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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 2% FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican— the patriotic Fanner of Ohio. FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN T YLE R, Os Virginia; ‘ A State Rights Republican of the school of ’93— one of Virginia’s noblest sons, an ft r one of America’s mac* - •m --patriot : -or oas oi tr, id;, .t vnii vt:: r, " f Cm i .CAMP , 0 f Muvcogee. j JOEL CRAWF mr)) cr Hancock . ' CHARLES jxJUGHKU i V, of Citric. cv s Ts tV dwilu A Vb ItEW MILLER, of Cass. ' V [ILIA.M EZZaRD, of DeKalb. * . 13. STRONG, of Bibb. JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke. E. WIMBERLY, of T -viggs. rett CONGRESS, WILLIAM C. DAWSON of Greene. R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham, JULIUS C. ALFORD, of 7 oi p Ei DENIES A. NISBET, of Bibb. iO T : •, oi I i. 1R MA 11 1 ..E iNG, of Glynn, i JuEK L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam. THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee. Governor Troup’s Letter. This letter, which we have had on file for publication for some lime, will be found in this day’s paper. The only opinion of Gov. Troup it contains new to us, (for we have long known he was the advocate ot the Sub-Treasury.) is» that the self-styled Democrats have occupied office “to st"n. and plunder” tile treasury of the country, and that he has as little confidence in the opposition. It will be observed by the careful reader, that the Governor charges the Van Burea party with having committed the act. while he only anticipates such a result from the opposition. Therefore, we have a certainty on the one hand, if the testimony of Gc\. Troup is valid, (and the self-styled Democrats admit its validity by heralding forth the document to the world,) that the Treasury will he “plundered”; while on the other hand, his fears, as he asserts, are the result of his want of confidence in the opponents of Mr. Van Buren. It is then, in the opinion of Gov, Troup, reduced to this simple slate of things: if Mr. Van Buren is the Treasury will he plundered, if they are to he judged by their former acts, —and if General Harrison is elected, his friends may do the same, for he has no confidence in them ; or, the Van Buren office holders I know will “steal and plunder,” and I believe the Whigs will. Hon. E. J. Black. We invite the attention of our readers to the article which we copy from the “Southern Re corder,” addressed to Edward J. Black, Esq., by “Your Constituents.” From the National Intelligencer. • A writer in the Boston Courier, who seems to understand very well what he is about, is expos ing the projects, pretences, and contrivances of Ihe dominant party, during the last seven years, in reference to the Banks and Currency, and show's conclusively that the indefinite Multiplica tion of Banks was a leading trait iu the policy of the last Administration, when its sun was *n the zenith. We quote from the essay of this writer the following; “The Globe of December, 1833, cxultiagty says, ‘ The new coalition have labored in vain. ‘ Every Western State, though foiled, [by whom: J ‘is about to establish a State Bank institution.’ The Louisville Herald says : * There is everv probability that banks will be chartered in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, and efforts will be made in Kentucky to charter not only ajSlate Bank with four or five branches, but several in dependent Banks.’ And the Globe, after copy ing these extracts with approbation, adds : Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Kentucy, are resolved to take care of themselves, and, no longer depend on the kind guardianship of Biddle, Clay. £■: Co.’ Immediately Ohio and evey other Administra tion Stale created numerous banks, and now, for sooth, they ‘ have always been opposed to them.’ I need not add, that, when Gen. Jackson refused to renew the charter of the United States Bank, he modestly told Congress that if they had con sulted him, he could have given them a plan of a bank that would have been just the thing. It is well known to the party that Gen. Jackson pre ferred a ?*ational Bank, and would have propo sed one, but the partisan banks' set in, and de manded the public money, and he had to yield.” From the New Orl ans Lee. General Lytle’s Testimony. The late Gen. R. T. Lytle, who died recently in this'-erty, and who was well known as a very prominent and popular member of the Van Buren party in Ohio, was as honorable and high minded in private life as he was ardent in espous ing the doctiines of the administration. In 1835, he delivered a speech at Hamilton, shortly after General Harrison had been brought out as the opposition candidate for the Presidency. He spoke of Harrison, of his acquaintance with him, and of their living in the same county. “But,” said Gen. Lytle, “were we as widely separated as the polls, I can neither be made to forget bis vir tues, nor withhold from him just commendation foe his many eminent services. Sir, I would be a traitor to my own nature, if I found myself capable of disparaging