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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL.
AU«U S T A.
fj SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON,
Os Ohio;
The invincible Hero of Tippecanoe —the incor
ruptible Statesman— the inflexible Republican—
he patriotic Farmer of Ohio.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
JOH N TYLER,
Os Virginia;
A State Rights Republican of the school of ’9B—
—of Virginia’s noblest sons, and emphatically
one of America’s most sagacious, virtuous and
patriot statesmen.
FOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT,
GEORGE R. GILMER, of Oglethorpe.
DUNCAN L. CLINCH, of Camden.
JOHN W. CAMPBELL, of Muscogee.
JOEL CRAWFORD, of Hancock.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY, of Clark.
SEATON GRANTLAND, of Baldwin.
ANDREW MILLER, of Cass.
WILLIAM EZZARD, of DeKalb.
C. B. STRONG, of Bibb.
JOHN WHITEHEAD, of Burke.
E. WIMBERLY, of Twiggs.
FOR CONGRESS,
® WILLIAM C. DAWSON, of Greene.
U. W. HABERSHAM, of Habersham.
JULIUS C. ALFORD, of Troup.
EUGENIUS A. NISBET, of Bibb.
LOTT WARREN, of Sumter.
THOMAS BUTLER KING, of Glynn.
ROGER L. GAMBLE, of Jefferson.
JAMES A. MERIWETHER, of Putnam.
THOMAS F. FOSTER, of Muscogee.
The IJarbecue.
An extra train of Passenger Car? will leave the
Depot at half past nine o’clock this morning, lor
the purpose of conveying passengers to Belair.
Editor’s Correspondence.
Macon, Wednesday, August 12th.
Having just reached this city, it is my purpose
to give you a slight foretaste of the grand Conven
tion which is now assembling, from all quarters of
the State, to commence its silting to-morrow.—
Allow me to premise, however, that nothing I can
say can furnish your readers any idea of the reality
* of the scenes now momentarily enacting before
me. They must be seen to be appreciated and fel t
« in all their force.
On my way hither, from Athens, but one feeling
seemed to pervade the people, and it animates and
thrills every bosom. In short,nothing can exceed
i the enthusiasm which bursts forth in every coun
ty and neighborhood, and Georgians have never
before witnessed a season so thrilling and soul
stirring. Before I had rea hed Monficello, in Jas
per county, distant about forty miles from this city
I lygan to overtake and pass the delegations from
tne various counties, wending their way hither, by
every possible conveyance, and combining all class
es of citizens —planters, mechanics, laborers, mer
chants, doc'ors and lawyers—all uniting in the
great struggle to perpetuate American liberty,
which is now going on between the people, the
yeomany of the land, the genuine democracy, on
the one hand, and the spoils men and office hold
ers, on the other. As 1 neared the city, the crowd
became more and more dense, rendering the road
almost impassible in many places, either to persons
meeting the vast concourse, or to those desiring to
press forward to th° front rank. And when I
reached the city*, about 11 o’clock, a. m, the side
walks, streets and hotels, were literally a living
mass of iiuman beings, composed of the hundreds
and thousands of delegates that had already arriv
ed, and who were hourly making their advent into
• this seat of hospitality, and the higher and nobler
feelings of our nature.
When a delegation arrives, they are met by the
Macon band, under an appropriate officer, the mem
bers of which are drawn on a long wagon, above
which floats a flag on which is inscribed,
WELCOME, WELCOME, WELCOME.!
THRICE WELCOME, TO MACON.*
And the delegation is escorted through the city,
with their banners unfurled to the breeze, amid
the deafening shouts of the multitude, with which
they are greeted at every corner of the street, and
then they are marched to their quarters, which
have been provided on a scale of liberality which
o far surpasses the most sanguine anticipations.
The delegations are now, while I write, rapidly
arriving and are being marched to their quarters.
The greatest possible enthusiasm pervades every
s bosom —all, all join in the universal joy. Nor do
I believe that it is possible for the Van Buren men
to resist the almost universal disposition to greet
the delegations with a shout; and although so many
a have already arrived, and some of them from the
remotest parts of the State, every hour, aye, al
most quarter of an hour, brings its crowds.
Expectation is running high to see those noble
sons of Carolina, Preston, Thompson and Legate —
to hear, from the»r own lips, their towering elo
quence, and witness its powerful effects upon the
thousands who will be assembled round the ros
trum to-morrow and the succeeding days, during
the continuance of the Convention. Should they
not be present, to unite with our own distinguished
sons, many will be greatly disappointed. For
many have flattered themselves that, on this glori
ous occasion, they would sip at the purest fount ot
Southern, and, probably, American eloquence. In
their absence, however, we shall have much to
cheer the patriot, and make his long depressed bo
som leap fur joy, to meet the many distinguished
rons ot our own Georgia, who will be, and are
even now here, to mingle in this great and holy
cause.
