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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 19.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesrr aa —the inflexible Republican —
the patriot Farmer of Ohio.
FOB VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
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 HAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
CHRISTOPHER B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
EZEKIEL WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
EOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
E. A. NISBET, of Bibb.
J. C. ALFORD, of Troup.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Haoersham.
T. B. KING, of Glynn.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumpter.
R. L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
T. F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
J. A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
The Convention.
We clip from the Georgia Journal of the 9th
Inst, the following notice of the great unanimity
which prevailed in the late Convention, it will be
recollected that the Editor of the Journal was a
Secretary to the Convention.
The nomination of Gen. Harrison by the Con
vention was made with a degree of unanimity
that, we must confess, astonished us not a little.
We did not think it possible, after the extraordi
nary efforts which have been made by gome of
our former political associates to prevent it, that
there would be but one voice heard in so large an
assembly, opposing this nomination, :and yet such
was the fact. When the vote was taken upon
the motion t« agree to the report of ithc Commit
tee to whom had been entrusted the selection of
Electors, but ONE, solitary NO ! wfas pronoun
ced in the hall. \
The correspondent of the Columbus
after mentioning that the committee- of 21 had
reported a ticket pledged to the support of Harri
son and Tyler observes:
The report was accepted with bull ONE DIS
SENTING VOICE ! !
Messrs. Colquitt, Cooper, and Black, have
announced themselves in the Constitutionalist of
yesterday morning, as candidates for Co ngress.
This is what we expected, and just as we anti
cipated and predicted, but the ruse won’t take;
ali their efforts to avoid seeming to seek a nomi
nation from the Van Buren party, will recoil
upon them as a small game.
The Central Bank.'!
This institution has advertised in ihe Milledge
villc papers, that it will loan out $750,000 —and
will commence the operation on the 1 Gth July
next. Our views of the propriety of th is meas
ure have already been given, and thinr accuracy
will soon be tested.
( Xj ’ The loco foco papers are making a great
hubbub because General Harrison has too much
sense to reply to their impudent aijul annoying
letters. When they undertook to pray the same
game with General Jackson, he ghve a similar
reply to that of General Harrison, and for the
same reasons. General Harrison’s opinions were
before the country in 1836, and havii undergone
no change. Why will not the loco foco papers
publich the following letter of General Jackson,
addressed by him to General Kay, of the Senate
of Indiana, in 18281—iV. Y. Cour. fr Enq.
Hermitage, Feb. |2B, 1828.
Sii—l have had the honor to receive your ex
cellency’s letter of the 30th ultimo, e-nclosing re
solutions of the Senate of Indiana, adopted, as it
appears, with a view of ascertaining my opin
ions on certain political topics.
The respect which I entertain for;the Execu
tive and Senate of the Stale, excludes from my
mind the idea that an unfriendly disposition dic
tated the interrogatories which ar*! proposed.
But I will confess my regret at being forced by
this sentiment to depart, in the sm>UUst degree,
from that determination on which I nave always
acted.
Not, sir, that I would wish to conceal my
opinions on any political or national subject;
but as they were in various ways promulgated in
1824, I am apprehensive that my appearance be
fore the public, at this time, may be attributed,
as has already been the case, to improper motives.
A N DRE W J ACKSON.
Going it too Strong. —The address of the
Van Buren Central Committee of Pennsylvania,
recently republished in the Loco-Foco press of
that State, is so well charged with destructive
doctrines and abuse of General Harrison, that
Alderman Hay, of Philadelphia, wh o is one of
the committee, refuses to endorse it, and has
withdrawn from it his signature. T he “Sentinel,”
of which Mr. Hay is editor, says of this Address:
—“ We dislike its spirit; and have no hesitation
in say'ing that some of its statement*- of facts are
not supported by evidence.”
Gov. Desha’s Opinion of General Harri
son.
The Baltimore Pilot says that an intelligent
gentleman of Maryland, who lately returned
from the West, has furnished the Editor with
the following interesting account of a conversa
tion held by him with the ex-Governor of Ken
tucky. It certainly is lime, that the false and
malicious charge of a want of personal courage,
against a man who has braved so many dangers,
and fought sira my successful battles, should be
done away with.
“ On the 28th May, 1840, on board the steam
boat Albany, while ascending thf Ohio river, ex-
Governor Desha, of Kentucky, thus addressed
himself to me, concerning Gen. William H.
