Evansville Journal, Volume 10, Number 28, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 20 June 1844 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

Not Caesar's weal, bat that fRamt,' O-Advebtisers, yearly and all others, are relerred to our first pnsre for terms, &,c from which no deviation will be made in any case. THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1844. FOR PRESIDENT, HENRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY, -r FOR VICE PRESIDENT THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN, OF NEW JERSEY. STATE ELECTORS. Henry S. Lane, of Montgomery; ' Joseph G. Marshall, of Jefferson. DISTRICT ELECTORS. 1. John A. Brackenridge, of Warrick; 2. James Collin's Jr. of Floyd: ' 3. John A. Matson, of Franklin; 4. Samuel W. Parker, of Fayette; 5. Ilngh O'N'eal, of Marion;. G. George G. Outin, of Lawrence; T. R. W. Thompson, of Vigo; 8. Al It, Ho nes, of Carroll; . 9. II. P. Bid die, or Cass: lO. Lewis G. Thompson, of Allen. For State Senator, -WILLIAM C. PELHAM, of Posey. Fop Representative. WILLIAM OLMSTED. For Treasurer, AB'M. B. LOCKHART. For Associate Judge, SILAS STEPHENS. For Commissioner, wm. g. Mcdowell. For Assessor, ' HENRY 1 VAUGHN. fjT-We refer our readers to our firs! pige for an interesting debate in the lower House of Congress. 07-For the latest intelligence in regard to our Canal, we refer our readers to a Ietler in to-day's Journal,under the head of'Wasbinglon Correspondence," Irom our able Sen ator, Hon. Albert S. White. The fate of the measure will be known to U3 in a few 'days-0-The citizens of Evansville had the pleasure last week to listen to speeches fiom two of our Whig Electors. John A. Bhackenridge, Esq.j the Elector for this district, addressed the Clay Club on Thursday evening last, in an able and argumentative speech. On Saturday following, the Hon. Henri S. Lane, one of the Whig Electors for the State, arrived in our place on his way to Kentucky. This fact was no - sooner known, than a large number of our citizens waited upon him with a request hat he would delay his departure sufficiently long to deliver a speech,, which he consented to do, and in fifteen minutes the Court House was crowded with eager listeners. For two houfs Mr. Lane enchained the attention of his audience in a speecb,the strepgth and beauty of which, has not been equaled in our hearing this many a day. we were delighted to see so many of our locofoco friends present on the occasion, and we hope as they have now got a taste for such enjoyment they will not fail to improve every opportunity of the kind that is offered Mr. Lane, together with several other of our Electors will visit this end of the Stale previous to the election. Notice of time and place v,iH be given through our Journal. (j7-We request the attention of the voters of Posey ami Vanderburgh to the Circular of Mr. Wm. G. Pelha, ihe Whig Candidate for Plate Senator, which will be found in to-day's Jour nal. Our citizens may expect to hear from Mr. relliam ora!!y previous lathe election, when we have no doubt ti.ey wiii agree with us that on niore competent or more disposed to sustain th character and credit of ibe State in the capac tyof a Senator, ccuU not have been sclccteilfrom among them. fjj-Mr. Adams presented a petition on the 3l , ult., from .citizens of Pennsylvania, praying aj change in the naturalization laws, making 21 years residence neces3iry to the enjoyment ol die rights of citizenship. Mr. Adams declared 4-vnself opposed to the alteration prayed lor. The petition was laid on the table by a vote of 158 to 2G. ' " fj7-A letter froiii Washington says: "Col. .1 ihnsou, it is said, has burn persuaded from his intention ol running upon the ticket with Mr Tyler as Vice President. Tho the regular body of the !ocofco party are now seeking to persuade Mr. lvicr to wuuuiaw, out at present ue seems inexorable. Asotijee Mes3iu of Congees3 Dead. The Hon. A. II. Read, the Reprcaenialive of the I2ih, cittttict of Pennsylvania n Congress, died at Lis residence in MonircKC, Susquehanna. county, lat week. GOV. DORR Me tupi -tie court of Rhode laland will meet at Newport this wetk, to hear the ariMimema on 1'ie moiloi for a new trial in - c the cose oi'TLus. . I'jir.

