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THE UNDERSIGNED wishing to close out Of
Il fer their entire STOCK OF GOODS at cost and many
articles greatly below prices good and responsible
purchasers payable in March next and invite the public
call and get bargains, for cash or credit.
ms 49-3m. CAMPBELL & co.
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Overseer Wanted.

Overseer Wanted.
WISH to employ an overseer for the ensuing
i year. To who will suit me will give liberal wages
None need apply unless he produce the most
ona eudence of his sobriey industry and close atten
ton to business. He must be energetic and the same
time just and humane He must be well acquainted with
the diseases of the climate to which negroes subject
and capable Of prescribing for and seeing them properly
nursed lie must be experienced in all the details of the
work of Sugar Plantation. JAMES J. HANNA.
Arioyne Terrebonne Dec, 18th, 1855, [dcS-3t,
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TIGARS.-Three Thousand Gel Cazador N
" Cigars, just received. and for sale by
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TUST RECEIVED-The undersigned are now
e receiving and opening large and well selected assor
ment of rich and handsome style Of fall and winter Goods
Our DRESS GOODS are unrivaled in point of TEXTURE
AND ELEGANCE Of pattern, our RIBBONS, LACES and
GLOVES, only to be seen to be admired
PLANTATION GOODS-Kerseys, Linseys. Blankets,
Boots Shoes Hats Caps Hardware and Cutlery Together
with varied assortment Of PERFUMERY, etc.
Our friends and customers invited call and examine
for themselves nct6.tf ROUSTAN & MCEVERS
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GEORGE H. VINTEN,
DRINTERS WAREHOUSE

Il
Bet,oeem Camp and St. Charles Streets
NEW ORLEANS.
Presses Types INKS Paper Card Boards and furnishing
of every description Purchasers at this establishment will
have the advantage Of being able to procure Sorts,
from Nonparei to Plea consisting Of accents Fractions
figures Leaders, QutI1rats and Spaces, [30-3m.
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Mayoralty, Thibodaux, Dec. %, 1855.
NOTICE TO BAKERS-The price of Fresh
~ Flour being 81 Co., in the N Orleans Market Bakers
required to give 1 of bread for cents during
next week. IONA. C. WHITE, Mayor.
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\ PPLEs.-Twenty-Fi Barrels Green Apples,
~ just landed and for sale by A, B. Raglan.
DRESERV ESD Cases Shakers Assorted
l. Preserves just received and for sale by
B. f. HOLDEN
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Washington Irving's Great work.

Washington Irving's Great Work!
THE LIFE OF VA SHINGTON.
First Volume now ready.l
IN three elegant volumes, svo., about 500 pages
i each, handsomely printed large plea type-with
PORTRAITS and Plans-on fine paper neatly bound in
CLOTH tits expected that the work will be completed during
the present volume at intervals Of about three
months. Price to Subscribers, 30 per volume.
e@ J. YATES BENNETT, Agent
sep15 for Assumption, Lafourche, and Terrebonne.
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Loom for Sale.

Loom for Sale.
THE undersigned offers for sale one of J. C.
Il MendenhaIPs patent hand Columbia Bagging Looms.
Unlike the old Looms requires but motion to operate
it, and will make "a yards Of any kind of cloth in the
time that takes to make six yards the old Loom, Com
paratvely speaking with no labor at ALL since be
worked with little practice by any one, well from the
age Of ten to further advanced age Tounderstand it has
only to be seen,
Any further comments upon this perfect piece of work
genius entirely unnecessary its wide spread celebrity
throughout the world is sufficient recommendation.
Accompanying this Loom is little book giving all the
directions to make the different kinks of cloth.
pEPRTN
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Negroes Wanted.

