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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 13.
FOR PRES! RENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesn an—the inflexible Republican —
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’* noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriotic statesmen.
TOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUN:AN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. i
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZ/.ARD, of DeKalb.
EGR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E. A. NISBET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
T. B. KING, of G!ynn.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson,
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
A Bait lor Van Buren Men.
We are authorized to say, that there are two
thousand dollars now in this city, which the holder
is desirous to bet upon the Presidential Election. —
Any gentleman who is desirous to bet that William
Henry Harrison will not be elected President of
the United States at the ensuing election, can be
sccommodated in any amount to suit him, from one
hundred up to two thousand dollars, by calling at
this office, withia a few days.
“ Selling White Men for Debt.”
In this day’s paper, will be found the refutation
of this charge against Genera) Harrison, to which
we invite the attention of our readers. It is a
melancholy spectacle to the patriot, —those who
have devoted the best portion of their life, their
early manhood, and malurer years, to the service
of their country, as well as to all reflecting men, to
witness the calumnies which are heaped upon one
of the purest men of the present age,—that man
who has devoted his time and services to the best
interests of his country for near half a century,
and has served the people in many offices of the
first magnitude In the most acceptable manner.
Why is this, is i;t true that the whole people are
ungrateful 1 Np, they are not ungrateful. —The
true answer is ti be found in the fact, that th e
friends of Gene al Harrison have thought fit to
place him in opposition to the Chief of “ the
spoils-men” for the first office in the gift of the
people. Henccs it is that these calumnies are re
peated by thousands of persons, who not only be
lieve them untn’e, but who know them to be un
founded and fal|a. But in the hope, that by im
posing upon the; honest and unsuspecting portion
of the people, lt| i y may succeed in arraying their
prejudice agaim* General Harrison, and securing
the support of s,-ch for Mr. Van Buren, they are
driven to the uttering and publishing the gross
est calumnies. |We repeat, we ask the people to
investigate this /natter, to scrutinise it closely, do
not suffer yourselves to be deceived by men whose
very livelihood "depends upon the deception they
may be able tofpractice upon you. Suffer your
selves not to be! deceived and duped by the bare
assertions of su h men, and the garbled extracts
from those documents. When they present you
with their proof to sustain the charges, ask them
to give you the whole section, in order that you
may form a correct judgment upon the matter in
issue, and should they fail lo lay it before you,
teke it for granted, that there is something kep
back, which, in all probability, would throw some
light upon the question.
In addition to these documents, we shall ere
long publish the speech of Mr. Mason, of Ohio,
made du'ing the present session of Congress, with
which we shall content ourself, and leave the mat
ter to the decision of the people, perfectly confi
dent that every man who will investigate the
matter, cannot come to any other conclusion
than that the charge is a gross calumny, and has
been got up for political effect, by deceiving the
honest unsuspecting portion of the people.
Public Money.
Tbo people have heard much about the appli
cation by the administration party of the public
money, the people’s money to electioneering pur
poses. We have long been satisfied of the truth
of this charge, but we did not suppose that the
Senate of the United States could stoop from its
high and dignified station to be guilty of appro
priating by a resolution, the public monay to such
purposes. We are aware, that many like ourself
will be unwilling to believe such a thing of that
body which has been so distinguished in the past
history of this country, yet it is nevertheless true.
What aie the facts. They are simply these ;
At the beginning of the present session of Con
gress, Mr. Van Buren recommended to the favor-
able consideration oi Congress the project of tbo
Secretary of War, for an army of 200,000 men*
This project was in due time laid before Con
gress and referred in the Senate to the Military
Committee, who reported thereon on the Bth
inst, —of which report Mr. Roane moved to
print ten thousand copies, and Mr Norvell
twenty thousand, and after some at
the request of Mr. Preston, the motion to print
wa« deferred until Wednesday, the 10th inst.
Mr, Preston now moved that the usual num
ber copies of Mr. Poinsett’s project as to the mi
litia be printed for the use and information of the
Senate, that it might be on the table when the
subject should come up on Wednesday
Mr. Clay of Alabama, moved the printing at
I the same time of the sumi number of General
{ Harrison’s three reports for the use of the Senate.
