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The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

s0r A piece of rock of about hun
dred tons weight, fell from a precipice
on Goat Island, Niagara, on Sunday
week, three hundred feet below the
British Falls. Three persons under
meath were badly hurt. Mr.. G w,
Parsons, OF Cleveland was badly if not
fatally injured.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

p~ Justice knight, on Monday, ren.
dered his decision in the slaDder case oil
Sanford z Sillman rs. Harvey G.. Rich
mond, which was noticed last week
Richmond was adjudged guilty of the
charge. and ordered to pay fine of $40
From which decision he appealed.
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say- 1t is stated that a monument j,

aay~ 1t is stated that monument is
to be placed over the grave of the great
Statesman, J'mes Madison, at Orange,
Virginia 1t is already prepared-a
rlain, granite obel,sk, twenty feet in
h,ight bearing no inscription except th c
date of his birth snd death and is the
fre will Offering Cf his Old friends and
ncighbors, and their children. Chaste
aud plain, it is the. fit representation OF
the beautiful simplicity of the character
of him whose memory it is designed to
commemorate It is tar !y off,ring,
but under the circumstances, every way
honorable to those who have thus be.
come the substitutes of the Common
wealth in rescuing from dissertation and
oblivion the spot where rests the vene
rated remains of one of the noblest OF
her sons.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

nay~ President Smith of the Wesley
an University at Middletown, Conn.
having resigned, the Rev. DR.. Cummings,
of Genesec College, has been elected in
his place.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

s@- The Secretary of the Treasury
has appointed Joshua B. Raibburn,
keeper of Beaver Tail lighthouse, vice
Mrs. Damaris Weeden, removed -sala-
ry $3.50 per annum.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

asy- a piece of rock, of about hun.
dred tons weight, fell from preciplce
on Goat Island, Niagara, last Sunday
three hundred feet below the British
Falls, three persons underneath were
badly hurt. Mr.. G.. w. Parsons, ol
Cleveland, it is feared, received fatal
injuries,
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Pawcatuck High School.

INHE Fall Term will commence on Mou-
l. day Sept. 9Th 1857, Tuition
Common English, $500
Languages and Higher Eng. Extra, LOO.
No extra charges upon Bills.
Music, Rudimental and Practical taught
daily.
Lectures, Philosophical and Astronomical
with experiments will be given during the
term. A. j. FOSTER. PRINCIPAL.
Westerly, Aug. l3, 1857. 3l8.
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ny- The people of Newport are max
ing preparations for grand celebration
on the 10th of September, the annivor-
sary OF POrry's victory on Lake Erie.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

sey' Owing to the stern which oc
cured on the day appointed for the
dedication of The Baptist Church at
New Shorebam, the services were post
poned to Tuesday the 25th inst
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13
M A R R 4 IL ID /,

In this village, on the 18th inst by Rev Mr..
Whitman, John Martin Of this village to-
Miss Charlotte Edwards, of Leonardsville, N.
Y.
In New York city, on Monday last, by Rev.
Mr.. Kohlmaier, Mr.. Max Mainthow, Of the firm
Of Gates Mainthow, of this town to Miss
Helen Griesman. Of Clayham, Alabama.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

DH- In Cincinnati. fine looking
Newfoundland dog dropped his muzzle'
and instantly, as il fearing The dog slay
er thrust his nose into it again, aud 'rot-
ted along, with very happy wag OF hl'
tail.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

ses- Rev. DR.. Bond, of Norwich, CT.
will preach at the Congregational Church
in this village, on Sunday next, the 10th
inst.
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Stolen.

LNROM Fish House, on Quonochontaup.
Il Beach, on Sunday the 9tE inst, q Sill
yer Detached Lever Watch, of NJ. j. Tobias,
& Co.'s make, Liverpool, No. 45l0O. Who
ever wi II return said Watch, or give such.
information that it can be found will be,
suitably rewarded.
SANFORD N. SANDERS.
Potter Hill, Aug. IL 1857. '3t3l8,
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

s0- The Cunningham baby aud its
mother is said to be on exhibition at
Barnum's Museum, New York.
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

pay- 1t was reported at Vera Cruz,
at latest dates, that ex-President Santa
Anna had died, but Of the reliability we
are not advised
The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1857-08-13

