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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
g * AUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
O Os Ohio; ®
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The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor-
Q rnptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican—
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
9 Os Virginia;
A StS:e Rights Republican of the school of ’9S—•
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s mast sagacious, virtuous and
g patriot statesmen.
FOR OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
©JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee."
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
® C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. . HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFOR D, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LO'fF WARREN, cf Surate|j
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The Constitutionalist and the Army Bill.
In our notice of the attack made upon us, by
the wise and worthy Editor” of the Constitu
tionalist, in relation to our strictures on the Army
Bill, we asked why he had not published the
Bill. He replies to us, and says he has, and re
fers us to the dates of his paper.—We have ex
amined his file, and found that it was published
in April, and that “the wise and worthy Editor”
so far, endorses the plan of Mr. Van Boren and
his Secretary that he thinks the “general outlines
of plan ought to he adopted
Will “ the wise and worthy Editor ,” inform
his readers what particular features of the Bill
he thinks ought to be adopted 1 Is it that which
requires the militia to arm themselves at their
own expense ? Is it that which requires them
to be subject to the order of the President, to be
called out of the State twice a year to be train
ed 1 Or is it that which subjects them to the®
articles of war, by which they are prevented un
der severe penalty from speaking in disrespectful
terms of the President, and may be punished
o with death for striking their superior officers 1
Are t&se the features which “ the wise find wor
thy Editor” believes ought to be adopted 1
Van Buren vs. Poor Men.
Undqj this head we some days ago copied an
article from the Steubenville (Ohio) Herald, in
which Mr. Van Buren was charged with having
advocated the restriction of suffrage in the New
York Convention of 1821, and as proof of the
charge, an extract from his speech was quoted, as
in Holland’s life of Van Buren. The
succeeding day there appeared in the Constitution
alist, writer, who sported the imposing signature
of “L. M.,” and in an article of some length,
which surpasses any in proportion to its length for
bold and daring recklessness, and utter disregard
of truth, vve have yet seen even in the columns
that print.
Byway of attracting attention to his tissue of
“ false ” statements, (“ we might use harsher
words,”) the article was headed “ Beware of
Counterfeits.” “Base political forgery and
calumny.” This was imposing enough, and natu
rally enough astonished us, for we did not know
0 but that had caught some of the writers,
e leaders in some shop , and by some optical
delusion, (produced by what cause wc knew not,)
obtained their signatures to some instrument,
which under different lights could not have been
obtained. On examining his aiticlc, we however
discovered it was an attack upon us fer having in
serted the article from the Steubenville Herald>
with an extract from Mr. Van Buren’s speech’
And, Ala Blair and Rives, as he could not well de
fend his master, he was driven to the necessity of
declaring that the Whigs had published a spurious
life of Mr. Van Barcn, and charged that the whole
was false. This was one way of defending their
Loco Foco chief, and as the sequel will show, was
° not a very fortunnte defence for the writer, if he
regards his reputation for truth, which we opine
is rather problematical.
* As is our Custom, generally, never to notice a
nonymous scribblers, we paid no attention to this
redouyable night of the quill, until we had pro
cured a copy of Holland’s Life of Van Buren, an
swering precisely his description of the “ genuine .”
We then gave him notice through our columns on
Saturday, that we should show him up in his real
character, and lo and behold, on the next day, we
were handed a note, purporting lobe from L. M.,
acknowledging that he had been in error. And
yesterday, he again gained admission into the col
umns of the Constitutionalist, to admit that he had
stated what was“ utterly and unequivocally false.”
“We might use harsher words.” And in his ad
mission, he struggles desperately to plaster his del
icate situation.
As the writer was so desirous to regard us the
endorser of the article, we do now endorse and
charge Mr. Van Buren with having advocated a
restriction of the right of suffrage to those per
sons who, “ paid taxes, performed militia duty, la
bored on the highways, and were House holders.”
And we adduce as proof of the charge, the speech
quoted in Holland’s life of him, page 182.
Had “ L. 31.” extended his corrections to bis
entire article, we should have spared him the
merited castigation which a sense of duty imposes
on us. But he has not seen fit to extend his cor
rections beyond Mr. Van Buren’s advocacy of re
stricted suffrage. We must, therefore, take one
extract from his article, which demands a passing
notice. It is in these words :
“ In the convention of IS2I, when the amend
ment was offered by the Democrats “ that all white
male citizens of 21 years should be allowed a
vote,” without the freehold qualification, &c., the
Federalists as a matter of course, opposed it. When
they found that that amendment would be carried,
they, not the Democratic party, proposed that ne
groes also should be allowed to vote w'ithout a
freehold ! ! Then it was that Van Buren and his
associate Democrats, came to the rescue, and by
union together retained the old condition —very
many, and among them Van Buren, wanted to ex
clude negro votes altogether, but, finding they
could not gain all they wanted, they did not allow,
at any rate, the Federal negro supporters to gain
any thing.
