Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 27 February 1845 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL.

NotCaesar'i weal.bnt that f Rome.'

.THURSDAY, : : FEBRUARY 27, 1815.

NOTICE.W. K. Ham is our authorized

agent for collecting moneys due this office,

and lor receipting for new subscriptions. He will visit the neighboring counties in a few "clays and we hope all those indebted to us wil 'make it their business to settle with him.

.Sat. it

EVANSVILLE LYCEUM. -Lectures for March. Ev. Mar. 1 Dr. M.J. Bray, " ." " 8, Thomas E. Garvin, Esq., 15 John J. Chandler; Esq.,

22 Thomas To wles, Jr. Esq. 29 James Jones, Esq.,

Course

Mr. Jones1 Lecture will close the Ior the present season. : .

03r W are indebted to Mr. James Langblin,Jr.,and Mr. E. A. Fairchild, for Washington City and Baltimore papers, as late aa the, 21st inst. Nothing in them con cernin" our canal. .4.' V- :

SELECTIONS FROM PUNCH. IN LIEU OF A LEADER. . .This is a grumbling world, truly, and we

are of the opinion it will continue a grumbling

yorld up to 5 o'clock on the mornin" that

Parson Miller has set ior the destruction (or

purification,) of all things. There are as

many different kinds of grumblers, too, as

there are different kinds of men, and . they

"are not a few;" but the most heartless grumblerein all the world, with whom mortal ever had to do, are newspaper "patrons 11

We "speak by the Book11 v-'e've tried them.

An author's troubles are nothing to what an

editor has to pass through weekly. But we will let Punch speak the rest for us, merely remarking that besides sitting type, working the press, splitting wood, going to mar)iet, dunning subscribers, (labor lost,) workiug in the garden, &.C, &.C., we have been busy three hours each day this week answering "lo" to the questions of our numerous vijiiiers--,'has the canal bill passed?" :"any news from Owen ?" &.c. - If any of our subscribers think they can furnish a more interesting sheet than we have this week and do other work besides, just let them try it.

FROM A PUBLISHER TO AN AUTHOR

Dear Sir: ' 1 r

" ; Upon' my word, this is too bad ! We have befeii standing for copy for two days. Really, too bad. I would not wish to write anything that might be thought severe, no, I trust

the remainder of this book. Work worfc.-f

you know you can take to your bed, if necessary, when you have done ' it. At all events, do the book. And after all as some body says, what is a book but words, and words but breath? Really yoii you must not be after ten to-morrow; if so there are now, thank heaven, twelve posts a day and I

nave directed JPiggs to write to you every I

Hour. - lours laitbuilly, John Curll. THE AUTHOR'S ANSWER. ;

. : Dear Sir With this you have the last of the

copy, thank Heaven! - - it is very true, that I have not the punctuality

of either your bootmaker or your tailor; but then

I am penislied tor my iniquity, lor neither nave

I any thins like their bankers account. It is

also the misfortune of my craft to admit not of

the services ol either journeymen or 'prentices otherwise, 1 too might be very punctual by the hands ol other people. . . . , ' It is very true thatv for the past fortnight,; I have had a certain sickness of the brain, from, 1 belive, over-work. - It is, perhaps, possible, that even one of your horses, if made to carry double might for a lime, require the repo-e of the stable.

Not that 1 would tlulk of comparing my brain

to the horse-flesh that calls you master. Indued,

an author may be rather likened to an elephant

seeing he frequently has to carry a house upon

his back fulled with a numeroui family.

You are pleased to say I have a great deal of meat npon me. I can only say in answer, that it shall be my especial care thut, for the future.

nono of the said meat shall be transformed into

your mutton-chops. ?. ' With this determination, Sir, I remain. Yourobedient Servant,

What can the Matter be? Oar neigh

bor of the Journal takes almost as much interest in the call for a Convention as the True American itself. We .hope there is no "cheating round ihc board." Statesman.

