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piration of the year.
IO" Postage must be paid on all communications
and letters of business.
O*ALL REMITTANCES PER MAIL ark
AT OUR RISK.
(Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)
Thirty-First Congress—2d Session-
Washington, Jan. 16, 1851.
SENATE.
, Mr. Pearce presented the memorial of the
in the post office in Baltimore
Jt ',ing an increase in compensation.
the credentials of the
for six years from and after
—’4i.
presented six petitions from
• and Pennsylvania, praying the re-
fugitive slave law, which were laid
H|K the table.
petitions for the abolition of slavery
of Columbia, which were laid
on t»e cable.
' ill Pearce introduced a joint resolution in
relatiqjlri to the distribution of the books of the
exploring expedition, which was ordered to he
■ eng? ? E<sed.
Mr?Bhields submitted a resolution calling
on the President to communicate information
in respect to the proceedings of the British
agents on the Coast of San Salvador, which,
after debate, was agreed to.
Mr. Benton offered a resolution, calling for
Copies of all correspondence between the U.
j States Government and the Spanish Minister,
\ the Contoy prisoners. Laid over.
The bill providing for ascertaining and satis
£ )fying the claims of American citizens for spo
- Rations by the French, was then taken up.
v Mr. Smith addressed the Senate for two
hours in support of the bill, when, without
concluding, he gave way to a motion to ad-
and the Senate adjourned.
SL, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
ft The House resolved itself into a committee
the whole on the State of the Union, and
JKgain took up the postage bill.
The amendment proposed by Mr. Potter
Yesterday, to the second section of the bill,
then taken up, fixing the postage on
newspapers, magazines, and other printed
mailable matter at one cent for the first two
ounces, and one cent for every additional ounce
in weight; and limiting the free circulation of
papers; and the reduced rate of one half on
papers and magazines to those which are sent
from the office where printed to subscribers.
The amendment as amended being carried,
the third section of the bill was read, and
Mr. Potter moved an amendment, prescribing
that the three cent coin, for the issue of which
that section provides, shall be composed of
three fourths or silver and one fourth of cop
per, and that such coin be a legal tender in
payment of debts; which was carried after very
little discussion.
The fourth section of the bill was then read,
requiring the Postmaster General to provide
thesiveral Postmasters with three cent stamps,
and was passed wi h an amendment, authoris
ing a reduction to persons purchasing to the
amount of fifty dollars.
Among the opponents was Mr. Phelps, of
Missouri, who contended that the rejection of
,'the amendment which he ad vocated, of a rate
of three cents when prepaid and five cents
when not prepaid, would create a deficiency,
of the extent of which members had no con
ception.
Mr. Sweetzer, of Ohio, said that, although
he had opposed the reduction which had been
carried, yet he wou d offer no factious oppo
sition, now that the question had haen decided,
but would give to the supporters of the re
duced rate the means ’hey asked to meet any
deficiency they contemplated in the fi-st in
stance, and that the business of the post Office
might not be interrupted after the adjourn
ment of Congress through want of funds.
The amendment of Mr. Phelps, to strike out
$500,000 from the section under considera
tion, was then negatived on a division of 82
to 30.
During the consideration of this section an
amendment was introduced and lost, substi
tuting envelopes for separate stamp ; as was
also another, abolishing the franking privilege,
and providing that the postage on commui
cations received and sent by and from mem
bers of Congress, and public documents sent
by the public departments, shall be paid from
the contingent fund, or in the same manner
as the other expenses of those departments.
The next section, fixing a penalty of five
years imprisonment, or a fine of SSOO, on all
persons forging stamps or possessing forged
stamps, with intent to use the same, was then
passed.
The sixth section, appropriating a sum, to
the "extent of a million and a half of dol
lars, to meet any temporary deficiency that
may arise from the operation of the act, as
was expected, excited a warm discussion, it
being contended that the Post Office Depart
ment should be a self sustaining department
and that the reduction of the rate of postage
should not be made to an extent that would
interfere with that principle.
