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EVANSVILLE JOURNAL. FEINTED AND PUBLISHED WM. II. CHANDLER & CO. BY The Dailt Journal is published every morning, (Mondays excepted) at 10 cenjs per week, payable to the Carriers, or 6 00 per annum, payable in advance. FOE PRESIDENT: ZACHARY TAYIOR. WHI8 ELECTORAL TICKET. SENATORIAL ELECTORS. JOSEPH G. MARSHALL, of Jefferson. GODLOVE S. ORTH, of Tippecanoe. DICTRICT ELECTORS. ist Dist.-JoHN Pitcher, of Posev. John S. Davis, of Flovd 3d 4th " Sth " 6th " 7th " 8th 9 th " 10th " Milton Gbeog, of Dearborn. David P. Holloway, of Wayne. Thomas D. Walpole, of Hancock. Lovell H. Rou-seau, of Greene. Edward W. McGuaghey, of Park. James F. Suit, of Clinton. Daniel D. Pratt, of Cass. David Kilgore, ofDelaware, CITY OF CVAXSVILLE: SATURDAY aiORXLXG, JUNE 10. Murder. Last night between 9 and 10 o'clock, as the steamboat Gen. Scott was leaving our wharf, a difficulty arose between two of the hands of the boat which terminated by one receiving a fatal stab from the hand of the other. The facts, as near as we could learn, are as follows: James Currey, whose duty it was to keep the engine greased and in order, was detained at his work until after his mess had got through with their supper, and when his task was done he went to the usual place of eating U'hrA Yi f , 1 1 m , 1 ,nnltiarmocii0r.naiToi1 . i . 1 i nit up a plate for the purpose of helping himself he was accosted by a deck hand, named Joseph Brown, with these words, '-You are a d d dirty greaser," to wh'u h Currey retorted pretty se verely, after bandying words a short time CurTJ took his plate to the cook house to get his supper, and the quarrel had apparentlydropped. iteturning again near to wnere urown was sea fed, he (Brown) a second time made use of the above language, and sharp words again petted between them. Brown, at this time being on his feet, stooped down for the purpose of getting the ltnife he had been eating with and as soon as he raised with it Currey struck him a blow with his fist and immediately afterwards he (Currey) was heard to exclaim "I am murdered!" Brown escaped to the wheel house where he was discovered after the boat had got under head-way, but she immediately rounded too, and the murderer was committed to jail to stand his trial at the September term cf the Circuit Court. The sum of one hundred and twenty dollars in gold was found upon the person of the murired n.a. C2TW have been informed by our Postmaster that the mail to Mt. Vernon, and to Henderson, Ky., now carried by land, has been discontinued, and will hereafter be transmitted by the Packets which leave here on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. This ar rangement, our worthy Postmaster believes, vm the first step towards a permanent system of river mails, and we hope it may not be long before the system is perfected, for certainly in creased tacmties ol mail communication is much needed by the citizens of this section. -- By this arrangement our subscribers in the places named will receive the Journal one and two days earlier than heretofore. (QpThe work on our wharf is going on finely. Mr. Ross has returned and placed a large number ot hands at worn, and very soon our business men on Water street will have to find other locations. Popularity of the Vincennes Sun. We see that out in Illinois some where, before the news of the democratic nomination was receiv ed, the suspense of the citizens becoming in supportable, it was agreed that an extra should be issued to allay auxiety. lhey accordingly Jiroceeded a slip was to be issued heralding orth the names of Sam. Houston for President and Levi Woodbury for Vice Presideut. But something was uececessary to give the story plausibility, when it was determined unani mously that it should purport to have been issued from our office. The dose was concocted end from the high authority of its endorst nv-n was very easily taken. Thus the public mind was soothed and pacihed by this siory till rous ed to enthusiasm by the brighter glory ol re eilty ! What is strange, also, our friend Burtch in forms ua that while in .Lvansviiie, tne same game was played, aud he observed slips endorsd "Sun office, Vincennes,'' currently passing from hand to hand, ami confidently believed representing that some other two had Deen the choice of the Baltimore convention ! We are Inclined to hold friend Chandler of the Jour nal responsible for this fabrication. Vincennes Sun. We hope Sunny you won't do any anything so desperate as that. We certainly don't want to be held responsible for the oversight of you friends in the Convention: vet we believe it Mr. Woodbury and Pilcher, or Pillow, had been the nominees, your chances of success would have been better, as it is you are "beaten community and no mistake." But don't lose jour temper. (GrDuring the storm at St. Louis, on the 2d iast.,the steamer Illinois was struck lightning. The electric fluid tore off some the cleats on the hurricane deck towards th Stern of the beat, but did no other damage. was conducted from the boat by a piece of iron attached to the 6tove-pipe. Great aemval. of Specie. The New Yor Express announces the arrival at that port, cf 250,000 in specie, from UoUand, undercharge of three gentlemen, who c.-rteeentalarge number of persons about to emigrate. The money

Gen. Cass s Letter of Acceptance. Gen.

