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Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-13

The Philadelphia Enquirer of yesterday
says:
News from Pernambuce to the 4th of last
month brings the intelligence to a commercial
house in this city that the difficulties between
the United States and Paraguay have been
happily adjusted. The subject had been left
to the decision of the Emperor of Brazil, who
is likely TO make il satisfactory through the
aid of the able Ministers of foreign Powers,
who take an interest in the peace Of that Sec
ton of the world"
News of similar import has been received
at New York by the arrival at that port OF n
brig which sailed from Pernambuco on the
10th ultimo, and brings accounts from Monte
video to the 10th of February.
Gnn. Urquiza, in IA letter dated the 9Th of
February, and addressed to the Government
of the Argentine Confederation, gives u full
account of his agency in the settlement of
the difficulty. The following paragraphs
comprise the most interesting portion of his
statement:
commissioner Bowlin declared that his
instructions did not permit him 10 accept the
official mediation which the Plenipotenliaries
of Brazil, and Of the Argentine Confedera-
ton were disposed To offer; that il was in
Difference to the spirit of Cancellation, and as
tribute of especial consideration 10 myself,
he accepted only the personal Intervention of
my kind, frank, and disinterested offices, and
that to this end he would open preparatory
confidential conferences 50 as to arrange the
manner of settlement
Several conferences took place, in the
whole course of which took the part which
had been so honorAbly conceded 10 me by
my illustrious friend. the President of Para
| guav, and the Commissioner OF the United
| States, even to assisting in the last confer.
encr ia which. the question was decided
To say all before my country, | boast o.
the glory Of having ctiectually contributed e
the prevention Of war between two brotherly
nations. | feel pleasurein announcing To youl
Excellency that experienced the good for
| tune Of witnessing the settlement OF satisfac
~ and honorable bases between the President
OF Paraguay and bis Excelleney the Comsnis
| Sioner OF the GoverCment Of the United
States. Your ENcellency will have occasion
| To Judge of the said lsAses by the private copy
which | subjoin, and 10 appreciate the lmpor
| tanee of 80 worthy aud honorable an arrange
meat. which re-csiablishes on the best footing
kind and maternal relations between thes.
two American nations. Such happy result
will elevate the Argentine Government in ths
consideration OF the free Powers. drawing
closer our friendship with the colossus o
America, whose insfitut tons serve ~ an ex
amp'e. aud whose influence and stimalas W
| r,q airs ia cur hat rrreut life, aud which W,
hoaorahly desire. Sach prosperous resal
must bind US in an eternal bond OF fraternii,
| 10 our immediate eo4ffae Of Paragaay-uni
ted 10 Us by the community of interests, U
origin, aud OF destiny"
We have no definite information as 10 th
amount Of indemnity accorded by the term
Of the Nstissai haeifsne1.
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BUCHANAN AND WIsE.--The respective friends
of these gentlemen seem determined that they
shall not die without praise. A young and
enthusiastic admirer of the President. named
RYAN, got off the following grandiloquent
toast few days ago, at Indianapolis
81 give, in conclusion, as a sentiment. said
Mr. r., of the bright and spotless administra-
OF James Buchanan, of PENNSYLVANIA. When
thrones are crumbled and dynasties forgotten,
1t will stand the landmark of our country's
history, rearing itself amid regal ruins and
national dissolution, a political pyramid in
the solitude oftime, beneath whose shade things
shall moulder, and round whose summit
Eternity must play!' -..
The Auburn (Ala.) Signal, which carries
the name of Gov. WISE at it's masthead for
the Presidency, in introducing letter from
" distinguished friend" lets off thus:
1--WE take the liberty ofextracting from a pri-
vate letter of a distinguished friend the follow
ing glimpse Of the Napoleon of American poll
tics-the MCMAHON Of the Malakoff of the
Democracy-HENRY A. WIsE--of Accomac-
Of Virginia-him of a Only of Onancock p
whose voice to-day sounds out from the Exc
cutive Chamber of Virginia. over the States
of this UniOn--over the seas and in Europe,
with more melody than made the eloquence
Of kOssUTH the music of the world. and more
real 7ower-enduring, pervading moral power,
which holds time in its orbit and The revolving
ages in the circles of Eternity, than that of
all the Kings and Potentates of Europe. A
seer-a prophet and apostle of Constitutional
liberty-the Paul Morphy of the political
chess-board of the United States. whose game
is the perfection of principle, aud is all for
honor aud good cause ~
WTsE's friend evidently gets the advantage
Of BUCHANAN's.
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Light Essential to Health.

