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Mr. Calhoun on Cuba.
We extract from Mr. Venable’s excellent
speech the following paragraph in reference to
Mr. Calhoun’s opinions on the annexation of
Cuba to the U. S.:
And here, sir, 1 would with pious and rever
ential care, perform a duty which I owe to the
memory ot a distinguished statesman, whose
unclouded and unequalled mind constantly re
flected upon and studied the interests of his
country generally and his section in particular
—whose pure heart to its latest throb was filled
with love to his country, and whose matured
judgment made him the safest guide. I refer to
the great South Carolinian, who but two days
before his death charged me that should he be
misrepresented upon this subject, to give to the
world his true opinion. It has been said that
Mr. Calhoun was in favor of the annexation of
Cuba ; that he was for annexation at all events.
This is not true. I feel bound by a promise
made to him to correct the statement. He said
if Cuba ever comes must be by treaty,
honorable and satisfactory to both countries;
otherwise itis forbidden fruit to the United States.
This was said in reference to the indirect mode
of acquiring it by annexation after a revolution,
rendered successful chiefly by adventurers from
this country. The conversation related to an
interview with certain persons, inhabitants of
Cuba, who called upon him a few days before.
A gentleman now present in this House was
with me when they called on Mr. Calhoun ; we
rose to leave the room ; he requested us to remain
and witness the conversation. They spoke to
him of the expected revolution and the operations
of Gen Lopez; he said what we all know to be
true—“ Gentlemen, you are mistaken ; Cuba is
not ripe for revolution ; her people are not rea
dy for such a state of things ; and if Lopez in
vades Cuba the enterprise will be a failure, and
under no circumstances can this Government
be complicated with this revolution.” He of
ten said to me—Cuba, from her situation, can
never be alienated to any other power than the
United States, and Spain, the owner, is the best
stakeholder ; best for us and best for the world.
Nothing but unavoidable necessity could justify
force in taking it. The purchase is improbable,
and we now have most of the commercial ad
vantages without the expense of administering
the government. These were the words and
opinions ot one whose bright name will ever ir
radiate the pages of our annals. Pure, wise,
patriotic, and just ; one who cherished no nar
row views, and whose opinions and conclusions
were the result of profound thought and impar
tial investigation; a statesman as contradistin
guished from a mere politician ; a man who had
the firmness to be just amidst the out breakings
of senseless clamor, and whose expectations of
the future almost amounted to prescience.
Yankee Doodle.
Watson, in his “Occurrences of the war of Inde
pendence,” says—This tune, so celebrated as a na
tional air of the revolution, has an origin almost un
known to the mass of the people of the present day.
An aged and respectable lady, born in New England,
told me she remembered it well, loug before the
Revolution, under another name. It was then uni
versally called “Lady Fisher,” and was a favoiite
New England jig. It was then the practice with it,
as with “Yankee Doodle ’ now to sing it, with va
rious impromptu verses—such as :
Lydia Locket lost her pocket,
Lydia Fisher I‘ound it—
Not a bit of money in it,
Only binding round it.
The British, preceding the war, when disposed
to ridicule the simplicity of Yankee manners and
hilarity, were accustomed to sing airs or songs set
to words, invented for the passing occasion, having
tor their object to satyrize and sneer at the New
Englanders. This, as I believe, they called \ r ankee
Doodle, by way of reproach, and as a slur upon
their favorite, “Lydia Fisher.” It is remembered
that the English officers then among us, acting un
der civil and military appointments, often felt lord
ly over us colonists, and by countenancing such
slurs, they sometimes expressed iheir supercilious
ness. When the battles of Concord and Lexington
began the war, the English, when advancing in tri
umph, played along the road “God save the King,”
but when the Americans had made the retreat “so
disastrous to the invaders, these then struck up the
scouted Y'ankee Doodle, as if to say, “See what we
simple Jonathans can do!”
i rora that time the term of intended derision was
assumed throughout all the American colonies, as
the national air ot the liberty, even as the
Methodist—once reproachfully so called—assum
ed it as their acceptable appellation. Even the
name ot “sons ot liberty,” which was so popular at
the outset, was a name adopted from the appella
tion given us in Parliament, by Col. Barre, in his
speech. Judge Martin, in the histoiy of North Car
olina, has late given another reason for the origin of
“Yankee Doodle,” saying it was formed at Albany,
in 1755,(by a Br.tish officer, then there, indulging his
pleasantry on the homely array of the motley Ameri
cans, then assembling to join the expedition of Gen.
