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The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-04-17
The African Slave-Trade.

We gave some time since, some details
upon this foul business, which Is understood
10 bc carried on with considerable activity
NJ New York and somo other American
ports. A summary OF the facts relating to
this traffic in men, in the y. Y. Herald iur-
nishes US with few more items.
From 1851 TO 1854, inclusive, the ave-
rase number of slaves imported into Brazil
AMI Cuba, is put down at 81, 200. Since
the last named year very little has been do
inc in Brazil. but the average import to
Cuba is about 10000 in year, and the
total average since 1850 is about $4,000 q
year.
As 10 tho expense Of fitting out a SLAYER,
from the port Of New York, say Of $50 tons,
the total cost and outfit may DO estimated
Mt $500. The further expenses ON the
coast OF Africa, (inelusiyc of 100 negroes at
$50 per hcad) would be S2l ,5OO,-add ex-
pcnsss Of the homcward voyage and those
incurred after the arrival of the vessel ut
Cuha, and we shall have n total cost for the
voyage, of sos $50. The i0O negroes would
bs.Mnytbas SG9,bsJs. ftii; nay Sc eOusid-
cred high statement Of the profits, bat
making all the possible deduction, the re
turns for tho outlay embarked are enormous.
There is nothing in the law relating To
the slaye.trade, ~ IL stands nj present, 10
prevent contract made by the seller that
he shall deliver vessel, Mt certain port on
the African coast. A small quantity Of
lumber, considerable rice and provisions AMI
the means VI cooking for large number OF
persons arc necdcl ON this yu~cl. In nd
dtion. a large number Of watcr casks are
needed % DC taken out aud filed ON the
coast. to supply the negroes with water on
The homewari voyage. Thcsc, u the VESSEL
leaves New YORK. nav be taken on board
somewhere from Long Island, or the mouth
Of the Connecticut, or some OF tho little
po.ts alJns the Sound. The ycsel Is pro-
vidd with her regular papers for clearance
and having received her casks. continues at
once on her voyage. being in fact, when she
tak.s the casks ON board, 1.-THE most i'm
portant evidence against herr nearly with
out the Jurisdiction OF the Courts. She ~
lics for protection ON the African coast from
British cruisers, on carrying the American
fag, that protects her from search, and runs
into sons small river, where she may get
her cargo on board, twenty or thirty miles
from the sci-Shore and BY means OF look
outs, she sails on her homcward voyage,
when the coast is clear Of cruisers.
The run 10 Cuba, is made without any
papers of any kind. the existing treaties
with Spain, Portugal and Brazil being pro-
hibitive, and the American commander and
crew leave the vessel In Afnca and find their
way home through Sierra Leone or Monroe
via. At Cuba the negroes are landed under
the eonnivance OF the Government, carried
at once into the interior, and the vessel is
The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-04-17

Tue SourH AND ENGLAND. A correspond
ent of the London Daily News, who is trav.
cling in our southern states, writes there is
in the South, I think, o larger amount Of
kindly feeling towards England than in the
north, except among the cultivated portion
Of the New Englanders. There immigrates
in tho northern states yearly, largo mass
of England haters, Irish and foreign, who
growl, howl and lie against Great Britain
as long as their lungs last them. Very few
If any of that class make their way into
slave territory. The old race, as 1t landed
in Virginia and Carolina, is here still tolcr-
ably pure from foreign adulteration, and
looks back to the mother country still with
much pride and good deal of Affection
Every namo one hears is q good old Eng
lish name, and have not met an honest
farmer yot who was not gratifed to learn
that his cognomen was common one on
the other side Of the water, and who was
not yisibly delighted to be able to tell which
of his ancestors 1t was who FIRST set foot on
tho the soil of tho new world, English born
and English bred. And, moreover, have
sat ut no fresido without being assured by q
thousand tokens that was oil the more
welcome for having so lately. quilted the
mother country.
The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-04-17
The Freshet.

