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SEASONABLE SERMON.
The editor of the L'nitt cl Slates Gazette
thus moralizes on the changes of the sea-'
son, /uni draws instruction and wisdom
from the mottled and falling leal :
“Object* ever pressing down ibe siglit.”
So sa\ s the great didactic poet. But
nature knows how to present objects in so
in tnv dresses aid associations, that they
never satiate the appetite rightly formed,
or dint the sight that is directed to beau
ties. Day by day the trees of our forests
stand out in view, the same object con
stantly pressing upon the sight ol the pas
ser by, but to the true observer always al
lbrding some cause tor admiralion, always
present some combination toereatedeligbt.
On Saturday last the weather was cool, the
sky clear and blue, and here and there lay
a fleecy mass of clouds last night that told
of October. They might generate wind,
or give down rain, or they migh dissipate
and pass oil, without dimming the sight by
the sameness of rainy heavens! The for
est-trees have begun to assume their har
lequin garb, the same as every October
sees, yet new, yet varied with some other
object, or iftlie same is in the last and ma
ny preceding years, yet changing from the
previous month, and so hedight with vary
ing colors, so m t ied over with every hue
reflected life can give, tint they seemed
as if fresh from the triads of the Maker,
with ail their charms to invite man’s ad
miration to themselves, and lead up his a
t (oration to their .Author.
The frost has not done iis perfect work
on the same tree; clusters oi datk green
leaves would contrast with die softest yel
low, almost fading into while, or working
oil’with a gentle green. A t the side of
this, the deeperitnson,approaching the im
perial purple, invited admiration; and be-;
vond, the unfadingeedar stretched out its ;
bright green, as il anew spring-time bad i
come to renew its freshness. A large 1
walnut tree stood denuded of its leaves ;!
some low holes of fruit were pendant, f>ul j
not beautiful while the naked arms of llicj
tree told of early frost; and its skeleton ,
leaf-stalks were pointing downwards as;
towards its own contribution to autumn’s I
harvest. |
It was a beautiful sight, nevertheless; I
and perhaps the perfection of the scene
was dependant upon these leafless trees, i
the opposite extremity from tlie evergreen
that looked so bright.
.411 cannot find, as some do, the feelings
nfirna ortality in these decaying leaves,
for they do decay. Thestalely fruit tree,
in the spring blossoms for her summer fruit
and the forest tree stands ungarnishetl j
with these early attractions. It has its
summer of foliage, lieli in quantity, hut a
waits the autumnal frost so create the va
riety of hues, that its leaves may blossom
for the grave. They perisln and are no
more forever.
But man tails from his estate to rise;
and though the mourning Uzzite afflicted
him with the inquiry, “Man dieth and
wasteth away; he givelh up the ghost, and
where is he?” yet in moments of better
feelings, and higher hopes,—nay not of
hope, of holy assurance, he looked through
the vista of the grave, and exclaimed, “I
know that after the worms destroy my skin
yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
But the mottled leaves, and their deca
dence, do leach. Their beauty is greatest
at the moment of their fall. Utility has
bjen the character of their life, but beauty
marks their death. And die man who has
toiled onward from childhood to age, for
the good of others, rearing silently, and
unknown to himself, a name for kindness
and virtue home virtue, domestic kindness,
social benefit, exhibits but little oftlie gar
ish beauties oftlie spring blossoms; but the
frosts of age come upon him, and his end
is beauty. Nay, more ! as the forest leaves
by falling, add warmth to the roots whence
they were nourished, and restored to its,
soil the richness they had thence imbibed,
so to die memory oftlie good man’s vir
tues enriches the society in which he stood,
and preserves the life vigor to the family!
whence he fell.
HONOR ING PAR ENTS.
Asa stranger went into the church yard
of a pretty village, lie beheld three chil
dren at a newlv made grave. A hoy [
about ten years of age was busily engag
ed in placing plants of tins about it, whilst!
a girl who appeared a year or two youn-!
ger, held in her apron a few roots of wild;
flowers. The third child, still younger,
was sitting on the grass, watching with j
thoughtful look, the movements of the!
other two. They wore pieces of crape
on their straw hats, and a few oilier signs j
of mourning, such ns were sometimes;
worn by the poor who struggle between!
their poverty and their afflictions.
The girl soon began planting some of
her wild flowers a round the head of the
grave, when the stranger addressed them.
