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CHROMCLE AND SENTINEL.
lUGUSTA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 16.
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,
9 JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of 5 98 —
one of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
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FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee."
JOgJ. CRAWFORD, of Hancock.'
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
® ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZAPvD, of DeKulb.
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, cf Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
g, The County of Burke.
It was not a little astonishing to us to learn that
a report was circulating in many parts of the State,
that “ this old and devoted republican County
would give a majority in favor of rhe present ad
ministration.” Our readers may rest assured that
nothing could be further from the truth ; old Burke
is sound to the cove, and the election will tell, as
it has always done, that she is not found wanting.
The clouds which for a time lowered and seemed
to portend a storm, have, by the light of truth,
been dispersed, and her noble sons are rallying to
the standard of Harrison, Tyler and Reform, with
a zod unknown in her palmiest days.
Hou. J. Buggies, of Maine.
We take much pleasure in laying before ou r
readers the following letter, from the Hon. John
Ruggles, one of the Senators from Maine, to an old
acquaintance and friend of his, who, though a na
tive of Maine, has been for some years residing in
Georgia. The reader will perceive that it is in
the easy style of a friendly, familiar correspon
dence, and designed only for the eye of his friend,
who has takon the responsibility to place it at our
® disposal. Mr. Ruggles was, until recently, a Van
Buren man, but, like every true patriot, has pre
ferred the cause of his country to the cause of a
party *which he honestly believed was bringing
ruin ijpon the country.
_ Senate Chamber, >
Washington, July 2, 1»40.3
„ “Dear Sir, —Yours 01 the 25th ult. is just re
ceived, desiring to know the prospect of Harrison
sag, obtaining the vote of Maine. In reply, I have to
say, that a very salutary change is going on among
the people of that State, which augurs the most
satisfactory results for November. We shall very
much the majority of Fairfield, (Gov.) at
our State election in September. Indeed, wc
should hope to carry the election against him, if
the opposition had put the right man in nomination.
But in November we confidently expect to carry
Harrison® Electors. The people, the yeomanry, —
mechanics — laborers, and producing classes gen
erally, all feel the necessity of a change of rulers.
Thee Electors are chosen by general ticket, not by
Districts. = Lincoln County will go strong for Har
rison. The Abolitionists, however, will go gen
eraly for Van Buren, against Harrison. They
think that Mr. Van Buren will favor them after
the election is over . They know Harrison will
not. Yours, respectfully, Jno, Ruggles.
Dr. Benj. Ayer, Louisville, Jeffeison county, Ga.
Cheering News.
The news from every section of the State, is of
the most gratifying character to the friends of Re
form, and from no section of Georgia, have we
more cheering accounts, than from the Cherokee
Counties. Populated as those counties are with
the hardy yeomanry, they would be recreant to
the great principles of republican liberty, not to
rally \p the cause of the patriot farmer of Ohio.
We make the following extract from the letter
of a highly respectable and intelligent gentleman,
from Middle Georgia, who has been spending
some weeks in that interesting part, of our State:
Walker Co., July 6, 1840.
Dear Sir :—“The friends of Gen. Harrison,
with whom I have met, »"? travelling through the
counties of Forsythe, Cherokee, Murray, and
Walker, seem to take great interest in the con
test, and are sanguine of an increased vote
throughout this part of Georgia.”
Louisiana Election.
The rfew Orleans Picayune of the 9th says :
The entire number of votes given in the Second
Municipality, is 1224; in the First anJ third Mu
nicipalities, 1296: total 2520. This sho.vs a
falling off, as compared with the vote of 18.18, of
593. The votes will not he counted until to
a, y ; yet enough is known to warrent us in sla.
ting that the Whig majority will he in the ne.gh
borhood of 500. 1
From the Albany Evening Journal . 1
Tr lump hant viudication olGen. Harri son.
We are enabled to give the testimony of Gen.
James Miller, than whom a braver or a truer
man does not live, in favor of the character and
courage of Gen. Harrrison. It was Gtn. Miller,
it will be recollected, who told Gen. Brown that
he would ‘ try” to lake possession of the British
Battery which was mowing swarths through our
lines—and he did take it! It was General Mil
ler who led the American Army in the gallant
and memorable charge at Lundy’s-Lane. Gen.
Miller, in short, was the Marshal Net of the
American Army.
This veteran, though holding the lucrative of
fice of Collector of the Port of Salem, has the cou
rage to come out in vindication of an old and be
loved fellow-soldier. Let the American People
read the following Correspondence and then say
how it becomes them to act towards the miscre
ants who slander and calumniate WILLIAM
HENRY HARRISON.
