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ruCi, the position which this man eempiew Tba . I
I ' ." Bfr has been in licte<i for three misdemesu- r
I . committed on persons who attempted
I surest, for two other misdemeanors?alleged '
I -innnce rendered slaves to escape, and for two 1
larcenies of the negroes. He would say to his t
friends on the other side, and with due deference ,
; I he court, that the question is, what amount of
hail looking to the circumstance# of the part/,
,, | -I,,,, misdemeanors under the laws of Mar/- I
Itodf should be demanded to secure the attendance
?f the accused for trial. There was no evidence |
which would lead the court to believe that tho
I plication for hail is made in bad faith.
The Court suggested that the venue be
i nged to Howard District, in the adjoining '
county. " I
I he counsel for the prisoner expressed them>.?
perfectly .satisfied. Therefore the trial of
i plin is designed to take place (oot earlier
,i, rbe next M irth term) in the Howard Digirict
Court, at Cllicott's Mills.
The witnesses for the State gave bail, 03 900
??.? \1arAh term of I
th in arc the sectarian preachers or r.Dgianu ana
iy,i-ir organs, in this matter of the recstablishment
of tlic Roman Hierarchy in England and
Scotland For. so sure as there is truth in the
old saw?when rogues fallout, honest men will
jet their due?as sure will a contest between the
two great church establishments of Christendom
tea l to the abrogation of much that is corrupt in
the ecclesiastical systems of the Old World.
Whatever Home woy have been, she is now purity
itself, when compared with the Episcopal Hierarchy
of England; while the church establishment
of Scotland, though far purer than either in
the administration of its atfairs, is founded upon
monstrous assumptions of right and power, and
on as ridiculous absurdities in the way of ethics,
as ever served to justify or gloss over tyranny
n I the inculcation of the revolting superstition of
Rome.
B I'hnnarh ?tartlin<r thssn notations are vprv ea
-il/ sustained. One has need but to reflect upon
the many political and other temporary abuses of
the Kngliah church system, the corrupt sale of its
livings. their bequest or gift to dehauched sons
and connections of the aristocracy, who spend
their time and parish incomes upon dogs, horses,
cards and women of the town, rather than in the
cols of charity for which such taxes upon the people
wore originally designed, to understand
that such disposition of mich funds could not hare
rowu common in the United Kingdom unless the
Lurch jvolicy had become well nigh entirely divested
of its original Christian character and deTrue
the Church of Kngland embraces
learned, pious, and charitable divines; but not
enough to prevent the prostitution of its intluence
to sustain unequal laws, the rights and interests
of the few against those of the many, and the
><|iiandering of church rales upon debauchees in
cauonicals. I have to learn of the first liberal
eriter in Kngland who has, within twenty years,
pronounced the established church of the King!
'.m aught hut a clog to progress, a curse to the
i erer, and a foul blot on the escutcheon of
' hristiunity. But enough of this. Its temporal
history is too well known to require argument to
I r?ve that it is but the tool of the privileged in
the British Kingdom.
So far as its spiritual pretensions are concerned, j
they are lilite as monstrous find pverv whit, ns i
ri liculously absurd fts those of llonie. Nay, more
It asbumes as much, upon much narrower
grounds The very pretensions which it prououuces
to be ''impudence" when asserted by
lb a., it unhlushingly puts forth in its own right.
Surety, as a purely ecclesiastical authority, that
of If: le i< far moft respectable. Isit not more ancient
more legitimate in its descent? most j
' lineal and legal in its universal reign ? most au-|
g'.-t at. I venerable in its traditions? There was
a time when all Europe conscientiously fell on its j
knees at the nod of the Pope; and that time
never was. wheu half of England alone acknowledged
the spiritual authority of the Court of
ilishopa at Oxford or Westminster. So far as its
authority under Pivine right" is concerned?
an 1 uoder that plea only the Church of England
bases all its claims to spiritual and temporal pow- j
er it must be utterly without weight in the estimation
of thinking men. 1 would not have the
rc-uler conceive that I value this right of either
a button. Hut the English Church establishment,
standing on that platform, must not wince
when its right to he there is scrutinized. Overpowering
rebellion to it, and successful treason to
it have generated all the other church establishments
known to the miscalled Christian world.
They are but upstarts and mushrooms, when
weighed in the balance from which the English
Church itself deals out justice, or rather wrong,
to the l>issenters of the United Kingdom.
Henry VIII, the first ruffian who assumed spiritual
power as the head of the Anglican church,
p.is>. stcd i)., tt?re title to the religious venera
lion of men. than did Victoria, a "miss in her
tcoiiu when by rir'ue of the same act of Parliament
?!ic became, in law, the successor of Peter
the iT-bermtn at least in Plngland It will be
! "> /i;?e. te?l, that not long since a pastor in the
' ipi h church w as arraigned by the bishop, and
' nivii i.' i in their sh im spiritual courts of schism
a I her>y; an 1 that the present Pope of the
i.')gli?h church, that venerable, learned, and
i is e eh-,astic, Victoria Kegiaa, by virtue of
tuthority which the law rests in her, tu the ultind?
an 1 overruling interpreter of dirine truth,
r-?ersed the court's deciaion?pronouncing him
I entirely worthy of spiritual acceptance?in
1 * >rd, to be orthodox. " Orthodoxy," in its vari
''' phases in the civilixcd world, has murdered
thaus inds. robbed and j>?r8ecuted millions, but
nerer di 1 anything more ridiculous than piaII
< ?ueh power in such hands. How clearly does
'' " ^ ico.e of history |>r?ve thut in England
u,'h government is sn sff.iir of state; agovern'
"""u.hine. to be worked for political ends,
n'k(r 'ban a link binding man to his Creator!
' he Pope has at least the plea of prescription, to
"ify Ki.s assumption of like authority, ax well
'' 'k'" s*e-inspiring advantages of advanced age,
' - terrice in his profession, great learning,
i ' 'Hon for [Tactical piety, \.e. From the in"' ution
of liia office, century on century sgo,
has been eleoled from a regularly ordained
I r'*?thood, by the unanimous choice of the faiththrough
the election of a Conrocation of thoae
' "''Med by far the greater part of Chrieten1
'? to I* the fathers of the faithful. What senI
' doe* not comprehend that, as as isatituI
' n c'*???ug to have rule over men's eooscienoea
I " ( souls that of the Koinaa primacy is far
I u"'r* r*"peolable, rational, and intelligible, than
I u'? pnmacy of the present Uueen of Eaglasd 1
I u must credit the former for being constituted
, u-h, for their appearance m iu? .......
tb?* court
We iiii not remain in Kockrille until the
ige !iiinouni< J the amount of bail required to
given tor tlie appearance of the prisoner, but j
- ' ;?n,i fhat it was fixed at nineteen
urn irom iim? - ?
thousand dollars; and that there was no indicat!
