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3 NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST Wi, 1684. Q f , no less @ to net he aifaibs of ChelBtate ship, and patriotin coun. advieor ty We,” and died on,” [wo Satisfactory to both countries, but yet ir places, res yy the President, by an TEE DEAD oF THE CABINET. | py ee Binet weak is the staf ah met was ) fall of stirs ites a day of ten nd life of pablic ‘eet | the sof com erenomercus, and uch th adyice and of the Senate. 7 Rn wh we leap! Our hopea how de @ |. gladness and tri ness ph at the at efforts floor of “he Senate. Mit Web- | skill Bh doncile conflict of opiaiign at 2 Jevdnd best enasted, That the opera: re Deltvered, at Botershl Vv rly wvomis: of morning how Meeting and tr. ecessfal ac “Om tof an ent which waa also there, and as ih d._ go often been eo existed between the two gov- i present law limiting the nomber of o! & Lectnre Bolivered at Betersbaxg, Was BY | Tyas invited to Boston to be present at the ad been condi the ence « 1 | before, the two became . .gonigts in debate, | ernnents, On the other hand, no diffleulty of seri- of the navy shall be suspended go far as to aw President John Tyler. | of the speech of Mr. Webster on the completion of | direction of one of the most gallant and talenved | Neither age nor wfirmity had impaired the abilities | ous moment stood in the way of a successful nogo- | thorize the restoration, within ove year from t p inp GExTLewen OF Tee Perens- | the Bucker 1 i monument. The journey was con- | officers of the navy. The experimental ship, the | of Mr. Cathoun, atthough it soon became obvions | tiation of the Texas treaty. “It required only the | pi ¢ of this act, by the President, by and wit! ‘ that his end was drawing nigh. His hair and | assent of the Presidents of the two Republics to ue- | the advice and consent of the Senate, of ‘officers rioN—I am here to-night | me wed come days in advance of that appointed for | Princeton, floated majestically on the bosom of the . ? Invitation, and Beng the delivery of _ oration, and Mr. Legare was pre- | Potowse, and her beahically 08, commander, dis- | cpeeks were blanched and his term stteauated and eee and the work was all the same as done. | served or dropped under the operation of the act tthe came time ar | ven'ed from accompanying me by some press tinguished not more for his valor thon for bis wasted. Rut that great mind still shone out w! ‘he difficulties arose afterwards, and the people had | the twenty-cighth of February, eighteen bi wander among the tombs, | business in be State Department, and only Reached bounded hospitality, had sent out cards of inyitaiide undiminished splendor, its corruscations illu to interpose their authority in order to crown the | and fifty-ive, entitled “An act tv promote Ca cny{whieh thirteen years | Boston on the day set apart for the eration. He | ‘or a fete on board, comprising a incititude. Never | ning the darkest and most wen problems. | measure wilh snecess, “an interposition, the | ciency of the navy:” Provided, That there be ts which should be | complained of being too unwell to attend. Anemi- | did the eye gaze on a brighter or more animated | When langnishing on the bed of sickness and of | necessity for which "J must perinitted | no further promotions or appointinents in any grade ! coming time. My task | nent physivian was called in, who at first dia not | scene than that which the beantiful river exhibited | death, one of his last wishes was, that he could once | to say, bad wot been anticipated in the | after said eee ee eal we been made thereto Eelogicn have already been | regard the attack as of any serious momeat. Fatal | during the forenoon of that fatal day. There | more address the Senate and implore it to guard | remotest Leary had been actually guarded | until such je in the active service shall be re ng Will fbe one, however humble, | error, which a brief day served to dissipate. Death | floated the ship whereon had been concentrated | the country against those xery evils which now | against, before the offer of itade a ish ‘im, aud the iicpes apd antie'pated wich ape Santon, Ustirs Tenses fp Sammraens aes ties cer | chen cay work chhcer mals restored to: toe usty and undying ‘riendship. Staad- | had seized upen its vietim, and the commonwealth | so many he Deck it | hay into such magni as to threaten moa 5 om on! when apy suc! icer sl tored to the navy their graves I recall them such as they | was called oe to Dour the loss of one of its | in filmy there waved tes (ed ta po i its institations, It may therefore be quarter, that the treaty, when ted, by and with the advice and consent of the Sena ; 1 see them as formerly at the Cabinet | purest ond uoblest sona, That well stored mind, | yard some ‘emblematic fieg in token of our | said, that like William Pitt, bis last ht was for | would be vatitied by a constitu majority of the | the officer so restored shail occupy that Rafitign au id, while proud- | his country; and thus went John C. on the | Senate. ravk in the navy which he woul have held. had turbed by the ravings of faction or the | which had shed broad light over the country | amity with the whole worl 3 voar of political tempest, intent only on tre public | uy sO many occasions, was DOW mga ly above them all floated at the masi | roadof dusty death, in advance of his two great ri- In order to secure the measure after the rejection | not been retired, furloughed, or dropped, I tl good earnest to record their names on the a. thet calm and unimpassioned nd, | head, our own beautiful banner. Number'ess ba! vale—the three, while in life, constitating a triam- | of the treaty, Mr. Calhoun was prompt in his advice | order of the President, on the report o’ the Navi ges ei history as public benefactors. Spargere | on whose counsel 1 had leaned in so mach confi- | shot out from every cove and point, loaded with | virate of talent rarely ever equalled by any trio of and energetic in his course, of action. There wasno | Board: Provided, further, That avy dropped office = gere breves rosas——and to whom can this | dence, and by whom I was never deceived, was | their living freight, and flew on wings of hope | the same age and division of opinion at the Cabinet board, or hesita- | who may be, in the opinion of said court, entitled office be more appropriately assigned than to my- | stricken from my side, and an excursion commenced | and joy towerds i ship. The decks were | Of Daniel Wel desicn but briefly to speak. | tion on my own part in the choice between the al- | be placed on the retired or furlough list. may self? We were comrades—sat at the same table— | im buoyancy and 1 giaduose, which had been accom- | soon crowded with a host of happy visiters. Thers | You know that eyrivet Mr. Caihonn by some | ‘ernate propositions presented by Congress, and the | thus placed by the President, by and with the qroke bread and a’e selt together—bared our bosoms panied on lis whole line by the greetin.s and buz- | was but soo Teese. in that crowd who did not pir- | few years,and after filling the world with his fame, | iast moments of the administration were made avail- | vice and consent of the Senate. Sihe some storms, and when the angry clouds so | zes of unnumbered thousands, was terminated in | take of