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From ihi Charleston Couricr. Conressional Proce'eding.. WASAINGTO, March 12. .The President has disembarrassed him self from all troublesome app 'cations for office by a peremptory 'order t:.at. all such applications be made to the heads of de partments. These heads will, of course, make their own selections, and their de. cisions ivill be final, unless General Tav or -should overrule them, w%hich is quite improbable. The extent and reasons for removals must be a matter of Cabinct counsel. The President must rellulate the general policy of the government otn that subject, and the Cabinet must carry it out. No one here .yet knows What wilf ie the policy of the administration of this the most important subject of general in quiry. A number of members of Congress remain here, anxiously waiting upon E - ecutive favor for themselves or cthers. Crowds of politicians are lingering here, for many of them are not easily thrust aside or abashed. It is surprising to see collected here so many of John Tyler's pets, whom he appointed to ollice as a means for his own political ends. and who are now claiming restoration on the whig principle and anti-proscription. The non proscriptive doctrines may be very wise, but the Tyler men were not its apostles. - . The heads of departments are lo6king into the administration of the difXerent bu reaux and inquiring into the character and qualifications of the clerks. I learn that the Secretaries have dccided that they will make no rcmuvals until alier the close of the fisca.1 year, June 30th. The Select Committee of the Senate on the election of Mr. Shield,, frotn Illinois, have agreed, unanimously to repori that he is not eligible to a seat in the Senate. The ground taken is that. as the facts shown, he has not been a naturalized citi zen of the United States for nine years. He has been a citizen for eight years only. Of course, he will be eligible after one !,-.more year. But the Legislature of Illinois will not meet, alter the close of their pres ent session, for two years. There must be an extra session to elect hitn next year, after the completion of his constitutional term of naturalization. If his seat be made vacat, it is probable that the Legislature will elect some person in his stead before their adjournment. We have a rumor that M r. Calhoun will oppose the conclusions.. though not the facts, to be presented by the Committee in this case, and that he will insist that the Senate lhave no right to go behind tihe credentials which General Shields pre sented. This may not be so. General Shields' case is evidently:much prejudiced by his unfortunate letter to Judge Breese. MARCH 14. All eyes are now turned to the Senate with eager curiosity as to the nominations. Another list of nominations was sent into. the Senate io-day. . The smaller offices *nlist as much interest as the larger ones perbaps they concern a.greater number of Webb, of the New York Courier. But no nomination has yet been made for the place. The Committee.on thme election of Gen Shields to the Senate, reported, to day, thr'ough Mr. Mason, in the absence of Mr. Benton, the Chairman. It appears that the Committee had be fore them two facts of record-viz: that Gen.'Shields was of foreigtn birth, and -- that he was natturalized on the 21st Oct., 1840,- There was no other evidence before them. They notified (Gen. S. that they were ready to receive any communication a from him, or any application for delay. N6 answer was received. The Comnmit tee were readly to report unanimously last Friday. It appears that General S. sent * them a communication, which they never received, and this they learned on Monday. They again notified him that they were ready to receive any information, or ap * . plication, though the Committee had tnade * up their report on the recorded evidence before thetm. Gen. S. still did not thitnk proper to interpose, and the Commnitte,o reported a resolution that his electnion was void. hte not being a citizen for the term required by the Constitution. * . Gen. S. made a few remarks on the question. The substance of what he said may be stated in a few words, to wit-No objection to his citizenship was tnade frotm Illinois-not by his enemies in his own patty; not by his political opponents; nut by his whig competitor for the Scenate not by five people in Illinois. In Illinois. he had lived 17 years. HIe had held va rious offices-member of the Legislature, Auditor, Judge of the Supretme Cottrt. lie had held o00ices utnder the United States Government-Commissioner of the Land Office; General itt the Army, and, for ,three days, Governor of