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THE ARMY AND NAVY.

Lieut. Brookcs, of the United States navy inventor o.,
the deep sounding instrument has given to the com
try another evidence Of his genius and usefulness by hs
recent invention, Device by which small boats can DO
lowered with perfect safety their occupants in any kind
Of weather. without danger OF the boats getting swampe
This invention has met with the approval Of numerous
nautical men who have had opportunity Of examining
it, and it is likely be used extensively In this country
and elsewhere This invaluable improvement the
prcsen mode Of discDgaging ships small boats after they
have been l cred the water is very simple and insau
taneous In liz cpcrnons and needs only TO be 10 10
appreciated Ii consists u ball and socket, the ner
to be attached to the ends Of te small ats and the ring
and ball to take the place OF t'ic hook nov N use
The cost of attaching Lieut. HtIkes device 70 each
boat Is nero trife compared with the valuable lives It's
use is likely 10 be tho Of saving No steamer
sailing vessel should bc without 1t.
The United States sIoop-of-war Marion has, under
stand brought this invention into re,uisition
nv. i. Courier & EaTir~
The steam trigatc Wabash at the New York navy yard
is reported BIC ready the goth instant for her ocem
and crew This ship is intended the ship Of tha
Mediterranean squadron
We ara informed that Col. Ripley, the officer commits
stoned by the War Department ~ select site for the pro
posed arsenal has left town without ctfectng tho object
of his visit We have heard various rccsons assigned,
but have Of judging of their correctness u h
stated that the colonel il TO examine other towns with
the view Of finding proper location for his nrsc We
hope however that San Antonio may yet ~ chosen sc
the location OF the arsenal
Gen. Twgts, the commander Of tho military depart
here has left this city for New York md Washing
ton. He is accompanied by DIR. Mccormick. and It isA
pccted that they will he absent for SIX weeks or two
months During the absence Of Gen. Twiggs, Col VIII
son. Of the It'll infantry viii have command OF the do
partmcnt San 4atonio (1sxds) Loiger.
member Of Captain Pcpes expedition, writing to tho
Austin (Tcxas) Integcnccr from camp on Pece~ river
under date of March LIST, says
Z. have nothing of importance from the Well We
have been greatly retarded and annoyed by bfcsSagcs@
machinc,y--evcn It's necessary TO send to Galveston
for a castro pump for the engine, the one had
is broken beyond the chance of repair We arc boring
through hard, dark lnestonc rock, similar to thai
from which the waters Of Delaware creek spring lbe'c
il scarcely doubt Of its being the bed which out
crops al the source of that stream or. miles from here
The present depth is 1850 feet We do not expect %
make much progress until We get the new pump The
many accidents which have occurred while here wec
very unusual, and wholly unanticpated.
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NOTE FROM HON FERNANDO FOOD

Nkw YonK, April 10, 1858
Your New York correspondent, in his letter of the IN
inst falsely and malicously makes statements with refer
10 myself and friends when abiding to local
politics. which regret to ind in tho Washington UaA
rest assured that the of the democracy and the i'd
ministation Of Mr.. Buchanan, which sustain md On.
do,se fully cannot be aided by these unjust and unwar
ranabc attacks upon prominent members Of the party
Very respectfully,
FERNANDO WOOD
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CONNECTICUT ELECTION.

