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DAILY CHROiVIfLE & SE.MIXEL.
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BEFORE THE NEW VOKK HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
OOMINIKD.
I know nothing of the fact, but I once had an
intimation, that one of the most distinguished
writers of our time and of our country has had his
thoughts turned to this subject for several years.
If tins bo so, and the work, said to be in contem
plation, be perfected, it will be true, as I have no
doubt, that the civil history of the groat republic
of antiquity will have been written, not only with
thorough research, but also with elegance of style
and chaste, classical illustration, by a citizen of the
great republic of modern times. I trust that
when tins work shall appear, if it shall appear, wo
shall not only sec the Human consul and tin; Homan
general, the comitia and the forum, but that we
shall also see Roman hearths and altars, the Roman
matron at the head of her household, Roman chil
dren in their schools of instruction, and the whole
of Roman life fully presented to our view, so far
as the materials, now existing in separate and
special works, afford the means.
It is in our day only that that the history and
progress of the civil and social institutions and
manners of England have become the subjects ol
particular attent ion.
Sharon Turner, Lingurd, and, more than all,
Mr. Hallam, have laid this ngc, and all following
ages, under the heaviest obligations by their la
bors in this field of literary composition; nor
would 1 separate from them the writings of a most
learned and eloquent person whose work on Eng
lish history is now in progress, nor the author of
the Pictorial History of England. But there is
still wanting a full, thorough, and domestic social
account of our English ancestors ; that is, a history
which shall trace the progress of social life in the
intercourse of man with man ; the advance of
arts ; the various changes in the habits and occupa
tions of individuals; and those improvements in
domestic life which have attended the condition and
meliorated the circumstances of men in the lapse
of ages. We still have not the means of learning,
to any great extent, how our English ancestors,
at their homes, and in their houses, were fed, and
lodged, and clothed, and what were their daily
employments. We want a history of firesides ;we
want to know when kings and queens exchanged
beds of straw for beds of down, and ceased to
breakfast on beef and beer. We wish to sec more,
and know more, of the changes which took place,
from age to age, in the homes of England, from the
enstlo and the palace down to the humblest cottage.
Mr. Henry’s 1 ook, so far as it goes, is not without
its utility ; but it stops too soon ; and, even in re
gard to the period which it embraces, it is not
sufficiently full and satisfactory in its particulars.
The feudal ages wore military and agricultural,
but the splendor of arms in the Instory of the times
monopolized the genius of writers ; and perhaps
materials are not now abundant for forming a
knowledge of the essential industry of the country.
He would be a public benefactor who should in
struct us in the modes of cultivation and tillage
prevailing in England from the conquest down,
and in the advancement of manufactures from
their inception in the time of Henry IVth to the
period of their considerable development two cen
turies afterward.
There arc two sources of information on these
subjects which have never yet been fully explored,
and which, nevertheless, are overflowing fountains
of knowledge. 1 mean the statutes and the pro
ceedings of the courts of law. At an early period
of life 1 recurred, with some degree of attention,
to both these sources of information ; not so much
for professional purposes as for the elucidation of
the progress of society. I acquainted myself with
the object, and purposes, and substance of every
published statute in British legislation. These
showed me what the Legislature of the country
was concerned in from time to time and from year
to year. And I learned from the reports of con
troversies in th* courts of law what were the pur
suits and occupations of individuals, and what the
objects which most earnestly engaged attention.
I hardly know any thing which more repays re
search than studies of this kind. We learn from
them what pursuits occupied men during the feud
al ages. AS e see the efforts of society to throw off
the chains of this feudal dominion. We see, too,
in a most interesting manner, the ingenious devices
' resorted to to break the thraldom of personal
slavery. We see the beginning of manufacturing
interests, and at length bursts upon us the full
splendor of the commercial age.
Littleton, Coke, Plowden, evfiat are they ! How
their learning fades away and becomes obsolete
when Holt, and Somers, and Mansfield arise, catch
ing themselves, and infusing all around them, the
influences and the knowledge which commerce
had shod upon the world ?
Our great teachers and examples in the histori
cal art are, doubtless, the eminent historians of
the Greek and Roman ages. In their several wavs
they are the masters to whom all succeeding times
have looked for instruction and improvement.
They are the models which have stood the test of
time, and, like the glorious creations in marble of
Grecian genius, have been always admired and
never sur{>asßed.
We have our favorites in literature as well as
other things, and I confess that, among the Grecian
writers, my estimate of Herodotus is great. His
evident truthfulness, his singular simplicity of
style, and his constant resjteot and veneration for
sacred and divine things, win my regard. It is
true that he sometimes appears credulous, which
caused Aristotle to say of him that he was a story
teller. But, in respeot to this, two things are to be
remarked—the one is that lie never avers as a fact
that which rests on the accounts of others; the
other is, that all subsequent travels and discov
eries have tended to confirm his fidelity. From
his groat qualities as a writer, us well as from till
age in which he lived, ha is justly denominated
the “Father of History.” Herodotus was a con
scientious narrator of what he saw and heard. In
his manner there is much of the old epic style ; in
deed his work may be considered as the connect
ing link between the epic legend and {<oliticrl his
tory ; truthful, on the one hand-, since it was a
genuine history ; but, on the other, conceived and
executed in the spirit of poetry, and not the pro
founder spirit of political philosophy. It breathes
a reverential submission to the Divine will, and
recognises distinctly the governing hand of Provi
dence in the affairs of men. But, upon the whole,
I am compelled to regard Thucydides as the great
er writer. Thucydides was equally truthful, but
more conversant with the motives and character of
men in their political relations. He took infinite
pains to make himself thoroughly acquainted with
transactions that occurred in his own day, and
which became the subject of his • wn narrative.
It is said even that persons were employed by him
to obtain informatiod from both the billigerent
Powers for his use while writing the history of the
Peloponnesian war.
He was one of the eminent citizens of the Ath
enian Republic, educated under the institutions of
Solon, and trained in all the political wisdom those
institutions had developed, in the two centuries
sines their establishment. A more profound in
tellect never applied itself to historical investiga
tion; a more clear-sighted and impartial judge of
human conduct never dealt with the fortunes and
acts of political communities.
The work of Herodotus is graphic, fluent, dra
matic, and ethical in the highest degree ; but it is
not the work of a free citizen of a free Republic,
personally experienced in the conduct of its affairs.
The History of the Peloponnesian War, on the
other hand, could only have been produced by a
man who added to vast genius deep personal insight
into the workings of various public institutions.
As Thucydides himself says, his history was writ
ten not for the entertainment of the moment, but
to be “a possession forever.”
