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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A U GUST A. M
WEDNESDAV MORNING, J UNE 17.
FOTI PHESIDKNT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesnrao — the inflexible Republican—
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
I
I
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, J
JOHN TYLER)
0/ Virginia ,-
St ste Rights Republican of the schopt of ’9S —
one of Virginia’* noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, vijpuous and
patriotic statesmen. ; '
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUN:AN L. CLINCH, of Camdbn.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, ox Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
FOR CONGRESS, ;
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E. A. NISBET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habeijsham.
T. B. KING, of Glynn. :
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter. I
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. ■
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnjnn.
Mr. Talmadge’s Letter*.
The letter of the New York Senator which is
contained in this morning’s paper, wall be read
with interest by our readers. Its familiar, friend
ly style, having been designed for the eye of an
intimate friend, will only increase the interest
which would be otherwise felt in the perusal.
The deep interest which Mr. Talmadtfe feels in
the contest, his thorough acquaintance with the
local politics of New York, and his' extensive
means of obtaining the most correct information
from every section of the Union, entitle his
opinions to great confidence.
Great Race.
The Louisville Correspondent of the Picayune
says, a match has been made for $20,000 dollars
aside, ta come off over the Louisville Course next
fall, between Red Bill and Boston.— Conditioned,
that Red Bill comes out of the four ratio race on
that tract the succeeding day sound, and that Bos
ton is also sound the same day.
The Court of Inquiry, f
The military Court of Inquiry recently assembled
at Baltimore, to try Major Lendrum apd Captain
Dusenbury, upon the charges preferred &|amst them
by citizens of Baltimore, have published their de
cision, with the sanction of the President,complete
ly acquitting those officers of any improper con
duct. We hope, as an act of justice to tue people,
the charges and testimony in this case will find
their way into the public prints; for try desire to
see if the people of this country, and Georgia in
particular, arc willing to sustain an administration,
that will authorize an enquiry into the -conduct of
officers, who are in effect charged with purchasing
provisions and chartering vessels front- those who
oppose the measures of the administration of Mr.
Van Buren. This is no vague speculation —the
testimony which we have seen as takeh during the
trial, exhibit the truth of what wc assert, and show
tnast sonclusively that these constitute the princi
pal offences of those officers.
“ Selling White Men for Deitt.”
The Richmond Enquirer gives an ektract from
the editor's letter to Dr. Powell of NVestmore
land, from which we copy : i
“ I did not attach so much importance to this
charge against General Harrison, particularly af
ter he had explained in his letter—and therefore
did not lay so much stress upon it, asj others.”
This was in 1837—but since then :vchange has
come over the venerable Editor. Hy intimates
now that he must resort to this calumny again.
The desperate state of his fortunes requires des
perate means: Or, as the old saying went, “hun
gry dogs will eat dirty puddings.”— Whig.
Correspondence of the Xorth American.
New' York, 3 p. m. June 11, IS4O.
Flour remains the same as it was. All sorts of
western range from $4,25 to $4,75. There are se
veral brands of Onio Flour, which sell.higher than
any Gcnessee, and which are not included in the
common quotation of merchantable flour. Such is
Akron Mills, which sells now at 5,26, as fast as it
arrives. Venice Mills, which comrrmds 5,12, and
some others which command $5. These are made
from selected wheat, not ground close, and the
bread and biscuit made from them, are beautiful and
delicious.
In Cotton there is no change. The sales jog on
mt the rate of 1000 bales a day, or so, ait steady pri
ces. Uplands
Many stocks are rather higher to-day, though for
no particular reason, so far I can learn. —Sterling
bills are very dull of sale. A good ouje of £. 1,000
was sold this morning at 6J prerp. |
Domestic Exchanges.—Philadelphia 4g a 4j;
Baltimore 4-} a Richmond 5j a sJ|| Charleston
s'a 4; Augusta a 12; Macon I'M; Savannah
71 aS; Mobile 10 a 101; New Orleans 6A a7 ; St.
Louis 9; Louisville 8; Cincinnati 7|: Nashville 14
Medical College of Georgia.
The Secretary of the Board of Trustees has re
quested us to state the result of the meeting of the
Board of Saturdays last.
Dr. Davis, late Professor of Chemistry, has re
signed his Professorship, which resignation was
accepted.
Dr. Charles W. West, one of the Alumni of
the College, was unanimously elected to the vacant
Professorship, and has accepted the appointment
Private considerations rendering it inconvenient
for Dr. Davis to reside in Augusta, have deter
mined his resignation ; and we take pleasure in
publishing his letter, as kindest
feelings for his former associates, and interest in
the College and confidence in its continued pros
perity.
