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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. H