“There ean, it seems to me, be no reasonable
doubt that the first works by which man expressed
hi* thoughts and feelings in an orderly composi
tion, were essentially poetical. In the earliest wri
tings of which we know any thing with distinct
ness, we have an union or mingling of poetry and
fact, embodying the traditions and history of thh.
people among which they arose.
Like other intellectual culture, this form of his
tory appeared first in the East, and, from the days
of Moses and Joshua down to our own times, it has
there retained substantially the same character. 1
mean it has been a remarkable mixture of the spirit
of history and of epic poetry. In Greece we may
observe originally the same state of things; but
the two forms of composition soon became separa
ted, though the Greek historical art, when highest,
never loses all its relations to the epic.
The earliest Greek poets were religious and his
torical poets, dealing in the traditions and mytho
logy of their country, and so continued down
through Homer. Herodotus was by birth an Asiat
ic Greek, and was quite imbued with the Oriental
spirit. In his time, of public records there were
none, or, at the most, there were only local regis
ters of public events and their dates, such, for in
stance, as those kept by the priesthood in the tem
ples at Delphi and Argos, or the registers of par
ticular families. He travelled, therefore, to collect
tha materials for his history. But he made of them
one whole, and laid one idea at the bottom, with as
much epic simplicity as Homer did in the Iliad.
His subject was the contest of Greece with the
Persians and the triumph of Grecian liberty; or,
more strictly, the great Grecian victory over the
barbarians who had conquered the world as then
known. The relations between Herodotus and
Homer are not to be mistaken; be not only has
episodes, like the long one about Egypt, and formal
speeches, which were common in historical works
toll the sixteenth century cf our era, and have
uot been unknown since; but he has dialogues.
On* of his series of speeches, which partakes of
the character «f a dialogue, shows a remarkable
advancement in political knowledge for the age of
Pericles. I m*rm that in which the conspirators
against the Magi of Persia, previously to the clc-
Tation of Darius, discuss the different forms of
government, much in the spirit of Montesquieu.
But all these things arc kept in their proper places
bv Herodotus. He feels the connection of his ȟb
• : ot all the way through; how one event proceeds
from another, and how all tends to the princi
pal result or contributes to it directly.
1, Thuovdide* the art of history is further ad
vanced though he lived very little later than Hero
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dotna, and probably had read or heard hi* historv.
though that is doubted.
Thucydides did not, Indeed, make one whole of
his work, for he did not survive the war whoso
history he undertook to relate ; but In is less cred
ulous than Herodotus ; he has no proper dialogue ;
he is more compact; he indulges very little in epi
sodes; he draws characters, and his speeches are
more like formal, stately discussions. And he
says of them, they arc such as he either heard him
self, or received from those who did hear them;
and he states that he gives them in their true sub
stance.
There is nothing to create a doubt that personal
ly he heard the oration of Pericles: and it is re
markable that, throughout the most n< urishing pe
riod of Greek literature, both poetical and histori
cal, productions were composed to be heard, rather
than to be read; and the practice of listening to
their rehearsals led the Greek people to attain
gmit accuracy as well as rctcntivenesH of memory.
In short, Herodotus’s work seems a natural, fresh
production of the soil; that of Thucydides belongs
to a more advanced state of culture, Quintilian
says of the former, ho H resloto omnia toiler flaunt ;
of the latter, Dtmnt* et hrevis ei semper instant sitn.
Xenophon, in his llellcnica, continues Thucy
dides. He was a military leader, and familiar with
the affairs of State ; and, though not so deep a
thinker, was a more graceful and easy writer.
Polybius, living in a much later period, is defective
in style, but is a wise and sensible adthor. His
object is' not merely to shew what ha* been, but to
attempt the instruction of the future —making his
work what he culls a demountratios history, fitted
for the use of statesmen. He is the last of the
really good Greek historians.
The Rotnanns had the great Greek masters in
prose and poetry all before them, and imitated them
m every tiling, but approached their models near
ly only in eloquence and history. Like the Greeks,
too, they hud early poetical histories, historical le
gends, songs, <tc. Ennius wrote e sort of epic
history of Rome. Caesar, one of the most distin
guished of all great men, wrote accounts of what he
had done, or what related directly to himself. The
clearness, purity, and precision of hit. style arc as
characteristic of aim as any of his great achieve
ments.
Sallust went more upon Greek models. Each of
his two remaining histories is an epic whole; short
indeed, but complete; fashioned with the greatest
exactness; and inspired with a dignity and stateli
ness of style which Cicsar did not set k, and which
would not have been fitting for his personal me
moirs.
Livy had another purpose ; there L- an epic com
pleteness in Ids great work, though that work has
come down to ns in a mutilated state. Jfajestas
populi liomani was Ins subject, and he sacrifices
much to it; even, not unfrequently, the rigor of
truth. Ilia style is rich and flowing; some one
speaks jf Liv'd lac ea tihurfas. His descriptions
are excellent; indeed, there is a nobleness and
grandeur about his w hole work well fitted to his
magnificent purpose in writing it.
Tacitus comes later, when he could no longer feel
so proud of his country us Livy had done. He had
all the spirit and the power of Thucydides. Both
were great, upright men, dissatisiDd with their
times ; the one, because of the ascendency of de
magogues among the people; the ot her with the
imperial vices and the growing demoralization of
his age. Tacitus is, however, free rom passion,
and is a wise, sfafebnanlike, profound writer
throughout. Os both his history and annals large
portions are lost. Wo cannot, therefore, tell how
much of completeness and proportion there may
have been in either. But the nature of the period
he discusses in each—a period, as he says“opimum
casibns, atrox prafiiis, discors, seditionibus, ipsa
etiampace asevuin”—forbade poetical ornament, not
lob-* than the severity of his own nature. In character
drawing he is hardly excelled by any one. By a single
dash ot his pencil he sometimes throws out a like
ness which all feel and acknowledge, and yet it has
been thought that some degree of falling off' in the.
purity and elegance of the Latin historical style is
discernible in his pages.
Os the old Roman writers, my preference is
strongly for Sallust. I admire his reach of thought,
his clearness of style, as well as his accuracy of
narration. He is sufficiently concise he is senten
tious without being meager or ob.-cure, and his
power of {Kjrsonal and individual description is
remarkable. There are, indeed, in lis style some
roughnesses belonging to the Roman tongue at an
earlier age, but they seem to strengthen the struc
ture of his sentences without especially injuring
their beauty. No character-drawing can well ex
ceed his delineation of Catiline, his account of
Jugurtha, or his parallel between Casar and Cato.
I have thought, sometimes, that I saw resemblances
between his terse and powerful periods and the
remarks and sayings of Dr. Johnson, as they ap
pear, not in his stately perfoi munccs, but in the
record of his conversations by Boswell.
