The Rebuke of a Taylorite. (From the Washington /Infos.] PHILADELPII I, 4, May 22, 1849. Will you pardon me if I make bold to say a 'few words with you in explanation of the reasons which induied me to support you for the office of President of the United States? These reasons mny also give some idea of the motives ivhich sw ayed hundreds of thousands of your fellow-citizetyt n - I em no politician. I never yet asked for an of fled; and certainly shall not ask one at your hands. In speaking to you, I do not lay claim to any polit ical influence. lam backed by noiclique: I control no body of voters: 1 only speak to you as a citizen of the United States, having no influence beyond day vote, and the truth which T titter. In the year 1847, while a member of the Demo craft Association of the county of Philadelphja, began the firstof a series of four works 'upon. the history of Mexico. That first book of 'the series was intended to comprise a history of your cam paigns in Mexico. While writing that work, be came vividly impressed witb the frankness, the iron con r. sense, the unswerving sincerity of your characile - .. Sick of the Warfare of parties ' I looked to yfru as the man who, had been called by Provi dence to put an and to the mercenary bitterness of this warfare, by assuming the position of Washing ton—not with parties, but in the hearts of the peo ple. And this idea of your character, embodied, in the work to which reference is made, was diffused -by its pages among a citified voters entirely distinct and from the Whig party—a class of vo ters, who, imbued with the progressive spirit of Christianity, are opposed to the principles of the Whig party, as embodied in the history of the Whig corporation of Philadelphia,-and who are in favor of judicial and national reform—wheadvocate the free dom of the public domain and the right of labor to the harvest of its toil. This idea indhced me to de sert my party associations, break• party lines, and advocate Zachary Taylor as the candidate of the people. In the month of April, 1848, your chances for the Presidency were vague and uncertain. The Whig politicians in Philadelphia—at least the most prom inent of them all—fairly laughed at tile mention of your name in connexion with that high office.— When the Baltimore Convention assembled, it was the earnest hope of thousands of the Democratic masses that you would receive the nomination at the hands of the representatives of the Deirietratic party. This hope proved 'fruitless. But Ot the Whig Convention, assembled in Philadelphia' in June, 1848, party lines were broken; the very spirit and front of the Whig 'party were crush ed,, Henry, Clay, balloted for in the name of the Whig party, failed to receive its votes, and Zacha ry Taylor, nominated "IN THE NAME. OF THE, PEO . - PLE," was presented to the people without any other platform than his independence from the spirit and trammels of party. Doubtless you have often had described to you the scenes which marked the history of this June convention—the dismay of-the Whig politicians of the veritable Whig school—the curses, both l o ud and deep, with which they breathed your name— the three-fold sacrifice of Whig principles, Whig nlatforms, and Henry Clay. at the feet of Zachary Taylor. Nominated at this convention amid the ruins of Whigism,rand nominated in the name of the people, the \Vhig party did not dare to claim you as a veri table- Whig, of the true \Vhig stamp, until about the Gth of July, 1848, when news came to Philadel phia that Hon. Bailie Peyton had, in New Orleans, solemnly endorsed you as a Whig, and placed your feet somewhere amid the ruins of the demolished Whig platform. . This statemen't'gave inexpressible pain to thou sands of your friends in Pennsylvania. %Veil aware thrit you had not been dominated as a candidate of any party. certain that you could not by any chance he elected in the name or on the platform of the \Vhig party, your. friends—l speak of the masses, who loved you for yourself and fiir you independent position—received the statement of Mr. Peyton with an emotion that was not to he mistaken or evaded. They felt that either Mr. Peyton was in error, or that Zachary Taylor had falsified his often-repeated pledges. Under the influence of this widespread feeling, I made bold to write and send to your the following letter. Its very abruptness of stole indi cates the sincerity which impelled its composition: PHILADELPHIA, JULY 5, 1848. GENERAL: Will you regard a word from a friend as impertinent or obtrusive? Iris after a great deal of reluctance that [ am induced to trouble you again; but having faith in you now, as I have had ever since I pledged what literary reputation I pos sess to you in my book--" Tim LEGKNDS OF MEM CO, oR BATTLES OF TAYLOR“--I make bold to Say a frank word to the general of the people. This is the case. With t lhousands of Democrats in this State, I depend upon yodr declaration "that you would in nn case be the President of a party, but the President of the People." On this ground the Democrats of Pennsylvania Will vote fur you by hun dreds and thousands. But we ore now told that you are exclusively the \Vhig candidate, to be run as a Whig, elected as a Whig, and under ‘Vhig issued. ~.., If this be the case, the Stare of Penn,ylvania will e lost to Taylor and the country. - - I do not believe this to be the case. Those who think with me in this county do not believe it. But to set the matter at rest, will you answer this letter with one line? and with that line the democratic hundreds and thousands bf Pennsylvania will move in a body for you. General, do not reject this appeal from a man who loves you for your battles, and the mural grandeur displayed in them; - but loves you, first and lust, be cause you have tared the position of Washington— not with parties, but in the hearts of the people. And as for the line, say simply: ~/ am atilt the candidate, not of a party exclusively; but if a can didate at all, the candidate of the whOle people." GEORGE LI PPARD. Here, General, was the whole case, plainly stated in a line. You were here told that if the attempt was made to elect you as a Whig and upon Whig issues, the State of Pennsylvania would certainly be lost to Taylor and the country. At that tinte, with thousands of Democrats . , I believed that your election as the candidate of the people w ou ld sub serve the best interests of the country. And what was your reply to this letter, which appealed to the best feelings of our nature? On the Jilt of Au gust Iseceived four answer, which I annex. [PriVate.] BATON ROLIOE; ( La : )July 24, 1848 WAIL Sm: Your letter of the sth inst., asking. of me a line of two in regard to my position as a can didate for the Presidency, has been duly received. In reply, I have to say THAT 1 AM NOT A PARTY CANDIDATE, and if elected, shill not BE TOO PRESI PUNT OF A PARTY, BUT THE PRESIDENT OF TllB WHOLE PEOPLE. I ain, dear sir, with high respect and rega , ll, your most obedient servant, Z. TAYLOR. GEOROB LIPPARD, esq., Philadelphia, Pa. This, you will remember, was after you had ac cepted the Whig nomination, in a letter which said nothing at all about Whig principles. The publication of your letter of July 2.