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The Nevada journal., 1856-09-05

u Two conference.-the one Re-
publican, and the other an American,
and an old man, were the other day
discussing the relative merits of their
favorite candidates for the Presidency.
Il think" said the Republican, that
Mr.. Fremont possesses the requisite
qualifications for President" "Yes, y
replied the old man, but know that Mr..
Fillmore does, for have seen him tried.
and, considering the perilous condition
of the County, it is bad time for trying
experiments.
The Nevada journal., 1856-09-05

proposition which we take for granted.
A denial of it is treason, and we will not
argue with traitors. And is it not ap-
parent to every man who does not shut
his eyes to the painful truth, that the
bands which hold us together as one
people, are fastly becoming unloosed,
and that the national sentiment is rapid
ly dying out in the great heart of the
nation! The little cloud, which in the
early days of the Republicans not big
ger than mans hand, has grown until
it darkens the whole heavens, and
now, while the lightnings are flashing,
and the thunder roars, there are those
who laugh in the face of the storm, and
call with impious voice upon the Gle,
ments of Gods wrath to do their worst.
The great men cf the country have,
until within the last few years, managed
the delicate subject of slavery with adj
llllldDlc ulsCIcilON ana success. al va
rious times they have quieted intense ex-
citement by the wisdom of their policy;
and at last, in 1850, when the storm was
raging most fercely, the old gray-head-
ed counsellors of the nation assembled
in the halls OF the capitol, and adopted
plan which restored peace and harmo-
ny to the country, and which by the
solemn agreement of all, was to be final
and conclusive.
But alas for the settlement of this vex-
ed question, the legislation of the coun-
try fell from the hands of statesmen, in
to those of mere trucking politicians
Douglass, Arnold Douglass-and with
the otAer Arnold, may his name go down
to eternal infamy conceived the villain
GUS idea that he could raise himself in
to the Presidential chair, amid the con-
fusion of renewed sectional strife. He
introduced the Nebraska bill, the De-
mocraticN party sustained and passed it,
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.'rhe mind he sways by, AMI the heart he bears,
S-ai nJver sasg with DOUBT nJr SHAKE with ear" "
The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-20

In pursuance of previous notice, State Con.
vention was held, in Iowa city, on the 22d Feb.
ruary, to organize Republican Party. A
committee of ten-one from each Judicial Dis.
trict-having been appointed to report the
names of permanent officers, reported for Pres
ident, Hon. Philip Velie, seven Vice Presidents,
and four Secretaries. A Committee on Creden-
tials reported the names of two hundred and
sixty delegates from thirty-six counties. A
Committee on Resolutions reported series,
presenting clearly the one great issue forced
upon the country by Slavery, free from all ex-
traneous matter, which was unanimously adopt
ed.
Presidential electors were chosen as follows :
Reuben Noble, Clayton; H. o. Conner, Mus
catine; Daniel F. Miller, Lee; w. M. Stone,
Marion
Also, Delegates to the National Convention
Francis Springer, Louisa; s. d. Carpenter,
Linn; F. 81. Warren, 'Des Moines; II. A.
Wiltse, Dubuque; Joseph w. Caldwell, Wa
pello; Jas. Fl. B. Armstrong, Appanoose j.
b. Howell, Lee; E. Mayne, Van Buren,.
After the appointment of State Central
Committee, and Committee to issue an ad-
dress, the Convention adjourned.
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MIR. FILLMORE coMPL1MENTED.

Mr.. Graham, of North Carolina, Secretary of
the Navy under Mr.. Fillmore's Administration,
lately addressed meeting in at Granville in
that State, called to ratify the nomination of
Mr.. Fillmore as candidate for the Presidency.
He said that the crisis when Mr.. F. assumed the
reins of Government was as threatening as it is
now but the firm hand of that wise and great
man Gained the waves of tumult, and restored
peace to the country! He thought him, above
all our statesmen, the man best fitted for the
Presidency, safest for the South. He eMr.
Graham) had nothing unkind to say against the
respectable gentleman who now filed the Pres
idential chair, but he could not forget, that
enlist Mr. Fillmore had turned ont Of office
every Free .Soiler in his o,on State, Mr.. Pierce
had discharged from office the Collector Of the
port of NeU York, because he aoould not use the
patronage of his place in regarding Free Soil
ers"
OF course this high testimony will be ap-
precisted at the North, and tend to deepen the
devotion to Mr.. Fillmore that already character
ICES the people of the Free States.
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RHODE ISLAND.

