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CHRONrJIiIS AND SKVnNEL.
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~'TrH)AV~MORN!NG, AUGUST 14.
FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM 11ENKY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe-tLe incor
ruptible Statesman-the inflexible Repubhcan
* he patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
for VICE-PRESIDENT,
J O IIN TVL ER ,
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. _
fob 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 GRANT LAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke %
R. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
R. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENI US 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.
(rjf*No mail northof Charleston last night.
We lay before our readers to-day. Mr. Van Bu
ren’s letter to the Kentucky committee. Weshal!,
on to-morrow, give of the National In
elligenccr on this rare production, to which we in
vite your particular attention.
Extract of a letter to the editor, dated.
Social Circi.e, Ga., August 6, 1840.
‘Tn looking over the Extra Globe, yesterday, I
noticed a communication dated Monroe, in this
county, in which it is stated, that this State will
give the administration a large majority; that some
of the former friends of Mr. Van Buren have been
carried away by the influence of a United States
Bank, but where one has gone over, there has been
a gain of at least five. He says in this county he
‘knows of but one we have 10-t, but at least half a
dozen we have gained, and they are men of some
influence.’ If any one of tie friends of the ad
ministration will call on me, I will give them a list
of the names of at least ten, in th:s neighborhood,
who were formerly strong Union men, but who
are now as strong Harrison men. And I think it
would puzzle the gentleman to point out half a
dozen who were formerly State Rights men, that
are now Van Buren men. 1 know of but two who
called themselves State Rights men, who are now
Van Buren men; and one of these supported Van
Buren at the last election. 1 think, without the
least exaggeration, there can be named, in the coun
ty, 50 Union men who are now warm advocates for
Harrison and Reform, and we hear of moie or less
every week, and 1 think, by the election, a ma
jority of 100 will not be given for Van Buren. —
Among the most influential of those who have
come over, is a Judge nf the Inferior Court, (for
mer y,) a man of high standing and respectability,
and a former representative of this county in the
State Legislature, and, when last a candidate, re
ceived the highest vote given, and who was one of
the most bitter opponents of the State Rights party
1 ever knew. He is ‘going the whole hog,’ and
will exercise a great influence.”
From the Savannah Republican.
Do you hear that Georgians?
We stated, not long since, that General Floyd,
was not among the supporters ol the present Ad
nnni Ration, as intimated by the Loco Focos of
tiii- county, and we feel sincere pleasure in being
able to lay before our readers this day, a letter
written by Genera! Floyd, to Major White of this
city, which fully corroborates our statement. The
letter is, in every respect, worthy of the gallant
and chivalrous Southerner, General Floyd.
Fairfield, Camden County,)
3ist July, 1840. 5
Dear Major —1 learn by your fitter of the ~oth
instant, and by letters from other friends in Sa
vannah, that a report is in circulation theie, mis
representing my political opinions in reference to
the candiaaios fur he Presidency, and requiring
from me some public notice. On ordinary occa- ;
s.ons, 1 might permit such a report to pass unhee
ded—but now that question is before the two great i
parties of the United States, on the issue of which
will depend the mastery of the People and the
Constitution, or the mastery of the present Ad
ministration with an increase of its extravagant
desires, corrupting influence, and assumed pow
ers. L deem it pioper to • define my position,”
that i may escape the charge of that fashionable
vice, apostacy, and be found .v here 1 have always
been, on the side of Republicanism and the Con
stitution.
The report above referred to is stated to be in
substance, that 1 had become favorable to Mr. Van
Buren, and should support him lor the Presidency.
The reverse is the fact. 1 am, and always have
been, opposed to Mr. Van Buren. For my reasons,
see the record of his voles and public measurs. If
no other cause existed, his official sanction of free
negro testimony agunst an officer of the Navy,
would be sufficient to condemn him forever in my
estimation, This act is certainly no index to the
“ Southern principles” attribute 1 to him b> his ad
vocates.
It is my determination to support General Har
rison, be ausc 1 believ a change 0! rulers abso
lutely necessary to the welfare of the country —
because also, the important mi itary services ren
dered by General Harrison.give him a claim which
his opponent has not; and becau-e I believe that
he vvi i, if elect'd, bring tie Government back to its
original character lor integrity and economy. As
to abolitionism and other disgraceful charges against
him, 1 disbelieve them.
Neither Mr. Van Buren nor General Harrison
are known to me. except through the history of the
country. I compare them by their public acts, un
influenced by personality or prejudice.
You are at liberty to make this communication
public if necessary, to defend my political opinions
from misconstruction. Your friend,
CHAR’S R. FLOYD.
Major Wji. P. White, Savannah.
