Newbern weekly progress. [volume] (Newbern, N.C.) 1858-1863, 1860-03-13
Our New York Correspondence.


dency. Cassius NJ. Clay, who is the favorite o
the physical, pugnacious element of the Republi
can party lectured few evenings ago before one
OF the political associations, in a very temperate
strain for him. But Mr. Clay can never hope te
be a favorite with the Republicans of the Weed
Greeley and Seward school, for the reason that he
openly avows himself to be admrer of the ne
gro race, no believer in the equality of and
opposed TO slavery solely on the ground that it is
not beneficial to the white race At any rate this
is substantially Mr.. glays doctrine at present al
| though it is considered by some knowing politi.
clans here as bid for the influence of the con-
servative element of the Republican party.
| MIR. Douglas movements were closely watched
while he was here, but nothing definite could be
learned of his doings. He took the very best pos
sible means of battling all con lecture as TO his
hopes, doubts and fears. and to the exact ma
ture of the machinery by which he expects to get
the Charleston nomination, and afterwards to get
elected When say that Mr.. Douglas took the
best possible means to battle conjecture &c,
mean that he acted in such a way TO cause an
endless variety of the most opposite and conflict
ing runners to be circulated about him and his
sayings and doing. The leading men of both Sec
tions of the Democratic party were received by
the distinguished Senator from Illinois with equal
graciousness, and prominent Americans. old line
Wings, and even Republicans Of the darkest dye
had long private interviews with him.
Mr.. Toucey has been here for few days en-
deavoring, so it is sad to secure the support of
Fernando Wood Mt Charleston. Mr. Wood is the
president of the Mozart Hall lard delegation
from the democracy of the Empire State, and the
mere fact of advances being made to him by an
aspirant for the Presidency so well posted in ma
tional politics Mr.. Toucey is quite discourage
ngly to the members of the soft or Tammany
Hall delegation, who look upon Mr.. Touceys
indicative of some secret knowledge
which he may possess of the action which will be
taken by the Charleston Convention, when the
claims of the rival delegations from New York are
presented for its consideration.
Mr.. Bates, of Missouri, has not been here per-
sonally but his friends are working hard for him.
Charles A Dana, of the New York Tribune,
who practically controls the editorial columns of
that remarkable paper, has published in it an ex
tended biography of Mr. Bates, and several lead
ing articles favoring the nomination of that gen.
tleman by the Chicago convention. The " Courier
& Enquirer all but threatens to bolt, if Mr. Bates
or any other man but Seward gete tho Republi-
can nomination but it is beginning TO be pretty
generally conceded by the warmest friends of Mr..
Seward that his nomination would either cause
split in the Republican party or stampede of
D.ost of the conservative men in it over TO the
Union" candidate. That there will be a third
or " Union" " candidate put up at the North in the
person of Crttenden, Bell, Bolts, or some snch
man, if al ultra Republican be nominated at Chi
capo cannot be reasonably doubted. On the other
hand if a conservative Republican is nominated,
there will be no l. Union' candidate. The Chi
cago and Charleston nominees will then have the
field to themselves.
Chase, of Ohio, has been dod gng between here
and Albany for some days, endeavoring to ingra-
tiate himself with the New York Republicans.
He is the second choice of the Seward men, and
is considered much too radical by the conserva-
tive Republicans to be an occupant of the Presi-
Dental chair.
Lincoln, of Illinois. is by means in the back
ground. He delivered address here the other
night, at the Cooper Institute. The meeting was
presided over by VIM. Cullen Bryant of The Eve
ming Post MIR Lincoln is a clear headed
and good speaker, and would receive a much
larger Republican vote for President than either
Seward or Chase, but he is not conservative
enough to suit all the voters of the North who are
unwilling to see 81 democratic successors to Mr..
Buchanan. The Republicans here are looking
forward with good deal of anxiety TO the Charles
ton Convention. They are, of course, anxious to
see the Tammany or soft" delegation from New
mocracy of this State, because they think that In
such an event the influence of New York would
be cast in the convention for = candidate who,
although nomnaly a democrat, would be good
enough Republican for them-as near to anti
slavery man AS any man they could no innate on
the Republican ticket with any chance of elect
ing him. 1t is to be hoped. however, for the sake
of order, and of that peace and harmony between
the North and the South which alone preserve
the Union that the T" hard she'll national dem
ocratic delegates will be cheerfny and unani-
mouslv admitted they alone represent that por-
tion of the democracy of New York w hch is friend
ly to the South. | do not mean that the " hards
are friendly in any spirit of toeraion or
compromise, but because they hold with their
leader Fernando Wood, that where an inferior
and superior race are forced by circumstances to
dwell together 1t is better for both that the form
er be enslaved These are the only men whom
the South safely trust to co operate with 1t in
President-making. But enought OF politics.
word on agriculture. and am through
see by the London papers that Lleblg, the
great German chemist has written to Mechl, the
famous English farmer. most startling letter on
the production of coma subject as interesting TO
American farmers and planters AS TO Engllshmeh;
I therefore give you abstract OF the learned
Germans remarkable epistle. He shows that the
corn producing power of the cultivated land or
the globe is becoming rapidly exhausted, and that
had it not been for the discovery of guano the de-
cline would have been much more marked than
it is. Barn-yard manure. says Liebig, is insult
fcent for the purpose of restoring to the earth the
elements which are withdraw II from it in success
sive harvests They leave every year defiicien-
cy which must in the course of time result in bar
renness Guano supplies the need; but at the
present rate of consumption, which is rapidly IN
creasing it will not last according Liebig, more
than thirty years at the utmost A late report by
G. P. Marshall, Esq, President of the American
Guano Company, of this city, fully corroborates
the statement of the German sarant of the high
and increasing rate of the consumption of guano
According to Mr.. Marshall the demand for ,Ameri-
can guano, as the article supplied by this compa-
ny is sometimes called to distinguish it from Pc