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mo: Mola, looking out over street of Mo! voluptuous cit: after are whirlin, other Euro Those here at present are M: of Philadelphia; Mr. Parker and idleton and brother, of South Carolina; George Bemis and J. P. Quincy, of Boston; T. E. Te Philadelphia, and Edmond Flagg, of St. ; also Messrs Niles, Reynolds, and Gal- Mr. Kimball has just left, and most of Leg- The frigate I | sone by the by, is at Genoa, with Commodore organ. At the wy Rachel began an engeaae on Lieut. Mi Fondo, the the 2h. scone, of 9 form im the orchestra at the same time. houses are not large; and at leas’ one half of the spectators are officers in the Neapolitan army and The goveramental al- | lowance must be indispensable to sustain this vast On entering the theatre, | the large namber of soldiers | on duty, thronging the lower lobbies, while at the iron gates of the palace, close beeide it, stands a meunted guard of Huzzars, sabre drawn, and car- Even upon the stage itself, at either wing, is beheld a file of musketeers, their brass | jashing \n the footlights. There | ity #0 deserted, nor so public, that ntinels, and the drum and trumpet | al illery, cavalry, and in- bine in rest. it has not its are hea:d almost hour about $5, the Ameri bat description. ore to Cong: eas was (be Wor Narxegs, Nov. 6, 1851. ‘The Rowle from Rome to Naples— Americans in Na- ples—The ‘Pheatres— Meeting the King, &c., &c. ‘Tha land poute from Rome to Naples is less de- Ughtfulthan that from Flerence to Rome. Still, ectbiapbarming scason of the pear, it possesses “enough of attraction to cause the journey of one hundred miles by veiturino, requiring three days and costing ten dollars, to be decidedly preferable, company, to that by diligence, in ‘consecutive hours, for $13, or that by Vecchia and steamer, in sbout the same and at about the same expense. Leaving the gate of San Gioveani at 6 A.M., »-and passing over the Campagna for a dozen miles, threugh ‘the chief relics of almighty Rome,” you ascend to the pretty village of Albano; and while Foutake your dsjeun-r, take, also, your last look ¢, “the Eternal City, and your first of the blug Mediterranean. Hsving rested two hours, you proceed threugh rouantic scenery and several old villages to Cisterna. » distance of fifteen miles, and hours before dawn, you are off in the chill and mist, with closed windows, and goon enter on the gloomy, deserted, and deso- tate Pontine Marshos—bounded on the left by mountains, and on the right by the sea—twenty four miles long and six broad, and cressed by a road perfectly straight and flat, which, for nearly ‘ithe whole distance, skirts a turbid and rapid canal, by which tho swamps are drained and rendered leas, ive than they once were. More than two thoussod years ago, the Romans * Grst attempted to drain these marshes. At ten o’clock you emerge from the endless avenues of elms whieh line the long road, at Terracina, famous in out on the bright blue sea and roars its ceaseless an- them beneath the < ircean rock. Refreshed by wo hours of rest, you pursue rrow, winding path on the 1 mountain side, whish tow- ver your head, and are soon reminded by a dema:.! -or your rt, in a deep | d house, carved {rm the cliffs, that you areon pass the night. Two fatal and more pro Dandit story, and Jo hat dashes its wav dejevmer and the usus your route along the pebbly shore cut in ers hundreds of fee the borders of the New politan States. Passing through wres shed Fondi and besutiful i memncetan oe brie alg set yeu stop at Mola for the night. surely, a u tovely view caonet be found even in lovely seuthern Italy, than chat from the inn windows at the sunset waters of the bay towards the white towers and fortresses of Mola di Gaeta, with its ancient tomb of Piaucus, on its mountain promontory, nearly isolated by the sea. At your feet wave ag oral roves, listeving with the go'den fruit— beyond spreads out Se besutifal bay, with tho rooky cliffs of Ischia rising in dim distance—away on your right is Gaeta—behind you are mountains. Well and wisely did the fugitive Pope, when he fled from his stormy children, fly to Gaeta; for not only is it the strongeat fortress of the two Sicilies, bi “sty aay the morale: while it is yet dark, you the precipitous and narrow 3 and taking your dejeuner and siesta at one of the several pretty inland villages on your route, and gazing away on Vesuvius with its evor- lasting wreath of smoke, at noon you are at the of Capua, and almost immediately Lf on the short railroad of twenty miles, over a gr pe Here = bh boy Ca orange a luxuriant plain, direst ‘e- suvius aNe Naples wito i:s unrivalled bay—its splendid palaces—its magnificent piazzas—its beaut rons, rich with memories of departed ages Itri, with its mourn'u = most beautiful and bealthful are eee previa Fils po, Possuoli, Baial, He: ‘ompeii, Pestium, Cumae—how many are the which bave vainly striven to do it justice! minds me more of Vienna, perhaps, than of any city; yet in its characteristic fea- tures it isalmost as unique as Venice itself. But few Americans, comparatively, have got past summer. ‘acobs and son, , of New York; down as low into Italy as Naples, te ‘ell, of lag! those last named leave in the French steamer a for Marseilles, via Civita Vecchia, » and Genoa, to morrow. re! Four of the theatres are in full blast. ¢ San Carlo has been pri pantomimic and musical spectacle of salemme Liberata,” in magnificent style. This | theatre, the largest in the world, isa i | = structure. Its gilding and stucco futely cloy the most voluptuous taste