The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-03

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Pacific Railroad, more than one heterogeneous item
calculated to alay certain impatient desires Or 70
satisfy just claims; and then the last session of tb
32d Congress will terminate, like all preceding
ones, In the midst of effervescence and mass ~
| unnnlshed Business. 1t will, doubtless as we
iateiy SAID, have made clear marked out certain
Questions OF foreign polcy but it cannot carry to
its credit any conclusion nor any act which can
preserve its memory"
/ Mail Failures.
The mail from New York, due in this CITY
yesterday morning, again failed to arrive by
the regular train from Baltimore
The northern mail due last night also failed
to arrive at the regular time, for what cause
| we have not learned.
The President and Our Corporate Author
titles.
The following are the addresses delivered on
the lst-lnstant on the occasion of the visit of
the corporate authorities of the city of Wash
lngton to the PRESIDENT of the United States
to take leave of him on his retirement from
| office:
| ADDRESS OF MAYOR MAURY.
| Mr.. PRESIDENT: The corporate authorities of
the city of Washington wait upon you in BODY.
as manifestation OF their high respect and regard
| for the purpose OF taking leave of YOU upon your
retirement from the exalted station which you now
hoid and In doing SO they desire to express to you
their grateful Acknowledgements for the kindness
which you have uniformly shown towards our citv
and the lively interest which YOU have always
taken in its prosperity and their earnest hone that
on your return to private life you may, surround
ed by your family, live to enjoy many years or
uninterrupted health and happiness
now, IN the name of The corporate authorities
OF the city OF Washington, cordially bid you fare
| we'll.
REPLY OF PRESIDENT FILLMORE
Mr. MAYOR AND GENTLEMEN: This is an honor
which did not anticipate, and am therefore nm
prepared to express in suitable language the CRATE
ful emotions which it naturally inspires | can
assure you, however, that feel that am entitled
to the congratulation of my friends at the an.
preaching termination of my official labors and
responsibilities While shall retire from this ex.
allied station without single regret cannot
leave your delightful city, where have ever been
treated with 30 much kindness and consideration
without feeling pang Of regret at the severance.
of so many social ties, which have been to me
sources of unaIloyed happiness,
If in the course of my brief Administration
have been able to accomplish any thing to pro-
mote the prosperity or add to the attractions of
this lovely city, bearing the of the immortal
Washington, this reflection will ever be to me a
source of sincere qualification.
This city stands upon a spot recently selected
from the wilderness, and consecrated to the exclu
sive use and control of this great nation should
be adorned becomes such a nation, and rem
dered an attractive object of love and admiration
to the whole people. 1t is the emblem of our
Union, and should be the pride of every patriot.
Acting upon these views, have cheerfully lent all
my efforts to beautify and adorn it, not merely for
the sake OF the residents of the city, but an OBJ
iect of just national PRIDE and as a means of
strengthening our glorious Union
With my profound acknowledgements for this
signal mark of your respect, and my sincere pray.
ers for the continued prosperity of your CITY, bid
you an affectonate farewell
HARPER's Ferry RAnRoAD.-Among the bills
passed by the Virginia Senate last week, was one
to amend an act entitled an act incorporating the
Alexandria and Harper's Ferry Railroad Company.
This bill incorporates company with capital Of
S 200 900, and makes State subscription of
three hfths The region of country to be pene-
trated is the richest in the State and if undue
determinations made by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, it will command almost the entire
Washington city travel from the West at which
we should utter regrets, inasmuch as il would
free travellers from that iniquitous State tax the
railroad between w ashingon and Baltimore.
The bill changes the name of the road to The
Alexandria, Loudoun, and Hampshire Railroad,
and extends the road to Paddy Town to connect
with the coal fields of Hampshire and Maryland.
1t apnropriates three ffths of one million two hun
dred thousand, seven hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars; this amount to be expended east of f
the Shena ndoah river.-Fr Fredericksburg Ne,cs.
NC The wiz lin
ate has passed the bill to repeal The act laying q
tax passengers passing overthe York and Cum
beriand Railroad, with an amendment abolisbine F.
the tax on passengers over the Lebanon Valley
Railroad.
CHE METRoPoLITAN."-This is a new ,oonfbIzz
Catholic magazine devoted to religion, education.
literature, and general information. edited by a
clergyman, and published by John Murphy Co.
Baltimore, at So per annum The second. or
March number, has just been laid on our table by
HUGH CAMERON, bookseller and stationer, Todd's
Building, Pennsylvania avenue. Ii contains a
dozen articles, the leading one being on 1.-THE
Flight of the Pope" and another s'The Religious
History of Japan
CAN OLD CITIZEN" lie informed that his cav
has been referred to the party most
in the suggestions which he makes.
AID FoR MADEIRA.-The papers of New YORK
state that $S725 rs have been collected in that
city alone Tor the starving people of Madeira
The New York Journal of Comm.r.s hoe ;,st
been enlarged and, being now printed on a sheet
20 oy oos' Is the largest daily paper in the world.
iHr PICTORIAL PArEas are in town, and NAV
70 had OF BucxINaHAM.
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