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sTANT0N's REMOVAL.

Colonel Forney, of the Philadelphia Press,
does not like the removal of Stanton from the
Secretaryship of Kansas. He says:
" The legal and regular Legislature of Kan
sas, elected on the 5th of October, under the
same statute which called into existence the
Constitutional Convention--the only body that
the whole people of Kansas have really vet
elected-the body which can wipe out all pre-.
ceding acts-is now in session and vet, in the
face of all this, we have Lord President Calhoun
calling an election for ne,o Legislature! It
Is not my purpose 10 comment on the extraor.
binary picture which this conduct presents TO
the American people; but if Secretary Stanton
is to be removed for calling the regular Lepis.
lature together, according to the demand of the
people who elected 1t, what measure of rep.
rehension should be melted out to Calhoun.
who orders an election under minority Con.
stitution, in advance of the adoption of that
Constitution by the people, and before the iudp.
ment OF Congress had been passed upon it?
This Is new complication of the Kansas
question. Intelligence from that Territory will
now be awaited with the utmost solicitude.
And woe to those public servants at Washing
ton, who, IN addition to all these facts, should
deem 1t to be their duty to set at defiance the will
OF the majority in Kansasl"
This is well; but " those public servants at
Washington" proceed very quietly and deter.
minedly to "set at defiance the will of the ma.
Jority in Kansas" and, if possible, they will
triumph over that majority. We trust that the
fress will not only seek las it is doing with
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THE FARMERS AND NAVY OF THE UNITED
STATES

October 10th, 1885, the late Hon. John c.
Dobbin, then Secretary of the Navy, addressed
an order to Commander Mervine, commanding
the Pacific squadron in the Pacific ocean, say
ing, Information of sufficiently reliable
character to entitle it to consideration. had
been communicated to this Department, that an
uninhabited island, Astounding in guano, was
many years since discovered by an American
citizen, situated in the Pacific ocean. The fer
tilizing character of guano make the article ex
tremely desirable; the price paid at present is a
heavy tax, and there are few events which would
be hailed with more general satisfaction than
discovery calculated to secure it on reasonable
terms to the agricultural interests of our coun.
try. The Department desires that you will
avail yourself of the earliest opportunity to dis
patch one of the vessels of the squadron under
your command, with a view of ascertaining the
correctness of the information" &c.
Commodore Mervine, as directed by the
Secretary, took with him Mr.. George W. Ben
son, the agent of the American Guano Com.
pany, and sailed in the flag ship Independence.
He found "the new El Dorado o. the mercantile
and agricultural interest Of oar count,y"-we
use his identical expressions, in his Report to
the Navy Department-but, to his surprise, on
sailing round the island, for he would not allow
any boat to land, because he regarded the island
inaccessible, on account of the surf, he became
satisfied, by the aid of his spy-glass, that the
island was covered with large deposite of
bird lime, in state Of decomposition
The agent, Mr.. Benson, earnestly entreated
permission to land in boat, bat his request
was treated by the Commodore as most imperti-
nent. And, without visiting the other Ameri-
can islands in the vicinity, this astute naval
commander came home from this costly expe
dition, to make report, which has made his
ignorance patent to the world. The American
Guauo Company, with just reason, complained
that no examination had been made and that
the report of Commodore Mervine had disgraced
the navy, and jeoparded important interests.
Mr.. Secretary Dobbin, therefore, issued new Or
ders to Commodore Mervine, to send the St.
Mays, Com mander Davis to perfect what he
had so signally failed to do. In the mean while,
the company sent Mr.. Arthur Benson, a youth
of twenty, to the Sandwich islands, where he
enlisted the aid of the son Of our distinguished
missionary, DR.. Judd, young man of his own
age.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1867.
TIE NATIONAL ERA.
!, 1857.