Johnson and Governor Shirerly. To ascertain the
truth in the premises, both his and my accounts
were published in the gazettes, to elicit, if possible,
further information, and the additional facts ascer
tained, seemed to corroborate the foregoing idea.
The tune and quaint words, says a writer in the
Columbian Gazette, at Washington, were known as
early as the time of Cromwell, and were so applied
to him then, in a song called “Yankee Doodle,” as
ascertained from the collection he had seen of a
gentleman at Cheltenham, in England, called “Musi
cal Antiquities of England,” to wit:
\ ankee Doodle came to town,
Upon a little pony,
With a leather in his hat,
Upon a maccaroni.
The term “feather,” &c., alluded to Cromwell’s
going to Oxford on a small horse, with his single
plume, fastened in a sort of knot called a “maccaroni.’
ibe idea that such an early origin may have existed
seems strengthened by the fact communicated by
an aged gentleman of Massachusetts, who well re
membered that, about the time the strife was en- j
gendering at Boston, they sometimes conveyed j
muskets to the country concealed in iheir loads of j
manure, &.r. Then came abroad verses, as if set |
forth from their military masters, saying :
Yankee Doodle came to town,
For to buy a firelock ;
We will tar and feather him,
And so we will John Hancock.
COLUMBUS, GA l
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 15, 18^.
“Still liarping on My Daughter.”
The Washington Republic , the organ of the retiring
administration, finds its chief pleasure and political profit
(?) in liarping on the incongruities of the Democratic par
ty, about inaugurated to be with Gen. Pierce as its head.
llow, exclaims the Editor, with tender solicitude for
the welfare of the President elect, can he bestow his
favors on the “Soules, the Forsyths and the A ena
bles” on one side, and the “D;xes, A an Burens,” &c,,
on the other ? Ilow can he bring a Northern Union
Democrat like a Gorman into friendly union and fel
lowship with a Southern man like a Davis or a Mc-
Donald ? AA’e can tell the Editor how it will not be
d one —to wit: by consulting the Whigs; and it will
be done without giving him the least trouble or respon
sibility in the doing of it. The Republic looks at this
question with Whig eyes—jaundiced eyes. 4nd he
regards it with an utter obliviousness of that mighty pa
nacea which lately compromised all differences, and in
augurated that political millennium wherein the lion and
the lamb lie down ill peace together, and the Unionists
and Fire-eaters are as friendly, soft and docile as cooing
doves. That should be the Republic's way of account
ing for it, for we think the compromise owns that paper
as one of its architects. But we have a better way of
meeting the difficulty. Gen, PiERCi will not be em
barrassed by, or persecuted with, the importunities of
Southern Rights Democrats for office. Os the gentle
men named by the Republic , and whom it always holds
up in conjunction, (and an honorable group itis,) we ap
prehend that none of them will condescend to ask Gen.
Pierce fora place. Senator Soule is too well content
to be the honored Senator of a sovereign State to become
a mendicant at the White House. Who that knows Jef
ferson Davis will suspect him of bending the dignity
of his noble character, that “thrift may follow fawning?”
Mr. V t enable, of North Carolina, too, will appear in an
entirely new phase of character when he joins the beg
gar throng that importunes for Presidential favors.
