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CALIFORNIA POLITICS.

By the late arrivals from California, we ore
gatified to witness serious, and, it is to be
hoped, an incursble split in the Pro-Slavery
Democracy of that State. The New York
Tribune states that the division is substantial.
ly upon the question of admitting Slavery into
California, and that the friends of the scheme
are the politicians and others from the South,
while those of Northern origin are opposed to
Slavery.
Once get party based on hostility to Sla-
very, and we will not doubt that in time it
viii come up to the noble platform on which
the enemies of Slavery, of all shades, are
uniting on this side of the Rocky Mountains
It is to be regretted that the intercourse with
California cannot be daily and hourly by rail
road and telegraph, since the effect of the over.
whelming tide of Freedom, which is now
sweeping over the North, could not fail to be
felt at the November elections on the shores
of the Pacific.
The ostensible grounds of difference between
the parties seems to be matter of personal
preference, as to the candidates for Governor
and United States Senator. The Southern
men wish to continue Mr.. Gwin, Mississip-
plan, in the Senate, while the Northern wing
prefer General Brpderick. The Northern sec
ton have also nominated Messrs Latham
and McDougal to the House Of Represents
tiyes while the Southern party has laid them
aside on the ground of their voluntary with
drawal
The Southern party charge upon their OPP
ponents hostility to the Administration, and to
the Nebraska bill. We fear that this charge
is not well grounded, though it seems it is
made in consequence of the effort of the
Northern party to dodge q vote on the subject
IN the last Legislature. If the latter party
had not renominsted the present Representa-
lives we might hope that there was more
truth in it. We hail the split, at any rate,
and we cannot doubt that good viii result
from it.
The Wings have also had q Convention, and
nominated candidates for Congress as well as
for State Offices. Their platform Of resolutions
endorses the principle of the Nebraska BILL
and would in general seem better adapted to
the bygono era of 1850, than for modern
times.
We think il probable that either the Wings
or the Northern wing of the Democracy viii
carry the day in November and in either
case, decided improvement wiz have been
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permitted to ground the arms Of rebellion, and
return to their duty.
The Macon (Alabama) Republican, bitter
Wing journal, has q singular proposition on
the subject of uniting Southern Wings with
the Democracy. The editor speaks in strong
language against the Nebraska bill, as fraud
upon the South, Sc, and distrusts the PROPOSE
ton Of the Democracy to unite with the Wings.
In order to test their sincerity, he proposes Mir.
Fillmore as the candidate of the coalition for
the Presidency, with a Southern Democrat for
Vice President. How would the Silver Grays
relish copartnership with the fiibusters and
propagandists of Slavery ON such terms? In
addition to the Baltimore Platform, they will
only have to swallow Cuba, the slave trade,
and the Amazon project We heartily COM
mend this proposition to those sober conserve
tives, whose horror of sectionalism constrains
them to @conquer their prejudices' in favor
Of liberty and humanity. G.
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Row CENSUS srAr1srlss ARE MADE.

