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ERON URGINIA.

-, ' Az I/tO- -Uj IN1''t1'
To the Editor Of the National Era:
II is a fact that ought to be well understood,
that out of a population of 5000 white per-
sons of Virginia, only about $4,000 own slaves,
and the non-saveholders care as little about the
peculiar institution as the Abolitionists OF the
North: so, when you hear them prating so
much about the dissolution of the Union, their
clack has about as much weight as that of the
Nv, who vainly imagined that her gravity ena-
lied her to keep the wagon wheel IN monon'
To be sure, that portion OF the @ S@p,
ers who can obtain oyerseers places VIII nghl
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Advices from Port au.P Prince to the lst inst
confirm the previous accounts of the defeat of
the Haytiens, with the loss of between zoe and
300 soldiers, with many of their best officers,
beside all their munitions of war, provisions,
and the Emperor's military chest, containing
all the funds intended for the prosecution of the
war. Faustin l had marched 10000 men
against the eastern side of the Island, and his
defeat is represented as most complete. Eaus-
tin had escaped from the battlefield, bug his
place of refuge was unknown, and General
Santander had offered reward Of 10000
doubloons for his head. So great was thesfeel-
ing against him, that it was the general opinion
of the inhabitants of Port Prince, that if his
Majesty escaped falling into the hands OF the
Spaniards, he would be shot by his own people.
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POSITION Of MR.. .NOORE.

PORTSMOUTH, o., Jan. Z, 1856.
To he Editor oftke National Era:
Mr. Moore, our Representative, excuses his
not voting for Mr. Banks, because he fears an
Uhegi0T object. 2, that Arnericanism mean
ing Know Nothingism) is TO be ignored. Read
the resolutions of the Convention that nomi
mated him. and see if be was put in nomination
ON Know Nothing principles. | copy from the
Portsmouth DAILY Tribune of September 18th.
1854:
"On motion or Mr. J. H. Baker Of Ross, the
Chair announced the following committee, to
draft resolutions expressive of the sense of this
Convention, as regards a platform. Messrs.
Baker Of Ross, Laird of Jackson, Hubbard of
Pike, Cherington Of Gallia, MOORE of Scioto,
Simpson of Lawrence. The committee, after
short absence, reported as follows:
Whereas the question of Slavery, which
understood to have been settled forever
has been wantonly and deliberately re-opened
10y repeal of the Missouri Compromise, as de-
clsred in bill to establish Territorial Govern
nents in Nebraska and Kansas;
"And whereas we, in common with the peo-
pie of the free States. feel ourselves aggrieved
by this open violation of plighted faith; there
fore
"Resolre That we, as the delegates Of the
people of the tenth Congressional district of
Ohio, enter our solemn protest against this
defilement of National faith and National
honor.
"Resoired, That the repeal of that provision
in the Nebraska and Kansas act, which annuls
the Missouri Compromise, is demanded by every
consideration of fraternal concord and political
harmony.
"Resotced, That we viii oppose, by every
lawful and constitutional means any further
increase of Slave Territory or Slave States in
this Confederacy, believing that, in a Republi-
can Government, Freedom, and not Slavery,
should be national.
"ResoLred, That We cordially recommend to
the people OF this district, .I6s@ph 4. Swan, OF
Franklin, as candidate for the Supreme Bench
and Jacob Blickenderier jr, as candidate for
the Board of Public Works.
ReSoircd, That we heartily approve and
commend 10 universal sympathy and aid the
effort now making to people Kansas with free
men.
"On bal citing for candidate for Representa-
tive, Mr.. Moore was nominated on second bal
lot. He was called, and accepted the nomina
ton. He said he had examined the resolutions
passed, before allowing his name to go before
the Convention, and endorsed the spirit of them
and was willing to stand or fall by that plat
FORM" Yours, for Liberty,
X. S. SILCox.
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FILTER NOT
MARIETTA, OHIO, Dec. 90, I8j

MARIETTA, OHIO, Dec. %, 1855.
We hope that the honorable NJ. C.'s Will 60
straightforward to their duties, and elect their
Speaker. 1t is a shame, an outrage upon the
people Of the free States, that men who owe
their election to a constituency of freemen, and
who were sent to Washington as the represent
atives of Freedom, and not of Slavery, should
postpone the business of the Government by
scattering their votes, instead of giving them
TO the candidate selected as the representative
of our principles
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The NORTH AND THE SoUrH, OR SLAVERY AND
FREEDoM,-ln the State of Maine, which has
no slaves, and not enough of free colored inhab-
itants to give that State the least direct inter
est IN emigration to Liberia, the shipbuilders
have subscribed money to build ship to be
presented as free gift to the Colonization So
ciety. The State of Virginia, under pretence
OF aiding that same Society, has laid capita
ton tax upon the free colored people Under
this tax-act, $500 will be raised. which sum
the generous and high minded State of Virginia
has nobly appropriated to meet the expenses of
the State Government leaving the Colonization
Society to whistle.-NeW York Tribune.
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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. c., JANUARY 81

er. Men, who used to speak cautiously and
guardedly, now demand decisive and energetic
action. The man who trifes with such inter
ests, and at such time, will earn for himself
an Immortality of scorn, and an outraged peo-
pie will be sure to repay it.
Yours, for the right, JIM. E.
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Whose shrinks or falters now,
whose 10 the yoke would bow,
Rrands The era .-er, o., L. hr.... >,

