REPORTER Wednesday, June 19,1844Q:c; 'Fir Presided in MI, JAMES K. POLK, -OP TENNESSEe. - for The President, . GEORGE M. DALLfS 7 OR PENNSYLVANIA. and Vita Presidint. "as , l Senatorial. 13. George Seht Pt Men B. Bl4lcd -15. M. N. Irvine.. 18., James Woodburn. I7. , HughMontgotnery 18. Isaac. &limey. 19. John Matthews. 20 t _W illiam Pattersbn: it Andrew Burke • 22. John M 23. Christian Meyers, 24, Robert Orr. ' 'Miters for Preside virlLsoN Waller) Asp Diaocz, T. George F. Lehman.' ChristianiCneass. 3. - Wil[iam ' H. Smith.; 9. John Hilt, (Phila.) 5: Samuel. E. Leech. 6. Simnel Camp.* ' 7. Jesse Sharpe. ' 8.11. W. Sample. 9. Win. Heidenrich. pound Shinier. 11. Stephen linbly. 12. Jonah Brewster. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS. For Governor, . HON. HENRY A. MUHLENBUUG, OV_IIERKS. For-Canal ilommissinner, JOSHIJA HARTSHORNE,' OF CHESTER. The Coon Skin Congress. Its promises before the last election for Presiddnt--and its fulfilment of those promises. It Would he a rich treat toshow up in dollars and cents, the economy, retrench ment and reform that so peculiarly char acterized theWhie Congress, elected in 1840, and which, thanks alone to the li mit fixed by the law of the land, expired ' in March 1843. That Congress stands , without a parallel in the history of de liberate bodies—its assembling witness ed the arrogance ef coon suprernecy ; its dispersion_ saw the same faction so podr that none would do it , reverence : its Pretident - dead, its Vice; President not headed," and its principles damned!— it's coons powerless, its cabins deserted, and the eider evaporated=Ashiand mourning, and, the spirit of the " knight of the _virgin heifer" broken ; the Presi dential bresd turned, to peison upon his lips, and his high hopes (shivered at the very'altar of his idolatry.' Three-Years 'ago, this Awn party on coming into power found.a debt of only $4,500,000 and the revenue equal' to the expenditure. An Extra session was immediately called, to raise a revenue, to discharge the debts, .to create - a Bank, to enact a Bankrupt Law, to distribute the Public Lands; and topasS a_high pro tective (oppressive) Tariff. This was The programme, this was the declaration for_ the public eye. That Congress dis solved, returning reluctantly and tremb,: tingly " the power into the hands of the people who gave it, and,the-restilts were a public debt of $25,000,000, 4,44fteit of $7,000,000 in - the revenue, thi , Bank rupt law repealed, the Bank and the Ex chequer projects defeated, and the only remnant of the high /resolves of a victori ous faction, is an unequa/proteetive ta rift--the mountain hat labored, and here is the - moute—this is the result .of the heavings of a political volcano. may be well t in'a tabular form; as 'Promises 41840: To pay a debt of n present The matter follows Fulfihnent of Promises !Debt increased to $25,- 1300,000. c Reduce expenses of ooa,000: ROenue deficit $7-,000, 000. Issues increased ' $ll,- venue. • To redeem treasury, notes. • A uniform,. Ittirgkrupt Law.. A I.Vational Bank. Substitute, an Excheq'r. , Land Distribution:, Diet Tariff. 000,000 Repcaled: Vetoed. , Defeated. ' Repealed. Peattoyed the revenues. On'e of the londest er.implaintn of j the federal party which citric 'into poweriirt 1841, was the deranged state of the changes of the country. It wan alleged, and reiterated, that nothing lint , the es tablishment of. a National Bank irettild Amble merchants and dealers again to collect and, transmit their funds at rea- , sonable Tates. Ali, attempts at establish . ing a corporation' to regulate exchanges, have-proved abortive. A. great number of banks hive failed, and Miters liave , been forced to restriFt their moyetnents ; thus bringing into practical operation, th; great principleS embraced in the 'tub ' Treasury law, notwithstanding its noiM nal repeal. , Those -princiPles now, un der the.stem behests of the laws of trade.' have grown:4f° more strict obseriance 'than even when they, Were. 