And, in respect to our predecessor, Mr. Forsyth, we
happen to know what are his views; and they are that
there is not a post in the gift of the President elect,
high enough or lucrative enough to tempt his asking,
under present circumstances. He supported General
Pierce from motives of patriotic duty and at the prompt
ings of principle, and he does not choose to forfeit the
right to assert that fact, by waiting in the ante-room of
the Presidential Mansion with a petition in his hands.
And he is right. Office loses all its respectability when
sought after and intrigued and bargained for. It be
stows honor only when it seeks the man.
But, with the lights before us, the Republic may
make itself easy on the score of the prospects of the
State Rights wing of the Democracy. AA r e claim Gen.
Pierce as “one of us;” and it is certainly “sugges
tive” that the only gentleman now certainly known to
have been offered a seat in the new Cabinet, is one of
the best and brightest spirits in the State Rights school.
Where R. M. T. Hunter is Premier, there is little dan
ger of a Cabinet in which loyalty to the rights and
sovereignty of the States will be held a crime.
The Soil of the South.
The January number of this periodical is on our ta
ble, AA r e notice several important improvements in
this volume. It is greatly enlarged—its form jsehang- |
ed to that of an octavo —and its pages increased from six
teen to thirty-two. AVe are please and to notice that Iverson
L. Harris and J. A t an Buren have commenced their
regular contributions to the Horticultural department.
Such accomplished writers cannot fail to add materially
to the value of the work. We do not find Dr. Camak’s
name among the list of contributors, We hope to find
him in the next number.
The table of contents is very large, and nearly every
article is original.
The accomplished Editors, Messrs. Chambers and
Peabody, have entered upon the new year with com
mendable zeal and energy, and their editorials will he j
read with great interest. The article from the pen of i
the Agricultural Editor, on the subject of “Guano,” j
contains valuable suggestions, and will be read with !
interest. AVe hope to hear from him again on this
subject.
AVe cannot convey an idea of the value of this num
ber in any other way so well as by giving the Table of
Contents:
Agricultural. —Letter from Prolessor Liebig; Premi
um Essay on Draining, by Nelson Clayton; The Clovers
and Grasses ; Clover at the South,by Benjamin Whitfield ;
Crab Grass, by Benjamin Whitfield ; Letter from Cass
County ; Letter from S. W. Burney; Negro Houses;
Brick Making ; Culture of Rice, by Wm. Henry Dudley;
Bermuda Grass-; Lucerne ; A Lasting Screw,by E. J. Co
pell ; enquiries about Guano ; Chills and Fever's, by E. J.
Copell; Colaparchee Agricultural Society ; Cotton Pre
mium Georgia and Alabama Agricultural Society;
Warmth Promotes Fat; Testing Building Stones.
Editorial. —The New Year; Work lor the Month;
Hauling out Manure; Oats; Rye ; Winter Plowing; The
Application of Guano ; N. S. G ; Use the Present Means ;
Advice to Young Men ; The Right Spirit; The Southern
School Journal.
Horticultural. —Fruit—Flowers ; Letter from Iverson
L. Harris ; On the Culture of Fiuit at the South ; Premium
List Chunnenuggee Fair.
Editorial.— The New Year; Garden Woork for Janua
ry; The Fruit Orchard and Garden; American Pomo
logical Congress; Transplanting Trees; The Beauty of
Art and the Beauty of Nature; A Tall Cabbage ;'The
Sun Flower.
Domestic Economy- —Mosquito Bites ; How to make
Canaries familiar ; Recipe for Cholera; How to pack Fir
kin Butter; Preserving Eggs; How to make Vinegar ; Su
gar of Whey ; Potato and Rice Bread ; Carolina Rice and
Wheat Bread; Minute Pudding; Cranberry Pie; Indian
Bread.
The Publishers have been compelled to resort to the
cash system, Old subscribers who do not receive their
“Soil” in the next few days, mav take the hint and send
on their dollar.
China Trees,
We desire to call the attention of the public authori
ties to the condition of the China Trees in the middle
of our streets, They are ornaments to our city, and
are articles of prime necessity to us swelter in the
dust and heat of the city during the long summer
months. We notice that horses are frequently tied to
them, and that many of them are sadly injured by be
ing barked, A few boxes would save them yet, if put
up in time.
