SHOWING HANDS.
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nounced:

 SHOWING HANDS.

 "We give to our readers to-day letter. another of the candidates for the Pres| the kind hearted Col. Johnson-dd his position, as two other gentlemen sd ly situated had already done theirs. Colonel will keep the field, it appears, highest office, unless or until he is unhI by the Baltimore convention; in which he will accept with thanks and pleaa nomination for the second office. Hnl is more explicit that MT. Calhoun's wal the course which he will pursue in ths1 of his nomination for either office. H| support the nominees, whoever they may

 We can pardon the gentle lntelligena being out of humor at seeing all the a pated dissension in the Democratic raa1 which such hopeful calculations were disappear even before the meeting ofiht| vention which was relied upon to com them. But the attempt to place Col ;! son in a ridiculous attitude before the p' by saying that s'he ,ciH Keep Me field .t5 highest office unless or until he is mA' by the Baltimore contention :; ia mhieA' he aciH accept acih thanks and pleds' nomination for Me second oGce," S''' disingenuous and contemptuous, as va ungrateful, mode of ushering the con'' cation of one to whom the editors a' debted for so many favors as to Col J'ai

 The meaning of the letter is shana perverted by the National Intelligence onel Johnson says expressly, that ne ' receive the nomination for the first oi'lcs' " reluctance ;;'' for the second, with Y sure" He does not choose to offend q titude of friends, who have placed ms before the convention for the preslaen'' all absolute refusal but he makes II ','. that he considers 1t due to the genera ment of the party that he should revn' v' pretensions thus set up for him. " v. them plainly that he prefers nomlnal, the vice presidency, or even his preleiil1p''' entirely, should the convention cons'u' the good of the cause requires It.

 How different has been the course Y Clay! He took the field in his own Y Y without leaving it to convention, or 'G himself, to say whether he should o' x, !. not be candidate. This marks the Y! u ter of the two men. The one never ", field but for his country; the other nt 1oh for himself. During the war, Col. $ sy < left Congress, and "took the fela' .,s head of a regiment, to invade 'ne ss ss, country; conquer their armies, sa,ss , civilized, on their own soil; and eA.Ss, ~sos by glorious war. Mir. Clay lei' 0.ss v with heavy outfit in his pocKtes z, away his time abroad in security Y the bloody strife which envlronea ,. ns try, and came back with all mglorio'' ! purchased by humiliation. al,

 It is thus the two Kentucklah, I field, and the people will dcde Sh'' be " unhorsed"