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' ~ WASHINGTON:
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1853.
The President.
We elsewhere in our columns <|uote the
speeches delivered by President Piksck in ;
Philadelphia. The fotluwing despatch nar-j.
rates his progress yesterday:
Philadelphia, July ?'J p- t
V President Pierce, with his party, left Philadel- ^
H phia at 11 o'clock to-day, and was greeted at
Burlington and Bristol hv large throngs of peo- |
pie, and at Bordentown by Governor 1 ort. He ,
? 5? 11' Id In tlio nvn. '
? arrived at irenioiin nnn-fw * ? ?"?i,tw j
cession of the military the President rode on
horseback by the wide of the Governor, and was '
greeted by a national salute of twenty-one guns. *
Much enthusiasm prevailed, ile was conducted 1
to tile court-house, where many ladies were present,
and welcomed by Chief Justice Greene. 1
Speeches were made by the President and I
others. He left at 3 o'clock for Newark, where I
;g> ho passes the night, and departs for New York in |
the morning. He will proceed direct from the
boat to the palace. (
Foreign News.
The intelligence we this morning place be- 1
fore our readers is important, and is probably *
authentic. The Emperor of Russia has de- >
termined on avenging the insult offered him by 1
the Sublime Porte, who refused to accede to 1
his well-known deiuandk; and the work of tue- 1
diation must bo promptly commenced to arrest <
liitn in his ire. The present indications portend
a war of a sanguinary character.
From China we learn the success of the I
rebels, and infer their final triumph. 1
1
"The Cotton Metropolis." j
As the empire of England is built upon commerce
and manufactures, it has always seemed ,
strange that she should tamper with the production
of a staple which not only gives support
to a large number of her citizens employed
in its manufacture, but furnishes indirectly an ;
important demand for other products of English
labor and extensive employment for English (
shipping.
It has moreover been obvious that as the im- <
mediate consequence of abolishing American (
slavery would be a diminution or cessation of
the cotton product, the social disturbance ,
inseparable from an interruption in the em- ]
ployment of the English operatives employed ,
in the manufacture of cotton, would be as formidable
to the government of Great Britain as
the liberation of all the negro slaves would be
to the United States. With this material difference
in favor of the latter, there would be no
want of employment or of food on the part (
either of the manumitted negro or of the de- ]
spoiled master.
The moral proposition that the consumers or
manufacturers of a staple are as responsible for
its production as the grower, is sufficiently established
by the admitted fact that, if manufacture
and consumption should stop, produc
tion must of course terminate. Each of those
indispensable processes must contribute to the
continuance of the cotton culture, and the ces
sation of either would compel the abandonment
of the others. 1
Since then slavery could not exist without 1
the combined patronage of those great inter- 1
eats, which are jointly concerned in the advantages
of its employment and the evils of its '
abolition, we are not surprised that the weight I
of interests engaged in the two most important '
departments should have perceived that they '
were condemning the grower of cotton for em- 1
ploying a species of labor without which it /
cannot be produced to any advantage, when ^
they themselves participated in all those advantages
of that labor and were the direct a
cause of its employment. Not being willing "
therefore to subscribe a few cotton shirts and 1
chemises to the discouragement of slave labor, tj
and finding that house rent, bank dividends, ^
stock investments?that shipbuilding, and for- u
eign trade, wages and employment of mechan- m
lcsand laborers, ail depended more or less upon a
the production of Southern staples by slave labor,
they have wisely and honorably consented n
to bear their share of the responsibility, whatso "
ever it may be, for the moral wrong of slavery; ^
and have rebuked the ignorant or wicked fanatics
who would tear down the common foun- tj,
dations of a social fabric, though they be them- w
selves overwhelmed in its ruins. As we in ?1
tended to.affirm the proportion that the man- is
ufacturer and consumer arc dependent upon the o
continuance of slave culture for employment, b
and that the communities to which they be- '
long risk as much from the social disorganize
tion consequent upon its cessation as those 1
who employ it in production, we add an ex- 1
tract from a work recently published, descrip- '
tive of the great "Cotton Metropolis" of Eng- i
land.*
We will premise that the population oi England,
dependent directly or indirectly upon the
manufacture of cotton, is about one million;
that the annual product of cotton manufactures
is about 4170,000,000. We add a description
of the scale upon which business is done
amongst the cotton lords:
i nc j^renL i? 111 iinirmcr luercuani is indeed a
great man. To lie a leading |>er?on on Manchester
'change, your wealth rnuat be colossal, and your
judgment on matters of commercial politics profound.
You must have the nicest finger for 'feeling
the pulse of the market,' and you must watch
with the moat enlightened calculating power the ,
political and mercantile fluctuations and move- ,
incuts all over the world.
"The place to hoc the assembled industrial aristocracy
of Manchester is in the Exchange upon
Tuesdays at noon." "The taciturnity of the crowd i
at firststrikes you." "Why don't they speak out?"
