Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-12-04
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WASHINGTON, NOV. y.
Ii is stated that Mr. Benton will set out this at
ternoon for the West He will remain in Mis-
souri, until after the election next August for
members of Congress and the Legislature. A.
soon as he reaches st Louis he will announce him
self a candidate for Representative in Congress
from that District, and he expects TO be engaged
in the canvass with little ntermission until after
the election. | informed you in my last that
his book would not be ready for the press so soon
by several months as had been announced. 1t is
said that he has received from F. p. Blair the
manuscripts which Gen. Jackson deposited with
him, TO be used in posthumous defence OF HIM
self. during his political and military career
Whatever Mr. Benton may do now Is not of ma
teral interest to those engaged in the partisan
contests of the time. Even should he succeed IN
the canvass for seat in Congress, he would be
seventy two wears of age when the time arrived
for taking his place in that body period OF life
when politicians are little courted and less feared.
Mr. Calhoun's Posthnmous work on govern
ment excites a good deal of enquiry and criti-
cisln 1t will add nothing to that distinguished
mans reputation, either as regards his in'ellec-
tnal ability or his love of and confidence IN re-
publicanism This book reveals his plan for the
overthrow of the Constitution by the substitu-
ton of totally different scheme. He proposed
TO make at once two nations of the American
people by the appointment of two Executives OF
equal power, one from the North and one from
the South. He well knew that the government
would have been stopped and the confederacy
dissolved by the very first tariff bill presented
TO this dual Executive for its action. Mr. Cal
houn's doctrine of concurrent maiorties of clas-
ses. orders and interests in the State, fenced to
the same end, namely, entire impracticabiliy
and non-action OF the government. INSPECTOR
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. IL, P. NJ.
The steamshipF Fannyfrom BraZos confirms the
renort of Carveiai's abandoning the siege Of Mat
amoras. The failure is attributed to the want Of
military capacity and indecis:on. There was a
perfect stampede among his forces, increased by
a report that large Mexican reinforcement was
near, which proved groundless. Subsequently
Carvajal took post at Reynosa, where many re
Joined him.
A Rio Bravo paper says that Capt Ford had
recovered. and will reioin Carvaial and continue
the war The Mexicans are greatly elated.
rMr. Charles w. March, of Washington
CITY, alluding to the notice said to have been
given to our Government by England and
France, of their intention to search the vessels
Of this country bound to Cuba, writes as fol-
lows in letter to the New York Courier and
Enquirer: :, :,
ai haprened to be in the North, where Mr..
Webster was last summer, when the news ar
rived that England and France intended TO Or
der, or had ordered. American vessels to be
scare he'd, as in former times; and heard Mr..
Webster, then confined to his house by his an
nnal attack of catarrh, declare that the first IN
stance of any such proceeding ought to be, and
mould be. followed BY war! And know, also,
that this declaration was made by him In the
presence and hearing Of several persons In hab-
its Of daily correspondence with their English
friends. and that, in less than twelve days from
the time il was made, it was heard OF and
| known in high quarters in London.