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foreign countries? These iunocents have been
betrayed into this most unpopular position by
General Cass's objectionable blunder. Their
name is legion. They embrace the greater
portion of the party, in fact Not only all in
Office, but all who wanted Office, felt bound to
stand by the doctrine, because they were led TO
believe that the Administration had made up
its mind to stand by it. But now, suddenly,
they find themselves high and dry, while the
tide OF popular sentiment has swept off the Ad-
ministration which betrayed them into the
folly. Lt
The following extract from the Washington
States, a leading organ of the Democracy, has
already appeared in our columns, but we repro
duce it, because it embodies in few words the
prevalent tone of the Democratic politicians
since the publication of the lie Clerc letter.
The States was one of the first to respond to
that letter, as follows:
I" For instance If a male Stare Of VIrginia-
one Of M. Botts'S, for u.stdnce-icere to escape
from has O0ner, proceed TO Prussia, there BE-
come subject Of the Crocn, and Subsequently
return TO Virginia, IS II likely he mould be re-
stored to Prussia, upon the demand that he is a
PruSSidn Su1jectl The notion is too absurd to
be entertained by rational being OLD YIR-
GINA WOULD SURRENDER HER EXISTENCE BEFORE
SHE WOULD SURRENDER HIM. THE CASES
ARE IDENTICAL"
The States has just ground of complaint
against General Cass for leading it into this
unfortunate position. 1t has our sympathies.
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FLOURISHING CONDITION OF THE
SLAVE TRADE.

A Washington correspondent of the Nelr
York Herald stated, a few DAYS since, that
some seventy cargoes of African negroes have
been landed on our Southern coast within the
last fourteen months, embracing about fifteen
thousand in all. If this statement be approx
mately near the truth, it is most startling.
But we apprehend that it is a mere guess. The
Star, of this city, undertakes to contradict the
story, and to declare, emphatically, that the
Echo is the only such vessel which has at
tempted to land on our coast since the success
full debarkation of the Wanderers cargo But
here, too, we have guesswork in place of facts
How can the Star know that there have beea
no slave cargoes landed on a coast of two thou
sand miles extent with innumerable inlets
suitable for such purposes?
We often see in the Southern newspapers,
from South Carolina to Louisiana, statements
to the effect that the editor had just seen two
three, or a dozen, fine young Africans, &C.
Unless these Southern editors are the most
INSCRIPTIONS falsi6ers, there must be some
truth in the current accounts of the prosperity
of the slave trade. We know, also, that public
opinion in South Carolina, Georgia, and the
Gulf States, is ripe for the reopening of the
trade; and it is equally well known that the
President is never very resolute in resisting
the popular current in the South.
1t remains to be seen how much truth there
is in the Heralds statement, and in the Stars
semi-ofiicial contradiction.
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A HUNDRED YEARS HENCE.-A writer in
the Mississippi Democrat, with the laudable
but forlorn hope of dissuading the people OF
that State from efforts 10 revive the slave trade
argues that we are likely, in the course of years,
to be at loss what to do with our surplus slave
population, instead of needing more. He un-
dertakes to show what the population of the
United States will be hundred years hence.
BY his calculation, it will be 100000, 900, of
which 100000, or little more than III per
cent, will be slaves while at present it is
3l,000,0O0, of which more than Is per cent.
are slaves.
We respect the motives of any Southern
man who endeavors to stem the current now
setting strongly in faver of the slave trade
But we cannot but be amused at the idea which
the writer advances, that Slavery is to exist
hundred years hence, and that at that day
there will be more slaves in the Union than
there are people of all races at the present time
The good man deceives himself A hundred
years hence, the oldest inhabitant will not be
able to recollect Slavery. Il has fourished in
these Western gilds for two hundred and fifty
years, like other rank and noxiops weeds; but
now it is to be overwhelmed and crushed by
the pressure Of civilization.
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HOW SLAVERY GIVES TWO VOTES TO
SLAVEHOLOERS.

