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But the practical considerations urged BY
the Wing in favor Of the measure, we recon
mend TO those Northern men, who are trying
to encourage themselves in bad act, by un
derrating its mischieyous consequence
"We have no fears that the population pres
emit in . Territory ut the time, would invaria-
bly, exclude Slavery from it. Was there ever
. time since Louisiana, or Florida, or Alabama
or Mississippi, was organized into Territory.
when the resident population would have voted
to exclude Slavery In the cotton and sugar
countries, at least, Slavery will be secure from
any such practical interference Of Free. S0ilism.
In the cases under consideration, we think it
probable that Nebraska and Kansas coming in
together, Nebraska lying north, and on the
great emigrant route to the Pacific, will be
filled with Northern population, and become
Free Soil while Kansas reaching south nearly
as far Us the north boundary Of Tennessee, I'D
joining Missouri, with its donse slave popula-
zion, and possessing fertile territory two hun
drcd miles back, will become slave State.
Upon this latter point different opinions are
expressed, but the facts and the argument APP
pear to us in favor Of the affirmative. The To-
cal politics Of Missouri, deeply interested as .
border slave State, will naturally enough not
be without its influence. Southern Illinois is
settled with hundreds and thousands Of men
Of Southern extraction and Southern sympa-
thies, and, together with Kentucky, Arkansas,
and Tennessee will contribute her quota.
" For these and other reasons we might emu
merate, did our space permit, we would accept
the bill for the good it certainly secures, and
combat in the future as it arises If it ever
should arise the. evil which (conceding the
worst) it may possibly produce"
This extract is important not only as show
ing that there are very material interests in
volved in this question, but that, shareholders,
should their expectations in regard to the
workings Of the measure be disappointed, will
not consider themselves bound by it Finality
to agitation may answer to urge upon North
ern men, but shareholders will recognise no
Finality, tending to abridge their power or
check their pretensions.
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cONaREss.

Tho proceedings of the Senate to-day were
not of general interest.
Ia the House, after stormy discussion, and
an attempt to hide the Nebraska bill from the
light Of day in the Committee on Territories,
that it might be suddenly brought forth and
passed in all its deformity at some unguarded
moment it was referred to the Committee Of
the Whole on the state Of the Union, bya vote
of 10 to IS. Now there will be no hood
winking
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THE QUESTION VIEWED POLITICALLY.


The Nashville TENN True Wing, rather q
moderate Southern paper, while it urges some
theoretical objections against the Nebraska
Bill thinks its practical benefits should secure
for it the support of every Southern man. II
suggests that it leans little too much to the
doctrine Of "Squatter Sovereignty" which il
denounccs as "unjust and unconstitutional
IL adds:
al. 1t 10 a grave and debatable question
whether the Cass Douglas amendment in qucs-
ton confers the right Of 'squatter sovereignty
upon the people, or the Legislatures Of the Ter
ritories II is alleged by Southern friends Of
the bill that it does not, and Northern Free
Sellers oppose it upon the ground that no such
power Ia power which they covet and advocated
Is granted in the bill The National New Era,
of March 3, the organ OF Free. Soilism at Wash
ington, and edited with much ability, says,
cmphatically The bill recognises no such
right'-that il is merely a tub thrown 10 the
Northern Democratic whale We believe
that il does not, and that Congress has no con-
stitutional authority to confer any such power"
Again
1.-THE 9th section Of the Nebraska bill pro-
vides that 'oH the laos passed by the Legisla-
tive Assembly and Governor shal be submitted
10 The Congress Of the United States, and il die
approved, shall be NULL AND OF NO ErFEcr' y
The Whig is mistaken on this point This
provision Of the Bill was stricken out in the
Senate before it's passage. Under il, as it
stands, Congress is to have no such power.
But il is still true that the Bill does not rec
ognise the right Of the People Of a Territory to
selEgovernment In itself, it is an assumption
that Congress has the sole right Of governing
the Territory; else, how could il delegate TO
the People ola Territory the right to pass laws
through their appropriate representatives
The inhabitants Of the Territories are not
allowed to form their own Constitution Of Gov
ernment-Congress in this Bill determines that
for them. Is this recognition of Squatter
Sovereignty?o The People of q Territory in
vested with the right Of elf-government when
Congress determines for them their fundamen-
tai law, and the President appoints their Exec
utive and Judicial officers II is worse than
nonsense--it is mean fraud to pretend that
the Bill recognises Popular Sovereignty, or the
right Of selfgovernment by the People Of q
Territory.
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nZ- Tho Daily Era can be had every morning
at tho Periodical Stand OF Mr. j. T. BATES, Ex-
change, Philadelphia also, the Weekly Era.
1y Mr.. JAMES ELLIOTT is authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions and advertisements or
the Daily and tho Weekly National Era, in cincn.
natl and vicinity.
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LITERARY MISCELLANY.
For the National Era.
A sTATEsMAH-wHo ID HEi
BY MARY 4. HuBBELL.