While the College has lost a Professor of which
any institution may be proud, we congratulate the
Board on having it in their power, without delay,
to fill the vacancy with one of their own gradu
ates, wiiose talents and zeal in the profession and
ample opportunities in foreign countries, afford
them assurance of his success as a teacher of
medical Chemistry.
Charleston, June 9th, 1840.
Sir—Allow me to present through you, to the
j Board of Trustees of the Medical College of Geor
i gia, my resignation of the Chair of Chemistry and
! Pharmacy in that institution.
Circumstances have rendered this st p necessary
; on my part, but I beg to assure the Board that it is
with painful reluctance that I withdraw from a
connection which has ever been to me a source of
pride end gratification.
Os the entire success of the College I have never
1 entertained a doubt. Sustained as it is by a Fac
ulty combining talents of the highest order, with
the most untiring industry, it must eventually at
tain an eminence which will reflect honor upon
the State by which it was founded.
With sentiments of the highest
respect, I remain your
obedient servant,
CHARLES DAVIS.
To Hon. John W. Wilde, President of the Board
of Trustees, Medical College of Georgia.
of Geo.,?
Bme 13, 1840. 3
Dear Sir—lt gives me pleasure to inform you,
that at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
j Medical College of Georgia, this afternoon, you
were unanimously elected Professor of Chemistry
and Pharmacy, the professorship vacated by the
resignation of Dr. Davis.
With great respect, I am
your obedient servant,
LEWIS D. FORD, Sec. Med. CoL Geo.
Dr. Charles W. West.
Augusta, June, loth, 1840.
Dear Sir —Your note of the 12th inst. has been
received, informing me that by a vote of the Board
of Trustees of the Medical College of Georgia, I
have been elected to the Professorship of Chemis
try and Pharmacy in that Institution. The great
responsibilities and arduous duties which neces
sarily belong to such a station, would induce me
rather to shrink from, than assume them, wore I
not urged on by the strongest interest in the pros
perity of the College, and encouraged by the
hope that zeal may supply many deficiences. In
accepting the appointment, allow me to return to
the Board, through you, my acknowledgements for
the high honor conferred, and subscribe myself
Your obedient servant,
CHARLES W. WEST.
Dr. L. D. Ford, Sec’y Med. Col. Geo. |
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Proceedings of Council—Extra Meeting.
Monday, 4 o’clock p. m. ?
June 15, 1840-5
Council met; —present —Hon. D. Hook, Major;
Alderman —Harper, Flemming, Robertson, Miller,
Richards Parish.
The following Ordinance reported by Mr. Har-
I per, chairman of the committee appointed by reso
lution of 26th May, was read the thud time and
i passed.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Augusta,
That from and after the 22d June, iS4O, no person
shall sell or vend within the of the Clt* of
Augusta, any kind of intoxicam|wiquors in quan
tities of one gallon, one quart, or any intermediate
quantities, without a licence from tha City Council,
! the j rice of which shall be Five Dollars ; and any
I intoxicating liquors which may be so sold or vend
| ed as aforesaid, shall not be consumed at the place
I at which said liquor may be sold: and the licence
so granted for the sale of quantities between one
quart and one gallon, shall be designated as Num
ber two. Whilst the licences authorised to be
I granted under the first section of the General Ordi
nance, shall henceforth be known as Number One,
!
and shall cost Fifty Dollars as heretofore.
Section 2d. And he it further ordained by Vie
authority aforesaid , That all licences designated
| as Number Two, shall expire on the second Mon
day in May next, and on the second Monday in
May annually thereafter.
Section 3d. And be it further ordainded by the
authority aforesaid, That all persons to whom li
| cences, either Number one or Number Two, shall
: bo hereafter granted, shall be required to take and
subscribe before the Mayor, or some member of
the City Council, at or before the time of taking
out said licence, the following oath, which all
I venders of intoxicating liquors in the State of
Georgia, in quantities not greater than one gallon,
are required to take by an act of the General As
| sembly of Georgia, approved on the 29th day of
December, IS3B. To wit:
“ I do solemnly swear, that I will not during the
next succeeding twelve mouths, sell, baiter, give
or furnish to any slave or slaves, or free person of
color, any measure or quantity of distilled spirit
uous or intoxicating liquor, without the verbal 01
written consent of toe owner, overseer, or em
ployer of such slave or slaves, or without the like
consent of the guardian of such free person ol
color: and Ido further swear, that I will not suf
fer or allow any other person to do so for me by
my approbation, knowledge, orconsent; So help me
God.”
