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= ‘Washington c., were made available Correspondence. ‘Wasuineton, October 4, 1950. efter the issue of “warrant,” instead of the The Prendential Questions, and several Minor | iseue of the “patent.” And the result is manifest. Matters. Aspeculator might buy up a thousand warrants The whigs, as a party, have not the least idea as | for 160 acres each, and locate his 160,000 acres all to who shall be their next Presidential candidate. | ina Of course, the time has not yet come when any | for particular one can be designated for that high station. Major-General Scott was strongly pressed by Western men ia the Philadelphia Convention, and may be again with better success, We have frequently heard hum spoken of since the summer of 1848, as being the best man to make a clean sweep of the Northern and Western whig vote. it is true he was born in the South—in Vir- ginia—but this is pvt enough to hurt him. Having fought for the entre country, it 1s expected by friends, in return, that the country shall fight for him. His letter in advocacy of the annexation of Canada, would have its effect as an ingredient in the plan of operstions, and would be & powerful offset to the principles of the opposing candidate, who, by that time, will have to advocate the re- anne: ube It |g adler here, recently, that General Scott will dec cing a Presidential candidate, having attained Jature of the tallest snp of the age, erd 4 enurely satistied with his proud position ims report may have been started by those who prefer another. Defeated Presvieutial candidat chance. Devoted as many whigs are to Hen Clay, they will not permit him again to be pl on the course, for (wo obvious reasons: first, that | he has been tried already; and, secondly, that he | is too old. ‘ Daniel Webster is pressed by New Englanders, and clways will be. The Nattonal Intel worships him, as the loraelites did the golden calf, and at the proper tme will make an unmistake- able demonstration, Mr. Clay has no organ here but occasionally g ie shake of the hai (un from (ae proprietors of the ricketly old whig organ, | and a nod of recoguition—nothing tmore; but Daniel's star is hgh o the ascendant, and he and Seaton drink many a social glass of water together. ‘e have already spoken of Mr. Fillmore. It is not probable that Mr Webster will help him. Un- der a former dyno=(y, Daniel held the same office he holds now, ard Captain John Tyler did not pro- fit politically by the distinguished association. Neither cid Webster; for he did not know where to go aficr he ercuyd from the State Department. However, in the course of time, he was again taken into the whig fold, aud has since become a chief shephest; and new ac man is more orthodox than he. The South tink better offhim, but not to the extent cf mapy votes. stand @ poor | " fencer, | ot this city, is his organ, and one of the editors | Uniess Mr. Fillmore keeps | thus hua the land tpte: py scheme benefit jobbers. Bu ot each claimant firs: to get @ patent for his and designated, the conveniences of teres land jobbing operations are very much embar: y The Senate, on the last morning of the ses sion. unanimously an explanatory de- fining the law to prohibit an assigament the ent for the Jand in each case, is taken out. The ill went over to the House. The ayes and noes were called, on suspending the rule, to take it; when the clerk was about through, the Speaker announced that the time fixed was up, | and that the House was adjourned sine die. Thus, the clearest ible explaation of the law was defeated for the want of half an hour’s time. Mr. Walker, who up the explanatory bill, was very active in morning in tracing up the paso guilty of the mistake in the engrossment. he clerks of both houses were found to be iano- cent, and Mr. Dickens, Secretary of the Senate, as we understand, frankly confessed that, in the hurry of business, he omitted reporting this important amendment “of the patent’’ to the en- grossing clerks. Ay man who knows Mr. Dickens, and his estab- lished character of fidelity and integrity as a man and public officer, will at once absolve him from suspicion of design; but the objections made to the prompt passage of the explanatory bill in the House are open to the suspicion of either aconnivance with the speculators, or of a design to make the law as odious erry by convert- ing it into a grand scheme of sordid speculation, which would render it in its operation unpypular in | the eyes of the country. The President, however, has come up bravely tethe rescue, It was at his discretion to take the letter of the law a jood, or to construe it ac- cording to the truth and got the letter of the act. If the mistake of aclerk were to be the law, five | hundred thousand dollars might be drawa from the treasury for putting a board fence around a public lot, tnstead of tive hundred dollars. | The President has faithfully executed the law, and the circular of Mr. Stuart is what we should call a splendid document, intelligent, benignant, beneficent, humane, patri just, and proper, and true, and correct. : ‘The law, we suspect, originated in demagoguism —in a design to throw dust into the eyes of the old soldiers, to secure their votes, and there may have | been also some scheme at the botiom, of tion in the public lands. The circular of art, as far as possible, cuts off any caleu large fortunes in land jobbing. ‘The Presiden interpretation of the law was the result, we learn, of a Cabinet Courcil, sus a sharp look out, he will had Mr. Webster treading | tained by the opinions of Mr. Webster and Mr. ing on his boots ; and this tite piece of advice is given poeagee ving by one who does not care a copper for any of the Presidential aspirants. ith a hope ot success, Mr. Fillmore has to se additonal strengt and so have ebeter, Crittenden, Clayvon, Scott, and the re- mainder of the Whi aspirants. As for Seward, he bas long since commenced the work of chopping off every other head than his own, which may at last sufier by the political guillotine. She Southern people are looking, just now, to their own individu»! adventages and safety, and have no avors to ask of the North. Therefore, they have no lot or part in the present machina- tions relative to the Presidency. The ‘cmocrats, «* usual, are not asleep; and we me bave a