] ~ as f
Under the head of Real and Personal Es
tate, y in the Abstract of tho Census the then
Superintendent says e The table Of real and
personal estate owned by individuals is made
up from official returns of property for taxation
Where the assessment has been made on q
sum less than the intrinsic worth, the assistant
uaarshals scere instructed to add the accessory
per centagen AS specimen of the manner in
which these Instructions were followed up, we
propose to compare the assessed value of real
estate ia South Carolina with the Census essi-
mate.
In the Census Reports both the abstract and
the larger work, the cash value Of land, Inn
proved and unimproved,o is stated to be
$50. ADJ ,6s4, which lie an average of IS 0s per
acre. In the legislative documents Of South
Carolina for the same year, the cash value OF
real estate, exclusive of town lots is, all told,
set down at only si0,os2427l This would be
about sixty cents per acre. There is no room
left, in either case, for the supposition of
typographical error, because, in the legislative
documents, as well as in the larger Census Re-
mort the value of land in the several counties
is given, and they foot up as above, viz ton
millions and odd in the one case, and eighty
two millions in the other Is not this most
remarkable discrepancy, and does it not call
for explanation from the Census Bureau?
But discrepancy is not the worst feature of
the case. There is evidence Of bad faith. At
page as of the Abstract, there is table of
real and personal estate in the several States,
under two headings, one entitled the assessed
value and the other the "true, or estimated"
value. The assessed value of property, of all
descriptions, of which slaves constitute the
largest item, in South Carolina is stated to be
$283, scr, 709; and the "true, or estimGtedp
value is put down at $2sS, 257, 694, or only
about four and half millions more than the
assessed value Now, we have pointed to the
fact above, that there is discrepancy between
the assessed and the estimated value of real
estate, equal to about seventy-two millionsl II
is hence evident that the marshals of South
Carolina made the most of their instructions,
as to adding the necessary per csntsge," and
that they were determined that the Palmetto
State should not be hindmost. But it is I'M
fortunate that they have not been more CON-
sistent, and acted upon some uniform rule.
We call upon the present Superintendent of
the Census to explain these palpable errors
which are 80 we'll calculated to destroy the
public confidence in the value of the Census
reports. 1t is public shame that such false
hoods should be palmed off upon the people, at
the expense of more than a million to the
treasury G..
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Almost every day we SEQ assertions In the
newspapers of the South, to the eject that
slaves are more kindly treated by their masters
than by the Abolitionists and that they enjoy
more freedom and happiness on the plantations
of the South than in their cold and sterile
homes in Canada. They eorroborate these as
sertions by the mention of instances Of the vol
untary return of slaves to their masters and
every such case, real or imaginary, is heralded
abroad as triumphant proof that the slave
loves his chains better than the empty honors
of freedom.
Now, if all this is true, why continue the
odious Fugitive Slave Law, which, upon the
sho wing of Pro Slavery newsmongers, is as use
less as it is odious? L. it not unnecessarily
adding to the hatred against Slavery, and
causing excitement where none would other
wise exista Is it not clear that the fugacious
law is only kept in being in order to entrap,
not fugitive slaves, but free colored people, in
plain violation of the Constitution and of JUS
ticel
We protest against the continuance of law
which can only serve to wrong the free colored
people of the North, at the expense Of the honor
of the South, and for the profit of q set of pi-
ratical negro-catchers.
The defenders of Slavery assume that the
institution is mild and benefcent in its opera
ton, and that the subjects of it are the happi-
est people in the world, if they only knew it;
and that whom, like Rasselas, they are tempted
by a rowing curiosity to quit the Happy Valley,
they are but too ready to avail themselves of
the first opportunity to return. Now, can any.
thing be palmer than the proposition that the
true policy to pursue is to provide the runa-
ways free ticket on the cars On demand
1t is evident that they viii not spend many
weeks or months at the cold and inhospitable
North, when they are offered free ticket
home.
We submit it as q constitutional question,
whether the Government as substitute for
the Fugitive Slave Law, would not be warrant
ed in offering a free ticket and free fare to
every runaway, in order that they may quietly
return to their sweet homes" in the 'sunny
South?n G.
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For tn. National Era.
spRINa.
By ANN SUMMER DRAKE.

The beautiful Spring, on her tireless wing,
Has come to our Northern land;
And the spirit of frost hath the jowols lost
That he held in his icy hand.
Awed by the grace of her fair young face,
Winter resigns his reign,
And hurries back DER the frozen track
OF the Arctic seas again;
While the youthful queen, in her mantle green,
Takes up her dowery crown,
And calls once more all who fed before
The usurper's chilling frown.
She hastens again to free her domain
From Winters wrath and pride;
And the mantle white, he dropped in fight,
She casts in the foaming tide.
The sparkling wave her fair hands lave,
As the fetter she rends away,
That bound the stream from the suns bright bean
And checked its joyous play.
In the forest dim pealing hymn
Floats up from the minstrel band,
As she scatters abroad DER the fragrant sod,
Her treasures with lavish hand
She has gifts Of flowers for the garden bowers,
And leaves for the gray old trees;
And to cool the brow Ofthe sick man now,
She has brought balmy breeze
Ger the brown hills bare covering rare
OF embroidered green is spread,
And forget me-not springs up on the spot
Where slumbcr the lowly dead.
And golden light and howerets bright,
And birds Of glancing wing,
And brooks that CLEAN in the MONDAY beam,
Attend the roign of Spring.
EiliOtsviLle, Maine Aprii, 1854.
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PRACTICE VERSUS THEORY.

