Daily American Telegraph

Independent Editors
There has been some talk of late about the recent bestowment by the Secretary of State, of the patronage of his office upon two newspapers, one in North Carolina and the other in Tennessee, both of which are opposed to the election of General Scott. Mr. Webster, indeed, unusual as such things are with him, has published a card in reply to certain strictures made by Mr. Mangum, on the subject, in which he sets forth the reasons that induced him to select these papers. His avowed reasons are certainly not without weight, though we cannot help fearing that they had less weight with him than had the political posture of those papers.

But new light appears to have lately dawned upon the mind of the editor of the Nashville paper, (Parson Brownlow,) and his contempt for the "cold-blooded Yankee" appears quite as great as his abhorrence of the "plumed warrior." Nor is this his only indication of a change of sentiment on the subject; for we are credibly informed that while pride of opinion restrains the pious parson from an open avowal of his change of heart in his Nashville paper, his partner in trade has been quietly sent off to another town to establish, nominally as his own, a new Scott and Graham paper! We are not in the habit of telling tales out of school, and would not divulge this to the parson's injury; but we take it for granted, in the first place, that the fact we intimate will not induce Mr. Webster, at this late day, to change his mind, too; and, in the second, that it is quite early enough to have a most happy effect on the next administration!

Respecting the North Carolina editor we have nothing so decided to say, seeing that he occupies a most wonderfully elevated though undecided position! In his issue of Tuesday he is most transcendently toploftical in his editorial lucubrations, and if he had not treated Lindley Murray with so much disdain we should regard his effusion as worthy of one who is "more than a mortal, though less than a god!" He says:

"We have made up our mind to one thing, which is, that either of the distinguished citizens in nomination for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency are gentlemen of whose acquaintance any man in the country might be proud, and with whom the most virtuous might associate with profit and pleasure. This refers to their personal characters.

"We have made up our mind to another thing also, which is, not to believe a word said against either of them pending the canvass, though each charge is accompanied with a bushel of certificates, signed by all sorts of 'respectable gentlemen,' with the rag-tag and bob-tail of 'the clergy' and Senator Mangum to verify."

We read once in a story-book of a philosophical chambermaid, who, under circumstances of peculiar aggravation, resolved to bridle her temper, and make her mind and the feather-beds as comfortable as possible; and we have found her counterpart in the Wilmington editor, who has made up his mind to enjoy a downy repose upon the couch of exalted indifference! Happy he indeed! Unbiased, he sits an unmoved spectator of the angry storm. Above, around, and beneath, the elements are convulsed. The sombre clouds are wearing a most majestic frown, the winds are hoarse with mighty bellowing, the livid lightning plays above his pate: yet the Wilmington editor curls the cerulean from his fragrant Havana, cocks his eye at the tempestuous political vortex, prints his "By Authority" in big Roman capitals, rattles the dimes in his pockets, and all the time (as the cockney said of the Dukey Vellington, when the cannon-balls rolled around him at Vaterloo!) "bim not a-caring vun straw!"

The independent position of these Whig papers, and the salutary notice just taken of them by the great Expounder, constitute, as Mr. Pickwick's stage-coach companion would say, a remarkable coincidence!