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LITERARY MISCELLANY.
for the National Kr?.
BELL SMITH ABROAD.
No. XUl.
FASHIONS AND FOLLIES
Die ah Friknd: The last request made. he
fore leaving home, ourne frout numerous female
friends, begging earnestly to Bend them the
fashions?the laU*st wear. I have been very
deliuquent To tell the truth, I am at a loeu,
and nave been oinoe my arrival, upon this im
Btant point. The French women are the
t-dres?ed pemmi* in the world, and being
such, have no oue pattern of au article which
all exhibit, au with us. The fair and brunette,
the tall and abort, the slender and robust, can
not, save by miracle, find one garment suitable
to all. Vet, at home, the attempt in made, and
the unbending milliner deula out to each the
one thing, easting every one who dare depart
from it outside of good society. This is one of
the mysteries of Parisian toilette that 1 have I
made aome approach to a solution. Theapirit, ;
whiob adopts tho bottoming, gives a peouliar i
wear to the dress. Como with mo upon the
Boulevards, this sunny afternoon, and let ua
take Paris as it promenades. What a count
less throng, and all on parade. If thero is a
single affair of importance in two miles of this
stream of life, I am no judge of business. It is
the hour, lor au exhibition, and let us take it
in such spirit and notice. The stores have
their contents in the windows; the idlers bare
their best upon their persons; and represent
atives are here from all parts of tho world in
oompetition, but without success. The Paris
ians are at home, and without equals. Thin
Efiglieh woman, with ber thick shoes, ooetly
turf, comfortable dress, and ruddy oomplexiou, j
is a real daughter of John?has, doubtlessly, :
many aores, good health, and feels independent
and above all oreation?but she is not Parisian, i
all her money and influence cannot make her ,
that. Here oomes a pale, delioate, American !
girl?intellect in every feature, and unlimited j
wealth, too, at her command?yet all her in- !
genuity and imitation, sustained by unlimited
resource*, only make her a conspicuous failure.
The very " bonne/' in cap and gown, is some
tiling more than they. Look at this animated
inscanoe, as she walks graoefully along. What
a complete picture. The dress is not a dress,
bat a graoe born with her, and for beyond the
touch of art. She owes nothing to the bonnet
that is so small, and falls so far back that in
front it appears only a cap; abe owes nothing I
to the velvet cloak and rare furs, though she |
carries three thousand dollars on her shoulders 1
and arms; she owes nothing to the well-fitting
drees, eo subdued yet so rich: nothing to the
fair faee even, to the delioate baud, to the well
tnrned ankle, and exquisite foot?those all may
be given to anothef, and amount to nothing. It
is toe manner in whioh these are carried?are
shown to the world; it is not dress, it is graoe;
not modest precisely, but spiritual. She oomes
and goes, a thing inimitablo, unparalleled. She
lifts her skirts to escape the soiled pavement in
a way that would startle our home people?yet
bow well done. Crowds may jostle, carriages
may splash, yet she glides along, untouobed,
uneoiled, ft creature of grace, of beauty. She
has not the dignity of the English woman, nor
the modesty of an American?yet superior to
both on the Boulevards, she has the talent for
dress that makes up for the want of all else. ;
The great evil, with ns, ij tho spirit of imi
tation. An American woman dare not dress
beooming, for the fear of appearing odd. The
Parisians have a way of holding their dress, I
not unbecoming precisely iu them, beoause
done with the talent. That manner will be
important to the United States, and one and all
ifill attempt the performance?awkward and
unbecoming, to say the least, as it must ap
pear. Yet, the ' Bloomer" drew, a costume
very well in its place, was hooted and laughed
out of the o^uutry, because it did not originut
in Paris. Now, I beg of you to remember. I
am not "a strong minded woman," bat quite
the contrary?something of a timid, weakly
conservative?and the Bloomer dress I by no
means think becoming , in it we lose the long j
sweep of drapery, an beautiful in our present
dress; but, in the i-ountrv, for fields and woods,
riding, driving, or travelling, it is neoeseary to
oomfort and health. Vet, such are the wrongs
of our humble imitatioo, that the verr evils of
Paris are unhesitatingly adopted. We wear
improper dresses at evening parties; we dance I
improper figures in public atwomhliee, and suf- j
fer all kinds of uncomfortable ways, because
we dare not lie hrncst and independent.
We have the ltelief, prevalent at home, that
gaudy colon in dreM are peculiar to our ooun
try. This it nut eorreot. The Parisians, on a
bright day, resemble, if you can imagine such a
thing, a garden of promenading sunflowers. The
Boulevards have looked to me. at times, as if
the merry ownore had put in circulation their
window curtains. Strangers, perhaps, do not
notice this so much as With us. because Paris
ian wocneo ran carry anything so gracefully
Before we pull down the curtains and shape
them into are^en. we must learn to walk: and
to learn this art, we must walk. The sham
bling, rolling, duck-step?the hard, auguh.r,
upright, grenadier quick-step?the slow, the
fast, the uncertain, may all be hid in car
riage*, or kept at home?hot never oured, save
by exercise, c. ntiuual walking in the open
air
It is my duty to give josi some information
of the gayeties tf Paii*. But you must look to
some other correspondent?I have neither
health nor inclination. Savo a few visits to the
opera, and three dinner parties, I know noth
lug The bal masqut, once so famous that all
strangers were expected at least to see one,
have degenerated into such vile things that no
one having the slightest self respect ever wiahe*
to witness the second. The moet famous?I
was tempted to write infamous?are at the
Italian Opera Houee. and commences at mid
night, Saturday. This makes it a Sunday
orgie; and it continues on Sabbath morning
until daylight Our little party, one and all,
deelined witneMiing such, until onriueity over
came their teruplee, and they went. Dr. Bub
protesting that it was a shocking affair?any
other day it would not be so bad. D. answer
iug, that Bob teminded him of the old lady in
Virginia, who begged the gentlemen engaged
in running the boundary line so to arrange it
as to keep her house where it was, for Caro
awas sich a sickly State ''?P. thinking the
to be in the ball, and not in the day.
