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THE N& ae WHOLE NO. 8197. SUNDAY MORNING, THE CUBA DEBATE IN THE SENATE. Black Republican Trick to De- feat the Bill. SENATOR PUGH’S SPEECH. The Price of Cuba Limited to $15¢,000,000, Discrimination of the Cuban Tariff Against American Products, Bow it Affects Flour, Meats, Butter, Cheese and Cotton Goods. The Question Coming Home to Farmers, Mechanics and Mannfacturers, xe, Ke &o. Tu the United States Senats, on Thursday, February 10, the PREEIDING OFFicur sait—The unfinished business of yes- torday is the bill making sporopriations to facilitate 0 @ anquisition of (be island of Cuba by negotiation, which is now before the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Pucn—Mr. President, the Seoator from Vermont (Mr. Foot), who is & member of the Commuiitee on Foreign Relations, has xotified me that he desired to offer au mamendment to this vill, and to explain it, and T fool bound, ag he ig a member of the Conmittee oa Foreign Relations, to pield to him for that purpose, dir. Foor—I am obliged to the honorable Senator from Oho for the courtesy be is pleased to extend to me in yielding the floor to me for a short time. Before the gene- ra! debate shall bave opened on this bili, Iglesire to move a slight amenément to tt an to endeavor to enforce it by u few remarks. They will be very brief. I desire to ameud the bill .by itserting in the twenty seyeath tine, after the word Spay,” tnd words, “end by the United ‘60 thot, if thus armended, tbe clause will read as im in the event thst th said treaty, wh ents of the tw» g fird by Spaic aud by the United nciture of the same, or apy pi The purpose of the amend 48, i adopted, will be, to intabit (he pa kporopriated by the bul, or apy part of it, ¢ the contract wieb may be made lor the purchase Phuil bave beeu completed; until shell have beeu duly sat shed by b nts; until the bargain of sale und pus cb been assente | to by both partics, This iz not obly the proper anid nary mode, but it is the ouly aenaibie und straight for and business like mode of proceeding im suc! precent or practical map pays, or a Of a large eum of mouey upon’ a cu wegou , and before it is oyncluded—) je agreed 16 by both sides. The eow maxim, that stakes two to bie to goversine nis as i» is tbat it is no bargain noule en in process of e the bargala homely ot i te, appiicn- abrale minds of bork parti wpon it, applies ag forcibly in the one cage a tn tue ober. it is time enough to pay when Lie bargin shal! haye faily cloged. Mr. Preeulent, however des) the acquit ver desirable it may ve ay be, or hows sunder any p ; however bouerable gout Bitton of Enda the question of its acq Meaub—the question woother we would tif wecould lave it ob just oud reasonable terms—'s uot prosented to us in the dill now hefore us, The empie, waked and only question Which thie bill, a3 it now sands, presenta to us, ig, Whether Congress will appropiiate $30,000,000 from Au exhausted treasury, avd euporadd thareamount to ap already rapidly accomulating pubic debt, in order fo enable the Prezident of the United States to “o just what he has now the rigt und power wo do uater the 2ou stitution; which is nothing more nor leas than to eoter into negetiation with Spain, if she will negotiate at ali ‘bout it, for the purchsse of Cuba? In other words, and more strictly epeakinz, perlaps, the question, and the erg question presented to us by this bill is, wucther you wilt authorize tho President of the United States, in the eveat Of a trealy Lelng negotiated for the puresaze of Cuba be- ween the agents of the two governments, to pry Over this fom Cf MOCEY 10 (he Spanien autaorities upon the assem oj pais to sich trealy, avd Deivre it is submitted tou Ter ratificatign, and éveo Vefore the terms abd condition of the treaty ebali have been inadc known to our own go vernment? That is the simple question presented to us in this bill, * * * * * * * The princip'e is precisely the same, whether by legis lative enactment you authorize the payment of the whole, er of oviy part, of the cousiteralioa stipulated im tn) treaty defore thal tresty shall have been duly ratified. Ta. any point of view the principle, or rather the practice, !s an jupovation, an unwarrantabie innovation, the teudenvy and effect of which ig to uniermino ano of the most con- Eervative provisions of the coastitution, You may thas, under the guise of legislative authority, not only form a * treaty, but you may cisctarge the obligations growing out Of it, and pers stipulations which it imposes b tis ralided—before it ia sulmit- ted for ratifcation—aud, consequently, before yoo can, by apy possibuity, koow whetber it will be ratided or rejectad. You thus necessarily force upon tke Senate the altervative of accepting @ treaty which may not cvmmend itself to the favor of acoustitutional my'or ty of the boty, or, by rejecting it, of throwing upon fh» goreramont he joss of the money 80 advanced, ‘batever may be the amount, even though it be the oe! tire consideration of Une purcbare. Now, sir, it certain contemplated by’ the framers Senate of the United States, partment of the ¢ au atteruative. It neve™.could b§ye been tempiated thet in the exercise of it8 unstiiitionel tive duties it shoul be compelied to ack under the rota ence of evel a coustraint, annot but look upon.this Dili, 10 its principle, its aim and end and effet, as an art ion of the constitetional privileges and preroga- tives of the treaty makiug power, If it be nota direst ant Ne iufringement of them, and as an atiompt to accomplish, by legisiative authority, what the constita tion Las carefully aust exclusively contited to the treaty making power, and thus to do indirectly what, perhaps, ‘on may have reason to appreler Ot be doge dire through the proper constitutional agenoy, I cannot bus Jook vpon thie bill, in its effect aud operatoo,as a dau gerous usurpation the term is not wo sivong & one of the proper exeoutive fuuctons of the Senate, and ag an insidious movemeut to avoid, to get around and to get rid of, the restrictions and linitations by the treaty making power, and thoe practically to remove one of the strongest voustitutional safeguarvé of the public security. But, Mr. President, independenvy of these aud of many other cousideratious which | Co wot vow propose to discuss, We meet this bill ropria! ing $3,000,000 to jacilitave the acquiaition of island of Cuba by’ negotiation, with the primary o> Joction, which i#, or ought to be, controjling aud decisive in the fact, the significant fact, that the island of Cuba ie pot for sa'e—that it is not the aubject of negotiation. The vole and exclusive proprietor of that island says go. Spain bes made proclamation to the world that Ouba is not for galo, and that she will listen to no proposition for its alienation. Jt is not to be purchased upon aay terms nor at any price short of the pre of blood. This is the una. nimous voice of the Spanirh Afinistry, and of the Spanish ‘Cortes, apd ail partios in Spain. How idie it ts, then—how far more than idle it ig—to be sppropriating the vast sum Of $80,000,000 to enable us to acquire by weg tiation what we know, what the world knows, cannot be we. quired in that way. Spain bas airendy spurned our offer of $100,000,000 for Cuba, She will sparn it ‘again, though your offer be for twice or three times that amount, She regards toe very proposition ag.an indigui'y to her bovor, or to her pride, or, if you pleas, to ber very weakness, expecially when the very question is accom panied with a quasi menace, aud in a tons of arrogant as. demand, a& tn the last Execn- aracterize thes proposition bz 8. I Dave vo disposition to do to do80. 1k work! not be tome the position aud the presence tp which [ stand to do #0. 