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ground in an immense road wagon, performing
upon violins and other instruments, and singing
out ooh poor Jimmy Polk" to perfection. At
night, while excellent addresses were being made
at the Court House to all who could gain an en-
trance, by Messrs. Stuart, of Alexandria, Janney
of Loudoun, Harrison, of Washington, and others,
hundreds in the streets had formed torch-light
procession, and paraded through the town, and
were addressed at various points by speakers ;
the Glee Clubs, too, were on their route, visiting
the ladies', and at almost every house the Wing
shout went up for "gallant HARRY CLAY"
more enthusiastic meeting, and one calculated
to make lasting impression never was held in
Virginia and we can assure our friends here who
were detained by the fear of the weather, that
they would have been douby repaid for all in
conveniences by the generous reception which
awaited them at Leesburg.
What shall we say of the beautiful and enthu-
siastic Wing ladies of that hospitable little town
They promised that the "atch string should be
hung out at every door," but the door itself was
flung aoide open, and Loudoun's farest daughters
were outside to invite and welcome you to their
homes and upon their tables the fatted calf"
was spread before you, with every other substan-
tial and luxury of life. No effort was spared to
make one feel at home, and we have no doubt that
many gallant Wing, at parting, felt that he
left not as he came - and perhaps at some future
day some of their present guests may be permit
ted to hang his hat on the same rack with
their noble Wing brothers. When Loudoun next
assemblies we shall not fail to be among Them
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The following is part of an article by the intel
ligent and bold editor of the Columbia rs. c.
Chronicle, who, in the midst of the Locofoco null
LITIGATION of that State, has maintained his Jour-
nal true to wing principles and the Union. The
fac.s here stated ought to open the eyes of An.
nexationists ~
The TEXAS HUMBUe.-We happened, during
the summer, to travel in company with an nte /.
ligent Texan who had abandoned that country in
disgust, with the intention of settling in this. of
which he is native. In reply to queries pro-
pounded to him in regard to the amount of the debt
of Texas and the quantity of vacant land within
her borders, he answered that he had no doubt
her debt amounted to at least .ftiy millions of
dollars that, exclusive of her foreign debt, which
had never been properly estimated, she owed her
own citizens, for large sums of money borrowed
from them, and for provisions supplied and taken
to subsist her troops; that, as regarded vacant
lands, there was not an inch of ground in Texas
worth owning, but was covered three grams deep =
We were first inclined to doubt his statements,
but have since been led to believe thew were
nearly correct. 1t must have struck every unbi-
ased mind, on reading the correspondence accom-
panying the form of the late treaty, as very sim
guar TACT, that the commissioners appointed on
tne part OF Texas to negotiate it could not tell
what the amount of her debt was Is it poss
Bile they were as ignorant of it as they pretended
to be? We think not AT any rate, there is
not much faith to be put in the statements of a
Government that can not tell what is the amount
of its liabilities. Our little Florida war, which
lasted only few years. against handful of In.
dams, cost the country upwards of forty millions
and will any body believe that the protracted
Texas war cost that nation less than double that
amount 2"
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LATEST FROM THE RIVER PLATE.

We are indebted to the politeness of Captain
VIM. 5. Wedge of the bri g Amazon, at this port
from Buenos Ayres for the following information:
The Amazon left Buenos Ayres on the 10Th of
August Hides were high, and the supplies of
the article from the ports on the North side of the
river Plate were cut off almost entirely in conse-
quence of the cattle having been driven back in
to the interior by Riviera's troops to prevent
supplies from reaching Oribe's army, which still
maintained its position outside of Montevideo
Admiral Brown, who has been commanding the
Argentine sqadron, has retired, and Captain An
thony TOLL native of Spain, has been appointed
in his place, with the rank of Commodore. 1t is
understood to be the intention of the Argentine
Government to declare the port of Montevdeo to
be under strict blockade by sea, which must ac-
celerate its fall This measure will much inter-
tere with American commerce, as the princ pal
articles landed there now are -four and provisions
OF the production of the United States, for which
there is no demand at Buenos Ayres. Vessels
ordered off must, therefore, make losing voyages.
The army of the city Of Montevdeo was in
very weak stale. Gen. Paz, the only General in
whom any confidence could be placed, had pro-
ceeded to Rio de Janelro, with the hope of pro-
curing assistance from Brazil, which, however, is
very improbable. Brazil would be divided into
half dozen new Republics the moment war com
menced, and this is we'll understood at Rio de ia.
Metro by the Government. Gen. Riviera was on
the confines of Brazil with 1000 men,. The en-
tire of his force may be put down at about 5000,
and that of Gen. Oribe at $4,000.
The U. s. ship Boston, Commander Fender
CAST, was at Montevideo OH the 18th of August.
Ball. Amer
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W A S H | N G. 7 @ N.
FRIDAY EVENING, OCT'R IS, 1874.
CONVICT LITERATURE-MR CLAWS
SLANDERERS.

