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THE MONROE DOCTRINE.


Inc Ndno"dt hfeHgencer OF Saturday ha'
long and elaborate history of the Monroe
D,ctrino oorclrd;nc TINS
We have thus endeavored to lay before our
readers a faithful history of a much mootcd
topic in American politics. Let us briefly
recapitulate the points we have, as we think
established beyond successful controversy
|. That the Monroe declaration of 1898, in
both its phases, had it's origin in the changed
relations and new responsibilities imposed on
the several States of the American Continents
arising especially from the emancipation of
the Spanish Colonies and rendering it condu-
Give to the interest of all that the American
Continents should not be subject to future
colonization by any European power as waste
and unoccupied territory and that no for
eign State or States should be allowed TO
intervene in the domestic affairs of anv Amer
lean people for the purpose of suppressinr
republican institutions.
2. That the Monroe declaration. in so far
a. it related to the threatened intervention of
the Holy Alliance in the concerns of the
Spanish American States. was intended 10
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THE BRITISH

We wish to call the attention of our read
ers to the advertisement Of l.. Scott & Co.
of New York, who continue to republi.h the
leading British Quarterlies and Blackwoo
Magazine. By this arrangement the Ameri-
can public is enabled to obtain them for $40
while the English people are obliged to pay
$3l. These periodicals contain some of the
richest fruits OF the scholarship, wit, and ge,
MUS of the literary men of Great Britain
Their pages abound with elaborate criticisms
brilliant essays, and profound speculations on
points of interest in science, literature, NOR.
ality, and religion.
The EDINBURGH Review, in point of age
at least, is first on the list. Everybody know.
that it was established by Jeffrey, Brough-
am, and Sidney Smith for the purpose of COM
batting the ruling Tory power which then
was carrying everything before it with high
hand The power and energy which were
displayed in its articles soon secured for it an
immense Influence. 1t is still conducted with
much vigor and ability.
HE LONDON QUARTERLY was established in
opposition to the Edinburgh Review and the
able writers which mustered for its support.
such as Southey, Scott, Lockhart, and Words
worth, made it a powerful competitor and
it remains so to this day.
The WESTMINSTER REVIEW belongs to yet
different school of politics. 1t denounces
boldly and fearlessly exclusive privileges, her.
editary rights, kingly prerogatives, and all
the abuses of feudalisn, and is rather radical
not only in politics but in religion, 1t how
ever contains many able articles on other sub
jects.
The NORTH BRIrI.m REVIEW made its ap-
pearance as special advocate of evangelical
religion. 1t was founded by DR.. Chalmers,
and since his death has been under the edito-
rial charge of Dr. Hanna, and more recent
ly of Prof Fraser. For some time past it
has been less evangelical than in its earlier
years, but it has now got back to its first
faith, and is conducted on the same principles
and with the same vigor which characterized
it when under the care Of Chalmers.
BLAcKwooD' MAGAZINE everybody knows
to be the embodied genius OF Toryism, yet its
rhetoric, delightful learned dispositions,
slashing criticisms, poetry, and biography,
and fiction render 1t perhaps the most rcada-
BILE monthly in the world,
The American publishers of these periodi-
calls receive the advance sheets from the Brit
ish publishers SO that they can furnish their
reprints to subscribers about as early as they
could get the originals, and at greatly re-
duced price. Their publication of these re-
prints has been kept up for long period,
and we understand also that they deal very
literally with tho original British Publishers
NOT p'rdting from them, but paying them
annually handsome sum-about $1,000 a |
year We hope they will be sustained by a
liberal public; and the new year, just at hand,
is good time for ns,e subscribers to begin.