,n that bondsmen were in attendance. They
v however, he procured at an early day.':
! cr the foregoing account we are indebted to
the H_
THE EI ROPBAM WORLD.
Kkvo Vokk, November 17, 1850.
T I'. htor of t'r y until Era :
The Franklin and Cambria both bring advices
1. rtdon to the 71 iu-tunt, embracing much
,re.-t to the render who cons the journals of
it,o ,.y with the view of reflecting on what is
I gting on in the Old World.
I In advance of the interest felt in the threat ciing
condition of things in Germany, stands that
nnifested in England concerning the Pope's last
rier in council, at least in the evident estimation
of the liberal journals of the United Kingdom.
Such is the only conclusion, as ridiculous
as it is. to be drawn from the tone of every London
daily. The Timer, usually 60 dignified and
ft viJ.joius in the chorus-wail which thesectarian
and established church prees have set up, as
though its main function was to fight the devil
and his imps in the shape of my Lord Cardinal
Wiseman and the Hit/hof for England created bv
the Congress of Cardinals. There never were
fv woo more blinded to their personxljntcrest, and
to the cause of religious freedom the world over,
TH
>y liaeal A i^.hUiIio ?u<oeaaion. whiU the Utter. <
Victoria's npirituikl authority, comes only out of a '
evolution in the political affairs of her kingdom 1
Victoria's imposition of hands, which, according
o the crefd. alone iuspires any with capacity and \
power to the care of eouls, comes but from " The <
3ar.ette,'' the herald's trumpet, and the act of a
practically revolutionary Parliament
I trust no reader will here translate me to be
attacking Christianity, in whose great and im- i
portant truths I believe as strongly as though
willing to mumble creeds night and day. 1 look
for true Christian liberty and undrfiled religion
for the most part among dissenters, and only
while they are dissenters; for I have yet to find
in the history of a domiuant church anywhere,
facts to prove that, when dominant, it was not
proud, illiberal, fanatical, and oppressive in its
dealings with the " rest of maukind n True, public
opinion in England and Scotland greatly 1
modifies the administration of the power given
to Kpiscopary in the former, and Presbyterianism
in the latter. But the snake is only scotched?not
killed. The praise they take to themselves
for abstaining from the use of their antiquated
power under the law, is undeserved; for
they are restrained by a greater monarch than
sits on the throne?public opinion. Even yet,
according to the Athamsiau Creed of the Establishment,
all Unitarians are handed over to the
devil once a month, with nictv only surpassed bv
the ridiculous regularity with which the thing is
done. Do they not even at this late day drag a
schismatic bclore their ecclesiastical courts, and
punish his contumacy with fine and imprisonment?
The Thirty-nine Articles declare,plutnply,
that the Queen shall rule ' all estates,
whether they be ecclesiastical or temporal, and
restrain uith the citnl srrord the stubbornWhy,
to this hour, the ceremony of the confessional is
as essentially a part of the system of the Church
of England, as of that of Rome! Open your
prayer-book, unbeliever, at the " Visitation of the
Sick," where you will read?Here shall the
sick person be moved to make a special confession
of his sins. After irhuh confusion, the priest
shall absolve him afier this sort By His (Christ^)
authority committed to vie, I ahsolvc thee from
all thy sins!' But the Kirk of Scotland, with
all the admixture of quaint radicalism which has
so happily crept into its administration of its holy
office, ia no leas blasphemous and arrogant in its
assumption of the power of God alone, than the
other establishment. Nay, it is even more impudently
papistical; for it unblushingly declares,
(See chap. 30, sec. 2, of its Coufession of Faith )
that to its officers the keys of Heaven are committed,
by virtue whereof they have power respectively
to retain and remit sins, to shut the kingdom
ph.e impenitent, both by word and
censures ; and to open it to penitent sinners. In
its 20th chapter, (headed, by way of throwing
dust in the eyes of the people) l; Of Christian
Liberty ami l.>).+rty of consctepce,' it maintains
that the Assembly of right possesses power to
suppress " erroneous opinions or practices," by
calling to its aid "the power of the civil magistrate
and its 2'tl chapter devolves on the civil
magistrate the duty of suppressing all heresies
and blasphemies. Its 26th chapter, sec. 6, anathematizes
the Pope with as sweeping assumption
of authority to damn all the world besides,
as ever the Pope ventured to claim in the most
blasphemous bull that ever emanated from the
Vatican. For my part, 1 like to see the Kirk
laying it on so ' thick." it says, "The Pope of
Rome is that Antichrist, that Man of Sin, that
Son of Perdition, that exalteth himself in the
church against Christ, and all that is called God."
If this he not a bull of excommunication, then?
the rose does not smell as sweet by any other
name.
But the truth is_ in the howl which the Churches
of England and Scotland are now putting up
against the effort of Home to reestablish its solong-proscribed
hierarchy in the British Island,
it admits the fact that it is frightened ut its own
shadow. Almost every one of the features of the
Catholic polity against which they rail are faithfully
copied in their own systems. They both
arrogate to themselves tho power of the confessional,
however much they may be restrained in
its exercise by a healthy public opinion. They
are e?juaHy blasphemous in their assumption of
the power of absolution, and cruel in their claims
to the right to persecute. While the Church of
Scotland claims to possess the " keys of Heaven,"
that of England demands to be ucknowledeed as
the lineal descendant of tho Apostles. Verily,
they sec reflected back but their own image when
looking in the glass of Romanism. Yes, " new
presbyter, is but priest writ large."
It is a glorious thing, indeed, for practical
Christianity, that Episcopacy in England and
Romanism have at length crannied each other bv
the thront. I trust neither may let go itn hold of
the other, until nought but the true religious
principles, which were the bonis iij>ou which the
overgrown political and superstitiou-generuting
power of both have been reared, may be left of the
two systems. In America,thank God! neither is
dangerous to the rights of the People. Hoth, on
the contrary, conduce greatly to the temporal and
spiritual welfare of our people. For that, however,
we nmy thank the influence of the axioms on i
which our political liberties are founded, not ihe
churches themselves. Neither, indeed no church, !
can he safely trusted with power or wealth, or the
the ecclesiastical history of the world is but a
lie. It is to be hoped that the day may never
come when a church goverument shall threaten
the abrogatiou of civil rights here Ilut that that
day vwy never arrive, I trust that the removal of
the claws of the two great monsters from the
throat of the Knglish nation may not only give it
freer respiration, but that ere either may get
another such clutch, they may strangle each
other. We will then be at least safe, as we cannot
otherwise be, in this age of unrestrained international
communication?for uow thcpulsation
of the heart of Fngland is transmitted to America
and India as regularly ss that of the heart to the
extremities of the human being
The observers of the Contineut have their eyes
intensely fixed on Germany, where matters wear
an aspect that boles commotion. I am not, howrvtine
n Ka1!nvnt? fl?uf fKo Iv intra utill vnnltirA In
' ?v ?
play a lout at their old game of war?for they
hare too much to lose, in the aggregate, to indulge
in that pastime in ls'?0. They who combined
against the j>oople in IS 10, nre not yet sufficiently
strong to come to Mows over the division of the
spoils, as they well know. Their armies may
march and counter-march, but no gun will be
fired?not one.
