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TT MAY NE BEST the classes oi
i goods liza. we offer especial bnr2ains--
3 French merinocs, ali coiuts
100 pieces black and fancy cuored silks entirely
styles
900 pieces annel s5 per yard np dse
numbers.
In ainen goods probably much The and cheapest
IN the District.
mouning ssods thorough offered
100 pairs hnc and cheap bnnkeis, ali
Table diapers daDsasks,
10 cartons shiri bosoms, ri linen, patterns
Drcas goods in great propsion, many dcsigns.
hHsvis aud scarfs OF tle modern styles.
New supplies received daily
Those bills July
a
regular punctua habitay
settle their bills presentation. invited call and make their
selections eatly
ld3-One Hicc ouly.
Good articles rsiess dealing may relied
all cases.
PERRY BROTHER,
UCentrai building,
Aya3 3i-.t Market,
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.osAA' JF GLiIMS.--rhe undersigned viii attend any
business which be confded him coDms oner
counsellor said be found ai'y tho Capi
to pledacy opposite Office The clerk OF the
Court OF Claims. JOHN S. TYSON.
S-2lwJws flint. SarJ
D piILLIPs, Of Mobile, Alabama, VIII practise iis
Suptsms United claims,
any his profession. Office
% floor Of eth
jane 90--d
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THE yellow Fever IN Its Rhetorical, Pathological,
and Tnesrpeanesi Relations by Doctor H. La Roche vols
Treatise GU Diseases Eye by wIia.
Mackrrxis J vol.
Sept ERASCK TAYLOR,
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I AND WARRANTS IAJCATED.-Thc subscribers will
IL land IN oho Indiana, Illinois, lows and gve
a description Of the land located.
this incorrect, they will
themselves take the and giving for another warrant for the
West, win give
personal surerinisndcnee.
MILLER 4 BROWN,
st' street, opposite the Post Office, Washington D. c.
It--2uwIm
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EX1GGER TTON-
Council CITY. 4u0. Is. |

Council CITY, aug: Is, 1855.
In the Era of August I'd, notice a para
graph on the American Settlement in Kansas,
named Council City, stating we have $500 in,
habitants, saw-mill post Office, Sabbath school,
hundreds of acres in crops, &c. Such state
ments, l think, are wrong; for, when people an
rive, they find it different, and many of our best
settlers leave in disappointment; whereas, ifthey
had come with less expectation, they would
have staid, and added much to the strength of
the settlement. The inhabitants, instead of be-
ing 1900, as stated, l think, would not be more
than 500 within ten miles, and as yet not one
building on the city proper. A saw-mill we
have, but it is not yet running, but hope it will
be soon. A post Office we have, with a regular
monthly mail, with an occasional one between
A Sabbath-school was organized last spring,
but is abandoned for the present, on account Of
sickness, which, l think, was mostly brought on
by exposure and change of diet, as it is not very
severe. So you see We are not perfect, even
here. The number of acres in crops, Tor corn,
perhaps, is correct; but the most of it was plant
ed late, and on the prairie sod and of course
we cannot expect full crop. The most of the
settlers are putting in few acres of wheat.
A Member of Settlement COMPANY.
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FROM 10 WA.