BY MARY II. HubbELl..
! Where Columbia halls her fresmen
Gathered on her council floor,
Where her wide, colossal Future
Looks, and listens, evermore--
Whore the crown of Wisdom lieth,
(Relic Of an ancient date,
Oyerlaid with passion cinders
And the dust Of fierce debate
Where bright Honor's shield Of silver
GIeamoth faint through rust and stain,
Where sweet Peace, on weary pinion.
Seeks her olive branch in vain
Mid the thunder Of the discord'
And the gloom Of party hate,
And the babbling pirate Of folly,
Idling. while Archangels wait
Lo. He rises, like planet,
Bright and steady in its role,
Stirs the calm, magnetic waters,
Lying deep in every soul
Till like Oceans crested billow,
Mounting toward the moon, its bride,
They, beneath his ardent splendors,
Surge and swell in eager tide
Till the hydra Of Injustice,
Through its triple mail Of gold,
Feels the holy blaze ofjudgment
Scathing every horrid fold
For the storm and radiant angel,
Set to guard the wronged and weak,
At his right hand stoops to teach him
What his fame touched lips shall speak.
And he pauses not to question
Who will censure, who applaud
Sworn unto tho Law sublimest,
Issued from the Father, God
Fearless, when the lips Of evil
Breathe their blackness on his name,
Trusting in . noble lifetime
For spotless after-fame
His deep heart no storms can rufie,
Calm as the unfathomed seas,
His great soul secure reposes,
In the upper air ofpeace.
Ye who love to doubt and cavil,
Follow in his homeward tread
Hear the singing of the orphans,
Whom he feeds with daily bread
Hear the stricken widow name him,
In her prayers, with blessings deep
Can your tares, in such garden,
Choke the harvest he shall reap?
NIL IL. -. ~.~aca ond earnest
Gladdsning his with tender light
Ask of tcon.an's clearer vision
Ifhe keep his manhood bright
Seek him in the secret chamber,
Where, in wise humility,
With the Infinite communing,
Morn by morn, he bows the knee.
Thence, the strength of God receiving,
New anointed from the place
Goes he forth, to toll aud struggle
For the freedom of the race
For that freedom grand and holy,
Whose high p@sns angels sung,
Dover Of Eden. blessed birthright,
Squandersd whom the world was young.
Lo he stands. with prophet finger,
Pointing toward the blsst to be,
When, beneath the spread of heaven.
Epeyy CREATURE shall Be free.
Where Columbia halls her freemen,
Gathered on her council floor,
Wakes his voice the wondrous echo
That shall slumber nevemore.
After such portrait, well may We exclaiI
Who 10 hef"
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DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