Prussia virtually holds Hesse Cased, while the
armies (combined) of Bavaria and Austria, stationed
on the Hessian frontier, have been ordered
to enter the devoted Klcctorate?though Prussia
has declared that her troops shall forcibly resist
the nrmed tlfort of any other Powers to coerce
the Hessians to submit to the abrogation of their
Constitution.
I shall not lumber your columns with details of
the movement of the forces which Prussia, Austria,
and Bavaria, have each despatched on this
errand of interference in the affairs of this little
Kingdom of some S00,(>00 souN. In the aggregate,
however, they amount to full 200,000 men. Hesse
is but the nominal cause of the difficulty between
Austria and Prussia ? their old rivalry for supremacy
in Germany being at the bottom of the
affair.
In France it is now thought that tlje Emperor
of Russia baa changed his miDd concerning the
propriety of forcing Prussia to resign her pretenNinnn
uincp l-'ii<r)anii ncivmTitoril V refused to be
come a party to the coalition between Louis
Bonaparte and Nicholas. (with Frederick Joseph
in the back ground ) designed to overawe the
Cabinet at Berlin into instant submission to the
dictation of the Cxar, which is prompted by uothing
gore a desire to partition out Prussia after the
fashion of the action of the Holy Allnnces in
times past
Recently, when the sovereigns of Russia, Bavaria,
and Austria, were together, Nicholas publicly
disavowed the hostile intentions towards
Prussia of late attributed to him. This uiay
posgibly have been but a stroke of diplomacy ; but
it certainly has changed the current impression
of the Liberalise of the continent, as to the purposes
of Russia. Nicholas even abstains from
carrying out his late threats concerning the Denmark
and ilolstein difficulty ; wherein, laying on
Prussia the blame for the protraction of that af
fair, he threatened to send an army to the aid of
"divine right" in that quarter, that in a single
battle might restore jicace by the annihilation of
the weaker contestant?his mode of arbitration.
The attitude of the people of I lease, doubtless,
seems greatly to check the violent purpose of
Nicholas. They remain quiet?as passive as
lamba ? offering? no violence whatever to the
agents of the Klector, though he hits (by proclamation)
deposed their civil oflioers one and all.
The latter, however, under the protection of
J'rumia, continue to discharge their various funcHons,
as though nought had occurred out of the
usual course of sfTaira So they afford no excuse
for violence towards them This it ta my
mind proof that the people of the continent begin
to understand their true polioy. They have commenced
to demonstrate, each to the thinking
property-holders (bourgaoise) of ths other, that
they are (it to be free.
It was want of confidence in this truth, on tho
part of that class of tha different European peoples,
which ltd to the disgraceful fiualc of ths
revolutions of IfctK and '9. Had those, with something
to lose by change, then realised that their
rights of property would have been at least as iter
ed under popular aa under regal Governments,
nil Europe (save Russia) would now be rtpubli
E NATIONAL ERA,
wn It in undeniably true that many existing
rights of property are founded in grow injustice i
and base robbery. Hut, as from the creation of
civilised society to this day, men hare everywhere
clung to their property as to their lire?,
the thinking man concedes that they form an
element in the Governments of the world which
has sufficient power to assume for itself respect in
all the changes in which society, everywhere, is
undergoing. He who builds theories without due
allowance for the overwhelming influence of this
element, is an Utopian, who cannot draw wisdom
from the leasons of the past. From the day on
which Christ commanded his followers to render
unto Ciesar the things which were his, Ca-sar
has. in the main, succeeded in keeping that which
he called his, amid ail the various commotions
and tribulations to which the world of Europe
has been subjected. There is no reason to believe
that he is less able to do so now than heretofore.
And, therefore, he who hopes to see illgotten
wealth suddenly, violently, and permanently
snatched from the hands clutching it, will
be doomed to disappointment. Gradual changes
in the laws of descent, of debtor nnd creditor,
reforms and retrenchment in government eipen- |
ditures. &c, Ate., are the remedy for the evils
which tiflw from the unequal distribution of property,
resulting from the feudal system, which has
so generally disappeared from the face of Christian
society. As ? >. have learned the lesson, step
by step, Europe must come to realize that equal
justice and equal rights coniuce immeasurably
more to the happiness of all classes in a State,
than largesses, exclusive privileges. " protection,"
and glory.
I regard the present bearing of the people of
France, amid the intrigues of those who would
rule them by the "Grace of God," and of the
people of the Electorate of Hesse, under the
marching and counter-marching of the three great
armies which stand ready to draw (be sword over
their difficulties, as proof positive that the masses
of the old world have at length fairly entered
upon the path which is to conduct them speedily
to the enjoyment of rights and privileges of citizenship
as perfect as our own; which, however
imperfect perfectionists may regard them, have
done most for the human race, and are destined
still to scatter abroad greater blessings, unless
those who entertain extreme opinions succeed in
creating, far and wide, the fear that th-ir doctrines
will lead to the destruction of the benefits
of government, which, as all acknowledge, are
now enjoyed under the Constitution of the United
States.
In France, the quarrel between Louis Napoleon
and Changarnicr is still open. The former complains
as bitterly as ever, that the Commanderin-chief
is not his "friend," meaning that he will
not prostitute his authority to place the aspiring
monkey on an imperial throne; while the other
is as calm and ns inflexible in his purpose of taking
neither lot nor part in the President's intrigues
to debauch the army froju its allegiance
to the Constitution, as on the morning on which
he letl the parade ground beouse the troops
shouted " vive lEmjurturThe dismissal of
General Nicumsger, second in roinmt-! PsrU
to Changarnier, because he issued orders, at a subsequent
review, that the troops should abstain
from uttering the treasonable cry the President
desired to hear, turns out to be a promotion to
higher command in the provinces?lionaparte not
having dared to come to an open rupture with the
Commander-in-chief, whose virtual orders the
nominally disgraced general was but carrying
out.
The Orleanists and Legitimists are both hugging
themselves in the belief that Changarnier,
the impassible, is only opposed to the change desired
by the llonapartiste, not to that for which
each of these factions struggles. On the other
hand, the Republicans after the fashion of Cavaignac
are under the impression that the Commander-in-chief
is acting in good faith to the
Constitution and the Republic, being determined
to permit no change in either, uutil, according to
the present fundamental law of France, the nation,
in 1803, shall determine what that chaugc
shall he.
