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The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23

Judge John Bragg. elected to Congress from
the Mobile district, Alabama, is said TO be the
brother Of Capt Bragg. who gave the Mexicsns
ss a tinfs more grape" at Buenn Vista
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ne new steamship Oounp,a W.. ply o..~ee =,
~ e' aau po..a ~ - as -
VIZ ,o."e' Po'rs t'e a'fsa' u 'ne nia,,s a"u pds
.o"' a"a,'i,, anu
rror, g., E.n.;.
, o.
a. ,s $50. 80 rt!sh,S ...;aaff ,r ~
p"..i'oa.s po % Gu a"I run;"n p"'''
Ths ~sII' Lno'n s s, as'm Sab Sands &c
20" sap 80" -
I,ooo 'ons Nv" u"ue' I:a ~ .n' ~
a pamy, 1"u LII ~ L s rnnu;n - r,ra
c'Ia i WIN oe heP' running oS q" eA"'
nny ~ H. h r. nil, m ,hs
~ 1880, a.''aao "a - X
s"n 800, ~" 'e'"'" A0'p''0o Gnu ING o''''
N' tn cornx;on IN tho Atlantic u,;l, he main.
- =. -. Ms;,oi c.. - s,.,sh;..
""'. y ''' o'''eN A''A''' '''~' ''Na'no"'P
Georgia. ...................3, OO0 tons
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WoRcEsTER, Aug. 81.

WORCESTER, Aug. Il.
lst. Resolved, That the Democratic party is
pre-eminently national, and not sectional, and
Tor the Union as whole Union that II has al
ways sustained, and can only retain its supre-
macy in the Union, by adhering to its own men
and measures, rePosng on its fundamental prn-
cipls Of excluding all tests marked by sectional
lines. South or North, East or West, and by
leaving to the sound sense of the people Of each
State and territory their domestic policy ard in
stitutions.
3d. Rcsolped, That this convention recon-
mend to the national Democratic committee, and
to the Democracy Of each State, the call of a
national CONVENTION, to be held in Baltimore in
May, 1851.
Sd. RESOLVED, That this committee, being now
called together for the purpose of eIecing dele
les at large to the national convention, it is
the especial duty of the representatives of the
Democracy Of Massachusetts. here assembled,
distinctly and fully to lay down the national
platform upon which these delegates are to be
chosen, and the principles upon which they are
TO represent Us in that convention, before pro
ceeding to their election.
4lh. Resolred, That the convention reaffirms
the resolution passed by the Democratic State
convention, on September Is, 1916, in Faneuil
Hall, in these words: Res0lUsd, That we hold
to the integrity of the Union as established by
the Constitution, and therefore we deprecate as
disuni0n, in it's worst form, the attempts of any
party or class 20 stigmatize and denounce one
portion OF the Union, its domestic institutions
with which the Constitution does not interfere,
and of the propriety of which each State is its
own independent Judge.
6lh. Rcsolued, That this convention approve
and adopt the national principles and sound
reasoning of the address issued by the Demo
cratic State committee calling this convention.
9th. Resoiped, That the Democratic party OF
the commonwealth is a national and not a sec
tional party, ana fully and unreservedy adopts
the resolutions Of the national Democratic con
vention of Baltimore in l848, as the only true
Democratic creed.
It'll RESOLVED, That the Baltimore platform
covers and was intended to embrace, the whole
question of slave agitation in Congress, and
therefore we 60 for faithful execution of, and
acquiesceDce in, all the compromise measures
settled by the last Congress.
9Th. Resolved, That Charles G Green, of Suf
folk, Henry ii. Childs, of Berkshire, and Isaac
Davis, OF Worcester, be appointed the delegates
at large, and one from the new district, and that
they be instructed to act IN conformity witt
these resolutions; and that il is recommended tt
the several Congressional districts in the com
monwealth to elect delegates respectively who
will harmonic with the national Democracy o.
the Union in these principles.
The 9th, 10th, llth, 1 9th, and 18th resolutions
refer exclusively to State affairs.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23

