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4 E THE C0NSEQUENCk8 OF cuuMkAIIY ~ 4
Y There are two classes Of crimes one committed by
individuals at the instigadon Of their own bad pas
siolls and another where the actors are stimulated
to wrongful acts by designing men to accomplish
purposes OF their Men steal rob, and burn, &c,
to crafty their desire for gain or thirst fOr revenge
When caught and convicted, every lover Of right
and justies assents 70 e,proprety Of punishment
without sreluctanoel orr misgiving. But there as
another class cases where this is often accompanied
with feelings of different. nature, We find in sew
eral cities in the country political and sometimes
other conibationsJ organized and controlled BY ac-
tive, influential, and reckless men, who manage con-
troll and others TO accomplish their own objects,
often pushing them into aggravated violations of
law Being guilty they are arrested, tried, conviet
cd, and punished, and no one can justly complain.
But we frequently feel that Justice would be bet
ter served if the leaders punished instead Of
those whom they have excited and urged into crime.
The wary managers keep themselves behind the cur
tain and escape punishment. They contriye and I'M
stigate acts resulting in criminality, but manage
to keep themsevesout Of sight. and with'cool reck
lessness, leave those thousand times less guilty to
suffer all the direful consequences.
Not one OF all the contriyers of the scenes which
have bathed Baltimore in blood, and rendered her
fearful place and word of reproach, has been
brought to suffer the penalties of the law The
same is true in this city. Scenes which have dis
graced city and ended in blood and death have been
contrived in the know-nothing lodgerooms by those
claiming high positions The leaders have marshalled
and directed those looking up to them, and pushed
them on to act where they dare not show their faces
and when the hand Of the law fell upon the offend
ing, it only reached those who had been duped by
their leaders, while tho latter have kept themselves
out of harm way. There thousands in this city
who do actually know that the arrangements which
led to fhe tragedy here Of June last were made by
those who have kept their action and advice in se-
cret leaving those whom they had duped to shoulder
all the results they not having the manly courage to
avow and abide by the consequences of what they
had occasioned 1t is the leaders who were the real
authors of all the wrongs and crimes They occa-
stoned the wounds and deaths. II was they who oc-
casioned men to be brought into the courts to be
tried and they the real guilty authors of the pun
shments that have been and are being inflicted. In
stead Of cautionng those who looked to them for
advice, they spurred them into excesses that
casioned their convictions and suffering We heart
lily wish these leaders were in the places which they
have led others into, they far guilty and
much more deserving Of punishment We think
that those who are now suffering for acting their
advice will hereafter instead of following it, make
them feel how little they are to be confded in.
The Washington union., 1857-11-25

