Evansville Journal, Volume 12, Number 49, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 7 January 1847 — Page 1

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1 -' t BY W. II. CHANDLIJR. " THE UNION OF THE WHIGS FOR .THE SAKE OF THE UNION. ' AT $2 PER ANNUM; IN'ADVAN C E r ,;. ft 5 VOL. XII. i EVAIVSVIIiIjE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JANUARY. 7, IS47. IVO. 49.

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;:' CARRIER'S 'ADDRESS. The stars that deck the brow of bight , ;

It ' Shine out all beautiful and clear. i!

J As, with their drapery of light, . . ... I They welcome in the New-Born Year. , i Not less serenely have they shone, - r - j O'er days and years and centuries gone Not less serenely: will they shine, I - When all that man deems most divine .7 5 . j Shall slumber 'midst the chillicg gloom,. That marks the confines of the torabv ..: O'er all that dark or bright appears, ' I 'An Empire's fall a flower's decay '

O'er human smiles and human tears," ' j aey sbiue. with one unchanging ray I . . r ! As with a hurried glance we cast' . '.Our eye along the twelve months pass'd, .What are the records which they give," -.: , On History's deathless page to liveT , Peace and prosperity have shed, Their blessings on our Country's head; Guarded and blessed the poor man's toil, . And crowned with fruit the teaming soil. . Science hath traced her path of, light, More brilliantly to mortal sight; 'Commerce hath poured upon our shores, Her vast and still increasing stores; t And, circling in her mighty plan, , The. various families of man; - Has seen their strongest interests tend With that of others to unite; . And made the good of each depend 'On that of all just as the bright Hues ot the jainbow meet and blend, v. Within the sumbeam's stronger light. s ,.-v But now how' changed! War's sullen roar ; Hath pealed its thunders on our shore, 1 Not as of old, when in the fight, " Which saw Columbia's Banner ware O'er Freemen battleing for their Right, Or falling in a glorious grave, . The blood of Freedom, from each sod, ; O'er which the war-cloud, thickly curled, Called forth the arm of Freedom's God, : s To battle for "the Iufant World. - : . Oh 1 never might that Banner wave ... r O'er a less consecrated grave! ; .. Not of the cause enquire we now, While a new wreath of deathless Is woven for our Country's brow. ame, By those, who, glorying in her name. Offered their blood upon the shrine, To patriot hearts the most divine. ' Unfurl that. Banner to the air! " And where its glorious folds display The stars and stripes, 'twill, with them bear, At Monmoth or t Monterey. " ; The patriot's dearest olTerin!?. ZtT To' crown it victor in the strife. And freely "was Tfial ottering malle : ' As freely shall it be repaid. '. ' ' " ' "And while affection 'drops its tear, ' " Above their consecrated bier, Thir Country twines around their name, 'm The brightest laurel wreath of fame. But by the man, at whose command, ; X . The Torch of War again displayed Its baneful radiance o'er the land, v ' . A fearful reck'nitig musf be paid! As of the Ocean, tenipesl sliired, ' . The people's thunder tones are heard; ' Denouncing that unhallowed zeal, Which to promote a party's good, Would sacrifice a Nation's weal, : And shed the Country's dearest blood. Weighed in the balance, they have found. His loftiest boast, an empty sound,. Wanting the statesman's noblest part, '. -.The able head the honest heart, They, to his reign of power will send An early and inglorious end. ' ... Truth shall again assert her sway ; . For through the darkning gloom of night, -The Nation hails the rising day, r About to bless us with its light! t ' - . ' - - He has gone he has gone that good old ... ,. YEAR,- ! ' Bury him kiadly and drop a tear; Rosemary strew to deck his grave ' And a marble stone shall his memory save. He walked with us in his youthful pride, , He sighed with us when the flowers died ; He shook from; the trees their Autumn : w- .gear," ; i -.. ' : , And bade" us remember his end was near. , With sunshine and cloud he his way beguil- . , - ed, -- :" And the eve of his life was serene and mild. 'Tis true, his hand wore a blood-red stain, And he looked unmoved at the Warriors ' pain; ... .. ,. - . . He turned from the widow's imploring hand To the orphan's tear,he offered "Zand!" Hhe said that tear was a pleasant game . -That we long had needed both wealth and J fame; -. -: .. That aU sad scenes of pain and deathr . -: Were hid by the glittering laurel wreath; And. when we complained of our galling ' yoke, . ... " To all our appeals he answered "PoZi"!!. . Bat now he " fault' is gone, with each" merit and "And we'llbury him deep in the family vault Death pave him at last a happy release. And be closed his eyes with a prayer for ' "Peace"! ' 1 " He is widely rricurned his funeral knell Rings over " the earth Farewell Fare- - well! ' " ' . ' ' ' ""

