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„MCI.B AND SENTINEL.
AUGUSTA.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 29.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY” HARRISON,
Os Ohio; |
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican —
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN T ILER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons., and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. ;
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogeej
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock. k
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark, t
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.;
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb. f I
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb. \
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS, $
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene. ;
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.?
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup. \
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter. ,
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn}
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson. *
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
“ A Van Buren State Rights Man. > ’
A writer in the Constitutionalist of Saturday
under the above signature, prefaces his commu
nication with the following note:
To the Editors of the Constitutionalist :
You will do me a favor, if you can to publish
the following, addressed to the editors of the
Chronicle and Sentinel. Being shut off from a
hearing by them, we must ask our real friends
for that justice which is refused to us uy our
pretended ones.
If the writer designed to convey the idea. that
we had refused his communication a place in our
colamns.it is an unqualified and wilful falsehood,
for we never saw the communication until we read
it in the Constitutionalist.
In the communication wo find the following
sentence:
The drop-scene of the drama is down, nor will
we raise it, unless forced to show you into whose
unholy “ embraces ” you have thrown yourselves,
nor will wc attempt to inquire, or inquiring,
expect to be answered, how or by **’hat Ipotent
charms you and your friends have been operated
on so as to create so much “ new zeal ” in the
confidence of one whom you denounced as un
worthy of any confidence.
Now we challenge “a Van Buren State
Rights man,” or any of his friends, to produce a
word or sentiment that ever emanated from our
pen, denouncing General Harrison as unworthy
of confidence. If he fails to produce such a sen
timent or expression, he will certain!}' Lave no
objection to stand before this community a con
victed libeller, i
Law Decision. -*
At the present session of the Rlchrnon i Supe
rior Court, Judge Shly decided that a judgment
obtained in 1827, upon which execution was du
ly issued and returned in 1828, by the Sheriff,
with indorsements of levies and sales, (nr’ subse
quent return being made,) was not dormant un
der the act of 22d December, 1823—t hus overrul
ing the decision in Dudley’s Reports, page 166.
Emory College.’
The commencement exercises of this Institu
tion, will open with a sermon, from the Rev. Dr.
Capers, on the 19 th of July next: and theexhibi.
tion of the Students will follow on the 20th, 21st
and 22d.
Editors friendly to Literary Institutions of the
State, will favor many by giving the aboxis a few
insertions. •
Spirit of ’76. — No person can read t|he sub
joined remarks of the Boston Mercantile
without admitting their truth. The encroach
ments made by Mr. Van Buren and his; band of
spoilsmen upon the constitution, and the immense
increase of the executive power and patronage,
have awakened the same spirit in the people now
that burnt in the breasts of our fathers in ’76, and
it will not be put to rest again until the usurpers
are put down. —Y. Times.
Among the many unanswerable reasons as
signed for the Declaration of Independence—for
shaking off the yoke of Great Britain, aie the fol
lowing :
“He has erected a multitude of nei» offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our
people and eat out their substance."
“ For quartering large bodies of armed men
among us."
And Van Buren is now treading in the foot
steps of George the Third, of Great Britain—and
has executed, or is endeavoring to execute, the
very measures which excited the indignation of
our fathers in ’76— and which led directly to a
separation from the mother country.
That swarms of hungry office-holders harrass
the people and eat their substances, and rob the
treasury chest, is a notorious fact. It is also
equally well known, that Mr. Van Buren is endea
voring' to establish a standing army among ns!
And yet there are those who laud Mr. Van Bu
ren for his Dbxocract, and seek to create a pre-
judice against Gen. Harrison, by calling him an
aristocrat!
After all, words are of little consequence. It
is the signification attached to them, which does
the evil or good—and if Mr. Van Buren is a ster
ling democrat —if the policy so detrimental-to the
interest of the country, which he has pursued,
and is still pursuing, is the true democratic poli
cy—why, then, say we, we want no such democ
racy—but would a thousand times prefer that pol
icy and those principles, which our misguided
fathers were always taught to regard as democra
cy. Let us rally under the standard of Harrison
—let us elect men to office who cherish the hon
est and patriotic principles which warmed the he
roes of ’76. Such is the democracy of the friends
of General Harrison.-
The Mails.
The frequent complaints of the non-reception
and delay of our papers, induces us again to
to say to our friends that the fault is not with
us. Our papers are always regularly directed
and put into the Post Office, in the city, after
which we have no control over them. If we
knew any means by which the evil complained
of, could be corrected, we should most assuredly
resort to them, but we know not how to proceed,
or where the fault exists.
Martin Van Buren, vs. Poor Men.