In turning to peruse once more the pages of
Sallust, to refresh myself for the preparation of
this address, I was struck by the coincidence of a
transaction narrated by him with one which we
have seen very recently in our own country.
When Jugurtha had put to death Hicnnpsal and
expelled Adherbd from his rightful throne, the
. latter, who was born in Numidia, ami not in Uan
. i '/ary , came to Rome to invoke what we should cull
the intervention of the Roman people. His speech
delivered on that occasion in the Senate, as Sallust
has given it, is one of the most touching ever made
by a man in misfortune and suffering from injury,
to those having the power of granting relict or re
dress. His supplication to the Senate is founded on
the broad ana general idea that the Roman people
were just themselves, and, as they Lad the power,
so it was their duty, to prevent or punish high
handed injustice threatened or inflicted by others.
“Sed qiionian parum tuta per se ipsa probitas,
ncque milii in nianu suit, Jugurtha quails foret; ad
vos confugi, patres conscript!, quibus, quod mis
serrimum, oogor prius onen, qiinm us.iiesse. Cetcri
reges nut belTo victi in amieitiam a vobis rcccpti,
aut in suis dnbus rebus societatem restrain app< -
tivenmt; fain ilia nostra cum popula Romano hello
Catbuginicnsi amieitiam instituit ; quo tempore
magis tides ejus, quain fortuna petenda erat, quo
rum progeniem \os, patres consent ti, nolite j>nti
Irustraa vobisansilium peterc. .Si ad impetrundnm
nihil, eausie haberem, pricier misei annum fortu
nam ; quod panic ante rex, genoro, fama atqnc
eopiis potens mine deformatus icr minis, inops,
alienas, opes expecto ; Unnen erat in ijestatis lio
mo/it populi prohihere injnriam neq ie path enjns
epjam rflnuni per serins erescere.
“Quid again ( quo potissirnum infalix acecdam i
Generis pnesidia omnia exstineta su it: pater, uti
necesse erat, natnne concessit; fratr , qnem miui
mc dccnit, propinquus per seelus vitam cripuit;
aflincs, aniicos, prop!minos cetcros, ahum alia
cladcs oppressit: capti an Jugurtha, pars in cru
ccm acti; pars bestiis object! ; pauci quibus relio
ta anima, clunsi in tenebris, cum moworc et luctu,
morte, graviarem, vitam exigmit. Si omnia, que
aut amisi, mix ex nccessariis udversa facta sunt,
incolumia manerent ; tarnen, si quid ex improvi
se accidisset, vos implorarem, patres conscripti,
quibus, pro niugnitudme imperii, jus et injuria*
omnes curie esse dccet. Nunc vero cxsul patria
dome, solos et omnium honostarum rerum egens,
quo acccdam, nut quos appellant * netionc* ne, an
reges, qui omnes familiar nostras ob restrain anii
citiam infesti stmt ? an qnoquam, adiae licet, übi
non majorum mcornm host ilia monumenta pluri
ma shit i aut quisquam nostri misercri potest, qui
aliquando vobis hostis suit (
“At ego infelix, in tanta mala pi ascipitatus ex
patrio regno, rcrnin hnmanarum spectaculum pne
beo; incertus quid again tuas ne injurias perse
quar, ipse auxilii egens ; an regno coasulam, cujua
vitae nocisque potestaß ex qui opibu* alicui* peu
dct. Utiuaiu emori fortunis moia lunestus exitos
csuct, non vivere contcmtus videre-*, si defessus
mali*, Injurin' consessissem ; nunc ncque vivere
libet neque mori licet sine dedeoore. Patres con
noripti, per vos, per liberos atqnc parmtes vestros,
per majestatem populi Romani, sub relate misero
mihi ; itc obviam mjuri.u, nol.te pati regnum Nu
midia', nor scclus et sanguinem fami’a; uostrai ta
bescere.
While I confess myself not competent to sit in
judgment on the great masters of Roman story,
still it has always struck me that in the style of
Livy there was so much fullness, so much accumu
lation of circumstance, ns occasionally tended to
turgidity. I speak this, however, with the great
est degree of diffidence. Livy seems to me like
the rivers under the influence of ccpious spring
freshets, when not only is the main channel full
but all tnc tributary streams are tending to over
flow ; while Sallust, I think takes tare only that
there shall be one deep, clear, strong, and rapid
current to convey him and his thoughts to their
destined end.
I do not mean to say that tho skilful use of
circumstance, either in the hand of a historian or
a poet,is not a great power. I think it is. What
we call graphic description is but the presentation
of the principal idfea with a discreet accompaniment
of interesting concomitant*.
The introduction of a single auxiliary thought or
expression sometimes gives a now gk w to the his
torical or poetical picture. Farfcicultrity, well set
forth, enchains attention. In our language no
writer has understood this better than Milton. His
poetical images and description* are such as to omit
nothing which can make those images and those
descriptions striking, distinct, and oertain, while
all else is industriously repelled.
Witness the fall of Lucifer:
“From mi rn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer’s day ; and with the setting sun
Dropt from the zenith like a falling s ta- -
On Lemnos the -Jlgean isle.”
Ilia description of vocal music in the Allegro is
another instance of the same kind :
“And ever against eating cares,
Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal verse,
Puch as the melting soul may pierce,
In notes, with many a winding bout
Os linked sweetness long drawn out,
With wanton hoed and giddy cu lining.
The melting voice through mazes ruuuii g,
Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony.
That Orpheus’self may heave his head
From golden slumber, on a bed
Os heap’d Klysian flowers, and hear
Such strains as would have won the ear
Os Pluto, to have quite set free
His half-regained Eurydice.”
fil Hardly know any thing which surp«es the***x
quisite Hues, so poetical, and at the name time 30iC
from ali foreign idiom.
Tlie Aret three stanzas of Grey’s “Elegy in a
Country Church Yard” are also remarkable for
the power and accuracy with which rural scenery
is presented by grouping together many objects in
one picture.
Another poetical instance of the same beauty is
the “Burial of Sir John Moon
There are remarkable instances of the same skill
in writing in some of the English prose writers,
and especially in the production of Daniel De Foe.
No boy doubts that every thiug told of Robinson
Crusoe is exactly true, because all is so circumstan
tially told; and no man doubts, until he is inform
ed of the contrary, that the historian of the plague
of London actually saw all that he described,, al
though Dc Foe was not l>orn till afterward.
It is a well-known saying, that the lie with cir
cumstance is exceedingly calculated to deceive, and
that is true ; and it is eqiuff’y true, not only that
fictitious history gains credit and belief by the skil
ful use of circumstance, hut that true history also
may derive much additional interest from the same
source. •
In general, however, historical facts are to ho re
lated with rather a close and exclusive regard to
such, and such only as arc important.