Harrison, and he did so, in consequence of a re
mark made by me, “that the administration par
ty.—ceitainly their presses, were endeavoring to
j make it appear that General Harrison lacked per-
I sonal courage.”—“ This I know to be false. ” said !
the venerable and respected Governor, “because
on the 20th August, 1794, I first became acquain
ted with Generel Harrison, while he was acting
as aid-de-camp to General Wayne. I saw him
twice on that memorable day, exposed to the
briskest fire of the enemy,—the bullets flying
around him, and I saw nothing like cowardice or
trepidation. I saw him also at the battle of the
Thames, where I commanded the left wing. He
was exposed to imminent danger, and I again
saw nothing like cowardice or fear. —His course
and conduct at the battle of Tippecanoe, ought
to satisfy any and every one, that he lacks not
courage. I think him and know him to be, a
brave and good man.” &c.
What adds more force to the opinion of Gov
ernor Desha, is the well known fact, that he is
in favor of the present administration, and was
appointed by Mr. Poinsett one of the visiters to
West Point.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Canvass for the Presidency.
Another month has passed away, and we are ;
another month nearer the time of choosing the }
Electors of President and Vice President of the '
United States. The hour for action is at hand, j
That great changes have taken place all over the j
country, and in some parts of it to a most unex
pected extent, in favor of the cause of Harrison j
and Reform, w T e have already placed copious
evidence before our readers, and every day’s mail
adds to the amount of it. Rut much more may
yet be accomplished for the Whig cause, if those
who still stand aloof through a false notion of
consistency, or who hesitate between the two
sides, can be induced deliberately to look the
question in the face, and make up an opinion
from the operation of their sound judgment upon
the ground of their own personal interest involved
in its decision.
At this eventful' moment every voter in the
United Stales should ask and answer himself these
questions; What has Mr. Van Buren done since
he became President to entitle him to a re-elec
tion 1 And what has he done that ought to pre
vent his re-election 1
It is due to the times and to the occasion to
meet these questions in a spirit of candor, and to
answer them temperately, but in truth.
The starting point in these inquiries is the
condition of the country, bright and enviable as
we know' it to have been, when the predecessor
of Mr. Van Buren, with his full consent and ap
probation, “took the responsibility,” and began
to “experiment” upon the vitals of the Republic.
Passing rapidly from that point of lime to the
present, the state of affairs, as they exist now,
must be looked at, gloomy as it is, and, in view
of a continuation of the present order of things,
ill-omened in almost every respect that can con
cern a nation’s prosperity.
We challenge any one to show, within the
range of the diversified duties pertaining to the
Presidency, a single act of the present Adminis
tration, involving principles of any magnitude, or
consequences of any moment, that has lettered 1
the condition of the country in any one respect.
If that Administration were this day to close, the
faithful historian w r ould necessarily have a blank
page on the credit side of i account. Not only i
has not the present Administration done any i
thing positively good or praiseworthy, but it has !
deliberately re. js 1 to do good when the oppor
tunity was fair, and the means of doing it were
plain and obvious.
Never has a President come into power, as
Mr. Van Buren did, with m ans so ample, and
under circumstances so auspi ous lor a peaceful,
pro perous, and glorious administration; and nev
er were golden opportunities so recklessly disre
garded. Infatuated with the servitude of power
rather than animated with the lofty aspirations of
a public benefictor, he has sacrificed great inter
ests of this country to idolatry of his predecessor,
and to schemes for the perpetuation of the same
selfish influence by which he was himself brought
into power. He has, in a word, preferred the
fleeting fame of a cunning politician to the endu
during honors of a devotej patriot.
In the record of the acts of this Administra lon,
during the three years and a quarter of its exist
ence, we find no act that claims a country’s grati
tude, and nothing, therefore, on the score of ser
vice rendered, to entitle Mr. Van Buren to a re
ek ction.
Let us now look at the acts of the Administra
tion which are at war with the interests of he
country.
When Mr. Van Buren entered upon the high
and responsible duties of his station, as if under
the influence ol some strange sorcery, he yielded
to the impulse of mischief. Not only did he
withhold the fosteringhand it was his sacred duty
to extend, but he persisted in the war begun by
his “illustrious predecessor” against the growing
prosperity of the nation. And so perseveringly ‘
and relentlessly has he prosecuted this war upon I
the credit of the country, the current y of the
country, the business of the country, and the en- ;
terprise of the country, that they have all sue- I
cumbed, unable to contend successfully with an
adversary in whom they ought to have found a
protector, and are now threatened with the last ,
act that can bring them lower or scourge them ;
more—the thrice-condemned, thrice-rejected Sub- !
Treasury Scheme; The total disregard of the
popular will in forcing this odious measure upon
a resisting People, is one of the most daring out
rages upon the fundamental principles of Repub
lican government that has everViarked the con
duct of any public man since we have been a free
Pe»ple: and, should the measure receive the
sanction of law, (which now appears probable,)
then will it he proved how effectually the Execu
tive power has outgrown those checks which, in
the theory of the Constitution, are considered the
safeguards of our liberties.