Mr. Van Buren not only originated but warm
ly advocated a most odious and insulting restric
tion of the right of suffrage in the New York
Convention in 1821. We quote from his speech
on that occasion, in Holland’s life of Van Buren,
page.lß7, as follows;
“ Mr. Van Buren said that as the vote he
should now give on what was called the highway
qaalification, would be different from what it had
been on a former occasion, he felt it a duty to make
a brief explanation of the motives which governed
him. The qualifications reported by the first
committee were of three kinds, viz : the payment
of a money tax, the performance of a militay
duty, and working on the highway. The two
former met with his decided approbation ; to the
latter he wished to add the additional qualifica
tion, that the elector should, if he paid no tax,
performed no militia du'y, but offered his vote
on the sole ground that he labored on the high
ways, also be a householder. To effect this ob
ject he supported a motion made by a gentleman
from Duchess, to stiike out the highway qualifi
cation, with a view of adding householder.
That motion (he continued,) had prevailed by a
majority of 20. But what was the consequence 1
The very next day the same gentleman voted
that every person of 21 years of age, having a
certain term of residence, and excluding actual
paupers, should be permitted to vote for any of
fice in the government, from the highest to the
lowest, far outvieing in this particular, the other
States in the Union, and verging from the ex
treme of restriction, to that of universal suffrage.
The question then, (said Mr. V. 8.,) recurred:
shall an attempt be again made to add that of
householder to the qualification, ana run the
hazard of the re introduction of the proposition
of the gentleman from Washington, abandon all
qualification—throwing open the ballot boxes to
every body—demolishing at one blow, the dis
tinctive character of an elector, the proudest and
most invaluable gift of freedom.
“ Mr. Van Buren said he had, on the motion
of (he gentleman from Columbia, this day hinted
at the numerous objections which he had to the
proposition which the other day passed the con
vention, in regard to the right of suffrage; ob
jections which he intended to make, had the
committee reported in favor of that vote; and by
which, when fully urged, he knew he would be
fully able to convince every member of this com
mittee of the alarming tendency of that precipi
tate and unexpected prostration of all qualifica
tions. At this moment he would only say, that
among the many evils which would flow from a
wholly unrestricted suffrage, the following would
be the most injurious, viz :
First—lt would give to the city of New York
about twenty-five thousand votes; whilst, under
the liberal extension to the right on the choice
of delegates to this convention, she had but about
13 or 14,000. ’That the character of the in
creased number of votes would be such as would
render their elections rather a curse than a bless
ing: which would drive from the polls all
sober-minded people —and such, he was happy
to find, was the united opinion of the delegates
from that city.”
We might quote much more, but it is unne
cessary. Enough has been extracted to illustrate
Mr. democrat Van Buren’s notions of the right
of suffrage. We will only add that he, Mr. Van
Buren, who was so fearful lest the poor high
way laborer should have the right of suffrage,
recorded his vote, in the same convention, in
support of an amendment to the constitution of
New York, permitting negroes, worth two hun
dred and fifty dollars, to vote ! (Holland’s life,
page 187.) He would not permit the poor la
borer to record his suffrage, but would say to the
negro worth $250, “ vote sir.”— Steubenville
Herald.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser June 22.
Abolitionism.
Our readers have already been informed of the
disastrous conflict among our neighbors the abo
litionists, during their late anniversary in this
city, which has been followed by a similar explo
sion in New-llaven —in both instances the party
having devoured each other, after the manner of
the Kilkenny cats, and all at the instance of the
“ female brethren,” both white and colored,
with Garrison and Miss Abby Kelly at their
head.
In the New School General Assembly, at Phil
adelphia, the like ill-starred destiny has attended
the parly, and even their old ally Dr. Cox, hav
ing “ come to himself,” has led the van in giving
them the go-by with indefinite postponement.
At Baltimore, since the session of the General
Conferrence, we learn that Methodist abolition
ists have not only cut their own throats, meta
phorically but their leader has written the epitaph
of the faction. And as “ thereby hangs a tale,”
which is too good to be lost, we have taken pains
to come at the facts.
It seems that this leader laid before the confer
ence a long list of names to an abolition petition
which he affirmed was from eleven hundred mem
bers of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
citv of New York and its vicinity. Now it so
happened that certain New-York clergy who were
present, on looking at the names, discovered that
some hundreds of them were the names of fe
males, and knowing even that some were children
of tender age, and that others were not members
of the church, while more than one color was
detected, they strongly suspected that some trick
had been played off, and therefore sent the ori
ginal memorial back to New York for investiga
tion.
In a few days it was returned to Baltimore
with a protest signed by a large number of min
isters and official members of the church in New
York, accompanied by certificates and other vou
chers, demonstrating that the memorial abound
ed with frauds. This protest being read in open
conference, produced great-indignation among
honest men of all parlies. The following are a
few of the frauds set forth by the protest, and
proved by the evidences annexed: —
Ist. A pioporlion of the names were signed
twice, so as to count double.