Re-Election of Douglas.
The vote stood, Douglas 75, Gillespie (whig) 19 ?
Cullens (free-soil) 1. This is a very signal proof of the
popularity of the “Little Giant of the West,” as his
peculiar friends delight to call Senator Douglas, in his
own State.
ITT The Supr'vne Court of Georgia, which has been
in session at Savannah, adjourned on the 13th instant.
There was a full bench and bar, but a small number
jof cases. This reminds us of an anecdote of Judge
II , now of California, which occurred when we
rode the Circuit. He was observed to get up hastily
; from his breakfast, on the first morning of the Court,
I and order his horse. He was an old stager, and gen
erally held on to the last. This movement, therefore,
created surprise, and one of his friends called to him :
“110 ! judge, which way now ?” “I am off for Talla- I
poosa,” replied the judge; “there are more dogs than
bones at this Court.” The remark is true of most
courts that we have attended.
Congress.
The House has laid on the table, by a vote of 74 yeas
to 73 nays, Air. Cobb’s motion to reconsider the vote
of the last session by which the House had rejected the
Bill allowing certain rail road companies in North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Ten
nessee a credit of four years for the duties on rail road
iron.
Mr. Cass and other Senators have taken occasion to
explain that, if they had known that Secretary Clay
ton had excluded British Honduras from the operation
of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, they never would have
voted for it.
The Bill creating a retired list for disabled officers in
the army has passed the Senate.
New Paper.
AA T e observe, by the Rome Courier , that Mr. D. H,
Mason proposes to publish a Tri-weekly paper in that
flourishing young city, under the name of Rome Ad
vertiser.
Mr. Mason is one of our most accomplished writers,
and we wish him abundant success in his new enter
prise.
Methodist Conference.
The South Carolina conference commenced its session
at Sumterville, S. C,, on the sth inst., Bishop Capers
presiding. There were 104 preachers in attendance.
The utmost harmony prevailed.
The Southern Circuit.
The election for Judge of the Superior Court of the
Southern Circuit, to supply the vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of his Honor Judge Hansell, took place
on the first Monday of the present month. The South
ern Recorder contains the following returns, which
leave no doubt of the election of Peter E, Love, Esq.,
who at present holds the office under an appointment
from Governor Cobb :
Love. Morgan. Platt.
Pulaski, 401 30
: Telfair, 131 4
I Jjaurens, 279
; Irwin, 261 7 6
Lowndes, 137 15 —-
; Thomas, 398 8
Col. Jefferson Davis, it is confidently said, will get
the AA r ar Department under the new Administration.—
Senator Hunter may decline, and in that ease, Gov.
Floyd will have a Cabinet place.
The Steamship Alabama Put In to Norfolk.
i AA'e learn from a dispatch to the Agents in this city,
| last night, that the steamship Alabama, hence, for New
j York, put into Norforlk short of coal, on the 6th inst.,
1 having encountered a heavy gale on the 3d. The steam
er was obliged to lay to under sail between Egg Harbor
afid the Light Ship, during which time her machinery
was stopped. She lost her sails, but sustained little or no
other damage. The gale lasted thirty-six hours.
The Alabama in every encounter proves her superior
| qualities as a sea boat. By mail we learned that she had
not reached New York on Thursday afternoon at two
o’clock, and though no apprehension was felt for her safety,
our readers will be gratified to learn that she lias suffered
no serious injury by the storm. As she would be una
ble to reach New-York in time to leave for Savannah on
her regular day, we will have no steamer to-day.— Sav.
News .