THE CONSISTENCY (!) OF LOCO-f

X ULOISM. It is a little singular, that-at the very time that Mr. Owen was preparing and delivering his elaborate' and world-astounding defence of President Tyler's ncfatiuus Texas plot, and virtual declaration of war against Mexico, his editor in New Harmony was pouring out upon this "high-handed and despotic movement," its author and advocates denunciations quite as bitter as any thing we have seen in the most violent Whig or anti-Annexation prints. Mr. Owen's speech was delivered on the 21st ult. His editor on the 18th in one article pronounced the Treaty "a most infamous project? In another spoke of it thus : THE TEXAS FIREBRAND. MThe introd uction' of the Texas project so close upon the assembling of the Baltimore Convention, we cannot but regard as one of the greatest firebrands that could possibly be thrown in the ranks of the Democratic party. Where but a lew weeks ago every thing was harmony, now every thing is confusion. Some of the hot-heads of the South have taken offence at Mr. Van Buren'a letter, because he is opposed to riding rough-shod over the rights , of Mexico, and because he prefers that the people fhould decide the matter, instead of a few designing men. VVe expect that all who love the extension ofslavery better than the extension of republican iriimcKiuui, nu uvreii ui mis en-1 sis.and enlist under the banner of Tyler and CaU auu uiojci'j aiu 111 piunging 1 lie country 1 in immfidifltA WAT Tot fl.am rrn ruev . I worthy followers or repcblican principles.'' How do you like that Mr. Owen? Does

it not look like being "stabbed in the house some of our neighbors to call upon the transof vour friend?" Buta?ainin still another atlantic Hercules for help. Our strength is

article: "When the motives which have prompted the whole affair are fully understood bv the American peoplcwe have no fear of theresult The scheme and its authors will be replled with inDIGNAT10N BT EVERY ONE WUO LOVES HIS COUNTRY better TiisiiiptoiECTocTK,.....,,.. ment, Let ua not purchase Texas ; without Miunni" me puce. 11 annexation is 10 ie maue a question at the presidential election, it is time the people were prapaired to meet it " : Ha ! ha ! ha ! That s not "so deep as a well nor so wide as a" church door;" but , as Mercutio says, "It will do its enough." They are very pretty licks, eh! Mr. Owen. But here is one in the same number which we hardly know whether to publish or not, for fear it should not be intended to include Mr. Owen in the Tule there laid down : .''When men so distinguished in the political world as Van Buren, Benton, & Clay.take ground against the Texas plot, eveey one should be SCHEME OF A DESPERAT FACTION. WHO UNFOXTUNately have got the reins of uovernment in their HANDS" . Mr. Owen being equally "distinguished" with either of tha getitlemen named, and in his own estimation a much greater man than either, doubtless is an.exception to the rule "every one" &c, and has a right to pursue any course he pleases. " " ' But here in the paper of June 1st, (which was published just betore the cue was received,)is a stab which cannot be questioned: It is right under the fifth rib. "To speak seriously, however, the present movement of Mr. Tyler in' sending an armed most high-handed and despotic that has ever taIWI1.C IW1MC UUIUC1BUI IClflSflUU DlGllCU, 8 2UK en plaeesince the formation of the Government, , - , . . r - I I la lhniM ti iv a I Yn mrnaa m art 1 n larl nvi nrp lit I the whole matter, and prevent any further abuse - w " v u IIIIIO ntiti ill IV I t 1 II" in the executive power." AH this was said and done while the flag of Martin Van Buren was still flaunting at ic mast head of the Statesman: But look I what lollows; a utile weeli, or e'er tne ink was dry with which these burning and indig nant words were recorded, down comes the lorn and tattered flag of poor Van Buret and up goes the Mack, piratical, annexation flag of Polk'.-POLK and DALLAS !!-nomnated with no other view than to be run upon tne streng.n 01 tins -most imamous proeel tl)is"desperate scheme 01 a desperate faction," this "high handed and most despotc movement."-And in' another week the editor is actually congratulating himself, and exulting over his opponents, upon the pros" pect of carrying the whole South upon this most nefarious and diabolical measurel Who would have believed it! Truly, con - sistexcy, my name is "moaern ucmocracy good adviceread and, . fol- . low it: The Newark (Q. Gazette elves the Whirrs the following advice. Let us be up and doing. If we labor and - deserve victory, we shall win it. .. .. "Then let us not slumber if we had cause for deep and determined effort in '40, have we not still greater cause ior exertion nowf i.et us not content ourselves w.tn with the hone of an easy victory. Let our exertions be equal to the incalculable importance of the questions t issue let us decide this question with such a tremendous major.hi, rime wB shall not lr.se the fruits of our victory by the treachery of either of the men we have selected for t!:e first and second fjflices f the Government. Up WniGS and wckxI Work'.I To the Rescue! To the Rescue! - 07-The Locofuco convention resolved, uaniJtutsi.v, that inteniiil improveiitenis, were not huthorized by ihe Const ii uiion. Nevertheless all or nearly all of the I-'iisicrn Loco Focos not only voted originally lor the K -intern harbor and river bill containg divers approir.a;ionj for in ternal lmproveiuents, but alterwards voted that It snuuia uetonie a law in spite ot tue veto. Such is the sliameful and s'lauielnsa inconsistency of that most unprincipled parly. iV'T-The Locoloco papers say that the nomi nation ot Mr. Dallas secures Pennsylvania for their party. Mr. V. once was a benator Iron thut State, and when the Legislature came to choose his successor, he received on the first ballot only TllRlilS votes! Aston !shitig popu

