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the liquor shops within that limit, were found to
operate tavoraby. intoxicating drinks were
imbibed, however, in fearful quantities, as can
didates were generous, and the liquor stores that
'cere open very accessible. No disturbance of
moment occurred in any but the first, sixth,
and seventeenth wards
The Administration do not intend to abandon
the fight against Douglas, as has been alleged
They claim three members of the State Senate
among the number of those holding over, who
are sufficient to prevent the election if that pol
icy should now be adopted. This trio is said
to be resolutely anti-Douglas, though classified
in the general count as /" Democrats" There
are power and patronage enough here to COM
pass this object, undoubtedly, for such "moral
suasion is far more practicable upon few
selfish members of Legislature than upon the
masses of the people. The only question that
will be consids cred is, will such step be injuri
Gus or beneficial to the future interests of the
man against whom it is proposed to be taken
If decided I'M favor of the former, the means can
readily be found to attain the end. Nothing is
easier. The examples of recantation in Con-
gress, after the most solemn pledges, bear wit
ness how open to conviction are the consciences
of Democratic politicians, when tempted with
sufficient inducement.
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Il Hub NATIONAL ERA,
w A S FL N GTON, d.
Volume XIII. January, 1859.

element of the Republican Party. Although
Independent Of mere Party organization, it was
the hrst paper 70 advocate general union of
the Opponents Of the kansas-Nebraska A CT in
1894, IN Party Of Freedom; took leading
part IN the formation of the Republican Party,
and, while holding itself at liberty to blame
what II considered blameworthy. has uniformly
indicated 1t as true to its Principles. Ii has
never been burden 10 its friends, never solicit
ed, nor at any time would have been willing to
receive, any kind Of official or congressional pa
tronage, has always been seli-suslanine From
Its friends, then. II asks a subscription that
shall enable il TO retain position gained by so
much effort, and to continue to WELD an influ-
ence which, trust, has not been exerted for
evil. ..I
The coming year will be critical one for
the Republican cause. Strong efforts will be
made to demeralize it, and accommodate il to
the views of those, who, unwilling to support
the Administration, do not yet appreciate the
true nature or objects of our movement. Squat
ter Sovereignty. Know Nothingism, Conserva-
tism, National Whiggery, are all working To-
gether for the construction OF a platform, from
which shall be excluded the Anti Slavery Idea
that very element which gave birth and gives
vitality TO the Republican Party. Can the Era
be dispensed with at such period2
Able contributors have been secured to our
columns; and with pleasure we announce that
we have engaged as Assistant Editor, DANIEL
r. GooDLoE, OF North Carolina, one of the
ablest writers in the country on the Question
of Slavery.
The Literary Department of the paper will
be carefully attended to. The two Stories now
in course of publication, 4" Herman" and
Jasper" will furnish rich entertainment to
our readers, for several months to come.
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containing more than so Volumes is soon de-
composed. In conclusion, the authors stated
that the conditions necessary to obtain a good
depolarizing liquid are: l, conductibihty; 2,
richness III comburent principles 3, easy de-
composition and 4, the faculty of dissolving
the gases or solids, which, being produced by
its decomposition, are apt to form q non-con.
Quoting surface on the electrodes
Professor Scheitzer, of Zurich, has discovered
that various textile substances can be dissolved
in solution of sulphate of copper into which an
excess of ammonia has been poured. In this
solution, cotton becomes sticky like gum, and at
length disappears. The liquid being filtered,
and treated with an excess of hydrochloric acid,
the cotton is precipitated under the from of a
substance resembling the hydrate Of alumina.
Silk and wool will also dissolve but the latter
only by the aid of heat.
A meeting of all the leading members of the
house of Rothschild has Just taken place at
Paris, to regulate their individual positions, and
to fix the conduct of the house for the next
year. The Paris member, the Baron James
Rothschild, is now the recognised head of the
house.
M. De Paravey has written a paper on the
names given to the torpedo in various Ian
guages, with view to show that there existed
in the remOtest ages a vague notion that the
shocks of that animal were produced by an
agency similar to that which caused lightning.
