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The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

Mr.. Keitt. of South Carolina, the colleague
and abettor of the late Bully Brooks, takes
a rather desperate view of the prospects of
slavery. In recent speech to his constit
uents he said:
1.-The great deep at the North seems to
me to be broken up, and the Abolition flood
rises higher every day. Little subaltern
municipal elections, and the control
of cross roads, which the opponents of
Republicanism have recently, in some in
stances, torn from them, are not noticeable
wrecks upon the waters. They have the
legislative, judicial and executive power !:
and this is all that we of the South are con-
cerned about. Tbeliege Gy tie signs that the
Democracy aciH be defeated IN 1860; and
while entertain this belief, shall not con-
ceal it. I believe that the safety of the
South is only in herself. The road to Fed
eral honors should not be over her rights,
nor should betrayal and treachery be the
passport to Federal favor. My advice, then,
to the South, is to have some-not absolute
confidence in the National Democratic
party, and keep her powder dry. The lat
ter is much more likely to save her than the
former
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

Negro Right of Suffrage in Maine.

The decision In the Dred Scott case arous-
ed considerable local interest in Maine, be-
cause the Constitution of that State limits
the right of suffrage to 'smale citizens fthe
United States:'' Under this clause negroes
had always voted. The Legislature, there
fore, asked the opinion of the Supreme JUS
tees upon the point whether free colored
persons of African descent, otherwise quail
flied, are authorized to vote by this clause of
the Constitution. The majority of the Court
have just rendered their opinion in the af-
lirmative. They take the very just ground
that the right of citizenship guaranteed to
colored persons in several enumerated States,
prior TO the adoption of the National Con-
stitution, made such persons citizens of the
United States-that in Maine, then being a
part of Massachusetts,, such persons had the
right of suffrage-and that on her separation,
the exclusion of negroes from that right was
moved in the Constitutional Convention and
voted down. From Che time of the adoption
of the Constitution to the present day, the
right to vote has not been denied to any res
ident of the State, ON account of his color.
The Constitution does not discriminate be-
tween different races of people inhabiting
the State, but free colored persons are eiti-
zens, in the meaning of that instrument,
equally with white men. This opinion was
concurred in by Justices Tenney, Rice, Cut
ting, May and Goodenow. Judge Rice, an
active Democrat up to the time when he went
upon the Bench, is said to be the author OF
the opinion. Separate and more elaborate
opinions were written by Judges Appleton
and Davis, agreeing with that of the maiori-
ty. Judge Hathaway, the only dissentient,
defers to the Dred Scott decision, but con-
cludes that Africans not descended from
slave ancestors, Chicago Ifi-
June
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
At the Denta! Convention now in

At the Dental Convention now in ses-
sion in Boston, some of the Dentists as
serted that the main, if not the sole cause
of defective teeth, was the use of saleratus
and cream of tartar in the manufacture of
bread, and DR.. Baker fully agreed with the
facts which it stated and gave the results of
some experiments which he had made by
soaking sound teeth In a solution of salera-
tus. The teeth were destroyed in fourteen
days. Mr.. Spalding, of St. Louis, did not
believe that aIkali injured teeth, but ac-
knoBledged that saleratus did. Saleratus,
In his opinion, was not an alkali. DIR. Ken
driek, of New Orleans, considered the great
means of keeping the teeth healthy was to
keep them clean.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
Wine Making in America.

We see it stated that an order has been
sent from Washington to Southern Hungary
for some cuttings of the vine of the genuine
Tokay grape, with view to introduce the
cultivation of that famous grape as an ex-
pertinent in this country, in the hope that we
too may be able to produce the Tokay wine.
We predict that the trial viii prove a failure.
1t will, unless this grape behaves very diff
ferently in our soil and climate from other
imported varieties, which have uniformly
failed, so far as we are informed, in every
case where outdoor or vineyard cultivation
has been attempted We hope, however,
the experiment viii be tried. In Europe,
where there were no native grapes, imported
kinds were introduced and fourished; here,
we have several varieties of native grapes,
and the foreign sorts dwindle and die out af-
ter a few years, as often as their cultivation
is attempted.
An enormous cask passed up State street
yesterday on its way to the wine cellar oi
Messrs. E. Page & Co., under the reservoir
in Derne street. Its capacity is 9,400 gall
Ions, probably the largest cask in this coun-
try, except one or two in the cellars of Mich
olas Longworth, in Cincinnati. Messrs
Page & Go. have recently leased several OF
the arches under the reservoir, and fitted
them up for the purpose of making THEN
wines from native fruit. This makes the
finest cellar in the country. One of the arch
es in which there are three stories, 180 feet
by 30. The wine which this firm makes re-
ceived medal at the last Mechanics Fair,
and is the purest wine that can possibly be
made. Dr.Hayes has analyzed it, and found
that it contsins but 12 or IA per cent. of al
coholic spiTits.-Bostosa Post.
In Connecticut the making of wine from
native grapes is getting to be considerable
business, and it is found to be profitable
especially when the wine is well made. The
abundant growth of native grapes in Tol-
land, Glastonbury, Stafford, and other
towns, is being turned to some account, and
we hope more attention viii be paid to the
business. Wine from these grapes sells
readily at prices varying from 81 25 to Sc
80 per gallon, according to age. One gen.
tleman in Stafford has for many years filed
his cellar with wine of his own making, and
| he sells all he can make. Gen. Case, ot
Canton. also makes good article. Speci-
mems of wine from the white native grape ol
this vicinity we have found to be excellent
In Portland, opposite Middletown, there
are sections where the wild fox grape grows
in such abundance that people living in that
vicinity might avail themselves of it to make
wine of it TO advantage. At our last State
Fair in Hartford, there were one or two spec
linens of improved portable wine presses.
and quite variety of different kinds of wine
made III this State. Several persons in this
city and neighborhood are now in the habit
of making their own wine, and they fancy
it to be equal to any imported article-cer-
tainly better than the stuff sold under the
name of wine, in most places.-Hdnforo
Times, July 25.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
Letter from Senator Mason on Kanzas
WINcHEsTER, Va, July 90, 81.


