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WHO WANTS A CHEAP DOCUMENT 4.

Our readers will recollect that so great was
the demand for our old series of Facts for the
People, that the surplus edition left of it, after
the supply of regular subscribers, was soon ex-
hausted.
We have now to announce that, having on
hand about 5000 copies of the first volume Of
Facts for the People, Gust closed,) we have
had them stitched and bound in paper, and will
send them, free Of postage, to any who may or
der them, for % cents copy. The work forms
neat volume of 1872 pages. 1t contains
I" A Decade Of the SlGoe otoe9'"-complete
in ten chapters.
Dangers Of Slaoery n-Slaceholders
HloiIeged Class - GrosOth of our Negro
ATiStOcracy-being speech delivered by Gov
Seward, in Albany, October 18th, 1855.
The Politics Of Justice, Equality, and Free
dom-being a speech of Gov. Seward, delivered
at Buffalo, n. Y, October 10Th, 1855.
American P0ltics-a speech delivered by the
Hon. George w. Julian.
Speech Of tile Hon. John p Hale, on the
Presidents Message, relating to Kansas.
Editorial Comments on lie same MESSAGE.
History and Philosophy Of tie Struggle for
the Speahership Of the Present House Of Rep
reSentatices, aoiM a classification Of Uotes
Letter Of Francis p Blair 10 the ReDubH
can Association Of Washington.
SectionaliSm and Repu6IicaniSnr-An Edi-
torial Rerieo Of a Letter from the Hon. D. D..
Barnard, Of Neto York
A Synopsis Of the S1ace Code IN the District
of Columbia.
Statistics Of .&coery in Maryland and MIS-
souri,
Besides all this, the volume presents a com.
prehensive view of the Know Nothing move.
ment and its bearings accounts of Kansas al.
fairs, and of the slave cases that have arisen
during the last twelve mouths, and a thorough
discussion of the Republican movement and
the true policy of its supporters.
In no other Publication, Of the same size and
cost, can be found so full history of the Anti.
Slavery movement, and so thorough discus.
sion Of its great facts, as in this cheap and
convenient volume.
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TERRIBLE DISASTER.

terrible railroad disaster occurred near
road, on Thursday last. 1t was collision be-
tween an excursion train and down train.
The excursion train contained eleven hun
dred children, parents, and teachers. The train
ingtOn, with the down train; the latter was 60
ing very slowly. The excursion train was go
ing very rapidly, endeavoring to reach the
stopping place. Both the locomotives were
crushed, and three cars of the excursion train.
together with those that were consumed by
fire. A number were crushed beneath the ruins
50 that extrication was impossible. The scene
was most heart-rending.
Sir cars 'cere entirely demolished, Mirty.nine
persons killed, and sirtynine manned or ,cound-
eA Many of the wounded were conveyed in
carriages to Germantown, and surgeons were
dispatched to the scene of the disaster. TWEEN.
'yseven of the bodies are so burnt that they
cannot be recognised.
When the locomotives came together, they
rose on end, and the fre-boxes nearly touch
ed they then fell over directly across the track
The fire being scattered about, the FIRST excur-
sion car caught, and in turn communicated
lame to the others piled upon it. The most
extraordinary exertions were made to extricate
the mutilated and crushed beings amid the
wreck. Many were still alive when the flames
reached them. Their groans and cries were
avail but so rapid and fierce were the flames,
mat no aid could be rendered them. Two
hote!s, one dwelling house, blacksmith shop,
and shed, stood within three hundred yards
OF the scene, all of which we're used to shelter
The dying and wounded. A number of physi-
can' from the city and Germantown were early
In attendance.
Two hre-engines from Chestnut Hill forced
water through their hose to the wreck, and, af.
Ter working several hours, the human remains
We're removed. Nineteen burnt bodies were
removed to the blacksmith shop, three of whom
were supposed to be females. Under the shed
were eight bodies SO charred as to defy recog-
milton. The body of Father Sheridan was re-
covered, and brought to this city.
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ening the power of the cruel despots every day
aud Is adding fuel to the fire which is burning
in the bosoms of the wretched people, and which
will one day burst out to consume and destroy
In Parma and Placenza, at the latest &C
counts, there was great danger of an outbreak
and Austrian troops were crowding in by thou.
sands to prevent it. In the Romagua, the total
absence of all order was such, that highway
robbery pervaded to such an extent, that some
OF the communes have petitioned the Papal
Government on the subject, and threatened that
they will not pay taxes, unless these outrages
are put down. 1t seems that the occupation
OF Italy does not enable the Papal Government
to give security to life and property in its do
mlnions, but simply to carry on its system OF
political persecution. Honest and patriotic
men I'LL the State dungeons, while brigands and
cut-throats go unpublished. Mazzini is in &C.
noa, or about to visit that city, that he may
communicate with his Italian agents Great
changes must soon take place. AMERICAN.
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CIRCULAR.