The art <jf historical composition owes its origin
to the institutions of political freedom. Under
the despotisms of the Ganges and the Indus, poet
ry flourished, with Oriental Insurance, from the
earliest times ; but in the immense coinpas of that
rich primeval literature there is no history, in the
high sense of that term. The banks of the Nile
were crowded with historical monuments and
memorials, stretching back into the remotest an
tiquity; and recent researches have discovered
historical records of the Pharaohs in the scrolls of
papj rue, some of them ns ancient as the books of
Moses.
But in all these there is no history composed
according to the principles of art. In Greece the
epic song, founded on traditionary legends long
preceded historical composition. I remember
when 1 thought it the greatest wonder in the world
that the poems of Homer should have been writ
ten at a period so remote that the earliest Grecian
history should have given no account of their au
thor. I did not then know or had not then cousid ■
i erad. that poetical writings, hymns, songs, accounts
of personal adventures, like those of Hercules and
Jason, were, in the nature of tilings, earlier than
regular historical naratives. Herodotus informs ns
that Homer lived four hundred years before his time.
There is, nevertheless, something very wonderful
in the poems of Homer.
CONTINUED TO-MORKOW.
TIIIIITV-SEC OYD CONGRESS— First Session
IN SENATE, Feb. 28.
At an early hour the Senate galleries were crowd
ed to their utmost capacity. The entrances to the
Senate and the ante rooms were blocked by crowds
unable to obtain admission to the gallery. The re
porters were mostly all dispossessed, their gallery
haring been invaded, conquered and occupied by
ladies attracted to the Senate by the expectation of
hearing two gentlemen say naughty things to each
other. The first rnle in a reporters’ gallery is si
lence—the rule was suspended to-dayr
Numerous petitions wore presented by Messrs.
Seward, Fish, Brodheacl and others, in favor of and
against the further extension of 'Woodworth’s pa
tent for plaining machines, and Parker’s patents for
water wheels.
The compromise resolution was again taken up.
Mr. Clemens resumed his defence. He said that
one of the papers of this city pronounced the Sen
ate disgraced by the proceedings of yesterday.
Whocould be so unreasonable as to suppose that
after the flourish with which the Senator from
South Carolina had announced his purpose of at
tack, that he would be allowed to have all the war
on his own side { The Senator from South Caroli
na had brought before the Senate a charge of cor
ruption. which he had found in a low scurrilous pa
per in Alabama, and had attempted to give it dig
nity by reading it to the Senate. Was he to sub
mit to this. He had repelled it in terms which it
and the manner of its presentation here had de
served, by branding it as a lie, language which lie
never intended to recall.
Mr. C. then took up his several speeches made
upon the Compromise, both before and since its
passage, and demonstrated that the charge of in
consistency was not made out. He denied, posi
tively, ever having advocated disunion. He never
contemplated it but as the horrible resort of the
last extremity.
On one occasion J. Q, Adams presented a peti
tion to the House, praying the dissolution of the
Union. A motion was made to expel him, Mr.
Botts moved to lay the motion on the table, and
the senator from South Carolina voted against lay
ing that resolution on the table, thus allowing his
desire to expel Mr. Adams. Now he rises here
and proclaims himself a disunionist. Adams pre
sented the petition avowing himself opposed to its
prayer; for so doing, the senator desired his ex
pulsion. What was Adams’ crime compared to
the senator's ?
He alluded to the recent contest in Alabama, and
said that no man could be elected constable in a
respectable beat in that State who entertained the
sentiments of the Senator from South Carolina.
Mr. lihett followed, stating that he expected that
when he repelled the insults of the Senator, that
he would be met with renewed insult, and he had
not been disappointed.
He contended that the Senator’s statement that
be (Rhctt) had been applauded and cheered bv
Sumner and Chase had been falsified.
He explained why he had not met the insult by an
appeal to the code of honor, by stating that lie con’d
not be diverted from the prosecution of his great
cause, the recognition of State rights; and because
he was a member of the church of Christ for twen
ty years.
He denied having ever avowed himself a traitor.
He owed no allegiance to the United States—he
owed no allegiance to any one but to South Caroli
na. If any treason to the constitution was com
mitted, it was by the eonsolidationists like the
Senator.
He repeated again the matter concerning Cle
mens’ election to the Senate; it was no private af
fair; it affected the dignity of the Senate, and, if
the fl ets were known at the time, C. ought never to
have been received into the Senate.
Mr. < ’ emeus rejoined.—ln referring to the causes
given by the Senator for not making an appeal
to the laws of honor, he said he was not aware till
last night that he was a member of the church.
How could he suppose that man a Christian who
went to bed nightly with the prayer upon his lips,
“ Father forgive us o’nr tresspasses as we forgive
those who trespass against us,” and he. day after
day, was preparing, with fiend-like malignity, for
* cold-blooded murder of another man’s reputa
tion.
The subject was then postponed for two weeks,
and the Senate adjourned.
IN SENATE, March 2.
Mr. Bright presented petitions against carrying
the mail on Sunday.
Mr. Dawson presented the joint resolution of the
Legislature of Georgia, opposing any departure
from the present policy of neutrality of the United
States.
Mr. Seward moved that when the Senate ad
journ, it adjourn to meet again on Wednesday, to
enable Senator* to visit the Baltic. He thought
the day could not be better occupied.
Mr. Dodge opposed the motion.
Mr. Gwin supported the motion.
Mr. Brodliend said that he understood this ves
sel was brought here for the purpose of exhibition;
they complained that they were unable to compete
with British interests, and brought this steamer
hero as an exhibition to advance their interests.—
The iron men of Pennsylvania desired protection;
they could not bring their goods here for exhibi
tion.
Mr. Gwin said that the iron men and cotton in
terests had had their day. They had, by open
houses and entertainments, been powerful here
upon the past legislation of the country. Their
influence was felt here, and by it the tariff of’42
had been carried. If they had* not brought their
goods here to exhibit, they had -rought their
money here and had used it in the effort.*
Mr. Brodhcad said that the iron men could not
bring their furnaces here, and he hoped Congress
would not encourage this appeal for speeial npro
tection.
Messrs. Borland, Downs, Mallory, and Jones, of
lowa, continued the debate, in opposition to the
motion, and Messrs. Seward, Bayard and Mangum
supported it.
And the motion was agreed to: Yens 21 nays
19.
