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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-13

Mr.. JOHN A. WASHINGTON AND MOUNT YER
NoN-AN APPEAL TO Gov. WIsE.-In the Wash
ington correspondence Of the Tribune we lind
a late contribution purporting to give the
facts touching Mr.. John A. Washington and
his plan for disposing Of the estate Of Mount
Vernon. In this statement it is said that Mr..
Washington will only sell (the homestead aud
some two hundred acres surrounding i) to the
general government OF the State of Virs mia
that his price is 100000; and that condition
Of the transfer is that the place shall be kept
in proper state Of repair. But our inquir-
ing contemporary has made another discovery.
He Says
hear that Mr. Washington derees quite income
from Mount Vernon, notwithstanding Its sterihty lie
between this city and Mount Vernon tor the privilege Of
lsndirg passengers at the LATTER and he has just SOD
manufactured into Mount Vernon canes snuff boxes &C.
believe this trade is yet in its infancy ard is expected
to expand Mr. Warrington il some thirty FIVE to forty
years DID, ia married and five chldren the youngest
IAN inant is son. and the only male child born in the
Washington mansion since it became SUCH
If Mr.. Washington has been selling the
climber" as alleged, we may regret to hear it.
though he has the right to sell not only the
surrounding trees but the house in which
George Washington lived and died, for the
purpose Of being manufactured into Mount
Vernon canes and snuff boxes" or anything
else. 1t is all the property of the present oc-
cupant, and he may do what he will with his
own. In behalf OF Mount Vernon, however;
in behalf of the State of Virginia; in behalf
of the American ladies interested in the
movement for its purchase; in behalf Of the
American people, and in consideration of that
"decent respect for the opinions of mankind
which we should not overlook we appeal to
Governor Wise, of Virginia. to stay, if he can,
the execution Of judgment against that " tim
Der 4" which we are told is to be cut down and
made into Mount Vernon canes and snuff
boxes" The underbrush Of the contiguous
forest has for years past furnished an abun-
dant supply OF canes to all visiters at Mount
Vernon, at from twelve and a half to twenty
five and fifty cents cane in the rough; and
that resource, we think, might be made to an
swer for an indefinite period to come all de-
mands of pilgrims for walking sticks We
therefore seriously call upon Governor Wise,
On behalf Of Virginia aud her presumption
claim to the purchase, to stay if he can, the
execution against that climber" Mr.. Wash
ington, we dare say, will be found, upon ap-
plication, an anaiable and reasonable man.
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EMIGRATION TO KANsAs.-FrOm all the data
which we can gather from the resources of the
HERALD office, we make up the following table
as presenting a pretty fair exhibit Of the
"squatter" contributions, North and South
thus tar, for 1856, to Kansas
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THE WAR OF THE CHURCHxAN" AGAINST
THE WONE-ANoTHER PusEYTrE ONsLAuGHT.-
A few weeks ago the Churehmon, Of this city
issued decree OF accommodation from our
church ohoirs Of all Of womankind. The
phlegnstic Praise God Barebones" Of the
aforesaid church organ declared % his reasons
for this despotic edict that woman's voice 10
only adapted to theatrical, ballet and operate
entertainments; that it is too sensuOus" for
the solemn GRANTEES Of church worship; that
the blending Of young men and maidens in the
choir led to firtations," and various other
profanitias really shocking to think Of; and
that, th0efore, whatever may be "women's
rightss - the premises, they, of the offending
sex, nDmt, one and all, be elected from the
choirs, and boys substituted to fill their places
We undertook, at the time, becoming rebuke
of this precious specimen Of puritanical
prudery, and becoming vindication of the sex
thus rudely set aside, and to some purpose, we
believe; for we have had nothing since from
this delectable ChuychnNn on the subject. But
If he has been silenced upon that theme, he
has broken out upon another. He comes now
to the denunciAtion of the practice (the COM
mendable and beautiful custom) of employing
young ladies as Sunday school teachers in the
following carping charges and Nominations
Hear him-he is speaking of Sunday school
teachers:-
il respectable rot to say fashionable purpose, 10
many parishes young ladies' in particular to devote
Themselves toyeuEg ladies, 1t may b. who all the
week besides votares Of the world, and who find
relief in changing their amusemens Sunday comes
round and the worlds gayer pursuits are out OF their
reach for the day.
We fear that the case of this intractable
Roundhead is incurable. He has evidently
reached that hopeless condition when all the
Vaccinations of youth and loveliness are
but vanity and vexaion of spirit" No
voices to him for the service Of "Old Hun
dred" like the rasping sonorous baritone of the
flour cent man." no Sunday School teachers
for him but chilly and venerable graybeards.
The next step is to expel from the privileges
of the sanctuary all individuals under seventy
years Of age, as unworthy, from their worldly
inclinations and follies, Of association with the
elect of the church. The teacher of the
Churchman is evidently qualified for this CLASH.
fcation. We should Judge him, from his dis
sertations on church discipline, to be past
seventy, and without tooth in his head-he
munches and mumbles SO insuferably.
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The Engines OF steamer Fulton.

