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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-19
PARTY JEU D'EsPRIT.

peasant to see party strife mitgated by good-hu
mored W.T. The following jsu Pespr is from the Alba ny
Argus, and explains itself:
Deed SEPARATION beeeen The National Democrats and the
Frtesoaers and Soft Coalition
,oro ms ndenture, made this 18th day of September
Iooo ~ ume that tests the honesty OF possessing
democracy between the company composing the firm Of
JEFFERSON Democracy Of the first part and the little crowd
OF dead weights, who, like vampires have proved upon
ne credit o. said company composing the unincorporat-
gu nrn OF Landowners, Soshes short boys assassns
anu New York thieves Of the second mart. witnesse
that the said party for the first part for and in conside
ration OF good radiance to Them duly paid have dis
carded and by these presents do forever discard and ut
claim all their title and interests Of in and 10 chat GER
tain small parcel or moie,y of respecabty and integrity
claimed for and belonging one heretofore connected
VITA said firm, to wit Martin Van Buren, lying and be-
ing IN the town OF Sour Crout county of Prince John
and State Of Uncertainty.
Bounded as follows: commencing a. small post in
the Baltimore Convention marked Revenge running
thence south to veto Of slavery in the District Of Column
ba thence in westerly zigzag towards Buffalo,
until II strikes Ben Buffers cke-straw; thence due
north to British sympthy thence southeastery towards
gold spoon marked 0gle thence SOUTH $50 to leave
the large lot known the memory Of Jackson the
left thence east to pile Of ncendary documents mark
ed The Mail Bag thence north to a bass wood
ment marked Traitor; thence east down deep declyi-
y to the place Of beginning containing abotonists Of
inconsistencies any sort Of broken pledges
&c. be the or less. Together with the appur
AMI all interests and claims whatever of the said
parties Of the first part either in expectancy or other
wise, subject only to the condemnation of ell lovers Of
their country Andte said party Of the first part here
by covenant and keep perpetual repair the
fences that surround the premises hereby conveyed
sufficient height to prevent all egress from the said
premises
Witness our hand and seal the day and year above
written. JEFFERSON DEMOCRACY,
"By DANIEL s. DICKINSON, their Attorney.
"Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of
.'GEoR0E w. CLINTON"
Comfy Of Union for The sake Of Union, ss.-On this
18th day of September 1858, before Daniel s.
Dickinson, who is to personally known the agent
of the first part and acknowledged that he had executed
the foregoing instrument the and deed of the JEFF
ferson Democracy. JOHN G. NfATHER,
"Canal Commissioner"
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We have been reminded for some days past, by
the appeara nee in this city of several MEMBERS of
the near pproach of Congress, and, what gives it
more imT ,ortance, new Congress; an event from
which she theory of our Government would teach
US to expect nothing but good to the body polite,
but " ,hich experience admonshes us is sometimes
frau .ght with evil. The condition of the country,
EN- incntly prosperous as it is in all physical wealth
AZ id advancement, would leave little cause of anx-
ETY. on domestic account, nor any thing indeed to
fear in regard to exterior affairs were it not for the
reckless schemes Of acquisition and aggression which
are openly advocated by the anti-American school
of Democrats, under the names of progress and
manifest destiny schemes more in accordance
with the morals of the highwayman than of great
nation with a regular and happy form Of Govern
ment. 1t is not our disposition to forbode evil or
to look upon the dark side of the picture, were
the time come, which it has not, for interrogating
the future. There is too much in the present
to cheer and encourage, to permit any dependency
about the uncertain future and our fears, we con-
fess, are not little allayed if our hopes not
greatly frightened, by the confidence we feel in the
prudence and irmness and Americanism of the cit-
zen to whom has been committed the great trust of
directing the public affairs and of most of his Off
cia advisers.
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as | remember, the latitude of Cuba and Of the
Sandwich Islands is about the same Is the Pa
cifc Ocean" as well as the "Gulf of Mexico" on
american water?