Now drop the past, and dry the tear; Open the book of the coming year; The corners are new and th leaves are white, With ! gleams from the lamp of Hope 'tis bright; : --' And hope as the pages her fingers turn .Gathers a gem frorajhe Future's urn; . . .We eagerly graip at her fancies wild, ' Then drop them soon, like a wearied child.

My pen has sauntered idly orr its way4Patrons and friends, a word with you. to :,; day; -,. . : :. .' ..;

'Tis New-Years . Day, that day of all. the best, ' ..... ...... When sympathy unlocks the coldest breast" The day. when Mammon hall forgets his pelf And deeds of kindness shut out thoughts of sell. .. ,..( , .. . , .: . Farewell! here ends the Carriers pleasant '' : task ' " : ' :". ' . Give, as your would receive, 'tis all I ask.. .' . t From the Louisville Journal. . T .THE NEW YEAR. . -.'"" " To-day men rejoiced 'A new" year is born into the world, and the old year is dead.: Another wave has sunk into the dead level of the , tide of time., Another i year has gone "with the years beyond the flood," and with the less dim years, over which hover, like stars, the memories of Thermopylae and Mar athon, of Christ born for the salvation of men, and of .the imperishable glories , of nations and humanity. The past has received into its bosom another year, and is richer with its added memories and buried hopes,-its penetrating sorrows and beautiful affections, which are not dead but still haunt the heart with no noble remembrances, so beautifully called the hopes of the future life born of death! So the world goes on, with vanother year given to memory .and yet another born to hope. Of memory and hope is wrought the life of man. These complete the circle of his existence. For, to him, by an unalterable law of his being, the present nothing but as the realization of the past or the promise of the future. This day is the dividing line between hope and memory,the future and the past, on which men pause, as the iraveller upon some eminence, to review their prist labor and mark out a course for their future progress.. ? 4 j . r , ; . ; ' Therefore is it not altogether a day ofuomingled " rejoicing. It is with the soul a twilight hour of thought, at once hopefuland retrospective, in which it, fies. bneilK the shadow of the past and the brightness of the luture. (t looks back with sober pensivenes3 and forward with pleasant expectation. The hopes of the past, which have failed lo be realities, and yet like calm and fading stars, in a still and. moveless Heaven; whilst new hopes glow, like fitel splendors of a rising sun, along the horizon of the coming time. Reverently then, should the soul be bowed as in the mnrnincr nra ter nf imp. mhn feels that a day of great labor and high e.peclatiotfis before liirn'. -'w- ' ft secrated to vouTThis is vour festival, aud I , j - thought goes solemnly oactt into me pasi and with the eagerness ot : prophecy fnif onward in the future. - Memory and Hope it is o( you that Ave would speak to-day. . ; , ,;i A deed is done, andi ihe hour of its accomplishment passes. ' But it leaves a record of what man can or may do under similar cir cumstances. It is. the ascertained effect of the combination of certain powers; and is monirory or inductive in its influence. This is whit men call a lesson, a thing,whkh rises like a star frm that which gave it birth and points brilliantly Kowhatwas wdyetmay be! No deed, or fact, is preserved unless its lesson is worth remembering. If it is such, it is sure to find a fitting record. Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona, &c, is but a false senti ment, if creat men had lived before Ag memnon they would have left a useful lesson for theitkind; and their deeds would have created poets, orators, and historians to give them filling commoraiton. 1 1 hey are not dead becase they had no poet. They are dead.unsepulchred in oblivion, because there was no redeeming moral in their lives. Had any one of them added a single iota to the wealth of human "thought, he had this day been a memory, among meu. Had he given the svorld a great experience, had he been an Agamemnon; had he left to future ages a lesson of rnighiy will, indomitable patience and lofty purpose, he would have made lor himself poets, historians, and orators Hence it is that men commemotaie the past. From the grave of things, that were, they seek expennce the flower upon the tornb. The Assyrian, the Median, the Fer sian, the Macedonian, the Roman, the Gallic empires were. What then? Why nothing They were but the splendid phantasmagoria of a dream, if they leu no lesson to the worlo They offered magnificent spectacles to the view. 1 heir armed phalanxes vexed the world with sword and torch, and the air rustled with their banners and was shaken with their trumoet calls. -And vet to-day , if " 1 - but mere spectacles, they were forgotten among men. What brought these vast hosts together? . What radical, social evils drove them from the hearth to the battle-field? What excited them to this wild and insaii ble spirit ofconqusl? And why did power which had its foundations broad and deep in a hundred conquered nations, and which was cemented by the most brilliant achievement ever wrought by mere human valor, fade . ... .1 1 . 1 lawnv like tne insuosianiiai ere a mm ui a ; dream? Thesa are tho great questions 1 which the history of those times resolves and from them, therefore, we have great les sons So it is with individual life. The past would be nothing to us were it not for u surviving influences and permanent lessons. That we have done' so and so, is nothing. But that our past conduct has affected, or does affectjour happinesses an important fact That we have our own draffon 8 teeth, is T - O ' " nothing; but that armed men should hav sprung from them is pregnant with thought and action. That those we love have goue down into the silent grave would be nothing, were it not lor the pleasant communion, the out-poinc love and hopes ol which death u . . .

