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CHRONICLE AND SRjTINEL.
- - AUGUS T A.* 1
WEDNESDAY MORNING, A RIL 22.
The imposing character of the all for a pub
lie meeting on Thursday, needs no comment
from us to induce the citizens to i lend. Large
as the list is, it could have been uadrupled, if
an exertion had been made.
PUBLIC MEEI I*o.
The Citizens of Augustsland Rlcli ,J
mood county, opposed to pie present
Administration of (he Ft leral Gov
ernment, are requested to assem
ble in tlie MASONIC HALI , on Thurs
day Evening, at 3 O’cle k, for the
purpose of taking into co isideration
such measures as may ti cn be pro
posed, in relation to the 1 residential
Election, and particular iy for the
appointment of Delegate!; to a Con
vention to be held at Msledgevllle,
on the first Tuesday In Ane next.
April 20, 1840. |
S. Hale G, W. Crawford
John Kerr C. J. Jerjkin*
Jesse Kent J. Meigs?'
P Bennoch
E! B. Beall M. M. Lb/e
H. Bowdrie M. F. Bcfsclair
Ed. Thomas W. M. *’Antignac
W. W. Holt John He [
T. S. Metcalf G. T. D rtic
A. Gould T J Par; iclce
W. T. Gould Geo W Morgan
John Milledge Thos I)s ms
E Bustin F M Rt tertson
I. Thompson A Bogs
C. B. Hitt J J Col n
J. M. Hitt AJMier
M. Hitt W E J ckson
W. Housely W P E thbone
B. F. Kemick AG B 1
L.Dwelle Wra B stwick
C. Dickinson J. A S yder
T. M. Simmons H. Aid ch
James Gardner jr S. ShoV
W 0 Eve ' C. B. f artin
Jno Hdimes W. H. ! rane
J S Hutchinson J F M< Cinno
J ('lark W. H. ones
W M Force W. Ha iss, Jr.
H W Risiey W. G. imrao
R D Hamlin F. Bloc et
A B Mallory R. J. D wcon
A Baker John L tv
A M Smith J. R. C acker
A. Mclver 0. E. * ishin
Israel Bond I. S. B Ijrs
D P Russell J. P.S« ie
R Carter J. G. D nlap
D McCormick J. L. IV >o^
E Snyder Geo. R berteon
B L Nehr M. Hat h
W K Clark T. H. 'yatt
Geo Lott J. J. V Sson
Z Harris F. H. ( ioke
W K Kitchen W A 1 jail
L P Dngas W Ma tie
W C Berry bill F Spea t
J Clark J Higt ibotham
A M Livingston A Geo 'e
E Skinner A Ste* irt
L Hopkins ECS anion
L Bissell J Dangrlh Jr
C J Blalock J H Illllinsworth
G McCord LTSfepp
R B White D B lldley
L C Dugas A L Patterson
H C Bryson C Roll
J M Dowe J Wyrlt
C Low J W l*!oy
E G McGolrick M A 5»ovall
E W Doughty J Coskp-y
H J Russell E Fosar
J Cash in J M vlj^per
A J Massengale R T P* de
W Janes L Rol l
J D Crane J J Cllyton
H C Cashman W Hilrson
A S Holland J M if a
C L Bray ton J W | Gilman
G Simmons 8 J Alderson
J W Freeman J Cuilarin
Jno Hill * J KiriUatrick
W M Rawland J B (Impbell
O E Carmichael 11 D f ell
W M F raser T R Ihodes
J L Fraser J W lark
J Sibley J F (Strsewell
The list cf Directors of theUeorgia Insurance
and Trust Company, as publihed by us yester
day, was incorrect. The namiof W. H. Turpin
should have been inserted insisd of George W.
Lamar. 8
At a meeting of the Boartl yesterday, Adam
Johnston was elected Presideif of the Company
Rhode IslatSl.
The New York Commercii Advertiser of the
17th inst., says:—“The verb! intelligence from
Rhode Island, communicatedlyeslorday, is most
amply confirmed by the Prtlidence papers re
ceived this morning. The! Whig candidate’
Samuel Ward King, is eleclel by a majority not
less than thirteen hundred-meing the largest
majority ever given in a eonimted gubernatorial
election. X
The entire Whig Satiate Is elected by about
the same majority. This rwijority will be in
creased immensely at the Prlidential election.
The House of Represents* ves wd* consist of
49 W big and 23 AdmiHisiranon members.
About two hundred thous, id barrels of Flour
have been -shipped from the ; .rt of Baltimore, to
foreign and coastwise ports, j race the beginning
of the yeai.
C ZT Out patrons in Burke a d Soriven Counties*
'vill have an opportunity to f y their bills to this
office, at the session of their S pei ior Courts. We
hope they will generally ava themselves of the
opportunity, as the expense w! incur in sending an
agent is very considerable.
