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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. C, AUGUST %, 1855

thus giving new impulse to the prosperity of
both countries"
Nothing is stated in this paper, to give us an
IDEA OF the numbers collected for this foray
s.ross the borders.
The Austin State Times, of the 18th ult.,
sIys, that within few weeks more than twenty
Runaway negroes have passed at no great dis
to'ace from that city, on their way to Mexico,
cad adds:
The number of negroes fleeing from their
masters, and endeavoring to reach Mexico,
makes 1t imperiously necessary something
Should be done to arrest the evil We can see
no more feasible plan than the one long since
suggested. By aiding the liberal party in Mex
leo, we can accomplish an arrangement which
ssill make Slavery as secure in Texas as any
State in the Union"
The New Orleans Delta regards the success
OF the revolutionists in Mexico as already GER
tam, and with reference to the results says
that, next to the removal of all restrictions on
Commercial intercourse between Mexico and
t1ls country, the most important benefit to both
Alonalities will be the opening of the former to
Eaigration from the United States
" The statesmen who lead the present revou-
IN are thoroughly aware of the fact to which
' J allude, and have pledged themselves not
lily to overthrow Santa Anna himself, but his
+ 'licy also. We cannot regard their success,
erefore, as mere change of dynasties, to
hich Mexico is somewhat accustomed. We
/ Sieve it will mark the opening of a new and
opitious era in the history of the country. In
f ee commercial intercourse and unrestricted
migration, we perceive her only chances of
.construction, and on that account we sympa-
t lize warmly with the cause of Alvarez and his
friends. Let them go ahead! |"
From the Daily True Delta OF August
A correspondent of the San Antonio Ledger,
writing from Leona river, July 10Th says:
al embrace the first opportunity offered to
THORN you of the movements of the auxiliary
forces intended for the overthrow of the Santa
Enna Government in Mexico, and the establish
p1entof Government favorable to the interests
q Texas. The first of the expedition arrived
bere on the 18th inst, and everything appears
favorable to the cause. The men are coming
i hourly, and in numbers. Information has
| sached here, of great interest to the cause"
The people are said to be anxious, on the
opposite bank of the river, for the arrival of the
HILLARY troops from Texas. Great enthusiasm
/ sevails among the men. In less than five days
e first party will cross the Rio Grande. Capt.
enry, of the late Texas volunteers, is expected
| " be in command for the present. l enclose
J u his address to the people of Texas, which
: III will please publish, and also the pronun
Gamento or proclamation intended to be circu.
] ted among the Mexicans, on the arrival of the
Q lxliaries 1t is to be hoped that the people oi
exas will come forward in the matter, and give
Eat aid which is expected at their hands. Col
J ohn S. Ford is looked for here with great
q lxiety, and with considerable reinforcement
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A WoMAN's OPINIoN.-In q communication
lately received from lady, a note was append
ed, containing paragraph, which we take the
liberty to publish. If all the women of Ohio
could vote, Chase's majority next fall would be
increased at least one hundred thousand:
i read the Weekly Leader, especially all
that relates to the political condition of our
country, with deep interest-though it is some
times asked, what has acoman to do with poll
tics p 1t seems to me no true ,consan can be
uninterested in the great question now be-
fore the nation, Shall Liberty be proclaimed
throughout all the land, to all the inhabitants
thereof, or shall we submit to the rule of Des-
potism and Slavery? However dark and fore
boding the present aspect may be, Truth and
Right will eventually prevail. Heaven speed
the time "- Cleveland Leader.
THE DILLON AFFAIR SETTLED.-It is stated
that the difficulty between the United States
and France in relation to Mr.. Dillon, the French
consul at San Francisco, has been settled. In
stead of firing salute when the flag is hoist
ed, the first French man of war which puts into
the port of San Francisco is to be received with
a salute.
A DUEL Washington, Aug.
l7.-Information having been lodged with the
police, late last night, that Mr.. Faulkner, a
member of Congress from Virginia, and his
late opponent, Mr.. Boteler were here for the
purpose of fighting duel, both were arrested,
and gave security in the sum of $1,000 each,
not to fight here, or leave the District for that
purpose.
PROSPECT OF Coon LEGIsLATIoN.-The sub
ect of reforming our weights and measures will
be brought before Congress, it is said, at its
NJ.
Durkee will probably, or at all events should,
find very efficient support from other members
and through the business journals of the coun-
try-Baltinsore Sun.
ANOTHER LINE OF STEAMSHIPS steam
err Constitution, built for the Belgian Company,
for transatlantic avigation from Antwerp TO
New York, was launched at Amsterdam, on the
9th ult. The first steamer of this line, the
Belgique, is finished, and will soon be sent to
sea. The Leopold | and Due de Brabant are
in process of construction.
JUDICIAL ELECTION IN New ORLEANs-Neu
Orleans, Aug. l4.-At an election for Judge OF
our second district court, to-day, the Americans
carried their candidate by 1880 majority over
all others.
CoNNELLsvILLE RA1LRoAD.-After to-day
cars will run regularly on this road to Broad
Ford, fifty-four miles from Pittsburgh, another
portion Of the road being just completed and tc
be brought into use.
FAUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRNGs.-On
the 30th instant, a tournament will take place
at these Springs, near Warrenton, Virginia, and
on the following evening there is to be granc
fancy ball.
WHEAT SEoURED.-The farmers Of North
western Virginia express the opinion that the
wheat was not so much injured by the late rains
as was at one time apprehended.
The fourth anniversary Of the rescue of the
fugitive slave Jerry, at Syracuse, New York, i:
to be celebrated in that city on the first day O
October.
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FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
NEVER GIVE UPl

