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EN the ont ceed for them. discovered that neither of hese s'atements is trae. In the first plage: SUrARCE OO: /a: ¢ holding & clai ov Tars. Other c@mMpan elsewhere hol dagr debates, which arc find facts vroduced John C. Calhoun, a “gen by ~ joc f their intention » y2o.make seizuges of Ame nd to En ‘lid ports, in'retaliatian for sBe orders in coaneil ~ “fasued by England; and that notwithstanding the notice thus given by ine I'reach governqent,-insure ance offices in the United States, with & view ef mik- ing money, insured vessélA for extravagant “preint- ums, such as forty, fifty, and sixty per cent.” ber of such vessels were seized, aud the idsurance offices, whe. .bad entered eyes-wide open, mode tly the United States to step into their shoes, and make good to them the losses they had sustained under the ciret ¢ ve mana This'ts briefly, but fruthnlty, a statement of the ‘orice the claims. Th consequence of; the ares, offensive measares were adopted by the United States, awd a state of war existed for some months, when a treaty was made, and the eorderp.of the Prench govera ment were withdrawn, f, The advocates of the bill, such as Mr. Webster, have acknowledged that if a state of war really exist- ed, then of course all ¢laims.are yyid; but they at- tempt to make it apvear that although several naval be cadena lie place and lives were lost on both » yet it was not war! Upon the purchase of Louisiana, in 1503, the United Btates.set up cclaima for spoliations prior to 1300, which Napoleon Bonoparte refased to a:knowledge. On the part of the French goveramen’ bogus claims were also set up, which the United States refused to aoquicsce in. Bonapuartenever oondescended to call the claimson the part of the United States anything but ‘pretensions,’ and the treaty woich was ulti- mately agreed upon declared simply that the “‘preten- tions” on either side. were -sbandoned. It siace beendiscovered, by the publication of the Tengh Minister's igstructiqus, thatso far from France haying taken less than the value of Louisiana, with 8 view that the United Btates should pay the hold- ers of the “pretensions” tne difference, that in point ef: fact France had 1ustraeted her Minister to ‘take pearly one-third lesefor the territory thaa the United States actually paid. So mach for the hunbag ani falsehood that the United States bave received an equivalent from France for the spoliations incurred rior to1800, and tat common honesty demanded e repayment of that equivalent now to the claim anta. he United States never received any such equivalent,.nor could the claims be established; nor were they allowed by France. : The present bill, introduced by Mr. Hamlin to the Senate, is for five millia put of course if that asses there is neither justice nor reason in refusing pay all the claims in full, whioh will swell up the mount to at least ti(ty millions of dollars, to ga into the pockets of agents, insurance companies and speculators. _ T will burrow out all the facts and wire pullings of this business, and keep you advised of them. Letter from the Hon. "ike Walsh, Leader of the New York Delegation 1n Congress. From the Sore Pie eten Washineron Afany argument were ne absurdity, and the inconvenience and injury to all, | save the shiftless, grasping aod depeudeut leeches | permanently residing there! of locating the capital of | B great Btate—not to cay nation—in a mere village, it is abundant'y furvished in this city of Washington. Its inbabitacts seem to cousider theiselves spiclally Sntit!ed to receive a sbulkiug, spuoging, and fa’ live Tihood out of the Amerigan people; and the first,and, indeed, indispensable prerequisite on the part of all poblte men towards getting da tele ond graces, and obtainiog personal popularity among them, is that of proving false to the people whonr he is sent here to aithfully represeat, hy giving avay every dollar he receives or can get hoig of, and voting for every ras- cally appropriation which they my feel disposed to demand from the governmeit. Not content with | quartering themselves in large droves utder the dis- | honest pre‘extof belonging te Stutewwhich they have | either never seen, or been compelled torauaway from —as clerks, messengers, and employ’s of every de- scription, in all the departmeats, they impudently call upon the people of the United Sates, through their representatives In Congress, to open their streets and avenues, grade, pave, and ligh: them; pay their police; Isy out, acorn, and take care of eir parks; constrast a dock some two. miles loag— Fok is muienamied a sanal-t0 pare Shem carta “ D ing their lumber, firew 0d, coal, oysters, ani Oher thoes : J bridges over it at the crossing of neatly every street; and finally, by way of completing the meisire of their cool'and disgusting effcontery, they modestly osk—and, strange jo say, bave lsherto done ro suc- 2efuilly—that Congress shall clean out tne oyster shells, ‘garbage, and other refuse matter and filth which they themselves have cast into it. Atl toey give’in return is their nodivided attention to the @ wooction of additional schemes, by the aid of which they may-be still better enabled t» tleece all whose* ers compels,them to visit the natioval cipital. he next we may look for—and it is almost the only thing as yet unattempted in this 1 ne —ds au applica tion from a number of them fur pensious on the ground of baving served in the District of Columbia for a8; ied number of years. The hotel people charge fifty ceots extra—in addi- tion to two dollars and a half a dsy—for every livtle fire made in the-six-by-nive bedrooms into which they- poke. their gyests;, extrs.for lights; twenty shillings a bottle for sword-fish brandy, and fifty cents apiece “corkage” for every bottle of decent liquor which persons who have an aversion to pay- ing landlords for poisoning. them may feel disposed to bring slong with them, or send for off the prem ises. his “corkage” dodge seems to be some thing of a new lay; aud a respectable perdiem each, for the use of bedclothes, washwater, soap and tow els, appears now to be adout all that is lets to.com- plete the scale of skivnivg operations. Toe fees— and heaves protect the reputation o him or her who fails to libetally Hquidute them—of chamber nains, waiters, porters, firemen, hootelacks, ett, | have of course omitted to specially mention, as the travelling public have some slight knowledge of those litde | Matters in'all places. 