From the Boston Atlas.
We are permitted to make public the following
interesting correspondence:
Boston, Juno 29, 1840.
My Dear General :— I address you with
the frankness which one old friend may use to
ward another. My object is to learn what } r ou
think of the recent attacks on the military charac
ter of Gen. Harrison. I believe you were in the
array in the West, in the campaign of Tippeca
noe; although I do not remember that you served
with him after the declaration of war against Eng
land; —but as a military man, forming yo«r judg
ment impartially, and when the facts were recent
your opinion would be of great value. If there
be any blot on his military fame, it ought to be
known; if there be not, you will ft el that an old
soldier ought not to be unjustly and rudely at
tacked.
Gen. Harrison L before the country for the
Presidency. Ido not know that we shall elect
him, but I can say, in your own language, my
dear General, that “we’ll try.”
Yours with unceasing regard,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Gen. James Miller.
Salem, June 30, 1840.
My Dear Sir :—I have the honor to have
received your letter of yesterday, requesting me
to state what I think of the recent attacks on the
military character of General Harrison. In an
swer, I can truly say, that I have noticed with
deep regret attacks, not only on his well earned
military fame, but also upon his private and mo
ral character. My first acquaintance with Gen.
Harrison was in the year 1811. I was on duty
in the 4th Regiment of Infantry, then command
ed by Col. John P. Bayd—afterwards Gen. Boyd
—under orders to proceed to Vincennes, and
there report to Gov. Harrison. We did so.
We remained at Vincennes some days, and
united ourselves with the Volunteers assembled
there, devoting our limited time to pu’poses ot
organization and drill. We then took up our
line of march for the Indian country, and pro
ceeded by slow and cautious marches, until we
had reached about seventy miles up the Wabash
towards Tippecanoe; where we halted and threw
up a stockaded work, which we called Fort Har
rison. Here I remained until the Army returned
from Tippecanoe, after the battle.
Although I was not in the battle, still I took
great interest in it; had much cor. versation with
all the officers on their return; and made every
enquiry I could think of respecting their move
ments and encampments, the attack and defence,
and the operations of the battle throughout ;
and I made up my mind, unhesitatingly, that the
campaign had been conducted with great bravery
skill and judgment, and that nothing was left un
done, that could be done, consistently with the
General’s express orders from the War Depart
ment, which I saw and read.—Nor have I ever
known or heard of any act of his, which has, in
the least degree altered the opinion I then formed
®fhim. I will add, that, if lever had any milita
ry skill, I am more indebted tor it to Gen. Harri
son than any other man.
Soon alter the Battle, I wrote a letter to Gen.
Benjamin Pierce, late Governor of New Hamp
shire—my military father, as I call him—giving
a somewhat detailed account of the campaign of
Tippecanoe. That letter was preserved by Gen.
P. and might now probably be found among his
papers. If it is in existence, it will show what
were my opinions at that time, as would also
several letters then written by me to various
friends. In those days I never heard that Gen.
Harrison was a coward or wore petticoats.
To conclude, I freely express my opinion, after
following him through all his civil and military
career, after living with him in his family more
than six months, that Gen. William Henry Har
rison is as free from stain or blemish as it falls to
the lot of man to be.
I am, dear Sir, your old friend,
JAMES MILLER.
Hon. Daniel Webster.
From the Mobile Advertiser and Chronicle.
Disgraceful Scene.
Practical Abolition!—On Saturday, the
fourth of July , a procession of Negroes number
ing 75 to 100, w r as marshaled through the streets
of the South Ward, preceded by a band of music
and headed by a tvhiieman on horseback. They
attempted to enter the public house of a gentleman
near the rail-road, to take a drink with the patri
otic leader, but were repulsed by him at the en
trance. From their noisy and outrageous con
duct, they had probably been drinking before.
A white man, who had the appearance of a sailor
was knocked down by one of the negroes. The
offender was arrested, brought before the Recorder
and received a merited punishment. The indi
vidual who headed this disgraceful procession is
a prominent, noisy Democrat ! and while the
procession was passing a house where several
Whig mechanics were at work, by the command
of the leader, shouted out most lustily, “Huzza
fur the Democrats .”
Is not this an evidence that “the democratic
party puts forth principles, which must in the
end abolish slavery 1” Are not such democratic
acts as these among the “causes at work which
will free the slave V* Mr. Van Buren has allow
ed NEGRO TESTIMONY to operate against a
gallent officer of the Navy, and is it not probable
these negroes knew it 1
People of the South I look well to these remar
kable and dangerous manifestations—look to the
democratic source from which they emanate. Re
member the speech of the democratic Duncan,
tne most violent Abolitionist in Congress, which
has been published by the democratic party in this
city.—These publications, and outrageous acts
are no doubt intended for effect at the North, that
Mr. Van Buren may secure to himself the support
of the Abolitionists at the North.
