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MASSACHUSETTS UNPTED STATES SENATORS. Our Boston Correspondence. Boston, March 22, 1853. Tristram Dalton—Caleb Strong—George Cabot— Benjamin Goodhue—Jonathan Mason—Dwight Foster—Samuel Dexter—Theodore Sedgwick— John Quincy Adams— Timothy Pickering—James Loyd—Nathaniel Silsbee—Joseph B. Varnwm— Christopher Gore—Harrisom Gray Otis—Prentiss Mdlen—E. J. Mills—Eli P. Ashmun—Daniel Webster—John Davis—Rufus Choate—Isaac C. Bates—R. C. Winthrop—Robt. Rantoul, Jr.— Charles Sumner—Edward Everett. Maseachusetts has contributed her full share of eminent men to the national Senate. It may be doubted if any State has seut as many superior men to that body, though she has occasionally sent small men there, and I much fear that the breed is not ex- tinct. Enthusiastic admirers of Mr. Webster say, that to her belongs the honor of having sent the greatest of Senators to Washington. With all defer- ence to their opinion, I do not think that Mr. Web- ster was a greater man than Mr. Calhoun or Mr. Clay. We should not, in our admiration of one great man, be unjust to others. , And, so far as great- ness is to be judged of by results, by the efforts of human action on men and nations, Andrew Jackson was greater than all three of them put together. It is the custom to call Massachusetts a federal and a whig State, yet it isa fact that. for a large portion of the time since the existence of national par- ties, she has had democratic administrations. Among her democratic Governors were Hancock, Samuel Adams, Sullivan, Gerry, and Eustis. I suppose that one great reason why she has the reputation of being uniformly a federal or whig State, throughout the Tnion, is to be found in the fact that her senatorial delegations, with very few and those not marked exceptions, have been composed of federalista or whigs. Whenever the nation has heard a great woice from the Senate, professing to expound the opinions of Massachusetts, it has been that of a federal statesman. Such democrats as have been in the Senate, have not been of the class that speaks by authority. When Mr. J. Q. Adams, in the em- bargo times, ventured to say something on the de- mocratic side, his mouth was closed in @ very sum- | Mary manner, and he was made to feel his place so unpleasant, that he forthwith resigned it. Mr. Var- num, the first democrat we elected tothe United | States Senate from Massachusetts, was not a first class man. Mr. Silsbee did not go into the Senate burthens. Mr. His friend, of him, almost , writing twe ago, said :—“It is well remembered to mT been one of Mr. Cabot’s opinions, that this country must, sooner or later, submit (a3 in ancient repul ) to the termination of freedom, through delusion. He thought the natural it was most terrible in small com- action of this spirit munities, and that the yeeicaged safety of this sountry would be found in iffusion of its inhabi- iants over a wide surface. He was, therefore, for opinion with the federal statesman of fifty years been master of a merchant ship. said of him, he was something more than a merchant. He was a man of uncommon natural powers, which he had cultivated with great industry. With the ex- ceptions of Mr. Webster and Mr. Dexter, I doubt if Massachusetts ever had an abler man in the Senate than George Cabot. I have heard it said that the Cabots of this country are descended from the John Cabot, a Venetian, who settled in Bristol (Eng.) in the reign of He; VIL, and who was a great navigator, as was son Sebastian; but as George Cabot had blue eyes and light hair, it would not seem that any of his ancestors were Venetians, unless a great change had taken place in physical appearances. It must be admitted, however, that him to sitin the Grand Council of the City of the Hundred Isles. Mr. Cabot was succeeded by Benjamin Goodhue? also a merchant, and of Salem, and a gentleman of some note in the political world. He was one of the eight representatives chosen from Massachusetts to the first Congress of the United States, and he was three times re-elected to the House. He was serving his fourth term when he was appointed by the Ex: ecutive (the famous Samuel Adams) to fill ‘the Sena- torial vacancy created by the resignation of Mr. Cabot. He was soon afterwards chosen a Senator Beene pen ix, vera eat ie Ai iot ‘arch, 1797; but he resigned seat in 1800, and, I think, took no further part in public life. His son, a wealthy merchant of your city, died a few years since. Mr. Goodhue married, for his second wife, a Miss Willard, of Lancaster, Mass., a daughter, or other near relation, to Abijah Willard, a famous tory of the Revolution, one of the Mandamus Councillors, and a man of character, property. and influence, and a connection of Colonel Prescott, who com- manded the Americans at Bunker Hill. Mr. Willard left Boston, with the British army, in 1776,and some ears later settled in New Brunswick, where he | founded a place called Lancaster, after his Massa- chusetts home. After his death, in 1789, his family returned to Massachusetts, and one of the ladies mar- ried Mr. Goodhue. She now lives at Lancaster, with her brother, Mr. Willard, and, though somewhat past ninety years, is in full enjoyment of both peveral and mental health. Few women, indeed, of half her years, are posseseed of more vigor. One is reminded of Junia, the sister of Brutus and wife of | until old party lines had become obliterated. Mr. Rantoul was there but a few days; and Mr. Sumner, | though no whig, is not exactly in full fellowship with the democracy. The first two Senators of the United States, elected by the Legislature of Massachusetts, were Tristram | Dalton, and Caleb Strong. There have been few more remarkable men in Massachusetts than Gov. | Strong. He was born in Northampton, in 1744. He belonged to the legal profession. He was an active whig during the revolution, was a member of the | convention that framed the national constitution, | and also of the Massachusetts convention that adopt- | ed it. At the age of forty-five he entered the United States Senate, where he remained for seven years, and of which body he was a conspicuous member. | He resigned his seat in 1796. He was Governor of | Massachusetts from 1800 to 1807, when he was beaten byeMr. Sullivan, the democratic candidate, who had been Attorney General. In 1812 Governor Strong | was run by the federalists, and defeated Elbridge | Gerry, whom he had previously beaten in 1800 and | 1801. He was re-elected in 1813, ’l4 and’l5. He was eleven times chosen Governor by the people, | and defeated but once. Being chief magistrate of | the State