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RE Our Washington Correspondence. Wasunineton, June 2, 1951. The Appointment of Mr. Spencer. ‘The Republic of this morning copivs the following ‘from the Albany Register :-— Hon. Joun C. Srencen.—A correspondent of the New York Herald writes that Mr, Spencer has been appointed -@ member of the Board of Commissioners to adjurt Cull- wfornia land titles, Certainly no man better qualified than the is, by his great legal attainments, could be found for vthat post. But he bas not been an ppoiienst, itber di- rectly or indirectly, for.that or any other office; and it is pertain hewould not accept the appointment in question Af tendered him; but he bas no knowledge of anything of vtbe kind, and the report is probably without foundatioa, ‘as most cfthe rumors coming from Washington letter- owriter are,—.thany (N. ¥.) Register. The slur contained in tho two last lines of the (paragraph, is a fair specimen of the way in which ‘papers too poor to pay for Washington correspond- cence, but not too proud to steal it without credit, are in the habit of speaking of the correspondents of other more flourishing and more honorable papers. ‘The regular correspondent of the Herald telegraph- ved the fact of Mr. Spencer's having been appointed -® commiasioner to ae California tand titles, and he did so on the authority of the Department of tne Interior. Mr. Spencer was, on this day week, in reabinet, appointed to the offive, and notice of his tment was immediately forwarded to him. rom his published card, it fs highly probable be ‘bas declined the appointment; but bis 80, in no degree affects the truth of the statement in juestion. Not only most of the New York city papors, but near i, t, depend upon them for their news. ‘The Regis- ter almost evory day, is thus indebted to the Herald; mdd yet it does not hesitate to libel the source from ewhence it obtains nearly all its information, in the -angentlemanly manner of the paragraph above quoted. If the peeple throughout the country de- i upon tke Washington papers for informa- » they would be about a year behind hand all the time. As to “ Washington letter writers” as a elasa, they are gentiemen, fully as much soas Mr. Jerome Fuller, of the Register; and when taoy mako any statement as beinga fact, they do so kaowing itto betrue. At least such is the course of the correspondent referred to by the Register, and he challenges the a or eny other paper iu the habit Somesise ing, without credit, the iaforma- tba he sends to the ald, to prove that any of ‘his statements have not been strictly and literally @orrect. Wasuixatox, June 2, 1951. Return from the South—Review of Southern Politics —The Southern States and the Presidential Ques- tion—The Whigs, the Democrats— The Uniom Par- ty and the Seceders—Slim Chance for the Baltimore, Philadelphia and Buffulo Tickets—The Island of Cuta, &c. A visit into the cotton States during this armistice tin political affairs, will considerably enlighten any Northerner desirous of understanding the real con- »dition of the politics, and the position of party po liticians, and platforms, and candidat Southern country. From observation» mation derived during your eorrespon: southern journey, we are constrained | 1 ing conclusions :— That the first question in South Carolina is se- cession; and that, whether the Legislature next winter shall resolve to secede, or to ‘ wait a little longer,” there is no prospect, in any contingency, of South Carolina having anything to do with the Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Buffalo Conventions, or the ticket or the platform of vither of those con- ventions. South Carolina, then, in any event, even in the best that can happen, will be absolutely out of the question in the next Presidential election, as far as any national nominations are concerned. Nay, more; she wil! oot only refuse to take any favora- ble notice of the national es 8 or democratic tickets, but if she remains in the Union, her policy will be to throw the election into the House of Ke- presentatives, with the distinct object ot provoking % rupture between the North and South, in the contest for the man and the spoils. Such is the policy, we believe, If she submits, it ix only for a better opportunity for secession. Heart, and mind, and soul, her alienation from the Union is complete. The editor of the Richmond Whig ix correct when he declares that there are scarcely tive hundred men in South Carolina in favor of the Union, or of continuing in the Union, under any compromises or concessions that Congress can make. + If she does not secede next winter, it will be, not from any expectacions of peace offerings from ‘Werhington, but because of warnings from the other cotton Stater, that they are uot ready yet awhile toceme up into the allixement. She will re. main until the other cotton States are ready to join in act of revolt, if she remains at all; aad she will labor, ifshe does defor the day of action, to turn tho Presidential campaign into the rupture between the North aud Sout! Georgia is revolutionized, The wnig and demo- cratic parties have ceased to exist. [tis the Union and the Southern rights party. And waen the Union men of both parties have had to league to- gether to suppress the secessiouists, it 8 very safe to ussume that, though the seveders are in u muoority, itie a formidable uinority. but if the woigs have Union ticket fer the Presidency, and the demo- crats another on the platform of the compromises, theu the elements of the Georgia Union party will be divided between them ; will be defeated, and t hern rights party wil carry the S If the Union party does not divide, bow are its eloments of whigs aud demo- ya's to compromise its who is to get the support «! the whole party, the whiz or deuvorauc avkot t "Tbey will not bo able tu make terms; there will be afeplit; and the secession march in between them. Lo Alabamu and ia Mis- siseippi, there will be a similar division of parties; Ww ad thus divided, they ifa baltiaeore candidste aud a Puiladelphis candi- | m compr mise platiorm, aro ran ic Union men 8, or ultras, support the w ket, the dew will go for their ticket, and the whig aud democrats, will, by combining upon Southern rights ticket, carry off the result. Where are we then! ‘Lhe whigs at Pailadelphia will putup a union ticket--the demoorais at Bal- timore will do the same th aud unless they put im the island of Cuba, the wuigs will have tae ad- vantage of them in the Sout, because the main body of the Southern rights party, over all the South, is {rom the rauks of tae wemucratic party. We have Various reasons tor supposiag that the deme make the islwud ot Cabs wn item for 1862, just as Texas was served up in 1444. And itis the Only question whieh could carry the Soath, from Delaware to Texas, other things beiag oqual- ized. If nether the whigs nor the