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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
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FRIDAY MORNING, Jl LY 31.
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,
JOHN TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B
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*
® JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
POR 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 Jetferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The Committee appointed to make arrangements
to carry into effect the object of the meeting held
to appoint Delegates to the Macon Convention, re
quest tke Delegates appointed in each district in the
county, and those appointed for the city, re make
arrangements so as to meet at Fenn’s Bridge, on
the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of
August next.
The Union Harrison Men.
It is with no ordinary feelings of pleasure that
we give place to the call of the Union Harrison
men of Columbus, to their brethren throughout
George, to meet them at Macon, on the 13th of
August, and we have no doubt they will be met by
thousands of their fellow citizens. It is gratifying
to our feelings in many respects; for while it se
res the success, in Georgia, of the patriot farmer
of Ohio to the highest office in the gift of a nation,
it is particularly gratifying, and presents the most
sublime scene upon which the true patriot can
look, to see men of intelligence, influence, and
high in the confidence of a party, breaking the
shackles of party, renouncing former alliances,
and, with patriotic devotion,rallying to their coun
try’s standard, and pledging their support to her
noble institutions, lathei than a party. So mote
it be. Such scenes increase and establish our con
fidence in our sacred institutions, and con vince us
that the true patriot will ever, in the hour of dan
ger, rally to the support of the constitution and
laws,by whomsoever their standard maybe borne.
Mr. Van Buren’s Democracy.
During the present canvass we have heard much
about democracy, and particularly 31 r. Van Buren’s
democracy ; so much indeed, if one should be cred
ulous enough to credit all he heard, we should
certainly be constrained to admit that he was the
very quintesccnce of democracy. We know not
what particular meaning the supporters of Mr. Van
Buren would convey by the term democrat, but
we frankly admit, if to have supported a restric
tion to the right of suffrage, Mr. Van Buren is a
democrat. Or, if they mean by it one who has
voted to permit every male negro , of the age of
wenty-one years, to vote at all elections in New
York, then Mr. Van Buren is a rm-st consistent
democrat, because he gave such a vote, and placed
the negroes upon a perfect equality with white
men. But should his friends mean to apply the
term democrat to Mr. Van Buren, because he was
in favor of keeping the elections of magistrates
from the people, then we again admit that Mr.
Van Buren is certa nly a Democrat, for he cer
tainly advocated and voted for such a measure in
the Convention of New York. If, therefore, the
friends of Mr. Van Buren at the South, contend
that these principles are the principles of Democ
racy, no man will pretend to deny that Mr. Van
Buren has high claims to that distinction.
We have already shown his course in favor of
restricting the right of suffrage, and his vote to
permit negroes to vote, and we will now proceed
to show from the proceedings of the same conven
tion that he was opposed to giving the elections of
magistrates to the people.
In that Convention Mr. Van Buren himself sub
mitted a proposition to prohibit the election of
magistrates by the people, and supported h.s pro
position by a speech of considerable length, and
among other things, uttered this demoratic senti
ment:
©
“ The further this power (the election of magis
trates,) could he removed from the people the better .”
And on the vote which was subsequently taken,
he voted in favor of his proposition. This is a
specimen of a democrat, and these his principles,
as carried out in New York. We make these
statements with a certified copy of the Journals
before us, which exhibits his votes on all these
important questions, and we therefore make the
assertion without the fear of contradiction. That
they are facts, the records of New York prave, and
no man can deny them.
A duel with rifles, at the distance of forty pa
ces, took place at St. Louis on the 16th instant,
between A. B. Chambers, Esq., the editor of
the Louis Republican, and T. B. Hudson,
Esq., a Van Buren candidate lor the Legislature.
After three ineffectual shots the affair was com
promised byMr Hudson declaring himself satisfied.
• A Call.-To Union Harrison Men.
The undersigned, citizensof Columbus and mem
bers of the Union party, deeply impressed with the
truth of republican principles and of the the im
portance of defending them at every hazard, view
with alarm the rapid concentration of power in the
hands of the Executive —a concentration which
we believe will be fatal to the Constitution and
dangerous to liberty'. The paity was formed upon
its opposition to Federalism, and, honestly devoted
to the Constitution, has been ever vigilant and
ready to keep in check those who would violate
the sanctity of their rights.
We charge that those old and notorious blue light
Federalists, Taney, Buchanan, Vandcrpoel, Inger
soll. Wall, Williams, Nc., have crept into and led
our party astray from the simple path of repub
licanism into that of federalism. We charge that
the project lor organizing a standing army of 200,-
000 men, so strongly recommended by Mr. Van
Buren, gieatly increases the power and patronage
of the President, therefore, is a federal and dan
gerous measure. We charge that the Sub Treas
ury hts the same effect, and that it is intolerably
oppressive to the people who have to pay the ex
penses of the Government, and that it must result
in direct taxation, or an increase of the tariff. We
charge that Mr. Van Buren’s administration has
been one of unparalleled misery and ruin to the
whole people.
