Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-07-24


pds sPIRu OF THE MORNING PREss
y We have received the Ar1t number of the
States Rights Register, . new weekly jour-
nal, to be published in this city BY g. Q. Bay
Tor, editor and proprietor, who it will be re-
nembersd by many Of our readers, was the
editor and proprietor Of the Cotton Plant,
and, subsequently, of the Baltimore Times
His new sheet before Us Is in part reprint, or
weekly edition Of the Washington Sentinel,
the second page being devoted to matter from
Mr. Baylor's pen. Asa writer on industria!
and statistical questions, Mr.. B. has fairly
earned much reputation indeed, and We trust
that he may keep 1t as . political writer. To
do 30 however, he must not cut his notions of
State Rights after those ofths Sentinel, as ex-
pressed when that Journal was originally
founded; for at that time 1t Wa we'll under
TODD chat that journal was antagonistic to the
STATED Rights party OF tho South. being the
svowed organ of the party known - the
southern Unionists. ..,r...I
Mr.. Baylor promises to republish in the
course of his first volume, large list Of State
rights State-papers, which will be worth to
any one who has not got them on hand, much
more than 50 00-ths annual price of Mr..
Bayior's new weekly. s.s 81. r. -'
The Int,lHgenesr disapproves thsanend-
nens of the Homestead bill, - amended in
The ssnate by the adoption Of the substitute
of Senator Hunter. Saying: -.
'sIs was briefly announced in our paper of
Saturday last, the bill to hasten the alienation
Of the public lands wsS passed by the Senate
on Friday evening, considerably modified, but
in u shape not much less Objectionable thar
the &C eme of the Homestead Bill" for while
it Stops short Of giving the lands outright,
without money and without price, to all comers.
.le- gre placed on sech footing and at rates
80 low as to promise a pretty speedy radiance
os the entire public domain-a contamination
apparently devoutly wished by the dominan,
party, but which, to our plain understanding
seems most deplorsble folly. The land
world not run away, and would cost nothing
TO renain az they are until demanded by the
natural increase Of the American pc pie The
sors and daughters Of our own citizens will in
due time require homes in tie fertile regions
o. the Vest, and how much better to reserve
them for such occupants than for such as are
likely to be tempted from the Old World to
como nd accept them The Virginia Senators
tried In vain to get exempted from the squan.
dering process the Northwestern Territory
siyrn by that State to the Federal Govern
nent as fund for the common benefit of all
the States; but even that solemn condition
Wa disregsrded, and the Virginia lands were
thrown into hotchpot with the rest Twenty
years ago leading member from the Yves,
gaze fair and open notice on the floor of Con-
Zress that The time would come when the rep
resenraiiyrs of the West would write at the
lesI Of the land bills, "'sic colo, sic ju5eo;;"
but the members Of the old States heeaed him
not. One Of the pernicious dogmas Of party
forbade the adoption of timely and wise
sys;em, which would have rendered the public
lands source Of enduring and equal benei
&c ~. the States; but the plan was proposed b.
HENRY CLAY, and that was enough with all
the !ieges of Democracy to condemn il. IND
-.v -, iime for "stc colo, SIC jn6eo," bar
come, AMI IT Is WRITTEN.
The Union indirectly expresses q wish 70;
tus rasssgo Of the Texas debt bill through the
House. The editor also discusses the prssen,
administration and the opposition, oomnen cling:
when We contemplate the elevated and
noble proportions Of great monument, toe
sbaer e which rises in lofty grandeur, piercing
the very clouds themselves, we do not GEEK t.
charge the emotions which such o spectacle
I, epii IS by appIauding the VandaI spirit which
mas yainlY seek 10 defacs and to mutilats its
bf6a,s and enduring basis-it is enough for u
to witness ind To enjoy the imposing structure
uprearsd Ia its graceful outline, ~ the mem
orial on some q est deed of patriotism, or the
triUute.t to some mighty intellectual or military
hero " e. ... .-., ..-il ,.5i -
Rather highfallutnt GRO. z -
The UntoH further insists that tho Northern.
journals which kicked up such hullaballo
not long since against Messrs. Breckinrid q.
sC-algs. Churchwell and other Democrats who
hzgs had difficulties and hot words in either
al of Congress, are - mute a. mice over the
recent affair between Msssrs. Clayton and
Wade, in the Senate. The Union also explain:
thc Presidents approval Of the bill to author
ire the removal Of the distractions in Cape
Fear river, placed there by the Government.
&, strikes us that the reasons for 1t are to be
found in every sentence uttered in favor of tina;
bifIin Congress, where its enactment was asked
only on the ground that the Government having
created the distractions, is in duty bound to re.
move them. ..,- .
90 The Sentinel advocates the enactment Of
the Homestead bill Is amended by the sqhfti.
tuiion Of the project Of Senator Hunter, and in
sists Oh 1t that the Unions editor, when wri-
tipg concerning the President, Invariably
r,unts on stills, which make both the writer
xrd him written Of, lock ridiculous.
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IHE WEA1HER-IHE CHOLERA, 20.
Frsm all parts of our own country, a. we'll
H. srt u tie Vest Indies Island, We continue
10 receive the most distressing accounts of the
rsveses of the cholera. s...
D. Tic io'al number Of deaths in New York
last re-k was els including 1873 deaths from
eLviere.
II phiIadslphis last week, there were II
cholera deaths, and in Boston IA
The New York and Philadelphia papers, OF
Saturday, contain fearfully Large lists of deaths
fT5.a sun stroke. --t r-a.n.,, ...
Our exchanges come to Us, this morning with
Melting, complaints Of the almost unprecs'
dsa,e,i heat of The weather on Friday last.
By rsiereDcs to the telegraph column, it will
90 sean that the cholera has really made 1T
appearance at Cape May, the reports to the
contrary, Notwithstanding. d." @--
rs- NEW PpBLIcATIoss.-Taylor b Maury fhvol
us with the July Qss4J number Of tho eVsi