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LIBt.H'I V : riiB CONSTITUTION : UNION.
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Tnwday Morning, Xaroh
MAIL RECORD.
MoviuT, March tt —Rserived p'prr* from N*w TorF 6th;
1‘hlUdidphla Oth ; Haltltnore 4th and 5U»; W w>bla«ton City
6th andoth; Columbia 7th; Chari** ton 7th; Augusta 8th;
Karaunah 8th; Now Orloan* 6th ; Mobile Oth.
Tuas»AY, March 10,—lUestved japor* firm New York Cth;
Baltimore Oth and 7th; Petersburg 7tfa; Augusts 0th ; 8a-
Tannah Oth ; MoutjtUUMry Oth.
WamnBSAT, March 11,—RerHred paper* from New York
7th; Philadelphia 7U»; Washington City 7th ; Columbia Oth
and I Oth; Charleston lf>th : August* 10th; Savannah 10th;
New Orleans 7 th; Mobile 7th; Montgomery loth.
Thoupat, March 12.—Becdred paper* from New York Oth
Baltimore 7th and Oth; Washington flity Oth; Richmond
10th; Columbia 11th; Augusta 11th; Savannah 11th;
bile7th; Montgomery 11th and 12th.
FntOAT, March 10.—Recdrcd papers from New York 10th ;
Philadelphia 10th. Baltimore 10th; Washington Clly 10th;
For most of our very latent telegraphic news,
both political end commercial, in thin paper, we are
indebted to the Augusta Evening Die patch ot tho
12th in*!.— an excellent little daily sheet, always
containing the latest telegraphic news, mid which
in occationall^i'j^vtl hctc tho day after its date.
J. Crawford for tho first
omrnrrrhl Relations
igu Nation*, sub-
scntalivos I y tho
resolution calling
valuable and ac-
tho Mouth.
Eufaula, Ala., ie offered
, tho pioprietor. It has
to bo doing a thriv-
ack proposes to sell it "at
ruodating terms." Having
tension, uniting it, via
th Macon and Savannah,
increase in growth and
j in ifie ••Spirit” would
/ayiug one. It is,
to nnd Anti-Know
ays rises when con
vey”
Intcreata.
Pens at tho South, that j*ct-
r citios and towns, grow
ing out of rivalry induced by s supposed or RelOnI
incongruity of their respective interests, prevent or
postpone most desirable works of internal imptovc-f
ment, and seriously retard the development of the
great natural resourceaof the country. Cities that
should be found co-operating together in tho ac
complishment of important links of communication,
plainly pointed out by the natural formation of tho
country, and urgently demanded by the needs of
trade and tho wants of tho public, are too often
found bitterly opposing tho interests of each and
both, and often encountering extravagant and un
profitable tusks in the effort to do separately what
they should unitedly undertake.
Wo believe that it is some evil nnd mistaken
jealousy of this kind which has heretofore prevent
ed (Ue co-operation of our own city and Eufuula in
tho construction of a railroad connecting the
two, nnd which haa now turned the attentipn
of tho latter to n connection with the South
western Railroad u( Cuthbert. It neodfl noth
ing more than a glance at tho map und an un
derstanding of the comparative natural facilities
for the conbtru tion of u reilro d afforded by tho
two routes, to demonstrate the advantages of the
routo direct from Eufaula to Columbus. We un-
dcrstand'thc distance between Kufuulu and Cuthbert
to bo twenty-six miles, and the route to ho one of the
roughest aud most unpromising imaginable lor tho
construction of a railroad. Tho estimated cost
(which .we Jtwuii has been determined by survey to
be wiiout $600,000) indicates tho dURr.uRtka of
the .routo. It will nl«ohu necessary *.o cross the Chat
tahoochee ni Eufaula on a costly bridge, f.i addi
tion to these weighty obstacles, the section of tho ^
rood between Cuthbert and Eufaula will be but a
brunch, and any extension of the Southwestern
Railroad will bo made from Culhhort in a dilVuriml
duNMition-—indeed,provision bus already been mode
for its extension to Fort (iiiiiios, and ulong that line
will its further progress towards a terminus on the
Gull be certainly made.
On the other hand, the distance from the nearest
point on tho Girard and Mobile Railroad to Eufaula
is only about thirty mileB, and tbo country is rep
resented to lie one admirably adapted to a cheap
railroad connection. On tho scorn of oconoun in
cost of construction, the sc ala preponderates dt cl-
dediy hi favor of a road from Eufaula to silver Run
or Colbert—so we are told by persons acquainted
with the topography of both routes. Tho distniu.-e
by this latter routo from Eufaula to Macon, or any
other point cast, is certainly no greater (if not ’.cm)
than by the routo via Cuthbert and Aiuoricua and
thou tho distance from Eufaula to Montgomery, or
any point west, will ho vory much reduced by the
adoption of tho route via Silver Run and Colum
bus direct. Indeed, by a simple connection with
the Girard und Mobile road, by o brunch thirty
miles in length, our Eufaula friends could accom
plish all that they can obtain by two expensive
roads in other directions—could put llicwaolves ut
once in neatly direct communication with Macon
and Savannah on the east and Montgomery on the
mtcsi,—aud all this at absolutely a less vxpenso
than they will have to incur for the single rounda
bout branch road to Cuthbert!
Wo repeat, Wo fiar that this natural and cheap
connection between tho two cities has been defeat
ed heretofore by potty jealousiws that ought uot to
have existed ; nnd if it be not too late to correct the
error, wo trust that public attention will yet bo
turned to tbe superior advantages, feasibility and
^economy of a railroad direct from this city to Eu
faula. A^jMjlouthwcstem Railroad will from ei
ther rour^^H^^Lrcivo the same accession of freight
and trat[fl^|^^Brao that it would be indifforei.t
connection with Eufaula;and
oad would by a connection of
city be largely bencflttod,
ipt it 4m aid tho work by
iwor. Our own business
loeply in the enterprise,
ourage any effort that
out a direct railroad com-
n out these well-meant
X they will recoivc a Hea
rt ice interested.
I not Paso,
o pass some vory im-
gh disagreement by
Jpct to aclj
"tear”«
3-plunders
Wills generally
Tthe Patent
Notwithstanding the failure ofj
appropriation bills passed
and seventy millions of ddUri
eioa, the 8enitc passed ovci ]
Abe DaUas-Olarnndon. the Ftl
the Persian. The Senate, iii
since ratified the Treaty wit J
ry The late .Legislature
bill to incorporate a mother Bank w J
for the Territory, aud we presume I
the sanction of tho Governor. WhJ
we are gottiug to be, when even
must have Banks before their admission"
0F" Tho Augusta papers announce the death, on
the 8th inst., of Mr. William Harper, of the firm
of J. 4k W. Harper. Tho doccMod waa one of tha
oldest citizens of Augusta, and his firm the oldest^
in the city. He was an Irishman by birth.