"Hundreds of thousands of pounds change hands
in those broken words." "A cotton sale is soon
effected." "Yoii mav catch the words 'brand,'
'.Mary Jane bales,' three thousand pounds." "Eh?
Yes! Well done: and the agreement is concluded."
Bat all this wealth, all the business and
bastls, in the words of the master of a Manchester
school, "depend upon the engine."
Chambers's Expositor of Instructive and
Amuong Paper* I or sale bv Taylor fc Maury,
fc: V>
"Stop the ?mia?, ?nd you slop the wages, the
dinners, the feee-t|M>u stop every thing."
And then my *mhor:
"IV ishroudid| in^tany hearts end seething
in nighy beihw Ug tertible. froblm of k*c tt
chanm that the make rgg fortm? r?turM**
>pie?#ti M'fljgji and ne*lf-pu,phased ftalet,
10MW /*< eerrftcs, end /Ai spim$r?, and ttc Worm,
the pempiring foreheads, uiirf fkr working hands,
generally close their career us poor as when they
commenced it. In prosperous limes such querulous
speculations evaporate in mere empty musings
or noisy speech ideations; hut when a glut
_*oiues, [or a want of raw material,] when 110
>inoke pours from tlie tall chimneys, when the
jugine is motionless and cold, when there are 110
Saturday's wages, when the houses are stripped
tud the pawnbroker's cellars are full, when cliilIrtm
are crying for bread, and groups of idle men
gather thickly at the corners of the streets, then
nmes the time of exciteme nt and danger."
We need make no other comment upon this
ivowed dependence of social order in one coun
try upon the supply of raw material to be fur
lished by another, than the italics which we
Itave employed to mark the admission.
We prolong this article by stating that Man;hester
holds "nearly the highest place in the
melancholy returns of national mortality," the
tverage number of yearly deaths in English
:owns being one in forty-live; in Manchester
i is one out of thirty. The appalling fact is
mentioned that nearly one-halt the deaths are
those of children under five years of age?an
excess greater by twenty per cent, than the
average of the whole kingdom.
This extraordinary mortality amongst the infants
is attributed to an "institution" said to be
peculiar to cotton towns, and far more destructive
than the suttee, and as well worth correction
as opium-eating or infanticide in China. It
is the system of nursing by laudanum. This
practice is said to be superinduced by the necessities
of the parents, who are obliged to labor in
the mills, whilst their offspring, drugged into
insensibility, lie torpid until they return. As the
author attributes to it fourteen thousand deaths
annually above the proportion of mortality appropriate
to this class of population, we give a
description of the cu6toin in another column.
The only propriety in aUuding to it in this
:onnexion is to show that whilst so horrible a
state of want and vice and slavery exists in
England, fraught with such obvious political
zoneeqnencee, the friends and subjects of the
c.ngiisu guvciuuieut nau ueuer remove inese
domestic evils before tbey interfere with the
institutions of the United States.
Indeed, the relation between the cotton-bale,
the crown, and the mitre is more intimate
than many zealots may suppose; and however
odd it may seem, the same law which shall
deprive the widow Jones of the slates whose
labor has produced a iew bales of cotton for the
support of her children, may send Mrs. Victoria,
with a large and increasing family, to
seek in a foreign land a precarious support on
their own labor or the charity of others.
Stranger things have happeued from smaller
causes than those which now connect the gin,
the spindle, and the throne.
Chinese in California.
When Professor Stowe was called on to
specify some substitute for slavery, he gave
the sagacious opinion that Chinese laborers
night be introduced to greatx^d vantage in the
United States. From the opinion expressed
by the AUa Californian in regard to the employment
of the Celestials in that country, it
would seem very imprudent to rely upon them
"... ?n ?r.??...... ...i? -_J --
UI nil iuv vuk?uii| CJUgoi, luuauw, auu I IfC, SI
> resent produced by slave labor. The Calibrnion
seems to think the Chinese will not
0 for fellow-citizens:
"The length and breadth of popular sentiment
gainst them in California is as a wide gulf, Heprating
them more and more every day from the
ope of obtaining established rights and privileges
1 citizens in the State. The depth of degradaon
to which they are fallen in public opinion is
* the bottom of a deep pit, considerably beyond
io reach of means of extrication. They are
Link immeasurably lower than the native Indian,
in tbe estimation of the miners. Lower than
ie 1 icasts that prey upon the flesh of inferior aniiais;
for the bear, it. is said, will turn from tainted
leaf, whereas 'John' despises nothing of the
oeping or crawling kuid. Rats, lizards, mudrrapins,
rank and indigestible shell flsh, 'and
ich small deer,' have been, and continue to be,
ie food of the 'no ways particlar' Celestial,
here flour, beef, and bacon, and other fare suit!>lc
to the stomachs of 'white folk' abound. It
i not to be wondered at, therefore, that the habits
f the Chinese in California should excite ineffkle
disgust, and turn the stomach of the stoutest
inglo-Saxon."