Need I say to your readers, that the little lime
which has been afforded me to make enquiries
with regard to our prospects in Georgia, has been
thus employed, and the resu t has been, in every
instance, my most sanguine anticipations have been
realised, and, in some few, surpassed. All, all
bring the most cheering accounts; and the opinion
universally prevails, that the freemen of Georgia
will cast her vote upon the Farmer of North
and that patriot son of Virginia, John Tyler; and
this opinion, I confess, is more strongly and forci
bly impressed upon my m’ud every day that I min
gle among the people.
It is not reasonable to suppose that in such a
vast concourse, all animated by the same noble
and generous zeal for the promotion of a correct
administration of the government, any thing could
occur among themselves, which could for a mo
ment disturb the harmony of the brotherhood, nor
has it on this occasion. But it becomes my duty
to chronicle one of the most disgraceful transac
tions on the part of a few degraded members of the
Van Buren party, which has ever signalized the
annals of political contests in this or any other
country.
As the delegations from Columbus and some of
the Western counties, were approaching the city
this morn in?, at a creek about seventeen miles
distant from this city, they found the bridge across
the creek partially torn up, and a battery formed of
the timbers, behind which were stationed some
twenty dastardly Van Buren men, all armed with
guns, pistols, dirks, or bowie knives, and who had
sworn that the delegations should not pass, unless
their standards and banners were lowered. I o this
insulting demand, the delegates, about six hundred
in number, although warned, boldly replied they
would pass with their banners floating in the
breeze or perish in the attempt; and when the
dastardly puppies found that they could not in
timidate the friends of old Tip by their empty
bravado and show of fire arras, they meanly skulk
ed off, and permitted the delegations to pass un
harmed, as soon as the bridge could be repaired.
This is no exaggerated account of this disgrace
ful affair. I have collected the particulars from
gentlemen of the highest character, and most un
questionable veracity, who were present and wit
nessed the whole transaction. I forbear farther
comment, as what I have already said is sufficient
to show the extent to which these villains, who 1
planned the assault, are steeped in degradation,
and to what extent they would go to arrest this (
great movement of the people.
I cannot conclude without giving you some ac- ■
count of the progiess of Reform in Alabama, as it
has been communicated to me since my arrival in
the city*. A gentleman just from Alabama, informs 1
me that iu the few counties already heard from,
there had been nine changes in the Legislators
elected last year, from Van Buren to the cause of
the people, which wants only three of neutralizing
the majority of the spoilsmen in that body at its 1
last session, beside an immense gain in the popu- i
lar vote. This is glory enough for this here ofore \
ungenerous daughter of our beloved Georgia.— ,
Should she throw »ff in Novem' er the collar of the <
spoils party, which she has so long and ingloriously
worn,lt will be the proudest day in her history. j
Until now I have been a silent spectator of the :
thrilling scenes which are all the while passing iu '
review before my wi.idow, but I must now go out
and contribute my mite to swell the shouts with
which the air is continually reverberating. To- \
morrow I will endeavor to furnish you a sketch
of the proceedings. Yours, See. J.
Gen. Harrison’s Whipping Law. 1
A friend put into our hands last evening a hand- 1
I bill with the above caption, addressed to the Free
men, Poor men, and Women of Georgia. We learn
that this foul, low, and filthy* piece, was pub
lished at the office of the Constitutionalist —though
the “ worthy, well-bred, and decent ” editor of that
paper, has not so stated —and we suppose the name
of the office was not “ intentionally v'ithheld .”
Who this scavenger of the party is, we do not
know, nor do we desire to know ; for we do not
desire to see a man for whom we should feel so
much contempt. The writer appears to be fami
j liar with the laws of Indiana, (we hope for the
honor of the profession that he is not a Lawyer,)
and it may be possible that he has learned some
, thing of the laws of several other States in the
■ Union, if he has not, we would say to him that it
has not been long since, that the Whipping Law
was in force in Georgia, and not a half a ceiitury
since, they were in force in nearly all the States
j in the Union, and is still in force in our sister
I State, South Carolina. But what has all this to
;do with Gen. Harrison ? Did he have any power
to prevent any such law from passing ? Does the
Governor of a Territory of these United States
j possess the veto power ? Will this scavenger hunt
i up such a law for us ? But we are treating this
low, filth}- thing too serious, for it has only to be
seen to arouse the indignation of every lover of
good order and morals, in this or any other com
munity. A decent piece indeed to present to a
lady.
Editorial Change.— Mr. Wm. Hogan has dis
posed of his interest in the Savannah Republican,
to Joseph L. Locke, Esq. The Republican will,
in future, he conducted by Messrs. Locke & Davis.
From the National Intelligencer.
The President in the Field.
The most remarkable confession which has vet
been made of the alarm known to be felt by ihe
Administration party is President Van Huron's an
swer, just published, (and inserted in our columns
to-day,) to a letter inviting him to attend a meet
ing of his partizans held a. tiie White Sulphur
Springs in Kentucky, on the 11th of July last.