democrats will ven- ture to take hold of Cuba, tor fear of losing by it in the North, # Southern rights ticket, we suspect, will be run in the Southern Scates, with tne motto af “ Sonthern rights and « wexution of Cuba.” And the Southern confederacy parity of ali the South will co-operate ia the movement, netso much for the mere acquisition of Cuba, as from the ex- pectation of ing 1 the cause of & final quarrel, and breakmg up between the North South, ia the establishment of ~ racy. the scheme may appear, a party is from Virginia arouud tho coast to ps and across into Arkansas, whose object crn corfederaey in for the war, and their ore mauitained till either the Union or slavery is destroyed. The Presidential coutest will be aade ins rumental, as far as possible, to this grend object of a separation ; and as there is no prospect of # national union parsy, merging the old party lunes of whigs and demovrats, there a very fair pr t of a very ugly quar being pro- voked between the two sections of the Univa in the Presidential election by the House of Represeata- tives, ‘The Northern abolitionists will contribute their fair proportion to aid and enoourage the secessionists of South Carolina, and the Southern rights parties of Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, in creating » rupture, through the agency of tae Presidential canvass; and if it results ina reatora- tion of harmony, it will rosult in cvucessions and compronuses to the South # little more swtistactory than the bills of 1860 Aseuming that South Carolina, ia ordor to #e- operasion, will “wait a litte longer,” tis just as likely ehe will nut wait.) and oneultiog the movements of the Suuthern Nights Associations of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississppi, We xpprebend that hither che Ualiumure nor the Uhiladelphia ticket will answer for the Sowth, sbort cf the re-annexation of Cuba; and that che business of acquiring Cuba will be made wuxiliary w the work of discolving the Union, ana the establish ment of a Southeru confederacy If we escape, therefore, the threatened necessity of coercing South Carolion into sabmisiwa, we et prepare forthe altérnative of a tervign tar of a renewed agitation upon she quoscion of adding # foreign slaveh wud as ® slave holding State, to the Union; aud tor a Presidouvial st, in which all the extreme elements of agi- Mississip isa Sou tation, in both sections, #ili be iningied tugetie, in the mort awful and interesting & seaven, taste vated, by the question of the auuexation of Cava, (o the fighting point x With such & prospect before us, where i Webster to go—fursworn against any Farther ties id jw ane whig party, either aving done | all the count: copy the special tele- despatches to eh Herald, wiluent ee and, | South Carolina. | ion of P peamsgace el | arty probably will | » together, the wiig Unioa men will , t 4 ‘They are the Camacila | , fore th le, or in the House, to count | aoe without Guba, ‘and opposed to Cubs! The jat is, there is not a of either of the old fi pasties that can count upon success in more than | three States at a time; and without Cuba, ora | Union ticket, 1g in the South is at sea. Peace! is this peace? Does this look like peeeel Our Pennsylvania Correspondenec. Reapine, (Pa.) Juno 2--10 P. M. The Reading Convention—Moving °f the Political Waters—Fight among the Politicians, §c. The stagos and the Philadelphia and Reading railroad have brought a quorum of the delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention, and the town of Reading actually resembles a beehive. Clusters of herent, ineradicable hostility of a Northern man to slavery; but that will not suitus. It may be sport in but it is death to us.” There are the sentiments of a Southern slave- holder for you with tothe late h of Mr. eae eet te roar wor ive a | un ae coloring, throwin in some strong rns shades behind the mellow light of an October sun, in lieu of those hard stiff Bray of his Buffato plat- form. But the mischief follows when you ney to place the two side by side, in Buffalo or in Rich- mond. The bait thrown out at Buffalo by Mr. Webster to the abolitionists to keep them in the ranks, will drive off thousands of kindly disposed men from his support in the South. Here in Virgi- nia, Fillmore, of all Northern whigs, is the most Popular and this last per contra speech of Mr. | some thirty or forty politicians are gathered in frout of every tavern, and, as faras 1 can sscertain and observe, the convention will not pass off without a | fight. ‘The first fight will be on the admission of dele- | gates from Lancaster. The anti-Buchanan mon of ' that county claim to be regularly chosen, and have ‘ brought the records and jouraals of the proceedings of the democratic party, from the year 1811 to 1851 inclusive, along with them, to convince the con- vention, by argument and history, that they are on- | titled to seats. We shall have another set of hun- | ker and barnburner speeches, such as we hoard at Baltimore in 1848, with this exception only, that | there the party wore divided on principles, and here they are divided on men merely. Withdraw Bu- chanan and Cass, and peace is instantly restored to the democratic family. | A belief bas been entertained in the South, and color given to it by certain papers, that Pennsylva- nia is willing to make fresh concessions to the South, and that the line of 36 deg. 30 min. may yet be drawn in California for the special gratification of the ultra Southern grumblers. Thisis a mere opti- cal delusion. Pennsylvania is free from all isms. She is national to the core; but she looks upon the compromise measures as final, and will, in no case, consent to have them disturbed by the North or by the South. Resolutions to that effect will, no doubt, be passed at this convention, without a dis- senting vote; and this will serve, in a great degroo, to dispel the illusions of those ultra secessionists, who are still Tenocing under the belief that by tho selection of a suitable presidential candidate, they | may obtain concessions from the North, ether than those contained in the series of compromise moa- sures. Daniel Webster is honest in his professions, ud tells the South precisely what thoy may expect of bim; if he promises more than he knows he has the power or disposition to fulfil, he would be a po- litical trickster, for whose sincerity nobody could vouch with safety. "There is no doubt that, whichever delegates are | admitted from Lancaster, and whichever delegates | are admitted from Philadelphia county, (which | presents, also, a double set,) Higler will be nomi- | nated on the first ballot: but his election by the | people is by no means s unless the democratic | party of Penvgylveuia is «+ ganized Union prin- ciples, and a truce, if uot » perioanent peace, con- cluded between the partisuns of Cass ond Bucha- ar s (he case now stands, neither Buchanan | ae Goss cusidt carry the State against a respectable nion whig. A fight cecurred in Philadelphia between Colonel Kea Frazer, of Lancaster, (Cass leader) and Mr. Van Dyke; a lawyer, resident in Philadelphia, and # leading Buchavan man, which might have ended in bl hed, but fur the inteterence of friends. The Frazer delegates, in consequence, are very much excited, and some disturbances are expected here. You may well imagine that such a degree of mutual hostility between the respective friends of Mr. Bu- chanan and Cass, renders a reconciliation between them entirely out of the question; whichever of the two is nominated at Baltimore must expect to be elected without the vote of Pennsylvania. ‘The fight on Judge pbell, in Pailadelphia, however anxious politicians may be togive it a | religious or native American color, is a Cass and Buchanan fight, into which the poor Judge has been inveigled agains: his inclination and consent. has thus arrayed the whole Cass faction against him; and however innocent of any real substantial Buchananism, may yet pay the penalty of his false | position. The Reading delegates, asa body, though not instructed in regard to the Presidency, are opposed | to Mr. Buchanan; but I still believe Mr. Buchanan willcarry the State in convention, if the discreet men of his party will manage to keep the Presiden- | tial question out of the present convention, in which | Cass is certainly very strong, and Buchanan too | weak to challenge the former to mortal combat. The two parties will look each other in the fa: but not draw the sword, forthe love of Bigler; if | the sword is drawn, it will not be sheathed until both champions are hors du ¥ | ‘The four prineipal candidates for Canal Commis- sioner, are Seth Clover, (Buchanan) of Clarion; John B. Bratton, of Carlisle, (Buchanan voltigewr;) Wm. Seawright, of Fayette, (leading Cass man), | and Wm. S. Campbell, of Cambria, (Cass reserve.) All but Mr. Clover are already here. So is General | Cameron and Col. Rea Frazer. Mr. Buchanan watches the movement from Philadelphia (only two hours’ ride by railroad from Reading,) and an army of outsiders is collected in the eserves, While | am writing, the watch fires are still burn- ing, and the sentinels at their posts—Buck's tho parole on one side, Cass, the parole on the other; but | | ‘the rank and file may yet say ‘ principles, not men,” and run up the flag of a new man. | Youna Democracy. | | | | | OurjSouthern Correspondence. Ricumonn, Va., May 23, 1351. Southern Politics—The Buffalo Speech of Mr. Web- str—A Drawback—Political and Affairs in Virginia. Politics, State and national, all over the South, are in a state of fusion—indeed, we may say, con- fusion, doubt, mystery, anxioty, curiosity, trouble, and perplexity. Parties are heads and hoels, and ; Do man knows exactly what is to turn up, or whore he himself is to turn; when his party is to be re-or- ganized, or upon what principles, or what party it is to be. These things are mysterious;‘and while the old scene shifters and stage managers of the old par- ties are holding back as hard as they can, they are studying and contriving their very bluest, how to accommodate the elements, questions and new prin- ciples turning up every day, to the staudard of their old party organizations and their old party notions. ‘hey die hard, ana they will doubtless continue to struggle to maintain their existence, Presidential stroyed. The whigs of Virginia expect to realize, upoa the compromise capital of the administration, con- siderable additions to their stock in trade. Mr Fillmore is at this time, we venture to assert, the most popular Northern whig, as the man for the Presidency, in this State. They think that he had Greater sacrifices to make, to come up to the work of the compromises, than any other Northern man, and that he has done it more handsomely than any other Northern man. Mr. Webster has boon gaining ground; but that last ch at Buffalo has dished his prospects, | and shelved him in the South. It won't do. Ia this city, Mr. Webster is something of a favorite— as he is among the commercial and manufacturing , circles evorywhere; but his Buffalo speech has hurt him in the South, and in this latitude and longi- tude, as badly as the speeches of Gon. Cass on ri- vers and harbors have crippled him in the West. The Buffalo speech of Mr. Webster, is here con- sidered, among Southern rights mon especially, as “a sop wo abolitionism,” as dabbling aad tampering With the unclean thing, as an apology for sustaining the rights of the South in the States, because chy constitution requires it, as a begging of the ques- | tion of the Northern incendia: wad a4 reeancing among his oid brethren the now religion which hus so gracefully adorned him at Washington. Inoou- Versation with a gentleman of Kichmond, last eve- ning, he remarked substantially as follows:—" No, Mr. Webster not a reli Je of days and nights, in th Senase, to come up for the com- and at last he voted against it. the tide, it was the tide that Hie did not turn turned him; and then all that he did was to pledge himeelf to the South, as far as his constitutional oath required him, and not a step farther. Nota step. But it was sumething—it vas a great sacri- fice for Mr. Webster to give us of the South the full measure of the constitution. He did it with effect; but what are wo to think of the value of au article, when he who beatows it, is for ever holding it up in admiration to our eyes! Worse than that, rely upon it, that um: d, who 18 conti« nually playing the ing Achilles upon the stump. And when you hear # nian repeating ou every occasion that “he intends to hold bis ground without flinching, wateh him, fur he will dodge you the firet chance. Mr. Webster has done it. “He has dodged us of the South, and we shall hold him responsible. Admit the seeming consisteney of the Buffalo speech, with the great speech in the Senate, where is “the odor of na tional ty” in the one which prerails in the other It isnotto be found. It may suit Mr. Web- ster to tamper with us, aad to pander to Northern Ho | till, piece by piece, they aro by piccemeal de- | ‘ebster will not really injure the President, al- though some men suppose that the Secretary of State was acting as the proxy of the President. The democrats fight shy. Gen. Casa has some popularity in Virginia; but he will hardly be the nan. We visited yesterday the cotton mills across the river, and the large woollen tactory (flanael) on this side. Work is partially suspended in them, and, as the managers declare, for the want of a little more protection. Bad plan to put up facto- ries where they cannot be sustained without a spe- cial tax on the people. It might have been good lioy twenty years ago; but fuctories established in the United States now-a-days, must not be built upon expectations of government su by boun- ties id from the public money. he