few things to say about them in afuture jeter By way of amusement, several of the heads of | cepartments have this week been cutting off the heads of a few petty clerks Daniel’ Webster \s having an additional room built to the house he eceuyies in Louisiana avenue, next door to the Univarien church, where he ma: entertain his frience with some’ of Edward Sens | mee’s best importa ions According to the crasus returns of the Island Ward of this city, rendered to-day, it appears that there are in the hands of the negro traders, who keep jnils, forty-oue slaves, fifteen of whom are | females Carita. Wasnira ton, October 4, 1850. Whig Defeat in Maryland, and why—Removats and Appointments commenced in the Executive Departments— Mr _reateve to the Bownty Land Law— Fugitive Slave Bul—Fat'er Ritchie’s Groans and Curses, $e., $e. The whigs are attempting to account for their signal defeot im Maryland. There is but one way about it. The tederal offices in Maryland were al be stowed, by the late Galphin cabinet, in conformi ty with the dictation of the court-house clique, and egainst the wiehes of the rank and file of the whig perty. All the subordinate positions in the custom house, the post office, etc., were given out, not as the whig party wished, but as the court Louse clique dictated. , sod solemnity resoived upon the course they ‘thai, would pursue—that is, a good portion of them so eaw end so resolved. They were not i without | an opportunity to carry out their resolution. The court-house clique put up one of its own men, Ma- jor William B Clazae, for Governor, and got him ted. Anti-court-house clique men have de- m aud sufl-red locofocorsm to elect a go- r for thiee ye Le Thu d tan? maiters at present. If the court } ¢ clique will not stand back a little, and let the k the common sense portion of the aid au be a whig State Otherwise, The Reverdy Johosoua, the Glesons, and atchele have hed their day in Maryland. yee ruled the old Jackson party in that They have since ruled the whig party. For they will be able to rule no party. it of the election in Maryland, or some- . ® ointing power, in some of he departiuents in this enty, in motion, Severals removal wed appointments, and some promotions, took pla fay in the Sixth Auditor's Among those removed | have learned the { Mr. Harry Rovers and a Mr. Poole, both ‘ sylvania. Mr’ Morehead, of Pennsylvania, takes Mr. Roge ploee, and some other Pean- eylvenieon Mr fe's, | believe. Among those appo | | have leerved the pames of Messrs. sic Simpson, ond Harman. The work is a the other Auditors’ offices watil the . pall be at least equal in numbers to their pponenta, and unti! these who do the most ardgous ond responsible duties shall receive the largest salasics The circular of the Seeretary of the Interior, in he papers this morning, respecting the meaniag and intent of the recently past laad bounty law, gives very great uneasiness and discoatent to the jond werrent aod lend patent agents in this city. They say (oat the law, as construed by the govern- ment, confers a grea! hardship upon the persons for whowe bencfit the law was intended to be passed it compels them first to eek in the proper depart- ment a certificate or Warrant that they are entitled te a certain number ot acres of the public lands not already located. It then compels them to hold on to whet they have got, and to be at the trouble and and espense of selecting and eotering their landa, and then waiting for the Land © to issue to hem petents or deeds of the same, before they can di: poee of them. wuts further contend, that inasmuch as # not say the patents shall de issued be- ute of lund bouaties may dispose of the leud ted to them, the true intent of the law ie that the warrants or certificates of entitlement issued by the proper department, are transferable. The enemies of the fagivive slave law, white and Meck, at the North, are making threats of violence againe! the lives of the officers of the law, who un- Jertake to do their official duty. That will do them no good in the end, as they will find at their cost itis hoped that the Sewardites do not go with them; bet of they do—and Seward himself shoald be brought or smoked out on the subject—the quicker (ve fact can be known the better it will be for the country and for the whig party F itchie groans every day_over the failure to take his ee ff his hands for the public printing, and to award him ten per centum profit on the work he has done; and in his groans he does not fail to curse Joha Went- worth, Orr, and K o« n shocking rate. Still he declares that he will complet shall not sell out the Cnion ir. Barke. Weill, ifhe loves money, Conyrees will, in spite of bis groens end curses yet, meke him whole. Indeed at will Wasiise ron, Oot. 4, 1850. Evplanation of the Bownty Land Bull— The Origin of the Mistake, and the Premdent’s laterprea- how The Bounty Land bill was ordered to engross ment ia the Senate, with the following provision, inciuding the words in ema!! enpital letters, mortgages, letters of ator te of meade yt © ed pl aball be null and yotd t whatece rer, nor shall rach certificate the lerd cote! thereby. be in — o, the payment of any feu or h ofcer oF soldier prior | to the iseulvg of the Tn the engros ment of the bill, through an ove aight of (he Secretary ©! (he Senate, Me. bh fe in small capital letters were left out, so Messrs. Secretary Stuart's Circular | The whigs saw these | wward aod lead off in fature, | the contract, and | Crittenden. 