is on the stage, while a yet larger compan; of the ships of war in port. expensive establishmen: & stranger is strack b caps and bayon is no part of t] seom incessantly changin Tt of Novo, Nuovo, and >t mae 110,000 rola tire force of the kingdom is not far from 100,000. in the city, containing ss, and developements in 184% indicate that they alone are to be fully trusted. Yot Neples is very quiet just at present, and so is The severest police regulations are ‘Their passports, immediately on their arrival, are transmitted to the reapeotive consuls, who give bond for their good bebavior while in the city. (for Marseilles, for example, via Leghorn and Genoa), a visé of the corsul, followed by that of the police, the Minister of Foreign Afuirs, and the Consuls for Tuscany,’ Sardiuia, and France, sre indispensable, which will cost a sum total of n Consal receiving $2, and ‘Three of the regime: about 6,000 men, are S Vesuvius maintained respecting strangers Ge inee Consul 2 france. any rovereigns bi Sisilies, to be. But bis Majesty took hi pletely off to us, and could we possibly ing eur own b forty five years of age, and would be rather good looking had not ye huge under jaw, ph rated , and protruding blue ayes of the Bourbons. The relations of the United States with the kingdom of the Two Sicilies are of the most cordial The situation of our Charge, Mr Morris, is very enviable. Mr. Hamanet, the United States Consul, has lived here forty years, and has been our consul most of that time 7 Our Washington Corresponcence. Wasnino ton, Nov. 29, 1851. Struggles of the Uliras—The President's Message— Mississippi Politics, & , &. A terrible struggle is now going on among free soilers and secessionists, or Southern rights men, in consequence of the resolutions, declaring the compromise measures a6 & finality, about to be offered in this evening’s caucus. Thore has boon considerable begging off, some threats, some ox- Pression of dissatisfaction; but allin vain resolutions will be offered, and the men marked who bolt’ from them. As I shall write you the finale by telegraph, this evening or to-morrow morning, carly, there is no occasion to dilate on the @ubjeot now. The mossage will fll fourteen colamns of the Republic, and ® great portion of it will troat on in- qorvational law. Daniel Webster was determined to write # chapter in that book that shall serveas a ataodard to futare commentators, and | believe he has done it. The Mlibustoros will take vory little comfort from it. Tho President has avoided any direct responsi. bility ia regard to Kossuth, by handing the great orator, statcaman, and administrator of Hungary | ritably deprived The invitation w Kossuth, and the wmporitiva of @ steam frigate for that purpos., of a joint resolution, frst intrudaced into the Senate by Henry S. Foote; and the Pre- sident, in inviting Kossuth to America, and tender- ing him » passage en board the steam frigate Mis sissippi, had only carried out the wish of the na tion, maniferted through their re; This is not exactly a on with the diplo- France, has im secret, the same a8 Lonis Nepolea the refusal on bis ticket by the silver M. Sartige some flagrant act of the it Ranga | oo and keeping Kossuth, on his arrival, will be introduced to both heuses, where appropriate loome where he will have an ity of making himself beard, throu; Congress, by the whole nation. T' no Chamber in the world where he oan speak with ter effect than in the House of Represonta- tives of the United States. Senator Foote will remain here till the 20th proximo, when he will return to Mississippi to enter the responsible position of will serve for one year, and then be long term te the + man be nominated, z urners, the union be of General Cass will probably withdraw his namo, rather than with him suffer another de- be coalition came to a detest, beat. us was its condition, they also show boast of in , not from their own the existence of whiok they can- The cntire whig oted in vain. What effect the Presi- dential election may have on our State is now too early to say; but tism,) and unite my voicé to of approbation of them, that will and does reverbe- "Wil the ena ple of cheap ile of , as recom- approved, yet it is manifest that the association has not fulfilled all that was expected of it. The de- sce laren Sia lone nevemn w reviewed, and re- solutions recomme! Hi Congress, |. are easily |; but it seems to me that semo- the adoption of those resolutions, been the legitimate business of the hy did not the preamble set forth government could, Our Boston Correspondence, Boston, November 29, 1851. The Final Reswlt—Strength of Parties—Amount of Assistance given by the Humkers to the Whigs, &c. If we are not at rost in this part of the world, it is not because there is anything more to do. Tho voice of fate has renewed tho soalition’ for a twelvemonth, though it has proved a “ touch and go” affair with it. The whigs, peor follows, do not know what to make of it. Beaten twite in succession is an astounding fact; one which they can’t get over, though it has managed to get over them. They think, with Mr. Mantelini, that itis “a dem’d horrible dream;” with Mr. Swiveller, must have set up an opposition | fate. For one year’s retiremént from pare at, though mot the le thing in the world, wasa tight sacrifice to Nemesiz, something like the rit Polycrates voluntarily threw into the sea, to break the fatal charm of too toreturn. They looked y chastisement at the hands o! well, because of their pict; cellent standing. Laem not rely a twelvemonth hence. end bunker force has been