The Finances of t he I ion.
Bolia - intereetin facto were stated on
the floor of Congress a few days since,
by Mr. Webster, in relation to the fiaan
cial condition of the nation, and the of
ficial course, upon this point, of the ex.'
isting administration. After the payment
of the national debt, a large sum accu
melated in the treasury, which by an act
of amerces in 1833,.was distrrbutett
mung the States, with a reservatien of a..
bout 85,000,000 for the our of the Otiy•
ernment. At the commencement of 1537
then the Government had on hand six
millions; and it had before it the whole tie
crueing revenue of 'the year. Before the
year was oat; that is to say, in the Sete.?
session, Congress suspended the payment
of the, last or fourth instalment, or fourth
deposite to the States. This measure re.
tained in the treasury a further sum of
nine millions, thus raising the reserved
aggregate up to fifteen millione. Saber
quently the treasury received from thy
Penn•ylvsnia bank of the United Stites
five rin:lione of dollars, as part of the
property or capital of the United St .tee
an the runner bank. This swelled the a
mount to twenty millions. So that since
January 1837, the treasury has had HI
twenty millions of former receipts, us
well as all revenues arising &nee."
By a more particular reference to fi
gures, it is Annul that the amouat expen
ded by the Government in three yeere—
that is to say from January 11387 to Janu
ary 1840. was twenty ini,lieme two huh
dred thoesand dollars, b•yenil the am o unt
received front the customs, from the sties
of public lands, and all other sources of
public revenue. Now that the accumu•
lotions of previous years are all exhaus•
teal and no more surplus capital remains
to furnish suppliee, the expenditures of
the Government still running beyond its
receipts, resort is bad to borrowing. Five
millions are called for in exchange fe•
Treasury note ; or in other words,- a
Joan is to be neeticiated to that mount,
for which national stocks are to be issued
—for the treasury notes bear interest, and
are precisely analogous to certificates of
stock.
These are luta of record. They ex
hibit in a strong light, the financial porky
of the AdininiitrAtion, and
invnenlie 5 , 11113 have been expended by
M. Von 13 , v-so, in.carrying uu our pun
lic o@airs.—Phi!•
Fran ha Albafiy Journal
Wheneser a (iivernment provokes the
contempt of the People Its downfall be.
tonnes nevitable. An Atlittinistratiun
that cannot command popular C.Speett
larks tits fi,•st arid surest element of he.,
min power. The FeJersl Min;stt y
is retilleed to this condi:to.t.
It has neither firmness to enforce the
principles it professes, our tuffivient mag•
nan il l tity to abandon them.
'The interest of sixteen millions of
P. cannot be mede fort ver the sport
and plaything of a few adventurous soil
intriguing politicians. Weaker men than
Mr. Van Buren have often:imes uhtented
power nader tales pretences; ant abler
managers have beet' hurled from ill ac
quired eminences by the disgrace which
the exposure of tlior own frauds has
brought upon them.
m;... Van Buren came into office in the
deel ) l e Ottracter of Avenger anti Regan
era'or. He W. 171 to eradicate evils and
diffuse benefits. This the People expec•
ted from him, far this he rootised to set
form. lie was to co.:Tect alleged abuse.,
separate Bank and Stat:t introduce a tV ,
tens of finance which sliotAl elevate Ch..
Currency of the country to purer stan
dard ; bringing back freshness to the
cheek and renovated virtue to the heart
of the Nation. These were the objects
tube attained under his superintendence
of public affairs I
lie has now entered upon th, last year
of the connotational term of his Mike
During the whole period that he has oe
copied' his high etrt:ion the party with
which ho is identified has geld an unda'
puted inaktrity in both houses ttl*Coniress
The Executive departments have all held
themselves in readiness to da his bidding
and assist his efforts. Even the Fettered
Judiciary has knelt at his feet. A Ttajar
ity of the State Governments have shown
themselves equally subservient to his will
Never during the existence of the Gov-,
eminent has a Chief :Slaistrate posies.
bed equal facilities fur the inusaluetion of
a new policy, and so igany concurrent ad.
vatatages for hringing it to the immediate
test of practical operation. Feam moftth ,
to manila and from year to year the Peo
ple of the United States have heen watch
tug with eager eyes and expecting hearts
for the blessings of Van Burenisin to
break upon them. flow has their faith
been acquitted 7 !low have their expet
tations wen fulfilled 1
What can the President's friends Least
that Le has accomplished 1 What publ.c
atlases lass he corrected ? They complain
ed that the comity" was suffering from
the expansions and inflations of paper nut
mi. !lave they reduced the circulation
of this species of money ? Have they
nut increased it by the addition of Tweit•
ty Millions of Treasury Notes within the
last three year• I Have they added lye•
cle to the coffers of the Goverement, or
diffesetl geld and silver among the people?