CEDAR Co., Iowa, oct IL, 1855.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
meeting was held at Upton on the Sth in
slant, for the purpose, the call explicitly sta
ted, of getting up a Republican organization
for this county. Familiar as you are with the
efforts already made in other places to foist
Know Nothingism into the Republican Move
ment, you will not be surprised to learn that at
this 1.-THE first County Convention held in this
STATED its adherents succeeded in thoroughly
ENGRAVING it into the preamble and resolutions
which were adopted as a platform of principles.
need not mention the course pursued to secure
this object; suffice it to say, that there was
more time used in the discussion Of the princi-
pal Know Nothing resolution than in doing all
the other business of the meeting, and that the
final vote thereon was not taken till near sun
down, by which time many of those in attend
ance had been compelled to leave. If we are
to judge the intentions of Iowa Know Nothings
by what was attempted and what was done at
the meeting, the friends of truly Republican
Movement cannot 70 to work too soon to pre-
vent the Know NothiHgs from so far control
ling the action Of the proposed State Conven-
ton, as, by securing the recognition of their
principles in the platform adopted, to render it
impossible for the vote Of the State to be cast
for Freedom at the next Presidential election
1t is believed to be the intention of the Know
Nothings to gather as much strength and inau-
ence as possible, by manGuvring at the coun-
ty meetings; and, thus armed, to make deter
mined effort at the State Convention to have
their principles distinctly recognised in the
platform.
l have deferred writing till to-day, in hopes
that L would be able yesterday-County Agri-
cultural Fair day-to secure a copy of the pub
lished proceedings, but our county paper
thoroughly Know Nothing-of this week has
not yet been issued. will forward you copy
of the proceedings as soon as 1 can obtain one.
OBSERVER.
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the Wing County Convention there were some
double delegations; and the result was, that the
Convention divided, and made separate nomina-
tons, each claiming to be regular. From these
nominations 1 selected, and voted according to
my own judgment. The article in Question re-
fers to the small vote for Governor Clark in my
election district. That was no fauls of mine.
1t so happens that the district to which my farm
is attached contains several brew;ries, and
many Wings who will not support Irohibitory
candidates. 1t may be proper for ME to add,
that since leaving public life have taken no
share in county politics, except to vote for Wing
candidates, and advise my old Wing friends to
act with vigor and harmony. You must not
suppose that the false accusations which have
exposed cause me any personal uneasiness or
concern.
As an American citizen, have exercised the
right to express my opinions on questions
which are of as much importance to me as to
any other citizen of the United States. Whether
these opinions are right or wrong, they are sim
cerely entertained; and come what may, am
sustained by clear convictions of duty and con-
scious rectitude of purpose.
l remain yours, truly,
WASHINGTON, HUNT.
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NEED OF ORGANLZAT TON IN ILL
NOIS
ALTON, ILL, Oct. 10. 1881.

hLiON, LII, OCt. III, 1000.
am very apprehensive in reference to the
result OF the election in this State in 1856. not
because L am not perfectly satisfied as to the
Antl-Nebraska sentiment among the people.
put nom the want of proper organization in
the middle and southern portions of the State.
The Individuals feeling the deepest interest in
the triumph of free principles are those who
nave heretofore taken but little interest in party
pohtics and politicians, who are avowedly
hnti-Nebraska, either contend for the old party
platforms OF 1852, or are frightened at the
thought OF being associated with such men as
Sumner, Chase, and others. Hence. we are
lett without any one to take the lead in a Re.
publican organization. We are also in this
sectlon OF the State without any reliable paper.
through which the claims of Freedom can be
enforced, without forming entangling alliances,
either with Fillmore Wings or Baltimore Plat.
form Democrats. If we could have paper
established at Springfield, the centre of poiti-
cal influence for this part Of the State, where
there are two wellestablished papers already
one advocating the Douglas, Atchison, and
Strngtellow party, the other is striving to res
urrect the old Compromise Wing party-and
then could obtain the services of some able
man from abroad, that would command hear
ing by his reputation, to aid us in organizing,
! believe that even Egypt would be as certain
to go for Freedom as any other part of the
State. All they want is to have the sophistries
which Douglas has thrown around and over his
Nebraska bill, stripped off by skilful hand.
Know Nothingism is entirely out of the way.
being disorganized in all parts of the State,
and in few months more will not be heard of.
except as among things that were.
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AFFAIRS IN KANSAS.