%3T An Acnericau 8uta Cb/traaltao is lof e
on the find day of M«y, to nominate a <
for Governor «f Tennessee. A number
guiahed gentlemen of tho party have been J
in connection with the office.
*
and the I
tiously
ambitious
highest point?
now evinces i
There aro alrca«f
and the Southern Dm
i of the
Trenched "the
’ M». Buchanan
facile" no Imger.
moving that if he
cy keep up their copart-
ship aid
nership any longer, the latter must Income the "fa-
cilo" silent purtners of the concern. Portions of
hie Inaugural Address, contrasted with former avow
als of principlo and policy by the Southern Democ
racy, lead to t s conclusion.
Allowing to the fullest extent the modifications
and subtle explanations which the great body of
?*.• Southern Democracy now give to their former
•*' roe Trade” p dicy, it is stall undeniable that they
opposed protective discriminations in favor of any
branch of home industry. Mr. Buchanan, in his
Inaugural, trusts that the recent modifications of
the Tariff have been such as to "do as little injury
as may have been practicable to our domestic man
ufactures and ho denounces discriminations
agaiiut an) hrunrb of home industry.
Opposition to works of Intcrnnl Improvement by
the General Government has heretofore l»cen a car
dinal, constitutional principle with the Southern
Democracy. Yec Mr. Buchanan earnestly urges
the Federal Government to construct a Railroad at
least three times as long ni tho longest work of the
kind in the world, and which alono will cost more
money than the total amount donated by Congress
for worksof this kind from the inauguration of the
Government to the present moment !
A very shoit time ago, the great body of the
Southern Democincy rallied in a sectional organi
zation, upon a sectional issue, and were furious jn
their efforts to array tho South in opposition to the
authority of the Federal Government and the
Union. Mr. Duchanun, in the Addross before us,
denounces all attempts "to calculate the mere ma
terial value of the Union,” deprecates all sectional
ism. and extols the Constitution and tho Union as
"the richest political blessings which Heaven has
over bestowed upon uny nation,” Notwithstanding
these severe thrusts at their favorite dogmas and
principles, the Southern Democracy aforosaid are
highly pleased with Mr. Buchanan's Inaugural, re*
gurd him us occupying true constitutional and
State Rights ground, and are prepared to give his
Administration n clamorous support!
" Earth is coal, and brass in wood,
For so our lenders say ;
Aud what they way is very good,
And wo will them obey !"
by Home of the late "Southern Rights” Democratic
prosaos, that Gov. Brown and Hun. Jacob Thomp
son, members of the new Cabinet, belonged to
their wing of tho Democrucy. Wo expressed
doubts as to Thompson, and confidence that they
were mistaken as to Brown. We now learn that
Gov. Drown was not only not an ad!ioront of the
Firestiug party of the Mouth, hut that lie resisted
and protested against tho action of tho Nashville
Convention, taking Ins aland thus early m favor of
the Compromise measures; also, that Mr Thornp
sou was actually a Union and Compromise candid
ate ill Mississippi, and ojdMbed to the action of the
Nashville Coiivciitioj^^^^^jjl^^ Old Duck mad<
good, so fur, his pj
nation again!
Another stro
the coiiscrvatij
ocraey
ot wh 1
O'Conor are I-
postil-
Na
ll is
rthat Mtalo,
Bronson and
Ivor ut Washington.
Me.
Tho following i^^PTof tho membprs compos
ing tho Nc;«.»‘re of the United States now in session
at Wnsli’.ntoii. Many now Senators were sworn
;,. mi tho 4lh inst., nnd tho body has now only one
vacancy, i There are, however, protoats against the
modo of election of tho two Snnators from Indiana
nnd Mr. Cameron of Fa., and tho probability is
that the sitting members. from Indiana will h* un
seated, in itccordanro with tho precedent adopted
in tho Harlan enso. linlosj these scats should be
declared vacant, or vacancies shall otherwise oc
cur, the Senate will remain for two years without
u change:
John C. Ihorktnrldg*.
ALA DAM A.
Cl union t O. Olay, Jr.
Ih-ujamlu FlUpitili
AKK ANNAN.
Will. K. HebastUn
Hobart W. Johnson
camPKorici’
I.avatxtvs^. Foma
Jamim Dixon
William M.tlwln
David 0. Bnalurlrk
rsiAWtas.
Martin W. IUU*
Jainoa A. Ilajant
Alfred lvrrson
N. Fitch
♦J*n*o 1). Bright
Stophen A. Douglas
Lyman Tncmhcli.
Qtmrge W. Jones*
Jam a* Uari.an
sanTiicxY.
J»\n It. Thompson
John J. CriUm.ttn
J. I’. lLugamkn
John Slidell
MAIXV.
Wm. l*m FoNfcK.vw
11 iN.vnua JIami
IftVRf WJL.10M
ClIAMLBSSlMNXa
FAKTU.A
Jaiuos A. 1‘ierce
JfttAony KrusttUg
rnsaeqk:
Charles Di nas*
James K. Doourr^i
18UI
ChiIlo* K Ntuart
t ACIIAIU A I, ('ll
AtbertO. Bro-
JtftTcrsoii Davis
mteovai.
1^6\*
1«R8
1 Jsiiim L. Orivne
lw«wi Trusum folk 1S63
Akirsaina.
1 John l*. IIalk 18M)
James Bell isol
Wm. H. Sevtahu lsoi
I'auroN Kino ih03
HEW JRUNET.
Wm. Wrljht lsitf
R. Thompson 18M
youTii vnouHA.
DaV l,18. Reid lK6y
Asa IttgKS 1801
Cieorgo F. Pugh 24H11
Benjamin V. Wadi isoj
I-ENNSUVAMA.
William Bin I it 1801
Simon Cameron imvi
EIIUBC INLAND.
Philip A1U u 1KA0
r. Bimmavs
'ALOLIN A.
•loslah J. Kvaus
IV Butler
TENNESSEE.
Jaf,n IkU
lKPllA Democrat
TEXAS.
185WjXi»| IfonMoH
.lAi.jjrhouias J.li nil:
J® >»ro.TEiu*ra W ' '
lstvi Solomon Foot
vikuinia.
a. M. T. Hndtor
Jaiuoc M. Maseu
Total Nuuilor....^...
^Tariff.
ptives having passed a
i list, ami very slight-
b, tho 8er.sU) amended
f Hunter’s bill, which sea-
kiniug the-principles of the
l^’ing the rates. 'Fho House
cndiurnt, and a Committee
ointod. After muchdii
Committee fine
i part of
lutien and temporary enthusiasm the best guaranty
that what the ingoing President does promise or
announce as his sentiments he will adhere to with
reasonable consistency. Unlike President Pierce,
he makes no haughty proclamation to foreign pow
ers of his determination to secure to American cit
izens and for American rights a greater degree of
respect than they have ever heretofore enjoyed ; and
we believe that at the close of his term it caiiuot
be said, as it ran of Tierce’s Administration, that
during no four years «f our history were so niuny
indignities offered to our flag or so many outrages
committed upon the rights of American citizens.