4 hotel on the Buropean plan —oF as itmay now be called with equal propri H and t the much better anjerstaading of the general reader, the New York plan—is sadly needed here, ‘and he who has tho jadgmect aud enterprise to first Open one, will make a priacely fortane for himself and prove a public bevetactor to those temporaril scjgnraing or residing bere. Why dun't Dick trench, Libby, Dan Sweeny, or some one él-e eqnaliy versed in the busiu come ou and try it? They may safely rely on proving a good aud profitable Rass, of your city, ishere, with a proposition to pave Peniisylvaaia aveuue with his granite paye- Tout. He bas colored lithographs of the aveute as it is fo, appear with the praposed improvemeat, for the edification of Senators and members of Congress, to-eaoh of wilich he has sent a copy... The lobbyers pnd letter writers are after, him with a sharp stick, and Tweed is suid to be bis right hand man. The pe. however, ia not the City Hull; and, thoagh it doubtless bas its full share of corrupsioa, it requires a much higher order of rascals to render it avaiable 40 their own, depredating purpose, A man might Very casily have been a big gan in such snattersa nong the last Common Council of, New York, and yeta econtemptibly insignificant oypher amoug the like fcaternity bere. i lus pavemon, if Jsid, will Cost at Jeast half a million of dollars; and, as the introduc: tioa. of the water, already coumensed, is to cousume five millions—and it will, | yoature to say, be nearer ten when fivisbed—there is, as you will readily per- eeive, a strong prospect of Washington's re ceiving @ good slice of that tempting thirty millions of@orplus revenue now restlewsly sujourning in the waults of the treasury. are very few valgar beggars here. The vilest loaters, even to lite Rebmeon and Beau Hickman, moor, to ask your money as charity, There are, * ‘any Dumber Of seedy gens who “lave bee a i to temporary want” by every c mveivable of unforeseen accvient and strange combina- of cirounstance. ese assail sojouraers for lit- He loaga, which taey will promptly pay, if you will take their word jor it. fortune must ave had many + timacious slap at the ebaps,as | re ed no aye as old soquaintauces. Oshers, and not » either, of both sexes, live by callecting advance subscriptions for books aud narratives which have been im the same incipient course of publioation for the last six or eight years, and bid far to remvati on the board ia that-condition as long ss the verdane of benevolent fiats can be rendered sufficiently avai) There ig one feature amoag the almost end- jem variety of this pilfering beiness which, more than all others, gadly puazies a poor plebiaa, and is, the number of welidressed, glinly, women's Tights sort. of lady beggars, who call upon certain Members in carriiger, add Hebseverinty Vosie upoa receiving entns of money hing short of five dol ars would be. lvoked tipon umuibigated coutempt, Five dollars would, weyer 0 8 pretty good w: ong the..real!, Wivtioed “the bind, lame, anced aud ‘Alok OF any Other cfty. ween tact the national demooracy have been amply dily-recogi spl sus ywdicated in Congress by Messra, | 98 adespicable piece of demagoguism on the part of Of ‘tha persons e of the Alibaéteros in ti iz - Wath and Cutt ng, ture acems to ‘ee *nenerat de Dongle taengt be does nee ke to eny 99. 7 og upon the } Juriog the war, the act of July 5, 1938, nine | naval stations, and are seldom em, at ed acne byt boo Mos . Ryege te mony Hire thé rea! men of alt parties to let the mit He will support the bit!, ass matter of conrse, tt 16 “BFLLations of ont por tua OF the ouatedeFacyy | are now im ServiO® as sae pepeetere. Their | upm a foreign station, this fey is not . bled bis exe*tlor ato meet tha. “picatos,’! (tbe! ter rest, at least for the present [herg is, of coarse, | being stm yan embodinent of sne inctoly Tipon | od fH rolvleg the cooWtita'i bal yan iaef the States Bat, | names end dates of rank as additional paymasters | do vot hesitate to sxy that this pay, 94 now ectsting, ich they were cesiguated is Mex go,) and ioflic ‘oe appreneuded of jhe softs revision it? | which he folght dhe battle of 1815, Ife would double. |< *twitbatanCag Ri-ranoav of “ngiatin and Reattoeat-| su ws folowa o- iay | 00 Small 18 ig not enomgh, and ought te | then « ngcal ad merited chastiin a tit is currently whispered round that a littie | lees prefer muneting the question fairly and mantaily, y bir B then led ta refyuon to detauls aad sgeattts pro- 1. Andrew J+ Coffée, June 24,1516, 2, Jeremia | raised. The memortal whiok: joara: a pi ately reieforoed hia 40 beth So féllow named Wheeler; who seems to have | by declaring in so many words that the law of 1520, ieme, gee Acgaiee sees 0! dit inguished cl\«)o4 whose | ¥, Dashiell; July@ /1846.9. Backfield Macklin. poly derived, to the Congress of the | sud Csllfornia, with some 2,000 mee, kad, hid » ; "for beter suited for carver at the dunner table of | foobar aa the Missouri comor mise, is hereby re Peete st en © Yet be. coubied, hap given r& | 9 “ledgre4, “Angustas W.tGaines, Joly 20,1840. 5, P ‘one. .It seta Moni Fe bCardline, Tom pos . 4 hetel or eating honse, than-forone of the represen- | peated; and it is not at all ualikely that he may take Ti pecdety.c. toe pale ikea theubscas aos.) George H. Ringgold . Albert G sin oh [ 3 for w.amnall inte Fotrivalon like HBAS whieh befal sp, LP” he y ae geen ti eran ‘atest " By Fup ou! o < rant Leoagrd, Nov, Ma the times and pe it . piure, Grneral.G. a tad; ta vity like New Fork na mm | -oecasion 'to say 86 and in pre w 1 ey Cy That this ¢ fs, ta paqffer | ma. ahi rk and exergy, addre ied oi ‘all the ww | trventlesaty anxions to Higeel! Of what + farguaketdor He wil ted Tot Souttiern mett whow [ea cameyeMeol wre, 1 have power ta'wpet Te, tnowk.d 2b: Dec /30, 1947. | of eis own persanal a ayaa OF the “on the fi ‘ire Pans we % mapeseh, which -he hasbeen Writing, re | that the gregt f the North niSefoCth, | Whe planed me hire may pe wee Be am G.. , ro toed pb hnatend of the pay Raw: reoctvea lew | tue te tepiaed the mairicas & a ing 40: ever hiv ae Res abe Macro, ate) ir, ee ate, c tsa Chae rie Peyefcmney: be Qxing «that pagent $1,000 manually | Caroline, or any other vessel, eo a But upon inquiry into the facts it will be | > risks with their. od He pale ts of | kentin, would not lewve theirseats, neglect the im- ras, to their very doore, then t3 erect fron | , and to whom the tender of | paeememenmrneeeine- = a — ws , Ppersoret pleasure that the Coneve: TCH Asset sagglar oe- Wi dara aoa oe ce the people Of his district, “YHAt OF sacrificing themselves and wearing out the pled here Bon it of bi masters was vested in the President alone, uty, for the first five years after political ueination, and without any personal lives in defending the rights of those who have d two months ago, met in aspirit of harmony | the above officers, except the last two, [nowledge or idea of the chap for whom “they were proved so ready, not ovly to them in the bh towards eack other, and of kindness and are pointed; of Meron Syed nied erie ome Se ey ae votin, iTfort@me to MMect him. | of nae’, Be wo in a fy aud zie u Ter pearance to be their prevent pay, during warfare wag! D is ver 7 a Servis seeond, or afte the first five idelity to thy itution. uth © Pane Unite shall be no: . a degree cor d ere #) ally fp sont such ofc. ne Bei ad forty arven canta, The increase theM@elle Northern. . got area t ‘of the Representatives; and : me (78) hy hae ry me 4 1 master-workmen in their profes ushing imperti- |manded by the strict requirements of that instra od aly ree aie pe i A TT the officers of the pay department of the regulur ar; | sions, and a master-carpenter in one of our navy set weer eb yaa wipe ha | =araemenee ee ee ae ee ase per Wit De Vary Ai Aye ——————— oo Sule ee eee : =} Cworkerer-are- art patter pal wil} Hy forget ——— From the Nadi -nal Intellizeour, Fs>. 