Section 4(h. And be it further ordained by tht
authority aforesaid. That any person violating anj
ot the provisions of this Ordinance, may be re
quired to pay- a tine not exceeding one hundrec
dollars, for every time the same may be violated
Done and signed by the Mayor in Council, this
loth day of June, 184 .
A communication from M. R. Smith, Esq., o
Hamburg, S. €., was read and referred to the Com
mittee on Bridges.
The following resolutions were offered and
passed—
Resolved, That one thousand dollars be appro
priated as a contingent fund to defray expenses o
work ordered by the Mayor.
r Resolved, That the City Marshal be directed to
- have the drays mustered, and examine the condi
e tio:. of the casks required to be kept by eacli dray,
and that hereafter each drayman will be expected
- to attend every Fire which may take place, with
s their drays and casks as directed by the Ordinance
regulating the same, under penalty of forfeiture of
licence.
* Elihu Hodges, and James B. Calvin applied for
retail licences, and their securities being approved,
the same was ordered to be grantee’.
The following bills were severally read and i
ordered to be paid.
* A. Lafitte & Bro., Rope for ferry, $142 G1
S. L. Baiford, work on Campbell’s gully
in May, 71 00
do work on drains per contract in May, 80 00
Benj. Johnson, work on Magazine, 22 50
J. C. Lark, hire of horses during fresh, 12 00
W. Cunningham, work on City Hall 10t,... 12 00
j W. Sindersine, balance Hospital account,.. 13 25
j The bill of J. B. Stockton was referred to the
j- Mayor.
W. Sindersine keeper of the Hospital, reports 3
patients remaining in Hospital at the last monthly
return.
: Council adjourned.
S.'H. Oliver, Clerk of Council.
I
Correspondence of the Charleston Courier.
Wishixgtox, June 13.
The Bankrupt Bill has been reported back to
i the Senate trom the Select Committee in a form
f corresponding with the votes of the Senate on
the subject. It carries out both the voluntary anil
. compulsory principles. Whether it will "pass,
we shall soon see, for it will be taken up next
Tuesday.
The Senate again had a hot discussion on the
■ subject of the Mi.ilia System of Mr. Poinsett.
Gen. Harrison was attacked on the score of his
own doctrines on this subject, as he not only
made propositions, in Congress, of the same sort,
but voted against the abolition of John Adams’s
standing army. In his defence it was said that
he wns not for ««c/r a scheme as Mr. Poinsett’s
and that he proposed to reach his object by an
amendment of the Constitution. .As to the
standing army of Adams, it was said that he did
vote to reduce it from five thousand to two thou
sand, hut would not totally abolish it, because,
at that time, there were, within the limits of the
union, numerous bands of warlike and hostile
Indians who were to be watched and occasionally
beaten.
In the House Mr. Bolts made a severe demon
stration against the Administration. He brought
forward a charge that some Lieutenant of the
Navy, (Hoe, it I mistake not.) had been tried
by a court martial, found guilty of some malcon
duct, upon the testimony of a negro, and sen
tenced to be cashiered —and further, Mr. Van
Buren, knowing the character of the testimony,
approved ol the sentence. Mr. Bolts moved to
suspend the rules, in order to enable him to come
to a call for the papers in the case, but the House
refused to suspend. Some ot the Southern friends
of Mr. Van Buren, appeared, to be embarrassed
by the charge, but there will no doubt be some
explanation of it.
No Changes, Eh !—We are informed by a
respectable gentleman from Chester County,
that of the 150 Delegates from Phoenixville to
the great \\ big gathering at Westchester on
Tuesday last, forty-two had seceded from the
Van Buren ranks since the Ist of April last.
No changes, eh l—Philad. Nort American.
)
From the New York Star.
Gks. Haurison’s opinions.—Of all the pre
tences set up by the Loco Foco papers in oppo
sition to Gen. Harrison, none is shallower than
that so signally rebuked in the following extract
from the Richmond Whig. The truth is, the
* candidate of the W higs stands so completely
and thoroughly committed, before this whole
people, as to his opinions upon every point of
policy, that it has become the most ridiculous
and absurd affectation on the part of any objector,
. to attempt to base his opposition upon this mise
. rablc pretext. But hear the Whig’s
I FAIR proposition.