-1 created a great excitement among the people and the politi cians. Whig papers in New York denounced it as a "lo cofoco' forgery. The North American, in Phila delphia, (once the organ of Henry Clay, and now the Northern organ of the Secretary of State,) seized upon the word "Private," and in weary columns assailed the person to whom the letter was address .ed, as the betrayer of your confidence. Other Jour nals, however; which circulated among the masses, hailed this letter with uuqualified approval and placed it et the head of their columns as "the great creed and watchword of the Taylor party." must frankly tell you, that had you not made the declaration embraced in this letter,,l, for one, could not have, advocated your election, nor giving you my vote' Certain it is, that without this declare, 'ion, (aeon. followed by your Charleston letter,) you uuld not have gained the vote of Pennsylvania, famous for her old Demociatic inajority of "twenty fly. thousand." Whet:was the result of this letter, and of the ex citement immediately consequent upon its Publiia tionl The Whig party in Pennsylvania forthwith 'dropped the very name of Whig. They stored it ‘yay—perchance under the sepulchre of Girard's ritandered bequest, maybe under the ruins of some braes bank—but you wall know, and every reader " 1 t* papers knows, that in the late campaivii the battlikwas fought, not under the name of Whig, but wder the united names of "Taylor and Fill more." The Democrats was asked to vote for you as the Independent candidate—the candidate of the peop'e —as the man who had no friends to reward no ene mies to punish—in fact, as Zachary Taylor, who, in case of his election, would not be President of a party, but the President of the whole people. And with your letter in my hand, I addressed thousands of my Democratic fellow-citizens, and, on the security of your unbroken faith, stated that . you could not, in any event, become the President, much less the creature, of a party. Upon your own solemn declaration, I honestly advocated you as "the President of the whole people." I did not for a moment indulge the thought that you could ever l becoMe the centre a mere party administration, Had I been told, by you, that you would ever become the head of an administration made up of Whig politicans, I could not, in any case, have advocated your claims. l nor would you have received the votes of a hundred Democrats in Pen nsvl ea nia. Nos , , General the smoke of the contest has clear ed away. You -ore the President. ' Elected upon the faith of your solemn pledges, you are at the head of the government. Have you fulfilled these pledges? Ask your own heart—call back that iron purpose, that clear-soul ed integrity, which bore you through the carnage of Buena Vista—survey the faces of your cabinet, and the faces of those partisans of your cabi net who now storm the White House fur the spoils of office. Answer me! I have a right to ask an answer. „You pledged your faith to me, an humble citizen, and I believe that you had never bro ken your word, and could not forget to-morrow what you pledged to-Jay. Was that letter July 24, which I bore through Pennsylvania, only a cunningly devised fable? Was it your intention to send me forth to the masses of people with a lie in my mouth? To vouch of yfur "independence of party" In October, in order to Lind you in May at the head of a mere cabal of a party? Did you make a dupe of so that I might become your agent in duping and swindling my fello - at citi zens into the trammels of the ‘Vlng party? You know that. the Whig party of itself, or by its An issues, coolOpever have accomplished your election. You knowethat the Whig leaders, fresh from the slaughter of Henry Clay—of that man who has for twenty ;years sacrificed to Whigism the best iistict which God implanted in his nature —could never have elevated you to the Presidential chair. You are elects] By Democratic votes. These voteqwerC secured to you by the force of your inde pendent-position. They were not bought with sil ver, gold, or the hope of office, but won to you by you pledges. And now, sir, you will allow me to ask you one or two questions:. In what part or your administration are these Democratic votes represeiitinil Among the army of office-hunters who now be siege the doors of th'e W,hito House, how many of your Democratic supporters can you dis Cover? Sir, the truth must he told, and as I supporNslynn earnestly and sincerely, I will spelt!: the truth t'nith must unconfily frankness. Yotir election has been fruitful only in-discon tent and dissatisfactiim. Elected in the name of, the people, you are surrounded by advisers chosen not even from the manhood of the Whig party, but from its veriest hacks andtrimmers. These advi sers seek to entail upon the country, on a Glossal scale, a system ,of error and misrule such as dis graced the age in the shameless expenditure of the Girard bequest by the Whig corporation of _Phila delphia. Had you beenclected as' a Whig, and upon the strength of any `known Whig creed, I w it'd nut complain.' Is it not a painful thought that you, the man of the people, shill - ad sit there in Washington us the leader of the mere fragment of a party—as the embodiment not of Whigisat like that of Hehry Clay, which states its principles and tighis its battles in-the sun, but of a IVbigism which works in dsrknes, gathers strength by unholy coa litions, and builds its ,powers upon—broken pledges? And now, sir, as . 