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LITERARY MISCELLANY.
For the National Kra.
HOLLY-WOOD.
BY ALICK CAR ICY.
chapT II. -f
VVhilo Hetty and I lingered over the tea, I
thinking of the story Mary was telling, and she
now ana then smiling upon uae, and speaking
little, the door opened, and our party received
an accession.
Hetty rcse, and, clipping the purse into her
pooket, extended her hand with all the cordi
ality of aotual pleasure, while the blushes
broke through her cheeks, deeper and deeper;
for the visiter, turning back her face, and
passing some compliment on the beauty of her
appearanco that night, kissed her forehead,
instead of taking the proffered hand.
And, indeed, the did look pretty, in Bjiito of
the deformity that so terribly detracted from
all she would have been. Her dress, a crimson
material, well became her brunette complex
ion ; and the fashion in which it was made, to
gether with tho black cloud of ringlets about
her Bboulders, coucealed almost entirely the
hunoh back. Still, I could not but notice how
painfully conscious the stranger mado hor of
her misfortuno.
Ab soon as she tihook free hor head from be
tween his palms, she hastened to bring for
ward the easy chair, aud to offer tea and wino,
both of which tho guest declined, advancing at
- the same time toward Mary, who remained in
tho recess of the window, apparently uncon
soious of his presence. This salutation wa<s
less familiar than with Hetty, and in the tone
and manner were mere profound respect, blent
with that undefiaable moaning of tenderness
which written words fail to convey.
"Ah! brother Screwhard. 1 am glad you are
come,'' she said, turning indolently round, and
suffering the clergyman?for ho was a clergy
man?to take the hand which she did not ex
tend ; " your visit is especially onnprtune; 1
wob just wishing for some one fl^ntertain
Hetty, inasmuch as J am edifying Miee
with a Btory."
The clergyman said nothing oould give him
more pleasure; but tho look and the tone indi
cated that he would entertain Hetty as her sis
ter, and not that she oould at all interest him.
Hetty blushed yet more deeply at the sug
gestion of her Bister, and, Beating herself on a
low footstool, in the corner, looked Bteadily into
the fire; for, though winter was not come,
there was fire, more for cheerfulness than need.
"Everything by turns, and nothing long/'
might have been written with referenco to Mr.
Screwhard; for he was one of thoso facile per
sona who accommodate themselves to circum
stances with wonderful faoility.
In person, be was tall and thin, with a long
neck, inclining forward, and gray eyes, that
looked hungry; his hair, whioh was black, was
lillen off the crown, and olsewhere was bo thin
that you saw all his head. He wore whiskers
on either cheek, so long and thin ae to be not
unlike those ol a cat; but his Kmilowas a min
gling of sweetness and graciousness, and his
drew, which was scrupulously neat, was also
fashionably made, giving his ungainly person
oil the advantago it oould have. His boots
were extremely stylish, and so ingeniously
worn that 1 did not observe, until I had seen
him many timet*, that one of them conoealed a
C? ? i ^'8 noc^cloth, white as snow, was
plainly tied, and but for this you would not
have suspected bis profession, as ho laughed
and jested, the gayest of us all. 1 soon discov
ered that a love of fine things was predomi
nant in his nature?a disposition which I re
member not to have seen carried to the same
extent in any other person. He had oven a
womanish passion for velvet, lace, satin, and,
in fact, for whatever oast most money?now
lor its gratification, examining the tiny hand
kerotuel of Mary, and now taking between his
thumb and finger the velvet trimming of Het
ty's sleeve.
I remarked that he made numberless inqui
ries about the prevailing colon and styles of
cloaks, haU, and the like, and Beemod to luxu
riate in the probable value of the sables worn
by a member of his congregation.
He sat near the table, and now balanced a
silver fork on his finger, and now held a teiw
cup between himself and the light, for the mere
pleasure, apparently, which a genuine thing
Saw I'orhape, however, curiosity had its
He bad just returned from pairing a month
m the country, which, as he told us, he very
much enjoyed, free, as it was, from pastoral
^ duties. He had luxuriated on home
baked bread, and new milk, fresh air, and
general relaxation, and, bewde, ho talked a
lime hoastingly, 1 thought, of moonlight walks,
andromps with the artless oountry girls,
whose pumpkin-piVw were vory nice, be said, if
their toilets w?re not qnite so olegant as they
might have been.
And all bis aocounts of rural felicities, he
eoncludod by saying, " that is tho way Hetty
and I propose living?we shall be so happy;
Miss Mary, here, bored to death in her city
palace, will envy us."
And upon these occasion* he smoothed the
girlIs ringlets, and looked down on hor, hall
Kindly, I thought, but I oould not determine
now much of the insinuating manner was as
sumed, to pique Mary, who, to say truth, had
rw?n so long acnustomcd to admiration, that
she received it as her right However, upon
this occasion, she soemrd in no wi*o joalous,
when 'be yo?ng man took from his
little finger the diamond ring be wore, and
plaoed it on tho hand of Hetty?on tho con
trary, she averted, with a sort of half sincere
that she considered it avowed be
trothal.
The ianghter was interrupted by the en
"*??e Mary Halstcad's housekeeper, a
good and really pious old woman, who ca
trtcmed it a great privilege to shake hands
with the man of God, as Mr. Screwhard ap
peared to her. 1
She was rheumatic, and growing hard of
hearing and dull of sight, as persons of sixty
years are likely to be. and when she seated
herself beside the clergyman, his recently
?arr3Mace assumed the awful expression of
drint administer the sacrament to the
J" ell, sister Graves,'' ho said, in a commis
erating way, that seemed to say he was a poor,
raisorable sinner, too, "what has tho Lord
been doing for yon ? "
Mr*. Graves answered, she htd great reason
to be thankful, though, all through the late
wet weather, she had been poorly.
