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CONTRARY !—aud say to the people, why they are so averse to
giving them light and knowledge upon the gieat measures of the day,
mid upon the course they intend to pursue. If their motives are honest,
mid they do not intend to delude the people into the support of a mea
sure they have taught them to abhor, in God’s name, let them say so—
they should have no fear of reproach. As a State Righs man, we feel
no repugnance at letting our principles, aud the measures we advocate,
be fully known. We go for a Constitutional Treasury, and an entire
divorce of the Government fiom all Banking association—against a
powerful and dangerous National Bank, the limils of whose influence
is not within the tench of human foresight—and a corrupt and illegal
connexion between it and the Government. And we have no hesi
tancy in saying, that between these two financial measures, the
people of the United States must choose. And we believe that the re
presentatives of the people, in their legislative capacity should express
fully their views upon this subject—that men and parties should stand
out boldly upon this matter. Those who are averse to this line of ac
tion, are either ashamed of their real intentions, or afraid to let them
be known. We. therefore, caution the people against such —they are
hypocriiical and de-igning. Ami we further warn them against adhe
ring to the name of a party, without the substance—let them look to
the principle— names are but a delusive covering—the vile-t designs,
the most corrupt intentions, may pass under an honest and fair name.
From the New York Gazette.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
The steam ship Royal William, Captain Swainson, arrived this
forenoon in 19A days from Liverpool, having left that port on the
20th olt. The cotton market was about the same as at the date of
our advices brought by the Great Western. The accounts of the
harvest are favorable, and in many districts the grain had already
been secured in good order.
Losno.x, 19th- City. 12 o'clock—There are no arrivals of any con
sequence this morning. •
The F unds. --Late in the afternoon of yesterday the British
funds became heavy, aud closed at 93 J 94 account. This decline
was attributed to a report that secret orders were sent to our
fleet in the Mediterranean to act injunction with the Fiench fleet
against the Russians. This morning the above report is entirely
discredited.
Consols may be quoted at 93$ J for money ; and 93J 94 for
the account; Exchequer Bill 70 62 ; India Bonds 70 72; Bank
stock for opening 208 209 ; India stock 264 265.
London, Sept. 19.—-Letter and papers from Madrid of the 19th
inst. have reached us this morning. Their contents suggest gloomy
forebodings of the career of the new Cabinet. Balmaseda was be
fore Valladolid at the head of 4,000 Carlists, and acting in conjunc
tion-with the Curate Merino, it is feared that he would succeed in an
attack upon that town. This news reached the capital on the 9th,
and on the heels of it came a deputation from the Corporation of
Madrid, with a long address to the Queen, complaining of certain
appointments in the cabinet, and ending with the suggestions for the
teinoval of a host of national grievances. The Queen handed over
the address to the Duke de Frias, with a recommendation to delibe
rate upon it. An Address to the same effect, from a Provincial De
putation was to be presented to her majesty on the evening of the
10'b- faken altogether, the affairs of Spain were never in a more
critical condition than they appear to be at the present moment.
A letter from Posen, of the 31st ult., appears in the Augsburg Ga
zette, in which it is asserted that vast granaries of corn were estab
lishing all along the frontiers by the government, and that a continu
al movement of troops was observable throughout the kingdom of
Poland, whilst nobody was able to say what the meaning of this un
usual stir was.
The Emperor of Austria has, on the occasion, as King of Lom
bardy, an amnesty to all individual belonging to the Lom
bardo-Venitian dominions condemned for and charged with political
offences. It is a most merciful act of oblivion, for it includes not
only condemned and incarcarated, but likewise all such as are sub
jected to political prosecutions, under precello politico, or the sur
veillance of the police, and lastly, such as have withdrawn to fo
reign parts.
These emigrants may obtain leave to remain abroad, and enjoy
the possession of their property ; for the fifth paragraph of the im
perial decree, at the same time that it authorises them to remain in
foreign parts, implies that the sequestration es the property is re
voked, agreeably to the laws of the kingdom. The promulgation of
so mercifid a measure is.stated to have caused the utmost 'satisfac
tion at Milan. Many members of the first houses of Lombardy, such
»s the Vistonti, Arconati, Ciani, Ugoni, Aresi, will therefore be re
stored to the bosom of their families, and several will be reinstated
in large fortunes.