larity.

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Senate Chamber,) Washington, Jufie 7, 1844.": j ... To the Editor of the Evansville Journal. Dear Sib: The select Committee in the House to which our Indiana Canal bill had been recommitted, made to-day (a ma

jority -of them) an adverse report, viz: that the bill be laid on the table. The House refused to concur in this report, and committed die bill to "a Committee of the whole on the state of the Union." This is the most favorable reference it could have had; for being an appropriation bill the rules require its reference to the whole House in Com- ' mittee. It is now believed if the House can be brought to a vote that the bill will pass, which result, if its friends are active, I trust I may venture to predict without leading to disappointment. The passage of the bill I regard as the success of the Canal, as I un derstand responsible contractors stand ready to take the work upon the pledge of the lands, and government will be very unwise if having gone, thus far it will not (should the . r. j j -.i jj .. i exigency hereafter demand it) add to these cUritV. J . There are good omens ahead for Indiana. Fortunately we have not been driven like found to reside in our own locks, which uncombed tor a period of 35 years left us , ,., c ' ' . gnnt of the energies of our own nature. Who would have thought that the old trod- . , l i .1 -T- TV . . den - down: lands ol the V incennes District were better. to us than British capital, or the much depricated "assumption" of the Feder al Government? Our spirited contractors in Fountain, Parke and Vigo, have' found that they can build canal at par rates with "Blue Dog," which after all, by the help of clever legislation is not so very blue. I think you of the extension alone the vallevs oTPieeon I, of 11 wiI1 have tQ lerm yourScrip j(vvhen you get it) the "Grey Dog" and though it seems rather lean at present, I have nodoubt it is good lor a long race and a swift one. lusetheiocosevein, but I am quite in ear nest. UUT KjUnal WIU DC UUUt, ana OW debt win be redeemed. Repudiation has . ,--. ... . . . , - , even now been scouted irom the land, and so far as Indiana is concerned, bankruptcy will soon be made to follow it.' Already the sixth State in the Union, we are soon des:; tined to nwch up in front of Virginia and Tennessee, and forming the fourth side of the square with New York, Pennsylvania and . Ohio, to assume at once the burthens which our PoshIon Eposes, of promptitude to our engagements, and ot the good example which from our empyrean heights shall operate wi(h electric eSect upon the weaker . ' - . . , members ot tue conieaeracy. e nave hoa - npft -unlnahlfl lessons "since 1835: that luul u uv - - - - - - thnlt, economy, and promptness are me ioois of success: and that steady progressiveness . discursive fllrhg are the best way to ! onA Tl,r U'rnrr.ft1v , , - ascaicuiating the amount of the productive energies of a free people if they are not too restless and diffusive. "You hate a country; improve hi" is a maxim at once of prudence and of happiness. Let us embellish our own homes, the State and cotintrv of our earl v affections, and leave to . -s who love Q roam tosearch e,sewbere for contentment, if they cannot find itwilh family, friends, and familiar neigh bors. It is in the advancing of arts and in dustry, and in the anticipations to which such employments give birth, that our best affections are evoked and our best efforts put forth and it is in these labours and sympa thies that society finds its surest guaranties' Tj morality and reiigion their chief support. Respectfully yours, ALB. S. WHITE. WASHINGTON, Jane 7, 1844. To the Edttor of the Journal. Sir: I have the pleasure to inform your readers, that, when Mr. Ficklin, of Illinois, a few minutes since, reported adversely on the Senate Bill granting lands to our Canal, the nouse by a heavy vote refused to lay the bill, ag hig reCommendod, on the lablejand en, on my motion, the bill was referred, with few dissenting voices, to the Commit tee cf the Whole on the State of the Union , Uat i pnrp.H tn vmi mw nn;;nn that the House would sustain our m.nor.tj report; and J am not a little gratified at this evidence .that I correctly estimated the feel iner of the House. The mere rejection of the motion to lav on the table canuot of course, be considered a test vote; but it is. a very favorable indication; and as such it is regarded by our friends.-' ' The report of the minority was, on my motion, ordered to be printed, and shall be sent you as soon aa it appears. Your fellow Citizen, ROBERT DALE OWEN. QrThe President ol the United States ha grained pardon to David McDaniel, under sen ttnee of death at St. Louis lor the murder o Chavia, on the A rkmsas plains, and to Towson, lound guihy of the same offence, bu not sentenced.

