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Is IT A DIsUN1oE CONVENTION :
From the Savannah Republican,

Unfortunately, at meeting of the body, some
year or two since, certain indiscreet delegates
of the fireeating school of politics attempted to
convert it into an instrument for the accomplish
ment of their own unreasonable and fatal de-
signs. The association, if We may SO call it,
has never been able to divest itself of the odium
incurred by that movement. Upon every an
nual meeting it has been looked to and spoken
of with distrust, and we perceive already, in
oeveral quarters, an expression of apprehension
in regard to its approaching session in savan.
nah,
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SECRETARY OF THE NAvYs REPoIG.

The Secretary of the Navy gives a de allied
view of the operations of the Navy during the
last year, and its present strength. Amo g his
recommendations are, for another squadi IN in
the Pacific, rendered necessary by our g. tend
ing commerce; for the adoption of the lglish
and French system of gunneryin practice hips
and for the dispatch of small steamer t sur
vey the Guano Islands, on which Comm odore
Mervine made an unsatisfactory report.
The Secretary regards the construct on of
the six war steamers as inaugurating z new
era in the naval service, and repeats his ormer
recommendation for building steam slo FPS of
war of small draft. The sending out of amen
to relieve distant crews is spoken of as n ex-
pertinent, and will be continued if it shal work
well. The Secretary likewise recommeE is the
appointment of assistant pursers with me derate
compensation.
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REAL ESTATE OKERS.
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ungent fees.
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estate the payment OF taxes for residents and the
locanon and sale OF land In any of the Western States
and Territories.
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snlre James Bufhnton Massachusetts Jacob Collamer
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X whitney, New York; James Bishop, New Jersey ;
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sylVana Henry Winter Davis, Maryland John s. Car
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THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
A STATISTICAL vIRW
OF THE CONDITION OF


THE FREE AND SLAVE STATES,
By Henry Chase and Chorles w. SanBorn
Compiled from Official Documents
l2Hso. Bound IN cloth. Price so cents
IF any wishes to know what Slavery has done f,r
the South and Freedom for the Nor h. let them resd
this mastery work Let him study these figures Plae-
copy OF these statistics in the hands Of every voter and
our word for IT, Republicanism will sweep the entire
North IN 1890 as clean as II has swept New England In
1856 Men OF the South beg yoU 10 COX calmly and
dspassionatey at this array Of figures see what they
p0rfetd.
The able editor Of the EUe,ing Transcript Boston thu,
speaks of this work:
This little book contains amount OF information
respecting the comparative condition OF thu savehodiug
and MISUNDERSTANDING States territory population
Industry, wealth. education intelligence, religion moral
advancement, and general progress The work must
have cost great deal OF laborous research and II Ger
tsny presents arguments in favor of Freedom on every
pngs II contains just the kind ofinformaon that should
be more generally known in all sections of the oounlrv
We hope there will be public demand for thousands OF
copiesn
Published by
JOHN P. JEWETT & CO.,
oIo III Washington street, Boston
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TO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS.

A GENTLEMAN In the prime OF life, nearly twenty
IA years of which have found him associated with tho
newspaper press, in every department of which he has
had experience, wants TO become connected with Re-
publican Journal, either sole joint editor and pro-
pris'or lie refers to the Editor of the Era, whom
sponGents will please rddreas
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SHALL WE RECOGNISE OUR RARJ HLY
FRIENDS IN HEAvENi"

IL il wrong 10 wish 10 see them,
VINO were dear to US on sarthl
Who have gone 10 Heavenly mansf0a6
Who surround a brighter hearthf
Is Il wrong to mourn their absence
From the parted household bandit
Should we check the sigh of sadness,
Though they're in a better landt q
II It wrong TO hope 10 meet them
Yet upon that blessed shore,
And with songs fioy to greet them,
When this toll Of life 10 osrt
l. II wrong 10 think them deaTsS
Than the many of the blsIt,
Who to us on earth were strangers
Must we love them like the rsEt
Eve a mother up IN heaven,
And, oh tell me, il ys will,
Will that mother know her ohlldrsnf
VIII she reoollsct them still!
Can she look down from those window
To this dark and distant shorsi 4
Will abe know when am cominss
VIII she meet me al the doort
Will she clasp me 10 her bosom,
In her ecstacy ofjoy!
Will she ever be my mother2
Shall over be her boyS
Aud, thou, loved one, who did'st leave-us,
In the morning Of thy bloom
Dearest sister, shall meet thee =
When I "a bevond The tombf
"H'H 90 O''0"' ''' ''"0'
Shall see thy lovely featuresl
Shall hear thy pleasant words,
Sounding DER my spirits heart-strina
Like the melody of birds'
And think me Of another
Ola darling little one
Who went up among the angels,
Ere his life had scarce begun.
Oh! long once more 10 see him,
And 10 hold him in my arms,
AS did when he was with us,
With his thousand budding charms1
:
All It's true the soul must suffer,
And be bound with anguish dowR.
Ere It's fitted for its dwelling,
Ere 'us ready for its crown
Bat, oh, Jesus, blessed Jesusl
Thou art loved without alloy -
Thou wilt meet us, thou wilt bless us1s
Thou wilt give US perfect JOY!
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MRS. EMMA D. E. N. soUTHwoRTH,

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N s Arthur writes for the Saturday Ersning Po,t
another place
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formed in less than thirty days, while the gold
of Australia will almost entirely be conveyed
by it. The line is to be a weekly one in the
first instance; but Mr.. Mann thinks that such
steamships are ultimately to do the entire car
rying between the two hemispheres, and that
all other navigation, in the Atlantic, Mediterra-
mean, Adriatic, Black, and North Seas, as far
as American intercourse is concerned, will be
merely auxiliary to it. 1t will, before a score
of years elapse, be daily instead of weekly. His
project, therefore, can be the rival of no other,
for none can conflict with the interests which it
is designed to advance.
We know of nothing so admirably calculated
to create commercial independence and COM
mercial grandeur for the South as this project,
while it will confer glory on the whole nation,
il it be perfected. 1t will exhibit the South
through q medium that will certify, all over the
earth, to the blessings which its institutions be-
stow upon itself and upon all the world of man
kind.
1t will require about two years, after the keel
OF the first steamship is laid, before they can
all be ahoat. By next autumn, if no unforeseen
receive q message dated at London at midday,
four hours before it was started, according to
American time. In FIVE years, he may proba-
bly, receive merchandise from the same Me-
tropolis, or even from Paris, in ten days after
the date of his order
Now is the time for the South to arise in its
majesty. Let it shake off the shackles by which
it has heretofore been bound hand and foot, and
avail of the adventitious discoveries of science
for Its relief. There is not an element of pros
perlty or of power that does not benignly offer
to its aid. Let it diligently embrace and turn
them to the best account.
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