She then inquired?for, in her estimation, her
ailments, no matter how great, were small
things in comparison with bis?what bad been
the state of hie bodily health
Mr. Screwhard bad been M poorly," too, du
ring the late wet weathor, very poorly?if pos
sible, more ftoorly than hie friend; life was
short, and lull ot trouble, he said?eiokness,
pain, and death, were the common por
tion of us ail, but his manner seemed to My,
thaChs wae more weighed down by the com
mm afliottone than anybody oise; and here he
related to Mr*. Graves a portion of hie experi
enee in the oountry, where he had been, be
mid, to IrV to regain bis wasted energies, sub
siding chiefly bread and milk, and, in fact,
kf all ?l^tnajow habits, osaaying to build up
the mortal man.
" We are all poor, frail critters," sighed Mnl
Graves, " and we oome to the end of oar jour
ney in ? little spas?it seome to me but yester
day, amoe f was a giddy girl, like Hotty, here,
and woes ? eontly ring, and thought time wa*
ae good ae eternity." .Jetty hid Jhe ring fio
l 1. J ?n Hia i'olda of the new crim
that Which reminded tho
hTrk<SK-hid SgbeHnd repeated, that
life mis a little -pan, adding, that it J?JJ?
to hi but ? day MO* ho was young, l.ke Hat
%ow, Mr. Sorewbard wm quite l^rJj
prime of life, being near about tfa?*J years ot
Ue and Mary eauled ?aluaou?ly at tbe nl?
cerclv. arote, and, placing her band witu m*ux
Iv freedom on hi- bald head, tatd, though bo
looked eo patriarchal, -he would
posed him more than iorty-five. 0_e
[tod years made him wiuce, and the P
haps> the haughty lady,
follow, Hwopt from the room witbout ex.u^ or
intimation " As I mused at the <door, 1 receiv
ed a gracious smile and a father y
b?? An admirer of yours 1? I said, as we enter
ed a final 1, but simply elegant
was Mary's study. "No'.-ye^ she replied
"for 1 believe the fellow likes me; but then bo
would not marry an aotrew, you know, though
he might condescend to the sister of one, lor
the sake of the purple and fine linen.
" Can he be so designing ? 1 asked.
i< N0t more bo tban other men, I believe,
replied Mary, <:but ho has a quick eye for
wealth, and a quiok step for eminences?he al
ready occupies an enviable position, and in one
of tho 4 rising men' of the city." f
His habit, she said, was to make friends of
all tho men, women, and children, ho met?to
learn ail they knew about all thing*, and hold
it in reserve for some occasions m which it
could benefit him. He frequented all places
that were open to him, sighing BometimeB,
ahe was inclined to believe, as ho passed ope
ras and theatres, and in all ways availed him
self of all means whereof he could learn any
thing, great or small.
He knew then, and aould forever remember,
sho assured me, the length and oolor ? o
ribbon on my nock, and tho probablo cost ot
"But^thcHO weie peculiarities, or foiblea, not
really faults, and, after all, Mr. Scrowhard was
a worthy young man, and, but for tho exceed
ing broad surface he ga\e to some real
would be a likeable person.
I could not but think, ns I beard t
and trembling toneB of Hetty, in conve. on
with him, how differently ske would have spo
ken of him. With calm, cold, distrustful eyes,
Mary saw?not so she?to hor ha was all in
all; ho had taught her in tho Sabbath school,
he had prayed by her sick bed, had encouragod
her little efforts to be good, and useful, and
above all, had praised her beauty, which no
man else had done. ? . f
Gentl#, loving Hetty-porkaps that night,
in all the great city, beat no happier heart ami
with something of its happiness reflected
us, I resumed my old seat, and ..lary .
thread of her story, as follows:
"1 Who on earth can bo coming at tins
hour 1' exclaimed Marthn, glancing at the
clock, which said it was half past eight; and
takinc Hetty between her knees, she began to
untie her frock, as though, whoever was com
ing should be mado aware of tho unreason
ableness of the hour. 1 Come in, said my fa
ther at tho same time shutting from view tho
evidences of a scanty supper; and a strange
gentleman entered the room. Glanomgat
Martha, and the undrees ol the child, he apol
ogized briefly and politely for the intrusion,
making known his errand without accepting
the proffered chair, and holding las hurt in a
way to prevent the snow from dropping on the
1 fl?"He was our neighbor, Henry Richards, but
I recoenised him previously to his saying so,
for the voice which I had hoard on the night
i of bis arrival seemed to me familiar. His
child, bo said, was sick, dying, he feared?and
being a stranger among strangers, be had been
foroed to draw on tho kindness of his neigh
bors,- not too largely, be hoped.
" I remarked at tho time, and often after re
membered it, as an index of oharacter, that
when he had made known his errand grave
aa it was, he followod it immediately with some
pleasantry about the stormy night, shaking
the snow-flakes from his thiok brown curls,
and tho light laughing in his blue eyes, the
while In the most heart-rending circumstan
oes, he was alive to tho di?agro?ablo state of
the weather and tho requisitions of gentle
breeding. . , . .
" Martha took Hetty on her knee, iust as
she would havo taken up a stick; and when
she leaned on her bosom, for Bbe was tired and
sleepy, straightened her to an unnght position
! and replied to Mr. Richards, that ehe would
have her daughter go and watch with the
child, indicating mr. She then jumbled to
gether, mcst inopportunely, an invitation to our
neighbor to remain and pa"s the evening, and
the communication of tho fact that ene hai
just returned from a donation party at Parson
Goodman's. Of course, Mr. Richards declined
the invitation, and in reply to the intelligence
concerning Martha s late movements, he said,
'Ah, madam, have yon so?' bowing slightly,
and smiling, as though gratified.
[to be contihckd.]
