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THE WHIG STANDARD. '-Flag of the free! thy fold* shall Ay, The sign of hope and triumph High." FOR PRESIDENT, HENRY CLAY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN. WASHINGTON. TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 88. 1844. ET We commence the publication, on the first page of our paper of to-day, of the speech of the Hon. E. Joy Morris, of Pennsylvania, which we shall continue and complete in our two next pub lications. We commend it to the attention of our readers, as embodying a vast fund of practical in formation upon the Tariff, and as demonstrating, in an undeniable light, the beneficent effects of the Whig policy and legislation of 1842 upon the general interests of the country. A LESSON TO POLITICAL PARTIES. [From the Globe of Saturday.] We here repeat the fact, that a seat on the bench of the Supreme Court has been offered to one member of this convention by this adminis tration. The Blue Book shows the fact that there are officers of this administration who have contrived to become members of this convention. Some of its ndminees to office are also members. It has its contractors there also on hand. How many of its promisees are in it, cannot be ascer tained; but we hazard nothing in saying, on the foregoing data, that every man in the convention who will take an office from John Tyler has been, or will be, promised one, if not given one, to break up this convention." * . * ? * * * "Can such motives be predicated of any man who turns his back on his constituents, and his ear to John Tyler? Can such calculations be made on the feelings of those holding office of nun by the tenure of electioneering service, in ? f*c? of hlB disgusting proclamation forbidding officeholders to take part in the elections ? What can be expected from men under such an influ ence but efforts to distract the deliberations of tne^convention, and^ frustrate its proceedings V " " We proclaim the fact, that John Tyler's cor ruption and intrigue has endangered the nomina tion of the democratic candidate. He has be leaguered the democratic convention, and beset it with beirayerp. There alone lies the danger to the cause. The great fountain of public puri iy( the democratic numbers, remains uncontami nated. They who, with one acclaim, have said it was our-defeat in 1840, not the failure of Mr. an Uuren, still cling to the cause and their can didate. They have the same cause, and they want the same candidate, for 1844, that they may have double triumph. Shall they lose both, from ne treachery of their delegates, brought about by the machinations of a man who has betrayed every party himself?whose race of treachery is stopped only by having no parly to betray, and no one's confidence to lose 1 Such is their only danger. I hat past, and the victory is sure?the double triumph is at hand." In the above public men and political parties in this country may read a monitory lesson ; and if they are wise they will do so. Here we see the Globe complaining that its party has been corrupted, and its integrity endangered by the "man who has betrayed every party himself whose race of treachery is stopped only by hav ing no party to bietray, and no one's confidence to lose." In reading this the mind involuntarily reverts to the transactions of '41, when Mr. Tyler basely and perfidiously turned his back upon the party which had elected him, and the principles he was pledged to support. Who then encouraged his treachery and perfidiousness? Who exulted that the fruits of victory had been wrenched from the hands of the Whigs by the man they had chose as theirjLieutenant, now, by an inscrutable dispensation of Providence, placed in the Chair of State ? Who gathered around the traitor, smiled upon him, ministered to his vanity, ex alted him, m his own estimation, into a hero, patriot, and saviour of his country ? Who took I him to their bosoms, redolent as he was with the ' odour of treachery, and embraced him with appa rent affection, the offspring, not of regard for him, but of hatred to those whom he had betrayed i The very men who now complain of his treache ry ! They take corruption to their embrace, and then complain of being polluted ! With a perfidiousness worthy of the court of an Eastern despot, they ascribe to him all the virtues of ar Washington, insinuate their intention of making him their candidate for (he Presidency, cajole him into conferring upon them the offices, honors, trusts, and emoluments in his disposal, I o tain rom him all he can give, turn their backs upon him laugh and Jeer at him, and call him ?Lr hiT6' T* add l? ,heir that of traitor, because, forsooth, he takes them at their word, and insists upon the fulfilment of their insinuated provawe, that he should be the demo cratic candidate for President. He has fulfilled his part of the tact bargain; he ha, conferred the office, upon them ; he has used his utmost exertions to prostrate the Whigs ; he has poured out upon thorn through tbo columns of tho Midi* sonian unmeasured abuao; ho has joined In the hue and cry and in the repetition of the infamous slanders against Mr. Clay ; he has lifted the de mocracy, as he alleges, from its down-trodden con | dition ; in short, he has done everything required ' of him by the democratic party, and now, when | he comes for his promised reward, he is denounced as a traitor to* all parties. The giving of the offices to the party, as argued, is now alleged to have been intended to corrupt the democratic party. We can not gainsay this, for we believe it: but it does not lie in the mouths of those who bargained for it, and with a traitor, too, thus to designate it. In doing so, they but proclaim their own ignominy and shame. They sought the betrayer, by whom they complain of having been betrayed. In their eagerness to encourage perfidy against their political opponent*, and to recover those "spoils of office" they had so long fattened upon, they forgot the maxim, he who is false to one will betray another ; and committed the folly of being counselled by their hate, rather than by their judgment. But thiB episode in our history is a lesson to those who can read it, and we commend it to the especial attention of public men and political parties. The Madisonian of Saturday evening, speaking of the " enthusiastic" Tyler meeting held at Con cert Hall on Friday evening, says : " The meeting was intended mainly for busi ness purposes, and as preparatory to the Conven tion, but such was the zeal and enthusiasm of our friends, and such their haste to do justice to honest John Tyler, that they jumped at once into the merits of the cause,'1 &c. From the article, we infer that the editor of the Madisonian was present, and we really can nol suppose him to be so easily duped, as not to have seen through the " zeal and enthusiasm" to "dc justice to John Tyler," as was there displayed, in the sense that he means to convey. It is true that the meeting seemed disposed to do him full "justice," but not in the way the Madisonian would have it. It is true that " they jumped at once into the merits of the cause," and as we inferred, seemed to understand them very tho roughly. If continued interruptions?hissing? propounding of questions to the speaker, &c., ; was any part of the "merits of the cause," they indeed did "jump at them." You can't manu facture Tyler capital in this District, with all the power and patronage you possess ; and we don't intend that it shall be inferred that there are any Tyler men in Washington. MORSE'S TELEGRAPH. The telegraph which has been for some time in th? course of construction between this city and Baltimore is now completed from the north front of the Capitol to the inner depot of^he Bal 1 timore and Washington Railroad, and by which we are enabled to furnish our readers with the items of news which transpired at the several Conventions held in Baltimore yesterday. It appears almost incredible, previous to witnessing the facility with which the communication is held by the telegraph, that such an annihilation of space could be accomplished by any human effort; but such is the facility, and the confidence entertained by the public in the success of the experiment, that during yesterday a large assem blage was in attendance at the Capitol in Wash ington to receive the intelligence from Baltimore ; and such were the arrangements made by Pro fessor Morse, and so constant was the communi cation, that those attending at the Capitol may almost be said to have been in attendance at all the Conventions in Baltimore ! The Telegraphic Despatch will be found in another column. The Texas Meeting in Dinwiddie.?We hear, from a gentleman who was at the court house, says the Petersburg Intelligencer, that the Texas meeting in Dinwiddie county, Virginia, was an exceedingly thin one. This has been the character of several of the meetings recently held in this quarter ; and if persons at a distance will take the trouble to inquire into the matter, they will find that the people of Virginia are not so strongly in favor of annexation at this time as the noise made about it would indicate. JOHN TYLER'S GENEALOGY. We learn from the last Madisonian that John Tyler is a lineal descendant of the veritable Wat Tyler, who figured so extensively in the reign of Richard II. The Captain, we presume, alfuded to "Wat," when, in one of his messages, he spoke of his " Godlike Ancestors." Speaking of the insurrection which Wat Tyler stirred up in the reign of Richard II., Sir John Froissart, says : "Their leaders, John Ball, Jack Straw, and I Wat Tyler, then marched through London, at tended by more than twenty thousand men, to the palace of Savoy, which is a handsome build ing on the road to Westminster, situated on the banks of the Thames, belonging to the Duke of Lancaster; they immediately killed the porters, pressed into the house, and set it on fire. Not content with committing this outrage, they went to the house of the Knights Hospitallers of Rhodes, dedicated to St. John of Mount Carmel, which they burnt, together with their hospital and church. They after warns paraded the streets, and killed every Fleming they could find, whe ther in house, church, or hospital, not one escaped death. They broke open several houses of the Lombards, taking whatever money they could lay their hands on, none daring to oppose them. They murdered a rich citizen, called Richard Lyon, to whom Wat Tyler had been formerly servant in France; but, having once beaten this varlet, he had not forgotten it, and, having car ried his men to his house, ordered his head to be cut off, placed upon a pike, and carried through the streets of London. Thus did these wicked people act like madmen ; and, on this Thursday, they did much mischief in the city of London." In madness, wickedness, and mischief-making, John Tyler has certainly "a wild trick of his an ceitors."