during the war with England, he was at | the head of those federalists of the ultra stamp, who | acted as if they desired the success of England, | though I think there are few advocates of the | doctrine of State rights who would think of ques- | tioning the accuracy of his position on the militia question. During his terms of service, from 1300 to 1807, he was moderate in his federalism ; but from 1812 to 1816 he was rabid enough to satisfy the most thorough-going of that doomed | party, which know neither how to maintain power or | to gracefully abandon it. Previous to 1789 Governor Strong had been several times a member of the Le- gislature, and he received the appointment of Justice of our Supreme Court. In the United States Senate he was chairman of the committee that reported the law organizing the Supreme Court of the Union. Old | federalists look back to the year when he was Gover- | nor as having been a sort of golden age, perhaps as much from their having been the years of their youth | as from any other cause. Some of the more anti- | quated of their number—gentlemen who were fa- vored with a sight of the proof sheets of “Adams on Liberty” more than half a century ago—are, indeed, | good-naturedly accused by “Young America” of | yoting for Mr. Strong every year, under the impres- | sion that he is still alive, and “the regular whig can- didate."’ . He was an honest man, possessed of mach talent, and his intentions were good. Had the fede- ral party maintained its ascendancy he would have figured on the stage of national politics; and, as it was, he is the most prominent of all our old federal leaders who held only State offices, Mr. Strong’s | career as a national politician ceasing before the fe- | | deralists were destroyed, and being confined to hold- ing a Senatorship before that event. He was in his | seventy-second year when he retired from public life, and has been long dead. Mr. Dalton was Governor Strong's colleague during the first Congress. He was of the first class of senators, and went out of the Senate in 1791, never to appear in the national legislature again. Iie was a man of respectable talents, but there was nothing in hig career that need detain us. It seems strange that, with so many able men at her command, Mas- sachusetts should have passed them over when se- | lecting her senatorial delegation, to confer one of its places upon a gentleman of no very great repu- | Mr. Dalton was succeeded by George Cabot, a fede- ral leader of great renown and influence in his time, but not particularly well known to the present gene- | ration. Mr. Cabot was a native of Salem, where he was born, in 1752. During the Revolution he was a member of the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts and he was afterwards a member of the State Convention that adopted the constitution of the | United States. He remained in the Senate until 1796, when he resigned his seat. On the organiza-— tion of the Navy Department, Mr. Carot was offer- ed the place of Secretary, but he would not accept it. He wasaman of very ardent feelings, and a thorough federalist—one of those men “Who in po- litical warfare would have scorned to accept quar- ters, as they never dreamed of giving it. In those in- ternal troubles that murked the condition of the federal party preparatory to its fall, Mr. Cabot sided with the Hamiltonian faction—the Adams faction | not being sufficiently vehement and arbitrary to suit his domineering ideas. After leaving the Senate, Mr. Cabot took a prominent part in State politics, serving in the Legislature, or as ® member of the Legislative Council. He was one of the Massachu- wets delegates to that famous body (and terror of democratic fogies) the Hartford Convention, over the deliberations of which he was called to preside. The only error that can be charged upon that convention is, that it wasill-timed. Some of the doctrines which it put forth were such as would bave been gladly en- | dorsed by the original democratic republicans. That | it contemplated treasonable action against the go- | vernment, or did anything that might not have been | with perfect safety done in public, ia believed by | none but bedlamites—excepting just before an elec- | tion, when the skeleton of the convention, with two “bine lights” shining out of its eyeless sockets, and the mouth grinning at human (olly, is paraded round, like on English Guy Fawke rv the especial de- | Jectation of antique bigotry. | can very weil remem- | ber when those two words, ‘Hartford Convention,” formed the whole stock in trade of the New England democratic leaders. Such trash is now pretty nearly ‘all banished to that limbo prepared for the « uae of political follies, and the shelves of wien aught to We groauing beneath Cassius, who, as Tacitus tells us, survived both brother and husband for sixty years. Mr. Willard, the lady’s brother, who is her sénior, is also in the enjoyment of a vigorous old age. It is to be hoped bat both will live to become centenarians, at the very least. Mr. Goodhue was a Hamiltonian, and had the same hostile feelings towards Mr. Adams that were felt by most of the federal leaders. Hamilton had, | indeed, bewitched them, and they could not do jus- tice to any man who was scree to stand in his way. Ina letter to Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, he speaks of “Mr. Adams's insufferable madness and vanity,” and expresses his joy at the prospect of that gentleman losing certain electoral votes, the Presidential election of 1800 being then at its height. There was little love lost on either side. Mr. Goodhue’s colleague, during the greater part of his Senatorial life, was Theodore Sedgwick, of Stockbridge, in the county of Berkshire, and mem- ber of a colonial family of considerable reputation, which has been increased since our national exis- tence commenced. Mr. Sedgwick had been a mem- ber of the House of Representatives, serving in the first four Congresses. He was chosen to succeed | Mr. Strong in the Senate, much against his wishes, he states in his correspondence. He had, he said, made up his mind to retire; but, in spite of of Representatives in 1799, and was chosen Speaker of that body. He was soon after appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of assachusetts, and has the credit of having intro- eontinuing the unity of the American people, and avoiding the evils of party feeling, when limited to narrow 3} and to small numbers.” For a different reason, democracy of to-day are of the same | ce. Mr. Cabot was a merchant, and had, I believe, | Bat, as has been | some of Mr. Cabot’s sentiments would have qualified | rock of .