I taw nothing of our friends until after a late
breakfsnt, when they appeared, looking mueh
ashamed of themselves, and were loud in their
condemnation ot the affair They amused me
with ? little history of an elderly gentleman
they were pleased to call " Auient Jones."
This io4ividuel had accompanied his only 10a
to Paris, to see that his medical education
diould be tlioruwghif completed, and under his
Mteraal care. I did not learn that the youth
tal Jones was disposed to break from the wise
control of his careful father. But the old gen
tleman was l ull of fears?he heard of Pans as
| the oiiy of evil, full of pitfalls and snares for
youthtul steps. Oue night not long since, the
n hopeful, said that his near and kind
Brooks was very ill of the typhoid (ever,
and ha wished to tender his services, and sit
up the night by his friend The father readily
on?intstf to this Christian conduct?and, as
he permitted his boy to have no night key, left
the door ef their bedroom unlocked
After hie eo^e departure, however, he re
JMgttwred that it w.m Saturday night?the
g^dbt of the grand bai matque at the Italian
Opera House a thing he had beard much of
?ipi*4 been solicited by hw delicate boy to
attend, mere!/ to see, for once; but his morali
! ty, bis sense of duty, recoiled , ho sternly bade
hie bod be silent on that vile subject. But, to
tell the truth, the old gentleman had a lurking
curiosity, and on thin evening it became fright
I fully strong. What oould possess him ? He
attempted bin usual French studies, but Ollen
dorff seemed doubly stupid One or two sen
tences in that valuable work took possession of
bin bruin. " Complex vous alltr uu bat mobile
ce soir f" (Dj you intend to go to the mat-cpie
ball this evening?) uJe tomptt y alter." (I
intend to go ) The opportunity wan so favor
* uble?be oould go and return without his son's,
without any one's, knowledge. His satanic
majesty fairly took possession of the good old
man ; and he repaired to a neighboring store,
where dresses wero rented or sold, and sclented
the most appropriate?that of a friar of order
j^ray?placed himself in a voiture, and in a few
minutes was at bis destination. He entered?
the scene startled him beyond measure?the
crushing roar of two hundred instruments, the
duzzling light of chandeliers and jeta, which
seemed to go glittering up and up into a
dizzy distance, lighting tier after tier, where
thousand* of eyes from behind blaok dominos
r< tleotcd back the rays, as they looked down
upon the myriads of fantastic forms which
rolled and tossed under the sway of the deal
oning music, like a vexed sea by moonlight?
made up a whole to dream of, not to see. Mr.
Junes was startled, then shocked a little, very
littlo amused, and finally, as I shall tell you,
greatly alarmed. A strange fascination pos
sessed him. After he bad gratified bis ouriosi
| ty, ho still lingered; he wandered on through
the wild mace, and, as the hours wore on, the
: fun grew fast and furious?monks and knights
jumped higher and higher?devils twisted?
gypacys, flower-girls, dibardeurs, screamcd as
they fairly Hew; while hideous beasts roared,
howled, and squealed. The musicians seemed
possessed, and rolled out without oeasing the
wild strains, that teemed to madden every one.
Mr. Joues was bewildered; many times was he
seized upon by some fearful creature, and
whirled through dances which made him dizzy
and siok.
At last Mr. Jones was frightened?he was
oaptured by a group, that, in a mad fit, seemed
determined to torture him to death. He could
not got away; one of the number, a girl, scan
dalously habited, seemed the leader. Her drees
was very improper?her conduct disgusting.
She was evidently intoxicated?saielled dread
fully of bad cigars and brandy. She would
not let him go?called him, in exoellent Eng
lish, " her ancient gar?;on "?" a regular
brick''?while the others laughed, shouted, and
danced round bim. At last be tore himself
away, rushed home at daylight, tore bff his
gown, thrust it into tho grate, and by its
warmth hastened to bed, tearing, every mo
ment the arrival of his son.
Wearied to death, be soon fell into heavy
sleep. When he awaked, be was oonsoious
of some one being not only on the bed, but
partially on him. He aroused himself?he
liokod?could he believe his eyes! there, on
his bed, in his room &t home, was that infa
mous female, sound asleep, with a cotton um
brella under her arm?worse and woree, the
mask was off, and this female was his own in
nooent boy. He sprang from the bed, falling
over and arousing some one, in the guise of a
devil, asleep on the floor; another, a tall sav
age, was on the sofa?yet another, on the
table; they were all round him. Did be dream ?
