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Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-09

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JAMES CAMPBELL,
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Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT June Z, 1854
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I osT-on Pa avenue yesterday afternoon, some
1 where between 18th spd 10Th streets PORT
HONNAfE. C ntainiug = fmsil SUN Of MONEY. in
cd The frdsr Will BE- suitably rewarded by haT.
NJ the same at the Office Of Riggs Co.
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The daily union., 1854-11-11
NEW JERSEY.

We have at length sufficient returns of the election held
in this State Tuesday last form idea of the
general result The fusonists have secured majority
the Legislature The delegation to the Congress will
stand follows:
J. Isaiah d. Clawson, fusionist
O. George r. Robbins, fusonist
g. James bishop, flsonist
4. George VAIL democrat
g. A. G. NJ Pennington, svergsay whig.
The reelection of Governor Vail has called forth the
most lively expressions of satisfaction the part OF the
citizens of Washington to whom he is greatly endenred
for his social worth and the purity of his political prnc
pies That eminent patriot and sterling democrat General
Darcy has been defeated, it will DO seen in the fifth dis
trct The result in this district is thus noticed in the
Newark Eagle;
The election yesterday the part of the Newark de-
mocracy conducted with energy spirit, and
thusas surpassed They worked like whose hearts
in the who felt that in labong for Gen. Darcy
they proved their attachment to the The he
ceved in Newark be has right to be proud Of If the
ships have failed to realize expectations the city in which he
lives has manifested appreciation of bis worth credabe
him and honorable to the community"
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The wings of New York. those who still preserve the
name of wings that State in order the more successfully
to hide their abolition procvities are gravely offended
because their candidate for governor Mr. Clark has prob
ably been defeated by Mr. Seymour. The Tribune IS a
good specimen of the class; for, be remembered at
although the Tribune, after waiting for months to see the
direction of the current finally somewhat excited
sssaant of the socaed kpownothngs has nerer hesi
soted 10 rejoe The por Of the secret order long as
IL assisted ne hig, and prostroed e democrats Then all
the victories of the nothngs called rebukes
of the ira ton snNebraska triumphs butnow,
when the Sewardes and the know nothngs at ISSUE
the Tribune is cheated and the knownothings are "nf
mousH
The daily union., 1854-11-11
THE ELECTIONS.

Our dispatches Ills morning from New York are few in
number and Of meagre end unsatisfactory character and
to add to our perpexy in srmng even toerably cor
rect estimate of the returns the New York papers OF yese-
day morning failed reach us in consequence OF an acc
dental detention of the between PhladaPhia and Bal
tmore be conceded, however, that Governor
Seymour has been reelected although his majority Will nc
much smaller than generally anticipated yesterday
In Illinois and Michigan the fusionists claim to have
red everything The result cannot be ascertaned with
any degree of certainty before Monday Tuesday next
The daily union., 1854-11-11
INyOCATIONs TO UNION IN THE DEMOCRATIC
"sE PARTY.

However much disappointed leaders nssy rejoice in the
temporary defeat of the democratic party there is not nm
intelligent adversary of that party in the country who
does not admit to himself in this its hour of gloom that
the democracy will shortly recover its strength and renew
an the early future its glorious and substantial victories Of
tw years ago. This union will result for two causes
FIRST the differences between combination made SUCCESS
f by its hosttes alone and secondly the sense of dan
ger to country, now rendered more imminent
when in too many cases. (except that Of New York; the
last natcism has unconscousy aided the Oldest and the
worstwe allude to the fusion in most of the free States
between the foes of the rights of the States and thu advo
of religious intolerance However democrats may have
heretofore differed, whether personal grounds
public questions they cannot long be kept apart when they
the efforts making to break up the foundations of
organization which, for than half century, has been
important element Of the public safety and the general
prosperity Nay the very fact that the victorious major
ties in the several free States already torn by the
enons of rival sms each claiming the barren honor of the
triumph shows how little the nation expect from those
who have succeeded at the baotboxes in moment of inn
pulse and Of passion Even those who might be disposed
therefore, to crafty their own dsapponments by wound
ing the democratic party and by destroying it, will trn
from the dscouragng prospect of uniting their fortunes
an organization which is not unit upon any great
principle Will the southern whgs for instance be ready
to put their trust in combination which has for its lead
such weknown enemies of the South Gardiner of
Massachusetts, Barker of New York. and Tbaddeus Stevens
of Pennsylvania and which, however many of those attach
ed my have otherwise desired has been potent enough
10 assist powerfully in the election of number of abo
tonsts the next Congress? win the conservative
of the North be willing to do it? Will those who look to
an economical administration of the federal government
confde their hopes in such quarter? Wherever
these and similar questions may be asked and always
swered in the negative.
There is then in each of these arguments powerful in
vocation to union the part of the democratic party
The vote thrown for Governor Seymour of New York,
after the most hercuean efforts OF dsaected leaders
keep democrats divided into factions shows that these
considerations already had irresistible effect in
that quarter of the Union. 1t will be the same elsewhere
We must 5ary all disseasions II ,coud triumph at all
in The future A impuise must lead 10 a common
union and those who think otherwise will either be carried
forward by the current will go down with it.
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The organ OF Mr. Fillmore at Albany, New York. is full
OF native Amercanism since e election, and reocea largely
over Ullmans vote. The Register was filed with ap-
pcals the rich Irish brogueT and the sweet Ger
accent in 1852 only two years ago and toed with
excessive industry to show that General Pierce OPP
posed to the Catholics
The daily union., 1854-11-11
THE GREAT DEFEAT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