There WAS a little passage in the debate on
the Deficiency bill, in the House, on the 1st
instant, TO which we think fit to refer to-day
The amendments increasing the number and
salaries of certain officers In the household of
the President, being read, MIR. Flagler pro-
posed to amend, so as to leave those expendi-
lures as suthorized by existing law. He pro-
ceeded to say, that this addition of some $1,000
to the national expenditure was not In accord
ance with the desires of the Executive Il
looked like an attempt to implicate that high
functionary in the vast enlargement of the ex-
penditures now being made in almost every
Department of the Government. The Presi-
dent was in favor of economy, as the following
plain reading of his Inaugural viii show:
ain the administration of domestic affairs,
you expect devoted integrity in the public
service, and an observance Of rigid economy in
all departments, SO marked as never justly to
be questioned. If this reasonable expectation
be not realized, frankly confess that one of
your leading hopes is doomed to disappoint-
ment, and that my efforts, in very important
particular, must result in humiliating failuren
Mr.. F. said he should be glad, if in order, to
offer this extract as q substitute for the pro-
posed enlargement of expenses at the White
Housed But the Chairman Elr. orr) ruled this
ont of order, when Mr.. Flagler added, that he
merely desired to say that he acquiesced in
this decision Of the Chair, as he was abund-
antly satisfied, on reflection, that an economical
proposition like that just read was not in har
mony with the plethoric proportion of the bill
He thought it pity, however, that it could
not be embalned and laid away in so fitting q
sepulchre.
The city Of Troy. in New York, was the
scene of destructive confagrAtion on Friday
afternoon and night, by which upwards of q
hundred houses besides other property, est
mated IN al as million of dollars, were con-
sumed.
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The emigration fsom China to Calso,,.
appears to be largely on the increase and =
shall not be surprised if the Chinese elen,,.
shall predominant in that State in the oor.'
of few years. II, as is stated, ten tboD.,.,
were embarking at Hong Kong, at the las. ~
vices, what may we not expect when thu =,
tension of commerce shall be equal 10 Aha 4,
mand for passsges The swarms which e
some years past have issued from Ireland a.
Germany are nothing to what China and !,
pan can throw of. We clip the forovi..
from the San Francisco Evening Jour,,iS
which brings the latest news from China.
More Chinese.-Captain Folger, Of Il,
barque George E. Webster, from Hong Kona
reports that there were fifteen ships ~
barques bound for this port, in ballast sDS
with passengers, at that port. They Womb
bring about II, 900 Chinese, One ship. the p
Horsmugee, had over 1000 on board on
ships, sold here some time since for 81 O6o
and $4,000, were sold at that place for $50 Goa
and loading with passengers for California
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same sort, is to 60 to Congress In Connecti-
cut, Free-Soiler has been chosen TO the United
States Senate. La New Hampshire, tho Ad-
ministration was defeated by q coalition Of
Wings and Free Soilers.u
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way produced this last hectic fiuata on the face
of Slavery. Tho first rude embrace Of the cold
North produces shock and shaddsr, attend
cd by spasmodic effort 10 shake of tho mon
ster. The slaveholding interest is larmed and
agitased by the first dawn Of the spirit of free
labor; and the Journals and politicians devoted
to the ancient order of things become frantic
with rage as they perceive the adsancing tide
of free opinions, which, at no distant day, is
destined to sweep away their Baltimore plat
forms, with the time-servers who stand upon
them. G. FL
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The OPPOSITION TO The ADMINISTRATION.

