TMIB NORTH CAMOILIUMAN
Political.
From the Cincinnati Daily Enquirer. s
Wo hear from all parts of the country ac
count of the outrages upou good order and
common decency committed by - some of the
whigs on their return from the Daytou fan
dango, The whooping aud yelling, the in
sults and abuse, the red faces and inflamed
eyes of many of these men, bore testimony that
they had gane deep into debauchery, and for
got temperance, decency, the feelings and
quiet of others, aud the good order of society.
In mote than cue instance, this brutal con
duct has wrought its end, by showing discreet,
temperate, and religious men that they could
no longer act with such a party, and bringing
them out upou the side of the country. This
is the case ia four different instances within
our knowledge. The people will not counte
nance this new sweep of immorality and
drunkenness over the land. The cause of
temperance has suffered more by this
one fandango, than months of incessaut ex
ertions by its friends will repair. The fol
lowing from a minister of the gospel, and a
Niyar.ni advocate "of tbd cause of temperance in
jHsmn county, shsAr 'urwXthat-. popular
sentiment i.Tturtin
cauSc in this qufler :
2 n
eprote-V verj P-S-sGmTuvVoC
that
r ra.nkhh,." arren Co., U.,
... September 30, 1S42.
To the Editors of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
I believe that it has been the opinion of a
mnjoriry of those persons who make a profes
sion of Christianity, that a minister of the
gospel ought not to take any active part in po
litical controversies. Whether that opinion
has been a correct one or not, 1 will not now
say. I profess to be a minister of the gospel;
and to my owu master I stand or fall. It is
certainly the duly of every man whom God
has sent to preach His VVord, to reprove and
icbuke all unrighteousness and intemper
ance, wherever they may be found ; but more
especially when found among those who pro
fess to be religious aud -temperate. Great has
been the change, apparently, that has taken
nlace iu the Miami Valley since the 1st of
March, 1842. Then, our country and towns
were tilled with newspapers, calling upon the
people to be temperate ; and all those who re
fused to sign the temperance pledga were
classed with drunkards, aud friends of drunk
ards. But now, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th
days of September, A. D., 1842, (be aston
ished, O heavens ! and all ye on earth, who
out of a pure heart, serve your Creator,) our
streets and highways are crowded with men
and boys, shouting and yelping like maniac?,
singing ridiculous aud nonsensical songs ;
carrying about live coons, and making a dis
play of indecent caricatures. But last, and
worst, TEMPERANCE men, and men pro
fessing godliness, have joined in and coun
tenanced these scenes of ungodliness.
Friend Bingham, of the " Morning Star
and Temperance Journal," I begin to stand
in doubt of you. What means the following
paragraph?
When this election is over, then ye rum
mers will catch it. We shall throw down the
gauntlet, and who of you will take it up?"
is it not as mvicn ot a duly to cnarge upon
" rummers " before, and on the day of elec
lion, as after the election is past? Or did
you think that a little of the "critter' might
be useful to clear the wind-piped of certain
song-singers before the election, that after
wards it might bo dispensed with ? Be care
ful that parly spirit does not deter you from
doing your duty. A hint to the wise is suf
ficient. And now let me say a few .words to all
those into whose bauds these lines may fall,
who profess to worship the Lord God and
Him only, whether they be whigs or Demo
crats. l)o you not discover that infidelity is
making rapid strides over the minds of the
human family ? Doubtless you do. And is
there not a cause for it ? Surely there is.
Have wo not reaou to fear that the licentious
arid immoral conduct of professors of religion
has made more infidels lhan has been made
by all the writing of iuiidels put together? I,
for one, am iucliued to think so. flow care
ful, then, should we be to discountenance
every thing that looks like the hard-cider cam
paign of 1S40. Certain I am, that no Chris
tian can justify such conduct as was acted by
many in going to and from the Clay meeting
at Dd) ton.
1 have no objections to Christians going to
political meetings, (whether they be whig or
democratic,) if they be conducted iu a proper
maimer; but when they do go, they ought to act
like rational beings, ami beings that expect
lo give au account of their actions at the
great tribunal of heaven. Remember, O
Christians, " that ye are the salt of the eaith ;
but if the salt should lose its savor, wherewith
shall it be salted V
SAMUEL WILLIAMS.
