terms of the watchman two dollars in advance.and two dollars and fifty cents t the end of the year mo subscription received for a less time than one ear unless paid for in advance no subscription discontinued but at the option 01 we editors until all arrearages are paid terms of advertising i .„.„,„ one dollar per square for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each continuance . _. 0 __,_ court notices and court orders will be charged 2o per cent higher than the above rates a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent will be made to those wh advertise by theyw . , -. , . ., , all ajvcrtis-me-i-s will be continued until forbid and . ir •'•-■ d for accordingly unless ordered for a certain num . r of times 0 letters a idressed to the editors must come post ensure attention itf/l km winst fashions for ism at the old tailoring establishment horace h beard has just received of mr f maiian the london i'aris and philadelphia fashion , lor tlie spring *. summer of 1844 which far surpasses any thing of the kind heretofore published he still carries on the tailoring business jj au its various branches at his old stand where he is „■« ready to meet and accommodate his old and new rtgtoniers with fashionable cutting and making of gar ments not to be surpassed by any in the southern coun ty punctuality despatch and faithful woik as has been always shall be his aim and object thankful lor past encouragement he hopes to merit its continuance p s reference he deems unnecessary as his experi ence and work for the last thirteen years wid show p ... 1r44 tft>8 h h beard copper tln-plalh <$• sup _*, t iron ware manufactory the subscribers respectfully announce to the public that they continue the above business in all its various branches at the drl stand one door above g w brown's and opposite thomas l cowan'8 brick row where they are ever r(adv to execute all jots with despatch — also constant . ori hand a choice supply ot wa res which consist in tart of plain japan and britania wares bath in tubs stills and worms brass and copper kettles stoves and pipes and a stock of tin-plate sheet copper sheet iron rod iron and iron wire resides a variety of other articles \. hich we deem unnecessary to mention and which we are dispos ed to sell as low wholesale or retail as can be afforded /. d brown $ co salisbury may 25 1844 tf4 n b the highest prices will be allowed fliro'd copier and pewter mland tt 11 he subscriber being determined to remove to the . west offers for sale his plantation lying on fourth cr.-k wilhin two miles of concord church two miles of liberty hill and eight miles northwest of states ville containing 380 cki.k upon which there is about 100 acres in cultivation ; 40 of which is fresh ; a good orchard nnd a first rate meadow ; two dwelling houses one barn and other necessaiy out_>uild.ngs ; the best kind w a spring ; a first rate new saw mill and oil mill now buililing ; and will be finished before possession will tr given ; a good neighborhood and healthy section of country persons fond of machine y and a pleasant sit uation would do well to call and view the premises as i • ii sell lower throi any plantation can be bought in this lection of country with equal soil and improvements — r«mw accommodating silas d sharpe i rlv hill iredell co may 20 1844 tf5 irsiwfumtfurnrtljretr ifs '">'*'. ii i subscriber respectful pajs^jb-jth iftj jl iy informs his friends and ff f if vjsw ihe public that he still continues io cairy oil / »\ c_3j3.^o_ii_b_».ce»0 s__3*cs_.s!3aac_.c_s>_sa39 ia salisbury on main street a few doois south of j & ff murphy's store and just opposite the rowan hotel he has on hand a large assortment of furniture and keeps in his employment the besl of workmen and uses liie be?t materials the country affords he has on hand tall times an assortment of such woik as wiil suit the wants of the country such as bureaus side oards sec ntsries cup-hoards tables candie-stands wash hind bed-steads cane bottom and windsor chairs fyc a neat assortment of coffins will also be kept on hand rtanged from twenty inches to the largest size all of the above shall be made in the best style and he charges shall be ns low or lower than at any other iwp of the kind in this place or in the stale ail kinds of country produce and lumber will betaken w exchange for work david watson jan 20 1844 25tf nik ifioimmi__r*o_<8 of the wammm imsie j i muser i s w ja.vies respectfully inform the business public that they are now prepared to execute at the shortest notice letter jet press job printing p kveky dksriuptiov d ix the vkby best st v i.e ip their assortment of type for large posting-bills unlet and cardx is perhaps superior to any in the watt ;■— and we flatter ourselves that we know as well "** to use them as any printer or printers in the southern country blanks f keep