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E WASHINGTON CITY. SUMOAV, APRIL. IO, 1MB. Business notice. AM Ifes OoetOQM of Rt Untoo noubMokmout.il. rtrw of the proposed OtuofO to tu terms, will bo onaduoted strtolJy on o oooh boots, oil j .? On Mt tt? ootlooOon of oiibeeri|iUoao for lbs Union ore dlsrua . tiuood. Mo poftaeulo ?Mould bo mode to Acenia oftor Ihlo doU, ox- j . opt tultr. W. C. Uoououb.y.. who 10 oulhortood to mote coltoclluoi In Doloworo, Moryjor-'^ood Vir*iuu. Tbwforegeoag oouoo to not inUudod lolocludo oaf ogenU or oolleeloro that wo mow employ or Mo to boroloforo employed to lb la city, bat those oat) who horo performed aoob terrice to other porta of the waoop. Ap W?tr mr- In consequence of changing the compotting room, and making sundry repair*, there will he no filter issued from this office on Tuesday morning. TO THE PUBLIC. Having disposed of the Union newspaper to Mr. Geo. W. Bowman, my connexion with it lias ceased. My relations to the paper during the period of my proprietorship, have been purely of a business nature ; its editorial management has been under the exclusive control of the gentlemen who retired from | the concern about two weeks ago. The books and papers belonging to the Union establishment have been placed in the hands of Mr. James M. Towers, No. 408 D street, near Seventh, who is fully authorized to collect all sums due on account of the paper. Having conducted the Union as a central democratic press at considerable pecuniary sacrifice to myself, I' may appeal with justice to those indebted to the concern promptly to remit the amount due to Mr. Towers, who is alone authorized to adjust the affairs of the office. I cannot close my connexion with the Union without tendering my sincere thanks to the subscribers of the paper for the support they have kindly accorded to it. C. WENDELL. Uniox Office, Washington, April 9,1859. BLACK REPUBLICANS AND AMERICANS. When the black republicans first organized, as a party, they professed to be too perfect to be content to associate with democrats or wliigs. Neither of theso time-honored parties were sufficiently profound and wise in theory or spotless in practice to be worthy of fellowship. They withdrew from old associations to unite in a new organization that should be free and pure and uncoutaminated by the heresies and wickedness of either. It is true that those who had been democrats claimed that they were Btill democrats, but had become purified, and those who had been wliigs claimed they were wliigs still, 1)11 i. hv llipir now nnnvArainn Viurl horntiiA an nArfucl that they were too good longer to dwell together in unity with their former associates. Both were just men made perfect. For a time they separated themselves from the world and professed abhorrence oi all outside barbarians. The Americans, who sought - to build up a party upon the theory of birth-place and religion, were especially condemned, as the greatest fanatics of the age, whose principles could never be tolerated. The war upon those heretics was severe and, apparently, never-ending. Tho Americans, when first organized, concealed their aims, within the dark recesses of lodge-rooms. By accident or treachery of some of tho initiated, their principles were promulgated. They were the antipodes of the republicans, and profossod the strongest repugnance to their political doctrines, and especially their admitted sectional basis of action. The great body of the Americans were found in tho southern States, and in that part af the Union they were mostly old-lino whigs. They wero professedly the deadly enemies of abolition and slavery agitation. At the North the same partisans assumed to act upon the same ground. They were too good and too perfect to fraternize with their former associates, or to mingle with the common herd of whigs and democrats. I Hut soon the koen observer discovered that a strong sympathy existed between the black republicans and Americans. When, in Congress they were soon found voting and acting together in perfect harmony. Their joint votes made Mr. llanks Speaker, and each party claimed him as a Simon 1'ure and indisputably its man and champion. The Congress precedent was soon followed in the different States, and at the present time they are acting everywhere with tho utmost cordiality. A small concession, even a nominal one, removes all obstacles, and n firm union is formed. For instance, in Massachu setts the black republicans have consented to prohibit a naturalized citizen frojn voting for two years - after he is otherwise qualified. This has satisfied the Americans, and in that State they form the tail to tho black-republican kite. In Now York Iosb has been yielded to them. They consent to come in and to go for Seward for President, abandoning Fill more, upon conditio? that a registry law should be passed. In New Jersey the Americans came in and helped the republicans to elect a senator in consideration of receiving certain State offices which they have not yet obtained and probably never will. In Pennsylvania the only condition of the union was that both should make a common light against a democratic administration, which was toopuro, just, and high-minded to suit the purposes of either. In Maryland the black republicans have been eminently successful in their tactics. At first, being few in number, they appeared to bo hewers of wood and carriers of water for the lordly Americans for nothiug. But it now turns out that the latter, seeing their prostrate condition, have agreed to fraternise with the black republicans and to unite with their cohorts for "the approaching campaign. At a recent Stato convention the Americans made proclamation by their resolutions, that they were ready to unite, for the future, with any and all parties who are not democratic, which means the Seward black republicans. All their past professions of abhorrence of hlack republicanism are abandoned. They are ready to repudiate all past professions and swallow any croed, urou umiiuun, m oruer to eecure n?ip u> noiom uio democracy, and plant themselves under a winning banner, evou though it should bo black. This is the trno condition of things with all the Americana, If wherever found. They have fused with the black g,, republicans wherever the latter have any strength, f and now those parties embrace each other with all |jl. tho cordiality of the moat affectionate brothers. Even the form of separate conventions will not bo long t continued. Both are the same In principle and practice. The distinction in name will soon cease to exist, and a new one will be conferred by common conscut that can be adopted in all parte of the Union. Those parties act upon the motto that "united wo taud, divided we fall." THK UKHOUMCKb or THK HOST OK KICK lCTAKT MJBN'l AO AIM. lu every community men are found who Hre ami speculate upon the necessities ami tears of their feh J lows. And the