Dont alarm yourself unnecessarily. It

may be there is "no cheating." Eut you

know well enough the log-i oiling disposition

of your party, and so look out.

fry it we naa an extra number of our

paper containing the proceedings of the

Whig Consolation Meeting at Harmony,

Burns should have it. Can't some one of

our subscribers in Harmony fu rnish a copy to

him. , The only matter worth reading that has appeared in his paper for some time, he has taken from those proceedings. Will he

publish Mr. Pelham's address? If he will

we shall be glad to see mm then wash it

down with the whole batch of toasts. What

say you? '

strange that gentlemen authors are the only

sort of people with whom there is nothing like regularity. - It is never so with other trades'irron. If I want a coat, or a pair ol boot?, by a day the tailor, the bootmaker never disappoints me. And yet those who write will lake such liberties as if pen and ink g-.ve 'cm a sort of license to do what no respectable tradesman ever thinks of doing. Business is business all the world over; and there should be punctuality in making poems as in making pantalloons. When writers can't be punctual, they ought to give up the trade and seek soma other employment. ' - S ! " I do not deny that your head may not have been a little out of order that your spirit may have been low or desperate that all this beautiful world, as you once very finely said to me, may have seemed to you

as il it was made of wet brown paper. 1 don't

deny this; but then what have I said to yon

again and again? Ought not men who are liable to such ridiculous crotchets, to work

double-tides when they are quite . well, so

that they may always have copy in advance

of the blue devils? . I, sir, who do not pre

tend to what some folks call the dignity of

ari author I have always beeu iu advance of the world; I have always caught time by

' the forelock in all things,

Permit me to say, there is a good deal of

nohsence talked by you gentlemen authors to the great inconvenience of the unfortu

nate tradesman who trades wilh you about waiting for inspiration. Pooh! It's very little waiting for a policeman when you want him vou may wait all day and never light

upon him. Inspiration, sir, if you only per

severe, comes with pen and ink, in' the same

way that a pump that seems dry gives water

with pumping.

x. Again, sotne of you gentry effect to be af

fected by" '"the weather as if you wrote in

quicksilver aim not in ink. .Doctor Johnson

sir, contained in himself as many people now

called authors, as there arc sticks in a fagot

"And 'tvhat ''says Pr, Johnson about the effect of reason and weather? whyj he' growls a laugh

at it. Yes, sir, that great man would have

writtten Taradise J.ost' quite as well in a

coal mine as in Arcadia if there is 'such

place. Besides, when a man has served his time to writing, it's nothing more I'm sure

fit nothing more than a knack. Just' as

a woman knits, carters and ' gossips at the

same time, he can go on writing his book

and think nothing at all about it. 1 his is

ifprje every day by some people : I sould on

ly wish, sjr, that, with all you talent for you iiave"a:Bdrt of talent I don't deny ityou

cpu !d dp the same thing. It would be mon

ey in your pocket and great convenience to

me.

It is true you have written much; nevertlie

' less, as I say, there is a good deal of meat

tiDou you yet a goou aeai oi meat, com

inay think that" a course phrase of mine

don't. ' On the contrary, I think it significant

and original. I look upon authors simply as butcher looks upon Southdown mutton ; with merely an eye to the number "of pounds to be ot out oPem. 'You know that my char

acter is frankness, I have lost a great deal by it but I cant help that. ' f 'And now by ten to-morrow, I must have

03- The votes for President and Vice President of the United States was opeued

in the House of Representatives at Wash

ington oft the 12th inst. On that occasion

the only -one we believe the Represen

tatives of 'the People are required to sit with uncovered heads. , The proceedings are

conducted with considerable , ceremony.

The members of the " Senate, headed., by their President and other officers, proceed

to the Uall of the House of Representatives

are received by that body and the Speaker

standing, and conducted to the seat provid

ed for them. The President of the United States, the Heads of Departments, and other officers civil and milirary and the Diplomatic corps in court costume usually attended also on these occasions, while the galleries are crowded with ladies in gay attire, giving addition brilliancy to the. scene. ; The President of I he Senate, to whom the speaker resigns his luxurious chair, presides over the joint meeting. Tellers being appointed that officer proceeds to break the seals of the official communications before him from each of the States, and to read aloud the certified vote of each college.

The tellers in due course, report the result, which is announced from the chair. The Senale then return to their chamber, and

ointed to wait on

ice rTB&rffBmyii

they have arrived in the city, and inform

lem of their election- It is, of course, a

gala day lo the successful parly, the new functionaries, and their friends.

GirOurEvansville neighbors, the Jour

nal and Courier.are at it, hammer and tongs,

Chandler has to quote from Shakespeare and

Byf on to keep up. We say nothing.

