The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-13
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
NEW York, FRIDAY night,)

r...... #.. ..- March III, 1909.
We are to have a really monster meeting at Tammany
Hall on next Monday night, ito express the sentiments
of the people on the subject of the acquisition of Cuba. j"
Several distinguished speakers from different States have
been invited to address the meeting, and it is hoped that
most of them will attend. l believe that Hon. Volney
Howard, of California, formerly member of Congress
from Mississippi has been invited, and that it is probable
he will be with us and comply with the invitation. Mr..
Howard made one of the ablest and most eloquent speeches
Oh the Cuban question in the halls of Congress that have
ever been delivered on the subject, and no one is better
qualified than he to address the people as to the advant-
ages to the United States TO be derived from the acquisi-
ton of the island. I am told that Hon. Sylvester Mowry
has also been requested to speak.
Apropos of Cuba. The Evening Post and the National
Intelligencer have discovered a mares nest of unusual
size, and filled with a Marvellous number of not over
fresh eggs. They have found out that they have reason
to believe that it is highly probable that, unless some
thing happened which they are Unable to understand,
Mr., Horatio J. Perry, secretary of the United States le
cation at Madrid under Mr. Soule, wrote some letters to
the State Department after the departure Of the chief of
the mission, showing what a very smart fellow he Perry
was, and what a strictly upright, admiralty conciliatory,
and extraordinarily generous government was that of
Spain, which letters have either never been, or are not
now, on file in the State Department. The Intelli-
gencer is Surprised that the imaginary Perry
Overture of a treaty. and which embraces all sorts of
wonderful concessions on the part of Spain, is not forth
coming, and ventures to hope that the utmost exertion
may be used to procure Ii, or even a copy of the precious
document. Rut the Intelligencer does not outrage de-
cency, as does the Evening Post on all occasions, by the
use of language more fitted for a low tap room than for
the columns OF a newspaper which claims to be refined
and respectable. The Intelligencer really believes that
the Perry overture was communicated to the Department
of State, and was there mislaid. But the gentle, re-
fined, and poetical Post is sure that twretched schemers
suppressed the document" There is something su.
premely ridiculous in the whole story, and something
supremely contemplate in the accusation. which 1.-THE
mostwidely circulated (2) democratic m newspaper
in the United States" has the audacity to base
upon it. Even %supposing that the officers of the State
Department of two administrations had consented to
suppress the Perry overture, afraid lest Perry should es-
tablish an undying peace between the United States and
Spain, convert her most Catholic Majesty to free trade,
and give Americans the most unbounded liberty in Cuba,
would that act of itself prevent the world from knowing
anything Of the great chef d azure of Perry's diplomacy ?
Would not the Spanish officials have known and talked
about it, and would they not have shown how unreason.
able we were in refusing their liberal overture ? Did
they, too, conspire with the " wretched schemers' to de-
fraud Perry of the fame he had won 2 The editor of
the Evening Post was recently in Spain, at least he has
published within a few days a very stupid book descrip-
tive of a tour in that country, and how is it that no one
told him of Perrys exploits, and how the diplomatic
records of the nation have been tempered WITH The
Post is an adept at the dcfamatian of dead men and per
sons temporarily deprived of the means of defence. That
journal yiliied the memory of Daniel Webster it now
Whites the memory OF William l.. Marcy. The Post
abuses the great men of the nation who, il knows, could
not afford to stoop to notice its low scurrility. 1t abused
Secretary Floyd last year it abused Secretary Touoey
this year and now, in order to Guido itself, it abuses
Secretary Cass.
We may expect in a few days a very fierce attack on
the late Gov. Brown, and if Secretary Thompson, Seore-
tary Cobb, and Judge Black are not accused soon in it's
columns of murder, arson, aud highway robbery, respec-
lively, some radical change must have occurred in the
editorial management of that delectable print. If they
die, nothing can save their memories from the Posts
ISLANDERS. .sa. ..f... -r,. .at-.a.. a.. p
An alteration occurred yesterday evening on the steps
of Delmonico's restaurant, in Beaver street, between Gen.
eral Wheat, late of Walkers Nicaraguan army, and
Colonel Cauty, the notorious Costa Rican commander.
The former, the moment he saw the latter, APP
preached him aud spat in his face the Colonel made
the Tetort erpetNd}, whereupon the General rejoined
by the application of a cane to the Costa Rican
hero's head until the cane was broken in pieces.
Cards were Immediately interohanged, and a resort to the
most sulphurous means of ayenging, splitting, and
Gaming spoken of as inevitable between two such distin-
guished knights. Ihave not heard that they have left
for Canada or Cuba, but it may be so. The iderrima oatlsd
beM, was some indignity offered 10 General Wheat while
a prisoner of war by Colonel Cautey, and the supercilious
refusal of the latter to give any satisfaction "to a pris-
oner.''
The sepoy rebellion, the details of which we're SO
proves to have been a hoax. The commissioners of emf
grafton and OF quarantine, and a large posse of police
proceeded valiantly to the supposed scene of action, de
termined TO do or die, and they returned, having neither
done nor died, because there was no rebellion. ] hear
that Ray Tomkins, the reputed Nena Sahib Of the Staten
Island sepoys, committed no act of violence on the COM
missioncrs further than entertaining them most hospita
bly, at his elegant mansion on the hill above the quaran.
tine buildings. / hear, nevertheless, that if the legisla-
ture does not provide promptly and efficiently for the re-
moval of 'the nuisance, it will most surely be burned,
in spite of the commissioners. ADSUM.
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FORT ELKNA TO BE ABANDONED.