We charge upon the Administration a design of
reducing the prices of labor, and thercoy perpetu
ating its own pow er by reducing that of the people.
We charge that the expenses of the Government
have increased enormously, bringing upon us a
heavy debt, in a time of pro r ound peace.
We chaige that the purity and freedom of elec
tions have been violated, by the unwarrantable in
terference of Federal office holders.
We charge that Mr. Van Buren has usurped au
thority, dangerous to the republic, by claiming to
be a constituent part of the National Legislature.
We charge that 3lr. Van Buren has recommend
ed a bankrupt Law, applicable to State Coporations,
a direct and dangerous invasion of the rights of the
States.
We charge that friends of the Administration,
known to be defaulters, are retained in office as a
reward for partisan services.
We charge the party in power with having es
tablished a Government Bank under the entire con
tro! of the President.
We further charge that Mr. Van Buren is in fa
vor of a high Tariff, having twice sustained that
system by his vote in Congress. He is also in fa
vor of works of Internal Improvements by the
General Government —witness his vote to establish
toll gates on the Cumberland road, and during the
present session of Congress, he has sanctioned a
bill making further appropriations to the same
work.
We also charge him (Mr. Van Buren) with being
favorable to the mad schemes of the Abolitionists
—witness his declaration that he could not pro
nounce the abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia unconstitutional. He also voted to re
strict slavery in Missouri and Florida, and support
ed free Negro Suffrage in New' York; and since
his elevation to the Presidency, he has appointed
many decided abolitionists to high and responsible
offices.
And finally we charge upon the Administration,
a system of measures calculated throughout lo
benefit office holders—to curtail the power of the
people, and bring general ruin and distress upon
the country.
And for the mnpose of defending the principles
of the Constitution, and of the South, always the
palladium of the Union party, we invite, from all
the counties, delegates of that party opposed to an
unnatural war upon the institutions and credit of
the country, and opposed to amalgamating with
Northern F< deralists, to meet at Macon, the sec
ond Thursday in August,"then and there to adopt
such measures as, in their judgment, may be best
calculated to preserve and protect our principles,
and rescue the Government from the foul hands of
the spoilers, and place it in the hands of honest,
able and faithful public servants, who will admin
ister the Government for the good, not of a party,
but of the whole country.
S R Bonner, W Beach,
Lewis C Allen, M McQuaid,
F Toby, H C McKee,
L W Wells, Wm. Toney,
John C Young, James Rosseau,
A Lyman, Wm. H Atwoed,
Thos. Fleming, R N R Bardw ell,
Daniel McArthur, Win. Rankin,
Wm. R Jones, John Floyd,
F A Wright, S Dumraer,
Wm. J Kellett, Ragner Butler,
John S Allen, Martin Brooks,
E Wells, Minatt E Snell,
Peter Crichton, Israel Monington,
James Sullivan, Richard Yarborough,
Wm. Rankin, Robert Yarborough,
E L DeGiaffenreid, Willis PMuiphy,
W S Chipley, A F Alfred,
James Kivlin, Geo. W Aldcn,
S M Grayson, Jas.T Ballemy,
Homer Hurd, Laurence Duncan,
George A Hyde, Anderson McXea,
1 W Roberts, Joseph McGowen,
H Middlebrook, Thos. Duffee,
Daniel Rowe, John Liggon,
L J Davies, Leon Le Prosgot,
B Wells, Geo. C Yarborough,
A L Prickett, Asher Willet,
Wm. Brooks, .Tas. G Williams,
Charles Wise, D Hudson,
James Rankin, Arch. Fincher,
G G Parker, Hiram B Plott,
H H Woodruff, Rory McNeil,
S W Fielding, R H Jaques,
John Paredise, William Momon,
A M Terry, A Sinead,
Wm. Green, Simon T Hardcgru,
John A Deblois, P G Pickett.
Meeting in Columbia County.
In pursuance of public notice, a large and res
pectable meeting of the citizens of Columbia coun
ty, friendly to the election of William Henry Har
rison, of Ohio, to the Presidency, and John Tyler,
of Virginia, to the Vice Presidency of the United
States, was held at the Court House on Monday,
the 27 th Ju'y, 1840.
On motion of Abner P. Robertson, Esq., Archer
Avary, Esq. was called to the Chair, and George
31. Magrudcr, Esq., appointed Secretary.
When A. P. Robertson, Esq., offered the follow
ing Resolution, which was adopted :
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Commit
tee of five, lo report to this meeting a Preamble
and Resolutions. The Chair appointed the follow
ing Committee, viz: Abner P. Robertson, Isaac
Ramsey, Nathan Crawford, James F. Hamilton,
and John Hanson.
