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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. r- •' AUGUSTA. | A MONDAY MORNING, MAY 111. Huzza lor Cherokee. • Yesterday’s mail brought us THiKryfsubscribers to the Reformer from Cherokeccmnty-, —this is a fine beginning for that spirited young county. Haiti more Convention! From lha Correspondence of the National In telligencer, we obtain an account o< tljc final pro ceedings of this vast assemblage of patriotic whigs. On Tuesday but little was done save ?;he speech es from various distinguished gent erapn from dif ferent Slates. Among others who vere<called upon on the occasion was our talented and jealous dele gate Dr. F. M. Robertson, a notice o| whose ef fort we subjoin in the complimentary terms, in which itjhas been notic-dby the Baltimore Amer ican. j Mr. Robf-rtsox of Georgia, a- tru£ Southron, spoke eloquently of Georgia. 11l is pddress was brief, and one of the best made! in |he Conven tion. Georgia, he said, was aw jke u the impor tance of the coining contest, and it he |ires kindled within her were of her own irresUlib’e and spon uneous firing. i ■ : • i The Log Cabiii, J Is the title of a new piper, whj< h rhade its ap pearance in this city on Saturday, As its irarae indicates, it wil! support Tlarrisur and Tyler; its appearance is quite neat, and though small, will no doubt render good servi e in thelcause of Reform. It is published tri-weekly by Ijlessi 3 . Bl%wn & McCafferty, at five dollars per anbumi Delegates to ths Conyemioa. < batham. —Benica, Law, Paddleford, Hunter, r.nd Fleming. * Glynn.—Nichoan, Lavis. and A. T. King. Burke —Berr.cn, Eennet, Lawson, Byne. We understand that meetings haves been held in (Tcrscn and Greer.e, but bavg cot learned the i, ,i.es of the delegates. At the meeting of the Convention of the Pro testant Episcopal Church in the Didcese of Geor gia, held at Clarksville, on the 4-th hist., the Rev. Stephen Eliott, Jr., Professor of bucrcd Literature and the Evidences of Christianity in the College at Columbia, C., was unanimously elected * Bishop of the Diocese. ! Loco Foco Convention, The Baltimore Patriot of Tuesday says : The Loco Foco Convention which pas been hol ding a session in this city, yssterdav and to-day, we leirn, have come to the decision to make no nomination for Vice President, thus, in effect throwing Col. Johnson, overboard—and have adopted an address, which, for malignant misrep resentation, is without a parallel in the political contests of the country. W e only allude to these things because they may have som»; interest from some of our readers, but the ti|ne has passed when a Convention of Lcxio Fjacos, whether Slate or National, can say any thinig which could in the slig! test degree, coni/*1 life public voi ;e, or slop the current of public opinion, except to bring down upon themselves add|iioual censure. \ Correspondence of the Xit ion U Intelligencer. Baltimore, Tuesday, 3 P. M. The enthusiasm continues. The members of Ae People’s Convention are still jhere ; and, in stead of seeming tired or fatigues, new life and new impulses animate the gre|il a .d patriotic as semblage at every hour. T h<| front of t. e Court house, in Monument Square, as .decorated with the banner* of the different delegations to-day; and there the Convention met land .passed several re-omtions. The whole area ofMoiiument Square, since 5 o’clock last evening, arid from daylight this morning until the present moment,, lias been tilled with ten thousand aid ml and anxious patriots, lis tening with attention to the hundreds of electrify ing speeches which have beeiirmade by all the dis tinguished men in Congress,; and try many of the most talented young men ia;'he country ; and it still goes on. Many speeches were made [during last evening, in various parts of the city, where the delegates had assembled. Mr. Webster addressed the Past ern delegations from near the : KxAiange night, and was followed by Mr. Cashing and Mr W. Cost Johnson. In Monument;. 1, quare the speaking continued until a late hour. Mr. Clay, Mr. Graves, Mr. Prolfit, Mr. Johnson, Kir. Crittenden, and many others spoke last night.j The Whig members of (’onigress had decided to take no part in the discussio.il—to leave tie speak ing to the Young Men of the {Convention ; but the most of these, coming from Iso r any quarters of the Union, were anxious to l-tar die g.eal men of the day, and they were forced out; Mr. Proffit made a capital <;pcei|i to-day. Mr. Legate, of South Caro.,ina,ian'ived last eve ning ; he addressed Ue meeting this morning. While one speaker was ai|drosping a crowd of some five thousand from the! Court-house, another speaker was haranguing to| a li--;e number from another part of the Square. IF ve;V window around and near was blazing with the beajaty of Baltimore; and the shouting’s and loud Ijuzz js of the enthusi astic multitude went up at intervals to the great Heaven above. There was afrnor.il grandeur in the scone, which is almost inconceivable but to an eye wifne*s. j The Convention will attcrl tb|e funeral, at four o’clock, of one of the Marshals ‘who was killed yesterday. \ | There is a quorum of the jflou le of Representa tives here, and both sides of* the|iouse have come on to see their respective friends* | From the North Ameficah of the Ath. Later Froml China. BioiCKAnF. of Caxtonl ht|tue English. The Portuguese of MacVo h|ivk taken part ■with Chixa. — Ihe ship Levant arrived at this port yesterday from C into|i. She brings dates tojfhe 15th of January, tei lays liter than th >so received from England bj the Great Western. The blockade