constantly on hand a large and handsome pp'y of blanks of almost every variety used by enfis clerks and constables printed on tine paper a _, such an griffs deeds marriage licences tom«ion do subpcenns c &. s courts m do ca sa bonds bonds bail do cit"''0 ***°* letters testamentary qu &«. notes of hand j*r<iian bonds executions for c fcs courts q.'vcry do warrants pova^le do jurors tickets c & s courts jies other varieties amons which 4 a quantity of equity blanks all orders of job printing or for blanks with which coefrn!"y be shall receive punctual attention ; & n°rt on their part shall be spared to merit the favor and patronage of the public 8m any slanks that they may not have on hand tn order without delay ]„, sulphate qui nine ktt / a p^ior article oi sulphate quinine and ten c,t at j h emass drugg store p 1644 8itf the carolina watchman ! bruner & james ) it v " l v « keep a check ct-on all your editors <$• proprietors v is safe ( new series rt-lebs do this a-fd llbestt < «,.,_. „,,,, , _ ~.~. ■»,..-._'_ gen'l harrison \ number 25 of volume i i . salisbury n c october 19 1844 = i i _____————- _-^_-^_-^_-^_-^_-^-_-^_-^_-^_-^_-^_=___^ sketch of mr clay's life | his history is lhe history of his country , on lhe 12th april 1777 he was born in i hanover county virginia of parents in j the most indigent circumstances in 1782 his father being dead and his mo her having married again and moved j to kentucky lie was left a friendless or j phau bov in the office of p tinsley esq | cl rk oi ihe high court ol chancery ofj virg'nia in 1797 having previously studied law he removed lo kentucky and opened an | attorney's office in lexing'on — wi.hout j patrons wi.hout influential friends and i without the means of paying his weekly board and immediately rushed into a lu j cralive practice in 1798 he opposed the alien and se i dition laws of john adams and about this j time acquired the title ofthe great com ! moner in 1803 he was elected to the lower ! house of the kentucky legislature from fayette county wiihout his knowledge or any solicitation on his part while absent at the olympian springs in 1800 he was elected to the senate of the united states to supply a vacancy oc casioned by the resignation of the lion john adair in 1808 he was again elected to the kentucky legislature and was chosen speaker in 1809 he was again elected to the senate of lhe united states to supply the vacancy occasioned by lhe resignation of the hon buckner thurston in 1811 having a choice of a seat in lhe senate or house of representatives of the united states he was elected to the latter and was on the first ballot elected speaker ; an honor never before or since conferred on any new member in 1812 he supported the war with all his power in 1813 he was again elec'ed to con gress and again chosen speaker in 1814 he resigned his seat in con gress having beeu appointed one of the commissioners to proceed to europe to negotiate a trea'y of peace with great britain which was effected in 181 5 he returned to the united states having been previously unanimously elec ted to congress ; but doubts arising as to the legality of the election a new one was held wiih the same result and he was a gain chosen speaker in 1817 he was again elected to con gress and chosen speaker in 1818 he made a great speech in con gress in favor of the independence ofthe south american states which was read at the head of their armies | in 1819 he was elected to congress and again chosen speaker j in 1820 having determined to retire rom congress on account of his private ] affairs he resigned the speakership in 1821 he settled the missouri ques | tion thus acquiring the title of the great ; pacificator and retired from congress in 1823 he was again elected to con gress and was again for the sixth time chosen speaker in 1825 he was appointed secretary of state by mr adams and it is said ne gociated more treaties than all their pre decessors together in 1829 returns to kentucky and re ! tires to private life in 1831 he was again elected to the ! senate ofthe united state in 1833 he introduced the compromise > bill and thus saved thc country from civil war in 1835 he made the french report and i saved the country from a war with france in 1812 he resigned his seat inthese ' nate and retired to ashland he was in the service of his country for 1 about 35 years — supported with distin guished ability lhe administrations of jef i ferson madison and monroe — enjoyed the i highest confidence of them all being of fered by monroe a seat in the cabinet,*and j a carte blanche ofthe foreign missions — ; was the great friend and patron of all the ! great interests of the country agriculture ; commerce and manufactures and is so completely identilied with them all that his history is emphatically the history of his country one of mr clay's slanderers — gen ! mccalla the slanderer who recently char ! ged mr clay with gambling on sundav ! according to the louisville journal lately ; applied to the first presbyterian church of lexington of which he was elder for a certificate of good moral character which | the session unhesitatingly refused ! to ! avoid expulsion he withdrew from the j church " what a precious set of electors ! says the journal the locofoeos have in j this state — one of them actually excom j municated from the church for bad moral character and another convicted of forg ing a dead man's certificate and turned out of doors by his own wife for his dis i gusting beastliness "' these are fine fellows to preach about moral character — richmond compiler the largest gathering yet — there i were over one hundred thousand whigs in i convention at rochester on wednesday last 1 sixty-four thousand came there in eight thou sand wagons ; nineteen thousand came in two . hundred and forty-three cars and the canal { boats were without number — n y courier | locofoco contempt for trades british gold the tariff from the nashville banner the free trade sympathies of lhe locofoco | press naturally lead to a contempt for the amer j ican mechanic — for the humble but industrious | and true hearted inmates of american work i shops and american mines and factories and i the expression of this contempt is by no means | restrained we have two instances of it be fore us and could quote others if necessary the nashville union the confidential organ and representative of t!.e opinions and senti i ments of james k polk the locofoco candi date for the presidency in speaking of the ] whig policy a few days ago in regard to pro i tection denominated the laborers — male and j female of course — employed by means of the protection offered by the whig tariff to the american factories and workshops white slaves thus — their policy has been tn protect monopoli zing manufacturers — to protect capitalists who own large factories — who literally own al so the white slaves employed to toil in them for stinted wages from twelve to fourteen hours | a day — and nol to protect the great body of the i laboring people of the whole country now the contempt indicated in the above extract for honest american labor a contempt as we before remarked characteristic of lhe free trade press is not iis only offence a great outrage is committed upon truth by the charge that these " white slaves as they are called are made to toi for stinted wages twelve or fourteen hours a day ;" since the notorious fact is their wages are any thing but stinted as the statistics of lowell abundantly prove | but the honest operatives of this country re ] quire no defence from onr hands ; our purpose is with locofoco sympathies and without fur ther remark we pass from mr polk's organ i at nashville to his organ at lexington a recent outburst of the kentucky gazette i against " tinkers tinners and tailors and other i ' mechanical occupations as the bold rob j roy would have it ) is traced to the fact that i these hard-fisted but true-hearted and honest j citizens of lexington took it upon themselves j to attest lhe character and standing of as eminent methodist divine mr ba**comb j against the malignant assaults of the locofoco i press mr bascomb's offence was that he had j spoken well of mr clay's private worth ; the i offence of his mechanic neighbors that after ' mr bascomb had been traduced and villitied they knowing the man attested his good stand | ing and endorsed his honest testimonial of mr j clay's character for this the editor of the j gazette or john m mccalla f r him assails j the parties concerned not by name or because i of their lack of veracity or moral worth but by i their trades : and all this with the m st inefta j ble contempt for honest labor and with a flip j pancy towards better men and more useful citi ! zens than hitn-set which the locofoco press backed by british gold may well afford to sport we copy a specimen or two : " we have scrutinized the muster-roll of the renowned forty-seven and find that it is made j up of bricklayers carpenters coffin-makers ■, dry-goods clerks carriage-makers hatters shoe i makers retail small dealers in muslins and calicoes by courtesy termed merchants ) cabi net-makers keepers of plank-yards waggon i makers overseers of bagging factories tailors pump makers tavern keepers comb makers grocerv keepers truss makers music masters tinners and apothecaries again : " they are doubtless very good judges of bricklaying carpentering coffins tape and pack thread buggies wool or fur hats plank cabi net ware wagons bale rope and bagging coats and pantaloons town pumps fine or coarse combs trusses chickens and eggs and olher edibles groceries crotchets and quavers tin cups and pans pukes and purges — but in the name of apollo what do they know