“ The Feds, beaten at every point—their cal
umnies against General Harrison exposed and
’ refuted—they have reduced their objections to
1 his election almost to a single point. “He will
f not come out,” they say, “ with a declaration of
■ his opinions—he will not answer the letters ad*
> dressed to him—he is in the hands of a C >m
, mittee ; —he keeps dark, and mysterious—we
r cannot rote for him.”
“ Well, gentlemen, will you vote for him if he
docs answer? We put the question directly to
2 the Editor of the Enquirer—if General Harrison
* will answer fully on all questions of public in
j tcrest, will you then cease your abuse, and give
. him your support ? Say the word, and we cn
s P a S e that you shall be speedily stripped of your
last pretext of opposition. General Harrison’s
sentiments are now well known to his friends —
’ they desire nothing farther from him than what
they already have. His public acts, his speeches,
e and his letters, which hate been published again
1 and again, satisfy them of his Republicanism,
_ and of his devotion to the best interests of the
country. But to remove even the shadow of a
pretext for the cavil of his enemies, they do not
doubt that they can obtain any additional infer
e mation which may be desired. Will Ritchie ac
- cept the terms proposed?”
1 . _
i Then,
f During the last war with England, when Gcne
, ral Harrison was winning his victories over the
“ British and Indians of the North west, and illumi
nating the dark wilderness of the lakes with
* the blaze of his glory, the Richmond Enquirer re
'> polled with indignation an insinuation that that
- brave conqueror was a federalist,
f Now,
That General Harrison is the candidate of the
people for the highest office in their gift, in op
-0 position to an administration rotten to the core
e with corruption, tills same Richmond Enquirer,
f under the conduct of the same editor, is denoun
cing the same General Harrison as a black cock-
T ade federalist of ’9B !— N. Y. Cow. Adv.
e Though the federal gentry may have all the
if hard cider—we fear not the result while we know
■_ that the people themselves have got all the
hard sense.— Nash. Uk. on.
e And the office-holders all the hard money.—
Prentice.
e Clubs have been formed in St. Louis, for the
- extermination of all dogs within the city and su
burbs. As the Tippecanoe Clubs will have little
d to do shortly, they might do the “State some ser
vice” in those parts. — Balt. Repuh.
is Don’t trouble yourself. The Tippecanoe Clubs
will exterminate dogs quite fast enough for your
jf purpose.— Prentice.
From Florida
By the steamboat Florida, Capt Nock, from
Black Creek, we learn that there was no Indian
news, except that Col. Mason of the Volunteers
)- was accidently killed by one of his men, while
;, f in pursuit of a runaway Indian, near Camp King.
Savannah Georgian.
From the National Intelligencer.
“ The Prospect before us.”
The inquiry is frequently addressed to us, both
at home and from a distance, for our opinion in
regard to the prolmble result of the issue about to
be tried by the People of the United States be
tween Martin Van Buren and William Henry
Harrison.. We beg leave to refer all such inqui
rers to the subjoined letter. It was written, not
for the public eye, or for public effect, but in the
sincerity and freedom of private correspondence,
and by a man whose extensive sources of infor
-9 mation. and whose care in silting and comparing
facts and probabilities, combined with his clear
judgement and known candor, impart to his
opinions a value and weight superior to those of
any other citizen within our Knowledge. The
justice of this tribute will be admitted by all who j
know the writer when they perceive the name to j
be that of the distinguished Senator of New York. |
Nathaniel P. Tallmacle. The letter first appear- !
ed in the Richmond W hig, and was addressed to j
a gentleman of that city. The editor remarks.!
“The author will be recognised without the pub
lication of his name, ’ and adds, “It was written
with no expectation of its meeting the public j
eye.” Since, however, it has met the public eye, I
Mr. T. has given his consent to its appearance j
with his name affixed, and no name could give to j
such a statement higher claims to respect and ere- '
dence.
Washington, May 21, 1840.
Mr Dear Sir : Your letter of the 26th instant
was duly received.
It is surprising to me that Ritchie’s bragging
in the Richmond Enquirer about New York
should give our friends one moment’s uneasiness.
It is his “vocation,” and it is the habit of the j
Federal Locofoco party to brag the louder the
more they are beaten.—Since their overthrow in
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Virginia, and in cer
tain local elections in Pennsylvania, their pros
pects have brightened wonderfully!—They are
looking up, because they are on their backs ! I
understand their game perfectly. They know
they cannot make a decent fight in other States,
unless they can persuade their friends that Mr.
