New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-05
FROM PHIL .4DELPHLi.

From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, March 9, 1853.
The discovery of an extraordinary mares nest
made by The Ecening Bulletin Of this city, in which
it was shown to a certainty that Gov. Walker had
turned out regular cheat, and gone back to
Buchanan and LecOmptOn, has made an undue sensa
ton abroad where the character and standing of
that journal are not 30 well understood az in the
city where il is printed. No one here believed the
story of Walkers tratorous abandonment of Kan
sas, and the publication of the fact in the journal
where it first appeared, only served to make more
evidently untrue. The charge was so monstrOus,
the specifications circumstantial, and the public
feeling on the question acute that, had it origin
ated anywhere else some degree of credit might
have attached to it. But the peculiar infrmities of
The Bulletin are thoroughly understood here; and
it was well known that at the very time Gov.
Walker was denounced ip its columns as a traitor,
he was moving to and fro in a neighboring State,
mngling in large assemblages of bis fellow citizens,
and publicly maintaining the high and virtuOus
ground of repudiatOn which he originally assumed.
Hence, though the charge was elaborated into an
article of more than column in length, though it
was reprOducedin THE TRIBUNE and other journals,
some of which affected to believe il, yet at home it
was secuted as a lie from the beginning. Subse.
quent developments under Walkers own hand prove
that he has been sandered with malgnancy that
is shrewdly believed to be prompted by deliberate
calculation. How journal ostensibly devoted to
promoting the cause of freedom in Kansas should
so suddenly, and with no ground whatever, accuse
of bribery man who has 80 repeatedly signalized
his devotion to that cause, and who at the very
moment was doing essential service, rs II mystery
which we all understand here. To you at distance
t!msy seem inexplicable, but you will be made
wiser hereafter. There are Others quite easily
hired to turn traitor as Gov. Walker, and some
whose itching palms, white with the eprosy of dis
honest subsidies, still held out impatient for new
lcyics, even from hostile purses. The sole apology
for this extraordinary attack il this So the alarm
of his friends was unf0unded."
The community is not yet prepared to believe
that the Administration possesses or can command
power enough to compel Congress to swallow Le.
compton. j must do the Fillmore men of this city
the Justice to say that they are staggered by the
signs of the times. Their journals 20 shoulder to
shoulder with the Republican press in denunciation
Of the policy of the hOary dOtard whom their mis-
taken ballots aided in electing. They are doing
honestly what they can to see justice DONE Patient
and undismayed the Republicans stand together,
confident that the future is prolific not only OF hope
but of certainty; that if Kansas be forced in under
the LecomptOn rule, bloody though the future will
unquesionaby be, yet it will unfold triumph not
only glorious but enduring. This patient confidence
of the Republicans, this ncreduOus nervousness of
the Fillmore men, is all seen and noted by the De-
mocracy of Pennsy lvania. They have the sagscity
to see and feel the end to which if is all tending
They know that the power is departing from them
and that the decentralization of their leaders is break
ing up the foundations of their party. Pray heaven
that unlucky incident may intervene to leave one
stone upon another. As to Phadephia-the life
long devotee of Henry Clsy-the scene of triumph
after triumph, when victory, alas did not end in
conquest-she is now breaking the chains of the
Slave Power, aud in November next will shake off
the incubus of the present representation Nothing
is more certain than that she will cease to be the
cotton city.
The seat in the District Court vacated by Judge
Kane is growing cold for want of successor
John Cadwalader, brother to the Mexican Gen.
ersl and the man who slipped into Congress by a
majority of seven votes, whereupon no one ever
more persstently msrepresented the minority
this gentleman Is urged as that successor. But
doubt his chances. He lacks essential Qualifca-
tons not in legal sense, TO enable him to secure
the tfiice. His orthodoxy on the goose question is
undoubted. He is old enough, sound enough, and
is lawyer enough, Yet he lacketh one thing needful
and will not be Judge this time. Mr.. Campbell,
the late Postmaster General under Pierce, will in
all probability be the man. He possesses all the
qualifications of Mr.. Cadwalader. and one other,
which, as the Sham Democracy is now organized
and governed, will be found sufficient to turn the
scale and make him Judge. This element of power
is quiet and unobtrusiye, but terribly potential. 1t
seeks display, aud therefore makes none, but il.
content with victory for its fruits, not because of
the cannOnade which usually announces Demo-
cratic triumph. 1t 10 already working TO ill with
lts supple tool the much-coveted seat and the free
masonry Of its organized advances will be found to
succeed How steadily the Bench is sinking into
| contempt! low certainly il is losing the respect
oil Nrtuous minds What spectacle of declen
ZION is presented in the fact that in this vast CON-
inulIS ;l lhese two insignificant men should become
inneeisteiy the prominent candidates for this once
aighhed position. Much as Mr.. Dalas's embassy
is wanted to reward some traitor to Kansas the
power oehind 'ne throne will be found too strong to
allow blm to sink gracefully into the iudseship of
the United States District Court
But let US leave this arena of mercenarv antap-
onsm, and turn 10 !something more bumsnitariaS
| On Friday attended the Commencement of tbe
| Philadelphia Female Medical College. This ami.
versary was held IN the Musical Fund Hall an ele
| CANT and very c0mmodous room. II was crowded
not immoderately, but 80 completely that the add