2d. Many of the names are fogeries.
3d. Hundreds of the name* were obtained to
a temperance petition, and having been torn off,
were attached to this abolition petition.
J 4th. Many of the signers are members of
other churches, or members of no church, and
some of them are known to be unfit for member
ship in any church.
sth. Some of the signers ?re colored people,
and more of them children.
6th. Many of them are fabrications, both
name and residence being fictitious.
7th. Numbers are know to live at a distance
from the city, and even from the state.
Bth. Some are persons long since cxcotamu
nicated from the church as unworthy of mem
bership.
9th. Some are ascertained to be of profligate
and abandoned character, one of them having
been only a few weeks out of the state prison,
and since recommitted to jail for felony.
The protestants prayed that this memorial
might be rejected by the Conference for the rea
sons alleged, it being a libel on the church in
New York, and an imposition on the General
Conference. And it was urged as highly proba
ble that all of other kindred memorials from oth
er places were of the same character. This last
allegation was denied, of course.
The protest, after being read and commented
on in terms of just reprobation, were referred to
a committee, who made a report declaring the
protest to be fully sustained, and the abolition!
memorial from New \orktobean imposture, un
worthy of the smallest degree of credit or confi
dence.
We learn that the whole strength of the abo
lition party in the General Conference, as ascer
tained by a test vote, was eighteen, while the
number of that body is one hundred and forty
four. ft is plain, therefore, that from the Metho
dist Episcopal Church abolitionism has every
thing to fear, and nothing to hope. The
of the Bishops which have been published, and.
the action of this body, which is their highest,
court of appeal, alike show that the party are;
utterly powerless in that denomination.
Meanwhile, the split in the ranks ot the Amer
ican Anti-slavery Society, on the great question;
of woman's rights , has so divided and scattered
the party that their sorry figure entitles them to
commiseration. For they are not only bankrupt
by their official acknowledgement, having sunk
SIO,OOO on the Emancipator alone, over and
above all their receipts ; but they have been ob
liged to stop all their presses, recal all their agents,,
and publicly confess their insolvency. Moreover
they have be< n shut out of the Tabernacle, which
they built, and nearly every church in the city,,
which was formely open to them, and at their
late anniversary were obliged to occupy a small
building, much against their will, and in a remote
part of the city. And now that the highest ec
clesiastical assemblies and conferrences, of nearly
all denominations of Christians, are becoming so
weary of their proceedings as to refuse giving
them any quarter, and so many of their ablest
champions are, like Dr. Cox and Mr. Kirk, ab
juring their ultraism, they begin to demand sym
pathy, which ought not to be withheld. And if
they are let alone a little longer, we need no spirit
of prophecy to predcit that the verdict of the grand
inquest will be recorded by the significant words
“ ftlo de se." No man need henceforth strike a
blow at abolitionism, for in America it will die.
as every other species of fanaticism is destined
to die, by sucide.
Desj airing of prolonging the agitation in this
country, either in church or state, a few of the
master spirits have sailed for England.
From the Charleston Courier.
Bank and Anti-Bank.—We have recently
met with the following testimonial from Mr. Cal
houn, as late as 1834, in favor of a National
Bank. It will be seen that he claimed a large
share in the paternity of the late U. S. Bank,
and asserted its single usefulness in our commer
cial and financial concerns. In what a strange
antagonism he now stands to his former position
—the closing extract, below shews that he now
wages a war of extermination against the bank
ing system, and is for annihilating all banking pa
per.
In 1834. Mr. Calhoun made the following re
marks on the removal of the deposits by General
Jackson:
“ I might say, with truth, that the Bank o-ves
as much to me, as to any other individual in the
country ; and I might even add that, had it not
been for my efforts, it would not have been char
tered.
“ It is said that the Bank had no agency, or at
least no efficient agency, in the restoration of
specie payments in 1817, and that it has failed
to furnish the country with a uniform and sound
currency, as had been promised at its creation.
Both of these allegations! pronounce to be with
out just foundation. To enter into a minute ex
amination of them would carry me too far from
the subject, and I must content myself with say
ing, that having been on the political stage with
out interruption, from that day to this—having
been an attentive observer of the question of the
currency throughout the whole period—that the
Bank has been an indispensable agent in the
restoration of specie payments; that without it.
the restoration could not have been effected, short
of the utter prostration of all the moneyed ins ti
tutions of the country, and an entire depreciati on
of bank paper; and that it has not only restored
specie payments, but has given a currency far
more uniform, between the extremes of the co un
try, than was anticipated, or even dreamed of at
the time of its creation.”