A Chamber of Commerc’ has recently been
organized at Houston, in Tc as. The fact may
be regarded as indicating the commercial growth
of the city. ?
The New York Courier Id Enquirer says:
“The ship Roman, which as run into by'the
ship Richard Anderson, wa- owned in this city,
and insured for $ 16,000 afth Safety, Union and
American Insurance Offices The cargo, about
1400 bales of cotton, was on reight from Savan
nah, and it is not known wh ther it w*« insured’
or jf it was, where.”
Death of the lion. Hugh t>. White.
It is with no ordinary emotions of regret,—
says the Knoxville (lenn ) Times, of 10th
inst, that we record the decease of the Hon.
Hugh Law* sox White. He departed this life,
at his residence near this place, on .last Friday
morning at about half past eight o’clock. The
public are aware, that his return from Washing
ton to Knoxv'iie, immediately after his resigna
tion of hi > seat in the U. S. Senate, subjected
him to great exposure to the inclemency of the
weather,and serio tsly impaired his health. After !
reaching home, his strength gradually decreased,
and on medical advice being called, it was soon
discovered that an abscess of the lungs had form
ed, which would in all probability lead to his
early death. Such, however, was his constitu
tional fortitude, thdt the termination-of his dis
ease was much prolonged beyond the anticipation
of his friends, and although reduced 'to a con
dition of great debility, he still, when the weather
permitted, and even on the day previous to his
death, took his accustomed ride. He retained
not only his consciousness, but his vigor and
spiightliness of intellect to the last-moment; and
was evidently aware that the hour of his death
was near, but a few moments to it*
occurrence. ♦ * * * *
In testimony of respect to the deceased, our
citizens suspended their ordinary business imme
diately on learning the news of his death. The
Chancery Court which was in session at the
time, adjourned over to the ensuing day, frora
similar motives. On Saturday, whan the Court
met, the Hon. Edward Scott presented the~
Preamble and Resolutions which will be found
below, and which he prefaced with a few elo
quent remarks, appropriate to the occasion.
The body of the deceased was interred in the
burial ground of the Ist Presbyterian Church,
on Sabbath afternoon. ’lt wac followed to the
grave by an immense concourse of citizens; all
classes appearing to be deeply depressed with a
s nse of the greatness of the calamity which they
assembled to mourn.
The following order of procession was obser
ved on the occasion:—
Clergy.
Members of the Medical'Profession.
Juuges and Members ot the Bar.
Mayor and Aldermen.
Pall-Bearers THE BODY. Pall-Bearers,
Relatives cf the Deceased.
Trustees of East Tennessee University.
Students of the University.
Principal and Students of Hampden Sydney
Academy.
Citizens.
Tribute of Respect to the Memory of the Hon.
Hugh h. White, by the Bar of Knoxville .
At a melting of the members of the Bar at
Knoxville, assembled this day a*. 2 o’clock P. M.,
on motion, the Hon. Thomas L. Willians was
called to the chair, and John H. Crozier, Esq.,
appointed Secretary.
The Hon. Edward Scott presented the follow
ing preamble and resolutions which were unani
mously adopted.
A GREAT MAX HAS F AILEX IX TSUA HU?’!;
This day, about the hour of 9 o’clock, at his
residence near this place, the Hon. Hugh L. !
White ceased to exist. Henceforth he will live |
only in the memory of his friends and his coun- j
tryrnen, He was certainly a grest ami worthy j
man; a friend to truth, virtue, liberty and the
Constitution. His was a life of labor and activ
ity—a life of usefulness, moderation, regular con
duct and inflexible integrity. The law was his
profession. By his fair, open and manly con
duct, he won the sincere afiection and approba
tion of all his cotemporarics. He was-an agreea
ble and eloquent speaker In him were happily
blended a profound judgment and accomplished
j address.. In him the unfortunate and tbe honest
ever found a protector while the guilty were
marked for destruction. Raised to the highest
office in his profession, he did honor to the sta
tion. He was among the greatest and ablest
magistrates that ever lived among us. Elevated
to a seat in the United States Senate, he rnain
ti ined that purity of character which marked his
private life. He loved the Constitution—nor
would he consent to a forced construction of that
instrument, to the oppression of the people. The
future historian will not fail to record his virtues
—we alt know that his private character was
without blemish ; an affectionate husband, a
kind parent and a steadfast friend. In short, he j
died as he lived, a true Republican, an ardent ad- !
vocate of the rights of man, and an enemy to ar- |
bitrarv power.
Reso.'vedf That in token of onr high respect 1
and esteem for the private virtues and public ]
character of the deceased, we will wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty clays.
On motion of John K. Crozier, it wa ;
Resolved, That the foregoing Preamble and
resolutions be presented to the -Hon. Edward
Scott, on to-rcorrow morning at the Chancery
Court, now in session m this place, with the re
quest that the same be entered on the Record of
the Court.