Mr. Van filren came into office tot the
4th of March, when the Hanka re
deemed their notes on demand ; and in
less than three months from Lira tidy these
institutions suspended specie pSitnents.
seventeen months afterwards u•
;lather partial suspension occurred, cons-
mends; in Pennsylvania and extending tencv .hzin all these, of his triumphant rr
throogliout the Southe: - :. tod
against these open and repeated acts Smith-wes
,,f his Administratiou the Banks have tor.
eked their charters twice. The;
community has indignantly called for remi
-oly
ception ..t l'aminny Hall, where a leas!
tern States. NVithin the first two years
RC illuminati at. lit his honor w, re prov.
ded— on testimony such at this, 'null
voice: "I i,mine. in to vindicate the claim of Get.
Harrison to be enrolled among the bravo
.;mud succtsstul commanders of the natio..
.1 insolvency. Has the Presnlent pro- Again, his pro.peroua adnm'omismration h,
vided or ev e n attempted to pr o vid e 0..1..1 (3oymomor lot years of th,. North Wester!
flu denounced a union between tho boy- p ort •it„ry, lilt if ocreit and una iht,, o .
erument and time Banks, when the latter uct as a member of Congress, and tilt
were sound and conducted themselves fact that so good a judge of laienlA, itiles•
Ihonorably and advantageously. 1I e has i•!! . y and pitnlaisilt its Julia Q. A*1:110%, se
continued that union witis those that liaYr fetid him as Minister to Cidnrobia eat 1,
pslinwn themselves most unworthy of pub- lisned hit right to be ranked hoot • - ibly a•
lic confidence. The Comlectinti of tire!„ wig
Gover tilt
nment with the United 8;8E0111 those ,silo have distinguished them.
iselves by their civil services to tie nation
of Pennsylvania shows with hew tnucitt And yet such a au is spoken a As a
sincerity Van Burenism desires the tilt.. coward a dotard, and tilt! :roman ; and the
union of Batik and Stoto. ;indignity was even uttered to American
I) ere we to write a volume it would t ee lco g just previous to our late city elec.
scarcely serve to display the It pocrisy, tion, of sending forth a banner from that
the profligacy and imbictlity which chat- Tammany Hall, which had feasted Gen.
(icterta.o the present Federal Ailininistra- Harrison as a her, representing Ilium clad
Ition. We shall not attempt to enutimer. in petticoats and flying from iri enemy.
ate the evils it brought upon the coon• i t i, addt.d. as if to cap t h e di nt . % o r
(7. such an insult, that this banner was borne
Still the people are told of benefits that by a liritieh deserter: a fit instru nent for
will accrue from its continuance in power ~., n a „ a 1 ,,,,. p „,, , an d s „ b„„, a rabble as
'lbw, let us ask. are the blessed fruits of could applaud such a proceeding.