Upon these propositions a debate arose, and
the Senate finally adopted both motions, so they
have agreed by a resolution of their body to print
for the use of the present Congress, three reports
made by General Harrison, while Chairman of
the Military Committee many years ago. Will
the people, we ask, submit to this squandering of
the public money by a reckless majority in the
Senate for such purposes'? It is in our opinion
the most high hanccd outrage upon the rights of
the people that body has been guilty of, since
the degrading act of expunging its records. Is
it at all astonishing that the Treasury is empty,
when such a scene as this is openly enacted in
the Senate Chamber, and for the clearly implied
purpose of electioneering ? Let the people in
vestigate this matter—let them ask themselves
what relation the reports of General Harrison
has to the project of Mr Van Buren and his
Secretary, that they should be published and
paid for out of the public treesury, and tell these
spoils-men they will not submit to suck outrages.
i The New York Express of the 4th inst says:
“The recipts at our Custom-house, for the
mouth of May, were in amount but one fourth
of what they were in the corresponding month
of 1839. The whole receipts here since January
are less than a third of those of a similar period
last year .”
Central Tippecanoe Club of Richmond
County.
June 11, 1840.
Pursuant to notice given by the Chairman, a
meeting of this Association was held at the City
Hall,this evening,the President,Thomas Dawsom
taking the chair, and appointing Andrew G. Bull
Secretary pro tem.
The meeting being then organized, on a call
from the Chair, James W. Jones, in a few words,
addressed the meeting as one of the delegates to
the State Rights Convention, and submitted to
the Association the result of their proceedings.
When Andrew J. Miller, Esq. offered the fol
lowing Resolutions:
Resolved . That the Club approve of the nomina
tion made by the late Convention at Milledgeville,
and will zealously co-operate with the friends of
Reform in their efforts to secure the election of
the candidates selected.
Resolved, That as a means of securing trium
phant success in the great cause in which we are
engaged, the candidates nominated by the Conven
tion, be requested to canvass the State, and ad
dress the people, upon the important issue involved
in the present Presidential contest.
Mr Miller followed them in his usual lucid, for
cible and energetic manner, advocating the adop
tion of the same —which resolutions were unani
mously adopted.
William T. Gould, Esq. addressed the meeting,
stating that Judge Charles Doughert}', one of the
nominated Electors, was present, and moved that
he should then commence the war, giving the com
munity an earnest that he was ready to buckle on
his armor, and do battle in defence of the institu
tions of our common country Upon which Judge
Dougherty arose, and in a speech of great force and
power, exposed the abuses of the General Govern
ment, —drawing a parallel between the two candi
dates now before the people, for the highest gift in
their power to bestow, —bringing against the pres
ent incumbent a mass of objections that must have
carried conviction to the hearts of all within hear
ing, that the Magician is not the man to whom we,
as Southern men, nor even Northein men, should
cast our suffrages. The Judge closed amid general
acclamation.
Dr. F. M. Robertson then remarked that A. H.
Stephens, Esq., of Crawfordville, was at the meet
ing, who being loudly and cheeringly called for,
addressed the meeting \v: th eloquence and effect,
portraying in the most vivid colors the state that
our once happ} r country was reduced to, from the
acts of the preseut office holders, and showing con
clusively that they were not the true Repubicans
of the present day, but that with Harrison and
Tyler for a rallying point, our institutions would
again flourish in their pristine strength and purit}-.
On motion of Dr. F, M. Robertson, the associa
tion then adjourned, subject to the call of the
Chairman.
THOMAS DAWSON, Chairman.
Andrew G. Bull. Secretary pro tem.
From the Louisana Advertiser.
The Loco Foco Looking Glass.
In order that the locofoco’s may have a better
insight into the acts and opinions of Martin Van
Buren, we have compiled from various sources
the following mirror, so that in one glance, they
may see reflected the character of the man they
support for the Presidency. The newspapers for
a length of time, have teemed with notices of
the life and opinions of General Harrison, and
we think it is butfair, that the “life and opinions,”
of Martin Van Buren should receive a notice.
Mr. Van Buren opposed strenuuosly, the last
war, and endeavored to defeat Mr. Madison’s elec
tion on the ground.
He has never made a sacrifice to his country,
although he has had frequent opportunities—
when his country was at war, he was found al
his residence.
He voted while senator in the senate of New
York, to instruct Rufus King, than a senator in
Congress from that state to vole against the ad'
mission of Missouri as a slave holding state.
He voted in New York Convention for giving
negroes the right of suffrage, and for placing
them on an equality with the white men
He advocated m the same Convention, the aris
tocratic measure of preventing all persons from
voting for members of the legislature who wen
not worth at least s2so—thus depriving thepooi
man of the privilege of voting.