In North Stonington, on the 9th inst Mrs..
Eide ID. Avery, aged 53 years.
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sG- Youth is the season for improve
ment.
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fairly submitted and fairly adopted. The effort
to force Constitution dstasteful to the people
upon them. must prove futile, and cannot De
recognised by the party that established me
doctrine Of popular government, and are Oouho
to see it equitsbly enforced.
From the Buffalo Advertiser (Old-Iine Whig0 Nov IL.
Tie late news from Kansas is OF a character
to arrest attention. The Convention tor form
ing State Constitution adjourned On Saturday,
the eth inst, having completed Its lsbors. No
provision is made for submitting the Constitu-
ton, as whole, 10 the SURFACES of the people,
bat the Convention decided to submit the arti-
Gle relating to Slavery. The people of Kansas
have as clear right to decide on the other
parts Of the organic law under which they are
to live, as they have to say whether they will
tolerate Slavery within their limits. We believe
that this refusal to allow the people of the Ter
ritory to vote on the Constitution as whole
will receive the emphatic condemnation of the
people OF the country, and that 1t viii be so en-
phatically expressed before the subject comes
into Congress, that that body will not venture
to set it st defiance BY admitting Kansas as a
State We have of late looked carefully into
the leading Democratic journals of the North
ern States, with a view to gather their senti-
ments On this subject, and it gives US pleasure
to say, that they are unanimously and warmly
enlisted in defence Of the right-of the right OF
the people of Kansas 10 decide under what in
situations they will live. We confidently predict,
therefore, that the action Of the Kansas Conven-
ton viii no, be sanctioned by Congress.
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cial, or any security against seizure of persons,
search of houses, or capture of papers and
effects. This head, growing out of the trans
actions in Florida, 30 recent in date, and so up
to the exigency of our argument, was merely
named and sketched in the Examination"
but afterwards we'll developed in the forth
coming sixth volume of the Abridgment.
In the same Examination" will be seen
the manner in which the act sbrogating the
Missouri Compromise IVES passed, and the OBJ.
jects for which it was passed, and of which it
was only the 6rst step and the entering wedge /;
whereof the good people of the United States
are at present profoundly ignorant; telegraph
reporting has about killed all popular knoul-
edge of Congress proceedings, eontining their
report to results, too brief and meager to show
how Congress acts and yet this is almost the
only report of Congress doiugs which the peo-
pie will read in this go-ahead age of steam
and electricity.
1t Is long time since we saw each other !:
and what is called politics have sadly run down
since that time, and especially in the last Pres.
dential term presenting but little for the attrac-
ton of any man who has nothing but the public
good in view. But here is a question of new
kind, national and elevated, on which all who
are for the Constitution as our fathers made it.,
and as they administered it in their day and
generation, and as the next generation admins
tered it, land that without distinction of party
or default of man, may come together and
stand. For one, can give no political aid or
comfort to any man or party, in any future
election, who shall uphold the opinion of the
Supreme Court in declaring the nullity of the
Missouri Compromise, and in decreeing the self
extension of the Constitution to Territories,
carrying Slavery with it, and preventing Con.
gress and the people Of the Territory from say
ing yea or nay to its Introduction or repulsion.
| am now well recovered, and working as
usual, and expect to finish the Abridgment next
Summer, and TO add another volume to the two
of the Thirty Years Fisic, bringing it down to
1860, if l live that long; at all events, to the
time of the Pierce administration, if we must
call by his name an Administration in which
he was imperative, and in which nullifers, dis
unionists, and renegades, used lis name and
his power for their own audacious and criminal
purposes. Respectfully,
THOMAS 81. BENTON.
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THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON D. c. DECEMBER TO- 1857.

This conviction and sssurI ice has been fre-
auently repeated by Gov. w TX Il in his inter-
course With the people Of the I n tory. Though
the Uaioa newspaper now fers policy in
direct violation of this plain RI cord, and the
President and Cabinet are speesented to do
the same thing, we do net srsve it will be
found for the interest Of the ,d,ainistrstion or
its party to meet the new isst - such a way.
They may be forced to spill. Eat though the
prediction is against tie BIZ 'e;cfore uniform
course of Mr.. Buchanan and bis party, we be.
lieve they will see their inte est as we see it,
and will sustain themselves q the right of the
people of Kansas to pass up IN their Constitu.
ton, even at the expense of soss of the ex-
treme Southern wing. Let D xstch and see if
the Democratic party does t get revolution
ize itself on this CUES ton Of layery.
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Secretary Republican Association, Nsiiol
Era Orflce, Washington, ID. c.
POLITICAL FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