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AMERICAN SPITTERs.-An English traveller
in this country comes down on the habit Of
splitting so prevalent in this country, with
great power. He gives the Southern and
Western States the pre-emincncc in this
thing, but does not spare us at the North
lie says "spittoons garnish the marble steps
at the capitol at Washington spittoons are
in all the reading-rooms, bars, Hobbies and
Offices of the hotels; spittoons in every rail
road car and in the halls of every State le-
gislature, which | visited, the parliamentary
spittoons seemed to be as indispensable as the
desks and benches of the members" Our
national coat-of-arms he says ought to be
changed-that the eagle on our coat-of-arms
ought to drop his thunderbolt and clutch a
spittoon.
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SENATOR HAMMOND AND LIBERIA. - In Sen
ator Hammond's speech, so lauded by the
dough face press, he asserted that the gov.
eminent of Liberia was engaged in the slave
trade, referring, as was understood, to the
false SANDER against that government in the
matter of the Regina Coeli. Mr.. John H.
Latrobe, the President of the American Co
lonlzation Society, wrote to Senator II.
Nov. Q, asking for his authority for such
statements. Senator Hammond referred him
to late article in the Edinburgh Reriew for
his authority We noticed the paragraph
in the Review article referred to-as tallying
precisely with the lying report about Liberia
and the Regina Coeli, and did not doubt
that the reviewer and Senator
Hammond got their coin from the same mint.
Mr.. Latrobe is southerner, and in letter
to Senator Hammond published in the Bal
timorc american, he rebukes that gentleman
in very sharp terms, for his readiness to
adopt the vile SANDER referred to from such
an authority. " AS regards Liberia, 'says
Mr.. Latrobe, 'she has already lived down
more than half of the oft-refuted ISLANDERS
which have been now repeated and that
Time may safely be relied upon to vindicate
the remainder.
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SUDDEN DLATHs.-On the 9th inst, Mr..
Levi Albee Of South Charleston, fell from his
chair and Immediately expired of heart dis
ease. He was Ga years of age.
On the 9TH, Mr.. Timothy ii. Hall of West
minister died very suddenly, lie had just
come home from Bellows Falls and com plain
ed of pain in his chest, asked for some
ginger tea, and sitting down, expired almost
instantly,
On the l4th, Joseph Cressy of Woodford
fell dead in the road about four miles from
Bennington, while e'ins home with his
brother. He was under the influence of
liquor Mt the time
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The joke made great deal of sport
among the cheated guests, especially as the
opening of another door presently showed an
abundant supply Of rich and we'll prepared
edibles from different quarry from those on
the first table,
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JUSTICE WAYNE on THE Echo CASE. On the
9th inst. at Columbia, S, c., Justice Wayne.
of the [. S. Court, delivered his opinion on
the application for discharge of the crew of
the SLAYER Echo, the grand jury having re-
fused to find bill against them. He said
there ''was no law to sanction the claim to
discharge. because of the ignoring of the bill
this term; but there was statutory law,
which does not allow such claim as a mat
ter of right, and there are decisions of the
court against it. The finding of the grand
bill leaves it discretionary with the prosecut-
ing attorney to proceed or not, as his sense
of public justice dictates.''
The Judge said further, in substance. that
Congress cannot make it piracy to transport
slaves by sea from one state of the Union to
an other, but the case is different for acts OH
the high seas. MANY acts not piracy
against the law of nations, may be legislated
by Congress to be piracics, and punished as
such They can only be punished iudcally
by the nation making them piracies. The
power to regulate commerce with foreign ma
tlons would have been very feeble to protect
It, II the power to define and punish piracies
and felonies committed Mt sea had not been
given ust in the terms used in the constitu.
ton The use made of it by Congress in sec
tions four and five of the act of Doth Nav,
1920, is not unconstitutional
The prisoners were therefore remanded. in
custody OF the Marshal, to Charleston Jail,
and the witnesses were ordered to be remoy
ed to the same place.
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RECENT MISUNDERSTANDING the new and
useful applications Of gutta percha is pack
ing paper covered with a thin coating of it,
manufactured in France which is water proof
and therefore convenient for many purposes.