We have elsewhere referred to the result Of
the Virginia election as political sign of the
times. We again advert to it as showing the
inequality which results from the representa-
ton of slave property in Congress and in the
State Legislature. Ia order to do this we dis
regard the political result and add together the
votes cast for the two parties in each of the
several Congressional districts. We propose
to group together the vote of the districts east
of the Blue Ridge, and put them in contrast
with those west of that range of mountains.
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VIRGINIA NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The majority for Letcher over Goggin for
Governor of Virginia is $40. 1t seems that
in six of the thirteen Congressional districts the
Opposition have majorities, the smallest of
which is i3l, and the others range from a6G to
$780, This result must be as Notifying to the
Opposition as to the Democracy since they
had no Congressional candidates, except in one
district. But it is not at all probable that OPP
position candidates for Congress would have
run as well as Mr.. Goggin has done. He owes
his success in these districts entirely to the fact
that his opponent Mr.. Letcher, had been few
years ago an Emancipatianist, and was not able
to satisfy the people in the large slaveholding
districts of the sincerity of his remuneration and
repentance of that heresy.
Flee of the sir districts carried By Mr.. Cog
gin embrace nearly The whale region east Of The
Blue Ridge, and cogtaJn, BY last oegsus, flu
three foarths Of the sla0e population of VirgiHia.
The other district carried by Mr.. Goggin is
composed of the counties bordering on North
Carolina and Tennessee, and which, though not
Astounding in slaves, is quite Pro-Slayery from
position.
The seven districts in which Mr. Letcher is
ahead of his opponent are, with one exception,
either wholly in the west or on the northern
border, near this city, where the Northern Free
Soil sentiment has begun to prevail. The dis
tricts in which Mr.. Letcher has carried the day
have altogether not more than fourth of the
slave population of the State, and the four in
which he has large majorities have perhaps not
twenty-five thousand slaves. He carries one
large slave district, VIZ: that of Mr.. Goode, on
the border of North Carolina. put even in this
he loses l ,264 votes, or one-fourth his party
strength, as compared with the vote for Wise.
Goggin loses in the same district only 100
votes, as compared with that cast for Mr.. Wise's
competitor. s as
q There can be no mistaking the significance
of this election. f shows incontestabiy the
presence Of Free-Sojlism in Virginia to de-,
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WASHINGTON, D. G..
THURSDAY, JULY 81, 1859.

TO ADVERTISERS -Business Will find II greatly 10
iheir advantage 10 advertise IN The Era
MessTs. Peuingill Co, ;. B Niles and Joy COe, 4
Co, are our suhonzed advertising ents Tor Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia
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The Washington correspondent of the Phia-
delphia Press says of Texas politicians;
" J. wish those verdant politicians who are
constantly declaring that there is no serious
purpose to reopen the African slave trade
could be here in Washington, and hear the
Texan politicians talking on this subject A
very large portion of these men are in favor of
the reopening of the African slave trade. and
this issue enters so extensively into the canvass
for Governor and for member of Congress. to
be decided in few weeks in that State. that
everything else seems TO be lost sight Of II
you will pick up the Texas papers now, YOU
will find arguments pro and con. on this issue
that will almost lead you to believe you hare
reading Northern journals. The truth is. the
EXTREMIST Slavery sentiment has been taken
on the plank by the Germans, who are colo
nlzed In Texas in vast numbers, and who will
insist at all hazards, against everything like a
reopening OF the African slave trade They
feel that the introduction of barbarous negroes
into the fair and fertile fields of region re-
covered from military Mexican misrule by
white men, and which they-the Germans
are rapidly giving TO civilization, is neither
more nor less than an insult to them, and an
outrage upon the sentiment Of Christendom
and it is a little curious to see how they have
taken the starch out Of the fire eaters
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The following gentlemen accredited agents for the
Era; q w. Light, Boston, Mass j. a. Inns, Salem,
Msss, Thomas Wheeler Cncinnau, Oai", T.. T Park,
Mount Union OHIO Joseph Hughes, Philadelphia, Pa
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The New York Herald says, "it is worthy of
remark, that the dispatches of the French En-
peror from the seat of war have been, so far,
wonderfully reliable. Making allowance for
the want of accurate information as TO the full
results of battle within an hour or two of its
occurrence, the bulletins dispatched to Paris
have been generally marked with great truth
fulness." But the fact is, as the French have
met with no reverses, there has been no occa-
sion to palate or excuse mishaps or failures
on their part. And it has been hardly neces-
sary to exaggerate the really splendid victories
obtained.
The Herald also states that the Austrian
Government has seen the folly of manufac.
turing false news Of the battles, and given up
the practice. The Herald attributes this i'm
provement upon the ancient usage TO the pres
ence OF newspaper correspondents.
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The Democracy of North Carolina refuse to
give, with any pnanimity, their adhesion to the
bill placing thirty millions of dollars at the dis
posai of the President of the United States, TO
facilitate the acquisition Of Cuba by negotiation
We learn from the Raleigh Register, that OF
the Democratic candidates for Congress in the
several districts of the State, but single one
has committed himself to the support oil 'niS
measure.
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Total seven eastern districts F.