A Stranoe Varment. — A Gentleman who
returned to Fayetteville a few days ago from Ten
nessee, states, we understand, that he saw but
two persons on his journey, who acknowledged
themselves to be Van Buren men. He heard of
one poor fellow, who had the temerity to declare
himself a Loco, when the people in the corn fields
after gazing at him for a moment with a mingled
expression of curiosity and fear, called the dogs
and made after him with their hoes and plough
lines. The way the “varment” streaked it would
have made Davy Crockett laugh.
p. S. We don’t want the Standard or Caro
linian or Amos Kendall, to hear of this. They
would make an awful noise over this Whig oul
rage.”—Fayetteville Observer.
About $30,000 worth of dry goods were sold
at auction at St. Louis on the 30th ult.
From the National Intelligencer ,
(iaifks of the District.
We present the following as an outline sketch
of the remarks of Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, on
the very extraordinary legislation of Congress in
relation to the District banks. We hope Mr. D.
will find leisure to write out his able, ardent, and
very impressive speech more at large.
Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, said that the mea
sure now under consideration was very import
ant to a large portion of the free but unrepre
sented people of the United Slates; and it be
came gentlemen to act in this matter with the
respect due to themselves and to a mass of the
community whose interests were confided to
their care. Mr. D. went on to observe that he
considered the present question, when viewed in
all its aspects, as the most important one which
had occurred during the present session of Con
gress ; it was nothing less than the grand “ hard
money scheme” of the Administration carried
out in its first application. Gentlemen might
cover it up as they pleased, hut it came to that;
it was the question whether, in a District over
which Congress exercised undisputed sway, they
should at once abolish all banks and credit, and
rely on a hard money circulation ! That was
the question. A portion of this House (said Mr.
D.) have declared that all banks in this District
arc to come to an end, and then all bank curren
cy must cease with them. Another portion of
the party say they are for banks with certain
limitations; but they are to be of a temporary
character, and all looking to a winding up of
bank concerns ; and this final winding up must
be accomplished within two years. Let me re
fer to the language employed by a gentleman
from New York, (Mr. Yanderpoel,) who is con
sidered as one of the leaders ol the Administra
tion party in this House. He told us that we
ought now so to develop the principles of the
Sub-Treasury Bill that the States might carry
out the system, and reduce the country to a hard
money currency. We are to set an example, he
says, in this this District for the Slates to follow.
[Mr. Yanderpoel here interposed, and was very
anxious to explain. Mr. Dawson for some time
refused to yield the floor, wishing the explana
tion to be deferred until the gentleman should
make his reply ; at length, however, he yie’ded,
when Mr. Yanderpoel explained that what he
had said, or meant to say, was this, that banks
under a state of suspension exerted a demoraliz
ing influence ; that they exhibited a demoralizing
aptitude to rush into a stale of suspension when
ever it did not suit their convenience to pay their
debts ; and that Congress was bound to set an
example in opposition to this spirit.]
Mr. Dawson resumed. It was then the moral
tendencies of the conduct of the banks that in
duced the very honorable and conscientious gen
tleman to oppose them. [A laugh.] Well, sir,
the gentleman votes to wind up the affairs of all
the District banks, because their suspension had
an immoral tendency. Has the Patriotic Bank
suspended ! Does it not now redeem its bills on
presentation! And docs not the bill before you
put this bank on the same fooling with all the
rest ! Is it the immorality of paying its notes
for which this bank is to be destroyed ! No,
sir; no.
That was not the gentleman’s ground. He
was for having us set an example here by wind
ing up all banks, and leaving the people of the
District to a hard money circulation. It is due
to the country—due to candor and magnanimity,
to develop the true issue, and not by unworthy
subterfuges to attempt to conceal it. I have
said this is an important, an all-important ques
tion ; and “ now is the time and now is the
hour ” to discuss and settle it; to form the great
issue before the country ; and to let the people
of this land know that there is a party in Con
gress who are determined to roll the wheel of
ruthless extermination over all State banks, and
thus to prostrate with them the rights of the
States. Gentlemen may think to deceive the
people; but let me tell them the people are wide
awake, notwithstanding all the poppies that have
been flung over their eyes. I am ready now to
meet the question. I stand on the old conserva
tive grou?id; Igo for preserving the institutions
of the country, and the rights of the individuals
connected with them. lam against destroying
the relations of creditor and debtor. I will not
vote to depreciate the value of property—to raise
the value of money, and thereby empower the
creditor to bring all the property of the debtor
under the hammer. That will be the operation
of the bill. That is the question on one or the
other side of which we are now to range our
selves. Will you, by voting for this bill, ap
preciate money one hundred per cent, and depre
ciate all property fifty per cent! Will you
throw the property of this District into the hands
of the moneyed men, and thus make the rich
richer, and the poor poorer! You know well
that I arn not one of those who love to dwell on
the invidious distinction between rich and poor;
but though I make no hypocritical pretensions of
sympathy, when it thus comes to action, I am
not willing to destroy that kind indulgence ex
tended by the banks to the people in this District,
and thereby force their property into market.