“L. M.” says the Democrats proposed the
amendment abolishing the freehold qualification —
the Journal of the convention says it was offered
by the committe. Again, he says the Federalists
were in favor of negroes voting —the Journal
shows that 3IARTIN VAN BUREN voted to strike
out “ white,” so as to permit negroes to vote ;
therefore, according to “L. M.,” Mr. Van Buren
is a Federalist. Again, “L. 3L” says Mr. Van
Buren wanted to exclude negro votes altogether —
the Journal shows that he voted to permit ne
groes to vote. Who is to be believed, the Journal
or “L. M. ?”
It may be however, that L. M. may endeavor
to vindicate Mr. Van Buren against the charge he
has made against him of being a federalist, upon
that well known law of evidence, “ that when a
witness is proven to have made false statements in
one particular, he is not to be credited in another.”
Very well, if L. 31. imagines that he is not to be
believed, certainly we will uot complain., but in
all conscience let him never again assert, either
through the press or privately, that 3lr. Van Buren
is no federalist. But, we are wearying the pa
tience of our readers, and bringing an unfortunate
individual into notice, who but for our kicking,
would perhaps never have been again heard of.
Here is the extract from the Journal of the Con
vention.
Martin Van Buren in favor of Negro
Voting.
Proved officially, by the Journal of the New York
State Convention, held in IS2I, to amend the Con
stitution —which Journal can be seen at the office
of the “ KENT NEWS,” in Chestertown.
The fact is notorious, that when a member of
the New Vork State Convention, in 1821, Martin
Van Buren voted in favor of negro suffrage.
On page 134 of the Journal, the report of the
committee on the elective franchise is given. That
report contained the word “ white ” before the
word “ citizens,” as follows :
“ Every white male citizen of the age of twenty
(►one years, who shall have resided in,this State six
months next preceding any election, * * * *
shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the
town or ward, in which he shall reside, for Gover
nor, Lieut. Governor, Senators, members of the
Assembly, and all other officers who are or may
be elected by the people.”
The report of the committee, was warmly de
bated, in consequence of a motion to strike out the
•word “white” so as to read “that every male
citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall
have resided &.c. It was distinctly announced that
the word “ white ” was inserted in order to ex
clude the right of suffrage. I hose who wished the
word “ white ” stricken out, also avowed their
object in having it erased, was for the purpose of
giving to the negroes the right of voting. The
issue was fairly made on this question, and that it
was so understood by the Convention, we make
two extracts; tho first from the speech of Mr.
Ross, who wished the report to read white male
citizen, and thus exclude negroes. In giving his
reasons why negroes should be excluded, he says :
“ But why, it will probably be asked, are blacks
to be excluded ? I answer, because they are sel
dom if ever, required to share in the common bur
thens or defence of the State. There are also al
ditional reasons ; they are a peculiar people, inca
pable in my judgment, of exercising that privilege
with any sort of discretion, prudence, or indepen
dence. They have no just conceptions of civil
liberty. They know not how to appreciate it, and
arc consequently indifferent to its preservation.
3lr. Clarke, who like Mr. Van Buren, voted in
favor of striking out the “ white,” which thus con
ferred the right of voting on negroes, remarked in
a speech,
“ I am unwilling,” said he, “ to retain the word
‘ white’’ because its intention is repugnant to al
the principles and notions of liberty, to which we
have heretofore professed to adhere, and to our
declaration of independence, which is a concise
and just expose of those principles. In that sacred
instrument we have recorded the following incon
trovertible truths. ‘We hold these truths to be
se f evident —that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain un
alienable rights ; that among these arc life, liberty,
and the pwsuit of happiness .’ ”
The people of color, are capable of giving their
consent, and ever since the formation of your gov
ernment they have constituted a portion of the peo
ple, from whence your legislators have derived
“ their just powers,” and by retaining that word,
you deprive a large and respectable number of the
people of this State, of privileges and rights which
they have enjoyed in common with us, ever since
the existence of our government, and to which
they are justly entitled.”
Mr. Jay, on page 190, moved that the word
“ white ” be stricken out. The vote was taken by
yeas and nays, (see page 202, of the Journal,) and
resulted as follows :
Ajes —Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Barlow, Beck
with, Birdseye, Bimkerhoff, Brooks, Burroughs,
Buel, Carver, R. Claike, Collins, Cratner, Day,
Dodge, Doer, Eastwood, Edwards, Forris, Fish,
Hallock, Hees, Ilogeboom, Hunting, Huntingdon,
Ja} r , Jones Kent, King, 3lodre, Munroe, Nelson,
Park, Paulding, Pilcher, Platt, Reeves, Rhinelan
der, Richards, Rogers, Roseburgh, Sanders, N.