2 : No definite, and searcely an approximate, esti- mate can be made without a tedious wens | of the records of all our wars—Indian, British, an Mexican—since 1790; er aesumiog that all the | claims of all the classes of recipients will be equal to 150,000 men, at 160 acres each, the bill covers a surrender, by the Treasury, of 24,000,000 acres, which, at the minimum price of $1 25 per acre, is | equal to an appropriation of thirty millions of money, ina ‘single bill. Setting down the regular and miscellaneous appropriations at fifty-six mil- lions, including the deficiency and we have a draft upon the public resources, this session, equal to eighty millions of dollars, saying nothing | of the ten millions pledged to Texas. At this rate of disbursements, we shall have the Preside at begging for a loan of twenty or thirty millions, before many months are over. Wasuinaton, Oct. 5, 1850. The Distribution of Presents to Distingwiched Characters—That Silver Curry Comb. The presentation by Hon. W. H. Seward of that silver curry comb to Old Zack, with which to | curry “‘old whitey,” stands by itself as the most elegant preseut on the calendar. There was an ominous meaning in that curry comb, which has just been explained by the whig Syracuse conven- tion. Mr. Clay and Mr. Webster have had their pre- sents of gold chains and gold watches. Gen. Cass has recently received a present of a beautiful walking stick. Gen. Houston has received a cene from the birth- place of Washington, carved all over with birds and quadrupeds—a iy ? proper present for such an eccentric character as Houston. Commodore Jones has received a beautiful gold goblet from the people of Californy Gen. Riley bas received a gold sauil box from the people of California, encrusted all over with lurops ot native gold, with the letter “R” in middle of the Nd, in ‘California pearis—a beautiful thing, and a specimen ef American penne and skill which eught to be exhibited at the great fair of London, ot S51. The General also has a gold medal from the citizens of Monterey. Commodore Moore has just received a splendid pistol—a six shooter—from Sainuel Colt, with the splendid sea fight between the Commodore's and the Mexican fleet, ofl Campeachy, engraved up ¥ But none of all’ these beautiful things will cou pare with that silver curry comb of Gov. Seward, and the awful currying down of the whig party, with the said com, at Syracuse. Asa legacy to the v higs, ils value promises to castall the presents of Jenny Lind into the shade. Wasnixeton, Oct. 6, 1350. The Current Ondits of the Day—The President's Message. The re-opening of the Foote and Fremont diffi- culty, presents a most belligerent aspect; but the departure, some days since, of Mr. Foote for Mississippi, and the departure, as we are apprised, of Col. Fremont in a day or two for California, will give them an interval of two months for re- flection. Sixty days, we should say, ought to be enough to cool dewn a diepute of this calivre, Mr. Foote hos his accounts to settle with the people of Mi ippi, and it 0 be hoped that they will give him a fair hearing, and a dispassion- ate judgment. His independent, self sacrificing course on the slevery questions, entitles him uot only to the respect of his constituents, but of the people of the United States. With th strongly against him, de of Ch Cass and We held on to the end, not alone regardful to Mississippi, but ef his duty to the Unioa Thus much we consider due to General Foote. — Tlie personal controversies another thing, W th which we fer to have nothing to do 1. Fr nt will find it important to look after in California; and after being so un- » draw the ticket which cuts dowa his i term to the 4th of March next, we should t, with his promising talents, and with id career opening before him, anything id oceur to mar the prospects of his te Dut having got himeelf entangled in a snarl, we prefer,as an outsider,not to interpos* uny assis- tance until satisfied that it is wanted The last letter of Mr. S« a very curious review of the Britieh e gents in Nicaragua. t goes t the correctness of the Herald's interpri ta Clayton treaty—that it was nothing mor nest-egg of future tronble with John Buil and his and spect the special agent of Mr. Webster will ct the material facts in the testi- mony of Mr The heads several departments are col- leeting the materials for their reports and for the essage of next December. at we can learn, the message of Mr. f the Webster r pmend ation of the tariff; and this will be ature of the document modiiication of the Sab- Treasury eral appropriations to internal improve nents. 4. Cheap postages. 5. The ch indemnities. But the two more portant pointe upon which it would be no matte rpriee to hear him speak, exactly the sentimen' of Mr. Webster. We mean: 1. The Land Reform question 2 The lugitive Slave question With regard to the first, Mr. Webster has de clared bimeelf openly in favor of free farms to ac- tal settlers; and with regard to the second, Mr Webster, net long ago introduced a bill into the Senate providing fore trial by jury And upon these t questions the greatest con- sequences are depending. If the Pres id, he may ride bic! to Washington upon them—if he shrinks. he must retire Wasnixoton, Oct. 9, 1359. The Late Premdent Taylor—His Will—Care of his Slaves— Division of the Estate—Colonel Fre- mont— Miss Jagello, ete. Much specvlation has been indulged as to the amount of property of which President Taylor died possessed. It may now be of interest to know, as I learn from a creditable source, that in the month of July, 1846, while at Monterey, he commitied to peper instructions forthe division of his property, | in the event of his being killed by the Mexican ene- my, ot dying of diseare, ot in any other way, be- | orehe cow Id return to hes family. This wa the i storehouses shares of bank stock, 8ix or eight slaves, in the city of Louisville, He but one gon, Richard, who, a short time after his father’s election to the Presidency, came hither on a visit, and then returned to the pianta- es i eer oes URL ON. This estate, and twenty thousand dollars beside, is his partion, To Ris dangrere— Elizabeth, (Mrs. Bliss,) and Mrs. Wood, wife of Dr. Wood, of the army— made provision for ten thousand dollars each ; to the former, in addition, several negro women. His wish was that his tation and servants should not be Gites before the end of tons years. proceeds o! crops, in part, meanwhile, to be divided between his 4 daughters, until they shall have received twenty thousand dollars each, in addition to the ten. a He made Judge McGehee, of Mississippi, his executor, to see his wishes carried into effect. In addition to this, it is worthy of record that he made provision for the payment of a security debt of one thousand dollars. He owed nothing oa his own account. It was his wish that his servants should be only moderately worked, and kindly treated—the old on 2 be taken good care of, and made com- fortable. Colonel Fremont is on the eve of starting for Ca- lifornia, and does not expect to return to Washing- ton ull after the Christmas polidaye. fle has had a large number of his speech on California matters printed, for distribution