what can they be expected to know about " burning elo quence or " high intellectual endowments as to the preachers who figure so conspicuously in the list of the weekly modicums they dole out to their listless congregations are to be ta i ken as specimens of what they consider *■ burn i ing eloquence why then they're worse jud j ges ofthe article than even the aforesaid brick i layers comb makors carpenters hatters pump \ makers apothecaries truss makers dec again : " it is because the rev h b bascomb has j not and never will have one particle of **•* burn ing eloquence that the certificate ofthe afore 1 said tinkers tinners and tailors has be come necessary from a statement made in the north ameri ; can it appears there are published in the city of philadelphia six daily subscription papers and eight daily penny papers connected with ; these dailies are fourteen semi-weekly and ! weeklies • there are fourteen secular and fif teen religious weeklies making in all — inclu ding two printed in german — fifty-nine daily and weekly papers these it is said throw off weekly about 576,1)00 sheets or nearly 30 000 000 annually it is not easy to calculate the influence which these periodicals exercise over the public sen timent but fi»r evil or for good it is unques tionably very great and how vastly respon sible is the situation of thoje who wield this mighty engine and throw abroad daily into the : minds of half a million of people the reflection ' of their own thoughts and thus mould tbe pub lic feeling similar to tbeir own — farmers , cabinet unparalleled courage — a locofoco out i in arkansas has had the wonderful courage to j bet one thousand dollars that mr clay will not | beat mr polk more than seventy-five electoral votes very savage — the raleigh register says : ' it appears that mr clay has had the presump j tion to send to charleston s c some ken j tueky bagging for sale upon which terrible and j unprecedented proceeding the standard raves i and surges like * a mad cat tied to a windlass " ' the wages of labor the most inreterate opponent of the tariff will j not avow the sentiment that the wages paid for ! american lab.r should he reduced to the euro j peau standard and yet such would be the re j suit if the protective system should be abolished j — that is it the laborers in the united slates \ could obtain employment at all which is at least j doubtful vte know that thousands were imeiii j ployed in 1842 when the duties were reduced : to 20 per cent who would have been glad to \ have accepted even the prices paid in europe '* experience is a severe teacher and we pre ] sume that none of our mechanics or manufac hirers desire to have the lesson of 1842 repeat ! ed if they do they have only to lend their aid ' to procure the repeal of the present tariff and ] they will again have the opportunity to take | their fishing tackle to the wharves to supply din ners to their families the difference between the prices paid in europe and in this country for labor of various '' kinds may not be generally understood ; but the fact must be evident to all that without the ta riff the manufacturers and mechanics ofthe u states cannot successfully compete with those of europe unless wages in this country be re duced to the european standard — that is to the point of starvation i we give below a statement from a xew york paper which exhibits the american and euro pean prices for various kinds of labor ; and we appeal to those engaged in the branches named and ask them whether they will consent to re peal the tariff act and to work for the prices therein named : cotton weavers men ) who now get per day 80 cents must then work for 20 cents cotton weavers women ) who now get per day 33 cents must work for 1 3 cents cotton weavers girls ) who now get per day 30 cents must work for 10 cents silk weavers who now get per day 50 cents must work for 11 cents spinners who now get per pound 10 cents must work for three cents ship carpenters who now get per day 1 75 must work for 50 cents brush makers who now get per day si must work for 20 cents hatters who now get f r silk hats 55 cents must work for 25 cents straw hat makers who now get 81 per hat must work for 20 cents paper makers men who now get per week 8 must work for 81 75 j paper makers women ) who now get per i week 2 75 must work for 55 cents sail makers who now get 8*2 per day must j work for 1 40 cordage makers who now get per day 1 | must work 16 cents shoemakers who now get per day 81 30 j must work fir 4 j cents tailors who now get per week 89 must work for 84 cabinet makers who now get per week 810 must work for 84 day laborers who now get per day 85 cents must work for 27 cents makers of ironware who now get per ton j thirty dollars must work for twelve dollars thus it will be seen that mechanics and man ufacturers with all who depend