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Advertisements conspicuously iuserted at 62J cents per square, (12 lines, or less,) for the first insertion, and 43J ets. for each continuance. Those published monthly, or quarterly will be charged $1 per square for each insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accordingly. All coinmunications addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be promptly and strictly attended to. From theI New York Ecening Post. LETTER OF J. C- CALHOUN. WAsnIsoNis, June 4th L.4O. Gentlemen: I do assure you that it is with extreme reluctance I feel m;yself constrained to decline the invitation, whiclh von have so kind ly offered and earnestly urged me to accept: to deliver the address to the Deiocrattie citizens of New York on the approaching 4th ofJuly. I am deeply impressed with the import:uce of the question involved in the issue now belbre the country, and have the strongest desire to meet the wishes of yourselves ard those you represent; but such is the extent of my enlgage ments here, that it would be ont of liy power to prepare an address worthy ofyou and the oc casion. without an interference with my otlicial duties to an extent thaft I could nor justify. lie who would estimate the contest which now agitates the Union thronghoiut its vast ex tent, from a mere surface view, without looking to the bottom. would form a most erroneous conception of its true character and the mighty consequences involved. Be assied, we are in the midst of no ordinarv crises. The depth and width ofthecommotion prove thatsome pow erful cause is at worl beneath: and we cannot too early or earnestly inquire what that cause is. To ascertain what it is, we must first have a clear understanding of the circmnstances which constitute the present crisis,-and, for that purpose a retrospect of our past political history is indispensible. It is well known to all, who are conversant with the subject, that there u been from the formation of the constitution two great partie., in our countrv-a national consolidation party, and a state 'ribt republican party-the one leading to the side of power; the other to that of liberty. They even nreceded the existence of the Governmen: itself, In the convention. that formed the constitution. the sirnggle was long and ardons between then-the consoli dation party striving to form ine spiieme Ia tional government. vilh paramoiut control over the states. and tIw other to preservc the federative character of the then existing system, but at the same time to strengthen and peri.ct the Union, as far as consistent with the inde pendence and sovereignty of the statee. For tunately, the latter, after a long contest pre vailed; and the result was our admirable and beautiful federal republican system, unexam pled and unequalled in any age or country. The struggle did not terminate with the coin vention. The two parties survived. The one took the name of Federal. and the other other Republican-the former aiming to accomplish, what it had failed to do i the convention. by the enlargement ofthe rrants of power, through a liberal and broad constructionm and the other to carry otit the "omstitution, in its true mueaaz ing and spirit, as intended by its framners, by ie stricting the government within the limits as signed to it. Each party had its leaider in the first cabinet fornned by Gen. Washington-the Federal in Gen. Haitilton, the Sec-retaury 01 the Treasury, and the Rtepublicaii in hr..tirson. the Secretary of State; both able, acconuplish ed, patriotic. atnd admirably united by nature, education, and position in the cabinet. for lead ing the parties, of which they were the ac knowledged chiefs. The zsoliecy of Hlamibon prevailed; andI the -fundintr syst. the uiniform if the rovern Imenit aind the banks, the creatiotn of a natiomnal bank. the protective policy, and the miilimnted applica tion of the nioney power to objects not cembra ced by the constitution. followed. The gov. ernmemnt thus received its1 first and powe-rful impulse in a direction t,nstuitedl to itsaenins and from whiich, it has never yet fully reenivered. The first re-tction to this almost irristile im. petus was in the election of Sir. Jeflerson, twelve years after the adoption ef the constitmn tion; but wvithi such force had the machine been impelled in the wrong directionaiid so adverse was the period. fronm the then bellirerenit con dition of the world, that wvithi all his expeience. ability and honest zeal, he could do bitt little to bring back the government, and give it a fresh start in the directioni whlich its frameurs intended. The funded debt wats indeed greatly reduced, thne money power restricted to the cotistitution al objects, retrenichmtent anid economy enfoirced,. but the powerfid ligatures, which bound thet go vernmtenlt to the pap'er