For who, I ask, are to be the beneficiaries from
this splendid act of reform ! I answer, the stock
holders of these banks and public officers. The
banks of this District have two millions and a
half of dollars due to them from the citizens,
whose notes they have discounted ; the amount
of their paper circulation is about §650,000 ; the
specie capitalhn their vaults is about §420,000 ;
now taking these §420,000 from the §650,000,
and it leaves about §200,000 to pay, while they
have two millions and half to receive. Under
these circumstances, what do you do! You,
friends of the people —you, who are no more
democrats at heait than I am, yet tell the dear
people so much more about your democracy—
what, I ask, do you do !
At one blow you cut off* the five heads of these
District banks, and throw them bleeding into
this ten miles square: and you tell them, now
die—close up your earthly concerns—for you
may live no longer. Well, what is the result!
They must sue their debtors, and bring their pro
perty to the hammer; and who will buy it ! The
office-holders first, and then the stockholders:
and where is the poor debtor ! Borne down—
crushed—brought with his family to ruin and
desolation; and brought by whom! By this
House — by you , who call yourselves the people’s
friends. For the sake of your political experi
ment of bringing a “ hard money currency ” in
to this devoted District, you stand by with stony
hearts and look upon the ruin of these defence
less people as if it were a spectacle exhibited at a
theatre. You throw all the property of the poorer
and middling class of people into the hands of
rich landlords and money-holders. Houses, the
fruit of hard earnings and long saving, houses
that cost the owner §IO,OOO, will go, before his
eyes, under the hammer of the auctioneer for
§1,500 or §I,OOO. All to carry out your beau
tiful scheme of “ reform ” and a “ hard money
currency !”
You talk about “indulgence” to the banks. Is
it not amazing that gentlemen will talk about
bank directors as proud aristocrats—rag barons—
rolling in splendor and luxury—when it is a well
known fact that the banks have never averaged a
profit over seven per cent. ! Why, the “great
monster” itself never realized to the stockholders
over six per cent, on their money. Yet, with
language like this in their mouths, gentlemen will
pass this bill, driving every money borrower to
the usurer or shaving shop, to save him from a
jail. There is the sheriff levying on all he has in
the world, and there stands his poor wife wring
ing her hands and clasping her weeping babes to
her bosom, while her husband in an agony is of
fering twenty-five per cent for money to the usu
rer or shaver to postpone the hour of their final
ruin. How are these money lenders to be bene
fited ! Not by granting the banks a charter: t
no : if you want to encourage and fatten usurers
and shavers, and make bank directors, already
rich, stdl richer, cut off all banks ala blow, annual 4
their charters, and compel them to enforce their
demands on the community. While millions are ,
due the banks, they have only to take oil enough
to redeem their circulation, and they pocket the
balance. This is the way to make capitalists the
lords of the land. This is set us as an example :
and I say, if you can only cany out your plan
if you can but go through the States and induce
their Legislatures lo do as you are doing,
that, b rring “stop laws” and “relief laws,” no
property in the whole country will be equal to
bank stock, and no people be made so rich as
usurers and shavers. The effect of your reform
is to depreciate all property, lo make the stock
holder plaintiff, and the borrower defendant.
I have a letter from my own State, from which
I learn that, when a certain plaintiff who had re
covered a judgement oulered the sheriff to levy
on the defendant’s property and compel him to
pay in specie, the indignation of the neighbor
hood was aroused to such a degree that they
went to the sheriff and asked him to slop sale,
and to the plaintiff in a state of such excitement
that they could scarce be restrained from violence,
remonstrating against such oppression and revol
ting cruelty. Yet we are now called upon to do
this very thing, and to do it in the name of the
General Government, that it may be held up as
an example to the Stale Governments. Well
sir, let the example be carried out; let those who
arc for compelling the defenceless people of this
Distric t to use nothing but hard money, go into
their own States and get their State Legislatures
to collect the taxes in hard coin, and to pay for
all their works of internal improvement in the
same hard currency. Try it then, and how long
do you think your Government will exist!