The National Intelligencer thinks that the
late elections, iu Ohio especially, show au in
excusable "dcieliction" on the part of the
coons. The Intelligencer deserves credit for
this. There is everything in the choice of a
word, and 'dereliction' is smooth as silk vel
velty, indeed, when used to account for a drub
biug. Are you defeated, routed, beaten,
flogged? Not at all we are merely "dere
lict." The last syllable, perhaps, would be
more germain to the matter lhan the whole
word, though neither so elegant nor so com
fortable. Say "derelict," aud mind youi em
phasis. Pennsylvanian.
From the N. J. Standard.
The Geueral Assembly. No. 2
After the election of its presiding officers,
the next step preparatory to business will be
the election of Clerks. lhis involves, as we
said in our last number, what our opponents
are pleased to term the question of "proscrip
tion." We have heard much declamation on
this subject ,- and like others, the whigs have
made fair promises, which they have iu every.;
instance violated. JNo where have they had
the power aud failed to exerc ise it. They
promised to "proscribe proscription," and by
way of fulfilling their promise, they remove
wherever they can, and fill all vacancies with
their own men. Can it be expected, after
such a course by our opponents, that our
friends should continue ia office those who
have been so zealous iu their opposition?
They profess lo act on the principle of re
moving only such as have interfered in elec
tions. If the democrats adopt this rule, then
must eveiy whig in office be removed. They
have every office . connected with the State
government on which the Legislature will be
called to act. There may be one exception,
the Chief Clerk of the Senate, who was retain
ed because of his. vote for Governor and his
f JSIiiri in voiiiofTreHJdent. ,jAo4 even i n
nis case, oar nergnoor oi trie iiegister, was
not very well satisfied that lie was not selec
ted to supplant him. It is said that'Mr Man
ly has been Clerk to the House for many years,
aud has made a good officer. Grant it and
does it follow that he is to be always Clerk?
If we are rightly informed, he is at this time
prosecuting Attorney,for the county of Chat
ham Secretary and Treasurer to the Board
of Trustees of the University and Attorney
to the Bank of the State. Pie was one of the
most active of the Central Committee and
used every means in his power to defeat the
democrats, both in the National and State
elections. Has he ever voted for a demo
crat? His assistant, Mr Freeman, is another
office-holder, though, like others, always ready
to cry out against office-seekers. He is the
Deputy of the Clerk of the Supreme Court,
and foi a lime, at least, acted as assistant to
the Governor's Secretary. Mr Miller, the
Reading Clerk in the Senate, is also of the
Central Committee, was put in by his whig
friends, aud cannot complain that he should
be superseded by his democratic opponents.
So far as these gentlemen are concerned, we
think the democrats may follow the example
of their whig opponents, without risking any
thing from the clamor by office-holders for
proscription.
As to the subject of the other officers ot
the State, it may present difficulties which we
cannot anticipate. We admit the principle,
that officers in a republican government must
be considered as created for the public not
for the individuals who fill them ; and when
a man has proved himself faithful, it may be
to the interest of the public that he should be
continued. But when men have been put
in for their politics, they canuot object that
they should be put out for the same cause.
The Treasurer may be, and no doubt ia faith
ful in the discharge of his duties but we
doubt if he ever would have been Treasurer,
but for his being a political whig. He, too,
has been of the whig Central Committee,"
and like his brother w higs, has no doubt done
his best to keep his party iu power. The
Comptroller, as we hear, claims io have been
put in by the aid of Democrats, and should,
as he says, be continued. If such is the fact,
it constitutes no argument for his continu
ance for if the democrats elected him ex
pecting he was democratic in his principles,
they have been disappointed. As to the Se
cretary of Slate, he came in under old coun
sels, and though some of his opinions may be
adverse to the party iu pow er, we doubt if any
one will feel disposed to disturb him.
It may be said, then, we are for a general
sweep. Not exactly so; but if we were, we
should be only following whig example.
W hat office did they spare last session, from
the Judge to the Door Keeper? They even
carried their party feelings into the Judiciary.
Their Judges were selected for their poli
tics; and so far did they go iu this, as to ex
clude a worthy man, who held the Executive
appointment, because he was not whig enough.
For the Attorney General they excluded a
valuable officer, aud put in a political partisan,
of whom they will not find it easy to rid them
selves. After su.:h au example, whatever the Legis
lature may do, let not the whigs raise their
idle clamor about proscription. What was it
that caused the removal of Geu. Marstellor,
Mr Coleman, and Col. Wheeler, but their
politics? They were as capable and as faith
ful as any of our State officers. And who
now fills these lucrative offices, but true parti
san whigs, under the advice of the Coon-skin
Cabinet?