orale will have a voice in the matter. ‘The ier » Brogrosiog finely. ful, hard, fine-grained, lively-colored stor in any quantity five miles above the city. Avexanprtia, V2., May 30, 1851. Virginia Politics—The Presidentiat Question—The South Carolina Question—Internal Improvements —Progress of Alexandria, §c. “But now T'in old and feeble, too, And cannot work any more, Oh! carry me back to old Virginny, ‘To old Virginny’s shore.”” When the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, at the Bal- timore Convention in 1848, declared that he wished he had had the honor to be born in Virginia, he spoke like atrue descendant ofthe F.F.V. It is the same sentiment ef veneration for this old com- monwealth that brought back this old city to her bosom again and this old county of Alexandria, ter being for halfa century under the supervision and care of the abolition members of Congress as part of the District of Columbia. In 1810, Alexan- dria ranked as high as the fourth commercial city Washington Monument in State House The granite is a beauti- }, obtained | in the Union, in exports of flour, tobacco, and pro- visions, and in imports of dry goods, hardware and groceri Now, with a population of only 8,000, in- cluding allvolors, ages and sexes, the old town has fallen into such obscurity, that north of Baltimore it is all the same whether it is located on the bor- ders of North Carolina, or on the banks of the Ohio Alexandria, we will state, therefore, lies on river. the right bank ofthe Potomac, eight miles below Washington, and in the State of Virginia, and about one hundred and twenty-five miles above the mouth of the river, which is here a mile wide, with fifty feet of water at the wharv: But more of this after a word or two upon Virginia politics. To say that the State of Virginia concurs in the comproinises, is not saying enough. A majority of the people of Virginia are perfectly satistied with them, and particularly with the Fugitive Slave law, which is of special value to this State, lying, as it does, upon the borders of Ohio and Pennsylvania. But the fact is, that a very large proportion of the people of Virginia do not believe that the institu- tion of slavery in the State can be WY sear and they are, therefore, comparatively indifferent as to any further acquisitions of slave territory, or any losses of slave territory. The rapid increase of the whites in tho last ten years, and the present rate of their increase in ten years more, will crowd down, pretty much, the system of slavery into the south- east corner of the St ‘he idea of disunion in Virginia has become “an obsolete idea.” She has acquiesced, and takes it for granted that the Union is to continue—while slavery is gradually sloughed off further South, leaving her clear, when she has sold off her slaves to the Carolinas and Georgia, and exempting her, at no very distant day, from all responsibility in the ‘ater. But, notwithstanding all this, there is still a southern rights party in che State—a small party, but a party of influential, wealthy, und active men—shrewd and active politicians, never expend- ing their strength or their resources without an ob- | ject, and always with an object in view of com- | ‘manding importance. At present they are silonced by the action of the Legislature, so thankfally submissive; but they are watching South Carolina; and if that State secedes, we shall have an excite- | ment in this, if nothing more. | The Presidential question is in the same chaos here as elsewhere. ‘Talk as you will of tho majesty and power of the people, the deur people, reign and free people, there is a great de | bug in it. The sovereign people play seoond fiddle | to the party managers of politival caucuses and no- | minations, and a little cluster of half adozon men, i at Richmond or at Washington, decide upon the | candidates of the sovereign people of Virginia, or of the nation, whig or democratis. And the very rea- son that the dear people are now in such a fog is, because the politicians, the wire-workers, these fellows ot the managing caususes, have done no- thing. Public opinion is, therefore, dormant, be- cause the caucuses have not spoken. Public opi- nion, sir! Give me the control of the primary cau- cuses of either party, and I will manufacture a pub- lic opinion of my owa. There may be a good time coming, when the people will be really free and in- dependent of caucus management; but that time has yet to come. Virginia, as fur as the Presideacy is concerned, will vote for the national coavention nominations of the whig or democratic parties, and Fillmore on one side, and Cass, or Douglas, or Gen. Butler, on the other, would answer every purpose, a% far as the two old purties are concerned. ith a purely independent Southern candidate in tho field, the Southern Rights men will have the balan of power in their bands, and can dispose of t State for or against the demoer: as they ma; ease And thus the Southern Rights party will ave great influence over the buitimore Convent especially regard to the State of Virg And if their counsels are disregarded, they simply have the power of defeating the ticket in the State. That is about all the light we have here, at present, respecting the Presidential question in the Old Dominion. : Alexandria is looking up. Property is looking | up. Tho canal, finished to Cumberland, brings down to this port immense supplies of stone coal | for transhipment. Eight vessels, one day last weok, | were receiving each # cargo of this Cumberland coal, for the use of the steamships at Havana, New Orleans, and the Isthmus. A large cotton factory, one of the largest in the South, bas recently been erected here, and the growth of the end of the town where it is located has been very gratifying to those interested in the prosperity of the place. But the great work, which ought to have been erected fifteen, years ago, is the railroad up through | the tobacco and the productive wheat coantry ; of the Piedmont district, 4g along the base of | Vine Ridge mountains. is road has beoa aotu- ally completed five miles out from Alexandr and forty or fifty miles will be in r ig order | at the end of this season. From the Plue Ridge another ro into the great and teeming ¥ #; ‘hus restoring to Alox- andria its anctent \leod trade, when the tranapor- tation was entirely by wagons, drawn by horses or mules. At that day from the valley of Virginia, from Winchester to Rioxa dria, seventy miles, the round trip ovenpied « m of six horses eight or tou days, their average lond being fifteen or eigh- | teen barre! flour. This was a slow business; but | under the w. a vystem Alexandria was the depotof the valley. he Baltimoreans, bowover, ran arail- road, some one hundred and thirty miles, more of loss, to Winchester, and Alexandria instantly collapsed and went down. The immense export trade ef the valley, sometimes in the