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CHRONICLE AN if SENTINEL.
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WEDNESDAY MOTE liNG, MAY 27.
(Cj’No mail north of Cl arleston last night.
An interview isdesTcd with Bon Shout,
Jr. before we can give plucjf so nis article.
Loco Focos fprnered.
The Loco Foco party oii Louisville Kentucky
recently deputed Messrs.! l Chambers and Van
Buskirk, a committee to wj.il on Gen. Hairison
at his residence, and ascertain his views on the
subject of Abolition. Thi'y accordingly called
on the General, and made known the object of
their visit, whereupon the (General referred them
to his Vincennes speech its containing “ a full
and unequivocal exposition of his views on that
subject.” The delegates |eplied they “ had no
copy ot that speech,” give yon one,”
said the General, and begzfrv them one according
ly. Whereupon the gent*; men took leave of the
old General and returned ft to Louisville to make
their report.
Public Meeting,
At a meeting of the ci zens of the 3d Ward,
friendly to the election of , Urrison and Tyler, held
at the Lafayeite Hall, on jjViday evening, the 22d
inst., Win. M. D’Anngnacirvas call'd to tiie Chair,
and John S. Hutchinson appointed Secretary.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That we nov* organize a Club, to he
called the Third Ward Tihpecanoe Club, pledged
for the support of Harris Toler and Reform. and
that a committee of three be appointed to recom
mend officers for the Clubt
The committee appoinit !: in pursuance of the
above resolution, after retiring for a few minutes,
reported the following nari. s lor officers, which re
port was unanimously adii-aed :
John Carmichael, ifi.j. President.
Dr. Paul F. Eve, S I. Vice-President.
Dr. F M. RoberUcti, 2d do.
Israel Bond, ■ 3d do.
John S Hu’chi.iso ~ Secretary.
A. G. Ball, Trea.su ;r
Samuel .Milling, St ndard Bearer.
(in motion, it was
Resolved, That a Com lit tee of Vigilance be ap
pointed, consisting of sc t>j htysix. Under lliis reso
lution, the following pejeons were appointed to
com pose that committee, jig;
C J Jenkins, Ft Wallace,
John Wilkinson, If S floadly,
John Hill, l«;orge Wyman,
Francis Midhcn, I dm Mcßride,
James B Bishop, |i. ; Y Harris,
J J Roberson, U’errance Doonan,
JI W Kisiey, uces McCaflferiy,
• Janies Hulbert, J H Kennon,
John P -Seize, \ Lammd.
J W Walker, W ti Rowland,
W F Adams, lamas Hubbard,
I S Beers, Pater Houtet,
0 E Carmichael, W PRiihbone,
Ji \V Force, Philip McCan,
B F Kennck, J R Crocker,
Robert Douglas, .UWKing,
1 A Hibler, |R V Clarkson,
G F Dome, r A W Smith,
J S lead man Clarke, G; VV Walum,
Win Unties, fJbhu Milieu,
Louis Cress, iJi.unas M Harris,
George Rackett, fJohn C Leiiner,
F 11 Cooke, fjfi nj'ram Ctmly,
faul F Eve, * ipaniutl Milling,
Hays Bo.vdre, J .1 H Clarke,
Joseph A Eve, X John Timmerman,
W H Crane, I L Bostwick,
'Vil.iam Fowler, § H 11 Hiehman,
W Robert-on, J John Finn,
William O Eve, I William Host wick,
E Foster, f -11 D Carmichaid,
Isaac Henry, I L D Ford,
S G Colt, I ;c Low,
Robert Nichols, I *A Baker,
c U Peaa, 1 -FC Hills,
I’H Karl, , J M Parks,
Charles Lindsley, pi Wilkinson,
A B Mallory, J A fcdinruons.
On motion, it was i
Resolved, i’tiat a coi ir|iittee consisting of ciglsf.,
be appointed to present the pledge to the friends of
Harrison and Tyler in , be 3d Ward.
■ I he Ctiair appointed the following persons on
that committee : j •
John Hill, T. S. Moll a,lf. Samuel Milling, I. A.
Hibler, O. E. C,annu li y!, John VV. Walker, J S.
Jlutciimson, A. B Mainly.
cefi u'V er Esq. limn a Committee from the
but d:h District, annoutCr;;;d to the meeting that Mat
district had organized :f .'ippecanoe Club, and was
ready to co-operate will ns, for the promotion of the
cause ol Harrison, Tjlnr and Reform.
j»lr. J. G. Dunlap, fnjm a committee from the Tip
pecanoe Associa-ion 0,-Ward No. 2, made a similar
report m behalf of .htfe Ward.
On motion,it was i
Resolved, 1 hat a ctfnrn.ttec of three he appoint
«“.to announce the on uiizationof the Third Ward
1 ippecanoe Club tot! ; other Clubs and Assoeia
«tions of the city, an i extend to ihem the right
haad of fellowship
'j' l .'® Khair appoint* I Messrs. D’Antignac, Bond
and Dibier, on tlmt U irnmiitee.
After able and elaqa|tA addresses from T. W. Mil
ler Esq. Maj Ghana 't Immpson, Mr. J. VV. Walker,
Wm. T. Gould, Ftsq Jks. Gardner, jr. Esq and Jas.
W Jones, the Club tuncd to meet again at the
call of the President. #;
r o M B|iBERTSON, Vice IWt.
* John b. Hutchinson. Secretary.
State Rightsllfleetiug in Troup.
According to previLjs notice, a large, respectable
and enthusiastic mee| ;g of the Siate Rights party
of J roup county, wtJ add a- the Court Hou e m
LaGrange, on Tuesuly, iho s(h inst., for the pur
pose of selecting snits de Delegates to attend the
CM«:e Rights Convenli u,to ho held in iMiUedgeviPe
on Monday, tiie lir.-ljjav of June next.