Nor is it thought that they will answer for
tervants. They are said to be utterly unfit for
ind averse to those pursuits which the people
insist they could only be useful in filling. It
is said that at first "great hopes were enter1
tained by our citizens that the strange crea
' turcs, whose appearance in our streets was
' such a novelty, with their almond eyes, pen'
daut cues and curiously-cut nether teguments,
' would handsomely fill the active demand for
' domestics which has existed ever since Cali'
fornia became a State. But they seem to
' have failed entirely to answer this ardent ex4
pectation."
Many of them are good books; but "there is
' no other calling for which our citizens seem
' to think Chinese available, and probably were
' one created or selected, the clannish propen'
sities of the Celestials would be forever a
' drawback to their usefulness. They cannot
' be employed in the ordinary avocations of day
' laborers to advantage."
So Professor Stowv. will have to find some
other substitute, and "John" had better look
out lest the Caiifornians make a nigger of him?
if indeed he be fit for that.
Defeat ok tiie Maine Law in New York.?
The Tribune informs us that the Maine law wiik
defeated on Monday in the Assembly, upon a motion
that it be ordered to a third reading, by a
vote of 46 yeas to 52 nays. (>f the yeas, 22 are
Whigs, 23 Democrats, and one Independent. Of
the nays, five were Whigs and forty-srren Democrats.
All the meniliers from the city who were
present, being 13 the Hi, voter! against the
rending.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Washington, July 13, 1663.
"Brief let me bo." There is often much gos#ip
where there is little information, but uii?e is not
of that kind.
1 un assured that it in true that the laic excellent
letters of instructions to our diplomatic agents
abroad ere the products of the pen of the Assistant
ftecretary of State, Hon. A. Dudley Maim, tliun
whom there is no one better qualified to give directions
in such particulars.
It is astonishing how tranquil the office-seeker*
have become. They arc few and quiet in our
public places.
The Hon. Mr. Disney, of Ohio, is still among
us. I believe that he toobyught some land somewhere
seven years ago, which he is about to visit.
His friends, however, thought the whole Republic
seem unxious that lie shall fill the Speaker's
chair during the next Congress. The Democracy
can elect whom they please, and I have seen tliein
do much worse than choose such a mm as Disney
for this position.
There is sonic complaint aiuoug the friends of
the Administration in this city, proceeding from
the fact that the Secretary of the Interim- has con>,,.iu.i
il.~ .i? ,
w.u..vu u.c i?[n?uiniim:iii ui mc suoorumates <>i
certain district officers. If the charge is true it is
to be regretted. A different and far better usage
has heretofore prevailed. ZEKE.
[c'OMMtTVICATED.]
Dr. Stone's Bust of Chief Justice Taney.
To the Editor of the, Republic:
Sin: I cannot rid myself of the belief that the
citizens of Washington, aud especially the directors
of the press, have been extremely remiss in
Mecing aud noticing this admirable specimen of
sculpture. Those who liuve seen it, and the
number is quite small, pronounce it a work of the
highest order of art; it is not merely an excellent
likeness of the venerable Chief Justice, but it
l>ears the evidence of decided and marked genius;
the expression is truly life-like, and the usual
coldness and unnatural appearance of marble is
here replaced by a flesh-like look that I certainly
never saw elsewhere. But my object is not to
criticise the bust, merely to suggest that some of
our liberal-minded citizens should send this ueu.* .
evidence of American art and genius to the pa-1
lace at New York. The expense; would be comparatively
nothing, and the result, 1 feel assured,
would be most gratifying to our American pride;
for, amid all the display of genius there from Europe,
there will lie nothing superior to l)r.
Stone's bust. Will you, sir, see for yourself,
and, if convinced, second my suggestion? B.
[We have seen for ourselves, and have heretofore
expressed our views of this beautiful
production, which concur with those of our intelligent
correspondent. His suggestion is a
good one. and should be practically adopted.?Ku.
Rep.]
Seven and a Half Days from New York to
Liverpool.?The Pittsburgh Fost alludes to the
grand scheme of connecting New York with
Liverpool by railroad and steamers, so that
tlio trip can be made in about seven and a half
days, which seems likely to be accomplished
by railroad from New York city to the extreme
northeast point of Nova Scotia; thence by steamers
to Galway, in Irelund, a distance of only two
thousand miles; thence by railroad to Dublin, nnd
across the channel by steam to Liverpool?one
thousand miles of the distance by railroad, on
which the rate of speed is nearly four times as
great as by the fastest steamers. It has been heretofore
stated that some of the capitalists of Wall
street are pushing the work vigorously forward to
completion, while two of the heaviest London
houses have contracted for the building of steamers
to form the main part of the connexion. The
routl across Ireland will probably be finished
within the year.