The triumphant election Of President Pierce,
the very general response of appreciation with
which his inaugural address was received, the
immense majority of his party elected to the
United States House of Representatives, the
successive triumphs of that party in the State
elections-these and numberless other eyiden
ces attest the "fusion " to which parties were
tending IN his favor. By whom was the cur
rent checked and turned aside! Have the
People or their Representatives in the popular
branch Of Congress, in spirit of factious op
position, introduced topics Of strife for the
purpose of tempting the Administration into
conflict with any section of the Union! Far
from it. There is strife and discord. and
excitement and anger, but they who are in
power have provoked it, and they alone niue.
be held to accountability. The parties that
now exist are " sectional parties "a party
for Slavery, and party for Freedom Future
contests must be wsged by these parties, until
right and might are established To Us, il
matters little by what names parties are
called, if their principles are bet known. That
the name of Democrat is prostituted by the
present Administration and its friends is to Us
no argument why we should approve its tyran.
nous practices, nor shall we weep over the vic.
tories Of Freedom, because they are claimed
by those who are or have been called Wings
But rhGt they are who are now triumphant
may be readily known, from brief review Of
their successes. We quote the condensed
statement of the Boston Commonwealth for
this purpose:
1.-THE Southern Wings sustained lone Of
them originated1 the project to extend slavery
into Kansas and Nebraska; the Northern
Wings unanimously voted against it and are
now unanimously resolving against it."
ain Ohio, the Wing organization is wholly
abandoned; the Wings are supporting DEM
ocrat for Judge of the Supreme Court and
ultra Free Sellers, like Giddings and Edward
Wade and Judge Bliss, for Congress. Wing
committees have resigned, and even the Wing
name is thrown aside to considerable extent
and when It is retained, retained only from
habit. In Indiana, the Wings are supporting
the Democrats for Congress, and Democrats
Whigs and Free-Soilers, indiscriminately, fol
State officers. In Wisconsin and Illinois the
case is just the same. Ia Michigan, every
Wing paper but one supports MIR. Bingham
for Governor, Free-Soiler, who was once Q
Democrat and neOer Wing In Iowa, though
the candidates were nominally Wing, there
wss substantially fusion of parties. In Yer
mont, the regular Wing candidate for Lieu
tenant Governor is Free-SoiIer of the ia
natical kind. In Maine, there is a well-un
derstood and well-cemented coalition, (indict
able ct Democratic common law, as the Mas
saehusetts coalition was at Wing common
law.1 by which it is expected that Mr. Morrill,
an Independent Democrat, viii be made Gov
ernor, and John J. Perry, another man of tn
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WASHINGTON, d. C.
THURSDAY, AUGUST "a. 1854.

10 Dr. Bailey is still absent from Washing
ton; but is the expectation of his locun teaens
that he viii return to his post of duty in time
to greet his many readers in the issue of the
7tb, OF, st farthest, the 14th of September.
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It appears that all the members Of COngres
from Missouri who voted for the Nebraska OIL
at the recent session, and who were candidates
for reelection, have been successful while tn'
only member who voted against it has been
defeated. The reverse is the case in many
other States-in ell the free States.
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20 The sudden death of clever, but PcH
and friendlees actor, was announced rev
days ago; and an expensive monument to Dis
memory is now proposed. The golden SgS
and the age of bronze, and all these ages 'fS
past; and we have now come to the age u
monuments and initiative folly.
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VOL. VIII.

effected. By 1856, We have confident h.,
that California viii DO in fact, what she i. |.
name, o free State.
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FEMALE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNsYLvA
NIA-In our advertising columns VIII be found
an announcement Of the commencement of the
fifth annual session Of this most excellent insti
tuition. A glance at the welI-known names of
the professors comprising the faculty, is all that
is nee ded to recommend and insure for it thai
encouragement which it so justly deserves
We understand that Prof Charles D. Glove
land, Of Philadelphia, is the President of the
College.
We deem it proper to state that this College
has no connection whatever with the Penn
Medical University of Philadelphia, lately in
stitutea, notice of which appeared by acci
dent undor our editorial head last week.
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10 We have received the prospectus Oh
!" TIE Chrisi0n and Literary Miscellany" !"
be published semimOnthly at Leoni, Jsckson
county, Michigan, by w. Kent. Among lie
principles avowed by its editor, we are grstlneu
to End that decided opposition to slavery
prominent.
10 Arthur's Home Magazine for SeP'em
ber, an agreeable and instructive visiter Is TO
ceived. T. S. Arthur, Philadelphia; 81 PEI
year
The abatement Of the cholera in New I OH
has induced the authorities TO discontinue Ine
daily reports
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The Hon. Bale Peyton, a distinguished law
yer and politician of Louisiana, now in Cali
fornia, has recently revealed himself ON the
Nebraska question. He stands side by aide
with the gallant Col. Hunt who came forth
singIe-handed in the House of Representatives,
to save the honor of the South by an adhe-
renee to his pledges
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George Washington, in 1894, spoke, in let
ter to Tobias Lear, Of his desire to Ebcrate .
certain species of property, which l possess
very repugnantly to my own feelings.1 He
would to-day be the sooff Of bis neighbors in
his Own home!
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ii. ID. IIuIrs Hide Circular.

