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From the Boston Daily Aduertiser, September l5.
MIR. Webster in New York.

The New York Courier states that it is informed
on good authority that movement is on foot in
the city to nominate Webster cleo toral tickle to
be sustained in that State. After the feeble demon
STATIONS which have been made heretofore by the
mass of the Wing party in New York in favor Of
putting Mr.. WEBSTER in nomination when there
was reason to suppose that such an example would
have been followed in other places, and when there
would have been room to anticipate from IL some
useful result, we have very little faith in the eff
made there for such an object at this late period.
move to this effect by the Wings Of New York be-
fore the nomination of General SCorr, was doubt
whether he would carry SO greata number Of votes
some other Wing candidate.
If the friends of Mr.. Webster were discouraged
from making a movement at time when there
reason to anticipate that it would have an in
luence the decision Of the National Con cnton,
it can hardly be expected that the number Of those
who are now prepared to unite in the reported
movement will prove sufficient to produce any i'm
preston upon the mass Of voters throughout the
State Of New York 1t is difficult ther fore, to
lima CINE what motive can prompt any real friends
Of Mr.. Webster to such an effort under existing
circumstances. No one can expect any result
from it fattering in any degree to MIR. Webster by
the number of those who will unite in it. or likely
to be beneficial in any way to the Wing party or
to the country. On the contrary, whatever may
be the result Of the election, the effort cannot fa
to be injurious to the Wing party by diminishing
its strength, and exhibiting a spirit of disunion
which must have an injurious effect. not only upon
the present election, but all the future efforts o.
the party.
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I H E REPU BLIC.
WASH N GT0N:
Soule and Pierce.

When Mr.. PIERRE SoULE returned to Lou
isana from the Senate in the autumn Of 1850
his constituents so distrusted his principles, OF
rather were so well satisfied of his hostility tc
the Union, that they addressed to him three
interrogatories;
l. Are YOU in favor of dissolution of the
Union, now or hereafter, because of the legis,
latioa of the late session of Congress2
.. "Are you in favor of the establishment OF
a Southern Contederacy, now or hereafter, be-
cause of the Legislation of the late session Of
Congress!
3. care you in favor Of the secession Of the
State of LOUISIANA from the Union, now OF
hereafter, because of the Legislation of the late
session of Congress?"
The course of Mr.. SouLE, the violence o.
his language, and his we'll known hostility tc
the Union, justified this interrogation.
MIR. SOULE wrote an offensive and insolen,
reply, in which he declined TO ans,cer the in.
te'rogatories Of his constituents.
Now mark his relations to the Democracy
and the DEMOCRATIC candidate.
AT the convention he opposed the adoption
Of a platform prior to the nomination.
The man selected, according to the letter
OF Mr.. FORSYTH to the Southern Pres,, and
MIR. SoULE's own letters, was MIR. SoULE's
Creation AND CHOICE"
Mr. SoULE was selected as the chairman OF
the committee appointed to proceed TO New
Hampshire and apprize General PIERCE of his
nomination. This was due to the man who
had "created and chosen" him.
If General PIERCE is elected, this Disunon
Senator will stand high in his regards and
councils. We should probably have Mr..
SouLE in the Cabinet, alongside of PRESTON
KING, or JOHN VAN buren,, or HENRY B.
STANTON, or Governor CLEVELAND.
We respectfully ask if any WIG in his
senses will pretend TO say that General PIERCE
50 surrounded would make more safe, relia
Bile, and conservative Chief Magistrate, than a
man who has shed his blood for the nation
which these men would dissolve, and who has
proved in thousand ways his undertaking and
answering attachment to the Union and the
Constitution
We should like to hear Mr.. JENIFER OF
Maryland, and Mr.. LYONS of Richmond on
this subject
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From the Neto Orleans Bee, September g..
The Canvass In Louisiana.

We have within the last day or two read letters
from probably thirds of the parishes Of Louisi
ana-most of them written by observant and intel.
ligent gentlemen. These letters almost uniformly
speak of the prospect in Louisiana exceedingly
cheering. In the northwestern part Of the State
in Sabine, Nachioches, DeSoto Bossier. Claiborne,
and the tier of Democratic srongholds in that
quarter-in the Ouachita district along the Arkan.
linein the old county of Opelousas, and in the
verdant Attakapas the Red River, and in South
ern Louisiana, the Wings are united to a man.
