New-York daily tribune., 1844-06-10

eents to overbcar every adverse consideration
J,nt now that Van Buren, is demolished and
an.lida,e proposed in his stead who has oecn
uniformly, avowedly. bitterly hostile to Protec-
,;,n and is advocated in Congress expressly as
such the sober, intelligent, thinking portion o'
The marty cannot all be rallied TO hls Standard
! coed many will shut their eyes and swallow
tho disc IS it is p!esented--as.ly fearing all the
,i,ne thai they are voting against Themselves
IN, coodly number viii noiselessly slip in bal
l,,s for Clay and Protection. Mark this state
nen.. and sec il the designated counties and the
whole do not come fully up to our estimate.
u The Albany Argus opposes the Erie Canal
Enlargement on the ground that it will tend 10
cheaper transportation from the West and 10
bring the Agricultural products OF that region
INTO depressing competition with thcsc OF our
own Farmers What pity this had moi been
thought of when the Ere Canal was first built
=, that it rnirh: have been stopped At Rochester
Of Loc!spor, and kept out Western competition
altogether, a capital supporter Of Polk and
Free Trade that State paper
But the Argus conccais material part of the
story. I;happens 10 be The fact that the coming
Of Western Produce 10 omarket does not depend
on our GOOD pleasure. We may close the Ere
Canal il we please, but the Weand the Penns3l-
vania, the Ohio, and the Mississippi, are all open
and will be used. We may make the cost OF
l. d, rl.ota 10
hipheror lower but come it will any how ; and
the only question is whether it shall be attracted
TO our markets transported by our forwarders, and
pay toll to our canals, or take different directions,
and be shipped from Quebec or New Orleans
We vote for New. York and her Canals.
The PoLKA.'-It is of course known 10 that
portion of our readers who delight in 'fashiCna-
bic intelligence that a new dance has been intro
duccd into St. Cloud, ard thence TO ST. jamcs's.
callcd the polka" The last London Coart
Journal is cnlivcncd by the following important
announcement
ssThe Polka is no, unlikely, by and by, to have
ii Language oi It's own. II has already made the IN
iariye steps towards vocabulary, and The three
degrees of comparison in the art are thus designa-
t,d:-A beginner is called Polkin-one who has
obtaiued a certain amount Of excellence, P00eur
but the really accomplished performer is denomi-
mated PoihiSte.'
1t is odd to think that orr People have a fash
ion OF initiating all the new ollies of Europe.
Here we have Just had a new Polka fandango
started, and several of our contemporaries are prac
ucing at it with great assiduity. We regret 10
say that the success of some OF them is by no
means commensurate with their zeal. The Ere.
mig Post, for example, is manifestiy only a Pol
kin and rather dull at that; while the Aibaoy
Areus may pass for a Polkur,' and the PieSe-
ian and the albany Atlas which seem to take it
the natural Way, are pretty good PoiklsteS.
o.. The BnGaIo Courier says that General
Jackson in 1882 triumphcd over the U. S. Bank,
aided by the Brokers and Stock.J Jobbers of Eng.
land, and that said Banks
of Senator's ana Representatives, Congress &c Sc must
be fresh IN the recollection OF every one, &c
We insist that these savage attacks on GEO.
VI. DALLAS shall be stopped II the party be
rcvc he was bribed TO introduce and carry through
the U. S. Bank Charter in 80, what did they put
him up for2 They should either withdraw the
no,n;nation or treat their candidate with common
dcccncy!