The North Carolinian

"List! List!! Oh List!!!"

Yes, do, we beseech you, listen to Mr Clay, who said, in a speech in the Senate, on Saturday last, that the Expenditures of the government this year -yes this year, which is, or was to be, a year of federal reform, retrenchment, &c.—will exceed the income by sixteen millions of dollars! that to meet this every cent of the 12,000,000 loan will be used. Whew! we perspire while we write the astounding declaration. The idea of a retrenchment administration spending this much money is really felo-de-se.

Well, it is nothing more than we expected. We knew how it would be. As soon as the election of Gen. Harrison was certain, we entered upon some speculations. It was then denied that a Bank would be the physic the whigs would try to apply to what they called the disordered state of the country, but we knew that this would be the remedy, and we speculated thus:

"We firmly believe that a desperate attempt will be made for a National Bank."

This we all know has been verified.

Again: "To the 27th Congress, then will all eyes be turned with an anxiety seldom before known in this country."

This we need not say has been fully verified.

And again:

"To those who expect to see any immediate change in the affairs of the country, we think we may safely say, they will be mistaken."

We ask the farmer—the mechanic—the laborer -the merchant—the public! did we speak falsely or truly? Has the long looked for but never realized change been seen or felt by any? Let those answer who best know.

And "List" again.

We have said that Mr Clay states that the expenditures for this year will be 16,000,000 dollars over the income.

Well, in answer to the same speech of Mr Clay's, Mr Woodbury says that the average expenditure of Mr Van Buren's administration was only 19,000,000; only three million more than what Mr Clay says this year will be over the income. "Good gracious." We cannot go on now, we shall have to wait till another time. It is so enormous, that we must take a walk into the cool air. We shall try and collect some more facts next week. By the by, as soon as Congress adjourns we intend bringing the file of the Observer down stairs, (for we put it in the garret as near heaven as possible, knowing its bad chance to ever get nearer,) and other documents, and we think we can furnish a rich treat between this and the next meeting of Congress.

The Reason.

Mr Clay says the reason that the Harrisburg Convention published no address to the public, was, that their opponents were pirates, and that no declaration of war is ever issued to pirates; that the only way to treat them was to cut and slash—kill and slay, and give no quarter. What a pass this is, we've come to! The recipients of British gold not only appropriate to themselves "all the decency, and all the morality," but now have the daring insolence to brand a great party—the Democratic party, as a band of pirates. A notorious blackleg who has been over and often stigmatised as a "base slanderer," and a "dastardly coward;" as a man of no honor, and for whom an hyperbole for meanness would be an eclipse, can hardly injure the Democratic party by his abuse.

As the most interesting part of the session of Congress has past, we shall take a brief synopsis of their proceedings from the Globe and Baltimore Sun, and thus spare the labor of giving any of our remarks along with them.