Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1854-12-29
by rms MORNINGS MAIL.

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arrived here this afternoon hom Havana, but brings
no news of Importance. The examination OF Fran
cisco Estampes alias Lacdrte, arrested the charge
of ilibustering at Baraooa was progressing. In bis
declaration he unhestatingly ayowed that his pur-
pose was the liberation Of bis countrymen from the
Spanish yoke.
Captain Hawkins Of the schooner Charles T.
Smith, had been cited TO appear TO answer the
charge of having clandestiney brought arms TO the
island
The new act for the registration Of slaves was
promulgated and il was said would be OF great SER
vice TO importers of negroes, several cargoes Of
whom had been lately landed
All the forts Of the island have recently received
heavy armaments from Europe,
Sugars were quiet at 8 reals for yellow; Mus
covado, a white, IL .. Stock $4,000
boxes. The weather was favorable for operations
on the estates. & Gtia @ AZ
CoLUMBIA, s. g., Dec 2s.--The probability is
now great that the Southern mail will not be car
iied after the LIST Of January at all The contract
with Mr.. Douglass was simply to carry the mail,
which he proposed to sub-let TO the South Carolina
Railroad The Department forbids him to do 80,
and il he persists will probably annu the contract
No arrangements win have been made for regular
transportation, and the Department is severely
censured by the press here as vasciating, imbecie,
and malicious.
HARTFORD, CT, Dec 27.--Bacon & Brothers
Fuse Factory, located at Sunsbury, has been en-
tirely destroyed by fire-loss, $4,000. Comstock
& Co.'s Turning Mills, at the head Of Mantle River,
has also been consumed Loss, $S,5oo--partially
insured. @q
Hon. Samuel Peters, formerly Judge Of New
London county, and the oldest member of the
legal profession in the State, died at Colchester
yesterday a4,E M
BUFFALO, Dec. 2S.-We have intelligence from
Iowa that the legislature of that State have made
four unsuccessful attempts to elect United States
Senator The contestants were Hnrland (whig.)
who received AS votes, and Cook, (silver-grey
whig,) who was supported by the Nebraskaites,
and received "A votes There were ten scattering
votes. .. t. sss-3
The Ice has passed off the river here, and navi-
CATION is again open. ia
BosToN, Dec. 27--The Hon. Cassius NJ. Clay
lectured here this evening before the Mercantile
Library Association. An immense audience was
in attendance to listen to him. M tsse
The weather is extremely mild and it has been
raining all day. The thermometer ranges at AS
degrees.
SANDY Hook, Dec. %, 10 p. Mp to this
hour we are without any indications of the APP
proach of the steamer Atlantic, now in her 18th
day out from Liverpool The fog is very dense,
and there is but little probability of her arrival to-
night ssae ser 9ta 8 @
WHEELING, Dec, 2sth.-There has been heavy
rains here, which have caused rise in the river of
several feet, and the ice is floating off with
prospect Of good navigation.
Spirit Of the Ne~ York Evening Prsss---7Ae
@ Distress, dc.
The Mirror comments thus upon the existing
distress among the aboring classes
The working classes have been themselves the
cause OF not little of their distress A few months
ago, when all the wheels of trade and business
were moving briskly, and every stout hand could
find ready work and prompt pay, labor, in most Of
its walks, conspired against capital; and, by
strikes and violent measures forced from employ
ers scales Of wages intolerable for any length of
time, in country which has to compete with the
pauper labor Of the old world and whose people,
high and low, have preferred to patronize that for
eign pauper labor rather than their own industry.
II wealth has rolled in luxury and lived extrava-
gantly, labor has been improvident and extrava-
CANT in an equal degree. The fast living has not
been confined to marble halls" but has pcnetra-
ted even TO humble circles The hour Of unusual
prosperity was taken as the type of all hours to
come, whereas time has ever proved that, II the
fortunate scale of the public balance touches the
beam now and then, It Is only as the precursor of
rebound that must soon bring up the adverse
scale Labor has been harmed, too, by its arbi
trary combinations. Take an instance there are
several hundred combination printers out of EN-.
ploy in this city; yet, il any person seeks or
chances to employ any of these printers at prices
he can afford to pay, and these prices are below
the combination SCALE the poor printer is logged
and driven from his place. And there are other
classes of laborers similarly POSTPONED. Out Of
employ and In distress, they viii not work. or are
not allowed to work, short of strike prices. There
are many who could employ labor at reduced
prices, who cannot, in these times, do business on
the old prosperity scale. Labor would be wise TO
consider these things.
The Evening Post cries beware of wolves in
sleeps clothing, and says;
eve caution our readers against the fraudu-
lent appeals which win be made to their philan-
thropy by rogues who are trying to turn the
awakened benevolence of the city to their private
account We were asked yesterday to notice a
recent movement, purporting to have received Its
impulse at q late meeting at the Broadway House,
and to give the names Of several gentlemen, dis
tnguished for their wealth and philanthropy, as
its patrons. We learn this morning that these
gentlemen know nothing about the proposed
movements and have never subscribed cent to-
wards IT," @ 81 esr< IL
woolens and the wool duty Is the theme Of the
Evening Post baqa
GA few days since VIC learned, somewhat to our
surprise, that there was but one mill in the Uni
ted States in which broadcloths were made--that
Of Mr.. Slater, in Rhode Island, an experienced
manufacturer whose father, we think, was one of
the very first TO introduce the making OF broad
cloths into this country All the rest--and our
readers well remember that at one time they were
pretty numerous and powerful class---have ono
by one given up the business, finding il unpro6ta+
BILE. 3aa lala 3 at. N 1e6f9 Ftinmss
Yesterday we learned that Mr.. Slater himself
stopped the making of broadcloths on Saturday
last, from which time new pieces arc to be made
at his mills. The broadcloth manufacture is, there
FORE for the present at end in the United States
The woollen mills which are at present in motion
are engaged in tho manufacture Of fancy kersey-
meres, shawls, and other fabrics for which Ameri-
can wool is suited. = IL
The cause Of this, the Post sets down as coming
from the duty Of wool a reduction OF which Is
demanded as essential to the life Of the manufac-
turing interest. ts,Gts..a y 3tEf s3sN
The scommercal7 Is quizzing the alleged nego-
tjation for the alton of the Galapagos Islands