in that State. Miss Jagello, the Hungarian heroine, has entered @ boarding schoel in this city, for the gerne of acyuiring an Lnglish education. AVITAL. is Wasuine ton, Oct. 9, 1850. Renewed Agitatvon— Southern Conventions—North- ern Meetings—Prospects of a Revival of the Trouble at the Next Session. The rejoicings of the friends of peace upon the passege of the Compromise bills were, doubtless, well intended, but they were toe fast. A trouble of fifty years agitation, with its convulsions, from time to time, increasing in strength, bitteraess and prejudice, unti) the two sections of the Union look upon each other with mutual suspicion, aversion and distrust—a trouble of this sort is not to be cured by bread and milk poultices, nor by such exciting stimulants as the Fugitive Slave bill. here is the halcyon era of peace that was to follow these measures of adjustment? Look at the Southern Rights’ Conventiens—the call of a State Convention in Georgia—of a special meeting of the Legislature in Mississippi—the mass _meet- ings throughout the South—the tone of the South- ern newspapers, and the proceedi of Carolina merchants, to the establishment of an embargo upon Northern ships—and no man, with his senses shost him, will say that the South is very happy about the slavery adjustment. No, sir. They believe they have been shamefully cheated—that other aggressions are to follow, and that, sooner or later, the South must come to the question of sub- mission or resistance upon the distinct issue of the abolition of slavery in the States by act of Con- ress. That’s what they believe—they of the South. Now, what will they do? The Nashville Convention, 1 ae to meet on the eleventh of November, will have that questioa to consider. Wedo not expect them to recom- mend immediate resistance to the luws of the land; but they will probably recommend a moreealarged Southern Convention, for the consideration of the policy to be pursued by the Southern Statesin their intercourse With the North. And the effect of the resent agitation in New York and the North, will 5 to sharpen the appetite of the Southrons for dis- union. hey are too lozy to move in open re- bellion vatil driven to the wall—besides, “the niggers” are not altogether reliable in the event “of a war;” and hence the South will submit to a good deal before they set out in military phalanx for the North, ‘each man with his coffin upon his back.” But there are such things as local taxes upon Northern.goode, Northern dealers, and North- ern vessels ; and there is such a thing as the refusal to pay Uncle Sam’s revenues as laid dewn in the statute of 1846, Reprisals and retaliations for Northern ageres- sions and spoliations may be expected, if resistance to the restoretion of fugitivi et fat upon litionists ; an; very stringent wag passed sure a pity that a bill so coinpromise mea- ‘We venture to say, that during the first week of the next session, bills will be brov zit forward in the Senate to repeal the fugitive slave law, to abolish slavery in this District, to provide for the trial of the constitutionality of t.* imprisonment of free colered seamen in Southern ports, on account of their color, and for the reason that coming from among the Northern abolitionists, they might be dangerous to turn loose among Southern slaves. ‘There issues will afford scope and verge enough for the re-opening of the slavery agitation in all its vast amplitude of cauges and results. So far, thea, rom the negro business being settled, the dispute will only assume a new shape, and upon issues upon which there can be no compromise, as long a8 ubolitionists exist in the North and slaveholders in the South. The war must go on till one or the ether are put down, or until the boundary line of a separate nationality marks the latitude where slavery stops and where free soil commences. And with both the Frat parties in the North courting the suppert of the abolitionists, what is the prorpect for putting them down? Again, with such a state of thi existing, what is the prospect for a nationel whig, or a national democratic perty in 1852? Under the present disorganized state of parties, the best that we can hope for, is a scrub race in 1552, and the election from the best of the candi- dates of some national man, by the Ilouse of Ke- presentatives, by a junction of moderate men of all parties. Wasnrsarox, October 3, 1950. Congressonal Land Grants—Repeal of Canal, Ratlroad and Bank Charters in Minois—Land Grants waned by the State of Nlinors. The recent act of Congress, granting the State of I'inois alternate sections of land in aid of the con- struction ofa railroad from Chicago to Cairo, on the Ohio, having attracted considerable attention, and engeged the cupidity of «peculators, | deem it due to all parties, and especially to the business men of New York, to make 4 statement similar to that which may have appeared in the St. Louis Republican, but which, in many respects, may prove a novelty to the readers of the Herald. I, will exhibit the precise position of the Cairo City and Canal Company, and its connection with that railroad and the recent act of Congress In 1885, Mr. 1. B. Holbrook, originally ftom Bos- ton, procured from the Le ture of the State of Illinois his first charter for the Cairo City and Ca- nal Company ; and he also procured a charter for the Central Railroad Company from Cairo to Gale na. He subsequently obtained a third charter for the [llinois Exporting Company, with authority to carry on transport insure against ri T, carry on manufacturing business generally. also purchaeed and revived a defunct bank charter, known as the Cairo Bank, and one or two others cannot specify Mr. Holbrook at once organised the Cairo City and Canal Company: took the stock himself, and had himself electe eee He also organised the Central Railroad Company, by a nominal pay- ment of $1 per share, (which was never paid in, bur 2 note given in lien of the money) and electe himeeli president. He also organised the Jllinois Exporting Company inthe same mode, and also organised the Cairo Bank, and put one of his in- struments at the Lead of it. Subsequentl, D. B. Holbrook, as president of the Cairo City and Canal Company, entered into a contract with |). B Hol. brook. as president of the Central Railroad Com- pany; aod D. B. Holbrook, as presifent of