Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-04-04
PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKLY BY
EDGAR SN0WDEN.
ALEXANDRIA,:
MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1859.

rem in other States, the Wings of Louisiana
and of Alabama are considering the proprie-
ty of recognizing their forces preparatory
to an efficient participation in the next cleo
tons appointed to be held in those States,
as also in the Presidential contest of 1850.
Several members of the Legislature of Lou
isiana, have issued an address, calling upon
the Wings of that State to meet in Conven-
ton at New Orleans, on the seconed We'd
nesday Of next June, in order to perfect
their organization and nominate an indepen-
dent ticket to be supported by the party at
the approaching election. The Mobile Adj
vertiser addresses stirring appeal to the
Wings of Alabama, urging the expediency
of holding State Convention of the opposi-
ton at an early day. In their address to
the people of Louisiana, the Wing members
of the Legislature say:
1.-The Wing party has slumbered, it has
not died. The wisdom of its policy. the
conservatism of its principles, the unrivalled
endowments of its gallant leader. Clay, who
for so long and eventful a period bore its
honored banner in the thickest of the fight,
all betokened it's indestructibility; and the
effort we now make to unfurl its flag once
more to the battle and the breeze, farther
evidences its vitality. and gives token of our
devotion to the organization OF our choice,
gemmed as is its escutcheon, with the most
brilliant portions of our political history
Lives there Wing with emotions so torpid
az not to feel his bosom heave with patriotic
pride as he reviews the past of our history,
studded rs every page of this history is, In
characters of electric brilliancy, with the
proud names of Clay and Webster? Their
genius impressed itself with ineffaceable du-
rability on the policy of the country, whilst
their profound craftsmanship, comprehend
ing the diversified interests Of this great ma
ton, subordinated them all to the solution
of the highest problem of political economy
in a republican government-the greatest
good Of the greatest number: and the wisdom
of their policy is proved by this, that it has
inextricably interviewer itself with the sue
ceedine affairs of our Federal Government,
and, like a golden thread, reappears in the
current history of our national affairs, alone
redeeming them from the just Reproduction
Of a disappointed and suffering people. All
honor to the old Wing party. for the past OF
its history is at least secure"
The correspondent of the New York Her.
aid in Buenos Ayres, writing on January q,
Informs us that there is probability of the
peaceful settlement Of our Paraguayan diff
culties. Commissioner Bowlin had had an
interview with the plenipotentiarics of the
Paraguayan government, and they had cx-
pressed an anxious desire for fair, just and
peaceful arrangement with the United States;
they further stated that they were authori-
zed to form treaty with the United States
similar to those with England, France, and
Sardinia, and were willing to leave to arbi-
tration whatever claims the United States or
it's citizens might have against Paraguay
MIR. Bowlin made no positive answer, but
was to meet the plenipotentiares at the city
of Corrientes within thirty days. The Bue-
nos Ayres Tribune, of January 80, express
ses the belief "that the next packet will con-
yey the intelligence of the tranquil solution
of this subject, which. with great reason, is
attracting the attention of the people OF the
Plata, and principally that of the Brazilian
Empire, in whose interest it could never he
to consent that the Colossus of the North
should establish its predominancy on this
side of America"
The New York Couriers Monthly Table
of Marine Losses for the past month, shows
an aggregate of forty-four vessels, of which
seven were ships, FIVE were barks, eight were
briggs, twenty-five were schooners, one pro.
heller, and one smack. The total value OF
nroperty lost was nine hundred and thirty
thousand four hundred dollars. This is the
value Of the property totally lost, exclusive
of damage to vessels not amounting to to-
tai loss.
A meeting of prominent Democrats was
held in the city of New York, on Tuesday,
for the purpose of taking steps to remedy
existing abuses of official positions. by the
members of the party. 1t was determined
to call public meeting at Tammany Hall,
mt an early day, under the auspices OF their
most respectable men, to promote the purlh-
cation of the party.
The Masonic Fraternity of Richmond have
invited the Rev. J. d. McCabe, of Baltimore,
to deliver an address, on the 1th instant, IN
that city, on the Masonic Character of Wash
ington-the proceeds to 60 to the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association. grand dis
play of the venerable order is expected on