Oregon. TIhecn his State sent hitm here as Sen,ator, and hero he met, for the first time, the objection of inelligibiliy-the want of citizenship. He did not complain of the Senator from 'Wisconsin for making the question. It w as the right, and no doubt his duty. The Senate had entertained the objcction,. and the Committee had reported. Ho was prepared to submit to theitr dccisionm. lHe - wotuld acquiesce itt it. He did not wish any friend to resist it. Ho prefered to go * back to his constituents and subtimit to them the question. He wottld appeal to them, and if they tnow discarded him he would unever offer htere. again. he wvould never take office again in the United States. He acknowledged before the country that he had, since he came hore, at thtis * session, committed an indiscretion-an error-a wrong. But he protested against - the construction put on his letter, HIe was incapable'of the thnought of assassination. Breese-knew that he was. Mr. 3, woutld .remember the time wvhen he (Gen. S.) * thrust his body, at the peril of his life, between1 Mr. B. and Mr.. B.'s brolher-in law, who attempted to kill him for an im puted invasion of his domestic righis. Before God lie disavowed the construction put on that letter. A long debate followed, and is likely to continue for days, on the motion of Mr. Foote to postpone the whole subject to the 1st Monday of December next. Should the Senate agree to this Gen. Shields %% ill lose his seat. Gen. Shields knows very well that by being sent home now, while tite Illinois Legislature is in session, lie will secure a re-clection, and so again nnother yiar, unlil nine years. shall have elapsed. lie will be elligible next October, nrcording to our Constitu tion, hu. according to other views, lie is elligible at any time, but cannot officiato till he has been nine years a citizen. To the Edirors of the N. Y. Express: Wr.. Al. E1IEnIT, TiE NEW S,CRE TARY OF TntF TREAsurY.-Living with him iin the same city for more than forty years. and during that time having a close, friendly and professional connection with him, and being, from an eyxtensive acquain. tance with all the great-and distinguished men of our country, a t lerable judge of talents and capacity, by comparison the only standard of right appreciation, I am sure Air. Meredith will be found equal to any of his predeccssors in the oflice of Secretary of the Treasury. Ile was ad. mitted io the practice ef law, after gradua tiig at College. about the year 1817, at the city of. Philadelphia, and was then k'nown as a young. man of fine natural talents, with a vigorous and logical mintd. As a Belle Lettre scholar his accomplish ments were universally admitted, but his powers as a lawyer weie not yet fully de. veloped. As an evidence of the force of his character at that time, as a literary man lie was always selected to decide on the merits of authors of such character. whose performances were to*be pecuniarily .re warded; and his decision was cheerfully acquiesced in. A siort time after coting to the bar, on the trial of a mai for burglary, UIr. Meredith and his colleague, Mr. Bid tile, incurred the displeasure of Judge 1lallawell. (then presiding Judge of lie Court before whom the case came) for some hasty expressions of theirs, arising from a publication in 1he newspapers of the day. materially conflicting. as they believed, in the just rights of their client, and in the heat of their ardau-in his do fence, which induced the Judge to impiis both for the terni of twenty days. It was generally considered a rather harsh pro ceeding on the part of the Judge, and Mr. Meredith grew into public favor nad no tice from that time. His undoubted scho larship, his industry, his integrity and great talents naturally led him otn frotn b'eing a member of, the Legislature of Pennsylvania, a member of the State Con. vention, to form the present Constitution, until he stood beyond dispute at The head of -he Philadelphia bar. -Ai a politician, Mr. Meredith has always been a Whig fltlbough -aointed to the office of United States District -Atto-ney, fir PlifladeCnhii, by General. Harrison or ibut firm Whig. Of greatabiii.y and in dut,.uas-on Philadelphian, in telfiget, shrewd, modest and aff'able, ful of natural wit, and wveil readl in the histor of his coutntry and her politics-an unde viating friend of the Domestic Industry of the country-a staunch, upright, firm man, filling every office hseretofore held to the entire satisfaction (of the community. A Republicatn in principle atnd practice; a safe, sagacious and profound counsellor and one fully competent to meet the public ex pectationi atnd exigencies in ~the high office to which'he has been seleeted by President Taylor-equal to any of his associates in that Cabinet, whose like will not have been known since General WVashtington, Yours, &c., C. J. J. SOUND DocTRNE.