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TIIE REPORTER. I O W A I Y WEDNESDAY, MAR. 0, 1853. MEnOCRATK: STATE TITKEt F*FT Blank County Warrants, just priniedon best quality paper, for »ale at this office. O-To correspondents —The poetical com munication of Miss 1\ is Tory respectfully de clined. It possesses many mm its of versifica tion and is indeed tinctured with true "Casta* lian dews" but wc do not bulievo it to be the liippimt effort of the •uflior'k muM. ID" The Rev. C. C. Townscnd kindly handed u«, the other day, the two first numbers of a monthly periodical, entitled tho "Annals of a Western Missionary," and published at Cedar Rapids at $1,50 per nnnura. It is devoted to tl» insemination of Episcopal tenets and will 4ouhtle*s prove their aide and high-Joned champion. All who take an interest in this cause are respectfully invited to examine the publication before us. The Rev. Mr.Townscnd has cnconntercd the many difTicu'ties and obstacles which univer sally attend an infant enterprise of this nature, and we trust that every one friendly to tho church will display that liberality which tho cause itself, as well as the untiling pcrsever. ance of the gentleman, justly demaiid. ID* Much interest prevails in the present qaartcrly meetings held at the Methodist Epic copal church in this city, under charge of the Rev Mr Corkhill. Aota Bent!—Viill the Muscatine Enquirer re member to credit us with what we deserve? An arfcle in the issue of March 5th, hended The Nominations," if we recollect aright, f.iirly belongs to us. But mistakes will occur IU the best regulated families,and !lie V.nquircr being very penitent, Tho sole drift of our purpose doth extend Not a frown further." We understand that J. H. Harney of the Louisville Democrat, left on tho 21d ult. with the intention of taking charge of the Washing ton Union as the administration organ. tv Senators Dodge, Jones and Soule, and the S .. HI in. Rnilrond Matters. Tliat the "Lyon# Iowa Railroad Company', are pushing forward their enterprise with a & R. H. 8YLVE3TFR, EDITORS. vigor and promptness, which betoken a mole than ordinary confidence in the practicability of lis acconipl'shmeiit, f.'c have no shadow of doubt. A gentleman of this city has kindly handed MS ro* COMMISMONr.il DES MOTN'r.R IMWrrjItXT, JOSIATI H. BONNEY. RER.rSTEft, GEORGE GILLASPY. Fo* ATT0n?f«r ftF.VElUt., DAVID C. CLOUD. rrir n. swvwir.n, isAnr authorized a letter received by him from one of the delegates at the recent Dewilt convent! n, of whichwe give thoextract below While at Dewitt 'some New Yorker came on in agent of th© Seymours, as ho understood, and subscribed $130,000 of the stock. The directors avow their intention of proceed ing immediately to survey and locate the road as far as Tipton and to commence grading and Agent for obtaining advertisements and sub- '18 buiIdi"s ,his §um,,M,r n,cir nnt 10 script ion*, nttd mnkini.'collections, in St Lnnis, know definitely what the Davenport folk* Mo. Office, corner of Second and Chesnut streets, over the Post Office. BLANK DEEDS. To us there has always seemed but one pos sible line to pursue, it Lyons the facilities for bridging are certainly not equalled at any other .point between Dubuque and St. Louis. There are bluffs across Wiiic a bridge -can bo thrown over onn Ion.died feet above high wa ter mark, and accessible from the cast by a grade of about 21) feet to the mile. O" The article of "Senex," in the last two nnmbers of the Republican, is very fine. Who e'er the author may be, he or she is doubtless a close observer of human nature and glowing Huena Vista, which is on an airline between Wi'h healthy thought. We are strong advocates of nst ire talent. Why do not others foliow the •Sample .if Senex Thence proceeding westward we find high nat'irul abutments on the Wapsi'pinicon at Lyons and (towers Ferry, as wu learn by a let ter in the last Muscatine Enquirer. At Gowers Ferry, as is well known to onr citizens geneia'ly.is tho most practicable cross ing ol the Cedar by all odds, and onlj 406 feet froiu bluff to bluff. Even the good citizens of Rochester we understand have finally acceeded to this idea. 1 hus far we feel bold to assert the Lyons company wi 1 see the necessity of making the above points. Ar.d that Iowa City shall then be cut off and left ingloriously by herself, is among the possibilities and not the probabili ties. if the Davenport road fhallbe constructed to this place, would it not,be better policy asks a writer in the Muscatine Enquirer, for the Ly mis company to make a depot or 6 miles north west of Iowa City,so as to curtail the immense Irado which is destined to flow in upon us from that quaiter? This is a generous suggestion— the writer is evidently "looking out for num ber one," but we fear he has missed it now. We be'ifvc in all sincerity, nnd having no interest at stake to prejudice our belief, that it would be more for the advantage of both roads to unite at this or some other point, than lo continue on westward thus nearly allied and with interests totally hostile. That nothing depends upon the support which our city shall render to the Lyons or any other company, it is folly to suppose.— That we, as a point are so inevitable—or as a commercial centre so inestimable to any rail road company, as necessarily to bccome the re cipients of railroad blessings, however listless, or indifferent, or illiberal we may be, it is still greater absurdity to suppose. Openhandcd effort—"material aid"—active influence—oil will trll in their due time and TTnn i,,,, ni,„„„ t- i i i season oven though five hundred capitalists lion, l-imi lioya,have our grateful arknowled? i i ,i .•-•«. men., for recent and viable document! I '"d'v,dually to shoul Among them we find the Pacific Railroad Bill and Council Bluffs pro .f II, p. I ijict- Ithout these, what right have we to of Air (JWinn and Senator Sonle s powerful .. an,l hril'i^n* .. »i v i 1 *x' favor or dcnounee tlieir and brilnnnt speech on the North American i TI March 1st, upon the 50th ballot, Wm. E.: CTThe "TKftcher and Western Educational i fished at St Louis and edited by II Ticc, So j1 eretary of the board of public schools N. B.