While the importance of pure air and APP
prOpriate exercise, to the health!ul develop
meut OF the body, is receiving in some quar-
tiers, that attention which it justly demands,
the importance of light as a sanatory and Gu
rative agent is scarcely thought of. In gen
teel life. darksrooms are only fashionable a
blcnchcd skin is deemed perfection in beau
" and gloves and wells must be worn out
of doors lest the sunlight should give little
darker hue TO the marble like tablet But
plants seek the sunlight, and without it he
come pale and sickly and animals need it
no less. In the years Of cholera il was invari-
ably found that the deaths were most numcr-
ous in narrow streets and northern exposures
where the salutary beams OF light had seldom
shed their genial Influences. Scrofula, and
similar diseases, are found to be most preva-
lent in poor children living in confined and
dark streets, while on the other hand, expo
sure to the sun in the open air has been found
one of the best means OF restoring them to
health. In countries where little covering is
required for the body, cases of natural defor-
nifty are exceedingly rare ; and an English
Psychologist has maintained with great
array OF facts in support % the position, that
exposure TO the sunlight is absolutely essen
tial TO the regular conformation of the body.
II, then. the light OF day l. essential to the
full development of the human form, il be-
comes an imperative duty To construct our
dwelling-houses, our schools, our workshops
and our churches. upon principles that will
allow the life-giving element To the fullest
aud freest ingress, and to admit all the light
that is consistent with suitable protection
from the direct rays Of the sun.
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The United States Army Full, and
Recruiting stopped.

In pursuance of orders from the War De-
| partment. the recruiting service throughout
the United States was discontinued on the
| Goth ult. The ranks of the army are now
not only full for the first time in twenty wears.
hut there is a considerable surplus of recruits
from which to fill future vacancies. The I'M
usual prosperity of the recruiting business
may be attributed partly to the depressing
effect of the financiancal revulsiOn, but main
ly to the increase of the soldiers pay about
four years ago, up to the decently remunera-
tive standard of Sll per month for foot, and
Sl2 for cavalry service. Besides this compen-
sation, which is sure, and goes on whether
the soldier is sick or well. on duty or off he
is abundantly fed, comfortably clad. is nursed
and dOctOred for nothing, and is entitled to
Communication money for all clothes which he
does not choose to take from those Several
suits year, provided for him. 1t is no won
der that snch inducements should tempt hardy.
adventurous men, without families, 10 try the
army.
Many save almost their entire pay. and
have snug little capital for business when
their term is out; but the greater number
spend their money as fast as they get it, or
soon after their discharge. and are driven to
re-enlist. There are probably, many who
rather like the moHOtOny--sO intolerable to
an active man--Of a soldiers life in time of
peace, and who are happier loaling away
their existence in a barrack than they would
he in some busting, better paying business.
In other countries the army is the last resort
of poverty; but here it actually enters into
competition with the industrial pursuits of
life, and there are many kinds of business
which. in the long run, will not reward a man
as well.
No new recruits will probably be wanted be-
fore next spring and, if so. at least one-half
of the recruiting service appropriation
($llS,000) for the fiscal year, beginning next
July, will not be needed. Besides this saving
the Quartermaster's Department will be re-
lieved to a great extent from the heavy ex-
pense of transporting recruits 10 distant
stations. The cost of transportation last
year from New York alone was some $780,
600 and was paid'to the Pacific Mail steam ship
Company, who made a single contract for
carrying, to the amount of $1,000. 1t is
thought that this heavy item of exp 1nse will
be diminished about one-third in the ensuing
fiscal year.-N. Y. Journal Of Commerce, AprA
9Th
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1859.
The Union American and the Z" & a
tcchism.o