single artwle of flour ex- ceeding tbree thousand barrels a day, wow guos, in | the bulk, by railroad to Baltimore; so of corn, pro- visions, sheep and fat cattle, But the railroad | Across fiom Alexandria, of seventy miles, will nly enable her to compete with the Balti- e road of one handred and thirty. Hence the old town of Alexandria is looking up and improving very fast, after a long sleep of thirty years. Tho Railroad Company have a little blow ow; today, we Jearn, in honor of the completion of their work for five miles, and of the receipt in town already of a train of cars, loaded with flour, &o., from the coun- try mills of Mr, Wheat & Co. Old Viegisle, 5 ”, is waking up. Progress of the Mormon Mtsstonartes tn Denmark One of the Mormon missivnaries from Salt Lake, writing from Copenhngen under date of February lath, to Zerubabvl Snow, one of the Supreme Court judges of Utah territory, says: —This 1s a well for- tified aud pleasant city. The winter has been plea- sant; but Inte snow, and about the temperature of New York. 1 have good health, aud a plenty of business—warm friends, aod @ plenty of enemies. This is a perfect priest-ridden and ki ople, but many honest souls among ave had some persecution in this nothing of the flood of lies that al truth,) such as breaking up our mo houses and windows and the like; but not as muol here as in some other places in the kingdom. Brother Dykes, who is now laboring in the pro- vince of Jutland, has had a hard time, and made some hair-broadth escapes from his a bat prejudices betore a Northern crowd, to fors wear his nationality asan American, and to boast of his being man, with that ingtaiag has been greatly b! notwithstanding, bas baptized over 4 Joho Forsgren (whoeg permeeution and ft we rejoice continually in the Lo our labors, and pours out the Hol, pon us and the Saints, with its gifts an blessings, visions and dreams, y and ho: ing, casting out devils, &c. ‘e have baptize: about one hundred and fifteen in this city, and a ood poospeet. ‘We are but miserable tools in the Boris language, at the best, but the Lord makes weak things become strong unto those who believe. Tam now very busily engaged, with brother Hanson, in translating and publishing the Book of Mormon. It is a very laborious and tedious work to get it is- sued clean and pure, according to the stmoplicity of the original, aud requires the closest attention. I am publishing three hundred copies ; huve only one hundred and amtpsigat pages finished ; it will take me till May or June; 1 circulate two hundred by the sheet weekly. in California. SAN FRANCISCO, The election for Mayor, Aldermen, and other city off- cers, was held in San #ranciscv on Monday, the 23th of Aaeil sad was Pe ign nate ands. The result was a trium for wi , show! an av e Oo. Tity for theif candidate of 888.0 sia the following are the details First ward... 873 Becond ward 181 167 Third ward 931 nr Fourth ward 44 30 Fifth ward. a3 36T Bixth ward... 148 22 Seventh ward. 269 Kighth ward, 36 Total.... 278L Brenham’s majority..... . ALDERMEN AND ASSISTANTS. First Ward. DEMOCRATS. 59 Joseph Galloway Third Ward. .823 Owen P. Sutton. 844 Jacob C, Brideman. Henry Richardson. 465 John W. Rider George Endicott Sit’ Mery A. Breed ico 2 Henry a George K. Gluy’ 239 Wm. D. Conrad. Eighth Ward. Wm, Green... 101 No opponition, Q. By cig . 63 John J. Coombs........ 33 ‘The first named tn each ward were oandidates for Al- dermen; the second named, for Assistant Aldermen. It will be seen by the following. from the Culifornia Courier (whig paper), that our old frieud James Grant, who is elected the democratic alderman of the Sixth ward of San Francisco, has not forgotten the tricks he had seem practised by politicians in this city: As we redicted, Jem has become a leading man in California. je was elected Assistant Alderman last your, and now he is advanced to the post of Alderman. “Alderman Grant ooloniaed his friends strong enough in the Sixth ward to defeat: both of the whig Councilmen, We find that in the Ansistant Board there iaa tie In the upper Board the whigs have ax, and the democrats two, ‘This will give us a majority of two votes on joint ballot. With all these misfortunes, oar vietory secures for the whigs for all the future the direction of our city affairs, Then, as goes the city #o will go the State.” ‘The following are the persons elected in the city:— Mayor, Crances J. Brentan, Compti Grorcx A. Hupson. Treasurer R. Il. Sivron. R. HL, Wautxr. Wissam Divirr, Tax Collector T. D. Gurxnx. City Attorney... ¥.M. Preuny Marshal... R. G. Cnozirn. Recorder's Clerk fans G. Picangon, Wannen C. Noxnts. BOAAES, 4024 “** 0 Gxo. Fuann Limon. RECAPITULATION OF VOTES. ‘The following tuble gives the aggregate vote for exch candidate, and the majorities for those on the general ticket and for Ward officers. The tables will be valuable for future reference. RECAPITULATION. Whole Whi, Vote. ig Mej. 162 Average whig majority........... von 8I8 It is worthy of remark, that the number of votes polled in San Francisco, at this election, is about the same as it was at the cleotion for members (f Assembly in the city of New York in April, 1600, when the democratic ticket which caused the eleotion of Jefferson to the Presidemsy, prevailed by an average majority of 430. CITY OF SAN JOSE. ‘The whig party, it appoars by the following, also pre- vailed at the election in the city of San Jose, the tem- seat of government in California. ‘The election for municipal officers of the city of San Jose took place on Monday, April 14. The following is the result: — aaron. *Thos. W. White....... 25 AC Campbell........ 105 ALDERMEN ‘Joseph Aram , + 6) “H.C, Motone ........ 172 *James B, Devoe...... 246] “John M. Murphy. .... 168 y +L) 216 | Joseph Belden ...... 5 145 Jacob D, Hopp 136 ‘John H. Watson...., 18 | Geo. N. Crane ........ 1d “Charles FE. Allen ne i" *Prancis Lightone “Geo, N, Whitma: ‘The Mayor, four of the Aldermen, the Assessor, and Marshal are whigs—seven whigs to four democrat cpe independent. «M46 | lease L. Branham. " Ben). 1, Gordon tod CITY OF NEVADA The Sacramento Transcript gives the following as the re- fult of the eieetion for city officers in Nevada, oa Mon- day April las— For Mavon.— Hoyt, 1.028; Davis, 427; Young, 386. Avorames.—A, 1, Laird 1064; J. KR. Atkinson, 1,490; FE. ¥. Gardiner, 1476; J. K. Crandall, 1.304; N. i. Shep heard, 1.377; J. 0. Marker, 1.274, J.T Allen, 1083, TW Colbourn. #71; L. P. Twist, 043, K. Hamilton, Wo. We believe the council consists of ten members ‘There were three tickets in the feid—two of them were styled the © Miners’ Ticket,” and the other the “People's Ticket.” Moses F. Hoyt wad William © Young were the candidates for Mayor on the two firs Pamed tickets, and Mr, Il. Davis on the “ People’s Ticket.” The “ Miners’ Ticket.” on which Mr. Hoyt ran, was successful by a large aajority ‘The aggregate votes polled amounted to thoussrad ‘The Miners’ Ticket” was carried on the prine froe Urade—no taxation on tainers —no taxation en team. asters, he ‘The election was eonducted without any refsroace whatever to potitios SACRAMENTO CITY. The municipal election in Sacramento City war to be beld early in May. Both whigs and deaveracs appear ty have ben (horvughly organized, BUF CALIFORNIA av MOLY DISTRICTS. A correspondent at Ss ome vende to the Pur the following list of Senate nud Assembly dix fixed by & bil which pawed the Assembly. 