the Central Reilroad Company, farther oontracted with D. B. Holbrook, of the Illinois Exporting Compa- od D. B. Holbrook, as pfreident of that com- , contrected with D. B. Holbrook, as president n Creach of the other companies, that each of said companies nright exercise all and singular the rights, privileges, and —— conferred by law upon either, by which all companies were to be consolidated into one, and exercise the several powers conferred upon each The next step was to raise funds to carry out the project of the erection of an immense city at £ ‘0 effect this, the Cairo City and Canal mpeny iseued their bonds, and had them en- dorsed by the Central Railroad Company, or one of the other companies aforesaid, and further endorsed by the New York Life and Trast Company, and upon thess bends nearly a million of dollars were raised in England; part of which was expended in meking a mud wall around the city of Cairo to keep the water ont, and the frogs in * | am not informed that the ereditors in Kogland have yet learned what became of the residue of the money. In 1836, Dongiac's apavebes delivered at Chicago Senute of the United States, if an application was ever made to that body fora grant of land, whilst the Holbrook charters, and especially the act re- ferred to, remained in force. Mr. Holbrook (discovering that he had no hope ofa on of land from lag” ong) unlees Judge im Douglas’ objectio s, a8 set forth in his ches delivered at Chicego and field, could be re- moved,) executed, in Dece r lust, @ paper pur- porting to be a release of his railroad charter, and of all rights under it, in duplicate, sending one cop; to the Coverner of Tuinoies and the other to J hed Douglas; stating in his letter to the Governor that he had executed that release in order to obviate Judge Dougl.s’ operbensione that the interests of the State were to be sacrificed the act of the Legislature to which 1 have referred. (See the letter to the Governor, marked A, and the release marked B, accompanying this letter.) ‘When that release was shown to Judge D., at ‘Washington, by the agents of the Caire City aud Canal Company, he at once informed them that it was void, and not binding on the company, havi been executed by D. B. Holbrook, as Presideut ot the Company without the authority or sanction of the stocbkolders, oreven the Board of Directors. (ee Judge Douglas’ letter to the Governor of llinois, marked C.) Judge D. also informed the agents that, unless arelease in due form and ie- gally binding upon the company, was executed he sheuld introduce a bill, which he had then already prepared, fora grant of land in eid ofa railroad froma Chicago to the Ohio river, upon a dificrent line, and to terminate at a different point than the one provided for im the charter cua to the Cairo City and Canal Company Mr. Holbrook then dis- covered that, unless he executed a valid release of all his chartered rights and all claims to land, or other privileges, under the legislation of Illinois in relation to the railroad, the lands would be granted on adifierent line, and terminate at another point of the Ohio river, which would render the town site of Cairo, as well ae his railroad char- ter, entirely valueless. This ee Mr. Holbrook to terms. He immediately called a meeting of the stockholders of the Cairo City and Canal Com- pany, ot New York, on the 21th of December last, and had @ resolution passed to execute another re- lease, which was accordingly done in due form, acopy of which, marked D, is hereunto annexed. Immediately on this release beng furnished to Judge Douglas, he introdueed his bill for the grant of lands, which has passed both houses of Con- agressand Lecame a law. It is known under the te of the “Chicago and Mobile Railroad grant.” But for the execution of the release by Mr. Hol- brook, and the surrender of all claums to any rail- road charter, or rights and privileges, under any aet of the Illinois Legislature on the subject, the grant of land would never have been made by Con- grees. Thus, it appears, that Mr. Holbrook has no charter for a railroad n Illinois, and no claims to the lands which have been granted, unless the State of Illinois refuses to accept the release, or makes e new grant to |). B. Holbrook, which, un- Jess its members are crazy, itis not likely to do. Ihave deemed it necessary to make this exposi- | tion of the facts in the case, in order that capital- ists,in New York, and elsewhere, may aot labor under erroneous impressions in regard to so im- yeheg a matter affecting alike the honor of the tate of Illinois, and that of Congress. Ay Iuunois Bonpnonper. [A moe. | New Your, Dee. 15, 1819. His Excetiescy Aveustvs C. Frencn, etc. :— Sin:—For the purpose of arresting error, and conflict of public Cpiaioa, in relation to the charter of the Great and Western Railway Company, from Cairo to Chicago, | take the liberty of enclosing @ release on behalf ot the Cairo City and Canal Com- pany (to whoin the charter was given), through yn to the State of Illinois, a duplicate of which have also executed this t. and forwarded to the Hoo. S. A. Douglas, that his mind may be re- lieved from any misapprehension as to the inten- tion and policy of the Cairo City and Canal Com- pany and that his powerful infldence may not be withheld in sustai ay Bay! advancing this para- mount Interest to the State of Illinois, the success of which should command (as it does my owe) the hovest and patriotic efforts of every citizen of our State. fe the honor to be, very respectfully, your Excellency’s most obedient, (Signed), D. B. Hotwroox. vy) {B To wiom 1T MAY CON As President of the Cairo Ci pany, and on behalf of the shareholders of said 1 hereby agree that in case Congress t its present session, donate to the State of or tive @ pre-emption to lands, for purposes of aiding in the construction of ailroad from ro to Chicago, that the said Cairo City and 1 Company shall and will authorise the Governor of Illinois to offer said lands to the bond- holders of the State debt, on condition that said bondholders will agree to receive said lands, and make the proposed railroad, from Cairo to Chicago, on such terms as the Governor of the State shall prescribe and deem of mort benefit to the State than is secured to the State under the terms pro- ail. and Canal Com- road Company, And the Canal Company, when re. shall and will release and give up to the State the charter of the said Railroad Company, requirin; only from the Governor assurances that the rail- road shall be mede from Cairo to Chiesgo in the time required by the charter of the Great Western d by the Governor, wore them | poms f nad by the dirretion try tors, Ruilroad Company. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the corporate seal of the Cairo City and Canal Com- pany. Dated at New York, the 15th of December, M44, and done in duplicate. (Signed), D. B, Hounaoox, and ©. Co. (Seal) stint: TOwNsEND, Cus. Davis. If the foregoing instrument should not be deemed legally binding upon the Cairo City and Canal | Company, any other which may be made under the direction of the Governor of Illinois will be executed, when submitted to me. ‘9 7 D. B: Hotwroox, President of C. G. & C. Go. President of C Witnessed by ] Wasainoton, Dec. 27, 1819. Drak Sir >—I have been requested by the Hon. John A. Rockwell, of Conn.,"on behalf of the Cairo City and Canal Coimpany, to forward to you the enclosed paper, being a release to the State of Ili nois, by said compray, of the rt of the Great Western and Centre! Railroad panies, and all acts and parts of ucts supplemental or amendatory thereof, and ell the rights and privileges granted by them, or either of them, as faily as if those acts never been passed by our Legislature. The circumstances under which this release was executed, so far as the facts have come to my ae are as follows:—Some time ago Mr. G. M. Billings, nt of said company, placed inmy hands a le written by Mr. D. B Hol- » to your excellency, in which he encloses to you what purported to be a release, or rather a pro- mise to rele: to the State, those charters, upon jons hereafter to be performed. Mr. t the eame time, need in my hands a copy of said release or prot to release, executed m duplicate, and bearing date the 15th of this month, for the purpose of satisfying me that the in- Illinois would not be sacrified in the panner aad to the extent | had aporehended ia my Chicago and Springtield last October, and for the further purpose of enabling me to obri- ate the well known and insuperable objections of Congress (o making grants of lands to or for the benefit of private corporati Me. Lolbrook’s letter to you, of which a copy was also furnished me, confirmed this view of the subject as to the motives for —— the release. I informed Meeers. Billings and Rockwell, who represented the interest of the Cairo City and Canal Company in this afleir, that [ was invested with no authority nd the people and State of [!inois ind had no other interest in it, or iz to it, than that which was common te Ty citizen of our Stote who felt a deep in- terest in her prosperity and welfare ; but that { was entirely willing to express to them my opinions upon the subject, a individual. I then informed them t regard the paper exe- cuted in duplicate on the 15th of December, and porperting to be a release, or promise to release, the right» uuder the railroad charters our Legislature, a8 being vaiid and bin upon the Cairo City and al executed by DB. Hobs , a8 President, and on behalf and under the corporate seal of the Cairo and Canal Co., but without the sanction und aw tive of the stockholders, or even the board of Gasctare 14 thet tee president ~* £ wer to act the company, except under Lo ol the board of dires- thea only, in pursuance and ia the exerts 1 agree to receive said lands, end make the proposed road from Cairo to Chicago, &e., &e. = The first objection I urged was of minor importance, next, “It recognizes the title to the lands, the mo- ment Congress makes the grant, as being vested in the Cairo City and Canal pany, ves the gi promise of the com that it will permit the Governor to offer the lande to the bond 5 charter, and road, and the lands graated, would all remain the property of the company. It isnot ua- reasonable to suppose that such mizht be the case, when an understanding between the bond holders end the company would enable them to get all the lands, and divide them among themselves, and still retain all their chartered privileges. Without ps ey any such design to any of aay cerned, | frankly told the agents of .he Cairo Com- pany, that no ment could receive my ap- proval, by which our State could possibly be de- prived of any of the benefits and advantages which ight result from a grant of lands by Congress in id of railroads in State. To enable us to pro- tect the rights ef our State in this respect, as well asto give us the slightect chance to secure the gat of land from Congress, | told them that the ‘airo City and Canal mceay ought to execute to the State of Illinois a full and « release and surrender of the charter of the Great Western Railroad Company, and of all acts, end parts of acts, supplemental and amendatory thereof, or re- lating to the Central Railroad, together with all the rights and ivilegse granted by all or | said acta, as fully and completely as if they re never been by the Legislature, leavin; State, through its Legislature, to make such dispo- tion of the lan such arrangements for the construction of the road with the bondholders or others, as the people of Illinois should deem bes: T also unpre: on them the opinion that in order to make such a release valid and binding upon the company, it would be necessary to call a meeting of the stockholders in pursuance of the charter, and that they should pass a resolution authorizing and directing the president and directors of the company to execute their release, and that the in- strument should recite the authority in obedience to which it was made. Of course, | did not pre- tend to possess any authority to enforce or impose these or any other terms upon the company, nor to give the assurance that they would maet with the approbation of yourself, or the Legislature, or the ople of lilinois. On the contrary, I expressly imformed them that | had no authority to act on the premises. It is proper, however, to state that I did inform them that my action would be modi- fied, in a great measure, by the execution of such a release ; that 1 was about to introduce 4 bill for a grant of land for 4 railroad from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River, upon such line and to ter- minate at such point as the Legislature