Mr. \ an Buren has brought all the power of
the Government to his aid in carrying out a sys
tem (of which the Sub-Treasury scheme is de
signed to be the crov l.ig act) that proposes a to
tal revolution in the fiscal and financial operations
of the country; bearing ruinously upon every in
terest that yields revenue without oppression and
lays a stable foundation for the success of every
business, and secures a liberal rew r ard to honest
industry. This policy of his is avowedly a sys
tem of experiments. And mark how it has wor
ked ! It has beggared tne Treasury, which, when
Mr. an Buien came into office, he found over
flowing. and it has broken down more effectual
ly the thrift and spirit and enterprise of our whole
country than it was believed to be in the power
of man to accomplish, or within the compass of
legislation to effect.
In the midst of our country’s ruin, with cries of
distress reaching the Executive from every quar
ter, and ringing in his ears the pleadings" of the
People to save them from desperation, we see the
President stand unmoved upon the eminence of
his station, saying in effect to his fartt, “ Go
on to the accomplishment of my plans, cost what
they may! Let my will be done,though millions
sutler !”
Is it to be believed that, under the rule of a
President who thus exercises his official powers
much more with a view to the success of a party
than for the good ot the whole People, the coun
try can prosper! Give him another term ofser
vice, to perpetuate the power and the policy of
his parly, and the present generation can never
hope to see a return of those glorious times when
we were the happiest and the most prosperous
People that lived.
We call upon the People, therefore, one and
all, if they wish to raise up their drooping coun
try; if they wish to enjoy those rich blessings
which their Government, properly administered,
will always secure to them, to unite their efforts
to place the Executive power in the hands of a
faithful veteran and proved patriot, whose policy,
we all know and feel, will build up their broken
fortunes, and spread a refreshing influence over
the w hole face of their devoted country.
From the New Orleans Bee.
Important News from Mexico.
Campeachy. —The schooner Oceana , captain
Noel Padevani, arrived in this port last night,
having left Campeachy on the 3d June. The pa
pers of that city which we have received up to
the 30th May, give at full length the details of
the movements of the federalists, in the vicinity
of Campeachy, and the progress they are ma
king in the siege of that place.
Captain Padovani informed|Us, that the town
of Campeachy, after a bombardment of five days,
surrendered to the Federalists on the 2d June.
On the 3d, the victors were to enter the town
the government troops were to be despatched the
same day to Vera Cruz.
The Federalists intend marching upon Tobac
co, jwhere a great part of the population have
declared themselves in their favor. A detachment
of 400 men, garrisoned in Tobascc, had been
sent by the commander to reinforce the besieged;
| but before they had arrived at their destination
the order was countermanded.
Taxpico.—By the schooner Wetter, arrived
j in this port last night, from Tampico, we are in
i formed that the news of the capture of Campea
! chy had reached |tliat place, and that great en
thusiasm existed in favor of the cause of Federal
ism-1
Shortly after the arrival of the above schooners
the Br. steamer Arguile came in ports rom Vera
Cruz, which place she left on the 6th instant.
We have received papers from Mexico and Vera
Cruz up to the 27th May, which contain noth
ing important. We have also received by the
same arrival the following communication from
our correspondent:
Vera Cruz, June 5, 1840.
Messrs. Editors of the N. O. Bee.
Gentlemen, — A Mexican schooner escaped
from the blockade of the Federalists entered this
port last night and gave intelligence that, unless
Campeachy received assistance from the govern
ment, she would be obliged to capitulate on the
3d June. This news caused a great agitation in
our town, as the event will necessarily be pro
ductive of serious consequences on the coast. Al
ready rumor has announced that Tobasco was
blockaded by two Federal ships. From thence,
they will naturally proceed to Vera Cruz, where
they will find no opposition, the town and the
port being entirely unprovided with troops. It
is reported that the Federalists have a great ma
ny frie ids in this town and in Tampico.
This event will probably improve the commer
cial affairs. The law of 15 per cent, which has
paralized commerce so long, will undoubtedly be
repealed if the Federalists succeed in their plans.
The dissatisfaction against this measure is gener
al, and loud murmurs were daily heard against
i the government.
Nothing else interesting.
A Bad Business.
Mr. Proffit recently offered to prove to Con
gress, that purchases for the Florida War had
I been made at New Orleans, of articles for the use
of the army, amounting to over $500,000, and
that the very same articles were sold for $53,000,
and sold to the very same men of vohom they
xcert bought Amongst the items were the fol
lowing : Wood was bought at New Orleans and
delivered in Florida at a cost of $65 per cord.
There was plenty of wood to be had for the cut
ting within one mile of the camp. Sugar was
bought at 13 cents a pound and sold for 3 cents ;
coffee was bought at 18 cents a pound and sold
for 6 cents; corn was bought at $1 a bushel,
and sold for 7 cents !! Mr. Proffit offered to
prove this, all of which is derived from official
documents ! —and he asked for a committee, even
one favorable to the administration, to examine
into the subject. The Van Buren majority re-
I'USED TO GRANT IT !