We have already given description of the steamship
Fulton, of the New York and Hayre ine and add 10
the subjoined particulars In relation her engines,
which, it viii be SEEM have several important imp-ove
nents:-
Two inclined osciAting engines cylinder forward
the other aft each making angle with the other of 40
degrees, and connecting upon crank PIN which
meets the two paddle wheel cranks there being cen
TIE shaft in the arrangement. by which is saved
centre shaft Two shaft cranks, crank pin,
two engine frames and two pluucber blocks
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PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD.

PHILADELPHIA STOCK BOARD.
PHILADELPHIA, April IL, 1885,
Stocks duh. Pennsylvania State Elves, "a; Reading
Railroad 4eh; Long Island 141; Morris Canal, lax
Pennsylvania Railroad, 452s.
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CAssIUs NJ. CLAY SELLING OFF.--The follow
ing is the schedule of the property of the
great Kentucky abolitionist aud bowie-knife
hero, Cassius NJ Clay. lately advertised for
sale:--
twenty-five head Of thorough bred Durham cattle
About two hundred stock cattle
Eight broke oxen.
thirteen mich and ten calves.
Fifty. ak yesrlipg males and five work muies.
twenty-five saves men, women and children, which
~iD be sold during said Clsys lite.
Ten work and riding horses and mares.
Several pair Of fine blooded hogs.
FIFTY head Of common sheep
Eleven head Of SouthdowD sheep
Household furniture &c, &c, &c.
twenty-five slaves :" Not bad for the
great Kentucky colaborer Of William Lloyd
Garrison.
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Loss OF the Schooner Samuel p. Lord.
LONG BRANCH, April II, 1855.
The schooner Samuel P. Lord, ashore at Squan went
to pieces yesterday in attempting TO hsul her of She
Is total wreck
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-13

TIE ITALIAN OPERA REDyIvus-THE PATRIOT HAS Ap
PRAREo.-For several days negotiations have been on
foot to revive the Italian Opera at the Academy, which
WAS brought to a sudden close Monday last The
artists and numbers Of the patrons of the Opera
anxious to have few representations, and both
parties willing to give little and take little
risk An arrangement accordingly effected, and Mr.
etzek placed at the head of the combination Mr.
Paine having become perfectly satisfied with his expo
rence The parties have made excellent choice in
Maretzek who is competent to deal with the artists
who make tn Opera pay if such thing is possible
The viii commence on Wednesday with "Ernan /"
in which La Grange Bolcion, Moreli and oolstt will
sing 1t proposed by Mr. Maretzek to do both Italian
and German operas. Vipe Max
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-04-13
Naval Intelligence

Naval Intelligence.
The United States sloop ofwar Jamestown CON- Crabbe
and United States brig Dolphin at Port Praya about
the Goth of March, all well.
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The Ice on Lake Cnampl.in

BURLINGTON, April H. 1856.
The ice in Lake Cbamplain is completely broken up
and is floating about In large pieces.
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7Z1 xA9zs7 NV q.
BY MAGNETIC AND PRINTING TElEcRApBa.

