The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1852-08-24
Correspondence Of the Southern Standard.
WASHINGTON. August lG, 1852.
Editors of Southern Standard:


Editors Of Southern Standard:
The Senate wasted much Of fllc lat
ter part of last week, in very small
gamc-in discussing the relative sums
finding their way from the National
Treasury into the pockets Of General
Scott and Pierce. The point sought to
be attained by the mover, Mr.. Mcrri-
weather, and his advisers, is doubtless
to show that Scott has received ten
thousand dollars, where Pierce has
received one thousand thus. This may
be true enough; for Scott has been
hearty five times rs long in the service
Of the General Government, rs ever
Pierce was, and for some twenty years
or more, under commission, allowing
him to receive legally, large paw, but
not too large for the Office he -
in all, he has received about a .rtcr
Of a million, for which, it should be ro-
mcmbercd, he served his country near
ly half q century. 1t is, indeed, small
game to be thus hunting up his private
accounts with the government, when it
is not allcdgcd that he has ever re-
ceived a dollar illegally from the pub
lie treasury. His unsuccessful attempt
to induce Congress to put him on the
invalid pension list, when we'll enough
to demand and receive full pay for &C.
tive service, is a horse of another color.
and does not look well in view of the
fact, that he was then in the receipt of
some $4,000 per annum from the pub
JIG Golfers. The pension lists arc for
the needy, and those who arc disabled
by wounds or sickness contracted in
the service, rs to incapacitate them
from discharging duties cntitling them
TO pay for active services, or otherwise
to earn II livelihood.
You-will perceive, that some Of the
members of both Houses are already
making buncombc ont of the fisheries
question-yet it is the vcriest humbun
ont of which public excitement has
been generated for years past. The
kossuth humhug was not even a
match for it. The Lobos Islands qucs-
ton, however, is rapidly coming to
overshadow it in Importance here, for
there is really serious grounds to fear
that, unless skilfu1ly managed, it may
involve us in labyrinth of difficulties.
dread MIR. Wcbstcr's diplomacy in
this connection, believing that he is
very much disposed to use it MS q
staulkfHg horse, on which to ride his
reputation of trucking habituality to
Britain, which has stuck to him like
the shirt of NGssus, ever since he be-
came q prominent public man. 1t is
generally believed, in Washington.
that he has the right of this affair."
Yet, the impression is also prevalent.
that he is disposed to buster over it..
There can be no doubt that England
IS not less interested in defeating the
supremacy of Mr.. Wcbstcr's reading
ofour rights rs theirs involved in Peru.
The intImation already given by the
British foreign officer, that Prruc's
claim to the Lobos Islands shall be
enforced and maintained, has already
we'll nigh doubled the value of the
bonds of Peru, which are held by
English subjects almost c.rlusircIy ::
the net proceeds Of the sale of all PC
ruvian guano in England going to pav
interest on those bonds. You will
perceive that this is, therefore, mat
ter OF dollars and cents with John Bull
as with Peru, and we may not there
fore hope to have our Inference in the
matter, except as party directly in
tcrcsted.
MIR. Fillmorc-whosc ruling trait is
timidity--is evidently disposed to sur
render all our prctcnsions in that
quarter, while his Secretary of State is
disposed to jump right into the middle
oi such quarrel over this question as
bids fair to unscttlc the stock markct
seriously, and thus once more place
the honest business community in a
position to be ilccccd by Mr.. Wcbstcr's
knowing friends Of State and Wall
streets. This is truly unfortunate
but cannot perceive the remedy, 9TH
er parties, which cannot be done until
the end OF the present administration.
AS for the Guano involved, to give ND
our right TO take it from those islands.
VIII be TO- submit our people to i'm
nacnse taxation, for tho benefit of the
before mentioned English bond-hold-
ors, and % handful Of spectators in
England, Peru and the United States.
presume, that in the little county Of
Alexandria, Virginia, in which | re-
side, one hundred tons of Peruvian
guano arc annually used alrcady-so.
ut will be seen that whenever it can be
transported economically in the farm
ing region of the United States, it is
deemed of great value. 1t sells here
at S44 per ton. Aftcr three years
experience with it, in turning sterile
wornout lands quickly into fields bear
ing heavy crops of rich clover, would
gladly pay 800 per ton, in prclcrcnac
to attempting to rcsuscitatc such lands
as we have in this region, by any other
means. 1t is q received adage here,
that the farmer who fails to have rich
fields, after they produce clover. well