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Was with it. He seemed pleased with my praises, and said it was a proof of taste, for she was perhaps one of the most lovely women that ever existed. The emperor usually played cards ev ery evening, and when we were tired of looking at the miniatures, &c., he said, “ Now we will go the cottage and play whist.” We all walked down together. Our little whist-tahle was soon formed, but the cards did not run smoothly, and Na poleon desired Las Cases to seat himself at a side-table, and deal them un il they dealt easily. While the grand chamberlain was thus employed, Napoleon asked me what my robe de balle was to be. 1 must mention that on my father’s refusal to allow me to go to the ball, which was to be given by Sir George Cockbum, I had implored the emperor’s intercession for me. He mbst kindly asked my father to let me go, and his request of course was instant ly acceded to. I now ran up stairs to bring my dress down to him. it was the hist bail-dress I had ever possessed, and 1 was not a lit tle proud of it. He said it was very pretty, and the cards being now ready, 1 placed it on the sofa aud sat down to play. Napole on and my sister were partners, and Las Cases fell to my lot. We had always hitherto played lor sugar plumbs, but to night Napoleon said, “ Mademoiselle Betsee, I will bet you a Napoleon on the game.” I had had a pagoda presented to me which made up the sum of all ray word ly riches, and I said I would bet him that against his Napoleon. The Emperor agreed to this, and we commenced playing. He seemed deter mined to terminate this day o lespieglerie as he had begun it. Beeping under his cards as they were dealt to him, he en deavored whenever he got an important one, to draw olf my attention, and then slily held it up for my sister to see. 1 soon discovered this, and calling him to order, told him he was cheating, and that if he continued to do so I would not play. At last he revoked intentionally, and at the end of the game tried to mix the cards together to prevent his being discovered ; but I started up, and seizing hold of his hands I pointed out to him and the others what he had done. He laughed until the tears ran out of his eyes, and declared that he had played fair, but that I had cheated, aud should pay him the pagoda ; and when I per sisted that he had revoked, he said I was mechante and a cheat; and catching up my ball dress from off the sofa, he ran out of the room with it, and up to the pavilion, leaving me in terror lest he should crush and spoil all my pretty ro ses, I instantly set off in chase of him, but he was too quick, and darting through the marquee, he reached the inner-room and locked himself in. I then commenced a scries of the most pathetic remonstrances and entreaties, both in English and in French, to per suade him to restore me my frock, bm in vain; he was inexorable, and 1 had the mortification of hearing him laugh at what I thought the most touching~oi my appeals. 1 was obliged to return without it. He afterwards sent down woid he intended to keep it, and that 1 might make up my mind not to go to the ball. 1 lay awake half trie night, and at last cried myself to sleep, hophighe would relent in the morning; but the next day wore away, and I saw no signs of my pretty frockt. I sent several entreaties in the course of the day, but the answer was that the emperor slept, and could not be disturbed. He had given these orders to teaze me. At last the hour arrived for our depar ture for the valley. The horses were brought round, and I saw the little black boys ready to start with our tin cases, without alas ! my beautiful dress being in them. I was in despair, and hesitated wheth er I should not go in my plain frock, rather than not go at all; when to my great joy I saw the emperor running down the lawn to the gate with my dress. “ Here, Miss Betoee, I have brought your dress, I hope von are a good giri now, and that you will like the ball ; and mind that you dance with Gourgaud.” General Gourgaud was not very hand some, and I had some childish feud with him. And I was delighted at getting back my dress, and still more pleased to find that my roses were not spoiled. He said he had ordered them to be ar ranged, and pulled out in case any might have been crushed the night before. Napoleon walked by the side of our horses until he came to the end of the bi-idle-road which led to the Briars. He then stopped and remarked on the beau ty of a house which was situated in the V&lley beneath us, asking to whom it be longed and expressing his intention of going down to see it. Las Cases accompanied the emperor down the side of the mountain, and we went on to the ball. He mentioned the next day how charmed he had been with the place, and that he had ridden home on a beautiful little active pony belong ing to the owner, Mr.’ Hogdson. The only exception-of the emperor’s habits of regularity when with us was in bis hour of rising. In the midst of our garden was a very large pond of transparent water full of gold and silver fish ; and near this was the grapery formed of trellis work, quite covered with vines of every description. At the end of the grapery was an arbor, and over which a treillage of grapes also clustered in the richest profusion. To this spot which was so sheltered as to be cool in the most sultrv weather. Napole on was much attached. He would some times convey his papers there as early as four o’clock in the Tnornin?, and employ ; dfeoself until breafciaat-ume m writing, | and when tired of his pen, in dictating to Las Cases. No one was ever permitted to intrude upon him when there ; and this ltttle at tention was ever after gratefully remem bered. From this prohibition, howev er, I was exempt, at the emperor’s own desire. I was considered as a privileged person; even when he was in the act of dictating a sentence to Las Cases, he would come and answer my call, ‘‘Come and unlock the garden-door and I was always admitted and welcomed with a smile. I did not abuse this indulgence, and seldom intruded on him when in his re treat. I remember, however, one day a very pretty young lady came from the valley to pass the morning with us. She was dying to see Napoleon, but the heat was very oppressive, and he had retired to Ins arbor to avoid it. I hesitated tor some time between the fear of disturbing him and disappointing my friend; blit at last Miss C ap peared so mortified at not seeing him, that i ran down to the garden and knock ed at the door. For a long while I received no answer, but at length by dint of thumping, and calling to the emperor, i succeeded in waking him. He had fallen asleep in the aroor over his papers. He came to the door and asked me what 1 wanted. 1 said, “Let me in, and yon shalll know.” He replied, “ No; tell me first what it is, and then you shall come in.” 1 was then obliged to say I wished to introduce a young lady to him : lie de clined seeing her, and desired me to say he was unwell, ito and him she would oe dreadfully disappointed, and that she was so pretty. “Not like the lady I was obliged tc say agreeable tilings to yesterday I” I assured him she was quite a differ ent person, being very young and hand some. At last I succeeded in getting the door opened, as soon as I found it unlocked, 1 ran up to tlie table where he had been writing, and snatched up his papers. “Now,” 1 said, “for your ill nature in keeping me so long at the door, I shall keep these, and then I shall find out all the secrets.” He looked a little alarmed, when he saw the papers in my hand, and told me to put them down instantly; but 1 refus ed and set off round the garden flourish ing my trophies. At last he told me if I did not give them up, he would not be my friend; and 1 relinquished them. I then took hoid of the emperor’s hand for fear he should escape, and led him to the house where we found Miss C . 1 introduced her to Napoleon, and he de lighted her excessively by his compli ments on her beauty, <fcc. When she was going away, he walked down the lawn and lifted her on the uorse. He told me after she was gone, that she was a very pretty girl, but had the air of a merchande des modes. The golden fruit in this modern gar den of the Hesperides, had for its dragon an old Malay slave, named Toby, who had been captured and brought to the island as a slave many years before our arrival. The old fellow had lived in the garden forty years without once crossing its boundary. He was an original and rather an interesting character. A por ted despot in his domain, he never al lowed his authority to be disputed ; and the family stood almost as much in awe of him as they did of the master of the Briars himself. Napoleon took a fancy to old Toby, and told papa he wished lo pnrehase him and give him his freedom ; but for some political reason it was not permitted; The old man retained ever afterwards the most grateful sense of Napoleon’s kindness ; and was never more highly gratified than when employed in gather ing the choicest fruit, and arranging the most beautiful boquets to be sent to Longwood, “ to that good man, Bony,” as he called the emperor. Napoleon made-a point of inquiring, whenever I saw him, alter the health of old Toby, and when he took his leave of him, he presented him with twenty Na poleons. The emperor was very accessible while at the Briars, and knowing how much it would delight us, he seeun and to wish to return any little attentions we were able to offer Him, by courtesy and kindness to our friends. My father, one day duringhis residence with us invited a large party, and the emperor said he would join us in the evening. He performed his promise, and delighted