system. could lie neither broke nor serve ' L'nder his virtuitns, b~ut energetic and oru.adox succe-sor, the times lie eane more unpropit ionis. The Cigati c strug! gle, which had so long agitated F~ieriipe pa:ssed the Atlantic and reached onr shores. lThe heavy expense and financial emnburrassnments, which followed. bmountd the goverimnent with cords more powerful thtan ever, to the paper~ system, and restored the policy of hlamilton in its full extent. and to mtore thani its purimuative~ vigor. After the -:ermination of the war, it wvas carried out in hold relief tio thme misea'l'i Ante rican systmn 'till it was finially consumnated in the Tariff of J838. In its train followed, as they ever will, dis cord, distraction, profnssion. c.tvaganice and corruption. wvhichi ha~ve done munch to saip the have utterly subverted them, if the cause, for. tumately for the country, had not been arrested. A reaction has n'it only commenced, but made great progress towards freeing the coun try from the last remnants of a policy, so dan gerous and pernicious. How or by whon so happy a change has been brought about it is not material to state. It is sufficient to say, that the government is already free from a fun. ded debt. and a national bank, with a fair pros. pect in a short time, to be liberated from all connectimni with the banks and the protective tariff. With them must fall the whole paper and misnamned Americai system and their le gitimate ofl'sprin gs, surplus revenue, ! roftision, extravagance. corruption, d,-rangemnnt of the currency and the business or the country, which h'as brought us to our present conditioni. Yes; I asstert with confidence. that a few years of exertion snd perseverance in the same lirec tion wiil complete thnn reaction and maerthrow the whole system of po:icy, originating in the federal consolidation school of politics, when the government miay take a fresh departure. at ter more than La!f a century. in the direction which Jetifersont and ii., a.,.,oiutes would give it, if tney were alive and at the helm. It is thiis remarkable combination of circun. stauces, that constitute the existing crisis; and imparts to it, that deep importance, which cau ses the agitation tnow flit throughout th-e wide limits of this Union. The issue is made up, and is belbne the peopkl. for trial. The question is, shall the reaction be completed and the con solidation federal sys:em of politics be over thrown. and tie opposite substituted for the fu ture? In a word, which shall prevail. the school of JetTerson -r flamni!ton? Shall we alter the great progeas made and with the sad lesson of experinco before us. tuits back to the llamil toun poilicy, reunite the government with the bannk'a, create a new ntatonal bank, build up another funding svtem. re-elant a protective tarilT, restore the misnamed American systett, with all its corrmnting and dang-rous conse (lnences; or sball we', almonished by the past. adopt the opposite systein of policy, restrict tihe government rigidly to the few great objects assigned to it: defeince against dangrer from a broad: presevatie ofpeace and tranquility at home. and a free amnd open commercial inter course, within tnd without? Such is the real question at issue stripped of the thousand mi. nor and collnteral ones, which are mere appen. dages, and serve to infltence the lighter mate rials revolving around the two parties. The ereat masses are ralied on tie one or time other side; ott that ounr opponents. to arrest the further progess of the reaction, and return to the old, ant. I Irust, for ever expsloded system: we, to !omplete the reaction and take a fresh departure. n the direction laid down in the State Rights lepbtilican Chart of '93 as prodected hv Mr. leflferson and his compeers. in the deci?;sion ifihis all itportanit reite-stion wil! depend, as I ielieve. the ittire destiny of the comntry. If he side ofonr opponents shiould in the end irevail. our free and g!orions institutions will ont long survive. A ranlicatl chance will fol low in the character and habits af the people, which must subvert mir tmstitutions. and with them the Union itself; but if fortunately, that 'or which we contettd shall triumpln. genera tions yet ninhorn. with the blessings of'Provi r-nce, may live and flotnrish, an&d glory in our free and happoy system ofgovernmttent. Thus regarded. never has there been a more important crisis since the adotition or the Con sittition. The issue involved is onme which mnay well call for the energy and efforts of free mectn. The final decission cantiot long be post poned. Now is the time for action. A few vears must decide for or against is. Govern imeitcatnot stand still. It mnnst advance or recede; but when its direction is once taken, if it should be in a wrionng directiotn-anainst th cnnrse for which we cont-nd, it will he bevond t