A Correspondent of the New Era Reviv ed r
thus refers to Mr. Calhoun’s new sentiments on
the subject:
“ There is no man in America more decidedly
opposed to the whole scheme of a paper currency
than he. While Mr. Benton goes only for the?
suppression of bank notes under one bund red
dollars, Mr. Calhoun goes for the utter ex
tinction OF AU BANK PAPER WHATEVER. H®
remarked to me, a few evenings ago, in a priv ate
conversation, that he was perfectly satisfied that
we should never have a sound state of commer
cial prosperity, until the whole of the b ink
paper circulation was aboltshed. He il
lustrated and enforced these views with that
vigor and clearness for which he is so pre-emi
nently remarkable.”
From the Wilmington Chronicle.
We beg the particular attention of the re ader
to the following:
By the 17th section of the Bill providing for a
re-organization of the militia of the U. States,
the President is authorized to call forth and as
semble such numbers of the active force thereof,
i at such places within their respective districts,
! and at such times not exceeding twice, nor
days in the year, as he may deem necessary; and
during such period, including the time when go
ing to, and returning from, the place of rendez
i vous, they shall be deemed in the service of the
i United States.
By the 20th section, the militia when thus in
the service of the United States are to be subject
to “ the same rules and articles of war as troops
of the United States
> Now, perhaps few are acquainted with the
. rules and articles of war. Here then is article
- 9th of those rules.
• “ Art. 9th. Any officer or soldier who shall
• strike his superior officer, or draw or lift up any
i weapon, or offer any violence against him, being
r in the execution of his office, on any pretence.
i whatever, or shall disobey any J awful command
I of his superior officer, shall suffer death, or
such punishment as shall, according to the na
l tureof his off nee, be inflicted upon him, by the
sentence of a court-martial.”
Thus it appears that any soldier who shall
( strike his superior officer on anyprelence what
ever—no matter what or how great may be the
provocation—-the grossest of insults to his wife—
! the most tyrannical treatment of b’teseii' —if hi j
dare to resent it, and strike a petty sergeant oi a I
corporal, he SHALL SUFFSJ? DE iTH.
And to all this Mr. Van IJijren has given hi c
sanction, for he said, “ I car not recommend too
strongly to your consideration the plan for the
organization of the militic, of the U. >7 aits.''
General riarrison was ?n v ut punishing
in certain cases, thieves and other criminals
by whipping them. Mr. Var Baren ; .s now Id j
favor of punishing with DE ATH, innocent men j
—any one of us it may bi—who shall it >ent an •
outiageous insult.
First Gun from Maine, i
Cheering Indication.— The Eastern Argm j
(revived,) which we received last night, con* Ts j
a letter signed by forty-two of the chir-rrs cf the 1
towns of Baldwin and Sebavo. who have t.cre’o
fore supported the administer., -i of Jackson aid
Van Buren, but who have bee. •noelicr as they
say, by the measures of Mr. V; .1 urea s to with
draw from his support —add. - ed to Francis O
J. Smith, Esq. and requesting him to deliver an
address to them on the 4lh ot T, iy nei Mr
Smith has consented. The following is ligh
ter :
Baldwin, May 29, 1840.
Hon. Francis O. J. Smith :
Sir :—A number of citizens of Baldwin and
Scbago, who have ever been members of the re
publican party, and have supported Presidents
Jackson and Van Buren —but have been compell
ed by the measures of the latter, most reluctantly
to withdraw from his support—have decided to
hold a political meeting on the 4th day of July
next; at which they wish to have old republican
principles set forth, and the leading features of
the policy of the present administration candidly
discussed ; and on their behalf we invite you to
be present, and to address the meeting on that oc
casion.
Signed, ISAAC DYER, and 42 others.
Yau Buren, Benton and Duncan vs. the
People.
People. We wish you to give us the “ better
currency,” you promised us.
Van Buren. You expect too much from gov
ernment.
People. Where are the “yellow boys and
mint drops” that were to fill our pockets 1
Benton. They are now flowing up the Mis
sissippi. You will find them plenty after Mr.
Van Buren is re-elected.
People. How shall we get relief from the
evils of a depreciated and “ irredeemable ” cir
culating medium 1
Duncan. Go home and work harder and live
more economically, and relief will be your re
ward.
A Pitiful Trick. —ln 1820, there was an
election for Governor in Ohio. To the re-elec
tion of Governor Brown, there was no regular
opposition. General Harrison was not a can
didate. Some voters were dissatisfied with
Brown, and voted for Governor Morrow, and some
for General Harrison—4346 votes were in that
way thrown for Harrison. In his own county,
and in nine others, he did not get a vote—in 14
counties more he got 74 votes! These votes were
returned to the department of State, and counted
before the Senate. The statement of them is now
paraded in the Globe, as official evidence from
the Journal es the Senate, of General Harrison’s
want of popularity at home 1 In what contempt
the Globe must hold the people, to expect any
man of common sense to believe that General
Harrison, being a candidate for office, could not
get one vote in 10 counties, and only 74 votes in
24 counties!— Cin. Gaz.