When he left the seat of Government, last year to
pass four months in his native State, though the
visit was unusually long, aud though he rather o -
tentatiously let it be known that he was travelling
as the President if a party, his friends argued that
the necessity of recreation a,ter sevete official
toil was an adequate motive fore jour.iey, and
objected to any other explanation of it as the off
spring of a censorious spirit. The letter to which
we have referred admits of no such apology ; un
less, indeed, the distinguished writer expected his
health to be benefited by“ the excitementof com
position.” The letter is, plainly, an electioneer
ing document; elaborate, and embodying the ad
captandum topics of the political sect of which he
is the head. Phe energy (not to use a stronger
term) of the dictation, when compared with the
courtly moderation which has hit’ rto chaiacter
izea Mr. Van Buren’s compositions, indicates the
pressure of his circums nces Indeed, this pres
sure must be severe when a gentleman of his tact
and prudence is driven to the expedient of descend- ‘
ing from the Presidental chair into the political
arena to fight in the ranks. It will perhaps
have the expired effect of rallying “ the parly ;” '
but, unless we greatly mistake the temper of the ;
American People, the converts whom it makes wdl
be. like those made byh : ' visit to New York, (
against him instead of in his favor. *
There is somethingamusing in the naivete, with ‘
wtichtheF sident tells his cor :spondents that 1
he pins his faith on the celebrated Kentucky and 1
Virginia Resolutions. These Resolutions, having 1
for their object tae restriction of the powers of the (
General Government, within given limits, are *
gravely declared by a President, who practically *
attracts to his own office all the powers, defined r
and undefined, of the General Government, to be 1
in his own opinion, “ like the original language of
the Bible in matters of religion,’’ &c. Though his
own Administration has been one of constant war
fare on principles which lie at the foundation of t
those celebrated Resolutions, he denounces in no g
measured termsthe Federalists for having opposed t
them. “ While,” be says, “ even the name of the
proud and powerful party which opposed them has
come to be considered a term es reproach, if np-f
--of ignominy and insult, ihe principles of the Ken-*
tucky Resolutions, in profession -if not in f*ct,
now enter into thfe creed of every political sect r
and the once-derided name borne by tneir apostles
and advocates is considered an essential passport
to popularity and success.”
The philosophy of some of the President’s Privy
Counsellors must have been tried not a little when
they read this passage. Senator Wall, who has
proudly declared on the floor of the Senate that he
had adhered to the Federal party as long as Mere
was any of it leitin his State, and who we sup
pose, when the Federal party was extinct, took up
with Mr. Von Buren’s party as the next best thing,
is now told by his new leader that the name of
Federalist, is one of “ ignominy. But he is in
duty bound to think so too, and so are Messrs.
Buchanan, Williams, Howard, Hubbard, W ilkins,
and a host of other “ proud and powerful” Federal
opponents of the Resolutions of Virginia and Ken
tucky, and the Federal supporters of the present
Democratic Administration. Ihe President! rank
ly tells us why he calls his Administration “ dem
ocratic.” “ The once derided name” of Demo
crat. he says, “ is considered an essential passport
to popularity and success .” We had guessed as
much before. _
The President’s letter is dated on the Fourth oi
July, the dry on which he signed the Sub-Trea
sury bill. The terms in which he introduces his
comments on this measure are so remarkable that
we subjoin them, italicising those passages to
which we particuly desire to call the attention of
our readers.
“lam most happy to inform you, gentlemen,
that I have this day signed the bill for the estab
lishment of an Independent 1 reasmy, a measure
of which you speak in decided commendation. By
this measure, the management of an important
branch of our national concerns, after a departure
of nearly half a century, will be brought back to
the letter, as well as the obvious spirit of the Con
stitution. The system now superseded was in fact
one of those early measures devised by the friends
and advocates of privileged orders for the purpose
of perverting the Government from its pure princi
ples and legitimate objects, vesting all power in the
hands of a few, and enabling them to profit at the
expense of the many.”
“ The system now superseded ” was the depos
iting of the public money in banks; a system
which, the President asserts, is against the “ ob
vious spirit and intention of the Constitution;” but
which, nevertheless, was acted on from the very
beginning of the Government, till July 4, 1840 —
“nearly half a century.” In other words, the
present Chief Magistrate of the United States de
liberately tells his countrymen that all his prede
cessors in his high office, Washington, J. Adams,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, and
Jackson, in combination with the Legislative and
Judiciary Departments of the Government, from
its very origin, have been violating “ the obvious
spirit and intention of the Constitution ” of their
country!—not merely violating the “spirit and
intention of the Constitution,” but a “spirit and
intention ” which were obvious —that is, plain,
EVIDENT, and NOT TO BE MISTAKEN !
But this is not all. That no doubt may exist
as to the nature of the accusation brought by the
President, he tells us that the authois of the “ sys
tem now superseded ” were “ the friends and Ad
vocates of privileged orders,” and that they devised
it “ for the purpose of perverting the Govern
ment from its pure principles and legitimate objects,
vesting all power in the hands of a few, and enab
ling them to prefit at the expense of the many.”
