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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-26
From the Utica Gazette
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON.

| Fourteen weeks Of the session have passed way
| and what has been done 2 Little, or nothing The
only important bill passed for the issuing of Trea
sury notes. Members have spent the time in
giles and broils, dsreputabe to themselves to the
nation, the affairs of which they have been called
to legislate. Ordinations and determinations have
been hurled back and forth with all the crazed fury
of manacs and Cong ressmen have engaged in scenes
of ribaldry that would put even Blingsgate to the
blush. The urgent demands of suffering country
have been unheeded or if Needed made of secondary
Importance. Private pques and plejudces are first
to be appeased before great unctionaries act
and then unless change in thought and ceiling,
more complete than that which Nicodemus could not
comprehend takes place, and present appearances
not very fattering upon this point we need expect
nothing fIom the Congress of 1872 The recon-
mendalion of the President that immediate action be
had upon the currency, has been almost entirely un-
needed Treasury notes selling at a discount d-
rectly under the eye of Congress, seems not to i'm
press servants with the urgency of the matter
Neither the wishes Of the President, the suffer-
ngs of the People allowed to have their legitimate
bearing. While constituents are every where calling
for relief from onerous grievances, and the Chief
Magistrate is urging the weight of their claims upon
the constituted agents. they the servants) lost in
the meshes Of political turmos; neither opening their
to the clamors without the halls of the Copltol
sensible of the disgraceful scenes enacted within
How long these things to last :? We cannot
answer the question. Seeing, we dc, the petitions
of the people pass unnoticed, if noticed, consigned
to the table, and the great and important subjects OF
legislation scarcely touched, cannot prophecy when
a return to sober discussion will be made. We know
when the tariff will receive its due consideration
The root of all the evils is not touched Men may
talk and talk about Government expenses" " Ma
tonal pauperlsm," and until resoute action is
had, Tic state Of matters will daily grow For
heavens sake let not the General Government in
time of peace, in time when OF all others, surplus
should be in the treasury, talk of taxing the people
This dshonorabe and disgracefu cry is afoat in the
Empire State; but for the credit of the United States
let action be had that will spare them like OBJ
loquy.
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+We do not know that members wrote them
FOR THE MADISONIAN.
THE PILOT LAW.
Mr.. EDITOR

Mr.. EDITOR:
From the zeal manifested by some few individuals
against the repeal of the act of Congress of 1887,
you might be induced to suppose that some such law
was imperatively demanded--that it was cautiously
matured and its merits deliberately canvassed before
1t received the sanction of Congress-that subsequent
experience has demonstrated its beneficial effects and
corroboraed the reasoning by which its advocates at
tempt to defend it. 1 will not occupy, in this COM
muncation, so much of your columns as will be re-
qured to touch on all these topics will, foy the
present. but glance at one or two of them
In the first place, the law of 1897 the offspring
of careful inquiry and deliberations Did pass after
full discussion and understanding of its mers' |
answer these queries, without hesitation in the
negative. Amid the hurry and confusion of the close
of short session, its character wholly unnoticed
If remember rghtly-except by single member,
who proposed the postponement of question per-
picking, till time should be given for deliberate legis-
ation the Pilot law of 1897 was not passed. but to
the fashionable and expressive phraseology,
rode hoough. Its friends seemed afraid to have it
subjected to any scrutiny; they afraid to have its
true character made known and with indecent haste
therefore, it was-as often happens in similar cases
shuilled through, when the hurry of the closing
sion hid its deformities. a p,iori, suppose
a law so passed, characterized blythe wisdom which
should govern the legislation of great representa-
tive body, question of so much intricacy and i'm
portancei Looking at the mode in which the law
was passed, any doubt exist that the subject
should be at length maturely considered and the law
either repealed completely remodelled' The
manner in which it was nruded into the statute book
think sufficient to create prejudication IN every
,ispa te mi ind aunIp st n tbora Al.
reason, this is sufficient to induce revision of it, On
its other characteristics shall offer some comments
in future communications.
AN OLD MERCHANT
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equal to the amount demanded by such compa-
MES for its transportation of the mail. The eff
feet of this proposition, if adopted will be, In
remuneration, which at present is liable TO every
within, on the part of corporations, dictated by
circumstances, and in the second, to preclude
the possibility emancipation by private expresses.
OF the Legality of these expresses, it is not our
intention here to speak; we will only remark
under the law, as it stands, the sooner the
deficiency is corrected, the better. The
adoption of the suggestion of the Postmas-
ter General, would at once prevent any
material interference by private conveyance,
it would place at the disposition of the
Government the very channels of communica-
ton, advantage of which is now taken in an
tcipaing the Post Office transportation. There
would be, for instance, no advantage in running
private express between any two points; If the
general mail were carried as quickly, and other
things being equal, preference would be given to
the Post Office conveyance on account of its
superior security.
Another thing that will have a tendency to
prevent these interferences by private convey
ances will be the new graduation and conse-
quent reduction of The rates of postage as pro-
posed by the Postmaster General According
to the plan offered by that able officer, the charg
es are to be made in Federal money, by which
means the duties Of the Postmasters will be
rendered less burdensome and, although the
postage on letters sent for certain distances will
be increased, that on other descriptions will be
most materially reduced. BY lowering therates
of postage, the cost to individuals will be re-
duced whilst the aggregate product to the De-
partment will be much increased, and when
persons can send their letters with safety, cele-
rity, and economy, they will not be disposed to
run the risk attendant on trusting to private re-
sponsibility. We had proposed to treat this
matter more at length, but shall reserve the sub
ject for future and more elaborate consideration.
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From the Baltimore American.
THE SHIPPING INTEREST. ur