WANTED TO HIRE-Two first rate xs
w field hands, to work on farm by the year. 81
The highest wages will be given for the right sort ~
Apply at the [52-Stl MINERVA OFFICE
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move it is to pour in little water, when it will
readily separate in one piece.
We will now suppose the plaster, which has been
poured on the fruit, to have gotten about as hard
as the flesh Of soft pear, or just hard enough to
handle; when this is the case, take the whole up
from the sand, take away with the point of the
knife all sand which will drop from it, carefully
remove the tin rim, and hold the mould by the
fruit; now cut away any superfuous parts around
the outside with knife, as quickly as convenient,
for it is now momentarily getting harder; turn it
up, and holding the mould itself in the hand fruit
uppermost, remove the orange, if it can be done
readily without hurting the mould Lay the fruit
aside, cut away the lower edge Of the mould where
it has touched the sand, till the mould is exactly
that of half the fruit, which is easily seen by the
shape of it internally. This is somewhat important
in order that the second half of the mould shall fit
the fruit. If the tin has been Of proper size, the
mould will be half an inch thick around the edge
The next operation is to prepare the second half
of the mould, and that is easier and quicker to do
than the first. First make two, three or four holes
with the round point of the knife in dffernt parts
of the edge of the former half to such depth and
of such size that each will hold half small marble
or large pea. Then grease with tallow and salad
oil, melted together in equal proportions, and laid
with small brush, the edge Of the finished half,
holes and all. Wipe the orange from all sand
and place it in the half mould exactly as it came
out so that it shall fit in every part surround the
finished half mould with long slip Of stiff paper or
tin, which you must tie on with string or fasten
with a wafer. Place the whole thus prepared, on
table or fiat surface, fruit uppermost; prepare
some more liquid plaster, as in the former instance
pour it upon the fruit, and let it partly harden.
Then take off the edgng, trim up the outside, and
when quite hard, insert the blade Of the knife be-
tween the two halves and separate them. The
whole mould will now be complete and the fruit
being now taken out, it will be ready to cast in.
This is the simple process employed for making
two-pars mouds Of all equally Or regularly formed
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tUp VI utE CHISs dLu CtcSAuety AGtstCucu ny u
neat golden strap Of unwoven silk, to the axle
tree of the middle aged gentleman's gray
horse.
The third individual was an old gentleman Of
about twenty two, whose venerable features dis
closed the venerable hue Of the Siberian negro.
His bald head was profusely covered with long
silver locks of sandy jet, and which he has ev-
identity lost during severe attack of sea-sick-
ness, caught from next door neighbor, who
resided several blocks from him in the country.
He was also richly attired in the same manner
as the lady, being clothed in worn out frock
coat which was secured by straps under his
boots.
His feet were bare, and, save his gloves, he
had no garments to shield him from the balmy
atmosphere. He had lost both his arms, Just
above his collar bone, and was constrained to
wear crutches. This, added to his total blind
ness, rendered him an object of general admi-
ration.
The writer closes, e. To be continued in for
mer number"
RELATIoNsH1P.-A Hoosir girl sApped on
board steamboat as she was laying at a Ger
tain town on the Ohio river, and bawled cut
g Is the captain aboard!"
The captain who was standing among the
crowd responded, s'Yes, what do you want with
him go
"Oh, nothing particular, he's distant rela-
ton Of mine, and I'd like to see him."
!. relation Of yours y inquired the captain
somewhat surprised
d" es slight relation. He's the father of
my first child"
:, ioudabetter believe the captain sloped, while
the crowd enjoyed the sport to their heaat's
content.
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A RRANGEMENTS for the Second Annual Col
lection Of this and popular Institution for the f
fusion of Literature and Art have been made the
extensive scale.
Among the works already engaged IL the far famed
IS
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pie Of Kansas are 10 sugugated at all hGz
ards"
The Alarmists have succeeded, we suppose
in preventing any unfavorabe coalitions il
the Missouri Legislature. The election fol
Senator is postponed. They have not yet sue
ceeded in throwing the organization of Congress
into Pro-Slavery hands.
The truth begins to glimmer. A despatch
from st. Louis, of the 9Th instant, furnishes the
report of the Free State papers. 1t looks like
the truth 1t points to a preconcerted attempt
on the part of the Nulli6ers, to provoke COLI
sion and force the People of Kansas into a con
aict with the Territorial Government:
"The Kansas Free State papers give the
following account of the difficulties in the Ter
ritory:
"a young man named Dow, twenty-five
years of age, while at blacksmith's shop
where several border rufhans had congrega
ted, was deliberately shot by one Coleman. Ar
attempt was made to arrest the murderer, but
through the assistance of his abettors, he es
capped to Missouri. A meeting of the citizens
held on the spot where the affair occurred, tc
inquire into the case, pronounced the act 6
cold-blooded murder on the part of Coleman
and charged four men, named Hagus, Burnley
Moody, and Wagner, with being accessories A
series of resolutions was passed. and commit
tee appointed to investigate still further, to
search out the offenders, and to devise means
to bring them to justice. Sheriff Jones arrest
ed Jacob Branson, at whose house Dow lived
for the purpose of having him give security tc
keep the peace but while proceeding to LIE
compton, Branson was rescued by party Of
his neighbors. Jones sent to Pawnee, Missouri
for aid, declaring that the Governor of Missouri
had assured him the assistance of ten thousand
men if required"
OF course, the great object of the NulEfers
in forcing this conflict with the Territorial au
thority, is to prevent the organization of State
Government. Kansas overrun by hordes O
Missourians, Kansas declared to be in state
of insurrection by its Governor, Kansas under
the heel of the military power, how could it,
People vote on the question of adopting a Stat,
Constitution, on the 18th instant, or elect Stat,
officers on the 18th January?
Since the foregoing was written, we have full
accounts of the origin and nature of the pres
ent conflict.
They show conelusively that the Free Stat,
men are simply standing ON the defensive, anc
that Wilson Shannon should be removed in
stantly.
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IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS.
True Version of the Recent Disturbance. The
Free State Men not the Aggressors. Details Of
the Occurrence. Miscellaneous Political Intel
Egence.
IAwRpNcr K II Mar 81 1a55

