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LITKRARY MISCELLANY.
JTor the National Kr?
KECOGHITIOH
? Y MARTHA HU*BXLL.
- The body of an unknown female taken front
the riv?r, ia\be vicinity of tbo Ki.c-bburg railroad
bridge, lbi? uioruing," X*-Com?
Unknown '-Ye-, they drew il from the
water?they arrang< d the dripping garuien h
derut m ' fur fclx'y w?re '
Z0' iuothern, d.?uftht,TH; they put back the
louLt 'wet hair from the forehand, and ga*< J
OD the contracted feature, with sadnew, a. d
Lauy au exclamation of pity a- they pronounc
ed that word and turned away
Unknown ! What a falsehood! <*odwho
made her knew it. Christ who redeemed her
knew It?and the mothor who bore her. She
who had for \cara leaned oyer the bastion of
,h? celestial city, watching with such interne
yearning for the coming of her child, think
you that Bho knew her not? Or that the
angel faoes, looking downwaid through the
blue ether, they who had watched over her
orphan childhood, and tilled her innocent girl
hood with happy dreanin, who had striven with
the spirits of eyil for her bake?think you, they
did not recogoiue their oharge.
Unknown ! What a mookery! Why, al
most within the hearing of that word, in the
library of one of the moet aristocratic mnti
oionH of the oity, sits a man who w even now
musing on her face. Books, statues, picture,
manuscripts, are before and around him, but
that face in the only thing he seca?that lace an
it was a few bourn since warm with life. Ho
is a poet, philosopher, traveller, a ooanopoh
tan next week he will start for the wondrous
rejiion of old Egypt and the Nile; for weeks
his imagination has revelled in the gorgeoun
lovelmecw of the East; but, now, this face-thin
younie girl's face takes precedence ol them all,
and half ungry with himself, be murmurs?
'? Strange that women cannot lie more rea
eonuble ; strange that she, of all women should
not have known that change is the law ol
lire as well in the hffectional world as the
physical. She ought to have been prepared
lor ibis. 1 ?m as much the slave ol th:s law
as herself ; but I recognise it, wbile she dashes
herself against it. Poor little fool! I am sorry
for bei ! I never saw her look as she did last
night; but when sbo saw 1 was in earnest,
bhe ? wn giew quiet. That is tbo way with
women; they soon get used to a thing.
?* Heigho! that poem ought to be aopied, and
sent off It will do. G liked it, especially
(he lines
? Tbe new born star, with light ai trewuloui
As the first gleam of love in a uiaideo'f eye.
Poor Helen ! I remember with what strange,
blow eurinrifle bhe looked up to mc that night.
How slowly, like the coming of a beautiful
day tho light broke, and trembled in her eyes,
until the tears fell, like happy dew, upon my
breast. How strange, she ttought it, that 1
should love her! just as if iutn, like myself,
were not the heirs of all beauty and grace.
But it is time lor me to call on Mrs. A
How eiquiaitcly sbe played Juliet last night!
and with Tennyson's lines?
" The post in a golden clime wm born,
WUb golden itarn above.
Dower d with the ha'e of hate, tbe scorn of worn,
Tbe lovo of love "?
he leaves tho room.
This man knew her! Knew her, as no othor
on earth could know her ! Would to Heaven
he had not! He had met her at his sister's
(Mrs. Harrison'*) beautiful summer residence,
whither be had repaired, a summer or two
tine*, when worn out with the weariness and
unre?tt of fashionable life.
She was a HeamntresH in the family, beaoti
ful and freeh as morning. He claimed all
beauty, by divine right; and she?he was as a
god to ber?like tbe morning to the sun, she
opened her heart to hie infloence ; be unfolded
every leaf, and found only freshness, guileless
new, innocenoe, purity, originality, strength
\earnings for all that was good and noble and
true and on every leaf be wrote a mighty
word? Lov*?love for him.
Hitherto, everything that had come in Mile*
Wallingford's way bad been made subservient
to ooe end?that of self- culture; but tbe fresh
ness and strength of Helen \ iniog's nature
magnetised him, and. in teaching hor to forget
all for his sake, he forgot himself, and for a
few months he lingered in the country, dream
ing ov?r again, under the blue vault ol heaven,
the abort dream of his l?oyhood, which his cold
ambition and atill colder philosophy had lonn
since taught him to discard as the idlest of all
phantoms . , ..
Hut he oould not remain there always. Mrs
Harrison was returning to town ; business en
gagements recalled him also; and Helen Vi
mng?if she was lone and friendless before she
knew him, how muoh more so would she I*
now, when the world of thought and feeling
be bad oj<ened to her made ber a thousand fold
more alone '?she had nothing to lose but tbe
love aud trust centred in him?was it strange
that she wont with him, that she gave h?r
whole being into his keeping, doubting noth
ing, only narrowing that she was not far richer,
more boautiful, m ire giftod, more graceful, for
his sake ?
Her natuie was 10 rich aud exuberant, fbe
lavished it- ift- upon him with such a delight
ful abandon, that he remained oantive to the
magnetism mu. h longer than he himself ha'l
deemed possible, and when the uharm began
to wax old, she became to bim a psychological
atudy. With him, the end of life was self cul
ture?evorythmg that tended to that, every cx
perianoo that deepened his wlf-oonsoinuwien.
or In any way aided in his development, wm
|ftWfal. Mis ebaraeter must beoome perfect,
harmonious, and symmetrical, (#8n at tho ex
pense of the lift - blood Of others. Woman?