1 wash my hands. of the last traces of political 'l l aylorizm, as I state my regret that I ever acted the part which your pledges made me act, you at-least must admit that I never served you with the hope office—that I have always been among the humble band who working well and long for you, under that impression thiit they also work ed for the good of their country, could neitlier ask nor accept office at your hands; for those hands ; 1 which were free at Buena Vista—free in the late campaign—are now tied by the trammels which have been fashioned from the very ruins of the Whig party. GEORGE LIPPARD. To President ZACTIMY TAYLOR. From Cie New York Tribune: FURTHER ITEMS FROM CALIFORNIA. From John Parrott, Esq., U. S. Consul at•Mazat lan, who is now at the Astor House, 'We have ob tained some interesting items of late CalliftAnia in telligence, in addition to those which ho kindly fur nish d us with leste(day. Mr. Parrott, we may reined', is intimately acquainted with all parts of California, and gives a inure thorough and satisfac tory account of affairs than any one who has reach ed here since the discovery of the Gold Region. lie informs us that the ruling idea of the coun ry is the wealth so unexpectedly opened to it. Gov ernment is scarcely thought of; all other interests are swallowed tf_in this absorbing mania for gold. A Convention has been called to meet in August, fur the purpose of effecting a political organizatiOn, but it will not be able to du much. There has been considerable complaint among the inhabitants that the laws of the United States have not yet been ex tended over them. I hey are however ton stongly bent on digging to take the trouble of ffirming a eutyAitution of their own. Gee. Smith is unsup ported by any military force, and can do nothing at present. Li the gold districts a tacit system of indivivloal, right has been agreed upon. and IA preserved with the most honorable exactness. Each man who en ters upon new ground has the privilege of marking out eight yards square and digging upon it so long as he chooses: his premise- , are never invaded. lie is at liberty to dispose of his right either by sale or lea-e, or dry it entirely and try a new 'locality. The sense of justice among the miners has thus far prevented all trouble or dispute. The moral effect of a general enrichment of the whole population, is t (inlay of notice. In the ab• settee of all law except such as is administered by the Alcaldes. hundreds of pers l ons hate voluntarily discharged debts contracted many years ago, mud which their creditors in many cases have given up as hopeless. A man who is industrious and tem perate has no difficulty in obtaining credit toe large anent. The U. S. ship Ohio will proceed to Mazatlan shortly, that the clew may have there stipulated term of liberty out of the reach of temptation. It is nevertheless feared that a great part uf them may succeed in escaping. Mr. Parrott exhibited to us a number of interest ing mineralogical specimens from California and Mexico. In addition to samples of gold from the wet and dry diggings, he brought a piece of a coal from the surface of till\ bed just discovered on the coast, between Monterey and San Louis Obispo.— It is of bituminous character, and is found in great abundance. it was triedin a blast furnace on board the Ohio and proved to be of very good qriality.— We also had a - sight of a genuine rub,P, picked up in the diggings. It is the first one found, of a pale crimson color, and about the size of a pea cut in half. Mr. Parrott intends to have it cut and set in a ring of California gold.. He also. brought with him specitnena of cinnabar, the ore of 'quicksilvet, containing 50 per cent. of the metal, and:some very fine samples of silver ore from the mines of Goan ajuaio, containing from 30 to 75 per cent. Some of these were imbedded in' prismatic feldspar, in crystals of an amethyst tint. Among other curi osities an ear of corn from Sierra Nevada, 9,000 feet above the sea. It was about four inchea, long; but the.grains were upwards of an inch in length.— This corn is said to yield remarkable crops, and ,its cultivation in this country is worth a trial. Mr. Parrott considers the introduction of slavery into California as an impossibility, from the nature of the case. I The inhabitants are all strongly op posed to it, and no man taking slaves with him Wed be able to keep them long. He is of the oyin iowthat the territory must of necessity become a free State, with or without the action of Congress. ILIMOITIbIACIr IN HAVANA..—MIII Diraird : nnttes that (luring the five years, from 1842 to 1846, itYeru. sive there tvere'bsptized in the bishopric of Ctibtt, 13,042 white Illegitimntp Cdildren, being nbciut 91 per cent! THE WEEKLY OBSERVER. ERIE. PA SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1849. HEALTH OF THE CITY is not often necessary to allude to the health of this it is so uniformly healthy, but as there are a groat ber of stories sot afloat just now in the country by ,eated traders to prevent the people from coming I to make their purchases, wo doem it necisaary to haulm city has never been more bedthithan, at city, nuin intoll, hero l the resent time. There lets been no ease of Choterci Yet, and rem the efficient manner our sanatory committee aro ischarging their, duty, we are confident wo shall escape this dire scourge. At least, - no one ought to be afraid of it, as it is 7tDi contagious. A. , 9 to the Small-pox, wo can safely say there aro no cases in town—we have heard it said that there were, or are, two cases at Eagle Village, but that is one mile out Hof town. A young man named JAMES, died on Monday, it is supposed of the disease; but even this we understand is disputed by his friends. Be this as it may, however, there is nothing to fear from that case now. Certainly nothing to justify the extravigant stories which are flying through the country. IA SKETCH AT TAYLORISM AS IT IS Taylotism as it is, is not what it was supposed to bo when the people fell in love with it last falbi: Then it was benntifut to the sight, sweet to taste, and delightful to thMEar. Then it was the beau itletil of political isms, without the bloody hue of political proscription. Now it posSegses none of these virtues—partakes of none of these 'ottributot. Now it stands Moro the country in all its naked deformity:—divested of the flimsy gauso which hid front the sight oldie people the rottenness of the soul within. If the Dsmocra'cy aro somewhat disappoilfted in it, the whigs'are more so. If the Democracy aro pro scribed for exercising the right of freemen, and voting for Lewis Cass, they have the satisfactions of knowing that the most active political Taylor mon aro also pro scribed, for exactly a contrary - cause—fur nothing more nor less than being wriginal Taylor men! All over the cotintry the active Taylor men have been shoved one side, and active Clay mon, who were not heard or seen until the battle had been fought, preferred over them. A fed cases in illustration will satisfy our readers that wo do hot speak at random. Of Taylor's cold not—his fam ily household, as it were—two at least are known to nave benhs violently opposed to his nomination, and yet they were elevated to power over - those original Taylor men, Mdssra. Truman Smith of Connecticut, and Abbott Lawrence of Massachusetts.' The first named gentle man, it is well known, was the wheele-horise of dm Taylor movement, and contribotod more to the success of tho old General than any other one man in tho nowt try', And vet Gen. Taylor, when ho arrived in Wash ington, never invited him to his counsels, o'r gave intb• motion that ho was aware of the existence of such an individual. More still. after this neglect, became the town-talk of all Washington, 