INDIANA
The Louisville Journal says:
"The Nebrw-ka law has no strength in In
diana. A few Democrat* in that State pro
tend to be in favor of it, but they are only
iffije-holders, offiae-setkera, and the obsequious
follower* of uflioc-holders and offiae-oeekcrs. A
large majority of the Indiana Democrat* are
against the law. We have already referred
to several Democratic anti-Nebraska meetings
in Indiana, that rebuked the action of the Dem
ocrats Stat* Convention. The editor of the
Evanswlle Journal save that he has not heard
of the first Eruocewfol Democratic Nebraska
mooting in that State. He says: ' The Ne
braska moeting at Lafayette voted down Ne
brafk t resolutions; and at lodtanapolia none
were offered, because it wm known they were
to be voted down there. Nowhere in tho State
has the party been able to get up an out-and
out Nebraska meeting.'
" The editor makos mention of several large
Democratic aiiti-Nebraeka meeting that have
just been held, and speaks of several calls
made for other meeting* of the same sort."
Vermont.?-At the Union Convention of the
opponents of tho Nebraska fraud, held at
Montpelier yesterday, the following nomina
tions were mvde, whieh were subsequently rat
ified by the Temperanco and Freo Democratic
Conventions:
For Governor?K. P. Walton, jr.
F?r Lieutenant Governor?llyland Fletcher. I
For Treasurer?Mr. Hates.
Main r..?The Committee of Conference ap
pointed in the second district have nominated
John J. Ferry, of Oxford, for Coogreas, by a
vote of 15 to ft. Mr. P. is a Morrill Demoorat,
and a strong anti-Nebraska man.
Indiana.?'Tho Lagrango Whig announce?
tho name of Suouel Hrentoo as an independ
ent candidate for CongresH at tho onsuing elec
tion. Mr. Rronton wm a member of th* Con
greffc preceding the present one.
Immigration in Junb.?Nearly 40,000 im
migrants arrived at New York in the month
of June. Of these, 18,950 were from Groat
Britain, and 11,117 from Germany.
The ohoiera is raging badly at Sheibyvilie,
Kentucky.
Mr. J am*? Bli-iott U authorUed to receive
and receipt for ?ub?criptioiu and advertisements for
the Daily and the Weekly National Era, In Cincin
nati and vicinity.
WASHINGTON. D. C.
SATURDAY, JUI-Y 15, 1854.
ADDBA83 BY HON. QE2K1X SMITH.
We are requested to state that tuiu gentle
man will deliver an address at 4 o'olock to-mor
row (Sabbath) afternoon, at the Congregational
Church on Filth street, immediately west of
the City Hall. The duty of Congress, with
reference to the prevention of tho sale of in
toxioating drinks in this city, will form the
Bulijeot of his discourse.
C0KGKE88.
The passage of the lograham Testimonial
resolution (with an amendment) was the only
Ipeident of interest in the Senate to-day, prior
to it* going into Executive session.
Tho House was almost wholly oooupiod with
private bills.
the homestead bill.
This Bill, aa our readers have observed, is
under discussion in the Senate, whero it en
counters tLe most determined opposition. As
it passed the House, its sixth section confined
its benefits, so far as aliens might be concern
ed, to those resident in the country at the time
of its boooming a law; excluding all arriving
after that date, until they should beoome citi- j
zens. " Now, a resident of any one of tho
Statos or Territories," was its language. Mr.
Wade, an Independent Democratic member of
the House, sought to crane this restriction, but
Mr. Dawson, one of the s>called Democrats
from Pennsylvania, who had charge of the
Bill, would not consent to it.
In tho Senate, Mr. Wade, of Ohio, when the
Bill was firtit called up, moved to striko out
IIIoso rcstrictivo words, but when the consider
ation of the measure wa8 resumed a few days
sinoe, ho withdrew his motion, perhaps under
tho impression that it would prove unavailing.
Mr. Chase, of Ohio, renewed the motion very
properly. . .
Tho restriction is illiberal ? it waa lair
that those who opposed, as well as those who
sustained it, should bo put upon the rooord.
Yesterday, (14th inst.) the question being taken
on tho amendment, the vote stood: j
Yeas?Messrs. Bayard, Brodhead, Chase,
Douglas. Fessonden, Foot, Gillette, Norris,
Seward, Shields, Sumner, Wade, and Weller?
Nats?Mesers. Adams, Allen, Atchison,
Badger, Bell, Benjamin, Bright, Brown Butler,
Cass, Clay, Dawson, Dixon, Dodge of Wiscon
sin, Dodge of Iowa, Evans, Fish, Fitzpatrick,
Geyer, Hamlin, Hunter, Johnson. Jones of
Iowa, Jones of Tennessee, Mallory, Mason,
Fearoe, Pettit, Pratt, Rockwell, Sebastian, Sli
dell, Stuart, Toucey, Walkor, and Williams?
36.
Why tho Senators from Michigan, Indiana,
Iowa, and Wisconsin, voted to retain this anti
alien olausc, wo cannot understand. They
profess great liberality towards emigrants seek
ing a home in this oountry, but their vote* on
this ooca?ion were against their professions.
As for Mr. Brodhead's vote in the affirmative,
whon we recollect bow stubbornly he opposed
the extension of the right of suffrage to foreign
settlers, in Kansas and Nebraska, we must re
gard it* as evidenoe of a deaire to make the
Bill still more obnoxious to Southern members,
and thus multiply the chances of its defeat.
As usual, it will be observed, the Slave State
Senators were arrayed against a liberal policy
towards foreigners.
