The New York Herald Newspaper, April 18, 1850, Page 6

Affairs in Washington. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE. Wasuivarox, D. C., April 12, 1850. ‘The last Reception Evening of President Taylor. 1 took notes on the evening of the 21st ult. of the Preeident’s levee. I have been unable to write them out until the present time. Believing that they will be found interesting, I send you the de- geription. once told you that the City of Washington was an immense hotel, filled with regular and transient boarders. I might have added, that on those nights when His Excellency, the President, re- ceives company, the White House is the great par- Jor where any of the guests of the hotel are per- mitted to assemble, without let or hindrance. All persons putting up at the great tavern, can have access to the public parlor. To-night has been a reception evening—the doors of the public parlor were flung open at 8 o'clock, and the honored head waiter of all the publie ser- ants stood in his accustomed place to receive the company. 1 shall drop the word levee, for one of the at- tachés of the new French Minister, fresh from Paris, informs me that it is not a proper word, and never used in the French model Republic. | shall adopt in place of it, ‘ evening receptions.” Now, for a fair start. To-night was reception evening at the White House, and though * com- menced raining as early as half-past seven, it did not stop an enormous crowd from gathering, and by nine o’clock the rooms were full to overflowing Iwill say, that on no “reception night,” the past season, has there been such a gathering of beaut as there was to-night. There were some mos magnificent creatures there of the feminine gender, both old and young. On our arrival, we proceeded directly to the President, and received as cordial a shake from his gloved right hand as any body else got, without any consciousness on his part of whose hand he was shaking; in fact, if it haf been th hand of an automaton, it would have been shaken with equal fervor. No sooner was this prelimi- mary ceremony through with, (although it is not necessary to shake hands with the Prsident, unless one likes it), we sofa’d ourselves within a foot of the General, so that we could see all that was going on. It was really a curious sight to watch the expression of the faces of the strange comers, they approached Old Zack. The girls sparkled like diamonds, unmixed ight was visible upon their countenances, and they looked as though they really would have en, d the fun of iving the old gentleman a hearty ing, particu- arly the whig girls, for the faces i ed to which party their papas belonged. There was any quan- tity of outside people. They invariably stop and turn round when they have passed and shaken hands with the President, to take another look at him. Now and then the crowd gets jammed, and the General good naturedly informs them, “ Pass on, ladies and gentlemen, you will find plenty of room beyond,” and then the gentlemen who have dadies with them, go on a few steps to pay their re- spects to Mrs. Bliss. The General kept his place by the door until with a pink ribbon about his neck for a cravat, w key attached to it. There was a lady with | Zack shook hands and walked on with them to where Mrs. Betty was standing at the round table, and seemed to introduce them. ‘This aroused our curiosity, to ascertain who the personage might be, that could make the President so particularly civil, but we could not ascertain at the moment, as those about us were no wiser than we were, and our only alternative was to ask the man himself, or seek out our uncommonly intelligent friend, who knows everybody, and who has render- ed us such essential service on former occasions. A pair of excraciatingly fierce moustaches warned us thatthe first Peri might cause a muss, and so we adopted the second, and forthwith pro- ceed to the east room, which was a_ perfect jam. Luck befriended us, and we saw our man by a round table, under one of the chandeliers. “ Ferguson, my boy, how are you; what makes you so late?” I've been waiting for you this last wentury.”” “ Sorry for that, mon ami Jones ; but I have been ling to the President, and seeing the new ers. What's out ?”” “ Nothing much. Heard of McClernand’s com- remise, that’s to be offered next week in the louse, | suppose ?” “ Yes, to be sure ; stuff, gammon and spinage— it’s no go! South’ won't swallow it. Beet les, MeClemand_ is the most unpopular man in the House, and for his sake alone it will be voted down, even though it might not, if it came from any othe member.” “PH bet you drinks it will go down. It has all Deen talked over and concocted, by fifty of the Jeading members, from all sections.” Who will vote for it ?” ‘ There are twenty-five Northern democrats and seventeen Northern whigs who will vote for it— there are forty-two votes to begin with ; and the therm men will vote for ittoaman. Howell Cobb says so.” **He be d——d! What does he know about it? He ts one of your men that goes for party, and— himself. If the party can only be kept together, he don’t care a curse for the Union, or the interest of the Southern section. The South won't vote for it. I ay Jones, who with that man coming this way, lady on m, and another man talking her—the ee leman with a pink something why the French minister, to be sure, “ i eer eT She r looking lad: s Ee le is a pleasant looki 3 Dut he don’t look as though he would set Geos creek—the Washington Tiber—on fire, eh? 4 but he may carry too many guns for John ‘ton, our astonishing Secretary of State, By the way, where is Clayton? Is he here to- night” **Lthink not. I haven't seen any of Gen. Tay- Jor’s cabinet ducks here to-night, except Preston. ‘Clayton is too busy to waste his time in soft non- sense. I saw him just before dark, hurrying dowa &. street, from the State Department building.” “ They say he is working himself to death.” “ Exactly—fussing about detail work, which any clerk could do as well as himeelf, if not better, for he writes a miserable fist. He is not titted for an executive office, he lacks system; and, upon my soul, if he continues in office, hard work and other hard things will use him up. He looks, now, like Death on the pale horse.”” «I don’t know anything about his looking like Death on a pale horse, but I believe he is death on pale brandy.” 