( 'T 7 ' - 1 1 [ ''. I . .. „, --A.-. I I ' 1 / .1, ;' 1 J t 4 1 0 6, -i A: :,:,• ) illiti 6, , .' t. 1 . . ~,, ~ , , It i 1 4 . 1 1P i T, 1. „. , t (4,,„ *. t, / / c, , k , lj ft geouttß Uctoopalart —Ozt)otcl3 to Clotrral Katt Ittarntc, antrtiganis, Sl;olitico, ;Literature, Aloratito, Wars, rientro, agricutuvr,Cautimemellt, Szt., Sze. "craDa. . aZYCID. .C-1 PUBLISHED BY THEODORE H. CREMER. cCPCIIii.a.UatIEZto The , lotrity.i." will be published every Wed nesday morning, at $2 00 a year, if paid in advance, sad if not paid within six months, $2 60. No subscription received for a shorter period than six months, nor any paper discontinued till all ar averages arc paid. Advertisements not exceeding one square, will be inserted three times for $1 00, and for every subse quent insertion 25 cents. If no definite orders are given as to the time an advertisement is to be continu ed, it will be kept in till ordered out, and charged ac cordingly. PROSPECTUS FOR THE SECOND YEAR, £i3 GREAT NATIONAL MAGAZINE. Agents wanted.—Reading for all.—To the reading Public.—The best and cheapert family Maga zine in America. axsArt.s , NEW MONT IC L PAMIZIT TeTAGAZZNE, listablishedfor the Diffusion of (Will Knowledge A Monthly Miscellany of Moral and Useful In struction, Embellished with numerous Engra vings. Published on the first of every month, in Parts of fifty large octavo pages earls, (double columns,) TWO DOLLARS per annum, two copies tient to one address for THREE DOL LARS, invariably in advance. In offering such a miscellany as the above peri odical to the public, we wish to make it clearly understood what is the object proposed to be ac complished by its publication, and what will inva riably be the character of its contents ; and by rm species of disguise, or form of deception, attempt to nuke an impression or gain a favor, without pos sewing a legitimate claim to their enjoyment.— Bears' Family Magazine' is a periodical whose ob ject is to collect, condense and systematize the great maw of standing general knowledge, contained in works so numerous and voluminous as to be alto gether beyond the reach of mankind in general and thus collected and prepared, to place it, by its cheapness and comprehensiveness, within the ac quisition of ALL. We shall aim to give the Magazine a character decidedly American, and to make it to this country what the Penny Magazine is to 'Great Britain.— Hence we shall introduce, as far as practicable, des criptions of American History, Manners, Scenery, and Natural Productions. In furtherance of this object, we invite our friends abroad to aid us, by communications and sketches of any thing remarka ble, rare, or unique that may come under their ob servation ; and we trust they will find ample remu neration for their labor, in the consciousness of having added a quota to their= total ofintelligenco which is so widely disseminated through the medi um of Sears' Family Magazine.' From this brief outline of the plan of our New Monthly Magazine, the public will see that no ex °alone will be spared to entitle it to extensive pa tronage. Asa sort of pabulum for schools, and a treasury of knowledge for families, the leading object of the Family Magazine is utility. It is intended that its morals shall be pure, its information authentic, aril its arrangements in good taste. And while it is the sincere desire of all who are engaged in its publica tion, that it may carry the cheerfulness of kowledge and the light of truth wherever it is received, they indulge the hope, that the countenance of the com munity will look favorably upon them, and that its arm of support will be extended in their behalf. ROBERT SEARS, Editor and Publisher. No. 114 Fulton street, N. Y. City. Zlegaut Premiums for Subscribers. A VERY LIBERAL OFFER. ♦n easy method to procure a copy of , Sears' BHA Biography,' , Wonders of the the World,' or . Guide to Knowleclgk,' which sell for two dollars and fifty cents pr. vol. 0:1. Any person either subscribing himself, or procuring a new subscriber to Sears' Family Ma gazine,' for the year, and remitting $3 current funds, free of expense, to the publisher, shall receive a copy of that periodical for one year, and a volume of either of the above works, to be kept subject to his order. And $3.50 will entitle the subscriber to a copy of Sears' Bible History.' oz). Any person procuring 5 subscribers to the above work, for one year, and remitting the money, ($10) free of expense to the publisher, shall receive two copies of Bible Biography, or two of the 4 Wonders of the World.' or one of each, or one copy of Sears' New and Complete History of the Bible,' (2 vols. in one,) which sells for threedollars. Any person procuring 3 subscribers, and remitting #B, (free of expense) shall be entitled to two copies of Bible Biography,' Wonders of the World, or Guide to Knowledge.' AGENTS WANTED. To Clergymen, Students, Agents ofNewpspers and Periodicals throughout the United States. The subscriber is prepared to treat with ;ICI; per ions as possess the necessary qualifications for suc cessful Agents, (either for a stipulated salary or commission on subscribers obtained) to circulate his •New Monthly Family Magazine,' for the year 1845. Good references required. Terms liberal. ROBERT BEARS, No. 114 Fulton street, New-York City. All letters and communications from Agents mud be post paid, or they will not be taken from the Post Office. Da NOT TAX 115 WITH POSTAGE.