The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-11-14

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 10, ls49
The Hon. Henry Clay arrived here Thursday last and
on that evening to Mr. Beck Ex.vice President Dallas
Mr.. Clay, and several gentlemen OF distinction,
present Mr. Clay met at Grays Ferry by ex-M Mayor
Swift and Henry White the latter gentleman quite
active at washington last winter in procsrng Lewiss
appointment collector, and doubt s trying to secure
Mr.. Clay's influence to have him Qewis) confirmed as
collector by the Senae but the senator is shrewd
man. and bis friends here say he will oppose his confrma
don His true friends here say they are well posted up
on this point So you see there is as much dissatis
all PARTIES az to his appointment In late number Of
the Union, perceive. you show up the Ewing family
pro6ting by the spoils Of Office You might 90 further,
ioying iis burdens. SOL Meredith. a brother, is a
marshal OF Of the western States another brother
tMorris) deputy naval officer in city; Mr. Norris,
in the Treasury Department are relatives OF Mr.. Mere
diths family This family enjoying some thirty
forty thousand dollars per annum Of the peoples money
Ewing, MEREDITH and others, followed in The track
NE has apponted has son. t,0o Of three nepheTs, and
cousins, % office Ia Tie custcmhouss.
There has been regard paid TO fitness or capability
relative TO appointments made by Lewis and Postmaster
White II they relatives of or baked up by Lepn they
a,s successful The President when he received &c. The
after being addressed BY their chairman Professor j. r.
Mcheleesr in mind they were his early friends, and
ss%pss's al e, s,ss s:; .Ss sSa s.
tribute this patronage among them. Nowhere was a
declaration made publicly, in the White House, in the
presence of thousand freemen Now, show us the
esIoerats or natives who have obtained Office from him
wing parsans have been his advisers and are now fat.
enng the spoils OF Office OF one case of the MANY
you shall have the PARTICULARS Messrs Gender editor
Of the American, and Plat, Of the Journal and Eagle,
both applicants TO General Taylor for postmaster nj
Poughkeepsie, New York Glender devoted all has means
and his pen, year in advance Of the nomination by the
wing national convention in favor OF Taylor. Plat in
his paper the Journal and Eageand, by-theby an old
ultra whig-wss most violent his denunciaton against
Taylor; and as a member OF the Philadelphia conven-
ton, voted every ballot against Tayors nomination
and, after he received the nomination hoisted the
name Of Harry Clay. This same individual had the i'm
pudence to apply to Gen. Taylor Tor Office and strange
to say, succeeded over poor Gender in obtaining the
misunderstanding at Poushkeepsie, through the aid Of
Coamer, Ewing. and Clayton Such has been the course
pursued by administration that made such solemn
pledges to the people before the election There never
has been party in power who have carried out such
Wholesale prescriptions and that too, BY such men az
Clayton and Ewing, who, when in the United States Sen
ate, preached much against it. The President, in his
seeconor rather his cabinet in their selectioncoud
not have found more unpopular appoint TO Office in
our city than tkey have done
Maynes, the constable, who was committed by Mayor