3 ; “Jones, will you go away’? You have said enough ; just leave me; I don’t want any thing more to say to you to-night.” “Holy Mary, only look yonder! Who in the mame of all that is lovely and good is that * “Where? Ifdon’t see—caramba—here is an advent worth recording! An angel in white! ‘That is no Washington girl! 1 must find out who he is—hold on until | come back.” The yous lady who had caused such surprise, which was shared in by all the room, was indeed beautiful. She could scarcely have seen seven- teen summers, and a more perfect vision of loveli- m4 never trod the floors of the White Hou: i and fell in long ri by the side of her cheeks, which were as red and healthy asa fresh blown rose. Her dress was sim- ple white, and no ornament, save a pink ribbon for a belt. the fair, but modest stranger, seemed as timid as a young fawn, and clung to the arm of an elderly gentleman, with very striking features, who evidently seemed to be her futher. All eyes were tumed towards her, and, as the two strangers, fa- ther and daughter, approached Mrs. Bliss, the lat- ter involuntary uttered an exclamation of surprise. ‘The father dressed in the garb of a clergyman, and, after leaving Mrs. Bliss, with whom they ex- changed no words, the two passed to the rear of the round table of Mrs. B., and for a long time ‘watched the President and his daughter, and those “bout them, as though the scene was strange and new to th Then they joined in the prome- nading parties, but epdke to none, and no one spoke to them. Dozens of famed beauties in the Wash- ington circles paled before this new planet, and re- garded her with ill-disguised wonder. “ Well, Jones, have you found out who she ist” “No. No one knows who they are, or where they come from. Everybody is asking the same question. Won't there be a rush to the ladies’ par- lors of the hotels to-morrow, and a general pro- menading in Pennsylvania avenue, to get a clue? he bas created a sensation. Wonder if she stops at the National. I'll know to night, or die.” “Bah! she is some New England country person's daughter, on a visit to the capitol “She is the perfection of natural grace, and connot be beat in thie crowd. Look at her step. Just contrast that with the mincing, dancing, affected sort of walk that six-sevenths of our fixed belles have Rot. Who's your friend that just bowed to you?” } i “That one following our fair unknown 1 b sir-ee.” the best miniature painter in this city Hic nome is Blanchard, He stops at your hotel— the ‘rving. Strange you don’t know him. He world punt a miniature likeness of the strange oir be os locking et so admitingly, for nothing. Ti © a't fied another veh a subject, and he must » new set of colors.” Js he a wood miniature painter tT? “rte ain't nothin’ shorter, and has painted the *, That's best likenesses of any one in the ¢ He never fails to do so, if the sitter is a good ora pretty woman. He de! ts im perfection, for in copying it he makes ‘more perfect.” “Who is that he has just joined “His wife. behind is King, the : couple inter, and the beautiful brunette with him is Misa Lamb. | wonder if she knows the hind of : man she is walki with “Yonder come the Vice-President and his lady. He is a fine loo! superior woman,” “Is Seward here to-night ?” “Certainly not. But there is a lovely pup—that man With puffed red cheeks, who looks as though king man, and his lady is a most Who he was blowing against the wind.” “He has corporation of his own. its he?” * Yes, he has, and, what’s more, he knows how to take care of it, It is the Honorable ‘Trumau Smith—a Senator in Congress, and one of Zachary ‘Taylor's especial favorites. used to sing psalms in the Presbyterian church, be- ‘Truman is ious, and fore he was vested wich the franking privilege. 1 don’t know what he does now, but, rule, well as a general psalm singing, piety and politics don't jibe ether. * Where abouts ?” “ Oh, there is two of them together, one is Le- or Yulee, a8 he has Christian ‘here is another Senator—” his name, of vy, Honda, and the other one, with a short neck and turned over shirt collar, is Mr, Green, of Khode Island. Don’t he think himself some P kins 7 That short gentleman conversing with a friend is also a Senator, and the husband of Mrs. John Bell. That's her walking with Morse of Louisiana.” ** She is the most d room ; I don’t think s| ator herself. Who is ified-looking woman in the make a bad-looking Sen- it youn; man, walking with a sweet girl, now passing us ?” * He is a young anything else but a pretty girl. man that lon’t often walk with He is a namesake of your own, a son of General Walter Jones, one of the most respectable permanent residents of this village. I do not know the name of the young lady. By the way, Jones, do you notice that young young lady with the moustaches ?”” ** Young lady with what ?” “No, no—han; Lnbetr p with a young namented with a . stand * Yes, what of her? «No, it’s not; it’s— moustache ” it, man!—that young lady who.| = leman that is or- Now, do you under- ,, It is Miss Doty.” You told me so last reception night.” “Well, if I did, I told you wrong. MeWillie, a daughter of a member of Congress from Mi Her father issippi. It’s Miss made a sound South- ern speech in the House, on the 4th of March, the day same subject, in the Senate. Notice that man walking with two ladies. r. Calhoun made his great speech on the entle- That is Captain Hunter, who took Alvarado in the Mexican war. He is a glorious fellow, that; the mediocrities are attempting to pull him down, but it can’t be did, by any Perrian pens.”” **'There are lots of lions here to-night.” “Of course. Some of them small, though grow- ing fast.” ** There is a very pretty girl—do you know her?” * A Miss Wilson, and hanging on the arm of her father, who is a clerk in one of the departments. That That youn; lady in the pink is a Miss Jarvis, a son ge of Russel Jarvis, who is just behind you. Hallo! there is Charley Stetson, of the Astor House, New York. What is he after, 1 wonder? 00d-lookin, young man he is talking with, is his friend, Joseph, recently from California.” ** Are there any more Californians here ?” “Any quantity. Californians are getting very common now.”” “Who is that such a saint-like nance ?” “What, him over by the and a moustache ?”” . Yes.” “You've hit it exactly. Some chaps have stufled him up to the belief that he looks like our Saviour, and he is on that lay.” “There is an immense number of young men here, with moustaches—are they coming the same dodge oo quterlockiag young man, with jooking expression of counte- door, with long hair Saint is the word. “Oh, no 3, their brains merely shoot out in that direction. hey are either great travellers, who have spent their time in Europe, where it is the custom for officers of the army and navy to wear them; or | ‘The forei: as that. that ba are attached to le, are getti he can stand on—should gation business will do. he fact is, our officers have a right to wear them ; but ond mon, that Crawfor the foreign fegations. Count them ing so infernally com- i—who wants something to do issue orders from the War department to abolish the custom.”” “There are an enormous quantity of strange faces here to-night. “From everywhere. Where do they come from They are the transient boarders of our Washington tavern. There aint so many white kids here to-night, as usual. are rer own?” many do—come here in dirty every I can’t stand a dollar for eve “Why don’t you do as here