1 siderable feeling in Feference to the uncer, pected that (San Louis Obiepo SY i 4) Monterey... .... ty i { Senta Cru i 1 pj Santa Clare, ty ‘ (Contra Corta yy i 1 FN - : 3 6 1 r 4 , 3 8 i 2 i 2 2 1 2 6 3 6 i 2 ) i ee i ) 1 r 1 ot 4 HE 1 2 3 ~ 3 2 6 6 ‘The Inw provides that Districts 2, 3, 4, 11, 18, 14, 17, 18, ®, 21, and 23, shall chose one Senator each ; Districts 8, 12, 15, 16, and 22, two Senators each, and Districts 6 and y tors each, at the next election, ten of whom shall go out in January, 1868, the other new Senators to remain in office until January, 1504, Five hundred barrels of flour, manufactered at 9, have been shipped fox the W; Soir. from the Sandwich Islands. ‘We have dates from Honolulu to the 29th of Mareh. tax. The between the Hawaiian government and the Li] republic have beem arranged by the follow- a — pe President of the French Republic and the King of terminals the edjusttaent of pe vending ig dimclties between | ween Ce and to prevent t! the two countries, to ir return for the future, by just and complete execution of the convention of sh 26, 1846, in tothe points im controversy, through a new official act, destined to interpret it, ave chesen, for this purpose, the under- , Commissioner of the French Kepublic, and Mi- ter of Foreign Affairs of the Hawaiian kingdom, the signers of the treaty above moutioned, who, after having exchanged their full powers, fuund in good form, have agreed Lo the terms of the following declaration :— | 1. The tevaty of the 20ch of March, 1846, will be faith- fully adopted, sud interpreted in the two texts, French and Hawaiian, the only ones officially signed. [tremains eed in all the cases where the furciga judges, not understanding French, have to decide, the text of the Knglish treaty, officially deelared identical, under reserve o tbe third article, shail be considered as an exact trans- | tion. | II. Without admitting that by the establishment of a Custom House duty of 9 per gallon upon spirits, the Hawaiian government have gone beyond their exclusi power, which France herself had granted to them, through the means of the wording of tho sixth article of the treaty above mentioted—an assertion in regard to which, the undersigned French commissioner makes all Teserver—and after having proved that the effects of that duty have becn profitable to France, aad hurtful to the Knglisk aud American trade in spirits, the King of the Sandwich I-lauds declares himself disposed to sub- mit the question of the reduction of duty to $260 per gallon, ss 4 maximum. to the Legislature, which is to ssscmble next inonth, as a measure of political economy, which the Chamber of Commerce of Honolulu have rv- commended on strong grounds. | TIL The government of the king cannot reo: on | the part of any foreign nation the right of dictating or | prescribing laws to them on matters which affvot only — the religious belief or sveular education of the subjects | of the King; neverthelers, dixposed to admit the third | of the demands presented by M. Perrin, onthe lst of Feb- | ruary last, ax % friendly suggestion, destined for the ex- | amination of the legislature which is to assemble thi year, the Hawaiian government will place their assom- Liies in # position tu decide if the equality between the | Ostholics aud the Protestants, under the protection of | the constitution aud the laws, of which numerous proofs have beeu furnished, do not require something for its perfect application. IV. Documents presented by French citizens, in their own language, will be received in all the cases in which documents in the English language are received; but, in the cases when the employee . Whose duty it is to mako use of these documents, do not understand French, ; it will be incumbent, provisionally, on the party inte- rested, to provide @ trausiation of the document produced, which, to prevent all error and discussion, be certi- fied by him us true. reh, 1851. Honolulu, 25th ir, Minister of Foreign Relations, ix, French Commissioner. The following article in relation to this subject, is from the official paper, the Polynesian, of March 20 : ns between the Minister of Foreign Kelations, on behalf of the king's government, and the Commissioner, M. Perrin,on ‘behalfof t the French republic, which appear in the declaration published this day, be not so complete as the friends of peace oould de- sire, few will deny thet the rules of conference, which are also published, reflect much honor on the negotiators. [t ure ® patient a passionate inquiry—to place the weak on the same footing with race of ht tolead to resulte decided by the Tight, and not of force. By persevering the Commis- sioner of France cannot fail to find the settlement of the | Points on which he has had to refer to his goverament foe ab instructions, a matter of easy accomplishment. Although the negotiations commenced on the 2lst of December, the conference only opened on the loth of January. aud continued with great labor till the 25th inst, ‘As much excitement has latterly prevailed in the oom- munity in regard to their unhappy differences, besides the final declaration, some other ducumenta are pub- lished, without which that important act would be im- Lorine understood, and the public mind would not be ry From the fact that the Commissioner, notwithstandir g his appeal for fresh instructions, will remain in the same capacity on the spot, exercising his powers and best en- deavors to settle finally what yet remains to be adjusted, there is a well grounded assurance that every shadow of diftcalty will soon disappear, ‘All that is wanting is for France to restore harmony; for on behalf of the King’s government they have never, for one moment, deviated from their policy of treating France, her citizens, with all their interests, on the foot- ing of the most favored nation. That this wise and u: resenting policy will be duly appreciated by the Frene government is not to be doubted. But to crown all, Sing Kamehameha IIL, with a magoanimity worthy of « sovervign, refers bis claims for indemnity for severe losses sustained, without requiring the pwoishment of the authors, to the President of France herself; thus oe to the world alike his confidence in the justice of is Own cause, ard in the justice of Prince Louis Napo- leon Bonaparte, in whose hands he places it. France. noted in all ages for her chivalry, cannot be in ensible to the high compliment to her, in the per- son of her Preeident. by the King of the Hawaiian Islands, Until the result be known, it would not only be premature, but disrespectful to the exalted character of the two personages interested, to prejudge the grave case which the one has referred to the oth Farther com- mente, at the present moment, would be premature and in bad taste. i Meanwhile, the executive department of the King’s rnment will be able to rewume their attention to jnterests of the nation, and to mature the measures of reform which they had contempiated to submit to the approaching Legisiat ure, from whose img roved conatitu- ency the public naturally expects so much. The time left them is now short, aud the arrears of business, par- tieukarly with the Privy Council, enormous. 16 is understood that the frigate Sericuse will gall in « few days. Sho bas been now more than three mouths in port, und ducing a period of much susg icion and ex ment; yet it ix seldom that a ship of s been #0 long in the harbor without some complaint agaiast the erew. Nothing of the kind has occurred in regard to the Serieuse; and Capt Cosnior has been repeatedly thanked by parties to whose vessels he has rendered ‘oflclent sid im moments of danger. New York Historical Society. STATED MEETING, JUNE 3, ISO], Rev. Dr. De Witt, First View President, took the chair in the early part of the evening. Hon. Luthor Bradish, the President, being detained from the opening, came in bofore the reading of the paper. in the absence of the Recording Secretary, the Li- brarian, Mr. George LH. Moore, officiated as Secre- tary. The minutes of the last meoting having been read and approved, tho Treasurer, Mr. Chaunovy, reported the condition of the fiaanves, which appoar to be prosperous. The Librarian, Mr. Mooro, re- ported the donations and additions to his depart- ment dufing the moth, many of them interesting and valuable. Mr. Moore also preseuted tho report of the Executive Committee on the nominations of the previous mecting, and several new mombors were thereupon elected. ‘They also recommended » resolution for advertising the meetings in publis hewspapers hereafter, instoad of the notices through the post office, which'was adopted. Mr. Joha Jay offered some lengthy resolutions with reference to the building fund, which were, after some discus- sion, laid over till the next meeting. Mr Simpson offered a resolution touching the character of payors to be read before the Soviety, which was referred to the Exeoutive Commities. Mr. Varoum statod that the agent for the Washington Monument was present, aud would receive or the Kev. Dr. Kobinso i paper evening, being “ Komar ¢ llawry and Recent Collations of the Hoglinh f avery euretul able discussion of the sanject. ‘Tho Bible Society, we understand, will publish this pa- yer in full in a few days. Hon. Me. Bookman, moving the resolution of thanks, eapressed bis gra- tification at the conservation of the exact voxt of the Luglish Bible, and the obligations which all lovers of the English language will owe to the judi- cious labors of the learned geutiemen to whom the subject had been reforied by the Bible Society thought it fortunate that the Biple bad b from the sacrilegious baads of tho new (eagted or- thograpbers. Mr. Ge ae- euge, . it tm ty meet agaia oa the first Tuesday whieh motion was adopted. Whereup- ely adjourned We understoud tbat at the October meeting, the fistaft xt, Vir. William bi. Tayior, of tho Post Offer, will read @ paper on the the N. V. Dost Olive and Postal Ar Tan gowen U.S Dhstrict Attoeney's OMee. June 3 = The Gin =iravery and Fidelity Rowurded —The bravery of Capsain smatl, aud Mer. Waite, the ‘iret officer, of the bark Glen, which has been «poke of in terms of approbation by the jadgrs who tried (ne mur deers of the second mate of that vearel cannot hare crenped the nutice of the general reader, The iseriet Attorney, impressed with the necessity of rewarding each hericem, aud of stimaladog others whe might be eure rounded Al peril, addressed the underwriters oa in snail and his faithful band of lhe has been thin day re thy dir. Jd tr bund of under# wateh erm: of aekaowledement yy Unptain Snail wnd his the valuable em hy pe ot dition to commending ir kratuities to alton board whe bad remained faithful to ther auttes We undersiand the gratuities alluded to are $5,000, thus distributed: —To Unpiain Smali. $1.00, Me Waite, frat «flee, $00; Mrs. Havens, (mother of the murdered nil mate) $000, nod $600 beewoen Wood an other reamen who did mot revoit, The value of Uh Was Ofer $400 OOU +S Maretin + of Kevelt — Angus two of Ube hy oftleers Br eavoring WO take a revolt on Bowed viat od for ERM MMe tion Uap veered, Hest copied L~ Court of General Sessions. Tiga tagstanarts reget om une term of the Court o| neral Scasions commenced wc tho Halts of fase tice, in Centre street, but the court willnotbe there for the remainder of the term. The court will meet until furthor notice in one of the Common Pleas Court rooms, second story of the City Hall. Calendar of Cases.—The cases which will claim the attention of the court for the present term, as indientod ke the i list, 9 a6 follo i my, 1; robbery, 1; burglary, 13; pte giary, Le Jereeny, 21; forgery, 3; Hischiot® ; disorderly house, 1; marrying the hi band of another, 1; indecent exposure of person, total, 44, Bes’ which, there are con- vieted, 2; indicted, 12; for abandonment, 3; mak- ing, of old and new cases, 61. The Grand Jury was not organized this moraing, as only fifteen of the gentlemen summoned to serve appeared when cal! An extra pene) of fifteen names was ordered, and will be called on Tuesday mornin at one ef the Common Pleas Court rooma at the: ity Hall, where tho sessions are to be held for this and the two following terms. Charge of Attempt to Commit Burglary.--T¥o you men, pamed James Dorlan and Michael Ryan, were pl: at the bar charged with an attempted hanaiasz, com mitted at the premises No. 74 Fulton street, on the night of the 80th of April. A policeman of the Second ward, Since? inte tot ciagttnt fae ae o of April, he was ro n when he heard a noise which rceated his attention; the noise proceeded from the vicinity of Mr. Levi Scribner's store, at the above mentioned number. The policeman went to No. 74, and tried Mr. Scribner's door. and found that al ight; be then Prooeeded to the hall door ad- 5 und to open, Thrusting ia iu datk lantorn, the officer raised the slide ‘and oxst the light full on the faces of the prisoners, who were iy behind the door; he next pulled the door shut, and pre- cured aanstance, when the prisoners were arrested. On examining the wall of the partition between the store and: the hall, it was discovered that # small piece of plaster had been broken away; and, on search made, @ mall crowbar, or a “jimmy,” was found in one of the entries in the upper md of the building. Notwith. stunding there suxpictous appearances, aa it was not proven that the prisoners had really made any burglari- ous demonstration, the jury returned a verdict of not guiity, Refore the Recorder and Aldermen Miller and Cook. Jone 3.