EVANSVILLE, June 12th 1844.

Hon. War. Ouistead " Sib: The undersigned were appointed, by the Clay Club of Pigeon township, at its meeting on Friday evening last, a commit tee, to communicate to you the fact that a portion of our political opponents have been for some time industriously circulating a re port, that you had given intimations, if elected to the Legislature, that you might, under certain circumstances vote for Tilghman A. Howard for U.S. Senator to succeed the Hon. Albert S. While, whose term expire with the present Congress; and to inquire of you if there was any ground for such report The undersigned "would add that in bring' ing this matter to your notice,and requesting from you an explicit answer upon " the sub ject, neither they nor the meeting they re present are actuated by any other motive than a wish to afford you an opportunity to place yourself right in regard to a rumour, which, though they are confident of its en tire falsity, would in all probability be used to your prejudice. They have loo long known you as a true, staunch and faithful Whig to doubt for a moment as to the course you would pursue if elected to the Legisla ture by the Whigs of Vanderburgh. .Respectfully, - . ' Your friends and Fellow Whigs. J , JAS.E. BLYTHE, " JOHN J. CHANDLER. , LEWIS D. SMITH, VARNER SATTERLEE, SAMUEL ORR. EVANSVILLE, June 13th, 1844. Gentlemen: I received your note of the 12th inst. this afternoon I do not know that 1 ever have said or done any thing that would justify the report referred to in that note. have said in reply to a question put to me by a citizen of Evansville that if elected the representative of this county I should vote for a Whig to fill the office of U. S. Senator. The suggestion was then made if the Whigs should have ho prospect of getting said Senator, how should I vote if Howard, orsome other Democrat were candidates. I said for Howard, in preference to any man I knew of that party. I was nominated several weeks since by the Whig Convention of Vanderburgh as a candidate to represent the County in the next Legislature. I understood at the time that nomination was made, and I still understand that the object of the . Whigs was to secure the vote of this county in the coming Legislature, for a Whig U. S. Senator, with this understanding I accepted the nomination, and by that acceptance I consider myself pledged to do all in my power to secure the election of a Whig to the U. S. Senate. You may rely on it, Gentlemen,: that I shall not now, or at any other time do any thing nowingly to defeat the object which the Whig party had in view in ' my nomination, am now and always have been a Whig. And I shall always consider it a pleasure, as well as a duty to exert my humble influence and abili ty in the support of Whig piinciples and to secure their ultimate and permanent triumph. - . . Your friend and obedient servant, WM. OLMSTEAD. Messrs. Jas. Blythe, and others. AFFAIRS AT NAUVOO. In another collumn will be found some account of the destruction of the Expositor printing office atNauvoo; by the order of Jo Smith, the folowing additional intelligence we learn from the Louisville Journal of Tuesday. "Great excitement was produced at Warsaw by the news of the destruction of the office of the "Nauvoo Expositor," and a (sandhill was is sued inviting an appeal to arfils. At a late bour, writs were procured at Carthage, the county seat of Hancock county, and officers despatched to Nauvoo to arrest the persons concerned in the outrage. But this, remarks the Sf Louis Republican, we venture to say, will not be alone. The law is powerless for good in that region. A rumor prevailed ai Warsaw that Joe Smith was arresting every man at Nauvoo, who was opposed to, or would not justify his proceedings. , EFFECTS OF WHIG POLICY. , The receipts of customs at the port of.N York alone for the first five months of 1S44 (just closed) somewhat exceed $9,500,000. against some $4,000,000 in each of the two preceding years. The total collections at N York alone during 1844 will pretty certainly exceed $20,000,000, being considerably more than the entire, revenue of the Gov ernment for either of the last four year. The entire revenue of this year will almost certainly exceed $ 10,000 ,3003q f which over $15,000,000 (if we keep out of trouble with foreign nations) may be devoted to the re duclion of the public debt, which amounted to $25,000,000 on the first day of January list. Let the tariff be sustained, and Mexi co and Texas left to themselves, and the Gov ernment may be entirely out of debt again on ihe 1st of January, 1846. fjj Encourage and protect home MA:;uFACTfK of N EW'SPAPERS as well as other articles.