I
The Crops. —The Richmond Compiler of
Friday says—
A gentleman who has travelled from some dis-
S tance above Lynchburg on the river to this place,
| taking the South side route, represents the crop
of wheat as very good. The lowland crops were
extremely fine, while in portions of those of the
uplands the bugs and fly had done some damage ;
but he thinks quite partial; with that exception
the highland wheat he represents as good.
An Amusing Incident. —Yesterday, when
the Rosalie was leaving port, a number of the
Whigs of the city went down to bid the delega
tions from the Upper Mississippi good bye. As
the boat put out from the shore, the citizens gave
three cheers. When they were through, a good
sturdy looking fellow, standing in the street, sung
j out solitary and alone, “Hui rah for Van Buren!”
I He had scarcely finished his hurrah when a big
dog jumped out and seized him by the leg. The
! fellow turned around, and with great humor ex
claimed—“ By George, it’s time for me to turn
when even the dogs bite me for hurrahing for
\an Buren.” Such peals of laughter as followed
tl.is expression, we have never heard on any
other occasion.— St, Louis Republican.
Want of Courtesy— A fault»of American
Women. —Miss Sedgwick, in a recent produc
tion, intimates that a want of courtesy is the
“most striking and prevailing defect in the man
ners of the Americans.” We presume she means
American women —atleasther specifications point
that way—as thus :
I have often seen men in steamboats, in stage
coaches, in churches, and other public meetings,
rise and give their seals to women, and the wo
men seat themselves quietly without a look or
word of ackowledgment. And so with a thou
sand other attentions which are rendered, and
received without any return. Avoid such dis
courtesy, my young friends—it is net only dis
pleasing, but unjust. We actually owe some re
turn for such civilities, and a courteous acceptance
is, in most cases, the only one .hat can be made.
These little chance courtesies are smiles on the
face of manners, and smiles are like sunshine, we
can scarcely have too much of eiiher.”
If this want of courtesy is really a characteris
tic of American women—and we cannot dispute
Miss Sedgwick’s authority, who is one of them,
it is, we are persuaded, a fault not of disposition
but of manner. Having made this comment, we
submit the matter to the consideration of those con
cerned.
A Fair Hoax.—A Belgian painter lately sent
as his own, one of Rubens’ pictures to the Royal
Exhibition in Paris, and it was refused admis
sion.
From the New York Spirit of the Times.
A South Carolina Training.
Frog Level, April 10, 1840,
In the bosom of that beautiful valley which
receives the sparkling waters of Oolanoy, the
scene of the following sketch is laid; no spot
on earth can be more enchanting. The majes
tic Table Rock, rearing its bald front on your left,
as if fawning upon the occupants of the world
below—the variegated peaks of a thousand moun
tains, which do homage to his greatness—and the
undulations of the beautiful valley dotted with
cottages, and fields of waving corn, present a
tableau as enchanting as the valley of Kasselas.
Had I the pencil of a Claude, with what enthusi
asm would I dwell upon the picture; but it
would be murde.* for an unskillful artist to soil its
beauties. Nor is it my province to deal in the
romantic —I skim the surface of life, and give
thee the men and manners of the time—l belong
to the school of Hogarth.
It was a melting day in August, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and—
when tight breeches were all the fashions, that I
chanced to “ drop in” upon the muster-ground
of the Pumpkintown Particulars. Hitching the
Black Dwarf to a black Gam, and twisting a few
of the V irginia weed into my mouth, I sauntered
up to the scene of action. In the space of a few
years the mlitiary had experienced a complete
revolution—an entire re-organization had taken
place—new laws, new boundaries, new books,
and new officers had come into existence like ma
gic. Many a poor devil who had never dreamt
of ambition, woke up and found two epauletts
upon his shoulders, and a system of tactics in his
hands, about the uses of which he knew quite as
much as the “ Boston Notion” knew about the
forthcoming Nos. of “ Marraaduke Myddleton.”
The new notions of the day had even invaded
the sanctity of Pumpkintown. New boundaries
had been drawn for the beat, new officers elected
and books prescribed. No longer would Jim
Adel’s old chapeau, which was more like an in
vented side saddle of ’76 than any earthly appur
tenance, be an heirloom to the company. Their
kingdom had passed away.
But I said it was a melting day—yes, a man’s
lip’s would fiz when they touched the bubbling
fountain —but no matter, hot or gold, men had to
do their duty; the new Colonel had come up to
drill the boys and make a speech. Well, the
Col. spoke to the Captain, the Captain spoke to
the orderly, and the orderly, a frisky little black
eyed, dark-skinned fellow, in a green frock and
nankeen tights began.
