The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-20

teen days at sea. II isvery probable that she ar
rived there before four o'clock yesterday afternoon
and in that case we shall receive her news some
time this morning. which will be issued mmedl-
ately in an EXTRA HERALD. II will be highly I'M
portant in any and every respect at which II can dc
received.
THE MARYLAND ELEcTloN-SINGuLAR CONDUCT
OF THE FREE TRADE MEN.-The more we examine
the results of the recent Maryland election, the
more we are surprised, astounded, and coniounded
at its very curious and remarkable results one
point strikes us very significantly. There can be
no doubt in analysing the results and comparing
them with former results, that the defeat Of the To-
cofoco party is owing entirely to the detection OF
the Calhoun men in Maryland-the friends of the
South Carolina statesman in that State being very
numerous Now the oddity of the result Is this I;
Here is certainparty hoisting the free trade
standard-making that the shibboleth Of theirparty
for years-a sort of sine qua non with all candidates
for their suages-here is this party, when their an
tagonists the high protective men. under the skill
full management of Mr.. Kennedy, come forward and
offer them battle, ingorously fleeing from the held
and suffering their opponents TO carry the State
almost by default, so far as they are concerned!
What are we to understand from this conduct OF
the free-trade friends of Mr. Calhoun Is this an
evidence Of their great chvalry in favor OF their
own principles, and their Indifference as to mere
men ? We think not. We think they have aban-
doned their case at a most important point OF the
contest and given victory to the high-arff, bank
and assumption men, that Will contribute more 10
kill free trade, and to kill Mr.. Calhoun, and to kill
all the other interests depending on it, than any
thing which has yet taken place. The only con-
=. hat Until, oil
their chivaric pretensions, the free trade men IT
Maryland, and perhaps those of northern States
generally, and with all their enthusiasm for their
principles, they prefer men to them after all, or
they would not abandon their party at most i'm
portant crisis-at the very straits of ThermopylG,
as it were.
This is the singular result of that election there
FORE and shows most concusivey that if the friends
of Mr. Calhoun, General Cas-, and all the other
antagonists of Mr.. Van Buren, are going to remain
at home in the ensuing Presidential contest, Mr..
Clay and his principles will have most over
whelming victory at the polls. Well, IT 1t be SO,
We don't care. II the friends of free trade-the
chivalrc friends Of free trade-the enthusiastic
friends of free trade, thus abandon their own cause
at the most interesting crisis in the contest-at the
very bridge of Lodi-at the scaling OF the Alps-be
it 30. But let them never talk again about attach
ment to principles preference to men, or chivalry
in preference to Incidence hereafter.
The EXPECTED FINANCIAL DEvELopMENrs.-The
exposition promised by Mr.. Graham, the Post
master of this city, in reference to the North
American Trust Company, is looked for with
great deal of interest by the whole community,
high and low Indeed, the explosion Of that COM
pany, and tile remarkable revelations respecting
other trust and banking corporations, have created
feeling in this community such as we never re-
collect to have met with before. And this feeling
never will rest until there be some radical change
made in the estimation Of the private and individ-
ual character OF those persons who have been con-
nected with these affairs. Look at the extraordinary
developments made in this city in relation to many
monied interpretations. Look at the deception, the
fraud, the wholesale plumber of the widow and
orphan. Look at these developments duplicating
men who impudenty arrogate to themselves
the highest position in society, and then look at the
apathy with which these things are regarded by
the great mass of the community. A few years
ago, implication with such those of recent
occurrence would have hurled any man, whatever
his station, to merited disgrace and oblivion. But
now, these men come forward with all the impu-
dence and nonchaLanY in the world, and appear to
consider that the only difference in public robbery
is that of responsibility according TO the amount
plundered
Our courts and juries, and public press-that is,
what is called the respectable portion of -and our
pulpits and all the civil institutions Of society,
silenced The only real representation of the moral
feelings of community Of honest men is to be
found in small portion Of the press who indie
pendent of all these financial and other deeterious
influences. But, after all, we believe that crisis
has come, and that deep feeling of Indignation
has been awakened in the public mind against all
who have disgraced themselves, their families,
their connexions, and their country, by gross mall
versaton in office and gross plunde-ing in private
institutions II is time that these crimes should be
checked in FUTURE and their perpetrators placed in
their proper position hereafter.
ANOTHER DEFALcArIoN.-It is rumored that there
has another extensive defalcation taken place. A
bookkeeper in the employ of one Of our Oldest and
most respectable merchants in the First Ward, has,
bv false entries and divers other fashionable fois
terings. defrauded his employer and benefactor of
$500 The facts, when made public, will create
great astonishment, as the actor in this farce IS
we'll known in the mercantile circles.
Nothing will avail in putting an end to these
frauds but law placing all this class Of robbers
in solitary confinement in the State Pris'n-o
commercial interest demandsth the prompt passage Of
such an act.
/. The DUEL IN WASHINGTON. horrible muir
der IL Just what ought to be expected in such a
state of society as that Of Washington The state
of the press-of Congress-of society in gener al
there, naturally leads to such things. All IS
corrupt and rotten, and it is only because tn e
members OF the legislature generally such COW.
ards, that blood does not daily bedew the streets
of the capitol. The spectacle is really appalling.
NEoLraENcE IN THE PosT OFrIcE.-We are sa-