Was he yet at that infamous ball? Neither.
His son, awakened, stared stupidly at bim, and
the sleepers, starting up, burst into a roar, as
one of them exolaimed, " Why, Harry, Jim,
here's the ancient gar9on!" Mr. Jones hap
pened to glanoe in the mirror?he had forgot
ten, in bis baste, to remove bis mat>k. These
gentlemen had kindly brought his sen home,
and, being somewhat fatigued, had remained
with bim. The emotions of the elder and
younger Jones I leave to your imagination.
Paris, January 19, 1854.
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 1854.
' ii u in' in fin.'in iiiM^ijfjiii|'.?ni i iir
THE NOBTH MOVING
" Now's our time;" Haiti a Southern member
ot Cougress; '? don't let the Bill linger in the
Senate, or it will l>e loot; give it to ub at once, j
for if it be delayed, the Northern men will bo j
frightened by thoir constituents."
? D?n them! " eried another; " a week 1
more, and all i? lost." .
Keep cool, gentlemen. You havo faith in
the People, you kuow. Give them a ohanoo to j
speak. At all events, you cannot gag them j
now. It is too late. The People understand
what you are about, and you will soon under
stand what they are about. You can mystify
them no longer. No sophistry will avail you.
You cannot draw them off from the real issue,
by a olamor about non-intervention, and the
right of a people to regulate their own affairs.
They all know what the Missouri Compromise
means?that it has been regarded by a whole
generation as a compact between the North
and South, by which it was solemnly stipulated
that Slavery should be forever prohibited in
all the Territory of Louisiana north of 36 deg.
30 min.?that this compact has never been dis
turbed or questioned, in any of the vioissitudeH
of the Slavery Question, in the bitterest con
troversies between the North and South; and
they now know that Mr. Douglas, Mr. Cats,
General Pierce, with other leaders of the so
oalled Democratic Party, without previous no
tice, without intimation in any quarter of dis
satisfaction with this compact, without asking
or waiting for any instructions on the subject
from their constituents, are laboring to repeal !
it. They know that with this Compromise the
Territory is forever secured to Freedom?that
without it, it is open to Slavery. They know j
that thiB repeal is attempted just at a period
when, by the recession of excitement following
on the agitation of 1850, and by the general j
acquiescence in the legislation of that year, and
by the machinery of National Conventions,
pledging their respective parties to -the settle
ment of 1850 as a finality on the Slavery Ques
tion, the North has been lulled into a state of
profound security and apathy on the subject
of Slavery.
Knowing all this, they feel outraged and
insulted by this attempt of the Slavery Prop
agandists to take advantage of their want of
organixation and preparation.
Fortunately, the surt rife has proved a fail
ure. At first, the People of the North were
perplexed, incredulous ; they could not under
stand clearly the nature of the enormity con
templated ; they oonld not believe that it was
really intended. But doubt has been dissipa
ted, and they are now aroused, we hope, to 1
sleep no more. The papers at the North, and ,
our own correspondence, teem with indications '
of a deep agitation, which short-sighted politi
cians had supposed impossible, so soon after '
the hot struggle of 1850.
A friend in Miami county, Ohio, sending us
a large number of subscribers, remarks, that
in a previous letter he had said, if Mr. Douglas
continued " to prow his wicked bill, he would
send us still more subscribers." :i Tbe majority
of these,'' he adds, "are Whigs and Demo
crats, and 1 shall obtain others soon. If tbe
Bill pass, I can raise the list to forty, princi
pally Whigs and Democrats. The movement .
is odious to every honest man that I have seen." '
Meetings are announoed all over the free
States to denounce the Bill. Party differences
1 are forgotten : Hunkers and Silver Grays are !
uniting with Free-Soilerfl, liberal Whigs, and
Democrats, in reprobation of the measure.
The great meeting at Chioago was sustained
by the Old Lino Democracy, supporters of
Judge Douglas. A correspondent in that place,
in a letter dated the Wth inst., writes to us?
" Last evening, our citUens assembled, en
man*, at the Smith Market Hall, for the pur
pose of giving expression to their sentiments on
the Nebraska question.
"The meeting was one of the largest and
most enthusiastic ever held in this city. The
call had been signed by about four hundred
persons, nearly all of whom are prominent busi
ness men. As many thousand names could
easily have lieen obtained, if the effort had
been made, sinoe nearly every individual to
: whom the call was prevented, signed it without
hesitation.
" The leading men in this demonstration, as
will be seen from the newspaper reports of the
meeting, were what are called Old Line Dem
ocrats. Those acquainted in this oity will rec
ognise, iu the officers and npcakers, many of
the most prominent among the former support
ers of Judge Douglas.
" The people assembled at this meeting were
calm, but resolute, and exhibited p deep and
settled feeling of indignation against the au
thors of this contemplated outrage upon the
North, which I do not believe our Representa
tives and remaining Senator will feel at liber
ty to disregard Herewith I send you a fall
report of the proceedings.
u P. S. Four of the five daily papers of this
oity have taken ground against the bill. The
j fifth, the Chicago Democrat, is as yet noncom
i mittal, but is expected daily to follow the ex
: ample of the Ikmocraltc Prejm, which has for
merly been a Douglas paper, bat is strong in
opposition of the bill!"