'enforced by statutory:regulations. ' The receipts of the government, as far as theygO, are made:mid disbursed in the constitutional currency, and now trade, is conducted almost entirely on a cash basis. The average rafe of ex change,at New York on Domestic bills from twelve points in April.lBll,- was from 5 to 7 per cent ; • it is, now from; to ..trper ce nt on the same points., ~ .This has been` effected without the aid of . a VatiOnal Bank, and is the result of the natural principles on which the Sub Treasury law was, based, operating irre.- , sistably netwithstanding iits legal repeal. A review of the monetary affairs of the government for a peried of seven years, commencing in 1833 and ending in 1840, - just before the advent of the 27th (whig):Congress, will show the fol lowing result : , Means. Revenue from regular sources, $199,631,664 Derived from bank stock, 9,196, 2 0 3 Borrorveil Treasury notes, . 25,156,622 IN Total means, • • $223,585,489 Average sever* years; exclusive 'of debt, • 28,504,523 Disbursinenis. Current expenses, Old debt, " • TreasurSr notes," • Total ehoensos, ,$215,635,231 Average seven years exclusive of debt, . . 26,938,33 -During this period $28,000,000 was divided among the states, and an: expen sive war waged against the Indians . , Ac companied by fan enormous rise in mo ney prices of, every article of purchase. Under these circumstances, an amnia' expense short of $28,000,000 was clamo red against by the federalists as the height of extravaganCe and this clamor accom panied by promises of thorough retreneh _nen; and reform, was a. powerful agent in:creating 'a change in the administra tion. Let us see particularly-bow these promises haie been performed. Mr. Walter Forward, the federal !Sec , retary of the Treasury summed up the expenditures for the 2p and tht 27tir Or rtform congress as follows: Muni& -26th C'ongress. 1838-1844. , Customs,' $36,641,662 Lands, . 10,368,633 Bank mock, 1,774,M3 Miscellaneous, Total revenue: '§50,024,543 Borrowed Treasury Notes, 9,446,824 Total liens, $60,371,367 Expenditures. Civil, ' $11,721;399 Military, , 26,619,285 Naval,. 12496,191 ' • ti; expense $50,636,867 "' debt paid ' . 15,204,601 • Total disbursements, $65,841,468 Means. ' 27th Congress, from 184 1 io Customs; - $4,108;387 Lands , • 2,911,702 Bank stock, - 723,492 Miscellaneous, 253,658 Total revenue, 36,996,239 Borrowed Treasury Notes, 27,915,639 Tend means, Ripenditures. - Civil,. - ,c 12,712,517 . , Military, ':24,779,350 Naval, Total expense, " debt paid, Total dishurstnents: $67,333,705 This table presents thefollowing re suit : Decrease of 27th over 26th Con- greas in means, ' $13,928,299 Increase in regular items of expense, 1,597,017 " in money borrowed, , 18,468,715 Decrease in amount of debt paid, ' ' 104,780 Increase actually of 1641 and '42 over /839 and '4O, $34,198,811 The great expenditures_ caused'by the universal Speculation spirit of 1 1835—'36 had been gradually reduced by Mr. Van Buren, until in 1840 they had been bro't within a ecnnpass of $24,000,000, and requiring an outlay Of $19,000,000 for 1841 only, and of $18,000,000 for '42 ; amounting together to the sum of $37,- 000,000, i ns the necessary , expenditures of the years 1841 . and 1842: instead, of which, nudel: i dle "retrenchment arid reform" Congress' . the outlays 'reached the enormous sum of $52,233,884, or $20,116,925 per annum, being two mil ions more , than 1840, and seven 'Mil lions more than' the estimate of the de partment ! - . These are the remarkable results ? ' of perfidious promises of r4rencfnnent and . Ifform, made by a perfidious party to a reli4t and unsuspecting people:- Nerfi the Orators andleadets of that party will longle remembered by adeeeived corn-, inuhity yes, they will live, but it will be' in the grim and festering infamy of their unholy deeds--theyw ill live as lives the memory of Judas , Iscariot, for like -bun they betrayed their master 'With a smile playing "upon- their lips, and a he festeringion-their‘tongue. SMITSPLEir• preeeed i - k logs of dentocratio meeting held tit Setiithfteld -on the_ Bth 'inet., we are obliged to defet• 'publishing 'until, neict week: _ ' *-- 'ltrative.,umrwtim Obedienee and prtelimna e