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The Coast Survey Astronomical station, on Capitol Hill.
was put elegrspbic connexon with Cincinnad Wed
sday evening" for The purpose Of determining the long
tude between the places The electrical clock. In
Washington city and Cincinnati having been introduced
the pleed circuit svUy beat Cincinnati
corded almost the i~sfa~t Sasion's revolving
cylinder in Washington and every beat Of the clock In
Washington was recorded In like upon Mitchells
revolving plate at Cincinnati. Al the moment star passed
the meridian Washington by the touch of key the
cord Of the passage made upon the disk Cincinnati
as well as upon the cylinder at the Washington station and
the difference Of the time Of the CLOCKS would OF
indicate the difference efongitude The distance between
the two Cities Il be recoected IL upwards OF Ave
hundred mies.--lierandria Gazsffs. ~
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Arrival OF members OF Congress.

HH1VH On "
The following named have arrived in addition to those
heretofore announced, viz.
Senators.--Messrs. r. s. Baldwin, of Connecticut
d. Sturgeon, OF Pennsylvania; H. Clay. of Kentucky
J. w, Miller. OF New Jersey; and A. c. Greene, Rhode
Island
Representatives -Messrs L. C. Levin. and J. X. Nc
Lanahan, OF Pennsylvania j. Morton, T. s. Bocock, H.
A. Edmondson, j. A. Seldom, A. r. Holladay, F. McMul-
lin, OF Virginia; E. C. Cabe of Florida; J. D. Doty OF
Wisconsin; Outlaw, OF North Carolina; j. r Dixon, OF
Rhode Island; w. Melville, J. Thompson. Of Misss.
OF Maryland; J. H. Duncan, G. Ashmun, C. Allen, Of
Mass. p H. Sylvester, G. Reynolds, G. X Adams, d.
Rumsey, Of New York v. f. Howard, ofTexas; w. A.
Richardson, OF Illinois,
We omitted by oversight to notice the arrival of Hon.
w Buell. the representative in Congress from the Detroit
district, Michigan, who in with Gen Cass on Wed
nesday evening last
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DEEBE's New York Hsts.--This day received furthe
ID supply Of hats from w. n Beebe Co., New York City
Great Hat and Genpemans Outlining E.IabIshment,
Nov 23-s,eeif No Browns Hotel
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Mr.. Clay arrived in Washington yesterday morning,
and took lodgings at the National Hotel We under.
stand that this distinguished statesman was met bya
large party Of his admirers, who seemed much grathed
to find him in such health and spirits
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The FLoRIDA INDIANS SIT is announced In the Repub.
lie that private letters received from Tampa, Florida by
gentleman OF Washington, state that the delegation
from the Western Seminoes accompanied by their agent,
eral Twggss headquarters the 10th Instant The dele
cation comp osed of ten Semnoles and two interpreters
and they express great confidence in their ability to
complsh the object Of their visit and that they will BE-
able to induce the entire body Of Indians now in Florida
peaceaby to and unite with their brethren in the
west. NMN
buildings are in progress OF erection on the Manaee
river and that when they are completed the military
depot for that portion Of the army viii be snsfeed TO
that point from Tampa Bay
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CITY OF WASHINGTON.

01-voLxEY B. PALMER authorized for
Union in New York. Philadelphia, and Boston, and eep for
payment for the same. 7FTH
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Total American tonnage sslooo
Toll. going, s5 per ton sI.s1o,ooo
Returning l,67o.OOO
Gross receipts $4,000
This estimate is based on present commerce. carried
in American ships alone five add to these the ships Of
all other nations trading TO the Pacific, and which would
this canal, shall find that there ships enough
at present engaged in the commerce Of the Pacific which,
by paying dollar ion each instead Of IS as toll to the
canal would yield handsome dividends to twenty-five
millions. What would the increase Of business 10 which
IT would give rise dot
railroad across the isthmus though useful, valua
be and important work, can never pass the great agr-
cultural staples Of the country and put them in the chan
nes Of commerce the other side, because OF the
pense OF loading and unloading at either end, and be-
cause OF the necessity under which shippers would be OF
keeping set OF ships each side 10 fetch and carry
Nevertheless, railroad would be OF immediate and
vast national benefit and the government may well afford
to give Il the necessary pecunary aid, and by doing
save money Take item The "Ohio" seventy -four,
is now the coast Of California, and is soon to come
home because the times Of her about to expire
She has crew OF 500 men, all told; II will take
her not less than 100 days make the passage an
erage expense Of 900 per day Another ship Of equal
anS ~ Ss s ac an
Of getting that ship home and sending out her relief,
s240,ooo Now, 4 the railroad across Panama were in
operation the "0hio' could touch there, meet crew
sent from this side Of the shmus and send her old crew
home by the same transport from Cbagres" at saving
OF four or five months Of time and some 100000 Of
money.