1 do not sland Lere vo dewounce it as a transparent bambug, or as an experimental pieos of politics! ebicane. ty, a# T have heart and seen it ienounded, but I do say, air, What, iooking at the present Anancial condition of national’ treasury Ng at the prospective reveauee of the government, aud looking at the pocseot temper aad digposition aod determination of Span, there has Got deo & period within the last forty years more ibopportnue 0 never could have been more ive hi to bring forward this propo wt tin Your geverumen ws deeply in de ping more deeply int debt every passing while your current anaual reve ves little more than Cxeced one-baif your current annua! oxpenditures. If spain were ready and willing this day to part with the igiand of Cuba w tho United States fo #560 000,006, oF for $30,000,000, of even for $100,000,000, you have no such som: you have provided no moana 0 measures for raising any sich Rum wherewitual to pay for st. The propemitias ia, in my Jadgmeus, vot ouiy pre matore und impracticable, but, in tue existing slate o things, allow me to say, it ie utterly preporterous, Mr, Pvan—In the character of a substitote for. the pro Perition of the Fevator from Vermont, I shall ofr thi asmendment, to come in after the word “practiaable,” in ‘We thirtieth line of the bili, to insert— And no payment shall be made, under the authority of this Act, on account of any treaig which may reqnire in ail than $10,000,000. n! fr ates grr The Pxmspax Osrican—The question is en the ameud ‘Ment of toe Senator from Vermont, Mr. PuGu—Mr. President, in proceeding to consiler che _duestion whether Cups ought to be annexed to the Umtet mm b Am Hot unm@edful of the earnest deciaration mac'¢ by the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Mason), that the evlary*ment of owr domain, for the purpose of eularge ment 0%, 18 an unwise policy, aud of daogerous conse see. Whether I should of should not agree with bie, this regar.’, 18 immaterial at prosent; no web aninrge ment bas been PF ever Was seriously proposed. We have fm the United States» people ‘energedio’ and ambivous 1 the inst degree, and ons youth will not he restrained from Moee folds of enterprise ty Which others hav failed, but in which they are confident of success. You may enac Jaws and elaborate treaties, and deliver maxims and issue proclamations; you may send navies and armies whither foever you will; but my word for it, Senators, when you ‘undertake to stay the path of man’s west over tbe material world—over the wastes of the tand or the wastes of the sea—when you undertake to fortify sloth or tmbe cility or barbarism against the inroads of imdustry, cou- rage and civilization—whether" in Cuba, or Mexico, or ral nndertake a vain and soon must drive us from the scenes of action—theo, 98 certamly as the day pursues the night, will grander and nobler systems of government be inaugurated in its stead. The wisdom of our time, the duty to which we have been calied, is to avoid such autagoniam, and adapt, by well-ordered atneudments, not ouly oar iegisla- tie, but our generat policy, to the necessities of oor chil. ar tbat £0. after we shail have foreaken these piaves, these honors, and these cares, and gone to our last re- pose, the stitution and the Union in which we now rejoioe, with the splendid organization of Siates thereby represented, glorious ip the achievements of the past, aur the energies of the present, and the hopes of the future, will remain securely established forever. . * vd Letug not be timid, nor too tardy, in parsuing the path trodeen by the wisest of our predecessors. — With such bounderies a8 we have at present, no mero lust of ao in non ought to be encovraged or tolerated; but ony as the weceenities-of our peopie require, from time to time, thoule the confives of the Union be enlarged. ‘Ts 18 @ fale One; It 1 One easily Observed as wel! as defended, berause it 6 the law of our national growth aud develope ment. If the acquisition of Cuba be within this rule, as I thall endexvor 0 show, our duty and our interest ake oemave that we should omit po reasonable endeavour to ward ity accomphehment. To frustrate such an enterprise on accouLt of sectional, or partisan, or personal considera Hone, KOUId be to degrade our coantyy from the high yosition which she now occupies. The island of Cuba ex fenes almost from the seveuty third meridian of joayi- tude weet from Greenwich, to the eighiy ith meridian, ard lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the niue- ‘wenth parailel of north latitude. lis area is thirty-four thoutund two hundred aud thirty-three synare miles; thot of ita principal dependency, the Isle of Piner, ¢ight bundred and ten square miles; aud that of otter’ dependencies (small islanse) nine hundred and seventy equare miles, It ig aimost us large, therefure, as the State of Gisio, and larger than the State of Indiana. The ricbpess of its soil, the luxuriance of its agricuitural predvenons, its genial clithate, the wondrous beauty of ite bills, rivers, woods and plaina, attracted the aimira ration of Columbus on his first voyage of discovery, and supporing this to be a part of the Asiatic coutment, te nnetook it fer the kingdom of Cathay, described, balf im fabie and half in fact, by the elder geographers ‘and tra. ers, Since that tiwe the capacities aud resources of Cuba bave been ascertained to be greater thaa those of apy region of equal extent upon the giobo. The staples of exportation at present are sugar, coffe, segars, to bacco im leef, molasses, honey and wax, these being so jroftable in late years a8 almost entirely to exclude cotton, indigo, wheat, hemp, flax aud the produce of the & vine. ‘It bas’ been shown to us by the reports of the Committees on Foreign Relations in the Senate apd im the Hovse, that free commerce between Cubs snd the United States is now an absolute necessity for bom; that, upon the immense quantities of sugar and imj orted thence annually, #e pay an export duty u seh government, us well a8 ab import duty to ourown. That, on the other hand, the sores of meat and Vreadstuls apurted from ail our Norlhawesiern States trough New Orleans, and cleng the very shoves of Cuba, cannot Jind oumittance there, because of discrimipating duties agains! us, levied ly Spain, amniniiny to nearly or quite one hundret per cent. These cousiderations are of vita! reet to ibe p whom I have the hovor to represent, « sufficient, 1a my estimation, to require that gov ent of the Uvite} States should tolerate no ov- ftucle, whether of dipomacy or even of war, between us an: @ reciproeal ibterebange of production. * = * # But sugar is not the only artic'e in regard to which an ivequaity of trade with Cuba existe, On all expurlations, except sugars, there is a discrimination of thirty tres to one hundred per centagaiast us. Jn the report on Commercial helauions, volume 3, page 127, ite said iu regard to the Spenieh tariff’ on the exports of Cuba:— By the tariff of 1847 sugar in foreign bottoms pays be ne! 18; coffee in foreizn bodom pub- lished bere i9tn December of anid year, and which began to be entoreed ip respect lo exportations on Ist January, 1851), the following adoiticual du 9,8 levied upon exported produce! —60 cents per box of sugar, 25 cen's per ove hundred pouads of tobaceo. or per thousund of segars. Turning from exports to imports in Cuba, the discrimi nation iseven more remarkable. Thus, on page 126 of tue same report, I fing :— ‘The lurt tariff for imports and exports of the taland of Cuba commenced to be enforced in 1847, ‘The import anties oa arti- cles of every doseriptio:, are levied upon a fixed average va of the articles im (he iaisnd. The valuation ts specified in i+ turiff, Foreign merchunaise in fore'gn botoma, pay nome 2d cent: cihera S336 per cant: foreige merebandiae In Spa bore ma irom toreigh ports, some 194 per cent; others ZI}, cent. And now comes (pege 127) @ paragraph well worthy of attention — The above does not inclade fionr, which, by virtue of sever! royal orders, pays the iollowing ratee:— Spanish four in Fpenish bottoma, ks Kpanish Sour in foreign botoms. /-- Foreign four in foreign butte: ‘i Foreign fous in Spanish bottoms 85 All four pays, Vesides, two per centon the valuation of $1! 