The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-27
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE.



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Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON. March 81, 1851.
Senator Se,rarfs Lmretak'ng and Depau1e--DIr
Webstr and the Maryland State Conreaion TO
Dine togaho-Mr. Kmgmaas Appointmeat-Im
positions Pruaisei By the Southern Telegraph Line
-Uavr'ng to The Pabic, &c.
Mr.. Senator Seward took an affectionate leave of
President Fillmore and Secretary Webster, respec-
lively, yesterday and then departed for the North
The country is now safe.
VIZ Webster has received and accepted an invita-
ton to partake Of public dinner with the Maryland
Constitutional Convention, at Annapolis, onTuesday
next. 1t viii be great affair, for there is spot
in the wide Union where things Of that nature can
be better done up than in the great, old, merry
making town of Annapolis. The way good wine
will be drunk and good speeches made, win be worth
q visit to the place TO behold and enjoy.
am happy to learn that Il. kingman Esq, the
well-known Washington correspondent of the Jor-
s0i Of Commerce the Charleston Courier, and the
Nar York Commercial idretiser, has received an
appointment to one Of the newly-created clerkships
IN the state Department, at salary Of some 81 800
or 5000, forget which.
Mr.. kingman is a hgh-toned gentleman, an ex-
perienced whg politician, and easy and instruc-
tive writer. Ills character and abilities, and long
services IN the whig cause, ought to have induced
the late Taylor administration to have rendered to
him an Authorship, for he is far more entitled to
such station and far more capable of properly fill
ing one, than several gentlemen. now occupying
auditershils.
But hc not offered anything, and so he has
ince continued to write for the press and TO write
to show the public that the administration has
OF been without its great short comings.
The appointment he receives comes to him
Trough the kind Offices of his old personal friend
nd former Latin pupil, Senator Foote.
Mr.. Webster asked Senator Foote to accept one
ba ola rtSb5 ha ha1 haan aaffa
ting Congress to create, for some friend whom he
might name, and the warm hearted Senator named
his old tutor, who had taught him Latin, in Nir-
gina, more than quarter OF a century ago.
If a good and capable wing wants an Office under
ths whig administration, let him get the aid of de-
mocrstic Senators, and his will be far
certain than it would be with the aid Of whig Sena
tors, or any other wings.
Monopolies that practice impositions upon the
public ought to be exposed. The telegraph compa-
ny, which controls the telegraph between this city
and New Orleans, conceive 70 be one OF this cha
racter will instance few facts, by way of illus
trstion. On the 9th instant, gentleman sent de-
spatch TO New Orleans from the Southern telegraph
Office an this city, for which he paid upwards Of five
dollars After waiting several days without recey-
ing any answer, he went to the Office four days in
succession, and requested the operators to ascertain
whether his message had gone through or not, they
agreeing to comply with his request. lie in
formed that if his message did not 60 through, in
advance Of the mail, the money he had paid for ts
Transmission should be returned to him.
lie, having waited sixteen days, made, to-day.
written request to have his money returned to
him, and received from the operator the following
note in reply, to witt
WASHINGTON AND NEw ORLEANS TIT rcR APu LSE.l
Washington. March IL 1851.
Mr. have inquired Of the New Orleans once
whether received and delivered. II in
four days frcm this have answer from there. viii
refund you the amount paid on the despatch H. how
do receive stating the message re-
ceived and delivered, am instructed by the President
q this line not to refund the money.
lSignedl Respectfully. WM. LINTON"
If this is not pretty piece Of imposition, then
what ia Had the postage on the despatch been
thousand dollars the man who paldit IN advance
must be kept out of his money twenty days, II not
altogether. quick business for the lightning tcle-
graph, to say nothing OF its honesty.
To show how constantly this imposition i prac-
tised will cite this fact:-The gentleman who had
been imposed upon, described, was in company
with three other gentlemen to-day, 10 whom he
complained of the humbuggery of the Southern
telegraph Two Of the tAree-and one Of them
high officer of the government, the other Major
James nj McRea-at once remarked that they had
been served each in the way, by the same
telegraph company Each had paid in advance
some four dollars for a message which had never
reached its dest nation. and no money had been re-
funded 10 either Of them. | shall write the facts in
this matter TO some OF the newspapers of Rich
mend, Charleston, Mobile, and New Orleans. as a
warning 10 the people 70 take how they ge'
taken In BY the Southern Telegraph Line. which
requires twenty days TO ascertain whether des-
patch goes through from Washington 70 New Or
leans. y. y. Il.