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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES DANGEROUS.

The Washington Sentinel has a very good
article against Know Nothingism, showing how
the repeal of the naturalization laws would
tend to place Labor in this country at the mer-
cy of CAPITAL In making out its argument,
it is constrained to refer to certain fundamental
principles-rather dangerous to an advocate of
Despotisnl-for, the Sentinel, while vindicating
to-day the rights of Labor against Capital, to-
morrow will be found iercely maintaining the
rights of Capital against Labor.
Forgetting for moment that it is a stern
champion of that Despotism of Capital, which
owns both Labor and the Laborer, it states the
following principle:
Human nature is the same in all countries,
and in every epoch. 1t is the same in the U nj
ted States as in England. Take from Labor
here the right to COte, and noe may be assured
that Capital aoiU be enabled to secure, and aoilL
secure, ats advantage, at the expense of Labor
Lake causes must produce like effects. Deprice
Labor Of tie right to Uote in the United States,
and you put an operation the causes achich de-
grade Labor IN England, and puts 1t completely
at the mercy Of Capital"
Stick to this principle, Mr. Sentinel and you
must abandon Slavery, for that system not only
denies to the Laborer the right to vote, but the
right to act in any way, except in absolute
obedience to Capital. You may say, as you
have often said, that the selfinterest of the
Capitalists in this case will provide for the
welfare of Labor; but, as a sufficient answer,
we refer you to another principle, stated by
yourself in the same article
"The psaImist says Put not your trust in
princes, or in any child of man, for there is no
help in Them These words of truth are acted
upon in our system of government. 1t is rela-
ted of Madame de Stael, that with fulsome fat
terry she thus addressed the Car of Russia
Sire, yOu are constitution for your country,
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REPUBLICAN MEETING AT ALBANY.

One of the signal events of the week is a
great Republican meeting at Albany, presided
over by the Mayor of the city, which was at
tended by General NYE and w. II. SEWARD,
former political opponents, but now cordial CO.
workers in a common cause. In speech of
two hours length, marked by characteristic
breadth of view and elevation of sentiment,
Mr.. Seward announced his unreserved adhesion
to the Republican Party. We shall print the
speech in our next number.
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FROM KANSAS.

We have received the Kansas Herald OF
Freedom of September 22d. The Herald re.
CARDS II as wonderful occurrence, that Colonel
Lane, of Indiana, a member of the last Con.
gress who voted for the Kansas Nebraska bill
applied for admission into the District Court
of the United States for Kansas Territory.
Judge Lecompte presiding, and was refused
because he would not take an oath to sustain
the enactments of the Legislature of Kansas.
j. S. Emery, Esq, from Lawrence, found him.
self in a similar condition, and also refused the
OATH Colonel Lane then asked the favor OF
appearing in behalf of McCrea, as a regular
practitioner in the courts of Indiana and Of the
United States Supreme Court, but his request
was disregarded.
The postmaster of Atchison TX. T.) returns
FIVE copies of the Herald of Freedom. and
" most respectfully declines giving them circu.
lation." The proprietor of the Herald has an.
pealed TO the Postmaster General.
letter from Leavenworth of September
oath says that the District Court assembled at
that place on the 18th, and Chief Justice lie.
compte having empanelled a grand jury OF
sixteen, to whom was committed the McCrea
'case-the murder of Clark-the Jury consider
ed the case for five days, and, the majority be-
ing against finding bill, the Judge dismissed
the jury, and adjourned the court until Noyem
Der. The letter says:
such an adjournment is not legal, being
authorized by no statute, and is in fact disso.
luton of the Court. As such it was doubtless
intended, in order to detain McCrea in prison
until next spring.
I" 1t is supposed that a band of lawless Mis-
sourians are concealed in the bush near the
town, awaiting an opportunity to attack our
citizens, and destroy the printing press of the
Territorial Register. Three hundred well-arm-
ed citizens are prepared to receive them, and
sentinels are posted in every part of the town,
with signals for a general rally"
AT the election for Territorial Delegate to
Congress, Mr.. Whitfield was the only candidate
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WASHINGTON, D. c..
THURSDAY, OCTOBER Is, 1855.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.

