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son, Mr. Hoge, Mr. White of Ky., and Mr.
Holmes.
Mr. Barnard spoke with freedom against the
Bill. It was proposed to sell not the public
lands merely, but mines ofthe country at $1,25
an acre. Those who lived near these mines
would not allow any person to bid upon them
except actual settlers. Any stranger who went
there was threatened. Any* person who dare
buy or bid was in danger ot being driven forth
or destroyed. All competition was thus forbid
den, and tor these reasons we were called upon
tosell mineral lands—the choicest lands of the
country at a Pre-emption price.
Mr. Barnard said he would consent to no
such disposition of the public property, and re
garded the proposition as one ot the greatest in
justice to the General Government.
Mr. Summers of Va. claimed to be governed
by Western feelings and Western interests as
much as any other man. He stepped from his
own doors upon the tributaries of one of the
great rivers ot the West. He was therefore,
governed by' no bad feelings in opposing the
bill.
The debate is continuing as I close. Mr. S.
giving his reasons lor opposing the bill.
Washington, April 4.
SENATE.
[The Senate adjourned last evening without
having disposed ofthe bill appropriating a cer
tain sum for the continuance of the Cumberland
Road.]
Today's Proceedings.— The West Point
Academy Bill was finally passed during the
morning hour and sent to the House for con
currence without amendment, and ready tor the
signature ot the President. The Fortification
Bill was sent to the House with amendments.
[This Bill appropriates about #560,000.]
Memorials were presented from Rhode Island,
Pennsylvania and New York against any inter
ference with the existing Tariff.
Mr. Foster presented a memorial from Ten
nessee asking for a reduction of postage.
Mr. Breese on leave introduced a bill similar
to the one rejected in the House, authorising the
sale ot Mineral Lands in lowa, Wisconsin and
Illinois. .
Mr. B. at the same time gave notice ol his
intention to bring in a Bill to abolish the Mili
tary Academy.
Mr. Foster of Tenn, asked the postponement
Os the previous orders in order to take up a bill
from the Naval Committee lor making a Navy
Yard Depot at or near the city of Memphis, on
the Mississippi.
Mr. Breese opposed the motion to reconsider
unless there was some urgent necessity lor the
motion. It was his wish that some other point
should be examined than Mempnis.
Mr. Foster said the Senator from Illinois
was the last man from whom he should have ex
pected opposition. There was no good reason
for not taking up the Bill.
The Bill was then taken up, when Mr. Breese
moved to amend by destroying the whole bill,
and inserting a new one, authorising the Presi
dent to select an officer of the Navy of the rank
of Post Captain, and a body Engineers, to pro
ceed to the Mississippi and make an examina
tion of the same and to report in detail upc n the
establishment of some suitable Depot.
The amendment of Mr. B. was entorced by a
speech in its behalf, arguing that the proposed
appropriation would be made blindly' unless
there was additional investigation. .
Mr. Foster replied. The Senator from Illi
nois, he said, was fighting behittd a masked bat
tery. He was in favor of some other point, but
what that other point was he had not yet told the
Senate. Mr. F. would inform the Senate what
the Senator trom Illinois had concealed. That
gentleman’s eyes were turned upon Cairo as the
El Dorado for this Depot. Cairo, a city that
would have to be fenced in with dikes and ditches
like those ot Holland.
The Senator from Illinois, continued Mr. F.
is suddenly struck with a shivering of economy,
it comes upon him just at this time and just at
this place. Yesterday he had none of it when
advocating an appropriation of $400,000 for the
Cumberland Road at an expense of $19,000 a
mile. Memphis was 160 miles below Cairo, a
healthy and prosperous place. Memphis sent
100,000 bales of cotton to New Orleans. Cairo
had nothing to send but Alligators. The Sena
tors from Mississippi were instructed to go for
Vicksburg first, and then for Memphis if that
failed.
The debate was participated in by Messrs.
Tappan and others, when it was informally
passed over, and the Senate went into Executive
session.
The doors have not been opened at the time
necessary to close this Report.
HOUSE.
[The bill authorising the President of the U.
States to sell ieserved lead mines in Illinois,
lowa and Wisconsin, was rejected last evening,
by a vote of 69 yeas to 81 nays. A motion was
made to reconsider the vote, pending which the
House adjourned.]
To-Day’s Proceedings—The -House having
on Tuesday voted to close all debate upon the
Army Retrenching bill, this day at two o’clock,
Mr. Coles of Va. moved to suspend the Rules
that the House might at once go into Committee
ofthe Whole upon this bill. The motion pre
vailed, and the debate proceeded.
Mr. Cob’s addressed the Committee at length
upon the merits of the bill, against some of its
provisions and in favor of others, speaking with
occasional interruptions from Mr. J. R. Ingersoll
of Pa. and Mr. Black of S C. who is the author
of the bill.
An amendment to regulate the character of
punishment for offences in the Army gave rise
to a general discussion. Some of them were for
punishment by imprisonment, and others tor
corporeal punishment. The amendment was
subsequently withdrawn, and the punishment
left as it is.
Mr. Holmes of S. C. moved an amendment
that soldiers having conscientious scruples
against attending divine service should not be
required to do so.
Mr. Pettit of la. (the member who moved the
amendment iast week to abolish the office of
Chaplains,) defended the motion at length. He
expressed at the same time his regret for with
drawing his amendment to gel rid of the Cler
gyman. He hoped some member would re
new the amendment when the bill before the
Committee should be reported to the House.
Mr. Hale moved an amendment that no offi
cer or soldier should be compelled to attend re
ligious worship. Any provision contrary to
the spirit of this amendment was a violation of
the Constitution, which declared that Congress
should make no law respecting an established
religion. He was opposed to the amendment
ofthe member from South Carclina, because it
implied that Congress had a right to legislate
upon the subject. Mr. Hale gave his reasons
for his modification of the amendment. Reli
gion was degraded and disgraced by being con
nected with the Army and Navy.
Mr. Hunt of N. Y. continued the debate. He
regretted that the rights of conscience should be
a part of the discipline of the Army. But dis
cipline was necessary In the Army, and mor
al instruction was necessary. The bill inter
fered in fact with no man’s belief. It subjected
him to no form of faith. It only required lor
the sake of example that he should attend some
place of divine worship. He could not concur
with those who would deprive the Army of
religious instruction. He would keep the law
as it was, not only giving Chaplains to the Ar
my and Navy, but requiring their attendance
upon religious worship.
Mr. Hale’s amendment was then rejected,
and wtth it another offered by Mr. Pettit, that
the officers and soldiers should not be required
to participate in any form of public worship.
The next amenement was that which excus
ed the officers and soldiers from attending any
form ot worship to which they were conscien
tiously opposad.
This and several other amendments were re
jected.
At 2 P. M. the bill was reported to the House.
Mr. C. Johnson of Tenn, moved the Previous
Question, which the House seconded.
The amendments of the Committee ot the
Whole were then concurred in by the House,
and the bill ordered to be engrossed. The bill
was then passed, ayes 109, noes 36.
Mr. Adams then called lor the unfinished bu
siness of yesterday, being the motion to print
the five reports of the Committee upon the Mas
sachusetts Resolutions proposing an amend
ment ofthe Constitution. The reports were or
dered to be printed, ayes 80, noes bO.
Tee Rules were then suspended to clear the
table of bills from the Senate and communica
tions from the Executive Departments. The
important subject upon the Speaker’s table was
the Resolution from the Senate fixing the 27th
of May for the adjournment ofthe two Houses
of Congress.
When this resolution was read, there was a
regular rush for the floor. It was awarded to Mr.
Dromgoole of Va., who at once gave indica
tions that he should move the postponement of
the Resolution until the 13th of May. Mr. D.
said that this w mid be within the time named
in the Resolution, and he did not mean by his
motion to indicate that the House would ad
journ before or after the 27th. In conclusion,
he moved that the Resolution be postponed, and
that there be a call of the House. The yeas
and nays were ordered and the House decided
that there should be a call—ayes 112, noes 39.
The Clerk proceeded to call the roll and 169
members answered.
And the question recurring on the motion to
postpone the consideration of the resolution un
til the 13th day of May—
The yeas and nays were ordered; and, being
taken, were yeas 91 nays 65.
So the consideration of the resolution was
postponed.
The Tariff. — Mr. J. R. Ingersoll, renewedthe
motion he had this morning ineffectually made
tor leave to present a report from the minority
ofthe Committee on Ways and Means on the
subject of the tariff.
Objection was made.
Mr. I. moved a suspension of the rules.
Which motion was agreed to.
Whereupon Mr. 1 presented the report. And
he moved that the same number thereof be prin
ted as has been ordered of the report of the ma
jority ofthe Committee ot Ways and Means on
the same subject.
Mr. Weller and Mr. C. Johnson objected.
And Mr. J. R. Ingersoll moved a suspension
otthe rules to enable him to submit the motion.
And the question being taken, the vote stood:
Ayes, 73, noes 40. (Not two-thirds.)
But Mr. White demanded the yeas and nays
And, pending this motion (the usual number
of copies having, on motion of Mr. Winthrop,
first been ordered to be printed) the House ad
journed.
Washington, April 5.
SENATE.
Among the numerous memorials presented
this morning in behalf ot the existing Tariff
were fifteen trom the State of Pennsylvania.
Memorials ofa like character were presented
from Vermont.
Mr. Pearce presented a memorial numerous
ly signed by the Journeyman Tailors ot all
parties in Baltimore in favor of the protective
policy.
