The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-03
Nsw Forh correspondence.
New YoRK, March 81, ls4l.


We are now within fortnight Of our Charter
Election, and still no general interest is mani
tested in the result The merchants and the
quiet people generally are satisfied that Wing
Administration is in power, that Wing Con-
gress will soon assemble, and then they think
every thing will be made straight of course,
whether the People manifest their sympathy or
not large class of the usual active Poiit-
clans are displeased with some Of the Presi-
dents appointments, and they think best 10 mani
lest the unpopularity Of those appointments by
eyincing indifference to every thing else but
their own chagrin. Thus we stand at present
Our city meeting on Monday evening was held
In the midst Of rain-storm, and was thinly at
| tended. But this will not continue We shall
have Young Mems meeting next week, which
will clean the cob-webs out of the biggest hall
in New York. We go into the contest under
great disadvantages, but will not yet admit that
Inquisitor Morris can be elected. But you must
remember that the average LocoFoco majority
in our city last fall was l,40O
! Gov. SEWARD has transmitted to the Legisla-
ture the refusal of Gov. GILMER TO surenderthe
forger Curry, also the Resolutions of Missis-
sippi and other States condemning his course in
the matter of the controversy with Virginia.
Gov. S. reiterates his deep-rooted conviction
that he was and is right in that matter, and that
the surrender Of free citizens of New York TO
be tried in Virginia, for conniving at the escape
OF an African from slavery, would have been a
fragrant abuse Of power on his part Iwish this
deplorable controversy were amicably settled.
The steamship CALEDONIA, sails from Boston
tomorrow. Her mails here are just closing.
] The brig Richmond of Salem, Mass, was
overhauled and searched by British cruiser on
the coast of Africa lately, but having nothing to
justify asuspicion Of being engaged in the slave
trade, she was not detained This business of
searching is calculated to produce irritation and
complaint: but can the slave-trade ever be ex-
tirpated without it?
Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER has been in our city
since Monday, attending the sick bed of his
dying father-in-law Herman LIE Roy. He left
FIR Washington to-day.
| Mdrkets.-There is no change in Cotton or
Ashes. Flour is higher: Western $4,s7 ~
90 3 a.: Southern, S475, and holders ask more.
A heavy Tea sale 10 day was well attended and
Tea brought good prices.
| STOCKS are looking up. U. S. Bank closed to-
day at II 1-2. Harlem Railroad 20, Canton
Co. "a. All these have been considerably lower.
! Erchanges.-On London "a l-2; Phadel-
| phia, A 4 Ia; Baltimore, q IA; New Orleans,
4 Ia; Mobile, IL l-2.
Literature.-Among the new books of deci-
ded interest and value lately published, OF newly
received here, are The ESSAYS OF RALrH WAL
DO EMERSON, the most distinguished Transcen-
dentalist of this country. These essay are full
of truth, poetry, and beauty, though in passages
Hinged with mysticism. They are from Bos-
ton press, and the typography and general APP
pearance are admirable. They fill but one mo-
derate IL mo volume.
SKETCHES OF Iowa, by JOHN B. NEwHALL, has
also just issued from a New York press, with
Map by Cotton. This is an unpretrnding, but
perspcicuous and valuable work. The author is
enthusiastic in his praise Of the Far West.
CoMpE's TouR TO THE UNITED STATES, in
two volumes, contains much matter of agreeable
interest, and some of positive value. The plan
is admirable, and the work very well got up
Mr.. Combe's bump of gullabty is inordinately
developed, and he falls into some very gross
blunders, such as confounding Loco-Focoism
with Democracy, but his book will be widely read
Notwithstanding.
An account of THE RUNS OF PALENauE, by
John H. Stephens, the well known American
traveller through Egypt, Arabia, Turkey, Rus
STA, &C., and Catherwood, the Panoramist, will
soon be issued by the Hapers'. 1t will be su-
perbly illustrated by English artists from origi-
nal designs.
/ THE MERCHANTS WIDOW AND OTHER TALES,
by Mrs. G. NJ Sawyer, the estimable and popc-
lar lady Of one Of our best clergymen, will spec
Oily be published in small volume.
| Among the valuable works lately reprinted
here, or in Philadelphia, may be mentioned TAY-
LoRs NATURAL HIsToRY OF Society, AUsTlN's
GOETHE, and tn Lives of JAY and HAMILTON
in the Harpers Family Library. The book
trade is more thriving than it has been.
Yours, HAROLD.
DEFAULTERS.