‘Whose grave is this, children, about
wliith you aie so busily engagedr’
‘Mother’s grave, sir,’ said the boy.
‘And did vour father send you to place
those flowers around your mot her’s grave?’
‘No, sir; father lies here too, and little
Willy, and sister Jane.’
‘ When did they die?’
‘ Mother was buried a fortnight yester
day, sir, but father died last winter; they
all lie here.’
‘ Then who told you to do this?’
‘ Nobody, sir,’ replied the girl.
‘ Why then do you do it?’
They appeared at loss for an answer,
but the stranger looked so kindly on them,
that at length the eldest replied, as the
tears started into his eyes, ‘O we did love
them so!’
‘ Then TOU put these grass turfs and
wild flowers around where your parents
are laid, because you loved them?’
‘Yes, sir,’ they all eagerly replied.
What can be more beautiful than such
an exhibition of children honoring the me
mory of departed parents! Reader, are
you an orphan? never forget the dear pa
rents who loved and cherished you hi
vour infant days* Ever remember their
parental kindness. Honor their memory
by doing those things which you know
would please them were they now alive,
by a particular regard to their dying com-,
man Is; by imitating their virtues and pi-'
ety, and by carrying on their plans of
usefulness. Are your parents still spared
lo you ? ever treat them as you will wish
you had done when you stand a lonely
orphan at their graves. How will a re
membrance of kind and affectionate con
duct towards those departed friends, then
help to soothe your grief and heal your
wounded heart!
7he Order of Odd Fellow*. —Some
curious statistical details, illustrative of
the present state of this extensive frater
nity, were laid before the Grand Metro
politan Lodge, London, at its late anni
versary meeting. It appears that on the
first of April last, when the returns were
made up, there were in England and
Wales, 3340 lodges, 323,000 members,
| showing an increase ol 430 lodges and
23,000 members over the previous year’s
return. The subscriptions for this year
amounted to ,£352,633; the expenditure
lo ,£300,000, leaving a balance of £52,-
553, in favor of the association. The to
tal amount of property belonging to the
order (including pictures, flags, banners,
lodge paraphernalia, official apparel, and
various insignia) was estimated at £700,-
000. Amongst the enrolled members are,
130 members of parliament, 629 minis
ters of religion of various denominations,
and 9000 honorary members who make
no claim upon the funds. If each mem
ber was to contribute only one half-penny
each it would amount to ,£34,120 a year.
If they were to walk two and two, one
yard asunder,the procession would extend
92 miles and 3SO yards. If they walked
! three miles an hour, it would take 30 h
14 min. to pass any given spot —10,214
I passing every hour. The chief item of
I expenditure consists of the c harges for
I medical aid afforded to the sick and iruli
j gent of the order.
Wedded Life. —I love to get unobserved
into a corner and watch the bride in her
white attire, and with her smiling face and
her soft blue eyes moving before me in
their pride of life, weave a waking dream
of her future happiness, and persuade my
self that it will be true. 1 think how they
will set upon the luxurious sola as the
twilight falls, anil build gay hopes, and
murmur in low tones the now unforbidden
tenderness, and how thrillingly the allow
ed kiss and the beautiful endearments of
wedded life, will make even the parting
joyous, and how gladly they will come
hack from the crowd and empty mirth of
the gay, to each others quiet company. I
picture to myself that young creature,
who blushes now, at his hesitating caress,
listening eagerly for his footsteps as the
night steals on, and wishing that lie would
come; and when he enters at last, and
with an affection as undying as his pulse,
folds her to his bosom, I can feel the very
tide that goes flowing through the heart,
and gaze with him oft her graceful form
as she moves about him for the kind offi
ces of affection, soothing all his unquiet
cares, and making him forget even him
self in her young and unshadowed beau
ty. I go forward for years and see her
luxuriant hair put soberly away from her
brow, and her girlish graces ripened into
dignity, and her bright loveliness chasten
ed with the gentle meekness of maternal
affection. Her husband looks on her with
a proud eye, and shows the same fervent
love and delicate alttention which first
won her, and fair eh ldren are growing
up about them, and they go on, full of
honor and untroubled years, rind are re
membered when they die.— WdJh' Ink
lings of Adventure.