THE GREAT DEFEAT OF THE DEMOChAllO rAhi
IN ls4O.
In ls4o the democratic party of the country defeat
ed from Maine to Georgia Its platform defnitive its
candidate at time unexceptionabe among the abest
men in the Union were those who columns its organ
aon perfect it had previously carried nearly every
one of its candidates for governor the respective States
and yet when the day of the election 1t was almost
swept out Of existence Funeral preached
over its anticipated dissolution by such Clay and
Webster Its days were numbered the estimation of the
triumphant party and be it remembered there were not
wanting then as there are not wanting now, democrats
msled by the false glare of meretricious doctrines and IN
sgated by revenge jealousy who reooed at the over
throw of their former party if angel OF devastation
had annihiated The great point Of difference det~sea
the ,oinny party eat day and The present consisted in The
fact that there rere many things upon Whch the eonquering
majority rere most heartily united If they did not avow
their principles the canvass it known that success
in the country would lead the Inauguration, rather TO
the restoration of series of federal of the most
extraordinary character But what the result pro-
duce in few short months? series ofcatasrophes the
dominant party to which political annals to that period
had furnished few parallels With what eagerness those who
had previously gored the prosraon of
party welcomed it back power The bold and startling
measures Of Clay beginning with the bankrupt law and
ending with the high tariff could only be mastered by the
democratic party; and when in ls44 James X Polk was
elected the presidency the practical philosophy OF that
result derived its chief significance from the fact that
was achieved by comparatively man. over the ac-
compshel and beloved leader of the whig party To 60
back however the caames of l840 contrasting them
with the defeats of the democratic party we are i'm
pressed by the fact that fell in the case in presi-
Dental election and in the other in conflict two years
before presidential election So then, if the whg party
victorious in ls40 was disbanded and demorazed or
ganizaon in less than year, Notwithstanding it was led
by the intellectual giants who then fourished and in the
face of policy which, If not ayowed before the cleo
ton, was certainly adhered to after it, how long will
the present combination-na marshalled by Clay, not
cheered by Webster and bound by chord Of common
sympathy but fused By harmony Of hareds alone-can
maintain its position national party? We are con
tent to allow the thckcomng events Of the future to
this question
The daily union., 1854-11-11
Ell TII RRIITEl

The Boston Post says many colored in New York
city voted the knownothing ticket Tuesday greatly
the discontinue of the aboitionis who had calculated
these votes matter of course The Seward men have
now an experimental knowledge of black ingratitude
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The Albany Argus tns admits its sknownothngismin its
issue of the 9th of November and shows how well it agrees
with Mr. Dickinson in prescribing the adopted citizens
The fact is that the desire to defeat Seymour and
Clark both at all classes Of threw in their ballots
almost without consideration, for Ullman'
The daily union., 1854-11-11
TWO STRONG FACTS

The New York election shows that the know-nohings
incapable of trumphing without the wings and that
the wings incapable of riumphng without the know
nothings 1t is the first time that attempt has been
made by the one to do without the other.
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The Hon. JOHN NJ CLAYToN--This gentleman made
speech at Delaware city Oh Monday in yar Of the knpy
notngs and predicted all sora of ruin in consequence Of
the passage of the reciprocity bl which he said would
reduction in the price of wheat and breadsthds
generally If that is to belts effect tsays the Baltimore SUM
it may certainly be taken for granted that there is large
class of who under present circumstances at
least will have TO rejoice.
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The New Hampshire Patriot reports that since the let
of June last four of the representatives In the New amp
shire legislature have died
The daily union., 1854-11-11