Cass has accepted the nomination for President in a letter which has been published but which we have not yet seen. The Louisville Jourr. al a iys he subscribes fully to all the resolutions adopted by the convention as the Locofoco pi itform for this year and declares that he will under no circumstances write any more letters before the election. He has no idea of responding to the interrogatories of men who may be curious as to his present position in relation to matters that he has been upon all possible sides of within the last three or four years. "Pray what do the Locofocos think now of a candidate for the Presidency that will not answer civil questions? Do they remember how they denounced and ridiculed Gen. Harrisonfor not answering all the questions they chose to put to him? how they called him "Gen Mum?" how they wrote him letter after letter insisting on answers? and how, when they could get answers in no other way, they sent a committee ot of two old men from this city all the way to North Bend to put the questions at him in person?" ' . Gen, Taylor at Plaquemine. The New Orleans Picayune of Thursday last gives an account of Gt-nf ral Taylor's visit to Plaquemiue, and says that his reception was enthusiastic beyond description, and characterized by the display of the most ardent love and admiration. When it w as known by the citizens of Plaquemine, that the General was in the vicinity, a number of his friends determined to invite him to visit the town, and accordingly Friday noon was appointed as the time, and accepted by the General. Although a few hoursSly were given for preparation, the manner of reception, and the welcome throughout, was in the very best taste and afforded pleasure to all who participated in it. There was a universal turnout, parties were all forgotten, beautiful women, gallant men, youth and age, alike pressed forward to render honor to the old hero. At an early hour of the flay, the ladies assembled upon the galleries ot the hotel, and occupied other places in the vicinity. At 12 o'clock the General came into town escorted by a large number of his friends. He was receiv ed in the front of the Ho'.jl by his honor, Mayor Desoby, who welcomed hiin aa follows: General It is with unfeigned pleasure and self-congratulation that, iu the name of the citizens ol Plaquemine, I bid you welcome, and offer you the hospitalities of the town. It would require eloquence far superior to mine tp give utterance to the joy and happiness which we feel at beholding you among us. We see you the victorious general, without ostentation, surrounded by no military cavalcade, great in that modesty which distinguishes you. and worthy ih praise and admiration of a grateful country. We have heard your praises sung throughout the land, and we have longed with impatience to greet among us the hero of Bueua Vista. That day has come and we bless it we will ever cherish it iu our memories, for it has brought among us, one whose high deeds and noble actions have struck the world with astonishment, and tilled one of the brightest pages in the annals of our national glory. Gen. Taylor, in reply, said that he had not the most di.-tant idea that he was to be so cermoniously received by his fellow-citizens of Plaquemine, or thai there would be any occa sion for him to make a set speech. He, how ver, seemed much affected, and continued for some time in a strain that was singularly elo quent. He spoke of the pleasure that he al ways experienced in meeting his fellow-citi zens, of his long acquaintance of the State of Louisiana, and of the universal good feeeling manifested towards him, by her noble popula tion, lie said that he had been in the publicservice for forty years and that in that time he had sutiered some hardships, but that be was paid over tud over again wheu he received tokens of approbation from his fellow-citizens as was then exhibited; he rejoiced that he was not alone, a recipient of the honors of the oc casion, for there were fathers present who had given sons to fight for the honor of their coun try, some of whom has sfood by his side lu the hour of paril; but the kind and unmerited at ention of the fair daughters of Louisiana he esteemed beyond praise. I see around me, continued the General gray haired veterans, whose youth has been spent in the service of their country liKe my own; they are rapidly closing their earthly ca reer, let usheld,saidhe,withaateady grasp th catalogue of private and publicduty ourcouu trv has riven us. that our examples may be worthy of imita'ion by these youths (poiutin to sixty or seventy boys who formed part of the profession) that ara soon to occupy ou places, and fill our stations in life, who are in fact the glory of our country, and the wealth of our free institutions. The effect of this address, so evidently the spontaneous feelings of an overflowing heart cannot be imagined, and several moment elapsed before the silence was broken by ihe lond huzzas that followed Gen. Tavlor at the close of his address was with difficulty conveyed to the hotel, so anx ious were all to seize his hand. His reception in the parlor by the ladies was a comment on the old saying, that none but the brave deserve the fair, for the brave had all the fair. At o'clock the General set down to a suraptucus dinner, Fatal Accident. We learn that the Chief Engineer of the Packet Hibemia on her trip down, last Thursday, a few miles below New Albany, was knorked overboard and drowned by the falling of one of her chimneys which he was in Jhe act of repairing. Every exertion was made by the. Captain and Crew to save him but without effect. He was a very estimable man, and has left a wife and faaail to deplore his untimely end. fCJ-Mr. Lewi Howes has our thanks for ptoctrrin jtis New Crtesnffftetyufw cf tbe 351.

