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


Quitmau, communicates the following in rela-
ton to The character of his disease:
"The General was one of the victims of the
National Hotel poisoning, having dined there
on that fatal day which has cost thirty per-
sons their lives, and destroyed the health OF
| sixty or seventy more. Since that day, Gen.
| Quitmasa has not had well hour. As soon IS
| Congress adjourned, he fastened to his home,
hoping that cessation from work, and repose In
the bosom of his family, would restore him to
health. The fatigue of travelling night and
| day exaggerated his disease, and when he
reached Natchez, he was compelled to take at
once his bed
"The marriage, q few days afterwards, ofhis
daughter to Capt. Lowell, U. s. N, of the
Water WITCH revived his spirits-preatly de-
pressed by his disease he Hospitality re-
| manned up until after midnight, to do the
| honors 70 the guests with that courtesy and af.
liability which characterized him. The fatigue
| and excitement of this occasion was too much
| for his enfeebled constitution, and increased
his malady, 80 that since he has not been able
to leave his room. The physicians who at.
tended him, it is said, perceive in his disease
the unmistakable effects of arsenic"
According to the London Globe Rev. Mr..
| Surgeons decision to come to this country
depends upon his failure to get money to build
| q new chapel. He threatens his admirers by
| way of motive to more liberal contributions,
| that If he does not raise money enough for
| new tabernacle, he will 60 to America or
| Australia, by which we understand that he
means emigration, and not a mere visit.
1t must be interesting and pleasant to the
| Democratic iron workers of Pennsylvania to
learn that the extensive contract for iron pipe
| for tha oh pufnp ban
to company in Glasgow, Scotland.
| The Anti Slavery party in New York--pure
and unde6ed-is preparing to enlarge its
gsnizstion, and will nominate Gerrit Smith for
Governor, and add temperance to its platform.
We have cheering accounts of the anti.Bu-
chanan union in Pennsylvania for the State
and Congressional elections this fall. While it
seems to he thorough, it is also enthusiastic and
hopeful. Gov. Reeder and Thsddens Stevens
are expected to be among the eminent men
elected to Congress by it. Eighteen out of the
twenty.four Representatives to which the State
is entitled are confidently claimed by the op.
position.
Mr.. E. C. Delavan, it is reported, has paid
off the whole debt of the New York Temper.
snce Society, amounting to So, l68, out of his
own pocket.
The Scientific american recommends that,
in order to preserve the system in a cool and
healthy state during the extreme hot weather
of summer, the diet should consist as much as
possible of fruits, vegetables, and farinaceous
food, and the lighter kinds of meats. The fruit
should be perfectly ripe and fresh from the
parent stem, and should be eaten in the earlier
and middle part of the day. Its nutritive prop
critics are not very great, but it serves to neu
tralizs the acids in the stomach, aud acts as
general corrective to the system.
The Savannah Ne,cs proclaims Judge Green,
professor in the law school at Lebanon, Ten.
| nesseee, "a dangerous az well as untrue citizen
in the South" Judge Green is Virginian by
birth, and a stakeholder in practice; but he
holds "the damnsble sentiment that Slavery
is an evil, morally, socially, and politically"
and tae South, whose great men all once held
that opinion, cannot tolerate him. The pro-
fessor in his defence says that he considers
the evil greater to the master than to the slave.
Bot this does not avail him. He must say
that Slavery is good thing every way and if
he cannot pronounce the shibboleth, he will
be dismissed from the law school, if not driven
out of the South by mob. That is all the lib.
erty of opinion and of conscience that exists
in the slave region.
The negroes of California, Disguised with the
oppressive laws passed by the Democratic Legis-
lature, are emigrsting to the British dominions
on thu Pacific, and will be just iR time to realize
the first advantages of the new gold discoveries
Among them is the negro Archy, whom the
Supreme Court of California undertook to re-
duce to slavery, but who was declared free by
the United States court.
President Buchanan has written to some
friend at New York that he shall pass through
that city in September, on a visit to New Eng
land. From this infer that the President
means to honor the Springfield horse show with
his preselce.
DE-. Hayes is receiving encouragement for
his proposed Arctic expedition, and it ia said
that it will certainly be undertaken.
A good story is told of the venerable Adolf
ton Congressman, Hon. Joshua R. Giddings.
The correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
ting Convention, at Columbus, Ohio, on the
| 18th, says:
"He was sitting in the Neil House, sur
rounded by coterie of friends. A book ped
dler Who had been busily perambulating the
corridors, importuning gentlemen to purchase
valuable publications. wormed his way into
the circle, approaching Mr.. G., handed him a
small linen covered book which he recommend.
ed as one of the most thrilling works on Sla
very extant, price only one dollar The ven.
cradle Joshua glanced at him inquiringly, evil
IDENTITY suspecting q sell but perceiving the
sincerity of the chap, he maintained his com.
posure, and, opening the volume, read, THE
Exiles of Florida-aheml - yes, SIR inter.
posed the pedder, quickly "a frst.rate work,
| writtsh by the celebrated Joshua Giddings, the
great Apostle of Anti-Slavery. It's i'm mense.
ly popular, sir, only one dollar By this ii ne
the crowd discovsFed the joke, and burst into
a hearty laugh. The peddler looked foolish
and confused, and made snatch at his book.
as if he had suddenly discovered something,
and was about to subside, when the venerable
gentleman, with that kindness for which he is
distinguished, requested him to stop minute.
and taking only one dollar from his pocket,
paid for the volume. The peddler hasn't been
4 seen SINCE"
The Montreal Advertiser believes that the
celebration of American Independence has cosl
more loss of life and limb than the contest
which established it. Not quite so bad as that
but Is it were, the British need not feel so bad
about the latter, as they do not share the perils
| They suffered their portion of the loss in the
/ first instance. ....
1t is satisfactory to know, upon good Demo
cratic authority that President Buchanan
drinks nothing stimulating except old rye wits
| ky. This pleasant information is contained in
| the postscript of letter from Congressman
Montgomery, Of Pennsylvania, to one of bis
constituents published in the Boonsville Clip
per, as follows:
"P. S.-President Buchanan drinks nothing
| stimulating except old rye whisky. told him
| that Won used to have the hest that was owe,