Statesman. . "

: You are mistaken. We quote neither from Byron nor Shakespeare. - We ' quote

from the Courier. . From whom the Courier

quotes from is further along.

committees are usually appo rriti new rresiaciit-ana l

Fcn Ahead. The Corydon Gazette says

that Mr. Wm. M. Saffer, of Harrison coun

ty, "has declared his intention to become a

Candidate for Congress in this District at the

ensuing election."

Another. The New Harmony States

man has a communication from 'one of the

faithful residing in Harrison county which

announces that in . case Mr. Owen is put

aside, Mr. Nathaniel Atyertson of that county "will be called upon by the democracy

of the upper part of the district to become a a Candidate for Congress.' . '

We say again there is fun brewingand we

mean to help it on when the time comes for

us to Btick in an oar. ' . . -'. . .

03-The N.Orleans Bee of the 15th inst

says that an attempt was made in the lower

House of the Louisiana Legislature, on the

day previous to instruct the Hon. Alexander

Barrow out of his seat in the U. S. Senate

"Mr. Bickham, a locofoco member, offer

ed a resolution inviting Mr. Barrow to re

sign, inasmuch as by his declaration of un

conditional hostility to the annexation o

Texas, had shown a contemptuous disregard

to the wishes and best interests of his con

. . . . i .

stituents. ' Mr. fine immeaiaieiy moveci to

lav the resolution indefinitely on the table

j .

Whenthevote was taken, several Miigrnem

bers declared that though opposed to the

doctrine of instruction, they were willing

and anxious to meet the question, and on

that account only, would vote against the motion to lay upon the table. Among them

were such staunch and undoubted , whigs as

Messrs. Stille, Parham, Crossman, &c. The

motion nevertheless prevailed and the reso

lution was laid on the table by a vote of 22

to 20. It was the courtesy of the whigs alone

which prompted them to allow the resolu

tion to go to. a second reading, and induced

them to vote against the summary proposition to kill it on its presentation Had the

frreOTUtion taken tliff usual course, it would

have been rejected by nearly two to one. There are a number of whigs in the House favorable to annexation; but there w not one who would dream of evicting Alexander

Barrow, because that 1 gentleman has the

independence to think for himself. , The slavish doctrine which makes the U. S. Sen

ator a blind tool of legislative behest, finds no favor with the Whig party in Louis'r

ERIE AND OHIO CANAL.

Whatever relates to this wprk is of interest

to our readers at this time, and we therefore

givo place to the following, marked and sent

us by Mr. Owen, in the Globe of the 14th

inst: ' ': . .

FOX AND WISCONSIN RIVERS.

Mr. DAVIS of Indiana raised the point of

order, that the bill appropriating for theim

provement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers

was penuing wnen the committee rose yes

terday, on which the honorable delegate from

Wisconsin Mr. Dodge was entitled to the

floor; hence the chairman of the Com

mittee of Ways and Means Mr. Mc

Kat could not get the floor to make his

motion.

The CHAIRMAN sustained the point of

order, thus decidiug that bill pending yester

day was the bill now before the committee,

and on it, that Mr. Dodge of Wisconsin was

entitled to the floor,

Mr. DAVIS of Indiana (Mr. D. yielding

the floor) withdrew the amendment he had

offered yesterday

After a few remarks in advocacy of the

bill, Mr. Dodge moved that it be laid aside to

be reported to the House

Mr. OWEN said, that he was glad to per

ceive, that the motion of his colleague Mr,

J. W. Davis to amend this bill had been with

drawn. : And he rose now merely to reply to some remarks, which had been called

forth from the present chairman Mr. Jame

son during yesterday's debate on the bill

now under consideration; which remarks applied, however, to another bill in which bis (Mr. O's constituents wa3 deeply interested.