PxAcrscAL EDuc ALTON. The education gained
10 soms schools reminds one of the gewgaws that
wilt in the sun aud fade IN the rain. This u gen
orally termed finished" education, and was for
merly conferred at female institutions called
"boarding Schools but latierIy the system has
expanded somewhat. aud now we find "Miss
Nancys" among both sexes. The Boston Trans
csipt has a case in point "A master mechanic OF
the city told as the other day thai his son had
gone through examination at has school with
the highest honors. He was proficient in algebra,
and similar branches Of study. He was given
simple sum in cross multiplication. such as his ia
Their frequently called to do in his trade, butthe
finished scholar sunk under his task, and acknowl-
edged his ignorance of common arithmetic.
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Mrs. JANE TAYLOR

HAS several vacant rooms for families, single
Ill ladies', and gentlemen. The house ~ large,
pleasant. and airy, and situated in the best p"re
Of Washington, between A and 9Th streets, on
Pennsylvania svnue. A first rate table - ksp''
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23

lIAClFlC MAIL 5 STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
[ ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. 1.-The public informed that undt the
new arrangement of this Company, steamers in
spected and approved by the Navy Department.
and carrying the United States mails, will con-
tinue to leave Panama and San Francisco the LIST
and 5th days of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident, and will touch Acapulco,
San Diego, and NJ onterey.
The following steam packets belonging to the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, are now in the
Pacific, one of which will be always in port at
pa ch end of the routa
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PRINTING TYPES

A re now sold Mt BRUCE'S NEW YORK
"A TYPE-FOUNDRY, at the following very
low prices, for approved six months notes
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The subscriber is also appointed Agent for the
District of Columbia for the British Commercial
Life Insurance Company, established in 1920, and
empowered by act OF Parliament, for the insurance
of lives and the endowment of children, in Lon
don, New York and Washington city. Capital
$4,000, 900.
Communications addressed to the subscriber,
Washington, ID. c., will receive prompt attention.
M. THOMPSON,
Attorney aud Counsellor al La,p, aud Commits
missioner of Deeds for North and South Carolina
p. 5. Refer, if necessary, to the heads of de-
partments, and to members of Congress generally
March 25--tf
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BOARD OF MANAGERS

IERms:-lhe MONUMENT Will be printed on a
double royal sheet---the paper and type being Of
the best qunlity-and in quarto form, containing
sixteen large pages, that it may be more easily
preserved The price will be two dollars per an
mum, payable on the receipt of the second num-
Der. The nature Of the enterprise not admitting
Of any credit, none can be given.
Societies and clubs will be furnished with the
Monument on the following terms:--3 copies for
IS; copies, So; 10 copies, SIS; &c.
Those who are disposed to patronise the Mon
UmEsT, are requested to forward their names to
the general agent, without delay. The first num-
Der will be published early in May, and the second
on the ID day Of August, and weekly thereafter;
time being allowed for the prospectus to be circu-
lated, and for the agents TO make returns. As all
subscribers will be contributors TO the Monument
itself. their names will be published in the paper.
April %, 1855.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-23

Pension aud Bounty Land Agency.
FINHE subscriber has opened in the city of Wash
l. ingtoa AGENCY for the prosecution Of
all descriptions Of claims against the General
Government. f TK
His perfect knowledge Of all the Pension Laws,
ana the places where are Deposited all evidences of
service now extant. will enable him to establish
many claims which have long remained suspend
ed for want Of proof and proper attention.
lie, therefore, offers The public hts services,
particularly in the following cases, VIZ:
Suspended and rejected claims under all the PEN
alon Laws:
Applications for increase of pension, under any
OF the Pension Laws, where the pensioners
dissatisfied with their present allowance.
For all those widows who received, or enti-
tied TO receive the years pension due the 4th
OF March, lo4o; under the acts of July 1th, 1898,
Msrch Sd, lS43, and June 18th, 1874, being those
who were married before the lot Of January. 1884,
he will undertake to establish, under the act of
Eel .ruary I'd, l64S, their claims to pensions for
life, commencing the 4th Of March, lS4e, when
their pensions under the foregoing acts termi-
uated
For all those wdows of revolutionary officers
or soldiers, who were married after 1898, but be-
fore January ed, 1900, he will undertake to estab
lish their claims to pensions for life, commencing
on the 4th Of March, 1913, under the act of July
90, IS4S.
To all those widows ofrevoutionary pensioners
whose claims have been rejected or suspended for
want Of proof Of service; or those who are IN the
receipt Of pension under any of the pension
laws, less than that received by their husbands
under the acts Of May 18th, 1928, or June 9Th,
1882, he will ensure the same amount per AN
mum that their husbands received, from the time
the pension is made to commence by the law un-
der which they claimed or have been pensioned
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BOUNTY LAND,