of Canton ! was. to commence on the day she sailed. The pHedged cause was the seizure of an English merchant in a smuggling boat. Capt. Eliott hud gijven notion that unless this person was delivered lip in fifteen days, he would batter down the forjs. The Portuguese at Mac;i) have sent guns and men to aid the Chinese in.defending the forts at the Uogue against the British ships. This pre sentsa new actin thedranrji, and the consequence will be, in all probability, a bombardment of Ma cao by the English fleet.! The American and oher foreign re fide ills s.re placed in a critical situation, from the fear ofiany sudden outbreak on the part oi the Chinese. ;he Commissioner Lin is represented as very determined in his course though the people at larjre evince much appre h nsion at the resul . liri addition to the forts at the Bogue. the Chinese Ifnve placed a strong raft well secured by heavy chs-ins; across the st earn. On this a Urge force of armed men is at present placed, and vessels are permitted to passthrough an opening which is made for them by letting one or more of the rafts swing wub the tide. The People are Moving. It is a source of unmingled pleasure to witness ' with whal unanimity the People are moving for ward in the support of the Patriot Statesmen, Harrison and Tyler. Old Chatham Glynn have spoken, and they have been responeded to by the e'er patriotic Clarke in a language which shows that her Camak, Billups and Dougherty, in common with her people, are not idle specta tors of the great work of reform, and that they join heart and soul with Berrien and Law of Chatham, and majority of the people of Gecrgia, and shoulder to shoulder arc determined to make a united effort to keep the ball in motion. The following resolutions wete adopted at the Meeting in Clark. We have not room for those in Chatham and Glynn : Resolved Unanimously , That it is the due deliberate conviction of ibis meeting, that in the present posture of public affairs, that the best interests of the country would be essentially pro mjted by the election to the Presidency of the United States of Gen. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, of Ohio. Resolved further, That in pursuance of this sentiment our delegates to the ensuing Conven tion be requested to endeavor to procure the nom ination of an electoral ticket pledged to the sup port of Win, H. Harrison, for the Presidency, and John Tyler, of Virginia, for the Vice Pres icdency of the United Slates. The following gentlemen were then unanimous ly appointed De!ega‘es : Edward Paine. E<q. James I’amak, Esq. Johx Tom, Esq. Hox. Chas. Douguf.rtt. Resolved, That the Chairman be authorised to fill any vacancy which may happen in this delegation. Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Com mittee in each company district in this County, for the purpose of procuring subscribers to the Reformer, a paper published in Augusta, by J. W. & W. S. Jones, For the Chronicle ind Sentinel. Mr. Editor : —Seethe Van Buren meeting in Charleston —the mountain in motion, Ac. South Carolina (the Committee fay) has agiin, iu her 1 •‘generous nature, raised her slant nd, and is ad- 1 vancing to the rescue, against the partisans of i abolition,” the Tariff, Hanks, .kc., consolida : on in i all its various forms*” and every lover of his j country is called upon to resist their further ad vances against the principles of the Democratic i President! And we are told that all have united, I save that nameless cohort which gave uncertain j support to the Administration when it was strong est, &c. &c. They declare they will support Mr- Van Buren ; Ist, because he is entirely opposed to the abolitionists, 1 ecause the Whigs always are the proposers of abolition movements, and lead us by insinuations to believe Gen. Harrison is an abo- I litionist, and even in favor of a tariff to be applied I to the purpose. Is this Committee so ignorant; do i they contend that these things“ are established be yond doubt,” or ca 1 they this :: generous” dealing? 2d Because they always are opposed to a National Bank, (how iongsince s ) dangerous to the liberty of the people. I wonder if Charleston or the Dear Peo ple have suffered as much before the Bank was put down, as they have since. Answer ye honest mer chants and mechanics ; pay ye now £or 3 i per I cent.; and are bills of exchange more in than local piper. Answer ye planters; knew ye ever the produce of the country at a lower ebb , has fluctuations in value ceased, such as “ caused by the monster.” 3d, Because they desire the establishment of a constitutional currency —(called in Georgia the Sub-Treasury.) which they say has been prevented by the array of influence, interest and prejudice of the partisans and debtors of nine hundred Banks, with the United Stales Bank at their head, (this suou d bed Unite States Rank of Pennsylvania— “ all things that are alike are not the same,”) and that those institutions, and their friends, have caused ail the trouble, &c. fcc. But that the sober second thoughts of the peop’c will—will do what 31 r. Editor—will prevent its passage ever I pre same. See the Virginia elections. Pause, gentle men, til! Georgia speaks, she will dare oppose even the Democratic constitutional currency. 4th, The opposition of the Administration to in ternal improvement, claim their support. Wonder if they mean the last vote in the Senate upon the Cumberland Road? And sth, Because the Administration are op posed to a Tariff of protection. Wonder how long since Mr. Van Buren has been—and also, bow long before it will be revived and increased, under the p’ca of an increased revenue being requisite ? We in Georgia understand things as they aie— and we will act as Southern men wiih Southern princip'es. A Charlestonian by bißlth. Fremthe St. Augustine Herald Ist inst. From Florida* Cap'. Holmes, at some place west of St. Johns River, struck a trail, and after following it up some distance, and not finding the Indians, suspected the Indians might lie following him; he accordingly laid four men in ambush, and pro- 1 ceeded on with the rest ol his company ; short ly afterward, two Indians came up, am. were fired on by the men in concealment—killing one, and so badly wounding the other, that he was taken. I We did not learn the date of the occurrence, ' though it happened very recently. Indians. Ex f ract (fa letter to the Editor, dated. Fort Lauderdale, (E. F.) April 24.—A most provoking and unexpected incident occur- i red about hair a mile from this post to day. The water in New River becoming rather 1 brackish at limes, opposite the post, it has been j necessary to ascend the river a short distance in order to procure fresh. Whilst a party of five men were pci forming tins duty, in a small boat, j they were fired upon by some Indians, who wore concealed in a mangrove scrub, the marshy and usually inundated nalu-c of which, has always induced the belief that no human being would ever undertake lo enter it. Three of the men were wounded, the oilier two escaping unhurt. Sergt. Hollen, a man whose exemplary bearing i as a soldier, has always enlisted the most exalted approbation of all under whom he ever served, l is thought to be mortally wounded, two balls 1 having penetrated his body near the liver. The Indians were not seen ly any of the soldiers, hut, from the number of balls which took effect, there must have been at least half a dozen. A party of fifteen or twenty men, under Capt. Davidson, who commands this post, resorted with the utmost promptness to the scrub in which they were concealed, but were unable, with all the unbounded zeal which such a deed could in spire, to overtake the sly and murderous rascals, they having yelled and retreated so soon a> their bloody design was accomplished. Petticoat Editor. —The factory girls in Nashua. N. H., recently presented the editor of the Nashua Gazette with a petticoat for aligmati- i zing them as slaves. Spunky girls those about I Nashua, and always were. 1 From the Richmond B hig. The .False Prophet. Just after the elections for the last two years, when the Administration party was badly beaten in the State, the Editor of the Enqurer has rais ed the consoling cry, “ wait till next spring—then we will repair the accidental disasters of the pre- j sent \ ear—then we will sweep the Whigs to the clay, and scarcely leave one to tell the fate of their comrades.” Such was his language in the spring of 1838 in regard to the contest of 1839. Thirty-nine came, and with it, defeat and discomfiture. The braggart and his parly were only saved from the consuming indignation of the people by a major ity obtained in former years in the check-mating department, But no whit abashed by the falsifi cation of his prophecies, he repeated them for 1840. When that great dav should arrive, the Wh gs would certainly he demolished—cut up hy the roots Ike green gourds. Those bragging assurances he continued to give until the very eve of the election. Caroline, he said wouid elect the Federal candidate by at least 75, Nelson by a hundred. Amherst bv a!>out the same ma jority ; Norfolk County, Princess Anne, Nanse mond, Cumberland and various other staunch W hig Counties, were dead certain for the Admin istration. Among other bluffing bulletins which he put forth semi-weekly, we extract the follow ing of the 3J of April, by which it would appear that he is our debtor for the “ best beaver or any other hat in Virginia.” From the Enquirer of the 3d April IS4O. Virginia. Every thing is cheering in this glorious old Commonwealth. All the accounts from the va- j rious counties show that Mr. Van Burcn will carry the Stale hy an overwhelming majority. The correspondence that we publish this mor ning, is an earnest that the Republicans are arous ed, anc* mean to do their duty. Let the Madiso nian publish its silly letters from Norfolk—Let the Baltimore Patriot publish its ridiculous let ters from Petersburg]!, claiming as “ the opinion, there, that the old hard cider candidates will cer tainly take the purse this time.— Let the reckless | Richmond Whig affect to congratulate its friends on the cheering prospects ahead , (yes, certainly not behind it) —Let it put forth as the confident estimate of •• some shrewd calculators, that thev will have, on joint ballot, a majority of between ”5 and 30,” and that “ the most timid say it can not possibly be less than 10"—Let W. C. Rives and H. Wise accept a public dinner at Winches ter on the 15th April, for the cunning purpose of operaMig against Opie, Byrd and Woods. In spite of all these bravadoes and all these tricks, we are most grossly deceived by others, if we do not carry the State this spring. We stake the best beaver or any oilier hat in Virginia on this result, with the Whig or any of its believers. Let the Whig say yes, any we think we shall wear a cap at its expense. In a word, we con scientiously believe we shall carry the State in the Springy We have no doubt of it in tho fall. W e saw three Democrats from Spottsy I vania on Wednesday ; they ask but a fair field and a bright sky on the 23J to carry Haliaday. In j this (Henrico) county, the Republicans are in j hopes of redeeming the county Irorn the Influ ence of Richmond