Resolved, That we tender to the family 7 and
relatives of the deceased, our sincere condolence
on their late distressing bereavement, and that
the Secretary furnish them with a copy of these
proceedings.
Taos. L. Williams, Chairman.
Joux H. Crozier, Secretary.
We know of but 10 papers in the United
States devoted to the cause of abolitionism—the
Ohio Philanthropist, thePittsburg Witness, the
Pennsylvania Freemen, the Connecticut Char
ter Oak, the Utica IS. Y. Friend of Man. the
Michigan Freeman, the N. H. Advocate of Free
dom, the Vermont Voice of Freedom, the Mass.
Abolitionist, and the Boston Liberator.
All these papers oppose earnestly and zealous
ly 7 and bitterly the election of Gen. Harrison to
the Presidency! Is he, then, the abolition can
didate!—Louisville Journal,
Dreadful Explosiox.—The Eclaireur sup
plies us with the following particulars of the ex
plosi an at Toulon : Eight workmen were employ
ed in drawing charges from howitzer shells, and
as a ter some time the powder attaches itself
stro gly to the iron, they were obliged to intro
duce a pin into the shell, which caused a friction.
A spaik having fallen from one of them, the shell
burst, and set fire to several barrels of powder
which were lying near the spot. The five or six
workmen who were standing together were blown
to atams by the explosion, and the fire having
reached the shells, they burst one after another
until 12 o’clock, sending their fragments in va
rious directions. Great efforts were made to pre
vent the fire from reaching to a powder-maga
zine near the rocket manufactory, and they were
fortunately successful. Fears were entertained
as to the shipping building in the new slips at
Mourillon, but luckiiy the wind was low and
blew from an opposite quarter. The number of
persons wounded was considerable. Tho Ma
rengo had eight, the Belle Poule fifteen, and the
Castor two. There are also others of whom ac
count* have not been received. A lieutenant de
fregate and an officer 'of the 6th light infantry
are among the wounded. Thirteen person* who
have been severely injured hav© been taken to
the naval hospital.
Hants Merchant** Magazine.
The'first four numbers of the second volume of
this work have been placed upon our table by the
publisher. The opportunity which has been affor
ded us to glance at their contents, have ccnvinced
us that the high estimation in which the work is
heidby commercial men, is but just. Devoted to
the commercial literature of the country, and em
bracin' every subject connected therewith, in all
its varied ramifications, it commends itself to every
merchant who desires to make himself acquainted
with the laws of trade and commerce, and should
be in his counting room. Among the many evi
dences of the value placei upon it by mercantile
men, we copy the subjoined notice of it by the
Directors of the Mercantile Library Association.
Should any of our Merchants desire to subscribe
for the work, they :an do so by calling at our office*
where tire numbers es the present volume can be
seen.
The Mercantile Library Association and
the Merchants’ Magazine. —The Hoard of Di
rectors of the Mercantile Library Association, in
their last annual report, speaking of the success
which has attended the formation of that mercan
tile institution, alludeto the existence of other aids,
in elevating, as well as indicating the dignity of tiie
pro cssion, and among these, mention “ as the most
prominent, the establishment of a magazine, devo
ted entirely to the interestsof commerce.” “ Here
tofore,” says the report, “while a'mo t every de
partment of learning, embracing polite literature,
politics, the sciences, the arts and manufactures,
have had journals fidvocattng their respective claims
upon public attention, a commercial chronisle has
been wanting, that might furnish a history of the
rise, progress, influence, and statistics of co nmerce,
together with the mercantile literature of the day
This has happily been supplied by ‘Hunt’s Mer
chants’ Magazine and t'ommcrcial Review,’ com
menced under the auspices of this and similar
associations. Tire success which has thus far
attended this work, is another evidence of the
liberality of our merchants, and a most flattering
mark of approbation upon the efforts of the editor
and proprietor, Freeman Hunt, Esq., in this new
field of periodical literature The able manner in
which it is conducted, renders it worthy of the
most ample support, which we trust it will con
tinue to receive from -all who are engaged in com
mercial or other pursuits,”
The commendation bestowed upon the enterpijze
of Mr. Hunt is well merited and just, and we are
gratified to know that his efforts are appreciated
not only by this and similar associations, but by
Tiiany of the most distinguished merchants and
political economists in the country. — N. Y.Dispatch.
Gen. Desha is a loco foco and a strong partizan
and most certainly fee has no kind feelings towards
Harrison, but, if the annexed paragraph from
the last number of the Lexington Inte ligencer be
true, he has more candor and magnanimity, than
we have generally been disposed to attribute to
•him : — L. Journal.
We learn from a source upon which we can rely,
that at a public house in Georgetown a few days
ago, some person, in the presence of the late Gov
ernor Dasha, was endeavoring to underrate Gen.