I'd an Ilurenisto to Legin 1 il here emit n w e do rot, indeed, so for as the %access
are its tni , eralmie cotisetptences to end? of the Whig patty anti (ten Harrison is
There must be some period at which the concerned, object to, or complain oh, this
useful result of a wise policy n ill be- made of wet fire, for we know it ret'ounds
come anparent; and Mete ought to be t o our a dv s otage ; but as Americans, tie
some lima beyond which even the worst siring that our National Patitheon should
of Rulers should hesitate to pr..ss their not be desecrated : and that mot single
' pernicious schemes. 11 the friends of the bust or statue placed their by a people's
Federal tlove , ninvnt Will 11.11. ' AZ that pc- gratitude, should be struck dos ii from
dad or define that limit, the people mutual its niche of glory, we protect against the
do it fur them. An A iministration that V.lntlal spirit of these aysaults upon a pub
is incapable al explainitig the cutisegoen• Ire Belief,. tor
cut of its own policy, deserves the demi
shut nod contempt of the people
_esp....es
I The Petineylvanian Champlain% that the
We cope the following article from the liienils of Gen Ilarriemi do not discuss
columns of the N Y American, whice we the p i nciples of their candidate. What 1
en Itiree the sentiments that it conetins, as do our opponents want i Surely it is
these that should ever prevail in the minds not et this tone of day that such a man its
of Ain •ricans ; we would call the atten- Geis Harrison need issue his creed ; lie
lion of our readers to the history of the and hid principles Are wed known—made
country for a long tittle prior to, and sue- known by hie public acts
needing the war. Pacts there recorded,) Oar opponents have been terribly toys
that new belting to poeteri7, show the titled by their us. is presideidial c ilitlipate
Mrilliant and valuable ser, ices of one, he is so wrapped up in intrieue that they
I whom the administration is striving hard, have come to imagine that there. are stone
Illy the v.le-t abuse, to melte the people',thing awfully my eterious in the adminis
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believe is an "ineompe'ent old ktranny."
.tratioit of a republican go, ernment. The,
Let every doubting candid man review , have lost sight of the atraieht-forward
history %%Ilia has lain uncieittadicted 'jail le policy of General ,Viieliingtoll, ul
user twenty five years, a n d lie will en- Madison, %Wart; and Adams, and have a
dors', the opinions of the Pri sideleo aho l doptcd all idea that the matt who is u
selected Ilarrieon to fi j eltt the battles of 'se. ve them as President of the Uniten
the nation.— E:Le Gr zrt!e. States must be capable of some wonder-
Phti fierceness anti intolerance of par- winking cuojurorship ; that he theist be a
te spit it have never been more sieually or ble „tat twin toe class of fellow citizens to
discreditably diepleyed, than in the mode iste'saipport by the accelents ill h.o but
111 which the plat calve- soil services of place, and another class by the professini
Gen Ilarr.sun are now calutuninted and tii a set of principlea purely local ; and
Scandalized by the Van Buren press— ueliire he can be even a candhlate fur th.
from the Globe, Richitiotid Eeiper• r. anti eflice, he mum istiUtt a card of these re•
Ceetiin e er Pust„down to the New E.. t ,— markable pre.r.quieites.
at, indeed, oti tee low dead level of L ico. Gen flareisoil as 'urought out as a canal
Pico vulgarity and malignity, there be any date to oppose Martin Van Bureu ; to
laequality. oreaube certain men were opposed to M.
The contest against Gen. Jackson was Van Buren before his election, bet be•
indeed a heated and bitter tante—hot in it s caws,/ the people die:approve of his co we.
extrtmest hight, no one did injustice it, since. his electioo. Ihe election of Gen
his en - tier/it intlitary services and
. quall. Harrison Will not be carried by men who
ties. I tis want of eelf-coininatel, tesub.. wiled Mai tin Vast Buren was inaugura
ordinate spirit, vindictive temper, and tur tea, mite that 'his ailini istration mu,
bulent I.le,—general titifi• nese fur the ue put down, timegli it tens as purees an
trusts of civil governineut,--were age ;la in heaven;' h ot Gen. Harrison t, dr
he dwelt upon and illustrated : but N w oe elected by citizens who hate watclie.. ,
Orleans was deemed sacred,--and eves. tile *weenie:its of Mr. Vas. BUreti'S all
tile •attrigees and hardships of his Indian miniettaiien with the succession of Imre
campaigna, stained as they w ere wie, tears, distrist, and contleinnaton, aid
eulettloniled slaughter of an unresisting tun' at length as iiefied that the good o '
fue, received full and cl vertu! credit. ale coUlitry retill,r, It a Change of rulers,:
The illuvtritets annals of a nation ar. and that the public mind settles on X tn.
a part, UtOl not tilt' least precioa a part, of H. Ilan Milt as the mutt to Collect the e•
its treasured, and these annels are in ttle sal ; and they now see with deli.elit that
spin the noble tleetls of its sons, t, heth eui wily will be pet into power to coin
er in civil or military lite. It is, Viet), a itence the work of reform, but that such
pll.lliC wrong—a wrong to the past--a will be the etren,eth of the popular vote in
wrung to existing times—a wrung to pus- tile behill, that lie will feel encouraged to
terity —to desecrate such annals; and rut a tlioreugh and radical correctioe.
the comparatively paltry struegle of the The abuse of power by favoritism in of
. iinnr, to du injustice to die a avices GI ti:e is an evil of which the people corn
, ether days. plain in NI r. Van Buren.