Letter from Senator Mason on Kanzas.
WINcHEsrER, Va, July 90, 81.
To tie Editor Of the South -
DEAR SIR:-In your paper of Monday
last, in an article headed Walkers Usur-
pation,'' observe the following paragraph:
''But we are told that Hunter and Mason,
and other distinguished Southern Senator's.
in the debate on the Nebraska bill, express
ed the same opinion, that Kanzas must be u
Free State, &e.''
cannot undertake to say what opinion
may have been expressed by my honored
colleague, or by any other Senator from the
South in reference TO the probable condition
of Kanzas, though from general knowl-
edge of their views in regard to that Terri
tory, I should not doubt that any opinions
so expressed would have reference to cir
eumstances and contingencies necessarily
qualifying them. To avoid misconstruction,
however, l think it proper to say that new
er expressed the opinion thus ascribed to me,
because l never entertained Il. Ii the tiase
tie lda0 passed, organising TIC Territorial
goperRment, there 1Oere ,fe,O sDith srhona I con
uersea acho did not Jeiiepe that tie future
State acould take as place acaA those recog-
nizing and cherlSAing The condition Of Afri-
can Stavery There was ut that time GER
tainly every reason 70 believe why this should
be so, and none why it should not. The
State of Missouri, bordering its eastern from
tier, was slaye-holding State, holding at
that time nearly a hundred thousand slaves,
and these were chiefly held in border coun-
ties.
The State of Arkanzas, adjacent to the
Territory, on the South, was likewise slave
holding State. The soil and Climate of Kan
zas were well adapted to those valuable pro-
ducts, chiefly hemp and tobacco, which
gave value to slave labor in Missouri. The
proximity of its population, with the attrac-
tions of new, fertile, and cheap land, l be-
lieved would lead the shareholders in Mis-
souri, to diffuse themselves speedily over
Kanzas, and the prohibitory line of SO 30
being obliterated, there was no reason why
they should not I had no fear of fair COM
petition in such appropriation of the new
Territory, from any quarter. Unfair COM
petition did not look to. What may yet
be the result as to the condition of Kanzas,
Notwithstanding the extraordinary and un-
scrupulous efforts of Northern abolitionisis
to force population there, cannot under
take to say. Nor viii allude in this place
to the new and unexpected .aspect now ex
hibited of affairs in that Territory, with so
much proprtsty reprehended in the columns
of the South. Whatever may be the infor
nation of others, certainly am not suffi-
ciently informed of the existing state of
things in kanzas, to form clear opinion
one way or the other; yet viii venture to
say this much, tset # ltiiean sldpery be w-
tinlatcly excluded from RanzGs, Il aDiLE be et
fected By tie numerical force Of organized
n,qjorities, operating against the 4suat ldacS
teAsicA goUern emigration; and viii present a
new and most instructive lesson to the
| Southern States.
Very respectfully, am yours,
J. II. MASON.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
The Coliseum at Rome.

The Coliseum is one of the grandest ru-
ins in the world. 1t is one of those rare
buildings whose reality surpasses any en-
craving: Everybody knows the form of it,
but few can rightly estimate its magnificent
proportions without seeing it. The seats
rose in terraces four stories high; each sto-
ry was about forty feet high. In fact, the
height of the outer wall was one hundred
and ffty-seven feet: The arena was two
hundred and eighty seven feet long by one
hundred and eighty feet wide. Including
the wall the building measured six hundred
and twenty feet by FIVE hundred and thirteen,
being, as usual, elliptical. The material
was the travertine stone, in large blocks,
with which brick masonry Is intermingled.
The blocks of stone were not cemented to-
gether, but were kept in their places by iron
pins between each two blocks. The walls
have been defaced by holes made to get out
those iron pins or bolts. The work of de-
struction on this, as on all other ruins, is ar
rested, and the present Pope is doing all he
can to preserve them.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
Why SO Many Children Die.

