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CHROMCLfci AND SENTINEL. ••AU«U s T A . FRIDAY MORIiJING, AUGUST 7. FOR PRESIDENT, WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, Os Ohio; The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor ruptible Statesman —the inflexible Republican — the patriotic Farmer of Ohio. FOB, 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 OI PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe. DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden. JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee. * ?OEL 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 Buike. 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 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 the Delegates appointed in each district in the county, and those appointed for the city, to make arrangements so as to meet at I emus Biidge, on the Ogechee River, on Monday night, the tenth of August next. The National Intelligencer of the 3d says : Ob serving in the Georgia Journal of the 2Sth ultimo a statement copied from this paper ol the 21st ult. that Mr. Habersham, the respected Representative from Georgia, who had been iil, was recovering, . we regret to be obliged now to say that Mr. Haber sham is at this moment quite ill, in this city. He was reported better when we published the para graph in question ; but his disorder tooii an unla vorable turn afterwards. We now- hope that he may survive his present severe illness, but bis friends have been serieusly apprehensive for the event of it. Extract of a letter from Sumter county, to a friend in this city, dated Americus, July 22, 1840. I assure you the cry of “ Harrison and Retorm ’ is now the watchword in South-western Geoigia^ I have recently travelled through the counties of Stewart, Randolph, Early, and Sumter, and found the people every where prepared to battle with thgg,spoilsmen ; the truth is, they have had enough of t'ue unparalleled faithlessness, and unmitigated c irruption of the present Administration and the list, both the “ illustrious predecessor,” and the * follower in the footsteps.” they have witniss ed promises made and unscrupulously broken, pledges made long since, which have never been redeemed. They have seen and felt the wide spread ruin, which every where meets the eye,and they have sufficient sagacity to discover who are, (in part at least.) the authors of it. They have seen an Administration attempting to perpetuate its power, by practising on the odious and detesta ble maxim of a corrupt English statesman, that “ evary man has his price ;” and be assuied that they will rise in the majesty of their strength on the first Monday in November next, and “ expel the Vandals from Rome.” We had a meeting here at Americus a few days ago, and selected one hundred and ten delegates to attend the Macon meeting, and it was soon ascer tained that so many wished to go, that it w r as re solved that the whole County should go «en masse,” or as many as wished to go. In Stewart, and other counties around, the people have resolv ed to go to Macon in a body. It is slated that Capt. Talcott, of the U. S. En gineers, Prof. Ronwick, of Columbia College, and Prof. Cleveland, of Ohio, have been appointed by the President commissioners for exploration and survey of tho North Eastern Boundary, under the late act of Congress appointed appropriating $25,- 000 for the purpose. Augusta, August 5, IS4O. The Tippecanoe Association of Ward No. 2, met at the Eagle and Phenix Hotel. M. M. Dye, Pre sident, in the Chair, J. G. Dunlap, Secretary pro. tem. The object of the meeting being stated, it was moved that a committee of live be appointed, to select a conmittee to meet with the committee of the other Associations and Captains districts, for the purpose of selecting cadidates fer the Legisla ture. * The following gentlemen were appointed the committee of five: W. T. Gould, W. L. Owens, John Campbell, C. J. Cook, and A. L. Patterson. Who retired, and in a few minutes reported the names of the following gentlemen, as delegates from this Association, to the meeting to be held for the selection of candidates for tho Legislature : Jesse Kent, B. H. Warren, and James M. Dye, which was adopted by the meeting. It was then Resolved, That all members of this Association, who can attend the approaching Convention at Macon, be considered as delegates from this Asso ciation, and authorized to represent us accordingly, Mr. T. W. Miller being called for, rose and ad dressed the meeting. Col. Berrien, of Jefferson, who was present, was invited to tike part in the meeting, and gave som* very interesting fads, relative to the cause of Re form in the counties of Burke and Jefferson. Col. Gould was called for, and responded in a short address. Adjourned. M. M. DYE, President. J. G. Dunlap, Secretary pro to*. Augusta, August 1,1840. At a meeting of the Third Ward Tippecanoe Club, held at Lamback’s long room on Friday eve ning, the Ist inst , Dr. F. M Robertson in the Chair, when the following resolution was offered by I. A. Hibler, unanimously adopted. Resolved , That acommittee be appointed to select three delegates to unite with the delegates from the other Clubs and Associations, for the purpose of selecting suitable candidates for the Legislature. In pursuance with the above resolution the com mittee appointed by the Chair for selection of dele gates, appointed Messrs. W. M. D’Antignac, F. M. Robertson, and Louis Cress, Esq. When the following resolution was offered and received by toe Secretary and unanimously adopted. Resolved, That those members of the Third Ward Tippecanoe Club who have not been appoint ed on the general delegation to the