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Thus it appears that of regular pay and
allowances General ScoTr has received $25l, >
2S6 70 for forty -four years of military and civil
service while General PIERCE has received
only SIC, 1878. OF the regular pay and allow
ances the Union has nothing to say. But it
raises a shout over General PIERcE's no extra
allowances. If he never received any extra
allowances, the Union will admit that
General PIERCE never rendered any parti-
cularly extra services! He rendered none in
Mexico that we ever heard of-though he GER
tainly performed for an officer several extraor-
binary feats during the campaign. All his ex-
ira services in Congress were rendered in vot-
ing against harbor and river bills, the pension
bills for the soldiers of the Revolution and their
widows, West Point Academy, and the bill
for the relief of the widow Of VIM. HENRY
HARRISON. These extra services laid no foun-
dation for any extra compensation. and Gene
| raj PIERCE therefore never applied for it. The
account is pretty fairly balanced between Gen
eral PIERCE and the Treasury--no extra ser
vices on one side, and no extra pay on the other.
This is about right. Nobody has reason to
complain.
Now let us look at General SCorr's extra
compensation. His first allowance of this ma
ture was 49, 64 70, paid him for personal ex-
penses and loss of exchange while in EUROPE.
The administration desired his services as
special agent for certain negotiations when he
was about to go abroad in 1915; and agreed to
allow him the full pay and emolument of his
brepet rank-that of major generals if on
duty, out of The contingent fund for foreign in
tercourse. On his return from Europe, after
an absence Of eleven months, General Scorr
charged the Government with the following
items:
Loss by difference of exchange l,l05 81
Allowance for servants and horses LOSS 81
! $2,l64 70
The latter item was allowed to major gene
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WING NOMINATIONS.
For President,
WINFIELD SCOTT.
For Dice President,
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM.

The PRESIDENT of the United States re-
turned to the city from Berkeley Springs on
Tuesday evening. accompanied by WILLIAM
T. CARROLL, esq Mr.. J. P. KENNEDY re-
manned at the Springs, with the intention of
returning on Friday with the ladies of the
Presidents family.
Mr.. CRrrrENDEN, during the absence of MIR
STUART, is the Acting Secretary Of the Inte-
ror.
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MARyLANp.--The Rockville Journal Of the 4th
instant says: ..... ...... <u
"There never was a more perfect union of our
party in this State than exists, and the result
will show that we will carry the State with an ava
lanchc. In every county there is union, conf
dence, and determination to sustain the Wing
flag. In Montgomery, though the Wing party
has rs yet scarcely made a beginning, the Wing
heart is right, and long her fires will be to
blaze of yore. Let every Maryland Wing do his
duty; let every Maryland Wing rightly appreciate
his responsibility--and we know they will do it
and who fears the result If the result rests with
Maryland, General Scott will certainly be the next
President Of the United States. The Wing skies
are bright and Frightening. The Wing cause is
onward, and we believe will succeed"
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The Locofocos of the Knox, &c., district have
held Congressional Convention, and, after fight
ing all day, broke up without making any nomi-
nation. We presume that another effort will be
made to unite IL not. the Wings will settle the
matter for them by electing a man of their own.
There is terrible state of Reorganization and ran
cor among the Locofocos Of that district.
Ohio State Journal,
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OLD VIRGINIA WAXING UP.-The Richmond
Whig of the 7th instant says:

Whig Of the 7th instant says:
."Good Ne,ps.-We have most encouraging news
from the Wings in the western part of the State.
In one county nearly the entire voting population
will GO for Scott. At the election last fall one
third of the vote given to the Democrats.
That, we assured s an indication of the gen.
eral result-and the Wings there think Of no.
thing elsc than carrying the State by rousing
majority Ali they ask of in the east is to hold
our own. But we shall do more. The reaction
has already commenced The Wings, who were
indifferent at fret are becoming warm, and eager
to join in the shouts the deliverance of the
good old Commonwealth. All accounts tell US
that the Loco orators have phil business with
Pierce. The fact that he is an obscure Yankee is
telling with the ignorant and prcudccd Democ-
racy--whom the leaders have so long led by the
nose. Some don't want him-and somo won't
have him. The more that is known of him the
worse it is with him. Day Is breaking in old Vir
ginia" .... .n
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ANoTHER DEMOCRATIC DEMoNsrR ATioN.--The
Mount Gilcad Sentinel, published in Morrow coun-
ty, Ohio, Gays that at Democra primary election
in Bennington township, on last Saturday, a meet
ing was organized, comprising all the Democratic
voters present-nearly seventy-and resolutions
were adopted denouncing the Baltimore Demo.
cratic Convention and it's nominees, and pledging
the persons present to use all honorable means to
secure the election Of Hale and Julian.
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We understand that about four hundred land
warrants of the different denominations are is
sued daily from the Pension Office.
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The New York Journal Of Commerce con-
tains long article showing up the shinplaster
establishments of this metropolis. Nothing
should be employed here for the smaller circu-
lation but gold and silver. We shall publish
the Journals article tomorrow.
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Candidates for Congress.

General Wool has arrived in this city,
and taken lodgings at Willard's Hotel.
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The Hon. Mosrs b CoRwlN has been nominated
as the Wing candidate for Congress in the eighth
Congressional district of Ohio.
The Hon. HENRy R. WILLIAMS lie the Wing can
didate for Congress in the third district of Michi-
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Mics CATHARIsE HAYES, who 10 ut present at
Nahant sails in October for mia, where she
h,s BEEN offered S5o,OOo for an engagement to
sing.-Boston Post.
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Accounts and Services OF scott and Pierce.
We find in the central organ of the DEMO
CRATIC party, in its yesterdays impression, an
article of some three columns, under the head
ing Of General Scorr's Pay and Allowances"
1t is a compend made up from the documents
that have been furnished by the Departments in
response to the call of Mr.. MERlwErHER, the
ject is to prove that General Scorr is an extrava-
CANT or dishonest man; and that for one OF both
of these reasons he is not safe man to trust
with executive relations to the public money !;
or to express the deductions of the Union, from
the allegations of its article, in its own Ian
guage:
"Without attempting to forestall public opinion,
and without wishing to produce erroneous i'm
pressions, we may allude to the extravagapt ex-
penditure which must follow the elevation to the
Presidency Of oue who has, like General Scorr,
shown disposition to make demands upon the
treasury on the slightest pretexts. The expenses
of the Government already exceed fifty millions
of dollars year in a time of profound peace.
The election of General Scorr would increase the
evil under which the country suffers from extra.
VACANT expenditures, which must of necessity be
met by taxes in one form another. The reign
of loose construction would be confirmed, and the
treasury would be surrounded by men greedy for
extra allowances, pointing to the Example and ap
peaing to the prscedsnts set BY General Scorr him
self The laborer is worthy Of his hire; but it ia q
great wrong TO the people to increase taxation
| without stringent necessity. Itcorrupts the pub
lie virtue to witness extravagant expenditure,
while industry is disheartened and demoralized at