The Committee retired, and after a short ab
sence returned, and reported the following Pream
ble and Resolutions, which was adopted without
a dissenting voice:
Whereas, the State Rights Party of Georgia, as
sembled at Milledgville by their Delegates in Con
vention, on the first Monday in June last, for the
purpose of selecting candidates for Electors of
President and Vice President of the United States,
and candidates for Congress, and did select such
men as candidates for said offices, as are well known
for their patiiotism, and long and tried devotion to
Southern interests, and Southern principles.
Therefore be it Resolved, That we most cordi
ally approve of the nominations made by said Con
vention and will most heartily unite with our friends
throughout the State, in any and all honorable
measures to secure their election, and to defeat the
re-election of Martin Van Buren.
Resolved, That the administration of Martin
Van Buren is unworthy of the confidence and sup
poit of the enlightened freemen of Georgia; and
that as republicans of the Jeffersonian School, we
believe that his measures and principles have, and
will result in great injury lo the South, and the
Union.
Resolved, That we are opposed to him, for his
opposition to the admission of Missouri into the
Cmon unless slavery wa- j rohihited by her Con
stitution. Because in the Convention of New
York, he advocated the privilege and right of free
' negroes to vote at elections, with the white citi
zens of that State. Because he believes IhatCon
-1 gress has the right to abolish slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Because he was opposed to
■ the election of Mr. Madison, and his Adminhtra
-1 tion of the Government, and sustained opposition
with a view to defeat his election. Because he
1 has sanctioned the admission of negro testimony,
1 against the officers of our Navy. Because he ap
proves of the organization of a Standing Army
: of 200,000 men ; whereby our citizens are to be
taken from their homes in time of peace, and placed
under the army regulations of the federal officers,
which we consider subversive of the Constitution
of the country, and dangerous in the extreme to
our liberties as a nation. Because the expendi
tures made by government since he came into of
fice, have been enormous and profligate, and far
exceeding any previous administration. Because
he has turned good and honest men out of office,
because they have, as true Americans, dared to
entertain opinions hostile to his administraiion.
Resolved, That in William Henry Harrison, of
Ohio, we find all those traits of character which
adorn the patriot and the statesman; that he is the
descendant of one of the signers of the Declara
tion of Independence; and at an early age rallied
to the standard of his country in the defence of
its liberties, which he did not desert until a domes
tic foe was beaten into submission, and a foreign
foe expelled from the country; that he has been
honored with the confidence of Washington, Jeffer
son and Madison, men whose characters we rc-
J vere, and whose memory we delight to honor.
Resolved, That inasmuch as he nobly sacrificed
. himself for the South, by his vote given upon the
admission of Missouri into the Union, and has de
voted bis life to the service of his country, and
that upon His character as a man and patriot, there
rests no stain or blemish; that the nation may trust
to his keeping those rights guaiantecd by the Con,
■ stitution, with the firm reliance that he will sup
port and defend them.
James F. Hamilton, Esq., offered the following
i resolution, which was adopted without a riissent
: ing voice:
, Resolved, That in the person of John Tyler, of
, Virginia, the candidate for the Vice Presidency,
’ we recosnize the inflexible Republican, the devot
r ° ».
ed friend of State Rights, and that’we cordially re
commend him to the support of our fellow citizens,
Thomas H. White offered the following resolu
-5 tion, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a Commit
. mittce of thirteen, to report to this meeting the
1 names of suitable persons to represent the friends
, of Reform in the Convention to be bold in the city
of Macon, in August next.
The Chair appointed the following committee,
viz: Thomas H. White, Isaac Ramsey, George M.
Magruder, R. M. Gunby, Thomas Seay, M. H_
Wcllbpurn, A. P. Robertson, R. H. Jones, Willis
Palmerf W. L. Chamblin, R. W. Bell ; Wm. Han
son and Wm. Stovall.
The Committee retired, and after a short ab
-1 scnce returned and reported the following names
, to the meeting, as suitable persons to represent the
friends of Harrison and Reform, of Columbia coun
ty, in the Macon Convention, to be held in August
next, which report was adopted.
