The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-12
MistsIIan,ous stsuls.

| How TO GET OVER PECUNIARY EMBARRASS-
MESrs.--A New York paper regretfully states
the following facts, which we quote with equal
satisfaction:
"The export of foreign dry goods at New
York, for the FIVE weeks ending March 30th,
are but little more than half as large as for the
same period of last year, and not half as large
as for the corresponding period of the year be-
fore last. This falling off is most marked in
woollens and cottons, but is also shown in silks
and linens, proving that there has been gene
raj decline in the receipts of nearly all descrip-
tions of foreign fabrics"
Retrenchment is the remedy.
The Council Bluffs Qowa) B,tgle, of March
goth, acknowledges the receipt of intelligence
of the passage of bill providing for raising
four regiments of soldiers for the defence of the
Western frontiers, and appropriating $4,000, 900
to carry out the provisions of the act, and adds
that this begins to look like giving justice in the
protection of person and property of the settlers
and pioneers of the West. 1t may look like it,
and not prove quite the thing, after all. Our
most liberal acts, with respect to the Indians,
have always been found in our war appropria-
tions.
The same paper gives us a glowing descrip-
ton of the new town of De Solo, in Nebraska
which, it says, is situated in one of the most de-
lightful, fertile, and romantic regions, of this
new Territory, directly upon the margin of the
broad Missouri, with an excellent landing, and
surrounded with an abundance of timber, rock,
stone-coal, excellent water. and every natural
inducement conceivable for the upbuiding
and prosperity of large and populous city. A
| good water-power mill is to be completed in the
| spring, and the Legislature has made liberal
provisions for ferries and other public advan-
tages.
| The Niles Michigan tells of cure of erysip-
elias made by poultices of cranberries, bat does
not say whether they were cooked or raw.
| A Cincinnati paper refutes I" a villanous lie ~
told by one of its cotemporaires. We suppose
it meant to correct an erroneous statement.
An Indian at Ontonagon, Michigan, during
the past winter, was attacked by the small pox,
when he drove the other Indians from his camp,
| took his faithful dog and hung him to limb of
a tree, and then suspended himself from an
other.
| We find a statement in the Baltimore Sun,
which we presume to be correct, to the effect
that Richard Wynn and Alfred Woodley who
were part of the crew of a vessel which loaded
| some time ago in Roanoke river, were tried late.
ly in BERTHE county, North Carolina, on a charge
| of RECEIVING and secreting a slave on board the
vessel, with view to his abduction that the
captain had discovered the fugitive, and caused
the two sailors to be arrested that Wynn was
acquitted, but Woodley was found guilty, and
will have to suffer the penalty of death. If a
| thousand dollars, or its value in any other de-
scription of property, had been stolen, the pen
atty would not be so great; nay, had child, a
daughter of one of the most esteemed citizens,
been stolen and foully dealt with, the life of the
outlaw would not be sacrificed. But rendering
assistance and succor to a slave who wished to
| fly from slavery, is to be punished with death
A correspondent of the Ne,c York Post states
that John Randolph once challenged Daniel
Webster to fight duel and that Mr.. Benton
bore the challenge.
steamer called the Getty of Baltimore "
has been built on the Clyde, for the Liverpool
and Philadelphia Steamship Company, which is
described by the Liverpool Journal as the larg-
est steamship ahoat. She is $50 feet long and
40 feet wide.
Politicians in Virginia are endeavoring to
convict all the opposing candidates of friendship
to human Freedom, but with very poor success
thus far.
On the third of April, the Massachusetts
House of Delegates passed bill declaring that,
in determining the qualifications of scholars to
be admitted in any public school or any district
school in that Commonwealth, no distinction
shall be made on account of the race, color, or
religious opinions, Of the applicant or scholar
Cornelius ( Baker, chandelier manufacturers,
Philadelphia, communicate between their store
and mandatory, two miles apart, by means of
a perfect Morse telegraph apparatus.
A newspaper before us records the death of
a man "from the immoderate use of stimuants' y
AS neither capsicum nor mustard is likely to be
so abused, we must presume that the poor man
died drunk
An acre of land out West" may be bought
for couple of dollars. An acre of land, of in
ferior quality, divided into lots, in the city Of
New York. sells for from one to three and a
half millions of dollars In view of these facts,
how many land owners in the West will, upon
reflection, object to the ingress upon their lands
of few hundred or few thousand hard-work-
ing European farmers, mechanics, and laborers?
1t is the presence of people that gives value
to land.
The Neo Orleans Picayune, of March q
says that one great cause of the good order
which prevailed at the polls on the preceding
day, was the fact that they were not held at OF
Immediately adjoining cabarets, grog-shops, and
coffee-houses. There never before was seen SO
little intoxication at any warmly -contested cleo.
ton in New Orleans.
Miss GREENFIELD.-In speaking Of concert
recently given in Baltimore the Sun of that
city says that on her first appearance she ad
vanced in very respectful and deferential
manner, evidently realizing her social position
but was at once encouraged by applause" She
was encored on singing each of the peices OF
the programme. The audience was white com.
| posed of a large number of ladies as well as
gentlemen, and in slave State, where the
caste Of the vocalist operated against her.
| Con- PERRY says the temperature of Japan,