He alluded to a bill for a canal grant, con

necting the waters of Lake Erie with those

of the Ohio river. With reference to that

bill, the present chairman Mr. Jameson had

remarked, that Indiana was one of those States that had already received, in aid of

her public improvements, a large amount of

lands, and was still demanding more. It was true, the bill alluded to was now lying in Committee of the Whole on the state " of the Union, having passed the Senate both at the last and present sessions; at the present session under the yeas and nays, by a vote oi 31 to 8. It was true also, that bill asked a grant of land. But that grant was not ask

ed as the gentleman's aigument seemed' to imply as a favor from the Unhed States. The land asked for was, the alternate sections in the land district, every acre of which had been thirty eight years in market. And the express condition on which it was to be granted, was, that the State of Indiana should complete the canal in question. That canal was 450 miles in length; of which 350 miles were already completed; a gap of about 100 miles (partially worked) remained incomplete and that incomplete hue ran dircetly through the . land district (the Vincennes district)

where the land was asked. The grant was

asked on the ground, that u that hundred

miles of canal were completed, (of which it

the lands were not granted there were no

hope,) the land remaining to the United

itfuu unci inotii. li XJJ OTI U nil 1 1 in

quantity, would not, in point ot fact, be di

minished by one dollar m value. He be

ieved there was not man well acquainted

pass by a large majority. . And it was to pre

vent a misconception ot that principle, and briefly to state the merits of the case, that he bad risen. '.-' ,

On the following day "Mr. JAMESON

asked, and obtained leave, to make a per

sonal explanation. While he (Mr. J.) was

in the chair ol the Committee ot the Whole

on the state of the Union, the gentleman

from Indiana Mr. Owen bad risen and made some remarks in reply lo remarks he (Mr. J.) had made the day before, on the bill making appropriation for the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. From the report of the gentleman's remarks, he found that he (Mr.

J.) had been misapprehended entirely by

the gentleman, from tne report oi uis re marks (and he wished the reporters to take notice of it) it would appear that he was opposed to this bill proposing to make this appropriation of alternate sections of land to carry on the Wabash and Erie canal. Being in the chair at the time, he could not rise to explain. What he had said was this: The gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Davis, the chairman of the Committee xon Public Lands, had introduced an amendment lo thai bill which, if carried, would defeat the bill as a matter of course. This bill, relative to the Fox and Wisconsin rivets, called for

Folk in Washington. Tho President elect, we learn from our Eastern papers, arrived safe at Washington on the 13th. His reception there, as every where else on his route, turned out a very shabby aflair. The correspondent of the Baltimore Patriot says: : It was pretty well known that he would reach Washington by the evening train of cars, M half past seven o'clock, and all due preparations were made for his reception.

His departure from the Relay House in this direction, was communicated by the Telegraph, and was announced to the citizens' here by the firing of a cannon from Capitol Hill. Immediately there was a general bus

tle throughout the streets and forthwith all the faithful, including an army of office-seekers, sallied forth to welcome our future, Pre-,

sident. Althoughtbe arrangements for his reception had been planned in due form and

committees naa oeen appointed to carry , ihern out, there seemed to be very little sya-

tem observed. There waa no-thing but con

fusion from the time he reached the . 2epolr

an app'opriation of alternate sections of land uatilhe entered Coleman's Hotel, where he precisely as the bill did in relation to the h jg L; ters and if any addresses werel.,l n, oonat - Ma h:! then clatf! that h 1 '

was in favor of the Indiana bill.on the ground made, as was contemplated in the program-

that he believed the government of the Uni-1 me, made out tor the occasion, very Jew nad

ted States would never be the loser, but, in an opportunity of hearing them. He was es-

laci, wouia oe u.e gd.uer, vy gmmg auer- corted bul by whom it was difficuh to 5fld

nate sections, ior me purpose oi carrying on . internal works of - general advantage to the ou, alonS the avenue on foot, accompanied State, as well as the Union; but he bad by a band of music, to his lodgings. lle

compl lined of the gentleman from Indiana, was attended by Mr. Dallas, the Vice Presi-

as he naa a out oi me same Kind lor

his State, that proposition for

a

he should object to this Wisconsin." He (Mr. J.)

went for the bill in the Committee on Pub

lic Lands, appropriating for the Indiana canal. He expected to go for it in the House. For the same reason he favored the bill for

(he f ox and Wisconsin rivers; and he was

satisfied that the .general government would

ueni, wuojoiueu nun ai me ueiay riouse.

