Virginia Free Press

It is stated in a letter from the correspondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer at New Orleans, that a salute of 167 guns was fired from the Custom-House yard of that city on the 8th instant, on the receipt of the news of the choice of a majority of Electors favorable to the election of Mr. Van Buren to the Presidency.-So much for the non-interference of officers of Government in elections in this Republican country of ours! In the British monarchy the laws are so un-Democratic, that no officer of the Customs, not even a tide-waiter, is allowed so much as to vote at an election, lest he should, by his interested suffrage, contaminate its purity. [Nal. Int.]