Col R M. Johnson in his speech on \\ heeling
Island on Monday last, stated that he Ha endear
ored before leaving V\ ashmgton city to prcvai
u an President Van Buren to visit the People of
the United St tes and electioneer personally I
bdd him ’’ said he, “ that we would be hard run
and that he ought to go out among the voters, as I
intended doing.” , ,
\t Steubenville, on W edxesday, be remarked,
that before he crossed the mountains he was in
formed that his Locofoco friends in the West had
become alarmed —that dismay and consternation
had spread through their ranks —but that, althoug 1
he had met many of them at Washington, Pa.,
Wheeling and St. Clairsvifle, he had not seen any
thing to make him believe to, until on that day-
He confessed that the large procession of VVhr*s,
with their badges and banners, (which by the w ay.
aDDear to have a wonderful effect upon the travel
orators,) Had really alarmed bm, and
were sufficient to alarm the party, and exhortc
the faithful to arouse themselves and by redoubled
exertion? prepare for the very close contest which
" to know what those of our Loco
friends who pretend to be confident of ihe re-elec
tion of Mr. Van Buren, think of Colonel Johnson s
judgement. — H heeling Gazette.
V Letter From the President ol the United
States.
Washington, July 4, 1840.
Gentlemen: — I have had the honor to receive
the invitation which you have been pleased to give
me in behalf of the democratic citizens of the coun
ties es Fayette, Woodford and Scott, to be present
as a guest at a public meeting and entertainment,
to be”held by them at the White Sulphur Springs,
in Scott county, Kentucky, on the 11th inst.
Truly grateful for this mark of their respect and
kindness, ! can but regret that my public duties
will not permit me to express my gratefulness face
to l ace.
That I have been so fortunate as to secure “ the
entire approbation of the democracy of Kentucky,”
that they look upon me as “ true to the Constitu
tion of the United States,” “the representative and
advocate of their principles in tne Executive De
partment of our Government,” cannot but afford
me peculiar satisfaction,coming, as it does, fiom a
highly respectable poition of the ancient and time
honored patriots of that noble State, and from the
sons of those who, in their day, were the pillars of
the republic. History, gentlemen, must be false
to her duty when she ceases to inform mankind
that it was by Kentucky that the first effectual
blow was struck at the dangerous principles intro
duced into the administration of our Government
soon after the adoption of the Constitution—princi
ples which had already led to acts of fearful usur
pation, and threatened speedily to destroy as well
the rights of the States, as the rights of the Peo
ple. it was the Kentucky resolutions, backed by
those of her patriotic parent State, which changed
♦he public opinion, and brought back the adminis
tration of the Government to the principles of the
Revolution.' For forty years the democracy of the
Union have looked upon those resolutions as the
creed of their political faith ; political degenera y
has . een marked by departure from that standard,
and, like the original language of the Bible in mat
ters of religion, they are the text book of every
reformer.
Nothing could more effectually prove the purity
of the principles then announced, than the progress
they have since made in the minds of men J While
even the name of the proud and powerful party
opposed them has come to be considered a term of
reproach, if not of ignominy and insult, the princi
ples of the Kentucky resolutions, in profession, if
not in fact, now emer into the creed of every po
litical sect, and the once derided name norne by
their apostates and advocates, is considered an es
sential passport to popularity and success. Nay,
more, the People, almost with one voice, have re
cently recognized and consecrated the principles
of those resolutions, by an act as impressive and
emphatic as it is possible for a nation to perform.
Since your letter lias been laying before me wait
ing fora rep’y, it has become my agreeable duty
to confiim the fiat of the nation, settling forever
the unconstitutionality of the sedition laws of 1798,
by approving an act for the relief of the heirs of i
Matthew Lyon, refunding to them a tine collected
of their ancestor under the law in question. Party
! prejudice, judicial authoi i y, dread of the prece
dent, respect for that which has assumed the form
of law for forty years, have successfully resisted
this act of justice ; but at length all are swept a
i way by the irresistible current of public opinion,
and the sedition act has been irreversibly decided
to be unconstitutional by a tribunal higher than the
courts of justice —the sovereign People of tiie Uni
| ted States. The patriarchs of Kentucky and Vir
ginia, the men who, in that day, miJst obloquy and
insult, voted for or sustained the Kentucky and
Virginia resolutions of 1799, cannot but rejoice
with joy unspeakable in witnessing the final tri
umph of the pure principles to which they then an
i nounced their allegiance. They and their de
scendants have a right to glory in seeing those
principles recognized, even at this late day, by the
j acclamations of a nation, and one of the tyrannical
. acts against which they protested virtually ex
punged from the records of the county.
W lule to aged patriots it is a subject of congrat
ulation and ;oy, it teaches the young that efforts
at reform in the Government of their country ought
never to be considered hopeless, as long as there
| is any thing to imp ove, and that, if the fathers do
not enjoy the fiuits their exertions in the cause
! of democratic principles, they are ceitain to fail in
i blessings upon the children.
1 am most happy to inform you, gentlemen, that
I have this day signed the bill for the establish
meni of an Independent Treasury, a measure
of which you speak in decided commendation. By
this measure, the management of an impoitaiit
brunch of our national concerns, after a departure
i of nearly half a century, will be brought back to
the letter, as well as to the obvious spirit ;.nd in
tention of the Constitution. The system now su
perseded was, in fart, one of those early measures
devised by the friends and advocates of privileged
orders for the purpose of perverting the Govern
ment from its pure principles and legitimate ob
jects, vesting all power in the hands of the few,
and enabling Incrn to profit at the expense of the
many. 1 need not inform you, gentlemen, that the
effect of depositing the public money in banks was
to lend it to those institutions, generally without
interest, to be used as a part of their capital, and
that they lent it out upon interest to their custom
ers, thereby largely increasing the profits of the
stockholders. Thus the few were enabled to en
rich themselves by using the money which be
longed to the many, and the public funds were in
fact drawn from the Treasury, without an appro
priation by Congress, in clear violation of the spirit
of a constitutional prohibition.