-A writer in the "Boston Signal," whose communication tinder the head of "An Exhoriation to union among then States of the A merican Conftederacy," the editor recommends to the serious consideration of his readers as "a patriotic address well suited to the times, httlds the following language upon the subject of slavery. We can otnly wvish that conscrvative and Christian vicws like these tmore generally prevailed in tenon shaveholding States: "The existence of thme relation betwveen master atnd slave is recognuized in the cotn stitution, and that inistitution of slavery which wvas itntroduced itnto the Southern and Northern States wvithout their consent, atnd certainlj without any criminality on their part, is countenanced, protected and secured by our fundamental laws. WVhat ever may be our theoretic opiniotns about its morality or expediency, it has been ad, mitlted into our social state with all its beneflis and mtischiefs; security to the rights of the owner in his property is pledged by the federal compact; and it is to lotnger a question to be mooted whether lie shall remaini in the utndisturbed and iu violable enjoy ment of them.'' ArinING FOil EloXET.-Bulwer, in the last Blackwood-thue Caxtotns-says: "For yott, my dear, and frank, atnd high souled young friend-fbr you I shotuld say, fly froms a load upon the heart, on the gen.. ius, the energy, the pride, and the spirit, which not one man in. a ittouandt can hear; fly from tho course of owing every thing to a wife-it is a reversal of all tna tural position, it is a .blow to all manhood within us. You know not- what it is; I do! Sly wife's fortune came not until after marriage-so far so well; it saved my reputstion from .the charge of fortune hunting. -But I tell you fairly, that if it had never come at all I should be prouder, atnd a greater, and a happier man than I have ever been, or ever can be, wvith all its advantages. it has been a millstone rountd my nueck. And yet Ellitnor hits nsever breathed a word that would wound my prie 7 Ei)GEFIELD 0H1 WEDNESDAY.. MAiCH,'849 0 We are indebted ,to thiHon. Jolx C. CALUOUN, for important publi documents. gT We are iegested to stii-e that the Post Office " PEROE " in this District. has been discontinued, and nil packageilbrk that office should now be directed to '06irdge P-0. Abbeville Di3trict. 07 We heartily welcomelo %" ' columns our poetical correspondent " S His ver ses cannnot rail to please. W ' e glad at all times to receivb an article, ei in prose or poetry, from his gifted.pen-. There was a violent hail -Mto3aon.the 16th inst. in the neighborhood o-thW Cheftokee Ponds in this Distridt, aboutefti' mile. above Hamburg, whieb did great dajp- to the fen cing and ploughed lands. Tht ail- in some places is said to have ,en left waift deep. LF We beg leave to call attention to the Ad vertisement in another colud of Messrs. JAcXsoS .& KINCHLy, Who are:or opening a new stock of Spring and Sn i er Goods. We have no doubt that the M rs and Far. mers would do well, while on a to Hamburg to give them a call. Hamburg JeU_Mal. This Journal has passed into the.haide of 1. C. DFGAFFARELLY, Mr. KEr,AS owever, still continues his connexion as Edilt Augusta Repubic,. Mr. SMYTHE has associated .ivthdim in the Editorial Derpartment of the Republic, Dr JAMEs TiNsLEY. The paper hahitherto been ably condueted by Mr..Smythe; :--has pro ved himseli a stiong advocate Sotithern rights. With this accession -td.14 strength it .promises to be of still more o ed useful ness. ~Gbergia may'well be proud. of such an organ of her politicasnmets. The Working-Fa eri We have upon our- exchange ble an agri cultural paper -by the above nanff, publ' monthly at New. York by Messrs KIV Cnoss, on the following Terms --4 For a single copy, - For twelve copir-s, For twenty-five copies. -It is a neat, well ' ing'much practica' Agiiculiure,," (uci i the c6ariniativeeakhfl.prospern ty of the two great sectio,ns.ofitlli edantry. Should the pamphlet fall into fe hands o any of our readers, they shout4not, fail t< read it. - We beg leave to call the a tion of out readers to the Advertisement s i r paper o the " Greenville Female Academsy 'under the superintendence of R. BnuosuAw;, . M. Ti't institution is favorably known ii he State. We trust it may receive an exteinv patron age There is no subject in our domesje concerni that should awaken a deeper ineiast than tha of female education.. We thinf i' wtants re forming. It should be more thorprgh and sub' stantial. Girls