The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-05-06
VOL. XII.
LOUIS NAPOLEON.

LOUIS NAPOLEON.
Louis Napoleon, though he processes to b.
the enemy of the Fourierites of France. land N
his treatment ofthem he certainly makes his pro.
fessions good, really practices to great exten,
upon Fourierite principles. Since his accession
to the French throne, he has provided work f.,
the poor of Paris, and he has decreed tbs,
$32,OOO,OOo more be appropriated to the extep.
sion of public works in Paris. 1t is not tba,
he would tax France at this rate MERELY 70
beautify Paris, but he knows that a vast elias.
of workmen in that city would be without en-.
ployment, did he not keep them at work. So bs
does what the admirers of Fourier recommend
provides work for the people, teaches them tina,
they may rely upon the State for employment
and for pay. BE is doubtless well aware tina,
1t is the very class which he employs that makes
revolutions in France, and he takes the easiest
method of preventing insurrection. So long a.
the great class of lsborers in the largest cities
are at work upon good pay, there will be no
revolution, for, in revolution, however high
the men who plan and direct it may be. the
lighting is always done by the workmen-by
the common people. Louis Napoleon is shrevd
enough, then, in taxing France severely 10
keep the maleontents at work, but it is scarcely
fair for him or his friends at the same time 10
denounce the Communists of France, while he
adopts one Of their cardinal principles.
AFRICAN CoTToN.-Thomas Clagg, large
Manchester cotton spinner, writes to the Daly
Neacs, of London, that he has already received
considerable consignments of cotton from Arr.
ca. 1t comes from African traders in and
about Abbeokuts, who collect it. Last wear
there were collected for Mr.. Clagg, in this re.
gion, 1850 bales of 100 pounds each. The
cotton costs him but eight and one.half CENTS
per pound, while American cotton of a similar
quality costs fourteen cents. More than two
hundred cotton.growers have already gone ont
to Africa, ordered and paid for by the natives.
and there is prospect of a vast increase oftbe
production of this staple in different parts of
Africa. 1t would be not little remarkable #
Africa, whose children have been so Injured bv
cotton culture in America, should, through the
culture upon her own soil, give her down.trod.
den sons freedom.
INsIDIoUs DEsIGNs.-The Richmond South.
in view of the recent action of the New York
East Methodist Episcopal Conference, charges
upon the Methodist Church North insidious de.
signs against Slavery in Delaware, MARYLAND.
and even in Virginia itself. These Methodsts.
intimates the South, are endeavoring to detacb
the aforementioned States from their fellow
slave States in the South. The Methodist
Church, according to the South, has insdious
designs against the institution Of Slavery
therefore it must be watched closely and guard.
ed against. We would suggest to the vigilant
ones at Richmond, that the Bible itself has de.
signs against their darling institution, and, if
they are prudent, they will keep it not only
from slaves, but from white men. 1t is a dan.
gerous book in the South, notwithstanding it is
interpreted to support Slavery.
Col. KINNEY-A Panama correspondent Of
the NeuO York Herald writes
"News has just reached me that the famous
Col. Kinney Is on the point of starting from
Aspinwall, nominally on a commercial specu.
lation but think can see the cat under the
mealtub. The Colonel has chartered the
bsrque Osprey Captain Nash, and has made
extensive purchases of all kinds of provisions,
wines, brandies, several cases of muskets. re.
volvers, balls. with the usual military allowance
of powder. You are aware that the Colonel
has lately come in for $4,000 cash. and, being
one OF the most persevering men living, be has
resolved to kill two birds with the one stone.
sell his goods at a handsome profit, and take
possession of that million Of acres in MOSQUITO,
which he claims under the Shepherd and Haley
grant. He says the treaty fully provides for
him, and he is resolved to have his own. peace.
ully il possible, but have it he must. His ar.
ival in Greytown will create sensation, and
'ou may look out for stirring times in that
quarter"
Several other gentlemen go with the Colonel
n the new expedition, and they are confident
# success; but if their object be to steal
rovince, they would be very likely to fail-ifitis
o go to work and colonize the country in a
eaceful manner, they may succeed.
Senator Sumner is understood TO be in Phil.
delphis, In the care of DR.. Wistar. The
Washington correspondent of the Boston Trar.
Ter says:
Don't be alarmed by the reports in regard
o Mr.. Sumner now ahoat in the papers. he
las been slightly indisposed, but is about as
Vell now as when he reached here two weeks
ince. On last Wednesday, while in the Con.
Library, he was notified that the
'enate was about voting on the admission Of
Minnesota, when he walked rather fast from
he Library to the Senate, reaching his seat in
lme to vote The next morning he was very
anne, and very much exhausted"
The burning of the steamer Ocean Spray,
lear st. Louis, by which some twenty or thirty
persons persisted, was the result of the mania
or racing which prevails on our Western
waters, and constitutes one of the chief peris
IF their navigation. The Ocean Spray had
ust started for Peoria, Illinois, and was fol.
owed by the Hannibal City, which was gaining
lpon her, while the passengers on both were
xhilarated with the excitement of the race.
7. Il. Deniston, one of the escaped passengers,
ives vivid account of the affair:
Some of the men went down into the hold,
nd brought up barrel of turpentine, which
ad been consigned to some person in Peoria.
he men took an axe and split hole in the
cad of the barrel, and then, under orders of
be mate, dipped the fluid out, and threw It
YER the coal that was lying by. This was not
xpeditious enough, and the head Of the barrel
'as knocked in, and O bucket with piece of
ope to it was used to dip out the turpentine.
he barrel at this time Yves standing not more
han six feet from the furnace doors. After
ipping with the bucket and sprinkling the