theatre where you can Mine ; they've got soiled, reception night are out do? There is a place get "el all Whe knowi Where |, and I don't do as New whites rageously expensive. ones down near the old m cle for a bit, and then they will be as white as new ones.”” “1 there "m your man, to-morrow.” Where's the place? I'll go “ Ross & Smith, young and talented African bar- bers; close by the old theatre, in Maher square.” «Well, to making a move ?” ** Hold on a bit. writers here to-night. Do Benton says about them? Rayther so. getting on to ten. What do you say There is any quantity of letter- ‘ou know what old Te says he don’t keep w— about him in the shape of letter-writers.”” ‘id Bullion is down on them, aint he ?” But that game that two can play at; and my own opinion is, that in the end, the old humbug of Missouri would get the worst of it. ‘There are many men of superior ability to him, with all his pomposity—gentlemen by birth, man- ners, and education, who earn an honest and re- spectable living by their brains, sciences have never been seared ure old Benton out of ¢ worth their powder and shot.” ‘ome, let us be off, and go down to the Irving and get our supper grub.” “ Agreed, with all my heart. President.” pect that his plan, after all, nished robbe is boots, i and whose con- by committing an or murder ; and who can write f they ever think the Good night, Mr. Rasenais. ‘Wasutveton, April 16, 1850. Webster and Nominations—E xtracts from a Recent Latter of M. Poussin, late French Minister in Washington— Reciprocal Trade with France—Re- cognition of Hungary by Mr. Clayton. Mr. Webster's reply to the Boston letter is very much admired. Some of the timid whigs, who know that Mr. Webster is right, but are too selfish to follow him, begin to open their eyes, and to sus- js not only a plan for settling the slavery question, and restoring harmony to the nation, but also the only means of reaching the great questions of universal importance—such as the tariff, the building a railroad or a canal across the Isthmus, the passage of a river and harbor bill, &c. If the slavery question is not set- ued, all other important legislatives measures must necessarily linger with it, and no two cities in the Union will feel the evil consequences of the delay so much as New York and Boston. The whole conservative force of the government is in the Senate. If the Senate will remain true and firm, the question will be settled, notwith- standing all the fanaticism of the North, free soil- sm, Bentonism, and the fanaticism of power of the administration. One of the most significant moves to sustain the pa- tiotic course of Mr. Webster, has been made in the Senate, at the suggestion of Mr. Foote. It is this. Ist. ‘To reject all nominations before that body, directly or indirectly traced to the influence of Governor Seward. 2d. To reject all nominations supported directly or indirectly by men who are now slarfder- ing and reviling the patriotic and national Senator from Massachusetts. 34. To reject all nomina- tions supported or made by persons hostile to the chivalrous and patriotic Sage of Ashland. Thus, the State of New be cleared of the Seward agi nicic York, us influence on the is hoped, will soon tors, and their per- ic. It is in vain for pul the Senate to hope that General Taylor will him- self rr evoke the appointments he has made. The free soil elements in the cabinet are too strong, and the President too weak to adopt such a coutse. First, in the list of the great rejected will be Mr Hough Maxwell. He is know: n to keep in the em- ploy of the Custom House, Herrick, Editor of the Sunday Atlas, one of the most violent free-soil pa- pers in the State. Mr. Herrick was a great Tyler man, then a Polk man, then a Taylor man, and now a Seward anti-constitutionalist. His paper of the 7th inst. contains, in one and the same column, an unblushing and outrageous attack on Mr. Webster, asycophantic praise of Seward, and a conviction that Mr. Maxwell will be confirmed by an nani- mous vote of the Senate. the majority of the Senate to pro that such as himself shall not be fed at the public second man that will, | Well, ii is intended, by ve to Mr. Herrick nd that if Mr. Maxwell means to keep him, do it out of his own money, yeyond a doubt, be re- ie. is the postmaster at Albany, notwithstand- Cond Thot the lors the desperate efforts of i , and he must ge commissioner of d of (i, ¢., rendered bark ago been a fixed fact some simple-hearted inded) democrats to be a thoroagh-going: Patenta must be dis- to his profession) hes ‘The consul to Rio ( , of Maine) belongs to the same cat 5 Not! has given Seward so much power as belief that he was the dispenser of the government pat othing will so much ports him, <4 arrest iquitous career, as the fact that his breath is mortal to all he touches. lextract here, from a recent letter, written by M. Poussin, late minister'from France to the United States, to a gentleman in this city, a couple of para- graphs, on which no one is better able to comment than yourself :— “*T regret very much my so short a stay among you, on account of my intended efforts to make the iwo countries (France and the United States) un- derstand their real interests, so as to place their com- mercial relations on a fair principle of reannety. Thad pees all my materials for that great result. I have addresaed to the French Government an ela- borate report on the subject, in which I show that it is the interest of France to open her ports to the rich and abundant productions of our * (!) Western States, to provide her large lation with a more abundant supply of food, particularly of the meat kind,so scarce in reset: Fe shal continue to. sate A pace mg to about that important change in the system of ty oe tariff; trying to show them that the more a country secludes itself from the neighboring nations the more it grows poor, whereas, on the contrary, the more a nation traflies with i countries, by a fair exchange of its productions, the more it grows rich. lhe + ‘My recall by the President (of the republic) was known to Mr. Clayton, by letters he received from Paris ; he therefore, had the merit of doing what reg wishes of the President. (Louis Napo- leon. “I never had a doubt but “that Mr. Clayton while he disliked Mr. Poussin, had a strong desire to makg himself agreeable to the Prince.” : A great parade is now being made by the admin- istration prints as to instructions given by the State department in regard to the recognition of Hunga- . She was to be recognised as a nation, after bak had the power to sustain a permanent govern- ment. In that case, Hungary required no more a recognition than the United States required it after the peace with England. The whole matter of recognition amounts to little or nothing. Let us not forget that the United States were one of the first nations that recognised Dom Miguel, the tyrant of Port An