?Petersburg Intelligencer. TYLER vi. COLD WATER. A rich iwm occurred at Concert Hall oa Fri day night last, and, as a majority of the inhabi tants of the globe were not present, we will at tempt to describe it There are two public rooms at Todd's building, one on the second and the other on the third atory, The Temperance So ciety, as usual, held its regular meeting in the lower room, and much to their annoyance, and in all probability to the people generally, a meet ing of the friends of John Tylar, (which the Ma disonian of Saturday calls "enthusiastic,") was held in the upper story. The temperature of the atmosphere forbade the idea of doing busi ness with closed doors ; and so the two meetings became as it were amalgamated?the orators of each M pouring out their lungs" for their own pe culiar favorites?Tyler in alto?cold water in basso. Mr. Hoban held forth eloquently in the noble cause of temperance, while a Mr. Smith, from Ohio, rivitted the attention of his motjey au dience by loud and boisterous appeals to their patriotism, and abortive efforts to prove the hon est policy of the Executive. Our stand was on the stairway between the two, though we must con fess, the cold water eloquence proved by far the most attractive of the two. The dove-tailing of the speeches struck us as being quite unique, and, without disparagement to either party, we shall ' endeavor to give an inkling of their pros and corn. Down stairs. Let them thunder away above, if they will only shower down their cold water? we shall advocate their cause?for? Up stairs. John Tyler has saved the Demo ? cratic party from ruin, and? ! Down stairs. I see him reeling to and fro?a miserable outcast from society, his last resort? Up stairs. The annexation of Texas?a theme which inspires every American citizen with? Down stairs. A nose as red as the blazing ' sun of day, and a trembling hand, he? ' Up stairs. Carries out the true Jeffersonian principles, and defies the scrutiny of? Down stairs, Mint juleps?toddies?cocktail?, and such miserable compounds as? Up Btairs. Turn the brains of the followers of Henry Clay, Martin Van Buren, and? Down stairs. The maddened votary to the shrine of Bacchus. Fellow-citizens, 1 go for? Up stairs. Tyler and Texas?that is the watch word of? Down stairs. Fools! who put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. Up stairs. Any man of common sense knows that this is the course the present Executive has pursued. He has? Down stairs. Proved himself unworthy of even the pity of those around him. Look at him? Up stairs. An honest man? Down stairs. Recreant to every virtuous prin ciple? Up stairs. Let nobody hereafter? Down stairs. Drink cold water, it is? Up stairs. Full of spirit and pure Democratic sentiment. Three cheers for Tyler and Texas ! Void from the "300." Three cheers for Henry Clay ! This last call was responded to with "three times three," and it was pretty generally agreed to, that the " enthusiastic" Tyler meeting was a miserable failure. A DISCOVERY. The Locofoco editor of the Savannah Georgian, in his paper of the 20th ult., makes the following remarkable discovery : " Among all the eminent politicians of the day, Mr. Clay is undoubtedly the most ignorant.'''' We can't eay much for the intelligence and discrimination of the man who would make such a barefaccd assertion as that. But again he says : We doubt whether there is a mind in the country to be compared in its general informa tion, its high polish and improvement, its perfect discipline, and its calm philosophy, to the mind of Mr. Van Buren." "Can such things be and not excite our special wonder ?" WHIG NOMINATION. Georgia.?The Whigs of the First Congres sional District of Georgia have nominted the Hon. Thomas Butler King as their candidate for the next Congress. Mr. King was a promi nent member of the last Congress, and his return will be hailed with pleasure by the Whigs of the Union. The Fine Arts.?The New York Sun glories in a cut representing (from a drawing taken by " a correspondent on the spot,") the beautiful figures recently placed at the eastern front of the Capitol. In this unique pencilling, the Indian [ girl, so gracefully postured by the Italian artist, I expressing fear, admiration, and awe, is in the squatting attitude of a French daneeuse, with her scarf dangling about her feet, as if it had been " sweated down." Columbus is represented pre senting her with an apple, and she 6eems to be precisely in the same predicament as was our mother Eve, when tempted by the serpent. We would advise the correspondent of the Sun to take a few lessons in drawing, ere he again attempts to give the public of New York, or any other city, a sketch of the ornaments of our public buildings?and a great pity it is that the beautiful conceptions of inspired artists should be so scan dalized by persons who pretend to be connois seurs, and yet cannot draw two parallel lines. The objections to the dress of the female figure, are fast wearing away?and in a few days the group will be pronounced exquisite by the most fastidious. THE TELEGRAPHIC DESPATCH. Baltimore, May 27,1844 9} o'clock.?Buchanan stock said to be rising, IO4?-A Van Buren cannon in front of the lel egraph office with a fox tail attached to it. State Convention of Maryland met at 10 o'clock ; Dr. Humphrey in the Chair,and Thom as Perry Secretary. 10|?A motion has prevailed to have the list of delegates to the State Convention handed to the Chair, before a committee is appointed to ar range for regular officers for that body. State Convention adjourned to Assembly Rooms for want of room at the place first selected. 11?The State Convention has met at the As sembly Rooms, and committee appointed to Belect officers has retired. Mr. Carinichael is addressing the convention. Hi?Mr. Stewart is addressing the State Con vention. 11 j?Mr. B. J. Pressman is addressing the State Convention. Tyler Convention has organized, Mr. Shaler in the Chair, and Messrs. Whitehead and Bald win Secretaries ; a committee of one from each State, appointed for the purpose of nominating officers for the convention, have retired. J. Carroll, of Baltimore, has been nominated for Governor, by a vote of 69 to 34 for Key. 2 p. M. The Democratic Convention assem bled at half past 1 ; H. B. Wright, of Pennsyl vania, Chairman, and Thos. F. Ritchie, of Virginia, Secretary; they have discusssed the mode by which to ascertain who are the delegates, and have appointed a committee of one from each State to return those entitled to act as such. 2^ John Tyler nominated by acclamation at 12 minutes to 2 o'clock?three cheers. The Tyler Convention then adjourned until 4 o'clock. The Telegraph here ceased operations until after 4 o'clock. THE TELEGRAPH?4 O'CLOCK P. M. Supposed that no nomination will be made by the Democratic Convention to-day. Tyler Convention adjourned till 9 o'clock in the morning. A man gone up to the convention for news. Robert Tyler left for Washington this evening at 5 o'clock. Democratic Convention met at 4 o'clock, and heard report from Committee of each State on credentials of members. 6 o'clock?Convention are now discussing whe ther the vote of a majority or two thirds be a quorum for nomination. ?Senator Walker is speaking in favor of the two thirds rule?was cheered by many hissed by some. 25 minutes of 7?Thinks the Convention in favor of the two-thirds rule. Great confusion in the meeting. 20 minutes of 7?Resolution to appoint a com mittee of one from each State to report rules lor the government of the Convention. 15 minutes of 7?They are still discussing the two-thirds rule. 12 minutes past 7?Convention is still discus sing the two-thirds rule. The Telegraph ceased operations at this point until 9 o'clock. The question of the manner of voting it is supposed will not be settled before this day?if at all. A despatch was received by the 11 o'clock cars yesterday morning, which stated that at a caucus held on Sunday night, it was ascertained that Mr. Van Buren wanted eight votes of having a majority of the delegates. We have since had this confirmed by several sources. Death in the Navy?Captain E. R. Shu brick, Commander of the U. S. frigate Columbia, died recently, during the passage of his ship from Rio de Jenairo to Cadiz. FROM FLORIDA. By the steamer Santee, Capt. Nock, we have the Jacksonville Tropical Plant and the St. Au gustine News of Saturday last. Col. J. G. Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engi neers, U. S. A., on his tour of inspection of the fortresses and military works of the United States came passenger in the Cincinnati. The weather at Jacksonville is represented as being very hot. There has been no rain there for three months past. From St. Lucie.?We learn from a gentleman recently from the St. Sebastian river, (says the News,) that the surveying party to which he was attached, some days since came across a cornfield in that vicinity containing an eighth or less of an acre. From the signs discoverable about the place, especially the tracks, which were but *thi?e in number, evidently those of a man, woman and child, the field must have belonged to some strag gling family of Indians which had located itself there for the purpose of fishing in the St. Sebas tian. The country bordering on the Indian river, and about the head of the St. John's, is perfectly dry, and vegetation is " burning up" for the want of rain.?Savannah Republican, May.24. From Havana.?By the steamship Alabama, the New Orleans Bee has received files of Ha vana papers to the 14th instant. Rain has at length fallen, and the people were anxiously ex pecting a continuance of refreshing showers, as the only means of saving the crops. So exces sive and distressing had been the drought, that large flocks and herds, and numbers of domestic animals had perished. No further executions had occurred, though arrests were still going on. The prisons were crowded with occupantB. All the foreign Mulat toes had been banished. It seems certain that the prompt suppression of the revolt is due to the energetic conduct of O'Donnell, the Captain General. He has been reproached for cruelty and extreme rigor, but, perhaps, a certain degree of severity waa necessary to nip insubordination in the bud. PROM NEW ORLEANS, Dbhtructiv* Pi*k.?We learn from the New Orleans Bee of the 20ih inst., that a destructive fire broke out in that city on Saturday, the 18th inst., by which two hundred and eeventy-five buildings (mostly frame) were dentroyed, and property estimated at worth $300,000 consumed. The fire originated in a carpenter's shop on Treme, between Jackson and Canal streets, and extended throughout ten adjacent squares. The wind was blowing very high at the time, and a great scarcity of water experienced, which, to gether with the inflammable nature of the mate rials, bid defiance a long time to the almost Buper human exertions of the firemen. The Charity Hospital was several times in great danger?the roof being of shingles. It was saved in consequence of large numbers of per sons mounting the roof, and keeping it well cov ered with wet blankets. , The number of persons ?left houseless by this distressing calamity, can not fall short of two thousand, a greater portion of whom are of the poorer class of society. An immense meeting of the Whigs of New Orleans was held on the evening of the 18th in stant, at the American Theatre, to respond to the nomination of Ci.ay and Frelinghuysen, at which Zenon Cavellier presided, assisted by twenty-six Vies Presidents. After the passage of 6ome able and soul-stirring resolutions, (which want of room compels us to omit to day,) and eloquent addresses from Judge Ogden, A. C. Bul litt, and Randall Hunt, Esqs., Mr. Christy offered resolutions proposing relief to the sufferers by the destructive fire, which were unanimously adopted, and a handsome sum raised upon the spot for the immediate relief of the more destitute. Jamaica.?By the brig General Marion, Capt. Sylvestre, arrived last evening from Kingston, in six days, we have received a file of Jamaica pa pero up to the 3d of May. Henry Poyer Thomas, assistant accountant of the Barbadoes Branch Bank, has been found guilty of embezzling 51,770 dollars, and sen tenced to two years' imprisonment at hard labor. A robbery has been committed on the Jamaica Bank to a large amount. An investigation took place at the bank office on the 1st of May, which promises to throw some light on the persons con cerned in this affair.?N. O. Bee of the 20lh inst. An Outrage.?a most brutal assault was committed on Tuesday night last, in Ithica, New York, on the person of Mr. Stephen Hoyt. Mr. H., the keeper of the Franklin House, in that vil lage, appears had been out in the evening settle ing some accounts, and was proceeding home be tween 11 and 12 o'clock, when he was knocked down, apparently with a club, and beaten in a most shocking manner. His pocket were rifled, and he was'probably left for dead. Mr. Hoyt is likely to recover. A man by the name of Mar tin Haviland has been arrested and committed for trial, on suspicion of being the perpetrator of the act. Prepare for Summer.?Now is the time to purify and brace the physical system so as to enable it to bear up against the enervating heats of summer. The condition of the blood at the expiration of win ter, owing to inactive perspiration in that season, and from other causes, is not in a proper state to resist disease, nor are the digestive powers, which are gen erally overtaxed by the appetite in cold weather, in their^full vigor. In fact a change in the state of the animal machine to meet a new climate, is as necessa ry as a change of clothing. To purge from the blood its unhealthy particles, and impart to it a more nutri tive character?to give tone to the stomach and expel obstructions from the bowels?in short, to reinforce the whole system for the campaign of summer, there is no preparation so efficacious as Sands's Sarsapa rilla. Prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by A. B. & D. SANDS, Wholesale Druggists, 79 Fulton St., New York. Agents for Washington city:?ROBERT FARN ham, Bookseller, corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 11th street, and R. S. PATTERSON, Druggist, cor ner of Pennsylvania avenue and 9th street. 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Also, a general assortment of fine Cutlery, such as Razors, Penknives, Scissors, Erasers, &.c., together with fancy and staple Stationery in the greatest va riety, and at the lowest prices. For sale by WM. F. BAYLY, Stationer, mayl- Penn. av., btw. 11th & 12th streets. WDR. J. J. FILES' ORM LOZENGES.?These Lozenges are a safe and sure remedy for worms. Two or three, is a dose for very small children, and live or six, for larger ones. For sale at the Perfumery, Fancy, and Patent Med icine Depot of JAMES CLEPHANE, ap5 Corner of Penn. avenue and 12th st.