Love?these were but a means to this end; so
he studtod, thought, critirizod, anal>*ed, wrote; ?
and men spoke of him as an aonomplished
scholar, a true poet; and women got his verm*
by heart, sang them, praised their pathos, their
tendernenH, and said how pure and noble, how
troe and humble, must be the soul that could
give utterance to such things of beauty and of
joy
Helen was not igrim ant of the oold nature < f
hie philosophical creed. Had ahe heard tbe
?ame sentiments from tbe lips of another, they
would have startled hor; but, did she not po*
eeas hie love? and, in tbe light of that certainty,
they ware to her as mtnv abstractions. She
j.Htged his hoart by her own?or. rather, she 1
did not judge him at all; for where a woman
loves, ?he has already judgrd?and she
thought, poor, tooiwh girl, that their lovo I
could only greatej with tinw.
Therefore, when he grew weary of her, or.
as be expressed it, when tho laws of their
being demanded a separation, he having won
from her all that oooid aid in his culture, and
pamed her on the path of lifis, and, in his ever
nolle, musically modulated tones, he set the
aubieot bafctfft ber, she ooold not comprehend
him It was as it a night of years had shut
down over her, banntad by word* of mocking
misery. But when, through this datkness,
tho troe meaniog of his words came, like
the ebarp, ke*m. res.stless lightning, be stood
ogfcaat at tbe tempest which be had awaken
ba was not prepared for this?that
odd calm, selftsh artilloial man? that "seeker
affcor Mm highest" in Nature and in Art, aa he
atrlorf himself-?he tremblad, and. for one in
Haot turned pale before the storm bis own
haed lisd raised, like many another ml-eraM ?
nbarUtan. who has darnd to taiu|?<r with
ikiogi above hi* comprehension. Hd bad
studied nature; he professed to have token
home her leaeons-and, ?ursly, no one oould
I write or Ulk more beautifully about her?did
he not know that the furious torrent and the
placid rivulet, that bind* the upland aud the
lowland together with a green girdle of freah
neas and beauty, in the same in nature ? That
(he slow, lingering, summer breeze, that scarce
ly lift* the egret from the thistle, or the white
l>etala of the apple bhweom, is one with the ter
rible tempest, that briugs desolation and death ?
That the sunbeam, sleeping on the oottoge wall,
at whioh the chubby hands of infanoy grasp
aud grasp again, hides within it the power to
blind and destroy !
Oh, yea ; he knew all this well. He would
have given a philosophical analysis of eaob,
and spent hours in explaining the laws that
governed them; but be did not know that the
heart whioh had beat against his own for tbe
space of two years, that had proven ite wealth
of love with a Aow sileut but ceaseless and in
| exhaustible as the ocean, upon the oold, barren
shores of his own being, bringing them beauty
and life, oould be so roused that it could gather
up all its dreams, all ite loves, all its despairs,
all its memories of the past and ite hopes ot
i the " to be,"' and, in one wild hour of agony,
leap tbe torrent of life, and sink into silence.
So he trembled in her presence. He did not
dare to utter the miserable, insulting mean
thought wbioh his contemptible philosophy
placed upon bis lips: " That there were others
' to whom Bhe might be all she bad been to bim."
He spared her this, but only through a kind ol
j imaginary fear; and he was glad, and breathed
freer, when she neither wept nor prayed, but,
lising suddenly up, said, in that low, hu?hed,
but strangely-distinct voioe, "GoJ "
He obeyed?ho was glad to do bo, congratu
lating himself that " the soeno " was over, that
it had been accomplished with no more trouble;
and yet, there was a oirtain look on Helen
Viniug'a face, as she uttered that monosylla
ble, that puzzled him, well road as he fancied
himself in all the changes of a woman's face.
Why did it remind him so vividly of his young
sister, rs the ley in her ooffin years before, in
the dawn of her womanhood. How well he
remembers that oold, rigid look. Does be not
kuow that Death, as well as Life, " oaets its
shudows before'!"
He speculates upon it?speculates e\en in the
nplendid parlor of the Revere House?specu
lates even while listening to the dulcet tones of
tho celebrated actress, Mrs. A . It is only
in the evening, that he accidentally finds a solu
tion ; accidentally we say, for Miles Wallingford
seldom troubles himself to look over such por
tions of the city papers as relate to 11 casual
ties," " coroner's inquests,fiio. Even now. it
was by chance that his eye met the notice
wbioh forms the text of this sketch. Then he
knew tho meaning of that look ; it was death !
He read the notioe again ; he felt it was a lie ;
he knew her!
For a few brief momentB be felt himself a
murderer. He scaroely knew the difference be
tween himself and the most miserable crimi
nal that ever swung f-om a gallows. Then
came bis oold philosophy?stepping in between
him and God?twisting tbe holiest instincts of
his nature, the clearest teaobings of his rea
son, aje, the very Word of God himself, into?
not apologies?but j ustifioations of bis selfish
nefs; and with a regret that she wa? " so fool
ieh," be went on his way.
And was this all? Yes; for men who be
lieve that the end justifies the means, for men
who mistake that end, and Bet up the altar of
eelfiahnem in its plaoe, are Beldom troubled
with ooneofcntions eoruples.
And yet, as we believe in God, we believe
that there does come to such men a time when
the consciousness that they have scorned and
trampled upon the humanity with whioh God
bad gifted them, is the bitterest, the moat ter
rible, of all punishments; hours, in whioh their
vaunted attainments are to them as apples of
Sodom ; and they would blees the hand of the
little child that should again lead them baok
to the fountains of Truth and Life!
it1 ?
. MOVEMENTS IB NEBRASKA AMD KANSAS
The following extract of a letter from the
former delegate of Nebraska, to a member of
Congress, has been communicated to us for
publication.?Ed Era.