. No such considerations, hot:ever, ap- the enormous expenditures rif plane
, pear to restrain the desperate press of fund*, upon institlietent or unexplained
I I
the tleet ' iMae par ty now in the posseesititi ground;, are complained of in Mr. V5O
[ of the Fedevit: woterPment-71 . 1!id accor• Buret.
tingly there is scarcely any !ally or fuse
hood tit .t is not uttered througii • these or
gars, in depreciation of W. 11. Harrison.
Facts, however, they canon; alter,
though they may conceal them ; and re
lying so this, as in bait other cases, up
on the ignorauce and prejudices to which
Corse pres s es mainly achlres themselves.
t.l, e y may indeed, for a time, delude same
of Orir reader into a tsClitg that Gen. liar
7ison is a coward,--that he whit, in e. I iy
days, shared the perals of Mad Anthony.
as the gallant Wayne was, for his great
staring, called by his soldiers—and e njoy.
est his confidence—who, at a later period
advanced the civilized frontier of the w tat
aglinst an overwhelming superiority in
point of warlike farce of hostile or Ott
friendly sa,ages—and who in the war of
teli, overthrew triumphantly the coat
i hined array of British and Indian cite
, mica,—ta an old woman, and destitute oft
all •kill or energy as a commander.
Rat truth soon comes in to dispel the
illus on, and to establish, on the testimo•
ny of Mad Anthony himself—on that of!
the early pioneers sit the west—sun that of
su,,ch man assent Croglian, Maj ir Fuller,
1 Richard M. Johnson, Vice President—ins
It of the thouks of Congi ess and a gold
medal unanimously voted tohim ft r con•
I,duct and courage—on the universal con•
temporaneous applause of the press, in•
clud.ng that most consistent and indepen
dent journal, the Richmond Enquirer--
and finally, as here, or even greater po
wiIAT ARE lIIS PKINCIPLESI
The cruel proscription of men, fur a
pinions' suke, is complained of in Martin
Va“
e continuation and renewal of
schemes, by which the currency of the
nation is titter! y dratroyel, are complain
ed of in Mr. Van B
The protection of a war in Florida, and
the loutish waste of public funds in its
continuance, ate complained of in Mr. V.
ntl , en.
The exhibition and defence of a sub-'
treasury scheme are complained of in Mr
Van. Duren.
'f•he delay in adopting or rejecting that
;clime, so that there might be some cer
tainty in the action of the people on fis
cal concerns, is complained of in Mr. V.
Buren.
The neglect of the great interests of
tire country. manufacturing and agricul
tural, is complained of in Mr V BUren.
Tne encouragement and countenance
of political adventurers, who disgrace of
aces lif appointment, and reduce tie hall,
of national legislation to the level of
' near garden, are complained of in Mr. V
, floret).
Tne introduction of complicate.
,cheint s of policy, by which the genius
the Constitution is violated and the pen
ale deceived, is complained ail. Mr. V
Buren.
And these, and a multitude of other e
vile and causes of complaints, constitut.
the distinguished principles of Martin V,
IBuren's governtnont, and the people are
rallying round Gen Harrison toeleciliiin
itti a — vew to the correction of all these
vita, and the restoration or the govern
ttent of the country to its former channel
nd character. The people have beet,
rainp!eil on by men who were preaching
,herly and equality. The nation has.
•/.I`ll ruined by politicians oho were
~reaching polittcal creeds and prlressin;
Jove oldie people. A mall IS now to be
,levated whose lire has been a pattern of
4-rtubiess and honor, and whese politica!
faith has been manifested in his public
works.—El. S. Gtzz.
