The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-20
W A S Hi N G I @ N
MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 90, 1s43.
THE SOMERS MUTINEERS.

We are credbly informed. that one Of the mu-
,ineers who was brought home in double irons
is now employed about the Treasury Department
in this city, This promotion of villany is OF a
piece with the entire modus operandi Of this
parenthetical administration.
Does the Senate of the United States solemnly
declare their want offaith, over and again, in one J.
w. Tyson, Of Philadelphia is finally SNUG
gled into an appointment over which they have no
control. Nj +, ,as as sf s.t 8e
Is Mr.. Gushing thrice rejected for Cabinet
office--he receives $4,000 out Of $4,000 appro-
priated with an express condition, which condi-
ton is violated that the Senate may be over-rode'
Is one Powell rejected by the Senate, and con-
victed of intimacy with Monroe Edwards, the
forger--he still receives reward in defiance of
the Senate.
So of this fellow, brought home in irons, and
barely escaping with his life he is promoted to
honorable employment at the very seat Of the
Government against which he was, but short
time before, concerned in a most damnable con-
spiracy. is
How long will such outrages be tolerated
This elevation of the mutineer, very different
from the one he deserved is, we respect, in keep
ing with the whole conduct Of this disgracetul
and degraded Administration. MIR. Spencer and
Tyler, in their appointments to Office, show that
vice hugs the image of its own deformity, and
that in these degenerate days every kind OF
apostacy and baseness thrives .'
LUTHER SEVERANCE, the newly elected Wing
member from Maine, is another instance OF the
sort of men whom the Wings delight to honor
and advance. Mr.. Severance has been for many
years the editor Of stirling Wing paper in Au-
gusta, called the Kennebec Journal paper
which has uniformly been conducted with great
good sense and vigor. We remember, while re-
siding in Maine, to have heard it affirmed of MIR.
S. that it was his practice to set up his edito-
rials' without the intervention Of pen and paper.
We presume that there are few presses in the
country, perhaps none SO well conducted, that can
boast of such a labor-saving editor. With such
wise selections for candidates the Wings can not
fail of success and it is as important that the Goth
Congress should be Whig,::as that Mr.. Clay
shoul be elected President.
DISEASED POTATOES of the papers from
L
late strange things about the potato crops in those
regions. Farmers who have been in the practice
of cultivating this crop largely in past years,
have reaped small profit from it this season. In
some districts, the entire crop has decayed in the
ground in some others, the crop has been har-
vested, and afterwards it decayed; again, some
farmers would not gather the crop, so much was
it injured by decay, but to make something Of it,
tnrned their hogs upon the potato fields, and the
hogs, in many cases, were poisoned. In these
parts there are great complaints of the quality of
this esculent, and its effectiveness has been at
tributed to excess of moisture during the growing
season but we have heard of nothing like dis
eased potatoes. The potato belongs to the soda
mum order of plants, and some of them are highly
poisonous, and Others again, like the tomato, are
conducive to health. IT seems queer to speak Of
diseased vegetables, yet such things are. Rye,
which is a nutritious grain, and often used for
bread is subject to a disease which produces
ergot, or spurred rye as il is commonly called
and this is an active poison. We might ennme-
rate others but il would extend TO too greal
length, notice which we only give by way Of
friendly caution to those who use this commonly
excellent vegetable.
Destruction Of The Receiping Ship Hudson.
We learn from the Brooklyn Eagle that fire
broke out yesterday morning, between 10 and IL
O'Clock, on board the receiving ship Hudson,
which damaged her so much that she is consid-
cred useless. as. di3 NtHle.t
The Charleston Patriot states that two steam
schooners arrived there on the morning of the
18th from Norfolk, on their way to Mobile, which