After reports, the lowa Land bill was taken up,
and Mr. Dawson opposed the bill; after which the
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Fitch, of Ind., moved to suspend the rules,
to enable him to introduce a resolution to the fol
lowing effect: That we regard the binding efficacy
of the compromise of the Constitution, and be
lieve it to be the intention of the people generally
and we hereby declare it to be our determination
individually to abide by such compromise, and to
sustain the laws necessary to onrrv out the provis
ion for the delivery of fugitive slaves ; and that
we deprecate all further agitation of the questions
growing out of the provisions embraced in the acts
of the last Congress, known as the Compromise,
and of questions generally connected with the
question of slavery, as unnecessary and dangerous.
The motion to suspend the rules was rejected.
Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, moved that the rules be
suspended, to enable, him to submit a motion dis
charging the committee of the whole on the state
of the Union, from the further consideration of the
bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to
nay the amount of judgments obtained against Col.
Mitchell, for trespass committed in Mexico du
ring the Mexican war, which had been referred,
and the yeas and nays having been ordered, the
motion was carried—yeas 129, nays 44.
The bill was then taken up by'the House, and a
motion was made that it be read a third time •
upon which the previous question was demanded]
Pending which, a motion was made that when the
House adjourn it adjourn till Wednesday; upon
which the yeas and nays were ordered. The mo
tion was carried—yeas 87, nays 74.
It was agreed to defer the' further consideration
of the bill till Monday next.
auV^cntincl.
o _
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORXIN6, MARCH 5.1858.
Mr. Webster—The Presidency.
The presence of Mr. Webster in New York
has given a new impetus to those of bis admirers
in that city who are determined to press his claims
upon the consideration of the American people
for the Presidency, and the following call for a
meeting to promote that object lias been publish
ed and circulated for signature* :
Public Meeting.— The subscribers, citizens of
New York, earnestly desire the election of Daniel
Webster, to the office of President of the United
States, for the ensuing Presidential term ; and
they respectfully invito all citizens who unite with
them in this wish to meet at on the 4th day
of March next, at half past 7 o'clock in the eve
ning to nominate Mr. Webster for the Presidency,
subject to the approval of a Whig National Con
vention.
The Courier db Enquirer, a zealous advocate of
Mr. W., in publishing the call, remarks :
We learn from those who ha've the matter in
charge, that, although the foregoing call'was not
put m circulation until Saturday afternoon, it has
now appended to it upwards of seven thousand
natures ; we also learn from the same source, that
Mr. G eorge Griswold, one of our oldest and best
known merchants, will preside at the meeting, as
sisted by his Honor the Mayor, and one hundred
of our fellow-citizens representing every interest in
this the great commercial emporium of our country.
Convention or the Union Party. —The Central
Committee, to whom was confided the duty of de
signating the time most convenient for the meet
ing of delegates from the Constitutional Union
Party in convention at Milledgevillc, for the pur
pose of taking into consideration the propriety of
sending delegates to the Baltimore Presidential
nomination —respectfully suggest the 22d of April,
as the day upon which the convention shall assem
ble —and wc rccommond to the Union party in each
and every comity in the State the propriety of
holding county meetings for the purpose of send
ing de.egates to the same. Union papers -will
please publish.
Very respectfully,
Jas. A. Mkriwetheb,
J. W. A. Santoro,
Lli 11. Baxter,
A. H. Kenan,
Robert Collins,
Wm. McKinley,
L. Stephens,
Central ConunUte.
The above Card of the Central Committee, ap
pointed by the Milledgevillc meeting, presents di
rectly to the Union party of Georgia the question,
whether they will determine to transfer themselves,
soul and body, to the National Democracy, and to
an intimate association in the Baltimore Conven
tion with the Frce-soilera of the North and the
Disunionists of the South ? whether they are ready
to abandon the principles of the Georgia Platform,
and in pursuit of the spoils, unite with the motley
crew of the Baltimore Convention, with the Ras
touls, 11 alleys, Van Burkns, Wilmots, and other
like spirits of the North, and the Secessionists of
the South ? It behoove# the Union party, there
fore, to prepare for the issue, and to see that they
are properly represented in the April Convention.
The Northern Mail failed yesterday beyond
Baltimore. Our latest dates from New York are to
Sunday P. M. It will probably require a few days
to get regulated under the new schedule.
Harper’s Magazine for March is on our table,
filled, as usual, with a choice variety of reading.—
To those familiar with the character of this nonpa
reil of a Magazine, we need not say a word in its
praise. For sale by Geo. A. Oates & Co.
Mr. Dempster.
Those who have heard she sweet note* of this
most popular of Ballad Singers, we are sure will
welcome the announcement of two of his Lyrical
Entertainments, to take place at Masonic Hall, on
Monday and Tuesday evenings next, to consist of
a selection of the songs composed by himself and
Burn’s well known Ballads and Melodic*.
Splendid Bouquet.—ls the soft and balmy South
winds of tlie last few days bad not admonished us
of the rapid approach of Spring, our friend Mauob
would not have permitted us to remain oblivious
of the rapid advances of the genial season. We
have, therefore, to thank him for a most chaste,
beautiful and exquisitely fragrant Bouquet, culled
from hie choice collection of rare flowers and
plants.
Ecu- the Chronicle ami {Sentinel.
Mk. Editor: Your last number contains astate
mont which, for truth's sake, and also as an act of
justice to Bishop Doane, — to whom it imputes in
consistency and fickleness—l presume you will
cheerfully rectify.
In the course of the article headed “Church dif
ficulty—Trial of another Bishop,” the following
passage occurs: [1 omit, for brevity, irrelevant
words.] “ The three Bishops demand a special
convention, to in restigate the charge w” Arc.; “Bishop
Doane declines to call the convention,” (viz, u con
vention to investigate the charges,) “denies the va
lidity of the charges, and in reply to the communi
cation of the three Bishops, denounces their inter
ference in the matter as uncanonioal.” “ The New
York Express, however, says : ‘Since the Protest,
Appeal and Reply (of Bishop Doane) was written
and published, we learn that ho has consented to
call, and has actually culled, a convention of his
Diocese, to take into consideration the .subject emitter
c f these charges.” [The italicised words are mine.]
Now, the whole effect of the preceding extract, and
especially of the word “ therefore”, as introducing
the statement from the New York Express, is to
represent Bishop Doane as seceding from the
ground assumed in his Protest; and under these
circumstances, Mr. Editor, I think I have a right to
claim, as an act of justice, the publication of the
following official notice from Bishop Doane, as
published in the “ Banner of the Cross,” for Feb
ruary 2sth. It will thus be scon, by all your read
ers who take an interest in tlie subject, for how very
different a purpose than that dictated to him by the
three intrusive Bishops, Bishop Doane lias called
his Convention together,—a purpose , not only en
tirely consistent with the grounds of his Protest,
but the natural and obvious, if not, perhaps, neces
sary, accompaniment of it. [The italics are by the
Bishop.] Fiat Jusiitia.