Non-ArTival or the Cambria
BosroS, April H. 1866.
Our latest advices from Halifax halfpast nine
O'Clock this evening, 1t which time IL Thick and
raining heavily. and with little prospect that the Cam
bria would enter the harbor before daylight.
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in the world 90 happy, 30 moral, % contented
. people ~ the French villagers-as their
descendants in Lower Canada still bear striking
witness.
The Sunday dance was shut out Of England
generally by the PuritanA In Old and New
England that remarkable sect Of men-whose
only misfortune was that they COMPOUNDED
asceticism with piety, and theology with
morals-put down music and dancing as works
Of the devil. Their Sunday they inthded to
make day Of rest, foretaste Of heaven but
many of them really made such terrible
gloomy day Of it that, to . stranger, it seemed
more Ike foretaste of another place. We
have inherited their practice, if not their
principles. Our Protestant clergy win not
allow us to have music and dancing, or enter
tainments Of any kind on Sunday. We may
not 60 to the theatre, or drive out our fAmi-
lies, or see paintings, or 60 to the country;
members Of certain congregations may not
read light books, or write letters, or perform
any description of work. They are reduced,
in fact, to the alternative Of bed or nothing
and, as we said, they usually prefer the former.
If there were any public place whore music
could be heard, if any wholesome and rational
epjoyments were provided for the people on
Sundays, all this would end. There would be
less Drunkenness less woman beating, less
brutality among the working classes; less
idleness and cloth among others. And there
is no reason to suppose there would be less
religion or worse morals anywhere.
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From Washington.


bria would enter the harbor before daylight.
From Washington.
vIsITERs TO THE AQUEDUCT-MAIL OOMMUNICA-
TON WITH OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES EMIGRATION
TO THE UNITED STATES.
WASHINGTON, April H. 1885,
A large delegation Of Congressman, together with
number of government func tonares visited the Aque
duct to-day and returned this evening They express
cd themselves highly pleased with the progress Of the
work.
The Senate Committee on Post Offices have before them
proposition the object OF which is to adopt plan to
prevent the usual largo expectation by mail Of documents
70 California.
From communication Of the Secretary Of State
to the House of learn that the total
number Of passengers arrived In the United States for
the year 1855 was upwards Of 100000 Over 10000 Of
these arrived in New York. Germany furnished &C. 000
Ireland 49OoO and England 80, Co., in round numbers
The total number of passengers arrived in this country
since the 30th Of April, 1S43, is {, 100000.
Large Fire In Observation-Disclosures Of the Ger
rish Market Building-Loss S2O0,O0O.
Boston, April Ia, 1856.
The Gerrish Market building at the junction of Port
land and Sudbury streets, entirely destroyed by
fire this afternoon. 1t large brick structure six
stories high, occupied the lower floor Q domestic
The upper stories were occupied by Messrs Sanborn,
Carter Bazn, book publishers, who employed about
sixty hands, and who have lost $40 900 in stereotype
plates presses paper, &C.; Messrs. Barnard Dlhng
ham, furniture manufacturers; Messrs A. b n Lowe,
pianosorte makers; A. H. Allen, cabinet furnture Mrs.
Bolles sewing machines Messrs Boyce, Shore l. Co.,
painters and others.
George W. Garrishs loss the principal owner oi the
building, is about sl60, 600. Insurance onehAlf.
The falling of the walls crushed two adjoining wooden
buildings.
The steam fire engine brought out after the fire
had made good headwa and proved to be very ecient
Strike Among Canal Laborcrs-Outrages sf
the Strikers.
TORONTO April II, 1885,
There was . strike among the laborers Chats Canal
at Bytown Thursday Last. The contractors barns
set fire to and hundred tons Of hay, two hun
dred bushels of oats and many valuable horses destroyed
Further destruction Of property is anticipated.
The Town Of Baxtlstovvn, KY, ON Fire.
LOUISVILLE, April Up. H.
The town Of Bardstown is fire. The Mayor Of this
city has been teegraphed to for aid.
Shipment or Flour from Albany.
ALBANY April IL, 1885,
The steamtug Austin leaves this Afternoon with thirty
barges loaded with -four. The aggregate is between
rs, 600 and sc, 600 barrels
Clover seed scarce at l5c for medium and 16c
for large.
The Ice on Lake Champlain.
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Shipment or Flour from Albany.