Harrison, by denying to him either talents, bravery
or general-ship during the late war. Gen. Desha
observed with considerable animation, such as one
soldier would naturally feel when he heard another
soldier’s characlertraduced.“ that the man who de
nied to Gen. Harrison talents of a high order, or
-who said lie was not a brave man, and a good gen
eral, did not know him.”
The Baltimore American,
One among the ablest Journals in the Union,
which Iras heretofore occupied neutral ground in
politics, has announced its determination to es
pouse the Whig cause, in the following forcible
editorial.
“ It is well known to our readers that since this
paper has been in the hands of its present pro
prietors, its course in reference to political mat
ters has been neutral. For many years past our
airc has been to render the American a useful
commercial journal, to identify its interests with
those of the business community, and to devote
its influence to the advancement of the general
prosperity of our growing city. To these ends
our efforts, —wc say it in no boastful spirit,—
have been directed not without success ; for our
feelings and hopes wore blended with our pursuit.
We preferred to know not any distinctions of
parties, but to vcw all our fellow citizens as mem
bers of one community, bound together by busi
ness relations, constituting a bond of union unaf
fected by the political divisions which in other
respects might cause diversity of aims. long
as general politics were confined to matters pro
perly pertaining to government, and business
men were suffered to pursue their callings in
peace, exempted from influences which sought to
make the affairs of trade subservient to partizan
purposes —we pursued our course without dilfi
cultv. and were abundantly satisfied with it. But
the time has now come when farther continu
ance in neutrality seems impossible, without an
abandonment, partial or entire, of those interests
with which our paper is so closely united. It is
not that we wish to go out of our sphere; but
politics have intruded within it.
For some time past in treating of subjects af
fecting the general good, whether relating to the
Currency, to Commerce, or Internal Improve
ments, we have found ourselves restricted. We
could give but partial view-s without incurring
the danger of trenching upon political ground ;
and upon some topics of vi’al importance, abso
lute silence was necessary. The distribution of
the Public Lands was one of these. The meas
ure proposed by Mr. Clay, for apportioning the
proceeds of the sales ot the Public Lands among
the States, viewing the National domain as the
propeity of lire States, held in trust for their be
nefit, was one which we thought was founded in
justice, and adapted with especial propriety to
bring relief to the country in its present exigen
cies when the burden of debt is resting upon
nearly every Slate in the Union. But it was
made a party question, and could not be discuss
ed on its own merits.
Concerning the great subject of the Currency
—a subject conjoined with the very life of trade—
we found ourselves embarrassed in a similar
manner. In dwelling upon the causes which
produced the unexampled distress and prostra
tion under which the whoie country is laboring,
we were obliged to pass by the chief one. For
no one can doubt that the fatal measures of the
Administration, directed against the very inter
ests which il is the business of a government to
uphold and cherish, have operated to bring about,
to prolong, and to aggravate the commercial ills
which have reduced this vigorous and powerful
nation to a state of suffering and exhaustion, such
as no people ever before endured from rulers of
their own appointment. The Sub-Treasury
scheme has been urged with a pertinacity so re
i markable, notwithstanding the evident unwil
lingness of the people to icceive it, and in spite
of the disast ous consequences which the meas
ures leading to it have already produced, that
there can hardly be any doubt of the ultimate
purposes of its supporters. It is apparent that
nothing less is aimed at than the entire overthrow
of the Banking system as the covenant machine
ry of business, in order, not to substitute a “ bet
ter currency” in the place of that which it is ca
pable of supplying, but to vest the control of the
moneyed circulation of the Union in the hands of
the central Government, thereby subjecting the
business interests of the countrx% in every depart
ment of industry, to the direction of men in power
to be used lor the building up of an influence un
known to the constitution. Before the com
mencement of the present disastrous era we be
held the operations of Banking carried on wnh
order, regularity and success; the system was
adapted to the wants of the country ; it gave fa
cilities to enterprise; it was detached from poli
tics, and meddled not with things oat of the legiti-
mate spherte of business. The war which has
been waged against Banking institutions was de-
Vigned—if we may judge from the plain indica
tions of facts —not to reform abuses, if any exist
ed in them, but to effect an entire revolution in the
system —and this not a revolution of form, so
much as of spirit; not to make Banks better suit
ed to the wants of business, but to convert them
into engines to serve as the recipients and dis
pensers of political influence.
But we design now to announce our new po
sition rather than to discuss at length the causes
which induced its adoption. W ithout in any
degree changing the prominent characteristics of
our paper as a Commercial Journal, we enter
upon the political field for the purpose of more
effectually advocating the interests t» which we
have been hitherto and shall continue to be devo
ted with untiring Z3al. We unite ourselves with
the great constitutional parly of the Union—the
Whir party, whose principles we believe are
i blended will the true spirit of our republican in
stitutions—with the support of order —with the
stabilility of our political fabric —with the sanc
tity of vested right and plighted faith. The time
we think has come when the ground of neutrali
ty,to those who would take partin support of any
general interest, is so much narrowed as to afford
no longer standing room. Political influence is
diffused through the marts of business ; it has in
vaded the counting house; it prevails in the es
tablishments of the manufacturer and the me
chanic. As citizens, as men of business, as
friends of our city’s prosperity and of our coun
try’s honour, we cannot avoid participation in the
important questions to which it gives rise—ques
tions whose decision must affect us in all the re
lations of life.