10 tie Radical Abolitionists of Illinois:
BY reference to the proceedings OF the "Na.
uonal Convention Of Radical Abolitionists. -
held at Syracuse New York, Nav 2Sth and
18th, 1t will be seen that the Hon. Gerrit
Smith, of New York, was nominated for the
Presidency, and Samuel Mcfarland. of Penn.
sylvania, for the Vice Presidency. And in or.
der to promote the objects of said nominations.
the Convention appointed National Execu.
tive Committee" consisting of one for each of
the thirteen States named in the Circular ("
issued by said Convention. to call State Con.
ventions to select Presidential Electors for the
several districts.
The undersigned, being the member of the
n. E. Committee for Illinois, would resrect.
fully request the Radical Abolitionists of the
State to meet at Joliet, in Mass Convention. on
Thursday, July 3lst, at 10 O'Clock, A. NJ. for
the purpose of nominating Presidential Elect.
ors for the State, and for making other need
tnl and necessary arrangements
AS the times are pOrtentous, punctual at.
tendance is expected.
II. o. WAGNER. CHICAGO.
Thus believing, we concur in the Convention
proposed above, and earnestly invite the friends
to attend.
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LIFE OF COL. FREMONT.

Life Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles
Fremont BY Charles Wentworth Upham. With Illus
tratons. For thou vert of the mountains; they pro
claimed the everlasting creed of Liberty.n Boston
Tcknor & Fields. 1876.
AS general rule, the biographies of Presi
Dental candidates have little to recommend
them to the general reader, whose feelings are
not deeply Interested in the triumph of his
party. They are usually written in strain Of
unqualified eulogy, which nauseates, while i,
destroys their oredibility; and the campaign
being over, they are never more thought of or
heard of. We can assure the public that such
is not the character of the work whose title page
we copy above. 1t is a book of general and
permanent interest, not for America alone, but
for the civilized world. 1t is, in fact, for the
most part, an autobiography, embracing Col
Fremonts own account of his eventful career OF
exploration and discovery, eliminated with ad.
mirable taste and judgment, by Mr.. Upham,
from the elaborate Reports of Col. Fremont to
the War Department, and letters to his wife
and friends.
Having read the official reports of the first
two expeditions, and newspaper accounts of
the others, we took up the work of Mr.. Upham,
with no thought of reading more than the in:
troductory and closing pages, which relate more
particularly to the private life of Colonel Ere
mont but insensibly we were led on by the
perennial freshness of the narrative and de-
seriptions of prairie life and prairie scenes of
the herds of buffalo, numbered by tens and
fUcn 70 hons nd nf huf In - IL
the peril fully equals the amusement; of wild
encounters with savage races, amid mountains
covered with perpetual SHOWS, or in arid plains,
which know no rain and no verdqre-such
scenes and incidents described or related in
elegant and graphic English, have an irresist-
IDLE charm for every reader. They need no
establishment. The author has been under
no temptation to exaggerate. The plainest
statement of the incidents and the most faith
full description of the scenes amid which they
occurred, invest them with their highest inter
est. Mr.. Upham has had the good taste and
judgment to perceive this, and has refrsined
from Harding the narrative, which for the most
part is Colonel Fremont's own, with an often
sive strain of eulogy.
This volume embraces 355 pages, with sew
eral handsome engravings, including like
ness of Colonel Fremont, one of Kit Carson,
and several mountain and other wild scenes.
We fear that its cost, though trihing for such
a work, will be too considerable for that gen.
eral gratuitous distribution which is desirable
at the present time. However, we are in
formed that there are other lives of Fremont
CIT, adapted in cheapness to the exigency.
DEATH OF PROFESSOR JOHN LOoKE.-The
Cincinnati Columbian announces the death,
on the 10th inst, in the 65th year of his age,
of Prof John Locke, long and favorably known
for his unremitting and profound resear ches in
tie cause of science.
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GERRIT SMITH ON FREMONT.
PETERRoRo'. June 20. Is