early recognition of a power able to maintain herself, is merely an early application for a t of commerce and navig2- tion, and is unders! as such by every power in Europe. Pozzo vt Borgo. * You see that Mr. Poussin still claims to be an Ame- rican citizen. ’ Wasuineron, April 16, 1850. Enlargement of the Capitol. The Committee of Public Buildings of the Senate have had under consideration, for some days, the subject of the enlargement of the Capitol. The ex- tension of the Union—the increase of our popula- tion—the vastly increased and extending facilities of travel, affording the medium of a cheap and easy communication with the Federal City, thus bringing thousands of visiters constantly in to wit- nees the debates, demand increased accommoda- tions ; but, above all, the immense increase of the public business imperatively calls for more room. The present Senate chamber, as far as the ac- commodations for the public are concerned, is but litle short of a nuisance. By hard squeezing, some three hundred people may be crowded into the pinched-up galleries, when, very often, there are three thousand turned away from the doors. The hall of the House is sufficiently commodi- ous—the galleries will accommodate three thousand people. It is a splendid chamber—large enough for the House and the public; but it is constructed in violation of the principles of acoustics, for there is such a confusion of sounds from the echoes of the hall, that it requires the strongest and clearest voice to be heard above the undercurrent of conversation. And it is a fact that, while in some peesons in the hall a man splitting his lungs to be heard by the Committee of the Whole, cannot be understood by his neighbor ten feet off, a whisp@red conversation on the extreme of the other side of the house is dis- tinetly audible. Hence the necessity of a new chamber, adapting it, as far as possible, to the prin- ciples of sound, and avoiding the innumerable echoes of the present hall. The Capitol, as it now stands, has cost about $1,225,000 for the building alone. "It consists of a central building, and two wings, the whole length of which is feet. The architect of the public buildings, Mr. Robert Mills, a man of genius, taste, and long experience, has been called before the Senate Committee, and the plans, drawings, ions which he has presented are under jon. He proposes to add an additional win; to the north end of the Capitol, for the secom tion the Senate, and a co! jing wing to the south end, for the accommodation the House. The proportions of each of these wi are to be 100 feet north and south, 240 feet east west, equal to the depth of the central building. Each of these wings iving an addition of 100 feet to the length of the ‘apitol north and south, pleted, extend the whole nificent pile to 552 feet; and, with a portico at eac! the whole length will be-equal to 600 feet. ese wings are not only intended-to embggce the object of a new chamber for each House, But the necessary accommodations for the people, for committee rooms, &e. there are they will, when com- length of this mag- many alteration: ing parts of the building, such the extension of the library of © ess, the establishment of a new library room for the House, the Senate, &e. ‘The estimated cost of these additions and alter- ations of the Capitol are :— For the north, or Senate wing For “ south, 0 House wing niarging Congress Balareing approaches fo both Houses, The architect proposes also to extend the east colonnade, at a cost of $30,000, and to enlarge — the style of St, Peter's at Rome) the central dome, to the extent of a cost of $350,000. These alterations, however, being matters of ornament, can be dispensed with; but, if the government is to stay here, the two wings proposed are indis pensable, and the plan of the architect preserves the uniformity of the edifice, while it very much enhances its majesty and beauty. Wasnixoron, April 14, 1850. The Galphin Claim—The Outsiders—The New York Pive- men and Old Whitey The Union being considered convalescent. and out of all immediate danger, the politicians begin to turn their attention to the incidental clap-trap of the cabi- net, and the whig and democratic parties. The de: cracy are rallying again upon Gen. Cass. and they have him now, standing by the side of Henry Clay ins very good position. The whigs are disorganized. and hay- ing nothing to rally upen, they are actually contriby ing something to the exposure of the Galphin eno ty, called by afriend of old Zack, in our hearing, to- day, “the damnation of the cabinet, but the salvation ot the whig party.” His idea was transparent. He simply meant to say that the Galphin claim, in expel- ling cabinet, would probably eave the whig party. Among the outsiders, the congratulations on the prospect before us, are universal. The letter writ are in ecstasies at the of impeachment and re- are envious and ineredu- can war ex warrants in prosecuting their acknow juarter section of wita‘iand: we have known men to ie here in a state of destitution, with their just claim: the treasury for s few hundred dollars pending the nts, a8 if laid over for future jation; but the history of the treasur; does not furnish a tithe — lid allowances paid out by the generous Mr. Meredith. Only look at a fow of them, the mere interest meney up’ joubtful cases sound like the monthly ree: of California + + «$193,000 108,000 y * . There iss very cur- rent opinion that there will be some more committers raised in the House, for the ym of sifting the Chickasaw and other payments, n dies refused by the accounting officers, “The work bravely on." sit of the New York Phenix Hook and 6. 3, to this GA ay Inet, the: p to the White I by Mr. Briggs, their immediate re tative, and presented to Old Yack. Mr. Briggs with @ compli- peech, and Gen, Taylor replied very heartily, and then parsed wd the circle king hands with the company, and king to them individually They were very much pleased with their reception But they were delighted beyond all bounds with Old Whitey. As they entered the gates, Old Whitey, who was going at large to enjoys little sunshine, peared to be sober! ting upon the bad of the Galphin cl ho sooner Dingle’s band, than with head and tail erect, and suufting up the echoes of Buena Vista in the air, he began to look out and poise himself for acharge As the line of firemen approached, he commenced pranc. ing and snorting impatiently, snd at length boidiy lunged through the ranks, scattering the hook and Irader men fo the right and left THe was soon cornered, however, and surrounded by the boys, who, mucking at hi ne aod tail, left him somewhat the worse for the usage. The old steed ordinarily is quite ‘an ordinary matter of faet piece of horse-tlesh, but strike up the musie. and draw ups line of men around him, and Paio Alto is there. ‘oie — - = Pheonix company will preserve ir specimens of the mane and