| Not only 30, when The "Ohior returns she will re.
quire probably several hundred thousand dollars worth
OF REPAIRS Whereas owing to the mdness OF the wealth
in that sea- she would serve there for several years yet
to come, without the necessity OF any repairs.
Two men-of-w war were built in the navy at the same
time they were duplicates Of each other was sent
to the Pacific the other remained in the Atantic within
seven years the expense Of the Atlantic vessel for repairs
exceeded three four times her original cost, whereas
the Pacific vessel crused thirteen years without receiving
any repairs and was then sold for considerable
The difference upon and Of vessels serving in
the two seas is well known to seafarng people. Most
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suppose that the nations OF Chrsendom would allow the
adoption OF such policy the British isles, il to
pect that this country will, its western coasts set
lied and its commerce developed, permit Japan to con-
nue the inhospiable and cruel treatment observed to-
wards our unfortunate sailors who have been shpwrec
ed and cast upon her shores
This shp-cana will bring the markets Of the Gulf of
Mexico as near 10 MANILA Japan and China, those OF
the Baltic and the north OF Europe to the south
ern States
Il is well. known principle in commerce. the nearer
the two ports and the greater the facilities OF intercourse
between Them the valuable the trade from the one
to the other. Thus the trade between Liverpool and
Dublin, between Massachusetts, and the rest Of the
States greater than that OF all the States with all for
eign countries whatever.
There no commercial or trading people within sixty
days sail OF us that takes from the average per in
habant less than forty fifty cents worth Of merchan.
disc year BY examining into the subject il will be
seen that whenever we have been brought into
cia intercourse with people near enough for our great
agricultural staples 10 bear the expenses OF anspora-
ton to them, we have managed TO build up with such
people OF at least forty OF fifty cents per
capita the year Even with the negroes OF Hayti we have
acommece greater than this, and yet hardly tell
thing that we want.
Suppose that the shortening Of the distance TO China
through this canal and the bringing Of those people
within fifty sixty days Of us, should form an excep
Of forty cents per capita only give OF ten cents e
the inhabant, there would be then through this canal
with that people alone, annual commerce OF thirty
millions
This Atlantic ocean is great protections, Il stands
between us and Europe, and the moment this canal 10
completed Will enact protective tariff IN our favor,
which will consist OF tolls TO the winds and the
that European merchandise will have to pay In the shape
nal and thus in the markets Of the six hundred millions
OF people TO which that canal will lead our merchants
viii meet their European competitors not only with the
advantages OF time, but also with the expenses OF trans
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MIR. WALKER AND LITTLE JOBS.

During the reign of the late immaculate
administration, there was a young lands
man, clerk in the Treasury Department,
by the name Of BRowN-quite pet of
the late Secretary WALKER After the
result of the Presidential election was
known, it became desirable to provide
permanently for young Brown. What
was to be done ! Mr.. WALKER naturally
looked to his favorite asylum for distressed
friends-the revenue marine. He could
draw as much money as he pleased for the
revenue service from his collectors before
it went into the Treasury. So provision
was to be made on this establishment for
young BRowN.
Forthwith, this treasury clerk, who had
never smelled salt water, was made third
lieutenant in the revenue service. But
this was not enough. He was detailed on
special duty, and made bearer of import
ant dispatches to Captain FRAZER, of the
revenue service, then on his way to Cali
fornia. So young BRowN received an
order on the collector Of New York for an
Advance Of three months pay-for an adj
vance of siI hundred dollars, on account
Of bis expenses, and settlement of the
second three months pay upon his family,
and off he started as the bearer of import
ant dispatches to Captain FRAZER.
