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New ORLEANS, Nov. 1S.-We are again called up
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tended with great loss Of life. . @.s4fg!.
The steamship Opelousas, from Berwick Bay,
bound to Galveston, Texas, came in collision with
the steamer Galreston of the same line, about mid
almost Immediately, and twenty-five lives were lost
Among the number the distinguished Gen.
James Hamilton of South Carolina. All the officers
and crew were saved. --'' "A. sA'.- y
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October %, 1857.
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THE NEUTRALITY LAWS.

The Government will not favor Gersr,.
Walkers schemes of conquest and plumber, We
learn, from the following Washington dispatcl
in the Baltimore Sun:
Washington, Sept. l8.-The Adminigt,,.
ton is determined to enforce the neutrality Law,
and to day the initiatory steps were taken rtb.
purpose. In addition to information bavirr
been received of the 6ttiugout Of three several er
petitions, namely, at New York, New Orlesn,
and Mobile, for the invasion of Nicaragua. unds.
the leadership of General Walker, intelligepcs
from an official quarter has come to hand NJ
another expedition, having its centre nearly. L
not altogether, confined to Texas, for the inys.
sion of Mexico, and it is supposed the seizu,s
eff the State ofTamaulipas. General Sam Hon.
ton is, by the reports received, implicated az h.
leader.
"To-day the form of instructions was prs.
pared by Executive authority, aud copies n
which will be dispatched tomorrow TO the o,
rious United States Marshals and District A..
torneys on the seaboard, as well as to the ofoa,,
of the army and navy, to use ali lawful meas
at their command to prevent such expedite,
from leaving the United States for the bos,
invasion of any country with which We are .,
peace; in other words, enoiuing them TO stria..
ly enforce the neutrality laws. At present, no
proclamation will be issued"
If this is the truth, and the Administraf;7ui s
not acting part to blind the people of he
North, the flibusters had better take war,..rr
1t remains to be seen whether the United S a.-,
Marshals and District Attorneys of New Orleans
and other Southern ports will use all lax'ul
means " to break up the schemes Of the a.i
busters
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chanan recognises it, and sustains its acts. |
pursuance of one of them, Convention b, 8
met to form State. Constitution. The Pfa-
Slavery party is supreme, and the result WI
be slaveholding Constitution, adverse to To .
views of great majority of the real voter
who, however, will be denied the right to 'vo-
upon it. That Constitution will be submitted
to the new Congress, in which there will be q
small majority Of the supporters of Mr.. Buchst-
an. Congress asserting, the Constitution WI
be accepted, and Kansas will come in as sls,-l
State. Is this what the Democracy taught u !
country to expect during the last canvass
But will Congress assent? Can a MAORI :
be found in the House of Representatives Y
sanction measure so Ubiquitous in itself, ar
the result of fraud so pertinacious and bare
faced2 Yes, if Massachusetts, PennsylUdnig.
and, Gbove all, Ohio, should this fall ratifii.
the dicta Of the Supreme Court, and the dog
mas Of Calhoun, as erpOunded by Mr.. BIZ
cAanan, by giving posOer to the BucAaS.
an Democracy. But let these States faste
the brand of condemnation upon these doc
trines, and there will be hope for Kansas.
some Democrats there must be in the mex:
Congress, who will sec in the signs of The
times evidences of Freedom Power, too for
midable to be deied. :
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF
KANSAS.

This body met on the 7th instant, and formed
a temporary organization. A committee on
credentials was appointed, who made out list
of "regularly-appointed delegates" These
were all admitted, while all the Free State del.
egates we're rejected. Permanent officers were
soon chosen. General Calhoun, Surveyor Gen.
eral of Kansas and Bank Commissioner of Hi.
nois, was elected President, and Mr. Cary, cor
respondent of the N. Y Times, Secretary of
the Convention.