thing more t! would b. meeting. with "safety Yo the. troneury” roduc, the post safety to treasury, reduce the Why were “mt tee whases of rt sent contract system ex 7 Why was it m4 thet I setae sum ae money now pai contractors for tri 0 mails were at least five times Tiree) allow them profits larger than can be expected from apy other legitimate business , Hadthesequestions, been discussed, certainly the result would hi roved Seg eo a saving of at least seventy- ve per cent oo ill endea | answer these interrogatories; remarks with a prayer for indulgence for the errors r I do not pretend to be fully ade-- quate to the tesk; but hope that a few good sug- gestions may be found among the many I may nited States Senate. Davis stands no chance whatever of an election, and return te private life. that he urged Quitman to assume Tnited States; and it is Davis was the first Quitman nor his son voted yernor; and ex-Gov. Quit- in his opposition to Davis, as lication of » pamphlet, con- will unavoidabl: the hostile attitude to the also well known, now, that Jef. to desert him. Neith fer Jeff. Davis for G man bas gone 50 far, to threaten the pul taining the histor, nullification in t have the pamphlet by all means. It be a most esting document on & most inter v. Quitman never knew until late, { presume, how Jeff. Davis opposed his brevet in the Senate, and had no idea that Davis would back out of all positions tending to fortify him (Quitman) with the people of Mississi pi; straight forward gentlemaa, a wor contain the truth, and may be relied There are several personal One between Senator Gwin, o Albert G. Brown, of Mississippi, and another be- tween Downs and Soulé, of Louisiana. There was a rumor that Fillmore withdrawn from the Presidential candidac; mptoms of a relapse. there be any such) think of trotting out an entirely new candidate—Senator Pearce, of Maryland ; but the thing secret that you must not publish it. Pearce’s bill mended the omnibus, and saved five millions of meney to the Texas creditors (and to the United States), out of which the pious and | Bell, and a virtuous would now swindle them without mero; Mr. Clay looks very feeble in healt! he will juvenise, during the heat of tho session. 'y ve law, nothing ratic candidate for the ;chusetts—perhaps not in New the and free soil candidates should it, opinion ‘among our y.in favor of the nomination utler, and 1 am certain that there is no other pian in their party who would run 60 well in Massschusetts. The hunkers would for him, for they remember where he was in | while the understood moderation of his opin- ions on the slavery’question strongly commond him not merely to the coalition democrats, but also to free soilors. He could beat either Mr. Webster or Mr. Fillmore, in this perbaps not General Scott, whose mili services would secure for him an immense po; unless, indeed, he should take to writing Iptters, in which he will be what he never was yet, a conquered | If it be true that the demoratic Congress are about to make a teat of the Fugitive | Slave law, nothing need be expected for their party t an open ruptare take place on that subject, and the free soil candidate would most carry Massachusetts, and, England States, es ey never will do. The full and excellent report which you f the proceedings of the be popular men. A’ democrats runs stro of General Wm 0. met made mani power they nee pre} n it ag & benevolent T must commit, utas ne is an honest, dfrem him will pectability, aud ox- ‘There was not & man of them but ; ved that they were as sure of a | ing te the old uarcels on hand. as that election da: They believed, acoo: ides, that ‘‘the wheels of Providence are full of ‘ir of said eyes, well speo- out for the welfare of the has come over their eyes,” and that cach tacled, was on the | gressive whigs ( ition” was undoing his work, following up sea, and 74 miles or some other great “Tt seems that God is forgetti: withstanding all that we have done for lonarque ; and our whigs think the can’t account for it, that heaven left them—they, who for the promotion of every liber mentioned in the ne' isas yet kept so Bloshoim with « the next mornin; ster meoting, rei that meeting; but Mr. Wel will never ‘bscribe to the rem: » & fow days sin rally de! i} sight days) than co F 5 re ud may be satiai be President. Most which was made in with roference to the assertion of the Boston Cowrier’s remark that Mr. Webster’s work was that in view of the results of the late work would seem . Webster may be o! any other man in the country; but, unfortunately fe cannot count so well a3 some others, and votes are counted, not weigh There has already commenced a quarrel the movement part of the democracy and the con- ppeoting the rights of Mr. Rantoul | te in the National Convention from our second district. It is said—mind, I don’t and can’t believe it—that ed the ground taken in wepapors, who denounce all moral evils that exist out of Massachusetts, who 20 and pullets that are no ving time, and who sleep so ministratious of some “round, fa’ that they shoul be thus eyes by the celestial . wi ious, Virtuous, charital kind of thing, if itdon't per—if, after sors of the cardinal virtues, wit their head, are to be treated like the wicked? It | st enige do gana we shall Bare — roa Bion, vicious an immo} things is not soon igo end taste, in showing disappoint y unwinn in iteelf, as giving exposing their wi what the fow have from the beginning, that there was a | regular ooalition between them and the hunker mn the efficacy of which the: had not enough distribute venerable @ur Albany Correspondence, comfortably in well-' Axzany, November 29, 1851. The Albany Regency Disbawied—Old Tammany | Assuming its former Importance—The Hwnkers V ctorious in the State Central Committee. In 1848, the democratic party of the State of Now York did not vote for candidates for president and vice-president of the National Convention, held at | Two sets of delegates presented them. | selves—one from the hunker and the other from the barnburner section. A long controversy arose as to which should be admitted, when it was finally declared that both should be entitled to seats, but thatthe State could only have its legitimate num- Der of votes. To this the barnburners objected and withdrew from the convention, expecting to draw offs sufficient number with them from Ohio, Penn- sylvania, and other Northern States, to break up | the convention, and, upon the spot, organize ano- ther. This they could not accomplish, and went home. The hunkers retained their places, and finding that General Cass could be nominated without them, purposely abstained from voting. been necessary, they would | The barnburn- just about to com- more ht than letters, much less than half all, the posses. | Bag of 2: vouch for its correo! . Rantoul has ee im |, aD su] rege Stave law, and all. squalls from this quarter, if there is to be any forcing down of tests on the part of a ment, for that is not onl; ‘ou may look out for It is now clear to Mxssaox or Gov. Mgans or Sour Carouina. -—The annual message of Gev. John H. Means, of South Cardlina, to the Legislature of that State, It is not lengthy, but in a concise form communicates the Governor's views on the State finances, the Military Academy, the literary and benevolent institutions of the State, and other topics, and closes with the following a!lu- sion to the great question of secession :— On the subject of our federal relations, I have but little to say. You are fully aware of our wr and know that the federal government, ‘was instituted for our protection and welfare, as well as that of the other States, has directed all ion of that institation depends. You know of every isch of that territory, which was won, in-part, by our blood and ‘oasure ; that we have been robbed by a tyrannical upjust goverument of the very graves of our lant countrymen who sacrificed their lives that ” might float in triumph it waved. You Union has been do- udes us from this letters; and I of their own to disappointment at the result of last M | Hantet'votec, Uy" the dof Menken Fotos, the 6 aid o came within a few of elec ‘4 bers from Charlostown, ac! lition candidates as it was. But they insisted on instance return the com; ight have sent a i—Mr. Wilkinson, a bitter enemy of would har House ; but they isan able document. three more mom- and would not in any | bigs, qh y 4 Had their votes undoubtedly have been given. ers went from Baltimore to Buffalo, where the and discomfitted of all parties and led— old broken down federalists, ‘red republican” barnburne: gitive slaves, discarded office seekers, of every grade, species, cor tion— and therethey mounted upon what they called “Buffalo platform,” the planks being prepared by Chase, of Ohio, and Benjamin F. Bat- ler, of New York. For this, the latter lost the office of United States District Attorney of South- ern New York, and the former was accidentally seated in the Senate at Washington, where he can only respond amen to Seward’s notions of “4 ‘he withdrawal of the barnburners Baltimore accomplished the object intended, viz. the defeat of General Cass. The State Convention held at Syracuse, in Sep- tember last selected a committee of two from each Judiciai district, one from each of the former seo- tions, to be constituted a State Central Committee . it was conferred upon them to decide the manner in which the delegates to the next National Convention should be chosen, and to recommend the mest proper time. late State election was over, and before the final result was fully known, Messrs. Weetervelt and Cis- co, of the First Judicial district, “took time by the forelock,”’ and called a meeting of the committee at The members in the rural dis- ere taken with profound surprie. It had ys been customary, under all parties, te ro- ceive notices of meetings, &c , from the rege: at the old headquarters in Albany. But now, New York, at old Ti , too, from whose sacred walls the barnburners bad been expelied some four years, appoai to them a mystery which required solution. was imagined, by some, that one or more of the candidates defeated on the State ticket desired a meeting of the committee to divine the true cause of their remaining behind. large amounts of money had been assessed upon individuals, in various portions of the State, and aid into the bands of certain gentlemen in Al- any; and suspicions were rife that the eight or ten ted to further the eleo- tion of the State ticket had been misapplied, and, therefore, the State committee were called to- ether in order that an investigation might be had. nly aday or two previous to the meeting, it leaked out that the public object of convening the | committee was for the purpose of settling upon the manner of selecting delegates to the Baltimore Con Governor Boutwi a total of 234,327 Mr. Winthrop in In this manner they threw awa: majority in tho House, and, too. Such pig-headed perversity as this bas marked the whigs for years in } eecondary causes w the slightest liberality, but insist upon all who would receive any favor at their hands will not occasionally fore the blast like the willow, torp