As a means of indicating the course and de
i meanor of the American in the political sphere,
which is now included within the limits of its
field of action, we must refer to the character of
this paper as hitherto sustained. We hope to
discuss political questions with candor and mo
deration, viewing them in reference to the ten
dency of principles rather than to the motives of
men, This course will afford room enough for
all purposes of rational investigati m and discus
j sion, without needing to wander into the arena
| of partizan warfare —where petty annimosilies
f too often take the place of liberal minded zeal.
! With our contemporaries who entertain political
views different from our own, we would preserve
that courtesy and decorum of language which it
has always been our wish to maintain ; since
there appears to be no reason why questions in
| volving principles may not be fully treated with-
I out resorting to personal aspersions or passionate
recrimination.
Indian disturbances. — The editor of the
St. Louis Republican has received a couple of let
| ters from Fort Leavenworth, describing fresh In
| dian difficulties, on our North-West border. He
I gives the substance of them as follows:
• “ Strong symptoms of open war have lately
, been manifested by the Indians South of the Mis
souri, bordering on Buchanan county, the north
west county of this State. Ttie citizens of this
i county have addressed two letters on the subject
( to Col. Kearny, commanding at Fort Leaven
: worth. The first, dated 14lh inst, states that
j many of the Oloes from the Big Platte have cross
i ed into the state, in small parties of fifteen or
1 twenty, and have impudently and forcibly levied
contributions from all of the whites that they met
with—killing their stock, and taking away what
ever of grain and other things they might want
—and in one instance, they stopped a man on the
road, stripped him of most of his clothing, and
threatened his life, until he promised if they would
spare him he would give them a keg of whiskey
as soon as they could reach a Hading house where
it could be purchased.
Tiie second letter is dated 21st inst., and from
the same place, the Narrows of the Anishnabota
nay; and represents that the whole or greater
part of the loway’s had crossed into the st ile, in
a body, and had committed, and were then com
mitting still greater outrages on the inhabitants
than the Otoes—among other things, insulting
the women in the most indecent manner. They
had no women or children with them, were well
armed with rifles—and in their conduct, as in
their appearance, gave the strongest reason to be
lieve that they intended to war with the whites.
In that part ofthe state immediately threatened,
there are not en *ugh of settlers to unite and make
a stand against the Indians; and in their letters
to Col. Kearney, they express the greatest appre
hension of danger, and urge upon him to send
troops to their protection. On the receipt of
their first letter the Colonel despatched to their
assistance, all ol his disposable force, which on
ly amounted to one hundred dragoons, under the
command of Capt Boon. This, it was thought,
would be sufficient to check the Otoes ; but should
these unite with the loway’s they will jointly
number perhaps six hundred warriors, against
whom the little f, rce of Capt. B. would be entirely
inadequate. On the receipt of the second letter
from Buchanan county Col. Kearney has sugges
ted to Maj Gen. Alcheson, of Clay county, the
propriety of sending three companies of militia,
of his divison to the assistance of Capt. Boone.
The decision of Gen. Atcheson, is not yet known.
From the National Intelligencer.
In looking through the Senatorial career of
General Harrison, we find him advocating what
ever appeared to him for the public good, without
regard to the geographical bearings of the various
questions or to the rank of the officers whom
they concerned. His parental care extended
over all. Thus we find him contending, with an
equal zeal, in favor of the erection of Batracksin
the vicinity of New Orleans; of the building of
an arsenal at St. Louis; of the construction of a
military road from Penobscot to Mars Hill, and
of a road from Fort Smith to Natchitoches; of the
erection of an arsenal at Augusta, in Maine ; of
the claim of the State of Georgia for militia ser
vices on the frontier thirty years ago, and of the
claim of South Carolina for unallowed expenses
in the war of 1812. With equal earnestness,
too, we find him standing up for the rights ofthe
highest officer and the humblest private in the
Army. He opposed, for example, the abolition
ot the office of Major General in the Army ; and
he supported propositions to increase the pay of
captains and officers commanding companies ; to
make allowances to officers for partial disabilities
incurred in service; to amend the articles of war
which relate to court manials; to provide for the
relief of persons who had been wounded in the
service otherwise than in conflict w.lh the ene
my.