nman powor to restore it short of revimmiion. Let me in conclusion. gentlemen. tender yon my heartfelt thanks for the hiah estimate yon have placed on my past labors. For sixteen vears my effTrts hmve be mi incess, fitly directed to countteract the poliey of that zehool of ptli. tic- to which i samnl opposed. and advance that on whicb I soletnly believe tie salvation of mr inistitutions depends: often under disconr liinr eircnmtstances-often left with a snall.hnt zallant hand: *yet never diepairing. The emd ror which I have lalbored throngh a period so loin! and eventfmd. is with vonr hearty co-opera. tion not for distant. I see it approach with oy-Once reached and the government fairly placed int its nroper directint all I have ever tinted at. wviii have bretn a--cmplished Be c'ound:. I desire nothling tmore' hut retire and bnecomo one or thie neor~te. With great respect. T am &c. J. C. CA LHOUN, Tou Messrse. CnlAnt.F.s P. DAL.. and others. MR VAN BURFNS LETTER. WVe punblish io-dnay tine letter of the President in reply to an invitation given himn to bie prescmnt at a pubilic meetinmg and stmerninment which wcas hueldi at the WVhite Suh~lhnr Sprines, on time il thn ofthis nmonthl, iv time Demnocraticecitizenis of the counties if I nyette. WVnoldormd. anid Scott, in Kemn mueky. It shnhil lbe rend nnmt cnitranstedl wvimh tine sicklv ntnd unnmanmly letters of the tlpposition etnnidaltte for' tine Prm'si-lenmry. WastnIsO-rO,,iny 4. 1810. Gentlemen :-l hatve hadnm thle honor Io receiv'e thne itnvitatin which you have beer, pleased no cive me in behalf of the Demo ernmtie citizens of tihe cottnties of Fayette, WVood ford. andl Scott. to be presemnt as a tuiest at a pubilic meeting and entertain -nent to Ine held by thnem at tine White Sunltihur Spritnes, in Scott county, Ken enkv', on time 11I th inls!. Trmly ertntefmnl for thmis mnark or their re :pen't and kindniess, I can bunt regret thmat ny pubilic ditties will nt pertmit tme to ~xpress my gratefulness face' to fnee. Thant I ha~ve bemen so fortunate as to teinre "the Prmire notprmobation of the D)emocranc'y nil Kenitnekv." that they look po inte na "trune to tine Conetituntioni of' hem (Iiutemd Sntatm's." "thle representatlive imd ad conte mif itheir' pritnciples in ine E - -untive departnimnt" of nmnr Gmovernnmnt, iinnot hna tttfford'm nm poenlinr ei-tisfaiction. i'nmning, as it mimew. fn'mt a highity respec role pnortiomn oh' the atncienit anmd timle oored patnriots oif thart nimble State, and 'rota the sonis of thnose who. imn thneir' day, wvere tihe pillars oh' tine Repubhlic. iistory, re'ntemteni, mu ist be false to her ditty wvhent by Kentucky that the first effiectual blow 1 was struck at the dangerous principles in- i iroduced into the administration or our i Government soon after the adoption of the 1 Constitution-principles %% hich had already led to acts of fearful usurpation, and threa tened speedily to destroy ts well the rights of the States as the liberties of the people. It was the Kentucky Resolutious, backed by those of her patriotic parent State, i which changed the current of public opin ion and brought back the administration of the G,.vertnment to the principies or the Revolution. For forty years the Democra cy of the lJuion have looked upon those resolutions as the creed of their political faith; political degeneracy has been mark ed by deparuire from that standard: and like the original language of the Biule in matters of religion, they are the text book of every reformer. Nothing could more effeciually prove the purity of the principles they announced than the progress they have since made in the minds of men. While even the name of the proud and powerful party which opposed them, has come to be considered a term ofreproach* if not of ignominy and insult, the principles ofihe Kentucky reso lutions, in prufession iK not in inet, now enter into the creed of every political sect, and the once derided name borne by their apostles and advocates, is considered an essential passport to popularit v and sue cess. Nay, more the people almost with one voice have recently recognized and consecrated the principles of those resolu tions by an act asimpressive and emphatic as it is possible for a nation to perlhrnt. Since your letter has been lying before ue waiting fora reply, it has become my agreeable duty to confirm the fiat of the nation settling for ever the onconstittttion ality of the sedition law of 189., by ap proving an act for the relief of the heirs of Mathew Lyon, refunding to them a fine collected of their ancestor tinder the law in question. Party prejudice. judicial au thority, dread of the precedent respect for I that which has assumed the form of law for forty years, have successfully resisted s this act of justice, but at length all are r swept away by diat irresistible current of public opinion, and