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Suffering Among the Emancipated Slaves
va in st. LouiG.

There arc at the present time hundreds
of free negroes-mep, women and child
ren-in this city, who have during the
past few months been emancipated from
slavery. They constitute but small por-
ton of mighty host of contrabands that
has been scattered throughout most of the
principal cities of the North, to enjoy the
BLESSINGS of freedom" They have been
put ashore here from time to time, with
out leave or license, and nobody's permits
sion in the premises has been asked. 1t
is sufficient for our city authorities to know
that the great emancipation rattle is in
progress-that the ebony elephant is be-
ing ''drawn'-and that portion of the
huge beast has got to be quartered in St.
Louis.
The negroes now in St. Louis are most
ly from Southern plantations. They are
as yet wholly unaccustomed to the "bless-
ings of freedom," and are consequently in
a condition Of absolute suffering. From
Fifth street to Eighth, between Franklin
avenue and Biddle street, hundreds of
these poor creatures are now crowded into
small frame tenements, frequently as
many as ten or dozen in a small room.
They arc, as a general thing, destitute of
fuel, have scarce clothing enough to cover
their persons, and are in great measure
dependent upon the charities of their col
ored brethren who permanently reside in
this city, for sufficient food to keep them
from starving. In most instances they
have no furniture, save an occasional bunk
OR broken chair. They are incapable of
doing anything whereby their condition
can be bettered. Efforts have been made
by Rev. Mr., Anderson, the colored preach
er, to afford them relief. He has procur-
ed for them situations in the country
where they could earn dollar day, but
the men, in most instances, have rejected
all such effopts. They seem timid and
indolent. Their mode Of life at present
is such as to produce great deal of sick
ness among them Within the last ten
days the health officer reports that no less
than fifteen deaths have occurred among
them, caused solely on account of a lack
OF medical treatment and proper nourish-
ment.--&. Louis Democrat.
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Promise and Performance.

/ have no purpose, directly or Indirect
ly, to interfere with the institution of sla-
very in the States where it exists. | be-
lieve have no lawful right to do SO, and
[ have no inclination to do so.-PreSi{ent
Lincoln, an has Inaugural ADDRESS.
Thus President Lincoln pledged him.
self solemnly to the country. Still hold
ing out this promise, on the outbreak Of
civilwar at Sumter, he called for $4,000
troops. He got them; and more troops
and unlimited grants of money and cred
it. A million of soldiers, an unequalled
navy, and two thousand millions of money
were voted to him by the people, he all
the time pledging himself against an abo.
lition policy.
Congress, at his instance, repeated the
pledge, and declared with truth that TIE
party which desired abolition was "too in,
significant in number and influence to ex'
cite the serious attention or alarm Of any
portion Of the people of the republic"
All this time the President was asking
for more men, more ships, mere money,
to carry on the war for the Constitution
Within few days Of the issue of the
Proclamation, he exposed to the Chicago
deputation, the fallacy of any scheme Of
emancipation by proclamation. And then.
after pledging himself in every solemn
way not to do it, and proving its ineficien'
cy for good, and its tendency for evil, lie
DID IT!
Was it treachery or folly that predomi,
mated in this act ? We shall not under.
take to guess. But contemplating it, are
we not right in demanding that the PEG.
pie shall be heard in the representative
body, and hat the policy of the govern
ment shall not be left to chance, or to be
the sport OF demagogues, and the triaine
of weak men, but be made to conform to
the popular. will.-N T. Aryus.
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Cannot Escape History.

The Carbon Democrat in discussing
the Presidents assertion that he and his
Administration cannot escape history,
makes the following severe reply:
No! you "cannot escape history" you
will be remembercd as long as mankind
shall survive You will be remembered
as the men who ruined your country, de-
stroyed "the last best hope Of carth,'' in a
base attempt to make the negro the equal
of the white man. You will surely be
''lightcd down to the latest generation"
by the memory Of the burning cities and
towns of America, whose fires were kin
died by the torch you supplied. You will
be dig gifted down" to your last home by
the flames Of civil war which was the
offspring Of your ambition, and was need.
lessly prolonged by your fanaticism and
your greed of public spoil. You "caunoi
escape history" but future ages will point
to you i'll the same spirit that they now
point to the Jacobins of France, Or the ty.
rants of the House of lIapsburg.
The Bastiles Of America will cry out
against you. The blood of a quarter of &
million of deceived but honest patriots
will dye your hands SO red that eternity
will not cleanse them. The mutilated re-
mains of the great charter Of liberty, like
the ghost Of murdered Banquo, will haunt
you at every turn, and shake its CORY locks
in your very faces. Liberty, with hen
garments trailing in blood aud dust, will
raise her beseoching face to Heaven and
pray for vengeance upon her despoilers
A hampcrea, tax-ridden and oppressed
posterity will cry out against you, and in
scribe upon the page Of history that re
cords your acts, "dishonor."
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Proclamation of Jefferson Davis.