The French population of Buenos Ayres are
busily employed in collecting funds, with view
to raising a monument to Bonpland.
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SENATOR sEwARD's SPEECH.

Of ali the contemplate methods of misrep-
resentation in which some men indulge, the
most despicable is the practice of quoting
passage so separated from the context as to
make it appear that the writer or speaker has
said what he did not say. 1t not unfreuuently
happens that sentence even is broken, and
some single clause of it quoted in order to wing
a falsehood Any one who could be guilty of
such an act deserves to be pilloried He Justly
sinks himself beneath the notice of an honest
man. Senator Seward is Just now suffering
somewhat IN this way through the misrepre-
sentation OF one or two venal and partisan
sheets, whose statements are copied BY other
papers, who may believe them to be true. Mr..
Seward, in bis Rochester speech on last Mon
day, made the following remark:
:" On the other hand while do confidently
believe and hope that my country will vet be-
come a. land ofluniversal Freedom, do not ex-
pect that it will be made so otherwise than
through the action of the several States, coop
Grating with the Federal Government, and all
acting in strict conformity with their respective
Constitutions"
This extract Of itself shows how far Mr. Sew
ard was from indulging in the Abolition TRADE
unreasonable sentiments that some have been
prompt to attribute to him. Where is the trea-
son contained in that paragraph? The speaker
had just before expressed his conviction that
slave labor and free labor are so opposed to
each other that they cannot forever continue to
exist under one Government. A struggle be-
tween the two has been going on, silently or
openly, ever since the fornSation of the Govern
ment; and one or the other must ultimately
triumph Senator Seward believes that free
labor is destined to ACHE 9 that triumph, and
he has good grounds fos his opinion. 1t is
only contemplate Journal, like the Missouri
Republican, that descend TO the low falsity of
separating parts of sentences, and commenting
on those alone, in order 70 make plausible
Democrat
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The National Era is about to enter upon its
Thirteenth volume ..t
Twelve years ago, when the Discussion OF
the Question of Slavery was practically pro-
hibited in this District, the Era was commenced
for the purpose OF asserting and defending the
Rights of Discussion, and of giving fair ex-
preston to Anti-Slavery Sentiments. In the
House of Representatives, j ohm Quincy Adams
and Joshua r. Giddings alone gave il moral
support; in the Senate, it found not a single
well wlsher; while outside OF Congress it stood
here, solitary and unsustained, under ban and
menace. A conflict followed in which an excited
populace undertook to suppress 1t by violence,
but IT resisted the storm, maintained its posi-
tion, and from that hour the Liberty of the
Press was established in the District of Co
lumbia. a
Twelve years have passed, and to day, the
Era finds twenty among the most distinguished
members Of the Senate, elected to carry out the
Principles it was instituted to advocate, and
the House almost controlled by Representatives,
with whom ii can consistently and heartily act
as co-wOrker.
While the cause it has advocated has ad-
vanced so rapidly, am constrained to say that
the Era since the advent Of the Republican
Party, has suffered somewhat in its circulation.
Influential newspapers, once In opposition,
but now united in the same movement, and an
extensive Local Press, unfolding kindred sen
timents, naturally engross large portion of
Republican patronage.
This was to be expected, but still think
there are good reasons why the Era should
continue to be sustained 1t was the first Press
to raise the standard Of Freedom in the Capital
of the Republic. For twelve years it has been
identified with the Anti Slavery movement,
and especially represents the Slavery
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A letter in the New York Herald, dated Fort
Clark, Texas, thus refers to a thriving German
settlement
Some thirty miles from San Antonio is To-
Gated the fourishing German village of New
Braumfels, an oasis of thrift and industry amidst
desert of genuine Texan laziness The
main street of the village is very wide, and
lined on either side by neat painted cottages,
with tasty grass plots and flower gardens in
front. Here you find an excellent hotel, a
bakery, some fine stores, and no less than ten
wagon factories. These German settlements
abound in educated neutrality-suspicious., Poles,
and even Austrians, rivalling the Germans
themselves in education and refnement-all, or
nearly all, exiles from the fatherland on ac
count of their political opinions. As have re-
marked in previous letter, these Germans are
doing for Texas great work of civilization,
gradually convincing the people of that State
that industry and economy carry wealth and
prosperity along with them, and form the sure
foundation of powerful and influential com
munity."