every one with his urbanity and condescension. When any one of our guests were presented to him, he usu ally inquired his profession, and then turned the conversation upon some topic connected with it. I have often heard wonder expressed at the extent of Napoleon s information on matters of which he would hardly have been expected to know much. On this occasion, a very clever medical man, after a long conversation with the empe ror on the subject of his profession, de clared his astonishment to my father, at the knowledge he possessed, and the dearness and brilliancy with which he reasoned on it, though his theories were' sometimes rather heterodox. Napoleon told him he had no faith whatever in medicine, and that his own remedies were starvation and the warm bath. At the same time he possessed a higher opinion of the medical, or rather surgical profession than any other. The practice of the law was too se vere an ordeal for poor human nature, and that he who habituates himself to the distortion of truth, and to exultation at The success of injustice, will at last hardly know wright from wrong. So it is, he remarked, with politics? a man 1 must have a convential conscience. Os the church also ( es ecclesiastiques) lie spoke harshly, saying that too much was expected from its members, and that they became hypocrites in consequence. As to soldiers, they were cut throats and robbers, and not the less so because they are ready to send a bullet through your head if you tell them your opinion of them. But surgeons, lie said, are neither too good nor too bad. Thei r mission is to benefit mankind, not to destroy, mys tify, or inflame them against each other, and they have opportunities of studying human nature as well as science. The emperor spoke in high terms of I *arry, who, he said, was a man of genius, and of unimpeachable integrity.* On the emperor’s first arrival in St. Helena he was fond of taking exploring walks in the valley just below our cot tage. In these short walks he was un attended by the officer on guard, and he had thus the pleasure of feeling himself free from observation. The officer first appointed to exercise surveilance over him was a Captain Grately, of the artil lery, although a mild and gentlemanly person in his manners, Napoleon took an unconquerable dislike to him. It was his duty to attend him in his rides, and the orders given him on these occasions were, “that he was not to lose sigh: of Napoleon.” The latter was one day riding along one of the mountainous bridle paths at St. Helena, with the orderly officer in at tendance ; suddenly the emperor turned short to his right, and spurring his horse violently, urged him up the face of the precipice, making the large stones fly from under him down the mountain, and leaving the orderly officer aghast at him, in terror for his safety and doubt at his intentions. He was either not well enough mount ed, or his nerve was unequal to the task of following Napoleon, and giving it up at once, he rode instant! y ofFto Sir George Cockbum, who happened at the time to be dining with my father at the Briars. He arrived breathless at our house, and demanded to see Sir George, on business of the utmost importance, lie was usher ed at once into the dining-room. The admiral was in the act of discus sing his soup, aud listened with an im perturbable countenance to the agitated detail of the occurrence, lie then qui etly advised him to return to Longwood, where he would most probably find Gen. Bonaparte. This, as he prognosticated, was (he case, and Napoleon often after wards laughed at tlie consternation he had created. 1 have mentioned being struck with Napoleon’s seat on horseback on first seeing him. lie one day asked me whether 1 thought he rode well. I told him with the greatest truth, that I thought he looked better on horse back than any one l had ever seen. He appeared pleased, and calling for his horse he mounted, and rode several times at speed round the lawn, making the animal wheel in a ve ry narrow circle, and showing the most complete mastery over him. One day, Achambaud, his groom, was breaking in a beautiful young Arab, which had been bought for the emperor’s riding. Tlie colt was plunging anti rearing in the most frightful manner, and could not be induced to pass a white cloth which had been purposely spread on the lawn, to break him from shying. I told Napo leon it was impossible that he could ever ride that horse, it was so vicious. He smiled, and beckoning to Achambaud, desired him to dismount, and then to my great terror, he himself got on the ani mal, and soon succeeded in making him not only pass the cloth, but put liis 4 foot upon it; and then rode him over and over it several times. Achambaud, as it seemed to me, hardly knew whether to laugh or cry. He was delighted with his emperor’s prowess, but mortified at his managing a horse so easily which he had been trying in vain to subdue. Napoleon mentioned once that he had once ridden a horse 120 miles in one day. It was to see his mother who was dan gerously ill, and there was no other means of reaching her. The poor ani mal died in the course of that night. He said that his own power of standing fa tigue was immense, and that he could almost live in the saddle. 