The Washington" correspondent, of the Journal of
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The Washington correspondent of the Journal of Commerce writes :-

 ''Thera seems To be contingency in ,he work king tuition ani laws. It is well known that Tennessee was claimed for the whigs by d majority of lI3 yotes Intelligent gentlemen of that State, say that had an investigation been thoroughly gone into, it would hrve been discovered that the Democrats, and not the Whigs, had carried il. This the, make sp- pear by showing large numbers of legal votes cast for the Democratic electors, ihromn out by the Whg Inspectors. When ticket was exhibited. containing incomplete list ol electors, il was con sidered illegal, and In one county, d large number of votes were given through ignorance, for Polk aud Dallas, direct these also shared the same fate. They state other cases ih winch the Whia h. spectors received votes for Whig Electors. notori- oHs'y illegal They further say, that bad New York gone for Clay the Democrats would then have silled The returns throughout, and shown, by intubitabc evid nee, that Tennessee had cast her vote for Col Polk, and insisted on his being inauguraled the President of ,he United States! This would have brought the two parties oi the country into fearful state of collision Where, II may be asked, is any provision to b" founf to a.biirate and settle dis pue of thIs kindf There is no power with the eec- tors themselves, Or with any branch of the United States Government, to decide the validity of votes cast for electors! If the election had been down, so far to have led upon the legality of the votes received at Plaque,nne, in Louisiana, fr it's result, who does discover that very serious consequences would have foIlowedl-perhaps civil war and boodshed!-Some remedy 10 meet con- tipgency 0C this character, should be deyised."