Sandford, Seaman, Steele, D. Sutherland, Swift,
Sylvester, Tallrnadge, Tuttle, VAN BUREN, Van
Ness, S. 11. Van Rensselear, Van Vechtcn, Ward,
A. Webster, Wendover, Wheaton, E. Williams,
Woodward, Wooster, Yates —63.
Noes —Messrs. Bowman, Breesc, Briggs, Carpen
ter, Case, Child, D. Clark, Clyde, Dubois. Evek
man, Fairlie, Eaton, Frost, Home, Humphrey,
Hunt, Hunter, Hold, Knoles, Lancing, Lawrence,
Lefforts, A Livingston, P. R. Livingston, McCall,
IVlilliKin, Pike, Porter, Price, Pumpelly, Radcliff,
Rockwell, Roof, Rose, Russel, Sage, R. Sanford,
Schenck, Seely, Sharpe, Sheldon, J. Sutherland,
Taylor, Ten Eyck. Townley, Townsend, Tripp,
Van Fleet, Van Horn, Verbrych, E. Webster,
Wheeler, Woods, Young —59.
The word white was accordingly stricken out.
Progress of the Cause of Reform. —Ex-
tract of a letter in the U. S. Gazette, dated Pitts
burg, Pa,, June 29.
“ I have just arrived here from Mobile, and I
have travelled up the Mississippi river, from its
mouth to the mouth of the Ohio river, and up the
Ohio to the Keystone State ; anil I assure you that
I have heard only seven men huzza for Van Bu
ren ; but the united huzza for General Harrison,is
truly astonishing. People on both sides seem de
termined to elect him. \.ou would laugh to see
the hundreds of log cabins and liberty poles strung
all along the many wood landings and cities. No
thing is more sure in the West of his majority be
ing very large—So all I sav is, go ahead.”
To this it may be added,' that the Pittsburg Sat
urday Visitor, hitherto neutral, has hoisted the
Harrison flag.
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The LocoJPoco Convention.
The treaty of alliance between the renegade
’ State Rights Loco Focos and the Loco Foco
1 party proper, was finally ratified and confirmed
at MilledgeviUe, on the 4th inst. The consider
ation paid by the Loco Foco party proper, is, that
E. J. Black, Mark A. Cooper, and W. T. Col
quitt should supply the place of Cone, Holsey
. and Glascock on the Congressional ticket, and
; that Seaborn Jones, of Muscogee, Edward Har
r den, of Clarke, and James Anderson, of Burke,
should supply the place of Gen. Walker, Gen.
Andeison, and Col. Tennille, on the Electoral
' ticket. Pretty fair price, think wc, considering
' the character of the commodities.
i
The Hon. William R. King was on Friday last
i elected President pro tempore of the Senate, the
Vice President of the United States, having left
Washington.
Samuel, alias P. Q. Cushman, has been ap
' pointed Postmaster at Portsmouth, N. H, This is
the man who said during the last war, “ that he
hoped to God, that every soldier who marched to
. Canada would leave his bones there.” He is a
i fair specimen of Mr. Van Buren’s “ Democratic
; friends.”
Another important Change. —By a letter
‘ from the Hon. Charles Downing, a Delegate in Con
; gress from Florida territory, which appears in the
the last Tallahassee Star, we are gratified to per
ceive that gentleman has renounced Van Buren,
1 and taken his stand in favor of General Harrison,
lie gives his reason in the following extract from
his letter:
“ Although we may have no vote in the election,
and hence are told by many it is folly to meddle —
yet I think that Florida has if deeper interest in
. the Presidential election than any State in the
Union. Independent of having all our officers who
J administer the laws, selected by the President, we
i have a series of savage butcheries, almost nightly
L enacted among us, the like of which for atrocity,
for damning disgrace on the Government which
1 should protect us, has no parallel in the history of
’ the world. He must have a deeper confidence in
, a government professing democracy than I have,
who can believe that after nearly five j'ears of
1 scenes like this, o f continued impotence, of dis
r grace and defeat, this same government, adminis
t tered by the same men, can do, or will do, better
in the next four years, than they have done in the
last.
? Who is there that can see any probable or possi
t hie chance of closing the war, if conducted as it
has been ? Who will give us protection, but a
change of the constitutional commander in chief
• of the army and navy of the United States ?”
More Political Changes.
THE PROGRESS OF THE GOOD CAUSE.