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate
States, has issued a proclamation, announcing
that retaliatory measures will be used against
Gen. Butler and his officers, for certain acts of
theirs said to be in violation of the usages of
war.
Gen. Butler is denounced as felon deserving
of capital punishment, aud it is ordered "that he
shall be considered as an outlaw and a common
enemy of mankind, and in the event of his cap
ture, the officer in command of the capturing
forces shall hang him forthwith"
The proclamation further ordains, nthat no
commissioned officer of the United States, taken
captive, shall be released on parole, before ex-
change, until the said Butler shall have met
with due punishment for his crimes"
And finally it is ordered that all commissioned
officers in the command of Gen. Butler shall be
regarded as robbers and criminals, and wherever
captured shall be reserved for execution.
Private soldiers and non-commissioned officers
are exempted from the above measures of retalia-
ton but all negro slaves captured in arms, and
oil commissioned officers of the United States,
when found serving in company with said sla ves
are to BIO executed.
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War-What is IT.

Extract from private letter published
in the New York Journal:
[ have less confidence in the business OF
war than ever before. do not speak Of
the present in particular, but of all wars.
[ read the book you sent me with great
deal of care, and, as whole, it is unan,
swerable, still [ do think that he carries
the doctrine of Christian forbearance be-
yond the teachings of the New Testament.
I find nothing in the teachings of Christ
to extinguish the right to a manly resent,
ment OF wrong or injury, or anything
that inculcates cowardice and pusillanimi-
ty, and experience shows clearly that all
who have fallen victims to the cruel mon
ster bigotry, were brace beyond doubt.
Still, | cannot think that the word holy
should be so often applied to war, OR the
spirit of war; The shrieks and agonics,
the rage and hatred, the wounds and
curses of the battlefield, the lamentations
of the widows and the tears of orphans,
the broken hearts Of age aud the blasted
hopes of youth and love, form, in my
opinion, sorrowful comment upon the
mild and forbearins teachings of our
blessed Saviour
The history Of four thousand years full
ly attest that the rational and valuable
ends of society can never be attained by
constructing its institutions in conformity
with the standard Of war. The sword and
torch have received too much considcra-
ton from the pen of the historian too
many high-sounding words have fallen in
their defence from the lips of the gifted.
A thousand battle fields, white with the
bones of brothers, have been idly and
wickedly talked of, as being the harbin-
gers of freedom and religion.
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How the Public Money Goes,

The Washington correspondent of the
Nashville Patriot thus ingeniously ex-
plains the mode of the government con-
tractors
The way the government gets its work
done is curious. As an illustration, YOU
and your family meet III convention of
the whole, and adopt resolution authori-
zing the construction ola hen coop in the
back yard. You at once appoint me SUI
perindent Of the work, putting thousand
or two dollars in bank for me to check on.
l get you to appoint my brother-in-law
chief engineer. l appoint two of my
brothers assistant superintendent, and my
brother-ln-law appoints two of his broth
ers assistant engineers-all at your ex-
pense.
We buy us each a fast horse and buggy,
and ride around town, drink hot cock tails
and play billiards, until the bank deposit
gives out, when we make out a printed
report of twenty-three pages, furnishing
you a complete Typographical survey Of
your back yard, and vast amount of sta
tlstlcal Information with regard to the
number of hens you are likely to have for
the next forty years. We wind up the
report with the announcement thai the
site of the hen-coop has been selected, and a
call for another appropriation to prosecute
the work, which we assure you will be
done with "vigor.' You place another
t. ousand or two in the bank, and we en-
ploy two hundred hands, at three dollars
a day, to transport seventy-fye cents
worth of lumber, which costs you, under
our management, about ten times that
many dollars, to the place of operation,
which requires about three months. Tn
the meantime we drive around, and 90 ON
vigorously with the liquor and billiards.
we then come up with another report,
and demand for another appropriation.
With this we get tire walls of the struc.
turc up, and with one or two more appro-
priations, and great many more cocktails
and billiards, We get the thing covered in,
and at the end of twelve months, which
we very appropriately term our "fiscal
year" we put you liz formal possession of
ten thousand dollar hen-coop that any
negro carpenter Nould have been glad to
knock up some Saturday afternoon for q
suit of your old clothes.
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Baltimore Markats.