Our .advices from Constantinople are of the 27th ult. No recent
intelligence had been received at the British Embassy from Persia,
but the impression was that our Ambassador, at the solicitation of
the Schach, had been persuaded to resume his functions. Though
the Drusses have been put down in Syria, the great mass of the peo
ple have not yet made up their minds to acknowledge the sovereignty
of the Egyptian Viceroy. Numerous bands are still in arms in the !
mountains. From Circassia the news consists of vague rumors, but j !
they are unfavorable to Russia. The following communication from <
Alexandria is copied from our cotemporary the Morning Advertiser. ,
The subject is an important one, but whether the circumstances sta- i '
ted by the writer be or be not correctly reported, we have at present
no means of judging with any degree of moral certainty. '
We learn by private letters from the canton of Argon, that the
grand council of that State met on the 7th, and, after a long discus
sion, agreed by a majority of 105 to 55 votes, that the deputy to the s
diet should be instructed to maintain the citizenship of Louis Bona- J
parte, and to repulse with energy the demand by France for his ex- -
pulsion. The grand council slightly modifies this vote, by a general ,
expression that Switzerland would always co her duty by her neigh- <
bors, in strict accordance with the law of nations. “ j
A letter of the Bth in.’t. from Toulon, published in the Courier
I rancais, states that the English Colonel Considine, was actively or- ’
ganizing a regular army for the Pacha of Tunis, principally, as'sup- 1
posed, with a view to overawe the population, and to enable him to 1
double the taxes, as the new force was not likely to be in a condi- ‘
tion to resist the neighboring taxes. ' 1
The Semaphore of Marseilles has the following on the subject of i
the embassy of Rescind Pacha : “ The object of his mission appears I
to us to be easily divined. He comes to obtain from France, Eng
land, Austria, and Prussia, guarantees for the security of the Otto
man empire, and, in concert with these four powers to arrange an !
amicable settlement of the differences with Egypt. We must add, I
contrary to what has been advanced by several French, English, and !
German journals, that Reschid Pacha has not lust the favor of the !
Sultan, and that the mission with which this worthy advocate of!
Western opinions in Turkey is charged by the Sultan Mahmoud, far !
from being a disgrace, is a proof of the high confidence placed in him '
by his Sovereign.”
POLAND.
The Miscreant of the North.— A letter of the 30th ult. from
Warsaw, quoted by the Commerce, states that the police had disco- !
vered a secret association, the members of which were not older than i
from 12 to 18 years of age, and the object of which were the preser
vation of the polish language and the Roman Catholic religion. The
youthful members of this association signed with their blood the
oath taken by them on their reception. One of them, however, de
nounced the existence of tlm society loM.de Schypoff, who immedi
ately ordered all the members to be arrested and confined in the
subterranean dungeons of the citadel of Warsaw, where, after thei.
heads had been shaved, they were flogged on their backs with rods.
These proceedings had exasperated the inhabitants of Warsaw to
the highest degree, and in spite of the presence of myriads of po
lice agents they hnd utter implications against the Czar, especially at
the exhibition of industry which had taken place at the Hotel-de-
Ville. The indignation of the public was still further increased on
the night of the 29th, at the sight of the members of the association,
dressed in soldiers’ gray great coats, and huddled together in a num
ber of wagons which crossed the city, and took the road to the for
tress of Modlin. On passing over the bridge of the Vistula, four ofi
the young prisoners, natives of the government of Plolsko, jumped
suddenly from one of the wagons into the river, and immediately dis
appeared. Some of the soldiers forming the escort went into the
stream, and endeavored to save them, but in vain ; and on regaining
the shore were greeted with exclamations of “ Providence lias heard
their prayers—the sufferings of these unfortunate Poles areatan
end I” It was considered certain that the whole of these unfortu
nate Polish prisoners would be transported from Modlin to the Cau
casus, to be incorporated as private soldiers in the ranks of the Rus
sian army. I’he parents of some of them are stated to have applied
to M- de Schypoff to obtain permission for their sons to remain pri
soners in Poland, but he is said to have refused to interfere in their
favor.
From the New York Star y Oct, 11.
In politics we have nothing new or stirring, except that much dis
satisfied with the conduct of the Whig Ministry, the Radicals have
taken to holding public meetings against them. In Birmingham,
Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh nrd other places, such meetings have
been held, much to the injury and annoyance of the Whigs. Lord
Brougham, relapsing into ultra-Radicalism, has joined the “ people”
and thus places himself more than ever against his old colleagues.
On Monday, a great public meeting of the working classes was held
in London, and the speeches and resolutions against the ministry
sras very violent.
In Ireland, the Catholic Association has been revived by O’Con
nell, as the ** Precursor Society,” or, as the wags of Dublin have it
“ the Pray-cargo her.” lie calculates at one shilling a-head from
each Member, to raise the annua) sum of 50,0001. He thinks, I sup-
pose, that as his “ Tribute” is falling off, the lion’s share of this
new Rint would be no bad thing. He has excited much mirth by a
recent freak, no less than retiring from the world for ten days, as
an inmate of the Carthusian Monastery at Mount Ivlallary, near Wa
terford. Here he went through a deal of penance (prayers and fla-
and accommodated himself to the system of the monks,
viz : silence, during the whole teini of his residency. To him, this
must have been a penance, indeed !