Carriage wheels are now extensively manu-
featured of India rubber in England, They
are stated to be less expensive than iron tired
wheels, and to be capable of travelling as
many as twelve thousand miles where as
an iron tired wheel is said to be worn out
after travelling four thousand miles.
There are accounts of new light invented
in France. The raw material may be a cheap
gas made from the commonest materials, and
the increase of brilliancy is obtained by pass
ing it through new medium which is alleg-
ed to have all the advantages of lime without
its destructibility. The calculations put forth
are that light equal to that of 500 street
lamps and lasting IL hours can be obtained
at a cost equal to 81 IL cents, while for do
nestle purposes one jet, costing only eight
cents for twelve hours, will give light fully
equal to three argand lamps, and double tina,
of any ordinary gas burner 1t is asserted
also that the requisite apparatus is cheap,
perfectly portable and capable of being man.
aged even by a child that the light is FIRE,
from smell, very white, extremely pure, and
characterized by the property of burning
steadily, continuously and without dIminu
ton.
I A New York gentleman has patented a new
hooped skirt of the expansive and collapsivt
variety, that will infallibly torment all the
men and enrapture all the women. 1t il
Il. L. i
nIa wn'e norss ns R
ton with some new material which is also
patented, that n full skirt of forty hoops
with all the essentials of elasticity, fullnes,
and strength, can be carried within a muff
occupy scarcely more space than portmon
maize, and in an instant be adjusted to the
person, expanding robe to a diameter of si>
or seven feet, giving the wearer the agreeable
circumference of from 10 to twenty-one feet
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THE "ENGLISH" ASSAULT.

WV. Ii. ENGLISH, member Of Congress
from Indiana, is making progress. lie wa
guilty last session, Of betraying the cause
freedom by his action in the Conference
Committee which reported the bill for keep
ing Kansas out of the Union unless her peo-
pie would accept the Lecompton pro-slavery
constitution to which they had declared
their adherence. The English" bill will
couple his name with infamy for generations
to come. tie begins this session with
violent assault on fellow member, Mr..
Montgomery, because he chooses to show a
contempt for treachery by not speaking to
the man who had been guilty Of it.
The first report tcegraphed to the east,
that of the Washington Star, was that when
English accosted Montgomery, the latter re-
piled, 81 speak to no puppy" No doubt
Montgomery thought English was puppy /;
but he did not call him so. VIM. Couch and
Daniel Cox who witnessed the affair, confirm
the statement of Mr.. Montgomery, that he
passed English without speaking to him or
noticing him. We presume English will ex-
pect nothing less than valuable land agency
or some other profitable office from the Pres
ident. Border rufians in Kansas have been
rewarded, &c.,-why should not he be?
English must belong to the chivalry He
attacks unarmed folks from hahind, With
club and sword cane.
GEOLOGICAL BANQUET Among guests at a
party in South Danvers Mass. recently, was
Prof. Hitchcock of Amherst College, well
known for his works or geology. The party
was pleasant one, and all went well until
the refreshments appeared, when it was
found that every thing on the table was as
hard and solid as rock. The ice creams were
CONCEALED to solidity beyond the melting
power of the most tropical heat no spoon
could penetrate the blancmange; the Gus
tards were equally impenetrable; and the
nicely frosted cake refused to yield to the
sharpest knife. In word, it seemed as if
the presence ofthe great geologist had turn
ed everything to stone. Tho oysters were
petrifed and so were the guests. Very soon
however, the party began to discern trap as
we'll as granite and quartz, and a rich scene
OF hilarity ensued. 1t was found, on further
investigation, that the wine in the glasses
refused to run out, and the liquid in the
champagne bottles was furnished by the
Aqueduct company. The cream was of the
conscience OF lime water, and the sugar look
ed like quick lime. The cake was heavy.
the lower stratum having been baked in a
brick kiln, and the upper looked like frost
ing of gypsum. This latter substance went
largely into the composition OF other articles
in this strange metamorphosis.