Ons. Term.—One term of the Presidency is
now all the cry, and General Harrison is known
i to be devoted to that principle. In the language
of the Whig address, it will make the Chief Ma
gistrate the President of the nation by depriving
him of a party —compel him to be honest by
withdrawing the temptation to be vicious—force
him to administer the government as the honest
agent of a free people, and not as a guilty parti
san, by depriving him of the hope and consola
tion of a re-election. Nothing could be more ef
fectual in arresting the tide of corruption which
is overwhelming us, and bringing back the gov
ernment to its original republican simplicity and
purity. Let the cry then, of One Term, go
round.— Staunton Spectator.
The Revenue. —By a report from the Treas
ury Department, presented in the House of Re
presentatives on Friday, it appears that the na
tional revenue, tor the six months ending on the
Ist of July, is but $7,520,829 ; ot which $6,091,-
951 are for customs and $1,396,202 from lands.
Amount collected from deposite banks, $522,-
628. This amount is greatly below the receipts
of former years, and below the national expendi
ture. So much for the sub-treasury, even while
only in prospect. — JVcw York Commercial Ad
vertiser.
More Backing Oct. —Mr. Teley, the Van
Buren candidate for Lieutenant Governor of In
diana, has followed the example of the adminis
tration candidate for the same office in Kentucky,
and withdrawn from the canvass. Another of
the Van Buren Electoral candidates in Missis
sippi, (Chapman Levy, Esq.,) has declined—
making three in that State—(Judge Quitman,
Col. Claiborne, and Chapman Levy, Esq.,) who
have backed out from the Van Buren ticket
within the last two months. This is almost as
bad as the deserters from the Electoral ticket in
Tennessee.— N. Y. Express.
Selling White Men. —The slanderers of
Gen. Harrison term his friends Britisn Whigs,
but are themselves the retailers of the slanders of
their co-laborers, the British Tories.
The Ohio Miamian states that the charge of
selling white men into slavery, was first made
against Gen. Harrison in 1821, by a writer of one
of the Cincinnati papers. This infamous slan
derer was an ENGLISHMAN, who had been ta
ken with Proctor, by Harrison, and hence his
enmity. He now holds an office under Mr. Van
Buren, and is thus paid for his abuse of the gal
| lant ola General.
From the Otsego (N. Y.J Republican,
f Overwhelming Whig “Turn-out!”—
From Seven to Ten Thousand Freemen at a
| “ Log Cabin Raising." —We have only time to
say, in this paper, that the notice of a Log Cabin
raising at Cherry Valley, on Friday,drew togeth
er at that place, from SE V EN TO TEN THOU
SAND Freemen ! It was the largest political
H gathering, we believe, ever known in this state.
I Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm and good
: feeling which pervaded the vast multitude! An
account of the glorious pageant will be given in
our next.
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I* (£j* Stf.am Gun.—This new sort of death
( dealing instrument, the invention of which we
noticed a few days since, is exhibited in N. Y.
It discharges sixty balls in a minute, and with
such force, that striking against an iron plate at
[1 the distance of 100 feet, the ball is flattened to
I the thickness of a wafer. Mr. A. M. Perk ns,
[: of London, is the inventor, who has invented an
B entirely new method of generating steam, which,
I says the Commercial Advertiser, “ has been suc
f cesslully applied to steam engines, and is at once
[ so simple, safe and economical, as to leave little
j doubt that with its aid the steam gun wil lere long,
[ rank among the first instruments of warfare.”
The generator is thus described by the same
1 paper.—“ The heat is conveyed from the fire to
| the water without exposing the generator
Ito tht action of the Lr:. This is done hy mean* 1
iof ihr’ circulation, in iron tuhc»- cf a current o j
| hoi water, which etiUK’ty aeof.rate anu ,
1 indepenie; tof that iu thr : cm’ >" la. • a I-l *''
I ratoa i* exceedingly siarff'< ■<’i tr« w hole is !
| cot tainod within the compi 1
ccokitif stove. 1, ha: ‘ eca ‘oa.’d bj expert- |
| meals with this gun. that the generator h capa
j ble of furnishing a consUrt supply of *tfam for j
j dischargin’ halls nt Jk ’"Ut of si tiy per tninutt.
> and that -no pouod of anthracite coal will g*;-o»-
late, team sul'icu-ut to dtschatg. Hut pocuds »
j balls; the steam has ©Don bee; raised to a pn-v
- sure of TOO pounds per «qn»ve inch, but one
I third of this pressure is sufficient to completely
i flatten the tails when discharged against - SP ; CU*>
t target 100 feet distant from the gun, and a pres
) sure of 100 pounds per square inch . the same
distance, shivers <he ball to atoms. '
Thi-c extraordinary piece o! ortinam e was to
be offered fer public inspection. —Aichtm .d
Vo input,-.
j Th ■ American Sentinel of the *-.->»] ins!., :..n
--| Bounces the death of Judge (J. S, Di; ■
I Judge for New Teraey, ••» his red«Ji-.-;c« at )•
Holly, on Saturday last.