“He sought, while Minister to England, t<
propitiate the favor of the British Administration
by disgracefully proclaiming the party divisions
existing in his own country, and, that too, at th«
expense and discredit of a large portion of lib
own countrymen.—-No official dignitary of thi;
or any other country while abroad, ever before I
stooped to such baseness.” —Charleston Mcrcu- I
ry. 1
He voted for the restriction of slavery in Flor- j
ida ; and if the question came up, before a body i
he had a voice in, for her adnrssion into the
union, he would not receive her as a slave state.
We have his former acts, as evidence on that
point*
“He is the author and advocate of the proscrip
tive policy, and of the vile doctrine that to the
“victors belong the spoils.” —Charleston Mer
cury.
“He was the advocate and supporter of that
illegal, tyranical and usurping measure, the re
moval of the public deposites from the United
States Bank.” —Charleston Mercury.
He has acknowledged himself a slave , by pro
claiming it to be glory enough to serve under such
a master as Andrew Jackson.
He is the advocate and supporter of a system of
national extravagance, swelling the annual dis
bursement of the government, in the last eleven
years from thirteen millions to the enormous sum
of thirty seven millions of dollars!
He opposed, an enquiry in to the frauds and
corruption known to exist to an alarming extent,
in the public land offices.
He never originated or carried through a mea
sure in a legislature worthy of an eminent states
man.
He has been paid out of the public crib about
one hundred and forty thousand dollars, and ex
hibited his fondness for -wool, by purchasing with
part of this money, ten thousand sheep.
He has retained men in office (and still does
it) when he knew they were defaulters but, be
cause they were “pillars of democracy” and sus
tained the temple, he would not remove them lest
the temple should fall.
He has removed others from office, because
they differed with him in opinion ; notwithstan
ding they were honest, and had always served
the country faithfully.
He has declared that “the people expect too
much from the government;” and he has declar
ed that odious measure, the sub-treasury bill,
should be passed “in spite of the lamentations of
the people.”
He has asked permission “to keep among us in
time of peace,” a standing army of 200,000 men;
no doubt thinking, that the purse and the sword
in his hand, the people would no longer “expect
too much from the government.”
He has declared, through his vassal, that tho
wages of labor must come down, and has cited
as an example twenty-seven foreign countries,
where labor is paid at the iate of aboutfrora nine
to twenty dollars a month.
He now pays the Globe, in order to create an
election fund for himself, two percent mo<e for
work than other printers have offered do 10 it for.
He has had issued, millions of dollars ofTreas
ury Notes, notwithstanding, he goes in for an
exclusive specie currency; thereby declaring
“specie for the office holders, paper for the peo
ple.”
Let the people now judge, if such a man is fit
to be President for this enlightened nation.
CURTICB.
“Selling White Men for Debt.”
Extract from the Journal of the Senate of Ohio,
Tuesday, January 30, 1821 „•
The Senate met, pursuant to adjournment.
Tho Senate then, according to the order of the
day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole
upon “ the bill from the House entitled an act for
the punishment of certain offences, therein
named,” and alter some time spent therein, the
Speaker, Allen Trimble, resumed the Chair.
Mr. Filhian then moved to strike out the 18th
section of said bill, as follows :
Be it further enacted, That when any per
son shall be imprisoned, either upon execution or
otherwise, for the non-payment of a fine or cost,
! or both, it shall be lawful for the sheriff of the
County t'. SELL OU T &UCH PERSON AS
A SERVANT, to any person within this State
who will pay the wholeamountdue, lor the short
est period of service, of which sale public no
tice shall be given at least ten days, and upon
such sale being effected, the sheriff shall give the
1 purchaser a certificate thereof, and deliver over
the prisoner to him, from which tune the relation
of such purchaser and prisoner shall be that of
MASTFR AND SERVANT, until the time of
service expires, and lor injuries done by either
remedy shall be had in the same manner, as is,
or may be provided by law in case of master and
apprentice. But nothing herein contained shall
he construed to prevent person* from being dis
charged from imprisonment according to the pro
visions of the 27th section of the act to which
i this is supplementary, if it shall be considered
• expedient to grant such a discharge. Provided
> that the court in pronouncing upon any person,
. convicted under this act, or the act to which this
is supplementary, may direct such persons to be
’ detained in prison until the fine be paid, or the
person or persons otherwise disposed of agreeably
• to the provisions ol this act.
And the yeas and nays were required, those
who voted in the affirmative were, Messrs. Beas
ly, Brown, Fithian, Gass. Jennings, Lucas, Mat
thews, M’Laughlin Heaton, M’Millon, Newcom,
Robb, Russell, Scofield, Shelby, Spenser, Stone,
’ Swearington, Thomson, and Womeldorf—2o.
