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CATCHING WHALES BY STEAM.-In Scotland
it is proposed to fit out steamers instead OF
ships to engage in the whale trade. The Phil
adelphia Ledger, in speaking of this fact, says
I" 1t is but three or four years since the bomb
has been in use. This saves much trouble and
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plosion of gunpowder in the deep wound made
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PROSPECTUS OF THE ELEVENTH VOLUEE
BEGINNING JANUARY 1. 1887.

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TO THE RADICAL AsoLITIoNIsTs OF ILL
EOIS.

AT the State Radical Abolition Convention, held a,
Joliet, July 3st, 1866, The undersigned were chosen
State Executive Committee, and authorized to call future
State Conventions
Weiherefore recommend that the Radical Aboitionsts
and all other true friends OF the Anti-Savery in
Illinois, meet in Mass State Convention AT OTTAWA on
the 9TH day of January 1857 10 o'clock A NJ 10 CON
slider what further duties TO four millions of chr
brethren in bonds, and TO nation freemen who have
again bowed their neeks in willing subsection to the de-
mands Of the Slave Power Among the subjects that will
come before the Convention will be the organization OF
n State Abolition Society and the establishment of IA
weekly Abolition PAPER in Illinois.
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LETTER FROM WILLIAM H. HURLBUT, ESQ
;to,. oftbe Ereuino Post !:

To the Editor of the EUening Post:
SIR: Will you allow me to terminate, at once,
a personal discussion which / certainly never
invited? The Edinburgh RevieU is responsible
for ITSELF but if the character of an American
citizen is is to be discussed, it shall be discussed
fairly.
My father, as all citizens of Charleston know,
was for nearly thirty years a respectable and
respected inhabitant of that city-a slaveholder
himself, and connected by marriage with slave
holding families in several Of the Southern
States. He took prominent part, in conjunc.
ion with his friends, the late Judge Ese and
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The Novel.
JUSTICE IN THE BY-WAYS.
By F. Co,Bprn Adams, A,t;hor of" Our WorLA~ &
A rhiri Edit.nn OF ihla Work IL my re al.

By +. Co'burR Adams Asthor of d" Our WorELr g.
\ Third Edition Of this Work is ready
AWHILE Governor Adams. al South Carolina advise.
w the re-estsblShIng OF the slave trade with ali n.
and horrors + C Adams by his Justice in the
Byways is holding up the Csrohnian. 10 the study Of
The world.
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:" The construction Of his work is highly artistic N.
various characters before in the drapsry ard
costume of everyday life II IS Singuary dramatic aI.o
ieemng with those lively pictures and sketches which
never fail 10 eonure the passions of the human .on
the sudden tear drop, the deepdTan sigh the sponta
neous smile the clenched INST and passion-fushed cheek
But hls feehngs-his bas-Rre enthusiastically with IN,
poor, The distressed, the outcas and the downIodden
The New York Evening Post says:
Almost every phase OF their sociey-in the fashion
able saloon the domestic circle the courts OF law ara
even the mshouse-is described with free and fac.
pen"
The New York Herald SAYS:
This is clever tale. The people Of South Caro,ha
must be hin-skmncd indeed IT, under such circansan
ees, they shrink from hearng the good na1rse trhA
which are conveyed in this story"
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Nc52O.

Greater enemy to the South? Franklin Pierce,
Lose Message announces to Its four millions
If slaves that the Republican party proposes to
fee them through FIRE and blood, or John P.
Hale, who prOnOunces him calumniator, denies
,bs charge, and proclaims to the South that
,be Republican Party, while it would exult to
sea all oppression come to an end, and every
man free, is pledged not to interfere, by force,
o- act of the Federal Government with Sla-
vary within the States, but simply to prevent its
sxtsnsion into the Territories of the Union?
God help the South and deliver it from the
asusgogues and deluded men who will not suffer
nto understand who in the North are the real
friends of the Constitution and the Union, in
all sections, and of all classes of the Union.
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THlRTY-F 0URTH RESS.
THIRD SESSION.
Friday, December II, 1856.

Friday, December IL, 1856.
The Senate did not sit to-day.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Emrie, of Ohio, was excused from further
service on the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims; Mr.. Allen, of Illinois, from further
service on the Committee on Agriculture; and
Mr.. Matteson, of New York, from further SER
vice on the Committee for the District of Co.
lumbia.
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to fill the vacancy or the Committee on Revo-
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on Agriculture, and Mr.. Woodwork, of Illinois
on the Committee for the District of Columbia
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now chairman.
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the United States between New York and
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read twice, and committed.
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Judicial expenses of the Government, for the
year ending 30th June, 1853, and bill ma
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matte expenses of the Government for the year
ending 30th June, 1883; which were severally
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er the bill to enable the United States to make
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penses of Congress; which was read twice, and
referred to the Committee of Ways and Means
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sent to introduce bill to declare imperative
and void the proceedings of body known as
the Territorial Legislature of Kansas; but OBJ
lection was made.
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Possibly DUEL. IL was reported, last
Monday, that measures were in progress for a
dual between Mr.. Stephens, of Georgia, and
Mr. Ill., ons of the Fillmore Electors of that
Sfata.
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TIE SUGAR TAx.-Gen. Houston, of Texas,
not long since, gave notice in the Senate of a
bill to suspend the sugar tax for two years.
Mr.. Colf.x, Monday, in the House, introduc-
cd bill to repeal the tax. The Public Ledger
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nrice in consequence of its scarcity, pays thirty
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STORM On THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RUER.-
Cincinnati, Dec. lO.-During heavy storm on
the Lower Mississippi, on Tuesday night last,
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several steamers slightly damaged.
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