PErERBoRo, June 20, 1856.
p DEAR SIR: am personally acquainted with
Vol. Fremont and HIS wife. They are both OPP.
posed to Slarery. l know from her own lips
mat she is strongly opposed to it. 1t may be,
'~ do not think II possible, that Col. Ere
mont has been stakeholder.
Mrs. Fremont once told me that her mother
taught her children to dislike Slavery. She was
,Ge wife of Col Benton, and the sister of Gov.
Mcdowell, Of Virginia.
respectfully, your friend, GEERIT SMITH. =
h. b. Keyn, Esq. =
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sailed Dr. William A Shaw Of Washington North Car
DINA, writes, under date Of May ], as follows:
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Every one knows the reputation Of the Turpeunr and
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Medical men are justly dstrustfI of Patent Medicines
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Tuesday, July %, 1856.
SENATE.

The Senate concurred in the House amend
ment of this date, in regard to adiourning +:
and was afterwards engaged in discussing river
and harbor improvements.
HOUSE.
The House amended the Senate resolution
to adjourn, by substituting the 18th, in place
OF the 18th Of August-yeas 1913. nays 81.
The House then took up the Nebraska con-
tested election case, and still had it under con-
sideration when the Era went to press.
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DYSPEPTICS.

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genated Btters. They have received the highest tes
monals ever given in favor OF any medicine known W.
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Monday, July 81, 1856,
Cl,HIarE


SENATE.
The Senate passed the bill amendatory of the
act of December, 1892, concerning the register
ing and recording of ships or vessels, the object
being to make it conform to the present regu
lations of the Treasury Department.
On motion of Mr.. Hall, a resolution was
adopted, calling on the President for information
whether any instructions have been issued tc
any military officer in Kansas to dispense any
unarmed meeting of the people of that Territory,
or prevent By military power, any assemblage
of the people of that Territory.
The Senate amended the bill providing fol-
the armament of Notifications, alteration OF
small arms &C., and redueing the appropria
ton from three millions to eighteen hundred
thousand dollars, and then passed it-yeas q,
nays 10.
On motion of Mr.. Cass, a resolution was
passed, providing for an adjournment 1.-THE
House concurring) on the l 18th day of August.
4 bill was passed, regulating the fees, costs,
and other judicial expenses, of the Government,
throughout the United States.
Bills were passed making appropriations for
the improvement of the Delaware brea.kyatar,
certain harbors in the State Of Maine, and of
the harbors at Marquette, Michigan, and Mani.
towoc, Wisconsin.
After which, the Senate adjourned
HOUSE
The House proceeded to the consideration Of
the Nebraska contested election case, the Com
mittee on Elections reporting resolution that
Bird 3. Chapman was not, and Harrison P.
bennett was, elected the Delegate to Congress
from that Territory.
Mr.. Watson having made speech in favor
of the revolutions,
Mr.. CliDgman obtained the floor, and moved
a suspension OF the rules, in order to act upon
the Senate's resolution fixing day to close
the present session. The motion was disagreed
to-yeas l07, nays 81 not two thirds
Mr.. Sage moved a suspension of the rule,
with view to act on the bill TO continue the
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improvement Of the Hudson river, above and
below Albany, and below Troy. The question
was lost-not two thirds voting in the affirma-
tive.
On motion of Mr.. Stanton, resolution was
passed, fixing the daily hour of meeting at
eleven, instead Of twelve.
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KANSAS coMMIrrEE REPORT.

The Republican Association of this city have just pub
lshed in pamphlet FORM the Report Of the Kansas Com
mee Price, free of postage 81 so per 100 copies or $40
PET coo copies. Address L. CLEPHANE,
Secretary Republican Association,
Washington, y. G.
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SUMMERS MARTYR SPEECH.

Copies Of this admirable speech in pamphlet form, can
be had Of the Republican Association the following
rates. - cents per dozen copies free of postage 81 80
per Hundred copies free of postage $40 per thousand
Address LEWIS CLEPHANE,
Secretary Republican Association,
Washi,gton, d. Q,
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LIFE OF FREMonr-cHEAP EDITION.