Mr. Phelps then moved that the remuner
ation of two cents to mail carriers, ship mas
ters and postmasters, for cairying and deliver
ing letters, shall be abolished, as also on free
letters; his object being to impose the payment
on persons receiving the same—which amend
ment was also lost.
Mr. Potter moved that the postage on let
ters to and from ports on the Pacific, be four
times that which is already determined on;
ana on newspapers, magazines, &c., three
times the game.
This met with opposition on the part of the
delegate from Oregon, and was ultimately
lost. The sec’ion was then passed, and the
bill corrected by adding the word “Territory”
after that of “State,” to comport with this
decision.
An amendment was moved, authorizing the
establishment of offices of denosit and delivery
in the great cities of the Union; by which a
large amount of revenue could accrue to the
Post office Department, and which is at pre
sent enjoyed by individual enterprise—the
charge for delivery not to exceed one or two
cents; and that there be paid on advertised let
ters one cent each. This was negatived.
The eighth section of the bill, which au
thorized and required, when the receipts of
the post-office Department should exceed the
expenditure, to the extent of five per cent tor
ten fiscal years, that the postage on letters
should be reduced from three cents to two,
-was negatived without a division. .
Mr Phelps again called the attention of the
committee to the excessive remuneration paid
tn Railroad Compan es beyond what is charged
to Express Agents; and moved an
amendment restricting the amounts to be paiu
for the transmission of the mails in different
class cars; which was lost.
A motion was here made that the commit
tee rise, which was lost.
An amendment was proposed by Mr. Phelps,
and read by the Clerk, for striking out the
enacting clause and fixing a uniform rate of
postage of five cents on letters, altering that
on newspapers and periodicals as already a
greed to, defining the franking privilege, and
prescribing punishment in case of forgery.—
Pending which a motion was again made to
adjourn, and decided in the negative.
The amendment was again read, and a mo
tion to rise was again lost.
Mr. Phelps attempted to explain his views,
but the fall of the hammer of the chairman cut
short his speech; and a motion was reiterated
that the committee rise, which was carried, 76
to 73; and the House resumed and adjourned.
Census Returns. —We have been politely
favored by Col. Condy, U. S. Marshal, with
the annexed returns of the census in the fol
lowing districts which are all that have as
yet been forwarded to Washington :
City ox Charleston.
1840. 1850.
Ward No. I—Free 2603 2972
Slaves ..3566 2530
5269 5502
Ward No. 2-Free 2578 2078
Slaves 2718 3208
6296 6286
Ward No. 3—Free 2683 4889
Slaves 3176 3212
6859 8101
Ward No. 4—Free 4996 6426
Slaves 5213 5680
10,839 12,106
Ward No. 5 }
® l New 10,609
8J
Aggregate 31,527 42,604
Anderson District.
Free 12,810 13.961
Slaves 5,683 7,514
18,493 21,475
Chester District.
Free 10.025 8,156
Slaves 7,722 10,087
17.747 18,243
• Fairfield District.
Free 7,660 7,164
Slaves. 12.505 14,246
20,165 21,410
GeoKETOWN DISTRrCT.
Free 2.281 2,392
Slaves... .15,993 17,875
18,274 20,268
Greenville Distrct.
Free 12,535 13,495
Slaves 5,305 6,752
17,839 20,277
Lancaster District.
Free 5,672 5,973
Slaves... 4,235 5,074
9,907 10,988
Marion District.
Free.. 8,681 9,888
Slaves 5.251 7,520
13.932 17,408
Newberry District.
Free.. 8 446 7,455
Slaves 9.904 12,688
18,350 20,143
Richland Distric r.
Free 5,733 7.265
Slaves.... ..10,664 12,978
16,397 20,253
Sumter District.
Free 9,017 10,155
Slaves... 18.885 23 065
27,892 33,220
Willi amsburgh.
Free .3,359 3,939
Slaves 6,968 8,393
10,327 12,332
Laurens District.
Free 12,673 11,454
Slaves 8.911 11,953
21,584 23,407
( Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.)
New York, Jan. 16, 9 p. m.