J.W. Denver, Esq, who was the former com
missioner of Indian Affairs, and was appointed
from that position to the Gubernatorial chair
of the Territory of Kansas, has, we perceive
been reinstated in his former Office. This is
stated to have been the course agreed upon
when Mr.. Denver accepted the appointment of
Governor of Kansas. During the interim, the
Office of Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
been filled by Charles E. Mix, Esq, the able
Chief Clerk Of the bureau; and this morning
when Mr.. d. resumed the duties of Commissioner
Mr.. Mix returned to his Chief Clerks desk. We
feel constrained to remark that Mr.. Mix has
discharged the duties of Commissioner, during
his brief official term, with marked ability.
The dispatch announcing the destruction of
the extensive shoe store of H. Childs d Co., of
Pittsburg, Pa. is incorrect. No such fire oc.
CURED.
The louisville Democrat says the amount of
tobacco chewed in the Circuit Court room in a
day during the criminal term is estimated at
t'centy:fce pounds.
The steamer Europa sailed on Wednesday,
with SO passengers for Liverpool and 10 for
Halifax. She took out only $4,000 in specie.
have used Daviss Pain Killer in nv fam
lily for several years, and take great pleasure
in recommending it as a valuable medicine,
that should be kept in every family.
J. S. SWAMI,
Pastor ofHe Huntington street Baptist
Church, Ne1c London.
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A DISTRESSING COUGH CURED.

DEAR SIR: A few weeks since had a distressing
cough my throat very and inAamed, and pro-
cured bottle Of Perry Daviss Pain Killer of you, and it
has entirely cursd me. have also ii used in cases
Of toohache and ague in the face with the bene-
fetal effects believe IL TO be indispensable medi
cine, and shall recommend it TO my acquaintance.
C. w. BANKS, La Port, Ind.
This may certify, that my wife for time very
much afflicted with violent cough, which reduced her
so much that she was unable 10 enjoy a moments rest
day night and by the Of bottle of Perry Davis
Pain Killer, she entirely relieved, and enjoys
good health. consider il one OF the best family med
cines in use. F. X BELANGER, Perrysburgb, ..
Sold by druggists and all dealers in family medicines.
For sale in Washington by William Bsllanyne, book
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THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.
ALBANY, Norember 6, 1853.

ALBANY, Norember 6, 1853.
To the Editor Of the National Era:
Our election is over, and more magnificent
triumph never rewarded victorious party.
Republican State officers, a Republican Assem-
byone hundred to twenty-eig ht-last year, sixty
three 10 sixty-fve-a Republican gain in the
popular vote, over last year, of more than fifty
thousand What more could We have? One
victory more glorious still twenty -nine out of
thrty-three members of Congress. Not Lee
compton man elected in the State, out the city,
and Two opposition members elected in the city,
heretoiore hopelessly given over to Custom
House Democracy. In estimating the political
character of the Empire State, it should be re-
membered that the city furnishes all the Ad-
minisratlon Congressman, and Democratic
majority OF twenty thousand for the rest of the
State 10 overcome. Without the city, is not
New ork an Overwhelmingly Republican
State? With the incubus of the city, she is able
10 roll up straight Republican majority of
twenty thousand, and an Anti-Administration
majority on members of Congress of over sixty
thousand!