—Merchants will p'ease notice the ad vertisement in another column, of Webster, Marsh ii Co., wholesale clothiers, 9'J Main-st, 8t Louis. 1 hey have everything on hand in the line of their busiuess, and we hclievo are honestly "drtermined not to be undersold." Editorial Corrtf'potulriicc. We give below part of a letter from our much respected Senior, dated. LIVKLASD Feb. 23d 185.1. tolerable curse to the people. They are lite rally overrun with all kiuds of tra*h buth for eign and domestic. Some of their banks are established in accordanco with the law, and •oaie in utter violation of it, and it will beim possible 4-Ven for good judges of moDey to de termine what is safe and wl.itt. is unsafe.— The only safe policy for the iarmeis and tttchanics of Iowa, ho labor fur what little Honey they have the privilege of handling, is Ml:rrjcct ult. If they pursue this course, every llnig t! ey have lo sell w ill find as ready sale •I' as high prices iu real money instead of the f*|ircgentative of money. And unless they do adopt this policy, experience has already prov ed since the Illinois Bank Law was passed, tkev will find themselves the frequeut victims of bank frauds. The Whigs of Ohio held theirState Conven tj|n yesterday. They refused all overtures on Hp part of the freesoilera to coa'esce. The ticket is rational—whig throughout—and eonipo' ed of a* good material ns they have Gib«jn of Stneca Co. fir the Bonrd of' *Fl*eu —Minnesota Pioneer. Fabllj works I. TTaidell of Koss Co and for I of the Supreme Csurt, F. Backus of igfyahoga Co. *Thi» puts the coa'ition which has been ap H|ihendod between the Whigs and Freesoilers, of the question, and secure* the election of «4i» •lit ire Democratic State ticket beyond con lwv*r*y. I AtW li to Washington to morrow night. J. C. 1 Pru8ent Proceed farther than Tipton until they intend to do-that is,as to their route westward. In this statement we have the most implicit reliance did we not, there is no earhly reason for doubting it. The facts are before us—a Corporation known to be energetic and rtspon hible has sprung into existence—the bail is rolling, and wc are all naturally anxious to as certain the direction it will take upon its west ward cour«e. 7 A ream of superior Blank Deeds just printed and for sate al this office. COUNTY WARRANTS. 1 w'" not his strongest competitor. thereof entire'y at their own doors. Individuals tell us of the "moral obligations" ITClava Hotel at Faiifield is well recoru- t.» the Davenport road, by which they are mended to the travelling public. |,ollllJ. 'fUe nature and extent of these obliga- tlo"S lf»gnzine is the title of a neat monthly pub ",a"-V in city. Terms $1,00 per anniun. that ID* Families aiKf^nerchants in want of any thing in the hardware and cutlery lino would «lo well to read the advertisement of P. Per ry 4 Co., PC Maiu street, 8t Louis, and act ac rording'y. ndiffert nee k i .• 1 lie bestowal of a favor impies a reciprocal Colonization and the Cuban question. I .- ,• ... obligation, and this is a principle of comuier E^hth Judicial District—Al the convention c'al courtesy, as marked as the courtesies of soc'n' X*ffiiigwell, well known to us as tho late Pre- march up to this work with open purses, and #i4i-nt of the Senate, was nominated Judge of j'' fine ly their expectations be disappointed, ths said district. Austiu Corbia, Erq was '''u?y ''f®- We truft that our ci'izens will ke compelled lo lay the occasion "rc '1 kllow" to There are la"»nli,bl«-''S'""-' nP this point, arC W,M Wo"d, at t,lc hidden mightiness of obligations which, they arc told supersede all our other railroad considerations. They cannot conceive of the mysterious es sence of obligations, so powerful as to pre clude them from lending a liberal support to another road, which, without that support, will inevitably so pass us as to sap an exceedingly important source of our present increasing prosperity, and becomo ten times more det rimental to the other road as well as actu ally disastrous to ourselves, than as if Iowa City should be /Aepoint or a point of their union. It is not unreasonable to suppose that the Davenport road may also cross tho Cedar at obiwer's Ferry, and this we conceive to be the reason for the present indefiniteness of the Ly ons road beyond Tipton aud not that it is oc casioned by fear of coming into contact with the Davenport road at Iowa City. As we said iu lust week's issue, we believe that Johuson county can "materially" and ad- "No person can travel through the State of Illinois without being-forcibly impressed with ll.« fact, that the encouragement given to the vautageously aid both roa^' wiihouUM istue of bank paper by the recently established promising her "moral obligations" on the one banking law of that State, is becoming an in- fc,nd. or sue rifle! no hand, or sacrificing valuable interests on the other. We understand that a force of five hundred men are to commence working upon the first, fif teen miles of the Lyons road in the coming A pril, aud that thorough surveys are to be made along the entire line. We also learn, but with how much assurance of its truth we know not, that a preliminary survey has been made from Davenport to Mus catine, and is making towards this city. DIED suddenly on Monday evening Mr WILLIAM II. TISNIB, an old gentleman kuowu long and well to the citicflis of this plucc and the State at large. WASHINGTON, February 2-1 Gen, PIERCS wil! take a private residence during the spring and summer, until the exec utive mansion is rendered more comfortable. Fuller's condition is much improved, and chances are in favor of his recovery. HOST. Gio. W. JONIS—The vote by which tkc Stau They nominated tor Governor, this faithful public servant and consistent Unison Birrorn of Highland CJ., for Liei t. democrat was re-clected to the Senate of the (forerncr, Ifaac J. Al'en of Kich'aiiil Co. for United States is a most thorough and complete 8lnte