should prescribe; that my object in this would be to secure the benefic of the grant to the State, and, at the same time, keep them out of the hands of the Cairo City Canal Company, ua- less the Legislature should hereafter choose to convey them to the company; but that if the company should determine to execute such a re- lease in due form, as to protect the rights and interests of the State, in this respect, I should provide for the ton the line of the Central Railroad, with the southern terminus at Cairo, es now provided by law. Meesrs. Rockwell and Bil- jings, on the part of the company, expressed their entire concurrence in the reasonableness of these vow and added their belief that the company would unhesitatingly execute the release in the form suggested, ae a measure beneficial to the in- terests of the State and company both, and esseatial to the securing of a grant of land from Congress- Thus the matter stood until fem when I re. ceved the release, which I herewith enclose, ex- ecuted in duplicate—one copy of which 1 was requested toretain, te be used, if necessary, in Con- gress; andthe other to forward to you as the execu- tive of the State. I entertain the hope that this will Temove many, if not all, the obstacles in the way of securing the grant of land, and meking the Central Railroad. Tam assured that La | have the pros- pe ef making a favorable contract for the iron r the whole work, and of commencivg operations during the present season. I shew!d repose implicit confidence in these assurances now, if we not been so often duped and disappointed before. Bat as the principal, interest, and contract of the com- peny is said to » passed into new hands, it is possible that we are now authormed to hope that something is about to be accomplished. With this desultory explanation of this transaction, so far as I have any know!:dre of it, | enclove the release to you as the executive of the Ste have the honor to be, very respectfully, your friend and obedient servant, 8. A. DOUGLAS. His Excellency A. C, Frencn. {D.—Cory.} In consideration of the stipulations and condi- tions hereinafver stated, the Cairo City and Canal Co, by their President thereto duly authorized by a resolution of the stockholders of said company, ata meeting held onthe 2ith dey of December, 1849, hereby release and surrender to the State of Iinois the charter of the Gireat Western Rutlroad Company, end all acts or parts of acts suppleme: tal or amendatory thereof, or relating to the Centr, Railroad, together with ell the rights and privi- leges of any kind grante: ¥ said charter or acts, ‘as fully am goaneey the same had never been passed by the Legislature, on the following conditions, to witr—Iet. That the Legislature of ssid State shall, within the period of ten years, from the first of January, A. D. 15%), construct an finally complete, or cause t completed, a railroad from that the southern terminus city of Cairo. State shall, durin to aceept or dec! tions here be constructed and iru to Chicago, and his release, upon the condi- Sd. That until said State, egislature, shall have made their company may, with the approbation mor of the State, ia the con- and if said charter i be to said State of I!'inoie, the one year from time of said ompany the amount w id the present time, 1 a the construction of said road, with six per cent interest thereon, and shall assume all bona fide contracts hereafter made by this ry | ES the construction of the same which shall have been previously approved by the Governer of said State. the said company have to be executed by their authorized as aforesaid, and their corpo- be hereto affixed, at the city of New York, this 24th day of December, A. 1D. 1349. (Signed. The Cairo City and Canal Co., by their President, D. B, Hot In the presence of J. R. Foy Interesting from El Paso. ThE TEXAS QUESTION—PROUGHT AND SHORT CROPS —MORE OF CAPT. PARKER F. PRENCH'S FINANCIAL Oren pera, S20-» RTC. (From the New Orleans Picayune, Sept. 2.) _ We are indebted to Mayor Wm. 8. Henry, of the U. 8. Army, who came passenger yesterday on the wep land, from Galveston, for so ne very late and cmon | items of news from El Paso. Henry left that place on the 26th ult., with & train of three wagonr, an ambulance, and an eecort of eighteen men. They arrived at San Aa- tonio in seventeen days an! a half, which is the ickest trip on record. Major Henry is only thirty from El Paso to New Orleans; and bat for a é449 days in Texas, might, by course of mail, be in Washington city in thirty-five days from E:1 Paso. No news had been received for several months from Congress, and the people were very anxious to learn the action on the Texas bill. Pearce’s bill Jeave’s out Donana and a very rich vailey, between the 32d dey. of latitude and the southeru edge of (Seal. ROOK . iv Townsenn. the Jornaia. A great di ht had prevailed in Zacatecas ‘and Senora, ond the eprings had dried up. Corn was worth ri 50 a fanega—a bushel and ahalf. The same ht extended to El Paso and corn would probably be worth 1250 at tha; —. a Cy ag ey fitty be: jana, from Fort Gibson, passed through E- Paso, on their way to California. Tie train Major Sprague divided on the Rie Pecos; Mr. Coons and Capt. Parker F. French, with the pas- een, train, taking the road ws the Peeos, and Major Sprague, with the remainder of the aed Hepry oe ‘Goons om the Pet inst, stil emry met O ‘on the }st inst., stilltwo hundred wiles from El Paso. He had soid his mule train to Freneh, at $88 per mule, and 100 per wagon. French paid a draft on lerers. How & Aspinwall, of York. le draft is to be of the same character the others stores, ; Burke’s Creek, a tf the Concho, after latter to t. A strong and efficient mounted force is absolutely to be this frontier, or it will be itgontile he soctzmetastecavense. | ‘From the Houston (Texas,) it. 18. merchants at Bexar, when rer that , of California notoriety, had swindled sent an express to ov o Interesti! from Mexico. (From the New Orleans Picayune, Sept. 28.) We have received of pr from the city of Mexico to August 41, being six See later, On the 20th of July the Governor of Chihuahua, An- Trias, sent @ communication to the Minister of lations advising him of the atrocities committed at the tewn of El Paso, by three hundred Texas adven- turers who had arrived California. He asked that a sent