for a living on | making by labor the raw miterials into articles of use must reduce the wages of their labor in i the ratio indicated above or quit the business i i'he destruction ofthe protective system leaves them no other alternative ! next let us see how the aggregate annual ! earnings of several classes ofthe laborers would j be affected the number of persons engaged i in each branch of business is taken from the j census returns of 1840 4,464 cordage makers who now get si.503 i 000 would then get 240 000 4 726 paper makers who now get s3 432 i 00 would then get 75 361 dollars the cotton weavers iti the united slates who ; now get 18,000.843 would then get 5,85.1,000 1 dollars the woollen cloth weavers in the united j states who now get 4 830,001 would then get j 1 200 000 dollars the shoemakers in massachusetts who now ! get 15.000,01)0 would then get 5.400.000 dol i lars the tailors in the united states who now ! get 13 720,000 dollars would then get 8,320 ! 030 dollars the cabinetmakers ofthe united states who i now get 9 360,000 dollars would theu get ', 3 744 000 dollars mechanics ! read this list attentively and i then make up your minds whether you will be ! for or against a protective tariff on the one hand you are offered employment and fair pri ces ; on the other idleness and ruin or wages tor labor which will not give bread to yourselves and families make your choice which you will have ! the consequences of that choice arc to be felt by yourselves and those who are dear to you as well as by your country — bal timore clipper close voting — at the late election in the , state of missouri a member of the legislature i of lewis county was elected by a majority of ! only one vote ; one from clarke by five votes ; one from shelby by five votes ; one from lin coln by six votes ; one from perry by five votes ; one from carroll by two votes and one from ; davies by five votes some of the members ; from howard county were elected by ten votes i and those from randolph audrain grundy and : caldwell by small majorities the senator lrom howard was elected by a majority of ten j votes and the senator from cooper by a major i ity of eight votes and the senator from benton ! by nine votes from these returns every citizen should learn i the duty of being at his post giving his own vote in every election and making an active use of | all the legitimate influence he possesses — v i era a sign — an election for mayor c took | place in nashville on tbe 28th uit a whig • mayor and ten whig councilmen to two demo ! cratic were elected and the banner says as ! gees nashville so goes the state ! got jones of tennessee and mr polk we desire to call the emphatic attention ofthe people of north carolina to the charges made upon mr polk by governor jones of tennes see from the huntsville advocate gov jones upon mr polk gov jones the conqueror of polk upon two different battle fields was among his friends and neighbors of wilson county on the tth inst and was forced to make them a sperc from the sketch ofhis remarks we copy the follow ing it brings forward a new a grave and se rious charge against the little trimmer mr polk he assists in oc presenting a petition to aboli_h slavery in the district of columbia and the slave trade am s?ig the states fl do you hearthis locofoeos ? has john q adams ever gone farther than mr polk has iu this in stance 1 neighbor of the democrat what say i you to it ? " there was bnt one point or but one in | stance ofhis political knavery to which he de | sired to call the attention ofhis hearers aiid he ' would do this because it was one that would be j new to most if not all present ; it was a fact ; that had not been presented to the people of j tennessee ; and one that ought to consign him over to infamy this may seem said the gov j ernor to be strong language but the provoca i tion is strong all must have perceived the ; disgraceful efforts which are being made by col j polk's leading organs in this state and more ! particularly the nashville union whose libel lous editor seems to delight to riot and fatten in the filthy sewers of calumny and slander to identify mr clay and the whig party uiih ab olition you all remember the disgraceful ef fort made by james k polk iu his inaugural address to identify the whig party with this sameodiousand infamous fanaticism thisun manly and insidious a'tack said he merits as it at that time rec?ived,the execration of every j whig in tennessee ! *•' he said he alluded to this cowardly assault not for the purpose of arousing ol i prejudices that may have been buried and forgotten but because of its connection with another incident in the history somt time in the year 1s40 this same gentleman — bein at that time gov ernor of the state — received the manuscript pro ceedings of the " world's convention " under the frank of mr