stronger these fCars and the greater , these necessities, the larger arc the demands they , make of their unfortunate victims. To increase their gains, these "Shylocks" themselves sow the seeds Of distrust, and create the apprehensions upon which ' they operate and from which their profits are derived. To expose such characters, and to guard an unsuspicious community against them, is a common duty, and he who performs it must he regarded as a public benefactor. We are induced to make those suggestions hy the Very remarkable coureo pursued by the correspondout of the Pennsylvania Inquirer, in respect to the Post Office Department. He assorted roundly some time since that the contractors for carrying the mails could not raise the funds to carry on the mail service. He insists, however, that he is correct, nevertheless asserting that the contractors have nothing more than a claim against the United States. About this we shall uot waste words, but merely remark that if, as is the fact, the contractors perform service for which the Postmaster General is authorised by law to contract the government is in law bound to pay them for it. If this does not constitute indebtedness, what in tlis name of common sense does ? As to tho legal obligation of the government to pay interest on these debts, until satisfied, wo would say that we have never admitted it, tho correspondent's assertion to the contrary notwithstanding. That there will be a strong equitable claim for payment of interest we are free to confess, being required to execute their contracts by an assignment or transfer of their accounts against the government. This position was so boldly assumed, and by one, too, presumed to know better, that it was well calculated to create distrust 011 the part of moneyed men, and so place the contractors at the inercy of speculators. Under those circumstances, we deemed it our duty, on the 2d inst., to call attention to the subject, and to state the law in the case as construed by tho government for the last six yearB, which is a direct contradiction of the allegations made by the Inquirer's correspondent. After a week's delay the correspondent replies to our article, and admits that we are correct as regards tho construction of the law. FROM OUR OH'N CORRESPONDENT. New York, (Friday night,) April 8, 1859. The almost certain prospect that the new chatter i which passed the house of assembly yesterday will pass the senate and become a law, is causing no little excite- < mcnt and indignation among the people here. A moruiug paper has very aptly entitled the proposed bill, "amendments to the charter for taking away the municipal rights of New York." There was a meeting of the democratic goneral committee last night in Tammany Hall, at which a long scries of resolutions was adopted by acclamation, denouncing in the strongest possible lan- 1 guage tho insidious attempt of the black-republican ma- I jority of the Albany legislature "to undermine our civic rights, curtail or abolish our municipal privileges, and, finally, deprive us of all practical voice in tho control and i direction of our own immediate affairs." Tho general I committee of the Mozart Hall democracy also met last . night, and among others passed the following resolution, ' from which you can form an adequate opinion of the gen- < oral indignation : t Ueiotml, That theso measures aro known as hills to am rani tho city 1 charter, to provide a registry law to rloprivo tho people of tho power I ol electing the inspectors and canvassers of elections, ami to mako special grants to Ctvorilu Individuals by which to lay rails and run cars without the content "f th corporation; each of Uicee acts, If pass cd,will contain principles utterly subversive of the rights to which wo have reforred, and against which we now protest lu the unmo or tho people and corporaUon of New York. I have known two or three renegade democrats who joined the black republicans within tho last year, who, when treated with contumely by ail honest men for their ' unprincipled treachery, have endeavored to defend them- 1 selves by boldly asserting that they were still "Jcfiersonian democrats," of the purest and most sterling stamp. I thought that this vociferous assertiou of devotion to tho great founder of republican democracy was the bom- ' ago mat conscious political infamy paid to the highest political virtue ; but it appears that 1 was mistaken. I now ' see that the abolitionists claim that Thomas Jefferson was "one of them," and " a determined opponent of hu- . man slavery," after the manner of Greeley, Checver, . Dryant, rt hoc gemu omnc. Tho fact that Mr George B. . Loiing, in his speech at the celebration of Jefferson's birthday at Salem, Massachusetts, omitted to muntion that " the Apostle of Liberty" was a nigger- worshipper , is mode a ground of grave complaint against hint by the . Evening Post; and the same journal takes Mr. Benjamin F. Hullett to task for his " sublime audacity" ill assert " ing that Jefferson recognised tho institution of domestic slavery. It is some palliation of the crime of Messrs. Loring and Ilnllett that most people in the United States . entertain tho settled conviction that Mr. Jefferson was , not an abolitionist, and that he fully recognised African , slavery as a perfectly legal institution wherever tho peo- , pic desired to adopt it. The Post would probably pardon the offenders, because wo cannot all Ire profound historians no more than we , can be poets, political renegades, or authors of stupid . books of travel, had not tho "audience gathered in New . England, and especially in the State of Massachusetts," actually listened and, what is far worse, "listened with patience" to "the logic" of tho above-named gentle- ,. men. To defeat a personal-liberty bill, and to listen , "with patience" to Jefferson's name being "lugged in , as an apologist, and defender'' of the ' 'social curse of his country," during the short space of seven days, and in the State of Massachusetts, is a sad sight. Another historical discovery which the Post has made, and which will strike most people by Its novelty, is that "the memorable ordinance of 1787 raised a perpetual barrier to the a progress of slavery." If the Post had snid that that "mem <n?ui. u.uiu?u uiniiuvviy amcnou mar congress ruui no power to prohibit slavery in the Territoiine, and that it j furnishes the amplest refutation of all the hlnek-republican dogmas, and is the strongest proof of tiro unoonstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, it would for onee have told the truth, historically and politically. Qrief i* bewildering in its effects, and the recent conduct of Massa chusetts must be lacerating to the foelings of the sensitive Tost. There is a very fair prospect that ere many days we shall hear officially that Commodore Vanderbilt has withdrawn the lM>ats which lie announced hU determination to lun