
and endurance of the American people. II
1924, when the anthracite from Pefnsylvanis
was beginning to take the place of the bitumi
nous coal imported from abroad, Q tax of si1
cents on the heaped bushel was laid, for The
benefit Of the capitalists of whom We speak, or
all coal imported from abroad. This wa,
quietly borne for eighteen years, the compro
mise law of 1888 having effected no reduction
OF this duty previous to the year 1912. In 1S4s
still heavier duty was imposed-that of 81. 4.
ton. In 1916, when the mitigated tariff va,
adopted, the proprietors of the coal mines had
the address to eecure the advantage of q vsry
high rate of duty the specific impoet it is true
was abolished, but q tax Of thirty per cent on
the value of the coal was substituted. For eight
years we have submitted TO pay that tribute
without any expression Of popular discomfort
for eight years the poor In our large towns
have shivered in the winter months over thei,
scanty fires, while the mountains of Pennsyl.
vania were full of coal, and all that was need.
ed to secure q supply Of cheap coal on our
wharves, from foreign countries, was the simple
repeal of clause in our revenue laws, which
only q handful of persons in the United States
were desirous to retain"
We hope the movement commenced some
time since against this coal duty will not be
relaxed. There is little abatement in the price
of the article-in fact the monopolists do no.
believe that the duty viii be removed. LIE,
memorials for its abolition be got up eyery.
where. Congress, having just received an i'm.
presive lesson on Popular Sovereignty, may be
inclined to show little Difference 10 the do
mands of the People.
The st. Louis Democrat in relation 10 this
matter, remarks;
The repeal of the coal duties will not be
ieit BY the people of the West to any consider
able extent. but We may learn something from
tins movement, and act upon the hint, for the
purpose of getting rid of the duties on sugars
and other necessaries of Ifs, with which the
Western people are burdened. Our Western
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OHIO ELECTION.

The Cincinnati Gazette of Friday contains q
sample of the returns from that State. The
msjorities are all on one side. Here arc the
reports from forty-two counties:
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The Missouri Democrat is right: The inter-
ests of St. Louis would be injured by the slave
colonization of Kansas and Nebraska, as they
will be promoted by their free colonization.
Slave Labor not only retards the growth of
population, but is an obstacle to the growth OF
cities. The prosperity of St. Louis depends now
upon the development of the free country OF
the Mississippi, not upon the back population
of its own State. Were Missouri free State,
as densely peopled, as productive, as energetic,
as Illinois, the growth of her great city would
be unparalleled. The wonder is, that there is
not courage and intelligence enough in the
State to throw off the incubus of Slavery, which
Mr.. Atchison and his multiplying associates have
contrived to place in the ascendant subjecting
to prescription all who do not swear by its
name.
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TmE NATIONAL DEMocRAr.--We are fire.
gacnlly receiving letters of inquiry concerning
this paper, and therefore deem it Pepper to state
that VIC have nothing whatever to do with the
National Democrat, and never had, further
than to wish it well, and help it along by a
friendly notice We are informed that it has
bcen temporarily suspended.
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VOL. VIII.

The contest is much like the handle of O :;
all on one side-the Know Nothings lso..y.R
ed) having things nearly all their own w W.,
The great tribulation of the unslaugb,a'.
remnant Of the lpsuedOl Democracy is, tbs,
don't see which side of the jug the handls
on! The present Native American moyem..
contains the principles and men Of the last ~
tumn's Maine Law campaign, and the P,s,
Sellers Of the city. These are the element. !,
our future operations for God and Freeto,
Some of us have been looking for this stat !
things for eighteen years. Thank God HL.
come! May Heaven speed the cause Of uuirs
sal emancipation in this State, and among n.
rest of mankind!" We. shall have some ~ =.
here in few days, most certainly. ~
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same the world over, and no more tolerant OF
free press in Virginia than in Buenos Ayres
or Austria.
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DISQUALIFICATION.

A friend in Howell, Livingston county, Mich
igan, sanding US some Subscribers, remarks:
"Two of the old subscribers think they can
not take it another year, because the postage
ia so high, for ioe are sill compelled TO pay fifty
toe csjifS year"
We have heard a similar complaint from
other olase:. Why viii people submit to
such imposition? Postmasters extOrting such
charges, violate the law and their oath Of Office
Bring the matter to test. Take witness
along, offer the postmaster thirteen cents in
advance, postage on your paper for six months.
If nc refuses to take il and let you have your
paper, sue him for damages, and report him to
the Postmaster General, or send us an authen-
tcatcd copy cf the proceedings, and we will
see whether lie can practice law-breaking and
exact fraudulent charges with IMMUNITY. There
is no necessity as all Of submitting to such i'm
position. We have attended to such cases be-
fore, and VIII attend to them again, if properly
Tcported.
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NEW JERSEY.