up by the roots like the oak. think this very noble and high. minded—most ot! thivk it uncommonly silly and stu - it were really the result of princi; serve commendation; but as it an anti-coalition aps, in the Senate loody know that our equality in the nied, by the very act which exch - You know that the tide of Northern must sweep over us, perty od desolating ed by the bold efforts The nob! Its immense | feet by 50, is covered at one time by | about 400 performers in the splendid spectacle now | presented,) and @ full brass band o sixty musicians our homes, ualess : a 7 Eke of freemen, worthy le attitude of resistance posed the State was about to as- sume, and which I have dirested all my ener- ies to place her in, seems to have been de- red or abandoned by pular the result of tho late elections. ve that this result has been founded tamely to submit to our wrongs, ference of opinion as to the best mode I know of no other mode vis: That as our to suppose, not only that they are superior as angels to mon over all op- also to the whigs of othor but despise it, and see no’ to ry wonderful in the end to which it has Political fanaticism is not an iota 1 ble than the fanaticism which shel! itself under the name of religion. The laughable moaning of the whigs over their second defeat— their loss of the rubber, if, call it—shows that they have not much ancient superstition, that might gracefully be held “Tt is an observation most admirable lish prose writers, Fuller, * that if » sing! fall on their mast, it forotells ill luck; bat if two come together, (which they account Castor and success.” They are 'rench story. Hoe was atical philosophers, who enjoy the of this world—in short, a ro- In consequence of having peared to him at a Ono of his friends, who believed, as did Mr. Scroggs in a similar case, that this spectre underdone of of the kind, determined to disabuse that he was haunted. Accordingly he dressed up a figure resembling the spectre, as described by tho haunted man, and at tho thing was in the babit of Among other duti As soon as the other new known. of redressing them. offices in The by tho conservative This course [ think our pri alike demand. Othors, whose opinions aro enti- hink differently ; and it seoms the sustained them in their remains now for those who have defeat d mode of action, and whe have d their unalterable purpose not to submi and degradation, te point out a better . I myselfhave none to suggest. Whatever is the action of the State throug! authorities, it is my duty to obey. call upon you, as the and as guardians of their rights, to remember t! since you resolved upon resistance, and ordered the for defence, no tin which you then complained, has bee! no indemnity has been o! rity for the future. honor, our safety, | be summoned to 1008. eves: Jprcee good men in the F treat the bused the powers of his by a epeotre, which al her constituted Others declared that gubic feet, Herawos; and such a thece two citios for $1 cent, would be $7, thus office expenses, of et and thia would be the ave- all ne mails from Bangor, s and steamboats, ntatives of the people, thousand dollars contri State to be armed On leaving the city, tage surplus on Maine, by the line of ra’ whenever they are bound to New Orleans. | that mails to many small towns situated in the in- | torior and Western States would not pay for them selves, but it remains with statistics in your office routes would not more tl fered for the past, no secu- That, under the vaunted Fu- itive Slave law, it has cost, in seme instanoes, e owner four times the value of the slave to re. cover him, and in others, his life. But, above all, I call upon you to to remember that the soldiers of government are now stationed on your coast, either to overawe or to coerce you. That the guns of Castle Pinckney, and even of Fort Moul- trie, (which your fathers so gallantly defended,) and which were ceded to the general governmemt for your protection, are now frowning upon Charles- this monstrous insult, added to our injuries, will rouse the pride and patriotism of our . The dangers which threaten our coun- call upon us to bury the party feelings which have so unfortunately divided aod distracted us, and to unite all our enemy of our institutions. ie thet is heaped upon our State, should n of Carelioa to cling to her with an allegiance still more unfalteriag l men, the honor and safety of our beloved State are in your keeping. May God direct you in your de recise hour, whon that in, placed it be- Mon Diew! il y ena dewx!—(My God! wo of them )—he exclaimed, aad died pect here pretty muc them /e spectre rouge. ispute asto the great strength of partics in the House. The real majority of the coalition in that body is eight, but in this number | are included seven mon who are claimed as “old line” democrats, or hunkers, and whom the whigs say they can either buy up or coerce into vetin, If we class these seven hunkers wit! the whigs, the latter claiming them, the House would stand—I coalitionists to 202 anti coalition- dina | its; and as the former ha | Senate there would be a tie on joint I do not think that any such state of things will be found to exist on the meeting of the Legislature ‘ing has been at the old palace at Caserta, xteen miles from Naples, for some weeks, | t present in the city. A small party of us, Americans, met his Majesty on the road to *apsilippo, the other evening, accompanied by the and by several other members of the royal American sovereigns, ittle or no reverence for meelves, and very little, in- deed, for such a sovereign as