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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06

g D..y.n... /, ould be in vain to attempt
now to divert it, even !" w th;s wise 70 40 30:
But the recent advocates T os pE ~ PROJECT
do not like it's earlier friends pr. Land ~ sos'y
nor indeed chiefly, upon grants Of s au !.
carrying it through. Building ram "a. o.
this continent is coming TO be regarded
n serious undertaking. Therefore, all the
cure ut Pacific Railroad bills look to the osn OF the
Government credit, as well as to donation oil lts
lands, to aid in accomplishing that enterprise. 90
also, in view Of the peculiar position OF parties,
and especially in the Senate, the project assumes
now, as it always has done, forted aspect; l. g.,
two lines one a Southern and one Northern, are
usually embraced in the same bill.
1t is doubted in some quarters whether either
Homestead or Pacific Railroad bill, can pass this
session. Others are saDguine of both. The policy
Of the Republicans s clear 1t is their duty to sup
port both these measures, in good faith, and with
the intent of succeeding in both, if that be possible
al the present session.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Municipal Elections.

MARSHALL, Mich, Monday, March 3 1860
At the Charter election held here to-day, the whole
Democratic ticket was elected by 100 majorty-a
Democratic gain of 900 since last year.
GALESA, ILL.,, Monday March ), 1860.
At the Municipal election in this city, TO day, the
entire Democratic ticket was elected with the excep
BATTLE CREEK, Mich, Monday, March 5, 1860.
At the Charter election here to-day the Republicans
elected their whole ticket. G. w. Pendell, the Re-
publican candidate for Mayor, has % majority.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Freshet i'm the Maitland River.

GOODRICH, G. W., Monday, March D 166O:
The ice in the Maitland River broke up last night,
causing great damage.
The steamer Troy, belonging to the Buffalo and
Lake Huron Railroad Company, carried half
mile into the lake. and lies aground with only half her
hurricane deck above water.
The schooner Brothers was carried five miles INFO
the lake, and serious damage was done to other yes
GELS.
Fithemen's sbanties were swept away, and $50 feet
of the dock was thrown up.
The hsrbor IL completely choked with ice.
Fortunately no lives have been lost.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06

10 the Associated Press ,seo
WAsHINerox. Monday. Msrch ,, 1861.
The report of the Board of Officers TO II 'esuga.e
the affairs Of the several Navy Yards mas oeeh srSs
mitted to the House Of Representatives py ale Sege
tary Of the Navy, in response TO resouuVa VI lnas
body They say that all the Troubles sd ~ ~
system on which the yards are organized ava net 70
want of nrooer administrative talents ia tue Heads OF
Depar4rnepts In their opinion the " mmandant
shouldbe considered in The same position as II IN COM
Ts rr;r;lage or authority granted to the master
Svofkmsf Of selecting their own mechanics, has lei
thsm INTO the error Of attempting 70 govern them in
5enardeny Of the executive authority of the Boards
and his has been productive Of much disorder. Be-
s;Ses master mechanics have been overrued in their
CONVERSIONS Of honesty TO the Government by outside
influence. The Investigating Board recommend
that hhe yards be under strict military rule and the
Ccmmandant alone be held responsible for faithful
performance Of duties Of all those under his command
The master-workmen should be nominated by the
Commandment, and appointed by the Secretary of the
Navy after a strict and careful examination into their
moral physical, and mechanical qualifications. The
master-woEkmen TO be directed to nominate 10 the
heads Of their respective departments the men to be
employed by them. The Board make other recon-
nendsOIs clearly defining the duties of the respe tive
officers.
The Sergeant Arms of the Senate returned to-day
from Boston, accompanied by Thaddeus Hyatt aud
Jndge Airy. Hyatt came, it is sad, voluntarily to
NashinEton and win appear before the Senate during
this week and submit for their consideration argu
nent of his counsel TO show that ths resolution OF
that body requiring witnesses 10 attend t. summOnses
Of the Investigating Committee is unconstitutional.
An official report shows that the old Capito building
is sufficiently strong TO bear, without any damage
whatever the new iron dome, which will weeh 1900
tuns more than half Of which is erected. The Senate
had instituted inquiry, fearing that the walls might
not bear 90 much pressure The cost Of the DOME as
DOW estimated, amounts TO 1904 900, including the
bronze mammoth statue OF the Genius Of Liberty, with
which il is to be surmountsd.
The National Executive Committee of the Coustitu-
tiona Union party have fixed on the 9Th Of May for
holding the nominating Convention at Baltimore.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Later from Havana.