The dissatisfaction which followed the nomination
of General ScoTT has given way to cordial acquics-
cence, and determination to support him. The
effect of the dissemination of Mr.. Perce's hothe
views slavery and of the irrefragab evidence
of General Scotts soundness on that question, has
been most salutary. by satisfying the Wings that
General Scott is more reliable than his opponent,
and by dieepatng any remains OF discomfort
which the Wing nomination may have created.
To show that the Wings Of the interior are earn
estly at work in the Presidential campaign, we
may state that we know Of eight mass meetings
and barbccues now in course Of preparaton-yiz:
to be given by the Scott men Of Claiborne, Bos
sier and Bienvie. on the 25th instant; second to
come off at Alexandria on the 22d; a third ut
Franklin the 25th; a fourth ut lberville about
the same time; 9th ut Opeousas on the 18th; a
sixth at Greonsburg, in the Piney Woods, on the
9th October; n seventh at Natchoches in the early
part Of next month; and eighth at Madisonvillc,
to come off shortly. These are signs of active
and hopeful Wing spirit--of spirit that il undis-
mayed by the brag and buster and the reckless
policy Of the opposition This ia the temper and
the feeling that leads to victory.
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Party Civilizations,

We commend to the attention Of Mr.. JENI-
FER the following extract from temperate ar
ticle IN the New Orleans Picoy,ne, on the
State of Parties:
eff either party in the South is under especial
obligation 10 support the nominations, il is the
Wbig party, who went into the National Conven-
ton knowing that General Scott was to be a can
didstc and formidable one, too, before that body
Such bodies worse than useless, us the means
Of party organizaon if their selections can be re-
Pudated by those who are represented in them
without protest"
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In the first column the three terrible fellows
whose demonac influence has formed the staple of
every anti Scott speech which has been made in
the South since the canvass opened. They are the
gorgon heads with which party politicians have
hoped to brighten the southern people from the
support of the brave old man who fought their bat
tles when half OF them too young to fight for
themselves. These three constitute the mighty in
iuence which ia to control General Scott-an old
SOLDIER who has for forty years and upwards been
controlling Others-and devastate the fifteen Sou III
ern States. They three!
But look in the other column, if you wish to find
the real "head deUils" of this sinister influence.
First on the list ia Martin Van Buren-the betrayer
of the South-the candidate of the Abolitionists and
Freesoilers in lsaS--the master magician-thc en-
bodiment of all that is cunning, tricky, unscru
pulous, and selfish in politics. lie don't go for
Scott-hes for Pierce! his most prominent, as he is
by far his ablest, advocate at the North. And
there's his con John-"Prin John,' as they call
hm-a regular "chip of the old block" brimful
South with cordial hatred for having thrown his
revered father overheard in 1874, shrewd active,
and cunning Lucifer himself-he, too, goes for
Pierce, and is dead out against Scott.
Then there's David Wilmot-the man whose
hand fret lighted this torch of political anti slave
ry in Congress-; and Dix, and King, and q whole
lot of others ,cose breath kindled 1t into conagra
ton tohich threatened to destroy the Union-hey ALL
their brother Freesoiler, Colonel Hayne, said at
the Pittsburgh Convention-'tTHEY KNOW THEIR
MAN" Because they know he "deplores" slavery,
and has most "revolting feeling at the giving up
OF a slave" Because they know that, born and
raised in the bigoted atmosphere of New Hamp
shire, his prejudices and sympathies sectional
and in harmony with their own hostile feelings to-
wards the South; and that General Scott, Virgil
nian by birth and-by profession, long habit, and
patriotic reflections citizen of the Union, has no
such narrow. sectional feelings.
Look at the two lists-examine and scrutinize
the names and the history of the men-compare
the weight Of influence on side and the other,
and then say if, weighed in their own scales, Cen
eral Pierce il not found wanting.