¥ be served until the close of the Fourteenth j Con; , in 1817. During the war he was considered the of the Essex Junto, as he represented the Essex district. Mr. John Quincy Adams entered the United States Senate in 1803, a8 succeasor to Jonathan Mason, He was then a federalist, and a eee of | his party, though it must be admit that his muse | Was more vigorous than elegant—more like an axe- | wielder than the bearer of a diamond pen. He car- | ried to the Senate, though but thirty-six years old, | & greater amount of diplomatic experience than per- haps ever was possessed by any other member—cer- tainly than by any new member. Beside having been with his father Grring ® portion of his revolu- | tionary diplomatic career, he had been early appoint- ed to diplomatic stations by Washington. i the time of the em! » he came out in support of the | administration. It will always be a a whether he was honest in thus acting. Certain it that if he acted honestly, never before or since was honesty so well rewarded, for the change made him to Englund, Secelary of Sate, and President of tho b \ lent of the | United States. Truly, his career looks very like a | forcible commentary on Macaulay's panrene renark, | that many a success dates from a well-timed rat. Taking ce at the action of the Massuchusetts | Legislature in choosing James Lloyd to succeed him, | Mr. Adams resigned seat, and Mr. Lloyd was | then chosen for the balance of his term. It was | thought that one cause of Mr. Adams's of opi was his belief that the Legislature of 1803 would be democratic in its character, and re-elect | him. If so, he was mistaken, as the federalists ob- | tained control of that body, after a hard fight, | though the democrats succeded in re-electing Gov. Sullivan. James Lloyd was Boston merchant, and a maa of talent. He was a powerful advocate of the creation of a large naval force. Mr. Hildreth, in his valuable “« History of the United States,” gives a speech that Mr. Lloyd made, in 1812, on this subject, which is full of good sense, and characterized by boldness and eloquence. He was for bering Say frigates built, and declared that in five days he coul cer them from New England alone. He said that it would take a hundred British frigates to watch the movements of these thirty American vessels, which he proposed to divide into six squadrons, and order them to cruise over all parts of the ocean where Britain had commercial ships. But the government of that day had not boldness enough to follow this sensible advice. Mr. Lloyd left the Senate in 1813. In 1822 he was again a member of that body, suc- ceeding Mr. Otis, and serving until 1826, when he again voluntarily retired. Mr. Blase was succeeded by Christopher Gore, of Boston, a high toned federalist, and a man of much talent, and considerable experience in public life. He was a native of Boston, and born in 1758. Thor- oughly educai.d, he soon became distinguished at the bar, and received from Washington the spun ment of United States Attorney for the District of baie being the first person who held the office. matic life, for George Cabot writes to Secretary Wol- cott, in 1799:—*‘ I fulfil my own inclination, as well as§promise, i menioning oe that Mr. Gore, one of our Commissioners in London, at the expiration of his present service, would willingly go to Constan- tinople or St. Petersburg, or any other court, as Mi- nister Plenipotentiary, if the government should need a person for such an employment, and should think him capable of serving them Soren eae Mr. Gore has formed himself for such an office by assiduous study and attention for ten years, and eons would be well received anywhere.” But his diplomatic ambition was destined never to know realization. He spent eight years in England, as one of the com- missioners for settling claims for English spoliations, under the Jay treaty. After his return home, he served for some time in the State Senate and House | of Representatives, where he took the lead in de- nouncing the policy of the general goverament. In 1809, he was chosen Governor, by a mainte 3,000, ina vote of 90,000, over Levi Lincoln, father ofthe gen- tleman of the same name who hassince been Governor of the State and member of Congress. There was some thought of bringing forward Mr. J.Q. Adams as the “republican” candidate, he har asalready stated, just ‘‘ratted’’ from the fede! ; but it came to nothing. Governor Gore held the office of Executive but one year, being beaten by ees Gerry in 1810. He was appointed to succeed in 1815, and resigned his seat in the Senate in 1816. He never afterwards took an pet in public official life. He was a gentleman ot ie appearance, cour- teous manners, and aristocratic ideas and habits— He seems to have been ambitious of a diplo- | | | | tothe Senate since the re-organization of parties, after | | Tr. | this resolution, he went back to the House Lloyd, as United aed roy in 1813, re-elected | duced courteous manners on the bench, they having | that is, what is now called “a gentleman of the old been previously unknown there. Mr. Sedgwick was | sehool.’’ When elected Governor, he set upa new a strong federalist. He was a member of the State carriage, in which he rode most dignifiedly, looking Convention which adopted the national constitution. very grand, as the storybook says. This was offen- | es had each | but one wheel, and perhaps had something to dowith | Mr. Sedgwick was the only Senator ever seat from the extreme western part of the State, and he served but three years. He had been a member of | his early defeat. Two or three years ago that same sive tomany gentlemen whose c: | parties that soon took the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1788. The celebrated Samuel Dexter, whose name stands next to that of Daniel Webster on our list of Sena- tors, sueceeded to Mr. Sedgwick. He had previously served in the House of Representatives, and his re- eer in politics and law was well established. le had also been a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. He was the son of a Boston! merchant, and was born in 1761, He was one of the few able New England federalists who adhered to Mr. Adams | at the time of his quarrel with Hamilton. On the 13th of May, 1800, Mr. Dexter was appointed Secre- tary of War, when President Adams turned Mr. Mc ag? f out of that office. The intention bad been to give the place to Mr. (afterwards Chief Justice) | Marshall; but Loidia | concluded to kick Timothy Picker out of the State Department, the President | gave the War Department to Mr. Dexter, and that | of State