Six western or free soil districts
Seven slave districts -
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gree well calculated to disturb the repose of the
friends of perpetual Slavery.
GEN. CAsS BACKING DOWN,

If Gen. Cass has not completely backed
down from the position be assumed in regard
TO the rights of naturalized American citizens,
then it is because he has furnished another IL
lustration of the saying, that language was given
to man in order to enable him to conceal his
thoughts. He now states that foreign born
citizens have the same rights as natives, and
that in taking the oath of allegiance they alb
solve themselves from all allegiance to their ma
tive countries. The official organ of Friday
last contains dispatch from the Department
of State to the Minister of the United States at
Berlin, dated July 8, 1859, from which we take
the following extracts. 1t says:
"The question then arises, what right do our
laws confer upon a foreigner by granting him
naturalization? | answer, all the rights priv
leges, and immunities, which belong to a native
born citizen, in their full extent with the single
qualification that, under the Constitution, no
person except natural-born citizen is eligible
to the Office of President With this excep-
ton, the naturalized citizen, from and after the
date of his naturalization, both at home and
abroad, is placed upon the very same footing
with the native citizen. He is neither in bet
ter nor a worse condition. If a native citizen
choose to take up his residence in foreign
country for the purpose of advancing his for
tune or promoting his happiness, he is whilst
there bound TO obey its municipal laws equally
with those who have lived in it all their lives
He goes abroad with his eyes open and if these
laws be arbitrary and unjust, he has chosen to
abide by the consequences If they are ad-
mnistered in an equal spirit towards native
subjects, this Government have no right to in
terfere authoritatively in his behalf To do this
would be TO violate the right of an independents
nation to legislate within its own territories
If this Government were to undertake such
task, we might soon be involved in trouble with
nearly the whole world. To protect our citi-
zens against the application of this principle
of universal law, in its full extent we have
treaties with several nations, securing exemp-
ton to American citizens when residing abroad
from some of the onerous duties required from
their own subjects.
"Whilstthese principles cannot be contested,
great care should be taken in their application,
especially to our naturalized citizens The
moment foreigner becomes naturalized, his
allegiance to his native country is severed for
ever. He experiences a new political birth. A
broad and impossible line separates him from
his native country. He is no more responsible
for anything he may say or do, or omit to say
or do, after assuming his new character, than
if he had been born in the United States
Should he return to his native country, he re-
turns as an American citizen, and in no other
character"
Could language be stronger or more explicit?
Now, let us contrast this dispatch with the
LIE Clerc letter, which is as follows: m
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water, and where water must be carried
along to preserve life. A few months
hence--probably by the middle Of Octo-
ber-this whole Alpine region viii be
showed under and frozen up, so far as to
put stop to the working of sluices, if
not to mining altogether. There then,
for period of at least six months, will
be,neither employment, food nor shelter,
within five hundred miles for the thOus-
ands pressing hither under the delusion
that gold may be picked up here like
pebbles on the sea shore, and that when
they arrive here, even though without
provisions or money, their fortunes are
made. Great disappointment, great suf-
EoIiAg, aEa Inevitable few can escape
the latter who arrive at Denver City af-
ter September without ample means to
support them in a very dear country, at
least through long winter. We charge.
those who manage the telegraph not to
difuse a part Of our statement without
giving substantially the whole; and we
beg the press generally to unite with US
in warning the whole people against an
other rush to these gold mines, as ill-ad-
vised as those of last spring-a rush sure
to be followed like that by a stampede,
but one far more destructive Of property
and life. Respectfully,
HORACE GREELEY,
A. D. RICHARDSON,
HENRY WILLARD.
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APrescrIptiOn for Early Rising.