| Since we suspended this paper, last year, we
have had several calls for it, and for such doc
uments it would have contained. We have
therefore concluded to resume its publication
| changing its form to royal octave, the size and
| form of Congressional documents, so that il
may be bound into neat, convenient volume
The last volume was devoted chiefly to q
compilation of old Southern documents on the
| Question of Slavery, more useful for reference
than for general reading. The plan for the
new volume will be modified, so as to embrace
matter, specially adapted to the present con.
dition of our cause, and yet worthy of pres
ervation.
The Anti-Savery Movement will be its lead.
ing idea.
Such publication, cheap, convenient, and
suitable for extensive circulation and distribu-
ton, is particularly needed at the present time,
when old party organizations are shattered,
and when the Anti-Slavery Sentiment, although
pervading the public mind, needs a wel-de-
fined, general organization, and clear, ration
al method, to secure it due weight at the ballot
box and in legislation. To quicken this Senti-
ment, and to aid in giving it form and method
adapted to the exigency, will be the two-fold
object of FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.
"FACTs FOR THE PEOPLE" will be issued the
first week Of every month, in royal octave form,
l6 pages composed chiefly of such papers from
the National Era as shall be peculiarly suita-
BILE for general distribution. 1t will be sent
only in clubs, at the following rates per annum,
twelve numbers constituting volume:
Six copies to one address SlO0
Fourteen copies to one address 200
Fifty copies to one address 600
The postage is a trihe-only half cent a
number, or six cents year, paid in advance
at the office aohere the paper is receired.
Any person or club, by raising Sc, may in
this way furnish monthly Anti-Slavery reading
for whole year, to half hundred persons
and is not this the very time to indoctrinate the
masses, who have been cut loose from old or
CARNATIONS, with Anti-Slavery principles Ev-
cry individual has his field of labor. A good
plan would be for few persons, earnest in the
cause, to unite, agree upon an efficient plan for
supplying their town, district, or county, and
then send in their orders accordingly.
What say our friends? Will they take hold
of the project, and make it go? Can they think
of any cheaper, easier, and more effective plan
of operations just now?
AS we intend to begin the lst day of Nav
next, so that there will be but one month for
canvassing, we trust all interested in the mat
ter will see the necessity of prompt action.
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Read Miller, orion, & Mulligan's Advertisement
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CONSUMPTION,

There is no disease with which country affected
which sweeps off annually many victims Consump-
ton. No walk OF life is sacred from its blghling inhu-
ence. No age is exempt from its death dealing shafts
The DID, the middle aged, and the young, all alike,
food for this common enemy of mankind.
Is there help for the afflicted! No preventive Of the
dangers which beset in changeabe and tickle eli.
mate We think there is.
WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY
is offered to suffering world, such Its value and
intrinsic excellence sufficient entte the conf
dence of the public, and il has that confidence
None genuine unless signed l. BUTTS on the wrapper.
Prepared and sold, wholesale and RETAIL only by SETH
w. FOWI.E, Boston, Mass, whom all orders should be
addressed and for sale by all Druggists. 7
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as has been reported, but the wives of those
officers are, with the two children of Major
Woods. The report of the death of Major 0g-
den is confirmed. The Quartermaster's ser
geant at the post, Francis w. Allen, and a
number of the men, mostly laborers in building
and enlarging the post, are among the dead,
from the terrible scourge.
"Shortly before the cholera broke out at Fort
Riley, two companies of the sixth infantry de-
parted from the post, Woods and Armstead's, J
WIS for Fort Kearny, and AS as an escort
for Bryans command, which is portion of the
expedition into the hostile Indian country"
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on board ship; Scotch pig iron 74s. Lard is
quoted at 54s. to sos
State and u. s. StOckS.-U. S. 6s 1868,
Bonds, O6 to lO8; Pennsylvania SIS, 78 to 80.
Do. Bonds, 80 to 81 Maryland Bonds, 81 to
92k; Virginia As 843 to $50; do. 6's 894 to 9O4.
The Manchester market is dull, but prices
unchanged.
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8intb DOIumt Of abt gatiunaI Ora
Washington, D. C.
BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR /;