50 per berrel, and one per cent balanza. S jueutly one baif per cent was added upon all imports and tii later (Sth of Hiecember, 100, by virtue of & royal or nted 2d November, of sane year,) on add increase Lo last for tivo years, of ove aud a bell per eeut on all foreign importa, and oue seventh to. ed over and above the amouat to that ttme paid on Spanish im ports ‘This increase was to cover certain necessities of the government The two years went by long ago; the necessity meomeye passed, but the acditlypal per centage is sti ex ae Sa 01 it thus appears that every barrel of flour imported from the United States is valued at $12 0 for the pus of taxa- ton, and is waxed $10 55. Accordingly, in 1801 there were imported into Cuba only two thowand one hundred and two und a@ half Larrels of flour, of the value of%$26,281 25, on hich duiies to the amount of $20,704 86 were levied. mereal Relat vol 8, page 128.) The valuation 260 per barrel seems to ‘bave been adopted for tho purpose oF avouding the effect of our treaties with Spai es of refi “home valuation, Proposed to us, but happily repactiated from our Gret tariffact untii the present ime. When you couawter that the United Stotes bold, geographically, towara Cubs of the nearcet exporter of flour, this practi of ve from her market, by such a diserimination of duw other wise than unjust and offensive in the last deg Nor i tan socitental injustice: it is part of that policy which Spam bas pursued toward us when- ever and as often a8 she could find an opportunity or ex cure. In the rey ort ou Commercial Relations, vol. 3, page i, the compiler says:— of the whole Spanish tariff, em 4 articles, a discrimination tothe prejudice of the United States in all casts where the inter 1 Cte Of the conaunera dnd gavervinent here diy wo compel «com trary couse; and, for exanple, in the folowicg maaner, ¢ cbeervation and the charge: of unfair erchieis of cotton, for duty asseased at ive and a balf percent, and one pee cent balance op hile of all ether mstertel, and of expensive fabrics of products of, we United States, they are as ty vine aud a ball percent, aud’ one per eent Lalance en valuation. The commerce of Cub: the proportion ef one Op that third, $18,0¢ th the United States bears about f ail ber commerce; and hay 98, we pay three ita, 188,120 91, of ail the uties. Bat, sir, the geographical on of Cuba, without refer 8 to any otver fact, 18 eLongh to decide the whole question, Remember that Cuba lice in the very gorge of the Guif of Mexico; that no vessel can enter or flud exit until she has passe! the guns of Spanish fleets and forts; that the nation which controls Havana, now and henceforth and forever, m 18t hold our immense property, as well ag the lives of our citizens and the honor of oar flag, at ite own Ciscretiza, ‘thé most truthful and famous of travellers, Alexander Humboldt, bas Jegeribed this im language at once giowing apd accurate:— That northern portion of the sea of the Antilles known ae the Gull of Mexico forme a ciroular bay of more than two handred ond Sfty leagues diameter: as it were, & Mediterranean with two onteta, w bose coasts, from C lorida to ave Uatoche, in Yuentan, appertain exclusively, at the present time, to the Sontederations of the Mexican States and of North Aluerica, je ieland of Cabs—or, more properly speaking, thst part of s v@ Vetween Cape Som Autenw tod the city of Matanzas, f to the oceanic ourrent 4 er pausnges than a etrait og the aween Cape Ban Antonio and Cape Oatoche, and lhe umelon the north, between Hahta Honda’ and the Florida % the uorthern onilet, and isamediately where a mitt nronging Wish the cammarce of tae ewurid cross exch other, lies the beauthinl pert of Hi Aerendes by walhre, and atl) more strong) Fieeta sai tug from this port, bulit in part of the ced hepany of Cuba teay defend the passage w the Anm-rioan WEFTSNFaD, Bd Menrce the opposie ccasia ax ths theets Alivg from Cecliz may hold the dumtt ban 01 the seen columns of Hereuies. The Gulf of Mexico aad tho: Vabema channels unite ander the meridian of Havaua. The present condition of tke Mexican repuliiomand, in feed, Nor covdition for the last sleven yours—is thal o anaichy, retrogression and ultimate rate. Without re gard, herefore, to our duties im) by the acquisition of Calitorpia and the colonization of the Pactfe coust—in- volving, as those duties must, the care of the Tebinacepe: ist bien ind all interoceante routes—the United Staves beve a greater interest in the Guif of Mexico than any other pstion, Why, therefore, should Spain command u in thatquarter? She has no longer a colony on the Gul Coast, Dor does she contribute anything to its somnmeres The possession of New ( 18 by France, in 1800, was no a8 objectionable as the poasoaston of Cuba by Spain has now become, Tt is a possession by more strictness of title, and without any reason of equitable consideration. ‘nat would he our decision, or that of any candid man, to-via if Spain bad en, endeavored to purchase Gibral (ar from Great Britaly, and “oding all such overtures re- jected, while the retention of that fortress by a foreign Power constantly endangered the and welfare of her veopie, should deliver berself nobiy, at the pofnt of the sword? aml yet Spain bas pot a case of suet: merit im re gard to Gibraltar os we now present in regara to Cuda, for Spain i not aiono interested in the commerce of the Mediterrapean sea, and holds only a amall share of its coast, whereas, we own the Gulf of Moxico, practically and are entitied to the key which locks und unlocks it There i# another fact worthy of the utmost consideration While Spain thus controls at meroy, end without any row fon, the commerce and the necessary defense of our We ern and Southery States; wisile she violates (as I Dave shown) alt the obtigasons of comity ant fair futeroorte between neighbors, it is, nevertholss:, impossib’e for us " Avoid rolationg witht bor, The wiods ani the wares Oflence i vuimited, he has no power of redress, They ‘must be preterred to the Court of Spain; transmitted thence to Havana for myestigatiou, aud returned to Madrid for or nd decision. Thus, while the most flagrant og.» ba-e been committed at our yery doors— outrages fom the occurrence of which our citizens ould BOL even gous) Uicinselver—sueh as have sought redress (and few ever found that worth their while) were com pelled to seek it on the other side of the world, and after having traversed the ocean backward avd forth several umes, ubts fortune and health and jatience became baveted, to abandon the attempt a8 altogether hopeless. Truly, 98 the Hovse committee bas said, our list of claims against Spain, of this description, resembles the docket of Prosecutions in FOMe County court, except, indeed, that we have no reasonable prospect of judgment, or even trial, While shall vote for uhis bill, and especially with seme reetnictiod a8 to the amount which may be teudere 1, 1 «m wot eangume of success in the negotiation; but when ‘hot shall Dave failed, or been refused, another duty awaits the President as well a8 Ourscives. It is to notify Spain that she must arm the Captain General of Cuba with diplomatic powers; that no fnrther complaint will he made by the United States at the Coartof Madrid on account of outrages commited under his jurisdic tion; that, upon the next occasion of ° gerlous injury to cur citizers in Cuba, redress will be demanded op the spot, and exacted, if need be, at the canpon’s mouth, Such proceedings are not ouly in accorcauce With te Jaw of nauious, but with that law of nature which