the claims of a public servant so eminent, so well-tried , and whose life has been a history of such usefulness and. gal lantry as that of General Hauuison. Rather than rob the temples of that time-worn and justly honored patriot of a single laurel, I would choose justice and gratitude to heap laurels on his brow.” What a contrast does this magnanimous acknowledgement form, to the systematic efforts made by nearly every Van Buren man in the country to blacken the reputation and tarnish the military glory that encircles that venerable hero! Correspondence of the Charleston Courier. Washingnon, June 23. We do not know precisely the terms of the arrangement made between our government and that of Great Britain, as to the Boundary ques tion ; but our proposition has been substantially accepted. Some modifications are required, but not of an essential character. I presume that in pursuance of this arrangement, the boundary will be explored and surveyed by a joint commis sion, and that an umpire will be selected to decide upon all points as to which the commissioners may disagree. In the House, Mr. Clifford, of Maine, offered a proposition, the object of which was to dis charge the Committee of the who l - c r ‘e So Treasury bill, on Friday, ice 2t»th i a slant, and ■ to make it the special i he House, till] ; disposed of The proposition got a -irocg v L 106 to 75, but it required-Minis. - tie is still prosecuted with as much pt ana tous dullness as ever. Mr. Cooper of Fa. and Mr. KcnketU Ray ner of N. C.sp •keyes •>rd *y In opposition to dtemeasure, and Mr. Ho!, le.oan of W. in its support. Many a e still desi* too.' of speaking, and will speak. The House sat lid nine o'clock last night, and duriag the jecuun der of the week will sit still Inter. The Fic;- unc of (he 2 Ist says -. —The Missis- i, iippt is at length failing.—Yesterday it declined j some two or three inches. Western produce j o nes in slowly ; and the broken state of the |, weather Has rent -<xi business here extreme!; j , lull during the latter part of the week. ! Freni i the Athens Banner. Laurens Co., Ga. May 16, 1840. ( Mr Dear Sir:— lt is a long time since I . have taken any part in President making.— , When Mr. Crawford was smitten by the hand of | Providence, I advised my Fiends at Washingion j to take up Mr. Macon. He was a plain Farmer of Revolutionary raedt, of sound common sense, - with great knowledge of men and things, and of | sufficient political experience to administer the - Government of the U. S. He could say no, , when it was fitting, and was no dealer in its. It i struck me it would do well for an experiment at least, and that if it succeeded, the people of the United States might contract a taste for such men, rather than for your well-trained and tho rough-bred Politicians. One thing would have been certain —you would have had no violations of the Constitution or other abuses to complain of, and the Government would have been known and Fit only in its salutary Constitutional action. But these were so many objections to him. If I failed in my second trial of President-ma- 1 king, surely you would not have me at this time of day to join in the cry of Loafers, Loco F-ocos, Shinplaslers, Log-cabin, Hard cider and the like —let those who have a fancy for such things set tle the matter among them—they who have the least to do with it. always excepting a fraction of the offiice-hunters, will be the better off'. As to the use ami abuse of my name in con nexion with the same office, all I have to say is, that if those who used it were genuine Slate Rights men, they had a right to use it, and were the only men who had—il they used it for the office, they were wrong—if they used it because they could not consistently vote for either ot the persons who were the only candidates for it, then they were right, and then they were thrice wel come to use and abuse it. I must confess theuso did give me some annoyance, but that was per sonal, and not worth a complaint; the abuse in a general sense, I had been used to, and therefore could bear with it, but in the sense which excited tour friendly indignation, it was indeed the most signal and hearttell gratification. The relation in which you have stood, and the warm feelings constantly manifested toward me, give you a claim to my poor political opinions, when you please to ask them, and you have them briefly, but frankly. What is called the Sub-treasury (if it means the dealing by the Government in gold and silver exclusively) I consider not only a Constitutional, but an extremely wise and very expedient meas ure. It ought never to have been a dealer in any thing else —at least such has been always my opinion. I thought the Constitution required it, and it seemed to me to be most unreasonable that a Government which was compelled to j*ay all its debts in gold and silver, should at the same time be compelled to receive any or every kind of pa per which might be called money in payment of debts due to itself. You would no doubt at this moment feel it somewhat comfortable and refresh ing to look upon a great dealer in gold and silver, a dealer