“ Circular Letter. —To the Churches of the Dio
cese of New Jersey:
“The undersigned, by Divine permission, Bish
op of the Diocese of New Jersey, hereby calls a
special convention of the Church in this State :
to consider and express their judgment on the official
conduct of the Bishops of Virginia, Maine and Ohio,
as touching the rights of the Bish-p and the Diocese ,
in dictating a coarse of action to he pursued by them,
in (heir letter addressed to him, dated September 22.
1851,” etc. George W. Doane,
“ Bishop of New Jersey.
“ Riverside, Feb. 12, 1852.”
The man who hung himself with a chord of mu
sic has been cut down with a sharp cast wind.
The people of the United States eat every year
thirty two millions of pounds of maple sugar. So
the census says. Not quite a pound and a half
apiece.
A man down east poetically advertises his truant
wife thus : On the 16th of July, on the night of a
Monday, eloped from her husband the wife of John
Grundy. His grid for her absence each day grow
ing deeper, should any one find her, he begs them
to—keep her.
Tunnel under the Hudson. — A bill was intro
duced into the Legislature of New York on Wed
nesday, by Mr. Taber, to incorporate a company to
construct a tunnel under the Hudson, near Alba
ny. A survey and estimate have been made, and
the plan is considered feasible. It is believed that
a perfect work can be constructed, with a double
track, and an easy grade, for half a million of dol
lars.—X. Y. Com. Adv.
From Panama.—By the arrival of the Cherokee
we have Panama papers to February 14th.
A plan for establishing a telegraph across the
Isthmus has been proposed.
The Golden gate sailed with about 1,200 passen
gers on the 12 inst.
The Panama Echool the 18th contains the follow
ing paragraph.
Senor Louis Durand of this city, late resident on
Santa Anna Plaza, outside the city walls, died last
night, aged 90 years. Ho had a family of one hun
dred children. They are actually his own children,
of the first generation.— Fie. 28//< inst,
From (he Pacific.
By the arrival of the Cherokee, at New Orleans,
in six find a half days from Chag res, we have de
tails of the news from San Francisco to the Ist of
February. The news, generally, is of little im
portance, and we clip from it such items .ns we
deem ot interest ;
INThc steamer Crescent City sailed on the 19th for
New York, with $1,500,000 in gold dust on freight,
and 300 passengers.
The Cherokee brought the following amounts of
gold dust: Adams & Co., SBOS 50; Warneken A
Kirch off, $2,900 — Total, $8,705 50. There is in the
lunula of passengers about $210,000.
Affairs in California seem to be in statu quo. —
Tlie country is generally quiet, the Indian difficul
ties are at an end, and mining is tolerably profit
able.
Gov. Bigler has issued a special message, touch
ing the financial affairs of the State, in which he
urges upon the Legislature the early adoption of
measures to relieve the burden of the State's lia
bilities, and exhibits the amount of her indebted
ness. By the Comptroller’s showing, $1,000,000
stands against us from the expenses of last year’s
military expeditions. The aggregate indebtedness,
civil and military, of the State on the 21st of Dc
• cembcr, was $2,242,349 74.
The Settlers’ and Miners’ Convention, as the
several meetings held in Sacramento recently, to
discuss the subject of hinds and land claims in gen
eral, have been cuffed, still meets with as little
.sympathy as ever. It being evident that unworthy
motives are mixed up with their expressed views,
very little confidence is expressed in their delibera
■ tions.
In Oregon, the Legislature and Judiciary are
still at loggerhead—the people, still agitated b"v the
discussion of the location of their scat of govern
ment, one set of legislators opposing the decision of
the court by which it was fixed, and another su—
-1 turning. Our dates from Oregon are to the 24th
nit. The winter is quite severe.
We have news from Chili to the 6th December.—
1 Valparaiso papers announce the continuance of the
■ revolution.
f All was quiet at San Diego at the last accounts.—
‘ Troops haa gone to the Gila, and no further dis
> turbancc was expected with the Southern Indians.
An action has been brought against the editors
* of the Stockton Journal for libel, by Mr. Fremont,
’ that paper having asserted that extensive frauds
were about to he perpetrated in Europe by the
I agents and under the sanction of that gentleman.
The Mariposa quartz claim of Mr. Fremont was rep
resented in the alleged fraud. The damages are
laid at SIOO,OOO.
In the mines much inconvenience and want has
been experienced by the failure of the water sii|>-
plies. Digging has not been very brisk, and pros
pecting parties have made but few rich discoveries
within the past month.
A few bloody rencontres have taken place in va
rious parts of the State, but we are happy in ob
serving that those occurrences are each month
growing more rare.
Tlie amount of gold exported from San Francis
’ eo during the year 1851, was $84,492,633 02, as
i follows:
) Now York $30,861,400 49
New Orleans, 404,294 11
London, 8,892,660 79
i Panama, 151,293 64
San Diego, 6,000 00
Valparaiso, 444,482 00
, Rio de Janeiro, 15,000 00
. Talcahuana, 15,750 00
Hong Kony, 2,564 00
r $34,492,688 02
f In relation to gold digging, the Sacramento
Transcript says:
Indications are constantly afforded of the vast
r extent of the auriferous denosites in the mountains
of this confnont. The limits are not less than
from the Ural chain in the north to the Colorado in
the south.
I Two gentlemen arrived in this city yesterday,
> who report having prospected a placer one hundred
( and twenty miles to the northwest of Scot’s river,
where they took out over three thousand dollars
each. They also bring with them from the same
locality several fine specimens of gold bearing
, quartz. This is important news, indicating, as it
does, the positive existence of rich diggings unex
plored, at a time when not a few are talking of the
placer mines having seen their best day, and rap
> idly giving out.
Fire-Eatem’ Convention.
