The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-14 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES.

NEW Y ORK, IVlAncir 28.
The moderate tone of the Message of Presidenit
Pierce to Congress on the subject of the Black
Warrior difficulty has met with general and heart",
commendation. The matter was Warmly discussed
in the Cabinet, and it was with some difficulty
that the Filibuster tendencies of certain members
of that State Council were made to give way to _
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policy upon which such great issues depended
Some days before the message was sent to Odd:
gress very decided and peremptory instruction.
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were prepared fore our Minister at Madrid
Immediate and full satisfaction and reparation
have been demanded, and if this is not granted
the public feeling of the country will deinguari
more summary course of procedure. It is
understood that the President has pledged-Wl:ost
to his Cabinet, and to the committees on foot
affairs in both houses to take a very firm and a,
tided course if there is any delay or evasion on the
part of the Spanish Ministry.
The news from Mexico is important. A revo-
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lution which promises to be formidable is in 11.
progress. General Alvarez is the chief lead%
Santa Anna's troops have made no headway Vhe
achieved no advantage in march ing on Acapulco.
official journal of Mexico informs us that his Sereil
Highness is preparing to send 10,000 or 12, 07,
troops ; but this may well be doubted. The spirit
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of disaffection is ripening into revolution in various
other parts of Mexico, and it is not believed a:,
io considerable a body of men can be spared fr°L"
the capital. If they are set in motion, it is some-
what doubtful if they do not join with the insur-
gents on the march. Santa Anna wants mope",'
He is ready to obtain it, like other persons in ,
circumstances, on the best terms he can make,
money he must have or abandon his position. r
have the report current and it is believed, 04,,
Santa Anna has sent amessenger to Washington
to announce that he accedes to all the amendment
proposed by President Pierce to the Gadsden
treaty. It is thought that the messenger
clothed with authority to accept of any amend'
ment, provided his master can get the 15,000,w"
dollars. There was little prospect of the rill
cation of the Gadsden treaty, even with the amen
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proposed by the President. It is Ow.,
thought that some member of the Senate will pro'
pose the cession of Lower California and Sono!!!
already half-possessed by the Filibusteros.
this case almost everybody would vote for it, be'
cause it would give us about as much territory
we want for a year or two, being somewhat large
than France ; and we have recently as.ertained tf.
a careful estimate that we do not gorge an atu.
larger than France oftener than once aleat
This seems to be about the rate of our con
sumption. It should be advocated besia, e 4
on grounds of public morality, for it 18 Pr
per, at all events, for pirates to pay for what
they have stolen after they have got it in theit
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possession. Poor Mexico ! And if this state
things continues much longer, we may say,—All
for the United States! Nations are no more exact,
than men from the great moral law which requir;
that we do to others as we would be done by.
seems strange, but, it is true, that our Republic"'
the " Model Republic"--should be disposed, because)
it has the power, to grasp, either by war or monl,r;
the possessions of our neighbours, when the very
attempt to do it on a small scale by the EmPer":,
of Russia has set Europe in a blaze.
The State of New Hampshire, where Preside!!
Pierce was born, and where he has always lived, hy
just held its annual election. It was looked for:
ward to with the deepest interest by the Add3v
nistration and by the whole country. -Se°
Hampshire had always been a Democratic State'
It is almost the only State of the Union that no
cast a Whig vote. On General Pierce's electi,e'
he swept that State by an unprecedented la;
rity. The Administration made a despera.r
struggle during the late election ; they sent they
best speakers there and vast sums of money, at,
it was supposed that a heavy majority would :
cast for the candidates who were friendly to tuv
President and his Cabinet ; but the result 11/
shown how little confidence is felt in the preselL
Administration. A clear majority is confideulc/
asserted to have been elected to the Legislature b 9
the Opposition. It is the most significant and inr,i
portant political occurrence we have witnessecT,
since the election of General Pierce. Two Unit'
States' senators are to be chosen by this Legie'6,:
ture, and they will be hostile to the President
They will be the first two United States' senator
from New Hampshire who ever opposed a Dell'l3ll'
cratic President. So many issues depended upc,,
this election that, after the infamous Nebraska
had passed the Senate, the friends of de Adminir,.
tratiou had agreed that it was best not to bring. it
up in the House of Representatives until the yoloo
of New Hampshire had been heard.