Marshall Keith, Benj Bugg,
James T Don*, Edward Harrison,
Dr Henry J Smith, P Pettit,
Dr Robert, B T Rees,
Snoden Griffin, II Winfry,
J C Perrin, Luke Lansdcll,
J W Burrows, S Roberts,
Thomas Beale, T E Massengale,
Jesse S Walton John Low,
Isaac llarnsey, Edward W Jones,
H Bastion, Curtis G Low,
I N Heggie, James D Green,
Jas Heggie, Dr. II Neeson,
Wm B Tindell, Randal Newsam,
Benj Berry, H D Lcitner,
Jas Knox, Jas Washington,
Arcner Avary, sr. Allen Green,
Humphrey Evans, B F Verdery,
John Boyd, G W Sims,
Wm Evans, Thos Olive,
Wm Merreweather, W B Cochran,
Sami Crump, Richmond Harris,
John Gray,jr. John Langston,
Moody Burt, David Halloman,
Benj Blanchard, Ellis Jones,
AJ Avary, N Bacon,
James Avary, G Alford,
Thos Hardin, M L Thomas,
Jas Cartledge, D P Stanford,
J S Dunn, A C Wilson,
Wm B Tankersly,sr. Wm Borum,
Alfred Sturgess, Wm Hardwick,
A J Hutchenson, John Dougherty,
Wm C Avary, D Marshall,
i
Jno Cartledge, Jas Fleming,
Danl P Marshall, John Edy,
Wm S Dunn, Absolem Edy,
, Wm L Blunt, Jesse H Morn.*,
, S A Gibson, John W Beale,
Peter Wright, Thos Rooney,
. John Lumkin, John W. Maddock,
Edward Ballard, Elias Wilson,
. G Jones, David VV Wilson,
. Thos H Dawson, Wm Adams,
. Isaac Jones, Reuben Winfry,
, S W Gibson, J G Tankcrsly,
, WmS Jones, Wm W Seay,
W T m Yarborough, Wm Murray,
Water Jones, Wm J Sanders,
Duncan McKenzie, Charles Wilkinson,
ifenj Watkins, Asa Davis,
A Dozier, Wm Parks,
. Elias Scott, N. Crawford,
. E P Ivy, WA II Marshall,
> O W Baldwin, Jas M Dorsey,
f John A Stapler, Jas M Wellbourn,
, John Dozier, Richard Eubanks,
i Booker Sutten.
i On motion of James D. Green, Esq., it was
> Resolved, That the nominating committee of
thirteen, with all the Harrison men of Columbia
. county, who can conveniently attend, be invited to
attend as delegates, and be considered as regularly
appointed.
Thomas W. Miller, Esq. being present, was re
quested to address the meetin<'
■ .
('n motion of A. P. Robertson, it was
Resolved, 1 hat the proceedings of this meeting
be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and pub_
lished in the Chronicle and Sentinel, and Reformer
of Augusta.
The meeting then adjourned.
ARCHER A VAR V*, Chairman.
Geo. M, Magruder, Secretary.
The New Aork Express of Saturday says—
-1 hcie aie extensi'e orders from England to
I purchase old sound wheat in choice parcels at 110
cts., which cannot be filled. Neither old nor new
wheat can he found in the market/’
From the Few Crleans Beeqf the 25th.
The Elections.
By the steamboat Creole, last evening, we
have received the final returns, which confirms
the election of Judge Moore in the third congres
sional district. We have abstracted the result
which follows, from the Red River Republican,
of Alexandria, of the 22d instant—a paper, as
our readers well know, devoted to the cause of
Martin Van Buren;
Third Coxgrkssioxai. District.
Winn. Moore.
St. Martin 000 292 majority.
St. Landry 000 205 “
St. Mary 000 228 “
Lafayette 13maj....000
Natchitoches .......191..“ 000
Catahoula 108,.“ 000
Avoyelles 121.. . ...000
Rapides 43..“ 000
Concordia 000 137 “
Carroll 68..“ 000
Caddo 8..“ 000
Madison 5..“ . ..-000
Ouachita 000 50 “
Claiborne 142.,“ 000
Caldwell 76..“ 000
Union 101.000
879 912
879
Majority for Moore 33
The Red River Whig, of Alexandria, gives
Winn a majority of only 41 in the parish of Union,
whilst the democratic paper which furnishes the
preceding details, claims 101 in the same parish.
Should the report of the Red River Whig be cor
rect, our candidate will have received a majority
of 93 instead of 33 votes. Whatever the result j
may be, the election of Mr. Moore is now certain, ‘
and placed beyond a doubt.
From the St. Augustine Herald 2\th inst.
From Florida.
A sergeant and a corporal belonging to com- j
pany 13 2d Infantry, were killed by the Indians !
on the 12th inst., about 4 miles from Fort White. I
The bodies were afterward found horribly muti
lated. 9
On the 14th inst. five dragoons under a ser
geant in passing from Pilatki to Camp King, 1
were fired upon near Fort Russel by a band of j
Indians, numbering from twelve to twenty war
riors. Two of the so'diers were wounded, and
one of them, as we understand, was shot in the
thigh and fell from his horse. He was assisted
by his companions to remount, and effected his ;
escape with the rest.
Colonel Harney has not been deterred by the |
heat and rains and insects of the summer, from
seeking the Indians and destroying if possible,
the grain crop before it shall have been gathered
and taken away. He is again in the field with
a command of dragoons, scouring the country i
between Fort Mellon and New Smyrna. Cou-:
rage, and untiring energy such as this, must one
day' go far to achieve a repose for Florida.