LAWRENCE, K. T., Nor. 27, 1855.
The crisis approaches. We, in Kansas, must
lose the protection of life and property, which
the Constitution guarantees to every American
citizen, or we must have laws enacted which
shall rest on the will of the people.
take my pen to inform your readers of an
affair which has just transpired among us,
which derives its chief significance from its con.
nection with the Territorial laws, if such the
doings of that thing which met at johnson
Mission can be called.
Last Wednesday, one Mr.. Dow, formerly from
Ohio, discovered that his neighbor, Mr.. Cole.
man, formerly of Pennsylvania, was cutting
down trees and preparing to burn limekiln on
the claim belonging to him, when he went to
him, requesting him to desist, telling him that
he had burnt one kiln on his claim. and that
he could not burn another. There was man
helping Mr.. Coleman at the time, by the name
of Buckley, and a neighbor of BOWS by the
name OF Branson went along with him as he
went up to order Coleman off. After having
some pretty sharp words, Coleman and Buckley
left, and went away; whereupon, Dow and
Branson returned home, they both living in one
house, Dow being ngle, and boarding with
branson. Soon after, the same day, Dow had
occasion to go by the house of Coleman to a
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put any man on the track" or "crowd " any
one oil. And he must be very ignorant of the
personal relations subsisting between Mr. Chase
and ourselves, of the estimation in which we
hold his craftsmanship and integrity, who can
give utterance TO such stuff as that in the
Salesman
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WASHINGTON, d. c.,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1855.

LETTER FROM Francis p. BLAIR.-We call
special attention to able letter in this weeks
Era, from Francis P. BLAIR, whose name, in
former times, when the conductor of the Globe,
during Jackson's Administration, was a tower
OF strength to the Democracy. He endorses the
principles and policy of the Republican Move
ment.
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THE sPEAKERsHIP-THE HOUSE NOT YET
ORGANIZED.

The House at the hour Of our going to press
was not yet organized. The heaviest vote for
thu Administration candidate at any time. it
will be observed, was 76-not one-third of the
whole. Mr.. Campbell has withdrawn, not be-
ing willing, he says, to renounce his Anti-Sla-
very and american principles Mr.. Banks, who
stands upon the Anti-Nebraska or Anti Slavery
Exts platform, alone, is the choice Of the
great kitz0f the opposition from the free
Stat and kived, on several ballotings,
lO7 votes, wal ly six of an election. No
body0uestion pent fitness or his fidelity
TO the Anti-Neb1 platform.
By examining the record, it will be seen that
his election, and consequently an Anti-Nebras-
ks organization of the House is prevented by
the votes of Messrs. Wheeler, Williams, and
Clark, Of New York, Scott Harrison, Moore,
and Ball, Of Ohio, Dunn and Scott, Of Indiana,
all chosen by their several constituencies, sim.
ply as Anti-Nebraska men. These men at any
time, for the last three DAYS, have had it in
their power to decide the struggle for Mr..
Banks, 10 organize the House on the Anti-Ne-
braska principle-the very principle on which
they were elected-but they have refused to do
1t, scattering their votes all the time, for the
purpose OF preventing an election The PEG
pie will take notice-but we forbear comment
for the present.
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APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
BY and with the rice and consent of the Senate