gates a whig member ot con gress from n y he did not remember ever to have seen this manuscript published and as such could not speak with certainty as to its con tents but he understood it to be designed for the advancement ol the cause of abolition gov polk seizes on this pretext and makes it the oc casion ofa long denunciatory letter lo this man gates now he did not object to the castiga tion inflicted by him on mr gates ; he thought it might have been well enough but he never could see the propriety and necessity for pub lishing this letter of rebuke unless as no one i doubts it was intended for political effect foop j erate on the then pending presidential election i of all this however he did not complain : he i referred to this letter to call attention to a senti i ment it expressed near its close col p-ilk i says to mr gates " it is matter of sincere re gret that any american citizen should he guilty ; of such high treason to the first principles upon • which the state became united your official i frank covering these proceedings stands up in ; judgment against you as a wimess whose testi ; monv is not to be impeached " here sail the governor is a sentiment j worth of an american citizen ; worthy of one who loves his country and would advance its ; honor and peace and if it stood unrefoted by oth ; er acts and sentiments he would lor one most | cheerfully accord to its author cor p<>lk thc • full meed of praise for so patriotic a declaration | but suppose said he i show from the rccorls ofthe country that he gov polk is guilty ofa ' grosser prostitution ofhis official sta'ion to the s una unholy purpose ? suppose he should show that he poik hid lent his official station to the j actual presentation to congress of an abolition ' petition ? if sail he i shall be able to estab lish this fact ti.es no this man according to his own denunciations of mr gates stand convict ed of 0r5~.iigh treason against the first princi ples upon which the slates became united q ; and coupling this fact with his mist shameful and digracelul attempt to connect the whig par ty with the abolitionists iu his inaugiral ad dress must not his friends stand confounded at the depth ol his political hypocrisy . — most not his own cheeks blush for shame ? — if indeed he : be not lost to such emotions he then charged that james k polk as speaker id the house of representatives did lend his official station and so far as that act constitutes high treason against ' the principles on which the stales were formed he stands condemned to the presentation of a petition praying congress t£/~ta abolish slave ery in the district of columbia and the slave tiade among the states he made this charge and challenged any one of his friends to deny it it is a pait ofthe records ofthe coun '. try and stands up in judgment to rebuke and i condemn the unholy and wicked attempt cf him and his friends to identity mr clay or the whig party with the accursed crusade now being . wa^ed against the domestic institutions of the south this was the only point in the history of the locof co candidate for the presidency to which he desired to allude and in doing this would disavow any feelings of a personal un kindness for mr polk personally he had no unkind feelings ; but for h"m politically and f r his political inconsistencies : his servile devo ; tion to a great man and a reckless party he had the greatest contempt pennsylvania — a letter has just been handed us by a friend from a highly re : spectable citizen of pennsylvania dated | harrisburg sept 29 which among other . cheering information contains the follow ! ing postscript — washington standard j - it is thought that governor porter is i about coming out for clay he called up on general markle as he was passing ! through here yesterday on his way to the j philadelphia convention and treated him j in fine style he has declared tbat he is ' a markle man at leasu importance of voting we have always been impressed with the great importance of attending the polls and ex ercising one ol the most glorious rights of a freeman thk bight of scffraqe the fob lowing named cases show what a single tote did and what great interests might have been affected by an opposite one what whig in view of such momentous necessity for all to vote will quietly remain at home on election day when duty patriotism and the country's welfare call upon every one to appear promptly at the polls voter friends oe henev clat ! let us everv one go to the polls and vote raleigh register a single vote e have all some lime or other realized the importance of a single vote the follow ing instances have fallen under our noiice : one vote in the city of new york returned a republican mcmwr in the assembly wliich made a majority in the legislature of that state fir thomas jefferson and gave him the vote of new york