When this ljjie is completed, the Post remarks,
it will tuke hut little over seven days from New
York to Liverpool; or uhout nine days from Pittsburgh
to London; and the expense of the trip will
of course be proportionately reduced. Trips to
Europe may soon become as common and as fashionable
as tliey now arc to Niagara Falls, or Saratoga
Springs, or Cape May.
United States Charge to Rome.?Our readers
have been informed that the citizens of Detroit,
without''respect to party or creed, on the
38th ultimo, invited Major Lewis Cass, Charge to
Rome, to a public dinner, as a testimony of re- i
sped for him as a distinguished citizen and as a
foreign minister. Major Cnss replied in an eloquent.
letter, declining the honor, and says that
under happier circumstances lie should have been
grantieu to rneci iiik dm neignnors anu tnenfls.
This in presumed to refer to a late bereavement in
his family. Major C. states that "whatever other
lesson may l?e learned hy the American resident i
abroad, he cannot fail to appreciate the value of '
our glorious institutions by the contrast which ;
meets and surrounds him from his first to his last '
step upon the soil of Europe; and he must return
to his country more proud of her past and her
present, and more hopeful of her future, hy the
knowledge he has acquired of the condition of the
I great body of the people in the Old World."
A Journey Round the World.?The English
papers tell us that a Swedish frigate arrived at
Plymouth, England, a few weeks since, from a
voyage round the world. She sailed from Sweden
in October, 1851, and, having touched at Rio
Janeiro and La Plata, passed through the Straits
of Magellan in February, 1852. Sailing circuitously
through the Pacific, sho visited Gallipagos,
Panama, the Sandwich Islands, Otahcite, San
Francisco, the Friendly Islands, and Sydney. She
was Ihcn steered towards the Indian Ocean.
Leaving Australia, she directed her course to the
Carolina*, the Ladronos, Canton, Manilla, Singapore,
Batavia, and the Mauritius. On the 20th
April, 1853, she reached the Cape of Good Hope.
Having sailed thence, she stretched away to St.
Helena. On the 4th of May she took her departure
from that island, and reached Plymouth on
the 8th of June.
v/olonizatiun l/ll. ul ki.m f. 1,1.1 t1rkv,
Tlic Rochester .Mrrrtiscr of the 11th instant says:
"The lecture of the Rev. Dr. Gurley last evening,
at the First Methodist Chapel. was replete
with interest, and was listened to with marked attention
l>y the large and respectable audience in
attendance. Those who listened to the lecture of
the colonization champion last evening could not
but concede to him honesty and sincerity of purpose,
nor resist the conviction that tlie friends of
colonization and their noble cause have been
grossly maligned, and must, be satisfied that if the
African race are ever elevated it must be through
the exertions of this truly patriotic and philanthropic
institution.
Rev. Dn. Ives.?The Ives affair has taken a
new phase. The Church Ihrald has boon furnished
with a letter, written by a meiiilxir of tin; Fpis'
copal church in North Carolina, to Rishop Green,
which states that "Mrs. Ives will return home
with her brother, Dr. Hobart, lie having received
notice from the Pope that Dr. Ives would Ik- ordained
priest in the summer, and could no longer
be considered her husband."
J n
A Well-merited Tribute.
From thr .llr.iuiidi iu GaztHt.
The Whig party have now 111 their ranks, notwithstanding
the ravages of death, ?o fatal to
them in the hnst few years, several distinguished
statesmen whose fame is national, ami whose
talents, acquirements, and experience entitle them
to the most respectful attention and kindest regards
of their |H>lilical brethren. Among these
we may, without being invidious, or depreciating
ill the least others whose names rise up before us,
mention Edward Everett, of Massachusetts, and
William C. Rives, of Virginia. Those gentlemen
are both an honor to their country and their party.
As safe counsellors, there arc 110 men in the United
Stutes more worthy to be trusted. Highly
?iliie:iteil. Mini with tine natural abilities, tliev en
tered public life to perforin the parts of stutenmcn,
and not mere party politicians. Tliey have been
students ever since?students of turn, of events, of
the political history of their own country, and of
the nations abroad. Tliey are now ripe with the
wisdom which knowledge and experience give to
intellect, uud imbued with the patriotism which
springs from a conviction of the superiority of the
institutions of their own land over those of foreign
countries. They have mingled with mankind at
home and abroad, and are now at their own residences,
satisfied that here is their highest earthly
happiness, and the grandest theatre for the exertions
of the mind of man.
Mr. Hives and Mr. Everett, although cultivated
in their intellects, are yet practical, strongminded
men. A11 their public speeches show
that ornament with them is secondary to substance.
The graces of oratory do not detract
from the strength of their arguments. The Corinthian
column is not the less solid and firm because
its proportions arc perfect and its capital
crowned with the beauty of art.
We class Mr. Everett and Mr. Rives together
because wc think in many traits they arc not dissimilar.
Of high characters, of dignified manners,
of conservative but not repressive views, of
diplomatic experience, ami of approved judgment,
they are alike. They are both accomplished
speakers, polished writers, and courteous debaters.