Shipment or Flour from Albany.
ALBANY, April II, 1885,
The steamtug Austin leaves this afternoon with thirty
barges loaded with -four The aggregate is between
5000 and sc, 000 barrels.
Clover seed here at l5c for medium and l6c
Enrl Ia
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The Town Of Bartistown, KY, ON Fire
LOUISVILLE, April Up. H.
The town of Bardstown is on fire. The Mayor OF this
city has been telegrsphed to for aid.
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The editor Of the Phiadelphia Christian Chronicle.
Baptist has been fined $500 for libel Rev Mr. Newell
agent OF the Baptist Bible Union, or now translaon)
deDcs in the edition Of the Biblen The editor
offered to prove that Mr. Newell used these words bat
the court would not permit him TO do 1t.
The school teacher at Rumsop, Monmouth county
N. j. named Brooke, was expelled few days ago be-.
cause he Universalist though as teacher and as
mens however stic 70 the doctrines Of the or
,noeo1 church he WAS adudgsd BY the trustees !: be
ton OF the plant minds Of youth.
Rev Gideon s. White, of Tennessee, who has been
laid aside for some time by Illness has
covered as to be able to preach fer the first time since
the 9Th Of September.
Rev. David Breed late OF Chester Mass has been On.
Gently beresved 81 the death Of Rev Levi Nelson.
Rev. D. w. Bartine, formerly stationed in the Halrev
street Methodist Episcopal church in Newark N has
been appointed BY the Pni'adepha Conference to Ian
caster city.
To remedy the Sunday slespiness which bothers 40
many good people who want TO keep awake the Chris
tidn Itegcncey says:-The patient must lift his toos
seven inches above the floor and hold IT there in sus-
often as the attack comes ON.
Rev VIM. L. German, OF the Methodist Protestant
church, recently tried at MiltoD near Rshvav Nj
tempting to draw the Milton church from the commu.
MON OF the conference The main charge of Abduction
in inducing married woman to leave her husband, was
not sustained In view, however Of what Was sustained
against him. the Committee of Trial decided that he
should be suspended from the exercise Of all ministerial
Iuncuons unt1l the rext annual meeting Of the New
Jersey and Verm mt Conference.
The several evangelical chur ehes in this CITY, says the
Rochester Democrat Of the 10th ins have very general
participated in the religious In erest which has been
IN progress turing the last three months The meetings
nave been almost uniformly marked by large attend
ance, close attention. and earnest yet subdued feel
irg. From the srst Of January TO the present time
Rev. Mr.. Finney, of oberlin has preached, on
age seven times each week retain ng his vgor through
out to an extraordinary degree for OF six years
w la he Rev Mr. OF YOrk
revival preacher has also been aooring here,
First Hstbodist church. There appears 70 10 mach ss
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the initiative in the public bath movement
here?
The question Of Sunday enjoyments is
equally important. As q general rule, the
people of New York may be said to sleep on
Sunday. Many go to church; few, sSice
but even these have . balance of time owe I
after the sermons and the dinner which is
commonly snoozed out. Those who do not 20
to church occasionally go to the country; but
oftener sleep. The Sunday slumber is an in
stitution, and not . bad one For those who
90 not sleep, will drink. In certain parts of
the city on Sunday afternoon, the corner
grocery does smart business, and towards
evening slstternly women may usually be seen
vainly endeavoring to drag tipsy men home
For these women Sunday is day Of agony
of bodily pain and mental anguish: OF rage.
OF Disgrace, Of shame. And there are good
many of them.
On the continent Of Europe it is found that
music and dancing on Sunday evening will
Kill the tavern, and keep men sober and un
brutified. Hence the wise old priests of the
Roman Catholic church ordained that after
vespers the parish curate might get up dances
before the church door; that be might give
the fddlers the word, and keep his eye on the
young couples, in order to make sure that no
uDseemly behavior went on. IL is hard to
cay how far the influence of this Sunday
cotillon went; it went very far no doubt, and
certainly, .or mary centuries, there lived NOS
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29
From tho Kansas Herald Of Freedom.
THE HUNDRED PRISONERS.