Mr. (iladstone’s re- gent letters would imply Ferdinaad II, of the Two | Well, upon the day and hour ap; member reported himeelf. Towwy Howe, Dean Richmond, Peter ( ex-Senator Dait, (who purposely absen' 2, it is alleged, to allow the whigs to ¢leeta United States Senator in consitle obtaining votes for the Kouse’s Point Bri all walked into Tammany Hall as bold an as if they never had been expelled. of strength was upon chairman, which re: i it to eight—each faction still adhering to mour and Mann were | estervelt, of your city, | urphy, of Brooklyn, then offered re- solutions recommending a meeting of the democratic electors, in the several congressional districts, on the Sth of January, for the purpose of electi delegate from each district to represent it National Convention, and the delegates thus chosen be empowered to select two State delegates in ad- dition. Those resolutions were op) Mann and the other barnburners; vote was taken, Campbell, Cagger, Dart, Mann, and Richmond, Woestervelt, whom they had counted upon, voted with the bunkers, and so the tions of Mr. Murph; ie is a decided hunker victor: tion proferred the selection of de! They preferred to ran the a State convention, which the; endeavored to secure by packing a and, if successful, w: lected the very men ors in Baltimore in Even Charley Maan, six majority in the ainst the common | will close finally dropped, and Mr. caure every true to him! He is large man, of sive than an offensive one, the majority will net be a matter of much consequence oply two questions of consequence that ricting of the State for mem! when the vacancie contain twenty-nine I think [ am per- , that the government of M O basten, thou hero, thy bark o'er the ware, O’er Atlantic's broad bosom, to the land of the brave; Yes, basten. brave Koseuth, now borne on the sea, greatness are waiting for thee; empire’’ is open to bleas thea— Our eagle's free wings are spread to caress thea, The tale of thy at Too great were thy labors for a captive's fate; For an exile’s lot, thy strength yy stent; hope. star still shine over thee— ‘tland yet may be happy and free of freedom ' rest awhile from thy wars, Proteotion thou('t find ‘neath the folds of our stars; And ihe gen of th; Welcomes high chieftaln Our Warhington’s spirit will waken to posed by MT. | of Congres sad whan the | tall beve been Aled, coalitionists and eleven whigs. in a4 NOW Compose it. mun will he (sovernor and Lieutonant- Mr. Walker, Seore' Mr. Banks, Speaker of the json, President of the Senate. The offices that will our land is heard, made will be from y, who need no longer be feared. hunker democrats will got the curious change has come the coalitionists id, without question, presented the barnburn- | Thus, hostilities would have recommenced with renewed vigor, the whigs ~~ have been vigerated with ey’ impulse, and, ve robably, again carry State ¢. “Av it now stands, it will make s fair ill be in the several Con- | the section which obtains | ¥ a ae aoe ati new spoils. A ve | over the minds o' on this subject. When the ooalition first camo power, there were some of their number to have Mr. Hallett ssional districts, torney (General, and some others California Lana Commission. 1 foot, aad be tra eS dfrom the purlieus of , President, ilential atmosphere of Al hed in the Old Wigwam id. This font is solely fellow citizen, John J. Cisco, who, by this nagement, hae secured more real sub democratic credit and ever could bave obtained as Sachem at Tammany, Chairman of the General Committee, or Mayor 0: the city of New York—stationa, h respon he has sought for, bat of, for several yoars His star dored in the aacendant Alrhovgt owing the bead yaarters may t+ vi setting the que~ this oarly day is solely | to Col, Walthal, Celiector will explain the delay iv zation of the Board of Gand Wasniorow, Sept. 14, 1861 favor of the Sist July, on the ion to settle land tities 1m Ualifo: semrmantont democracy attributed te you: Dean Bin—I have eubject, + the com: ne com pensation provided that I have found it difficult to fil: another declining appointment on it I tender appointments to other: to ray that the Board is filled, arrangement to proceed to ta: T trust you will exeuse the deis, ation. and which it wa. ¥ power ty pewwwat 5 say thease caloulations are at » } woll on paper. Tosuch, | will say, divest yoarsel’ aterious notions about # govern. 4 onaside fr the bag as cooteiaiog | of tbe antiquated meat wall ovg | gutbu g but ba | hep sead gush @ bag (arough the pow oilive, 9¢ by, big hunkers will, oevertbeless, be provided for oxagt amoaat of eesistance given by ¢) tion ofeeleeting dele ‘The Postage on Newspapers. New Yorx, November 28, 1851. ‘To Tum How. N. K. Hatt, PostmasTER Sin—Fi » and 1R—For several months ay the New Postage law, passed by Se ash, hes been in 8 ‘ittasily and de conour in such action to be made. I {maintain that mail contractors are vagant prices for transporting the mails, and to prove this, I will select the ma sive to contractors, and show that the mails can be carried for about one fifth the prices now paid. Iselect the U. S, mail route via Cl | Panama to San Franciace, a distance of 5,600 miles inland navigation and land. essrs. Berford & Uo have been letters to | and fro between New York and San Francisco siace the lat day of July, 1851, for three cents on each let- ‘an ounce weight, and they have ered their letters in less time (somet rience, it is proved that 40 letters will weig! We then have 2,400 letters in s at two cents each, prepaid always, will yield $45. expenses of transportation, even