6] sixs to disarh, much lass 40 deseo, be contia apwee © our yeare, officers. They have a regular uniform prescribed by Peckbam, of Albany, too, has been proparii Nine peeks havi i - roy, by coujuring | relative eulerity aocerdiag to length of service, & - sy . nt idl eS pee . eeks having elapsed since. C e al mpn of seat! ‘distinct! 7 pede; rm are obli always re- oF be ime something; but e ie i spk, aa brea ras tbading marty one: thirds atthe abl posutanl, ee toes in ity’ ti okapo! eon it fo ph bale. Sap] Mer Lege pol oe she Tip te men: d worth, and oat too muc! Fo a and inte rep © 4 Quration ofa first session, We may now pause fora | was before. There existed no adequate smotive be rl fi y eetctesece prin ought to be properly provided and cared for by the pred nba out of piace. seine 8 bree ised peel | mement to cast a glance back upon. whatit has done, |-for such: a- step. The country had-not called for it; 1-Sldeet im ss ont Wi = ‘ha tet oriat we We 00d standing, he may be expeoted to-speni well, | and forward to what it promises tn futare. Lest there had been no expression of pubite opiuion.on the. vere comasios Bg ti aes anbiec wil yeas hes and to the purpose on any subject wich he de) than akaen-acts, ofcoomparssively litle sigaid|ennject; it was neither asked for nor leaked for. fatthe satin te eet Pe nee, ick, bic y: | natn who her, of our fe eie wack uttach@ent aw, nour BSxt dowe neigh. | cANse, comprise tho.wdole bodyof, legislation to the | So far from it, indeed, that it teok the publie entire | regard to rank has arisen Fe aciculty im | glorious navy at heart, in all its grades of officers— Here TSM cmeyt Jay one REE dowes Present day., .A vast deal. of busipess has bsea re- | ly by surprise. The country, North and@outh, was:| fearon Tae annelying to the pay. | whichar Toontinent: tat is Miieiency and elevation. TF and paren’ arylang—is, in my estivna ion, & gistered on the calendars of both houses, and mach arity entire acquiescence end coutidence’ i | wie, h ivasiteaited t0Ttie's Tei ae re i cea Measure we advocate is Gbarace ty the State and Rha age, ane wan: readers | Gener of equal iniportamce With any that haa been | the great healing act of 1820, and the strife which | fhe pay’ dopartaront the regtar offcers of | pot only right and proper in itself ang desired by strikingly so is shefactythas wale -_— {ot “a0 reported upon is still before the committees of both} aecompamied ita enactment had’bsen long forgotten. — Proper, ani no other objet hig! meee of officers in tite at will also Bitach the Wages Of even ora Meee om | houses. We donot know, however,that in this ap- | It therefore a our ingeauity to discover any | ‘ans inal Sos ta adc sow HARRIS, AAD ARON! ROUURD BAM, which siya dns emer come only cn Sy iar sete | mar wie nao in Padi Gt | wp tS aD ater | ne meas of Popa Tawn 8; re 38; for io this pi juiet. “ _ " < = maeree doltars worth Le personal property, by I-Heular it hat not fallen Bebind“its secent predeves- Weare aware that’ our esteemed neighbor the thearad Byte a ~ i. partment of ‘A Prdsdiah Ordinaiioe CoilesFhing the Value authorizing the pissage of Taws placing thatamount \gors, he disposition of both “honses, it will be al- | Seninel gives as a Teaaon for the measure that, It hivtatcedt at Sab om of tha.de» of Goods Bent te the United States, Bayeatie baytr.o wes sted cr. made fof many | l0med by allcalm observers, ts qnite as favorable to | will compel certain to‘show their hand3;” a Pee mired teeta Tho following ordinanos of tho’ Braman Minister Rate te tn Bik nesirecindemecact tt C7, | am intelligent and discharge of their | and the Union alleges that ‘it is time these com- | ters; ane | meerer ier these "fitoo a ? of Commerce, concerning. declarations ofthe value Peet the posed of Mire Adkaond, the present United | duty as of any. C #6 of the last tifteen or tweuty | premises were settled forever.”. What is meant by | pe filled by “ master, ogg me Ras sent te the U; af ion of ee eee a ls a Det oclckin Lat as yet | year%and until withinafow days. past thére has | the Gentine! isnot clear to us, and eanonly be con- paymastare gems howe eee ihe 'y | which has been to ment of L rr Lek orney in ( io jel! He ct ee en no reaeon to anticipate anytuing like unduly | jectured. Whether it dng Soa present ae issue ‘ymasters who were in setvice andor th re State at Washington by Isaac C. Bités, United ry ciated by the preceding aig adtilidstraten and. | vee iecusstons “Of Uae, qaeatioys Jo,be hong Shepton tain sd Etaltaabs hope wish ce at the commencement of the war with Mexios, { cially pane far ashen 2 cay e 5 5) = fore them. rs) ota, ve them, a esc Os ee Tener of the Muvee AaerioaparG and hispotit | , HAviDg published the proceedings trom day to to Spe an adalaacion mesaure,”” aud thus parannte oy snare, and ie Wines pape | ad gait he axing revenue lame the Unt mem y " | day, it is needless for us to particularize or wel place them in the. attitude of autagonism to the eld ore! pal Srienda Dare cay they aa ¥ and. fae an eaailts | lpon even the leading measures aiready before Cong | President, sow occupied by the ey or by the'| and eee, by the asi of:17th. of June,'1848;" | ‘merchandise Bepated into the I must aunt that he is setaived in ooraplianee with the pro. ; £7 An exception to this remark ought perbaps | same operation replace these latter on the side of |." "Of the fifteen paymasters whe were. In service at | "17 te AS, Ket a i Cisions of a bureain, sslemnly entered into between | tobe made of the ‘bill for establishing Territorial | the administration, we do not Know: but, be it | the ‘commencement of the War twalv remained ia. |, si vera i keh leg Cee ot meciient Pleree Previogs i the elecs vrcrnments in the country designafed as the Ne-| ne or the other, the object sinks into iasiz:.} thearmy at: the date of the wet, viz.:—Pa Siiagintie United tates, (and this takes place in orlesae tf" this ‘be nb 20) ie te pet Drs pers ‘aske Territory. To the establishment of a regu:.| nificance compared with the megnitude and mis- | Lealie, Townsend, C..H. smith, 1. P. y' in| . caues where German, aré\ purchased by Small, who is vastly 18. superior in expacitycand e | 18fgovernment over the vast territory whieh havat | chief of the means adopted to effect it. As for the | hy, Steuart, C. Andrews, Walker, Van Ness, Dvany, |°Cial houses thts een fe ome commer Cemoerat of rnguevilopabincrtiokoae pas Lot been Deneent 10 governs sy ett ror pte [fasts Boon paslgped hy fhe, nian, Baa Hel fie Cab utter, and L. J. Beall. Three others, te wits Cot! | areas the ait a the "Uatte healeciors rf 4 3 apy ie. e count st 31) ie Tore’ e slavery compro) , 6 argumen' i é, DIVA ? bi ALIS A} Obeiin, jhe Appouunen maeene. ave tae Indians. there -would -be ‘no ‘objectina, or none to | ix puerile. If a com promt which lias stood a third Bhat oy old, an if Bll eee ete fk ree esl merchandise. a on Willem H. Whitte and ethers from the State T | speak of, were it not fer an important principle, not | of @ centaryy "and answered the most benedent | were also im service at the date of the