Wc repeat that their party and their
country may well lie proud of two such statesmen.
Tennessee.
The election of Governor, Representatives to
Oongross, and the Legislature will, take place in
icnnessee on me nrsi inursuay in rvugusi. ine
candidates for Congress arc as follows, the Whigs
in italics:
First District??1. G. IV at kins and Taylor.
Second District?Hon. William M. Churchwell
and Horace Jdaynard.
Third District?Samuel A. Smith and T. A'.
Vandyke.
Fourth District?E. L. Gardenhire and Hon.
H'illiam (Utllom.
Fifth District?George W. Jones?no opposition.
Sixth District?S. P. Allison and Felix K. Zollicoffer.
Seventh District?Thomas Barry and Charles
Ready.
Eighth District?Stephen C. Pavatt?no opposition.
.Yinth District?Em. Etliridgc?no opposition.
Tenth District?F. P. Stanton and E. M. Yager.
Signal Orders on Siiii-hoard.?English papers
describe an important innovation in the management
of the new and gigantic screw threedecker,
the Duke of Wellington. The introduction
of a telegraphic communication from the
poop to the engine-room has allowed the usual
commands of "stop her," "case her," "go ahead,"
kc., to be dispensed with. An index of figures is
placed on the top rail of the poop, and, being always
stationed there, the master is enabled to
work his orders to the engine-room silently and
effectively. This valuable improvement originated
with Captain Crispin, who has applied it to
practical purposes 011 board the royal yileht Victoria
and Albert.
Crime and Punishment.?In the course of an
editorial article, intended to show that it is the
certainty and not the severity of punishment
which is needed for the suppression of crime, the
Pittsburgh Commercial makes the following statement:
"In fifteen years, during which the annals of
crime in this county have l>cen stained by more
thaii fifty minders, a single instance of hanging
lias been affirmed by the Executive as the measures
of extreme penalty due; and there justice
was cheated of her victim by suicide.''
Sl'b-Makive Bi.astimg.?The New Haven
Courier of the 12th July says:
"We were yesterday afternoon afforded an opportunity
by Monsieur Maillefcrt to witness his
process of sub-marine blasting, by which he has
removed the dangerous Pot ltock from Hell-Gate,
and which ho is now using, under the authority
of the General Government, upon some of the
rocks in our harbor. The place of his operations
yesterday was what is called Middle Rock, about
a mile south of our lighthouse, where he fired
twelve charges in rapid succession, reducing the
height of the rock about one foot. The charges
of about one hundred and twenty-five pounds of
powder arc contained in canisters, and arc sunk
to the rock from a lioat. Connected with the canister
is a wire leading to the boat, and of sufficient
length to nllow it to lie rowed beyond the
effects of the explosions. When at a sufficient
distance a galvanic battery is applied, and the explosion
takes place, throwing up a magnificent
column of water some one hundred and fifty feet
in height, and accompanied by two distinct reports
like the noise of a cannon. The effect of
such a water-spout is most beautiful, resembling
a vast fountain suddenly thrown up, and almost
as suddenly melting away into spray. The operations
yesterday were very successful. Indeed,
Monsieur Maillefert has lully demonstrated the
nracticabilitv -of llis met hod of ri'mnviri(T mnilnn
rocks, and deserves all tlio encouragement the
Government is able to afford liiin. We understand
lie will continue his blasting every day at
high tide. To-morrow he will commence at
three o'clock, and on Wednesday at four p. m.
Persons who visit the place will be well rewarded
for their trouble. We were indebted to Monsieur
Maillofcrt for continual courtesies extended to us
during our visit, for which we return him our
thanks."
Trivi.s or Tkavkl.?Great Salt Lake City,
. Ipril It), 1853.?The mail left Sacramento on the
16th of March for this place; was taken to Hangtown
same day by stage; left next morning on a
pack animal for the head of the South Fork. About
forty miles from Hangtown the snow bccarho so
deep that our mule had to be sAit back, when it
became necessary to put the packs on our backs
from thence to Carson Vallev, (seventy miles distant,)
river the summit of the Sierra Nevada,
through snow-banks of twenty ami forty feet in
depth. With untriring eflbrt, and almost supcrhuman
endurance, we reached our post in Corson
on the 21st.
Mr. John Ncukwt, a graduate of the New j
York flrrald, and now editor of the San Francis- I
co Herald, finds that his editorial habits are sonic- 1
what troublesome in his new snhere. He lias al- i
ready been engaged in two duels, and in the last .
rencontre was badly wounded. The slashing sys- (
tein of conducting a newspaper is not tolerated in ]
the gallant State of California.
[,Vtto York Mirror. i
I teats.
David Clopton, State Righta, and Jake* Aaercromme,
Union, are the candidates for Con- n
gress in the Montgomery district of Alabama.
