The New York Herald Newspaper, March 11, 1850, Page 6

be town. In Oregon 1, exce| Tactic yae ag ex, +» has public ba made the Inteligencer in their edito- within ite walle, or euch e vain and despairing presets nial deceptions, ‘and indirect. Tcould from the multitudes outside to get in. peoeas milben 7 San speeches of Mr. Clay and Nr. Calhoun, the a . give youa of instances, their columns, Were as well filled as this morning, because, beyond ® | of the most notorious, unmit rs; but certain capacity, they will hold a 4 you Dave sot the space in your valuable paper to the ladies ® march upon tad publish the eighth of them. I cannot do these of the marning prayers, The semi-circle | artery sell neg unless { point out their of the mornin vm nd attractive group- | latest improvement in the editorial art. For some bonners aud splendid costumes. prese! ST brags ose, One resident's chair, and i The lobby behind the Vice-!" Senators, avd many 0 Satine: ebiefly by the fair. Mr. Cley, from the by which he was encircled, was almost iovisi- cluster of fifty of the fair ones oeouplud near the clerk’s table. A cluster of twenty inter- os-d Letween the orator of the day and Mr. Butler—a luster of a dozen sat between Mr. Butler and Vir Cal- houn—® belf dozen sat bebind Mr. Hale, between bim and Mr. Clay— three or four sat on each side of Mr. Berrien, end the dear crestures, all over the chanber, formed such a charming intermingling of youth and beauty with age and wirdom. as is only to be seen once or twice in a life-time, even in the Senate chamber of the United Stat bonnets bie. A Mr. Butler having offered up the morning petition to the throne of gr end the journal having nm read, and the morning business baviug been dispensed with. Mr. Foote moved that the ladies be permitied to occupy the floor The Vice President—It can only be done by general consent Mr. Hele—| move to amend the motion. aud that the ladies be invited, not permitted, to occupy the floor Mr Foote—1| do pot know that it is pecesrary to in- vite them as they are already hero; but ! accept the amendment, Mr. Clemens suggested that the male occupants be turned out of the gullvries to make room for the ladies; but was persv: to accede to the motion, and the audience were vr dist 1; an attempt to turn the male ocoupante out if the galleries many of whom had ceme hundreds of miles to hear Mr Webster, would probably have resulted in « disturbance. After the experience of this duy however. we pre- sume the Indies will find it » little more ditheult to get | on to the fl or of the Senate | The vol virhed busin | to wit, the compro mire Mr. Walker sittiog having the floor rore a is auditory did not come here to lt those wae cnly Che man Who eoul t ory. and he was the Senator f acbasetts, to whom he would cheerfully give w and Gebideration sf t nit ed a del | | ‘ p t wigs torso tally the same slutions corthing fue 4 the confa bed. time this nek pu eve! Sou devoted to the Union, and that to the most degrading insults from the Northern, and yet lick the and render the fair and peaceable South the scene of horrors such as history has never yet recorded In many instances no such Southern papers existed at all, (for one, the Columbia, S. C., Telese | which we once drew in defence of t | Long before the the Intelligencer and the Union? union ot these States be dissolved, the proprietors of those pa » column on column, day after day, of tespectable whig print ha; appeared, irporting to be extracts from Southern papers in Southern State, clearly showing that the mm people were fedividaelly and collectively ey would submit hand that would strike them down, lescope.) and probably many other names are designedly fabricated. “These are garbled extracts from real pepers—but the real sense and meaning of those articles from the Southern papers, when taken in the whole, are totally, entirely different. There fre, of course, many prints of no account or in- fluence in the fourteen Southern States, that were never heard of before outside of the viilige or town where they were issued, until the Jntedligen- cer brought them forward, as specimens of Southern feeling! To show how come Southern prints re audacious and impudent attempt to cl mn, I send you an extract from the Intelligencer of yes- terday, (March 5). The Intelligencer’'s 0? comments are richly choracteristic of ‘old Jo. We retract the credit we had given that journal. mistook the position of ', when we eupposed that print to be among the Southern prints ‘opposed to violence or political combination against the Union.” We retract, at ite instance, the credit we had given to that jourpal, and restore it toits proper position. by stating, in its own words, what that is, as follows :— “And since he (the Nativnat Intelligencer) baa seen fit to quote from our columns in relation to this subject, we will add for bis benefit. that we have yet the eword Union; we shall feeino hesitancy in drawing it in defi should the attempt be made to degrade her, the spect ous pleaof the Union to the contrary notwithstanding.” So much for the chivalry of our contemporary in Alabema. May bis“ sword” be eaten up with rust in its scabbard before he has an opportunity to imbrue it in his brother's blood! A North Carolina priat gous yet further. and threatens the supporters of rhe Union with banging! Thus says the Juror, published wt Wilmington * What are the m be power [ot th fans which the constitution ‘esident to detend the oonstita’ Is any mao euch a fool as end navy could be to ein Bich an event? at one-Salf at least of the oft rh men tis of both are But that is, comparatively, nothin rmy could bee: bertecke, and tho navy fr the ma n wou srmy and p is itch There cone from withou 7 ? How col lected in the seaports? by Congrass? No, | we tell there i ware or they may find the fame fate w te of the revo. lution, and be hung with a good Southern slave soll grape vine”? Soch is the language of a few, and but few, however, Mr. Bennett, is it not fi to read the pratings of such men, dthe edi 8, Comments and statements published 4 paper? 