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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN IH. COOFER.
~vTTT, THOMPSON', EDITOR.
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All Now Advertisements appear in both paper*.
(From the N. O. Crescent.)
Lines to a Young Lady.
WhettYomeyee havSftirgotton the imile they now wear
When care ahall have shadowed thy beautiful brow;
When thy hope* and thy roaea together lie dead,
And thy heart turns back, pining, to day* that are fled,
Then wilt thou remember what now aeenis to paaa
Like moonlight on water, the broatk stain on glass.
Oh lady, the lovely and youihfu! to thee
How roae-touched the page of the future will be
By the past, if thou Judge it, how little is there
But flower* that flourish, but hope* that are fair:
And what is thy preaenH^-a Southern sky's spring,
With the feeling and fancies like bird* on the wing.
As the rose by the fountain flings down on the wave
It* blushes, forgetting its glass i* it* grave.
So the heart shed* its colors In life'* early hour—
But the heart has it* fading as well as the flower;
Tbe charming light darken*, the rose-leaves are gone
And life, like the fountain, float*colorless on I
The Bottle Trick before the Queen,—On
Monday, (Prince Albert’s birth duy,l during
the, Festivities nt Balmoral,the Wizzard of the
North, Professor Amlorton, was present, and
was asked if ho would perform the feat they
had hoard so much of his having done success
fully —“Tho Inexhaustible Bottle.”
On receiving the royal commad to perform
it, hecalled for a champagno bottle, and hand
ed a large number of gaUses round, and asked
Lord Portmnn what he would drink. His
Lordship replied whiskey—whiskey wus pour
ed out. Mr. Anton preferred brandy, which
he got. Several demanded wine, which passed
freely; and one of the proprietors of the royal
distillery, Mr. Begg, thinking to baffle the pro
fessor, usked him if he could give him a glass
of his best Lochnagcr wh’skey. No sooner
said thun done; nnd the Lochnnger whiskey
became in great demand. A large nnmbor of
additional glasses were distributed, nr,d some
called for Irish whiskey, numbers brandy—the
Highlanders patronized Mr. Begg; when
Lord John Russell, Jterhuns, like Mr. Begg.
wishing to try tho Wizzard s skill, asked forn
glass of rum, which was immediately supplied,
and his lurdship pronouuced it excellent.
The London portion of the domestics and po
lice called for gin, which wns freely pouted
out of this extraordinary bottle; and tho Wiz-
zard was returning to his seat, when his royal
highness, anxious to test the bottle—presuming,
as he wus rolurniug, that it wus exhausted,—
asked if more could bo poured out. Glasses
were brought for her Majesty ami Prince Al
bert, and, on being asked whut they preferred,
requested Begg’s best Lochnager, which imme
diately ran forth, nnd her Majesty and tho
Prince, testing it, acknowledged its purity; and
the Wizzard gave the bottle to the Prince, and
asked him to look if it was empty—it wns.
Mr. Anderton brought some water, nnd, in the
Prince’slliand.jfilled it, ordered glasses,uudask
ed the Prince what wine he preferred. Port
was selected. Tho Prince poured port, and
then sherry, then milk, then champagne, then
broke tho bottle, and in it was discovered a
beautiful turtle-dove.—Coledonitt Mercury.
Remarkable preservation of a Hog.—Tho
Enstern Whig relates that a hog belonging to
Geotgo Hower, Esq., of Allen township, wns
accidentally buried under a stack of straw in
his yard on the 13th of October last. Addition
al straw was thrown on tho stack from time to
time, until the 24th of December, when the
animal was found. Incredible ns it may np-
pcar, the hog lived in that situation, without
air, water or Anything to eat, except straw,
for seventy-four days ! When the hog was
lost, it weighed 250; when taken out of its
confinement it was a mere skeleton, not weigh
ing more than 60 or seventy pounds At
first it could not walk, but moved by sudden
jumps like a mbit. When offered food it
would only take a litle warm milk, but gradu
ally its appetite returned, and it promises in a
short time to regain its former weight.
Treasury Circular.—This matter has alrea
dy aroused the attention of the Chamber of
Commerce, and wo understand that body is de
termined to have some immediate action upon
the subject. Wo understand it is proposed,
among the merchants themselves, to store oil
the goods they import at their own expense, but
giving the Government command of tbe keys of
the warehouses in which such goods are stored,
a “warehousing systom,” we believe, generally
adopted in Liverpool and other ol the largo im
porting cities of England. Tho Chamber of
Commercu, however, hnve appointed a special
committee to consider the subject, and we shall
have the result of their deliberations, no doubt,
in a day or two.—N. Y. Express.