110 added insult to injury by actually making a formal tender to hits of the only seM, in the cabinet he 1V49 ineligible to; we mean the Dome Department. Gen. TaYlorl_lttiew he could riot accept it, that ho was Inidigible—hence tho tender cn not be considered in any other lighf, then an insult. The I other gentleman, Mr. Lawrence. I from his immense furnislidif the pecuniary means of the Taylor campaign—his purse it was that kept the :We of the Tivlor movement greased, and for which he only do mended a neat in the cabinet. Surely this was not un reasonable. yet at the bidding of Daniel Webster, who sold that the nomination of Taylor "was not fit to bo made," and for sayingwhich had given mortal offense(' to his friend Abbott and oilier "originals," he was set aside, and a Mr..Morrideth. utterly unknown as a politi cian, or any thing else, was preferred over him. Such is one of the highor sh ides of Taylorims as it is! Shall wo continue the picture? It is scarcely necessary, and yet a few more tints may not be inappropriate. Wm Editor• of the New Yhrk Mirror, Mr. Fuller, and the Editor of the Philadelphia Enquirer, Mr. Morris, wore "originals" iii the strictest 1301150 of the word—to their efforts, as Editors, mainly we's the "second Washington" indebted, for tho enthusiasm in his favor among the masses. Both of them were applicants for ofilec—"both honest and ca pable"—both had assurances from the President hint -84 that they should not be forgotten! They wore, however—they,and their services both—and men clove terAi over them svho, - sofar as Taylorism was concerned, had never spent a cent or lifted a finger in its, success. In New York, ono of the Tallmanige family wasprefer red to Fuller. and in Philadelphia. this individual who was appointed Post Mister over Morris, had been a Van ~Buren man under Van Buren, a Tyler man under Tyler, all'olk man smiler Polk, and mould hare applied far ilia same office had Gen. Criss been elected. But to come near home, whore the reader can see the light and shade of this beautiful picture of ingratitude, or Taylorism as in, in a stronger light. It is well known there were four ; applicants for the post Mike in this city—three of that were "originals," and the fourth and successful appli instil, unknown es of Taylor man ,until the "slaughter blouse" convention had beheaded Mr. Clay. Then, it is true, he reluctantly canto into the traces, and made a speech in which he camp near assassinating the old Ge neral with "faint praise," but as for any further activity in the cause we presume he 4.3°4 not lay claim to it. Air for tile throe uneuccesstrist o ws capable. all "originals," they had labored night and day for 'the success of the man and the cause. One of thorn, when the Govern ment, at the request of Tayier, called for volunteers to reinforce bins on the ll,io Grande, promptly raised a coin-- puny and participated in that campaign, the_ brilliant success of which inado,Taylor President. This, how - over, instead of being a merit ins the eyes of the anti-war cabinet, who have Gen. Taylor's conscience in keeping, was aniiicient to secure the nomination over him of one who had not participated in such a "God-abliored," "unholy and unjust war," but on the contrary had de nounced it, and all who participated in it, en each anal every occasion. The result of the struggle for Collector we scarcely 'ruled allude to: The successful ap plicant was scarcely known as an applicant, while his competitor, our cotemporary of the Commercial, was very respectably backed both at home and abroad. He was certainly the most "original" Taylor man of the five who applied, and on that score considered himself sure of the appointment. 110 was doomed to ifis-appointment, however; and although ho said that in "five minutes after this lightning struck" him "he was as gootl a, whig as ever," his 'l'aylarisnt, wo think; was somr hat shattered, espec'ially when he looks abroad and sees that in almost every other instance, except himself andlthoso wo have named above, whore an editor has applied fir office under this Administration, ho has beensuccassful. For instance, the wing Postmaster at Fredonia Was the Editor of the Censor, and in that capacity said a! great many hard things about"old Zack" previous to his no mination; he however. was successful in His ejppll i cation for a portion of the spoils, while our cotemporary or the Commercial, who went frir the "second ‘Vashington" from first to last. received the cold shoulder, and nothing else. And this is Taylorism as it Is! How d? yciu like it, reader? KILLED Di LIGIITNING.—WhiIe several chili playing near a school huitse„ about three milet Waterford, on Wednesday of last week, one o daughter of Mr. Wm. .1.410 yd, was struck by end meta lily killed. Several °there were in Wave recovered. kJ" Ron 4 the scorching letter of Mr. L "Taylor Denocrat," to thO' President, in an DAN RICE'S CIRCUS.-Of course every bod hie cousins, aunts, uncles and relatives gene be in town on Tuesday next to seethe "shows will be three 'performancear forenoon.. after , evening. with 0014 of time to treat tbo !.gels to gingerbread end pop. - ' .- • MONSIEUR TONSON COME AGAIN!" Most people fondly imagined that Daniel Websb spoke truly when ho declared a Bank of "the United States an "obsolete idea." They were in hopes that the "mon ster" was so dead that even its ghost would bo hoard and seen no 'more in oar politica% controversies. They are. doomed to, be disappointed however; for, althoitgh in name it may ho dead, yet the administration of Gen. Tay lor has been in power scarce sixty d e ltere wo find ono of its loading papers, the New York rier & Enquirer, advocating a system of government banking far more objectionable than the veritable monster itself. This system owes its paternity -to Mr. Fim.mons, the Vice President, and hence must be considered In the light of one of the financial measures of reform of mo dern whigory. The plan of the Vice ,President, backed by tho Courier 4. Enquirer,is contained in the following draft o f a bill, already prepared for Congress, which we find in that paper of May 19th: "The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to receive trout such state institutions as shall be authori zed to issue notes for .circulation, by the laws of said states respectively, an amount of U. S. stock, bonds, or treasury notes, not exceeding ono-half the amount of the actual capital of said institution; and shall cause au equal amount of the notes of said institution to be stamp: and countersigned iii the words following to wit: • "Receivable in payment of sums due to the government "of the United Mates, according to the act of Con. "rens, approved A. U.. Register. "And it shall be the duty of the said Secretary of the Treasury to hold the said deposited stock, bonds of trea