NEw-ORLEAEs, Monday, March >, looO;
Tie steamship Habana, from Havana on lhe is'
inst, arrived here to-day.
The steamer Baltimore, from Baltimore, arllNeu ~
Havana on the Doth ult.
Sugar was steady at y reals The weather CON
tinued uDfavorabe for the new crop. The STOCK was
BOO boxes against lao, 600 last year.
The steamers General MiTamon and Marquee OF
Havana sailed for Vera Cruz on the 9TH ult., under
the Mexican flag II reported that they were 6oth
purchased by Santa Anna 10 aid Mramon 10 seize Vera
Cruz.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Navigation of the Hudson.

ROSDoUT, Monday, March ., 1861.
The steamers Norwich and Manhattan of Thomas
Corpells lne arrived here yesterday SUNDAY morn
irg from New-York City. The Captains report the
river quite clear from New-York to Poughkeepsie.
From Pouehkeepse to this place there Is considerable
ice. Boats will continue to run regularly from this
place to New. York from this date.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
From ALBANY.

ALBANY, Monday, March ), 1850.
Mr.. Benjamin Bailey of Putnam, ex-Msmber Of the
Aitembly, and four gentlemen OF the legal profession
in New-York, who are here on the part of property
holders and tax payers OF NewYork, opposed to rail-
road bills reported by the Assembly have prepared
series of new bills, which, far as corporate are
concerned are calculated to embarrass the bills re.
ported. The ne bills It is understood will place the
power in the bands of the Controller to dispote OF
routes TO the best advantage.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Democratic Ratification Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 3, 1860.
mass meeting was held here this evening by the
Democrats to ratify the nomination Of Henry ID. Fos-
ter for Governor The meeting largely attended,
and the greatest enthusiasm manifested.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Fire nj Toledo. Ohio.

TOLEDO, Monday, March D I6bU.
fire AT four O'Clock this morning destroyed cmoa
Hall on Summit street, atwOstory dwelling adjoining,
and dwelling and saloon opposite. Loss SsOOOi In
sured 40 600
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Three Persons Drowned.

CHICAGO, Monday, March D, ibJ9.
On Thursday last, while four men were crossing the
Big VeImillion river thirteen miles south Of Ottawa,
their wagon capsized and three OF the occupants
named Proper, Drake, and Ball, were drowned
Only two OF The bodies have as yet beon recovered.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
The Loss of the Hungarian.

HALifAN, N. g., Monday, March 3, 1867.
Tie revsnus cutter Daring has returned here with
the damaged nails Of tie stns nshp Hungarian, but
brings no further news In regard to her loss.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
The baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

BALTMORE, MONDAY, MATCH ., Io0U.
The State Senate to-day passed bill increasing the
dire corshp of the private stockholders of the Ba-
more and Ohio Railroad to twenty-three thus giving
them controlling influence over the State and city
directors
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Troops for the Texan Frontier.

LEAvEEwoRTH, X. t., Monday, March D 1861:
Major Hunts battery, Company nj Of the Light Ar
tllery stationed at Fort Leayenworth has been Or
dered TO New0reans.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
Death of the AttOrney.Generai of
RuaSna.

BANGOR, Monday, March ., 1861.
The Hon. Geo. w. Ingersoll, Attorney General Of
Maine, died this morning in this city.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
MmfinV.