From the News.
Fort Downing, which had been abandoned on
account of its unheallhiness, was burned, since j
the 3d inst., by Indians. Several new rafts were !
seen on the Suwannee by the steamer Okce- j
chobce.
On Saturday last, a stick, to which was at- ’
tached a hair like substance and a small bundle
of 15 slicks, was found on the ground where the
last murders on the Picolata road took place, j
The solution of this is said to be, the sticks indi
cate 15 killed, and the hair like appendage, trial
they wore scalped.
The detachments of Volunteers which led on
Tuesday, 14th inst., for the South, proceeded as
far as Spring Garden, and returned on Friday
night without having seen any of the enemy.
Gen. Armstead, it is understood, will make his
head quarters, during the summer, at the new
depot of Pilatki. The change of the old loca
tion is considered most favorable, both as regards
economy and the facility of transportation
From the Savannah Georgian of 29th inst.
Latest Attack.—We learn from a passen
ger in the steamer Florida, that a party of mount
ed men, recently scouring near Fort Mellon, fell
in with a parly of Indians, who sho.ved some
signs of battle, but retreated to a hammock. On
the troops dismounting and charging them, the
Indians got in the rear ot the troops, and killed j
two out of four men, that were left to guard the
horses, and taking also ten of the horses with
them, and making good their escape.
JmlgevColquitt in Petersburg.
The Petersburg (Va.) Intelligencer, furnishes
the following notice of the speech of Judge Col
quitt before a locofoco meeting in that town, to
which the Judge had been invited, in company
with Messrs. Calhoun and Black, both of whom
addressed the meeting.
When Mr. Calhoun had finished, Mr. Colquitt
of Georgia, was introduced to the meeting, and
was received with a round of plaudits which
showed that, from him, the Locofoco part of the
audience expected something “ werry consider
able.
Mr. Colquitt advanc ed upon the rostrum pretty
much in the style of a filth rate tragedy actor in
the exciting parts of Richard 3d, evidently pre
pared to “ churn up a rage,"’ and “tear a passion
to rags to split the ears” of the Loco Focos.
He commenced by telling us that in these
times, of riot and confusion, when nothing but
the clamor of Hard Cider and Log Cabins was
heard, that an intelligent audience, like the one
then assembled, would appreciate the treat which
a calm and intellectual discussion of public mat
ters was calculated to afford. It was kind, in Mr.
C. thus to inform us that we were to have a
treat, for no one who saw him expected any thing
of the kind, and no one who heard him through
his speech could po.-sibly have told that Mr. C.
had “ treated” the audience unless they had been
informed of the fact by Mr. Colquitt himself.
Mr. C. reminded us strongly of the man who
having painted the figure of what he called a
horse, feared that the world would not know what
specimen of the animal creation it was designed
to represent, and in order to place it beyond all
doubt, wrote underneath the picture, “ this is a
horse.”
In the beginning of his “ treat,” Mr. C. dwelt
learnedly and forebiiy upon*- log cabins and hard
cider,” “ coon skins and pepper pods,” and car
ried his audience captive by some loftv
flights of eloquence which Demosthenes never
dreamed of, and of which Patrick Henry was in
capable. During the greatest part of his speech,
he dwelt so much in the airy regions of fancy,
that a poor worm of the dust like ourselves could
not follow him ; but when he did touch ground
he was literally of the “ earth, earthy.”
We need only say that Mr. Colquitt’s dis
course proved beyond question that he was not
content with embracing the politics of the editor
of the Globe, but had endeavoured to adopt his
chaste and decent stvle.
Mr. Colquitt flattered his audience by telling
them that he was born in Virginia. This is a great
honor, truly, and a beautiful feather in Virginia’s
cap ! If the truth could be known we have not
the slightest doubt that Mr. Calhoun alluded to
Mr. Colquitt in his famous toast, when he said
“Virginia like the mother of the. Gracchi, when
asked for her jewels, points to her sons.” A
bright “jewel” in the Virginia casket is Mr.
Colquitt! “ A pearl of great price.” of which
the Old Dominion is truly proud—and which
the State of Georgia would doubtless be loth to
surrender to the original owner!
Mr. C. travelled over the old ground of Abo
lilion, Bank, Tariff* 6cc. t &c.,and entertained his
hearers with all the stereotyped phrases on those
subjects which the vocabulary ot party can fur
nish, and came at last to the Standing Army.