—The Grand Jury —The following named goa- | tlemen were this morning duly qualitied to net axgrand | jurors for the present. torm:— arcellus Ells, foremsa; John ©. Alstadt, Edwin Bouton, Henry Camp, Thomas Edmonds, Richard L. Franklin, Ralph Hall, John Meigs, Jamex 8, Nicholson, Stephen H Skidmore, Ira Tapping, Geo. G, Taytor, John Williamson, Kobert Waterhouse, Isaac 8. Walton, Thomas White. ‘The Recorder charged the Grand Inquest upon the nature of their duties; he warned them against flo indictments lightly, and recommended to their cor deration the rule of never finding a bill except on suck evidence as uncontradicted, would warrant = convic- tion. His honor referred to the spirit of rowdylam which had, of late, shown itself in our community, aod ex- pressed the hope that the Grand Jury would do what could to suppress it. This Court, he ssid, would de thelr part fearlessly whenever called upon to act in the premises. The evil was a great one, and called for the action of the authorities, #0 that the reputation of our city for good order should not be dimin! The Re- oorder next alluded to certain statut provisions, which the law makes it the duty of the Judges of this Court to remind the Grand Jury of at each term, via: the usury law. the law against selling lottery tickets, violations of the election law, and the enactment which makes it a misdemeanor for any member of the Grand Inquest to reveal the fact of the finding of a bill for fe lony against any person who is still at large. Before Judge Beebe and Aldermon Griffin and Ball. Jun 4—Sentence of Ann Mehan, Convicted of C the Death of @ Servant Girl—Ann Mehan. who was con- victed, at the last term of the court, of manslaughter im the fourth degree, in causing the death of Ann McGowaa, ‘8 servant girl in her employ, by continued ill-usage was this morning called up for sentence. Ln passing sentence, Judge Beebe said to the prisoner, that the Court,in pass- ing sentence, could not but remember that the punish- ment to be inflicted would fall not alone on her, but would be deeply felt ks her husband and parents. For this reason, said the Judge, the Court did not feel in- clined to piss such a sentence as they would ifthe pri- soner stood isolated in the matter, and was alone to suf- fer. The Court expressed the hope that during the term. of imprisonment to which she would be subjected, the capend would devote hertime to the improvement of temper, if that was the evil which had led her to the perpetration of the offence of which she had been con- victed. The sentence was an imprisonmest of six months ia the city prison and the to a fine of $500, and stand Comualited il the fine be pad. ig ‘and made improper overtures, ke. The accused produced a large number of witnesses, who testified that the complainan: was» bad charactet; some of them said they would not believe her under oath, The Distriet Attorney produced one or two witnesses to rebut the tew- timony against her character. The case was then summed up by A. A. Phillips for the defonce, and the District At- torney on the part of the people. The jury, after « brief abrence, returned @ verdict of guilty assault and bat- tery only, The acoused paid the fine and was dismissed. Brooklyn City Intelligence. MILITARY DRILL. Monday being the day appointed for the drill of the Thirteenth, and parade of a portion of the Fourteenth rogimont, and proviog particularly propitious for such purpose. was quite a gala ono with the military of Brooklyn. Bristling bayonets, flaunting jumnes,and martial music, met the eyes and eara throughout the city. Col, Abel Smith's Regiment, the Thirteenth, mustered a: the Armory, and proceeded to the City Park. to drill.” It embraced the followiag com- i voklyn Hore Gnard. Capt, Neeley, not ‘as Hight Artillery, (City ard, Lieut. BG. Kamoads Guard, Capt. Sharp; uard, Capt, Morgan; (New Go- wanus Company,) First Sarsfwld (.uard, Capt. Johnson; econd ditty, Capt. Oriffen; Wiliamsburg Greys, and Jeffersou Guards—the whole numoering ub Guard,) First © commanding; Putomn Continental regiment vas or’ iventia! Comproy. ered in fuli uniform, a brene military discipline, probably aceouuted for by in their inilitary 4) pearance Tegiwent returned the (ty Hall Park, thenos to the armory, where they where di Putnam Guard and the Wash f from the fatigues of nulitary di!) at aa excellent oolixtion at the Abbey Hotel. Ful: . enue. Tho regunent alloge ber presented all the mate tus ‘or a dae, one; bat to the experienced military vye lyoked the nendfal aoquitemente of military taction Rnd ekill sa their movements and ex- ercines, ‘The fourteonth reg mont, ov rather a portion of them, composed of the Ringgold Horse Guard, (Light Artillery.) Capt Grabain. pad the Lteuboa Guard, Uapt. Scheffer, sceompanied vy the Brooklyn Brass Baad, mude company parades through the principal parts of the elty, nttracting most favorable notice. The Fifth Brigude, General Duryen. will parade on the 4to of July, Lo both regiments there is = vacaccy for = Major. and the eietion will take place om Friday, the 1th fast. (nm the Thirteenth JP. Teade ls epoken of as the enndidate Possesving the firetelaim, ani the greatest probability Of ruccess their pride Board of Education. Jone 2—Trr New Roann —The board was re-organ- ined, and Mr. Benedict wea again elected Presideat Mesers. Luther Hradish, Uharles J. Doage. Wm. T. Pinok+ ney, Henry N noted me members of the xt term. Mersra, J. 8 Rodf MoLeaa, were elected » Betinater ‘ir J A Gi'bert, th jemt and obliging clerk. alinost unanimously re-cleeted, and the board thea adjouraed Naval Intelligence. U. 8 sloop of war Jametown, a. Noofolk, Onptain Downing, bind to Brasil, viv Madeita, rec orders on Saturday, aud was to tev The f of her officers: —C pu w Lieutenauts. James F. Miller, Me . Koger N. Stembell, Chaties Deas; surgeon, ; Purser, John §. Gubek; Asslstaut sare ver; Acting Master. Chatios . Paantio: Paewed Moctal ley; Midship» pmen, A W Thorburn, Jame iguleston, € roy; mew. John it Billwell, 8. 1 Newman Pre tH. Baker, Robert J. Bowen, dames C. Walker, Raward J Means. James Hl, Rowan, Jaunes De Legare, Honry A. Aden Woodland; Gunner, Mr. W Jarvis; Salimaker, Mr. Boe Karvlay; Yeoman, Rodolyhus iammc ad ‘The United States sioop of war Vincennes, Capt. Hud- fon, was to sail from Panama on the 6th ult) She was to eruire wy the comet, tomeking at Renlejo, Martian, And other forvign porta, previous to her arrival at Sam Francisco Weekly Heport of Deaths In the City and Connty of New York, from, the 21th day of May, to tue let day of May, IASI, Mon, M, Women, Boys, Wl; Girls, Total, 34 Bleeding trom lungs... Barned or Seal: Cholera Murbwr jolie.