2 you there is pot the si (ieliance to be placed upon them. ‘They are published to deceive the people of the Unired States. They we fi the liberties of the whole Are not more hon- have done more to destroy sly attempting to conceal the r, than all the free soil and abolition pas land. ‘They have done everythiag the; could do to prevent the country from takiag =e 4 steps as would save the Union. There have been | other times when the party papers here could have revented ull difficulty. They acted then as they are scting now. It is easy to save the Union now, butit is the last opportunity. Yet, the two papers are playing the same game, to keep up party disci- pline and retain plunder. fa ali human probability, | the very course they are pursuing will accomplish what they profess to avotd--the disumon of the States. Their all is at They live upon party and the public treasury. They have ae- quired their property by at, and their whole jim and desire is to keep alive party spirit, sromote the success of their respective par- secure pluoder to them, and continue ‘atten themeelves. Who dare deny are the paramount objects of iew, that uch p&pers as If the federal i pee are personally ruimed. property is decreasing ia value here. No sane man would invest money in realestate in the city of : " And many property holders here are vy to dispose of the same, could t ers, at a very large sacrifice on pri: ‘openly @ year or even six months ago. These foe's stare those press conductors im the face, and will eecount, satisfac to people at a distance, rtalve and deceptive articles which daily ap- those prints. Their mot ves are understood ‘A throngh by people on the apot_ They are 8 for their enormous scrapings in the part, and as the organs of political parties, whose object we solely to control the government and thereb: control its honors end emoluments, aad of whic! they are the organs, trust to get in the present and uture—as they have got in the past—a very large share of the spoils for themselves. These are good and true reasons why they keep back from the public view the real and the alarming state ot things to property holders here and at the North. Unless the infamous and wicked design 1s frustrat- ed by such Hensel, pattie, liberal and indepen- dent papers as the Herald, they will succeed, in veil- ing the terrible peril which menaces the union of the States from the ey@ of the people of the North, who can save it, until it is too late. Every newepaper, and every reader of the Washington prints, and what they say on this great subject should carefully weigh them by the standa of interest we lished in either the Union or Intelligencer should be viewed with suspicion and distrust, and the motives under which their proprietors act should be taken into consideration. There is not @ particle of reliance to be placed upon these | presses, or upon any statement the: make upon - ths t question. Itis no less unfortunate than Wasneeros f) ©, Mareh 4, 1850, their shortsightedness and dishonesty is The Press of the Caprtai paving the way oe . with wr . " a power ny other of the great causes dis- ete for my ttday, the Wash: | content. While there is’ ome blase of ex- Ce Wapeper prose, aud wen @ vushum- | citement throughout the South—while the ar- v be en tulle atry, for | senals end 8 are being replenished, and pen bite ts bo 'be on yet the wha. | the people are drill a fight in every Southern . . “ State, t ‘asses and their proprietors are as dow tulle over the whole Loom Not a pewapaper | cool as cucumbers, and deliberately and daily put in wll nd, that dees vo hinge with some | forth in their sheets’ the enormous and uamitigat- a 2 on of & cal papers ia | 0d lies, that there is no cause of, and no discontent i . in the South—that the Southern press and the ea, there rt sere here that | are devoted tothe Union—that they will sustain it deserve to be penerd, eed thovgh they loom large | at all hazards—that it is only a few discontented at a dirtance, the «nul errealatioa | men in South Carolina who are attempting tomake hese. Coihars prople have a very ex- confusion, which will soon cease—that there 1s no agitation in the South, and so forth. And what h 1 he esoveial benefi | makes these atrocious lies and false statements yet & see lacividasis, ( | more damnable and wicked, is the astounding fa rxvosteu, ana yee, | that nearly all of the presses North, who are mix . t ‘row press, | up in party polities, are equally short ited howe the tuft they + what feeds | equally wicked, to and republish them. What them, bow bettle retias 4 upon aay | chance, | ask you re, that the people of the statements hey con vd is theit | North will do justice to the South, and thus save et + latter, you may sate- the Union, while they are thas deceived? No man torment s called the Nutemal Intellagencer, a or fapey peame, tor the federal Unron is fs a nation, aod © ovequently