Macon Conven tion, be and are appointed delegates to represent this Club in said Convention. Thomas W. Miller, Esq., and Dr. F. M. Robert son, addressed the meeting, after which, on motion the meeting adjourned. F. M. ROBERTSON, Vice Pres’t. John S. Hutchison, Secretary. The population of Upper Canada, which in 1820 was 105,980, is now about 450,000. The popula tion of Toronto is about 13,000- Cold W ater. —A new set of candidates for med ical popularity have sprung up in Germany, who under the guidance of Vincent Priesnitz, a farmer of Graefenburg, in Austrian Silesia, profsss to cure all diseases by the internal and external applica tion of pure and cold Watr. From the Adrian (Mich.) Whig, Kendall Again. Let freemen read the following correspondence. Let it be copied extensively, so that it may be seen who is at the head of the Extra Globe: Washington, June 28lh, 1840. My Dear Sir, I take the liberty to enclose you an Address and Prospectus for the Extra Globe, hoping that it may be compatible with your incli nation and sense of duty to use them for the purpose of procuring and returning subscribers. If in that hope I shall be disappointed, I solicit of you the favor to hand it over to some friend of the administration who may be inclined to use it for the purpose. All the numbers from the beginning can still be had, a large number having been printed, al though the present subscription exceeds 30,000 copies. With great respect, \our friend, AMOS KENDALL. Raisin, Lenawceco. Michigan. Sir, I hereby acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 28 th ult. enclosing your Address and Prospectus, and after due consideration, I return them, “franked” as they came, although I have my doubts about its being agreeable to law so to do. Yet if contrary to law, I can plead your own precedent as extenuation for my exercise of the “franking” privilege, and for my charity in saving fifty cents of the “hard currency ” in which your soul so much delights, for yourself and needy family. I will give you a few plain reasons why f return to the source from which they emanated without complying with your request. Your language is not republican. It is not such as one democrat should use to another where democratic equality is professed to be reciprocally acknowledged. You speak of “sense of duty.” —What do you mean by that, Sir I Do you mean that because I have had a petty office, once dependent on your favor, that I am bound to forego all independence of character, and serve you from a “sense of duly?” Talk that language, Sir, to the “serfs” of Russia, Democrats scorn it. They owe no alle giance to w'ould-be dictators or upstart dema gogues. You pretend to be patriotic and zealous for your country. Your pastconduct belies your pro fessions. You have acted a prominent part in the councils of those who have brought our country to the verge of ruin, and our republic to the thres hold of a monarchy. I think I understand your motives. You talk the same language which the Robes piers, Dantons, and Cajsars have always talked. While you profess democracy and love for the dear people you are artfully sapping the veiy foundations of that democracy, Again you are most insultingly hypocritical. You talk in your Address about members of the Whig party “ Franking” documents, when you know that Van liurenites have “franked” three to their one, a large proportion of which are bully Duncan’s blackguardisms, which you arc pleased to say “have a spice of coarseness suited to the Western people.” Quite a compliment, indeed, and one for which they will doubtless thank you and your master as they should at the ballot box next November. The charge of “contempt for the people,” which you are pleased to prefer against Harrisonians is, from the above false issue particularly applicable to yourself. You say a “sham hero ” was presented to the people in the person oflla . And pray, sir, wl e was you when the battle of Tippecam . Fort Meigs, and the Thames was fought I Wheie was you when Harrison the “sham hero,” as you are pleased to call him, chased a flying foe into the heart of Canada, and their conquered him ? Was you teaching school in Kentucky, or like a poisonous basalisk in the sunshine of Mr. Clay’s favor, or oppo- g Mr. Madison and the War, like your master, Van Burenl Answer these questions to your own conscience. Surrounded with court splendors in the gor- furnished palace of Mr. Van Buren, you may imagine that the people will sustain you and and him in your aristocratic pride and pomp, be cause you profess democracy, Deceive not your self, sir. To show in what estimation the hardy back woodsmen and “log cabin boys” regard you, Michigan will give “Old Tip” two thousand majority next fall, in spite of your “Extra Globe.” Note it down now in a book, and mark the re sult. As my sheet is full, I now close with this remark—ls my office is considered the price of obedience to monarchical dictation, it is at the service of those who gave it. With correct opinions as to your character, I am, sir, DARIUS C. JACKSON, P. M. Raisin. Found between Belleville and Bloomfield, in this county, on the 9th inst., by a person plough ing in a lot where the timber had lately been cleared off, 8 Bank .We Copper Plates, sup posed to be counterfeits, and from their appear ance to have laid in the ground several years. They appear to be in good condition. Two ot , the plates purport to be of tue Planters’ Bank, Georgia, one of SIOO and one of $50 —two of the Bank of Augusta, Geo. one ofsloo and one of S2O: one of the Bank of America, N. Y., ofslo —two of the United States Bank, one of SSOO and one of SSO, and one unfinished plate engra ved on both sides : on one side for SIOO, on the other SSO : all of which appear to be well exe cuted.