Van Buren can recover New York. Without it,
he has not the remotest chance of success. As
to his prospects in New York, I have no hesita
tion in givingyou my candid opinion, that he will
be beaten by a much larger majority than that of
the last two years. I have the best sources of in
formation. I have an extensive correspondence
all over the State, and, from my peculiar posi
tion, am enabled to judge with much accuracy
of our elections. For the last two yeais, I have
predicted the result with an accuracy almost equal
to the official canvass—and I now say to you that
Gen. Harrison’s majority, in ray judgment, will
not be less than fifteen thousand. We hope
to swell it much beyond that. I have not heard
of a single man that has gone over to the Admin- !
istration since the last election. But I know and
have heard of hundreds and hundreds, in differ- j
ent counties, who have abandoned it since that
time, and are now co-operating with their old
Democratic Republican friends in putting down
Mr. Van Bmen’s old Federal doctrines. Amongst
this number, are men of tl e highest standing and
influence in their respective counties.
What possible ground, then, is there for Mr.
Ritchie or any other man to claim New York for
this Federal Administration ? It is preposterous.
What claims do they present to the people, from
which they expect to derive more favor than for
the last three years ? The confidence of the Peo
ple has been more and more impaired during that
period; the mercantile, the manufacturing, and
the mechanic interests of the country have here
tofore felt the deleterious influence of the meas
ures of the Administration. Now, that influence
has reached the farming interests—and yon may
rely upon it, none of those interests will tamely
submit to have their goods, their manufactures,
their labor, and the products of the soil, as well
as their lands, reduced one-half or two-thirds in !
value, in order to enjoy the blessings of the hard
money of Cuba, or of any otherdespofism, whose
example the President has recommended for our
imitation. No, sir, the free laborers of this coun- !
try will never consent to have the price of labor 1
reduced to the same level with the peasants of
Germany or the serfs of Russia; nor will the til- j
lers of the soil consent that the products of their !
farms shall be reduced in price so low as not to
pay the cost of production; nor will the farmers
consent that the lands shall be reduced two-thirds
in value—that where they have purchased a farm, I
for example, for $15,000, paid SIO,OOO in cash. '
and mortgaged it for $5,000, that it sh ill be sold :
from under them for the amount of the mortgage, |
and their wives and children turned out of doors,
without shelter and without bread. Such are the |
legitimate effects of the doctrines now maintained
by this Administration, and which its friends and
supporters are every where urging upon the coun
try: and which will be established beyond the
hope of redemption, if Mr. Fan Buren shall be'
»e-elected.
Os his re-election there is not the faintest pros
pect. In regard to New York—l speak without
the least hesitation, and with the most entire con
fidence—he has no possible hope of success there.
Why should he have? The changes have been
constantly against him foi the last three years,
and none in his favor. At U.e extra sesion in
1837, I predicted his overthrow in that State.
At the November election of that year he was
swept away as by a hurricane. At the next ses
sion of Congress he apologised to his friends by
saying that there were 40,000 voters who did not
come to the polls, but would be out for him at
the next election. Well,sir, in 1838, these 40,-
000 came out, and 25,000 in addition, and he was
beaten by more than 10,000 majority. He again ;
consoled his friends for this unexpected defeat by j
saying that in the next campaign he would take
the field in person. He did so; he traversed the
whole State, on a mere electioneering tour, and, 1
with the exception of the city of New York, the |
result in the Legislature showed a larger majority
against him than the year before,, In almost ev
ery contested county the popular vote against him
was increased. There was no falling off, but
from local causes, any where, except in the old
Western district, which is so immensely strong
that there was no necessity of giving a full vote
but at a general election. That old district will
give Harrison fifteen thousand majority.
The late charter election in the city of New
York has satisfied both friend and foe that under
the registry law Harrison will carry the city in
the fall by a decisive vote. You must recollect,
too, that last year we had every thing to discour
age and dishearten our friends. Many gave up
all for lost after they heard the disastrous accounts
from Tennessee and Indiana. But there were
idomitable spirits, that never doubt or flatter in a
good cause. They rallied, and soon convinced
the people that New York could sustain
herself, and was not to be influenced by any I
news from abroad, however unpropitious. At this
time, every man of the Opposition is confident of
success. It is not an over-confidence that begets j
inaction ; it is a confidence which invigorates and ■
inspires, and which impels to greater exertion. It I
is a confidence in short, which will justify the
expectations of your f iend, and disappoint the
hopes of our enemies.
