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From the Richmond (Ha.) Republican, March Is.
The Whix Meetinx-Mr. Fillmore.

The proceedings and resolutions Of the Wing
meeting which we published yesterd exhibit the
right spirit. In the strong appreciation which they
express OF the Administration Of Mr. FILLMORE,
and the ardent desire that he may be contin ued in
his present position, they embody beyond all ques.
ton the opinions and feelings of the entire Wing
party OF Virginia The broad national principles
upon which Mr.. Fillmore has conducted his Adj
ministration, afford platform broad enough for
all but the sectionaliss, fanatics, and enemies of
the Constitution and the Union.
Mr.. Fillmore has the warm wishes Of ninety
nine out of every. hundred Wings OF Virginia for
his election to the Presidency. Yet, pure and
llustrious he is. the Wings of the South do not
go for men, but for principles, and they will not
refuse their support to any sound and patriotic
Wing who occupies boldly and unequivocally the
same national grounds with Mr.. Fillmore. New
ertheess, his selection, both their principles and
their personal preference would be triumphant
Seldom has any statesman, of any section or any
school. attained strong foothold in the respect
and confidence of the Wings OF Virginia Mr.
Fillmore. The means by which he has command
ed this public appreciation illustrate character OF
rare courage, decision, and magnanimity. They
have been noble means for noble ends. He stands
before the country, not with the tiers arts nor
the demagogue's words, but in the simp and
unadorned majesty of a patriots DEEDS. By these
alone has he achieved the respect and veneration of
his countrymen. BY these alone should he be tried
by the people. In the present foggy and disturbed
state OF the political atmosphere, eye can look
far into the future and il is impossible to say whc-
Their the country will be permitted to enjoy con-
nuance Of those valuable services to which she is
so much indebted for her present peace and union.
But the day that sees such a discarded from
her service because his fidelity to the Constitution
has made him unpopular with faction, and the
comprehensiveness of his patriotism has rendered
him obnoxious to sectional bigotry, will be day
far more ominous of disaster and humiliation to
the Union than to Willard Fillmore
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Qua FoRrIrIsArIoNs -"X," the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, makes the
following remarks in reference to Notifications
ject:
ago, that there is disposition in the House 10
throw the Fertilization bill overheard, as was done
at the last Congress. The reason is that the sums
required for coast and lake Notifications IL unrea
sonably large, and many Of the works on which it
10 proposed to spend them entirely useless hut
Congress ought to separate the wheat from the
chaf. and protect those points tho Atlantic and
Pacific coasts which are strategicai, and where
large amounts of property exposed to naval at
tacks of foreign enemy.
1.-THE Pacific coast certainly requires forti6co-
tons at San Francisco and San Diego, harbors
for shelter to our men Of war, especially as we
cannot count on the neutral ports of the weak
South American republics for the use of neutral
harbors. Again: Fort Delaware ought TO be iii :
shed for the protecti of PhiladeIpbia: md Fart
Carroll on Sellers Point Flats, ought to be com.
pleted for the protection of Baltimore. Fort Nc.
Henry IL not sufficient for that purpose since an
enemy once in position to batter that fort would be
near enough to throw shells into the city.
eli the principal srategical points on both coast
are properly fortified, and increased with a com
petent and welinstructed artillery force-and not
infantry styled artlsry-we might defy a foreign
enemy, and dispense with all the Notifications OF
mud-puddles and creeks.
''The Mexican gulf REQUIRES Kew West and IN.
Dry Tortugas to be fortified, as these points we'll
fortified would be almost, if not quite impreenabIe
and hold the keys to the Gulf Mexico mig ht then
vapor about Tehuantepec, but VIC would command
that isthmus In spite of Mexico. any other power
that might feel disposed TO dispute it,
cit 10 an easy matter to kill an appropriation hill
In committee, or to table it in the House, but il re-
qurss time and patient investigation To separaks
the necdful from the superb uous"
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Italy Art-America Artists.