We have already had occasion to comment
upon the mean policy of the Bill, as it passed
the House, in excluding colored people from
its benefits. By an oversight, after it had been
exprfssly provided that the donations should
be confinod to while persons, the general word,
?individual," without the prefix, tchile;1 was
left Btanding in tho sixth section. This, of
course, oould not affect the other provisions, as
determined by the adjective, lluhite''?but cer
tain Senators seein to think their great busi
ness is to fight for Slavery and make war upon
negroes. Senator Dixon, of Kentucky, moved
yesterday to modify the sixth section, by stri
king out the word " individual," and inserting
the words " free white person/' A debato en
sued, of ooorse. Cass and Stuart, of Miobigan,
were unfivorable to the amendment, but, as
might be expeoted, voted for it. Shields, of Il
linois, voted first against it, and then ohanged
his vote. The General's virtue on such occa
sions is as prompt to retreat as advance. Of
course, the amendment was carried; the Slave
holders gained a viotory over the oolored peo
ple, and our gloTioua Union was saved.
Mr. Dixon, having put the ne -ro down, next
fell npon the alien. He moved to amend tbe
Bill by the fallowing proviso:
" Provided, That the benefits of this aot shall
not extend to tho ohildren, heirs, or devisees of
aliens, born out of the United States, who are
twenty-one years of age, until they shall have
filed their declarations to become citixens of
the United States."
This also led to discussion ; and, on tbe ques
tion being taken, it was decided in the affirma
tive, as follows: ?
Yr.As?Messrs. Bad?er, Bayard, Bwjamin,
Brown, Butler, Clay, Clayton, Dawson, D.xon,
Evans, Fitepatrick, Gsyer, Hunter, Johnson,
Mallory, Mason, Pearco, Pratt. Sebastian,
Thompson of Kentucky, and Touo?y? 21.
Nats?Messrs. Adams, Allen. Chase, Dodge
of Wisconsin, Dodge of Iowa, Fish, Foot, Gil
lette, James, Jones of Iowa, Jones of Tennessee,
Norris, Pettit, Seward, Shields. Slidell, Stuart,
Wade, Walker, Weller, and Williams? 20.
All the affirmatives from the slave States, ex
cept tbe nami of the famous Mr. Touocy, who
represents nobody but himself, having been
disowned by tho Legislature of his State. All
tho negatives from the freo Statos, except one
from Tennessee and one from Mississippi. We
believo it was the Washington Sentinel whioh
some time since took tho ground that the slave
holders were deadly enemies of Native Ameri
oanism!
Not yet satisfied, these gentlemen from the
Sonth proceeded in their anti-alien policy.
? Mr. Brown moved a proviso to the offeot
that ' any foreigner who should fail to beoome
a citizen of tho United States for six years
lifter entering upon the land, shall forfeit all
his rights under the bill.' 1
" Tnis amendment wns agroed to?yeas 37,
nays ?.
' Mr. Beniamin moved to amend tbe sixth
?notion, to the effect that' any Amerioan-born
person of the age of Hixtctn years and up
wards, who shall cultivate tho land,' &o ;
which, after debate, wan decided in the affirm
ative?yean 26, nays 20.
" Mr. Clay moved bo to amoftd the bill as to
require all foreigner!* availing themselves of the
privilege* of the hill to become citizen* within
sixty days after the p >8<aga of this act; pend
ing whiub, tho Semite adjourned, by a vote of
33 yeas, to 18 nay*."
It is pretty certain, from present indications,
that the Bill will ba defeated. Dislike of for
eigners, and a determination to do nothing
that shall promoto the multiplication of freo
States, array the Southern Senators against it;
and thoy will cccure enough votes from their
allies, to kill the Bill.
THE SARATOGA CONVENTION.
A State Convention of those opposed to the
Nebraska bill, and in fnvor of tho restoration
of tho Missouri restriction upon the spread of
Slavery, has been noticod to meet at Saratoga
Springs on the 16th day of August next. The
call, as a matter of oourse, is irrespcotivo of
party, and will doubtless meet with a hearty
response from all honest opponents of the Ne
braska iniquity. The number of delegates is
to be four times tbe representation in the As
sembly.
We are unacquainted with the objects of tho
Convention, except as thoy are generally statod
in the call. General consultation and specific ac
tion, so far as to secure tho election to Congress
of men imbued with the free spirit of the North,
and having the nerve and integrity to with
stand tho blandishments of power and place,
will doubtless be among the first, if not tho
most important duties of the Convention, ft in
possible that the formation of a new party, to
resist tho encroachments of the slave power,
and confine tho "peculiar institution" to the
States wherein it now exists, may be entertain
ed by some; but such a movement at the pres
ent time, so far as this State is concorned, is
not neccssary, and would be of doubtful pro
priety. So far a* it may be nocessary to sccnre
the election to Congress of reliablo anti-Ne
braska men, wo would be willing to forego
party preferences at tho ensuing election; but
tbere are great questions of Stow policy which
cannot be safely confided to othor hands than
thoso of the Whig party.
On the recurrence of another Presidential
election, there will very likely be a general
breaking up of old party organizations, to bo
replaced by new ones having more direct ref
erence to the Slavery question; but until that
time, it strikes us that it will be safobt and best
for tho Whig party to stand by its colore, and
await the progress of ovonti.
Still, bo far as wo understand tho objects of
this anti-Nebraska gathering we approve of it;
and as there aro no committees to arrange pre
liminaries, we trust that the friends of tho
movement will not be backward in taking the
necessary steps to secure a full representation
from Steuben in the Convention.?Steuben
Courier.
Having found tho Whig party of the North,
on all occasion* and in every emergency, the
most effi ient and reliable organization, both
to re o aggressions of Slavery and to up
hold of Freedom, wc concur cordially
with i.>o Courier, that it is best, now and ever,
"for the Whig party to stand by ib colors."