CIRCULAR.

TO THE VOTERS OF POSEY AND VANDERBURGH.' . ; Gentlemen: Having been called upon by some of my friends to be a candidate to represent the Counties of Posey and Vanderburgh in the State Senate, and the call being supported by such a numerous and respectable list of my fellow citizens, both of Posey and Vanderburgh as to preclude the propriety of a refusal, I now respectfully offer myself to you as a candidate for that station. " A candidate for the first time and unknown personally to many of you, it is proper that you should be made somewhat acquainted with me and with my political principles, that you my judge of the propriety of bestowing your votes, and, in this view, the egotism usually considered pardonable in a candidate may be allowed to me. Descended then from a Virginia Whig of the Revolution, who faithfully performed his duty in the service of his country until the close of the war, I was educated in the strictest sect of Democracy of Whig Democracy of such Democracy as triumphed in that struggle for liberty and achieved out independence as a nation. An ardent supporter of the principles of Jefferson and Madison, as was my father, I was early taught to look to the prin ciples then enforced as the true creed of American Democracy ; and those who know me need not be told that I am of the same politics still. If I, in common with thousands of the old Democratic party, have been unable to see the true Whig Democracy which marked the Revolutionary era, in the one man power of Van Buren's administration, it is no doubt owing to my political education. Taught to look to the Government as instiluted for the good of the people, I can never subscribe to the doctrine that the "people demand too much from government," when they call upon government for relief from the effects of its own bad legislation. - Taught to consider it the principal domestic duly of the President, to see that the laws are "faithfully executed," as the Constitution requires and to look to the legislative body, emanat ing directly from the People as the source of Law, I can see no true Democracy in a resident setting himself in opposition to the representatives ol the people, chosen for the express purpose of making their laws, and declaring to them what laws they shall and" what they shall not make. Considering that every, citizen is entitled to his opinion, if nstead of the Jeffersonian qualifications for office, which were honesty, capability, and a devotion to the Constitution, I see the modern "democratic" qualification to be feal ty to the person of the Chief Magistrate, and active services in electioneering in his be half, it is rrfy political education wbich forces me, in-common with many of the most talented men of the country, to look upon the re- j quirement of such services from every office holder as a departure from the old landmarks j of Democracy and a sapping of one of thej vital principles of the constitution. If on these, and many other important points, the, tests of true Democracy do not lie with the parly which now arrogates to itself exclusively the name of "Democratic,"; my opinion to that effect only coincides with the opinion of the universal Whig Party, who to a man refuse to recognize the justness of that name when applied to those who rallied, at the last lection'under . the banner of Vtn Buren, and whose political allegiance has now, in" opposition to a majority of, their own party and of their own nominating convention, been. transferred to a man they have found somewhere I believe in Tennessee of the name of j Polk. But I allude to these matters not to discuss them, because the station to which I i aspire has little to do with general politics.' I allude to them only because there are many persons who think no one qualified for any office who has not considered Martin Van Buren to be a pur democrat and one of the greatest men of the world, or who now refuses to look upon this Polk as the em bodiment of democratic principle. - All such, would have to know, that 011 these points I differ with them in opinion- and that in re gard to the questions which now divide the country, my ideas of Democracy require me to support those advocated by the Whigs.. But ;he duties of O13 office for which 1 ask your votes (except in the choice, of a Senator of the United States,) have little to do with general politics, and though I have frankly stated my politics to prevent any misconception on that point by those who consider a man's qualification for a State of fice to be dependent upon his opinion of Presidential candidates, yet all parties know that our local State affairs have generally been conducted, as' they always should be, without relerence to national questions, The election for President which takes place the ensuing autumn will settle the general politics of the country for some years to come, and that question will be settled be fore your Senator, now to be chosen, will be called upon to perform any of his official duties; his opinion then, as to the qualifica tions of rival condidates for the Presidency