recipro- . cal duties between people 44`id Meat.: The kailurfi'in ProteetiOn is set forth by , MoSt-,Of" the 44eliPble4 c :Of the first Constitutions Mt; the reason the colonists renOunced . , allegiance. Citizen a _ lid alien - may alike claim The shelter of our govern ment; yield it their support and comply with:its lama. The'ehield tie put on in, the last ivar witki3ritain, Was the aegis of ,protection to naturalized citizens and adopted :aliens; for Who but they could suffer by impressment? No right was asserted over native , citi zens, however they were involved by the abuse. , We - wagetlwar in defence of our commerce and, our adopted sea men-0, free trade and Sailors' rights and scorned the base proposal to cupidi ty of peaceth our ships and, no peace to our Seamen, 4. committing our 'sailors' rights for the safety of our merchant's goods." Nobly then did •native and adopted sons unite to make glorious this vindication of national hospitality. $188,568,333 6,234,756 20,832,143 ,We delight ,--tó trace, in his official acts, the'course of thegreat Apostle of Democracy in. 'of s connection. He was the author 'of the resolutioes by the Congreis of the Declaration invit ing foreigneri to this "asylum of op-, pressed man," with the promise of lands &c. He introduced into the Virginia Legislature the fanious act avowing the right of expatriation, in term quoted in our last, which should stand through all time a noble 'aphorism against 'the odious pretension to perpetual allegi ance. " The right," says Professor Tucker of this law, " has since ex pressly received the general sanction of the American people, and has found a virtual recognition in the Tractice of all other civilized nations." He ; wrote the Kentucky Resolutions whose i prophicy of " revolution and blood" is almost literally 'fulfilled in a sad history of blood and riot. He there Says, " That the friendless alien has indeed been se lected as the safest subject of a first ex periment ; ,but the citizen will soon fol low, or rather has already followed, for already has a sedition act marked him as its _prey; that these' and successive edit of the same character, uoless arres ted on the threshold, 'nay tend to drive these states into revolution and blood ;" and asks indignantly what is our govern ment-bnt a tyranny which the President has accepted . (with the Alien act) " over the friendly strangers to whom the mild: - spirit of our country and its law had pledged hospitality, and protection."-- The repeal of these laws followed, im mediately, his elevation to the presi ,deney,. as well as the. restoration of the term of naturalization to , five years where it remains, from fourteen, where the distrustfUl counsels that preeeeded him had fixed it. In his first message he says, A denial of Citizenship under a residence of fourteen years is a denial to ,a great proportion of those whO ask it; and controls a policy pursued;-frorn their first settlement, by many of these states, and still believed of consetidenee to their prosperity. And shall we re fuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers 'arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe? &c." It is thus 'seen how Jeffereon cherished the Constitution, as Wash ington exhorted in one of his addresses to Congress, " for , the 'sake of those who, Flom every clime, are daily Back log a dwelling in our land."- And this has remained a Cardinal principle of Democracy, practised and proclaimed, down to its last convention in ,Baltimore, to . whose resolutions we' refer the rea der. $64,911,778 N 552,233,884 15,099,921 Were then but Among the federal Whigs are the signers of such petittons to Copgress as one now before us? Stating that J. the farther adtimission of foreigners to a participatian ,in the po litical rights of native Americans would be hurtful to the interests ofour country'.' , , and asking for 4 - a repeal of the natural ization liws "—Which by the , way, could only send aliensback to the un equal legislation of:-the states ; for the power of Congress.ie a concurrent one ; and the object sought, to . exclude