1t is a startling fact that very few peo-
pie are fit to be parents. Every summer
we are rendered melancholy by the terrible
record of the sad havoc death makes among
our little ones These deaths are mainly at
tributed to the heat This is only an indi-
rect cause of the great mortality among our
children. They do not get out-of-door ex-
ercise enough, particularly in the winter
time. The system of keeping them muf-
fled up beside red-hot stoves, in apartments
through which breath of fresh air scarce
ly ever passes, during the cold season, pre-
disposes them TO disease, and the moment
the weather changes, they sicken and die.
Children are also permitted to eat an abund-
ance of candies, cakes, nuts and other trash,
which should never find access 10 their
stomachs, and many parents allow their
very young offspring the Use of tea and cof-
fee. These indu,gences create Il morbid
state of the system, which eventually pro-
duces severe sickness, and, unless the
constitution be particularly robust, and the
medical treatment especially skilful, death
winds up the affair conclusively. Again,
children are not taught the value of fire.
quent aDlution. There are many children
in this city who seldom or never feel water,
excepting upon their hands, faces and feet.
With enervated nerves, foul stomachs, and
pores stopped up by impure exhalations,
our children cannot be expected to thrive
when the dog r-rages.-L!fe Illustrated.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
Some one lately sent the following par


Some one lately sent the following para
graph to Henry Ward Beecher:
s'One day, says Luther, as Satan and his
imps were gathered together to consult in
relation to their plans, and to give an account
of what each had done, one said: Il let loose
the wild beasts upon a caravan of pilgrims,
and now their bones lie bleaching upon the
sands of the desert FPshaw,' said the
Devil, their souls were all saved And
L. said another, eby tempest wrecked ship
loaded with Christians, on their way to found
a new community 'PshaW,' said the Dew
il again, their souls were all saved sAnd
l. said third, cultivated an intimate ac-
quaintance with an Independent preacher,
and after long persuasion l induced him to
drop his Bible and go to preaching politics,
and then the Devil shouted IN exultation till
the arches of pandemonium rang, and all the
night stars of he'll sang together for joy"
On last Sunday evening, says writer In
the New York Times, Mr. Beecher read this
scrap, during his sermon, and then observed:
Whether Luther ever wrote that or not,
it is true. don't wonder that when the
man dropped his Bible and went to preach
ing politics, he went to the devil at once;
but he would have had no trouble if he had
lived in our day. It is not such preaching
as that that makes disturbances now-it Is
when man takes the Bible and applies its
truths kissing hot to the side of public af-
fairs that the Devil screams"
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
Another walker Expedition,

Some parties in this city, who have here
tofore been conspicuously engaged in Gen
eral Walker Central American crusade, sig
nifcantly assert, that preparations are on
foot for another grand demonstration, at nc
no distant day. A secret plan is said tc
exist, which contemplates the raising of an
army of ten thousand men, all of whom
shall embark or set sail about the same time
for some port in Nicaragua. Nothing is tc
be left undone which shall tend to secure
efficiency and eventual success. Baltimore
is to furnish from three to four hundred, as
her complement to the above named army
with full equipments, money, etc. 1t is fur
ther stated that persons fully pledged have
already been secured in the city, who are
only waiting due notice, and the full con-
summation of Gen. Walkers plans, to be off
1t is known as the "Central American
League" Who the parties are that are at
tached to this League we are unable to say.
or whether they have been absolutely con
solidated, as rumored, cannot be fully ascer
tanned, except so far as current rumor goes
Such secret fllibustering expeditions arr
reprehensible /; and if the one in question
does not really exist, its movements will
doubtless, be more fully ascertained In due
time. New York, Boston, Philadelphia
New Orleans, and all the other leading cite:
in the Union, are said to be united in this
Baltimore Patriot, dag. goth
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

WoRKIsG SUEDAY.-Under this caption
Rev Mr.: Drew, of the Rural HgtefEigeacer,
discourses upon the text: '.Is it lawful to
do good on the Sabbath day ?'' and takes up
the subject of making hay on the Sabbath.
He contends that when the honest farmer has
cut his grass in its proper time, and heaven
has sent such weather as makes its necessary
for him to operate upon it, on the Sabbath,
his case comes within the exception to the
rule, and is that s.neeessity" which the laws
of God and man both justify.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
PATR1or1c ExrRAcr.-An orator in ru-

PATRIOTIC ExTRAc7.-An orator IN ru-
raj district thus held forth on the Fourth
1.-The American Eagle! the American
EAGLE ! gentleMEN, that proud bird of our
liberties, as she stands-as she stands
standing with great yigor] with one foot on
the Alleghenies and the other on the Rocky
Mountains, and stretching her broad wings
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall
stretching her broad wings-with one foot
on the Rocky Mountains and the other on
the Alleghenies, shalI-SkaH HOWL, gentle
men and fellow citizens, In the glorious free
dom of-her Native AIRi''
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
JOB PRINTING.