without premium and without discount, and therefore without profit; dealing to the amount of many millions per annum, and to the amount of many thousands per diem, constantly receiving and as constantly paying out—the grat ification of the senses in such sad times, would be something, and the chance of a dime finding its way to your pocket, would be something more; but if this dealer so dealt, that we soon began to see we could command as many dimes as would do for our market money, we would feel we had derived a precious benefit by his dealing, and that indeed a blessing had fallen upon the coun try. If the dealer happened so to deal, as to sup ply constantly and uniformly, a small change cir culation, or pocket money sufficient for the every day wants and business of life; then, indeed, a new era would haveopered, which the past had never seen, which would be in glaring contrast with the present, and which the future would hail with thanks giving and praise, and the more joyously, as what was, will be no more, and what is, will be and must be forever, at least as long as the dealer lasts and deals in gold and silver ex clusively. Now if this can be accomplished by a great dealer, it is more likely to be accomplished by the Federal Government, than by any other agency we know any thing about. Ist, its dealings will be large enough. 2ndly, it will be to the same amount or nearly so, from year to year in times of peace, increasing gradually, perhaps in propor tion to an increasing population, and a conse quently increasing expenditure. 3rdly, paying and receiving equal amounts in equal times or nearly so, the small change circulation could ne ver be suddenly contracted or enlarged. I will not pretend to say what the amount of small change in circulation should be in such a coun try; it is sufficient, if it gave you only the change for a shin of beef, to the butcher, and a loaf ol bread to the Baker per diem. But it must neces sarily give a great deal more—perhaps all we want. Stating the average revenue and expendi ture at 20 millions, some 4 or 5 millions of spe cie will suffice to carry on the annual operation, the balance in the country, whether it be 40, 50 60 or 70 millions, will be left to sustain the pa per, which, whether it amounts to 120 or 210 millions, will be quite ample for all the demands of Trade and Commerce—perhaps quite eaough to satisfy the cravings of the most extravagant of the paper money-lovers. This paper will be so much the sounder than it would otherwise be, be cause instead of comparing paper, with paper, as you are now forced to do, you would compare it with an ever present standard of gold and sil ver. An additional and certain effec' of a mere ly metallic currency for Governmental purposes, would be the check it would furnish to the ex travagancies and aberrations of Government, an effect not to be lightly estimated. You perceive I am sanguine in my predictions of the salutary consequences of this much con demned measure of which you have a simple statement of my opinion or belief, without the argument. I supposed you asked no more; an argument on a financial subject, is not worth much; what would appear a good system on pa per, might turn out to be a bad one in practice, and an indifferent or objectionable one on paper, a very good one in practice, but an argument against a system founded on the dishonesty of mankind, is a very false one; men must carry in to effect systems; men must collect and men must disburse the public revenue, and it matters nothing whether that revenue be ot gold and stl ver or of paper. If indeed, the pan* 1 '- 1 ~o\ nr nothing, that is sufficient, security again . » eiv zlement; if equally good, it is more e • i, ; than gold and silver. Will it matter much it t: ■ 'm p. - n . collect and disburse, hap | *•!: to be Whigs or D emocrats 1 I have pretty much the sen..’ confidence in both ; THE Oi E SET HAVE BEEN ALREADY THERE fO ■S i lir Al* AN }J I' L < ND E K ; the ether kaVe vet Luiyiv. » i ron? this project to deal in gold and silver, I have never been able to c njecture ho v by a iy possibility, loss or -’etrime.: i can accrue to any body. 1« it true the mass of the community is so corrupt, that it is b illing to deal in nothing out bad paper, or do the politicians persuade them they wdi have a bank, the extinguisher of all oth er banks, whose paper wo' qua! to gold and silver • Instead o' loss or detriment, I 'eve seen no neonvenierce to result to any body, except, indeed, in .be first instance, to the merchant, to • i* will be a novel operation u » a tune, but lor a short time; if it costs bin more trouble and expense to be always ready to meet the Custom House deifwmd, he knows how charge that ex pense to his customer, and my word upon it, the consumer of his merchandiw will be the last one to complain, it he sees nothing in an insignificant •charge, but a redemption from evil suffering and a restoration to the comforts and enjoyments of life, to which, in every country, the pocket and travelling money in gold and silver coinage so eminently contribute. The very fraction of a per cent, charged