for-, eignere by , national legislation, rink Constitutional, as well, ashestile to l ,th 4 whole tenor of our laws, itate an , fed: Whir opposed theliet war _wag. ed in protection of, - hdepted aliena Who'but a fedeitikwhig tiolitiettee congress in IEI3B reported , at lenzth' in `aeceidaiteeWith ,oftthe tenoi atioVe - cited f • AtitE;':akif*fr , Printers `miiii:neiVwant hyphen Jo connect, their that -ef the federal ' 'there alien - . and sedition _Who; but federtd-whip in i congress :avoided ,en maste,,lhri vote ,cifitifund ing in 1840, Matthew Lyoni s fine 41- posed under the sedition a - st of '9B? Matthew Lyon - was a naturalized Irish man, a . member, of congress froin Ver- Mont, who was fined' slooli and 'im prisoned four months in the reign of terror,for a temperate rebuke,Of the Executive. A successful effort was made at last to restore the Abe uncon stitutionally, extorted. The Ifouse con tained 242 members.. A vote to lay bill on the, table, a quietus, res i ulted yeas 17 ! nay 5.129 .1 On final pasege there were. ,125' ,yeaiL--15 nays the democrats in their places; while the whigs, though unable to Preventa quo rum, dodged but who by open opposition took the bolder way of closing the link Which bound them to the fathers of their party. Even as we write, the news arrives of a petition pre sented by Join! Q. Adams in the H. 1. on the 31st ult. extending the probation of aliens for: naturalization to twenty one years. Mr. Hammett, a democrat, moved that it be laid on the lable— carried, yeas . . 128 ; nays 26. 'Ainong the yeas we reeognize some half dozen Whigs; "among the nays one Democrat alone. Where' were: the rest of the Whigs? The. House consiits now of 223 members ;- 69 therefore did not vote. Who fear to meet this question? and why ? The federal-whipcandidate for the presidency in 1840 used this language in his--Cleveland stump-speech, an au thentic report of which is before us,— I rely upon the good opinion' of my countrymen ; I care nothing for the opinion of those who have come hither, 3000 miles across the water.". During the same campaign the central Associa tion at Washington . co-operated with the whig;Executive Committee, enjoy ing the Iprostitation of congressional franks the interim of adjournment,. both adding dictation to fraud byiadia sing delusion from that ,centre of cot. ruption, at the expense of thadeluded, upon. the Public sentiment which 4e .mocracyendeavors to 'concentrate from the broad circumference of popular pri mary aisemblies. In every attempt (and the have not been few,) to disor der elections by questions of nativity or religion—fatal to liberty which would smile here blessingly op all—democrats have freivned upon the :desecration; they scent'. Alien and Sedition," Church and State " in the Ineeze.— We hold the earth man's.heritage and maintain his right to locate_, where he pleasei. Ent the principles, of the As tiOciatioa are skunkislily odorous of the Alien:, act ; and, with the coonish ad dition of Crittenden's gag-bill, are re dolent enough of the Alien, and Sedition laws to keep any 'but Native" and Whig noses at a respectful distanee.— Under all the varied names. Federalists, National Relublicans, A ntimasons, De cinocratic Whigs, Native Americans, down to imerican ,Republicans, the last eognomen (we read the dailies,) as sumed in Philadelphia, not a democrat can be found whom we would' take back.: • , AaPennsylvanians we should never forget that a federal Senate ejected ,our Gallatin by a ,stsictparty vote, on an' alien question. Gallatin who was the Atlas of DeMocraey in the Congress of '99-1801 while Jefferson and Madison were Organizing victory through the Statelegislatures. Prejudice ` only, of the lame 'character. could have ostra cized him from the equality of honors dae peculiarly to these three, +have 'impressed their gigantic minds dion the ConititutiOn in its toleration, as we trust, for all time. DREADFUL ACCIDSiiT AT ,WlLLlAltiff• BVild.