defines the rights of men every where, im barbarous as m civilized countries. It is the mea sure exacied of us by Great Britain when the steamer Curoline Was seized on Our Own sLOre, at mdnight, drawn into the cursent and fired, lke some gorgeous gacridciat pageant, an Iphigenia cologeal as the deity to whom she bad been devoted, speeding to the inexo' able abygs of Ni ogara, The letter of Lord Ashburton to Mr Webster, July 28, 1842, contains this rewarkably sentence: — Felf defence te the first Jaw of nature, and it m: nized by every code which ‘snd relatious of man. Having verrated the circumstances at jength, Lord Ash. burton taid:— ‘Ibis force, formed of all the reckless and mischievous people of the border, formidable from thetr vumbers and from their armament, bad in their pay, aud aa part of their establishment, this steamboat Caroline, the important meana and iustrument by which numbers and bring were hourly increasing I might sally put it to ang cancht man acquainted with the exiecing state of things, to say whether the military com ander in Can ada bad the remotest renson,on the 20th of Hesember, to ex pect to be relieved from this state of suilering by the protecuve intervention of avy Americay authority! Low long conld a L be reong. ropones 0 regbiale Lae conditions eoverpment, Bang the paramount duty of protecting tte own people, be sevsonably expected to wait ‘for what they bad dren ho Teason to expect! “What would have been the conduct of American oflicers? cumstances much les to Ray Whethor the f fy this aet, nage What bes been their conduct under cic ‘aggravated? I would inyoa, alr, ets, Which you Bay sou would aloue jo: A necessity of gulf defence, inetan’, over- whelmang, Jeaving po choice of means, and no moment for deliberation were pot applicable tw thia case fo ag bigh a de. gfe as they ever were lo may cane of & almilar description in history of vations, Our government ackoow'edged the doctrines here pro- feeze’ ; and by thelr application to the ease Great Britain became absolved of ali lwbility aud ceusure, But, sir, the Caroline was bot so much an instrument of mischief to the British avtborities in Canada as the mere possession of Cuba by Spain is now to us, We caunot avoid Cuba in apy manner; it is there, at the entrance of the gulf, com- manding a!l access aud'escape; and it muet ether beion, to UR, OF at leust be #0 governed as not to give us contin unesswese. Noman, and therefore uo nation, has any right to retain a cause of injury at the door of a neighbor, without baving there aleo, immediately at hand, the means of precaution and redress. “* When thou buiidest » new house,” said the law cf Moses, “ then thou abalt make a battiement for thy roof, that tho bring not blood upon thine Douse, if way man fall from thence.” (Deuteronomy, axti., 8.) How much more does it behoove Spain, holding the island of Cuba by a formal title, contrary to the wishes of the persons and the property That the people of Cubs-and. I hy this the munictpal appointed by the Ceptain People. Cuda really desire annexation to the United States [ have no doubt. To aliege that they are contented with the present system is not only to coufess ignorance of their condition and history for the last ten or twelve years, but to deny them &i! the characteristics of manhood. Nei ‘ther in Cuba nor anywhere else on this or the other side of the Atlantic, sir, can there be found an individual of the Caucasiav race who does not aspire, in his heart of ‘arts, to Some participation in the government uoder which he lives, ite powers, its honors, ts emoluments, as well as endeavor to attaip the security of bis person and possessions. If the people of Cuba are go well eats. fied, why does Spain consume almost the entire revenue of the island apnuatly for the maimtenance of twenty five thousand soldiers, not to mention officers of the crvii Het, epies, detectives and the like? It ig larger army than we require for the defence of our vast voundaries and the subjugation of ail our Jndian tribes, There is no argument for union between Cuba and Span, except community of blood. That did not prove sufficient in Mexico, nor in Central or South America; it did not restrain our colonial ancestors, although of Evghsh descent, when the time for revolution arrived. Cuba would not, if she could, ma‘utaip ber ex- istence a8 an imdependent nation. Texas tried that for cight or nine yeare, and fwied. In every respect, therefore, the proximity and natural relatious of Cuba are such a6 to demand, for her sake and our own, that she tbould be annexed to the United States. The Senator from New Hampshire (Mr. Hale) asserts that for us wo acquire Cuba, by means of purchase, would be an act of gross in. justice toward Spain; which argument he founded oa cer. tain historical suggesiions. Lie J am not skilled in the diplomatic history of this conntry, but J think {t will be found vo be a fact that spain, our eariieat liv, how maintained her treaty stipulations ¢ om, wGAY, good Will and friendship with us, from the time when, ta Iy8. s exiended to us the right hand of triendship, w Struggling for © uame and a place in the emily ‘Then, in our feehlences, pour infency, Wn eur very destitution, whee we lad neitber am Lor 68 arni to defend Ourse.ves with, she caine to Jept Us Money and men aud ships, and abe rendered us service when it was needed; and from tht: day to thia Spain las malo tained, in uncroken ‘succession, the poxitioa aud the relation of an all} and a friend ‘That Spain bad either money or men or ships to send any one in 1778, ‘8 a fact rathor dificult to be es certain it is ve i aby manuer. first treaty wit ¥itb of Uctober, 1795, long alter we had achieved inde- pendence, and even catabliabed our present form of go serminent, toward the cloge of Washington's second term. It was not & treaty of alliance, but for the sottiemont of bouncaries between her colonies and us, and to define ac- curately our right to navigate the iseippi river. (Statutes at Large, vol 8, p. 158.) Ils twenty first artic! was for indemnification of outrages which so had com mitted on our citizens. Since that Ume, so far aa n search extends, our rela always have been of the most unsatisfactory character, Omitting the cna- troversies in regard to Lovisiana, until the cession of that colony to France, and afterwards to us, I come to the case of the Floridae, in February, 1806, whon 2 proposition of purchase, similar to this was mado by Congress. Om the 1th of January, 1811, as T have ehown, Cougrees authorized the President to take Weesession of East Florida; and on the 13th February 1813, to take porseseion ot West Florida, (On the 220 of Febroary, 1819, those two colonics were ceded to us by treaty; and yet, 80 conspicnous was the tad faith of Spain the exchange of ratifications did not vccur—was dela: in fact, by one frivolous pretext after avotuer, for a!mo or quite two years. Presidetit Monroe wae provo the Ist degree, and in hig aunual message of Decembe 1810, recommended that Congress should au ze bint take possesson of the ceded territory as Ui treaty bad bern ratified, The Senator fiom Now York (Mr ward) declares thot # proposition wo 8; or the « n of Coba will be & grave veult, ant one which abe id — most end will resent. He adduces in proof the report of certain vory bigh toned speeches Of the Spauish Minister and others, jately delivered ia the Cortes, at Madrid How such © proposition, expreesct in polite language, °sn be construed as an UL or indignity, allagether exceers my comprehension, It is easy for who geeks an fusuit, at noy time to otherwise, the Spavish Minister has ed himeelf quite ridiculous, An instit to propose should cote to us, for money or any other cousider A colony ag remote from her, and as near to our bout ries, ae the island of Cuba! It was not aw insult, nor re ceived as ancl