HARRISON'S BEN EVOLENCR
It is at all times a sourc ofgrcat pleas.
ere to us, Its rtit/Ile itAlrlItiF:SIS, to record
anecdotes at kindness :Intl benevolence in
those Nilo are called forth to take a pro
m' nent part in the field or in the councils
al the country; in such as the People de-
It to lotion', and look up to fur a iTlcy
o
;of qualities likely to reflect credit Oft I il
selves, and honor an the Republic. Nu •
merous instances of this kind are recorded
of Gait. Harrison; anti we
e are gratltimi in
being able to present tie following, which
we have cut from an exchange paper of
recent date.—EvPnirg
A few years since, a young Irishman,!
named Juhtt Hanley, respectable pa
rents, emigrated to Cincinnati, O flo g wick
his wile, whom he hail married for have,
against hi. father's wishes, which was the
rause of his leaving the country. Some
short time after, Hanley, who kept a smell
store in Cincinnati, heard of the dealt of
his father, who was a man of much prop.
eriy. Having ialsti been informed that lie
would the why come into a canifurtaLle •
;11;it•peall,tire, he sold out every thing and
embarked with his wife for Ireland. On
i reiving there, what was his 43,1 dianp.
:mintinimt to learn that he wa. let live
oionds, or, in other words, ilki o hc i , c d,
lie immediately raised a small sum of mu
Icy to pay his passage and that of his wile,
Ind returned to Cincinnati, where the
wife, who Was 7111 accomplished awl inters
:sting woman, enileiplared to ohrtilt a live.
dho,el for her husband by teaching music
(ter. Harrison having heard of the pecu •
iarlv distressing circumstances above re
lord, became warmly interested in behalf
at' the family, with whose touching and
ownewhat romantic history he sympathi •
'tod with that henevolence of heart w hick
'as ever been characteristic of his noble
inil chivalrous disposition. There was
he bertha (Ira clerkship in his ofli•n: vacant.
It was worth live hundred dollars a year.
Many personal friends of the (i'eneral so.
;cited it of him in behalf of their sons.
le reluctantly refused them all. and gavel
'he place to the poor young Iri.hthan,.
'l3tilry. Anil let all true hearted Irisii• I
nen rememb.r, and want Irishman has
it a warm and true heart ?—that Ilanley
add the tithe to the hour of his death,
tad was paid up to that moment, though
ar the last ii;x months of his lite he had
'eon ill and unable to perform the duties
.f his station. The authorities of the
hove tit:netnews are the following persons
if Corionati, the
lev Air. Montgomery. I)r. lironner .
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NEWSPAPERS
celphrated writer, t•Junius," thus
:peak% of newspapers.
"Th.y who conceive our newspapeH
ore no restraint upon bad :ten, or impetli.
anent to the execution of bad ineasurm,
know nothing of this country. Our mini
sters and magistrates have
punishment to contend with be)und the
censu , e of the preS:4 and tie spirit M
resistance it exettei union; the rople.
While this censorial power i: maintained
to speak in the words of a most ingeniou:,
foreigner, both minister and magistrates
• are cling:elicit ut Llirio:it every instance to
choose between hi, duly and his repu
tation. A dileatatt of toil kind perpvt
unity beliire him, still not indeed work
miracles nit his livart. bit will at*survilly,
operate in some degree upon his conduct.
COLLEGES AND NEWSPAPERS.
We leant front the Christian Review.
that their are nominally ninety-live col
leges now in the United States, with about
n i n e thstucsai; fhtltnntlred students; twen•
ty seven medical schools, with about two,
thousand seven hundred and flay sta.
On. 10 ; thirty seven theological schools,
with about fourteen hundred students;
and eight low %ennuis, with about three
handfed and fifty students. We learn
from the same saurce that there are now
' one thousand live hundred and fifty-fi , e
' new:waiters and other periodicals publish
ed in tors co retry, two hundred and sixty
seven in New England (Massachusetts.
one hundred and twenty-lour); two hum.'
tired and seventy-four in the State of New
York, two hundred and fir y•three i..
jPennsylvania, one hundred awl sixty •foni
in Omo The next largest number in a
Isin4le State in sixty-nine, and the smallest
number three.
WELL TIMED LIBERALITY
A Mr. James Bowman, formerly of
langur, Maine, recently lo.t his life by
'idling into an excavation ti►r a cellar. si
Louis. On hearing of the accident,
Ir. Glasgow, to whom the preinises
owed but who was in no wise olam,•ablt
a• the criminal neglect by which the ac
ident occurred, drew his check fur 50..
idlers, and sent it to the destitute famill
.Ithe deceased. Such acts of noble be•
devolence deserve to be chronicled.