Fall of Six New Buildings—Fearful Lose of Life
Great Number Seriously Wounded - Cul
pable Manner of Construetion —An American
Imprisoned ad Cuba , 6sc.
A terrible accident occurred yesterday af
ternoon about one o’clock, in Twenty-first
street, between the Fifth and Sixth avenues.
Six buildings fell, under the pressure of their
own weight, burying about forty workmen
under the ruins. It is said that the mortar
used in the buildings was almost destitute of
adhesive properties, and altogether worthless
as a cement tor building purposes. It is fur
ther stated that the buildings were too slight
for their size. These matters will of course be
made the subject of judicial investigation.
The catastrophe occurred just after the
workmen had eaten their dinners. The un
fortunate men were mostly laborers and ma
sons. They were instantly buried in a con
fused heap of timber, bricks and mud. Many
were killed on the spot, others severely in
jured—a few only escaping with compara
tively slight injuries.
The bystanders commenced immediately the
work of extrication, and up to 4 o'clock had
liberated some five or six who had been jam
med in and bady injured. They had also
taken out four dead bodies. The whole num
ber killed, is however, said to be not less than
fifteen or twenty. Two companies of firemen
rendered most efficient service.
The following are the names of the killed so
far as ascertained Patrick Gray, Mathew
Rooney, Michael Flynn, William Higgins and
Barney Trainer, laborers. All these were mar
ried men, and leave wives and families to de
plore their loss.
The following are the names of those who
were badly hurt:—Thomas Kenny, Patrick
O'Brien, Hugh Trainer, John Rice, Thomas
Rogan, leg broken; James Brogan, Hugh Gas
par, William Ackenstaff, John McDugan, Ed
ward Coilins, Sami. Lawrence, Francis Kear
ney, William Fogarty, James O’Neil, Michael
Rooney, Harvey Walton.
Among the missing, are James Trainer, Jno.
McCabe, Patrck McHugh, James Shaw.
Thirteen of the persons employed on the
building were masons, the balance laborers.
The New York Sun has a letter from an
American, named Edward Stiff, who alleges
that he is confined in a loathsome dungeon at
Havana, for no other cause than being accused
of carrying weapons. The matter has been
laid before the authorities at Washington by
Senator Clemens.
The trial of Nicholas Smith, Francis Morris,
Lewis Desmond, Francis Capana, Peter Pear
age, George Sheppard, Michael Coggen, and
John Patrick, seamen of the ship Henry, of
Boston, on a charge of mutiny and revolt on
board said vessel, resulted yesterday in a ver
dict of guilty.
[Telegraphed for Baltimore Sun.)
Farther by the Steamer Franklin*
New York, Jan. 16, 11 p. m.
The steamer Franklin arrived at quaran
tine this evening, from Havre She brings
Liverpool dates to the 31st of December.
The Franklin encountered very rough wea
ther and heavy seas. She will remain at
quarantine until to-morrow morning.
From the London Times, the only paper
received by her, brought up by private express,
I furnish you the following brief synopsis of
the news :
India.. —The commercial accounts from In
dia, by the overland mail, are considered very
satisfactory.
The Markets. — Liverpool Cotton Market ,
Dec. 31. —There has been no important change
in the Cotton market since the sailing of the
Niagara, The quotations then given are firm
ly maintained. The stock on hand in Liver
pool is declared to be of American 261,234
bales ; Brazil, 68 613 ; E-yptain, 32,182; West
India, 903 ; Surats, 91,947 —making a total of
454,897 —showing an excess of 80,000 bales
over the estimated stock previously published.
Money Market. —There is more demand for
money in London and the market has been
tighter. The English Funds, Railway Shares
and Foreign Stocks were rather depressed by
the increased demand for money. In for
eign exchanges there has been a considera
ble advance, especially upon Paris, Hamburg,
and Amsterdam. The effect of this would De
to temporarily check the export of specie.
Breadstuff's.—The market for breadstuff's in
Liverpool, on the 31st Dec. was quiet. I have
no quotations for flour. Indian corn, yellow,
selling at 31s. per quarter.