“Oh yes !—oh, yes All you what belongs
to Captain Alsop’s company parade.”
And a motely crew they were; there might be
seen many a stalwart mountaineer, six feet two
inches, with a coon skin cap, and tail flying in
the wind, set carelessly on his head, copperas hun
ting shirt and trowsers, his feet pinned into moc
casins, and his trusty rifle thrown carelessly across
his arm, a facsimile of Joe Powell’s *• bone and
sinew of the Stale and there were all manner
of forms and uniforms, and feathers, and sayings
and doings, that characterize a peculiar and ori
ginal people.
“ Fall in men, fall in, tallest men to the right;
step up there Jo. Gaskin, close to that Chesnut
—you next, Jim Hoxey come up men—look
sharp ! face to the right and order arms—stick
to the corn row—theie now, that’ll do—how you
come it! Front face—where in the hell arc you
men looking to the left! you call that front!
turn to me, I’m front—there now.”
Keep cool, orderly,” cries Jo. Gaskin, “its
mighty hot—you mout fry up sich a day as this.”
“You be d—d, mind your business. Jo., and
keep them men dressed on the right.”
“ Who’s to take care of the left, orderly !”
“ Let it take care of itself—it’s always wrong
any how. Now when Isay in two ranks form
company—th© 2d sergeant, you Tom Billet, and
Josh Wise, there the next man, will hold fast,
and all the other fellows as they come up will
drap in you—each rar rank man kivering his file
leader. Now, then—in two ranks form compa
ny—march!—Hold fast there, Tom Wise!—
didn’t I tell you! Hello there, Bill Griffin,
keich a hold o’them d———d jackasses and fix’
era right.” Whereupon Bill took hold and jerk
ed them into place in less than no time, one
by one, as they came up. “ There, now,” says
Bill. “And it’s very strange, boys, you have to
be pulled in every lime,” fays the orderly.
“We don’t like the work, orderly—the gear
an’t right,” cries Jake Reese. “ Silence, men !”
cries the orderly, and the orderly spoke to the
Captain, and the captain came to the front and
cries, “ Officers Post!” whereupon every son of
a gun scampered off behind the rear rank, to lay
down in the shade of the Chesnut.
Capt. Alsop was a man of vast dimensions—
a blooming personification of Jack Falstaff’s
figure—with a propensity to take on fat like a
Durham short-horn and to perspire like a cler
gyman’s mare in dog days. He was a jolly soul,
and loved his still beer and potatoes (with now
and then a leetle brandy) far better than the mil
itary, but his great ambition set him on. Ima
gine such a person cased in a thick blue coat,
with large plated buttons, begirt with a strap of
brown leather of huge circumference, from
which was suspended a rusty broadsword, which
looked as if it had followed the captaincy since
Adam was a boy, a blue stock round his neck, a
striped homespun jacket, his nether extremities
thrust into a pair of linen trowsers, all overshad
dowed by a hat of huge dimensions, whose
brownish front told a tale of better times, and
you have the tout ensemble of the greatest cap
tain of the age—Capt. Alsop, of the Pumpkin
town Particulars.
“ ’Tenlion, company—shoulder arms-rar rank
open Older—Sargeant’sstep back—march, march
back men.”
“ Look sharp, boys,” whispered the orderly,
“ hold up your heads, something’s to be done !”
“ Right, dress !—All you men that hasn’t guns
had better bring ’em next time, or I’ll be obliged
to notice it.”
“Supposa we can’t get ’em, Cap,” says half a
dozen fellows, “wbat then !”
“ Why, do without that’s all. ’Tenlion, close
order, march—halt! ’tention—by platoons, right
wheel, (wait for the word men;) march—stop
there, boys, I believe I’ve commitled a slight
mistake—as you were! Tell off—well, Jo Gy
ton, are left of the Ist platoon, and Jim McCosh |
right of the 2d. Now then, platoons right wheel
---halt, dress !”
** Dress where, Captain 1” says Jo Gyton.
“ Why—oh, left dress—what am I thinking
about!”
“ Very well, boys—very well!” At this mo
ment two or three boys appeared in front with
game cocks in their hands for a fight—cocka
dooledoo!
“ Put up them chickens, boys—no fighting
till muster’s over. ’Tention, men. Right into
line, wheel, march—halt, dress.”
“ We’re wrong, Captain,” says Jo Gyton, “ I
ought to be in yonder.”
“ Well, that you might expect by paying no
attention to my instructions. About face !” and
the about face threw Tom Diggins and Dick
Williams to the front, each with a game|cock in
hand pecking away.
“ Damn it, boys put them chickens under a
barrel—no fighting, didn’t I tell you, till the
muster’s over ” —and away went Dick and Tom.
“ Well, I believe we’re right now.”