The General Assembly of Rhode Island closed
its session on Saturday. Among the business
transacted during the session were resolutions
to amend the Constitution of the State so as to
abolish the registry tax; to authorize the Gen
eral Assembly to assess a poll tax of one dol
lar; to require twenty-one years residence in
the United States as qualification for suffrage
and to raise the per diem compensation of the
General Assembly from one dollar to two dol
lars. The resolution to amend the Constitu-
ton, by requiring the ability to read as a quail
ifcation for suffrage, was voted down. The
resolution adopted must be submitted to the
next General Assembly; and, if again adopted,
they will be submitted to the people. Two acts
were passed for the protection of married women.
They are authorized to devise real estate as
well as personal, and depostes in savings banks
made in their names are secured to their own
use, and can only be drawn by their own writ
ten order.-An Exchange.
Rhode Island has a vast capital invested in
manufacturing establishments, and her true
policy is to encourage the immigration of labor.
She has but a small proportion of foreign-born
population, and receives few foreign immi-
grants. In the census tables of 1850, the num-
bers of foreigners arriving within her border
from abroad were, in l845, 1856 in l847, rs
in 1852, 54 and, according to an Official Re-
port of the State Department, the whole mum
Der in 1855 was 80 And yet, we find the
Legislature so far gone in the infatuation OF
KRoX M0thingism, as to pass a bill to armand
years residence in the State as qualification
for the exercise of the right of suAfragel The
measure is of course aimed at naturalized citi-
zens, but if the statement above be correct, it
will apply also to native Americans, born in
other StatesI This, we suppose, is a specimen
of Know Nothing legislation. 1t is disgrace
full to the State afflicted by it. Is is some con-
ISOLATION to know that the thing cannot become
law till agreed to by another Legislature, and
then by the People. We hope, before that time,
they will have come to their senses.
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ELECTION LAW FOR KANSAS

The following are the 4th, 9Th. and 9Th SEQ
tons of a bill reported by the Committee on
Territories of the House of Representatives. to
regulate elections hereafter in Kansas.
Sec. a. And be IL further enacted, That Il
any person, not being an actual inhabihnt o.
resident of the said Territory, shall cas- his
vote at any election which may be held in ,he
said Territory by authority of law, such persu.
so offending shall, on conviction thereof in an,
criminal court, be punished by fine not less
than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, and Imprisonment not less than two
months nor more than six months that If any
person or persons shall come into any election
district OF said Territory in armed and organ
ized bodies, for the purpose Of participating in
disturbances, controlling or voting at any cleo
ton held or to be held under the authority of
law therein, such person or persons so offend
ing shall, on conviction thereof in any criminal
court, be punished by q fine of not less than
one hundred dollars and not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and imprisonment for term
not less than three months and not exceeding
one year.
Sec. 5. And be IL further enacted, That if
any person, being member of any such armed
and organized body as described in the preCe'
ding section, or connected Herewith, and
nonresident of the said Territory, shall vote at
any election which may be held in the said
Territory by authority of law, he shall, on con
viction thereof, be punished by fine Of not
less than one hundred dollars and not exceed
ing five hundred dollars, and by Imprisonment
for term of not less than six months and not
more than two years.
Sec. 6. 4nd be IL further enacted, That any
Judge of election who shall wilfully and know.
ingly allow any vote to be polled in violation Of
the fourth and fifth sections of this act, shall
on conviction thereof, be punished by fine Of
not less than fifty dollars nor more than three
hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for term
OF not less than six months nor more than one
year.
That all offences under this act may be pros
ecuted by indictment in any criminal court
having jurisdiction of felonies or msdemeanOrs
committed in said Territory. All laws, rules,
or regulations inconsistent with the provisions
OF this act are hereby declared null and void.
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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. c, MARCH 20, 1856

