WASHINGTON Dec. Is. 1884.
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Tue most important news have heard for some days, comes-not if m the Capi- tol, nor from the White House, but from South Carona,--that the Union men and the Nulifiers have laid down their arms and are now at peace. In the movement of politics, look upon this as an impor- tant event, happening in most suspicious tune, and as one out of which important results will spring. The Union men of South Carolina, and indeed of the whole South, have been in false position for a long time past, and the event now restores them 10 their true position, and unites them with their Whig friends at the North, the party with which they have ever acted, and with which their sympathies also are. l look upon 1t as an event likely to consoli- date the whole southern vote from the Po- tomac to the Mississippi, in the next Presi- dental question, and as putting to rout all such men as Ritchie and his coadiutors, who for months and months have been fighting under f ..e colors, with the Van Buren flag in the hold, and any flag, just as they fell in with companies, on the deck. It unites the Union men in Georgia, who have hitherto been anti-Jackson men (not few,)

 with the Nullifers there, and thus, I am quite sure, gives us the vote of that State against Van Buren. It will have its infu- ence in North Carolina, Alabama. and Mssissippi,-and in Virginia, it strength ems that alliance, which virtue ever makes against prohigate corruption, and unprnci- pied management. Ritchie may tremble at the signs of the times. Though he may live in Richmond, all his companions will soon be in Albany, and though his ashes, as he says, will rest in Virginia, yet his heart if any he has, will be among the New York bankers, whose tool he !s,