The manner in which this abuse crept into the !
Government and fastene l itself upon the country, I
with the acquiescence of the whole people, is an :
: impressive lesson, teaching the necessity ol per-
I petual vigilance and energy in detecting and re- i
I sisling the first eucroacfimt nts, however seemingly
I trilling, upon the principles of our Government,
j F om the deposite of tire public money in banks,
it did not necessarily fo.low that the banks should
use it. Its u>e was never, until lately, and then
oni > mtr limited extent,directly authorizedbv any
act of the Government. But, as the banks’were
in the habitof using deposites, they silently treated
those of the Government like those of'private I
citizens, and the Government silently acquiesced *
in the practice. As loi many years the revenues i
of the Goverment were moderate, and the surplus i
was wanted to pay the principal and interest of
the public debt, the amount loaned out by the
banks was comparatively small, and the profits of
Ihe stockholders less considerable. But in the pro
gress ®f the Government its revenues increased,
and the amount unexpended became greater, until
it amounted to five, ten, and, after the extinguish
ment of the public debt, to nearly thirty millions.
Ihe disastrous effects now occame apparent.
An extensive interest had sprung up. deriving
wealth irom the use ol the people’s money, and
having powerful inducements so to act upon the
Government as to i ,crease the source of their in
come. Their influe: ce was first directly fell in in
terferences to prevent the payment of the public
debt; then in efforts, t rough the use of the public
press, and in attempts to secure the influence of the
leading politicians, and of men in authority, to
procure a prolongat on of their chartered privileges;
and, finally, in ptnic and pressure inflicted upon
the country with the hope of controlling the action
of the Government through the alarms and the
sufferings of the people. By shifting the deposites
fiom one great institution to many smaller ones,
the unity of this interest was destroyed, but not
its power. Though enfeebled, it still existed in a
force which the boldest might fear, and had made
itself felt in the contests of the last few years.
But the intelligence ad virtue of our people have
triumphed over art, panic, and pressure, and the
act of deliverance is this day consummated.
It k honed that the business ol the couatry wi-1
It is hop disturbed by the struggles of the
no longei possession of the money
banking inheres s ? P make a profit out of
ot the pe they will settle down contented
use of that which legitimately -e longs to
Zm leaving the funds of the Government to be
keot and expended according to the letter and
s „irit of the Constitution. But should it be other
wise the intelligence and firmness ol our people
arc equal to any emergency. 1 hey now und< -
.ta d the wnole subject. They see no reason
why the stockholders and debtors of banks should
have an exclusive privilege to make themselves
rich out of the use of the public money. 1 he} see
no reason why they should be taxed to raise mono}
sor I =uch a They see that its eff ct is o
ouild up a rich privileged order at their expense to
control the Government, and destroy all equality
among the people. Seeing all this, and the plan
for which that interest has so long struggled, to
the derangement of the business of the country, is
in palpable violation of the spirit o f the Constitu
tion, their hrmness will be equal to every e fort
necessary to prevent its re-establishment.
In the progress of our Government the most
gratifying evidences have been furnished that our
people are, in intelligence, integrity, and deter
mined resolution, equal to the task of self-gov em
inent. In that Administration which has been ap
propriately named “the reign of terror, s< L a P"
propriately that men of all parties now' repudia e
its acts and are prompt to redress, as far as t e>
can, the wrongs it inflicted, the force of statute
law and the arm of the Judiciary were called in to
aid the influence of the Executive and the advo
cates of a strong Government in putting down the
rising spirit of the people, and controlling the cm
rent of public opinion ; hut all these combined
powers were exerted in vain.
The Samson of Democracy burst the cords which
were already bound around his limbs, and in the
election of Mr. Jefferson vindicated its principles,
its firmness, and its power. A wreo more artfully
contrived, composed of a high protective tariff, a
system of internal improvements, and a National
Bank, was then twined around the sleeping giant
in the vain hope of subjecting him forever to the
dominion and will of the ambitious and grasping
few, and you have seen how he has scattered the
whole to the winds when roused by the warning
voice of the honest and intrepid Jackson. Again,
in the triumph of the Independent Treasury, we
witness the triumph of the popular intelligence
and firmness over the arts, arguments, appliances,
and alarms of the interested few who desire to en
rich themselves by the use of the public money —
another and the most gratifying evidence that the
people, when aroused, are competent to maintain
any just principle, and correct any abuse, however
sanctioned by precedent or sustained by wealth.
On these evidences of popular inltlligence and
firmness, the Republican patriot rests with well
grounded faith that all means which may be
used to mislead or intimidate the people, now or
hereafter, into a surrender of their Constitution and
their libeities, will, as they have ever done, meet
with a signal and withering rebuke.