Kansas Territory, June 9, 1854.
So it seems tbe foul deed has been consum
mated, and this beautiful Territory, for whose
benefit I have spent so much time and money,
is surrendered up to the full power of Slavery
Hut the outrage is not to stop here. It is but
one link in tbe chain of insult and injury of*
fered to the people of the free States. Ypu
will remember that at the last session of Con
gress S 50,000 were appropriated to enable the
President to treat with tbe Indians of these
new Territories for their lands. Hut this law
was disregarded until tbe plan for tbe repeal
of tho Missouri Compromise was arranged; and
then, instead of a Commissioner being sent to
treat with the Indians in the ordinary way,
delegati??s from each tribe have been hurried
off to Waabir*tna. and the treaties there made,
so that neither the trilws at large nor the pub
lie know anything of tbe conditions of these
treaties. The Indian Agents, tbe Senata, and
the particular friends of tbe Administration
alone know, what is going on. These individ
uals circulated the story that no citizen would
t>e allowed to take claims or settle on the lands
ceded by the Indians to the Government, until
tbe surveys were made and the lands offered at
public sale. In tho mean time, Senator
sent a private telegraphio dispatch to his friends,
to go and take pcsnession of the most desirable
locations. This information was circulated se
cretly, and thousands of tbe Pro-Slavery party
: swarmed over the country before those not in
the seoret were apprized of wh^ysas doing.
Tbete man. I understand, have bajjH^ogethcr
to prevent the settlement of AnflBnry men
' in the country. Several meetings of there
! '? clubs" have been held in Missouri, and Anti
Slavery men have been denounced with fierce
threats. This I know from the start would be
the oounw pursued by the Slave Powsr, if the
Missouri restriction was removed. Thus you
see the one great aot of treachery and bad faith
has been followed by others equally atrooious.
Is there to be no end of tbeee outrages ? Are
freemen to be thus trampled upon, their rights
disregarded, their personal salety even end an
norod ? And no remedy ? Will the people of
the free States quietly submit to these wrongs
and insults?to be mere vassala of the Slave
Power f I am for resistance; 1 tare not to what
extent. I oall upon you and every friend of
Freedom to oomo to our assistonoe ? to rescue
this land from this remorseless power ?this
country, the most beautiful, the most futile,
and the most healthy, I do verily believe, on the
face of tbe earth.
You see the plan of operations adopted by
{ our adversaries; it is this: it is ascertained
where a company of slaveholders and their
! friends desire to settle; tbe Indian Department
at Washington then rends oo for a delsgation
. of ths tribn owning ths desired lands; this
j delegation goes to W ashington, makes a treaty i
oeding the coveted lands, and private informa- I
tion is sent t? the slaveholders that all is ready, j
and tbay take possession befjre outsiders know
that a treaty has been made, or tbe lands sold
to tbe Government at all.
This is an easy way of oolonizing the whole
Territory with slaveholders, while an Anti-Sla
very man cannot even get a good home These
are facts which the whole country ought to
know, and as soon as I am in a little better
health I shall endeavor to make known. I
wish we could have a press here. Can yon not
assist us in getting one1
What we want, ie men?men of courage, in
dustry, Mid intelligence. They oan lind no
I 1mm on the habitable globe where they can
get a more deeirable home than here. The
other Territory (Nebraska) in not comparable
to this in any respect, and there the slaveholder
will make no effort at dominion.
Your obedient servant,
Abej.ard Guthrik.
WASHINGTON, 1). C.
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1854.
THE DEBATE IE THE SEHATK.
Opened on the occasion of the presentation
of the Boston memorial for the repeal of the
Fugitive Slave.Act, promise* to be interesting.
We shall have eomothing to say about it.
ADJOURNMENT Of COHOEE88.
Nothing definite yet as to adjournment. The
President is anxious that Congress should con
tinue in session, doubtless under the impression
that he will, ere long, be ready to submit some
proposition in relation to Cuba.
ME. SMITH'S RESIGNATION.
We deeply regret the purpose of Gerrit
Smith, announood by himself in another ool
umn, to resign his seat in the House at the
oloso of this session. He will carry with him
to his home the respect and good will of prob
ably every mem Iter of the House, although he
has neglected no opportunity for exhibiting and
enforcing his views in regard to Slavery, and
all other evils, coming within the range of Civil
Government.
CONQEEBS.
In tho Senate, to-day, the time for termina
ting the session was the ohief subjeot of de
bate.
In the Houso, tho lovers of " Popluar Sover
eignty " evinced a general disinclination to
promote popular intelligence, by revealing the
information iu possession of the Government
respecting Cuba-filibustering and treaty-ma
king with Mexioo. The period for debating
in Committee the Treaty Appropriation bill
was limited to this day.
THE MOVEMENT IE THE WEST.