ago, in Mr, Polk's time Really, sir, in would seem to ‘have learned a new point of honor sivee Febroary 22, 1819, when sha liswened to such A propesition im regard to Fiirica, and even ac cepted it—thus porketing the treult and the money to gether. Did Napoleon Bonaparte understand when he "8 ipsulted? If eo, hear what Mr. Jeffereon said to ! shonld suppose that all these considerations might, in some er form, be brought'into view of t of Tasce. ‘Though staued ty ta i'ovght Hot ws gle otienee; be: cause we do not bring them forws | menace, but as con sequences not controllable by us, but mevitable the course of things. We mention them, ‘not as hinge wich wr deatte, by any moana, but aa things we deprecate, and we be wech'a irievd to v Seed 8 fend to ook furward and to prevent them for our pecan Cin insult 2 this, and folt no dis: in us, money, the whole pence of Louitiana. Surely, sir, tho terms’ of ‘asereoesee between him ond us balf a century ago, When be was at the zenith Of power and epiendor end we were Stroggting with io fantile helplessness, are good enough for us to adopt, in present circumstances, towards the Spanish Minister’ or the minister of any other nation, If auch terms be con Strued into an offence, and eepacinily whore offence bas been disclaimed, let thors who would be prouder than Napoleon, whether Spaniards or others, show ns whoreon their wee is founded. We are admunished ‘lee we ee will not suffer ua to Bewardje. laid the Senator trom Now York (Mr. Hereiofore Spain bag beld the ieland of Cuba in the midst FEBRUARY 13, 1849. £* contiiets between the two great Powers of Western England and Frovee, linhie to inge ik to wt any memedt. Tod. y, Pogland Seip nile: ut they sre figs pobey of mata Epaia inthe enins tne of the wt saad babs ant "oewn sho s lant remonswts of Ler oace world wide empire. Wel), ei, Great Britain and Francs have no concerD With the question; their business bes emetly oo the otber side of the Atlantic; unt, un cae they are ansio for a controversy sib us, they wii! atstain from ul inte If there be one maxim 10 which our nations | Donor i# pleeged—a maxi a delivered to ns time again | dy the orucies of evolutionary wisdem—it is the! the Bare pean tye) of dictation by Sovereigns to earn other ehati never be extended to this continent, Whenever we yield that, under ary wenace or ayprebension, the day of our greuiness will deciwe, we shal! have bi KO far cor rupted by wealth, so indolent, effete, that our tberties a1 at the mercy of him who wilt eeize them, wad oor repw Le will #000 pass into history forever, oe As to the cbjcctions of detsii urged by the Senator from New York some days since, Lesteem them of very titve impertance. The bili provides ao apy $30 000,000 to be pairt for 4 cession of the J, dependences, Which amount is tobe raised by a loam at five. per cept, and so much as may be necessary paid whenever the treaty sbali have been ratified py Spain If the bill should be sucerssint, therefore, it willbe an Appropriation ef money, by taw, from the treasury of United States, in strict accordunce with the constitution, aud for an chiect as clearly and exactiy defined as any ob Ject specified in our anonal aporopriation bills. The law of coorse, by the Presiten urs! Stater, ae all ober lawe ed to be executor the money expended through the Department of Sta fome of Our m 8 ower apyropriatious fur hike purposes a een, aud always must h pended, Theou. sof the bil are in pursnauge of thr famous sets of Cur jegislatop—the wot of February 26, 1808, under which Lofigiara wns purchase Fy bruary 12, 1806, intended for the ease of Florida; aud the act of Mare 3, 1*47, which led to the ucquisition of New Mexico and Calitorain, Two of these acts, it will be obses ved, were in the time of Presh ent J: iferson—eer tuiply ae little dspored as any Presideut ever was, or ever will be, to encroach ov the legislative departmen or tolerate apy increase of execuuive power and ialin ence, Indeed, fir, until now, our most eminent FlatesmeD oO Lot Beem to bave discovered that such a Dill confers on the President any control over the trea fury, Or aby undue control over the conduct of our for eign relations 1 am wiving to err (if it ve an error) witn them; althongh, certainly, woatever amendment can be suggetted by the Senator from New York, or any one else, torestrain ths appropriation of money to the object in fenced, or otberwike guard agaist an abuse or misem- ploy ment of the powers to be conferred, will receive my vole and assisiance. As tc the substitute proposed by tue Senators from New York and Vermont, as a minority of the Committee on Foreign Relations, it does not deserve wuch comment, The first section requires the President to communicate to the Senate, at the beginning of the vext session, “if in bis opin‘on not incompatible with the public interest,” the condition of our re‘ations with Spain at that ‘ume, a8 weil as the condition of the treasury, the army aud the navy. The second section authorizes bim to con- vene the Senate, or Congress, ‘in extraordipary session,” whenever he may consider that advisable. Inasmuch faa all these duties or powers have been expressly confided to the President by the constitution, our recapitulation of them, in a statute, would be as idle, and even a6 ludicrous as one could well imagine. I am context to fortify the President with the means and the powers which be now asks at our hands. No mischief cap ensue, asI have said, in case of faiture; because, without a treaty for the cession of Cuba, no money is to be paid or even bo rowed, inasmuch as none will be re quired. It is eaid, bowcver, that we thus commit oar. selves in advance to the ratification of whatever treaty the President may negotiate. I think not. Spain knows, cr Will know, quite #8 well as we, that the treaty must be ratified according to the requirements of our constitution, or else be wholly inoperative She ratified the treaty of February 22, 139, with modifications, and these were atterwards accepted by us. There is no “blank draft’ oo the treasury —no pledge or gnarantee for the payment of one dime bey ond $80,000,000 in this bill; and the entire treaty will be subject to ratification, amendment or rejec- Uon by the Senate, as al! other treatics are. If the Presiient should stipulate for a larger _co- sideyation Spain, whether in money or other- wise, than ‘lwo-thirds of the Senate believe to be advantageous in the circumstances, that will end the treaty or lead to further negotiation. It is ly also, that we will forfeit the $30,000,000 in cage we do not ratify the treaty; but such an objection, if ever #0 valid, must bave bs ng! is weil to all past negotiations of this character, Ido not see, for my own part, how a for- feiture can righttuily be predicated of such a case; but as Spain has always ben dilatory in the payment of her debts, I arsume that we may lose the whole atnount paid in advance (whether $30,000,000 or less) if the treaty be Lot ratified ¢m our side. ‘The amount is @ large one, and jayinpoud im the financial embarrassment which bas lely overtaken us. I uncerrate none of these couside- Vong; but, after all, 60 essential do I consider the acquisi- tion of Cuba w our prosperity —eo Git KN or ‘than to. the difficuities which 4 rea ake a ee OS Sabeachin cuisat TeAnOradie to any. 4 fer ope more year tv elapse without some definite, and, as I fervently bope, some decisive action. 