—•A gents and Subscribers may learn, from the following notice of the Postmaster General, how they may send money to the publisher of the Magazine, without the ex pense of postage to either. Read carefully ; A postmaster may enclose the money in a let ter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the sub scription of a third person, and frank the letter, if written by himself; but if the letter be written by ancther person the postmaster cannot frank it."— Axes KENDAL. ID LANK BONDS—Judgment and com mon--For sale at this office. Job Printing. NEATLY EXECUTED .117 1 THIS OFFICIL ZPzID.Q O El) 9 fib<ze). PARM FOR SALE.—An old and ♦rcll Unproven farm containing aMe) ,(32.11 04 (1ii,G13 9 with allowance, a I ,rg , ' go which is cleared and utncer good fence. The improve ments are a I and conv,mient dwelling louse, [NO story spi ing house, barn and other out buthlinls, with a never foiling spring of water convenient, and an orchard of choice fruit. There is also a gond lime kiln with abundance of lime stone and fm ,l. This property is handsomely located on the bank of Nugtiwirk creek, Shirley township, Huntingdon county, and possesses many vantages in point of locality. Being distant Irom the borough of Shirlersburg rely twn miles from the canal three miles and a half, and immediately an the road from Shirleys hurg, to Drake's ferry. There is also first-rate merchant mill on the property adjoining it. ALSO, A 53 acres of woodland handsomely located on Chesnut ridge, Shirley township, tuttingdon county. Apply soon to the subseriher en the pre rni•tes. LEWIS BERKSIR ESSER. January 15,1845. Watches, Silver Ware 4. Jewelry James MICE'S & No. 105 N..2:1 corner of Elfreth's Alley, J. P. & Co. continue tem anu facture at their old stand, Silver Spoons, Spcctacles, Thim &c. on as low terms as any other mann fsctory in the city. They have on hand and keep constantly for sale, beside .their own manufactures. tratchea of all kinds & prices Salver TVare,Jewelry &Fancy Gooda.in their variety, which will lie sold low. Spectacle Glasses fitted to all ages and sights, in Gold, Silver, German Silver and Steel Frames, with convex, concave, periscopic, blue, grey and green glasses. 11 - 7 Watchmakers supplied with all ne cessary articles in their line, such as Tools, Materials, Glasses &c. Watches repaired at short notice and warranted to perform. iri• Cash or exchange given for old Gold and Silver. Phil's., Dec. 11, 1844.-2 m. LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post Office at Alexandria, on the Ist Jan., 1845, which if not ti ken out within three months will be sent to the Post Office De partment as dead letters. Baker John Murrels Andrew Brownian Isaac Mayville Henry Dickey Susan Moyer Henry Davis John C. Pine Isaac Davis Simnel Plymptnii Elijah Fisher Mrs. Porter John 2 rocklei H. & J. Parmenter S. S. Gun Benjamin Spyker Samuel Green James Esq. Sauter Mr.—German. Houtz Daniel Stewart Alexander Houston M. L. Shively James Herren John B. Stout Mr. Hall Weston Shively Mary Johnston William Thema s David P. Ireland Judith Young George B. Ichinger Jnhn Yi'eum Samuel Kennedy J. 11, Wilson James Kaufman George Walker H. C. Martin Isaac Walker George M'Clure Andrew JOHN GEMMILL, P. M. Alexandria, Jan. 8, 1845. LIST OF LETTERS, which remain in the Huntingdon Post Gffice, January Ist 1845. If not called for previous to the Ist of April next, they shall be sent to the Post Office Department at Washington. Bottontot John 2 M'Vey Michael Bottontot James Mirgrath Miss Emil'n Coder 'l'. B. WWillams Thomas Crull Augustus Murchorn John _ Diffenbaciler A L. 2 NuTan Russel Dysar Joseph Nuinmer John Grubb Abraham, jr. Patterson John Gray Miss Harriet Peppard Oliver Grubb E. & C. B. Ro,enhiem Abraham Heisler D. S. 'roman James Hight Char:es NA'ond Samuel R. Ln' George NVeight Henry M'Gwire Catharine Withertiwlm hl'Connell James DAVID SNARE, I'. M. January 8, 1845. Estate of Lau; retire i,"Zvoope, Late of town,ltip, &erasell Notice is hereby given that letters of ad ministration upon the said estate have been grarted to the undersigned. All persons having claims or demands against the sane are requested to make them known without delay, and all persons indebted to make im mediate payment to GALES SWOOPE, aldnt'r. Jan. 22, 1845.-6 t. Cuss tp. ESTATE OF JAMES TU LLEY, Late of Barree township, Huntingdon county, deceased. vrOTICE is hereby given, that letters 41 testamentary upon the said estate have been granted to the undersigned. All per sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate pal meat, and those towing claims or demands against the same are re quested to present them duly authenticated tur settlement, to ANN TULLEY,/ JOHN OAKS, Exr's. November 20, 1844. Barree tp STRAY COW.—Strayed from the sub scriber, living in the borough of Alexandria, more than a month ago, a red and white spotted cow, with a white face, and a wink on one of her horns, nearly the shape of an 0. Sold cow is near calving, or probably has calved by this time. Any information that could be given, respecting said stray, would be thankfully received by the subscri ber. THOMAS MITCHELL. January 15, 1845. LANK BONDS to Constables for Stay Ego of Execution, under the new law, jest printed, and for sale, at this tigke. SPEECH o 1 CLINGMAN, OP NORTH CAROLINA, On the :e ate Prezidential Election. In the House of Representatives, Jan. 6. [CONCLUDED.] Without going further with this matter, Mr. Speaker, I have read enough to afford an accurate idea of this system of organization. That it would be most effective in practice is obvious, when it is remembered that there are in every country some who, from indecision of character, may be persua ded—some who, from honest credulity and want of politieal knowledge, can 4e imposed upon by art fully-framed documents or verbal misrepresenta tion; while others may be overcome by the influen ces of what are called "refreslunents" or other means. This or some similar plan of organization was adopted in many parts of the country. In the State of Tennessee, ns I have been informed by what I might regard as first rate democratic author ity, the following was the mode relied on : There are about fifteen hundred civil districts in the State, in each of which there is a precinct for voting. In each one of these districts the Democrotic party selected five individuals, who were, by their combi ned exertions prior to and on the election day, to endeavor to change two voters in each district, which in the whole State would amount to three thousand, and talten from the Whig to the Demo cratic side, would make a difference of six thousand in the result. By this means they hoped to over come the majority of four thousand which had been cast against Mr. Polk the year previous. That this scheme failed is solely owing to the fact that in that State the Whigs were more zealous; more ac tive, and better organized than they were in the other States. Nothing gives such confidence and spirit to an individual as the knowledge that his efforts will lie seconded and sustained by all of the members of his party. It is a similar feeling which gives courage to a soldier going into battle in the ranks of veterans, whom he knows and confides in, that he would not feel in the midst of a body of a raw militia. The leading members of the Democratic party, being in the late canvass, well aware that the sys tem of Whig policy was approved by a majority of the people of the Union, and that their nominee had also a vast personal superiority in the estimation of every body over Mr. Polk, felt that the issue, if de termined with respect either to measures or men, would be decided against them. They therefore called into exercise to the fullest extent their sys tem of party organization, to obtain as many votes as possible for their candidate, and showed them selves devoid of all scruples as to the mode in which these votes were to be procured. But, Mr. Speaker, our opponents did not content themselves with merely obtaining the votes of indi viduals. They also courted and won over all the various smaller factions of the country. It is the natural tendency of these in every country to array themselves against the strongest party. The Whig party was, as all will concede, the strongest, and it stood firmly on well•known and fixed principles.