Hillsdale Whig Standard

Evidence of Popularity.—Marcus Morton was once elected Governor of Massachusetts by the democratic party, he receiving a majority of one vote over his whig competitor. This was considered a remarkable evidence of popularity at the time, but it scarcely equals a more recent exhibition of it which we find in an exchange paper as follows:

It is stated in the Boston Courier that a hundred guns are to be fired on the common, on the occasion of Mr. Morton's retirement from the Custom House, on the first of May. The powder is paid for by the Cass Democrats, who subscribe a dollar apiece for the interesting object. It is seldom any man is popular enough to give his own friends satisfaction when he goes in and out of office. Mr. Morton is peculiarly fortunate in this respect.

Buffalo Express.