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THE TIMES.
COLUMBUS> A.
Wednesday, Afrit 90, IWB.
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■ NEW PAPER. f
The “ Albany Pattiol,” ia ef a
now and nent paper, estab'ished in Baker
comity. The “Paliiol” ia to be devoted
.n the dissemination or Democratic princi
ple., and ia published and edited by Messrs.
Nelson Tift and Seth N. Botigliton. Suc
cess to them.
MR. RICHARDS.
The Lectures of this gentleman have
been attended by a select and
delighted class of auditor* ‘We are sur
prised that a greater number of persons do
not avail themselves ol this rate opportunity,
■of witnessing the illsistrartion of ibe gland
and mysterious phenomena of Na Ware,
which his Lectures apparatus
■are so well calculated to*give. We cannot
imagine how nil evening cotrld be spent,
more rationally or agreeably.
The Lecture to sight, is on rite subject
electro-magnetism—said to be one of the |
most elaborate and instructive of the whole !
course.
IIANINGTON'S DIORAMA.
AVe speak from knowledge when we say
that this Exhibition is highly worth seeing.
Johnson's formeT Carriage Warehouse, op
posite the residence of C'apt. Schley—is se
lected as the only room adapted to tho Ex
hibition. We underwrite that the vision,
will have the worth of his ticket, in amuse
ment and wonderment.
PUBLIC MEETING.
Columbus in given to excitements. The
buds and leaves of the vegetable world, ate
not more suro to pul forth in the vernal sea
sons, than the humors of the public mind
ate to he stirred up, and exhibit themselves
in a volley of explosive ebullitions. The
latest flare-up, has grown out of the city
contract with Messts. Howard & Echols,
for the sale of the Water Lots. It has
been a shortlived hubbub, springing up,
flirting its fiery tail, and vanishing, all in
the space of a week. So rapid, indeed, lias
been its course, that we have had neither
time nor opportunity to put our finger of
journalism, into it. We have, therefore,
nothing left to do, but to chronicle the fact,
that a public question lias been made ar.d
decided.
The meeting was called by resolution of
Council, to submit to the citizens, their vote
upon the application of Messrs. Howard &
Echols, for a release from < erlnin conditions
attending the sale. Tho Council granted
the prayer of the applicants, ami some dis
satisfaction being manifested, it was deter
mined to submit the question to the People of
the city. This was done on Friday afternoon,
when after a statement of Iris side of the
case by Maj. Howard, a countcr-spcvch by
Alderman Morton, (which wc did not hear ;
hut which is spoken of as a very creditable
eflort) and a speech from Major Wiley Wil
liams, in support ts the decision of the Coun
cil, the latter was sustained by a latge ma
jority of the 200 citizens prsent. The ti
tle of Howard & Echols is thus made com
j>lcte.
THE FOREIGN NEWS.
The “ Caledonia” Steamer, it will be
seen, was detained in England by the Min
istry to bring out to Ameiica, the debate in
Parliament in relation to Oregon. The
rcadet, cannot fail to detect in the solemn
iterations of Sir Robert Peel, both a pur.
pose to iutimidate this Government by a
show of John Bull’s teeth ; and a very con
clusive proof that in earnest in
her march to dominion Oregon. The
Debate breathes both war and peace ; and
whilo tire Premier hopes for an “amicable
adjustment of the differences” between lire
two countries, Ire adds very emphatically,
•• but having exhausted every effort to obtain
it ( Oregon) if our rights are invaded, we are
UESOLVEn —AND WE ARE PREPARED TO
MAINTAIN THEM.”
The meaning of this is sufficiently intelli
gible, and is, in petto, this; “We claim
Oregon—we intend to have it; amicably,
if by our supeiior diplomatic cunning, we
can bamboozle the Yankees out of it, as we
did the country of the Aroostook ; but by
force, if that fa,ls, provided, we find lire
“game to be worth the candle.” This is the
plain English of lire speeches in Parliament.
It is for the Government and the people of
this country to take care to he prepared to
meet hoih phases of the case—to treat me
nace. when designed to allect unquestiona
ble rights, with the cool contempt of con.
acious power Si rectitude —Si to meet war, if
fha/be the game, with the courage, virtue
and constancy, we have inherited from our
fathers. A Nation’s honor and its prosperity
are indissolubly connected. We, of Ameri
ca, are also “resolved —and we are pke-
PAltr.D to maintain both.”
U. S. Appointments.—A Washington
correspondent announces the following ap
pointments as either made or determined,
viz:
Chas. J. Ingcrsol l , of Pa. (M. C) Pleni
potentiary to France.
B. F. Elmore, of 8. C. (formerly M. C.)
Minister Plenipotentiary to London, vice
JJdward Everett.
Gen. W. Jones, of Tenn. (late M. C.)
Surveyor General for Wisconsin, lowa, Si c.
vice General James Wilson, of N. H. remo
ved,
James llobsn of Washington, District
Attorney for D. C - , vice P. R. Fendall, re
moved.
Andrew A. Kiticannou (late M. C. from
Tenn.) Marshal of Southern Mississippi,
vice Miller.
Thomas L. Hamer (lateM.C. of Ohio)
is talked of as Commissioner of the Patent
Office, vice 11. H. Ellsworth.