— With these principles none of the factions of the country harmonized. But the Democratic party avowedly stood on no general system of principles with respect to the administration of the Govern ment. It contained in its body men who professed opposite opinions on every 'political question. Its broad and catholic spirit could receive in its bosom the members of every faction without obliging them to sacrifice or modify any of their professed opin ions. In short it was a fir receptacle for the frag ments of all factions, and it would act in the man ner calculated to win. The abolition party had nominated as its candi date for the Presidency James C. Dirney ; but the Democratic party likewise afterwards nominated him for the Legislature of Michigan. He accepted this nomination, and by that means, or perhaps by more solid appliances, he was induced to use his influence with his party in behalf of Mr. Polk. In his published letter before the election—l allude not to his spurious letter, but his genuine one—he de clared that, though opposed both to Mr. Clay and Mr. Polk, yet he touch more depreciated the elec tion of Mr. Clay, because, being a man of greatly superior abilities, he was always able to lead his party, and would do much more to retard and over throw abolition principles than Mr. Polk, whom tie spoke of es a man of no Went, incapable of con trolling his party, and powerless as against abolition. Mr. Speaker, when I first read these letters, I saw that they were so ingeniously framed that they would have the desired effect with the abolition party. Nay, sir; they take the precise view of the matter, which a sagacious sincere abolitionist would. Nothing surely could be more fatal to the progress, and even existence of that faction, than the admin istration of a man of the lofty patriotism, and splen did abilities, vast personal popularity, moderation and firmness of Henry Clay. To give us such an administration, would inspire that confidence, re pose, and prosperity which the country so much needs. On the contrary, all the little factions vege tate and thrive under the weak, vicilliating admin istration of a feeble man. Rightfully, or wrongfully, however, as it may be deemed, it is certain that these views of Birney, and like efforts on the part of the Democratic party, had the desired edict on the mass of the abolition party. The States of New York, Pennsylvania, and perhaps others, were carried for Mr. Polk, and, as our candid political adversaries admit, the abolitionists have made the President. So strong, however, sir, was the Whig party in the country that even this manteuvre would not have defeated us had it not been for other similar artifices. Nearly one hundred thousand foreigners are estimated to arrive annually in the United States; of this number a very large proportion are Roman Catholics. By means, which time does not permit 'me to recount, but the most insidious and unjusti fiable, the Democratic party succeeded in inducing them to band themselves together and rally to the support of Mr. Polk. Some of them avowed their preference for him because Make trade policy was more favorable to the interests of the mother coun tries from which they came than was Mr. Clay's. Others openly proclaimed on their banners that they would not be ruled by Americans. As evi dence of the sort of feeling which has been incul cated into the minds of the most ignorant of them, I may be pardoned for mentioning a little incident that occurred in the room of a friend to whom I chanced to he making a visit. While making his fire, the Irish porter inquired when Mr. Polk would come on to the city. "I am told," he added, "that he is a great friend to ue poor foreigners; weelec led him, and we can do most any thing when we try." Sir, had the foreign Catholics been divided in the late election, as other sects and classes gen erally were, Mr. Clay would have carried by a large majority of the State of New York, as also the States of Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and probably some others in the Northwest. Not only did we have to contend against the influence of foreigners here, but British gold was openly and profusely used to promote Mr. Polk's election, professedly with a view of breaking down the tariff and promo ting the sale of their manufactures in this country. All the world may interfere in our domestic matters. With one hand Great Britain stimulates the aboli tionism of the North. with a view of desolating the South or forcing a dissolution of the Union, and with the other, under the influence of motives equally selfish, she seeks to array the planting and farming interests of the country against the tariff, and thereby Freak down the manufacturing estab lishments of the North. And we, as a nation, sit stupidly quiet while she foments for her own ad vantageous domestic dissensions. Our political opponents, likewise, derived acci dentally great advantage from the official patronage of the present Administration. Usually the oppo nents of the acting President have, as a counter poise to his direct influence, the advantage of holding his Administration responsible before the country for its errors or crimes. But in the pres ent instance the acts of the Executive, though heart and soul completely identified with the Demo cratic party, because ho had not been elected by them, were, whenever it suited their purpose, disa vowed. He thus occupied a position of seeming neutrality