by the merchant, for his trouble and expense of keeping gold and silver to answer occasional demands, will be more than repaid by the direct tendency of the operation to keep that gold and silver at home, which might otherwise go abroad—it will be by so much the more valu able at home, and therefore cannot leave the coun try. But enough—every body tires of this dry and hitherto unproducive subject. The Presi dent should long since have compelled his party to carry out the measure. Very sincerely and truly, G. M. TROUP. From the Milledgville Recorder. To Edward J. Black Esq, You hare recently published your circular to your constituents, to inform them that you have left the party who pul you into office; if you will examine the proceedings in the Convention of that parly, recently held, you will find that they have expressed as few regrets, as fears at your course. There is but little in your address wor thy of notice, but least you might think that you had been slighted, I have concluded to reply to some parts of it. You say thatyou cannot*up port Gen. Harrison, without a sacrifice of prin ciple ; that you can support Mr. Van Buren without doing so. In 1836 you said that if you did support Mr. Van Buren “you would have to change your principles: you now support him; Who has changed I—Have you any evidence that Mr. Van Buren has changed ? If not, then have you? You say that if the “ purest party on earth” shall be broken up, that the fatal blow was strick en at yourself, Cooper and Colquitt; by this, I understand you to say, that you three are identi fied in feeling and in action; unless they disclaim it, we shall believe it to be so. In 1836 you three were opposed to Mr. Van Buren—so was your j arty. In 1840 you support him—your party opposes him. Now if there is a difference between you and your party, your parly are as they were —you are not: who has stricken the blow ? Do you think that there is a child in Georgia ten years old, who has good sense, that docs not know that you have abandoned your party and sought to make them follow you. You know Tom Haynes:—(your unwavering support of him always made us doubt you,) when the Troup party quit him, he said the same thing that you now say for yourself and your other duo. I do not know whether you have been writing farce or tragedy. You say that you cannot sup port Gen. Harrison because he suppoited the Proclamation and Force Bill, and yet you can support Mr. Van Buren, who supported both. If you refuse to act with your party, and make those measures the pretext, can we believe you sincere, support another who holds the same principles? You say that if we take Gen. Har rison, we “ take with him, of course, his princi ples, and this among them.” Admit this posi tion to be true: is it not a bad rule which will not work both ways? You take Mr. Van Buren, “you take with him of course his principles” he supported the Proclamation and Force Bill—you do the same; he is a high tariff man—so are you ; he is a Missouri restrictionist—so are you ; he holds that Congress can abolish slavery in the District of Columbia—so do you. Now that you cannot support Harrison without a “sacrifice of principle,” I believe with you, for he was of posed to the Missouri restiction—he denies » Congress the right to abolish slaveiyin the D? trict of Columbia, and is in favor of the Ta< ■ compromise bill; thatyou did not differ with Gfc* Harrison on these points in 1836. Ido kno#- . That you differed with Mr. Van Buren, whditl advocate the principles I have ascribed to hi, I t likewise know, for I have your letter belorefrie, i pointing out that difference. With what sC of s countenance can ycu then charge your Irty L with striking the first blow at you, when r change your principles, and then endeavor to pull others after you. i You say that Gen. Harrison is a Fefalist, 1 and tell us what Mr. Randolph said abouhim ; r that matter is as well understood in the bafvoods s| of Georgia, as in Washington City, say i that Mr. Randolph charged him withbeiia sup s porter of the “ black cockade sedition la^dmin - islration of John Adams;” and you saturther, - that Gen. Harrison admitted all (hat wpharged ; against him. He did no such thing, ©denied r that he supported the alien and sedim laws, - and stated that he opposed them, hy then 1 have you so stated ? He admitted tb he sup -1 ported Mr. Adams on the French qstion—so - did Wm. H. Crawford, and you voi for him e for President, or else deceived your ends who •f elected you to Congress, in the bes that you ;- did. e You say that Gen. Harrison is ifcvor of ap - i- propriating money from the publiceasuary, for !