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devout profession of the Catholic faith only shed.

devout profession of the Catholic faith only sheds
fresh lustre.'
eve protest against Judge Campbells nomina-
ton, because he is wholly and irremediably unfit.
and because his name has become so identified with
the dangerous invasioAs Of right which We have
narrated, as to make his nomination as injurious
to character it will be perilous to our sue
cess Having done this, should the opposite course
be taken. we wash our hands from the stain. Our
duty has been performed and yours fairly com
mitted to you"
But, notwithstanding this protest, the con-
vention nominated Mr.. CAMPBELL, who, though
young man, has had cunning and adrotness
enough to win victory over old and sagacious
politicians This was brought about, in part,
ny his attaching his interests to those of Mr..
BUCHANAN, who, of course, expects an equiva-
lent in votes from Mr.. CAMPBELL's friends, il
he should receive Presidential nomination.
The Harrisburg correspondent of the Phila-
delphia North american, speaking of CAMP
BELLS coalition and arrangement to join inter
ests with other candidates, says 1.-THE bar
terests was made, and those unfortunate enough
not to be special hvorites with the managers
were doomed to ignominous defeat. CAMPBELL
traded with BLACK, and BLACK with CAMP
BELL-LEwIs with CAMPBELL, and Camp
| BELL with LEwIs-LowRIE with CAMPBELL
and CAMPBELL with Louvre. Allegheny
went for CAMPBELL, and enough of CAMP,
| BELLS men voted for LOUVRE to nominate
| him. Lancaster voted for CAMPBELL, and his
| friends remembered LEWIS. The southwest
went for CAMPBElL, and CAMPBELL's friends
| did not forget BLACKS supporters. And al
these were bound together by the tie of a com,
mon interest--their advocacy Of BUCHANAN.
claims for the Presidency. So the game was
| played, and With great fidelity, by the parties
The bargain and sale were ratified by all con
cerned."
| And this is the way in which Judges Of the
highest judicial tribunal in the great State Of
Pennsylvania are to be selected, and, when Sc
lected, to be voted for by every member of the
party, under pain Of being communicated!
From such system of selecting and electing
judges, we devoutly.pfay to be delivered.
This Mr.. CAMPBELL, who is pronounced, by
gentlemen of high character and standing be
longing to his own political party, to be ''wholly
| and irremediably unfit for the station, seems
| to have been the most important candidate OF
the whole lot, and received larger number Of
votes in the convention than that distinguished
jurist, Judge GIBSON, now and for many years
past, chief justice of the supreme court of that
State!
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New Publication.

Books Axp DOCUMENTS roR MEmBERs OF Cor
GRxss Richard NJ Young, esq.,, Clerk Of the
United States House Of Representatives, has just
published letter in pamphlet FORM addressed to the
members ofthe thirty first Congress, exhibiting the
number and kinds of the various books, documents,
reports, &C., which were ordered to be purchased
and published during the two sessions oftho thirty
first Congress, and to which the members of that
Congress are entitled, including the Senate docu-
ments for the same period, with an alphabetical
list of the names of the members Of the thirty first
Congress, and their respective States of residence,
post offices, Sc
This, it appears to US, is highly useful publica-
ton to members of the last well as the incoming
Congress, and to all others, in fact who feel an in
terest in the disposition of the public documents
ordered by either branch of Congress, or who may
wish an accurate list Of them.
GRAHAM's MAGAZINE for July is an exceedingly
attractive number. "The Queen Of Beauty"
"The Farmers Daughter" and "The Bird Of
Paradise among its embellishments, are truly
beautiful; while the contributions are such as To
enhance the reputation Of this periodical, already
descrvedly high
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Letter from MIR. Ncbster-Recti fication OF
an Error.