has deprived 'as". We feei that therpastts the Crealor of the future, and eagerly do we

look back into it lo gather some prophecy of the course of coming time, ,-We know how past relations, have affected us, and as the future is, owing to our sameness or social life but a slightly varied repetition of the past, we, submit ourselves hopefully to ihe monitory and inductive influence; of memory, Theseus is guided through the Cretan Laby rinth by the thread. "".' And is not this memory 'a most beutiful gift td man? -. As a God man woke Lazarus into a a warm and lovely life from the midst of the corruption of the tomb, so does He yet permit us to raise, by the power of memory, from ' the : entombing past inio a beu eficial and beauiiut life, things which bve perished for ages, -r Ail tliat is valuable Or beantifol In the mind of man; the labors of the good and great and the fruits of those of labors; the virtues of nations and individ uals; the, affections of common blood,- the gathered experience of time and the wealth; of noble and beautiful thought, live and die not forever. They are crystalized by "time, and remain in their perfect beauty and Original fornv N one thing has, given an improving and - permanent gladness' to a nation or an individual or brightened them with the loveliness of a new appreciation of truth. which has perished, or can perish from "the minds of mou. , . . . So true it is, that . "A thing of beauty is a joy forever," :., Its loviness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness but still will keep" '. A bower quiet for us. and a sleep . 4) Full of sweet dreams, and health and qni- ' . ei breathing.-, Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathA flowery band to. bind us to the earth." Beautiful truths most beautifully syllabled into the- purest poetry of speech."-' The memories of the past to him, whose life has not been one of defiant sin, 'are iudeed.V quiet bower ol fresh and clustering flowers; into.whi.cii i weaned and saddened thought may retire from too much contest and bitterness of spirit.1. Lovely and undeceitful past! in thy'solemn lessons and beautiful memor ies we find the very essence of elevated and chastened delight: - ' ' ;. ....-, Tlxh dav, hovyeyer,. belongs rather to hope and happiness.-) Ihe past is fixed." Wishing cannot alter it. NeitherceerJLlluuuilLluNM future is yet unformed)" uriexistent. We are is yet unformed)" urjexistent, to.' mould 3its 'eveYifs5 inlbLfdrm and stature. We are even to 'make those -events. Won derfully great is the: influence which they are to exercise over us. AlMtimgs, inougnt, happiness,"" prosperity, and social and public relations ore qinvermg in tne uumnce tin these have decided. . Hence the man Creator, at the, same lime that he. ! vvil.ls certain things into existence, cannot bit .feel an extreme anxiety for his future. . ,, Therefore, as regards those things over winch he has not absolute control, he hopes. -' There are voices in the future which incitehim to action; and he dreams that, in theircall, he bears an unrealized triumph and an unspoken eulogy. In the future there are golden Teward.s to be won, and hope places them within his grasp. In the future, he dreams, all joys cluster around his hoarth and every hope of hisheart is more than realized. In the tinlravelled darkness of the future he seeks the idols of his heart's desire. Telemachus soes irilo the dark and unknown Hades in search of the much-loved and long-sought Ulysses, ; So, dreaming the sweet visions of hope, now realising them and now seeing them fade way in dim and mocking illusion, man goes on from year to year. - It is well that it should be so. It is well lat man keeps within him this perennial fountain, welling tip in the