broad the il is question of commerce of civil
izaon, OF human progress advancement and improve,
ment and never before did the free navigation of river
strait present questions OF such concern 10
the whole human family
Apply the principles Of international law TO this case
the prayer OF the memoralsts If in obedience to these
principles the Amazon be opened to free navigation then
the capacity OF the earth 10 sustain population becomes
twofod greater than it is or than with that river
closed, itean well be- IL is a question and PRAYER
therefore, which teaches the webeing of the whole human
family.
Having thus eneavored set forth the state of this i'm
porant question and TO explain the views of your memo
rasts and the grounds of their prayer with regard to il
the opinion is yentured that these enlightened DEGREES
the Amazonian republic have TO all nens and purposes
converted the Amazon ITSELF IL Hows through Brazil
into strait and its upper waters Also TO all ntents
and purposes into of the Those States have
given to American citizens the right to sail and
shores of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador that they have TO
pass the sound in their with the Baltic powers
of Europe.
As to the mode of exercising this rght upon the skiing
of rivers the conditions upon which it is to be enjoyed
your memoriasts desire that Brazil should be consulted
aud that Difference should be paid her wishes in SO far
that reasonable restrictions may by mutual agreement be
placed upon it, without necessarily rammeng the exer
else of it, may nevertheless her from any nconye
nience or injury with regard to it.
But If Brazil should prove contnmacious if she should
deny rights refuse to treat and persist in her attempts
to keep the waters of the Amazon shut up against
guished of Americas juristconsuts your memorias,s
would have her reminded that mutual intercourse and
reciprocal interchange of benefits between the different
nations which compose the great family OF mankind,
ordained by Providence essential the moral wel-bs
ing Of the whole human Who them shall dare OPP
pose his will to the accomplishment OF this divine law 7"
And in duty bound your mennralists will ever
pray, &c,
Lieut. u $ NJ in behalf of the Memphis Convention.
FERRuARy, 1854.
The daily union., 1854-11-11
Truly. the contrast is striking.

Truly the contrast is striking
The winds and currents of the are so ordered that
all vessels trading under canvas by sea- with the mouth
Of The Amazon must either going coming pass the Of
fngs Of our southern seaport towns upon the Atlantic
The currents sweep BY the mouth Of that river into the
Caribbean sea- their way 70 aei the Gulf stream and
the drtwood which it brings down from The slopes of the
Anes meets in the Florida pass that which our Mis-
sssippi may have brought down from the Rocky noun
tains
The trade winds of the Atlantic blow home upon the
Amazon and render east for saing-vcsse
coming out mt its mouth impracticahe.
If she be bound TO Europe Atricaif her destination
be around Cape Horn California the Cape of Good
Hope 10 INDIA TO Australia, to Rio de Janero
in every case het Course on coming out of the Amazon is
first the nortwnrd GnG westward until she reaches the
parallels of our southern coast
Returning she may direct for the river but geHg
her track far as 20 deg or 80 deg of north latitude is
and the same whatever be her ultimate destination
among the places above named.
On the contrary if after coming out of the mouth of the
Amazon she be bound anywhere into the Caribbean sea
the Gulf of Mexico the winds and currents both IA
vorable for direct course but her return, they
such to compel her to ps out by the way of the Toru-
gas with the Gulf stream whereas 'rom all the Atlantic
seaport of the United States the winds are whe
called soldiers Winds that is they fair both ways
fair come and fair to goand the passage Is of the
most certain in the world To and from New York, h is
about three weeks under canvas on the average each
way
thus appears that the commercial outlet to the great
Amazonian Watershed Is seGrer under canvas, to the
commercial emporium and other Atlantic Of the
try than is the month of own Mississippi to New
York and that the highway or route between that ANA
zonian outlet and all the of the world passes almost in
sight of our own doors
To unlock that river open it to that commerce and
navigation with their influences is the which the
Memphis convention has much at heart II of
the objects for which that convention called and it is
the earnest prayer of this the memorial of that wise
and patriotic assemblage
Such body of men qs THAI which met together there
would seorn to put up petition asking for anything that
is wrong.
They believe the free navigation of the Amazon is an
achievement which the relations OF peace and friendship
which so happily exist between this government and all
the riparian States of this river entirely competent to
accomplish.
They beiseTr that all that is wanted is light and
nouncemen in the Of TIE people Of the United States
of the doctrine which in America should obtain, and which
ought by the everlasting principles of right to obtain with
regard to the navigation of rivers that flow in natural and
navgable channels through the territories of more nations
than one
In order to forth the grounds of this petition in their
The daily union., 1854-11-11
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. II. 1854.