After all we hav.i done in Xew York for the
last three years, under the most unfavorable aus
pices, it is not a little mortifying to us now, with
all our bright prospects before us, that a single
friend abroad should not for one moment permit I
a doubt of our triumphant success in the fall to
cross his mind. N'ew York is jusf ns certain
for Harrison as that the time of election comes
routid. And if my o ! d friend Ritchie, who goes
for men, and not principles, woul . like to ven
ture a suit ol clothes on the issue, I should be
pleased to accommodate him ; or if he does not
choose to venture it on New York, I will take it
4 °n the'Umon; or if, as Randolph says, he'will
t»e “ accommodated.” I will take a suit on each.
A Democratic Republican State Convention
will soon be called at the old head-quarters at Sy
lacuse. It will be held about the llrst October.
There will be a Conservative rally on that occa
sion, such as has not been known before in the
State. The real democracy will be there, to take
the most effectual measures against the federal
usurpations of Mr. Van Buren. New York ad
heres toiler old Democratic Republican principles
and will "not be driven into the ultra-Federalism
of this Administration. From the days ot Geo.
Clinton to the present time, she has resisted the
encroachments of Executive power and the usur
pations of the Federal Government.—She will
continue to resist them, whether urged upon her
by Martin Van Buren or Thomas Ritchie. It is
no reason, because these gentlemen have aban
doned their principles and turned Federalists ,
the Democratic Republicans of New York or
V irginia should follow their example. In New
1 ork they will adhere to their old principles,
and will assemble in Convention at Syracuse to
re;ist the Federal aggressions as our fathers, as
sembled, in the time of the Revolution, to resist
[ the Stamp Act and the Tea Tax. I beg, there
fore, you will dismiss all apprehensions about
New York, and set down her 42 votes as the cap
ital on which Harrison will commence business;
and that I think is a pretty fair beginning for a
“ log cabin and hard-cider” candidate. I have de
voted my sell, for the last three years, to the re
form of the Administration; I have enlisted for
the war, and you may rest assured that I shall not
! stop till the final battle in November is fought
and won. That accomplished, and Harrison
elected, I shall feel that our country is safe, our
free institutions restored to their original purity,
and that we may once more enter upon a train
of uninterrupted prosperity. And I shall also
feel that I can say, with much greater propriety
than Mr. Van Buren said on another occasion,
‘ It is glory enough to have served under such a
chief.”
I have written a much longer letter than I in
tended when I commenced; but, having said this
much, I will add a little more, byway of giving
my estimate of the Presidential election. I have
taken great pains to get the most accurate infor
mation. I have not only consulted members of
Congress, but I have had a very extensive cor
icspondence throughout the Union. My sour
ces of information may be implicitly relied on ;
and I say to you, with the utmost, sincerity, that
in my judgement, General Harrison will be elec
ted by a more triumphant majority than General
Jackson received in his palmiest days. In writing
to you as a friend, I have not only no motive,
but no disposition, to mislead or exaggerate. I
give my estimate below, on which 1 place the
most implicit reliance, and sincerely believe the
result will fully justify it.
Harrison. Van Buren.
Massachusetts, 14.. .New Hampshire, ..7
Vermont,. 7.... South Carolina, ..II
Connecticut, 8. . . . Arkansas, 4
Rhode Island 4
New York 42 22
New Jersey 8 Doubtful
Pennsylvania, 30.. .Maine, 10
Delaware 3.... Mississippi, 4
Maryland, 10.. .Alabama, 7
Virginia, 23.. . Missouri, 4
North Carolina,.... 15
Georgia 11 25
Louisiana 5
Tennessee, 15
Kentucky, 15
Illinois 5
Indiana 9.
Ohio 21
Michigan, 3
Harrison, 248 V. Buren and d'btful 47
The whole number of electoral votes is 295
necessary to a choice 148. You will perceive,
then, that Harrison will have 100 votes beyond
the number requisite to elect him. I have given
Mr. Van Buren New Hampshire, which I know
wdl be a matter of complaint with our friends
there; for they have determined to make battle
in away to shake even the granite hills.
Perhaps I ought to make a similar apology in re
gard to Arkansas. I have also given him South
Carolina, which will go for him, unless by De
cember, when the vote is to be cast, Mr. Calhoun
shall think the interests of the country require it
to be given to a third man as heretofore ! Os the
25 doubtful votes, I think Harrison’s chance de
cidedly the best for a majority cf them ; and if
the tide of public sentiment continues to set as
strongly as it has done Mr. Van Buren, by No
vember next, will scarcely have a State that he
can call his own.
I look forward to the above result with the
most perfect confidence, and with the most pleas
ing anticipations. What a rebuke will it be of
the attempted usurpation of all the powers of this
Government, and the practical subversion of its
fundamental principles ! What a triumphant
restoration of the powers of Congress, when
freedom of thought and of action shall be once
more vouchsafed to the Representatives of the
People and of the States!