in opposition to the Pacific Msil Steamship Company. The Commodore, who is always open to a certain species of convictions is more than likely to be oonvinced this time. The difference liotwecn him and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company have been referred to the arbitration of Moses Taylor and Koliort Minturn, and though it is not known in what precise form the settle meet will be made, it is generally believed that the Pacific Mail Company will not have any opposition. Their stock went up 51 per cent, since yesterday, and closed buoyantly at 85}. ADSITM. =5- ' f 1 V! J' IIXSS Purchase Of the YaCiit America bt an American.? The Paris correspondent of the New York Times writes that: " Mr. Leonard W. Jerome, of New York, !r bargaining for the purchase of the celebrated yacht. America, the conqueror at the World's Exhibition at London in 1851. Thw vncl.t ivnc tmnolit Mr Qt.U..1?1 her builder, l>jr lord De Klai|niern, who sold her to lord Templetown, who, in turn, sold her to the IfcMra. Pritchard, shipbuilders at North Fleet, on fhe Thames, two * miles alrtwe Oravesend. Lord Templetown mnl tho yacht , by accident, near tho yard of the Mobutu, i'rit hard, anil , It wan only after she had lain In that condition for some time, that she waa bought by these gentlemen. It ia . probable that the sum paid for her was insignificant, but , lord Templetown has asked for and obtained tho first , promise for purchase after she lias again been put in re pair. If Iiord Templetown does not insist upon the repurchase of the boat, aod it Is thought he will not, the Messrs. Prltelianl will accept the terms offered by Mr. Jerome. If trought by Mr. J. she will be taken back to < the United State*. " J ttOON NOTION Laws o* Tit* CwiTKrt St Am WaVy aug MaEum Count ? K yoat Ago We noticed the publication by Mr. J. K. OilIan, of the United (Mates Military Laws A?7C ?1848, and 1 we now take pleasure in announcing the sppearauce of ' the Laws United ?tales Navy and Marine Corps, 1776? | 1869, by J. W. Oaltan & A. W. Kuaseil, clerks reapecMve j ly of tire Military and Naval Cuihuiiltem of the United 1 States Senate. This work aeeios to have been compiled ' With great care, and it exhibits at a giant e all the laws ' Which have been, or are now lh existence, In relation to the Mary and the Marine- arranged in ohronologfcal order?with explanatory notes aud references, and the de>hl/?ia .J the N?i?ei? I j.?,t rnwu, nl Ik. ,.w?t I? portant acts, (M the neutrality, slave-trait kU, 4c. , 4c.) There was ao branch of federal law more necessary to be rescut-d from the confusion and expansion of the Statutes at Large than these, and this compilation of them evinces a close familiarity with these subjects, and doss much credit to Messrs Callan 4 Russell for judicious arrangement. Its accuracy and usefulness are attested by Chief Justice Tauey, by the Secretary of the Navy, 4c., by the Naval Committees ?f both houses of Cougress, and by 1 many officers of the military departments of the government. This is an octavo, 164 pages, from the press of Murphy 4 Co., Baltimore, on fine paper and handsomely bound in law style. This edition has been adopted by the departments as the text-book, lite price is $4. _ -THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. (From th* Provldnnoo (R. I.) nstly l*o?i, April 7 .J We publish returns this morning from all the towns j in the State, with the exception of New Bboreham. It I will be seen that the aggregate vote is very diminutive, j having grown "small by degrees and beautifully loss" as we have come down from the presidential contest of 1856. It is upwards of seven thousand smaller than it was at tluit election, and about four thousand smaller than it was iu 1852. It is Hafo to say that at this election at least ten thousuud men who might have voted, or might have been qualified to vote, took no part ia the election. It is also very safe to say that a very large majority of those are democrats. The quarrel in the opposi tion ranks brought the forces of that party, especially iu the eastern district, very generally into the field, while our own supposed weakness answered all the purjtoses of an opiate for our frieuds. The opposition, it will bo seen, have elected their gov ernor and attorney general, a majority in both brunches of the general assembly, and their candidate for Cougress in the western district. There is no choice of lieutenant governor or general treasurer, and the candidate of the united party for attorney general loses his election by ineligibility to the office, having neglected to pay his personal-property tax in time to qualify himself as an elector. The (tarty in this city discoverer! his lack of qualification on Saturday last; but they very cunningly kept the mat ter a profound secret, Have in one or two towns, where the name of Charles Hart was substituted on the ticket The understanding with them now is that, the electors having voted for him in good faith, their votes will be counted against mo democratic candidate, ana tno ciec- 1 tion will thus bo sent to tho grand cornmitteo. There i the name of Mr. Hurt will make its appearance, and he, * as one of the two persons having the highest number of I votes, will be elected. s The American republicans, it will be seen, have failed, i by a luck of volet, to elect their candidate for lieutenant t governor, their candidate for general treasurer, their can didute for Congress in the eastern district, and their can didates for senators and representatives in this city. In tiiese crises there is no choice. In other instances of fail uro the democrats have triumphed. t The majority against Mr. Saunders, tho American re H publican candldute for lieutenant governor is 1,532. The . majority against Mr. Parker for treasurer, is in the same neighborhood. The majority against Mr. Robinson for K Congress is 165 ; and the majority against the candidates ' for senator and representatives from this city falls but 1 little short t- 300. The democrats have gained one senator and one ropre- , tentative in Exeter ; one senator and one representative , in Charleston ; two representatives in Newport, two in ; ] Johnston, one in East Greenwich, and ono in Coventry. I c 1'hey have lost nothing. Their total gains are two sen ; { iters and eiglit representatives. With a vote small i iuough to be disgraceful, tliey have at least accomplished < ill they hoped to accomplish, und perhaps we should say, | iomcthing more. , s i AMERICANS IN ENGLAND. \ The Washington correspondent of the Pennsylvania , inquirer, writing to that paper from England, says : j v ?' 1 owe England and the English people a debt of ! J1 gratit ude, which 1 must be allowed to take this opportu- | ' lity to acknowledge. It lias been the almost invariable > ustom of American travellers to complain of everything ! 