tothe Virginian. On the 30th day of Dec., 1800—being the last day bat one of the eighteenth century—Mr. Dexter was made Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Wolcott, who had held it from the time of Hamilton's withdrawal, having withdrawn from the office. Walcott sneered at the appointment, and in- sinuated that his successor would. mocrats, for the sake of keeping his place. On the going out of the Adams administration, Mr. Dexter | resumed his professional labors, and was soon at the | head of the New England bar. He had much busi- ness at Washington, where he was no unfair match for Pinkney, Emmet, and the rest of the great law- | ers of that time. During the war with England, r. Dexter would not only not countenance the | conduct of the Massachuseits federalists, but opposed mind. He preferred to risk his party standing to | doing anything that could be construed into evena tacit approval of thefactious course that was followed by Strong, Otis, and most of the other federal leaders. This opposition to his former associates was earnest and efiective, and led toa rupture of ties that had long existed. The democratic party put Mr. Dexter in nomination for Governo ough without bis con- sent in the first instance, h been obtained; but it never could succeed in electing him. Mr. Dexter died suddenly, in 1816, of a disease of the heart. It is supposed that if he had lived he would have re- turned to the political field, where, in the fusion of place, he would not have tailed to rise high. Mr. Dexter was not what is ordinarily called an eloquent man, but he had no superior in the country in powers of argument. He early took an interest in the subject of temperance, and was president of what is sup- posed to have been the first temperance society established in this country. He was a tall, dark- complexioned man, whose appearance did not belie his fagnenot origin. Mr. Goodhue’s successor was Jonathan Mason, of Boston, who served until March, 1803, through three seesions of Congress. Though not the equal of some of our Senators, Mr. Mason was a man of considera- | sand no little influence. He did not come al office again until 1817. In 1816, when Mr. Rit , & young man, and son-in-law of Har- rison Gray Otis, was nominated as their candidate | for Congress in the Boston district, by the federal- iste, Mr. Mason was run against him, and was elected, recei the suppor the democrats. He | remained inthe House until 120. Dwight Foster, of Worcester, was elected to fill the vacancy caused by Mr. Dexter's elevation to the | cabinet. He had previously served in the House of | Representatives from 1793 to 1799. His successor was the fomons Timothy Pickering, of Salem, who | entered the Senate in March, 1503, and remained | there eight years. Mr. Pickerir credit during the war of the Revolution. He bronght up the Exsex regiment, on the nineteenth of April, | 1775, against the British, but unfortunately arrived a little too lJate for service. It was the opinion of Washington, that if he had arrived an hour | sooner, the British force must have been entirely cat | otic as she had been in the Revolution. Mr. Otis | off—but no blame was attached to Col. Pickering for | not reaching the scene of action sooner. In the ad- | m nistrations of Washington and John Adams, Mr. | was then looked upon aa something desperately | wicked—the fact that it was the most harmless of Pickering held, in succession, the offices of Postmas ter General, Secretary of War, and Secretary of State. | From the last named office he was turned out by Mr. | Adams, for various alleged reasons, all of which can be summed up in the word Hamiltonianism. Mr. | | Adams spoke very contemptuously of his State pa- | pers; but Mr. Madison, Wao was a good judge of such things, thought highly of them. The President | a most chilling reception. His name, his talents, his | eloquence, and his character, worthy of admiration as | cannot be blamed for dismissing Mr. Pickering, who | | was a savage enemy of his, even while belonging to his cabinet. Elect to the Senate in 1803, Mr. Pickering was an ‘out-and-out’ opponent of the ad- ministrations of Jefferson and Madison. The demo- cratic victories of 1510 and 1811, in Massachusetts, had the effect of bringing his Senatorial career to a close in 1811. He was an honest, bold, and incor- | ruptible man, of strong prejudices and intense fe ings. He made use of strong language in deba Mr. Ingersoll “Ona great fleld debate, in 1814, 0n the }.0.n bill, Mr. Pickering, in the course of his harangve fooking through his spectacles, full in the Chairman's face, said, with great emphasis, | winging his long arm aloft, that le stood on u rock. | * {stand on @ rock,’ said he, ‘from which all demo- | | spoken, ultra democrat, who cared ver | return to power. | succeeded b aristocratical vehicle was used asa “hack” between the Fitchburg railway station, in Concord, and the village, driven by the ‘‘old knobby-fuced coachman” mentioned in Putnam's “Homes of American Au- thors.” It did not strike me as Bene @ very grand affair; but, then, ke! years, that change blooming girls into withered beldames, may be supposed to not even spare carriages. Mr. Gore was wealthy, and left, by will, large sums of money for various useful ol Gore Hall, at Cambndge, and in which the library of Harvard University is kept, is a beautiful monument to his taste, and shows the deep regard that he had for the cause of letters. The sum that | he bequeathed to Harvard University amounted to $100,000. He died in 1829. Mr. Gore's successor was Eli P. Ashmun, of North- ampton, who served until 1818, when he resigned, | Mellen, of Portland. | and was succeeded by Prentiss Mr. Mellen was the only Senator ever taken from the “District of Maine,” as that part of New England was then called, while it formed a portion of Massa- years, and was followed by Elijah H. Mills, of North- ampton, who had been a member of the House of until 1827. Joseph B. Varnum, of Dracut, was chosen to the Senate in 1811, to succeed Mr. Pickering, one of the stoutest of democrats, taking the seat just vacated by the sturdiest of federalists. He had been a member of the House of Representatives from 1795 to 1811, representing the Middlesex district, which was as democratic as the county had been strong in its at- tachment to the principles of the Revolution. Mr. it—patriotism rising superior to party feeling in his Varnum had been Speaker of the House, the only | New England democrat who ever held the place. He was a sort of patriarch ee the Massachusetts democracy, so that, when they had become possess- ed of