A Good Joke

rhe VVhig andcratic leaders attach amighty importancQ to their differences on the lariff. As ai llustration of the great dissimilarity of views entertained by their leaders, a friend of ours, on Saturday last, read the sentiments of Mr. Clay, as set forth in his Raleigh speech, and those of Miv Polk, as given in his letter to Mr. Kanef: and then called on an intelligent Whig to. say which was Mr. Clay's, whereupon the Whig promptly laid claim to the sext timents of Mr. Polk. The experiment was tried three times the same day witoh the same result. The salvation of the country surely must depend on a prop,er settlement of this great controversyl- Liberty Courier. The expense oí keeping np the present military establishment in the county. of Philadelphia alone, is sai d to be 12,000 dollars a day, orat the late of #4,320,000 a year.