The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1855-05-25
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| 1.-THE N. Y. Ledger is going TO pay Fanny
Pera for new story a, the rate Of 800 column.
~T The Crystal Palace, al last, is making
mouey-that i', the daily receipts much more than
balance the expenses.
RETURN FROM A "RrvKkiE" .. y
Mitchell, TX Marvel, has returned from L..-.s
the husband ola wife. the father Of babe.
frThe London Leader speaks Of the Emperor
Napoleon ss fLis tenaptst.will' Of throne on
which no ruler has died during ceo,uy.
Soar. The wife Of an American Agricul,urist
has been experimenting on soaps, and fads that
the addition ofihree-quanen Of an ounce Of DO.
ux, TO pound Of soap, melted In wthou, boiling,
makes saving Of one. half IN cost Of soap and Of
three fouris the labor Of washing, and improves
the whiteness Of the fabrics besides the usual
caustio effect 10 thus removed, and the hands are
efi with peculiarly son and silky feeling. leaving
nothing more to be desired by the mos, ambitious
wa.herwoman. Will our lady readers Try Il aud
tell us how Il works'-N WateAnan.
o|C,l. schouler, Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
says--"Ho:. Henry Wilson Is the best abused
man In Massachusetts. Itmares little what he
says or what he does, there are those who sIe dc.
,emined not 10 be pleased with him. Mr. Wilson
has for years sieered through these adverse cur.
rents, and has raised himself upon the ioplnost
wave in spite of,hem. We don't believe that bis
opponents Can sink him now"
GA new American manufacture has been
commenced in Williamsburg, N. Y, where plates
Of glass ten feet wide and twenty feet loos will
be made. A plate ten feet square can be made
so strong that II viii hold q toa weight, and 30
clear lhy you can read the line print Of = news.
paper through u piece four inches thick. TIE
best English plate glass Is made iron American
sand.
O- 10 answer TO the allegation by a Russian
Ia Boston, SHAT outside Of New England there
Is no opposition 10 slavery in the Know Nothing
movement; the mos, earnest friends Of tho abro.
CATION Of the Missouri Compromise, gu, Of New
England, ore the leaders and eIpoundsn Of whs,
are called American doctrines"
The Cincinnati Gazette replies:
"Thi, Is not true. Throughout the whole
West the American party are ss much opposed
TO the Sbroga,ion Of the Missouri Compromi,e' 40
tboy are In New England"
TnE DEMOCRATIC srcrvr oFpER, the "Sdg
NieA!," or "say Nolhing.," in OHIO, has adopted
most Of The locoloco State ticket Of coursc: IL is
spreading In Kentucky. numbering s.me 1000 In
Louisville alone. II is intended to embrace all
the anli.kaow.noihings IN the union. The oalhs
end obligations Of TINS ord e are Of unusual solen.
nifty. The members have passwords anu signs,
and are divided into squads Of ten, each with a
commanding olicer, who Is responsible for their
: appearance whenever their services are required
for voting or fghhnS'
GEORGIA KNos NorhiXa,sM. The X. n. state
coducil of Geo sis which nuke up without being
able 10 agree on q sadlisle, had no trouble IN
agreeing on The following which il passed on the
ID inst:
"Rroved, That slavery and slave institutions
are projected by the Constitution Of the Uni,cd
States and the obligation 10 maintain them !. not
sectional bat naiousl; that the RICH, 10 establish
them Ia ne organization Of Stale governments be-
longs TO the native and naiurlized citizens, aud
that Congress has no constitutional power 10 in.
lcycne, by excluding new State applying for
admission into the Union, upon the ground that
the Constitution Of such State recognizes slave.
Y."
Southern Know No;bingism has queer way Of
Ignoring the Slavery question.
TnE Way IT WAS DOVE. A Kansas CORES.
pondcni OF the 'S.ndusky Register, among other
things. says that though the outrage upon that
Territory was planned and conducted by Nilsson.
rams. 1t was not entirely achieved by them, Tor
the Mi.sourans Of the b"rde a'e nc, sufficiently
numerous foe such purpose. They. therefore.
raised fund Of $4,000, with which they hired
four hundred persons 10 20 from Kentucky, and
over Two thousand from other SrG,cs. Each man
had his passage paid 10 Kansas and back, aud r..
ceived ooe dollar day besides, while heir lead.
ers got iron ,en 10 twenty dollars. This army OF
hirelings was required TO lie well armed, and wa,
so. The violence ofEs members was but part Of
toe services for which they were paid.
CnicAco, May Ia. STATEMENT OF The EpToR
OF Tie PArKyiLLE LuM,sARr. Geo. s. PJrk,
late Of the Parkville Luminsry, publishes long
letter Ia the 81 Louis Democrat, 10 which he says
that Siringlell ow and AcLison have ofgsn.zsd
party Of men sworn TO iurh out and lsht when
called upon; that all are to share the damages &C.
crung 10 any oue member, even at the pnce 81
dsunioni all TO nc, secretly to destroy the bu.
> ness and character Of oil northern men all dis.
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