the spectacle of sloth and ideness pampered from
| the public treasury"
The charges are that General ScorT " has
shown disposition to make demands upon
the treasury, on the slightest pretexts"-and
that in the event Of his election "the treasury
would be surrounded by men greedy for extra
allowances, pointing to the example and ap
pealing to the precedents set by General
! SCorT himself" These are grave charges.
They are made distinctly and pointedly. They
are designed to fasten upon General ScoTT the
character of an avaricious man-greedy for the
possession of money which does not rightfully
belong to him. A more disgraceful reputation
could not attach to public man, nor one better
calculated to sink him beneath popular con-
tempt. Is General Scorr justly obnoxious to
the imputations which the DEMOCRATIC lead
ers seek to cast upon him2
Let US take their own showing. The basis
of these allegations. and of the comparison
which is made between General SCorr and
General Pierce, to the disadvantage Of the
former, is contained in the following summary:
Regular pay and ALLOWANCES to General Scott.
Through I'd Auditors Of
fec G1Ol 6OQ II
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The MAyoRALry OF BA LTImoRE Captain RICH
ARD FRANCE, formerly of this city, but native of
Baltimore, and for years past resident in the
latter place, has just been nominated as the Wing
candidate for the Mayoraty of Baltimore The
following remarks of the Baltimore Clipper in re-
gard to his nomination meet with general con.
currence IN our city:
"The Wing Convention could not have made a
better selection. The nominee is gentleman of
unimpeachabe character, and possesses excellent
talents and business habits. If elected Mayor of
this city, he will no doubt exhibit energy and de-
cision in the enforcement OF the laws, and in the
promotion of public prosperity and individual Sc
curity. Kind, humane, and charitable, it is not
surprising that he |. exceedingly popular.
eve have heard but one opinion of Captain F's
nomination; it is conceded by all to be the very best
that could have been made. BIameless in his pri-
vatc life, public spirited and with hand ever open
to relieve the wants of the distressed he comes be-
fore the public with recommendations which disarm
opposition and command public suffrage.
"Captain France possesses in high degree the
businessq ua6cationsnecessary toa right discharge
OF the duties of the post for which he is put in
ination. Careful, viglant, and industrious in the
transaction of his own business, we have every as
surance that he will prove equally 80 in the conduct
OF city affairs. He has also all the talent necessary
properly to represent the city under any circum-
stances and the frmness to meet any exigency
that may arise in our municipal affairs. Should
he be elected, we have not doubt that he would
conduct the business of the city with dignity abi
Ivy, anu Zeal, anu Win W0tCnIul eye 10 Inc con
stantly recurring wants of our community"
"ToLKRABLY OMlNoUs."-A rich scene came off
at a Locofoco meeting in the Fifteenth Ward one
evening this week. The crowd gathered, and in
due time an attempt was made to organize. A
motion made that certain we'll known De-
mocrat take the chair, which unanimously
carried. Whcreupon, to the dismay of the meet
ing, the chairman elect arose and stated that he
was a Democrat, had always been Democrat, but
that he could not preside the meeting because
he did not intend to vote the ticket. The meeting
thunderstruck, and kept silence for some
time, until somebody moved that another we'll
known Democrat take the chair, which was car
ried with the like unanimity; but to the utter
mazement and CONSERVATION of the meeting, this
chairman elect nlso announced to the meeting that
he could not vote the ticket but that he would take
the chair and put their motions for them if they
desired it. Not wishing to try any more expert.
ments, and not knowing how far the disaffection
might extend, they concluded to let him preside.
in spite of his disloyaty. Of course there was not
much enthusiasm in the meeting after these occur
rences, and after attempting to hold Locofoco
meeting for some time, they gave it up in despair
and adjourned, with three rousing cheers for Scott!
[Cincinnati Gazette, Sept. 4.
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[PuBLic REsoLUrIoN1No. Is |