Scenes in South America. —L. C, Pickett,
Esq., United States charge d’affaires at
; Lima, in a letter to the National Institute,
j remarks: “I have travelled five days at
la time among the Andes without seeing a
j human creature, except those with me,
[and along a track (not a road) which for
[the most part serpentized over almost per
pendicular precipices, or through a forest
!literally impervious, except by cutting
one’s wav at every step. Provision, ltig-
Igage, and every tiling, were carried on
men’s backs, and my saddle-horse was a
stout mulatto, (part Indian) whom I occa
sionally mounted when tired of walking,
f felt at first a decided repugnance to this
sort of equitation, and could not think ol
using a fellow being for a beast of burden;
hut the necessity of* the case and the cus
tom of the country got the better of my,
scruples, as they had those of more con
scientious men, no doubt; and as the bil
lero, (chairman,) as he was called, told,
me it was his occupation to carry Chris
tians over the mountains, and solicited
the job, I struck a bargain with him, and
the price was ten dollars through, I riding
about half the time. This quadrupedal
biped, if so he may lie called, turned out
|to be a very sure footed and trusty ani
mal, and carried me in perfect safety to
the end of the route. The modus oper
and! is this: instead of a saddle, a very
I light chair is used, which the chairman
!slings upon his back, and the traveller’s
'face when seated in it, is to the north,
should he be going to the south, and vice
i vers t. Jt is necessary that when mount-:
jed, he should keep himself very accurate
ly balanced, for there are many places in
j passing weieh a false step on the part of
the sellero might cause a tumble down a
precipice, which would be fatal both to
;the rider and to the ridden.”
Railroads. —The experience of the last
j few years has been fruitful in speculation
of a most extensive nature. State stocks,
i company stocks, and real estate, have all
I been the subject of most extensive opera
tions, and ail have resulted disastrously
and with heavy loss to the operators. In
| England, the great centrtof the commer
cial world, speculations of a similar na
ture have grown up and perished, involv
; ing immense loss of capital, principally in
| consequence of the worthless nature of
the assets of companies, and the delusive
j promises of sovereign States. Iho pub-
I lie mind has bus l«e< n surfeited with that
description ol investment. Ihe disasters
'are, however, recovered from, and money
has again become exceedingly plentiful;
but, with all the experience of the last
lew vears, in the way of rash enterpiuses,
[some direction will soon he taken by the
(masses of capital for employment, and,
[events and circumstances point to rail
!roads as the means which will absorb
’capital, both in Europe and America, to a
'‘prodigious extent. In England, one thou
sand miles of new roads are under con
tracts, involving an outlay of over $200,-
000,090, in addition to the immense sums
now employed in that manner. The ad
vantage enjoyed by this mode of invest
ment is, that the money is not loaned lo
other parties for the conduct of specula
tive business, hut expended in a property
which is constantly increasing in value
.pari passu with the increasing population
and general business of the while coun
try. Hence when a property of this de
scription once yields an income, its secu
rity is beyond controversy. In the United
States there are a number of roads which
do not yield a dividend, hut the receipts
of which advance so rapidly as to insure,
not only the payment of a dividend in
another year, hut that the dividends will
be large "and constantly increasing. Al
ready the advantages enjoyed by these
roads are attracting public attention, and
the apprehension is only that speculation
will run too high and too fast during the
next year. — -V. Y. llcpuUic.
Falls of the Niagara. —The editor of
the Woodstock Herald, in noticing the
frightful death of the young lady who re
cently lost her life by falling from the Ta
ble Itock at the Falls of Niagara, in an j
attempt to pluck a wild flower, relatesthe
following interesting particulars :
We happen to know something of lea- 1
ningover tfiis Table Rock, and it is right
that people should be made aware of the!
danger they incur in trying the expeii
ment. It is not the mere losing of hal
lance that constitutes the danger. There
is irresistible fascination. We tried the
experiment some years ago. Having
heard that such fascination did exist,
we determined to ascertain whether it
was so or not. Accordingly, having lain
flat down on the Table Rock, with a
strong man holding each foot, we look
ed over the fearful precipice into the foa
ming, boiling surge below, and before
many minutes we felt an overwhelming
impulse, which, but for the physical force
with which we were restrained, would
have induced us to plunge at once in
to that unfathomable “ hell of waters.”
It was a moment of exquisite pleasura
ble sensation, but a moment the hare
reeo fleet ion of which strikes every chord
of our soul with inexpressible horror.
