The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-06
THE WHIG STANDARD.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.


BALTIMORE, Norember A, 1843.
Autumn has passed her grand climacteric,
and so calmly and pleasantly has the good old
visiter conducted herself while among u.s. SO
little has she been given 10 those fits Of " wea-
thery Sadness" those mopings and rainings with
which she sometimes INDUCES us, that fancy
she has patched her robes with some stolen
fragments from the vestments of her departed
predecessor. We seem to have a fee-simple Of
sunshine. True il is, that there has been frost
in some Of the small hours of the past week, for
the leaves are waxing cadaverous ; but even the
drab coats, and hats Of unlimited brim, which
announce the appearance Of the Yearly Meet
ing Friends" have failed TO bring bad weather
in their train. This unexpected result, by which
an old proverb of hitherto unimpeachable vera
city has been bearded and put to shame, aston
ishes the " oldest inhabitant" Our peace-loving
brethren came to us close on the departure of
some other guests, whose sojourn seems to have
occasioned the monotony of the good TOWN to be
broken by sundry small riots, in which brickbats
were passed from hand to head rather more fire.
quently than was pleasant to behold, or, it is
probable, to feel. Whether the guests partici-
pated in this interchange of good Offices or
whether it was confined to- the entertainers, |
have not learned. The visiiers were some COM
panies Of fremen from Philadelphia, and the
hosts, of course, were the firemen OF Baltimore.
Our active Mayor soon found It necessary to
proclaim that he would :" stop the supplies"
and cut off with a municipal shilling any com
pany whose members were caught so offending
which believe has served to quiet their pug
nacious disposition for the time.
In the region Of politics, we are giving our
selves short resting time, which we feel that
we have earned. We are lying on our arms,
however, and when we are summoned, we shall
be found ready meanwhile, the organization of
the Clay Clubs goes on merrily, and we are cal
culatng, occasionally, how many square feet of
good Wing flesh and belongings we can stow
into our houses next May. We have reason to
anticipate on that occasion pressure which
no honest man will regret"
The Locofocos, after the late astounding thump
we gave them at the mayors election, puzzled
their brains in vain for an excuse stthat would
hold water" Never was a rout so wholly I'M
expected. Itcame upon the crowd assembled
before the Office Of the Argus like the shock Of a
galvanic battery, or the breaking of water
spout above their heads. They had tried their
mightiest, drummed up all their voters, emptied
the free suffrages of the aims house into the bal
lot boxes, betted all their money, and staked
their characters as prophets on the result A
stuffed coon was held in readiness at their head
quarters, with which to grace the triumphal
pursed up into laughing order, and threats were
cleared for shouting, When the returns came
in, the. finale of it all was sudden skulking in
varidU directions through the by-streets. | did
not learn what became Of the stuffed representa-
tive1H the animal to which they have taken
such dislike of late. They will be sick enough
Of that Coon yet before he and they cry quits.
Seeing that the democracy have such jealous
hatred of symbols and devices, is it not rather
surprising that some image-breaker has not yet
arisen from among them, and denounced the
hickory tree "a print of which, surrounded with
the motto " Jackson and Liberty" still appears
upon their election tickets!
list Of delegates to Tyler convention, Of
FIVE persons from each ward, appeared in the
Sun the other day. Several of the persons nomi-
mated have declined the honor through various
papers most of them on the ground that they
do not happen to be Tyler men, and all stating
that they were not present at the ward meetings
by which they were ostensibly nominated. Ra-
Their an awkward business this-which leads to
very obvious differences. / have made digent
inquiry among old residents as to the remainder
of the persons preferred to this enviable distnc-
ton, and have found no one who processes to
have ever heard Of more than four of them
when any Of the gentlemen were named,
found it was the same persons that were almost
invariably indicated. The inference here is so
plain, that I fancy even the editor of the Court
Journal will be able with little reflection, to
understand it. CARO-.