Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-10-04

ton in few days, with other distinguished |
men Of the provinces, and an agent of the |
Province Of New Brunswick (Mr. Perley) ar |
rived here last night
Important interests in the province of Nova |
Scotia are anxious for tho immediate rscog- |
milton by the United States of the reciprocity |
clauses, in order to allow Sidney & Pictou, for
this fall market, to come into the United States
free of duty before the ports are closed by ice
The Secretary of the Treasury has correctly
decided against the legality of such admission, |
until the reciprocity clauses of the treaty are
adopted, and all the colonial tariffs are modi. |
fed accordingly by the Legislatures Of all the
provinces named. The modificatio of the
provincial tariffs, under the treaty, is legis.
lative function, as was our tariff, which, after
the ratification Of the treaty by the Senate,
was altered by Congress, the bill being intro
duced into the House Of Representatives, and
which alteration is conditional, on reciprocal
modification of all the provincial tariffs Mr.
Guthrie's circular was published some weeks
since, and from ignorance or wickedness, cer-
tain New York prints grossly misrepresented
it as being inconsistent with the proclamation
Of President Pierce ratifying the treaty The
fishery stipulations Of the treaty are recipro-
cal, the British now enjoying the valuable
right to fish on our coasts down to the 36th
deg. of north latitude, in return for our right
to fish on the colonial coasts. 1t will be per-
ceived the British privilege extends nearly
down to the northern boundary line of South
Carolina.
Gone Daft Putnam seems to be possessed.
He is net content with inserting in his month
ly all sorts Of strange things-one day an ex-
travagant abolition escapade, which angers
and repels all his Southern readers; at anoth-
or time, some peevish, ill -natured, discontent-
ed, and self-conceited sneers ut the President
of the United States and Of the Democratic
party Of the Union, to the general disgust of
every body in the country, except to the half
score Of expiring factions which are seething
in the witches cauldron of New York politics
But the oldest of all the things he has yet
done, is to begin to publish a series of extrav-
agant caricature engrsvings of the principal
contributors to his monthly. Thus in the mum.
Der for the present month there is what pur-
ports to be the engraved portrait of the author
Of the somewhat notorious article bearing the
title of "Our new President This il too
bad. What does Putnam mean Is he not
content with some disappointed applicant for
office to caricature, vituperate, and calumni-
ate the President of the United States, but in
addition to that, must he become himself the
Nemesis-the avenger-of those whom he has
libsled, by publishing this engraving of the
hbeler, and thus setting him in the pillory to
be pelted by the bystanders and lookers-on
However, we take it for granted that this en-
craving represents q mythical or imaginary
person; for the face depicted at the head of
the monthly, does not seem to us to represent
so much an actual man, as to be a sort of con-
junction and embodiment of the insane love of
| one self, and equally insane hatred Of every
body else which manifest themselves in the
howl of vituperation which issues periodically
from the traitorous abolition conventicles in
New York.
The Storm on the Texas Coast and the Mexi-
can Boundary Commission Information has
reached W ashington from the of of the Mexi-
can Boundary Survey, Maj VIM. II. Emory,
U. s. a., dated on the Path ult, at Powder
Horn, Mstagorda bay, saying thst the men
and property OF the survey have suffered much
less than might have been expected from the
recent terrible storm in that quarter, though
they were nearly all at sea of that coast at
the time. All but property to the amount
of but $500 are conceived to be positively safe
This property was shipped from New Orlean s
on the Star Of the South which, it was
thought, was lost, The gale had prevented the
I" Minnesota" from arriving, and, as that YES.
sci carried the wagons Of the expedition, some
delay was anticipated. She had, however,
been spoken off G Galveston bar, and lighters had
been provided to expedite the expedition g
freight on her to Powder. Horn There had
been but two cases of yellow fever in the ex.
petition, to the 24th nit. The destruction Of
life and property on Madagorda bay, by the
storm, was terrible, the only wharf upon it left
standing, being that on which the Expedition s
property was placed. .'A'+
l., > - P4VSo edo Aho NOW AOI n
press are making great and reasonable com
plants of the scarcity and dearness of paper.
1t is certainly becoming very scarce, and, con-
sequently, very high. Various suggestions as to
materials out Of which paper may be manufao.
tafed have been made on both sides of the At
lantic, owing to the deficiency in the supply Of
rags. A friend, well acquainted with the sub.
jsct, has suggested thata small modicum of en-
terprise by our Southern fellow citizens, or by
some Yankee who would pay attention to the
subject, would cure all the evil complained of
in few months. Millions of pounds of dam
aged cotton, annually wasted in tho cotton
fields and around the gin houses Of the South,
and worthless, because unfit for market, could
annually be obtained at less price per pound
than is now paid for rags. Rags ordinarily
command four and half or five cents, and
| the cotton spoken of would be subject to Less
wastage The paper mills, however, should
BE- established in the cotton region where the
waste cotton IL to be had. We doubt not, pa
per manufactured from such cotton would, In
few years, form an important article for for
sign expectation, besides supplying the home
| demand.
The abrs Of the ssw-palmstto and bear.
sfsss, both % plentiful in the South, could