And is it by the use of such phrases as “ privi
leged orders,” the profit of “ the few at the ex
pense of the many,” &c. that the American people
are to be seiuced into tolerating libels on the foun
ders of their liberties, the lathers of their Consti
tution, and their most trusted servants, through
the long period of fifty years ? We took occasion
in a former article {See Nat. Int. June 6, 1840,) to
notice an Addiess, conceived in a similar spirit, of
the Administration members of the New York
Legislature, and cited the following passage:
“ The earl}- history of this Republic too abund
antly pioves that many of those who took part in
the Revoiution fought for independence rather than
liberty. They rebelled against a monarch abroad
FOR THE PURPOSE OF SETTING UP A MONARCH AT
home. Placed at a distance from the throne of
Great Britian, they had little chance to participate
in its honors, its titles, and its pensions ; and they
aimed to erect a throne in America, around
■which they might form a band of privileged nobles.
No sooner was the object achieved, and the States
separated from their parent land, than these ob
jects began to develop themselves in the writings
and acts of some of the Revolutionary leaders.”
Deeply is it to be lamented that denunciations
which, when made by a party in a Stale Legisla
ture, shocked the feelings es the whole country,
should now*again be put forward with the added
sanction of the Chief Magistrate of tl e Union.
And this is dane, too, it should be observed, be
cause in the vicissitudes o: political strife he finds
it convenient to-day to rally passions and preju
dices in favor es a measure which, but yesterday,
bis immediate predecessor declared to be dangerous
to the liberties of the people, and his partizans
branded as “ disorganizing and revolutionary,”
and “ as a fruitrul source of mischief and conua
lion.”
To one or two other passages of the President’s
letter, a passing notice is due. After characteri
zing the administra.ion of Mr. John Adams and
Mr. Jefferson, in terms quite edifying no doubt
to Messrs, Buchanan, Wall,&c., he says;
“ A web more artfully contrived, composed of a
high protective tariff, a system of internal improve
ments, and a National Bank, was then twined a
round the sleeping giant in the vain hope of sub
jecting 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 ana firmness over the arts, arguments,
appliances, and alarms of she interested lew, who
desire to enrich themselves by the use of the pub
lic money—another and 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.”
Now how stood Mr. Van Buren as to this
“ ' v< * b He voted for the tariff of 1524, without
instructions, voted for that of IS2S, under instruc
tions, cf which the secret iustory is now known,
and a curious history it is, and even those instruc
tions le him a w-ide discretion, and he sustained
in his speeches the principle es a protective tariff.
He \oteJ lor the system of internal improveraents >
even to the extent of ereciing toll-gates on the
Cumberland ro d ; and nobody ever heard a mur
mur irom him - gainst a national bank, as far as
we aie advised, until that eleventh hour when he
vowed “ uncompromising hostility” to it.
The President tIT ;ks fit to des’gnate “ the tri
umph of the Independent Tieasury” as ‘‘ the In
i' iph of the popular intelligence and firmness
over the arts, arguments, appliances, and alarms
of the in. ested few who desiie to enrich them
se'vv by the use of the public money !” This is
said to a reading people, every individual of whom
that knows any thing knows that tne Sub-Treas
ury was carried against the popular will, by the
persevering, untiring influence of the Executive,
and a host of “ aits, arguments, appliances, and*
alarms,” skilfully employed in getting up a party
dull as perfect as the tactics of the Prussian army;
and that ti e proximate instrument of its success
" a ' a b *"h-handed fraud on the sovereignty of the
~*? te ot New Jersey, which produced a giate of
tilings that resulted in a majoritj’ in -vorof a
measure against which a legal majority of Repre
sentatives had been returned.
Again : ue are told that the Sub-Treasury was
opposed by the interested few who desire to en
rich themselves by the use of the public money.”
1 iiis appeal is made to the People by the Presi
dent, in lav or of a project which confessedly, what
ever may be its o her features, gives him and his
official subordinates a good currency, and gives
the People an e ‘? or currency ! Their response
to this and similar invocations made in ihis extra
ordinary letter will, we doubt not, furnish evi
dence that they are, indeed, “ in intelligence, in
tegrity and determined resolution, equal to the
task ot self-government,” although the evidence
may not be ot a kind the most« gratifying” to the
President. J 0
The President, it will be observed, closes his
letter with the following paragraph:
“ On these evidences of popular intelligence and
firmness, the lepublican patr.ot rests with well
grounded faith that all means which may be used
to mislead or intimidate the People, now or here-
after, into a surrender of their Constitution and
their liberties, will, as they have ever done, meet <
with a signal and withering rebuke.”
If present appearances are to be relied on, “ the
republican patriot” may confidently expect that,
in November next, t h e People will give “ a signal
and withering rebuke” to the means which are
now used to mislead or intimidate them into a
surrender of their Constitution and their liberties;
and on few of those “ means” is the rebuke likely
to fall more heavily than on the Purse-and-Swobd
Sub-Theasurt.