The joint select committee banks in the Tennessee
legislature has reported bill egalizng the bank suspen
sions till the Sth of january 1858, upon condition that
bank shall declare dividend during their suspension,
and if the banks of New York and New Orleans shall
sume specie payments during the spring summer Of
1885, the banks of Tennessee which avail themselves Of
this BILL shall also In sixty days thereafter The
free banks required within ninety days from the pas
sage of the bill to deposte bonds of Tennessee with the
comptroller sufficient to make the bonds in his hands par
value according to the New York price of said bonds
and on failure, to be placed in Immediate liquidation
The banks required to make quarterly reports to the
governor Of their condition The internal improvement
committee of the Senate recommend in regard to rail
roads that further State aid be granted and that In all
Instances where vested rights existed previous grants
should be Topped off, whereby the prospective debt Of the
State could be curtailed by several millions ii y
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Suppose we had constitutional provision in this State
that here shall be slavery in the State of New York
except that Shareholders who choose to settle in said State
NAV bring their slaves with Them and hold them here in
bondage " would every that the preence of
prohibiting slavery in the former sentence OF this clase
was completely nullfe by the exception in the latter
Yet this IL precisely what tho bogus convention has done
in Kansas. M Y Tribune h7-
OF course, this Is delibg 1sifcation Of what the
choose to settle in said Sta 10y bring their slaves with
them, and hold them in endage, declares that in
the slavery CLAUSE a xsts down, He s~uy saau eaa IN
the Sas Of Kppsp cspt that the right Of property In
slaves vow ~ as Territory shall in manner be nterfered
with This n the whole provision and IL Is simply
necessary to read il TO the falsy Of the Tribune
~ tAI5dny Argus
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SALE OF PAINTINGS AT " BLKxHErN, The sale at Ben-
helm ON Tuesday and Wednesday, by N. H. Massie,
ecutor of Hon Andrew Stevenson deceased well at
tended From the high price paid for the paintings
CROPS and stock feel warranted in saying the people
of Albcmare least have not felt the pressure of the
hard tsnes miniature Of Napoleon by Isabce brought
upwards of s4O0 A ful-length portrait Of Marshal
sout by Heay, presented TO Mr. Stevenson while Min
lister to England by Marshal Sout himself brought s4l5
The paintings alone brought $1,000 ttse
FN ssaeaailtp ias [CAarlcaecRe tPa.) AdnccS
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We are unable to compare the quantities imported
into the United States in 1857, according to own
official returns, as the United States Treasury Re-
port for that year is not yet made public. The
apparent discrepancy, however, will probably not
be SO great, inasmuch our flag had not SO large
share Of this carrying trade in 1857 in the pre-
ceding year. Assuming the returns to be correct,
as they doubtless are--at least nearly they
beand it appears that, in 1855, there carried
to foreign countries in American vessels 7l49, ,2S5
pounds, and in 1856 IL, ,664 ,O22 pounds.
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THE PHILADELPHIA ARGUS.

AIluding to the action Of the Kansas constitutional
convention this able and fearless champion Of demo-
cratic principles says !" The question has recently
assumed phase of additional interest, from the fact
that one or two protesting democratic journals have
to the greatest astonishment of everybody taken
the blaokFepublcan ground inrelaton 10 this vitality
important matter. We shall lose no time in express
ing our dissent to such anti-democratic doctrines
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DEArH or HoSs WAIaR CoLEs.-Captan Walter Coles,
for many years representative in Congress from the
Lynchburg district died at his residence in Ptsyvana
county the 9th instant after illness of four
or five days. He about 6s years old. Capt Coles
entered Congress in 1885, and remained member of
that body until he voluntarily retired in lS45 He
member Of the Virginia legislature in 1888 34 Du-
ring the Of 1872 he held the Office of captain Of dr
goons and served upon the northern frontier under Gen
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina He acted for long
series Of Justice Of the peace under the consttu
tion of lS30 ~ ~. ~ Il
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INTERESTING DECISION lin the circuit court last week
,pon the motion of judgment debtor who had served
garnshee upon the directors of the Western Lunatic
Asyum to attach the salary of Of the employees
that institution Judge Thompson decided that salaries
wages Of persons accrng but not due were not attach
able or assenabIe by operation Of law and only assign.
able by the party himself entirety and not in por
tons In this instance there had been previous assign
ment by the party TO whom the salary wns due.
n fStorkon G Val Tindscaor.
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ABOLITION MENDACPTY.