darkest hour of sorrow and disappointment, fha'. he may, as it were, hear the glad music of an ever-living current in his soul. Around this hope noble and graceful purposes will arise as lofty palm trees around the de?ert fountain. Ever forming views more splendid than those he realises, it is well that new visions, as beauiful and bright, should come to give newer purposes to bis soul, it nope were nor 39 enduring as life, surviving shame, poverty, and disease, then were the mainspring of the soul shattered into pieces. But while there is life there is hope; whilo there is hope, action. Upou hope and memory, as upon the two winus of an 'eagle, is the soul borne aloft in strife of life. Hope hardened by the governing influence of reason, is resolution, will, destiny. Hence its magnificence, its overruling and creative nnwer. What wonders will it not achiever All adverse things sink before it. Hope over turned the wide and deep foundations of Pa ganism, established Christianity, built Rome, made a Corsican subaltern Lmperorof r ranee and won liberty for America, lhese are magnificent examples of its power. These Rhine as with the liirlit of suns and not as with the light of siars. There are humbler things in which tha influence of hope hasi purer and softened beauty.- In every-human heart it bas a work not less" great ihpngh not so ostentatious, to do.. The soul has us old and false empires to overturn,' its . purer and nobler power to establish itsiuslerity to' fight and its declaration of independence to make and establish. For these labors hope must be nourished to a giant's strength. On this day, so fitly consecrated to it, it is more than usually potent. No matter how ill may have been his past lot, every man now feels a strong and exalted hope, Ihe future is brightened as with a roseate dawn. .It seems as though he had only to put 'forth his ban and pluck the golden promises of the new

toan to memory. It is the first day of a new year, of a yet undeveloped course of time, To'the' future are committed our prosperity

year and its new hopes. T So whispers hope. So dream youth and age!" Arid yet oh beautiful future! of mirage of the desert! why is thy loveliness so , evanescent? 'Why do the rose tints of fancy fade so rjimly away in the dull, sober day of chill reality? Useless questions! 7; For, why does man dream, and hope," and long for something more enduring more beautiful, and moTe glorious , than he has yet possessed? Why if not because' there is a Great Fountain from' whose eternal current be shall yet slake his thirst for endless and illimitable happiness? And why on this day should not his soul: be in this thought erhbathed, and flooded, and freshened with immortal strength? 1 ; , '7 " ; " '.' 1 Ancf for 'thee j my country, is there no tiought to-day 2 . Hallowed by the martyr's blood, and consecrated by the patriot's aspirations, land of lieedom and of refuge, moihor of young nations and inheritor Of the holiest fame of history, there can be no festival of memory and hope' in which thou shall not share., 'Thou art consecrated by the deeds ot the past to the promises of the future, even -as was Samuel to the services of the Most High. Thou hast battled for freedom. Thou hastbuilt a light upon a high mountain1? for the nations, and we may see them hastening from darkness to thee. Oh country of my soul, oh land of my birth, ihe strong' in the virtues and radiant in the glory of thy youth forever! Thou art most glorious among the nations, let Thy voice be heard calliug them ' to the worship of peace! i - 4 " : r '.v- - So pray ive for onr country, and. yet it is not so. . We say not, we believe' not, that there isdarkness" upon her fair; fame, we would -cut. off our light hand ere it should