The Hon. JOHN M. Boris has communi-
Gated the following letter from Mr.. WEBSTER
for publication in the Richmond papers The
correction of the error TO which it refers ap-
peared in the Republic Immediately after it was
made in the New York Herald, but the added
remarks of Mr.. WEBSTER are of sufficient in
| terest to call for the insertion of his letter:
WAsHisaTos, June 4, 1851
"MY DEAR SiR: When arrived at New York
my attention was called to paragraph in the telc
| graphic report Of my speech at Buffalo Under
the circumstances it is wonderful that the accom-
plshed reporter performed the service as we'll %
| he did but mistake occurreds of some import
ance. which he corrected it met his eye.
| Toward the end Of the speech am represented as
| having said, Gentlemen, regret exceedingly
that slavery exists in the southern States and that
| Congress has power over it, This is entirely
in opposition TO the whole drift of my remarks, that
| it might have been hoped that all would have re-
| garded il a misprint error. II appears,
| however, that this was not universally the case,
and therefore the reporter very promptly caused
the following correction to be inserted in the He
raid, the paper in which the report first appeared
Gentlemen, regret exceedingly that slavery ex-
isis in the southern States but Congress has no
power to act upon it, II may be, however, that in
the dispcnsaton of Providence some remedy for
this evil may occur, or may be hoped for here
after
at must be obvious TO every intelligent person
that if Congress possessed power slavery as il
exists in the southern States any attempt TO exer.
else such power would break up the Union Just as
surely would attempt to introduce slavery
into Massachusetts. These are subjects Of mere
State right and State authority, intended originally
TO be leh entirely with the States, and they must
80 be left still If we wish to preserve the Union.
"You at liberty TO make any use OF this letter
which you may think necessary 10 remove false
impressions.
II am, my dear sir, with the truest regard, your
obcdient servant,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Hon. JoHs NJ. Boris, Richmond, Virginia.
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Nomination for President In New HampJ
shire.

Levi Woodbury. was, Wednesday last nomi-
mated for President by the Democratic State Con-
vention OF New Hampshire. Wings and Demo-
crats have before, in county and district conven-
tons, expressed their Presidential preferences; but
this nomination is believe, the first one that has
been made by a State Convention. As Secretary
of the Treasury under Jackson, Judge Woodbury.
is remembered chiefly by his correspondence with
defauting collectors and land officers and the Wig
efforts he made to induce them to be rcasona.
bly, honeat by threatening that, if they did not
square their accounts, at least stop further pecu
lations, he should feel constrained TO report them
TO the President. He had been long time in pub
lie life as Governor of his State, as Senator in Con-
gress, and as Secretary of the Treasury, and is
now one OF the Justices of the United States Su
prcme Court. In this last position he has won
more substantial honorable reputation than in any
of the posts he had previously held. As n poll
tician, he bias considerable claims on his party,
Tor he never failed ii IN the time of trial, but al
ways pulled true, and supported all Jackson's
measures unfiinchingly. As Judge, he has been
u respectable, dull man, reasonably conservative
in bis views, but has failed to create any very
strong impression IN his favor--perhaps less than
he deserved, on account Of the general, and we
suspect not altogether unjust, suspicion that not
outstanding his high and honorable judicial sta
ton, he still cherished desire for political life
The people look with jealousy upon such longings,
and are slow to crafty them. But for this popular
dislike TO take candidate for political honors from
the bench, John Mclean, one of the first men in
point OF intellect and executive capacity, would
probably, this time, have been the President OF
the United States. The feeling in his favor has
been far stronger and more general than it can be
for Judge Woodbury.. The nomination of the lat
ter by New Hampshire is well enough as a compli.
ment to eminent citizen Of that State, but il ia
not likely 10 be responded TO in other sections.
Practically it is of account, except as showing
an unwillingness on the part of the Democracy OF
the Granite State to support Cass, Buchanan, Dali
las or any other candidate Of that school The
whole of that old line are doomed to be set aside
as politically superannuated, and,i any noInina-
ton shall be made at all by National Convention.
consider il almost certain that the nominee will
be some comparatively new and young man.
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Mississippi.

