The State guard., 1848-07-11
WASHINGTON CIrY, June %, 1s4S.

de. Without rival, assure you.
 B.
 
 WASHINGTON CIrY, June 29, 194S.
 bsTe been much amused, of late, witt t.ne result of the efforts of the quid-nunc, to arrive at satisfactory conclusion as tt the precise position of Senator Dix. witt reference to the candidates for the Presi dency. Perhapsa dozen have venturec to pump him in person, while hundred have essayed the experiment on gentle men intimate with him. To-day, one O this class set out, with the determination of ascertaining his intention ere night He persevered for some time, and ther gave up the chase, having learned tha within the same hour the Senator had le. clared his intention of supporting Van Blu ren, and given ten dollars toward purcha. sing the documents to advance the cause of Cass, which are to be gratuitously circulated from this point. The poor qu,d nunc acknowledged himself fairly non- plussed.
 We have just now all sorts of rumours ailoat relative to letters from Van Buren and Taylor. The first is said to have written accepting the nomination made at Utica, where, 1t is well understood here, he was not to be addressed from the Utica gathering on the subject; that mode of bringing him forward being determin-. ed between himself and the managing sore-heads, as the best manner of avold- ing secret repulse from Gen. Dodge, who does not hesitate to scout the idea of opposing the democratic nominations, to all with whom he converses upon the sub- ject.
 The Taylor letter or letters spoken of, are represented to embrace an emphatic declension of party nomination. That is, blunt refusal to make whig admin istration if elected. am of opinion that some such communication from the com mander of the army of occupation is in this place, but being in the hands of Fay Tor whigs, it is probably withheld under the belief that Crittenden and others will be able to persuade him to withdraw it, wing acceptance in its stead. He has also undoubtedly written one or more letters repudiating the pro- Wilmot proviso interpretation put upon the Signal letter. I have no doubt that the letter to Abijah Mann, of N. York, so iioii ioiig ;:sac!1 s,c::: tho public is of this character.
 The contents of this letter are we'll known to many persons active in organi- zing the sore headed bolt from the demo- cratic national nominations. The fact that they withhold this letter from the public of the North, is conclusive proof that they are earnestly laboring to install the federal party, bank, protection, special privilege, &c., in the government.
 To-day hundreds of letters reached de- mocratic members of Congress, which commented upon the fall of Martin Van Buren. saw a large number of them from all sections of the Union, for the tel egraphic wires communicated the fact of his lapse from ordinary integrity, every where, instantaneously. 1 can assure you that, one and all, they declare that in the neighborhood of the different writers the news came only to render him odious to those who have made so many sacrifi- ces in times past, to sustain-him. because General Jackson then honored him with his confidence. Nowhere, out of N. Y., if these letters arc to be relied on, will his position debauch one democrat in ten thousand. This succeeding honor tends to satisfy our friends that the action of the | sore-beads at Utica will strengthen rather than injure Cass.
 Mir. Phelps, of Vt., preached to-day to a comparatively empty Senate chamber, upon the subject of slavery in the territo- ries, maintaining, of course, the ultraism, one and all, common to the most ultra federal school as to the powers of the general government. At home, Mir. P. passes for nan of intellect and attain ments; but here, among the first minos in the country, he cuts sorry figure in- deed, in his many effcrts to sneak into no toriety, if not fame.
 In the House this morning, Pollock of Pa., doned the worn out doublet which Andrew Stewart appears to have thrown away in disgust He ventured high tariff speech, predicting that, in time, pro- lection would once again be in favor with the American pEople ; and charging the troubles brought upon the country by his Pennsylvania Bank of the U. States, to account of the compromise act He went his death against direct taxation. The man in thus Bentickizing himself gives evidence of his fitness for a eel in an in- sane hospital. It was fun to look at him laboring as though well aware that he had in hand a hopeless task. Think of it will you! Standing up preaching protec- tion, on the 29th of Jnne, lS4S.
 B.