- works of intern-d improvement; d, sir, so is i, Mr. Van Buren, and this you kne; —and you ), know further that six weeks have rpassed since l- [ his friends in the Senate voted arge' appropri- ation to the Cumberland Road, and if you had taken the trouble to look, (though I will not tax you with ignorance) you, would have seen that more money has been appropriated in one year by Mr. Van Buren for internal improvements, than was appropriated during the whole of Mr. Adams’ administration. But sir, you ought to have told the whole truth ; General Harrison con sents to such appropriations to “strictly national.” You say that you cannot vote for Gen. Harri son because he was in favor of the new treaty — you make him therefore a federalist; you say that Mr. Randolph is a Republican, and use him hy contrast, to make Gen. Harrison one. Now he voted with Gen. Harrison on that question—so did Mr. Benton, the leader of your party —so did Mr. Johnson the Vice President. Now you can not vote for Gen. Hanison on account of this vote, and yet you can vote for Richard M. John son. who voted the same way !—What consisten cy !!!! You talk about his belonging to an abolition society, and his wishing to sell white men into slavery, and all that retail s!an<r which t> worn out in Georgia,until even the ft vv, who would sus- | tain you, are ashamed to see them in prim. They j a»e t.ot wor’h noticing. You have the happiest disposition imaginable. I j ; cu have voted, you say, with the administra- | j ton because‘heir measures suited you. No doubt j lor that. V* hen you voted on the New Jersey , ! question, you did not enquire who were Whigs, |or Democrats—Oh ! no! the Democrats, were ; j against you f upon other questions, however, you 1 ( always made strict enquiry. ' *• "V that <t IP an is Kn »wn hy the company 1 he keeps. I think so too. 110 came you at j Blair’s party ? you and your duo were theie— an. the Van Buren Party w* rc there; whfat was the reason you colleagues v ere not there? You e y that Gen. Harrison »s a Federalist, because he ; is in company with four gentleman whose names you have mentioned. Now I have nc access to such, or as much information as yoi possess, and I I will not think of charging a Representative in Congress with ignorance,as to tne political } ar- i tie - and associates in the Union, or seek to give 'ii.n information, but I ran tell those who si ill rend what I ‘ray, a few farts, which will relieve you hvm in ’,i In U.o Stale of New York the three sung electors who voted for Mr. .!< dh >n, are tor Gen. Harrison, and against Mr. Van Buren. Os t e members of the Senate, of that State, who voied for Jefferson electors two only survive, Ambrose Spencer and General Wilkins, both are for Harrison. In the House of those who voted, likewise seven survive ; six are for Harrison, and one for Van Buren. What do you think of General Harrison from the char acter of his company. Who are Mr. Van Buren’s associates? Mr. Buchanan, a distinguished Federalist. Samuel Cushman, who “hoped to God that every Ameri can soldier who marched into Canada, would leave his bones there.” Henry Hubbard, Senator from New Hampshire, was foremost in getting delegates to the Hartford Convention. J. H. Prentiss, member from New York, who said, “if my humble labor in the cause of my native country, have produced the change in favor of federalism in this country, then have I arrived at the acme of my hopes—the summit of my wish es.” C. J. Ingersoll, who said he “would have been a tory” during the revolutionary war, if born then. Gen. D. Wall, Senator from New Jersey, who said in 1838, “here, sir, in the presence of the American people, I avow that I was a Fed eralist, and acted with that party zealously and actively, so long as their flag waved in New Jer sey.” R. Williams, Senator from Maine, was a Federalist, and helped to burn Mr. Madison in effigy. Levi Woodbury, elected Governor of New Hampshire, in 1823, by the vote of the Federal parlv. Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; Governor Kemble, J. C. Bradhead, Henry Vail, 11. D. Gilpin, Richard Rush, Mr. Bancroft, W. C. Bryan, Governor McDonald, Dr. Fort, of State-selling memory, and your “amemable Schley;” all known and avowed Feieralists. Mr. Van Buren is with these gentlmien. Is he known hy the company he keeps? You are in the same crowd ; are you not knowi by the company you keep? Your remark, if true, defines your position , and tells us how i is, you can support Mr. Van Buren, without a sacrifice of principle, but you could not do s» in 1836 ; and who has struck the first blow, yiurself or your party? Your party were againstthese men in 1836, and against them now. ifiou were once against them, but now you ar with them. Yoi tell us about a vote given on some reso lution of Mr. Calhoun, which you say recognize ourriht to our property. But where? notin the Ulited Slates, but elsewhere. You sav,that but o e whig from a non-slaveholding Slate voted fortbm; the rest absented themselves. Why did y>u not tell us, how many Van Buren men fromnor-slaveholding Slates voted for them, or abseiled themselves; and how many of both partie absented themselves and did not vote? Now;he principle embraced in the resolutions, nobo-y denied. Great Britain acknowledged and mid the ”alue of the negroes contained to the nip which put into her ports “under stress of ’eather.” She refused to pay for those metioned in the resolutions, because the vessel didiot put into her ports underslress of weather. Ncv the cause of going into the port was a mat te? of fact , to be settled hy evidence. Those Soatnrs who absented themselves, no doubt he lped that the vessel did not put in under stress c weather, but as the matter was in negociation iith the Br.tish Government, did not wish to rejudice the claim by voting against it and rerefore absented themselves. You, no doubt, new all this, and knowing it, should not have Misrepresented the facts as you have. You say that your party have assailed you.