But it is in behalf of his fellow man, the sol
dier, whether private or non-commissioned officer,
that we find hmi using his best efforts and pour
ing out his whole heart. It is in a debate upon
the bill to prevent desertion from the army, an
evil which had grown to such a height that it had
become impossible to keep the ranks of the army
j full enough to be in any state of efficiency. The
remedy proposed was a bounty upon re-enlist
ment, an increase of pry, and other inducements
to make the service more tolerable. In his posi
tion of Chairman of the Military Committee, it
became the duly of General Harrison to explain
the necessity for the bill, and the objects which it
proposed.
The following extracts from his speech show
to advantage the military knowledge and practi
cal wisdom of one who had both seen service and
deeply studied his profession :
Ex tracts from Gen. Harrison's Speech.
“ 1 believe no military man will denv the fact
that on the character of the non-commissioned
officers ofthe army, depends, in a more important
degree, the character of the army itself than even
in the commissioned grade. General Wayne
thought so; and I can. from my own experience.
i say that I have never yet seen a good company
• that had not a good non commissioned officer.
■ And I have s**en many companies defective in
• discipline where the captain was in many res
s pects, an accomplished officer. General W ayne
> often said he could ascertain the state of a compa
• ny or of a regiment better by examining the non
i commissioned officers than by a cursory review
■ of the regiment. It may, then, be considered an
established maxim that, as the non-commission
• ed officers are, so will be the soldiers of the line.
» “ A similar opinion was entertained of the im
r portance of the non-commissioned grades by the
f great Napolean. I believe, sir, that there are so
many anecdotes respecting Napolean, that every
; gentleman must be acquainted with them, going
j to show that the attachment evinced towards him
• by his armies, in so many instances, was produ
t ced by the attention he paid to that grade of his
! army. If it were asked by what means these
5 wonderful results were produced, I should say, it
• is by their being in direct and constant contact
; with the men; the commissioned officers seldom
• are with them, and, when they arc, the soldiers
s but rarely exhibit themselves unmasked. It is
• the non-commissioned officer who sees them in
r situations where he can dive into their charac
-1 ters, and i btain an influence favorable to making
5 any impressions which they may choose. In i
■ ! every well regulated army, the men are divided
- into squads, and at the head of every one is a uun
■ commissioned officer; and it must I think be ob
s vious how much benefit may be derived from
having this grade composed of efficient and trust
-2 worthy men. Notwithstanding this, it is a little
• singular that so little has been done for them in
- our service—and it is ihe more singular, consid
ering the nature of our government; the grade of
- commissioned officers represent the wealthy and
, well informed part of the community ; ihe non
» commissioned officers are drawn principally from
f the laboring class of the community, the mass of
5 the People—the real sovereigns of the country;
- and yet nothing or very little has been done to
■ render that grade respectable. At present they
f are cut oil from every prospect of promotion;
r and, as long as the present system, which I pro
■ test against , exists, of confining all the mil tar y
1 knowledge to the sons of the richer portion of the
s community, there is no alternative; if Government
will not change their system, and diffuse a mili
-1 tary education amongst the People generally, it
must exist.”
1 The following, however, is the part of this
e speech in which you may read, as in a mirror,
■ the true character of General Harrison. The
• Daguerrotype itself could net reflect a more ex
e act image of the man :
•‘lf you arc not willing,sir, (said General Har
rison.) to adopt a system of this kind—if vou
e will not increase their pay from the apprehension
.- which my colleague has expressed that it will
- produce dissatisfaction in the army—what meas
e tires will you adopt 1 Something must certainly
he done. Will you say that the punishment of
y death shall again be inflicted? Will you crirn
- son your plains with the blood of your own sol
h ; diers ? If you are resolved to do this, he assur
-5 j ed the feelings of your fellow-citizens will not go
t with you. Will you subject your gallant officers, /
- j who gained you so much honor during the last
t 1 war, to the revolting task of executing their fellow
- | soldiers ? I assure you it is an employment fur
r | which they have no stomach. Though accustom
-1 j ed to scenes of blood.it is the blood of the cne
t ; mies or friends who fall in de'ence of their coun
- ; try, that it is not permitted a soldier to regret,
t j If it were not from the apprehension of a charge
5 ; of garrulity, which it is said belongs to the char
-1 actor of some old soldiers, I could tell you what
! I felt when at the age of eighteen, it fell to my
lot to command the guard which executed two
; soldiers for desertion ; and what I also felt, when,
as the commander of your army, I was called on
i to sanction a sentence of death. But I will tell
you what I have seen General Wayne, the Mar
ccllus of your country, suffer on a similar occa
i sion. I witnessed the tear starting from his fine
• blue eye, and his breast heaving with emotion,
s | whenever he was called upon to perform this pain
: | ful duty.