SEw.YoRE. Saturday Sept. ,, 1854
HipTs-We st continue - have liberal receipts nat WIN
On mpsvemsn Ia tho demand from dea sad go inquiry
for the market he teen active and prices OF the eom
mon dec tioGs have sdvsrced fully cent 70, while Due
os Ayes remain whou change in rates but i< 81 previous
quotations u
tops eh1cerome IT, RIO Grsnde, 10 zoe baenos Ayres
sd cC ruro C43elo which has ie we'd the ket some
what bu the remaining hand still continues large
Transactions have been cHed 10 afge exrn bjia or sK
rice o previous sales There bat few parcels OF com
mon nides L in tho mArtet and thcs are held above the
Of the trade Owing 70 the hnness Of holders here
dealers have esOod h. Instances % neighbnrnE markets
FOR their upri,. ard purchased to nsdersbe extent a.
something under the Tates cemsnd ed here
Receipts tfor the week comprise = 81, Consisting prir ca
lrmy at Ice NJ By Aady Swia from MArae-bo, zoo dry
ard dry sst,d Hides BY Fsyr rita and Carnes, Ansostns,
1919; Clals Borgts Se; Puinam ssvsnl. @s 10 bales
Calcutta Buffalo snd 40 hides from southern p9E nela'
ding co Porto Cabeo from PhiiAdll 1bs.
Tie present stock OK and Cow comprises 2i00 Hides a.
follows eco DRY BuenOs Ayres, 600 Dry Rio Srand-,
1850 Dry Monte Yideo u 200 DJ Onnoco lincatns 1903
eject Co0 Dry Porto Csbelo B. SCI DIV African To Dry
ssyAa 500 Div Msraeabo 900 Dry Rio Hsche 90 Dry
Southern Western &c 20 Dry san lusn, 30 Dry MATS
moos SO Dry Vera Cruz .o Dry Port Au Platte and 81
Domingo. I 90 DIV sandwich Islsnds. $50 Dry Central
America 20 Dry IrU1io 20 Dry Pant w saied buenos
Ayres.
sKss-Gott--In Curseo. there has been fair demso1,
with sale OF 400 SKINS s. 48d5c moe In other descp-
tou there but Little doing Ia Deer have 10 pew feature
LEarHEsThe receipts continue smsbui few Of the
ners had sufficient finish AID the stock
market since the s,s rans The dsnAnd !. moderate
buyers showing bat little pt and eOnue thens lives 70 the
SUPPLY Of their immediate baen0s Ayres heavy
weights continue and i've demand Ia prices
there chause The Hetn0ck very
suG amounting 10 s. 90 sides and sales Of the wees are
coo SIDES In Oak tanned have change nofe IN price,
he ard fair with sales Of ass SIDES And the stock coaa
tgis eco Sdes
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Disasters 81.

sHr Para MEoT Philadelphia from Leghorn, OF ID
hst ls a. ion 81 eIpsrtLctta severe gale from z, IN
Which .he hsa fore and fopf.ans sails O0Wa from tue
sIff al totsai- ores4ii bad blO<n from
tn after fur ed carried Jack and
- ysd .pfgns Tudder hesd lin ~.
g. kes thr gale from ? lasting fur h0srs whsn the
Nhd sUcdenly 'hsd y. W, ard aie~ hurricane foT
eaylg rlse reefsd main tOpsz; bad
very char s-e Gber tor bs last twelve days ana time
ile tsrcusftr e Il three urth. Of inch hour
sBiP IT AVEfNcE bCnas6 was ound sfDd bar,
% - fborrs fellow QHeteeJ % inst II thought The
stp Mt Estn o.ag.. bet il being ueap tides Al the
TN. e surE sriOe sfs would have iSbten ret Cd
EsaK Morning erAR rom Curaeos for Se~-f0rk. beor.
sstaT- bin~ Wilmington sot Cd after dchsrg
in Tali0E of hT AID Grysd up at Wilmington sh
irsftLt
BEe nsHcfLLus from Alezsnzr. for Ne- Bedford With
sfsd N tlf pho aspa,eh from Norfolk 20 hsys
.fIe 2lss list TIE Rip Rap, and VII probably prove
= total
BsIe CBsgLcTrr Horton hence stChseston experienced
heavy wehe on Ne and carried way main tops ant
fars tst zsii4nf yard
BRIe 0RlrAya Staples Portisn I'd from xs,aazas lost deck
led ss>y &c and spit s2.. 10 the sse Of sth Inst
RRIG EriLY, fon Pbiade phis Cor evburyport via
Hsess hee shsre abe sshoTe the gale Of 10Th ma,
arrived st Nevbedrd yestefeay. leaking badly sd would
have 6eSss coal and Tie railway fosrspsif
Bag j. W. ELvtLL. s.fs.e reported ssandered % Ire