— This they had a right to do, and ought to have done, because you have abandoned them. The Union parly have for a long lime back, said they would withdraw three of their ticket, and place you and your duo upon it. If you you are State Rights men, you will ac quiesce in the nomination made by your party, as you insisted that those who were ballotted for when you were nominated, should do. If you have quit the party, you will either unite with, and run on the Union ticket, or permit your name to be put up to distract the State Rights’ party. Your constituents understand your po sition precisely, and will tre*?t. you accordingly. Vou think that the Stale Rights party will be minus several thousand votes, through the influ ence of you and your duo. You are mistaken ; you are mistaken in your strength, and we will show you that you are—your attempt at dicta tion notwithstanding. When you bring the Journals to Georgia, you will find out that you are not what you suppose yourself and duo to be. With great respect, YOUR CONSTITUENTS. The Globe says, that it “does not care to dis cuss the currency-question upon abstract princi ples.” If the office-holders do not, where the people’s money is concerned, go for abstract prin ciples, they certainly go for the principle of ab straction. — Louisville Jour. No wonder the office holders, we moan the pe culating tribe of them, and the office seekers , who desire a chance to peculate, are so invelerate ly opposed to General Harrison’s election. They know him honest, and therefore, they fear him they know him just, aud therefore they hate him. An old poet—“ Rare Old Ben”—has admirably described him and them, in these few lines. Coin. Rep. His strict hand. Was made to seize on vice with a gripe, Squeeze out the humor from those spongy natures, That suck up all our treasures ! “ Bril ishj Whigs.” Our Loco Foco friends as they grow more and more desperate, become more and more nonsensi cal and ridiculous. Having exhausted the voca bulary of abuse in finding names for their oppo nents, they have at last hit upon one which seems vastly to tickle their fancies. They call the Whigs, “British Whigs.” Now all must admit that the Locos are an ingenious set of fellows. They support Van Burcn who was opposed to fighting the “British” when they had committed gross aggressions on American rights, and de nounced as a “British Whig” Gen. Harrison who flogged these same British for their bad conduct. —Petersburg Intelligencer. The Sword and the Purse. Mr. Van Buren has been laboring for '-cars to force upon the country his Sub-T urv - heme. This scheme is still prosistcd in, not;vithstatufir.- it has been FOUH times rejected by the people; and the pr- T;yl* <b the partisans of the Executive, by the fraud practiced on the right of a sister St? te, wj" be enabled to rivit it upon the ! people. Tins bi'-i provides that the Receivers I General shall be appointed by the President, and I of course will be accountable to him alone.— 1 Thus Martin Van Buren will have the eiclu j sirs guardianship of the pc a tic n-nsr. j But the party m power have breached another , doctrine still more alarming, and pregnant with , GREATER HANGER to the LIBERT* Os the COCN : rar. We allude to \ art Bureu’s proposition tr. i establish A STAAJ) I\ G A RM Y, | Ur TIME OF PEACE. *he *i»ecreiarj of Wa s reported a pro; - sition to convert the whr !e of the Militia of the Un.on in’o a Standing A:in_ 1 r un the report, we gather the following facts : i “That every able-bodied white man between ' the ages of an 45, is to be enrolled, and each ; Mian js to PRt/ -HDU HIMSELF at his own exmnse, with arms and accoutrements, which will cost him from twelve to fifteen dollars, i That light companies are to be formed, who art to clothe and equip themselves at their own expense. That the active class (100,000,) are to have no officer higher than a major,—the superior officers to be taken from the regular army. That the annual deficit in the active class is to be supplied by DRAFT, if volunteers cannot be had. And that any militia man of the active class, who may be too poor to pay the fines assessed upon him, will be subject to IMPRISONMENT until the fines arc discharged !” Such, fellow citizens, is the MONSTROUS scheme that Van Buren wishes to force on the country. It will unite in him the SWORD AND THE PURSE !! Hear what Patrick Henry says; “Tell me when and where did Freedom exist when the SWORD and the PURSE were given up from the People. Unless a miracle in human affairs should interpose, no Nation ever did or ever can retain its Liberties after the loss of the sword and the purse. Gentlemen, depend upon it, this power may work sorely on your necks.” Trial of W. B.Dabnex.