Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1834-08-26
COM. ELLIOTT AND THE PRESIDENT

COM. ELLIOTT AND THE PRESIDENT.
II has been repeatedly asserted by the Opposi PRESS
tat Commodore Elliott gave breakfast or dinner TO the
President when the North last summer and charged
the expense (said to be about S30e) to the Government
We have taken pains To Inquire into the focs
o be as follows:
The President did attend either breakfast or din
ner al Commodore Elois, while at the North; nor was
lie Within his house the Navy Yard. But one morn.
ing. while e resident Boston, the Engineer of the
Dry Dock win the aid Of COmmodores ul and Elliott,
and by their advice, took occasion make full trial OF
the power and operations oil the Dock and Gates before
The work entirely completed and delivered up, by adj.
uniting the nole ngate tire Constitution AS the tide
would serve only the early late hours Of five or SIX
she was admitted very early in the morning. aud cola.
on or early breakfast prepared for those, OF those
hVted 10 witness and aid in the undertaking The small
expense OF was probably charged appropriation
connected with the Dock, whose and strength aud
UNITY we've, on that occasion, first fully properly
tested by the Engineer, in the preseace the adm
ration oil many hundreds, IL not ,lousands.-B.
The Opposition appear have whsed before they got
cut o. e woods in the statements OF their different press
following toast given by the at the late Fourth Of
July celebration in Phladepha, will show that the re-
marks made in his Circular, dated few days pre- vious
posed 10 give them:
by the Hon John Tipton of Indiana an invited guest
Inc Democratic Republicans Of Pennsy lvania: Maythey
present an unbroken front the ballot boxes in 1881 i'm
support OF the National aud State Administrations with
Jackson and Vol for pilots, the vessel of State will tide
out The gale without the loss Of single spar.
by the whole company-Hon John Upton of Indi.
Though Iom the far West he is no stranger among
the Democrats who reside in the city of the Bank We
know his worth in the national councils; we honor his Vi
goous and sincere support of the Administration i'm the
lace oil an arocratic Senate indianapolis Democrat
The Republicans of the Fourth Congressional District of
Vermont have dominated the Hon. G. Z. Van Ness our
Minister 10 Spain, candidate Congress In reIa
ton 10 the return OF Mr. Van Ness the Burlington Sen-
mel oil the b instant, remarks
THE RETURN or Mn VAN MSS Ithas been often
asked when will MIR. Van Ness For the salts
faction OF his hends upon this subject can assure
he That, exiraordnaries excepted he will be in Yer
mont in the OF six weeks The treaty between this
ana the Spanish Government, sanctioned BY the Sc
hate the first o. June last, and immediate despatched n
the Spanish Court, for ratification by that government
AS the stipulaions OF the well undersood nv
mat Court, and agreed TO be binding, condition of ra,.
hcaon by our government, further time will be con-
sumed by Minister than required by the ceremony
Oh eEehange. The treaty probably arrived Madrid the
LIST OF July that at the time OF pennng ibis article he
! is probably half across the Atlantic
| MALNE--Tbe Boston Morning Post saws, .lhe Cum
the 9Th instant, and nominated the II on. Francis o.
Smith, candidate Tor reelection Congress and TO-
siah Pierce OF Gorham, Jonathan Smith OF Westbrook
Doctor Purnton Of Danvie, and MIR. Latham of (,rav
for Senators in the Stale Legislature OF the reelec
ton OF Mr.. Smith there be doub-he is one of the
most able in his State, and faithful a deocrat az
be found in the UUon His political PRINCIPLES and
his ability maintain them, have rendered him an object
Tor the most envenomed assaults of the opponents of the
general Administrations but he has passed through The Or
deal unsc&thed and is Of The leading champions
OF popular RICH in the East His opponent Churchill is
arenegade from the democratic psrya rank Bankie and
will unquesionably receive large vote from the Port
land nabobs but of Portland he will get pretty essen
tally whitfield"
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