We cannot consent to pursue the Uaon ana
American through the labyrinth of evasions.
not very artful. and of impertinent issues
which it is engaged in constructing in order
90 escape the questions which we propounded
"A few days ago questions material to the
canvass on which we are just entering. Its
first attempt at evasion was series of ques-
tons frivolous and puerile, and wholly i'm
material to tie issuGs-the living issues of
the day. This was not frank and ingenious
it was not the way in which candid men, who
held d, cided opinions, and who were not
afraid to avow them, would have answered
Nevertheless, on faith in the pledge with
which they were accompanied, we decided
that IL was proper for us to answer and ac-
cOrdingly did SO. We took then up seriatiul and
gave specific answers to each of them We
hoped that Il corresponding directness, and
mlnliness on its part, would insure us une-
quivacal answers to our plain, respectful in
terrogations. We have been disappointed.
We have IA answer at all, and in it's stead
another quibble and evasion, and our only
answer as an acknowledgment that the party
goes before the people with an intention to
mislead them in regard to some of the ques-
tons asked. and as to the others, that it is
guilty OF the charges implied Is our cotempo-
rary willing to rest the questions at this point
or does he intend to answer them? The peo-
pie want an answer.
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Another Case OF TTatrim oniaI Separa
tiOn.

Whe Wheeling Times relates the following
Sometimes very aw kward little episodes ere
enacted very n,ceutly by unsophisticattd
travellers, much to the amusement of better
posted lockers on. An instance of this kind
occurred last week nj the Sprigg House. On
Wednesday evening lady and gentleman ar
rived from the Central Ohio train, aud as
soon as they were landed from the ''bus,
proceeded 10 the ladies' parlor, where they
remained. Mr.. Henry, the clerk finding the
gentleman was not inclined 90 make any de-
monstration towards registering their names,
walked up stairs and found our gentleman
seated in very loving proximity to his fair
companion. Mr.. Henry presented a card and
pencil ut which the gentleman stared In I'M
disguised establishment, saying, Say, you,
Mister, wots that aboutF' After an eXplana
ton he registered his name N Mr.. Chas. Dag
Tor, Columbus. Ohio and the lady as Miss
Henrietta baylor; of the same place. The
clerk thought trom their actions that their
relation savored more of marriage than of
blood, and haZarded the question, VIII you
have separate rooms The lady, for the first
time, spoke, saying quite sharply, "Ies, sir,
certainly and down stars he went, not more
than half satisfied.
When time for retiring came, both were
shown up stairs at one time-Ihe lady into
No. II, aud the gent to No. %, he making
no audible objection. Early next morning,
however, he was up and wandering about the
house, looking very much though be had
lost his nights rest or something worse. At
length he called one of the pOrtersaside and
viii spered 10 him, What did that young
Teller over there" pointing TO the unsus-
pecting clerk. do with nag .E.fs last night"
Here was a nice kettle OF hSl. A man aud
wife had been put in separate rooms, contra
~ to all ordinary usage, aud the clerk Was
called, who immediately explained that ''he
dldn't know they were married" '.Oh, yes, I"
says the verdant one, we've been married
four days, and we're on our wedding tour,
but dldnt know you allowed the men aud
women to sleep together in these big houses,
or Ia made fuss when Het was telling you
last night" The couple were then brought
together, and ratified their meeting by a very
aiteetionate embrace, 10 the no small envy Of
Henry. When the Baltimore bus" arrived
he was asked which train be wanted to lake,
he replied, Il don't know what you call II,
but want TO go to Piedmont" After being
put on board he stuck oat a hand 10 Mr..
Stockbridge, the Landlord, with You keep
trst rate grub. old fellow, but The next tinr
a party comes this way who ain'I up 10
Saul, just you explain 20 them thai a laan
| can room with his wife IL be wants to-
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u he First District.

