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UT* Acmwa PI W« mart be indulged in the harmless anchruuiim which thi* anticipate*, by a few dayi, the period which thia agreeable torm oi expremion may be MrtptoT'rtr with ♦ tune*-at riot aoourwey Utaa at the mom«»t •#»»- F«r eve., though the hour baa not yet quite arrived, wliioli it to ha brightened by the reduction that Tylnri.iii ho* coated to exist, in any other Ihnn the pint tensu, jtot. by the timo this page shall reach the eye* of J ■Mat of ite readers, they will have ceased to blush ' for the Government of their country. “It will take the country a long time before the i Morals of our politics can recover from the bad in- i flue nee wbioh has been exerted over them by llto ' regime of Tyleritin”—was the roconl remark of n very eminent statesman, occupying a position eu- I Uraly aloof from it, and disinterested in regard to it; and who neither in his own person nor that of any friend, had been injured ornssailud by it, but who had rather been on the contrary, an object of it* good will and flattering attentions. And iho re mark was true—so true that we scarcely know whoa and how to expect the curative influence or reouperative power which shall wholly undo the mischief, wholly alone for the disgrace, so deeply wrought by the event* of the last four years: Of late, indeed, towards the conclusion of Mr. Tyler's term, certain events have concurred to produoe the effect of raising a little faint show of factitious popularity—not his own but nnothor's— which attachos not to his general administration, but partly to a particular measure—and which pro. vents the full manifestation of that common con tempt, which both Whig and Democratic parties vie with each other in entertaining for that nondescript Urtiumquid which he and an insignificant band of mercenary adherents Imvo constituted, as a hybrid novelty unimngined before in our political experi ence. The strong arm of the great Statesman of the South so far upholds him, as to let him down with a decent show of dignity, in his descent from the high place to which accident alone raised him ; and the blaze of the “ Lone Star" streaming up over our south western horizon, alone sheds a cer tain degree of feebly reflecting light on his retiring person, to redeem it from the entire darkness in which it would otherwise have gone down. Men rarely love a treason so well as to forget to despise the traitor. Nor indeed is it by any means dear, that in his defection from tho Whigs who had placed him in the position which gave him his pow er to harm, Mr. Tyler is entitled even to the usuul good treatment which the policy of war accords to deserters. To dosert voluntarily is one thing; to be fairly scourged out of tho ranks and out of the camp and then driven over to the enemy us the only place of refuge, is another, and a very different thing. And when the person thus expelled was himself already a deserter in the enemy’s camp from the side to which he is thus again ignomini- onsly driven back—when his prolonged conlinu. ance there up to the time of that expulsion, has in volved in itself the grossest treachery to the side from which he again supplicates a refuge —it cannot be pretended that any very strong ense is made out for a very cordial welcome. This is no overchar ged picture of Mr. Tyler’s position. In the year 1840, what Whig out Whiggod the “Virginia Republican ?’• Nay, not only was he a Whig of the intensest sort but be was peculiarly, ana par excellence, a Henry Clay Whig. To be a Harrison Whig, or a Scott Whig at that time, means comparatively tittle or nothing to be a Hen ry Clay Whig was full of the deepest and strongest meaning. There was no non-committalism about the bold Kentuckian. His name alone, constituted as distinct an announcement of a system of politic al doctrine—and political doctrine of the worst sort —as couW have been conveyed in nny form of creed or catechism. And in the Convention of 1840, Mr. Tyler was so furiously a friend to the election of Mr. Clay, to bo the Presidential candidate and national representative of the Whig Party, tliut as ha* been subsequently proved, it was to the bitter- ness of his lamentations for Mr. Clay’s failure of nomination, that he partly owed his own selection for ihe Vice Presidency. We should not have made this fact one, "perse," the foundation of the charge against Mr. Tyler, of hnvingbeen a "renegade Virginia Republican,” if he had not, by tho palpable corruption of his subse quent course, reflected back upon his position at that time the clearest of lights by which to read his character and conduct. In his zealous Ciayism of that day, there was no honesty of conversion, from what he had of old professed. He was sinning egaintt a great light and he knew it. He has sub. sequently, when ambitions interest prompted a dif ferent course, thrown himself back again, with an ardor of Republicanism reinvigorated by its long intermission of repose, upon the old principles, and the old party, which he was then betraying. With no disposition to withhold from Mr. Tyler a charit able judgment even, nevertheless the undisguised and unblushing excess of the political corruption which has rioted through his administration—now, happily, exhaling its very last breath—lias been such as to compel justice, in tho interpretation of former equivocal conduct, to accept in all cases tho worst construction ns the more probable truth. The history of Mr. Tylet’s administration may be briefly summed up. Becoming Acting Presi- dent by accident, his polar star was a second term. With this view he'flrst, in conjunction with Web ster, aimed at an amalgamation of parties, until it becomo evident that neither Whigs nor Democrats would liuve any thing to do with such a scheme.