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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
A. V G U S T A. •
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 17.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ffi*#
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio ;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe—the incor
ruptible Statesman—the inflexible Republican—
the patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOHN TYLER,
«
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICt-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, cf 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. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
Louisiana Election.
The news from New Orleans is highly grati
fying to the friends of General Harrison, and
confirms fully the opinion heretofore entertained,
that Louisiana is certain for Harrison and Tyler.
The precise amount of gain will not be known
for some days, but it is said by the press in New
Orleans to be very large. In the second dis.
trict the Whig candidate for Congress is said to
be beaten by 13 votes, though the returns are
not official. In this district the Loco Focos had
a majority in 1836 of 719. We are not disap
pointed in this result, save only that the majority
of the Loco Focos is much smaller than we an
ticipated.
In the third district, we have seen returns but
from two parishes, and we perceive by a letter,
written to the National Intelligencer, prior to the
election the probability was, that Winn, Loco
Foco, would succeed. The Picayune expresses
the same opinion. From the returns received,
the Whig is ahead. The Bee says the Legisla
ture will be decidedly Whig.
Col. Seaborn Jones.
In our paper of the 10th inst., we published
the following communication.
For the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Mr. Editor : —Among the toasts given at the
late Loco Foco feast at Milledgeville, was the fol
lowing, by Col. Seaborn Jones, of Muscogee Co.:
George M. Troup, the patriot statesman: Let
those who thought him worthy to be President,
learn prudence from his warnings, and wisdom
from his counsels.
It is said that one of the counsels of Governor
Troup to a certain Aid of his, was, that “he could
resign if he had any fears of a collision with the
General Government.”
Can Col. Jones inform the people of Georgia,
whether that counsel was heeded ? Observer.
We yesterday received a letter from Col. Jones
from which we make the following extract:
“To the question proposed by Observer, j
can have no objection to reply, and unhesita
tingly declare, that Governor Troup never made
such a rerhark, or gave any such council to me.”
As we know very well to what “ Observer” al
luded, we will briefly state, and here take occasion
to remark, that we have repeatedly heard the
statement made by Col. Jones’s political friends
before he changed his position, and never before
heard it contradicted. It is this, —we give it as
we have heard it:
while Governor Troup was carrying
on his controvesy with the General Govern
ment, and many persons apprehended a col
lison with the Government, Col. Jones called on ,
the Gov. and offered some suggestions, for the
consideration of Gov. Troup, which did not ac
cord with the course the Gov. pursued. To which
the Governor replied. “Col. Jones you are one
of my aids.” “Yes,” was the reply of the Col.
“ You can resign your commission, sir,” said the
Governor, “if you have any fears on the subject.”
If injustice has been done to Col. Jones, we
can assure* s him, to our knowledge, he has la
bored under it since 1825.
From the Richmond Whig.
Van and the Tariff.
Citizen Ritchie, in his paper of yesterday, gives
us the fifth chapter of his book against Gen. Harri
san. It covers nearly five columns, and is as dull
as such a quality might be supposed to impart to
a production from that editor’s pen. It is confined
mainly to Gen. Harrison’s course on the Tariff and
Interna! Improvement, and demonstrates most con
clusively, that the old Hero voted for the Tariff and
for Internal Improvements ; but scrupulously sup
presses the tact that he stands pledged to support
the Compromise Act, and is now opposed to Inter
lal Improvements by the Federal Government; the
several States having already carried the system to
as great lengths as the wants and condition of the
country require and justify. But the candid and
ingenuous deduces from Gen. H.’s past ad-
vocacy of these measures, that he is all sorts of a
Federalist —remembering to forget that Judge Hen
ry St. George Tucker, the head of what is faceti
ously denominated the “ Democratic Republican
State Rights party,” has, within the twelve-month*
declared that, support of the Bank, Tariff, and In
ternal Improvement, is no evidence of Federalism,
for he, in common with the staunchest Republi
cans of the day, advocated all those measures !