Excuse the haste with which I have written,
under the pressure of numerous engagements and
believe me very truly yours.
N. P. TALLMADGE.
St. Augustine, June 12.
Indian News.—Our excellent correspondents
at Black Creek, have put us in possession of in
telligence from Fort King to the Bth instant., 9
A. M.. which we give as follows :
‘On last Sunday week Col. Rivey ran down an
Indian in the Pine Woods, near the Wilhlacoo
chee ; a day or two afterwards he surprised an
Indian camp, consisting of warriors, 2 squaws,
and 4 children; they killed the2warriors and I
squaw, and took the rest prisoners. On Tues
day night last, one of the Indians made his escape,
owing to the sentinel going to sleep. One of
guard saw him running and fired at him, which
alarmed the whole camp—the other sentinels al
so fired. Capl. Mason was shot dead, either by
the Indians, or accidentally by his own men —
it is supposed that the latter was the case. He
1 was seen running after the Indian, and it is im
possible to ascertain who killed him.’
Capt. Mason, here mentioned, was a very res
pected inhabitant of Duval county, and was a
member of the House of Representatives in the
last Council. He has distinguished himself in
the late Ivors, and shared largely in the confi
dence of the public as a useful citizen and an ac
tive officer.
We learn further, that Col. Harney was to
! have left Fort King for Fort Melton, on the lO.h.
Capt. Bonneville had gone on a scout of twen
ty days, and taken Indian Tom with him. Tom
j was lo he sent out to bring in the Indians, but
doubts are expressed whether he ever returns.
We see from the above, that something is do
j i* l ? in the interior. Keep up constant scouts and
i success will follow. Successful Indian fighting
is an employment of unremitting activity, watch
fulness and peril.
A passenger in the schooner Stephen and
Francis, also arrived ye&terlay from St. Augus
j tine, stales that intelligence had been received
there that Col. Green, operating in Middle Fior
| ida, had come in contact with a parly of Indians,
I and succeeded in killing three warriors and a
: white man that was with them, and had also
captured several prisoners.— Charleston Cou
rier.
Population op Boston.—The official returns
of the Census just completed, under the author
ity of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
make the population of the city of Boston to he
83,979.
More than a Sign.—The Pitt.bur-f’
tutionahst, a Van Buren paper, has th f
ing remark about what he cads the C o !
at the Van Buren Convention at Baltir, 0 P ' r<llor »
‘ Richard M. Johnson is the choice
mocratic party in all the Slates where th ■ U
cratic party can succeed. If then , he
ted, neither can Martin Van Bukin
the assertion fellow citizens, and retnt /° r *
well when the ides of November arrive r> rit
Hale’s Prices Current. Mr. jj.p
active and enterprising proprietor of the \
Room, has issued the first number of a r, •* etv **
rent on a handsome letter sheet. H e . )ro nce CUr
puhlisi it early in the morning of the dr to
of each Liverpool packet-ship andofeach^? 1 11* 11 *
er. It will contain a comprehensive
our markets—a condensed abstract of j m W
news from all parts of the country— a ||
vals and clearances n the United State!
and to every foreign port —reports of stl „.u m
the rates of foreign and domestic *
many other matters of interest to the mer ?F
community. A work like this will be
to those of our merchants, who have an
sive foreign correspondence. The specime^ 8 *
fore us is beautifully got up on a thin and g[ l
letter paper. Two pages a.e devoted to the
ter-press, leaving one page for written corr!*
pondence.— \ ork Signal.
A postscript to the Philadelphia Inquirer t
Saturday last, contains the following extras ,
letter, dated Friday morning. 0 1
“ Both houses met at the hour to which th f
stood adjourned, when, after passing some n r i v ?
hills, they adjourned sine oie . This will .
doubt be received throughout the State as
news.”
We have still more gratifying news from Har.
nshurg. The Governor has signed the imp r0 v s
ment Bill—the tax bill, and the hill to pay n
interest on the State loans in specie, or it s ' C( J
valent. This is indeed gratifying, and m u «
cheer the heart of every true Pennsylvania!
The prospect is now brighter than it has been
for months.
We see by the Pittsburg Advocate of the 4th
instant, that the opponents of the present Admin
istration have, in convention, nominated Henri
M. Brackenridge, Esq., well known as a juj s ' e
and a writer of great vivacity and power, to fin
the vacancy to be occasioned in the House of R fp .
resentatives by the resignation of Mr. Biddle,and
William W. Irwin, Esq., now Mayor of Pittsburg,
to represent the same district in the next Con
gress. The selection is hailed as a very judicious
one.