FLoUR.-super. $6.5oa$6 So; extra, $500
ASSOC; City Mills super, $65Oa6.62; extra,
S7.37a8.oo; Corn Meal, $500 per bbl Rye
Flour, $5.75a5ST per Dbl. ~
GRAIN.-W hcat-fair, $l55a$l.e5; prime,
Sl.70al 80 per bushel. Corn--primc white, toa
Slc.; prime yellow, 75aslc. Oats Md. 43a6sc.;
Penn. 62a72c per bushel Rye, 9oa0sc. per
bushel.
GUANo.- Peruvian, sis per ton; Mexican, $50;
White do. $50; Columbian, $685. Fish Guano,
SAP; Baker Island, $40 Super Phosphate, S45;
Raw Bone Phosphate, $45; Plant Food $52.
Hay AND sTExw.-Baled Timothy $2Oa2l
per ton, loose $lsa2O; Glover, baled $l7a1s;
loose $l5al6. Rye Straw $l5aI6; Dat straw
ST. .OOal2.O0 Wheat do $ilal2.oo.
SEEDs.-Cloverseed,. $6.37a6s2; Timothy,
81 .90a2o0; Flaxseed, $l.S0a2. 90.
WooL.-Unwashed, 3sa40c.; washed, 60a62c.;
pulled, 4sa5Oc.; common fleece, 56a62c.
pRoyIsIoSs.-Bacon sides, 6a62c.; shoulders,
Badge; Hams, 8al2c.; Lard, l0al2}c.
= CATrLE.-Prime, $2.75a$4.5O per 100 lbs
Sheep $4.0Oa5 5oper 100 lbs. Hogs live, $500
a6.00 per 100 lbs.
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The Abolition Party.

Daniel S. Dickinson, Of New York, now
such favorite with the Aboltionists,
drew the following graphic and life,like
portrait of their party, in a speech at
Brooklyn some time before his "conver-
sion -
How is it with our political opponents?
We have none only i'll portion Of the
States. They are. broken up. The dis
jointed fragments of an army. The late
Wing party that battled so-that glorious
old party with which we split so many
lances-where is it? Its Clay and Web
ster have gone to their rewards, and rest
from the agitations of life in the peaceful
bosom of the tomb. Their Choates, their
Everetts, their Johnsons, their Pratts,
their Parsons and their Guyers, where are
they? They have turned away from the
factious party that is left, and rallied
around the Democratic party and the Con-
stltution. And what constitutes now the
opposition to the Democratic party? A
factious band in portion of the States,
made up Of the bad remnants Of the Wing
party-made up of deserters aud outcasts
from the Democratic party-made up OF
fanatics, disappointed Office seekers, pro.
| fligate priests, and mountebanks in gene
ral, who have congregated all the bad ele-
ments Of existence together, like that drag
net which Scripture says was cast into the
sea and gathered Of every kind, but unlike
that net, they have kept the bad and
thrown away the good. * x :;
If we may believe their lips, they have
great bcnevolence and philanthropy, and
are going abroad seeking that they may
do good but the truth is, they are
walking up and down the earth like that
spirit that has gone out walking among
dry places, seeking rest and finding none
and finally returning with seven other
spirits more wicked than itself, to make
the last state of the people worse than the
first; and in my humble judgment, * IS *
if Satan had been commissioned to scourge
mankind, he could not have better fulfill
ed his mission than by turning an Adolf
ton disuniouist, and preaching the doc
trine they preach.
a more graceless set of politicians new
CIR cougrcgated. They are desperate men
from all parties--thc lame, the halt and
the blind, gathered together; and what
are they going to do? Going to help free
dom Freedom for whom? Their every
effort jeopardizes freedom; and if only
their efforts prevail, zoe moudI not long
haze Il free gocernmen. Freedom for
few blacks. Turning aside from the great
destinies of humanity, leaving this coun-
try and the race to whom it's destinies
were committed. to 60 off in crusade
jeopardizing the institutions of the coun.
try, violating the Constitution, menacing
the harmony and integrity of every bond
o Union, rather than slavery should be
extended What do they care for sla-
very? They would seek to rivet slavery
upon the limbs Of thirty millions of peo-
pie, and upon humanity for all time to
come, in order that their mad, crude, in
condlary ideas should be carried out in
reference to few blacks.
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What the English Saw.