The Caloric Ship. —The Caloric ship Ericcson re—
i turned to New York on the afternoon of the 6th inst. from
j her trial trip down the Bay, having exceeded the antieipa
| tions'of those interested in her. She left Williamsburg be
! tween 9 and 10 o’etoek on Tuesday morning, passed the
j flag staff on Governor’s Island at 9h. 56m., and passed
I abreast of Fort Diamond at 10h. 30m. 30s. ; thus making
a distance of 7 3-8 miles iu 34 1-2 minutes.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool on the 17th Decem
ber, 1852, was 453,976 bales; 3851, 384,661. Im- j
j ports into Liverpool from Ist January to the’ 17th De
| eember, were 2,064,68 ; Consumption, ] ,829,190 ;
! 1,536,049. Though the stock has increased in com
parison with last year, it has not done so in the same
proportion as the consumption.
M. de Marcoleta, the Nicaraguan Minister, whose
recall has been requested by our Government, has writ
ten a letter to the editor of the Courier des Etats Unis ,
in v\ hich he says : “I have done nothing but follow 7 the
instructions of my Government to the very letter, and
that with all possible respect; one day, my correspon
dence will be published, and justice will be'done'”
Newspaper Boys.— The New Hampshire Patriot ,
the leading Democratic paper at Concord, says the
printing office of that paper has been the graduating
school of a Governor, a Senator in Congress, several
Representatives to Congress, many editors, some minis
ters, and many other young men. who have filled at va
rious times numerous responsible stations in the com
munity.
Louis Napoleon. —“Louis Bonaparte,” savs Victor
Hugo, is a man of middle height, cold, pale, slow in
his movements, having the air of a person not quite
awake. He has published, as we mentioned before, a
tolerable treatise on artillery, and is thought to be ac
quainted with the manoeuvering of cannon. lie is a
good horseman. He speaks drawlinglv, with a slight
German accent. Ilis histrionic abilities were displayed
at the Englinton tournament. He has a thick mous
tache, covering his smile, like that of the Duke d’Ar
to!se, and a dull eye, like that of Charles IX.”
The Illness of Vice President King. —A letter
from Washington, dated the 6th inst., says :
“Hon. W. R. King has made his will. He was born in
1786 : owns 5,000 acres of land in one body in Dallas coun
ty, Alabama, and upward of one hundred slaves. His entire
estate is worth about 8150,000. He is a humane master.—
He told me some years since that he never sold but one slave
in Iris life, and he was compelled to sell him because he was
a terror to the neighborhood. Col. King cannot possibly
recover. His physician has sounded his lungs with the
stethoscope, and declared that one ot his lungs is entirely
gone and the other partly so. Col. K.’s neice, Mrs. Ellis,
is with him.”
A Commendable Rule.— The Democrats of Phila
delphia city and county have adopted a neat set of
rules to govern their primary elections in June nex ,
and among them is the following:
“If any candidate for any office, by offers ot gift* ot
drink, money, or any valuable flung, is found guilty o
tempting, directly or indirectlv, to influence the vote o
any Democratic citizen at the election on the ? ® co ,
Monday in June, or of any conferee, his name is to
stricken from the list of candidates by the conference,
and any votes cast for such candidate will not be coun
Refusal of Billy Bowlegs to leave Florida. —The
National Intelligencer confirms the report that Billy
Bowlegs has been compelled by his followers, particu
larly his sister and Sam Jones, to refuse the compliance
with his promise to leave Florida. He had taken to
the everglades, and as a regiment of “Cow-boys” or
“Crackers” is being raised in Florida, to pursue him,
we may expect to hear soon of the commencement of
another troublesome Indian war.
Amos Lawrence. — A post mortem examination ot
; the body of this gentleman, who died suddenly in Bos
ton, has been made; and it is stated it was found that
the deceased’s heart was largely ossified ; and what was
very remarkable, his brain weighed two ounces more
than that of Mr. Webster.
The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.-- Conflict be
tween Mr. Clayton and Vice President King.