Changes among the people in favour of the
Hero of the Thames, continue to pour in upon
■ us. The Lebanon Star of a late date mentions
having counted two hundred and forty-nine
[ renunciatioJis in Ohio, in less than a dozen ex
i change papers. The greater number of those
that change, do so without publication, preferring
1 a quiet exertion of their inlluence for reform, to a
public recantation.
We have also a valuable auxiliary in the Gren
ada, Miss. Reporter, one of the ablest of all the
I Van Buren papers in that State. The Editor
thus accounts for his new position:
“ We frankly confess, we arc convinced we
have been in error—doing wrong to ourself, our
country and posterity, in the humble and hearty
support we have hitherto rendered the Adminis
tration; wc therefore abandon it. We have be
lieved that the policy of the Administration would
promote the prosperity and happiness of our
country. It is now plain to our mental vision
that a more ruinous policy, one more destructive
to all the great branches of industry and trade,
which make up the sum total of our country’s
business, wealth and prosperity, could not be pur
sued. We see the most energetic and enterpri
sing of our citizens daily failing around us ; we
can see every branch of business stagnant—every
trade and profession suffering, we see all the
chiefstaples, and particularly the great staples of
i the South, depressed to a degree totally ruinous
1 to the producer; we see the government itself,
with all its boasted self-sustaining powers, after
• separating itself from the people, anti floundering
■ in the mazes of a labyrinthine “Experiment,”
reduced to the necessity of issuing batch after
’ batch of treasury shinplasters to pay off its credi
tors. We have seen all these things more in pity
1 than in anger; and seeing them, instead of reali
; zing the prosperity and happiness so long promi
sed by the Administration, and believing ourself
in error in sustaining it, wo now abrogate our al
legiance to loco focoism, and renounce thereto all
| favor, affection, and fealty.”
1 j A highly respectable member of the Virginia
►Senate informs us, that he travelled the other day
| from Vicksburgh to Helena with a brother Virgi-
I man, a loco foco. The latter had passed about
i three months in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Lou
-1 isiaua; and, on being asked how those three
States would probably vote in the Presidential
election, he answered : “ Louisiana will go for
Harrison by a very considerable majority—as for
Mississippi and Arkansas I hope they may go
for Van iinren, but I consider them very doubt
ful, for very great changes are continually taking
place in both of them in favor of Harrison.”—
Louisville Journal.
Government draft Protested. —The gov
ernment committed an act of bankruptcy last
Tuesday, by allowing a draft drawn by the Treas
ury Departmet upon the Collector of this port
to b e protest / Thisdra.t was drawn in favor
of Captain Hewes of the topographical corps,
and endorsed by him payable to P. T~ Ellicott,
in payment of a government contract.
The draft was made for ten thousand and six
ty dollars, and is now in the hands of the nota
ry.
Thus we go! It is a beautiful commentary
upon the sub-treasury system, and particularly
recommended to the consideration of those who
have been dosed with homilies respecting the hard
money doctrine. The money due by government
isowing to laboring men who have earned it by
the sweat of their brows. The contractor can
not satisfy the claims upon him so long as the
government withholds his claims upon it. Would
it not be as well for government to pay its own
debts, before it makes such a humbug about oth
er people ? Shin plasters are better than nothing.
Why don’t the administration sue its creditors—
go into court and pay off their dues at ten cents
in the dollar ? Such a course would be more
honorable than to draw drafts and suffer them to
be protested. — New Orleans Bee.
Representatives in Congress. —Louisiana
elects three, on the 6th of July; Illinois three, on
the 3d of August; Vermont five, on the Ist of
September; Maine eight, on the 14th of Septem
ber; Georgia nine, on the 15th of October; Penn
sylvania twenty-eight and Ohio nineteen, on the
13th of October.
New York and New Jersey in November.
John Quinct Ad ams, in a letter to a friend,
a few days since, says in a postscript, “ Harrison
will come in like a whirlwind V’ A capital
idea ! and one which well exemplifies the force
with which the long pent up and restrained pub
lic sentiment will prostrate and sweep away every
obstruction with which Loco Focoism may at
tempt to oppose its resistless course.—Massachu
setts Bpy.
From the New Orleans Picayune of the Ist instant.
Latest from Texas.
The Texian man-of-war steam ship Zavala,
Capt. Laihrop, arrived yesterday afternoon from
Texas, bringing dates later than those previously
received.
By a gentleman who came passenger we learn
that the Texian navy, consisting of the sloop ol
war Austin, the brig Wharton, and schooners
San Jacinto, San Bernard, and San Antonio, all
under command of Com. Moore, will shortly ren
dezvous at the South West Pass, where the
squadron will bejoined by the Zavala. Its desti
nation is not known, as the commander has sealed
or secret orders, but the probability is that they
s are to cruize in the vicinity of Matamoras.