Will you not have a revolution as surely as you
may make the trial! Then Isay that we have
been here fighting these two days past in ambus
cade ; neither side has come up boldly to the is
sue. I call on you to come out from the bushes
and show your faces. Do to the people ot the
District as you are willing to do lo the people of
your own State. I call upon you Virginians, and
you Representatives from Maryland, to treat the
people of the District of Columbia as you are
prepared to treat the citizens of Virginia and ot
Maryland. Then your people will know what
it is you mean, and what they may have to ex
pect. Yet, while you arc voting here lo destroy
these banks because they have suspended specie
payment, (though one ot them has not,) you
will vote, at home, to recharter your own sus
pended banns, and to legalize their suspension.
Is this giving to the people us the District equal
rights! Your conscience says, No ! These peo
ple consider themselves, and justly so consider
themselves, as trampled on. Ought we not to
do something to alleviate their distresses! All
they ask of you is to do to them as the State Leg
islatures do to the people of the States. All they
demand is, that you will treat them as American
citizens. Do this, and it is all we ask.
The proposition of the honorable gentleman
from Maryland, (Mr. Thomas,) with the amend
ment of the honorable gentleman from Kentucky
(Mr Underwood), will do this. Indulge them at
least for two years. Who, I ask, should best un
derstand the affairs of the District and the ne
cessities and wishes of its inhabitants ! Is it not
the gentlemen whose local situation brings them
nearest to the District! And who are these!
Are they not the gentlemen from Maryland!
And now what do we see! Who feels the most
anxiety for their relief! The two gentlemen
from Maryland, (Messrs. Johnson and Jenifer.)
These gentlemen are not willing that Congress
shall set its heel upon this District, and grind its
citizens to powder. They are not willing you
should treat them ns rats in a receiver—mere sub
jects of experiment. This District, ceded to
your Government, and confided to its parental
care, is not a garden plant in which to try new
Tangled experiments. Its inhabitants are Ameri
cans —American citizens ; and they are not to be
practised on in this way. If you want to try
your new schemes, take a wider field. Let the
zealous gentleman from New York (Mr, Vahder
pocl) go to the great Empire State and there let
him proclaim his hard money doctrines. If, in
deed, I have mistaken his real views—if he is
not in favor of prostrating banks and introducing
a metallic currency—l shall rojoice from the bot
tom of my heart. It will cause me the liveliest
joy to hail him as a conservative, and join him in
an eflort to save the country.
I now move you that this whole subject be re
ferred to a select committee, with instructions to
report a bill to this House to-morrow at 11
o’clock.
The North Carolinian is making itself very un
happy at the idea that Gen. Harrison wants to
“tax the people one thousand two hundred mil
lions of dollars, to buy up all the negroes and set
them free.” The Carolinian is like the girl that
went into hysterics at the idea, that “if she should
get married, and if she should have a little baby,
and if it should crawl into the oven ,and be burnt
to death, how sorry she would be.” Our neighbor
may calm his patriotic fears. Gen. Harrison is
not, and never was, in favor of any such tax. In
1833, he did say, that, “ with the sanction of the
slave ho/diiig States,” he would be glad to see
the “ surplus revenue,” (not a tax,) applied lo
purchasing slaves, and sending them out of the
country. This is exactly the suggestion made
by Mr. Jeffers m, the great apostle of democracy,
many years before.— Fayetteville Observer.
Great Locofoc o Victory. —Some rabid Van
Burenite threw a brickbat and knocked the head
off the bust of Washington, which decorated the
whig rostrum in Canal street. This is truly a
locofoco triumph. It is right they should muti
late the bust of the father of his country. The
inanimate marble was a silent, though eloquent
reproach lor the miseries and disgrace they have
entailed upon the people whose liberties he
achieved. — jY. O Bee.
Correspondence of the True American.
CiscixxATi, June 30, 1840, 10 o’clock at night
Mr Dear Sir: —The Queen of the West,”
is just leaving. She is to be in New Orleans, by
10 o’clock on Monday.
Herewith I send you the “Philanthropist,”(the
Abolition paper of this city) of this date. You
will see that it denounces Gen Harrison, and calls
upon its party throughout the Union to take a
strong stand against him.
The South can no longer hesitate. Several of
your citizens, who have been zealous supporters
of the Administration have this day abandoned
it, and declared for the old patriot of North Bend.
The Abolitionists, ii is understood, will unitedly
give their support for the “Northern man with
Southern principles.” The General would rath
er be without their votes, than be elected with
them.