LEAvENwoRTH CITY, KANSAS,
October 8, 1856
Last Monday week was the bogus election
day OF the Territory. AT this place, two hun
dred and sixteen votes were cast, all of them
tor Whitfield. Of these, one hundred were
from Missouri. One young man paid the poll
tax Tor his father, and cast his ballot, while the
old man lay sick at home in Missouri. At
Delaware, little town in this county, three
hundred and seventy fve were given, three hun
dred OF them were from Missouri. We have
not received general returns from the Terrific
ry, but the proceedings and the results were
doubtless OF like character in the several towns
on the river.
Yesterday was the time appointed for the
citizens OF this county to decide, by VOTE wheth-
er klckapoo, Leavenworth, or Delaware, should
be the county seat. About seven hundred legal
votes were cast in this town, in favor of the To-
cation OF the county seat here. BY the aid of
hundreds OF Missourians, about the same num-
Der OF votes were cast, at the other two towns,
IN favor OF those places respectively. Such for
elgn interference Is not distasteful to Pro-Sla-
very men, when their ends are to be carried
but such voting for county seats is generally
disrelished by the Sovereign Squatters of Kan
sas. Leavenworth will contest this election.
Ii these foreign votes are set aside In the one
case, how can they be otherwise treated in any
other?
To-day was appointed by the Free State COZ
ventiOn for the election of delegate to Congress,
and also of delegates to the Constitutional Con-
vention. This town, lying on the river, oppo-
site Platte county, was laid out year ago, I'M
der Pro-Slavery auspices. 1t now contains ten
or twelve hundred persons, and the voting to-
day has shown that the Pro Slavery party, here
in its stronghold, has fallen into a helpless mi
nority. Five hundred and three votes were
given for Governor Reeder, being more than
double the number that Gen. Whitfield received,
including the one hundred votes of his Platte
county allies You may take the election in
this place as specimen of what the returns
from the various precincts of the Territory will
show. Rest assured that the battle of Freedom
has been fought, and the victory won.
J.H.B.
P.S. A petition is in circulation, addressed
to Gov. Shannon, asking for an extra session
of the Kansas Legislature, to provide for a Pro-
Slavery Constitutional Convention. This Legis-
lature is dead, by the limitation of the organic
act; and it is thrice dead, decayed, and fallen
into contempt, for its corrupt and unconstitu-
tional legislation. 1t will require something
more than the 81 tact of Gov Shannon 10 give
1t life, or enforce its enactments.
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Princess" We always thought that In Memo.
riam, full of beauty as it was, should have been
for private circulation !" for, who knew the
subject of Mr.. Tennyson's lamentations And
how could he expect us to be at once plunged,
with him, into grief of no matter what divine
depths 2" Grape is, we know, social nstitu-
ton; but poetry is above social institutions,
and the poetry of the common heart will not
admit such attitudinizing or drawing room edi-
tons of sadness. Of his laureate poetry, the
less said the better.
But Maud-what of Maud? The best that
can be said of it is, that it indicates the tide re-
fluent, and gives promise that it shall advance
higher some day than in the Princess. Geolo-
gy tells of certain transition fossils which, at
the very height of their species, are inferior for
the very reason that they are passing into high.
er genera. Thus, at the close of the reign of
fishes when reptiles are about to appear, the
fishes, instead of being the latest perfection of
fishes, are inferior to their ancestors, but have
certain indications of reptilian development.
This principle runs quite through the circle of
things, and even appears in the world of poe
try. Mr.. Tennyson's Maud is surely inferior to
many things he has written; we may add, to
the greatest of his poems, already named, Uiys-
ses, The Palace Of Art, and The Gardeners
Daughter. But we find here certain drawing
excellences, which the others did not promise.
but which promise much. Thanks to some
sweet moon which we see not, the tide is Deep
err and fuller, and may yet reach hopes that
had seemed stranded too high to be reached!
Tennyson's fault was very deep. Its root was
best shown by a sentence we heard fall from
DIR. Holmes, in his lectures on the English
poets, delivered in Boston, in 1853; he said,
Tennyson loves his kind rather than likes
them" He has never fully learned, because he
was social sristocrat, what high angels held
rich contributions for him, in the swarms of
common life. So he never Interpreted any
thing very deep in man or nature, for nature
can alone be approached through man. But
there are indications in Maud, and still more
In The Brook, of a pearl seen, if not grasped,
down in the oceans depth. Perhaps he has
learned at the grave of Wordsworth what he
learned from Burns, and which that great man
has given with so much tenderness, in lines
written at the Craze Of Burns
"Well might mourn that he was gone
Whose light hailed when first il shone
When breaking forth Natures own,
II showed my youth
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A REAL DANGER POINTED OUT
ALFRED ACADEMY, n. z, Oct. 3, IL

