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We need not take from the Compendium of
the Census from which we extract these fg
ures) tables showing the vast superiority of the
non-slaveholding States in wealth and general
intelligence. Everybody knows it.
But, we have used the term, Southern men
and Shareholders" The Northern men who
have filled Offices in the General Government
have been taken unfortunately from all
classes agricultural, mechanical, manufactur.
ing, mercantile-and from all Professionalism
representing the opinions and interests of all
the People of the free States. But, not 80 with
Southern men. In nearly all cases, they have
belonged to one class, represented the views,
the policy, the interest," of one class, and that,
not embracing the majority of the Southern
People. They have been shareholders, and the
class to which they have belonged, numbered,
in 1850, according to the Census, 347,00O.
Now, suppose that each one of these stand for
six white persons relations and dependents
have the Federal Government controlled in ali
its departments by class numbering. ali told.
2,Os2, 200, or one third of the whole white pop.
ulation of the South.
follows, therefore, that class of persons
living chiefly in one section of the Union. iden-
tilted with an Interest, peculiar, domineerinp,
and aggressive, numbering about two millions,
has given to nation which numbered in 1850
nearly twenty millions of free white persons,
seventeen millions and half of whom have
vast interests which are subordinated and in
many cases impaired by that one Interest, two
thirds of its Presidents, nearly all of its Presi-
dents pro tenn. OF the Senate, two thirds of its
Speakers of the House, nearly two thirds of it,
Secretaries of State and its Attorney Generals,
and majority of its Supreme Court, besides
d'ctaang IN most instances the organization os
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THE FREMONT VOTE IN sLAvEH0LDING
STATES.

Two hundred and fourteen votes were given
for Fremont in Baltimore city; how many in
the State, we have not yet heard. The vote
would have been quite respectable, had it not
been for the prevalent desire among our
friends there to defeat Buchanan, which in
duced many of them to cast their votes for
Fillmore, which, under other circumstances,
would have been given to Fremont. This was
the case, we presume, in other Slaveholding
States.
In North Carolina, an electoral ticket was
got up, and sent us to be printed; but an error
appearing in it, it was sent back for the neces-
sary correction. Owing to the delay which
followed, it was not prepared in time for publ
cation. We are sorry that the Fremont men
there were not more prompt.
From Virginia we have yet heard no returns
at all reported, although doubtless many votes
were cast.
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ousies, and intrigues, and running off from the
discussion of principles to the discussion of
men, but work for the dissemination of their
doctrines and special enlightenment of the
States now opposed to Them doing the duty of
to-day, not attempting in 1856 to do the duty
of 1860; willing that the hour should suggest
their man.
If they steadfastly and intelligently pursue
this course, they will yet battle the stupendous
plot of the Slavery Extensionists for universal
empire, and in 1860, elect their President, and
re-establish the original policy of the Govern
mAnt.
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THE ELECTION.

1t is somewhat remarkable that the returns
from some of the States are still in doubt.
That James Buchanan is elected President, is
certain, but by what vote is not ascertained.
The Republicans and the Democrats both
claim Illinois, and we apprehend it has gone
for Buchanan. The following are the latest
dispatches:
ILLINOIS
Chicago, Nou. lO-In seventy-oue counties
heard from, Fremont is $500 ahead, but in the
remaining twenty-four counties the Democrats
will probably have a majority of 10000. The
Republican Fusion) State ticket is $4,000
ahead.
Chicago, Noon.-Further returns received
this morning generally confirm the statement
that the Buchanan ticket is elected by about
5000 majority. The Republican State ticket
is 5000 ahead. Allen (Dem.) will probably
be reelected to Congress from the seventh dis
trict. The Democrats will have four majority
in the lower House, but both parties claim q
majority in the Senate.
TENNESSEE.
Richmond, NOo. l0.-The passengers who
arrived at Wytheville this morning. from
Knoxville, state that full returns have been re-
ceived from most of the Eastern counties. indi.
eating that the State has gone for Buchanan
by about 5000 majority.
NEW JERSEY
The State Senate stands Democrats and 9
Opposition. The next delegation in Congress
will stand as follows:
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THE NATIONAL WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER 49, 1856

the Standing Committees in both Houses of
Congress. And yet, this small sectional Class,
with its one Idea, and its one Interest, has the
audacity to assume to be the South, and to
raise perpetual clamor against the aggres-
sions of the N0rth!!
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INDIANA ELECTION.-Oficial.
The following are the Official Returns of the
October Election in Indiana.

SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CoNyEsrIoN.-Gov
Wise, of Virginia, has appointed four delegates
for each of the thirteen Congressional districts
of the State, to attend the Southern CONNER.
ciai Convention, to be held at Savannah on the
9Th of December next,
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VOL. x.
Gbs 8sbith.

SrsrER ANNE. A Romance. FIRST issued in Ameri.. 49,
Luell's Living Age. Boston: John r. Jegett 1 n.
1856
This is such quiet tale of domestic Tc,
amid the varied aspects of worldly fortune tia,
one loves to read. Material enough ia hare
that, had the writer chosen, could have ba.n
wrought up with high and passionate erc;,o
ment. Some authors we know of wopld h..
made part of the story all blackened over with
shades of sombre gloom, and another morton
wild with despair, and yet another almost 100
dazzling to be looked upon with impunity. Rn,
in truth the author, whoever he or she mav \.
thought of far better way; and so easily ara
we led on from one change to another. sym
pathizing with Inexperienced affection. and
through the cross purposes of mistaken tbop,b,.
that when we reach the end we can marvel AT ~,
tact by which natural enough) we find all ov
planned. There is skill, too, in the delneatio,
OF characters. Sister Anne is beautiful Mo
ture OF self'denying affection, SUFFERING W,
striving ever to bless others Mr.. Dvnavo,.
her father, the author and magazine writ
schooled to routine of halliday, halfoueru
lous habits; his wife, specimen of poor I'm.
mainly, loving her eldest daughter for h..
worth-proud of her more beautiful one-sr5
at the same time with sufficient sense of her
o@u comfort; good Miss Blackburn, soured bv
disappointment, yet still kind and generous.
waiter AvarnO, who plays so important part.
but OF whom we see so little; the rapid current
OF the tale; and the close, where so much ia
lett 70 he imagination, and yet there is moth.
ing diflcuit IN seeing WHAT 1t is-all these per
sons and particulars fall in their place without
disturbance, and give the appearance of life to
the story. The clouds are cleared up, the sun
shines forth, and We lay down the book. glad
to have read it.
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There have been thirtyfour Congresses since
the organization of the Government; of twen-
ty-one, Southern men and Shareholders have
been the Speakers; of twelve, Northern men ;
the remaining Congress was divided between
them, Southern man being Speaker at one
session, Northern man at the other.
Or, counting by years, Southern men and
Shareholders have filed the Speakership of the
House for forty-three years, Northern men,
twenty-five years.
Since 1920, or during the thirty-six years
closing with the present Congress, Northern
men will have filled the Speakership eight years,
Southern men and Shareholders, twenty-eight.
Behold another Chapter of the lamentable
sectionalism of the North Its aggressions
are intolerable.
The Supreme Court.
The judicial districts are organized 30 as
to give FIVE Judges to the slave States, and
four to the free, although the population,
wealth, and business of the latter are far in
advance of those of the former. The arrange
ment affords, however, an excuse for constitu-
ting the Supreme Court, with a majority of
Judges from the slaveholding States.
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Nathaniel p. Banks, Mass.

Inc Speaker, as we have often explained,
exerts great influence on legislation, having
the appointment of all the standing commit
tees, in which the business of the House is
prepared, and being able so to enforce the
rules and decide points of order, as to shape
to considerable extent the action of that
body.
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WASHINGTON, d. c..
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER l3, 1856.