In keeping with the cautious policy evinced in tho
general tone of the Address, is its ind< finiteness or
non-committalism on several topics of practical im
portances which it touches—a reserve, indeed,
which characterizes the whole paper, and seems to
deprive it of vigor or point. Among these topic*
wo may class the doctrine of Squatter Sovereignty
and the subject of the Tariff. Instead of express
ing bis opinions of tbo spirit and moaning of the
Const it ut imr, Mr. Buchanan volunteers his inter
pretation of the intention ol the Kauaas-jNeliruska
act—an interpretation, however, which he is quite
willing to surrender to a different judicial dictum,
nnd which, indeed, he considers "a matter of but
little practical impor'ai ce” nt best! Tho question
with him is not whether a Territory, prior to its
act of forming a Htate Constitution, may exclude
slavery, and whether this power ought or ought
not to bo forbidden in future acts of organization
(if there be any), but how will the Supremo Court
interpret the Kan«as-Nchraska act! In the decis
ion of the Court, he thinks, nil "good citizens”
ought 10 acquiesce ; and so doubtless they ought,
while the law remains as that tribunal interprets it.
But even a decision by that august body, legalizing
squatter-sovereignty in Territories already organi
zed, will fail to c nvince the people ol the South
that in tho organization of future Territories o pre
rogative so prejudicial to their section and rights
ought to be allowed to the Territorial authorities.
Nor could such a precedent and interpretation bo
the means of quieting "the long agitation on tho
slavery question ;” because it would make the Ter
ritories, from tho time of their oganization until
their admission ns Slates, the theatres of bitter and
perhaps violent struggles to admit orexrlude slave
ry ; and tho contests in tho Territories would un
doubtedly influence and inflame the people of every
Htate and section—just as the late contest arose in
Kansas in the abolition effort to exclude slavery by
Territorial action, run riot there in aconraof murder
and arsmi.uiid involved the whole Union in intense
excitement.
Equally indefinite nnd cvnaive are the Preai-
dent's remarks about u mm!ifica'ion of tho Turill'.
lie "trusts” that the recent changes are just and
proper; but Do one can tell from his language
whoihcr his doubts spring from his rrgard for "our
domestic manufactures” or his sympathies with the
"rest of the community"—whether he fenrs that
the amendments leave the system defective ns a
"revenue tariff,” or unjust in its "discriminations.”
But perhaps this lack of explicitness finds its justi
fication in tho philosophy of tho Nationul Intelli
gencer, which paper (in an articlo highly nnd un
reservedly complimenting the Address) nnys :
In a country like ours, the genius of whoso in.
iprnirold ruinlions of ifh
end to the production n|
manifestly impossible to
ml consequent influences
d an Administration
, therefore, should be
-that the Inaugural Address ol
hsists rather of general statements
definitions respecting the luturo
Ins policy, it must he admitted in candor
a reticence bus a legitimate foundation
not only in tho vory nature ol each political ora lo
ry, but in the prudent reserve of a wise at«teinaii-
f hip. which aver acts in "the living present" and
caves fho dsad past to bury its dead.' 1
Wo havo already, in a hurried manner, expressed
our gratification experienced in the perusal of Mr.
Buchanan's remarks rclaiivo to the public lands.-*.
May he have the flmrnesa and (be ability to reform
altogether tho system of corruption and favoritism
which ho denounces! There is a Iso uuotker an
nouncement in the Address, which is not only grat
ifying and patriotic per se, but which gives strong
encouragement to hopo for tho rigid persistence of
the new President in the policy which he may con
scientiously favor. We alludo to the explicit de
claration that he will not be a candidate for u second
term. Thin resolution we rigard as n predicate upon
which may be based an Administration eminently
just and constitutional, guiltless of the low in.
trigues of the demagogue, and independent of the
petty schemes and tric'xato which the party cliques
of the nation are resorting in (hair efforts to elevate
to the imporial neat this or that aspiring intriguant.
Unuffcctcd, personally, by the struggle for the suc
cession, tho Executive of the nation will lie free of
rnuny of the mists of prejudice nnd selfishness
which have shut out from tho view of former Chief
Magistrates tho true interests ol the people and the
piai.'i pathway of the Constitution.
We aro quito sure that Mr. Buchanan will iu no
political organisation of tiio country find heartier
epplaudcrs of the strong Union and conservative
spirit of his Inaugural, than in the ranks of tho par
ty to which we belong—the party in Georgia that
opposed his olection. And we must in candor say,
that ill this respect his Cabinet appointments and
all his political manifestations sinco his election ap
pear to boar witness to the sincerity or his purpono
to slrongthen as far at possible the bonds of union
and tho common political sympathies and interests
which connect tlieso States together.
We have reserved for the last paragraph of this
imperfect review, that portion of the Address which
in our judgmont is most objectionable and porten
tous of evil. We allude to the new President's
unequivocal advocacy of the construction by Con
gress of a Railroad to tho Pacific. This is by far
tho moot gigantic and costly undertaking over oeri-
ously urged upon the General Government, and
coming imin the President of a party that has si-
w*japrofessed opposition i*» works of intern*}
iia,*Mdj»i —»n>Mhing m-iik
gigantic. Even if protfcnled honestly and eco
nomically, the enterprise would for one gemmation
at least tax hoavily every Interest of the country.
We would then no longer be perplexed with "an
overflowing treasury no reduction of dutiee with
a view to decreasing the ravenue would be proposed
by eny party; find our "npbio inheritance iu the
public lar.de" would be rapidly swallowed down the
coimorant throat that greedily demanded surplus
funds, accruing revenue, and every acre of the publio
domain 1 Tbo argument that the duty to protect
tha Pacific coast from foreign invasion demands, or
even justifies, such a stupendous underUkipg by
Congress, is not supported by either the eirctiu^-
tanees of (he caso or by general principles of jue^
lice and impartiality. Long before the road can
be buiH, the Hiatus on the Pacific will probably be
fully as able to protect themselves as othr Southern
liantic Htates now ere; harbor defences can
probably will be constructed, end manufacto-
of munitions ol war established. If the»pree-
t exposed situation of the poople of the Pacific
and Territories demands the cous.ruction by
•vernruent of a Railroad to oollnect thorn with
to populous parts of the Union, does not a
eondiiion of Unpeople of Texas or Florida
Radroads from their towns to se<£ionvof the
try more abounding iu population au4'lhe re-
l*s of wtrl If not at proaeut, was not evtty
onco dependant upon quick and'easy com*
niealiou with-1 he other States for means of de-
ee in case of warlike Invasion I and if Congreta
[led to provide works of internal improvement to
;ure thetp against anticipated invasion, would
not be faghly unjust now heavily to tax them
pr^nriate their piblie domain f* Ihe hull- -
p Railroad of yopoiultoled^length (at
gf it being through a sterile
[ad to struggle for tlieroselvca ! But
the truth is, thill work is not domanded by any exi
gency of the public defence, and it is a miserable
begging of tho question for Mr. Buchanan to justify
it on this ground. NTImse who are clamorous for
the work hare no romideralion of the national de
fence in view; it ia commerce and speculation that
demand the Pacific Railroad, and the apprehension
of hostile invasion ie fat from being a stimulant to
the efforts of those who are urging it. This woukl
be re a illy manifested should Congress select one
route only, even should th: t one be undeniahly
the cheapest and most feasible; we would then
find the interests working for other routes abandon
ing nt once all arguments ns to the necessity rf
providing against foreign invasion, and supporting
their own routes or none. Perhaps this diversity
of local and selfish interests is now the best guar
anty that the project cannot be carried through,
and that the President will fail to obtain the co-
operation of Congress in consummating so gigan
tic a work.