The necessity of clearing up this difficulty before
we proceed any further in the business of annexing
this halfway house between the American coast
and China" as these Islands are termed by one of
your correspondents, becomes the more apparent
from the able manifesto of Mr. Commissioner SIEVE
RANCE on the proposition in question; for he ex-
pressy states that " the Government of the United
States can have no colonies. Whatever territory is
added is but integral part of the whole and sub
ject to the same national constitution and laws"
In case it should appear that our constitutional
fathers in their shortsghtedness, did actually limit
the United States to the American continent, would
it not be advisable to amend at once the descriptive
title of our Great Charter SO that it should read,
"The Constitution Of the United States of al the
World and the Rest of Manknd?" This, methlhks,
would give us "ample room and verge enough"
within which to exercise that power of acquisition
which constitutes, according to our able Attorney
General, the "vitality" of nation.
QUEEN SABE?
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NAVIGATION OF THE AMAZON.


Mr. BENNETT, recently appointed United States
Consul to Bahia, in Brazil, has returned home. He
sailed from New York some three months ago for
Kio Janeiro, Gas we learn from the New York
Courer) authorized and instructed to endeayor to
negotiate treaty giving to this country the right
OF free navigation of the Amazon. He succeeded
with some difficulty in efecting this object, and
has obtained from the Brazilian Government a
treaty comforting upon American citizens full and
free right to navigate the Amazon within the terri
tories OF Brazil. AS Peru has already conferred
the same right, the navigation Of that magnificent
river, from It's source to its mouth is now open
to the enterprise of our countrymen. The Courier
adds:
From Rio Janero Mr.. BENNETT went to Bahia, to
enter upon the duties Of his Consulate Upon arriving
IN that city he found the number of American vessels
touching or trading there to be small and the emou
ment OF the Office consequently so trfng that his
sonaoie expectations disappointed The entire fees
pau 70 The American Consul that port only
9ioo per annum while the British Consul receives
larry OF about 900 per annum in addition to his fees
Cnuer these circumstances Mr. BENNETT decided to
sign the oce and sailed from Bahia the 9th of last
month IN the Talbot He has in his possession the treaty
winch he has negotiated and understand win proceed
AZ once 10 washington to place the document before the
iresident 1t is unfortunate that who has eectu
ally accomplished great object could not have re-
NAMED TO advance the future interests of the
OF our country in Brazil"
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CALIFORNIA AND TIE PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-A Railroad
Convention assembled at San Francisco the Sd of Oc
tober, at which Gov BiGLER presided. committee that
had been appointed for the purpose submitted large
amount of statistics in relation the cost practicable
ty and probable profits Of railroad from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Conflicting views expressed as to
the best route but the Convention finally concurred in
series of resolutions introduced by Ex-Governor McDoU
GAIL declaring, in substance:
l. That there is an undivided sentiment among the
people the United States in favor Of the construction
Of railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific States.
q That the duty of the friends Of the road at this
time to devise the ways and MEANS mature their plans
and organize public sentiment in favor of early
mencement Of the work
3. That the works commenced in Missouri, Arkansas
and Louisiana, leading westward, examples Of
tcrprse and foresight which worthy of the imitation
Of the people Of California.
a. That the people Of California have the enterprise
and resources cooperate in the making Of the road
across the continent and TO carry it through their
State, on any line which may be selected.
committee was then appointed to solicit subscrip-
tons for the purpose Of lquidatng the necessary
pcnses Of surveys these surveys to be prosecuted at the
earliest moment possible.
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OH MEN roR CoUSsEL.-At meeting Of citizens Of
Boston opposed to the coalition and the constitution
appeared the Hon. JOSIAH QUINCY, eghty-two years
Of age, who impeled to attend e meeting he said
by irresistible impulse, which he considered almost
as n voice from heaven" to defend the old constitution
under which he had lived for seventytwo years safely
and happily. The was mere patchwork, the
rayelngs Of the old one and like beggars coat the
patches predominnng In the Of his remarks he
said he had belonged to party; in fact eighty
two years II age had business with parties but should
be turning bis attention to things Of another world He
was neither Wing, Democrat, Freesoil, or Young Ame-
rca was he mixture composition Of any Of them
lie had nothing to do with any Of the sms which men,
for purposes Of power, multiplying in the land He
declared himself Federal Republican, he had been
since the year 1900, when he elected by that party
Congress, and referred to the Hartford Convention
held few years later, being composed Of men emil
nent for ability WORTH and patriotism and who had been
most wilfully abused aud misrepresented.
