The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-02-14

CoNcoRp, N. H., Feb. I, 1853
MY Dean STA. Circumstances, to which neee
not advert, will am sure, plead my excuse for tn,
delay in acknowledging the kind letters of your
councils Of the city of Philadelphia.
w bile am constrained to decline all public re-
ceptions on my way to the seat of Government
beg you to be assured that am truly grateful 70,
the proered hospitality, and for the personal kind
wishes expressed by the city authorities.
am, with the highest respect, your friend and
obedient servant, FRANK. PIERCE.
Hon. CHARLES GrLpIN, Mayor of the City.of Phil.
adelphia.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
An Important Movement.
There can be no doubt that the wealthiest and
most influential commercial organization in Eu.
rope has determined to send out an agent whose
visit is for the purpose of ascertainng whether OF
not the cotton growers of the Southern States are
disposed to throw off the Liverpool monopoly of cot
ton. The proposition is nothing more nor less
than for this mammoth society, in conjunction
with the planters of the cotton districts to create
continental depot for cotton The disposition Of
few private houses to aid the direct shipment Of
few thousand bales of cotton could not be re-
garded as matter of much immediate conse.
quence, but the Importance which attaches to the
movement, when headed by the company alluded
to, cannot fail to arrest public attention and to
produce decided results We have been shown
the correspondence, which is twofold The first
communication is from distinguished foreign
minister on the part of his government, referring
to the president of the company now enlisted. This
company writes as such to an official now in this
country. stating that they are disposed to carry
out the plan proposed in a continental depot Tor
cotton The parties, and the names, and the coun-
try we are requested not to mention, as in a mat
ter OF such Importance, involving, too, such i'm
mense counter-interest, the friends of the move
ment have their reasons for keeping the details to
themselves
There is no doubt that powerful European or.
ganlzatlon Tor trade is about making responsible
and definite propositions to the planters for the es
Enlistment, by direct shipment, of depot of cot
ton on the continent to supply the wants of the
continent. There is no mistake about this. The
evidence before Us is of the highest character 1t
is intended that the agent visiting America shall
proceed to the planting districts, the planters
for which purpose they will be invited to meet al
certain accessible points-and ascertain exactly
what the disposition for direct shipment is-the
ability OF the planters to act-the dificuties-the
opposition, II any, and every thing else necessary
tor the information of the company. This preirn.
mary step is taken, there have been two repre-.
sensations made in Europe; one, that the planters
are irresponsible and indisposed to co operates the
other, that they can be relied on, and are deter.
mined, if furnished with facilities and responsible
doubt will be tried, and fairly tried as the company
IN Europe are very much interested in its success
and every way disposed to favor the movement. If
it is carried out and depot for cotton established
on the continent, very important results must fol
low. 1t is confidently believed, by the continental
powers, that they will meet witha hearty o-ope-
ration from the cotton interest, which is supposed
to be not over fond of Liverpool. We watch this
with interest. q.
DANIEL WEBsTER's ScHooLMAsTER-Mr. Web-
ster's first master, says the New York Journal of
Commerce, was Thomas Chace. He could read to-
leraby well, and wrote fair hands but spelling
was not his forte. His second master was James
Tappan, the person whose death was announced
in the Journal Of Commerce yesterday His resi-
1ence was at Gloucester, Massachusetts. His
qualifications as a teacher far exceeded those of
Master ,Chace. The worthy veteran was dgnifed,
in the latter part Of his life, by the title of Colonel,
and he felt great pride in the fame of his quondam
pupil.
About two years ago Master Tappan addressed
! letter to Mr.. Webster, recounting some of the
Incidents of his own life since he taught school at
Salisbury. This unexpected communication from
lis aged teacher drew from Mr.. Webster the fol-
owing answer in which a handsome gratuity was
enclosed; more, probably, than the old gentleman
'ver received for winters teaching at New SAILS
bury:
WAsHINGToN, February 26, 1851.
Master TAPPAN: / thank you for your letter.
and am rejoiced to know that you are among the
wing. remember you perfectly we'll as teacher
II my infant years suppose my mother must
have taught me TO read very early, as have never
oeen able to recolect the time when could not
cad the Bible. l think Master Chace was my ear
lest schoolmaster. probably when was three or
our years old Then came Master Tappan. You
boarded at our house, and sometimes, think, in
he family of MIR. Benjamin Sanborne, our neigh.
Dor, the lame man. Most of those whom you knew
n ''New saisburys' have gone to their graves
Mr.. John Sanborne, the son of Benjamin, is vet
wing and ia about your age. Mr.. John Colby,
y no married my oldest sister, Susannah, is also
wing On the "North Road' is Mr.. BENJAMIN
1unfon, and on the 'tSouth Road'' is Mrs Benia
min Pettengil. think of none else among the
wing whom you would probably remember
You have, indeed, lived checkered life. hope
you have been able to bear prosperity with meek
ire all ordered for US far better than we could or
Ter them for ourselves. We may pray for our
tally bread; we may pray for the forgiveness of
sins; we may pray to be kept from temptation, and
hat the kingdom of God may in US, and in all men,
md His will everywhere be DONE Beyond this we
hardly know for what good to supplicate the Di-
vine Mercy Our Heavenly Father knoweth what
We have need of better than we know ourselves,
md we are sure that His eye and loving kindness
IRE upon US and around US every moment.
thank you again, my good old schoolmaster,
Tor your kind letter, which mas awakened many
sleeping recollections; and with all good wishes,
DANIEL WEBSTER