the Intel- hoame Une Leteliygencer circa. shore ot @00 papers, and Kot, or men can see their way through this dark criss, ‘The Union may be shattered to atoms, and blood spilled, before the Northern people really be- heve that there is rt. There is no a ny arrangement, if the North by any m- breaght to adopt the views as ex- { mavkind, and our foreign lega- houn (and he is the only re- tons end coogulates, eho are forced to take it, ake for the great body of shoal 2100 more, whieh also embraces its ex- | the Southerners) The on will be saved, but tn changes, «beh are ne Itpriawa weekly | no other manner. The South d will not peers. which iw eieuleed to the extent of | take one iota less. Admit Cali now, and the from whieh there has to be deducted | ast tie that binds the Nerth to the South is broken reme ndous exer to arrive at the | and forever. The fact cannot be disguised here, Che Jntel- | by lying papers. Every man feele—not a member * aboly horror | doubte; and yet you are all for admitting Califor- neous are the | nia, and you are all proviso men. There is only sequence ie if sper has the hap ty, and to whieh ¢ und a proper place piest freulty of tellin sweetened, and yet cot variegated, whole cloth takehoods of any other peper ef its eize oo he American continent ‘They ave the blackest kind ot les—white-washed before they appr in that print. The proprietors are two gentienn Of the respective names ot Jo. Gels, Eeq, and Mayor Seaton, + who com- roenced the sheet @ great many years ago, and for years have drawn trom the pablic treasury a splendid income for each, and are both great men —the tormer pecvliarly so. Joseph has a beautiful count: y seat and grounds, about two miles from his . known to the e:tizens as “Old Jo Gales’s He basa Frenebman as , who acts, else, in the capacity of frog-eateher and cook, | at Joseph is a jolly good liver, and goes in for the niceties, with gusto equal to amy other rosy place.” one difles tle Garden men, and the latter would dissect the South without chlo- roform, the two former would use it, in order to were the patient from makiog a noise, and excite some 5 ee Califoraie From: the South at one blow, let qv seream and rence between Tanvnany Hall men, Cas the free soulere—that while thus The abolitionists would blood spirt in all directions, and the South Temet as she best could. men are honest and sincere ; they say what they meaa to do, and mean what they say willdo. The others are more hypocri |, and have more tact discretion. ey would the same result, by a diflerent on. They would soothe the South. They wish to administer the chloro- form, and render the patient uncenseious until the operation was over, and more from its eflects. Ex return to the Wash: | we given them. What is pub- | | es loudly, and is as determmed against the ex- | support him, even if nominated et Kineedy | foes, was converted from democracy by him so real name re 5 Presidential interest in the concern, and thus secured the goverament pa- tronege. 1 unblushing arrangement bas since been modified, and a new man joined to the old. The old concern @ fortune; oue retired s4- tisfied with a share ina gold miae, while the other, who even at the ot over three score years and ten, has still a hankering after the flesh pots of i ee yet eae 'o oo mo va government remained. e other edi- tor comes, from the State that sends J. P. Hale, the notorious abolitionist, to the U. 8. Senate. ‘Whether he ie one or not, at heart, is not known. He is not 80 openly. Probably, if the Union could et ‘ood a@ support from that party, it might be induced to take that ground, At present it goes no. further than to recommend submission and union to the South at ail rds. Every reporter connected with it (in the Senate at least) is under- stood to be a thorough-going Northern free soiler, if not an open abolitioni The Union paper cir- culates about 1,560 daihes, of which number 450 are in Washington city, and the remainder are exchanges, and a few. distant subscribers. lis weekly circulation is less than 10,000, of, which a great number are exchanges Democratic or whig postmasters and office holders generally take the Union or the Intelligencer. These papers have had, and hold on, to some nice jobs ach now get $7 50 per column for publishing the debates in the Senate. The Republic 1s of very little aceount any way. It circulates 100 to 150 daily papers in the city, and ita exchange and outside erreulation for the daily, perhaps, reaches, 1,000 or 1,200. It being the government paper, postmasters are obliged to go the weekly, consequently the weekly has 18,000 or 20,000 cireulation, meluding, of course, an enormous list of weekly exchanges. During the session, the Globe prints a di which hag, perhaps, a thousand circulation. 