the sedition act has c been irreversibly decided to be tnuconstitu tional by a tribunal higher than the courts of justice-the sovereign people of the Uni ted States. The patriarchs of Kentucky and Virginia, the mint who in that day. midst obloquy and insult, voted foror sus ained the Kentucky and Virainia resolu- c tions or 179. cannot but rejoice with a joy unspeakable in witnessing the final triumph of the pure principles to which they then announced their allegiauce. They and their descendatms have a right to glory in seeing those principles recognized, even at this late (lay by the acclatnations of a nation, and one of the tyrannical acts against which they protested virtually ex punged from the records of the country. While to aged patriots it is a subject of congratulation andjoy, it teaches the young that ellrts ofreibro ii the Government of their country ought never to be considered t hopeless, as long as there is any thing to improve, arad thtut, ifihe fathers do not en joy the fruits oftheirexertions in the cause C ofDentocraiieprinciples, they are certain to fall in blessings upon the children. C I am most happy to inform you gentle men, that I have this day signted the bill s for the establishment of an independent Treasury, a measure of which you speak in decided commendation. Bythi< ineas ure, the man-igetmne of nt importani bratichi of our national concerns, after a departure of iearly half a century, will lie brought back to the letter, -.s well as the obviomus spirit anl ientmon of the Consti- . ttiiii. The systemt now supiersededt "was in fact, onte tof those' enrlv nmeasures dlevis. ed by the frietnds and advoc-ates of privi-j leged orders for the pturpose of piervertintg the governanent from its pture p~rinciples and legitimate objects, iaunimg all power in the hanids of a few, and enabilinig them toi profit at the expenise of the many. 1 - needl not inform you, getntlemuen, that the, effect oIf dlepositing the putbli(: moutey in hanks, wvas to lend it to those institutions generally without interest, to be used a.s r a pairt of their capital, atnd that they lent it out uipon interest to their customerrs,there by largely increasitne the profims of the stockholders. Thius the few were enabled to enrich themselves by tisitng the tmonevy r which heluingedl to the many. attd the pth- r lic fundls were in fact dlraiwn from the - Treastiry, without an appropriation tn 9 Cottgress, in clear violation of the spitrit t of a cotnstitutional prohihition.n The manner in which this ahtnse crept into the government andl fastenied itself ft tupon the country with the acquiescence a of the whole people, is an impressive les- v son. teaching the necessity uf perpetual si vigilance atad energy in selecting and re sisting the first encroachmtent, however I seemtngly trifling uipon the principles of E (itr govertmnem. Frm the deposite ofl the public money in banks, it did not tne cessarily follow that the banks shtol use it. Its use was nlevei until lately, and I iliet only to a limited extent, directly tau thiorised by an act of the government. 1 Buit ats lie batks were in thec habtit oftising dleposites, thety silently treatedl those f he grovertnent like those of private citi zens, anal the governmten t as silently ac quiesced in the prsactice. As foar many ~ years, the revetnnes of the government were moderate, antldie surlus was want ed to ihay the principal and itnterest of the pubic debt. the amount Ioauned out by the 0 banks was comnparatively small, anid the profits of the stockholders less considera ble. But in thn nrogress of the overn. nent its revenues increased, and the a nount unexpended became greater, until L amounted to five. ten, and after the ex inguishment of the public debt, to nearly hirty millions. The disastrous ef'ects now jecme apparent. An extensive interest iad now sprung up, deriving wealth from le use of the people's money, and having )owerful inducements so to act upon the ;overnment as to increase the source of heir income. Their influence was firit firectly felt in interferences to prevent the ayment of the public debt; then inl efforts, brough the use of the public press, and in ltiempts -o secure the influence of leading >oli:icians and of men in authority, to pro :ure a prolougation of their chartered privi eges; and finally, in panic and pressure allicted on the country with the hope of !ontrolling the action of the government brough the alarms and the sufferings of he people. By shifling the dleposites from mue great institution to many smaller ones, he unity of this interest was destroyed, aut not itq- power. Though enfeebled, it till existed inl a force which the holdest night fear, and has made itself felt in the ontest of the last few years. But the in elligence and virtue of our people have riumiplied over art, panic and