Office. No. sol Serenth street, betareen ID and T.,
one square south Of City Post Office.
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March 3. 1871 f. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
Oct. "a, 1871 !
March 2, 1898 % iruiiouii' connecticut.
March 2. l7e5 +. A. Muhlenberg, Penn.
March 3. 1897 Jonathan Dayton, New Jersey
May Is, 1897
March 3, 1899
Dec. 2, 1893
March 3. 1901 Theodore Sedgwick, Mass.
March 3. 1907 Nathaniel Macon, N. Car.
Oct. &c, 1907
March 3. 1911 j. B. Varnum, Massachusetts
Jan. 10. 1914 Henry Clay, Kentucky.
Jan. Is, 1914
March 2, 1915 Hangooh CneVes, .. Car.
Dec. A, 1915
Nov. l3, 1920 henry clay, hentuchy.
March 3, 1921 j. W. Taylor, Ne,o York.
Dec. 3, 1921
March 3. 1923 2. B. Barbour, Virginia.
Dec. l, 1923
March 3, 1925 Henry Clay, kentucky.
March 3. 1927 j. W. Taylor, Me,o York.
Dec. 3, 1927
June 2, 1884 A. Stevenson, Virginia.
June 2, 1884
March 3. 1875 John Bell, Tennessee.
Dec. Z, 1885
March 3. 1899 James K. Polk, Tennessee.
Dec. Is, 1889 ! ~
March 3, l84l K. M. I. Hunter, Virginia.
May 81, 1871 r, ~
March !. ls4a John White, Tennessee.
Dec d I942
March 3. Is45 j. W. Jones, Virginia.
Dec. l, l845
March 3. ls47 j. W. Davis, Indiana.
Dec. 6, ls47 W.
March ), lS49 d.. Y. winthrop, Mass.
Dec. %, lS49
March 8. 1851 Howell Cobb, Georgia.
Dec. l, 1851 J..
March 3, 1853 Linn Boyd, Kentucky.
Dec. /, 1853
March 8, 1855
Feb. 2S, 1856
March 3, 1857 Nathanlei L. Banks, Mass.
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Al the close Of the term for which Mr.. Blu
chanan is elected, it will have been seventy-twe
years since the organization of the present Gov
| eminent.
In that period, there have been eighteen
elections for President, the candidates chosen
in twelve of them being Southern men and
Shareholders, in six of them Northern men and
Nonslaveholders.
No Northern man has ever been reelected
but five Southern men have been thus honored
General Harrison, of Ohiu, died une montn
after his Inauguration, General Taylor, of Lou
isisna, about four months after his Inauguration.
In the former case, John Tyler, of Virginia,
became Acting President, in the lHttsr, Willard
Fillmore. of NAw Veil.
Of the seventy-two years, closing with Mr..
Buchanan's term, should he live it out, South.
ern men and Shareholders have occupied the
Presidential chair forty years and three
months, or a little more than two-thirds of the
time.
OF the Presidents elect, Washington from the
South, John Adams and John Quincy Adams
from the North, are the only men who have
been elected without specific reference to the
claims of the Slave Interest; but this Interest
has been the preponderatiug influence in the
nomination of all the others.
So reads Chapter LIST of the History of North
ern Sectionalism.
Presidents Pro Tenn. of the Senate.
Since the year 1909, every President pro
tenn. of the Senate of the United States has
been Southern man and Stakeholder, with
the exception of Samuel L. Southland of New
Jersey, who held the Office for very short
time, and Mr.. Bright of Indiana, who has held
it for one or two sessions, we believe having
been elected, however, as known adherent OF
the Slave Interest, believed to be interested in
slave property.
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Sept. Is, lS4l, A. P. Upshur, Virginia.
July "a, l843, D. Henshaw, Massachusetts.
Feb. IL, 1874, T. w. Gilmer, Virginia.
March IA, 1874, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 10, 1916, G. Bancroft, Massachusetts.
Sept. 9, 1916, James Y. Mason, Virginia.
March 7, ls49, W. B. Preston, Virginia.
July 20, 1850, w. A. Graham, N. Carolina.
July %, 1852, ]. P. Kennedy, Maryland.
March 3, 1853, ]. c. Dobbin, N. Carolina.
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Judging from his antecedents, from his charac-
ter, from his avowals, from his relations to the
Party OF which he is the exponent, from the
temper and purposes of the leading men of
that Party, to anticipate that he will be false
to those resolves.
We must then be prepared for the perpetual.
ton of the policy of Propagandsm'in Kansas.
for further demands of the Extensionists in
favor of their peculiar system, for filibustering
against Cuba and in Central America, and for
projects of save-territory annexation on our
Southern border. All the reasons, therefore
which demanded union of the opponents of
Slavery Extension against the Slavery PARTY
candidate, demand a continuance of this union
against the Slavery Party President. His sup
porters will have the control of the next Con-
gress, of the Federal Executive for the next
four years-the control for that period of the
Judiciary, Treasury, Army, Navy, Post or
tce-in word, of the whole Administration
OF the Government, at home and abroad, If
this be not enough to unite all the friends of
Freedom in solid phalanx, then would tbev
not be convinced, though one should rise from
the dead,
Let them organize, at once, in States, dis.
tricts, counties, towns. Let them organize az
the Republican Party, not the American Re.
publican. Let them organize on the ur;nc;.
pies laid down in the Philadelphia platform.
Let them organize to do their own work, with.
out wasting time, and paralyzing their moral
force by coalitions. Let them not resolve
themselves into partisans, commit themselves
70 TINS man or that man for the Presidency,
thereby provoking personal rivalries, and jeal.
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SISTER ANNE. A Romance. First issued in Amer.
Luells Living Age. Boston: John p Jewe,i 4 q.
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Proprietor National Era, Washington. ID.
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tPerhaps we should excepi California, but req
are quite ignorant OF the state ofthngs there
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MASSACHUSETTS,.
The Boston Atlas gives returns from all
the townships in the State except seven, with
the following resnlts
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PERSONAL.