11 English. Commencing with the custom-house officers at Liverpool or Southampton, everything has gone wrongly ' villi them on the railroads, at the hotels, in the streets, 1 md, in short, through ail their peregrinations nnd asso- J' nations. I know of no reason why I should bo an ex- j option to the general rule, and yet I have found noth- 'J ng to complain of or find fault with. From the moment ' placed my foot on English soil, at the landing stage of 1 Liverpool, until now that I am writing these lines, 1 " rave met with nothing but the extreroeat kindness, '' :ourtesy, and civility from alt classes of English society, rl iiHi my ouhuicsh iiu? muu^ut mc in uuiiMiL.fr nmi hii ^uiuch, toiu royality down to the humblest mechanic. Were 1 11 o leave the country to-day, I nhould do so without a ? ingle unpleasant memory. I havecomo to theconcliiHion n ,liat if an American comes here, and maintains the char- " icter and dignity of a gentleman, he will be sure to meet 'J rlth corresponding treatment. But if, on the other ? iand, ho puts on airs, and turns up his nose at every- 81 hing ho sees, lie lias no right to expect anything else 11 han a natural resentment, and an Englishman knows " tow to exhibit this quite nu well as any one else. England a ias sent to ofir shores a large number of visitors, whom a re stigmatize as 'cockneys,' but I am very much afraid hat we have also sent hither a corresponding class, who lave not only dene us no credit na a nation, but who c lave by their misrepresentations at home, aided in fost- 0 ring certair national prejudices against the mother '' ountry, which arc unjust to her and unworthy of us. ^o conclude this oxordlum, I love my native land with v he devotion of a sod, but I also love Englaud, for she >' ias opened her arms to me like a second mother.'' " i i o WILLIAM AND MARY COLLEGE. ? - rl [From the Richmond (Vs.) *n<iuirer, April S.j The Williamsburg 'Gazette" publishes the following " s the plan of the new College building, which has been P elected by the building committee : "The old walls will lie retained, hut the exterior and '' uterlor of the new structure will differ from those of the | ' Id. The new edifice, or rather the renewed edifice, will " iresent a front of one hundred and thirty six feet, which P rill bo relic veil by two towers of the Italian slyle of v xchitecturo. One of these towers will contain the Col- " ege bell, the ether will be used as an observatory. The ' wo side-views will present each a front of one hundred k root. The altitude of the now building will be much w ;reator than that of the old building. There will be no ^ lormltorics in the College, the faculty having recently * ' mrchased a house which affords ample accommodations | (1 or students. The interior of the College edifice will he I on venient. There will be six large lecture rooms, each >' i[Mining into nn office for a professor, and a laboratory k vhich will present all the m<xlern Improvemente. There ! 0 rill lie a spacious room for the library, ami two splendid * ociety halls The old chapel will be but little altered. 0 '"ortunate, indeed, is it that there will be no necessity h or disturbing the remains of the Illustrious doad that ro- 1 s Mxie within those venerated walls, and fortunate, imleed, j r' s it Uiat the flames did not so far impnir the strength of b my of the outside wails as to render them unfit for use ; * lenoe, the identity of the old building will be preserved, ' md thus not a single hallowed association of the past oat to old William anil Mary. The effect of the fire will b le only to make the appliances of the College adequate " o the demands of the day. It is with no little satisfac ; " ion tliat we contemplate the speedy erection of this beau- 8 iful building in this ancient city. It will undoubtedly 8 .- I.. II f.? tlw. f..ll l'nl|?<rA " I II I "" ' e rVwn.T Stw*kt SwKupiyo.? Mr Genio C. Scott, thi> man- [ nillinor of New York, a tat/* that, the sidewalks of Broad ray are still swept, day and evening, "with a hundred li housand yards of costly silks." He remarks that the ? >etter the quality of the silk the l>ettcr sweeper it makes, il noire antique being found to be much tatter than tnffe- b as and foulards do soic. These sweeping machim-s, hough rather costly, are, liko their wearers, very nmpU, elng merely, aara Mr. Scott, "thirty yards of right dol ar silk mounted on a retlrulate<l frame of whaletana and tael." i n . j 0 Seventy Are divorce rases are pending taforc the stt- ft ireme < ourt, now in session at Providence, lthode <1 aland. % mVTft CA&UMA Asa cVBA [|K I 1 (From Ik* New Or tan* fc.lT Delis, thick M J Whiie the ft iHnl wl? minority of the dornocn. uriubert ol (Vio|tm bin been exerting thuuieelvee to Sect ? measure uf the Kiwlnt practical consequence to ibe South, MM of thuM journal* which tor the hurt year tare atattmed to be the especial chain pioua of the admin sUwtion have distinguished themselves by a very siugu lar au4 untimely opi>uatUou The Char lis ton Mercury, which several timea took occasion to lecture this paper Cor iU refusal to merge IU Individuality .an J Ihrlepr u lent lupport of aoutht-rn rights and democratic principlaa, lute t ?u bee i vie Lit devotion to were party hum* and party irgaulaationa, has lately siguallaed itself by the in to unity jf ita hoetillty to the acquisition of Cuba. This is the wore remarkable in a (ournal which boasts of ita peculiar tidelity to the cauae of the South, and which lustiftwd ita oouventon to party by an appeal to the soundness of the present democratic adwluistiatiun K .......... .i.i.... ? ?i? ... ii? it- . *' ?" >'?? Wiiui, Uiwtt VUttU KiiUlUCt, tUU UUilllUI tration and Its democratic supporters hava shown attach incut to southern right* and aoutheru interests, it is in their asaloua advocacy of the acquisition of Cuba?a measure of far more practical importance than all the Fugitive-slave laws that ever were passed, or all the Supreme Court decisions that ever were tendered Yet it is this very measure, which would so vastly strengthen the position and extend the influence uf the South, that the Mercury whistle* down the wind, pooh pooh* as au ah rurdity, denounces as a humbug, and ridicules as a pretence. And all this time the Mercury Is calling on the iiouth to uulte, to arm herself against Irresistible assault, nUd to prepare for the terrible crista so long approaching, and now clone upon us. The crisis, therefore, not only still lives, but is more intensely vital than ever? at least, so tire Mercury tells us. In 1880 the South and the North are to be arrayed against each other in deadly oonteat ; the battle of the lections is then to be fought for the last time, and its istue Is to be decisive of our fate. So let it lie But can the Mercury explain on what rational principle it rejects t proposition whose effect, if realized, would be to itrcngthen the arms of the South for licit very uontcet ' if South Carolina and Virginia wish to keep the place they