From some OF Our voluntary agents, We have
heard favorsbly, and their letters show how
zealonsly they have worked for the paper. We
are under great obligations, and shall remem.
Der with gratitude their well-timed exertions.
From the majority Of them zoe haze heard
nothing. We requested them where they could
not or would not act, at least to procure sub.
stitutes if possible. We repeat that request.
In ore place, friend sends US a club of ten
new subscribers, several Of them Democrats,
and promises to send more. Not SOrd does
he sag Of" hard times"
10 another place, an old subscriber renews
only for six months, and says" The absolute
dearth of money, and the cry of hard times In
every msn's mouth, has ser0ed 10 deter me
from making any effort for yOu."
According to ones faith, so is it.
Our friend, A. A. Guthrie, of Putnam, Ohio,
sending their club, writes:
Il am surprised that any reader of the Era
can afford TO do without it. trust that all your
forebodings will prove groUndless, and that the
paper which, before all others and beyond all
others, has stood for the great principles of
human freedom and equal rights, will not fail
or lsnguish for want CT support"
We are grateful 10 our friend for his good
opinion, but claim no precedence for the Era
on its merits. Its position, however, does give
1t a claim upon all who understand the vast
importance of maintaining Free Press at the
seat of Government, where four daily presses
are enlisted in the interest Of the Shareholders.
As to our forebodings," they are not ground
less. One hundred thousand Republicans, rem
dered remiss or lukewsrm by monetary troubles,
staid away from the polls in New York, and
suffered the Slave-Democracy to win the day.
We are not surprised, therefore, at losing a
third Of our list. The greatest falling off is in
New England, New York, and Michigan.
Ohio, which made so noble fight for Republi-
caDism, stands by us, despite hard times"
We know not how it may be hereafter. Next
week, thousands of persons who have been in
the habit of receiving the Era, will receive it
for the last time, unless they choose to renew
their subscriptions. As they get over their
panic, and awake TO the fact, that the country
is not yet reduced to the starving point, perhaps
they may think they can spare a dollar or two
for years reading of newspaper.
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P0LYGAMY AND SLAVERY.

The ultra Pro Slavery people of the South
begin to express their opposition to the yiewe
of the President in reference to the people Of
Utah. They fear that, if the precedent is es.
tablished by armed Government Interference
with the people of Territory, that ultimately
Slavery may suffer therefrom. The Utah peo.
pie are polygamists, and, if tie President is
going to make war upon them because tbev
will not put up with the United States officials.
who are opposed to poylgamy, why may he or
his successor not do the same, in case a slave.
holding people in a Southern Territory sbould
see tit to drive from their midst AntiSlaverv
officials? A correspondent of the Richmond
South has long letter to its editor upon this
subject. He says:
The Mormons quit the State and setiled IN
the wilderness, where it was thought no orc
would settle. They called their country Dsso
ret, and In contempt of their wishes the Gov.
eminent called 1t Utah. Brigham Young was
appointed Governor, and ruled his people in
peace. The Government sent sl,snoa-o =.
Judge them, and the people run them off For
what2 For interfering with the Mormon ~
situations; for trying to persuade the vo,,a,,
that they were degraded, suffering victims ~
Mormon tyranny; for writing lying letters and
slanderous libels on the Mormons and their in.
stitutions For these they drove them off. ard
they did right. < Let the Mormons
be crushed for their religion-for that is the
real dithculty-and it may not be long before
our negro masters, our traders in human chat
tells, our dealers in the flesh and blood of our
brother man, may be crushed out to vindicate
the glory of God and exalt the morality and re-
hgion of our masters
My sympathies as q State Rights man are
with the Mormons. do not approve of their
domestic institutions. No matter-it is their
business, not mine; nor am l or any other per-
son answerable for their sins, or liable TO suffer
for their mistakes. As Southern man, nv
sympsthies are with the Mormons. The came
measure that is dealt out to them for their DO
lygamy, would be dealt out to US for our slave
holding, by the same people, if they had the
power; and God only knows (if things 90 on a.
they are tending) how long that power will be
wanting"
The Delegate from Utah will very likely not
stand alone in Congress upon the Utah d;f;.
Guilty. The Fire-eaters may stand shoulder to
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Senators opposed the measure. 1t was finally
carried, however, by vote of 80 to IL, as a
Democratic measure.
we have not yet seen the bill of Mr.. Doug
las. Circumstances have changed since the
passage OF the Toombs bill. 1t is now admitted
on al hands that the Free State Party in Kan.
sas is overwhelmingly in the majority. Border
Rufian forays viii hardly be repeated. The
spurious Legislature is no longer in existence,
and Its vile acts, some of which it was the OBJ
Ject OF the Toombs bill to annul, will have been
repealed by the existing Legislature, whose
regular session will begin in January, long be-
fore the passage of any enabling act by Con-
gress.
We regret that Mr.. Douglas did not model
his bill after the act under which Minnesota
has just formed her Constitution. That act
was entirely unebjectionable. 1t was not a
party measure-its passage was not party
triumph. Besides, it received the strong com
mendation of the President in his late Annual
Message. On the contrary, the bill of Nr.
Toombs was framed to meet crisis which
does not now exist. 1t provided for circum-
stances that have passed away. It was purely
party measure, and it's passage through the
Senate was party triumph.
Why repeat an experiment that failed Is
Mr.. Douglas sure that he can enlist the Admin
istration forces in Congress in its support? Are
they not committed generally to the Lecompton
Constitution? He and his special friends, with
ha oh
choose to act with them, may defeat this meas
ure but can the same combination be Elected
in support of his enabling act? Suppose the
Republicans adhere to the bill introduced by
Mr.. Banks, and he and his friends to his bill,
and the Lecompton Constitution be rejected,
ritory in its present condition.
For one, we see nothing very mischievous in
this. The Lecompton usurpation disowned,
and no attempt being made by the Federal
Government to enforce it upon the People, we
suppose they will be able to manage their own
affairs in peace, and maintain order. They
will have nothing to do, but proceed, like the
People of other Territories, to enact reasonable
laws, and provide for the security Of life and
property. There need be no agitation or ex-
element about this, and nobody should be
over anxious about their entrance into the Uu-
ion. Let them come when they shall be ready,
and when Congress shall be able to treat them
as it has done the People of other inchoate
States.
We do not advocate this policy we should
prefer to see Kansas freely organized as a State
but we may as well bear in mind that the re-
lection of all projects for making it State at
present, will not necessarily, or even probably,
involve consequences dangerous to her peace
or the welfare of the Union.
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TUESDAY IN CONGRESS.