EVANSVILLE, IND., THURSDAY JUNE 15, 1848.

rrsine senate on lnursclay last adopted-a-1 resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to a palpable violation of the existing Sub-Treasury law. This Violation of law was committed by depositing the public monies in -the .Philadelphia Bank for the payment of the interest upon the public debt due in that city; and by paying such interest in bank notes instead of specie. This however is but one out of hundreds of instances in which the ridiculous law has been violated. If the Senate undertake to investigai all the violations, that body will have a big job on hand. But let the law, contemptible and almost impracticable as it is, be either tnforced or repealed. (Q-We cannot give, says the Louisville Journal, the remarks of the numerous Barnburner organs of New York upon the Baltimore nomination. We give howevera single paragraph from the Troy Budget a specimen of them all. The Budget, as far backasour memory eitends, has been one of the most violent and one of the most efficient of the Locofoco organs of the. Empire State. - The national organization of the Democratic party is at an end!' The North will assert its rights and its principles against all opposition ! The Baltimore convention has accomplished a eat which will be long rememberedamong the remarkable events in the political history of the ountry. It has broken vp the Vemocratic party of the nation ! Barn-burser's Indignation John A. Dix. Little idea can be formed of the bitter feeling of the New York Barn-burners against the nomination of Mr. Cass, except by the perusal f their papers. The Troy (N. Y.) Budget has hoisted the name of John A. Dix for President. t says. The Baltimore Convention has accomplish ed a feat which will long be remembered among he remarkable events in the political history of the country. It has broken up the Democratic party of the nation! " the representative ota pansn meeting 01 forty persons cast wine votes in the convention, while the great State, of New York was whol ly disfranchised. We doubt not the democracy of this State will be presented with a candidate worthy of support." On the same subject, the New York Globe, whose editor was at the convention, says: Lewis Cass will want from fifty to one hundred thousand votes of carrying the Elec toral t;cket of New York. The man who thinks otherwise, knows little of the extent of the popularindignatiOn respecting the outrage committed on the New York democracy. A rev olution in parties is at hand. The honest of 11 parlies will come, together, and tne democ racy of the Union wilt become purified.' A New Causa Belli. It is said that the Governor of Cuba has refused Santa Anna permission to reside in the Island, from an pprehension of giving offence, to the United tates. his soiourn there in 1815 beuu one of continued intrigue and preparation. The Govrnor must be very careful how he treats Mr. Polk's dear friend, Santa Anna, with anything like indignity, or he may find a detachment of our navy thundering about his ears to avenge the national wrong. Important Movement of the Barnburners. The New York Herald has the following tele graphic despatch : Albany, May 29, 1843. On Wednesday next John Van Buren will speak at Tammany Hull. yesterday ex-rresineni xviariin . v an isuren privately avowed his intention to oppose the election ol lien, cassio tne rresuiency. The Barnburners will certainly nominate Gen. Taylor. From California and the Pacific. Lieut, W. H. Weirick, U. S. A., arrived in New Or leans on the 2d inst. He is bearer of despatch es from the Colonel of his regiment Jonathan D. Stevenson al Pueblo de los Angelos, in Upper California, and also from Commodore Shubrick, commanding the Pacific squadron. Lieut. Weirick is on sick leave, and owing to the state of his health forwards his despatches from New Orleans by mail. Lieut. W. informs the editors of the Pica yune that up to the time of his leaving Califor nia. in March last, every thine was quiet. The Governor of California Col. R. B. Mason had ordered the raising of 1000 troops to gam son Mazatlan, in'the absence of the squadron Maj. Hardie had been sent to Oregon, and Lt W. H. Warner, of the Topographical Engineers to the Great Salt Lake, to accomplish this ob ject. On the first of April the brig Dias y Ocho Capt. Ducoing, from Masatlan bound to Pana ma, spoke the whale ship Magnolia, Captain Simmons, of New Bedford, in lat. 5 North Ion. 95, homeward bound, with cargo of 2700 bbls. oil, and owing to the perilous situation of of the brig, having sprung a leak and being con sidered generally worthless, the Passengers amongst whom was Lieut. Weirick, concluded to abandon her, which they accordingly did and in company with Capt. Ducoing, took pas sage on the Magnolia for the coast of South America, where they fell in with the Bteamer which took them to Panama. Painful Coincidence. The widow of Hon. Alexander Everett, United States Commissioner to China, and also the widow of the Rev. S. C. Clopton, a missionary of the Sou'.bern Baptist Board, recently arrived in New York from Canton. Both families went to China in the same ship, and the widows returned home together, equally bereaved. (Xy The Baltimore Sun says that General Tavlor is expected at Washington City shortly He is to attend the court of inquiry, now sitting at Frederick, Maryland. C3The congregation of Grace church, New York, contributed 628 50 tQ the family of George Kctrf lately killed at fixe in New Yo. " '