The honest editor also, in his malignant assaults
upon General Harrison, carefully suppresses the
fact, that Martin Van Buren went a bow-shot be
yond Gen. Harrison, in the advocacy of these
measures. When Gen. Harrison, in 1818 or T 9,
voted for a resolution to take away the charter of
the U. N. Bank, Van was begging for the establish
ment of a branch at Albany. And in respect to
Internal Improvements, it is impossible that any
one could have gone farther than he did, when he
voted for the erection of toll-gates upon the Cum
berland Road. As regards the Tariff, there are
circumstances of aggravation connected with his
support of that system, which ought to render him
the most odious man to the Anti Tariff party of
any in the Union. Those circumstances prove
that he was not only an original and zealous sup
porter of the protecting policy, but they prove him
an insincere and dishonest man. He voted for the
Tariff of ’24, without instructions. He voted for
the Tariff of ’2B, with instructions, gotten up by
himself to cover his duplicity and treachery. In
the summer of ’27, he made his celebrated “ Sheep
Speech in which he broadly avowed himself the
friend of protection, and gave as an evidence of
his devotion to the system, that he “ had invested
$20,000 in sheep and farms devoted to that inter
est.’,' > During the following winter, when the
“ Bill of Abominations” came upi, he professed to
Southern gentlemen that he was opposed to it. On
the passage of the bill, he voted for it, a-signing
as his reason that he had been instructed. This
provoked from Gov. Tazewell the memorable re
mark : “ You have deceived me once, thaVs your
fault —if you do it again, it will be mine,’’'
But his plea of instructions was a mere pretext
—a hollow and hypocritical device to cover over
his double-dealing Soon after he gave his vote
for the bill with apparent reluctance, some dissat
isfaction was manifested among his constituents
at the contradiction between his profession then,
in requiring instructions, and his professions in his
“ She:p Speech delivered the previous summer.
He forthwith wrote a letter to a gentleman in New
York, stating, in su' stance, that great injustice was
done him, in the supposition that he needed in
structions to give his vote for the “ Bill of \bom
inations.” He even indulged some virtuous in
dignation at the ungenerous suspicions cast upon
him—considering the many conclusive evidences,
which he had furnished, of his devotion to the
wool growing and manufacturing interest. The
gentleman to whom the letter was addressed, to
remove the unjust, suspicions from the public
mind, read the letter to a public meeting in Pough
keepsie.
General Thompson referred to this matter in
his speech at the Clay dinner. He stated that he
had himself seen this letter, and could produce it,
if any man denied its reported contents. We heard
of it from an authentic source last year, aed made
some reference to it at that time.
It is difficult to conceive of any thing which
could place a public man in a more discreditable
and humiliating light than this does Mr. Van Bu
ren. its demonstrating him to be a Tariff man is
the least objectionable feature in the affair. It
proves him to be a double-dealing, hypocritical
man, whose professions and pledges having been
deliberately disregarded, no one can repose
any confidence in him.
Can the Editor of the Enquirer, in his next dis
sertation upon the Tariff’, be induced, for 1 >ve or
money, to apprise his readeis of these facts ?
From the Baltimore Patriot.
Letter of Col. R. M. Johnson.
The following letter addressed by Vice Presi
dent, then, Col. Richard M. Johnson, to Gen.
W. H. Harrison, will inform the reader what
Col. Johnson thought of General Harrison as a
“military man,” in the days when the services
and acts of both, in more than one well fought
field, were fresh in the memory of the writer.
What Col. Johnson then thought of his old com
mander, there is sufficient evidence that he still
thinks. So lately as on Monday, the 6lh instant,
while addressing a large assemblage of citizens at
Harrisburg, Pa., Col. Johnson said, in reference
to the great battle of the Thames—“there was not
a man, from the General down, who did not do
his duty,” on that field ! We copy the le.ter
from the National Gazette of Thursday—which
paper truly remarks, in giving it place, that no
commander could be addressed with wanner
terms of confidence than those employed in this
letter of Col. Johnson to General Harrison ; and
that it was written at a time when all the patriot
ic citizens of the Union bore witness to its truth.
But read the letter:
Camp at Lower Sanduskf, July 4, 1813.
Dear Sir:— l arrived at this place last even
ing with a part of the mounted regiment, after
two days march from Camp Meigs, leaving two
companies four miles in the rear, who were una
ble to reach this place ; besides about twenty
horses left on the way; which I am in hopes will
be able to get back to Camp Meigs, or come to
this place in a few days, where we can keep
them together and recruit them. Having been
in the most active service for upwards of forty
days, and having travelled upwards of seven hun
dred miles, much of it forced marching, it is nat
ural to conclude, that most of the horses are
weak; and we feel great pleasure, and obligations
to you, in finding your arrangements such as to
enable us to recruit the horses of the regiment.
To be ready to move with you to Detroit and
Canada, against the enemies of our country, is
the first wish of our hearts. Two great objects
induced us to come—first, to be at the regaining
of our territory and Detroit, and at the taking of
Malden—and secondly, Id serve under an officer
in whom we have confidence. We would not
have engaged in the service without such a pros
pect, when we recollected what disasters have at
tended us for the want of good generals. We
did not want to serve under cowards, drunkards,
old grannies nor traitors, hut under one who had
proved himself to he wise, prudent and brave.