On motion, Mr.j. jlTel IGariy was called to the
Chn r, and G. VV. J{li appointed ISecretary.
The object of lher|eeling having been explained,
the following resoitkion was offered by Robert
Dougherty, Esq.
Resolved, Thai rh- iChair appoint a committee of
nine to ascertain the jrise ot ihe meeting. (Intend
ed by preamble and . ikoltri uis )
The motion was c posed by Gen. Haralson, as
being exparte from i d usual course of the State
Rights association, aP I addressed the meeting in a
very eloquent mnnne ' blazi-:ga line of dem in ation,
which, (.arc irditig h his views,) the State Bights
pm t> should pursK ■, A relation to the subi c t which
now begin- to apitaif; the whole Union, which is
in opposition to ihe uftMce of either of the promi
nent candidates noN before the American people
lor t;:c 1 ie,ideivy *< il.e United Slates
He was followed | v ; Robert Douglierty, Fsq. in
a very able arm address, m ooposUiun to
the course recomiml'icd hy /J© i. Haral-on—show
ing MU th * timean|i hriris had arrived, when 've
should no longer s tj. i al-iuf, but rise to the rescue
of o r country f.ornL rum ms and disastrous Ad
ministration, to op,- Li> the present incamlvnit in
supp in of Gen. WH I lAM HENRY H AIIIU SON.
After the close < the debate hy the nforem :i
--tioned gep-iemen, ih following resolattoo,as a sub
stitute to the one of 'UOvI hy Maj. Dougherty, was
proposed totheuire i ;g;
Resolved, That if se use of the meeting be token
upon I lie motion c-fTi d.
VV hi-h, being ad toted, Hie motion first offered
was then put to the- khuso, and carri -d by a la-go
maj >ri;y.
Iho Cnair then a (painted the following gcnllo
iumi to compost tin : irominhte ', viz.
Robert D( ngiiert . Ts j.,Maj. J din C. Webb, Dr.
L. A. Lend, I . Jhhosou, S. T. Cmrig ik .M j.
Jn) E. Marga ~ J vff M. Ghtvers, John Phillip
and dr. llav.ti, 'rn| I
commit! a I dred, and after-a fe-.x minutes
relumed uni o?Ft He following prnaml'dj an 1
resol utoTH lor the ,ns;d- ratio noh !>e
VVliereos ri ; pn ,a ( adwhistration ot the '"’Gen
eral Dovcru no ; i.ui ac n inuari.m of the pri i
pte-S pi >ui anu me sa-os o: ih -1 it; and wh.-reis.
in 1.ue0.-in.oii a. 11 's Hie;;;ih iso mei-uau aad
principles have le tL j, in a ro.t degree to uro
due,; ih.; in .->1 runs and di< a -tiro.i.A ffbets, * M „ t
vutj upon fevery > .n-ncui o uo.RmjrEo, out iron
n iividn.il credit *; d eoterpiinl destroying punh-
and private credit; and whereas, we believe a
change of rulers is indispensabls to a restoration of
anything like firmer prosperity.
Resolved, That we will use any hon arable exer
tion in oar power to defeat the re-election of Mar
tin Van Baren.
Resolved, That we elect five Delegates to attend
the Convention to i>e held in Milledgeville in June !
next, and that said Delegates be instructed to use j
iheirbest efforts in foiwarding any plan or scheme, |
said convcmion may adopt to oppose the re-election
ot the present Executive of the United '-tales.
Which, after having been read, the House was
again addressed by Gen Haralson, in opposition to
tiie Resolutions, -. q! was followed by Robi. Dough
erty , F.sq„ in a very able and enthusiastic manner,
in suppon ol them and his former views.
The meeting was also addressed elaborately by
Dr J E Bcolt, in support of the Sub-Treasury and
Martin Van Buren, and offered, for tlie adoption
the Hou >6,iho late Resolutions ct Mr Howard of
Muscogee, ns a substitute to those under considera
tion. Maj. O. A. Bull then addressed ihe meeting
in opposition to both the original Resolutions an :
the substitute, and in suppoit of the views already
expressed by (Jen. Haralson, and offered the flow
ing as a substitute to boih the foregong resolutions :
Resolved, That the Delegates to the Convention
be instructed nut to nominate either Martin Van
Buren or Gen. Harrison, for the Presidency of tiie
United States.
The meeting was then addressed by Robert
Dougheuy, Esq. and Dr. L. A Bond, in a yo yabie,
eloquent and elaborate manner, in o position to the
substitutes offered in lieu of the Resolution of the
Committee, and in opposition to the present Ad
ministration, and in support of (Jen. VV in Heurv
Harrison.
At the close of the last address by Maj. Douginer
ty, the question was called for, and the resolutions
of Maj. O A. Bull being first in order, they were
put lo ihe House and lost almost unanimously.
The Resolutions of Mr. Howard of Muscogee,
offered by J. E. Bcotr, as a substitute, came up
nyxt in order, and the question being put, they were
lost unanimously with theeiception ol two or three
affirmatives.
Tiie first Resolutions proposed by the Committee,
were then read and almost unanimously adopted.
The House (hen proceeded to ihe election of five
Delegates, pursuant to the above Resolutions, by
ballot, and on counting out the votes, the following
gentlemen were duly elected, to wit.— Kobt. Dough
erly, E s q , Dr. L A. Bond, Maj. Jarrel Beasly, S.
T. Cutriglit, Dr. Wm. P. Beasly.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That the Delegates elect shall have full
; power to fill the vacancies, should any occur, to
; attend said Convention.
On motion of Robert Dougherty, Esq.
Resolved, That tha proceedings of ibis meeting
be signed by (he President and Secretary, and pub
lished in the Macon Messenger, Columbus Enquir
er, and Augusta Chronicle.
JARREL BEASLY, President.