Mr. Semple of 111. offered a resolution call
ing upon the President ofthe United States, il
not incompatible with the public interest, to
communicate the condition of the claims of
any of our citizens against the Republic of Co
lumbia, and whether any action ot Congress is
necessary to enforce them. This resolution
lies over for one day.
Mr. Bayard called up a bill supplementary to
the act entitled “An act to regulate the pay of
the Navy of the United States.”
The bill was read, and provided a scale by
which crews and officers of the navy may be
indemnified for losses sustained inservice when
a Court Martial has decided that the vessel
was not wrecked by negligence.
Mr. Allen contended that the bill would serve
to diminish the vigilance of pnblic servants by
requiring the Government to become their in
surers. Mr. A. was answered by Ms. Bayard
and Mr. Choate.
Mr. Buchanan requested that the bill should
be postponed until tomorrow, and the Senate
proceeded to other business.
Mr. Evans of Me. offered a resolution, which
under the rule lies over for one day, calling up
on the President of the United Slates to com
municate, if not incompatible with the public
interest, all correspondence between the British
Government and the Unitea Slates upon the
subject of the annexation of Texas.
[The information called for is probably a des
patch of Lord Aberdeen, laid before the Presi
dent at the time Sir Richard Packenham pre
sented his credentials of office. This despatch
will prove officially to the American people
that England contemplates no political alliance
with Texas, and none whatever but one of trade
or commerce.]
Mr. Buchanan presented a memorial against
the annexation of Texas.
The Cumberland Road bill was then taken
up and theremainderof the session given to its
consideration.
Mr. White of la. addressed the Senate at
considerable length in an able speech in defence
of the Bill. The debate was also participated
in by Mr. Hannegan and Mr. Jamegan. The
Senate is in session as I close.
HOUSE.
The unfinished business of last evening was
called up, and a motion made and carried to
suspend the Rules to print extra copies of the
Report from J. R. Ingersoll and the minority of
the Committee of Ways and Means upon the
Tariff.
Mr. Thompson of Miss, opposed the printing
of the Report ot the minority, and intimated that
it was but an answer to the Report of the ma
jority.
Mr. J. R. Ingersoll said that the Report was
no answer to the Report ol the majority. He
believed it barely referred to the Report of th
majority at all.
Mr. White of Ky. modified the motion so as
to print 10,000 copies of the majority Report—
the House having ordered the priming of 25,000
ofthe Report ofthe Majority in behalf of the
principles of free trade or low duties.
After some opposition from Mr. Weller, the
printing of 10,000 copies were ordered.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole and took up the Bill making appropria
tions for
HARBORS AND RIVERS.
This Bill was reported to the House on the
15th of February and referred to the Committee
on the Whole. The first provision was tor the
improvement of the Ohio river, between Pitts
burgh and the Falls at Louisville, appropriating
the sum of $50,000. A motion was made to
increase this sum to SIOO,OOO, which, after de
bate, was carried by a vote of 84 to 30.
The next appropriation was tor the improve
ment of the Ohio River below the Falls at Lou
isville, and of the Mississippi, Illinois and Ar
kansas rivers, 8180,000.
This amendment also gave rise to debate,
Mr. Davis of Ky. spoke at length upon the
bill and took occasion to review the condition
of the Treasury, and to correct some of the mis
representations which have been circulated in
regard to the Treasury and the expenditures of
the Government. Mr. Van Buren, in the four
years of his administr tion had expended be
tween twenty-eight and twenty-nine of
dollars more than the Government had received
during his tour years. The policy ot the Van
Buren administration was reviewed to show that
it only thought of economy when the people
charged upon it the grossest extravagance.
Appropriations made by Congress to be expen
ded in 1840, were withheld to the extent of more
than $1,600,000.
Besides this, continued Mr. D., the adminis
tion of Mr. Van Buren had the use ot twenty
five millions in Treasury notes, and its leaving
undone many things it should have done, had
the effect of compelling the Whigs to hold an
extra session of Congrers. This session was
required to make provision to pay the ways and
means for the support ot the Government. One
of its first acts was to pay half a million of Post
Office debt which the ad ninistration of Mr. V.
B. had contracted and neglected to pay. They
paid $200,000 tor the militia services in Florida
and $400,000 more for the militia of Maine,
They appropriated more than a million of dol
lars for fortifications, and they had made other
appropriations which were necessary for the
payment of Mr. Van Buren’s debts.
When Mr. Davis’s hour had expired, Mr.
Paine of Ala. got the floor, and entered into a
defence of Van Buren and the expenses of his
Administration. In the course of his speech he
sent to the chair a letter of Mr. W. Newton, a
member of the House trom Virginia, (a private
letter which had got into the papers) and it was
read by the Clerk.
Mr. Newton asked permission to say aword
in explanation, but Mr. Paine would not con
sent. When Mr. P.’s hour expired,
Mr. Bowling, ot Mo., got the floor, and Mr.
Newton asked leave to explain.
Mr. Bowling was willing but his friends per
suaded him not to do so. He then went on to
defend Mr. V. Buren, and for the last three
hours nothing has been said about the bill under
consideration.
Mr. Tibbats, expressing his regret that a po
litical debate should have been gotten up on this
bill, and his hope that it would be reserved for
the general appropriation bill or some other,
moved that the committee rise. He withdrew
the motion, however, at the request ot
Mr. White, who, referring to the speeches
which had been made in reply to his colleague,
and the desire he should feel to say something,
in rejoinder, nevertheless expressed his willing
ness to give up that privilege if the Democratic
side of the House would consent to rise and
allow a motion to be made for stopping the de
bate at a proper hour this afternoon. With a
view to such a motion he now moved that the
committee rise.
And the question being taken, the vote stood:
Ayes 75, noes 40.
So the committee rose and reported progress
and the House adjourned.
April 6.
There was no session of the Senate to-day.
HOUSE.
A resolution was adopted, submitted by Mr.
Tibbats, of Ky., that all debate should cease on
the billfor improving western harbors and rivers,
al 2 o’clock this day.
Mr. Seymour, of N. Y., a member of the Com
mittee of Ways and Means made a separate re
port on the Tariff, of which 10,000 copies were
ordered to be primed. [Mr. Seymour is a loco
fbco but comes from Troy, N. Y., where,
“ with the lights now before them,” they do not
think it safe to go for free trade.]
Western Rivers.— The House then went into
Committee of the Whole and took up this bill
—Mr. Boyd, of Kentucky, in the chair.
Mr. White proposed that the brief time allot
ted for the bill should be devoted to the consider
ation ol its merits, and that the several political
discussions of yesteiday should not be repeated.
The item of 8180,000 for the improvement of
the Ohio river below the falls at Louisville, and
of the Mississippi, Missouri, Illinois and Ar
kansas rivers, was increased, alter a brief de
bate to $223,000.
(At this point Mr. Payne, of Alabama, was
about to continue his political speech ot yester
day, but being strongly appealed to by some ot
his friends he desisted f rom this purpose.)
A great many amendments were proposed,
anddiscussed by the several movers. The friends
of the Cumberland Road were desirous of at
taching an appropriation for this object to the
bill, which others contended would defeat it.
At 2 o’clock the bill was taken out of Com
mittee. The greatest confusion prevailed while
the bill was under consideration, and almost
every member seemed to have his favorite
scheme for improvement—the most of them sub
mitted merely for Buncombe. Some one moved
an appropriation, byway of burlesque, of $ 100,-
000 for the Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge Co.,
Virginia.
Ar eflort was made to attach to this bill, the
harbor billot the last Congress, but it was de
cided not to be in order.
No final action was had on the bill when the
nour lor closing this report came round, nor
did it seem likely that the House would take
any to-day.
No farther use for humanity.— The editor of the
Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph, in allusion to the
talking machine which is making so muchnznsc
in some of the papers, facetiously remarks—
“ There will soon be no use for humanity.
Machines have been invented for about every
thing. When that for setting types is comple
ted, we do not see but what the' human family
may as well adjourn. There will be but pre
cious little for them to do, if they stay here.
The whole process of civilization will go on
without them.”
The fare on the Western Railroad, between
Boston and Albany, has been raised from lour
to six dollar*.
anO Sentinel
AUG UST A .
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CLAY,
OF KENTUCKY:
■The Farmer of Ashland—the Patriot and Philan
thropist—the American Statesman, and
unrivaled Orator of the age.”
"Let me not be misunderstood —awl I entreat
that I maty not be misrepresented. lam NOT
advocating the revival of a HIGH PROTEC
TIVE TARIFF. I AM FOR ABIDING
BY THE PRINCIPLES OF THE COM
PROMISE ACT. 1 am for ioing what no
Southern man of fair candid mind ever yet de
nied—giving to the country a revenue which may
provide for the economical wants of the Govern
ment, and al the same time giving incidental pro
tection to our home industry.’’— Speech of Henry
Clay in the U. S. Senate, March 1, 1842.
TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9.
The City Election. *
The Election yesterday for Mayor and Coun
cilmen, resulted in a most s'gnaT triumph of the
Whigs, notwithstanding the private drilling
and secret organizations of the Locofocos, with
the vain hope of catching the Whigs unpre
pared,—an event which would have been parti
cularly grateful to their feelings,so soon after the
departure ot Mr. Clay. In this, however, they
have been sadly disappointed; for instead of se
curing a triumph, they have obtained a most
signal defeat—in short, they have been routed,
hot se, foot and dragoons, in three of the four
wards of the City. Below we give the grati
fying result.
MAYOR.
Dye. Hook.
Ward No. 1 8092
“ “ 211788
“ 310851
“ “ 4112 49
417 280
280
Majority for Dyel37
COUNCIL— Ward No. 1.