Let our friends do their duty, act justly,
and -see that the public interest does not suf
fer, and they have nothing" to fear from the
people.
ponents should endeavor to hide their mortifi
cation by the use of unmeaning phrases ; but
it is proposed, merely for the symmetry of the
thing, that " while the journals referred to al
ways; speak of us asr"Iocofbcos," we should
return the compliment by designating them
as "coons," and by making this distinction
upon all occasions. This would be both poeti
cal and symmetrical, and of the two, we must
say that the soubriquet bestowed upon demo
cracy is much more to our taste than the other.
A 'locoioco is full ot hre and energy it
spreads light through . the daik places and
flashes brightly up against al. sorts ot pressure
and opposition. The 'coon,' ou the contrary,
is rather a skulking concern it crawls
sneakingly and mischievously about o'nights
to throttle sleeping chickens aud to suck un
guarded eggs. There is no touch of respecta
bility in the character of that 'same old coon,'
He is a mere dodger, with "no principles for
the public eye," though laboring under a vo
racious appetite for the spoils. He is a trickey
fellow aud works altogether in the dark.
Pennsylvanian.
Mr C'alhouu aud tne Globe.
The Madisonian charges the Globe with
being hostile to Mr Calhoun as the candidate
for the Presidency. After giving a denial
of the assertion, the Globe says :
" As to Mr Calhoun, we think that bur pa
per has long since shewn, that with us, by
gones are ny-gones. ' ve did, in formed
nmes, say some pretty hard things of him;
and we are afraid, in return, as hard things
were said of us. But we have long since
sat down in the same counc il-house, and
smoked the calumet the Indian pipe of peace!
together. Our war-hatchets are unbuiied, only
to wet them to the eyes in the blood of our
common enemies; and, should a national
convention appoint him our great chief, we
will follow his war-path and fight in his shade
as long as a foe to the great demociatic tribe
remains Jo darken our skies with the smoke
of his wigwam, or leave his track upon the
leaves ofour hunting grounds."
The Penitentiary.
We are sorry to perceive that our neighbor
of the Observer has broken ground in' favor
K)f having a Penitentiary erected in this State.
4t seems that he is determined to be wron
in all his views of public policy, whether State
or -federal.
Aside from all other considerations, we
hope that a democratic Legislature will not do
that which a whig Legislature dared not do,
well knowing that it would bring odium on
that party.
We have this subject much at heart, and
when the proper time arrives, which will be
as soon as the Legislature touches the ques
tion, we shall bring forth our facts and argu
ments to bear upon the discussion.
That is a very pretty paragraph very pret
ty ; but we doubt not that Mr Blair deeply re
grets the circumstances which called it forth ;
and we regret as much as he can, that anyjK.e Editor
NORTH-CAROLINIAN.
"Vm. XX. Bayne, Editor and Proprietor.
Saturday Morn ins, October 29, 1-82.
Ct5 The shooting for the silver goblet will
take place on Thursday next, the 3d of No
vember. Distance 100 yards, off-hand. It
will take place iu the valley between Hay
mount and Harrington Hill.
Coonery. The proposition to set of? the
term "locofocoism," by designating those who
use it as "coons," seems to meet with gen
eral approbation. It is now a good number,
of years since the illustrious James Watson
VVebb, at a great gathering of coons at Castle
Garden, first applied the title to which we ob
ject, to the democratic party, aud it was pa
tiently endured that our opponents might see
whether they could derive advantage from the
use of the epithet. The experiment, however,
has been sufficiently protracted, and so long
as il is persevered in, we shall be compeJed
to amuse ourselves with "coon hunting."
Our opponents certainly have no reason to
complain. They have entertained themselves
for a great while in calling people "out of
their name," and have no cause to-grumble if
the folks in question find pleasure and retalia
tion in '-treeing coons," just as they did in
Ohio. Pennsylvanian.
We believe it to be fair that they should be
called 'Coons, so long as they persist in call
ing us Locofocos. !