Treasurer,Mr. Brac!:ell of Hamilton Co reproof to tho«e unprincipled disorganiters, for Secretary uf State. Mr Van Voris of Pick- assuming the garb of democracy hoped g»ny CV. (I think.) for Attorney General, W. more effectually to satisfy their malignant Paxaxo, FIB. 2 Le.rers frotn Greytown say there is ditficu'ty between citizens and Yande."bildt,at Nicaraga the former deinandt-d the companies depot to be removed from town, and otherwi«e threat ened to dcmolikh it. They purchased cannon and ammunition to force their demand. Bald win, the Ageui, was arrested for using threat iiing language, but finally gave bail, and was released. Tchitaiitrpec. The "Tehuiintepec grant" is a matter con cerning which there has been considerable dis cussion wiihiu the past few years, but a dis cussion that has been principally confined to political circles. It is in lealitv aq'iestion of high national importance and on« of which we will attempt a comprehensive outline from its origin to the flbeurity in which it has latterly beer, involved. The discovery of California awakened per haps more than any other event of tho age, the idea of securing tho speediest access to our Pacific shores,and the i&thmus of Tehuantepec stood foremost as a feasible and direct com munication from shore to shore. This isth mus is the. narrowest portion of the empire, or republic, or nnarcliy as it may with more pro priety be called, of Mexico, and so far attracted the notice even of that unstable government,that under the domination of Santa Anna in 1"42, a grant of the right of way was made to a Mexi can citizcn named G.iray. lie caused th"* route to be surveyed and specifications made of its coursu and practicability. According to his estimates the entire height of land to be over come is only G50 feet aud the distanco between navigable waters only 115 miles. In 1£-18, Uaray assigned his grant tocertain Englishmen residing in Mexico, as by its terms he was fully author.zcd to do. These gentlemen in 1^41) assigned the ?ainc to an American named llurgous, who caused new surveys to be made and was actually engaged in the prosecution of the work, wJieti arose one of those untoward circumstance-which are apt to attend a connection with a government so wavering aud capricious.as that of Mexico, which has temporarily and di-astrously to American interests, suspended the prosecution of the project. By solemn convention in 1851, Mexico and the United States mutually pledged themselves to the protection of this right ot way aud of those upon whom its privileges had fallen, but •oon after upon some new change in her ad ministration, the former government furuially rejected the treaty, and the party then engaged in the work, after a great sacrifice of money aud labor, were driven from the isthmus tans ctnmonie. This high handed outrage gave rise to ac tiou in Congress during the last session which resulted merely in tho introduction of a report from the committee on Foreign Rela tions of which we give the extract below. "Rtsolced, (as the judgment of the Senate,) That in the present po-ture of the question on the grant ola right of way through the Terri tory of Mexico at the Intimitis of i'eliu i^lcpec conceded by that ltepubljj to one of its eiti zens, aud now the property of citizens of the United States, as the same is presented by the correspondence and documents accompanying the message i,|' the President of the United •States of I lie 'Jilli July, lcj'J, it is not compat ible with the digoily of this Government to prosecute the subject further by negotiation. "2. Should the Government of Mexico pro pose a renewal of such iiegotiation.it should bo acceded lo only upon distinct propositions from Mexico, uol incosistunt with thedeioands made by this Governm.cnt iu reference lo said giant. "3. That the Government of the United States stands committed to all its citizens to protect them in their rights, abroad as well as at home, within the sphere of its jurisdiction and shuuld Mexico, within a reasonable time, fall to reconsider her position concerning suid grant, it wiil then becomo the duty of this Government to review all existing relations with i hat Republic,and lo adopt such measures as will preserve the honor of lliecountry and the rights of its citizens. From the tone of the above resolutions and from the manifest injustice aud treachery of tho Mexican Governmental could hardly be ex pected that the United States would yield the breadth of a hair, in abiding by the grant aud its successive assignments, letter for letter, vithout fear or favor. We believe that Mexico will not persist in the imbecile effort to cheat lis of the privileges or wrest us from the obliga tions, conferred by her solemn act of conven- Sl tion. 'The latest intelligence which we have ou the subject, will be lound*in a brief despatch in another column, and the report given be low. Nxw OutrAjfS, Feb. 21.—The steamer Alaba trosshas arrived from Vera Cruz, briuging as passengers Mr. Albert Spicer, who is bearer of important dispatches to Washington, and also of the Tehuantt-pec contract, which has been awarded to Mr A. G. Slod, aud upon which $300,u00 have already been paid to tho Mexican government. Mr. Spicer left the city of Mexico on the lllli instant on which day commissioners left for the Isthmus to deliver the road to Mr. Sloo. The Co nmissioners had fo been appointed on the part of Mexico to treat with Judge Conkliu, the American min ister, relative to the neutrality and efficient protect on of the Isthmus. WR now feci a more than ordinary interest in this matter—not so much perhaps fronfft natural desire to compel Mexico to an obser vance of heroriginal voluntary stipulations.as iu view of other circumstances which are eith er robbing us of sacred privileges or indefi. nitely prolonging most desirable consumma tions. England, whose gaze has long been riveted upon tho isthmus of Darieu, has transferred from the brain of speculation to the arui of physical achievement, the scheme of uniting the oceans by a ship-canal. Our Pacific