reflect of (lie New Tariff*
In the adjustment of tho Tariff duties made by
tho Into Congress, (ho New England interests
managed to secure a counterbalancing advantage
for the slight reduction of direct protection to the
Woolen manufacture. Tho bill passed reduces
the duty mi Woolen manufactures from 30 to 24
per cent., but it at the samo time makes a greater
reduction of tho duty on coarse unmanufactured
Wool, for the benefit of home manufacturer*. Thus
"Peter is robbed to pay Paul," literally. The
gVowcrs of wool are fleeced to provide bounty fcr
the manufacturers of the article. The Boston pa
pers report already "a large advance" iu tho price
of stock in some of the mills which use wool largo-
ly ol the coarser kinds. The Lowell Mnnuf cturing
Company’s stock advanced 6 per cerit. on the 7th
inst., and the Bay Stato Mills, the Pacific Mills,
and other establishments of the kind, were expected
to receive " a new impulse from the change in the
Tariff."
The greatest dissatisfaction wilh.tlie new Tariff
appears to come from the Iron interests. But as
the reduction of the duty on manufactured Iron
is but slight, and as it is still classed in the same
schedule with Sugar, the complaints of sectional
unfairness to wards this branch of industry are
manifestly unfounded. We trust that the Repre
sentatives of the South will continue to connect
8ugsr with Iron and Woolen manufocturcs, and
only aubmit to reductions pari passu with nbate-
menteof the duties on theso brandies of Northern
industry.
gfiy- The Washington Star states that the orig
inal draft ol Gen. Washington's Farewell Address,
in the handwriting of the "Father of liis Country,”
hue been stolen from the Library of the Stale De
partment. Independent of its value as the imme
diate work of the illustrious dead, ita possession
wua important as evidence of the groundlessness of
the claim set up by Ibe historian ol Humilton, that
the latter wrote the Address.
tsr Tho Washington correspondent cf the
New Orleans Delta writes that Gen. Cuss, in Exc-
rulivr session of tho Heiiate, expressed himself de
cidedly opposed to the Dallas-Clarendon Treaty.
He is reported to have said that "he could never
•igrec to a partnership wdth Great Britain on any
matters touching the interests or integrity of the
Centra) American Htates." Wo trust that he will
firmly maintain this stand while Secretary of State.
Tub MhXicax Tiibaty.—The nows from Mexico,
copied in another column, c> tifirms the reports
that tho now Treaty with that Republic docs not
secure to the United States uny compensating ben
efits for the favors which it grants to Mexico, but
actualiv makes our Government a money-broker
advancing cash to sustain the weak admin stration
of a noiglimriiig Htate ! It is generally understood
that !h* Phvow Adintotstration declined to send it
to tho Henite for ratification.
f iF fn *pt»*A n - in New York,
t'r.o Americans and National Democrats united
against the Black Republicans, and the conse
quence lias been the defeat of tho lutter in many
townships which) they curried last year. Thu
B'acks have been generally successful in towns in
which no such i/nion nguiust them was effected ;
but we notice tlfat in the city of Troy nnd several
other important localities the Americans triumphed
over both ps/ties.
15^ The Inauguration ceremonies at Washing-
ton wen very imposing, but wo have no room for
nny fxrticulur account. It is estimated that
50,000 slrangt rv were in the city, l'he Baltimore
and Olio Railroad alone carried 10,000 or 11,000
paasenfcer* to Washington during tho laat four duys
precedtig the Inauguration. Tho oath of olTico to
the Pnaident oloct wna administered by the von-
erahle Jliiof Justico Taney. President Pierce nc-
coinpaiied Mr. Buchanan during the inauguration
preceding* and formalities, and at once surrender
ed tho White House to him, accepting for himself
and family temporarily the hospitalities of Secreta
ry Marty.
Tub Nirv Attoiinky Gknnual—This gentle
man having boon selected by Mr. Buchanan as one
of his "constitutional udvi.ers" at the very luteal
moment, and/without any premonition, there has
been not a lilfio blundering committed by the press
in designating the man by his proper tiumu. Most
of the paper/(our own among them) designated
him as 8niu/cl W. Black; others reported his name
us plain htfin Black ; and severe j, ill the spirit of
tho Inaugural Address, indefinitely printed it
Black. D'e now learn that the gentleman's real
! name is/oreminh 8. Black, and that ho is fur from
| being i\Jblank, so far nt legal attainments and fit
ness \Jr the station aro concerned. Tho Philadel
phia ‘North American (Uts Fremont paper) candid-
ly suys of him : “Wo are sincerely gratified at the
choice of Judgo Black. Jle is a lawyer of very
high attainments, end of most accomplished mind
in other respects; and we arc sure ho will Jo emi
nent credit to his new position."
Dmuociucy and Couporatioxs.—Our friend of
ti&jidmdjpQrJiyfiuircr is mistaken ip suppoping,
i in the aMJe 'ivhich we copy, that the late Tele
graph hilrcrfates A corporation. It only authorizes
the Beoretary of Btuto to contract with a corpora
tion already, eV to bo created. There are however
numerous other instances of Democratic legislation
to which its strictures have a direct application.—
Savannah Republican.
We had not seen a copy of the bill before Con
grossjurhen we wrote the article; but the Republi
can v»il see, on a closer scrutiny of our remarks,
that wu had in view an indirect charier of a com
pany fcy the legislation of Congress, and viewed ita
act giving efficiency and life to a corporation, in
this way, as fully obnoxious to the old Democratic
"hoc and cry" against such a power as direct and
exehlMve legislation. Wo remarked : "Depending
as thu enterprise does upon the joint encourage
ment and recognition extended by the United States
and Great Britain to the company, wc do not aee
how a vote for the bill ia to be reaoqcilcd with thu
old Democratic constitutional objection to charters
tad incokorttiona by Cougrras." We remember
auoihar oig Democratic axiom, that "Congress can
not do indirectly that whieh it baa no power to do
d-redly;" and we coincide with the doctrine. If,
then. Congress has. in connection wi)h State leg.
illation (domestic or foreign) aidpd in giging life
and exclusive privilege to e corporation, and this
round-about proceeding ia a proper and constitu
tional mode of doing that which it has no right to
do directly and independently, why may it oot, by
the came circuitous process, sol up a United States
Bank by concurrent legislation with a State, with
out vietaliog tha Democratic constitutional scruple!