Genbbai. Scott, it in (bared, will Snot wholly
recover the use of his injured arm. He in at Went ?
Point. ^ 0
Mrs. Mary At wood, whose death in Boston *
wan imblnthed last week, at the advanced ago of t
84 years, w as the mother of Mrs. Harriet Newell, a
tliu celebrated pioneer missionary, whose life, services,
and character are su well know v throughout ^
the Christian world. tt
The Citizens of the town of Veazie, Me., in ti
town meeting, unanimously passed a resolve that
they would have no agent appointed for the sale ?
of liquors, and that the selectmen should not sell n
it, and unanimously instructed the selectmen and c
constables to prosecute for ever}' violation of the d
Maine law. "
Tick Portland *Wirrur bays that a gentleman has v
given #2,000 to Bowdoiu college to aid indigent |,
young men in getting an education. But no one r
is to derive any benefit from the same who uses c
either rum or tobacco. "
a
Mr. Jamkk Holmes died in Oswego, at the residence
of his son, Mr. Charles Holmes, on the s
27th ult., in the 99th year of his ago. Mr. H. 0
was a native of Sussex county, New Jersey, and P
participated in the battles of Monmouth, Ger- jmantown
and BrandyWinc.
Letters from the Hague bring the intelligence
that the Dutch government have determined to H
send to New York the war-steamer Amsterdam, I
containing some contributions from Holland for
the Crystal Pnlace. The Amsterdam is probably
now on her passage, and may be expected soon at
New York.
Mr. Jamf.s G. Murdoch, the popular actor, has
taken passuge in the steamer for California on
the 20th inst. Ho goes to the Pacific coast to
fulfil a lucrative engagement in San Francisco.
The Artesian Well at Montgomery, Alabama,
is 550 feet deep, and the auger is still
grinding in a rock?it now runs five gallons per
minute. So says the Times.
A Cow in Johnsville, Pennsylvania, in seven
days gave three hundred and seventy-five quarts
of milk, from which fourteen pounds of but ter
were churned. So the papers tell us; but six
gallons and three quarts at a milking is a little
too high a figure for belief.
The party of machinists from Boston, South
Boston, and vicinity, who are in the habit of
spending every winter in Cuba, engaged in running
the steam-engines on the various plantations,
returned home last week to spend the sum
mer in a more pleasant climate than the tropical
regions. Many of them have contracts for new
engines, which will he built at our machine-shops
during the coming three months, and when the
party return in September they will he taken on
and set up ready for the grinding season. It is thus
the Yankees get along.
The celebrated trotting inare "Lady Blanche"
died on Friday, while returning to New York
from the Union track, where she had been taking
her daily exercise. The "Lady" was twelity-six
years old, and her last race, a few weeks since,
was a surprising performance.
The Catholic Mirror says: "Among the female
converts to Roman Catholicism arc Mrs. Ripley,
well known lor her beautiful translation of the
"Glories of Mercy;" Mrs. Mctcalf, lady of Judge
Mctcalf, of Boston; Miss Macomb, daughter of
General Macomb; Miss Scott, daughter of Gcnoral
Scott; and Miss Dana, daughter of Richard
II. Dana, the poet."
The following toast was given at Watcrtown,
New Hampshire, on the 4th: "77ic Boston Teaparty?That
renowned sociable to which the j
guests went without invitation, and took their ten
without cream or sugar." The cream of this
joke would not have sufficed them. j
A Nkwspapkr before us is very severe on the
Maine law and "all other pharisaic deinonstra- (
tious," but contains in its columns the details of I
three inquests, one homicide and two sudden '
deaths, all resulting from drunkenness. An unlucky
coincidence.
The Scientific American says that teeth, in the c
forrii of purified white India-rubber, have been .j:
patented in England. It adds: The adhesion is ^
complete; it cau be moulded with perfection to i
suit every inequality of the gums and teeth, and c
supplies an artificial peroistum, as it were, to the *
teeth, when they become painful by the wasting j
away of the gum. Added to these is the elusti- ?
city of the material, which completely obviates r
the inconveniences that arise from any motion a
with artificial teeth made by other means. a
The Milwaukie Wisconsin (Democratic) ismak- ?
ing war upon the now Democratic postmaster of r
that city, and loudly demands his removal. i
Wc have just seen a man who complains of I
great distress from cholera-morbus. He ate hear- ^
tily of vegetables at dinner yesterday, and of ,
green fruit pies for a desert. At supper lie also i
ate a few cucumbers. And yet he is sick of
cholera-rnorbus. Is it not strange?