In Ohio, we never expected the votes of this
reckless, lawless, party. Now, as they have wa
ged an open war against us we shall cairy tne
state by an increased majority—over our most
sanguine calculation. Thank God! light is break
ing in upon us from all quarters. The Repub
lic is safe.
When this reaches you you will have entered the
Battle Ficld. Regard nothing as done while any
thing remains undone.” Victory must be yours.
—W hat more in the name of Heaven wants the
South West, than she will secure in the election
of Harrison and Tyler! In their elevation to
the first offices, Abolitionism, Locofocoism, and
all the other abominable isms which have sprung
up since Gen. Jackson was inauguiated, will be
utterly prostrated.
The Boat is just pushing off.
The Richmond Compiler says; The Alexan
drians go for a retrocession of the town and
county of Alexandria to Virginia. We wish their
desire may be consummated. W e (we speak for
Virginia) would receive them back with open
arms. Virginia never gave them up to the con
trol of Congress to be used as Physicians would
a subject—(o be experimented upon forthegrati
ficatian of political empyrics. They have been
greatly misused, and we would that we could see
them back in the household of their old mother
Virginia. They would receive the heartfelt wel
comes and cordial brotherly greetings oi all true
Virginians. Thev have our warmest wishes for
the success of their scheme for the retrocession.
With regard to the District Bonks, which have
been kindly indulged by Congress, with suffi
cient time to gather up their effects und be off out
of the bounds of existence, we may say that they
are among the most solvent Banks in the Union.
For some time past they have been well conduct
ed.
From the National Intelligencer.
Our Exploring Expedition.
Discovery of a New Continent.— We are
happy to be able to state that Letters have been
received from the Exploring Expedition of as late
date as the 13th of March ; at which time the two
larger vessels of the Squadron had returned to Syd
ney (South Wales) from its cruise in the South
ern Seas. A copy of the Sydney Herald of the
] 3th of March has reached our hands, from which
we copy the following highly interesting account
of the results of this cruise :
From the Sydney fS. W.) Herald, March 13,1840.
Discovery of the Antarctic Continent.—
Amongst the arrivals to be found in our shipping
list of this day is that of the United States ship
Vincennes , under the command of Chas. Wilkes,
Esq. The Vincennes has been absent from
this port almost eighty days, most of which time
has been spen'. in southern exploration ; and we
are happy to have it in our power to announce,
on the highest authority, that the researches oj
the exploring suqadrou after a southern contin
ent have been completely successful. The land
was first seen on the morning of the 19th ol
January, in latitude 64 degrees 20 minutes south,
longitude 154 degrees 18 minuses east.
The Peacock, (which ship arrived in our har
bor on the 22d ult. much disabled from her con
tact with the ice,) we learn, obtained soundings
in a high southern latitude, and established be
yond doubt the existence of land in that direction.
But the Vincennes , more fortunate in escaping
injury, completed the discovery, and ran down
the coast from 154 degrees 18 minutes to 97 de
grees 45 minutes east longitude, about 1,700
miles, within a short dialance of the land, often
so near as to get soundings with a few fathoms
of line, during which time she was constantly
sunounded by ice islands and bergs, and expe
rienced many heavy gales of wind, exposing her
constantly to shipwreck. We also understand
that she has brought several specimens of rock
and earth procured from the land, some of them
weighing upwards of 100 pounds.
It is questionable whether this discovery can
be of any essential benefit to commerce; hut it
cannoi he otherwise than highly gratifying to
Captain Wilkes and the officers engaged with
him in this most interesting expedition, to have
brought to a successful termination the high trm
committed to them by their country; and it i
hoped that so noble a commencement in the
cause of science and discovery will induce the
Government of the United Slates to follow up In
other expeditions that which is now on the poin
of termination.
We understand that the Vincennes will sail o;
.Sunday or Monday next for New Zealand, wlier
the Porpoise and Flying Fish will rejoin he
should they have been equally fortunate with thei
two consorts in escaping from the ice. Tb
Peacock will follow as soon as her repairs ar
completed whence they will all proceed in furthei
ance of the objects of the expedition.
We only add, that we wish them God speed
I heard Mr. Stanly offer Dr. Duncan ever'
possible insult upon the floor of the House, he I
nothing could induce the latter to open his mouth.
Vt. Statesman.
If Stanly had thrown a bottle of whiskey a
the Doctor’s head, he would have opened hi •
mouth quick enough.— Louisville Journal.
Dislikes of trk “President Maker.”—ln
the vain effort to bolster up Lis “follower,” whor !
the People, after trial, are determined to reject
General Jackson tells the world that he “neve
admired” General Harrison. As a “companioi i
piece” to this volunteer announcement from th i
Hermitage, we stated yesterday that the would-h l
President maker never admired General Wash •
ington.