England and France. Neither Power alone
could have effected so much it required all
the energies of both. To assume that England
has come out of the struggle a second-rate
Power, because she had not quite so many
soldiers in the Crimea as France, and because
her immense fleets did not achieve impossible
tiles, implies, we think, either prejudice or ig-
norance. Was it England that first gave indi-
cations of desire to close the contest? Did
not her steadiness of purpose constrain her
Ally, against his inclination, to reject peace
that would have brought with it no security ?
Has not her spirit risen, her energy been de-
veloped, with the progress of the struggle?
Russia gives signs of exhaustion-France fears
where are the symptoms of weakness
in England? At this moment she is better
prepared for the prosecution of the controversy
than any of the parties to it. All the talk in
the Tribune about England declining to the
rank of second-rate Power" is mere fun
mery
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VOL. X.

of nutrition, and the whole organism is strained
and overworked to throw off the excess.
The more food we eat, and the richer il is
the more exercise is needed. But instead NJ
this, the people constantly are eating more and
exercising less. Meat is the most stimulating
food there is, and there is no other nation on
earth where all classes devour such ouan,itie.
of meat, fat butter, sugar, molasses, hot cakes
and hot tea and coffee. And no nation on
earth have such bad teeth, and every other in.
dication of a debihtated constitution
fourth cause of national debility is ercsss
an stimulating the brain, unbalanced Jy ersr.
else and recreatiOns. Fifty years since. to read
write, and cipher, were all that was expecta5
out of college course. No daily drilling -
hot school-rooms in all manner of sciences
with evening lessons at home. No SUNDAY 10.
sons, no books for children at every turn. batb
Sundays and week days. There is fifty tmoa
as much intellectual stimulus of the brain i
childhood as was ever known in former vener,
atoms. Then the cares, business, and EXCITE.
ments of all kinds, for both men and womer
have increased at an equal ratio. Erermhioo
Is gong on at high-steam pressure. Now. the
more the brain is thus stimulated the orao,a-
the need for pure air, exercise, and seasons IS
relaxation. But, contrary to this, the mora H.
qfaA
the less pure air and exercise are secured And
so the nervous system is exhausted, and tbe
whole organism becomes delicate or diseased
To use the words of medical writer H..
constant exercise of the brain takes nm H..
chief strength of the system, and consumes i
in feeling and thinking"
Another cause OF general debility il the
fashions Of female dress. The stays of our
ancestors were trifes, compared with the accu.
INFLATED enormities that have been practicej
on the female form during the last twenty years
The thin covering for the upper portion Of the
spine and the vital organs in cold weather, the
accumulation of clothing on the lower portion.
the pressure of tight dresses around the wais,
the pressure of whalebones in pointed waists
and the aceight as well as the heat of the eno,
nous mass of clothing resting on the hips-an
these, combining with delicate constitution.
have produced, and are increasingly producing
terrihc results, that are but little known or uD
derstood.
The next article will present the Eeidsas,
and Results Of the Decay Of National Heaitil
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CONGRESS DURING THE WEEK.