Suppose we had constitutional provision in this State
that therc shall be slavery in the State Of New York
that shareholders who choose to settle in said State
may bring their slaves with them and hold them here in
bondage would not every that the pretence of
prohibiting slavery in the former sentence Of this clause
completely nullifed by the exception in the atter
Iahs poesey rhot the bogus convention has done ID Kansas
~. Tribune.
The foregoing is the abolition version, or, more
properly peryesion Of the action of tho late Kansas
convention Mr.. Greeley distinctly afirms-and it
will be believed by his followers-that the convention
of Kansas has provided that there shall be sarery
the nsr STATE EXCEPT that shareholders rho choose 10 se
said STATE may bring their saues tci them aud hold
them in bondage. He says, emphatcay, g thus pre-
eisey artd the bogus convention has done Kansas. "
This Is no unntentional accidental mistake or mis-
representation. 1t is bold and reckless and wiul
perversion, win be apparent on reading the clause
in the schedule which was before the editor when he
wrote, and which is follows:
But IT, upon such examination of said poll.bs it
shall appear that majority of the votes east at said cleo
ton be In favor Of the Constitution without slavery
then the article providing for slavery shall be stricken
from this constitution by the president of this conye
tion, in his absence by of DEATH resignation or
Otherwise by the president pro t and slavery shall
longer exist In the State Of Kansas except that the right
Of property In slaves in this Territory shall in no
manner be interfercd wth) and he shall Immediately
have transmitted the constitution ratified to the Con-
re of the United States for admission into the Union as
a sovereign State under the said constitution
It's seen at once that there is not the shadow of
pretence that after the adoption of the Kansas con
stitution Shareholders may bring their slaves with
them into the State, and hold them in bondage, as
falsely asserted by the Tribune. The provision is
simple, just, and equitabethat the rights of prop
erty in the slaves in the Territory shall not be
interfered with. We sure that any constitution
that did not provide against interfering with the
private rights Of property would be rejected by any
Congress that ever assembled ever will assemble
Aboltionism would have violently deprived the own
ers Of slaves now in the Territory of their property
The convention respected the individual rights of
the slave-owners, and prohibited any future logisla
tre from interfering with their rights without just
compensation. 81 , ,sys = 4tFtg... setel,
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The official vote of the State of New York at the recent
election shows the democratic maores for comproller
treasurer attorney general State engineer canal COM
missioner and inspector of State prisons to average
about IL 400 each, while the majority for secretary of
State reaches 1926 and for judge of appeals O63
The American vote, compared with last year, shows
falling off Of nearly half while the republican vote is
barely three ourths what the period The
democratic vote shows slight increase gtM ha
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The Hon. Esbon Backpor member Of Congress and
welI-known citizen Of western New York committed
suicide the 10th inst at his residence in Newark
Wayne county, by drowning himself in spring shall
low well In his cellar He was baker and produce
dealer, and Ind been compelled to yield to the pressure
Of the times and make assignment This financial
embarrassment supposed to have been the of his
suicide 1tit'DlfH w AStaf - ~ - tAA
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A CONCLUSIVE ANSWER.


~ CONCLUSIVE ANSWER ------
The New York Tribane has one charaoterstic that
we cannot help admiring it is always bold and unr
disguised, Whether it advocates or opposes, it's
work assure TO be done with outspoken boldness.
If il misrepresents antag it does with
bold disregard Of truth that subjects it to easy expo
II is account of this characteristic in the
Tribune that we always look TO it to ascertain with
certainty the abolition position on any contested POI
iitical question. Some Of our democratic cotempo-
raries seem to have become befogged in trying to
submit their entire work to the Judgment of the peo
pie Of Kansas. The Tribune clears away the fog,
and gives a conclusive answer. 1t says:
- The men who gotup this bogus constitution knew
perfectly well that the people p Kansas secuted their
pretence of authority to frame constitution for them
and would vote down that which they have made IL al
lowed 10 do they will not let them vote on it at all
Does any believe that they would have shacked the
people in this way IL they had absolutely knon that
the people would reject their constitution If they al
lowed a chance to do 30 y
Here we have the whole story told and the whole
mystery explained. 5rThe men who got up this bo-
gus constitution, &c.-that is to say, the Tribune
regards the late Kansas convention as an illegal and
unauthorized body of men, who bad no right to
make any sort of constitution. Hence it denounces
the constitution bogus affair, and so it would
have denounced any constitution that the convention
might have made. But the Tribune proceeds to add
that the members of the convention knew that the
people of Kansas (meaning thereby the advocates of
the Topeka consttuton secuted their pretence of au
thority to frame a constitution for them, and that
the members Of the convention knew also that the
Topeka abolitonists would vote down the constini-
ton made. If the convention knew these things, it
would have been worse than farce TO submit the
constitution for the purpose Of having it voted
down--not voted down, be it observed, because its
provisions were not good, but because it was, in
their estimation q bogus affair, gotten up by men
unauthorized to make any constitution. The conven-
ton know that they were acting in pursuance of the
legal authority Of the Territory and that it was their
duty to make constitution but if they knew, too,
that there was factious opposition to the conven-
ton which would cause the rejection Of their work,
however well DONE they were excusabe for refusing
to yield to that factious spirit They did enough
when they agreed to submit the only part Of their
work about which the popular mind agitated
and divided. We think therefore. the Tribune fur
nishes conclusive answer to the objection that the
convention failed to submit any other than the slave
ry clause Of the constitution to the sacrifice of the
Topeka factionsts. &Es s.
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LACK-RFPUBLICAN HYPOCRTyy.