the hilarity which so universally prevailed, | went down to his grave amid the regrets of the | able for the accomplishment of the measure. Its Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That office far parte dmit a ray of sunshine, we basked | sorrow and mourning; that generous heart whose | and that ex: was found in the person of the } whole country. Of ‘his association with me inthe | euccess was, a3 has since appeared, by inadvertence | who were Groped as aforesaid, and who shall m it toge’ uiided in them while living, I re- | every pulsation was and holy, had ceased to | interesting admired ‘of the Secretazy of the | administration of the government, I take leave to | on the part of those who controlled the action of the | be restored to the naval service within one - © Nero their memories now they axedead. Letno man | beat: {saw him borne to his last’ resting place, | Navy. From the moment that her foot touched the | speak as I truly feel. We had served in the Seuate | Senate on the subject, placed in the power of the | from the passage hereof, shall be entitled to recei fear 1 shall so ily acquit myself of my | where he sleeps until the morning of the resurrce- | deck of the ship a foreboding of evil took possession | for many years together, and he was 2 member of | ilen executive, and no momeet was lost in making | one year’s duty pay of their grades, respecti task > introduce into my address any- | tion. so passed away oe Swinton Legare in the | of her tind. The slightest separation from her | the House of Representatives when I went into that | it available. 2 and the President shal be, and he is bere’ antl thing can excite party feeling. I shall do no | morning of bis prime and 4 daylight of his use- | hushand caused herinexpressible agony. Vain were | body at an early period of life. I confess to the in- In other matters of inrportance, Mr. Cal- | rized, with the advice consen: of the Senate, such injustice to the memory of those of whom | fulness. the efforts which were made to expel trom her mind | dulgence of prejudices against him which were | honn rendered valuable service, and com- transfer any officer from the furlough to the reserv I des cn to speak—what they were politically is for At the time of Mr. Legare’s death there presided | the benid of the future of that woful day. | felt by myself in common with the whole | pressed within the sbort period of his pre- | pay list, and that so much of the act of Feb others ts tion—I design no more than to draw | over the Navy Department. one who was competent | The pall the shroud fisated before her vision, | South. ‘Those prejudices had been e2- | ciersbip as mach of public benefit. as could well Rey hth, gightocn hundred and fifty-five, e1 aerreotypes upon the historiam will de- | to fill rod office under the gevernment. He h2d | and she was miserable. Like Cassandra, she pro- | gendered by reason of the course pursued | have been accomplished. Mis great mind could x act to promote the efliciency of tl uty of drawing their full length por- | illustrated that department by jndic'ous reforms | phesied of evil, and her Prophecies ware Ganialte as | by the party in the East in the second yeirof the | never Le at rest, and its perceptions were ottentimes | navy,” as renders reserved officers ineligible to pi sll speak of them in the order in which | which are destined long to be felt amd acknow- the effects of womanly timidity and nervous excite- | war of 1813, with which he had generally acted, | so rapid as to outrun thove of all others. In iltustra- | motion, be, and the same is hereby repealed. tiew to ‘he werk! and closed their career | ledged. A system of rigid economy was practisel; | ment. Tell us, you who profess to look into the fa- | rather then by any personal involvment in the ob- | tion of this, take leave to mention the expression Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the narae of Hugh Swinton Le | bat while timited the expenditures to the | ture, you who claim the power to read the mys- | noxious proceedings of the times. Our close assu- } of one who in point of majesty and power of intellect, | officers may be promoted on the reserved list, by a1 ‘he catalogue of the dead. actual necessities of the service, a new effi- | teries which envel cause and effect be- | ciation in the executive department s00n caused me | is surpassed by no man living. Many years ago, with the advice and consent of the Senate; but ne ‘ist time Lever saw him. It was | ciency was imparted to the navy. To him | fore they give of birth, what connexion exists | to place a more just estimate upon him,and the man } and before the existence of the railroad between | such promotion shail entitle them to any pay £ steam power, and a slight frost | that department is greatly indebied for its | between the troubled mind thus filled with feverish | who bad been so often reviled in the South os more | Fredericksburg and Richmond, Mr. Calhoun, Mr. | yond that to which they were entitled when so t the running of the steamer sent orgsnization, which places at the head of | apprehension and the dread reaiity which afterwards | English than American, grew with me into the sub- | Tazewell and wyself stopped, on our return home, | served, nor shall they, by such promotion, take veen Washington and Potomas creek. veteran commanders, who, from their in- | occurs’ With this exception, never was there as- | lime character of the patriotic statesman. Whether | all night at Potoma: creek. The tariff was the de- | higher rank than they would have token had | was et the time the only means | timate acqueintance with the wants of the service, | sembled amore joyous crowd. A cloudless sky added | the South or the North, the East or the West, was | batable question of that day, and occapied intensely | becn retained in the active service of the navy; ai are best qualitied to provide for them. to the brilliancy of the scene. The anchor ia weigh. | particularly interested in the question on hand, and | the mind of Mr. Calhoun. “He had started a new | nothing in this act, or in the act to which this is Under him, also, aose that structure over which | ed and the ship moves with mojestic grace over the | without the slightest reference to its type or charac- | theory touching its o wation on the public interests. | amendment, shall be so construed ag to precluc was placed Lientenant Maury, whose name has dimpled waters; at length her iarge experimental | ter, he maintained with consummate ability the | Mr. Tazewell, as is his practice, urged objections | officers on the reserved list from wearlog the mw ready tilled the scientific vorld, and who is des‘ guns are tired, and the immense range o! the pou- | rights of te country. His mind was broad enongh | to the theory, in order to have it developed in ail iss | form of their grades, respectively. a) to wit other and still more im- | cerons balls seemed to realize all that the valovous | to take in the whole country and every part of it, | bearings. left them in awmated conversation at See 5. And be it further enacted, That captains ii man whom ! soon | portant trinmp! fature couteibutions to the | Stockton had focetold ot their power, The ship is | and in the conduct of our foreign affairs, he looke! | 12 o'clock. They sat up toa mach later hour, The | command of squadrons shall be denominated fla ned to the | cause of science: to him is also due the orga returning to her. anchorage and the feast is nearly | only to the great principles of international law, | next doy found Mr. Tazewell aud myself journeying officers. 