Decidedly the most infamous publication which
we have yet seen in reference to Mr.. Clay, not
excepting the tracts of Amos Kendall, appeared
in the Globe of Monday. The paper purports to
be the reply of twenty EIGHT members of the Me-
thodist Church, to the letter of DR.. Bascom, in
relation to certain charges against Mr.. Clay's
moral character. 1t will be remembered that
DR.. Bascom, of Louisville, long celebrated as one
of the finest pulpit orators in the country, wrote
a letter some time since to Dr. Goble, of New
Jersey in which he refutes the foul aspersions
upon the character of Mr.. Clay, testifying, from
long personal acquaintance to his private ex-
cellence, and the high esteem in which he is held
by his neighbors. The Infamous article to which
we have adyerted purports to have been repub-
lished by the Globe from the Ohio Statesman,
paper which has obtained provincial reputation
for lies and calumny, hardly eclpsed by the me-
tropolitan fame of the Globe. 1t is apparent to
every honorable mind, upon reading this produc-
ton, that it could never have emanated from
twenty-eght or any greater or less number of
Methodists. There is familiar use of the tech
ncalities and flash phrases peculiar to blacklegs
and swindlers, which utterly precludes the sup
position that the paper could have emanated from
members of the Methodist Church. One is ra-
Their inclined to suspect that the use of pen, ink,
and paper, has been given to some eight and
twenty convicts in the penitenlary, who have
set their heads together to produce prize essay
for the revilers Of Mr.. Clay. Every falsehood
which the lowest knave in the country ever
trumped up to crafty his malice, or to curry fa-
vor with dominant faction, is repeated in this
pretended reply of twenty EIGHT Methodsts and
not content with dredging the sewers for old
calumnes, these wretches have set forth others,
of which we have never before heard, and there
fore, suppose original, and without offering the
slightest proof of their verify. So far from at
tempting to prove them, the scoundrels have not
even set them forth afirmatively-they have put
them, one after another, in the form of questions,
without giving names or dates:
This Infamous paper appears in the Globe
without word of comment and consequently
with the endorsement of the editor. The prov
erb says, :" it is not one swallow that makes
summer" and it is not the propagation of one
calumny that will make or the good name of
the Globe.
These pretended Methodists call themselves
Whigs-an irrefragible proof that the paper is a
Locofoco forgery. No one can read it without
perceiving that it emanates from the vilest spirit
of Locofocoism and that no Methodist or Wing
could have had anything to do with it.
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WHO WERE THE "NATIVESW

The Globe says the Native Americans were
Wings. Their Organ in Phila depha, the +" Ma
tive American" of the 18th instant, in speaking
of the recent elections in Philadelphia city and
county, says
1--WE published on Tuesday most insulting
appeal from the Albany Argus, which we do not
intend to forget in hurry. But we know moth
ing in politics save Native Amsricanism and
shall speak of men and parties as we find them.
" In our own county, two districts, formerly
Democratic, elected our tcket-while in the city,
not few Wings who staggered about their Ma
tvsm, were found on the foreign side at the
polls. These are plain facts, and establish our
original belief, that the uoters of the former Demo-
cratic party are the men to rely on for action.
Gloriously did they acquit themselves in South
wark, Spring Garden, and North Mulberry Ward.
Peaceful, firm, invincible, they poured in their
votes, and sent the first heralds of our cause to
Washington! AS they have led the van, SO may
they keep it."
These declarations speak for themselves, and
are worth cart-load of, the Globes falsehoods
on the subject.
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POLITICAL DESPERATION.