1 am afraid to say how many hours he told me he had once remained on horseback ; but I remember being much surprised at his powers of endurance. His great strength of constitution' was probably more instrumental than one would imagine at first view, in his reach ing the pinnacle of his ambition. The state of the mind is so dependent on the corporal frame, that it is difficult to see how the kind of mental power which is necessary to success in war or political turmoil, can exist without a correspond ing strength of body, or at least of con stitution. In how many critical periods of Napo leon’s life would not the illness of a week have been fatal to his future schemes of empire. How might tlie sternness of by which he subjugated his daring com peers of the revolution have been shaken, and his giant ambition thwarted by a tri val sickness. The mind even of a Na poleon might have been prostrated, and his mighty will enfeebled by a few days’ fever. The successful leader of a revolution especially ought to be exempt from the evils to which flesh is heir. His very absence from the arena for a few days is enough to ruin him. Depieciating re ports are spread, the prestige vanishes, and he is pushed from his stool by some more vigorous and more fortunate com petitor. ♦The above conversation is from a note of my fa ther’s. In Lowell about S2OOO has been con tributed for the relief of the Fall River sufferers. kXSfi&a. it* a WEDNESDAY, AUGtJSt 23, 1813. FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. JOHN C. CALHOUN, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT: LEVI UOOIHUiJY, FOR GOVERNOR, MARK A. COOPER. OF MURRAY. FOR CONGRESS, JAMES 11. STARK, OF BUTTS. We marked the • birth day of our Journal, by unfurling to the breeze the broad banner of Democracy , and inscribing upon its bright field the stainless name of John C. Calhoun, the American Aristides , as our First Choice for President of the United States ; and for the Vice Presidency, the name of that wise, honest and able Statesman and unswerving Patriot, Levi 11 oodbury, of New Hampshire : Subject, of course, to the decision of a Na tional Democratic Convention: The Delegates to be chosen directly by the People —to convene at Balti more, May, 1844, and there individu ally express Faithfully, the will of their Constituents. We ask but a fair Held and fair play —and then “ God lefend the Ilight.” “Let me not be misunderstood, AND LET ME ENTREAT THAT I MAY NOT BE MISREPRESENTED.” [Extract from Mr. Clay's Speech, a short lime before retiring from the Senate .] The Senator (Mr. Calhoun,) was con tinually charging him (Mr. Clay) with the design of violating the compromise act / When had he swerved from itl He was still for adhering to it, as he understood its principles. Those prin ciples he did not consider incompatible with the PHOTLOTION of American industry, in preference to any ether. HL HAD LIVED, AND WOULD DIE, AN ADVOCATE OF THE PRO TECTIVE SYSTEM. HE HAD NEVER CHANGED HIS PRINCI PLES. THEY WERE NOW THE SAME AS THEY had EVER BEEN; out h i submitted to the restrictions of the compromise act as a matter of NECESSI TY. And he did hot even now think it prudent, because not practicable, to go is far as his inclinations led him, with the friends of PROTECTION But as far as he COULD GO HE Wt lUUI)!” [Speech in the Senate, 23 d March, 1313, a stiU shor ter lime before retiring from that body. J RALLY DEMOCRATS! —RALLY!! “ONCE MORE TO THE BII EACII, DEAR FRIENDS, ONCE MOKE.” 11 e tread the land that bore us ; Our green flag flutters o’er us; The Iriends we have tried are by our side, And the foes we hate before us.’’ On the first Monday in October, the Democratic Party of Georgia will be called on to to cast their votes for Governor, tw. Members of Congress, ami Senators and Representatives to serve them in the Legislature for two years. Democrats! are you pre paring for the conflict 3 are you making ready to go forth to battle for your Country and Principles! We call upon our friends throughout the State to be up and doing. Make ready for the great work before you. The Whigs have formed high hopes of success, not from the power or popularity of their principles, hut from the dissensions they have been so zeal>usly laboring to produce among us, and which they would fain persuade us do exist. They know, moreover, that it is more difficult for us to cad out our strength than it is for them; The Whigs, to a man, they