3 els. We were | zation of the nome squadron, which, while serving | ended. Abel P. Upshur bas added to its zest by the | and with the volurae in w! ich is written that inw in | to Richmond, and Mr. Calhoun, by another road, to See. 6. And be it further enacted, That al) offi > | asacosic guerda, watches over and protects th: | cbavms of his conversation and the brilliant flashes | bis hand, he looked foreign nations in the | South Carokina. | inquired of Mr. fazewell whether | who may be restored to active service, under tl raze end «| Mr. C.had convinced him of the correctness of his | provisions of this act, shall be entitled to draw | theory. “No,” said he, “I have made np no por they were care at the time they opinion about it. Calhoun is al vays in advance of | retired or dropped, for and during the time of ve almost impassable roads pd F u edevieksburg. 1 was ginia, in the wi brief respite from service as a € Representatives. Chance | ed, Ido not doubt wopean er; b ho waits for intro bief recommendatio commerce of the country In neighboring waters. | of bis wit. Thomas W. Gilmer, intent on the inti- | face with a firm and steady J ceremony. | There was no he=itation in entrusting to such a mon | mate knowledge of her materia! aad structure, has | cheek unblanched by fear, Whether pound, in some sertto | the Premiership, and Abel P. Upshur was according- | visited every of the ship and mastered the | question involved was one of the rights of bo: is e the fatigne of the jour. | ly placed at the head of the State Department. | entire fabric. The song still prevails and patriotic | tihty due from one conutry to the stips and mari- | me by may months.” J couid not bat exclaim, “You | retirement or suspension from the active servi conversation thus becomes general, er acquaintance had commenced in early life, while | sentiments abound. The galiant commander and | ners of another, driven by stress of weather, or car- | have paid him in that the highest compliment ever | aforesaid. i the joarney is ended good fel: | he was a law student im the office of -Wilham | Upshur and Gilmer are no longer at the table or in | ried by iutineers into ifs ports, as was the matter id to any may.” His mind required no awakea- Passed the Senate July 15, 1856. established among the passengers. | Wirt, and I in that of Ednund Randoiph. | the cabin. They have ascended to the de:k accom: | involved in the case of the Creolo—or whether it | ing, fo. in truth it never slept, He was sometimes Attest: Aspury Dick ¢ oveasion | have mentioned. | We became members of a debating society | panied by a few friends. The Secretary of the | wasa claim of right to visit or search American | thought to be moxe speculative than practical —and the coach gave fullleisure for | in Richmond, with others of our own age, | Navy desires once more to witness the eitect of a | ships on the high seas, under the piea of suppre*s- | yet he often foresaw coming events which had ile Hindetnaee Ai ing the African slave trade, (a practice entirely | scarcely cast their shadows before them. Mr. Web- a ae ate We and te eee awed ts and a peek Sige tet early <4 di arge Ly? one < the gone, Co the Be Ee Ree ro Weal 5 is ee rear ad heer A { ts r for much to interest them. He | sons ablic speaking. req ue a smal tsin proceeds to comply with his wishes. abandon ince rveaty of Washington,) or whe- | ster subk int niet and repose a' grea % % ¥ / . } els. Prance, Italy, Fagland and | share oF the spirit of prophecy to fucteli the future | crowd below is in utter igecranes of what is passing | ther he was called upon to express the in lignatioa | effort— but it was the repose of the eazle, which Arias erg ny ct Denctestath ett Neen nd were spokea of with graphic powers. The | thst awaited him. He had broughs to she study of | above, a loud report is at length heard, and does not | of the government at the inhuman treatment by a wearled by a long flight, alichts upon some lofty | he seemed to despair of an election by the Y leon had set, and the glovy | the law a mind ays stored with all the learning of | atthe moment arrest the song and merry jest; a | neighboring Power of prisoners taken in war, a8 ia | eminence for necessary rest, and where be may re- as things now stand, and he began to om minaret and tower had | the academies, and his information was so arranged, | mysterious whisper at last reaches the crowd; | the case of fexans taken captive by Mexico; or ogjeet Ba plemeus Oe a flight that will bear him | changes on the deplorable effects of an Ciection sunk into the twilight of the ancient regime. The | that, like a well ordered arsenal, the various weapons anxiety, to be soon succeeded by dismay, prevails. | whether it became his duty to vindivate the invio! 'a- | still nearer to the sun. His mind was easily aroused, the House. The election there would di on th entbusiism of the young traveller found 1's only ex- | of attack and defence were readily seized upon as | The upper deck is reached, aud there lies sealed in | bility of American soil, 23 in the case of the Caro- | and when in motion wes as resistless as the tide of vote of the member from Delaware, pone eitement in the marvels of the times of the Coasu- | the occasion required. He uscd with force and | death and already wrapped in the fotds of that flag | line—no matter what the subject, still Daniel Web- | the ocean. In debate the style of the one was pre- | ¢gucted by that member's vote was full of terror late and empire. We visited, with him as our cice- er the broad axe of Richard, or the keen seime- | which was never looked upon by them while in fe | ster stood firm and immovable, and, with au ability | cise and didactic—that of the other, copious aml | ti¢ South! In Mr. Cobb’s. calculation, he gave u rone, those battlefields where crowns were the of Saladin. He had but to appear at the bar | without imparting to their patriotic hearts a quick- | rarely equalled and never surpassed, main- | Ciccronian. Mr. Calhoun had ead made the | jjincis aud Iowa to the black T pehtieane To d stakes, and whereon kingdoms were lost and won— | and bis success was accomplished. The army of | ened pulsation, the two eminent secretaries aud | taincd the doctrines and principles of that | great Athenian his model. Mr. Webster more | tis he had to suppose that the two vaca imxuriated in beauty and fragrance of the impe- | obstacles which so often impede the way of the youn: three other distinguised citizens, one of whom, also | intervational code, the offsp ng of an increased | nearly resembled the illustrious Roman. The | the first State would be filled by black rep nclee rial gardens—visited the great works which, if all | advocate vanished before him, and he might well | a son of this Commonweatth, Com. Kennon, hd go | civilization, which all the nations of the earth | one iashing with the inepirations of genius—the | ong that a sitting member from Iowa would else was wanting, would serve as endaciag mona- | have exclaimed