The 81st day of March inst. has been designated
i as the day for the meeting of the Convention of the
I Georgia secessionist*, styling themselves “the de
mocratic party,” for the purpose of appointing de
* legates to the Baltimore Convention, They address
i many honeyed words to the Union democrats to
f join them on that occasion. We trust that none
, will be either so blind or weak as to listen to such
aproposal. These men, after resisting compromise
even to a dissolution of the Union—aner denounc
ing the National democracy as unsound and cor
i rupt upon the slavery question, and actually dis
, solving their connection with it by a sectional or
ganization—-have forfeited the confidence of the
1 Union democrats of Georgia. We have routed them
1 disastrously in two trials before the people, and,
. contrary to every law of reason or propriety, they
now summon ns to act in council with them. When
’ did the conquerors ever endure such a thing from
! the conquered t Are they to assemble at the call
[ of those whom they have taken as captives in open
rebellion against the National Democratic party 1
Much more appropriate would it have been in them
to have so ight an admission, in a proper spirit, into
the councils of their conquerors. On the 25th day
of November last they did, by a solemn act at
Milledgevillc, bow to the will of the people of Geor
gia, and took ground in favor of the “efficacy and
finality” of the Compromise. Yea! more than this,
they insisted that the National Democrats should
assume this ground, ü boldly, optnly, and uneauivo
cally IN CONVENTION.” But their politicians
. and presses have since justified the defeat of I’o.k'e
Compromise resolution, expressing no other prin
ciples than the efficacy and finality of the Compro
mise, by the Democratic caucus at Washington,
i and now insist that the Baltimore Convention should
avoid the expressing of any oninion upon the sub
ject ! \\ hat confidence can Union democrats have
in such men ( What confidence can the sober and
reflecting people of Georgia have in men, who, to
avoid the sentence of condemnation which their
late disunion movements merit at the hands of the
National Democracy, are willing to lie down in
political communion with abolitionists, frtesoiltrs.
and resisters of the fugitive slave law, who inur
, dor the citizens of the South in attempting legally
to reclaim their property* Are these the'men iii
1 whom the people of Georgia can confide, to take
• the load in the present moment of peril to all they
hold dear mid sacred 1 For one, we wash our hands
clean of them, until they submit, in good faith, to
the will of the people of Georgia in solemn Con
vention assembled, and are willing to go to Balti
, more with a determination to insist upon having
tho Compromise, as a '“permanent adjustment” of
1 the slavery question, engrafted upon the National
> Democratic platform. —Athens Banner.
> —♦-
i We are gratified to learn that a petition exten
, lively signed will shortly he sent to Washington
for the establishment of a daily mail by a four
horse post coach from this place via Eatonton to
Greensboro, connecting the up train of the Cen
. tral Railroad with the down train of the Georgia
Railroad. Wc hope our friends in Congress will
1 lend their aid in the accomplishment of this object
Tlie Railroad from this to Eatonton is in a rapid
state of progress, and will he completed in Sep
tember next, when it will only ho necessary to con
tinue the staging between Eatonton and Greensbo
ro, some twenty odd miles. Tho establishment of
this direct mail will essentially advance the interest
of this part of the State. —Southern Recorder.
1* rom Rio Janeiro.—By the arrival of the barque
Frederick Deming at Boston, from Rio Janeiro,
we are placed in possession of advices to the 12th
ult. A few days previous to her sailing, news had
reached the city that a battle had been fought by.
the forces under Generals Rosas and Urquiza, in
which the latter was signally defeated, and that
5,000 of his troops had deserted and joined the
ranks of Gen. Rosas. It was also rumored that the
German portion of the armv engaged in fighting
against the Argentine Republic had become greatly
disaffected toward the Brazilian Government, and
that General Rosas was endeavoring to prevail
upon them to become his allies.
Nashville Feb. 28.—The editor ofthe Banner took
ksbot at Mr. Brabson, member of the Lower House
yesterday, for some personalities spoken by Bralison
in a speech. He missed him, and was bound over.
Madame Kossuth on Woman’s Rights.—The
London Weekly Times save an address was recent
ly presented to Madame Kossuth by a deputation
from the “Society for the Emancipation of Wo
men.” In addition to an expression of sympathy,
this address contained the wish that tlie wife of
the honored hero ofthe day would communicate to
these ladies her sentiments respecting their efforts
to achieve the freedom of her sex. Madame Kos
suth replied that she thanked them heartily for
this proof of their sympathy towards herself, and,
through her, more particularly towards her coun
try ; that, with respect to her own views on the
emancipation of woman, she had in earlier years
confined herself to the circle of her domestic du
ties, and hud never been tempted to look beyond
it, and that latterly the overwhelming course of
events had left her, as might well he supposed, still
less leisure for any speculations of this kind. It
would, moreover, (such was the conclusion of her
little speech,) he readily forgiven in her, the wife
of Kossuth—a man whom the general voice, not
more than her own heart, pronounced distinguish
ed—if she submitted herself entirely to his guid
ance, and never thought of emancipation ! Tho
admirable pertinence of this reply will bo doubly
appreciated, when it is mentioned that Madame
Kossuth was altogether unprepared for the address
of these ladies.
■New York, Feb. 29.—Tlie steamer Hermann,
which sailed for Bremen yesterday, while passing
the outer bar struck-heavily. She leaked eonsid- ;
erably, and was obliged to return this afternoon,
(JHagnetir €dfjjraj)l).
LATER FROM EUROPE,
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
AMERICA.
COTTON ADVANCED %d.
Baltimorb, March -1, 11 A. M.
The America has arrived, with Liverpool dates
to the 20th ult.
Liverpool Market.
Liverpool, Feb. 20. — Codon. —Sales of the week
74,000 hales. The following arc the quotations of
the 20th :
Fair Orleans ;>^d.
“ Uplands o%d.
Middling Orleans sd.
“ Uplands 4 3-16 d.
Demand from the trade good, which was freely
met by holders, at an advance in price of %d. Os
the sales of the week Speculators took 23,000, and
Exporters 5,000 bales. Trade in the manufacturing
districts had considerably improved.
Breadstufts.—Flour, Western Canal, quoted
225. *3*l.; Ohio 235. Corn—Yellow 205.; White 82s.
Consols closed at 07 V.
The E ko lisn Ministry has resigned.
Charleston Market.
Thursday, March 4, A. M.— Cotton. —Sales of the
forenoon 1,100 bales, at 7% a 8 5-10. Prices un
changed.
Thursday March 4, P. M.—Cotton.—Bales of
the day 1,860 bales. Sales of the week 10,800, at
extremes ranging from 6 % a The market
closes firm, with a decided upward tendency in
prices. Fair 8% a B%c.
Keceipts of the week 12,689. Stock exclusive
of th pboard 40,315.
Xew York .Market.
Wednesday, March3. —Cotton unchanged. Hold
ers waiting the arrival of the steamer America.
Items by Telegraph.
In the New' York market to day, Wednesday,
Cotton was unchanged —operators awaiting the ad
vices now due bv the America from Liverpool,
The Steam Skips Osprey and Alabatros were
sold at Philadelphia to day to Mr. De La Croix, of
New York—the Osprey for 29,000, and the Alaba
tros for $42,000.
In the U. B. Senate the bill making land warrants
assignable was under discussion. In the House of
Representatives the consideration of the Missouri
Kail road bill was resumed.
