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APRIL, 1861. DOUGLASS' MONTHLY. 448
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
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--The Philadelphia N. American, in noticing the death of James Prosser, a colored man, lately residing in that city, says that he leaves about $25,000, as the result of his thrift and integrity. He reached an advanced old age, was highly esteemed by his people, the poorest of whom did not begrudge his well earned competence. He would at any time have gone to the Poorhouse rather than tell a lie, or taken a penny that was not his own.
--For a number of years past a religious body, known as the African Methodist Episcopal Conference, has been in the habit of holding its annual meetings in Baltimore, and they had appointed to meet again during the course of the present month, or early in April. The board of police deems such an assemblage unlawful, as it infracts a provision of the code which prohibits the assembling in that State of non-resident colored people, and have, therefore, given instructions to forbid the meeting.
--The following is President Lincoln's Cabinet, which has been confirmed by the Senate :
Secretary of State--William H. Seward, of New York.
Secretary of the Treasury--Salmon P. Chase, of Ohio.
Secretary of War--Simon Cameron, of Pa.
Secretary of the Navy--Gideon Welles, of Connecticut.
Postmaster General--Montgomery Blair, of Maryland
Secretary of the Interior--Caleb B Smith, of Indiana.
Attorney General--Edward Bates, of Missouri.
--A lady of Charleston who owns the table upon which the Declaration of Independence was signed, was applied to by the secession Convention to loan it so that the treasonable Declaration of Secession might also be signed on it to such insult she would burn it into ashes.
--On the 30th of January the Haytian Government treated the people of Port-au-Prince to a curious exhibition on the Place Geffrard [[?]]. The papers of that island state that a group of figures were arranged to represent the five martyrs of Harper's Ferry -- John Brown, Cook, Green, Coppie and Copeland--while near these glorious victims was Mrs. John Brown, in mourning costume, her countenance wearing the impress of profound grief, heightened by an air of Christian resignation.'
--The people in the neighborhood of the Comite River, La., are in the highest state of excitement just now, owing to the fact that a gang of fourteen armed runaway negroes are concealed in that locality. All attempts to capture them have proved fruitless.
--Sixty-three free negroes, from North Carolina, recently arrived at Zanesville. They had been ordered to leave by the white of that section.
--The Republicans have again succeeded in carrying New Hampshire. At the State election last week they elected all their officers.--In this State, at the recent town elections, they have had increased majorities.
--The blind negro boy pianist, the greatest musical prodigy in the world, has recently been in New Orleans astonishing the people of that city by his wonderful performances. The Bee, speaking of his remarkable powers, says :--' We heard him perform Fisher's Hornpipe with one hand, and Yankee Doodle with the other, and sing Dixie, all at the same time, and each correctly. We think there is no record of an equal feat by any musician before ; and yet every action and appearance show him to be a regular negro, and short of sense at that. He performed Monastery Bells, airs from Norma and Somnambula, and other difficult pieces while we were present, and all in a manner peculiarly superior, and in a style eminently his own.'
--The Petersburgh (Va.) papers record that a man seven-eighths white had 'sauced' another man eight-eighths white, and howls for most severe punishment--say thirty-nine lashes and a term in the chain-gang. The 'sass' consisted in saying that he (the seven-eighths blood) was a white man. The Intelligence [[?]] says :--' We earnestly hope that this scoundrel will be made an example of, which he so richly deserves, and should be taught that if Lincoln is President, his Administration will not protect him from being punished when insulting a citizen.'
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--A Charleston correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says: 'Dr. Maddux of your city is here, and has with him the skeletons of two of the martyrs that that wicked man Wise of your State had hung at Harper's Ferry.'
--'On account of the small size of the future House of Representative of the Confederate States under the old apportionment, it is not unlikely that it will be altered so as to afford a larger and more efficient body. It is to be hoped that a full representation will be given to negroes as PERSONS, which would partially remedy the evil of two small a house.' So says a Montgomery correspondent of the Charleston Mercury.
--An overseer on the plantation of Hon. A. H. Chappell of Columbus, Ga., while chastising a slave, was mortally wounded by a stab from a knife in the hands of the negro.
-Murders at the South are the rage just now. Alfred, a slave of one Stephens of Fayetteville, Tenn., who had been indicted, tried and condemned for the murder of his master, was recently hung at that place in the presence of a large number of people.
--Mr. Chenowith, formerly a liquor merchant in Louisville, Ky., now a resident of Cincinnati, lately received barbarous treatment in Arkansas, for expressing anti-slavery sentiments. It is said that he was flogged, and the stripes were than liberally tarred. Our exchanges are filled with similar outrages prepetrated on unoffending Northern citizens whose business calls them to the South.
--About the first public act which President Lincoln did after taking the oath of office, was to sign the pardon of Sherman M. Booth, who has been persecuted for the last three or four years for simply helping a poor slave on his way to Canada.
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THE NEW CONGRESS--For the first time since its organization, the Republican Party has a clear working majority in both Houses of Congress--a result for which it is much indebted to the seceding members from the Southern States. This has secured a decided Republican majority in the House, during the past session ; and with the inauguration of President Lincoln, and the opening of a new Congress, the new administration has also a majority in the Senate.
The full Senate of the Thirty-Seventh Congress consists of sixty-eight members, from which are to be deducted the twelve seceding Senators, reducing the number to fifty six.--The actual number at present in the Senate is only fifty, of which the Republicans have twenty seven, Democrats 22, and Americans one. Of the vacancies, the Democrats will elect one from Missouri, and one from California, and the Republicans two from Kansas, and one from Ohio, in place of Chase, and another from Pennsylvania in place of Cameron. If these vacancies are filled, the administration majority in the Senate next December, will be six, without including the twelve seceding Senators.