False Democracy. The-most beautiful il

lustration of the democracy of the self-styled Democratic paity as it exit's ia the U. States is their repudiation of the majorfty princiole; the very sun itself of the Democratic system. It was by this repudiation of, this plucking out of the sun that gave birth, and light, and life to their party and system, that Mr. Polk was made President. He was obnoxious to a vast majority of the members who finally nominated him rather than nominate nobody. Mr. Van Buren was the choice of the majority of the Convention and to defeat him the dtmocracy unsexed, or aristocratised themselves, by establishing, for the first time in any professedly democratic, if indeed in similar popular assembly, the two-thirds new-fangled modern-democratic "progressive" idea. We had been taught that the democracy and the majority were synonimons and the same in reference to politics and its numbers; but democratic progression, or new-fangled American democracy, have the two-thirds sun instead of the one of-the majority, to irradiate, warm up and give life and light to their system. Captain C. C. Danley. The Louisville Courier of Thursday says : "Fair play is said to be a jewel, and as we have published one side of a matter which has attracted some attention, we now give place to a declaration from the other side. The following is from the Little Rock (Ark.) Banner of the 30th ult: It gives us great pleasure to announce Ihe rrival in our city, of this gallant gentleman. He is still obliged, from the nature of his wound, to use crutches, but is otherwise in ex cellent health, and lcks as if he could "fight his battles o'er again."' Capt. Da u ley relates many interesting incidents of his travel, imprisonment and fight in Mexico, and we hope he may find an early opportunity of putting them inform for publication. In relerence to the question at issue between Major Borland 8nd Cassius M. Clay, as to the conduct of the latter, at the time the encarnacion prisoners were in jeopardy ot their lives lrom Henrie s escape, Capt. Danley sets the matter entirely at rest. He asserts that Capt. Clay in the best Spanish he could commandTand in good English, used the following words at the perilous moment : tor the sake of the great Henry Clay, -who opposed th; war, and who opposed the annexa tion ot 1 cxas, spare me! tor the sake'ot the great Whig party, a member of which I am. una which opposed the war and the annexation of Texas, and which has laid neutral in this war, but which aiill raise agaiiist Mexico to a man if I am killed, spare me!"Ihe character ot Captain Danley, as a man of honor and veracity, no man will dispute who knows him, and he leaves the brand upon good Cassius ot having told a willtul lie. It is his intentihn to prepare a statement of facts concerning ihe whole atlair, vhtcn we shall be able to give in our next. The Military Commission in Mexico. The New Orleans Delta of the 31st contains an of ficial account' of the proceedings in the mili tary commission at the city of Mexico for the trial of various officers and privates of the Uni tea states army lor Durgiary and murder. Col. M. V. Thompson of Kentucky ac;ed as president of the commission. The result was as follows: Sentence. The commission, after mature consideration on the testimony adduced, found the prisoners each and severally guilty as char ged, aud sentence them, Sergeants B. F. Wragj and Stewart, and private John Wall, to be han ged by the neck until lhey ar dead, dead, dead.. In this sentence two-thirds of the court concurred. II. The major general commanding ap proves the proceedings, findings, and senten ces of the military commission in the forego ing cases. Lieuts. Isaac Hare and 15. t. JJutton, ad regimeut Pa. volunteers, and B. P. Tilden, 2d regiment infantry, and John Laverty, will be ex ecuted on the25th inst., between the hours of 8 and 11 o'clock, A. M., under the direction of the military and civil Governor of the city ot Mexico. Upon the recommendation of the court, the sentences in the cases ol sergeants B. t. VVraggand Stewart, and private John Wall, of the 7th infantry, are respectively remitted. They will be kept in close confinement until the close ot the war, when they will each be dishonorably discharged from the service. Upon the like recommendation of the court, no further proceedings w ill be taken against the prisoners, Jesse Armstrong and J. A. uollister, who appeared as witnesses for the prosecution. They will be hept in close confinement until the close of the war, and then set at liberty. The Concordia Intelligencer's correspondent in New Orleans seems as full of fun, frolic and information as is an egg of edibles. In his last letter, he thus speaks: I must, howe ver, do the redoubtable Pillow justice on one point. Every body sneers at ihe claim he sets upon the merit of planning the great operations of our army before the city of Mexico, and everybody has doubted the. truth of his having slain a Mexican officer in single