1s printed merely as a sort of tender to the Bencass Globe, which fills the place of Niles’ Register. Ite proprietors, Blair & Raves, are too wellknown to require remark. They were beg: es when they caine to Washington, but pap and etting have made them rich men, and large real estate owners. Rives 1s a very decent, gentl manly sort of six footer, who goes in for money making, and don’t care who knows it. Blair is Francis P. Blair, and nobody else. There are no two such men, either in ugliness or ——, allowe to existin one age. He is the head of the free soil party here. There is a paper ealled the Washington News— | a weekly, end a very weakly newspaper. [ts pro- prietor and editor is one of those lest of all God's creation—a Washi Justice of the Peace. It has 300 or 400 subseribers, but the pu! was not erperally aware of it. exist until a temperance lecturer read to a large auc i r on the subjeet of the woolly horse | and Tom Benton. La+t, but not least, is the Zra. Thisisa weekly abolition poper. It is edited by a M aley. It | goes to its work quietly ond seen Iris back vp by 25.000 to 30,000 cash pay ab and, when it has an article more cally and vile towards the South, au 000 or 20,000 is issned, paid for, | uthern states. Such is the press of the | Ravg.als. bul Our Phuadcelphia Correspondence. | Puitavernia, March 8, 1850. Politics in Pennsylvanra—James Buchanan not a Favovite Son— Opposition to Cut and Dried— | Senator Cameron yet Alive—IVilmot Prowso Dead— Election of Jud ges—Stocks—Street Pught, $e., §e., &e. Your corre: dent is much mistaken ia suppos- wg that all the democracy of this upon James Buchanan. True, he i ate just now promi. national polities; but there is a very large portion | of the Keystone democracy that will oppose his | nomination by all possible fair means, and very | many, it is well known and feared, who will not | Your correspondeat misleads you when he tells | | you that the warlike demonstrations of Col. Fraser | have cewted. The war-horse of democracy neighs Secretary,#as ever. So, too, Judge Champneys, whose integrity and talent in public office and in ‘ate life have given him @ position which a rge of puny feebleness cannot atlect; while | ges Lewis and Woodward ean be relied upon chanan men at ull hazards, your corres he contrary notwithstanding. James | Buchanan is the only candidate whose democratic | ‘nemination would give any chance of success in Pennsylvania to the Wmgs. She 1s emphatieally a democratic State, and her sturdy democrats, who don’t want to let their democratic blood out | ot their veins, do not forget (for it is often | brought to mind) that to the eloquent and zealous advoeacy and support of federalism by James Buchanan is owing the present streog whig ty ot the State, and that Lancaster, his own thoroughly as to defy all attempts torestore her. Nor | is it forgotten (for the Temes has recently repub- lished them) that James Buchanan offered resolu. lions, some years ago, indentically, in words, the same as the Wilmot proviso, and exerted himself to have the Legislature pass, as it did, a bitter an- t-slavery resolution. On this subject, he once oe- cupied the ground on which David Wilmot now stands, and to see the latter the democratic caa- didate of the South, some years hence, will not be more surprising nor iaconsistent, than putting forth Jemes Buchanan as such in 1852. On this subject he has boxed the political compass, for while, in 1820, he favored the Wilmot proviso, in 1817° he came out for the Missouri compromise, which he | repudiates, adopting the ultra Southern notion of non-intervention, Besides this, there is a rank- ling sore in his connection with Andrew Jackson, | Whose nome and memory are worshipped here. He is the only political idol at whose shrine the demo- crate will wilttee’y submit themselves; and too well ere recollected Anorew Jack son’s famous let- ters to Carter Beverly, charging James Buchanan wich coming to him to bargain on behalf of Mr. Clay. The General's answer about “the hairs of his head,” “his right hand,” and “the earth open- ing "ere he would do such things,” are matters of immortality d this issue veracity between | Old Hickory and Mr. B, would be a thorn in the | tr. Buchanan unforta- Wy, omy, war tha tnead ot rk ately, too, was mt ank suspensi and shinplasters when in the Lagiawre, oa these things, too, would every democratic banquet a fa Banquo’s g' - The whigs, also, would pay their best respects to him. His mission to Teckeva is said to have been without the aa. thority of their idol and embodiment (Henry Cliy,) and it prostrated Clay by the charge to which it gave rise. They would also publish his ten cent speech, which would lose him the vote of almost | eve Tative in the iron andeoal factories,and, deed, the name of his political sins you weana fad to be legion. Yet with all these drawbacks, Mr. | B. has a strong hold on the democracy. He has enjoyed so many offices im gradation, as to prevent any other Pennsylvanian from making much head- way, so that he can secure a post for himself under the successful candidate. He is said to be ex mas pe we a and Stounes (a ing for ite House;) but this last char. acter he can doubtless ad Libis i p= OR ‘State Maes on i whil was Secretarying , Was doubtless owing to other causes than avarice, of which he has not yet been accused. Tne Bedford Springs arrangement will be broken up. The de- mocracy like to act tor themseives, and will not submit to take things “cut and dried.” J Black will not be Senator, and this inter- ference will injure Bigler’s em for the Go- vernorsip, ee = a. ¢ can be unani+ one Lan mw. Cameron is yet ae mai same oe towards as Tiersen, Dsustoreeri is said to have his pameeake Oldbuck, im Scott's beautiful of the **Antiquary.” The Wilmot Proviso is bere. Although the Legislature, in 1847, passed almost unanimously, Sag bat mass of the is the U; promulgated by Mr. Dalias, ot lumiting the slavery uestion to the States only. . the constitution elec The amendment to Judges by the people, will be adopted, and a general scramble for the bench. 