sury notes as security for the redemption of said notes thus stampt and countersigned as aforesaid—paying over to the depositors, the accruing interest on same, so long as said notes of circulation continue to be redeemed in coin, on demand, where issued; but in the event of ina bility or refusal to redeem said notes by the institution i ss ai n e, the Maine, then and in that case it shall be the thity of the Secretary of Treasury to advertise and sell the deposited stock, bonds, or treasury notes, which shall have been deposited as aforesaid, and apply the proceeds thereof to the final redemption of the notes so stampt and countersigned aforesaid." • • Thus is will he seen, (to adopt the language of the "Union") that the councils of corporations, and of those who live not upon their own labor and their own pro duction, but by tho power of money capital, real of fic titiOus, still control the whig, party. This is apparent from the composing of the present cabinet, and from the unfounded assaults of the Whig press upon the policy of the late administration. Tho financial scheme of the Vice President, is also a proof of that fact. If we un derstand Mr. Frilmore's financial project, it allows the banks to go into the market with their capital to purchase United States six per cent. steeps, to be deposited With the treasurer, and than issue their own notes, t,igned at the Treasury Department, to the ame u t so purchased, which notes wiltbe receivable as specie in payment of the public dues. -.These notes, if not issued to individu als in loans or discounts, may again be used, :dung with the interest on the stock -depoited, to purchase addition al amounts of the 6 per cent. stocks of the federal gov ernment. This operation might be carried to an almost indefinite extent, for it is impossible to fix a point at which a run would ho made upon a bank for specie in a place like Now York, when its notes are received Tar specie by the government, and aro known to be guaranted by Uni ted States stock. And if a run should be made upon a bank which was carrying on this operation, the worst that could !yapped to it would be a sale fur its benefit of the stock which it had deposited with the treasurer, which we have a right to say would realize its first cost—the bank having.received 6 per cent. from the government while it, held it. To be more specific: Under this scheme of Mr. Fillmore, a hank in Now York might purchase a given amount United States stock—say $l,-. 0000—which we will suppose be at par. Upon that in vestment it would receive front the government 4560.000 annually. Having deposited its stock, it would have $1,000,000 ui notes countersigned at the Treasury De-- pertinent, which would be received in payment for all public duos. It could then either loan those notes at 7 per cont., thus realizing 13 per cent., or it might go into tho market again with them, and purchao an additional million of United States stock, up,th which it would re ceive an additional sour of $60,000 per annum as inter est, and an additional million of dollars in notes counter signed at the Treasury. which it might lien or issue in discounts at 7 per cent.; -thus making 19 per cent. upon its original outlay—sl2o,ooo on its two millions of Uni ted States stock, and $70,000 on its loans—or it might `ttgain and again repeat the operation untidit went so far as to cause a redundant circulation, and a. demand for specie payment of its notes. It will be that, thro'- 1 out this process, the value of the notes of a bank carry ing on this operation would be given to them by the leg tslatiori of the government which math; them receivable in payment of poetic duos, and the fact, not that it had dollar for dollar in specie in its vaults, but that it had de posited dollar for dollar with the treasury in U. S. stock. That stuck would in reality be the basis of the circulation; and thus the evidences of die national debt and the na tional credit, which give valuo to thorn, would ho con verted by federal legislation into a fictitious banking capi tal fur the benefit of chartered corporations. TuE otn Ft uralm. DOCTRINE.—In spite of the long schooling which reverses have given the fcderl party, wo see occasionally n lender who forgets it, and in the height of power officially lots slip a sentence which , reveals in all their naked deformity, the real sentiments of his party. We do not say tliatsuch sentiments as we allude to are common to the mass of that party--wo know they arc not—among the leaders, however, the men who form public opinion umong them, they are to be met with every day in the year. Among this class is Gov. Briggs, of Massachusetts. into•whoso proclamation for a day of Thanasgtving the Dom... w.nia to tie foliowing fashion: ' "In another column can be found the proclamation of Governor Briggs, which should ho read by all who may find it convenient to attend church to-day. It is not without its goods points, and names the various evils that good people should pray to be sent elsewhere than to Massachusetts. One paragraph of it however, is of a decidedly snobbish character. The Governor recom mends that we pray to the Most High that lie will cause the "rich to he kind and generous to the pour, and the poor to love and respect the rich." Really, while that would du very well in an English document of the kind, we must say that it is offensive to the last degree in an American paper of a public character. That the poor should "love and respect the rich," is proper, but they should do so, not because they are'rich, but becntise they are men. This bringing prominently forward the differ ence of human stations, is in very bad taste, and should not be tolerated. It smacks to much 'of the Whig slang about the "common people," and of n desire to arrange people into classes. Here, whatever May be the social distinctions existing having their origin in the unequal distribution of property, men are equal before the law; and if respect is felt by the poor, it follows that riches clothe their possessors with a moral superiority. A more aristocratical notion could not be imagined; and it is pe culiarly offensive to Democratic nostrils. NVo hope mat Governor Briggs will not offend again in the same way." A FACT rim Tsnirrirr.S.—We understand, (says - tho Harrisborgh Keystono,) that Gen. James, of Rhode Is land, an experienced cotton manufacturer, who it is re ported has a largo interest in some of the Lancaster cot ton mills, eta public meeting held at the court house, a few days since, to adopt measures for the erection of a factory in this place, said it made no difference what might be done with the tariff, that with the modern im provement's in"machionery, the new school machienery, as it is called, the description of goods proposed to be made could bo manufacuired .low enough to enter the markets of the world, in successful competition with tho manufactures of any other country. And yet these "cot ton lords" and their backers, are forever preaching their protection humbug doctrine—are never satisfied with dividends, or the number of hours their operatives work. firsi t were 35south of r thorn, a lightning lured but MIUmRT Ept, crion.