1 do think, how- ever, the bill sbould contam a limitation as to amovnt for which the President may stipulate; or rather. a provieion that no pet shall advance ratification vy both pasties, unless the whole amount stipulated be within a certain maximum. I would spe- A soch maximum $)30,000,000, or, at farthest, $150 000,000. The Senator from New York objects to tue acquigition of Cuba, politically, because that island is now inbabited, and by a ¥ etd he says, ‘different entirely from the citizens of the United States; different in long vege, diff rent in race, different in habits, different in manners, different ip customs, and radically different in religion.” What the Senator means by a difference in race 1 do not comprebend. The descendants ol the Span- tard in America are like the rest of us; they come of our stock, and are admitted, every day, under our laws of f naturelization, to the righta and privileges of native born citizens, All the haters of Lal ‘8 common 05 and the Caucasian race, notwit ing its diversities of langosge, habits, manners, customs and re- ligion, 1s, at last, the same. Its ‘unity is innate, and its diversity an affair of accident or circumstance. but when the Senstor from New York, and hie agtociates, endeavor to biend the African with the Coucasiap, vpon terms of social or political equality, then, to te sure, do copfuricn and degradation threaten us’ ‘There is ne more diversity of race between the people of the United States and the people of Cuba, nor any moro civersity of langvage, or habits, or mapners, or customs, or relig en, then the Senator may behold to-day in the great city which be represente. @ people of Cuba are | a, an¢ Florida, and Texas, and New Mexi- fornia, contained at their respective periods of rpexation; and #° far from the least difficulty, has not Le genius of our federal system been aimirably proved and iilvetrated fp each instance? But the Senator desires to be told “whet mstitntions of justice, of freedom, of re- ligion, aod public worship,” will obtaia in the island of Cuba, after it thell have been annexed to the United Stores. Iunewer, once for all, such ‘institutions,’ ex- actly consistent with the constitution of the United States as the people of Cuba wish, they shall be, so far as Lam ned. Upon aN equa! footing with the people of other Stave. The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Doolittie) enneuneed to Us yesterday as the yeramme of | the modern and gelfstyled republican —_ party, thet the tropical zone of thie continent ebould be for the negro, and only its temperate zone for the white man. I om really obliged to the Senator for so honest a prociama- ion, having always been convinced that the party of bs attachment, upon which be has lavished as many af. chopate caresses and epithets as Sancho Panza could pave suggested, intends that Cuba, and Mexico, and Gen- | America, and, if possible, our own Sonthera States, » T admonish the Senator that his colored {renee Will HOt be able to retain the empire whieh he so generously, #bd without any coet to himself, would thus give them.” Jn Jamaica, it eppears, they are becoming +xtinet from eheer indolence; while in Hayti, at the last | sdviers, the Emperor Sculouque was runuing to, or from, ry urgent business. There is a decisive objection, be: this, to the Senator's magnificent scheme, an objec- ton which even Commodore Paulding cannot assist him to remove. It is, that the Atluntic shores of cur continent been found so much colder than Eorope, Or Asia, or Africa, between the same parallels. We are now assembled, at Washing ton city, eimort in the latitude of Lisbon and Palermo, and Corinth aud Athens, and the classic flelds of Asia Mi- vor, but the elmate bere fs colder by several degrees, Inéred, Sir, HO nation of leks energy than ovr own, or the netion Whebc# Most of us derive our lineage, comkd bave vo long montoined the arte of civilization in nt regions #8 Canada and the Northern Bi we ‘That ochewement alone entities the soxon blond to universal admiration, Does the Senator weogine, Then, thet he can devote sees an! shores in merica, a told and besutifol asthe ancient Meiterra- f neon ond the garders whieh enrround it, to the exchisive PD hien Of hewroes, driving the white mau to struggle r rier boond streams, the pathiess enow o the barriers with which winter would on obi} oor enterprise? The Senator from New | Jap pebite COmplairs that our sequisit | ard, but never toward declined das a orth or east of our yposeesvions, he Senator — compiained Wat the Ashburton treaty of 1842 a portion of the State of Maine; but | rever besrda compleiyt from Maine upon the subject or frem any of her citizens. They covscnted to it, and, aS ] believe, on very ample consideration. They ven pause to argue whether they had or imd not pevo insulted, ‘That treaty was negotiated by Daniel Webster ab: (he op yoRition to ite ratification by the Senate was i together from the democratic party; and so in respect the treaty which established our northwestern bowodar, ope the forty-ninth degree of iatitade, 1 cannot tel! whether the Senator himself yoted for or agaist the rati fication of that, but be knows that all the pegalive tous (unlers, perchance, bis own) were Fenaters, Canada has never been restrained vexalion by us, bat by the wise concessions, time and in, of the British The contrast of her rene and the enge of Cuba is very remarkable, the ove ea ‘oe AIEEE OF local legislation, aud an Executive de «pt op the Legislature for existence, while the other hjeet to the arbitrary decrees of a Caplan cConeral eppeinted by the Couft at Madrid, and man. tained ib power by am army of twenty-five thousand men, Canada bas Vkewine enjoyed, of inte years, the arvantage of roca) free trade with the United tates: white Cubs, ag L have shown, tx deprived of ai) the advantages af her position, and devoted entirely to Spa pish exeetion or contenience. Whether the conese on: of Great Britain €il or will pot be sufficient hereafter retain the affvetions of the Canadian pe v too remote for me W consider; but 48 BONG BH Lin) Rum. PRICE TWO CENTS. Flom, or fat ander oppression Hampatire wil arty Several Senators om the of relor fom Masteathusene (Mr. Wiisou) bere, armennee great anxtety for the moqnigition ot mest vehemently to the means vow I have aireniy expressed a serious donot eps WL prove auificient, bnt certainty toean#, and nove other, ag aid suf every aequisition (except Tex ® Why thon'd tose who profess arnexetion of Cube, on either side eruple of an experiment (if prove fa? Tecan tn from the daye present hour, hat enabled the demo. to recover from apy mistake, or defeat yor — meat, Fir, the ty ‘of oppasition It is my eltherste opinvon that the neop'e of the United States are, #imost onan in favor of the aequisition of Cube. and thet ports ht of any supp acvantege, pearly ot hare 86 Vast a ques tion, or cavil at mero py fereral argements al ite own desrrvetion iy Gor federal ester, a8 one emerge after another sha Tequite, if the lew of our cesetopeineat; iti the sign of buy pat oval vita ity; the pieeg® of oor wat entarance. ‘Tes provd sentunert, althougn tinp rf eatect, ao pelhape never expretand, animate the Peat plenver now braving the wrath of th hardships of the wilderness on our weeter rt of toe hum savage or the at border it if A theme of glory to boyhoow, to youth trend. ing the paths of temptation in” every pur fo tthe espitalist and. th the merchant rtisan, the scholar, the sail } who reverence their country ele conntry rown, Indeed, sir, Doan imaghe ro spectace moro er: ful to ap America citizen, at home or abroad, than the contemplation of thet gpiendid processioe ascoss our © Lent within tbe Inet sixty years. Commencing with fee ret aments on the haya, intets and tributaries of the At ocean, thence to the summits deemed almost im Yarrable, avd beyond these to the banks of a river ex tending from the Gulf of Mexico northward to the revion of the lakes, and swollen at every degree by the flooae gathered as well inthe ANeghanies as iu the Rocky Moun tain-iteeif, therefore, a complete emblem of union to ail—thence over prairies of marvellons magoiticence to the faster and the desert; turning from which, at length, to ecek more hospitable and shorter po lhe by the Isthmus, we