— Newark Advertiser. A Speech ol Senator Preston. There was on Tuesday, 7th July, an immense gathering of the friends of General Harrison at Eliz abethtown, New Jersey, who were addressed by Senator Talimadge, Mr. Ketchum, of New York, and Senator Preston, of South Carolina. Mr. Pres ton succeeded Mr. Ketehum, and his appearance was the signal for a round of cheers that made the welkin rn g again, as we learn from the New York American. When silence was restored, Mr. P' 3 thus began, as reported by the American ; Fellow-Citizens —Gentlemen of New Jf.r , set : I appear before you under so many disadvan tages, some of which are obvious, and others I I shall mention, that I should, under any ordinary circumstances, content myself with acknowledg t ing, in brief, but grateful terms, ray deep sense of the kindness and cordiality with which I have 1 been welcomed by you. But there is something ; in my heart that I would fain speak out, and which forbids my leaving the soil of New Jersey without relieving my breast of the burden which oppresses ' it. I come from a recent rapid tour, not unaccom panied by labor. I have been up the noble Hud son, and, in the spirit of the people at Poughkeep sie, on its shores, and in its wide and deep current, I have seen emblems of the progiess, of the sure I and irresistible progre s, of the principles for which we are contending. Last night, too, in New York, I addressed an assembly, only smaller than 1 this because inclemency of the weather circum - scribed it within walls. Hence I appear before you . worn down; and this is one of the disadvantages to which 1 referred. lam a stranger to —(General 1 exclamations of “ No, no, you are no stranger.”) I take back the word, exclaimed Mr. P., with . energy; I am not a stranger to New Jersey. I have read you in your history. I have heard from 1 the lips of my own ancestors, who stood shoulder to shoulder with yours on your own soil, of the he roism and sufferings of New Jersey ; and from the days of my boyhood, I have longed to tread the fields consecrated by so much gallantry and en deared by so many associations. I am, too, a citi— i zen of tiie United States, and therefore no stran ger ; a Whig, and therefore your brother.'' But un der what circumstances do we meet ? How shall I recur to the gallant deeds of your ancestors, and reconcile your present position with the fact that ■ scarce a field but has been trodden by the foot of , Washington—that not a spear of grass but was wet with the blood of your fathers—that Every sod beneath our feet Has been a soldier’s sepulchre ? How is it that the spirit of those days has not roused you to unanimous opposition to the outra ges you have been made to suffer ? What did your ancestors fight for ? Read the enumeration of the evils and wrongs they rose to avenge, and then ask yourselv es if those now inflicted on you are fewer in amount, or Jess exasperating in character; aid yet you are tame. \ou are expel ed from the Un ion, and yet you endure. Fellow-citizens, did I say. lam not your fellow-citizen. You are not citizens of the United States; you are not mem bers of the great Union. You have been turned out of it; and a manufactory of representatives has been set up at Washington, which turns out subjects as the machine turns out tenpenny nails. 1 am aware that, in general, much allowance is to be made for what is done at Washington, and that judgements are not hastily to be formed of measures there adopted; but the case with you is so flagrant; you have been so contemptuously, and for base party purpose, driven out of Hie Union, that even 1 can ill suppicss the indignation I feel, or accurately define the proper limit of opposition. But had it been my State instead of yours, had it been South Carolina instead of New Jersey, I should have been at no loss, and, even now, 1 am disposed to apply the language of Lord Chatham, in reference to the American Colonies, and say, were I a Jersey-man, as 1 am a South Carolinian, while my rights as a member of this Union are vio lated, I would never lay down ray arms, never, never, never. I speak not of the arms of violence and blood, but the arms of the law and the ballot ! box ; an 1 these arms you will not, I trust, lay j down till you have reconquered yo ir position, ga thered up the fragments of your broken seal, and knit them again together in beauty and unity ; till you have rescued your draggled flag from beneath the feet of the mercenaries who have trampled ou it, and borne it onward in triumph even to the dome of the Capitol. The sympathies and heart of the na’ion are with you, and the very wrongs you suffer have advanced the Whig cause. Nowhere have I addressed any public meeting where an allusion to the outrage upon your Stale did not bring forth the response, “We will aid New Jersey.” On, then, Whigs of New Jersey, on, 1 say, but ou whom ? j>everal voices from the crowd exclaimed “ the Tories.”] Ay, ay, the Tories ! the Tories ! Now, as in the days of ’76, the opposi'e of Whig is Tory, and it is the Tories you are to overthrow, as your fathers did. Be earnest, then, in the contest. You have gallant leaders and brother soldiers. There is Harry of the West, [the annunciation of this name was rapturously cheered.) the gallant, magnani mous Harry, of (he West, baring his booom to ev ery shaft intercepting Horn his party every poison ed arrow, scarred all over with wounds received in defence of his friends, and of his and their princi ples. With laurelled brow, if not wi h the victor’s chaplet, there is he, without envy, without re pining, yielding precedence to another, and spread ing out