railroad project, so far a* the enterprise lies under the control of the Federal Governiuent.seeins fated to slumber yet a while longer. We tbereferc conceive that our deepest in terest rests upon the speedy prosecution and completion of a railway over the much renown ed and often mooted isthmus of Tehuantepec. Italian insurrection. IT® Very definite idea of the extent or res ilt oftliis late demonstration can be gathered from the loose and contradictory reports which have reached us. That the insurgents at Milan effected an entrance into the arsenal and put several Austrian officers to the sword, and that all communications were immediately inter cepted, leaving us in aggravating doubt, is the sum and substance of what we can yet rely upon. We all kuow that the Genius of Liberty in Europe is not "dead, but sleepeth." We are prepared at any moment for a renewal ofthose convulsive struggles for supremacy with which time and again, she has shaken the Continent. We also fervently hope that their renewal will be crowned with victory. But the next blow, struck for freedom there is destined to be a heavy one and we cannot yet believe that the recent movement is the signal for it? infliction. Mazzini and Hossuth and other ciioien champions it is folly to sup pose, have been leading lives of tame in ertness. Men proved to be such as they— whose swords have borne witness to the hero ism uf their tongues whose chequered lives of exultation in the enthusiastic outset and patient endurance under final adversity, hav« unerringly designated the gre!tt goal of their noble hoi»e»—could not shrink even from he fearful obstacles which are arrayed agaiust them. "immt E I O W A A I A E O i E Their retirement has unit .btedly been a s u i o u s e i e e y a v e n o o s s i o their earlier aspirations, and lave doubtless shaped out that^coursa of action, say will be conducted with that a*fal:i"'ion But to the worthy ^Ij^WlMiUiidingto the piovi-ion of the bill n i:fides to the President the designation t,i uitt tetmiui and general route of ttffe road, he says I have said that this is one of the best pro vision.s.of the till, and I re.lcratc it, because, with the lights which that hiMi officer w ill have before him when lie comes to ieti rmine tins momentous matter, lie will be much more likely to make the popcr designation t'an would Congress. Besides, sir, as a fast friend to this measure, one who is neither to be coaxed nor driven from its support, it is my solemn conviction,that upon the retention of this provision depends the life or death of the bill. You cannot fix the termini or route of this road in any bill,aiid then get Votes euough to pass it. As reasons for this assertion he assigns the nuinler and variety of routes proposed, all having their firm suppoiters and advocates, and continues Now, sir, these lines of route all have their supporteis aud advocates and it is not my province to assail or to disparage any one of them. But 1 have to say that, which I do ki ow. Fix any one of them arbitrarily and by name in any bill, either before or after any number of surveys and estimates, arid the friends of all the others fly from the support of the bill. Tl.ey will give forexcu-e that the route designated is tro far north, or too far south, to answer the great purposes of transit and commerce. It will be alleged th -At the Corps of Topographical Engineers, high as that corps deservedly stands iu public estima tion, by whom the surveys wil have been made, were governed by sectional or other im proper considerations and motives, and lo this there will be added many other excuses for opposition. But few, if any if the opponents will avow the true objection, which would be, that the road is not so located as to subserve the imniedia e local interests of the objecting member's Stale and constituency. Mark you The contention to which 1 now allude would be among the friends of the bill those friends whose voes ii! harmonious action are de manded for the success of the measure. Now, all who want a road can and do pull together, at heart fi the measure, and willui beinj run the ri-k of their favorite line of route "be ing selected by the President, as in his opin ion, the best one. llei.ee, 1 regard the amend mint of tin? S-nator from IVnti-yIvatiia [Mr Broadheadjas directed at the existence of the bill. I trust ihaWitwiU be ao. vi«wml by all the sincere friend* of this Krrat highway and that it might receive at their hands thai con demnation it so richly merits. I am perfectly satisfied that tl.e:e are several practicable routes and will, this conviction 1 am for pro gressing with :he read. 1 be ieve it to be the greatest question which nov concerns our na tion, and i wi«h lo commit the Government to its construction—ay. and beyond the possibili ty ot backing out—let the cost be double triple or quadruple the amount which the bill propo ses to appropriate. He considers the objections to the bill that it gives too much power to the Federal Execu tive as ill-founded, and refers to an iustance still fresh in our iyinds. In high party times, I remember, when such a power was confered upon the Prenident/with a view of facilitating the admission cfa State, the I hen opposition gravely asserted that it was giving to the Kxecutivu the power of ad mitting a new st ite: that it was a bold increase of Executive power and has shown how patronage. «fce. Time unfounded wire aud if this these apprehensions bill should pa-s. 1 feel that I I hazard but little ill sayii-that the same great arbiter will in like manner falsify the liigiibri ous predictions of its opponents, He touches in strong anil fearless language [upon the unwearying violence of Great Britain in looking out fur com.ucrcial advantages, openings and location?, on the American Con I tinent, as conlrastid with the too fiequnnt halting and hesitating upon our side of the wa i ter in measures of the most vital weight, The magnificent result* of this enterprise when consummated, the desirableness of our Oriental trade already rich and d'-zzling and the policy of banishing from the consideration of this measure.all local prejudices and selfish sectionalism, embrace nearlv the remainder of these elaborate and patriotic remarks. KKicnzr nfxmKr? •-«jw..a i which .