tell orld Whitey a4 reties of the brave old ear horee of the northere ¢oluma of the graud army of Mexico. y | 5 A Letter Patrick Henry. {We insert the following letter, which we re- ceived a few days prior to the death of the great Southerner, but, owing to the crowded state of our columns, its publication has been delayed. Believ- ing that it will be read with great interest, we now publish it without further comment.) Wasiixoton, March 21, 1850. ‘There is an atmosphere of gloom, which seems to surround the capitol, and it pervades the minds of the Southern members. It arises from many causes, not the least of which is the very critical situation of the great master spirit of the South. This is one of the loveliest spring mornii I have ever witnessed in Mesbiggion. . Every: wears a smiling appearance. e grounds about the capitol are fairly arrayed in deep green. The birds are warbling, and the only that is not cheertul is the inside of the capitol. There is an- other building, east of the capitol, where all is uiet and solemn. It is the old capitol, used after the burning of Washington, and pnor to the erec- tion of the present structure. In that old pile, in the large room where the Senate used to sit, is lying the emaciated form of Calhoun, whose spirit still animates it. The ort curtains are down, and it is almost dark. The sun shines brightly, the air is balmy and healthful, but they give no leasure to the sick inmate. ‘There is a ring at the ll, a card is sent in—“ II. Clay.” The son, or the secretary of the sick Senator to the door. There is the venerable Clay, alone, anxiety is stamped on his countenance, and he slowly takes his departure, as he hears the oft ted words to visiters,]“‘ no better,” or ‘* about the same.” Mr. Clay calls in person daily. Another ring—‘ Mr. Cass.” ‘*How is Mr. Calhoun, to-day?’ “He is no better. The nervous fever still hangs on, and he is very low and weak.” And Mr. Case leaves, without further remark. None are admitted to the sick room, save those who are intimately connected, or whom it is necessary for him to see for a moment. We return to the capital—all is calm. The Southem men seem as though struck with a paralysis. ‘hey wait the result of the issue going on ty son ee their leader. There is a ing doing in either house, except passing away the time. "There is a stand still on the reat subject of agitation. Members ere reading the papers from their States and immediate constituencies, and trying to catch the true state of public opinion there. feanwhile, such papers as the National Intelli- gencer and the Republic are forging public opinion, and copying articles from Southern papers, making them read with an entirely different meaning from what they would read, were justice truth at- tended to by these Washington editors. The Union, too, is on its party tack, and endeavoring to whip in, to scold, and to influence the Treasury Southern politicians in both houses. What a spec- tacle! ese papers have their all at stake, and short-sighted as they are, they are doing more to bring about a dissolution of the Union, than all the other presses of either section. They are all opposed to the Nashville Convention. They dread it, or any other meeting or arrangement where the South may be harmonized, pay, ties broken, and justice insisted upon. They endeavor to stigmatize the movement as one of disunion and treason, and to make it odious. ‘They will fail in this. The con- yention will meet, and the result of it will scatter the opponents and misrepresenters of the South like chaff before the wind. Most of the North- ern, and | am sorry to say, some of the Southern presses, which are controlled by corrupt and unprincipled party leaders, have ‘endeavored to connect this thoroughly aroused and fixed de- termination of the South—to have justice and their equal rights—with the ambition of Mr. Calhoun! These Ties will soon silenced, dnd then, the pure, ape lofty and far-seeing Southern triot, will have full and ample justice done to his, penn by a strict adherence to the counsels which he will leave behind him, and which can no longer be disguised or misunderstood among the masses of the Southern people, by ing insinuations of foul presses as to the m¥ es of Calhoun. The fire is burning in the South, and though it may be hidden for a time, it may burst out at a moment. uu, sir, have been abused, and ridiculed for spreading abroad the true state of parties and the feelings of men at the South. You fave seen there was danger, and you have warned the people of the North when there was time to avoid it. The course of your widely extended journal has partially aroused the North, and by so doing, has in some degree averted the threatened danger. But that danger, though partially con- cealed, still re ‘alifornia yet the test question. If California is alone a ger begins. There can be and will be no com- promise, that will admit her alone, and satisfy the South. Calhoun, living or dead, willjnot the result. The hi entertained by many, that with the prospect of Mr. Calhoun’s death at this crisis, harmony and peace can be restored between th North and the South, are fools and madmen. ‘They do injustice to the masses of the Southern people, and are Soong themselves. Cathoun living does and ever will speak the true and honest sentiments of the South. The South know and feel that ay oe trust him. He has never deceived them, t death place his st upon Calhoun, and the people of the South wil speak for themselves what he has ever faithfully spoken for them, and sternly rebuke, by their acts, his abuse. There will be no man who can take his place in their affections or confidence, or who exercises so universal an influence through all the States of the Southern section. There is far more danger that a separation of the Union will follow the death of Mr. Calhoun, than were he to live. ‘The 18th inst. was the anniversary of the birth- day of Mr. Calhoun, Ie was born the 18th of March, 1782, and has nearly reached three score and ten, the time usually allotted toman. His public career is ended, for even should he live, he will not remain here. His last speech has been made, and if the Southern re act up to it, the South and the Union will be saved, That last speech is a mirror, in which the South can see at ataglance the ». the present, and the future. The blind at the South need only Ww . Mr. Calhoun’s last effort is always said to be his best, is truly far superior in ability, and will rank in jory with Patrick Henry's, in the first Con- grees, and Lamartine’s last, in the Chamber of De- puties, for its effect. Jt marks a turning point in our destiny, and will form a corner stone for a new temple to political liberty. God grant that the whole South may re id to it with such an amen as shall brace up all their brave and confound all her wavering — The — of the ee ment it sis to secure equal power, as wel