The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-31
Memoirs of the Court of Austria, and paper
on Victor Hugo and his Writings, are well de-
serving of attantion

Memoirs of the Court of Austria, and paper
on Victor Hugo and his Writings, are well de-
serving of attention.
THE CHEMISTRY COMMON LIFE BY James f. Johnston
Two vols New York: d. Appleton Co. For sale by
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would know something of the air we breathe,
the water we drink, the soil we cultivate
something of the everyday materials we con-
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upon us. They condense and popularize a
great mass more of valuable information for
An INTRODUCTION TO Practical ASTRONOMY with Col
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New York Harper Brothers. For sale by Taylor
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The rapid advance of Practical Astronomy
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the instruments and modes of astronomical
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lessor Loomis has endeavored to meet this
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HANDBOOK GERMAN LrrERAruRE BY G. j. Adler A.
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GRAMMAR OF THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. BY M. Schele
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The authors experience in teaching the
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In this concise treatise on Land Draining,
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the volume.
The editor of the Detroit Adrerttser has been
permitted to publish the following private letter
from c. McCrea, Esq, the man who shot NAL
colin Clark few weeks since at Fort Leaven-
worth, K. T..
Fort LEAvENwoRTH GUARD HOUSE,
Kansas, Nay 8, 1855.
DEAR FATHER: Before this note shall have
come to hand, you doubtless will have heard of
my misfortune by the papers, though fear not
exactly according to fact. The question of Sla-
very here has come to such a pitch of excite
ment that we are on the eve of civil war, and it
has been my misfortune to strike the first fatal
blow at a meeting relative to claims, which took
a strong party turn, as everything in this devo-
ted Territory does. l was heard by the bully and
leader of the opposite party to call some of the
proceedings fraud Il. e., deciding vote
against two-thirds.) He rushed at me with
piece of two-by-four scantling. | fled from him
till he struck me, then / shot him through the
body. He died in about ten or twenty minutes.
l was also shot at as ! received Clarks blow,
but not wounded was afterwards shot and
slightly wounded. Our party was as great on
the ground as the Pro-Slavery, or we should
have had some more work to do. l expect to
get out on small bail soon.
Your afectionate son, G. MCCREA.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN KANsAs.-Lynch
La,c.-The Rochester Democrat has the follow
ing account of another outrage in Kansas:
On the 18th instant, Mr.. Phillips, lawyer,
was decoyed to the banks of the Missouri river,
where be was suddenly seized and forced into
skiff, and carried across the river into Missou-
ri-thence he was taken seven miles to Weston.
An old warehouse stands just below the town;
he was taken there, his head was shaved, his
face BACKED, he was tarred and feathered, and