The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-11-13
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
SLAVERY TO BE CARRIED TO OREGoN-LETTER
FROM DR.. BUsHNELL-The following is an
extract of a letter from Rev. DR.. Bushnell, to
gentleman in Hartford, dated California, Sep
TENDER 18:
"A new thing is just now coming to light,
which our friends at the East must look at, viz:
the turning Oregon into a slave State. More
than half the people are from Missouri. The
leaders are at work to get off the Proviso, or to
get the Territory admitted as State, in the I'M
derstanding that they will take it off themselves.
They have GAO acres of land each, and cannot
cultivate any but small portion, without slaves.
They are talking actively, and watching their
chance. As soon as Kansas becomes a slave
State, they will strike and you may rely upon
it, from what hear, that both Oregon and Utah
will, in that event, go for Slavery, when the ques-
ton will Immediately return for reconsideration
here.
"The presses in Oregon are now in the slave
interest. If any should dare to speak in the
Free State interest, they will be crushed as in
Kansas, and the Free State men will be driven
out All the Border Ruffian practices will be
renewed here. 1t is great wonder to me here,
seeing the great power of the Southern leaders,
and the fact that slave labor could be employed
to so great an advantage in the mines, that Sla-
very was not established here at the beginning.
Indeed, l suppose that as much credit in this
matter is due to Fremont as to any other per-
son, and probably more.
"What glory will finally cover that name, if
now he is successful, and makes success
full issue of a four years. Administration, deliv-
ering his country from its present crisis of ter
this barbaric INSTITUTIONAL the greater, that
he is himself son of South Carolina. 1t will
be the greatest honor, indeed, that ever came
upon the State of South Carolina, and will be so
considered.
"Do not understand me to be anxious, lest, on
reconsideration of the question of Slavery here,
it will be introduced. There are too many hard
working freemen in the mines to suffer any such
thing. The day is gone by; they will not vote
to bring in gangs of negroes, and put themselves
in the dishonorable class of labor with them.
And yet there are multitudes here, who are wish
ing for just this thing"
AN AWFUL SCENE.-Several gentlemen con
nected with the Insurance Companies of Mil
waukee visited Port Washington, to examine
the wreck of the ill-fated propeller Toledo
They described the scene as an awful one. For
two miles or more, the lake shore is lined with
fragments of the wreck, piled up in many
places several feet high.
The propeller foundered at her anchors about
200 yards north and about rs yards outside of
the piers, and the tremendous violence of the
sea completed the work of destruction in a very
few hours. The heavier portions of the hull
have come ashore in large pieces but the upper
works are broken up into innumerabe frag-
ments. All the dry goods and furniture boxes
have been rent asunder by the force of the
waves, and their contents riddled by the sand
like sleeves, and scattered far and wide along
the coast. Some of the hardware, such as
cases of axes, &C., came ashore whole, and
were washed by the sea far up the beach. Sun
dry barrels of liquor also came ashore, but it is
thought $4,000 will cover the value of all that
has been thus saved.
Of the forty or fifty persons on board the
propeller when she went down, only three, two
deck hands and a Storage passenger, were
saved. One of these deck hands, Aquilla Gift
ford, was on board the Niagara when she took
fire and burned to the waters edge, off Port
Washington, on the oath of September. He is
not over 20 years of age, and this was his first
trip. His second was on the Toledo, which
toundered very near the spot where the Niagara
was burned.
When the propeller settled, Clifford sprang
into the sea, and struck out for shore Present.
ly, he felt hand clutching at his neckoloth,
and, to save himself, slipped his head out of
the neckcloth, and saw it go down with the
poor fellow who had caught it in his agony.
With the help of plank, Clifford managed to
get to the side of the pier, but he had not
strength enough to climb. He therefore COM
menced hallooing for help at the top of his voice,
and presently heard answering shouts from the
shore. Before help reached him, however, a
combing wave threw him upon the pier, and
he lost no time in making tracks for terra frDa
1t is his impression that he will STAY ashore a
while this time.
We learn that, down to Thursday morning,
seventeen bodies had been recovered of those
who persisted by this awful calamity. The
bodies were picked up along the shore, south
of Port Washington.
The crew numbered about % persons, in
Guiding C.c,nt. Deusham of Buffalo, who leaves
wife and child George Hill, first mate, who
leaves a wife and family near Cleveland; Da-
vid Vance, second mate, brother of Mrs. Deus
ham, unmarried; Edward McManman, first
engineer, family near Cleveland; and b. +.
Strattan, second engineer unmarried
Mrs. Harriet Frazee, of Milwaukee-former-
ly the wife of Lucus Wadsworth, deceased, of
Buffalo-was among the passengers, together
with three of her children. All were lost.
Chicago Times, NoU. l.
HoN. JOHN M. BORIS, writing to the Rich
mond National american, says:
81 have at this moment nearly two hundred
unanswered letters on my table, from Georgia,
North Carolina Kentucky, Tennessee, and Vir-
ginia, and nearly every one contains the most
urgent invitations and appeals to my patriotism
to preach my treason and 'abotionism, or
congratulations for that have already present
ed before the country. l not only regret my
utter inability to keep up with my correspond
ence, but still more deeply regret that cannot
accept every invitation to speak in vindication
of the truth, the Constitution, the Union, and
the honor and true interests and welfare of the
South"
The following paragraph is from the St. Louis
Democrat, Buchanan paper, of October 18th.
1t says:
Voted, and Going Home.-A day or two
since, about $50 men of the parties that went
to Kansas last spring from the South, passed
through this city on their way back to their old
homes in Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
They had all voted at the election in Kansas,
and had no further business in the Territory.
Their condition was destitute, and they had
nothing but curses to vent upon those who had
influenced them to leave their native States"
WASHINGTON UNIoN.-Arrangement are al
ready in progress for the reorganization of the
Editorial force of the Union newspaper. 1t is
in contemplation to have one editor from the
North and another from the South, in view of
Buchanan's Administration. Mr.. Nicholson
will retire on the 4th of March.
Rev. II. w. BEECHER.-Some of our contem-
poraries have published roorback about Mr..
Beecher which is hardly worthy of attention