without which he oould not have been elected the policy of the united states during the jeff.rson and madison administra tions a period of sixteen years hung on that one vote one vote elected marcus morton governor of massachusetts in an aggregate popular vote of nearly 100 030 one rote elected william allen in the chil licthe district to congress in lt.34 and one rote subsequently made him united states sen ator for six years afterwards one vote elected mr white to congress from vermont in is'2'2 aud a member was also chosen from new jersey 1824 by a single vote in a canvass where about 6.000 were polled the following case of the kind is still more remarkable : in 1830 dan stone of this city was a can didate for the state legislature walking up main street on the morning of the election ho overtook an acquaintance going to the polls who iniended to vote the opposite ticket stone solicited his rote '* we aie old friends said he and i know you will show a friend that mark of kindness party spirit was then com paratively quiet the voter replied " well dan yen are a pretty clever fellow i don't caro if i do that vote elected stone and gave a majority of one in the legislature which made thomas ewing united states senior mr ewing's vote on the question of cont-rming the appointment of martin van burea as minister i plenipotentiary to great britain enabled tho | \ ice president to give the casting vote against i it and recalled mr van buren home that recall made mr van buren first vice presi dent and then president and determined the general policy of the country for four year-i one vote accomplished all this one vote sent james j faran to the legis lature and made him subsequently senator and may possibly result in sending him as congres . sional representative from ihe hamilton couu • ty district ; behold the importance of a single vote — cincinnati advocate dgpvery rich — if the reader docs not laugh at the following triumphant notice concerning the news from maryland in the madisonian of thursday then he must be a very grave and solemn individual lie must bear in mind that the madiso nian goes to press in the afternoon and was therefore an hour or two too early for the glorious whig news which reach ed the capitol thursday night : shout back victory 1 maryland to maine : — " thc same to you sir h — god and the union for ever — polk dalits — oregon texas and car roll by the returns in another column it will be seen that one of mr clay's ■ most certain states lias gone at one bold stride for polk and dallas carroll texas ! and oregon maryland rebukes mr clay's persecu tion of the president mr clay would not refrain from abuse of mr tyler in his own ( letters — next to him in violent villitica tion personal and political was mr re ' vertly johnson ; aad mr john p kennedy next truly they have their reward ! but the reason why maryland " goes democratic is because she has planted herself on correct principles : she goes for texas she goes for oregon she goes uncompromisinglv for tbe zoll i veke1n treaty : therefore she goes against the whigs we are decidedly of the opinion note that there are on\y four states in the un ion certain for clay — and perhaps only three movements in the mormon country we have for some days had various reports of warlike movements in the mormon country . which are thus explained by the st louis re publican of lhe i.th ultimo : " we learn by the officers and passengers of the steamer osprey that governor ford and his troops have reached carthag the purpose of the governor in ordering oat the troops seems to be determination to bring the murderers of joe and hiram smith to trial the troops are under the command of general j j hardin subject of course to the direction of the gov ernor the reason assigned by the govern or's friends lor ordering ooi thc troops in the first instance was a '• tcolf am advertised by a portion of the people of hancock county to come off on the 6 h and c7th instant this hunt it was believed by the governor was a preteit to get the people assembled aroused and then to make an attack on the mormons at nauvoo or some other mormon settlement from all we can learn we suppose that the wolf hun was abandoned after the orders of the governor were issued » the governor was at carthage writs were issued and placed in the hands of lhe hcr ily tor the arrest of thomas c sharp editor of the warsaw signal and for col williams of the same place both charged with p"*j"£fl ting in the murder ofthe smith t^g"^*1 came to warsaw and attempted to arrest v irt but he refused to surrender himself and « mu..s : resolution was sustained by the people ... i ar saw the sneriffreturned and reportec his .:,- ,.,. . l u three hundred < ( thc abibtv to arrest him « hen inr 5 ff_£^titt£*s * ££.& %.&£»» 5 w 5 od cu mi«o«ri rife oft river d « f i uw v ul not bo likon