entire Press supporting the Administration,
loudly insisted that the Nebraska Bill was not
an issue in the Election, and where, in some
places, il was proclaimed that the President
was unfavorable to the Bill!
What do the honest People Of the country
think Of Pro-Slsvery politiess
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TRAGIC INCIDENT AT BALL--At Quecho-
lar, Mexico, on the 3ist Of January, Don Juan
Jose Arenas gave dance, ut which was pres
ent large company. After eleven O'Clock at
night the ladies were invited TO 90 to the sup
per-room, and threw aside their nantes for
the purpose. As they we're passing through a
passage which led 10 that room, one Of them
fell dead from the stroke Of a dagger The
murderer was the master Of the house himself
Arenas The shrek Of the victim, and the
sight of the crime, produced the widest confu.
sion. All attempted 10 seize the criminal but
he, armed with his dagger and q six barreled
pistol, placed his back TO the wall, and defend
ed himself desperately. Among others, he
wounded the son Of the slain lady. Suddenly,
however, finding it impossible to escape he
applied his pistol to his mouth and blew out
his own brains. IL seems that the lady and he
we're adversaries in lawsuit Of much import
ance, and that, ON her having the imprudence
to show herself in her adversary's house, he
had, in his rage committed this crime.
THE New CENr.-We understand that the
proposed new cent is TO be OF white metal, re-.
semblng silver in appearance with a round
and slightly raised edge. 1t is about eight
tenths Of an inch in diameter, larger than q
quarter eagle, and less than twenty FIVE cent
piece There is not to be any hole in the coin
as has been suggested in some Of the papers
II may be readily distinguished, We think, from
other coins Of about the same size, and will be
very great convenience. Bunker Hill dur'a
A resolution has unanimously passed the
Legislature Of Kentucky, recommending Con-
gress to pass the act creating the rank Of Lieut..
General IN the army Of the United States, for
the purpose Of comforting said title upon Major
General Winfield Scott
Handsome AwARD--The British Govern
ment have rewarded Mr.. Low, the inventor Of
the screw propeller in use in the naval service
Of that Power, with the sum Of 100000.
BANK or ESaLAND NorEs--The amount Of
notes Of the Bank Of England in circulation
exceeds twenty two millions sterling; or one
hundred millions Of dollars The amount Of
specie in bank Is sixteen millions sterling
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M. Clay, David Paul Brown, Mrs. Swisshelm,
Mrs. Kirkland, r. w. Emerson, John Jay,
Charles r. Adams, Theodorc Parker, William
Jay, and DR.. Brisbane. The work is very hand
somely printed and bound. A centre table
book, specially valuable for its well-chosen por-
traits and welI-executed autographs, and worth
tho reading besides t
To- James c. Derby, Of New York, has in
press selection Of the things written by DIR.
William Elder, of Philadelphia, during the last
seven years. The volume will b, Of the usual
duodecimo size embracing about one hundred
articles--sketches of character, tales, essays,
and newspaper editorials and contributions
on all the subjects current during the period.
Very miscellaneous, and various in style and
topics. A friend, who has seen the prepared
copy, describes the collection as-Tales and
Sketches, religious, politico- economical, fancy,
and slashy. This volume will be followed soon
by another, to be made up Of his more elabo-
rate essays nnd reformatory articles.
The readers Of the Era will find in these
publications ) number of the things which
they will be willing to see again in convenient
form, and number Of others which they have
not SEEM g The whole collection, , the author
says, q is made up Of things that have been
tried and found sOanting-by the public We
presume to mend the grammar and spoil the
pun, by substituting acanted for wanting
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10 Mrs. Hammer, wicked, vicious wo-
man, was sentenced in Philadelphia, the other
day, to six months imprisonment for cruelty
10 her child. She Of course swooned when
the sentence was pronounced. We regret that
her husband could not be legally convicted
also, wretched brute that he is.
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10 The President and his friends are said
to be blaming the Nebraska bill for their i'll
fortune in Detroit, Chicago, and New Hamp-
shire, sc. while Mr. Douglas and his friends
are consoling them with the assurance that
but for the Nebraska bill, things would have
been great deal worse with them
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We cheerfully comply with the request to
call attention to the Lecture to be delivered
tomorrow evening, at ~ o'clock, in Carusi's
Saloon, on the Education and Social Position of
Woman, by Mrs. Ernestine L. Rose o native Of
Poland Her lectures elsewhere have excited
deep interest. In Michigan, by vote Of the
House Of Representatives the hall Of the
House was rendered to her, and many mem
bers Of the Legislature united in testimonial,
highly complimentary to her efforts
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-21

notes Of the Bank Of England in circulation
exceeds twenty two millions sterling; or one
hundred millions OF dollars. The amount Of
specie In bank is sixteen millions sterling.
Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-21

Tho Detroit Tribune is in the folio form
again. This is well The quarto is too in
convenient for newspaper.
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20 The Texas creditors will meet at the
National Hotel to- morrow.