To the circular we issued week or two
since, in regard to voluntary agents, we have
already received a large number of replies, full
of kind words and pledges of cooperation in
the work of renewing the subscriptions of the
Era. If there be any, at post offices which
the circular has not reached, who are willing to
aid us in charging our subscription, they will
please, let us know without delay. Lists of
subscribers and circulars will be forwarded
week after next.
We are glad to see indications of an earnest
purpose, among our friends, to multiply the
readers of the Era, and repair the damages it
sustained from the Know Nothing movement.
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THE ALBANY ATLAS must not ,upnose Il
can sow disunion between the different Sec
tons that have united to form the Republican
Party. The Netc York Tribune we know, re-
joiced as sincerely in the election of Mr.. Chase
as we do; and we certainly are as much graft
fed as the Tribune can be, at the accession of
Mr.. Seward to the Republican Party. The
associations of the Atlas naturally make it
difficult for its editors to conceive of party in
which personal strife and ambition do not
bear sway.
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LABOR VOTES"

Labor in this country is honorable and hon
ored. Its honor stands ON the substantial basis
OF political power. Labor votes in the United
States Washington Sentinel.
In what part of the country is Labor honor
able and honored? In the slave States, where
the labor is done by more than three millions
of imbruted slaves? And is it in that section
that Labor votes?" Are the millions of slaves
voters?
1t is worthy of remark, that whenever Pro-
Slavery men undertake to show Off our country
and its institutions to foreigners, they always
ignore the South, and speak chiefly of the insti-
tutions prevalent in the free States, as if they
constituted "the country tacit admission
OF their superiority. Because Labor is "hon-
orable" and "honored," and "votes 4" at the
North, they say, Labor IN this country is hon.
orable and honored and Labor votes.r
Suppose they should carry out their silly
threat, dissolve the Union, and organize pure
Slaveholding Union, where, then, would be their
Boosting?
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COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH JAPAY.-Ne,c
York, Oct. l5.-Commodore Perry is said to
have predicted the failure of certain California
merchants in their efforts to establish CONNER
cial relations with Japan. An examination of
the treaty shows it to be one of amity and
friendship only.
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EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR THE ERA.

L. A. Chamerovzow, Esq, q New Broad
street, London, England, has kindly consented
to act as agent for the National Era in Great
Britain and Europe.
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VOL. TX.

discussed in the South at any time during the
last fifteen years, just like that of dissolution
of the Union, but to the irrational and patri.
otto" responsibilities above named belongs the
distinguished honor of meeting it as an immi.
nent danper
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on the track, and of course got all the votes,
with the exception of few thrown for Reeder.
Whitheld's vote in three counties was LOO.
Boston Journal
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TO ADVERTISERS.

d. r WHITNEY is our authorized canvassng agent for
New York city and vicinity and will receive forward
advertisements for the Era our lowest rates
Advertisements can be le at his Office, No % Spruce
street.
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MOST CONs0LAToRY.

The National hntelligenser administers rich
consolation to the good people of Massachu-
sets in the following paragraph. They will
never be able to repay Messrs. VALLEY, Win
throp, and Choate, for their incalcuIable SER
vicoS
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From the National In,eIligencer.