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TouGH Hen SToRY.-The Woodstock
Standard is responsible for the statement
that hen, killed in IIartland last week
after knife was put through her throat and
her feathers picked OF, effected her escape
and ran to tho barn to her nest and laid an
egg,
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CONGRESS-.


On the 18th, in the Senate, the list Of
Standing Committees was adopted. The
Committee on Territories is as follows
Mr.. Green, chairman: Douglas, Fitzpat-
rick, Sebastian, Jones, Collamer, Wade.
Mr.. Collamer is also member of the
Committee on the Judiciary Mr.. Foot is
the last one on the Committee on Foreign
Relations. On the cashiering of Mr. Douglas
from the craftsmanship of the Territorial
Committee, the Washington correspondent of
the N. Y Post remarks
The wonder /. that he is retained at all, that he
is not thrown out altogether a Opposition )"
man. That they did not do so is an important fact
Douglas is not discarded by the party The party
can no more afford to lose him than they could
afford to spare Fitch and Bright from the Senate
Mr.. Douglas has had his sword taken away, has
been stripped Of his gilt embcms of Office, and
sent into the ranks dsgraced. The administration
party still recognise him as one of the fold, but
withhold from him all power not belonging to n
private. understand that the argument employed
by the opponents Of Douglas, in the caucus, was,
to throw him entirely overheard would create SYM
pathy for him, and enable him the easier to set up
in business for himself. The party prefers to keep
him within the ring, where they can control him,
and on every favorable opportunity treat him to n
" bear hug
On the 14th the Pacific Railroad bill was
discussed in the Senate.
Mr.. Shields, of MINI, was in favor of a
route from the great lakes to Puget's Sound.
Mr.. Doolittle, of Wis, was in favor of a
route any where between Breckenridge, Mn
nesota, and Fort South, Arkansas. Mr..
Brown, OF Miss, would like to sec the eastern
terminus left clear to the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi. Mr.. Foot, of VT, personally was in
favor of road through the southern pass,
and near the 42d parallel, as fair comprom-
Use between the extreme north and south, but
would consent to have western terminus at
San Francisco. and the eastern on the Missis-
sippi, leaving it to the contractors to locate
the road.
Mr.. Polk, of Mo-, offered an amendment
that the southern terminus should he at the
mouth of the Mississippi, when Mr.. Davis
suggested the southern boundary of the Uni
ted States.
Mr.. Gwin moved rs an amendment that no
terminus should be named but that they
should merely vote for the road. Adj
In the House, the impeachment case of
Judge Watrous, of Texas. has occupied the
attention of the body for several days.
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New DEFINirIoNs.-lt is said that the next
dictionary published under Democratic aus
pices, will have the following new definitions:
Non Intervention right of over-run-
ming and taking possession of Mexican prov
inces.
MISUNDERSTANDING Cuba, keeping
three armies on the Isthmus and one in Mex
leo, and increasing the navy to meet emer-
gencies.
MISUNDERSTANDING Oregon because it
is Democratic, and keeping out Kansas be-
cause it is Opposition, neither having the
population declared requisite for State.
Era Of Good Fsehn9,-A something sup
posed to follow the decapitation of Senator
Douglas.
PArtNrs.-In the list of new patents we
notice one to j. ii. FairchId of Jericho, for
improvement in water-wheels.
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Congress Of Kings alone, the nations blesses!
Princes anonted, let not justice sleep;
For good King Christophe, every king must
weep.
Yours. f. G..
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The STATE HousE.-We see it stated, as on
good authority, that the citizens of Montpe-
lier are preparing to furnish the Superinten-
dent for rebuilding the State House with
funds to go on with the work. There can
be no objection to that course, in any quar-
ter, we presume, 1t seems to us to be very
proper course ; for we can not doubt that
the understanding of most of the people of
the State has been and is now, that the
agreement under which the act for bull.
ding was passed, contemplated such a pro.
ceeding on the part Of the people of that
place.