Here he Was peculiary eloquent, and pailicularly
indignant. He said the Militia Scheme did not
contemplate a Standing Army, because Mr. Van
Buren said he did not intend to raise a Standing
Army „• and that he wished the fingers of all Edi
tors might .stilfen,and the tongues of all Electors
might be palsied, who should dare to write or
speak the word “Standing Army” in connection
with Mr. Poinsett’s plan. Well, “ thought wc
to ourselves,” this is “chrisdan charily” with a
vengeance : and so frightened were we at the im
precations of this modern “ Dr. Slop,” that wc
actually moved our fingers several times to ascer
tain whether they were “stiff” or limber, until
happening to look at Mr. Colquitt’s fingers, and
seeing that they were perfectly limber, we knew
that ours were perfectly safe. And why did we
think so 1 Because we knew that if the fingers
of a man who could basely garble extract
from a gentleman s letter could escape destruction
that ours, which have never traced a line in the
truth of which we did not religiously believe,
were in no danger. And wo further knew, that
the “curses of the wicked, like young chicken?,
return home to roost.”
We have given the sum and substance of Mr.
Colquitt’s speech. If we have spoken harshly
of it, we have done so because he insulted the in
telligence of the citizens of Petersburg by an
harangue w hich was only suitable to the purlieus
of Billingsgate and St. Giles.
Notice.— lnformation is hereby given to the
public on the following points:
Under the “act to provide for the collection,
safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the
public revenue,” any money which parties may
desire to pay for lands at other places than the
land offices will be received at the Treasury of
the United States in this city, at the Mint in
Philadelphia, the Branch Mint at New Orleans;
at (he offices of the several Receivers General, as
i soon as organized and opened, and at such other
places as, on application here, in any particular
case, may be found mutually convenient to the
purchaser and Treasurer.
Money, which parties may desire to pay for
patents, or which Marshals and district attorneys
. wish to place in the Treasury, will be received
1 at all trie offices above mentioned, and also by
Collectors of the Customs at Detroit, Michigan ;
Buffalo, New York; Wilmington, North Caro
lina; Savannah, Georgia; Mobile, Alabama;
Nashville, Tennessee; and the Receivers of Pub
lic Moneys for lands at Jackson, Mississippi;
Little Rock, Arkansas; Jeffersonville, Indiana ;
Chicago Illinois ; and Cincinati, Ohio.
LEVT WOODBURY.
Secretary of the Treasury,
The Loco Foco Convention at Syracuse was
a complete failure. After the most indefatigable
i drumming and dragooning, and all the aid of
railroads, the whole number counted fell short of
one thousand '1 he remarks of Mr. Porter who
attempted to be witty on the subject of the Har
rison mania, had 100 much truth in them, as the
reluctance of the people on this and other occa
sions to turn out for Van Buren, too clearly
l shows. Mr. P. said of a Whig orator, that he
| had discovered that all nature was hard at work
I tor jjGen. Harrison ; that even the apple trees
! were groaning under the weight of hard
j c der, and that the brute creation, particularly
those whicli .ire first heard in the morning, cry
ing out “ Tip pe-ca noe," and the bull frogs
, would very significantly bawl “North Bend,
North Bend." The speaker was peculiarly hap
py in imitating the two last named quadrupeds !
i — JV. Y. Star,
|
j Contrast between the Nile and Mississippi.
! The following is the conclusion of an elegant
' sketch from the pen of the late learned savan and
traveller, Doctor Nutt, of Rodney, Mississippi.
“ The vale of the Nile, so long the admiration
of the traveller, is deserving of praise, both for
i the fertility of its soil and the absence of frost,
j It is formed entirely of the deposition of the river,
I which carries within its bosom one-fifth of the
: earthly matter found in the waters of the Missis
sippi, and is more fertile than this river, but less
I so than Red River of Louisiana. When the river
is rising, and even until it returns within its
banks, the water has a very dark color, which it
exchanges for a light red after a fall of ten or sis
) teen feet. The blackness of the water and soil
j seems to be communicated from the decomposi
| lion o( basalt. This we infer, from finding the
basalt to underlay the red granite at the first
cataract and the sand-stone of the second cata
ract, and may constitute a great part of the
mountains of Abysinia.
Egypt, in an agricultural point of view, is pe
culiarly situated. While all the regions of the
Mediterranean are favored with rains during the
winter and spring seasons—plenty, the result of
moderate and repeated rains, and famine, the
offspring of excess or deficiency of rain—Egypt
is a country of perpetual growth—a country
where rain never falls, and where cultivation en
tirely depends upon the waters of the Nile. Nor
is the Nile more certain to arrive at the conve
nient and happy point of elevation than the
Mediterranean regions to be attended by mode
rate and timely rains. The Nile is not subjected
to ihc same extremes of elevation as the waters
of the Mississippi, but a double fatality attends
| it, in rising too high or not high enough—for, in
| either case, a famine follows. If so high as to
pass freely over the banks, the summer and fall
crops will be lost; and if not sufficiently high to
cover or soften the land in the rear, not only are
the farmers unable to irrigate (be first crop, con
sisting of cane, rice, cotton, flax, beans, and dura
or guinea but are unable to procure water
to soften the back lands by which to sow the
wheat and barley crops.