combat. He failed to prove the fact before the Court Martial, but it is no longer a matter of dispute; for in addition to the bu.let that unbuttoned his coat at Cerro Gordo, and the cannon ball that whizzed by him at Churubusco, there has been brought over the corpse of the aforesaid Mexican, preserved in brandy, and it, or something like it, has been exhibited to the gaping crowd ever since the General's arrival. These memorials, I presume, are to be forwarded to Washington, and will be preserved in the War Department. And when th? stranger asks Mr. Folk tor the monuments of the Republic, he will point not to the cannon captured at Saratoga and Yorktown, not the standards of Tippecanoe and Orleans, not to the trophies of Buene Vista, nor to the banners torn from the citadel of Mexico, but he will say. w ith an air of triumph: "Here is the bullet that flattened itself on the breast of my general, here is the cannon ball (hat passed wiihm three feet of him at the storming of Chapultepec, and here is the yellow bellied Goliah that he slew in single combat!" Oh fortunate Mr. Polk! Oh glorious Pillo'v! Oh happy and gloriou. Republic! When were there such a President, and sucha hero? Jefferson is no longer ranked as the first of Statesman, the achievements of Jackson cease to astonish. History bestows the palm, and fioetry its imramortality,' on Polk and Pitow. CO We are indebted to the Cleric of the Da Wit Clinton, for Cincinnati papers of the Tlh e.mr Lonravilte ct the 6th.

' I ' , r Tt . m... 1 rrt n i.1 deIealln3 retired to consult. All having voted but Virginia and Pennsylvania,, a long pause eusu-d; the votes wnhoutthese two States, standing, yeays 10S Days yy. Virginia then came in and announced her vote 17 yeas. This caused great applause, at the end of which she corrected her vote to nay. this summoned up enthusiasm on the opposite side. The vote uow stood 103 yeas to 116 navs. Pennsylvania seemed slmv in vmin-r there was great excitement Pennsylvania then announred her vrti 19 yeas, 7 nays. This decided the qnestion bv a vote ol 127 to 122. and Was rereired with cheers. The list was then read over to see if all was correct before the President announced it. Vermont, which it first cast. 6 veas. how corrected her vote to 5 veas. 1 nav. This ed cheers, and broqght the vote "down 126 to 1H. being only a majority. The scene here became intensely exciting, when a delegate from Ohio rose and said there was one vote wanting iu his State, and he wish ed to be allowed to fill it. The President at first decided that the dele gate had no right to vote, but afterward conceded that he might. This made the vote stand yeas IZb, nays 125. It was uow reduced to a nice distinction. when one man turning would chance the re sult; and in the midst ol much excitement one of the delegates from Rhode Island rose and said that this Slate had voted 2 to 2. One of the members was in Washington. If his vote be substracted, it would stand 1 yea to 2 nays. inis would nave made it a tie, and of course the amendment would have been lost. The vote, hwever, was finally made to stand z to 4. Here there was a movement in the Texas Delegation about changing one of her votes but alter much exntement and confusion, she concluded to remain as she was, 4 in the affir ma live. Ihe Chair now announced the vote, 126 to 125. Af'.er some cheers, jvlls and great confusion, an adjournment was carried till V o clock, to morrow-morning. RICHELIEU Aaron Burr. A correspondent of the Providence Journal states a fact which makes a remarkable final to the career of this re markable man. The body which in life was the tenement of such restless passions, was not per mitted to rest quietly even in the nameless grave in which it 'was deposited. About two years ago the grave was opened and the body carried off, probably for surgical purposes. Large Gold Coin. Writers in the NewYork papersare strongly urging the attention of Government to gold coin of 50 and $100 They are much wanted in counting out large sums particularly at the custom house. British Troops crd-ered Home. Three reg iments of troops, now stationed in Canada, have been oldetcd koine by the British Gov ernment. CC? "There is a current report," says the Washington coi respondent of the New York Herald, "that James K. Polk is a partner of Mr, Ritchie in the Union printing if so, I predict they will not fail to make a round sum out of Uucle Saai. C3The Duke cf Mqntpensier had ordered a Madrid ieweller to dismount a sword set with jewels, said to be worth 8300,000, which his Royal Highness saved from the sack of the Tuilleries. It is said to have belonged to Na poleon. Three children of a Mr. Campbell, of Her man, St. Liwrtnce county, New York, were lately poisoned by eating polk root, which they mistook for sweet flag. C3New fruit has been introduced atCharleston, S. C, from Japan. It is an exergwen and bears flowers of a delightful almoud-like fragrance, twice a year. The fruit ripe. is now Serious Accident. The iron bridge across Jones's Falls, Fayette street, Baltimore, fell a few days ago with a tremendous crash, by which accident several persous were slightly injured, and some narrowly escaped being kill ed outright. Cd?A son of Mr. Van3ant, of Cincinnati (says the Times,) about 10 years of age, living near the four-mile house, o.i the Chevoit road, fell from a cherry tree, and broke his neck, on Friday. Circumstances render his death peculiarly melancholy. A number of little girls and boys had visited him to enjoy a holliday and he had ascended the tree to pluck chenies for them. A deep gloom was cast over the hopes of tha parents and the joy cf the little party. 03The smatl pox, introduced from Boston, is prevailing to an alarmingextentinSt. Johns, New Brunswick. 0C5Two thousand four hundred and seventyone emigrants arrived at Boston during last week. " Thh Fly in the Wheat, The papers in the eastern counties of Pennsylvania, speak of injuries done 4o the Wheat eiop bjr t! flf .