Goulds7 MeWhmter 94
Green 74 Garvin 94
Blodget.92 Crump ll7
Ward No. 2..
Hadleyl22 J.Phinizy, Sr 93
Evelos Walker 9s
Chewlo9 MaJtarry 96
Ward No. 3. I
Bishopll9 Hiblerlls
Fordllß Gordon s4
Ward No. 4.
Harperll2 Beallll2
Philipl2B Alexander 55
Those in Italics are locofocos.
New Jersey.—The N. York Tribune says:
—The people of both parties, in New Jersey,
are becoming fully aroused to the monstrous
abuses of the late Loco-Foco Legislature in
gerrymanding their State, and mutilating her
fair proportions; and we see in several of the
Counties that large meetings, composed ofboth
Whigs and Loco-Focos, have been held, at
which a stern and determined spirit ot redress
for the wrongs of their recent Legislature was
manifested. New Jersey will right herself and
vindicate her name from the reproach cast upon
it by a reckless and unprincipled faction.
New Orleans Election.—The Whigs are
again defeated in New Orleans. The Locofo
cos have carried the Mayor, Recorders and a
majority of the Council members. The ma
jority for Mayor is about 200.
Jj'The Whigs of New York intend com
mencing the Presidential contest, by celebrating
the birth day of Henry Clay, which occurs on
the 12th of April. The Hon. John M. Clayton,
of Delaware, Hon. Joseph Vance, of Ohio, Hon.
John M. Botts, of Virginia, together with sev
eral other from various
sections ofthe Union, will address the assembled
Whigs on the occasion.
Beginning at the wrong end. —In the Penn,
sylvania Legislature, the annual appropriation
for the common schools of that State has been
reduced from $300,000 to $200,000, on account
of the embarrassed condition of its finances.
This, it strikes us. should be the last resort.
The steamship Caledonia left Boston for
Halifax and Liverpool, at 2 P. M. on Monday
last, full of passengers, every birth being en
gaged. She also took out a very large mail.
Reward of Merit.—Capt. Hewett, ot packet
ship Utica, arrived at New York from Havre,
bringing out a chronometer for Capt. Peabody,
and a circle and sextant for each of his officers,
being a present from an Insurance Co. in Paris,
and one in Havre, for saving $50,000 from ship
Constitution, of Portand, foundered at sea.
O’ The American Tract Society have recent
ly remitted SI,OOO for Tract operations among
the Armenians in Turkey; sl,ooofor Ceylon ;
SI,OOO for the General Assembly’s Mission, in
Northern India; 81,000 for the Mission otthe
American Baptist Board in China; and S2OO
lor Belgium.
Marseilles Quilts are now manufactured
in Massachusetts with as much facility as the
common brown sheetings—the difference in price
being only in the cost of the material.
Capture of Andre.—An old soldier of the
revolution, who assisted at the capture of Major
Andre, and was at the battle of Ticonderoga,
was recently killed in Ohio by the upsetting of
his wagon, whieh threw him into a ditch where
there were two feet water —the box ofthe wagon
inverted directly over him. . His name was Fir
nace, and he was 85 years of age.
The above paragraph has been going the
rounds ot the 'newspapers. So far as the cir
cumstance ofthe old soldier’s assisting at the cap
ture of Andre is concerned, it is erroneous. Three
persons only were concerned in that event—John
Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van
Wart all of whom are long since dead.
Revenue.—The amount of duties received
at our Custom House, for the quarter ending
April Ist, is as followe;
January 51,872,270,92
February 52,164,275,65
March,51,695.000,00
T0ta1....55,731,546,67
An octogenarian bachelor, residing in the
village of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has been fined
6| cents for striking with his cane a married
lady who made an assault upon.his modesty I
Sacrilege.—The Deaf and Dumb Institute
on the Bloomingdale Road, New York, was
broken into on Friday night and all the ready
made articles manufactured by the unfortunate
inmates, carried off.
A Hopeful prospect.—The Macon “ Mes
senger,” of the 4th inst., has the following:
It will be observed, from an advertisement in
another column, that a meeting of our citizens
is called by the Mayor, at the Court House, this
afternoon at 4 o’clock. The subject that will
submitted to the Meeting is of primary impor
tance—being the financial condition ol the City.
We are now incumbered with a heavy debt,
amounting in all to some two hundred and seven
ty thousand dollars. The interest is daily accu
mulating, without any prospect of our being
able to pay it, and if some arrangement be not
speedily made to relieve us, we shall be hope
lessly bank,upt. We learn that the City Au
thorities have some considerations unon the
subject to submit to the meeting. We hope
there will be a general attendance. 1
Charge cf Conspiracy.—ln Boston on
Saturday, there was much excitement arising
from the arrest and examination before the Po°
lice Court, of the members ot the firm ot East
man,’Fondey & Co, (Arthur M. Eastman,
Townsend Fondey, and Win. E. Eastman,) on
a charge of conspiracy to cheat, by obtaining a
large quantity of goods from P. S. Shelton, with
an intention to defraud. They obtained goods
to a very’ large amount on the 26th, 27th and
28th of March, and filed their petition to be de
clared insolvents on Friday last, 29th of March.
After a hearing ot the case, Judge Rogers dis
charged the defendants, on the ground that no
criminal intent was made out.
The defendants bought for cash goods to the
amount of $26,000, three days before their fail
ure, which they have not paid for, and a large
portion of which has been shipped. They also
bought on credit goods to nearly as large an
amount.
The Boston Post says: “ Notwithstanding
the discharge of the defendants, the excitemen t
has rather increased, in consequence of an ex
amination, by some ofthe creditors, ofthe books
and correspondence of the defendants. Rumors
ot an extraordinary character, in lelation to
their recent movements here and in New Yotk,
are in circulation.”
Connecticut UfocUon.-Tiie Whig 'triumph!
Additional returns have reached us since our
last publienl> !'>, vhi<-h enable ns Io present the
final resnu , irccnt Whig triumph in
Connecticut.
The Whig Governor has a plurality of 1559
over his Locoloco competitor, who last year
had 2704 over him; difference infavofol the
Whigs 4263.
The Whigs have 14 certainly, ami probably
15 Senators; the Locofocos 6 ; the whole num
ber being 21—against last year, Whigss, Loco
focos 10., Whig gain 10 Senators.
In the House of Representatives, the Whigs
have elected 96, the Locofocos77 ; with 26 ca
ses of no choice. In many ot the towns wnere
this occurred, the town meetings adjourned, de
termined not to elect this year at all. The pre
sent Whig majority will probably he increased,
and is not likely to be diminished bv those yet
to be chosen.
Last year the Representatives stood 113 Lo
cofocos to 75 Whigs—2B no choice, a Whig
gain 0121.
There is no choice ol Governor by the peo
ple, owing to lhe Abolition vote, which runs up
to about 2,000. But Mr. Baldwin will be cho
sen by the Legislature; the U. S. Senators will
be chosen by the Legislature; and for all effi
cient and practical purposes, the political pow
er ofthe State is with the Whigs.
This is the third year in succession that the
choice of Governor has devolved upon the Le
gislature. When no person has a majority' of
all the votes, the two Houses meet in joint bal
lot,and give theirvotes for one ot the two high
est candidates. This is according to lhe Con
stitution.
The vote at the election last Monday, is the
largest ever polled in the State. It will be near
ly or quite 60,000. At lhe Presidential election
in 1840, the number ot votes polled was 56,897.
That was the largest vote ever given in the
State until lhe present, which is’greater by about
3000.
Last year the whole number of votes wass4 -
728 ; in 1842, 51,253.
Prom the New Orleans Dee.
From Mexico.
By the arrival of the schooner John Burr,from
Vera Cruz, we have received intelligence from
Mexico to the 14th March.
Mr. Bankhead, the English Minister Pleni
potentiary, had arrived and was received with
all due honor and respect. Santa Ana tendered
him the hospitalities of his residence at Manga
de Clavo, previous to his entrance in the city
ofMexico. The day succeeding the arrival of
Mr. Bankhead, the Censor, of Vera Cruz, pul
forth the following article, which merits notice,
as it appears to trace out the course which the
Minister must follow, if he be desirous of main
taining the favor ofthe President of Mexico.
“ Mr. Packenham (the late minister) main
tained the strictest relations of friendship with
H. E. General Santa Ana, and elicited the af
fection of the Mexican people by his excellent
qualities. We trust that bis successor will not
lose sight of th is conduct, so worthy »/ imitation,
and that he will not lorgt t that, if the Chief Ma
gistrate of the Republic be firm in his principles
when the defence ot national rights is to be
maintained, he knows how to respect those of
all friendly nations, and to preserve the amica
ble relations and respect due to their worthy'
representatives. With regard to England, the
favorable disposition of H. E. is well known,
and it will, we doubt not, be cherishes by Mr.
Bankhead, whose honorable career is familiar
to us all.”
Mr. Bankhead’s appearance has greatly dis
appointed the Vera Cruztans. They expected
to behold him in splendid habiliments, covered
with decorations and insignia of pomp, instead
ot which he was apparelled in the most simple
manner, with a twenty'-fivecent Campeachy hat
on his head. These people evidently think that
dress makes the man.
Diplomatic negotialions are expected shortly
to commence. General Waddy Thompson
was lo leave in a few days on board the Bain
bridge, on leave of absence. He would proba
bly meet Mr. Bankhead at Jalapa,—the latter
on his way to Mexico, and the former to Vera
Cruz.