When the Father of his Country was about t t
close his public career, and retire to his belovt j
Mount Vernon, there were some three or foul
members of Congress who, “not admiring” hi 1
career, refused to vote for a resolution of appn •
hation. Among the names thus recorded in th i
negative is that of “Andrew Jackson.”
Men who thus thought and voted, in regard t (
Washington, may easily fail to “admire,” and i (
is perhaps natural that they should not admin ,
General Harrison. For, one point of resemblana ,
at least, there is, in the character of Harrison an 1
that of the First of Men. In all their trials an )
services in the tented field, thought their who! I
military career, neither Washington nor Harriso !
ever, for a moment, forgot that the military ws I
subordinate to the civil power. In this particula j
the career of Harrison is as remarkable for its cr •
incidence with that of Washington, as Genera:
Jackson’s is discordant. And we repeat, it i )
cause of any thing hut surprise, that a commam »
ing officer wh» had no vocation for imita'inglhi
noble and characteristic attribute of the first (
men should have no stomach for “ admiring” on !
who did piofit by the high example, and succest I
fully imitate it.
All this is natural; as natural as it is for a gen i
erous high-minded community to contemn wan i
ton and unprovoked injustice, and for a free Peo
pie to repudiate and despise dictation !— Halt, t
more Patriot.
Stop the Murderer! —A reward of §Bo'l
is offered for the apprehension of Zehediai
Payne who recently murdered William Coltart ii
Franklin county, Teun. Payne is about 21
years of age, 5 feet 11 inches high, weighs fron
160 to 180 pounds, rather stoop-shouldered, dar!
sandy hair, florid complexion, fair skin, blue eye>
wears his hair long generally and has a dowi
look.
Antidote against Marriage. —Joy say
that if a man feels very much like getting married
yet imagines he ought not to, the best remedy h
knows of, is to help one of his neighbors move i
house full of furniture — borrow about nine of hi
children for three days, and hear them cry. 1
that fail, build up a fire of damp wood, and whei
the smoke in the room is thickest hire a womai
to scold him about four hours. If he can stan.
all these, he’d better get married the next day
give his wife the pants and be the silent partne
in the great firm ol matrimony. Wo think the
remedy is severe but as every man is liable to thos-.
things after he yokes himself, it would do n
harm to try it before.
From the Madisonian.
Economy of Martin Van Buretih,
istration! " 8 .
During the night on which the di s „ t
the Sub-Treasury Bill was brought lo^' 015 *1 *
the Committee of the Whole, Mr. p fi) c Close ij|l|
diana, made a speech of great ability ! '”5 foil -I
which we hope will be given to ffie nMB
length. There was one passage that t
in a most striking manner, the unpurafi ?' I
travagance of this Federal Administrati,
the hollowness of all its professions ° n ’ ia c !
Wc now publish this part of (he s . r CCf) . no, 3j m
call the attention of our readers to it s
They may be startling hut they
Mr. Profit said that the honorable
from Georgia, Mr. Cooper, had
Van Buren’s recommendations, 0 f ' u ‘^
Mr. P. said that he was willing to allo-v^ 0 ® °
President had made professions of eco
the question here was, has he practised 1
professions 1 Mr. P. said he would read ''
ment of expenditures made by Mr. V a
which statement ho (Mr. P.) had r»i a „
hands of the Chairman of the ConiL? * :
Ways and Means, previous to that gentler
dressing the committee, with a special
that he would refute the statement, if it
roneous. * This, the chairman had
do, and therefore, Mr. P. felt it his k I
it. Sir, said Mr. ProlHt, I charge uporiV?
Buren, that he has expended over and a 'b '■ *
the accruing revenue of the Government'' 9 ‘ 1
he came into power, Tweuty-ssven v’lir I
Three hundred Thousand Dollars, and h
the Government in debt Five Millions *
now I will prove it. ,ai
The act providing for the distribution of.',
surplus revenue directed that on the Ist i
January 1837, it should be distributed. reS
m the I reasury $5,000,000.
1 here was, in tact, retained upwards of
86,000,000, but I place it merely at $6,000(y
Bonds given by Bank of United States ’
lor United States stock owned in said
hank, three of which bonds have been
collected by Mr. Van Boren, 6,000 f
The fourth instalment of surplus reve- ’ ’ '
nue directed to be distributed to the
States, and withheld by act of Con
gress in October, 1837, which money
was in the Treasury, upwards 0f... .9,3Oote||
Bonds for duties due before 1837, and 1
which were extended on account of
the great fire in New York, and
which fell into the receipts after Mr.