“We learn that the appointment of Min
ister to England has been offered to Mr.
Elmore of South Carolina, and that he las
declined it on accountof other engagements
requiting bis personal attention in South
Carolina ”
ICR.
We arc glad to learn, that otir rity is out
to be deprived of ibis delightful and useful
luxury, this summer, as we bail cause to
apprehend, until, very lately. We bear
that an abundant supply ison its way. We
do not think that the impnilatiumM|^^etff
our city. It has been ntte^H
> i'ot v. in
out profit amti often, with
enterprise Tins been better rewarded, hurt not
fully successful front the misttrtren policy
which has always guided it. To make the
fee business profitable, there must be large
and rapid sales iff the -article; and the in
fallible rule for making heavy sales, in a
hot climate like this, is to put the price
dew withisi the reach of a great number of
persons, fee has been sold in Columbus
for 10 years, at from 10 to 5 cents —never
we believe below five. At these prices on
i -lyafew persons can afford to use it, con
stantly, and therefore don't use it at all
ice is exported from Boston to India, a six
months voyage and sold at a profit, and wc
venture it has not been dearer in Culcutta
I than in Columbus, since the Jce trade was
j established, foe is sold in Mobile and New
iChleawsfor half a cent\he pound—in Colum
bus, (which commercially speaking is us
near Boston as either of those places, be
! sides the transportation up the Chattahoo
! cliee) a pound of Ice costs 10, 12 and some
times 16 times as much. The disparity is
enormous- If you ask an Ice dealer here,
who lias lieen for years in the trade, without
discovering (tie sectet of making it profita
ble, why this disproportion should exist 1
lie answers with a smile at your simplici
ty, that New Orleans and .Mobile are large
cities, where consumption's great, and deal
ers can afford to sell lute, |>ecause they sell
much. And thus, he thinks he has fully
answered the question find established the
superior wisdom of his slowing away his
Ice and letting it melt at 6 cents per pound
to selling it at 2 cents. And that is the ef
fect o( the high price.
In pro|>ortion to population, this is just
as good a market for Ice as N. Orleans—or
rather it could be made so, if the Ice deal
ers chose. The high price has kept it from
general use. What is now regarded by
the treat majority of the citizens as a luxti.
ry, too expensive to he indulged in at 5 cents,
would at 2 cents, he used sparingly at first,
but soon, in large quantities, ns an indispen
sable necessity—acontinued low price, would
speedily form a public habit and taste which
could not do without tho article. Let the
imporleisof lco this season try the experi
ment ; let them make the market, and they
will fiud their profit in it. In the opening
of the season, when their Ice-IJouses are
full, and the melting most rapid, they ought
to encourage the quickest sales by the low
est prices. Lot them take counsel of Mr.
Sutton, the present proprietor of the pipes
which water the city. When the water
was first introduced, the shrewd old gentle
man set up his Hydrants in the middle of
the streets, and kept them all day and night
jetting forth the clear fluid, to the great de
light of the citizens, who thought it a most
pleasant thing to have water so good, so
cheap, and so convenient. But, before long,
the key to his liberality began to shew it
self. People's wells were neglected, their
pumps got out of “fix”—they became accus
toured to the spring water and preferred it,
“any how; 1 ’ and it was astonishing to see how
many orders, the wise old man had, to con
duct his pipes to yards and kitchens, as
soon as lie shut up his street Hydrants. He,
more wise than tho Ice-dealers, gave aw-ay
bis water at first, that its utility might be
dctnonsiiaied, and the public, obliged to buy
it afterwards.
JOHN M-BOTTS AGAIN” HEADED.”
“ The elections in this quarter of the
Stale,” says the Richuund Whig, “from
present appearances, have gone adversely
to the Whig cause—much more so than
there was any reason to have apprehended.”
The glorious news of the triumph of our
“gallant and able champion,” .Runes A.
Seddon, over John Minor Botts, the apolo
gist—nay, the eulogist of John Q. Adams,
and styled by bis own servile adulators “the
Patrick Henry of the age,” gives siucerest
pleasure to our venerable ‘‘Father Ritchie,”
and to Republicans, every where, unbound
eil joy.
It is a “triumph which,” the Richmond
Whig truly says, “the Loco Focos will
value next after the defeat of Henry Clay !
“They” it continues, “have given to the
mass of the Whig party heie and through
the State, the melancholy conviction, that
their cause isdeslined to eternal defeat, not
so much from the strength of the open foe,
as the secret treachery of some of its own
members.”
Mr. Seddon is elected by about 200 ma
jority. In the city of Richmond, Mr. Botts’
majority is reducedfrotn tliatof Mr Clay’s—
-503, to only 313 volts—a cleat loss of 220
in the Gibraltar of Whiggery ! Mr. Lyons,
tho Texas Whig, is elected over Mr. Brooke
the regular Whig nominee, by 186 majority!
APPROPRIATIONS BY THE LAST CON
GREsS.