Veni, vidi, vici. It is to be regretted | often courted danger on the ocean aud had won the | are bound to respect, and which it should be | other shaking the Senate chamber with the ted from his sent, and a black substituted. Th eroror—converaed | that no lasting memorial of any of his brilliant ef- | Commodore's flag by gallant service, and at the } their greatest pleasure to oor Such was Mr. | thunder of his eloquence—such were these two | catimate of probabilities ‘would indicate that b The ments to the memory of the E: c| with the great Marshals, and shed tearat the bloody | forts at the bar is preserved. fe this he has shared | time presided over an important bureau. While | Webster as Premier to an administration with which t intellectual giants, each suited to positions of republicanism has carried dismay to the heart q Geath of the bravest of the brave,” adeath which | the fate of many others whose field of forensic la- | Virginia mourns over the remains of her | he was associated for more than balf its term. The highest eminence, and each, in the absenze of | (6),,-and that old Buck is not the man he has lef’ opon the garments of those who ordered it | bors has been the country. They whose eloquence Pobs sons, Jand bends in solemn | State Department is full of garlands which brerthe | his rival, worthy of being regarded as the man of | cre-ked up to be—and that he can’t save us a stain so Jeep that all the waters in the world can- | safliced to stir up or allay the passious at will, | woe over her gifted Maxey, and New York laments | fresbly bis memory, and which time can neither the inroads of the black republicane—the only p his age. not wash it out: but the blood then shed shall, in | to rouse to iodignation or melt into tears | the death of her talented and accomplished Gardi- | blight nor wither. remember the first regalar ‘Ancther name is recorded on the catalogue of the language of Lady Macbeth,‘ rather the multi- | courts and juries, to rescue right and iunoceuce | ner. sey is turned into mourning. The morning, | Cabinet council which was held after I reached | death, which I cannot fail to mention—!I mean John leoynasee a is ae i tudinous seas incarnadine, making the green oue | from the hands of wrong and frand, to cause | so brigh and cloudless, is succeeded by an evening | Washington. With a solemn and shaded brow be | ©. Spencer, of New York, a man of extraordinary being heretofore democratic, it may be that i. red.” We crossed the Simplon and descended inw | the earth to tremble at every step they made in their | of deep gloom and sorrow. The mutiied dram, the | banded me a letter he received some days before, | capacity in the despatch of business, and of the | jpeg mavy other Northern pt ey :. Maly. Rome, as in the time of Augustas, oma terrible denunciations of fraud and crime, or, soar- | solewn toll of the bell, the loud and dismal peal of | from Mr. Fox, the British Minister, the paternity of | most untiring fopenty. Our acquaintance com- | come thoroughly abolitionized. » Ils fore us ts majestic tions, its se ing on the wings of truth, have, like the eagle, ap- | the minute |, annoauced tothe country sad | which was obvi due to Lord Palmerston, de- |] menced in the House Representatives in 1819. aol . Goted "with the glories of the old republic; and | proached the heavens in their @ight, have Hai vo | tidings of death and woe. There are two vacant | mending the inmediate discharge of Mcl.cod from | We served on an important committee of which he | jg po hace pony ihe igcrarrn io then stumbling over the ruins of the mighty past, | stenographers in a’tendance to record their efforts, | seats at the Cabinet Board the following morning—- | imprisonment in New York for a supposed cy | was chairman, the duties of which were exceedingly | “* Tat Soden — so Peo’ _ _ we entered with profound awe and reverence the | which live only in the traditions of their own imme- | Upshur and Gilmer have fallen “like two stars struck | in the attack upon the Caroline and murder of Dut- | arduous. I had then occasion to note his habits of the people, it is ‘ble tha. F: es holy edifice of St. Peter—the creation of the genius | diate neighborhood. Such has been the fate of the | from their sj heres.” 1 will not dwell onthe funerea! | fee. We agreed in our views of the subject, aud he | unceasing labor. His conduct in the War Depart- |). 41: phe, Ib domeraee “obtadi — vslecti ot Michael Angelo. Thus was represented the im- | many eloquent speeches of Mr. Upshur while at the joom which fell upon all things. I hasten to get pe a despatch sone and when he | ment, and afterwards.at the head of the Treasury, the ene. wend re aH lity vig - ion ¥ perial city at one time glorying in her conquests | bar. He was soon elected by his native county to yond its influence so fur as memory will le: me. anded it to me for perusal, he said, “‘Lord Palmer- | cansed me to be thoroughly satistied that time had | rity of the whole are cern ese Keg @ maj and almost universal power, and holding ia her | the House of Delegates, where he playeda promi- | [On the map of Virginia there are imprinted two | ston, sir, may put that into his pipe and smoke it. jnced no change in bis energy or capacity for tien to make an election. Each State 0 the dowry of nations ; at another, weeping, | nent and leading part, and his eminent ties | names which will remain there so loug 23 her own | We beard no more of the imperative demand sincss. The multitade of cases which had ac- | vote’ and that vote is det - b age gives 0 tte Niobe, over the children of her earthly glory, | caused him to be reelected by the district in which | name shall be known a They are those | There was one trait in his character which | cumulated in the War Department, many of whichin- | the re vod came oe ~ aly 13s ° the offspring of her feverish ambition, begotten of | he resided, as a member to the first convention | of Upshur and Gilmer, as criptis tivo valua- | may be considered as the oflspring of trv | volved large sums of money, melted away before | votes Paid be iven for Fremont, ‘oe policy and won by the sword, and then again rising | which met in Richmond to reform the State consti- | ble and fertile countries— Monumentum perennis.] gieutoess. He wos ready at all times to re- | his sleepless industry, and he waded through the | tation 1 ty caakas. ices te - rep from her ruins with the mitre on her brow | tation. In that convention, composed as it was of ‘Thus in the course of eight months, three mem- | ceive, to consider, and, if proper, to adopt the sug- | weighty lavors of the Treasury Department with the Maine, New Hon Ve ar h and the crozier in her hand, exercising a | the first wen in the State—if not in the Union— | bers of the executive branch of the government had | gestions of others. He went fartber. He cour'et | came unbroken zeal and speed. His iuformation | phode Ix Cosh moe - a use er far greater than that ever exercised by | Judge Upshur occupied a conspicuous position. It peed away, each a shining light aud at moments | the severes: criticisms of his writings or opinions. | ypon all subjects was extensive aud practical, and | p, erie gy carp 4 Bi chee in consols and emperors in the olden time. | way be claimed for him, without disparagement to | full of promise