The most arrant hypocrte to be found is the black
republican, who pretends to be horrfed because the
whole Of the Kansas constitution is not submitted to
the people Of the Territory for ratification or re-
lection. This same black-repubican was and is,
the advocate of the Topeka constitution, that was
made by body of ofirresponsblc fanatics who assem-
bed in open defiance Of the laws of the Territory
usurped the power to sit constitutional sonven-
tion made constitution in open hostility to the e-
gal authorities Of the Territory, refused to submit
any portion to the people for ratification rejection,
but sent II to Congress and there insisted that it was
the true and legitimate constitution of Kansas The
hypocrite now pretends to be shocked that the legally
constituted convention of Kansas has failed to sub
NIT any other than the slavery clause for the udg.
ment OF the people. Such brazen-faced effrontery
and shameless hypocrisy deserve to be scouted and
despised by all true national men
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DrPAx9xEsr > nws-e
szArE DzrAuxxHr.

!. II
Eppds@l Information has been received fronl cor
respondent at Bremen that 4495l cmgrants have loft
that port for America between the s Of january and the
18th October, 1857 The number Of ships employed In
conveying passengers was Ill
4 .h0fEp WIT ,NIAASfI~
pKrARfAKsf.
Ts GhD~.s Ean subjoined Is the letter OF C, T. Nal
ory seQretary Of the Macomb County Rihgan) Agricul
into this country several years ago by the Patent Office
1t VIII be read with interest D $50 81 o ssss'i
Rosno MAcoMB Co, MlcEroAN, =
.is4se.s ussrss nasgsI sa.n November ~ 1881,
DEAR sIn: Last spring procured from Thorbun, Of
New York. twelve Of the Chinese yams and also twelve OF
the seed tube prepared piece of ground by spading
and anung to the depth OF eighteen twenty inches
planted the seed tubers whole They were from one
two inches made about sixty hills have dug about two
thirds Of them and have left the balance in the ground to
remain until next fall The plants that have dug were
from to two feet long have cooked by boiling
and baking, and If i had not known what they were
would not have known the difference between them and
good dry mealy potato. shall have most of those
have dug to plant next year. took three 70 county
fair and they nearly all eaten by persons who
were present. They seem to be nearly all stock M
Iprosured also and planted lot of the chufa earth
almond. From twelve or fifteen have dug about
four quarts My family quite fond of them to eat
raw There is quite pleasant taste to them. They
beat all to produce presume that the ground win be
full Of them next year from the seed of thosee in the
O. o
Egt4f fsa Yours, truly ysaii. ~ ia6,ta
c. +. MALLORY, f1H
Secretary of MacoInb Agricultural Society,"
To Hon. COMMISSIONER PATESTs f6A1 tisa
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The Springfield Republican finds that one thou.
sand workingmcn have been thrown out of employment
in that city since September l. Yet there are very isV
cases Of suffering in the city r ~ .tss
t-aio o " ~ tR $50 = itllt iil alsas llt set
y, - .fis -H Nessasa ias - atiFsas ss, tts aa'
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STATISTICS or THE CHINESE ExPobr f2ADE
The following tabaIAr statensnts, derived from
official sources exhibit the quantities of ted and SIX
imported INTO Great Britain nom China during the
past four years-the year ending june 80; 10 which
we annex similar statement showing the quantities
imported from July 70 September 10, Of the year
lS5I-'58
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One Of the churches IN boston has discharged the choir

s' 60 s.a ~ &C., .'.s si .ii.e ff n.
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WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY MoRNINc. nov. ss. 1859.