A RESOLUTION relating to the printing Of Con-
gress during the recess.
Resolusd by the Senate and House Of Reprs
sentatpes Of the United States Of America in Con-
gress assem6ed, That the Secretary of the Senate,
and the Clerk Of the House, and the Clerk Of the
Committee Printing, jointly be, and they here
by are, authorized and empowered to examine,
audit and pass upon all accounts for printing and
binding during the of the present Congress,
in the same mn inner is done by the Committee
Printing during the session OF Congress
Approved August 81 4, 1882.
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NORTH CAROLINA

correspondent writing from Raleigh says:
81 think the skies are Frightening in our State.
There are large mass meetings coming of at En-
field, Slatersville, Hillsboro' and several other
places. and our electors beginning an active
canvass. All we want is to arouse the Wings"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-31

THE YAcHT ANERiCA-The following is an extract
from letter dated Malta February relative to the
yacht America The America. the wonder Of the day
among yachts, arrived the I'd inst She in
in beautiful style after laying 10 for four hours in heavy
gale from the n. n L. Her noble Lord de Blan
quiere is loud in her praises vessel of remarkable
speed and buoyancy She will lie within four points
the wind and do her fifteen knots an hour with ease
Since leaving England she has had fair share of heavy
weather and had there been any truth in the prognotcs
of her dsractors that her would be carried away
in bad weather and other Similar focs there every
possible opportunity for their being realized But the
pretty craft molly did her duty doing fourteen knots for
whole night when running with but her lib set, and
setting all bad weather at defiance. During her stop
she has been visited numbers persons The America
Will proceed morrow to Alexandria
STEAM TO C.lToRSr.. Agrecaby to the new regula.
tons to commence with the Cherokee hence ON nc 1t
Friday the steamers Of the United States Mail Steamship
Company ape to run direct between this port Navy
Bay the eastern terminus Of the Panama Railroad This
will furnish New Orleans with the first intelligence from
the Pacihc.-N o. Com. Bulletin March q
LINE STEAMSHIPS TO ppIr ApEtppi. is a good
prospect of the establishment on substantial and per.
manen basis of line OF .eampaokets between this city
and Pbiladelphia The experiment recently made, in
which the steamships Ben Branklin and VIM Penn were
employed. was by failure; the only reason for
withdrawing those ships being Is understood that
very advantageous opportunity occurred for disposng
them Tor the CALIFORNIA trade-which Is seductive
and for the present probably more profitable. new
company has now been formed under circumstances
which promise success and pcrmancncy, The required
stock has already Tor the most part been secured and
arrangements are In progress for commencing without
delay the construction Of two steamships of the size
the Penn and Franklin, and adapted not only to the
cghing trade but the carriage of both frat an, second
class passenger One Of the ships TO be built here and
the other ut Phiadcllhis-whch will afford good OPP
poriunity for the builders and machinsts Of the two
cities to compare their skin The project IL an excellent
one and II ure of ultimate success It will essentially
promote the bus'ne's interests Of Boston and prove
great convenience t. The coating trade Boston Ira
fsWf
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ignorance OF the s.Yengah aol position Of QUE ORA
COON force thrown into the caulcron merely
10 keep II fro m boiling over have inquired OF in
telbgent officers Of the army here and ] find that
these three companies compose the emit re torce for
the protection u this line of travel to California OF
two tbousand miles, 70 say nothing Of that immense
desert between Fo,t Hail and the dalles Of the Co
llmbia, swa:tn,,.g with Crows, Panacks, Snakes,
Diggers, CayIse, ard other warlike and thievng
bands, known 10 be the most dangerously infested
portion OF country between the frontiers of Mis-
souri, and the Pacific! What measures have the
Department taken to protect this part Of the route
Where are the troops to come from for this service!
Are they in Oregon! IL is well known that every
drag6On or mounted riheman has been removed
from that country, by order Of the Secretary OF
War, ard the season is now too far advanced
10 begin preparations to send troops by land to Ore
gOn by way Of Snake River. 1t is true our present
cavalry force is entirely inadequate to the wants OF
the country at the same time there is less excuse
that the usefulness Of the small force the parsmony
Of Congress has placed at the disposal of the War
Department should be thrown away by misapplica-
tiOn and the insuciency Of means placed at the dis
is expected of them.
Our party leaves here on the 23d Of the month for
st. Joseph, on the Missouri, which am satisfied is
much the best starting point We buy our wagons
here, trusting to get mules at ST. Joseph where they
can be had, understand, for from 800 to $50 We
expect to leave the frontier by the first of May
kossuth was paraded through the streets yester
day, and made speech at the market house, but it
seemed to me the handspring Of the apparent enthu-
sasm was the desire OF pot-house politicians for self
glorifcation, by being on committees with badges,
or marshas of the procession on prancing chargers,
and on the part Of the multitude curiosity only.
think very little material aid'' will 90 into the
Golfers Of the Hungarians and that the " solidarity
OF the peoples will not be much advanced by Kos
Mth's visit 10 st. Louis. V.B
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Supcrtor COurt-SpccIR1 Term,
Before lion. Judge Sandford


MApcu @.-DeqM If Mr.. Co,cdrey MIR Charles
0CoBor moved that the court adjourn al two O'Clock
L. NJ TO enable the members Of the bar attend the
funeral Of Peter a Cowdrey Esq. The motion was
seconded by Mr.. J. y. Burrl Jr. The Judge Oh
served that he had heard, with deep regret the
announcement OF Mr.. Cowdrey's doceasc-that he
had known him well for many years and highly
appreciated his professional abilities aud personal
worth-that he was the son Of eminent citizen
now no more who had long enjoyed in public station
The confidence Of his fellow citizens and had him dis
charged with great satisfaction to the public the office of
counsel Tor the municipal authorities The motion was
granted and an order 70 that effect was dir, tod IN No
entered upon the minutes o. the court
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Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. March 70, 1852.
Tie Goss,s Of Cdmbridge--Stpdcsgs and tRer Stu
Professors Libraries, 9'c.
Although am once more folded in the affection
ate embraces Of my adopted Alma Mater, cannot
resist the temptation to assert my connection with
themoving, living world, through your columns. The
old lady we'll enough but how she came to choose
such hole as Cambridge for her permanent resi-
denee, has bothered my brains not little. You
think in New York that your streets are muddy,
and TIC Gsnin Bridge o benevolent idea. What
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United States Commissioncr's Court.