The probable course of the Convention in
the matter of submitting the Constitution to a
vote of the people, is much discussed. Nothing
is certain yet. Mr.. Cary writes to the N. y
Times:
"The majority of the Convention is, l believe
in favor of submission of the Constitution to
the popular vote. 1t is true, there are great
differences of opinion even among those pledged
to that policy, as to the extent of the requisite
qualification of previous residence Some go
for twelve months residence, some for six,
some for three months, and few, very few,
for no previous residence at all beyond the fact
of proof of actual residence at the time of vo-
ting, and Of the GniDlus mGnepdi of the voter.
think it probable that they will compromise
on ak months, and that six months residence
will elapse betaoeen the period of the framiao of
the Constitution IN October and its Submission
TO the people merit spring for adoption or re.
lection. l say the framing of the Constitution
In October, because 1t is now generally believ.
ed, and many of the members of the Conyen.
ton state it as their belief, and hope that i'm
mediately after perfecting the organization of
the Convention, the appointment of the com.
mittees, and the assignment to those commit
tees of their various tasks, the Convention will
adjourn until after the elections in October. so
as to be guided in their subsequent and final
action by the expression of the popular will as
manifested in the interval"
The Philadelphia North american. a con.
servative Republican journal, comments upon
this extract as follows:
The meaning of this is, that the Convention
has determined TO await the result of the Octo
Der election, In order to see whether the Pro.
Slavery party will still be able to triumph
against an immense popular majority. If so,
the Constitution will be put to vote. If not, it
will be sent to Congress without. Here is the
cat out of the bag. AS connected with this
matter, we learn from various quarters that
there is no longer any doubt as to the prepare
tons going on in the border counties of Mis-
souri, for another invasion of the Territory TO
carry the October election. The Herald of
Freedom. which has disbelieved and denounced
the allegation, now gives it full credence. The
Free State men have organized a complete mil
itary force everywhere; but there are thirteen
hundred United States troops in the Territory,
and these will be distributed at the principal
towns, to be present at the polls, where sherifs
will also be stationed to collect the taxes, 80
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THE ULTRAs APPRAISED

The ultraists of the South are appeased by
the Presidents letter to the New Haven gentle
men. That distinguished fuuctionarv did not
see fit to follow the advice of the Ne,O York
Herald, which was, that he should cast off the
ultraists of the slave States, and commit him
self to the care of the great body of moderate
men, North and South. The Administration
could not safely east off thirty five" members
of Congress, who were ready to make war upon
the Government they helped to elect. The let
ter of Mr.. Buchanan has satisfied this class of
Southern politicians. We quote the subioined
paragraph from one of the most violent of the
Southern journals:
Gin the excess of our qualification to be
assured by Mr.. Buchanan himself of his en-
tire disapproval of the doctrines of the Gov.
ernor of Kansas, we for the moment overlooked
the important general principles he has pro-
mulgated. If our readers will again refer to
this document, and examine it with a more scru-
tlnizlng eye, they cannot fail to be forcibly i'm
pressed with the great doctrines it embodies.
These are propounded with the most striking
precision and emphasis. There is not the
faintest resemblance of reluctant concession To
the just demands of the South but a bold,
honest, and spontaneous declaration of funda-
mental principles of constitutional right, of the
utmost consequence to the Southern cause
They are the more impressive and merit a
deeper consideration, because they are the
calm and deliberate conclusions of distin-
guished statesman, Northerner by birth and
education, upon a subject of all others most
momentous to the people of the South, embra-
cling, as 1t does, the constitutional relations of
Slavery"
Such sentiments from such source may
well serve to open the eyes of Northern Demo
Gratis to the nature of the Presidents letter. At
present, Northern Democratic journals are en-.
gagged in lauding the document, and binding
their readers to its true character No extre-
mist in the entire South need doubt the success
of his ideas, if the people of the North can be
brought to adopt the views and principles en-
bodied in the Presidents letter. Slavery be-
comes nationalized, and will receive the aid
and support of the Government, as the chief
end of man."
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fain. Remain ct home. The Kansas ques-
ton viii then be peacefully settled the agits-
ton Of Slavery viii cease, and Kansas and Mis-
souri, viii go on prospecting and to prosper.
