Democratic banner., 1849-08-27
FROM The RECORD.

FROM The RECORD.
The following facts compiled for the WashiDg.
ton Union, will scatter b the winds, the charge Of
prescription now urged BY the Tay-
lorites against the Democrats with such singular
According to 4 detailed Est which the Union
gives, the main facts Of the case are: that on the
4th Of Marchin the year 1929, 1881, and 1871, the
Wings had Q majority Of the clerkships at the seat
Of government, Of respectively, l64. 50 and a.
salaries to the amount Of 1881, 32S against $685.
us in the possession Of the Democrats, an excess
of $44.6l3. Two months later, Cd the 18th May,
the excess was $l14,313.
With regard to the course on this poiut of the
past administration, the Union says: .
Notwithstanding the fact that MI. Tyler ap-
pointed many gentlemen Is Wings In !64l. who
were designated Is Democrats In "a and rs, yet
when Mr.. Polk surrendered the government on
the 4th Of March, last, the Offices in Washington
were divided, Swings, 266, and Democrats S74.-
Though the list may not be quite correct, the edit
or thinks, "the errors (when coTrected) will swell
the Wing side and dimilish the Demoerstic"-
or thirty TIRES chief clerkships, in the different de-
partmenis, there were at the end Of Mr.. Folks
administrator tseents-o one held BY Wings; and on
~ ttcelvs BY Democrats.
This looks, and rational Wings will confess II,
as il Honesty, capacity and idslty.1 were a test
as fully recognized under Mr.. Polk as It is likely
to be under Messrs, Ewing and Warren. In the
moro important Offices political bias decided the
fste Of no incumbent. In the minor. ones, Offices
were distributed among Democrats Of which Wings
had deprived hem ender several previous Demo
cratic adminIstl atoms. We do not defend on its
own merits the creation Off large preponderance,
but those who enjoyed for twelve years Democrat
lie clemency are estopped from complaining of four
years Of justice, even though It may have been q
little too severe. And they should bethink them
selves that Il will be the highest triumph of their
President, peculiarly pledged as he was on this
point, If he be able on his retirement, to pOint, to as
perfect a ful6lment Of his engagement as Mr..
Polk, the partisan President, can do. During
the latter's administration not a dollar Of therpub-
lie funds was lost by defalcalion.
The PRosPEcTs OF HUNeARY.-We have pri-
vate letters from Warsaw, to the middle of the
past month. which give a more distinct idea of the
character Of the war now waged by the Austrian
and Russian Emperors on Hungary, than any &C.
count which has yet reached as. Vast supplies
were daily being sent from Warsaw to the armv,
and it was evident no steps would be neglected TO
reduce the Hungarians 10 Submission. All admit
the horror Of the war, the ~atrocious manner in
which it is conducted, and the great doubt Of its
success. The Russians see with diSmay that they
have to anticipate nothing bot the possession Of .
wilderness-the Hungarians destroying every dis
'nct as they leave 1t, and poisoning every fount-
ain. The sympathies Of al the neighborfng M.
lions are with the heroic soldiers Of Kossuth and
the Emperor Of Russia evidently did not mtici-
pate such q war - he meets with. There are SIX
ty thousand Hungarians In ComoEn-a strong
fortress, on which, though Il Is closely
invested, the allies have been able to make no i'm
preston. The garrison'is six times larger than Is
necessary and If Benz and Demhinski are able
to raise the seige, the allies viii receive . blow
from which they cannot recover; and the Hunga-
lian army in the field, thus strengthened, could
not but triumph.
All accounts say that the only salvation Of The
invaders consists In forcing the HungariAns 10 an
action, which they skii6uiiy avoid, aware that no
large army can subsist in such . country a. Hun
gary, where water 10 scarce at an times, and con-
scious Of their power to annihilats smaller bodies.
There Ii, besides, no comparison between the in
free Hungarian aad The Russian solaisR,
10 subsisted on bread 0lonn A terrible scourge
Is also said to have seized on the Russian soldiers,
known a. the "lics pest" The individual b at
tackled BY vermin under the akin, which increases
the whole body becomes one mass Of eoFrup-
ton. Hitherto no remedy has been discovered,
and the person attacked Is considered q doomed;
and the letters say "hundreds have, ct their "
been thrown into the river to termi-
nate their suffsrings. The cholera also makes
terrible havoc on the III fed allied army"
If Hungary succeeds in this contest, al Poland
viii be in arms, and the Czars win be occupied,
certainly, for years to come, with his " afsiFs.
- WdahingtOH Republic.
The Memphis AppeaL, under the head Of "Bsn-
ton Van-Burenism In Missouri, % thus speaks:
mass Of the stern Dem6ciacy Of Missouri, I'D.
harse afaadHaa tlv N tha cardinal nr;neinlaa Of thG