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BALTIMORE MARKET.

BALTIMORE, Nov lS.--Busness is steady The -four
market Is unsettled under the recent news Sales of
about 900 bbs Howard street brands at S637J small
sales also at S637, but the settled price is So 375 Also
the latter figures The receipts Of -four increasing Wheat
has declined to cents per bushel since yesterday.
About u 900 bushels offered, mostly sold at 1875 1873
for red to lab las and loo for good to prime aud choice
white. Corn 5000 bushels ut 10 ~ for old yellow
new do. Ga &c; old white II 20 new do. 60 a 65.
Rye, Pennsylvania % 90 Maryland and Virginia IS
q rs; OATS Maryland 43 a A. Virginia 40 A.; clo-
yerseed 1915 per bushe
Provisions unchanged. Coffee frmer; sales of a. 900
bags Rio at III a1li to III Prime held at IL cts
under the favorable advices from Rio.
Stocks dali Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shares fur
Their declined. Sales to-day at AZ cash to ~ time
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NAvAL.-The United States brig Dolphin, from South
ampton via Port Praya and St Thomas arrived in Hamp-
ton Roads on Sunday Her cruise has been made with
view of taking deep soundngs, and win give rise to
many interesting and important results.
lie is stated the United States soop-owar Cyane
Commander HoIzxs isstdbe dispatched to Caledonia
Bay to convey Surveying party under the command of
Lieutenant STRAIN, u Navy for the purpose of making
thorough survey of the route from Caledonia Bay San
Miguel in order to settle the practicaby Of the pro-
posed oceanic ship canal communication between the At
lantic and Pacific oceans.
An officer on board the United States tore-ship John
r. Kennedy writes follows from ST. Simons Bay, under
date Of September 10Th:
"All of the squadron here now with the exception
of the steamer Hancock, and she is expected hourly
The rest of the squadron have had fine weather. but since
sailing from New York have had in this ship two
gales, Of which accompanied by the most hor-
rible sea have ever witnessed We forced send
to the bottom Of the onehaf Of deck load keep
from going there ourselves Our ship has suffered
badly that although have not yet been three months
from the dock yard repairs already necessary We
are now lying here with every thing down foremost
is about to be hoisted out, and it will probably be
month before we get to sea again.
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GEoRGIA.-From the Message of Governor COBB to the
Legislature we learn that the present debt of Georgia
So and that the balance in the treasury the
goth of October was $74,S5 Gov. COBB recommends
return to annual sessions of the General Assembly, and
believes that the public judgment of the State prepared
to acquiesce therein He also recommends the extension
of the law giving judicial elections to the people the
remaining Of State officers elected by the Legsa-
ture In the event of the Lennon case being carried
before the Supreme Court he advises that the Executive
be authorized to employ able counsel in behalf Of the State
Of Georga The message touches upon great variety Of
TOPICS and concludes ausion to the gathering
prospect which the present condition of our Federal re
tons presents, that the angry sectional strfes
which at one time threatened to disturb our domestic
tranquility have happily terminated.
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COLONIZATION IN MIssouRI,-The eleventh annual meet
ing Of the Missouri Colonization Society held at St
Louis Monday evening Of last week The annual re-
port represents that the Of colonization is advanc
ing in Missouri The society is making effort to send
out company Of emgrants to Liberia in December next
Addresses delivered by the Rev. s. j. p AMBER
son and c. c. wnrrLEsEY, Esq, and the following reso-
buttons we're passed:
l. Resoced That far as human eye scan coloni-
zston offers the only practicable plan Of removing from
our midst alien race and Of thus giving to Africa the
blessings Of civilization and christianity.
g Resolved, That the Of Africa presented by
the American Colonization Society, commends itself to
the confidence and cooperation Of every phian
thropist and christian.
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MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION.