“No we aint, Captain, we’re wronger than
ever.”
“ Well, let it stay so, it only make it worse to
try. Now show the Colonel how we can mus
ter in a straight line—company, front!”
“ Stand straight in line,” says Jo Hoxie.
And away they went, harum skarum over the
field, in every sort of a line in trigonometry. At
length a fence came afoul of the left flank of the
company, and the captain was taken all in a
heap—a moment’s reflection and he cried out,
“defining bis position” by the motion of his
hands and body at the same time—
“ Ease round here —ease round here—now you
come it!”
“ Hello there. Captain,” cries the Col. “where
did you get that idee ?”
“ [ give it up, sir,” says Alsop, “it’s all my
fault.”
“ Well, I said give it up,” says 8.1 l Griffin.
“ And didn’t I say straight line,” says Jo.
By this time the captain began to puff and
blow bravely—“ silence in rank, boys.” The
oil of life finding its way out of ever}' pore in the
system, had “insinuated” the blue slock, and
tracing its course down the shirt-bosom, made a
perfect calico concern of Alsop’s linen. The
linen inexpressibles even exhibited traces of the
fluid, and it was evident that the captain would
soon fling away the blue slock, or the blue stock
w'ould convert the captain.
At this juncture up came the Col.; Alsop
puffing off steam, and tipping his hat said, “ if
you have no objections, Colonel, I would be glad
you would drill awhile; I’d like to take off my
coat and cool awhile, ’ and, suiting the action to
the word, he threw off the old blue, and retired
to the right.
Col. Keel was a strapping six-footer, as broad
between the shoulders as Hercules, and long in
the arms as a “ Rang a Tang,”—dark complex
ion, and a foxey, grey and red, bushy coat of
hair—a hat which looked as though it had fought
through the floods and fields of manv years, and
a broad-tailed linen coat and copperas trousers,
and you have an idi a.
He began. “Feller officers and sojers of the
Pumkin-town Particulars—hem ! This is the
first time I’ve been toyour muster since I’ve been
elected, but don’t think’twas cause I didn’t like
to come here. Ido like to come here, for—hem!
this is my old stomping ground, and you all
went for me for colonel. Well, I’m but an igno
rant farmer, and most of you could know as
much as me if you’d try', but—hero! as I was
saying, I’ve come here to drill you a bit, and I
arn’t gwine to keep you out long if you do right
smart. I tell you,”—another cock crowed in
ranks—“ boys you better pul them chickens un
der a barrel, you’ll soon be brought to a stand with
so many cocks in ranks.”
“ Hurrah, colonel, it’s Jim Dillet here, a d—n
e—n of a bitch, its jist his nateral crow,”
“ ’Tention—as I told you, men, the main
thing is attention—you can’t learn no bow with
out it in mustering—you can’t succeed in any
business without attention—l don’t care if its
fishing. Well, now, the main thing is to learn
the fust thing fust—you must learn to march
fust. ’Taint no use trying to do without it.
Capt. Alsop, fling your company into squads,
we’ll drill awhile—hem! there now—you Capt.
take that squad; Ist lieutenant, another; 2d,
another; ensign, anolher. Well, go ahead now,
and try the wheelings and turnings and march
ings; and away they went, marching and coun
termarching, after no other mode or manner of
tactics but that of the Pumkintown Particulars.
The 2d lieutenant—a very conceited fellow—
in his estimation could do wonders; but he had
an unfortunate knack of calling things by the
wrong names—for instance, he always said for
squad, squadron, which never failed to raise a
laugh.
“ Boys,” says he, “ have I said squadron this
morning I”
“ Well you haint,” says Bill Muggin.
“ Well, tell me of it, if I do. You see, men,
I’m thinking of the horse—l ana. Well fellers,
you went that lock-step to a nal’s heel, just now
—hold up your heads, now—keep steady and
try it agin. Right face!—March !—(I ought to
said by right flank, fust, but its too late now—
never cry for spilt milk) —file right!—very well.
Right wheel !— no, no, — file right! —there's the
colonel, now show him a turn; we’re giving them
other squads hell, I tell you ; just laying ’em in
the cool. Pention, heads up !—now you come,
we’ll file right round the colonel. Take care,
Jim Gaskins—d—n your long le_-, don’t step so
far—now, (rising tip-toe) squadron—right
turn !”
“By b—ll you said it,” cried Bill Muggins—
j and the whole rank was in confusion.
“ Hid 11” said the enraged lieutenant.
“ Well, you did.”
Well, d—n that ran I wish it was out of the
Alphabet. Right dress ! Halt! Hello!—How
in the devil’s all this—you’ve got mixed up so—
there’s two or three rar ranks.”
“All right, captain,” says Bill Wiggins, “I’m
jist kivering two,”
“ Well I think kivering one’s as much as you
could do such a day as this, Right wheel!—
countermarch !—hah ! D—n it, as you were,
take your places men.”