The city of Paris has given to the Count de Paris a sword—a
pap spoon would be a more suitable gift for the baby.
The visit of King Leopold, of Belgium, and his wife, to the Queen
of England, is generally expected to have some connection with
Victoria’s expected marriage. Whom she shall wed seems undeci
ded. Popular opinion is in favor of her union with her cousin,
Prince George of Cambridge.
King Leopold is understood to have a strong desire that one of the
Saxe Coburgs, his nephews, shall be the happy man. An absurd
idea got afloat that the Duke de Nemours was a candidate for the
hand of our little Queen. He is a Papist, and the law runs that a
Sovereign of England cannot marry any but a Protestant. But, I
dare say, the French Prince would not let religion be any obstacle,
if other matters were in a right train.
The general opinion is that King Leopold lias a great deal too
much influence, over his niece, our Queen. Two of the leading
people at the English court, are creatures of his. One is Baroness
. Lehzen, who exclusively acts as the Queen’s Private Secretary,
and the other is Baron Stockman, who bolds no ostensible office, but
appears to have a veto upon all subjects. These iwo—one <;f whom
was a waiting maid and the other a valet de place—are allowed to
see the Queen when her own mother is not admitted. They were
formerly' in the service of Leopold, and, as I have said, are supposed
to be his tools still.
There is a report that the Duchess of Kent does not live on the
happiest terms with her daughter, and that she very deeply feels the
difference. The Dutchess lives with the Queen, in order, it is be
lieved, that the greater part of her income may be applied to ‘he
payment of the heavy debts incurred when the Queen was a child.
The Lehzen taction openly sneer at her being in this state of compa
rative dependence.
The belief prevails that Prince George of Cambridge will be the
Queen’s husband. He is a nice young fellow, but as wild and dissi
pated as George IV. was at his age. Indeed, to get him out of the
way of temptation, it has been resolved that he shall be sent on his
travels for two years, and he starts for Gibralter immediately. I
know not how to reconcile this with the fact that the Duke of Cam
bridge has bought Combe Wood, (where the late Earl of Liverpool
used to reside) for Prince George, where he is to have a separate
establishment of his own.
Queen Adelaide’s health continues delicate, and she sails for Mal
ta next month in the Hastings. The Queen of Portugal has invited
her to winter at Lisbon, and has even had the castle of Releur fitted
up for her residence. But I doubt whether she will do more than
pay Portugal a flying visit. She now resides almost wholly at Bushy
Park, where she lived so long as Duchess of Clarence.
Queen Victori, ’s popularity is waning. Various causes may be
assigned for this. In the first place she is wholly surrounded by the
Whig nobility, and therefore the Tories cannot visit her—the sail
Tories being very numerous, wealthy and influential. Besides, the
London tradesmen are highly indignant at the Queen’s pi eferenc?
for all that is foreign. Her dresses are chiefly French, and her last
quarter’s bill to Madame Maradau was 13000 Z. The example is sa
decidedly against British manufactures that general dissatisfaction
has been excited.
Besides, the serious portion of society are much annoyed at the
manner in which she has constantly gone to the Opera. She attend
ed every night of the season except five. . And to mend the matters
the “unco’ pious” remark that the Court Circular had frequent no
tices of this kind. “ Her majesty attended the Opera on Saturday.
Het Majesty received the sacrement in the Chapel Royal !” Now,
they don’t like a woman’s being al the opera until 1 o’clock on Sun
day morning, and going to the Chapel Royal to take the sacrament.
Certainly, the one is not a great preparative for the other.
While the Queen thus constantly attended the Italian opera, she
only paid two or three visits to the English theatres. The papers
have remarked on this, and very severely too, nor without justice.
However, if she confer knighthood and a pension upon our friend
Sheridan Knowles, as she said she means to do, she will be relieved
of the odium incurred by I er impolitic and un-English patronage of
foreign singers, and neglect of native talent.
A sermon preached before the Queen, at the Chapel Roval, on
June 17, has furnished a theme for much discussion. The preacher
is Dr. Hook, nephew of the famous wit, Theodore Hook. He preach
ed against the doctrines and inroads of Popery, and the discourage
ment of Protestantism by high people. In fact, it was a political ser
mon against some of the ministry who were present. It was said
(but denied) that for preaching this sermon Dr. Hook was struck off
the list of the Queen’s chaplains, and told he should preach no more
before her. He denies this, but has published his sermon, and sold
20,000 copies of it, Other reports are that the Queen was moved
to tears by the sermon, and expressed her thanks to Hook for it. The
affair is trifling, but in the absence of more striking matter this has
caused a world of inkshed.