POLITICAL FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE
Olmsted's Seaboard Slave States. One vol
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From tr5 H. B. Sosee IN the li<pssds. February %
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and graphic and he is so far from being carried
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at the calmness with which he will relate the
most astounding facts. he never hesitates TO
admit merit, or give praise when it is due. The
book is very thorough and accurate in its details
and is written in a style so lively, and with SO
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like work of fiction. A friend of ours, 8 gen
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half of the night to read it.
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The Duty of the American Scholar to Pol
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George W. Curtis, on Tuesday, August 5, 1856,
before the Literary Societies of Wesleyan Uni
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postage free.
The Political Essays of Parke Goodwin,
Esq. ConteHts.-Our Parties and Politics; the
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and Policy; Annexation " America for Amer
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The North and the South. A Statistical
NJ no IF -ba md
States. By Henry Chase and Charles W. San
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If any one wishes to know what Slavery has
done for the South, and Freedom for the North,
let them read this mastery work. Let him study
these figures. Place copy of these statistics in
the hands of every voter, and, our word for it
RepublicanisE will sweep the entire North in
1860, a. clean as il has swept New England in
1856. Men Of the South, we beg you to look
calmly and dispassonately at this array of figures
and see what they portend.
The able editor of the Evening Tyanseript, Bos.
ton, thus speaks of this work:
Z" This little book contains a vast amount Of
information respecting the comparative condition
Of the slaveholding and non-slaveholding States
SIS 70 territory, population industry, wealth. edu-
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and general progress. The work must have cost
great deal of laborious research and it certain
ly presents arguments in favor of Freedom or
every page. 1t contains just the kind of informs
ton that should be more generally known in al
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| public demand for thousands of COPIES
AL orders should be addressed to
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Seeraa,y Republican Assseishoa
WasAiagton, D. G.
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American Sentinel, published in that paper
some time 10 August The defendants plead
guilty to the charge, and, while expressing
their regret for the act, denied the Intentional
commission Of wrong, and resorted to the game
as healthy and harmless exercise. The char
acter of the two gentlemen inculpated would
never subject them to the charge of wanton
disregard Of the obligations and duties apper-
tanning to their vocation; and however improp-
er resort to the bowling alley by Christian
minister. there cannot be doubt that the rea-
son assgned-a good and sufficient one, we
might say, if allowed to express an opinion
was the true one. Messrs. Edwards and Ros-
ser pledge themselves from all future indul-
gence in the game complained OF, and the Con-
ference declined any further action in the prem
ises.-Richmond Enquirer.
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70 THE REPUBLICANS THROUGHOUT
THE UNITED STATES.
The Battle for Freedom not yet Won.
A YORK OF PERMANENT VALUE.

In vol svo. SO pages Cloth Price 81 postage
HAVING received, since the close of the Campo n
and Documents issued by the Republican Association
the subscriber induced reprint the important
them IN neat octave volume OF $50 pages. II will be
Eembered that many OF these Speeches and Documents
Were prepared with great and contain much valua
tanned elsewhere, and. although compiled specially TO-
useful for future reference. especially during TIE
three years
These Docdnen is and Speeches may be considered {,
part OF the literature OF The day.
the volume contains tSenty-siI OF the most importan
Speeches delivered in Congress by Republican members
together with the Speeches of Senator Seward al ALBANY
and Buffalo, ms Plymouth Grafton and three delivered
during the Campaign. al Detroit Oswego, and Auburn
Also, Wes;on's standard Documents, entitled - Poo
Whites OF the South; Southern Slavery Reduces North
Wages; Who and who may be Slaves in ih
United Sia-s2 Will the South Dissolve the Cnonf Tn
Federal Union, il must be Preserved; and Who See
Iional!
Report Of the Kansas investigating Committee.
Kansas in 1856 complete History OF the Ouirages i!
Kansas, embraced in the Kansas Committee Repor
By an Officer fine Commission.
Reasons lor Joining The Republican Party. BY Judg
Foot.
ORGANIZATION Of the Free State Government in Kanssi
and iHSu garal Address OF Gov Robinson.
The Fugtiiye S3sve Bill Of $50.
LEWIS CLEPHANE,
Secretary Republican Association, National
81 Era Once. Washington ID. G.
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF CONGRESS