What strengthens this belief is the fact that
Arista, commander of the Government forces
Mexico, is on this side the Rio Grande, and the
Tcxians look upon his movements with jealousy.
The gentleman who communicated the above
facts also informs us that the Ist and 2d divisions
of the Texas militia have been called out, and
further that Col, Karnes, the celebrated partisan
leader, is now at Galveston, where President La
mar is located for the piesent. Karnes has orders
from the Secretary of War to raise 1,000 volun
teers, which only wait the signature ol the Pres
ident.
The piobability is that the Tcxians are deter
mined to take possession of all the territory on
this side of the Rio Grande, and if they do not
next pounce upon Matamoras we are mistaken.
Canales, the Mexican Federal leader, is at Gal
veston. The above are the only items of impor
tance we could gather.
From the Richmond Whig.
„ The Negro Witnesses.^
The Feds are still struggling to extricate “ the
Northern man with Southern feelings” from the
odium, of sanctioning the introduction of negro
testimony against an officer of the Navy. We
cannot discover that all their exertions avail any
thing. On the contrary, the more they strive,
and the more the matter is investigated, the worse
does it appear for the advocate of free negro suf
frage. A feature of the affair not yet adverted
to, or at least not dwelt upon as its importance
deserves, is, that there exists no law on the sub
ject, whatever, and consequently, the President
had full and entire discretion to act as he might
choose. No law authorizes the admission of ne
gro temstimony against white men, and there ne
ver has a case occurred within the waters of the
U. S. This is the first that was ever brought to
the notice of the President. Without any law
requiring it, or any usage to excuse it, and with
full power to gratify the bent of his own inclina
tions, Mr. Van Buren, after mature deliberation,
established the principle of admitting negro testi
mony, and thereby placed the officers of the Na
vy and the Army upon a footing of equality
with negroes. In making this decision, as if to
add to the indignity, he treats the matter with cool
indifference, and without stooping to give his
reasons, contemptuously remarks that he could
find nothing in the case of Lieut Hooe, contain
ing the admission of free negroes to testifty
against an •fficer of the Navy, which required
his interference!
We defy Mr. Van Buren’s friends here or
elsewhere to adduce an act, or all the acts put
together of all the Abolitionists, more insulting
to the South, or more deeply imbued with the
spirit of Abolitionism, or half, so practically in
jurious to us. What has Tappan or Garrison
or any of the band, ever done to compare with
it ? Their operations have been mainly confined
to theories and abstractions, to preachingequality
while they were preparing to swindle their black
dupes. But Mr. Van Buren’s course is practical
and so is co-extensive in its effects, with the
limits of the Union. At one blow it strikes the
officers of the Army and the Navy to a level with
the African race, and admits negro testimony in
to all the Federal Courts.
Is it surprising that an extraordinary feeling of
indignation has been excited throughout the
Southern States by this gross outrage upon their
feelings by the Chief Magistrate of the Republic 1 ?
—by one too, who affects to be their especial
friend and most devoted admirer ? It is only
wonderful that the indignation has not extended
to every man —that there is a single one in the
South so completely the slave of party as not to
feel the resentment of a man.
We believe it can be asserted with strict truth,
that Martin Van Buren has been the advocate
of two principles or measures more thoroughly
and practically Abolition,in their character and re
sults, than any other man of the day. We allude
to Free Negro Suffrage in New York, and Ne
gro testimony against White Men. Who can
boast as much? What Abolitionist can say he
has achieved as much towards bringing the two
races to an equality.
Broad Grins, or living Caricatures.—
A chap with carbuncles on his nose and brandy
blossoms illuminating the whole breadth of his
visage exhibiting great alaim lest the whole land
shall be filled with drunkenness by a little cheer
ful talk about Hard Cider.
—A big-bellied fellow, who rode into office on
a Hickorky Pole, and has been kept in by a suc
cession of barefaced humbugs, cursing Log Cab
ins, and protesting that “the Federalists always
exhibited a contempt for the understanding of
the People.”
—A Loco Foco who has w i #ut his whis
tle in denouncing Post Notes a Irredeemable
Paper, justifying the Federal Administration in
issuing millions of those same, because “circum
stance alter cases,” although the Government,
which might easily borrow money regularly at
low interest, has not the poor excuse in necessity
which is pleaded by those who “ follow in the
footsteps.”
—An Editor with both hands in the Treasury
and his pockets stuffed with “blanks, paper and
twine,” solemnly denouncing that our precious
liberties are gone to the deuce if the present tribe
of Federal Office holders are not kept in eter
nally.