Hydrophobia.— A child seven years old, the Mr. Jami
son, of Montreal, died in that city on Thursday of the week before last,
of hydrophobia The symptoms and progress of the disease are de
scribed in a communication from Dr. Arnoldi to the Montreal Herald.
Ihe child was bitten 28 days before ; she was attended by a physician
and afterward by the soldier Hughes, who professes ability to cure hy
drophobia ; the wounds healed kindly, and no untoward symptom ap
peared until the evening of Tuesday, the 9th.
Dr. Arnoldi was called in by Hughes, who expressed his conviction
that hydrophobia had supervened, but Dr. Arnoldi and his father
thought differently. There was no sign of aversion to fluids, and al
though there were nervous twitehiugs and lassitude, the two phvsicians
did not consider them at all remarkable, or affording any cvidenc ! of
rabies.
The next day she was wotse, but asked for cold water, and drank a
little of it in a hurried manner. Hughes still adhered to his opinion,
but Dr. Arnoldi was more strongly of opinion that the child's disease
was not hydrophobia. On Thursday morning, however, he was satis
fied that Hughes was right. The symptoms were decided, and, not
knowing what better to recommend. Dr. Arnoldi advised Hughes to ad
minister his remedy. This was done, hut the child died soon after 5
o’clock, P. M. Dr. Arnoldi closes his statement with these candid ad
missions :
I cannot conclude without admitting, that in consequence of the opi
nion given by my father and myself, Hughes lost the chance of testin" -
the efficacy of his medicine, during the first stage of the disease, when
only, il h certain any success can possibly be effected. I lis situation,
on this occasion, was precarious, aud so was ours. Had he been left
to himself, and had the case tci minuted successfully, I for one, would
never have admitted it to have been one of rabies On the contrary,
had we, against our conviction, allowed him to use his remedy on the
first day, and had the patient died, we should have merited eternal re
proach. Whereas, as the case now stands, the efficacy or mm efficacy
of Hughes’treatment cannot be judged of.—N. Y. Com. Advertiser.
From the Buffalo Jour wit,
RATHBUN CONVIC I ED.
The trial of Benjamin Rathbun for forgery, which was commenced
last week, at Batavia, has been brought to a dose, mid terminated in
his conviction, lie was subsequently sentenced by the court to five
years hard labor in the Auburn State’s prison.
From the period of our assuming the control of this Journal we have
carefully avoided every allusion to this subject which could, by any
possibility, tend to foment prejudice or thwart the ends of justice ; yet the
ease is such a one that we feel bound, now it is disposed of, to advert to
it sotneweat iu detail.
The moral sense es this community, and of the country, indeed, has
been occasionally outraged by the efforts of a few to exonerate Henjamin
Rathbun from any participation in the extensive forgeries which were
committed for Ais benefit, while he was engaged in business in this city,
and to fix the whole guilt of the frauds thus perpetrated upon his bro
ther Lyman, now in Texas, a fugitive from justice, and Hewlett and
Rathbun Allen, two lads who were clerks under him. There is some
thing so diabolical in all this, that every principal of justice revolts nt its
bare recital. To admit, for a moment, that these extensive forgeries
were conceived and executed by clerks underage, for the benefit of Ben
jamin Rathbun, without his knowledge, approval and participation, ar
gues either a depravity of purpose, or an obliquy of moral sentiment
which, while it astonishes by its boldness, cannot fail to excite the just
fears of the viituous ami the good', for the subversive consequence to
which, if countenanced, it so pointedly tends. There has not been, nor
was if possible there should be, any rational doubt, at any time, of the
moral guilt of Rathbun, in the scenes of wickedness which his trial has
disclosed. But his legal conviction was rendered highly difficult, from
the artful manner in which his crimes were planned and executed. z\t
his recent trial, in this city, upon another indictment, the jury pronoun
ced him “ not guilty nor was it possible for them, upon the testi
mony. to do otherwise ; yet his'guilt was not, by such verdict wiped out.
or even rendered doubtful- Since that trial, Rathbmi Allen. who>,as
then absent, has returned, and, upon his testimony, in connection with
what has been gathered from other of our citizens, his legal as well as
moral guilt has been fully established ; and we congratulate tin city no
less than the whole country, that justice has tints finally triumphed over
the wily arts of iniquity. Calumny has imputed to the people of this
city a desire Io sustain Rathbun in his wickedness; that foul stain is now
forever wiped out from the minds of all such as, from want, of acquain
tance with the character of our people, had admitted the possibility of
its truth.