—The ~New York papers of Sat urday iirday record. a dreadful accident at 'Williamsburg on Friday evening. Six children were 'killed, ;and one , _ badly IM.: by the caving of a bank of earth. It appears that they 'Were, playing; bg- Rfath the bank, when ii'gave• way and buried them under Many tons:of earth. Vigorous men, with spades, were in stead), at , work, and succeeded in reit= cuing 'alive the adopted - Aaughter :iif Mr. Clevenger, ferryf_inester; named Ida Wiggins, who is; now able ill speak although brui L sed and depr4'ed clan eye: The other six , were 'dead before the men at Work reached them., What an,picellel9 '4ll!iml7.llr, reotilis4ketrayed. , .-:,!..f: '-. -• : ' We *ere.inasbert time, at the Be.' *Nigh elaYCl*.PlkWednPsday even ing Althengh; a. crier -waS sent Ont to drum up Mcraitt, -thei meeting was. lest ittend de thanihat Of the mocra • . „ , iettesisciation the evening previouser- An elderly gentleman, within the whigs • _ ogee prOseribed for .being honest, OW just finishing a rich speech . . 4 democrat heSaid, wasn :fool, he' did not ,know igtw•to legislate. a man can't be a de , . niocrat and know anything, &c., hay-- ing taken his seat, another.. gentleman being edited for lottdy, rose ami dst the. deafening and 'enthusiastiicheerintibe vast assemblage, and fixed.. himself 'for . a ppeech, - with as much uneasiness, .as , that mouse expressed, of which the Doctor spoke, that was locked in the room with a. cat. The gentleman thiitight it time to do Martin • Van Bu • reit justice, as no , danger was to be ap prehended now;by . putsaing thie Course. Thenfollewed an eulogy like - that of one who, bad cope to praisi.Onsar, not to bury him. Van Buren he said was an honesCman, whatever may :havi been his political course.'The . party had with great unanimity preferred his nomination, but he had been cheatednut of it by unties" leaders: The speaker expressed great indignation - at the= pro Of the ' Baltimore Convention ; the difficulty with him. was, that his own apple cart , was lippecinver and as he had . been so long nocustOned to abiising. Van Buren, he was at ,a losi for 'a subject. .We were, moat amused at the professions of sincerity which' the gentleman asserted, when he declared that the rank and file of the democratic party had asked for, and expected the , nomination of Van Buren, and they had been cheated by the leaders, and , Col. Polk nontinatedin his stead. flow many in this borough, and elsewhere, have heard this same gentleman make, wa r ming the Democratic party to take the nomination in their -own handsl: that unless they. • were active and vigi; lath the leaders would nominate !Van Buren; repeatedly has he said i that unless the - rallying cry should be, 4' ibe rank and file against the leaders,"- Van Buren. wouldbe nominated.. How different now is the theme; the people have asked fir the nomination of Van Buten, but the leaders have defeated • it and nominated Cot. Polk. A. blast of about three quarters of an hour-was poured out in great wrath against the Cenvention for not nominating Van Buren, then we left, concluding that if the gentleman had not come to ...bury Cwsar," he most certainly had come to bury the Coon party. It sounded to us very much like , a valedictory gone who had “given it up." But 'what was said that evening, is no more than islipw 'heard aboui'our streets almost every hour in the day. Pont. Van Bu ren he has been so: abused, so shame. fully.treated, such an excellent man, to be thrown aside for Col. Polk, Ouch is the ccinstantlamentaiion of the coons ; of those who have villified and scanda- Hied ,Van Buren' beybnd measure; who ltive asserted that he could not get more than two of the states of: the 'Linton. Who cannot discern the cause : of'all this. 'They are beaten ; they feel it The people have spoken in thun der, for Polk, Dallas, Oregon and TeX as, and nothing cinstay the enthusia4n with which' the cause . is epoused.' To s BE Putnam County Court of Oyer ;:and TenniOr, on Sauirday morning, lit ofJune, pro nounced the sentence of , the law on George Denny, for the murder of old Mr. Wantzer, which was that Denny be hanged on the 26th day of .July nut, between the 'hours of 5 A. M., and 7, P. M. THE GREAT ItAcE.