Provisions were steady, without change in
prices.
[From the Charleston Evening News.)
Whitney’s Railroad. —The project of a
railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific, has
for years been before the public, through the
untiring vigilance of Whitney, the projector
of the scheme. Os its feasibility we have
never had any doubt; and the more wecons*d
er it in all bearings—the more are we convinc
ed that its completion would be productive
of incalculable benefits to this country. It
would make the United States the carriers of
the world —would convert the wilderness
between the Mississippi and the Rocky Moun
tains, into a populous country—and would
furnish, within, our own limits, a meeting
ground for the commerce of Western Europe
and Eastern Asia. The only question which
really requires discussion, or in the resolution
of which there can be any doubt, is as to the
precise route that could most conveniently
and profitably be adopted. The following re
marks by the Washington correspondent of
the Journal of Commerce, who doubtless
writes under the inspiration of Wnitney him
self, will assist our readers in revolving the
question:
By starting at some point on Lake Michi
gan, thence going to Prairie du Chien, thence
due West to a bridging place on the river, and
thence to the South Pass, we have a practica
ble route, and from the lands around the Lake
suitable timber for the road, and means for its
construction may be obtained. From the
Lake Westward, the route for 800 miles lies
through lands fertile in corn and w-heat, as
rich as any on the earth, requiring no pre
paration for a crop, and no hing but the plow
and the sickle.
The land on these 800 miles will furnish
means for building 1,600 miles of the road.
The whole distance is 2 030 miles. From the
South pass it is about 700 or 800 miles to
Puget’s Sound. From Lake Michigan to the
South Pass, the elevation is so gradual as to be
hardly perceptible to a height of 7.000 feet.
Thence, the streams which forms the Colum
bia river may be followed to the Pacific ocean
—these bemg the only waters running west
from the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia
river or to Lower California. As to the means
of construction, the first 800 miles of this
route will furnish them for 1600 miles of the
road, after which there are good lands furnish
ing umber and agricultural products. Between
the South Pass and the Pacific the lands may
be again relied upon for timber and all other
facilities requisite on the route.
This is the only route that can shorten the
distance between Europe and Asia, and givd a
preference over the ocean route: The route
from Europe through Panama to China, is
16,000 miles, while this will be 11,000.
The lands on this route will furnish the
means for bui.ding the road, and no interest
on the capital need be provided for. The tolls
will not exceed the os- of keeping the road
in repair. It will be a free road, or will afford
a transit so low as to compete with any water
carriage. It will, moreover, give employment
to the surplus population of Europe, and af
ford them means of comfortable subsistence,
Gov. J. A. Qvitman. —A telegraphic dis
patch ?rom Jackson, Mississippi, which ap
pears in another column of our journal, an
nounces that Judge Gholson, of the U. States
District Court, has determined to issue the
writ of arrest prayed by the District Attorney
of that District against Governor Quitman.
The Constitution of Mississippi containing no
provision for the case of the tAnporary absence
of the chief executive officer of the State, Gov
ernor Quitman has not considered himself at
liberty to leave the State for an indefinite
riod, (for the proceedings carried on here
against him might be protracted,) unless under
the compulsory process of the court. Governor
Quitman will, we are certain, promptly and
cheerfully obey the process of that Court as
soon as it is served upon him, and come down
to New Orleans to meet the indictment found
against him. We have been assured that
Judge Gholson has thus far delayed issuing
the writ of arrest, in order to allow Governor
Quitman sufficient time to dispose of the busi
ness of his office, as to be able to absent him
self from Jackson without too much prejudice
to the public interests confided to his keep
ing,—N, 0. Delta , 1 5th wist.
Mercantile Honor —The Philadelphia
North American mentions that a most esti
mable and excellent citizen called to see the
editor on the Ist inst., and a$ he happened to
be absent at. the time, left upon his table a
note, from which, though intended for che edi
tor’s own perusal, it ventures to make the
following extract:
“You may remember that many years ago I
was unfortunate in business, and was obliged
to as It the indulgence of my creditors, from
whom I obtained a full release. Since then I
have been favored to su<ffi an extent in my af
fairs, that-to-day I am paying oft' my old debts,
amounting to over $60,000. I need not say
that this is the happiest day of my life, and
that the consciousness of being able to dis
change this duty has brought with it a peace
of mimd more valuable than either silver or
gold,”
The Newark (Ohio) Gazette, in announcing
the completion of the railroad to that place
from Lake Erie, exults at tne event in the fol
lowing strain:
“When theshrill whistle of the “Newark”
broke the silence of the evening, a shout of
triumph and rejoicing went up which echoed
and re-echoed from the South Fork to Long
Pond Hun, and from Palaskala to Raccoon—
crowds rushed out to greet the new arrival an
rejoice over the final success of human skill
and perseverance, and the power of iron rails
and steam. It is, indeed, an event of no small
importance of our rapidly-growing city, and
in view of it, reflections upon our past and
our future crowd upon the mind.”
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, (Seargia.
TUESDAY MORNIN&, JAN* 21
No mail received last evening from of
fices North of Charleston.
Untimely Death of the National Union
Party-Dying- Hard.
No scheme of political tacticians number
ing among its champions some of the shrewd
est men in the country, thoroughly acquainted
with politics, as a game in which power and
spoils are the stakes, has encountered so thor
ough a break-down as the Union Constitu
tional Party scheme. It sprung into being at
Milledgeville, and proposed for its object a
great: National Union Party, which was to be
co-extensive with the Union— was to break up
old party lines, and know neither Whig nor
Democrat—no North, no South, no East, no
West—nothing but saving the Union, and
getting the ejices. A Union President, and a
Union Vice-President, was to be elected.
Union Secretaries, and Union Ambassadors,
Union Consuls and Union Congress men,
Union Governors and Union Judges, Union
Custom House officers and Union Clerks of
all kinds—all were to be carried into office in
every State and territory on this Union hobby.
Nothing was to be said of high tariffs or terri
torial rights, of land distribution, or internal
improvements, foreign pauper labor, or free
trade, federalism and consolidation, or State
Rights and strict construction— nothing but
Union ! That was to be the cry, and the least
said about such subjects of discord as the
above, the better, or the scheme would be
blown up.
Well, the scheme has blown up. It was
an absurd and impracticable scheme. Such
discordant elements could not be united in
one harmonious whole. The question of
Union could not be made a test in States
where there was no Disunion party, and
neither Whigs nor Democrats would give up
their old opinions, or be silent on them, and
go into a party which, having no common
principles, would be a mere mob banded to
gether, nominally, to save the Union, but
really for spoil. The following plain reason
ing applies and is used in most of the States.
The Whigs have got their own notions of
policy, and won’t give them up. They have
got all the federal offices, and don't want to
give them up. The Democrats have got their
notions of policy, and won't give them up
if they can help it. They want the Fed
eral offices, too, and aim to get them, as a
party, and for their party. If a Union party
were formed, it would carry the day, of
course, and as all the Whigs in office, from
President Fillmore down to the humblest
tide waiter, would belong to the Union party,
i the Whigs would be ins still, and the Dem
ocrats be outs. Theie would be no motive,
1 then, for the Democrats to quit their old or
! ganisation and toil to keep the Whigs in
: office. As there is no danger of a Disunion
party getting the Federal offices from Presi
dent down, so there is no organization to pre
vent the Whigs and Democrats from pursuing
their old contention to its result between the
ins and outs. This contention will go on. The
Milledgeville scheme of a National Union
Party, has made scarcely a ripple upon the
broad surface of National parties.
A few prominent papers of both parties,
and a few politicians at Washington, gave the
project a faint quasi support, a sort of doubt
! ing, hesitating, half-way approval, at first,
| evidently to feel the popular pulse, but soon
finding it would not take, they dropped it like
1 a hot potato. The old Northern stagers
fought shy from the beginning. It was con
cocted among Southern schemers for local and
| personal purposes,
! We perceive, however, that the Editor ot
the Southern Banner , who has had a large
share in the original concoction of this scheme,
dies hard. Forlorn and desperate as is the
prospect, he hangs on with game-like tenacity.