But the despatches-ay, the dispatches!
what were the dispatches which he was
sent with after that old salt, Captain FRA
zER' They conveyed the information
that assertions were taking place at San
Francisco-and that young BRowN was
to ascertain how and why they took place,
and to communicate the facts, with his
advice in the premises, to Captain Fra
FER. Now, next to taking Commodore
PERRY for the law adviser of Judge Mason,
we think must stand the selection of young
BRowN for this special and peculiar ser
vice. Captain FRAZER hardly required
that Mr.. BRowN should be sent all the
way from Washington to find out for him
that the sailors left their ships because
they found themselves in the neighborhood
of the gold mines, and that they did it, as
is well known to Commodore PERRY and
other salt water jurists, by the process Of
taking leg-bail. And yet, forsooth, all the
way to California young BRowN must go,
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to pick up this information for Captain
FRAZER, whom he overlook at Rio de
Janeiro, and who has been doubtless highly
and deeply edited by his interesting com
munications on the subject OF assertions.
J After Brown had made himself familiar
with this interesting subject, he was at
liberty to proceed to Oregon, but with the
especial understanding that he was to ex-
pect nothing on that score from the Gov
eminent except his pay, his passage mo
ney, his actual expenses, and " incidental
charges p This is giving shrewd man
pretty wide margin. " Incidental
charges !" Why, we know man, and
pretty great man, too, who has made an
enormous fortune out Of the Government
in this mere matter OF |" incidental
charges.
But none Of this money came out of the
Treasury, indeed None Of the much mo-
ney that Mr.. WALKER expended on the
revenue service came out of the Treasury.
He fingered it before it got into the Trea-
sury and hence it was that the service
had grown SO monstrously, and had become
such burden to the country, that Mr..
MEREDITH was compelled, for the mere
lack of means, to make very large reduc-
ton in it. Among the victims, we sup
pose, was young BRowN. But he had got
a fair start in the world--he was set down
in California, with rocks in both pockets,
and fair chance at the gold mines; and
if Uncle Sam had to pay for it, it was
only one case of a thousand just like it,
in which our uncle was called upon to suf-
fer during the last four years.
We shall have occasion to recur to this
subject again. Young BRowN's story is
striking, but it is not peculiar. There are
some more left of the same sort. And we
hope that the Locofoco clerks who still
crowd the Treasury Department, standing
between the people and light, will furnish
the particulars of all such cases for the
Opposition journals.
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rily have required an escort and transpor-
tation for themselves and their parties"
also, unless they were expected to tit out
escorts at their own charge, and recruit
assistance out of their own funds-paying
manifold times their salaries for the honor
of risking their Threats amongst the Ca
manches and kindred tribes.
The President has taken better means
of watching over and protecting the emf
grants than can be found in the sinews Of
single arm. He has ordered troops, and
corn, and other subsistence to be taken
along the line of emigration, to snatch from
famine and despair those whom the mis-
chances of the journey may overwhelm.
The Salt Lake and Santa Fe were selected
for the location Of the transferred agencies,
after weighing all the information that
could be had upon the subject They are
just about as eligible sites for gold-digging
as s'Kansas river' and the sIndian terri
tory bordering on Texas"
The Union insists upon our publishing
documents which, it asserts, are to be
found in the Quartermaster Generals Of
fee and the Indian Bureau. 1t so hap
pens that we have never been in either
of these Offices in all our days. The Union
and its correspondents pretend to more
knowledge than we possess. The Union's
correspondent, who seems to be so ssfami-
liar with the files of the Indian Bureau"
certainly can supply it with what it
wants, if he has any familiarity at all with
them, better than we are now prepared to
do. We have stated what the President
has ordered to be done, and suppose it has
been done effectually. We hope so, at
least.
The more the Union founders over this
matter, the more it exposes its folly. It
has said enough to convince every one
that these appointments were legally and
properly made. 1t has proved, by cor
respondent vouched by itself as familiar
with the files of the Indian Bureau" that
transfers were recommended by Col. Me-
DILL, whom it has applauded to the echo
for intelligence and integrity. In the
shortness of its memory, it admits to its
own columns the proofs which convict it Of
bringing charges against the Administra-
ton and particular members of the Cabi-
net, which it knows are unsupported by
facts or circumstances having the slightest
weight in establishing its assertions. 1t
convicts itself Of making false accusations
one day by what it says the next, and of
knowing them to be false when it made
them.