Pretty Severe.—Not long since a Federal
Vanocrat in Indiana stepped up to a soldier who
had fought by the side of Gen. Harrison at Fort
Meigs and the Thames, and accosted him thus ;
“ My Friend, I am really sorry that you continue
to support old Granny Harrison.” “ Don’t feel
bad about it, my good sir, (said the veteran in re
ply,) I am always willing to be classed among the
supporters of those who defended their country.
The only difference between you and me sir, is, I
was fighting for my country, in 1812, and you
were making money, by smuggling provisions to
the British at the same time." 1 his was a clin
cher—The Vanite made tracks a® fast as possi
ble.
Removal of Napoleon’s Remains.
Mr. Walsh, in a letter to the Editors of the
National Intelligencer, enters into the following
speculations upon the subject of the removal of
Napoleon’s remains, previous to its introduction
into the Chamber of Deputies by the Premier :
The translation of Napoleon’s remains from St.
Helena to Paris is among the revived topics. A
petition for that end was lately treated with so
much favor by the Peers, as to be referred to the
President of the Council, while they passed to
the order of the day on a prayer for the admis
sion of the Bonaparte family into France. Thi
ers, it is said, would himself promote the measure,
in order to win glory and popularity for his min
isterial era; and the King, from a kindred motive,
might not refuse to send the Prince de Joinville
with a small squadron, for the conveyance of so
precious a treasure. England, moreover, could
have no reason for refusing a boon which the
French Government feels domestic strength
enough to seek; and her allies, who claimed the
captive as equally theirs, have, at least, no deep
er stake in the question. We hear and read these
things, but I doubt that the Premier, or Louis
Phillippe, or the allies, have yet any design or
inclination to incur the risk, for God only knows
what might be the height or direction of the ex
citement which the arrival and consecration of
these relics would produce in France or Paris, or
the number and variety of the
tempts, for which the presence cf cm*hi
deemed auspicious according to new circin „
ces of political condition. The IV. i- ?*■•?,
the anniversary of Napoleon’s th, iff- <at*
years of agony on the Easter H c’c. r>
statue was installed on the match: s colu no
the Place Vendome, it has be, a tbs cu
suspend, on that day, funeral wreathe of dried
yellow flowers, about the hast tndrailia.
column. A larger number distin
guished the recent anniversary, n . con
jectured, to the more courageon yi. us depo
sition of the present Cabinet or its head—%■
pledged historian of the Emp e Indeed * or
the first time, a considerable • ; it'-r vi' -- c. i •<
votive offerings (couronnes di: .. . -iefi ,n, >
from the public authorities. A pamphlet, with a
broad mourning rim, containing & » m sin aMe
to the anniversary, and stamped vdrh the Impe
rial eagle and crown, was exhibited in .he Win
dows of book-shops—the price six sous. The Le
gitimists have just issued, for political effect, a
new Life of Louis XVI, in large octavo, price
10 francs, ten-told too much for the million.
Majesty ik Law.—The following beautiful
eulogy on “the law,” is extracted from an article
in the Southern Literary Messenger:—
The spirit of the law is all equity and justice.
In a government based on true principle, the law
is the sole sovereign of a nation. It watches over
its subjects in their business, in their recreation,
and in their sleep. It guards their fortunes, their
lives, and their honors. In the broad noon day
and the dark midnight, it ministers to their secu
rity. It watches over the ship of the merchant,
though a thousand leagues intervene; over the
seed of the husbandman, abandoned foi a sea
s son to the earth ; over the studies of the student,
. the labors of the mechanic, the opinions of every
. man. None are high enough to offend with im
punity—none so low that it scorns to protect
, them. It is throned with the king, and sits in
t the seat of the republican magistrate, but it also
5 hovers over the couch of the lowly and stands sen
t tinel at the prison, scrupulously preserving to the
felon whatever rights he has not forfeited. Tne
light of the law illumines the palace and hovel,
f and surrounds the cradle and the bier. The
strength of the law laughs wickedness to scorn,
and spurns the intrenchments of iniquity. The
power of the law crushes the power of man, and
f strips wealth of unrighteous immunity. It is the
thread of Dandalus, to guide us threugh the lab
l yrinth of cunning. It is the spear of Ithuriel,
1 to detect falsehood and deceit, ft is the faith of
the martyr, to shield us from the fires of per
secution ; it is the good man’s reliance ; the wlck
t ed one’s dread ; the bulwark of piety, the uphol
der of morality, the guardian of right, the distri
butor of justice. Its power is irresistib e; its
dominion indisputable. It is above and around
us; within us; we cannot fly from its protec
tion , we cannot avert its vengeance.