80. John Alien and E. Taliferro, of Vir.
ginia, were in Paris about the 18th ult.
80. Rev. Chas. A. Davis preached in Cos
pOit, on Sunday last, near the navy yard gate,
to large and attentive congregation.
.... Macalster, the well known and poDu-
lar necromancer, is seriously i'll at Keokuk.
Iowa, of an obstinate bilious complaint
80. Walter W. w. Bowie, ESQ. of Prince
Georges county, Md, has been compelled to
decline delivering the annual address this fall
before the Agricultural Society of Iowa
80. Francis H. Davidge, ESQ. has been 60
lected by the Association Of Old Defenders of
Baltimore, to deliver the anniversary address
on the 18th of September at tho North Point
battle ground.
1.-THE ILLUSTRATION 1.-THE French pictorial
journaD publishes portraits of the three can
didates for the Presidency that arc bet.er than
those from any other source. Our Ballous and
Leslies will please take notice.
80. A late French writer SAYS that the Bos-
tonians are much like his own countrymen-
polite, courteous, and lovers of frogs; and
that they have pond in the middle of a pub
lie garden that is kept for the purpose of sup
plying the city with these animals.
.... Mr.. Appleton Oak Smith, the new Am.
bassador from Gen. Walker TO this govern
ment, is the young gentleman who carried out
cargo of muskets, which were seized by one
Of or national ships in Port au Prince and sent
back to New York. Mr. Oak Smith is a son
of Mrs. +. .. Smith, the poetess and lecturer
80. Mr.. and Mrs. Fite, Mr.. and Mrs
George Reinicker, and Mr. and Mrs. Whistler
and infant and nurse, all Of Baltimore, and
Mr.. and Mrs. + W. Smythe, of Washington
and Robert Bunch, late British Consul q,
Charleston, sailed from New York on Wednes
day in the steamer Africa for Liverpool
Wednesday last was the day George
Peabody, Esq, was to have embarked at Liver
pool on board the Atlantic, for the United
States. The New York merchants have re
solved to give him an appropriate reception
on his arrival, and have already adopted The
preliminary necsssaries. '
80. George Dawson, ESQ of the Alban,
Evening Journal, has sold portion of his in
terest in that paper, to Mr. Samuel Wilkeson
at present one of its editors The Rochester
Union and the Rochester Advertiser have beer
purchased by firm consisting of Joseph Our
tis, Isaac Butts and John h. Morey.
-. The Petersburg Democrat says tina
Capt. II G. Pate purposes, unless something
extraordinary should turn up, to start to Kan
sas with all who may be ready to accompany
nun on Friday next He has made tempo
Iary ueiay' with view to carry out the frs
party from that vicinity.
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A Marina Locomotive.