and of carrying the Republi can Reins. Heads up, and all will be well! Well, the 23d has come and passed, and the Feds are soundly drubbed throughout the Com monwealth. But the incorrigibleV)Kl gentleman renew s his cuckoo note, “ wait till next fall!” He says: “ As at present advised, we have no hesitation in giving it as our opinion that the Whigs have carried a majority of the Legislature. That the Van Buren party will carry it this fall, vve do not entertain a doubt.” It is somewhere written, and in a good hook too, that certain characters are not to be believed under any circumstances. We think that the positive assurances of success which the Enquir er has given for three successive years, place' it in the category of those who are not to be be lieved ; or at any rate, make its statements to be received with many grains of allowance. It map carry the Stale in the fall, but its say-so is no evidence of the fact. It lias shown itself a false prophet too often already to command the confidence of any. But we say in conclusion, as Rasselas says in the beginning: “Ye who listen with credulity to the whis pers of fancy, and pursue, with eagerness the phantoms of hope—who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the defi ciencies of the present day will be supplied bv the morrow, attend to the saying of Thomas Ritchie, Editor of the Enquirer.” From the Baltimore American. 1 he Cuirency. Ii is a favorite course of the Administration party to complain loudly of the present disordered state of the currency, and while they seek to throw the odium of all financial disasters upon the Whigs, they refer t > existing evils as ;;j many reasons why the sub-treasury system .should be introduced. We hear continually of “expan sions,” “contractions,” “irredeemable paper mon ey,” the delusive “credit system,” and such hke phrases—yet the fact is apt to be lost sight of that every derangement which has taken place ! in the currency—every disaster in the way of j undue expansion or contraction—every thing in i short which has tended to make paper money ir redeemable, within the last seven years—mav be traced directly or indirectly to the attacks made by the Administration upon a system of currency which, before such attacks were made, was sound, regular, substantial, and in all respects one of the best ever enjoyed by this country or any other. The Government has w aged war upon the trade, commerce and general business of the Union ; its measures have resulted in unsettling business relations ; in producing disorder in all the estab lished modes of conducting commercial operations; 1 and in causing uncertainty want of confidence, I [ and, ofcourse great anxiety, distress and suffering. j The Whigs, who did their utmost to resist these i measures, one by one, as they were successnely j brought forward, arc now reproached as the au -1 thors of the very evils which they sought to avert, j The disasters of the times are charged uocn them iin connection with the credit system. Who made the credit system what it is? Who destroyed its efficiency—paralyzed its operations? The very I party which now complains of it. When the i Whigs advocate the credit system it is not in i view of such a system as the one now existing, ! I which has been crippled and prostrated and made to be but the shadow of a system,—Give us that winch Washington introduced, or one like it; I or that which Madison sanctioned ;—or restore i to thecountry that excellent currency which ilen joyed hetore the hoslnc measures ol Government i were directed against it—a currency which no one I found fault with, which was equal and sound in all parts of the United States, and which had a substantial specie basis to icst upon. It is time that all delusion on this subject was dissipated. The industry and enterprise of the count y have been shackled long enough in sub serviency to political designs; reproachful terms used without meaning and applied without rea son, are beginning to lose their force with men of sense, who can sec through pretexts, and who. as men of bus: ness, perceive that every pretended re form of the party io power has only made things worse, after having destroyed what was good. Bui our purpose in making these remarks was not so much to discuss the subject as to introduce the following extract from the able speech of Mr. Daviso! Massachusetts, in reply to Mr. Buchanan, 1 in the U. S. Senate. It contains a fair statement [ of facts as they are known to have existed in refer- • ence to the financial history ©f the last seven years, shows cl. a ly how? the ruinous results which have been so severely Fell, year after year, during that period, have followed naturally from the measures of the Administration —so naturally that it is ; difficult to see how such causes could have pro | duced any other consequences. We ask for the extract an attentive perusal on the part of all can did men without regard to political distinctions: Before the late President (Jack-on) seized the public money and took it into his own custody, in 1833, there was no complaint about the curren cy ; ail the people know this; for all, even the President himself, in one of bis messages, united in declaring, in substance, it was sound, and j equal to that of any nation on earth. There was no complaint, no inconvenience, no embar rassment, from this source, in doing business ; I but contentment and satisfaction every where. About this ihcre can be no mistake, nor will any j one here attempt to refute the well-known facts. But from that act of the President, which was the first movement to reform the currency, to this j day. there his been what the Senator is pleased to call ‘expansion, contraction, and explosion,’ in rapid and fearful sucession ; crisis upon crisis, pressure upon pressure, panic upon panic, have succeeded, till w-o have reached a stale of sus picion and alarm that has deranged and almost suspended business. The storm in its fury has swept over the country, once and again, uproot ing the stateliest and firmest trees, and leaving lin its track a dreary and desolate waste. Its ! marks are too deeply engraven, too distinct, too well defined to leave any thing uncertain —any thing unequivocal.