Our readerswill he gratified to learn the terms
ofthe Armistice concluded between Texas and
Mexico. They are as follows :
Commission for the Armistice between Mexico and
Texas,
Assembled in the city ot,Sabinas, 15th Feb
ruary, 1844—Brigadier General Antoine Maria
Jauregui, Col. Manuel Maria Landeras and
Messrs. Geo. W. Hockley and Saini. M. Wil
liams, lhe two first appointed by the General-in-
Chief of the Ist Brigade, Don Adrian Wbll, to
treat with the latter as commissioners by the
Department of I exas for the Armistice which is
to be made, and to effect which they agree to
the following articles:
Ist. While the negotiations are being cairied
on in the capital of the republic respecting the
pacification of the Department of Texas, and
which shall be altogether concluded by the Ist
of May, 1844, there shall bean armistice be
tween Mexico and Texas, which shall only be
prolonged in case there may be a probability of
terminating the affairs pacifically.
2d. Whilst th ’se negotiations are pending,
the belligerent troops ol either side shall remain
in the ports they are occupying on lhe line of
operation, without committing hostilities.
3d. In compliance with the preceding article,
neither Mexicans or Texians shall move over
the limits of the respective teiritories on any
pretence, even for looking after their private
affairs. But should it happen that some "citi
zens, in spile of the present agreement should
go from one side to tiie other, this shall not be
considered as breaking the truce, unless acting
under the orders of one of the belligerent chiefs.
4lh. In case Messrs, the Commissioners ol
Texas, find themselves fully' authorized by the
Department which sent them, they can go on to
Mexico to conclude the negotiations referred to
in Article 1. Should not this be the case, they
may return as quickly as possible to give an
account of their mission, that their constituents
may depute other commissioners to arrive in
the capital soon enough fur the purpose ex
plained, on the understanding that they will be
protected on the journey, that they may arrive
with all safety.
And the commissioners having fully agreed
on the articles stipulated for suspension ot hos
tilities, they ex pla inert that they are not suffi
ciently authorized to proceed to Mexico and
conclude the treaty tor an armistice, they would
return home to give an account of their proceed
ings, that their country might nominate such
persons as they might think proper.
And that the present agreement may have full
force, they signed six copies, submitting it, to
the General-in-Chief for approval.
Antonio M. Jauregui,
Manuel M. Landeras,
Geo. W. Hockley,
Sam’l. W. Williams,
Approved, Adrian Woll.
Certified, Mexico, March 9th, 1844.
J. Noriega.
The preceding is included in a despatch trans
mitted by Gen. Woll to the Minister of War.
Since writirg the above, we have received
letters and papers by the schooner Laura Vir
ginia and New York « Inch arrived yesterday.
The French brig of war Afereure, left Vera
Cruz on the 26th March, carrying out Mr.
Gourry de Rosian, |he Secretary of the French
Legation at Mexico, with despatches for his
Government, which are said to be ot great im
portance. Their tenor has not transpired; but
it is believed that they relate to lhe difficulties
occasioned by the lefiisal of the Mexican Go
vernment to comply with the treaty of 1840,
which permitted to all Frenchmen domiciliated
in Mexico, the liberty ot engaging in the retail
trade, under any circumstances, in cotisi leration
ofthe relinquishment by France ol 3,000,000
francs due the French Government, for expen
ses of the war.
It is likewise thought that England, France
and the United States wilf act in concert. If
this be so, the relations between these countries
and Mexico will be speedily settled. In view
ot this opinion, much importance is attached to
rhe interview to take place at Jalapa between
lhe American ami Engii li Mini-lets llenqo
tentiary.
A rumor even prevailed that the tlqjpe powers
would intervene in the settlement ofthe intestine
troubles of Mexico, and would counsel the es
tablishment of a monarchy, in consequence of
the incapability of Mexico’s maintaining a re
publican form of Government. It is needless
to add that we attach no credit whatever to such
reports. Such projects could never receive the
slightest sanction from our minister, Mr.
Thompson.
By this arrival intelligence hasbeen received
to the effect that all the Texan prisoners con
fined at the Castle de Perote have been liberated.
Sincerely do we hope that this may prove true.
We had previously received news that the San
Antonio prisoners were to be released. Report
has it that the Texans were to leave Vera Cruz
forthis port in the schr. Amazon.
The standing army ofthe Mexican Republic
is to be reduced to 22 000 rank and file.
In order to put a complete stop to smuggling
goods into Mexico through Texas, Santa Ana
has directed that all articles taken or captured
be divided among the captors, be they officers
of the government or private citizens.
Shad.—One thousand eight hundred and nine
ty-six shad were caught at one haul at one of the
Fisheries on Thursday last—and of another, on
Wednesday, fifteen hundred shad and thirty
thousand herring were taken at one haul.—
Edenton (N. C.) Sentinel.
A heavy gale was experienced on Lake
Michigan on the 17lh ult. Four vessels were
driven ashor, but, as far as ascertained, no
lives were lost.
The venerable Miss Edgeworth is now in
London, and although 70 yeais of age, looks as
young as she did twenty years ago. She is a
bout publishing a new novel.
Quick work.— A man went to Keene, New
Hampshire, called for pen, ink and paper—foi
ged a draft on the bank—presented it—was
delected—examined—committed, and ail in less
than three hours.
Important Advice.—A gentleman who has
occasion to walk with two ladies and one um
brella, should always go in lhe middle—that se
cures a dry coat to himself and show no partial
ity to either of the ladies.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10.
Recent Elections.—Under this head the I
“ Constitutionalist” ot yesterday perpetrated the
following Editorial in reference lolhe recent Elec
tion in Connecticut;
In Illis state the eleclion was held on the Ist
instant for governor, state officers, anil members
ot the legislature. The whigs have succeeded.
Though the whig candidates for governor and
state officers are not elected by Hie people, yet
they will certainly be chosen by the legislature,
both branches of which will be whig. Instead
ofa defeat, we consider the result of th is election
as a triumph to the democratic principles, and
especially to the democractic principles of free
trade. When we found in the democratic pa
pers of that state, that the party had hoisted the
free trade flag, and that they had made a protec
tive tariff anda revenue tariff the test questions,
for the election, we anticipated a complete de
feat, OAving to the immense interest whieh
would lie brought to bear against equality of
protection an 1 luxation, not only in Connecticut
itself but from the whole manufacturing class
ofthe north. The democratic party knew the
featful odds they had to oppose; but they hon
orably and manfully avowed their principles,
and aiwaited the issue witli the conviction that
they were pursuing the path of duty. The re
sult has been against them; but by so slender
a majority, that they have acquired well
grounded hopes ofa complete triumph oftheir
principles at anot! er trijl. Free trade princi
ples are in the ascendant in Connecticut. In
lhe next contest, which will take place before
the present year expires, the democratic party of
Connecticut will obtain such a victory as will
establish for many years the ascendency of its
principles. The result ofthe recent election is
the sure harbinger of that victory.”
'Such an article as this was indispensably ne.
cessary to keep alive the oft repeated humbug
that, "the democracy of the North are the natural
allies of the Sauth-the Anti-Tariff party, the open
and avowed advocates of Free Trade." The Edi
tor ofthe “ Constitutionalist” has certainly made
out a very clever case, it you take his bare, un
supported aaerlion tor truth. Unfortunately,
however; re some little scraps of evidence
to be gatJreWrom the lale wreck of Locofoism
in Connecticut, which do not fully sustain the
position of this most veracious journal; and as
some of our inquisitive readers may feel some
curiosity to see such an extraordinary document,
as evidence in support of the position that any
Locofoco was ever an advocate ofa Tariff for
protection, we beg leave to introduce the follow
ing extract from a hand bill of that party, in
Middletown, Conn., which, says the N. York Tri
bune, was posted up “ everywhere" on the day of
the recent election. It runs thus:
“ The Whig party have declared Henry
CLAVtobe ‘The Soul and Embodiment of
Whig Principles!’
“This s»qte Henry Clay declared a few"
days since, that he "adhered to lhe principles of
the Compromise Act; and should do so in future,’
which is a cuty of only fUbper cent on all imported
articles — a duty far too low for the wants of the
Government, and lending to an increase ot our
National Debt I •
“This, then, is Whig Policy, and he who
votes for Roger S. Baldwin, votes, indirectly,
for Henry Clay and a National Debt I The
Democrats have now before Congress, a Bill,
fixing the i ate of duties at 30 per cent, discrimi
nating in fiver of the great Body of tub Peo
ple, andatn-ly sufficient for the payment ofthe
present National Debt!—And this is Demo
cratic Policy 11
“FELLOW FREEMEN, WHICH DO
YOU PREFER!”
This, it appears to us, does not exactly sustain
the assertions of lhe Editor of the “ Constitution
alist.” -
But he is a man of truth, doubiless, for he is
dignity and truth and courlesu personified. It
must have been Ziizn that Mr. Calhoun met when
be exclaimed in the Senate chamber, “Ihave
met truth face to face.”
Yet it was very naughty in those Locofocos of
Middletown, to iss’ e such a document, and to
utter jMich language, as that contained in the ex
tract abeve.
The most amusing feature of this article,
however, is that the Editor considers the I ate
election “ a triumph of the democratic principl.-s.”
The Editor is doubtless “ thankful for very small
favors,” and we shall not complain of his party
triumph in Connecticut, but on the contrary
shall congratulate the country most cordially
upon all such triumphs. A triumph. indeed !
He will doubtless have the extreme felicity of
chronicling many such triumphs ere the return
of winter, and perchance by that time he will be
better enabled to calculate their va’tue.