should be educatedfor wives foir the solid virtues of a companioIof a moth er, of a domestic conomist; . Programe of the " Greenville Female Aca&eny" pron. ises wcll. The branches taught tire of suffi cient variety-and the instructor of acknowl edged competency. We would inform the citizens our village and District, that Mr. W. H. SiaonouoH has arrived at this place. Mr. Scarboroughs is too well known as an artist, roequire any commendation from our pen of hi.nnius. and merit. A partiality however, for the ine ar ts and a desire to seo them prospergonrtcountry,slead us to express the hope, that our eit'.'zens, already fovorably knowni for their taste.aus4refinement, will encourage the ell'orts of an artIst so greatly excelling in his profession. aWe lave had the pleasure of examining mastei.ces of the best artists in this country and in,.urope, and we have no hesitancy in saying dat as a por, trait Painter, in taking an exactlikiness of a person-in delineating th-e feaI:Me as they are -in putting up)on canvass the matj as you see him with the eye, Mar. Scarh 4ugh is alto gether unsurpassed. The court for this District atdjout;ned on Saturday last, after a two weeks seision. having disposed of little more than hal('of the busi ness on the Docket. On Tuesday tbe 13th inst., Samnuel Butler was tried for the msurder of a slave, thme property of Mr. Cheshcy Wells' oh this Diatrict, and convicted of 'IEliing in suid den heat and passion." The prosecution was condu-e? by M. L. Bonham, Solicitor, and Mr.1 ~. .~y; the defence, by Messsus. Carroll and B3auskett. We cannot refraini from express tg our pleas ure at the remarks'ol his Honor, Judge Evans, in passimg sentence upon the prisoner. His views, touchmg the relations' ofinaier and slave, must meet a ready response in every sen sIble and rightly disposed mind inithe commu.. nity, Hie regards slavery as'a 'rt of patri archal itnstitution, which, makes he master a pater familias, the head of the. fa ily-who is legally and morally bound to enforce proper S 4:1 subordination among his slaves, b the time ro govern'them with patience and forbear-..i ance; to restrain the irritable feelings of his na ture in correcting them; and to afford them a friendly and fatherly pretectitn. For the good of the community, we trust, his Honor, the presiding Judge,.will favor is with a report or his remarks for publication. Mr. Clay ont Emancipation. Mr. Clay has addressed to the public a long communication on the subject of emancipation in Kentucky;- ;He sets ont with the usual ar guments against the institution of slavery, re garding it as injurious to both the. white and black race-to the master and to the slave. He then submits a plan for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Kentucky, in which he suggests that every slave born in. the State after the year 1855 or 1860 shall become free on attaining to the age or 25. On the sickly sentimentality of Mr- Clay as to the " wrongs under which Africa hau suf fered," which has led him earnestly to desire the abolition.of slavery, we deem it unnecessa ry to make comment. We have been favored with any quantity of this moibid feeling for the last twenty years from the blinded enthusiasts of Yankeedom. It has lost all its novelty, and not even the genius of Mr. Clay can impart to it any feeling of interest. It is stale, flat and unproftable. We are a little surprised that, in his old age, Mr. Clay should allow himself to be carried away from the paths of soberness and'discretion by a Northern feeling, which ev., ery body knows, is not the result of genuine philanthropy, but ofa morbidfanaticisingrowing entirely out of political considerations. We regard Mr. Clay's particular plan for the manumission of slaves, altogether visionary and impracticable. We may at some future period publish Mr. Clay's letter' when we will notice his argu ments more in detail. [FOR TOE ADVERTISER.3 Mr. Editor:-Prompted by a desire to Gid up a fair blank page in a parlor edition of the "Lady of the Lake,"- given to me by a very dear friend, I wrote the following verses a day or two since with less frequent inversions of the "stylus," I fear, than Horace would have recommended to the poets of his day. I have entitled it A tribute to the brilliant author of de Lady of the Lake. Soaring aloft with eagle wing, Fancy, for him,-saw at one glance . Each.gem of nature's fashioning, From mountain rock to murm'ring spring Or where gay flow'rs their fragrance fing And maidens join the dance. knew to tell the tempests might, A scowl'd and thunder'd on its - erear-cud;of it's flight by the ghtt'ring light glad-op'ning day. .oi alone from "pictured urn," ae bade her Northern votary draw Coni" she exclaimed, "and thou ahaktlearn The very lname with which I born;" - . ... .. .