Being pamphlet of 90 pages, illustrated by various
wood Price free of postage 90 per 100 copies,
or $50 per coo copies Address
L. CLEPHANE,
Secretary Republican, As. ociation,
Washington. ID. c.
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INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF, DUMB, AMI
BLIND.
G street betwaen Goth and DIST Smith sidn

Friday afternoon OF each week has been apart Tor
reception of vsers this Institution. The friends oihe
Institution respectfully invited be present, and WI,
ness the exercises that day.
This Institution is entirely charitable ia its nature hav-
ing been established expressly the benefit Of that ca4
of afflicted children for whom provision has been
made.
Donations of money. household furniture. or Of almost
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Friday, July Is, 1856.
SENATE.

Friday, July l8, 1856.
The Senate passed the bill to repeal so much
of the act of 1855 as provides for the erection
of an armory in the city of Washington.
Mr.. Yulee reported bill requiring the com
pulsory pre- payment on all transient printed
matter.
The Senate adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE,
The contested election case from Illinois was
taken up when Mr.. Archer, the contestant. ad
dressed the House in his own defence. The
resolution declaring that J. c. Allen, the sitting
member, is not entitled to the seat, was passed
yeas "a, nays 90; and the resolution declaring
that William B. Archer, the contestant, was
elected, was rejected-yeas 80, nays 81.
Mr.. Stephens offered two resolutions, de-
claring that vacancy exists in the seventh
Congressional district of Illinois, aid that the
election be referred hack to the people; and
that William b. Archer, the contestant, be al
lowed mileage and per diem to date
The resolutions were adopted.
The House adjourned.
Saturday, July 10, 1856.
The Senate did not sit to-day,
HOUSE.
Many private bills we're reported from stand.
ing committees.
The House passed one private bill, and de.
bated another until the hour of adjournment.
Adjourned.
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Thursday, July II, 1856.
SENATE


Mr.. Toombs introduced Joint resolution, that
the finding Of the late Naval Board in the case
OF Lieut. Bartlett was in violation of the rights
guaranteed to every citizen by the Constitution,
and is therefore utterly void and of no effect.
lie said he should call up the resolution at
convenient opportunity.
The Senate then went into Executive session
on the navy appointments.
The doors wereopened at half pastone o'clock,
when the Senate proceed to consider the bill to
repeal so much of the act of March, 1855, as
provides for the erection of an armory in the
city of Washington.
After debate, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE
The House resumed the consideration of the
resolutions of the Committee on Elections, de-
claring Mr. Archer instead of Mr. Allen to have
been elected from the seventh district of Illinois.
Mr.. Norton spoke in favor of the resolution,
and Messrs. Allen, Harris of Illinois, and Cad
walader, in opposition without taking the
question, the House adjourned.
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DEATH OF PROFESSOR JOHN LooKE.-The
Cincinnati Columbian announces the death,
on the 10th inst, in the 65th year of his age,
of Prof John Locke, long and favorably known
for his unremitting and profound resear ches in
tie cause of science.
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d
a German writer, HIGHLANDER. 1t is writer
With much graphic power, has some of the
faults common to German writer's of fiction
and, with allowances for these, no doubt pre-
sents much that belongs to various aspects o.
European life. The translation has very hap
PLY preserved the characteristics of the writer's
manner of writing. HIGHLANDER is a favorite
among large portion of his countrymen and
in the preface by Sir Richard Alison, this is
called his best work. Clara, around whom
the interest of the story is aade to gather, is
a ballet-dancer, by this profession obtainin
not only her own support, but contributing to
that of her aged father and little brother and
sister.
After variety of incidents, embracing Sc
we're triais. hsr yirtuous conduct receives its
reward in being united te 81 artist, the son OF
parents moving in the best circles of society.
Other characters, also, possess q strong inter.
est for the part they have to act in the shifting
scenes Of life here depicted. The mysteries OF
the Germsn peiics ere brought out, and the
by.play of courtiers in connection With GER
tain Baron Brand, who is the head of a COM
pany of men, not indeed of the most reputable
positions, since among them are found pick
pockets and thieves Of different descriptions
ready to do his bidding at sli tines, by virtue
of a strange sort of power he has established
over them. He, however, is not the villain o!
the story for the sympathies of the readers
are sought to be enlisted for him, because he
is not as bad as he might be, and to get rid
Of further trouble for those who by relation
ship or acquaintance are placed in unpleasant
intimacy with him, he very kindly blows Out
bis own brains, after having arranged matters