"I have already said that the expected ar-

rival ot Air. rolk. tn this city has drawn to- '

...u! I I r o? : '

yciiici a taic uuiuuci ui ouice-seeiers. .

iif.i , r . . a

tviiuin a oay or iwopasi me number has in

creased considerably, and I have no doubt

ihe President elect will soon have his hands -

lose nothing by it; that it would have all the full in listening to their different stories, and

chance of gaining, with the risk nothing.

of losing

ANOTHER INVENTION. Col. Read,

of Boston, has hit up u an invitation, which,

f successful, is likely to be a formidable

competitor to Mr. Morse's magnetic tele

graph. Its purpose is to transmit letters or

packages any distance, with the rapidity b

ghtning The Boston Post says:

"The process by which this is accomplish-

simple, consisting merely ot an

ana.

A Mystery Indeed. The - Washington

correspondent of the New York Express

represents Gen. McKay, a . member of Con gress from North Carolina, as using this lan nuanre iust after the defalcation of Mr. McNulty was made public: ,

"How is it that if a Whig is turned out of

office, he immediatly settles his accounts,

and we hear nothing more ot him but the

Democrat, who would hold on to office, is turned out for dishonesty, and never settles

his accounts? Wc got rid of Curtis, and he

squared everythiug with the Treasury ; while

by Hoyt, and others, we have lost, 1 know

not how many millions. 1 don t understand

all this." . . .

To which the Augusta Chronicle replies. This is doubtless a question of very diffi

cult solution to locofocotsm. Probably it

the worthy General had called on Mr. Wood

bury, who retained a defaulting officer, be

cause "he was gorged with spoils and would

not therefore be likely to pluuderany more

DROWNED.

If the body ot Kobt. Drake, who. was

ost overboard from the St. Boat Tobacco

lant about six miles below Mt. Vernon on

the 23d of Febr'y, is found by any person in

the neighbourhood, they will confer a par

ticular favor by getting a notice inserted in

some paper in the vicinity, and the Editor of

the Paper at Evansv.lle will please give no

tice that the Family of the deceased will be

thankful tor any information.

He had a pair of Gray Cassinet Panta

oons, Blue Jacket, Blue Cassinet Vest with

two rows of Gilt Buttons Height 6 feet 2

nches, long Sandy hair. He had about $20

mostly in Silver and quarter eagles.

Address to the Ohio Patriot, New Gibson,

Columbia county, Ohio.

the ex-Secretary could have

"how it is."

informed him

' JgT: The Baltimore Patriot of the 14th says "lliere was a rumor this week in Washington, that the British Government

had demanded from ours an apology for the

lauguage of Mr. Calhoun's despatch to Mr.

King, our minister to Paris whichdespalch

was made public by the President, in com

municating it with other official documents

accompanying his annual Message.

We have no idea that such a demand has

been mide, and we hope never will be made

though some of the New-York papers think

it wiil. The N. Y. Courier - and Enquirer

says the demand is expected by the next

steamer; but that it has reason to know it has

not yet been made. . .. 1

U. S. Senator from New Jersey. The

Newark Daily Advertiser says: "The Hon.

Wm. L. Dayton was duly re-elected U. S.

Senator by the Joint meeting of the Legis-

alure of New Jersey for the full terra of six

years from the fourth of March . next. - He

received the whole Whig vote of course.

07- It is estimated that the recent payment

of the interest due by Pennsylvania on her

public debt to English bondholders, will take

upwards of $100,000 from this country.

JjOuisiana constitution. An impor

tant provision has been engrafted upon the

new constitution of Louisiana, the conven

tion to amend wuicu is now in session m

New Orleans. A clause has been adopted after a very long debate, requiring natural

ized citizens to have resided in the State

two years after they are naturalized before

they can exercise the right ot voting. This

provision is not, however, to be construed as

disfranchising any person now entitled lo

vote. It was adopted by a vote ol 42 to 32,

and as some question may be started here

after as to the political character of the body which has adopted this principle, it is proper to state that it contains a majority of Lo-

cofocos.

wilh the character and situation of the lands

n question who would not agree in this

opinion. 1 he simple circumstance that these

ands had been offered, and offered in vain

through more than a generation of men, at a

dollar and quarter, might alone furnish evidence, either that their price should be reduced, or something done to give them ad

ditional value. As it was, they were value

ess, uusaleable stock on the hands of Uni

ted States. The graduation bill now pend-

ug in this House proposes to reduce the

price of such lands to ffty cents; auothei

proposal would have reduced them to twenty

five cents. The bill of which he was speak

ing would be, in tact, but equivalent lo a reduction of the price of the whole lands iu

that district to sixty-two and a half cents. And, in addition to this, this canal bill se

cured to the United States, what of course

no graduation bill does, the free right ot way

from the lakes to the Uhio, a valuable pnv

ilege; in war it might be highly important

one. " " "

If, then, the remarks of the gentleman to

whom he was now addressing himself, Mr.

