The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-08-04
From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
s WE AREIN A TIGHT PLACE.,


From the Pittsburgh Gazette.
GIVE AREIN A TIGHT PLACE"
One of the administration doctors"
at Washington, thus sketches off the criti-
cal state of affairs Of the party in letter,
under date Of
WASHINGTON, July Ia.
We are in critical state. Never more
so. The schedule of the administration
measures are three sheets in the wind.
viz: the warehouse, the tariff, and the
reduction bills. We are in a tight place
we are in a bad box-we are in a di-
lemma-we are in difficulty-we are in
trepidation; in short, as a member de-
clared to-day in our presence, 1--WE are
in the d-dest sort OF difficulty''-if
the reader will excuse the expletive.
First of all, there Is the land bill. The
House have whitfield it all away. The
Senate will not concur in the amendment.
Mr.. Calhoun says he never can consent
to ii. 1t is inadequate--it won't, do-itis
Insufficient is poor apology, and he
won't have it. The chances are, there
fore, that that bill is lost.
Secondly, there is the warehousing bill.
1t will probably pass as it is. Goods to
be stored one year--a bond 10 be re-
quired for the duties, in double the amount
of the goods in store. Did you ever
hear of any thing so pre-eminently redic-
ulous-so cgregiously absurd! The ad-
vantages calculated from the bill are
eviserated, cauterized, null and void-it
is not the bill Of the administration-it is
not Mr.. Walkers bill, nor Mr.. Dix's
bill, nor Mr.. Calhoon's bill-it is j. NJ.
Clayton's bill-it is John Davis's bill
it is Huntington's bill-it is whig bill,
forced upon Democratic Senate, through
inevitable circumstances. We are corner
ed, headed, circumvented at every turn
we are III great tribulation-we are sur
rounded as old lack was by the Mexi-
cans. We are in the chaparals-supplies
cut off-mutny in the camp-our
munitions expended, and on short allow
ance.
In the third place-Hear oh! We peo-
ple-in the third place. We speak like
St. Paul, as one having authority; we
claim the function apostolical; we speak
with tears in our eyes. We have lost
Cameron, and Sturgeon, and Miles,
They are gone over. They are incvita-
bly, in the ranks OF the enemy. They
are against us. Cold Iron;
"Ah me what perils do environ,
The man who NEEDLES with cold iron."
Hudibras said so. We say so. Gamer
on says SO. Sturgeon springs ten feet
out of the water and says so. Hurrah
for Sturgeon But what does Old Bull
lion say,
"'Angels and ministers of grace"
What does old Bullion sayl He says
nothing. He is anxiousIy, forebodingly,
obviously, mexplicably quiescent. He
say nothing. He looks on. Now are
YOU satisfied! We think not. The ques.
ton is, where is he! Is he forthcoming!
Is he thar! or is he non-come-at-ibus in
swampo! A distinguished gentleman
from Missouri informs us tonight that he
is not thar. And further that dead set
may be looked for from old Bullion a.
gainst the tariff bill from the House. Mr..
Benton goes for free importation of salt.
He is supposed to have been at the bot
tom of Mr.. Hunger(erd's bill, notwith-
standing;. though we think not. One
thing is certain. He is the main stay of
MIR. Van Buren. He is not given up.
The new tariff bill does give him up, and
New York also 1t puts Polk and Dali
las, Walker and Calhoun, in the front
rank. 1t uses up New York. Policy,
however, may work a compromise. Let
us wait week. This is the third per-
plexity. And we have a fourth. We
have 'em all in lump, like the troubles
of an old woman. We are verify in a
peck of trouble. The Lord help us.
Fourthly, Mr.. Calhoun's Mississippi
bill was laid out to-day in the House,
little colder than cold iron-as cold as
charity. Itwas rejected with something
OF scorn. The presidency was peePing
through it, and il was laid out. Here we
are then. Burnt brandy and feathers will
not avail US. We have stumbled among
the cold iron. We are now translating
the Kane letter. Pennsylvania adheres
to her co Instruction, and she is ruled out.
She is implacable. The whole system
of the administration depends upon the
Kane letter. We must send for John K
Kane. We want him badly. All might
be set to rights If we had but the true
analyses of the Kane letter. We are in
a bad way. We must have habeas
corpus for the corporal body of John X.
Kane. Father Richie can't make it out.
The doctrines of '98 and '99 will not apply
TO cold iron. They are silent upon the