I am, gentlemen, with thanks for the friendly
spirit in which you have indiviually performed the
duty assigned to you, very respectfully yourfriend
and obedient servant, M. VAN BUREN.
To Messrs. John M. McCalla,''!
Committee
G. W. Johnson, J
Presidential Election.
We republish by request, the table of electoral
votes given at the last Presidential election.
Van Buren. Harrison.
Maine, 10 Vermont, 7
New Hampshire, 7 New Jersey, 8
Rhode Island, 4 Delaware, 3
Connecticut, 8 Maryland, 10
New York, 42 Kentucky, 15
Pennsylvania, 30 Ohio, 21
Virginia,.... 23 Indiana, 9
N. Carolina, 15
Alabama 7 73
Mississippi, 4 White.
Louisiana, 5 Georgia, 11
Illinois, 5 Tennessee, 15
Missouri, 4
Arkansas, 3 26
Michigan, 3 Webster.
Massachusetts, 14
170 Magunm.
S. Carolina, 11
Van Buren, 170
Harrison, 73
White, 26
Webster, 14
Mangum, 11
Whole number of votes, 294
The Whigs will see at a glance the most bril
liant prospects of success from the above. Adding
South Carolina to Mr. Van Buren’s former vote, it
would give him 192. Gen. Harrison will certainly,
in addition to Iris former vote, have Massachusetts
and Tennessee, which will make 102. If to this
we add, what no one disputes, Rhode Island, Con
necticut and Louisiana and Michigan, which before
voted for Van Buren, his vote will be increased to
112, and Mr. Van Buren’s diminished to 172. This
i leaves New York, Pennsylvania, North Carclioa,
| and Virginia, still with Van Buren. Should the
Whigs carry only the first named of these, the
vote will stand Harrison 164, Van Buren 130.
Pennsylvania alone carried would make it, Harri
son 152, Van Buren 142. There is now every
reasonable prospect that we shall carry not only
one, but both of these great States. Admitting
them lost, Virginia and Illinois will give Harrison
150, Van Buren 144. We have also the best
chances for success in Georgia, and North Carolina
j may be set down as certain. We see no reason
j for any thing, even under this calculation, but
i hope in the future; and we give the above as the
worst calculation we can make, for the benefit of
any Whigs who may doubt, if such there can be
found. — Fhilad. North American.
From the Albany Evening Journal.
The Fulfilment of Prophecy !
In 1834, when Mr. Van Buren was grasping
lor the Presidency, the London Chronicle, a
high Tory paper, put forth the following predic
tion in relation to designs which have just been
carried into effect!
Mr. Van Buren, while playing Minister in
England, contrived to make himself understood.
I Ha did, r.s the London Chronicle intimated, in
duce Calhoun, McDuffie, Bancroft, Brownson,
j Leggett, and other men of talent to prepare the
public mind for measures which, unless arrested,
: are sure to change our form of Government.
But here comes the London Prophecy :
From the St. James’ Chronicle of 2d Sept. 1834.
The people of England may now learn a les
son on the Republicanism from its most brilliant
specimen, the government of the United States.
It has proved a splendid failure. Van Buren,
who learned many useful tactics in this country,
I will bring the democrats round to a rational
system of monarchist obedience. Demoracy is
the best and most powerful lever in the world, if
pressed judiciouly. Monarchies have been up
set by it.
Van Buren is said to be a non-talented man,
i but he knows human nature ; he knows his coun
trymen too, and he has laid the finest train that
ever was conceived. He has prevailed on the
,; popular old President to set an example of abso
lutism and independence which perhaps no other
man in that country could have attempted. He
will imitate mildly and cautiously ; but having
the support of the democracy, he will undoubt
edly succeed in bringing the whole Union under
, the sway ot a lew enlarged and cultivated minds,
. which are in tact the source of stability and or
der in every countrv.
The people cannot govern themselves, any
more than a public school can govern itself with*
I °ut the superintendence of a master. It must
j oterelv an incessant round of clamor andcon
; tention. We have now more hope for America
than ever we had since her declaration of inde
pendence. Mr. Van Buren has succeeded in
running down a National Bank which was the
most formidable obstacle to Executive control,
and has collected in his hands the reins of a good
team ot state institutions which will draw togeth
er and bear him upwards like the steeds of Pe
gasus.
The Republic of the United States like that
ol \ t nice, wJI become an oligarchy, hut it will
be, unless we are mistaken a more enduring one.
It will not like Venice become a splendid ruin of
palaces, for it has arterial springs of commercial
prosperity, which nothing can paralyze, and
which do not depend upon the diseased stomachs
of Europe for a healthful action. For fifty years
or more it will be a clever oligarchy, and then the
people will wisely and cheerfully consent to its be
coming a limited monarchy. —Van Buren, we
believe, has a son or two, and he will probably
establish a sound and useful dynasty lor that
great continent.”
Alfred Iverson, Esq.
OF WASHINGTON CITT.
It will be perceived by the Van Buren papers,
that this gewtleman is a candidate on the Van
Buren ticket tor Cong r ess. How it is that he
can be considered a citizen of Georgia, we are at
loss to know ; for we understand that he sold out
house, lot, &c. &c. to Judge Colquitt, two or
three years since, and that his family have res
ided in Washington City since that time. He
is said to hail from Columbus, hut we will venture
to say that he has not been there as much as two
months, within the last twelve months. At the
time he was elected Judge of the Chattahoochee
Circuit, he was then a citizen of that place, hut
afterwards, when h’s family removed, the time
appointed for the courts, not being convenient, he
would adjourn them over to such time as would
suit his convenience, to attend them alter his re
turn from Washington, and if we have not been
misinformed, it was that, which caused a special
act being passed to prevent the Courts being ad
journed over in the Chattahoochee Circuit, long
er than one day. We have no fears that he will
he elected, but we think that if the Van Buren
party preU nd to offer candidates to represent the
people of Georgia in Congress, they might as well
select gentlemen who reside in Georgia, and not
one whose home is in Washington City ; and
who only comes to Georgia once or twice during
the year, and then to remain a few weeks. Not
content with supporting Mr. Forsyth, who re
sides at Washington City for the Vice Presiden
cy, thev must needs support his son-in-law, from
the same place, to represent the people of Geor
gia ! ! They must be bad off; but we can tell
them in time, the people of Georgia will not sanc
tion this game.— Georgia Journal.
England and China.— We are indebted to
a mercantile house in this city for the annexed
copy of a letter from the United States minister
at London, disclosing in part the intentions of
the British Government as to the conduct of the
Chinese expedition. A blockade of Canton, it
seems to be one of the first measures resorted to;
and there is great reason to apprehend that the
blockade will be of long continuance, for we have
not the remotest idea that it alone will have any
effect upon the Chinese. If the English admiral
confines himself to a blockade, he has got two or
three years work before him.
London, June 26th, 1840.
Gentlemen —I received last night from Lord
Palmerston an answer to my note on the subject
of the China trade, the substance of which I has
ten to comunicate for your information. As I
had supposed, the order in council was inten
ded to be confined to the subjects and property of
the Chinese. It appears that the admiral com
manding the expedition on the China seas has
been instructed to confine himself (unless ex
treme measures should become necessary) to the
detention alone of Chinese vessels and prsperty
and is not to seize or detain vessels arriving from
Europe and America, although such vessels and
cargoes may bo consigned to mercantile establish
ments within the Chinese dominions. His lord
ship, however, has deemed it proper to apprise
me, for the information of those concerned, that
one of the first acts of hostility that may be re
sorted to by the admiral, will probably be the es
tablishment of a blockade on the Canton river
and of some other points on the Chinese coast.
I am, &c.
(Signed,) A. STE\ ENSON.
From the New York Courier <s• Enquirer.
The California Affair.
We have been furnished by Gapt. Clifford with
the following statement in relation to the arrests
of American and English seamen in California.
It may be as well to state that Captain Clifford
very much doubts the truth of the account pub
lished in the Mexican papers, and translated in
the Journal of Commerce of yesterday morning.
On the 7lh of April, the English and American
residents on the coasts of California, near Santa
Barbara, were, without any previous notice, seiz
ed upon thrown into prison, no one could tell for
what causes. After undergoing an examination
of which nothing public was made known, the
Governor chartered a vessel called the Guipuzcoa,
which finally left Santa Barbara, on the 7th May,
for San Bias, with foity-six prisoners on board,
half of which number were English, the remain
ing half citizens of the United States.
These miserable sufferers, loaded with iron,
worn down by the cruelly they had rieceived, and
expecting, many of them, to sink under the
weight of their accumulated miseries, were crow
ded like condemned felons into the hold of the
vessels, where, to add to their sufferings, they
were inhumanly deprived both of light and air.
The Guipuzcoa was eleven days on her pass
age to San Bias, during which lime the prison
er endured every cruelty, and suffered every
abuse which the brutal feelings of their persecu
tors could invent. Arrived at San Bias they were
with as little delay as possible landed and imme
diately forced to commence their march toTepic,
a distance of sixty miles, which they performed
in two days, over a mountainous road, with the
thermometer standing at 99, having no place
where on to rest their weary bodies hut the hard
stones, and no food to supplv exhausted nature,
save a scanty morsel, provided by the hand of
charity.
During the march, which was laborious enough
to exhaust the stoutest frame, the prisoners were
urged onward by lashes inflicted upon their naked
bodies, and one, who sank under fatigue, was
barbarously beaten with the butt end of a musket,
to renovate his strength and arouse his drooping
spirits.
Arrived at Tepic, the situation of the prisoners
was soon ameliorated, by the energeiic and hu
mane exertions of the British and American
Consuls at that place, lor it was found on inves
tigation, that the officers who had come from
California in charge of the prisoners, had no doc
uments of any nature to show the cause of the
violent proceedings of the Governor, or any proof
of charges against the prisoners ; consequently,
by orders of the military commander, the irons
were taken from their limbs, and by direction ot
the Consuls, comfortable quarters and whole
some food were provided for them without delay.