— It fell upon us with such withering energy, as to leave no doubt when, ! where, and how it began. Gentlemen may tax their ingenuity, they may task their inventions, to discover other causes of distress—they may belabor and hold up to scorn and execration the banks as long as they please, they cannot change the facts, for they cannot ob literate history. Things were well, and every body knows it, till 1833. Then began the bank | reform by the removal of the dep isites—and then I began this rapid series of-expansion, contraction ! and explosion’—then followed crisis after crisis then came tho derangement of exchanges, and { then the embarrassments which have ovei whelm ; ed the country —then came, too, the nine hundred j banks of which the Senator speaks, though he has probably swelled the number beyond historical truth. The Senator admits, what cannot be denied, that the Administration proposed and carried in -Ito effect the State bank deposite system. It was | in this [dace and by them that Slate banks were taken into favor, petted, and boastingly held out to the country as affording a better and safer cur rency. Into them was tbc revenue put in enor mous sums, and they were directed to loan freely upon it by the President for the accommodation of the people, and it was his pride and pleasure to mike known to us that the public money was thus employed, instead of being locked up; a slri ; king commentary upon the present plans of vaults ! and safes. Mr. P esident. The Senator admits that this was the policy I of the Administration, and that the disastrous j consequences predicted by the opposition have | been verified. He rnitfht have gone further; for ; it is truth equally undeniable, that this policy | sowed the seed of nearly or quite one-half of the whole number of banks—between eight and nine i hundred—and of more than one half of thff capi tal; that it was the parent of the paper, ‘expan sion, contraction, and explosion.’ of which he has spoken in terms of just severity; that it is alike the parent of the bloated credit system which lie affirms has made us all e-amblers; and that the mad speculation which raged over the country,and has furnished the theme for declam ation and denunciation in these halls for three years past, was begotten hy it. Such are the taels, and on the projectors of this policy, let the responsibility rest. We had had ‘no expansions contractions,or explosions,’ for a long period that did not fairly belong to the vibrations of trade; none that excited alarm or seriously disturbed public confidence, til; vve came to this reforming policy; hut since then tho public mind hasscaice- Iv been tranquil,zed. In 1834 came the first fell swoop, which overturned and bankrupted thous ands; and it originated here. In ’35-*G came the great era of bank making and trading upon the public money, then accu mulated to sixty or seventy millions, as nearly as I remember, which threw the country into a fe verish excitement, and even firm, well balanced minds out of their adjustment. There was a rage for fortune-making and fortune-hunting such as had never been witnessed, and which nothing but this policy was capable of generating. The Senator might and ought to have limited the bloated credit system that made us all, as he affirms gamblers, to this period, and left the offspring to stand beside its parent as a proof of the disasters of this policy, and of the fulfilment of the predic tions of the Opposition; for go together they must, and live together they will in history; and no sophistry, no ingenuity can ever separate them. While the Senator admits this policy to belong exclusively to the Administration, and to have been strenuously opposed by us, and its melancholy consequences predicted, he now re pudiates it as erroneous, and \vc must allow to him and his friends whatever credit belongs to an abandonment of it after it had literally exploded, | and the mischief was accomplished. But, sir. j he and they must be reminded that I could. if I j would, read from the messages of the President, j and from the successive reports of the Secretary I of the Treasury, language of exultation, triurn phmg tn the entire success of the policy, boasting that the currency was on a better footing than that the exchanges were greatly improved and that, too, at the very moment when the bloat ed credit was most expanded, and speculation was the most ri e and rank. Such was the delu sion th it the madness which had seized multi i tudes w'as trumpeted forth as evidence of success j and general prosperity. Thf Senator clearly rea { suns from false premises when he makes the | banks the origin of our embarrassments, for they | were only instruments in the hands of those who j projected the measures that have made them what ; they arc. / ro/n the Albany Evening Journal. Martin Van Boren and the Bast War. From the Albany Argus. “ A month since the Evening Journal delibcr , ateiy gave to the public a “ a political slander,” j charging Mr. Van Buren with offering at a meel | ing in Columbia county in 1812, resolutions de- I daring the war “ impolitic and disastrous,” and 1 the employment of the militia in an offensive war, “ unconstitutional.’’ A month since we “deliberately gave to the public” the following statement which is literal ly true. From the Evening Journal <f March 31. “ Marlin Van Buren in 1812 labored,intrigued and voted to defeat tbe re-election of James Mad ison, to the Presidency and elect the “ Peace Party” Candidate.” The practice of the Argus to change an issue that it cannot meet, by slyly instituting another i in its place, is so notorious and inveterate that i any animadversion even upon the flagrant at tempt before us would be entirely thrown away. But the Argus, emboldened, perhaps, by our silence and made de perate by its reverses in Vir ginia, hazard a declaration that every man couver . sant with the history of our war or the course of i our politics knowns to be false. It says “ that i Mr. Van Buren gave to 'he war, r non the fihst j -to the last all the support of his talents , his ! siat on and his h it energies." War with Great Brita n was declared in June | 1812. Ihe Legislature convened at the Capitol the begiaiug of November. Martin Van Buren took his scat in tire Senate of this State for the first time on the 3d November 1812. For more than fifteen months preceding this period, the ag gressions of Great Britain upon our commerce had beeij uninterruped. Its emissaries had been at work among the Indians on the Wabash early in 1811, ami its secret agents engaged in foment ing disalfection and t’cison even in Massachu setts in the begining of IS! 2. The country, to use the language of Mr. Madison in a confiden tial Message to Congress, had long exhibited ‘-on the side of Great Britain, a stale of war against the United Slates, astute of peace towards Great Britain.” During this whole period an active* and acri monious PrestJen ial Canvass had been carried on. The friends and advocates of the National honor and the war—the republican party of 1811 and ’l9—zealously supported Mr. Madison for re-election. The peace party comprising a great portion of the federalists, were anxious to elevate Mr. Clinton, then Lieutenant Governor of this State, to the Presidency in opposition to Mr. Madison and the war parly. The legislature as we have said, met on the 3d day of November 1812. Their first act wis to select twenty-nine Electors of President and Vice President. Mr. Van Buren introduced into the Senate a concur rent resolution to proceed to the choice of tiic.-e ! Electors on the 6th of November. It was p»st | poned however, until tiie 9th. Now let us sec whether Mr. Van Buren gave the support of “ his station, his talents and his : best energies” to the war. If" from Ihe first In I the last,” as the Argus asserts, he was a zealous 1 and untiring advocate of the war, it would follow as a natural consequence that we should find him j improving the occasion before him at this period, i in defence of Mr. Madison, the great champion : of the war, and of course voting for Electors | friendly to the re-election of Mr. Madison. Instead of assuming this proud position. Mr. Van Buren gave the support of “his station” to the politics’ enemies of Mr, Madison and ope nit/ nominated in his place in the Senate twenty nine electors friendly to Mr. Clinton and tie peace party —Gen. Root and othei true Republi cans voting against him. For proof that wc do not rnisrep esent the conduct of Mr. Van Buren, the A r gus may consult the Senate and Assembly Journal, volume 30, page 24, &c. His vote will he there found recorded as we stated, an everlast ing testimony of the hollowness and hypocrisy of the claim interposed by his friends, that he was “ from first to last” the political friend and advo cate of President Madison, and the last war!— | lo wer branch of the Legislature, which i the Argus has recently end repeatedly stigmatis | ed as the federal branch, concurred in the nomin ation of the Presidential Electors made by Van Burenistn and Federalism.^!) Throughout tiie summer and autumn of 1812, Mr. Van Huron with bis usual art and assiduity was laboring, intriguing and coquetting to bring about the result thus consumatcd in November. He expected to profit by the elevation of Mr. Clinton and the overthrow of Madison. Tiiat he did not appear at a political meeting in Colum bia co ii.lv and upenly move a re->o!utmn denounc ing the war as “ impolitic and disastrous” is pro bable. That duty we believe was allotted to his political fri'Tid James Vanderpoel. The “ mous ing propensities” of Mr. Van Buren at thatcariy period ol Ids political career were strikingly ex hibited and give abundant promise of the perfect system of finesse and non-committalism which he afterwards practiced, until Amos Kendall and John C. Calhoun finally found means (ne'er dis covered by his party friends in this State) to “ call him out.” We have conclusively shown that Mr. Van ■ Burch d;d not give his support to the war “ from j first to last.” We have shown that he opposed ! the war by opposing Mr. Madison at a most im portant and difficult crisis. Nearly five months ; a ter the open declaration of the war by Congress | and at least a year afier actual hostilities had i commenced, and we find Mr. Van Buren. ar the ; very first opportunity afforded him of exhibiting his political principles under the solemn sanction ! of his senatorial engagements, striving to put 1 down a Republican President and elevate the I “ Peace party candidate.” Now let the Argus bring forward evidence equally indisputable to prove, if it can, that Mr. Van Buren at any time prior to the 9th Novem ber, ISI2, “ gave to the war the support of his talents, his station and his best cnergis.”