Van Buren came into office about. • 6,000 C" I
If we regard the $2,000,000 Treasury ’ ' 1
notes as paid, which were outstand
ing at the opening of Congress, and
which have not yet been called in,
then we must charge Mr. Vanbu
ren with the lately authorized issue of
Treasury notes. 5,000,05 |
§32,300# ...
Mr. Von Buren, then, has expended mr« 1
above all the accruing revenue, the sura ot iwr
ly-seven millions three hundred thousand dolie
and run in debt five millions more, makings 1
amount of expenditure beyond the incoraa otiiie I
Government, $32,300,000.
Now suppose sir, said Mr. P., that the pu’i
coffers had been empty when Mr. Van Bn*
came into office, and that he could have laid, j
hands on nothing but the regular income of u lj
Government from imports and public lands, r,
would have been our present condition! Ti- |
ty-two millions in debt. How long, sir col £
we stand this without direct taxation?
Mr. Van Buren has been in office a little k %
than three years, and has expended $32,300# 1
of capital besides oar regular income. Shoa
he be re-elected, he will in eight years, ala 1
same rate, have expended, over and above then
cruing revenue, upwards of (T/’sevextht I
This, sir, is economy ! beautii |
praise wort by economy ! ! !
Death of the Hon, James K. Pringle.
We record with unfeigned sorrow the sudi A
decease of the excellent and highly esteemed a j
lector of our port, the Hon. Jajies R. Pkibgle.- 1
(in Friday evening last, he was unexpectedly! 1
tacked with an appoplectic lit, ami the nexti I
was a corpse. Mr. Pringle was a gentlema 1
high intelligence, lofty character and amiable? I
porlment. While President of our State Scte 1
in 1819, he received the appointment of Coite 1
of the Customs from Presiient Monroe, and I
upwards of twenty years discharged the dutie 1
that high and responsible trust with fidelity, d» 3
ty and courtesy, lie also served his fellow citiis
for a term, in the capacity' of Intendant (or May:
of the city'. Living, he possessed the confide j
and esteem of our community—his death is 3 1
cause of sincere and universal sorrow. —Charltti |
Courier of Monday.
Fire in Schenectady.—We understand
fire took place in Schenectady yesterday morn;
which consumed fourteen buildings, and tit. -
colored person has been arrested on suspicion
setting fire.— Alb. Eve. Jour., July 6.
The Abolitionists of Massachusetts have no!
inated a ticket of Presidential Electors. One I
the Elector is James T. Woodbury, brother i *
Mr. Van Buren s Secretary of the Treasury’■ g
The receipts of Flour, at New York by ti
Canals, from the opening of navigation on £
20th April to the 6th of July, were about 343,$
barrels.
It is said that American hank stock an 1 cam
and railway shares are held in Great Britain i >
the extent of nearly $200,000,000,
A Printing machine has been set up in
York which is driven by electro-magneticpo"-
A small newspaper, called the “Magnet,” is? 111 ,
ted by it.
A Mrs. Lawrence was burnt to death b
week, at Clintonville, N. Y. during a fire wfc-- 1
destroyed several houses.
Virginia Toracco. —It is estimated that
crop ofTobacco in Virginia last year will rea '
40,000 hhds., the largest crop made in the 5;j!l 1
for fifty years past.
An admirer of the fair sex resembleth an -
troiiomer, inasmuch as he delighteth to T ' J,V *
the movements of heavenly bodies.
New Definitions.—“To Cooper”a
tion —to bring a suit against an Editor * or
“Excitement of composition”—a lievV l£ ’
for lying not laid down by “Mrs. Opie — ir,u '
ted by Amos Kendall.
The Population of Concord, N. H. is
in 1830,3727; increase 1171.
Fanny Elssler is a lovely girl, withblus*!' .
red cheeks, and pouting lips. — N. Y.Era.
To this, the Louisville Journal says:
are fond of blue eyes and rosy cheeks, bub®*
pouting lips, we can only say, that we are -i
sed to set our face against them." @
The President has recognized C. CazD
Gardner as Vice Consul of Russia sot to® ‘
of Savannah.
It is said that Stephen Allen Esq-
York will be the Receiver ol V
money under the Sub-Treasury Act. @
I will adhere to the councel of geod
though misfortune or death should be lh e c
quencc.— Cicero. ~
Cotton Crop.—The Natchez F rce
states that the prospect of the cotton
the soil has suffered no inundation oli t t
sippi, are grand beyond parallel. Hie
has been uncommonly rapid, and n
continues dry. great quantities will be p* l
the month of July.