The safest course always * never to bc In a hurry
the black Republican press had needed this old MAXIM
they would not be found in the ridiculous position whm
they have occupied since the returns of the rn
election in Connecticut have been made out These
ate stands the last year 20 democrats ana
opposition in the house there has been an OPP
ston gain of s. the delegation standing Ss democrats
ld5 opposition. In regard to Mr. Arnclds DISTRICT cum
prising the counties of New Haven and Mfd'cseS, u'
figures show that that fearless representative mas p'
fully sustained. The democratic majority for ffs' "
ocraiic candidate for governor, is over DncknshA
the Joint candidate of the republicans, Americans "'
abolitionsts. Mr. Arnold's vote in the district y'
ago. when he elected was $780, being only nor
than the present democratic vote. The result ~
Bshops district comprising the counties Of Fairfield am
Litchcld, is equally satisfactory The figures IN 'ns
stauce-those uncrrng records--show that the vo'e y
Pratt the democratic candidate for governor was s'
votes which Is an increase of 932 Mr. Bishops vow
year ago, when he elected to Congress, his VOC
that time being s,4o3 Mr.. Bishops plurality over D.
opponents was only II votes But the opposition vc'
has increased in still greater ratiofrom s,3S'
1864 Thus has it been made manifest that, instead
being rebukcd these faithful democrats have In rea"
been sustained by their constituents.
In speaking of the result, the Bridgeport AdvenF'
and Farmer says
We then emplatcsy told that the dem9 '.,,
Of this State nearly all opposed to the iress
policy Of admitting Kansas under tho Iecomp'oh u
tuition, and that the figures on the first Monday !" ~
would show that the oHiccbollcr and their immo'
dependents constituted the entire administration w.
Well let the vote speak for itself. In 1856 the a'"
cratic vote for governor (Air Ingham) was ~ r
1857 It was 81 1856 In 1858 il is 81, liz ln''eeo v
belief is that the vote for General Pratt liz the Ng
bas been given by the democratic party ~ Il,
material election in this State and il is clear ''' l.
blacks have been able to themselves from u"ci a
feat only by trading and bargaining with the kno" Nv
pgs lor their votes
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Editor Washington Uaioa
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Ca,liz O) Sentinel makes note of the cmh,
raised condition Of the affairs Of TINT town II the doc
tnes Of the anti Lecomptones the law Of elections
The town officers have been elected by average Of less
than ITO votes while there 500 voters IN the town
Here Is IN which, according to the notions
the day, the election ought to bc again held.
The democratic State committee of Maine, j. w. Brad
bury, Shepard Cary and Others have called State con,
ycnon, 10 meet in Augusta ON the Both Of June, 10
nominate candidate for governor and make other pre-
partitions for the election In September.
Hon. Samuel Caruthers, Of Missouri who has been
able to take his scat in Congress during the present s
sion In consequence Of severe and lrotracted illness
reached this city, with his family Saturday last His
health although not entirely restored, il much improved
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not too supcr-yirtuous 10 concert and To act with
The people elect a representative with the double
understanding that he will support the principles
prescribed 10 him as the end, and the party whose
confidence no solicited, and Whole Organization
no did not spurn or despise before election,
the Practically, there not man in the
whou South, or in democratic district of the whole
North, elected TO the present Congress- who not
elected expressly to oppose the biack-republican
party Ia all its designs to vote against them, and
not NTH them to fight, foil, battle, and put them
down, and not by any sort of pretext or excuse to
afford aid and comfort to them in their upon the
democratic organization and administration.
The democrat who proves false to the party which
the people elected him to aid and TO act with by
open accession by hair-splitng bubbles and in
cessant Alterations of prudiSh conscientiousness
which puts him always in alliance with the black
republican organization, commits triple Alamy-rst
in defraudng the people of their confidence by false
pretences of fidelity to their own political organza
ton; second, in beraying sacred trust by emitting
to discharge it, and third in giving effective support
to the party which he elected to oppose.
Tho citizen may change his political principles and
party associations without dshonor; the represent
alive cannot charge them without infamy. For, the
representative is the depostary of sacred trust !;
he is commissioned and instructed by the people to
support the principles on which they elected him
By Supporting good faith the party pledged to carry
those principles into effect. When country sends
an army of picked men into the field, accoured and
appointed with vast munitions and stores, to fight
the enemy; and that army hands over its stores and
ammunition to the foe And either openly files off into
his camp, or parades at his win in mock show Of
battle only to sustain continual defeet the case pre-
scented is not more disgracotul than when the peo-
ple having elected representatives to support their
own principles and to oppose the enemy of those
principles that enemy is seen always to triumph
with inferior numbers and struts over the field of
conflict after every encounter in all the pride, pomp
and circumstance Of victory.
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tepidy republican of md on cscklng over an al
legged abandon%saa T viecf n ehe republican vote Ia
case, they say Il SHOWS Kansas to in slave
State II she shall prefer - do There two sovery
CONCLUSIVE answers to this chucklc l. We know that
Kansas does not and will mot prefer u In slave
State 2 II she did the republicans would violate Joic
Of their cherished principles of allowing IT. Turn to the
Philadelphia platform (scc Tribune Almanac for SO, p
80 carefully, and you will find there declara
tion protest. against the admission of bona s slave
State ms such y
That these concessions are made mainly in Difference
to the wishes of Judge Douglas and his friends and
for the purpose of enabling them to coalesce with
the republicans, must be admitted but whilst this is
So they furnish tribute to the wisdom the honesty,
and the sound policy Of the democratic party that
cannot fail to be Reted They vindicate because com
ing from its enemy they fully admit the correctness
of the great democratic doctrine Of popular supre-
macy in the Territories and States and the ustness
of the repeal of that odious and arbitrary measure,
which excluded the citizens of fifteen States Of the
Union from share in its common domain. In a
word they demonstrate the power of right over
wrong; Of democratic principles over the political
heresies of their opponents, and furnish the world
with another example of the correctness of the great
maxim that truth is mighty and must prevail
If these men were honest there could BIO no
objection to this plank in their platform /;
but when these papers have added to this, az
we expect soon to see them do, the Supreme Court
plank of Mr. Seward and the know.nothng plank
of Mr.. Crittenden, we shall be compelled to differ
from them, and to battle with the energy
against the new an we have done against the old
scheme of abolitionisni. OF the two, we regard the
former as far tile most usIdious and, therefore, in
initely Tile most dangerous. Having secured a pre-
ponderance Of tic free over the slave States, and
supposing that this will give them the control Of
tho Executive and of Congress-, tho only remaining
obstacle which the abolitionsts regard as standing
between them and the final accomplishment of their
purpose is the Supreme Court. To effect radical
change in this department. to give the free States
controlling influence on the bonch, they will as has
been minated by Mr.. Seward bend all their energies
and their efforts in the future This DONE the constitu
ton would be stripped Of its last protection, and
the minority section placed wholly and absolutely
within the control of the majority section of the
Union. Then will the power of Congress to regulate
the domestic affairs of the Territories for the pres
ent generously yielded be reasserted and attempt
ed to be extended over the States and then will
the hour Of real danger to The Uniun have arrived
and the HORRORS Of domestic strife and civil war have
come upon us in all their dread reality.
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NsN >SN M
WASHINGTON CITY.
ruEsDAY MORNING, APRIL IL. 1865.