Thero are, however, occasions and questions
which warm other agencies into action. This
wanton and wickcd Nebrusktj swindle utiratho
indignation of thousands who are not ordinari
ly active as partisans, '..ut wheso sentiment
and sympathies prompted tbe Saratoga move
ment. It contemplates, wo understand, a gath
ering of freemen, irrespective of party, to give
embodiment to expressions of dissent to this
shameful violation -of compacts and compro
mises which socurcd a portion of the Territory
purchased from Franco to freedom ; and to aid,
as far as may be, the election of Representa
tive to Congress who will labor fearlessly to
repeal that swindling statute. The assem
bling of an onlightened, patriotic Convention,
with such views, oaunot fail to exert a saluta
ry influenoe.
But that Convention can in no manner or
sense interfere with the duties or losscn the re
sponsibilities of the Whig party. The cau?e
of Fieodom may bo enhentially aided by auxili
ary efforts. Bjr combining tbe suffrages of all
who deplore tho Nebraska outrage, an almost
unbroken vote in tho next House of Repre
sentatives might bo sooured. This surely is an
object worth aiming at.?Albany Eve. Jour.
The National Intelligencer opposes these
popular movemsnts at tho North, and is at
pains to record every instance of disaffection
to them among leading Whig politicians in
the Free State?. Tho Southern Whig Pre#
begins to use soft words, begs to assure tho
Northern Whig* that it does not consider
them all Abolitionit*t? and the Nebraska ques
tion shall not be forced upon them as a tost?
and then, it proclaims tho determination of the
Southern Whigs to wait and seo what their
Northern friends intend to do, before they de
cide the question of a dissolution of the Party.
Tho Intelligencer and Southern Whig Press
generally, tacitly assume that the National
Whig Party atill livos, but they insist more or
less peremptorily upon acquie*cenct in the re
peal of tho compromise, as a condition to its
continued existence.
A few Hunker Whig papers at the North
are for acqaiesccnce and peace, and grow fer
vent in their appeals for Nationality. Other
Hunker Whig papers keep talking pretty
fieroely against tho Nebraska Bill?what a
soandalous thing it was, what an outrage, what
a fraud?tho South need not be surprised at
tbe indignation of Northern People, &o., &o.
But, they take good caro not to commit them
selves to any oourse of measures leading to the
redress of past wrong*, or prevention of future
ones. Both of those classw oppose all praoti
oal aotion?all popular movements, designed
to accomplish something?any union of the
People against the Slavery Propagandists.
Both, then, practically stand upon the same
ground as the Intelligencer and the Southern
Whigs, who of course will graciously permit
their friends to grumble, provided they sub
mit.
Theso classes of submissionists might easily
be disposed of. They do not represont tbe
Peoplo ? they do not command the sympa
thies of the masses of the Whig Party in tho
free States?they oonld not oontrol their ac
tion. But, thcro is another class of Whig poli
ticians, with whom it is time to have a clear
understand:ng. They are represented by the
journals quoted above?by i>uch papers as are
supposed to sympathizo more particularly with
Mr. Seward. They assume that tbe Whig
Party?the Party that gave us Fillmore, adopt
ed at Baltimore in 1852 resolutions on the sub
ject of Slavery as hateful and wicked as those
of tho so called l>orooor*tio Party, and in
Stato Convention, in Now York, and other
States, eolomnly nflirmed aoqniesoenoe io the
legislation of 1850, and which never, as a
National Party, in National Convention, has
d.ircd to raise a voico against tho Slave Power
or it* aggreneiuDH?is quite si ffioient for this
crisis, isAnti Slavery onough, lias always been
steadfastly opposed to the aggressions of Sift
very, has a perfectly oiean roaord, must there
fore be kept up; will condescend now andthon,
in State elections, to accept help from auxilia
ries, but never to surrendor its name, its organ
ization, or its old issues.
Now, this iB all vory profcty an J cunning. It
will not do to oppose these general movements
of the People for a new, clean vigorous organ
ization of the opponents of Slavery, from all
parties. That would bo whistling againat the
wind. But they will fall in with them, just
that thoy may regulate and control them, limit
their Ecope, so that thoy may not interfere with
this man's chance for the Presidency, and that
man's for the Governorship; make thom tribu
tary to the Party which haB so remarkably
clean a record on tho Slavery Question, and
which, when 185W shall have rolled round, will .
begin to think of electing a Whig President,
by the help of its recent auxiliaries, und its
Southern friends, who all the time have been
looking on oomplacently at the efforts of the
Journal and its allies, to ro-invigorate tho Parly
by Anti-Slavory affiliations!
We tell tho Journal that io suoh a game
it can have no aid from us. The Whig Party
was not originated to meet any issues involved
in the Slavery Question?it never has met
them, it cannot meet them, in the Bpirit and
principles demanded for their settlement. It
has had its day, done its work, and why jier
sibt in asserting its ability to deal with a Ques
tion wbioh has always perploxod, distracted
and mastered it? New occasions give rise to
new duties. New and important issues must
be met by now organizations. " No man sow
eth a piece of new cloth into an old garment,
or tho rent will be made worse.'-'
Wc recur to our old position: Keep up your
Whig Party, and you keep up tho so-oallcd
Democratic Party; and tho mainteoanco of
these imposes upon tho independent Democra
cy the plain duty to prcscrvo and strcngthon
their organization. With tho free State* thus
weakened by a three-fold division, how oan you
expcct to overcome the united Slavelioldiug Oli
garchy ? You cannot do it. Yield to the
People?let these generous popular movement?
go on, without seeking to check them, or turn
them aside to bear " auxiliaries" to the em
braces of tho old parties, lying in wait to take
advantage of them?and a political organiza
tion will grow out of them, which will compre
hend all the honest opponents of tho Slave
Powor, and unito them in an irresistible pha
lanx. Suoh an organization will deem it quite
as importaut to placo a right-minded man in
tho Exocutive chair, as a* sound man in Con
gress, and will select that man without asking
the question whether he has been a Whig, a
Democrat, or an Independent Democrat.