The National Intelligencer-bates to call
us locofocos, it says, but cannot call us demo
crats because he does not think us exclusive
ly entitled to the name. Upon the same
principle we may contend that they are not
entitled trlhe name of whig, and we must
therefore call them 'coons. One excuse is as
good as the other; Jbr we vie with the best in
our veneration for the Whigs of the Revolu
tion, but not the modern whigs. So we shall
adopt the plan of our brother of tiie Pennsyl
vanian, aud adopt 'Coon as .a fair offiett to
Locofoco.
An Editor of a Georgia paper mentions
the fact that there are a great many new and
young members elected to the Legislature of
that State, this year. From what we learn,
the fame is the case ia N(h Carolina.
in question is a 'coon, but he
the Democratic Editors should felim-ioitj
political prejudice carry them so far beyond f. .V:..t. rx .u.-.i. .l Ti
larty Xanies.
In all legislative assemblies in Congress
and iu the state Legislatures, the democratic
party is always spoken of by its right name.
Its members are called "democrats, aud in
return, its opponents receive the title which
they claim. Thus we have "democrats,"
"whigs," and that civility which is requisite to
ensure good feel iug. The 'whig' newspapers
however, and the stump-orators who manufac
ture balderdash for public occasions, are pecu
liarly fond of talking of 'locofocos' and 'loco
focoism,' as if insulting phrases answered the
puiposes of argument, and were all powerful
in carrying elections. But as results are fast
proving the contrary, and as what is termed
'locofocoism' seems to be triumphing every
where, it is respectfully submitted whether the
time is not come for giving up this silly mode
of electioneeriug. The calling of names is
always in batl taste, aud never answers any
good purpose that we know of. Besides,
whiggery, as it is lermed, pays an ill compli
ment to itself, when thus compelled by the
publication of election returns, to confess
that it is beaten by that which it endeavors to
stigmatise as something altogether unworthy
as mere "locofocoism."
We care nothing about names ourselves.
We are content that while we carry demo-
The coon organ at Daytou spake thus on
the subject, immediately upon the breaking
up of the "council:"
"Let our fiiends in other slates be prepared
to hear tho voice of an earthquake, when next
the people of Ohio speak their opinions
through the ballot boxes! Let the corrunt.
the forsworn, perfidious, mocking imae of
executive rule, at Washington, and the vul
turcs who are dividing with him the spoils of
their country's rum, tremble when its thunders
beg into break over the crests of the Allegha
nics! Their doom is fixed; a better day
dawns upon the republic ; light from a new
tiuarter. from the free West, is burstiug ath
wart the political horizon, and millions of pa
triotic hearts will soon bo leaping at the glad
tokens of the redemption which is at hand." J cratic men and democratic measures, our op-
OHIO. The Globe of the 24th iust., says
that the Cincinnati Enquirer of 19th. gives
the returns from every county in the State,
and shews a majority of 4,012 votes for
Shannon, the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor. This election in Ohio may be called "the
most unkindest cut of all." To think that
after all the pomp and parade, and barbecues,
and speeches, and devices aud emblems the
presence of the great "Harry of the West,"
aud other great men, not forgetting the
beautiful picture of the President selling his
soul to the Devil to think that after all this,
the "Coons should be beaten, is indeed enough
to lay whiggery up with the consumption for
tho next twelve years.
NEW JERSEY". The Democratic ma
jority on popular vote in this Slate is 2,743,
according to a calculation wc find in the
Globe. What were the "Coons bragging
about? Because they have S majority in the
Legislature."
GEORGIA. The returns from this State
1 1 , t Ia A ...it..,.
come in so slow mat we aoiri care io uuucu
it any further till we get the result.
The election -in New York will take place
ou the Sth November. W e make no prom is
. -r"v "il t ?.
es as to what tne Uemocrats win ao. ime
will shew.
the bounds of propriety, as to " say some pret
ty hard things " of their pofitical opponents.
In the first place it is morally wrong ; and in
the second place, it often leads to embarrass
ment, and gives our opponents rich jokes to
crack at our expense ; as in the present case,
between the Globe and Mr Calhoun. It is
one of the worst things a political editor can
do; for in the course of time and change, we
know not what may turn vp. If we differ to
day, we may agree to-morrow. Then if we
have called no hard names, how easy the re
union. Then, instead of shying off from each
other it would bo a pleasure to embrace
But such is the error of partizanism. Not
an editor but what has fallen into this error
oiu auu young wuig ana uemocrat. ind a
grievous error it is. But let it be no more.