And those we voted in the negative were MeS
s srs. Baldwin, Cole, Foos, Foster, WM. 11.
• HARRISON, M’Lean, Oswall, Pollock, Kuggles
3 Roberts, Wheeler and the Speaker—l 2.
1 Now mark how triumphantly tbiscalumnly is
j pul down by Gen. Harrison himself, in a plain
and frank statement of bis course. In reply to
the charge first made against him and his eleven
compeers of the Senate of Ohio, in 1821 he ad
- dressed the following letter to the editor ot the
Cincinnati Advertiser:
Sir: In your paper of the 15lh instant, I ob
served a most violent attack upon eleven ether
members of the late Senate and myselt, lor a
supposed vote given at the last session, fur a pas
sage of a law to “ sell debtors in certain cases.”
If such had been our conduct, I acknowledge
r that we should not only deserve the censure
which the writer has bestowed upon us, but the
1 execration of every honest man in society. An
s act of that kind is not only opposed to the prin
j ciples of justice and humanity, but would be a
palpable violation of the Constitution of the State,
f which every legislator is sworn to support: and
r sanctioned by a House of Reprcsenatives and
f twelve Senators, it would indicate a state of de
j pravity, which would fill every patriotic bosom
ts with the most alarming anticipations. But ihe
fact is, that no such proposition was ever made in
the Legislature, or ever thought of. The actio
t which the writer alludes, has no more re ation to
the collection of “ debts” than it has to the dis
covery of longitude. It was an act for the “pun
r< ishment of offences” against the State ; and that
_ part of it which has so deeply wounded the feel-
Lt ings of your correspondent, was passed by the
House of Representatives and voted for by the
v twelve Senators, under the impression that it was
a the most mild and humane mode of dealing with
[. the offenders for whose case it was intended. It
was adopted by the House of Representatives as
g a part of the general system of the criminal law,
g which was then undergoing a complete revision
and amendment; the necessity of this is evinced
i- by the following facts : For several years past it
n had become apparent that the Penitentiary Sys
e tern was becoming more and more burdensome
r at every session ; a large appropriation was caded
for to meet the excess of expenditure above the
o receipts of the establishment. In the commence
i, ment of the session of 1820, the deficit amounted
is to near $20,000.
ie This growing evil required the immediate inter
is position of some vigorous legislative measure,
is | Two were recommended as being likely to produce
the effect: first, placing the institution under bel
ter management; and, secondly, lessening the
number of convicts who were sentenced lor short
periods, and whose labor was found ot course to
be most unproductive. In pursuance of the lat
ter principle, thefts to the amount ot SSO or up
wards, were subjected to punishment in the Pen
itentiary, instead of $lO, which was the former
minimum sum : this was eascly done. But the
great difficulty remained to determine what should
be the punishment of those numerous larcenies
below the sum cf SSO. Dy some, whipping was
proposed; by ethers, punishment by hsrd labor
in the county jails; and by others, it thought
best to make them woik on the highways. To
all these there appeared insuperable objections;
line and imprisonment were adopted by the
House of Representatives as the only alternative;
and as it is well known these vexatiouapilferings
were generally, perpetrated by the more worthless
vagabonds in society, it was added thft when
they could not pay the fines and costs which are
always part of the sentence and punishment, their
services should be sold out to any person who
would pay their fines and costs for them. This
was the clause that was passed, as 1 believe, by a
unanimous vote of the House, and stricken out in
the Senate, in opposition to the twelve whp have
been denounced. A little further trt üblc jn ex
amining the Journals would have shown your
correspondent that this was considered as a substi
tute for whipping, which was lost only by r\ sin
gle vote in the Senate, and in the House |>y a
small majority, after being once passed.
I think, Mr. Editor, I have said enough to
that this obnoxious law would not have applied
to “unfortunate debtors of sixty-four years,” but
to infamous offenders who depredated upon the
property of their fellow-citizens, and who, by thn
Constitution of the State, as well as the principle
of existing laws, were subject to involuntary ser
vitude. I must confess I had no very sanguine
expectations of a beneficial effect from this mea
sure, as it would apply to convicts who had obtain
ed the age of maturity ; but I had supposed that
a woman, or a youth, who, convicted of an offence,
remained in jail for the payment of the fine and
costs imposed, might with great advantage be
transferred to the residence of some decent, vir
tuous private family, whose precept and example
would gently lead them back to the paths of
rectitude.