to William Henry Harrison the flag of the Union, bids him give it to the breeze, and claims o ily the honor of serving as a soldier under him. Where shall we find greater disinterestedness, more glorious magnanimity ? There, too, is the graver and heavy armed array of the East, led on by Daniel [this name again brought forth loud cheering,] like the Mace donian phalanx of old, in serried order, and of over whelming force. There, too, is the Empire State, with her gallant and eloquent son, who has this day addressed you. [Another burst of cheering.] There is your own fervent and eloquent son, Southard, [more cheers,] a friend beloved, a statesman wor thy of all praise, and worthy to lead the Whigs of New Jersey; and if Ido not now mention that name under which we all rally, it is only that 1 nay in troduce it more fitly hereafter. The cause, too, is a holy and exciting one. Think you that any or dinary occasion could have brought me from the sand banks and long leaved pines of South Caro lina to address a New Jersey audience ? It is a cause that appeals to us all; that is second to none but the cause of God. It is the cause of the coun try, of the Co titution, of liberty. Time will not allow me to go into an examina tion of the long, black catalogue of crime which lies at the door of the Administiation, and which all their trained bauds are drilled and disciplined to defend. The battle will be fierve, but it will be dec' ve. We are, indeed, but militia. We are not organised nor paid. We fight on our own hook, not for money nor for bread; but we fight for our r' fits, for our fire-sides, for the liberty our ancestors transmitted to us, and for our property ; and can we "ail ? They have blighted our pros pects, as though blasted by the curse of Heaven. They have touched with a paralysis every inter e t; the very demon of destruction seems to pre si lo over their councils. Mr. F. here, at some length, examined the effect of the expciiments of the Administration upon the industry, manufac tures, and mechanic arts the country, ami par ticularly of towns like Newark, which flemished in proportion to the general prosperity, and of which the adversity was only a type of the adversity that had overtaken all classes,both rich i and pour, the manufacturer of carriages and those who were wont to buy and ride in them. The Administration seemed to have reversed the order of Providence, which blesses the labor of man, and ’ acts as though impelled by the veiy Genius of De • r elation. ? Is this picture (said Mr. P.) too darkly shaded ? Who is there among you all that has escaped loss or suffering ? [None, none, was the cry.] Even so; not one of you. Are there any manufacturers here ? [Enough of them, for they have nothing to do at their factories.] Ay, enough, indeed; and your democratic friends, who profess so much af fection for the haid nanded workman, aie deier -1 mined to give you time enough to get your hands ■ soft. Are there laborers here ? Their turn is i now come. They have heretofore felt lightly the evils of misgovernment, and they have fi o long supported tho-c who, in striking at the employers, affected to be influenced by regard for the poor I laborer. But now the principle of the party is, that ihe wages of labor are too high ; that the la > borer must be made to work cheaper; and that the ‘ country can only prosper when the rates of labor f assimilate with those of older nations, i But where, say we, is the example by which we i are to be regulated; to what country do you design to point ns for a model? Why, say my colleague and Mr. Walker, of Mississippi, to Cuba! Ay, to 1 Cuba, the land of the inquisition and cents a day for labor! Once liken our condition to that of Cuba, and the time may soon come when we sha.l be as productive as that favored island —of blood- 1 hounds. If, however, we decline the example of Cuba, and Insi. t, with our Anglo-Saxon partiali ties, that England, the land of our father', of li berty, of law, and of commerce, affords better mo dels and examples, they exclaim,“See these British Whigs! they want to ape British fashions and pre cedents;” and then, as an alternative, they point us to China, as a hard money, cheap-labor country —a fine country, indeed, where wages are 6 cents a day! But this is an alternative which America will not be driven to; and this will be shown next No vember. No Presidential election has heretofore been gone into with wheat at 50 cents a bushel and cotton at 6 cents: and the disasters of the times will re-act asrainst those whose folly or whose wickedness has pr jduced them. What a contrast, indeed, does our position now present with that be fore the reign of experiments began! Then, all was smiling, happy, prosperous industry. Now, care, and suffering, and haggard want. The state ly palm tree is withering, its branches dying, and its trunk blasted. We feel that the woim is gnaw ing at its root, and that it must soon perish. You must apply the remedy w hile there is yet time — dig that worm up, and crush it beneath your feet. What, fellow-citizens, is the contest? It is be tween the people and the office-holders, led on by the chief office-holders at Washington—a clothed, fed, and trained corps of janissaries, with fortres ses all through the land —on the seaboard in the shape of cust m houses, in the interior and every wire re in (he shape of post offices, Irom which the incumbents issue, stealthily prowling about, seek ing, like the evil one of old, whom they may se duce, whom they may devour. Led on by the Chief Spoiler at Washington, whose doctriaes are openly proclaimed, they fight lor plunder. They feel no distress —they experience no solicitous mis givings