We are glad to perceive, by our exchange
papers from Mississippi, that there is a
growing distaste for disunion and secession in
that State, and that the attempt TO enlist the
Democratic party, as party, in favor of ultra
measures, is a failure. The Democrats have
been invoked,by the secessionists to come to
their aid, and no pains have been spared to in
cucate the idea that the Secession, OF, as they
term it, " the Southern Rights" party, is the
Democratic, while the Unionists constitute the
Whig party.
This does not correspond or fall in with the
efforts of the Union, which are exerted with a
view to create the belief that to the DEMO-
tanning the Compromise measures, and that the
Wines, as body, are hostile to them If the
editors of the Union have really persuaded
themselves that such is the fact, the next thing
we shall look for is claim from them that
the present able and popular Administration
which stands SO firmly upon the basis of the
Compromise, and has SO faithfully sustained it,
is not WING, but DEMocRAr1c Admins
tration.
The following article from the Vicksburg
Whig indicates the state of things there:
eve know many honest Democrats, now enroll
ed with the Union party, who cannot comprehend
how it ia possible that Democracy in 1888 should
consist in devotion to the Union, opposition null
LITIGATION, and an ardent attachment to the Union
sentiments of Jackson's proclamation, and should
now, in 1851 consist in the very reverse of such
doctrines, viz REORGANIZATION, disunion, seces-
sion, opposition to the Union, and effort to I'M
do all that Andrew jackson did for the perpetual
ton of the Union. And our consistent Union Dem
Gratis say it is also mysterious to them how it is that
their ancient political opponents of the nuliifica-
ton school have suddenly been transformed into
standard bearers Of the Democracy, and made
high priests in the Democratic temple. The Union
Democrats well remember Gov. Quitman, George
Poindexter, Governor Guon, t. Jones Stewart,
&c. &C., as nulifers of 1885, and bitter opponents
OF Jacksonian Democracy, and they say that they
not willing to accept the proffered leadership OF
such men, but prefer to keep up the old war with
them"
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[coRREsrosDENcE OF THE REpuBLIc.]