Those who have labored to exonerate the guilty in this scene of de
pravity have indulged in rank condemnation of the young man, Rathbun
Allen, for having given his testimony upon the trial. That this condem
nation may be justly appreciated, we ask the public to look at the facts.
None, certainly, can justify the part this young man took in the forge
ries; yet what bis situation, ami how came he partly in the crime ? He
was put, when a lad, into the store of B. Rathbun, who is his uncle,
and who was charged with his education. That uncle, while his nephew
is yet a minor, persuades and commands him to commit multiplied for
geries ; the profits of these forgeries he applies to his own purposes, and
when he is threatened with justice, he strives to throw his own guilt
upon the child he had seduced from a virtuous life ! Allen, was not.
then, a joint participator in the profits of iniquity ; and therefore -tands
notin the relation of such an one, who subsequently exposes his fellows
to exonerate himself t on the contrary, he has made the best atonement
in his power for the wickedness he was induced, while a minor, to 'com
mit for the benefit of another ; and has so far given evidence of a desire
to return to a course of virtue and respectability. But he still owes to
himself, and to the public one duty more. This is a clear, full and faith
sul histoty ol the Rathbun forgeries. Such an expose would reveal
the arts of the master spirit of the tragedy in which this young man has
been called to play a part, and disclose the wiles by which that spirit
has striven to shuffle himself to the back of the stage, while, without re
morse, he thrusts forward another to be sacrificed in his stead .'
RD LI Tl CA L
Front the Washington Globe.
POULAR INTELLIGENCE.
There is something very consoling to the friends of popular rights
in the present aspect of the public mind. It proves that there is a
fund of intelligence in the people which will al way's direct them
aright, if it has time to operate. Federalism has always been dis
appointed in its schemes, by undervaluing the public intelligence,
tiever was this more strikingly manifested than in the present con
test. If ever the enemies of Republicanism had a chance for suc
cess, it was in the late crisis. Circumstances seemed to have com
bined purposely to give credit to their doctrines, and io facilitate
their schemes. General distress, suspension of cash payments, uni
versal alarm, despotism without, and treachery within, the camp—
the prospect was indeed gloomy for theffriends of liberal principles.
Never was an Opposition more energetic in its efforts, more reckless
in its means, or more sanguine in its anticipations. It seemed de
termined to take the Government by storm,and had scarcely patience
Io wait for the contest of the ballot box. Congress was turned into
an electioneering club, disgraced by every violence, calculated (as
part of the plan) to bring popular institutions into discredit. The
counsel, the debtors, and the favorites of the Bank, in both Houses
—a formidable band—determined that nothing should be done which
should not restore the power, or at least answer ti.e purposes, of their
mercenary patron and client. A Treasury exhausted by the unmer
ited confidence of the people in a system not contemplated by the
Constitution, became the theme of reproach with a party, which yet
would not consent to the most simple and obvious measures of sup
plying the Government with temporary means for its necessary ex
penditures. I here was a preconcerted effort, by factious means, to
embarrass and disgrace the Government, already checked and put
to great inconvenience by a catastrophe which had staggered it, if
not overwhelmed the whole country. A disastrous Indian war was
taken advantage of by the party whose morbid sympathy, if not in
tentional encouragement, had produced, or at least aggravated the
contest, and the nece-sary expenditures which it occasioned, were
held up to the country as one of the sins of the Administration,
which called lor the signal punishment of a too confiding people.
This state of things was gloomy enough to inspire the friends of a
Republican Administration with doubts, if not alarm. Never, per
haps, was despondency more justifiable, if it ever can be so in con
tests which involve such vital principles and consequences. But the
result has shown, or is proving fast, that the good sense and patriot
ism of the people are, in the long run, a certain reliance. The panic
has exhausted itself like an epidemic ; cash payments are generally
restored; alarm has subsided; confidence is revived; prosperity
again smiles upon the land; and the reason and honesty of the peo
ple have triumphed over the fallacious and factious designs of those
who sought to take advantage of a season of calamity to inflict upon
the country principles and projects to which it has ever shown itself!
utterly adverse. We repeat it, there is something exceedingly con
solatory in this spectacle to those who are in mind and heart devoted
to the great principles of self-government. It proves that the people
are equal to the high duties which have been imposed upon them by
the system they have established, and that they are capable of exer- !
cising their privileges with honesty and intelligence. Years will
probably elapse ere the principles of Republicanism can again be
exposed to a similar test, and we feel the conviction that when the
season of trial again arrives, as it must occasionally come to nations
as well as individuals, there will be sufficient virtue and good sense
in the people to vindicate their rights and interests, not only from
violence from without, but the more insidious and therefore more
formidable dangers within.