TJ^e Ordinance for the government of " the
Northwestern Territory," out of which have
been formed the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illi
nois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, beaxp date July
13, 1787. Alter providing the form of govern
ment, it procoeds to enaot certain fundamental
articles, specifying the ohjeots in the following
preamble :
" And for extending the fundamental princi
ples of oivil and rcligiouH liberty, which form
the basis whereon theec Republic*, their laws
and Constitutions are erected; to fix and estab
lish those principles as the basis of all laws,
constitutions, and governments, which forever
hereafter shall bo formed in the said territory ;
to provide, also, for the establishment of States
and permanent Governments therein, and for
their admission to a share in the Federal Coun
cils, on an equal footing with the original
States, at as early periods as may be consistent
with the general interest: It is hereby ordain
ed and declared, that the following articles
shall be considered as articles of oompact be
tween the original States and the people and
States in tho said Territory, and forever remain
unalterable, unless by eommon consent ''
There are six of these articles of oompaot,
providing solemn guarantees for freedom of
conscience, right of trial by jury, habeas cor
pus, fair representation, and all needful safe
guards for personal rights. The last article
specially has made the day on whioh the Ordi
nance was adopted, worthy of perpetual com
memoration :
" Aktu i.k 6. There shall be neither Slavery
nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory,
otherwise than in punishment of orime, where
of the party tball have been duly conviotod :
Provided, always, that any person escaping into
the same, from whom labor or servioe is
lawfully olaimed in any one of tho original
States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaim
ed, and oonveyed to the person claiming his
or her labor or service, as aforesaid."
The Territory organic >d under this oompaot
was then a wilderness; but, in the oourse of
half a century, it was formed into five power
ful States, oompr sing an aggregate area of two
hundred and twenty-seven thousand square
miles, and a total |>opu!ation, in 1850, of four
and a half millions, all freemen, maintaining
free-labor institutions, and nobly illustrating
their beneficenoe and wisdom.
The policy whioh ha* given these free States
to the .Union, havinp been repudiated and
trampled upon by the Slave Power and its
instruments, the Administration and the so
oalled Democrats at the North and West who
sustain it, the People of those States severally
propose to hold State Conventions on the 13th
day of July ensuing, to commemorate the pas
sage of the Ordinanco of 1787, and confer to
gether on the l>e?t measure* for punishing
those who have dishonored and betrayed the
fundamental Principles of Civil and Religious
Liberty whioh it establishes, and for bringing
baok the Federal Government to the dootrines
and spirit whioh pervadod the Congress that
enaoted that glorious Ordinance.
The movement is made, irrespectively of
Party. It oonceins the honor, the interests,
and safety of the People, and the People are
taking the lead in it.
The call for the Convention in Ohio has been
in oiroulation all over the States; thousands
apon thousands of names have been sent to
the Committee appointed at Columbus to re
oeive them, and thouvands more are rolling
is. The Ohto State Journal says, the design
was to bare the call, with all the names at
tached thereto, printed in its oolumns, ' but
the thing u impoestble ! ?'
" We have not in the office, nor is there in
the city, oapital letters enougn to begin to set
the initials of the names. There is no way of
aooomplishing the demand upon us, short of
sending off to the type founder's for a supply
of letter for this eepeoial purpose.''
Hie Journal adds:
"It is emphatically a movement of the Pfo
ri.a; the call for a Convention has gone forth
as with a shoot; the People know what they
art about, this time, and they will be heard
through their delegates on the 13th.
" Take, for instance, a eall returned from
one locality in Stark county. The signers stand
recorded:
Democrats ? - 45
Free-Noilers 10
Whigs - - ? 62?117
? Another cornea from Luoa* county, with
the signers designated as follows:
Hunker Democrats * 32
Free Soil do ? - - 14
Hunker Whig* - - 28
Free Soil do - 4
Abolition Independents - 5?83
In Indiana, the State Journal of the 19th
contains the following call:
"A majority of the recent Democratic Con
vention having adopted resolution* setting forth
a platform of principles to which we believe a
majority of the people of this State are opposed,
we therefore call upon all such opponents, ol
whatever party, to meet at Indianapolis on the
13th day of July next, at 10 o'clock A. M , to
adopt suflh measures in relation thereto as they
may doe in proper."
This notice is subscribed by the names of
somo sixty or seventy oitizeus, inoluding a large
number of Democrats, of the oounties of Floyd,
Parke, Ripley, and Dearborn. The Journal
says that letters from both Democrats and
Whigs have been received from every part of
the State, urging the call of this Convention,
and that there is a determination on the part
of the people to forget all former party die
ti notions in their effort to put the seal of their
disapprobation on the principles promulgated
by the Pierce State Convention.
The People seem to think it .of more impor
tance to sustain the great Principle of Civil
and Religious Liberty, than Franklin Pierce
und Jesse D. Bright.
The oall for a State Mass Convention in
Wisconsin has been issued but a short time,
but the quidk response indicates the temper of
the People. The Free Democrat, of Milwaukie,
Wisconsin, says:
"All the Free Demooratio presses?three
dailies and seven weeklies; all the Whig pa
pers but two?two dailies and eight weekliee;
and two Democratic papers?the Watertown
Register and Monroe Sentinel?have responded
to the call for a Mass State Convention ol the
People, at Madison, on the 13th of July. The
remaining two Whig papers?the Lancustor
Herald and the Kenosha Tiibune?we doubt
not will do so, but we have not received their
issues since the oall was published. We think
we may say that the desire for such a Conven
tion and union of the people in a great Free
dom Party, is oordial and earnest among tho
Whigs and Free Democrats, and a large por
tion of those who have formerly acted with the
old Democratic party."
We are not aware that the arrangements in
Illinois for such a Convention have yet been
perfeoted. No time should be lost. From tho
State of Douglas especially let a voice go forth
in stern reprobation of hiB apostacy from the
original policy of the Government.
The Mass Convention, called to meet at Kala
mazoo, Mich., on the 21st inst., by the Independ
ent Democratic Central Committee, has boen
held, and its proceedings are before us. The
most earnest and liberal spirit pervaded at its
counsels. Wlrle asserting the true principles
of Anti-Slavery aotion, it generously pledged
the Party to surrender its name, and its candi
date, provided the People, without distinction
of Party, would take the right ground, and or
ganise for efficient operations. The liberal
press of the State, not connected with the In
dependent Democratic organizations, speaks in
praise of its wise and conciliating polioy.