I would appeal to the candor of your corres
pondent to say whether, if there were an individ
ual confined under the circumstances I have men
tioned, for whose fate he was interested, he would
not gladly see him transferred from the filthy en
closure of a jail, and the still more filthy inhabi
tants, to the comfortable mansion of some virtu
ous citizen, whose admonitions would check his
vicious propensities, and whose authority over
him would be no more than is exercised over
thousands of apprentices in ourcountry.and those
bound, servants which are tolerated in our, as well
as in every other State in the Union? Far from
advocating the abominable principles attributed
to me by your correspondent, I think that im
prisonment fur debt, under any circumstances,
but that where fraud is alleged, is at war with
the best principles of our constitution, and ought
to be abolished !
lam, sir,your humble servant,
W.m. H. Harrison.
JVorth Bend, Dec. 21, 1821.
In 1836, the charge was revived, and while
Gen. Harrison was in Virginia the following cor
respondence took place:—
Richmond, Sept. 15, 1836.
Dear Sir, —Your political opponents in the
State of Maryland have, lor some time, been ac
tively urging against you a new charge, that of
selling white men , which probably had no in
considerable effect in the recent elections in that
State, and which is evidently much relied upon
to influence the approaching elections throughout
the United States. I enclose you a paper (the
Baltimore Republican,) containing the charge in
full, and I beg of you, as an act of justice to your
self and your friends, to enable me to refute a
charge against the uniform tenor of your life,
which, I am well aware, has been replete with
instances of distinguished private liberality and
public sacrifice.
With the highest respect, I have the honor to
be, your fellow-citizen,
John H. Pleasants.
Gen. Wm. H. Harrison.
Richmond, Sept. 15, 1836.
Dear Sir ;—I acknowledge the receipt of your
favor of this date. 1 have before heard of the
accusation to which it refers. On roy way hith
er, I met yesterday with a young gentleman of
Maryland, who informed me that a vote of mine
in the Senate of Ohio had been published, in fa
vor of a law to sell persons imprisoned under a
judgment for debt for a term of years, if unable
otherwise to discharge the execution. I did not,
fur a moment, hesitate to declare that I bad nev
er given any such vote; and that, if a vote of that
description bad been published and ascribed to
me, it was an infamous forgery. Such an act
would have been repugnant to my feelings, and
in direct conflict with my opinions, public and
private, through the whole course of my life- No
such proposition was ever submitted to the Le
gislature of Ohio—none such would, for a mo
ment, have been entertained—nor would any son
of hers have dared to propose it.
So far from being willing to sell men for debts
which they are unwilling to discharge, I am, and
ever have been, opposed to all imprisonment for
debt. Fortunately, I have it in my power to
show that such has been my established opinion,
and that, in a public capacity, I avowed and act
ed upon it. Will those who have preferred the
unfounded and malicious accusation refer to the
journals of the Senate of the United States, 2d
session, 19th Congress, page 325 ? It will there
be seen that I was one of the Committee which
reported a bill to abolish imprisonment for debt.
When the bill was before the Senate, I advocated
its adoption, and, on its passage, voted in its fa
vor. Sec Senate Journal, Ist session, 20th Con
gress, pages 111 1 and 102,
It is not a little remarkable, mat if the effort I
am accused of having made, to subject men to
sale for (he non-payment of their debts, had been
successful, I might, from the stale of my pecu
niary circumstances at the time, have been the
first victim. I repeat, the charge is a vile calum
ny. At no period of my life would I have con
sented to subject the poor and unfortunate to
such a degradation ; nor have I omitted to exert
myself in their behalf against such an attempt to
oppress them.
It is sought to support the charge b” means of
garbled extracts from the journals of the Senate
of Ohio. The section of the bill which is em
ployed for that purpose had no manner ot refer
ence to the relation of creditor and debtor, and
cou’d not by possibility subject the debtor to the
control of his creditor. None know belter than
the authors of the calumny that the alleged sec
tion is utterly at variance with the charge which
it is attempted to found upon it; and that so far
from a proposition to invest a creditor witn power
over the liberty of his debtor, it had respect only
to the mode of disposing of public offenders, who
i had been found guilty by a jury of their fellow
citizens of some crime against the laws of their
State. That was exclusively the import and de
sign of the section of the bill, upon the motion
to strike out which, I voted in the negative. So
you perceive, that in place of voting lo enlarge
the power of creditors, the vote which I gave
concerned alone the treatment of malefactors
convicted of crimes against the public.
