The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-07-29


institution over which Pho Mono presides at
Rome. Mrs. Stoves book having become very
popular at Rome, a new translation of it has
been prepared, under the auspices fine church,
IN which Uncle Tom is repre- sented to be VIC
tim to the new doctrine of the Immaculate con-
ception. This is the cause of all his snfferings;
for his adherence to it he incurs the cruel lash
of Legree, and 10 it at last he dies blessed
martyr This is amusing. We presume Mrs.
Stowe will be somewhat indignant, and will de-
mand of the Pope by what right he presumes
to lay violent hands upon her heroes, and per-
vert them to such uses. Brownson, in his
Quarterly Reciesc, when the book was first
published, claimed it as properly Catholic
book In its spirit, but it seems not to have
been sufficiently so for Italy. Think of Uncle
Tom telling his beads, and muttering Latin
prayers to the Virgin, and at last dying under
the lash, because he will not renounce his be.
lief in her immaculate conception
The recent tarring and feathering of James
L. Bowers, at Belair, Md, for his Anti Slavery
opinions, has given rise to sort of guerilla
warfare between the Anti-Slavery and Pro-Sla.
very men Of the vicinity, in which the former
| seem to have been so far tho winners. The
Wilmington, DEL, Republican gives the fol.
lowing account of recent proceedings:
"On the Saturday following the occurrence,
there was a show in Chestertown, and Mr..
| Bowerss friends made rally, and commenced
to vindicate him the result was, some six or
eight fights. On the 9Th, which was last Mon.
day, at the celebration, Richard Hynson made
an attack on James Mansfield, exeditor of the
Kent Nescs, and struck Mansfield with his cane.
when the Bowers men made another rally, and
before they stopped, knocked down twenty five
men, and ran Samuel Baker and Isaac Perkins,
two of the tar and feathering men, out of town,
the officers refusing to act. They nay the Pro
Slavery men commenced it by taking the Law
in their own hands, and they may fight it out.
Frisby Brown, one of the men Mr.. Bowers held
to bail, went to town on the 26th ult to see
the show. The Bowers men found he was in
town, and got after him. He got into Doctor
Sappington's carriage, and went some l6 or l Z
miles on Easter Neck Island, and kept bid for
two or three days. he has no slaves, and the
Bowers men swear they will fix him yet, 1t ia
said, by men who know, that at least three
quarters of the people are on Bowersss side
nearly all the laboring class or nonslavel olders
with q part of the shareholders Their selves
condemn it"
There are % clerks in the Departments al
| Washington, from Maine, with an aggregate
compensation of $4,000; from New clamp
shire II clerks, with $27, 800 compensation /;
| from Vermont clerks, compensation $27 $40
from Rhode Island, clerks 3, compensation
$4,000; from Connecticut, clerks l6, compen.
sation $4,000; total from New England,
clerks 84 compensation $l27, 446. AThese,
however, numerous as they seem to be, make
but small show alongside of the States Dor
dering on the capital. Pennsylvania sends lOO
clerks, whose aggregate compensation ia
$l40,805; Maryland has 80 clerks, whose
compensation is $ll8,780; Virginia III clerks
with an aggregate compensation of $l66, $50
while the District of Columbia looms up with
1872 clerks, who receive $425,6l3, besides AZ
temporary clerks and legion of copyists, ex
ira. In all 1920.
| The shipment of early fruits and vegetables
from Southern ports to Northern ones ia con
stantly increasing in importance. From the
single port of Norfolk, there were shipped, il
the months of June and July, 5000 packages
| of produce, valued at 1886, 900. The facilities
for transportation afforded by railroads ant
steamships enable producers to anticipate tn,
Northern crops.
Many ideas have been suggested for leveein,
the Mississippi river among others is the sub
stitution of a cast iron pau in lieu of the dir
dykes which now line the borders of the river
1t is mentioned with apparent seriousness b,
the Lake Providence Herald.
The amount annually expended in the con
struction of railroads in this country, since 1850
has largely exceeded the whole expenditures o
Government, and the railroad receipts for tn,
same years have surpassed the Government re
ceipts.
The Philadelphia city treasury is agar
empty. The city is decidedly entitled to sym
pathy, it being more frequently out of money
than almost any private individual you car
meet. temporary loan was raised on las
Friday, but the proceeds were paid out with az
great rapidity as they were received.
| Thomas Peterson, q married man, and Miss
Huldah Atwood, both residents of Truro, Mass
eloped from that place to Boston early LAS
week, and are bound for California. Peterson
leaves q wife and four children. The girl i,
eighteen years of age.
In the finance branch of the General Pos
Office, the work of opening the dead letters fol
the quarter has just closed. From the innu
merable number of bogus communications, OF
other causes, it will be perceived that the mum
Der OF letters containing money or other arti
cles of value is more than doubled within the
year. Each and all of these letters are regis
tered, showing the date of receipt, the name o.
the writer, that of the party addressed, place
where mailed from, where now to be sent, and
a description of the contents, sending off by the
mails of every day, 80 that full nine tenths o.
all the money have been already returned to iti
rightful owners. The returns show the follow
| ing exhibit: Quarter ending June 30th, 1857
there were 2,246 letters of value found. cover
ing $l2,655. 81 quarter ending SEPT. 80, 1857
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December 81, 1857, 2,472 letters, and $l3, 457
and for quarter ending March 81, 1853, 4,549
letters, and 81, 498. Total for the whole year,
| $60,972.4l.
The London Times attempts to be witty over
the assertion of Mr.. Field, in his dispatch to
the directors of the company, that the telegraph
| cable must have parted at or near the Agamem.
| non. If the Times writer had possessed the
slightest practical knowledge of telegraphing,
he would have understood that the reasons for
this conclusion were entirely within the reach
of the electricians on board the Niagara, and
so obvious that there conld be no doubt or mis-
| take about it. If the wire had broken in the
water near the Niagara, the Geographic circuit
| would have been so short that the magnetic
| action would have been very intense. As the
distance of the break from the ship was in
| creased, the electric current having larger
circuit to complete and q greater extent of wire
to fill, the magnetic action would have been
proportionally less. A telegraph operator of
any experience will judge very accurately of
| the distance from his Office at which the wire
is broken if it lies upon the ground, and the
conditions of the insulated wire in the ocean
we're substantially the same "a if only it's bro
ken end touched the water,
Though our Government has, by side wind,
seemed to have condemned, as unwarrautable.
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