From the Sonthern Syy.
The Southern Recorder intimates that, the party in this State, with
whom he has been waging warfare, will soon attempt a change of name.
Such a remark comes with an i I grace, from the organ of a partv, w ho
have shown themselves adepts in this business, and who have assumed
one and anothej- cognomen, until it is hard to tell which is their proper
title ; from a party, too, w'hose principles, if they can be said to have
any, are over varying. From such men as opposed Mr. Van Buren,
because of his alleged advocacy of the Force Bill, and supported Judge
White, who voted for it. From such as denounced a United States
Bank as unconstitutional, inexpedient and corrupt; but. nevertheless,
supported a man who would lend his energies towards its re-establ'sh
ment on a firm basis, and enlarged capital. From such as could at the
same time vote for an unflinching advocate of the Sub-Treasury, and
uncompromising opponent of the National Bank, and another w ho was
in favor of the last, and hostile to the first. From Bank, Anti Bank,
Constitutional Union Men, State Rights, Whigs, Nullifiers, Hoco Paces,
it comes with an ill grace to talk about a change of names. The last
was conferred on them by theii adversaries—perhaps no one is so ap
propriate.
The piebald opposition in this State, have been making the welkin
ring with their shouts of victory. Their candidates for Congress were
all elected, which surprised them so greatly, that it was difficult to im
pose a proper restraint upon their feelings. In the overwhelming
ecstacy of the moment 100, they were prepared to believe that they hail
obiained the ascendancy in the Legislature, and under this delusion
they proclaimed the Union Party was broken down, Van Burenism
defunct. &c.
In the midst of their loud exultation, it is not easy to determine pre
cisely what principles of their advocacy, are likely to bo maintained or
preserved by this partial and temporary success. Nor is it easy to as
ceitain who is the object of their special regard, that is to be benefitted
greatly by the change.—Not a large number, consider Mr. Clay the fa
ther of the tariff, the advocate of a National Bank, and the reviler of
Nullifiers. as leserving honors from their hands ; still fewer it is behoved
are inclined to pay obeisance to the Federalist Webster ; while there
is not one to be found openly sustaining the claims of II irrison for the I
next Presidency. Notwithstanding all this, they vauiltingly proclaim
a victory over Mr. Van Buren, the only candidate seriously spoken ofi
in opposition to those named.
Again, they announce, as if they believed it to be true, that the peo- '
pie of Georgia are opposed to the Independent Treasury, b cause one
or Iwo candidates elect to Congress, tacitly or openly manifested their
disapprobation of the scheme. We are confident it should be conceded,
that this subject had scarcely any bearing on the election ; if they hail
been conducted independent of party distinctions, judging alone from
the answers of candidates without assigning any other reasons, tin en
tire Sub-Treasury ticket would have been chosen. As it is, a majority
of thus elected, have declared themselves in its favpr in some form.
Besides it may he properly observed, that the Union Congressional
Ticket suffered losses in the counties, where there were too many
Union candidates foi the Legislature, besides from other causes that
might be mentioned.
So far however as the complexion of the Legislature can be ascer
tained. our enemies have “ hallowed before they got out of the woods.”
II the accounts furnished be correct, the Union party as such, will
have a majority on joint ballot ; add as respects the favorite measure
of the administration and of that party, the majority will be overwhelm
ing — lb.
From the Charleston Patriot.
THE ELECTIONS.
The increasing and almost overwhelming majorities in favor of the
administration which the late elections exhibit, show that the cord of
popular feeling has been sit tick with co nplete success in the appeals
made to the interest and affection of the people at large bv those who
administer our national concerns. There is an instinct as unerring
in politics as in the natural world. The affinities that unite the pa
rent to the child are not more sure of their ultimate effect than those
which connect the people with their rulers, when there is a moral
sympathy between them. The bond of this sympathy in the lat
election contests was the currency question. This was the magic.ii
tie that bound the people to the administrators of their political af
fairs. 'Fite foundations of this question are laid in the public morals
and prosperity. There may be minor differences of opinion on de
tails connected with its adjustment in practice. But the gret t ele
ments, the constituent feautures of the subject, seem not to have at!
milled of popular controversy, and the truths, as soon as enunciated
found tin echo in the bosoms of the people, an answering voice in
their innate perception of right and wrong, in their moral instincts.
They perceived, without elaborate trains of argument, that their
permanent good was associated with the steady value of that in
which, from necessity, they must be daily and hourly dealers, to wit
the currency. They understood, without historical illustration, that
a great monied power, unless duly limited, is destructive of general
morals and the insiduotts foe to liberty.
From the New York Evening Post.
If popular elections ever gave a proof of a mighty and general change
in public opinion, it is at this moment. Th ■ returns which we receive
this morning from the State elections in Ohio show'a prodigious change
in the agricultural population of that state.
Let us look a momeal at what we have lately achieved, and consider
the influences against which we have had to contend.
In Maine, the offices of the State were alt in the hands of the whigs.
and all the influence of patronage was arrayed against us. Yet we
carried Maine by a large majority. In Maryland we had to encounter
the same obstacle to success, yet we carried our candidate tor Gover
nor. and neutralized, il we did nor change the political character of the
legislature.- In Pennsylvania also the whigs held the State offices, and
supported as their candidate for Governor a man who, belonging to the
German stock, was naturally regarded with goodwill by the immense
German population of the state, and whose personal bearing was such
as to conciliate the favors of those ' opposed to his p< lilical views. Yet
Pennsylvania is ours by a thousand majority. In the state of Netv Jer
sey the whigs were already in possession of the government of the State,
and aided by all that their friends in this city could do for them, they
made a desperate struggle to attain the tjgcendancy. Yet in New Jer
sey we have in all probability carried our entire Congressional ticket,
state of Ohio was carried by the whigs last year by mor • th in eight
thousand majority.—There also they possessed all that power over elec
tions which is derived from official patronage. Their candidate for
Governor was a man fitted by various personal qualities to conciliate
i4>ubiie favor. Yet, il theu'eturns already received from a eousidio able
i portion of the State are any indication of the general result. the w bigs
will he expelled from office by a majority as large a- wis last year
I given in their favor.
All these are expressions of the deliberate judgment. the sober se
| corn! thought of the people.” as it has been happily call d. m favor of
the separation of bank and state. It is n triurnpl of disinterested pub
lic (tpiiiion prevailing over the arts of politicians and the influence
of office.
ELECTION RETURNS.
The B ill Helling !—Glorious Factories I!
The returns are pouring hr upon wx frm n Pennsylvania. Ohio, and
Acte Jersey a lull tide of victory for the administration. The whigs were
told, in the midst of the panic, to restrain theii exultation.—They were
<ki vised, that as soon as the pressure vanished, and the panic ceased, a
reaction would commence and continue until all their triumphs were
swept away—They were assured, that the Little Magician was not down
—-and could not he pul down— that a batik w hig president could not be
elected, and a national bank could not be established. But every admo
mtion was thrown away upon them They laughed at these predic
tions. Like Jeshurn. they “ waxed fat and kicked.” They ridiculed
the hopes of the friends of Martin Van Buren. They boasted of the sue
cess they had won. They anticipated new and more glorious victories.
1 hey expected to sweep every thing before them. They counted on
Maine, they counted on the Key Stone State. They calculated on the
Empire ."state. Upon Maryland, New Jersey and Ohio, they scarcely
thought it worth their w hile to waste any speculation—so confident were
they of carrying them without any struggle. They exulted in the whole
prospect before them. No warnings were sufficient to arrest their ex
travagantcalculations. The administration was to be put down—A
whig dynasty as certainly to rise upon its ruins. A whig president
and a national bank in his train, were to crown all their hopes and all
their exertions- -They over and over settled up their legei of elections,
and boasted of the balance they struck. They over and over again
jeered us about our reactions.
But the whirlwind hascome at last ! The day of reaction has risen
with tremendous vengance.—Maine was the first to strike the ball of re
volution. Maryland followed. Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have
succeeded—And least of all that was expected, Ohio seems to be stri
king the ball with infinitely more force than all the others. The Empire
State will follow early in November. Van Buren in his own native
state, aided by all the moral force which his recent victories in otl er
states have imparted to his cause, will carry New York, and carry out
the reaction in high style, by theelection of Governor Matey by several
thousands. The whigs cannot arrest the ball of revolution. They can
not defeat the administration, even with the aid of those conservatives
of Now York, who have erred in their course. They ought to have ad
hered calmly to their position, in opposing the sub-treasury scheme only„
but supported lhe administration in other respects as its other friends
weredoing. Their error consists in first preaching up a distinct politi
cal organization, and throwing their voice into the scale of the whigs.
Thus, they lose all the moral influence, which they would have preserv
ed, and injured the good cause which they originally professed to have in
view.
What a revolution in one week have the whigs undergone ! They
have lost battle after battle—state after state. Their hopes of a whig
president and a whig hr.nk have melted away, like the snows under a
tropical sun. The reaction will now visit the south. North Carolina
will be redeemed. All that we now want is, a spirit of harmony, of
peace, and of union in the Old Dominion. Bear and forbear Concili-
ation and kindness towards each other—No violence, no denunciation
among the friends of the administration. We ask our fliends abroad, io
let us alone, and permit us tosettle this family quarrel among ourselves.