The largest salmon captured for many a year J
past out of the waters of the United Kingdom was f
taken a short time since from the river Tay, on j
the ostate of Uord Gray. This prodigious prize
weighed fifty-nine pounds, being three feet nine
inches in length, and one foot in diameter across
the shoulders. t
t
A Model Recommendation for Office.?The \
Knickerbocker for July contains a number of sjie- I
cimons of letters from office-seekers and their 1
friends. Wc copy one of the best from Mr. Twist 1
to Governor Marc}*, on behalf of a gentleman a
who is ready at any moment to die for his country t.
and a fat office: ]
"The bearer, Mr. Martin Van Burcn Phi pa, is s
an applicant for some easy office, and, I am happy v
to say, is an out-and-out Democrat. He voted c
\in ? >jn r.- o-n. ^ >ii - ?
*?? 1'uiuu 111 tu, iur i uik in 44, ana in 40, l
being somewhat puzzled with the claims of the y
contending factions, polled two votes, one lor Van n
Buren and one for Mr. Cass, evincing a spirit of e
conciliation and high-toned principle which puts n
to the blush all other compromise measures. Mr. f
Phips, 1 can truly say, is an active, energetic, and h
industrious Democrat, but is unable to discharge p
very many out-door duties, as lie is suffering un- p
der a physical disability, having, some two years d
since sprained his ankle badly. * * Tho eir- ji
cumstances attending this physical disability may u
not be uninteresting, as illustrative of the sterling b
Democracy inherent in the man. They arc these:
He was engaged with some young Democrats a
raising s hickory-pole. They had accomplished f
their object, and young Phips determined to place it
Ihc stars and stripes upon the top of the pole. For 1
this purpose ho commenced climbing; nut. alas! p
having arrived at the dizzy height often feet, the n
pole gave way, and he was hurled miserably upon tl
the earth, with a severe contusion upon the fleshy w
part of the leg, and with his left foot sprained n
terribly. Apparently not realizing the extent of h
Ihc injury, lie wavrd the tattered ensign over his tl
contused frame, and gave three hearty cheers for ii
James K. Polk. Such Democracy ought not to p
jo unrewarded; and I hope you will do able to n
place our unfortunate friend in some easy position di
where his physical disability will not. bo antagonistic
to his progressive Democracy." b<
I
m m
Th? PNgNM of tli* President.
Prom the Philadelphia papers of yesterday !
noralng we derive the following:
address or mk. Dallas.
Hearing tliat you intended, Mr. President, to
bit the Industrial Exhibition at New York, the
itizens of Philadelphia held a general meeting,
t which their Chief Magistrate presided, and
onuiiiMsioned us to receive you at Wilmington,
u hear to you the ussurance of their high respect,
nd to tender their cordial hospitalities.
The enlightened and patriotic population whom
{e have the honor to represent, cherish with zea 1
nd unanimity the Union; and while they arc
ware that, compatibly with the peculiar strucure
of the Federal ("Jovernment, the display of
lie power and fruits of ingenuity and labor, in 4
very department to which you are proceeding,
lay not be regarded as a national measure, they
evertlieless view with hearty approbation the
ountenance and encouragement which you are
isposed to give to it bv vour oersonal attendance
nd sympathy. . Such a stop is an earnest to all
/hu may bo present, and to the reflecting everywhere,
that the vaat constituency at whose
iead you have so recently been placed?the Ameican
people?if stern in maintaining the demarutioiiH
of" their political system, yet unite harnoniously
and fraternally in cultivating the solid
nd ornamental arts of prosperity and peaco.
It is, Mr. President, under the influence of this
entiment that the citizens of Philadelphia, with
ne accord, have deputed us to welcome your apiroacli,
and directed us to contribute in every
iracticable way to the comfort, safety, and aatisaction
of your journey.
REPLY OF PRESIDENT PIERCE.
I receive, with the deepest emotion, this oxpresion
through you, on the part of the citizens of
Philadelphia. I rejoice to hear you say, sir, that
t is with oue accord that I am welcomed among
rou. 1 know that my reception is to be the re:eption,
not of mo as an individual, but of me as
heir servant. And while 1 recognise that rela- I
ion, sir, I also recognise another, and shall alvays
feel that I am their representative?the reiresentativc
of their interests and their honor. I
ntend, sir, that neither shall suffer iu my keeping.
am obliged to you also, sir, for expressing your
ipprobation of this short absence from the peculiar
field of my duty. It was a matter of extreme
loubt with me, sir, what 1 ought to do; but 1 am
low satisfied that 1 came to the right conclusion,
lecause I have the approbation of the intelligent
:itizens of Philadelphia. [Lnthuxiastic cheering.]
During the few moments that we have been
ipon this storied Delaware, with the shores of
Pennsylvania on one hand and New Jersey on
.he other, is it not with you as it is with me, iinmssible
to bring your mind to dwell upon the
lopes of the future? My thoughts are involuntarily
turned back upon the past, and upon that
rreat and noble part which your State and your
htizens liore in the past, i do not suppose that
.here are twenty men here who have not, since
ye came on board this boat, had the thought to
jross their minds that in 1777, about sixty miles
ibove, the most remarkable movement occurred
>erhaps of the whole Revolution, one of such
larkness that when the clouds closed around our
fathers, and that army recrossed tho Delaware in
yinter, to march, leaving their blood upon every
foot-track of their way, and the effect of which
upheld the future which changed the aspect of
>ur hopes.