The standard-bearer of the Opposition in
the First District is one of the ablest men in
the State, and if there was man anywhere
TO be found in the District to lead it back
from its embrsces with Democracy, and re-
establish 1t in the phalanx of the Opposition.
that man Is Thomas A. r. NELSON. We look
to him with trusting confidence to achieve a
most marked and splendid triumph in Au-
gust. IL is likely to be the most warmly con.
tested race in The State. excepting perhaps
that in the Ninth. The Democracy will pro-
baby run their strongest man, LANDoN C.
HAYNES, and Gov. JOHNSON will probably ex-
ert all his power to secure his election. But
We believe il will be of no avail. In himself
NELSON is tower of strength. altogether an
over-match for HAYNES; aud will rally 10 his
active support the old Wings of the Dis
trict. who under the evil influence of WAT
KINs have been afiliating with the Dcmocra-
ey; and with the startling indictment on
which be will arraign the Democracy, he will
over~Lelm oil the legions that HAYNES may
be able TO array against him.
In vot" of upwards of Is, 900, the majorS
ty for HARRIS in the counties omsosing the
District, in 1857, was only 4s3. We think
that both NETHERLAND and NELSON will
sweep this majority from the record, and turn
the scale 10 the other side.
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From The washington states.
The ''omeiaI organ, under the new


We have already announced the change of
proprietorship in the Washington Union. by.
which the official journal. as our grave com
temporary OF the LatelLigeRceT courteously
characterizes IL, passes from the control of
Mr. Cornelius Wendell into the hands of Brig
adler General George Washington Bowman.
The complete details of the transaction, though
now in our possession, we reserve for future
exposition. when the public will admit that
the proceeding is altogether without paral-
lei, in so far as il exhibits the Attorney Cen
eral of the United States negotiating and at
testing the sale of a newspaper for consider
alton to be paid, not by the individual pur
chaser, but with the-funds OF Government
distributed in the shape of Executive patro-
mage.
This, and other equally extraordinary Incl
dents in the affair, we promise to develop in
due season. For the present, we have meres
ly to advert to the change of proprietorship
in the Union, in explanation of the article
which appears in its issue of this morning
Heretofore that paper has affected lofty ig-
norance of the existence of the States but its
policy is reversed and from an imperturbable
silence its rushes at once to the extreme of
fidgity and garrulous comment. We salute
our adversary with unfeigned satisfaction. We
have often endeavored TO provoke him to
combat and since he grees to enter the lists,
We beg to assure him be shall be accommoda-
ted to the extent of bis appetite for fight.
Ordinarily we have no concern with the
paternity of articles in the columns of our
contemporaries. Lest, however, we inadvert-
emily offer indignity TO the Z" true prince"
whom we do not pretend to recognize by sin
stinct." we are obliged to regard the possibili-
ty that the article in the Union of this morn
ing is the production of Every exalted per-
sonage" We have the assurance of the best
authority that the late editors of that journal
have Indignantly repudiated the responsible
ty of its control, in consequence of its indie
cent transfer to its present proprietor. The
article, then, is not their performance. Nor
was it penncd by Brigader General George
Washington Bowman for. whatever its de-
tects, it is written with grammatical prOprie-
ty-an achievement of which that illustriOus
warrior is wholly incapable. as we happen to
know from a painful correction of manu-
script with which he has occasionally illumin-
ated our own columns. Under these circum-
stances, we are driven to the conclusion that
the article in the Union is an cmanation of
the Executive mansion; and. as such, we pro-
pose 10 review it with all possible indulgence.
The candid reader will attribute the clemency
OF our criticism TO unaffected reverence
for the character of the President.
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SourHERN PAc1tyc R.,rRo.n-7z, .gt