pressure, mid the act of deliverance is this day con timmated. It is hope that the business of the coun ry will no louger be disturbed by the strug les of the banking interest to get posses ion of the money of the people. that they tny make a profit out of its use, bit that hey will settle down contented with the rse of that which legitimately belongs to tem, leaving the fund of the government : be kept and expended according to the tter and spirit of the Constitution. But bIould it be otherwise; the intellicence and rinuess of our people are equal to any e iergency. They now understand the rhole subject. They see no reason why lie stockholders and debtors of banks hould have an exclusive privilege to make lemselves rich out of the use of the pub ic money. They see no reason why they hould be taxed to raise money for such a Uirpose. They see that its effect is to uild tip a rich privileged order at their xpense to control the government and estroy all equality among the people. iceintg all this, and that the plan for which iat iterest has so long struggled to the erangement of the businessof therountry, in palpable vlolatimn of the spirit of the onstitution, their firmness will be equal to very effort necessary to prevent its re-es iblithtent. In the progress of our Government the lost aratifying evidences have been fur ished, that our people are, in intelligence, itegrity and determined resolution, eqtal ) the task of self-government. In that diminisiration, which has been appropri tely named "the reign of terror," so ap ropriately that men of all parties now re udiate its acts, and are prompt to redress s far as they can, the wrongs it inflicted, ie force of statute law and the arm ofJu iciary were called to aid the influence of he Executive and the ad vocates of a strong lovernment. in putting down the rising pirit of the people, and controlling the urrent of public opinion; but all these ambined powers were exerted in vain. 'he Sampson of Democracy hurst the hords which were already bound around :s limbs, and in the election of M r. Jeffer rn, vindicated its principles, its firmness, id its power. A web more artfully cotl rived, composed of a high protective tariff, system of internal improvements. and a bational Bank, was then twined around lie sleeping giant in the vain hope of sub !ting him forever to the dominion and :ill of tle ambitious and grasping few -d ou have seen how he has scattered be whole to thtewindls whent roused by the -arniing voice of the honest andl intrepid acksn. A caini, in the trium ph of the in-. epetndent Treasury, we witness the tri mphji of the popular intelligence and firm ess over the arts, arguments, appliancees, nd1 alarms, of the interested few wvho de ire to enaricha temiselves by the use of the utblic motney-another and a most grati fing evidence, that the people, when a asedl, ne cottpetent to mnaintaitn anyjust rmnciple, and' correct atny abuse, however mnctioneda by precedent, or sustained in realth. On these evidences of popular intelli ence atnd firminess, the Repubtlicani patriot ists with well grounded faith, that all anats which may be used to mislead or itimtidiate the people, nowv or hereafter, I sto a surrender of their Constitution and! seir~ liberties, will,as they ever have done, seel with a signal and withering rebuke. I am, gentlemen, with thanks tihr the iendlly spirit in which you have individu Iy performed the duty assigned to you, mry respect fully, your friend and ohedhient a 'rvant, M. VAN BUREN. Ta) Messrs. John M. M'Cala, T. M.e [ackey, B. Taylor, and G, WV. Johnson, a sqs., Committee.] The late Mr. Morrison, "the Hygeist," I 'ok fifty of his owvn Pills ont the day of hist eathm, and refused to see a physician, al- < gitng that if the pills did not cure him lathing else woali. Capital Puinishmnt.-T lie Legislature r Connecticut has passed an act abolish ig capitatl punishment, and substitutiag nprisonenit for life.t Respect without malice, but never wvith, Lit need. We mtust not pretend to see all that we m., if we would be asy, From the Nee York Eemaing Post. Mr. Clay has been demonstrating to the satisfaction ofsome hundred whigs, assem tiled at a public dinner at Taylorsville in Virginia, that the nation is ruined past all remedy, by the mismanagement of the party which at present has the majority. The whig journals are publishing his speech for the edification of their readers. The condition of human life is so com pounded of good and evil, that there is no difficulty in proving, at almost any mo ment, by the help of a little dexterity in amplification, that the times are wofully out ofjoint, and that the world has gone to ruin. We known a prosperous farmer on the banks of the Hudson, in every other respect a good sort of man, who is perpetu ally quarrelling with the weather. It al ways is either too cold or too