In the Senate, Mr.. Johnson, of Tenn, intro
duced a bill giving leo acres Of land out of the
public domain to ell the heads of families in the
country, upon condition Of occupancy.
The Kansas debate was resumed by Mr.
Fitch, of Indiana, who delivered himself of a
speech in defence of the Lecompton fraud Mr..
Douglas followed him, and running discussion
ensued.
In the House, the Treasury Note Bill was
discussed in Committee of the Whole.
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COMMITTEES OF CoNGREss.-We ask the at
tention of our readers to the remarks OF Senators
Hamlin and Wilson on the composition OF the
committees in the Senate. Not another word
need be said 10 show the miserable sectonahsm
that has controlled the appointment Of these
committees. Tvo-,hirds of the free People of the
States are insulted and degraded. The statement
of Mr.. G win, that the committees OF the last
House of Representatives were organized on
q sectional basis no less palpable, was promptly
met and refuted. by Mr.. Wilson, by such evil
dence, that the author of the statement was fain
to generalize il, so as to make it apply to former
Congresses.
ECoSoxY IN THE PRESENT CoNGREss.-The
present Congress, after all the outcries against
the extravagance of former ones, does not prom
Use much in the way of reform. The old prac-
tice of electing pu bic printers, as a reward for
partisan services, rendered or to be rendered,
is continued; and numerous committees have
already succeeded in obtaining authority for
employing clerks at foy6dollars day, meas
ure of more importausax;o hangers-en of the
party, in most cases, than to tie public in.
terest
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AMERICANIsM IN THE HOUSE

The vote for Speaker revealed an pnsv
pected disposition on the part of a few Of n.
Republican members TO bolt from the ror;ra
ton of their party. Mr.. Lewis D. CampbeN -
Ohio, for some reason which have not baar
able to learn, would not vote for Mr.. Grow tSa
Republican cand date. He voted for NJ. Ho.
ton, OF Ohio, who, being a man Of sense, did NJ,
return the compliment. Mr.. Ezra Clark. !,
of Connecticut, also bolted cut, and vote f.,
Mr.. Campbell. So slso did Messrs. Cawson
and Robbins, of New Jersey. Edward Joy Nor.
ris, of PennsYlvsnia. voted for r. Winter b avis
Of Maryland. p Washington Cor Of Tribune
I. The Newark IN. j. Mercury excuses the
vote of Messrs. Clawson and Robbins, il the
following language:
ave have the highest personal respect fo,
Messrs. Clawson and Robbins as we know them
TO be gentlemen of character and integrity bp,
it is proper and JUS fo- Us TO say, that the
action Of our New jersey Congressman is
standing reproach 70 the Republicans of the
State. Wherever we 60, We are tainted with
their want of fitness aud with their lack of Re.
publican sfinities. The only reply We have n
make is, that their co1ssiGuencie5 are n-ecisalv
like them; and this is the only reply tina. can
be made"
The fact is, that these gentlemen are eadeay
oring TO satisfy t'oo organizations, and are quite
likely 70 blunder in an estimate os their respect
i've strength. The member who supposes he
is backed by majority of Americans, tries to
please them, if he is a trimmer, or because his
sympathies are with that class of his sunp,rt
ers.' We are glad to see that the Republican
candidate for Speaker com nauded such VOTE
among the Northern opposition members. lie;
Messrs. Campbell, Ezra Clark and the New
Jersey members, have the p4oge homo. Of ran.
resenting the American party in the House
and Republicanism will not suffer in the lea.,
from the fact.
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These boys chartered the schooner Liholiho,
and went down to these islands, and brought
back with them seventy tons of the guano, made
a survey of both islands and oftheir anchorage
grounds, demonstrated that they were accessi-
BILE, and covered with guano. On the receipt
of four tons of this guano in New York, by way
of Panama, it was placed in possession OF the
Agricultural Bureau OF the Patent once, and
has been distributed in bags of four pounds
each to scientific agriculturists of the United
States, and we are told the results are every
where alike satisfactory, for, though not 30 rich
in ammonia as the Peruvian guano, 1t contains
more than seventy-6ve per cent. OF phosphates
of lime, for want of which cereal crops cannot
be grown. This guano has been analysed by
the most eminent analytic chemists, for the
company and for the State of Maryland, and
the superiority of the American Pacific island
guano over the Peruvian is unquestionable.
Commander Davis has just returned, and re-
ports the islands accessible, and the guano
which covers them to be, not bird.lime, which
is an article of manufacture, but bird-dung, or
guano, which he reports is worthless, on &C
count of the heavy rains that fall in that region.
So much for the sympathy shown by sub-com-
mander for his superior officer. Samples of
this worthless gusno have been sent to the Navy
Department, and we hope will be submitted by
the Secretary of the Navy to competent analyt-
ical chemists of the United States.
If these islands prove to be deposits of
guano, as claimed to be, and which we believe
they will prove to be, their value to our country
cannot he estimated, and the country will have
little reason to be grateful for the aid of the
navy in securing the benefits of this great dis
covery.
BEF What has become of the story of the
New England Girl? 1t seems it was stopped
before it was completed. Has it come out yet
in book form? SUBSCRIBER.
The story was printed, entire, in our COL
umns, but it has not yet appeared in book form.
We suppose it will be reprinted. Few produc-
tons in the Era have awakened so much in
terest.
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ability to secure freedom to Kansas, but to pun
ish those public servants . who would ensave
the people Of that Territory.
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VOL. XII.