The Nile, like the Mississippi, has its limited
region for the growth of the cotton plant. While
the Mississippi contains three degrees of latitude
most profitable for cultivation, the Nile has one
and a half degrees which admit of such a culti
vation. The product is one-fifth in quanty of
that ot Mississippi. The difference in quantity
to the acre is in part owing to the high water
which occurs at an unfavorable period—a lira*
when the cotton bolls are mare rapidly forming
than at any other time of the annual growth, and
when the tap root having descended fifteen feet,
suffer decay from being soaked in the water.
J he fibre is long and silky, possessing a like
number of nodules, and is often found to partake
of the cream or orange color, which it acquires
from a union of the oil and alkali of the fibre.
This occurrence less frequent with the cotton
of the Mississippi, on account of too much damp
ness of the climate—but where it does exist, can
be detected by entering a gin cotton room at
night, as it fails not to impart the smell of soap.
The cotton of Syria, Palestine, and Asia Minor,
is without this color; the fibre is short and less*
fine, and the product to the acre is about one
eighth of that of the cotton regions of Mississippi.
Such a difference in the quantity and quality of
the cotton may proceed from too much dryness
of the growing period, and the coolness of the
spring and fall seasons. Thus it appears that in
all countries where the summers are without
rain, and the atmosphere as dry as in those ot
the countries above mentioned, the cotton plant
cannot be very profitably cultivated.
We are inclined to think that all the coition
regions of Sou.h America, as well as those of
Asia and Africa, are accompanied by such cir
cumstances, or, as in the East Indies and Mexico,
attended with too much rain during the growing
season. Hence the conclusion is, that the cotton
plant is most profitably cultivated in the United
States and that considering the continued wan
ing of the people of all other C oti
the article tor centuries will con-; 0 ' 1
most profitable cultivation of a |i tC^H
the American States. P r °Vu f
The Nile, unlike all rivers kn
vides a desert of two thousand mil!" ,0 Us . * P"
consisting o( frightful plains of shift ‘ n «»l* »
m .untains of lofty and precipiLl
ram never fulls, and vegetation ran n ’<
Amidst these dreary abodes of pol?'?
a majestic river flows from south t Si K’ ,
like the Mississippi and Red R ivpr ° n ° rtl h
to the eastward, and ever wearing,** e
that side. This river consists of a % T 'f ?
ter about four hundred yards wider th
sissippi, with less than half its drptl **-
one third less in velocity. Tlie^jJ’i
Mississippi, has its oceanic lakes. V' 0 ’
uration distinguish them from thnl I .
the cut-off. They are traced one U IT
eighty miles up the river, lake Meri-‘I- * ±
highest; while on the vale of the M,-.- e "H ♦ j? C
tached portions of the Gulf of Mexico* 1 * Tat.
four hundred miles above its mouth
The vale of the Nile, for one thousand , WL
extent may average fifteen miles m
the Mississippi, for the same distance ,
age forty miles. The Nile appears !h >
two th:rds more arable land than the Mi f Sr
and when we take into consideration iPW'
cumslances of the two rivers, are rnnJS’i W ,
allow to the Nile a term o, yea’s I ?J
since the alluvial land has been in a W.
cumulation. dle(| f* jHJ
But for the damp and chilling south w ; n j
the winter and spring seasons, Egypt w f
the most healthy country in the world
baneful influence of the damp air of these * wh
is detected in a derangement of the fund?
the lion, whose centrifugal forces fall im, r froi
eyes and superficial glandr of the ® ei
the dreadful scourge of blindness, and ih e T r ° r
calamity of the disease called plague, wl{
The beneficial results already experienced.'. eX . c
the partial clearing and cultivation of lhel an ?
the legion of the Mississippi, goes to shoTj * P*-
great advantages to be derived from such ’J n ®‘
ures as will render the atmosphere of the C' |d|
the Mississippi still drier; and when its jjj? fjf
shall avail themselves of the valuable
which float within the bosom of its waters -
system of canaling, which shall relieve
sissippi of its annual accumulation ofwatcnj! Pv i
only will it serve to obviate the r
of inundation, but increase the accumula -P ® L
earth at distant points, bring up the, low 2 P # vel .
treating swamp, obliterate a'forest of usele*C S
and cause the great vale to smile with thef*
of her clime, give to the inhabitants the PP f”
healthy summers, and winders with adv IS
less disjointed and of less frequent occurr’ J?I
than that of the Nile, whose nature is K
mortality ignorance. Thus we may hope to*
an extensive region of most valuable coanbrV'SE
no very remote period, disarmed of that supsi 3 ij*
bundance of moisture in the atmosphere, flB
if it should not, as in Egypt and Syria, dear' n ie
reptiles poisonous quali ies, and secure tj I- thii
safety from canine madness, will, at least, pres - bre
a climate, for health and salubrity, hitherto g. WU
; known in the American States.