-hall be strong in more mature del lieration and earnest forethought, than has been lavished upon nny former scheme for tli« disenthral- ment of European bondsmen. Their next es iron vigor which resolution under defeat,the discipline of stern experience, the ascertainment of new re sources, and a closer undeistan-Jing of their nature, alone can give. We do not believe their plan« arc yet ready for development. This Italian movement un doubtedly-arose from local circ-m-iancea and not from pre concerted and general understand ing. The proclamation of Mazzi.ii is probab ly genuine. Hu was iu a certain district of Switzerland at the time and fiolentiy oppos ed the rising, and it was not until he found that Austria.i tyranny had exasperated the Italians beyond the capacity endurance, that he leut his mighty name the cause.— Kossuth's proclamation is prob- 'ably brought forward with i^u^iuifor the effect which names of sue tfc'l: -manic power would undoubtedly exerWipoS 'h-' insurgents. Kossuth and Mazzini lu-re can you stay fnsurieclion when Austria tyranny is pressing Hungarian and Italian recks to the dust? We see by the following from the N. Y. Tribune, that th'- .-n:i .• ,\-i- army Italy has many di- .ljioi and a disadvantage in mediatc concentration of f»r*ot at a moment of emergency. While awaitii further intelligence,] *11 we can say is, Go pr osper the Hungarians and Italian* who ^lp to swell that'despotic le gion. If the Mila^se have finally succeeded, this blow will fait fith great hardship on the Aits trians. Thef are now Austrian sol diers if. LoiO'anly—l3,')Hi( of them in Mi an, Stl.tiOO iu thefor'iv-- of Aerona, G.i'K) iu Man tua, aud tharemain'U-r in small garrisons dis persed all o'er the country .and easily destroy ed by the nsurgents. J-.ight thousand out of the fifty ae Hungarians, an 1 four thousand Italians, tti army of about the same strength is di-porsf I through Tuscany, Modena, I'aruia, and the Runagna, but there the proportion of the ll»t!i!firians is nuuh stronger. Seuuter Dodge. In tie Senate, Febrary 19th, the Deficiency bill being under consideration, Senator Dodge took occasion to maki an earnest and elaborate deft nee of the Pacific railroad project, of which we have merely sp^c.- enough to present the leading features. Well m*y the greStWest be indignant at the tinjust treatment wj.cli she has received at the hands of the Gei ral Government. With good reason ifiay Ioyi connive herself to be the victim upon whan the acmi of that injus tice has fallen. *, But let it be remAbered, nnd to their last mg honor, that thaluwa delegation in Con gress have exerted |i our behalf every nerve aud sinew to the fuist extent of humnn ca pacity. They hav« feared no odds, shrunk from no responsibilities shunned no vexatious i their endeavors to and burdensome du secure for us that i .1 favor which wc, as one of the youngetl li.ildren in the confedera cy, are cut it ltd to Thank God the i v is nigh at hand,w hen nlluence aud p*wer in -a shall no longer boar us above the reach Jiuur rights, in (|e scales of an unequal justice, the preponderance other sections of the He conclude!! follows. The allusion of theSenator from Pennsylva nia [Mr Cooper] lo the fact that the road tnay run through Southern California and Texas, will not deter me from voting for the bill, nor sustaining the act of the President,if he should designate the most southern route spoken of, as in his judgment, the best for the nation. I iterate and reiterate that, for myself,I will vote for the road,although the line selected may not meet my individual preference. What Sena tor is so lost to a knowledge of the strong feel iligsof sectional and local attachment wich ex ist in every legislative body, as not to know that when you attempt to name the termini in your law, that you have either got to name all the {mints which are aspirants, or none, or de posit the power of selection with some dis interested tribunal? Now, sir,we can construct one great thorough fare which will cost much money,land, A time we cannot build u*o,much less /irc.to accomrno date aspiring cities and selfish localities. We must run llie ri-k choice, or never have a road. I have reflected Ion^ upon this subject and am well aware of the pent up local feeling which lies at the bottom of it. The only hope of success,in my poor judgment,is to deposit the power of designation in the hands of the Presi dent of the United States. Audi woulu just as soon, if the hi I1 could be passed to-day, in trust that power of selection to Millard Fill more as to Frank Pierce. Chief Justice Tan ey, or any one of his associates on the Supreme Bench, if we could impose the duty upoi) him or them, would answer my purpose quite as The officer who performs the duty, so well that he be a man of intelligence, character, and responsible position, is a matter of the most unimaginable consequence to me. I want the law in for tin- road upon the statute-book. Later IiifelliKenrc lie ported for the Miners K\press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. General Pierce is receiving calls of ceremony at his apartments at Willard's this morning, admitting one at a time. The rush is not great, as it is not generally kuown that he is ready to leccivc promiscuous visitors. WASHINGTON, March 1st. SENATE.