We copy the following from the series of reso
lutions adopted:
?' Resolved, That in the recent passage of the
bill for the organisation of the Territories of
Nebraska and Kansas, we see the orowning
act of a saries of aggressions, by which the soo
tional and exceptional oharacter of Slavery
has been gradually obanged, until it has be
come the great national interest of the coun
try, for the protectioo of which every other in
terest must be sacrificed; and its power has
become so potent, that from the President to
the Postmaster, all the functionaries of the Ex
ecQtive Government, and a majority in Con.
grees, are twisted and corrupted by it into ab
solute subjection to its insulting demands.
? Resolved, That evils so great as these de
mand a remedy ; and that if that remedy can
not be found in the virtue of the people, a peo
ple who are yet true to the instincts of liberty,
to the immortal principles promulgated by the
fathers of the Constitution?a people who en
joy the blessings of a Government they estab
lished, and a people who are yet willing to
display something of the energy and persever
anoe, and if need be sacrifice, which moved
the patriots of '76 to the accomplishment of
their great work, then the days of the Repub
lic are numbered, and it must soon become
what its laws will make it, a nation of slaves.
" Resolved, That we do not and will not de
spair : that we believe the people of this State
are ready to respond to the oall ol their oountry
' in this easergenoy; that they are ready, irre
speotive of all past political preferences, to de
olare in an unmistakable tone their will; and
that will is, that Slavery aggresuon upon their
rights shall go no further?that there shall be no
compromise with Slavery?that there sha'l be
no more slave State*?that there shall be no
slave Territory?that the Fugitive Slave Law
shall be repealed?that the abominations of Sla
very shall no further be perpetrated under tho
sanotions of the Federal Constitution?and that
they will make their will effective by driving
from every place of official power the publio
servants who have so shamelessly betrayed
their trust, and by putting in their plaoes men
who are honest and capable; men who will be
faithfol to the Constitution and the great
claims of humanity.
Res lived, That the Free Democracy of Mich
igan rejoioe to behold the indications of popu
lar sentiments furnished by this Convention.
they are oonfident that the deeply aroused
feeling of the manes of this State will seek a
suitable expression in a Convention springing
from themselves, irrespective of every ciuting
political organization ; and that if such a move
ment shall be animated and guided by the
Cneiples expressed in the resolutions of this
nvention, and shall contemplate an efficient
organization to give effect to our own principles
in this State, we shall wiUingly surrender our
distinctive organisation, and with it thicket
for State officers nominated at Jaokson, on the
22d of February last, and that we commit the
execution of this purpose to a committee ol
nine, to be appointed by the Convention to car
ry the above design into execution.
It would seem that the General Convention
for Michigan, is to meet on tho 6th of July.
We could wish it had been Appointed for the
13th.
We notioed in the market this morning
that fruits were parehased and freely eaten by
persons who did not seem to be providing them
selves with the more wholesome and substan
tial articles of food. Cholera may follow, and
these same persons will be the least likely to
be prompt in obtaining good modioal adrioe
and the proper remedies
?...??-<#*? ? *
Q^The Buffalo Sentinel, a Roman Catholic
journal, has been discontinued for want of ade
quate support. So ha# the Sktpherd of the
Valley.
POLITICAL MOVKMMFia W THS liimi AMD
MIODLK STATU.
We have already ootioed (he Convention of
the Morrill Oemooraoj in Maine, ita adop
tion of an Anti-Slavery and Maine Law plat
form, and the intimation thrown out by the
Portland Inquirer, that it is the intention of
the Independent Demooraoy to adopt ita ticket
As tbe Whigs alone can aooomplisb little in
that State, and sympathise cordially with the
Priuoiples aunounued by the Anti-Slavery and
Temperance Demooraoy, we suppose they will
not hesitate as to their true policy.
In Vkhmont, although the Whigs at their
State Convention took unexceptionable ground
against Slavery, and nominated a ticket hon
estly representing the principles set forth, they
are uniting, we observe, in a call for a General
State Convention, of all the opponents of the
Nebraska outrage, without distinction of par
ty. The call runs as follows:
"All persons who are in favor of resisting,
by all constitutional means, the usurpation or
the Propagandists of Slavery, are invited,
without distinction of party, to meet in Mass
Convention, at Montpelier, on the fourth day
of J^y? twelve o*q]ook, noon, to nominate
candidates for tbe approaching election, and to
take such measures as will, in all future elec
tions, enable the People of Vermont to give a
practical expression of their sentiments at the
polls."
Another Call is in piroulation, naming the
13th of July as the day of meeting. Let there
be no oonfliot. Where all are agreed as to
object, differeuoee on unimportant prelimina
ries should not be allowed to divide them. The
Vermont Statesman Bays, " It is not fully deci
ded whether the Mass Convention Bhall be on
the 4th or the 13th of July; but if there should
be any change, it will be notioed next week."
Why not make the ohange to the 13th? It
will give more time, and, besides, it will add
new interest to a day to be rendered memora
blo by similar Slate Conventions in the West.
The Whigs of New Hampshire held their
State Convention at Concord, a few days sinco,
and nominated James Bell as their candidate
for Governor. They passed a series of resolu
tions, from whioh we extract the material ones:
" Resolved, That it was the policy of the
fathers of the Republic to confine Slavery to its
then existing limits, as is evinoed by the pas
sage of the Ordinance of 1787, applied to all
the Territories of the Union, and by subsequent
acts pawed during the Administrations of
Washington, Jefferson, and Monroe.