A Marylandpir Abroad.—Punishment of
English Arrogance.—News has reached Wash
ington rtf a personal rencontre which took
place at Lima, on the lllth of the last month,
betwoon Col. Zabdiel W. Porter, tho newly
appointed Consul of the United States at Val
paraiso,nnd the Hon. Henry 8 Sullivan,nephew
of Lord Palmerston, and Her Britanic Majes
ty’s Chnrgo d’alfairs near the Government of
Chili. A correspondent of the Baltimore
Americun gives tho particulars of tho afi'uir,
from which It uppears that tho steamer on
which he was uboard stopped a few days at
Lima to take in coal, and Col. Potter proceed
ed wi*h his fumily and took lodgings at tho
French Hotel, nnd having secured comforta
ble quarters, left Mrs. Potter nnd her chil
dren to tuke a stroll through tho city. The
letter continues as follow:
“Col. Potter had not long left his iodgings
before the Honorable Henry Stephen Sul
livan with hiu fumily stopped at the hotel
and deliberately wulked up to tho rooms
which had been assigned to Col. Porter and
family, and took forcible possession of
them, and turned Mrs. Potter andr he infant
child out of doors. Mrs Potter besought him
with tours in her eyes to await tho return ofher
husband, who would only bo ubsent for a few
minutes, but it was all invain. His British no
bility told her that sho was only a common
Amcricnn cook, and ordered her out with her j
child in her arms, directing a servant to find
other apartments for her. Gon. Herrera, who
occupied rooms near those taken by Col. Port
er, was appealed to to by Mrs. P., and he und
his daughter, Mrs. Mickle, wont with her to
tho Charge and besought him to await tho re
turn of Col. Potter—but this appeal also was
without effect. Mrs. I’, was again ordered out
of tho room, and as she left in tears this ac
complished functionary and chivulric gentle
man taunted her with words of this sort—
‘Mama, don’t whip mo—I’ll be good next time
—I will.’
“Sometime after this Brutal occurrence, Col.
Potter returned to tho hotel, when ho was in
formed of what had transpired, nnd ns soon ns
he could hear the story he culled upon Mr.
Sullivan, who had gone out. After a short
time he called again, but was agnin told that
tho gentleman was not in, liken true American
gentleman, Col. P. declined to disturb the fam
ily of this Royal offender or in tho least to
take advantage of Ids absence, but wont im
mediately to a hotel in the plaza and procured
other lodgings it being then nearly night. Ear
ly the next morning ho again repaired to
tho room of the Charge and found him this
time ‘at home.’ Ho requested him very po
litely to accompany him to the aparlmonts
of Gen. Ilerreru, in order to have an expiation
of the disgraceful conduct towards Mrs. Pot
ter on the previous ovening. Mr. Sullivan
coolly declined the request, And told Col. P.
that it was he (Col. P.) who must make the
apology to his Lordship. Upon this Col. Pot
ter administered to him a well, merited and
well npplied chastisement, caning him until
they were both completely oxhuusted with the
effort—tho one in tho passive, tho other in the
active sense.
“This just retribution was witnessed by a
large number of gentlemen, among whom were
several Englishmen, and every body agreed
that Potter wns entirely in tho tight. It is
needless to add that as soon as the news spread
over tho city of Lima there was a universal
burst of admiration of Potter’s conduct on
the one hand and of condemnation of Sulli
van’s on tho other. It is hoped that this uffair
will teach Lord Palmorstnn s nephew that an
American citizen, nt home or abroad, is not
disposed to brook any insult even from ono
who is of blood kin to his lordship and a high
functionary of her British majesty, and ho may
also profit by this lesson and learn how to rC'
sent an injury himself hereafter.”
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1850.
f For station* of Preachers of Methodist
Conference, see first page.
Correction.—In the report furnished to us
of the ballotings of the Whig Convention, pub
lished yesterday, the name of C. B. Guyton,
Esq., should have been dropped on they second
ballot, instead of that ofCHAS.II. HqPKiNS,
Esq., who received on that ballot the 12
votos Hctdown to Mr. G.
