The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-04-08

We request the people of the fourth congressional dis
gle 70 feud delegates 70 convection 1t Smthvil!e the
2ith OF April TO nominate democratic candidate repre-
sent them in the next Congress of the United States
JOHN II. SAVAGE, as.
e. L. GARDENHIRE.
The Nashville Union also publishes the following letter
written in the same spirit from Major Polk, Of Maury
county: .....
COLUMBIA, March %, 1857.
| To The Editors Of he Union and american
GENTLEMEN notice in your paper Of the 10th instant
that correspondent from the section of the State
desires to know my position in connection with the
gubernaioal contest Perit answer the interroga
tory do not desire my name to be presented to the
venon for the nomination. fully appreciate the kind
ness of many friends in the State who have addressed me
on this subject and In declining the of my name feel
assured that either of the distinguished democrats who
have been mentioned for the high position will prove
worthy taodard-bearer and crown the contest OF August
next with victory.
Very Truly, your obedient servant
TUscuMBn Posr orrlcE-The Sunny South, speaking OF
the reappontment of Col L. Bunch postmaster at Tus-
cumbia, Gays; .#.. 30. .- 4.
We that his reapponment will give great sat
isacon to all having dealings with the Tnscumba Office
We doubt whether there Is efficient officer in the
Post Office Department than this gentleman He is reliable
10 every respect bears high character for integrity and
Is man OF decided talents and of the best democrats
on top OF ground Col Bunch Ia assisted in his responsible
and arduous duties by Captain j. W. Rhea who is equally
honest himself Captain Rhea
long been dray horse pulling for his party and his
iulness, talent and heightened integrity should command
for him high place in the confidence of the administration
We hazard nothing in saying that the post office Tus-
cumbia under the management of Col Bunch and W.
Rhea has given general satisfaction than any dstrib
uting Office in the South where the pay is small"
LOST REGISTERED LErrERs-The New York Daily Times
recently complained that large number of registered
trs containing money had been sent to its publishers
through the United States mails but had not been
This attracted the attention of Colonel j. Holbrook special
agent Of the Post Office Department who made an exam
nation OF the receipt books in the registry department
the New York post Office and found that the "mssing"
letters had in fact been reced for They had
been taken out by young regularly employed to re-
ceve registered and other letters for the Times the editors
of which have since made the following reacon of their
charge: ~
We have satisfied ourselves by personal examination
hat the losses OF money contained in registered letters has
oeen due TO some extent at all events to the unahulness
OF agents in our own employ We desire therefore, TO re-
eve The clerks in the registry department of The city post
Office from whatever suspicion our former statements
this subject may have involved r..
may add Also that We satisfied that merchants and
business generally far careless in regard to the
class OF persons who are sent to the post Office for their
ters IT Is very common to nrust this important and re-
sponsibe duty to those employees who in the most in
erior positions and who the nadequately paid
for their services direct temptation to dishonesty
thus thrown in their way We satisfied that the matter
deserves more attention than it receives"
THE LAND OF THE "PuRTANs"-rhe Cincinnati Euqui
after enumerang the chronicles of crino Of diff rent
degrees which f the columns of the Boston journals
says rss.rsr .' .a....ar
"such record presents sad evidences that the stern
morality which used to characterize the land Of the Pur
ans is declining rapidly and that its claim to superior
morality over the rest of the Union is little better than
Pharisaica mpudence Had the columns of a southern
paper been filed with these exposures should have had
blast from the New York Tribune and other abolition
fuence of the institution of slavery their religion and
morality "f
THE KALLocH cAsE.-R. II. Dana, jr, (who was once
1.-TWO years before the mast addressed the jury Mon
day three hours and half in defence of Mr. Kaoch Dis
trict Attorney Morse followed the other side until the
court adjourned and it expected that the would
go to the jury on Tuesday Mr. Kalloch, his wife, and
several personal friends present during the speeches
Of counsel and he ocaed in the pulpit of the fremont
Temple, at oston, on Sunday. ....
INTERNATIONAL PATENT LAVA measure of very great
Importance to American inventors has been proposed in
the Canadian Parliament by Hen. ]. H. Cameron. Under
the present law mo citizen subject any foreign State
can, any terms obtain monopoly of the right TO make
vend articles of his invention in Canada The priv
lege is confined to subjects exclusively Mr. Cameron has
introduced bill which proposes that "any citizen subject
of any foreign State country by the laws Of which
British subjects entitled to protection in their rights Of
invention and discovery in matter which be made
the subject of patent for invention in the province may
obtain patent for any invention in the manner and
with the rights and privileges therein and subject
the liabilities in respect thereof such patent can or
may be obtained by British subject"
HISTORICAL piroHsR.-Amopg other articles recently
contributed the Tennessee Historical Society by Mrs. S-
rah Polk beautiful pitcher presented to her by Lee
Sic during the presidency of her distinguished husband
1t was accompanied b. the following letter to Mrs. Polk
from the donor which explains the history o. this interest
ing relic:
SHrN-BAYoU DISTRICT
Cherokee Nation April n, 184T.
Lee sic, native Cherokee wife of Geo. W. Guntcr also
native and citizen of the Cherokee Nation respect
fully presents her compliments and kind wishes to Mrs
Polk the wife of the "grea father of the red man." and
begs permission to preseut her with blue pitcher which
has been in their family than half century 1t
used in the council convened Hopewe in the year 1885,
which concluded the long and bloody between the
United States and the Cherokee tribe by treaty peace
ed the aicher of The Chiefs" and descended them from
the great King of NIL the Cherokee who
kept his counc6res continually burning the city of
"Echota called and meaning in the English language e
Cfy of Lover The seat of government, at which the
treaty of 1895 negotiated, named "New Echota
after this ancient city.
Oxen stan ah the last great king terminated bis reign
In the year lT65 According the ancient usages and
custons of his tribe his simple word d the dspen
of life and death Any of bis people who had forfeited
their lives by the commission of crime, open enemy
of the tribe who could reach the sacred city, safe
within its precincts ....... r..
The antiquated pitcher thus descended to the family
who has the right Of bequeatbng it, is herewith pre-
scented Mrs. Polk through the husband of the donor and
her friends General Mason and Colonel Stambaugh with
a. u ..la. t. ~. +