For should it promise a Pennsylvania
corporation to deposit the Federal revenues in its
vault* wftfct it procured the necessary banking pn.v-
iiug legislature of ifie Htate, would uot
that eg analogous to this aid given by
and giving life and privilege to
^ Ay no Telegraph Company ?
A Democrat's ft£atimatc of Geary*
The Tjllsb..*a- e Floruia Sentinel states that it
has seen a letter to a citizen’ of ita town from a
prominent Democrat of Kansas, late of Virginia,
who represents Gov. Geary to bo a decided aboli
tionist. Reporting (ho information derived from
this letter, it says:
Geary has sold out to the "Freedom shriekers,"
and ia fishing fora seat in the U. H. Senate when
Kansas cornea in as a Htate. He is charged with
interfering with the Judiciary, and fdaying into the
hands ofthe frresoilers by vetoing every bill passed
by the Legislature that doesn't smack of freedom.
8ound eno gh at first, he has turned to be a real
"Buck and Breck and Free Kansas” Democrat,
at h'*art. in the language of this writer. •« "black
an abolitionist as any one of tho Isle Worcester
Convention."
Whitb 3uad at Wbtumpka.—Tha Wetump-
ka (Ala.) Spectator reports that Judge Neil, of that
place, has presented tho editor with a genuine
white shad caught on hia trap in the Coosa river;
and tbo Montgomery Journol *ays that good judg
es have pronounced some of tho *had caught at
Wetumpki this year to be the rc.il white shad,
and no mistake. If these fish ran up the river (as
it is supposed all shad do), how does it happen
that none have been caught in the Alabama river
or the Coosa below Welumpka, or indeed in nny
other river of the Gulf west of Floiidal This
singularity, as well os tho fact that they were
caught on traps (indicating that they were passing
down the stream) would socni to argue that the
shad are permanent residents of the upper Coosm
river.
Tire Missouri Compromise I.aw.
W a sin suton, March 7.—Judgrg John Mcl.eau
nnd Benj. R. Curtis, of the8uprrmc Court of the
United btates, have given opinions affirming the
con«iituiionslity cf tho Missouri Compromise Law.
From thu above dispatch we draw the inference
that in the Dred Scott cu*e the majority of the
Judges of the {Supreme Court of the United Htates
havo decided against the constitutionality of the
Missouri Compromise, but that Justic( s McLean
and Curtis dissent and have given the opinions re
ported abovo.
VxT Andrew H. II. Dawson, Esq., of Savannah,
tins been proposed as the American candidate for
Congress in the first district. It is understood that
Mr. Seward wifi bo a candidate for re-election.
poa tiie oolumiius ExyuiRxa.
Weather iu l<’lorida.
Grrenwood, Fla., March 7, '57.
We have had nil sorts of weather this week, ex
cept warm, on Monday and Tuesday we had frost
ud ice, on Thursday we had the heaviest rain I ever
aw fall in this country, and wind and thunder and
lightning striking the trees about like summertime.
To day we had quite a cold time ol it again, it
snowed n little this morning.
I have heard of Northern men w*ith Southern
principles, but I never saw a Southern region with
Northern climate before. D. G.
Mobile Kaces. %
The spring meeting over the Bascombe Course,
says the Mobile Tribune of the 10th inst., opened j
yesterday with n fair attendance. The races an- i
nounced were the Sovereign Stake for 2 year olds—
$200 entrance, halt forfoit, mile heats. There were
five entries, but all paid forfeit to Col. Sprague's ;
Portland.
The second ruce was for 3 year olds—mile heats ;
$J(K> cntruncc, half forfeit. This race was won by
Sallie IVoods. Wc give the
SUMMARY:
Glencoe Stake—Two mile heats lor 3 year olds. t
Sam. Ilill'a s. f. Sallie Woods, by Wag
ner, dam Maria Woods 2 1 1,
R. C. Myer'a s. f., by Wagner, dam by
Leviathan 3 2 2
R. II. Long’s a. f. Forty Cents, by Wag
ner, dam by Gerow 1 3 3
W. Cottrell's a. g. by Wagner, darn by
Mclzar ’. 4 4 dis •
Time, 1:51k—3:52—4:01.
Curious Buipmknth at Nkw Oulkanh.—Notic
ing tha clouranco on the Hih inst. of a vessel for
8t. Petersburg with a cargo ofrotton, and the usual
clearances for Northern and Euroj ean ports, the
f re»ernt of the 0th adds :
There was nlso one clearance for Providence of
71 socks cotton seed, the product of which
will undoubtedly find its way back after undergoing
llio process of Now England ingenuity and Indus
try, in first quality apertn oil. There waa also n
very mysterious cargo cleared for the west coast of
Africa, say for Ambras and St. Paul do Loundo.—
Saint Puu dc Loando is a considerable seaport
town or city, capital of tho PortUt uose dominions
in West Africa, in Lower Guinea, lat. 8, 48 south.
Its market is well supplied with ( revisions, and it
did have an export trade in slaves and ivory. Am
bras or Atuliig is further south. Ah our corres
pondence does not extend to Elbiop a, wo cannot
give our reudurs uny information of the state of
markets in that heretofore benighted region, as the
trade ha* been exclusively monopolized by New
York and New England merchants.
Appointments by the President.
It is understood that the following appointments
of the President have been confirmed by the Sen
ate:— Nat. Intel!. 10/A.
Samuel Treat to bo Judge of tho United States
Court for the eastorn (new) diat'ict of Missouri.
Thomas (I. Duval to lie Judge of the United
States Court for the western district of Texas.
Wm. C. Young to be marshal of tho United
States for the western district of Texas.
Richard B. Hubbaid to be United Statei Attor
ney tor the suine district.
James L. Jones, of Misjouri, to be Marshal of
the United States for tho western district of Mis
souri.
From Washington—The New Cabinet—The
Policy to be Adopted Relative to Execu
tive Appointments.
Vt ABtiiNQTON, March 9.—Tho new Cabinet is
in session this morning, engaged, as ia supposed,
in tbo consideration of the policy to be pursued re
lative to tho Executive appointments. All the
Departments have furnished lists of the officers
who hold places in the same under limited com
missions, and tho opinion prevai's here that such
officers will bo permitted to oontinua until the ex
piration of their commissions, lobe re-appointed or
not, as the administration may prefer, but as a gen-
oral rule such vacancies a.e to be filled by newnren,
which some of the present incumbents already un
derstand ; and this will be the case especially in
New York, Philadelphia and other principal cities.