The newspapers of the South, which have
been laboring for some time to get up acts of
retaliation by the Southern Legislatures against
Massachusetts, on account of what is called
the Personal Liberty Bill will, we think,
soon be saved further trouble. The discreet
and sound men of Massachusetts seem deter
mined to have the corrective applied in the
proper way. The madness which ruled the
hour is likely to pass away, and the councils
of the State will soon be in the hands of ra-
tional and patriotic men, warmly attached to
the Union of the States, and animated by those
fraternal feelings which in the revolutionary era
bound North and South in a common brother
hood"
1t is true that the project of Retaliation
against some Northern State or other, has been
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candor of this Presidential Defence. The Kan
sas bill, as we have said, was framed to suit
Mr.. Atchison and the Propaganda, who had
avowed their purpose to plant Slavery in the
Territory. No sooner was it passed, than his
friends were instructed how and where to To-
cate their claims, and measures were concocted
to obtain by means of temporary voters the
control of the polls. Conventions were held
through all the western counties of Missouri,
for the purpose of raising money to make the
scheme effectual. The Pro-Slavery Party had
many advantages. Missouri bordered on Kan
sas, and shut it off from the free States. The
western counties contained a large slave popu-
lation. The plans of the Propaganda had
been matured. They had, in the Secretary of
War, who could dispose of the troops on the
frontier, powerful friend at headquarters, and in
Senator Atchison at Washington, an agent who
would give them the earliest and most import
ant information. Under ordinary circumstan-
ces, ordinary emigration from the free States
might have saved Kansas but these extra
ordinary advantages of the Propaganda re-
CURED to be met by extraordinary efforts on
the part of their opponents. And will any
candid man say, that in view of the outrage
Gus violation of good faith towards the free
States involved in the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise, such efforts were not only their
right, but their duty2 The Emigration socie-
ties were organized, not to supersede, but to
aid, voluntary emigration. They carefully
collected and circulated information in rela.
ton to the Territory, and the best routes for
reaching it. They hired nobody to go; but,
by making economical arrangements with rail-
road and steamboat companies, reduced the
price of freight and passage to the individual
emigrant. One of them purchased town
site, erected machinery, and in this way invited
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-20

THE PHLoGNoMoN SocIErY.-This association
of young ladies, belonging to the Baldwin Iusti-
tute, under the superintendent of DR.. Ewing,
propose this (Friday) evening to give an intel
lectual Entertainment at the Institute, which We
feel sure will doubly repay those who may attend.
The Ladies Wreath, edited by the scholars, will
be read, and there will be two rehersals, besides
a Lecture which is expected from the Rev. Mr..
Nichols, of Saltwater. Should he not be pres
ent, Lecture may be expected from DR.. Ewing.
The object of these entertainments is to raise a
sum of money to procure Library. We hope
the efforts of the young ladies will be fully ap-
preciated, not only by the young men, but by the
citizens generally. The Lecture this evening is
free. By all means 60. ~, 1s-,s
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-20

SOUTHERN DEPENDENCE UPoN THE NoRTM.-We
make the following extract from speech made
bv Mr.. Albert Pike at the Southern convention,
recently held in Charleston, sc. Said Mr.. Pike:
It is time that we should look about us and SEQ
in what relation We stand to the North. From the
rattle with which the nurse tickles the ear of the
child born in the South, to the shroud that covers
the cold form of the dead, everything comes to us
from the North. We rise from between sheets
made in Northern looms, and pillows of Northern
feathers, to wash in basins made in the North dry
our boards on Northern towels, and dress our
selves in garments woven in Northern looms: we
eat from Northern plates and dishes; our rooms
arc swept with Northern broOms, our gardens dug
with Northern spades, and our bread kneeded in
trays or dishes Of Northern wood or tin; and the
very wood that feeds our fires is cut with Northern
axes, helved with hickory brought from COnnecti-
cut and New York.
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ARAB PRovERBs.-Listen if you would learn.
Be silent if you would be safe. Inquire about
your ncighbors before you build, and your COM
panion before you travel. The first of wisdom
is the fear of God. The world is carrion, and
its followers dogs. Poverty without debt is in
dependence. Long experience makes large wit.
The sluggard becomes a stranger to God, and an
acquaintance with Indgence.
By six qualities may fool be known Anger
without cause, speech without profit, change with
out motive, inquiry without an object, putting
trust in stranger, and wanting capacity to dis
crimnate between friend and foe.
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BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT.-When the summer of
youth is slowly wasting away into the nightfall
of age, and the shadow of past years grows
deeper and deeper, as life wears on its
close, it is pleasant to look back through
the vista of time upon the sorrows and TO-
licities of our earlier years. If we have home
to SHELTER and hearts to rejoice with U.S. and friends
have been gathered together around our fresidcs,
then the rough place Of our wayfaring will have
been worn and smoothed away, in the twilight of
life, while the sunny spots We have passed through,
will grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy
indeed, are they whose intercourse with the world
has not changed the tone of their holier feeling,
or broken those musical chords of the heart, whose
vibrations are so melodious, so tender and touch
ing in the evening Of age.
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New ENGLAND Rrx FOR SEBAsroPoL.-We learn
from good authority, that Trull Brothers, dstill-
crs, are now engaged in filling an order for this
s'ndtire juice to 60 to the Crimea. They get
Is cents per gallon, and boast OF making t.celre
hundred dollars a week.-Aiddleser Mass. Jour
nal.
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FRIcurruL AccIDKNr.--A Mrs. Waters had just
taken her seat in the New York and Erie cars at
Jersey City, in company with her children, when
on looking out of the window to ask about her
baggage, her head was caught between the cars,
slowly moving, and post, and so badly crushed
rs to kill her instantly. The post was within
three inches of the side of the car.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-20