Anecdote OF A Lion.—Poor Gert Sch«n ?
aves-boor of the Cradock district was outbid* the
in company with a neighbor—whose name,*! , bee
is yet alive, and has perhaps been sufficeutljp hac
ished, I shall not make more notorious. Cote’ e ve
to a fountain, surrounded, as is common, t to ’
tall reeds and rashes, Gert handed hisguotts the
comrade, and alighted to search for water, fc Shi
;he no sooner approached the fountain, than sev
enormous lion started up close at his side, a • fae
seized him by the left arm. The man, tho® Te!
taken by surprise, stood stock still withouteig
gliii g. aware that the least attempt to escape ing
ensure his instant destruction. The animal a son
remained motionless, holding fast the boor’s a* too
in his fangs, but without biting it severely-a the
shutting his eye's at the same time, as if heed Jot
not withstand the countenance of his victim...
they stood in this position, Gert, collecting L|
presence of mind, began to beckon tohiscomx
to advance and shoot the lion in the foreLa
| This might have been easily effected, as the t , JH
| mal not only continued still with closed eyes,i IP*
| Gert s body concealed from his notice any oh
; advancing in front of him. But the fellow'
I a vile poltroon, and in place of complying '■
| his friend s directions, or making any other rsr.
| tempt to save him, he began cautiously to res
to the top of a neighboring rock. Gert com: i
ed earnestly to beckon for assistance for a k
time the lion continuing perfectly quiet—and:
lion-hunters affirm, that if he had but perse* _
a little longer, the animal would have at lee U .
relaxed his hold, and left him uninjured. J- ■ t
cases, at least, they maintain, have occaski- isi:
occurred. But Gert, indignant at the pusilL No
ity of his comrade, and losing patience wilt
lion, at last drew his knife, (a weapon whictf*i
back-country coloni-'t wears sheathed at libs- lea
xnd with the utmost forcef of bis right arm;: cle
ged it into the animal’s breast. The thrust®
a deadly one, for Gert was a bold and
man; but it did not prove effectual in timeU* ex
his own life—for the enraged savage, strivin:
grapple with him, and held at arms length bys iSS
utmost efforts of Gen’s slength and despera:-'
so dreadfully lacerated the b-east and arras# ing
unfortunate man whith his talons, that his >' ho
bones were laid open. The lion fell at lastflu
loss of blood, and Gert fell along with him.
cowardly companion who had witnessed
ful struggle from the rock, however, took con? tQ
to advance, and suceeded in carrying his ids# pg
friend to the nearest house—where such si# is,
aid as the neighbors could give, was irnmedi^ 1 IK
but vainly applied. Poor Gert expired on ® , Be<
third day after with locked-javv. — Thowf 1 ' JJPj
Travels in South Africa. ha
— T1
lUK IXDUSTRT OF MASSACHUSETTS.--
cording to an official report made to the L e P
lure, it appears that the product of the great
dies of manufacturing industry in Mas® M:
setts, during the year ending in April, 1- 11
was $9 1,700,000, of which sura the three g N.
cipal items were, cotton fabrics, m
woollen fabrics, $10,399,000; and fisheries.?-
592,000.—1 fto the products of manufa 1 - gj,
industry, he added the earnings
and agriculture, it is estimated that the *
annual product of the industry of
exceeds $ 100,000,000; which divided by J|
the population of the State, gives ast jf
erage v due of the annual labor of each m 1 - '
man, and child iu the community. gt<
The Pausox.—He is called parson ( l ie nc
becuse by his person, the church, which 1 ’
visible body, is*represented ; and he is in £
a body corpoate in «rdcr to protect andd e ‘’ c CQI
rights of the Church, which he ' ke
perpetual succession. He is sometime* . 4^
the rector or governor of the Church, u , bo
appellation of parsons (however it may .* . an
cated by familiar, clownish, and in t J* scrl j"s®
use) is the most legal, most beneficial,
honourable title a parish priest can eoo< ~ C jj
such an one (Sir Edward Coke pj,
alone is said to personate or represent ba
— Blackstone. h , u
- eIJ
. oer iou *
Youthful Resolves. —There is f r of
a young man’s life,says the Montreal C a^ t( f L
. in which he is determined never to taW pj,.
fice, and in a girl’s when she is determine|
to marry. The duration of both is abou on
- ad
Dn. Dxott.—A story was current
that this individual h: d been pan!o' ie
Governor. We do not vouch for the p' at
but give it as we heard it.— Philaddf ii t
American.