Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-03
/ Startling Bet.

n SidltlHS
A gentleman in our office yesterday offered to
make bet that William H. Seward would be the
next President of the United States 1t is prop
er to premise that the offer was made by one of
our most substantial citizens, and a strong Union
Wing. We confess, that, coming from such
source, and uttered in peculiar emphatic manner,
the proposition somewhat startled us.
Our friend backed up his prediction, by assert
ing that Seward could carry to-day, in a Presi-
dental contest, New York, Massachusetts, Con
necticut, Vermont, Ohio and possibly New Hamp-
shire and these States, he thinks, are enough to
throw the election in the House, and whenIt comes
10 that he believes that the friends of Mr.. Seward,
either by fair means or foul would manage to car
~ the day,
We fancy that we can see a smile Of increduii-
" PLAYING upon the cOuntcnances Of our Silver
Grey friends as they contemplate the above para
graph But 1t is a wise maxim in war, never to
under estimate the strength OF yeur enemy. Sc
ward is ten times the fox and twenty times the
..-...an. that ever Van Buren, was, and has
better chance Tor The Presidency now than the
"Eal,Inuok III sician'' had TWO years before his
...pu.
no only 4 cunning politician, who knows
LOW aL1 when 10 throw out sweet morsels of
..lni-e 10 each the favor of the people but he
possesses d Cardinal Richelieu in Thurlow Weed,
and powerful alley in Cardinal Hughes, to aid
him in any Jesuitical plot necessary to the
plishment of his ambitious schemes The Press,
also, or the State of New York so far at least as
1.-The rural districts are concerned, is already
suborned to his purpose, and closely affiliated to
the central organ at Albany
In New England, the Boston Atlas for many
years the leading journal of the Wing party has
gone over to the ''WOolly heads horse foot and
dragons, and half its Eastern satellites are tum-
bling after it. The Burlington Free Press, and
no WatcbD1aD intp w. yOol1v -
and are said to be in the pay of the Sewardites
The Portland Advertiser is assuming the same
complexion and there is scarcely standard bear
er left among the old wing editors of New Eng
land who fights under the bread banner of Union,
upon the broad platform of the Constitution,
The New Bedford Mercury, paper of some
importance in the Old Colony, the organ of the
Grinnels and other millonaries of Bristol county,
comes out violently against the Fugitive Slave
Law, and in view of the coming contest holds the
following language
The Wings of this State will never be brought
to advocate defend, tolerate the Fugitive
Slave Law, or will they ever aid in procuring the
denomination of the President who has been the
champion Of the law. Whoever else may by the
choice of the North for the Wing Presidential can
didate, it will not be Willard Fillmore, nor hi
Secretary of State.
These indications should not be UNDECIDED by
the sentnels on the watch-towers of the Republic
1t is time to sound the alarm to the sleepers with
in the citadel Our enemies are already in tn
field and the next cry will be The Philistine
are upon u.s.
The Van Buren, wing of the Democratic part,
stands ready go to the Sewardites for zen
sideration say Attorney Generalship for But
Ter, and mission to st. James for Prince John
while the Bentonians of the Southwest are march
ing up a motely regiment to join the invading
hosts of the North. Friends of the Union loo
to your armor The battle of Waterloo is yet t
be fought.
Somebody, having been much troubled to lear
the keys of the Piano Forte, proposed the follow
ing lines as alienation of the labor:
Holo to learn tie Piano keys IN quarter of an hon
All the G and keys
Are between the black Hrees;
And tween the te0OS all the DIS,
Then on the right side of the threes
Will be found the BIS and Cs;
But on the left side of the threes
Are all the F's and all the G's.
We learn by friend that Alexander Graham
Esq, OF Marion, Ala, died at his residence lie
days since We record this event with deep II