aet. SL oneaia e-merchandise belonge'to petiotiy who do not wonder whether it will mot yst leak oat thas some | Recewatlly connected with the question, which has | hopea of ifs wise snd patriotic suthors, is to be | were all retained with their original rank. Mal ae da pega ag ed reg hae ceayosareretin: a aint swila’ mate Ee been incfdentally brought into debate in. the Senate. | broken for the purpose of making another which is a filing dlesoernasyinn oe Steslprvony mast “ 0 ah ot Sood consigned: to Marth America by tke Mormons and others? The whole secret history | Th¢ circumstance to which we refer is, 0° course, | to endure forever, where shall we. flad the suey dent’s selection was. restricted te two classes—the oi a rn, Coe SG voice nanst be’ aworm of the present administration—the unseen means by fis (oats mee cay ae stoua tiniest tft oe i Ju aah Oren. 58 long. ne Hop, one A iter thirteen paymasters of the regular army, and the ad- | of, the Baten pee of jroo tenn ae ich ‘Frauk fare 7 y, upon ght, abrogated? ‘The sage and patrio iam Lowndes, x nay Ue “ . ee rane Ech gee pre Be be 8 ae | peal the Missouri. compromise, and to introdace in | (in conitice with all the State men who anited with Frigg at rember page NS tal Pak poles EUG Suihesty who is authorized to receive of this republic. and the foal motives by which he | ea of ite provision extending the constitution aud.| him in the Mistourl eomptomise,) yielded to it hls. yacancies,ahe President eaw ft to nominate Pian exact campltanes ita thiaak. Sif ana hts s Del advisers Pine been pane since his | #! the laws of the United States over the Territories, |.support because he suid it would “give permanent | selected from bath classes for.confirmation, andthey. | wi t pee be wl Ro tions, from Clevation't power would, if faithfully written ont | ¢XcePt #8 follows:— tranquillity $9 the country in regard to slavery.”” | were accordingly confirmed an the 2d of March, 1a, has heen ceventlyiordeted by ote pes zl pow, aud. published, prove both’ instructive, astouishing Eghtanpl. te. Signsh coation of eet neanaee mie Wake Welt ipoter piercer re lel (Spt unéer the following resolution of the Senate, to wit:— |. aury, Departmen of the United: Sateen ej hier a oticte nae east vagulan wants Oecnar York | 182°, whieh war superseded by ‘he p inciplesof the legis: | would bind him to it, as it should, we humbly bat\| anette or the mlloeicy Mes tant othe Ane Ss otis countr wa att arrivals during the present week, in additjon to these | [AR of, 1850, commonly called the compromise men- | firmly assert; every Soathern man who his ever given |, sdcitionsl prymastere Dow fa-service, and the tnisbeon-| tin to onthe In coutiemeton t aving. I san» already figuring about here for some time back, Lige psec tererinclioad ruled it his assent and upheld its barrier agalost fenati- mtate; # suthoriand by the act ot 17th Jane, 1846.01 | ments of a th sh Ag Purdy, Dan Delavan, Froment, Fernand Wood, aoa | <The committee here. in fact propose what an-bo- | cal or ambiticus encroachmenton their constitutional |'fhe ai of Maron, 1pi1,” vo bo Paymastors da tee Armay of iorelee of goods: amora £9. hefow the eonsals of another impertinent snob named Purdy, who is in | Dorable Senator from Missburi, at the session Of | rights. ‘ the United States, agreeably to their nominations re,: magistrate of th 1 Tusa Aer n betore any some way cr other connected with your Common | Comaress, expressed his belief that there was no Let us, then, in good faith, stand by the old com- |. ‘psctively, vis.:—Abraham Vau Baren, Roert A. F sx- Mima fort Pima vl ae lations are now ‘ ’ “Softa:” age rospect nor avy hope of, to wit, @ repeal of the | promise. syth Robert 8 Reywelds,Jeremish Y. Dashiell, Sack 401d aS 13 i substitution fe affirmation, (or Council, are among the “Softa;” avd Gus. Sshell, ent araraentn, | Wasklin, AW Aalneey Albert @.-Bawnast, Hicaal Leonstd, 1), ae contained ia the 129th section of Gen. Ward, and his gellant ‘son-in-law Col, Barsett, ‘We shall not now enter into a-consideration of the Appointments by tho President, Francis A. Qnonipgham, George C Hatter, the penal code, ia place of the»fornmal oath required of the heroio New Yerk Volunteers, represeat the nationals, though} they do not seem to ttouble’them- { selves about politics. ‘dy, Wood, Delavan & Co., appear to feel consicerably chagriged.at an.cavelier, treatment whieh they r sides—nobody taking avy moreonvtice of them than if they were so many venders of teoth-pivks or posket- combs. The ether Pardy—the fe'luw who representa himself as a Coancifman—came on here to lobby for | that most'shanteless ‘and atroci Swindie, the Woodworth patent. What benefit they could éxpect from the services of such an impertineat nambssull, it is difticult to conceive, He seemed sadly put out because some members of Oongress, for whom hs portant business devolving upon then, come out,aud | isten to the driveliing twaddle with which he was 80 cager to annoy them, in reference to the séanda- lous purpose of his visi Ex-Comptroller Wright is still here, bexging it is | said, for some stray Ais intmentoas a reward for bis © 1 falness has passed—never to again return. enough, heaven kuows,'to be poor and honest, but to be poor, or dizippointed and discarded, which is in poblic Wve about toe same thing, with the con- Scicusness that you have beea base and treacherous | towarce your best friends to no purpose, must indeed. be bitterly eee wo the last degree. The deficiency bill to which £ alluded at some length in my last, wasup again this‘week. A’num- ber of additional amendments, similar to those tacked on last week, were fastened on it, and it was reprted to the House om Thursday morning. I ex- | pressed to you my doub's about the.House: sanction- which effectually stranglesit, This showa that syme- thing can be doze, it honest men wilt onlyremain a | their posta, aud exercise a moiety of the watchfuiness | and perseverance exhibited, with relentiess and un | scrupulous pertinacity, by those seeking to plawder | the treasury.. An uosuccessful attempt was, how- ever, made to introduce a new deficiency bill of some | sort, ou Friday, but the prompt manner in which the | proposition was scouted should serve as a warniag to | those from whom it emanated to bo @ little causous during the future, mot to trespass too far upon an already grossly-outraged House: The defeat of this bill bes created great consternation among those who temporaries fo have influenced the fatroduction of | them, be. su fo we have to this part of the bill of the com- which must strike every mind —the mere sugyvestion | of which, indéed, is enoagh t. startle the true friends | of the constitution in every. quarver of the Unioa—is | that it propores, without circumlocution, the abroga-\} tion of a compact hardly less formal than that of the constitation itself, and which can’ hardly be deemed | United States and the State of Missouri—between the Sonth and the North—is proposed on the ground who caw hold with more the policy as-wellas to the durability of the com: | ‘promise of 1850.