Senator Henry Clay has accepted an invita
tion to a Public Dinner to he given to him in
Hanover, (his native county,) in Virginia, on the
27th instant. The acceptance of this invitation
will be most gratifying lo the friends of his youth
and their descendants, who have long pressed it
upon him.
A horse called Hard Cider won (he three mile
race at the Fredricksburg (Va.) races, in four
heats, taking the two last heats, and running the
last three miles in sm. 50s.—the best fourth heat
of three miles ever run in this country.
Discord in the Mediterranean Sq,cad-
ROJI - —H i* stated in the North American, on (he
authority of recent letters, “that five or six lieu
tenants and the surgeon of the squadron, having
been dismissed from it by Com. Hull, are nowon
their way to Washington lo represent their case
and obtain that reparation which its unusual and
aggravated nature demands. These gentlemen
are most accomplished and exemptary officers;
the principal cha-ge against them is their unwil
lingness to visit the ladies of the Commodores
family.”
Commerce —The editor of the Bahimore
American pays the following just compliment to
the commercial profession :
“ 1 he vocation to which we were bred was
commerce—the most refining, the most civilizing,
the most expanding in its influences, of any that
man pursues—if only it be worthily embraced and
followed up; and although in its vicissitudes it
made early shipwreck of our bright dreams, we
abate in nothing our estimate of its lofty and lib
eral tendencies.”
Strong writing.—The Lincoln, N. C.
Republican says, that “the Whigs are the most
corruptesi party under the eternal sun of Godi
heavens.”
From, the Body's Book.
The Widow’s Charge.
At her Daughter's Bridal.
BY MBS. LYDIA H. SIGOURNEY.
Deal gently thou, whose hand has won
The young bird from the nest away,
Where careless ’neatli a vernal sun
She gaily corroli’d day by day—
The haunt is lone, —the heart must grieve,
f rom tv hence her timid wing doth soar,
The pensive list, at hush of eve.
Yet hear the gushing song no move.
Deal gently with her, —thou art dear
Beyond what vestal lips have told,
And like a lamb, from fountains clear
She turns, confiding to the fold ;
She round thy sweet domestic bower,
The wreaths of changeless love shall twine,
Watch for thy step at vesper hour.
And blend her holiest prayer with thine.
Deal gently thou, when far away,
’Midst stranger scenes her foot shall rove,
Nor let thy tender cares decay,
The soul of woman lives in love ;
And should’st thou, wandering, mark a tear
Unconscious from her eyelid break.
Be pitiful and soothe the fear
That man’s strong heart can ne’er partake.
A mother yields her gem to thee,
On thy true bieast to sparkle rare—
She places ’neath thy household tree
The idol of her fondest r are ;
And by tliy turst to be forgiven,
When judgment wakes in terror wild,
By all thy treasur’d hopes of heaven,
Deal gently with the Widow’s child.
New Cumberland, (Pa.) June ].—An Incident.
—A laughable incident occurred in this county
some time since, the circumstances of which we
give as we got them from one who professed to
he acquainted with the transaction. .An old get*,
tleman farmer, who had two or three very
daughters, was so very cautious of his charge th*’
he would not permit them to keep the company o»
young men ; however, they adopted the following
expedient to enjoy the company of their locery
without the knowledge of the father. After the
old man had retired to rest, the girls would hang 3
sheet out of the window, which was quite a dis
tance from the ground, and the beau would sP !Ze
hold of the sheet, and, with the assistance of hi*
lady-love, who tugged lustily at the sheet afo'f
would thus gain an entrance ; but it so happened
that one evening the girls hung out Ihe sheet ra
ther too early—for the old gentleman, by some C
wind, was blown round tiie comer, and spying
sheet could not < onjecture the meaning of its t' el -
there —so he took hold and endeavored to pub
down; the girls above supposing it to be one
their beauxs, began to hoist, and did not disfO' f ‘
their mistake until the head of the old man
level with the windowsill; when one ol ty e
exclaimed “Ch! Lord !”—it’s Dad!” and
ting go the hold of the sheet, souse came thc°£
man on the hard ground and stones below di- I '-’,
ting one of his shoulders, whi* h convinced "
that his effort-' to rcak cold maids out ol his tD u Pj
ters was a mat er not -o easily acco > pli’-hcd,
withdrawing all imther oppo-it cn to their
ing company, he was soon a faiher-in lew— i i
man's Advocate.