The officers of the mounted regiment had some
idea of addressing you on their anxiety to be a
part of your army in the campaign against Cana
da, and of giving you a statement of the impor
tance of having an opportunity to make the regi
ment efficient for such a campaign, by recruiting
their horses. As to the men, they are active,
healthy, and fond of service. This morning I
have sent 100 on foot to scour the surrounding
country; and wherever we are we wish continual
service. Our regiment is about 900 strong when
all together. I have left 100 at Defiance to regain
some lost horses, and to guard that frontier.
Y'ou have not witnessed the opposition I en
countered In raising the regiment. Every per
sonal enemy, every traitor and tory, and your en
emies, all combined—but in vain. Nothing but
the hurry which attended our march prevented
me from having 1500 men. Nothing but the
importance of the service which I thought we
could render, would have justified my absence
from the present catch-penny Congress. My en
emies, your enemies, the enemies of the cause,
would exult if the mounted regiment should,
from any cause, be unable to carry a strong arm
against the savages and British, when you strike
the grand blow.
It is with diffidence I write you any thing touch
ing military matters; but the desires of my soul,
and the situation of the regiment, have induced
me thus freely to express myself. In the morn
ing we shall leave this place for Huron, ready to
receive your orders, which will be always cheer
fully executed at every hazard.
Your obedient servant,
RICHARD M. JOHNSON.
From Col. Johnson’s speech at Harrisburg,
July 6th, 1840.
“I do not stand here to abuse any one. Far
be it from me to deprive any man of the laurels
he has won during those memorable days. I did
not fight the battle of the Thames ; it was my
gallant band : there was not a man from the
GENERAL DOWN WHO DID NOT DO HIS DUTT :
they were ale BRAVE MEN AND PA
TRIOTS.”
From his speech in New York, July 8, 1840.
“ I do, sir, take this much to myself, I have
served my country, but the merit of my short
military career must be shared with others. 1
never allow myself, Mr. President, to be com
plimented on any occasion like the present,
without remembering the brave corps who shared
with me the perils and dangers of our common
cause. THERE WERE NO COWARDS
THERE, (at the battle of the Thames;) and
yet I know not not why I should speak of this,
for true courage is but a common quality of an
American heart.”
The New "ii ork Star of the 10th says; —Last
evening, Col. Johnson dined at the American
with the Common Council. Gen. Sandford, in
making some public remarks, adverted to the use
ful employ ment of the militia during the late war.
Col. Johnson, in reply, went over the principal
incidents of the battle of the Thames and the at
tack on Proctor’s division, and said, “ When my
GALLANT COMMANDER (HARRISON) gUVC the
order for a charge, I knew we could do the busi
ness in thirty minutes !
From the Albany Evening Journal.
Mr. Van Buree and the War.
Mr. Van Buren made his first appearance up
on the theatre of public life in November, 1812.
He came forward as a member of the Senate in
this State. The first presidential term of Mr.
Madison was then drawing to a close. A pow
erful combination of interest and delusion, feder
alism and faction, was arrayed against his re
election. War had been declared against Great
Britain in June previous. With that war Mr.
Madison was identified. In this State the war
was not popular, and the oj position to its great
champion was intense.
Mr. Van Buren came upon thestage, at a time *
when if sound at heart and sincerely attached
to the principles and policy of Mr. Madison, his
friendship should have been maifested. Then,
if ever, at the outset of his career, at a trying
and doubtful crisis in the fortunes of the coun
try, his devotion, bis patriotism and his princi
ples should have been exhibited. How were
they exhibited 7 The first vole he was called
upon to give was for the choice of presidential
electors. Was that vote given for electors
friendly to James Madison and the prosecution
of the war 7 Far from it. The first vote given
by Martin Van Buren was for electors opposed
to Madison. The Federalists of the Assem
bly voted for and concurred in the electoral tick
et which received the support of Van Buren in
the Senate. And that ticket prevailed in the
Legislature of this State. The, first public act
of Van Buren’s life was to defeat the choice of
of the Madisonian electors in 1812.
For the proof of this let his present supporters
examine the records of this State. His vote
stands recorded on the published Journals of the
Senate and Assembly.
The first exhibition that a man makes of him
self in the political drama is generally the truest
index to his character.
From the Boston Atlas.
Should laborers eat meat I —Mr. Repre
sentative Williams, the Loco Foco member of
Congress from Bristol District, in his speech in
favor of low wages and hard money, uses the fol
lowing language respecting the French laborer.
“It is true, sir, that a greater portion of the la
borers of France, are deprived of the use of ani
mal food; but does it follow that, as a whole,
they are the worse off ? No, sir—so far from it,
I have the authority of an English statesman,
who speaks from ohseivalion and a critical exam
ination of the subject, that the reverse is the case.”
If Senator Buchanan and Mr. Williams can
persuade the mechanic and laborers that they
would be better off by being “deprived of animal
food,” and fed on soup maigre and garlic which
would enable them to work for the rich at a less
price, then we have mistaken the spirit and intel
ligence ofour countrymen.