Tho Globe contains the publication of Ap
propriations by tho last sum
as follows :
Civil aud Diplomatic expen
ses $ 1,270,951 51
Revolutionary and oilier pen
sioners 2,255,000 00
Support of the Army 3,929,763 30
Support of the Navy 6,350,789 68
Support of the Post Office De
partment 5,166,003 00
Support of the Indian Da
parlment 4,059,503 74
Support of the Military Aca
demy 138,049 90
Navy pensioners 62,000 00
Fortifications 800,000 00
Improvements in the Terri
tories 50,009 00
Miscellaneous 144 025 67
Total #24,235,038 90
The “American Star,” published
at Lad range, tor. Df. Bronson, is oll'cred for
■ sale.
LATKTROM TE>IA.
By tlie arrival of the Steatfiabip Idhn
S. McKim, we have intelligence from Hous
ton and Galveston to the 20th inst.
The President, has at last, issued his Pro
clamation convening Congress on the 16th
(day of June next; ‘from which we Icatn
that the Government of the United States,
lias selected the Ist-dr. 2d sections of Biown’s
resolutions as the basis for consummating
the proposed union.
The enthusiasm of the friends tff annex
ation, is overwhelming—bearing down all
opposition before it. At a meeting held in
WashingtoncoHHly, resolutions were
passed in favor of immediate annexation,
“ without referqpce to the wishes or concur
rence of amy foreign or European power
and rooonsmending the citizens of the Re
public, in case the. President did not con
vene Congress immediately, to meet as soon
•as possible in Convention, to ratify the joint
resolutions and form a State Constitution.
The whirlwind of public opinion (says
the Houston Telegraph) has swept down all
opposition, aud the few opponents of annex
ation have turned with dismay from the
contest, if contest it can be called, when the
opponents of this great measure only look
ed around them owee to survey the field,
and cry “ all is lost.”
It was rumored at the seat of Govern
ment, that communications had been re
ceived from General Aristn, conveying as
surances that the new Government of Mexi
co is disposed to treat with Texas upon the
basis of Independence~to which the Texan
Government has replied, declining, nodoubt,
the generous proffer, but like other ambitious
aspirants, adding, we may sup|>osc, by way
of conciliating Mexican indignation, that
they, (the official corps,) “ have no personal
objections to tho measure.”
RAIL-ROAD IRON.
The New York Tribune, says :
Railroad Iron was worth £l2 sterling a
ton in England at the latest dates received
when the Post wrote its article, and is worth
<£l2 10s. by the advices via Great Western,!
equal to S6oi first c ist in England, while
American Iron masters are now turning out
good Rails tinder contract at a less price.
Put on the freight and charges, with 20 per
cent. Revenue duty, and English Rail
road Iron would cost about S6O a ton in N.
York, or any part of this country. But for
the protective feamres of our tariff every
toil of Railroad Iron laid down in our coun
try ibis season and sot an indefinite period
to come, (unless previously contracted for at
a lower price) would here cost this exoibi
tunt ptico, which would have gone to swell
a henry balance of indebtedness against us.
Now a great deal will be made at Lome, at
a less cost, giving employment to American
artisans and laborers, a market for Ameri
can Provisions, and support to American
Schools, Churches, &c. Stand by the Ta
riff. and wc will have a homo made Rail
road Irou at S4O a ton before Polk's let in is
out.
The above is the re-iternlion of the stale
absurdity of “ high duties and low prices.”
How it is, that the American Iron Manu
facturer, can make Rail-Irons, any cheaper
because of a duty on the foreign article, we
find it impossible to imagne. We have
never seen, jior can we think of, even, a plau
sible guess at the reason. But it is easy
enough to see, why, under a high duty on
imported Rail.lron, augmenting the price, |
by the amount of the duly ; the Ameiicnn
article may command a higher price than
it could ami ought to be sold for. leaving a
fair profit to the manufacturer. The Tri
bune says. “stand by the Tariff, and we
will have home made Bail Irons at S4O the
Ion.” It is our belief, that if Mr. Greely
thought so, he would he in favor of a repeal
of the Iron duties. It is had enough for
tho Tariff’ blood suckers to lay the heavy
hand of exaction upon us; but it is impossible
to bear with equanimi y. the insult added
to the wrong, when they tell us, “ Wc plun
der you for your own good.” They tax us,
and tell us, it will lighten our burdens;
knock us down, and protest that it will have
the singular effect, of making us stand tip!
and worse than all, they keep repeating the
argument, as if they thought we were such
outrageous fools as to believe it. Tell it to
the Marines, Mr. Greely !
PITTSBURG FIRE..
The cities North of us are contributing
generously to Ihe relief of the sufferers by the
late fire. Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of
State, has given SSOO to the fund. The N.
Y. News says.
The Treasurer of the Pittsburg Relief
fund, announces under d,te of Friday, the
receipt of 81,608. Among the contributors
were Chester Jennings, City Hotel, $100;
Col man & Stetson, Astor House, 8100; Cur
tis Si Hand, of Philadelphia, $100; the town
Councilol'Stubenvillo have contributed SSOO.
From Washington, Pa., $201; and $215 30
fiom persons engaged in the public service
of the U. S. Arsenal.
The Corporation ot York, Pa., has voted
§SOO, and a munificent lady of the place ad
ded $5(10 more. Gov. Sliunk has forwarded
$30,000 of the State's donation.
The Pittsburg Post of the 18th, contains
a list of contracts for 94 new buildings, ma
ny of them of the largest kind, and all good.
They ought to change the name to Phoenix.