have to long tiaditionuily enjoyed as Icadcis of the dave States, why do they refuse to accept a relaforoe in sal which might reverse the Issue of the fight f Who will ;redlt South Carolina's lachrymose pietigureiuent of dc Feat, or believe she wishes anything but defeat, when she refuses her aid to a measure which enlists the earnest lupport of almost tire entire South, and which might reasonably be supposed to sc-cure out triumph in the reproaching struggle f She calls upon tiro South U unite in fierce resistance to the protective system, just s? f there wore ouy danger of division on that question, while at the same moment she denounces the only urea* ire of real utility and progress that has been proposed rtnoe the annexation of Texas. She will discover, pertaps, that when the South determines to figbt, the will iglit on a southern issue, aud not on a South Qaroliua isme. The great Southwest is weary of South Carolina crista, tnd broom-sedgo monopolies, and opposition to southern rxpanaiou. Tire slave States of the Mississippi valley lave rights and Interests juat as important as the Aliunde slave States?rights and interests which involve the extension and security of that very Institution of slavery vhich South Carolina and Virginia always proclaim to tx n peril, yet always refuse to strengthen arid extend. Ami ve tell the Mercury, moreover, that while wo are op loscd to paying tribute to New England manufacturer? tnd Pennsylvania iron-masters, the time is also coming when wo will equally resist tiro impositions and selfish ixactiona of the eastern slave States. ARAB FELICITY. Travelling in the East is no child's piny ; an indonii able will and a good constitution arc essential requires. The pretty, sentimental notions of golden Bands tnd sparkling waters, picked up in our childhood, are issodily dissipated under drenching rains, burning sun, md pinching night fronts. Lot us bear tho account of a ravellcr : We wore in a sorry plight when we reached tho lielouin encampment, and were politely met by the chief nun of the camp, who bade ua welcome to his t<yit low often in my youth have I dreamed of a Bedouin enlarapment, and imagined the rural simplicity and beauty >f such a life ! And then how Olney's Geography had reightened tho pleasing impression by its pretty picture >f little Arab children caressing a tamo horse, while tho patriarchal Arab, his wife, and daughter, were silting piietly at the teDt door atsunset, nnd scattered all arotiml srere camels reposing and colts gamboling ! Like other rleosing impressions of childhood, this, also, was disrobed by actual experience. The encampment which row gave us refuge w;is planted on a rich black soil, vhich, owing to the raiu and the trampling of human md bestial feet, had been converted into a muddy slough, 'he tents were low and black, and around each door were lirty children paddling in puddles, and snarling curs ighting over bones. Happily for us, our tent was on the outskirts, and, if brahim told the truth, was the largest and most regal in he whole encampment. It was just about fifteen feet ong by ten wide, made of goats' hair, and so low as rurdly to admit of our strnding upright. A huge fire lazed exactly in the centre, and the smoke was suffered o make its way out as it could, by the do irway, under ho edges of the tent, or through the gaps above. The nly way to keep from suffocating was to lie flat on our neks, which we did, with our feet to the fire, being arsnged like tho spokes of a wheel. We ourselves occupied nc half of the circle, our host, his wives and children, nd a great multitude of guests, attracted by curiosity, ocupying the other half, and choking up the doorway, bout which there was a continual tight for precedence, cside ourselves, tho tent was quite choked up with the ousehold and agricultural stuff of our rich host; and lie corner was entirely monopolized by a wicker encloure containing four very active calves, which required 11 the vigilance of our host's elder wlfo to keep them rithin their frail prison. Once, indeed, they did escape, ud rushed like a "thunderbolt" (as some writers say of ninety tnrougu uio scrrieu ran as oi speeuuors in mo oorway. Amid all these difficulties wo took our dinner, wliieb xcltcd the amazement of the crowd, and in the progress f which my only pair of boots were kicked into the lire y a careless spectator and burnt to a crisp. After this we spent the evening in talking over the nd entities of the day, and gossiping with our host's oiinger wife, who, jauntily dressed, seemed to have othiug to do hut sit and scrutinize us carefully. The ldcr wife was evidently the drudge, and what time she mid spare from watching the calves she spent in stiring vigorously her lord's broth. The question as to how and where wo were to sleep its a curious one. It was finally settled by an appronation to our exclusive use of half the space usually ocupied by the Arab and his family. They made their eds on the top of the household stuff, and we ours on lie top of the agricultural implements. As there was uly room for five in a row, closely packed, I was comelled to take my position at their feet., with a cart,'hccl for my pillow, and so subject to all the kicks diicli uneasy dreams are apt to produce. With my feet tuning iu the lire, and my head freezing, while the rain ept dripping into my face from the leaky roof, there ras no possibility of sleep, and so I had the whole night 0 observe what was going on about mo. All night long he wind kept howling dreadfully, and the rain poured own without ceasing. On one side of the fire, in the centre of the tent, driven 1 by stress of weather, stood a cow and a donkey, eeplng company with one of our muleteers, who had ntrrod surreptitiously and uninvited. On the other side it, our host, holt, upright . Whether this was in honor f us, or through suspicion of lis, I know not; but there o sot all night -never stirred from his place, and never lopt a wink. Now he would scratch himself very vigocnisly, (for fleas nbounded 0 now he would txiw his head r> the ground, and mumble his prayers ; now ho would tratch out his long nrins, and dip into ",e ki ttle of roth, and slap his stomach na ho tasted the savory xkI. And then the scratching, and bowing, and mutnling, and dipping, would he gone over uguiu in the Mine rder ; and no it wont on till dawn, when the older wife rose, lot out the calves, and tilling up an undressed goat kin with curds, l>egan to thrnah it. with a club a way ho hod of making butter. Thin, of ooiirae, waked up ay five kicking companions, and the long night woa nded. A atrange night it wok to your wakeful corres ondent, lying there listening to tlio rain and wind, and hinking how far ho woo from all civilisation, in a wild and, and among a wilder people. 