CHArLEsTos, Monday, March D. l8G0
The black crew Of the British snip AVLt Am,
,,,,.;Tjad On Sunday. One negro was shot, but noi
,no,talIv Order was finally restored when all the
mutiueers were arrested.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06

CHARLIsTON, Monday March ., IoUV.
ST. Andrew e Hall in this city has been occurred by
the Hon. Fernando Wood for the Hard. Shell
Delegates from the State OF York, to the Ma
tionaI Convention which Is TO assemble here IN AprN
LeXt.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06

than when the law passed in 1858. The whole
scheme is designed to pension Texss en- the Treas
ury, at the rate Of 81 500, 600 annually; for, if
regiment IL once authorized, it will be continued BY
some continuance
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-06
T,I,e Yacht wandcrer.

BosroH, Monday, hsrch D. lSoo,
The YACHT Wandersr sailed At p M touaI i''
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-06-02

holder from the date of the Scrip The effect
OF giving Il literal construction to the Act is
SO Unfair aud wrongful to other Share holders
as to rcpel such an interpretation of Tie .ict
The proposed subscription Of Pickcns bis
triet Is $4,000 The Bonds to be issued for
the payment Of the subscription arc to be pay
| able, IN twenty years by the grant of Stock
for the receipts of the Tax to be collected to
lpay the interest OH the Bonds until thcy fall
due, the Company must issue Scrip to the
amount nearly of $l5 ,00O J; and the Scrip for
the Tax receipts to be levied for the payment
OF the Bonds as they fall due, will amount to
S3O,0o0 morc-making total of $3.50 of
Stock to be issued for subscription of $50
| 0O0. Such cannot be the intention of the
Act. 1t could never have been intended to
grant so extraordinary b0naS for District
subscriptions. 1t IS surely enough to require
the Company TO take the District Bonds al
per in payment of the District Subscription
without also requiring tho Company to pay
the interest on the Bonds in Stock during ali
the time before the Bonds shall be pnyablc,
Such stipulation in favor of the pickens
District subscription would be so wrongful to
! prior subscribers by the increase Of tie Shares
of the capital Stock without any contribution
! N'l''>"' VI viz OHll'Iy, biidJ u:NV
little doubt they might cuioin through the
Court OF Equity contract 50 incquitablc and
injurious to them. But beyond all this have
little doubt that the Company would decline
to accept any subscription that might be ten
dercd OH such terms.
1t therefore seems to me to he advisable ,c
postpone taking the vote of the tax payers o
4 iicEens District on the subscription which has
been submitted to them by the Board of Com
mlssioncrs, until after the next session of tin,
Legislature, when tie section Of the Act
which has created these difficulties may be
amended. lfthc Subscription which has beer
ordered by tho Commissioners should be con
ilrmcd by the vote OF the taxpayers the con
ti@rlcty OF opinion respecting the effect of the
subscription would present very serious OBJ
stoclc to the completion of the .Act of sub
scription by the Commissioners (Althougl
delay in taking the vote ON the proposed sub
ScrIption IS greatly to be dcprccntedj, I cannot
suggest any cXpcdicnt by which it may be
prevented. | am,
Very respectfully and truly, yours,
EDWARD FROST, President.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-06-02

Letter from the Hon. R. B. Rhett.
The letter we publish below from the Hon
II. B.. Rhctt, has been handed to us for publ
cation. We obey the request, and lay it be-
fore our readers
CHARLESTON, May 10, 1860.
My dear Sir; You ask me, in the first
place, whether "will support the policy of
the State Rights party going into the Colum-
bla and Richmond Convcntions;" and, in the
second place, upon what grounds | think
such policy may be supported"
think that the whole State ought to 90
into these Conventions and | will assign
very briefly the reasons which it appears to
me support such policy.
We stand now very much in the same po-
sition we stood in 1850, The contest then
was concerning the rights of the South in 9 &c
Tcrritory-California The contest now is
concerning the rights of the South in all our
Territories; owed or to be owned in all time
to come y Conveution-thc Nashville Con-
ycntlon-was recommended by the Democrat
lc party of one Southern Statc-NI NIssissippi-
for the vindication of the rights of the South
in a Territory. The Richmond Convention is
recommended by the Democratic party of eight
Southern States for the vindcation of our
rights i'll all our Territories If we went into
the former, why not 90 into the latter? As
did all In my power TO bring the Southern
States together at Nashville, and to induce
them to act together for the vindication of
their rights, consistency requires of me the
same course now. / wavc---I abandon no
right of the State, by this policy. The cx-
treme remedy of State intorposition, is not in.
consistent with efforts to obtain the 1o-aotion
of the Southern States TO maintain their rights.
| am in the old path, it seems to me; and
mean to tread it,
But you say, Have we not heretofore op.
posed National Party Conventions, and is not
the Richmond Conventions q National Party
Convention u L answer No! A National
Party Convention is the Convention of par
ty which is based on national principles; that
Is, principles common to all portions of the
United States. The Richmond Convention
is not suoh Convention. It's declared prin
ciples arc not national, for not single North
ern State has dared to avow them. 1t is
sectional Convention, called by one section of
the Union, to support rights and interests be-
longing to one section Of the Union, and ac-
knowlcdged but by one section of the Union
II arises out of the debris Of the one great ma
tional party in the Union--the Democratic
party ;-and is intended to counteractits po,-
icy. lt is true, chat all those of the Demo
cratic party in the United States, who agree
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PREsIpENr's OFFICE, !
Blue Ridge Railroad in So. ca.