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THE JOURNAL.
I' One couniry, one constit talon , one deathly
7,'lny 20, 1 5410
Democratic .2fat imasontc
Ca\ NU:PATES.
Pont Ptt EsIDENT,
1 3Ef k ii MAE%
OF' 0810
Ftllc VI( E
it. INN TYlril
J
OF VIRGINIA.
FLAG OF 'IRE PLOPLL!
tt7 A single term for the P residenev,
he office ..thninhoterecl fur the whole PEA). •
PL E. .oid 110 t tur a PAR 1 Y.
irjr• A sound, unitorin and convenient Nn
tioual CURRENCY, adapted to the wants t.t i
the whole COUNTRY, instead of the
h•LAS 1 ERS brought about by out prtscn,
!RULERS.
rpEctiNtistF, It Km ENcitmENT, R
FosDI in the administration of public afi,iirs,.
Cr. Tired of Experimeats and Emseri•
nienters, gratitude will reward,
tombstrusive merit, by elevating the sub—'
ahem of WASHINGToN and the desciple of
iIiFFEIISON, anti thus resuming the safe aiip
ibeateu track of our Fathers,—L. Gazette,
Eleclorial 2leket. •
JOHN A. SHULZE,?Sen'to'l'
JOSEPH RITNER Srlectut*
Ist Mitict LEVIb PASSMORE,
2d do CADWALLADER FVANS.
du CHARLES W.A . ! 1.1116,
3d do JON. GILLINGHAM,
4th do AMOS ELLM AKER,
do JOHN K ZELLIN,
do DAVID PO S,
sth do ROBERT Si I NtiON,
6th do WILLIAM S. HINDEU,
7th do J. JENKINS ROSS,
Bth do PETER FILBERT.
9th do JOSEPH 11. SPAYD,
10th do JOHN HARPER,
11th do WILLIAM M'F.LVAINE,
12th do JOHN DICKSON.
13th do JOHN M'KEEII AN,
14th do JOHN REED.
15th do NATHAN BEACH.
16th do NER MIDDLESWARTH,
17th do GEGRGE WALKER,
18th do BERN AIM CON NE' LY,
19th do GAIN JOSEPH MARKI.E,
20th do JUS 1 ICE G.FORDYC F.,
21,tt. do JOSEPH HENDER , ;ON,
22d do li ‘RMAR DENNY.
231 do JOSEPH BUFFINGTON,
Nth do J I,M ES MON I'GOMERY,
25011 do JOHN DICK.
I.reilatere have finally enlivened,
hut as yet have, no usual, dune nothing'
k portion of their time has been lost by
idjourning to pay the customary and very
wrap, respect, to two members deceas,d
—Messrs. Chandler and Swayne, both or
whotn died with the small pox. We leel
certain that they will however get to bu
;lnes% ere long ; and do what is co much
needed by many indov,frions ;ow.
The price of cheat appear. nn the de
cline in the city. If the present state of
things continue, Mr Van Iluren will hi
suable to tidy next March, ,hris ire laa‘es
:he presidential chair, "I leave this grail
peopl,,prouterotri and happy."
'file Virginia electioa has tormirsteri
by giving the Harrison ;may 10 majority
ou joint ballot; thus securing two U. S.
Senators to the cause or the people. Thy
is glory enough For one year. °Clare de
ki:chete," is the tune to which the Locos
dance.
Van Buren Contention.
The National Convention, held by the
Loco FOOO4, in Bel denote, for the pur•
pose of nomiaating a candidate fur Presi•
(dent and Vice President, we are inform
led, was a chilly affair, to even the hopes
of that faction. But it is true that they
did have a Convention. We had howev
er stated some weeks since, that it was
more than probable that they would am
hold one ; and we stated it on the author
ity of one of their own party ; and one
too, who appeared to be a kind captain of
their hosts. The Convention was held.,
However; but nut until they hail calmed
the elentents of strife which raged among
them.
Some had found that their delicate sto•
!nacho would not hem. another dose of
Johnsou'A yellow girls, although they
would still adhere to Benton's yellow box,
—a progeny about equally creditable to
he sires. Others, we believe, began to
think the Goys were more likely to do
warm to their party, than the copper col
oared of of It. M. In order then
hat their "Lolily jars" should not prove
in open quarrel, they succeeded in obtain.
mg a three or lour sided letter from Col
Johnson,stating that he would be satisfied
with what ever they did. Thus evident.
y culculatitig, that such an ettrao. dinar,
Jisplay of tatriotie disinterestedness
Could ()lily he received with the must un.
, 011 tided ...r4titu.le; and that forthwith ihi
Vice Presideli, y would be again proffer,
d. But atri:4,e to say, lie Convention.
took him at kis word; & have - left him to be
satisfied without the noininat int;• So that
the result of their mighty Convention is,
that they have nut nuta.nated a ticket, on
ly part of one.
Cannot the peop'e see .that, that party
.dready login to think, that aeir days
are fast coming to a close? With th e
reins oti power in their' hands :for Many
years,.they hove accomplished no benefit
IlOr the people. 1 hey promised to kill
the messier, and give us a better curteti
cy—wlpere is their better currency? They
promised thst in "seven mouths bank rags
should be abolished," and gold and silver
would supply their place. Their misera
ble tink.ering with the currency nearly
abolished the banks, and their notes, but
what has become of their gold and silver?
The truth is, the (lays of delusion are'
pat.t,..and these Solons, who assembled at
Baltimore, saw the evidence then, that
the people were moving to the rescue. At
last they mustered up courage enough to
nominate. a President, but no mere. la
not this the best. evidence that they are
anxious to concentrate all their energies
upon one übj,cer letting go of every ob
ject but little Alm tin, they have to unite
every powerto keep his name alive among
the people. With an army of forty thou.
sand rfiee holders, still they fear for their
succes:‘, and they have shaken alf.lAnson;•
and now intend attempting nothing el SO
ihan Presidcnt.
They may us well lay Wm down too.
The people are tired of their experiments
and humbugs; and they will not rest un
til they have put men in the high places,
who are tones!. Such a man Harrison
has proved ; and the poop e know it.—
They say a change Inuit Ise for the better
for the toles are as hard as they can be
—if there is any thane, we must be ben
efi• trd.
No other et biome is needed of their
feehms of the desperation of their hopes.
of success, than the fact that, they dared
not nominate a full ticket. Had they
been fell of confidence, they would have
spread their banter to the breeze ; but
they were full of doubt, and they hate ran
'up a ragged bunting, with half a motto
thereon ; r.nd their own fears will prove
their ruin.
Post Master Cement!.
Amos Kendal, the proscriptive Dem—
who has for years been at the head
'of the Post Office Department, hhs reign•
ed and intends taking charge ut an ex
tra political Globe, in order to enlighten
the Loco Foci's as to their duty, in the
coming contest.
Nothing has occurred, at which we can
'twee heartily rejoice. Since he has been
•+t the head, the tvl4.le system of the Post
office has teen used to political advantage
• his panty. No opposition man could be
a post master, if one of the "right stripe"
ei , old be got. Neither could an opposi
tion paper teach its destination more than
half its One, daring any exciting political
contest. No other man can be faun!, that
we shall nut prefer.
m. it looks a little as if they Were
:!tting frightened at the "log cabin" can.
didate, when they find it necessary to take
men from the National Cabinet, to devote
their [owers of sophistry, to gull the peo
ple.
The Calm of Mr. May.
Some e. eeks since, a ‘Veetern merchant
by the name of May, came to Philad tl
- with a considerable amount of money.
lie became somewhat unwell, but as his
business required, he started fur New
York ; Avhere it seems that he fell into
ihe hands of a rubber, called Mason—was
taken to a house, and nhile sick, was
robbed of money to a large amount. He
wrote to his partner that he did not ex
pect In get well ; and that he must come
on and attend to their business. The
partner came, but could nut find Mr.
May, nor even the place that he had been
decoyed to. Much excitement prevailed.
in the cities of Philadelphia and New
York, and large rewards were olrered for
information about him. Nothing could
be learned ; and all thought that he had
been robbed and murdered.
It appears, finally, that he is alive and
welt, and has returned to Philadelphia;
Atlas the cause of his absence. • The
man Mason, pretended much friendship
for him, and while unwell, broke open his
trunk and robbed hint of his money. He
gave the alums, and every means were
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