Calvin Edson, under this Locofoco doctrine, is a
type of what our sturdy yeomanry would lie made
if the Sub-Treasury schemes of the Tories were
carried into full effect.—Verily, the times of Pha
raoh have come back again, when the lean kine
of the Government are to swallow up the fatkinc.
Mr. Van Buren seems to be much of the opinion
of Jack Falstaff: “Care I for the limbs, the thews,
the stature, the big assemhlance of a man!” says
Jack. “Give me this half faced fellow, Shadow,
—give me this man : he presents no mark to the
enemy: the foeman may with as great aim level
at the edge of a pen-knife. Ogive me the spare
men, and spare me the great ones!”
“The Wrong Passenger.” —The Philadel
phia U. S. Gazette, says:
The course said by our Harrisburg correspon
dent to have been pursued by Col. Johnson, at
Harrisburg, relative to his old commander, Gen.
Harrison, is as honorable to the Vice President,
as it is said to have been mortifying to the Van
Buren men at the State Capitol. Col. J. was
sent for to go up on the Capitol Hill, and de
nounce General Harrison. He went, and from
that high place, pronounced a panegyric upon the
Hero of the Northwest. Whereat the partizans
of the National Administration were exceedingly
wroth, very much as Balak was angry with Ba
laam, for blessing Isrial when he was desired to
curse them altogether.
An Incident. —The Philadelphia Standard
relates a singular occurrence which took place on
the fourth. An old gentleman from Indiana
passing up Chesnut street, observed a crowd near
the State House. On elbowing his way into the
midst, he found a discussion going on between
a friend of General Hairison and a supporter of
Mr. Van Buren. After listening a few moments
he accosted the Vast Buren man and enquired,
“Did I not hear you style General Harrison tt
coward?" “ Yes,” replied the man, “I did call
him a coward, and I have a right so to call him,
for I know him well and served under him at
Fort Meigs.” “Do you know me 7 ” asked our
friend from Indiana. The man replied that he
did not. “Yes,” said the Indianian, “you do—
you certainly must remember Captain of
the company in which you say you served.' The
poor old wretch immediately became pale with
fear; “I would not expose you,”—continued our
friend, “if I had not caught you traducing your
commander, and uttering things which you know
to he false as your own heart.’ Turning to the
bystanders, the Indianian continued —“Gentle-
men, this white haired old wretch belonged to a
company commanded by me at Fort Meigs under
General Harrison; he was publicly drummed out
of the camp, after the retreat of the British and
Indians, for theft and the grossest cowardice.”
The effect upon the people may be easily ima
gined.
Alexander Hamilton. —This celebrated
statesman, who has been so lavishly abused by
the Federal Tory papers, as a Monarchist Feder
alist, British Whig, &c. was the oringinal pro
poser of the Hub-Treasury scheme, which this
Federal Administration is now endeavoring to fas
ten on the country. In 1837, the Secretary of
the Treasury recommended the scheme to Con
gress by the declaration that “ it was urgently
recommended by this Department as early as
1790.” From 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamil- .
was Secretary of the Treasury. He was an ad
mitted Federalist, patriotic man. Does any one
want belter evidence that ihe leading measure of
this Administration is a Federal measure.—Fay
etteville Observer.
Political Statistics. — The late Harrison I
Convention in the State of Illinois, was one of
the most cheering and numerous of the immense
congregations which have ever assembled in
the western States to sustain the cause of
Harrison and Reform. The whole number of
legal voters in Morgan county is 3132, of which
number 2839 attended the Convention as dele
gates!—Their Log Cabin was placed on wheels
seven feet in diameter, and drawn by fourteen
yoke of oxen. The whole number at the Con
vention exceeded 14,000, and neither in going
nor returning, nor while at the Convention were
any of them permitted to pay for their lodgings
or accommodations of any kind. The farmers
voluntarily and contributed all the eatables and
abundance of hard cider to the keepers of the
Public Houses. What chance is there for Tory
ism when such a for ling pervades the farming
interest in the behalf of the Farmer of North
Bend— jXew York Courier $ Enquirer.
The Contrast. —When Lieut, rlooe of (he
Navy appealed to the President of the United
States, to set aside the proceedings of a court
martial, on the ground of admission of negro
testimony, that high functionary rejected the ap
plication in the following terms;
“ The President finds nothing in the proceed
ings in the case of Lieut. Hooe which requires
his interference. M. V. B.
In the laws of Indiana, whilst Gen. Harrison
was Governor, will be found the annexed statute,
excluding negro witnesses.
“Chapter 46— Page 311.
“An act regulating the practice in the General
Court, and Court of Common Pleas, and for
other purposes.