He thinks, in the language of the admired
lyric:
“ It will never do to give it up so, Mr. Brown.”
The cold indifference of the few out of
Georgia, who at first favoied the scheme of a
convocation of the wire-pullers at Washing
ton, on the 22d February, to organize—the
contemptuous silence of some—the merciless
ridicule of others, and the savage denuncia
tion of not a few of the leading organs of
opinion, both whig and democratic, in various
sections, would seem to more ductile natures,
conclusive of the hopelessness of this new
organisation. But the Editor of the Benner
is one of the indomitables. He never seems
to know when he is whipt, or if he knows it,
will never acknowledge the defeat, but will
blindly and bravely fight on. His is the spirit
of Marmion, who though cloven down, with
broken brand and dinted crest, on disastrous
Flodden-Field,
“ With dying hand above his head,
Still waved the fragment ot his blade,
And shouted victory.”
We find the Editor still with undamped
ardor, raising a rallying cry for a National
Union Party. This is on the 16th inst.,
which is eome week or two after all reason*'
able hopes of keeping breath in the body of
this political bantling were over.
The following is his somewhat stilted and
overstrained language. We will endeavor to
give the solution of this extravagant prose ssion
of anxiety for the Union :
“ Now is the day—and now the hour— to
begin the work of salvation. The great Union
meeting advertised to take place at Washing
ton city on the 22d February should take
place, either there or elsewhere—we care but
little where it may be —so it assembles. We
care but litt e whether it undertakes a nomi
nation for the Presidency or not—in fact, we
think the nomination had better be postponed
for the present —but we think the salvation
of the country requires that it should organ
jze the National Union party. The very basis
of that party, North, South, and West,
should be exterminating war against the anti
slavery agitation of a portion of the North,
and the ultra disunion doctrines of a portion
of the South. It will carry with it every
Southern State, (always excepting South Caro
lina) and non-slavehoiding States enough to
save the country, it must be so—the patri
otism and good sense of the confederacy have
decreed it. We must never cease our efforts
until this great measure of deliverance is ac
complished. Union men of all parties, whoth
er North, East, South, or West—to the
rescue !”
Now, there is a little lowering of tone here
in one respect —that is, as to indifference
about the nomination for the Presidency. It is
even thought this nomination had better be
postponed for the present — aye, for the present,
only. So important a feature in the whole
scheme is not to be omitted or forgotten en
tirely.
As samples of the spirit in which the pro
position to disband old parties and enter into
the new organization is received throughout
the Union, we will quote from a few dem
ocratic papers, old and true comrades of the
Knight ot the Banner. It will be seen that
North, South, East, and West, his own
friends repudiate the proposition, some of
them charging it as “ a weak device of the
enemy”—a device of the Whig party in
States where they are in the minority, to get
into power by the aid of democratic votes.
Even “ the little pacificator,” Gen. Foote,
who, like Father Ritchie, at first favored the
project, now, rather unhandsomely as the
Banner thinks, backs square out of it. Thus
dolefully speaketh the Banner of this political
Fliberty Gibbit :
“ But we have to say with infinite mortifi
cation and regret, that we have been disap
pointed in our expectations by his late letter
to the Editor of the Union.
“We have perused it and re-perused it with
the hope that we might find in it something
to encourage our hopes of the organization ot
a “ National Union party ’ —but in vain. In
fact, there appears to be a mystery, a want of
frankness, we might almost say a weakness,
about it, altogether unbecoming the high
character and peculiar position of the Hon.
Senator.”
[From the Ohio Democrat .)
“ ‘A Union Party. —Let us form a Union
party. The Union is in danger, and its friends
must band together,or it will go by the board.'
Such is the spirit of some people’s declaration
in certain quarters. It is certainly perfectly
right that we should have a party devoted to
the Union ; and we have been laboring under
the firm conviction all along, that since the
formation of parties in this country, there has
been a Union party, and that party is the De
mocratic party. When has that party ever
arrayed itself against the Union? When has
it faltered in its devotion to that sublime and
noble structure ? Never !”