Rev. Mr.. Beecher has the following
in his last Star Paper:
Good healthy children that are put to
bed at night when birds and chickens re-
tire, are admirable wakeners In the NOR
ming. When they have slept their sleep
full, there is then nc help for you
Wake they will, COO and frolic they will.
All your hushing and humming are vain.
Your efforts to put them to sleep only
serve to waken them up! A bouncing
boy, year old, creeping out Of his crib
slyly, and pouncing on his fathers face,
with chirp and chuckle, is better than any
alarm clock. A clock will soon run out
It's cacophonous rattle, but child never
runs down, or ends his fun.
But we have discovered a new method
of waking early. Perched up upon our
green hill sloope beyond Peekskill, we
have found it difficult to sleep after about
four o'clock of summer mornings. For a
countless multitude of birds, in all the
trees and shrubbery, aim their notes at
US with such sweet archery that we are
pierced through and through with the sill
yer arrows of music. 1t is in vain that
you wrap the pillows about your ears! 1t
is vain for you to reflect that you need
sleep and will not get up. Every one is
aware that an effort of will, sufficient to
resist the annoying or attractive sound, is
itself the end of sleep.
While we are resisting, we are waken-
ing. Thus, this very morning, all the
trees about our little house were belfries,
and rang out more chimes than were ev-
er heard at Cologne or Antwerp. And,
after the first recognition, we turned res
olutely to the wall determined to sleep on.
But, "that's robin" said our ears, and
that's bobolink,' there goes a wren,'
and sparrows, larks, phoebes, cat-birds,
and many of their cousins in the orchard
and woods, all joined to laugh US out of
the idea Of sleeping.
Now, if any one wishes to know how
to get up early, we will tell him. Go
out of the city early in the day. Seek
some tranquil place in the country where
guns are never heard, where fruit trees
and shade trees abound, and where the
shaking of the leaf or the distant crow of
chanticleer is the loudest sound ever heard
except of birds. And then, after walk
ing all day among the fields and hills,
and forests, and supping upon milk that
never dreamed of a city milkman, 90 to
bed by nine o'clock. If you do not wake
before five the next morning, report the
case to US, and we will make a fresh pre-
scription.
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End There is N0na.