° But no one, we. should think, would serjoutly pretend that itis of higher obliga: tion, in any part of tion of that alarming controversy was attended. The | ees and the excitement of the Missouri qnes- | she ‘creathre of in hoor. Within @ yery few montts, great statesmen—Clay and Web-ter—the termination @* whose earthly career, it can hardly was bastened by theiralmost more than mortal efluris to bring about that auspiciour remit. t BY AND. WITH GHR-ADYICB AND GUNSENT OF Fi8 SENATH, Peter D. Vroom;of New Jersey, to be envoy ex- traordis and minister plenipotentiary of the United § sates to'Prusis. Solon Borland, of Arkansas, to be envoy extraor- motives, apart from the. interests of ‘tte’ Territuries + in question, which are supposed by many of our con. | this proposition at this time into the halls of Con- | peat TeRS. hatever considerations Jhaye jusiified 2 re Pla e measure iu the miuds of ics poate itis not pos. | Civary ‘and minister plenipotentiary of the United sible that they could, if.we were made fally aware of | States to Cebtral América. ch William Trousdale,.of Tennessee, to be envoy ex- | traordinary aud minister plenipotentiary of the Uait- | ed States to Brazile. « Carroll Spence, of Maryland, to be minister-reai- dent of the United States at Constantinople. David L. Gregg, of Minis, to. be commissioner of the United States te the kingdom of Hawaii. hatles Eames, of the Districtof Columbia, to be ssto cbviate tne decisive objections ittee. The fundamental chjection tg this proposition, Joha Crip) legation of the United States to Mexico. Danish &. Bickles;et New York, to be secretary of the legation of the United States to Landon. ¢ James C. Marriott, of*Muryiand, to be secretary of less high obligation than’ that fostrament. Aad | ‘his nullification of & solemn covouant batween the ii New York perfidy. His caasces are, however, rather | 4.0) that aa ” of the legation of the United States to Peru. , e M mpact.was ‘superseded’ and rewlered is : . dusty, as his duy of even treasonahle Political: a la Micecrattenl) by the ‘comm promises ?-of 18501 Augustus Erving, of Cohnecticut, ta be secre- tary Ot the Tegation.of the United. States to Rassia. . O, Jennings Wise. of: Virginia, to be secretary of thelegation ef the United States to Prussia. ~ Josiah L. Parish, of Oregon, ‘to ba agent forthe Indiawsin that Territory, Vice Joseph M. Garsison, ‘William P, Davis, of Il'{nofs, to he register of the ‘There is no one in ‘the wide circte of our readers pertinacity than wedoto | than the compact which is, ait Ny % the Missouri is the Deve secumence: to the clrouastences under | ie office at Dan » Vise. Richard 8. Mo- which the. Missouri compromise was ratified. will | 4°D¢y, res) - “4 show with how much erecer solemnity the termiaa: | John G. Reardon,.of Florida, to be secsiver of ublic moneys at Newnaasville, Florida, vies Samuel ‘usec, decease. wi a ion continued during the terms of two Congréssas, |”. Willianr H. Garret; of Tifindis, to be gent for, the lng this action of the committee, if the ayes and x = Creeks, vice William H. Raiford, remove; iil gre Wat warn near | hon Sis Mack Syn of Lt ob he | DG ame of Mii ah aes ot es \. : 4 octaws, Vice iam mn, removed. —** ané noes were culled upon several of the Most obnox: | ¢outzary. broke out on & sudden upon the opening of 1. “2 BE publi e the G 849 }. French, to be cammissiouer. of io A motion ¢o reconsider was then Isid on the table, Sonvonticty; Tae net OC NRE eketiaatens, wes but |: Davis, at Lvveot, Terug Joshua H: Davis, at Lavaca, Texas. Joba Dix, at Corpus Christi, Texas. Rank and Pay of Officers of the Pay Depart- mmeut of the U..1ved States Arm. The followiag official paper, will be found @s; to all officers im the army :— BRPORT OF AN »RMY BOARD. Waauinaron, D, C., Des 17, 1853, How. Jkyrerson Davix,Seoretary.of War :— 5ix—Lhe undersigned, constituted by your Ia- | structions of the 22d ulsimo a Board “to take into ideration the surject of the relative rank of cor- ‘tain officers of the Pay Departament,” have tlie honor tainly by the exertion of a spirit of patriotism, arimating a few distinguished ind juals on both ides of 9 eertain geographical line, and the good fortune of the nation in its having then at its helm a wire and upright chief ungistrate, the question was sanicably settled to tlre nearly universal satisfic- sion of all good citizens. Of the leaders in this great cheme of condiiation, without citing the names of he living, the nation yet mourns the decease of two, oe of inter- be doubted, | previ2susly supposed that all they bad to do to obtain to ubmit the following report ; — Re asthe ay anything, was Jaap tosay they de Auk am this Racy hs wee eae eeeeriog. to | Atthe Cappo nsemgut of thé Mexican war, (May, | see it, ‘There is any quanti:y ah rolling,,and 4 shen thi a Pad Wh that ftene nd the more | 1846,) the Pay Départiment of tue army consisted of | every effost wil be mace toinduce weak men te auit, | tan thirty years ago. Whothat witnessed theatcad | fifteen Paymaster, which somber sma increas | tify themselves by eituer voting against their honest | £Ver forget 1 watever the reader. may te | ed to eigi ry the lst section of. theast of June |. convictions and recent action, or at leaet ey “‘ahool- hapnéned ca ink of igs political charaster of Mr. | 17, 1846. | ing the pit.” Ihave seen so mutch of this sort of aia | Clay, theo ief actor in that scone, no one of any: | he three paymasters thus added, snd who, by { gracefa! business before — both here and elsewhere — | Chee An politica can but remember with respect and:| the terms of the act, were attacked tothe Pay De- that I um now free to predict that & bil’, similar ia } ©Ve@ @dmiration, the fearless independenos, the tatal tte army, were Abraixm Van Baren, | all its essentials, ff not identical wish that just're- jected, will, in the course of next week, yet pasa. | | Such is modermlegislation --suvh the sensisteacy and | integrity of a large number of those whom the people | select as their representatives |. Px Senator Jerry Clemens, of Alabama, seems to ‘have been ‘peculiarly unfortunate aud painfully eon- | tradictory in all his recent political move nents. We | never knew.# man who lost caite 89 rapidly and 89 thoroughly,.. A. "ew, months. ago,, comparativel, | speaking, he stood bigh among the prominent and | } promising memof the laud; aud now, where ishe? Lt | | is but the other dxy he publidied ‘a letser addressed | | ton committee of national denticrats in Philedelphiay | | (eut they say it'was never seat to them,) ta which he | somewhat sneerisgly repudiated thefe course, ‘aad | | volunteered 4 fulsome aud disi.genuous defeiice of" | | the administration. He was then -said to have bsea firm expectant for bead of the War Departnont, in place of Gol Davis, who was to have been eled United Sta‘es Senator from Mississippi, ouly he | wasn’t.