Ihrosgh the rc'ssness Of agents to make returns Of
collections for the Uian and from other causes the
hooks have fallen into much confusion We are busy
engaged In the labor Of STRENGTHENING them up, anil are
sending out all the accounts apparently due 1t is
quite possible that may send bills to many persons
who have already settled with the agents but have
other Of asceraining the exact state Of their
accounts shall be Obliged 10 them b. reply thereto
without delay The agencies have boon discontinued,
and hereafter the paper will not be sent except upon ad
vnnced payment The present confusion has Its origin
in the credit system system which shall abandon
entirely Those persons to whom hia sent who
have already settled with the agents will please notify u.s.
that our books may be corrected accordingly and the
proper credits b. given. April l3--u
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The Detroit Free Press states that examination Of the
freight books Of the Michigan Central railroad II was
found That the barrel which contained the remains of an
unknown female crossed the river Detroit on the 18th
of March Tracing it further back IT found That the
barrel shipped in Chicago the 10th Of March Az
there were no charges 1t except for its passage
the Michigan Central railroad there IL doubt that
barrel and its contents stsnAcd from Chicago
terrible crime has thus been traced to its source and it
remains with the detectives of Chicago unrave the
mystery and bring the perpetator to Inherited pun
Ishmcnt.
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personal INTELLIGINCE.