about providing for their families. They- have money enough, fellow citizens, though you can get none—good money, counted out to them quarterly—drawn from thu Treasury, where it is placed after having been first drawn from your hard earnings. Their pockets are ro nd and full, while yours are shrunk and lean, and little heed they, or believe they, therefore, of the distress which prevails in the laud. If the farmer says to one of them that the price of his produce hardly repays the cost of production; that he can only get half ’price, indeed, for his wheat, the pampered hireling replies that such things will happen and must be submitted to, and admonishes him that re signation is becoming to all mortals. But, if the farmer continues, and asks bis comforter if his ! salary is reduced, in proportion lo the fall of com modities, “God forbid,” is his reply; “God forbid that it should be diminished, it barely supports me now.” And yet he can get twice as much for his money as before. It is easy enough, therefore, for him to bear the afflictions of the community, and natural enough that he should sustain a policy which snatches the dry crust from the hungry- lips of the laborer’s child, that it may feed the children of your pure democrat with pound cake. Well indeed may the President, in bis marble palace, amid luxuiious appliances, with well-paid salary, exclaim “The people expect too much from Go vernment.” We behold that Government and its officers growing richer, while each of us is growing poorer. Their riches are derived from the oppression of tire people. They plunder that they may have the more to dispense in bribes. While you see your substance wasting away-, this Administration has received and squandered some 130 millions of dol lars. This enormous sum nas been sw eated out of the blood of the hard hands of the country, to be lavished upon mercenaries, parasites, panders about the palace. Thirty-nine millions annually are paid to those who are waging this wav against us; and who pays? You and I, and all of us. It is drawn from a soil already- exhausted, and all for the ben efit of a part only, and not of the whole. Our con dition is worse than that of the Israelites in t e desert, for when it rained manna and quails, all could equally hold out their platters. But when the manna of Government falls here, it falls not into your platters. Do any of you catch a quail, or a flake of this manna? Oh! no- Or, if perchance a portion, how ever small, should fall to one of you, the officer through whose criminal infidelity such a boon should be vouchsafed to a Whig, who w-as detected in allowing one of the proscribed to taste of this Government manna, would immediately be repoit edtohis Chief, and handed over for trial for the crime of dealing with a Whig? Mr. P. said it was impossible, without a feeling of burning shame and indignation, to advert to this condition of things, or to reflect that such a coun try- as this shou'd be thus dishonored under ihe government of a popinjay, who had done nothing, thought nothing, looked nothing, for its benefit or renown. Something may- be excused to a gallant old soldier like Jackson; and even oppression then have had something redeeming; but, to be w-ormed to death! Pshaw! It was not possible to think with patience of this great country’s being trodden un der foot by such men as Van Ilmen, and Kenda-1, and Blair—a corrupt trio that makes the heart sick. The honorable Senator from New York has told y-ou he w-as once a supporter of this Administra tion, and that he felt called upon at an early period to denounce the mischiefs of their course; and how was he listended lo ? Mr. Van Burcn need ed not, and resented the warnings of such a coun sellor as N. P. Talimadge, and, tingling his bell, forthwith the kitchen counsellor appeared, and he said to them piteously, “See what Air. Talimadge has done ;” and Kendall replied, he would mark him, and Blair said he would turn the w-astepipe of the kitchen on him, and smother him with filth. Gentlemen, against all this we must act vigorously we must act offensively. We have a cause and a candidate that needs no defence. Abandon, therefore, the defensive, and assault, assault con tinually. Assault them at all times, in all places. Press onward ; you may gain little, but little by little you w-ill gain, and what you gain you will hold. Assault Mr. Van Burcn, assault Kendall, assault Mr. Buchanan, assault the office-holders. [A voice from the crowd said, “ and Garret Wall-,”] Ay-, assautMr. Wall, if I may be permitted to say so to you. [He is too insignificant, said another voice,] No, no, gentlemen no one, nothing in such a cause is too insignificant, it is not the tempest that destroys the lofty tree, but the insect gnawing at its root. It is not the flood nor the earthquake that desolates the w-heat field, but the mildew and the rust. It is an error to ascribe great consequences to great causes. A little spark will kindle a mighty conflagration, and the mean est things are not therefore the least powerful ; therefore, again I say, acton the offensive, and as sault, assault, assault. And then, gentlemen, as to a comparison be tween the two candidates, the preference and supe riority are all on our side. Who will point to any marked honor done, or benefit centered, or service rendeied, by- Mr. Vs-n Buren to the ilepub ic ? On the other hand the history- of Gen. Harrison is that of a public benefactor. He is, in the first place, that noblest work of God, an honest mm ; and 1 say, emphatically-, in the beginning of this matter, let us try an honest man. Would that, in the ma ny experiments our apponents have proposed, they had at once thought of this