The minor places will of course be affected by this
policy which is regarded as one of rotation.
Almost an entire change o( foreign Minister* and
Consuls la anticipated. —~
The Democratic members of the Senate in cau
cus have concluded to adjourn on Saturday next,
provided the President has no occssion to detain
them beyond that time.
Mr. Gass lias runted the building now occupied
by Governor Morey.
Th* Death of Shbkkabd im Kansas.—The body
of W. T. Bberrard, who was killed lately at Le-
compton. reached St. Louis, on Monday last, units
w»y to Virginia. Tho following card appears in
the St. Louis papers :
St. Louis, March 2, 1867.—The undcrsigneJ re
quest s suspension of public opinion relative to the
affray in Kansas, resulting in the death of William
T. Sherrard, Esq. A full statement will be pub
lished, nnd upon it we confidently appeal to a gen
erous public.
One of us is an otd college friend of Mr. Sher
rard, another has known him for years in Missouri,
the other rwo are near kinsmen. In common with
his family in Virginia, we had rather see him now,
a corpse, than to know that he lived bianded with
dishonor. And, as his reputation is all that is left,
we will take care of it.
Respectfully, Wm. M. Cooke,
John Y. Page,
John M. Sherrard,
Jas. W. Singleton. .
Vkrmont.—Tho Legislature of the State adjourn
ed its extra session on the 27th ultimo. An appro
priation was made to rebuild (he Capitol at Mont-
pcljer. The amount, however, is to be refunded to
the State by the town in one and two years. Bur
lington and Rutland each offered to put up the
public buildings at iu own expense.
The Paris Constitmionel explains the secret
tresty between France and Ausuia in regard to the
tenner guaranteeing to the latter her Italian pos
session*. It says the Treaty is a dead letter, aa
Austria never drew the sword against Russia.
Hobbs, the locksmith, has picked Banquo's go*
ry locks ; he did it with a pick axe. He is now at
work on wedlock. Gueas that will be rather a tea*
zer for hinj.
The Great Cotton Invention.
We have received a copy of a pamphlet setting
forth the advantages of Mr. George G. Henry’s
Patent for Spinning cotton cn Plantations.. We
extract the following:
Cost of Machinery.—Tho cost ol machinery to
spin up the following quantities of cjtton per day,
I collate from various estimates made by leading
and eminent machine manufacturers.
A forty-five bale planter, making 22,600 pounds
of cotton, will require to gin and spin 75 pounds a
day, in 300 days, to put it into yarns—and the ma
chinery will coat about $1,500. The increased
value of his yarn will be, ut present prices, about
$2,800.
A hundred bale planter, of 50,000 pounds, will
requt.e to gin and spin in each of 300 days, 167
pound* per day, and his will cost him about
$2,500. From $5,000 his will be raised to*
$10,000.
A two hundred bale planter will require to gin
erd spin 333 pounds per day, end hia machinery
will cost him about $4,600. From $10,000 his
will be raised to $20,000.
A three hundred bale planter will require to gin
and apin 500 pounds per day, and hia will cost him
about $6,000 and hia yarns will be worth $30,000.
A six hundred bile planter, making 300,000
pounds, will require to gin and spin 1,000 pounds
per day, a:id his machinery will coat about $12,000
and *iia income will be $66,000.
A twelvo hundred bale | lanter, making $600,-
000 pounds, will require to gin and spin 2,000
pouuds per day, and his machinery will cost about
$24,000. His income will be about $135,000.
A fifteen hundred bale planter, making 760,000
pounds, will require to gin and spin 2,500 pounds
per day, and his machinery will coat about $30,000.
Hia income will be about $170,000.
These are approximate estimate# fur yarns num
bering about an average of 5 to 10 and 15. As we
progress in the art, we will buy more machinery
end spin tho finer yarns.
We observe that certain leading gentlemen of
Mobile have taken hold of this enterprise, and are
acting as Commissioners for the ~«lc of a certutn
interest in the invention. We hope and believe
that it will be successful; and if so, the cctton plan
ter become t, "hero below,” the "Lord of Creation."
—Montg. At ait
First Htate Flection ol’ the 1 ear.
The election for Governor and other 8tstc offi
cers, members of Congress, und of the State Legis
lature, is to be held to-day in Now Hampshire. The
Hon. John 8. Wells, lately a Senator of the U. S„
is the Democratic candidate for Governor, and
Mussis. George W. K uteri.I go, George W. Morri
son, and William P. Wheeler are the candidate*
of the same party for Congress. The Republican
candidates are: For Governor, William Haile,
and for Congress, James Pike, Mason W. Tsppan,
and Aaron H. Crsgin, ull of whom were members
of the late Congress. This election will be noticed
with interest as the first gun of the campaign. The
Democratic journals seem to calculate upon a reac
tion in favor of their party, but whether their ex
pectations are well founded cannot Im known until
alter the election. The canvuss has been a remark
ably quiet one.— National Intelligencer, 10/A.
Concord, March 11.—Haile, Republican, has
beun elected Governor of New Hampshire by 3000
majority, and the whole Republican ticket is chosen.
Concomd, March 11.—The Republicans hnve e-
lected every member of the Council and Senate,
and aboat two thirds of the House of Representa
tives, together with all three members of Congress.
Pricks of Mks, North and Soutu.—Horace
Greeley, it has been shown, was purchased some
months since, by a North-Western Speculating
Company of bribers, for the round sufU of $1,000.
No one, familiar with Greeley’s paper, for your*
back, would at all doubt the fact of his being venal
to the core —as venal as Bennett, of the Herald.—
But we confess our astonishment at the smallness
of the price paid for him in this particular case.—-
If unaccompanied by a contingency very large and
not vory remote, it would seem almost entirely in
adequate. Why, hrru at the South, a negro man,
of about such a build and physical capacity as v •
take Greeley to p>*sses< from the description wc
have Huen, would briug from $1,400 to $1,600;
though of course, a negro could hardly bo sold at
all here, if his moral charucter were not better than
the editor of the Tribune.
Thu solution of this matter of tbs low prlco may,
poiftildy, be found in the glutted nf-ite of the North
ern market. Wo see by the N. Y. Express, that a
white woman was recently ruffled off, in Gotham,
at $1 per chance. That, all will allow, wp* "dog-
cheap" fur Anglo-Saxon ffesh and blood. And
Cuffre aini his sable spouse may congratulate them-
solves that the "buckra" of the Northern markets
sell for much less money th in Alabama "niggers."
—Muni. Mail.