—We lonia that OM Military Election of this brigade, which, took place . on Monday last, resulted in the choico of Capt. F. DurrLINGIER, of this chi; Brigade Inspector; and Major JOAN KILLPAT• RICK. of Weeleyville, Brigadeer Gener&d. Both are capital heleetiona and both aro Democrats. PA rar, tiler 'col- "No rattans TO RIM/MD." &c.—The democrats have - elected ,municipal officers In Cumberland, gory land, fo'r the 'first time since the incorporation of tho town. The faithful and competent Postmaster was re inovid tka week before, which - routed the indignation of the citivsna. /. wilh all ally. will There oon, and liberally" THE NEWS FROM EUROPE The - details of die news from Europe, brought by the Niagara, are so voluminous that, at tholate period received, wo are unable to crowd it into our coluins, We might, indeed, find room for the telegraphic synopsis received on. Saturday. but prefer a more detailed abstract of our own compilation. The intelligence from England and the eoutinenout is of great interest. Events succeed each other so rap idly that, frequent as aro the arrivals by the Steamers, much of importance transpires in the interval of - n week. Although the news, at first blush, does not apirear very startling, yet it is none the Tess important, and is favora blo to the pence of Europe—to the cause of rational progress in human rights—encourages IN in the hope of permanence in the French republic; and the ultimate success of the popular cause in Germany and Italy. The French government have protested energetically against tho warlike interference of Russia in the affairs of Hun gary and Austria, and have also disavowed the attack made by GOD. Oudinot on tlio Roman republic. 'nun sudden change in their policy, forced upon them by the Assembly, and threatening state of the public mind, has stopped for the present. the march of the Russians into Hungary, and of the Neapolitans into Rome. It is. however, said that in Hungary the fighting goes on un remittingly, turd the fortunes of the Hum:aria - its to be in the ascendant. They aro said to be within a few days march from Vienna, to which point tlio Russians are pressing forward as rapidly es possible.. Gen. Bent is well prepared to give the Russians it %vault - reception on the 'Transylvania frontier, turd must there be warm work before it is over. The Roman republic remains in possession of RUIDO; and the French army have made no further advances. Pope Prue, is said, on hearing of the resistance of the Romans, to have declared that lie would not return to ROllle at such a price, and to have sent a message in consequence to the King of Naples. and to General Oadinot, to induce the in to retire. In tiro meantime, Oudinot has; been reinforced by many thousand troops, and he has probably now a well ap pointed army of 29,000 under his command; but the en thusiasm of the RU1. , 111114 is raised to the highest pitch, and if a single hantlipl or combined attempt to bombard and take Rome by storm should be made, the defence of the city, by moans ofiLlrricatles, and by the coura,zo of the people, will be 60 well maintained that the assai lants ore by no :naafis certain of success. All accounts concur that it will be impossible to restore the temporal power of the papacy, in any form. "The French elections had liken place very quietly; hut no accurate returns beyond Paris and lieighborhood had been received. General C.tvaignac, Ledru and a portion df the republican candidates, had been elected in the capital. One account states that the So cialists had elected nine, and another account fifteen. candidates for the city of Paris. It is probable that a large majority of the new Assembly will consist of prac tical and progressive republicans, in favor of Louis Na poleon's administration, provided it sympathizes tvd:i the cause of the middle classes in Germain - and halt." In England no farther action has been had in the House of Lords in relation to repeal of the Navigation Laws. Thu Lords_tvere to go into committee on the bill on Monday. Notice has been given by Loid Stanley and others, of ainendin,:nts to ha otrored, and it is con sidered quite possible that time Ministers in my be bdaten iu corntnitttio, and Lilo bill ao Mangled as to induce its authors to reign and rmiro from office. Details of the outbreak in Canada %sere laid before Parliament on the 15th, winch elicited sonic discussion, of no importance beyond the fact that the Governmeni evinced a detormation to Sustain Laid Elgin. Eerl Grey. in alluding to Lord Elgin's despatch, bald it would show that he acted throughoilt with his accustomed judginein, moderation and good sense, and that lie was fully pro- pined to justify and take the teCTonsibility of any step of i.ord Elgin's. - There will be no formal discussion of Canadian affairs untilafter the roceptof later intelligence, which reached Liver Pool, probably, on the :20th, in the Cambria when, if Lord Elgin is sustained, as he no doubt will be, we may look fur a few more groans of anguish from the Tories of Canada. • "A LIE WELL 8 I'UCK 7u &C." --.The Ga:citc has an article commencing thus: ...nose Democratic editors who have attempted to defend or palliate the conduct, of the mob in the recant popular outbreak in New York city, base theirarguiueuts upon Mr. Macready's disregard of the public wislms ut " We have surmised bvfore that the Editor of the Go tette had adopted the motto "A he well stuck toi is as good as the truth," and now we are convinced of it. No Democratic Editor has "attempted to defend or palliate .he conduct of the mob" in New York, and he knows it: Democratic Editors and whig Editors have denounced the authorities of New York for their Course—a coro ner's jury over the body of the slain, under the solemnity of an oath, declared that the slaughter might have been avoided—but as to defending the thC course of the mob, no Democratic paper or Whig paper, so far as our know ledge extends, has done so. LT We neglected to notice last week the re-advent of our old friend, J. M. Kussrmi. E,q., to the ch.iir editorial, as the publisher of the "Lawrence Journal," a new paper lie has just commenced in the thriving village of New Castle, in the new Untidy of Lawrence. The "Jour nal" in politics is Democratic, in tYpography excellent; and in its news and miscellaneous selections, admirable. Such a paper in so enterprising a place us New Castle, and so rich a County as Lawrence, must succeed. Do-VERENCE.