“ I say, Lefty,” cried Bill Muggins, “ you put
your foot in it agin.”
“ Silence, men. Dress!”
The Col. took charge of the squad, and march
ed it up to the big chestnut. The other squads
followed the example—they formed line and rest.
The Col. came to the front—“ Attention, com
pany !—front faces!—heads up! Well,’fore I
go any further, and fear I mougbt forget it, my
neighbor Jim Slades* old Killbuck, the best deer , t
dog in the county—[that’s a d—n lie, whispered ~
fifty voices, my dog can lay it on] —and as we
can t do without him no how, if any of you has
heard of him being tuck up, I’d be glad you’d let
me know it, ’fore I leave. Well men. you’ve
done very well to-day ; but when I say well, don’t
understand me to mean so well that you can’t do
better. Keep a striking, that’s my rule, and
you’ll make a crop some time. I hope your cap
tain will now take you up to the wagons, and
treat you to as much gungers and liquor as you
can drink, and all you that have wives may find
them, when you go home, in a good humor, and
you that have sweethearts find ’em wanting
courting. Captain dismiss your company. Capt.
Alsop—’tention!—shoulder arms!—about face!
Dismissed till next muster day.”
PHIL GILDER.
“Ah, Eliza!” said a puritan preacher to a
young lady, who had just been making her hair
into ringlets. ‘Ah, Eiiza ! had God intended
your locks to be curled, he would have curled
them lor you.’ “ When I was an infant,” re
turned the damsel, “he did : but now I am grown
up he thinks I am able to do it myself.”
Calhojx’s Portrait or Vas Burex.—Cal
houn the main prop of the administation, expres
sed the following opinion of his friend , Martin
Van Buren; •He was not one of the race of
the lion or the tiger ; he belonged to the lower
order—the FOX and theWEAZEL; and it
would be vain to expect that could command the
respect or acquire the confidence of those who
had so little admiration of the qualities by which
he was distinguished.’
SIXGULAH F REAR OF NaTURE. A Calf is nOW
living on the farm of Peter Sprinkle, Esq. of
I azevvel county which may he ranked among the
curiosities of the age. It has eyes and ears like
an elephant; breast and forequarters like a horse;
rump like a buffalo ; hair curled ; tail like an elk;
short hind quarters like a bear; its back is so
short that there is not more than the width of a
band between the shoulder and the hip. The
calf is about six or seven weeks old.— lll. State
Reg.
As most persons doubt the story published
some times since, in some of the papen, about
a tom, or male turkey, performing the duties of
the female or hen turkey, so called, by setting;
they may now witness the fact by calling at th e
house of Mr. Benjamin Bowen, in N Ir ,u c ’
vidence, where the old fellow mav be fr j ' i
ting on fifteen hen eggs, and is now on Kw***
and last week. Two years ago, the S1
j turkey, hatched a brood of chickens, and T
j seven to full maturity. —Providence Jour^f*
I.VTERESTIXG AX FC DOTE At the It
Buren meeting in Philadelphia, Mr. D*-*
the course of his remarks undertook to i, **’ ‘ n
General Harrison, as a black cockade fed > ! >Unc *
and shortly afterwards as the Philadelphia S* 5
says: “byway of illustrating whit he n
such an animal, we presume, turned an.l i!! nt b ? I
! fed Mr. Richard Rush, the first man p- u '
delphia that ivore the black cock a. d* , ,
| dience.” ’ lo lh « a u .
Tulips.—The London Courier savs-
Mr. Groom, her Majesty’s florist at \V I
has recently commenced exhibiting V: a w ° n^
I disp'ay of tulips, of which the pre-ent !* i annUßl
fers a collection of 10,000 different °‘‘
: Amongst these are two valuable sorts hr h"* *’
unknown, and which Mr. Groom, who
them, names “Prince Albert” and •‘Xourri'
fendi,” The value of each of these sorts i i- ** !
I hundred guineas. s ° nt
The law of love.—ln 1C47, the
Court of Massachusetts enacted, that if i
y( ung man attempt to address any youns Wo * D7
without the consent of her parents*, or,
, their absence, of a neighboring magistrate ofV
County Court, he should be fined £5 for the fi-*
offence, £lO for the second, and imprisonrJ'l
for the third. In 1660, Capt. D. Blake wasfi n 2
the first named sum, bullet off for £4,conditio* 3
ally, “for making love to Edmund Bridge’s daugh'
ter, without her parents consent,”
A New Dbixk.—A letter from New Orleans
published in the Baltimore Patriot, says—
have got up a new drink in this city, called *Ti
and P > ’ which is made of pounded ice, best New
ark cider, sugar and lemon peal, with a spring
ling of nutmeg. Report says that our locofoco
friends are getting fond of it—it cant hurt them’
“ What do you do for a living 1” asked a baker
of a loafer in rags. “lam ot the same profession
; as yourself,” answered Peter, “ for I need bread.’’