Only one hundred and fifty three members of the next Congress have yet been chosen, and of these, six from South Carolina and one from Florida have withdrawn. The New House, at present, consists of 99 Republicans and forty-seven Democrats, or a Republican majority of fifty-six ; including South Carolina and Florida, and the Republican majority is 45. If we assume that members of the new House, yet to be elected, would remain as at present, the next Congress will contain twenty majority against the Administration.--Whether we are to have a Republican Congress next winter, depends therefore wholly upon the action of the seceding States. They can cripple the new administration whenever they see fit to come back.
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A PROSPECTIVE STAMPEDE.--The Richmond Enquirer has private advices from different parts of the State, which inform it that a large number of the largest slaveholders in Virginia are already making preparations for an exodus. We have, ourselves, reliable information to the same effect. When this prospective stampede shall once become present and actual, none can predict the extent to which it will be carried. Some opine that some of our largest and most flourishing agricultural districts will
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be left as desolate as the wilderness of Jamaica. Even if it shall fall far short of this, it will still involve incalculable damage to all our interests. These large slaveholders comprehend a large quota of the very flower of our population--representing much of the wealth, talent, virtue, and commanding influence of the State. They will carry away from us millions of property. They will carry away from us what is far more valuable to the State than property--thousands and tens of thousands of busy hands, which now constitute the productive labor of the State.--Richmond Dispatch.
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REMITTANCES FOR DOUGLASS' MONTHLY
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Amount Pays to
J L, Zanesville.......... 1 00 Feb., 1861
J S S, Fond du Lac....... 60 March, 1861
B G, Whitesboro.......... 1 00 June, 1861
Mrs J B, Galena.......... 1 00 July, 1861
S H, Sherwood's Corners.. 1 00 Aug, 1861
J B, Galena.............. 1 00 Sept., 1861
A A, Brownsville......... 50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
E O, Williamsville....... 50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
D L, Vandalia............ 50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
H S, "[[ditto for Vandalia]]50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
J R, "[[ditto for Vandalia]]50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
W F C, "[[ditto for Vandalia]]50 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
E P, Bradford............ 1 00 "[[ditto for Sept., 1861]]
H W, Rochester........... 1 00 Oct., 1861
S B F, Livonia Station... 1 00 "[[ditto for Oct., 1861]]
W W B, Cambridge......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Oct., 1861]]
W R A, Zanesville........ 1 00 "[[ditto for Oct., 1861]]
D C, West Exeter......... 1 00 Nov., 1861
C H W, New Hartford...... 1 00 "[[ditto for Nov., 1861]]
J M, Seneca Falls........ 2 00 "[[ditto for Nov., 1861]]
J S, Ogdensburgh......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Nov., 1861]]
A T, Syracuse............ 1 00 "[[ditto for Nov., 1861]]
B J C, Glen Haven........ 1 00 "[[ditto for Nov., 1861]]
Rev. W S, Skaneateles.... 1 00 Dec., 1861
W J L, Champion.......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Dec., 1861]]
F S, Victoria............ 1 24 Jan., 1862
M W, New Bedford......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Jan., 1862]]
J S, Williamson.......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Jan., 1862]]
H A, Milo................ 1 00 Feb., 1862
Capt. C S, Lora.......... 1 00 "[[ditto for Feb., 1862]]
J S, Moravia............. 1 00 "[[ditto for Feb., 1862]]
D W, Farmington.......... 1 00 March, 1862
W W T, Denver City....... 1 00 "[[ditto for March, 1862]]
L C, Champion............ 1 00 April, 1862
W P M, Columbus.......... 1 00 "[[ditto for April, 1862]]
Rev. L J M, Dale......... 2 00 July, 1862
M P, Peoira.............. 2 00 "[[ditto for July, 1862]]
J P, Centreville......... 1 50 Aug., 1862
C A, Suspension Bridge... 2 00 "[[ditto for Aug., 1862]]
J C, Fowlerville......... 1 00 Dec., 1862
P H C, Cincinnati........ 2 00 "[[ditto for Dec., 1862]]
G L S, Boston............ 2 00 Jan., 1863
S W S, Sterling.......... 3 00 Dec., 1863
J K W, Maskinouge........ 3 00 Feb., 1864
Prof. Chas. Reason, N. Y. 5 00 (donation.)
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MARRIED:
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WASHINGTON--DOWNING--In the city of Boston, March 6th, at the Church of the Advent, by Rev. Dr. Bowles, Mr. George Washington, Jr., to Miss Serena A. M. Downing.
We would most respectfully, but very cordially express for our kind young friends, who have thus assumed the honorable relation, duties and responsibilities of married life, our highest, best and heartfelt wishes. We most earnestly invoke upon all the pathway of the journey of life, upon which they have now so auspiciously set out, the joyous light of health, happiness and prosperity, and every blessing possible, in this world of clouds as well as of sunshine.--F. D.
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ROCHESTER, N. Y.
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AGENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
We take the liberty of using the names of the following gentlemen who will receive names and subscriptions for Douglass' Monthly in Great Britain :
Halifax--Rev. RUSSELL LANT CARPENTER, Milton Place; Rev. Dr. CROFTS, North Parade.
London--Mr. L. A. CAMEROVZOW, Anti-Slavery Office, 27, New Broad Street, E. C.
Dublin--Mr. WM. WEBB, 52, High Street, and 8, Dunville Avenue, Rathmines.
Derby--Dr. SPENCER T. HALL, Burton Road.
Glasgow--Mr. JOHN SMITH, 173, Trongate.
Leeds--Mr. ARTHUR HOLLAND, 4, Park Row.
Newcastle-on-Tyne--Mr. WALTER S. PRINGLE.