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Ro digne de tous vos regret
venture rough translation, leaving
those who are not familiar with the original
to imagine that satrical aroma, which am
not able to transfer from one language to
the other.
Christophe is dead aud his Afflicted peers,
To william, Francis, Alexander fly
Alliance Holy pity now fears
Oh turn to US your sympathizng cye'
Come intervene, though far away we live,
See Freedom. mischief, how it now progresses;
Quick call a Congress Congress on Congresses,
Congress of Kings alone the nations blesses,
Princes anointed, let not justice sleep
For good King Christophe, every king must
weep
Come yc Don Quixottes of despotie power,
To the rebellious now your bravery show,
lie was your brother whom now deplore,
And kings are the same color all, you know;
Come with the secret plans you've tried before.
To stop the over that on your footsteps presses
Quick, call Congress- Congress onCongresses
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THE N ATIoNAL ERA: WASHINGTON, D. c, JUNE TO- 1858

ate them to Slavery would be resisted by the
natives.
Here is a field for the enterprise of our free
colored people; here an opportunity for them
to take part in the great movements going on
for the subjugation of the world to Labor d.
rected by Intelligence. In these shore districts
of the Gulf, the climate is not favorable to the
white man, nor is the population in sympathy
with him but the colored emigrant can hnd
plenty of sympathy, and can labor without In
jury. Here, then, is broad field on which to
try the experiment of free labor in the produc-
ton of cotton, rice, and sugar. We have half
million Of free colored people among rs, en-
lightened, orderly, trained under republican in
stitutions, bat compressed and oppressed by an
unrelenting whitelabor composition While Eli
ThAyer is organising white emigration for the
Territories of the Union, Why may not some
enterprising, sagacious black man organize q
system of colored emigration 70 Central Amer.
lea and Yucatan? "Nsgro labor" it is as
sumed, is necessary to tropical production; let
the free colored people supply what is needed
in those countries. They will find the way
opsn-no hostile competition--a warm vel
come-kind consideration. They can there
demonstrate that cotton, sugar, rice, can be
pro6tably raised without slave labor, and that
it is not necessary to degrade one race to secure
the elevation and comfort of another. Pre-oc-
cupying these extensive planting regions with
fourishing colonies, q stop win be put to flibus-
tering and Slavery propagandism, and an asy-
lum opened for those of their brethren whom
the States inclined by humanity or self interest
to Emancipation, may release from bondage.
But, our article is already too long. When
We commenced it, by taking the letter of our
Minister at Paris for text, we had no idea of
travelling over SO much ground but the sub
ject referred to by him without single concep
ton of its real nature or bearings, is full of in
terest involves various questions of the greatest
importance, and deserves more attention than
| it has vet received.
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TUESDAY IN CONGRESS.

In the House, the Senate amendment to the
appropriation bill (miscellaneous) was taken
up. The Senate's amendment provided that
the Post Office advertising should not be given
to the Washington papers. The House Com
mittee of Ways and Means recommended that
they be published in one Washington journal.
The House refused to sustain the committees
amendment, but voted in the Senate amend
ment.
In the Senate, the Gaines case came up in the
morning hour. After which, the House army
appropriation bill was taken up and considere d.
p1 The Tory party in England retains Of
fee, according to the latest advices, still lon
ger, because it has taken strong ground against
the Pslmerstonian policy in India, which was
altogether too severe to suit the Liberals o,
England. So the Derby Ministry is still in
power, and Lord Palmerston, and especially
Governor General Canning, of India, are re-
buked.
OREGoN.-The election in Oregon for State
and Territorial officers, also to provide for the
contingency of Oregon's non-sdmission into
the Union, was to have taken place last Mon
day. The Democrats were divided, and there
was chance that the Republicans would tri
umph. If Oregon were admitted now, the
prospect of two Republican Senators from the
other side of the Pacific would be quite fair
Can this be one reason Why certain Democrats
oppose her admission?
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