between the two parties, and was able to turn to account the power in his hands. He ac cordingly, exerted to the utmost the power which he possessed over them, going even to the odious extent practiced in Mr. Van Buren's time, of com pelling thein, on pain of dismissal from office, to contribute part of their salaries to create a fund to be used in favor of Mr. Polk's election. At their assessments of 1 per cent. each of a salary in the custom house, $15,000 is said to have been raised. One of the officers there, John Orsa, is said to have presented to the Empire Club several hundred hickory clubs, to enable them to beat away from the polls the Whig votes, for which Nebel& act he seems to have received a vote of thanks from said Empire Club. To ascertain the extent of this influence on the whole country is not easy, but the number of office holders in the State of New York alone is such as to account for a greater number of votes than Mr. Polk's actual majority there. Prom Mr. Clay's character; political experience, and associations, It was known that his selections for office would be made from the best men in the country. All of the old defaulters, therefore—all mere needy adventurers, without character to sip port their claims for office, having nothing to hope from him, naturally arrayed themselves on the other side. Without doubt, too, they are right, to some extent, who suppose this to have been the case, another influence, not probably political. The gambling portion of the community, finding, at the beginning of the canvass, that they could not get persons to bet against Mr. Clay, did so themselves, with large odds in their favor, and afterwards devoted a por tion of the many millions staked to effect the result desired by them. Yet, with all the acquisitions and advantage; I which I have been recounting, our adversaries were too prudent to rest secure. They knew that the Constitution had provided no mode by which the fairness of a Presidential election could be contes ted, and no means of purging the polls of illegal votes. If a vote were received by the inspector of the election at each precinct, and by them returned, it mattered not whether the person professing to give it w ere qualified to vote or not at that place. They therefore, by means of the system of organi zation already described, deliberately formed a wide ly extended plan for the purpose of securing a sufficient number of illegal votes to carry States enough to secure the election of Mr. Polk. The first demonstration seems to have been made in the i city of Baltimore in the October election. There lit was that they gave a vote so much larger than ' was ever polled at any preceding election, as to sat isfy all persons that fraud had been practiced.— laveatigations singe then hiss mode it manifest that the increased vote was owing not only to the fact that many persona voted not authorized at all to vote there, but that likewise those qualified had in some instance voted two, three, or more times at different precincts in the city. About fifty persons have already been convicted and sentenced to pun ishment for this offence by the Court, not one of whom is a Whig, though they have been pardoned from time to thus by the Democratic Governor there. The fraud here was but the precursor of what followed. The great State of New York claims the first no tice. During the past year there were naturalized there not less than seven thousand foreigners. This was effected entirely by the Democratic party, the Whigs having no office provided for that purpose, because, as I learn, there is not one of these for eigners out of fifty who will vote the Whig ticket. Of this large number a great proportion, not having been five years in the country, could not be legally naturalized, and their votes, therefore, when given, were illegal. Men who had not been one month in the coun try, from the penitentiaries of Europe, unacquain ted even with the language in which they were sworn, voted for what they knew not. But the principal frauds were practiced by what is called double voting. The city of New York was the great theatre where this was consummated. As the Empire Club bore such a prominent part in these transactions, I must devote a remari: or too to it. It was organized in July last, and it consisted of gamblers, pickpockets, droppers, burners, thim ble-riggers, and the like, and its association seems to have been then mainly for the purpose of carry ing on successfully these and similar trades. Most of its members had been repeatedly indicted for crimes. Its general character, however, may be sufficiently inferred from that of some of its officers. Its President was Isaiah Rynders, often arrested for thimble-rigging and similar offences. He and Jo seph Jewell, being indicted for