We published not long since some remarks and
statements respecting the injury to which our ship
ping interest was subject by the unequal oper ,ton of
the existing commercial arrangements in force be-
shown that unfair preferences secured to British
ships own, in the transportation of
products, and that the rapid increase of British
tonnage in our ports alarming indication OF
the results of the treaty of 1880 the further effects of
which, if averted would be to transfer the larger
portion of our own carrying trade British bottoms.
The National Inteiigencer of Saturday contains
letter from firm in Savannah the statements of
which are to the point In reference to list OF
the vessels at the port of Savannah the 10Th ut
tered amounting in all to Is SS9 TONS there of
British tonnage IA 92s of American 3, 1866 of French
265 tons. The following tables exhibit the items
more in detail
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aPDoctor Lardner's lecture on w ednesday even
ing last was not numerousy attended as we haG
expected owing as we presume, to the impression so
generally prevalent that discoveries of the kind are
intended for individual gain than public nstruc-
ton. We have always considered what are termed
popular lectures scientific subjects peculiarly va
liable in putting prominent points before the public
eye to the exclusion of dry and volumnous details,
that to embarrass and confound the reader or
hearer and in this point of view we consider the Doc
tors discourses entitled to favor The diagrams used
by the lecturer are we'll adapted to the purpose for
which they are introduced, and present medium
through which the more abstruse calculations of SCI
happily illustrated.
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The ClLLEY DUEL.-After four years of repose,
this unhappy affair has been again brought before the
public, and vehement discussions now in pro-
gress touching the degree of blame that should be
awarded to the survivor and the friends by whose ad
vice he acted Mr. Wise has written and published
columns upon the subject seeking to make it appear
that if blame belongs anywhere is to Mr.. Clay, and
not to him and the journals of the party to which
Mr. Cilley belonged have caught eagerly at Mr..
Wses revelations not in the interests of morality or
justice, but to crafty their hatred of the llustrous
Western statesman, whom they SO cordially detest
and SO abjectly fear.--N. Y Com. .adu
The matter might have reposed forever had not
the friends of the Commercials illusrious states
MANI raked it up themselves for the purpose of Kill
lug the man whom they feared more than any other
and whom they had more reason to fear-who had
SO long permitted himself to be injured by it unjusy
Mr. Clay ,orote the challenge, and Mr. Wise bore it,
Therefore the former is fully as much to blame as
the latter AS to the "pary to which Mr.. Cilley be-
loged" it has only done act of justice to great
man.
That Mr.. Clay is an illustrious orator, no Ameri-
can will deny. That Mr.. Wise yields as great an
influence in the affairs of Government as any man of
his years, is equally undeniable.
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The letter adds that the amount of English ton
mage at other Southern ports is also unusually large,
and has been for some time constantly increasing IL
is the opinion of many judicious persons acquainted
with the subject, that nearly if not quite one-haf OF
the cotton crop of the United States viii he exported
in British and other foreign vessels.
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NEW MUSIC.


I UST received the following pieces Of New Music,
at the old established Store, two doors east OF
18th street. w. FISCHER.
Bonnie Charlie, favorite Scotch song.
The Woodland Call, Duet, by f. J. Loder
The Poets Elegy--Weep for star from our frma-
ment taken--Lines on the death Of Thomas
Haynes Bayly, Esq, arranged for two voices.
My heart is in the yellow leaf by +. Weiland
Fall of the Oak; words by G. Hill, Esq. of Wash
ton, music by J. ii. Hewitt.
Miss Lucy Long.
Shun not the village churchyard .Duett, written by
L. II. Bayly, Esq.
Kate Anderson, my Kate by N. CROUCH
Time was thy locks were brown, friend John by
T.. j. Loder
There's bliss in the morning of love by J. A.
Wade.
Wishes by s. Nelson.
Come Come Soldier come !--Glee.
watch for thee, Serenade, by X. Thomas
A Mothers love; words adapted to "a beautiful
German melody, and dedicated to "Amelia'
by w. C. Peters.
Farewell farewell! for the Guitar, by F. Wciland,
Swiss Girls Dream, do do
My fondest, my farest, do do
Sleep my child do do
BE ii folly or frenzy do F. kinlock.
Merrily merrily sounds the horn; for the Guitar.
I'll build for thee altar; for the Guitar, by
ID. G. Yon.
L'invitatione la Chase; by q. Blessner.
Dream is past, arranged as quick step by F. Wei
Vienna Snpes Waltz by J. X. Op
Quadrilles from Tampa, for two performers.
Hail Columbia, with variations.
may "a
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