to tuemselves and the world. In | Thus it was that no despatch of importance receiv- | constituted him an able administrative officer. His ge — Poo » Michigan C Then passed before us Venice, rising from | others, thut his great speech which opened fully | the ficld of battle there is but little time left ta i 4 ¢d the final stroke of bis pen until it had been su> | pative State, both before he becamea member of the | pierce yn 1552 — 5 Fh ag voted q the ocean “a vei Cybele, the gems which | the debates, stand: almost, if not quite, unrivalled | over the loss of friends who have fallen while gui- | ectcdto the severe crucible of the Cabinet. Every | cabinet, and after be had returued home, kept him Sin og? es bbe ti aga rath 0 ered on her brow, and the silks whtch adorned | by apy other delivered in that conveation. | lantly leading on the ¢ he passionate ex- | suggestion of addition or alteration was weighed by | genesally employed in positions, the duties of which | {20% ae te | BABS There n, brought from the far distant jands of For chorough developement of ths con: | clamation at the battle of ngo, which broke | him with the same impartiality as if he had been | required how 9 ability and industry for their dis- | jichaname Ther Would probably be cast the Drilnt-—her anawal espousal of the Adri servative pri on which the foundations of go | from his lips when Napoleon came to be informed ot | the critic, and the production criticized was the | charge. With these qualities he would have made | "Vistas - here are:— thre magnificence of he: Diges— ber gon ferbtrent should rest, and in which it may be saidto | the death of Dessuix, who, 4 aseasonable and gal- | work of another. When these discussions had | 9 valuable adjunct to the Justices of the Sapreme | yy) ony orth Carolina, South Carolica, Geo the sungs uf Tusso—the ittaito with its © have its origin, or for power of illustration and for | lant charge, changed the fortune of the day, of | ceased, then came forth from the State Depart nent | Court, tor which station he was,twice nomitated ba’ bara, Mississippi, Louisiana, Avkeneas, |'lo ite palace ou each hand,”—all rose up before us at | logical acumen, that speech may be regarded as | + Ob, why have I not time to weep!” is, to some | the combined wisdom of all, condensed in a des- | rejected by the Senate, morc a3 | am bound to’ be omg Rap nog the plastic touch of the young Legare. We fought the | constituting a monomen' to the memory of Abel P. | extent, applicable to the war of factions. Action, | patch which challenged for the Secretory the admi- | jjeve, because of the part he had borne tn the poli fi ‘our tes far Fillmore—and which, in no coi battle of Hastengs over again—saw the Saxon banuer | Upsbur which will last as long as the'language in | constant action. ‘s often urgently necessary, but | ration of the world. it was a great charm of life to | tics of the times, than for any other reason- : Ingency, would vote for I’remont:, Delaware, go down before the Norman—witnessed the signing of | which it was uttered is spoken. No mau, however | when the war is over the reuory dwells upon the | be associated with one not only so richly endowed | ‘Thus,within the period of thirteen years have passed yg trot and Missouri, : the great cherter at Rannemede | rejgived in theac- | extensive his reading on the science of goverament, | virtues of those who have fallen aud opens up all the | with the gifts of mind, but who was so tolerant in | cutot existence six citizens, cach of whom wasa man | jp, Three States divided—the first two certain ag cession of Willian of Orange to the throne, and in | can rise from its perusal without decided benetit and | sources of grief. And who now can visitthe graves | matters of opinion, and whose entire deport- | of mark, and whose names are destined to be record semont: Tennessee, Texas and Tova. the steady advances of public freedom over privileze | improvement. He had previously been elected to a | of Legare and Upshur and Gilwer without emotion | ment was so deferential and respectful—a de- | ed on the of history, wong side of the ablest sie cote of Ilinois to be all termined by electi and arbitrary power—and crossing the chanocl, | seat on the bench of the General Court, and was ia | and sorrow? ference and respect which be never for a moment | executive okies that the country has seea. Their by) two vacancies. wandered over Englind’s classic grounds. We tuen | the discharge of the fuxctions of Jade of that bigh The place of Judge Upshur was filled ad interim | lost sight of. If he had defects—and who has not’— | figelity and alulity are attested by the fruits of their Giving Minois and Towa to Frenont,es Mr. entered Scotland, the home of lis maternal ances | tribunal when he was called to the head of the Navy | by Mr. Nelson, a distinguished son o° Maryland, | those defects were obscured by his many excellen- | Ighors, which are undying and imperishable ; and by supposes, and Fremont would have fifteen > tors. A new enthusiasm was awakened Waiter | Department, and was, as I hove stated, from thence | who still lives the charm of the socisl virele | cies. He survived his two great rivals, aud gather- | no fact more conclusively than this-—that with their one short of the requisite number. But to eke ~ 1 peopled every hill and glen with the oid | transferred to the Premiership of the Cabinet. aud a bright oreement of the bar, who, upon the | ed after their decease, fresh laurels both in the Sen- | surviving colleagues they so aided in the adminis- out, the alarmed Georgian has seized upon Delaw: The stout Sir Alien Swiaton had played ‘Jndge Upshur was sneceeded in the Navy Depart- | death of Mr. Legare, had been appointed A* | ate and in the Cabinet. He foresaw the dirk cloud | trtion of the goverument, that not only was a large and banded it over without remorse to the black o the battle of Hallidon hil! ment by David Henshaw, of Massachusetts, a gentle- | torney General. To all the station perma | then resting on the political horizon, which has | reduction made in the public expendi*ures, bat that publicane, snes thine tots’ man who bad won a broad reputation in his mative | peutly attention was immediately directed to that | since reached the meridian, aud he use: every effort | during a period of four years but a single defanit But Mr. Cullen, the member from that State, hag andar nah State, and who, for the brief space daring w! distinguished Southern statesman, who had for so | to disperse it ere its lightnings should seathe the | occurred, aud that scarcely worthy of mention, for in whose hands the vote will be, is not content wi ¢ . he continned at the head of the Departm long a time performed ¢ conspicuous part inthe | Umon. He reasoned, he remonstra‘ed, he exposta- | fifteen dollars on the part of a depaty Postmaster, thi- disposition of him and his noble little commo acquitted himself of his duties with gre. St diama of polities, and whos claim! for intel. | lated, ad finally bade adien to life, with Union | somewhere in the interior of Kentucky. This may | Woalth. | His position is very coaly sat emph ability and to the entire satisfaction of tual superiority over all riva’ by minypenly | written in unmistakeable characters on his heart. | pe fairly oftsetted by