For the surviving, or the widows, or minor child
rem Of deceased officers and privates, who servet
in the war of 1912 with Great Britain, the Next
can war, or in any of the Indian wars, since 1880
Terms moderate, where the claim is established
ofherroise charge.
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NoRTHERHER / 200 tons. UNICORN. :. GOO TONS
CoLUMBD 800 tons. FREMoAr. 600 TONS
ANTELOPE. - tons.
The new steamship COLUMBIA will ply be-
tween San Francisco and ports in Oregon, await
ing at the former port the arrival of the mails and
passengers from Panama, and returning without
delay with the mails and passengers for the steam
er from San Francisco.
regular line of propeers will be kept up for
lhe transportation of freight and transient passen-
gers between Panama and San Francisco
The well known steamship SARAH SANDS,
of 800 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company and peculia. ly commodious in her cabin
arrangements, will be kept running as an extra
family boat.
One Of the above steamers will keep up the con-
nection between Acapulco and the other Mexican
ports.
The connection in the Atlantic will be main
tained by the United States mail steamships
GEORGIA 5000 tons. CRESCENT CRY 500 tons.
ONO 900 tons. CHERoKEE 300 tons.
RECirY2, 900 tons. PHILADELPHIA 100 tons.
Leaving New York for Chagres on the llth
and Goth of each month.
The new steamships Ell DORADO and FAIL
CON will form a direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods as will
insure as little detention as possible on the 18TH
mus, and forming with the Pacific steamships a
through line to and from New Orleans, and ports
in Mexico, California and Oregon. Passages from
New Orleans can be secured from Armstrong,
Lawrason d Co., agents, at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York to
San Francisco has been reduced from
s400, in state rooms, TO $3.50.
$3.50, in lower cabin, TO $500.
5000, in steerage, TO sl65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will pe
at the lowest adopted by any safe steamer be-
tween those ports.
For choice Of berths, apply at the Office of the
nd "A IL
agency, III West street.
A prl 26--tf.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24

vor of articles dear bought and tar
fetched, as though it were a decree OF
Fate. We believe there are not less than
Thirty Millions of Dollars worth of Amer
lean Products sold every year to our own
people as Of Foreign origin, with French
stamps and iaw-cracking Dutch labels al
fixed to fortify the deception. Our Cloths
are exported to the Canadas and sold freely
as American at profit to the maker after
paying an equal import duty with their
British competitors; while on our own
side of the border the British cloths
crowd them almost out Of market,
though ours have the advantage Of duty
nominally thirty per cent. on the imPorta-
ton Of Foreign Cloths. Many a French
print which has sold readily at twenty to
thirty cents is speedily initiated here and
sold thirty to fifty per cent. lower, going
off briskly so long as it is supposed to be
French but let its American production
be admitted, and it must fall far lower be-
fore it finds purchasers. Thus Messrs.
Rankin & Ray in the Bowery are extern
sive manufacturers of very good and very
cheap hosiery; but to coax our Republican
damsels to put their feet into their other
wise faultless stockings, they find 1t exPe-
dent to stamp a British erOon on the
upper portion thereof This is fair
specimen of American servility to Euro
pean taste and fashion. Our dry goods
stores are full of American fabrics con-
trived to initiate and pass for Foreign artl-
cles every way their interiors; save in the
colonial ideas of our people and the conse-
quent false pretenses under which they are
submitted to the public.
Those who urge that American fabrics
are abundsntly protected by twenty and
thirty per cent. duties ought to consider
these facts. American antiNational pre-
iudices, and the ignorant presumption that
a Foreign fabric must be better than its
American counterpart because such was
the fact thirty years ago, create discrimi-
nation of more than twenty per cent.
against American fabrics generally. five
could but overcome these prejudices, and
utterly eradicate them, a much lower duty
than is now required would be sufficient.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24