shoulder, Ike DR.. Ross AID Bishop Coen,o
and support POlygamy and Slavery at the SAM
time.
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ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
1.~o.o,.o-~-o~~~~~o1~oNnN-
NEWS FROM INDIA.
-o.v~~-U~n~.~~>S~o~~~~~
SEVERAL DEFEATS OF THE MuTlNEERS.
Lucknew and Delhi Still In the Hands
Of the Insurgents.
~so.~~~o~-c~~Ov~~~o>-~
CRITICAL POSITION OF GENERAL AAVELOX
~oo-~o1o1~o-Na@J>r(v>UoO~-
SPREAD OF THE MUTlNY.
~oIno~o~~o~o~>~n>o.~o~o.
NHNA 1AHIB BEFORE LUCKNOW.
TINE NEW YORK PANIC" IN ENGLAND.
~ooooa~.~o.o~~>o~~o~~~~~-
SLIGHT DECLINE In CONsOLS.
>o-ol>oOo~.>nvrn-NoO~o.N,
Meeting Of Napoleon and Alexander at
Stuttgard,
&C., DC, &c.

ne Collins steAmship Atlantic, Captain Edrege, which
slied from Liverpool 81 about Ave O'Clock tie afternoon
Of September, tho 3b arrived here n half past Ian
O'Clock yesterday morning bringing one hundred and
sweny eight paenges s7 600 in specie, and valuable
cargo Of SOC tons.
Among she passengers by the Atlantic ne ChaSles 8
epsnce Of Balmere recently from Persia, with the ratn
cation Of the late commercial treaty Schroeder late
United States Minister Sweden W. H. Oaborn, presi.
dsns o. hA Illinois Central Railroad Train, Of Boston;
md p BgAna d, TENOR from Florence, enCged for the
Andsmy Of Music.
The CunArd steamship Aha arrived n Liverpool at lol6
sa the morning OF Sunday, September 81
Inc williams arrived the morning, and the
Ksusayoo n O'Clock the afternoon Of the 2oth.
ne main interest Of the news centres IN the advioes-
srtui fht ater-Yom India Delhi remained In hands
q Ne Insurgents, and the Intelligence generally il of
neeattve character.
b the AhiYs Of Buropo ths imperial Interview q Butt
gAsdt The only matter Of interest II was generally
supposed hat Hs results would be OF peaceful nature
The Journal d. Hare uys;-
SECOND tender for The Transatlantic fne OF steamers
hon Havre 70 New York has s boon deposited at tie
Nsrnou and Prost, ard the company they represent
cepts purely and simply all the oaues Of the o0r des
sAaypa proposed by the govornmept ptAntng csrtsn
OF shares at The disposal Of the commercial
q HaUe This tender has bean duly transmitted 70 the
kintsteY Of Finance.
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