The Weather.—Wo had yesterday a touch
of California weather, barring the wind and
cold, which are said to prevail in that highly
favored region with tho rain and mud. For
the most part of the day we had dripping skies
and sappy Bido wulks, which made the out-door
business very disagreeable, and inclined those
who bad no imperative necessity for exposing
themselves, to remain within doors. The at
mosphere, however, was mild, and when we
read of the suns of tho North, accompanied
as they are with biting frosts and cuttiug
winds, we do not feel disposed to complain
Speaking off tho weather, it is a little re
markable that while tho winter during the first
two months, has boon quite severe in the
Northcn States, wo have had a senoon of unu-
UBal mildness at tho South. Thus fur wo may
say that we have hud no winter. Here in Jan
uary, but for the bareness of some of the trees,
we would bo ut a loss to realise tho fact that
we were in what is called the mid-winter sea-
We bclievo that tliero has been no night
yet so cold in this latitude ns toninko ice.
Verdict Against Gen. Harney.—A dis
banded soldior, named Lang, obtained a ver
dict in tho Circuit Court of tho city of New-
York, on Tuesday last, against Gen. Harney
of $700 and costs, for assault and battery.
The New York Miror says it was proved that
tho plaintiff and defendant were passen
gers on board tho Alabama from Mexico, in
November, 1848; and because pluintiff and
others complained of tho fare, Henry beat him
severely.
The British Empire.—According to Martin,
in his account of the British colonies, twenty-
five written and various unwritten languages
are spoken throughout this great empire of
colonies. There are about 5.000,000 Chris
tian*, 50,000,000 Hindoos, 20,000,000 Mahom-
medans, 10,000,000 Budhists, and milliousof
other idolaters of various description*, in the
British foreign possessions^ Tho whold popula
tion is estimated at 130,000,000. Of these not
more than 26,000,000 eat flesh abundantly;
about 10,000.000 s|mringly; 24,000,000 occas
ionally, and 70,000,000 live principally on vege
tables and fish. About 34,000,000 mako wheat,
oats and barley their principal graminivorous
Cuoil; 16,000,000 potatoes, pulse and other veg
etables, and 80,000,000 rice, maize, millet, &c.
F About 10,000,000 drink wine frequently ; 25.-
000,000 malt liquor*; 35,000.000 distilled li
quors ; and 60,000,000 chiefly water.
I** From British Oviana.—The Georgetown
^^(British Guiana Gazette of the 6th ult. says
that, “in consequence of the heavy rains that
have fallen in the course of'tjiq present year,
our planters will sustain a serious loss in this
years orop of sugar, the deficiency being es
timated at from eight to ten 'thousand hogs
heads. Yellow fever prevails among the troop*
nt Antigua. Many deaths had occurred, and a
cosiderable number of planters, at the latest ac
counts, continued in hospitals.
Pfani Road.—Tbe directors of the Milan
and Richland Flank Road Company give no
tice in to-duy's paper thot they have declared a
stock divided of twenty five per cent. ($12 55
on eauH *har») This i» from the earnings of 11
miles of road for an average period of II
months.Tribune.
New Books.
Sir Edward Grayham, or Railroad Specula*
tors. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of
“Holiday House,” “The Journey of Life.”
&c., &c. New-York : Harper & Broth
ers.
This volume makes the 135th volume oi
Harpers’ Library of Select Novels, a fact in it
self sufficient to recommend it to the novel
reading public, who have lcumed to tuke the
numbers of this series nt a venture; but the
admirers of the Authoress,who are by no means
few in this country, nnd especially those ol
them who remember the pleasant interest with
which in their youthful days they perused the
pages of “ Holiday House,” will be gratified to
meet a romance from her pen in which she has
completed her long cherished task of intro
ducing tho characters of that story in what she
calls a full grown novel. The book before us
is a story of English life, in which the author
has aimed to show the better phases of human
nature, as developed in a familiar sketch of
modern habits, manners, and conversation, us
they now exist in society—in her own lan
guage, “to draw an attractive picture of the
truest happiness in this world, united to the un
dying hope of all that is yet purer, yet better,
and more lasting, in the world to come.”
From the publishers. To be had at Jno. M.
Cooper’s Book Store.
Easy Lessons in Landscape. By F. N. Otis /
New-York t D. Appleton &Co.
This is an envelope containing sixteen
plates, designed to teach the art of Landscape'
drawing, accompanied by letter press instruc
tions in Perspective. The work seems admira
bly adapted to the purpose for which it is in
tended.
From the publishers. John M. Cooper lias
the work.'