TO THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS
Having thus discharged the duty assigned
them, the committee would conclude By exhort-
ing all the people of Kansas 10 90 to the polls
on the day Of election, in pursuance of the &C.
ton Of the Convention, and deposit their bal
los for candidates Of their choice. Whatever
may be the result of the election, we believe
cur cause will be strengthened by such a
course. Very respectfully,
j. b. LANE, and Committee.
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THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. c. SEPTEMBER a. 1887

no such opinion, and did not eres n that he en-
tertained it. Why fer thera t vote in the
dark, especially whe he could ,ardly doubt
that full disclosu, of ais o. n views on
these points would be re aiensted thousands of
of voters who gave im their ssjport, suppo-
sing him to hold the Octripes regarding Slave
ry and Popular Sover ,ignty, president among
Northern and Wester DenSocrats2
To US, this seems Il . darsest chapter in Mr..
Buchanan's political ,fe.
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VOL. XII.

that no person shall be allowed to vote wj,bo-.
paying them. A hard struggle ID in p,ospgc, .
The Kansas question does not promise to ba
Immediately settled, and those Democrats wbo
voted for Mr.. Buchanan, believing that bs
would give the people of Kansas Justice. will
find that they we're egrOgiously mistaken.
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the fate of Walkers late soldiers, we think he
will find the recruiting business to prosper
slowly. Then, too, he may find the Govern
ment in his way. Great as is its friendship for
Slavery, it is too conservative to abet new at
tack upon Nicaragua; and if it did, the flibus-
tiers have a native people to conquer and to
constantly subdue. England and France may
assist them to keep out the violators of their
freedom and independence. The chances for
success, then, are too faint to justify even an ad
venturer in attempting to crush Central Amer
lea. No motives of humanity or justice will
affect the conduct of ilibustering desperadoes,
and we have only to rely upon the motive of
fear, to prevent them from making further
depredations upon any weak people. We trust
they will reconsider the whole matter, and save
their necks from hanging before it is too late.
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THE STEAMSHIP DISASTER.

1t was generally feared that the loss of nel-
ly two millions of gold on the Central AM.
lea would have very bad effect upon Il.
monetary market Of New York, bat such We,
not the case. A New York dispatch says.
"The principal effect was upon the P,cer
Mail Steamship Company stock, which, how
ever, has no connection with the loss. Thai
stock opened to-day at 60, but It was b-ff,-
subsequently, aud rallied to o.
1t is now ascertained that there was no in.
surance on the vessel, which was valued al
100000. About one million of the specie was
insured in England, and the balance here. Rec,
lamatons upon the foreign companies will
form the basis upon which to draw bills of ey.
change, and thus stand equivalent t. shin
ments of specie 70 the same amount. Oar own
companies are fully able to meet their losses.
and will pay them at once. Among the amounts
insured abroad are the following:
"Wells, Fargo, & Co., 100000 Duncar
Sherman, & Co., $3.50, 900; R3bb, Halter.
Co., $l50,000; Aspinwall 4 Co., SlU0U01.
VIM. Hoge & Co., $4,000. Wells, Fargo
Co. have open policies in the Marine Insursus,
Company, the Indemnity Mutual Marine Lon.
don) Assurance Company, and the Roya EN.
change Assurance Company. The freight lists
and other papers of the ship are all on boa-l,
and duplicates cannot be obtained from San
Francisco under six weeks
The loss of life by this dreadful disaster IS
frightful, and it has cast gloom over the
whole country. The commander of the " Ten.
trail America Lieut.. Herndon, was widely
known by his exploration of the Amazon some
time ago. He was brave and adventurous
man
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POSITION OF THE TRACT SOCIETY.

We have received a circular from the Elk
ecutive Committee of the American Tract So.
ciety, giving history of the recent action upon
Slavery, by the Society, at its last annual meet.
ing, and statement of the reasons which have
induced the committee to disobey the instruc-
tons of the Society.