— The former fairly scourged him forth from any f ilace from among them ; while the latter as stern, y and contemptously denied him admittance even within the uttermost verge of their gates. Then, and not till then did Mr. Tyler adopt, as tho next tack of his policy, the effort to force or buy his way into the Democratic party by patronage and Texas, ***** and hoping to throw us into such confusion as to create at least a probability, if not necessity, of rallying upon him for re-election, as the only means of averting the w orse evil of the election of Clay. Hence his convention at the same place and day with that of the Democratic party. To this hope he clung long and desperately till the ridicule of his position became intolerable, even to the proverbial fatuity of himself and his family; ana then, months after tho nomination of Mr. Polk, he at last withdraws, only of er on absurd, ly transparent attempt to make, by implied under standing with some of our parly, the best terms of capitulation in his power for his office-holders. This ia tba naked outline of Mr. Tyler’s administration. Does any reader doubt its truth ? Let it be re membered—the almost supplicant tenacity with which Mr. Tyler during his first year clung to tho Whig party. At this time, be it borne in mind, the Whigs were fresh from the then late contest, which had placed them in tho attitude of an overwhelm ing ascendency ; while the Democrats were appa rently a broken down party, nut only comparative ly feeble in force, but containing within themselves many elements of confusion and disorganization. • * • Mr. Tyler’s game then was, to shake oflf Clay, retain the greet bulk of the masses whose rush had borne Harrison arid, himself into power, trusting afterwards gradually so fur to disin. tegrate (he Republican party, as to bring in at least a considerable proportion of them around his ad ministration. Hence, although he vetoed Mr.Clay's ’ Bank Bill, he offered at the same time e much worse one, and uctually clung to the profession and name of a W hig. pleading with them imploringly in one of liia messnge* on the ground of the number of other Whig bills ho had signed, until all hope of succees vanished, and Clay’s controlling nscendeu. cy iu llto party succeding in flinging him forcibly and scornfully off into a position in which it became acknowledged treason lor any Whig to maintuin any sort of party communion with him. Let it be remembered—the manner in which he then proceeded to address to Ids next aim, thet of courting the democratic party. Then was witne*. sad a apaetaefo ms ”pa.rea- *g* party ot tha Exacmlvs, anprecedsni, unimag- lasd before. One of Mr. Tyler's first set* after his sulrtace into powsr had been to promulgate a special declaration against ilia interfsrenca of the fadsral office-holders in politios. On former oc- oatioae, ateo, Mr. Tyler had lira paoullar manner Identified himself with this principle. And yel.es soon as ho begsn the working of this policy, that of worming his way into a position in the Democratic parly by means of his office, systematically and universally throughout thu country they were hold up as the bribes for adhesion to him mid, his inter, est. and activity in bis cause. Every man then in the Democratic party iiccupi- ing uny sort of position capable of being repre sented as one of influence, bad office at bis dispo sal for tho mere acceptance of it. Democratic rep. resenlatives in Congress had almost unlimited com mand over the Federal patronage of their districts. Anything to prove himself u Democrat—to got nd mission as such—recognition ns such. In ull di rections were to bo seen VVliigs removed from of fice who bad scarcely had time to got adjusted in the seats to which they had been appointed either by General Hurrison or by Mr. Tyler himself—Whigs of unimpeached personal worth and capability—for no oilier even pretendod reason than to confer their offices on Democrats. It was a positive public scandal—undisguised, undissembled.—Wo noed not dwell an details—a single prominent fact will soffieo to illustrates it. The whole system adopted is lipified in Mr. Tyler’s Baltimore Convention, of which body nearly oil were already his office-hold ers when they went there, while all the rest, with scarcely an exception, have been made so since ! The direct application of the vast machinery of the Federul patronage to the object of buying a de serter’s wav into sumo kind of welcome or recep tion by a party on which lie seeks to fasten himself, presented a novelty in our politics. It certainly wrought a vust amount of mischief. It scattered broadcast through the land, seeds of demoralization which could scarcely fail, almost everywhere, to find at least,a little soil adopted to (heir too ready germination. Everywhere a certain numbor of persons were to be found, urged perhaps by their necessities, or little disposed to be scrupulous in such matters, whom a little judicious dangling of those baits before their eyes could scarcely fail to attract, with an eagarloss little disposed to quarrel with the hand from which they were to drop. Un. principled men were also at many places to bo found who had little difficulty in palming themselves off upon the facile and footish confidence of Mr. Ty. lernndhis family, as their special friends, and as persons of astonishing zeal, activity and local im portance, in whose handi the local management of their interests might safely be reposed. In gener. al, able to get only the lowest and worst to t rater- nize with them in their loud mouthed partizanship of Mr. Tyler, this class of persons, at many points and especially in the cities, succeeding in getting together misutable little knots of persons, rarely more titan sufficient to fill the bar-room of some mean haunt which constituted their head-quarters, and these in connection with die iiigher incumbents ofthe lucrative offices, constituted the “purty" wor- thy of their creation a creator—the Tyler Party ! With the aid of a few newspapers, supported by the public patronage, and by u heavy system of as sessed taxation upon the holders of office, these little pot-house knots of “the friends of John Ty ler.” wore constantly astonishing the country with “mass meetings,” and “great popular demonstra. lions,’' of which it is needless thut they rarely in numbers much exceeded that of the officers report ed to have presided over them. To what extent