New Orleans, March I.—The steam tow boat,
Mary Kingsland, when coining up the river on
Sunday, towing several vessels, burst three boilers,
thereby killing the second engineer, two deck
hands, one fireman, and severely wounding three
others. The vessels were not injured.
The Barque Patrick Henry, which sank several
davs since, has been raised and brought to New
Orleans for repairs.
New Orleans, March I.—Cotton was more quiet
on Monday, and five thousand bales were sold at
previous rates. Good Middling was worth from
? 11 8 cents. Rio Coffee commanded from 9 a 9V*
cents. Exchange on London was quoted at from
8 ,J /*: premium. Freights of Cotton to Liver
pool in British vessels ruled at five sixteenths ot a
penny.
The brig Telegraph, Captain Rich, has cleared
for Charleston.
Norfolk, March I.—The ship Philina, from Liv
erpool, wit h a cargo of iron, crockery ware, Ac.,
for Baltimore, is now off Cape nemy Light House,
and the sens breaking over her. She i* full of wa
ter, and will he a total loss. Tnc captain and crew
are believed to be safe. I have not ascertained in
regard to her insurance.
New York, Feb. 29.—There was a heavy gale
last night in the lower bay, when several ves
sels were driven ashore, including the barque
‘ Empire, of Providence, the bigr Zara, and one or
two others unknown.
Syracuse, N. Y., Feb. 29.—At four o’clock this
s morning, the Spire of the Unitarian Church at
, Syracuse was blown down, and fell upon the roof
of the church, crushing the building to the ground.
[ It is a complete mass of ruins, only a small portion
of the front part of the wall being left •landing.
Philade phia, Fib. 29.—Coroner Goldsmith i*
investigating a singular case of death by poison,
which occurred in this city on Friday night. The
wife of Andrew Weaver purchased in market on
Wednesday last a piece of meat in the market
which was cooked on Friday for dinner. The wife
and sister of Weaver both eat of it, and it made
them sick, and they cautioned him against eating
of it, but he persisted and made his dinner on it.
i He was im nediately taken sick and died the same
night.
i Philadelphia, Feb. 29. —Last night a young wo
man named Elizabeth Kellett, threw vitriol into
the face of Lewis Bechler, of the firm
1 Bechler, burning his right eye out, and injuring
the nostrils and mouth and left eve. She had been
married to an apprentice of the firm, and it is sup
posed the act was committed as an act of revenge
for their refusal to her husbands cancel indentures.
She was committed to prison.
Washinot >n, Feb. 2i<.—Mr. Collins lias issued
invitations to the President, members of the Cabi
net, members of both Houses of Congress, the city
authorities, and a number of citizens, for u personal
inspection of the steamer Baltic on Tuesday next,
when the visiters will be entertained by the pro
prietor in a sumptuous style.
Washington, Feb. 27.—Letters have been re
ceived from our Minister at Mexico that the Te
huantepec Treaty will not be ratified.
It is stat'd on good authority that Senator Doug
las has consented to thr.w his strength into the
Buchanan interest ; the morale of the move being,
that if General Cass were to get the nomination, it
would, in any event, prevent the north-west from
receiving it in 1856; whereas, by going for Mr.
Buchannan, Mr. Douglas stands well for the next
election. At all events, you may rely that the
move lias been agreed upon.
Late prom Havana and Key West.—The
steamship Isabel, Capt. Rollins, from Havana via
Key West, arrived at Tybce this morning.
There is a movement,*among some of the influ
ential merchants, to establish a bank in Havana.
The Diaric do la Marina warmly advocates the
measure. There is but little doubt but that a
bank, properly conducted, would soon create a re
volution in business on the Island.
Key West, Feb. 29.—The salvage decreed on
the wrecked barque Franklin is 25 per cent, of ap
praisement, SBB,OOO, after taking out one-fourth
expenses, about $3,600. The barque has sailed fur
New York.
The U. B. steamer Legare, Lieut. Rogers, com
manding, arrived on the 23d, and left two days
ago for her sarveymg ground, Key Biscay no Her.
A three masted vessel is ashore this morning
twelve mips from this place, and in sight, on the
Pelican shoal. Nothing has arrived from her vot.
Havana, Feb. 28, 1852, —We beg reference* to
our report of 18th inst. The Sugar crop is rather
backward, and supplies do not come in verv freely.
There has ->een a steady demand for Spain, and
some euqu ry for the United States. A contract
was made for 12,000 boxes at 8%. 4M, 5% and
TJi’ rls.; 1000 boxes whites made by Deßosne’a
process were taken at 9 r!*., and some* parcels very
superior at 10 rls. We place the general quotations
as follows ; Whites 7to 8 rls.; Yellows sto ;'>='■{ ;
superior Yellows 6 to 6)T rls.; Browns 4% to4>£
rl*.; Cucnruchos 3 to rls.
Only a small quantity of Muscovados has ap
peared at market. Some low and middling wore
sold at to rls. The better descriptions are
very scarce.
Molasses continued firm at 1% rls. in this har
until yesterday, when sonic sales wore made at
UV- The price in the ontpofts is also rl.
The business in Coffee is very insignificant, and
almost •nti'eiy confined to purchases for consump
tion here.
Tue Japan Expedition.—Much activity now pre
vails in some of the departments of the t'. B. Navy
Yard, at this place, in preparing the brig Pony
and storeakip Supply fortius expedition. Work
men are employed until near midnight upon both
ot these vessels, as also upon the outfits of ilu*
strum frigate Mississippi. This lust named vessel
is now at Philadelphia, having her machinery
thoroughly overhauled and repaired ; all her other
work is to he done here. She is intended tor the
flag ship of Commodore Perry. In addition to tha
usual complement of small arms, she will he pro
vided with 120 stands of muskets, and tho panic
number ea«h, of pistols, cutlasses, drc.; she will
take an equtl number extra for the steam frigate
Susquehanna, now in those sens and which is to
form one of tha squadron. The Mississippi will
also take whh her a park of twelve 24 ,b. howitzers.
As all dcspt.tch is ordered to be used in making
these prepa ations, it is expected that the expedi
tion will soon be ready for sailing.
It is said that Lieut’. Arthur Sinclair has been or
dered to the command of the Supply.
The frigate Macedonia, which has been razeed
and almost rebuilt has just been removed from the
dry dock. Her battery will consist oftwolojneh
ami twenty 8 inch guns. Her destination is at
present nnk Town. — JV. Y. Journal of Commerce.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Cf7~ The Creditors of TALIAFERRO A TOR BET at a
requested to meet at the Office of A. J. * T. W. Miller, cm
SATURDAY E r'KNING, the 6th inst., at half past 7 o’clock.
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