correspondence ~ uR 0OStOn lr0nscrtpt.
RoME. February 81, 1852.
! have made many pilgrimages to the studios of
American scuptors and painters, and always
found something to admire either in clay, or mar
Bile, or on the canvas. II will not surprise you to
learn that the best landscape painter in Rome is
George L. Brown, Boston boy, believe, and that
among the best Of modern sculptors the name of
Thomas Crawford stands where il has long stood,
with the fret. Enjoying high regulations, and just
ly, are many others whose are not unfami
liar to their countrymen in the United States.
Terry, lnns, Freeman, Hall, Ives, Greenough,
Rogers, Mosier, and many others rank among the
foremost in their professions; and although some
OF these artists are yet very young men, they have
already won golden opinions from the best judges.
IT is to be sincerely hoped that the patronag e now
80 studiously awarded by, American travellers to
inferior artists among foreigners will be transfer
Browns beautiful pictures, offered at two or three
hundred dollars, while they are worth thousand,
will not be allowed to be carried to England and
to France for want of American buyers at their
proper value. ] saw a moonlight view standing
in an obscure corner Of his room yesterday, OF
which heard an elder brother nrtst cay "nothin z
finer had been imagined or executed for half a cen
tury." This glorious picture can be bought for
two hundred dollars, and il is enough TO ilumnae
any mans house, mud shed a beauty abroad in the
room where it hangs superior to all the rank and
fashion which may ever chance to be congreRated
there. But It stil stands in the little low studio of
the artist, while shoals of bad Madonnas and car
goes Of sprawlipg saints go in every packet
to New York and Boston.
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English md American Ships In China.

The London Times would have the world to
believe that the adoption of free trade has re-
suited in an amazing flow of prosperity to
every British interest Board of trade Stats
tics are paraded monthly TO prove that, with
strong odds against it, freedom OF commerce is
Strengthening the hands Of manufacturers and
ship-owners, and adding to the security and
comfort Of all classes. The deusive character
of these boastngs, as far as they relate to the
agriculturist and the manufacturer. has frequent
ly been dweltupon in these columns and the ge-
neral complaints Of the ship-owners show that
the Times afrms too much when it speaks of
their well-grounded contentment.
The following paragraph. cut from an Eng
lish paper, exhibits the nature Of the facts on
which the ship-owners Of that country base
their lamentations
Captain 4. h. Smith, Of the ship Btphampoy,.
the property Of f. Gibson and Sons Of Hull. writes
thus from Hong Kong, on the 22d December lac, :
we have an overwhelming amount of splendid
American ships in these waters, and they absorb
the whole trade. The American clippers arc from
one to two thousand tons register and under favor
able circumstances they profess to accomplish 326
miles per diem. Our fine China traders are lvipc
here hopeless Of employment, and many of them
are going down TO India, whore at this present
tors are II possible worse than here. have adyces
from Calcutta; fregh's there 3Os for London
and by no means likely to improve until the plut
OF shipping has passed off Clipper tonnage 10 now
unavailable Mt Whsmpoa for teas to Britain at &
S., and downward tendency; go that shiptnsste
and consignees are very disagreeably situated -
All this is very ominous to the English ship
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The Deficiency BIZ.

