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More OF the Lettera.

Our contemporary of the Union comments at
some length on the recent developments in the
correspondence of the National Democratic
Committee, which do not appear to be alto
gether to his liking "Lf The letters be geau-
ine," says the Union, (and there is no reason
to suppose that they are forgeries,) sit is not
denied that they unfold speculations on the
part of such individuals as Mr. Donaldson, of
Texas, which are entirely inconsistent with
the sentiment and feeling of the Democratic
party. But no one can have the hardhood to
say that such specuatlons import more than
the inconsiderate and irresponsible opinions Of
individa als, which arc no more to be taken as
the indication of party action than should be
an isolated note in ganlH for a finished COM
position of music. In saying this we impeach
not the right of any individual to his specula-
tons, nor do we mean any offence to any one
whose correspondence has thus been exposed"
But the Union finds some consolation for the
discovery Of this plot, on the part of certain in
dividuals of the Democracy, in letter from
distinguished member of the Democratic Con
Vention in MASSACHUSETTS, which gives the
comfortable assurance that the Democrats in
that State will, at the next election, outnum-
Der the Free sellers and Abolitionists. This
anonymous epistle, in orr judgment, is not en-
titled to the credit which belongs 10 the letter
Of Mr.. b. F. HALfETT to the Democratic Com
mittee, which we published day or two since.
In this letter, Mr.. HALLETT says that the ode
saocraey Is about disbdnded and merged in Free
soiIsm." Such, we apprehend, is, beyond all
question, the true state of the case. The
merger was complete when the DEMOCRATS
united with the Abolitionists to send an Adolf
ZIONIST to the Senate of The United States. A
party which has sent two thorough going Abo-
Iitionists to the Senate in succession can with
difficulty free its skirts from the contamination
which such an alliance involves. 1t is not sat
islactory to Offset the distinct statement Of a
responsible person, WHO stands 50 high in the
ranks of the National Democracy as Mr.. HAL
LETT, by an epistle from an anonymous mem
her Of the Worcester Convention, however
distinguished"
We recur once more u the official CORE
spondence published in the New York Herald;
and we beg Of the Union, il it has any reason
for suspectng the authenticity of these letters,
to give us its reasons for the suspicion. If they
are indeed forgery, they throw into the shade
every other fabrication Of the kind, or Of any
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No advices have been received at any of the
Departments confirming the alleged departure
from New Orleans Of the steamers Fanny and
Alabama, or the outrages upon the Spanish
Consul. We may yet be permitted TO hope
that the latter have been very much exaggera-
ted, though there is little reason to Suppose
that in the present excited state of the public
mind there has been no outbreak of the mob.
Telegraphic dispatches have been received
here, by the way of Baltimore, stating that the
bodies of CRITTENDEN and KERR Were brought
10 New Orleans by the schooner FAIRY. Still
later dispatches from New York state that the
Pampero had landed GONZALEZ near where
she landed LOPEZ, and that LOPEZ had taken
possession Of Fort Mariel and the war steamer
Plzarro, with much more Of similar import
which it is hardly worth while to recapitulate.
As we know that GONZALEZ was in Charles
ton on the Oath instant, from his letter in the
Mercury, which will be found in another col
umn, we presume that no reliance can be
placed upon any part of these dispatches
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From The Baton Rouge (LG.) Gazette, dug. l6.
Military MOyementa