NOTHING LIKE Coop TIrLE.-Upon the pas
sage of the French Spolation Bill, Hon. Mike
Walsh, of New York, moved that its title be as
follows:
On account to accomplish the following OBJ
jccts: ..r.fIsf
First, To enable sundry INSCRIPTIONS and
grasping Companies of spectators and brokers
to still further aggrandize themselves, in the sac
riigiously assumed name of the widows and Or
phans, by preying upon those by whose helpless
ness and necessities they have already amassed
immense fortunes.
Second, 10 replcnish the purses and bright
en- the mercenary hopes of the several agents,
lobbyers, &c., Of Washington, who are personally
interested in its passage and also to embolden
those ''modest" and conscientious worthless to
renewed and increased efforts to preclude the
possibility of its funds even again reaching one
inch above low water mark. Excessive laugh
ter. .-f. E.H...ft
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Cy "Now, then, Thomas, what are you burn
ing off my writing table ," said an author to his
servant. " Only the paper that's written all overs
/ havn't touched the ccan,'' was the reply.
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CO A little fellow, who had jus. commenced
reading the papers, asked his father if the word
"Hon.'' prefxed to the name of Mr.. --, the
The little fellow has a mind for investigation.
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II Z M T. .
lob Printing Office.

Job Printing Office.
TIMES BUILDING, ST. ANTHONY STREET.
TTAVING recently stocked office with
i'll TIFUL assOrtmct of
PRINTING MATERNAL,
W prepared to do all kinds of
JOB WORK
possible Styles reasonable rates. and
done other establishment In the ter
With experienced workmen, superior facilities and
regard the wants hope to give satisfac
tiOn to all who may favor with their patronage.
All kinds and descriptions of BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS,
CARDS, PAMPHLETS BLANKS, BOOKS, POSTERS IN COLOR
Inks, LABELS &C. &C., executed in neat and
trorkman- like manner. In fact, every kind Of
.'..e PRINTING
department, will receive special attention.
Wa continually In receipt Of
New Styles of Type,
keep with only the Improvements Of ne
age,o but IL possible get enc peg ahead.
Il. 4
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%, OOO.-McKenty says he don't want puff,
and as he is doing pretty extensive business,
VIC won't give him one. ftfrFl
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CO A Bill has passed the House of Represen-
tatives restoring the rights Of citizenship to Nehe
miah Whitaker.
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CT The Catholic Almanac for 1855 gives the
following statistics of the Roman Catholic Church
in the United States There are seven Archbish-
ops, thirty-three Bishops, two Wears Apostolic,
seventeen hundred and four Priests, and twelve
hundred and twcnty-four Churches. There are
six hundred and ninety eight Missionary Stations,
twenty eight Colleges, one hundred and seventeen
Female Academies, and thirty seven theological
Seminaries. as- III ..-,-
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The LATIN PUN.-One Of the best puns-or, as
Mrs. Partington would say, double indentures-
on record is made of the two Latin words tn doces,
(thou teachest, INSCRIBED on the lid Of an NJ tea
chest, and rendered thus: Tu doccs 1.-TWO doses,)
thou teachest, (thou tea chcst.)
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The CRYSTALS LAppER.-The Chinese are q
queer people to 60 to market. A friend at Cam
ton, writes Kemlick Van Tassell, - that neigh
Dor had just laid in his winters provisions
hind quarter of horse and two barrels of bull
dogs. the latter sailed to keep. ~
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e. 1t is stated that the income of VIM. B.
Astor, Of New York, is one million two hundred
thousand dollars per annum, which would be
about s., 2S7 a day, $lS7 an hour, and s., 80
minute.
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CAvEp IN.-The weight Of snow upon the roof
of the Round House at Lafayette, Indiana, crush
oil in the roof, buryng several locomotives in the
snow and fallen timbers.
Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-20