1 thought of the Arah'e alt, and felt secure ; ! thought, mora of the good Provilence that wax over us, and was keeping im by night and 7 <i?y The great basso has got into a physical difficulty at 'incinnati. Messrs. Ansehuts, Hatter, and Thomas reused to perform at a Concert, to which, however they went, nd created a disl.wrlianoe, hut were ejected, In the oourse f which proceeding, Mr. Formes slapped Ansehuts in the ice. Formes, in a Card, subsequently stated that he id ao on accoar.t of Ansehuts using insulting expression's oward two unprotected ladira I.IEUtMbsjkl?a waoohmad mxredition [I'roui the < <?N*|>o<jAWi" ur l? North Ipk.. to.) GuMM, Havel, j Ran. ii,C.Aon AqWIa, N.W Mk.. r.b ?.] I will endeavor bow to mall* amend* for my neglect by writing you a l.rhg letter, and will try to comply with soihe of your various requests by giving an account of myaatf, and of the various adventures that have hoptoad to me and to the party. The date of your letter was the day after Christinas, nod 1 can aaaure you that, though ( I am very grateful to you for your Uud wiahaa respecting that day, It was anything hut a happy one I wrote home some time ago a partial account of our trip over the . plains, which I suppose was sent to you from W. I will not, therefore, give you any detailed account of what htppet?ad to us when we hint started from Fort Smith We were delayed in the beginning by our being obliged to wait for the escort, which did not leave Furt Smith for 1 a week after we took our departure. We started with but forty days full rations for our party, sad we very auou found that a great mistake had been made, for we had been out but twenty days wbea it was discovered that it would take us at least seventy ' days to reach Albuquerque, and as soon as the fact was ' i reported to " the chief," (Lieutenant Beale,) he directed 1 ( the coin mbleary sergeant to issue only Kilf ratnont In fu , tore. We soon found that what we had heard and read about 1 | the hardships that were sometimes to 1)0 endured lu a j i trip over the plains in winter time was in no resjieet ex- j aggerated, for 1 cau truly say that until then 1 had never , i conceived any idea of tits reality. Tbeeold was intense nearly the whole time, und we weie several times brought j to u halt by the severe "northers" and snow storius we i ; encountered. You cannot -imagine the severity of a j "norther" on the plains ; indeed, it would be folly to alterapt to describe it, for nettling hut experience could j give any one a proper idea of the truth. 1 will, however, : ' endeavor to describe one of the most severe that we met ; with. When we were almost twenty-live days on our route we struck the waters of the Washita river, and that evening cue .mped under a high bluir ou the bunks of the , 1 river, in the midst of a very heavy snow-storm. Soon 1 after we hud our tents up and our fires built the storm i increased in severity. It commenced to blow very hard, ; and at tire same time hail-stones of very large sire were mingled with the falling snow, j 1 do not think 1 ever experienced such cold as T did that night while on guard. My guard came on at ten o'clock and continued uutii twelve. Part of the time I was compelled to lie down on the ground to avoid being blown into the river, and 1 may safely say my two hours M i uied at least six. Wlran our "relief" came out we found that two of the guard were nearly dead with cold, ami I firmly believe thut if we had remained out two ! b"iui longer they never would have reached camp alive. , Hut we soon forgot all our sufferings when once more we crept beneath our blankets in our tents, and sleep gave us a temporary relief from our gloomy forebodings of what was in store for us ahead. The next morning when I j "camp ' was called, we found that the storm had, if any tiling, Increased iu severity, and as tbo animals had suffered so much during the night that they were hardly able to draw the wagons, "the chief *' concluded to remain i j quiet that day, fur tile purpose of giving them some 1 littic rest We passed nearly the whole day beneath the shelter of onr tents, doing little, if anything, and coni I grntulating ourselves that wo were not on the route, j During the next night the storm moderated, and when - ' the sun rose it shone in u sky without ti cloud. That I ' morning we made an early start, and by the time that j the sun Was on the horizon wo were on our route, i When we first started, we diverged from the river on to a slight Iy undulating prairie, covered with the grass i peculiar to this region, the tall, feathery tops of which were covered with tire snow, looking in the sunlight, as the breeze gently agitated them, like some vast lako of molten silver, and reminding me more of some descriptions in the Arabian Nights than anything that I can well imagine. I only wish 1 was ca|rable of giving you even a faint idea of the reality, for it was certainly the most beautiful sight it has ever been my good fortune to behold, and excited the admiration of everyone in the train as we proceeded onwards. However, we were not destined to enjoy it long, for soon some very ominouslooking clouds appeared in the northwest, and it was not a very great while beforo wc wero suffering "all the ills man's flesh is heir to" while journeying over the plains in winter time. I think 1 never saw a stranger sight than the npproach of that storm. First, to the northwest, was seen a dull grey mist gradually ascending, which soon covered the whole sky, giving everything a most sombre aspect, and making the mercury of our spirits fall far below the aero point in a very short time, boon after was seen piling up on the horizon bank after bank of dark, heavy clouds, interspersed here and there with those beautifully wliito clouds you some times see oil the breaking up of a snow storm at home, which continued for some time apparently stationary, while the breeze died | away, leaving everything quiet so far as the eye could see. In the morning the storm had been at our hacks, but in a little while there commenced blowing in our faces the coldest wind you can imagine, and it was not long before we hod a repetition of tlio weather of the previous week. o o o o e a o Klnco writing the above I have been unable to continue my letter, on account of my having been on a trip up the oonntry for the last two days. Several of us received an invitation, the other day, to a wedding at "Anton Chlco," which, as a matter of course, wo immediately accepted. It was not my first visit to the town, and therefore, as I had no curiosity to gratify, 1 very quietly settled myself down by the fire, with a box of cigars, &< ., by my side, and enjoyed myself us much as could Ik; expected under the circumstances. About 8 o'clock Lieut, it., witli whom I had been staying, enmo in the room and informed mc that If I wns anxious to see tlie cere i mony, we nau uener go over wi uie nousu. ronowing his suggestion, wc soon arrived at the resilience of the pair, and to our regret found that wo were too late, as it was intended that the twain should lie made one at the church. However, we consoled ourselves with the refreshments which we found in abundance, and before long we heard the approach of the happy Couple, preceded by music, and in a very short tiino the rooms were lilird with the guests, and almost immediately the dancing commenced. There was one tiling that surprised mo very much, when the bride first came into the room she was dressed entirely in black, with black ornnmonts. After the dancing had commenced she disappeared, hut shortly returned, and was then arrayed entirely In white, jewelry to match. She was a very pretty girl, very much like Miss 0 in appearance, only not so handsome, and reminded m? more of an American than any of tho women 1 have over since 1 have been in New Mexico. I must, confess that I have Is-en greatly disappointed in regurd to tho beauty in this country. 