Such is our own experience so far, and
we believe few know the Falls of Niaga
ra more familialy than we do. We
have stood on the Table Rock in “ thun
der, lightning and in rain”—in sunshine
and in moonlight. In all its aspects
the scene is terribly beautiful. Nervous
people,however, should be car lul in the
amount of indulgence which they give
themselves in investigating the myste
ries of Niagara Falls. We remember
of a young man having become irrecov
erably mail in consequence of bis going
behind the “ sheet of water;” hut at the
j same time, we must say that we have
seen young ladies come up like Naiads in
©ladness and in glee from the same ter
rible scene.
From the Philadelphia Ledger,
j The Warsaw H a-. —The recent expe
dition of Gov. Ford against the Mnti Mor
mons has accomplished its object and the
troops have been withdrawn. On thenji
proach of the Governor’s forces, several
citizens of Warsaw went over the Mis
sissippi to Ghureliville, Missouri, where
they entrenched themselves in an on
eampmen', as they were apprehensive
that warrants were out for several ol
them, on suspicion of having participated
; in the Carthage murder.
The Governor despatched a messen
ger with a flag of truce, offering a com
promise. The conditions were, that if
Mr. Sharp, an editor from Warsaw, and
a Col. Williams would surrender, they
should he protected, not sent to Nauvoo,
or tried in Hancock county ; and that
Jackson, for whom there was a warrant,
might remain where lie was, inasmuch as
too ill to he removed. These con
ditions were accepted on the part ol the
belligerents. They therefore recrossed
the river, and voluntarily surrendered.;
which concluded the armistice and ended
the war for the present. The Governor
had in the mean time secured all the State
arms in and about Warsaw, and the nr
mv was disbanded. These arrests and
trials were thought essential by the Ex
ecutive, to atone in some measure for the
betrayal of the plighted faith of the State
in the massacre of the two Smiths at Car
thage.
Providence Theatre Burnt. —Dr.
Lardner’s Philosophical Apparatus, mid
Russell’s Planetarium Destroyed. —The
Providence Theatre was consumed on
Friday morning. The fire broke out about
one o’clock. The building had been oc
cupied the evening previous by Dr. Lard
ner, who delivered there the last of his
j course of scientific lectures. Besides the
scenerv and fixtures of the Theatre, all
Dr. Lardner’s philosophical apparatus, in
cluding the great microscope, and a splen- j
did collection of paintings, worth together
sl-5,000, was consumed, and it is said
there was no insurance on the property.
The splendid planetarium constructed by
Mr. Russell, of Ohio, with the labor of 20
vears, was also burned. Its valiie is
timated at $12,000 and it was insured for,
SB,OOO. It belonged to Messrs. Hasvvcll
& Robinson, who are said to have lost in j
addition to the planetarium $2,000 worth
of philosophical apparatus.
Tub kikst Steamer ox the Euph
| rates.— Ldo not doubt that, had they
(the Arabs) dared, they would have at
tacked us; hut a vessel impelled without
joarsor sails, and emitting a dense black
j smoke, appeared to them a production ol
hell; and many of them asked us, in right
earnest, whether we were good or evil
I spirits; whether we were the offspring ol
angels or of the devil. lam ot opinion j
dial they were rather inclined to the more
favorable view, for they were not a little
astonished at our peaceable conduct. Had
the first steamer ever seen on the Seine or i
! the Thames been manned by Arabs, we
! may be sure that they would have made
I themselves notorious for misdeeds ol eve
ry kind, arid that the hanks ol those streams
[would not have been a safe or tranquil
j place of abode. Judging, therefore, ol
others by themselves every tribe fled at
; our approach, and avoided all communi
cations with us. Whenever we passed
by an inhabited spot the population pur
sued us with insults. It was very amu
sing to see this rnotly crowd as they ran;
arid the admirer of the picturesque would
most certainly never have forgotten this
scene. Men, some clad, others naked,
women, children, and horses rushed forth
pell mell, to look at us: and when we had
passed, scampered off’to some other point
where the winding of the river afforded
them another opportunity of gratifying
their curiosity. As they were armed only
with spears, we heeded their hostile de
monstrations but little; but several times
they threw stones at us; and, ifthey had
had muskets, I dare say they would have
used them without scruple. They looked
[upon themselves as very fortunate that
we did not take advantage of our superi
ority, aed plunder and levy contributions
on them—a duly which they would most
assuredly have performed had they been
in our plac e.—Narrative of a Mission to In
dia.