BosToN, NOVEMBER l5.-The vote in 31S towns
is, for Governor: WAsHBURN, Wing, 1852 /;
BISHOP, Freesol Democrat, 32,676; Wilson,
Freesoil, 2s,459; WALES, National Democrat,
5,l66; Scattering 500 The new Constitution is
defeated by from FIVE to eight thousand majority.
The Wings have gained considerably in the Legs-
ature since last year, when they had ten majority,
their majority thus far being ffty-sevcn The
Wings will also have large majority in the Sen
ate, which will enable them to elect their Governor
and all their State officers. The contest has been
the warmest and most exciting for many years.
The Wings celebrated their victory by fireworks
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GROWTH OF New 0RLEASs.-The New Orleans Plea
June the vote of the city the recent election
to show the increase Of its population:
The total number of votes cast for Mayor at the
charter election of 1861 $685. the total number of
votes cast for Sheriff Monday last was u 1876 being
an increase upon the vote of 1852 of 3,0l or little
than 80 per cent in period of less than twenty
months This is equivalent increase the electoral
vote of so per cent in about years and half and Of
100 per cent duplication in about five years An in
in the actual number Of the electors of the city may
be fairly taken as indicative Of corresponding in
the total population of the city. The population Of New
Orleans in the spring Of 1852 did fall short of 49, 600
Hence if it has increased par pdsu with the number of
electors it now number $50 600 and at the same
rate ofncrease the population of New Orleans will
the LIST of April 1857 to at least 800 000 and the
lst of April 1862 to full 100000 This is highly salts
factory Our friends abroad will be pleased see that
loss Of over 10 900 people during the late epidemic has
not sensiby affected the growth Of city n popula
ton"
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MINERALS AT THE CRYSTAL PALAcE-The
meteorological portion of the Crystal Palace is at
tracing much attention, The Journal of Com
merce says:
"New Hampshire is the only State that furnishes tin
Cobalt and bsmuth are exhibited from Connecticut
and cobalt from Maryland; chrome from Pennsylvania
and Maryland and the mineral called emerald Nick
Nickel in the manufacture of German silver gives interest
to every discovery of it. All parts of the Union furnish
iron but Pennsylvania exces in the number and variety
Of specimens North Carolina furnishes handsome spe-
cmens Of phosphate carbonate and sulphuret Of lead
There are silver from South America Mexico, and
Europe but from the United States except in
nexion with lead. California is the only State which
sends an ore of quicksilver"
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AMERICAN lNGESUrrr.--Some writer for an Eastern
paper, attempting to describe few Of the multitudnous
objects in the Patent 0fite in Ills city, says:
There is an invention that picks up pins from
fused heap turns them all around with their heads up
and sticks them in papers in regular another goes
through the whole process of cgar-naking, taking in to-
oacco leaves and turnin, out the perfect article. One
machine cuts checse an ther knives and forks
another blacks boots tnoher rocks the cradle; and
seven or eight take IN Washing and ironing Another
patent is for machine tat counts the passengers in
omnibus and takes their IRE. When fat gets in it
counts two, and charges oube There are variety Of
guns that load hemselss fish line that adjusts its
own bait; and rat tral that throws away the rat and
then oa ana sets itsel and stands in the for
another"
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Some experiments have been tried ut the Brooklyn
Navy Yard with new diving bell, Of which Major H.
SEARS is patentee The bell is cylinder eight feet long
and about the number Of feet in diameter 1t Is
composed of ron and has round windows upon the top
and sides to admit light to the divers within There is
also an opening at the top, through which two de-
seended to the inside Of the machine. steam engine
on board Of vessel forces the air into large iron
cylinder, whence it is forced through hose into the
diving bell The admission Of air from these hose is at
the command Of the divers. BY allowing it sdmitance
the bell rises by letting out the air. sinks An aperture
at the bottom of the bell allows the diver pass out and
search among the sand rocks and return again at will
The experiment was fully successful.
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OFFICIAL VoTE OF GEoRGIA-The votes cast
last month for Governor of Georgia were canvassed,
by the Legislature on the 9Th instant All the re-
turns were admitted as regular, and the result was
Democratic majority of $40 votes. The whole
vote was "a, 766-of which Mr.. JOHNSON received
AZ ,63S, and Mr.. JENKINS AZ, 12S. Last year the
majority for Mr.. PIERCE over all other tickets was
nearly 5000!