this system of humbug, the most impudent, suc ceeded iu imposing upon Mr. Tyler, so as to make him actually believe in the existence of a great pop ular sentiment in his behalf, we have no means of knowing. It is, at any rate, very certain, that oven if deceived in regard lathe imaginary popular sen. timent in his favor, manufactured by these persons, he could not have been ignorant of the great fact constitutes alike 111 chief characteristic and the worst evil and disgrace of the administration, that it was mainly, if not wholly by the active plying of the power of his patronage, that the organization of his friends as a “party” was constituted, and sus tained to the most of real ficticious zeal. And this is the leading feature of his term, the employment of office and every manner of patronage to create a party, and keep it up to the due point of stimulus- We fear that a deeper mischief has been thu9 wrought to the political morality of the country, than would have attended the signing of fifty char ters of banks or banking exchequers. These people have in general been exceedingly clamorouslin behalf of "Polk and Dallas,” since Mr. Tyler’s withdrawal—an event which did not tike place till nearly three months after the naminalion of the Democratic candidate. We believe they even so far surpass themselvesin all those attributes which are the opposites of modesty and veracity, as,to claim a large share, if not the whole of the glory of the Democratic victory. In truth, wo have from the commencement felt satisfied that they did more harm than good. Their numbers were ut. terly insignificant. In point of moral force they added only a weakness and a weight hard and heavy to be borne.—It was felt that they were in. troducing into the Democratic party, and into a po. silion of self-assumed clamorous prominence, froth ing on the surface, a class of persons felt generally to be equally unworthy of personal respect or polit ical confidence. While it cannot but be a matter of regret, that the country has lost the moral bene fit of witnessing that just retribution of rebuke which awaited this weakest and worst of our Pres idents, in the utterly insignifficent number of pop ular votes be hud the slightest chance of obtaining. Wo by no means design to include the whole body of Mr. Tyler’s office holders within the op. plication of the above remarks. A considerable number of gentlemen of tho highest political and personal merit, and indeed to be found among them —either selected through the agency of friends— or by happy chance—or by the way of good leaven to leaven the lump, as respectable endorsers to the bankrupt worthlessness of so many of the rest.— Still less, of courso, will any portion of them be re ceived as applicable to Mr. Tyler’s Cabinet—the members of which have hod little—most of them nothing—to do with the meaner matters of party making management. Mr. Culhoun’s position in it, in particular, is known to all to have ono fur fur aloft from and above any thing and everything of the kind. He accepted the State Departmental the cull of the country for a specific object of the greatest public importance, with reluctance and en tire independence of control, and full understand ing of his purpose of retiring as soon as be should have completed tho Texas and Oregon negotia lions. More Counterfeit Gold.—Besides the imita tion half eagles which we mentioned some weeks ago, and which have not only been palmad off here, but in other countries, we saw a few days ago, a counterfeit quarter eagle, which, liko the others, wus calculated to deceive the unsuspecting, but, like them,was materially deficient in weight, wiien com pared with a genuine coin. The ono we saw bad . the small letter O under the eagle, purporting that it was coined at the New Uricans Branch Mint. We caution our readers against the imposture. Let them take no bucIi coin without careful examination or at all from a suspicious person. Cannot some means be adopted to discover the location of the Mint 1 If not, it may be feared that gold will be no more safe than “Bank rags.” The Northern papers mention a still more dan gcrous counterfoil, viz: a sovereign, with the bend of Gcorgo IV. and dale 1824, of full weight, but worth only 94,26, whilst the genuine coin is north 94,83 to 94,80. The balance of the weight is made up of silver and copper. The loss to hold or, and gain to the counterfeit, is 67 to 60 cents, on each coin, or 12 to 14 per|cent.—Fayeitvillt Ob server. JMIsHraai tasys, ‘ Ur. Oruml, who suite. ai we quote below from Graham’s Magastne, Isa keen and well-travelled observer, sud his tuner will be read with amuse ment and instruction.' Of real beauty ono sees but little in Paris. Out «f twenty ftoas, ton al least niuy be said to bodes* than indifferent, five raMrr pretty, iltreo tolerably so, one quite no, and the last one "un ugreuble ex pression.” Of that radiancy and transparency, that marble poltah which one sees in London or in England generally, not a trace is to be found on this side of the channel. But then, even in Eng land it is only the higher classes who can host of beuuty ; the counleuunce of the laboring orders are nowhere mure defuiined und degraded titan even there. But after ah there is no city in Europe where you see sucli legions of hnndsome woman as in Broadwuy, must uniformly united. The milliners ol Philadelphia cover more beauty titan ull the skill of the French "modistes’’ can show off by candlo light. You meet frequently a handsome foot—u pretty hand—fine eye brows—coral lips—a pretty neck—a fine wait—long jet hair—pearl teetli —a round arm, dkc ; but you scarcely ever meet llioso things, or uny number of them in ono and the same person. A Flemish sculptor told me titnt lie required twenty-eight different models to mnko a Venus, und thut lifter all his goddess hnd very ugly loos, which lie could not even supply from imuginution. As to form, no woman in llto world are equal to our own American. If the Greek model is yet to be found on eurlli, it is, 1 am sure, in Philadelphia, and the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Fools