The heavy rain storm Of Monday Of last
week, caused the rapid rise Of water in our
rivers, and created, in some places much
damage. The greatest damage We have
heard Of was ON the Piscataquis river, where
the water rose to very high pitch. Among
the bridges and buildings swept away. or
damaged, were covered bridge ut Abbot's
Lows bridge, Guilford; the mill.dam at
Foxcroft; w. w. Harris's fork factory q.
FoIcroft, with loss Of about $1,000; all
the machinery in Mayo's wooden factory o,
Foicroft, washed out leaving the building
standing; the bridge and mill.dam at Do
yer village, also damaging the wooden facto,
~ Of S. P. Brown to some extent, built dur.
ing the past winter, dam, saw, and grisi
mill, &C., at East Dover, and covered
bridge at Atkinson. Undoubtedly more 70.
mains to be heard from. Tho estimate Of
damages thus far is $4,000.
On Sandy River the bridge at Keith's
Mills and tho Whittier bridge were carried
away, and the Interval Roads are badly
blockaded by the Ice.
On the Kenncbcc River, at Skowhegan
the water rose 50 high on Monday night,
that Barney Bouko, a Canadian and fami.
ly, were forced to evacuate their shanty,
and flee to the hill for frmer footing.
The Barnes mill at Scion, was swept
away on Wednesday.
At Madison Bridge, about thirty feet Of
the main dam across the Kennebec has gone
out, together with the bulkhcad Of the
mills.
On the Androscoggin River, at Lewiston,
on Tuesday morning the river began to rise
rapidly. TIL, ice obove the falls piled up
against the heavy granite piers Of the rail-
road bridge, causing the water above to rise
rapidly. At one time fears were entertain.
ed for the safety Of this structure. About
noon, Tuesday, this ice jam broke, and let
the whole body over the falls.
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From Europe.
NV YORK, AM

Nrw YORK, April IA.
The Hamburg steamer Borussia, from
Hamburg, arrived ut this port this p. NJ.
bringing Hamburg dates OF the LIST inst. :,
and London and Liverpool by telegraph Of
the 3lst ult.
Green 4 Co., American Bankers at Paris
had suspended payment.
In the absence of any English papers, we
have no political news from Great Britain,
and only the following brief illusions to
commercial matters, which we find tele-
graphed to the Hamburg journals:
London, March 30th.-Consols closed to.
day at 90 "a.
London. March 3lst. - Consols have
slightly advanced, closing at 90 3-i.
Liverpool, March 3Oth.-The Persia ar.
rived on Saturday, with news from New
York to the 18th inst. The sales Of Cotton
to-day have been about 10000 bales at
former prices. On the 3lst, 81, 900 bales Of
Cotton were sold with firm market and
unchanged prices. There is no allusion to
the Breadstuffs or Provision markets.
FRANcE.-Nothing certain is known about
the day when tho Conference on the Neutch-
atel affair will hold its 9Th session, bus the
general opinion is that 1t will come to q
satisfactory settlement Of that question,
wherefore the public takes No great interest
in its proceedings.
II seems to be certain that Prince Napo-
leon will meet the Grand Duke Constantine
at Toulon.
At Lyons numerous political arrests have
taken place. 1t is said that the police have
discovered secret society, whose members
have Joined for the purpose of lettering tie
election Of the well known Republican, and
celebrated physician Ra.pail, but who Is net
eligible under the new election law.
SrAN.-The elections for the Cortez, DO
gan on the 25th Of March. and the prospects
were favorable for victory to the Govern
ment.
Tho infant Don Enrique, brother Of Tn.
King, has been ordered to quit Spain and b
20 TO France, because he declared for TIN
progressionists.
DrSxARK.-Copcnhagcn, March 30th--
To-day the French Ambassador at this Govt
has exchanged the notifications Of the Souh
Dues treaty on the part OF his Gorerumsf'
On the 18th inst, n provisional dccr~ssi
the transit dues was pablished by the lin
lister Of Foreign Affairs.
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Increase, S36,6lO,70l S2,ls2,3l5