Du. Kane’s Dot).—The Arctic dog brought home
by Dr. Kane has strayed away off in Allegany.—
Ho has become tho property of Juraet McArthur,
timber dealer, in QramcJ. Tho recent cold wea
ther has kept this lurge black, shaggy animal in
high spirits. When thoy take him into the forest
among tho timber hewers, where he can do no
barm, and remove hia muzzle, he cuts all sorts of
pranks, seeking tho deepest drifts, and actually bu<
rying himself for delight; you can sec the dry snow
move, but no semblance of a dog, till on n sudden
out he pops, giving his hairy fleece u tremendous
shake, and away he runs for unother dive. Mr.
McArthur calls him "E* ki-mo," (Esquimaux,) not
a very smooth name, but characteristic. To look
"Eak" fair in the face you see almost a likeness ot
u black bear, though his eyes are rather languid.— 1
His long, soft, shaggy covering is nearly equal in
bulk to his body. When left to run at large in the
villuge ho wears a muzzle, to prevent his destroying
the pigs and chickens.—Newark (N. J.) Advertiser.
An "Affair of Honor."—We learn from the
Mobile Advertiser, of the 8th inst., that a hostile
meeting took place near ihe Magnolia Race Course,
near that city, on Ihe 7th inst, between Mr. T. O.
Nixon, of the New Orleans Crescent, und Mr.
Urt-ckcnridge, of the Courier. Shuts were ex
changed, anJ the latter loll, the ball having passed
through and broken one leg, and inflictod a flesh
wound on the other. We learn thut the wound i*
not considered mortal. Tho difficulty, we under
stand, grew out of a newspaper controversy be
tween tho Orescent and Courier in regard to
the utnended New Orlcnns city charter.—Mont.
Matt.
Personal—The Washington correspondent of
the N. Y. News, thus explains the cay*e of the
presence of Senator Sumner in Washington :—"Ho
has not been here since the passage of the Com
pensation act. and net being able to get any pay
Until he came on to draw it, he wisely concluded
thut he had better come on and pocket tho money.
His absence being attributable to allege*] sickness,
the pay will not be deducted, the result is, that this
man who has grossly neglected his lagislative duties
ever since last summer, will draw about four thou,
sand dollars for service he bns never performed.—-
Ho looks very well, and were it not fur h's down
cast appearance indicating hurt pride rather than
bodily harm; I would Qot havo i mug mad that any
thing had ever happened to him."
A Delicate Test or Democracy.—To be a Si
mon Pure Democrat in Alabama, one must be in
favor of building a Railroad to the Pacific, at a
cost of hundreds of millions, Ly the General Gov
ernment; and be opposed to* building a Central
The Last Day of Cougrcvs.
WAsniMOTOit, March 4.—The House ii...
ing at 4 o’clock, an«£ the Senate at 5 o'clock, alter^
being in session all night, took a rceess till 9 o’clock,
this morning. On re-assembling the business in'
both branches was mainly confined to the reports
of the several committees of conference on diaa-1
greeing amendments.
Through this agency were disposed of the re
maining general appropriation bills, namely : The
civil and the deficiency bills; the book feature of \
the latter was so amended as to allow certain books T
to be given to new members to be deposited in tho
public libraries of their districts.
House or RBFBEsEifTATiVBa.—The House passed
the Senate joint resolution directing thnt separate
medals be presented to Dr. Kane and hit arctic
companions, as a testimonial of the high estimation
in which Congress holds their merits and services.
Mr. Aiken offered a resolution that tbc thanks of
the House arc due and are hereby tendered to Hon.
Mr. Banks, for the able, impartial and dignified
manner in which he has discharged his duties as
speaker during the present season.
Messrs. Craige, Wheeler nnd others objected to
the reception ot ihe resolution.
The speaker protein. (Mr. Haven) decided that
the resolution was n question ol privilege.
Mr. McMullen said thnt he voted against Mr.
Batiks. There won much in his conduct he could 4
approve and much that he was called upon to rou-*
demn aa one of the Representatives of Virgii.ia.
He waa not only opposed to the resolution, but he* *
entered bis solemn protest against it. It came*
from the lost State in the Union he supposed it
would come from. He regretted that Mr. Aikenl)
had introduced it, and if he could lake back the vote^
he gave the latter for Spe iker lie would do it.
Mr. Seward regretted exceedingly that there had
been any manifestation ol feeling on the subject, i
He came from the State of Georgia, which occu
pies as proud n position as Virginia, or any other’
Stato. He came there with all his Southern preju
dices against the occupant of the chair.
He had witnessed lus conduct cloaely, and scru
tinized it at every step, and must say that he had
seen as much firmness in Mr. Banks as m the oc
cupant of the chair of any legislative body else
where. lie took pleasure, coming from the South
as he did. and differing with the occupant of the
chair, to vote for the resolution and raise his voice
in doing justice too political adversary.
Great confusion here existed. Mr. il
nois, apponled from the decision that it*
was a privileged question. (Cries of*
Mr. Harris loudly maintained that he was not thus
to be cut off from obtaining the floor.
Mr. Houston appealed to gentlemen to vote for
the resolution and not raise points ol order.
Mr. Keitt asked Mr. Harris to withdraw his ap-
peal.
Mr. Harris did toon condition thnt members
could*record their vote*, and finally after further
debato the resolution was adopted—yeas 119, nays
25.
Sby tb.—The Senate were principally engaged
with the appropriation bills It has adjourned (for
legislative business) sine die.
SECOND DtSPATCn.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Noon—Ainid deafening,
contusion the House passed severxl compensation
resolution* and bills. Other business was also at
tempted by some fifty or moro members.
The Speaker at uour 12 o’clock resumed tho
chair and delivered a brief, but eloquent address, in
acknowledgment ol the honor bestowed upon him,
wishing all the members a safe return to their
homes. He was wartnlv applauded. At its con
clusion the House was declared adjourned sine die.
The crowd about the Senate is no dense thut tho
messenger is unable to rench the Senato reporter to
token before the final ad-
learn what action
journuient.
Extra Session of the U. 8. Senate.
On the final expirntion of the regulor session of
the 34th Congress on Wednesday nt noon, an extra
session ol the Senate was immediately organized.
On motion of Mr. Douglas, the oath of office waa
administered to Hon. John M. Mason by Hon. J.
A. Pearce, and Mr. Ma*on was unanimously ap
pointed President ot the Sonate pro lent, and took
the chair.
He then administered the oalhol office to the fol
lowing Senators : Mcssra. Bright, Broderick,
Chandler, Davis, Dickson, Doolittle, Foot, Hamlin,
Kennedy, King, Mallory, Polk, Rusk, Simmons,
Sunnier, Thompson and Wade.
The President pro tem. then administered tho
oath to the Hon. John C. Breckinrigo, Vice Presi
dent ol the United States, and he took the chair as
President ol tho Senate.
Mr. Bruckonridgo returned his acknowledgments
in a brief though rcmnrkaldy neat and pertinent
speech, ufter which tho Senate adjourned
o'clock.