know will goto the polls and v te, while a large num" her of Democrats, conscious of the integrity of their own principles remain at home in the honest, though dangerous belief that thei; principles are in no danger. Let us shewtlie Whigs when we go to the ballot box in October, that they have again miscalculated—let us shew them that they are again in fogs; and how ever much we may differ as to our choice of men for the Presidency—that whether friends and admirers of Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Van Buren, Gen. Cass, of some other Democratic candidate—we are neverthe less united as to our own principles, and whenever they are threatened with danger we will stand shoul' der to shoulder in their defence with the unanimity of one man—that whenever or wherever that issue is made, we will he found handed together like brothers who have “ pledged their word and will not falter.” We take this occasion to warn our Democratic brethren throughout the State—in the East and in fee West—on the Seaboard and upon the Mountains, whether old or new panel men—we warn them against the dissensions the Whigs are so artfully endeavoring to create among us. We warn them against this Panderaonian Mischief—this Trojan Horse of De struction which the Whigs are so zealously attempts ing to introduce among us. There are no dissensions in our ranks. We are all agreed as to our principles —there is no dissensions about them: why then should there be any distractions or dissensions among us l We wish not to elevate Maj. Cooper to the Guberna torial Chair, or send Mr. Stark to Congress, or to' elect a majority of Democrats to the Legislature, for their own sake merely, but because they are the cho sen representatives of oar principles—because we be. jieve that they will carry out our measures faithfully —vouchsafe arid defend the rights and interests of the State, and thereby promote the security, prosperity and happiness of our People. If the Democratic Party are true to their principles, we have no tears. They have a large majority in this State, and if they are up and doing, our prinei' pies will be sift and our triumph complete. We hope they will ’net slumber on duty as we fear o - j r friends in Tennessee and North Carolina did, and let • •victory go by default. We call upon our Demo' C itic friends again to be up and doing. We warn lln m again against the designs of their enemies to sow d.s ensiuns in enr ranks. We call upon them to avoid such a disaster, to fly f.oin it as they would so lie great mo a! plague. If they do this and are up and doing, all will be well. DEMOCRATS OF 8188 COUNTY. Fellow-Cit.zf.ns You are aware that a general meeting of our breth ren has been appointed, to convene at the Market House, or other convenient location, in this city on the ensuing Saturday, the 2fith inst. at 11 A. M. The circumstances of our common country, of our own State, the bearing the approaching election may have on that of for.y-four—the struggle before us at that peiiud—the strength, honorand ultimate success of the Democratic party, all appeal to the manhood of every democrat in the county, who can come without actual serious inconvenience, to be present. In the name of Liberty, the Constitution and the Union, let us not he outdone in vigilance, exertion and self devotion, by our opponents, who would sacrifice them all at the shrine of their Clay idol. It is a lamentable fact that this important duty has often been negligently and heedlessly performed— that selections have too often been made, without any regard to the standing for moral worth, intelligence and appropriate information of the individuals selected —yet these perquisites are indispensable to form a safe legislator, even for a Stale, and a still higher degree of them necessary, to prevent a man from being a useless, or dangerous member of Congress. If anv one doubt the accuracy of this statement, let him ex amine the cruJe mass of incongruous, often mischiev ous, and sometimes palpably corrupt laws and reso lutions passed in our legislature during the last forty, aye, the last twenty, aye, the last ten years and be convinced. Would to Heaven these remarks were not on ma ny occasions applicable also to the proceedings in Congress. We are disgusted at the piti.'ul, the silly or knavish proing and coming crimination and re crimination, ttiat has been bandying backward and forward. The Whigs did the mischief—no, no, it was the Democrats—truth says they both did their share of it Patriotism says the evil exists and must be reme died- the nuisance is palpable it must be abated. There is no peaceable mode of effecting the refor mation indispensable to the preservation of the Union, as the restoring purity of purpose and disinterested and jiatriol action to our election proceedings. We are extremely solicitous that the vacancy