Very LkELr.-The man who is too poor to
take paper, has bought slab sided dog, an
old gun and . twenty shilling gold watch. He
educstes his children in the Streets and boards his
shanghais on his ueighbors.
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De SoTo HoUsE.-This new Hotel is nearly FIN
ished and will be furnished, and ready for recep-
ton of families, and the travelling public, on the
first of April next.
Mr.. J. C. PARKS, favorably known as landlord
in the Virginia Hotel, st. Louis, has rented the
establishment for term of years. and is fitting
it up with all the latest improvements for the
comfort of guests alend Adv.
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FIRST NEWS THROUGH FROM ST. LOUIS.
Snow Drift Eighteen Miles Lsag aad Eight Feet
High.

Snow Drift Eighteen Miles Lsns a.d Eight Feet
High.
A party of four gentlemen, who left St. Louis
for this place on the morning of Sunday, the Dist
instant, on the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad,
reached this city on yesterday morning, having
been nine days en- route. They were very curious
looking objects when they arrived here, having
been exposed for the greater part of this time to
the fury of the snow storms which had been
raging during the last ten days, and were i'm
mediately carried to the Daguerrean Gallery of
VIM. Hesler, where portraits of them were taken
in all their glory of snow and frost. These gen.
tlemen describe the journey which they have just
accomplished, and the perils which they encoun-
tered, with great zest and piquancy.
The train in which they left Alton was forced
to stop, by the snow, at or near Lexington, sta
ton on the G. & NJ. r. X. a few miles this side
of Bloomington. Here they procured sleigh
with sixteen horses, and started on the way for
this city. The distance is some 100 miles, and
they had to make their own roads. They passed
:along the line Of the Railroad most of the way,
nnd saw the condition in which the storm had
iplaced it. 1t is terrible. From Lexington to
some nine miles this side of Pontiac, the drifts
arc immense and apparently insurmountable, ex-
cept by the slow and tedious process of pick axe
and shovel, the force of the wind having packed
the snow and made it hard as ice.
The bank in which the two trains from this city
are stuck, is altogether about eighteen miles long,
and varies in depth from three to eight feet. At
either end of it wer0 to be seen locomotives which
have made frantic attempts to break through, and
which, having frozen fast, are covered entirely
up by snow, their smoke stacks only sticking out
to show where th-y are.
These gentlemen think that there is no proba-
bility of the road being opened this week. If
not, what will become of the Legislature CHI
cdgo Tribune, Jan. 81.
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STRAYED
LROA the premises Of the subscriber, on the Rice Aoad
about ten miles 81. Paul. about the nrt Of Oc two
other white and red spotted. liberal reward VIII De paid on
delivery Of the sams 20 the subscribeE. ~ % q
InAiana. Illinois, and Ohle Sseck 1eeure1 Votes IA
~ IL = ~ Ter a PAR fer 4ooass ssiHft @aeh
Twill take BIN the shove hsnks for astlse
have h nv store the chance for the people make
money. Conss q yvu win iose he Opportunity. sf3
-. - ,,.,fIr-es s,.-s G. G. HOFFMAN,,
DOARDSN0 HOUSE. 113~T0--IH %
O' f-'''s 's's@'' '-' ~ ,. rsw8IL.
Oct. -, lS6l-ly Fg8xooya aid 10 fsniat10s