Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-07-22
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WAsHINGToN, July 9Th, 1S47.

of the civilized world. The rumors origi-
aaling here are scattered abroad on the
winds and waves and seized upon by the
multitude with righteousness that augurs
muck of mind diseased The war has be-
come topic in the winds of certain CATER
ers TO the press, that is made to assume,
chameleon-ike, every hue and shade. One
day they have the golden tins of peace, the
next that Of bloody war. 1t would seem
that every knight of the quill capable Of
converting his lance into rounded point
has it, SO soon as coined by prolific brain,
passed into the folds of the press East, West,
North and South, from whence it is thrown
back upon us, and he views himself 1vailed
urophet.' That the President is heartily
aired of the war, there can be but little
doubt in the minds of all who have strictly
reviewed his vascillating course of late; that
he has become alarmed at its duration, or
rather at the stupidity of the defendants Of
the Aztecs, in not suing for peace, and there
by acknowledging their degraded condition
to the world, is also certain that he will
he held responsible to the sovereign people
for the waste of treasure, and to his God
for that of human life, is beyond the shadow
of doubt, and when the days of reckoning
come, for come they must, that he will not
in all cases be able to ssclear his skirls,'' is
as clear as the MONDAY sun. The ''dear
people" are beginning to question the utility
of this war. The keen edge of ''glory" has
become, as it were, rudely blunted. The
novel inducements held out to the citizen to
Join the army, have lost most of their ''git-
,ering tinsel." The 4'poor soldier" reflects,
that there are too chances and greater to
one that ere the years service expires, ne
cessagy to obtain bounty of waste land, he
may require a much scantier portion to
meet all his earthly wants. Hence the Sec
rotary will have to concoct some new in
venton to fiji up the ranks OF the two armies
skeletoned by the sword and disease. What
this will be time will solve.
Ere you receive this you will have aearn-
ed through the press, that the President and
his suit have returned from their Northern
tour. suppose this trip will be Mr.. Pnlk's-
last. and that he is familiar enough with
most other sections of the country to do
away with the necessity Of renewing them
with Aving visit. The Presidents South
ern trip speaks for itself like a weil-gotten-
up prologue, and nothing consistent with
the present fareical age could have been
better conceived or adapted to couer or pre-
cede his Northern '',our." "What are
they doing in the N orth when they should
be serving their sovereign in the South 90
was made no doubt to ring upon the ears
of the valiant Captains, and, possibly, some
were brought here and confined in the pub
lic Offices to answer the fealty of the
many.
By the way, we live, apparently, in a
strange age, particularly as it regards that
much-.alked of instrument the Federal Con-
stiluton With some it would seem TO be
more honored in the ''breach than the OBJ
servance,'' and by those, too, whose duty
it should be to cherish it to the letter.
Some months since the committee for the
Washington Monument waited on, or adj
dressed in writing, the President, requesting
permission TO place the monument in con-
temptation of erection to the memory of
Washington, upon the public mail fronting
the Presidential mansion. The President
could not consent to such Dissertation OF
this ground. cause chy2 ]. was uncon-
atilu,ional, and therefore could not be done
short of the most agonising alarm for the
welfare of the provisions of this sacred
instrument! Some few months however
eIapse, or scarce the voice is hushed or ink
dried wherewilh the President rejected the
petition of This committee when, 10! a change
comes DER the spirit ofhis dream, caused by
a visit of somewhat similar committee, or
for similar purpose at all events, to the me-
nory ofGeneral Andrew Jackson. He, pre-
sumo. having maslicated his constitutional
scruples sufficiently to rest lightly upon a
capacious constitutional stomach, gives to
this committee an affirmative answer to the
extent of ten YEARS. lease, having found out
during this time that the Constitution fully
recognised his power in disposing of said
domain for a period of ten years, no doubt
thinking that were it once quietly seated
there i, would remain to the latest periot
of time. Oh, Consistency! lhou art indeed
precious jewel. The committee to make
-.assurance, doubIy sure" intend giving this
structure an enormous pedestal, some twelve
hundred tons in weight. would, in al
candor suggest to the committee visit te
Egypt, for the purpose Of obtaining one o
the lesser, if not the largest of the Pyramids
or at least Cleopalra's Needle, being fearful
this being young land, they may be puzzled
10 find any thing suited to form proper basi