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The cutlery raised by the Opposition
presses against removals from office, and
the indecent vituperation of General TAY-
LoR for his very moderate use of the re-
moving power, mean more than meets
the ear 1t is the outcry of the bully and
the culprit. One motive is to shake the
purposes of the Administrations arrest
removable postpone action. Another
motive, springing from the consciousness
of guilt, is the fear that every removal
will lead to new detection and exposure
of official malversation.
The leading men of the party which OPP
posed General TAYLOR as a candidate be-
longed to the school of politicians which
fattened on the spoils from 1880 to 1910.
They were the defaulters, plunderers, and
REGULATORS of that period when LEVI
WOODBURY. presided over the Treasury,
and Amos KENDALL over the Post Office
of the United States. These men knew
very well that there would be no chance
for them if an "honest old soldier" should
be seated in the Presidential chair. They
knew that General TAYLOR had no SYM
pathy with corruption. From Mr.. VAN
buren, they might hope for something.
They had tried him once, and had carried
matters in their own way and with pretty
high hand. They had not only enormous
ly multiplied the public expenditures dur
ing his administration, but they had been
able to steal the public money by thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of del
lars. From LEWIS CAss they might hope
for something. A public officer who had
managed to multiply himself by four
draw four salaries at the same time
with lights to illuminate and fuel to keep
him warm in four different capacities at
the same moment-they knew that they
should find him easy enough in overlook
ing their money matters. All these old
defaulters and plunderers, therefore, OPP
posed General TAYLOR and went into the
ranks of Mr.. VAN buren, or Mr.. CAss.
The great effort of these men has always
been to prevent an investigation into the
departments, bureaus, and public Offices.
They have labored always to exclude light
from the people. We all remember the
difficulties experienced by Mr.. Wise in
pushing his investigations in the House of
Representatives, and afterwards in getting
the result of them published. In 1888,
this party Of peculators opposed violently
the printing of report which had been
prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury
himself on the subject of the public default
ers. "Give us light" said Mr.. WISE, in
the debate on motion to print this report,
"not the light of my speeches, but the
light whichis to be found in your own doc
uments. - "Let the people have the facts"
said Mr.. THOMPSON; "give them light
Let them see that their functionaries have
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done thus and thus, and my life on the re-
suit" But Investigation, in spite of Lo-
coioco opposition, produced results; and
the results were given to the people.
Hence followed the overthrow of the dy-
nasty Of REGULATORS and defaulters in 1910,
and the election, by an overwhelming
majority, of General HARRISON to the Pre-
sidency.
But the defaulters and peculators re-
established themselves in power in 1874.
They went out with Mr.. VAN buren, in
disgrace-they returned with Mr.. Polk
in fraud. The men who had robbed the
Treasury would not hesitate about cheat
ing the people. They e-established them
selves with the cry Of +" Polk, DALLAS,
and the Tariff of 1927 The country
discovered the fraud. Pennsylvania re-
buked it-for she had been the dupe and
the victim. The old peculating dynasty
was broken down in the election of 1848.
Meanwhile, they had been four years in
power. New materials Of public interest
have been accommodating during that pc
riod There is new crop of defalcations
to be gathered. Men who robbed the
public under Mr.. VAN buren,, would rob
it under Mr.. Polk. The proposition re-
quires no argument to enforce it. But
how are these defalcations to be reached 7
Some have been made public already !;
as in the case Of Ell MOORE, who was
reached only by the use of the removing
power Of the President Others have
been discovered (not yet made public in
the same way, in spite of the impediments
thrown in the way of investigation by
Locofoco clerks and subordinates, who
will not reveal the secrets of their prison
houses. Others have been pretty strongly
suspected, and every removal facilitates
the satisfaction Of suspicious.