1 had expected to see the dark S|ianisli style in perfection, but found, to my surprise, that- very few of flu in could compare with the most ordinary looking of our American girls. I wish 1 1 could give yon an idea of tlreir darn ing, but as I am afraid that I cannot make myself understood, 1 will not attempt it. Waits is tho national dance, and the women are certainly the most graceful and the best waltzers I have ever seen. The step is different from tiist we dance at home, and at first I found it difficult, but soon caught l the time, and before long was able to get around the ! room without any mistakes Wo will be very busy for the next two or throo days I loading tire wagons and getting everything ready to con 1 I tinue on our route to the Colorado. We expect to leave | j here as soon as "the chief" returns from Santa Kc, and j ! we will leave Alhiimicraiifl en roulf. about the lirst of ; March. | THE CHARTER BLWOTtOlflX MOBMO AD | [From the Richmond (Va.j Kofrir^r, April ?,J The cxritinp: contest rlowM at fiun-tlown lent availing, in Monroe Ward, where, perhaps, never, on any similar occasion previously, has ho heavy a vote been polled no ! the present, amid the beet possible order. Yet the issue 1 shows that, though "opposition" proposes, right priuci pie d in poena; and the never-say-dle democracy, when 1 roused, will be found up ami Stirling. This civic elec ' tlon. in it* issue, tends to be the Index of a very |>oor show for Ooggin & Co. in Kichmond. Our party made no nominations for the contest; yet, when two democint* undertook to run for the two most important offices against two of the carefully selected and cherished pets of the opposition's "sweeping ticket," those two demo crat* have liecn gloriously victorious. For the ofiire of grain-measurer, Mr. Henry Davis, democrat, heat, the "well-beloved" of the opposition, Mr. , IT Myers, with a majority of 774 ! Hut to obtain the office of superintendent of gas works seemed to lie the grand test. The figures lie ' evening, at the elose of the polls, snnoiiDced Mr. Daniel Hagorty, democrat, as be. ; irig hnmty lim ahead of the opposition's greatest, of pets, Mr. John J. Fry. with "the position that the whole Kry family have sustained in the history of the whig party" emhlasoncd on his escutcheon, and heralded through the citv bv little "Gibraltar !" Verily, the "apposition," individually or oollectirely, j has or have been tmpnmng upon their disciples, like the veiled Mokanna did of yore on his too credulous foilow era I The adventures of Goggin k Co. will convince our renders of our foresight of coming events that cast their shadows hsfors. THE TWENTY SECOND Of FEBKUAH \ JN We tod Um following InUfriling article hueting * our ?rhaegar : H I lady who wee fnramt during Ihe ftwd'np nwewgll ill III n to theadd MB ei.1 lipiafel ?b<J bell, mm M with hun.en iol> iiigenoe and pn>| t.-wi pi eilMie, nag ?H liberty throughout the land, t? all the irthabttaali llenH, deaerihee the wwa* am ?i.r ut Vtaahrntftua wee aiaa?*4 ..eipllaiy omcgtto 17 iba pewer o# Me owe eewHewe Atoat wad Jeferaua. Krauk fin. HauiilUm. and their iaaaaurtal ouoaaaMeta, ourcrrg their turn awd wap* Mhe ehlMem. Whea the rob* <* H the gnat pet riot orawed W> he heard, to a oow?Meral.l> length of Uoae the puttied dlewui that wnul w* H broken oteh hp lutoaee leaethlac and aaapaweed d< Mre aim that there ? m4 adrv eye ie the hall What wee the weeet ?/ thte pewer t MA U arto from any u H Inurdtaary brUtoncr la the ptoduolk* tteell f WM It the effcjt of a epb udul enbiUUu.. of oratory 1 Waal,tog ton wee au orator la the pefialar eoeiplalW ef the term, H and hie eddreae wee rwe.l In the pUir.eet and elurplnt B manner Oratory, pre, It poweriaes, lie puw. r (ha In the euaatuai. iu the ueeuutaliona. the eulent. tl.eai.. rounding circumstances, arid iu Iht hmui uaiy as he Km ^B the power to interpret thcsa. 'Hie )iuluau iMrt U th? great orator, and that (limbs only lit unison with what U ^B frit to bo the true, and good. Mid beautiful, and great. I There ie uu peculiar brilliancy, ee mm reckon brilliancy, ^B in the great odd row. It is felt to lie riiuplv ttie imbodl ^B inent of the wimloui, the truthfulness arid Uhi experience ^B of a great father having iu view solely the bent good, B present and future, of all his children. In these ideas U found the source, the secret of iu charms, ever frrmh, ^B and ever gushing as from a living, exhausUees fountain ^B of sweet waters, lhe idea of the internal disinterested- H] ness, united to that of the wisdom of Washington ? ^B| wisdom that reached the utmost limits to which it is H permitted human wisdom to go, must tie held as the true ^B cause of the taliKinaiiic, irresistible cbniui with which hh ^B name is iuiporishably wrapped up. ' We iustiuctively feel that wh.it Washington says to us Bf is true, was intended, and will lie, If we practice In sc. ^B coidunce with his advice, for our best interests. Wa feel ^B that his motives were of the loftiest and beat that erei ^B swelled in a liuunm breast ; and we feel, also, that. In ^B addition to tills, his judgment was to nearly perfect that wo may safely repose In the correctness of hi* utter nice* ^B Hence we feel that we ought to be guided by his coun- ^B sol, ought reverently to treasure up, rouicinlier, make ^B part of our political and aociul natures, his maxims, hit ^B cautions, ids suggestions. We feel that in following in ^B the patli that ho points out tor us we are iu the safe path, ^B the path that leads to prosperity, proper peace, to true ^B greatness, to substantial glory. We feet thai he surveyed the whole field of our natiounl destiny, as far a? inor- ^B tol man is competent to do it ; that he presents to in the proper priuciples by which we should be governed ^B principles applicable to all occasions, befitting all circum- ^B stances, and that when, if ever, wo are tflspossd to depart from thcui, we may ho almost certain that we ore about ^B to depart from what we never should depart. Hf We feci that Providence