-- urn hand portray enage, With every grade from king to-page, Subservient to his lay. There are who scorn poetic glory, Deem romance baneful to the mind-,' Wise'fools! ye ne'er have lied before ye That book so rich in Scottish storyi By one who wrote till he was hoary A blessing to mankind. A. S. FoR THE ADVERTIsER. Mad. EnITOR :-To understand correct ly the spir.it of our remarks upon the.Tern perance-Reformers, the fact must be kept in mind, that they have~ abandoned the mild and ellicient means of moraI'suasion, for their own "force ad arms." A cert aisi monarch (Louis XIV) in a fit of arbitrary pride once declared himself to be the State. L'etat e'esl moi, (I am the State.) Admitting that certain rulers of the Town are the Town, or are the State and deter mined to govern upon the odious interfer cnce principle, still we claim protection tun der the settled principle that "everything in the State must be founded on justice and justice rests on generality and equali ty. The general principle undoubtedly is, interfere as little as possible toith the pri vale aifairs of the irsdividual. This is clear from the object of the State. The intermeddling of the State with private affairs is unjust-burthensome and danger. ous; and frequently springs from other motives than a wish to be useful to those whose affairs are intermeddled with. In-. dividlual indusitry, private combination and associations, which are conscious that they depend upon themselves alone, are possessed of a vigor-keenness and detailed industry, " and I may add of a liberality and fairness not to he0 expected when they depend upon tihe arm of the law. The constitutional inoligibility of ministers or the gospel to a seat in our Legislature, is wisely founded upon toe nature of man and the experi once of the world. True .it is, their motto "peace on Tearth and good wili toward men," is the best that could influence man. What is more-t'hese men are the truly wvise, for " the fear of the Lord, that is wisdomr; and to depart from evil-is un derstanding." Truly, the christian relig ion is far above all, praise ; the tongue of an angel cannot adequately describe its en cellency and glory. But it is also equally true, that with all their piety, embracing as it does every principle of equity, justice, reason, phrilauthrropy and pat.riotism, they have not been able to avoid bigotry, and the exercise of arbitrary rule and conceited dogmatism ;whon p}arced in irresponsible power. If holy men of God in the exu berance of their pious enthusiasm, would encroach upon rel.igious liberty and tram pie down the rights and interest of others, what is to be expected at tihe handa of a combination of fanatical tmoralists who ha~vo not oven "lihe form of godliness," mueh less " the onwer thereof," Aredbys:ine Itv*asssidby.onii!-of >ut ablest Judges, that the misguided ex ireise of tb discretionary power placed in tbe haids of Town-coincils, had been the prime-cause of many indictments, upon which the Juries had refused to find a ver ief of guilty, regardless of the proof. Would it,not be'wise in the Legislature o take this power from the hands of men who thus prostitute it.' from considerations >f either personal or picuniary interest, and jiut it in some certain and iositive ihape, so thdt the calculations of each citi P.en may be founded upon som surety of heir uhimati realization under the protec ion of the law ? If this be true of all men, no matter how plausible their pre extis, is it not much more true of those whose object is simply to change the sort )f immorality that is to prevail, and whose means to effect this object are illib. wal,partial and collusive? Men whose priu iiples are absolutely untenable, whether ried by the revealed law of God or the airest induction@ of reason. Where is this itermeddling principle to be stopped, if 2nce fully introduced. It is the tyranical and exploded principle )f Christian 11 of Denmark, who by a teavy penalty, prescribed "how the street and entry of houses ought to be swept, and ,ow benches and tables in the houses were o be scoured." It is said by a learned iuthor, that "during the latter part of the ast century and the beginning of the pres ,nt, the more active governments on the !ontinent of Europe, carried the intermed ling principle to such an extent that no affair, ever so private seemed to be ton idered as not belonging to police inspec ions -It has been found hoever even Ahere the people did not insist Opon the :ontrary that this course leads to moot :alamitous and useless results." The ar lument