power, it was the most natural thing inthe world for them to elevate him to the Senate, though there were abler men in their party than he. Mr. Varnum remained in the Senate his full term, going out in 1817, and so terminating a Congressional career of twenty-two years, which included two years of the administration of Washington, and the entire administrations of John Adams, Jefferson, and Madison. But three men from Magsachusetts ever excecded Mr. Varnum in the length of their Congressional career—Daniel Web- ster, John Davis, and John Reid; and Mr. J. Q. Adams served about as long as Mr. Varnum. But Mr. Varnum served continuously, while the other gentlemen named did not. Mr. Varaum’s term re in 1817, and he was sneceeded by Harrison Gray Otis. It would have been difficult to present a greater contrast than was afforded by these two men. The one was a plain little for the graces, but whom the consciousness of success had kept from degenerating. The other was the most eloquent of federalists, a scholar and a gentleman, but who had become soured by the failures of his party, and by the falsification of ‘all his political pre- dictions. During the administration of Tous Adams, | Mr. Otis had been a member of the United States Houge of Representatives, and waa there infiuential and popular. When he left the House, his party, though defeated, was atill strong, and, attributing ita | defeat to its dissensions, could reasonably hope for a r After remaining out of Congress for sixteen years, 4 large portion of which time he had been prominent as one of the most energetic leaders of the Massachusetts federalists, serving in the Legislature of that State during the war, and sitting in the Hartford Convention, he returned to Washington in 1817. He found ad served with | himself in a new world, where he was coldly | regarded. The federalists of all other parts of the country except New England had generally sup- ported the war, and the Massachusetts federalists, by their ferocious energy and uncompromising hate, had alone prevented New England from being as patri and his associates were strongly suspected of having contemplated treason. humbugs being a discovery reserved for our more en- lightened day. That the federal party was at the very nedir of its fortunes, and that it could look for no redemption, were facts attributable to the conduct, at once wicked and foolish, of the federalists of Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Otis received, therefore, on all hands, and all were, could not save him from cold He is understood to have left the Senate eac treatment. because he found his position so unpleasant there, | At all events, he resigned his seat in 1522, and was James Lloyd, the same gentleman who took Mr. Adams's place in 1805, and who cared for neither cold looks nor hard words, as he had that courage in which his more sensitive predecessor was deficient, and had not, beside, been so conspicuous | for toh ge unpatriotic conduct. Mr. Otis eur- vived, until within the last few years, a relic of a de- parted age, but a disappointed man. He was once tun for Governor of Massachusetts, but defeated. Mr. Lloyd left the Senate in 1426, Silsbee, of” Salem, was chosen to succeed him, and erney,’ then raising his voice and repeating it, ‘not | remained in the Senate ontil 1835. He was an old their cuoruivus ; all democracy, and hell to boot, cau move me—the | democrat, a wealthy man, and one of the fow per: The Hartiord Convention | Nathaniel | rt of the country. He had served in tes Hous’ of Representatives from ; but, thowh @ democrat, Mr. Silsbee belong to the Jackson party, which began to show its strength alvut the time that he entered the Senate. He was s national republican, and then a whig, supportins Mr. Adams, and then Mr. Clay. The choice of ® successor to Mr. Silbbee gave rise to some very singular proceedings. Mr. Adams, after a brief retirement, resumed public life in 1831, 23a member of the United States House of Repre- sentatives. The anti-masons made much of him, and run him for Governor, I believe. In 1833 the whig papins was actually in a minority here; but, in 1834, in consequence of Mr. Merrick’s “ ratting” tothem from the anti-masons—deserting and betraying the latter, as he has “ done’ every party to wi h he has belonged—they recovered their posi- tion. The whig party was then pretty thoroughly ized, and it was very generally under- that Mr. Adams was to succeed Mr. Silsbee. This arrangement, however, fell through, in conse- quence of what has been called Mr. Adams's “ im- rudent”’ conduct at the time of our dispute with ce, on the indemnity question. Mr. Webster took ground against General Jackson. Mr. Adams sided with his o!d competitor for the Presidency, and made strong patriotic hes. The whigs of Mas- sachusetis were as much disgusted with his conduct as the federalists had been with his course on the embargo question, seven and twenty years before. It would never do to have aman of such “ tempestu- ous sympathies” in the Senate, from the old federal State. Mr. Adams was snarls. dropped, and the Senatorship was conferred upon Governor Davis, who has since figured quite procebnens es Washing- ton. Mr. Davis was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1826 to 1834. Twice elected Governor—in 1834 and 1835—he left the exe- cutive chair for the Senate, but in 1840 he was a third time chosen Governor. Re-elected in 1841, he was defeated in 1842. On the death of Mr. Bates, in 1845, he was a second time chosen Senator, for two years, and a third time, for six years, in 1847. He was a federalist in his youth and early manhood, and, for years, had been one of the ae of the Mas- sachusetts whig party. The dropping of Mr. Adams, in 1835, had the effect of driving that ,entleman and his friends into the support of Mr. Van Buren, in 1836. Mr. Charles Francis Adams was quite a de- mocrat until the monet convulsions of 1837 af- forded him a good opportunity of returning to the whigs, with whom he remained until 1848, when he joined in the free-soil movement. The hostility that ‘was caused by Mr. Adams’s defeat wasnever removed, so far as it concerned Mr. Webster, and there was no friendship between these two eminent men, who | were in the habit of speaking of one another in any- thing but elegant terms. Of the later Senators it is not necessary to speak at much length, as their history is well known. Mr. | Webster entered the Senate in 1527, and remained there until he took the office of Secretary of State, in | 1841. In 1845 he was again chosen Senator, and | would have served out his term but for the death of