—A voter who had “ always stuck to the same
principles, contending in 1828 that no President
should be re-elected while in office, and then vo
ting for the re-cleclion of every one that comes
along.
—A friend of honest banks and a sound mix
ed “ Currency” advocating the Sub-Treasury,
which exacts Specie inflexibly and treats honest
and dishonest, solvent and insolvent banks all
alike.
—A Loco Foco talking about the “ economy”
and disinterested patriotism of our present Rulers.
Oh hush!— Log Cabin.
Van Buren and Gen. Harrison. —The Pe
tersburg Intelligencer, in reviewing the public
services of the two candidates for the presidency,
says:
“We have been led into these reflections by a
remark made by Gen. Waddy Thompson, in
his Speech at Hanover” on Saturday. After
drawing a comparison between the lives and ser
vices of Harrison and Van Buren, Gen. T said
—“ I have it Loin the best authority that, on the
night of the battle of Tippecanoe, when General
Harrison was sthanding ankle deep in blood, and
when his camp was illuminated by one continued
flash of the Indian Rifle, Martin Van Buren, per
fumed like a milliner, w T as leading oil’ a minuet
at a Ball in Albany.” What a contrast is here
presented ! If a volume had bee n written on
the subject, it could not more comcpletely have
depicted the characters of the two men. We
fancy now that we can see the two individuals
in their different positions. There is General
Harrison cheering, urging on and rallying his
men, driving back the savages from one position 1
and gallantly attacking them in another; and
here is little Van Ticking With cologne and
stiff with pomatum, an oppress/veil/ odoriferous
as ever was a civet cat, bis dapper body arrayed
in all the habiliments of a petit maitre, his w his
kers curled “in the last agony,” and his smir
king little face distorted by one everlasting, gri
mace, leading olf his partner with the practised
ease and grace of a French Dancing Master.
Who can dwell on this picture without being
sickened and disgusted, that such a thing as .Mar
tin Van Buren should ever have been Chief
Magistrate of this great nation.
The next Arrival. —The Boston Atlas of
yesterday says:—“It is well known that the
steamship Britannia leaves Liverpool, and the
British Queen leaves Portsmouth, on the Ist of
July—the former for Boston and the latter for
New York. Mr. Cunard, we learn, expects to
make the passage from Liverpool to Boston, in
cluding the stop at Halifax, in 12 days, if lie
should have good weather.—On this supposition
the Britannia will arrive on the 12th of July.
We have received a communication proposing
to the merchants of Boston the expediency of
running an express to New York, immediately
on the arrival of the Britannia, should she arrive
on the 12th, or a few hours before or afier the
steamboat train leaves for New York. This is in
case she has a short passage. Thus the Bostoni
ans will be able to get the news into New York
before the British Queen will arrive.”
What have we got for the one hundred and
eleven million cf dollars that we have j aid t) Mr.
Van Buren for the last three years]
Answer. —We have got a deranged currency,
low wages, property reduced in value manufac
tories shut up, laborers without employment, cor
ruption in high places, distress amidst the poor,
bankruptcy in the National Treasury, and last,
but not least, gold for the office-holders —very
cheap ! Shall we try him again I — Bellows Falls
Gazette.
From the Madisonian.
Didactical. —We are overrun we confess,
but wc beg, in self-defence, to suggest to thorn,
very respectfully, a few rules for their observa
tion :
1. Condense your articles, and make them as
brief as possible.
2. Never send us a communication unless you
are sure it has point.
3d. Never expect to see your communication
in print unless you can write grammatically, and
can do your own spelling and punctuation.
4lh. Never write on both sides of your paper,
if you intend your article to be printed. It is a
great inconvenience to the compositor, and can
scarcely be tolerated, unless the communication is
from a distance.
5. Never bore an editor by reading your arti
cle to him. Leave it to his discretion, and bide
your time.
6. Never ask an editor the news—it is like get
| ting professional advice without fees, or smug
gling goods. Take his paper, pay for it, and then
you will get the news without inquiry.
7. It is a great mistake to suppose that an ed
itor’s sanctum is *a public reading room. To
tumble and read an editor’s exchanges, is as bad
as riling the fountain where the spring folks arc
dipping w r ater for their customers.
8. When you wish to discontinue your paper
do it with as rnuoh decency as you ordered it, al
ways remembering that an editor forever sets him
down as no gentleman, who after requesting his
paper compels the postmaster to send an abrupt
notice, that the paper “is refused;” and, that an
editor can never regard him an honest man who
discontinues his paper without paying arrearages.
9. Never flatter yourself that an anonymous
communication, addressed to, or touching per
sons, will be noticed.