the fact that whereas there was bry defined by what paszed iv the House on the government. For causes growing out of the | maintained. He had sume time before withdrawn | The outhreathings of nis spirit but shortly before | an actual indebtedness of that d ent of about | A® a may focebadew the result of the Presidenti state of the times, and not his own demerits, he was | from public life, and reposed opon the laurels al- | his death bave probably endeared his memory to his | hulf a million, on the 4th of March, 1841, a sarplas | “ecto, we republish rejected by the Serate, and Themas W. reedy won, at his quiet retreat in the State of bis | countrymen, even more than the many brilliant | was left in the treasury, through dmirable man- Mr. Cullen read an ext soon after installed in the vacant Secretaryship. I | navivity. He was nominated without previons con- aseages Of his earlier life. His letter to his farmer, | agement of Mr. Wicklive, of a hee ‘of a million, pt purporting to giv bad known him as a leading member of the Legis: | sultation with him,and the day of his nomination by Taslor, on bis old paternal acres, will be read | on the dth of March, Isto. To whieh may be added brat he ha lature of Virginia, in which body we had served | wituersed his confirm»tion by the unauimous vote | by future generations, as it hus been by the present, | thor in the receipts and disbureements ot more than | yir, Collen wished to kuow whether dy, Coob ured ty No wonder ‘hat in touching the old oil which had been so proudly trodden by bis stalworth race, the young traveller should have been awakened to a iy introduc ae Oe Ee Gas nie malate together, and our acquaintance soon ripened into | of the Senate. No whisper of discontent was heard | with the most profound conviction of his patriotic | g960,000,000, the government sustained no loss | language quoted. spirit land. The Wallace andthe Bruce | “love intimacy. Stern and inflexib‘e in bis resolves, | In the Scute chamber, at the apy mt his | devotion to the constitution and the Union. [ts | whatever—a fact betoke more vigilance than | Sir. Cobb explained. The povition he bad taken wi | . no combinat of circumstances cou'd drive him | accession was seemingly hailed with joyful av- | simplicity and yet deep pathos, sink into the heart, | that bestowed by an individual over hia private afiairs, | that it would be dangerous to throw the election of Ms ‘anpbell and the Douglas, re-enacted their ‘ames Fitz James, the Commons king, too was Elica The anfortunate i jeh ifs pe.n-al with renewed hope tor the - dent into ihe House, whieh would result ‘9 the election and we finish its pe. pe tor the | Augustus Cusar,a few moments before his death, | se at cndstiens penhate Reise aman country and its imstitutions. jssaid to bave ingnived of those arvand him wh» ie ‘e u Some future Plotarch will perform the task of run: | ther ve had qrell acted ‘hia part in the drama of Tite, | &,f¢vublican sball be elected in the place of Bt Al ning a comparison between these two gifted states: | and upon being answered affirmatively, exclaimed, { Mr. Hall, whose seat 1s contested, be ossted, from his purpose when once it becavne fixe!. | claim by ali men. When I entered the House Whether the maiatenance of his convictions place! | Representatives in 1516-'17,Mr. Calhoun had him on the crest of the popular wave, or consigued wy a hizh reputation by his briliant d a lum toa small minority, seemed in no degree to | the floor of the house of which he was s' ho aspired to the : A il Capel affecthim. Hi met truth the spring of hero’ ber.and competed with Mr. Clay, who was t men. Their fat if any, as well as their virtues, | “then give the applause,” and sank into the arms le 1 Sea EAR ee Tes ™ | Fitue and he followed it wherever it berkoned, and | er, ioe the leaderebiy of the commons. det Will be exhibifed on the canvass. Such ia no part o' | of death. ‘Might mot these, alao, have made a simi | for Tremout. Tiieon states this cert, hie ect king but Cas | error “* paled i's ine‘fectunl fire i vier to mis | close of Congress he was called by Mr. Monroe to | my purpore. J seck only to present adaguerreotype | Jr inquiry, and closed their lives with a similar | would be dependent on Mr. Cullen, th Me : R | lead him. He was one, who, had occasion offeret, the head of the War Department, in which e'stion | of the two, and that chiefly within the Cabinet sphere | exclamation? He was unwilling to 0 awaken slumbering echoes | would readily have acted out the og of Metellas: | be exhibited an administrative talentof the highest | —a sphere in which each was destined to shine with No man's epitaph should be written until his ullen’s course in oody battle of Calloden. © To do an ill action se: to Jo a good one which | order. We had become partially estranged trom | resplendent lustre. Netwithstanding their constant i saw no | involves you in no danger, is nothing more than | each other by reason of the difference of vie# in | warfare on questions of domestic policy, yet it i+ ¥ et enti ¥ th bh. Hence I avoid all further mention of the der any clrcumatances, vote for Mr, Buchanan? -~, ‘ter the fatal and bie e parted at fF iviving members of that Cabinet, Ther, with him Mr. Cullen replied that 3Ir. Cobb hed no grout for meantime | common; Lat it is the property of a good man to do | regard to tlie election of 1*40, and beivre te- | not believed that subsequent to the war wit! the their high places, wili soon have ve State of | great and good things, thougl he visks everything | tirement from the Senate, our intercourse consisted | England, they Minesed “sleterially om masters Of | {ints thute nemncades te that cleat valley where | ‘2g,¢tet would be bis course in pacha. sumiagenay, mu him distinguished | hy it merely in the interchange of ordinary civilities. | foreign. |Unswayed by personal jenlouay,and tisten- | the voices of this world no longer reach thé ear or | of every democrat in Delaware, ‘excepting hal , nce. He had em From the Soor of the House he bad risen to the | My letter inviting him to a seat ih the Cabinet for | ing ouly to the sug of anodle and exited | distur the repose of the sleepers—!a*, in the lnn- | pereowalriends. Was it expected that he shocld bellished the pace: ec _reviews by contr | Speakership, ond was soon after elected to the Go- | the first time informed him of the pending nego: triotism, Mr. Calboun being at the time in the | guage of an old and impressive Latin byma— (ae democratic party, and vote for his euemies’ bations from bis pen h the whole country had | vernorship of the State of Virginia. Ga a subject | tiation for the avnexation of fexas. the knowleJ« Renate, gave his great talents to the ratification of pegs bese read with admira delight, aad which gave | which under other phases, assamed a | of which had teem conficed to Mr. Upshar, Mr. | the treaty of Wosbington, which although carped at Bek eogh =~ gauge pened ant a faim rank arn ng t writers of the age. He | formidabs nw aspect to the peace Nelson avd Mr. Van Zanat, under injunctions of | by some, was ratified by the Senate by a vote ap ee eee nue renee re aca eas Ie buenas tes seat had attained celebrity a r,and had won las | harmony o was nis taisfortine to dif- | profound secresy, arising {rom the appresensions | proaching unanimity. They were the advocates of baanlgeam rigid . | ee ne we rels as adebater in tho House of Representatives. | fer from the and he, consic Pf a formal protest from Great Britain and France, | peace on bovorable terms with all the world; ani | —ihat,Cebinet, with their friend and associates, | "MP Colt raids tia his a contrente, ke Tpon a vacancy occurring, I invited hun t» a seat | path of honor, which mizht bave involved coosequences of a as: | thessaw in the conquests to be made by commer | who. by human inatitationa,was placed attheit head, | ct mistake coucerning Mr, Cullen's pevton, which Wt in the Cabinet as Attorney (veneral. 