New York Elections. —Onr exchange pa
pers from New York, bring us the most gratify
ing intelligence ot the recent •charter and town
elections lor Supervisors in that State. The
Whig spirit of 1840 seems to be thoroughly
aroused, and victory perches upon their stand
ard almost every where throughout the Empire
Slate. More triumphs for our neighbor ot the
“ Constitutionalist.” w
Pennsylvania andM arylasd.-We are grat
ified to perceive, trom. our exchange papers,
that things are beginning to assume a brighter
aspect, in these two ancient commonwealths, in
reference to their indebtedness. In Pennsylva
nia, the true friends ofthe Slatehavebigh hopes
that something may yet be done by the Legisla
ture to redeem her honor and credit. In Mary
lan I, ive learn that the tax-gatherers are likely
to proceed in the discharge ot their duties, in
some ofthe defaulting counties, without moles
tation. These things augur well for the future,
and we sincerely trust the brightest hopes o! the
debt-payers may be folly realized.
Senator Niles.—The Whig triumph in
Connecticut, it would seem, has had the effect
of curing Senator Niles of his insanity. The
New York Journal of Commerce says:—The
Hon. John M. Niles, of Connecticut, who has
been detailed by ill health, has sos ar recovered
that he passed through the city of New York on
Friday morning on his way tojWashington.
The New York American says:—We learn
directly from a gentleman who saw Mr. Niles,
(Connecticut U. S. Senator,l last week in the
Utica Asylum, that he is still a lunatic. Os
course, as such, he is alike incapable either of
taking his seat or resigning it—not being a re
sponsible moral agent. A contingency con
templated by the Constitution has occurred.
The words of that instrument are “ il vacancies
happen by resignation or otherwise," the Legis
lature of the State “shall then fill such vacan
cies.” This embraces the very case, and the
Legislature must act upon it.
Four hundred slaves to be shot.—By an
at rival from Maianzas, at New York, informa
tion is received that 400 slaves, connected with
the late cuti-tiracy, v.ere in irons, am! would be
shot in a few i.ays. < • e of them had pohsoned
a whole f.ii: ily a: M ’z is.
Southern Literal y Messenger.—We have
from the publisher, the April number ot this al
ways welcome periodical. Possessing, as it does,
peculiar claims upon the support and patron
age ofthe South, we are well pleased to hear of
the advancing prosperity of this work. We
have not yet had leisure for more than a cursory
glance at the present number, but the appear
ance ol a host ot well known contributors, augur
an intellectual repast of more than ordinary
richness.
Religion in America ; or an Account of the Origin
Progress. Relation to the State, and Present Condition
of lhe Evangelical Churches in the United Stales.
With notices of the unevangelici dealuminations. By
Robert Baird, author of “ I’Union de I’Eglise avec
I'Elatdans la Nouvelle Angletetre.'’ 2vols. Harper
<y Brothers.
The author ofthe above work is an esteemed
minister ofthe American Presbyterian Church,
and has had full access to the best and most au
thentic sources of information on the subjects
which he discusses. To all who are interested
in these matters, the book will commend itself;
while to the general reader, it will be found to
furnish a very large amount of interesting and
valuable information with regard to the origin
and the history of the different religious bodies
in the United S ates.
It may be found at the Literary Depot.
Neal’s History of the Puritans, Part IV.
Milman’s Gibbon’s Rome, Parts 7 and S.
Martin Criizzlewit, Part 5.
To the attention of Mr. Holmes we are in
debted for copies of the above serials—too ge
nerally' known to need any commendation f rom
us.
The same gentleman has sent us a copy' of
“ Arthur,” a novel from the French of Eugene
Sue, just published by the Harpers.
Rhode Island.—The Law and Order ticket
was elected throughout, on Wednesday, with
out any serious opposition. Gov. Fenner’s ma
jority is considerably larger than last year.
i The Hon. Henry Clay.—The Charleston
Courier of yesterday says : Mr. Clay received
; the visits of our citizens at the Hibernian Hall,
yesterday, between the hours of 12 M. and 2 P.
M., and was called on by a large number of la
dies and gentlemen. He attended the splendid
ball given in honor of him at the Charleston
Hotel, lastnight; and willleave for North-Caro*
lina, in the Wilmington boat this afternoon.
His visit has been highly gratifying to his per
sonal and political friends, and courteously re
ceived by his political opponents; and he will
doubtless leave us with it pleased remembrance
of our city and the kindly farewell of all.
The Boston Transcript says:-The Massa
chusetts Charitable Mechanic Association pur
chased, a few days since, the Mansion House
and Boot estate, in Bowdoin square, for the sum
of $46,000, for the purp-ose of lhe erection ol a
hall for the uses of the association and for oth
er purposes. The estate comprises aboutl7,ooo
feet of land.
Mr. Clay on a U. S. Bank. —We publish
below, an extract from lhe speech of Mr. Clay,
delivered in Hanover, Va., in June, 1840, in
which his opinions as to a Bank, are clearly
and ably set forth. W c ask fol’ it the attention
of the people. It contadns the true Whig doc
trines:
The currency ofthe country, its stability and
uniform value, are as intimately and indissolu
bly connected with it; the insurance of th-e faith
ful performance of the fiscal services necessary
to the government, should be maintained and
secured by exercising all the powers requisite
to those objects with which Congress is consti
tutionally invested. These fire the great ends
tobeaimed at—the means are of subordinate
importance. Whether these ends, indispensable
to the well-being of both lhe people and govern
ment, are to be attained by sound and safe State
banks, carefully selected, and properly distribu
ted, or by a new Bank of the United States,
with such limitations, conditions and restrictions
ns have been indicated by experience, should be
left to the arbitrament of enlightened pnblic opin
ion.
Candor and truth require me to say that, in
my judgment, whilst banks continue lo exist in
the country, lhe services of a Ban kof the United
States cannot be safely dispensed with. I think
the power to. eslablish such a Bank is a settled
queslion ; settled by Washington and by Madi
son, by forty years by the People,
by the juilicia’ry, and by both ofthe’ great parties
which no long held sway in thi s country. I
know and I respect the contrary’ o; linion which
is entertained in this State. But in my deliber
ate view of the matter, the power to establish
such a bank being settled, and bein;»a necessary
and proper power, the only question is as to the
ex[ edieney of its exercise. Andon- questions
of mere expediency, public opinion, ought to
have a controlling influence. Witliouit banks 1
believe we cannot have a sufficient currency;
without a Bank of lhe United States, I fear
we cannot have a sound currency. But.il is the
end, that of a sound and sufficient curreL'cy, and
afaithful execution ot the fiscal dunes of go
vernment, that should engage the dispassionate
and candid consideiation ot the whole commu
nity. There is nothing in the name of a Bank
of the United States which hasr any magical
charm, or to which any one need be wedded.
It is to secure certain great objects, without
which society cannot prosper; and it contrary
to my apprehension, these objects can be accom
plished by dispensing with the agency ofa Bank
of the United States, and employing that of the
State banks, all ought to rejoice and heartily ac
quiesce, and none would more than I should.
Van B uren and the Tariff of ’2B.—lt is
said, in excuse ofMr. Van Buren’s vote for the
Tariff of 1828, that he was instructed by the Le
gislature of New York. Why not give the
whole truihl Why not make known the fact,
that he wrote home for instructions, and that
they were given him al his own instance? Why
noh make known also the damning fact, that he
b.’.id pledged himself to vote against the Tariff,
and that npon the violation of his pledge, Mr.
Tazewell, the Senator from Virginia, address
ed him with the withering rebuke-»-“ Sir, you
have deceived me once, that was your fault; if
you deceive me again, it will be mine.”— Mobile
Adv. >
A Sign.—We have been shown by a sen tie
man of this city, a letter from a distinguished
citizen ol this Slate now in Kentucky, stating
that a delegation of t' e Locofocos of Ohio, at
lhe head of which was the Speaker of the Ohio
House ol Representatives, has recently visited
Indianapolis, with a view to procure from the
Locofoco members of lhe Indiana Legislature, a
reversal of their opinion, some time ago ex
pressed, in favor of Mr. Van Buren, and at the
same time, a nomination of Gen. Cass. It is
stated that the Ohio delegation declared that un
less this change was made, Mr. Clay would
carry Ohio by 20,000 majority. So much for
Mr. Van Buren’s popularity in the ‘Great
West.’— Mobile Adv.
An after-thought.—The Globe ol Monday
says, speaking of Mr. Clay’s having effected
the Compromise and prevented Gen. Jackson
from proceeding to extremities with South Car
olina.
“ The truth is, Mr. Clay saw that the patri
otic efforts ot General Jackson were about io
effect a satisfactory settlement of the vexed ques
tion, and he made a vi tue ofnecessity, by aban
doning his spurious “American System,”to
which lhe good'people ofthe United States were
unwilling to sacrifice this glorious Union, and
the happy harmony which had hound sistei
States together in bonds of love, until irritated
and disturbed by the interference ot selfish or
mercenary politicians.”
It is not worth our while to expose the false
hood ot this statement. It is known to be false,
by every man of every parly in lhe Union, and
by none better than the editor ofthe Globe him
self. Does the man suppose that the people of
lhe United States have forgotten the proclama
lion or the force bill ? Are these evidences of
lhe “ patriotic efforts of general Jackson” to set
tle this vexed question I—Richmond1 — Richmond Whig.