itave said that they are deficient in embonpoint, hut the true poetry of figure consists in being so proportioned that nothing can be added without destroying tho liurmony ol all the parts, and nothing taken away without exhibiting a deficiency. This, too, is the reason why our American women fade sooner than the European. Tukc a syllable away from poesy, and you destroy tho rhythm ; prose essays can bo handled in any way without losing muclt of their attractions. The fact is 1 scarcely saw a woman on llte Continent of Europe that could not spare, or dispose of twenty additional pounds without suff ering materially in appearance j tlie complete an. areliy of her proportions is for the most part pre vented only by the iron sceptre—of her mantua ma ker. But, if the French women are not generally handsome, they certuiniy possess the art of pleas-; ing, which they study from their infancy, and whicl} they practice alike toward ull persons without disV tinntion of rank or fortune. Herein they have at-, immenseadvantsgo over tho English.' Another art which they possess is the throwing off of a pnr. : licular part oflheir persons which is handsome, say’ a small hand,a pretty foot, a round arm a fine mouth, and so forth. The moment that a French woman knows that slio has a fine linnd, tlie whole altitude of her body will be so arranged ns to ex hibit it to the best advantage. The hand becomes the centre of a battle field—the headquarters of all tlie sallies with which site attacks the impressions, ble portion of mankind. Now that fans are again in fashion, she will be constantly playing with it; then arrange Iter curls, because that will give her an opportunity of exhibiting her fingers. In her box at the opera one of her gloves will bo off, and her white poleliee hand placed on tho red velvet cushion, which will muke it appear twice ns white ns it really is, and exhibit it in a position fit for a sculptor. t If she lias a pretty fool, you may rely upon it she will never sit down without uncovering her gait will bo such as to compel you to looI. down. Tlie only tiling for which the French women aro really distinguished, ia tlie ogreeubleness of their manners. They are less restrained than tlie Eng. lisli, and what few Americans would believe, less affected. For though the ubstrnct regard for truth is much greuter with Anglo-Saxon and Saxon race, than with any oilier people of Romanic extraction, yet the forms ore so extensively rigorous, and so little based on tlie natural condition of men and wo men, that to comply with them, it is necessary, in many instances to check tlie best feeling, and to appear all but what men and women really are. The artificial distinctions, too, are so arbitrarily drawn, that un Englishman or an Englishwoman taken out of tho circle they have been accustomed to move in, is liko n suspended body removed from its centre of gravity, swinging to and fro, now un naturally elevated on one side, and now unnatural ly depressed on the other, until it has found its quilibrium. Hence the ridiculous airs of Englishwoman on the Continent ; their inordinate desire for position in society,and their extreme jealousy of each other. An Englishwoman, to be loved and admired, must be seen at homo ; her poetry lasts until “site is out”—From that moment she relouses by her beau ty, her rank, or iter fortune, hut seldom by the nat ural grace oi lier manners. To please though any thing else would he a deviation from the rules of ar istocracy, and betray a vulgar extraction, or at least a relationship to a City Alderman, In France, tho dcsiro to please is manifested on, the part ofthe women in every act of their lives,, and bus become so generally mixed up with the ; ordinary rules of politeness, that it requires a nice discrimination in a stranger to distinguish between the passive obedience to an universal law, and tlie pecial regard of which it may be un expressive, to ward an individual. There is no piaco in tlie world in which the vanity of men is more apt to be deceived than iu Puris, and none where tlie people arc so keenly alive to ridicule. New Settlements in the West.—We learn by letters from San Antonio, that Mr. Custro, in com pliance with the terms of a grant of very exten sive tracts of land made to him by tlie government, has fixed his first settlement on tlie Medina, twenty- four miles wosl of San Antonio dc Bexar. Mr. Custro (who, within tlie last two years, has sent to his country several hundred emigrants in several different ships) started on the 1st of Sep tember, at the head of a large party of his people, all well provided at his cxpence, witli the necessa ry tools, stores, &c., and on the 3d they laid tho foundation ofthe town of Castro, to the great satis, faction of all concerned. On tlie 12th. Bishop Odiin, accompanied by the Abbe Oge, visited tlie infant colony for tlie purpose of laying tlie foundation stone of the church of St. Louis. A considerable number of emigrants settled in the neighborhood of Bexar, holders of contracts with Mr. Castro, ure preparing to take possession of their lands. We understand that this undertaking is conduct ed with great uctivity.and without the least regard to expence—Mr. Castro furnishing all his colonists with provisions during the lime required to build their houses, besides supplying those who have not the meuns of providing themselves with carts, ploughs, oxen.cows,agricultural implements, seeds, and provisions, till next crop. Tho emigrants already on the grant, reinforced by others who will arrivo from Europe, at short in tervals, during tho winter and spring, will consti tute tlie most important settlement formed in this country since its independence.- Washington {Tex as) paper Nov. 9. la rsaad numbers'«m millions elm htrn+sd He* | msTwrof doUbThoar M«xHi«*IH r*e«I**_tb*__ln«*l' IrJM.. a I im^Asa tatu sand dollars. Gebor emigrated to this couo ry fifteen yaata ago, and lettlud in Fulton county, where he has followed the uccupa ion of a firmer- Al the time he left Germany, the gu ining of the suit w»s couaidarad doubtful. A Mam Killed bv an Elephant.