The Society instructed its officers to prepare
and publish tract or tracts upon the "moral
duties" growing out of the existence of Sla
very. The committee set to work, and were
nearly ready with a tract on the Duties of
Masters "a tract containing nothing against
the institution of Slavery, not word intima
ting that the relation is wrong. But in the
words of the circular:
From all quarters of our Southern field we
have received, and from the tried and fast
friends of the Society, expressions the most
unanimous and decided, that any publication
by our press, bearing upon the topic of Slavery,
even though OF Southern authorship, and care
fully kept within the terms of the resolutions of
the anniversary, could have no other result than
precipitating the entire withdrawal Of the South
from cooperation with the Society. The new
works would fad no gate of access and the
separation would henceforth exclude even our
older issues, by fingiRg over them the sugpi.
clon of their origin from a quarter presumed
to have become hostile to the interests of the
South. Of those accredited issues, the siftings
of rich evangelical literature in our own and
IN European lands-books on which Gods
Spirit has put his evident and gracious appro.
Walt seemed a sad necessity to be compelled
to clog in any way the circulation.
From Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, and Georgia, from Alabama,
Louisiana, and Tennessee, we hear but one ties.
timony, as borne by State Branches and Auxil.
iaries, by the Society's officers, general agents,
superintendent, and colporteurs, by ecclesias,
teal bodies, and by the religious press Over
the South we have now a virtual suspension of
collections; and if the present dstrust and
alienation but remain, there must speedily en-
sue withdrawal of colporteurs and distribution
throughout our Southern field. We must sur.
render all the Southern and Southwestern States.
TO proceed, is thus to palsy one side of our in
stitution."
The Tract Society's officers therefore will not
publish any tracts upon Slavery, or the duties
growing out of it, but will confne themselves
to the safer subjects of tobacco. chewing, Sab.
bath-breaking, dancing, wine-drinking, and 9TH
er evils.
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not overcome their common sense. The shrewd
sense of practical middle-class men is to be
trusted, rather than the opinions of aristocratic
officers and rulers.
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WASHINGTON, D. c..
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER "a, 1857.

n6- The Office of the National Era is re-
moved to the newly-erected Republican Build
ing" corner of Indiana avenue and Second
street
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A KANSAS Court OF JUsTIcE-The Kansas
correspondent of the S.. Louis Democrat. unde-
date of September Z, gives the following char.
acteristic scene in justice court at LecomJ,
ton
Mr.. Bailey is not yet dead. He is lying il
a very precarious condition. On Saturday, Mr.
Brockett, who stabbed Mr.. Bailey, returned t,
Lecompton, and was arrested. The PropagauC,
lists swore that be should not be tried, and tina.
any man who dared to testify against him
should be shot. He was brought before a JUS
tice Of the peace. The tocsn was sounded.
The fre.eaters assembled. The Free Safe
Democrats also convened. The conservative
Pro-Slsvery men met, too-Shannon, BrndIe,
Eli Moore, and Stephens, of New Y0rk-and
determined to act with their Free Safe friends.
"They gave notice to the fire eaters, tha, #
the trial was interfered with, they would aid 70
put down the insurgents. They all met at the
JUSTICES office. a man was called on to testify.
The propagandists drew their revolvers. The
other party followed suit. One of them handed
a revolver to the witness and thus armed
the pistol cocked-he proceeded to give his eTi'
dence Isn't this a great country? The justice
was a man of weak nerves, and tainted. The
trial was postponed till Monday"
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OHIo.-The campaign is an exciting one .l
Ohio. Gov. Chase, ike Mr.. Wilmot in Penn
sylvania, has been hard at work upon the stump
and with success. The State Journal, of Co.
lumbus, says:
Governor Chase arrived in Columbus Oh
Saturday, from his tour in the southern conn.
ties. He has spoken every day since Wednes.
day week, Sundays excepted, sometimes twice
in one day, and has travelled great distance.
and in all manner Of conveyances, sometime,
up all night, yet never In one instance failing
to keep his appointments at the time and place
specified. The Governor says he has never
spoken 30 much and at such remote points ia
80 short space Of time, and yet he never felt
less fatigue-never was in better health OF in
better voice, than when he had concluded his
engagements for the ten days. His last speech
was at Batavia, Clermont county, on Saturday
The meeting was fine one, at which Judge
Fishback presided. The Judge opposed the
election OF Governor Chase two years ago, but
is now heartily in for his reelection.