The Pennsylvania Debt.—We learn from
the Philadelphia papers that the House of Re
presentatives ot Pennsylvania on Wednesday
last took up a resolution from the Senate, pro
viding for an adjournment ot the Legislature
sine die on the 18th inst., and by a vote of 62 yeas
io 35 nays so amended as to provide “ that the
Legislature will not adjourn siwe die until the
bills providing for the payment of the interest
on the State debt and lhe sale of the Public
Works be adopted or i ejected.” This wascop
sidered at Harrisburg as a very important de
cision, and hopes were entertained that suitable
bills, having these objects in view, would pass
both houses before an adjournment could be had.
—Nat. Ini.
From Canton— Eight Days. Later—The fine
ship Helena, Capt. Benjamin, arrived at New
York on Thursdav last, having leit Canton on
30th of December. Capt. Benjamin brings no
papers. Letters of the 29th December state
that every thing remained the same as they
were at the lime of the sailing ot the Stephen
Lunnan.
. On Dits From Washington.—The New
York Journal ol Commerce, a kind of Tylerish
organ, gives the following:
From a Special Correspondent.
Washington, 30th March, 1844.
Tnis minting Mr. Calhoun had his first inter
view with he President, at least his first official
interview. The President was any t ling but
happy atu ■ the sepaiaiion, it is said. I have no
doubt the . let is tii.it Mr. Calhoun will not con
nect Oregi n wim i’ixas, and the President is
fully awa ■ that v. iiliout tlic union ot those
tao meas .- i .. i- ini be carried. Since
it was first public.. announced to lhe country
that a treaty with Texas was about to be sent to
the Senate, the mind of the President has ap
parently dwelt upon nothing else. He has made
it the theme of his conversation with all who
approach him. The w’hole country have confi
dence in the honorand integrity of Mr. Calhoun,
and hence when it was known he was nomina
ted for the Department of State, men of all par
ties were satisfied with the appointment. The
course ot Mr. Calhoun will not in the least
disappoint them.
The last newspaper published in the town
where he resides, on the day before he left his
house, announces that he will not mingle in
any Cabinet matters beyond his own Depart
ment, and will in no way identify himself'with
the general measures ofthe Administration. At
Charleston, in his address to his friends, he an
nounced it as his fixed-determination to take
the State Department only to perfect the
foreign pending negosiations with powers—
that in no otherway would he connect
himself with the administration of President
Tyler,—and that as soon as those negotiations
were concluded and the Treaties confirmed or
rejected by the Senate, he should again retire to
private life. It is therefore plainjihat he will
not help Presideni Tyler to a re-election. The
Madisonian ot last nigh threatens another high
functionary, meaning no doubt the Attorney
General Nelson.
Novel Freight.—The French brig Marshal
Moreau, Captain Laneier, arrived at Philadel
phia on Sunday evening from the coast of Africa.
The Moreau has on board two beautiful zebras,
several large apes, a splendid Bengal tiger, for
Driesbach, and an enormous ribbed-nose baboon,
all imported by the proprietors of Raymond’s
extensive menagerie. The Moreau was for
merly a Spanish slaver, called the San Joseph,
was taken by a Frendh corvette about eighteen
months since, and carried into Martinique,
where she was purchased by her present own
ers. She still exhibits on her decks evidences
of the horrid traffic in which she was formerly
engaged.
That’s a Fact.—ls rich, says somebody, il is
easy enough to conceal our wealth, but if poor
it is not quite so to conceal our poverty.
Weshall find it less difficult to hide one thousand
guineas than a hole in our coat.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 11.
Congressional Election.—A few days
since, we copied from Rome “Courier,” a
communication addressed to the Whigs ol that
District, urging them to take early steps to nom
inate a candidate for Congress—which, at lhe
time, we commended to the Whigsof other dis
tricts. In calling the attention of the Whigs,
in the several districts, to this subject again, we
subjoin the arrangement of each district, and
beg leave to urge them to a speedy nomination,
in each district, oftheir most prominent and ef
ficient men—good and true Whigs, who will
take the field, andavow and elucidate theirprin
ciples before the people. We need not add a
word upon the importance of such seleetions as
will best serve to harmonize with the views and
feelings oftheir respective districts: all prudent
men know and feel the necessity of such a poli
cy, particularly at thi’ greatcrisis in the affairs
ot the nation, on lhe eve of an animated contest
for the Presidency. Let, then, a feeling of har
mony and concession animate the district con
ventions, in their selections of Congressional
candidates, and the most happy results will
crown our efforts in this important canvass.
If the several districts act promptly, and hold
their respective conventions as early as the first
of June, they might with great propriety suggest
to the State Convention to be holden on the
fourth Monday in June, at Milledgeville, some
suitable and proper person, to be nominated tor
elector of their districts; a suggestion which, if
not finally adopted, could not fail to receive a
respectful consideration by that body. In this
selection also, due regard should be had to bring”
ing forward active and efficient men, who will
take the field, and spare no pains to make their
principles known and understood by the voters.
In calling the attention of our Whig friends
to this subject, we are atone actuated by one de
sire, for the success of our principles, which can
be triumphantly' maintained in Georgia, by a
well directed and concerted effort. Indeed we
have strong hopes that Georgia will be the Ban
ner State ; certainly, if her zealous Whig sons
enter the field as becomes them and their cause,
she will be second only to’Kentucky.the residence
of the great American commoner, and Farmer
of Ashland. On this subject, however, we feel
a lively interest, for as early as October last, in
announcing the triumph ot our distinguished
Chief Magistrate, we entered Georgia for the
Banner, and if our Whig brethren will cordial
ly unite in a bold effort for the prize, we may
even outstrip Kentucky in her efforts to place
her favorite son in an office which, though con
fessedly the first in the world, cannot add any
thing to his fame.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Camden Glynn Wayne
Mclntosh Liberty Bryan
Chatham Effingham Bulloch
Montgomery Tattnall Appling
Ware Laurens Emanuel
Lowndes Telfair Thomas
SECOND DISTRICT.
Houston Decatur Early
Baker Lee Randolph
Stewart Sumter Dooly
Muscogee Marion Macon
Irwin Pulaski
THIRD DISTRICT.
Harris Talbot Crawford
Twiggs Upson Momoe
Bibb Pike
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Troup Meriwether Heard
Coweta Fayette Campbel
Carroll Henry Newton
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Dade Walker Chattooga
Floyd Cass Paulding
Murray' Gilmer Cherokee
Cobb DeKalb Gwinnett
■ Forsyth
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Union Lumpkin Habersham
Rabun Franklin Hall
Jackson Madison Elbert
Clark Walton
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Morgan Greene Taliaferro
Putnam Jasper Butts
Jones Baldwin Wilkinson
Oglethorpe
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
Wilkes Lincoln Columbia
Richmond Burke Scriven
Jefferson Warren Hancock
Washington
The Clay Ball.—The Charleston Courier
,of yesterday says:—Numerous and imposing as
was the procession which greeted Mr. Clay on
his arrival in our qity, the Ball, in honor of that
illustrious statesman, at the Charleston Hotel,
on Monday night, was still more successful and
magnificent. The managers were of both po
litical parties; and Whigs and Democrats uni
ted in pleased and generous association and
great numbers, to do honor to the distinguished
guest. The spacious Ball Room was elegantly
and tastefully arranged for the occasion, the
walls being hung with portraitsol revolutionary
worthies, and the columns adorned with wreaths
of evergreens and flow’ers, and emblematical
devices of all the States of the Union—and the
fine piazza in front ol the Hotel was also fitted
up for the promenade and the dance. Between
9 and 10 o’clock, the company besan to assem
ble, and lhe throng was immense, filling the ball
room, the piazza and the passage way on the
second floor of the Hotel, and presenting a spec
tacle of beauty and fashion, to be compared,
in .brilliancy and numbers, only with the cele
brated Ball given in honor ol Gen. La Fayette.
A little after 10 o’clock, Mr. Clay, attended by
the Managers, entered the Ball Room, and spent
considerable time with the company, enjoying
social converse, and receiving the homage of
beamy to greatness and, worth. The dancing
was kept up until a late hour, to the music of
two excellent bands, one in the Ball Room and
the other in the piazza; and the finest spirit and
and good feeling animated and harmonised the
vast assemblage. The Ball closed with a
splendid supper, prepared in a style of elegance,
highly creditable to the proprietor of the Hotel
The Excursion.— At 10 o’clock A. M., yester
day, Mr. Clay, attended by lhe Committees of
Reception and Arrangements, and his escort,
made an excursion in the steamboat Charleston
Capt. Barden, to view the fortifications and
beauties of our harbor.
The Departure.—Al 3 o’clock, P. M., Mr.
Clay' took his departure in the Wilmington
steamer for North Carolina, tl ere to receive new
demonstrations ol love and honor for his virtues
as a man, and his illustrious services as a patriot
and statesman.
The rec-piton and entertainment of Mr. Clay’,
in our cit)', have been ot the most gratifying
character— he has received nCarolina welcome,
a m welcome—a welcome gushing
warm ftoin ou.hem hearts, and bestowed with
out stint or measure, on one universally ac
knowledged to be worthy of all honor.
Death of a Member of Congress.—The
National Inte.ligencer of Monday says: Let
ters were receivedin this city on Saturday, an
nouncing the death of the Hon. Hemau Allen
Moore, one ofthe Representatives in Congress
from the State of Ohio. He left this city a
week or two ago, in consequence of ill-health,
for his residence at Columbus. He grew worse
as he proceeded, but lived to reach his home,
where he died on the 3d instant.
His death will be announced to-day in the
House of Representatives 6y one ol his col
leagues.
We learn from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
that the Hon. Almon H. Read passed through
that place on the 4th instant, in extreme ill
health, on bis way home, being able to travel
only by easy stages of a few hours a day.