Senator Clay, OF Alabama, arrived in Washington ON
Thursday last 1t gives much pleasure to state that ne
returns to the seat of in the enjoyment OF e1
celent health
The daily union., 1854-11-11

CuFoRSrA-A private letter received in Boston from
resident in California says of business gen
orally "Caornia has got TO be State that can export
breadstuts We want few boots and shoes cotton
cloth and email amount Of ready y-made clothing but nP
half Us much used to require Old boots and shoes
and old clothes mendcd now and not thrown in inc
less than half worn formerly We are getting
be toleraby prudent decent sort people Miners ARE
doing well, rich and independent The poor farmers
ruined by the mighty product of their own labor Inc
merchants cramped by the amount Of their oonsgn
mens merchant had rather have attack Of cholera
morbus than have a ship consigned TO him now
The daily union., 1854-11-11

The Boston Copgregationalist delivers wedirected
fire knownothngism II says it has refraned hitherto
from saying anything appnt it, because IL has seemed 70
lie but summer blast that would spend its force
and pass away but 1t thinks that Il 10 iraught with
dangerous consequences 1t objects to
because it to introduce and dangerous ee
ment into the midst of our political lifc"
Second Because it is decidedly in conflict with the gen
uine idea and true policy Of our nation
Third. Because il is sort of game which two play
at This banding together with secret oaths for political
purposes be done by Romaniss well Protesan
Again hccalse ii affords bn new nopby horse To-,
the technical politician OF such hobbyhorses have
indeed already had enough"
In concuson it begs of all good men think twice be-
fore they give it aid and comfort.
What foreigners think of the amusing melange Of our
politics il is well to The French Courier ds Eds
uais thus elassifes our parties:
Democrats hard she'll, Democrats soft she'll
Wings Democrats libres "
Partde her'e, Parti de Ia temperance
Coalition de Saratoga, Dissdens de Ia coalition,
Know-nothings, Faux know -nothngs,
Legue carson, ttemperance) Femmes fortes,
Antl-renters, Paru negre.
1t then represents the following principles to be at stake
Bronson ct lie bon cognacl
Seymour ct 10 ma,vs,s taba
Clark ct leau purel
Ulman ct halne aux etrangers cathoques y
~ T. Express
The daily union., 1854-11-11
THE REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT, ROBERT MORRIS

THE REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOT, ROBERT NORRIS
The following extract from unpublished work now
the press contains information in regard Nor
ris the patriot which have never yet in print
Robert Morris Englishman by birth, and to
this country when he about IA years of age The deter
mination Of Washington turn his against Cornwall
lis at Yorktown very sudden He went to Morris and
told him he wanted money without which he could pro-
ceed Morris replied that there not cent in the
treasury but he to work and raised ST his
security, and provided provisions 100 pieces Of field
artillery and so battery artillery Without this, the army
could not have moved Yorktown would have been h
KEN and of the would have come concu
sion perhaps might have ended in another One
thing is certain--t would have been prolonged"
The daily union., 1854-11-11

could moved Yorktown would not have been Ia
KEN and of course the would not have concu
sion perhaps might have ended in another One
thing is certain-it would have been prolonged"
Boston Post
KNOW -NOTHINGISM.
OF the anti American isms, abotonism and know
nothingsm, il is hard to tell which is tine WorSt Know
nothings the freshest error most fills tho public
mind and is in all the exultation of maiden trumphs
Two classes in this movementthose who really believe
that land is in danger from Catholics and foreigners
and that such action they counenance is necessary
protect their liberties and these constitute the Of the
party and the other class consist Of those who join the
lodges simply because they want votes who may be count
ed by scores hundreds in every town They the
selfish, mercenary, Shiny politicians, who task ques-
ons but the price of votes and always ready pay
down the price.
These wiry oice-huntersde whg, free-soil,
what notpursue their purpose with amazing perssency
and eronery Their statng-point is dissatisfaction at
being long overlooked neglected, fatty discarded by
their party and they join know-nothngism the means
getting redress of personal grievance This their last
card But the "ordcr' cannot multiply places and while
the expectans many, the Offices few and nothing
can exceed the violence of the scramble going in the
lodges for the prizes of local nomna the oath is
to support the nominee let il be whom it may.
Now nineteen out of twenty of these mercenary asprants
must be disappointed and feel like the simple-mnded
who joined the church in order 10 get expectoq op OF
work The committee, receiving the proposals for reht-
ting the meeting g-house gave the contract oan outsider
~ might just well not belong belong remarked the
disappointed member So il must in the nature of things,
be with hundreds of these ofcc-huners. They must be
disappointed Not 1.-THE Of them reach the goal for
which they aim They might well moi belong belong,
so far as their personal object is concerned.
The Germans have tradition that of their Empe
rors who gave internal peace and security to the
country the great Barbarossa dead but sleeping in
the Hnrtz mountains, and will come forth day in his
pristine strength to punish evildoers and restoe gary
the empire AS read of the trumphs of such principles
as alb oonsm and know-nothingsm, the tending to
dissolve the Union and the other make vassas Of quar-
OF its population it is easy to imagine that the giant
Amercanism must be sleeping and that couple of bad
gen have divided his great cloak between them, and In
such garb deceivng the people When the giau
awakes and the mischief brewed in his name he win
strike down the reasonable cohorts and the reign
of justice and equality