In the third district, New Jersey, two C..
ventions, Wing and Democratic, opposed /,
the Nebraska bill, and sitting at the San,
time, have coalesced, and agreed to supp.
James Bishop tAnti-Nebraska Democrat :,
the candidate for Congress against DIR. Lin,
Administration renominated.
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1HE CONDUCT OF THE CREW OF The ARCTIC

ReAAoho oAS sCA AACOiy "a AoCoOA AOppOCsiug
the conduct Of the officers and crew. OF the
one hundred and eight persons thus far known
to be saved, we can only count nineteen pas.
sengers. In contrast with the rush made to
the boats by the crew, stands the conduct Of
the passengers. Mr. Dorian, the third mate
tells Us that he never saw men more coolly
courageous than these Same passengers; and
be adds, that their quiet resignation and impli-
cit confidence In the captain and objects of the
ship were such as it is impossible to surpass
Mr.. Burns also says, in his statement, that af.
ter the collision, and up to tho last moment
the majority of the passengers were working
at the pumps, firing signal guns, and launch
ing spars, etc., to form . raft by direction Of
the captain, while the crew took advantage OF
the opportunity to seize the boats ana escape,
leaving the captain without experienced hands,
and the passengers to take care of themselves.
IL should be remembered that there were boats
enough on board to save all, with proper exer-
tion and the use of raft, which the sailors
alone knew how to eonstruct.-Nortk Amfri-
can.
One of our exchanges finds nothing to cen.
sure In the conduct of the crew. They hired
their services, it says, but not their lives-and
it could not be expected that they would eacri-
fee themselves, that the passengers might e.
cape. II is in vain to apologize for their das.
tardly conduct Officers, carpenters, and men,
deserted their posts when their services vera
most needed 1t was their duty to stand BY
their captain and obey orders to the last. Had
they done 30, the raft might have been proper.
ly constructed, provisioned, and loaded, and
the life boats manned and filed to their utmost
capacity, so that all might have had equal
chances Of escape. They did not do so-but
while the passengers coolly and resoluteIy were
working for the lives Of all under the orders Of
the captain, they, best qualified by their train
ing to render Efficient service in such crisis.
and whose special duty it was-with . mean
mess, brutality, and cowardioe, almost without
parallel, availed themselves of their superior
de1terity to seizc the life-boats, run of with
them, and leave hundreds Of men, women, and
children, 10 their fate.
We hope, as we have said in another place,
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70 Since the foregoing was written, the
Cambria has arrived, having picked up the
brave Captain Luce. His account published
in another column, shows that he retained his
son by his side that he might save him, and
that the reason he could not command his men
was, because they nearly all took 10 the boats
and ran off.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-02-15

nEFAULT having been made in the payment
~ Of a certain sum of money, secured 10 DC
paid by indenture of mortgage, bearing date the
twcnty-scventh day of January, in the year OF our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and ffty-two,
executed by Palmer. Church, Of ottawa county,
State of Michigan, TO Bethuel Church, of the same
county. On which mortgage there is claimed to
be due, at the date of this notices the sam OF one
hundred and ten dollars and eighty-ive cents, for
the collection of which, or any part thereof, no
suit at law or in equity has been commenced. No
ticc is therefore hereby given, that by virtue of
power of sale, in said mortgage contained, and I'D
pursuance of the statute in such case made and
provided the premises therein described, to wit :
The east half of tie southeast quarter OF section
twenty eight (2S) in town seven ~ north OF range
thirteen 13)west, containing eighty acres, accord
ing 10 government survey, be the same more or
less VIII be sold at public vendue, to the highest
bidder, at the Courthouse in the village of Grand
Haven, in said county Of Ottawa, on the sixteenth
day OF February, A. ID. eighteen hundred and fifty!
four, at two O'Clock in the afternoon of said day.
1922 w13 BETHUEL CHURcu. Mortgagee
Dated Grand Haven, November % 1853.