We are informed that sehor Don Napoleon Esca-
lante and Senior Don Luis Molina We're yesterday IN
troduced 10 the President by the Secretary Of State
and delivered their credentials ENJOYS extraor-
dinary and ministers penipotentiary Of the republic
of Costa Rica to the of the United States.
The Washington union., 1857-11-25
Yours, truly,

c. f. MALLORY, fsf
Secretary of Macoinb Agricultural Society
To Hon COMMISSIONER OF patents. f6A& iis,
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who occupy responsible position before the financial
world although they mere puppets Of the imperial
will
The English funds continue to be wonderfully supported
The public the approaching end OF the Indian diff
Guilty, and that the American crisis however terrible III
its consequences the houses in that trade has neither
been occasioned aggravated by any general unsound
in the mercantile proceedings of the United King
dom. Investments, therefore, steadily made and
the fluctuations OF each day scarcely exceed halt per
cent At the last date the three cent consos were
quoted at ss1 They have since touched S7a and the
final price this evening 80
The Liverpool cotton market Is almost parayzad, and
quotations nomU ai few small saies effected yes
terday at further decline Of to Id per pound
The wheat market Is without recovery.
The drain OF specie TO India seems 70 have been nearly
stopped ~ ses ssa
The next steamer from this side win be the Asia and
the Vanderbilt the l4h and the Fulton the 18Th
Our last dates from New York to the 2sth Of Dc
tober. When their intelligence teleeraphed yester
day from Liverpool 10 London Il seemed of little
brighter character but the details published this nom
ing have not confirmed this impression. 80 4b tpaa
Poasrip The stoppaes Of the Western Bank Of Scot
land has been followed BY a the other Glasgow
banks and more than $500 in gold have been sent
them from London to-day. @ ~
The failure has been announced from Liverpool this al
tenoon of b. f. Babcock Co, connected with BabcoH
Brothers Of New York Their liabilities about $500
600 The soppagc OF Dutihl q Co., another American
house at Liverpool has also been intimated In London
the only additional suspension is that Of Foot Sons "
the sk trade The amount is but $40 900 and there are
The funds have become mer after regular bours Two
reports spread TO account for It. One Is that the gov
eminent have got the Indian telegraphic news which
DUE and that it III very favorable the other is thai
the Bank of France extend their note
hars by circulation Of smaller ones
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INTERIOR pKrARraksf


tural Society In relation TO the Chinese YAM introduced
into this country several years ago by the Patent Office
1t viii be read with interest $50 ss r.ass4a
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Captain Typographical Engineers,
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-02-28
.r Some of the indignant Democra

rag Some of the indignant Democratic
papers, who profess great love for law ard
order. speak approvingiy Of an assault with
rotten eggs, which, they say, was committed
On Mr.. Menear, Democratic member from
York county, who voted for Gen. Cameron
for L. S. Senator, while passing on his road
home. Mr.. Menear is said to be man o.
excellent character. and could better justi'!
his vote for Gen. Cameron. than some
those political juelers could their vote 10
Forney, against their own convictions
Justice aud right. No one but blackguar
would assault another for the exercise oil
right, GUARANTEED to him by the constitute
/ aud laws.
Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-02-28
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Perfuned Breath.-What lady or gen.
tlemsn would remain under the curse Of disa-
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Manv persons do not know their breath is bad,
and the subject is delicate their friends will
never mention it, Pour single drop of b aim on
your tooth brush and wash the teeth night and
morning. fifty cent bottle will last a year.
a beautiful complexion may easily be acquired
by using the Balm of Thousand Flowers
1t will remove tan, pmples and freckles from the
skin, leaving il Of soft roseate hue. Wet q
towel, pour on two or three drops, and wash the
face night aud morning.
SHAVING MADE EASY.
Wet your shaving brush in either in warm or
cold water. pour on two or three drops Of "Balm
Of a Thousand Flowers" rub the beard well and
it will make beautiful soft lalher, much fscili-
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counterieis. None genuineunless signed by
w. p. FET RIDGE & co.
franklin Square, New York.
Sept, 27, ls56.--6m