IIon. Henry A. Wise delivered, at tho
capital in Richmond, Vn., on Monday of last
week, at the request of members of tho legis
lature, an address on tho subject of Northern
proceedings against slavery. Mr. Wise’s in
vective was in his most energetic style, and
Senators Benton and Houston received a spe
cial share of his denunciations. The Rpubli-
can says also, that he exhibited a highly con
servative spirit towards the American Union.
An Old Adage Falsifed.—It is Baid that
the clown in the San Francisco circus receives
a salary of $12,000 per annum. This is either
a falsification in, principle, q|f the old adage,
which says that a fool and his_ money is soon
parted, or it is, in fact, an illustration of its
truth on a larger scale. We leave it a ques
tion for moralists to determine.
Texas.—Message of Gov. Bell.—Galveston
pnpers to tho 3d distant huve been received.
The now Governor, I*. H. Boll, delivered his
messago on the 26th ultimo;
It commences by recommending the immedi
ate organization of the counties set off in the
district of Santa Fe, and the sending of a com
missioner, there for tho purpose, and if nocessa-
ry, accompanied by such an armed force as shall
enable him to reduce seditious citizens to obedi
ence to the laws, nnd to notify tho Executive
of the United States of their purpose nnd deter
mination. He concurs with his predecessor in
the recommendation that n Commissioner be
sent to Washington, to present the subject to
the consideration of tho President. It also pro
poses u very decided expression of the opinions
and wishes of the States in relationto the slave
ry question; the sale and cession of so much of
the territory, with tho jurisdiction thoroof, to
the United States, as lies north of 36 deg. 3d
min., mid of the sale und cession, without juris
diction, of that portion lying north of 34 deg.,
are proposed to be provided for, contingent on n
negotiation with the United States. It recom
mends the payment of the public debt at its val
ue at the timo issued, with the interest, in the
lands of the State.
The security to colonists under the colony
contracts, the title to their lands; the granting
a right of wav fora road to the Pacific, with the
appropriation of lands for the porpose; the
maintenance of a regiment or part of a regi
ment on the Indian frontier; tho extension of
the rights of citizenship and land titles to old
settlers on the Rio Grande, a prevision for the
officers of tho late navy of Texos, and the he
roes of the Texas revolution, by the United
States, and a speedy settlement of all the old
land titles, by a commission fur their investiga
tion.
A correspondent of the Civilian, writing from
Austin in reference to the subject of slavery,
says:
“Soveral resolutions on the subject of slavery
are before the Legislature, all of them nearly
copies of Mr Calhoun’s famous resolutions. I
shall not be surprised if an attempt is made be
fore the close of the session to censure our Sen
ators for not singing the Southern address: but 1
do not believe any thing of tho kind will pass the
S^uato.’ ’
Thellaytien and Dominican War.—Jamai
ca papers, received by the Oehrokee give a re
port that tbe forces of tho Dominican Repub
lic have invaded the territory of the Empire of
Havti, nnd that the Dominican fleet, had bom-
burded and destroyed tho iftaytien towns and
villages. The town of L'Anse u Pitre was re
duced to ashes. The Haytien schooner Char-
ire was captured near Aux Cayris. A sloop and
sixboats were taken atid-sunk, with 25 of their
crew killed and taken prisoners.
The Wetmore Charge of Defalcation.—
A letter from Washington says that the account
ing offtcei* of the Treasury Department certify
that the balance on tho books of the Department
against Prosper M. Wetmore, late Navy Agent
nt Now Y’ork, is one hundred and eighty-one
thousand five hundred and eighty dollars and
seventy-nine cents. Mr. Prescott Hull, U. S.
District Attorney for New York, has received
instructions to instituto summary proceedings
against Mr. Wetmore, under the provisions of
tho well known act of Congress, for cases of this
kind.
Foreign News.
English accounts of tho 22d ult., received by
the ships Ivanlioe nnd New World, at New-
York, contradict that there had been a difficul
ty in the Queen’s Cabinet, between the heads
of the Colonial Department and the Secretary
of Foreign Affairs. The London Globe takes
strong Rritish ground on the Nicaragua Ques
tion, denouncing the supposed design of our
Government to obtain exclusive control of the
Peninsula.
How little arc English Statesmen qualified
accustomed as they are to the grasping policy
of their own monarchy to judge of the acts
and motives of our government, in this and
kindred matters of international relation,
people whose flog, wherever it floats, is sustained
by the right of migt, cannot comprehend how
it is that the Stars and Strpes urc hailed by
the weaker nations of this continent as the
paladium of liberty and safety.