G.. BAILEY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR;
JOHN C. WHITTIER, CORRESPONDING EDITOR.
The National Era is an uncompronlsing OPP
ponent of Slavery and the Slave power; an adj
vocate of personal, civil, and religious liberty,
without regard to race or creed; foe to all
secret combinations to control the Balot-Box,
whether under the direction of priests or laymen;
a friend of Temperance, the Homestead, and
all reforms calculated to secure TO Labor its just
consideration, recompense, and political weight,
and to Trade, its Natural Freedom, in virtue OF
which every man has a right to buy and sell in
whatever market he pleases. 1t believes in the
right Of individual judgment in all matters,
whether of religion or politics, and rejects the
| dogma of passive obedience and non-resistance
in both Church and State; holding that no man
who swears to support the Constitution of the
United States can deliberately violate his own
settled conviction Gifts meaning, without incur
ring the guilt of perjury, and that no citizen can
| obey human enactment which requires him to
commit in justice without immortality.
| 1t regards Slavery, and the issues involved in
| it, as forming the great Political Question of
| the Day; taking the ground, that Slavery, from
its necessities instincts, and habits, is perpetu-
ally antagonistic to Freedom and Free Labor,
and unchangeably aggressive; that its workings
can be counteracted only by permanent sys-
| IeIn vi nSdSureS tndJ the w mig anu democrat
&c Parties, not having been formed with a view
to the issues raised by the Slave Interest, but
being held in thrall by it, so far from present
ing any resistance to its exactions, afford facil-
tiles for enforcing them; and that one or both
must be broken up, and the true friends Of Lib
erty be united, without regard to old issues or
prejudices, on a Party of Freedom, as a neces-
sary preliminary to the overthrow of the Slave
Power. 1t, therefore, gives its earnest support
to the Republican Movement, so far as its policy
has yet been developed-a movement which
promises to effect such union.
The National Era, while occupying a deci-
ded position in Politics, has amply provided in
its Literary Miscellany and News Department
for the various wants of the Family Careful
abstracts Of Intelligence, Domestic and Foreign,
are given every week in its columns during
the sessions of Congress, special attention is
devoted to its movements and it has secured
the services of some of the most distinguished
literary writers of the country.
The Ninth Volume loM commence on the LIST
Of January ensuing. Subscriptions should be
sent in at once to
G. BAILEY, Washington, D. C.
NoUenber, 1854.
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HUDSON, ~. CTOtr Co., " tScORSIH,
WILL buy and sell Land Warrants. enter Lands ai
w the Land Office. locate Land Warrants. pay faxes
Lands, and transact all the business OF General
Agency.
R,tsTeHcc,-IIon Edward Kent Bangor; Hon William,
Willis Portland; i. W. Chandler Esq. Boston; DAVID
Pmgra Esq. Salem; lvsou Phnney, L. Fuiton street,
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,i. GIArirAL OF KANSAS TERRIToRY.-The Lee
.I I'a'ure OF Kansas has fixed on the town of
Sta.comPton," as the future capital of that
- Leeompton is named in honor of Judge
Of ,Iu pte late of Baltimore, and now Judge
s,o S"e supreme Court of Kansas. 1t is stu
Con- Gen. On Kansas river, near the geographical
fro u, Ul the Territory, and is about sixty miles
la.,o. %estport, Missouri. A letter from the
he II place, In the 81. Louis Republican, dated
a Gun instant, says:
CONVENIENT as it is to all portions of the
eraI the location will doubtless give gen.
T;n Fin satisfaction. The town site is beautiful.
Der ap5 aoounds. Water is plenty. Both tim
Yss,n nI water are of the most excellent quality.
Crnserday, shares in the Lecompton Town
dreJ p ANY could have been bought for one hun
less IIolars; today, they cannot be bought for
comnn ,Hn one thousand, except when party is
evan ?eiled to sell by money pressure. This
VIII men are considered worth $4,000,
mo aSt evening were considered worth moth
iooay men are regarded as good for
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The MURDER IN PRINCE GEoRGE's.-It is now
generally believed that it was Mr. Samuel N.
CANT of Michigan, whose body was recently
found in Prince Georges county, Maryland.
He was in Washington in June, and previous
ly visited this State, to see his relatives and look
up some land claims. His son publishes the
Cass County (Michigan) Tribune.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1855-06-28
Know NOthingism Put in Practice.

Foreigners are not entitled to vote
or hold office in Massachusetts. The
beautiful Legislature which has Illus
trated the position of that State for
some months past, before its adjourn
ment, adopted law, of which the fol-
lowing is provision:
"No person shall be entitled to vote
in any election held In this Common
wealth, unless he shall have been
born within the jurisdiction of the
United States of America, or unless
he shall be the child of an American
citizen born, during the temporary all
sence of one or both of his parents
from the United States. Provided.
that persons of foreign birth who may
have been duly and legally natural
lied before the adoption of this
amendment shall be entitled to vote
in this Commonwealth"
We believe there is already law
on the Statute books of Massachus
sets, confirming the right of suffrage
upon free negroes, so as matters now
stand in that State, such men as John
Mitchell, Thomas I. Meagher, and
hundreds of others that we could
name, cannot rise to level with Fred
Douglass, or any other negro who
may have run away from the South
and made Massachusetts his home.-
Such are some Of the HacticaI work
ings of Know Nothingism. Such be-
ing its fruits, Of course it will take
everything by storm In the South