The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-01-14
Message of the Governor of Pennsylvania.
GENERAL SUMMARY.

The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Herald, IN referring to our city affairs, says:
The new post Office is not yet occupied,
Col. Berrett having preferred to defer removal
until the Office is entirely ready. He will
adopt system of general delivery, by divis
ion of the aphabet, and an outside arrange
| ment to prevent pressure. The Colonel is
the best postmaster that Washington city has
ever had, according to the united testimony of
the public In a position like that he occupies
the application of the rotation principle only
satisfies one aspirant out of the whole number
of expectants, and that, too, at the cost Of the
public convenience"
Hon. W. II. Seward, of New York, at the
invitation of the Hon. John s. Pendleton, paid
that gentleman visit few days since, the OBJ
ject Of which was to witness a regular old fash
toned Virginia "nigger" corn. shocking, Mr..
Pendeton being confident that Seward, from
what he would see there, would be convinced
that Slavery in Culpeper was not as bad as
represented by the Anti-Slavery men of the
North. The frolic passed off very pleasantly
indeed, and no one was more delighted than
the New York Senator Warrenton Wig
1t is stated in the New Orleans Crescent that
the sugar crop of Louisiana for 1857 will be
two hundred and fifty thousand hogsheads,
against about seventy-fve thousand hogsheads
in 1856. Prices are, of course, much lower
than last year but, nevertheless, planters will
realize about two million dollars more from
the crop of this season than from that of 1856,
while consumers will also gain largely.
Governor Wise, having been invited to cele-
brate the oh of January at Tammany Hall,
New York, wrote letter, in which he speaks
at considerable length of the Kansas trouble.
1t seems he agrees neither with Mr.. Douglas
nor the President, in his views, but inclines
rather to the policy propounded by Mr. Pugh
in the bill proposed to the Senate, and proceeds
to argue that the President cannot 60 behind
the fact of the adoption of the Constitution.
At the same time, he proposes to solve the diff
Guilty in this way:
"The Congress of the United States ought
not to reject the legitimate and Republican
Constitution, but ought to adopt it, subject to
q fair and legal vote of the people of Kansas,
according to law to be prescribed by their
Territorial Legislature and to admit the STATE
under it's Constitution whenever the Territory
shall proclaim its approval and adoption by
the people. If they adopt it, to admit her into
the Union ipso .facto and if they reject it, to
leave the people of Kansas in their own way to
organize another, and to submit another Con-
stitution to Congress for approval"
The Adriatic has been hauled off until April
for the reason that she does not pay expenses;
besides, the Baltic and Atlantic can make all
the necessary trips during the winter. The dis
bursements of the Adriatic, for each trip, are
estimated at about $50 900; and notwithstand-
ing the receipt of $50 for the round trip
for carrying the mail, it is estimated she must
have sunk IS 900 in the late trip to and from
Liverpool.-M. y Mirror.
It appears from the report of the Comptroller
of New York, that the receipts into the State
treasury in 1857 amounted to $2,336, TIA, and
the expenditures to $2,470,S17; leaving def
cheney of $84,702. The dehcis at the end of
the present year will, it is believed, reach
Si2l.876. The total State debt is $3I ST. ,944,
and the school fund S2,626,392
The French Emperor has conferred on Ed.
gar Ney, youngest son of the great Marshal,
the title which his father wore in the Russian
campaign-Prince of Moscoy The Emperor
has had near his person for several years two
favorites-C Colonel now General, Fleury, and
Colonel, now General, Edgar Ney The title
Of Prince of Moscow has been long held in
suspense, because the elder brother was not