record the disgrace of our native land, but her banners float in hostile array and 1 her irumpclg sounJ.'a warlike ' call upon the (lams nf a sister republic". We pray ' that it may not be so long, but that shorify the land shall welcome back her gallant son3,: who went forth to battle for her" honor. "Our country should be aH apostle of peace among the nations. We look forward to the day when hor peaceful ' freedom shall be her proudest "pillar of strength," and her power like the brightening - sun calrnl brilliant, magnificently harmless. . "Oh fair young mother! On thy-broV ' bliallsita nobler grace than now-11' . Deep in the brightness of tbf sHea ' i ne mrouging years in giory rise, . ' ; And as they" 'fleet,':' " --V . !' '-,';'' ; Drop strength and riches "af thy feet.w ' year.' 1 his uay is consecraica lotiupcauu Memory, the regenerators ol lile May toe hopes of a coming year be slrrong aJ pure, anu tne mom.iries oi a past year juuu uu beautiful, on the next return cf this solemn anniversary. Lei ihe perishing jear, go richly laden argosy in down like some se tide of. time. Let hope garland hersell umiIi tlio momnrips t( i!u. nsst that she ma iiivu.v.... U1 ...y j - - j 1 be' lovlier and holier in her realizations. Let domestic life be pure, elevated, and self-sac-rihcuig, and public hie, nobic, ana oeauuiui. So shall ihe years pass on, like some long train of vestal virgins, consecrated to the religiousduty of keeping bright within our 1 . .1 1 1 .. c 11.... 1 . ...U - A I nenris 111c noiy nres 01 ioe uuu uuiv, shall each y ear be happier than the last, and the breath of morning petlume and trestien all life. ...... . Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot.' WASHINGTON",' Dec. 20, 184G.-' : The Washington Union of last evening copies a statement from my correspodence of a recent date, which has gone the rounds of the newspaper, pre??, reppecting the interview between Commodore Stewart and Mr. Polk in regard to the attempt to take the Castle St. Juan d'UIIoa, which statement I gave as it was given to me and says it 'does the President great injustice and de serves a positive contradiction" that "it is a mistake' "ihat: the President did not shift anv responsibility from his shoulders to those of Commodoie Sstewarr and that such is not the habit of the man, or the character of his administration." It is unfortunate for the official organ that in its zeal to deny charges against the adiii.ii.oi.uuuti,u. Ulu XTICSIUCUI Ol Ilia mum" mmiiiiv.j ...-j I I I ' 1 . I ....,.( , mnn have done, it has on several occasions stoutly denied, or dented by insinuation, what was .r....,,JJ n;or0Qllo known and moved to aiicio.u3 uui.v.-vi.j r I . I . UBL irue; I ,;il ni hpr sf.rt that the statement . .U ;.rm UtAon flommoilore - IvlalllC IU llic llllvl f i w wvmviu w - Stewart and President Polk, gave a full representalion ot the only ground assumed by the President and by the Commodore on the occasion referred to. Ihe readers ot my conespondence,! believe are not apt to find me making mtstatements. When I do err, the amende honorable shall be most prompt Iv made. . - .. Under the circumstances, the official organ must excuse my belief of the correctness of its declaration that the statement I gave, 3 il was given to mo, was ''positively a mislace.. , ii vommouoro oicwan !. :t u iiin Tiraa'iAant aa nnt consult him on the subject of his repairing lo tne. ouit ana exercising iug.c mfu n m , i- . .n and judgement asto whether the Castle at vera uruz snouia DeauacKeu r u auu.. . ill 1..J 4 .n

