The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-06-10

fike, President OF the Senate, and N. B. Bryant,
OF concord, Speaker of the House, by 1874
votes to liz for Hartman, Democrat, Henry
y. Kent, Clerk, and Edward Sawyer, assistant.
Mr.. Hale will probably be reelected U. s.
Senator, though two other candidates, Thomas
M. Edwards, of Keene, and Amos Tuck, for
merly OF the House, are strongly pressed
against him.
A negro emsncipated by his masters will at
Charlottesville, Virginia, has voluntarily re-
turned to Slavery, selecting Mr.. Huckstep as
his future master. He could not remain free
in Virginia, but was obliged to choose between
Slavery and removal to free State. The ar.
gument that the Pro-Slavery editors get ont
of this incident does not amount to a great
deal. If they would let all the negroes have
their choice between Freedom and Slavery, and
thus make Slavery voluntary, very well. We
should like to see it tried. The price of ne
groes still rules high. At recent sheriff's
sale at Huntsville, Alabama, fourteen negroes,
several of them children, sold for over $4,000.
The Mexican news is about as usual-con.
siderable indiscriminate fighting and robbery
everywhere, and no decisive results-no party
strong enough to do anything, and no conf.
dence of the people in any party. The Zulo.
aga Government, which still retains the show
of authority at the capital, had sent Gen. Osal.
los with force of 800 recruits, and Sl2O, 900,
raised by q forced levy, to attack Gen. Mira.
mon at San Luis Potosi. At Cordova, the Lib
eral forces were without pay or rations, and even
plundering the people. On the 10Th ult., a ter
rible explosion took place at Vera Cruz in an
establishment for making munitions, by which
about dozen people were killed on the spot,
three SO severely injured that they died few
days afterwards, and many were wounded, so
that they still remain in the hospital.
A second Wisconsin railroad swinde was
brought to light by the late Legislature, bat in
| the excitement over the great La Crosse frauds.
it has until this time been nearly lost sight Of
| 1t seems that the Milwaukee and Superior Rail
road Company has been a fraud from the start; ;
that few interested conspirators elected them
selves to the board of directors, and made C. R.
Alton president, on q nominal subscription of
$4,000 scithoM one cent paid IN that they
| 1.-THE directors) then voted to Alton 500 900 Of
full paid stock, for which he admits no services
were rendered, but which, according to agree.
ment, he divided back among the directors !;
and that, to crown the whole villainy, they
raised $205,000 in farm mortgage stock among
the honest but unsophisticated land owners
along the proposed road. These, with $l20, 900
of stock, called cash subscribers" made to-
tai of $525,O00 in notes and bonds issued,
without one cent of money paid into the treas.
airy. The whole thing ia thus proved to have
been q bare.faced swindle for the benefit of
these operators, who had voted themselves sala.
ries amounting to $4,000, besides pickings
and stealings.
Col. Forney of the Philadelphia Press has
not taken his armor off, but thus boldly accepts
the issue of the Buchanan Democracy to make
| Lecomptonism test in the current campaign
in Pennsylvania:
| If the Administration partissns would act
like rational beings, they would Of course with.
draw their dead Lecompton from the field, a
reeking carrion as it is, that smells to heaven.
But they will not act as rational beings. The
Lecompton issue is insisted upon. So let it be.
Pennsylvania is to be made the battle-ground
in October. She was the battle-ground in 1856
The theatre is the same, the actors the same,
and the principle the same, with the difference
that those who were elected to Office upon the
principle now stand forth full armed against it.
These latter have many potent influences on
their side. A mass of patronage held out to a
mass of expectants; a host of defenders, whose
bread is safe only as they defend the wrong; a
Senate ready to reject or ratify, as Democrats
are fair or false But we have great faith in
the result. The people are aroused. The pub
lie mind is filed with light; the public heart
with indignation. If there was a rapture in the
strife of 1885, in honestly supporting an honest
creed, what will it be in 1853, when that same
creed, basely deserted, implores for rescue and
championship"
The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed
the act modifying the usury laws. 1t repeats
the penalties for taking interest higher than 6
| per cent. but makes 8 per cent. the highest
amount collectabe by law, unless suit for its
recovery is brought within six months from the
time of the transaction.
Edwin Plummer, assistant editor of the Ad,
rertiser, at Portland, Me-, died on Saturday, at
the age of 33. He had been connected with
several papers at Portland and at Chicago, Ill. E,
and for time with the Boston Daily AdUerti-
| ser.
| Will Cumback is renominated for Congress
in his old district of Indiana, now represented
by the illiterate Foley. He can hardly fail of
coming back Alphabetically he should not.
| The Albany Euening Journal mentions the
gratifying fact, that by the recent election of
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island, New Eng
land becomes unit in the United States SEN
ate. "Twelve Republican Senators, all good
men and true now represent six of the old
| thirteen States. With New York, we have a
| majority of the States that constituted the old
Coufederacy, and by which our liberties were
achieved, represented by Senators who uphold
the principles that brought US into existence as
| a nation"
The Administration still continues its war
against the Douglas men at the West. Among
the heads that have recently fallen into the bas
ket, are those of Robert W. Davis, U. S. Mar
shall for Michigan, who is superseded by John
s. Bagg, and Mr.. Fletcher, Postmaster at War
saw, ILL.,, who makes room for j. j. Butler, who
ia "sound on the goose"
The Americans of St. Louis district, Mo-,
have nominated Judge 81. r. Gamble for Con.
gress. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Missouri, and an old Wing.
The exclusion of the Bible from some of the
ward schools in New York creates some excite.
ment, and the " United Americans of that
city are endeavoring to reap the benefit of it,
and are organizing to oppose the measure as
an attempt of the Catholics to get the control
of the schools.
DR.. Cheever said that recently the memoir
of An interesting young lady, the daughter of
missionary, was sent to the Tract Society, but
| rejected for publication, because it contained
paragraph expressing her appreciation of the
character of Little Eva, because she read the
Bible to Uncle Tom.
One hundred and forty ministers of the NJ E.
Church South recently voted to erpunge the
article in their discipline condemning the slaoe
trade. Eight only voted nay
The indefatigable Mrs. Gaines is in Wash.
ington, actively urging her claims to pension
as the widow of Gen. Gaines.