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The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-20
TO EDITORS OF NEWSPAPERS.

WE beg leave to call your attention to an ad
w yertisement, and TO the memorial annexed
and tender our services in the prosecution Of any
claims for Bounty Lands or Pensions, which you
may send to US We will allow you one half our
usual fee which IL fire dollars for obtaining war
rant for i6O acres, and three dollars for warrant
Of eighty acres or less, for publishing our adver-
tisement, and preparing and Forwarding the papers
to us.
If you accept this proposal, please insert this
circular and our advertisements in your paper,
with the following editorial notice;
eve call the attention Of our readers TO the ad
yertisemert Of Messrs. Duff Green, Ben. 4
Green, and Richard III. Clarke, Attorneys nna
Agents at Washing on, ID. G., and would say
persons having claims for Bounty Lands or Pen
sions, that we have made arrangements Tor the
requisite forms, and hat claimants calling at our
Office can have their papers properly prepared and
forwarded 10 these gentlemen at Washington,
who will properly attend TO them IN their proper
Offices"
Please get each claimant to sign the memorial,
and forward il TO your member OF Congress.
Please send us a copy OF your paper containing
our card, which viii notify US that you accept on
proposition. DUFF SkEEN,
BEN. Z. GREEN,
RlCH'D IA. CLARKE
MEMORIAL.
To The Senate and House Of Representatives fths
United States in Congress assembled: The memo
rial of the undersigned respectfully represents that
they are entitled TO Bounty Land, under the act
of 18th Of September, $780, that they are informed
and believe that the INDICATED warrants are worth
more to them than the patented lands would be,
that they do not expect or desire 70 reside on tne
land thus granted; that # patented to them, the
expense Of agencies and taxes will be an unarlal
cbaroe. REDUCING the value Of the grant, which
thew could avoid il permitted to sell the warrant
Your memorialists further represent that the law,
bv preventing the sale Of the warrants, assume
Ia The officers and volunteers entitled 10 bounty
lands. are not competent TO act for themselves,
whereas many Of them are among the most intel
lirent respectable citizens Of the States They
therefore respectfully ask that the act aforesaid
may be so modified as 10 make the warrants for
bounty lands assignablc, and they will ever
pray, &c.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

DACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
/ L ONLY through line for California and Ore
gon. 1.-THE public are informed that under 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 SarfsFrancisco the LIST
and 5th days Of each month, unless detained by
unavoidable accident and will touch Acapulco,
San Diego, and Monterey.
! 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
each end Of the route
OREGoN ,039 tons. REPUBLIC Il 200 tons
PANAMA =. 1881 tons. CAROLINA 600 tons.
lCALIFoRNiA 1850 tons. COLUMBUS. 600 tons.
TENNESSEE 300 tons. lsTHMUs - tons.
lNoRTHERNER 200 tons. UNICORN. 600 tons.
COLUMBIA I. 800 tons. Fremont 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 stean-
err from San Francisco.
A regular line of propellers viii be kept up, for
the transportation of freight and transient passen-
gers between Panama and San Francisco.
The well known steamship SARAH SANDS,
Of 500 tons burthen, now under charter to the
company land peculiarly 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
ts5
The connection in the Atlantic will be main
tanned by the United States mail steamships
GEORGIA 1900 tons. CRESCENT CRY 500 tons.
ONO 5000 tons. CHEROKEE 1900 tons
EMPIRE ClrY2, 900 tons. PHILADELPHIA l, 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 direct line between New Or
leans and Chagres, leaving at such periods as will
insure as little detention 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 & Co., agents, at that place.
The fare for through tickets from New York to
San Francisco has been reduced from
$500, in state rooms, to $3.50. ...
$3.50, in lower cabin, to $3.50.
$500, in steerage, to Sl65.
The rates from New York to Chagres will De
at the lowest adopted by any safe sea steamer be-
tween those ports.
For choice of berths, apply at the Office of the
Company, 81 and SIS South street, and at their
agency, III West street. ...
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CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
SENATE.