On Thursday last, Geographic despatch was
received here from New Orleans, ordering the
military stationed at our place, to proceed at
once to New Orleans. In half hour after the
despatch was received, so efficient was Col.
WEBSTER, that his artillery company was on
their way to New Orleans in less than an hour af-
ter the order issued in the Crescent City 20
We have heard various rumors regarding this un-
expected movement, think the most plausible
one Isl that the troops required to aid the au-
thoritics in New Orleans in keeping armed men
from proceeding to Cuba.
Whatever may be the sympathies of our citizens,
the President ia bound by a solemn oath to see the
laws executed, and he can only sustain himselfand
be respected by the world by acting conscientious
y and independently in the present crisis. The
power of the telegraph wonderfully illustrated
in the order above referred to- for it will be per-
ceived that in less than hour from the time the
command was issued in New Orleans, troops one
hundred and twenty miles distant were proceeding
to their point of designation.
The incompatible Pete shipped the troops with a
parting blessing, bidding them to take care OF
'that flag" and bring it home with honor.
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AN INCIDENT OF THE SPEAKING AT DALEvilLR
MIss.-Colonel Melville, in the course of his
speech at Dalcvie, on Tuesday last, declared that
Congress had become great central abolition
society" and General Freeman, in his reply took
the Colonel off in the following Style "My honor
able friend tells you that Congress has become a
great central abolition society, and yet he acans
you TO elect him member Of itt For my own part,
if believed he does would not ask you to elect
me TO Congress; do not wish to become a men,
Der of an abolition society, and don't believe you
want to be represented in one. 1t is needless for
US TO say that the audience united in an almost
deafening shout of applause.
ILauderdaIe (Nfiss.l Republican,
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Some of the New York papers of Wednes-
day announce, on Geographic authority, the ar
rival in Washington the day previous OF the
PRESIDENT. On the same authority, the return
of the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR had been
already circulated through the country. we
presume that the telegraph has, by this time,
contradcted these incorrect announcements.
Ii was the first intention of the PRESIDENT
to return here by Saturday of this week. The
latest advices from his party announce that 1t
was his purpose to be in Lynchburg to-day,
proceed tomorrow to Charlottesville, where he
would pass Sunday and Monday, and thence re-
turn to Washington on Tuesday. This will
probably be the course of his tour, unless 1t
should be changed by intelligence of the recent
affair at Havana, which will probably reach him
at Lynchburg
We can form some estimate of the reliance
to be placed upon our Geographic dispatches In
relation to Cuban affairs, when we find that
between prominent points in such constant con-
nec1ion as Washington and New York. mis-
statements of the description above alluded to
find their way into journals whose only object
must be to obtain correct intelligence.
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Wing Congregational Convention of Nary
land.


The Wing Convention for the second Con-
gressional district of Maryland met at Hagers-
town on Saturday, August 22d, and on motion
the following officers were appointed: President
VALENTINE ADAMS, Of Frederick county; Vice
Presidents, ANDREW HoGMRE, of Washing
ton county, ARTHUR CowToN, of Alegany
county; Secretaries, J. A. MAGRUDER, of Wash
ington county, SAMUEL L. HoUsToN, of Fred
erick county.
u Elchelberger, esq, Of Frederick, then adj
dressed the convention In very neat speech
and closed by nominating j. PHILIP ROMAN, of
Allegany, as the Wing candidate for Con-
gress, which nomination was unanimously con-
Cured in
Mr. John Newcomer then offered the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously adopted:
RESOLVED, That this convention heartily approve
OF the course pursued by the present Administra-
ton in it's resolute and firm determination to exc
cute the laws of the land; that we recognize in
WILLARD FILLMORE those qualities of a statesman
eninently fitting him for the high station he has
filled with much credit to the nation, and we
recommend him to the Wing party of the Union
as their candidate for the Presidency in 1852.
On motion it was then
Resoiucd, That the proceedings of this conven-
ton be published in all the Wing papers in the
Congressional district
VALENTINE ADAMS, President.
A AsPagw c aUrn'aH' Vice Presidents.
SAMUEL s; N; HA +. Housros, Ssoeretariee.
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Governor LETcHER, our Minister to Mexico,
will leave Washington hismorning, by the way
cutter Fortcvd is in readiness to carry him to
Havana, en- route for Vera Cruz. He has been
detained in this country by matters of lmpor-
lance connected with his mission, and we are
gratiied to know that he leaves us in much
improved health to encounter the dangers to
which the best constitution is exposed in max
ing the journey to the city of Mexico at this
season of the year.
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The Charleston Mercury ON Cuban Annex.
alton.