A few days ago the Madisonian made an af-
fecting appeal to the abolitionists to induce them
to vote for Mr.. Polk. In Thursdays paper the
editor attempts to excite the preiudices of for
eigners and Catholics against the Wings The
editor appears to take it for granted that those
classes are totally destitute of intelligence, and
are ready to be the dupes of the first demagogue
who may address their passions. Nothing can
more clearly betray at once reckless disregard
OF truth and fairness, and feeling of desperation
than these efforts to array sects and classes
against each other. The editor of the Madsonian
feels that few weeks will determine whether
the Post Office Department will continue to nav
for his editorials at twenty-five per cent advance
upon the rates of advertisements; and question of
SO much interest naturally induces uncommon
and extraordinary effort. What if the editor
should put into his columns stories the most pal
pably false? What if he should assert, as he
did on Wednesday. that Mr.. Clay is a free-trader,
and that MIR. Polk is the friend of projections He
squares all such cases in oro consciento, by charg-
ing them to the Post Office Department. false
hood or Misrepresentation is relieved from much
of its blackness and infamy if paid for at TWENTY
five per cent. advance upon advertising rates.
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WHAT WILL THEIR EXCUSES BET

i
After the election of Henry Clay to the Presi-
dency next month, the Locofocos will begin to in
vent excuses for their defeat. Some will say that
the Texas question was Tyler hum6ug, which
made votes for the Wings at the North, and none
for the Locos at the South. Some will laugh,
and declare that they never expected to elect
such man as Polk! Some will say they have
been defeated because Mr.. Van Buren,, who could
have carried New York, was cheated out of the
nomination Some will contend that it has all
been owing to union of the Abolionsts with
the Wings Others that the union of the Wings
and Natives" did the business. Some will at
tribute the whole blame to the active exertions
of the Hon. Willis Green and the Wing Con-
gressonal Committee. Others will swear the
whole blame upon the miserable lies put forth
under the signatures of JAMES TOWLES,
Chairman, and C. P. SENGSTACK, Secretary,
of the Executive Committee" and yfranked broad
cast over the land by the Honorable Robert j..
Walker! Some will lay the whole blame to the
countless streams of lies which the notorious
Amos Kendall, the migrate, is sending forth
through every fssure of his hide Some will at
tribute it to the unsophsticated greenness of
John c. Riues, in confessng, through the Globe,
that he bets his thousands upon thousands for
Blair, in order to keep the spirits of his party
from dropping, and prevent the fence-men from
getting scared and jumping down on the Wing
side, and that he himself, whose fortune came to
him, in the way of spoils through the gift of his
party. will lose or spend TENS OF THOUSANDS to
the whole blame of the defeat to the fatal touch
of 1ylerism! Indeed they have already begun
this cry as their excuse for the Waterloo defeat
they have just sustained in New Jersey.
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD !

AS an evidence of what the neighbors and &C
quaintances of JAMES K. Polk, of both political
parties, think will be the final result of the Pres-
Dental election we give the fact that c. C. Nor
VEIL, Esq, editor of the Nashville Wing, an
nounces that the sum of $500 is deposited with
him, as bet that HENRY CLAY will be elected
President-and another sum, Of 300, is also de-
posted as reward to be paid to any one who
will get the above bet taken! The fact that the
Locos of Tennessee do not take this bet, shows
pretty conclusivcly the amount of their confidence
in James K. Folks success
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DAvY CRocKETT's OPINION OF PoLK.-David
Crockett, albeit not learned, in the usual mean
ing Of the word was blessed with good share
of common sense, and was an admirable Judge of
character. His opinion of James K. Polk may be
gathered from the following incident.
In conversation with Henry Hubbard, Repre-
sentative from New Hampshire in 1885, at w ash
ngton, he asked abruptly, "why is the Commit
tee of Ways and Means like a tadpole :" HRe-
ally, Colonel" says the honorable Harry, that's
poser--I can't answer" 81 thought SOL says
the Colonel swell, I'll tell you why-Because
it's big in The middle and leetle al both eends."
The Colonel's illustration will be better under
stood by giving the names of the Committee re-
ferred to, viz Messrs. Polk, Cambreeng, McKim,
WILDE, BINNEY, GORHAM, Loyal, McKin-
ley, Hubbard.-Boston Mer Journal.
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A Coon ONE.-The Philadelphia Gazette says;
81 friend from the interior of this State, Gar
bon county) informs us that, in order to show the
Locofocos by their oton papers, that Mr.. Polk and
the party, as party, were opposed to the protec-
tive policy and the present tariff, he subscribed
for the Richmond Enquirer; but that paper not
having Polk and Dallas at its head, is denied 10
be Locofoco paper, and the Locos of that coun-
ty, and even one who has been a member of the
House Of Representatives and of The Senate of
this State, insist that it is Wing paper. What
wW brother Richie say to this Z"
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AN EXTENSIVE LANDED PRopRIEToR-Gen.
CHARLES FENToN MERCER, in speech, recent
ly, at Clarksburg, Qhe Republican says,) stated
"that he held one-ifth of grant of l6,500 square
miles of land from the Government of Texas, un-
der stipulation to coonize portion of it, and
the whole of grant of 5000 square miles, which,
were that country extensively settled, he said
would make him the richest man on the CONT
nent. Notwithstanding this fact, Gen. Mercer,
as citizen of the United States, is OPPOSED to
the annexation of Texas to this country.
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ANsoN JONES is chosen the next President of
Texas He was the anti-Annexation candidate
that is, he is opposed to Annexation unless Texas
can have both ends of the bargain His compet-
itor was the avowed champion of Immediate An
nexaton. 1t the Texas party cannot carry Tex
as, how can they expect to carry the United
States ?-Ibd.
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GEORGIA..