The tollnwIng passage, says the Chris
tain Advocate, is from one Of Professor
Mitchel's lectures, delivered at the Ac-
ademy Of Music, at New York city. AT
ter speaking Of the uufathomable distances
which no telescope can penetrate, lying
far beyond the system in which the earth
revolves, and yet filled with independent
systems of worlds of infinite numbers, he
said
Light traverses space at the rate Of a
million miles minute, yet the light from
the neares star requires ten years to reach
the earth, and Herchel's telescope reveal
ed stars two thousand three hundred times
further distant. The great telescope of
Lord Rose pursued these creations of
God still deeper into space, and having
resolved the nebula of the Milky way in
to stars discovered other systems Of stars
beautiful diamond points, glittering thrO,
the black darkness beyond. When he
beheld this amazing abyss when he saw
these systems scattered profusely through
out space-when he reflected upon their
immense distance, their immense mag
nitude, and the countless millions of worlds
that belonged to them, it seemed as though
the wild dream of the German poet was
more than realized.
God called man In dreams into the
vestibules of Heaven, saying "Come up
hither, and I will show thee the glory Of
my house." And to his angels who stood
around his throne, he said: 'Take him,
strip him of his robes of flesh; cleanse his
affections put a new breath into his nos
trils but touch not his human heart-the
heart that fears and hopes and trembIes."
A moment, and it was done, and the man
stood ready for his unknown voyage
Under the guidance of a mighty angel,
with sounds of flying siniods, they sped
away from the battlemenfs of Heaven
sometimes on the mighty angels wings
they fled through Saharas of darkness,
wlldernesses of death. At length, from
a distance not numbered, save in the Ar
chiyes of Heaven, light beamed upon them
sleepy flame, as seen through hazy cloud,
They sped on IN their terrible speed to
meet the light the light with lesser speed
came to meet them. In a moment was the
blazing of suns around them--a moment
and wheeling of planets then came long
eternities of twilight; then again, on the
right and on the left, appeared more con
stellations. At last the man fell down
crying: "Angel, I can go no farther. Let
me lie down in the grave and hide myself
from the infnitude of the universe, for
end there is none." END there is none?
demanded the angel. And from the gilt
tering stars that shone around, there
came choral shout, "End there is none!"
END there is none 2" demanded the an
again, +" and is it this that awes my soul
| answer, end there is none to the Uni
verse of God LO, also, there is no begin
nlng"
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Wanfed to N,n0sn 4 az.

Andrew Walker was complained Of for
removing house offal from a saloon in
Court street. Andrew had an excuse to
offer for his defense-alI men when they
commit faults or crimes, are prolific with
apologies, and Andrew was not exempt
from the common lot. .
8 Judge" said the defendant, II want
to s'pose a case"
The court was willing to hear any sup
position that he might offer.
"Well, now, s'pose you owned hog
"a jolly, fat hog, and that hog should
squeal for something to eat, and you had
not got anything to give it, and YOU knew
that every squeal took off half a pound
of fat, how should you feel hey ?''
His honor moved uneasily in his seat,
as though he couldn't see the point of the
argument.
Il know how you'd feel, defendant
continued, you get swill or perish in the
attempt. That's what have done-fne
me if you will shall have my bacon. -
He was fined five dollars and costs.
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CuItlTating the Crane Vine.

In selecting a site for a grape vine, choose
a dry sub-soil, or at least porus one
A heavy clay hard-pan is lily suited to the
wants Of the v1ne. Where il must be plant
in soil of this kind, drain must be made
from the bottom of wide, deep planting
hole, to carry off the water. In addition,
old bones, horns, hoofs, and few stones,
or decaying wood may be put into assist
in draining. Upon this put leaf mould
rotten leaves from the woods-muck, gar
den or roadside loan, and rotten manure,
well mixed together, leaving the surface
after the vine is set, little higher than
the surrounding ground, If the land is
too level to drain, and there is no other
situation for a vine, we would not despair
of making foundation on the surface,
with small stones or corse gravel and plen-
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ne Reasons

Sam. Hammoad4, once e pronliaenf New
York Know Nothing, IN aasho4, lawyer,
editor, &c, now Of Bah, New York, iells
how ne was once "calIed out, y ard declin-
ed his opponents offer for the following
reasons s
1. The thing was contrary to law, and
| had no desire to be hung for killing him
on that he should be hung for killing me.
2. had wife who loved me, and who
would mourn for me if1 fell. He had
only mistress, who would rsjoice at his
death as relieving her necessity Of aving
from his protection to that Of another man.
3. had three children for whose sdu-
cation ! was iRhonor and by nature bound
TO provide. n
4. Society had no stake s. SIS life.-
HIS continuance would be no blessing
and his extlnguishment no loss. Socisty
had sore claims on me--upon him il had
none. I had some claim on societv--be
had more.
5. I'd see him id first.
And there the matter rested ever scince
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