Bave carried our name, our watcbwords aud our eu sign to the Golden Gate, where California, with ber snow- capped diadem, site virgin emprese of the seas, Muy it be, sir, that when our sons bave searched the uttermost corvers of the carth, and overcome every other obstacle, their virtue and lov. of tiberty aod devotion to the exam ple cf our great fatiors, will not reqnire thom to desyize meu unworthy of the fortunes to which HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. Abdication of Zuloaga—Miramon Instalted as President—The Engitsh and French De, mands Enforced at Vera Cruz—Protest of the American Consul, d&e., &e. New Orveans, Feb. 12, 1859. The steamship Tennessee has arrived here with Vera Cruz dates to the 9th inst. Zuloaga abdicated in favor of Miramon on the 2d inst., when the latter was installed as President. Miramon had re-arrested the political prisoners liberated by Robles, and dismissed all the offivers engaged in deposiung Zuloaga. He had also sup- pressed the forced one million loan ordered by Robles. Miramon was ab vot mar: aforce of five thousand men, Zuloaga acting as President ad interim, The brother of Miramon had been defeated at Zacatecas. Degolla was threatening the capital with a force of four thousand reorganized troops. The capture of Mazatlan by the liberals is con- ng on Vera Cruz with ‘The commanders of the French and English fleets succeeded in enforcing the'r demands at Vora Cruz. The high system of duties was to be restored forthwith, and two-thirds of the revenue secured to England and France. The American Consul had promptly acted egainst this interference, and Juarez was greatly embarrassed by it. Intelligence. CITY CLURCHES. In the Orchard street Universalist church Rev. T. J. Sawyer, D. D., pastor, will preach this morning. Text: First Jobn, tii., 2. In the eveoing—Text: Romans ix., 11- 24. Subject—Election and Reprobation Rev. Matthew Hale Smith will preach this evening in the great bgil of the City Assembly Rooms, 448 Browlway bear Grand ‘street. The Rev. Sidney A. Corey wit! preach in the Eighteenth street Baptist cburen, one door west of Fifth avenue, thie morning and afternoon. Tho Rev. § M. Hutton, D. D., will preach this evening in the Stanton street Presbyterian church, corner of For- syth street. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. Joseph San derson, in the morning and afternoon. In the Bleecker street Universalist church, corner of Bleecker and Downing streets, Rev. H. R. Nye, of Cotum- bus, Obio, will preach this morning and evening. Public worsb:p will be beid in the New Jerusalem church (Swedenborgian), at Lyrique Hail, 765 Broadway, morning. Divine service wili be held, as usual, this morning and afternoon, in the North Dutch chorch, corner of William and Fulton streets. Rev. W. W. Sever, Assistant Minister of St. Ann’s church, Brooklyn, will preach this evening in the Memorial church, corner of Hammond street and Waverley piace. Dr. Armitage, pastor of the Norfoll: streot Raptist ebuarch, will preach ia Trenor’s Academy, Thirty-fourts street, one door west of Broadway, this afternoon. In the John street First Methodist Episcopal church, preaching this morning and evening by the pastor, Rev. Charles E. Harris, Morniog subject: Saul, the Monarch end the Slave. Rev. Robert G. Dickson, the pastor, will preach this morning and evening in the Protestant Episcopal Miseion this | chureb, Clinton Hail, Astor place. Rev. A. Kingman Nott will preach at the Academy of ‘Music this evening. The Rev. P. Macmenamy, D.D., and several friends of Protestant truth, will bring the absurd claims of Roman- ism to the test of Gospel promise and privileges, and an. wer objections, in Spring Street Hall, 185 Spring street, this evening. A second discourse on the iniquity of the traffic in slaves, and of the laws by which it is supported, will be deliver ed by Rey. Dr. Cheever, this evening, in tye Church of the Puritans. ‘The anpiversary of Sunday School No. 3, atiached to the Reformed Dutch choreh in Twenty-first street (the Rev. ALR. Van Nest’s) will be heid this evening. Addresses wi'l be delivered by the Rey. Peter Stryker and the Rev. Wm. W. Hatloway. Mt Peter's church, Brooklyo.—The first of a series of “Sermons tothe Young” will be preached in St. Peter's choreb, in State street, near Bond, Srovklya, this eveaing, by the rector, Rev. Jobm A. Paddock. ORD ATIO . At a Congregational mew conveued m9 Bath, Steaben ty,.N. ¥., Jan, 25, 1859, Mr. flirnm E. Johnson, lloow «1 tbe New York and Brookiyn Aseociation, Was or darped ax an Evangelist : INVITATATIONS. istry of St. James? burch, Lacsburg, Va., recently i the Rev. Walter Wiliams, of Halifax, ©. H., to suc- je late Davis Cakiwell, m the pastorahip of that He bas not us yet aorepted the call, . M. Maxwell, of Indianapolis, In?., hat received Q ‘move call to the Bighth Presbyteriaa church, Co ninati, Obto, kev. J. M. Worral, of Covineton, bas received @ call to mms pastor of the Firet Presbyterian church of Dua- INVITATIONS ACCRPTED. Ata mecting of the Thirt Presbytery of New York, on . Pr. Walter Clarke was recervet Amsocjation of Hartfore Farth acceptance of the califrom the Mercer street Prewbyte- ban chevel of this city. ‘The Presbytery resolved to pro. cued to his Be jon, \a the Mercer street eburch, on Wedn-aday, the TOtb itt. ~) Roger &. Howard, late of Bangor, bas accepted a Cait to the rectorenip of St Stephen's eburch, Portland. per for nearly SX years pastor of govonalecboreb in Wakeman, Huron county, - Qemiwon, With & View to accept a Dyterian ehereh in Somerset, Niagara INVITATION DECLINED, tev. 8.8. Goss, of Meritian, N. Y., bas dectingd tae rail extended to bim by the Presbyterian church of Dame- vile, 8. ¥, INSTALLATION, Rey. 4 Mendel was installed, on the 24 inst,, as of the Fret Presbyterian church in Skaneateles) N.Y. Je nog, MaSlOMATIONS, Rev. Wim. A. Dod, pastor of the Second Pre nyter burch in Princeton, has given notice of his inten. tion 10 resign bis charge and seck ordination in te Rpireo- ral church, Rev. Wm. C. Child, of Framingham, Mass., has tender- ed bon reclanption a8 pastor of the F Saptist chureb in that place. . J 8, Eowarde, for pyres reaee pastor of the Pres- hyterien eturch of Jerseyville, Ml, enfant b cbarge, with the iutenuon of trying & more ‘ uwle. NEW CHURCHES. ‘The vew Methodist church on Sacramento street, whic hes recently been engaged by the citizens of 5 California, wae ded cated en sunday, Jaa. 16, Th: Rev. ib. Thomas, editor of the Califurma Chridian A hocuke (reached (he deaicatury eermon, The members of the Church of the Unity, in Boston, held a meeung at their church op the 6th instant, who tlans and estinaves were sobuntuc and adopted. Th or w church wi) be commenced in « sbort time, as money enough baw been @ubserived fo warrant the undertakisg. The meeting aojonrned eine die. Key. RK. Ladd, of Waodetock, and Rev. T, G, Smith, o Witow Crock 0 gan zec resbsteiian church (0. 