The Chicago Tribune says:
'? The meeting at the City Hall, last night,
will be an era, not soon to be forgotten, in the
history of out1 oity. It was not a meeting of
Whigs or Abolitionists, to vent indignation at
Senator Douglas Three-Ionrths of the offioers,
from the ohaijrman down, have always been
known as Democrats, and the most prominent
supporters of Senator Douglas, his personal
friends and associates. James Curtis*, Chair
man of the meeting, was several times eleoted
Mayor of our oity, and was never known to
split a ' regular nomination.' Not less true to
the party, and the * Comptomiee Measures of
1850,' were Judges Dicker and Skinner, F. C.
Sherman, and Daniel Mcllroy, Eeqrs., and other
offioera or the meeting. In all party matters,
they have been ptur} nans reprocke. Of
tho Committee on Resolutions, all but two are
Democrats, and only one was opposed to the
'Compromise Measures.' Indeed, the whole
meeting was trnly a Democratic demonstra
tion, though mere party had nothing to do with
it, a? was evidenced by the faet that the speak
ers were promtscooasly drawn from all parties."
Tbe Hartford (Conn.) M* publican believes
that the New Haven Regi$ter is the only paper
I ? ? :
in the Stat? of Connecticut that advocates the
if* h?v? already quoted from the Hart
for Jinus, the lending organ of the Old
Une l>emooracy of the State, extracts eon
,,e(a"1'1^ numinre in the strongest terms.
I be Republican says-" We know that if any
epre?entatl*t of Connecticut in Congress vote
or t o bill, he will kill himself politically "
The Buffalo (N. Y.) Republic, an Adminis
tration paper, says?
?ohe/i ?on?ommation of these unhallowed
nf m*rk ft now ?*? in the history
will aii!!dly ttg,^t,?a in ^ ^'untry, which
WU1 assuredly result in the political annihila
' . " ***** Northeru doughface, and provoke
flff * nroUg popular indignatiou as will most
L ^Jy#e! * r0wt oal??^ted
t> nlr .a? . 1PerPotuate Slavery on this Con
in ? ?* 6 Pui8rtant agitators proceed
traitorous and disorganising schemes."
Wo have already stated that tho German
press generally is hostile to the measure. We
observe with pleasure that Le Republican, of
York, a journal circulated among citi
zens and residents speaking the French lan
guage, is denouncing the hill in the severest
language. Hitherto, wo are informed, this
paper has been in the habit of landing Mr.
Douglas as a Man of Progress, but its stomach
is turned by this last demonstration. It can
find no terms too harsh to apply to the bill
aud its author.
Resolutions against the repeal of tho Mis
souri Compromise have been introduced into
the Assembly of Wisconsin, and referred to a I
committee favorable to their objeot. The Mil- '
waukie Doily Free Democrat notes but two
pajters thai have ooine out in support of the
hill ot Judge Douglas, and the comments of
these are oenfined to the first bill, whioh has
been substituted by anothor and a different
one.
The counties in Wilmot's district are mov
ing, as already announoed. Meetings are ad
vertised at various points.
A spirited call is published in the Wells
borough (Tioga county) Advertiser, signed by a
number of the most prominent Democrats of
that place.
Judge Wilmot, by invitation, attended a
meeting of the Democracy of Susquehanna
oounty, on the 23d ult., oalled to send Delegates
to the Harrisburgh Convention. He made a
speeoh on the occasion, in whioh he told them
'that,in his past political oourse upon the Sla
very question, he had nothing to regret?he
had acted honestly?was as muoh opposed to
extension of that curse of humanity and
the country, as ever?denounced Douglas and
his Nebraska Bill in unmeasured terms, saying
that if this bill was not nipped in the bud, he
would resign, his present office and take the
field, and agitate the eubject, whioh the men
who are so anxious to avoid agitation are con
tinually thrusting in our faoes. Strange to
Bay, he was received with loud cheers, by a
large part of the audience, whose sympathies
are on the aide of freedom, but who are whip,
ped into the ranks of party by party leaders.
et, on this oocasion, they showed decided
symptoms of rebellion "
The Christian community at the North is as
deeply moved as the Politioal. The tone of
the Religious press may be inferred from the
following paragraph, from a long editorial in
the Hartford (Connecticut) Religious Herald of
the 9th inst.: '
" Truly, if Congress can be indnoed to sanc
tion such a scheme, and the People do not
thereupon revolution^ the Government, we
can soaroely conowve of any measure so oor
rupt in nature, or so fatal in tendency, that it
oould not secure the assent of our nation. And
do we oall ourselves a Christian people ? Have
we a Church of Christ in the land ? What is
our religion worth, when it has no power to
prevent tho very church members from rush
Ini.!?w/Trlof"uch flagrant wicked
new. We call, thon, upon every Christian
patriot to use h,s influence against the con
2??? ? 5"! rrfid^ A remonstrance
again* it, intended for general signature and
crKrw*>b? f??">d at
wis Office. I/Ct Similar ones be everywhere
circulated, and public meetings be oa^ed to
express the true sentiment at tho North."
The St. Louis (Mo) Evening Newt denounces
the Bill of Judge Douglas. "Instead," it says
of ignoring the Missouri Compromise of 1820
as his first bill proposed, or making it inopera
tive, as his last modification declares, he should
have brought in a plan for the organisation of
Nebraska, framed with an eye to the fact that
such a Compromise existed as a law of tho
land, the making of which tasked the mightiest
talents and tbs purest patriotism of America ?