— | Surely those who concoct its paragraph and set k : to plaster over the political tergiversations of iheir 1 chief, must he sufficiently conversant with the j course of politics to know whcie such evidence ; is to he found if it really exists. Assertion proves j nothing, however, bold and audacious it may be. We admit, and have nev r denied, that Mr. Van Buren pretended grea zeal in the support of ! Mr. Madison and the war, after it was ascertained | that Mr. Clinton could not be made President I and that Ike war had become popular with th | notion. The celerity with which he abandoned that gentleman and hrs supporters shows that unlike Falstaff, he had no “alacrity at sinking.” ; Mr. Van Buren has uniformly preferred to swim ; w th hisenemh s than to go down with his friends, i He attained his present elevation by attaching j t° the skirls ot rising men, and seasonably trim i ming his opinions to any pattern that promised to become popular. Happy would it have been for the country if he had adhered to this policy after he became President. He would then ha'e been remarkable in history as another example of successful demagoguism. He must now des cend to posterity with that deeper infamy that be longs to one wh i rose to p nver by tiie arts of intiigue, bet ruled by those of the worst and darkest species of corruption. Steamboat Su.vk and Seteuai. Lives Lost.— The St. Louis Republican of ‘he 27th ult. stales that as the steamboat Bedford was de- I scending the Missouri river, on the 25th, about | six o’clock, between one and two miles above the j mouth, she struck a -nag which knocked a large hole in her bottom, and she commenced filling immediately. The passengers had just raised from supper. So great was the injury that in about two minutes she sunk within a few in ches of the hurricane deck. As soon as she commenced sinking, the yaw l was filled with as many as it could contain and sent ashore. Those who remained and could do so, escaped to the hurricane deck. Five or six, it is believed were unable to get there in time. An old man, a Revolvtionary soldier of the name of Moore from (Jile county, is named a j mong the lost. A negro woman and her three children are reported as drowned. It is also stated that a German woman on hoard lost her child. A vote was taken in the cabin and dock a short i time previous, in relation to the President, when fifty-two votes were counted. We presume there | must have been this number exclusive of the 1 women. A dreadful storm of rain and wind I was raging at the time. The boat and cargo are a total 1 ss. It is sup ! P os ed there was not much cor<ro on hoard. She was owned we believe in Louisville. Lamisli i)e.— We regret to learn, that oA night before last the hanks of the river, on the opposite s : de from the city, caved in for some distance.— Pile point where the 1 mdslide is, is below the Willow House, immediately above the lower fer ry. Fortunately, the village was protected bv a double levee. The old levee sunk, and several buildings with it. The space l»elwecn the old and new levee, which is near fifty yards in width, and four hundred in length, is overflown with water from live to six feet deep. The buildings that disappeared were three frame houses, between the ofd brick powder-house and the river. The inmates, at about 10 o’clock at night, were a wakened by a crash, and the rush of water into their rooms. They haltima barely t 0 with Ihrir lives, losing all of their goods s that, the west gable of the powder boos ‘k* * caved in. and there are indications that t‘.„ ’ dermining of the bank continues to an alar U ° extent. The dam ige to the Willow Grove fT" 5 we understand is serious, the lower apj-t • being covered five feet deep in water, as W-U the yard and garden. Hopes are entert.it. ju" the landslide will uotextend to the new levee event that must drown the whole city of \ '~' 3n The inhabitants for their own protection ' ,er '' do well to raise another levee, in the ' one that now constitutes the only hirrier I • the encroachments of the river.—]V. (J B Tuoup County, I7th April, Gentlemen.—Below I scud y.i u a copy 0 r loiter received to-day from the lion. J. (j ! ;,/ a which you will please give a place m v OUf per. • ur l’ a ' Your ob’t serv't. l. a. bond. to «• «th April. 1840 * Dear Sir.—l received your letter 0 r U, e 2 0. k March, this morning. I was not apprise o f, k contemplated meeting of curfrien.-L f or ', 18 pose of sending delegates to the Con vent 1 nominate candidates for President, Vice'pr ! dent aml candidates for Congress, until I receive your letter as above stated. I assure you sir I was much rejoiced to hear of the probability’ such a meeting, and I hope that the p ou ,;. n . old Troup will do themselves the justice to c* . out and as men interested in the hlicai questions of the day. This is noting ft j men to sleep over their rights. I am qrutifiH to find by your letter that your opposition to iu !s | corrupt Administration increases in proportion | to the constantly increasing abuse of legitimate ■ powers confided to its care! powers necessary to carry on the government, and which must be confided to whoever holds the reins of coven ment fir the time. Add to this the alarmiir unwarrantable assumption of powers not granted by the Constitution, made of late by President Van Buren, and vve have abundant cause of both opposition and alarm. ’Fake for proof his claim in his bite Message that the