- Clemens avd his friends were nicely gatled \-in Miat affur, and having now served the desired | purpose—haytog been rendered powerless by this | Fespxtion of his old friends, aud what many deem his } old principles—the initigners at the White House don’t care a fig how soon he goes to the devil. He | is. aow-down upon the adinini-tration, though as yet | not openly so. He told me, the other evening, that | he could stick to them no longer—that they were a \ poor, anckstering set of rascals, and nothing could | save them from the contefpt and igaomloy which'so deservedly awaited them. Jt unfortunately happens, for bis,own fame, that he did not come. te tals con- closivk in time; wud it is equally unfortunate for the logicof bis argument, that the administration has | done nothing since the publication of tis Philsdel- } phia letter which could justly add to tite coutempt which it had pteviously drawn down npon itself. Clemens’ la‘e lettef to Jobo Van Buren on the Nebraska question, ja amost pitiful and contradictory oduction. I should have believed it a hosx, gotup »y Some Unfriendly disposed persons, asa 6 tire upon his recent: vacillations, had I not recetved the ac- knowledgment of its authenticity from himself before it aopeared im the papers, There fs any quantity of backing and filling yet on this Nebraska and Katsas Wil, and though 1 could easily tell how it will Hall, wo in the House, after it is seat there from the Sanaté, L bave no disposition to relieve dastardly aud trazk- jing knaves on either side from the tortare of uneer- The ' i} | | tain enspenre, Sam Houston is opposed to it. last time I was talking with him on the subject he based"hils oppdsition on a quibble whout ‘the Indian titles; but as this has since been removed, he will | haye to meet the issue in & more direct mannet. Whatever he way aay or do, will not, howefer, vary the result in. least; and he (Donal) aad all others who seek wo ride this ne@ presidential hobby, will find their political necks broken loag be fore th® meeting of them xt National Convention Wf (andl trast not.) the nation is be ever again | cursed by the correptactionof such a base, bargain. jog, and’ officeseekiog batch of rascals as tho¥e whd | Sgured in that of 1852, AS @ at many of ort | teaders are no doubt, desirous of heariag something | Teliable about Gen, Cass, I may a6 weil joform thea | that the old man is full of vigor, and walks dowa | from Willard’s to the Capitol, which is good mile; ) every morning, with a frame as erect and a step av seemingly elastic av if he were but twenty-five. He Jo. ks os well as he did the first day T'saw him, and | everybody but himselt thinks so, He may, however, know best. He will make a speech next week on Douglas's bill, and you may upon its beiag wor- | thy of his fame. He evidently looks upon the waole movementand the manner in whieh it bas beea made disregard } threw hiamelf into the’ b ‘by his energy nd’ influence rebtored 6 should regret it the more.could we balieve tb | artment of ‘ Revert H Hammond, aad Robert A Forayshyto date front Jnue 36, June 29, pad August 8, 1546, re apesiively. In Febraary, 1547, Paym: TP. Audrews, one of the regular paymasters, having ac cepted the appointment of Colonel of Voitigeurs, his. of party or ‘selfinterest, with whion his ach on that occhsion;'and*| uiet to a ‘dis tracted comtry. Nor should we onit due honor t) | ay fete meohes® OF Me Ula, in the.seme tess { presentatives, who, resisting tne current of pub- | yacanc: tilled bi de Ta lio. feeling in Bates: which they cepremeutedss ase | ing the scmgerary a petesd oe andrea is Leslee raree ne ete ok bn a hp ted | ‘master forthe paymeéat of milide and voluntegra,) of those gentlemen, wlio took 4 different. course, | whe wae fgtS he Yea eatin? Te Reraaey 2°, . rent 5 7. and persevered to the end in resisting the com- | >pointment if mastel prontize, we haye never, doubted ietel uoder a | Pitas Ohne esenistither sevsé of duty which they could not consvientfously | ig the regular. ermy,.was conferred on him Jaue 21; cspbeye. pa se er a peek ie 1 \ aay under the met gape the aot of Jaly 5, from-dheni. ‘The Representatives from Northern. teary or militia ware caitéd ints seteiee aed the oe Btates who stood by Mr. Otay on this day of triat of + per of regular paymasters are nist sulliclent to. — sone he ve or noveen not exceed’ | them with: proaee phmcwatttg.* to Babi a many wentyin number. To show of what character’ tie: loz masters i week fsen muah to recy to mabe She patie of | po wt ie for. every, pe ha er ” Henry Baldwin, late Justice of the Supreme Cant; | yelunteera, and iacmenss pointed ‘to contin- of Juseph Bioomfeld, trom.New Jersey, an officer | pe in service only as loug as oor servizes ara te- of the revolution and of the warof 1812; of #:raight- | quired to pay militia and volunteers.”” forward Epbrdm Bateman, from the same State; of | “tm consequence of the addition of fet regiments to Hepry Southard, that taishful-Jerzey Bine who car . ried arma through _the whole of the révolutionary Pay aepantwuntt of the igen’ Page aosen war, and had been ia Congreds almost ever since; Of | gary, and by the ct oF Also 3, 1847, section 12y:it” the reepested Samuel Fae oF Reode Island; ‘of | yw, ented, by two.Deputy Paymasters General Langdon Hil! and Henry Shaw, of Maasachasétes; | ree aymasters; but the 22d seation of the sams ¢ Henry Meigs, of “New. York;..of HearyT act provided that these twelve officera “should ba” Storrs, the distinguished. member of the > SaRRPOd at tHe end Ueehe sve wita Mexico,” ts bar ofthe came State; ando! hosest Daniel Udree, of Pennsylvania. It 1s small honor: for those netnes to be recalled in this manner to remembrance tm these coluruns, bt it is great honor ty them and those who, uniting with them, contribated to tie tl timate decisiga, ty be remembered in convection with an event which, in the appreheasion of same of, the Wisest amougst us saved the couatry from an intes: line war. We cannot dismiss this brief historical reference without invicing the earnest attention of all oar younger readers to the fact that Mr. Clay did not lose, by his steady oppositiya to the restricuon apo section wae, however, repealed ia respect to the tre Deputy Payinsters Gtnmeat thea ‘ih’ Rikinlcolees oy ‘the act of July 19, 1548, section 3, the ten paymeaters ‘ware silso allowed ty be. “‘retaiued in gerrice until 4th day of March, 1549;". and Paymaster T. Py ane drews, who bad resigued to acceptia colonel sy during -the-wsr, under tne 4ta, section of the samo act, was restored to bis former rank and position iu the pay department. Uf the twelve paymasters ajipointed in conse- quence of he iacrease of the déparsmeat, autnoriaed by the act of.March 3, 1547, only three have re- waived continuoysly in service, v! Rovers B Missourt, aby porttan of the public esteem and cof. | Reynolgs, who filed @a original y datin: ence which be had prey. susiy commanded. Wis | froin March 3, 1817; George H Riage old, dp oeiute lofty independence was reoognized: and fee July 21,7847, to the vacancy cagesd by the oromo- by the world. By the first President subsequeat’y | ting of Paymaster Larned ty be Depnty Paymaster elected froma Northern State, he was selected from oll his fellow-citizens to be the Secretary ot State, atent be Bagi enjoyed a large portion A cor fidence countrymen, North as well a3 Sout of Mason aud Dixon's ihe As regards the.,Territoria! bill now wader consi, eration iu Cougress, we are informed byan article copied