The News asks ; ? Kven admitting, for the
sake of the argument, that the Compromise of
1820 is not to strict accordance with tho letter
of the Constitution, is not an acquiescence of
thirty-throe years in the measure sufficient to
entitle it to stand as a part of our unwritten
Constitution 10
"The purchase of Florida is an act that has
a way. b?? ssnously questioned: but is the"
to be fooBd ? man who would have that act
r^al^and the Territory acquired thereby
" Missouri Compromise docs not rest on
a principle of abstract constitutionality it i*
tDttred the i
North and South, which each parly is bound
by every principle of hogor and fairness to pre
serve intact."
The path of duty in plain. The iraue in, the
repeal of the Mtuouri CompromiK. Mr. Doug
1m, General Caw, and the Administration,
with several Northern Democratic Senator*,
are oommitted to the eoheme. They oannot
draw hack. At one time, they were rare of oom
manding a majority for the meamire. Had a
vote been then taken, their hope* would in all
probability have been fulfilled. The aspect of
thing* hae changed. They are now full of
appreheneien. Every day, their position be
comes more and more oritieal. Party is strong,
Patronage is strong, the Slave Interest, which
wields both for itsown purposes, is here over
bearing ? but, the Northern people, fully
aroused, are mightier than all. Let the Press
thunder m the ears of Congress. Let public
meetings everywhere be hefd, let the written
reports of prooeeding*, and properly authen
ticated, he sent forthwith to the Senate of the
United States for presentation.
The danger still impend*. Let not the Peo
become supine under the impression that
measure oannot paw. The slaveholder*
oaloulate in Km House upon a united Southern
vote, upon the body of the Democratic dele
gats* from Pennsylvania?the Issaohar of Sla
very?and upon enough scattering recruit*
from New Hamjwhire, New York, New Jersey,
! Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, and
Wutuonnin, to foroe the measure through that
branoh. We should fear the result of a vote
to-day; but overy hour's delay weakens the
ranks of the Propagandists, and ultimate dc- ,
feat awaits them if the People of the North be i
true to themselves, and prompt. Let every meet
ing take care that its prooeedings be brought
to the notice of the member representing the
district in which it is held. Let every press
that opposes the scheme take oare that its ar
ticles come under the eye of Congress. Every
effort is made here to misrepresent the state of
feeling at the North; let the Northern Constit
uency speak direotly to the ears of Congress.
We are deeply moved in this matter. All
our thoughts are absorbed by it?all other po
litical questions sink now into insignificance.
Let the People triumph this time, and the
Slave Power reocives a blow from which it can
never recover. Let the Slave Power triumph,
and Revolution itself may become necessary to
stay its desolating maroh.
P&OTESTA.HT AMD CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.
In our oolumn of Literary Notices, a work
is reforrod to, entitled '? The Convent and the
Manse," in which the praotioe of sending
Protestant children to institutions of eduoation
controlled by Jesuits, is freely denounced.
We have a word or two to say on this sub
ject. The Jesuitical order ooudemna our Com
mon School system, as radioally wrong; first,
because so far as it is chiefly secular, it is un
christian ; and, seoondly, so far as the religious
element is infused into it, it is anti-Catholic.
It holds that all eduoation ought to be reli
gious, and believing of course that the only
true religion is that of the Catholio Churoh,
that all eduoation should be Catholio, if not
technically and formally, still in its essenoe
and spirit.
To this Order is committed the eduoation of
Catholio children. It controls and direots the
Catholio institutions of learning; and it would
be false to its own oonviotious ot duty, if it did
not infuse into them Catholio ideas.
We do not blame it for this. Sectarian edu
oational institutions adopt a similar policy.
They may be general in their object; they
may not provide for the formal inouloation of
any sectariau tenets, but the ideas and spirit
of the Faith, in which the Managers and Fao
ulty of any suoh institution have been reared,
will pervade their teaching').
The only question for a Protestant to docidej
when deliberating on the propriety of sending
his children to a Catholio seminary, it>, whether
he is willing to subject them to the influenoe
of associations and ideas, springing from a
Faith, and tending to a Faith, to which he
does uot assent.
He may be perfectly tnwured of the honesty
of the Jesuit teacher who disclaims any pur
pose to inouloate the Catholio faith on the Prot
estant ohild; but that teaoher lives and moves
and breathes in that Faith?it is a part of his
being?it oolors the medium through whioh he
views all Truth, and neoe?aarily finds its way
into his teachings. Now, if the Protestant pa
rent is indifferent to the subject, it is nobody's
business but his own; but, if he is anzioos that
his children should grow up Protestant men
and women, believers in the right of private
judgment, and opponents of the dogma of in
fallible authority, a* asserted by the Catholio
Church, then let him have his ohildren educa
ted at institutions either Protestant or purely
seeular.
The writer of tho book referred to seems
to claim, for Protestant institutions of learn
ing, the merit of teaching students to think
for themselves?a right denied in Catholio in
stitutions There is too little ground for this
claim. So far as female education i> concern
ed, a prevailing evil is, that the faoulty of
thinking at all is too little cultivated. Boys
are drilled to think, by hard labor in the study
of the classics and mathematics; but the edu
cation of girls is a kind of stucco work?-it is
all on tho outside. Protestants have as yet
very little to boast of, as it regards their sys
tems of education in this oountry.