By and with the rice and consent of the Senate
James DunloA pf the District of Columbia,
to be Chief judge of the Circuit Court Of the
United States for said District.
William NJ Merrick, of the District Of Co.
lumbia, to be Associate Judge Of the Circuit
Court for the United States of the said District,
in the place Of lanes Dunlop.
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CINCINNATI AMESsaAN CONVENTION

CINCINNATI, Dec. 1, 1855.
To the Editor ofhe National Era:
Your readers in other States NAV be desirous
to know how the action of the American Con.
vention, recently held here, is received bv m.
Republican press Of Ohio. The action OF th.
Convention in adopting the majority platform.
and in re ecting the liberal platform of Mr.
Spooner, is generally disapproyed
Among the Republican papers which have
expressed their dissent from the action of the
Convention, are the Cincinnati Commercial.
Toledo Blade, Sand,tSky Reqister, CZereZanJ
Leader, State Journal, Ohio Columbian. Day
ton Gazette, Steu6enrIIe Herald, Painesrij',
Telegraph, Ashtabuia Sentinel, E1vria Ini
Democrat, Clinton Republican, Wooster r..
publican, Mount Vernon Republican, Leddhon
Star, HllsbOrO' NeoS, Belmont Chronicle. NJ.
dina Gazette, Logan Gazette, Home Compan.
ION, and others.
The majority platform does not seem to give
satisfaction to any but the Trimbe men. The
Republicans of Ohio are unwilling to occupy
any other ground than the broad ground OF
" No more Stare territOry no more STARE States"
And on this platform they wish all to come.
without distinction Of birth or creed. The
great body of those who were with us in the
recent campaign may be relied on for the great
contest of 1856. There were only a few in
the Cincinnati Know Nothing Convention that
have ever been in sympathy with the Repub.
can party. These few opposed throughout the
platform which was adopted. Among them
were Thomas Spooner, president of the Order
in Ohio,) Lieutenant Governor Ford, Hiram
Griswold, (Senator elect from Cuyahoga, James
A. Briggs, Esq, Judge Mckay, l.. q. Vandyke
member Of the Republican State Central Com
mittee,) and j. p. Baker, (Secretary of State
With the exception of these and few Others
there were none in the Convention who hal
ever been in sympathy with the Republicans.
Only fiftytwo delegates We're present, when, if
ali the free States had been represented, there
would have been l76. Outside of Massachu-
sets, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, there
were only nine delegates present.
The leading Republican papers Of Indiana.
such as the Indianapolis Slate Journal. he
diandpolis Republican, RushUWe Republican,
and 81. JOseph's Valley Register, take the same
ground, in regard to the Cincinnati Convention,
as that taken by the lio papers. Let the
Republicans pursue aightforward course,
and the great body - the men of the free
States will be with II 5m in the Presidential
election. EJ.
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CoUDERsPORT, p TIER County, PA,
December 3, 1855.
TO the Editor of the iOD0I Era


