Phenix Gazette

It seems, as far as the language of the Richmond Enquirer is perceptible of plain construction, that the President is himself suspicious that Mr Van Buren & the Richmond gentry have been indulging their habitual propensity to intrigue, a little too freely. Strange to tell, (says the Enquirer) we understand that such a report, from such a source, has made some impression in a respectable quarter."

That this "respectable quarter" is the President, there is no doubt. It is to be presumed that the President has been informed who Curtius is: and if so, his opinion of the veracity of Curtius ought surely to be received as equal in authority to that of the Editor of the Enquirer. If the President deem the statement worthy of consideration, and found a suspicion on it, we do not think that the Editor of the Enquirer should be quite so free in his contempt, and so bold in his denial. The fact is that the President is awakening from his repose of confidence in his chef Secretary, and begins to perceive that with all the assumed devotion of the latter, he is in fact only looking to his own interests, and laboring to clear away the thorns and brush wood which lie in the path of his own ambition.—Natl. Jo.