When upon these things I dwell at this 1110nent
with an unusual deal of fooling, I remember
ho cherished memories of the Revolution, the
sacrifices which were made for our liberties; the
jrivations, and toils, and trials, sir, which pur:hased
that glorious Union of which you have
ipoken, will make it dear to us all as long as we
nay live. [Applause.] And, sir, we hope to
ransinit to our children, not the mere belief, but
he conviction that, however great any State in
.his Union may lie, it is nothing out of this Union.
Cheers.]
Every word I say, Air. Dallas, is a sort of knife
n my lungs. I thank you heartily, and I feel a
legrec of pride and gratification in seeing Air.
Rush. Air. linrersoll. and yourself. tlms/, rr,.,.
lemon who have contributed so much to the Fion>r
and fonie of our country?much more, sir, than
t will be in my power to express. I thank the 'j
nty of Philadelphia for the reception she
iroposes to give me, and I thank licr especially |
or the way and through (he men whom she pro)oscs
to introduce me to.
the scene in independence iiall.
The Hon. Richard Rush, 011 introducing the
President to the Mayor of the eity, said:
Mr. President, it falls to our agreeable lot, on
>ur own liehalf, on behalf of the Council, and on
tehalf of the whole city, to welcome you as its
lonored guest.
address op mayor gilpin.
Mr. President: Representing, as I do, on this
iccasion, the municipal authorities, aitfi the citi:ens
of this great citv, it is peculiarly gratifying to
id you, the Chief Magistrate of the nation, in
his place, welcome to our city, and to offer you
ts hospitalities. Wo, her children, regard Philalelphia
as a city of some mark and moment in
lie past and present history of our country.
It is natural and proper, however, that on this
lallowed spot we should dwell less on the present
than on the past, for here the sacred memoies
of the past crowd upon us. Here the sages
Hid heroes of '76 met and resolved; hence, they
mnounced that Declaration of Independence
ehich has commanded the resDect of all freemen.
md of all men who would be free. We have now
10 living actor and witness of that time, but that
londeroiiti bell, (referring to the one placed in the
lall, which was cast for the purpose of proclaimng
the Declaration,) though mute now, spoke
volumes then; thougli silent now, it speaks vol lines
still:
'Proclaim Liberty throughout ull the Laud, unto all
the inhabitants thereof."
But. Mr. President, it is not my province to diatc
011 these things. Here, in. "Independence
^lall," in the presence of the authorities of the
:it.y and adjacent districts and of our citizens, I
>icf you a sincere and hearty welcome to our city.
repev of genera!. pierce.
Mr. Mayor and the Citizens . or Phieadke-hia:
it grieves 111c that I am physically so unable
o respond to this most hearty and touching wel:ome.
Hir, my heart is full?full of gratitude to
'ou, and full of gratitude to all this people who
lave plaoed you in the position which you occupy. '
did think that 1 hnd tried in my da}' to do some
ittle for the cause of my country, but such a day j
s this makes a man's heart overrun with gralitido
to a neoplc like the inhabitants of the city of i'
'hiladeinliia. I have been much surprised?aye,
ir, filled with prnfoundest awe, at the manner in ?
vhicli you have received 1110. Philadelphia, a n
ity of some mark! If your mountains and val- j
eys did not teem with the elements of comfort to
our population; if your citizens in all time had
lot been foremost whenever theconntn has wantd
their aid, if your institutions of learning were y
iot auiongst. your proudest monuments, the single p
act to which you have adverted, sir, that from
icncc was proclaimed the Declaration of Independence,
would put Pennsylvania and PililadclIlia
upon a pre-eminence which in the Provi- j j
oiiuv (ii mwu iiu uiiiur ovuiu or tuy uuji wvtjr m- | H
:>y. | Applause.] Sir, I tec) ax you do, that, we {
lust bow*. Wo call hardly do tinyt.liiiifr else hut
ow lieforo these recollections ami associations.
1 foci how inadequate in language, sir, and you H
Iso fool it when you conic to apeak of that.period. H
.aiigungo don't reach it, sir. Our hearts honor H
in all its depth, power, and ftillnoss, 1 hope.
'heso iiion, sir, of whom you liavc spoken, who .
lannod hero the institutions of a tree governlent,
let us remember, were no holiday patriots;
toy were no scheming philanthropists; they
ore no visionary statesmen. They deliberated ,
mid the difficulties that surrounded them, and 1
ore thev meditated, amid the clamor of amis, as
lough they had been environed with peace and ,
l absolute security; ami tliey solved the groat
robleni, which was a terror to despots and an
lspiration to patriots; and n? though the issue
id not involve the question of their necks.
Sir, here stood, (and as I say it now, they come
iforc us now,) here, I say, stood Thonjas J eft iH