The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1856-04-25

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~ Judge Conkling of New York, ar
old friend Of Mr.. Fillmore, has written q
letter in favor Of the Republican movement
and the Richmond Va.) Wing lets out q
curious scrap OfpOlitical history concerning
him, as follows:
Conkling was Judge Of the United
States District Court Of New York. The
fugitive slave law was about to come before
his Court, and serious apprehensions were
entertained lest he should decide against the
eonstitutionality of the act. Mr.. Fillmore,
with forecast of wise and patriotic man,
knowing that Conkling could do no mis-
chief in Mexico, and, by deciding the fugi-
tive act unconstitutional, at q time when
popular excitement was very high, migh>
DO vast mischief at home, tempted him from
the bench with the mission to Mexico. The
thing was wisely done, and attended with
happy results.
WMrE-MAS ArPE,RANcE.-An advertise
ment appears in a Washington paper, to
recover a negro boy called - ustus,' who
1t is said "prcsents quite white man APP
pearance. His hair is black and straight,
his eyes gray or blue, and he has often been
taken for white man. His complexion is
fair, his manners and expression gcnteel and
polite. Ii would seem from this that there
are not only black but rhiie slaves at the
South, who have all the Distinguishing ply
steal attributes Of the Caucasian race, but
are Notwithstanding these chronological facts
held as fugitive slaves. White slavery must
then be included, as one of the results OF
the peculiar institution"
y In South Carolina paper, called the
Southern Enterprise, appears letter from
Hon. j. b. o'Neall, in which, speaking Of
South Carolina Collegs, and the young men
who are educated there, he says
al graduated in the college iorty-three
years ago last December. have been u
have watched over its interests with all the
care Of deep and abiding love and yea 1
knOlc that Of all The students graduated from
1906 10 1855, forty-HiHe years, one fourth OF
the rhole number kGps died drinlkards, or are
noe drtmkGrds-a shame to themselves and
burden to their families"
REMOVAL OF JUDGE.-The Legislature
Of Name has passed the address for the It
moyal Of Judge Davis. The vote in the
House stood. 81 for, and 81 against remOy-
al and in the Senate % to 3, the President
of the Senate, Mr.. Morrill,, being one of the
three. IL appears to have been treated
throughout as party measure, and TO have
been discussed and decided wholly with refer
ence to political prejudiees and aims. II
will be regarded by impartial observers as
n dangerous assault upon the independence
Of the judiciary.-BoSton TrareLsr.
y The Cincinnati Gazette says that Mr.
Gaines, the owner of the slave woman Mar
garet, who murdered her child, sent and
brought her back from the South, and placed
her in the COyington, (Ry.) Jail, according
to one part of u promise publicly made; bat
instead of surrendering her to the requisi
ton Of Governor Chase, as agreed upon, re.
moved her the same night, 50 that the mex
day when the officers went with the requisi
ton, she was not to be found.
IIELP oNE ANOTHER. Sir Walter Scot
wrote "The race Of mankind would perish
did we cease to help each other. From tina
time that the mother binds the child's heaC
till the moment that some kind assistanc,
wipes the death damp from the brow of tn,
dying, We cannot exist without mutual help
All, therefore, that need aid, have n RICH
10 ask it Of their fellow mortals; and N,
one who has it in his power to grant, car
refuse without mourning guilt"
y The last Day Book has the articl
from the Boston Post eulOsizins Franz
Pierce, recently published in the Democrat
We understand that quite a large club o
subscribers for the Day Book has been got u
in Saco through the efforts of its Postmaster
CONGRESS. The proceedings Of Cougres
are Of very little interest. The Senate i
engaged in the discussion Of politics gencr
ally, with the bill for the admission Of Kan
sas as their text, and the House is busily a
work upon the appropriation bills. Tn
democratic members have project ON foo
for adjourning before the Kansas COMMITTEE
can get in their report, and have once mad
an attempt to fix upon an early day in Jul,
for that purpose.
Counterfeit 50 and IS bills on the Mer
chants Bank, Boston, are in circulation.
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