hp svq he nid not give me r res luem 10 uu- ... 1 , , j ne says ue uiu 1101 give mc Europe. A document had been drawn derstand. that although he had been long inl0'. L'U'uoc.. w"v ., ueiaiduu, mat ''"0 a 1 einmarw form for the President

... .1 r - 1 . the service, ana mere wee juuo. .u who won t oUd v do the duty and be proua of the honor, yet if he were to be ordered . .i ...uu ..oi, . - .... n J - togo out ana zaxe uA,, r,.rro u mmhi rfopm artfintu a 10 tne as. . V 0 ; j u:. .-t,- ;. ; newomagoana ao n s - . . - ommoaore Btewari w.i 1-, ' the contradiction of the official organlie be

lieved and the y correctioa of the "mistake" made without stint! .-, I., . But the organ boasjs that 'It -is not ' the habit of theman,?'for he President lo shift any YesponsibilityVrotn hisshouhiersj," or the character of his administration." f "Let as see how this is.' ..When Governor of .Tennessee, ' IVIrt Polk urged the immediate resumption of specie payments' by the Banks of that State. 'He had both branches of. the Legislature with" him'. ' It was well

, . o - -. 1 known that if the Banks; were compelled to j resume, the State. Bank and its "Branches, then under the "control of ftlr. Folk and his L'ocofoco friends, "would be forced into liquidation and the credit of the State thereby destroyed... " Therefore, whenever, a resolution Was olTered in ihe Legislature compelling "the Batiks to "resume, thef e would be found just Polk men enough voting with the Whigs to defeat the measure! At last the Whigs, knowing the demagogueism and insincerity ' of Mr. .Polk's ' recommendation, tool their opponents at their word audvbted for a resumption resolution, which was passed by both Houses! Here was pretty business! The Governor wa3 knowriJtot ber alarmed! His Executive oftice 'adjoined the Senate Chatnbeh ' A warm'consultatioit was held the next day the Senat.or.who was considered Mr. Polkas rriosl intimate and confidential friend and follower, ' moved and : carried a re-consideiatoiii' of the vote 'by whrch the resumption .resolution had been passed! That Senator Mr. Polk has "appointed Recorderjof the Geheral Land Office nn the Treasury Department.' In this attempt to get the Legislature" not to do,' through his agents aud stickers, what he had "preacHed and recommended it should do, was there no attempt on the part of 'Mr. Polk to "shift responsibility from his shoulders?" " - , When Mr. Polk bad been over the State abusing the Whigs for their ' efforts, ris . he cbargedj to levey a tax on ' Tea and CofTee, ond Judge Brown in looking over the J records found that Mr. Polk had himself voted more than once in Congress to'tax Tea and Coffee, aud'ogtiinst propositions to make them free articlesf did not Mr. Polk attempt lo. ex tricate bim'self 'by shifting the responsibility irom his.own shoulders lo.tnose of JWr. Verplank and his Committee? '; 1 ' An'd how has it been siuce he filled ihe Presidential Chait ? When the reports came lo hand, That General Taylor's command on the Rio Grande had probably been surrounded and defeated by the Mexicans, who made more than one attempt lo shift the 'responsi bility bf the disaster from ihe shoulders of the I not the ofiicTaTorgau recollect? ' Who, after 'declaring to: the" world and to Congress that aZZ Oregon belonged to the