Let us live like brothers ; and when one dif
fers from another, point out his errors and
convince him by arguments ; and do not, by
saying "some pretty hard thing?" about him,
drive him still farther off from Us, and thus,
perhaps, forever close the door to re-union
with us. " Them's my sentiments," Messrs.
Editors.
The Sheriff of Bucks county, Pa., adver
tises for sale, the beautiful lesidence of Nicho
las Riddle, known as Andalusia. It is situa
ted on the Delaware about twelve miles above
Philadelphia. Bait. Sun.
" Sic transit gloria mundi."
Sure enough, thus passeth tho pomp aud
glory ot this wot Id. " But yesterday," as
Shakspeare says " the word of Biddlelmight
have stood against the world now " he is in
the Sheriff's hands !
Nicholas Biddle, once President of the
Bank of the United States, who has brought
ruin and suffering upon thousands, must now
in turn, be brought to the rack. He that has
luxuriated in millions, and dispensed millions
to his relations and fiiends, has now to have
the house sold from over his head. He who
told the people that Gen. Jackson would come
to the Penitentiary for vetoing the Bank, has
but narrowly escaped that place himself.
Such is the fate which will, sooner or later,
overtake the coriupt and the unjust.
X5" 100 guns were fired iu New York city
in honor4of the recent democratic victories in
the several States;
to think. He thinks that as there are many
new and young members elected, the proba
bility is, that some" new and original plan will
be matured for the restoration ot the currency.
He hopes something new will be tried.
Now does not every one recollect how the
whigs railed at the democrats for "experi
menting" and 14 tinkering " with the currencv
when the Sub-treasury av was passed ? We
do ; and no doubt this tame Editor done his
share of the crying.
Congressional Globeaud. Appendix.
We publish to-day the Prospectus of this
work. It has no doubt been as profitable to
the publishers as it has been and will be use
ful to the purchasers. The demand for the
work has been great, and is increasing. No
politician shoul.t be without it, and none will
be, when its value comes to be fully known.
We shall take pletsure in ordering copies
for those who may Wish the work.
C a LOMEL.T The following extract is from
the lectures of N. Chapman M.
orot the Institutes and Practice of Medicine
in the University df Pennsylvania, located in.
Philadelphia. - He thus discoursed! on the
use of calomel:; . , . T
"Gentlemen: If you could only see what I
almost daily see in my private practice m this
city, persons from the South in the very last
stages of wretched existence, emaciated to a
skeleton ; with both tables of the skull almost
completely perforated in many places; the
nose half gone, with rotten jaws, ulcerated
throats, breaths more pestiferous, more intol
erable than poisonous upas, limns craencu
with the pains of the inquisition, iniuds as im
becile as the puling babe, a grievous burden
to themselves and disgusting spectacle io
others, you would exclaim, as I have often
done, 'O! the lamentable want of science that
dictates the abuse of that noxious drug, calo
mel, in the Southern States!' Gentlemen, it
is a disgraceful reproach to the profession of
medicine ; it is quackery, horrid, unwarran
ted, murderous quackery. What 'merit do
gentlemen of the South flatter themselves they
possess, by being able to salivate a patient?
Cannot the veriest fool in Christendom sali-te--lontlli.But
I will ask another
of mercury , al vilty after it has taken the
reins in its own destt uctive and ungoverna
ble hands? lie who, for an ordinary causo,
resigns the fate of his patienito mercury, is
a vile enemy to the sick; and if he is tolera
bly popular, will, in one successful season,
have paved the way for the business f life;
for he has enough to do ever after wards to
stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions
of his (dilapidated patients. He has thrown
himself in fearful proximity to death, and has
now to fight him at arm's length as long as
the patient maintains a miserable existence'
Transplanting. Tho fall is decidedly
the best season for transplantiug all kitids of
hardy trees, though this is contrary to the gen
eral opiuiou throughout the country. Many
say they have never succeeded so well in the '
fall as in Ihc spring. Tho reason of this is
that their fall planting has not been performed
in due season. If trees are carelully planted
and secured from being blown about by tho
winds, any time in the latter half of the mouth
of October, or the first week in November,
they will gaiu nearly a year's growth over
With resard to the nomination of Mr White, those planted the following spriug. Besides,
a , ., -- i .
the spriug is always a busy season with tho
farmer, and the planting of trees, shrubs, &c,
if deferred till then, is loo frequently forgot
ten eutirely.