The military gentlemen, whose brutality had
excited the indignation even of the authorities
ot Tepic, to their utter consternation were com
pelled to march to the quartel, where they found
themselves placed under charge of a strong guard,
with the privilege of occasionally peeping through
the grates.
A circumstantial account of the history of the
outrage and (he sufferings of the prisoners had
been forwarded by the consuls to the British and
American ministers resident in Mexico, both of
whom had war i ly entered into the cause, and
had demanded a full explanation from the su
preme and satisfaction for the inju
ries which their countrymen had been compelled
to suffer.
Official accounts of this infamous transaction
have been forwarded to the British and Ameri
can governments by their respective ministers at
the city of Mexico, and it is confidently hoped
that prompt and energetic measures will be pur
sued by those powers to obtain ample justice and
remuneration for the prisoners and satisfaction
for^r"- Of proceedings again, .he
prisoners while in California, and aderfaiil m
C They were assisted with adv.ee and other
means by an American, citizen named Farham
who fortinaudy happened to bo
that country, on his way to the
This is however but one version o the attd i .
The Mexican papers contain the following - -
count, which we copy from the Journal of Com
merce. our files of Mexican papers having by
some accident failed to reach us.
“ Departments of San Luis, June 20, I»4U.
“ It will be seen by advices which we copy from
the Diario delGobierno, that a revolution was on
the point of breaking out in Upper California.
According to letters which we have before us
from Eastevan Mamas and David E. Spence,
the former a Spaniard, and the latter a Scotch
man, and both of them respectable and faith; I
subjects residing near the port of Monterey, we
learn that the Yankees, alter holding severa
meetings at Nativitas, where is a distillery, and
which is situated very near the Mission of St.
John the Baptist,determir.cd to take possession
of that beautiful and fertile country, which the
New Orleans promoters of the Texian insurrec
tion have justly styled the Paradise of America.
The present Governor, Juan Bantista Alvarado,
being informed of it, with the greatest activity to
ascertain the truth of these designs, and made a
dash upon fifty foreigners convened (reunidos)
at that place, who offered resistance, and one ot
whom was killed. The rest, being well secured
were placed on board the bark Guipuzcoana, Jose
Antonio, Aguirre, guarded by 25 men, under com
mand of Jose Castro, which vessel ai rived at
San Bias on the 10lh of May ult.
It is altogther a very strange affair. It is very
improbable that some forty or fifty men could
conceive,the idea of revolutionizing such an extent
of territory as that of the Coast ot California,
thinly inhabited as it is. We are happy to add
that the U. S. ship St. Louis has proceeded to
Upper California to protect American interests
there.
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says :
By the schr. Virginia Antoinette, Capt. Place,
arrived yesterday, we received files otlhe Bahama
Royal Gazette to the 6th inst.
On the 24th July, the settlement called San
Fernanda, situated within the port of Neuvitas,
in the island of Cuba, was entirely destroyed by
fire, which caused much distress and reducing
many poor families to the greatest indigence.
Nassau, August 5.
About the 13th ult. a Spanish biig from Ca
diz, bound to Havana, and having seventy pas
sengers on board, unfortunately struck on the
Mucaras reef. The mate with five seamen in
the brig’s boat, proceeded to Neuvitas for assist
ance, whence a small sloop, (the Carmita, Capt.
Barboso, now in this port,) was immediately
despatched, but on arriving at the reef, the brig
was not to be found, supposed she may have drift
ed off and proceeded on her voyage, no accounts,
however, have been received of her.
The Magician’s Residence. — Happening in
Kinderhook the other day, we took no little trou
ble to enquire out where the Magician expected
to conceal himself after the next Inauguration.
With wise forecast, we found he had purchased
an establishment about two miles from the vil
lage, and was putting it in suitable order, prepar
atory to an event, which he knows is as sure to
come upon him as that the Sun will rise to-mor
row. Starting from the centre of the pretty vill
age of Kmkerhook in an easterly direction, we
rode through rather a poor and neglected section
of country, containing at long intervals, a few
rather forlorn looking farm-houses. The route
' seemed to be an unfrequented one, and there was
nothing except its utter seclusion and dreariness,
' which could induce any man to select it as a resi
dence. The only information we obtained, by
which the Mansion might be found, was the
quantity of new fence by the road-side. The
house stands some distance in the rear of a quan
tity of pine trees and appears to be the antiquated
( two-story brick residence of some moderate coun
, try gentleman. It is going through various re
pairs and improvements, stables and hot-houses
and sheds being in process of erection. It was
purchased not long since by Mr. Van Buren, and
there is every thing in the appearance of the
premises, which would indicate that the occupant
expected to be there soon. The location implies
t also that he would like to be as remote from the
world, and as secluded as posiblc, to be consis
tent with remaining within the bounds of civil
ization. The only residence near by, or which
, exhibits any signs of animated existence, is a
shanty directly opposite his Mansion, with the
sign “ Cakes ami Beer, sold Here.' I —Troy Mail.
Origin of Franking Letters.—The ori
gin of the franking privilege is thus detailed in
' the 23d volume of the Parliamentary History.
It occurred in the debate on the Post Office Bill,
; in the year 1560 :—‘‘Colonel Titus reported the
bill for the settlement of the Post Office, with
1 the amendments. Sir Waller Earl delivered a
proviso, for the letters of all members of Parlia
ment to go free during their sitting. SirHene
• age Finch said, it was a poor mendicant proviso,
and below the honor of the house M. Pryne
spoke also against the proviso; Mr. Buncley,
• Mr. Boscawen, Sir George Lowing, and Sergeant
! Gallon, for it, the latter saying, the council’s
letters went free. The question being called for,
i the speaker. Sir Harbottle Gnmstone, was un
; willing to put it, saying, he was ashamed of it;
! nevertheless, the proviso was carried, and made
: part of the bill, which was ordered to be engross
' ed. The Lords, subsequently, disagreed to this
- proviso, and it was ultimately thrown out. Ala
: subsequent period both houses did not feel it be
low their honor to secure for themselves this ex
eintion.”—Great value is attached to some franks.
! One by Lord Bron has been kuhown to fetch
seven guineas atyan auction. Taose by Single
1 speech. Hamilton are very rare, s, also, Horne
Tooke’s. Canning franked to a friend in Ireland,
three volumes of Clarendon’s History, one frank
to each volume. Dresses, boots shoes &c. have
1 been frequently under one frank ; and a whole
• suit of window curtains have been so passed. It
is said, a buck was franked to Dover by Mr. Pou
■ letl Thomson. The Duke ot Wellington’s frank
1 sold last week for a guinea. The finest collec
tion of extant forms, part of a splendid and unique
’ collection of autographs in the possession of
1 Mr. Upcott, of Islington, and which ought to en
- rich the British Museum ; but in all probability,
! the opportunity of possessing it will be neglected
1 until some foreign potentate bears away the
' treasured prize.
i I ;
j | Astounding Disclosure.—An individual in
. Ohio, fully acquainted with the transaction, has
[ d isclost d lh« fact that a loan of $400,000 had
, i been obtained in New York to operate on the
i j election in Ohio, by purchasing votes of laborers
1 and buying flour at extraordinary prices so as to
, induce the German farmers, hundreds of whom
[ j have left Van Burenism, again to support the
I Administration. The gentleman by whom the
f facts were communicated, disgusted with the
1 proceeding, has left the Van Buren party—'
. Indianapolis spirit of ’76.
r» r^'lE ® CLL PROVIDES FOR HIS
Poor.— l he British barque New York Packet
i , arrived at quarantine below this port on Sunday
• , last, with two hundred and fifty passengers, sick
and destitute. Many of them, it is said, have
admitted that they are paupers, and that they
■ were taken from the poor-houses of Great Brit-
I am.— Boston Courier.
Profitable Business. —The following expend"
tures and receipts of certain Custom Huses in ih*
United States, are from a document printed •**
Congiess in 1838: 1 ia
District. Officers’ salaries. Am’t R Pr ,
Ipswich, Mass $1,244 65 '
N. London, C0nn.,... .4,013 64 *" j
Hardwick, Ga., 455 21 nothir-
Suabury, Ga., 730 00 ( , fi 8 ‘
St. Augustine, Fia—l,4o2 56 j ’
St. John, Fla., 1,578 13 ’ do ;
The Pardoning Power in America A*
to the philosophic essay of De TocqueviH e
the Influence of Democracy, we believe 11°°
ablest work that has been written on
by a foreigner is that of Dr. Nicholas Henry
Hus, *of Hamburg, entitled, ‘The Moral Concf*
tion of the United States.’ This production h**
not yet been translated, but we learn f rom
‘Cincinnati Chronicle’ that an English versi 6 I
of it will soon be published in that city. p^° n
Dr. Julius visited the United States, he had oj?
tained great reputation by his works on the Crim*
inal Law and Social i VmdLion of Germany; am J
while here, he devoted his attention perticularl
to the crimes, punishments, penitentiary establish
ments, schools and other matters connected v'*
our moral condition. In his chapter on the mi
tigution of the penal code, Dr. Julius states that I
the number of pardons granted in this couru
exceeds any thing ever dreamed of in Eurone Z
the same way. 1 1
To give some idea of the frequency of the ex
ercise of the pardoning power in this country*
we condense some statistics from the work if
Ur. Julius. The pardons amounted in this Slat
to 0.343 out of 3,175 convictions to the peniten
tiary, during the fourteen years from 1810 to lg.
23, or almost to th-ee-fourlhs of the whole num
ber. In the three years from 1816 to 1818, '803
or more than four-fifths, were pardoned , and of
817 convicts liberated in five years. 77 only ful
filled the term of their punishment74o, how
ever, had been pardoned principally fur want of
room for their incarceration.
In Pennsylvania, within twenty-two years
from 1799 to 1820, there were pardoned by three
consecutive Governors not less than 2 508 crim
inals; and the city of Philadelphia alone, from
1787 to 1832, 2,488 were pardoned, amountin'*
on an average, to 54 annually; in ! 819 only, there
were 134. In the State of Ohio, of 707 con
victs imprisoned in fifteen years, from 1815 t 0
1829, 501 were pardoned, 128 fulfilled their
term, and the remainder either died or escaped.—
New Yorker.