U. Slates, anil thai bur title to the ichole was clear and tinouestionab'e and should hot be smrendered, attempted to shift from his own 7.0j,erA j0, hose of the Senate the respon Ljfy 0'f .eventing to give lip one half, of I .1 . r. t.iT ...I,.. ...no i 7 mat lemioi y 1 - y uu woj n Anfi i.ow ;,;. wjti, regard to the hfgh-han-je(j measures',,! General Kearney and Com. g,ock,on w,c, the Whigs in Congress have . u . .1 e aaze if the people ? Did Mr. poik eveu lint lo Congress in his message, .;..,,!.,. mfi;isureg were not all entirely . . . . . . " right? Did he not rather sanction and enrf them? Well, now mark if in his reply ,Q Rjr (jarret( Davis' resolution on the subMeet, he does not attempt to "shift the respon sibihty from his own shoulders," by declaring that he never gave the olhcers in question orders, or authority, to do the half of what thev have done? "Such is not the habit ot the man, or the character of his administration," eh!" So it seems! ' - ' The tcply of Santa Anna to General Tay lor, respecting propositions for peace, must be highly flatteriug to Mr. Polk's ' sagacious diplomatic exploit, in bargaining with the treacherous Mexican to lei mm ana aimonie and the other Generals with them, have free pass through our blockade into Vera Cruz: a The Administration 13 about making a proposition lo Congress for an increase the regular army ot 1U,UUU men, and some more general officers, of course! The . - proposition has . already Ijeen sent by the War Department.' as I learn, to the P.mmillaoa Anil in nrlHilinn In I illll 1(11 W WUIUtlllllVbil. ..v. Muuit.vu i - . , . lne requisiuou tor nine additional regi mentsof volunteers, made the day after the nve rnimoii 1011 " p-i una ilnnlfilprt for tvn extra rea men! lllCll " ' O I . . - . , t i : ..-t - .u raiseo one ui reuj,yau, aim UB 1 . - T, VrLoi"ei in 11-" A strong effort is making by Mr. Buchanan Senator Cameron, and other Locofocos, oet the nomination of Mr. Andrew Beaumont as Commissioner of Public Buildings, reiec ted bv the Senate. . He is of the Van Buren and Henry Horn creed or clique. Mr. Buchanan thinks tne nominanon Drings no -am and comfort", to the Administration, and says Mr. Beaumont could not be elected a Constable by the people in any part of Pennsylvania where he was known! So goes "har monious democracy" Mr. Attorney General Clifford is a funny - ;f t. man.atall events, it be dosen t possess a ; A short time Uperabun danc .e of talents s nee. wueu 1110 vauuin was in session, tne - -- . : - . ffi;i :c.;,w,r ,t, . r e ., ' " ,"7-" r a VKll U U 1UI9 IIV . - - .-., - ,upnr.i P,m;i;(. 1 nptv mpmoer ui one ui ut , uumiva r -.,.. thfl Sovereign ' inter lu 'bi o . t 1 jk-kU.AInnnaAfan esiea upon er jnembers of the Cabin( . MW1.',11SH1W and iokiog about the affair. Mr. Clifford was observed to be walk "" "v'" .--0 -0 -- . down the room in a purturbed - whh hi3 hanrJ3 thrust deep into his - moou, wuu uio r

breeches pockets. " At" length he stalked boldly up to the- Presidebt and -said, r'Mr. Polk, it may "be "courtesy and custom to do thi3 thingj but were I President, I'll be if I would sign that document!" After this the new Attorney General of the United Slate seemed as is 1 reported id absolutely . "breathe freer and deeper.,: r.-r- v o " ;t ' - rs,.:;.'.,,.;,. POTOMAC,