comspicuonsly into the g wvernment paper of Fen tn the 4n “sdarinistration tosh | as b every trnedemd ertot fa Reon cee Gongs will vote Fe Atagh aa we exes wo me | X3theceaen ey the auinoity vate fim So important a statement pat forth authoritatively, | missions of additional paymaster couterred on these persons, specified the act uoder woish they were ised, thus iting “heir ehatactet and téfure. ‘They were given to mect the temporary exigencies Occasioned by mystering into service a larga.body of yoluteers, and their diration was limited*by the | continnance of those exigencies. |. The erder of the President, isaned at the close of the Mexiean war, directing the volunteereto bs nu General; and Heory Hill, appointed November 6, 1847, vice J. R. Wollace, resigned Wallace haviag succeeded to the vasanvy made, by the promotion:to: Deputy Paymaster General of Paymaster Dasiet Randall. The preeecntion of the war against Moxio, rée- quiring the employment of many volunteer regiments, the President appointed the number of temporary payMasters necessary for paying them with * pro- e id regret.it-as weil for the President's o#a | sakeas.for the peace of the coantry. ‘Bat his mes | atthe opening of Congress forbids us to be- | love it. PRTRACT FROM THE MESRAGE OF PRetIDENT PrERCR, ATTHB OPENING OF TOR VRESEST CONGRESS. TE no part of my por toany abje 0 » . ; be) ene i st P bake Hite tered out of servioe, required a'so the additional pay- Prefent Ye brighy Wits promlee, -@ f@\nice full ot ca lonsters ty berdissbargedy bit Congress having 819 soar wid {oda cemmeat for chs ly afterwards, (July 19, T8349, d an sci giving © of agtive iver a EQnce the partoan never be wizlout usefal eeroos of | threé months extra pay to all volunteers and rega- with onition and intteastion, Thin di | lars who had betn ‘efigared in the war, the retention nestor, “bay wf ev! ently fail of the additignal paymasters to make theve payments a Oe yhet the grove #hall by | Was rendered necessiry; but the Secretary of War, ie Were 10 Td \ bs ia his instructions of Angust 23, 1845, directed that they should be discha: “at the earliest period.” vapbotnted additionat paymasters ler charge de affaires of the Unites States to Venezuela. | , of California, te he secretary of the | ‘in verification of the value of merohandiseto be ex- ‘The right of the President to select nominate: for an original wppotntzient' carries with ft algo the | Ported, as it is declared in the insoic@ena Fight to fix the date of such appolutment; and wr “ Heats HM sbrinte an. Ration of the date is not specified {n the nosaination, it neces- |’)? seer Oleic comme! itlay with takes the date of confirmation. The above i soeeemty’ erchante on this side shall be furnished with the” opportunity | resolution of the Seaate conferred new appointments otved a Or 5 co} iments to the United { Upen the officers. named, differing ia date frem the appointments previousty held by them.’ Tha! E the ‘provisions af, oth wec- Rn Tomer ded ‘as settling the relati ‘ida’ ‘of the’ penal code, the. ) aod of thore officers fr their corpa in tie erder t! | for aiipeie in’ the. the roval named, and acéording to the dates given themia |.s#"drathe are therefore to bé ted upon the their new appointments, The commissions held by application of the owners of merchendie pesigned to, them prior to this action of, the .Senate.can be cha.’ | be #ent-on consienment to’ the “U- g, to receive! | sidered only a9 former commissions, and as sush’’| #2 8dismation in the place of awvoeth, ‘in fegard to Aust. be governed by taeGlet artiele ofwar, q the cei ness. of the value declaredim+hetiayo.ces. Phe Board ia therefore of e pinion: thet the rank im-| Upon the Bresasiation of the, inveiees:of.merchan- | the Pay Department.of the officers in question, is.aa, ise, Gopiened fo be ase 8 2 Seon aps GN | cries pe should stand: ig thas order on. the, protocol; orif the mécemary affirination tif place of 1) andrew J. Obffee, Febraary'23, 1847. 2. Ged,'| the oath is alveady written beforshatd pra the in- | JH. Ringgold, July 21, 18470" 3." Henry Hil, Nov. 6; polgninapeesancs shall meution the ‘aeknowledg- 1847.4. Abrabam: Van: Buren, Merch 2, 1849, «6-4 Ment of this aMicmation. A certifiesteof:this tran- ; Robert,B, Reynolds, Maroh 2.1649. / 6. Jeremiah ¥.,.taction, furnished with the. oficial sea.nd sigua Dasblefl, March 2, 1849. 7- Seckfleld Maoklin, March ture, is to ‘be annexed to the iny handed | 9, 1849.8, a. Gh Mi 9.1349 9 rea “back to the spplicaat as expeditt Possible. 1G. Bennett, March 2, 1845. 10, Hiraw ‘Leonatd, |. Before ‘the ‘reception -or ackno' t of an ‘Moreh 2, 1849. “11. Praticts Av Ottiiaghat, Merehi'| Sffirmation, of onth, the "at section 2, 1849." 12 George. Hatter; Marl 2, 18h). «= Agi. of the ~ fate SalLencee lettered 0 te ~ ” 4 . Wweor, x 4 Lo by a 't Maj . % is Been done inte be noted in th re at se oot atic [oma ube wae ery A Brevet Colonel Lieut. Colonel 1st Dragoons.” |'*h? certificate, mm * consign: soe cae oe Cenent: ‘Ban, t0 the porn iederentem ‘he Unueg tates ectangy mek on of a or ws ana a edn Jurzansou.Davis, Beoretary.of Wat.,... ae re none, to the Coprlaten ofthe t [nited States iu'the port ‘of stipment. a Navy Meitical Board. ~ “ Taecordingly treet the royal t8 |furnish =e rH res aed. sami inn pre theix epecial di ecb belaent enapacal Mi vA eseistans surgeons. ya vtion idates fox. © ib theix:#) jut ve deapal eer cas Seer | ane cone enemas con javal jam, Bbove rt arrangements to t! on Monday, the 6th of March next,” Puls voard’id ¢9 | wideobinw of ehclraintricea, 7 consist of ion Thomas Dillard, Pres‘dent;'aad ~~ \ ' pce ites Surgeons Jos. M. Greene and W. 8. W. Ruschem 5 ‘rtic Pacific Rativoga.”"” berger and Teaeod Aasiaast Surgeon A. A; Hoader-oiry -ieesican ‘mamatY—-rum ak," Haruno It is prescribed = ned by law that no one shall be a oa int this wranch of the ‘service who has not’ |’ examined found qnatified by a Board of Naval Surgeons, desigaated by the Secretary of tue [From the New Orieaus Picayune;Jami29) Seventeen members of the Lratissarecoetagae, wh. Bl voted acainst the passage of the Bave fied on. & protest against the passag: journals avy for that purpose. This designation {3 made, at shassme. the grounds alleged CaF lisnent are Bit times as. fe wanta of the tice rapder neces- Sad rheaavte wae jatsed throug» the ‘Leg'slature withou sary; when are, by. the. Sacretary of | ‘Allowing !he minority the opportanity g aaranteed to ther the number of individuals he may deem it prover to’ by the State wanes ition ofa freediesuesion'of the mea | haveexamined. Tothe persons thas selected por | taey yao nnte Bats me hay veoa th missions are given to preeeht themselves to the Board: frieads ot ruth w.mearure, aud. Ooetiel) Wh ‘for examination. These perstisefond state th fine. amended 00 a2 to command, thair anpporty.0: 7 and place’ of CT ting of the Board. The ‘Hoa foreed to the disa,reeable alternative of the bil { rey scruti oa the pre’ ms of cath candidate, | er of satgattting ip an arbitrary and Ghsonetitatonal pre 1 nto consideration his Fs qhalidoations }' ee We'do not understend wet is presents an - | and moral , ae well as | professstortal "4 (ones the jacic'al tribunals 'ean-ibeeailed apoo t acquirementa;' and. reports favorably, upom mo: case admitting of a reabonable semen the health and lives of the offieers, seamen, ‘and marines, are objects too important to be commtit‘ed to’ ignorant and incompetent’ persons.’ The ‘Boar! ‘report the relative merit of the candidates, aa shown by the ax... amination. Those of whose qualifications the Board is satisfied are sppointed Assistant Surgeons, as their C- & view of affeciing the validity af the ls other Hifi ouity to which ‘we'a'lited-the Other day fe treat ob cf rizhts set up tn-bahaléof-the eharter « ‘hat com joa a fe the Bl Paao and Vickaburg Railroad C, Lat {. will be reame bered, filed, en works axo what pusporte: to be. & lal Hitte of Tose fom the Sabing river Bio Gracde, upon the preteasion that it was { i} 4 i ' 06s are red. 64 cotual survey, msde withta « period of sixty | Cadidates of whom. the Board make an iii: png erp Suara opt atiy miles, thro » favorable report are atiowed a second examination if avon by ol ne ‘ean astern wae" they desire it; ‘when, if they again fail, their nawes-} charge: to interrupt the provecation of th. rt Rai 1 are dropped from the list of applicants. roadunier the new law. by taking (PO easida of tt ,. Noallowarcets made for the expéuses of persons | points obviously most imooriant to’ the ente - | undergoing these examinations, as they are indis- | Pé, sad bye elaiciing the title to al | ponsuble pre-requisites to appointment. Yios Ofcland, under tho geusral law— | Applications must-be edazeased to the Secretary fr Mire the lends io the exzin tom of xtheco tom te. }-of the Navy; must state the age and residence ofthe | Prsieel woul be to ecmpel.the canmeagana applicant, and must be accompanied by respectabts “eginage | timers of ha poset the moral aud plfateat’| Mxtnectber x00 40, syretloe tS Caoemaaten’ ta | qualifications requisite for fitting Creditably there: | eoustmucyicm. Apis not’ selieved tat there | Honattle station, avd for perfurniting th)y the arduous, PLTpwe, oF tbat ibeve wre apy meaca.provided d active duties which will required of him. We by wbion the old sompany ovuld bull (aha road. } The appli jon, of no. ope will.be considered whose] 1 further advised upon the Dest. information from Av rBaptnat the-e ig no. chanes whatever that ibis projec Will Da wliowed. Tne osarierof the EuPaso 6ompany utterly inopera.ive cy pnrposs, without addi ior by Legisiatare, curing: som@def¥o's wat wise be fatal io the organization uncer t L.w, Thecharter is null uniew aubsams ally revived a Repewrd ty the Legiciature; an i-toat bedy.milkpousen’ movbirg which will interfere heels. age is twenty-one or over twenty-eight years. « Naval Intelligence. 2H WARRANT OFPIORES OF THE NAVY. From the Portecouth (Va )+Tramsoriv,; Jan. 14 J ‘ne day has paesed by when midshipman wA3Or- dered aloiv hundreds of miles at'wea to ook oat for | land, as a puttishment; and when the yatrant—or as Land specs f { they Inive “been at times falied, the Aye officers br abe omen eign by the Maver Nort Cate athe eeu | ee meme a aa 1a es. dn manos ‘many. other, cbsulete netiood sats Beat 0, hat thers ts ns toh bf tog stion " mbeny of bo | which it. was once deemed treason to: deay. A new. ‘presi on the artis ofthe fhe ib tikiog je whihle Work. The sgents of the era haa dawned, and: the: tendency of Tess and: 7 x’ Teta social are At Austin, salt Will wt enlightenment has been'to elevate man in ft cia scale, to raee the marves, to make ‘what hasbeen |* bid within the pericd altowed by th: ; 8 called by monaychists the séclat pyraniid ess contest} wil Wotnaentaies arerasetged a asd to redince.its shape moré to that of an equalized | for another company to com pute wit oth th form, In this equaligiag gg well as onward and ap- | infest, thoimducements off red by Texas aWivo 1a: aard march, all classes, ions of men’ are:| *8¢ road towards the Pacific is-net forwardedeén bucd: joming. . Ard among. them, warrant officéts of” Fags me ee mn rpriss On'tho pat Ca our Navy. ‘They are now: a verydifferems body of] ‘tee and suol lnout f ee a ten irvin that which they formerly were. They.af@. | treaty with Mexico has amocthed uwoy wo ashny cf required tobe educated, sud to piss attegulor bxamio- | poiitionl aud paytizal difficulties whieh werevurged to ation, They are required t7i i find vigilant rhe dy ths. We maz cong:atulate un -edves upon dy well as ‘Skjlful ih. their | ings. Teey., | brilliant pro-psate sbich the enierprisaempopar 1 i+, ate_@ class indkepensable on board men-of-wary:| .drée,.a.8p Of epeoial intersss totbingquasser of 4 And in case of any, material mage, by reasow ot 00 to thia city. Taecoparciion between (!ti5 T stress of weather or otherwise, -they ate thévon! dananerensgnter ppelousas and dependence. These men think the government d: oy aoe pes, agg semena oo not paytuerenough. They ate right, The Ge ety A er eerie Bn hey Coa uk, tay ee ehotgh. They are mostly | ments, abd ie Legislaiiye progisions @xi men of families, from Whom they are often sep , seek a for the eatenion an. juga iom of, these and, besldes hav pay their, own mess bill on. « Lopliana, which w, nd. besides having to pay. tue pantive teas Los dt bes theret it. thorongh{a: ‘ ‘ iecpteshes Gr eae a Of inter ocegnic op umorp ag # abe in thig grand eananty pay ms whatever cf infiaence and n° duty, they bave to leave a. pay at. bebind them] for the support of their wives and children. Living ie now dearer thar it was formerly. The great influx of gold—that*excess of thirty-one mi'iions overex: tation— hit raised the’ prite of breadstuffs and, pri te SEBS rovisions of & Vy a. potty a More goldto | @ yulliocspeayy Can Gomtrlouw ieee a ge necesnal f lifé than It dil formerly, when (From the Charlestoa Coat } “ was earcer. These are plain facts intended} Oar disnbytl-Het Gawer ws ght fog thf for plain people. But who are these warrant officers? fem capiial on Moa ay mornlog ne ano ate, They are the boatewains, carpenters, gunoeft’ * ’ aaituakers of our navy. Let us inquire what ae ~ Wo bave cleaned ‘otis Hooras be yc relia pay is, es atpresest fixed by law. Duringthe first ten, } nome aced ee te to, oMy-sauscer Yeare! rervice—mark that—when on rex or shore |, Minister, the Mexibin obleg pat bie treaty fne7 & Guty;they receive each the gnormous sam ofseven be eft ign. Ga; ten wag 1G} only josie ia Mablsoee clei n Anal Whie- on loape on weioeg dat Oul'ctols, by wae patie pepedt 3 * a! Nar Cs ol the annual pay is five hundred doliars—nvont | Pat Walker, 5 afALs a, itt Zike one dollar and thirty-seven cents — After tem’|" embrafed by the traaty at a lees cos: than $20, years service, the pay on sea or shore duty is ra(ved , bY the {resutious duurre of the Hoa RJ Wal to the eum of cight hundred dollars—eqtal to about | formerly Secre of the Treasure, ia relation to Jower of southern ronte of the contempia! ifs T two dollars and ¢ighteen cents. In ships of the 7" ite Anca became renolate pis cg Loa line, or seventy-fours and upwards, which, like the: |. 4, Pesneylyania, are generally Taed 6 grace the home ibe, or evs Begotiation, oo

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