—Huuter moved to take up civil and diplomatic bill which was agreed to by con sent. Mr. Rusk replied to the coast survey which bill with numerous amendments passed without being read. Bill also passed raising the salary of Assistant P. M. General to $3,000 and provides that they shall be appointed by the President. Question received on Mason's amendment to repeal all duties on railroad iron which Mr. Douglas had moved to amend by suspending it for three years instead of re pealing the duties. Ou motion civil and di plotmilic bill was taken up. Mr. Houston nioved to amend the bill authorizing the Sec'y of Treasury to refund to legal claimants for duties paid on imports consumed by fire in N. Y. in July 1^45 $300,000,and for the same de stroyed by fire in California $100,000, adopted. The Salary of the Vice President was increas ed lo 8,000. WASHINGTON, Thursday, Feb. 24. President Filmore and General Pierce visit ed the caloric ship Ericsson at A'cxandria this morning. They were accompanied by the Sec retary of the Navy, and the Secretariesof State and the Interior. Among the heads of the Na val Bureaus present were Commodore" Morris, Shubrick, Smith, and Sloat, Captains Wilkes, Ringgold, Maury, Sands and Powell, a»dsev eral other officers of the United States Navy.— Messrs. Burroughs, Goodenow and Penniman of the House committee on Naval Affairs Hon. T. Butler King, Hon. R. C. Winthrop, Mr. E. W. Sioiighton, Mr. J. O. Sargent, Mr. F. P. Blair, Mr. Ritclr'c, Mr. Thacekray, Mr. Wash ington Irving, and other gentlemen of scientif ic ami professional distinction, by invitation of the Secretary of the Navy. The President and the company embarked at the Navy Yard in the steamer Vixen,at half past II o'clock,and proceeded to the ship where they were received by the commander, Captain Lowber, and introduced to Captain Ericssou, who exhibited and exp'ained the invention partly by means of models and partly by the machinery in its practial operation, It is now universally admitted that the tri umphant success of the Ericsson settles the priuciple as an established fact, and the Sec tary of the Navy will at once recommend to Congress to make the appropriation necessary to build two first class Caloric ships for the Navy with screw propellers. The Naval gentlemen ou board were exceed ingly gratified, and expressed the warmest admiration of the ship, and her wonderful ma chinery. ICMr. King's health had not improved he himself despaired of his recovery. He had no interview with the Captain General in con sequence of a slight misunderstanding. Eti quelle forbids theCaptain General from paying his respects lo strangers, but in consequence of Mr. King's health, Canedo waived etiquette, and agreed to visit Mr. King at an appointed hour, but did not keep his promise. The next morning Mr. King addres-ed a note through American consul, reminding the Captain Gen eral of his failure to keep the appo:utment tl e latter immediately cal ed at the hotel, but Mr King was leaving for Matanzas, however, it is said, that a mutual interchange of cards took place. From the Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune France—The Amnesty—The Eni lress. 1 want the dol'ars anil the land voted. I want the Pres i,f the United States, through rti ioe#W, to obtain nil the information lie Ms may desire to enable him to decide the question of the termini and general route, and to put the road under contract as soon as his conve nience will allow. Revolution in Europe! Mazzini in Mwitzeiluiiil- Outbreak in Milan. NEW YORK, February 20. The Arabia has arrived with dates to the 12th. An insurrection occurred at Milan on the 6th and 8lh. The Austrians say the revolt was quelled and 300 patriots killed. The pa triots attacked the barracks, ar.d il is said mas sacred the garrison. The dispatch of the 8th says that order was entirely restored. Procla mations of Kossuth and Mazzini were posted and the latter has gone to Switzerland to watch the cour»c of events. Many arrests pre ceded the revolt, but accounts arc very vague. Risings are looked for elsewhere. Austria and France are sending troops to Lombardy and Rome respectively. The conflict at Milan was sharp and brief tho insurgents were mostly wilhout fire arms. The Turlin Gazette says, with respect to the insurrection,that about four hundred men with poignards, attacked the troops on Sunday, aud that there had been about three hundred kill" ed. Similar occurrences had taken place at Rimona, and similar movements had broken out in several towns of Lombardy. Further relative lo fhe Tehuan tepec Grant- The term of the grant of tho Tehuantepec route to Col. Sioo is for fifty years—the road to be finished within seven years—with the exclusive navigation of the Huasaculo river. The government is to receive $000,000 as a loan—$300,000 has been already paid, and bears interest at si* per cent. The whole to be ultimately repaid out of apart of the twen ty percent on the net profits accruing to the government. PARIS, Monday, Feb. 7, 1853. The number of persons embraced in the late measure of so-called amnesty amounts to 4,313. The list of their names fills forty columns of the double-sheet Montour issued Friday last. It docs nut toitain the names uf the exiled Gencfais, ncr those of the members of the Na tional Legislature, who were seized by armed force and sent out of the country, nnt only without form of trial, but without form of accu sation, by arbitrary order of the Saviour of France, the just and benevolent protector of law aud order, and religion. In laudiug the goodness of the imperial heart, displaye'd in this act of pardon, the adn'atjrs of the reign ing power, make no mention of the fourteen mouths of suffering which these four thousmd men and their families have endured, while awaiting the Emperor's marriage. After Louis Napoleon had utterly failed in his criminal at tempt at Boulogno to introduce civil war into a peaceful country and overthrow a regularly constituted Government, and had barely failed in his attempt to shoot an unarmed government ofticer who resisted him, he was allowed all tho advantages of a formal trial—time to pre pare his defence, confrontation of witnesses, the assistance of the ablest legal counsel in the realm, the privilege of speaking himself, and the advocacy before public opinion of certain journalists. -In the nris^n where he con fined, he was all^r«i^the attendance of Mi* vants, books, writing materials, and Within reasonable limitations, the privilege of corres ponding with his friends and with public jour nals. None of these rights, and few of