Section 24. No negro, mulatto or Indian,
shall be a witness, except in pleas of the United
States, against negroes, mulattoes,or Indians, or in
civil, pleas, where negroes, mulattoes, or Indians
alone shall be parties.
“JESSE B. THOMAS,
“Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“ B. CHAMBERS,
“ President of the Council.
“Approved, September 17, 1807.
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Mr. Van Buren proposes to enroll in his ser
vice men enough to make a large standing army.
His present army of office holders and editors
with Kendall and Blair at their head, is already
known as his lying army.
After the 4th of March next the whole will be
denominated his flying army.— Somerset Whig.
The wat Van Buren answers. —“ Mr.
Van Buren, what is your opinion of the Tariff
Question 1”
“ Consult the letter I wrote to John Doe, if
you please, gentlemen !”
“ What are your views on the Standing Army
Bill 7 ”
“I cannot too strongly recommend your atten
tion to a pamphlet directed by me to Richard
Roe, which will fully explain my views on this,
and all other subjects.”
“ But, sir, we have no access to these docu
ments, oblige us with a direct answer to our
questions.”
“ Gentlemen, I love the people—Amos loves
the people; wc both love the people; and there
fore whatever Amos says is his opinion, is my
opinion also—theie is a remarkable “concurrence
of opinion ” between us—good day, gentlemen.”
Now bv way of comment we would remark,
that Van Buren has not only a “thinking,” but
a “ writing ” committee, and that he dare not
answer a question, except through the columns
of the Globe.— Harrisburg Telegraph.
« We oppose Mr. Van Buren,” say the Whigs,
“because, among other things, he has dared, in a
time of peace, to recommend the creation and per
manent maintenance of a standing army of 100,-
000 men.” “But,” reply the loco foco organs,
“Gen. Harrison once recommended a similar stan
ding army.” The charge against Mr. Van Bu
ren is an undeniable and a startling truth, that
against Gen. Harrison is an unmitigated and at
rocious calumny. This calumny is well expo
sed in the following paragraph from the Cin
cinnati Republican :
The Standing Army Perversion.
In their desperate efforts to bolster up the fall*
ing administration, its partizans are driven to the
employment of artifices, the exposure of which
must weaken, as much as it disgraces, their cause.
Os this character is the charge against Gen. Har
rison, that forty years ago, he made a speech in
Congress in favor of a standing army. What
standing army was this, against the disbanding
of which he made the speech in question 7 It
was an army raised in anticipation of a war with
France, “when the measure, (in the language o
the late Gen. Smith, of Maryland,) was thought
to be so essential a feature of our defence, that
there were but eleven members who voted against
it " And how long was this army to stand?
“The law expires, (said the same authority,)
whenever the. difference between France and
America are maaeup." And then this army
by the terms of the law, creating it, was to go
out of existence. But before “the difficulties with
France” were adjusted, a proposition was made
to disband this lorce, without making the provi
sion of a single shilling to carry the men home.
This proposition General Harrison spoke against,
as ill-timed and inexpedient, and Gen. Smith,
with other democrats of the day good and true,
both spoke and voted against it, upon the same
grounds. And now this opposition to the pre
mature disbanding of an army of 3,399 men
until they were disbanded by the terms of the
act under which they were enlisted, is distorted
into General Harrison’s being in favor of a stand
ing army, and the distortion is relied upon as a
set-off against the buna fide standing army, of
indefinite duration, (which is the essence of a
standing army,) recommended by the Secretary
at War, and endorsed by the President, of 100,-
000 men! W hat a resemblance there is be
tween the two cases!
The Rich and the Poor. —A careful ex
amination of the policy pursued by Van Buren
m his efforts to establish a despotism, will be
found to developc all that subtlety of disposition
which has ever characterized him. First he at
tacked the rich, because then he could raise the
shout of “ down with the rich.” After he had
prostrated the money power, and crippled the
usefullness of the banks; caused capitalists to re
trench their investments, foreclose mortga
ges, and cover the country with distress, when he
left the rich and commenced a war against the
poor.—“ Down with wages” was now the cry ;
having accomplished the destruttion of all busi
ness enterprize, he next lays the axe to the root
of the social system, and endeavors to bring
“ blessings” upon the country, by reducing wa
ges to six pence a day !— Harrisburg Telegraph.
Fires in New York. —According to the report
of the Fire Commissioners, there occurred in the
city of New York, during the period of one year,
192 fires, being an average of more that one for
every 48 hours !
Os these, 96 originated in brick and fire-proof
buildings.
The peoperty destroyed by the said
fires, amounted in all to $3,225,409
On which there was insurance for 2,983,310
The collective amounts paid by the In
surance Companies, was 2,001,991
Leaving a balance of actual loss to the
persons insured, of 991,319
The va ue of property destroyed, on
which there was no insurance, a
raounts to 242,099.