CHARLESTON, May p, 1860
Cor. WtEIiAM SLOAN, Pcndlcton s. O.
Dear Sir: Yours Of the 18th instant was re-
ceived this morning.
[ was "pprisod of the difficulty in thc CON
structiou OF tho Act which you bring to my
notice as dividing the opinions OF tic Tax
payers of Pickens Bistrct aud, although |
had confident opinion on the subject, for the
greater satisfaction Of those votes who dissent
ed, took the opinion of the Attorney General.
which confirms my own
Tilc Act authorised the Board of Commits
sloncrs Of Roads of Pickcns District to make
subscription to the Stock of the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company in South Caroiua, and to
issue the Bonds of the District, to be taken
an payment of the subscription, at par, by the
Blue Ridge Company. The Act then pro.
ceeds to provide for the payment of tho inte,.
est OH the Bonds, and of the principal when
the Bonds shall become payable.
The 9TH Section enacts that " for the pay
mclt of the interest on said Bonds " tho Com.
nnssoncrs" shall levy, annually, Railroad
'taX, in tho same manner the Road and Bridge
tax is now levied. And within ten years
of tho time the Bonds shall fall due" the
Z Commissioners shall levy and collect tax to
:" pay the Bonds as they fall duc;" which tax
shall be paid to the Treasurer of the blue
Ridge Railroad Company, to be invested as a
sinking fund in the Stock of this State
The 7th Section creates the difficulty 1t
-" provides thati collecting the taxes provi-
ded for in the 9th Section of the, Act, the Tax
Collector shall deliver to the tax payer spc-
cial receipt therefor" And when anyvperson,
"A holder of such receipts, issued in-his own
name, or transferred to him, t'slall present
am 'amountthercof equal to one Share, the
President shall issue to him Scrip for ono
Share, and such person shall be stockhodcr
from the date of the Scrip and in like man
ncr for any number of Shares for which any
person may present the equivalent in tax re-
,cepts.
This Section does not discriminate between
the tax receipts to be given forthopayment
of interest on said Bonds" and tho tax re-
Z ceipts for the tax to be collected to pay the
bonds as they fall due"
The literal effect of the Tth Scetion'would
,seem tot sustoin the opinionsof those who
maintain that all tax receipts as well those
which may be given " for tho payment of the
interest on tho lRonds," as those which may
* nCt" t"essay " to pay the
80 gwen Ior One u,.. f" sha. pc converted
Donds as they fall due" v, ,I,,nlders of
= into Stock on the demandgof tn~ T. n. =
snch tax receipts, The Section enac1e :,
!. tho Tax Colsetor shall give receipts Tor the
Faxes Gas provided for 10 the 9th Section.
+ thus including an the receipts n,eAti9re9 Nv
that Section and that whenever any person.,
bo,der Of such receipts demands the eony9E,,,
s;op Of them into Stock, the President shall
ppd8 r such pcfs6a 6se .%" sS49' u q .oof S