N boENh c
WEDNESDAY, May 10, 1852.
MEXICAN CONTRIBUTION MONEY.
The PRESIDENT pro tenn. laid Before the
Senate report of the Secretary OF War IN answer
10 the resolution of the Senate inquiring what
further provision forthe settlement OF the accounts
connected with the Mexican contribution fund Is
necessary to authorize proper and just compen-
sation to be made for services in relation TO the
same.
The communication was referred to the Com
mittee on Military Affairs. 49,
MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS.
Messrs. SEwARp, SUMNER, and WALKER pre-
ser. ed memorials in favor of the adoption of the
Homestead bill
Mr.. BRIGHT presented resolutions of the
legislature of Indiana in favor of the adoption OF
some measures for the suppression Of the African
slave trade and the colonization of free people OF
color.
Also, in favor of the establishment Of an agri-
cultural bureau mt Washington
Also in svor of various local improvements.
Messrs WELLER and G WIN presented reso-
lutjons Of the legislature Of California upon va
rious subjects.
On motion of Mr.. GwN, the Committee on
Naval Affairs was discharged from the further
consideration Of the report of the Secretary Of the
Navy relative to the loss of the steamer Edith,
the proceedings Of the court martial, and various
correspondence connected with that subject also
from the resolutions OF the common council of
the city of New Orleans, on the subject of navy
ward and depot at that place.
Mr. FELCH, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported back the bill granting to the
State of California the right of way, and dona-
lion of land to aid in the construction of a rail
road from San Francisco to San Jose, in that
State, with various amendments making the bill
conform to the other railroad bills.
Mr.. GWIN asked that the bill might now be
considered which was agreed to, and
The amendments were adopted, and the bill
ordered to be engrossed for third reading
Mr.. GLEN EMS, by leave, introduced a bill to
extend the provisions Of the acts of 1847 and
ls49 TO carry into effect the existing contracts
with the States Of Alabama and Mississippi in
relation to the FIVE per cent. fund and school reser-
yations which was referred TO the Committee on
Public Lands.
Mr.. HAMLIN asked the consideration Of the
bill to authorize the President of the United
States to designate the places for the ports of
entry and delivery for the collection districts Of
Pugets Sound and Umpqua, in the Territory of
Oregon He said that this territorial week
in the House il was desirable that the bill should
be Immediately passed that it might go to that
body.
The motion was agreed to, and amendments FIX
ing the salaries of the collection, proposed by Mr..
HAMLS, having been adopted, the bill was or
dered to engrossment.
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aor,y,co rmc,L COLLEGE OF OHIO.

ofsc. Pennsylvania Avenue, next to Jackson
NJ. Washington.
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October 81, lSs0--dtf
The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-28
Screw PropeIlers.