at the enor- mous rates on the steamers, and across the isthmus are as follows :— ACO letters, 3 cubic feet, at 70 cts. per bag deducted from receipts, 666. will leave $23 . to pay office expenses for r , stam 9 , and expense of bags, of jocks, “ke, on Bs will venturo to assert thet Adams and Co. or Borford and Co., and hundreds of others, would be willing to the Government to. transport the United States mails betweoen New York and thirty-five cents per lb., and deliver them in less time than is now occupied by the United States mail contractors. From official documents I learn, that the number of letters received at the New York Post-office from San Francisco, d quarter ending June 30, 1861, was 119,474; number sont, 114,353 ; lotters ; and the postage collect: on them was, at forty cents per letter, $93,730 for one quarter, 234.227 letters, measur- $1,961 60 on 234,327 letters, at two cents, would sores & balance for office expen- others to show that this surplus is not sufficient to defray all the office oxpenses at- tendant upon these letters. vertible facts taken from actual experience of the art of transportation of letters between the two most distant Post-offices in the United States, over route at least ten times more expensive than any bag of 60 Ibs. weight. atalsing 001 ve pow o . cont letters, wor be taken by Adams and Co., to and from the Post. ‘hiladelphia and New York for one dollar. ages on 2,400 letters, at two cents, would deduot $1 for transportation, and there isa of $47 to pay office expenses. Here we have the most expensive mail route yielding over and above transportation expenses 2,400 letters, and the cheapest ding $47 on every 2,400 letters to moet ice expenses. | now come to news Lo ard nd t will lay aside all cant about ‘diffusion owledge,” “ educating the people,” &>., and tter as @ matter of dollars and cents. ‘ —— ’ on oe vag B ne York ing Phila- jelphia: weighing -» Moasu! it will double New Yorx g can be taken between the ¢ received, atone aving a surplus, for contain 700 itted through the mails. mm the superscription. 4. For every aaditional half ounce, above the first half ounce, one cent additional postage Letters of one ounce to be delivered ia the _ on Tete b itters to m ® for country, by soa, three cents, if in United States mail vom 7. Letters from foreign ports in all other vossols, not being mail vessels of a fhe tosssts om, such, looters doliver to th the vessel, on iter he mi r to the Post Office. You should be authorised contracts with al) foreign government: the eptige postage, sea and United States, can be prepaid at the first office of mailing the letter. 8 Newspa) t of t Publishers of news nited Sta il other substances, not being The system of prepayment by stamps willreliove pestanesters from all fears of dwho: will cause @ considerable diminutioa Ry Goat m os persone will io ible, and look wes =| would asd, Caen, Affairs in Mexico, We have received from Mexico our files of Et Monitor Republicano, and El Universal, to the let inet. Although we published inthe Hzratp later Rows, we find ia one of their numbers two interest- slate. of law to be presented wned property in that {t contains several articles, the ‘| of which are as follows:—Art lst. All perties, known as manos muertas, and all de rights and actions, for congreg: and, in fine, all that belongs to the church, whatever its denomi 2d. The proprietors value of their establishments, and shal year, three per cent interest into the 4th. One year after the publication of this direct taxes establishe: i 3 pe for both Tig in the republic sh hed. ears afterwards, @ law shall-be passed for the diminution of the con! the States, and for the entire su contributed by the Stater ex; re rt ft privilege for Ws an 3 for take Charge of these pro; ties, and the government alone income. 7th. The worship of God shall be sustained by the nation, wi rectly cOming from the national bank; cou: yment for the parochial rates, the tithos, “butwi preface my id oxtra- PUBLIC CREDIT. (Condensed from El Monitor Republicano, Oct 26.} route most expen- Bo much has been said ebout this-question, that we are U.S. mails; and that the moat fied, I will give them actual data of receipts and expenditures by Messrs. Ber- fordand Co. They use but bags, which are better calor rains than the U.S. leather . The bag mea- sures three cubic feet, and, with chain and lock, 33 1bs., and will contain 60 lbs. properly tied up. Single letters average &n oance, and from actual ex- tent Indie rubber d for the Isthmus lls most for attention is the represents the supreme powers of the that junte, and before that ridieulor the conservative ‘of the law of 136. Ug i ey to teoteat te society, dangers 0: ublis. Our country is destined to » fatal end, if ‘there juritas are continued. The junta of public credit is mot only sm evil—it is @ calamity---an epidemio---a kind of ourse praanse our dignity. en empty. weighs, —which falls on us # i junts administers the credit exclusively. As we have said several times,it 't takes upon itself responsibility, rE i hus siready com- ever, does nol come omgress, im order to of the country, wil! dissoive it. remarks, we have been actuated by our mation and our citizens from and lovers of our fal Senator Foote and the Unton and the Com- romise (From the Montgomery (Als.) Journal, Nov. 22.] At the request of many Union men, of both par- who arrived in town oa Thursday, on his way to Washi to address the Union men of this State at the Ke- presentatives’ Hall, which was tendered for the pur- Govecnor Foote spoke at some