G. W. Hill, Secretary.
A Gigaxtic Duel.—The New Orleans Pic
ayune says the preliminaries of the duel be
tween the Belgian and Kentucky giants have fi
nally been settled. They are to fight with thir
ty-two pounders, distance three quarters of a
mile, and are to fire between the words one. and
forty-five !
From the Lexington (Kj.J Intelligencer.
Facts from History,
We take great pleasure ia presenting to our
| readers the following extracts of two Orignal
j Documents now in our possession ; winch were
i found among the papers of the late Governor
{ Scott, of Kentucky, and politely handed to us,
by a highly respectable gentleman of this city,
who is connected to our late gallant Governor
by marriage. Those who have seen the Decla
ration of Independence, (and what American
has notl) will instantly recognize the handwri
ting of Benjamin Harrison, Esq., one of the
signers ul that sacred instrument, affixed lo Iris
letter lo General Bcott, which we now copy.
I nis letter proves a tact, of which \vc were not
before apprised, that Gen. William Henry Har
rison first entered the service ot his country as
a PRIVATE SOLDIER.
Extract of a letter from Benj. Harrison, Esq.,
to Major Charles Scott, dated
“October 10, 1793.
“DearSir; —And now, before I lake my leave
permit me to tell you, my son, a youth of nine
teen years of ago, I have sent forward in the char
acter of a private soldier under Captain Roll ins.
His youth and inexperience, I make no doubt,
will stand in need of your friendship, therefore, I
pray you, teach him the duties of his station,
and if any accident should happen to him, pay
some attention lo him.
“ Your obedient and humble servant,
“ BENJ. HARRISON.”
It seems that young Harrison’s merits soon
caused his promotion by Gen. Washington, as
will appeal from the following extract of Gen.
Wayne’s general orders, dated
“Head Quarters,
“ Greenville, Dec. 28, 1793. 5
“ The Commander-in-chief returns his most
grateful thanks to Major Henry Burbock and
to every officer and private belonging to ihe de
tachment under his command, for their soldiery
and exemplary good conduct during their late
arduous tour of duty, and for the ready cheeiful
ness with winch they faced and surmounted
every difficulty at this inclement season, in re
possessing the field of battle and erecting there
on Fort Recovery, (a work impervious to the sav
age foe) as also for piously and carefully collect
ing and interring the bones and pay ing the last re
spect and military honors to the names of the he
roes who fell on the4lh of November, 1791, by
three time three discharges from the same artil
lery that were lost on that fatal day, but now re
covered by this detachment of the Legion.
“ The commander-in-chief also request Ma
jor Mills, Captains Butler and De Butts, Lieu
tenant Harrison, and Doctor Bcoli, to accept of
his best thanks for iheir voluntary aid and servi
ces upon this occasion.”
It appears from the letter of the elder Ha; ri
sen, that he himself had received an appoint
ment under General Wayne, and intended ac
companying him in the expedition against the
Northwestern Indians, but was unable to do so,
from “ having,” as he says, “ three of his ribs
broken near the back bone, also loosened from
my breast, and one broken near the middle. As
there is not the smallest probability of my being
serviceable on an active campaign, and moving
would put me in great danger, it is prudent to
stay at home.” Unwilling however, that an op
por.unity for the Harrison family to render some
service to the country should pass he determined
to send his son there, as be says a youth of only
nineteen years ot age. Where were the Van
Burens at that time, and all other times, when
fighting for their country was to be done I
Melancholy Event.—We announce with
heartfelt sorrow the sudden demise of James B.
Anderson, editor of the New Orleans Sun. Ho
was seized with a paralytic strode, while in his
office, at an early htur yesterday morning, and
died at 11 o’clock, A. i\L
Mr, Anderson will be deeply regretted by all
who knew him. He was eminently endowed
not only with the sociaLvirturs, but with those in- j
teilc-ctual qualities which give raciucss and spirit
to a public journal. As a writer, he was bold,
independent and vigorous. His style was con
spicuous for its quaintness, genuine humor and
occasional infusion ol keen and biting sarcasm.
IT- was a man ol quick apprehension and ar
dent feelings. —New Orleans Bee of the 21*7.
The loco focos seem to have the same opinion
of old Tippecanoe, that the people have of Air. Val,
ouren. Tiie locossiy, that old Tip declines re
plying to their questions, and wo know that the
people have made do their minds that.Mr, Van
Buren won/ answer at all. — Prentice.
From the Chariest « n Courier.
Political Paradoxes.
The late meeting in Charleston, furnishes the
most extraordinary example of political paradoxes
on record. It was mainly and emphatically an
anti-Bank meeting —and there was as much bank
stock, debt, hank direction and bank salary, as
could be well collected in the city of Charleston.
The two Presidents of the two largest banks
comprising half the bank capital of the State,
conspicuously assisted—both these gentlemen arc
accustomed “jurare in verba magisl re,” and the
master has said,‘ the first and indispensable step
is a thorough reformation of the currency. With
out a solid, stable and uniform currency, you
never can fully succeed. The present currency,
is incurably bad. It is impossible to give it soli
dity or stability. A convertible bank currency,
however well regulated, is subject to violent and
sudden changes, which must forever unfit it to the
standard of value.” This i s the creed of the
Presidents of the Banks. Now how do they re
concile political profession with official duty, their
; party with their perquisites'? Do they preside
j over banks that they may perish or be preserved?
j Is it their intention to use their position to abate
j a nuisance in obedience to party, or cherish that
nuisance according to trust. If banks are bad
tilings, why take charge of them?—if they be
good tilings, why assail them? Is it right In mock
the meat one feeds on? The meeting was anti
abolition, and for this purpose, selected a native
of the North, and rejected a native of the South,
selected as the defender and guardian of slave pro
perty, Mr. Van Buren, who sustained Rufus King
in his opposition to the admission of Missouri,
and rejected General Harrison, who sustained Mr.
Lowndes in obtaining that admission.