here is an appeal to Government against its interference, in behalfof a body >f pretending moral reformers, Is it not eatonable and just that government, (the )eople,).should be informed of thi nature tnd extent of the reformation contempla ed. and of the character, conduct, and )rinciples, of itsadvocates? Inteference in the part of the State in their behalf, would be exceedingly undignified and hu pilating.for their contemplated reforma ion, is in.principle a most extraordinary and violent anomaly in our system of morals, totally unworthy of our age and :ountry. Let us illustrate by hypotheis Ny neighbolur is addicted to fornication and adultery. By it he expends his for tine; contracts disease: entoils the same upon his children; defiles his soOi and body, by this most common of all. sins, which is truly desetified'as being athe way to hell, going doWn to the chambers of Jeath." Solomon. But if the sin -diKelies 6rTerd 2err. qal in virulence' to those .of ironkenness, and equally prevalent, as well as deleterious as respects society, iqually* prostituting . to the' fortines, the health, and the morals of the eommitnity, Arhy should not this moral-reform (or My neighbour aforesaid, who represents it) for the sake of -society, embrace lewdness within its prohibitions? Tl; proof now resolver itself to this; i.e these moral Reformersid&inot trolyf dsallecate th end, peac Refor, not prmoe ilir.e *iino oas or~.iti be :eelaeo'f society. Those who denythe latter, will find tIhem *elves.bound to prove that the welfare of society, is involved in the substitution 'of one immorality for another, the one being ns deleterious as the other physica lly and morally. "And thinkest thou this Of man, that judgest them, which do such things, mod doest the same (in principle.) that thou shalt escape the judgment of Cod?1 And art confident that thou, thyself, art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness. Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself?" Rom. 2. c. if then this society does not contemplate even a social reform, but simply a change, what does It avail? Let them consider well, the reasoning of the Apostle, above partly quoted, and let.them make a just application of it to themselves. From the. Charlesutona Mercury. ~ PARTING COMPLIMENT TO EX-. PRESIDENT POLK. The Ex..President and Family, and Hon. Rt. J. Walker, left this city early on Saturday morning. They were accomnpa nied to the boat by the Committee of Re ception and a number of citizens. Central whasf, at the foot of which the boat was moored, were thousandanof bales' of our staple, and by a happy thought of the young gentlemen connected with the wharf hey were so arranged as to pay a tasteful mod moat appropriate parting compliment 10 honored guests of our city. 'rho cor tege passed through a long avenue of bales of.Cotton piled up on either aide ten or twelve feet high about the centre of which was a beentiful arch decorated with flags and evergreens. The pillars of the arch were fifteen feet high, composed of square bales of Carolina Upland Cotton, resting upon bases of large Georgia bales (in comm pliment to our sister State.) and faced with a bale of Sea Island Cotton. Each pillar was encircled with arbor vita, laurel, cedar, palmetto and other evergreens, and capped4with a barrel of rice, of one bearing the inscription "Free Trade," and the ather "Commerce and Agriculture." A seam of Carolina Pine, covered with Americau ensigns in graceful festoons, ex tended from pillar to pillar, and supported his inscription, encircled with evergreens, mud a pennant in featoons: THE OLD PALMETTO STATE BIDS THEE PAREWEL.. Across the wharf, in the rear of the pil na, was suspended a handsome banner, representing Sergeant Jasper replacing the [lag on the ramparts of Fort Moultrie, and an the reverse side his rescue of the cap tives from the Tories. The banner was supported on either side by a Union Jack, and an American easign The whole affair nass most handsomely arranged. and'was creditable to the taste and the public spirit of the young gentle men by whomt it was executed. The Old Cabzinirt-The Vashingtow 'Unio states thit he -Secretai e'$ Staire War and Navy, itired Irdlnlfhir pe - live bureaus, un Wodiday IBu anan-returns to Lacsster, arAaying vissited Harrisburg,!rnere lie lis'ben in-. vited by theemocrati e mirib,rif the Legislature. Gov. aryeturns to Al bany, and JAlge Mason, i is sid, propo. sea to locati himserf in Riclmond Cafe Tohnson Post Ma'ster GeperAi, Will his family, returns to Tennessee ia a few weeks. The late .President,of the Ufted State,, although the bill for -the orgafniailn of the Minesota Territory was-so ahered as to codfer on him such' a powe'r,miade no - nominations to the offices-in that Terripry. Mr. Clay' Letter nKentcy.