The National Intelligencer of the 10th says:
“We arc happy to learn that Mr. Habersham is
daily improving in health and strength, and that
he will probably be able to leave Washington, for
his residence in Georgia, in the course of two or
three weeks.” ;
Alabama Elections.
We have received returns from thirty four coun
ties, which give the whigs 4 1 and the Locofocos
23. The House is composed of 100 members,
which last year stood, Locofocos 67, Whigs 33. It
will be seen that the Whigs have a clear gain of 14
members. As it now stands, the Whigs want only
four more to have a majority, and there are yet
fifteen counties to hear from.
W. Loco. W. gain.
Mobile 4 0 2
Baldwin 1 ® *
Monroe 2 0 0
Lowndes 2 0 1
Montgomery 2 0 0
Autauga 11 *
Washington 0 1 0
Clark 0 1 1
Marengo 2 0 1
Greene 3 0 0
Barbour 2. 0 0
Russell 1 0 0
Ma:on 1 0 ®
Tallapoosa 0 1 0
Coosa 0 1 0
Talladega 0 2 0
Chambers 2 0 1
Shelby 2 0 I
Butler 2 0 1
Pike 11 0
Tuscaloosa 4 0 1
Perry 3 0 1
Dallas 2 0 0
Pickens 3 0 3
Conecuh 1 0 1
Sumpter 2 11
Bibb 2 0 2
Wilcox 2 0 0
Jefferson. 0 2 0
Lawrence 0 3 0
Fayette 0 1 0
Walker 0.. * 1 0
Madison 0 4 0
Morgan 0 3 0
47 23 19
SENATORS ELECTED.
Tuscaloosa —Dennis Dent, Whig—no change,
Dallas—Wm. J. Phillips, Whig gain,
Butler and Pike—Jesse Womack, “ “
Bibb and Shelby—D. E. Watrous, “ •* m
Barbour and Russell —Buford, “ “
Greene—Thos. Riddle, Whig, no change,
Autauga and Coesa, D. Hall, jr. L. F. no change,
Macon and Tallapoosa—Daly, L. F. Whig loss,
Sumter—Jones, last year contested and sent
back to the people.
Whig gain in the Senate thus far 3.
Extract of a letter to the editor, dated
Columbus, Ohio, August 6, 1840.
My Dear Sir'— l have but time, before the mail
closes, to inform you of the result of the election
in Indiana. Thus far seventeen counties have
been heard from, and the following are the majori
ties, as compared with former elections; present
majority in 17 counties, 6463, gain on the Presi
dential electioffof 1836, 1525, gain on Congression
al election of 1839, 8622.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
The News from the West.
The W estern mail did not arrive this mornin cr
till about ten o’clock, having been delayed by the
breaking of an axletree of the steam engine.—
From the hour of the receipt of the news, our of
fice has been ciowded with Whigs to hear the glo
rious accounts, and to exchange congratulations
with each other on the auspicious result! We give
every thing brought by the mail.
From the Ohio State Journal, Extra, August 7.
Glorious News from ludiaua!
In addition to the returns from the 17 counties
issued in a slip irom this office on yesterday we
now subjoin returns from several more, showing a
steady increase of the popular wave that is sweep
ing over the country. Huzza for the true sons of
the West! In war, they were the defenders of the
Log C abms under Harrison, In peace, they are as
true to the Constitution and laws as the fire to the
flint they fohow the same leader to the rescue of
popular liberty from the grasp of the spoilers.
Indiana.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Counties. Bigger (W.) Howaid, Majs. in 1836.
Majority. Locofoco. Whig Loco.
Dearborn 170 o 00 79
U™"; 142 00 158 00
t a . v « tte 400 00 220 00
B-USh * 368. 00 418 00
Randolph* 373 00 399.* *! .* .00
Delaware* 332 00 62 00
J* anon 310 oo 366 00
“ em J 00 592 00
Ir iai f k 184 00 oo 85
***' 181 00 27 CO
J effe «° n 592 00 493 00
deD ? in S s 342 00 333 00
Riplej 346 oo 260 00
Switzerland 170 on ill no
r 457 oS::
Bartholeraew j
nd Brown ,b l 00 158 00
t bclh y 00 150 14 oo
Hamsoa 301 00 291......00
7623 150 5802 ”Tg4
1 hese counties not complete.
In addition to the above, we have letters and
slips Horn numerous correspoadents, which enable
us to add to the retains the following counties-
Governor, 1840. President, 1536.
Ir ~ . Bl &jer. Howard. Whig. L F
Hendricks 467... .00 441 no
so... .00 ...73.:;;;$
J? hnson C0...270 00 118
Montgomery,... 200. .. .00 314.' ‘ 00
Hamilton 200....00 2SSI 111.00
Mor g an 00 123 no
s°™ 00...250 oo ;::iso
* ladl f !OD 375....00 120 00
g rant 100....00 ,08 00
f atnam 300.... 00 373 00
ll&r'i : 800-...00 676 00
Mco s ab0ve..7623.. .150 .5802 164
10,325.. .670 8318... .462
6 0
W. maj. now....9665... trTr
do in 1836...7856
Being Whig gain of 1.799 in 33 counties.