—For the last month 'noise). has been so "tight" in our Eastern cities that eight or tea per cent. has been readily paid for it •by busidess men. Now look at the differenco in the course of tl4] two par ties. had such been the case under a Democratic Ad ministration, every Whig paper front the Aroostook to the Sabine, would have howled over the "ruin" produced by a Democratic Administration. No epithet would have been vile enough for such political harpies to have ap plied to the Democracy. 11'heis out of power, they in variably describe every revulSion to the Do mocracy, but when in power, as now, they hav'ut a word to say. And herein consists the difference between them and the Democracy—the latter believing that whets the government attends to its own legitimate business, and does not turn out of its proper tract to foster this or that particular interest, the buSiness of the country will take care of itself. Thence they are not disposed to ascribe every Fagan) in the money market to the powers that be. But whigory is a beauty nny way you may fix it—wheth er in poWer or out, it is the wino bundle, of inconsisten cies, and such it will remain, we presume, as long as humbugery in political science can be °rained down the throats of the people. THE Taw: SPIRIT.TiII) following from the " Yankee Blade breaths the true spirit of the age, and we like it vastly. It is in rperfect keeping with fast trains, and magnetic telegraphs—Yankee enterprise and western go-aheadativeness, • "N'Yo like on active man, one who has the impulse of the age—of the steam-engine in hum. A lazy, plodding. snail-paced chap might have got on in the world. 5U years ago; but he won't do these times. We live in an age of quick ideas; men think quick—speak quick—cat. sleep. court, marry and die quick—and slow coaches ain't tol erated. "Go ahead, if you burst your boiler," is the motto of the age; and lie succeeds best in every line of business, who has most of the snapping turtle in him.— Strive, reader, to catch this spirit of the times; be "up nod dressed" always—not gaping and rubbing your eyes, ash you were half asleep, but wide awake for whatever may turn up,—and you may be "somebody" before you die. Think, plan, reflect, as much as you please, before you act; but think quickly and closely, and when vou have fixed your eye upon an object spring to the merit at once, Tar WASIMOTON are 'pleased 'to see that lion. EDMUND Boast, late commissioner of tho Pa tent ollice, is associated with "Father" Rictus in tho Washington Union. Mr. B. is a sound Democrat, and an Wet writer; with two such men at tho holm, the Union must prove a match for Gen.• Taylor's three or• gans, and as many mo , be may deem necessary to defend him. • EPIDEMIC CiID,LERA: Its History, Causes, PhuMology, and Treatment. 8, C. B. Corm - sty. M, D, GCURGE 11. MAST, 6c Co:. Publishers, Buffalo. This work, by Dr. Coventry, Professor of Obstetrics and Medical jurisprudence in tho Medical Institution of Genova College, and Professor 'of Physiology in the Uni versity of Buffalo, has made its'appearance in the right lime to secure it a wide circulation. Tho information to the nature and treatment of this estyalu tide, and will have tho effect ir • mild the fallacy of its li4e \ it, and half the terror felt at its I LetVAro the terror and you will les• urn nuirilier of its victims, for without that, when taken in time, it readily yields to medical treat-1_ went. But upon thiso subjects we cannot serve our readers better than to allow the Professor to speak for himself; "CAU4E,—Wileu we remembered the panic which prevailed in 1832—aho vexatloit caused, and the money expended, in useless quarantines—the burned and bar barous interment of the dead, scarce waiting all the breath had loft the body—the worse titan brutal desertion • and neglect of friends and relations—all growing out of a - belief in the contagious nature of the disease; we re joiced in the belief, that whatever of suffering a super intending Providence might see fa to inflict, we would not again thus aggravata them be our own acts. It wee nut, therefore, without much regret, that wo found the able and talented Prof. of Theory and Practice, - in die University of New York, come out in the Now York Journal, advocating the doctrine of cohtogion in cholera. If there was any one fact connected with the disease, which was immutably settled, as wo supposed, it was, Its non-contagious, character. If the decisive and ' ex plicit testimony of ANNEsLaY, who, for bye years, had charge of a hospital where cholera patients were mingled indlenrlllnitutdy with those from other diseases, and who tells. us, that not more than sic or seven cases originated in the hospital during that time; the no less emphatic testimony of Dace S.:titer..who had the disease in In dia, and wha informed us, that when in charge of the llespit d at Warsaw, Itnetwo cases originated in the Hos pital. and thathe himself bleat in the bed in ,which a gentleman had - dyed of the disease. the preceding night, without his contiacting it—if the testimony of Assisi Er and others in India, that when the disease attacked a corps In the army, it was the soonest got rid of, be ,•ep . - arating. them into small detachments—if the fact, which was notorious in Asia, Europiatind America, that When the disease attacked large cities, the population, in fleet ina into the cottony and neighboring villages, dal not carry the disease with them—we repeat, if these facts., together With the experience of the profession from Cal cutta ta.:loscuw, and front Moscow to Quebec, and front Quebec to New Orleans, is not •sufficient to settle the question of contagion, we are at a loss to see how it is ever to be settled. The early French cumin:matters, in their report dated, March •Ith, 1831, after a very careful and rigid ex:tin:nation 01 all Old faets connected with its propagation. say, "there is then, tie absolute, natural, necessary, inert property is cholera, of extending from one individual to another. The cholera, is not tit it, be its nature, easentially, primitively transmissible, eince it has been observed in itli ages, and by all plast rims, in the seoradtc scats, the catestatie state, the epi dt. tine state and the sympto-mane state, without tier -a- Jetvinte passed bee ond the limits assigned to the particu lar ea ta,es a hich have been shown to originate it."— The Health Commissioners in England ore decidedly oep •eial ta the docti me of as promulgation by coutagion. The committee of the Royal College ol Physiciaes, Lon don, say, "cholera appears to have been very rarely corn municeted by personal contact, and all attempts to stay its progress by cotdons or quarantines. have failed. No appreciable increase of danger is incurred by ministering to person, afflicted with it, and nu 6 ifety nffurded to • community by insolation of the sick."' To this we may add the emplettie testimony of Dam SEARLE:— ' '•Uptni the wiestion Whether cholera is infectious or net. I ate spa ik decide a lly that it is not so! This is lie vitally opinion, hastd a % . enrared at, but the deliberate result of grave coneeler*otra'aud. lengthened observation.