murder, fled from New York to New Orleans. By the by, I may here mention that this Jewell, who has indictments for murder in two different cases hanging up against him, was the standard bearer of the Club, anil figu red as the bearer of the Texas banner in the pro ces. ions. These worthies hod nct been long in fiew Orleahe before they found it convenient to leave, being charged with stealing treasury notes. They came to this city end were arrested, and sent back in irons, by order of Captain Ty ler. I mention this circumstance in order to show the mutations of the times, for since the election, this man Rynders, having become a great man among the Democracy, has not only dined with Benjamin F. Buser,when the electorial vote was given to Mr. Polk at Alba ny; not only has he received a complimentary ball from the Chairman of the Democratic General Committee of the city of New York, but having come on with his friend Jewell to this place for office, I am told, if the papers are to be relied on, he has been cordially received at the White !fosse.— Whether President Tyler or President Rynders then remembered the ironing, is not, however, chronicled. But lam digressing, John J. Austin, vice president of the Club, has likewise pending against him an indictment for murder, and was likewise implicated in the charge ofstealing Treasury notes. Woolrige, its secretary, but recently came out of the penitentiary. William Ford, one of its directors, in the short interval of time which elap sed between the publication of a notice of one of its processions and the arrival of the day of parade, was indicted by the grand jury in seven cases, rape and burglary being among the offences. Being put in the Tombs, he unfortunately lost the opportu nity of figuring on that occasion. Soon after tried and convicted of the first named crime, he was sent to the penitentiary, but. Isis services being valuable to the party, he was immediately pardoned and turned out by his Democratic Excellency, Govern or Bouck. I may remark, too, that this official dignitary, a short time before the election, restored to their political rights all the criminals in the State, and pardoned a great number who were in the penitentiary. Thiel Empire Clu,, constituted as I have related, for some time devoted its energies to the prosecution of the laudable object. for which it had been or iginally organized. Several weeks, however, before the election, the Democratic lenders thought it could be efrectively employed in the political con t.., and they thereupon took its members into pay. These gentry being furnished with money thus by other means, abandoned for the time their peculiar avocations. and some of the neutral papers of the city mode the subject of remark the disap pearance of these particular classes of crime.— Their numbers rapidly increased from one or two hundred to not less than eight hundred : in fact they boasted that they had three thousand men en rolled. This Club, with other members of the Democratic party, perfected the most extensive system of fraudulent voting ever known. Sir, in what I have been stating, and what I am now about to state, I speak from information derived in part from public sources, but mainly from private ones; sources, however, on which I fully rely.— I have taken pains to get accurate information.— If there be error in any of my statements, which I ant not prepared to admit, I desire to be contradict ed. Otto of my objects is to provoke investigation into this matter. If any thing which I can say or do here should induce this House to order an in vestigation into this whole transaction, I shall think I have done the country much service.— Let gentlemen meet me on this ground. In the etty of New lork there ere more then senenty 1 .-^...faaCDaCIE) fl tlf) 0 au V.IEt ,:. places at which votes are given in. I understand sir, that one prominent feature of this plan wee, that in each of the seventeen wards into which the city is' divided, there were one hundred and twenty picked men, each of whom was to leave his own ward and go to one where he wae least known on the evening before the election. Staying one night , there enabled him to make oath that he resided in that Ward, and he was permitted to vote there.— He then returned to his own ward and voted there without being questioned. But these two thousand and forty persons, however, formed but a part of those who voted more than once, From the in formation which I have received, I think that an in vestigation will show that there were companies of men who voted in some instances as much as six teen times each. It was the calculation of the managers to give fourteen thousand illegal votes in the city, and they admit that they got in eleven thousand. A portion of these votes were excluded at some of the boxes, by the Whigs requiring them to state on oath if they had not already voted.