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to your wishes, two extracts from New York papers 

 ("New York Herald" and " Courrier des Etats 

 Unis"), which contain your publication on Slavery 

 in Cuba, as well as Mr. Thrasher's apology for it, 

 published in the journals here, and which certainly 

 is very lame. 



The affair has caused great excitement every- 

 where here, and could only be welcome to the oppo- 

 nents of Slavery, who have elected Fremont for their 

 candidate. A few days ago a mass meeting of the 

 German electors in Fremont's interest, many thou- 

 sands in number, was held here, and in the evening 

 a brilliant torch-light procession was arranged in his 

 honour. 



The Slave Question becomes every day more 

 serious. While the House of Representatives reduces 

 the Government estimates for the army, news arrives 

 daily from Kansas of sanguinary conflicts between 

 the freesoilers and the slaveholders. It is hoped, 

 however, that when the presidential election is over 

 (in November), internal quiet will once more be re- 

 stored. The unhealthy climate of Washington has 

 driven me away for some days, the heat during the last 

 month having been insufferable, and now intermit- 

 tent fevers are setting in. I leave to-day for Albany, 

 where the Society of Naturalists holds a sitting, to 

 which I am invited. I shall meet there many noted 

 savants, and at some future time will give your Ex- 

 cellency an account of them. M. Heine* is very 

 pleased at the favourable opinion your Excellency 

 has expressed of him. Mr. C and the whole 



* Not the poet, but a German painter of that name who accompanied the 

 United States Expedition to Japan. TR. 