1t is no time to falter, evade, or shuttle off
responsibility. The hour has come; the issue
is to be met; Slavery and Freedom stand face
to face, as never before. There is but one sem
timent among our mssses-and that is, of stern
resistance to the aggressions of the Slave Pow
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The immigration at Boston during 1856
amounted to 1888 persons, and the tax levied
these yielded the city SIG, ia, while the cost
of the immigrants in reshipping paupers, &C.,
was only S5,632; SO that unlike the state of
affairs at New York, Boston realizes a hand
some profit, at the outset, on her importation of
aliens,
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The GovERNORsHIP OF WIsCoNsIN.--Addi-
son, VS., Jan. l6.-Attorney General Smith
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THE FRUITS OF WAR.-The Albany Eren-
ing Journal publishes list of the battles fought
during the year 1855, with the number of peo-
pie killed at each, beginning with the lombard
ment of Shanghai by the French, at which one
hundred fell, and ending with the fall of Kars,
at which $500 fell by which list it appears
that seventy-three battles have occurred during
the year, or more than one for each week, 9th
an average loss of over thousand men killed
in each. This list does not include those who
have fallen by disease, or in skirmishes, nor the
wounded, disabled, those who died in the hospi
tai or the ambulance, or were irreparably
manned, or missing, or prisoners. The n;pm-
Der left dead upon the field usually comprises
only about onefourth of the entire loss in
battle. By this rule, the entire number swept
out of useful existence by the wars of 1855
must have reached over 100000 men. No year
has presented SO bloody record, since Va
terloo.
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ADVERTISEMENT

TINTED STATES LANDS entered for cash or lsn,
u warrants, by WILLIAM b. JARVIS, Land AgrIr
Madison, Wisconsin near the Milwaukee and MlsSsspp,
Roroad, which road will be completed from Myvaus
TO the Mississippi within year All enter
ed by him selected after actual examination ana
port by his surveyors None taken but good sut
Fee, 50 per 40 acres
References: Ex-Gov. l.. j. Farwell. Madison Wi,con.
sin; Alfred Avery, Esq, New York city; Rusk Il che
yer, stock Brokers Cincinnati, o. p v Rogers Cash.
Ter Bank OF Utica, New York. Im
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4 GOOD STORY.
New YORK, Dec. 81

New YORK, Dee 81, 1855.
BY the way, must tell you good story of
Kansas. Ny father, near seventy years old, and
in very comfortable circumstances, has shout
dered his knapsack and gone to Kansas, and is
investing property there. On Friday, Deem
Der It'll, he Ia peace mani went from Topeka,
with three others, to get something for their
soldiers from Lawrence. They were met by
rufisns, (NIissourians,) carried to Lecompte,
and placed under guard. They we're cold, and
to amuse themselves, in part, they sung old
Methodist hymns and songs. That music
Gained the savage breasts to peace" and the
Methodists were set at liberty, minus their
pocket-books and papers. Oh.
WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL.
The following two extracts are mere speci-
mems of hundreds of the kind that we might
copy-Ed. Era.
FITzwnLIAM, n. H.. Dec. %, 1856
Our friends are doing noby in Congress :;
| hope every man will be at his post and 81 true
as steel" / do not think they ever did better
there, nor will they till they succeed in organi-
zing the House in such manner as to secure to
the free States their Just rights and rather than
waver or finch one iota, / hope they will stay
there at Washington till this present contempt
ible Administration goes out the 4th of March,
1857. They had better be paid eight dollars
per day for doing as they are now doing, than
to be doing worse Our people here generally
seem to be very well satisfied. | hear no com
plant, or impotence manifested, at the delay
in the organization of the House. The only
complaint is at the course of the Know Moth
ings proper, who l think are rightly named
and should also be dubbed Do Nothings.
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d. c..
Correspondence Of the Gta.
MR.. FULLER AND HIS ELECTION.

