The New York herald., 1845-08-14

pol;t;caI Movements in the Crescent City.
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With propriety envy US II il little after sunrise,
and the thermometer is standing only at H. With me
exception of few days and nights In july the neat mas
not beon inordnaey oppressive infinitely less so nan
with you if new spaper accounts to be relied upon
Your great fire produced great deal of excitement nss
to have absorbed every other extraneous con-
The ludicrous discussion now being nsned
by some Of your papers, as to the suscepsDhsy o sa
stre TO explosion can create here and elsewhere
hearty laugh at their expense There IS notng 'ha' Gun
be more easily tested than its truth OF aacy and none
Of your numerous chemists will put to the proof why
not do it yourself make it job on small scale Tor
Of oneyour least useful devs7We are duh here to safety
and the cantgeta awayers" sadly reduced in num-
bers What ranpred in the last seasons business 70 SO
improve their finances as to deprive US u tno ~ h
when thew are the wanted Is only known 70 theh-
Our TYLER Collector Thomas Barrett is still in office
as thought by those who pretended to be push in
the secrets oi MIR. Polk Father Richie himself tnat
his exit would Be the first His sos Syos. Or
TO either party and not spoken OF at all BY his or
sans ,hrswdy suspect that no appointment
Constitution in November next while another class
neither wings nor democrats don't know go,SdMa what
and the Benton faction--openly aver that he is
influenced by totally different. considerations-
expense Of all claims having their object as mat
of courtesy and right the preierment q more Local
that his determination is to bestow upon either near
family relative formerly citizen Of Arkansas, but now
mote part Of this State or like relation hsre-a
commission merchant Of one seasons standing WHO he
orde Of the Senate. All of citizen applicants tor
the Office OF sterling worth and ample qualihca
tons should he far draw his independence as
to disregard their paramount claims and the predec
tons this community before or after our aforesaid
elections he will raise about his ears Glamour winch
even Mr. Jefferson in his popular executive day,
be both 10th to encounter and at loss to know
the equilibrium so far as we are the boast
democratic rule Of action regards appointments 10
and and should he further Disregard Mr. essons equabe
precepts embodied in his to the remonsrance OF
hS
circumstance Of great relief had found moderate par
ticpaton ofofce in the hands Of the majority; would
gladly have LETT to time and accident to raise them to
their just share But their total exclusion calls Tor
prompter corrections shall correct the procedure
but that done, return with joy to that state Of things
when the only questions concerning candidate shall be-
is he honest is he capable Is he faithful to the Con
sttuton =" He will out of the pale Of the oice-hold
ers destroy his party here. As he contends that no
combination ofcircumsances will induce him to ofera
second time felection the truth at which his Wholesale
procrptve acts loudly proclaim, he probably don't care
fig how little popular capital he may leave his person
ally constituted His removals here az far as
known up 10 this tme district attorney district
marshal naval officer, appraiser superintendent Of the
| mint, and, Of course their host Of attaches The
) present incumbent Of the first is solomon W.
Downs, ocofoco quandum Ouachita third rate lawyer
He supplsnted Baily Peyton, whom you doubtless well
lect If your memory will you bore great political
t. and allowed no favorable opportunity
escape him Of making that hostility both known and
could but think that would either precede the recall Of
Mr. Wise from Brazil, be contemporaneous with that
fact How Mr. Polk reconcile with his feelings to
dismiss Mr. Peyton, who in differing with him only exer-
csed the prsrogative Of freeman although in doing
SO he might have permitted his feelings occasions 20
have got the better of that courtesy which man
aimres and can better display and retaining Mr Wise
in one of the most important and distinguished posts
within his gift when il IS as notorious that he is fre
that the latter gentleman was not only more hostile
him than the former, but actually carried that hostll
r,ra IN max tann
The second commission has been nominay given
youth by the name Of Wagner but virtually to ms
Evening Courier You must know that the latter Wag
ner enthusiastic admrer Of Gen. Jackson preends
to be So and took very good care that the General
should the fact You must also know that the said
Wagner cannot consistently with propriety or precedent
way rewarding him. that lnc but through his son.
The knowing ones seem 20 think that Mr. folk parted
relatives and those Of his wife, being unprovded for and
would have gone far refuse the request of Gen
rarsnadad that il was more likely Senate
q would not confirm the nomination. trust that his pre-
possibly been repened of will leave them to his &c
and 10 the books Of the Treasury department at Was
behest and reflects anything but credit the two Hick
" cries. His predecessor A. Sidney Robertson Gle
fellow in conceivable acceptation OF the term
The third has fallen to the lot Of A. abranch recently
Member Of Congress and some years ago our Charge
le popular enough rather would elicit harsh
er ment from any quarter the incumbent being unobee
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one Of the most gnanimous removals admins
- ration, and one which, will venture to affirm, would
any other democratic President. the sun Labrsnc
took the place Of Martin Durad the son,inaw by mar
soanaw Of Mr. Clay he i one Of the most unescsp
onabe men, in every attribute pertaining 10 our nature
that lives and @ Mould no doubt on tna, Iione
y dent than the nominee OF the Baltimore Convention Az
ter the removals have already named to yos
for removals and appointments can he find consolation for
this pitiiul revenge not Mr. Durald bat on Mr. Clay
70 He knew that Mr. Durald only Of most
"a vrnous citizens but efficient officer and poor man
And that SO far from the Democrats having args
II majority in the public officer that single W hg can't
sh he found IN prominent As my letter already
long, will defer sketch of the other iacum
bens such as inspector of the mint appraiser OF the
e and last though not least the superintendent
public timber Who by the way suppose you know
sisspp memory In eulogising this latter appointment
o was truly amusing to read the remarks OF many Dc
:, mocratic papers They argued that the appointment Q
II, Colonel Claiborne was peculiarly fecious onl,
his extensive knowledge Of the range of country
Q IN which the timber situated, but from indomtabs
energy of character and lave of locomotion The Co
lionel being on his hence with his commission in hi
~ after his arrival here, say his readers in rea
ton to his and the opportunity it would al
lord him 0f extending his usefulness in editorial pon
en- Of STILL not having the remarks above re
lerred to- he gave us to understand in flaming leader
tnat the positon ne tnen occupied would ehaoe MN
give his undivided attention his paper and that they
might rely upon it that he would always be at his pos
ch to make his paper what he intended h should be
the best exponents of Democratic principles in th'
ys country SO much for his supervision Of the timber
W. We have received eight bales Of cotton of the nee
CROP but the prices at which they have been sold have
yet transpred. Our stock OF old sugar reduced I
about 5000 hogshcads and the holders expect to e
money making price in consequence Of that consume
ny by your late fire The cotton AMI sugar crops are bot
is well spoken Of and of the latter considerable will b.
shipped to England by our more wealthy planters,
be an experiment, the coming season.
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IL BRILLIANT METEOR SEEN III THE Day TIAIE-Yes
x terddy afternoon, August llh, just after the stoa
re pillar for the support oil the large equatorial telescope
raised to the OF the Sears Tower nlagnifcen
meteor seen, while the shining from the to
OF the tower by Mr. Rogers the architect, and Mr. Geo
y" F. Bond.