Mniaiunt vojn v fcKTiOfi. inere were some funny scenes enacted in the Baltimon Con vention backing and filling by membersTn hopes of stearing clear of breakers, but running at last high and dry on the rocks. - The following manceuvering in regard to the admission of the Barnburners, is not the least funny thing they performed: Here about an hour was spent in the very worst kind of confusion. Sometimes half a dozen of points of order were before the chair at once. Ittook the Chair at least halfan hour to explain the precise question before the Convention. He finally declared that the question was on the motion of Mr. Bartley to admit both delegations (72) to seats with power to cast 36 votes. . ?he,e in favor of the previous "question being finally taken was carried in the affirmative' by 201 yeas to 56 nays. After some more confusion the vote was taken on admitting both Hi..atinn.

From the Lousville Journal of Thursday. Whig and Locofoco Parties The Presi

bestial canvass. lne residential canvass which now opens promises to be more than usually exciting. Recent events have worn a deeper gulf than ever betw een the- conflicting parties, and nave roused tne public mind to the deep and porteniuous importance of the struggle. In other like contests, great enthusiasm and great excitement have been exhibited, but in the present the chords of the popular heart will be swept with greater power aud will echo w ith a louderand more startling tone than ever before. For many years the great question has been, what set of men shall rule? Shall the country be ruled by honest and able men, installed by a pure and enlightened party; with an eye single to the promotion of the common good, or shall it be ruled by selfish demagogues with an eye single to their own aggrandisement by demagogues who rise to power by means of trickery, falsehood, and hypocrisy, and who in power are guided by no principle, aud seen no other end man tlie maintainauce of their ascendency? This for twenty years has been at the bottom of ihe party divisions of this country. . . It is true that important questions of policy have, constantly divided the country, but these questions have not caused tne gr-at party di visions but have rather grown out of them. In the progress of a great country like the United Slates, many measur. s will from time to time become necessary for the promotion of the public good. These will be discovered and will be supported by those who seek the public good; and they will be opposed by the demagogues with no other view than to keep up a party division. In the last twenty years that party which professed to be the party of progress.and boasts of its energy and enterprise, has originated no single positive measure but the annexation of the whole ot Oregon, invoking a war with England; the annexation of Texas; the war with Mexico, the auneation of the whole of Mexico; and interposition in the affairs of Yucatan. They have indeed reduced the measure of pro tection of American industry, aud have locked up the Government funds in iron chests, but these were negative measures, growing out of their opposition to what the Whigs pro posed. ihe first measure was that of the annexation of Texas, conceived in the Administration of Tyler and eagerly consummated uuder Polk. lint this long interval of inaction, or of simple, dogged, and factious resistance to whatever the Wings proposed and the public good demand ed, was followed under the Administration of Polk with a train of baleful projects evincing a satanic energy long restrained but now let loose upon tht country. Van Buren s "le.t alone policy," his dogma that the people ex pect too much ol government, and his maxim, openly and unblushiugly proclaimed, that the trovernment, meaning the omce-holders, must lake care of itself and the reople of themselves had resulted in the total route of his party. When they came into power again under a leader of their own choosing, the present incumbent, they thought it expedient to give some sample of their boasted progress, and long, and bitterly, will the country rue it. Their first measure was the annexation of Texas', a leading issue in the contest of 1S44, when the Whigs opposed to the uttermost, predicting all the evils which have since proceeded from that pandora's box. Another issue of the canvass of '44 was the occupation and hoLling of the whole of Oregon up to the line of 54 40. This abominable measure, which would have involved the country in a war with England for a barren and