THE RELATION OF MABTEK AND SLAVE.
The number of slave owners in the United
States is about two hundred and fifty thou
sand. The rest of the white population con
sists of the familios of these persons, and that
large class regarded with so muoh contempt
and disdain by tho slaves, and by them usu
ally denominated " poor white trash." The
real interests of these poor white people are of
course antagonistic to Slavery ; but servility to
the wealthy, and jealous hatrod toward the
slave, combine with other equally discreditable
oauses to bind tho non nlaveholding people of
the slave States to tho support of Slavery.
We quote the following from the Warrenton
(Va) Flag of 'Ninety-tight, merely for the pur
pose of showing that there are instances in
whioh hatred and jealouhy toward the oolored
race are oo-ezistent in the same mind with a
rebellious spirit toward the lordly master of
human beings. The editor from whom we
quote oomes up better to the slave-owner's de
scription of an Abolitionist than any other wri
ter after whom we have road. His hatred is
evidently against the slave, the mastor, and the
institution. Were be to omit the first two sub
jects of repugntinoe, many Abolitionists could
oonveniently stand on tho same platform with
him:
" Slave-owner* and Slaves.?-The slaves of our
oommunity will soon become unmanageable, if
their owners persist in enoouraging their inso
lence and impudence. The exhibition of paint
ings on Thursday night afforded an instance of
the insolence of a slave, and the protection
therein by its master. It is not often that suoh
things ocour in this oommunity; and we men
tion this as a warning to the individual in fault,
never again to introduoe in a public assembly
his negro nurse. Such things will not he al
lowed in Warrenton.
"We had *he mortification of seeing our
worthy VJayor graoef?lly bending around the
form of this negro weneh, to see the paintings;
while ladies were compelled to change their
seats for the same or a better reason.
u The abeenoe o( the town officer oompolled
us to submit to the insolenoe of both negro and
master, whioh we preferred to disturbanoe
where ladies had assembled. If slave owners
and their negTO nurses are to fill publio plaoes,
many who own no negroes, and yet are better
than many that do, will be excluded from
public place* "
Judge Hovey, of the third dietriot Circuit
Court of Indiana, has resigned his office on ao
conn* of the ftmallness of the salary.
POBMKK OP1HIOKI 07 MB. PIKRCB
The following opinions, formerly held by
President Pieroe, will be read with some inter
eel At the present crisis:
" He had only to say now, what he had al- !
ways said, that he regarded Slavery a* one of
the greatest moral and sooial evils?a ourae
upon the whole country, and this he believed !
to be the sentiment of all men, of all parties, ?
at tlie North.
" He wa? free to admit that he had himt?lf
approached this subjeot of aunezation (of Tex
as) with all his prejudices and prepoeMseions
againut it, and on one ground alone-?its Sla- 1
very feature. His convictions on this subjeot
were, as had been stated, strong?not the re- j
suit of any new light, but deeply fixed and I
abiding. The only difficulty in hie mind ever
had been, that of a recognition by any new
aot of our Government of the institution of do
mestic Slavery, and he had found it extremely
difficult to bring his mind to a condition im
partially to weigh the argument for and against
tho measure."?[Gen. Pierce's speech in reply
to John P. Hale, at the North Churoh, in Con
cord, June 5, 1845, us reported in the New
Hampshire Patriot of June 12, 1845 ]
" The Democracy of the North never did en
dorse the doctrine, (of Cass's Nicholson letter,)
and they never will. The Democracy of this
State arc unanimous in the opinion, so far as
we know, that Congress has and should exer
oiae tho power, and exclude Slavery from Cali
fornia and New Mexico."?[N. H. Patriot, July
27, 1849]
" 1 would take the ground on the non-exten
sios of Slavery?that Slavery should not be
come stronger. But Congress have only re-en -
acted the old law of 1793. Union-loving men,
desiring peace and loving their country, oon
ceded that point?unwillingly oonceded it, and,
planting themselves upon this law againBt the
outburst of popular feeling, resisted the agita
tion which is assaulting all who stand up for
their country. But the gentleman says that
the law is obnoxious! What single thing iB
there oonneoted with Slavery that is not ob
noxiona? Even tho gentleman from Marlboro'
[Dr. Batoheller, an ultra Abolitionist] cannot
tee! more deeply than 1 do on this subject,"
&e.?[Gen. Pieroo's speech in the New Hamp
shire Constitutional Convention, Jan. 1, 1851.]
South Ham.ey, Mass., Feb. 7, 1854.