The Editorof the Evening Post estimates
the population ol the city of New-Yotk, as
fill lows :
New-York City, 400,000
Brooklyn 60,000
Williamsburg, Jersey city, and
Hoboken, 12,000
Total 472,000
There were erected in N. Y. proper, du
ring the last year, 1,210 buildings. Alnny
of them cost from $20,000 to $10,000; and
a few as high as $70,000.
The Bump ok Caution. —The N. Y.
News knows of a gentlemen who always
travels provided witli a lady’s night cap, so
that if any of the lintels at which he may be
stopping catches fire, he can|in an emergen
cy put the cap on. thrust his head out of the
window, and unkc the people holiive him
to be “a lady in distress.”
Barki.t Martin, Esq., lias been
nominated as the Democratic candidate for
Congress in tin: district in Tennessee, lately
represented by A. V. Brown-.
all rbady.
The Madisonian says, while lire rumors
of war between Mexico and the U. States,
are borne upon e*6ry Southern breeze, it j
would be criminal as well as foofish for our
Executive to send to distant sea->, squadrons
ready for service, and leave the key to the
American Continent, tire Goff of Mexico,
unprotected.
We rejoice, therefore, to learn, unofficial
ly, that our grim old battle ships are acci
dentally in positions to repel invaders and
chastize pirates, and we should not be sur
prised if they should continue in those posi
tions until the questions of annexation and
the payments of debts due the United States,
on the part of Mexico, are settled.
Growth or St. Louts.—A correspondent
of the New York Journal ofCnmmerce, con
siders it not unlikely that St. Louis will
•
contain 100,000 inhabitants in less than 15
vears from this time. Business of all kinds
is at present a-ctive, and labor of every des
cription finds employment and reward.
The Democratic Convention of Florida
recently held at Madison, have nominated
Col. W. D. Mosley as their candidate for
Governor aud tho lion. David Levy for
Congress.
On the 6th of May, the sun will rise par
tially eclipsed.
COMMISSIONER OF GENERAL LAND
OFFICE.
From the Globe we learn that “the lion*
James Shields, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Illinois, has been ap
pointed Commissioner of the General Land
Office, and commenced the performance of
his duties yesterday. Mr. Shields is an
accomplished lawyer and gentleman, and
one every way worthy to fill the station to
which he has been called. He ha 9 long
been a favorite of the people of Illinois and
of the neighboting States, whose confidence
lie lias won ns wo'l bv strength and probity
‘of character and amenity of manner, as by
| the intellectual power he has manifested in
the advocacy of republican principles.
His appointment will be most gratifying to
the West.”
Among the passengers by the Great Wes
tern aro Henry Inman, the celebrated pain
ter, and M. Maillard, executor of the Will
of the laic Joseph Bonaparte. M. Maillard
was one of the stall’ of Joseph, when King
of Spain. He will proceed from N. York
to Joseph’s beautiful property at Borden
town, which is left by the will to the prince
of Lusignano. grandson of the deceased’s
brother, Lucien. It is the intention of the
young heir and his family to retain posses
sion of this property which the late owner
valued so highly.— Ex paper.
ACCIDENT TO THE STEAMER C. VAN
EERBILT.
It has been otir lot to make a number of
tiips in the Wilmington Company’s Steam
boats, between Charleston ami Wilmington;
and we have never done so, without a lively
sensibility to tho fact, that we were fool
ishly committing our persons to great haz
ard. The great good luck (for it is nothing
else) which has attended that line for sev
eral years, has been a theme of constant
wonderment to ns. At no time sitx-e the
line has been in operation, would we have
been surptised to hear of the occurrence of
some dreadful disaster to these boats. We
of the South and West of Charleston, who
are compelled to tuntlie peril of these cockle
shells, to get to tho North, arc deeplyj in
terested in this subject, and we seize the
present occasion to denounce the insufficien
cy of the Company’s Boats, for the purposes
for which they me intended. In the first
place, they are not sea-boats. In England
a man would almost he bung for presuming
to take passengers to sea, in such a cruft.
They are long, narrow, week bulls that bend
like a sapling on the back of a sea—they are
unprovided with spars and sail enough to
save them front a lee-shore, in ease of acci
dent to the Engine; and in general they car
ry very little more fuel than is necessary
without mishap, to perform their voyage.
In short, they are jtist fixed to go safely, if
nothing happens ; but an accident in bad
weather, to which that stormy coast is par
ticularly liable, is almost certain lobe at
tended with danger and loss of life. The
late accident to the Vandeibilt most fitly
illustrates the helplessness and danger of
these heats in ease of had weather.
Fr.m iht- Chart! Sion Mercury.
STEAMER C. VANDERBILT.
This steamer, sot whose safety consider
able anxiety was felt, arrived at Wilming
ton from this port on Tuesday evening last
about 10 o’clcek, having broke one of her
Shafts a few miles East of Georgetown, and
had to perform the balance of the trip with
one wheel.
Wc copy the following letter from the
Patriot ol yesterday.
“ Wilmington, April 23,6 o’clock, A. M.