one, of trying an hon est man. Wm. H. Harrison was early brought under the eye of Washington and the intuitive sagacity of that great man saw in him the qualities that fitted him for honor, and laying his hand upon the head of the youth, he blessed him to the service of his country. The eider Adams came—an honest, able, and bo'd man —and I say this the rather, for that I ne ver belonged to Us party—and he ratified the judgement of Washington by continuing young Harrison in the public service. Mr. Jefferson succeeded, after a contest, as you all know, that overthrew completely the opposing party —but Jefferson did not niisapp,eherd or un derrate the merit of Harrison, and, after employ ing him through his eight y-ears, handed him over’to Mr. Madison, What that great and good man’s es timate of him was, you all know. He was selec ted from among many, to defend the region he had so long ruled over as Governor; and the North west then owed its safety- to the military conduct as it had before owed its prosperity to the civil virtues, of W m. H. Harrison. But perhaps, no instance of confidence in the high qualities of a man can be cited equal to that manrtested by Kentucky in Gen. Harrison. You all know Kentucky—her gallant Clay—her Shclbys, and other such spirits. Well, Kentucky, in the darkest hour of war, looking around for a’comman der to whom she could entrust her own defence and the command of the troops she was about’to raise after convassing the merits of all, passed by all others, and devolved that honorable and most responsible command upon Wm. H. Harrison al though a citizen of another State. Yet tins is the man whom party malevolence now as a dotard, a inward, a pett.cc.at hero ! and whom they are usiu£ every art, lawful and unlawlul, to Whv, gentleman, they have even disturbed the repose of the Hermitage —called forth/, eneral Jack son to bear v itness, in a letter, just published, a gainst General Harrison. I think I see in t.iat letter the hand of Amos Kendall, and the old sol dier has been made the catspaw of the monkeys of the palace, who thus degrade one distinguished man into an instrument of disparaging another dis tinguished soldier and patriot. But there is no seiTse of shame, no limit to the recklessness of this party. Even the glorious annals of our country are not sacred to them; for, in the addiess of the Van Buren members of the New \ork Legislature, which has been copied and commended in all their prints,! is averred that the Revolutionary contest itself was u idertaken for base personal purposes, and that the design was, not to vindicate freedom, but to establish a mon ivchy at home. This plan, it is added, was defeated by the democracy of that day, and Mr. Van Buren is represented as now en gaged In a like contest with the monarchists of this dav. Gross and damnable falsehood and injustice! \Ve are told that Mr. Van Buren is an able and a great man, and that Gen. Harrison has no quali ties lo fit him for the Presidency. Now, gentle men, 1 venture to say that put the two together, any where, for any purpose that becomes a man. whether for a toast, speech, or message, and Gen era' Harrison will beat his competitor out of sight. We shall, then, as 1 have said before, be ably led. In your own State you have a gallant and spirited Governor, who will not fail you, and every where the Whigs will beat their posts. The fortune,in deed, of the contending parties is different. We fight without reward, and if one of us falls, he asks no more than an honorable grave, and such kind remembrance among his W hig brethren as his ser vices may meiit. But if one of theirs falls, he is forthwith provided for elsewhere; he is taken from a village to a city post office —always the better provided for in proportion as his rejection by the People has been decisive and ignominious ; if left out of Congress, he is, like Mr. Cambreleng, sent to Russia; if willing to play the part without having the commission of a Representative, he is, like your Mr. Philemon Dickerson, made a District Judge, for it is reported to-day, that this gentleman has been nominated by the President for that office. But we must, nevertheless, continue the contest. The popular voice is swelling for us—the current of puohc opinion is running in our favor —our con dition is like that recorded by Herodotus of the harvest of Egypt. When the mighty river has re tired into its narrowest limits, and left a vast waste of slime and mud, upon which the good seed is sown, the swine are turned in upon it, and they tread and root it in, till, in good season, the retur ning current, rushing back with mighty force, over spreads the waste, and then gradually subsiding, discloses, instead of mud and slime and brutes, a smiling, fertile, and beautiful plain with the boun teous harvest, and rejoicing the eye and heai I of man That tide of public opinion which is now swell ing over the mire and slime that have defaced our land will produce like cheering results,for the good seed is here, and we shall see it maturing to an abundant and benelicient harvest. Towards ac complishing such a result, Mr. P. again earnestly invoked and pressed the untiring efforts of all who heard him; and then thanking the assembly for the patience and indulgence with which they had lis tened. Mr. P. concluded with saying for himself he was vowed to the contest until it closed, when, if unsuccessful, such was his position, he would fall to be no more heard of; if successful, he would only claim to be among the first and most zealous to join in the shouts and gratulatlons of victory. When Mr. Preston took his seat, the air was rent with cheers, again andagain repeated —which, rising up, as they