8.) « Selott, Wis, eovasting of cighleen members, A new Congr vil eociely has been started at Mb fon, Wis ,to which Rev. N. U. Epglestone bas been invited to manieier, MISCELLANEOUS. regents Ube boasted progress of gland a& amounting to ittle cr ued 4 few noted courerts, but aro coLetun'y Kewg the sight hold they have had on tha Pople, bia eo Hot ROW constitute one per cent of the peo pie of Exgiand, Ip ireinnd, too, Frotestantiem is. gaining fo tupdily from the Catholics ag to excito the alarm of thi Pope. of @ congregation at Ma- d from the ministerial office , buch asa theft of @ 35 bil frem one of bie parishouera, Wuyiog lumber and refasitig to pay tor ft, setting two or three dollars worth of stockings and mittens, the manufactnre of a poor widow woman, and cefrauaig ber out of the money, &c, Rey. 1. G. Hay, the returued missionary of the Pres>y- terian Board of Foreign Sissons, wo labored for ten ovary tt Surtucra india, haa bean ap- pointed (*etrict eerelary of the Amerwan Tract Society for Kentucky, Indiana nad Ou IVALS OF 1859, Ash Wednesday, Easter and Wit we Co Dot occur at the sume dates eve: year, bub that they are variable within certain lnits, comprising & period of wpwards of a month. If the exact date of the ceuth of our Saviour were known, thers could th coubt #Lout the date of Easter, movable boli¢ays: bot ull we | erueiixier Occurred a short tm pex abd immediat after the vernal eqai- after » full moon. ‘Tie question of xing ule period of Faster was first agitated at itn Nr Coonei, in the year 925, on day aad Whrtsent were equatty uvicnown; but, according to tradition, thy former had taken pince forty days after Kuster, and ths tatier Hity. The sstrenowcal data afforded by tradition being too va ‘ Coaueil deci ied ‘that every Eur on the Souday after the fret ful! woon wir w after the 2th of March» Bezce it follows that 90 [ali moon odeurriug before the Qist of March can be taker juito acconat, and that Faster cap never teke place before the 224 of that meth. In our ceptary there bas but One Bastor fali- ing On thet date—nainely, that of 15(8. In 1658, fol! moon happening vo fall’ on a Friday (March 21), ter occurred ou the Sunday following (261) In genera’ the crcum#tapces tending to place Baster in the month March are touch rarer than those whicu make it fail April; for, out of the Bfy-cight Fastere of our camtury, eu y fourteen have ovcurred in March The Iatest date portible is the 25th of Apri) Id thers bea full moon on the 2th of Marc Paschal fuil moon Will occur twenty vine days b terethat ©, on the 18th of April, and should ): s6 buppen iuai aut diy were a San- day, the celebrat.on of Fuster could ouly take place on the Funday following—namely, the 25th. In 1861 Kastor fel on the 20th; iy 1819, 283i and 1852, on the 224; iu 1848, on the 25d, and in 185% it will occer ou the Mta—a very Tare case Faster bewg ooce fixed, all the other hotidays are easily determined. Thus toe Sanday called Quingusgesima, being the seventh Suaday brfore Easter, takes piace on the 6th of March, when the Carnival ve- gine, Ash Wednesday fatis on the th; Asecnsion day and ree or ae ea, e § after june 19), Thursday ie Corpus cs ay. Several Catholic fasy days are also determined by the date of Easter. nine area a Proms ang Europe, says in ono covgrega'ion al singing. . The reading of the lessons by the mombers of the congregation in their Bibles iu the pews. & benediction, 4. The pause after the 5. The very littie looking round and staring at each oth-> be 4 the cong7egation, ana Apparent devous attention »x- Io another letter (Dee. 20) Riehop ReL. speaks thus o the weebiy service held the mght before in St. Pauls Ca thedral, London:-— It was & most impressive service—more than toree thou snd preeent, notwithstanding the rain. A chou of mo-9 than five hundred volunieer singers chacnted and gun. The sermon was by the Rov. Dr. Tleok—exiemporancons, animated and impressive, and fixed the atention of cho great multitude for forty minutes. The voices of the pao. pie almort overpowered the immense organ. It majestic sound. Such an amen | never beard. Ih of Niagara reverberating the pruises of It carried we forward to what St. Joba ¢ass:— “A voice cane ont of the Turons, saying, praise our God, all ye His servents, aud ye tnat fear Tim, toi) stall and great; and I heard, as it wero, the voice Of & great multitude, as the voice of many ud us the voice of mighty thuaderings, sayiog— y *! for the Lord God omnipotent reivneth.”” All abeut vs, so fur as we could seo or hear, respoxded and une, but Do individual voice, male or femala, coald bs distingutled in the overpowering and harmonioua mass of sound. ‘Tbere were po jong preludes or interlndes hy tha organ. When the bytoo after the sermon was finshed, all bentdown aud the preacher pronoouced the benetic: ton, to which the organ, chotr and coogrevation responded @ most solemn and impressive amen; ana ali was ailont at the grave, tor private prayer to God for his bleasiag on the service—a silence overpowering—siience that could bu felt. The immense flock then quietiy dispersed. The Lon’on News, speaking of the chow referred :o in Whe fo epoing extracts ‘The choir of five hundred Voices give their serviceg without remuneration, and aro ail persons to whom music is simply a pleasing revreatioa. Many of them are iv circumstances of ease and affluesce, sume being members oi ope or the other of the iearned protessions.”” The Loudon News aiso mentions that the large copgregations which assembie at the epectsl evening fervices beld weekly m St. Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and Exeter and St. James’ Hall, alford a rewark- able proof of the growing strength of the specfal services movement. a oo A, Coroner’ Inquests, FataL Resctr ov 4 Ficnr.-Information ws’ received at the Corauers’ office yesterday afternoon tbat one of tha patents bad died at the Bellevue Hospital from the effecis of injuries received on the night of the 30th ultimo, whie engaged in a Sght at the corner of First avenue aad Thir ty first street. The same messenger also brought the news of a car- man’s death, who ded from the effects of injuries a2ci centally rece'ved by falling from his cart while the cama was in motwn, Inquests in both of these cases wore post- pened until to-day. Scicipx oF 4 Gramax Lav.—William Speneil, a German, seventeen years of age, committed suiciie yesterday by taking a large dore of arsenic, at the Louse of Mr. Warner, 174 West Thirteth street. A was called ag acon ae his situation was ¢isrovored, but he died about ono v'cuck thie morning. Speneli was a baker by trade, and believed that his ipabiity to procure work was tho couse of bis self destruction. The was notiied toy hold ap inqnest upon the body of deceased. Fovsp Drowxen —Robert R. Hamilton, a native of tre- land, aged 80 years, was found drowwed at the foot of Cort- landt street yesterday. Deceased has been missing 6in-> ‘he 5th of November last, since which time vo clue conla be ascertained a8 to bis whereabouts until yesterday, when bis body was disenvered floatiog in the North river 4b Lhe (oot of Ube street juet mentioned. Coroner Seb rm eid ap inqnest pon the boty Of deceased, when ibe Jv rendered a verdict of “Death by drowaing.”” Deve leaves a widow to lament Lis joa. Data ix 4 Station Hors. —Coroner Schirmer algo hoit ab wqueet at the Sixteenth precinct station housa upoa the bedy of a man named Willian Patterson, who wig cond dead in bis cell. Deceased, it appeared, was suffrr- pg from ebronie diarrbor, and intended ¢ving to Betlevua Hospital, wbep he wos trkeo suddenly fl) in the station house and died before any relvf could be afforded him. Verdict in accortauce with the above facts. Scanony to Dear —Patrick Davis, lately residing at No. 24 Thames street, died at the New York Hospitai yerterday from the effects of wcaida received on the 29th s November last by the upeetting of a teakettle of bo: water upon bis person. Coroner U Keele was note! is hold an inquest upon tbe body of deceased. i Farat Accipgst at 4 Firs —A man named John Carlin died yesterday at the New York Hospital from the effacte of injuries received a few days ago by being rumover ty a fre engine et the corner of Seventy ninth street and Fourth avenue, Coroner O'Keefe was notified to hold an inquest upon the body of “ecoased. derny City Sews. ‘Tae Rimeren Frorevent in Jeneey Orry.—The state. ment copied into the Hexatn of Friday from a Jersey City paper under this bead js, we are mformed, entirely with. oot fonn een. The gentieman who itwas stated had oped wth ‘he widow went to Charleston and . borinesr, ant the witow has been at home ‘is ume, The repor mubkeioos fabricasing, aut veev coptradivted in the Jersey City papers.

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