10 The passage from New York to Albany,
las miles, in the steamboats, is only so cents.
What the extras are is not stated. On the
railroad, it is $3.50, If we err not. AT these
rates, it is cheaper to travel than to stay at
home
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Handsome AwARD---The British Govern
ment have rewarded Mr. Low, the inventor Of
the screw propeller in use in the naval service
Of that Power, with the sum Of 10000.
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Charles 0'Conor, United States District
Attorney for the Southern District OF New
York, contradicts o story that he is secretly
plotting against the Nebraska bill He says:
!" have been and am decidedly in favor Of it,"
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In Prussia, boys Of is are drawn, and COM
PEELED 70 serve in the army till 80 years Of age.
Mr. Clinton, Of the New York Assembly, has
given notice Of bill TO prevent the abuse Of
horses.
The Halifax IN. C) Republican has an arti-
Gle recommending the nomination of Stephen
A. Douglas for the next President,
A dentist in Boston has succeeded in the APP
plication OF India rubber to the manufacture
of artificial teeth
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GREENoUGH's WAsHNGToN.-B B French,
Esq. Commissioner of Public Buildings, says,
in card, that the support to the left arm of
this statue was removed by Mr.. Horatio Green
ough himself, in the winter Of 1882 while he
was on visit to this city; and that on the
night Of the 9Th instant, the marble belt at
tached to the sword in the hand Of Washing.
ton, fell by its own weight.
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A movement is on foot 10 erect monument
to the Rev. John Bunyan, side by side with
Shakespeare and Milton, in Westminster Alb
hey. This is q tardy act Of justice to the mem
DRY Of man immortal for his genius and good
peea
The daily union., 1854-10-22

nine hundred and eghtyhree seats leaving for all the
other ect which may properly under the head of
Proesan thrtour thousand nine hundred and hftytwo
churches and thirteen million hundred and siny-one
thousand four hundred and sixtyour average
dations. These embrace about twenty denominations,
among which the Bapiists Congregational Episcopal,
Lutheran Methodist and Presbyteria the largest
Compared with the Catholics the Baptists outnumber
them in churches about fold and in their congreg-
ons four fold the Methodsts in their churches about
nine fold and in their congregations six fold and the Pres
byteran in their churches nearly four fold and in
congregations about three fold The Congregationasts
exceed them in the number Of their churches upwards
four hundred and about nine thousand in their
ons and the Epscopaans exceed them about two hun
dred in their churches and nearly equal them in their ag
gregate accommodations IL be borne in mind that
by the acquisition Of New Mexico Territory there was an
accession made 10 the numerical strength of the Roman
Catholics Of hundred and forty-six churches and
seveny-sx thousand hundred members which en-
braeed in the estimate given and they stand all
the other denominations combined land though they diff
fer among themselves yet they make common cause
against the Catholic) exceed the Catholics in their
churches twenyseyen and half per cent and in their
congregations eighteen and hreefourhs; and with these
data before u.s. how any reasonable har-
Dor the thought that in danger from Catholic
tendency? Rather should judge that those who have
raised the hue and cry against the Catholics under
ing circumstances have squirting towards alliance
with the State and would do the very thing they affirm is
the design of the Catholics. At all events think it ad-
yisableas perpetual vigilance is the price of liberyto
watch them narrowly do the Catholics for if
to have State religion would be under the
holy mother any of her daughters
The daily union., 1854-10-22
from The Philadslphia Argus.
RELIGION AND POLITICS.