The good people of Michigan, including tho
masses of Whigs, disregarded the advico of tho
Albany Evening Journal. We hope tho hon
est Whigs an j Democrats of Now York will
pursue tho same oouree, and show that they
know how to govern themselves.
IXTRACI3 FROM MHS. STOWXS NEW BOOK.
8UNKY MEMORIES OP FOHEIGN LANDS.
By permission of tho publishers, wo roprint
a few extracts from Mrs. Stowc's forthcoming
book of travclr, entitled, " Sunny Memories of
Foreign Linda." Its publication has been un
avoidably delayed, but we are informed that it
will be issued on the 15.h instant.
"A lady asked me this evcn'ng what I
thought of the beauty of tho ladies of the Eng
lish aristocracy : she was a Scotch lady, by the
by; so the question was a fair ono. 1 replied,
that certainly report had not exaggerated their
charms. Then cuno o homo quo6tion?how
tho ladies of .England compared with the la
dies of America. ' Now fur it, patriotism,' said
1 to myself; and, invoking to my aid certain
fair Haints of my own country, whose face* f
distinctly remembered, I assured her that I
had never seen more beautiful women than 1
had in America, Grieved was I to be obliged
to add, ' Kut your ladies keep their beauty
much later aud longer.' Tttis fact ntares one
in the face in every company; ono meets ladies
past fifty, glowing, radiant, and blooming, with
a irenhnws of oomplexion and fulness of out
lino refreshing to eootemplato. What can lie
the reason? Tell us, Mime# and Graeos, what
oan it bo ? Is it tho conservative power of sea
fogs and ooal smoke ? the same c?ueo that
keeps the turf green, and nrnkfj the holly and
ivy flourish ? How comes it that oar married
ladies dwindle, fade, and grow thin?that their
noses inciino to sharpness^ and their elbows to
angularity, just at tne time of life whon their
island sistora round out into a oomfortable and
becoming amplitude and fulness? If it is tho
fog and the sea ooal, why, then, I am afraid
we never shall oome up with them. Hut pt r
haps thero may be othor came* why a ooun'ry
which startj some of tho most beautiful girls
in tho world produces so few Ixautiful women.
Have not our cluse-hoAted stove rooms some
thing to do with it? Have not the immense
amount of hot biscuit*, hot oorn cakes, and
other compounds got np with tho acrid jioison
of saleratus, norm thing to do with it? Above
all, has not our climate, with its altorn<\tj ex
ironies of heat and oold, a tsndency to induoe
habits of in-door indolence? Climato,certain
ly, has a great doal to do with it; ours is evi
dently more trying and raoro exhausting; and
because it is so, wo should not pile upon its
back errors of awn and diet which are avoid
ed by our neighbors They koep thoir beauty,
because they keep thoir health, ft has been
as remarkable as anything to me, since I have
been hero, that I do not constantly, as at home,
hoar tmo and another s|<oken of ai in miser.i
b'e health, a* vpry delicate, &a. Health seems
to hi the rule, and not tho exception. For my
part, I must say, the most favorable omen that
i know of for female beauty in America is, the
multiplication of wator cure establishments,
where our Indie*, if they get nothing elso, do
gain some ideas as to the necessity of fresh
air, regular exercise, simplo diet, and tho laws
of hygiene in general.
" I here it ono thing more which goes a long
way towards tho continued health of theso
English ladies, and therefore towards their
beauty; and that the quietude and perpctu
not, like us, fade their cheeks lying awake
nights ruminating the awful question who shall
do the washing next week, or who shall take
the chambermaid's place, who is going to be
married, or that of the oook, who hae signified
her intention of parting with the mistress.
Their hospitality is never embarrassed by the
consideration that their wliolo kitchen cabinet
mny desert at the moment that their guet-ts
arrive. They ore not obliged to ohooee bo
twr.on washing their own dishes, or having
their out glass, silvor, and ohina, left to the
meroy of a foreigner, who has never done any
thing but field work. And lait., not least, thoy 1
aro not powoflflod with that ambition to do the !
ENGLISH WOMEN.
impossible in all braoohes, which, I believe, is
the death of a third of the women in Amerioa.
What is there ever read of in books, or de
scribed in foreign travel, a* attained by people
In posses ion of every means and appliance,
which our women will not undertake, single
handed, in spite of every providential indica
tion to the contrary? Who is not conn '/.ant
of dinner parties invited, in wbich the lady of
the house hai figured suooeeaivoly as confec
tioner, cook, diuing-rtom girl, and, lastly, rush
ed up stairs to bathe her glowing cheeks,
smooth her hair, draw on satin dro*s and kid
gloves, and appear in the drawing room as if
nothing were the matter ? Certainly, the un
daunted bravery of our American fomales can
never enough be admired. Other women can
play gracefully the head of the establishment;
but who, like them, oould be head, hand, and
foot, all at once ?
" As I have spoken of stoves, I will here re
mark that I have not yet seen one in England;
uoither, so far as I can remember, have I seen
a house warmed by a furnace. Bright ooal
tires, in grates of polished steel, are as yet the
lares and penatos of old England. If 1 am in
clined to mourn over any defection in my own
country, it is tho cloning up of the choerful
j open lire, with its bright lights and dancing
shadow*, and tho planting on our domestic
hearth of that' sullen, stifling gnome, the air
tight. ( agree with Hawthorne in thinking
tho movement fatal to patriotism ; for who
would fight for an air-tight!"
Wo must differ from Mrs. Stowe, as from
some other Americau tourists. During the
month or two we spent in London and Eng
land last summer, our attention was oonstantly
directed to the appearanoe of English women.