paoltsh now my annual Pro.rec'l-s o. lie D.. -
GLOBE. and The Congressional G.O.- and A--.s,--''
remind subscribers. and morn those WHO a.. -
subscribe that Congress ~ aI--f on ILL.,. a-.. (,
next December. when shi.s ~,cofnul-r-a '4s
above-f AIMED papers. They have b..r-. ....-t 'i-
that most public men know her c.arac.,- a a 49,,
matter lHey VIII contain A'"-
Tar Daily q '0ar VIII contain a r.ra-. az .-. al.
IN boin branches Of Congress. ~ ts.ezEa.,. f.. -,
equal a. east 10 any corps Of sHDr'-l..c W.
or 80 any ofs-T country ,0rsry g.. .-.r. -r
De @bie 70 report. rer>at1l Ten ,Iul-l s,a-a. -.
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GLOBE OF the next morning which j .e.,... 80,
W OF tIe day together win -1cu ,l.-5.... -
may lie suggested y ps,>.a ~ evrl-.
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may require. 10 pG1.sa my r-sa'.. sg-ie,. .,r- .
men with whom nave -esU a.sc. .4.-. s.-. u, p. ~
twenty ght ear AEecco'rs G.. r. E1a.,r r.
the Leaders o. tne parry watch d. 60 .r..--- s. -
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o.. when partisan tllt- me. la, a-at,G
IL becoming the reporter OF Tie DEL s.-- O. C7rc,.
partisan paper Tals pledge vs.. .ot t- -or.-..-- ~
Producing IS co1tr.lHol - as o-g -.- 10 ,.,.,.
OF Character wh.ca d.. .g-Is1-r 'a- gla men. 1 n,
tine. Although am sHC .r'-ae 90 r-u.. q ;.5r. =
Democrat. -. never Tli. I'll. rrl.ell.ss IN a.,
10 make theHi obnoxious 10 scy parry 81. J.. r-rs,+ Z
persons ami events winch 40 10 -.. 81 70 s-. La,
10 MAKE The G.c1e an ECleS- memoir. "a C. -, b 80
view. am resolved 20 sreas T-.cta u. d 9s -
Fn- Congrsss-ona. G.o3e All A99---.r .y car.s.
report OF al. toe De.aes ID Congress re.se- a,,,
SPEAKERS, me Messages Of me Precedent 81 ,- Ua4,
States the Annual Reports or he Head, q. lie F1-cg,
Departments, tie Laws ps,~-1 during Tie >-,-y. r,
copious indexes 10 all Ia-E ST. %. OLA -cs.
royai sheet, IN book forul, rJy .-sr5 ~. .a. .
containing sixteen pages. TIE n4c- ,v. t.s.e r.,
believed betv cen 3 >uI and 4. 81. PAGES IS H. .s- -
slOns Tor many wears Rave ranged between nose hun
Oers, and The session ". r- WA. 5 er- cd r-
one THIS believe J. he caeeT->. y0.A ss-r soi
any country, whether tT5.4, or t.a.-. rom usr
SCRIPT COPY taking or 8n,I ,a- AVERAGE % ,Of.
OF toe long sessions stsre i-t !es- --t- lie sT-fs
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VOL. XI,.

TEXAS.
l. "uy H. Bryan 2 J, H. Reagan.
IOWA.
l. Sam. r. Curtis.f 2. Tinotb, n.
WISCONSIN.
l. John F. Potter.+ 3. C. B;rl;,.,
2. &C. Washburr.*t nufst '
CALIFORNIA.
l. Charles L. Scott. 2.J.C. NcK;b,.
The following members Rave been e,o...,
represent Minnesota, upon her a3ri..; CT'e y
State into the Union: George Backar .oV W a; !
Phelps, and - Ksvanagh-all DEM. -.
Delegates from the Territories.
Minnesota, ". ". Kingshurv. o,o..- -,
seph Lane; New Mexico. NJ. A. Or 'I r.. =
John NJ. Bernbisel; Washington. / I S,oC va
Kansas, II. J. Parrot; Nebraska, F Fa.A
son. g
Members of the present Cor,-.s.
Buchanan men 10,
I Republicans On
! Know Nothings l;
Total %,