Wealth and Poverty in England. —lt
is staled that the jewels worn by the
Marquis of Westminster at the installation
of Louis IMiillippe to the order of the gar
ter, was of the most superb character. In
the centre of his lordship’s badge was the
celebrated A-reot diamond, valued at 15,-
000 guineas. His lordship’s sw ml also
displayed a massive diamond, one oftlie
largest in the world, weighing 90 carats
arid valued at .£29,000. The same noble
man has laborers on lib estates who have
to support themselves, wives, and children
on about 2 dollars per week, and provis
ions near 39 percent higher than in this
country.
THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Some fifteen or twenty years ago this
Journal, established at the seat of the Gen
eral Government, had an enviable reputa
tion for fair dealing, and for the general
accuracy ol its statements. Although en
joying and expressing its distinct political
opinions, it yet dealt not in misrepresen
talion or prevarication, nor distorted
'shamefully and flagrantly the motives or
acts of political adversaries. It was in
deed then, found fault with by more un
scrupulous partisans, tor its tameness, as
they characterized its course, and its free
dom from the common billingsgate of par
ty; and efforts were indeed, tnadeto super
sede it. It seems however of late to have
abandoned all reserve —to have changed
; its course altogether—-and to be now wil
ling to place itself on a level with the mos
degrading of the party press ol the day.
We have been led to make these remarks
by the perOsal of an editorial, a leading
editorial, which appeared in it on the 22nd
instant, headed “the Tariff or Direct
Taxation? That is the question.”
yflter occupying nearly a column in de
picting the various beauties and benefits
oftlie former, and the innumerable and in
describable evils of the latter, the article
winds up in the following mannei :
“The approaching Presidential contest
is freighted with this important issue— j
Polk and Direct Taxation, whicn many
if not all, of the oppressive consequences'
which we have described—a host ol tax
gatherers and tax-raters, a great increase 01.
Executive patronage, annoying and fre
quently repeated inquisitorial visits, anil,
perpetual freedom of action with individu
al rights, and domestic comforts :
Or Clay and a well-regulated Tariff", ,
friendly to all the best interests of a freej
people, protecting their industry and their,
ingenuity, and productive of individual
happiness and national prosperity.
The choice is before an intelligent and
thinking people. The event we cannot
suffer ourselves to doubt.”
Now if there be one word of truth in the
above declaration, so lar as it assumes that
the success ol Mr. Polk destroys the Tar
iff', and introduces Direct Taxation, we
should be glad to see the evidence of it. It
is a most shameless and miserable perver
sion of which Mr. Gales ought to be as
hamed, and which will enchance neither
his own nor the reputation of his paper,
with the more candid and intelligent even
oftlie Whig party.
There may have beer, a half dozen in
stances in the whole Lniteil Slates of indi
vidual members oftlie Democratic party
avowing theirbelief that the system ol Di
rect Taxation was the most equitable rule
of raising the means for thesupport of Go
vernment, and perhaps preferable to the
unequal and deceptive mode of a high
Tariff-—hut that il has been seriously en
tertained to attempt its substitution for that
of indirect taxation by meansof duties on
Foreign imports, or that any prominent po
litician in tlie Democratic ranks has seri
ously proposed any other plan ot carrying
on the Government than by means of a
revenue tariff', we have yet to learn—and
the statement of’the Intelligencer, ol a con
trary design, is a most shameful and inex
cusable violation of the truth.— New Or
leans Jeffersonian.
A coquette is said to be a perfeci in
carnation of Cupid. Cos vy? She keeps
her beau in a rjuiver.
THE REPUBLIC.
“ Government derives its just powers not from
the authority of Rulers, hut from the consent of
the governed.”
N OVUM It Ull 13, 1844.
Nmvare our brows bmintl i> ii!i victorious wreaths;
Ojr bruise,l arms hung n|> li>r monuments;
Our stern alarums rhang’,l to merry meetings;
O.ir “ torch-tight marches to delightful measures.
Gritn- visag‘,l ivar has smooth'd his wrinkled lront;
And now
The stirring elements of political strife
having subsided, we may repose in secu
rity upon our laurels. Not the laurels that
adorn the brow of the warrior fresh from
the field of carnage; not the chaplet ol
Caesar stained with the blood of his coun
trymen on Pharsaliu’s ensanguined plains;
not the trophies that follow the desolation
of cities, or the downhill ol empires; not
the triumphs of a political fiction, raging
and warring like the tempest-tost ocean,
Hashed into fury by the contending ele
ments of party discord—hut a victory of
! reason over passion, of patriotism over
selfishness, of the People over Party.