Some days ago, we stated that Senator Cass had
asked intormaiion from the Executive in regard to
new colonial lodgements made on the coast ot Cen
-1 iral America, in defiance of the Claytou-Bulwer
treaty of the sth July, 1850. The broad terms of
that document are alleged to be, in part, as fol
lows :
“The Governments of the United States and of
Great Britain agree “that neither will ever obtain or
maintain for itself any exclusive control over the
ship channel which it is designed to construct;”
and, futhermore, that “neither will ever erect or
maintain any fort ification commanding the same , OR
IN THE VICINITY THEREOF, or OCCUPY 01’ fortify, OT
colonize , or assume to exercise any dominion over
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any
fart of Central America
This explicit language, entirely unmodified by
any subsequent clauses in the treaty, disclosed the
fact that GreatJßritain, aswell as the U. States, was
not to “ maintain' ’ dominion over “any fart of Cen
tral America .” But the following “declaration” of
Sir Henry Bulwer, and “memorandum” of Secre
tary Clayton, which, it is alleged, were not com
municated to the Senate at the time of the ratifica
tion of the treaty, rind, indeed, passed between
these functionaries after the ratification cf the treaty,
seem to give a very different coloring to the whole
affair:
DECLARATION.
In proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications
of the convention, signed at VVashignton, on the
l9ih of April, 1850, between her Britannic Majes
ty and the United States of America relative to the
establishment of a communication by ship canal be
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the under
signed, her Britannic Majesty’s plenipotentiary, has
received her Majesty’s instructions to declare that
her Majesty does not understand the engagements
of that convention to apply to her Majesty’s settle
ment at Honduras, or to its dependencies: Her
Majesty’s ratification of the said convention is ex
changed under the explicit declaration above men
tioned.
Done at Washington, the 29th day of June,
1850.
H. L. BULWER.
To this, Mr. Clayton, replied, a the last mo
ment on the sth of July, by the following;
Memorandum.
Department of State, )
Washington, July 5, 1850. (
The within declaration of Sir 11. L. Bulwer was
received by me on the 29th day of June, 1850. In
reply, I wrote him my note of the *4t.h of July,
acknowledging that I understood that British Hon
duras was not embraced in the treaty of the 19th
day of April last, but at the same time carefully
declining to affirm or deny the British title in their
settlement or its alleged dependencies. After
signing my note, last night, I delivered it to Sir
Henry, and we immediately proceeded, without any
further or other action, to exhange the ratifications
of said treaty. The consent of the Senate to the
declaration was not required, and the treaty was
ratified as it stood when itwas made.
JOHN M. CLAYTON.
N. B. The rights of no Central American State
have been compromised by the treaty or by anyi
part of the negotiation.
This accordingly, was a formal and most signi
ficant part of the treaty ; modifying its meaning,
and striking out, in fact, the very essence of its
worth.
In his letter ofthe 4th of July to Sir Henry, Mr.
Clayton also remarks :
“The chairman of the committee on Foreign Re
latiuns of the Senate, William R. King,informs me
that W/ie Senate perfectly understood that the treaty
did not include British Honduras .”
With these official papers before the Senate, Mr.
| Cass addressed that body on the 6th instant, in op
j position to Mr. Clayton 5 * construction, and made
1 the following declaration, on the authority of the
! Hon. VV. R. King, whose indisposition prevented
j him from attending the session :
“Colonel King informs me,” he said, “tin's inorn
j ing that he had made no such, statement ; that when
| Mr. Clayton cabled on him, and informed him cf
| the qualification pul in the treaty by Great Britain
and asked if it should be sent to the Senate, he (Mr.
| King) told him that if it were sent to the Senate it
■ would not receive a single vote ; but that he had
I better dismiss the qualification entirely and let the
\ treaty stand without it. Until the present time he (Mr.
! King) believed this to have been do ne. 5
J Mr. Cass thought that it was proper to have thus
stated, publicly, that he never understood the trea
ty as did Mr. Clayton, and if he had, he never would
have voted for it.
On the other side, the National Intelligencer
’ of Saturday contains the following no:e from Mr.