The New York Evening Post says that new work !
about To be published by Hon j. II. Giidings 70 be call
cd tie sExilcs of Florida 1t will I've purely histoI
cal work based upon and derived from documents IN
archives at Washington known to but few, but to whti
Mr. GiddiDgs position committees Of Congress du
ring long scrics of years has given him fullest ae'
cess.
Mr. Thomas 7. KetteIl editor of the United States
Economist is about to tho ctitorship OF Hunt
Merchants Magazine, in place of the late freeman
Hunt
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REMOVAL OF A SURVEYOR GENERALS OFFICE.
It will be from public notice in another column
Of this mornings paper that the President haA ordered the
removal Of The surveyor general Office from Iecompton
Kansas to Nebraska City, Nebraska Territory This lat
ter site being Immediately the Missouri river Is more
acceptable than the present location OF the Office in the
interior of Kansas
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Bosrox, April 1.-THE steamship America. Captain
Noodle from Liverpool via Halifax, siglled below
this port at ll.3O, nj, to-day. She wss, however,
obliged 10 walt all the afternoon for pilot and did not
reach her dock till clock this evening The train
for New York detained hour and left at nine
o'clock with the mails for the South The papers
hand contain general news worth telegraphng In adj
dition to the Halifax despatch.
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HousE OF REPRESENTATIVES,, April II, 1883
Mn. EDITOR friend has just informed me that the
Baltimore Sun, few days ago, represented offer
ing substitute for the police bill No 49, of my col
league Mr. Goodc. Mr.. Lstsr, of Ohio on the 9th inst
offered such substitute but have offered neither bill
substitute that subject. Insert this and obige
Yours, truly, j. LETCHER
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Markets.

NEW IoEs, April l2.Cotton quiet, with little In
quiry and prices weak Flour heavy sales IA 900 bar
rels ; State, 81 10 ~ 20; Ohio declined cents
quoted IS 80 cents; southern, 81 so 81 S. Wheat
quiet sales 1000 bushels southern red 81 la 81 70
white, 81 20 81 49, Corn owersales 80, 900 bushels;
white, II a IS cents yellow, Is q "a cents Sugar
steady Orleans, g ~ cents; Muscosado, St 81 cents
Coffee firm sales 900 bag buoyant at 10 II cents
T,rpcntne steady al 40 "a cents lin heavy at so
523 cents. Rice quiet, Lard dull at 10s Ivy eeS'
Whskey steady at II a2l1 cents. Freights dull.
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Mr.. VIM. A. Bccne account OF i'll health, has been
compelled to dissolve his oonpexion with the Mcntgmc
ry ALA Advertiser.
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Floods.

sANDusKY (Ohio,) April IL High water has damaged
the docks timber yards, and pier. At Cleveland the
Toledo railroad is damaged, and mile of the track
swept away The trains have been stopped three days
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Yesterday was the day fixed 10y law for all the banks
of Pennsylvania 10 resume specie payments.
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Sr. LOUIS, April l2.-Ths Republican, Of this city,
learns that the hurricane the 9th ult demolished
nearly every house In Bestonvie, Ark, killing twenty
five persons and wounding great number.
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Clay Meeting.

PiuLaDELrniA, April 1.-THE birthday Of Henry Clay
celebrated this evening by meeting of the opponents
of the administration series of resolutions adopt
ed for the establishment of national party composed of
all the friends of the rights of the people
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Marine.

New YOnK, April l2.--The brig Albert Adams, from
Wilmington, North Carolina, previously reported lost
arrived at Bermuda March 10th, in distress.
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Dead.


HEw YoRK, April l2-Thomas r. Whitney, formerly
member of Congress from this city, died to-day
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llIonaoXD, April l2.--Pullen the custom house rob
bcr arrested by Officer Boss of Washington plead guilty
and sentenced to-day to eight years in the penten
tiary.
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Rumored Death of GEN. Thomas.