The experiment is complete. The Peo
ple of this Republic — the People of the Con
sul‘it ion are capable of self-government.
In vain have they been tempted by tl>e
presentation of a man, whose dazzling
genius, whose splendid statesmanship,
i whose unrivalled eloquence and attrac
jtive powers have, gathered around him
rank and wealth, and geniusand ho-
mage, which rarely encircle the
legitimate rulers of foreign courts. In
vain have they been templed by the offer
of a brilliant series of measures calcula
ted to excite a feverish speculation in the
public mind—to arouse the hopes of the
bankrupt states, to pander to the cupidity
of northern capitalists, and to enlist the
support of thousands who are ever on the
watch to seize the advantages that a wild
system of political experiments never fails
to evolve in a government like our own—
so voting, so vigorous, ,*ind advancing
with such rapid strides to national great
ness.
The political proclivity of their distin
guished leader, and the anti-republican
tendency of their proposed measures,
have crushed in overwhelming ruin, the
whig party.
'True, they died hard ! Their political
throes were lilt from the centre to the
circumference. They fought with the des
peration of the soldiers of Cortes, when
the glittering piles of gold in the overflow
ing coffers of Montezuma, seemed almost
within their grasp. They fought for the
control of government patronage. Splen
did sinecures, dazzling missions, cabinet
[appointments, the collectorships of ports
crowded with ships freighted with the
j commerce of the old world, “the pomp,
pride and circumstance,” that would have
distinguished the court of Henry Clay,
the civil Napoleon of the 19 century. All
these splendid attractions lay spread out
like ignes fatnii, to allure the proselytes
of Adams, Clav, and Webster, from the
landmarks of the Constitution, and to se
duce the people from their steadfast ad
herence to republican principles. And
had the elections that have just passed,
been held close upon the nomination ol*
Henry Clay, we believe that public sen
timent would have yielded to the rush of
ithat grand party movement, and federal
ism once more been in the ascendant.—
But time was happily allowed for reflec
tion—new features in the political tenets
of the whig party evolved— that old coali
tion renewal —the intolerable idea of Web
ster’s succession confirmed—the wonder
ful, and not less heartless abandonment
of Texas, by him whose trumpet tones
once thundered defiance to crowned heads,
when they sought to precipitate the troops
of the holy alliance upon this blood-bought
soil, anil to check the onward march of
the republican banner —bis unholy adhe
sion to that system of oppression and ini
quity, the tariff’ of 1842—and lastly, to
[consummate the fell purposes of a politi
j cal faction, the contemplated outrage up
on the Constitution of his country, the de
jmolishment of the veto power, and the re
linquishment of our chartered and reserv
ed rights into the hands of a merciless
and unrestrained majority.
It is for this Whigs, that you have been
arraigned before the country—tried with
the forms of law, and condemned to a
political death from which, there can be
no resurrection.
We look upon Henry Clay, the great
and aspiring partisan, as we would Ma
rius seated upon the ruins of Carthage, a
picture of political ruin, of moral sub
limity.
|“Tlic breath of heaven hath blown his spirit out,
Ami strew’d repentant ashes on his head.”
His defeat does not lessen the interest
[of the contemplation, or take one breath
from the admiration which we have ever
hat I for his splendid abilities, and grati
tude for the services he has unquestiona
bly rendered the count ry. But likeCtesar,
he too, passed the Rubicon, and turned
his arms from a foreign foe, against the
best interests of his country; and it is not
that we have loved “Caesar less, but that
we love Rome more,” that we have arm
ed with the Catos and Brutuses, to save
the Capitol from desecration and the Re
public from downfall.
His defeat affords a lesson from which
the historian may draw ample materials
for discussion ; and the ambitious and as
piring statesmen of the land, an example
by which they may be both improved and
profited.
“ To be truly great is to be truly good.”
1 Our Superior Court is still in session.
Among the distinguished gentlemen pre
sent from a distance, now in attendance
at its sittings, arc F.x-Governor McDonald
and Col. McAllister.
GENERAL RESULT AS THIS fin
POSITIVELY ASCERTAINED
Polk. Clay.
New York, 36
Pennsylvania, 26
New Hampshire, 6
Virginia, 17 . _
Georgia, 10
South Carolina, 9
Connecticut, 6
Ohio, 23
Maryland, 9 .
