Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-12
Mr.. -Fillmore's Administration.

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III reply to the complaints of the opposition that
President Fillmore has not signalized his adj
ministration by the accomplishment of any
great and dazzling measure of public policy
The Virginian shows that Mr. Fillmore's sole
offence In this respect consists in his conserya-
tism and that it is his attachment to the early
!, traditions of the republic, and the policy of the
founders of our system, that alone subjects him
to the denunciations of his political adversares.
The writer then proceeds to say:
But we demand to know if there is truth in
the charge that the present Administration has done
| nothing worthy of being remembered? What has il
faedt to do that it should have done-what has it done
thatt should have failed do In what have the public
interests lacked attention-n what has the honor OF
the country suffered! Since the adoption of the
| sent constitution we have had President who has
managed national affairs calmly more firmly
and more justly; and yet none has passed through SO
perllous time. The escaping from the imminent de-
struconth that menaced u.s. and the restoration of tran
guilty to the country. are themselves achievements
more brilliant than thousand victories
| Misguided and nflamed by the false teachings and
dangerous practices of Locoocoism many of the Deone
of this government had been seduced into schemes of
foreign plumber and outrage and had given away to q
wild spirit osbuccaneering adventure Was it nothing
to have interposed the strong of the law and re.
strained them from the immense crime they were about
to commit Was it nothing resolutey to have main
the national faith untarnished? VIII it not be worthy
| of remembrance hereafter, that WILLARD FILLMORE
gave its quetus to the restless and reckless spirit of FL
| busterism?
The foreign relations of the Government too have
been managed with singular address and discretion
The many embarrassing questions that have arisen
partly from the loose and ndeerminate condition in
which international affairs left by the Polk admin
istration, have been disposed of in modes entirely sa
tlsfaetory. There now remains of illfeel
| ing between this Government and any other
tn Dtl1y
acknowledged and atoned for-the wrong that England
did to required to be promptly and fully re-
paired. BY the just and temperate pursued by
the President, citizens of this country undergoing
severe penalty in foreign land, for grievous of
fence have been pardoned and at liberty But the
browning act and glory of Mr. Fillmore as relates to
the foreign policy of Government. is the frmness
with which he confronted Kossuth when the nation
led away by his impassed eoquence seemed ready to
bow its knee before him. That was an act worthy of
Washington himself The willy Hungarian, with ali his
seductive arts failed to him a hairs breadth
from the strict line of precedent and prudence. Con-
demned the time by the superservceabe svcophants
OF the idol the sober second thought of the people
has come to his support and approved his manly and pa
triotc The page of history that records the in
tervew between Fillmore and Kossuth will be among
the brightest and most enduring in our annals.
THE TAX BILL.
1t will be seen, by reference to our Legisla-
tive report, that the Bill concerning the Com
missioners of the Revenue commonly denomi-
mated the Tax Bill, passed the House of Dele
gates yesterday, by vote of 80 ayes to 81 noes.
We shall avail ourselves of the earliest oppor-
tunity to lay this important document before our
readers.
The Alexandria Gazette of Wednesday
says
Mr.. Atkinson, the engineer of the Orange
nd lows RoiI hoe nj
reconnaissance ofthe country between Lynchburg
| and Gordonsville, and speaks most fayorably of
the adaptation of the country for the construc-
ton of the proposed extension ofthe Orange and
Alexandria Road-a work which we hope to
see commenced and prosecuted with vigor, un-
der auspices of the State-forming the only link
| wanting to complete line from Memphis on
the Mississippi to this place.
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
The final article of the British Quarterly re-
lates to the rife and vexed doctrine of non-iater-
rentson, with the speeches of Kossuth and the
tracts of the London Italian committee as text
reference. The reviewer says: The two powers
in the world most conspicuously animated by the
spirit viii CHI is directly opposed to the. doctrine
of non-ntelvention with natonalities, are the
despotic Gar Of Russia, and the Democratic peo-
pie of America. Both consider themselves to
earth, Il rowing charter to act wherever they like
The American republic conceives itself to be
charged with the task Of extending everywhere
its own spirit and institutions. Hence, in con-
tradiction to the counsels Of its statesmen
comes its growing eagerness to interfere with
the affairs of the Old World
SHIP FEvER.-Tyhus, CT ''ship fever" so
called, has prevailed during the present season,
1;.rI,s
victims have been very numerous. We learn
from physician daily employed among the
emigrants on Wards Island that with the most
skilful practice, only nine per cent. of those at
tackled with this fearful disease recover. On
the Gath Of January jlast the whole number of
patients in the Emgrant Hospital and Refuge
on Wards Island suffering with ship fever, was
1881. By the middle of February, this was
reduced to 2,O44. Most of those attacked pass
| Quarantine apparently in good health but the
disease is developed by the cold and privation
experienced after their arrival in the city. The
seeds of the disease supposed to be genera
ted at sea- in consequence of bad ventilation and
unceanly habits, and on the arrival of the emf
grant, it is often impossible to detect its pres
ence by any medical examination.
COINS OF THE UNITED STArEs.-The bill
introduced into the Senate by Mr.. Hunter, in
relation to the CONS OF the United States, pro-
vides that from and after the 1st of june 1852,
the weight of the hafdollars is to be 1872 grains;
and the quarter dollars, dimes, and half dimes
shall be respectively one-haf. one fifth, and one
tenth of the weight of half dollar; which coin
is made legal tender in payment of all sums
not exceeding SIS. The Treasurer of the Mint,
with the approval of the Director to purchase
such bullion as is required for the coinage with
the bullion of the mint Such coins to be paid
out at the mint in exchange for gold coins at par
in sums of not less than Sl00. The amount
coined into quarter dollars dimes, andhalfdim
to be regulated by the Secretary of the Treasury.
No deposites for coinage into small pieces here
after to be received other than that received by
the Treasurer of the Mint. Depositors have the
option Of having their gold or silver cast into
bars or ingots OF pure metal OF Of standard fine
ness, with stamp designating the same. No
niece to be cast into bars of less weight than ten