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15
Month
May
Year
1847
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'■ An Incident at the National Capital. - Hon. Bradford R. VVood, ofthis State, in a speech on theWilmot Proviso, in the House of Representatives, narrated the following incident: "Sir, this very morning, the inhabitants at the other end of the avenue were early disturbed by the wild shrieks of female distress. A young woman, almost ns white (as I am inlormed) as your wives and daughters, with her hands strongly bound, was dragged through the streets by a brute in human shape,claiming to be her owner, ani threatening to hush ler screams by'stamping and crushing her on the pavement, whileshe (nsisting that she was freej wildly appealed to the gtthering crowd to prolect her. Whether free or slave, I know not; but he who called himself her master, succeeded (as I am informed) in extorting six hundred dollars from the sympathies of her employers os the price of her freedom. Mr. McDaniel - 1 cali the gen'.leman to order. T!ie Chair - The gentleman will proceed. Mr. Wood - If 1 am to be called to order for the statement, on the floor ofthis House, of a fact pertinent to the question before us, and which transpired in open day on n public Street, in this capital - in Heaven's name, what must be the na:ure ofan institution of which its nbettors would not permit me to speak calmly and dispassionately? I know not that I should bo surprisedat their sensitiveness. Disregarding, as they do, the voice of the mighty dead, and resistinp the tide ofcivilization, the claims óf humanity, and the demands of a pure Christianity, it must be diffioult to remain cool and dispassionate." Emioration' - The London Chronicle cstimates that Ireland will pour out f rom 200,000 to 300,000 of her people in 1847, lo Canadn and the United States. According to the same authority, the emigrants will not be the most destitute class of the populntion, being chiefly from the class of small farmers and from the middle and rather than the lower section of that class. "The Independent Demdcrat," of New Hamps-hire, an eminently practical and efficiënt antislavery paper, announces that it has a larger circulation than than any Democratie paper in tho State. The publishers say that they intend to commence the third volume with new type snd on a large sheet. Succes attend them. All accounts ngree that the heat at Vera Cruz hnd been extraordinary - which had caused Gen. Scott to expedite his march into the interior; for of 14,000 or 15,000 men, more than 2000 had been nttacked by severe illness. They also agree that the tronps which left for the interior, nmounted to 8000 or 10,000 men; and that they were marching in twe divisions upon Jalapa. The Secretary of the Treasury calculates on a revenue of fifteen millions of dollars, from the "military con ributions" imposed on Mexico, for the first year, after the opening of the Mexican ports to trade. The Georoetown Coüncil. - The Georgetown Council, in thiii District, soon after the establishment of the Era, appointed a committee to inquire what should be done in relation lo it. So far as we have learned, the committee carne to the conclusión that the advice j?iven by the town clerk at Ephesus was very sensible- " Do nothing rashly. "-Nat. Era. Another Liberty Man Elected. - At the last trial for Representative in the Chesterville district, Maine, Mr. Baker, formerly a Damocrat. was elected by the Liberty men. This carries the number up to ten, twice as many as last year.

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