Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14

lsentauves. Others must be alarmed at the avowal
IN the Union that paper which speaks for the
President II not in his very words--that the Sec
retary OF the Treasury is collecting and preparing
the data for general reduction of the Tariff in its
heayier-taxed articles among which coal and iron
are two of the chief. Others again must be sick
of Witnessing the open contempt Of law and duty
with which the present Administration has carried
out the spoils-system; and others, finally, are still
more Disguised at the non-appcation of that system
to their own personal benefit There are thus
excluding even those whom the war-one of the
Cabinet displeases-many more sorts that likely
to abandon the Locofocos than the Wings
AS for Nativsm, well inclined as | am towards
| IT. see not how party can take any particular
prevalence which has, thus far, signalized itself
only by the i'll it has done and the confessed failure
it has made 1t has certainly put itself under bad
leaders and worse organization: but, most of all,
it is confessed to me here now that the composition
of the party itself is bad Wanting, then, the re-
putation of success well as that of prudence OF
discipline, and Of personal worth, | not how
they are suddenly to grow an ascendant party.
Probably they are much nearer to becoming an OBJ
lsolete one
There is but one other matter of local politics
which can just now exert much influence over par
ties and this is the question of liquidating or not
liquidatng the interest of the State debt. On this
subject, the Wings appear to have acted with spirit
and patriotism, and to have carried forward certain
portions Of the State to the OFFER most honorable to
them as citizens, Of paying up their ensuing taxes
in advance, in order that the next payment Of inie
rest may be met Gov. Skunk and his friends, on
the contrary, to have met the public difficult
ties much less well.
The Government Of the State however, offers
two shocking anomalies, i'll the mere enforcement
of public order, that fit to command every ones
attention and make him ask, Is this under one Of
: the new philosophically constructed societies I!
Are we here within the peculiar empire of rea-
son !! Is it thus that things work in one of the
good LAFAYETTE's model Governments 2 Z"
write at this moment within half an hours walk
of a large population, in dependant borough Of
Philadelphia, though not within her municipal au-
thorities, where bros and riots form a permanent
state Of things, where mobs are, to speak, per-
mitted amusement, and where, as to any thing like
Expressive exertion, the laws only be consid-
cred as in state of perpetual suspension. The
scenes of last years bloodshed were only explo-
sions upon greater scale, and in other quarters,
OF the violence which exists there lin the Kensing-
ton suburbs) at its own pleasure, and quite beyond
any civil interference. There, factions of foreign
origin ply the cudgel upon each others wild pates
there, fishermen, as rude of hand as their women
have ever been reputed Of tongue, WELD the stretch
er and the boat-hook there, iremen and hose COM
panies kindle up wars upon each other fercer than
the wild element with which they deal and there,
animated by Hibernian example, the very women
rush into the braws, hurl the brickbat from affair." or
pushing on to close quarters, wrap four-pound
stone in their aprons, and, running upon the adverse
side let drive with that weapon blow that defes
all " Tending"
Won ,.y;ll ,ck IL ,,tor;.b,oan. a., L. ,~,..;
Bile Not only is the fact so, but of very easy ex
PLANTATION. There are magistrates there selected BY
the popular vote only they are therefore dema
gogues alone. If they did their duty, they would
never be reelected. But, besides; for their execu
tive officers they have constabes also elective-de
magogues of course, and who would Of course neve
think OF interfering with the sovereign while he il
at his amusement of roU, of breaking heads o
laws. presume you are satisfied that the state
things in Kensington is quite natural.
But now, from the lowest agent of the law, lei u.
ascend to the highest: from constables to the Gov
ernor. ! find that Gov. PORTER, during his lately
ended term, gave pardons TO about eight hundred
convicted criminals, some of them condemned fol
the most atrocious crimes, committed under cir.
cumstances the most aggravated! In several cases
ne has issued pardon for an atrocious offence
without even the decency of waiting for an nvest
CATION. In word, he has held out wholesale
IMMUNITY for any offence that man may choose to
commit Is il possible that, from an official con
duct so abandoned, a universal license for crime
shall not ensue! j.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE IL, ls45.
| The night Of that very day which | had set apar
for minute survey of the Gallery of the Pennsyl
vania Academy has witnessed the devastation of tina
fine collection. Guided by one Of its directors
himself excellent artist to whose Judgment the
Gallery owed many precious additions, to whose
zeal it owed much of its prosperity had in the
! morning examined with admiration and carefully
noted all that worthiest of description in the
several halls; and that very night, about ] o'clock
on my way to witness again the last act of Leonora
+ came suddenly, with pang the seycrest, upon
the confagraton, in which il seemed but too prob
able that many of the most beautiful objects on
which had lately dwelt had persisted forever!
When tell you that my own thoughts at once
reverted, with main solicitude to a real and very
fine MuriLo, 1.-THE subject the Roman Daughter,
formerly in the possession of the too celebrated
Prince of Peace, Godoy, and purchased Of the late
Mr.. Meade who acquired it while Consul in
Spain--to charming and very perfect SalUdto,
Rosa, Mercury and Argus Ito Ganymede, Luz
crece, and several other good GndoS-to ANsfon's
Dead Man restored to life by touching the bones oil
Elisha, (the best, fancy, of all American history
pieces) and among the sculptures, to the beautiful
little bronze group of Dirce, by that rare master
Benuenufo Celtini, the fighting sculptor--two ex-
quisite bacchantes, by Cerdcchi--a majestic head
of Napoleon, by C0,lora, of colossal size and pro-
digiousy fne--and the astonishing group Of the
Battle of the Centaurs and Lapthe, modelled by
Lough upon the idea Of Phidias's central compo-
son of the Partheuon a work of amazing ygor