The Charleston Mercury contains an article
which seems to have been carefully considered
and written, in which that journal takes
ground against the annexation of Cuba to the
United States The following is an extract
from the article in question::
Scuba is u region already well peopled, with
manners and laws fixed by immemorial usage.
These differ essentially from own. They are
the manners and laws that belong to absolute
governments not republics; and there ia no in
stance record where the people of Spanish and
of English descent have coalesced harmoniously
into one. 1t is the union of elements of everlast
ing hostility and discord, and, instead of increas-
ing our strength, it would be adding to our trou-
bles. 1t is indeed urged that, by admission into
this Confederacy, Cuba would speedily be peopled
with the Anglo American race, and thus become
one of us. Something of this would doubtless take
place but Cuba has already than the popu-
lation of Georgia on scarcely more than ne-half
the area Of Georgia. BY what process we to
change this great population into one of different
laws, manners, and nationality? Are they to be
extermiuated, or bought out? If either of these
processes is depended on, what ia meant by the
high-sounding declaration about liberating the op-
pressed Cubanss The enterprises on foot would
then be better characterized as attempts to dlspos
scss, rob, and exterminate the Cubans. Our love
for Cuba would prove to be that affection which a
thief has for his neighbours gold watch rather than
that which Christian has for his neighbor II we
look to the union of the people of Cuba with this
Confederacy, as we have already minated. we
think the effects would be deplorable. II was in
this latter aspect that Mr.. CALHOUN considered and
deprecated the acquisition of any portion of the
settled country of Mexico, and still more strongly
of the Island of Cuba"
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General Gonzalez.

The Charleston Courier says that General
GONZALEZ did not embark in the Pampero,
is evident from the fact that he arrived at the
Charleston Hotel in Charleston on Saturday,
which he left for Columbia on Sunday morning
The Richmond Times Of yesterday says ii
was rumored that General G. had arrived in
Richmond
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Eve kErCBLIG.
FRIDAY MORNING. AUGUST %. 1851.

,.Theseries Of measures to which have alluded
are regarded by me as a settlement, n principle
and substance-a final danger
gus and exciting subjects which they embraced. ;"
ssBv that adjustment we have been rescued from
the vide and boundless agitation thatsurrounded
u.s. and have a firm, distinct, and legal ground
70 rcst upon And theoccasion, trust, willJus
tify me IN ExHoRTINe MY cousTRyMEN TO RALLY
upoN ASp MAIsTAIa THAT GROUND as the best, II
not the only means, of restoring peace and quiet
10 the country, and maintaining inviolate thein-
legrity Of the Union"
IPREsIDEHT FILLAoRE's MESSAGE.
"The Presidents message, at the opening OF the
present session of Congress, expresses fully and
plainly his own and the unanimous opinion OF ali
those associated with him in the Executive admin
sistration of the Government, in regard TO what
care called the Adjustment or Compromise mea-
sures of last session. That opinlonis, thatthose
measures should be regarded in principle as
final settlement of the dangerous and exciting
.subjects which they embrace; that though they
were not free from imperfect tons, yet, in theiI
mutualdependence and connexion, they formed
"a svsten of compromise the most concilietory
and best for the entire country that could be OBJ
tanned from conflicting sectional interest an'
'opinions, and that therefore they should be az
shered to, until time and experience should DC
monstrate the necessity of further legislation
guard against evasion or abuse. ThatoPlnion's
far az know, remains entirely unchanged, an
will be acted upon steadily and decisively Tn
peace ofthe country requires this; the security
'the Constitution requires this; and everyconslde
ration of the public good demands this. II tn
Administration cannot stand upon the principle
ofthe message, il does not expect 10 stand at all
rDAs1xL WEBsrEn's Letter to The Union Meeiin
at IPestchestsr.
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VINO MEETING IN NoRroLK, VA.--The Ports
mouth JVhig, of the 23d instant, says:
"The Wings of Norfolk held a meeting last
night, at which some Of the spirit of 40 and rs
manifested itself. The meeting addressed by
Leopold C.. 2. Cowper, esq the candidate for this
Congressional district, in remarkably fecious
strain. Nlessrs. Robinson and Taylor also enter
tanned the assemblage tor half an hour each, where
i'll they damned General Millson over the shoulders
of General Bayly and othcrs. We hail with de-
light return Of that spirit of enthusiasm which so
triumphantly swept every thing before it in the
Harrison and Taylor campaigns. Letus at it then
with will"
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The FUNERAL OF Col. r. II. Ross, OF The 7th in
fantry, who died at the Revere House, in Boston,
on Sunday, took place on Monday and the remains
were teIs porarily inferred at Forest Hills Gene
tory, Roxbury. The funeral was attended by a
number Of army officers, among whom were Col.
Mansfield, Majors Johnson and Wyse, Captain
Brown, Lieuts. Blount, Patten, and DR.. Murray.
The Post states that the deceased distinguished
himself in the Mexican campnigns, and was bre-
veted for his gallant conduct at Matamoros, Mon
terey, and the taking of the city Of Mexico. His
disorder was chronic darrhosa, contracted in
Mexico, and which has been fatal to large number
OF officers and men who served in that campaign
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ELEVENTH DIsTRicT OF VRGINIA.-In consc-
quence Of the death Of Governor Mcdowell, the
staunon Spectator says, there is no candidate for
Congress in this district. The Democrats of Au-
gusta county, at their meeting on Monday, re-
commended district convention of their party to
be held in Harrisonburg in September to nominate
candidate, TO which they appointed delegates.
They also appointed delegates to the Democratic
State Convention,
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land Wnrrnnfs.