The London Economist considers the
Americans very patient and enduring
people. Had Engisbmen seen what
Americans have, "thcir resources of men
and money frittcrcd and wasted away,
without achievement and without glory,
in stupid enterprises and shameful fail
ures, we would have hung Mr.. Lincoln,
Mr.. Stanton, or somebody" Very
likely; but that is not our way of doing
business. "Mr. Lincoln" says the New
York World, "has done that in this coun-
try which cost one monarch in England
his head, and another his throne; but the
only revolution we think of is that effected
by the ballot-box." Generally, this rem
edy, if sometimes slow, is effective; but
there is no telling how soon or how much
we may improve in our mode of redress
ing wrongs, if things continue as they are
much longer. .,..
We are quick people, and not too
proud to take useful lesson even from
England. AS to Stanton, the Economist
is probably correct in its assertion that
had Stanton been retained in power in
England, as he has been here, against the
wish and in utter defiance of nearly the
whole people, his bewhiskered and dull
face would long ere this have leered from
the head Of pike, But what do we want
with the Secretary's asininc countenance
on pole? We shall put him to better
use we shall let him live the few years
longer that Providence may allot to him,
to be pointed 1t, perhaps Kissed on the
public streets, scorned and stigmatized as
the wretch who, intoxicated with power,
attempted to play the tyrant, and only
succeeded in playing the fool Vest
Chester Jc6ersonian.
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a Greater than the Great Eastern.

The Messrs. Winans, of Baltimore, pro.
jectors of the igar,shaped steamer, arc
building in England boat of the same
species, se0en hundred feet Tong. The
first boat, which was an experiment, lies
at the dock in Baltimore. They propose
to throw the Great Eastern, with her
scores of stockholders, into the shade, by
single effort Of individual enterprise. -
The boat will be propelled by two screws,
one forward and the other aft.
The Messrs. Winans are secessionists,
and very wealthy mechanics. One of
them was arrested at the beginning of the
war, in connection with steam gun pro-
iect he had on hand, and writer in the
Scientific american says that they are
spending their money in the English
workshops, on account of the hostility they
have met with here. 1t was rumorcd at
one time that their experimental steamer
was to be used as a ram for the Coufedc-
rate service. Perhaps the mammoth YES
sci is intended for that use.
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REPUBLICAN LOGIC The Boston Posi-

REPUBLICAN LOGIC. The Boston Pos,
thus disposcs of the Republican doctrine
that slavery was TIC cause of the war:
If there were no negro slavery, they
say, there certainly would have been NO
war-and therefore slavery was the cause.
Let US apply this logic. If there were no
dwelling houses there would be no bur-
glary; ergo, the dwelling house is the
cause Of theft. Had there not been two
haystacks, the bothered jackass would not
have died OF hunger; ergo, the haystacks
were the cause Of the jackass's Death
If Whitney had not invented the cotton
gin, cotton raising would not have been
profitable and slavery powerful, and with
out power there had been no rebellion !;
ergo, Whitney was the cause.of the rebel
lion.
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HE q REpUBLICANs"