"a, ,tis state .o in New York, religion is entering
.a.v o,enly and permanently with politics this fall
r Waning Mems Christian Association Of the latter state
"a e out in favor of the Mainehquor law, and pledge
themselves 10 use their influence for no candidate VINO OPP
no.es that measure The bards and softs say that
means we are all going vote for Clark ana raymond
hs whig nothing, and abolition candidates ior gov
ernor and Heutenant-goyernor In this way the ioung
~ CHRISTIAN Association is to be directly merged in
notica action. They not content TO advocate ao-
.,,,e moral principles and leave individual members to
boose the agents by whom those principles to be car
d ont This does not suit the managers of this religious
otical crusade against the constitution which TO De
nreaebed from every pulpit that can be reached either y
money or appeals the religious bgoty and prenaee OF
ia OCCUPANT The design Of the Young Mems Christian
Association subsdize the MainequoraM advocates
into the same army with the know-nothngs, and then
hiring this whole force TO bear in favor of the fusion cand-
dates for governor aud leutenangovernor OF the Empire
State.
The action Of this Christian Association when viewed in
ronpexon with the open stand taken by portion OF the
clergy Of this State in the recent election IS fun OF warn
ing Why this concentrated action OF religious bodies IN
politics at this particular crisis bat has induced cler
vme 10 turn politicians and stump this and other States
for particular candidates They have done and doing
this and the people should ask what this of action
means In this State the great body of elergymen are
fact in New York In Pennsylvania they turned the tenn
nerauee cause into paek-horse for that faction and
il. candidates and the recent action of the Young Mems
Christian Association of New York proves that they
doing the same that State Here then are the crcum-
stances that prove design TO mingle religion with poll
tics and 10 make cergymen the vehicles by which
and nfdey 10 the constitution is TO be disseminated. To
this attempt to Church and State the whole dem
ocratic party opposed They for religion our
fathers left it. free the poung touch of designing
enagogues who would pull down the temples OF God and
those of civil liberty at the time and by these means
leap into power and place The time has arrived when the
people must act upon this question They did the Sun
daynal question and the attempt has not been repeated
until the present day when under the dark and bsphe
nous oath OF the knownohing order, these impous men
are again taking the field against the constitution and in
favor of union of Church and State But this time the
bud has blown before its friends desired and the fruits
not such eemen patriots desire to entertain in this
republic.
The daily union., 1854-10-22

starting for Europe After certain legacies TO friends and
relatives he bequeahed the residue his property 10 his
wife and child children his wife should survive him
but no child children then all his property TO her The
Worcesier Transcript says;
II viii be remembered that they were in The boat
which capszed while being lowered and all were precpi-
ated INTO the sea and perisbed except Mrs. Gale who
chung shrieking 10 the thwarts and drawn into the
steamer again Mr. Gale was seen, he swept away
by the waves with the child in his arms
here relatives thus perish by the same casualty an
interesting question always arises TO the who may
be considered the survivor of the other The Roman law
always entertained this conclusive presumption that OF
several persons the youngest if child perished first if
an adult that he survived the old and feeble The pre-
sumption OF our own law is rather that where special
circumstances are proved all supposed perish to-
geher but IN The present case, the infant from its COM
paraYe weakness clearly be supposed TO have perish
ed before the father who bore it in his in the last
death struggle and from what facts have been related
Mrs Gale would seem TO have been for brief and terrible
period The survivor and heress of her husband and SON
from whom her relatives would Inherit
Why THE VEsTA DID NOT ASSIST THE ARcrIc-The can
tain of the French vesa states that from the cir
cumstance that Capt Luce steamed round him to give as
sstanee he supposed that the Arctic was not seriously
damaged, and when she left him his impression was she
had made directly for New York Otherwise the yesta
could and would have remained by her The bow of the
Vesta was danagedierally stove n leaving of 80
feet Bat the compartment Of bukhead saved her and the
French captain thought his vessel could have lived four or
five days necessary before putting into port for repairs
In other words be could have taken off every soul on
board The Arctic and landed them safely at Halifax or even
Boston That the Arctic steamed off in the western d
reeton the statements heretofore published concur That
the captain OF the Vesta pat of hearing the sig
nal guns which the Arctic subsequently fired Is not unac
countable
The Paris Academy has announced the subject It's
yearly prize for 1856 the origin Of the Phnician alpha
bet The prize is 2,oo0 francs.
lump of crystazed sugar exposed the suns rays
shows The same brilliant hues if Immediately afterwards
placed in the dark, as a diamond.
The daily union., 1854-10-22
Sale Of Gold and silver Sweeps at the Mint of
the United states, PhiladeIphia.

NEAED PROPOSALS will be received the Mint Of the United
- O'Clock Of January they
opened
bidders be pesenir purchase hundred
and five barrels Of containing gold and silver
They will be sold in oheen Of ten barrels each aud OF
Should, however bids
of the
ported assay reject
I'M the VIII g
The of the bids should the price offered hundred
avoirUpo payable the Mint delivery OF the
sweep Samples for be furnished application the
Mint.
By order Of las. ROSS sNOWDEN,
Director
DANIEL STURGEON,
October IL, 1854. Treasurer
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