Mr.. VIM Lonsdell, q machinist Of Memphis,
Tennessee, has invented what he terms ma
rine Locomotive, and which is designed to be
substituted for the present steam VI alter craft
by making the base of the boat the propelling
agent instead Of paddle-wheels, as now used.
The invention consists in using two huge paral
lei hollow screws in the place Of the present
keel, and revolving them by means of steam
power, so that they will cut their way through
the water as a common screw cuts into wood
The screws are constructed Of iron, and, as
before stated, are hollow, but are divided into
compartments as precaution against sinking;
IN case Of an accident. The cabin of the Lo-
connective will be constructed on frame work.
elevated above these screws, aud will alto
gether, be more pleasantly situated than the
cabins Of cur river steamers, admitting the
passage of fresh air beneath It's whole length
and breadth. 1t is believed that when fairly
put upon the water and under advantageous
circumstances, the Locomotive can make about
thirty miles an hour, and thus compete with
our railroad trains in speed as well as safety
The model has been put upon trial and has
performed to the satisfaction of the inventor
and numerous witnesses.
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A PERFUMED BREArH.-What lady or gen
tleman would remain under the curse of dis
agreeable Breath when by using the " Balm
of@ Thousand FlOsoers" as dentri6ce would
not only render it sweet but leave the teeth
white as alabaster? Many persons do not
know their breath is bad, and the subject is
so delicate their friends will never: mention it.
Pour single drop of the Balm" on your
tooth brush and wash the teeth night and
morning. A fifty cent bottle will last year
For sale at Shillington's, agent for Washing
ton, and all Druggists.
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SPECIAL NOTICR

WE RESPECTFULLY INFORM OUR
w friends and the public that we have a
received another small lot Of the PARLOR 81
COMPANIONS, or Improved Latrobes, ~
for heating parlors and rooms above weS&
are also receiving per schooner Embark from Phil
adelphla, lew Fanny Fern Parlor and Once
Stoves; also, lot Of the celebrated model Parlor
Cooks, Excelsior Hall and Once Stoves, and a
number improved patterns
we would also state that we have lot of the
SUN RISE COOKING STOVES with summer
arrangements In fiont and futed os ems for burni q
either wood or coal. which we shall be happy TO
furnish to those Of our custom.rs who may be dis
posed 10 give them trial
At the same time earnestly soliciting an exami-
nation Of our Blue Ridge and l. ght street or
MORNING STAR COOKING STOVES OF
Baltimore manufactures, being superior 10 any,
thing offered In this or any other marbet
SIBLEY & GUY,
sc SGT 30 Pa. ave, bet. 10th anu ltlh as
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DON'T LIKE TO BE CALLED COLORED Yes
terday afternoon, in the Board of Aldermen,
a petition was received from John P. Rock,
M Saiter, Lewis Hayden, Coffin Pitts, Seth
booos, Samuel Shepley, and other colored cit
liens, praying that the word ''colored, - which
now stands against their names on the voting
lists and tax bills may be removed, and that
they may stand as fair on the record as any of
their white follow-citizens The petition was
opposed by Alderman Plummer, who held that
the designation was necessary, on account of
there being many white and colOred men of
the same name, and without some mark no one
could tell which was which. The petition was
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