The Office of The kAxzAs NEws is furnished
with a complete assortment of the newest styles
of Type, Borders, Flourishes, Cuts, Cards. Fancy
Papers, Colored Inks, Bronze, DC, enabling the
proprietor to print CIRCULARS Cams, CERTIFIcArEs
OF Sroox, DEEDS, PosrxRs, and all other kinds of
JoB PRINTiNe, in a manner unsurpassed IN the
country. Particular attention Paid TO printing
all kinds of Blanks, Orders for work promptly
attended to when accompanied with CAsII. "Ex-
eELsioR'' is our motto.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

The three old Wing States, North Car
olina, Kentucky and Tennessee, elect t,Oen-
ty-two Democratic" to siz American
Members of Congress, and give an aggre-
gate Democratic majority of over $4,000.
The people of those States comprehend
the real issue-Slavery Extension against
Slavery Restriction-and vote for the par
ty that combines the power with the viii to
uphold and advance the Pro-Slavery stand
ard. They vote against the American par
ty, not Its radical idea, as tending, if sup
ported In the South, only to divide aud
weaken the champions of Slavery Exten-
sion. Shall the North alone be blind to
such obvious truths?-N y. Tribune.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

The Cincinnati Commercial thinks it fol-
ly to look for high figures this season. II
says:
The receipts of wheat during the past
week were 1905 bushels, which IS fam
beginning for the years receipts of grain
1t is probable there VIII be six million bush
els of wheat received here the present sea
son. The grain crop in Ohio this year is
estimated at $50, ,O0O, 900 bushels, and OF II
linois 250, 600, GOO bushels. With such I'M
mense quantities of breadstuffs as these 1t Il
the greatest folly to look for high prices
Wheat declined IOc per bushel.
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

NEW SPURIOUS Nora new $40 note
on the Merchants Bank, Baltimore, made
its appearance In Cincinnati recently. L
has for centre Fignette two human figures.
figure of monster standing chest, ETC., and
letter x each sides Genuine bill, for centre
vignette a railroad train This difference
will enable our readers to detect this attempt
to impose on the public.-B0laiazors 7as'sef-
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

A paper. giving an account of Toulouse.
in France, says: '1t is large town, con-
taining sixty thousand inhabitants bull en-
tirety Of 6riek!''
This is equaled only by known descrip-
ton of Albany, which runs thus: sAlhany
is city of eight thousand houses, and
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, tciA zIaoss
Of their gaJie ends to the street!
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

The general post Office has decided that
the sellers price-mark on the fy-leaf of a
book sent by mail, subjects The whole to let
Ter postage:
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19

e.My dear" said an afectionate spouse to
her husband, sam not your treasure ?''--
"0h, yes," was the cool reply, .tand I
would willingly lay it up in heaven"
The Kanzas news., 1857-09-19
THE KANzAs NEW s:
Published EsF Saturday Hernng, at EmPra, kaHras
By p b. NIB
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Rates of Advertising.

First insertion, per line, ten cents; each subse-
ouer, insertion. five cents; one dollar line, per
annum Displayed advertisements one-haf over
the above rates. All transient and foreign adVer-
tisements must be accompanied by the cash, to IN
sure insertion.
The true Democrat., 1857-03-31
NO. 25.

1h Louisiana slavery was not only lawful but was most valuable. At the date of the treaty the inhabitants were left free to enjoy their property freedom and liberty, and were to be protected therein until they came into the Unlon as State. The Missouri line of 36. 6.3O was an act of aggression. Congress cannot do indirectly what it cannot perform directly. If southern man cannot go to the territories with hls slaves, It follows that d northern farmer or mechanic cannot bring with him his imple- ments Of tol If Congress could prohibit any species of lawful property throughout Lousi- ana when it was acquired so it could exclude all descriptions of property The right to le- gslate Tn the territories depends on the contract of ceSsion
 Ills opinion was, that the third article of the treaty by which Louisiana was acquired stands protected by the constitution, and cannot be re- pealed by Congress- and that the act of 1920. known as the Missouri compromise, violates the leading features of the consultation, on which the Union depends and which secures to all citizens common rights. He therefore held that the act was void, and concurred with his brother judges that the plaintiff. Dred Scott, Is slave, and was one when the suit was brought.
The true Democrat., 1857-03-31
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