This it is which makes every removal
a sore thing to the Opposition. This it is
which makes them groan in spirit when
Locofoco officer is displaced. As long
as the public Offices are filed with Loco
focos, it is plain enough that we shall
never know the mal-practices that have
prevailed in them. The opposition game
is, therefore, to retard removals and ex-
posture, by raising general cry of pro-
scription. If they can succeed in this,
they disgust the friends of the Admins
tration, and stimulate its enemies and
the result they pray for is an opposition
majority in the House composed of Barn.
burners, Abolitionists, and Locofocos.
With such majority, they can elect
Speaker, pack the Committees, defeat
investigation, or prevent the publication
of its results. The Administration then
will have no means of getting these
abuses and mal-practices officially before
the people.
We are not surprised that men made
towards by the consciousness of guilt
should hope to profit by menaces and in
Limitations but we should be very much
surprised if, by such acts, they should
make the slightest impression on the
opinions of the people or the policy of
administration.
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REVOLUTIONARY RELIc-No. 4.

Extract from the journal of Rev. DAVID AyERr,
a chaplain in the Continental army:
July 2, IT'S, lat Cambridge, Massachusetts. y
A heavy firing at Boston Neck this morning little
before sunrise One house was burnt.
Generals Washington and Lee arrived at camp
about one O'Clock p. m. of this day.
July 4, TUESDAY. This morning four horses
deserted from their British masters and came into
our camp of liberty.
July 5-Purchased gun for f3 l6s. Visited,
conversed, and prayed with the sick and wounded,
much this week
July s.-Major Upper headed party at Rox-
bury, and burnt the British guard-house. None
killed on our side.
July ll.-Last night, two Indians from Stock
bridge fired upon the British sentries in Roxbury
Neck, drove a number Of them back, and set fire to
a store which they occupied, and burnt ii to the
ground.
July l2.-Last night Major Topper brought off
number of sheep, &c, from the islands, and sseve-
raj prisoners To-day he went after the provisions
&c, which he left last night; was beset by three
barges, tender and schooner, but got to the
tnent with the loss Of but one Visit the
hospital daily.
July l3-Prayed with wounded young man
just before he expired.
July l4-Furnished myself with sixty zone good
cartridges.
July I6-Our regiment was drawn up upon
Prospect Hill to-day, to hear the manifesto Of Con-
gress read
July %, Thursday. )-Continental fast day. !
addressed the regiments.
July 25.-The Rhode islanders took possession
Of Prospect Hill, and other changes were made to-
day
July 26--Two regulars deserted to us.
July 27.--l read to our troops to-day the decla-
ration of war by Congress against General Gage.
July 81, MONDAY. IAN alarm about one o'clock
in the morning got up and went out with my gun.
The enemy fred very bnskly upon US from their
floating batteries, and from Bunker Hill, and killed
two Of our men. We fred upon them and killed
ton Neck.
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A DEArH-BEp CoSTRAcT.-There lives in Cow
lngton, KY, Tor did yesterday man worth about
$4,000, who lies upon what may be, and probably
,ciu be, his deathbed. Like many Of us, he does
not hike to die yet the future he does not think so
much Of the worldly treasure he is to leave be-
hind. Physicians he utterly despises, and has, dur
ing his present illness, suffered on without their
aid; but the excessive bodily pains that he has Of
late experienced forced him on Saturday TO send
for one. On the arrival of the doctor he submitted
his proposition, viz He agreed to give the doctor
three thousand dollars il he would restore HIM TO
health to be decided by three citizens Of Covington;
but II he died the doctor was 10 pay three hundred
dollars TO such heir (unknown) as he should name
in his will and positively asserted that not one
dime more would he rsk--three thousand dollars
was as much as his life was worth. The doctor
would not accede to the terms in black and rhife,
but finally compromised in writing, on two thou
sand dollars # he saved him, and IL not, he was TO
have no fee. We every much fear our worthy friend,
the doctor, from what we hear Of the condition Of
'0ld Avsrice,n will OF pas lost the two thousand
dolIars.-Cin. Enquirer, lob.
The Cincinnati Gazette states that the wheat crop
in the south OF Illinois and Indiana has, in all pro-
h.hilifv fsllen far heou III.
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The following naif and graphic story is taken
from that admirable periodical the United Service
Journal. Few, we think, will read it without
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