Although the city is still in the slough, there
/ much OF encouragement even there
Inc Republican vote (straight) has increased
over Fremont in New Y ork city, four thousand
IN BROOKLYN, two thousand in Albany, one
thousand; in Buffalo, fifteen hundred. The
SuonghodS of Satan are yielding. In 1857,
lie American vote in New York city was three
thousand more than the Republican. Now, the
republican vote there is twenty two thousand,
TIE American seven thousand That humbug
Is exhausted. But what of Gerrit Smiths vote?
% lar We have few returns his votes are so
scattering as not to be noticed--scarcely five
thousand IN the whole State.g Gov. Stewards
great speech at Rochester stopped everything
nae a diversion of the Republican vote TO Ger
III smith, even if there was any serious move
ineht that way before. That speech put heart
mo Inc earnest working men of the Republican
parry all over the State, and to it we are much
trcts - )
ana here let me say, what you will be glad
~ Ano"' that our netc membess of Congress,
a Two or three exceptions, are of the true
Ainntt>lavery stamp; and of those reelected, you
VII recognise some of the best men of that
,"Grac'er IN the present delegation.
i ~ almost every aspect. the result is more
W. Jbee'lng than that of any preceding election
whatever Rejoice with us b.
"GSh'RgtOn Nor. S.-General Walkers visit
I':e IS not directly with the Government. 1t
iact 10 ascertain the extent of the proposed
D''Sh interference. He is satisfied that there
m M De no hindrance to lawful emigration to
qua He denies the truth of the state.
cit eli mat there has been sale of bonds and
rr aI9H; and hence that part of the Presidents
f r'o'Ianauon must have been founded on incor-
Cyl Cyl information. He further SAYS that pas
,ba asefS leaving Mobile are expected to pay
ra r own expenses and act on their own
a~ 'P?nsiOllIty The emigration is under the
auspices OF the Southern Emigration Company,
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General W alker win probably leave for Mobile
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General News and Political Intelligence, keeps
a careful record Of the proceedings of Congress,
and is the repository of large portion Of the
most interesting speeches delivered in that body.
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A late letter has been received by gentle
man OF this city, from a member of the Bound
airy Commission appointed to run and mark the
boundary line between the United States terri
tory and the British possessions, from the
Pacific coast to where the line is already estab-
lished. 1t is dated at Camp, on the Bay of
Simiahano, September 5th The writer says
that the English Commissioners appointed to
run the same boundary arrived one year after
the American Commissioners, and took the field
in August last, the Americans being ahead of
them on the survey 1t was the expectation of
both parties to reach Fort Colville, near the
head waters of the Columbia river, by next
spring, if the Indians do not prove too trouble
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The Common Council of the city of Memphis,
Tenn, have under consideration an ordinance
for the licensing of houses of prostitution. The
committee which reported the ordinance held
that the vice was one which might be controlled
and regulated but not to be eradicated.
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At sitting of the French Academy, Messrs.
De Fonvielle and Deherain communicated their
researches on the depolarizing action of oxygen
lied water, from which it appears that It is
eminently calculated to increase the intensity OF
the galvanic current owing to the abundance
of oxygen which it emits. But in order to OBJ.
tain liquid as rich in available oxygen as nj
the acid is, the water should contain upwards
of 200 times its volume Of oxygen, condition
which it would be difficult to fulfil, it having
been shown by Thenard that oxygenized water,
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R. H. Chiffon, cotton broker in New Or
leans, committed suicide on Wednesday morn
ing. The deaths by fever on the Sd were seven
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MORNING LEADER OFFICE1
Thursday Evening, Dec. 30, P. NJ.
FLoUR-Msrket arm Sale 100 barrels choice extra at
s5.s5.
wHEAr-The sales reported red sl,T2 and
choice white at Sl,2l,
CORN nice shellsd sold at 67c from store
HoGsThe market to-day somewhat seeted by the mild
damp weather demand litle weaker but not suf
6eeEy lc depress prices and heavy still quoted at
$se5.
FRUIT Dried apples continue steady s22O922j for
nice crop.
EGGS-Sales have been made at lSc.
PoUBTBY-Chckens selling in considerable quantities
at 55fG61sc and turkeys Sc, and sc for very fne