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-7ze smf for
The forfeiture of The Ctarftr.-The Marshall
fTexas) Flag, of the LIST inst, has the follow
ing:
As great anxiety is doubtless felt every
where, TO know the result of the suit of the
State against the Railroad Company. we give
1t bTlfiy, with the reasons of the Judge. His
Honor, held, first, that the demurrer must be
sustained, because it did not appear by what
authority the suit had been Instituted and
then stated that it could not be brought, ex-
cept by authority of the Legislature. Next,
that from the petition it did appear that the
purchasers Of the road and its franchises were
insolvent that from the pleadings it appear
ed that the purchasers were one of the parties
defendant to the suit that by the act of 1857
the franchises passed to the purchasers with
the road and that the act was a waiver. as
to them. of all causes of forfeiture against the
sold-out Company.
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when Bank. are TO Die.

The AroLanche, after quoting the fifth reso-
luton of the Democratic Platform, says:
When the institutions. the existence Of
which is so deeply regretted in the resolution
quoted, shall have died Out-when the power
To create money is taken out of the hands of
soulless and irresponsible corporations. and
paper rags are no longer recognized as a
standard of value. and not until then. the pro-
misses they have made ia the platform before
US will have been fulfilled. and the duties
they have imposed upon themselves will have
been performed by the Democracy.
II this is what the Democratic Platform
means, the banks had as wen begin to look
out for winding-sheets and graves. for their
days are numbered, and they know exactly
the hour when the axe of the exeeutioaer
viii descend upon their naked necks. BE il
remembered, therefore. that after the expira-
iio1 OF their charters all the banks in Ten
ncssee are to be put away snugiy in death by
the Democracy they can. Taking the
Araiancks as a true exponent of the platform
and let the man stand forth who denies that
il is-the issue is clearly driH-d upon the
Bank question between the Democracy and
the Opposition. Fellow-eitizens Of Tennessee,
shall We have sound specie-paying banks, or
shall we have only gold and silver for our
circulating medium! Will you 90 with De-
mocracy LA0f farg VIII you drive Eve MIL
lions OF capital out Of the State 10 find in
yesiment In ATTITUDES less hostile 10 il than
ours !-Asa,PAis BgIiessH.
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Spain.
INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN THE CORTEs RE-
IATIvE TO CUBA.

INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS IN THE CORTEs RE-
IATIvE TO CUBA.
In the Chamber of Deputies, a call having
been made for the production of the papers
relative TO the negotiations between the
United States, France and England, for the
acquisition of Cuba by America,
The Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that
some Deputies had expressed Il desire to see
the administration Of Cuba improved, and
the President of the United States expressed
the same wish. The opinion of the President
was, that Spain did not administer Cuba well
and that the United States on account of
their higher intelligence, had moral duty
to fulfill, which to purchase The island.
The government could not allow this idea
about Cuba to remain uncOntradicted. All
governments had labored to improve the con-
ditiOn of that island, and the present Cabinet
had been constantly occupied with measures
calculated to give the inhabitants of the
island the share they ought To possess in their
internal administration, without comproms-
ing the ties which unite them to the mother
country.
The best reply to the representations OF
certain orators of the United States was the
prosperity of the island of Cuba. That the
question of the acquisition of the island was
imposing and menacing could not be denied.
Nevertheless, the government declared that
it felt all the security which its great national
resources were calculated to inspire. Ii had
not, however rendered insult. for insultas that
would probably have aggravated the question.
1t had conducted itself with prudence and
dignity, and had not applied for assistance to
any other Power. II any other foreign
Power had offered assistance the government
would have felt grateful, but it would not
have accepted of it because it did not think any
aid was necessary. As no diplomatic docu-
ments existed on the question, which happily
was almost terminated, the government hoped
NJ Badia would be satisfied with the explana-
tions given, and withdraw the motion.
Mr.. Dodge, American exMinister, had left
fer Valencia and Barcelona, aud intended
afterwards to visit Italy. One journal states
that at his earnest request the Queen present
ed him with portraits of herself and the King
N. i. Herald.