can in no way (except, as a single voter) influence the result, rlit is thereforeton matters of Slate 1 policy principally, (as those alone can fall withinthe line of their offi

cial duty as officers) that yoa may properly require the opinion of your candidates for State offices; and those opinions so far as I am concerned, will now be freely given. The term of office for the Senator to be chosen at the ensuing election is three years. .t hese will be three important years for the State of Indiana. During that period some effectual legislation will have to be had with reference to the Staters indebtedness; some important arrangements made relative to the daily business of our citizens -some permenent measures adopted for the prosecution" or abandonment of the works of internal improvement. These interests, with tho ever varying questions of legislation which daily arise, will require more more than usual care and circumspection. ' A Representatives first duty is to seek the good of his immediate constituents. My long residence among yon, and the iden. tity of my interests with yours,is a sufficient guarantee that so far as the interest of fhia district may differ from that of other sections of the Slate, my own interest would require tne faithfully to support yours In the matter of the State indebtedness, it is hoped by the political parly of which I am one, that the triumph of whig politics will place the State in possession of the land fund to which she is entitled, and that she will thus he enabled to place he . finances in a favorable coudiiion without increasing the burthen of taxation. ' ' The replevin and appraisement laws now inforce have been the object of much excite ment, and it is probable that on these points, more than any others, the opinion of your candidates may be the subject of discussion. I wish that - you should fully, understand mine. To such laws as a system I have ever been opposed, though circumstances may, and I thiuk in our case have excused them. When such circumstances cease to operate, there should be as speedy a return -as possible to a more healthy condition of business. That the ciroumstances which excused those laws how partially ceased, I believe to be the general opinion, bnt in theirmodificatioa we should be careful to create no additional embarrassments, and in providing for a gradual rcturnto a settled condition, we should endeavor to avoid offering opportunity for the designing to obtain property without compensation, at the same lime that we careful, ly shield the unfoitunale debtor from unjust oppression. . : . The works of internal improvement which the State wa3 encouraged to undertake during the excitement of speculation caused by a redundant currency, are still on hand, and without care, may yet be the cause of continued embarrassment. In my opinion they should, as, far as possible be made productive, even if to do so, it should : be neces sary to devote to them some additional funds. They certainly should not,for any purpose,be made the cause of any increase of taxation. The most advantageous and economical method of improving our financial condition, and relieving us from the burthen of the unproductive works, will most probably be found in a proper application of this State's share ef-the land fund to such of the sus pended works' as by comparative" small outlays may be made productive, s To this fund, wbic h we should claim as aright,(and we can claim our share as a State on much stronger grounds than we can claim the title to the refused lands within our border,) I look as one of the esentials for establishing our dishonered credit. Such disposition should also be made of the, remaining works as shall diminish as fast as possible the indebtedness of the State. How this shall best be effected is a matter requiring great judgement and a more intimate acqaitance withthe'situation and pro spects of the several works than I am now possessed of. ...... , The measures which I have thus alluded to, are the leading measures of Slate policy" upon which the public mind will differ, and I am not now aware of any other object of general interest upon which you would wish to have my opinion before concluding upon your vote. Ifr however, any such should arise during the canvas, my opinion, as a candidate's should be,shall always be free to the public. .. W. C. PELHAM. June 1, io-ii. . ' New Pkoject. After the rejection of the Texas treaty on Saturday, Mr. Benton gave notice of his intention Jn open, Scnate,to move for leave to introduce a bill to mako provision for the annexation of Texas. It is understood that it proposes to authorize negotiations with Mexico as well as Texas. (5-Trusten Polk, nominated Locofoco elector for the seventh district of Missouri j in place of L. Magenis, Esq. deposed, declines the appointment. Confirmations. -The United Stales Senate have confirmed the nominations of Tilghman A. Howard, of Indiana, charge d'affaires to Texas, and Franc"i3 J. Gruud, consul for Antwerp. I