There are about 80 counties in the State—alrea
dy our majority is nearly 10,000, and will be large
ly increased. It should be recollected that this ml-
K!. "c srs :
One of our correspondents says: “ The Locofo-
SSS’SKSS' whWs chapman »
LET’S ALL CROW !”
Kentucky.
F 0» Governor. First
i ii*3 397
Nicholas, ° 368
£ a 3' e u tte ’ fi'U 279
Bourbon, 24Q
S ison > :::::: 327: ::::: . .354
® ath ;v 218 IS I
f rtßkll . n ’ 400 269
Jessamine, nd
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Montgomery, Bp"""’. ’.615
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, ’ Ho
•«.........
Coon 2-6 maj.
m;
ScOtt, * * 'A
Grant, ......
Shelby ville, 2SO maj.
Bracken, 384 ”
Campbell,.... ou
Gallatin and Carroll, 250 maj.
Oldham,
Shelby, G ' 9
Hardin, 797.... 428
Jefferson, 236 maj.
City of Louisville, 1,200 maj.
12,834 6,015
North Carolina Election—For Governor.
Moreheab (W.) Saunders (Adm.)
Washington.. .379 96.
Beauford, 846 363
Edgecombe,. ...11l .....1298
Nash, 73 782
Franklin, 383 636
Warren, 88 705
Granville, 873 760.....
Wayne, 00 512 maj......
Pit 625 519
Halifax, 622 446
Craven,. ...*•• ••671 643
Camden, 524 91
Johnson, 569 617
Marlin reported 300 maj
Columbus, 242 288
Greene 125 maj
Lenoir, 125 maj
In Craven county, although the Whig candi*
date for Governoi got 28 majority, the Adminis
tration Senator was elected by 18 votes.
In Hyde county, only partial returns—the
Whig ticket ahead 200 votes-
Washington and Tyrrel.—ln this Senatorial
District Gen. H. G. Spruill, (Whig) elected
without opposition.
Bertie county —Another gain.—ln Bertie the
Whigs have carried their whole ticket, making a
gain of one.
In Columbus, the Administration Commoner
was elected, being a gain.
Bank of Hamburg is checking on
New York at 7 per cent, for Augusta or Savan
nah Bills.
Q3* There will be Divine Service la the Pres
byterian Church to-morrow morning at the usual
hour.
Father Mathew of Ireland, the great Catholic
Crusader for temperance, has now administered
the pledge to iwo millions, of persons. This is
practical temperance.
Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine.—The Au
gust No. of this sterling periodical has arrived.
Its contents are as follows :
“The South Sea Bubble,” by E. W. Soungh
ton, Esq.: “Usury Laws, No. 2. by J. M. Whit
on, Esq.; “Causes of Unsteadiness of the Curren
cy, and the remedy therefor,” No. 4, by H. C.
Carey, Esq.; “Laws relative to Debtor and Credi
tor,” No. 5, by P. H. Lanman, Esq.; “The Law
of Salvage,” by Hon. Wm. Marvin, with the
usual monthly statistics.
Twenty-one Days Later from Europe.
Arrival of the Great VV kstern.
The steamship Great Western arrived at Now
York at ten o’clock on Sunday morning, having
made the trip from Bristol in about fourteen days
and a half. She left Bristol on the afternoon of
the 25th July, and brings advices from London
to the evening of the 24th. Liverpool to the morn
ing of the 24th, and Bristol to the 25th.
We are indebted to the New York Times and
Herald for extras, from which, and the Pniladel
phia papers, wc obtain the following summary
of Intelligence.
The English money market was much depress
ed. American State Stocks had considerably
improved. United Stales Bank shares sold lor
£ 15 6 on the 24th ultimo.
For about three weeks before the sailing of the
Groat Western, the weather had been unfavora
ble to the harvest, and a general advance in the
prices of wheat and flour had been the conse
quence. Consols and Exchange Bills h: d lor
the same reason declined in London, but Ameri
can state stocks were in improved demand, and
considerable sales had been made of them Penn
sylvania were ten per cent, higher than they had
been a month previous, being in extensive de
mand of a 84. One million of Illinois six
per cent, stock had been negotiated to one house
by the Canal Commisioners of that Slate at 85.
U. S. Bank £ls 5.
It is said that the Western has brought out
considerable orders for Flour and Whe it.°
The price of cotton remained about the same
market dull.
Edward Oxford, charged with high treason
in attempting to shoot the Queen, was acquitted
on the ground of insanity He wilf be confined
in a lunatic Asylum.
The civil war in Spain is at an end, Caberer
having entered Franee. He was arrested by the
I” J renc h authorities soon after passing the frontier.