did, from the bosom of darkness —for the only lights, and they were few, were on the stage, and the vasj; assembly around was but dimly seen —had a most stiiking and singular ef fect. The evening was closed by Mr. Gamble, of Newark, with one of his Harrison songs, admira bly sung as usual, and then all retired gratified and resolved on victory. North Carolina Elections. The Raleigh Standard, (Adm.) of 3d inst. contains the following, in reference to the elec tions, which are just commencing in that State: “ We congratulate our friends on the auspi cious manner in which the elections have opened in this State. We have a Democratic gam of 473 in Granville ; 36 in Warren ; 260 in Edge comb ; showing a clear Democratic Republican gain of seven hundred and sixty-nine in three counties only. At one precinct in Nash, Saun ders got 127 and Morehead 2 votes; this is the only return from that county. go, EUXOH. 1840. 1836. Saunders. Morehead. Spaight. Dudley. Edgecomb,. 1450 70 1191 71 Franklin,.. . . 636. . . .383 564 308 Granville,. ..760. ...873 391 977 Warren, 705 88 673 ,92 In our comparisons we go back to the contest between Spaight and Dudley, which is the last time the parties were fairly arrayed on the quos tion of Governor. General Assembly, Sec. Warren. —Senate: Dem., Rep. Weldon N. Edwards, without opposition. House of Commons: Dcm. Rep , Eaton, 645; Hawkins, 603 ; Collins, SO. Sheriff; Joseph S. Jones, 490 ;T. J. Judkins, 296. Franklin. —Senate: Dem, Rep., John D. Hawkins, 299—inaj. 191. Whig, Levin Perry, 108. House of Commons: Dem. Rep., Young Pat terson, 689 ; Thomas Howerton, 636, Whigs, John E. Thomas, 426 ; George Davis, 154. Sheriff: Dem. Rep., Guston Perry, 723. Whig, Lemon Williams, 187. From the Mobile Advertiser. Harrison and Better Times. This is now the watch-word throughout the Union, and why is it! “ Let facts be submitted to a candid world.” Ist. The Government of ihe United States is bankrupt. It is in debt to the amount of SIX MILLIONS OF DOLLARS already, and al though Congress authorized the creation of five millions of Treasury shin plasters, the Secretary of the Treasury is now calling for FOUR MIL LIONS MORE! 2d. To pay this enormous debt the people will have to be TAXED, and a movement has already been made to lay a DIRECT TAX upon the people. 3d. Although the people of the United States are ground down to the dust by the tyrannical measures and unparalleled extravagance of gov .iment, and are unable even to support them selves, the government is demanding ALL TAXES to be paid in GOLD AND SILVER. 4th. The government of Martin Van Buren has destroyed credit and confidence, and the Sub- Treasury law which has just received the appro val of the President, has, for one of its objects the REDUCTION OF THE WAGES OF LABOR; so that while the people are to be TAXED, and these taxes art to be paid in GOLD AND SILVER, the means of procuting even shin plasters are withheld from the people. In short, the tendency of all the measures of government, is to reduce the people to a state of VASSALAGE ; to render them, if not in name at least indeed the SUBJECTS of a ?n/s-called Republican government; to break down the American spirit, and to quench in the breast of the people that burning spark of Freedom and Independence which they inherited from their Revolutionary fathers, and lo render them the tools of a President who is endeavoring to be come “ every inch a KING !” M e call upon the American people to look at the “signs of the times !” The creation of a STANDING ARMY is threatened. The tenure of the officers of the JUDICIARY as it exists under the Constitution, is threaten ed ! || The prayers of two-thirds of the n eo[) | . Bankrupt Law have been derided, and i ur 4 has been turned to their petitions ! * ea,e ar NEGROES have been allowed by M Buren to testify against a gallant and 1 r *’ j cer of the Navy, and the oath of a coal-lT* °®’ j slower has sent into retirement a and gallant defender of his country, m I The Post Office Department has been , u ■ zed, and efforts been made to pl ace j ts ?U is ' ( k I more immediately in the hands of th o p„ c ° ntr o| State Right- have received a Brut usd' and the broad seal of the State of New j e *H been kicked about by the President I ions as an idle toy ! ,s fio “ CORRUPTION HAS BECOME to ORDER OFTHE DAT.”— and c(5 rr ,. 11,E ' stowed upon those who exhibit the tnosta! fawning sycophancy to the President. Theie is still a chance for the peo 1 Star of the West, that sheds its mild|| ? over the humble Log Cabin bids q s Ho cheers us amidst the gloom of corruption i 11 polism—it bids us hope for bettkk j, * I 1 reminds us of honesty and patriotism. 8 'l l Let us up and ACT ! If the people w our eyes will be blest with the dawn ofb 111,I 11, ' days than these, after the ides of NnvemlJ i II our motto be “HARRISON, TYLFR y BETTER TIMES,” and we surely mu., I off victorious. y 81C0D * I | Census of New York.