|
The course Of the Opposition, in the House
Of Representatives, in regard to the Deficiency
bill, is only to be paraleled by that of its me-
tropoitan organ. For many weeks this bill
has been before the House, during which no one
ventured to assail it on the merits. IL the Ad-
ministration had been really vulnerable in this
regard, would its enemies have remained quiet
all this while2 Would they have wasted
months in idle and irrelevant disputes over Old
Foges and Young America, if there had been
substantial ground of complaint against the
Administration for extravagant or illegal ex-
pendlture? If such ground existed, how can
these gentlemen justify their indifference and
neglect of duty? Will all the insinuations
that they can crowd into their fve-minute ha-
| rangues make any impression on the country,
when it is perfectly well known that they have
not availed themselves of their opportunities in
committee to prove any substantial allegatons2
Again, the Opposition majorities in the two
Houses withhold the documents that are necessa-
ny to explain and illustrate the exigences of the
public service, and compel the friends of the
Administration in every case to seek from the
Department and bureaus specific information
which nine times out of ten is cOnta ned in the
imprinted reports that have been for months in
possession of the two Houses. Is this generous
or just Why is the information contained in
these documents kept back from the people
Why are clerks paid for copying over and over
again, for the use of members of Congress, the
very matter that is buried in the reports that
lie imprinted in the hands of Congress -Four
months of the session nearly have now elapsed.
By this time the members ofthe two Houses ought
to be in possession of the papers that are ndis-
pensable TO their intelligent action on the ques-
tons likely to come before them during the
session. Where are those papers Will the
Opposition throw the blame of their absence on
the Administration
The only "public document" of any interest
that has been before the House for the last six
weeks is the February number of the Demo
cratic Reriep; and if we do not have the
March number in day or two, there will be
no new matter afoat Of sufficient importance to
command Legislative attention. If, instead Of
enlightening the country from the pages Of this
party organ, on the relative merits Of Young
America and Old Fogyism, the Opposition had
sought to bring before the country the docu-
ments prepared at great expense 10 inform
them as to the real and substantial business in
terests which they are sent here TO dispose Of,
we apprehend that they would have better dis
charged their duty to their constituents than
by making fash speeches for the benefit of
Presidential aspirants
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When some one told US that Mr.. OLps, OF
Ohio, was WING ten years ago. we were at no
loss to account for his present especial bitterness
against Whggery and Wing Administration.
Blu, from what we see of his facility of change
in the House, it would not much surprise us il
he were to turn Wing again, or Mormon, be-
fore the close of the session. He does not seem
to know his own mind two hours together
Look at his inconsistency. In the debate Of
Monday, on the Deficiency bill, Mr.. Obs said
Of the appropriations:
"Mr. Chairman, let the friends of the Admins
'tration come up like men, take the responsibility
ne the Democratic party have always done when
in power. and not cowardiy shulk behind Con
gress, and then they shall have my respect, al.
though, upon prineip,>, hail BE- compelled 10 NTH
hold my vofe"
Here is man Of sentiments Here is q
man Of principle :" Here is a man evidently
acting under the coercion Of principle thai
"conpet" him to do something very much
against his inclination.
few minutes after making this avowal Of
his extraordinary devotion to "principle," Mr.
OLDs made another speech, in which he in
dulged in the following language:
81 ask with what grace docs il come from the
other side Of the House to censure us for voting
against this appropriation for the army? why,
upon former occasion. gentlemen upon thai
side of the House have said they would not vot,
Tor an appropriation for the support Of the army
though the enemy's cannon were b,ttering down
the walls OF your Capitol Did II not come from
that side Of the House when your soldiers were
upon the plains Of Mexico, fighting the battle. Of
your country Who then proposed to stop the
supplies for your army, but welcome them with
bloody hands TO bospitable graves Doe, N.
gentleman suppose he can Jr,ghten 10 vofe for hi
appropriation BY saying that the hunter, and ,eier,
on our ue'tern Frontiers ~H 'u6sr consequence q
NE rant Of an army TO protect Uem2'
II is evident from these bold words that Mr.
oLDs is not man to be easily frightened. He
is not to be scared by the sufferings Of tbs
hunters and settlers on the western frontiers
IL is astonishing with what perfect equsnimity
and patience some people can bear other PEG
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Rock ISLAND AND CHroA 60 RAmaoAp-The con.
tractors for building the railroad bridge across
Rock river have already commenced making the
necessary preparations. The stone for the abut.
mcnts, &c, will be got out at or near Wilson q
Ferry, which s short distance above the railroad
crossing. The contract was let. ss stated Last
week, to Mcesrs. Warner & Sherwood, who, we
understand, arc experienced in such works
large number OF men will be employed upon
the bridge, which IL intended TO be an ornament
as wen as a bcneht TO the road Its length will he
fourteen hundred feet, and it's width thirty feet.
Inc estimated cost is from 9s5,OOO to 800, 900.
In" work IL to be completed by the at OF Deem
Der, 1903 -Rock Island Adverfiser, March 10.
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Wing Speeches.

The speech Of Mr.. MkRsHaLL, of Ken
lucky, will be published to day at the Republic
office, in pamphlet form, at fifty cents the hun
dred
The recent speech Of Mr.. Books, of New
York, will also be issued in day or two, in a
pamphlet, and supplied on the same terms
We take this occasion to remind our friends
in Congress that we are prepared to print their
speeches promptly at the same rates with other
establishments in the CITY
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LATER FROM BUHNos AyREs.-- Defeat and Flixhf
q Rosas-We have received Rio papers of the
10th February, which announce the defeat of Ro.
sas' by the allied forces Of Brazil and the revolted
provinces OF the confederation. Urquiza had taken
Up ms quarters at Palermo, the country seat Of
hosas' The combat was bloody, resulting in a loss
on both sides OF four thousand lives. The date and
place Of the battle are not given. Rosas and his
daughter had taken refuge on board an Enslisb
steamer. The news reached Rio iust "a the stesmer
for Pernambuco, which brought this intelligence.
left that port.-N. Y Journal of Commerce.
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DAVENPORT IowA.-rbc prospects arc favorab BILE
THIS season Tor greater improvements in our young
and thriving city than were made last year. Il
was late In the season before building fairly com
menccd last year, but already number Of frame
houses have been erected, and others contract
cd Tor, to be built az coon as possible. Time was
when we knew about the number of houses in pro-
gress OF erection in the place; but since addition
after addition has been made upon the east and
the wet, we no longer pretend to an approxima-
ton OF the fact The certainty Of an early eastern
railroad connection will attract large immigration
TO this place, go that another season we may pre-
dict still greater improvements.
Davenport Gazette, March II.
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OFFICIAL.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,


Information has been received from CaARLTs
IaAESf, esq, United States Consul for Hesse Cas-
sel, Hesse Darmstadt, and Hanover, that in conse
quence OF the general deficiency of the last crop Of
grain, and the high price occasioned thereby, the
States composing the Zoll Verein of Germany
have passed decree that from the lst of the pres
ent month to the lat of September next, grains,
legumes. and flour. can be imported into the ZoIl
VereiR free of duty.
The import duty on grain previous to the said
decree was about seven cents bushel, and that on
hou. amounted to a prohibition, being two dollars
and fifty cents per barrel.
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Mr.. Chandler's Sue~ch.