It was an “anti-internal improvement” meeting,
and proposed to continue in pown a party, whose
11 year’s domination, have appropriated more mo
ney to “interna! improvement” than the aggregate
of all other administrations.
It was an anti-tariff meeting, and advocated that
man and that dynasty whose vote and whose pow
er perfected that system of abominations, and
presented the bayonet to the bosom of South Caro
lina to enforce it, which denounced and continues
to denounce the compromise act, that great char
ter of peace, between which and nullification, lot
me tell Judge Huger, he will have to choose; and
this anti-tariff meeting rejected and denounced
Gen. Harrison, who stands pledged to sustain that
compromise.
It was a State Rights meeting, led by Mr.
Memminger, and advocating the proclamation and
force bill dynasty. It was a democratic meeting,
at which Judge Huger and Mr. Deas were na
med as parties.
It was a Van Buren and Calhoun meeting.
The latter said of the former (amongst other
things) that he was morally unworthy of a for
eign mission on account of his connection with
tiie Eaton affiir, and Mr. Van Buren through
his accredited organ declared, that Mr. Calhoun
I would not tell the truth when a falsehood would
serve his purpose. If these gentlemen told the
, truth of each other, it is an odd alliance—if they
slandered each other it is hardly less so.
The common ground on which the meeting
put these two gentlemen, is assumed by the meet
ing to exist in Mr. Van Buren’s inaugural decla
ration on abolition. Mr. Calhoun, in a public
meeting in the city of Charleston.in March 1837,
denounced these “inaugural declarations” as hy
pocritical and insufficient, if I have not forgotten
the report of his speech in the Mercury.
UP COUNTRY.
From the New Orleans Picayune, May 25.
Lutest from Texas.
The Neptune arrived from Galveston last eve
ning, bringing papers to the I6th. Wc feel in
debted to Captain Pennoyer for the courtesy
which he evinced in sending files to our office.
General Canales and Colonel Carbajal, of the
Mexican Federal Army, h%ve arrived in Houston
but report no late movements of their party.—
Their army on the frontier, they say, now num
bers 800 Mexicans, independent of foreigners
who have enlisted in their ranks; besides which,
the whole population of the frontier Stales is
ready to co-opcratc with them the moment (hey
can be supplied with arms and ammunition.—
The Centralists are about 3000 strong, stationed
at Matamoras, Monterrey, and Laredo.
Gen Canales has submitted an official report
to the Provisional Government of Mexico, of the
late encounter he had with Arista on the Hio
Grande. He estimates the number of killed,
wounded and missing, on the part of the Fedeial
ists at 81, and on the off.or side at 600.
The schooner Champion, from Velasco for
tiiis city, was blown ashore on the night of the
13th inst. about 18 miles below' Galveston, on
the gult shore. The vessel it is believed will be
a total loss. Passengers, baggage and cargo all
saved.
The theatre at Galveston has re-opened—Mad
ame Thielman is the card.
Mr. Candy is sweetly concert-ising there.
They are out of ice in Houston ; a chance for
speculators in the article.
A man named Rowe attempted to desert from
the navy yard in Houston; he was pursued; he
drew' a knife on his followers, one of whom shot
him. Ihe reason he gave for his desertion was,
that they (the navy) “had sapped his grog.”
The invasion of Texas by the Mexicans—O,
no, we never mention it.
Tue condition of Affairs at Washihg
tox seems to be ethical for those now entrusted
with the Administration. However bravely they
may talk, and by a swelling port endeavor to
keep up their own courage, and impose upon
the anxious fears of others, their dependents—it
is pretty clear to calm observers, that they have
seen the hand-writing on the wall, and that they
feel that in a few brief months their rule will be
ended.
It is to be anticipated, that, in such a state of
things, bickerings and recriminations will occur,
and that the Laiit will, by degrees, be broken in
to fragments.
Our apprehension is, that as the hour approa
ches which as we verily believe, will unveil scenes
of very gross corruption and malversation—some
accident may occur to the public papers, or the
public buildings, at Washington that wall oblit
erate, not all the traces perhaps, but most of the
proofs of such corruption. Then, again, we dis
trust such retiring from office, ju>t at this junc
ture, as that of Mr, Kendall, and would think it
highly expedient that the House of Representa
tives should immediately institute a close inquiry
at*3 examination into the condition, pecuniary
and otherwise, of the Post Office department.
This could do no w rong to any one; and, if all
is right, would be of more real advantage to the
late Post Master than any one else.
It may be, that the rumors from Washington
of dissatisfaction and difficulties in the Cabinet,
and discouragement in the broken phalanx ofihe
Administration troops, are exaggerated— yet we
suspect there is truth at the bottom and that be
fore t.ie close of Congress, the <S 'uuve quipent
panic will manifest itself too plainly to be mista
j ken.
Meantime the Whig cause advances steadily
and assuredly.— N. Y. American.
From fie New York Conner and Enquirer.
Massachusetts. — The election of a Loco Fa
co Governor by a majority of one vote has roused
a spirit in Massachusetts which exceeds every
thing-that wc have witnessed in the way of po
litical excitement. We shall be disappoitud if
the Whig majority in that State at the next elec
tion should fall short of 20,000 votes. The last
j sign from the Bay State is a popular Conven-
I lion in Little Franklin, at which 10,000 indi-
viduals were present. The Greenfield Courier
says:
As a convention we believe it was the largest
and most spirited one ever held in the Cay Stale,
and, with the exception of the assemblage on
Bunker Hill on 17lh June, some years since,
when Lafayette visited this country, we can re
member no greater gathering called forth by a
political or national jubilee. Its decorations and
outward trappings passed away with the day ;
but the determined spirit and fiery zeal, which
was developed and strengthened on the occasion
must grow and extend itself till the 9lh % of No
vember next shall record i.s results.”
Log Cabixs. —The Buffalonian newspaper,
speaking of the Log Cabin excitement, says in
future Chronicles it will read thus:—
“ And, behold, there were log cabins in those
days.