" Resolved, That the prohibition of Slavery
by the act of 1820, known as the Missouri
Compromise, as well as the time when, and
the circumstances under whioh, the aet was
passed, pledged in the most solemn manner the
iaith and honor of the National Government,
and of those States whioh Sustain Slavery with
in their borders, against the repeal of the same.
" Resolved. That the repeal of that prohibi
tion by tbe Nebraska and Kansas bill is de
structive of mutual oonfidenoe between the
States of this Union; is exposing the Union
itself to imminent danger; is inoonBistent with
the fundamental principles of natural justice;
and is destructive of all confidence in the in
tegrity, good ftuth, and honor, of the National
and State Government favoring suoh repeal.
11 Resolved, That the people of the free States
ought at onoe to take any and all proper meas
ures in their power to procure a repeal of as
much of the Nebraska bill as-abrogates the
prohibition of slavery, oontained in the aot of
1820; and to labor at all times and seasons,
until that prohibition Bhall be restored.
" Resolved, That, as a portion of the people
of the Free States, we will never oonsent to the
admission of any State from the territory in
which it wes prohibited by the aot of 1820, un
tes* Slavery shall be forever excluded therefrom.
" Resolved, That, while we avow our 'deter
rai nation to stand by tbe oompaot already
made, oreating an inequality of reprerentation
in favor of slave States now in the Union, yet
a decent self-respect forbids the extension of a
principle so odious and degrading; and we are,
therefore, unutterably opposed to the formation
of any politioal connection with countries, not
now in the Union, upon skoh unequal terms."
The resolutions are good, so far as they go,
but they indicate a spirit and policy muoh be
low those exhibted by the Vermont resolutions
They are not up to the responsibilities and du
ties of tbe froe States. Nor do we see any in
timation of a desire for a new, general, more
efficient organisation of the opponents of Sla
very. Of oouree, our friends in New Hampshire
will maintain and infuse new life into their
own organisation. The Administration Party
will rejoioe to see ita adversaries divided, as
it will afford thena a obanoe to regain what
it has lust. The Slavery-oonspirators at
Washington will be no less gratified Would
to Heaven that the remembranoe of every
party name and epithet thafhave hitherto
marked and inflamed party differences in the
free States, could suddeoly and forever be ef
faocd!
The Whig Central Committee of Massachu
setts has issued an Address calling a Whig
State Convention, to meet in August next. The
Addrers givts grAt prominence to the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, in relation to
which it says;
" Upon the reckletsners, the perfidy and the
infamy, of this deed, it is needless to enlarge,
beoause upon these characteristics of tbe aot
there is no differonoe of opinion among the
Whigs of Ma**aobusetts, or of any of the free
States?and if there be one among us who does
not regard himself and his party as absolutely
released from every contract, oompromise, or
understanding, moral or conventional, eij reus
ed or implied, upon the subject of Slavery, the
main and direct provisions ts the Constitution
always exoepted?we can ooly say that his
name has been unspoken in our ears. Of
oourse, it cannot be supposed that under such
an outrage as the repeal of tbe Missouri Com
promise, to say nothing of the other enormities,
the rumors ot whioh are floated to us on every
breese, tbe free States will lie down in meek
submission Even now from the lips of every
freeman oomee the demand for the instant
restoration of that great bulwark of freedom,
and it will be among tbe grave matters for the
oonsidoration of the ne*t Convention, as it is J
already the subject of earnest inquiry among >
individuals, whether we can now satisfy our
selves with the simple restoration of that whioh
baa been torn down, or whether we ought not
to resolve upon some further action, having for '
its objeot not merely the reoovery of the ground
lost for ? time to Freedom, but the erection Of
impregnable barriers against tbe extension of
Slavery and tbe unceasing aseaulte of the slave
power. With no responsibility for the renewal
of the agitation of Slavery, and with the lesson
eo lately taught at, that no oompaot ia saored
to the South the moment they have nothing to
gain by it, we have only now to seek what
measures are beet adaptod to promote the
general welfaro. and to secure the blessing of
liberty to oitrselree and our posterity; and to
this end we invoke the aid of every member of
the Whig party, aud tbe oo-operation of ail who
sincerely desire to oheok the snoroaohment* of
Slavery and to aeoure the triumph of free pnn
oiples throughout our vast territory.
We are glad to see that there ie an intima
tion that the Whig- of Massachusetts may
deem it expedient to unit? with ?' 0pp?"
nents of Slavery, no matter whether Democrats
or Independent Demoorato. Of oourse, it will
be for the Convention to say. If determined to
repel all automation, and by thin short-sighted
policy oheek the general movement in tavor ol
Freedom, it will assume a fearful responsi
bility. The Independent Democrat*, who hate
oaet thirty-five thousand vote* in Massachu
setts, have gone as far an self-respeot and the
interc ut* of the Cause of Freedom would justify,
in their ofTer to unite, in disregard of their own
organisation, with Whigs or Democrats who
would disregard their organisation, tor the sake
of overthrowing the Slave Power. If the offer
be deolined, they will stick to their own organiza
tion, and, knowing that they represent pre-emi
nently the Priroiples just now most important
in the judgment of all Liberty-loving citiaens,
they will appeal to the People.
To maintain the Whig organisation, is to
maintain the Democratic?to keep up both, is
to keep down the free States under the heel ol
the Slave Power. Keep up such organisations
and you leave Independent Democrats no al
ternative but to stand by theirs.
To-morrow, we intend to take a survey of
the Administration Party, and that portion of
Demoorate who still oling to it.