—Wm. B. Dabney was yesterday brought before the Examining Court, and after a short examination was sent on for further trial. He was acquitted of the charge of larceny. —Richmond Whig of Tues day. Genealogical.—Of the 52 Sovereigns of Eu rope, 12 are over 60 years old, and 49 over 40. At no period in the history of Europe were there so many female sovereigns as now, for there are no less than three Queens and one grand Duchess. There are five dethroned Sovereigns, two of whom, the Elector of Hesse and Louis Bonaparte —resigned of their own accord; the rest, viz: Joseph Bonaparte, Hieronysius Bonaparte, and Duke Charles of Brunswick, were sent offby the people. Besides these, there are four Pretenders, viz: the Duke of Bordeaux, Don Cailos, Don Miguel and Prince Wasa, of Sweden. Sin Walter Scott’s Monument.-—The height of the Scott monument, as designed, was intended to be 190 feet, but the funds collected will not warrant the committee to proceed with it upon a scale of more than 135 feet. A meet ing has taken place to consider the best means calculated to increase the funds to the amount necessary to complete the structure according to the original design.— Edinburgh Observer. Luxuries of Elizadeth’s Time.—Hollins hed writing in Elizabeth’s reign, talks of the in crease of luxury in England in several points, as expounded to him by “old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain.” These things were specially noted by these living chronicles. One was the multitude of chimneys lately erected— while formerly in ordinary dwellings the smoke spread through the rooms without let or hind rance, (as in the case of huts of the Irish peasan try to this day) and was supposed not only to harden the timbers of the house, but to be a pre servative of health. The second was the great amendment of lodging ; straw had been previous ly the material of the bed; and a good round log played the part of a bolster. If it were so that the father or the good man of the house had a mat trass or a dock bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, so well were they contented. “Pillows,” said they, “were thought meet only for women in childbed ; as for servants, if they had a sheet above them it was well, for seldom they had any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that oft ran through the canvas that raised their hardened hides.” From this old use of straw for beds comes the phrase of “the lady in the straw,” ap plied to a woman iu childbed. The third point was the change of tureen or wooden plates into pewter, and wooden spoons into silver or tin. Pewter plates long mantained their reputation for elegance, and did not yield to earthenware till the middle of the last century. —Medical Jour nal. I Beet sugar.—Recent experiments prove that sugar can be made from the beet cheaper than from the cane. The right kind of beets, proper ly cultivated, will produce 7 or 8 per cent, of good chrysialized sugar, at an expense of 4 cents per pound. Cane is a very uncertain crop, and rapidly exhausts the land, whilst a contrary effect is the result of the cultivation of the beet. Be sides the pulp of the beet, alter the saccharine matter has been pressed out, is excellent food for all kinds of cattle and for hogs, enabling a far mer to raise and fatten a much larger stock of animals for market than he could have done be fore he began the culture of the beet.—Phil adelphia Sentinel. The following good thing belongs, wc believe, to the New York Mercury, a paper full of fun and good humor : Stranger.—l say, friend, how far is it to Brook field. Boy.—Ten miles, sir. Stranger:—You must he mistaken. They told me a little ways back that it was only eight. Boy.—Well, sir, seeing its you, you may have it for that. But I wouldn’t let any body else have it so. Another revolutionary soldiv* „ Died at Caldwell, in this county, on ths o?*'" Jacob Kent, aged 87, a soldier'of the . , lnst - He was in several hard fought haul ev ° iut ‘on. it* •» O '* l 'dlUCB in I ved his country during the whole war M V*’ has probably left the most numerous not- 1 any person in the United States. S f ru ? °f by two wives 20 children, (IS of whom living with their families), 121 g ranf i ? e . n °» 126 great giand children, and I gnat er l , retl > child—making in ail 268 descendants* time of his doth. He always voted the d * ticket.— J\'ew Jersey Eagle. 1 Ccnocr atic Imperial-made Fools—lt was w e il u that during »he reign of Peter the First • the f that tyrant to punish those U I* 45 wh nde 1 him, by an imperial order sh Yd bt-.oin-; fouls ; from which moat * unlor’uiiatc victim, however endowed wt- ti)e eel, insfnuK fc -ame the laughing-stock 1 whole court. He had the privilege of sa ■ the thing hech at the peril, however, kickt i or horse- hipped, without darWu any sort of reti "on ; every thing he did ° ffer ridiculed, h.s ■. p aints treated as jests, and"? I sarcasms snetied. .