“ And those who built them did drink hard ci
der exceedingly, from the rising of the sun even
unto the going down thereof, and into the far
watches of the night.
“And for those who clave un'.o Harrison there
was given com dodger to ea r , and they feasted
upon it many days.
“ And upon the gable, ends of the log cabins
were ’coon skins, and the likeness and similitude
thereof was sent over the land, from the cast even
unto the west.
“ And it came to pass, that many did enter the
log cabins, and the glory of Harrison did increase,
for that he never pulled in the string of his door
latch.”
Log CabiN Raising.— On Saturday last, at
Jackson, Miss,, about seven hundred people as
sembled, composed of Whigs and Locofocos, to
witness the raising of a log cabin in honor of
General Harrison. The Hon. S. S. Premiss
(Whig) and Gen. Foote (Locofoco) adJresied
the crowd, and five hundred signed their names
as Harrison men. They drank cords of hard ci
der on the occasion.— Picayune.
Reverse of fortune. — r i’hc following state
ment should teach us a salutary lesson. The
changes of a day arc indeed wonderful:
A subscription has been opened at Paris for I
the benefit of Richard Lcoir, once, - it is stated, i
the first manufacturer in France, now, an old man
of 74, ill and destitute. He once possessed forty
manufactories in different parts of France, em
ployed 10,648 workmen. “My property,” he
says in his memoirs, the first volume of which
has been lately published, “ was on the 22d of
April, 1814, about eight millions of Trance (or
near 320,000/.) On the 24th I was a ruined
man.” The only cause of this reverse, he states
to have been the sudden suppression of the du
ties on cotton by an ordiance of that date made
by the Count d’Artois, since Charles X. then
Lieut. General. —London Meehan. Mag.
I Cm xa and England.— i’he well informed
in England are by no means desirous of carrying
things to extremities in relation to the Chinese!
They are aware that a power possessing one
third of the papulation in the world—one-third
of all the money in the world—and one-third ol
the fighting men in the world, is not so very eas
ily subdued. Ihe Chinese are a cunning, vvclf
informed nation. They know that if England
obtains a fooling in the Celestial Empbe, they
will hold on, as they did in India. The appeal,
therefore, will be made to the patriotism ot the
Chinese, to protect the independence of their
country; and although in a contest by sea, their
junks will be destroyed, and on land they may
sutler severely, yet they move in such immense
masses, and-live so abstemiously, that no foreign
power can ever hold possession of anv part of
their territory for any length of time. If there is
any door opened to negotiation finally, there will
be no war.— JV*. Y. Star.
How is this? The Washington correspon
dent of the New V ork Evening Post says :
“Mr. Van Buren, is daily suffering at the
hands of a body of unprincipled scape graces, who
are in an incendiary manner daily engaged in
cutting bis throat, whilst they profess for him the
warmest friendship, and avow that they would
do aught to protect and advance Isis interest.”
What con this mean ? Which of Van Hu
ron friends are “ cutting his throat ?” We have
supposed .Mr. \an Buren whotild save the
trouble by cutting his own throat. At any rate,
between friends and foes, he is “ a gone coon.”—
JV*. Y. American.
BEstonian Policy —How it works in E:>
ropk.— Extract ofa letter from an intelligent Amcr
can'gentleman, travelling in Europe:—
“ I read Senator Benton’s speech, in which he
eulogises the hard money countries ofFranceand
Holland, as evidences of the success of his schemes,
He says France has a specie basis of £500,000,-
000, but he does not st.Ve that, after wiping off
two-thirds of her national debt, she still owes
upwards of $700,000,000, which is nearly onc
thiru more than ad the specie in the country, and
that, at this very moment, they are about expan
ding their paper circulation by reducing the low
est denomination of bank notes to 250 fr. instead
ot oOOfr.; and, as for Holland, her debt is about
1.800,000,000 off!:rins, although, by an act of
arbitrary injustice, the King, when ho re-ascended
the throne, aficr the downfall of the Bonaparte
dynasty, declared two-thirdW the whole debt to
deterred, and now only pays interest on the one
third , and so hllle faitn have capitalists in the
public faith, to it lie was as hard run as Secretary
Woodbury the other day, until he complied with
te requisition of the States General that he should
renounce his proposed marriage with an old
countess, whom he had fallen in love with, and
account for the money they gave him last rear,
before they would let him have any more.' In
both countries wooden shoes and rope traces are
the fashion, and as they accompany ihe hard
money system., the Colonel had belter set the ex
ample by beginning to wear the one and use the !
other, as a token ot his admiration of the immu
table principles of which they are the symbol.”
Ax Opium Eater.— An East India Magazine
describes an opium eater in the following terms:
i nose who begin its use at twenty inav ex
pect to die at thirty years of age. The counten
ance becomes pallid, the eyes assume a wild bright
ness, the memory fails, ff e gait totters, mental
and moral courage sinks, and frightful marasmus
ot atrophy reduces ths victim to a ghastly spec
tacle who has ceased to live before he has ceased
to exist. J here is no slavery so complete as
that of the opium taker; once habituated to its do
ses as a fictitious stimulant, every thing will be
endured rather than the privation ; and"the un
iiappj being endures all the consciousness of his
own degraded state, while he is ready to sell his
wife and children, body and soul, for the contin
uance of his wretched and transient delight
transient, indeed—for at length the utmost effect
I produced is a temporary suspension of agony;
and finally, no dose of the drug will remove or
relieve a slats of suffering, which it is utterly im
possible to describe. The pleasurable sensations
and imaginative ideas arising at first, soon pass
away ; they become fainter, and at last cive
place to horrid dreams, appalling pictures of
death, spectres of fearful visage haunt the mind
tne light ot heaven is convened into the g! .om of
hell, sleep, balmy sleep, hasT.ed forever, night suc
ceeds day only to, be clothed with
horrors, incessant sickness, vonutting. than ha-T
and total cessation of the digestive functions cm!
sue and death at last brings iff it annihilation
ol the corporal structure, ff e sole rffief D ll- I
victim of sensual and ciimin d indulgence.” " j
From the New Orleans Picayune , oj tke%\st.