We learn that the whole number Of land
warrants already issued under the act of the
2Sth of September, 1850, is thirty eight thou
sand five hundred and forty FIVE, and that the
clerks of the Pension Office are now engaged
upon the cases presented from the 18th to the
Goth of December, 1850.
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BAYAnD TAYLOR. of New York, author of "Views
Aioot' and Gel Dorado lie to sail for Europe this
week, from Philadelphia. The New York Express
says:
East and explore as much of Egypt as he is able to
do in the course of ten twelve months. Good
wishes in abundance will follow Mr.. Taylor, for no
young American writer has worrssore laures than
he by his entertaining works."
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The FARM OF Mn. WEBSTER, in Franklin New
Hampshire, (says a correspondent of the Boston
4dtas who recently passed IT'D is one of the most
beautiful objects along this route. His neat coun-
try residence, with its ample fields, its fine lawns
and the high state of culture which his lands pre-
sent, appears in marked contrast with the sur
rounding country.
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"THE FILLiBUsTERs." This term is not generally
understood, but New Orleans paper, which gives
the definition, says sit Familiarity used in the
French and other languages Ms descriptive Of a
class of Adventures Of all nations, who during the
last half of the seventeenth century, infested the
West India Islands and the coast Of Central Amer
lea for the purpose of piracy, and who were in
English more commonly termed Buccaneers. The
term was derived from the Spanish name Of light
boat, called fy-boat, vessel then in common use
in the West Indies,
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MIR. Calhoun and Cuban Annexation.
From the CAarIestOn Mercury Of Monday.

From the Charlsston Mercury Of Monday.
We publish a letter from General Gonzalez,
touching single point in remarks of Satur-
day. II was part of our object to press Mr. Cal
houn's authority into the discussion, and we al
luded to his opinions solely for the purpose of cor
recting the statement that he had been opposed to
the annexation of Texas. The grounds OF his op-
position to the acquisition of any of the populous
portion of Mexico, we took from his public speeches,
and applied it to the of Cuba only by way OF
inference-because the were the same. We
do not know that he ever made any public decara-
tions on this subject, and we should interpret with
some grains of allowance the impressions which
his private conversations may have made men
who were eager for the sanction of his approval II
does not need either argument evidence to those
who knew the comprehensive and generous nature
OF his craftsmanship to prove that he took deep
interest In Cuba, and earnestly desired the free
dom and independence of that beautiful land.
But this does not necessarily involve annexation.
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Orr FoR CUBA.--On last Thursday, several
men belonging to this place left for Cuba. They
are all clever, intelligent, worthy young men, and
we wish them every success in their perilous under
gomery, and then make their way to New Orleans,
we suppose, and wait until an opportunity offers
for sailing for Cuba.
GIGskegee (Aia.) Republican, 2lst.
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EMIGRATION TO CuBA.-Some forty TO sixty young
men-we could not ascertain the exact number
strongly suspected that their destination is Cuba.
Montgomery (Aia.) advertiser, 23d.
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but in the present condition Of Cuban affairs is at
variance with his sentiments as an individual and
bis position as public officer.
"a. Oakley HALL,
Assistant Dist Attorney''
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G. II. Donaldson.