* and commented on* as velous proof-: ofu islanding in a fold | Empress Ann ssed this abominable’cruel’, 6 but so n't nmes ,r. din her practices so n J { odii;»y that it w„ npossible not to be enter!. ° ■ . «crec< that a certain P r i nce g snoukl become a hen punish him for some ts fhng misdemeanor and, for this purpose u* ordered died with straw ’ ho! • a quantity of e l r!r s -!! (i nisly in one of ,u’ principal rooms at court The Prince was con* den sit upon this „ ’ tdegsee ridicuW »y imitating lie •••»•*Ung of a hen .-—Memohl ■ of i c Pr incus juaschkaw. COMMERCIAL^ Latest dates from Liverpool T ' Latest dates from Havre. " AUGUSTA MARKET ' Cotton. —The stock of Cotton for sale is trifli n » and daily diminishing; holders urs firm in their pre tensions, notwithstanding the late Liverpool ac counts per Great Western are unfavorable. One lot of square bales, quality fair to good fair sold yesterday at 9J cents; prices without change from the rates quoted in our last. Extremes 6a 9j cts for round. No choice in market on sale. The de mand is chiefly for northern account and remit tances. Groceries. —We have no change to notice. Th s market is generally well supplied with all the leading artkies, and prices are as low as the de ranged state of our currency and the exorbitant rates of exchange will allow. Freights —To Savannah, 50 cents per bale; to Charleston, by rail road, 25c per 100 lbs. for square, and 35c per 100 lbs. for round bales. Exchange. —On New-York, at sight, —a 11 per cent, for current funds ; Charleston at —a 3 per cent; Savannah 2£ per ct.; Philadelphia —a per ct.; Lexington,Ky. 4a 4£ perct.; Richmond 7 cent; specie commands 9 a 10 per cent, premium. Bank Notes. — Savannah Banks, 2 per cent, prcrri; Columbus Insurance B’k 6 “ “ “ Commercial Bank, Macon, 6 “ “ “ Mechanics’, “ (Augusta,) 8 “ “ « Agency Brunswick, “ 8 “ “ « Planters’ and Mechanics’ Bank; Columbus, 2£ “ « dis. Central Bank, —a. 6 u u i€ Milledgeville Bank, -a6 “ 11 “ Ocmulgee Bank, g « « Monroe Rail Road Bank, 6 “ « Hawkinsville Bank, 6 “ « Chattahoochie R. R. & B’k Company, Darien Bank, 20 “ “ “ Bank of Rome, 50 All other Banks now doing business, at par. Specie Paying Banks. — Mechanics’ Bank,lnsu rance Bank of Columbus, Commercial Bank of Ma con, and Brunswick Agency in this city. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Charleston, June 26. Arrived yesterday —Sp. schr Industria, Gomez, St Juan De Los Remedies. Cleared —ship Rob Roy, Marsh, Liverpool; Br barque Ninian Lindsay, Wilson, do. Went to sea yesterday —ship (Jceanus. Bourne, Antwerp; barque Brighton, ISott, St Peiertburg; U L brig Moses, Loveland, New York. In the offing —ship Craton, frorS New York. At Qua online —schr John Allyne, Hawes, from Kingston, Ja. Savannah, June 25. Cleared —ship Pactolus, Harding, New York; brig Jane, Fitzgerald, Baltimore. Arrived —steamboat. Cherokee, Gould, Augusta. Went to sea —biig Jane, i'iizegerald, Baltimore. 03* The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, of Mobile, will preach in the Presbyterian Church, this evening. Service to commence at 8 o’clock. Also, to-morrow morning, at o’clock. J 27 A CARD. —The Committee of Arrangements for the celebration of the Anniversary of 8t John the Bap: Ist, take pleasure in tendering-the thanks of the several Misonic Institutions in this city to their M. E. Companion Moses Holbrook, M. lM or his able and interesting Address, delivered on this occasion ; to the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, who assist ed in the services ; and to the Glee Club and Organ ist, for their efficient aid in the ceremonies. Also, to the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church,for the use of their house for this celebration. E. W. TOLMAN, Chairman. Augusta, June 25,5840. _____ XTW. G. NIMMO , Geneial Commission Mer chant, office on Mclntosh el reef, next door to the Constitutionalist. nov 7 THE READING KOOJI Attached to this office is open to subscribers, strangers introduced by them, every day and ere* cing (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock. Subscription .$5 ; for a firm of two or morejjj; (ff Dr. W. S. JONES tenders his professional servi es to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity- He may be found at his office, No. 214 Broad s or at his residence. United Stales Hotel. a l’ ** ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the estate of John B- Guedron, deceased, late of Richmond couatv, are requestadto make immediate payment to A. Caldwell, who is my authorized agent, and UiO? 0 holding claims against said estate, are required .o hand them in duly attested, within the lime pr f * scribed by law'. ELLEN GUEDRON, April 4, 1840. trwtf Administratrix^ VALUABLE SUMMER RESIDENCE} M FUR SALE. ..-nn That large two sloiy Building, with 1 i~=«-hi acres of Land attached, 300 acr ts * winch is tenable land, situated about 2ho from the Georgia Railroad, and immediately on _ State Road leading from Augusta to \N air^ n Y] and 27 miles from Augusta, known as s ' Place, writh a good well of w'ator, kitchen, sta ' -’ and out-buildings, suitable for private or tiansi business. The subscriber w ishing to seli uI _ other reason than for the benefit ol his bargain will be given by applying s<wn terms, apply' to JAMES KIHKPAIRICR, the premises to the subscriber. J- VV . BRA >IC 24 • “■' m