-The Lexington Observer is out i'j-'tro erms against Mr. Clay's letter, and' addsi "If Mr. Clay had .been ii Kenwtcky, and fully apprised of publii fe'ling upon this subject, as displaye8 8in the Legsla tore and elsewhere, he would. hayei,pde, we think, the concluding parof-his, letter still stronger, and franklysaid at onc that he saw no hope or executing'is, ishus now, and advised his friends to relinquish an impracticable underitaking.. "hat ,effect this docunent ig to-have upon tie country remains.to be sen. ,We. believe the settled conviclions ofrhe,public mind on this subject are too strong to be. shaken by the potent indince of Mr. Clay's name or the strengil of the-srga ments he may adduce." Medical Depitriment of lhe Aivimy. .rAn act increasing the Medical Staffof- the Army having been passed at,-the'e'_ t session of Congress. we have been request ed to state that- a Medical- board for the examination of candidates for the -,p'omnt ment of Assistant Surgeonsi will beoa. vened in New York about the-first offty, ensuing, and will continue. in eswoefor a month or longer. Candidates. being -between twenitifti and .twentyreight - years ofae,-ishould make application to the SecetaryofWar,, with proper iestimonialhu.-..eNadtonatInlet ligencer. -.*-- . Tas Houtk DzeiR ti" 16 a - . - ing of the newly 'elilisied Eo ie 0 art went, the.Washingto6' Unionremarks, : We confess we view witi sone jealousy the possiblei endency.of stchdepai ment towaids centralization. TheStatesaad the people. should watch witiseepless vigilance every movemeni,by T-hich.such a department may.be calculated todaw new. and larger.- and mo.e aping powers. against the spirit 6fhn tion, into the vortex of the fiAaut -Ezecu"oi ofthe 'ndair.;as-iWe aki from the Pendleton Messinger'liat Cai l, and Thoma.Henderson,.cniected at lei, last Court 9f Ssiocs fkr Piktnii ri t -- ofrli. iimiura ~ Robeirt -Wyibaan r ,execufed on t- h.instant,a Messe'nge:,.that..'bomasM '. sWh~ .ert l0T0 i.ael biv . e tGGK e ta. for a.list of ne~clerk'setilfsii. sttn what time they came rifeicad~ini . theyXsucceeded&edc.f -sudb Secretary Meredith, to ascortain wh a remoedt, and. who Wappoinied d administration-of ?,lr. Polk; al~ he Si sons for removal.4'W' -d A Thought worth Rememberwng... the late anniversary of the New York Typographical O9ociety, time veteran:Nah gave the following admirable sentiment: "The Printer's Apprentice.-May lie always bear in mind that he may hoa' journeyman; the journeyman that-he may be the proprietor and editor, and-the editor that he may enjoy the highest- honors1in the gift of the republic. Terrible Act of Inanity-An' insane man -named Samnl. Mowrey, or Shelby. - Ohio, one night lately, motioned~to his ile sitting by the fire -to leave the house, w 'she did, when it appears hie bolted the doors, it is thought delibe3 rately set fire to the ho suming'himi self in it. - '- - "Bill," said Tom Williams, "what-des. perate cold weather wye have I Why, they've got a Mahometer down -to 1Squire, Jones' that tells howv cokd -'is, 'end this morning it was five degrees coldei thaa niothking." - The Virginia House of Delegatesen~ Saturday; passed a resolution.instructing the Governor to place at th'e dispouall of the civil authorities of Acomac connty,oee hundred muskets.and four pieces of six pound cannon, to enforce the oyster Jaws ' of tbe State. Too Muck of a Hurry -A lady leavin . New York a day or two ago, just is 'they were raising the plank of the steamboat, cried out to her husband, "Goodness, Jo'hn I must go back to the Astor House-I've left my teeth in the Washbowl." The Rising Generation.-"Father," sai .? an urchin, the other day, ofseven summersa and eight winters, "let's go to -Horn's - and roll ten pins," "Roll, boy? -what do - you know about rolling ?" "Why, I can - roll your darned eyes off in ten minutes." - Marrying in Ha'ate.-The hurry tosan der the bonds of matrimony is so -great' that-the chancery docket of the Common ~ Pleas of Hamilton Co. Ohio is mamnly-~ made up of this business. Twenty.couple~ were unyoked last week. and about -a. - hundred are waiting for their tura. - A Cheap Postage Association is forde' in New York. It is moving now- witli reference-to the next session of. Congress so as to procure a reduction of the prsent rates of postage. -- :--' General Scott.-It is state a Wash ington -letter writer, (says th'Baliunore - - American.) that den.Tjlorlas ritem to General Scott, inviting him to return and make Washington his hadlsle Nnt he that has little, but be that desireuse 'much isjioor, -o