these favors have been granted to the victims of the coup d'etat. Some of them have been treated with a severity that has destroyed their physi" cal health, subjected not only to the baleful in fluences of a hot climate, bad food and worse lodging, but to the petty tyranny of their keep ers. 11 is not strange, then, that in tin ir long ing to revisit their ruined homes, these men, broken in health and spirit, should have im plored pardon in the prescribed terms of sub mission. We have semi-official authority for saying that the pardons now so tardily granted have been asked for on those conditions. But the self humiliation of the victims would not alone have sufficed to move the generosity of the Emperor. Even yet in France there exists a sort rf mutilated public opinion, and that opinion has been latterly growing more and more articulate in its cry for mercy to the van quished. It was a motive of policy then that induced their conqueier to insist, against the advice of a portion of his ministers, on their partial liberutitn. They will of course live,on their return home, undel the eye and within the clutch of a vigilant poliece. There remain twelve hundred prisoners and exiles, who must look to the coronation festivities for the occasion of the commutation of their penalties. For their sake, let us hope that the late rumor of this ceremony occurring in April instead of May, is founded iu truth. A number of par dons are said to have been accorded to non political prisoners, at the request of the Em press. This-is quite probable all sorts of means are employed to create a favorable feel ing toward her, and the police are very active though not successful, in their endeavors to suppress the circulation of slanders on her good fame. I kuow an instance where the mistress of a washing-boat on the Seine, on a hint from the police, openly forbid the wash erwomen, oil penalty of losing tlieir places, to talk on political subjects of any kind, and did presently put on shore one of the sisterhood, whose indecent opinions of the Empress invol untarily oozed out of her. Caricatures repre senting the Empress with a cigar in her mouth, and obscene mots and couplets, more disgrace ful to the utterers of tlicni than to the object of their allusions, are in circulation. On the oilier hand, well intentioned lithographs, l.ear ing a general resemblance to young brides, young mothers, and young women at large, as seen on wooden clocks aud in the parlors of country taverns, and chcap medals with the effigies of the Empress, find a ready sale. From the Morning Chronicle. Effect of the Eiuperors Marriage. I have had opportunities of speaking on the subject to persons in almost every rank of soci ety, and the feeling everywhere is the same— that the marriage is, as regards Louis Napole on's popularity, a decided blunder, and that not so much from the inferiority in rank of the lady chosen, as from the particular choice made. No one is blinded as to the true motives which, if creditable to the virtue and firmness of the lady, are very differently looked upon as respects the geutleman. There is no end to the puns, conundrums, and quodihets to which iho affair has given rise. Paris is inun dated with them—circulatcd extensively by the still mure mischievous system of man uscript circulars pasted from hand to hand under the title of Noutelles a la Main and to be found in all public places. In the upper classes the disapprobation, even among the Bouapartists, is universal but this signifies little to Louis Napoleon, for he seems lohave set the upper ranks at defiance. Iluthe will think it perhaps of more importance, when he knows that the fame feeling pervades the working classes of society, it that it apj ears to have descended lower in the scale than on any former occasion. The coup d'etat of the 2d uf December had littlo effect on the ouerier, who considered it as merely a family quarrel among politicians, and therefore a matter with which he had nothing to do. But now the case is very different there is not a workmen in Paris that does not know every particular of the history of the marriage, who does not find some coarse joke to bandy on the occasion. In the army the effect has been deplorable, and, coming as it does after such freaks as the nom ination of civilians, like Napoleon Bonaparte to the rank of general of division, aud the pronotion of officers whose only services have been in the Palace of the Elysco, over the heads of their seniors, who have gained the laurels aud rank by years of service iu the field, has creatcd an irritation of which we have not yet seen the end. The only class of society which has not ex pressel disapprobation is the peasantry, and on them the marriage has hitherto made little impression, merely because they know little about it, so completely has all intelligence on political matters bccD suppressed in the coun try districts. Upon the whole, it may truly be said that, with the exception perhaps of the Orleans decrees, no single act of Louis Napoleon has given such general dissatisfac tion, or created so much distrust in that good sense and moderation for which people have hitherto given him undeserved credit. But if the marriage of the Emperor has crea ted a commotion among the public, it has raise#a complete storm in the Bonaparte fam ily itself, and the next heir to thw throne is said lo have expressed no small indignation at finding that his rights of inheritance to the great Emperor, which he considers as having teen already unjustly postponed, should be further endangered by the probable event of a direct heir. Leuis Napoleon himself seems to have taken en grippe all the persons who were in any way connected with his previous pro jects of marrying into princely families. The Duchess of Hamilton was the great mover in the negotlatien s for the Prinecss of Vasa The Duke and Duchess were last winter the most honored guests at the Elysee. In all the recent events they have been but little seen at llie uileries, but thatliille was just sufficient to show that something was wrong. To the dinner de futnille given ou the occasion of the proclamation of the Empire, their graces were not (if I am well informed) asked and at tho signing of the civil contract of marriage, the Duchess, being Princess of Baden, was invited to sign while the Duke, being only a Scotch nobleman,was omitted. The conjequence was that neither of them signed, and that her high ness the duchess left the Tuileriesin a huff Then, with respect to Prince Lucien Mural,that unwieldly gentleman was sent about two months ago to fhe Court of Hohenzolleru (one of those secondary houses which Napoleon now treats with such sovereign contempt,) to negotiate a mairiage between the Emperor and a princess of that family. The affair was a failure, and Prince Murat is punished by hav mg a slight put on a member of his family.