General Taylor, which led to his being called to the cabinet again. Mr. Choate was chosen in 1841, and remained there until 1645—Mr, Webster succeeding him. Mr. Bates, of Northampton, was chosen Sena- tor in 1841, and died in 1845. He succeeded Mr. f= 7 Bso, . : 3 & who was re-elected in 1847, and now goes out. When Mr. Webster resigned, in 1850, Governor Briggs ap- inted Mr. Winthrop his successor, At tho next | Btate election the coalition carried the Legislature, and made choice of Mr. Rantoul to serve out the balance of Mr. Webster's term, which amounted to but a few days. He was the first democrat elected the election of Mr. Adams tothe Presidency. The same Legislature chose Mr.Sumnerto serve from 1851 to 1857. It was, I think, a desire to succeed Mr. Da- vis in the Senate, that led Mr. Mann to allow his name to be used for the governorship, last year, by the free soilers. But in aiming at that place, he hardly prepared, so far as the democratic branch of | it was concerned, to send a man of such violent free soil opinions to the Senate. The whigs have since elected Mr. Everett. He leftthe State Department on the 4th inst., and entered the Senate chamber as the successor of John Davis. Angoma, | | caused the overthrow of the coalition, which was | | FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. Frivay, March 25—6 P. M. There was a moderately_active market this morn- ing. Atthe first board prices were a little more buoyant; but the rise thus far has not been of a de- cided character. It has not been of the right sort to give confidence, and the purchases of cash stock bave been principally by the bears for de- livery. The great difierence between the cash price and buyer's option is an inducement for operators to buy cash stock and sell it out immediately on time, buyer's option. Two and three per cent have been paid in this way for sixty days, and a good profit made by holding the stock. Morris Canal went up d percent, Phoenix 14, Edgeworth 3, New Jersey | Zine 3, Canton Company 1j, Nicaragua }, Parker Vein }, Harlem 4, Hudson Railroad 3,, New Haven Railroad 3, Michigan Central Railroad.4, Michigan Southern Railroad 3. Cmberland declined j per cent, Erie Railroad 3, Reading Railroad 1, Sixth Avenue Railroad 4. At the second board the market reacted a little, and closed with a downward tendency. Morris Canal declined 3 per cent, New | a Ni , i , Read- | chusetts. He, too, resigned; ae cenkectiw [cco dN te ees y | ing Railroad 3. Hudson’ Railroad advanced 4 per | cent, Phoenix 14. There was not much business | go over to the de- | Representatives from 1815 to 1819. Mr. Mills served | transacted at the afternoon board, but it was prin- cipally for cash, The receipts at the office of the Asssistant Trea- surer of this port to-day amounted to $122,197 11; payments, $48,351 01—balance, $7,178,125 71. | There has been but a moderate demand for foreign | exchange for remittance by the steamship “Hermann for Bremen to-morrow. The tendency of rates at the cloee was upward, without any material change. After the adjournment of the first board, the fol- | lowing sales were made at auction by Mr. Simeon Draper :— Empire City Bank Fast River Bank,, Shoe and Leather Knickerbocker Bank Farmers’ Williamsburg . Citizens’ Bank. Suffolk Bank... . Nassau Fire Insurances ». Commercin! Fire Insuran . Lorillard Fire Insurance Co 20 shares 18 do. 10 16 20 . Hanover Fire Insurance Co, .. Continental Insurance Co . Glinton Insurance Co... We are happy to learn that Mr. Wm. J. McAlpin, State Engineer and Surveyor, has been appointed Chief Engineer and Vice President of the New York and Erie Railroad, for we now have a guaranty that the line will be well managed, and the affairs of the | most judicious selection. slide along 80 smoothly as anticipated. { bably stick in the Governor's hands, upon some constitutional question. The steamship Asia, from Liverpool, arrived at this port this evening, with three days later intelli- gence from all parts of Europe. The news does not vary materially from that received by the previous steamer. Financial affairs were quict, aud the mo- | ney marke t stringent, notwithstanding the influx of gold. American securities had been unfavorably | affected by recent advices from this side. Less busi- | nesshad been transacted, and prices were in some | and the market wasvery dull. In grain there has | been no change either way, but business had been very much depressed. The news, on the whole, is not favorable. The Miners’ (Cumberland) Journal of the 11th instant, in speaking of the Caledonia mines of that coal region, says:—These valuable mines consti- tute a portion of the fine coal property of the Par- | ker Vein Company, in the George’s Creek valley. They are managed by Mr. John Cowan, one of the most experienced practical miners of this ‘region. | Mr. C. has finished his inclined plane of 1,700 feet, and on Friday last coal cara were passed over it with the most perfect success, the grades being found well adapted for safe and easy transportation. The Par- | ker Vein Company are now prepared to send to mar- | ket two hundred tons of coal daily as soon as the | Lonaconing Railroad reaches the mines, and are | making preparations for a much larger business. The annexed statement exhibits the quantity and value of foreign drygoods entered at this port for consumption, for warehousing, and the withdrawals from warehouse, during the week ending the 24th of March, 1863 ;— Davis, and was himself succeeded by that gentleman, | company properly administered throughout. Itisa | The bill providing for the amalgamation of the cen- | tral line of railroads in this State is not likely to | It will pro- | | instances lower. Quotations for cotton bad declined, | Pongees...... Silk & worsted 3 Sik & cotton, Total....... 711 $548,480 MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. Woollens, 206 $90,616 87 27,730 2) 938° 13,019 71,446 954 Collars 18,883 Millinery..... culls 926 $275,858 Entered for Warehousing. Total...... MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. MANUFACTURES OF SITK. Woollens .... 100 $39,351 Silks 5 18 Cott.& worsted 18 4,563 Crape ff 22 4,087 Searfs 28 9,701 Cravat 29 © (5,281 Handk 4 1,536 Pongees...... 366 899 8 1,559 Silk & cotton. 2 Aut pts Plush. ...... 4 2,664 Total ...... 209 $66,028 7 MANUFACTURES OF COTTON, Cottons ...... 187 $24,942 Colr'd cot 5 611 y 2 588 86 (9,541 417,536 Total ...... 221 $43,218 Matting,.,. .1,610 MANUFACTURES OF FiaX. —— Linens,,.,.,. 168 $18,422 Total,...,.1,646 $13,179 Withdrawn from Warehouse. Plosh....... 7 Wearing app’! 