Washington Telegraph

The Webster Watch And Chain.—The gold chain sent to Mr. Webster by a gentleman from California, accompanied by a watch added by a party of his New England friends in New York city, has been delivered to him. Mr. Webster's letter, acknowledging the present, concludes with the following beautiful passage:

I accept this from your hands as Sons of New England and Merchants of New York, with great respect. We are personally known to one another, and I cannot desire a measure of regard from any one of you, greater than that which I entertain for you, each and all. 'The events of life have drawn you from the land of our common origin to the great commercial metropolis of the country. You are merchants; and under the flag of the Union you have prosecuted an extensive and useful intercourse with most of the civilized world. At last you have seen our own country stretch from sea to sea, and a new highway opened across the Continent, from us to our fellow-citizens on the shores of the Pacific. Far as they have gone, they are yet within the protection of the Union, and ready, I doubt not, to join us all, in its defence and support. They are pursuing a new and all absorbing interest. While their Eastern brethren continue to be engaged in agriculture, manufactures, commerce, navigation, and the fisheries, they are exploring a region whose wealth surpasses fiction. They are gathering up treasure, in a manner and in a degree hitherto unknown, at the feet of inaccessible mountains and along those streams

"Whose foam is amber, and their gravel gold."

Over them and over us stands the broad arm of the Union, and long may it stand, as firm as the arches of heaven, and as beautiful as the bow which is set in the clouds.