BALTIMORE, June &c.
The american, of this morning, states that tho
committee appointed to investigate the defalcaton
case have concluded their labors and find an ap-
parent deficiency of ten thousand dollars. An ad-
journed meeting of the committee will be held to-
morrow afternoon to which it is said they have in
vited Colonel Sanderson.
A fire broke out about ten o'clock to-day in the
still house Of Mr.. Fry, on Federal Hill, which COM
municated to several dwellings, and destroyed four
Of them before the flames could be arrested. Tho
property was fully insured. The fire was the work
of an incendiary.
The full vote for the constitution has been ro-
ceivcd, and the majority for it in the whole State
is l0,4lS votes.
MAnKErs.-No sales Of -four to-day. Holders
demand $4 l2s, but buyers will not offer moro
than 50.
Sales Of red wheat at IS SO cents. Yellow corn
81 IS cents, and white SO cents Oats 80 Al
cents.
Stocks are quiet, with no material change in
prices.
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DEATH THE SPANISH Consul AT MArAMo
Ros.-The Rio Grandc Sentinel Of the 2Sth ult. pub
fishes the following:
"On Wednesday last, at about 10 o'clock p. M,
d. Juan Jose Lopez, vice consul of her Catholic
majesty for the port of Matamoros, died very sud-
denly in that city of disease of the heart: In the
death Of this estimable and valuable man, Mata-
has lost one Of its Oldest and beat citizens,
her majesty of Spain loyal subject and efficient
officer, the valley of the Rio Grande of its most
wealthy, influential and enterprisng merchants,
and the poor a noble benefactor. The deceased
leaves amiable wife and daughter and large
circle of relatives and friends to mourn his depart
c. He was inferred on Thursday with the usual
ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church, and his
funeral the largest ever witnessed in Mata.
moros"
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The following paragraph, cut from the last
Albany State Register, confirms the remarks
we made yesterday in regard to the prevalence
of better feeling in the State of New York,
since the Presidents visit, than existed there
before. We hail such signs of the times with
extreme pleasure, and sincerely hope that it
will not be long ere neither section of our
country shall have cause to complain Of the
other, and the old fraternal feeling shall once
more be restored between the North and the
South. The alignment Of asperities, and the
forbearance from the use of harsh language in
one section, cannot but have similar effect in
tho other:
"The anti. slavery excitement is fast subsiding in
this Stnte-ike all popular excitements, il has had
a run, and in a manner spent itself the people are
growing tired of it; the bare mention of it ID
seating TO their political stomachs; something more
fresh and exharating is far palatablet TO their
tastes. At the same time, there is growing dis
position with all parties to acquiesce in and yield
obedience to the Constitution and laws, and in the
different sections of the Wing party manifest in
clination to unite in yielding cordial support to
the wholesome administration of President Fill
more. The irritation to which the Free. soil ques-
tions. now happily settled, gave rise, is passing
away, and the angry discussions of which they were
the cause will soon be lost in that oblivion which
must sooner or later become the receptacle of all
things past Here lieth,' is already being written
on the tomb of abolitionism in this State. Requi-
escat Il, pace
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JENNY LlND.-The Philadelphia Ledger, speak
ing of Jenny Linds last concert in that city Fri
day night, says:
e'Jenny Lind's concert last evening another
extraordinary crowd. The audience began to pour
into the ball soon as it opened, at 81 in the
evening. Even at that early hour hundreds of per-
sons had assembled in front of the hall outside
spectators The fact is, the enthusiasm she has
created exists in stronger degree now than Mt any
period since her visit, and we believe she has only
to announce that other concerts will be given in
this city by her TO insure overlooking houses.
In regard TO the future movements Of Mics Lind
the New York Mirror has the following,
Jenny Lind retains her house in Brooklyn I'M
I'll September, and perhaps two three months
longer After her concerts in Boston she.will visit
the Falls. and make concert giving n matter Of
pleasure more than of labor. She ia considerably
worn down with fatigue, and can afford hereafter
to be lady of leisure"
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TERRIBLE EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE JEh-
sEy CiTY-Ths morning, at nine O'Clock, n py-
rotechnical establishment in this city. in Canal
street, Barrow, was suddenly blown into
fragments. Mr.. James Dawes, owner of the labo-
rntory who Mt work in the establishment at
the time of the explosion, was blown some distance
in the air. every article of clothing being torn from
his body with the exception Of one boot. Mr..
Dawes WIS seen, after the explosion, to walk about
twenty yards. when he fell, and expired shortly
afterwards. The body of the unfortunate man was
burnt az black as coal, his eyes were blown out,
and his face horribly mutilated. Deceased leaves
a wife to mourn his untimely end Within twenty
five yards of the spot where this dreadful accident
occurred there were seven men at work; and,
strange to say, Notwithstanding pieces Of the
building were blown in every direction, some Of
them across to 0ommunipaw shore,) not one Of
them sustained the slightest injury. The cause OF
this catastrophe cannot be asccrtaincd. the on
fortunate deceased unable TO speak Dr. Va
rick upon the spot, but, as none were hurt
excepting deceased, he could of course render no
assistance Since writing the above we learn that
powder in no very small quantity was kept in the
establishment. Five minutes previous to the oc-
csrrcncc the deceased was standing in the door,
converting with the workmen alluded to above
Jersey City Sentinel, an.
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From the Nep Orleans Bee, June 9.
From Tehuantepec.