Natchez. *
For the purpose of procuring the fullest and most
correct particulars relative to the late tarnado at
Natchez, and the extent of its ravages,one of the
editors of tho Picayune has passed a few days in
that city, from which place he returned last eve
ning.
'i he former accounts which we have given, ta
ken from tlie newspapers and private scources, con
veyed most that is important The statements of
the tremendous force ol the storm, as well as the
downfall and destruction of buildings, we are sorry
to say has not been ex tggerated. The once beau
tiful “City of tire Bluffs,” with its thousands of
oeautiful buddings arid green trees, is emphatical
ly a “nti; cd pile !” There are many houses which
are but slighth injured, and more that were Rot
blown down ; ! nt scarcely one is left that escaped
without some damage. Tho loss of property in
houses, goods provisions, Arc , is not so great ns
•has been estimated ; it is ascertained and staled by
competent judges, who hate taken pains lo inform
themselves on the matter, that the loss does not ex
ceed two millions of dollars ; nor is the number
killed and wounded supposed to he so great as was
at first believed. Bit this, however, modified m
numbers, is the most melanc holy part of the ca
lamity. Hundreds of poor human beings were in
stantaneously hurried into eternity. Whilst some
were in an instant crushed to death, olho s wete
mangled and lacerated, and after lingering in
agony tor hours, expired. Scores were as suddenly
strangled in ti c ang.y waves of thi river, whose
ueen and muddy current still holds and sp-rts with
them as its victms. What the number is, or what is
near the number of deaths caused by the tornado,
must forever retrain unknown.
The present situation of Natchez cannot bo d >-
scribed, nor can the awfullury ot the whirlwind I e
conveyed by a description ; to be te.alized it mj>t
be seen It looks ns il an enemy, in retreating irutu
; it, had blown it up with powder. t here is not a
single street or avenue oi any deserip ion which is
not blockaded up with rubbish; rows and groves of
summer trees,once the pride and ornament of the
devoted city, are uprooted, torn limbless, or swept
away. Nothing is as it was. Temples of the Al
mighty have trembled and hill n Inf <re tlie power
of ilts .treatlt. The storm and whirlwind have
passed over Natchez and her proudest monuments
ot architecture now iie before the eyes of her citi
zens piles of crumbles ruins. The course of the
tornado was from the. Southwest, striking Natcnez
Island, about five miles below the city. The island,
w hich was once a dense forest, has not a standing
tree upon it. Those w Inch were not uprooted, and
it appears that very few were, were twisUd ctfand
splintered in the most remarkable manner, and not
a particle of bark is left upon the remaining s urr.ps
From the Island the storm passed up the river, lev
elling houses and every thing in Us way on each
side, until it struck the city, where the work of
death and destruction was completed—and all in
lb*- shot space of tiro minutes I
The < it zens ot Nat, hez are an intelligent, warm
hearted and generous community, and they bear
their calamities w ith a cheerfulness truly asiuiti h
ing. They have hearts to feel, and the gratitude
they evince for New Orleans and utlvcr places from
which they have received assistance, is a golden
reward to the hen. volenl donors.
Those unfortunate persons w ho were wounded by
the tailing of walls and taken out alive, are carc
luily and t nderly nursed, and ir is thought that ail
but one or two will recov. r. They are placed in
the city Hospital and 'Fremont House, under the
care ot Uoclo’s Polla-d and Johnson. On many
of them operations had to be performed”, and every
case ol anVpuiation is doing wed. The physicians
and citizens generally express great gratitude tube
belief t.omraiiiee and medical get tlenien from this
city, for the assistance which they render-d.
Already the uo*k of clearing the streets and re
pealing buildings Ims commenced, and die inhabi
. tants appear al-nost to have forgotten their losses ;
| hut it must be long ere Natchez is again herself.
■ One of the mot extensive and splendid edific es was
j i\ir. Father's exchange, which was entirely demol
j ished. i lie damage to Noah Barlow's Hotel, as
i well as to the Mansion Home was very considera
| bio, but to each tepnirs arc being made, in a law
weeks the mot of the City Hotel will be repaired.
1 lie following may be considered the most moderate
I and perhaps ihe film si estimate of the damage done
by the tornado:—Loss of property |>3,U Jb,OOU;
number of killed in the city 48; number of wound
ed 72, these so far as found; and from 375 to 3 0
are to have per shed in the river. When
wo consider that all ►his done in a few moments,
wc may Imea taint i lea of the fury of the storm.
Many astonishing anu all but incredible circum
stances are related oi p-rsons cs well as cows and
horses being blown to great distances, and escaping
with but iittle injury. In some instances the very
clothing was stripped trout persons, and iadins’
dresses were literally split into ribbons. One lady
in particular, rushed into a house after the heaviest
of tire storm, divested of every thing hui her corsets.
But the tempest his passed away, the noise of
the loud ihund ris hashed, and Natchez wall yet
rise like a Pham x from ner ruins. May the hright
' cst days of her prosperity again dawn above her
i lien cd.lici .*, and the smites of j rosji-ruy ar.d
[ gladness again light up the hearts of her citizens.
Circs ! Do You hear that —The war depart
ment has declared, in respect to the appointments
in the army, that “no candidate will be ex'.mined
who is married ” Exceeding wisdom, gallantry,
and patriotism all com' ined ! Brand recipe for
makfng excellent soldiers' Verily it wound seem
that there is to be no ma ter under the sun which
is net to become a subject of experiment with Mr.