Executive is a com ponent part of lire Legislature of the Union, and his fearful increase of that new claim of p JWer in rejecting the lawful members of New Jersev against proof and law, and his introducing into Congress men (not elected or returned) without law of evidence, and we are constrained to know that ail political power is consolidated in his hands, ami that he is exercising this power thus i obtained in a manner destructive to liberty. This is not all. Nut content wi’h depriving the people of their constitutional right of electing their own Representatives in their own lawful t way, the established institutions of the country, W and as constantly proposing new and untried experiments until he has changed prosperity in 1 adversity, made the rich poor and the poor des perate, insomuch that the American people are now seriously threatened with abject poverty ab solute slavery and ineffable cisgrace. Give him Ins Sub-Treasury with its specie clause, our currency for his government and none for the people, as is now well nigh the case, then his hoped for re-election, with power to nominal* bis successor, and all is lost. Still sir. this is not ha'f. The elective franchise gone, the power of the purse added to the sword, the Slate Rights man might hope that if the president had deter term died to accumulate all power belonging to i the | cople under the federal government in his own hands, still there would he some chance left for freedom in the sovereignty of the Slates them selves, but as it hit di'y had doomed us to certain and eternal ruin, he makes war in advance on the credit of the St ales, and deprives us of all chance of relief from the exercise of our original or re served rights, by an utter annihilation of the cred it oi the Slates. So sir, we must depend upon the mercy of a tyrant or make one more vigorous effort through the ballot lux to relieve ourselves of his hateful opp esslon ; and break if possible this odious succession of elective monarchy. Shall we make the effort or suffer the sacrifice I W e of the South, shall vve fold our arms and see aii that vve are, or have, or hope to he, pass into the hands of Martin v an Buren and his appoint ed successor ? as he was himself appointed to 1 succeed bis 1 -;’ Hastriouspredecessor” —this “‘black lettered bst,” of rulers for years to come, perhaps, for all time. What say you ! what vv ill Geor gians-say ' may I nut say for my country-men, 4 that they will never fail to struggle against that man who is not as much to he feared because his friends arc abolitionists, as hecau>e he is one him self? 'Flic man who voted to procure the aboli tion of slavery in Missouri, in Florida, and the enfranchisement of free negro suffrage in New \o k. and who now holds it constitutional to abolish slavery in this district. It would seem that no southern m m would dare to risk the fate of his country, or his children in the hand of this proven abolitionist. But alas for the South, there are someAvho for the sike ot the hope of power • in the future, some who were recently his mist biller enemies and loudest in their denunciations of his corrupt and corrupting principles, who arc now found seduced by the magic powers of his pretended protection into silence, and courted bv his smiles ot patronage into a fata! insanity of admiration of this ‘ Northern man with Southern ! principles.” So much in answer to that part of your letter w hich relates to the Presidential question as it j regards that part of it that inquires of me fur the tiuth of the report you say you find in circulation.” through the state of my refusal to accept in the event lam chosen “by the convention as a can didate for re-election to Congress,” a? wellasthe “assurance that you give me that I still retain the confidence of my old friends and that they desire my renorninalion.” I have to say in all candour that I feci grateful to my Finds for their confidence, but at the same time justice t > myself requires me to say also, that I have repeatedly expressed to many of our friends the existence of a necessity which wouM force me to retire at the expiration of the term of time I am now elected to serve in Congress. It is right that one so favored by his friends i above his merit, should when he asks to be eicus- | ed from their service, tell them the truth, and ill know myself I am incapable of the affectation of a reason to retire, and in confessing that! must do so, yield a reluctant assent to positive necessi ty- Your friend, JULIUS C. ALFORD. Du. L. A. Boxn, The movements of the Indians on our j tern ami North-\\ estern border are giving rise W much apprehension. The lowms an d Otoes were continuing their depredations, and the report ws> that they would be joined by the Sacs. H* i union of the three tribes will bring a stout and for midable force into the field, numbering about ; twelve hundred warriors. Accounts say that the I preparation for defence along the whole frontier are very defective. The military posts were f weak, and poorly supplied with garrisons. I knowledge of this fact will be sure to stimuli* 1 * the ferocity of the savages.— A. 0. Bulletin’ Suave Tuexi!—We learn from a late nun’U r of the Glasgow Herald, that it was the practice in that ci v a few years since to shave the head* of all persons, who were carried drunk to Police office—a practice which was attended * ll the most marked benefit to the rnorylity of t c city. The edior says: “Well do vve remember the effects produced this un tpie punishment—and how were those who had been “dressed’ the preceding night, when they appeared before the MagisUtf