MQUIKIBS CONCKWUHG MEMBEB8 OF COK
G it ESS. ?
Letters have reached us from various StatoA,
inquiring concerning the action of members on
the Nebraska Bill. We must be exeusod from
answering thoso letters privately. What we
have to say, we prefer to say openly.
One of thoso letters concerned Mr. Trout.
We find the following card from this gentleman,
in the Pittsburg Gazette :
House ok Representatives,
Washington, May 22, 1854.
Sir: In your paper of the 17th inst. I find
the following, vis: "Tfle Representatives from
the Free States named below voted, on Monday
week to take up the Kansas-Nebraska Bill,
with 'a view to urge its ? immediate passage,
and among the number I find my name record
0<* Believing that you would not willingly mis
represent me, and that you have consigned me
to ^infamy" more through inad vertonoe than
a knowledge ot the fact-, I have thought prop
er to put you right on that subject.
It is true that I voted to go into Committee
of the Whole on the day referred to but itlis
not true that I "voted to take up the bill. O.i
the oontrary, I voted to lay Mr. Richardson s
motion "to take up" on the table, I voted uni
formly against "laying aside'' the several bills
on the calendar to reach the Nebraska bill,
and when the Nebraska bill was reached, I
voted to Jay it aside, and against " taking it
up " and 1 voted to restore the calendar to its
original order. In short, during the thirty-mx
heur session 1 voted and acted with the oppo
nents of the bill on all important issues.
The mere vote of going into Committee or
the Whole oannot, by any fair rule of construc
tion, be said to favor the passage of the bill,
for the House goes into Committee of the Whole
almost everyday, and it would have been in
order at any time, when so in Committee, for
the friends of the bill to move to take it up and
oonsideir it. .... % 4
1 have always been and stall am opposed to
the bill, and qeither the promises of friends or
the menaces of enemios oan ever induce me
to vote for it in its present shape, and none
know this faot better than your own Repre
sentatives. .
These things Wing so, it is diffioult to im
agine why you labor so hard to put ms in the
wrong. . ,
All I claim is to be fairly quoted and plaoed
right on the reoord, and mv constituents oan
then judge for themselves. This I have a right
to; I ask nothing more, and sinoe you have
iriven your version of the case, I hope you will
J.ve mine also. M. C. Trout.
To Ike Editor of the Pittiburgk Gazette.
Well?the Nebraska Hill is passed. Mr.
Tront, according to his own showing, opposed
it, and we have no reason to question his rec
ord, as quoted by himsolf.
The question now, is not, what he did, but
what he intends to do? Is he one of the Anti
Nebraska members who, the Star assert*, disap
prove of the true, oalm, cogent address by the
real opponents of the bill? Will he vote two
hundred and fifty millions of dollars for the
purchase of Cuba, with its half million
slaves) Is he, like some others who voted
against the Nebraeka Bill, determined now
to beoome acquiescent? Does he, like the
Anti-Nebraska editor of the Maino Age, stand
by the legislation of 1850, and the Baltimore
platform, which announced it as a finalityT
Will he work and vote against any Slave Ter
ritory, and any more slavo States '
I*et Mr. Trout's "constituent*, let the con
stituents of every other member who voted
against the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise, not only understand how he voted on
that question?a question now passed?but
how he will vote on other questions involving
still more deeply the rights and interests of
the free States.
CONGRESS.
thirttthirp conn****?first sessios.
Senate, Tuesday, June 27, 1854.
A few petitions were presented.
Mr. Hamlin reported a bill making Fronte
ras, in Texas, a |K?rt of delivery ; and the same
was considered and passed.
A bill oreftting an additional collection dis
triot in California was considered and passed.
On motion by Mr. Poaree, the Senate pro
ceeded to the consideration of the bill direct
ing are-examination and adjustment of the sc
counts between the State of Maryland and the
Uoited States, respecting interest on advances
made by the said State.
After some explanation, the bill was pass
ed? veas 36, nays 7.
On motion by Mr. Adams, the Senate, pro
oeeded to the consideration of the bill chang
ing the day Pot the annual meeting of Cnti
giiss, from the first day of December to the
first daytof November.
Mr Walker moved to amend the hill by
striking out November, and inserting Octobor.
The bill was opposed bv Messrs Fitspatrick,
Benjamin, Stuart, and Pratt, and supported
by Messrs. Badgor and Douglas
No question was taken when this report
closed.
House of Representatives, June 27, 1854.
The Speaker laid before the House a com
munioation from the Treasnry Department,
giving estimates of oertain extra appropriation*
required for light-houses in proosss of erection
on the ooast of the I'aoific, amounting to
$59 434 ; which was referred to the Committee
on Commerce, and ordered to be printed
Mr. Htniiof Mississippi, proposed a resolu
! tion, asking the President of the United Stated,
, if not incompatible with tbe publio interest, for
I any information in hiB possewaon on tbe date of
! his proclamation, May 31, 1854, respecting the
designs of persons in this country to invade
Cuba.
Mr. Cliogman objected.
Mr. Houston moved a resolution, closing de
bate on tbe Treaty Apprepfifttion Mil at noon
to morrow. He withM to get through with the
business, and would on Monday next move to
olose the session on the 31st of July.
Mr. Haven said, that if gentlemen were not
willing to call for the Executive's instructions
and diplomatic correspondence, (which had
been printed for tho use of the Senate,) be saw
no necessity for continuing the debate a mo
ment. No one doubted the power of the House
to vote tbe appropriation asked; and no one
in the House had any adequate data upon
which to discuss the question of expediency,
Mr. Houston demanded the previous ques
tion.