Among hundreds of memorials, petitions, and
protests laid before Congress, praying that body
not to enact the Nebraska Bill into a law, there
have been two of singular import, dignity, and
influence. One was from the clergymen of NO
York city and its vicinity, embracing 150 influen-
tial names from almost all sects and denominations'
The Episcopal Bishop of the New York diocese we
the first signer. This petition was duly receiven•
But a few days later, when a petition signed bf
5,500 clergymen of New England was laid before
the Senate, it was treated with the deepest ind
nity. Senator Douglass rose in a passionate iF
pit, and assaulted the whole body of the petitione'w
in the most insulting manner. The offensive portion
of their memorial was in the following words :---
"The undersigned, clergymen of different religiotefe
denominations in New England, hereby, in the name °1
Almighty God, and in his presence, do solemnly protect
against the passage of the Nebraska Bill, or any repo'
or modification of existing legal prohibitions of slaved
in that part of our national domain which it proposes t°
organise into the territory of Nebraska and Kansas.
" We protest against it as a great moral wrong ; agl6
breach of faith, eminently injurious to the moral prin-
ciples of the community, and subversive of all confidence
in national engagements ; as a measure full of danger V"
the peace, and even the existence of our beloved Unio
and exposing us to the righteous judgment of the .
mighty."
General Sam Houston, of Texas, rose and pro-
nounced a most eloquent and well-merited tribute
of respect to the petitioners, and added new laurel°
to the reputation he had already acquired by b!s
powerful and uncompromising hostility to this
measure. The country has read with the deepest
regret a leading article in the Washington ben':
Gael, which is the official organ of the Unitela
States' Senate, in which the editor says that the
memorial of this " piebald regiment of arrogant
parsons" is a "high-handed measure. It is unPar;
donable, impious arrogance. Did Almighty G°'
commission these men, as they intimate, to
engage in this crusade, against the Nebraska
Bill?" All this appears in the official journal of
the United States' Senate, which professes to be
the most enlightened and dignified body on the
earth, presiding over the destinies of the "Model
Republic" of the 19th century. Such proceedings
manufacture out of upright, conscientious, dignified,
sedate, and prudent men Abolitionists by the thou-
sand every hour. slavery has hitherto had no reli-
ance so strong as upon the good faith with which
the North has stood by the Missouri Compromise.
This has been the firmest prop of slavery ; remove
it, and sound, wise, and just men are agreed that
the days of slavery are numbered.—Times.

CURIOUS CUSTOM OF JINGLING MONEY ON A TO3fIP
STONE AT Sr. BARTHOLOMEWS CHURCH ON GOOD
FRIDAY.—To-day being Good Friday, the rector, the
Rev. Mr. Abbiss, and the churchwardens and trustee!
of St. Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, distry
bated 20 sixpences to as many poor widows of the
parish. The donor was a lady who, some centuries
resided since, in the parish, and left a certain sum in
perpetuity for the purpose, on the strange condition that
each sixpence should be thrown on her gravestone, over
which every recipient was to pass. Time, however,
has destroyed every vestige of the stone, and the monei
is thrown on the ground over the grave. A further
sum of 20s. is allowed for preaching a sermon on the
occasion. A great number of the parishioners and
others were present to witness the curious ceremony.
TOBACCO CHEENVING IN THE UNITED STATES. The
New York Tribune of the 25th ult., thus writes on this
practice :—" At the end of the announcement of a lec-
ture to be delivered in Rome, New York, I,y Henri
Ward Beecher, the Committee of Managers insert the
following reasonable request :—` P.S.—Will use
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the habit of using tobacco abstain from its
use while
there ? as the ladies who furnished the church have
justly an unwillingness to its being used for lectures,
through fear of its being desecrated and soiled by the
juice of the weed.' The trait in our people which most
disgusts well-bred strangers, and is equally repulsive to
well-bred Americans,. is this tobacco chewing and spit-
ting. Apart from the fact that the use of tobacco di-
minishes the volume of flesh and the outline of physical
beauty—lessens the weight and hardness of the very ,
bones of the human economy—it is one of the grossest
habits that can be practised. None of the brute crea-
tion is so filthy in his native state as the civilised mikr,l,.
with his tobacco chewing. Artistically speaking, 1:
seems unequivocally satirical for a statesman or moral'st
to be holding forth on liberty or ethics, and be the slave
to the nasty habit in question. It is above all disgust-
ing to women, and the first effort of a gentleman shook'
be to have his manners approved of by the sex. 11711 should a man chow tobacco, when he would look with
horror on a woman who should do so ? In our hotels,
in stage coaches, in railroad cars especially as we go
west and south, in theatres, in courts of justice, there
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is a congeries of beastliness by means of tobacco-spitting
which which wou:d make the doubter or cynic proclaim us the
filthiest of people. It seems by the above caution that
the the habit must be particularly bad at Rome, and A!
trust that the Romans have not only observed the in
tirnation in this particular instance, but will so COm,
pletely reform their habits as to make such requer, .is
unnecessary hereafter,"