At their operas, in their parties, in their
churches, on tho streets, and at their watering
places, we observed them critically, and cer
tainly with favorable prepossessions; but wo
could not see the justica of such a oontrast as
that presented in tho forogoing extract. As a
general rule, we have no hesitation in saying,
that American women, when marriod, retain
their good looks and their healthfulncss of ap
I pearance quite as long as the English. How
can wo help believing this, when on the single
street in which wo live, comprising some twenty
six residenew, there aro about ninety ohildren,
ranging from one year to fifteen, and that their
mothers, with one or two exceptions, aro large,
vroll-dcvelopcd, full-formed, and healthy-look
ing women, without any of those angularities
to which Mm. Stowo alludes? Shall wo be
pardoned for saying that their average weight
would be over one fiundredand twenty, while
some of them would rcaeh near one hnndrcd
and forty ? The truth is, in passing in roviow
before our mind's eye, tho married .ladies of
| our acquaintance throughout tho country?and
they are not few?we must say that fulness of
form and fine hoalth.are tho rule, angularity
and ill health tho exception. It is no dispar
agement to English women to say that our
American women will suffer nothing by com
parison with them at any stage of life.
Mrs. Stowe will pardon us, but we aro in
clined to think that the superior quinquagosimal
beauty of England, like its surpassing roatt
beef, is partly traditional.
MACAULAI.
" I had mot Macaulay before, but ad you
have not, you will of course a^k a lady's first
question,* How does be look ?'
" Well, my dear, so far as relates to the mere
outward hu*k of tha sou', our engravers and
daguorreotypists have done tbair work as well
an tbey usually do. The engravings that you
get in the best editions of his works may be
considarod, I supposo, a fair representation of
how he looks when bo sits to have his picture
taken, wbic^h is gonorally very different from
the way anybody looks at any other time.
People seem to fjrgct,in taking likencasee, that
the features of the f?ce are nothing but an
alphabet, and that a dry, dead map of a per
son's face gives no more idea how one looks
than the simple presentation of an alphabet
hhows what tbore is in a poem.
" Maoaulay's wholo phys'q-a# gives you the
i repression of great strength and stamina of
constitution. He bta the kind of frame which
we uMially imagine as peculiarly English;
short, stout, and firmly knit. Thero is some
thing hoarty in all his demonstrations. He
speaks in that full, round, rolling voico, doop
f?om the chest, which wo also oonceivo of as
being more common in Eo^and than Amcrica.
As to hbi conversation, it is just like his writing;
that is to say, it shows very strongly the same
qualities cf mind.
" 1 was informed that he is famous for a most
uncommon memory; one of those men to whom
it seems impossible to forget a thing once
read; and he has read all sorts of things that
can be thought of, in all languages. A gen
tleman told me that ho could repeat all the
Newgate literature, banging ballad-*, last
speeches, and dying confessions; while bis
knowledge of Miltou is to accuta, that if his
poems wero blotted out of existenco, tbey
might bo restored simply from his memory.
This samo aotuirato knowledge extends to the
Latin and Greek cla?hiee, and to rnuoh of the
bteraturo of modern Europe. Had nature been
required to make a man to order, for a per
fect historian, nothing batter ooold have been
put t gether, especially sinco there is enough
of the p *?tie firo inoludod in the composition,
to fuse all these multiplied materials together,
and oolor the historical crystallisation with
them.
" Macatilay is about fifty. He has never
married : yet there are unmistakable evidences,
in the breathings and aspects of the family
circle by whom he was surfouudod, that the
scoial part is not wanting in his confoimation.
Some very oharming young lady relative seein
od to think qiite A" much of their gifted uncle
as you might have d^ne had he been yours.
' Macaulay is celebrated as a controversial
1 ist; and, like Coleridgo, Carlyle, and almost
ovory oao who enjoys this reputation, ho has
sometimes been accuscd of not allowing peo
ple their fair shire in conversation. This
might provo an objection, possibly, to those
why, wish to talk; but as I greatly prefer to
hoar, it would prove none to ino. I must say,
| howovor, that on this occasion the mattor was
; quite equitably managed. There were, I should
think, some twenty or thirty at the breakfast
table, and the oouversation formed iieelf into
little eddies of two or three around tho table,
now and then welling out into a groat bay of
general disoourso."
Trnc Kki.mont Roubsrt.?Mr. Paul, tho
casbie{ of Auguite Ruhnont's banking establish
ment, was yea'orday arrested, and made a full
confection of the theft, acknowledging that he
returned the money yesterday through tho post
office.
Thk Restitution?It appears that oortain
investigations set on foot by officers of polioe
resulted in establishing the guilt of Paal. Op
portunity was afforded him to return the
money, and he was watched until ho was seen
to dopo?it the funds in the post oflfce, as al
ready stated. Ho is a man about thirty years
of age, and has a wife. Tho Chiof of Polieo
? ordered his detention to await further exami
nation.
OHIO COMVEHTIOK.
A letter from tlio office of the Columbian,
Columbus, Ohio, says?
Columbus, Ohio, July 13, 1854.
Dear Sir : We had a preliminary informal
mooting, last-evening, Judge Warnor, of Ash
tabula, in the chair. The City Hall was near
ly full. Representatives from nearly hall the
counties made five-minutes speeches, stating
the views of their respective counties. Iu tho
main, they were right. They decidedly indi
cate a platform of no more Slave Territory or
States, and the entire denationalisation ol Sla
very. There is no doubt that nominations
will be made. Tho meeting continued till half
past ton, and adjournod till nino this morning.
The Convention proper will organise at eleven,
delaying till that time for the arrival of tho
ten o'clock trains. Leiter will probably pre
side. Yours, &c.
Mr. Leiter is a distinguished Democrat?
Speaker of tho House of Representatives of
Ohio in 11548-9.?En. Era.
Traverse pes Sioux, Minnesota.
June 23, 1851.
To the Editor of the National Era;
Dear Sik: Having recently received letters
of inquiry from friends at tho East, touching
Minnesota Territory, its advantages, inconve
niences, etc., 1 am promptod, for tho informa
tion of such, as well as any others who may bo
turning their attention to this section of tho
great Northwest, to beg your indulgence in the
communication of a few facts upon this subject
through the columns-of your wide-read paper.