Dear Sir: As you will first have it in
yout power to inform the public the cause
ol’tlie non-arrival of the steamer Vanderbilt
at her appointed lime yesterday morning,
at this place, I would inform you that after
leaving the wharf at Charleston, a quarter
past 3 P, M , on the 21st, we got on well
until 11 o’clock, P. AL, when the main
shaft, without any extraordinary cause
! whatever.’brokc short oll’ir the socket o( the
j Water Wheel on the larboard side, which
of course caused us immediately to slop
I where we remained drifting at the mercy of
the wind ami waves (for we had no mast or
spare spar on board on which a temporary
sail could have been rigged) for about an
hour aud a half, while all hands were em
ployed securing the Water Wheel from
being submerged, and sufficiently discon
nccting tire shaft from it, that the starboard
Wheel might be made available for the pro
pulsion ofthe boat—ibis being accomplish
ed, the boat was put under steam again, aud
we got along uncommonly well at the rate
of 24 to 3 knots, until a little before day on
(he 22d, when it began to blow so fresh from
the East, as almost entirely to itnpedo our
speed, when Captain Matshal had serious
thoughts of putting about and running for
Georgetown, but thanks to a meiciful Prov
idence, the wind soon abated, and we kept
on, tire sea being fortunately smooth, at the
before mentioned rale of speed, and artived
safe at this place, last night at quarter
past 9 o'clock. Wo should have come
much quicker could a purchase have been
rigged to have hoisted the disabled YVater
Wheel entirely out ot tne water; as in its
situation it operated as a heavy back drag
■■ upon the boat. To Captain Marshall, much
I ptaisevis due for hi4’tool, determined perse
vering conduct. At about 3 o’clock yester
j day afternoon, when about l* miles to tht
j Southward of Cape Ftedt Ugfit, it being in
I sight, we discovered a Steamer, supposed
to be the Wilmington-, Captain Wade.just
out of that port about 8 miles distant on the
outside of us, that he might he enabled to
give our relatives ami friends at home, sttch
An account or the -cause >r oitr noli arrival
Os Would allay their fears for our safety at
all events, but he parsed ou without taking
any notice of us. We ale Willing to hope
for his sake, that Ire did not see us—for if he
did see us, we lbink. that simply Tot- tire
reason given he ought to have tun down to
us, in order to know our actual condition,
particularly as it Could.not possibly have
detained him an hour, and he had then the
prospect of plenty of spare time before him.
We are extremely glad to see that the
Mercury lias taken this subject in hand.
The Editor makes the following animadver
sions in regard to the late mishap.
Conversing w-ith a gentleman who was on
board the Vanderbilt during her recent trip,
we learned with some surprise, that when
the shaft broke, that boat was left to depend
for her whole of safety and progress upon a
single wheel. It was near two hours before
the broken wheel could be disentangled, the
steam reduced, Sec., so to give fair play to
the remaining wheel. There was no mast
to the boar—no sail—nor a spar on board,
on which even a tablecloth could be rigged.
The wind was meantime blowing lighily
from the South East, and it was bright
moonlight. It oidy required a slightchnnge
of circuinstances—a dark night, and the
wind fresh from the same quarter, to have
sent the boat helplessly upon the breakers
and render the loss of all on boatd a natural
consequence. What rendered matters still
worse, there was no means of raising up the
disabled wheel, arid it continued the whole
way, half buried in the water, a fearful ob
struction to the feeble power left to the boat.
A small spar would have been sufficient,
but there was no such riling boat'd.
Now if, under these circumstances, the
Vanderbilt had been driven ashore and val
uable lives had been lost, the public would
haj-p been called upon to acquit the Wil
mington Company of all blame. Con'd
they have honestly done it ? Left as she
was at the time of the accident, if the wind
had been blowing hard on shore, she would
have goneon the breakers ; if in tho oppo
siie direction, she would have been driven
outto sea, without fuel or provisions. Arid
had weather is the time when such an acci
dent is most likely to happen—because
then the motion of a boat is least equable
and the strain on the machinery most try
ing.
We do not believe that the Wilmington
Company have any designs upon the lives
of travellers, anti we confidently look to see
an immediate remedy to these serious defi
ciencies in their line. It will cost little and
may save much. It may he indeed to
them a mti-h more valuable piece of ocono
my, than this saving of duck and spars ;
(or we doubt very much whether any Coutt
would jutlge as seaworthy a boat navigating
tho ocean without the command of a yard of
canvass.
From the N. Y News.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
The Steamet Caledonia arrived at Boston
early yesterday morning, alter the Boston
papers had gone to press. The mails were
quickly sorted at the Boston Post Office,
and arrived here last evening by the Long
Island train.
By this arrival wo have seven days la'er
intelligence Ilian was brought by the Great
Wes'eru, tho Caledonia having been de
tained two days by order of the Government
in order that she might carry out tlie deb te
which was expected to arise in Parliament
on the Oregon question. therefore
on Sunday, lire Gilt. We have x.ortdon and
Liverpool papers of the sth.
Thera has been no arrival from-ihe United
States since the departure of the Great Wes
tern.
Commercial affairs had not changed ma
terially since the last advices. The opening
ot the continental ports had improved the
demand for goods, but the political news had
depressed Stocks and advanced Cottonslight
>y-
Oregon. —The delate or rather the ex
pression of the opinion of the British Gov
ernment relative to Oregon, for which the
steamer was detained, occurred in both
houses on the 4th inst.