1 had reason | State and threw himself rious import. He "as particularly urged to come | cini enterprive, richer and nobler and more impor- | will reaesemble before a judgment seat, where hearts | one of danger to the Sout * and favorabia to sir. Fi to rejoice in the «cle tio: iliar with all ques } zeal and industry, upon to the aid of the administrati for the | tant triumphs, and a greater ac sition of powe: are searched and motives are laid bare. In the {| — Mr. Callen repeated that !t was hia duty to.vote for Mi tions of constitational municipal law, he hid | was not softered long ¢ adjustment of the Oregon boundery, then an | than provinces conquered by the sword could | language of the dying Calhoun, po one of them | Filimore to the last and if God should permit the mal law, wh also a large knowledge of in the people of his diat after elected him to | open question, and he doubtless saw in the adjust- | bring. That nation which contributes most t» | “ will war against constitution of natare.” tion to come ixto the House, he should fearlessly found in him at the Calrr j.on maay in'e Cougress, and he had alresjy won a high reputa- | meut of that question @ wreath of fame as | supply the wants of others, althongh the sword may nents # | bis duty, esting occasions, an able nider. His mind fas | tion in that body when he was cailed to the head of | bright as that with which Mr. Webster had encir on Jitter in her bands, or the thunder of her cau- he Dropped 0: That's pli enough. Mr. Cullen will vote & deep well which was in no danger of being ex | the Department. cled his brow in the adjustment of that of the north. | non be heard in every breeze, coustitates the most | Naval Reform—Case ort ped Overs. | Pitimore, aud for nobody else. If Fremont ia elec! hansted by the copious drafts made upon it. Thee Thus Were those two noble sons of their blessed | east. The same patriotic envoy who was the repre- werful of States. Her dependencies are to be Ph an » | ed, he must get hia support from some of Mr. Cob never was councillor more faithfal—pagriot more | Commonweelth placed side by «ide to per | sentative of this country for the time of the eariie, Reand in every part of the earth, and her dominion To wmend an act entitled “An Act to Promote the | democratic brethren—he will never get the vote sincere statesman with broader or @hore ibe ral views, or & man more unaseuming yet 1 character. Tenth form important parts on the great theatre of the | negotiation, was still at London, and had placed | is limited only by uninbabitsble deserts, or regions ‘ ciency of the Navy. Delaware. world, ta win its admiration and roccive its applause, | the goweriment, as L have before sid, in posession | forever bound in iey fetters. To extend the cov | Re it enacted by the Senate Fiouse ot Rapre- | PERT. ts no danger of the Woolly He : sentatives of the United States of America ia Con- | qiere are sixteen States which, under no ci of firmer or more Endowed with the gift of high intellect, governed | of the terms on which Great Britain would probably | meree of the country engaged the earnest attent was the great magn a‘luence he oveved, | in their pottieat aetions by the same principles, | be inclined to settle the Oregon voundarp Teon | of each during the period they respectively presided | greet asxembled, that, upou the written request. | stances, will vote for him. are:—Dela and whitherssever that controlled hy the lofty ambition of recorling ther | feas to an anxious desire at that tine, ta close my | over the state Department. In this they were ac- | Made within ninety days after the passage hereo:.or | aryiand, Kentucky. Virginia, North C placed a mistaken and effect of a ata’ Legare, upon being no hesitation in pronoun hames on the fair page of history, and therefore. | rendence in Washington by the consolidation of the | eonced by a diplomatic corps of eminent ability, the | Within thirty daye after the return of any officer ab- | South Carolina, Georgia, Alaba isaisai above al] things. intent pon acquitting themselves | peacagt the two eoumries, through the prt] Somes of mony of which AI conspictiows plies in | #ent from the United States at the time of the pas | jouisiana, Florida, pe iy Californias a faithfully of their high daties, the two migut have | of thefonly open question of moment existing at thit | the literature and politica of the country. ‘There | sae of this act, prov ided he shall return within one | ‘Tennessee and Texas. ‘ Leon regarded, almost without a metaphor, as twin | day between them. ‘Ihe important treaty with Tex- | was no avenue of trade Which could be opened to | year after tbe passage of this ast, by any officer of | ‘They will vote till doomsday against the blad rt way of its | sommerciol enterprise which did not arcest atten. | the navy who was dropped, furlonghed or retired, | jepublicans. And as Fillmore’s friends hold the b te, a, it did oy tbe uoanl oan optaive pope te ee | eee ni hy th tion of the act of the t venty eighth of f ue opinion « from and to each other. Judge Upshur had entered | negotiation. Tbe subject was soon do . If more was accomplished daring Me. Wet). | by the operation of the act enty eighth f ietermine i is not believed that a sing’ pon the dutie 4 office dhe. months in ad the treaty-commen cated to the Senate ne nah me ell time, or if doving nls two years Sod ‘a hal’ | February, cighteen hundred and fifty-five, entitled ase retest Anta ee See wherein bis serictin opinion has been overmied ‘and was entrusted with the | timea treaty had beea negotiated by our envoy at Ber. | more treaties were negotiated through his instru. | “ AN act to promote the efficiency of the navy,” the | will he President, if the election goes to the How that high tribunal. It mey said without fear » important negotiati | Jin, Mr. Wheaton, with the Zoliverein, of great impor- | mentality than fel! to the lot of Mr. Cathonn in half | Secretary of the Nav, case the physical, men- | as now scems probable. ‘ — x ny Ag a in he rment, which - noth tance ta the tobacco growing interest, hy which thedu- | that period, it may be well dvu'ited w tel profersional and ie fal Sisens of suel = eh :. a an any her ma n the Union. On he ¢ ty on to 7 net pen » we 7 t y of finishing the neg b va) service to be inv a ny & court of in- questions involving its principles, he was the Mag : " Te apapdan hag Somer dd oy wey {he 1d a ee tere Me ti pelr "ged, comnaebed } oa 7, which shall be governed by the la andtega | Te Hay Cor or tHe Usrren Sraret.