— On the occasion of the dinner defamille above allmjpd to, Louis Napoleon with his own hand struck the name of Madamede Chassiron (Prince Murat's daughter) out of the list of guests. The groun.ftor tins exclusion was,thai Madame de Chassiron has married a gentle man, who though Very respectable, has the demerit of being a maitre des rtqurtet. Such a mesalliance greatly shocked the che/d etat on the day he was made an Emperor but it is to be hoped that it will be looked on with more 'iidulget.ee, now that the Emperor has follow ed the example, and made a mesalliance hiuj. self. But at all events, it has made no change in the attentions paid the family, for tho Chassirons were not invited to the civil riage. mar ICew Route to nlifornia—Unpar alleled Dispatch. We publish this morning news from Califor nia which is only nineteen days old. It comes by the new route via Aeapulco and Yera Cruz to New Orleans. The Postmaster General has executed a conlract for a semi monthly mail over this route, to go into operation at an early period probably by the first of May, and this is its first fruit. The news we now have,came by the regular Panama steamer Tennessee, which was boarded off Acapu'co by the agent of the new line, and .brought thence to Yera Cruz in five days, and thence to New Orleans by the Albatross. The contractors on this route propose to car ry the mails from New-(Veans to San Francis co in sixteen days,and'expect to furnish facili ties for carrying passengers across from Vera Cruz to Acapuico in less than four days. Tho success which has attended this first attempt to go over his line, shows that they have prob ably undertaken no more than they will be able to accomplish. The time occupied in this first effort having been but eighteen days. It is an achievement that speaks loudly for the en'erprize of the parties who have taken the contract.—Naw York Tribune. Wisconsin Schools. The annual reprrt of the Sta|.« Superinten dent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin is a very elaborate and interesting document. It refleefs much credit on Mr A. Ladd, ho Superintendent, and shows the schools to bo in a flourishing condition. Here we have tho basis of a healthy prosperity. We extract the following items The whole number of children between the age of four and the age of twenty, residing in the State, is 124.7&3. The total number of children who have at tended the public schools is estimated at90, 000. Tho whole amount of money received from all sourccB, is reported at $127,718,42. The amount of school money due and on hand, is $*-19,200,50. The university fund amount to $45,441,84. The w hole number of school houses in the State is 1,730. The uutnber erected the present year is 221. The amount of money expended for teachers' wages within the year is $105,062. The average- price paid throughout th* Stat* to male teachers, per month, is, $16,34, THE ERICSSON.—The following is the onlr news wo have yet received of the above ship on her trip from New York to the Potomac. She arrived at Alexandria, on the 2Jd inst. Capt, Lowber weighed anchor at Sandy Hook al half past 9 o'clock on Wednesday evening, and stood to the eastward in the face of a strong gale and heavy sea The ship stood the test boldly, her engines making 6J revolu tions per minute with the utmost regularity C'npt. Lowber them shaped his course for the Chesapeake and in going up the bay encoun tered a heavy snow storm. On approaching the mouth of the Potomac, the v. talhcr became so thick the pilot declined taking her any fur ther, and the ship came to anchor at tt o'clock on Saturday morning. The engines had then been in operation 73 hours without being stopped for a moment or requiring the sligh test adjustment. Only one fireman wag on at a time during the whole trip. The con sumption was under five tons for the twenty four hours. Capt. Sands, of the Navy, was on board, and is highly pleased with the result, and says he would willingly go to Australia in her.—Gal. Gazette. PARSIS, Feb. 15. Legislative chambers opened on the 15(h.— The Emperor, in person, in a speech, said bo had dccidcd to reduce the army to keep tho good understanding with Foreign powers, to prove to the most incredulous that tr/ien Franc* expressed hrr intentioas to remain at peace, sht must be believed strong enough not to be afraid. The Army is to be reduced to 20,000. Th* speech received great enthusiasm and produced a favorable effect on Bourse causing a rise in French reuts and manufactories throughout France. Foa ACSTUIJA.—A company of thirty young men have organized in Circleville, Ohio, for the purpose of a gold hunt iu Austrailia. It is to he hoped that they may be successful in realizing their dreams of the golden laud,and that they may every one return to the "city of the mouuds" with his pockct full of rocks."— They are all natives of Ohio.—Fairfield Led ger. SEBIOCS ACCIDXNT.—A young man named James Fosher, iu the employ of Frink, Walker & Co had his jaw shockingly fractured yes terday by a kick froui a burse. Several teeth were knocked out and his face badly bruised. He is al-the Eagle Hotel,and being under the treatment of a skillful surgeon, it IB hoped h* will soon recover.—Ledger.