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remained for the inhabitants to do for themselves
that is, it was shown that, to complete the defence
p. =. companies Of mounted
.oridians were REQUIRED.
~
ns utterly false that ever offered the slightest
disrespect to the civil political authorities Of
Florida; and all the candid and intelligent officers
Of that Territory with whom have conversed
agree with me to the inef6ciency Of their mill
tia generally.
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The OFFICERS AND OWEN OF THE HgSRY CLAY
lNDicTED.-This morning the grand jury in the
United States district court came in with true
bill for manslaughter, under the act of Congress,
against Thomas Collyer, James Tallman, John
German, Edward Hubbard, James l.. Jcssup,
James Elmendorf, and Charles Merritt, owner and
officers of the steamboat Henry Clay. The indict-
ment contains fifteen counts, varying the faots al
legged The grand jury then retired, as there is
other business before them. Chief Justice Nelson
and Judge Belts both on the bench.
tN.W York Courier and Enquirer, 10TH.
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From the Vicksburg (lfiss.) Whig, September
Mr.. webster and His Friends.

The course pursued by few Of the friends Of
Mr.. WEBSTER in Boston in fomenting disaffection
to the regularly nominated Wing ticket is most
extraordinary, and the course of Mr.. Webster him
self is very equvoca, to cay the least of it, because
one word of objection from him to such use OF his
name would at once settle the question. MIR. Web
ster suffered his name to 60 before the convention;
his friends used every effort to secure his nomina-
tion aud good faith requires that he and his friends
shall abide by the suit of fair nomination
ever was made in a convention. Besides this, Mr..
Webstcr's friends held the balance of power, and
every one knows that they could have prevented
the nomination of General Scott, and at any one
of the fit ythree ballots have scored the nominal
ton Of Mr.. Fillmore; but his friends in New Hamp-
shire and Rhode Island changed their votes Tor
General Scott, which caused others, who had been
voting Tor Mr.. Fillmore, to change, and thus settled
the nomination of General Scott; and now opposi.
ton 10 the nomination comes with very bad grace
from the fricnds of Mr.. Webster. The Wing party
remembers the difficulty with which he was
brought to the support of General Harrison in lS40,
and Of General Taylor in lSas and IL he should re-
main silent, and thus permit his friends to divide
the party, and defeat General scott, great as he
undoubtedly is, the name Of Mr.. Webster will be
execrnted by every Wing in tho land. IL is Mr..
Webstcr's friends, and not MIR. Seward and his
friends-a as has been falsely said-who are respon-
sible for the nomination Of General Scott
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The Jackson Missi,sippian announces that Co
lionel Alexander X. McCung, one Of the Wing
electors for that State at large, has declined sery
ing because he is unwilling to support General
Scott for the Presidency. ''-Erchange, . F.
: The above has been going the rounds upoonira-
dicted about long enough. The statemo mt ia known
in this place to be generally, specially, and par
ticularly false. Colonel McClung did not decline
serving rs elector because he was unwilling to
support Scott, and II he has refused to support him
il is new thing in this place. where he 10 best
known. and where his most intimate friends reside.
He objected to Scott at first many othors did,
who are now, since his true history 10 known and
shines out 30 clearly, his warmest supporters. Co
lionel McClung would not have served as clector
had Mr.. Fillmore, who wac biz fret choice, been
nominated. What slander sholl null to the
counter NEXT Columbus (hiss) Argus, 0h,
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Nashville and Buffalo Conventionists.

Prominent among the. friends of PIERCE are
the members Of the Nashville Convention of
1850 and the Buffalo Convention of l64S.
On recurring to list of the members of the
Nashville Convention, we cannot find single
man in favor Of General SCOTT. They know
too well the veterans devotion to the Union and
Constitution to believe that they could hatch
treason in safety under his administration.
The Buffalo Conventionists are either out
in full blast for General PIERCE, or they are
seeking to elect him to the Presidency by run
ming HALE. These men, too, know perfectly
well that they cannot safely oppose the execu-
ton Of the laws when General ScorT is 10 the
Presidential chair.
Now, is there not marked force and empha-
Sis in these facts?
If General SCoTr were not perfectly sound
and reliable friend of the Union, should we
find all the forces of Freesoil and Secession
all the primary and secondary Disunionists-
opposed to his electionl We think not.
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pears in the New York Courier and Enquirer,
we learn that ten years ago the Duke Of VEL
LINGroN had received from the British govern
ment, for services that had proved not one
whit more beneficial to his country than those
of General SCorT to the United States, sum
amounting in our currency to $l3,Sl3,l75
Money received as pay since he entered the army,
Do. as Commander in Chief u Europe,
Isurn not nsmsd)
Do ss his share of prize money in Spain,
said to be about. ........... fSOO, 900
Do as prize money in France,
said to have been about. 200 900
| Do rs salary and expenses
| whilst Ambassador in Free;
do. to Vienna. $4,000
1911. Pension Of E4,8O0 per
annorn, how paid for
81 years ............. l4S ,OOO
| 1912. Grant per SO of George
Ill. .................- lOO,OOO
SO years. interest thereon" 10000
1913. Grant per So and 81 of
George III......n.. 100000
35 years interest thereon 100000 q. -,
1914. Grant per IS George IIIt 2OO, 900
Sugars interest thereon s4C,O0O
1915. Votes by Parliament
after the battle of Wa
terIoo. 10000
35years' interest thereon $4,000 !,
1918. The Dukes pay as field
marshal, 80 years at. 1000 10000
1870. TIE Dukes pay col
onel of rifle brigade,
20 years.............. 2s5 5000
1926. The Dukes pay as con-
stable Of the tower, %
g. years, etsli..,...... 947 2O,S34
1925. The Dukes pay as
Warden of the Cirque
Ports, % years, at.... 474 10, &2s
1927 The Dukes pay as col
onel first guards, 81 IA
years, at............ 200 &c, 200
1927. The Dukes pay as COM
mander-in-chief till
1880, years, at..... 345S 1854
1912. The Dukes pay as COM
mander-in-chief, re-
appointed years, at. 3,45s 2O.79s
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Mr. Lyons and the "Soward-Scott" Party.
Mr.. Lyons, Of Richmond, a seeding VINO,
has got into bad company of late, and publishes
letters which are reprinted with appreciation
by the union newspaper. We read one Of
them yesterday in that journal, switch we
should not have noticed had it not /. T..
superfuous hin~ IN .'i tne
WARD-Soorr" party.
Mr.. LYONS ought to be ashamed of talking
such nonsense. We had intended to answer
the argument ingeniously urged in this juxta
position Of names, but it is SO well done in the
annexed article from the Memphis Eagle that
we are spared the necessity:
TRY HIM BY THEIR Own SoALEs!--The great OBJ
lection which the Democratic papers have urged
against General Scott-we mean the more decent
ones, not the mcndacious sheets which call him an
Abolitionis and him of all sorts of personal
meanness--was that his nomination was urged and
that he 10 supported by Northern Freesoilers. The
charges have been rung on this through every
possible variation. Very we'll Let US test the
safety Of thet two candidates by this rule. Here s
the way the case stands
For Scott For Pierce.
VIM. II Seward, M. Van Buren,,
Horace Greedy, J. Van Buren,,
Gov. Johnston. John A. Dir
Preston King,
,. 7. Hallett,
y f. Butler,
David Wilmot,
Thomas w. Dorr,
w. j. Brown,
H. Hamlin,
John Atwood,
Moses Norris,
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z SALUTE Yesterday afternoon the "Scott Life
G uard Association," composed entirely of men
" no served under General Scott, fired salute Of
one hundred guns from the Battery, in honor OF
the anniversary Of the entrance Of tho American
army into the city of Mexico The salute was
fired under the immediate direction of Lieutenant
William IL. Brow ne and Lieutenant William Tay
Iur, OF the New York volunteers, Captain j. II.
Hobart Ward, of tho seventh infantry, and Ser
geant Hugh Mcdonald, of the second artillery,
IL, ,nnant of the regiment OF the New York
voiunlc,s and the American rifles were present
while the salute wao fired. and united in three
hearty cheers for the 70 OF Mexico General Scott
[NsD YORK. Times, 10Th.
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The Onion on General Scott's Pay and
AllOyances.'

1t is mentioned by PLUrARcH that ScIpIo,
who rid his own country Of invasion by con-
quering the enemy's country, answered some
idle complaint by this reply: "Rome expects
from me an account of services performed-not
of money expended"
But in the Unions article General SCorr is
held to account, as a criminal, for every cent
that he has received in the way of pay and
Allowances, and without being credi ted by the
Union for single duty performed. Nay, &C.
cording to the Unions Indictment, it does not
appear that Scorr has ever earned the salt to
his bread in any day of his forty -four years.
services.
The reports Of the Executive Departments
to the Senate, under MIR. MERIwErHER's re-
solution, are not yet printed; but to show that
the call for those reports was mere party
trick 10 give the means of disappearing
General ScoTT, the editor Of the Union, who
is the printer to Congress, instead of Fastening
the document through the press, that the diff
ferent official reports might speak for them
selves, has only been in haste to give, in his
newspaper, garbled and uncandid abstract of
many items of those reports.
Take the item of 81 ,SS5 l9, Ga commission
Of3! per cent. on contribution money, &c.;)
the Union says this sum has been retained by
General SCoTT without authority of law"
but it is added, 'to avoid suspicion of undue
Bias, we submit the following extract from the
letter of the SECRETARY OF WAR"
"'n applying this act 1.-THE act of March 3, lS49l
particular CAGES, doubts whether clause
allowing compensation applied to contributions
levied elsewhere than at ports and in the form Of
duties on imports. The opinion Of the Attorney
General was solicited on this question, and on the
18th day of March last that officer gave an opin-
ION in the negative. According to this interpreta-
ton Of the act Of March 3, lS49, General ScoTT
was not authorized by that net TO retain the above
cum OF S7,Ss5 10, as the collection Of contribu
tions on which the charge based were not
made at a port, but in the interior"
And here the extract terminates IN the can
did Union, after prefacing it by flourish about
its desire ito Avoid the suspicion Of undue
bias" If any such desire had existed, why
did not the Union quote the very next two
paragraphs of the same report, dated August
"a, 1882 The Secretary says:
at may be proper, however, to add, that to TIE
account are appended some explanatory remarks
Of General ScoTT, in which the following passage
occurs, which bears upon this subject
"'With the moneys which. on account Of the
army, came into my hands in Mexico, viz: specisi
contribution money lin lieu Of pillage) levied
upon the capital OF that country, captured tobacco
money. debt due the Mexican government col
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We see in the newspapers some talk of a
WEBSTER movement in Boston. A few per-
sons in that city are partially crazy In regard
to Mr.. WEBSTER, for they talk of "electing"
him to the Presidency as if there was the slight
est chance of giving him single electoral vote
Sane men do not cultivate such decisions, or
suffer themselves to be implicated in the follies
to which they lead. We can assure our
WIG friends that the monomania to which
we allude prevails to very limited extent,
and cannot by possibility affect the vote of
Massachusetts,
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IecteI by my order, tax gamblers licenses,
and email sum saved at the hospital Of Perote,
the Treasury Of the United States has nothing to
do whatever. Not one of those items fall under
the 5Sth article of war, under envy other provi
sion OF law. Those items were collected under the
laws of war, and are TO be accounted for accord
ingly'"
OR ON the same supposition of n little can
dor on the part of the Union, why did it not
quote another passage from the same report,
viz:
Tho only account, that am aware of, contain
ing an item coming within the scope of the resou-
ton, which remains unsettled and 6ls In this
Department. is one rendered By Major General
scorT, under date of July To- s4s, of his disburse-
ments of SUM OF $4,000 advanced from the
Treasury, and various other sums captured from
the enemy and levied contributions. &C., in the
interior of Mexico, amounting to 1921 .69l 81.
"In this account is found item which is thus
| stated:
"' Total amount expended. ,a..,.I... S255, 29l As
Total amount expended. S255, 29l IS
Deduct the amount re-
ceived from the Trea-
s,~x n0O M