BcIOrc Joseph BIltIgham, ESQ.
March 29Chorge Of Taking Letter, from the Pest Office
Alexander Mcdonald brought before the CCmmis-
sener on this charge and witnesses produced
examined by Mr. Ridgway for the United States show
that the offence charged had been committed but as it
did not appear in evidence that the letter taken out
with intent to obstruc the correspondence or pry nte
the business and secrets OF H. A. Charles TO whom the
letter in question adressed-thc letter having been
returned TO the Post Office apparently in the cond
ton it in when taken out--and there being some
private feelings which originated the affair Mr. BRIGHAM
decided that there was not sufficient testimony to hold
the defendant.
The Nevada journal., 1852-01-01
TIE HAPPINESS OLE HOME.

How many Of those around us in
this land of golden dreams--separated
by distance, waves and mountains,
from all they hold dear on earth
know well how to appreciate the SEN
timent contained in the following eX-
tract Though here we arc uncared
for, unloved, and almost despised by
all with whom we associate, yet we
know there is one whose devotion is
unceasing. Though like ourselves,
they are lonely, unguardcd by the
hand to which they have been accus-
toned to look foc protection, and un-
aided by his counsels, still she waits
patiently the tardy, but certain pro-
cress of time that may bring the re-
turn of him whose loss she mourns.
'Do not speak to me Of the felicity
of the honey moon. j is but the
cooing of doves. No, we must walk
along thorny paths, penetrate together
the most hidden recesses Of life; live
together in pleasure and pain, in JOY
and in sorrow; must forgive and be
forgiven; and. afterward love better
and love more, And as time goes on,
something marvellous occurs; we be-
come lovely to each other, although
wrinkles furrow the check and fore
head; and we become more youthful,
though we add from year to year
Then no longer have worldly troubles
| misfortunes and failings, any power to
dim the sun of our happiness, for II
radiates from the eye and the heart
and when our earthly existence draws
| to its close, we feel indeed that our
life and our love are eternal And
| this supernatural feeling is quite natu'
raj after all, for the deeper and the
| more inwardly We penetrate into HE
| he more it opens in its depth OF eter
! nal beauty"
The Nevada journal., 1852-01-01

Ctuaosities Of Hater. Nor is halls
stone less soluble i'll earth than in air
Placed under a bcll-slass with twice
its weight of lime, it gradually melts
and disappears and there remain four
parts, instead of three, of perfectly
dry earth under the glass. Ot Il plas
ter of Paris statue, weighing five
pounds. more than one good pound IS
solidifcd water. Even the precious
opal is but a mass Of flint and water,
combined in the proportion of nine
grains Of the earthly ingredient to one
of the fluid. OF an acre of clay land
a foot deep, weighing about one thou
sand two hundred tons, at least four
hundred tons are water; and, even OF
the great mountain chains with which
the globe is ribbed, many millions Of
tons are water solidifed in earth
Water, indeed exists around us TO
an extent, and under conditions which
escape the notice of cursory Observers.
w hen the dyer buys OF inc dry siliter
one hundred pounds each of alum,
carbonate of soda, and soap, he obtains
in exchange for his money, no less
than forty-iive pounds of water in the
first lot, sixty-four pounds in the Sec
ond, and a variable quantity, some
times amounting to sevcnty-three and
and a half pounds, in the third. Even
the transparent air we breathe con-
tains. in ordinary weather, about five
grains of water dili'used through each
cubic foot of its bulk, and this rarilied
water no more wc;s the air than the
solidified wafer vets the lime or opal
in which it is absorbed - Qaartcrly
Rerie,c.