Curious Sign.—ln the two hours’ speech of
Vice P.esident Johnson, at the Capitol of Pen
nsylvania, on Monday last, he did not once name
Mr. Van Buren, or allude to his administration.
Being remined of this omission by one of the
faithful, after hr had sat down, the Colonel rose
again and gave it as his opinion that Mr. Van
Buren was “an honest man.” But as to the
ability or success of his Administration —or even
as to the “honesty” of that—from all accounts
that we can learn of the affair—the old Colonel
still appears to have been “mum.” What sort of
a sign is this 1
Mr. Clinton to Mr. Van Buren. —“ It is
rumored that you wish to be appointed an am
bassador to an European court. The inhabit
ants of the old world will be anxious to behold
the successor to the Adams’s, the Pinckney’s,
and Franklin’s, and they will see what I—a po
litical grimalkin—purring over petty schemes —
mousing over sinister stratagems, without eleva
tion of mind or dignity of character.”
Census of 1840.—The enumeration of the
Sixth Ward, Cincinnati, has been completed, and
the ward is found to contain a population 0f4,389.
From this and other data, it is estimated that the
Queen city of the west contains a population lit
tle if any thing short of 45,000 souls.
Harrisburg, Pa., is found to contain a pop
ulation of 5,967. The population of that bo
rough in 1830, was 4,3 f 2. Increase in ten years,
1,655.
Whose Ox; is Gored I —When John Quin
cy Adams was President, he signed all the land
patents himself, and was called an aristocrat be
cause he used a silver pen for that purpose ! Mar
tin Van Buren has an appropriation of SISOO per
annum passed for his son to perform that duty,
and yet he is a democrat! Pshaw ! there is no
more democracy in him, than the autocrat of Rus
sia.
Mammoth Skeletons. —The St. Louis Re
publican of the 2d inst. states that Mr. Koch, of
that city, has just returned from a three months’
tour up the Missouri river, in search of mammoth
bones and other cariosities, for his museum. It
appears that he has been quite successful in his
search or explorations—having brought home
with him two complete skeletons of the mammoth,
one of which is said to be the largest ever yet
discovered. It is stated to be 18 feet in height,
and the thigh bone 42 inches in circumference.
These skeletons were found about 100 miles
from Boonville, on a stream called Shoal Cieek.
Blinders, on W inkers. —A corresponden to
of the Boston Post says that it is an egregious
error to use blinders on horses—that it is a strange
custom, derived from England, where it is fast
going out of use, and is almost unknown else
where. He adds, that instead of preventing they
increase shying, while they add to the headstall
an uncomfortable weight, and interfere with the
movements of the horse. Several gentlemen in
Boston have disused them on their gig harness.
The Brittania. —The leviathan of the deep
is coming. She is already on her way over the
ocean for Boston. In nine or ten days she
will enter the waters of the Bay Slate. Pre
parations are already commenced for her re
ception, and we venture to say that the noble
steamer will be greeted by the most enthusi
astic joy on the part of the people. Among the
passengers she will bring Mr. Cunard, the distin
guished gentleman who projected the enterprise.
To him, it is intended among other things, to
give a magnificent public dinner, and it has been
suggested that the pavillion will be erected in such
away as to permit the ladies to witness all the
ceremonies of the occasion.—There will he ad
dresses, songs, sentiments, and music, from the
hands: in fact, a general jubilee at the arrival of
the first great steamer of the regular Steam Pack
et Line between Liverpool and Boston.— Boston
Atlas.
The Catacombs of Paris. —These immense
excavations extend under a considerable part of
the capitol, and they have no doubt furnished its
building materials since the earliest limes. They
are no longer woiked, because the streets and
many of the houses having been undermined,
the surface of the ground as well as buildings
occasionally fell in, and the government felt it
necessary to check the farther progress of the
evil. Pillars have been constructed in the most
exposed situations, and as it is some time since I
have heard of any accidents, I presume there
are no farther apprehensions. The entrance is
secured, and admittance is obtained with some
difficulty; for in Europe the public authorities
are more careful of life than we are, and persons
having been separated from the guides have be
come lost, and perished in this vast field of the
dead. What end can be more frightful! To
wander in this immense charnel-house, surround
ed by the most revolting emblems of mortality,
to perish in the midst of departed generations, is
terrible indeed. The bones are all arranged with
horrible symmetry. Pillar after pillar, and wall
after wall, of arms and legs and ribs, hedge in the
visiter, and form a narrow path, along which he
follows the guide in impressive silence. And as
the torches which are carried, and which alone
light up these regions impenetrable to day, shed
their feeble and flickering rays upon these sad
memorials of humanity, the scene is painful be
yond description. And then come the columns
of skulls, and you may almost fancy, as the fitful
light strikes them, that they are grinning upon
you with diabolical malice. The whole cavern
resembles the Valley of the Shadow of Death, so
powerfully described by the prophet, rendered
still more strange by the display of a kind of
taste in the arrangement of the materials.
I breathed freer when the portal of this great
tomb closed behind me.— Hon. Mr. Cass in
Democratic Review.
Meeting in Columbia County.
The Anti-Van Buren Party of Columbia County
is requested to meet at Appling, on Monday, the
271 h inst. for the purpose of selecting Delegates to
the Convention t» be held in Macon on the 13th
August next. july 15
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
jy 17] Clarkesville, Ga.
B. 11. OVERBY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW ,
feb 25 Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
THE READING ROOM
Attached to this office is open to subscribers, and
strangers introduced by them, every day and eve
ning (Sunday evenings excepted) until 9 o’clock.
Subscription $5 ; for a firm of two or more $lO.
iKT"W. G. NIMMO , General Commission Mer
chant, office on Mclntosh street, next door to the
Constitutionalist. nov 7
03* EXCHANGE ON NEW YORK— At sight,
and at one to twenty days sight. For sale bv
nov 23 GARDELLE & RHIND.
C. j*L)r . GARDNER, formerly resident surgeon
n the New York Hospital, and physician at Belle
vue Hospital, New York, tenders to the public his
professional services.
1 Office in Washington street, between Broad and
Ellis streets Residence, United States Hotel,
ap 2
I (3/* Dr. W. S. JONES lenders his professional
services to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity
IHe may be found at his office, No. 214 Broad st..
oral nis residence. United States Hotel. ap 24
THE R£EOR ml |>
SECOND PROSPECTUS, ' 9t ?
The unparalleled success with whipK # L e(3
, , u loUrft|u f n
prise has met, has induced us to increase , '
ertions in the good cause. In order, theres
induce our friends to form clubs for th. el ° rii, ‘ f °!i (
of the cause, we shall, after the first of A 1
reduce the price to FIFTY CENTS a c
copies for ONE DOLLAR. ° P> ’° tl * fa
Those, therefore, who desire to have the ;
enrolled on our list should have them
neremfo, u
Let our friends be vigilant and active an ! \ ' —
success is certain. AH the people want hV. be D
and if we have a corresponding effort on
of the friends of Reform, they shall have li*/'
commercial,
Latest dates from Liverpool,. ~ I
Latest dates from Havre, v*i H
_ -a- 4k; MW
New I
Cotton —Arrived since the 7th inst. of Lo, 'if
and Mississippi 188 ,bales, Tennessee and \ ‘
Alabama 7, together 195 hales. Cleared • I
same time, lor Liverpool 6798 bales. <
Cowes and a market 1921, Cork and market p I
Havre 1743, Boston 720, Baltimoie 298,^':
14154 bales ; making a reduction in stock of Si 1 J
bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of u 1
shipboard not cleared ou the 10th inst a<tJ* Si
65997 bales. ml
The firm character which the cotton rr.a- Jo ll
exhibited at the time of closing our report i
Wednesday morning last lias since
maintained, though transactions have been* bo '
tremely limited, owing to the unwilling Sir
buyers to pay the full prices generally asked. H R*
holders oecn disposed to accept rates a frac •**
below our extreme quotations, it is probables •
the sales would have been more extensive, as -
demand, although ronfiued to a comparative
small number of buyers, has,
tolerably fair for this period of the season, j
few parcc.s disposed of have been at rates wijJP J
the range of our previous quotations, which* l|f
therefore continue. With the exception of;, “
lor three moderately la.ge lists, the stock on |L.
is made up of small parcels, and principalltjl JC
qualities below fair. The sales for the w'j, k
amount to 9500 bales, and for the last three dir
to 1200. 24
After the above report was made up last e r * c
ning, we heard of a sale of 700 bales, classed cfl in
tons at 8£ cents.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS.
Louisiana and Mississippi —Ordinary bi'a Jp u
Middling
10J; Good and fine, ll£ (a) - . Tennessee ’jJß
N. Alabama —Ordinary, (a) 6; Midddng JJ,
7i; Fair, (n> 6}-, Good fair, (d 9f ; Good I j -
fine, 10 (a) —.