TIE FREsHErs IN MAiYE.-The Bangor
Wing Of Saturday gives tho following add.
lional particulars of The frsshe, on the Pts.
calaquis
"a great quantity Of ice and logs came
down yesterday afternoon, and The ics from
Sunk haze deadwater carried nway the low.
or railroad bridge ut 0ldlown-(Shore Road. J
One OF The middle piers of Veazie's bridge
a, Oidiown was injured by the ice so rs TO
render it advisable not to cross with the
train yesterday afternoon.
II 10 said that the leo crowded through The
'Thoroughfaro, taking with il all the logs
abon, 5000 900 feet.
We hear also that Morrison's Boom at
Saltwater was carried away.
The ice from The Pisciiaquis river passed
this city yesterday afternoon. 1t was in
terspersed with logs and fragments Of wreck.
ed mills and blijges."
The Bangor Journal relates narrow es.
cape which occurred TO Mr.. W. II. Brad
ford, stage proprietor, on Tuesday. He
was on The way 10 Bangor with two passen-
gers, and having occasion 10 pass over the
road at ESerion Brook, in Guilford, found il
badly overlooked:
1.-TWO persons residing near the place
told Nc. Bradford that they thought there
was no difficulty in fording. and tina, the
water could not be more than three feet deep
These persons got upo, The wagon 10 Cross.
When abou, ten rods in the waier, the horses
60, beyond their depth, and the wagon went
under. Mr.. Bradford ende,vorel 10 swim
his horses, bu, finding IL impossible to get
across, eudeavoied "a exiricaie them by cul-
ting the harnesses. Mr.. ~. l.. Leonard, Q
passenger, and one Of the persons who got
on last, swan ashore, going directly to his
home, and rendering no assistance. Mr.
Leonard constructed rude raft and rescued
Mr.. Bradford, who was chilled aud entirely
exhausted IN bis Efforts 10 save his horses,
and who, with The second person who cot on
a, The brook. and who could not swim must
have been drowned bu. for his prompt and
energetic action, the top Of the wagon be-
Ing, when they abandoned il, five feet IN.
der water. The other passenger succeeded
10 swimming ashore. The Q horses were Of
course drowned"
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TIE MASSACHUSETTS boot AND shoe
rRApE.-Ths value Of The Boot and Shoe
Trade Of Massachusetts Is estimated in
amount, al upwards Of s45. 600 900 for The
pact year. The wholesale iobbins houses
have done full average business. while
tho profits Of The manufacturers have been
small, and The large body Of operatives have
worked on low wages, Notwithstanding the
high price Of food. The manufacture Of
women's work has been fairly renumerativs
while profits on nous heavy goods have
been quite small. The collections at the
South have been fair, but the interior trade
Of the Western States has paid as promptly
NJ usual.
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The Governorship Of Kansas.

WAsnISoroS, March %. (Correspon-
dence Commercial AdrdtiScr.) The Kansas
difficulty is the chief one now before the ad-
ministration. A man Of such character and
standn: US will meet the crisis Is not easily
found. Mr.. Buchanan has personally urged
Mr.. Robert j. Walk or to accept the Of
fee, not rs routine official, but Us high
commission 20 restore order in Kansas, and
prevent civil war. Gen. Persiler +. Smith,
who Is here, thinks that Mr.. Walker would
do that in thirty days. Mr.. Walker has
listened to the representations and promises
OF the administration. and no will accept
the Office, with view 10 enhance his repu-
tation, and at the same time, probably, TO
Law the administration under immense obi
CATIONS to him. He will not remain there
after he shall have effected the high object
of his mission, and his secretary, whom he
Is to choose, will remain as the Goyernor.-i
lie is not only 10 20 out with full powers
but will dictate his own instructions. Ile
will, Us believe, do justice in regard TO tho
political Us well Us the personal quarrcls
which prevail in Kansas.
WASHINGTON. March -. (COrrcspon-
denco EreniHg PoSt) Gov. Geary declared
his intention of leaving Washington to-
morrow morning, on which MS Buchanan
desired his address, ~ there might b. some
further occasion for his services. IL j., |
understand, Gov Gcary's intention, after q
brief residence in WDtmoreland county,
Pa, 10 revisit Washington. lie wall not
under any circumstances accept n reap
pointmcnt after the Office has been offered TO
another man, although he might have done
~ had il bccn tcndcrvd 10 him first with the
same almost absolute powers with which IL
l. proposed % clothc X, j. Walker.
The Washington Star Of las; evening
nys. Mr.. Walker has accepted; of this
fact We have no longer doubt. We have
also every reason Ia believe that the post Of
Territorial Secretary Of State has been ten7
dcrcd TO Hon. L. r. Stanton of Tennessee.
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Doxrsric TRAGEDIES IN KENTUCKY. AT
Louisville, on Friday morning last, m
awning maker named Travers, q drunkard,
who had been on spree for several days.
came home, cut his wife's throat, and then
lay down beside her and remained there
until tho MONDAY, when he was arrest by
the police, and attempted to kill himself -
The wife was about "a years old, and was
honest and respectable. In Bullet county,
on Thursday, Julius Bukcy, respectable
old man, shot his daughter, II years old,
md then shot himself. She was enamored
ola young man whom he disliked' and as
from her saying that she was 60
ing out to spend the evening, that she was
about to elope he refused to lot her leave
the house. Angry words ensued, and in tho
heat of passion, he first struck her. and then
drew q revolver and shot her twice, both
shots taking effect. The unfortunate girl
fell dead Mt his feet, in tho presence OF her
mother. The wretched man rushed from
the house, with the fatal weapon in his
hand, pursued by son. He tried to selzo
his fathers arm to wrench tho pistol from
him, but he cludcd his grasp, and after
rctrcating sew steps, placed the pistol to
his own head and blew his brains out.
The Union and eastern journal. [volume] (Biddeford [Me.]) 1854-1858, 1857-04-17
The Rush of Office Seekers to Wash
ington.