Jameson, were to be construed as an osser

tion that this grant ot lands to Indiana was

a favor asked by the United States, he (M. O.)

must protest against that construction. - It was asked, indeed, as that which would greatly benefit that State, and which might

essentially aid her in relieving herself from a

burdensome' debt: but it was not asked as

Ins something from the United States.

Speculators, prompted by' motives of self-

interest alone, frequently give away the at

ternate lots ot a town, wnen ot small value

and dull sale, on the condition that improve

ments be made thereon. They do this, not

as a sacrifice; not as any favor to

those who take the . lots. They do

it on deliberate conviction that they shall be

gainers by it. And experience shows that

they calculate wisely. So it has hitherto

been with grants of lands to Indiana. They

have encouraged the rapid setllemeLt of the

country; the rapid sale of the public lands

They have built up towns, cities settlements

where the forest, but lor suce policy: would

yet remain rn unbroken solitude.

On such grouds, applying with especia:

force iu the present case, is the grant of lands

asked for this canal.. And, in this view .of

it, surely it is nojust argument against it, that

such grants have heretofore been made to

our State. r-. ' -

He (Mr. O.) owed the committee,- per

haps, an apology lor introducing this subjec

at the present time; the. canal bill iu ques

tion, not being now under discussion. But

he was not willing the gentleman Mr. Jame

sonl should remain unanswered; and he

feared, that, as this session was drawin to

close, he might not have anothe opportunity

so to do. tie feared, that, when this bil

came up, as he hoped and believed it would

in a aay or two, mere would be nine or no

time afforded for discussion or explanation

at all. It would be voted for, probably, un

der the previous question. With the merits of the case, and the principle involved fully

understood, ho (Mr. O.) felt assured it would

ed is verv

w - w !!!. 1-1 .. .1

ir-chest, which is charged withair.by a force mms it iiKeiy mat ne win err on tne side ot

pump contiguous to the chest. When the leniency towards his political opponents who

best is sumcienuy cnargeu wim air, uie aro ,ifRA w . ra- nnrBa,

Attar rkp nnfarrPd w nlnCAl in thf tPPHPf- And I

VllVI v. w r - - - J I I mi i t t .1

it i immediate . discharged throush the ne mBJ " wm ue sioiq to sausiy me-

- .-- J o CJ I 1 I I . r . . 1 AnAAim.n A.M... ll.nl M -t. ! ,1 .. L T . .

pipe, witn greit velocity aua pernci saieiy. 1 mpnuua view mat. oic ancauj jjauiuiiny

Col. Reed tue inventor is ofthe opinion that rapidly, and who will beset his path from this

an outlay ol SOU,uuu would ensure tne f5 nnwar(j

-i press uas teemeu wun speculations in regard lo the persons who will coroposo the new cabinet, and a great deal is said here, too, on that subject. I have myself avoided giving the names of the different individuals who have been spoken of, because lam convinced that heretofore no one, or at least

All

in awarding the spoils. There is the greats

est anxiety felt among them to know Mr.

Polk's feelings on the subject of removals.

He has given no evidence yet of his disposi

tion to reward his followers, and as he has

pledged himself not to run for asecond term, and will be indifferent about making friends, I

with a view to re-election, those who are in pursuit of the spoils have great apprehen

sions that he will "not be as proscriptive as

they contend he ought to be. I do not

Boston and New Yoik with per tic t safety, in

the space ol hall an hour.

COL. W. II. POLK'S APPOINTMENT. I

The Washington Madisouian has the fol-

owing explanatory paragraph: s -

"In as much as it is feared that certain

members of certain cliaues are still maLi o

representations which may piove prejudirial verv fexv knew any thing at all about it

to the confirmation of the nomination now that has been published and uttered has been

before the benate, for the mission to Naples, mere speculation, and all I could hare dona

we would remark that we are authorized by

Col. P. lo say, he both desired, and sought

the office. That he is qualified for the sia-

ion, we are not aware that any one has doubt

ed.