Mr. Campbell demanded the yeas and nays;
which were ordered, aod resulted, 94 to 58.
Mr. Jones, of Pennsylvania, supported the
bill in an elaborate argument, oliiefly in re
sponse to the argument of Mr. Konton yeater
r. Haven said Mr. Jones had fully assumed
the constitutional power of the House to givo
or to withhold the appropriation, and based
the question of expediency chiefly upon our
getting rid of tho 11th artiole of the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo. He affirmed that we were
under no obligation to indemnify Mexico for
anything done by the Indians to the people of
Mexico.
Gentlemen had pressed the present Treaty
because of our assumed responsibility for in
demnity ; but he disputed its fairness.
Mr. Haven contended that the correspond
ence in the oasc ought to be before tho House.
Mr. Houston said, that if Mr. Haven or oth
ers had desired the correspondence, they could
have got it
Mr. Haven was dad to know that Mr.
Houston was disposed to put himself right on
this (subject; but no such opportunity had
been afforded. He admonished gentlemen that
it would be well for them to hush up mischiev
ous rumors, by making a full exhibit of tho
case as it really was. Indemnities for Sloo
and Gar ay were rumored to bnve been bar
gained for in tbe negotiation.
Mr. Bocock asked how the documents in the
oase could reveal informal instructions given?
Mr. Haven said tho rumors wero to the of
feot that the ostensible negotiation on our side
had required outside advices to be put on rec
ord.
[Mr. Bayly, of Virginia, frequently interrupt
ed Mr. Haven, ana an interesting collcquy
passed between them.]
Mr. Haven concluded by making a powerful
appeal to the friends >of the Administration to
make publio all the documents in the oase, be
fore extorting a vote lrom tho House.
Mr. Phillips followed, and spoke at length
in support of the' bill and its immediate pas
sage- .
LETTER OF GE&BIT SMITH.
Washington, June 27, 1854.
To my Constituents :
My nomination to Congress alarmed me
greatly, because I believed, that it would re
sult in my election. To separate myself from
my large private business, for so long a time;
and-to war for so long a time, against the
strong habits formed ip my deeply seoludod
life; seemed to be well-nigh impossible.
My election having taken place, I concluded,
that I must servo you, during the first session
of my term. Not to speak of other reasons for
such servioe, there was, at least, so mnoh due
to you, in requital for your geoerous forgetful -
ness of party obligations, in eleoting me. I
oould not do less, and, yet, make a decent re
turn for tbe respeot and partiality you had
shown me.
1 did not, until within a few weeks, f ully de
cide not to return to Congress, at the next ses
sion. I oould not know, but that something
unforeseen might demand such return. I, now,
feel at liberty to announce my purpose to re
sign my seat in Congrats, at the close of the
present session. Why I mako tbe annunoia
tion so early is, that you may have ample time
to look around you for my successor.
1 resign my seat tho more freely, because I
do not thereby impowe any tax upon your time.
You will fill the vacanoy, at the General Elec
tion. Indeod, I should have been entirely un
willing to put you to tbe pains of holding a
special election. Gerrit Smith.
I BY HOUSE'S PRINTING TELEGRAPH |
TKLKGRAPIIIC CORRESPONDENCE
for daily national kra.
Additional by the Orizaba?Death of Mad.
Son tag? Cholera.
New Orleans, June 26.?The steamship
Orixaba, which arrived here to day, left Vera
Cru* on the 22d inet. She brings dates from
tbe city of Mexico to the 19th inst, inclusive
The midden death of Madame Son tag, the
celebrated artint, produced a profound "eola
tion of grief at the Mexican capital. Her
death was wholly unexpected.
On the 11th it was announced that she would
appear in her great part of Lucretia Borgia,
in the opera of that name. In oonnequeaoe of
ber illnesr, the performance was postponed.
Soon the terrible symptoms of cholera made
their appearanse, and, although the best of
medioal attendance was promptly summoned
to ber aid, she expired on the 17th, after suf
fering great pain. '
She was buried on the 19th, in the burial
ground of the San Fernanda Church. Tbe fu
neral was attended by a large concourse of
people, inoludtng distinguiehed official* and the
artistes attached to the I'bilhartnonio Society.
Mad. S. was in the 56th year of her age
The oholera was raging with fearful violt-uce
at Telalpam, but was abating in the oity of
Mexioo. The number of oholrra victims, in
one day, had amounted to two hundred.
Among the victims werft Mr. Barkley, Sec
retary of the English Legation, and Signor
Hostamenta, of the Spanish Legation.
From the South?State of Health and the
Weather?The Markets, 6(c. ,
New Orleans, June 27?The weather is
oppressively warm, hot the health of the city
was never better at this seaeon of the year
Business of all kinds is rapidly falling off.
Mobile, June 27.?Cotton dull and declin
ing.
Charleston, June 27.?Ths cotton market
is in a depressed oondition
Baltimore Market.
Baltimore, June 27.?Flour is depressed?
Howard Street *8.50, City Mills $8?no sales
Corn?sales of 7 000 bushels white at 80 a 92
oents, yellow at 83 a 85 oents. Rye SI a SI.05.
Oatc?nales of 3,000 bushels at 60 a 62 cents.
Other articles remain unchanged.
The Weather, Sfc.
New Yore, June 27.?The thermometer at
noon here stood at 91. At Boston, same time,
90. Several new esses of cholera are reported.
Philatletphia Market? The Weather, See.
Philadelphia, June 27 ? Hreadetuffs dull
and unchanged Flour, S8 50 Wheat?red
is held at Si.95 ; white, S3 10. Corn, 80 a 82
cents Stocks dull.