The Hon. GEORGE f.. BADGER, Senator
from North Carolina, has arrived in this city,
and taken lodgings at Wizards Hotel
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GENERAL HOUSTON, BY YoAKuM.
HuNrsvILLE, TEXAS, July D, L

HUNTSVILLE, Texas, July %, 1851.
Dean SIR: General Houston has read your obg-
ing letter Of the 2Sh ult, and being greatly afTc-
ed by the pain in his wounded ARM so that he does
not write with any comfort, he requests to ten
der you his thanks for your suggestions, and to say
that he has the fullest confidence in his friends in
this State that at the proper time they will attend
to the matters you suggest.
He says he will be glad to hear from you when
you think proper to write.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
II. YoAKUM
c. II. DoSALpsoN
Nothing could more emphatically testify to
the complete disintegration and dsorganization
Of the National Democratic party than the pub
LEGATION of such series of letters from its lead
ing members, addressed to a gentleman with
whom most of them do not seem to have the
pleasure of a personal acquaintance" If
genuine" they are certainly highly import
ant; and when the Union intimates that Mr..
Donaldson, of Texas, has been guilty of an
attempt to palm of forged correspondence,
we think it Mr.. DoNALDsoN's duty to repel the
imputation. We repeat that there is nothing
in the letters that leads us to doubt their anthem
ITCHY.
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The man arrested in New Jersey on the charge
Of killing the Bartol family in Pennsylvania, has
proved an abb, and been discharged.
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From The same.

COLONEL CAMpEN-The Kanawha Republican
names several gentlemen, Wings, as proper per-
to represent this district in the next Congress
of the United States. Among those suggested is
Colonel G.. d. CAMDEN, of Harrison, whom we be-
eve to be entirely acceptable to the people OF this
section. He has been long and fully known to our
citizens, who have ever highly esteemed his suavty
of manner, his legal ability, and that upright de-
pertinent which has characterized him through life.
His recent services in the reform convention have
exalted him still higher in public estimation. No
man in that body was a truer or irmer friend OF
reform than was Colonel Camden. Throughout
the protracted discussion upon the basis question,
and the subsequent consideration of other measures
in which the West vitality interested, he was
at his post always sustaining the cause of his
constituency. Some of his speeches justly won for
him high rank among the debaters of the State,
exhibiting, as they do, mind well stored with
valuable statistical information, and well versed in
the history of our ancient Commonwealth and the
country at large. These are qualifications such as
would adorn the station TO BIO filled, and such as
will ensure hearty support for Gideon Draper
Camden at the polls.
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Your obedient servant,
HORACE CLARK
G.. II. DONALDSON, ESQ.

We shall complete our selection for this
morning with an epistle from General HoUs
TON himself, written by an amanuensis. The
General believes that his friends in Texas will
attend to Mr.. DoNALDsoN's suggestion at ''the
proper time"
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From he Boston Daily advertiser, dug. 90.
The Lopez Expedition.

We are indebted to friend for the two following
letters from Havana, one of which gives distinct
and reliable narrative of the incidents of the pratt
cal expedition Of Lopez, from lite landing to the
date Of the latest information from the Of ac-
ton; and the other contains remarks on the state
of things, and public feeling in the island, which
we conceive to be entitled to full confidence. The
letters addressed to most respectable and
intelligent gentleman, who has resided long on the
island, and who has an intimate knowledge of the
fidelity: