The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-18
EDITORS, CORRESPONDENTS.
LFrOn our regular eokrespondsn.. !
New YoRK. March l6, lSst

II
Inc new arrangement for the departure Of the
| great Southern mail goes into effect to-day. Il
closes al ~ instead of 81 as heretofore which Is an
hour earlier. understand il ID to continue directly
on to the south, without being detained as hereto
fore In Philadelphia from 10 10 III o. m. IN ne.t
morning, 3 or a. IN. You will consequently re-
ceve my letters hereafter in the morning instead of
the afternoon as heretofore. This is reform m The
| mail transportation service long needed and our
worthy Postmaster General deserves great credit for
| his success IN producing II, aud with very reason
able cost 10 the department.
| The New York and Philadelphia Magnetic Tels
graph Company are constructing d line of wires
from Newark 10 Jersey city, opposite the city,
where thes expect to make a station to continue I'LL
some means devised for crossing the North river
win wires elevated so high to admit the passage
Of vessels beneath them.
IL is supposed the North river is now omen to
boats up TO Albany. The Columbia leaves to-mor-
row morning, on trip to the latter place or as Sr
as the ice will permit The new, splendid and fss,
boat Oregon Is engaged To on the sound this
summer, in connexion with the Stonington road, &c
We now have three or four routes by which travel
ers reach Boston from this place. Sull another
is talked of. railroad TO pass in direct liue
as possible from city to the other Is contstn.
plated which il is calculated person can pass
in about hye hours. In DIR. Franklin's editorial
times the mail was carried between the two places
IN two horse stage coaches once a week II the DR..
could rise from the dead he would ind astonishing
changes had taken place-worked out principally,
as they have been, by engineering mechanical skill
| discoveries and inventions which the world (how-
ever much indebted to them) has been slow 10 ac-
knowledge and encourage.
A friend has handed me q COPY Of a paper
printed at the Sandw islands, called The POW.
nssian, which contains matters Of curious and
Interesting import. Among other things IL a
pondsnee between ii. b. Majesty consul, MI
Miller, and Mr.. Wylie-the latter being Secretary
/ of Foreign Affairs under the king. This cor.
| respondence took place last August and not hay-
ing seen 1t commented on in any other quarter,
will IN my next call attention To some portons
OF II, which indicate certain views in relation to the
Sandwich islands by her Mojesty's government,
which are not favorable to the continued influence
Americans have acquired over the government and
people Of country they have mainly succeeded in
civilizing. II the Sandwich islands have been turn.
ed TO Christianity, and to the pursuits Of civilized
life; If they have prospered in agriculture, trade,
and commerce; if they have risen to political indie
| pendence and importance, well from the central
position in the Pacific by adopting aHd cultivating
the arts OF civilized hfe they owe II all 10 Amer-
cans. To American enterprise, to early American
missionary labor, have they been led from darkness
to light-from heathenish sloth and superstition 10
habits Of industry and morality. To whom can
their gratitude be more deep, their friendship more
lasting, their political trust and confidence in
trusted more than TO Americana The correspon-
dence, too, plainly indicates that the position OF the
Americans at Honolulu excites jealousy on the par.
of foreign governments, who would I've glad to sco
it in some way superseded. They would prefer
that all affairs Of local government should DO con
hded TO the naiires of the island over whom thew
might succeed in gaining an ascendency more
| ducive TO their interests. More hereafter.
The bill authorizing the sale of the Michigan Cen
trail Railroad, has passed the legislature by large
majority.
| Arrivals at this port in one week, from the TIL
/ and Oh H.. oh fnll Il
which 81 were foreign, and l25 domestic we're
from Liverpool, 3 from London, apd from Havre.
This Is said TO be the largest number of arrivals ever
known in week SINCE the foundation OF the city,
and that the receipt of revenue at the custom-house
will be the greatest ever collected in a single week.
You will perceive, by arrival at New Be1,Jrd,
that later advices Ito the 10Th November lSi5l mad
been received from Honolulu, Sandwich islands. A
| copy Of the "Polynesian" referred TO pamphlet
published by Mr.. Judd, in reference to the exciting
land claim Of Mr.. Charleon, formerly British &C p.
sui at Honolulu. He had been required TO proc ule
evidence Of his title in one year, from the beginning
of l845, or to abandon it.
The same paper refers TO the poverty of Queen
Pomare of Tahiti, who was in narrow circumstance,
and was about raising the wind by selling the car
riage presented to her by her Majesty Queen Veto
| ria
The correspondence referred to above appeared
in the "Poynesan" on the 9th day of September,
ls45.
The fine Liverpool packet-ship Fidelia, HackstnE,
C. II. Marshall e. Co., sails Tomorrow.
| .Ns,v York market, ihi, day, 4 p. m-The stock
market was fiat to-day, with some decline in some
kinds of railroad bonds. Reading advanced.
600 to 700 bales cotton sold at last quotations;
market still firm.
5000 bushels New Orleans white corn sold at 81
| cents; market firm.
another at 81 IA cents, amounting together to
| 900 bushels .-.a
! Flour was quiet to-day. Late on Saturday after
noon a mixed lot of Oswego and Michigan, consist
ing of 1000 barrels, sold at IS so. To-day heard
of mixed sale Of 500 Oswego, &c, at SIS So Good
Geneseeis held at IS SO IS So. The marke, was
little heavy to-day, in consequence of the anticipated
opening of the North river in day or two, which
| will lead to shipments from Albany to some extent
| TO this market ..
There is little doing in western provisions Pork,
beef lard &c. is without change since Saturday the
| l4th inst.
| Sugar, molasses, rice &c. about as last quoted
Sterling exchange is firm at 81 9; on Paris s
81. a526i.
Freishts dull.
Yours, very truly,
| MORGAN,
| ..... Bpm
| P. S. Owing to the failure of any mail TO reach
this city up this hour since the one that was du,
last night at ten, which hand at noon to-day
the new mail arrangement, did not go into effect to-
day, the southern mail being detained to await the
arrival of the one from the South. the cause ofd.
ention is said To have arisen from the overflow OF
the Delaware, which, near. Bordentown covered the
track three four feet deep, and put out the fires OF
the engine. One would suppose, in such an emer-
gcncy, they might have crossed Trenton bridge, but
in that it is possible floating ice in the Delaware
may have prevented the mail-boat from reaching
Bristol to connect.
| Yours, NJ.
| STOCKS.
SALE,.-Nep York. Mrrch 49, ls46--FYrsf boarI--9 800
Ohio 6s 1856 95; 5000 Pennsylvania Sc 72l 500 do 72
10000 Ohio 6 1860 Co., 20 900 do e5s 900 Farmers Loan
ass 100 do 49, 100 do 29 so do 2s $50 Morris canal 49,
100 do, ls; so do ISL; 200 do 49, 30 Ycksburg III 100
Reading Railroad, IA 800 do 74t; 5000 Reading Railroad
bonds 79 900 do 79b; l7s Canton Co, ~ IS DO 4lt
so do Harlem r. r. 5st 2i0 do 5s $50 do IS; 22i
Long island r. 4s so do az; 90 do. 47tI 250 do. as
United States 6s 1862 Ill ll2tj New York rs 1875 1921
! a 1851
Second boardlso Morris canal III; 100 Farmers Loan
9st so Harlem r., 57f 90 do 81; so do. 81 100 Long