The same accounts confirm the rumor that
theRefugee question between Turkey and Rus-
siajhad been settled, and that the ratifications
to the agreement on this subject are alone want
ing to make the subject definitive. The Poles
who have embraced the Mahomedan faith are to
be withdrawn from the province of Rumillia,
and the refugees generally are to be kept for
twelve months in some distant province of Tur
key.
It is also stated that negotiations arc on foot
for the settlement of an important commercial
treaty between England and Rnssia by which
great advantages are expected to bo secured to
English commerce. A considerable change in
the import duties on articles of English manu
facture, and in cotton especially, a great though
gradual ad valorem reduction will be made.
It is said that the Emperor has shown the ut
most willingness to consider the whole question
in the niost liberal point of view.
Exports of Charleston.—The exports of
Charleston for the ycai 1849 amounted in value
to $15,838,291. ‘ ’
Dark Scenes of History. By G. F. R. James,
Esq. New-York: I). Atpleton & Co.
A new work from James is a familiar and not
unwelcome announcement to the reading pub
lic. His admirers, who have followed his pro
lific pen through tho flowery fields of romance,
and have been held captive by the powers of
his brilliant imagination, will read with interest
and pleasure, ns well us instruction, the volume
before us, in which he has dressed up in his
own peculiarly graphic style the dark scenes
of history, comprising many of tho most in
teresting incidents to be found in tho annals oj
the olden time.
From the publishers. At J. M. Cooper’s.
The Early Conflicts of Christianity. By the
Rev. Wm. Ingraham Kip, D. D., author of
“The Christian Ilolydays in Rome,” “The
Doublo Witness of the Church,” &c. New
York : D. Appleton & Co.
This is a neatly printed duodecimo of about
200 pages, in cloth, in which the reverend au
thor has traced the Christian Faith from its
earliest dawn to its filial triumph over the super
stitions and unbelief of the world. The conflcit
of centuries, which ended in the establishment
of the Christian dynasty, is considered under
the rsprosentative bends of Judaism, The Li
centious Spirit of the Age, Barbarism, and The
Pagan Mythology. In treating his subject, the
author has endeavored to avoid ns much as
possible the complicity and interruption of his
torical details, and by keeping in view the con
flict between the Christian and Anti-Christian
principle, to show the gradual waning of each
particular form of opposition, until its power
was broken, and it ceased to be numbered
among the formidable enemies of the faith.
The writer displays much research as well as
devotion to the interesting subject in hand,
and his book will be read with satisfaction by
Christians of every denomination.
From the publishers. At J. M. Cooper’s
Book Store.
Waraga, or the Charms of the Nile. By
William Furniss. New-York: Baker &
Scribner.
Tho reader will exclaim with us when he
takes up this volume, “Another voyager to the
Nile !”—and before he lays it down ho will
hold himself -in readiness to encounter the
writer’s volume to tho Holy Land, if ho should
ever write one. The preface is an index to
the book—frank, honest, and unpretending,
the author sets forth by promising us nothing
new, and laying claims to no greater merit
than that of a compiler, he gives us a volume
of much originality, sprightliness, and inter
esting information. The work comprises near
ly 500 pages, and is handsomely illustrated
with a few good colored plates, which are
worth much more than five times as many poor
ones.
From the publishers. John M. Cooper has
the hook.
People I have Met, or Pictures of Society and
People of Mark, drawn under a thin veil of
fiction. By N. P. Willis. New-York: Ba
ker & Scribner.
This is is thelutest published work by Wil
lis, and as the title indicates, it is peculiarly
his own—as much like him as “Letters from
under a Bridge.” We can’t say that wo do
not admire Willis’genius, but we could, if we
were to set about it, find some faults in him
which, for the sake of his famo as an author,
we could like to see amended. Wo have no
disposition to point them out at present, how
ever, and snail peruse the People he has Mot,
with a view to make their acquaintance, nnd
not to find fault with the Poet for those little
foibles of vanity and extravagance, which,
perhaps, after all, are as essential to his happi
ness as greater fcults are to smaller men. He
says, in his preface, that the greater number of
the stories in his volume “embody such pas
sages in the personal history of the eminent
men and women of Europe as the author came
to the knowledge of by conversance with the
circles in which they moved,” &e. Well, per
haps we shall like his eminent acquaintances.
If we do not, wo can turn from them as wo
would from an uninteresting specimen of the
Zoological Kingdom, whom we might meet in
a menagerie.
From the publishers. At J. M. Cooper’s
Book Store.
[Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, Jan. 1G.