In letter in the National h,telligencer of
yesterday, said by the editors of that paper to
be "from an enlightened and well-informed
American now abroad" and which that jour
nal also says sis entitled to the very serious
consideration of members of both Houses of
Congress, as we'll as of the Executive Depart
ment of this Government" we find the fol-
lowing suggestions in regard to the value OF
screw propellers and their adaptation to our
vessels of war:
"The condition of the French marine may be
understood from the fact that the appropriation for
the current year pu to in commits sion one hundred
and twenty vessels, of which seventy-one are
seamers-this portion of the force being nearly
t,ceIre times the number Of steamers belonging to the
United States many! This most extraordinary dis
parity, would think, ought TO force itself upon
the consideration of Congress, if it be animated by
a proper regard to the commercial interests of the
country and our political dignity and influence
abroad.
"The solution of the practcability of the appli
cation of propellers to armed sailing ships, and
their adoption in the British and French naviee,
renders it absolutely necessary that American ves
sells should be provided also with this additional
motive power. A conflict between French and
American seventy four, the former using both
steam and canvas, and our own vessel only the
latter, would be most unequal struggle The ad-
vantage of choosing his position would lie altoge-
Their with the Frenchman; and, while he could BAT
he the efforts Of his adversary to bring him under
his guns, he would be able to take his decks at will,
and attack him on every side. How would it be
possible also for frigate to escape such line of
battle ship, or, when sighted by hostile squadron,
to distance her purauers if aided by propellers?
Such vessels. besieging fortress or town, wheel
ing pivot, and pouring their sixty gun
broadsides from any point, entirely independent of
wind and tide, would be the most formidable en-
gnes Of war ever brought into action If the lower
tier of ports of the Pennsylvania were closed up,
and screw-engine adjusted to her now compare
lively useless hull, che might be sent to the Med-
terranean, where n ship of her size and armament
is more than anywhere else desirable as a fitting
representative of powerful nation. E. J. M
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enough of what is "going on here" but does
DR.. OLps intend to intimate that they will
learn any more Of what is going on by giving
an extraordinary exclusive privilege to Messrs.
BLAIR g. RIvEs2 The people know Of what
is going on here by the brief reports that are
published in the morning journals and circula-
ted by telegraph all over the country. The
reports Of the Republic are as full as most
men can find time to read; and they are copied
for their compactness and brevity by large
number of our contemporaries. If DR.. OLDs
wishes the people to know what is going on
we really think there are many ways in which
he might inform them without recourse to this
unprecedented and monstrous monopoly ex
tended to Messrs. BLAIR s. RIvEs.
But DR.. Obs thinks this privilege can DO
justified on the ground that it gives greater
circulation to the laws. Why, then, not ex-
tend the privilege to all the papers which now
publish the laws by authority? Why not ex
tend it, at.all events, to the pamphlet edition
Of the laws that is published annually by
Messrs. LITTLE s. BRowN2 There might be
some reason assigned for permitting authorized
editions Of the laws to be circulated without
paying postage; but the privilege should not
be extended to one edition and withheld from
another. Can any good reason be assigned
why a polti,ateer edition of the laws by BLAIR
s. RIvEs should be circulated at the public ex-
pense for their benefit, and that the authorized
edition of LITTLE s. Brown should be taxed
with postage2
We venture to say, without the fear of con-
tradiction, that privilege Of this extraordinary
character was never before in this country, or
| in any country, conferred on private establish
ment. We do not wonder that it was pressed
through under the application of the previous
question. None know better than BLAIR g.
RIvss that such resolution would not only
not bear discussion, but it would not bear the
light. The first the public heard of it was its
introduction and passage. Nor do we wonder
that Mr.. CARTIER tried to close the matter up
by moving to reconsider the vote by which the
Joint resolution was adopted, and to lay that
motion on the table. If the House had been al
lowed chance for reconsideration, their deci-
sion would have stood fair chance of reversal.
We do not believe that a majority of the House
would be found deliberately passing such an
abOmnable resolution
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population gathering upon the Pacific will in
duce them to calculate the advantages of a
separate system. They will have CONNER
cial and political organization of their own,
rather than seek the Atlantic States by dis
tant. dangerous, OF restricted ways of commu-
nication. They will essay to build up cities,
and to assert for themselves the immense COM
merce for which the world has been contend
ing. With inadequate and restricted tho
roughfares, the physical difficulties of commu-
nication will favor their enterprise; and the
day may come when, emulatng our own ex-
ample, the cities planted by our own race may
become the most formidable rivals of the States
from which they sprung.
To prevent this the policy is obvious. We
States by every possible ligament. by liberal
Legislation. by prompt supply of every want,
by the immediate redress of every grievance,
but especially by the immediate construction
of railroads and telegraphic lines across the
Rocky mountains wherever practicable, and by
encouraging every Isthmian way that can be
opened. The present communications are ut
terly inadequate. The voyage from San Fran
cisco is replete with delays, dangers, and dis
comfort. 1t lies through foreign territory
and torrid cline. The journey across the will
derness is even more appalling, from the una
voidable loss of life and property and the waste
of time.
We hope to see the proposed railroads
through Texas, Arkansas, and Missouri, sue
cessfully prosecuted and we trust, since the
Administration has exhausted negotiation in
securing for the American people free tho
roughfare across Tehuantepec, that Congress
will insist with the same energy and with more
success upon the recognition of rights SO I'M
questionable and SO important to the American
people.
We desire sincerely to preserve relations Of
amity with our ally and sister; but she should
remember that "the sovereign who violates
her engagements on pretences that are evil
IDENTIFY frivolous" is visited by the publicists
with unequivocal condemnation; and that if
she imprison our consuls, repudiate her con
tracts, despoil our citizens, and reject her own
treaties, such accumulated grievances may de-
stroy the cordiality of feeling which ought to
exist, and occasion consequences to beadepre-
Gated by every phianthropist.
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Reception OF Wing Delegations In New
n.

We learn from the New York papers that the
General Committee of Democratic Wing Young
Men Of the city of New York, on Saturday
ming last, received large number of the Wings Of
Marya and the District Of Columbia, who arrv-
ed in that city on their way for Niagara. They
were introduced at the Wing headquarters and
to the committee by Daniel Bowley, esq in
some brief remarks, when they we're welcomed
by Erastus Brooke, chairman Of the New York
Young Mems General Committee, in an eloquent
address; which was responded to in an appropriate
manner by Mr.. WiImot, Of the Baltimore delega-
ton. At the conclusion of his speech, MIR. Wilmot
was loudly spplauded; after which cheers were
given for each Of the delegations, the Empire City,
and lastly for WINrIELD Scorr. The delegations
then conducted to the large room Of the
Broadway House, where refreshments were pro-
vided for them 10y their hosts.
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GOVERNOR OF New MExIco.-It will be seen by
private despatch which we publish this morn
ing, that Dr. William Carr Lane, of this city, has
been appointed and confirmed Governor of New
Mexico. This is gratifying DR.. Lane is
every way competent for the Office He will dis.
charge its duties faithfully and impartially pro-
tecting alike the people and the interests of the
Government. He is one of our early pioneers-is
familiar with the difficulties attending the organi-
cation Of RovcrnIpont in so distant territory,
but will devote all his energies to the execution Of
his duties 81. Louis Republican, 1Sih.
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WAsHiNoros, July %, 1852.