Five thousand Carlist troops accompained him.
Lucien Bonaparte, Franee de Canino, a young
er brother of Napoleon, died at Viterbe, near' Rente
on the 17th June.
The Canada Government Bill having passed
both houses of Parliament, received the Royal
a, ant on the 241 h ult. J
The insurrection in Syria, against the author
ity of Mehemet Ali, proves to be a serious affair.
—The Pasha had ordered a fleet of ten sail to
the coast.
The difficulties between Egypt and the Pacha
were in a train of settlement
ihe Commerce says, “It is determined that
Prince Augustus, of Saxe Coburg, brother of the
Duchess of Nemours, shall marry the Princess
Clementine, (daughter of Louise Pbillippe )
Fbe Prince is one year younger than his intend-
The Great Western arrived at Bristol on the
morning of the 15th ult. alter a passage of only
thirteen and a halfdays, b
The new steamer President, which was In
leave Liverpool on the first day of this month
made an experimental trip to Cork and Dublin
and proved herself to be a first rate sea boat.
.he o ° e Fhormon, who went to London for
he purpose of negotiating a loan for .he state of
d h ° nC ° f dollars ’ ”>« with «o
ofM m ‘ mmed ‘ a ' cl J' succeeding in the object
Western!"' 0 "’ a " d haS re,Urned “ tbe Grea ‘
Nothing later from China.
A Gentleman and a Man of Honor i
We are indebted to the Bradford (Pa.) .•
the following correspondence : ® ' ,or
Washington, June 28, isjn
My Dear Bir : I take the liberty to enclose ‘
an address and prospectus for the Extra Globe h° U
ping that it may be compatible with your hi c i., !0 '
tiou and sense of duty to use them for the pur
of procuring an 1 returning subscribers. P 1)056
If in that hope I shall be disappointed, I so i- •
of you the personal favor to hand it over to V* 01
friend of the Administration who may be i nc i° m< J
to use it for that purpose. All the numbers tr
the beginning can sti 1 be had, a large surplus H
ing been printed, although the present su V
tion exceeds 35,000 copies. Lll P*
W th great respect, your friend
AMOS KEXDALI
SHESHEQUIN, July J 3 jgJj
Sir: By yesterday’s mail I received vonrle+t
dated 28th ult. enclosing your “Address to the p
pie of the United States,” and a « Prospectus f
the Extra Globe.” As lam not inclined to becom I
a hypocrite, and remain silent as the second h*
plan which 1 could adopt to retain mv offic /
therefore conceive it to be my duty, honestly j a
frankly, to stale some of the reasons why I cann t
comply with your request.
1 shall say but little about your‘ address *
by the way, I consider as great a piece of sophst !
as was ever put together, and, in this covered I ?
as great an insult to the understandings f c*
American people as could be possibly man u f act J‘ e
ed out of the brains of a despot. When the c , O F ' I
pic hear you, sir,speaking about “ pure morality'’
and “ true d*mocarcy ” all but the wilfully
ant of your political life must stand amazed n
your presumption. But when you introduce that I
which is pure to support that whit h is impure and
corrupt, it will deceive none except those who r e
willing and wishing to be deceived.
If your object was only “to vindicate the Ad
ministration from the foul aspersions cast upon It ’*
your task Would be both a praiseworthy and an
easy one-, as it would be a very difficult matter
for any one to asptrse that which is already rotten
to the core. But this is evidently not your main
object. Because, to shield, on object from aspV,-
sion by aspersing another, is not the course an
honest man would take. When,therefore,we see
you aspersing the character of Gen. Harrison, as
pure a patriot, and as pure a democrat, as ever
lived —whose history is a pail of the history of
our country, and a most brilliant part too ; no one
except the consummately ignorant, or willfully
blind, can be at a loss to understand your object
and the means you intend to use to attaiq it—to ’
second which you call on me for assistance ! He
assured that such a course does not come within
the scope of my ideas of right and wrong. 1 sill
not a partizan for the sake of paity, right or
wrong.” This is the dangerous principle that is
now working to destroy the libeitiosof yourcoun
try ; and to such a principle 1 shall never submit.
I shall go with no party any longer than I I elieve
they are going right, and acting for the general j
good of all parties, and for the perpetuity and sale
ty of our repulican instititutions. That tne party
now in power are acting on these principles no
honest, well-infoiaoed pai riot, can admit for an in
stant —such can have no doubt on the subject.
I was, sir, an oiiginal Jackson man (which is
more than you, or Mr. Van Burcn, can say fur
yourselves)—l supported Gen. Jackson in 1824,
and 1828. In 1832 I was neutral. By this time
I thong ;t that I discovered a tendency in his plans
which if carried out, would destroy the financial
prosperity of the country. I could not consien
tiously give him my vote. But not being certain
I was right in my conjectures, I did not vote fur i
any one else. In 1833, 1 became convinced that I
my conjectures were right. Since that time. I
have not been an advocate of his, or the present I
p.dministratisn—the latter appearing to me to out
strip the former, it. glaring assumptions of power '
that did not belong to it. Mr. Van Burcn has not
only followed in the “ footsteps of his illustrious
pn decessor,” but he has made new tracks, which I
all but slave to paity,can easily see, and appreciate
and which, if followed up, will destroy ourrepub
lic.
Can you suppose it possible, sir, that any honest,
well informed patiiot, can support an Administra
tion which has saddled upon the people the Sub-
Treasury monster i ’ You must have a poor opin-t
ion of the intelligence of the people, if you think
so. The “ independent Treasury” forsooth!
This appellation to the monster appears to rue to
be too invidious and bare-faced, to deceive the
| mod ignorant man in the nation. The Independent
Treasury! ! eh 7 And pray, sir, to what does the
term “ Inde; emient,” in this connection, apply !
It is obviously the most flimsy bait for a gull-trap,
that a political happen ever used. Who cannot
see, at a glance, that this Bub-Treasury contrivance
is independent only of the people (!) and di pendent
so : ely m the President ? T hePiesidcnt now, to
all intents and purposes, lias the purse of the nation
in his hands, obtained by fraud and the disfran
chising of an independent State of the Union ! Do
you flatter yourself, sir, that the peoole will put
up with such high-handed measures, mid sit do-.vn j
contented under a despotism 7 Never, sir, never.
To suppose such a result, it must be based on the
belief that the American people are as ignorant j
and servile as the seif of Russia.
Well, sir, what next 7 We see that the Presi
dent has the puise of the nation in his hand*; can
he keep it 7 No. sir, not without a standing army
to support him in his unjust plans; and of ihh he
seemed to be well aware, and so recommended this
anti-republican measure to Congress, that lie may
have placed in his hands both the puree and the
sword of the nation, and consequently the power
to make himself a MONARCH !
Mr. Van Burcn has always been considered a
very cunning man. but cunning men a.e someiimes
caught in their own trap; and in recommending
his plan fur a standing army, he has ran ahead w
his maik, showing that he has dipt both of his hands
in the cauldron of despotism, end you and “the
party” have set Mr. Poinsett the task of washing
them clean agai*. But it is a Herculean task, and
never can be accomplished. The Loco Pocc tilth
and ingredients which this great blunder has fixed
upon him, will stick as long as the world and his
tory lasts. it would have been better for the
President, had he put on a “ poisoned shirt.” Hut
the miserable Mr. Poinsett ! he is to be pitied as
well as condemned —pitied as a scape goat to bear
away the sin of such a monstrous outrage upon
the rights of the people and their Constitution, and
condemned for conscn ing to become the tool of a
man not strong enough to bear his own sins.
1 have said, sir, that disfranchising of an inde
pendent State was the means by which this odious
Sub-Treasury scheme was consummated into a law.
It had, however, auxiliary aid, and from a quarter
that no mortal man, a year and a half ago, would
have supposed possible. I allude to the coalition
between Mr. Van Ilmen and Mr. Calhoun —apo-
litical coalition, the most extraordinary that ever
took place since the world began ! How the ticep
of the South, with his own named caste of th efox
and weasel, could form a compact with, and sup*
port the man and the measures he hail dealt such
heavy blow s upon, is beyond all conception, it
scanned upon a..y scale of ethics ever practiced
fiom by an honest man. T hat this great man should
either voluntarily or forcibly be biought into a
compmet or situation, in which lie would b e oblig'd
to embrace the editor of the Globe and Extra Gloce,
is more strange still. lam induced to believe that
this coalition caused greater laughter in the palace
of pandemonium, than John Milton supposed tl eie
was heaven, when language was confounded at the
Tower of Babel ! But I must drop this wonderful
compact, for the presant.
I have looked over your address, sir, with some
attention, and must honestly and franklv arer, that
I cannot tind one truth in if, except in the first fine,
and that I believe to be all true , viz : “ Our coun
try presents a new spectacle for the contemplation of
mankind.” Pardon me, sir, for italicizing th* s
line. 1 his sentence is most emphatically true
and a horrible truth it is, too ; and among the won
ders attached to this prospectus is that you should
call the people’s attention to such a truth ! in the
piospeclus which th.s sentence brings to our view,
IVe see a govsrnmcnt that has violated the fun
damental principles of that Constitution bequeath
ed to the people by the fathers of the Revolu
tion, who set this country free from the tyrant ol
the colonies I—
. ll'a see a government that has thrown the nnan*
cial concern# and the prosperity of the countiy into
utter confusion !
II e see a government that has caused ruin to fall
I on tboussnus upon ihousands of the citizens ofth lS
once happy land ?
We see a government that has swallowed up the
states’ rights, and concentrated all power in it*
Executive !
We see a government that has outstript the pro
ject', and run tar ahead of the most ultra schemes
loimerl v contended for by the Essex Junto, in the
‘‘ Old Bay State !”