bestowed upon Washington, ^B for great and glorious objects, a greater amount of good- ^B uess, sugacity, and wisdom that upon any inoi Lai sines ^B his day ; and, therefore, that whatever recalls to our ^B minds this transcendent wisdom, this matchless sagacity, this overflowing distil tercatoduoss, tliis ardent desire fur IB our welfare, has a direct and powerful tendency to B strengthen every correct impulse, to chasten and enlarge |fl our patriotism, to repress unhallowed principles, to recall ^B us to our duties, and to afford us the strongest motives ^B to perforin them honestly, thoroughly, and to the very ^B best of our abilities, shrinking from nothing that is right, ^B daring to oppose anything that is wrong. Henco the ^B utility of celebrating the aunual recurrence of his birth- ^B day. It is no idle remembrance?no useless observance. ^B 11 IN IUU Ol Slgllincaiice, 1(111 OI nope, lull U1 luuiciutin ui gOO(l. In tlie time upon which wo have fallen it in especially Hj incumbent upon uh, especially necessary for us, net only [H to celebrate with the enthusiasm of |iutriotic jubilation* flj the birth-day of our giyat patriot, ssge, mid prophet, but to recur constantly to his advice mid couiincIn. Every ^B patriot, the darker the clouds rimy lower, should hover more lovingly, with the greater veneration, humility, ^B mid firmness around his cradle and his grave, around the ^B hall consecrated by many memories precious, and inch dents glorious and salutary, hut by nothing better or ^B more useful than the delivery of the hist will and tots. ment to liis country. That is our political Hiblo (list H ought to lie read at the opening of every session of Coil- H gress, at every session of every legislature in the Union. Bj Its words ought to be printed in letters of gold upon the D walls of every State chamber and every council room. It Bj is a day thut calls, trumpet tongued, for a recurrence to Sg first principles, for u turning to the old paths, for search- ^B iug for the wisdom, the example of the fathers of therepublic. What said they, and how did they act in rm?r- ^B geneics tliat held tlie destinies of a nation, yet future, ^B balancing, as it were, iq>oii a liair ? With them what ^B principles triumphed ? In their b. sums, wiiat were (he ^B groat, controlling, overpowering motives T ^B The answer to these and a score of other questions will ^B couvey to us a healthy national sentiment, will coned |H tlie morbid cxtravagauccs and abominable dogmas of tho IB hour, and point out to the patriotic masses the grcst IB highway of nationality, of unity, of moderation, of un- |H sullied nnd unsuliiablo glory, in which tlieir feet should ^B travel, a solid phalanx incapable of deviating from the Hj line, and following the lead of the illustrious spiiil did Hj have passed over it and demonstrated its safety. uiri/fve i v irK W A TF.fi (Flora tlio Halliiuoro American | W "< 'leuniiness is the next thing to Godliness " Wo J Americans begin nt length to i relieve this good old iM maxim. Nowadays the gentleman who builds a house for himself or to rent to others would as soon think of / dispensing with a parlor or a front door a? with a bath- 'fl room. See at what coat pure water in supplied to all our H great cities, and how bathing houses for the public and H the poor begin to multiply. The Amerlean mind is keenly H alive to the fact that a clean skin, a clear , H iresh air, a plenty of ngreeultle work, a sound Htmim-li. Ij and a full pocket constitute all, or nearly all. lb " u jflj tiai elements of happiness here below, and go far hov e 11 securing hnppinoss hereafter. ? Perhaps we do not carry matters so far as Mr. Wnlkrr, f the hygeian humorist, who, after a thWougli oourse of & hatliing, declared that his skin was so clean that no iin- K purity should stick to it, and maintained that It was sn F absurdity to wash a face or a Is sly that, was of necessity If always clean. Still we have all liecome more or less ...n verted to the doctrine of practical hydropathy at home, trusting less to "water cures," arranged a It kapiktl, upon the system of friesnitts, than to the daily application of water, hot or cold, to the whole person, and under the direction of no doctor but our own common sense Of ' the hundreds and thousands of Americans who accord to water all the virtues claimed for it, the majority incline to water on mitnr.it;in preference to water heated or at all medicated. It is also well understood that the use of cold water must lie adapted to the strength of the constitution and its capacity to react upon the shock occasioned by iU application. With this restriction. It is generally held that cold water is beneficial alike to old and young, from the newly.bom infant to "the lean and slippered pantaloon," suns teeth, sans eyea, sans overythiDg. Very recently an entlroly new doctrine has been broach?d, and one of mm li Importance. An anonymous writer in the last number of the Democratic Age contends that eohl water is good enough in its way, bat that the fffix ts . of v Mvrfer ii()on the debilitated system are peculiar, and not ,,i,)y peculiar, but miraculous. Hotter still than i"' water Is the iff incited upon the naked person when the system is strong enough to bear It. He goes so far ?* ?< say "that ice, woll used, would prove not rv the physical regeneration or restoration of the world, yet it wouldeome nry ntnr it." The writer Is, beyond question, a man of ability. ? litr-rarv man, but no mere scribbler. a man 1 if the world, a mighty hnntei and fishermaii, a prnelle-rl m e (Lr Irises his roiielnsioii-i not upon closet s|S-<-iilatlei. up-'ii his .in, |M-rs<>nal. long continued experience U M tacked with pneutnonla, sallivated, broken down In roti- H titiiiion. subject f,, hemoriliagcs from the lungs ' jH Lion totally deraneerl rhenmalic and neuralgic, he fried in v.iia tho remediea prenrribed by Anieriran phyrician?, the cffccta of foreign travel, the mmt rigid diet, and the UOM careful and ayatematic liatiita of life The m?t mied plivahuana of lavidon I'aria. <?mioe, Milan, F1"i j mee, Piaa, and Rome, onId do him no good H'? ftr?t atep towards restoration began with the uw ( the eponi'" I wit 11 ..f Id water immediately after . Liner out of (>od After trj Ing thia foraome time with only :.nk|< rate d*i:o f benefit, he bereme "convinced by ? l.w i In nornl nnnlvaia of ?? <?, that it contains I within teolf a power of im|*rtinR phi a)e*l vitality poaaewd br <bint !- ' It-ginning with a lump of iee the > ' I wainnt in a Imwl of water, bit inereaaed the quantity m'il nt lengih he melted tire or *i? pound- ot i. ? "pin iris laxly every morning. I ilia little lump of i.-e had a . tie. 1. "inrtbi' old water never prndneod, and the ultimate remit war i.deed mat VI torn II- anted ixtv five po?Hid? ! raa re-lored not only to perfm t health, but to a state of rigorous energy, physical ati r ngth, vital pom. i, ; ' 1 .