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
1839. Oct. 1, stock on hand, IB
Receipts last three days.... 195
“ previously, 915907 9l6!fi^g
931J.V £jpp
Exports last three days, 14154 8]
do, -previously. 851775 86593
Stock on hand, gjjj- P®
Sugar —Louisiana—During the last three dip E
the business in this aiticle has been on a veV
moderate scale, being confined almost enlirelyitSi
limited sales to grocers. We, however, hea/difSP
one or two lots having changed hands on specif
tion. Prices remain firm at 4 (a) ceats, raostj 10l
the transactions being at (a) 5, though there a?.
still some small sales of choicest $ ascend ul
The Levee lias a rather belter supply of the higiiet 81
qualities, and one lot of 150 hhds strictly
received a day or two since, is neld at s|cens C
Theie is seme enquiry for shipment to the Norli i
and some lots have been offered; but we could w
learn that any transaction had been closed. Wt s 1
have heard of no sales n plantation. Indeed J
nearly the whole stock remaining has now passed d'
into second hands, leaving but a few small crop, R
and parts of crops, for sale by the planters. w
Molasses —No further supplies have come ii o ;
within the last few days, nut there is literallym .
demand, and the parcels that were on the Leva n
at the date of our last report, yet remain unsold, *
We quote nominally at 18 cents p- gal. in bbls. •
Flour —The market remains very inactive,bt jjp
prices are the same as quoted in our report ai B
Wednesday morning last —say $3 75 (a) $4 00k 11
superfine. The only sale of any importance i M
which we are advised, is a lot of 500 bbls at $3 <: f
Generally the transactions have been merereu. I
sales at $3 (a> $4 00 for fresh, which price j
are still asked, though there axe parcels that
been some time in store which can be bought £ |
$3 75. The slock continues light, the receipts* |
the last three days having been only 1200 bbls. . (
Bacon —There is some slight improvement i ,
the demand for Bacon, but the business is still cot- !
fined to limited parcels. These, when in sot£
condition, and well smoked, command our ques
tions; but there are sales of lots of inferior qualin ,
at a considerable reduction from our figures. V* ]
quote canvassed Hams at 10 11 cents; uncav *
vassed do. (a) 9; Sides (a) S; Shoulders sok
cents. *
Whiskey —The receipts within the ast thru
days have been quite large, and the stock in stoic •?
and at the Levee is very heavy. Holders, how
ever, remain firm at 25 cents for rectified,at whic!
rate they are enabled to effect sales to a fair exien
Grain —The market is entirely bare of shell*
Corn, in first hands, and a moderate supply wotf
readily command at least 50 cents bushel
probably more.
Exchange —On New York at 60 days sight,
been in rather better demand during the lasth’
day r s, and drawers have obtained a slight advan
on our last quotations; good signatures have he«
taken at 5£ (a) cent premium. No demit;
for bills at 30 day. Some few small suras a- *
day's sight have been sold at 7p ct prern. Bills* f\
Boston at 60 day's sight, G ct prem.; do. on ■
delphia 1 cent premium.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE^
Savannah, July
Cleared —brig Planet, Knowlton, Portsmouth f
NH.: brig Aldrich, Cope, Philadelphia; schrAt
lantic, Stevens, Boston.
Arrived —steamboat Mary Summers, « ol)k '
Augusta. . j
Went to sea —Br ship Columbia, Cowing. D' ;
pool; brig Pandora, Sheppard, Providence; sc ■»
Manchester, Edmondston, Baltimore-
Departed —-steamboat Lamar, Bugg, Aug llsl
steamboat Chas Downing, Dent, Augusta.
Charleston, July
Arrived yesterday —Br barque Jupiter,f arn P tt-
Demerara. . .A I
Cleared —brig Token, Tanner, Boston; line |
Catharine, Delano, Baltimore. ,
Went to sea yesterday —brig Token, ■
Boston; -schr Virginia Antoinette, Place,
NP.; schr President, Heed, Pbiladelphi-^^^^
A CARD. —In crossing the Savannah rl \ er , u; .
the ferry boat from Hamburg to Augusta,on - ,
day afternoon, May 33, I threw (by P erml ' t
my blue broadcloth cloak into the one horse
of an individual, who, with his wife and:*
child, was crossing at the same time. * 1
knew of the fact, for it was to her I a “■ j g
myself. When I arrived at the landing) 1 c ‘
leaving my cloak, which was carried °n
ndividuals alluded to. The lady, if 1 ir ;. ls .. u i l na'-‘’
told me they were moving from South ta f
the western part of this State, (Georgia )■
kind friend could give me the clue to tnei
or the place to which they were travelling) |
I may obtain my valuable cloak, he wou j# J
a favor upon one who at limes is too J o 1 ?.
his own interest. JAMES SEv
J une ’ 7
Tfot»
C3* Dr. J. J. WILSON has removed
Summer to the house of James Gardner), j
door below the Academv.
{£r Dr. WM. FLINT , member f the
chusetts Medical Society, would inform n* tot *
that he has removed hrs place of residen r i)f
boa»ding-house of Mrs. Camfield, at tflC
Jackson and Broad streets, where he may
at all hours during the summer season.
-fessional services are respectfully ten jf_j U o« 6
citizens of Augusta.
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