The Test.—The Richmond Whig says:—
The Buckeye addressed the people of Bucking
ham on Thursday last, in a telling speech.
After he concluded, some doubt having been ex
pressed whether he was in fact a Blacksmith, he
was invited to the shop ot a Locofoco to under
go the test. Pulling offhis coat and rolling up
his sleeves, he, in a very few minutes, turned
out a beiutiful horse-shoe; whereupon the own
er generously conceded that lie was “ a sharp
lad."
53* We learn from the New York papers of
Thursday, that the ship Martha Washington,
Capt. I y'ler, on Wednesday, while beatingdown
the bay came in contact with the Britirii brig 1
Dolphin, Capt. Kelley. The latter was badly ’
shattered, and sunk almost immediately, her ,
hands being rescued by lhe crew of the Martha i
Washington. The M. W. lost her jib boom, 1
and sustained other damages which she returned
to N. Y to repair. ,
Clay Club of Wrlghtaboro.
Agreeable to previous notice, a portion of the
citizens of Wrightsboro and its vicinity, met at
this place on Saturday the 6th inst., for the pur
pose of forming a Clay Club. The mcet.ng
being culled to order, on motion of H. W.
Massengale, Henry Winfrey, Esq. was appoin
ted chainnan ; who, upon being conducted to
his seat, explained the object ol the meeting, in
an appropriate and zealous appeal to the au
dience. A motion was then made by Dr. L.W
Price, that a committee of five be appointed by
the chair, to draft a preamble and resolutions
and to submit the same for the consideration ot
the meeting.
The following were appointed that committee,
Dr. J. W. Price, S. Roberts, S. Harrison, Tlios.
Seay and Henry W. Massengale; who having
retired for a few minutes, returned and reported
through their chairman as follows:
■'u C ’ *l‘ ec * t ‘ zens 01 Wrightsboro, in connection
with others, for the purpose of aiding and
strengthening the cause of truth and virtue, and
the advancement of our political rights and
principles, have determined on supporting the
illustrious statesman and patriot,'Henry Clay
ol Kentucky, for the Presidency. His untiring
zeal for the people’s rights, his ability as a
Statesman, and, above all, his long tried hones
ty, constrains us to acknowledge hisjustclaims
to the suffrage ol every true Whig and patriot.
We look to him as the man whose wisdom
honor and integrity will be as safeguards to our
civil and religious rights, as guarantied to us
by the Constitution. And we believe, that our
country, now groaning under the miseries ol
anarchy and misrule, inflicted on hertor aseries
of years, under the influence of his magic band,
will again resume strength, maintain Tier vir
tue, support her dignity and defend her rights.
We, therefore, for"the further success of our
cause, mutually agree to rally under his banner;
and for the purpose of strengthening us in our
designs, as far as we may be able, to be the ac
tive abettors of the true Whig principles.
We therefore resolve to form ourselves into
a society, to be called the Wrightsboro Clay
Club, and would cordially invite all the friends
and supporters of Whig principles lo unite
with us.
Resolved, That the officers of the Society
shall consist ot one President, two Vice Presi
dents, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding
Committee, and a Treasurer.
Tiie above preamble and resolution being
read and adopted, an opportunity was offered to
any who might wish to address the meeting; up
on which a very appropriate address was had
from Dr. J. W. Price. No one else following,
a motion was made to elect the officers for the go
vernment ofthe Society, agreeable to the first
resolution ; when, upon ballot, it was found that
. H. W. Massengale was elected President, and
Henry Winfrey and Doctor J. W. Price, Vice
Presidents, and Mr. George T. Bartow, Secre
tary, and J. W. Price, Sullivan Harrison and
George T. Barton, Corresponding Committee.
The following resolutions were offered and
adopted.
Resolved, That a subscription be made by the
Club, tor a suitable number ot copies of the
Clay Banner.
Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting
be published in the Chronicle & Sentinel and
Whig Banner.
There being no farther business before the
meeting, it adjourned to the 3d Saturday' of the
present inst.
HENRY W. MASSENGALE, Pres.
George T. Burton, Secretary.
O'The Baltimore Committee have selected
. “Canton,” the place where the Convention o
1840 was held, wheron to hold the great Whig
Ratification Convention of May 2d, 1844. This
spacious and beautiful place is already known
to thousands who visited Baltimore four years
ago. ’
O’ The Rochester Advertiser says, prepara
tions are being made fur the purpose of securing
the location of a Naval Depot, at the mouth of
'' the Genesee. Oswego is also working diligent
ly to secure the same thing.
Education makes Whigs.—ln Marietta Col
lege, one of the best institutions of the West,
there are one hundred students many of whom
are voters, and all near of age. Ol this 100,
there are 98 Whigs, one Loco, and one Tyler
man.
§j”Gov. Briggs of Massachusetts, stated in a
temperance meeting held at the Boston State
House, that in eighty-one townships ot that State,
thirteen thousand drunkards had been restored
to sobriety through the instrumentality of Wash
ingtonian eflort.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Late from India.
The Gibraltar Chronicle, ot Mar.h 5, brought
by the barque Douglass, Capt. Townsend, from
Palermo and Gibraltar, contains a brief summa
ry of the news by the ovet land mail, the advices
from Bombay being to the Ist ol February.
The principal intelligence is that hostilities
had broken out in Gwalior between the British
and the natives (Mahrattas.) Three battles had
been fought, which were vigorously contested
by the Mahrattas, and in which, though they
were defeated, they inflicted severe loss on the
British. The list gives 141 as the number of
the latter killed, and 866 wounded. The Mah
rattas are said to have had between tour'and
five thousand killed and wounded.
The following English officers were killed or
died oftheir wounds:—General Churchill, Col.
Sanders, Major Crommelin, Captains Stewart,
iVlagrath and Cobban, Lieutenants Newton and
Leaths and Ensign Bi ay. Forty officers were
wounded.
The fort of Gwalior surrendered to the British
after the defeat of the Mahrattas, and several of
the native chiefs made lheir submission.
The Governor General had declared that the
country would not be occupied by the British,
and that the requisitions of the Anglo-Indian
Government would be limited to the establish
ment of a subsidiary foi ce, to be officered solely by
the English, but maintained by the Gwalior
Government. The British troops were to retire
immediately from the country.
There was nothing new from Scinde or lhe
Punjaub.
grtf- The following eloquent and learned ad
dress, says the Savannah Republican, appears
in lhe North Carolina papers. For modesty
and classic eloquence we have never known it
surpassed. Dr. Andrew Shanklin, the writer, is
the author of the celebrated law lor the protec
tion ol Terrapins, passed by the late N. C.
Legislature, an t is a Democratic candidate for
Congress from the Bth Congressional district ot
that Stale, Baldy, another Democrat, is his
opponent. The Doctor’s success will be agreat
Democratic triumph—he will be another bril
liant ornament to an assembly in which Wel
lei, McConnell, and Mr. Duncan are now bur
ning and shining lights:
To the Freemen of the Bth, Congressional District
of North Carolina
Fellow Citizens:—When, in the course of
political events, it becomes necessary that one
Democtat should oppose and the stump
against a brother Democrat, a decent respect for
the wishes ofthe party compels him to declare
ihecau-es which led to t(ie conflict.
Experience has long since proved that as it is
well Cais.o is dead no longer to trample on the
liberties oi ins founliy,so it is far better Andrew
Sluinkhu, i- ai.vc t<: iffeerve lhe liberties olhis
country umannslied forever. I hold these truths
to be self-evident; that every man in general
has his peculiar privileges, and every democrat
in par-ticular; that each has an unalienable
right to run for Congress upon his oYn hook,
whether he be from Hyde or trom Nash, from
the sea-board or the mountains, from the Al
leghany or the Atlantic; that no man should
yield his claims too far to the dictation of party
caucuses and party conventions, but standing in
his own shoes he ought frequently to proclaim
his own nomination. I hold further, that he
deserves best of his country who best promotes
the interest of his country, and who dees the
greatest good t.i the greatest number, whether
that number be composed of men or women,
fish or flesh, fowls or terrapans, that Hyde and
the lower counties have an interest to be repre
sented in Congress which no man but himself
can understand, and it were as idle to send a
memberfrom Nash for this purpose as it were to
send an Arab to legislate for the moon.
With these views, fellow-citizens, with my
past public services befeore you, and with a
firm reliance upon your intelligence I humbly
submit inyclaims betoreyoutor a seat in the
next Congress of the U. States. Remember the
blood-staiued fields ofour revolution—remember
the richinheritancebeqeathed byyour illustrious
sires—remember the lies of patriotism, the
plains of Marathon and the gory heights of Wa
terloo—remember the Spartan band that stood
atthe straits ot Gibralter and shook the Ethiop’s
throne, and let these remind you oi your duty lo
your country. Give me but your support and
victory shall be ours, and then shall the world
and every body else know that as Napoleon had
his Wellington, as Ceesar had his Brutus, so
Badly lias had his Shanklin.
I am, fellow-citizens, respecfully yours,
A ’ SHANKLIN.
The Florida War. —Gen, Clinch, who com
manded the U. S. forces in Florida at the out
break ofthe Indian War in that territory, sta- .
tes, that a thousand men, and twenty thousand
dollars, if applied in time in Florida, would
effectually have prevented the occurrence of !
that war, which is said to have cost not less
than forty millions of dollars, the expenditures
of which was rendered necessary by the im- 1
becility of the Jackson Van Buren administra
tion, and which is always deducted from the
aggregate of their expenditures, as for "extraoi -
dinary” purpose*. — Lynchburg Virga. i
The Whig Triuifiph in New York.