Changarnier was the bitter, implacable, and
effective foe to the hydra-headed monster, Communism,
while that hail strength to seriously
tbreatcu the destruction of the liberties of
France, in a return to " a la Jjavtcrne" days. It
was he who so recently rendered the absurdities
and atrocities of Louis Hlano and bis co-plotters
harmless, lie used harsh and perhaps illegal
measures. But the cancer rating at the heart of
French society required tl^e kuife, and that instantly.
When he npplicd it, reactory Europe
wrote him down for her own. wholly (as it turns
out) upon me met. mat ne mus cureu ine evii turn i
threatening the direst consequences to the Repub- ]
lie. Another danger to France having sprung j
up ? Louis Napoleon's intrigues to induee the <
urmy to proclaim him an Emperor?we tiud Chnngirnier
applying a suitable remedy to that disease,
and persevering in his treatment, under the
frowriB of the President and his immediate counsellors.
From the moment of his selection to l?c
the internal Governor of Paris, to this day, I have
been unable to perceive in his conduct the first
sign of a loaning to either of the factions playiug
for supremacy over th<? Constitution, bh often
as he has brought his iron will to bear to repress
dangers threatening the State. I therefore conclude
that ho is dealing fairly with his trust, and
hope to find in him the saviour of the liberties of
the people of France, than whom Paris contains
no other half so well fitted ; for there is less of
the Frenchman in the composition of his mind
and character, than in that of any other Gallic
statesman or distinguished soldier of the age. 1Jc
possesses the energy of the American and the
steadiness of the Englishman ? qualities most
wanted, evidently, in the conduct of the French
aff airs of the day. Louis Napoleon and his ministers
are evidently playing to force bim to resign
; and the prevailing opinion is that they will
compass that end, only, however, to insure his
election to the Presidency of the Chamber by the
!?. 1 _ # .11 L..S a I. _ II a ! _a_ I _ ?
iJDueu TOicea ui an uui mr i><ni;tj);ui isth in 11 ik
hands, the functions of that ollioewill be far more
effectual for the defence of the liberties of the
French, than his present authority, which is legally
subject to the other. Once there, he will
wield power ten times as effective as that of the
Presidency. In the hands of old Dupont de l'Eure,
who has 110 opinion of his own, it is but a bagatelle.
Bat in those of Changamier it will instantly
become the palladium of the liberties of
France, if he so wills it
All over the Continent, extensive preparations
are being made for the exhibition of wares and
merchandise at the approaching World's Fair in
London. Not only America and every State iu
Europe will be fully represented there, but Asia
and Africa will have their due share of fabrics
and products, to be compared with those of their
more advanced rivals. This festival, which will
bring together hundreds of thousands of the
most intelligent aud enterprising of all civilized
nations of the earth, cannot fail to do much for the
principle of unrestricted commerce; the talisman
which is alone to work the abolition of war, if
imperfect humanity is ever to be permitted to
reach that stage of improvement.
Py the bye, the political economists of Europe
draw from the failure of our Congress to rcins'ate
either principle of the Tariff of 1st'.'at its
last s(Biion the conclusion, that the United States
is fairly emb.rked ou the free trade voyage
They estimate that the West will in-ist on better
markets for her productions, hy offering in return,
in this country, better markets for those of the
outside world. A legitimate conclusion, truly.
One not to be shaken by uny efforts to form a coalition
between those who want the public money
for Western improvements and exclusive largesses
of the public domain, on the one hand, and
those who want exclusive manufacturing privileges,
on the other. Liiiiraust.
RESULT OP THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK.
Washington Hunt, who was nominated hy the
Syracuse Convention, and who was proscribed by
the managers of the famous Cass-Clay-Webster*
Dickinson-Union-Cotton meeting of New York,
on account 01 nm avowai ?>i uosi 11117 10 lnr r
tire Law, is elwUd over .Seymour, Hunker Democrat,
who received their winction and support,
by a majority of two hundred and seventy. The
other State candidates elected are Democrats?all
but one, Barnburners.
The Congressional delegation stand*
Radical Democrats 12 | Radical Wh>gs 12
(/ass " .0 | "National" " 5
17 I 17
In other words, 21 opponents of the Compromise
policy, and 10 supporters.
The Whigs have an overwhelming majority in
the Legislature? (J2 Whig*, \ I Democrats, 2 In
dependent?and the " Nationals" are said (0 be
so scarce that even by uniting with the Democrats
they can do nothing
Duo SroHV.?A shepherd once, to prove the
quickness of his dog, who was lying before the
lire in the bouse where we were talking, said to
me, in the middle of a sentence concerning something
else?' I'm thinking, air, the cow is in the
potatoes." Though bs purposely laid no stress ,
on these words, and spok# in a quiet, unconoerned
tone of voioe, the dog, who ap|*eared to be aeleep,
immediately jumped up, and leaped through the
open window, and scrambled up the turf roof of
the house, from which he could see the potato
fielJ. He then (not seeing the oow there) ran j
and looked into the barn where she was, and,
Boding that all was right, cams back into the
WASHINGTON, I). t
Loom. After a short ism*. the shepherd w*i<l the
same word# again, and the dog repeated hi# lookout
; bat, on the raise alarm being a third time
given. the dog got up, and, wagging hi# tall, looked
hi# master in the face with so oomical an expression
of interrogation, that we could not help
laughing aloud at him; on which, with a Blight
growl, he laid himself down in his own w?rm
corner.
NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
The Nashville Convention met on Monday, the
11th instant. Mr. McDonald of Georgii had
the chair, and opened the Convention with a Disunion
speech. About fifty or sixty delegitei
were in attendance, from some half dozen States
Up to last Saturday nothing was decided upon
Msny sets of resolutions had been submitted, and
and many speeches delivered. L&ngdon Cheves
of South Carolina moved the following resolr.
tion :
ll'iolvol, That a secession by the joint action of
the sl.ivoholdlug States, is the only eflicient remedy
for the aggravated wrongs which they now
endure, and the enormous events which threaten
theui, in the future, from the usurped and now
unrestricted power of the Federal Government.
lie followed this up with a speech plethoric
with blood and slaughter. Disunion and a Southern
Confederacy were his themes. " We can
scatter," said he, "our enemies like autumual
leaves. California will become a slave State, and
we will form the most splendid empire on which
the sun ever shone. Submit! The sound curdles
the blood, aud may God unite ue!"
This aged Sempronius did not find many followers.
Counsels of moderation fell from the
lips of others. Gener&f Pillow was for the Union,
and Mr. Donelson thought it beet to acquiesce
iu the late Adjustment." From the following
telegraphic despatch, it would seem that a committee
had reported in favor of Disunion
Nashville, Nov. 17.
During Saturday the proceedings were mostly
confined to the discussion with regard to the
adoption of the committee's report.