We have full returns from the Second Con-
gressiOnal District Of Georgia. JONES' the Loco
foco candidate for Congress, is elected by a ma
jority of 1874. The delegation will therefore con-
sist of four Wings and four Locos.
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WILL SILAs WRIGHT REsIGN-Why should
he not, if he expects to be chosen Governor
Mr.. Van Buren, did it when he ran-why does not
Wright! Can the Evening Post inform US 3
Tribune.
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MAINE CONGRESSIONAL ELEcTIoN-The Gov
ernor and Council of Maine have counted the
votes for members of Congress in the First and
Fifth Districts, and there is no choice in either
district.
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CHARLES GIBBONS, Esq.

TESTIMONY OF AN OPPosENr.-We find the
following extract from letter from a highly re
spectacle merchant in Charleston, S. c.. dated
October TO- in the New York Express;
"Col. Gilmore said OH Monday night last, at
Democratic meeting at the theatre, that Clau
aoaS a high-minded, honorable, honest gentleman,
he knew him nell, and what he says can be de-
pended on, and it would be an honor TO be beat bv
such man."
Col. Elmore, as our readers recoect, is we'll
known as highly intelligent and high minded
man, known in South Carolina as a leader of the
Democratic party, as a member of the Baltimore
Convention and one who knows Henry Claw well
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1t is again reported that CHESTER BUTLER, of
the llth district, Pa, is elected-if SO, wing gain
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VIII the Richmond Enquirer--sleepless guar
dian OF Southern instullons-telI US what it
THINKS OF The Locooco nomination Of James G..
brhey ~ Michigan! If a Wing Convention had
done the IKE, the Enquirer would not have al
lowed The nervous ladies' of Virginia wink of
sound sleep for the next month-N Y Tribune.
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MORE TREASOS,

We fad The following among the reeo-
lar Ios.is ., the celebration Of the 4Ih N
CoIleinn DisuIc,, h. &.
3. Anuexauon-rhe gIea, measure nf
deiyetanre and l,bsry 10 The South; u 18th
y. We are Unromsls; siheul It We are
Disuienists, through Inc late Of traitors
be our dom. 0 Times 0 Cheers.
4. The Tariff Of lSi2-An odlous act
--tllsgrsrelul to the UnisJ Sites CoE-
gres>, and ru,nous TO Southern Interests;
4 not soon repealed, South Carolina vail
again be ready 10 apply lhe r'shdui reue'
DIV. 9 Cheers.
4. Sou hern T. eht.-Our no'ihern and
eastern bre,hern brethren we call them
under the Constitution, but m no other
relati"n, we say tege her in plain phr"se,
Texas sbsll be annexed To Ihe UuiOE--
the I'ar,f shal he reduced 10 ,he rev etue
standard. and rey shall cease to anu"y
us on the .uIjtc, OF SLAVERY, or we v ii
hold item. a. we holJ The rest Oi the
worl,', enemies 10 war. in peace friends.
. times 3 cheeIs. ~.s..
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FROM MEXICO.

Accsunss from Vera cnx ID fhe 20lh
ul,imo, and kIexico - he lssh. hare Lea
received a New Orleans.
Gen. Senimanai. daring atEeatller,
started from New Orleans, Kllh . hand II
.Iallowers, % seyolunonize Tobasro. lis
vessel was drisen on shore near Tobas-
co; hls party l0ok 20 the mouni1ins. AZ
Ter several skirnishes with the Mexican
troops, ID which several q his men serr
eiiher kidd e. taken prisoners. Sea,ns.
nat himself Vas taken and ehoi, and his
body shamcfully muiilaied.
Santa Anna has declared the armislioe
with Texas 70 be ~ an end, and hossili.
iies are 70 be Immediately recommenoed
with sigor. Report has il that Santa AanA
has ordered General Vol 70 advance on
Texas. lie had called upon Congress 10
furnish him with 10000 men. and ~. coo,
600. wherewilh 10 recommenee The xaE
against Texas.
Further accounts, b. the way 0f PenSa-
cola. state thai Congress had refused The
a. 600. 900 asked BY Santa Anna. and
thrown 50 many obstruciioes in the way,
In. il il thought the contemplated insa-
SION Of Texas win prove failure.
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Al VERY sUPPOsaBIE CASE.

