The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-02
Che lOeekY Gazftte.
CRY OF LANCASTER:
ancsdnr Evenlng. Dee. i, 1875

wednesday 1870 49,
WAsHINeros AFTAIRs.-Just at the pres.
an, time, the Presidents message Is afford
inc food for much speculation, twill be a
verv important document, upon foreign al
fairs especially, and a great anxiety is man
;f.sted as to the Presidents views upon the
cubnn question. We have no doubt Of
their correctness-for whatever the lower
Oraer of the opposition press may have to
nav against the foreign policy of the present
Administration, sensible and well-meaning
t~itIrens throughout the country give it the
praise that 1t so Justly deserves. The Pres
dents views, in part, may be considered
forshadowed by the letter to the Collector
nj New York, which we publish to-doy'
The president will, it is supposed recon-
,r.na that the surplus revenue Of about ~
millions be appropriated tothe purchase OF
limited States debt, at the market Price
TNhe stock will, should the measure pass 60
-, rom 100 to 40. The surplus oftwen'y
millions will, therefore, e%xtinguish fourteen
millions of the debt. Even this w'n De pet
ter for the Treasury than to pay six per cent
;r,erast on the debt for ten or more years
10 saw nothing of the danger Of retaining an
immense fundin the Treasury, subject to a
b%ol;tical and sectional scramble, and pro-
motive If extravaganza and corruption.
A Washington correspondent says that 1t
i now generally supposed that both Gen.
C,ss and G Governor Marcy have given init
nations of their positive determination to
accent no Cabinet station in the new ad-
ministration. This is much to be regretted
as Gen. Cass appears to be remarkably wei
fitted for the State Department. 1t ioiiows
also. from the refusal ofAhese gentlemen &c
no into the Cabihet, that Gen. Pierce II nc
acts upon the principle of perpetual CaO'ne'
,n;ty. which Gen. Jackson established, can
no, invite into his counsels any other mem
bers of Mr.. Folks Cabinet.
The Republic dhnounces that Captain
bavenport has been removed from the com
mond ofthe Crescent City and that no othei
officer of the Navy will be permitted to en-
ter the service of the company SO long a.
the managers adhere to theft present Prac
tice of converting the visits of their vessel
into a source Of annoyance to the sPaniSi
officials. /.
tits also reported that, with a view to pre-
venting a repetition of the injury when
failure to deliver the Havana mails iniiicts Of
the mercantile classes, the Postmaster zen
eral has directed that the mails shall not D
again despatched in the Crescent CITY or /
any other of the Company's steamers who
may have purser Smith on board, but Will 0
sent by the steamer Isabel. Therefore,
Mr.. Law chooses to retain pu rser Sm'th'h'
steamers will be stripped OF official charaC
ter and patronage, having no pre'encc !
claim immunities or consideration as ="
agent of the Government. =.
The publication of negotiations by IN
Administration Of Polk, for the purchase {
Cuba, i: is thought, has closed the door lot
repetition ofthe offer. SPAN does not Tee
inclined to part with Cuba, and there is d
probability that it can be taken Tor som
time to come by any illibustering expeu
ton. Any thing of the kind only place
the Island further beyond the reach OF thos
who desire to stealth.
THE MORGAN DIsraIcT.-There are Sol"
individuals in the Senatorial district con
posed of Washington and Morgan, VINO see
determined to have that district represente
bv. , Locofoco. The recent proclamation
the Governor for special election to Fill I'll
vacancy caused by the death of the Hon !
C.. Convey, has caused a Mr.. Darwes ant
Mr.. Corner to get into a controversy aoo'
their relative merits and should the mu'
continue, another Locofoco viii be eiec
al Toss them both overheard, gentlemen
and mt forward some good, sensible VIM
There are enough men in the Legislatu'
.ou,,,bo. so,d at their own valuation, wou
hiring much more than they are WORTH
Carr. McLAxE's CAsE.-It is stated TN
it was by the advice of General Scott IN
President Fillmore disapproved the luo'
ment of the court martial acqu'tting 0uP
McLane of the charges on which he was T
Gently tried.
n.rThe address of Mr.. Brasee' when v
published yesterday. was just the thing
the occasion, and will have a happy enec
NrTThe attention of the reader is direct
TO the call for a meeting of citizens to raj
funds for the poor: Bear it IN mind
GIVE have had no time nor room for
Gals. We will make up hereafter.
WONDERFUL EFFECT OF ELEcrRIcIrY.
The attention Of the skeptical is called to
following story which we find in a late Gal
mani, copied from Bavarian journals: IN
long since a young woman was struck
lightning and driven perpendicular into !
earth, so that they had to dig her out
were some time in getting down to her heat
We find that it was carefully mentioned Il
she was dead; before they cxtricRted her.
This almost equals the yarn we heard told
an old darkey, when he went after the COY
"De first clap dat struck me-" said Sam
"knocked me into de san an grabbie, Gle
m to my knees, and dar stood anu II