We publish to-day some gratifyingevidences
of the reawakening of the people in the great
Stale of New York. The Albany Evening
Journal of Thursday, has the following on the
subject:
Elections go just as they did in 1840!
she Town meetings, in this State, furnish the
gratifying assurance liial popularopinion isrun
ning in the channels ol 1840. The same Whig
spirit is abroad. “That same Old Coon” is
going his rounds. The February Meetings on
■vr sllowe, l a clever gain from the February
± e h' n * B ? 2 3 ' ’ rhe Meetings, al’
r» k e -th * a d ta^en lheir coats off came in
„Gn.i. ey , provelhatour ,rien < Js had deter-
M "to,, redee ’ n ,L he Sla,e ’ 8,,t at April
Meetings, as in 1840, the Whigs swept the State*
I hey annihilated Van Burenlsm ! That “ Young
Lwn on West, having been “stirred up” with
a long pole, roars as louff as ever!
New York is therefore redeemed! We have
the same authornv that lhe t.wn meetings fur
mshed in 183/, 1838 and 1840, that we shall car
ry the State triumphantly in November To
ourfriends abroad, we say, write New York
down upon your tablets for HEN UY CLAY
The New York American, of Thursday eve
ning, says:
ANOTHER BLAST FROM THE BUGLE.
The first shouts of victory are coming in from
the interior cities, where elections occurred on
Tuesday
WHIG VICTORY IN HUDSON. *
Hudson, N. Y., Tuesday, April 2—P. M.
The Columbia Republican-»Extra says:—
—The City of Hudson, in Mr. Van Buren’s
own county, sends greeting to all good Whigs
throughout lhe Union :
“ We have met the enemy and they are ours I"
After a heated and closely contested election
for city officersthe Whigs are Triumphant! and
we have elected Cyrus Curtiss Mayorof the city,
to' a . majority of 80 votes. Last year, Col.
Darling, the Locofoco candidate, was elected
over his Whig competitor by a majority 0f25
votes—Whig gain 105!
eare almost surprised at the result ourselves;
but, when it is recollected that the contest was
narrowed down to HENRY CLAY, or Martin
van Bun n, all wonder ceases.
The Whigs have secured a majority ot the
Common Council. Thps we go.
In Schenectady, the Locotoeos ran no ticket
tor Mayor, but made fight for members of the
Common Council, and were signally beaten.
In Renssalaer county, the town electtons on
I uesday resulted largely in favorof the Whigs,
1 J ust tu ™ ,n K'he tables since last year; for where
asr Su pervisorstheti stood 10Locos
■ to 6 Whigs, they now stand 10 Whigs to 6 Lo-
I CCS.
, From Westchester county, we hear that in
nine towns heard from, all Locofoco last year
Whig Supervisors had been elected in three’
t viz : Westchester, Greenburgh and North Cas
t tie; and at White Plains, the Loccfbcosonly
I succeeded by 7 majority. Twelve towns are
yet to be heard from.
' Correspondence of Evening Journal.
. Waterford, April 4,1844.
1 Thurlow Weed, Esq.—Sir—We had our
■ town meeting yesterday and elected a Whig
1 Supervisor, Town Clerk, Collector, and several
other Whigs. Justice, tie. Last year Locoloco
majority 45.
Correspondence of the Tribune.
THE PEOPLE AWAKING' VICTORY'
• VICTORY!
I Ohl Duchess Forever—Another most glorious
Triumph.
> Office of tne Journal and Eagle, I
, Poughkeepsie, April 3. J
Friend Greely:— Our Town Elections took
place yesterday, and 1 hasten to announce to
you the most BRILLIANT VICTORY ever
gained by the Whigs in the Spring, showing
how the ball is rolling on lor “ Harry of the
1 West," and sweeping all before it.
In Poughkeepsie we have triumphed beyond
onr most sanguine expectations. Our majority
f is ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
-3 SEVEN I
j In the county we have done still better. Os
the eighteen towns we have carried ELEVEN
’ certain, and probably twelve. Never did the
Whigs do their duty better, and never did the
Locofocos contend with more desperation.
Our gain in the popular vote is still much
; greater than in the number ol towns. “Glory
r enough for one day.” Yours, truly,
ISAAC PLATT.
GREENE COUNTY DISENTHRALLED!
Correspondence of the Tnbu ne.
• Catskill, April 3, 1844.
The election for town officers which took
’ place j'e.-h rday has brought Greene county right
1 side up, The have elected Sixovl of the
> Eleven Supervisors, giving them a majority ot
r one in the Board. Last year il stood 6 Loco to
5 Whig. The town of Hunter has elected a
Whig Supervisor. This is something unparal
leled in the memory of the oldest inhabitants ol
Greene county.
This is only a specimen of what the Whigs
intend to do next Fall in this county.
Locofoco stock has fallen 50 per cent, since
Monday. Yours, in haste, S. J. O.
Correspondence of the Tribune.
FIRST GUN FROM ULSTER.
Sauoeuties, April 3, 1844.
Our election tor town officers came off yester
day. Tiie Van Buren party made a powerful
effort to carry their Supervisor/ but they were
met by indomitable W higs and gallant Union
boys with an unbroken lionl and an unconquer
-1 able spirit. Tiie result is a glorious and over
whelming defeat of the Van Buren candidate
1 for Supervisor. John V. L. Overbagh, the
Whig candidate, is<elecled by 186 majority over
1 Snyder Loco. This result has electrified the
Whigs and filled the Van Burcnites with dis
appointment and dismay. One year ago last
. Fall, Mr. Russel), lhe Van Buren candidate for
Congress carried the town by 184 majority.
Now look at the result this Spring and last Fall
—B6Loco last Fall—lß6 Whig this Spring.
This is truly a Whig avalanche; it has cover
ed the Van Burenites with confusion. This re
suit will prepare the way for a more glorious
victory next Fall lor the Great Statesman of the
West. His name is a tower ot strength. The
very mention of hi- t ame already excites en
thusiasm. We wilt now prepare for the Fall
. contest. Yours, in haste, A. B. D. W.
OLD ORANGE SPEAKS.
Correspondence of the New York Tribune.
Goshen, April 2, 1844—9 P. M.
Our election lor town officer* in this town has
just closed. We have done well. Elected Su
pervisor by .'M majority, and Justice by 10.
Last year Loco by .'rom 40 to 60 We have
strong hopes ol carrying a majority of the Super
visors in Old Orange. Indeed, there seems but
little doubt of it. 1 see by your paper that
things took well in Co'.inceelicut.
Your fellow laborer, C. M.
In addition to the above, the Albany Evening
Journal contains letters giving accounts ofthe
triumphs of rhe Whigs in Washington, Seneca,
Cayuga, Ontario, Onondaga, and Jefferson
counties—all by the most gratifying majorities,
and all going to prove that the Whig spirit is
up, and is as, indomitable and invincible now as
in 1840.
The Albany Evening Journal upon these re
sults says:
Attention !—by Stales!—Right-wheel!
The several Slates of lhe Union, as they come
into line, promptly obey this order, wheeling oft'
to the right under the Clay Banner and tor a
Tariff. The State of Maryland performed this
evolution v ith miliary precision. Connecticut
followed as gallantly as she used to fall into the
Wing line m lhe best days of the Revolution.
New Yotk. after her legions were marshalled,
has taken i er place at the side of Maryland.ami
Conneclii i:', where she stands ready to do battle
for the Whig cause to which her Schuyler, her
Wille: an. heir compatriots perilled lheir lives
in 1776.
Buffalo, March 31,1844.
i, Such a snow storm and gale as we had on
Friday night would have done credit to the
most boisterous day of last winter: navigation
is open by fits and starts ; the Chesapeake made
her way into port on Friday evening, and the
Gen. Scott got out. The Fairport, which has
been frozen in, up lhe bay, for nearlj’ two weeks,
took French leave during lhe storm, and has
“gone to parts unknown.” /
The snow is now over a foot deep, and we
have good sleighing. Last night was the cold
est of tiie season ; the creek and canal having
frozen to the thickness of five-eighths of an inch.
Passengers bound tor the West are quite plen
ty for the time of year. The propeller Her
cules, Capt. Wheeler, left this morning for Chi
cago, with a full load of passengersand a fair
share of freight; but the ice in the bay puts
something ol a chill on navigation -
The Charleston Mercury says: “There is
little doubt thai we shall succeed in the next
election.” As the Mercury belongs just about
as much to one party as lo another, we should
like to know what party it means when it says
“W’e.” “ Hark I” exclaimed Talleyrand, during
the revolution of the three days, “ the tocsin
sounds I We triumph I” “We! Who?" ex
claimed one of his friends. “Hist!” said the
old diplomatist, “1 will tell you tomorrow.”—
Louisville Journal.
A Clay man and no mis take.— The Savannah
Republican says:—We were shown a letter
from a gentleman residing in oneof the Southern
seabord counties of Georgia, which says, “I
wish you to remember that 1 have been astrong
Clay man for twelve years—very strong lor
eight years—a little-stronger lor four years, and
for the present unaccountably strong and grow
ing stronger everyday.”
Catching a Bachelor.—" Why don’t you get
married,” said a young lady lo a rather elderly
bachelor friend.
“ I have been trying for the last ten years to
find someone who would be silly enough to
have me,” was the reply.
“ 1 guess you havn’t been up our way,” v as
the insinuating rejoinder. — Boston Transcript.
The Transcript is edited by a lady.
New Reading.— The magical letters, O. K.,
now mean “ Oil for Klay I”