Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-03-27
sAlfIaoRE CORRESPONDENCE.


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| l nao the pleasure of shake hands with
the non Joshua Nansant to-day. His con.
sa'uents are always glad to see him. He i.
one Oh the few working members who act
aooomphsh purpose and talk afterwards.
ais course thus far, in Congress, has gained
hlgn and deserving praise Joshua is :. plain
Master Walter, and would be if elevated to
the Presidency. A man who can make a hat
ana CongI essman too, is worth dozen of
impractical t1eorists-'' Rank is but thu
| guinea's stamp
eaelose you dispatches from New Orleans
and Charleston, both Of which give later adj.
vices from Havana, and announce that tb.
biaek warrior has been released by paving a
hne OF SIX thousand dollars to the Cubsn
treasury, besides other expe 1ses. This ia.
| In my judgment, rather cool. and will not
| meet the approval of our government The
owners OF the steamer should have pre.emp-
| torly refused any such terms. The day ia
coming when Young America may teach the
! inhabitants OF that island a different lesson.
| The best friends Of Carroll Spence. in this
city, are mortified at his recent bIuuder. Some
pretend to say the speech is not genuine-that
some wicked person made it for him. This.
however, Is very improbable inference and
| does not tally with the facts The address il
HHl be recolieeted, was published several DAYS
ago In the Baltimore Sun, where it first an.
psarea and was doubtless handed to lat paper
In the Minister'S own manuscript ,by sone
friend The English papers brought bv tho
Pacific, which arrived subsequently, to the
speech being made public in this coun.rv. con.
tain it word for word. There can be no ones.
ton, therefore, ofits genuineness. To nut the
most chararitable phase upon this extroordi !.
nary paper, 1t is extremely unforlunate that
| 1t should have obtained publicity Our leila
.lons with Russia have ever been of a mos:
irlehdty character, and for an official func.
| tionary, at this particular juncture to leonard
| Use these amiable feelings is too bad The
President should recall him at once indenend-
ent of all personal and friendly Considerations
10 hazard further difficulties would be to merit
! censure. 1t is nations and not individuals
who suffer from such imbecile oversights.
Every body is complaining-actualiy growl-
lng-about the weather; and they have nrettv
good cause, for it is decidedly disagreeable. -
Inc "ind Is nigh and blowing every which
| way. Ice formed in the streets last night an
inch thick. 1t is now freezing So he 1.-THE
elements Of March will have their frolic.
our nremen have had quite a time of it to-
day, the bells ringing constantly and engines
| cut all hours. Fortunately, however. most q,
tie alarms were false. Some small buildings
were burnt This is the incendiary season
| anu 1. 10 "eii W DC on the alert.
observe that most of the grog shops have
resumed Sunday operations in defiance of law
| Inc temperance cause seems to be retrog-a dinq
Our liquor dealers anticipate profitable trade
IN case the prohibitory liquor bills of New
York and Pennsylvania are not vetoed Ttis
expected they will have large share of the
tratflc in that article, which formerly was trans
acted In the two commonwealth, It is an III
| wind that blows no one good "
The establishment of Increased comnunica.
ton and freishts between Baltimore and AIex.
andrla is expected to increase bust ness mater.
ally between those two points ALREADY
unusually large amounts of goods are being
snlpped. Your Georgetown merchants mus
STR up or Alexandria will get the upper hand
| OF them. The railroads which are threading
virginia and branching off with various West.
ern connections are destined at no distant do y
70 increase commerce within the District OF
Golumbia to very great extent To these
| 'nings your citizens must look. and take
| advantage OF them. A vast amount of pro,Iuce
VIII hnd Its way especially to Alexandria from
virginia, North Carolina, and from many OF
the Western States. Alexandria. if I mistake
not, will soon find something more to think
about than shad and herring She may have
an important shipping port, and ayiI. with
proper attention and enterprise
Our breadstuff market is again mite active
and feverish, with an upward tendency
Dealers are all anticipating another decided
advance in -four and grain. Their ideas,
therefore, are up-up-up. RoDER1cK.