Lord Clarendon in the House of Lords,
andjLord John Russell it: the House of Com
mons, drew attention to the peremptory man
ifesto of the new President of the United
States with regard to the Oregon territory.
! Sir James Graham of the Lords’on the part
of the Ministry, and Sir Robert Peel in the
House responded 10 their call. As the re
marks ma e by the ministers were substan
tially the same, we shall confine our report to
the Commons.
Lord John Russell rose to cal’ the atten
tion of liic House to that part of the Presi
den’ts message which relates to the territory
of the Oregon. The course taken by the
President of the United States was entirely
new. The language used implied that the
title of the United Stales was clear and un
questionable, and that the full occupation of
the Oregon territory was only dependent on
the emigration of settlers from the States.—
In disproof of these pretensions, he gave a
minute sketch of all the proceedings relative
to the Oregon, from the visits of the earlier
discoverers down to our own day, contending
that the claims of England were indisputable.
Enlarging on the importance ol the tetrilo.
ry in relation to our growing trade with
China, and in the Pacific; deprecating the
adoption of any lone of bluster and me
nace; regretting that the conduct of the
President of the United States had com
pelled the puld.c notice of a question which
ought to have been left to the ordinary
course of diplomacy, he concluded by de
claring that he would leave the matter in
the hands of those who were entrusted with
the protection of the honor of the country
and the interests of the Crown.
Sir Robert Peel, alter admitting the grav
ity of the question, and rclerring to the ne
gotiations of Mr. Canning to effect an ad
justment of the respective claims of the
United States and of Great Britain, which
ended in the fa,lure. gave a btief account
of the correspondence which ha3 taken
place between the present Government and
the American executive. So recently as
the 19th of Februaiy last, the late Presi
dent, Mr. Tyler, in a message to tho Sen
ate, assigned, as a reason for not complying
with a request to produce the correspon
dence, that the negotiations were still pend
ing, that they had been conducted in an
amicable spirit; and that considerable pro
gross had been made in them. He (Sir Ro
bert Peel) could confirm the assertion as to
the “amicable spirit,” but not as to the “pro
gress.” However, on the 4tl> of March
following, the new President, Mr. Polk, de
livered that inaugural address which con
tained the reference to Oregon. No dqilo
malic communications had taken place
since; all that was kuown was contained
in the address. He considered it bis duty
not to despair of a favoranle result} but if it
were otherwise, be would uol liven object to
lay on the tabla o(the House tits hole of
the correspondence which had taken place.
He deeply regretted that the President of
the United States, in defiance of all usage,
-should hare made the reference he did, du
ring pending negotiations, and pointed to
oilier cotvtingeaoiesi Not only did he re
gret the reference, but the toive and temper
in which it w 9 made.
As the subject had been brought under
discussion, lie felt it to be bis duty, on the
part of the Government,to slate, in lan
guage the most temperate, but at the same
titnejthe most decisive, that the) consid
ered that we have a right to this territory of
Oregon which is-clear and unquestionable;
that we desire an amicable adjustment of
the difference hkiwee-n and the
United that, exhausted
every effort tcAbtain our rights are
invaded, we are ■solved Jmd prepared to
maintain them-. \ A
A tremendous Wrst t cheers from all
parts of the house this annuncia-
The subject thaf^Bopped.
The ‘limes ha#onf its blustering arti
cles about thi*eoun written after live
debate of whi* we haß above give a report.
to all political ealeu
lations, and assVmiiig thn-Mr. Polk’s inau
gural address waMUie Mumifeslo of a Govern
ment, and Inot for the bust
ings. the President finds himseif and
the Union placed in tiißresence of two wars,
for the avowed pufposWowerritorial aggran
dizement, and in dire* vinfftmn of (he whole
policy of America Iryi
to Mr. Trie one [with Mexico is
so anx ' e ”
oiheTVffli Great more remote, but
also more inevitable\®the menaces of the
Americans
and circumstances
a statesman of teulion would direct
the public attentioynot
andobgects those
to the con-
must attenVthem. The
United
provoke hut is illqjrepared to,
carry them on. ‘l’he sanp democratic folly
which makes theilyarrodnnt in the CabinSt,
makes them habit in all ihatiion
stitutes a nation's slffKtl) in (lie
It is extraordinaj#(haMhe
sbonl'l have advaifetl so l< of
war ns to have a
measure for Texas, by
only two a measure for slking Ore
gon, -a taken any
care to provure for the means of consummat
ing such tinparalelled acl^or defend ng them
selves from the consequcftesot them. Are
they not aware that in ■roporlion as they
assume the illegal exi6C of sovereign
lights on the desert shols of the Pacific,
they expose the of the Atlan
t c to ihe broadsides anlockade of British
fleets 1 Have they fortMten, in their anxie
ty to extend their institutions”
to the whole America, that in
the event of war they to encounter
the most novel of all (Higers— that arising
from the presence of Ihfttandard of freedom
among a population of ifcves 1 Or is their
blindness and infatuatiol in proportion to the
injustice and criminalitAf their designs, so
that, in their eagerness l> seize adjacent ter
ritories! they cverlook t resources of their
opponents and their oiln weakness 1 The
consequences of such awar will prove in
calculably disastrous. They would make
brave men liesitato eve in a just cause ; but
the boldness of the demi racies despises alike
the justice of the cau *, and the terrible
evils of the probable res If.