ALFRED ACADEMY, N. L =, Oct' y, 1000.
hailed the establishment of the FRA at the
Capital of our Slaveholding RepubI &C (?) with
inexpressible pleasure. l have received and
read every number that has been published
since it began its existence and, lie l live,
1 shall continue to read it, and wb IN die
shall bequeath it to my children, tog ether with
the principles it so nobly advocate, as their
most valuable legacy.
have been identified with the party of Free
dom ever since it has had an active existence
in this country. / have never voted for can
didate, for any office whatever, who was not
nominated by the Anti-Slavery party; and why
should 1? Why should any man, in his senses,
sustain the pro-slavery parties of this nation
They are as corrupt as the institution which
they foster. And how can they be otherwise
A man cannot take fire in his bosom, and not
be burned.
l have never for moment lacked faith in
the success of our noble enterprise. / know it
must succeed. 1t may yet see dark hours; the
day of its sorest trial may not yet have come.
1t may yet need purifying, as with fire. / fear
greatly that not all who profess faith in our
cause, would get down and lap water like a
dog, if called to that humiliating test. / have
more fear, az our party grows larger. do not
trust in numbers, and yet / know that we must
secure majorities in those political bodies where
the final battle is to be fought. But you can
well appreciate the sentiment, that the day of
our majority may be the most fearfully critical
day of our existence. The danger is, that our
noble bark will be sunk by useless lumber
am exceedingly anxious that the same hands
which have guided her in the days OK her APP
parent weakness, may continue to guide her in.
the days of her apparent strength.
1 rejoice in Fusion, and yet tremble.
fear the compound may contain explosive ele-
ments. fear the great doctrine of universal
brotherhood may be narrowed down, so as to
lose its vitality for the sake of gaining numbers
Anti Slavery doctrine which you and your Co
temporaries have so long and so nobly advoca-
ted, for all the pOtss in the universe. Votes
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LETTER FROM WASHINGTON HUNT
Having published the attack on Washington
Hunt, we publish his defence.
d. q


Hunt, we publish his defence
LoCKPoRT, Oct. 9, 1855.
10 the Editors Of the Commercial Advertiser:
Always maintaining that the free expression
OF my opinion on public questions constitutes
no good cause for personal controversy, as a
general rule, selt-respect restraints me from Civ
ing any attention to unj Just imputations upon
my conduct or motives. But having authoriz
ed you to contradict a statement which ap.
peared in certain papers, to the effect that |
voted against the Wing candidates in 1854,
and observing that the Tribune copies reitera-
ton of the original statements, with some addi-
tons, from the Lockport Journal, truth and
honor impel me to reassure you of the correct
ness of your denial, as l now do in the most
direct and positive mode in my power Every
essential allegation and inuendo in the Jour-
mails article referred to, is untrue. That
was in constant communication with the
HindOos," or was ever present at any of their
meetings or conventions, or congratulated any
of their nominees, or exerted my influence in
regard to any of their nominations that
was a co-operator with them during the cleo
ton," or at any other time, or "voted the
ticket that bore at its masthead the Hindoo
hieroglyphics that my team "was in the
active service of the Hindoos during the day of
election" Tor of any other party, with my
knowledge;) that fused with the Hindoos
and Hunkers, and gave that fusion the support
OF my public example at the polls" are state
mentS, each and all, which have not the Highest
foundation in fact, and 1 wish you to deny them
all In my name. The audacity and the fertile
invention of their author are equally amazing.
There is hardly an approach to truth in the
entire article, except in its statement that |
voted for Mr.. L. j. Peck, for Assembly. He
was nominated by majority of the Wing Con-
vention, and was understood to be the only
Wing running for the office. / not only
voted for Governor Clark and the whole Wbig
ticket, but urged the Wings of this county with
whom came in contact to do the same. In
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OPINIONS OF REGULAR PHYSICIANS.

EyeteT, Maine, SEPTEMBER %
This eerii6es that have recommended the use OF WIS
TARS BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY for diseases OF
the Lungs, for two years past and many boules my
knowledge have been used by my patients, all with ben
efcal results In two cases, where it thought
hmed consumption had taken place the Wild Cherry ef-
fected T.. BOYDEN,
Physician at Exeter Corner
DR. William A. Shaw, of Washington, North Carolina
writes:
Gas WISTARS BAI.SAM OF WILD CHERRY j.
the only patent medicine to which have given my
public recommendation, shall he suspected by the
candid of giving rash preciptate testimony"
II genuine, signed l. BUTTS.
Prepared and sold, wholesale and RETAIL only by SETH
w. FOWLE, Boston, Mass whom all orders should be
addressed, and for sale by all Druggists. IL
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FROM An OCTOGENARLAN.
LEROY, New YORK, Oct. Is, IS