Mi gratort Expf.diton of Ants.— The ant
cities, as they ought to be called, of Brazil, are of
such amazing size that they have more the char
acter of structures reared by human hands, than
of monuments of insect industry and skill. They
are conical moulds of ten or twelve feet; their cir
cumference is nine or ton feet —A hard yellow
clav form the external coat; the inside is divided
by a number of horizontal floors or stories of hard
black earth in thin plates, which sometimes shine
like Japan ware. These habitations peopled
by myriads of ants of a large size, and brown
color. They have the power of exuding from
(heir bodies a viscid fluid, by which they moisten
the clay to a consistency fit for baking floors.
Some species form covered ways in this manner,
and tunnels and avenues of this description have
been found stretching for a considerable distance
from one settlement to another, and through which
these ants are enabled to make pretty longjourneys
unseen.—They sometimes migrate and their ex
peditions are attended with truly remarkable
circumstances. In fact, they resemble on a small
scale, the inroads of Attlla and his million of
mounted barbarians, into the fruitful and glowing
plains of Italy—leaving parched deserts in their
wake. When these insect Huns set out on such
enterprises, they proceed right forward in a straight
line, just as the laden bee flies to its hive, and they
devour every thing in their way which is esta
ble, like a cloud of locusts “ warping on the
wind.”
It once hapened, during one of these expedi
tions, which was undertaken near the city of Rio
de Janeiro, that a garden obstructed their line of
march —a deep ditch of water in particular see
med an insurmountable obstacle; however, a
stick happened accidentally to be lying across it;
this the ants used as a bridge, and over it they
poured by myriads, so that in a few hours the
garden was swarming full of them, and every
thing of a vegetable kind disappeared. From
this they proc ded on till they came to the Swe
dish Consul home, through which they actually
made *heir way. The gentleman who inhabited
it was suddenly awakened during the night by
a horrid sensation, and starting from his couch, he
found himself covered with these insects, whose
crawling and biting had awoke him. The house
was full of them ; there wes neither recess nor
apartment nor closet exempt from their presence.
Impelled by their instin ve tendency to advance,
they pursued their onward course until the whole
body passed through, and next morning not a
single one of t was to be seen. Strange to
say, the ants devoured every other insect in their
progress, so that the singular visitation was not
without its use. Spiders, cockroaches, and every
thing of the kind which infested the house, be
came the prey of these nocturnal visiters; and
when they disappeared, it was found every other
species of insect had disappeared along with
them.— Connecticut Courant.
Anecdotesof the Russian Government.—
When cne of Alexander’s visits to Warsaw was
announced, there was not time to clear the streets
of a quantity of mud which had been scraped in
heaps. The police (Ku ans) ordered the win
dows on the ground floor of the houses in these
streets to be opened, and f ew the mud into the
rooms ! One of the bells Moscow was profes
sedly banished to the borders of the icy ocean in
Siberia, three or four hundred years ago, for hav
ing tolled the accession of some pretender to the
throne. This man passed himself off as an em
peror who was reported to have been strangled;
but the deceit was discovered, and his accom
plice, the bell, punished by the knout, as it was
found impossible to send it to Siberia, according
to the sentence. On his accession the present
emperor published an ukase, allowing the bell to
return to Moscow, but not to sound; on the birth
J of a son some time after, Nicholas j.,
ukase, granted it a full pardon, and itV Sec °
lowed to sound. Prince Roman San * "i. 0 "1JB
banished to Siberia after the revolutf a *
father had never given him an establishp 0 ’
the Russian Government obliges him
them, annually, the income his son ou.»h
received. A Jew, whom he (the fath
formerly been instrumental in bringing to
h-d returned from banishment, and incu I '™
samepunishme.it; to aggravate Prince IV
punishment, this man was chosen as ? V - 0llIa!, '| *
panion on the journey, and chained wiiht' C °B
the same iron bar. From forty to sixiv M
pled in the same manner, and then strung C 6 58
erun the same chain. When they half f 'H
night they are not unchained, but are -"
into a small space enclosed by high
ed at the top, without any roof, and so smffll
there is not always space to lie side by sid
gentleman from Cracow, being a; Wars" ST I
imprisoned because he wore a ring *4
the letters N. P., which, it was insisted "
mean, “Nouvelle Pologne.’|, He was obfe (
send to Cracow to obtain certificates that k ■
letters were the initials of his mother . |, ,ei H
she had given him the ring.—4fAc/ja!u w . «
From the Journal of Comm rce. ’
Commerce and Navigation of the U. S dnr'
year ending September 30 th, 1839.a
The annual statement of the Commerce H
Navigation of the U. S. has just been W J|l
Congress. Ihe following summary i s Kat r jH
from it : ° a ‘ e: iH
Import for the year ending 30lh
Se Pt- !839 $162092hi
Exports do 121',023tH
Imported in American vessels Ug'firiwH
Do in foreign vessels U2178M
Os the exports. §103,533,891 were ofdomfl
and §17,494,525 foreign articles.