To the Editor of the National Era:
I notice from the Era and other papers that
the perfidy of the slaveholding interest, as ex
hibited in the design to discard the Missouri
Compromise. iB exciting very general opposition
in the free States. This is what might have
been expected. Slaveholders certainly verify
the sayings of the anoients, Whom, the Gods
would destroy, they first make mad. For evi
dence, go back to the time of Southern oon
spiraoy against Mexico, by ooloaizing and
taking possession of Texas, the consequent war
which brought into the Union the vast gold
fields of California, and one free State to bal
ance Texas, besides an extensive region where
Slavery can never compete-with free labor,
unless its growth is quickened by a Govern
mental hot house, which at present appears to
be the design of certain politicians. The re
ooil upon that slave extension conspiracy is not
yet fullv developed, nor will it be until the two
railroads to the Pacific, the oentral and the
Northern, are built, which I take to be a fixed
faot. Those roads are wanted to acoommodate
the transit oreated by the settlement on the
Pacific ooast, consequent upon our acquisitions
from Mexico. Those roads, when built, will
oreate chains of settlements aoross the conti
nent, forming a hpnd of union between the
East and West, will receive and distribute the
emigration from Europe and Asia, and be fiDed
up with a population that, from their occupa
tion, will be muoh leas likely to be influenced
by Union-saving meetings than the merchant*
of New York or manufacturers of Boston.
That population, looking back to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, will feel absolved
from all obligation to the South, will make this
Government what it uhould be?a free Repub
lic in every sense.
I wish you to examine that heap of meal in
the Senate. Is there not a oat under it ? Why
docs the South agitate at this time ? Is it not
to cover up some foul conspiracy ? It is not
improbable that they design by this move to
bring the North to oonsent to build them a
railroad on the Southern route, as the means
of saving the Union, by allaying the Slavery
agitation which they are oreating for this ob
ject, and hope thus to defeat at least for the
present the Northern route. I trust the North
ern members in Congress will have good sense
enough not to be oanght in this way. Let
them look to the interest of their oonstituenoy,
and at onoe pass a bill organiiing Nebraska
upon the free principle. Then they will be
able to get a road that will acoommodate the
buniness of the nation.
Respectfully, yours, &c., C. Eastman.
MB. VAX BU&E1T8 LETTKH
My Dear Ci.kmkns: * * ? The position I
took on the Baltimore platform lost me the
respect and esteem of some of my truest and
best friends; but so long as 1 knew it to be wise
and just I submitted to this loss without a mur
mur, or even an explsnation, which would have
saved me, but injured our cause. The covenant
of peace on the Slavery question entered into
at Baltimore I thought wise for the country,
and indispensable tor the I>emocratic party.
Northern and Southern Democrats differ, utter
ly differ, on the whole subject of Slavery.
What, then, can be done > Why, drop the
subject; it is the only way to avoid a quarrel
This was agreed to bo done at Baltimore; and
now, in open and palpable violation of thin
agreement, it is proposed to repeal or supersede
the prohibition of Slavery in the Missouri Ter
ritory, and to repeal it on the ground that it is
either already repealed, or never existed?that
it was superseded by the Compromise of 1850,
or is unconstitutional. If either of the reasons
be true, the act is a flagrant breach of party
faith, for the absurd roason that the act itself
is entirely unnecessary. Could anything hut a
desire to buy the South at the Presidential
shambles dictate suoh an outrage? Now. there
are but two men who can do auy good in this
crisis?-one is General Cass, the other yourself
If you will agree to the Nebraska bill of la*t
year, it will be promptly and triumphantly
passed. I know General Cass is oommitted to
tho theory of non-intervention; 1 am sorry for
it?I think the thoory unsound. It is an idea
of self-government, and in expressing the idea
you overthrow the whole thoory by imposing a
Government on the Territory States have a
right of self-government?Territories havs not;
hut I don't want to argue this. General Casa
can surely take this ground, t. e.: that the Bal
timore platform forbids the enactment or re
peal of say law upon the subject of Slavery;
and the repeal ot the Missouri prohibition is
unnecessary, because General Cass thinks it
unconstitutional, and will leave it to the oourts
so to bold. These views, and the faot that the
people of Nebraska want the old bill, and that ,
the Home by two to one pacsed it list year,
and that Atohison, of the Senate, went for it,
would give General Casi fair standing ground
in doing what I am sore he sees to be right.
You, as a Southern man, oould advocate it to
insure peace and good will for the South. It is
vital to them to live up to their agreement;
they would he worse off to boat us than to be
beat; the sting left behind would be faUl
hereafter?do you not think so? ? * *
Yours, truly, J. Yan Bvren
There is one idea in my head which I ought
to h^ve put in my letter. The theory of non
intervention, mi applied to the Nobraska Ter
ritory, demands the repeal of the law prohibit'
tng Slavery in Nebraska. The tame theory,
of course, require*) the repeal of ull laws of
Congress establishing Hlaveiy. Now, Slavery
in the District of Columbia raifctn by the laws
of Congress alone. The Maryland and Virginia
lawn upholding it are repealed. The non-in
tervention theory, as now construed, abolishes
Slavery in the District of Columbia. Upon
strict State righto dootrine, too, it would repeal
the Fugitive Slave Law. J. V. B.
February 3, 1854.
G0MQEB8S.
In the Senate today, a step was taken to*
ward doing an aot of simplo justice in relation
to the creditots of the United States, who be
came suoh by the assumption on the part ot
our Government of the indemnity due them,
for spoliations by tho French Government.
Mr. Houston also oommenced an able defeuoe
of the rights of the red men of the forest,
about to be again invaded by the Nebraska
bill iniquity.
In the House, in Committee of the Whole,
tho Homestead bill was debated by Mr. Daw
son ; and Mr. Maoe followed, in an exposition *
of hiB views on the Nebraska bill, and an ex
position of the faithlessness of the friends of
that measure, also.