Relation of Husband and Wife.—A wri
ter in a New England Review, who expounds
the Legal Rights of Woman, showing that he can
look at the relation subsisting between the hus
band and wife with a true eye, thus beautifully
▼indicates the common law, in one particular: I
“Should either, forgetting the obligations of
good faith and all the proprieties of that relation,
he willing to bear witness against the other, the
law sternly forbids it. It will not allow the rule
to be violated, even by agreement. It has no
hand to raise the veil of that sanctity ; no ear to [
listen to the breithings of its hallowed com- f
rnunion ; it lays the hermetic seal of its finder
on the lip that would reveal those secrets. Nay, J
if the parlies the 1 selves have drained the bitter t|
cup of domestic dissension, and been finally di- |J
voiced by a judicial decree, Svill neither is permit
ted to testify, against the other, to any matter of
confidential communication, made while the mar
riage tie existed.”
A Predicament.—The Baltimore clipper
man tells of meeting in the street a dashing belle
of that city, whose conduct as she neared him
seemed passing strange, as at one moment she
would hasten her steps, and at another stop, as
if in doubt whether to proceed. Her cheeks /
were tinged with blushes, and such washer evi
dent confusion,that she ever and anon cast a plead
ing look around, as if to find some open door to re
ceive her. For a long time he was at a loss to
know what caused the poor girl’s confusion,
when he discovered close at her heels two little
pigs, who struck up a merry “ queek— queek,” I
as soon as she walked forward, but were perfectly
silent when she stood still. But why should
these young pigs be so attentive? The young
lady doubtless had her swain—hut not her swine. *
As he passed her he observed that her “ bustle,” |j
was stuffed with bran, had burst open and was I
lettin g out its stores to ameliorate the appetites of J
these hungry little pigs ! Strange that the Bal- |
tirnore authorities will allow little pigs and big
pigs of various sizes to run at large to devour the
artificial portion of their belles !
Capital Retort.— A plain man who feels I
that Mr. \an Burcu’s administration has betray
ed the confidence reposed in it. was rallied by an
old political ifiend in Centre Market, of this city
the other day. for having left his friends and gone
over to his enemies. No such thing, promptly
exclaimed the honest patriot—“ I have left my
enemies and gone to my friends /” This was
a poser. He never uttered a truer sentence.
With professions of love for the people ever on
his lips, Mr. van Buren has done nothing for
them; not a solitary act for their benefit. Who
ever heard of his doing any thing for the poor 1— |,
Newark Advertiser.
Virginia Loan.—The Treasurer of the Slate
of Virginia has given notice, that proposals for a
six per cent, loan, amounting to $92,825 ot any
part thereof, irredeemable for twenty years,inter
est semi-annualiy, in specie—will be received un
til the 24th inst.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dales from Liverpool, Jhfj/ 3
Latest dates from Havre, 29
New Orleans, August S. r
Cotton —Arrived since the Ist inst., of Louisiana
and Mississippi 906 bales, Tennesseand North Ala
bama 292, Arkansas 22, together 1225 bales.-
Clcared in the same time, for Liverpool 3641 bales,
Cowes and a market 41, Havre 1253,Havana 140a,
Boston 220, Philadelphia 453, Portsmouth 479, to
gether 7492 bales; making a reduction in stock of
6272 bales, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on
shipboaid, (as ter statement aoove,) a stock 01 B
26013 bales.
In our review of Saturday morning last we re '
ported the cotton market as being in a 1 ather inac- _
live state, in consequence of the limited stock on
sale, and of the inquiry beingthen principally con- 1
fined to the better grades, which were difficult t°
obtain on account of their great scarcity and the
very high rates demanded by holders. On that ar
the two subsequent days,however, a more active,
as well as a more general demand was experienced,
the sales up to Tuesday evening having aroonnte
to about 2800 bales, embracing'nearly all the par
cels of any considerable magnitude that remained
to oe disposed of, and which were taken at rates a
.fraction above those previously current. - inc
(then transactions have been on n limited sea c,
more on account of the small amount offering,how
ever, than the absence of buyers, there e ‘ n »," t u e
a fair demand. The market is very firm, and •
few parcels of any note that yet remain in j
hands, are limited at rates above our present Q u
tations, which, it will be perceived, have been a
vanced a£ of a cent for qualities below fair. 1
sales for the week amount to 3900 bales.
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATIONS. „
Louisi na and Mississippi— Ordinary, 6 v* A
middling, 8 (a) S’; fair, 94, (d) 9| ; good fair, '
11; good and fine 12, nom. Tenn ‘sse and Mtjn
Alabama— Ordinary. (a) middling, 'PH*.'*’
fair, (p) good fair, 9£ (3 10; good and hne,
none.
Sugar — Louisiana —The demand, during the P n '
week, has been quite limited, and the transaction*
have been confined almost entirely to small sa. ■>
from second hands, at a further advance, howcvci,
of i 0 i cent p lb. The sales of the wee*
amount to about 250 (3 300 hhds, at 6* c«.» .
most of the transactions being at 5 (3 oi cents.