Persons who intend planting orchards or
making improvements around their dwelliugs
by - plautiur ornamental forest trees and
shrubs. &c. should avail themselves of. tho
the above with the remark, "Wre know noth- Verv earliest period of the present month suiti-
iug oi :ur unite, auu never nearu oi nun. kic ror doino' so
therefore we may not be considered as endors- Manv persons possessing a heavy clay
ing the nomination." For the information of " h.w horam nuim discouraged from
- 0
several have
them to plant
that he is an unflinchinir democrat and an iu- m0i.M thv will not live; The difHcoltv is.
rr j rf ,
made in our paper f last week, by "one of
the People." wo deem it just to insert the fol
lowing from the Staujljrd.
The Standard after copying the communi
cation remarks :
i
'The editor of the North Carolinian inserts
.....iiii.un, a. "i luiuiuiuiiuu vm son, nave Dccome quite uiscu
our friend of the Carolinian aud others, we their trees dying year after year,
say that we kuow Mr White very well, and told me that it is no use for th
telligent and honest man ; and moreover, we
believe he is au excellent accountant and a
man of business qualifications."
3r There is to be a great barbecue at
Frankfort, the Capitol of Kentucky, on (his
defy. They go on the same scale they did at
Dayton, invite every body. MrClay is to be hoed as a flower border, during the first year
nominated for Prsidfint. Wonder if thftv at least alter planting. Let those who have u
Iiva hp-i rH trnrrri I Ihin 1 .J J 'I J
I1U w wvv V Ht IIS i I f
wia oe successiui- Kxenisee r ai mer.
they have taken no more care in planting
than is tequisite in the finest sanuy loam. -
In ' stiff adhesive sous, the subsoil should
be dug on at least one foot deep aud two feet
farther in circumference than the roots of tho
tree require, and good triable surface soil filled
in : and the surface should be kept as welt
VERMONT The official vote for Gov
ernor in this State, has been published by the
Legislature, aud the majority for the 'Coons
is only 909. Harrison's majority in 1840,
in this State, was over 14,000 !
ARKANSAS. The election ia this State
came off on the 3d inst. We get a slight
rumor of the success of fhc democratic ticket.
According to the " letlei from John Barney
of Baltimore," Mr Clay refused lo enter the
"line of safe precedents," by taking office
under Gen. Harrison. Wheu he took the
office of Secretary of State, under John Quin
cy Adams, he thought he was gelling into the
" line of safe precedents " for the Presidency,
but he soon found the mistake. -
We always said so.
The whole democratic press has often told
the public that Mr Clay was the prime mover
in, and piincipal counseller of, the Harrison
administration ; and that Mr Clay had much
to do with the selection of Geii'l Harrisou's
Cabinet. The recent speech of Mr Webster
having affronted the 'Coons, they are now let
ting the cat out of ihe bag. Mr Webster, il
seems, made a flourish about Gen. Harrison's
inviting him to take choice of the seats iu his
Cabinet. This was such a fine opportunity
to give Mr Webster a cut, that they could not
let it slip ; consequently we have, in the Ob
server, a correspondent of the Richmond
Whig, saying :
"I am of opinion, and perhaps it is sus
ceptible of proof, that General Harrison was
indisposed to allow Mr Webster a seat in the
Cabinet at all, and would not have written
him a line ou the subject, if Mr Clay, whose
advice the noble and brave old man took, had
uof urged it upon him."
Here is proof of all we have said.
ANOMALY. The Observer says that
the democratic candidate for Governor of
Ohio, was elected " by less than a majority
of the votes." We should like to see the Ob
server prove it. Now, the 'Coon candidate
was elected by less than a majority, but he
was elected to slay at home.
Querc. If Shannon, w ho obtained 4,012
votes more than Corwiu, did not receive a
majority, how will tho Observer make it out
that Shannon was elected ? - He may take
either horn of the dilemma; but most of people
will perceive that he is wilfully guilty of the
sin which he very often charges upon us ; we
mean the sin of telling "falsehoods."
A Louisiana paper mentions the receipt of I
a South American plant which bears potatoes
above ground, iust the same as grapes, and
as profuse.
There was a tremendous fire in Liverpool,
fc.n'Mand, on the 14th ult. A area', amount
of American produce consumed.
Mr Webb, who fought the duel with Hon.