— Wallow entering into a protracted discussion upon a sub, feet which, in the-sequel, would prove uusattafactory to those who have already made no their minds to the eat-, posaLeconclueion, I shall briefly adduce a few facts cor roborative of the opinion expressed. First, observing that, \ahem in Poland, the principal cholera hospital of Warsaw, of which I was in charge, was on the skirts of the city, s a d the rendezvous of all the incurables within it, the profeseiceatar of the cify sending me all their bkpe les eases, and I had from thirty to sixty cases tonstialt ly unaer treatment. of which tannber half a doze!) or more were butted daily. Wellothen, of thirty or more auelidants, during the three month. that I 1%-as in charge, we lied among this number, only two cases of the des ease; and the cruse of the attack in both cases was meet satisfactorily explained. One. o( these men was not employed in attendance upon the sick, but in the kachen, preparing the:food, a n d daily frequenting the shambles; the other,' an hospital intendant, whom the apothecary, finding intoxicated, had locked up for ffis night iu a damp cellar with no other covering than lea shirt. - Now, as the epidemic condition of the air was at this time in existence, a sufficient cause of the disease in both those .cases is apparent, without the remotest ne cessity for attributing either of them to infection. ' Where as, the hospital attendants, who, in turns, were confined , night and dar by their duties on the ,tack and dtmg, sleeping, on the floor by night, or on any of the unoceu pied cots, and in the focus of forty or more cases, upon an average, in various stages of the disease; and who were further employed by day in assisting at the dissac lion, and sewing up the bodies . of sunll'us. were examie ed. which were numerous, cleaning, also, the dissec ting-room, and burying the dead—wholly escaped the disease; as well as myself, who was daily occupied among them, and often till eleven o'clock 'at niaht.` And more than this, the French governmant, having sent out a commission of medical gentlemen to Warsaw, I gave them the opportunity, afforded by my hospital, to try sue • experiment they thought proper' with reference to this question, and they nut only dissected a great many bod ice, but tried various expel intent, not only upon anunale. but upon themaelves, also, by inhaling the breath, and inoculation with the blood and excretions of the sick, and in no way was it possible to produce the disease, or infect another person! To these facts I may add anoth er, namely, of u gemletnan with the disease dying upon my own cot, and my haring, not only slept, on the fol lowing night, in the Sallie room, but upon the cot and bedding as well: nor were any of my personal establish ment ever affected by the disease; nor were any of the professional men of Warsaw, to my knowledge, affected, save two, and one of these was a gentleman Out ill prac tice, but who, feeling unwell, had endeavored to right himself by keeping his bowels open by eating sour, half fermented, ryo bread. ' "To these facts I may add these of daily occurrence in India, the disease attacking exclusively the imen oc cupying the lower floor era barrack, while 'those of the upper floor escaped; of as attacking the men sleeping on one side of a ship's deck, in the made - oft Madras only, or one portion of a cantonment, or the inhabitants of one bank of a river exclusively; or of the d seaso attacking 1 regiment on its march, most virulently to-day, and ceas ing on the regiment's Wining a few miles on the morrow. And I may next refer my reader to the circumstances at tending the occurrence (litho disease at litrratchee, as previously' recorded; and in proof, also, of an her fact, namely, its occnnebce in certain conditions the at mosphere, and with die greatest virulence at th 6EI. (in opposition to the ordiuury mode of the extension of contagious disease.) and diminishing immediately after n sterna and suddenly terminating with a permanent change in the weather." - From the above it will be seen that the disease can in no way be communicated froM one person to another— that it is' not contrigious—hence the idea of running away front it is fallacious. A person is as likely to be_ taken with it who never saw a case o& Cholera, as one who has seen and been among thourands. In regard to local causes, the Professor remarks as follows: "CAUSES OF Citot.vas AFFECIViII Tux hiravinc.cr - . - . In addition to the local causes which we have enumera ted, there are many aill•cting the condition of the individ ual system: this embraces all those causes which tend to weaken the vital pen cr, as exhaustion from over fixer - tion, either ph:tsic.il or mental; want of sufficient nourish ment from want of sufficient food; derangement of the digestive organs, by excesses either in eating or drinking —a want of sufficient clothing,: excesses of every descrip- ' tion which produce, oxhaustion—th i ese causes alone may be sufficient so to depress the vital en orgies as to bring it within the influence of the epidemic cause. 'We most frequently find these personal causes combined with the ' others wit have enumerated. There is one cause of chol era which is not confined to the poor and destitute, but which pervades the whole community, and which, per: haps, hascau , ed more fatality in cholera than any single cause, aside from the epidemic influence; we refer to the influence produced by fear. It is well known that there is no moral influence which produces 80 depressing an effect on the system as fear.' It lies been clearly proved that the most vigorous of men, oven in the - most perfect health, may be frightened to death. 'We have known nervous and irritable persons, wild were always' thrown into a d'art-Inca when much alarmed. _ If we only look at a frightened person, we see that they present almost the first symptoms of cholera—the facb is fele, the sur face cold, the pulse feeble, the blood having retreated from thesurfaco to the central °spins of the body. • Could wo satisfy community of what wo fully belle've,:, that the epidemic cause is seldom or never sufficient to produce the disease, and that they have niithing to fear so long as they avoid the other and local causes, we should cogs, for the greatest possible benefit on the public. '. That the depressing effects of fear and grief, should be 'sufficient 'to bring the systeM in a condition to be acted upon by
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