The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-02

OS PARLfAMfsTz--The hst number Of Car
lyle's quaint Latter Day Pamphlets is on Par
hamcns. The following pithy extracts will not
be read amiss by the two Houses of Congress-,
who have beat the air with words, so long and
to so little purpose
:" In countries that can stand Free Press
which many cannot, but which England, thanks
TO her long good training, still can't is evident
the National consult or real Parliamentary De
bate, goes on of itself, every where, continually.
Is not the Times newspaper an open Forum,
open as never Forum was before, where all
mortlls vent their opinion, state their grievance
I'LL MANNER OF grievances, from loss OF your
umbrella in a railway, to loss of your honor and
fortune by unjust sovereign persons! One
grand branch OF the Parliament trade is evil
dent dead forever! Nor is the other grand
branch very living Ii we will consider il, the
essential truth Of the matter is, every man IN
now elect himself TO Parliament without con-
sulting the hustings at all. III there be any vote,
idea, or notion in him. orany earthly or heavenly
thing, cannot he tlke apen, and Herewith auto
cratIcally pour forth the same into the ears and
hearts OF all people 50 far rs it will go! Pre-
cisely so far; and, what is a great advantage
too, no further. The discussion of questions
goes on, not ii ST. Stephens now, but from Dan
to Beersheba by able editors and articulate-
speaking creatures, that can get others TO listen
to them. This is the fact, and it demands to be
attended to as such, and will produce changes,
think, by-and-by.
What is the good of men collected, with
effort, to debate on the benches of st. Stephens
now when there is Times newspaper Not
the dis .ussion of questions o. the ultimate
yot NJ 70 Of M. i
think y requires to go on, or can veritably go
on, in St Stephens now. The honorable gen
tleman is oflenest very wearisome in st. Sc
phens now; his and his CONSTITUENCIES Az or
No is all we want of the honorable gentleman
there all we are ever like to get of him there
could it be had without admixtures II your
Lordship will reflect on it, you will find it an
obsolete function, this debating one of his, use
less in these new times, as a set of riding post
boys would be along the line Of the Great
Western Railway.
Loving my life, and time, which is the stuff of
life, read no Parliamentary debates, rarely any
Parliamentary speech; but am told there is
not, once in seven years, the smallest CLEAN OF
new intelligence thrown on any matter, earthly
or divine, by an honorable gentleman on his legs
in Parliament. Nothing offered you but weari-
some, dreary, thrice-boiled colewort; bad arti-
Gle at first, and served and again served in news
papers and periodical and other literatures, till
even the inferior animals would recoil from it.
Honorable gentlemen have complained to myself
that under the sky there was not such bore.
What is or can be the use of this, your Lordship!
Let an honorable gentleman who has colewort
or stump oratory OF that kind, send it direct to
the Times; perhaps they will print it forhim, and
then all persons can read it there who hope in
struction from it. If the Times refuse to print
it, let the honorable gentleman, if still so minded,
print it at his own expense; let him advertise it
at penny gross, distribute it gratis as a hand
bill, or even offer small reward per head to any
citizen that will read it; but if, after all, no body
of citizens will read it, even for a reward, then
let the honorable gentleman retire into himself,
and consider what such omens mean! SO much
take to be fair, or, at least, unavoidable in a
free country Let every creature try to get his
opinion listened to and let every honorable
gentleman who can print their own stump orato-
ry and offer the public reward for using it, by
all means do so. But that when no human being
will incline or every consent to have their said
oratory, they can get upon their legs in Parlia-
ment and pour it ont still, to the burdening of
many newspapers, to the boring of their fellow
creatures, and generally to the despair of all
must crave to say, an nfatuation, and whatever
respectable old coat youput upon it is fast grow
ing nuisance which must be abated."
LATER FROM CALF oRNIA.-The true Delta of
New Orleans has received by the way of Mexico
news from Caifnrnia twelve days later than that
brought by the way Of Panama--namely to the
18th Of June. 1t is not very important. The
foreign miners were generally submitting to the
onerous tax imposed upon them by the territorial
Legislature. A meeting of the citizens Of Sonora
had been held and large sums of money were col
eced to pay for the expense of testing the consti-
nationality of the law.
The reports of the abundance of the gold and
the richness of the newly discovered placers,
(says the Delta) are positively dazzling. The
richest imaginable mines have just been discovered
in a chain of hills or small mountains in the
neighborhood Of San Jose. A company in San
Francisco has purchased the privilege of working
those mines in all their extent, which will include
a surface of several leagues. The company will
soon be on the spot with all the men and ma
chimes which may be required to work the mines
successfully. ~
\ The importance of this discovery is increased
by the fact that, instead Of its being like other
mines, a spot where certain quantity of gold
dust is scattered the soil, is rich vein run
ming the whole length of the Sierra Nevada, on a
width of about thirty feet, and yielding on an
average one dollar per ounce of mineral earth. A
fragment of rock has been detached on the spot,
the weight Of which was fourteen pounds, and
having been put into smelling furnace, 1t yielded,
with that imperfect manner of smelling, (Which
enables person to obtain barely one-haIf,) the
value of thrty-two douboons. Other trials have
obtained one and two dollars per pound Of rock.
The mine is said to be lnexhaustible; hence the
California papers aver that the surface Of ths
mines only had been discovered, and that the
mother mines yet to be found.
Translated for the Charleston Courier.
HAVANA, July 9th, 1850.
The following are the names Of the prisoners
recnrnlnended 10 he SET nj liberty hr the Iudne Of