The Liberator (newspaper)/September 18, 1857/Miscellaneous Notices
☞We often hear of singular cases of gratitude, which show human nature to be better than many would have us believe. Here is the last case: At the time of the pro-slavery riots in 1838, in Philadelphia, the Orphan Asylum for Colored Children was fired. Through the exertions of the Good Will Engine Company, the building was partially saved from the flames, and the lives of its inmates rescued from a devouring element and a furious mob. On Friday evening last, a colored man, neatly attired, entered the house of the Good Will Engine Company, and desired to see some of the members. Having introduced himself to them, he stated that nineteen years since, through their exertions, while an inmate of the Colored Asylum, his life was preserved. He then presented them with a silver goblet, valued at forty dollars, as a testimony of his undying esteem.
A Dress Reform Convention.—Miss Hancock, the Secretary of the Cayuga Dress Reform Society, publishes the proceedings of a convention of the Reformers, held at Auburn a few weeks since. The following resolutions were adopted:—
‘Resolved, That as health is closely allied to dress, we, as reformers, adopt and lend our aid to carry into common use short skirts, loose waists, minus the whalebone, and any style which we deem comfortable and healthful.
Resolved, That we regard Paris fashions as a nuisance; and that we, as American free-born women, do discard them as such.’
The convention adjourned to meet at Skaneateles, N. Y., Nov. 13, when a ‘dress reform ball’ is to be given.
A Big Boot.—Among the boots for the Southern market manufactured in the Philadelphia Penitentiary, is a pair that would have almost answered for the famous legendary giant who wore the seven leagued boots. Each one weighs eight and a half pounds, and is nineteen inches in length, and six and three-quarters inches wide across the soles. They are intended for a slave upon a plantation, who officiates on Sunday as a preacher.
Oregon.—It has been taken for granted that a territory so far north as Oregon was forever sacred to Freedom; but the politicians of the Southern stripe, who swarm in that region, are endeavoring to have it otherwise. The Convention to form a State Constitution proposes to submit the question, whether they shall have slavery or not, to the vote of the people.
Brigham Toasted.—One of the toasts at a Mormon celebration at Philadelphia was: ‘Brigham Young—The Lion of the Lord. When he roars in the mountains, all the whelps stick up their ears. Such a getting up stairs I never did see.’
☞The statue erected to Daniel O’Connell, at Limerick, is of bronze, of colossal size, and represents ‘the Liberator’ in a commanding attitude, grasping in his left hand the roll of the Emancipation Act, and his right hand raised in front of his breast.
☞The ‘Straight Republican’ Provisional Committee, J. M. Stone, Chairman, and H. A. Peirce, Secretary, have called a State Convention in Boston, September 30th. They repudiate Mr. Banks, as having uttered himself in his New York speech, and in his recent Worcester speech, in a rather hunkerish way.
☞It is suggested that Proverbial Philosophy Tupper’s last sonnet on the Atlantic cable was the real cause of the break. Nothing on earth, or beneath the deep, could stand such a strain as that!
☞The Annual Meeting of the American Abolition Society will be held in Syracuse, N. Y., on Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept 29th and 30th, commencing at 2 P. M. on Tuesday, and continuing until Wednesday evening.
☞French agents have been openly sent to the coast of Africa in order to recruit negro slaves for the West Indies, and the Legislature of Guadaloupe has been officially apprized of the fact.
☞Emerson Etheredge was only beaten for Congress in Tennessee by 127 votes in an aggregate poll of 16,000. Of the Southern members who voted against the Nebraska bill, not one will serve in the next Congress. Colonel Benton, Louisiana Hunt, Tennessee Cullom, &c., were run out of the last Congress, and the rest, with Gen. Sam Houston, have now followed them.
Help for the Filibusters.—A Mobile paper says $150,000 have been raised in Georgia in aid of Walker’s proposed descent upon Nicaragua.
In anticipation of an attack from filibusters, Costa Rica has decreed the expected expedition of General Walker to be piratical, and those who participate in it will be punished with death.
☞Within the past three months, 8,600,000 new cents have been issued from the mint at Philadelphia, weighing forty-three tons.
☞The Hon. George G. Dunn, late a member of Congress from Indiana, and the master-spirit of the quasi Republican opposition to Mr. Banks’s election as Speaker, died at his residence in Bedford, Indiana, on the 5th instant.
Emancipation of Slaves.—By the will of Mrs. M. H. Coalter, who died in Stafford county, Va., last week, ninety-two of her negroes are set free. They are to go to Liberia, or some other free State, which they may select, or, if they prefer remaining in Virginia, are permitted to select their owners among the relatives of the decedent. Charles, her favorite man servant, besides his freedom, receives a $100 annuity during life.—Richmond Dispatch.
☞From a letter of his, in the New York Observer, it appears that Rev. Dr. Baird is much alarmed lest the subject of slavery shall be forced into the Berlin Conference. He tacitly admits the system to be a vast scheme of iniquity, however, by threatening, if it is introduced, to bring up several other matters pertaining to India and China, in which England has acted an unchristian part.
From Cuba.—The negro and cooley importations continue on the increase. From the former, Concha and his satellites derive immense fortunes. Hardly a week passes, without our hearing of some vessel arriving after a successful voyage. The Americans carry on the trade almost exclusively, thanks to the facilities afforded by our deficient laws to evade suspicion on the coast.