(From the Pennsylvanian .)
‘lt is suggested; in several quarters, that
both the old parties should drop their names,
and merge their organization into a “Union
party.” The idea is a fascinating one, cer
tainly so far as it goes, but it will not bear
examination. One of the reasons presented
in t favor is. that the name of whig, owing to
the conduct of the whig leaders and whig
newspapers has grown into disfavor, and that
it would only seem to be reasonable, if that
name were given up, that the democrats
should magnanimously surrender theirs. Now
if this logic proves anything, it proves that
the denoeracy, by their early, constant, and
coif ageous support ot the constitution, have
in effect saved the country.
(From the Baltimore Republican and Argus.')
The great Union party. —Many of the
whigs favor the formation of a great Union
party out of the present whig and democra
tic parties. We see no necessity for forming
any new Union party whilst the democratic
party is in existence, because ours has been
the great Union party ever since abolitionism
first aimed at the disruption of this great re
public. Democracy fought abolitionism single
handed and alone in the North and Northwest,
until all whigery hoisted the free-soil banner
during the Mexican war, and until General
Taylor was held up to the people as the proper
free-soiler candidate by the whigs of the
North.
(From the Nashville Union , 7 thinst)
We see, with regret, th it a project seems
to be seriously entertained at Washington,
among some leading members of both of the
great political parties, of forming a new politi
cal organization, to be styled tbe “Union Par
ty.” Such a project, if desirable, we look up
on as wholly chimerical. It c uld not hold to
gether more than a single canvass, if so long;
tor, the Union ones safe, or the storms that
threaten the Union apparently allayed, and
the party, having no common vinculum, and
agreeing upon no one ground of domestic poli
cy, mu-it necessarilly break into fragments,
and cease to be.
(From the New Hampshire Patriot.)
“ A Union P arty.— —One of the shallow de
vices bygwhich the abolition-federal-nullifica
tion papers of this State hope to divide the
Democracy, is by representing that the prom
inent men and organs of that party are pre
paring to give up their party organization,
and unite with a portion of the federal par
ty in the formation of »a Union party.’ We
have heretofore omitted to notice this most
ridiculous of all ridiculous humbugs, be
cause we supposed it too preposterous and
contemptible to deceive even the weakest
mind. But since some cem cratic papers
have expressed the apprehension that the
‘ Union meetings’ that have been held in dif
ferent sections of New England might have
some other object than that professed by
their originators, we think it proper to say
that so far as we have ever heard, there
is not a Democrat in the State who enter
tains such an idea or would listen to the sug
gestion of any such thing.”
Now, that is a hard lick of the New Hamp
shire Patriot, at the schemers to effect this
National Union Party, “ that it is a shallow de
vice of the abolition-federal-nullification papers
of that State to divide the Democracy .” We
wish you joy of your new allies, friend Hol
sey. We hope you will have a sweet time of
it. What a nice medley. Southern Whigs
and Democrats under the lead of Toombs and
Stephens, and Dawson and Cobb and Holsey,
marching,along with the abolition-f’deral
nullification trooos of New Hampshire, in
friendly array, all for to save the Union. What
should be the motto inscribed on their Banner?
What could it be but the same principles made
immortal by Randolph of Roanoke ?— the five
loaves and two fishes ?
The plain truth of the whole story is that
this Pharisaical cry of saving the Union and
forming a party to do it, is a trick of the po
liticians.
The game ia as easily unriddled in Georgia
as it is in New Hampshire.
It is the last desperate card of certain poli
ticians to gain power, and of others save
themselves from the humiliation of being for
ever in a hopeless minority among those they
once acted with.
The Southern Rights party is firmly or
ganized—is knit together by strong sympa
thies, and is complicated in no National party
alliances. It is a thoroughly Southern party
—for the South first —for the South last —for
the South all the time.
The game of the National Union party
scheme is to defeat it by raising that false cry
of Union “at all hazards” from behind “ tha
masked battery” of which Mr. Toombs has
warned the people.