Van Dttrcn. Not let a young officer in the army
take to himself a wife from among the brave
daughters of the land, who would follow him to
the cannon’s mouth — bind up his wounds, inspire
him with courage—live for hint and with him—and
if needs be, die with him ? Was it ever known
' before that a man’s wife and children made him a
worse soldier in the hour of battle ? Have they
not heretofore been considered the best pledges for
a man’s fidelity to bis country ? And what is the
| reason for this extraordinary order ? The reason
j assigned, that the pay of a lieutenant is not suffi
cient to enable him to support a wife ! The dc
| partment considers that S7BO a year wont do A
young officer and his young wife can’t live upon
: $789 a year.' Now it might so happen that the
young lady could add a little from her own patii
roony to the stock —>f she could not do tha:. she
| could make the c othes, sew, knit, and sing and
ko: p the young officer in good heart while he is a't
I his ’or.ely Hatton in the Western forts. Bho could
! keep him from becoming a brute, a drunkard, and
; the whole routine o 1 military vices, where the rc
| fining influence of females is withdrawn. Where
is the authority in law or constitution for this
! stretch of gaHnntry ? We believe that the ad
miubtiatioa is now afflicted so terribly with the
! ticmoi- ti.at it has got afraid even of the women.
t hey think that they deserve to he “hrairod with
| their ladies’ fans,” and they are, therefore, for
1 keeping them off at Jic point of the bayonet.—
j Lo k e i:sed t 0 ™le the court (and Mr. Van Hurcn
sutlers it lo remain there still)— it u cd also “to
rule the camp,” but Mr. Van Huron means to dis
lodge it horn all the foitificntions which have been
time out ot mind its strongest defence. ‘•‘■Barney,
I CI gwls alone.”—Frankfort Commonwealth.
. ’
'i’ttK Sc: ocLMASTKit Aiuioad.— The School
! master can certainly not have wandered so (ar
I Jrom London as Windsor; nor have the “Society
i fur the Diliusion ot Useful Knowledge* any
( agent there, it the following he a correct traftsla
j lion. It purports to he a copy of a notice, posted
I on the two doors of the church in Burnham near
j Windsor ;
“Burnham, Feb. 29, 1840.
Tne Inhabcnts is requisted to meat
in I he vestery roome on
Fry day next at 10 o Clock
To Insplct the Mapp and Plann
Os the parish
By requist of the
rev. T. Carter,
Vikar.”
Ini: late gale ox Lake Michigan.— By
yesterday’s western mail, we have received fur
tucr information tespccting the disasters font the
iv.o £ai e on Lake Michigan. The steamer
Cham}! iain is ash >re four miles south of St Joseph
high and dry, and broke amidships. Several
trunks belonging to passengeis lost overboard,
lhe schooner Minerva Smith lost nearly all her
dt\ k laid, and pm into St. Joseph in distr-ss.
She arrivcd-ai Chicago on the 6tb, with captain
an i crew of the ChamijJpin. 'Fisc steamer G >v.
.'Bason went ashtfre in a ga!o< n the first, at ihe
i v'.‘.V' 1 /■•» •“ a , wrct «-— 3cw
j lOi !i, C fJiilCiC *>J / it U 2 I
commercial!
Latest dales from Liverpool , .
Latest dates from Havre. ... *
All Apriii j
New Orleans at-,
Gotten —Arrived since the 15th last off. f O,
and Mississippi 4384 bales, Tcnncsso ai)( i
bama 374, Arkansas 78, Mobile 125 T
together 6094 bales. Cleared in the santer* 3 i 3
Liverpool, 10855 ba'es, Glasgow J.6U5 it llrr ‘ G br
Marseilles 1300, West Indies 264,’xe ®. V , l * 40 3l )
Boston 67, Baltimore 310, other p oi ts p f 0 *'* i
1 8329 bales —making a reduction in s t 0 y!
bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive o f*
shtpboan' not clcatcd on the 19th i-.st 1 aii 0:
17GG73 bales. ' a st °ck oi
Since our review of Saturday raomin»i a
has been only a moderate bus iness
but the market has continued remarkably 1 - COlto ",
every grade, and prices for the fine quaiip rui
improved a quarter of a cent. Theodor k Jv *
some days past has tieen principally f or for
cottons for the Continental markets,but the ' l0 ' T . T
so been a very active inquiry forstrictly fit*^ ilas a: "
of superiot staple, botit for England and o -, Parreis .
factories at the North. The market com
be very | o rly supplied with the better s
the great demand for these has caused scV 1 ' 5
to be re-soid, so that a portion of the bu^' luls
the last three days consists of cla-sed r f CSS °‘
strictly fine parcels can scarcely be procu !?'‘ ,ns "
and. when olfercd, will command prices A. , 1|1 h
bly above our highest quotations. UoKu
ceedingly firm lor every description, and it
mainly to the high rates which they are
that the business has not been larger. '
of Saturday amounted to 3000 Dales anti ( °', J **
day and yesterday to about 2000 each'da v!! ‘‘f 08 ’
in all 7000 for Hie three day s. * ’ ll^s
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS,
Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary ’ >
Middling, Gj a 7; Fair, s| a9; Good
Good and line, 11 a—. Tennessee and A 'a, 1
ma— Ordinary, —a 5; Middling, 51 a 64- rii -
7-j; Go»d fair, 7;J a8; Good and Fine, OA
SI'ATF.iIEXT OF COTTON.
1539. Oct. 1, stock on hand, * ~
Jleceipts three days 5094 ''
fiieviousiy, 856754 86iq.
Exports last three days, 18329
do. previously, G 8.3650 70f i:
Stock on hand jT?
Sugar Louisiana —The improved demand
ticca in our last has since continued, and a V
lair business has been done on the Levee y
tlic last lew days, genera Jy at an itnprovemm'-
auout a quarter of a cent at witich udvante hnu
are firm. We however, do not alter our hi 4!
extieme, r.s wc arc riot aware of any
that rate. Our quotations are now 3-a **
Un plantation several further sales have
among which are 313 hhds. at 3|, 70 at 4 55 ®
to at 4, and 205 at 4 cents, iiavana Sucr. rsr .s
tinuo dill, without change in prices. lu
Mola ses—Thc slock on the Levee rontim,
moderate,and the juices last quoted are '
taincu say 19 a2U cents per ga.lon fer bar e"
Ihe rates on plantation aic 11 a 15 ctsper n u
wlu , c “ &ome further transactions have been up-.
wtt jin tne last few days. The latter prices
jiaid for a iot below the c4y. r
1 our ~} n uuusiial degree of dullness hasefea
actenzed this artic.o, during the period which b
elapsed since our las: report. Ihe entire wit
dravva! of buyets for the English market, andtk
absence any demand of importance for West K
dta j aits, have toarmed the business of the Ir
few days to very limited sales for the consume
ot the city and of places in the immediate
borhood. In tio mean time more liberal sudJis
iia\ c ccusiJerab.y increased tit stock on sale a 1
holders yesterday cou d find no purchasers of iag
parcels at $3 8/A tor Superfine, which figure'tie
quote as the current price for the limited tram*
tions that take place, temaiking that the nuc
has evidently a downward fendenev
Bacu \Vc have nochange tomake in our ci
tations for the dilfereut varieties of this artiu
wUuh are ilor-canvas.scd Hams 10 cents,uncam; -
ea do S a 9, , $ a 8, Shoulders 44 a sc. The
receipts have been light for some days past,bah
market has a goad supply, considering the Unite
demand.
Whiskey- —The supplies have somewhat iccm
cd within the last few days, but prices arc <
maintained at 33 a 24 cents per gallon for Kecti:
with a moderate demand
Exchange We have no alterations to male
Sterling Exchange. The supply continues litni'e:
and the demand mode rare, at t' p rates lastiyt-.
stj Ido 13 per cent pi . for the best priv ■
bins. On r ranee, there arc at the moment,nob
oHaring, and <<ur ([notations, therefore, are men
nominal. Limited sums could ’probably bediqcu
ot at oi a 6fdj. flic demand for Northern L
change continues moderate and the rates lun
slightly given way—6o day 1 ills o.t New Yeti
have been sold at 4; a 5 percent prem. —30 dr
! s! §ht bills 04 aC4 per cent, prem.wit
scarcely any transactions.
Freights An American ship lies been taken!
Liverpool at 16-lGd for cotton, and British vtv*
are obtaining the same rate. 'J he ships nowut
engaged claim a further advance
bince writing tiie foregoing, wc •learn that r
.American bark has been taken far Liverpool at
; for cotton.
MAUfiNE INTEfiLIGESCE.
Charleston. Mav26.
Arrived yesterday. —Line Ship La Fayette.K'
cy. New i oik; ship Catharine Jackson, Ferre
do; ship ( hicora, Rodgers. Liverpool; srhrGw?
Washington. Miller, Providence. ‘
In the Offing —sJiip Troy, Wood, New York,
days.
At Quarantine— brig Howe 1 !. Leslie, from IV
Indies; Line brig Cervantes, Tufts, front Boston.
(p* AUGUSTA BENE VOL EXT ' SOVIET
i lie following are the Committees for thcfl'T
month .-
Ward A T n. 1— P. H. Mantz, J. P. Hendrick,N &
P. ( rump. Miss \lary Wightman.
V/a-d l\o. 2—Bennett Harris, J. P. Garvin, f
Latimer, Mis T. S. Stoy-, Mrs. Sarah 'i’alJft
JMrs. Cornelia Cohen.
Ward Ao. 3 —John Cashin. Jam:s Panton, ’
J* C. Snead, Mrs. Ijannah ! hotnpson.*
Cfl/’ 1 lie giTitieraan who botrowed a Gun
accoutrements from \Vm. G. Nimmo, last le« : ,
ber, will confer a favor by returning the same. j
may 25 21 t
C fj MISS TRAIN commences her Su’i-- j
1 errn, at the Hand Hills, cu slonda} - , June Ist ,
mAy 3.) j
CM Ir- W. S. JONES tendei 1
ser\ i cs to the citizens of Augusta ami its 'i'-;
He may be found at his office, No. 214%0d ; c
01 at !:is residence,United States Hotel. ? F J •
. Cj" Vector J. J. li IISON oilers bis p
sioaal servkcs to the of Attguda at--
viwnUy. lie will be found at hte rcst.ieocc (
lu st brick building above Gneuron's stable on
street, recently occupied by John L. Adams. ;
a ug 17 *
(ffT During my absence in the interior o*
State, Force, Btotlicrs & Co. are rny culv- a y j,
sed attorneys. ENGCIi W.SPOI'KV 1 11"' 1 "
npril 21
C j’-Lr. GARDNER, formerly
n the New York Hospital, and physician at
vue Hospital, New York, lendcis io the pub-** p
professional services. ... J;
Office in Washington street, between g,
Ellis streets. Residence, LniteJ Mates Hot* ei
_ My- p
Cj' I^ r - FLINT offers his services to
tizccs of Augusta in tiie different brancho w..; j
profession. He may Le fasind at all liouj> ■ •
utoresidence of .Mr. A. M. Egerton, sco | la
from the corner of Mclntosh and luivnold sfi- ;
nev 29
DR. SIOMiOE, Surgeon Dec 1 *^ 1,
Office on Washington t-trcc I, hear KUi-S ;f '“(
at the house late’y occupied by Mrs. ha-V
april 20 i
r*r THE FARMERS' REGISTER- ;1 n ‘- i w
publication, devoted to the improvement
practice, and surpoit of the iittcrcst, <4 (-T
•ii oi pufilijhod at iiiidimond. va,at $6 J ! *- ; C
1 Kdsiuno ! ufmx, editor and proprietor.
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