The Locofoco Outrage i . Virginia.

would have been to and my surmises to those

which have been thrown out in various directions.: This would have been of little

use, because every intelligent reader of the Patriot, who has observed the course of ev-

The Richmond Whig, in announcing the in- 7 " P. Jm s capi-

01 e as myseu pr any ol those who profess to . . . .....

Know so much, to determine who will be so

ected to fill the different cabinet officeV.-

definite postponement, on the part of the

Virginia Senate, of the election of a United Slates Senator, makes these strong and just comments:. ,

This step, violent, disorganizing, and un

constitutional as it is unworthy of the repu-

Now that Polk is on the ground,- however, and as the time of his inauguration is hear at hand, it is fair to infer that there will be

tation of Virginia, and worthy only of the po- l6ss uncertainty about the matter.f-1 think

meal morality which esteems the end only I we shall soon have some indiraiiona" il at

of importance, and all means of right which L:n i i . .' . j ' ' ' b ... . ' . f I Will ennhlp lis In rinrirlA wlionmnnrr Iha r.

will secure it of the perpetrators ofthe ... . . .

Plaquemines and Georgia frauds, of the New Pi"" ' destined to have their longings

j uiit ctitiio-aioustj iiutius. aiiu oi uie reniisv-1 , , , . vania Polkery which published Mr. Clay's There is not less interest felt in regard to

speeches for ihe tariff, and ascribed Hem to ,he .cVmue semen. nf the nar, from

Mr. Polk this step of lowest, most unscru-j a- mi

pulous and . unblushing demagoguism, has w,u,cu ,ue CdW,ucl "mccrs ww" 00 iaRtn'

surprised no one here of any party. It has than in regard to the particular indiVidtiils

been known from the beginning that it would! upon whom the offices - will be bestowed.

be adopied by the Senate, unless, perchance ;s admi,ted. oa all i)and lhat slmn-

the magnanimous majority of that body could I ,. , , . ..

catch Whigd enough sick OT absent lo Sieal 34 ,u'eris nave aireaay sprung up in rerer-

a victory! I ence to the succession, each of . which will

This then must be the prominent issue 1 strive haid to get the ascendancy in the new

f .1 - i : r . i - I

ior me spring campaign, anu u-upon mis is- ..rfmmUira lion

sue, thus tendered them by the misconduc of their opponen s, the Whigs cannot drive

their adversaries out of the held, they de

serve to be driven out themselves!

Yankee Liberality. The Washington

correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger

says: "The Bostonians have funded $100,

000 for Mr. Webster during his lifetime and

The first object with these

cabals will be, to obtain a foot hold in the cabinet, and hence its formation will be to them a matter ofthe deepest interest; and on the same -account it will be fo Mr. Polk 8 point the more difficult to adjust. . - --;

: Singular. But four of the ten' Presidents ofthe United States had sons. Pies-

after wards to hi3 successors, in consideration jdent Houston, of Texas, President Burnet,

of the sacrifices he makes in entering the Lamar, and the other new President Anson

Senate. Whatever may be said about 'Yan- joneB none of them have sonsa rather

kee meanness,' they have a method of doing smaular circumstance. . - )

things on a large scale, as honorable to their

hearts as it is generous and self-sacrificing."

Frightful. The Richmond Enquirer cf last Thursday week opens thus: , 'il

"People of Virginia I You are betrayed!

"The Constitution," at Washington, the

organ of Mr. Calhoun and his Southern J The Senators who profess to represent you

wing of the Locofoco party has a long tirade ai ashington are about to aoanaon i ex-

against Mr. Bemon'a Texas bill, and says

"It kills, we fear, Texas annexation at this

session, if it is not lost forever."

We mentioned the other day that the op

inion was that annexation was strengthened

in the Senate. The opinion now is the olh-j er way and that Texas will not be annexed i

at the present session. Alex. Uaz.

as, and place you at the feet of abolitionO my! when did Messrs. Archer and Rives belong to Texas, that they should be accus-

1 r t I 1 AT t- . rr 'L -

eu oi Auauuouin: uci; ixvw jviii ifiuiwu

Texas. A letter. from a. distinguished

source in Washington, says: "lexas, I think is dead for this session.11 v , . ..