FIFTY DoLLARs REwARD.-The Wooster (Ohio)
Democrat offers a reward of fifty dollars to ths
Wing who tells the biggest fb on General Pierce,
to be paid when General Scott is elected Prcsi-
Exchange paper. zen
We are not much of hand at fbbing, bot will
try our hand at IL. So here goes He tDas the
unanimous choice Of ne Dsmocrasic party previous
TO his nomination! There-if anybody can beat
that, IL will relieve our conscience wonderfully.
aurora Standard
We con. He ,rM be elected. MAY the Lord
forgive US !l--Madison Banner. .ls .. ..E
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The RICHMOND MURDRR.--Jane, the negroes
charged with the murder Of Mrs. Winston and
child, and the attempt to kill Mr.. Winston, at
Richmond. Virginia, has confessed the crime, but
endeavorcd to exculpate her husband, who, she
says asleep at the time. The devil, she stated.
had such possession Of her on that Monday morn.
ing, that che believed she could have gone further
than she did, II necessary.
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KEEP OFF THE TRAoK.-This morning, ne the
express train WINS about passing the depot at Tar
rytown, lady thoughtiessly started to cross tho
track. when she was suddenly seized by the depot
master, who, by great effort and at much personal
danger, drew her of in time to place her out of
danger. II was amusing, says our informant, to
observe her flush Of resentment at the "hasty"
manner in which she seized, and the gentle
mans GOODNESS and satisfaction at his Re-
Election upon the subject will doubtless be agreeable
to both parties.-N. Y Commercial Adceyttssr, 2<th,
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WING NOMINATIONS.
For President,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
For Viee President,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM |.
Congress.

In the Senate, yesterday, Mr.. SUMNER Of
fered resolution directing an inquiry by the
Judiciary Committee into the expediency Of
reporting bill for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave law, and gave notice that he would ask
to be heard on it to-day. After sume unim-
portant business, the Indian appropriation bill
was taken up.
In the House of Representatives, the River
and Harbor bill was considered in Committee
of the Whole on the state Of the Union.
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General Pierce's Votes ON Harbor and River
r. improvements.

To the Editor Of the Republic:
SIa: have recently seen in a western paper an
article taken from the New Orleans Delta, in which
the editor Of that paper undertakes to vindicate
General Pierce'svote against the River and Har-
Dor bill at the session of Congress of 1886 The
editors vindicaton rests upon the charge that the
bill contained appropriations +" for vast amounts,
in the aggregate, to Insignificant Objects as wit
few of the items" He enumerates seven,
and says, "and 30 on with five hundred other
creeks that laid down on no map, are only
known to schoo-boys under fourteen years of
age, who resort to them to catch small perch"
Surely the editor Of the Delta after having over
hauled the journals, must have learned the locality
OF the creeks. harbors, and rivers for which those
appropriations were made If not, would sug-
gest that some "school-boy under fourteen take
the place Of the Delta man. and inform the readers
of that sheet where these important places to.
be found. Iappend an extract from the Delta's
article, enumerating some of the '.insigni6cant
objects" to which that journal specially objects:
"The bill of 1886 granted. to be sure, $4,000
to improve the Ohio and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that
drain half the Union-but at the same time it ap-
propriated hundred thousand dollars to a single
stream within the confines of a single State, (the
Hudson,) and vast amounts, in the aggregate, to
insignificant objects, as witness few of the items:
Sodus Bay. $l2, 600
froVlncetoWn ....................... a, 400
nNeI nulsin'.. .--lo,OU
BLACK CreeR, Onlo. %, oUO
Grand Creek, Ohio. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 600
Cunningham Creek. ....................4,27
Conneaut Creek. .......................3,5 00'
That the people may determine the importance
of the appropriations for the identical objects Sc
lected by the Delta Insignificant, and as fully
justfying General Pierce's vote, would refer to
the appropriations made by Congress for a series
Of years for those identical objects, aud approved
by General Jackson repeatedly, and at different
times by MIR. Van Buren,. Twill give you the ap-
preparations in the order mentioned in the Delta,
and as furnished by ]. J. Albert, Colonel Corps of
Typographical Engineers, in his report made in
conformity with resolution of the Senate passed
in December, 1916, showing "the appropriations
for the construction and repair of roads, and for the
improvement of harbors and rivers in the United
States" Sec Reports of Committees, LIST session,
3oth Congress, VOL 4, Report No. TAI.
For improving the entrance into Big Sodua Bay.
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The Hon. Thomas Coryvin.

1t will be perceived by line in our tele-
graphic column that the Secretary of the Urea
sury has extended his tour as far as Montreal
in Canada.
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WAsHINaToN, July 10, 1859.

Hon. WIN. c. DAWSON We have the beet au-
thority for saying that this gentleman will not
abide by the decision of the Union Convention, MS
ntimated in the Savannah Republican, but will 60
heartily for the Wing nominees, Gen. WrsrIrID
ScoTT and WV. A. GRAHAM. ..s. -....0. .
Macon Georgia) Citizen, JULY ~. .