PITTSE RU.
An idea of the int se heat of the fire
which desolated Pills irg may be inferred
from ‘he fact that, in s ne of the iron stores
nails were melted togc ier and formed solid
ball*, iron safes wor melted, and large
chain cables Conglnme ted into one mass.
We see it stated in c Pittsburg Gazelle
that the transportation insiness is going on
in that city with great ctivity, having suf
fered no suspension.
One of the papers c itains the following
accountof a ptnisewor y presence of mind
and energy exhibited h ia lady of that city s
“The very able goAnmentof the wife
of the sheriff'saved tlßcounty jail during
the fire. Sheriff’ Trovßo was absent, con
veying a prisoner to tlB House of Refuge
in Philadelphia ; the fcputy was also ab
sent on business, ami llien the fire got up
into that neighborhood Mrs. Trovillo had
the whole burden oißier own shoulders.
At the very height of le danger she called
all the prisoners who mere not in the cells
to the grate, and by nme let all the vag
rants out. That donelshe set them to work
to carry water up to tie top, anil this only
saved it, as the roofwas on fire several
times. The fellows Ivoiked like horses,
and. as they merited,lso wo presume they
received a discharge. ■lad the jail caught,
we have no doubt sire of the prisoners
would have hern biidd, and very proba
bly the court-house A: at all events, it
would have been greaA injured. $30,000
would have been a larS bill for the county
at this time. For savßg all this, praise is
due the lady of the shAtl.
The citizens of WiAington, Delaware,
held a public meeting Bn Wednesday, and
appointed committees tßmakc collections in
aid of the Pittsburg sufcrers.
The Pittsburg paflrs of Wednesday
mention three more rrlssing persons, viz:
Mrs. Fleming, Mis. IV] tglone, and a ser
vant gill.
A public meeting was lo be held at Cin
cinnati on Tuesday aftei roon in aid of the
sufferers. A similar me ting is to be held
at Hagerstown, in this late, on Tuesday
next. — Balt. Amer.
We copy ftom the I] ciiuiond Enquirer
the foil swing iinformati i respecting exe
cutive appointments, at 1 the course Presi
dent P-*lk intends to pi kue in regard to re
movals from office.
We received by last tvening’s mail from
Williamsburg, a comi uuication from “A
Polk Man on the 4lh r November.” We
have already touched I e points to which
he refers. There is n< intention in Wash
ington to remove ever; man who was put
in by Mr. Tyler, or “vi ed for Gen. Harii
son in 1810.” We ha i shown, for exam
ple, that Mr. Wise, not rithstandino his own
delicate relations to m¥ Polk, will be re
tained as Minister in Brazil.
“There is no “deteiliined hostility to Mr.
Calhoun” aud his frields. For, it is but
the other day, that Iw-. Elmore, a devoted
friend of Mi. Calhou M and one of the ablest
slatesmen in South larolina, was offered
the highest mission ijihe world, viz: to Lon
don I
is probably trua as lias been stated in
the papers, that MrJAlbert G. Southall, “a
fitm and undeviatinJ friend ot Mr. Polk,”
has been eupcrsedejl as Superintendent of
Live Oak in Louisiana; but we have already
given the explanation of the Madisonian.
Mr. Cliirborne is a ‘resident of Louisiana,
where the Live Oik is found, and a pre
ference is therefore given lo him over Mr.
S. j
We have no dot!)', that as soon as the
merits of Mr. A. Gl Southall are known to
Mr. Polk, Mr. S. vJill not find his merits
overlooked. Mr. 1-olk is not the man to
persecute any section of the party, or do in
justice, knowingly* to any man.
The copper ore obtained at Lake Sup’e
i tior is so i icli that jt commands f 20J per ton
:’ at the noiks in Bpat-iii.
THE TONE OF THE BRITISH TRESS. 1
We must say wc have been much amused 1
by tle comments of the English press brought 1
us by the Groat Western on the late mes- j
sage of Mr. Tyler and Air. Polk. In some
of their remarks the) are certainly very sati- ;
rieal and very bitter. The troth is they do
not know what to make of us. They feel,
they see and know that the United Slates of
America present a spectacle not before wit
nessed since the world begun, ol industry,
wealth, enlerprize and liberty, combining
their influences, and producing “in halfacen
tury or a little more, results altogether be
yond former precedent, or even the wildest
anticipation. These “fixed facts’* are bo
fore them, and they are not to be blinked at
nor passed by. Whatever may be the tolor
of the refractions in our political atmosphere,
whatever clouds may pass over us, there is
no denying on their part, the existence of a
mighty Western wb revolving in its own
sphere,with regularity, with majesty and w ith
light.
Astronomy tells us that the highest moun
tains on our earth, no more disfigure its
sphericity, than the nuckerings of°its skin
impair the rotundity of an orange. So with
our own country. The prejudiced observers
of Europe though they may discern a gulf
here, and a cavern there, a disproportions!!
elevation in one,part, and a subsidence of
wide extent in another, forget that all these
ineqalities do not alter Ihe great aggregate
of our position, the rap.d increase of our
population, the general happiness of our
masses, the facilities of life, the freedom of
opinion, the boundless progress of [education
and the recuperative energies of a nation,
whose only Contests after all, are as to what
is best and what is most to be cherished ami
revered.
With all these impressions fastened on
their minds, they cannot help looking west
ward. to see what is the progress of events.
O.ir trade is so iinportaant, at least to them
that tjfey keep up their diplomatic relations
with/the greatest care. They send thbif
clMmest men to reside among us ss Minis,
tap and Consuls. They maintain at a large
yxpthise to their own government, a line of
’stcanfys. They modify, little by little, their
commenfial regulations, as far as they dare,
consistently with their own safety. They
send over their agents to travel here, and re
peat what they have seen. Their merchants
and bankers visit us with the hiost patroniz
ing air, and many of their Birmingham and
Shuflield clerks condescend.to live among us
make fortunes out of American dollars, marry
American women, and enjoy American socie
ty in grades they could by no possibility aI J
tain at home.
All this they do continually, and yctsomfi:
how they are not satisfied with ‘YankeedOitt!
after all! They are therefore delighted when
they can discover some inconsistency, some
folly, some misfortuce, with which to charge
us. Republicanism is to them an anomaly
in national existence. They like it some
what when it pays well for British goods
but in the abstract they abhor its tenden
cies.
The Texas question is ralher a harder pill
for them to swallow than any which has yet
been administered. Tbs infinitesmal does
which they have taken at our hands, the
homoeopathic treatment to which they havo
been subjected, has occupied them very much
no doubt. A riot, a mob. a savage duel, a
badly written President’s message lias kept
them so far, loyal lo their Kings and Cfnesns,
and generally inimical to the progress of lib
erty in a republican form. Kopudistion has
also been ol greai sen ice to the English arie*
loeraev. The rel or apparent inability ot
some of our Slates to pay back pounds sterl*
ing for railroad iron, and Englirh credit*
withheld at tho very turning point in the pro
gress of our internal improvements, has out.
weighed in their estimates, the fidelity re.
sponeibihly and punctuality ofthe more com
mercial Siates of the Union, mid enabled tho
shrewd Premiers ofEugland to keep English
cap tal at home fora bankrupt government to
borrow in its exigencies at three per cent,
instead of its crossing the Atlantic to obtain
seven.
But annexation presents anew and fright*
ful aspect to tin se Islanders. They do not
understand it. They have annexed India,
and some partsof Africa, the West Indies
arid Canada, Australia and a part ofTregon.
They have thrust themselves into China, and
would have that ifthey could. In every part
ofthe world lias England tried the policy of
annexatiou, and by force of arms as often as
by negotiation.
But when the United States seek to xlly
tn themselves a territory settled by their own
people, an alliance sought by the territory
itself, with its necessity appearing evident in
many of the wieest men in onrcotiutry, then
indeed is there a fresh alarm in England at
our condition, fresh fears are entertained for
our permanence, and fresh abuse from the
Brilish press is sputtered forth.
The real difficulty among ourselvns with
regard to Texas is, as to the conditions on
which she is to come inlo the Union. Btrt
lor these, we imag ne its reception would bo
unanimously acquiesced in. But England is
die last nation in the world that should re
prove the spirit ol acqusition and territorial
aggrandizement in another.
We find in the English journals some very
curious remarks oil Air. Folk and Mr. Tyler,
Sir Robert Peel has also expressed his re
grets about us. It is really very unfortunate
we do not please them. But Ipt us hope for
the best notwithstanding! We imagine we
shall survive their misgivings. The exten
sion of our territory is not anew idea. About
half a dozen years after the Declaration of In
dependence, our statesmen of the limp, our
poets and orators, declared that the Union
was one day to have no boundaries bat the
Atlantic and the Pacific, the frozen North,
and the boiling Gulf of Mexico. A certain
poet and divine, of whom the Quarterly Re
view said that be was called Dwight, and bis
“baptismal name was Timothy,” at that early
period declared that North and South Ameri
ca would in the course of events form parts
of our great Republican confederacy. Let
not our friends across the water marvel or
grumble. “What must be, must.”
[xV. Y. Sun.
The following is said to be anew order of
the Postmaster General. It will be very
convenient for publishers :
“Money for newspaper subscriptions, not
exceeding 810 in each case, may be paid to
a Postmaster for the purpose of being paid to
the publisher of a newspaper at any other
office. The Post master is, in such case, to
give to the person paying the money, a re
ceipt therefor and to advise forthwith tho
Postmaster who is to pay said amount of such
deposit. Upon presentation of this receipt,
the amount is to be paid over. The Post
master receiving the amount is to debit him
sell llierevvith in his account, and the Post
master paying that amount is to credit him
self therewith in his account of contingent
expenses.”
T.ie notorious J. M. Bolts, Mr. Tyler’s
bed-fellow, is suffering at present ftom ague
and lever, and is scarcely able to“sturup it”
through bis district.
The Editor of tho Herald, is going to pass
the next summer in Europe, and promises
to communicate his “impressions” on “the
stale of society In the countries thro’ which
he shall travel there.” It is reported that
he does not intend visiting L>u£.in again.
The Madisonian, under Mr. Jesse E
Dow’s management, is not to be called the
Constellation, as at first proposed, bat the
United States Journal.