hot, too wet or too dry, and he is never without some ingenious argument to prove that he is ruinedl by the caprice and perversity of the weather, though. somehow, when the year comes round, his granaries are always full. It is his habit to complain, and long practice has given him surprising dexteri ty and fluency in usiag the topics of com plaint, Mr. Clay, also, has served a tolera ble appreutiship at the same trade. He began more than twelve years ago, when he denounced upon the country, in case Gen. Jackson should he made president, a fute more terrible than to he scourged by plagues of war, pestilence and famine; and since that time has done little esle ihan labor to demonstrate that the poeple of the United States, by ejecting him sd rriends from office, have taken a plunge into the gtlf of perdition. Ve find quoted in the Hartford Times. which comes to hand this morning, an ex tract from a speech made by Mr. Clay in in 1834, during the artificial panic of that year, in which he says: "Cast your eyes about you, Mr. Chair man-nothing meets the view but ruin, universal, wide spread ruin and distress." Such was our situation -in 1834-the universal ruin was so palpable that Mr. Chairman had only to use his eyes to be convinced of it. Since that time we have been ruined haifa dozen times: ruined by thespecie circular;-ruined by a refusal to recieve the notes of the broken banks tor the public dues;-ruined by the neglect of M5r. Van Buren to consult Mr. Biddle and adopt his project for healing the em barrassuent of our money market in twen ty itr hours. Our readers probably haye not forgotten the famnous attack made by the New York American, on the President, for the ofibnee of allowing Mr. Biddle, when rhat personage called upon him with a heart overflowing with benevolence to wards the community, to depart without taking his inestimable advice upon the dis orders of the currencv. If you will take the word of a man who is turned out ofollice, his successor never manages well. The world has never gone right with Mr. Clay, the affairs of the na lion have never been administered to his liking, since the 4th of March, I28, when he and his friend Adams were removed from office by the majority of the people of the United States. Before that time, iuring four years, least, the affairs of the nation were admirable conducted. Mr. Mlay's is a common case. "Ask metn's opinions-Scoto now shall tell How trade increases, and the world goeswell; Strike off'his pension, by the setting sun, And Britain, if not Europe, is undone." It is very true that comtnerse has siffer ed a severe cheek in this country. It is true, aleo. that the same effect 1-as been produced in other countries by similar ,anses-overtrading and excessive enter rise In England and in France at this inOment, commercial embarrassments pre vail to a great extent, atnd even if the ex. ravagant credits and mad speculations of 1836 had never occurred in this country, t would still be impossible that a stagna ion im those great centres of European :ummerce should not occasion a lanigour tad an inactivity here. This is understood iv every person who tunderstands any hing ofthe course of trade. There is not a sensible tan in the com. nunity who does ntot know that to charge be embarrassmnents of our trade upon thte iddministration is the shallowest prat tle that 'ver was ut tered. E ven Mr. C. while ef etinig to deplore the distresse-s of the cotun ry, anmd arraigning the democratic ad minis ration as the cauts--,des not attempt to show n wh~at mauner the conduct of the adminis ration flas produced them-He under tands very wvell that it is impossible to avent evetn a tolerably plausible theory a support of his charges. From the Baltimore Sunt. INDI REcT FAIsE HooD.-The open and lirect violater of the truth, like the high vayman, may lay claim to a certain sort if courage, They run similar risks, the tie of detection, the other of being shot. 3ut some there are, who will steal secret y, and others who will falsify the truth ty indirectior.; these are on a par, both oc upying the same low and degraded level f cowardice. He who insintnates a false toed, whether by word or gesture, either ypoihesis or intterrogatory, proves at once is dlastardly disposition, and his disre ard of truth. Such persons too, are uni ormly malicints; they desire to do injury, o gratify jealousy, revenge, or some oilher iase passioni; and white impelled by their vicked propenlsities to (do the bidding of ho Satan within thetm, they are destitute >f the courage to do it openly, and thus heir cowardice drives them to indirection. rhe indirect lie is a frequent weapon in he hand of the slanderer, and is generally bund in such ccnncxion with infamous inuedoes, as to leave room for such infer. ences in regard to its object, as, if true, would shew that object to