Rhode Island, 4
New Jersey, 7
104 48~
The following States may be set down
also for Polk and Dallas, although our re
turns from most of them are incomplete.
Alabama, 9
Mississippi, &
Louisiana, 5
Illinois, g
Michigan, 5
Missouri, 7
Arkansas, 3
Maine, 9
51
which added to the 104 votes already cer
tain would give Polk and Dallas 156, or
17 more than enough to elect. Besides
the following Slates which are extremely
doubtful, but from the partial returns al
ready received, the Democrats have gain
ed largely in all of them, and it is more
than probable that they have cast their
votes for Polk and Dallas.
North Carolina, H
Indiana, 12
Tennessee, T3
36
If the Democrats have carried these
States, Mr. Clay will have 84 electoral
votes only.
THE RESULT OF THE GREAT
BATTLE.
We announce the result of the great po
litical contest to our readers with a heart
overflowing with joy for the brilliant tri
umph achieved ; words cannot express
the satisfaction and pride we feel for the
elevated patriotism and indomitable ener
gy displayed by our countrymen in the
recent struggle through which they have
passed—and we are prouder this day than
ever of being an American, a Republican,
a Democrat. The triumph which we re
cord to-day is the must signal civil victo
ry ever achieved for Republican princi
ples in the annals of our own or any other
time; and, if properly appreciated, will
give a momentum to free institutions am!
constitutional democracy, for years to
come. James K. Polk has been elected
President by the largest popular vote ever
cast for any Prcsidont—against Whigs,
Federalists, Native Americans, Abolition
ists, and every otner lungus excrescence
that has festereu on the I tody politic com
bined. The following is the result in the
several states so far as heard from.
Georgia.— -We have returns from alt
the counties in this State but five. Our
present majority is 2416. In the counties
to hear from, we had at the October elec
tion, a small democialic majority ; so that
our majority in this Slate may be set down
in rouud numbers at 2600.
Virginia. —This unterrificcl old com
monwealth stands where she has always
stood, with ttie sword of the Constitution
in one hand and her shield in the other,
“fearing nothing, caring nothing,” site
has crushed the tyrant and unbound the
captive, by giving her 17 electoral votes
for Polk and Dallas, by a majority of 5009
to 6000 votes.
New York. —The Empire State has
given Polk and Dallas a majority of 5000;
beating Whigs, Native Americans, Aboli
tionists, and “old hunkers” combined —
many of the latter Y'an Buren’s friends,
in the counties around Kinderhook, hav
ing meanly deserted our candidate, by
voting with the whigs for Mr. Clay.
Rhode Island. —Algerine to the core.
Clay has it by a majority of 2500.
Maryland. —This State voted against
Jefferson, and of course could not vote lor
Polk. Clay has it by a majority of 3000.
Ohio. —Clay has about 8000 majority.
Kentucky. —We have only a lew re
turns from this State —not enough lo indi
cate how the Slate will vole.
Pennsylvania.— The Keystone State
has done nobly. Polk and Dallas have a
majority ot 7000 in this fatale.
New Hampshire. —The Granite fatale
contains the flower ol the New England
Democracy. The coon has been pretty
essentially skinned there. Polk and Dal
las have a majority of 10,000 in that Slate.
New Jersey. —Clay has this falate by
about 1000 majority. .
Connecticut. —Clay and a high tariff,
of course. The whigs have this State by
a majority of about 4000. .
Louisiana. —The returns from theOult
State come in gloriously. The demoora
cy have drubbed the whigs and their n
glish allies as badly there as Gen. Jack
son did the British in ISI4. Set down
the vote of the sugar state for I oik an
Dallas. _ . ...
Tennessee.— “ The home of the nicx
orie.3.” Tha returns from this gallan
young Slate show a largely increase ‘ e
mocratic gain, and induces the belief t ta
the Tennesseans, like the ancient P®|[
tans, have responded to the call o I
country. If the democrats gain m
counties to hear from as they have in 1 o
already returned, the vote of that
will be cast for its distinguished son.
North Carolina.— We have ret u
from almut half the counties in this
In these the democrats have gained a
2000 upon the Governor’s election,
we have strong hopes that the old ‘ .
State has at last cast the poppy lrorl
brow.
The Charleston Mercury, of Nov. St >.
says: “ The Hon. John C. Calhoun am
family, on their way to Washington* ®
ved yesteiday afternoon, and ia' -
lodgings at the Carolina Hote •