LEROY, NEW L ORk, Oct 10, 1000.
I have often, within the last twenty years,
looked abroad upon the political horizon, and
thought that discovered some CLEANS of light,
to encourage me to labor on; but they have
proved to be like the lightning fash, ito render
darkness more visible. But have labored on,
being fully persuaded that God would send deliv-
erance in His good time, and, if did not live
to see it, l might have the witness of good
conscience, that 1 have done what l could to
save the liberties of my country. But, although
am in the eighty-second year of my age, l do
not give Up the hope that l may yet live to see
the political power taken out of the hands of
the Slavocracy, never to return to them again.
l trust that their poarer to control the North,
by the threat to dissolve the Union, is broken !;
and, were it not that have been taught by ex-
perience that there is no confidence to be placed
in man, politically, l should now expect to see
the freemen of the free States march on to vic
tory.
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PALMER'S PATENT LEG.

TNHIS American invention stands unrivaed, both in
this country and in Europe. II is by thou
sand persons and with most astonishing success. In.
competition with thirty other substitutes, OF the best
French English and German manufacture, it received
the award of the Great Medal at the Worlds Exhibition
in London the best artificial limb known. In this
try II has been thirty times exhibited in competition with
all others the Annual Fairs in the principal cities and
has in every received the award OF highest
first premium. And browning honor, by the unani-
nous approval of an International council the First
Premium - - only S,Irer Medal gwen for limbs was
awarded the inventor the New York Crystal Palace
Pamphlets, giving full information gratis TO every
applicant u. FRANK. PALMER
400 376 Chestnut ST., Philadelp ha
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tim OF British oppression; and his compeer,
Oliver Cromwell, never lived to see the Aabeas
corpus act passed. Yet look at the wonderful
advances made by Truth and Freedom in the
last SIX hundred and forty years, since the
magma Charta was signed by King John, and
let US not despair that their cause, though
iangulshlng for time, is not in the ascendant.
JouN TIRERTAS
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OXYGENATED BITTERs.

We would advise all our readers who troubled with
Dyspepsia, in any orm Try this truly valuable med-
cine it has the strongest testimonials gwen in at
iesaIiOn of a remedy for this complaint
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HEAVY FREsHET IN WISCoxsIY Chica1o,
Oct. ll.-Accounts from Northern Wisconsin.
in the vicinity Of Lake Winnebago and Fox
river, state that tremendous foundations have
taken place, caused by late severe storms.
Thousands Of tons of hay and large quantities
of grain have been swept off. Apprehensions
are felt for the safety of the whole mill property
of that section.
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THE RAG PICKER:
Ii d L y ID AN u FIR l. +

l2no. $50 p? fricc ~ -.
We have read this work. which claims Ia b.. 81 r--,-.f
OF acS h an eye ai ear witness WIt itgiu, interest
al single sitting. IL deserves o b- plur,d m b, s.u,-
category with Uncle Iou Cabin though not So e., ola
>vcy devoted Ia drlueauu~ of th- slave system M The
South What higher paucsyur h,.~iO,, upon u -
Boston L'Jerator
blast and very furious one. too against "a, F',-i-
1--WE slave Law, with "a strong advucatv of il, Name.
Law by way of underploI-N l. ChercrUiaH.
As whole life IN the South j. fairly and honestly bic
tured, To our own knOwedsr and Tire scene. ami ri
dents are such "a We have Witnessed "a time iu W.
sihia ana Mar ears 1so-N J. Siuri,t" Ti0i,S
most intensely exciting bOok.-Ps Puritan E.,frI.r
The story Is u most exciting one well and Pow, ria a..
written The reader will Trcosai>r ~oi,!r OF fi.,
Characters portrayed and probably lind thar -,,
very wei Tor Anthony Burns -B0s0s TrnH,crpi
No one read Il without being intensely, Interested -
Chicago N,Jc C0r.iaHL
Written with distinguished ability Eo,t,l CiroY,sl,
We have clue the authorship OF bl. rrt,rl ,If.
Story, winch, whether pure Gcn Or "a 90 riraorf~ o.,
be, record OF facts. hui become a y,,rA I mo- ma
considerable note. Boston I'.s
PUBLISHED BY
NJ ON OTHERS,
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DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.-Nelc York, Oct
IA fire in State street this morning caused
the death Of two women and three children,
who, being unable to escape, persisted in the
flames. Another woman leaped from the win
dow, and was much injured. Another was res
cued, and carried to the hospital in dying
condition