Scarcely six years have elapsed since this
country, now known as the Territory of Min
nesota, began to attract the attention of the
public mind. Previously, with the exception
of a few missionaries, and about as many load
ing traders, the whole country was occupied
by " the red man of the forest" and prairies.
It is truly astonishing with what rapidity
the Bavages have rocoded and the tide of im
migration has rolled in to their fair but uncul
tivated land. Largo and respectable commu
nities have settled, organized, and established
an order of civilizid aud Christian socicty.
Towns and villages dot the banks of our
streams and the margins of our beautiful lakro.
About five years and ten months ago, in tho
month of August, 1 addressed the people of St.
Paul, assembled en masse in a binall log school
house, from 2 Cor., v, 10. There were porhapa
twelve or fifteen adult persons and as many
children and youths, present. St. Paul now
numbers her thousands of inhabitants, and her
spires consecrated to God overshadow a great ,
and growing city. St. Anthony, Mineopolis,
and Stillwator, aro flourishing towns in tho
vioinity of St. Paul. Mendota, at the mouth
of the Minnesota, is a boautilul little village,
but was, until recently, included in Ihe mili
tary reservation of Fort Snelling, and, on that
account, has not advanced as rapidly as eomo
other places less travelled.
Skakopcc is a pleasantly situated town on
tho right-hand side of the St. Peter's or Minne
sota river, about forty miles above the mouth
of tho river. It 'is celebrated ohitfly for its
lirno factories, or kilns; distinguifched, how
ever, more for the cocvcnionco and quantity,
than for the quality, of the material for plas
tering houses. The labor and expense of add
ing sand is superseded by a sufficient quantity
being already burnjjd and intermixfd for all
practical purposes.
T^i&reson, a small town on the north side
of the Minnesota, owing to low wator this sea
son, has been looking up bravely. Ferry boats,
fiom the river out to the bluffs back of tho
city, havo been unnecessary this summer; ncr
have flat-boats been occupied by tho pooplo of
Henderson this spring so long as tney wero
last season, in fearful anticipation of another
delugn.
La Leure, situated on the south bank of the
Minnosota, is a beautiful town, with a flour
ishing community around it. It is somo ten or
twelve miles below Traverse des Sioux. This
placo is situated on tho north bank of the
Minnesota. There are at present three plats
of this place. The one is called Traverse city;
tho seoond, is Traverse des Sioux; aud, tho
third, is Traverse. Adjoining these three surveys
above, we have a new town laid out, which I
am told is (o be called St Pat?r'tf. I thought,
until now, we had about used up tho qalcndar
of saints in Minnosot-o. It is a horning shamo
that American oitizens, fosterod in tho cradle
of liberty, and reared amid all the blossedness
of tho hallowed institutions of God's word,
should thus pander to tho depraved passion of
an ignorant, superstitious, abject, and imhooile
remnant of papacy?a f>eople h*lf oivili*od
and half savago in their habits of life, picus
only when at tho confesiional, and then hypo
oritioally so. Franch Catholics are not more
honest and sincere than (i 'i nun pipi ts ; and,
I assure you that a mixMtrjof one half Dakota
does not give stability to the Canadian French,
either in morals or religion.
But I am told that it is not ho mcch in honor
of tho saint of old, as for tho purpose of in
troducing a rival to St. Paul. The first three
surveys above mentioned, taken together, foim
a beautiful site for a city. It is indeed con
fessedly one of tho most, if not the most, eligi
ble situations on the Minnesota. The ?toam
boat landing is good, and the land lies slopiug
oast and south, rising, table after table, prairie
land, for some throe miles back from the land
ing. There a fiie rich loamy soil is found,
every way adapted to the wishes of the most
particular farmer. Tho prairies are skirted
with timber, and numerous lakes abound, in
terspersed with boautiful islands of fino tim
ber, available for firewood and fencing tor
more than fivo months in tho year fjr years to
oome.
Tho ohief advantages of this plaoo and vi
oinity are tho fertility of the soil and the al
most unlimited extent of country lying north
and wost of us, now open to sottlemnnt. Ex
cept in the spring of the yoar, when the waters
are unusually high, Traverse dos Sioux must
be regarded as the head of navigation. Tho
Itoats have not pastel this point half a d(X*n
trips this season. Hcnoo, supplies for the In
dian Agency at Red Wood and Fort Ridgely,
United States army, and also for Eureka and
Mankato, and Kasota, (small towns above no
on the Minnesota ) have bocn shipped to this
Joint, and stored, to bo transported by land.
he supplies for all the trailing posts of tho
Minnosota valley, and tho Pembina country
north, aro shipped to this plaoo, whilo their
peltries aro brought in and forwarded from
this to tho Southern and Eastorn markets.
Oooupying. as wo do, a central position in
the groat Minnesota valley, at tho head of
steamboat navigation, with a wido-oxtended
oonntry all around us. With rioh, fertile soil,
a salubrious climate, a healthy stato of morals,
the consolations of a holy religion, and tho
smile*, continued smiles of Heavon, what may
wo not hope for in rospoct to tho future ? Wo
have daily accessions to our numbers, and new*
of moro ooming. Bat I must olese, with tho
promiso cf moro anon. Meantime, 1 remain
yours, truly, M. N. Adams.
Street Preaching Riots at BuffaJ.o.??
Thoro has been street preaohing hero for icv
eral evenings, am'dst increaaing excitements.
On Thnrsday ovoning, a number of Irishmon
assembled opposito the American Hotel, on
Main streot, when a fight ensued. Eight Irish
mon had thoir heads broken, but none were kill
?d. Fivo were arrested and lined.
Bishop Hughos is said to bo lying yery ill
at New York.