The southern press., 1851-05-14

But Southern Wings do not intend to be sat
isfied with any such thing, They intend to in
sist on something more positive and definite
They want and VIII have distinct pledgeson
the subject. Hear the st. Louis Republican,
(W) IL says:
No man can be Wing candidate for the
next Presidency, with any chance of success
who is not openly friend of the compromise
measures of the last Congress, and who is not
pledged to adhere to them strictly and honoraby
as compact not to be broken or set aside for
any cause whatever He must not give it q
mere formal support, but it must be warm, thor
ough, consistent, and patriotic. 1t must be such
support az Clay and Webstar and Fillmore
aye, and even Cass and Foote--have given to it,
and stand bound in honor to give to it. This
compromise" settled, so far as the slave States
are concerned, the question of slavery and no
attempt to destroy, it, or to change its provis-
ions, will be tolerated by the people of the
slave States-or, we might 60 further and say,
the friends of the Union anywhere. AS we be-
lieve that this question is to be the great and
controlling element in the next Presidential
election, we could not look upon the pretensions
of any man with favor, who was not committed
to the strict observance Of the compact bv all
the pledges which man of honor should give
II, then, the claims Of Gen. Scott, or of any
other man, are TO be pushed at this early day by
his friends, his views upon this question ought
to be made known with such distinctness that
any man of the commonest understanding can
comprehend and put faith in them"
That is " fire in the rear" which will be
more annoying to Gen. Scott than anything Of
the kind he has yet experienced. He cannot
give to the compromise measures" swarm
and fhoraunh supnarto yvif G.,
his support all the Seward Wings in the free
States, who will support no man who gives such
pledge. Fillmore stock is evidently rising.
PEMTENTIARY OF THE DISTRICT OF CoLUM
BIA.--We have been furnished with copy Of
the annual report of this institution, showing it's
state aud condition.
A remarkable feature presented in one of the
tables of the clerk, is the rapid increase in the
number Of the convicts. Twenty-one months
since, the number was thirty-six, at the end of
the year lS49 it was forty-six, at the end of the
year 1850, it was ffty-seven, and before one
month of the present year expired, it was sixty
eight an increase of nearly a hundred per cent
in year and half. There have been at least
thirteen additional convcts received since the
report was written. Of the entire number, up to
the first of January, seventeen were born in
Maryland, twenty in Virginia, and tv twenty-five
in the District of Columbia About one-half the
inmates of the penitentiary are free blacks, many
OF whom, the board of inspectors say, have prob
ably been attracted 70 this city fren- tho peigi-
boring States by the milder character of the
laws in respect to this species of population,
while a large proportion of the whites are from
distant parts of the Union, and no inconsider-
able number from foreign countries.
More than two-thirds Of the male convicts are
engaged at shoe-making; twelve women at tail
oring, shoe binding, washing, mending, &c.
and carpentery, blacksmithing, baking, and cook
ing, picking oakum, and laborers work, CON-
plete the descriptions of work performed.
The officers Of this institution are, Joseph B.
Ellie, Warden; WIN. Towers, Clerk; Tbos. |
Donoho, John Il. Towers, and WIN. Ii. Edes, |
N. Young, NJ. d., Physician of the
Penitentiary, and Austin Gray, Chaplain. The
last named gentleman, from his own observa-
ton, fully concurs with his predecessor in opin-
ion, " that most of the crime that is committed,
is done by those whose moral and religious edu.
cation has been entirely neglected"
We are pleased to learn that the officers, |
without exception, while engaged in the faithful
performance of their duties, have in view the
moral reformation of the prisoners. And DIR.
Young, in his report, says: "The perfect clean
liness of the buildings and yards, the personal
neatness of the inmates, the regularity of their
meals of wholesome food, in proper quantity, |
and Of the hours Of rest and proportioned labor,
mainly to the healthfulness of this
prison, aud it gives me very great pleasure to
testify to the indefatigable industry and correct
Judgment of the warden and his officers in eff |
fecting these desirable results. "-Repubtic.
The MILITARY ACADEMY AT WEsT PoNT.-l
A register Of the officers and graduates of the
u. S. Academy at West Point from March is,
1902, to January /, 1851, gives the following
Information: