The North Carolina Standard

EDITOR'S CORRESPONDENCE.

Washington City, August 22d, 1840.

Dear Sir: The whig committee is still in session, and using up Government stationary and keeping men employed to put up packages at government expense, ready to receive their franks for free transportation by mail. I was this day in the folding room at the Capitol, and saw the young man, to whom is assigned the duty of keeping an account of the number and kinds of documents and papers each member has put up there, transcribing from the books. I asked him for what purpose he was thus engaged, and was informed that a requisition had been made upon him by this said committee, to furnish them with a transcript from his books of all documents and papers caused to be folded in that room by democratic members, and each member's separately. I then ran my eye hastily over the book and discovered that the greatest number any one democratic member had had folded was about 15,000, and a large majority of them not one half or even a quarter so many.

I am inclined to think this is intended by the committee to be embodied in some secret electioneering document, which they intend to prepare to spring upon the people about the time of holding the election, and too late to be refuted after found out. They surely would not be so oversighted as to bring it out in time to allow an opportunity to have it replied to, as one of the members of this committee himself, Mr. Rice Garland, has had largely over a half million, of documents and papers put up at public cost. There was posted up 495,000, and I was told by the bookkeepers that there were enough others which had not been transferred to the ledger, including those that were being put up, to make fully the amount first named. As I have reason to believe that the Globe will prepare against an attack of the sort, I shall dismiss the subject without comment, and hasten to give you this information before the mail closes in time for next week's paper.

P. S. I suppose from the increased democratic majorities in the counties all along the rail roads. and the increased whig majorities in the counties and those adjoining through which the proposed western rail road leading to Fayetteville is to pass, that Mr. Morehead, your Governor elect, has promised to use his influence in appropriating the whole of the State funds on improvements in the west. Well, if the East has had its share, there can be nothing wrong in directing attention to the West, and I have mentioned this solely to give it as my opinion that the majority of Mr. Morehead has been made up from internal, and other considerations than general politics; and on the Presidential question the State should not by any means be considered as lost to Mr. Van Buren, to whom she gave her 15 votes at the last election for President.