— This being an unusual question, offended many of them, and they retired with dignified disdain. The Workingman's Advocate, a Democratic paper of the city, has admitted that the party agreed to give five dollars for every vote after the first ono which any individual could get in. Many of the gamblers predicted what occurred afterwards with wonderful accuracy. One of them who happened to be a Whig informed a prominent individual in the city, fiont whom I received the statement, long before the election, of the plan, and likewise notified him that on a future day, before the election, however, this matter would be published in a Democratic pa per, (the Plebian I think) and charged on the Whigs es their plan, so as to divert suspicion, and, in the event of discovery by the Whig press. to en• ticipate such charges and thus break its force.— When the day came on, as predieted, the publica tion appeared in the Plebian. There is said to have been an incident of no great Consequence in itself, which for a partictilar reason is worth a notice. I understand that the North Carolina line of battle ship was moored at the Brook lyn wharf, and it had been arranged that? the melt on board of her were to go ashore and vote for the gentleman who represents on this floor the Brook lyn district; and their votes, if received by him, would have been sufficient to elect him. But on the morning of the election, by some singular freak of that ,legerdemain which Was practised on so extensive a scale that day, these men were in a body spirited across the river into the city, and vo ted mostly in the 7th ward, but partly in the 6th and I lth, for the Democratic member there, (I mean the only one of the present city delegation returned. Mr. Maclay.) These votes were just enough to save him. Now, I have no doubt but that the gentleman from Brooklyn, (Mr. Murphy,) though he was overthrown by having the staff on which he was about to lean thus soddenly jerked from under him, by a brother Democrat, has public spirit and party devrtion enough to be quite as well satisfied by la result which gives the party a member, as if Ire had been himself the successful individual.— But the object I had in view, sir, in alluding to this incident, is to ascertain what is the standard of party morals as it respects the menthe's themselves. What is their mode of dealing with Whigs I un derstand very well; but I had supposed according to the old proverb, that among its members there was honor in every profession. Will not some one enlighten tho country as to this pert of their code Sir, you remember that when the Whigs were in power, they passed a registry law that would have prevented most of these enormous frauds, but it was repealed by the Democratic party, and we see the fruits of that repeal. From the best infor mation I can obtain, I am fully satisfied that under the existing laws provided by the Democratic par ty of that State, hands enough can be perpetrated in the city alone to determine the vote of that great State—in feet, I may say the result of the Presi dential election; for it will perhaps generally be close enough for its thirtysix electoral votes to de• cide the matter. But it was not in this city alone that these things were done. Similar frauds were practised at Al bany, by voters, some of whom were even carried from Philadelphia, it is said. Even in the interior, there are facts which furnish strong evidence of il legal voting. I should like for the gentleman (Mr, Preston King) who represents the district in which is St. Lawrence, (Mr. Wright's county, I think) to inform us how it happened that that county gave sixteen hundred and twenty-seven votes more than it did at any preceding election I The Whig vote is stronger than it was when we carried the coun try, and yet we are beaten by about fifteen hurt. deed. How cornea it that that county has given nearly two thousand more votes than some with about the same population I It is charged and believed by the Whigs' that a number of persons who had already voted else where, were run across the line into that county, and voted a second time, and that similar fraud. was practised in Jefferson, an adjoining county.— Our friends believe that in those two counties there wore pun some thirteen hundred illegal votes in that way. That the State of Now York gave Henry Clay a majority of heir legal votes, cannot be doubted. Similar frauds were practised in the State of Pennsylvania, with the like result, as 1 could show if I bad time to go into the detente,- We lost Louisiana in the same way. At the pre precinct in the Parish of Plaquemine. there were Riven eleven hundred woks, being seven hundred
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers