The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-07-12

Inv A~~~vHto IoSes<T Wlsn6e 10 Vf4nuIo dltfi-
culties between conflicting Wing candidates for
Congress in Kentucky, and says: "Only lot men
think how incomparably more important it is that
the supremacy Of the Wing party shall be main
tanned in Kentucky, than that A, b, or should
be elected in this, that, or the other district"
The Louisville Times says that Sin the annals
of party conflicts there has not been more ruth
less and personal warfare waged than has marked
the efforts of the Wing scavengers 70 beat down
the glorious banner-bearer of the Democracy in
the Ashland district, Mr. Breckenridge"
! milk dealer who takes milk to Concord sells
to retailers six hundred gallons daily at fourteen
cents gallon, and they sell it at twenty five cents
He buys it in the country at ten and-a-half cents
and takes it to Concord by railroad, having car
Of his own. When will Washington be daily
supplied from diaries forty miles distant'
| 1t appears that tho Declaration Of independence
was written in the parlor on the second floor of
the brick house ut the northwest corner of Market
and Seventh streets, Philadelphia. Make en-
cravings Of the interior and exterior of that house.
and others of revolutionary association in Pha-
delphia, before they shall be torn down. The
house once occupied by William Penn is still
standing there.
There is q man in Washington who il tho
roughly decided in opinion upon the question Of
war and peace in the East; but we have not been
able to learn his decision
Oh, how grateful everybody is for those show
ers on Sunday evening! ~ a6tg
The accidents and disasters on the fourth were
numerous everywhere. grt.ltlfif.
| Somebody at sometime invented means of
drawing the blinkers tight over a horses eyes
upon his attempting to run away. That inven-
ton should be made available.
1t does not appear that Judge Stump, in Balt-
more, is more feared by the rowdies than Judge
Brice used to be. Call you this reform?
The Newark Advertiser asks ''Shall Mount Yer
non be given up to speculators'" and says s'the
grave of james Madison, the father of the Con-
stitution, and twice President of the United States
cannot now be recognised" Is this possible'
We cannot credit it. We can believe TINT the
tomb of Harrison has been desecrated by some
vundals. We know that merchant of New
York has rescued the resting place of the mother
of Washington from oblivion, and that the monu-
Iment which encloses the ashes of the immortal
patriot himself was furnished by marble-cutter
of Philadelphia. Yet we must hesitate to believe
the calumny upon nation, that the puce where
so recently deceased President of the United
States lies buried has been wholly obliteratcd
from the memory of his family and his country!''
Look to this in time, and let Mount Vernon be-
long to the people of this Republic forever
They want parks in st. Louis. Let us have
such reservations everywhere. e
They have big camp ut Gotham, twenty
miles from London, and 1000 regulars are being
taught field exercises. After week or two they
will give place to another body of the army. The
newspapers minute in their descriptions of the
sham battles.
midsummer finds our Senators worn out,
jaded, and Indifferent, after six months labor,
and in'that condition entering upon general dis
cussion of the government proper for India"
Thus says the London Times of the Oath of June.
| NAvAL.-Wo clip the following from the cor
respondence of the Norfolk Herald
| TABLE BAY, CAPE OF Coon HoPE,
| PARK Row, April 81, 1853.
The United States steamer Powhatan arrived
here on the 14th, after pleasant passage of ten
days from st. Helena, all WE'LL Having taken in
about seven hundred tons of coal from the ship
Faneuil Hail. from Boston, sent out to supply with
coal the Japan Expedition, the Powhatan will sail
to-day for the Indian ocean, Isle Of France, Mad
agascar, Zanzibar, Ceylon, Calcutta, Singapore,
Borneo, Hong Kong, (China,) thence to her des-
tnation, Japan, where she expects to reach about
July or August next. The barque Sea Bird came
in on the 18th, seventy-eight days from Boston,
and sailed on the 18th for Australia. The barque
Ocean Wave came in on the 10Th, eighty days
from Boston, with flour, which she sold for nine
dollars, and sailed on the 25th for Algoa bay.
The ship Bothnia came in on the 10Th, eighty
four days from New York, with passengers, and
sailed on the 26th for Australia; she gave three
hearty cheers when she passed under the stern Of
THE Powhatan, which were politely returned. The
Swedish frgate Eugenia last week gave an en-
tertanment board to the officers of the Pow
hatan, and sailed next day for home, after an alb
sence of some two years around the world. The
English barque Dido, from Australia bound to
London, with cargo of wool, copper-ore, and
lead, totally lost on the night of the 18th, at
the lighthouse near the anchorage. The blow of
the 18th drove her up the reef, and stove her
broadside in; cargo saved in n damaged state.
l Came in on the 23d, ship Siam, of Salem, from
Manila, bound to New York, with the loss of
foremost and head of maintop mast, by squall
in tho Indian ocean. The Siam left at Manila,
in February, United States steamer Susquehanna,
disabled in one Of her engines; was repairing and
about to leave for Macao. Commodore Aulick
had been sick, but was then convalescent
Tragic scENE.--At ST. Louis, few days ago,
Mr.. Conrad Slccter, "a German n stonecutter,
returned home from his daily work, and after
few words with his wife, called his children--nine
in number-round him, and, taking pistol, placed
. the muzzle in his mouth, and the next moment
fell to the floor a mangled corpse @
RAN-The Georgia and Alabama papers are
rejoicing the late refreshing showers with
which they have been favored. A fitting sub
ject.
The Boston Transcript looks very snug, and has
n rule beneath as well above each page. The
corkscrew pants are not the only wonders Of the
nge.
| PARK BENJAMIN was the orator at Harrisburg
on the 4th and we have his Grafton before us in
pamphlet form.