—It ma} nue Apollo of the court. With ail his reverence f Wy @ ihe was v- | ond still is, merely of a nominal charactor, th Mr. Calhoun, by which Texas, notwithatanding the | Jaticns which now govern courts of inquiry; andthe | @rhaps, seem an incredible state nent the common law, he had a still wreater forthe cl | ine volom tches from abroad, mostly | opening the centre States of ees ro sl rejection ef ihe treaty, Wee Wtinately seeured t sald conrt shell in their finding report whether the | Ut readers, that the hay crop of the United Stat ara more perfect « { ice. He songt on | the ta unced to him my | duction of the article. nud farn altos, weer. | the United Staies, does not place him ona pedestal | said officer, if he has been dropped from the rolls of | amounts to nearly the same as the total market val all oeon rittes | 1 wo to Texas in ty that the enorme ied on it by | a8 proud and so fur as the materia eres’s of the | the navy, oF gut to be restored, and, if restored, | of the entire cotton crop. Sach is, nevertheless, t! of the first n it | n of authorized = bin emt countri country are concern quite as lofty as that on | Whether to the active list or the reserved list act. According to the census of 185%, the v: of the last, and | § 1 commanicaté® | lexed. In exchat hich Mr. Webster stands hy reason of I's atic.ows. | atd if to the latter, whether on leave of at he cotton crop Tor 184) saeunted 09 906,608,73 example of | f t - | part of the States cou ful regotiation of the troaty of Washington. | | ‘urlengh pay; omd Im case the officer makin while the value of the hay crop announted to England. | S« of t Ministe | treaty provided for moderate tv speak ne the skill evineed by the Aincrisan | written request, as aforesaic, shall have teen piaced | 870404. OF this crop, 8 very inconsiderable p have of late incorporaie:| ee im the virtua , articles exported from Germany in Tra ot in the one or the other igstance. ta tit | on the reserved liet, then the court, on thelr tind. | tion fe produced ta the Bouth | For instance, the ¢ ciples of the civil law eh the anne ould states, none of which were fabricate respect there can be no comperison. In the now ng. shail report whether the said oliver ought te Fe Ry Deg is estimated at 13,838,6 , Non - sestered to the active list, or, if not restored, whe ther he ovght to remain on the retired list on leave | New Rogland produced of abeence or farlough pay: and the finding of the | The Middle Stat seorvevevees court shall, in all cases, be submitted to the Prosi. | The Weetern St eiee 6a8,708 « dent of the United States, and, if approved hy him, | The Southern states ove 706,862 + in the case of @ ——- officer, where restoration ‘The single State of Maine produces more hay th such officer may be nomi- | all the Southern States, embracing Moryland, Vi and power of t approve the innovator tude, and lo wyself f frankly confess my tem of the common law us from so remote a y origin form the hearts of the and bearing along w the try, or at the most, sore (wo or three tiation of the treaty of Washington, Mr. Webster | corsequence to the industry of the Un had to encownter on the leading feature, prejudie « y had with settled purpose, siunbered on the | and passions which fifty years of unsuccessful e of the Senate until the period fixed (or its ra- | negotiation had engendered, The question of n had passed by, an’ thus the treaty itself | bow |, always the most difficult to settle, waich jaced @ State of the unionjand a pro QZ forth im its weg and untamed, | for a successful conclusion ples of human | been furnished to the State had become a dead letter never again to be revinod right, to sustain and the great stractare of | Everett, them our able Minister at the Co When to this, and coi y to all previons g empire i ile ar cach | bas been recommended, public liberty—s sys » perfect, that to rey | don, and which was finally made the basis anes, the i a here a an [oa Sohed | senee for Wracigutnd claims, bad pestens evel fed nated by the President to the Senate for restoration | ginia, North and South Carolina, Ceorgia, Florid any single column js to endanger the entire fi | ment by a subsequent administration. ( rvor | there was, in the secreta: opinion, cause to | with others of vest magnitude. It hadalsoasenmed | 10 the servic e,according to the finding of the court | Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Ark Mr, Legare thought differently, and | et | Glimer had begun only to adjust hinwei’ in iis | pance in the further effort at negotiation on any | & politico-party aspect, and seemed from its nam- | a8 approved by bim; and in the case of a retired of- | som Another fact which gives importance to t tion he called upon me ox m | chair and to proper if for his labors, from lon subject. It is true th profoundly patri- | berless complications to be almost impossible | ficer, the fudim of the court, when approved by | boy crop as a part of the ultural prodnetio «sede ony oS a "troan fees of bis | which so much good was aaticipatedywhen bth he | otic motive lay at the fo on of this sugges | to settle; and yet, with wneurpassel ability, | ihe President, sball be conclosive; and such oMeer | of the country is, that while the total number L t varope,an | - ehall be restored to the active list, to occ py that po- | acres in the Union devoted to the enitiy stion of © ' ) b tow mbarrassed by protocols sition and ronk in the navy which he would have oc- | ten amounts to only 5,000,000, the number of ac 000, having received and Jw Upshur became victiins © a terrible cv | tion, bat he soon after was induced to rally | and keeping himeeclf and thore formalities wi rather involve than ela ancient work on the civil law, which he had boon | tastrophe, At this distant day | cannot revers to | ar to the tesk, and probably opened the long anxious to obtain. He was at the that awfol incident withont ‘pain almost am mat. | way to that seqnel which dev der a fr t the most a place of retreat for | cupied had ke not been retired mnder the a stion of the | in hay amounts to fevretary of State ad interim, having ing to agony. Whon the morning of tie i/!. | Poik’s administration. Mr. i ited bag = | snevtnion, ton AT fod enqounietys fate naval board; or he shall remain upon the retired _ eee, the place on the retirement of Mr. | fated 28th of February dawned upon the | justly entitle him to rank among the most eminent | and oreroame of culties. True, that 80 far asthe | lst on leave of absence or farlongh pay, a cording | the Norhern Pee of St. Petersburg etates that tn tI ehster, im May, 1843. (Qualified as he was | world, the heretofore tempost-tossed adminis ration pou eal writers of the oge,as his speeches in the | representative of British government waa con- | (o the finding of the court, as approved by the Pre- | governm ) erRMs O1 con! have been discover: to te the exponent of the iaw and the consti. | found itself comparatively tranquil and at case, | two houses of Congress have long since viassed him | cerned, every possible desire was evinced to settle | ruient : Prov ded, that the officers so restored, or | and that their working bas beom already commenced toca 19 Lis oflye of Attorney Cemerat, bo ' reposing o0 tye honor, thé wisdom, persqnal frieng among the ghigst Of debaters: He jingored a fev | the long pending difficaltieg after a manner which ' pleced om the reserved list, shall he appointed to | priyate persone