Such is the law in its essence; such it would
1 be if none aspired to its administration but those
* with pure hearts, enlarged views, and cultivated
1 minds.
* On the passage of the Great Western, a sailor
* in shifting the jib, lost his hold and fell over
-1 board. The vessel went over him. The engine
1 was stopped, the crew mustered and stationed at
* their posts, a boat manned and let down—the
man, half a mile behind, was rescued, brought on
board, and the vessel put under way—in the
* space of eight minutes.
i MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
i
j Charleston, June 27.
Arrived yesterday— schv John Allyne, Hawes,
’ Kingston, Ja.
In the offing —ship Craton, from New York.
’ Went to sea yesterday —brig Daniel Webster,
* Stein, Havana ; schr Beaufort, Budd, West Indies,
c
0
Savannah, June 26.
” Cleared —ship Harriet Roi kwell, Prescott, Liv
erpool; brig Clinton, Ly on, New York; schr Dri
s ver, Taylor, Philadelphia.
o Went to sea —schr Driver, Taylor, Philadelphia,
r Departed —steamboat Cherokee, Gould, Augusta.
_ Jj
COMMERCIAL. j)
1 Latest dale \|
i; >:•: ' tj
r~* r ■ . u
i Cotton*—' The Uplane
j has been extremely Iff.;- : -
recede- about } ptr ctn - .
i descriptions, w- at ;:;•••• r
I their former prices. Ts r
<,< slacks, nothing is k-ftia i ‘
rnaiket closed as quit '. .as I - . ♦ i
I *23 bai i, as u » j
, ‘V, 29, G f 66. 7- !„•’ s (f
j »7i - •: q • , I
I > A ’ ■ 1-
Long Cotton —l he r .
oripro\ eo .;■ • ■ r vu.u ;
amount stocks on tVcuh 1 •• K
I io opewtes, asd tCe ■ 'fnis f.-
: reached bat T3H bu-i; of «s , n . . -i Se d of ’J
woii» , at n U. io j anr ‘ . vv ere
16 sUiaed at ’■» ..-ts ; 1 an( j . |
■ > iln ror COTTON.
•*: V' -St Oct. 1539, S 'mf’ Vphnd.
tl(y . this week, -~03
previously, 17420 2 690 S3 J
19361 272828 |
Exported this week, 2.7 '
do previously, 15221 KsS
On shipboard, g 57 i
19105 267558 I
Stock on hand, 4 56 “TE |
Rice Partakes of the stagnation exhibited I
other articles; indeed the stagnation in ih ls a .I
is more apparent than for a considerable time n a ,,
328 tierces changed hands at from $2 56 cts to ;
per < wt. Prices remain as heretofore. 51 ;
Rough Rice —Sso bushels sold at 78 cts I ■
Flour— Except retail transactions, we have im
thing to record. The demand appears to be limit
ed exclusively to home consumption. ‘
Grain— No Corn was received during the week
The article is scarce. We quote 65 a 68c M
bushel. There was no receipts of Oats or
Hay— 479 bundles sold at $1 and a fraction over
Groceries Remain quiet, the whole trade has I
been for some past unusually dull. A few couctrv ■
purchases occasionally relieve the torpid stated
the market. u
Salt —There have been no recent arrivals of Salt
We quote the article from second hands at <ll *
per sack, and in demand. 5 ; * ;
Bacon— ls dull, except in small lots. N 0 sa | es |
have transpired of any moment, flairs may be
quoted at 9 a 12c. Sides and Shoulders 7a 8c ner
pound.
Exchange— On England, alO per ct pretn-
Fiance, 5U5c. a 5f.25c; on New York and Ikxton
Sight Checks are taken at 21 a 3 per cent nrem,
60 days at 1 a Richmond, 6 per cent, and time'
discount. Rank of Charleston rales of Exchange
on the North—New York, 3 per cent premium- i,
Philadelphia, par; Savannah, 5 per c. discount; do
Rank notes, b per c. discount; Spanish Doubloons ;
Mexican, sls£; Sovereigns, $4 85; Specie’ I
li a 2 per ct. premium.
Freights— To Liverpool, fdfcjoer lb. for Cotton
to Havre, l£ for square \y e quote
rates to Northern ports as nomi^V-
New York, June 24—12, m.