NKw York, April IA Paris letter reports the death
Of General Thomas Assistant Secretary of State under the
last administration, The cause WIS typhoid fever
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Especial Correspondence Of tho Union.l
NEW York, April III, 1
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JonN ID JENNINGS, Esq, Dubuque, Iowa
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-09-09

HALIFAX, Sept. 8.-The Cunard steamship Asia
arrived at port this morning, bringing Liverpool
dates to Saturday the 28th u three days later than
the adyices by the Fulton.
The steamship Hammonia arrived ont and her ad-
vices were received at Liverpool on the 9th
prospectus has been Issued in England for teIe-
graph line to China and Australia.
Lord Palmerston visited the Emperor Napoleon at
Paris and had long interview with him.
It is rumored that the French Government had ad;
dressed a note to the British Government demanding
an explanation in regard to the bombardment of
Jeddah.
A doubtful rnmor is in circulation, to the effect
that Naples had accepted the conditions Of the West
ern Powers.
It's stated that the treaty with China stpulates one
million francs as the indemnity to be allowed France
and England
Liverpool Cotton Market
The sales of Cotton for the week amount to G5 }.
900 bales, All qualities had advanced ID. The
market was, however, less buoyant at the close Of
business on Friday evening
LONDON, August 28.-Consols for money closed at
953 to 9Gg 4.
The Breadstuff4 market was generally firm at the
close of business.
Provisions were generally unchanged and closed
steady. Beef was heavy and had slightly declined
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gDtal 4ntelliQeNte.

- hf " ~ II En- no' suuSnlh@ anu iau were the
i7''l' a9 - 'Ae uaS oe'oIe' Ihe
''"o.u ht'1 :" 'ne "ea'uel IS uluou coHlplaneu o''
~ ae'I'''en'a' % 'lie saLeEers oy yei'o" leYer.
The FEvER-Ihe Board of Health report the
number OF yellow fever interments throughout the
city, for the twentyour hours ending Tuesday noon
at T6.
| Commemorative have been requested to correct
an error in the report Of the Library and LyCeum
1 Committee, published in edition of yesterday.
The balance in the hands Of the Treasurer is sos IL
instead Of 59j,lTl-a material difference!
EXPLANAToRY-We much regret that in copying
from the Third District police book on Tuesday the
notice of the surrender of Mr. p E. Lyaudafs and
free c0lored man named McCarty, on a charge of
trespass and larceny, we did not know who the par
ties were and who their accuser was Both the &C.
cused, now learn, old and respectable citizens,
and too wealthy to he for moment open to the least
suspicion Of petty trespass or larceny and we find
that the prosecutor (whose name was not on the
bOoE) was an individual notorious for making riyol.
Gus adlys, who, living in the suburban part of the
District, undertook to exercise the great right OF
squatter sovereignty over vacant lot of ground
next his residence and to establish that right bnilt
fence upon it. The lot is the lawful property Of
McCarty, for whom Livaudais is agent. Going there
W lOph dLttI IT. udy VI LhD allCC, Luty were Op-
posed by the squatter, who claimed the lot as his.
They then went to the trouble of getting their title
deed tax-receDts. and recent for having TO nroye
tb,t +L, l,t l,oIanaod n ti,o,, fro' a,,,tta.a1
st.+' ,"G ~ " 'teN nv w. 94'',1Sei 'u
itteu Ihe 'otce Oh le Papefs, puI ssll refused 20
yield possession until he should be paid $3.50 for nj
legged improvements he had made upon the lot, such
ae lyban there was 10 flIirg to he 5iscovarad4 fn
- m W ~ ~
lus' etc Ins pFopos'i wa, as d hl"e'er ol course
treated with scorn; and because the owner saw
proper to force his way through the gate which the
sopattar had mt IN tho nranertv the srnattar baf
him and bis aaant orrosta5 nm cbar,,o oF tros,,a
md 1arcn,,,,on.s air o,, It ond tsi.i,ir,
Fn,,,, Iir,l
'i0,'i ,i'l'
= A GOOD FRoPoslloS.-Ihe Iateiy aroused pr9Jec
in this city of building monument to Franklin, ha
resurrected an old matter which may aid it materi
oy whom EirIy started Fourteen Years aoo an nc
49, tsn,s,l f ~ ,,t; - %
soclat'oH MAS lolmeu loL tne e'eelIou u STATUE
Franklin IN tins city. Upwards OF 81 zoo was col
ected by the treasurer of the association in five dol
a1snbsafintions and for eacb sphscrintion he pay
ti,s.sI.ss ~
ms o"'"s ~ s2I'e CAUSE nos ca 'h
statue was never procured nor was the money eve
refunded to the subscribers. The receipts for th
money paid. hearing on their face the object fo