Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-02

completed 80 uncommon id public works; and they d
not exactly understand why the Government appears
have laid itself out this special work and pushed
with such energy, whilst the other public budngs such
as the custom house. hospital lighthouses and fOrtiaca
tons, have only progressed at the snake pace 50 GUS
tomary such Government works. However, we are
all willing to be thankful that one, and certainly
very important establishment has been completed and
working In such satisfactory manner, and well
disposed to give due credit therefor to the Secretary
the Treasury of the Interior, for ignorant to
which Department the building Of public edfces is en-
trusted.
What climate this is! Up or down the coast at the
distance Of hundred miles, fifty miles in the nte
ror, it is hot very hot here have sun-shining and
dry weather five months on Stretch and warmer
than May or cooler than April in the Atlantic States
The doctors are disappearing and wags say they
have got into jail for their boarding and washing.
To-day heard that the Know nothings," which or
ganized here month since already number 700
bers. When asked further particulars, the man an
swered, s'I know nothing"
You will see the Democratic Convention resulted in
most bitter and acrimonious DIVISION and the nomin
ton Of two tickets The eud think is irreconcila
ble and if the Wings manage with any degree Of tact
they will carry the State, city, sc. Gov FooTE
consulted by both wings of the Crat and he advised
convention without single member Of the late
convention in it. They are all too bitter to consent to
this.
The Frederick party have nominated for Congress the
present Representatives Messrs McDoUaAL and LATHAM
but it is said friends of these gentlemen have let
run as candidates for reelection and that the strength
of these letters the said friends intend withdraw their
names without waiting for their arrival from Washing
ton or hearing from them they know Of their nomi
nation You know there is always certain degree Of
political modesy previous to nomination being made
and kind OF disclaimer particularly when there any
doubt TO tho party fvarng the Such kind
Of therefore, usually not considered
as binding when is found the party will buckle honor
on their back" But even If the names of Messrs Nc
Dougal and Latham withdrawn by their friends here
ed.
ieys will make any difference in the result for the Bro
derrick party WILL in that case probably put up other
candidates. and at will notvoe for the candidates
of the other wing and many of them may support
the Wing nominees Such at least is my present i'm
preston.
They grazing the streets of the city, filing in
some and cutting down Others Where the former pro-
cess is being done it becomes necessary to raise the
houses You have heard Of moving houses entire, but
here Jt them up by hydraulic pressure. Whole piles of
brick buildings are being raised in this mode where the
streets have been filed up, and thus the lower floors are
brought up to the new level OF the streets Last week
warehouse belonging Alsop Co., fifty feet front and
seventy feet deep, having three stores and basement
heavy brick building raised five feet and then under
built with stone oil without moving out or even disturb
ing the clerks with their pens ut the desks Another
store not quite large but having in it two thousand
tons of hardware raised in six days and story
added to it at the bottom.
This is really great country 1t all the growing wheat
escapes smut you must not be surprised large
goes of it from hence to England The growers of
it, under the expectation Of getting four cents per
pound $2 40 per bushe all in the hands Of factors
and paying three to i've per cent per month for the
advances and wheat is only worth two and two and
half cents per pound These factors will force it off at
cents per pound, per bushe and the farmers
viii be ruined Their laborers ,cag for their pay
Of forty fifty dollars per month. Thus is another Of
the consequences Of keeping capital from coming to the
country by prohibiting banks
The fresh fig IS added this to fruits
cantelopes &c. and if they very dear they will be
oh az fhn 0r bird I Of
these things to show the fertile nature of the SOIL Figs
in latitude 37o And the fish !! have actually eaten
sturgeon it is fine in this country and three days
since bought an English sole, though yet they are
rare in our fish market. Do not stare when tell you
have seen soft crabs large dnner-pate; also the
Langosta" or Lobster Of Cuba. do not wonder the
people talk in the superave for every thing here is on
gigantic SCALE the eas, Of which, however, Twill
not boast, for they are our only plaques
An hour after late fire saw tin neatly painted
on the stump of burnt house, ga B. has removed tenn
porariy to No 16 street; wilreturn here on Monday
next (sx days.; and sure enough he was thar at the
time in two-story frame house and full stock for his
clothing store.
And yet we have sad time in prospect for mer-
chants Remember my predictions; they are nearly all
verifedlower rents by twenty-five to sixty per cent?
and many Of the landlords paying very high rates for
interest many commission merchants not paying half
their expenses all kinds Of labor has fallen the miners
can m hire themselves for three dollars per days and it
costs them only four dollars per week to i've but the
work is hard and the men prefer farming at fifty dollars
per MONTH but this latter cannot last longer than Oc
tober AS the merchants, they must give up mere
import business for four hundred thousand people, and
little no export trade for the shipment Of gold makes
work for railroads. steamers wagons wharves count
ng-houses clerks, ships, &c. Storage is down to sixty
to seventy-ve cents per ton. do not believe We shall
very soon see real estate rents labor and interest of
money down to the level Of the Atlantic Cities but all of
them necessarily fall far below the rates which have
heretofore prevailed here and the reduction will be per-
manent, without any chance for an upward reaction.
The different lines Of steamers between here and
New York have for some time been running fierce OPP
position for the rates. which have hardly paid
expenses and though it has been very agreeable to the
public it was not SO their stockholders They have at
length taken wit in their anger" and, by mutual
derstanding have established the following rates. which
/ clip from the paper Of to-day:
RATES OF FARE TO THE rLASrIc-The following the
rates fare hence New York. fixed respectively by
the three steamship companies for the lstproximo:
Per p. IT. s. s. Sonora.
Upper cabin.
Lower cabin. ......ZVV
Upper l4U
Lower
Per Ind s. s. Yankee Blade.
Upper saloon, (including Ishmus transit).. $275
Main saloon do do.......
Lower cabin, do do..... .........zVU
Upper Storage, do do......... l4O
Lower steerage do do....... .........i3 100
Per Nicaragua s. s. Brother Jonathan
Main saloon, do do... SIV
Lower cabin, do do......... .z0O
Storage not Yet fixed.
-haro rr;,l ho F, ay,nlovment for nil the lines and