Thibodaux Minerva

The Western journals are convicting President Pierce of double-dealing and failing to keep his word in the matter of River and Harbor Improvements. On this head Judge Wording, of Racine, Wis., makes the following asseverations:

"I would state that in the month of October, 1852, I was in the office of Gen. Pierce, in Concord, New Hampshire, and had at that time a conversation with him in relation to appropriations by the General Government for the improvement of Western Rivers and Harbors. Taking a bound volume of printed speeches and letters in his hand, he turned to the letter of Silas Wright to the Chicago Convention, and observed that the sentiments of that letter were his own; that he was not in favor of appropriations by the General Government for the purpose of creating commerce in places where it did not exist, but wherever it did exist, it ought to be protected and encouraged, and that he had no more doubt of the constitutionality and expediency of appropriations by the General Government for the improvement of Western Harbors and Rivers than he had of the constitutionality and expediency of appropriations by the General Government for the construction of light-houses and other similar objects on the Atlantic coast: and he added, I understand the letter of Silas Wright to the Chicago Convention to be satisfactory to all Western men.' These are his statements as then made, and to show that I am not mistaken, I copy this statement of his from a memorandum then made, at Gen. Pierce's own suggestion."