We publish in another column the very
clever and telling speech Of Mr.. CHANDLER,
of Pennsylvania, delivered in the House OF
Representatives on Wednesday last, in the
debate IN the Committee of the Whole on the
state Of the Union. on the bill making appro.
Pration to supply deficiencies in appropriation.
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1852.
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NAVY YARD At SAN FaArcsco.-The com
mission appointed TO select a site for n navy yard
on the magnificent bay Of San Francisco will leave
New York Tomorrow. The board consists of
Commodore John ID. SIoat, Commander w. s. Og-
den, Lieutenant Simon y. Blunt, and w. p. s. San
ger, esq civil engineer Of the NAVY Dcpa rtnent
Lieutenant ID. Ammen accompanies the board M
secretary, and Passed Midshipman A. c, jackson
as draugbteman.
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Web'ter's Dictionary. Springfield: MERRIAM.

HARrKn's MAGAZINE AND THE INTERNATIONAL
The New York papers announce that the enter.
prising publishing house of Harpes Brothers have
purchased the subscription st and copyright of the
International Magazine, and that that publication
will be merged into Hayper's Monthly Mngor ine.
With this increase to it's present edition, Harpers
Magazine will have circulation of about one
hundred thousand copies
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THE REPU BLIC
WASN'T N GTON /:
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH "a. 1852


ga criss is approaching that must, if it cannot
: be arrested, soon decide whether order and good
government shall be preserved, or anarchy and
: confusion ensue can most religiously aver
6 have wish that is incompatible with the dig
nifty, happiness. and true inerest Of the people Of
this country My ardent desire is, and my aim
has been, far depended upon the Executive
Department, to comply strictly with all our en-
gagements, foreign and domestic; but to keep the
United States free from political connexions with
every other country, to see them independent
Of all and under the influence of none. In word,
: | want an american character, that the powers Of
Europe may be convinced act for ourseloes,
and not for others. This, in my judgment, is the
only way to be respected abroad and happy at
home; and not, by becoming the partisans OF Great
. Britain France, create dissensions disturb the
public tranquility, and destroy. perhaps forever,
8 the cement which, binds the Union.''
tGEoRGE WAsHINGroN, 1895
"RssolUsd, That we regard the series of acts
known the Adjustment measures as forming
in their mutual dependence and connexion sys-
tenn Of compromise the most conciliatory and the
best for the entire country that could be obtained
from conflicting sectional interests and opinions,
and that, therefore, they ought to be adhered to
and carried into faithful execution, final set
Element in principle and substance of the danger
Gus and exciting subjects which they embrace"
Resolution Of Vhig Congregational CAUCUS, Deem
Der |, 1851;
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Rev. DIR. Dewey.

We understand that this eloquent minister,
in compliance with very general request to
that effect, is expected to deliver in thiscity,
shortly, his course of Lowell lectures, which
called forth so much commentator at the
North
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MoRE THAN Sixty MLrs Az Houa. On Wed
nesday train Of csrs, without passengers, made
The run from Poughkespsie TO Peekskill, distance
hirfy t'ro miles, IN miris minutes. The, we be-
heve, IL The greatest speed ever attained on any
road IN this country.--Aibony ". " R,gi,fer, ~
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A DxsTaucrrvg FngsHEr has occurred on Tn.
Grand river, in Canada, and especially in the
neigbborbood of the town Of Paris.
Two extensive bridges were carried away; also
the bridge over the Great Western railroad
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800 lHt CoRoSATfoN on THE EMPEaoa OF HAyrI-
I'm. ms event will take place on the llth Of April
nc scene - to be one Of great pomp. Twenty
i've thousand troops and all the dienisries of The
ishnd are TO be present on the occasion.
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Congress.

In the Senate yesterday the bill to estab-
lish dry dock and navy yard in the bay OF
San Francisco, was taken up and debated by
Messrs GwIN and BRoDHEAD.
The House Of Representatives had the De
ficiency bill under consideration.