Among the passengers by the Robert Spedden is
Major J. A. Kelly, who was connected with the
surveying party on the Isthmus of Tehuantepcc.
Major Kelly is direct from Mnattlan, where he
has been engaged for some time in observing and
noting the tides Of the Coatzacoalcos. He reports
that the vomito is prevailing mt Vera Cruz. The
American coneul, Captain Rogers, had been i'll OF
it, but getting better when the Spedden left.
The British steamer landed ut Vera Cruz on the
3lst utimo and took on board her passengers, and
left Immediately for Kingston, Jamaica.
Major Kelly brings dispatches from MIR. Sidell,
the engineer.
The survey Of the Isthmus is entirely completed,
and the photographic party was waiting at Nina
titan for transportation home. Mr.. Avery's party
was expected every day from the Jaltipan.
1t was expected that Mr.. Williams and disparity
would be ready to from Minatitan on the
9th instant portion of this party was at the
Pass of Chevela at the latest accounts, and the
other part was at the Cerro Encantada.
Major Barnard was at Ell Barrio where he was
daily improving in health. He also was expected
at Minattlan by the 9Th instant.
The health Of the members of the survey, we are
glad to learn, has generally been very good
The schooner Helen Mar, Captain Sclkirs, wns
seized at Minatitnn on the 10Th ui.po by the Mex
lean authorities Ten soldiers and sergeant were
placed on board, and the next day the rigging was
cut away. The captain entered protest before
the American consul, j. A. Peasants, esq, and
thus the matter stands at present. The Helen Mar
had cleared at Vera Cruz for Mnatitlan, and the
captain was unaware that he had committed any
violation of the Mexican laws.
The revenue cutter Duane had gone down to the
Coatzacoalcos, the commander having given notice
of his intentions TO the collector at Vera Cruz The
Sears had also left for the Coatzacoalcos.
Thirty four Californians came passengers from
Vera Cruz on the Sears. They had taken the AGA
pulco route and had been four months at sea, hav-
ing been becalmed that length Of time on the Pa
cifc.
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From Utah.

We have received the Deseret Ne,cs published
at Salt Lake City, of the Sth and 18th Of April.
1t contains special message Of Governor Young,
calling upon the General Assembly to make ar
rangement for the organization of the territorial
government and erecting public buildings for the
Territory, inRccordance with the act Of Congress
establishing a territorial government for Utah.
On the 18th Of April the General Conference was
opened by President Kimball-the health Of the
president not permitting him to be present, though
he convalescent, the Neios says, and at inter
missions took arings in his carriage in front of the
Bower-a place in which tho saints of the con-
ference were assembled
The Ne,os, of the 10th of April, saysi
"Joseph L. Haywood has received his commits
sion from the President Of the United States as
marshal of the Territory OF Utah, qualified thereon
and has filed his bonds In the office Of Secretary of
State ready to be delivered to the Secretary of the
Territory on his arrival. Marshal Haywood has
entered upon the duties of his office, and hence
forth arrests and judicial executions will be at
tended to by the marshal of the Territory Of Utah.
Mr.. Haywood is the only qualified officer of the
Territory now in the State; and it ia expected that
so fast territorial officers commissions arrive
that qualifications and action will follow and thus
the government of Deseret almost imperccptibly
be transferred into the government Of Utah; 80
that no serious inconvenience will be experienced
by any individual; but many may be made to re.
joile on being relieved from the burden now rest
ing upon them"
portion Of the columns of the Netos is occupied
with agricultural matters. Messrs. Beech and
Blair engaged in making sugar and molasses
from the beet. The weather is said to be unusu-
ally pleasant-sky clear, and no frost to injure
vegetation. Much grain had been sown, many
trees transplanted, and fences reared around the
several blocks of the town.
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Tabla or Postnyes.

We iepublsh to-day the table of hostages
which appeared in our paper of Saturday, with
some slight corrections, the most material of
Of Cuba, which are ten cents for distance not
exceeding $500 miles, and twenty cents when
exceeding that distance; and not twenty and
thirty cents, as stated in the advertisement as
at first published.
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We learn that postal arrangement has been
agreed upon between the Post Office Depart
ment Of the United States and the Post Office
Department of New Brunswick, by which, on
and after the 9th of July next, a regular ex-
change of mails will be made between the
United States and the provinces Of New Bruins
wick, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and New
foundland, at the same rates of postage estab-
lished for the United States and Canada mails,
to witt en- cents the single rate where the dis
lance is under 5000 miles, and fifteen cents
where the distance exceeds 5000 miles, from
the line of crossing. Prepayment of postage
optional in either country.
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ILLNESS OF THE Hon. A. H. STEpHENs.-The
painful intelligence reached this city yesterday
that the Hon. A. H. Stephens lies critically ill, OF
chronic diarrbea, hs residence in Crawfordville.
augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist, 12h inst.
We are pleased to learn, by later accounts, that
the dangerous symptoms of the disease have some
what subsidized, and that there is every probability
of his speedy recovery.
tEds. augusta Republic, 18th inst.