10 MANUFACTURES OF SILK. MANU FAUFURES OF WOOL. Silks $5,403 Woollens..... 16 $6,871 Las 1 642 Cott. & wors' 19 = 8,608 9 1,198 Stuff goods. 4 782 8. and W. do. 5 3369 Blankets 9 1,476 Pongees.. ... 9 2,203 Hose.... 2 1,498 Silkand cotton 1 286 _ | Gimps. . 2 705 = Total ...... 50 $13,735 Raw... 84 = 4,813 MANUFACTURES cy FLAX. . 70 $18,208 iets 3 | 26 MISCELLANBOUS, | Vestings . FY 447 Straw goods.. 48 $0,176 Manufs. of... 1 360 Embroidery.. 2 970 Total ...... 33 «$9,882 Total...... 50 $3,146 RECAPITULATION. Entered for Consumption. 1852. 53. gs. Value. Pigs. Value. Manuf. of wool...... 668 $260,375 26 = $275,858 i cott 906 = 184,987 1,293 = 241,236 36! 335 TL = (848,489 164,699 6920-125, 241 88/990 7,105 104,074 Totals......+.7....9,085 $8NB(305 10,027 $1,004,898 Withdrawn from Warehouse. Manuf. of wool...... 7! $26,303 50 = $13,735 ae cotton, 170 28,367 33 9,882 ba silk 83 28,173 70 18,208 ies fi 172 20,071 26 4,203 Miscellaneo 788 10,013 50 3,146 Totals..... +. 1,202 $112,927 229 «$49,174 Entered for Warehousing. Manuf. of wool...... 238 $66,623 $66,028 “ cotten 203 41117 221 43,218 ws silk 26,071 670 100,269 id flax 15,911 158 18,422 Miscellaneous . 24,015 «1,646 = 13,179 Totals. .! $179,797 2,904 $241,116 Total val 1861, 1852. 1853. market fourth week in March... $1,612,841 $1,081,822 $1,144,072 Previously, since Jan. Ist .....0.0e 20,376,343 18,450,919 24,343,081 Totals...........821,089,184 $19,532,241 $25,487,153 The same general features have characterized the transactions in dry goods during the past and pre- ceding weeks. Contraction has gone on unarrested by any undue inclination upon the part of either fac- tors or purchasers to operate. The stringency in the money market has nurtured prudential habits among dealers, who now keep the future more immediately in view, while conducting their affairs, than they have hitherto done. This is a sound policy, and were it adopted earlier in the season, we would have | less reason to doubt the prebability of a prosperous | termination of the spring business. But it was not. On the contrary, operators, emboldened by the win- ter’s successful issue, and buoyed up by the super- abundance of money, entered into very extensive and very indiscreet contracts for goods suif- able to the passing season, and which is one- of the most trying quarters of the year. The stocks furnished to meet those contracts have greatly exceeded the vastly increased wants of the country, and a considerable portion of them are now in first hands, awaiting the revival of a Northern and Western demand, which will doubtless be animated, but very unlikely to absorb our sup- lies, which are daily augmented by fresh receipts. Should country merchants not buy more than is generally anticipated, a reverse in the course of trade that will sehen! damage our past progress, | is deemed inevitable. This result would not be very satisfactory to any one; much less would it please parties really engaged in the traffic. But while all would have cause to regret such an occurrence, it would not fail to produce good effects, by admonish- ing dealers of the safest paths to pursue hereafter, which, unfortunately, have not been snfficiently well known, or rightly followed by those whose it EX: perience has not divested of either a culpable igno- rance or recklessness. The trade in domestic manu- factures is that which is the most encouraging, both as regards the present and thefuture. Brown sheet- | ings and shirtings are quite as briskly dealt in as ever, at unaltered rates. Holders quote them thus :— Width. Prices. Width. Prices, Amoskeag..A....37 8, Lawrence.H......30 91% Do... 37 oe 9% | Appleton: “BT 5% Do. 8% H A 1M 55% 7 534 ‘ Nashua, extra i 34 Naumkeag, 8 | 734 | Do 9 936 Nor! 5 10% Ocean. 5 | 11% Pacifie 6% 64% Palo Alto 9 61% Pocassett "4 6% Passaic % | Tie % % % ae a 4 \ | Globe, fin Goodwins RR RRR eK - ebak Soars Serco wer swam-9,e-10 & a Do. #heetings Indian h’d.A NP OSI SMITH OIA DBOTAI DESAI M _Do.....6W. 51 10% ¥4 Wamsutta, fine...40 123 4¢ Wicn’e mills,2.86.94 Williamsville .,,.38 124 4 Winthro; 36 6% Bleached sheetin active request and are both freely bought at full quotations. and shirtings are in tolerabl rm in prices. Demins aay 3 Fing- hams are as previousl, much inquired for. ness, however. Nankins are without change of in- terest. Osnaburghs are hardly so brisk, but quite as valuable as they have heen, Pantaloonery is held above purchasers’ limits, who are not inclined or cempelied to buy freely aa yet. Printing cloths are ly taken, yeveuiny held at the annexed rates: % bAxt 5 ‘ 6 there is little or no demand for the poorer sorts, which are cheaper. Stripes and ticks are about the same. ‘The following is acomparative statement of the shipments hence between March Ist and 25d :— 1852, 1853, Decrease, Cotton goods, ples: 14 4,683 Woollens are quiet, but firm. Blankets are selling slowly at the improved prices to which we alluded in ove lost, Cassimeres are freely tendered, and represented. Lawns are not | hi ‘hey retain their previous firm- | Select styles of prints are saleable and firm; but | mer styles, now in preparation, with the best imported kinds." are moderately active and command RET aa F goods are less favorably sit bable that they will avail themsel 4 while, if they prom their supplies on the market, they will be obliged to accept for them than is now claimed. It is this convict which lead buyers to remain as idle as possible until the season grows older, and circumstances become more urgent than at the present time. Continental pro- ‘ “ ductions find the readiest purchasers and command the most satisfactory prices. British fabrios are in- animate and depreciating. Auction sales are more numerous, but less interesting. The catalogues offering are composed of the Tlections of the early trade, though containing an occasional intermixture of fresh goods, in order to prevent them from becom- ing altogether unmerchantable. The prices whioh they bring are as irregular as themselves, and by no means can they be made to indicate the actual state of trade in this market. This lack of interest in the auctioneers’ business, however unpleasant they may deem it, is one of the most ta fying phases of the spring’s traffic, and one which we—perhaps vainly— hope may not soon be destroyed. Stock Exchange. $1000 NY St 44’ 64100 950 sha Nic TransitCo 3234 2000 City 5's * 103 600 do 32 2000 Erie Ist Mt Bas 11634 35 4000 E RR 2d Mt Bde 1063¢ 2000 E KR Cyt Bds °71 95 5000 do... b1O 9536 5000 do. sb10 954g 2000 Hud 24 Mig Bds 98 6000 Nor Ind RK Bds 99 5 chs Bk Commerce 1663, 25 Dela & Hud Canal 121 20 Corn Exchange Bk 10 Continental Bk... % 360 Morris Canal opg do... ‘b30 sl 50 do. 810 650 Nw Crk Coal Cos3 50 do........ 880 100 Rdg'th Lnd Co b30 200 do... 860 200 do. 200 N Jerse; 200 “do. 160 do 250 do Ce Re ae 40 Lang Island RR.. 37 600 Florence&Key port 100 do........b60_383¢ 225 do ae 15 New Jerscy RR. 134 60 z i 100 Nor & Wor RR.. 6136 800 Canton Co....b60 303, 325 Reading RR...... T0ONY&N Hav RR110 100 do.. 60 Mich Central RR,.1063¢ 88 Buff & et 20 Mich SER,.......12034 250 Hudson River RR 23 Sixth Avenue RR..116 SECOND 4000 Ind State 5's... 973g BOARD. 