The Governor was accompanied part of the
time by Judge Warden, and part of the time
by Judge Welker, the Republican candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. We can assure our
readers that the canvass thus far is of high
promise and we have no doubt that. as It pro
crosses, the cause will gain additional strength.
Gov. Chase will remain in town dey or two,
when he will proceed to fulfill engagements in
Shelby, Marion, and Hancock; and next week
he will speak in a number of the northwestern
counties, beginning with speech 10 Lucas, at
Toledo, on Thursday, the 22d. The Repabr,
cans of the northwest will welcome their gal.
liant standsrd-bearer with hearty and Joyous
enthusiasm"
Let not the reelection Of Gov Chase be lost
through the supineness of the Republicans.
Every voter, we trust, will be at the polls and
do his duty-and Mr.. Chase will remain Gov.
ernor of Ohio.
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lNcoNsIsTENcY.-The ADMINISTRATORS OF
the State of New York are making quite point
over the legislation of the late Republican Leg
islature for the city of New York. They declare
that the legislation referred to was undemocrat.
ic and tyrannical, and on this cry they are
gaining votes in certain quarters. Now. il
seems that the ADMINISTRATORS of New York
and Maryland disagree on this point. At re-
cent meeting, held at Hagerstown, Maryland,
Ex-Governor Lowe, of that State, said:
baltimore IS a moral Leper, a Uery Sodon,
and GomOrroh Of corruption and inioyity. and
to the honest yeOn'Gnry Of the rural districts the
the next Legislature TO PASS CoERCIyE IIws
AGAINST THAT CITY"
Will the Administration journals of New York
rebuke this undemocratic, tyrannical adviser ?
Or is it proper to cOerce Baltimore, but not
New York?
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MAssACHUsETTs.-The northampton Cou-
rier has heretofore refused to hoist the name of
Mr.. Banks to the head of its columns for Gov.
ernor, feeling that his Anti-Slavery opinions
were not sufficiently radical. But since Mr.
Banks's Worcester speech, and the re.nomina
ton of Gov. Gardner by the Americans, it
comes out spiritedly for Mr.. Banks. 1t says:
" Mr.. Banks now stands before the people as
the representative and candidate of the Repub-
hcan party. His defeat would be rejoiced over
by the enemies of Republication, and his sue
cess would be hailed with Joy by the tried Anti
Slavery men of the country. he occupies the
same position in Massachusetts that Chase does
in Ohio, and Wilmot in Pennsylvania. The
views expressed and the policy marked out in
his speech, are the views and policy which even
the : old guard of Anti-Slavery men have M
held, and which must be adhered to if final sue.
cess is to be achieved.
Mr.. Banks is also opposed by an unscrupu-
lous and Unfortunately ambitious party. arra7ed
under the lead of a man whose administration
Of the Government for three years has brought
the Treasury to bankruptcy and the character
OF the State to derision; which already has ar
rayed around its banner the various factions of
hunkers who opposed Fremont, and who but
recently nalied with delight the defeat of the
Free Labor party in Missouri-who sneer alike
at the Declaration of Independence, and the
cruelties practiced upon the Free State people
On Kansas; and who, in speech and in action.
have ever been allied with the enemies of the
opposition to the propagandists of Slavery.
However much we may have doubted the
propriety of nominating Mr. Banks, we cannot
shut our eyes to these facts. We are admon.
ished by the present condition of the camuaigu.
that to be neutral is alike impoitic and uniustif,
able with siding with the opponents of the Free
Labor party. We shall therefore give to Mr..
Banks, and to the party which uphoIds the pol.
icy and doctrines of his speech, our earnest and
undivided support"
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Washington Irving is gathering the materi-
ais for life of Kit Carson.