to Chihuabur to proteot the frontier. Complaints are made of Avista, that he is too busy electioneering for the Presidency to attend to Chibuahua, and that he bas sent the troops needed there to # place where they were not wuatec. e le of the ae ot Mexico were thrown into est hasta ono day by the frequent dise! of ar- which were heard ia be ahr s hey bsned & pronunciumento was ai ; bat it appeare that some pv ned bad got out a cannon, and were firing it off just 3. On the 50th ult. in the Chamber of Deputies, the re- of the committee relative to the resentatives Yuestan was read. The majority thought the elections null. A minority made @ counter report. The savages are i, great ravages in tho Btate of New Leon. More soldiers are to sent to Monterey. ‘The cholera has Cenppeneet from Morelia, and great is the joy of the ink «bitan‘s thereat. Gen. ‘Marin has sooumee the place of Commandant General of the Btate of Vera Cruz. D. Febrano Quijano has been appointed Military Commandant of Saltillo. The lature of San Luis Potosi opened its ses- sions on 16th ult. The liberals have been successful in almost all the elections. Even in Mexico the conservatives ins . te y y liberals are split up into reat ‘The vote of the State of Coahuila, it is said, will be given to Ped-ssa. The boundary que.tion bet ween the States of Tabas- co and Chiapas is not yes settled. D. Manuel Buelta, appointed by the government as @ iticating ageal bas di ted official communications to both State: answer, expressing a desire for t of the diMiculty. to of Tampico has sent & communi- forth bd 5 extensive rystem of emiggiing operaticus carried on there Besides, tho neighbor! ce has been desolated by ® drought, and the people are in daily fesr of the cholera. Articles of prime necessity are not to be found ia the market. A new frontier custom house is to be established at Piedras Negras. In the Ghamber of Deputies, Senor Pi on has preferred an accusation against the Mintester ot War. ‘The cholera is raging violently in Jalapa. The Zempoaiteca publi a interesting eerres- ondence between Mesar: ‘toriu’ and Svto, about ertablishing of German colonies im the State of Vera Cras. In consequence of the troabies ia Euro; the first plana o{ Mr. Sartorius were frustrated has now made arrangements io bring over som: dreds of industrious families. ‘The Ayuntamic cation to the Supreme government, setting sad condition ct affairs in that port, comsequent on The Apeches have been committing more robberies and mui an oe te of Chihunt ae i Don Rafael Repino-s has gone ‘alifornia, in order to establish military colonies there. Army General. Wan Drrantuext, States, an the Benate, slace the publication of No. 43, of August 7, 1809; I~ #KOMOTIONS, OF ARTILLERY, I. Nones, to be First Lieu. decensed of the Fourth tenant, Sept ), Vice Nones promoted, (NOT OF ARTILLERY First Lieut. Edward 0 0. Ord, to be Uaptain, Sept 7, 1860, vice Bhover. deceased. tember 7, 1860, view FOURTH REGIMENT 01 First Lieut. Thomas lL Brent. “First Licue Thomas Williams, t be Onptain Se Lieut. Thomas Williams, to ptom- ber 16, 1850, vie bridge, deceased. Firet Lieut Jol tember 27. 1850. vice Shirar, appoi ¥ Bulsistence, who vacates his regimental com: Second Lieut John Gibbon. to be First Lieutenant, September 12. 1850, viee Rrent, promoted. 4 Lieut. © mt L 0 be Firat Liew- tenant, September 0, vice Williams, promoted Breond Liewt. Riehard 0 Drum, to be First Lieu. tenant, September 27. 1560, viee Pemberton promoted. Brevet Second Lieut. Rufus Saxton, jr., of the Third Regiment of Artillery, to be Second Lieutenant, Bep- 12, 1860, vice Gibbon, promoted. Brevet Second Lieut. Edward McK. Hudson, of the Third Pegiment of Artillery, to br Second Lieutenaut, Begtember 16 1850. viee Best, promoted revit Second Lieut Cuvier Grover, of the Firrt Regiment of Artillery, to be Second Lieutemaat, Sept 27, 1860, viee Drum, promoved. ABCOND RECIMENT OF INFANTRY, Brevet Second Lieut. Alfred Cumming. of the Eighth Regiment of Tufantry, to be Second Lieutenant, Aug 81, 1860, vice Russell, tesigne PIETH RECIMENT ANTRY. First Lieut. John 0. Robin be Captain, Augast 12, 1580, viee Norvell, dooensed Second Lievt. William W. Burns, to be First Lieute- nant, August 19. 1860, vice Robinson, oted ro = Brevet Second Lient Johu W. Fraser, of the Second Regiment of Infantry, to be Second Lieutenant, Aug 12, 1880, vice Burns, promuied N= APPOINTMENTS. A ~rz! > issary of Bubsistence. with the rank ot Capfin, to date from March 3, 1847, the date of his former com- m. Firet Lieut. William B Bisir, of the Sesond Artillery, to be Commissary of Sabsictence, with the rank oi ry ember 27, 1860 ‘Vinee «rman, of the Third Artil to . William T. le ‘ommicrary of Subsistence, with the rank of Captain, Septem der 27, 1850. First Lieut. Isaac Bowen, of the First Artillery, to be Commissary of Subsistence, with the rank of Cap- tain. September 77 1850 1T—CaSTALTIRG, Remowations, (2.) Second Lieut. Robert M. Kusseil, Beoond Infantry, August 51, 1860. revet Second Lieut. JohnJ. A. A. Mouton, Seventh Infantry, September 16, 1850. Brevet Major William F. Dainbridgs, Captain 4th A wevet jor iam La . r seater, 16, 1860, at West Point, N.Y , Captain ath Artillery, | Pa. lAvat Rofus A. Roys, Engineers, July 20, 1860, Fort Kearny, Oregen Route COMMISSION VACATED UNDER THE FROVIMONS OF THE Tew som OF THR ACT OF JURE 18, 1846. (1) 4th Artillery,” appoint- appointed will join tions without delay; dex special {a- structions will report, by letter, to the commending officer of their respective regiments and corps. oes Of ap tmen 5: V. Acceptances or noi pein: will be ort the Adjutant General ot She wae ne —_— 7H JONRS, Adjutant General. Regimental commission (only) vacated. Letren Lianirty ov Rartnoane.Supreme J, ia! Court, Julge Metoall pres ding — Mary Jordan ees Roston and Fall [iver Railrosd Company.This wat the second trial of the case, the verdictin favor of the plaivti for the whole amount claimed haying beeo set aside, after hearing on exceptions by the whol» court. The pisintiffs trank, cont sj elothi re to the value of $152, and $37 4 in coin, wast jont between Boston and Bridgew ater, aad the main pnd was whether the deton“,ante, as common cat- ees to Geen Ge "a of money than Was necessary to Lye he) ! Alt's travelling oxpenre: b= Day ing no oft 4 amount of monoy in & : is rr es ee on ae