be unworthy of esteem. Sometimes, indeed, those who resort to this assassin-like mode of destroy. ing the good name of others, make a show of courage, by pretty broadly insinuating that which the public know to be untrue the falsity of which, they themselves are aware, is well known to the public: but wanting a hook on which to hang some diabolical inuedo, they will then put o an appearance of boldness, and approach as near as possible to the perpetration of the lie direct. True, in such cases they rail to effect their purposes. The publio cannot be made to disbelieve the evidence of their own senses; what they have seen with their own eyes, and heard with their own ears. is laid'up in the storehouse of the own knowledge, and we apprehend it would be a difficult task to drag it thence. Facts known to the public impress convic tion that cannot be shaken by falsehood, whether uttered directly or by insinuation, nor by any inuendoes of evil import, at wvar with established reputation. Such devilish exhibitions of malice, defeat their ends, and in most, if not in all cases, the shaft recoils upon the archer. THE STANDINo ARMT OF Joutr AD. AMs.-General William Henry Harrison,. the hero candidate of the hard cider party. for President, on the 7th of January, 1800, made a speech in Congress against the re dtction of John Adam's Standing Army, upon a resolution introduced for that pur pose, in which he used the following Ian gtiage: "lHe had experienced seven years' ser vire with the militia, but was sorry to say, such was their conduct, that be never could think of trusting the country entirely to their protection. They might do well with regular troops, and no doubt would. Un tier these impressions, and from this expe rience, he knew he spoke the will of a great proportion of his constituents; lie sin cerely hoped the resolution would not pass." Gen. Harrison, as well as the party with which he has acted from youth to the present day. has always distrusted the people. He doubts their capacity to gov ern themselves-he says emphatically in the above, that he could not "trust the country to their protection," in other vords, he could not trust them with the duty of protecting themselves! He voted to sell them in Ohio as slaves. He ap proved an act while Governor of Indiana, when his word alone was law, so far as his veto was concerned, to whip as well as sell them. He supported John Adam's Standing Army, because the people he considered unfit to defend themselves! For this devotion to the doctrine of feder alism, a few months afterwards, lie was rewarded by Mr. Adams. On the 12th of May he was appointed Governor of In diana, or in the words of Duane's Aurora, "Sancho received the government of Bar atartas for his service to the mad knights of his master." OFFICE HOLDERS. Democrats Look Here!-The officers employed in ALL the Departments at Washington city, are politically divided as follows: Federal whigs, - - - 196 Democrats, - - - - 178 Federal whig majority, 18 The amount of salaries paid them is as follows, to wit: To 196 Federal whigs, - $269,095 To 178 Democrats, - 236,149 E xcess paid Federalists, - 829,625 Whose hands are deepest in the public .rib, even at the very seat of Government? Who s'cure most of the 'spoils of victory?' Which party is composed of 'office hold ers?' Here are the men who war against the Ad ministration which feeds and clothes themselves and families. Now, if any wig' ollce-holder-hater should read this article, tall him to pocket the paper, lost is neighbor may see it. HARRIsoN FiAG,-'Mother,' said a ass just entering upon her teents the other lay, 'Mother. I want a newv Harrison 'What on earth do you mean, my child.' saidl the good old woman, 'are you crazy!' 'Oh no; but my old one is worn out, and I must have a new one.' 'But what do you mean by a Harrison Flag? explain yourself.' 'Well, if you'll buy me four yards of limity, I will make one, and then you can ee what it is.' The dimity was purchased; and now the prightly lass, as she sports the rope, oc asionally exposes the lower folds of her new Harrison Flag!' The following from a London Journal nust be of interest to the single ladies and ;entlemen:-'If a gentleman wants a wife, e wears a ring on the first finger of the left and; iIfhe be engaged, he wears it on the econd finger; if married, on the third; and u the fourth, if he never intends to gee narried. When a lady is not engaged. he wears a hoop or diamond on the fin ;or, if engaged on the second, if married, >n the third; and on the fourth, if as in ends to be a maid When a gentleinen iresents a fan, a flower or trickets to a ady with the left hand it is considered as n acceptance of his esteem: but if receiv vith the right hand, it is a refusal of the fer. Thus, by a few simple tokens, ex lained by rule, the passion of !ovd ia ex wmesed.'