Gen. Pillow opposed the report. 11c thought
that, great as were Northern grievances, he did
not and could not justify such measures as were
reported by the committee ; nor could he subscribe
to the resolutions offered by the delegation from
Alabama, lie wanted an explicit qualification
on the subject, to know precisely whether the
I Convention was for Union or Disunion In this
I point must it be resolved. While this discussion
! was progressing, the Convention adjourned until
j Monday.
Monday, the Convention again merp Closed
its deliberations, and adjourned .?we </?>, with
out any provision for reassembling. The sum
xsd ?uhss'l*\us.; iCs doings crj be ^
the following telegraphic despatch received by the
editors of tbo Southeru Press :
Nashville, November is, 1 s.'iO.
The Convention adjourned to-day after adopting
a preamble, the same as offered by Governor
Clay of Alabama, and resolutions framed from
those of Mississippi. They affirm the right of
secession, denounce the acts of Congress as unjust,
aud recommend the General Congress of the
SnntU SttstM In maintain the rights of fho
South, And, if possible, to preserve the Union.
No time for reassembling designated.
We do hope that the fears of our neighbor of
the Union will he somewhat allayed l>y this "most
lame and impotent conclusion."
" Three wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a howl;
And if the howl had been stronger,
My sung had beeu longer."
LETTERS FROM NEW YORK.
Music?New *i?n|?er?, \c,
Saturday", November lfi, I8.r>0.
To the Editor of the Notional Era :
Our journals continue to print themost extravagant
eulogies of Jenny Lind. It is provoking
with what quiet superciliousness the critics pass
to the conclusion, thai out of that Swedish chest
and throat there exists no vocal melody worth
mentioning. How painfully exercised they seem
in finding phrases to tell the charms of their idol!
How learnedly und twistifiedly they talk! Ah,
Jenny! your own beautiful and limpid soul, in
which all things doubtless reflect their true proportions,
must be not a little nauseated, if you see
what these men write about you. The commentators
on the Bible, to say nothing of those on
Shakspcare, are a mere pinch to them, at finding
in you what you never dreamed of yourself. How
can one have the true artist ear, say they, and not
thrill with pleasure at those cavatinas and arias?
What in tho range of music can be compared
with them?
One day as Socrates, with his ugly face, his
Hiuipic nir, una inn demon, was standing 111 me
public place at Athens, two citizens, who had been
edified at the temple of Mercury, came by. How
can that rascal, said one to the other, imagine
himself to haye religion, when he neither sacrifices
sheep nor goats ?
1 advise each and every young person early to
commence the study of music, and persevere In
its practice and enjoyment all their days. I advise
everybody to go once or twice in his or her
lite to hear Jenny Lind, and to a grand opera. I
also advise them to remember the following bits of
philosophy :
Music, in the legitimate sense of that term,
exists independently of teobnical music, as much
as language exists independently of grammar?or,
perhaps I might say, just as poetry exists independently
of rhyme. The science of music, with
all its rules and conventionalisms, may at times
be almost disgusting to the purest and highest
appreciation of the surpassingly beautiful reality
which those rules arc the mere shudow of. What
are called musicians?and great ones, too?have
frequently no music in them. The players who
pluy heroes and enthusiasts may be contemptible
everywhere but on the stage
iNor is there any truth at all in the popular notion
about vocalists, that the best ones urc they who
have the most hrilliunt voices, running up and
down several octaves, and performing the same
feats with sound, that leapcrs and tumblers and
"India rubber men" perform with their limbs.
Such voices are curious to heur, certainly. Hut
& voioe hardly more than ordinary may possess a
sweotness and music entirely beyond the other.
It may possess the soul of muaic, which that other,
with all its compaaa and clearness, and its tricks,
may not. Or, if it do, the development of the
highest sentiments expressed by music can rarely
be aided by very remarkable vocal powers?
though that development cuu be, and generally in,
marred by them. They ure a mere parade of
what one might style exceptional voices?and
can olaim admiration only on the principle by
which the common and vulgar taste admires colossal
statutes, when it would uot notice those of
true and natural proportions, however exquisite
the work should be. Now, colossal statutes of
the human form, though fine the details of the
work, can never be truly admirable, for they
start on an unnatural and false idea from the first
As to this ornamental vocalisation that puts
frantic so many white-gloved hands now-a-diys,
It only becomes agreeable after the same process
that is required to make the highest seasoned
turtle soup, and other elaborately prepared and
intensely spiced dishes, become agreeable. Nevertheless,
let those who will eat turtle soups unJ
spiced dishes And to those who fancy thercstacy
of trills and shakes, and other vocal gymnastics,
let there be the like freedom Hut if there stand,
here and there, any simple man, with a hearty
appetite both for dinner and muaic, let him also
say, if his judgment impels hlin, that he does not
think spiced dishes the truest aliment, nor amusing
strokes of the voi$r the truest music.
For it is a truth, great and benutiful, that (Jod
bestow* none of the highest order of gifts and
hleaNinPM will. a rare hand or to sneCial favorites
On the contrary, talent* of gold, ami endowment*
of eilver, are poeeeeeed by every human being if
he did but know it. Their development ie cheap
and their field nlwuye a-walliog. They involve
pleaauree pure u the auniuier eky, warm ae the
eunehine?beaidee being ae universal and at about
the aiune prioe. What an alinoet inconceivable
ninny ie man I He turue from feaate where angela
might Income drunk with the joy and Ixawty?
he tnrno with oomnhioent fondnem to gae light
and French frock* No nightmare of hie dreame
can ever equal the nightmare of hie fife. He
rune bv a thouaand euprrb maaterpieoea of the
living form, of whom one arm and hand ekow
more eiquiaita cunning and proportion than all
the marble that aver ecu Inter ohieeled?whither 7
He rune to be Araptured with aome imailer or
NOVEMBER 21, 1*
larger morsal of well-smoothed dead stone. Ha
tires iu an hour by the eide of the eternityreminding
tea, or among the kingly forests or
imperial hills; but days are too narrow for hi*
delight at the painted lanJ<cape which he hang*
>n his parlor wall. He amuses his children with
tales of Gog and and Magog, while the sage acme
of his own desire is the show of Wealth and
Fashion.
An evening journal of the highest character
demands that 1 shou'd specify the newspapers
which can be bought. I wish all questions were
susceptible of such an easy nnswer. The answer
is?s outer, or all !* All oan be bought, if you make
the price high enough. The means are various
None but the greenest bungler will suppose that
one is to call upon the editors of the Evening
Post or TtOmut, and put fifty-dollar bills into
their hands, in the same ruatter-of-fact way that
you buy your winter's coal. I don't believe that
mere money would swerve the men I have just
named- one inch from a course they determined
on, and considered right, in mornls or politics.
The Utrul'l, however, the $'<n?all the Sunday
papers, and a large majority of the rest, weeklies
and dailies, are by no means difficult to be " had."
Nor need there be any superfluous delicacy or
beating round the bush. Show them the cash at
once, and tell them what you want.
If any one is to be admired for this, it is the
Herald. That print boldly and plumply puts up
its favors to the highest bidder. Positively no
" puff" appears in its columns until paid for. It
has a job printing concern, and the paper lauds
only those public amusements which give it their
bills and other murk to do. So much for so much,
is the rule; and all that daily talk about its independence
and devotion to the public interest is
simply "camphene." The course it has for a
/Vf?i w* ow |M(iouwi UJ"'U mc <{uc?liyun m ibbuc |
between the Slaveocracy an J the rest of the
American people, is paid for, just as it pays its ,
lawyers in lihel suits. And a man (such wasjin
the bargain) was sent on from Washington to
ni 'aage that department, and now wannges it.
That accounts for the prosy commonplaces, and j
lethargy of style, which mark most of the Hnahl I
editorials ou these stirring and mighty questions,
for Bennett himself is one of the wittiest and !
most polished writers of the time. You can in- j
variably tell when his finger is in anything, by
the sparkle, keenness, and chatnpagny twang that
follows.
What I have said about our newspapers, 1 mean
to be understood literally. Newspapers are things i
j of paper, and type, and ink, and presses?material :
substances, purchasable by money, in more ways !
than one Not but God has vouchsafed to the j
world a certain sort of men whose organization and !
development make those usual solvents, Weath,
Bank, Popular Applause, or even the dread of
I Poverty, Disgrace, and Death, useless and powerless
to move them or silence them. And it is
sublime when we see how i^en this sort of men
act so tbt leaven that at ta^^eersr.ttti the whole'
lump Well, a few of these characters stray into
the editorial profession Leggett was one of them
Whom shall 1 mention after him ?
..Thiae pj-f'fiowU ?f
cannot buy for any sum of money t?*u could possibly
be named. But it would be easy to name
the sum that, if there were any object to be gained,
would, to use a military phrase, spike their
battery, and, at least, compel them to build a new
one. Paumanok.
Oar lively correspondent must not be too sweeping.
Tl?e exceptions he subsequently makes are well made.?
JSru.
i.mm ni u t'lvi'iami ?wi pADDecDiivnvvn
i im.ii ui 11 iiuii.viii t uitiw.oi u.i Ufjil I.
Fattier .Vluihew unit llir Temperance Cause?Jenny
I.hnl hi < inciiinati?Crn>ui Hrtiiriu-Ohio Elcclion,
Cincinnati, AWwiiir 11, lb.r>l).
To the Editor of the National Era :
The expected and much-desired visit of Father
Muthew to our city has been postponed until
j next spring. A letter was received from him a
week or two since, by Bishop Purcell, stating that
thu condition of his health would compel him to
leave St. Louis immediately for a Southern climate.
We have learned since that he has gone
to Florida, intending to spend the winter there.
Ho expresses the most profound regret that he
cannot visit at this time the "Uueen City of the
West," to which he was invited by the Bishop, as
his guest, on his first arrival in this country.
It is a matter of general regret that Father
Muthew could not make his visit among us this
fall. I lis intluence might have been exerted most
beneficially in behalf of the cause, which never
ncmlcd a revivul more than at this time Our
City Council, after discussing the subject at several
of its sessions, declined appointing a committee
to welcome and escort the Itev. Father to the
city This was all consistent enough with their
past proceedings. After recently licensing one
hundred cojfte-houses at n single sitting, and replenishing
the treasury for a year past, without reserve
or siint, from the traffic in liquor, It would
have been the height of inconsistency to have pretended
any sympathy with the Apostle or his benevolent
movements. It could not, however, have
been worse than the invitation of the proprietors
of the Burnet House to the Itev. Father, to he
liabment in which more intoxicating liquors are
drunk daily than at Any othrr place in the city,'
and which has in store a stock of wined Ami brandies
amply suflicicnt to set up a wholesale dealer!
The incongruity and inconsistency of the position
of both parties would have been too palpable not
to strike the most careless observer.
An effort which promises success has boen commenced
in the city, to give a new impulse to the
Temperance Reform. The Washingtonian movement
in ISII and ls-12 superseded for a time the
old Temperance Societies, and this again was
supplanted by the various orders of the Sons of
Teniporanco, both of which had features objectionable
to many of the earliest and best friends
of the cause. With all their faults, it cannot be
denied that much good has resulted from each of
these organizations, but they have Lad their day,
at lcsst in this section of the country, where the
Divisions of the "Sons" remaining bnve little
more than u nominal existence. They have certainly
proved insufficient for the open, out-ofdoor,
agKrtsuve movement, which the times demand.
ity common consent, we arc falling back
upon the good old-fashioned mode of Temperance
operation, which, in the opinion of many, ought
never to have been abandoned. A society has
been formed, called the " Qiutn Cuy Ttmperaut
Soct'Jy,''' with efficient officers, a plan of operations
for keeping up nuhlic meetings, employing a city
missionary, publishing statistics and appeals,
building a Tenijierance Hall, and making vigorous
efforts to push forward the reform. A meeting
ia few evenings since, to perfect these plans, was
well attended and enthusiastic, and we have reason
to hope that, relying upon argument, person
Bion, ttlXl Appeals 10 UIC iuhiukcui o UI lucii mm
their consciences, a *u.mly im/mlse will be given to
the cause, more permanent in iU elfects than auy
interest or exoitemcnt produced by the novelties
( and clnp-trnps which have too often been resorted
to to sustain thin noble enterprise
It is known that Jenny Lind will certainly visit
us the approaching winter. The same plan will
be adopted which has been pursued in the K istern
cities ? that is, the man who bos the most
money to spend for notoriety will have an opportunity
to buy the first ticket, and an many more
as he please*, at auction, end thus get hie name
into every paper in the Union. There can be
little doubt that ilarnum will find it to his advautage
to come here. Almost everything in the way
of concerts and vooalism succeeds among us, especially
in the winter season, when we have a constant
siieoemion of entertainments of this kind,
which have been well patronlied, from the Hutchineons
don n to the negro miuetrels.
The census returns come in slowly ? a city or
town here and there, or a county, being reported
as completed. The increase of some of the Western
towns in population in the last ten years will
he astonishing to many of our Cistern friends.
Tako for instance?
* Ikm. is Vi
Milwaukie, Wig. - 1,71V 3003.1
Uuincy, 111. - 3,31U 9,013
Iluflalo, N. Y.- - 1S.VI3 I t VO'I
Erie, Fa. - 3,413 13,807
The returns for the last ten years show a most
rem irkiible race between the three cities in Ohio
uezt in population to Cincinnati. The comparative
progress of these places may be se< n by the
following table:
ixtn. l*V> kvi.
Columbus 0,048 10,010 17,0M
Cleveland 0,071 10,13.7 17,000
Day tun 0,007 10,10V 13,104
C'olutubus owes its importance to its position as
the Slate capital, to the Htoia institutions located
there, and the building of the new State-Ilouee
now la progresw, which, when finished, will bo the
largest edifice of the kiod tu the Union. Cleveland,
owing to its aituatlou on the Like, and its
being the terminus of I be railroads now constructing
from Fillsburg and Cincinnati, most eventually
shoot ahead of ila competitors Ohio City,
adjoining Clsvelnnd, shows n population of 4,V.'>3,
which should be taken into consideration in estimating
the future growth of the plaoe.
'&
*
350.
It ia not until the oihoial return* of onr elections
are published that we can learn anything
definitely ad to the real aniount of the Free Soil
vote. The whole rote in Ohio for Edward Smith,
the Free Soil candidate for Governor. was 13
which ia more than could have hcen reasonably "
expected. The first nominee declined, and at a
late day Smith waa nominated, but the intelli- 11
gence not generally spread, nor any exertions |
made to bring out our rote except on the Reserve '
The complete returns show the vote for Gov- (
ernor to have been?
Ileubeu Woods (Democrat) - TOOiri
William Johnston (Whig) 1*21 , ?:? . (
Edward Smith (Free Soil) - 13 826
268,013
This is leas by thirty thousand votes than the
number caat for Governor in It will be |
seen that Wood falls short 1,830 votes of a major- j ,
ity of the popular vote, and that the Democratic
and Free Soil Tote together m ikes a majority of ,
25.823 over the Whig vote cast for Johnston
Vours, P
From the New York Kreninff Pott.
roi. BESTOWS SPKEfll AT ST. LOUS.
Wc have by telegraph the following synopsis
of the speech which Senator Benton pronounced
before the Democracy of St. Louis on Saturday, (
the Tith instant We expect to publish the speech
entire in the Evening Post on Wednesday next, .
or earlier
Colonel Benton commenced by stating that he '
left Missouri just previous to the commencement
of the last session of Congress, under a pledge to
renew in the Senate the discussion of the nullification
resolutions of the last General Assembly. 1
He had never redeemed that pledge, and the time '
had now omne for him to tell the reason why he
had not done so. The reason was, that he found i
the lion. John C. Calhoun sinking into his grave,
and he (Mr B) had no heart to raise a contro- j
versy with a dviog man, and after his death he
would not attack him. He suffered the time to
pass without opening the discussion, and soon (
there was no occasion for it.
The object in view had be<>u accomplished in a
manner more agreeable to him. Mr. llenton \
stated that the object of opening th" discussion in ^
Missouri was to wake up the peop'e of the United
States to a scheme for the dissolution of the Union,
got up in the United States Senate; and the lal>or
of carrying on the discussion had been taken 1
on ms nanus ny iue uiHanioniHis inemseiTe*, wno
avowed their intention on the floor of Congress. '
This incredulity in tlie disunion scheme then
vanished, for he then knew that the people would
take care of the Union themselves. 1 le said that
Messrs Taylor, Clay, and ltenton started, standing
upon the platform of common sense, reason, .1
and justice, vii that every measure should rest i
upottifsoRn merits. General Taylor kept the K
track till he died, and left him (Colonel llentonl 1
to end the race. Mr. Clay l?olted?an operation 1
1 easy to Lira, for he had served an apprenticeship !
'ht t-rHe x"r> *-v- -H
I hills bundled together into what was called the
1 Compromise hill .
Mr. Benton then alluded to the struggle, and
1 final separation of the hillsfand their passage separately,
The long session was wholly caused by
Mr. Clay's changing ground on a vital point?
the separation or conglomerate consolidation of
the different measures. Mr. 11. then reviewed
the proceedings of Congress on the slavery question.
The loss of the public funds, consequent
upon the protracted discussion, he attributed to
the Omnibus. The session opened violently?
disunion speeches were mode, and many Southern
members, who were under the influence of disnnionists,
were deluded into the belief that the
North had determined to abolish slavery. The
daily speeches, votes of, and intercourse with
Northern members, created a different feeling
and quieted the Southern members; and all good
! citizens would likewise be quioted, if they could
go to Congress, and meet Northern members, face
: to face.
The exposition of the Mexican laws showed
Northern men that the Wilmot l'roviso was unnecessary?therefore
they abandoned it. Again,
mounting the Omnibus, he gave his reasons for
' voting for nnd against its measures, when separately
presented; nlso the action of the most
> prominent members of Cougrcss. lie gave tu
Southern Senators the entire credit for saving
California. They wanted her divided, wanted
her defeated, but would not sell their votes to the
Omnibus for that purpose. If they bad so voted,
California would havo been sacrificed, from the
calamities that would have followed. We were
saved by the high honor of Southern Senators,
and to them let the honor be ascribed, not to him
I who would have bought their Tote, and bold the
| larger portion of the State (This part of his
speech was devoted to Mr. Clay )
Col. Benton then nlluded to the meeting at St.
I Louis, to celebrate the passage of the peace mensI
urea, which not only bestowed praise but censure
; lie did not allude to himself, for that came, of
| course, from the opposition WhigH and Nulliliers ;
; but they censured General Taylor, by implication,
' in the resolution which applauded Fillmore and
I his Cabinet for giving their inliuenoe to supjKtrt
the Omnibus. Colonel Benton felt it a duty to
defend General Taylor; he was just and kind to
him nud his, by appointing Colonel Fremont to
a high and responsible ottice. | Colonel Benton as
much as said he disapproved of that court martial |
lie also did General Taylor justice on another
point. I ie believed General Taylor sincere in his
declaration that he would not remove from ollioe
for opinion's sake; and whenever a case was
brought fairly before him, he acted upon thnt declaration.
Such removals, doubtless, were made;
but he must have acted froui information, and was
liable to be misled. Colonel Benton cited as
proof, the case of Dr. I leap, Consul st Tunis, and
re-asserted that G>n Taylor refused to make
removals oti political grounds, ami that's what
American Presidents ought to do. Mr B. then
nil.4 a hiu n).<..n..n In.m lhl> Mcnotn illirilKT '
the passage of the bill, and gave bin reasons for
not voting I lo believed the bill lo be injudicious,
but was willing for bin friends to try it. lie
voted with them, to rniiko it suitable to them.
There was no constitutional objection to it, and
he did riot wish any drawback from bin opinion.
Vet ailly attackH had been made upon him for
missing one vote, by thono who were ho indifferent *
to other bills that they miaaed nearly every vote, jj
Colonel Ilenton then reviewed the rise and
progress of Nunification in Missouri?common- tl
cingasfur back as IH.TJ?under the head of" Plots
one, two, und three " The latter is the present,
and most bold and dangcrouH of the throe?its object
is the separation of the North from thcSouth.
Under the pretenco of Northern aggression, he
hinibelf was the object of attack. He appealed to '
the People lo appear and decide at tho August 1
election, aguinst the nullifiers. 'J'hough nominally
c Minting thirty odd representatives, there .
is little more than one-third that number in favor
of nullification and secession, as remedies for political
evils. The rest are Union Democrats, who
are deci ived, aud will come right of themselves. A
Of the thirty odd nominally elected?be made v
the declaration without fear of contradiction, for P
he had examined the oase of Jefferson City, and
in every case where an anti-Henton man was j
elected, it was done by combination votes, under t
a pledge to go with the majority of the Democ- >
racy, further?thore was not a county in the jj
-State, where an anti-Henton candidate can now
be elected on an anti-Henton Democratic ticket, fl
Ile stated that bis six mouths' sp<aking in Mis- *
sourl had stirred up the People of the Union, rind ,
prevented a separation of the-States. It hnd also v
prevented Missouri from sending delegates lo the
Nashville Convention, lie was very seveie on *
the antUHentou party. He thought their course *
w.is characterized by hatred to a man -diabolioul
und.infernal?sod neither Whigs nor Democrats "
should affiliate with them. There were twelve in
the last Assembly opposed to him, and about the
nninp number in thin. Mont of tho others lire in 1
luinks, on benches, and lu nulliticntion caucuses, ,,
There are few besides, and between them aud 1*
him, now and forever, arc high walla and deep 1
dill-hen?no fellowship, communion, or compro- y
mine. Thin is the w itch word of the anti-Meuton
men. Now, they will compromise upon any man
hut Bcuton. That is, having failed to destroy ^
him, they will buy him, and give him all the oflices
in Missouri ua purchase-money. The devil v
waa u oomproruiscr?ho offered to compromise j'
with Christ, by offering him nil the land iu the ,
world?although the devil did not own one foot ?
of it. Ho it ia with the anti-Bentoniftns?-they "
do not own one oliioo in Miaaouri?yet they offer ?
all. lie again alluded to the Union meeting in a
Ht. I,ouia, brought in Mr. Clay, and hun Hid all *
without gloves. lis concluded his speech by u
reference to the various billa that bad already
been passed, and would hereafter be presented to f|
Congress, for the advancement of Western inter- a
eats. ?
a
A Naii.ok's Ioka or Goon Msat.?Warburton,
in bia account of hia voyage up the Nile, gives an ?
amusing instance of the aingular opinions held by >
aailora lie mys "On arriving at Kench, we
gave the crew a foast, consisting of an old ram, *
preferred by them to younger mutton, booause it i
stood more iJi'iri/iK-" '
(ry- Ttic I Won luvrsbants are faiitatl l?r liislr enUrprlx '
ami abr?w>inta? ; but, among Ibeiu all ws know of so on*
wbu Uaavrvos staler pralao than uloiiuk" iv. mmmosm,
lb* pruprlotor of ibe faiaoua oak hall, lijr
bla lilwral arivtrtUluf ami mall | roftt sytUw, b? baa built
up lbs largest ' lotMnf t-atabltab uisut lu tlis country.
rrr fowlkhn * wklim, vhrm^fie ?n.i rubtn/uri.Clluton
Hall, 131 Nassau slrost, Naw York. OAct
eftbs It'utar C'srasud J'firmoUgicui Jon t nut I. I
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DtftfEJTfC .lflSXCTS.
N evt Yor k. Nttmbt 18,18 50.
Flour markpt active at *168 a VI 75 for com
ton State brands Southern, $1.91 a WOO14
Jenesep, 85 a $5 1^. P.ye flour 53.41. Corn
aenl. f.'l |?i_, a 53 IS."
Wheat steady. Genesee. at 51 70. Michigan
rhite at 81 15; red at ?1 01 a rl 05. Oats, 13 a
15 cents. Hye. *5 a S'i cents. Corn <;uiet at 71
:ents for old yellow
Provisions steady. Pork at 81167 for mess,
ind 67 for prime. Lard at 7'*., a 7cents;
generally hell at scents It icon tirm?aides. G]..
i ?! ',. cents, shoulders. 51.. cents: bams, 7>to
9/k cents per pound. Tallow firm.
Ptiit.ADKLinu, Nvrnnfrr is, 1*<5U.
Floor is in fair demand at ?l.:i| a $5 for common
standard brands . extra brands, 8 '. 50 a 85 80
Rye flour scarce and in re?iuest at - i 50. Corn
meal. *3 * ?SfW?4.
Grain in ^ood demand?wheat at 81 oo a >1 os
for red. and 81 10 a *1 10 for white. Corn steady
nld yellow at 67 a 68 cents, and new vellnw at 5 )
a 6o cents. Southeru oats. '16: and Northern. 40
a I.' cents, live firm at 8(> cents p*t bushel
Provisions in good request--mess pork fit "-12
c:*nh. and 51i 21 on time ; |>rime. 5'J a 59 21. Bacon
sides, G>^ a G',. cents; shoulders.-H, a 11..
cents; an! hams. * a 1 o cents per pound. Lard
linn at 8 cents per pound.
Wool in active demand?common unwashed at
M a 21 cents; tul> wished. XI a 'id cents; liner
5rade?. Ida 16 cents per pound.
Hai.timork, S?vmh*r 18, ISM.
B -f Colli'-?at prices ranging from ? -' to $2.71
rwr inn 11* on the hoof, equal to ft a -7.21 net,
?ad averaging 410 gro-s
H?\'<?at 51 87 a 57 per 1?H> lbs. The market
s very brisk.
Flour ttiul M'ol.?The tlour market dull. 1 low
ird Street at City Mills nominal at
V I 68 d,.
Gram?Prime old red at 51 02 a 510.7
ordinary to good. 51 a *1 0'-'; Pennsylvania red,
11.00 a $1.07 for very prime White wheat 51.in
t 51 1.1 to 51.18 for all qualities Sales of old
shite corn at 60 a 62 cents, yellow ti t a G l cents,
aew white .16 cents, yellow 18 cents Outs Tt a
18 cents. Rye 71 a 70 cents
Proviuons.?There is a stead v demand. Silesof
mesa pork at >12. Racon firm, should era, ,
tlda, ; and hams s n 10 ccuta per lb. Lari is
firm at 7 -1, a s cents, in hbls. aud kegs.
{&-T0 YOIM HEX.
Pleasant an I profitable employment may lie obtained by
ny number of active ami intelligent young men, by apply- 'J
n? t^nderrigned. A evju?il ega^cgpitnl witt be v?e?e,- , t *....*
ary to commence with, h very person rue aging in I hi a
nsincsswill be secured from tlie possibility of haa, while
he progeria tor a liber*! profit are unsurpassed. For parieulars,
address, poat-imid,
mwt.KKS A. WKUA, ' '
<?ct. 21?it 131 Nassau at , New York.
THE FRIEND DP YUl'TII?Vol. II, 1>i|.
A MONTHLY M-WSI'A I'K.H.
MRS. MAKCARET I.. IIAII.FY, EDITOR.
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