120 Nie Transit Co... 8254 do. + 8234 6000 Hud Ist Mt Bds 105% 200 260 Flor'ce & Keyport 1438 ce & Ke rt 1434 200° do. Foro 15° 500 do. 200 New Jersey Zinc.. 123¢ 100 Penna Coal Co b3112 29 Cumb Coal Co..., 52 1000 New 1 Co 200 Phoenix Mng Co b60 200 do, es 10 24 Co 6 250 Reading . 88 50 Hudson River int os 36 50 do. 100 Edgeworth Lud 8 CITY TRADE REPORT. ; Fripay, March 25—6 P, M. Asus continued in moderate demand at uniform prices. Sales were made of 50 bbls., at $5 5634 a $5 621g for pearls; and $4 811, a $4 8734 for pots, per 100 Ibs. Bark.—Quercitron was rather scarce and quiet at $20 & $20 for No. 1, Philadelphis, and $23 a $24 for Balti per ore We were informed that New York was out mar! Breapsturrs.—Flour—A better inquiry prevailed for State and Western, Which were more needed by Eastern dealers and shippers than by local jobbers, who rofrained as much as possible from buying, as thoy hoped, with & continuance of the dry mild weather, and @ consequent ear! resumption of canal navigation, fo be shortly able to purchase atocks on eusier‘crma’ The day’s transactions amounted to 10,600 bbls: su- ptiod No. 2 at $4 1234 a $4 25; ordinary to teat $4 S734 a $4 6014; mixed to straight I and Michigan, with common to good Ohio, at $4 50.8 $4 ‘15; favorite State at $4561/ a $4 bay fancy Indiana and it $4 te fancy Genesee at $4 8154 & fancy Ohio 873 a $5 12%; one Genesee at $5 1234 a $5 75; with extra Indiana, Michigan and Ohio at $525 a $575 per bbl. Canadian was in request at $4623;, and held at £84 75 a $4 8734, in bond, per bbl—none fold; Southern exhibited more animation, at unchanged quotations. The day’s business consisted of 3.200 bbl«, at $4 75 $6 for mixed to 5 $5 a $5 37}¢ for favorite; and $5 3734 a $6 60 for brands, per barrel. Rye flour was more abundant and ggiacoe at “decidedly lower rates. have mn made of 260 barrels at $3 75 for fine and $4 for superfine, per bbl. Jersey corn meal was in better request, and bought to the extent of 750 bbls., at $3 061, 4 $3 1215 per bbl. The last sales of Brandywine meal were made at $3 50 per bbl. and $17 25 per puncheon. Wheat seemed in heavier supply; though factorsevinced no anxiety to realize, pf tinctly favored buyers. A parcel of 1,609 bushels Genesee white was obtained at $116. We append a state- ment Siemog ee amount of wheat in store at oight points in the Wabash valley, this year and last : 1852, Decrease. Delphia ..... 10,000 Fort Wayne. 37,000 Huntingion - 27,000 Lagro ..... 41,000 Logansport . 20,000 Other points 22/000 Peru 25,000 Pittst 22,000 Wabash 39,000 Total While this table directly indicates s great reduction im the amount stored at the places named, it indirectly shows that a large proportion of last year’s erop ts re. Ww ite bushels, 482,000 239,000 243,000 tained by the farmers, who will not be induced to sell at the present currency. Rye continues unsettled ; some 600"buehels, aflont, brought 9lc. Barley ruled dall and nominal, Oats were pretty frecly dealt in at 48c. a 45¢. for Jersey; 4c. and 4¢e. for Pennsylvania; and for State'and Western, per bushel. Corn was not so eagerly tendered, nnd as it continued in active home and export demand, it evinced great firmness. The day’s transactions included 42,000 bushels at 56c. a 59¢. for damaged; and 60c. a 65c. for ordinary to prime Southern white and yellow, per bushel. The quantity of corn im store at the points in the Wabash Valley, spoken of | under the head of wheat, is double what it was last year, pie te papaiite Sheer gin ae are known to be greatly less 2 season, the hi; ices obtainable it induced producers 16 send forwerd stocks. — JANDLES —! and patent sperm were inactive at 32. a 33e. and 43. per M. A good inouii i ada- mantine, at Dern 266. per'ib. a een Coat.—Foreign was rather quiet. Tho last sale of Liverpool orrel was made at $9 per chaldron. Anthra- S, was liberally purchased from yard, at $50 $6 46 rer ton. Corres did not vary much. Sales have been made of Wh pkgs. Java, at 110. a 11c.; 300 Rio, at 93¢c. @ cc ‘¢.; and 200 Maracaibo, at 0c. per Ib. ‘TON.—The sales to-day amount to 1,300 bales, with- ont ebange in ere ZATHERS.—Live geese arrived slowly, and found free buyers at 42c. a 4c. per Ib, The amount on band in in- terior cities, especially Cincinnati, is said to be vory small. Fartonrs.—Rates for Liverpool continued stead: ‘i engagements of 18,000 bushels grain, at 734.1 1,600 Sola flour. at 26. 9d.; and 1,800 bales cotton, at 1d. a 9-324, the latter for compressed. To London 125 lida. tobaecd were engaged, at Ss. 6d. To Gla .500 bushels wheat were engaged on private terms, To California raten wore steady a a 85c. There was nethi rates for Havre or Australia,” aye wae eae 1H.—-Dry cod wore tolerably active and firm; th have been 2,000 quintals taken, at $3 62% 0 33°70 pa 100 tbs. Mackerel continued very scarce; Nos. 1 and 2 were worth $12 a $13, and $10 25 a $11 per bbl. Some 150 bbls. pickled herring realized $2621 a $276 por Dbl; smoked were not so eagerly sought after; there Ave been 2,000 boxes sold, at 28c. for No. 1, and 420, a Me. for scaled, por box. “nviT.—The day’s operations included 140 boxes layer raising, at £3 20; 500 ‘bunch do., af $275 0 82 80; 980 cluster do., at $1 80; 400 Valencia do., at 914¢.; 60 cases rurdines, part at 70c. 1 72}<c.; 5 caves citron, at 28.5 | 26 boxes shelled almonds, at 20c.; and 26 bales Languedoc ba at et 78 4 AY —the demand for river continued light, at 873¢- a $1 per 100 Ibs, it ip Hee was in Umited supply and roquost. The last | salos made were at 10%c. for Manila, por Ib. and $150 for Americnn undressed, per ton. Hors.—New ruled about the seme, being in demand at 10e, a 21e., and held at 20c. a 22. per Ib. Inoy.—Seotch pig hero was inactive and nominally worth $37 a $19 per ton, six months, while it was offered freely and in fair demand, for future delivery, at, how- ever, lower ond irregular rates, 100 tons, deliverable pext June, were disposed of to day at $32, cash. Other Kinds wore, neglected. ams —There was more disposition shown by pure chasorn to deal In Wastern ot 92 26 por thouesed, 7 Line, —Bockland varied live, sales haying been made