r,ds, ia y, ' II co. co. nar,dor at Lecom bon. have
been convictsd or monaIon.Lt,r and sentenced
70 five year. ;mOrisoumons nj hard labor. The
bogus statutes have mnde the GoIowine provisions
for nunishing them -
49,,
SEC. z. Every person who may be seh'on'eu
by any court OF competent Juirisdlction' UNDER an!
law III force within this Territory, to punishment
by confinement and hard labor, SHAT De deemed a
connect, and shall immediately, under the charge of
the Keeper OF such jail or public prison, or under
the charge OF such person as the keeper OF such
jail or public prison may select, be putt to hard
td6or, as in the first section Of this act specified
and such keeper or other person, having charge
Of such convict, shall cause such convict, while
engaged at such labor, to be securely confined by
q chain six feet in length, of not less than four
sixteenths nor more than three eights of an inch
links, with a round ball of iron, Of not less than
four nor more than six inches in diameter attached,
which chain shall be securely fastened to the ANGLE
Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-29
THE PEOPLES PAPER.

L. A, Hine is publishing at Cincinnati a Month
]y Quarto paper, devoted to Educational and Land
Reform. The Editors six lectures on The Highest
Steeplc, are in course of publication in his paper.
"the Peoples Paper" is the organ Of Industry and
the enemy of all forms of Aristocracy. The cdi-
tor has given to reform the half of the best ten
years of his life, and he expects to give the half
of twenty years more. If he has any friends on
earth, he hopes they will remember him now in
his greatest afliction-the establishment of a pa
per--by getting Subscribers at so cts. single, five
for $500, twelve for $500, and twenty for $500
per annum. 1t is small, but SO soon as a larger
one can live it shall be forthcoming.
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ly handled. AT this time police officers came M
and arrested the assaulted man, and carried him
off TO Jail. The excdse they give for this outrage
upon justice is. that it was necessary to protect
him from further violence. We state these facts
~ .hsy we're given 30 us by responsible persons,
and witnessed by ourselves. Would 1t not be
well for the people Of Louisville to inquire whether
it is necessary for unofending citizens to be put
in Jail 10 protect them from violencs2 If IL he
true, it is advisable that oar city yovsrnnent be
reorgsnized."
Wherever Slavery exists these outrage, upon
justice will be comnoA and the Times must not
ths result while it defends the Cause.
1t must learn that while the iustitutioH exists, it
will always have to depend upon brute force to
be main and such exhibitions Of LantcuFed
negroes will take place. If the Times viii examine
the matter il will Hud the fault is not in the city,
but in the State Government, and We would sus-
gest the ~propriety of having the latter recognized.
We can remember when Brady was 80 Disgrace
fully mobbed at Lexington, the Times Thought he
deserved the treatment he got: will it please tell
us which is the least bad. driving i white msu
ignominiously from the State or exhibiting a
couple of handcuded negroes, for two or three
hours, in one Of the most public thoroughfares of
the city of Louisville? Yet the ono was richly
merited, the other disgracefull The school in
which the Times was taught consistency, it We
mistake not, has been largely pstronized at the
South, while the kind Of philosophy which tea hes
it to regret what its own counsel has given rise to
will certainly, not be supported long by the
people. Let us Yeorganize the State Government
1rd rid ourselves of the institution which thus
us.
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THEANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE

friends, in a coffee.houso with cl0sod doors,
when the ARRAY and killing took place.
On Saturday night also, Mr.. VIM. Akin Of the
hrm OF Iwibiil d Akin, gas.dtters ON St
Charles street was found lying On the ban
quote On grayier street, not far from llolts coffee
house badly stabbed. lie was taken to bis resi-
dence, and yesterday we heard that ho was not ex-
pected to live. He is n Scotchman by birth, we
are Informed, and has always been a peacable and
inuhensiye man. We heard also that some man
was Sadly cut, at the corner Of Poydras and st.
Chaires streets, but Of this we could get no partic-
ulars.
A man named James Osborn was locked up last
evening by the First District Police, on a chage OF
having stabbed a boy named Hugh Ford and a
man named Patrick. Lane. We obtained no fur
ther particulars.