The following is an extract from letter
in the Nswburyport Herald, dated WASH
ing;On, March IL. ,1|s>.-s. :.
.Tho new administration is now fairly In
power, and the Capitol Is literally bcsieged
by horde Of olhee-holders and oil once,
seekers, riyalling the multitudes that used
10 crowd Rome, when her imperial sway ex-
tended from the Western Ocean to the Ea.
nhn,tes-from the walls of Antoninus and
Daeia 10 Atlas and the tropic OF Cancer
The polished lawyer who wishes 70 be Dis
triet Attorney of Boston is seen with the
unsultiyated candidate for some minor post
in Oregon the impetuous Creole who has
n longing 20 serve Uncle Samuel in Louisl'
ana, talks over his chances for success with
the cool politician from Pennsylvania. All
are disintercted, simon-pure Democrats,
ready TO support the late decision OF the
majority of the Supreme Court, and .Bu
chsnan men from the start wish them
all joy, especially ono son Of old Newblry-
port, who now halls IRON the great lakes,
and | hope that each one will get what he
desires.
President Buchanan, meanwhile, is bcset
on every side. Crowds hang about the
doors OF the White House, and every con-
cciyable plan is resorted TO, to place "re.
concentrations" before his notice. His
health Is not nj all good. and grave qucs.
tions Of foreign policy require his attention,
vet shoss engaged in this wild hunt after
of6co give him no peace. Who that sees
this. can but echo the words oil Henry Clay
u.I have no desire for Office, not even the
highest. The most exalted is but prison,
In which the incarcerated incumbent daily
receives his hoartless yisitants, marks his
weary hours, and is cut of from the practi-
cal enjoyment Of oil the blessings OF genuine
freedom"
Miss Lane, who presides over the house
hold Of the bachelor President, Is a well
educated, intelligent young woman, the ripe
side of twenty-five, who was with him IN
England. Her cousin, James Buchanan
Henry, ESQ, is the "priyate secretary,
and Miss Hettie Parker, who has for years
been Mr.. Buchanan's housekeepcr, CON-
pletss the family circle. The negro ser
wants at Wheotland have accompanied their
employer to the metropolis.
Ex.president pieIce Is living very quietly
with Oov. Marcy, although he is almost
daily called upon by s6he Southern dele
cation, and his political adherents do not
disguise their determination TO have him re-
elected at some future day, if possible
Gen. Cushing has been at New York. but is
expected back this evening. | learn that
he will return to NewburypOrt in April
Gen. James has also been in New York, and
was not present at the close of his Senate
rial career. Ii is reported that he is an APP
plicant for the Russian Embassy.
Matthew Hale Smith, Esq, is here, some
what prominent among the New York poll
ticians, as friend OF Mayor Wood-a New
York correspondent of lea ling democratic
papers Of the .'straishtest stamp" and an
applicant for the District Attorneyship OF
that city, Judgcship in some Territory, or
any other Office that may "turn up"
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The Kansas Bogus Election Law.