Clayton :
Wilmington,, (Del.) Jan. 7, 1853.
Messrs. Gales and Seaton: I was very much
astonished to-day oil reading the attack made on
myself in the Senate yesterday. I have a letter
from Mr. KiDg, Chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, wriiten to me on the day of the
exchange of ratifications of the British Treaty, the
19th of April, ]BSO, stating in the very words of my |
letter to H. Buhver, what the Senate perfectly un
derstood, that the treaty did notjnclude British Hon- I
duras. I will hereafter send you the original co- I
pie of the correspondence between Mr. King and
myself.
My letter informs Sir Henry Bulwer that the tin
tie to Honduras was left as the treaty left it, with
out denying or affirming or meddling with it.
The British title to the Central American States
\#| recognized by President Polk in sending a con- {
sul, Christopher Hempstead, who remained in British
Honduras under the protection ol the British flag,
and by virtue of an exequatur obtained by Secreta
ry Buchanan from the British Government, nearly
three years, tid I recalled him to prevent the possi- j
bility of any charge against President Taylor’s Ad
ministration of having recognized English authority
in British Honduras.
JOHN M. CLAYTON.
Mr. Clayton to Mr. King.
July 4, 1850.
Dear Sir —I am this morning writing to Sir H. L.
Bulwer, and while about to decline altering the Trea
ty at the time of exchanging ratifications, I wish to
leave no room for a charge of duplicity against our
Government, such as that we now pretend that
Central America, in the Treaty, includes British
Honduras. I shall therefore say to him in effect
that such construction vva- not in the contempla
tion of the negotiators or the Senate at the time ot
confirmation. May I have your permission to add
that the true understanding was explained bv you
as Chairman of Foreign Relations to the Senate be
fore the vote was taken on the Treaty. I think it
due to frankness on our part.
Very truly, yours, J. M. CLAYTON.
To Hon. W. R. King, U. S. Senate.
Mr. King to Mr. Clayton.
July 4,1850.
My Dear Sir—The Senate perfectly understood
that the Treaty did not include British Honduras.
Frankness becomes our Government, but you should
be careful not to use any expression which would
seem to recognize the right of England to any por
tion of Honduras.
Faithfully, your ob’teerv’t, WM. R. KING.
[The above is a correct copy of a letter of W. R.
King, now in possession of Hon. John M. Clayton.
J. WALES.
P. S. JOHNSON.
W. R. McCLEES.
Mr. Clayton and Mr. King, President of the Sen
ate and late chairman of the Committee on Foreign
Relations, are thus at a dead issue.
FurtheiyParticulars of the Accident to Gen.
Pierce and Family.
We gather from tde New York papers some ad
ditional particulars of the rail road accident by
which Gen. Pierce and wife w ere injured and their
son killed:
The train was composed of a baggage and passen
ger car only, The exact cause ot the accident is
not definitely ascertained ; one of the axle trees is
supposed to have broken ; some say it was the
journal on whieh a the wheel plays, The day was
very cold—the thermometer pointed at zero—and
the accident was doubtless owing to the frost in the
iron works ofthe ill fated car.
Mrs. Pierce and the de ceased son had been ab
sent four weeks on a visit to relatives in Boston and
Andover. The accident happened near the latter
place. General Pierce went to Boston on Tuesday
morning, and with them attended the funeral of
Mrs. Pierce’s uncle, Hou. Amos Lawrence, on the
same afternoon. They remained at Mr. Aiken's, in
Andover, whose lady is a sister of Mrs. Pierce, and
were expecting to return in the evening.
The train in which they went left Boston at noon
on Thursday, and the accident happened just after
it left the ATidovor depot, twemy-mdes from Boston,
at about one. They had not been in the ears five
minutes.
Gen. Pierce, after the accident, appeared com
posed, but Mrs. Pierce was taken away in a very
high state of mental anguish. Her screams were
agonizing. The little boy was their only child n
oldt r bn ther having died some ten years ago.