“If you do not wish to revive this punishment,
I will you restore the omnipotence of the cat-of
i nine-tails’ that instrument of torture? If you
•do, you will find it ineffectual. Resort to severe
punishments of that description, procure the
, shlag of Prussia or the knout of Russia, it will
s never be effectual in an American army. The
s i punishment of the picket has even been tried,
- I but in vain ; the only one that has proved effectu
! al is death. Perhaps it may be said it will be
f best to continue the present system of confining
r the deserter to hard labor in a fortress, with a ball
■ and chain around his leg,—Will the Senate con
; sider what will be the effect of this congregation
, of bad men? Amongst this number there are
1 many old offenders, who are ha-dended in crime,
1 and others who are but young in guilt—the effect
t of such a system always being to bring the least
r guiltly to the standard of the greatest. And
r what a mass of villainy will you periodically turn
- loose in the community ? Try, then I beseech
s you. some other plan— try the effect of lenity and
, instruction—take the fetter from the leg, and ap
• ply it to the mind of your soldier, and make him
. what he should be, the willing and faithful ser
vant of his country.”
“ After all, sir, this bill is not entriely to my
p mind. I would have added some other induce-
ments; I would have added honorary distinction ;
t and I would have increased the pay of the corpo
s rals; but I feared to go too far, lest nothing
( should be obtained. There is another clause I
j would willingly have added ; to restore again to
} youi army the ministers of religion. Until late
| ly I had not known that the grade of Chaplains
P had been abolished. May not to this cause be in
t part attributed the increased number of desertions
j in your army ? I know there are objections in
the minds of some military men to the cinplov
j merit of Chaplains ; but it has always arisen from
the character of the chaplains themselves. I know
; also that books of carricatures have been printed
, in England against that grade; but, in the reform
that has lately taken place under the Duke of
5 Wellington, a considerable change has been es
. fected in that particuliar. They are now chosen
j w ith great care, and faithful ydo their duty. A
[ Chaplain, properly chosen, and employed "where
j he can have constant access to the men, will no
j doubt be of effectual service, and I regret they are
. no longer to be found as a component part of our
’ armv.”
J Frcm ttu New Orleans Bulletin
If any confidence can be placed on the asser
tions of Mexican journals, the hope is still cher
ished of retrieving the defeat of San Jacinto, and
1 recovering the lost province of Texas. Nothing
, h as prevented a second invasion, or rather a third
, invasion, but the civil dissensions that have dis
j traded the kingdom. In spite, however, of the
, internal strife that is raging from the Del Norte
2 toA ucantan, the Mexican press is calling upon
. the Government to raise ten thousand men for
, the re-conquest ot Texas. But to such appeals
. the Government must for th '■ present turn a deaf
l ear. Ihe reigning authorities have as much on
j I their hands as can now be well attended to, in
expelling the Indian invasions and putting down
the insurrections that are breaking out in diflfer
r enl quarters. A glance at the internal condition
of Mexico is enough to show exclusively the im
j possibility of another invasion ot Texas. The
whole country is impoverished. The treasury con
tains not money enough to pay the public officers,
of whom many a r e suffering for want. Thein
t lerior is unprotected—the roads infested by rob
-1 bers—several of .he provinces overrun by hoa~
1 tile tribes of Indians, and others the theatres of
1 bloody civil war.
J If in a condition so deplorable as this, Mexico
» thinks of a foreign invasion, the imbecility of
'■ |JpU
her rulers is truly deplorable. The al'emm
be an act of consummate folly. One *
Mexican journals, we notice, inclines' t°‘
opinion. An article on thesibj c t c j r °*r
the remark, that the result of the oroiect T * ill > *.
quest will be, that when the Mexicai re ' Col1 '
shall have preished by hunger ami nakedur"' I'** 1 '**
North American rifles, the Govern,nenT*^
plead its inability to carry on the war t * l|!
want of means. Thus, after terminating 0 " 1
er war with disgrace and staining her
with added infamy, Mexico will at last •'m* 011
necessity, and bid adieu to Texas. fj () ' C
wiser would it bo now to listen to the i° W rr *** c k
prudence, and at once acknowledge iK- lLt f es °i
dence of a country which she can no* 1 , I* o,
, • , 411 never hiv,
contend against with success or to subdue ** * °
St. Louis Charter i3c c ,i 0n
The election for Mayor and \u
Louis, took place on the 6lh instant °!
carried three out of the four wa r( J s • "
the city is divided, and elected Johjp 0 W^
their candidate for Mayor, by a
votes. J 101 G 4
China. —The following details of the arm ■
| navy of China are extracted from the w
that country, by M. Gutzlaff, a missionary
resided in it many years :
“The total number of Chinese troops j
ding those of the navy, but not the
Mongul auxiliaries amounts to 765.222 Jp
has two fleets, one for the rivers, and the otht-’f* I
the sea. The first comprises 1,036 si,
second 918. The river fleet has crews u -M'
amount of 9,500 men, and that for the sea 98 P
making an aggregate of 107.921 sailors, \
army is as regular as any in the world, but *'d
rather a skeleton than a body. The soldier do''
not fight from love of country, but rather as J
police officer, or imperial chasseur;and 1
greater portion of the year he is at home Vp l
his family, carrying on some trade or profession
The country has no need of a large embody*
army, and it is the interest of all parties to reduce It
the soldier to an humble artisan. Consequent!, H
there is scarcely one-tenth of the nominal fori,3
underarms at one time, the other
existing only on paper.