—The complete cen,, . of 4th Ward, New York, gives 15,770 inhabitant being only a few hundred more than in IS3;, j j probable population of the whole city is fi Xt .j * 32 J,OOO. * From the London Forget-Me -Not. The Modern Ulysses. No sooner was the hatchment mounted ove ® the portico of Bcechwood Hall, announcing tl * its late pioprietor Sir John Denyers was dead ail < that his widow had succeded to the splendid man i sions and broad lands, than it was hailed as < signal for attack by all the unmarried men within 1 the circumference of twenty miles. They fi CC£ ed to her by scores arrayed in the mourning cloak of condolence, endeavoring to smuggle in their 1 love under the disguise of sympathy. Her law. < yer, a hale bachelor of sixty, requested she would I do him the honor to consider him less in ih e A light of a professional adviser than a friend zeal- 1 ous for her interests, and would fain have p re . c sented her to a title of his services in his shrive]. * led hands; but he had already given her a sun 1 feit of parchment; and the man of law discover- ed, that although his suit had frequently been * successful in those courts where the presiding ■ goddess is represented to be blind, it was quite another thing to plead his cause before a woman I with her eyes open. In fact, ere she had wots * the weeds of widowhood for six weeks, her paths ' were beset, and her dwelling besieged ; * ver certainly had a woman a better chance of men. * ding her luck, for there was not one of the whale = forty and five lovers who was not willing to his life upon the sincerity and disinterestedness i of his affection. She could not open a winds* * in her bouse, but a myraid of billets-doux came s showering into it like a snow-storm. She con'd not take a walk in the most private grounds,!)# a lover started from behind every bush aod flung himself upon his knees in the path before her. -J Others again, affecting bucolics, would wander ■ forth into the fields, crook in hand and carve kr name upon every tree, to the great endangerm® | of her timber. Every domestic in her household was bribed by one or other of her suitors, and she was under the consequent necessity of chant ing her establishment twice a year, from the la- • dy’s maid to the stable boy. While, however, 1 there exists not a rebel in the citadel of the heart, i the fortress will hold nut long against external I assaults; and the widow had got some antedilu vian notion into her head about “ first love,”-re spect fur the memory of the dead,” &c., which ] although no doubl, extremely silly, ha J the el- * J feet of disinclining her from a second speculation in the hazardous adventure of matrimony. Ai | :| the number of her suitors increased, their indi- * vidual chances of success, of course diminished: and their audacity being in the extract ratio id | their despair, her own mansion was no sane- I tuary against theljintrusion of her unbidden | i guests. The matchless impudence of oneofher vts tors, deserves particular record. It happened j that one day the widow went out, for sev.ral t hours, to call on a friend at some distance, leav- j ing only two male domestics, the butller, and the 1 footboy in the house. Towards evening a horse man rode up to the hall door and applied him- fl| self with more than ordinary energy to the ? knocker. He was a tali military looking person- , age, with a cast of leatures which might have j been termed handsome, but fur a certain cynical . expression, which must detract fiom their pleas- ] ing effect. I The stranger flung his reins to the l>oy,desiring i him to take his horse to the stable and have it | well fed and littered down for the night, anil * then stalked into the house, and notwithstanding 1 reiterated announcements from the servants in | chorus of “ Mistress is not at home, sir” st-toped |j not until he reached the dining-parlor, when turn- f ing to the butler, who had followed him hssaii 4 “ Here let that valise be taken up into her ladv- fe||| ship’s chamber, and let a fire be lit there, for in ■I, rather cool.” “Very cool, indeed” said the do- “ mestic, applying the epithet to the speaker, and not the weather, and was meditating some if | pertinent observations when the stranger, care- 1 lessly, as if it had been his pocket handkercbiei drew a pistol from each pocket, and placed it 01 the table before him. The butler, who had a mor tal dread of fire-arms, quitted the apartment ic j haste, as if to do the stranger’s bidding, but it ||? reality to communicate to his fellow-domesoft the females, his suspicions of the character oltf guest. Their conversation was however, soJ interrupted by the violent ringing of the bell and it was some time before Geollry could suf | mon courage to answer. “Your pleasure su ■ said he, re-entering the dining-parlor, dinner!” responded the other. The Duller p* 3 - | ed, but at length said, “ Very sorry, sir, bu!" ! .g, have not got anything in the house. look into the poultry-yard,” was the reply: " * | me have a broiled chicken in half an bou r - The other stared, but the stranger’s eye happ® ed to fall upon the pistols, Geoffry seemed te BS . derstand the appeal, and being anxious W S° 1 first, hurried out to counsel the sacrifice 0 chicken to their common safety. In the cOU of half an hour, the dish was smoking guest, who having no notion of glasses beingp ced on the table for the mere purpose of orn ‘ ilU^ pronounced the monosyllable “ Wine - u please, sir,” said Geroffry, “ we can’t get at for mistress has got the key of the wine ■ c ( e in her pocket.” “ Nonsense!” j other; “whoever hea’d of a wine-cellar 'Y only one key I —why, keys in a great mao ® 0 .. are like pistols, there are always two of t £ tern.” The allusion had effect; Geoffry ed in an instant, and shortly re-appea f£ Ganymede. In a few minutes afterwar noise of wheels announced the return o Denyers, who, on being informed of the arrival, like a woman of spirit, went straig tfie dining room to demand an I the next instant the servants heard a l oU '^ ff|J from their mistress, and. conducing ,^atS £)1 - murdered, they, very dutifully, ran out house, and set off at fully speed, each m 3 ent direction, for the doctor. ( It seemed that no sooner had the laJy eyes upon the visiter, than she uttered a shiiek, and sank upon the carpet. .rfat man faints away, the approved method o ment is to kick and cuff him till bere with a woman the case is somewhat t The stranger raised her in his arms, tbre"