I find that there is more excitement here
abouts out of the Capitol, in regard to the sub
ject of tbe North and South, than- there is in
the Capitol. It would seem that the people of
the South who are resident here or sojourning
here, have deep feeling on tho sulije*. t. In
Virginia, and in Maryland—at Annapolis and
ut Richmond—a spirit is manifested that can'
be satisfied with nothing short of fair dealing-
and justice on tho part of the North.
I learn, by a friend from Richmond, that
excitement there is much greater than even tho
press has represented it. The people ore pre
pared for retaliatory measures upon tho North.
It is proposed to enact a law requiring that
every person importing or selling goods or
merchandise of Northern produce or manufac
ture, shall give a bond faithfully to account for
the amount of sales, and to pay a certain duty
on them,say ten per cent.—or, in case of refusal
to give tho bond or fuilure to pay the duty, to
bo subjected to punishment as a felon. The
state of feeling must bo highly excited when-
such a measure can be proposed. But it will
fy.ll far short of a moans of redres, uuei an
act of aggression shall pass. As n preliminary
meusurc and as a warning it is now brought for
ward. I shall not be surprised at any measure
which tho Southern people or legislatures shall
resort to, after witnessing tho feeling here,
where it must be less intense than in the South.
The Vermont resolutions which have produced
so much sensation in Richmond, are the same
upon which an eloquent discussion took place
in tho Senate. They are tho same which Mr,
Hale, of N. II., and Mr. Phelps, of Vt., pro
nounced to be unmeaning, harmless, and in
tended for home consumption, and not for
Congress or the South. Why did they not keep
them ut home ? Why insult the South with
them ut this particular juncture? The truth
is, that the people who voted for these resolu
tions had no distinct ideas on this subject, ex
cept that nnti-slavery doctrines were popular
at that time among a certain portion o f their
constituents; nnd it is also true that they did
not and never will believe tho South to be iu
earnest in resisting tho anti-slavery measures'
which the resolutions propose. The resolu
tions are of little account, unless they represent
the sentiments nnd designs of the Northern,
people. It is difficult to say how far tho
Northern people may be disposed to go; btlt
nine-tenths of them are quite indifferent to tho
subject, until it is forced upon them.
Every ono is, of course, looking to sco what
is to ho done by Congress. The prospect is
that they will do nothing. But still, great
measures are daily chalked out for future de
liberation and discussion.
Tho bill introduced by Mr. Benton for a
division of Texas, a reduction of her limits,
a cession of her territories West of W. long-
102 deg., and the payment to her of fifteen
millions for the .same ; the creation of a new
State in Texas, &c.—this important bill will
bo forced on the attention of the Senate. Mr-
Foote’s bill, which, in regard to Texas, is
somewhat similar, and which provides for tho
establishment of territorial governments, &c.,
has also been introduced, and is before tho
Committee on tho Judiciary.
We shall have numerous plans for compro
mising the territorial question; and, unless
some very urgent expressions of Northern sen
timent should overwhelm Northern members, a
measure of compromise may be passed.
The bill to enforce the arrest und delivery
of slaves may also pass. But, the fact is, that
the Northern members nro reluctant to act at all
on tho subject. They will dodge the question
in all its forms if they can.
There is no probability that Congress will
pass uny bill affecting slavery in this District '
hut a compromise, even of that question, lias
been suggested by Mr. Douglass, of Illinois.
Frauds upon the Government. The
Washington correspondent of tho .Baltimore
Clipper says.—Numerous frauds have recently
come to light. To say nothing of those in pro
curing land warrants, which aro many. Yes
terday it was discovered, by papers in the
Third Auditor's office, thut one individual has
cheated to the amount of sixty thousond dollars
The recruiting officers, during the Mexican
war, in rendering their accounts, made affida
vit of tho vouchers. Some of these vouchers-
were destroyed by an agent, who was operating
in this city, and the affidavits appended to fa
bricated vouchors. The swindler-so soon as
he heard of tho discovery, left Washington
without settling Ids claims, or paying his wash
erwomen. It is supposed that the United States
will be cheated to the amount of more than half
a million of dollars. Verily, “ the love of
money is the root of all evil.”
ESP The New York Mirror says that at a pri
vate party, recently given in one of the palaces
of the upper-tendom of that city, tho refresh
ment bill amounted to upwards of $2,000, and
the Japonica bill to upwards of $1,000. Gas!-
ESP They ore talking loudly of annexation
to tho United States in Jamaica.