At tho National Theatre, in this oity,
last evening, wallets were extrauted from the
pocket a of two gentlemen?one containing
ninety and the other seventy dollars, making
a handsome aggregate of $160 as a reward for
the skill and enterprise ot the ingenious opera
tor.
|]Jr* To the list of " Administration presses"
in the State of New York, whioh violently op
pose th<3 Nebraska bill, add the following:
Cooperstown Journal, Dansville Democrat,
Bath Advocate, Batavia Democrat, Elmira Ga
zette, Oswego Palladium, Chautauque Demo
crat, Skaneateles Democrat.
(X^ Our Government prescribes the uni
forms of the army and navy offioers, Mid why
should it not prescribe the dress of its repre
sentatives at foreign courts ?
Wash. Cor. Phil. North Am.
This was done during the Administration of
John Quincy Adams. We do not know why
or when the order was rescinded.
[CORRESPONDENCE OF THE BALTIMORE SUN.l
Washington, Feb. 13, 1854.
The railroad project for connecting George
town with the Capitol and the Nary Yard is
S.ining friends. The magnificent distances of
e Metropolis oanriot be shortened in any other
manner. When the mall shall be finished, there
will be plenty of carriage drives without re
sorting to the shopping*and boarding-house
street of Washington, ezoept for business. In
the mean time, let us have business first, and
pleasure afterwards.
It will be a source of gratification to the
people of Washington, and those living at a
distance, to learn tbat the great banking house
of Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs will be continued
by George W. Riggs, Esq, now in New-York,
and perhaps, ultimately, by Messrs. Riggs
Brothers. Mr. Corcoran retires from business
on the 1st proximo, to enjoy otium cum digni
tate. He has largely contributed to the embel
lishment of the Federal city, and the District
is dotted with his publio munifioenoe and pri
vate charity. *.
From the National Intelligencer
FROM A FRONTIER HAH REVIBITIRG 1HE OLD
BETTLXMKliTS
Georgetown, Feb. 10, 1854.
The Nebraska bill does not seem to go down
like hot cakes, even in the Senate. " Glorious
Old Sam " is applauded to the very echo by a
Democratic paper in Massachusetts for hi* op
position to the bill. The Hon. Jeremiah elem
ents letter has rather startled a few, and,
though not quite as fiat-footed in opposition to
the bill as it might be, it goes far enough for
all practical purposes. Every day's delay is
ho muoh against the bill. The second sober
thought of the North will be against it. It
will require more nerve to face the musio than
is to be generally found among the politicians.
What will the South gain by a repeal of the
Missouri Compromise? I should like to know
this. Does any one believe, under any circum
stances, that Nebraska would desire Slavery *
I am a firm believer in the doctrine that wher
ever Slavery oan be made profitable, there it
will exist; and so strong do I believe in it, that,
in my opinion, wherever an able-bodied negro
man should intrinsically he worth 81,200, there
would Slavery be authorised; wherever slave
labor will pay well, wherever ootton, sugar,
and tobaooo, oan be profitably grown, there you
will have slave labor. These are my honest sen
timents ; for of many persons residing in free
States whom I have known to inherit slaves,
not one of them but has put them into his
pocket. _ N
The Nebraska Meetinu at Chicaoo.?The
Chicago Daily Tribune, of February 9. says:
"If Judge Douglas has ever Mattered himself
that Chicago would sustain him in his oourse.
however antagonistic^ it might be to sooial
oompacts and human liberty, because of the
service he has previously rendered the oity and
the State, he will now have an opportunity of
giving up the delusion. If he was high in the
confidence of his neighbors before, he is low
enough now, for there is no ooc in the whole
oity, save a few Government officers, so devoid
of self respect as to do him reverence.
"The meeting at the City Hall, last night,
will be an era not 6*K>n to be fWgotten in the
history of our city. It was not a meeting of
Whigs or Abolitionists, to vent indignation at
Senator Douglas. Three-fourths of the officers,
from the chairman down, have always been
known as Democrats and the roost prominent
supporters of Senator Douglas? his personal
friends and associates. Of the committee on
resolutions, all hnt two are Demcorata, and
only one Was opposed to the 'Compromise
Measures.' Indeed, the whole meeting was
truly a Demooratio demonstration, though mere
party had nothing to do with it, as was evi
denced by the faot that the speakers were pro
miscuously drawn from all parties "
03^ Monsignor Redini, the Pope's Nuncio,
has takon his departure from these shores. He
came under felse pretenoes, and he left in dis
guise. The week before his departure, a meet
ing, oomposed of all the most respeotable Ital
ians in New York, was held, whioh formally
arraigned him as the aider and abettor of ?
long nst of murders and cruelties perpetrated
while he was the Papal Governor of Bologna.
The speeifie allegations and the refutable ohar
aoter of tbe parsons participating in the meet
ing would seem to leave no doubt of the truth
of the charges preferred We are glad he >?
gone and nope suoh a character will no mora
be sent by a foreign Government to our coun
try. But the question arises, For what did he
oome here? He said him<*elf he was Nuncio
to Brasil, and only oalled in passing. The
Fops, in his letter to the President, represented
him in the same character. But he returns
direotly to Europe What was the object of
his yisit Richmond Whig.