The chsIsx c zsl,s. Gala and rsa'
s0nable Iapsr, eondaelsd wish dscided IL
lent. has taken irreushi occasion 70 lee
nrs The riilEsns u - > .sle on lheH md
project Il dis0aiOD. II says:
ssrpose ussdaP, he assssisea q : snasE
ing Texas and Gssoissfg ihr Union.s Tea al
cor petuiilr inslHpliahss BE stFeagthrnsd b.
sAs as. Ne as lsr nakOlmall0as and psas'
laf : Fepif.
Tlis Is indeed n iRIerrOgatY 10 arouse
lhoueh,. And il srens 10 -. that ihs
worlhy Edllar msy :. pause igr reply
natal doansdsy eomss. without rersIsins
tie desired "a inlormsli.n." 1.-The sPpre
hensions prnlessed BY lhs Annsxs,'"hls's
&C Bsiush intolerance sIlh Me ihsIiIa'ioE
ol slavery. Ne we'll faunded.-how imPnr
lsnt Is ihe GarsfnmrnI Of me UniOn ID
abe preservation Of tranquility. properly
and life. IN the South
Saprose. loIsoolh. we adopt tbe sug.
Iesuon 81 '.snnrx,ng Texas and dlssnls'
inc the lInion." aud OF eIeerag IN indie
psndenI SauIhsTh conIedrTssy: SupPOs'
eur n igbors OF The .yoFIhsTa ConlsdsTs
ey In be - deeply imbuej with haired q
Ihe South aud her ..Ipshlutlnns" - GER
tain al our politicians are ever repIesen
ing them TO b.; Suppose The Englisl
ihrestsEing oUr Saulhefn coast siIh bel
"black reslmtn's" IL the West lnJIes--'n
ierieTipg SiIh our slsses. iomsnting d's
content, exri,ing insUrIec ion and ell Ihos'
consequent horrors IRON which The Imasl
nation Iurus in sickenlng disgust
Such. reeol.ecl, the Texas adsocstei
wn1lt have Us believe, Is The Disposition
Of the North, and such the purposes o
ENGLAND. 4-@
Where. in these eseais, should VI
look Tor help against Invasion tom with
out end in.urrection wilhlhi Whs
would be The strength ol our Southern
ConIsderacy against The arms ol sab
Iisus England and her swsrnirg colonies
aided by The brutal foes tast woUl,
spring Up with knife aud brand 81 ever,
Rresids--io cay nothing OF the Indifferent
rerhsIs sI.sprrated Nor,h, and The dan
ger from even cens0Pnbls Mexico IL
sell I
Pardon Us for indulgiHg arsamen, .
eainst ths Quafiiebum huiRbug, whrel
perhaps deserves no more .chsslrous'
~espon Than nd'cule, to irfi'e, d'.grss
and death upon il. Greensboro Pat.
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AARON BURR.

Mr.. Brs. in reply .o an invia,ion 10
b. pr, sent al the Fourth oil July celrbra-
Tim Al Concord. which is pu, llshed ~ the
Lowell Courier, thus slludes TO the unsue-
crssinl project Of Aaron Bprr. which H..
v'istd HI, ruin Is polluc,an and de-
str"yed his i, auence as mar:
Unhappy Bur-! that h. ,iay and ep-
nera''on should have preceded oars. Ii
hr had lived 10 The present asf, lnstsad
oi The past his crimes would haze be u
taraded as evidence Of his virtue and his
parIoism; his treason would have been
magniie'i into The loIllcst palrioli.m; his
name would have been sung 10 soug. aud
exl"lled IN story, aud instead Of stand
lng as a criminal It the bar o, iu,tice, on
Ina lar lie. he would have stood beio's
'he Baltimore Convention as cand,ta'e
oI III" parry for The Presidential rha,t, ~
VII Sc prestiice 50 din,ouiive man ~
P"ls would moi have dared T. ,alse lis
head"