as ri Pron the South in the Federal government. It will not get a Northern vote, perhaps; but what then? Every Southern man who is not a traitor to the best interests of the South, will accept it. ‘There are some Southern men who are here with their discordant croaking, but they belong to the Southern buzzard tribe, who, with Tom Ritchie and Jo. Gales, are yet banquetting on the carrion ear- cases of whig and democrat—traitors, that some- times preach war, only to enable themselves to sell the South to the enemy—fools, who are only ambi- tious of becoming great compromisers. Such men belong to a class who will never be found in the ranks when the charge is ordered. You may look constantly for white feathers, and when you see them, it will be among those who crow the y But rest assured the people of the Southern States will keep their bayonets at their backs. The ae the North ve Le speech and his proposition, and eve: insult | it offers to the South, gives joy to Southern rits, who have long since lost any redress for Southern wrongs, but a dissolution of the Union, and all their efforts to kick the bigoted oyalists of the South into it, hastens disunion. | have a most supreme contempt for all those South- em men in C se, who shot theireyes, or shrink | or falter. Of all the world, such men are, in re- | ality, the most dangerous to the Union. They be- danger which better men must meet, and such thern traitors should be punished first. Who | does not perceive, that if such men as C and | Bell could succeed in their measures, and calm the | South for the present, by cutting w her territories, and give her an equi lity in one half of one branch of the government, that they would be ensnaring that section with an rent secunty, which they | are not such short sighted fools as not to know to be false, and weaken the South for a contest which | can only be avoided by the most abject and uncon- | ditional submission to the Northern section. You | may rest assured Mr. Bennett, that the intelligence of the South is wide awake. ‘These men deceive themselves grossly, if they think a are not and seen through by vast numbers of even the ordinary men in that section. The plainest poorest white in a. the eye y keen and sha: as their most intelligent representa- teen B eye in the ‘South will read Cal- houn’s last speech, will receive new light, and be awakened to a keener vigilance. Have you ever published Calhoun'’s Dream, as it is calle It purports to be a letter dated in Wash- ington, Jan, 12, 1860. The writer states that he was xy & ae table with = . houn, that bsery im ing at his right hapa’ and. that Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, inquired of Mt. Calhoun what was the matter? That Mr. C, answered—“' Pshaw, its nothing, only a dream which I had last night, which makes me ‘ tually see al black spot, like a blotch of ink, upon the back of my right hand.” That this led to inquiry from the company: “ What was your dream like?” }. is then made to tell a rig- marole story about his being in the room alone, having LA Th let nobody in, when a man entered, ai to his surprise, , “What are you writing, Senator Tin dete. rolinal™” A regular conversation then ensued tween the hig 4 Ca ir Coens which host puts on the table a skeleton, and fixes e ink Ga Mr. Calhoun's hand, and then Teh the reom. Now, wil you believe it, there are huadeeds of Our Boston. 5 7 Pearson and Webster. = Our city has lately been flooded with counter- feit bills on various banks, and particularly on the breakfast, or anywhere stated, | p it is impossi Mr. Calhoun has not taken ‘ockingham Bank, of Portsmouth, N.H. Great iheal the public room this year, There. iy not | €fforts have been made to ascertain the source the slightest foundation for this dream story, and I must confess my astonishment that any respectable paper shold publish it. am authorized to contradict this absurd story, and to say that there is not one particle of truth in from whence these counterfeits} issue; amongst other business of the same sort, the have kept close watch on the movements ot one ‘ F- ene Samuel Caswell. This forenoon, officers Clapp now do so through the ant suc! k pounced on Caswell, ii al papers as have published this wholesale fabrication aad pach yee fue bet wy be Wath: as truth, will see fit to publish this denial. ingt Stor Sm seiomtneny tes yet ear Paraicn Hever. ber of the Ay ey Palys Poa g were very i Ble * St badly executed. ice court, this after- w. April 14, 1850. ‘ The Departure of the pike enamine af the | noon, he was examined, and béund over for trial Late Clerk to Tennessee—The Fumeral Sermon, $e. in $300. Mr. T. J, Campbell, late Clerk of the House, died at A number of new banks are about going into his lodgings, on Capitol Hill, on Saturday morning at ration in this city. The largest will be the one o'clock. The House had adjourned over on Friday | Dank of Commerce, with a capital of seven hundred 50 that |. | and fifty thousand dollars. The Bank of North Ame- to Monday, there could be no proceedings, off- | 4! ih ith ital of half ‘ cially, of respect to the memory of deceased in thein- | tien. “The daymarket Bank will be Bo terval. Without awaiting for the meeting of the House, ii and deal- the Maine railroad depot, where farmet the friends of the decased resolved immediately totake pos in horses, hay, &c., mostly redentean: his remains to his family residence at Athens,in East | ‘The Italian Opera company, under the direction Tennessee, of Max Maretze! fl have been at the Howard Athe- At six o'clock this morning, the friends of deceased, | D#Um for several weeks, and have done an excel- business. Truffi is as attractive as ever, and the young and interesting Amalia Patti has become aan a favorite. z he newspapers have given various explanations of the * student story,” but they have all, 80 far, shot wide of the mark. The time has not come when this gaa should be unravelled be- fore the public gaze. ‘There are good reasons why it has been kept in the dark; but the day will be, podonyieih when some very si! facts. will be divulged, relating to the proof of Dr. Webster's guilt. lam governed in my belief of this by the serious and confidential statements of men whose standing and reputation would not allow others to be thus deceived, nor be themselves ing under a delusion in the matter. I learn.this evening, froma reliable source, that the Governor and Council have decided not to commute the punishment of Daniel H. Pe recently convicted of the murder of his wife an: two children, and that the day has already beea set for his execution. If Pearson is hung, Webster will surely follow. Indeed, there is little doubt existing here, that the full penalty of the law will be visited on ‘Webster. Viverte. the officers of the House and Senate, the Speaker of the House, and ® number of members among them, as- sembled at the house of the deceased, and