Sugars —Musccvadoes remain without any
change—2so hlids Porto Rico have been sold at 51 |
a7£ —650 hhds Ne.vv Orleans at 4J.a os cent-:, oj
the usual credit, and 162 hhds Porto Rico by auc- f
tion at of a 6| cents, 3 and a--- -- I
brow r n Havana were (rt 1 -- ra, 5 a
at 104 cent., und 5C >< . wj ;re R
! t here a very little ag in molasst ■
i New Or’eans brotg. r.. r rents, » fH
' anct -n 108 ‘--hiff ot ]br, \u K
1 26 a cents. ?. non- .
i C> th to ff. • xtent •. . •-JO * • |
J been made smee our last teYrew, witi t- \ f
j ria. ban -ir rater. Tne market, how . • - Jl
J dull, and farmer rates are rarely suppn; -0, ’ • B
i lands or.ii ?arv to r’d!ing may be o-uol- in. B
• 9 cts *> r • fa - ■ - go“* 'H a''• I c:• V . n
> Cargoes Lom
I «ui. m.«. . I
; the . ly cor '• e<i H
j wants of the bags Cuba wt s T B
1 alOr-uts; 150 do Lv/ lira at lOf ; B
I i ..'O bags it. azu at 9. cents. Ir. I
j aad 150 SL Domingo, ,a 8| ctof, . ca. . fl
i I- io-.r, ( “ain, c « has n , \
j enquiry for Flour this \% ..dr, and fev sale ef 1 - T •
| ed except for immediate u..e and the L-.stx- .i B
kets—ter quotations may thereto!? he gc.,
| considered-aor,:-ioal. .■ ♦.. - p
i uijr; S>4 ’-h.) ■■j H
Michigan, $4 a nnaueiphia, i>i ~.ji f
$5; Raltimore Howard street, $4 87 < a $5, audCity \
Mills, $6 . ‘
■L ■ ■' j ■
Cfp DR. DUGAS has returned to the city, and
will resume the discharge of his professional f
Office, as heretofore, on Mclntosh street. i
june 29 2td
( 'ZffJDr . GARDNER, formerly resident surgeon
n the New York Hospital, and physician at Belle
vue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his |
professional services.
Office in Washington street, between Broad and i,
Ellis streets Residence, United States Hotel,
ap 2
G 'fp Dr. J. J. WILSON has removed for the f
Summer to the house of James Gardner, Esq., Ist
door below the Academy. June 6
(Lj* During my absence in the interior of the
State, Force, Rrothers & Co. are my duly author
sed attorneys. ENOCH W. SPOEFORD.
april 21 _
JKr Dr. WM. FLINT , member f the Massad !
chusetts Medical Society, would inform his friend!
that he has removed his place of residence to th? |
boarding-house of Mrs. Camlield, at the comer of |
Jackson and Rroad streets, w-here he may be found I
at all hours during the summer season. His pro- '
fessional seiviccs are respectfully tendered tot:.!
citizens of Augusta. ts—June 6 j
(ry EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight |
and at one to twenty days sight. For salebv
nov 23 GARDELLE 6c KlllM^-
AUGUSTA BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—
following are the Committees for the ensuic !
month: jK’
Division No. 1. —James Meredith, Demeff" r
Bland, Mrs Charles Jones, Mrs Crump. I
Division No. 2—J. P. Alien, J. J. Robertson, 61-
Anna Winter, Mrs Boggs. ~ |
Division No. 3—A. J. Millar, James Harper, 8
T. W. Miller, Mrs Panton. u
june 23 J. W. M
DR. MONROE, Surgeon Dentist.
Office on Washington street, near Ellis, reside -‘
at the house lately occupied by Mrs. Savage
april 20
03* NOTICE. —The Rail Road Fassenger 1W
between Charleston and Hamburg, will l® lTe
follows :■ —
UPWARD. . £
Not to leave Charleston before 7 00 a w- b ;
“ “ Summerville, “ --S 30 I
“ “ Georges’, - “ • 10 0
“ “ Branch vnle, “ - 11 00 I
* “ Blackviile, - “ - i OOP.
“ “ Aiken, - -“ - 300 ■
Arrive at Hamburg not before - 400 I
DOWNWARD. B
Not to leave Hamburg before 6 00 a. _
“ “ Aiken, - “ - J3O ■
“ “ Blackviile, “ - • 9 I
“ “ Midway, “ - -10 30 I
“ “ Branchvifl “ - - 11°', B.
« “ Georges’, « - -1| 4; ?■
“ “ Summerville,“ - - * } 0P ‘ fl
Arrive at Charleston not before 2io Mj
Distance —136 miles. Fare Through—7 ■
Speed not over 20 miles an hour. 1° ic ‘ fi ,tß|-
minutes each, for breakfast and dinner,
longer than 5 minutes for wood and water -
station. . , jf
To stop for passengers, when a « 1
hoisted, at either of the above stations; at* (SI
Sincalhs, VV r oodstock, Inabinct’s, 41 in'
Rives’, Grahams, Willeston, Windsor, fi
and Marsh’s T. U.
Passengers uo will breakfast at 0
dine at Blackviile; aown, wrU breaK’ast
j an d dine at Charleston. ■