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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. © 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.