after a short funeral service over the coffin, it was placed in the hearse, and the company, in aline of , followed it to the Southern boat, en rouse for Tennoasee, via Charleston, The body was secured in one of Fisk & Raymond's patent metallic cases, one of the most beautiful inventions of the day. Hermetrically seal taking up the smallest ible space to the shape the body, and enclosing it in their drapery of bronze, these cases are at once portable, strong and tasteful, softening the austerity of death under the classical dirguise of the folds of a golden mantle. Hon. Mr. Anderson, from the district of deceased, Mr. Campbell, a son of deceased, and Mr. Hart, a friend of the young man, accompany the remains to the of the bereaved family in Tennessee, At eleven o'clock, to-day, in the hall of the House, the Rev. Mr. Gurley, Chaplain, preached the funeral sermon of the late useful and faithful Clerk. Though sixty years of age, he was ® man of remarkable activi- ty and industry tothe day of his confinement to his Bed, a week ago. The reverend Chaplain appropriately discoursed of the fidelity of the deceased to his duties as a pulic officer and & private citizen, Simple and temperate in his habits, scrupulously honest and at- tentive to business, plain and practic: his manners and address, if be did not command enthusiastic admiration. he won a universal respect, In consideration of his official position, of his cha- racter, and of his neon g ne heretofore a member of the House, we expect that there will be an adjourn- ment to-morrow, in respect tothe memory of the de- cased. Great Specch of am ig Maher, the Irish Public Gardner at Washington, on the Slavery Question. Jn a social company of a number of L sreergeew on the 9h of February, 1850, the subject was started in relation to the great question now agi- tating the Union, and, after several had given their ideas, Mr. James Maher was called on for his, and immediately, without any preparation or forethought, delivered the following speech, as if he was in the Senate of the United States, and addressing the Vice-President, as the presiding officer ef the Senate. One of the gentlemen present took down the speech of Mr. Maher, verbatim et literatim, and here i — Mr. Presipen regret to see, or even to hear, that any gentleman is encouraged to touch upon so tender a point as the dissolution of this Union—a pols that has been sanctified and blessed by Columbus himself, when he went upon his knees, and blessed and kissed the clay. That clay that he blessed and kissed has produced the greatest, the bravest, and the most successful enerals of any nation under the canopy of Heaven. The clay he blessed and kissed has juced ag ‘The Newspaper Business. NEW PRINTING MACHINE. [From Galignanis Messe: ‘dh, Several gentlemen connected with the press in Paris, and the head of a e printing establish- ment in Scotland, assembled on Saturday at the spanntacti of M. de Coster, to witness the per- formance of a new printing machine, invented by M. Worms. The machine, from its simplicity and the mode of execution, mises to cause @ total revolution in (mpoey. it Se a much smaller space than the machines which are now in use at some of the great printing establishments in Paris and London, costs less than half the price at —— one | md saute ane Cs is hia from the tapes and other guiders, whic! jrequent out pr seers and gal eves considerable delay. Cit requires only the labor of three men to feed it, and receive the work as it is thrown off, whereas from 12 to 16 are required with each of the machines that it is expected to replace. Fim its simplicity and comparative compactness, the’ power of steam, as a moving power,may also in some cases be dispensed with, as it can be worked by hand. This new ma- chine, which is called rotative, does not print from the types, but from stereotype, and this is the most extraordinary part of the process. In the o1 process of stereotyping several hours are ired, for the material used for receiving the impression a. the {yPe and vit serves oo crear ioe which the stereot’ cast, must slowly dried. ‘The mould for —I < good bread, and beef, and pork, and mutton, and 4 ,. even Irish pills (potatoes), not hard to take, as any | this new hrocess ia made of fo sect of anus land of earth. What more do you want, in Toe aok tonne Sorina de mo ammemthe the to produce? Washi "4 ty republic, is looking town, upon this free and hi land, and seeing it in existence ; and so are the glorious signers of the Declaration of Independence, and our constitution. free and happy pow the father of this mig panes 1s. Woted ti the, peleek Sais son See re the type. ‘he mould is then dried, which is the work only of a few minutes, and placed on a cylinder, with a sufficient space between it and an outer case to re- asunder? God forbid that there should be found | 2™4 which is prepared in a peculiar way, flows any such man that would pluck a single feather nad ~~ evenly ion at faud of the ores from that proud and innocent bird called the per dy BA creep og bad “The American eagle. He is no friend to this country, | Dould is then removed and transferred to the cy- either by birth, or by adoption, that could be t : . of it. Why do yeh, so? I am Seated oot machine ready for printing. One part linder of the u e made to re- plate fits in exactly to a ne ereot joes b mips bape lonesty and. industry. are | then from fifteen to pe IF Tuinutes. ‘The no- gifts of God. If this mighty republic was to be divided into four sections, how glad John Bull would be of itt Is not this country an example to the world, and a terror to all? A blind man would not give encouragement to any proposition to dissolve this ed republic. Give me the man that can forge a chain to surround this happy land, and keep us one. I only ask a con- tract to enclose the several States, with and rail fence, and keep them together in the Union, I hope government will not refuse me such a con- tract. Su we have one or two thousand rot- ten erg the flock ; is that any reason why the whole k should be rotten? [f there are any tion of the machine differs entirely from anything hitherto invented. There is no laying on of the sheets to be printed. A continuous sheet of paper equal to 2,000 or more sheets of a newspaper, is rolled on cae, and, as the machine turns, the plate on the printing cylinder is fed, and by the action of the machine itself the paper is divided at the proper place into sheets of the Touired cise, and each sheet is folded at the same time. The paper which receives the impression is not ‘pened, 7 in other print processes; it is placed on cylinder as it phases, “a the paper maker, but 80 eae and regular is the pressure, that the impression on this dry paper is equal, rhe ae to that 4 upon: paper in the ordinary way. There. an index affixed to the machine, 1 indicate the rate at which it goes, by the number of