To the Editor ot'He ,ional Era:
that National Republican Convention will be
held and a National platform adopted.
Before urging such Convention very strong
ly, | wish you would i've late article in The
Ereniig Post, in Opposition to National Cor.
ventions, second reading.
have long felt that all National Conventions
of purely political nature were great evils
The tendency of everything in the United
States is to Centralism and already the Gen
trail Government has acquired a dangerous
power over the riglts Of the States and The
liberties of the Peo.,le . National Conventions
increase this powef, and therefore am op-
posed to them. Let each State nominate its
candidates, and ELECTORS adopt its own plat
form, and we shall ye more likely to defeat ths
Slave Power next year, than by endeavorint
to mould the entire opposition into one form o.
action. Yours, for Truth and Liberty,
JONI S. MANN.
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"MoDERN PILGRIMS "-RAPID SALE.-The
new book of our fellow-cit IN, George Wood.
entitled " Modern Pilgrims is Handsomely p.
ceived. The newspapers delighted with it.
and the sale of it has been rapid. 1t was first
issued in Boston, on the goth ultimo. and bv
the 9th, according to the Boston TRANSCRIPT.
the whole of the first edition had been sofa
and a new one was i'm u. 20
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WILSON SHANYoN.-Amor he nominations
lately submitted to the Senatsssy the President.
is that of Wilson Shannon, as Governor of Kan
sas. 1t is too much to hope from the Senate
that it will reject such an incendiary.
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RE-ELECYIeE OF SENATOR MAsoN.-The Lee
gislature Of Virginia, on Saturday last re-elect
ed the Hon. James NJ. Mason as a Senator of
the United States for SIX years from the Sd of
March, 1857, when his present term of service
will expire. The vote stood: Mr.. Mason 1874,
Mr.. Summers Sc, scattering 5.
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LEGISLATION N THE CHEROKEE NATION.
Correspond Of the Fayetteville Independent
l.--

CORRESPOND, Of the Fayetteville Independent
TAI .EQUAH, c. N, Noe. lG, 1888.
Accordings3 a recent act, white men will be
recognised 4<atizens of the Cherokee Nation,
by applying to one of the clerks Of the district
courts for license to marry, which, being
granted, they will be required TO take an oath
of allegiance TO support the Constitution ana
laws of the cherokee Nation, and "not to seek
legal redress out of the Nation"
A bill WA introduced, prohibiting Polygamy
but was u, ortunately lost also, one author.
zing the PI ,ipal Chief to open correspondent
with seve of the Missionary Boards, com.
planning g., be inculcation by their agents o.
Abolition Grimes, and the superintendent OF
public shall was instructed not to employ any
as teachefs%ho were opposed to the institution
Of Slavery.
The most important feature Of the session
was the bill for the sale to the United States
Government Of the tract known as the neutral
land. Az. are willing to sell, and are in favor
of hquida.ing the national debt, amounting TO
some $4,000. The great difficulty appears
to be, as 10 the disposition of the balance, some
100000 or 100000.
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MOVING PARTY.-Itis worthy ofremark, that
in all the classifcations of theSsenate and
house, there appears no Whig Rarty. There
are Republicans, Administration men. and
Know Nothings, but no Wings. In the Senate.
General Wilson is set down as ? .now Moth
ing, by selfStyled Democratic ,mmittee. a
member of which, we believe, is Ator James
of Rhode Island, q veritable HI Nothing r.
report ieth not AS for the Gen. raj, he stands.
clear and disenthralled, Rssblican, and
nothing else.
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INDE ,-The Indiana Republican papers
are agi ing the question of holding RePub'
lican e Convention. The Rushville Repa''
lican il al favor of holding State Convention
in February, to appoint delegates to the Ma
tionsl Republican Convention. The IndianaP
oils Republican, an American paper, is anxious
to have cooperation with the Republicans, and
says that the Americans have no prospect OF
carrying the State without union with the Re
publicans. The delegates from Indiana in the
late American Convention, voted for the ma
iority platform, which declares against fusion
in the future. 1t appears, however, that the
American papers in the State do not endorse
the 5tion of their delegates.
Cincinnati Commercial,
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VOL. l..

The court martial for the trial Of Col. Mont
gomery has just closed its labors, and the de-
cision is now waited for from Washington.
herewith transmit you a copy Of its doings.
Never has there been more zeal among the
Free State men than since the above meeting
A call is to be issued, in day or tso, for a
grand Free State meeting at Leaver ,eorth de
signed as counterpart to that il holden.
The best speakers in the Territory : engaged.
Next Saturday week will probably the day.
vi Its doings l will duly advise yc USE.
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BIRD Ii. CHAPMAN, late Of Ohio, appears in
the House as the Delegate cleo from Nebaska
Territory. His seat is contest 1t has been
reported that his election tur Il upon adher.
ence to the Administration fNs we learn that
in reality it had nothing to do with it, so that
it is in no sense an Administration victory.
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Governor 0fMe Territory # Kansas.

Meantime, Wilson Shannon may be able,
with his twelve hundred Miss,urians and the
Platte Rife Company, to sutjngate Kansas.
Aye-for, says Secretary Wooison, the RsO-