in our Con gressional ticket, should be filled on just principles. IVe trust the people of Georgia, will, im all instances, require irom the aspirant, who desires to represent them in the council ol the nation, high-minded integ rity, untarnished moral character, respectable, at least, intelligence and information, and the manners and deportment of a gentleman. These perequisites are equally essential for sus taining the honor of the State, anJ the beneficial ful filment of congressional duties. MISAPPREHENSION RECTIFIED. We have been cuarged with being unjust to great merits and eminent talents of AJurlin Van Buren, and speaking of that gentleman as a third- rate po.iti eian —to both chaiges, we plead not guilty. Were we ou t.ial for the alleged offence, we suuuld deny the specifications—we have never spoken of Mi. v’au tiuren, but courteously. We have been accus ed ol designating him a t.ird-rate politician—nothing can be more remote from the fact. When noticing nis splendid success, both as a private individual anu an aspirant tor public honors, we did indeed place uis mind (and it was done with candor and delibera tion) in the third order. But while so doing, we had no notion oi dishonoring Mr. Van Buren by com paring him with the dabblers in politics, that some times cumber tlie seals in Congress, and that, too ol ten render ihtate legislation at once absurd and mis chievous. No, truly, we were thinking of the giant intellects, the master spirits of our race, that justify the poet when he exclaims, “What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason, how infinite in facul ties, in apprehension, how like a god,” we thought of such men, and tuose in various grades of approxi mation to them, and we still think, that in our classi fication of Van Buren’s mind, we were both just and respecllul. Let the reader recollect how tew men of the first order, the histories ot Greece and Rome have handed down to us. Two generations have furnish ed but one Bonaparte. Since the group of which Edmund Burke was the chief, passed -way, England has not had a public man of the Jirst order of talent. Brougham is scarcely entitled to be placed in the se cond class, and the Peel is the wisest and ablest practic.il statesman she possesses, his uiinU cannot be ranked higher than the third. Certainly, neither Van Buren, or his admirers, can reasonably complain at our placing him in such company-. The frank ness with which we have spoken on this subject has been used by some interested and a few mistaken persons, to get up a little crusade against the Demo crat it has cost us a few subscribers, but they have been replaced by double the number of those who understand the value of a fearless and independent press, about which there’s no shuffling. We now add, the more we consider Van Bufen’s present position, the less we are satisfied with bis conduct—the more dubious and extraordinary docs it •appear. He avows in his published letter, that his country (and he may well say so,) has more than amply re warded all his services—that “he does not want the Presi iency.” Why then is he in the field 3 Why is he, after enjoying all the honors she has to bestow, seeking a re-election 3 Why is In? thrusting himself between Cass, Johnson and Calhoun, and the grati tude of the American people3 Why is he wilfully jeopardizing the predominance of the Constitutional Republic&n party 3 We say again, his course is a dubious one. There is but a single step between Mr. Van Buren and ah immortality of fame in the history of his country— Will he have the magnanimity to take it 3 ' Nous Verrons. “DEMOCRATS OF BIBB." We to call your attention to the adjourned meeting, to We held at the Market House, on Satur dry morning, the 2Gtli, at 11 o’dook, for the pur|>ose of nominating a Senator and Representatives to servo in the next Legislature, that service being for two years, makes the present election an exceedingly im portant one. We trust therefore, that our friends in town and country, ofd arwfyoung, will rally in score* at the meeting on Saturday. Come forward and or ganize for the contest in Oetolier. Let os prepare Ur keep pace wilh our Democratic brethren throughout the State, by increasing our majorities in Bibb at the October ejection. In another column will We foarnl a notice of the meeting alluded to. Again we say. to our democratic friends in town and country, u Come one, come all.” THE GEORGIA JOURNAL. Surety »ur lilieral cotcmporary, the Journal, wilf not attemt to perstraW us, that in Mr. Clay’s dela tion, that he had always been, was then, and would remain until death, an advocate of the Protective System, meant only an apology for the past. Our good humored antagonist » certainty playing off one of his hoaxes—why, here is the ease stripped of all disguise, a man avows be had hern doing mis chief all his life, and was determined to pursue the same course till he died—would any one interpret the declaration respecting the present and the future, into an apology, or expression of regret for the past and for the future! Mr. Clay himself has settled the point conclusively—left it “ past praying for” in his celebrated speech, after his return to Kentucky, near Lexington, June 9th, 1842. Page 5G4, 2d vol. speeches. In that speech he expressly avers that be never in his life ct.anged but one opinion and that was on the U. S. Bank. These shewing* having in our opinion “nailed the rap to the counter.” We are willing to leave the question to the country. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. It has rained every day we believe except one, for the last two weeks. We understand that the worm and the rot have already bi'guri their ravages. A rainbow at sunset is said to be an infallible sign of dry weather, but we have bad it three evenings in succession, accompanied by drenching rains every day. If the rain continues one week longer, we may ex pect a serious diminution in the cotton crop of this section. We have heard many complaints from va rious sections in the last few days. THE LAST “END” OF THE FLORIDA WAR. We know our readers are ready toexelaim, ‘What, Monsieur Tonson come again 3’ We are assured by the Savannah Republican, that there is no mis take about this “end” of tlie always ending, but ne ver-ending Florida A\ ar. The Republican pays a just tribute to the indomitable energy, and persever ance, and the military ability of Gen. Worth, who lias contributed so much to bring this tedious and ir ritating warfare to a definite conclusion. LOCO FOCOISM. The term Locofoco, which performed soconsj icu ous a part in the system ot slang and humbuggery, by which this country has been distracted, and A merican people deluded lor the last four years, since it was found to lie merely identical with democrats has been but little used by the wliigs. We notice symptoms of its being revived by them. The New York American has certainly barked up the wrong tree on the subject. That print lias made an attempt at being witty on the poor democrats, by representing Locofoco, to mean a wandering light, a will of the wisp, &c., leading its benighted followers into swamps, quagmires, quicksands, and all scats of disagreeable places. Now we don’t think it becoming for folks, them selves, up to their chins in the “ slough of despond’* to talk so big about these matters. How this Clavism disturbs the perception of its votaries 3 The American evidently confounds Lo eofbco, with Locomotive, and it instead of the Demo crats, be wandering that lurid arid disaster-shedding meteor the American system. So far from Locofoco,. signitying motion, wandering, it necessarily indicates fixedness, permanence, as appears from, its derivation —locus, place—focus, health, or fire-place, (the gen erally used by classical writers to denote the domestic hearth.) The whigs may follow the flickering, crackliDg, delu ive blaze of Clayiatn—the Democrats will still be guided by the flame of Liberty, the light of the Constitution, and feel their fire sides and the dear ones around them encircled and shielded by the Un ion. PARTY DECEPTIONS. Among the little artifices set a float to distract the attention, and produce division, and consequent weakness in the democratic ranks, is a hue and cry, circulated in some of the counties of this State, against the majority in the last Legislature, and the whole democratic party, on account of a bill passed last ses sion, extending the time during which executions could lie stayed, from three months lo four, whereby a few individuals allege they have suffered loss by the debtors absconding in the last month of the period. This may have happened in a few instances, but seems to be more justly chargeable on the want ot vigilance on tlie part of the plaintiff, or bis attorney, than on the law, bad as that certainly was. Tins and other charges we have seen urged against that majority, are at least ungenerous. Our readers will remember the clamor for relief raised over the State, some months previous to the session, and urged on vehemently, by the Whig journals, and street and court-house orators, they knowing conclusively, tb e Legislature were utterly destitute of the power to af ford any serious relief to the suffering people. No reflecting and observant person admitted that any Legislation either State or National, could reli* vff the country from the measureless embarrassments the wide sprdad antl'dedp rooted distress, produced by seven years of unexampled prodigality of expenditure! indulged in by all ranks, and the blind infatu- ted spirit of speculation, that had fallen upon the | during that memorable epoch like an epide nic. h’®* ry reasoning mail knew that no Banking, or