At the time of the accident, Gen. Pierce was con
versing with Mr. Young, the superintendent of the
new Mills at Lawrence. Professor Packard, a rela
tive of Gen. Pierce, was in company with Mrs.
Pierce and her son, and the party occupied the for
ward part of the car, which was divided in the mid
,dle. They were all thrown into a heap, one over *a
other. Master Pierce lay upon the floor of the car,
with his skull fi ightfully fractured. The cap which
he had worn had fallen off, and was filled with his
blood and brains.
A little girl of Mr. Newall, of Hillsborough, had
her foot crushed, and it must be amputated. Mrs.
Newall was badly injured, and Mr. News 11 had a
leg brokers Mr. Horace Chifu’s, .bridge builder, of
Henniker, was badly but not seriously bruised.—
| Several women were severely bruised.
J The car is said to have broken near the middle-.-
j The baggage car in front was not thrown off. A
! brakeman stood on the end cf it and witnessed the
accident unharmed.
j A dispatch, dated Concord, Thursday evening.
| says:
; Considerable apprehension is felt here lest tiffs
1 melancholy fatality may prove serious in its conse*
] quenees to Mrs. Pierce. She has been for several
years in delicate health, caused pari ly by the loss of
her first child. The boy killed by this accident was
almost idolized by his mother and father.
The announcement of the accident, at 4 o’clock, caused
i great excitement in the House. A member came in and
T said that General Pierce himself was dead. The floor
I .and galleries were crowded—the charge of bribery against
j .Judge Butler being under consideration. The Governor.
Council, and most of the Senators were present. Instantly
every member was on his feet, nud exclamations of re
gret were heard from every one.
The veteran Ichbabod Bartlett, of Portsmouth, the
oldest member —a political opponent, but stronfi personal
friend of Gen. Pierce —was observed to weep like a child.
Others were much affected.
The house adjourned instantly, and the members rush
ed to the hotel and telegraphed office, and the most
intense anxiety to obtain particulars has prevailed ever
j since.
The little boy was a great Javarite with our town
j people. He was rgreeably, kind, and generous, and
! much beloved by his playmates. VV hen asked the other
day, “Well Benny, how do you expect to like living at
I the White House ?” he replied, “I don 5 t know about
i going there to iive at ull. 1 would rather go out to liAe
j on a farm.”
Further Particulars, by Telegraiih.
’ Boston, Jan. 7.—Gen. Pierce and lady are now stay
! ing at the house of .John Aiken at Andover. Neither of
| them have received much physical injury, but Mrs P. is
prostrated with grief at the loss of her son.
Mr Newell, of Cambridge, one of the passengers isin
! jured beyond the possibility of recovery.
SECOND DISPATCH.
j Boston, Jan. 7.—Gen. Pierce and his lady are still at
j Andover, suffering slightly from their injuries, and over
whelmed with grief at the loss of their only child. The
funeral will take place at Concord to morrow.
iff?” Wanted. —One young married lady,
who is willing to begin housekeeping in the same
style in which her parents began. Wanted. —
Twenty fashionable young ladies, who dare to
be seen wielding a dusting brush, or darning
their brother’s stockings, if a gentleman should
happen to make an early morning call. Wan- j
ted. —Twenty independent young ladies, of ‘
! “good families,” who dare to wear their last
; winter’s bonnets to church on a clear Sunday.
Wanted. —The same number of young ladies,
; “who are anybody,” who dare to be seen in
Broadway, wearing shoes with soles thick
enough to keep their feet warm. Wanted. —The
same number of young ladies, of sufficient age
“to go into company,” who dare confess they
ever made a loaf of bread.
oy~ “Madam” said old Roger to his board
ing-house keeper, “inprimitive countries beef is
often a legal tender; but, madam said, he,
emphatically, thrusting his fork into the steak,
“all” the laws in Christendom couldn t make this
beef tender-” He looked around the board for
encouragement, and found it in the fact that ah
the boarders who ate the beef held their jaws