Ofdomestic articles §82,127,414 were expo J
in American vessels, and §21,404,377 in foreiS
vessels. C 'H
Os the foreign articles. $12,660,434 were jj
ported in American vessels, and §1,834,091
foreign vessels.
American Shipping.
J^ tcrc ?’ 1,491,279 to J
Cleare(3 > to*!
Foreign Shipping. "M
Entered, tons!
Cleared, 611,839 tons!
Registered tonnage, 834,244
Enrolled and licensed 1,153,551
Fishing vessels, 108,682
° |
Tons 2,096 478 I
Entered in whale fishing 131,845 tons!
Tonnage of Shipping Built in U. S.
Registered, 55,064
Enrolled, .... 65,922
' Tens, 120,986
Temperance in Purgatory !—An old ho!
man, who had some time since joined Fatbrfl
Mathew’s Temperance Society, being last week!
on her dying bed, requested that her “medal”!
I would be suspended to her neck after death, anjfj
buried with her. On being asked her reasonfor||
making this request, she replied—“ Wisha agraji
shure it would be worse to dhrink whiskey. J
purgatory than here itself, as the burning withiS
and the burning without would be too had—J
in the name God, I’ll take the medal, and if!
meets Mick Brien, or any' of them ould neighbors!
that used to bo threating me, I can show then I
the medal, and faix then they’ll not mind niakic;!
me dhrink in spite, of me, whether I liked it cil
not as they used to do at the fairs and patterns, I
—lrish Vaper.
BANK REPORTS.
Hank of Augusta.
April 22d, IS4O. t
To his Excellency, the Governor of Georgia;
Sir —I hand herewith, a minute statement of tin I
condition of this flank, prepared from its books,oil
Monday the 6lh Inst.; together with a list of stock!
holders, and have the honor to remain,
Re-poctfully,
Your very obedient servant,
JOHN MOORE, President. I
A statement of the condition of the Bank of Aguim
as taken f rom its books, on Monday »ior»wjl
6th April , 1840.
To capital stock 12,000 shares, SIOO
each paid in $1,200,000 I
Notes of this bank
issued... 1,726,175 89
On hand 1,354,700
In circulation 371,4761
Balance due to other banks payable in
current notes 57,553 Sj
Amount due individual depositors pay
able in current notes, 17.2,552 ;j
do do do cash 1,700 a
Amount due stockholders of this bank
for dividends and distribution of sur
plus jrofits payable in current notes 4,336 ij
do do the flank of Charles
ton, payable in Charleston 10,326 ij
Surplus profits 62,762 c|
$1,880,709 J
By' bills and notes discounted, running
to maturity' at Augusta, 584,267
do do do New
York, Charleston and
Savannah 111,380 34
do at other places, 11,176 49
Total amount of assets not matured,.. 706,824 w
By' bills and notes discount
ed, lying over not protest
ed, nor in suit or judge
ment 10,384 86
Protested but not in suit or
judgement 42,934 44
Protested and in suit or
judgement 213,087 61 J
J fe 1 266,406 9|
Total amount of discounted paper,... .973,231 '1
Jly' Real Estate, including
Banking House 44,575
By stocks, viz. Geo. R. R.
and Banking Co 204,360
Sav. Ins. k Trust Company, 6,030
Geo. Ins. & Trust Company
Augusta 5,000
State of Ga. Sterling bonds, 302,500
Augusta city r bonds, 10,000
By Geo. R. R. & Ban’g Co.,
loan on interest 25,000
By notes of the Bank of
Darien, on interest 13,692 611,1^
Total amount of investments, \,b64,
Protest account “
Amount due by individuals in open
account, ■
Amount due by B' nks in N.
Y., Philad., Petersburg,
Va., Char eston “and Sav. 12,337 5S
Amount due by otlaer banks 0 ,, ij
and agents 81,886 52 94,21 J
Specie belonging to tbisb’nk in its vault ‘6,-l J 1
do order from N. Y.,and shipped lor I
Savannah,
Treasun draft on collector of customs,
Charleston, 270 |
Note? of the banks in this Stale in good
credit, and city corporation bills re- .i n 241 i
deemed from circulation, 11
279,933 4
Notes of the Bank of Darien, and I
branches on special deposit, 4
Incidental expenses, jj —i
$1,880,709 ’I
Extract from the Report of the
character of the discounted paper >■ 0 j
this Bank. lask'l
The Committee appointed on Ihu.. j