Congress has not made much Roadway du-
ring the week. Thirty-one thousand copies Of
the majority and minority reports of the Senate
Committee on Kansas Affairs have been Or
dered to be printed. On the question of print
ing, last Friday, Mr.. Trumbull, of Illinois, made
a speech of three hours length on the Report,
reviewing it in its length and breadth, and thor
oughly examining all its positions. 1t was a
great effort, and placed the new Senator at once
in the front rank of debaters. An animated
discussion of a somewhat personal character
followed, in which Messrs. Trumbull, Douglas,
Crittenden, and Sumner, participated, and of
which brief sketch is given under our Con-
gressional head.
The discussion Of the Central American
question drags its slow length along nobody,
i'll Congress or out, seems to be particularly
interested in it.
Appropriation bills continue to originate in
the Senate, and the larger the appropriation,
the more easily it makes its way, especially if
jealous Sss q its own rights. will frame ;ts own
bills, and pass them, without reference to what
the Senate has done.
Last Friday, Mr.. Washburn, after spirited
speech in support of the resolution of the Com
mittee to send for persons and papers in the
Kansas affair, demanded the previous question,
but the majority refused it, being DESTROYS of
continuing the discussion. Monday last, sew
eral speeches were made, among them one by
Mr.. Galloway, of Ohio, a new member, who
spoke with great auency and energy, eloquent
ly exposing the atrocities of Kansas legislation
The House, on both sides, paid him the compli
ment of listening to him attentively.
Ion,' the Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore SIN, remarks of this prolonged dis
cussion on Kansas affairs
The debate has, on the whole, so far been
orderly in its tone, and very creditable to the
new House in point of ability"
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the perpetrstor and instigstor or the troubles In
Kansas, and it now trying, by every species
of sharp practice aud chicanery, To prevent the
adoption Of the resolution calling for persons
and papers. THIS investigation was demanded,
10 expose the villany of an Administration the
like Of which had never before existed in this
country.
Mr.. Purviance, of Pennsylvania, then obtain
ed the floor, bu. yielded to q motion that the
House adionrn.
Before the question was put
Mr.. MeachaIn, of Vermont, from the Com
mutee on tie District of Columbia, reported a
bah 10 define the rights of voters and the duties
OF commissioners of elections in the CITY OF
Washington, and for other purposes; which
was read twice.
This bill is substantially the same as that
heretofore introduced by Mr.. Meacham, and
referred to the Committee on the District OF
Columbia. 1t omits, however, the provision
which makes the oath of a person whose RICH,
10 vote IS challenged prima .facie evidence OF
the possession Of that right: and also provides
Tor those persons whose names may have been
omitted from the poll list by the assessors
Mr.. Meacham moved that the bill be referred
10 the Committee of the Whole on the state O,
the Union.
Mr.. Jones, of Tennessee, did not think that
the bill contained anything that required the
reference proposed by the gentleman from Yer
mont. tie suggested that it be postponed un
tl Tuesaoy reYt
Mr.. Meacham modified his motion in accord
snce with the suggestion of the gentleman; and
1t was agreed to.
And then. at twenty minutes to four o'clock
the House adjourned.
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addressed to the Governor, seems to think it
was his duty to put himself at the h.sad 81
whatever crowd he could rally, and rescue tie
fugitives. Rescue them from what-the coup
ty jail? From whom-the Sheriff? No-bat
from the Marshal, to hand them over to the
Sheriff. But the Sheriff had them already tn
custody, under State process. We are inforra-
ed, and have no doubt of the fact, that Govern
or Chase openly expressed his opinion of TIE
transaction, and announced his purpose to SUP
port the Sheriff in his twofold custody of tie
prisoners, with the whole power of the State if
necessary, buthow could he interfere until the oc-
casion arose? The Sheriff is not his officer-Le
cannot control him-he can only act in aid and
when called upon, in execution of the laws Of
the State. The issuing of the writ of g(abeds
corpus by Judge Leavitt, the surrender of til
fugitives by the Sheriff, and the monstrs ns Or
der of the Judge for their delivery, no on could
foresee-and we all know that 80 summit ~ and
rapid was the process, that the return of the
Sheriff to capias, issued by the Prose cutting
Attorney after the action of Judge eavit,
was, that he could not find the parties.
Governor Chase, so fer as we can see, DID
his whole duty the guilt of the transaction
lies at the door of the system of Slavery, of the
abominable Fugitive Slave Act and of Judge
Leavitt, who chose to assume that tho Sta,e
has no right to protect life or punish 9 crini-
nal offence committed against its majesty, if it
interfere with the claim of a foreign ms tier 20
the services Of the offender. Let publ opia-
ion fall upon the guilty, and not the innG cent
upon the supporters, not opponents of ppres-
sion
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THE LATE SLAVE CASE AT CINCINNATI