It would extend this letter to an inconvenient
leng’h lo gc fully into the reasons which led me
at the time to an opinion in favor of the propos
ed treatment of that class of offenders who would
have fallen within its operations, nor is such an
expose caiied for. The measure was by no means
a novelty in other parts of the country. In the
Blafe of Delaware, there is an act now in force
in similar words with the section of the bill be
fore the Ohio Senate, which has been made of
late the pretext of such insidious invective. Laws
with somewhat similar provisions may probably
be found in many other of the Slates. In prac
tice the measure would have ameliorated the con
dition of those who were under condemnation.
As the law stood, they were liable under the
sentence to confinement in the common jail,
where offenders of various degrees of profligacy
—of different ages, sex and color, were crowded
together. Under such circumstances, it is ob
vious that the had must become worse, whilst
reformation could hardly be expected in respect
to any. The youthful offender, it might be
hoped, would be reclaimed under the operation
of the proposed system, hut there was great rea
son to fear his still greater corruption amid the
contagion of a common receptacle of vice. Be
sides, the proposed amendment of the law pre
supposed that the delinquent w as in confinement
for the non-payment of a fine and costs of prose
cution— (the payment of which w r as a part of
the sentence :) it seemed, therefore, humane, in
respect to the offender, to relieve him from con
finement which deprived him from the means of
discharging the penalty, and to place him in a
situation in which he might work out his deliver
ance, even at a loss for a lime of his personal
liberty.
But I forbear to go farther into the reasons
which led me, sixteen years ago. as a member of
the Ohio Senate, to entertain a favorable opinion
of an alteration which was proposed in the crimi
nal police of the State. It is certain that neither
respect to myself, or those who concurred with
me, was the opinion at the time considered as the
result of unfriendly bias towards the poor or
unfortunate. Nay, the last objection which I
could have anticipated, even from the eager and
reckless desire to assail me, was a charge of un
friendliness to the humble and poor of the com
munity.
I am, my dear sir, with great respect, your
humble servant. Wm. H. Harrison.
J. H. Pleasants, Esq,
From the Tallahassee Floridian of the 6th,
From Florida.
We are happy to say that the gallant Colonel
Bailey has met with a success in his expedition
; which augurs at least a turn in the tide of our
j fortunes. He has just returned to camp, after
: some twenty-eight days spent, with great toil and
fatigue, in beating the swamps and hammocks
I from the Ocill) to the Suwannee; and has brought
j with him ten prisoners—six women and four chil
dren. In pursuing the Indians, one woman was
■ shot, mistaking her for a wanior. We have be
i fore stated that a warrior was killed previously by
i Capt. Hall. The men attached to the party
! captured, were absent hunting. The«e Indians
j were taken by a detachment of sixteen men un
: der Captains Hall and Townsend, who, after the
i troops had destroyed the crops of corn, etc., de
| terrained to make one more effort after the Indi
-1 ans.
The captives have been treated with every hu
manity, the men even giving up their horses to
them on their return march to camps. Their own
husbands would rather have made them pack hors
es up on such occasions.
The whole detachment consisted of two hun
dred men, B one hundred mounted and one hundred
on foot. Col. Bailey and his officers have done
well. The troops, during the whole scout, under
went great futigue; but there was no flinching—
. all were disposed to do their duty to the uttermost.
The hammocks have been well scoured, and ma
ny towns broken up and crops destroyed. In
Pumpkin hammock, near Cook’s, where the pris
oners were captured, the corn was, in some pla
ces fit for roasting. It is no easy matter to pen
etrate these fastnesses upon the coast; but this ex
periment shows, that it can be done, and we hope
in future, it will be more frequently attempted
and accomplished —though, we are told, our men
make but a soiry figure on their return from the
, swamps, their clothes in tatters, and .hcmselves
badly scatched with loss of shoes, etc.
Gen. Brown, (commonly known as “ Canada
Brown ,”) Mr. Green, (son of Colonel Green, of
the sth infantry,) and Messrs. Parramore and
Smith of Thomasvilie, Ga., volunteered their ser
vices on the scout, and did their duty with the
rest of the men.
Col. Bailey brings back all of his men, though
a number are suffering from sickness and fatigue.
There was no falling back upon provisions.
The arrangements of the able and industrious
Colonel J. B. Collins prevented that.
We shall probably receive the official report
of Col. Bailey in time for our next paper. We
are inclined to believe that this is one of the most
effective scouts yet made against Indians.
Alabama Mate Convention.
The Mobile Chronicle of the Slhsays:—A
gentleman direct from Tuscaloosa, byway of
I Selma, who left on Wednesday evening last,
brings us partial information relative to the pro
ceedings of the Whig Convention that assem
bled in Tuscaloosa on Monday last. Wc learn
from him that the Convention was organized by
( choosing the Hon. John S. Hunter, of Lowndes
county, President, and the appointment of seven
. Vice Presidents, and five Secretaries. More than
I ONE THOUSAND delegates are estimated to
. have been present, and hundreds of Ladies graced
> the Convention with their presence.—The Con
vention was conducted with most perfect good
' order, and the greatest unanimity prevailed.—
, The following gentlemen were nominated for
’ Presidential electors:
I Arthur F. Hopkins,
JaMES Ani KCKOMBIE,
John Gayle,
Henry W. Hilliard,
Thomas Williams,
Harry J. Thointon,
Nicholas Davis.
Unpopularity of Gen. Harrison in Can
, aua.—The loyal portion of the citizens ofCana
da are strongly opposed to Gen. Harrison. A
. friend who has just returned from an excursion
, through the Provinces says that the Tory party
. is waimly enlisted for Mr. Van Buren, who has
. so many, “feelings in common” with them. The,
, Royalists in Canada call Genera! Harrison a
t “Coward” and a “Petticoat General” with tho
, same bitterness that distinguishes their Tory
friends in America. They say, as the opponents
f of the General here say, that the American Offi
; cial account of the Siege of Fort Meigs and the
" battle of the Thames, are untrue. They agree
. with the Globe, Argus, and New-Era, that the
1 American Army was defeated in those Battles,
. and that although Proctor and his Allies were
, beaten and driven back into Canada, Gen. Harri
. son won no laurels!— Albany Evening Journal.
i ——
r In England an electro magnetic telegraph has
r been established about twenty miles along the
Great W estern Railway. The velocity of elec
) tricity has been ascertained to be the same, or
- nearly the same, as light,
r
Bendable Stone.—ln the museum of the
i Asiatic Society at Calcutta, one object of curios
i ily is a bending or elastic stone. The stone is
s apparently of granite, is about two and a half feet
s by six inches in length and breadth, and about
s an inch thick. This stone being lifted at one end,
yields to the pressure, and from the half begins to
t bend as if lifted, and as the lifted end is raised,
3 the bend approaches nearer to the further exlrem
. ily. On the lifting power becoming relaxed, the
I stone reverts to its former level.— Calcuttapa~
i per.
E
\\ DECK OF THE ATLANTIC WITH A Cip, ».
for Quebec.—The Brig Hero, from Bt/j 0 h #
N. F. brought 38 passengers from the wreck "f
the Atlantic, of which event we have collect °!
the following particulars .—The new barque a!
lanlic of Perth, (284 tons.) George Morton. m a
ter, from Dundee to Qubec, with a general I
go. ran on shore near Cape St. Francis, \ p j
on the night of Tuesday, sth May. The passe I
gets, twenty-seven in number, and the crew h") I
a miraculous escape, but all succeeded in geni* I
ashore with the exception of a bov named Ho'**
who was unfortunately drowned. Scarcely
article of clothing was saved from the wreck- 3 ' I
the loss of the ship having been almost the work 1
of an instant, and the circumstances
ding every consideration but the preservation *<•
life, many got on shore as they rushed from thfi I
beds or. being aroused from the shock v y y
Courier,
A I.iter At Translation.—Two
als, passing a somewhat doubtful looking millj' I
ner’s shop on Burgundy street, a few days since" "
stopped to ascertain the name of the occupant'
which was lettered, on a highly japanned |
with the addenda of “ modiste on robe” (j n I
moving off, one of them enquired of the othc- i
the signification of “modiste enrobe,” to which 1
he replied, “ I hardly know sufficient French to I
to translate correctly, but, I am satisfied it means 1
in this case, neither more nor less than that mo. v
dcsiy is unrobed there /—Louisiana Advertiur 1
Important to Leg-Treasurers. —Thereis* I
township in Wisconsin, named Swartwom
There has been a petition got up to set apart j I
large portion of it for the use of leg-treasurers, and |
absquatulating defaulters. We would, however
suggest to that “large and respectable” class of '
community, that there is a “take in” in the mat
ter. The land consists of an immense bog, with- J
out bottom, and more dismal than the Great Dis- Wk
mal Swamp. The design of government is, to #
try and make this a harbour, where this gentry jjl
will fly f-'r protection. In making tracks th-ough 1
this “happy valley.” they will stick fast, and may I
be easily taken without the aid of bloodhounds, \
Really the rapid strides which our government
is making towards improvement, is astonishing, I
Methodist General Conference. The [I
General Conference, which has been in session I
at Baltimore from the first of May, adjourned at f
a late hour on Wednesday night. The Confer- U
ence resolved not to increase the number of ■ i
Bishops.
The following appointments were made hvthe M
Conference:—
Book agents at New York, Rev. T. Mason and i
G. Lane.
Editors of the Christian Advocate and Sunday
school books, Rev. Dr. Bond, of Baltimore Rev
Geo. Coles. * |
Editor of Quarterly Review, books and tracts,
Rev. Geo. Peck.
Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary
Society at New York, Rev. Dr. Dangs.
Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary
Society at Charleston, Rev. Dr, Capers.
Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary
Society at Cincinnati, Rev, Mr. Ames.
Editor S. W. Christian Advocate at Nashville,
Rev. C. A. Davis.
Editor Pittsburgh Christian Advocate, at Pitts
burgh, Rev. C. Cooke.
Editor S. Christian Advocate, at Charleston, |
Rev. Mr. W’ightman.
Editors Western Christian Advocate, at Cin
cinnati, Elliot and Hamiltone.
Book agents at C incinnati, W right and Sworn- I
stedt.
The Rev. Bishop Hedding was appointed the
delegate to toe Canada Conferences of ISI I, and
the Rev. Bishop Soule delegate to England, to
attend the Wesleyan Conference in July, 184!. *
Bishop Soule, on being requested to nominate his
associate, named the Rev. Thomas B. Sargent,.)! M
the Baltimore Conference, who was confirmed
by the Conference.— Com. Adv.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, May 16
Latest dates from Havre April 29
—— « «
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Cotton. —Our Cotton market for the past two ;
days have been exceedingly animated, and have * f
advanced fully on the rates current in our report | |
of Thuesday last, we alter quotations accordingly, f
Ordinary to middling, 6 to
Fair, Sj to Sf
Good Fair, to 8|
Fine and choice in Square Bales, if on sale would 11
command 9 cents.
Groceries. —We have no change to notice. Thj
market is generally well supplied with all the
leading articles, and prices are us low ?s the de
ranged state of our currency and the exorbitanl |
rates of exchange will allow.
Bacon ,—ls in better demand, and is sold freely f
from wagons at 9 cents, hog round.
Freights —To Savannah, 50 cents per bale.'
to Charleston, by rail road, 2.5 c per 100 lbs. for j
square, and 35c per 100 lbs. for round bales.
Exchange. —On New-York, at sight, —a 12 pu !
cent, for current funds ; Charleston at —a 81 per: I
cent; Savannah per ct.; Philadelphia —a 7j per ;
«:t.; Lexington, Ky. 4 a 4$ per ct.; Richmond 6 a 6}
cent; specie commands 9 a 10 per cent, premium
Bank Notes. —
Savannah Banks, 2 per cent, prcui 1
Columbus Insurance B’k 6 “ “ “ *
Commercial Bank, Macon, 5 “ “ “ j
Mechanics’, u (Augusta,) 9 “ “ “ j
Agency Brunswick, “ 9 “ “ “
Planters’ and Mechanics’
Bank, Columbus, 2£ “ “ dis- |
Central Bank, 5a 6 “ w “
Milledgeville Bank, 5a 6 “ “ “
Ocmulgee Dank, 6 ** “
Monroe Rail Road Bank, 7 “ “
liawkinsrille Bank, 6 “ “
Chattahoochie ,R. R. dr B’k
Company, 3$ “ “ *
Darien Bank, 20 “ “ “
Bank of Rome, 50
All other Banks now doing business, at par. \
Specie Patting Banks. —Mechanics’ Bank, lD5n- ,
ranee Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of M s ' ||
con, and Brunswick Agency in this city,
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
Charleston, Ju ne I
Arrived yesterday —brig Globe, Miller, BosW ' I
brig Moses, Loveland, New York. .1
Cleared —Ship Catharine Jackson, Porrcy. U-'l
erpool ; Dark Madagascar, Berry, Antwerp; 15 Fj
Catharine, Rose, Havana; steampacket, Nept“ n »
Pennoyer, New York. .1
Went to sea yesterday —ship Cordova,
Havre; packet ship Chicora, Rogers, Liveif^' ■
ship Catharine, Berry, London, via New ||
steampacket Neptune, Pennoyer, New \ oik; ?!f I
packet James Adams, Chare, Norfolk-
In the offing —A ship, unknown.
Savannah, June F • ||
Cleared —Br bark N Lindsay, Wilson, t“ 3, j
ton. v,rk B
Arrived —ship Paclolus, Harding, ” avr V h **,H:
Philura, Sherman, New York; schr I >a,a *
Thornai* Boston. j