sheets rt off. When eed ig sheet, sagaite two thousand copies of a |, is exhausted, beg is replaced by conan s0 on. Itis said among us, we should go to work and cure them. Diy gunpowder tea is as er. one acure as any 1 go im favor "of rary e regulating its jairs, as was intended by the constitution of d States. Don’t let us deviate a link from Live as we always have lived, in peace, useful; in war, a terror. are bone sinew of th igh: lic? The farmer, the labore: at as many as fifteen t copies of a journal pe Ryn ings, Mi hy ty ull, | Ca be printed in an hour by this machine. ‘The gentlemen who witnessed the prooces on Saturday expressed their admiration of it, and could see no defects which a very eye will not remove. ‘The great advant of this new invention are, economy in the outlay for the machine, the cost of which is only +. -y While the machine of the Petrie, which excited #0 much notice, cost 60,000ft.; the immense saving in type, forthe type pay for all, and fight for all, and when occasion re- uires it, 1 hi they will not be deficient of a Washington, a Jackson, or a General Taylor, that never surrendered. ‘There is one glorious thing in this Inighty republic. Lf we lowe a few Gene: in battle with any power, every true American is a General within himself. For instance, the other day, when the brave Butler, Ringgold and Shields fell’ in battle, were there not others to fill their | i*elf, being used only for the sterotyping “ " undet searcely any wear, and, of ; by this cou! reely reduce the Are not they fight r their homes, their fami- | the u yy i i ~} lies, and for what the constitution has guarantied | °, Cttion, almost without the possibility of delay the wal rights, equal laws, and equal privi- gest | ain satistied that there are apes in this | {fom any derangement in the machine country in disguise. 1 have met some of them my- THE NEWSPAPER FOLDER. self, but it was in atime of peace If it had been (From the Id Republican.) in war time, | would have volunteered to hang a Many will remember the announcement, a year or more since, that a machine for folding news- papers had been invented in Springfield. A variety of circumstances have conspired to prevent its being brought into use until now. Important im- provements have been effected in the invention, millstone around their necks, and if not to send them down to the bottom then, to the other side of the big waters. There are spies and mischief- makers. Look out. I there is no re- publican which can be either bought, bribed or corrupted. Iam convinced that the slaves in this | since the original conception, and it has this week country ent more bread and beef, and drink, more pape pn ae pated It does tea coffee, than the working population ae Pp F saalin: jte our anti- land, Ireland ‘and Scotland. {t's slave Te ick be cipations of its practicability and utility, and fally has a physician to attend to him. It’s the interest u — those of elie friends. The ma- | the cornet, thes it should be so. ou is guilty poh le gg \- benstifel plage rime. rishman 5 is compact occ! com pam wy ~ b 4 old bony paratively little room, and te operated by the samme ity of « similar crime. in x r fe ‘would be ai before the British courts, | power that carries the press, and therefore ope- tried, and be hung or t . 1 have lived in | rating with equal speed. Mavechiunets, in IM since in Pe re The sheet passes from the press into the folder and in the District of Columbia. The rity of | by bands, and after passing through the several free ‘are a nuisance where slaves are use- | folds, it is then thrown out at the side, compactly ful. best treated are the slaves. There are | and neatly folded, all ready for the §earrier or the more free blacks, by ten to one, in our prisons, than | mail man. No description of the operation would slaves. Any State that is so much interested in | be intelligent to the reader, without a there blacks, we will make them a present of all | Knives give the direction to the folds, which are the free ones in the District of Columbia, and sell | perfected by rollers, and the sheet is carried from the slaves for half price, on condition that they will | one knife to the other by bands and cog wheels. take care of them, and keep them within their own | It performs quite a circuitous journey in the opera- a = ne CL the District would | tion, but comes out at last as perfect and good as well rid of them. are the sentiments of | Ne; an adopted citizen, one who has some claims upon The machine Seite fone a8 fast as the feeds, the country of his adoption, as his father was a | @nd can undoubtedly to fold 4,000 an hour yo ta wer of 1812, Against Great Britain, | a8 readily as 1,500 to 2,000, which is the rate our now the value of my oath, and the obligation | press runs. . tg support the conan othe United States. bag’ kof ee iaventen te newerneet ere not the signers of the Declaration of Inde- | lishers, they siti pendence from fice States and slave States? No | absolutely demanded by the position which the the country has assumed ; ; r enterprise citizen by birth or adoption schould ever forget his within the past few years, and illustrates the truth obligations. These remarks are neither ‘saying: soone! i or faced, but the natural opinion of James Maher, | of aoe d re obs - of Washington, the same as his trees and flowers | en! ars ond ¢ ie flourish by nature. a Emerald Isle was ae faventien steps in pot ios. the lackicg atecame reener on the 9th day of February, than xi obstac! autiful spot in the’ pablic p— Faget « sur. | ty or removes the hindering fe. rounds the grand and noble statue of the father of THE COST OF REPORTING. his country. ° Where is the spot better entitled to (Urem the Lenten Aties.) be beautified and ornamented than thist Wash- | One cause of the ly enjoyed by leading ington has shown an example to the wi and his area is, that the enormous capital they are example is a terror to all. Come and see for your- | compelled to selves, and be 5 Union must be preserved. i 3 i ui Le ah per week, and our Barnist State Convention of Riopk Istap.— | PV each steamer. Ina few days they The State Convention of the Baptists in Rhode i . » | cost that sum per week, or about bes taken eas ifaw rere remind | Fer word weit ho, Nf Hanae) m . - law ne Mpc te dentin | gf ge om with 5 ja ine Re o— be risked before a dai Savrepaper con even haves rye and Foreign Society, in the city of | chance tr. Tomlins that the New York, have ite Soatompietion te ae ee — should all be taken a govern- ni wi Spot ont sw ne | ie, Oa have foreign intelligence conveyed from the go- vena medtrenct temic: | Vrms grwaers hw Tae LJ, meer ht Td a plated ama! ce Jt an ¥ E. Prevaux was ordained an evan- | one staff, costi a week, weda de the and, it is |, will soon sail as a | of five or six at ap ee ‘Some of the te California, under the patroange of pm Fs oT ivide the expense of law ree