W e have been in places where there were
thousands of soldiers on the roll, and yet not
more than two hundred effective men could be IL
mustered. W hen any rebellion breaks out, noU
more than 3,000 out of 10,000 can he collected. ‘
Several of the generals are admirals also. The
officers and men are equally ignorant of navigj.
tion. A great manv sailors of their merchant®
vessels belong to the navy. Their war junks dis-H
for in nothing from those employed in trade; the >
largest do hot exceed 300 tons in burden. The £
whole coast is lined with ships, and there is not a
single haven or calanyue, however small, which
has not its post of soldiers.
Womkx AM) Linns.—Time was when, in
good old Scripture parlance, the word woman
was regarded as an honorable appellation of adu
females. But this term was too republican so
community—for all such were “women,” and tinj
term irnpl.cd no distinction between the nobilifr *
and the common herd.—And so those who wore -
the greatest amount of silks anti satins flirted the
most gracefully about town and in fashionabhl
parties, and did no work, must take a higher an. «
more honourable name, and be called Lade
But in this country, honorable names, like fashion- S
able dresses, are coveted by all parties; and soo.
it came to pass that we had no “woman in thi s
land. From the stuccoed and ornamented parlor.
to the kitchen of the log cabin, all became Ladies,
As the intention of those designations has thw
been defeated, we motion, that henceforth none
be allowed the name of Ladies but good house
wives—those who are real helpmates in the fami
ly, and can if in health, earn their own living.
These are the true nobility of the female sex and
should be considered Ladies.—Your mere walk
ing bundles of silk and piano forte players, who
think themselves disgraced to be caught at the
work in the kitchen, should have no Lierlier term
to designate them than women, and this in the
odious and unpopular sense which they originally
attempted to employ it in. —Maine Cultivator.
Nativity ot the Members of the House of
Representatives of the United States—Of
two hundred and thirty-five members of the House,
the following States gave birth to tiie numbers set
opposite each in the table subjoined:
Pennsylvania 37 Georgia S
Virginia 31 Maine 5
Massachusetts £5 New Hampshire 3
New \ ork 21 Vermont j
Connecticut IS Delaware 3
North Carolina 17 Ohio
South Carolina 12 Louisiana 2
Kentucky 12 Rhode Island I J
Maryland 11 Tennessee 11
Ireland 4 * England
Eight of the United States have not had the honor v
of giving birth to a Member of Congress.
A Screamer.—There is a young lady ofL
“sweet sixteen” down the Seneca river, who cuts
her two cords of wood per cay, when not too much
engaged in household affairs. Being at school
the other day, she settled some difference between
herself and the schoolmaster by trundling him
head foremost out of the house, and closing th*
doors upon him. What a glorious remedy for
the “ hard times” such a companion “in arms
would be ! Ohio State Journal
Ax Affray.—A horrid duel took place be
tween Wm. B. Wade and J. H. Robinson a few
miles above Vicksburg, on our side of the river,
one day last week. The parties fought with
Howie knives and Wade was stabbed to the
heart. He died instantly, and Robinson, it t>
said, is too severely wounded to render recover)
probaulc.— Picayune.
Ax Obstinate Fellow.—The following
from the New York Atlas, is capital. Me ba>f
heard of many obstinate fellows in our day, ,
this Atlas man’s obstinacy is the most ohstina--1
obstinacy that we remember to have read I
“There is a man in the upper part ol this cn; I
who is so contrary that he won t eat when
is hungry—when he goes to bed at night be
ways gets in feet first, and comes out head
in the morning—universally lies with Ids
at the foot of the bed. He made an unsucccssfo
attempt the other morning to put his boots
hind part before and his pantaloons bottom en
up. When he reads, always holds the paper y
book bottom up, and pats bis Fpectacles upon
back of his head. The only way to get him
the Battery is by telling him to go up Droad^; 1
and he is sure to go down.”
Police Report.
The following report,
Both pithy and short,
Wc find in the New Vcrk Dispatch,
For neatness and sense,
With as little pretence.
We seldom have met with its match.
Baltimore Visit«• I
“One Christopher Twist ordered Hannah
Christ to stand still and be kissed. But lJan EJ ; f
gave out such a deuce of a shout, at what .
was about, that a watchman named Top, cs'
with a hop, and marched Twist io the shop-
McGhi Ist not being there, to the kissing to
Twist was cleared by the chair, and made U* 1 .
like a hair.”
As looking at fighting
Is apt to enrage us,
So gaping is catching.
And rhyming contagious.
Report , like a snow-ball,
Is constantly swelling,
Push along ihe report,
And add something in telling