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THE BALTIMORE ASD PoToMAc RAILROAD. -The Marl
borough Gazette says that this road designed
Baltimore with the Potomac opposite the mouth of Aaa
Creek has net been aoaudoned but win undoubtedly be
buff. 1t further odds:
r The Patapsco Railroad Company md the Fredericks
bg Company have resolved to subscribe largely to
raroad These two companies looked to for the lag
est investment. They design taking nearly 81, 000 0QC
worth Of stock Until they complete their grange
ments to do SO, give their resolve no definite &C
ton viii be taken by the Commissioners appointed under
our charter
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THE nor-AIR SmP ERrcssos-Accordng to the New
York Journal of Commerce the csloric ship Ericsson has
been for the last months, since her trial trip
Washington lying at Williamsburg, a. l. having the
plan other engines modified These alterations will be
completed of her engines within two weeks aud
the other engine will be finished after, when the
ship viii make anoher trial On her last trip the engines
worked by the low pressure SYSTEM while with the ate
ratons spoken Of the ship is be worked under
densed pressure, by which it is expected that
greater speed will be Acknowledgement
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WAR MANIFEsTo.-Some of the New York pa
pers publish an address, signed Charles Kornis''
and Louis Forok," to the Hungarians Of Now
York, calling upon them to take up arms in aid of
Turkey against Russia. The appeal" assumes to
speak by the authority Of Kossuth, and nyokes all
good Magars who wish to avenge the wrongs Of
the common enemy, Russia, to send in their names
so as to be enrolled forthwith
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In the Vermont Legislature on, w ednesday three
ballotings were had for United States Senator On
the last ballot the vote Stood for Collamer (Whg)
50; Kellogg Dcm.) So; Shafter (FreesoilJ % !;
Brainard (FreesoiD 5; scattering s. Five adli-
tional ballots were had on Thursday, without ma
terially varying the result
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The Louisville Courier Of the 9th says The workmen
who have been occupied in laying wire cable the
Mississippi river the Upper ST. Louis Ferry completed
their undertaking last Saturday The preparing and
moving the cable the proper place occupied eleven
days time, but they engaged only half hour in
sinking it in the water The line between ST Louis
and the Eastern cities is continuous and uninterrupted"
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THE NORTH PACIFIC ExPEpTIoN-Letters have been
received at New York from the exploring and surveying
expedition under command Of Commander RtScdoLp,
which left Hampton Roads on the 14th of June last
dated at Simons Bay, Cipe Of Good Hope, September
20 The scientific observations and experiments had been
successfully prosecuted and charts Of the track sailed
were in course Of preparation for publication The YES
sells Of the squadron had proved admirably adapted for
the purposes of the expedition
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A oUER Y.

Messrs. GALES & SEAToN: As you arc presumed
to be always "posted up on all questions of con-
sttutional interpretation wish respectfully to in
quire whether or not the caption Of our Federal
Constitution, which describes it as "The Constiu-
ton Of the United States Of America," is an inte-
grail part Of said instrument, designed to define the
territorial limits of Its purviewY All copies of the
Constitution which | remember to have seen are
provided with this specific title, intended, as l al
ways supposed, to give ca local habitation and a
name to the United States for which the Consttu-
ton that follows was framed.
The motive Of this nterrogatoryis apparent.
see that we are to have the Sandwich Islands an
nexed to our glorious Confederacy; and as it is
quite probable that may be in favor of this mea-
sure myselfif it is only constitutional wish to
learn whether the territorial restriction above allud-
ed to forms part of the original instrument, or is
only an Interpolation fosted upon it by the print
ers; for if the former is the case, do not clearly
see how we can bring these Islands within the pale
of the Constitution Of the United States Of america,
since no map that have consulted places them on
our continent Perhaps your neighbor, the Union,
who seems to have very liberal and expansive ideas
respecting what are called American waters" and
our right of "eminent domain" in the same about
the latitude of Cuba, may be able to throw some
light on this geographical question; for as nearly