The DEATH-PENALTY ABOLISHED -
The young State of Iowa has Just set her
elder sisters a noble example by abolishing
the penalty of Death. We have not the
legislative proceedings, but the fact is stat
ed in several Western papers.
WISCONSIN has barely failed to abolish
the Death Penalty this Winter. A bill for
that purpose passed last Session, but some
how failed to reach the Governor so as to
receive his signature This year it has
failed. Wait little longer
In MICHIGAN, repeated attempts to re-
enact the Death-Penalty, abolished FIVE
years ago, have been regularly defeated.
Says the Rochester Democrat,
The Detroit Tribune has an able article against
such a course and states that fragrant crimes Of
oil descriptions have decreased since the humane
law was adopted There have been since 1876,
in population of 397, 900, but three indictments
for murder, and not one conviction the jury not
being able to agree In two instances and the other
case being one Of confirmed insanity
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24

LAND LIMITATION IN WIsCONsIN.-A
bill limiting Ito GAO acres) the area of Land
which any person may hereafter acquire In
Wisconsin has Just passed to its engross-
ment in the popular branch of the Legisla-
ture by a vote of thirty nine to nineteen, or
more than two to one. We trust that it Is
destined to become a law. Nearly orquite
every Adopted Citizen in the House voted
Yea. They know what Land Monopoly
is and what it leads to.
We regret to see the leading Wing
journal in Wisconsin opposing this salutary
measure of precaution against the master
political evil of modern time the source
of wrongs and woes innumerable. We had
hoped better things of the humane spirit
and progressive tendencies of its Editor.
This limitation will harm no one, while it
will benefit millions. We hope that, even
yet, he will reconsider and modify his OPP
position.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24
Patriotisxn-TwO Kinds.

You could not worse insult an American
than to tell him his countrymen could be
logged, man to man, by any other people
on the face of the earth. Bunker Hill he
considers 6rst-rate fight (as it was); the
capture of Burgoyne magnificent affair /;
and the victory of New Orleans one OF the
most brilliant in the annals of mankind.
That ours is indeed a great country, and
our people the smartest, most intel
hgent, ingenious and capable of any that
live or have lived, is firm article in the
National creed.
But when they come to products and
purchases, they have strange way of for
getting all this. Everybody THAT is, the
great majority act as if Yankee couldn't
possibly be trusted to do anything requiring
genius or skill. Every sixpenuy huckster
advertises his cigars as from Havana; his
liquors (villainous cutthroat stuff they be)
as from France or Holland; his wares as
from England or Germany. Iron must be
Swedish or Scotch to pass muster; though
all Europe together has not so various nor
so excellent ores as those Of our own broad
domain. Our Cloths must all be British,
German or French, or nobody that as any
body thinks them worth wearing. "Have
you any american cloth ?" asked lady In
a large dry-goods store of our City few
days since, intending to buy cOat-pattern
for her husband. mo, Ma'am," replied
the smiling clerk, "nO gentleman Gears
american cloth" That is the everyday
talk of statesmen, not with regard to cloths
only, and nobody thinks of getting knocked
down for it. Yet lie. any man speak with
like contempt of our National dexterity
and efficiency in throat-cutting, and he
could not walk the streets with safety.
- But not merely do our peddlers Of
tape and dimity commend their goods as
Foreign made so that their price may be
enhanced and their sale qGickened, bat
our artisans and manufacturers themselves
knuckle to this base, blind prejudice in ia
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-24
Gen. Paez.La.e President Of Venezuela