MARRIED.
In this city, on the 7th instant, bv the P.ev Mr
Cunningham, R. W. K. Monroe, of Monroe'counlr’
Geo., to Miss Sarah S. Ames.
MARINE INTEELIGENCfT
aStaxnah, June 16.
Cleared. —Br bark Henry Laird, New Bruns
wick ; Fnmkiin Green, Smith, Providence ■
schr Daty Chase, Thomas, Boston.
Went to Sea.. —Schr Daty Chase, Thomas Bos
ton.
Charleston, June IS.
Arrived yesterday. —U L brig George, Hull, New
York; Schr Olivia, Virginia, Rolling Fredericks
burg, (Va.)
Cleared. —Ship Benj. Morgan, Johnson, Liver
pool.
(Vent to Sea yerterday. —Brig Alexander, Rauch,
Africa.
PROSPECTUS OF
THE REFORMER.
The undersigned propose to publish in Augusta,
Ga. a weekly paper, to be entitled The Rf.formes,
extra imperial size, from the 10th of May to
the 10th of November next, for One Dollar in
advance. As its name indicates, it will be devoted
exclusively to the cause of Reform, the election
of WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, of Ohio,for
President, and JOHN TYI.ER, of Virginia, for
Vice President, and the subversion of the present
Administration, —the necessity of relorm in which
is becoming every day more and more apparent.—
It will observe a mild, dignified tone, and address
itself to the common sense of every class of citi
zens, for whose benefit it is designed.
This Prospectus is issued under the impression
that the friends of reform will make a united and
zealous effort to give the paper a general circula
tion, in short to send it to the house of every nun
who reads. The People want light, and if our
friends will aid us in our work, we shall be able to
counteract the thousand calumnies of the Van
Buren presses, and carry the “war into Africa.
In the language of a distinguished co-worker, “All
we ask is to be heard by the people. It is for
them we speak, and if we can get a hearing, we
have no fears of the result,” even in Georgia.-
“The people will vindicate their wrongs, and hut*
their oppressors from office.”
We ask the press throughout this and the ad
joining States, to insert our Prospectus,and we
especially invoke the friends of the cause to be
vigilant in procuring subscribers and forward their
names by mail as early as possible.
fk The paper will contain nothing but leading mat
ter, being entirely free from all advertisements,
and is placed at so low a price as to bring it within
the means of every man.
TERMS.
Sinjle copy, - - $1 00
Six copies, - -- -- -- -- 500
Twelve copies, - -- -- -- 10 00
Clubs of twenty-five, - - - - -20 00
Clubs of fifty, - -- -- -- -37 50
CTj No P a per will be sent, unless the cash ac
companies the order. All letters must! e postpaid-
J. W. k W. S. JONES-
Augusta, 29th April, 1840.
A CARD. —In crossing the Savannah river in
the ferry boat from Hamburg to Augusta,on Satur
day afternoon, May 30, I threw (by permission)
my blue broadcloth cloak into the one horse wairon
of an individual, who, with his wife and a sm all
child, was crossing at tae same time. The wife
knew of the fact, for it was to her I addressed
myself. When I arrived at Hie landing, I came off
leaving my' cloak, which was carried off by the
individuals aduded to. The lady, if I mistake not,
told me they were moving from South Carolina to
the western part of this Stale, (Georgia). If anr
kind friend could give me the clue to their names*
or the place to which they were travelling, so th*'*
I may obtain my valuable cloak, he would confet
a favor upon one who at limes is too forgetful for
his own interest. JAMES SEWELL,
june 7 __
DR. MONROE, Surgeon Dentist.
Office on Washington street, near Ellis, residence
at the house lately occupied by Mrs. Savage
april 20
CfDr. GARDNER, formerly resident sunteon
n the New York Hospital, and physician at helie
vue Hospital, New Y’ork, tenders to the public nis
professional services. .
Office in Washington street, between Broad ana
Ellis streets Residence, United States Hotel,
ap 2
Kr Br. WM. FLINT, member f the Massa
chusetts Medical Society, would inform his trier-.'
that he has removed his place of residence to the
boarding-house of Mrs. Camtield, at the corner o
Jackson and Broad streets, where he may bo
at all hours during the summer season. His pro
fessional sei vices are respectfully tendered to t
citizens of Augusta. tf—june
(rj> EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK —At sight,
and at one to twenty days sight. For sale by
nov 23 GARDELLE & KHIM^.
$y~W. G. NIMMO, Genera) Commission -*de f '
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door toJ !
Con-stitutionalist. no ' 1