3 & = = } £ mal year there willbe b Stocks are ranning up mountain high, and par- ticularly the fanere h our markets chiefly a reflex of your own, yet we have a tew litle fei lows on our own hook. There hi turbances of note this week—no sons, laries, nor even a firemen's rot—aothing to mar the harmony of the week, except a street fight between a bank president and his brotherin- law, a distinguished colonel of the Mexican war, ith family disputes damage done, but oe, though rus Was subsequently seat medical colt ges primary broken epectacies and a brok mor cays, a hostile mesee, and refused to be received. are holcing ther commencem- aod some HO or 700 new and licensed “hihers” are let loose. Philadelphia is famous tor killers, ne well those who ect under a diploma ae thoes who act without. any authority. Theatrieals are “ dow yd will continue #0, if not downe al the Swedish nightingale comes, and then the two dollar folks will do everthing @ la Jenny Lind. | sinen | was Col. Ingry, 18 united | ” - | just been rej nent, because he is travelling about, a knowa can- | didate for the Presideney, and is amateuring rt m | | the county, which Is something of iself. | forward _ deal about alle, be endured Barnom, however, fille his museum. The traged, cade and farce are aeuy and mighty pte aed there; yet it je nota theatre, buta museum ‘The #t laced can go with eufety to these spiritual bib clase of speculation has recently grown here mito favor, consisting of building associations, divi into shares of stock, on each of which a member pays one dollar monthly, so long as the aseociation continues, and that 13 to be until each share reaches two hundred dollars. The money is to the members ut hizh premiums, upon well secured mortgages, the interest oy bed monthly, as well as instalments, so that the funds are compounded and increased so rapidly, tha ing to calculation, six or seven years will bring up the full amoent. Zebra Colburn, the great calculator. and Cocker, the arithmetician, could not beat this. 5 Pf Divorces are yet in fashion. The Legislature wiil not adjourn for a month, and all the business of the session will be done Ap ite, last fortaight. Lieut. Middleton, Dr. Wetherill, Edwin Forrest, and Smith, the poet, yet married men. Whether their present condition will survive the session, “depends,” as Sir Patrick O’Plemipo would say, upon a mighty dale of nice consideration.” rrespondence, Our Mont: Mownrrgai, March 5, 1850. The Election im Montreal, and its Result—Triumph of the Annexationists—The Sherbrooke Election— Rumored Union of Reformers and Torves— Weather, &c., §&c. Montreal, the ci devant Canadian metropolis, has egain testified as to the strength of its republican, or, I may rather say, annexation feelings, by the election, yesterday, after a warm contest, of seve- ral gentlemen to the direction of its municipal af* fairs, who came out avowedly on that ucket These gentlemen are Messrs. MeGrath, an Irish contractor, Mr. Atwater, a large merchant, and an American by birth, and lastly, Mr. B. Holmes, our | present member of Pariiament, who, as your read- | ersno doubt know, is one of the it lead ing separa- uonists in this province. The election was at- tended by the usual riots, and many men were seriously hurt, either from firearms, or the more terrible weapon, (so common in this young coun try) the axe-hande. Two gentlemen, lunching ia a café, had a most miraculous escape from a pisto qd | buliet, which entered the window at which they were sitting, and passing between, lodged in the ceiling. One or two houses were also seriously battered and otherwise injured; fortunrtely, how- ever, no lives were lost. The annexationists, towards the close of the day, had the whole city in their power, and, indeed, have been the domi- pent party since In the beginning, it never was contemplated, I believe, by the annexationists, to use force; but they justly say that they were pros voked to it by the violence of the munisterialists and Bnush connectionrsts, who posted violent +plecards throughout the town, calling upon their parlzens to exterminate them (the annexationists ) | Fearmg an attack, they therefore prepared; and the sesult has been, that their opponents have been foiled th ough the very measures they intended adopting thermeelves, Our city aflairs new have come completely under the control of the separatienists, and that they will favor their party, there can be no doubt. Mr. Holmes is spoken of as mayor for the ensuing year The Insh are his warm supporters, and the | predilection tor Mr. H. 18 to be atiributed to their apxiety to have an Irishman as mayor. The result ot these elections clearly foreshadows the tuture as regards the next general electi i apnexgtionist will be carried ia spite of all oppo- The geotieman who opposed Mr. Holmes M. P. P. for Sherbrooke town, and violent tory. He is an O; and, it ia said, resident of a violent club here, called the Britoa’s ‘lub. He lately penned a long epistle, addressed to the elec of the very ward for wineh he has ted, in favor of British connection; and the Albion, of your city, considers it great. His defeat is regarded as « triumph. The election for the county of Sherbooke comes off to-day, and all accounts agree in stating, that Mr. Sanborn, the anaexation candidate, 18 certata of being returned. At the nomination whieh took place a tew daye since, he was represented by all the wealth, landed interest, and respectability of His op- ponent, Mr. Cleaveland, is one of the firey tories, ond his supporters, it is said, have bound him, should he be returned, to the faith of Sir Allan MeNab, no matter what Sir A. brings forward. ‘There is a rumor in town, and it is generally believed, that the two old extreme factions, the retorm party and the tory party, intend coming to a coulition, for the purpose of a longer contina- ance of the loaves sad fishes, and in the hopes of crushing the annexstioniets, thereby seeuring the good assurances of the imperial goverament. The | shadows of there coming events are before usin the union of two violent editorial opponents, Mr. Ferris, of the Gazette, and Mr. B » of the Pilot, respectively tory and reform prinis. The annexationist journals have accused them of. the fact; but they deny the aspersion, and, indeed, Mr. Ferris has been employed the last two or three days, in penning notes fall of Billinegate to Mr. Kinnear, the editor of the Herald. Mr, Ferris’s friends desire to believe that he is innocent, and that the story of his having sold them is false; but ap- arances are sadly aysinst him, and nobody nows it better than Mr. Ferris. His Excellency, the Governor General, still continues dismissing the aunexationists from the various offices they now hold wader the crown. It does not stop the spread of the dissatistaction, however, and Col. Prince, M. P, P. for Essex, has written a long letter in favor of independence, which will, if 1 am not very much mistaken, be the means of the inauguration of another party. The details of the Sherbrooke election I will to-morrow. The weather has been exceedingly mild for some time past; but the last two Ser Ge wind has chopped towards the north, it has become colder. Mownrereat., March 7, 1850, Lord John Russell's Unspoken Speech Against An- nexation— Editorval Coalition in Montreal—The Montreal Gazetteand Transcript bought by Earl Elgin—Robert Baldwin's Mental Decay. We were taken by surprise, yesterday morning, 10 see, in the columns of the Montreal Gazette, a nominally conservative journal, long extracts from a speech attributed to Lord John Russell, in which he rates the annexationists very roundly about their treasonable conduct, and twaddles a good Lord John’s language may to 4 but when a few e! when advocating reasons why we should give w annexation, suggests the very strongest sraccnty gh eta Tend eam us, 1m enough, what wi us the event of war between the United States and England? It is to avoid such an anomalous posi- tion—it is to relieve ourselves from the hazards pa ‘in; car oe meee YS and our children as i jators—that we c out friendship and ponent 5 with the p vocnoden: 4 We are well aware that, should war arise between the mighty rivals for the commerce of the world, soil is the selected trom whence strike the A better attain their object and enhance their own value, than by to the fables of Ai gold furnished the annexationiets? N: oe are not i + and you must not be as- tonished to the coalition papers indirectl preiaing each other, and directly defending a me ie melactay off thet mintory bee failed th al em, in their hour of trials Robert Baldwin who poe. sessed the chief of the stock of honesty which they has ceased to partake in the active duties of . He has experienced, at the age of gee calamity which fastens on that period of life. His mental powers are ea- fee : and dec ©) Fes tasnd hae ccs: AD on erm ite can no are in the triw or defeats of faction. | told you, weeks since, that such would be the case. journals admit the impossidility of his resuming his labors; but they are silent. because they are uncertain as to the fatare. A few months may Witness the re-constraction of political par- tres; but who can speak confidently of politici me bok oe “ae 6 = ores igin’s » though, im A d him from towat ’ hunte 1 Our Jamaica Correspondence, Kinston, Ja, March 2, 1850, | Our Cubas Correspondence, Sr. Jaao ve Cusa, Feb. 16, 1350. The Protective Policy of England—Swit Against Annexation of Cuba—The Markets, §c. the Govtrnor for Debt— Progress in Cotton Culti- —The Cowncil—Oppression Towards the Press —Obeah Practrces— Trade. Now that our legislative campaign has ceased, and the opposing forces are withdrawn, for a time, from the hot battle-field of politics, there is little food of which acorrespondent of a foreign paper can avail himself. The news brought here by the last West India steamer, of the re-action in England in favor of a retura to the old protective policy, has inspired many a Jamaican with the hope of an early return of better days. I am not, I must confess, among the most savguine of these pros perity prophets, although I am as much impressed as any of them can be, of the propriety and ulti- mate sdvantage that would result, not alone to the ‘mother country,” but also to her vas* possessions, trom the adoption of such a course. But, although at would, in my dademeat, be madness to hope for this immediately, yet, as it 19 truly said, in the language of the hackneyed adage, “every ewl will work its own cure ;” and Ido trust that the day will come when reason shall resume her place in the minds of British statesmen, and they shall, in following the wise policy laid down by the President of your republic, see that true happiness, proeperity on a solid basis, and national wealth, on more than a fleeting footing, are alone to be found in fostering native agriculture, and in the protec. tion of native industry. A public meeting has been called in this city, to take into co: z the propriety of co-operating with the “ National Association for the Protection of Industry and Capital throughout the British Empire,” in appeal ing to her Majesty’s goverament, and to the Im- perial Parliament, tor a return to the protective system. s " i in the Supreme Court of Judicature, in this island, a cause has been argued, which created a lutle excitement, beiog one in which our go- vernor, Sir Charles &. Grey was wamediately interested. The cause was Mather Willam vs. Grey, the Right Henorable Sir Charles Edward. It was un action for debt: the first count in the declaration was on covenant on mortgage deed, to pay the sum therein stated ; the second count Was On Covenant in aesignment of a policy of life assurance to pay premiums, and tae other counts for money lent, and interest there- on, &c. To these counts, the defendant enter+ - the plea of noa-junsdienon, by reason of the le keeper of the puble seal, and chaneelior of the same, ought notef rghtto be coupelled to ane swer the suit, c.; aud to this plea the plaintiff de- murtd. The case was argued at some length, and Lam happy to say, that the three judges were unanimously of the opreion that the court nad juris diction ever His Excellency. Thos hasjour worthy governor, to whom we pay £6,000, or $30,000 per annum, been toiled in his dishonest attempt to re- pudiate an honest debt, because, forsooth, he hsp- pens to represent Her Majesty here. A fine example this, for community not too tar advanced in morals! us M Its with very considerable satisfaction I have to inform you, that the operations im the cotton cultivation, noticed in my previous letters, are | being pursued with increased energy. Some of the | samples I have seen appear remarkably good; but | Ido not boast of being any great judge of this | article. If I can procure it, | will send you a sainple by another opportunity. = Mr. William Smith, the | resident director, aud the original proprietor of | our railway out here, has commenced cultivating | the article on a rather extensive seale. 1 have | litle deubt of is success, or of the success of many others here, who have embarked ta the same projects. The plantain tree tibre is noticed by our press as being extracted irom the tree as follows: —* It appears to us to be as strong as the. best hemp. We drew one fibre the whole leagth of the sample—about three feet—and we have not the least doubt that they could be extracted the entire length of the tree. From the single tidre are eas ly obtained a great number ot extremely fine ones, of the most silky and beautiful appear- a With this, a smell cord was twisted, which resisted our utmost eflorts to break it with the hands. Judging from the length of the . we firmly believe, that a rope equal, perhaps superior, to the best hemp, could be manufactured trom this article. Indeed we are not certain that a eort of linen might not be woven from it.” There is no doubt that the reseurces of this fiae island are, tO a Very great extent, unknown, and, where known, to a ix A great extent neglected. We require a very lite cupital, and a good deal of energy, to raise us from our fallen aod most ua- enviable conditicn. The weather, in almost every quarier of the island, has been remarkably wet. Ia St George's, and other parishes near that district, the ram bad fallen almost merssantly tor two weeks. The roads were much cetera in consequence. The Council of this Island—notoriously corrupt and unpopulat—are fast sinking deeper and deeper into disrepute. Not alone have they hitherto suc- cessfully opposed ail eflorts made by the popular branch of the Assembly to reduce the expendicure of the colony, because they themselves ure reci- pients, to a large extent, of the taxes wraag from the hard earnings of a poor community, bat they have now agded to their cruelty, by au attempt to ruin the only independent journalist on the south side of the island, who bas courage enough, oa behalf ofa sufleriug commuaity, to expose the cor- ruption and selfishness of which their august body is composed, They have caused aa ex-ayicto iafor- mation to be instituted against Mr. William Girod, editor of the Colonial Standard, for a libel con- tained in the following extract:— ** “With every respect for Mr. Bravo, however, the presentation of this remarkable petition is somewhat beyond a joke. Things have now come to this pass, that the Council of Jamaica, havin brought itseif iato universal contempt, is eagage in the laudable effort to bring the yo hd the people into equal contempt with itself. "The ume was, when a petivion reflecting in gross terms on the House of Assembly never would have been permitted access to the Councils’ journals, There 18 scarcely a line, certainly not a paragraph, in the whole document, which does not contain a mani- fest breach of the privileges of the House. Tae petition, we are told, contains the signa- tures some members of the House, who el e majority of the Assembly, of wi they are a constituent part, with personal and corrupt motives for their proceedings. It is a petition, not inst any One public measare lying on the table of the Council, but a remoastrance against a batch of bills, all differentia their nature, still under the consideration ot the Assembly, and which, for aught the petitioners could kaow, may never pass through their several stages in that House, or may, at any rate, assume a different form before they reach the Council. We are not skilled enough in Parliamentary law, to be abie to state the extent to which the Cou) il uned against that degree of etijuettc which , if not mutual t, has ever ma between the two lower branches of the Leg tion, and they need not be surprised if, at an opportunity, the true opinion of le of Jamaica—of those who are competent to ofier an opinion ; the wealth, the education ai Teepectability ot the country, extract supplies in itself a pretty correct alluded to ; but nevertheless, | ited to explain more fully its nature, the deseri of names at- influence which Ceunslh, sie seemn tee Chamber with his eloquent exclamations, that he held in his hand a petition the S BS Seca |, who ap- state ir last advices. A little more activity has been exhibited im the retail busi bnt not anything of consequence. In the native presves™ — hae bem no four exce| heen, artie! wi free! taken ty rge and small buyers at $10, #104 a qu per 100 lbs. Even higher p:ices have = asked, 4 fendurt being governor of the island, the | Ihave only time to say, by the mail steamer Hiat's inet off, T saw one of your papers of the 20th ult, days since. Itgave me much pleasure, gh we had to be <fl,om account of ths bunt, in reading 11 three fourths of the tre aren favor a waiting freight—bugipess dull of all ki sugar or are here have tle ge nee sate, esta Sere 08 She. dunt ticen ment. 18@ say ae oy eee sean“ id sprung from @ emall cause. Rumors of a vi ae obarastes were recently extensively thet erms end had been omuggied into the isisnd— lace immediately see adout ® search and inquisition in the matter, ery high banded and rommary re a of investigation, was found six kegs of gunpowder and a box of Tbe two Americane were tied together, and so tight- ly, that Dlood oozed through the skin where the coords put on. In this state they d kept in that ee ours. having @ p ds by their brave was their lot fora who will have to ra- A ori , pistol, and abou’ pound of powder tession ! All this haribeen doce to men holding passports ‘under the government under which they resid», and ia defiance of every right enjoyed by humanity Will the American goverom: vt view thi. matter as of no moment? Are American citizens to be seized aad tm prisoned. and their basiness de-iroyed. upon every oar price of suspicion? Does t bere deprive them of liberty! Are they beoause The! ere Americans, aud loowd rers will, ail evil unre yield to o' be porition taken by the im mot aliowiwg wrong to be putting @ stop to an ation? ac inveriva, wen! asepect due to it— deprive ii of powet co demand f tice and right to be ec thould not a determination to others be @ counterpart: ttoat by ourselves? Should the enuse tor forult asd repe not the tite go United & w im foreig dm, on ae government 10 pro‘ect ta > pression shoulé ba stoned for thas the oppressor thould know thet thre are : 5 aging tothe sons and daughters of freedom. watebing vita jealous care thet their brethres o¢ not o trampled upont A reply to these tx expected ; and as pre the American gor decisive action wil Mass Mee ing meu House Ca iter Ss ving at helt pa large and enthuss carpenters of thie corer of Greud called the meeting to ord called to preside, end appointed reoretary, fhe « inetet npea J+ é 1 to refuse to wor from the 10th oF excess, by Ube trade. aud there w the back ground quietiy listening ‘The committee ated ata ported the bames of the bosses w the ls, absolutely; thore woo ar others pay, aud thore #0 refuse ¢ given snewers amounting to that committee were not abie to obtain « boores; But the ebeirman calies up jn the room w from whom no what they knew. tion of the men em pio: The fellowieg were inereated wages from Wellington Germond. M row, Winant & Degraw, H Smith ¢ hew, J cey. T. Baldwin, Ubristy & Bogart, — Ogava. Aiternsa Delawater —scVeigh A number oF vere re ported as having deciared their willioguess bo pay. if others paid. Mr. Tneane. the Sreretary. said they had only ty imitate the example of the shiv S at halt past 8 o'clock ¢n Mon eonatactyy avers f biatned, to report twas the ¢eterming, o pay eben Pu , Clare & Oo thon. A Voice—e it to be understood that ail the journeys men carpenters shall merc on \ouday, wheter the wie vanced Wages are paid or not? Cuammay—Certainiy. A resolution wee passed ty that effeet on the tof mertiog, whea there was ber mB the present, Taece could than eight huudret then read the reselut! He Oncnestna—Let t make fools ovement. OF One of the carpenters employed in Mr R. J. Hoes shop said he and another out of uiveteen. were deter- tuined to turn eut. though the other seventera did gos; he did not consider as a fool to doiag #0. Vores—I_ am fore ing OU for & week. ineead of one day. A day is far too “bert to their senses There @ misunde of the bosses. They have got it imi ir the wages of the men to whom they pay ouly per day, must be raised to fourteen sntil ng thore to whom they pay twelve shillings not the case All that is i twenty-five eents all round My bos ice the waaes 4ifhe had co yay six shiliiog men fourteen sbillings, he followed the rame proportion pay three a the fourteen shilling men mall, t is hoes ins willing to torn poiliogs and the applause ) seid he thought aii ought to get four- 4 that they ought tohoid ) OUgHE to get fourier 5 are potofus But the old to is than even the young. A Voice rrom THe Oncnestea—If we meetin all our strength on Monday. it will create as great an excites ment ip New York ae the threat«med ampers” here ral ia the ed in were ready to turn out with the Serie their demonstration raid. that they ail owed end their ebiidren. and wire: from this nga. 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