He has been most bssey Tesied by the tyTann OF bis
w1nderer in foreign land from the free nston be has 20
much contributed establish and uphold he sA repao-
in principle and bis proudesl boast Is Ai ne "a.
made cur own Washington the model OF his political
We glad to bear that the Secretary OF STATE IN
@ b R utmost N s dsapeon Es msraaes have en-
cited the deepest COMMUNICATION OF our countrymeo ana
be il greeted with the highest respect wherever be aP
pears washington Onlon' iosn
n The success with which the indus
try and presumption of Gen. Paez and his
agents have imposed upon certain news
papers and dignitaries in this country IS
we'll illustrated by the foregoing extract
from The Union. We protest against its
whole tenor, which common charity must
attribute to ignorance Of the actual facts
in the history of the exiled general. He is
banished from Venezuela for armed rebel
lion against the lawful, Republican author
tiles, a rebellion which sprung from no
other sources than his total failure to
make those authorities the instruments OF
his own criminal designs, and those OF his
party. against the welfare and honor of the
country. At these times, when The Union
and The Republic (which has also crowned
the General with its indorsement,) have
so much to say about keeping the peace
and preserving the unity of one Republic,
it strikes us that they might more wisely
be chary of their laudations for a person
who has done his best, by restless and I'M
scrupulous intrigues, and at last by fire
and sword, to distract and desolate another,
and who is now suffering a punishment
therefor, whose mildness indicates the hu-
mainly and forbearance of the Government
be so criminally sought to overturn. And
especially they ought not to insult the VEN
cradle memory of Washington by glibly
comparing him with a convicted rioter and
broken down demagogue.
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SurRrMr CouRr or rHE u. SrArEs.-

SUPREME OOURT OF THE u STATES. -
Washington, TAsysday February 2o-No Is W. T. Wood.
Arkanssl Mr. Justice McLezn delivered the opuion Of
this Court reversing the judgment OF the said Supreme
Court wiz coats. anu rems1dleg this cause for further pro
ceedngs In conformity TO the opinion OF this Court No
IS T. & l.. Gruner % TIE United Staiet-Appeal from
the District Court the nted States for Texas Mr. Chief
Justice Tsney delivered The opinion Of this Court dismiss
ing the decree OF The said Court In this for want OF
urisdiecOn No. 70 J. Horssmsn, plaintiff IN error rs
Henshsw Ward and Cola the Circuit Court Of
the United States for Massachusetts Mr. Chief justice
fancy delivered the opinion of this Court affirming the
judgen, Of the said Circuit Court IN this with
No as A. Fowler ct a., appellants, &c A. P Merrill
The argument OF this cause was continued oy Mr. Law
renee for The appellants and oy MT NlInSm N Addison
for the tppellee Adjourned until tomorrow, eleven
O'Clock. An.
FridGv Fee 81 Jas Moucrief. ESQ. of Y, and chss
WLlsch, ESQ of Washington City, were sdmed aIsor
Cites OF Philsoelpha and New Orleans No ~ United
States T. Salencers heirs No. 81 lniec states -
Lvlngsons heirs Appeals from The District Court NJ
ted States for Louisiana Mr. Justice Cstron delivered The
opnion Of this Court reversing and Annung the DEGREES OF
the Distiet Court In these causes AID remsndng hen Wiz
directions 10 dismiss the petition of claimants NO %
United States H. TurDors hers-Appea from me Dis
nici Court United States for Louisiana Mr. Chief Justice
f9ney delivered ne opinion Of this CouTt reversing ana
annang The decree Of heDstrct Court Ia this cause, 70
harding the same with directions TO dismiss The petition OF
the clamknts No 81. J. A Warner et a. g. 7. P Mar
tnAppeel from The Circuit Court United States for Pean
syvsnis Mr. Justice Wayne delivered the opinion OF the
notifications Nos. 81 and s.. John w Psnp ct a. 90
Thoe Drew-in the Supreme Court OF Arb snsaa
Mr. Justice Mclean delivered tbs opinion OF this Court
Affirming he udgm,S q 'he sad sapsssRs Court 10 these
and burnside On the motion OF Mr.. G ). Wslsch this
900 ~ arror 10 the District Court United States for Miss
slppi WA doeketcd and dismissed with costs, 1oder the
"a ruIe Of Court No IS Fowler ei al appellants,
p nerrill-,he argument Of this cause was continued
hv NJ kddlsou for the appellee aud by Mr. Lawrence for
me sppslsas AdjoarnedazsH Monday, IL O'Clock. A. d.