T. F. Marshall, has been released, on account
of a flaw in the indictment.
A statement of the offices the salaries of whicft
xcere increasedy xvith the amount of suck
increase, during the last session of Congress.
By the act legalizing and making appropria
tions for such necessary objects as have
usually been included in the general ap
propriation bills, -c.
An assistant librarian, salary increased by
law from $800 to: 81,150.
Messenger in the library of Congress, com
pensation increased by law from $300 to
The Portsmouth (N. IL) Journal talks of QllG clerk hl the office of lho Secretary of tho
a mercnani wno received a cargo ot iron, just JNavy, salary increased from $800 to
after the Tariffbill passed. The amount of $1,000.
the invoice, in round numbers, was $16,000, EI the l regulate the pay of pursers and
aud the duty when the iron was purchased. . oiner oncers oj tne navy.
would have been about sfU.Ofin, but tho. new 1'ursers, insteau oi &4u per annum and two
The Tariff.
Tariff raised it to $14,000, nearly as much as
the iron cost !
C5 Wm. Upham ('Coon) has been elected
U. S. Senator from Vermont.
Our Credit Abroad. The failure of the
agents of our national government to nego
tiate a loan in Europe, of which intelligence
was received by the late arrivals, is consider
ed by some of our coternporaries as an unfor
tunate circumstance. We cannot so view it.
It will create a uecessity for that retrench
ment and economy which ought to have been
adopted voluntarily before the law for the loan
was passed.
Some consider it both desirable and a proof
of prosperity, to have the credit of the gov
ernment stand hhih We do not consider it
rations per day, to receive the following
salaries, (in lieu of commissions ou
sales,) and one ration per day, when at
tached to vessels for sea service, and ten
cents per mile for travelling expenses when
under orders :
For ships of tho line $3,500
For frigates of razees
For sloops of wnrand steamers of "the
first class
For bri-is and schooners less than
second class
On duty at Boston, N. York, Nor
folk, and Pensacola
On duty al Portsmouth, Philadelphia,
and Washington
At naval stations in the Unite i Slates
Iu receiving ships at Boston, N. York,
and Norfolk
3,000
2,000
1,500
2,500
2,000
1,500
so, in all cases, either with nations or wi
2,500
1,500
(Xj- The coons are dreadfully at a loss how
to account for the defeat of their principles in
Ohio. They cannot agree as to the cause.
W7ill our friend of the Baltimore Sun be
kind enough to send U3 a copy of the Report
on Penitentiaries, which he noticed a few days
ago ? We should be happy to reciprocate the
favor.
, At other places
individuals. Many a man's credit has stood v" w l same pay as
nuc.ii au ca SLcaLO wi uuiicilsj iuoui i wu. v i
' I lnnfwn l na minnora p!irrkAn(ftM l :i
than when ho possessed a moderate fortuue. . fa----- " Ul,u
TVIT Shtfi, Hnk ha.i a hi.rVmr crpdit abroad rnaKersoi snips ol tho line, instead of
when it was on the verae of bankruptcy, than w receive $sOU per ao-
c ... c.M mm,., he sa,ne warrant officers of fr urates, and
tannic;. uuuic uuiiuua auu ua v u.v. i . . , . cj t
credit when overwhelmed with debt, than when oXh.er PS lh ,hlC' t0 rc"
per uunum, instead of S500
A tf 1 df
n u rA cr nrn.Ufnrinno ,uu ?ouu per aunum.
With individuals, corporations and states. It TV 'V "-irani o;nccrs, when on leave or
tempts to extravagance and wastetulness.
The United States Bank, by its schemes to
nuff the credit of the newer States of this
waiting orders,' to receive, instead of 360
per annunf, $500 per annum the first ten
years, and $600 afterwards.
M. ST. CLAIR CLARKE,
Clerk Ho. of Reps. U. S.
Clerk's Office, Ho. of Reps. Aug. 31, 1842.
The whigs have nominated Mr John P.
that the Democrats of New York promise to Robinson, as a candidate for Congress from
bury the animal in a neat and appropriate the Third Congressional district of Massachu-
slv,e setts. This is Mr Cushinff'sdisrriVK
a
Union, and by'its accomnrodations for the
negotiation of their loans, led them to the
condition of practical repudiation in which
wefiudtheni. Pennsylvanian.
Ohio
having killed the coon, we observe