—We learn by a gentleman who cunts passenger Inst evening on the steamer Princess from Butun Rouge, that tlie large male elephant of Messrs. Hopkins dtCo's menagerie, on Sulurduy morning killed tlie person who had been fur sumo length of time employed to take charge of it. It appears that the (woelephants and a camel had bcun sent in advunce of the other unimals, en route for Clinton, tho femalo elephant and the camel chuined together. When about 4 miles from Baton Rogue, the male elephat refused to cross a small bridge, thu keeper, who was on fool, procured a horse, (ono which tlie elephant was not accustomed to) for the purposo of driving him over, and in attempting to mount, the horse sliyed and threw the man in the rond. The elephant immediately rushed upon him, caught him upon his tusks, and threw him forty or fifty feet in thu air which was repeated a great number of time, the tusks frequently passing through his body. It then carried tho body from thu road towards the woods tossing it in the air ut intervals,until it fell betwoon two fallen trees, which saved it from further vio lence. The infuriated animal then returned to tho road, where the female elephant and camel had been chained to a tree by another keeper, and rushed upon them, his tusks passing through the camel, knocking down the female and breukingtho chain in t»o. The enraged animal then mado off towards the woods, carrying the camel by his trunk and throwing it at intervals in the air with his tusks. The other portion of the caravan now coming to the bridge, the elephant returned and niude demon strations of an attack upon it, when fire-arms were brought into requisition. A number of shots were fired upon it, but without any effect. Word was then sent to the U. S. garrison, and some thirty or forty of the soldiers wero sent to despatch it with their muskets. Tho neighbors also turned out with their rifles and shot guns, and some fifty or sixty shots ware fired into, or rather upon him, for the balls were frequently flattened up upon striking, and fell to the ground. At length it was delertnio ed upon to send to the garrison fora field piece to di spatch him, when one of tho keepers procuring a spear, mounted a horse and succeeded in wounding the elephat until ho caused it to scream with pain and finally to yield to subjection, when it was driv en off with t'ne balanco ofthe animals. This is tho samo animal which killed ono of his keepers some two or three years ago al Algiers, opposite this ci ty, and was only stayed from further mischief after fourteen shots hud been fired into it.—N. O. Bee, 10 th inst. Democratic Rule in Missouri.—The Jeffer son City correspondent of the St. Louis, (Mo..) Re publican writes in his last letter the following com ments on the financial prospects of the Slute and the fitness of its present legislators to redeem them from the Slough of Despond into which they are sinking: Tho glorious rule of the dominant party bus hi ought Ihe State treasury to such u condition, that, unless the taxes are raised,, or means are provided ttisime .vuy, there must be a considerable defi ciency. The taxes for the year 1844 have been paid with great punctuality, und there are but few of the collectors in arreurs. If the Legislature continues until tlie first or middle of April, there is now every prospect of their doing, their pay, and the other ordinary expenses of tlie government, will consume the whole amount in the treasury, and all that can be expected during this fiscal year— leaving tho interest in the State debt, which 1 be lieve fails due in May. unprovided fur. 1 under stand tlmt the balance in tlie treasury, and the ex pected receipts, will not be more than sufficient to pay tlie interest on the State debt. Tlie deficiency must he supplied, either by an increase of taxes, or in some oilier way; or n ere.-t must remain un paid; or, if that be done, tho officers of the Stale must suffer; and when it comes to a contest be tween the officers and creditors, which shall have wliul money the re is in the Treasury, you can easi ly decide who will liavo tho preferoni e. There are so many men in the Legislature, of the dominant party, who are endeavoring to pave the way, oilher to Congress or to a seat in tho convention to amend the constitution, that little or no expectation need he entortnined of their raising the tuxes, and I am at a loss to know what other modo they can resort to, to provide means. Most of them would regard it as political suicide, to vote for increasing the taxes; and, in addition to this, they will reduce the auction licenses greatly, and thus diminish the revenue from that source, und refuse to repeal the Wolf Sclap law. I do not believe they will touch other licen- ses. The Slate lias a considerable amount of out standing bonds, bearing ten per cent, interest, which may, by llte terms of the law under which they were issued, be redeemed in 1846. It is an object to the State to raise tho money & take up all thusc bonds, if she can procure it at a less rate of interest- This she cun only do by borrowing.— Propositions have been made by a citizen of tlie Stale for a loan of seven per cent, for a term of years; it is also proposed to borrow from the Springfield and Jacksonville branches. What all these expedients will come to, lime will devel- ope. A Whig Collector.—It is with great pleasure, and not altogether without pride, that wo point tho attention of our readers to the following evidence ofhoncsty and fidelity in the discharge of his pub. lie duties in an Ex Collector of tlie port of New York, removed from office by the late Administra. lion, without notice, and upon no other cause than the suspicion that he wus at heart a Whig .- Treasury Department, Comptroller’s Office, March 5, 1845. Sir : Your accounts of the customs, embracing, during your official term, nearly fifty millions of dollars, and your accounts lor your official emolu ments, up to the 7th July, 1844, Ihe period when your official services as Collector terminated, have been adjusted ut the Treasury, and a balance of $351 found to lie due to you from tho United Stales. I have requested tho Collector of New York to pay that sum to your order; which order, having been charged to you, your accounts as Col lector of the Port of New York have been ibis day finally closed on the books of the Treasury. Very respectfully, J. W. McCULLOH. To Edward Curtis, Esq. Late Collector, Ntw York. iiniuia of iha fiae**«o of lha aonaxalton resolo- tiox* by the Coogrea* of tho United Slate*. There i* already an end jf diplomatic iulercourae between the two countries, so far a* tlie function* of the Mexican Ministsral Washington are concerned ; and doubllea* the same auspeusion of friendly re lations will take place at the city of Mexico so soon as the new* of annexation reaches that capital. When Gen. Almonte demanded Ilia passage a few days ago he addressed a circulur to the foreign Ministers at Washington protesting in strong lun- junge against the conduct of the United Slutea in despoiling Mexico, as lie regarded it, of a portion of her territory. We obsetve by letters from Washington tliut tho repre-en’.utives of Foreign Powers resident there were unanimous in their de- sire to prevent hostilities between tho United Stales and Mexico. The British legation in particular, it is suid, deprecated such an event. 1 ite corres pondent of the New York Courier says . •‘It would not vety much surprise me, if it should eventually turn out—if wo ure so fortunate as to uvoid wur—that it is owing to British interposition with Mexico. England knows that u war in tho Gulf of Mexico cannot be without injury to her itor without grent risk to llto peace of the wot Id.— She knows that “the cankers of a long peace and u calm world*’ are only awaiting the chance of un outbreak somewhere, to render it general, atttl therefore quite as much tie readily admit, from in terest us from conscience, she would discounten ance Mexico iu tiny hostile purposo. Moreover, letters of marque, or commissions to privateers such ns Mexico would grunt, could not bo otherwise than formidable even to neutral commerce, which that of England would be, under the circumstan ces, Hence we say without any foar of contradic tion, that llte policy and the interests of England ulike combine in favor of peace. Bui oil tho other hand 1 must in all frankness say, that sum* of our own most sagacious moil ex press great solicitude about the result. They anti, cipale that the popular feeling in Mexico against annexation, und the antipathy against this country will overpower the Moderados in charge of thu Government—and that in spile of their prudence they may he driven into hostilities—and for hosttl- ities even upon the humblest scale, we aro wholly unprepared, for this Congress while provoking wur, liavo actuully curtailed all the appropriations for the meuns of war. There must be uncertainty as to the course of Mexico until tho result is known. If thut Repub. lie shall not determine upon war it will be because of her consciousness of weakness. For Mexico knows very well that tho acquisition of Texns bv the United Stulcs is but the beginning of acquisi tions by which Iter territory is to bo rent from her. The Rio Grande has no mure efficacy as a perma nent barrier against the extension of the Anglo Saxon power than the Subine posscss-d. The process by which Texas was acquired may bo re pealed over and over again so long as the semblance, of a pretext is wanted to cover designs similar U* those which prompted the annexation movoment.i There are now thousands of American settlers, and' every year is adding to the number. Many who sturt for the Oregon ostensibly go to California— tho latter being the superior country in point o. natural advantages. But Mexico will gain nothing by war. She would only accelurate her own downfall by it; Pcrlinp- her rulers may bo aware of this, and a sense u. her itnpolency may induce her to succumb since resistance would he worse than useless. Time will disclose. The French Minister has interposed |,J 'dices between Ibis Government n- >• WA*HIX0T0X,|| aril erposed hi, , °" d Mexi^l Minister, and udvised him to remain Item until k I recoives advice* and instructions from lii„ (j ' " 6 P nent. Col. Almonte Ims acceded to the «„ ion. In thu mean time llte Committee of p,,**"'! Affairs of the Senate Imve before llicrna re tion, which they will soon report to thaSe».ato” ,U *I questing tho President to enter into iiegoiistL'.'jl -vith thu Mexican Government Inr the seitlcm eilt ’!| boundaries, and of mutuul claims, und ull queitWl between the two Governments, JtW There is, therefore, no cause for any proviso null no danger of any war. ' 1 lleurn that tho Texan Minister here hasbs* I advised, very urgently, to recommend to hi, £ I eminent the immcdiutc adoption ol the proposj,^I of annexation made in the Joint Resolution* they originuily passed the House, instead oi aiL.1 ing the alternative long and hazardous negotiatl, I und unollier ordeal of legislation as propoiedhvl tlie proviso. *| Mr. Calhoun before he left the State Dcpartm™! sont instructions to the same effect to Mr. Dotwl-1 son, our charge in Texas. I Mr. Calhoun left us last night, regretted venl deeply by ull our citizens. Mr. Crutle, his 1(21 Chief Clerk, accompanied him. Mr. Cralle | offered by Mr. Buchanan the option of remaining I ing in the office, but declined it. ° I The Senate confirmed to day the nomination!of I Mr. B. F. Butler,as District Attorney of New York! and Mr. Davis, ns Surveyor of Philadelphia j a I place of Mr. Cooper, the old tragedian, and latlier I in-law of Mr. Robert Tyler. 1 understand,imw. V ever, that Mr. Polk will give Mr. Cooper sons I other place. Among the nominations sent in to day v ore t! ;nSf I of Mr. Win. H. Polk, brother of the President,i, I Charge nt Naples ; Mr. A. H. Everett, ol Mo,,,. I chusetts, Minister to China ; Mr, Jewett, ofMaine Charge to Chili ; Mr. Parmenter, late member of I Congress, Naval Officer at Boston ; Mr.Shaler of New York, Consul nt Hong Kong, &c. The President has determined to send in no no- mirations except fov places now vacant orsoonbe-1 coining vacant by limilntion of the torm of service. The process of removal will not therefore t commence, nor is it likely to he cut rind to u very I great extent. The crowd is thinning off and llto ofiice.seekcn are fewer and less clamorous than they were ever known to bo before. Cotton Movements.—The following are the re ceipts at foreign ports, to the latest dutes receiv ed at this office. 1845 1844 J New Orleans, to March 7, 677,136 585,9161 Mobile, “ 4, 388.876 315,155- Floridu, “ 1, 118,269 95,246 Charleston, “ 7, 271,654 221,708 Savannah, “ 7, 191,030 167,72.1 North Carolina, Fob. 22, 4,511 9,17!* Virginia, “ 1, 9,800 ll,10(i 1,001,376 1,393,089 EXPORTS. New Orleans, 440,581 227,947 Mobile, 140,090 55,014 Charleston, 148,334 01,102 Savannah, 78,071 49,269 Virginia. 3,029 New York, &c., 138,570 85,0781 046,652 482,03Gj Increaso of receipts, 268,290 I Increase of exports, 464,616 A Great WindFall.—Wo have it from a re liable source, that u German farmer, by llto name of J. J. Gober, living near the villugo of Lewiston, Fulton county, Illinois, is about to start on a trip in Europe, for the purpose of taking possession of tlie- snug fortune of two millions six hundred thousand dollars worth of propel ty. He recently received o. letler from the firm ol Rothschild, nt Frankfort,stu. ling that a law suit which Imd been pending fur more thun thirty years in the Courts of Germany, and in which his wife was one of the heirs nt law, had been decided in their favor, and that a division of llte amount iu litiguliou was abuul to take place, and they wished to know his pleasure conorroing Pensvlvania Senator.— The Pensylvanian and other Democratic papers aro highly displeased at the clectiom ofMr. Simon Cameron to fill Mr Buch anan’s place. The U. S. Gazette, (Whig) re joices in proportion. It snys that the regular Dem ocratic nominee, Woodward, wus 'an avowed free trade man" (horrible to relute !) and that Came ron, though a Democrat, is “pledged to tlie sup port of ihe Tariff and of tlie Distribution of the proceeds of ttiepublic lands." Well, there is some thing gained by this—as if Woodward had been elected, the Democracy of Pennsylvania must have been at the trouble of instructing him, as often ns the pinch came, to vote for tlie Tariff; and the country lit large is saved from the botheration of having a Senium- from Pennsylvania to talk against protection and voto for it. We think that Stale is now correctly represented. Mr. Cameron will gu hand in hand with Mr. Steqgeon, who, during the luio Session, when the bill was before the Senate to ullow the South Carolina Ruil Road Company to import free of duty Ihe pipes necessary to try an experiment of the Atmospheric Railway, got up and opposed it warmly, perfectly horrified that any the smallest bit of iron should get Into llte country without paying tribute to Pennsylvania. More work for Massachusetts.—The consti tution of the State of Illinois forbids the residenc of blacks in that State without a license. The} are required to givo bonds on coming into tin State, and are olherwiso incapacitated from fre- citizenship. It is rumored thut several Massachu setts “citizens” have been locked up, being unable to show their papers. An agent should be senj forthwith, to “regulate” the laws of that Slate.—t It is singular that Massachusetts should have only! attempted to give laws to Florida, South Carolina and Louisiana.—N. Y. M. News. Florida.—Under the new Constitution of Flor ida, recently admitted into the Union as a State, an election will he held about tho 12th of May next for a Governor, ono Representative in Congress,; and a Legislature composed of seventeen Senators and forty one Representatives- The Legislature’ will assemble about llto Cth of June next, and elects besides its own officers, two U. S, Senators, foutj Judges of Circuit Courts, Justices of the Supreme! Court of tho State, a Clerk of the Supreme Court, Clerks of the Courts ofChancery.an attorney Gen eral of the State, four Solicitors in the Circuit Courts, a Secretary of Stato, Stale Treasurer nnc$ Comptroller of accounts. The Two Resolutions.—In a debate ia the SeTmte on another subject, Mr. Choate made the I following statement as to the manner in whichTet. I as annexation was carried. As no contradiction [ or qualification was offered by any Senator, it it I presumed the Statement is strictly true, and that I there were men—Southern men too and Dumocrtli I —who were ready to sacrifice that great measure I unless it was saddled with the absurd and imprac.I ticablo proviso of Mr. Benton. It is well to re. | member this. Mr. Cltoute said : Ho need only go back a few hours, almost to cite a single case illustrative of the effects of blending in one or two measures, each of which, separately, could not have the same support commanded by their junction.— He alluded to the joint resolutions for the amientioo of Texas. Did not Senators know that they had laid themselves open to the charge of having adimltedTex. as into this Union by the force of executive power,tid ed by a minority of this body? No senator would Mf that the joint resolution from the Houso of Rcprnetlt. tives could have had any possible chance of passingtbs the Senate, Neither would lie say that the bill of the Senator from Missouri would, alone, command a nujw- ity of this body. It was perfectly plain, very veil known, and conceded on all hauda, that naitlier, singly had the least chance of commanding a majority of votes in the Senate. They were in point of fact, as far, u this body was concerned, minority measures. What was done? Instead of resorting to the usual mode of proceeding, by moving to strike out ivliat came from the House, as it could not receivo the necessary support, and moving to insert a substitute more agreeable to tba Senate, this good old fashioned mode tvaa laid aside,aad under the influence of a passion of novelty, nr something else, you kept in what came from the House, and tack ed to it a provision that if the President of thn fJotted States did not choose to act in conforinty to the hut branch of the measure, he might act upon the other.— By that device you united on it the votes in favor «f each, and combined, you obtained a bare majority toot, ry Lite measure : though neither, separately, could p* sibly prevail. Suppose the President chooses tout upon the joint resolution of the House, disregard™* your proviso : will not Texas then bo admitted by the executive and a minority of the Senate ? Or, suppose be acts on your provision disregarding the propositios of the House; will not the same tiling happen! In stead of the majority, which gentlemen admit to bells least minimum of constitutional power that ought le sanction any act of government, the President sod t minority exercise a function as potent as if they »'«* the whole combined legislative and executive body.— by thus uniting two measures, that may be done, which involves injustice to those who would support the one conscientiously, but could not the other, forcing them to do violence to their feelings, and placing them in l wrong position before those for whom they act. Son reference to this case now under consideration. One Hundred Mormons Shot.—The Western Illinois and Iowa papers of the 14lb January bring, reports that tlie party of Mormons who recently left Nnuvoo, fur the purpose of settling in the “Pi nery,” (high up tlie Mississippi river,) have all been murdered. Having got into a dispute at a French trading establishment, about the price of some provisions, which they thought exorbitant, tlioy unceremoniously bolped themselves to what- over they wanted,which so exasperated the French men, that they called in tho aid of the Indinns, and massacred tlie Mormon parly, amounting to 100. Household Love.—There is something inex. pressibly touching in the story of Ishtnael, tho youth who was sent into tho wilderness of life with Ills bow and bis arrow, “bis hand ngainst every man, and every man’s hand against him.” Even in our crowded, busy and social world, on bow mn. ny is this doom pronounced? What lovo makes allowance like household lovo? What takes an interest in small sorrows und small successes liko household love? God forgivo those (and 1 would not say forgive were not Divine morcy illimitahlo) who turn the household altar to a place of strife ! Domestic dissension is the sacrilege of tho heart. Interesting Decision.—It lias recently been deci ded by Vice Chancellor Parker, of Netv York, in the case of Ackerman, vs. Ernotl and Schoyrer, that an ex ecutor or trustee who invests the trust fund* in Bank Block, will bo liable for any depreciation in its value or fur loss sustained upon it, although Iho investment was ntsde iu good faith—that such iuvcslmeul is unau thorized, and that su executor or trustee can only be protected against risk, by investing such funds on real estate security, or in public stock approved by tlie Court. A Wire Aqueduct.—A Mr. Roebling is engaged•* Pittsburgh, constructing a wire aqueduct across <1* Allegany. The Pittsburg Chronicle gives the Mat ing account of it .’ “The suspension ropes, which extend from pier I! pier, in the form of an inverted arch, arc to consistd seven strands of wire, each strand be ng about tho* inches in diameter. Four of these strands aro already finished across the entire length of the structure, id the filth will bo completed to-day. The ropes "ill then be wrapped in annealed wire, (No. 14.) which will render it one solid mass, and as each individual wire is varnished before it is put across, and as the whole will bo painted when finished and wrapped, it will bo impervious to water, and consequently not lia ble to be weakened or impaired by the weather. 0* these two immense wire ropes the structure ie to h» suspended. But this is not the only reliance for etrength- Tlie trunk is to he constructed from pier to pier—5* sides being of solid lattice work—that is, aii.> g besms placed in this form—XXX. The beams are tc ■ placed contiguous to each other, for greater strength * that, when finished, tho trunk alone, without the wire ropes, will be a firm and strong structure, capable a* only of sustaining its own weight, but also ofbcWjJj up aa much additional work as a lattice work bricp would do. In effect, the trunk is a lattice work brief without arches, like those across ths Beaver river.— The ropes botng suspended across strong stone toe* placed upon tlie piors, arc, in fact, inverted arches,.cep able of sustaining more than double the addition*! weight which the letting in of tho water wowldpw* upon the trunk ; the trunk itself is an milepost**" strong and immovable structure ; so that, when fis** cd, the aqueduct will not bo liable to be moved, eiu* from the swell of water or the effect of storms. The wires are carried across tho river from *o*P* to another, by a wheel which traverses tho whole <“•* tance upon ropes unbinding the wiro from ths reel! * it goes. The ropes are moved by a horse power. The splices of the wiro aro made by placing IA***? ends together and winding them with fine ,nc **L wire, and it is done so strongly, that sufficient will break the wiro, but will not affect the splice, saw this satisfactorily tested. ,.. When finished, the largo ropes are to be "-rapp^J.^ machinery—the invention, wo believe, of Mr. K < j*"'*| himself, which will enable him to do it efficiently expeditiously, l-abor and energy on tho part ol contractor have done every thing in his poser!to* the aqueduct finished by the first of April. »"* ^ not completed- by that time, which is doubt tub ** whole trunk is yet to be put up, lie is confident« » able to do it within a short time after.—ChanP Mercury. Tun Alabama Conference of the Methodist copal Church, which recently met at Wetumpyq. journed on the 5th inst. Bishop Andrews P r ** .^ Tho proceedings of llte Conference, we learn n ^ Mobile Register, were marked by a spirit r*^ harmony sud concord. Resolutions wore imam adopted, approving of the action of the'Souths* ^ gallon at the General Conference, in view °f** «. of tit? Church, aud appointing representative** commended, to the Louisville Convention. Keep out of bad company, for the ehsnce tho devil tiros into a flock, he will bit somehouJ-