The election law passed by the Ruf6an
Legislature, which Buchanan Democrats
would have the Free State men regard, de-
MES 10 the Free Stale men any voice what
ever in the selection Of judges, clerks, spd
other officers for hnldins III. rnIi and Us
wasting the votes. It allows tho appoint
ment Of none but Pro.Slavery men to take
the census and mako out the official list Ct
voters. Power obtained by fraud and crime
must be by fraud and crime mainlaincd.-
Those who seized the government Of Kan
sas BY usurPalion and blood will no, scrupls
10 preserve it by like means. Pirates can
only observe the pilates Law and method.
The following e1,rac, from recent letter
to The Chicago Press, dated q, Lecomp,on
on the 25th ul'., confirms The Missouri
Democrats correspondence statements:
"As the law Of The Bogus Legislature
for taking tho census. allows sherifIs aud
their deputies, four dollars per day for their
trouble, there is large number of them ut
work. They do not take much trouble with
this census operation, getting all the infor.
nation they wan, from their Pro-SlaveryJ
friends, AMI setting down only such as they
want. They refuse 10 insert any. Of The
names oflhe Free State emigranls who have
come in this Spring, even Of those who AZ
i've early. They call them transient"
The County Courts ins,ruc, them 10 take no
names unles, The party has been resident
previous to The 18th instant. While this 10
the rule they observe towards the Free Stale
men, they are putting thousands Of names on
the list rho hare nerer hredin Kansas, and
,pho nerer ,viR. TIE names OF all the mem.
hers OF the Shawnee Association, some
thirty .Gpe hundred, are on The list Of voters.
Ii is the same elsewhese. It is now seen
that all the suspicious and fears abont the
law are confirmed. Tho law itself even
will be grossly violated whenever 1t suits"
Lilo who pretends to believe iha, this Csa-
sus, List Of Voters, aud Constitutional Con-
vention, will not work on, the end designed
BY their Pro.Slavey conlrivers, mus, will
fully deceive himself. Tha, there will be
a Pro.Slavery Constitution is just as sure as
tie Rufiians control the machine Of dsspo,-
ism md wickelnes' by which they hope to
crush the Free State men.
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Singular Statement in Regard to the
Washington Sickness.

We find The following singular statement
in regard to The Washington sickness in tie
Lancaster, Pa. Express, published al The
home Of The President;
From all the symptoms Of the case, in
connection with other iac'r. we hav. no
douh, that the disease which led to Mr..
Lanes death had it, origin in the 'Naiional
epi,cinic, and and that icds tho effect Of moi
son. On ibis point the Philadelphia Times
says an eminent physician OF that city, who
has had several persons under his care
seeking relief from the effects OF the myse-
rious sickness contracted at tho FeIeral
Capital, maisiains the theory that IL result.
ed from q promedi,ated attempt to poison
the inmates Of The National Hotel. lie ba.
SEES his opinion upon the iact tina, none bu,
those who dined a, the public table were
attacked; and, us 10 tine story OF the rat
poisoned wafer 1t is reiuied, because the
tank is only used for washing. while the
drinking water is brought through pipes
from distance. The sickness originally
broke out during MIR. Buchanan's first visit
10 the hotel 1t ceasol when he LEFT for
Whea,land, and upon his return, after
f,rlnishl's absence, il became again more
violent than ever. The President elect was
warned. by anonymous letters, not 10 ca, or
drink in that house. and under The novice
oil friends, although he returned 10 The hotel
from feeling of regard for It's worthy pro-
prietors, he never broke bread nor cmptied
a glass in il, until he took up his residence
in The Presidential mansion. 0ccasio nal
visitors, who did not board there, but used
the Oar, were no, afflicted, while nearly all
the occupants Of The dnins.room were more
or less Frustrated. II is u revolving idea
that such depravily could FIND place in a
human breast, as thus 10 imperil life, with
on, regard to who would be- The victims -
but tho medical gentleman who has laid
down his theory has examined the whole
subjec, mos, carefully. and his deduction
seems almost irresistible.