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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