POSTMASTER GENERAL'S ANNUAL - - ,4: t - 4 2 .;'--.- .' '.-!' The gross income under the cheap post age system,, for the year ending June 30tb, 1848, -was $3,4S7,193 -45. " The average yearly income for nine' "years, ending June 30, .18 i5, was 364,625 65 making the receipts uncleWthe new law. leas by S57,425.40 than nnder tbe old lawt '"'This diminution is traced in part to jDther cansea that: the reduction of postage'and for Jhfe remedy 'of -these it la recommended; . "( , f . That the law be so amended as to make the. single' letter weigh one quarter instead of the half ounce and written upon a single sheet of paper. ' r" ' ' - That the same powerbe given to the Post OiSce Department to prevent, a violation of its revenue laws, as is now given to the Secretary of Treasury against smugglers. . . t That all "letters passing over mail routes which relate to; the cargo,- bt. tree, when, thpy are ensealed, andsubjoat to the inspection of the post oilice agents, when fraud is suspected. And that the postage on newspapers be bo adjusted as to approach, more nearly the cost ot transportation and delivery, and be made, more equal. and justas between the publishers. This may be accomplished ' whhout ajiy r material interference with the policy of disseminating intclligende' among the people by their gcaeral. circulation. , : , ,N " . , t,x T .. - . The low postages on papers," without regard to size, weight, or the distance to" be laken, operate unfairly between the publishhrs 4 themselves, by enabling; those papers published in large commercial cities to com pete with the village press for circulation in heir respective localities, whtlsUhe sending papers, free, for 30 miles from the place uf publication, counteracts to sorce extent this advantage each alike unjust to the other, nd both unjust to the community, as the burden of both, is tlirown upon the Trea sury. , , . . . v , - As an act' of justice between the publishers themselves, the' rates of postago should be egulaled accordjngjcjJetzri apers over mail routes out of the mails; and as an act of justice to the community, these rates should be so high as lo cover any de-. ficiency which the reduced rates of postage on letters may make, so as to tender the income of the department equal to its expenditures. ' ' - Transient newspapers, or those sert by others than the publishers to the subscribers, as they are usually sent in lieu of letters, lould be rated higher than other newspaPers- ... ..'.. . All printed matter passing tnrougn mo mails should be prepaid and all letters be pre paid, or rated with double postage. , bomo suchamendmenlsof ihe Jaielaw are believed o be necessary to give the cheap postage system a lair trial by securing to the depart ment 11s legitimate revenues; ana 11 aaoptea by Congress il 13 confidently believed, from the reduction which have been maae m tne two sections already let to contract, and anticipated savings in the other two branches of the set vice, that there will be no need of a call upon the treasury for further aid, after ihe 1st of January, ISIS, when , llic whole service will be placed under the new law. .. An increase of the salaries ot deputy post- - masters is recommended, as they get a peicentage on the. receipts, which are greatly reduced under the present law for instance the -receipts in l8io at New York were $294, 51 1, and in 1816, but $192,091 ; and at Biltimore in. 1845, 84,600. and in 181G $42,033; " . : . : ' lie calls the attention of Congress, to the fact that a private express is run between Montgomery (Ala.) and Mobile, on the arrival at the former place of news by the steamers. ' ' ' ' . The contractors for the transportation' of the mails between New York and Bremen, by ocean, steamers, are rapidly progressing with the Construction of the first vessel, and but little doubt is entertained that the service will be commenced early in the spring: " It is proposed also to extend the line of foreign mails to oiher places. ' 4 " " ,. On the subject of the telegraph the Postmaster General recommends, for conclusive reasons, that the lines of telegraph should be owned and controlled ' by the Government, and il is to be hoped that Congress will approve this recommendation as no doubt nine 01 iijc ;lijic mil. . Under the authority given at the last ses sion ofCongress, an arrangement has been made with Messrs. Vail and Rogers, tl.e pnna "i.lti: cipal olhcers naving cnarge 01 tne line oetwenn Baltimore and Washington, by which it will be kept up until the 4th of March next, for its profits, and 'without any further calls upon the Treasury. ; ' ' - NATIONAL MUSEUM. ' - The identical hair that " suspended the sword over the head of Damocles. ' ' j . The trunk that the elephant trought into the ark. . ' ' , " ' ' . The handle of "Join's gourd." The identical cane that killed Abel: ' A piece ol the equinoctial line, (presented by Capt.Ccok.) A skein of the thread of life.. 1 ,! 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