length, and made a full review and expose of the causes and reasons which induced the issues of the late canvass. He showed that the spirit of the convention whica issued the Southern address was for the tionof the Union; and further, that the 5 Gonvention was called for no disuni: but to unite the South on a platform resist the Congressional usurpation of interference in the inatitations of territories ; or, in other words, oars sriginel de rongeery it m its o design, the hands of a talented and unscrupulous who exdeavored to use it forrevolutionary —to dissolve the republic, and establish other forms for the gratification of also showed that the object of Mr. as avowed by them, was disunion per se. ef the Compro- of the Fugitive howed that oe making, at that rate, $374,923 20 postage received for letters to andfrom San isoo, during a year. And I will ask what was paid Hag Sn, 4 the Post-office to contractors, mail nts, &o. 7 680 234,327 letters would weigh 5,860 lbs ; add 400 Ibs. for weight of wy be transported would be 6,260 lbs. and 300 cabie feet in measurement. 00 taining = 300 cube feet, CTR eeerreeere 2. $0390 00 100 bags. containing 234,526 letters, 6.960 Ibes at 16 0t0 Pot UDeeeesescueeees eens 1001 @0 ve $1005 3 » of $2, 808, I leave it for the total weight to Such are the incontro- nal ambition. He nd othe: opposed ired the non exec In this connection Slave law was carried out in good as far as any statute Jaw in tho land, and that the secessionists lamented its exeoution by the tive, ry Serene his call x fo tary aid as an infringe: Foote, in this connee r its patriotic desire to oe. deelared that no administration, 8} dation of the governmrnt had exhibited suoh fidolity in the discharge of its constitutional duties, with « patriotic eye to the well-being of the whole country. The mide was a repudiation of the Witmo! a defeat of the Buffalo platform, and agai exists and is ackno’ in Utah and New Mexico, and the line of 36 30 min. would have tory. The Texas $10,000, bill a gain to the south, by enabling Texas to pay her | debts, which obstruct emigrati gave the executive ful viso on all that tor: » and forwarded ‘al slave States for admission the desire of the ht and wish was final matter. The law in respect to the slave trade in the District of Colambia was but a re-affirmation of the old law of Maryland, which bas always boon in existence in the District. whole, was a gain and advantage to the South, and e leaders of those who opposed it waa Thoy wore hos sired a revolution, which would bring Texas, and the ou, sir, to show, from whether the great mail make up the deficiency ly experience proves that letters are more safe inthe hands of responsible oxpress com! than in the United States public sentiment. Ifan expr ter containing valuables, the value if, as too frequently bappenr, a letter oo: money is d dit only answer id such is the agent loses a let- refunded ; bat deliberate treason. Bee “| lost, a mm, upon inquiry at the office for the missing letter, is, ‘no such letter in the 3 many forms as Proteus, that their object was revolution, and for it they would now be good pro- fessed democrata, and would acquicsoe in the oom- letter, already too long, with a synopsia of a postal regulation, which | respectfully submit to you and the members of Congress :— 1. Let all substances, not detrimental to paper wales be tran, . : 2. All postage to be prepaid by stamps. BA cattorsa rate of two cents, on all letters less than one half ounce, passing from one to ano- thor post office, and delivertd to its address, if the wer to accomplisa that the Union mon of all parties in Missistippi and Georgia had eban- doned old party affinities, and had unitedin the pa- triotic object of common defence against the com- There bad not abandoned their do signa, but were secking to make the democratic their cat’s paw in schemes of disuaion aad and with much force and democratic Union mom against their wiles and their attempt to gain infla- ence under the name of democracy. yn City Intelligence. Tuiap Lacturs on Tite Doctrings or Tus Roman Catuouic Cuvrcu.— Dr. Pise delivered his third leoture last Sabbath, at the Church of Saint Charles Borromeo, Sydi . He based his discourse pistle to the Thessalonia verse :—** Therefore we also the word of ( hearing of the of received it not as the word of man, but as it is, in- The lecturer proceeded promise to gain strength and Broo! Doctor Piss’ country, three paid to the captain of to make either foreign or pert open at the onds, one cont to U tes. eres may have the privi- prenaving, on all their papers, to persons ibe for three months or more, quarterly, | in advance, at the rate of one half cent on each paper. 10. Circulars or handbilla, unsealed, one cont to rts of the United States. | other printed matter, except bound books, one cent per ounce. 4 Bound books, two cents per ounce. £ ane, and that tradition was admitted Catholic Church, on the authority of St. 1 are not written. . For, instance, holy the Sunday, instead of the Sab od infant baptism the. inspirast ; on the books themselves. at wore to decide seventh day--a , Of printed papers, to pay three cents per 'y ited by the iti Scripture authority for it tested rg A a reviow of all the of clerks; ‘@xpenses for nding for the veracity of the V and the English ed tion known as the “ the righ: of the chureh to inter, these saored laws, aa savil h a8 was placed some rome nt®, ad #hich could not be d spaced whee vicy @ qucttiva Lad hoca deeded. ju prome @athority,

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