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had never been under fire, and tliat the war is new to them altogether, when they shout so loudly over one of those uncertain skir- mishes of outposts, which, while they serve to bring on the general action, afford no indi- cation of the result. But what, after all, Is this victory in Maryland, which causes the coon 10 frisl; The state was gerrymandered 1 by the whig Legislature expressly, no doubt, | 10 effect this result, in order that the whig i Chapmans might have some sort of crow to begin with ssWhy," says the Baltimore Republican, very justly, "should there be surprise at what has occurred, when we saw the cards stocked which won the game" :"

 And again, granting for inc moment that we do lose Maryland at the Presidential elec- ton. we only lose what we never had, It Il may be so expressed. Our opponents have always carried that state i'll the Presidential contest; and, as the N. Y. Evening Post per- tinently remarks,

 "There Is no cause for the whigs 10 eXult, inasmuch as indicates no extraordinary good to keep what they have always had and there Is no reason why the democrats should be disappointed, because they.have not obtained what they never had before, and what they had no right to expect now"

 The hurrah over Maryland then IS rather small business, and the zeal with which 1t is kept mp furnishes strong evidence that the adherents of Harry of the West, notwthstand- ing the assumed confidence with which they are endeavoring to open the campaign, are by no means as comfortable about their own strength as they assume to be, and as they desire the world to believe. The game, as we have already had occasion to remark, is Brag''-brag about Maryand-brag about everything. It is nothing new, however, Our opponents invariably have these costa sies as a preliminary to their general defeat, as all may remember who are familiar with political results for the last twelve or fifteen years. They were always overthrowing An drew Jackson for instance, just as they say l they are overwhelming us now, and very wisely shouted victory before the great battle, as they had but little chance to do so after wards. Pennsylranian.