FACroRYyILLE, Pa, Dec. &c, 1855.
To the Editor Of The National Era:
cannot say that / SIN greatly surprised at
the course Of our Representative in Congress,
Mr. Fuller, in relation to the Slavery question,
vet | am somewhat chagrined.
The main issue in the election between Mr.
Fuller and Mr.. Wright (ex-member,) was the
Nebraska question. / am aware that Know
Nothineism was an element in the election,
but am Of the opinion that Mr.. Fuller's MAORI
IL would have increased, instead of diminished,
by the absence of that element, as the foreign
population of our district is very large and
Mr.. Wright and his friends took extra pains TO
qualify and prejudice foreign voters against
Mr.. Fuller. At the time. il was thought TO be
the best thing that the friends Of Freedom could
do, under the circumstances, to support Mr..
Fuller, believing him to be an Anti Nebraska
man.
If ! mistake not the signs Of the times, he
will be obliged to follow in the footsteps of his
opponent, Mr.. Wright, should he ever come be-
fore the people again for their suff'rages Mr..
Wright having left for more congenial cline
10 his political health, is, | think, highly sug-
Pestive of what will be necessary in future for
all similar cases. 1t is true that the aspect Of
the political horizon in this district until quite
recently, has not been ominous of such re-
suit; but at present deep and settled convic
ton seems to pervade the minds of the people
that it is high time that the slave power and
It's Northern services were checked in their un
holy career.
The murnurings and grumblings, and oc
casional outbursts Of Indignation among the
people, indicate the deep-rooted existence of q
love for that God-given right (Freedom) which
they now see ENDANGERED, that | trust will not
be easily extinguished ; and it seems to me that
those men, Northern particularly, that are
bent upon the extension and perpetuation Of
Slavery, or catering to the slave power for the
sake of the crumbs that fall from their master s
table, stand on slippery places, and, am think
ing, will soon find that an uncongenial element
rolls below. a.
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LITTLE GIANT
CORN AND COB MILL,


CORN AND COB MILL.
INIS MILL has been the favorite with Western farm
ers nearly years, and has taken the first pre-
miums the principal Agricultural Fairs OF the nation
and In the most complimentary manner, For durability
simplicity of construction. and convenience of use, the
Little Giant has equal. IL may be used with or
with horses, and, according 10 size, will grind from
eight sixteen bushels of feed per hour, from dry
and The Little Giant varies in weight from
four hundred pounds. and i'm price SS $50
according size and be worked doors without
injury from the weather.
These Mills positively guaranteed to suit or the
purchase money refunded on the return of the Mill
For Mills or descriptive circulars, address
ROSS SCOTT & Co., PHILADELPHIA,
Manufacturers of Metallic Mills exclusively
LINCOLN COUNTY, KY, Sept %. 1855.
SIR: In compliance with the request of Mr. Hedges one
of the patentees Of the Little Giant Corn and Cob Mill
you, their agent the Mill No 2 which have
y nine thousand bushels. The of this Mill con-
slider inappreciabe but, have stated above return
himself upon this point by actual inspection.
Yours, truly. j. WARREN GRlGSBE.
Mr. II NJ. WEATHERFoRD, DdnriHe.
Testimonial of Cassius N. Clay.
WHITE HALL p. o., MADISON Co, Ky.
GENTLEMEN: write to express my delight al the work
OF the Little Giant. did trust to the boys, THIS
time being home myself put up and set IL agong
with one strong mare, that pulls it easily.
You have done for your country than amy twenty
members of Congress, for the last twenty years wouo
not give up any mill for $50, or more
c. NJ. CLAY.
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LATE CAMPAIGN OF THE MIssOURIANS in
KANsAs.-The Editor of the ST. Joseph MOI
Cycle, who participated in the "Kansas rebel
lion," gives the following history of the cam
paign:
"Warriors numerous seven hundred at
Lawrence, seven hundred and fifty at Waksxu-
sa the first above and the second below Law
renee; scouting parties securing the country !;
prisoners brought in daily, pale, scared, miser-
able; surgeons solicitous; Governor and staff
negotiating in Lawrence; expresses passing
hourly; warriors painting for battle; spirits up,
spirits down schnapps; weather cold stoZm
RACES; hail, rain, snow, wind; tents blown
down, sheets and blankets blown up, fires blown
out; ardor cooled; warriors shivering; no
sleeping; much complaining; action desired ;
Impotence growing; provender scarce; corn
for one horse stolen for another officer tired
for petit larceny; fried oysters; prosecution. to
furnish liquor. Various skirmishes; an editor
worsted an official corned; schnapps; gpns
firing warriors drilling; patience exhausted !;
going to charge; express arrives; peace de-
clared; ordered home; scattering; covered with
glory victory; an end"
A WoRD.-Some time ago, the Cincinnati
Gazette urged the Republicans of the North to
unite with the Know Nothings of the South.
Not long afterward, It's principal editor, MIR.
Schouler, writing from Washington, called Mr..
Banks third-rate lawyer, sort of one-idea
mana person by no means equal to COL Viii
liam Schouler, of the Cincinnati Gazette.
Next we find him writing from the same place,
and debating sage advice to the Legislature of
Ohio. And last of all, the same paper informs
its readers that Governor Chase, in his mes
sage, opposes the extension of Slavery beyond
the line of the Missouri Compromise; as if he
is indifferent whether or not it shall extend
south of that line; as if he is not unalterably
opposed to its extension any,cAere. Perhaps
we may as well inform the editor of the Gdz.ttc,
that the Republican party will neither directly
nor indirectly sanction the spread of Slavery
in any direction. And it may not be Trap
propriate to admonish him that the Republican
members of the Legislature will receive with
distrust any advice from such source.
Cleveland Leader.
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