The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-11


trees provided they despaired of escape, and
hailed the cars. They were taken on beard
and carried to Vernon to the United Sites
Commissioner, who remanded them to slavery,
on their own admission of being fugitives from
labor. Next they were brought to Indianapolis
on the return of the train, and before shutdown
were again in slavery in Kentucky. In add.
ton to the lllustrious services of Messrs Maui
court and Munroe, those of third party, an st
tache of the Post Office named r. X. Reed, are
cited as active in the delivery of the fugitives.
1t remains to be told that the Railroad Com,
pany dismissed their employee for his part in
the affair; and if the other slave-catchers were
also discharged by their several employers, it
would be very inadequate punishment for
such sneaking, infamous procedure. An
American, himself free and in free State, who
would thus volunteer to restore human being
to bondage, is no better than pirate.
Mep York Tribune.
Ex-Governor WAsHBURN's LETTER TO THE
WING CONVENTION. We publish the letter
written by Hon. Emory Washburn, which was
read at the Wing Convention. The simple fact
that letter was read from that gentleman may
lead some persons to suppose that the author
gives his adhesion to the Hunker policy of the
party, and to its nomination in opposition to
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the letter, which can lead any one to this con-
clusion. On the contrary, the whole spirit of
the letter is Republican. The Governor declares
his adherence to the Wing platform of last gear,
and his belief in the necessity of q "union on
the part Of the free States" to regain the
ground which was lost by the repeal of the Mis-
souri, restriction. The Wing resolves of last
year we printed yesterday. They are diamet-
rically opposed in spirit to the Wing resolves
of the present year, which distinctly oppose
and denounce union of the free States, as Sec
tional and revolutionary. There is nothing in
Governor Washburn's letter, or in his history,
which leads us to suppose that he means to
support Samuel n. Valley on Pro-Slavery
platform, in preference to Julius Rockwell on
the basis Of opposition to the extension of
Slavery.-Boston Telegraph.
can Wing meeting held at Constitution Hall
last evening, at which it was announced before,
hand that George Wood and F. A Talmadge
would speak. So they did, and Jim Brooks
with them. The room would hold eight or nine
hundred persons, and was rather more than
half full. The character of the auditors may
be inferred from that of the speakers. George
Wood and Jim Brooks were prominent mera-
bers of the Union Safety Committee Brooks
was one of the btterest Ullmannites last fall,
and was always a Silver Gray till he sunk
thence by natural gravitation into the deeper
abyss of Know Nothingism. Geo. Wood is one
of the liquor dealers feed attorneys; f. A..
Talmadge figured in the last falls canvass as a
certifer for Fernando Wood, but we believe be
too is Know Nothing. We are confident there
were not one hundred men at the meeting last
night who will even pretend that they voted the
Wing State ticket last fall. In short, the meet
ing was fzzle and argues great lack of en-
ergy on the part of the Know Nothings, who
might easily have made it respectable in num-
bers at least.-N. y Tribune Oct. 5.
The Wing Young Mems Committee had a
jolly time last night. A resolution endorsing
the action Of the Wing State Convention was
voted down-yeas %, nays 81. During the
vote, some of the opponents dived into the bar
room, brought up lot of persons who were not
members, and set them to voting against the
resolution whenever the name of a known
absentee was called. They were soon dis
covered and marched out. We commend this
extremely honest Silver-Gray method of carry
ing vote to those political assassins who are
Just now so anxious about the virtue and in
tegrity Of the Wing party. Flushed with the
prospect of an easy victory, the Silver Grays
lutions repudiating the Syracuse doings, ticket
and all but when they came to a vote, there
was general backing out and the repudiatng
party were defeated, the nays being %, against
% yeas. The result, therefore, amounts to no
more than show of hands on the part of the
81 members present. The Republicans now
know where to find the gentlemen. Had the
others go in number) been there, the Republi-
can fusion would have been emphatically ell:
dorsed.-Nev York Tribune.
VINO THEY ARE.-The so-called Wing Com
mittee of Brooklyn voted, % to 9, a few even
ing. since, that they would not recognise nor
support the Republican ticket nominated at
Syracuse. A reliable friend, who has "seen
SAM" assures US that of the twenty three he
KNOWS seventeen to be bitter Ullmann Know
Nothings Of last fall, and believes the residue
to be of the same sort.
We shall hear of more of these virtuous and
infexible Wings, who can't go Fusion" before
November. In every instance, the nearer may
be assured that those who so declare were either
Silver Grays in l85O-'52 or Know Nothings
LAST fall-generally both. The earlier and bit
teret their hostility to the Wing party, the
more profuse will be their crocodile tears over
its grave. But how can they deceive anybody I?
n. Y. Tribune.
ATTACK ON PoLITICAL PROFESSIONAL
reprehensible attack was made upon Demo
cratic Procession at Baltimore, about mid
night of Thursday, in the course of which one
man was killed, and two others wounded.
Thomas Burke, who was in the procession, re,
ceived pistol ball in the forehead, and diesl
soon afterwards. A person by the name q
Devine was shot in the thigh, and another pefa
son received wound in the face The last tw
are not supposed to be MORALLY wounded. E
judicial investigation of the outrage was az,
pointed for yesterday afternoon.
The TENNESSEE LEGIsLATURE.-The newly
elected Legislature assembled at Nashville o.,
Monday, October LIST, and proceeded to organ.
ize. In the Senate, on the second ballot, L. s..
Oheatham, American, was ELECTED Speaker. In
the House, there was failure on the first three
days to elect Speaker. Thirty-three ballots
had been taken, without any variation in the
vote. Daniel S. Donelson, Democrat, received
So votes; Neil S. Brown, American, SO votes
and two scattering. A majority of all the votes
is necessary to a choice.
CONNECTICUT ELEoTIoN.-Hdrtford, Oct. Z.
In the one hundred and twenty three towns
heard from, the election has resulted by largo
majority in favor of the American proposition
to amend the Constitution, by requiring all elec.>
ors, hereafter, to be able to read the Constitp-
ton and statutes. One hundred and twenty.
three towns give an aggregate of 1907 in f.
vor, to 1891 against There are only one huJ-f
dred and fifty-three towns in the State. :
GEORGIA ELECTIoN.--Our latest telegraph
report from Georgia, received by way of c.
lumbia, S. c., states that Herschel V. Johnso, |,
the present Democratic Governor of the Stat.,