worthless strip of land, was pressed with the greatest earnestness by Polk aud his party, until the eloquent, uuremitting, and powerful assaults of the Whigs detached a sufficient number of the party; including all those of any pretensions to character aud statesmanship, and saved the country from one of the most disastrous schemes ever plotted by upstart and folly and audacious wickedness. Close on the heels of the baulkad scheme of Oregon occupation came the war with Mexico precipitated by a rash, untimely, needless order of the Executive, which Congress had no power to control because it was secret. This war with its terrible loss in life and pecuniary treasure, its deinoializing influences upon those at home, its stain upon the national character, and the petty malignity displayed by the Ad miuistration toward those great captains who reaped the laurels and repaid in glory in some degree the sacrifices and disgraces ot a wanton war, against a weak, defenceless power that for ten Ions year3 of disgrace had not teen able to stir a &ger against a handful of Texas this war w ith all its blunders, corrup tions, peculation, lavontism, lobs and con tracts, will be a fruitful theme of Whig elO' quence, before which the Locofocos will recoil as their leaders recoiled in the Senate before the artillery of Whig eloquence on the Oregon debate. Next in the shower or direful ills shaken from the corhet-like train of Locofoco progress was the a nnexationot Mexico. Asthecoun trv had been threatened with the "whole of Oregon or none," so it was threatened with the annexation of the whole of Mexico not an unpeopled desert like Oregon, but avast ter ritory peopled with many millions, of different hues, but all the free, equal, and independent citizens of the Republic a people who maintain the principles of our declaration of inde pendence, and who naturally leel the greatest hostility to ihis country; whom, therefore, we could only bold by lorce, and whoaru so ignorant and degraded that if annexed by their own free will, it wauid be fatal to this Republic. From this fatal annexation of the whole of Mexico, the country will be saved by the persevering efforts of the Whigs, but it will prob ably not escape without a large annexation of t - I .i territory, wnicn, inougn ii contains compara tively few inhabitants, will probably like the annexation of Texas, produce finally the most deplorable consequences, And now, seeing that they are about to lose all of Mexico but the small territories of New Mexico and Laiilornia, tne administration is stretching is arms towards Yucatan, not without ferocious growlings over the bone of Cuba. The appetite for war and plunder cannot be allayed by anything short of a huge deglutition like the anaconda's, which swallows rabbits while it ruus, and only becomes gorged and motionless after swallowing a bison. Geo. Cass is of opinion that Mexico might be swallowed without indigestion, and as Cuba will be taken in by way" of dessert. Of this nefari ous scheme of interposition in the affairs of Yucatan, much is to be learned by the country, and upon it we shall introduce two witnesses of high authority on the Locofoco side, no less names than those of Senators Niles and Calhoun. That administration which found Mr. Crittenden's proposition, to vote 6500,000 for the relief of the starving people of Ireland, unconstitutional, eagerly proposes to interpose in a civil war in Yucatan, against the timehonored policy of non-intervention.' By the relief of Ireland thousands of fellow-men would have been saved from starvation, and all the civilized nations would have beheld the act with admirerfft and tailed H wV.n keartjr ap

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plause. But the act was unconstitutional ia the eyes of a Locofoco administration; it created no new offices or new employment for partizans it appropriation was for the relief of famishing men beyond the seas. The Spanish Yucatanese.also a foreign people, ask to be protected against a portion of their fellow-citizena who wage civil waragainst them, having borno long years of oppression from their whiter-skinned fellow-citizens. This suits the genius of Loccfocoism. It is a case of relief like that of Ireland, but it is not peaceful, it is not simply beneficent. It involves an indefinite war with a numerous and hardy race of mountaineers, aa difficult tQ subdue as the Seminoles. Thousands of lives will be lost in this war,' a greater nun.ber most probably, including Americana and Indians, than the whole number of those who ask relief; but no matter, millions will be scattered upon civil and military officers and contractors. Ihe Mexican war is about to end, and this Yucatan aflair will serve togratify the pampered taste for blood and plunder and what is called military gloryl A distinguished statesman once said trial the Locofoco nartv is bound together by tha cohesive power of public plunder, and there certainly never was a more philosophical generalization. This truth might be deducted from a knowledge of the demagogues who lead it, but a history of their administration of public affjirs establishes the deduction by a thusand instances, iney administer trie govern ment as if lhey thought it nothing but a con trivance to collect money from the industrious and enterprising classes for distribution among the orhce-hilders. lhey tolerate no measure but such as tend to multiply officers or in " crease the revenue and expenses. The. chief argument for the new tariff was the assertion that it would increase the revenue. An honest free-trader, above all things, would bav sought to curtail the expenses and tie revenue." This administration, with nothicg but freetrade and low duties upon its lips, has swelled he annual expenses many millions), necessarily requiring a high rate of duty on kit articles that will bear it. Jackson swelled rfx expenses greatly beyond his predecessor, and Van Buren brought them to an imperial standard. He too had his pet w'ar, but he labored incessantly to multiply the officers, and there by. increas the patronage and strength of the Executive. This was his game to secure his re-flection This was the purpose of his project of a Government bank with its host of employers, and of his scheme of a short of regular army of 200,- ' 000 men. This was a peace army of National Guards. His successors have improved upon , him. They wish an army of 100.0CO men, be-, sides civil officers, such as Governors, clerks, collecters, &c, to occupy Mexico by force and carry on its government. This was the favor ite scheme ot the Liocotocos, and tney hava be"en driven from it w ith much difficulty, in deed, if peace is not restored, it is not abandon ed, ihe Yucatan oliair is held in reserve. Distribution of the spoils, large expenditures of public money, jobs, contracts, and pecula- . tioii these are the philosophy, aim, and end of all Locofoco politics. Tbe foundation up on which the leaders stand is the presumed ig norance, prejudice, and gullibility of the mas ses; the weapons of their party warfare are equivocation, falsehood, trickery, and hypoc- . risy; the stakes lor which they play are tn spoils of victory. All classes and all parties, save only the office- holders, are alike their vic t tims. To keep themselves in power they will resort toany expedient however fatal to th r prosperity and happiness of the people. To carry an election they would not scruple to in- ' volve the country in a war with the mightiest power. And these selfish, sordid, spoils-loving dera- . agogues claim to be the best friends ol the democratic movement in Europe, and hope to make foreign citizens as well as tbe more guilltble of native-born citizens believe that there is such , a thing as an aristocratic or anti-democratic party in this country. . If there issuch a party, ' lhey constitute it who intent on spoils disre- ' garded the interest of the people. Tbey conconstitute it who profess to wish to open the country to the free-trade of the world, abasing American wages and American capital to the European standard, lt is not thus that the Republicans of France proceed, who have dri- ' ven out with a savage brutality the English artisans and laborers, and who now wisely dasign to make regulations calculated to foster home indqry by preventing foreign competi-' tion. There is, there can be no such thing in -this country 88 classes and class interests, except to office-holders. There is every variety of individual and condition, but no political distinctions but those founded upon sex or col- . or. Of individuals there is as great a variety, as in any other country. They are the rich, and poor, the wise and foolish, the idle and ' industrious, the virtuous and vicious, the inteitelligent and the ignorant, and all these are scattered more or less through each party. The , mass of both parties are honest, and honestly mean to promote their own interests and the good of the country by every vote they cast. It is the function of the patriot and good citizen to endeavor to disperse those prejudices nd . misconceptions w hich alone prevent the for- " ming of a correct decisions ou men and measures. CET"Hitherto John Van Buren has been the captain of the Barnburners. Henceforth however we presume he is only to be second ia command. His father, ex-President Van Buren, as we see it stated in various papers, has avowed his determination to oppose the election of Gen. Cass. The open assumption of such - a position by such a man is darkly ominious for the Locofocos. Whatever msjr be thought of Martin Van Buren's political ' honesty, he is undoubtedly one of the keenest ' and shrewdest politicians that ever lived, and we are very sure that he would not now come ' forth against the regular nomination of the lo- " cofoco party but for the absolute certainty of 1 itsdefeat. " Who Doubts it? "Potomac" the Wishington corespondent of the Baltimore Patriot, says: "I understand that letters have been received in this city within a day or two past, from Gen. Taylor and Mr. Clay, which breathe ou the part of those distinguish geutlemea. the 'right spirit, "Skies bright" for the Whigs. Tennessee Money. The Nashville Whig, of the 1st inst., says: "Tennessee Banks are full able to meet all their demands, and ere ia e sound and healthy condition." Modebh Wrr. Bunker Hill monument is e noble shaft, but a defeated candidate for Ceneor in Vermont is Shafter. ' . 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