--At the Union Course on Thuriday 6th inst., came off the , great race between::Fashion, Blue Dick, and Young Dove,four mile . heats, , tor a puree. of $lOOO. ' Fashion came very near losing her 'Ore's, and bittffor .an- accident would have hist them coMpletely." • , GEN. LEWIS, ' Okes.-9en. Lewis Cass . attended 4 democreue meeting at Detroit, last week, and, expressed his hearty concurrence io t4n nomination of the Baltimore Democratic Conven tion; and announced;frus:determination' 'faithfully to support it. • ,tl N lo 4 o Ncgli4cll;7—.A. Morni9n phurch, consisting f o one . .hunred.and seven Members, has been organized in St. Louis. , • • . Nelms Iron! og N ati ..'The Montrealuazette mut about mid day on,thel3th rumbling noise. reserobr th company or artillery at bit tt heard by persons residing °atilt taint and that Others ran ont o houses fearing they- would fat them. The'shock lasted two m . • On. Tuesday , night, at Bakis,, Man named William Jo nes, drunk, fell from tbe third m olt house into the yardlutd was k . R e took Iwo drops too much, William J. Roberts and arr. - Bedford, Conn.,,have, een-cos of beating in a brutal, manner, a seven years of age:—whom they obtained at the pobr housed Imaied to pay a fine and be imps.sol Morse's Magnetic Telegragt been completed, from Virasbingt,3 Baltimore, and news can be cools sated` from one place to the otb et .fov; seconds. The wire is pipt e from ,the weather by a coveringor, yarn 'and tar, and is condschtios 20 feet high and about too yanh ai A girt was struck by jighu l i c h i ne w ci e a rl: o u n i the on r o ofA V of a Wednesd a y She ilott had hold of a feather bed alt The; application of ice water eessfully applied and restr The bed saved her life. A little son of Itlr.,,Theo. aged about three years, vn - - in the creek above the ,Fulli Mount Holly, N. J., on Sum noon•last. . -IA stranger, who gave his t John Newbold. _ died suddenly, timere, on Thursday morning) stated that he was'froti Beall Ohio. - New Orleans papers -say pecuniary lose to the plantirg by the Red River overflow • ed, by competent judges, of than a million and a half df do! • - One life'was lost only, the ref ing Major Duress, whq>*r froth his residence by/the took ,refuge ini tbVsecondt alt .store, where hie body was list A tnar z t,in / easey County Ky. announced hireself as a eairdith the State Leoislature, by the roll placard, which . he has tacked court house door of that count John Brent ; has a'sickly wit) , eight small chit - aro- 7 is very afraid to . steal, don't like to against the tariff, but in favor of —would like to be elected to the islature." On Saturdriv the arm• of a I was amputated in the Baltimore He was silo •in , the hand ar while ,auenipting to rob a house the wound's 'rendered the aapr necessary. David G. Mount, a 'deacon! Presbyterian Church, and a re citizen of Lodi, Washtenaw Mid ',an, corn wiled suicide by hanging himself. • A fire occurred at Allentonie county, on Thum* of lasr which destroyed a frame building, ed by: Mr. Beitler s ianduccopted gar and , candy manufactory. Montreal papers to - the 27th Quebec to the 25th instant, have received. They contain no poi news of importance, and, consequel the reported outbreaks to that cot. must have been without foundati A number . of the -colored people Canada West are preparing to et to the We4t Indies. The 01 erected on the spot where the Wolf fell at Quebec has been defat some Vandal hand. Morse's Telegraph is again n. and many coMmunicationt daily made through it between more; and Washington. • :We see. it 'stated' in some of netvspapirs,' that Joint:Jacob Asir New York, ; presented the city . worth 82,06,000. to hiagraud deg) There - iViirtidence and da!rition rich man being his omn executor. The sales of thi public lands, ing - the last talen6r year, motto 1,638,674 acres': and produced than.:s2,ooo,ooo, exceeding ceeits.gf_sates for the protons year, reore'thaa $600,900. `This:pwn' ber Otcommunican t e 'POO,Lvfinrchen-in Alabama , AL •iing-14;, : the:.rep arts of the asocial for 1843. is '40,000 ; five thousan d ing beed..b.aptized during the. past