Alter the inauguration ceremonies were conclu
ded, (lie Sonate returned to thoir chamber and i:
mediately adjourned.
Washington, March 6—The Senate reasse:
bled to-day pursuant to adjournment.
On motion of Mr. Allen, a committee of two
members were appointed to wait upon the Presiden
ot (he Unitqd States nnd inform him that the Sen
ntu have ro-nsseinblod and nre ready to receivoany
communication ha may be pleased to mnktr.
Subsequently Mr. Allan reported that the Presi
dent will send a communication to-morrow.
. Wasrinuton, March (j.—Mr;. Seward prosMuJ
the portion ol certain British subject*, settingiorth
that, as Lord Palmerston's act in surrendering the
mnritimo rights ol that government is an act otliigh
treason, those rights will revert to tiie British crown
and nation os soon ns the guilty parly shall he im-
neuched for that crime ; thnt the petitioners havo
heard that the President ol the United Sluics is
about proposing terms on which the declaration of
Pari* wifi t.e agreed to by the United Sta'cs ; that
such an act would bo one of connivnnce with Lord
Palmerston, in hi* attempt to possess bimscll nfnn
arbitrary power, foreign to the British Constitution
and to tho Constitution ot the United States, and
they pray Congress to refuse their sunction to uny
convention with Great Britain founded on the il.u-
gal, iruusonnble nnd invalid declaration of Paris.
l)ti motion of Mr. Seward, it was laid on the table.
Mr. Bigler presented the protest ol lorty-four
members of the Mouse of Representatives, und the
protest of fifteen members of the Senate of Pennsyl
vania, against the proceedings under which Simon
Cameron claims to represent tho Stato in tho Sen
ate. H
Mr. Yulee presented the credentials of Mr. Mal
lory, elected a Senator from Florida, for six years
from the 4th of March.
Mr. Mason w-as appointed to fill the vacancy in
tho Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu-
The Senate then went into Executive Session
and soon after adjourned till Wednesday.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Senate met to-day nt
Mr. VVado presented the resolutions of thu Leg
islature ol Olro in lavor ol tho recognition of tho
Independence of Liberia.
Mr. Seward offered a list ol the standing commit
ters and moved its adoption. Ifo said the majority
of the Senators had decided on the numhor of per
sons they would claim on the committees und the
order in which they should be placed.
This majority included the entire number of tho
members ol the Sunaie except those who belong to
the Republican party of which be was a
They had agreed upon a list of nominations leaving
the minority to fill the vacancies, and the Repub
licans had done so, although the proportion ol Re
publicans on the committees iu unequal and
just, still they have been compelled by the necessity
ol the esse to acquiesce.
Mr. Trumbull said that tho Republicans—i
third the members of the Senate—have only ar
members on the committees, and he could hav<
part or lot in the list thus formed.
Mr. Kosscnden remarked l&iai a just and fair dis
tribution had not been made among the Republi
cans. The committees on Commerce and Indian
affairs contain each but one of that party.
Mr. Mason replied that Parliamentary usage and
political propriety gave the party responsible for
the measures before the Sonate control of the com
mittcea, but there was strict propriety in giving (hi
minority a chance to bo heard.
Mr. Criuottdon said h-* did !'ot belong to tire highj
contracting parties, and therefore coulu have]
irg to do with the arrangement.
The committees as selected were adopted.
Mr. 'I rumbull moved that all the papers i
Indiana contested election cas s bo referred to the|
committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Bright did not desire any dispositii
T-nk .o ccu£, N u „h and SouS, ALb.™',’. "JfrOT
at a cost of two or three millions.
The faithful will have this test applied during
the summer, and those who don't go in for building
for other people and against building for ourselves,
will b« ordered to go "among the goats." There
will be quite a fl *ck of Caslttnero Democrats, on
judgment day.—Mont. Mail.
The Sound or Suseet.—On the arrival of an em
igrant ship, some years ago, when the North Caro
lina laid off'the Battery, an Irishman, hearing the
gun fired at sunset, inquired of one of the sailors
what that was!
"Whai'athat! WSy,tint’s sunset!" was the
contemptuous reply,
" Sunset 1” exclaimed PaJdy, with distended
eyes; “sunset! Holy Moses! and does the sun go
down in this country with such a clap as that V—
Porter's Spirit.
Trioke of the Trade.—Aq old gentlcmnn of
rustic habits reached Cincinnati last week with a
sum of money in his pocket and visions of city en
joyment in hi* head. A drqnk^n mm staggered
Hgaiust a lady Rt tha oars, aud the benevolent old
gentleman stepped Up and drew the drunkard kind
ly away, whereupon the latter hugged his conside
rate friend iw • very ecstacy of grateful affection.—
He then staggered very badly round the corner and
suddenly disappeared just us the old gentleman
missed his pocket-book and its contents. The fel
low played drunk to perfection, and hia rustic ben-
frfactor learned a lesson.
There is a State university in Michigan called
the Hillsdale college. The managers of this uni
versity have concluded to admit students of both
•exes, to make bs^helorcsses of art, as well M
bachelors,
suppose that
nation of the
The Senate had not time to consider the subject
this session, and should consent to its relercnc
with the understanding that the matter go over t
the next session.
Mr. Trumbull could not consent to such an ur
derstanding. The mattor should be disposed of th
•ession. —
Mr. Fitch agreed in the views expressed by hi* i
colieauge.
Mr. Seward thought it would be for the Com
mittee on the Judiciary to determine whether theg
question be deterininod during this or postponed
till the next session.
Mr. Butler sard no doubt this would be a contro-B
veray lull of interest, and he asked the committees
on the Judiciary to meet to-morrow at ten o’clock*
to decide what should be done. 1
The papers were then referred to the corr mtttee|
on the Judiciary.
On motion ot Mr. Bigler, the protest of the mem
bers of Legislature against Mr. Cameron’* right tol
u seal was referred to the same committee.
Washington, March 10.—Mr. Pugh offered a re
solution that the Senate adjourn on Saturday noxt.
Mr. Stuart thought that as the session was call
ed for purposes connected with the Executive De-
part ment, the Senate should not adjourn until the
bueineaa ia consummated- The adoption of tne
resolution was unneceaoary and could not he con-1
sidered otherwise than disrespectful to the rresi-
^Mr. Slidell did not concur in the remarks of Mr. I
Stuart, and he was unwilling to be placed m the
category of showing disrespect to tbe Prestdent,!
who, if ne wished the session prolonged, couId so
intimate, and to this there would be no o^eetto*- j
Mr. Mason said the Sehate had had 1 but oje dty f
for an executive eegsion, and the/ had no tnlorma l
tion to enable them to ascertain whether the 1 rest- t
deni has further business to lay before them. \
Mr. Gwtn hoped the resolution would lie over tor
the present. . .
Mr. Johnson hod hoqrd various gentlemen say