We cannot have a doubt oTit, if politicians elsewhere will show a proper
degree of concession, and carry out the maxim of Laissez nous faire.
The same feeling will then we hope, gradually prevail among ourselves.
—Richmond Enquirer, IGth inst.
The “ Decency Party” in the United Srates have lost their tem
per, and use language which does not correspond with the title they
have assumed. We must admit that the result of the elections in
Maine, Missouri, Maryland, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
Jersey, is enough to ruffle the equanimity and refined manners of the
well-bred gentlemen of the “ Decency Party but it surprises us
that men who abominate vulgarity should be guilty ot language
which is to be heard only in the purlieus of Billingsgate. In noticing
those elections, the Whig presses in the North, and even in the
South, attributed the result to the “ rascality” of the Democrats, to
the “ scoundrelism” of the leaders of the republican partv, and to
the “ corruption and bribery” of the Fedeial administration. We
may be mistaker in the decency of words, “ rascality” and “ scoun
drelism”—words of exquisite euphony— may be found in the select
dictionary of the “ Decency Party;” but, until this time, we were
under the impression that such words had been repudiated from good
society. However this may be, the Whg presses have tccently been
lavish in their abuse of the republican party, though they endeavor
to show that no rascality was practised by their friends at the re
cent elections, and especially in Pennsylvania, where the frauds
were so glaring and palpable, that the judges of the elections in one
district of that State had to reject all the votes given in. Let all
this pass. The Whigs are exasperated at their defeat ; and it is the
part of good nature to make allowances for mortification, disap-,
pointment, and prostration of political prospects and ambition.
While on the subject of elections, we must remark that indeed
many frauds are practised. Even in Georgia it must be admitted
i that persons have exercised the elective franchise without the qttali
hcation, notwithstanding the attendance of gentlemen, who, w th
much patriotism tin I public spirit, do not budge from the polls the
whole day, or in order to maintain the purity of <di < tions. Such
gentlemen should be compensated for their trouble, either from fie
State Treasury or the County funds. Notwithstanding this volun
tary supervision at the polls in our State, by some of our citiz.on,,
frauds have been committed, and will bo committed, unless the laws
are revised and made more severe. We hope, therefore, that «he
next legislature will take the subject under consideration, and idopt
some rules and regulations by which none but those qualified, can
exercise the elective franchise.— Georgia Constitutionalist.
I he Slate Rights presses in Georgia would confer a faynr upon
us, by informing us of the true title of the party to which limy be
long. Some of those State Rights [tresses have given so nmny
names to the party to which we belong, to suit their fervid fancy,
that we should have used towards them the law of retaliation, had it
not been for the respect we entertain for many of our political op
ponents, who, on account of old associations, have thought proper to
act with men who would sacrifice their Southern feelings to Whig
ascendancy. We do not care much for names, especially when they
are inappropriate and merely the representatives of abuse and ma
evolence. We pass by, therefore, with contempt, the epithets so.
•ivishly bestowed upon our party, to take notice of the classification,
given by the Northern Whigs to the State Rights party of Georgia.
In giving the result of the recent elections in ibis State, the
Northern Whigs called the State Rights ticket— Whig. We know
very well of what materials the Whig party of the North and West
are composed. We know very well, that Slade, Everett, John
Quincy Adams, Granger, Rimer, Garrison, and manv others of
the same mould, are distinguished members of the Whig partv.
Can the State Rights party of Georgia be a component part of the
great Whig party ? Can the State Rights men of Georgia act and
associate with Whigs, who entertain the creed of the abolitionists, of
the Bank men, the Tariff men, and of a liberal and extended con-.
s*i action of the Constitution? It the State Rights men of Georgia
cannot associate with the Whigs of the North, why not at once dis
claim all connexion with them? Why not tell those Northern Whigs
that the State Rights men of Georgia cannot belong to a party,
which support a National Bank, a protective tariff, and above all,
which encourage the machinations of the abolitionists’ Until the
Stale Rights party come boldly forward, and reject all further asso
ciations with the Northern Whigs, suspicion will continue to exist
in regard to their patriotism and Southern feelings. The State
Rights men may abuse Mr. Van Buren as much as they please ;
they may be opposed to his re-election ; but in the name of the
South, let not hatred to that gentlemen and his administration, lead
Southern men to throw themselves into the arms of a party from
whom destruction to the best interests of the South, would be the
result should they be placed in power.
’* , llw Rights party of Georgia be not a branch of the
Northern Whig party, let it at once be disavowed: otherwise the