The game will not succeed. Defeat stares
its projectors in the face.
Valuable Publications'
We would call attention to the advertisement
of Mr. Thos. Courtney, published to-day. Any
one wishing copies of the publications named,
can procure them by calling on him at the
Library Room.
The Campbell Minstrels
Were received last evening by a crowded and
fashionable audience. The Programme se
lected was a good one, and gave general satis
faction. They perform again this evening,
with a change of programme. Go early if you
wish to get a good seat.
One day last month the people of St. Paul,
(Minesota) witnessed a superb solar exhibi
tion. From sunrise to sunset, three suns of
equal brightness, and too dazzling for the
naked eye, apparently arose at once in the
horizon, and, the ground being covered with
snow, poured forth a deluge of light, far more
intense than is usually witnessed. A stream
of powerful refracted rays was blazing down
from the real sun in the centre, like the blaz
ing board of a fiery comet, while on each side
of the sun, like the segments which form a
parentheis—thus, (. ) hung a brilliant sun
dog, with a local point in the centre of each,
intensely luminous; so that the two suns, the
offspring of the sun by refraction, shone in
equal splendor.
The U. S. Army. —To promote the health
of the troops, and to reduce the expense of
subsisting the army, the Adjutant General
has directed that the commanding officer of
every permanent post and station where the
public lands are sufficient, or private lands
can be leased on reasonable terms, will an
nually cultivate a kitchin garden with the sol
diers under his command, to enable him to
supply the hospital and men with necessary
vegetables throughout the year.
Jenny Lind at Havana. —The following is
the price of tickets for Jenny Lind's concerts
at Havana:—For a box in the first or second
tiers, sl7; do. in the third, sl3; a seat in the
parquet, $4 25; promenade tickets to the par
quet, $2; amphitheatre, $2: upper gallery, $1
50.
We learn from the Mobile papers that
Rufus Greene, charged with forgery and em
bezzlement, was on the 14th instant brought
before Judge McKinstry, and regularly com
mitted for trial at the February term of the
City Court. His counsel waived an examina
tion, and consented to the commitment.
Col. Benton. —The Baltimore Sun of the
17th inst. says: “The papers have had a dis
patch from Washington stating that advices
had been received there from St. Louis to the
effeet that <jol. Benton had actually been re
elected to the Senate. The New York Tri
bune’s correspondent states that Col. Ben
ton’s dispatches indicate that he probably
will be re-elected. This we take to be the
truer story of the two.
The Wojrld’s Fair.— lt is supposed the U.
States will have l,ooojexhibitors at the World's
Fair; France will have 2,500; Austria 1,000
and Belgium will be represented by 686 manu
facturers. The frigate St. Lawrence will sail
from New York about the middle of February,
with the articles for exhibition from this coun^
try- *
The Steam Ship Atlantic.—Up to the hour
of closing the Telegraph office last night, no
intelligence had been received of the arrival
of this vessel. The New York papers speak
of the probability of her having put into the
Western Islands to replenish her coal, which
is a measureable conclusion. We predicate
our opinion that she is safe from the belief
that her hull is as substantial as any vessel
that floats, and that she is in charge of an
experienced and careful commander, and able
officers and crew.
A want of fuel, or an accident to the ma
chinery, may have retarded her progress, and
several days may yet elapse before we shall be
informed of her safety.— Charleston, Courier,
'2oth inst.
The Weather.— Towards the close of lask
week we had unseasonably warm weather for
the time of the year. On Saturday and yes
terday, however, a sudden change took place,
and rain, cold and wind became the order of
both days, instead of the previous dry and
sunshine placidity, which would not have dis
graced the month of April.— Jb.
The steamer Gov. Dudley which left for
Wilmington on Friday night, had to return
in consequence of the heavy N. E. blow. She
left again on Saturday at 1 P. M.— lb.
The steamers Gladiator, for Wilmington,
and Jasper, for Savannah, did not leave at
their usual time yesterday, being detained by
the severe N. E. blow. — lb .
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