Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-01-07

Mr.. Ritche has lntima ed, on several occasions
that he invited to take charge of the interests
Of General jackson administration rs an editor
at Washington. On this he pledged himself as if
to suggest an lnvldlous inference to others who
had occupied that position More recently he has
with omnous import, notified the country that he
intended to give the history of the eventul move
ment that translated him, so much against his will,
10 Washington to supplant the Globe.
The first of the vast arrogatons of self-impor-
lance Git seems from his article No. g. shrink into
letter OF Mr.. Tazewell who conceived more than
two years in advance of General Jackson's reach
ing the Presidency, that Mr. Richie might be use
full at Washington. He thinks, too, he had a sim
liar call, at the same time, from Mr. Van Buren,;
but he cannot find it. This is the pretext (he
proof having been called for by me) upon which
he has made himself the Atlas on which General
jackson wished to repose. know that General
jackson would have looked upon Mr.. Ritchie's
support of his administration as that of shifting
sands under solid ediice. General Jackson's
letters which will annex to assist Mr.. Richie in
completing his promised history of his advent to
Washington, render this apparent, and will dissi-
pate that bubble reputation" which Mr.. Ritchie's
vanity has blown out of the pretence that he was
called upon to bolster General jackson.
And now as to his recent assumption in regard
to superceding the Globe under Mr. Folks aus
pces, which he meditates history 10 record. Will
he lake it i'll that | contribute my mite of intor-
nation to add to materials indispensable to this
great undertaking, which he only partially per-
formed here cheerfully-I am now in bet
ter humor with him than have been---mpart to
him my knowledge of the transaction, obtained
during its progress and from subsequent revela-
tons.
In the first place must vindlcate Mr. Rtchie's
very "soft" one. Mr.. Richie said, in the Union
of the 10th September:
GAS to the assertion that Simon Cameron, late a
Senator from Pennsylvania furnished the chief part of
the funds requred; we say that it is utterly and entire
ly without foundation, Mr.. Cameron did not furnish
the chief part of the funds required; and more Mr..
Cameron did not furnish any par-no, not one cent
OF the funds required. The engagement between Fhom
Richie and John Hess required that the first pay
ment to Messrs. Blair & Riyes should be made by Ma
jor Heiss The Editor of the Union knows that the
payment was made by Major Hess, and that his books
show that Major Hess was credited and the Union es-
tablishment charged with the amount. From what
Major Heiss obtained the money the Editor of
the Union has ascertained it was none OF his
business TO inquire"
He said in the Union oftbe next day, the 18th Sep
tember
"What, for example, is meaner than their trumping
up story OF our purchase OF the Globe, and OBJ
tanning money from Mr. Cameron and from Mr. Polk
to neither ofwhom the purchaser indebted for a
cent OF loan or cent advanced"
said in my article published in the Weekly
Globe of the Goth November last, 'sthe committee
had taken the testimony OF General Cameron be-
fore they examined me, and had learned from him
that he had furnished most of the money to pay
the first insalment" Mr.. Richie has never re-
piled to that part of my article. In looking over
General Cameron's testimony, as printed by Mr..
Richie. find the following only; Il knew his Mr..
LJoias Sc1o Ill
to advance bis share without assistance" There
is nota wordinthe testimony, it is printed about
Mr.. Richie. expect to be able to state, in due
time, who altered or suppressed what General
Cameron said to the committee, portion oft
at least
These gentlemen come in conflict upon the
very point which made the pivot for the Globes
overthrow. 1t required money to substitute such
an establishment as was necessary TO the new Ad-
ministration, ifthe old one, which contributed to
bring it into power,was to be dispensed with. Fiji
ty thousand dollars, which was the lowest esti-
mate for the provision of an Office and material
for Government Press, and to keep it in motion
until it could obtain circulation, was not to be
found in President Folks purse, nor in Mr.. Ritch
les, nor in Mr. Cameron's, nor in that of any. of
those gentlemen whose names have transpired as
its editors or partners in the concern which Mr..
Polk and his conhdants had determined secretly
during the canvass should suppant the Globe.
This money matter, then, upon which Mr.. Richie
and Mr. Cameron are at issue, must form very
essential part of the Richie advent to Wash
ington-a subject which is to be commemorated
by that pen to which the epoch of '98 owes
all its ecat
Now I will look into the motive for raising this
fund of $4,000, before | come to the mode-the
elucdation of which will probably settle the dis
11t.
l have unquestionable evidence, that gentleman
who became afterwards one of Mr.. Folks Sc
cretaries, informed him in July, 1874, that the
course OF the Globe in relation to Mr.. Tyler and
his friends was the main obstacle to Mr.. Tylers
withdrawal. The separate Tyler ticket Mr.. Polk
thought would put in jeopardy several CLOSELY
tested States, and affect the final result of the pre-
sdential election.
Another of those most interested in the result,
urged Mr.. Polk to devise some mode of inducing
Mr.. Tyler to withdraw, and Gen. Jackson was re-
quested to ascertain the motives which actuated
the course of the Globe towards Mr.. Tyler and
his friends Mr.. Blair, without knowing what
prompted the inquiry, replied to Gen Jackson that
the conduct of Mr.. Tyer's administration would,
in reference to the great body of the Democracy
and its principles, especially in New York and
elsewhere in the North, prove fatalto Mr. Folks
election, if the Globe did not take course which
would make it clear that there was no collision
between them, and that if elected, Mr.. Polk would
put down the abuses of which the country COM
plained that if the new cry of notification which
was raised in South Carolina on the tariffof 1912,
was not met by the Globe with denunciation,
because the persons who raised it were under
stood to be supporters of Mr.. Folks election, he
would be connected with the movement which
would destroy him in the North, unless it was de-
nounced in the Globe. The friends of Mr.. Polk
became SO we'll satisfied with this view, that a
Democratic convention was afterwards held at
Nashville, Tennessee, which disapproved of the
South Carolina proceedings. That convention
was held on the 18th August, 1874, and here l
will make an extract from the Nashville Union of
that day, to prove that althe speakers at the con-
venton denounced disunion