Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-03-09

a patch In the back, and the knees lltIl'
worn.-Can the reader guess, what is TO be
done with that, We can whisper it in his ear
Ii has been laid aside for Mr. Secretary Marcy
\ A certain garment, worn by Mrs. Santa
Anna, has been claimed by General Calel
!. Gushing but we believe his right is contested
| by Major Polk. We trust that no serious
difficulty will grow out of these rival pretcnsions
Santa Annals old boots, owing to the unfitness
of one of them for leg of flesh and blood, arc
to be hung up in the Departcmcnt of state
over the portrait of the President. A hair
brush, pretty well worn, is to be given to
Senator Foote of Mississippi. razor case
with shaving materials goes TO the Secretary
of the Treasury, Mr.. Walker while certain
administration editor receives all the soap found
in the illustrous fugltlve's dressing case. An
appropriate disposition of various other articles
captured with the wardrobe is to be made.
Who will not agree after this with the Journal
OF Commerce, that the capture of Santa Anna $
old clothes was ''a most brilliant affair -
Boston Transcript
/ PUBLIC BusISEss.-'rhc Boston Courier has
spicy correspondent who gives the following
account of" business" at Washington
\ The object of assembling the representatives
Of the people is discussion, not business or at
least. no other business to speak OF, beyond
frankiDg the speeches made IN debate. And
this is labor enough for any man. Why, one
gentleman of the House informed me that he
had 27OO names on his list of persons to whom
he must send documents, and he is mol Il cand-
date for reelection.
/ Now, let us suppose that the average num-
ber of each members document, constituency is
but 2500 and that each gets four iavors only
/ from his servant in Congress. This would
throw upon the shoulders of each member the
labor of procuring, and franking, and directing
ten Monsdnd speeches in the course of a session.
What more business than this should be expected
of man! especially, when we consider that
the Representative must receive and answer, at
length, all sorts of letters, from all sorts ofpeo-
pie, upon all sorts of topics, from Aunt Pegs
pension to Amy Dardin's horse. If each mem
ber requires 10 900 speeches to frank 10 his
constituents, somebody has got to make them
4 nd as there are something over $50 members
of both branches there must be a supply of
about Mree millions Of this kind Of fodder"
How can it be otherwise than that the Con-
grcssiona talking mill must he kept constantly
going And what famine would there be,
should il stop grinding
Going into Western members room the 9TH
er day, and seeing him with his coat of in the
IN iddlc of the apartment, up to his middle IN
documents, and speeches, and letters, laborng
Justify with his frankng pen. ] alluded to
his press of private business. Stranger, said
he," never came to Congress before, and
never want to come again. | tell you, that
this office of member of Congress is not what
it is cracked up to be. | calculated to have
had good time here this winter, after racing
all over my district, and making more than five
hundred stump speeches in order to get elected.
But the fact is, you can see the way ENJOY
myself II is what | call having the enjoy
mcnts horribly. Why sir, never began to
work in this way before in my life" | asked
/" How comes on the loan bill in your branch -
so, they are spoutlng away, sir, and here
am iranking the speeches. The Lord only
knows what is in them" 'And the Ten
Regiment Bill Z" know nothing about it,
and don want to- Look at them are letters"
pointing to a two bushel basket of private
correspondence" not one halfofihem answer
ed ; look at these speeches, not a quarter of
them iranked. What attention can ] give to
loan bills and regiment bills Sir, must
attend to my constituents" And we left him
to his labors. Our impression is, that il takes
all uay SATURDAY, ana SUNDAY 100, tO DrlnV up
the franking and letter writing business of the
week, for the members seldom get out to church
FIRE IN New YoRK-A mhoie (amiiy hrnt
Ia dmh' On Sunday an inquest was held in
New York upon the bodies of William r.. &.
Welsh aged 30 years, Mary Ann Welsh,
aged ~ years and also their three children,
William, Caiharinc and Benz. who came to
their deaths by being burned at the fire in 3 st.
street, near the 9TH Avenue, on Friday night,
and the jury rendered vcrdic,s TO that effect.
From the facts elected on the inquest, il ap-
pearcd that Welsh was under the influence of
liquor a short time before the fire broke out,
quarreled with his wife, and then laid down
upon bed on the floor and fell asleep. Ills
wife declined going to bed and sat down near
the stove. and on being rescued from the flames
she states that the stove got upset and set the
floor on fire Welsh and the three children
were taken from the ruins Of the building the
following day, while Mrs. Welsh died at the
City Hospital from the effects of the burns.
THE SSow SToRM.--By means of the tele-