We do not know that much editorial com.
ment is needed on the recent painful and ex-
traordinary slave case at Cincinnati. Our
readers have noted the proceedings-the es-
cape; the pursuit; the death of the child by the
hands of the heroic mother to save it from a
life of Slavery; the arrest of the victims of
oppression, first as fugitive slaves, under Uni.
ted States process, then as criminals, under
State process; the mandate of the District Judge
Leavitt, to the Sheriff, to deliver them up, pro-
ceeding on the assumption that the right of the
master is paramount to the right of State to
protect life and punish crime; the response of
the Sheriff; the summary decision of the Judge,
and the hot haste with which the mother and
her companions, under the escort of men, will
ing to stain their souls with the price of blood,
we're hurried across the river to Kentucky, and
placed under the absolute power of man call
ing himself their owner. 1t now remains to
say, that the devoted mother, Margaret, and her
infant child, with the other victims, were ship.
ped on the steamboat Henry Lewis, destined
for the wilds of Arkansas-but on the passage,
at night, while the passengers slept, terrible
collision with another boat on the Ohio river,
startled the sleepers; the entire cabin was bro.
ken in two, the boat caught fire, and amidst
shrieks and smoke and splinters and rushing
waters the passengers in their night clothes rush
ed for safety to the hurricane deck, whence the
majority of them were at last rescued. Marpa.
ret and her companion were saved-but her
child was drowned: God took it, and the moth.
er rejoiced. She exhibited, says the Louisville
Courier, mo other feeling than Joy at the loss
of her child"
The whole transaction is historical-the ages
will remember it, and the names of the men.
official or hireling, who have signalized them
selves as the allies of Oppression in this dark
event, will rot.
What commentary upon the Despotism OF
Slavery The claims of the master overriding
the claims of a State Human chattelship par
amount over State Sovereignty The infa-
nous Fugitive Slave Act of Congress, stronger
than the whole penal Code of a Sovereign
State
few honest and excellent people have
shown disposition to blame Governor Chase,
as if he could have prevented these outrages
They ought to know him well enough, not to
accuse him lightly. Always aiming to secure
some practical advantages for Freedom, he
avoids noise and ostentation We have reason
to believe that his influence has been steadily
exerted in favor of bill to amend the habcas
corpus act, introduced into the Legislature Of
Ohio two months ago, and that had it been
passed in season, it would have prevented the
terrible scenes since enacted at Cincinnati. The
philanthropie Gsrrit Smith, in public letter
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THE NATIONAL ERA FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

The National Republican. Party is at last
inaugurated. The official report of the pro-
ceedings of the Republican Convention at Pitts.
burgh, and sketches of the speeches made,
published in another place, will be read with
intense interest. AS it has placed the Party in
a position, in which it accepts the issue forced
upon it by the Slavery and Administration Par.
ty, in which we can consistently and cordially
sustain it, and which bids fair to command the
support Of the great body of the voters of the
country opposed to the rule of the Slave Oil
garchy, and as its nominations at the Conven-
ton in June will doubtless be made to conform
strictly to, and enforce that position, we pro-
pose to issue the National Era,
FOR THE CAMPAIGN,
From the 4th of April, ensuing, to the 9Th
of December, inclusive, comprising thirtysix
numbers of the Era, covering the whole period
of the Presidential canvass. election, and re,
turns,
For 81 copy, to Clubs Of fire, or more.
The Republican, is now, the first National
Party in the field; its immediate duty is, to
perfect its organization in every State, and
marshal all its forces for the great struggle
with the Oligarchy and its auxiiaries, next No.
vember. To maintain it as the first Party, and
to insure its triumph, the Press that advocates
its Principles and Policy must be put in requi-
sition, and its Issues scattered, thick as " the
leaves in Vallambrosa." II our friends think
the National Era, which has labored so inces-
sanity to bring about the union of freemen in
one organization, on one issue, for the over.
throw of the Slave Power, can render service
in the work before them, will they give little
time and effort to enlarge the sphere of its in
fuence, by raising subscribers for the campaign
edition? AS to its character, it will be, what
it has always been, pending a struggle for as
tendency at the ballot-box.
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OBITUARY.

DIR. Thomas E. Bond, late editor Of the Chr1s'
tian Adrocate and Journal, in this city, died
yesterday, in the seventy-ffth year of his age.
He was an influential member of the Methodist
religious society, and for many years conducted
the Adrocate, which is the organ of that sOci-
ETY., to the general acceptation of the body.
His loss will be severely felt.
NJ T. Times, March 10.
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There, as in Chicago, the small gains made
by the Administration, it owes to the false po-
stion in which the Anti-Nebraska voters have
been placed by the Intervention of Know
Nothingism. In both places, Republicanism
will take its true position before the November
elections.
Later.-Returns from 2l9 towns give Metcaf
$1,000, Wells 81 AGO, Goodwin (Whig) 1881,
showing plurality for Wells. 1t is supposed
that the result will not be materially varied by
the returns yet to be received from the remain
ing ten towns.
Surely our friends in New Hampshire must
see the necessity of placing themselves on the
one platform of Freedom.