New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-03-10


pas. II ~ O'Clock Several animated speeches
have been made. aud number Of important
amendments to the Treaty have been passed 70"
will have heard before tnat the article providing Tor
the establishment of the Roman Catholic Religion
has been stricken out In truth the oiii reported
70 the Senate from our Committee IA hardly to De
recognized il has lost 40 much Of It's original char
tcler
The vote may be taken FRIDAY, l DO not think
bs6,rc. OF course the Treaty modified will pass
the Senate.
Much doab. hangs over is ratification BY the
Mexican Congress The latest sdsices from the
City Of Mexico are omInous Of defeat Still We
hope for the best, II any thing there Is but lite
doubt. r. Polk would appoint an honorable Com
missioner 70 arrange affairs with Mexico certain
and stable peace could be secured.
am not authorized 70 speak OF the particulars
Of Senatorial action 10 day
~ Gen. AdonirGm Chandler appears once more
ia the Courier q Enquirer, promising that con
troversy with me would involve & most unproh1a'
bic use Of Ihis time OF course any friend
would have told him 30 before he began. Jnpro''
liable is term not half strong enough be na'
cot himself INTO needless difficulty and discomfort
by IL. Why did he begin never mention MIN
except in reply his groundless sesscks and TOOTH
less malice.
He does net venture PLAINLY 10 deny single
essential statement in my former article namely
That The Jefersonan was planned and re-
solved on before the Legislature OF ls37-s was Ia
existanee. with no reference 70 the Presidential
contest of $40 and ia fact By men VINO were not
specially devoted to Mr.. Clay, and who mainly
went against him in Dec. 80. ?. That was but
the hired Editor. aud that neither Gen Chandler
nor the Whig members Of the Legislature bad any
thing to do with hiring or paying me, except that
most of them he included subscribed go each to
the fund whereon the paper was started SO as 70
be afforded at fifty cents for the whole year D. 4na'
said paper had nothing 10 do with the selection OF
Whig candidate for President 10 l54O, having been
commenced in Febry, 1888, and completed ID L 60.
1899, before the public discussion Of the Presidenta
question had commenced. T. That never sought
the post Of it's Editor, but was sought tor II by
leading Wings whom had never before personally
known and, though nothing was ever saio 70 me
about the Presidency in this connection ! was &C
tually for Clay during the whole time that paper
was published. Not point OF the above 10 Denied
or can be without fasebood. What then, becomes
If Gen. Chambers ridiculous attack What has
It all come to bat to let the world know that he once
gave $40 for Wing purpose, being then IN ONCE
by the vote of the Wing party, and soon thereafter
a successful candidate at it's hands for another and
better Office
Gen. c. says overestmated his Comlnissary
Genefalship at 81 500 year-the salary being but
500 beside house-reDt-slso that his beng very
wealthy is fabrication Now | have always
understood the Commisssry Generalshp 10 be
worth 81 500 a year, including perquisites, and
believe it can be proved so by those who know
but let that pass. AS to the Generals present
wealth know nothing, but ] do know that, when
he was candidate for this Office in 1889 1t was
urged against him that he was then III very good
and not only well oft but mean
and it was instauced against MIN that he had re-
fused to contribute $40 assessed upon him by the
Wings Of his Ward as his share OF the expense OF
the desperate State contes; OF l83S wherein the
Wing triumph was achieved from which he sought
this very office of Commissary. know nothing OF
the truth of this charge | only know that 1t was
urged against his appointment, but unnecessarily
The Jeffersonian' was established avowediy,
openly, VIGOROUSLY, on the impulse Of the Wing
tornado of 1897, TO secure ike result IN 1898, so
as to give the Wing party Governor Lieut.. Gov
ernor Senate, Assembly, L. 4. Senator, Congress
siona Delegation aud ell the vast Executive pa
tronage then existing amounting TO millions OF dol
lars 1T had a circulation Of $4,000 copies the
Editor was paid 900 for his years abor-Bennett
has sweed this to slOOOO) 1t could not have
been expected TO do much at President making az
il was expressly to stop nearly year before the
Presidential canvass opened. Gen C. indeed says
81 would not have given tea oeas to establish paper
for the vague purposes stated by Mr.. Greeley
Now i think no one will will accuse the Genera
OF an inordinate addiction to gtring, whether for
vague purposes or otherwise bat since he actu-
ally sought aud obtained an Office very easily filled
Of high consideration, and nsuring him las he
says) 500 year and house-reAt for three years
as his share OF the spoils' of the victory which
that paper was established TO achieve think he
mourns overmuch his contribution of ten dollars.
| did my work faithfully and conscentiousy; and
when the struggle was over | came back to my
private business, as poor as man well could be,
without asking for or dreaming Of obtaining one
of the many Offices which the result had hand.
ed over to the Wing party and now, If the Editor
of the Courier Enquirer in view Of all the facts,
will publicly adjudge that Gen G. was done out of
MS $40 mo matter by whom will see that he has
it bsck again. There has been fuss enough about
thst sum Is there any call Tor morel H.s.
Charter Elections.