The REPUBLICANS" AND THEIR
"MAsTER, THAT Black Republicanism
is of its father the devil, and that the
work of its father it is doing, needs no
proof at this day. 1t is the solemn judg-
ment of all Christendom. But we did not
expect from that party the open avowal
and acceptance of the relation. Yet it
turns out to be the fact that in the recent
extra election in Fairfield county, Ohio,
DR.. Odds being the Democratic candidate,
the Aboitiopists abandoned the canvass
in despair, and pamed no candidate, leav-
ing their devotees to do as they liked
Thcreupon, it is credibly asserted, one of
their number, feeling bound to vote, de-
posted has ballot for the master his party
has ever served. He voted for "the deoH'
to be his lawg'ver. 1t was the honestest
Abolition vote ever given.--Freeman' S
Journal
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Dsg~ 1t is remarkable historical fact

Dsg~ 1t is a remarkable historical fact,
that the Fugitive Slave Law Of 1893
the first one ever enacted-was penned at
the instance of President Washington,
who, in message to Congress, stated the
suggestion was founded on complaint
from the Governor Of Pennsylvania that
slave had escaped from that State into
Nrginia-and also that it was necessary
to have an act of Congress to give effect
to that clause of the Constitution which
promised such protection 1t passed the
House without debate, with only seven
votes against 1.-TWO of whom were from
Slave States
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Reecher's Proclaiming.

The Rev. Mr.. Beechcr's Puritan Thea
tre,: in Brooklyn, had good performance
on Sunday, one that was highly applauded.
The New York Sun reports
"NIr. Beecher remarked upon the griefs
of the newspapers because he did not
preach the Gospel. 'Ho of the Herald,
and they of the Journal of Commerce.
said he, must lie awake nights groaning
in agony of spilit and praying that may
be led to preach the Gospel So now and
here am going to begin, if l never did
before, and | begin by proclaiming to you
Chinese, to you Japanese, to you French
men, TO you Austrians, to you Spaniards,
to you Russian serfs, TO you inhabitants Of
the isles and frozen regions of the North,
to you Englishmen, to you across the great
sea, to you across the length and breadth
of the American continent, Indians, Gre
oles, Whites and Blacks, Freemen and
S!aves-you are called unto LIBERTY
"Herc the speaker was interrupted by
tumultuous applause at the close Of which
one of the audience said, 'Amen,' and Mr..
Beecher rejoined, yea, let all the people
say Amen"
The police usually shut up Concert sa-
looms for doing this sort of thing Sunday.
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THE DEFENSE OF MOBILE AND THE
ORETo. The Mobile Advertiser of tho
9th has the following:
On one dark night, not very long since,
the Oreto slipped out, and in the self
same night, by a singular chance another
craft, destined to remain here, slipped in,
and all so quietly as to- deceive even the
Fort Morgan garrison. They would be
incredulous if we were to hint to them
that some dark night while riding at anch-
or, watching their prey on the outer bar,
black iron monster or two might sud-
denly emerge from the pitchy darkness
and dash into their ribs with crash that
would send them shrieking after their COM
rades of the Cumberland and Congress -
Admiral Buchanan, they are aware, has
some little experience i'll this line, and
makes pretty through jobs when he begins.
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CHANGES IN THE CABINET AND TIE
ARMY.-The Washington Republican Of
yesterday states that rumor is again busy
with partial reconstruction of the Cabinet.
1t is now said that General Butler is to be
made Secretary of War, and General FIRE.
mont is to command the armies.
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"A CURIOUS WILL.-John A. fainter,
who died i'll Hartford, Conn.,, few weeks
ago, left all his property, abouts1, 100000
to his wife and two daughters. In his
will he forbids either of bis daughters to
marry foreigner or a native Of slave
holding State, under penalty of forfeiting
her interest in the property.
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2g A z e ! & D,

On the afternoon of the 23d December, at the
residence Of the bride, Oakland, Hartford county,
Md, by Rev. VIM. G.. Ferguson, DR.. r. DICKEY,
of West Chester, Pa, and LAURA J., daughter
of Alexander Y. Waters, Esq.
Baltimore and West Chester papers copy.l
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RELrGloUs NOTICE .-Thcre will be divine SER
vice at The Rock Spring Church, on Sunday
morning next, the 4th instant, at ii o'clock.
The Rev. Mr.. Keeling will officiate.
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To Correspondents,

All communications for publication must be accom-
panied with the zeal name OF the author, or no alten
lion will he paid TO them. The real name of the author
will be published unless desired, but we cannot
consent TO insert communications unless we know The
writer.
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GDuring the month Of November,
1900 bales of rags were shipped from
England for the United States.