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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 •